Pool Reports of April 6, 2025

note #1 - motorcade rolling

The motorcade left Mar-a-Lago at 7:53 am and is rolling to an unannounced location.

Pool did not lay eyes on POTUS.

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travel note #2 - Jupiter Golf Club arrival

The motorcade arrived at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter at 8:14 am.

Drive was uneventful. Pool did not see POTUS.

travel note #3 - leaving Jupiter golf course

The motorcade left Trump National Golf Club Jupiter at 12:23 pm.

Pool did not lay eyes on POTUS.

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travel note #4 - arrival Mar-a-Lago

Motorcade arrived at Mar-a-Lago at 12:45 pm.

Pool did not see POTUS.

travel note #5 - lunch lid

The White House called a lunch lid until 2:30 pm.

travel note #6 - leaving Mar-a-Lago

Motorcade departed Mar-a-Lago at 5:11 pm.

Pool did lay eyes on POTUS.

We are rolling for the airport.

travel note #7 - airport arrival

Motorcade arrived at Palm Beach International Airport at 5:18 pm.

Drive was uneventful with a lot of supporters along the route to film on their phones, show homemade signs, and wave.

POTUS waved and boarded at 5:20 pm. He did not come over to talk.

AF1 will be wheels up JBA shortly.

travel note #8 - JBA arrival and POTUS gaggle

AF1 was wheels up Palm Beach at 5:31 pm and wheels down JBA at 7:11 pm

POTUS came back to gaggle for 16 minutes toward the end of the flight.

Here are some quotes. More tk. As always please check against transcript.

Asked how was the golf tournament: "Very good because I won. It's good to win. You heard I won, right?"

Tariffs:

"The market has spoke when you look at the fact, we have $1 billion trade. When you look at the trade deficit we have with certain countries. … with China it's a trillion dollars. And we have to solve our trade deficit with China…. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China. And unless we solve that problem, I'm not going to make a deal. I'm willing to a deal but they have to solve their surplus. … China is right now taking a big hit because everyone knows we're right."

Crash markets on purpose? "No that's not so. But I do want to solve the deficit we have with China, the European Union and other nations."

On who he spoke to this weekend. "I spoke to a lot of Europeans, Asians, all over the world. They're dying to make a deal."

"What's going to happen to the markets I can't tell you. But our country is much stronger."

What is your threshold on the market drop: "I think your question is so stupid. I don't want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something."

Asked if he wants zero tariffs with Europe like Elon Musk advocated: "Europe has made a fortune off us. … Europe has treated us very very badly."

"They are coming to the table. They want to talk but there's no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis."

Asked if he talked to any tech leaders: "Yeah, I talk to the biggest in the world. I talk to the biggest of them all - many of them. … I've talked to four or five that are considered the biggest."

More on tech leaders: "They said we don't blame you."

Asked who he talked: "I don't want to say." He said he would check with them to see if he could release their names.

travel note #10 - final quotes from POTUS gaggle

Here are some final quotes and the otter files from POTUS gaggle. Sorry my recording split off. As always please check against official transcript.

https://otter.ai/u/NkJ3pjEn30Yyb1XN6_QJL7AnC-w

https://otter.ai/u/PYIUoQ_OFU0nkXEZ8mUuq3AapR0

More on tariffs: "This is not sustainable. The United States can't lose $1.9 trillion on trade. We can't do that and also spend a lot of money on NATO in order to protect European nations, we cover them with military and we lose money on trade. The whole thing is crazy, and I got elected on that basis. We explained it. You know, the American people understand it a lot better than the media, but the media understands it, and much of the media writes correctly about it."

On Russia: "We're talking to Russia. Would like him to stop. I don't like the bombing. The bombing goes on and on. Every week, people and 1000s of young people are being killed, and it's a horrible thing that should have never started, would have never started if I were president, 100%."

On a report that there was about to be a deal on TikTok but China changed its mind because of tariffs: "That is largely correct. The report is that we had a deal, pretty much for Tiktok, not a deal, but pretty close, and then China changed the deal because of tariffs. If I gave a little cut in tariffs, they'd approve that deal in 15 minutes, which shows you the power of tariffs, right?"

On reports he endorsed Chris Sununu in New Hampshire Senate race: "He came to my office, came to the Oval Office, and met with Chris Sununu, and I support him fully. I hope he runs. He's been very nice to me over the last year or so, but no, I hope he runs. I think he'll win that seat."

More on inflation: "It's not going to be I don't think inflation is going to be a big deal. Because if you look at me, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars. This is not new to me. I took it during my four years, hundreds of billions of dollars from China, and we also took in a lot of money from other countries, but in particular China, because it was just getting started and there was - we had no inflation. Who had inflation was Biden. Biden had the worst inflation in the history of our country. I had no inflation. We had a perfect country. We had no wars. I ended them all. I defeated ISIS. Everything was good. And then when this numbskull got in, as they really call themselves now, numbskulls, but when he got in, bad things happened to our country."

On measles outbreaks: "Well they've been doing reports on it. It's so far fairly small number of people relative to what we're talking about, something that people have known about for many, many years. I mean, measles has been, you know, this is not something new, and we'll see what happens, but certainly if something, if it, you know, progresses, we'll have to take action very strongly."

On Netanyahu visit: "We're going to talk about trade, and we're going to talk about the obvious subject."

Note #1 - Gathering for POTUS South Lawn Arrival

Hi all. I’ll be your in-town print pooler for the evening.

Pool is gathering now for a POTUS South Lawn arrival to come.

Note #2 - Marine One arrival

Marine One landed on the South Lawn at 7:37p.

Note #3 - POTUS arrival at White House

POTUS entered the White House at 7:40p. He did not come over to the gathered press but gave a wave in passing. US Sec. of Treasury Scott Bessent and director of the Presidential Personnel Office Sergio Gor also exited Marine One with POTUS.