Remarks on the Election of Pope Leo IV and an Exchange With Reporters

[The President's remarks were joined in progress.]

The President. Such an honor for our country. [Inaudible] It's such a great honor for our country to have an American Pope. And I mean, what greater honor could there be? And we were a little bit surprised, but very happy. But it's just a great—absolutely great honor. So——

United Kingdom–U.S. Trade/Professional Golfer Eldrick T. "Tiger" Woods

Q. Is this the first of many, Mr. President—the first of many trade agreements we can expect you to announce here at the White House?

The President. Say it again.

Q. Is this the first of many trade agreements we can expect you to announce here at the White House?

The President. No, we'll do others from the White House. We have—we're working on three of them right now—trade agreements. We're doing three.

And we just left Tiger. You saw Tiger, who is fantastic, a great champion, great guy.

And—but no, we'll—we'll be doing a lot of—a lot of the signings. They—they would like to do them in the Oval Office.

[At this point, several reporters began asking questions at once.]

U.S. Agricultural Products

Q. Mr. President, are you sure the U.K. will take chlorinated chicken? Mr. President, are you sure that the U.K. will take American chlorinated chicken? That deal has not been done yet.

The President. What is that?

Q. Are you sure that the U.K. will take American chlorinated chicken? That deal has not been done yet.

The President. Well, we're changing all of that, but we have it both ways. You know, we have it both ways.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

Q. Mr. President, are you still going to make an earth-shattering announcement?

The President's Withdrawal of the Nomination of Ed Martin To Be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

Q. Sir—sir, why did you pull the nominee for the DC U.S. attorney, sir?

The President. We'll have somebody great. We'll have somebody great.

Q. Why did you pull him though, sir?

The President. I really thought he was terrific, but we are doing so many different things right now that we couldn't be really focused on it. He's a wonderful guy. He's going to have a great future, maybe with us.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

Q. Mr. President, do you regret the image of yourself posted on social media dressed as the pope?

The President. What's next?

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

The President's Schedule/Holy See (Vatican City) Outreach to the White House

Q. Mr. President, are you planning to—are you planning to meet the Pope in the near future?

The President. I do, yes. They've already called.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

They've already called.

Q. They've already called?

Q. Have you met him before?

Q. When is that? What time did they call?

The President. They've already called.

Q. Do you have a time in mind?

The President. They've—they have already spoken to us, and we'll see what happens. But, again, to have the Pope from the United States of America, that's a great honor. That's a great honor.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

I'm watching, and they said, "He's from"——

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

I'm watching, and they said, "He's from America." I said, "That's great."

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

The President's Intentions To Meet With Pope Leo XIV

Q. Have you spoken to the Pope in person?

Q. Are you going to call him, Mr. President? Will you call?

Q. Are you going to meet in person?

The President. I am.

Q. Have you met him before? Have you——

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia

Q. Is there still a chance you might meet Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia next week?

The President. I don't think so, but we're having very good conversations.

Q. Okay, thank you.

The President. Very, very good.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

Thank you, everybody.

Immigration Enforcement Actions

Q. Mr. President, the violence in India and Pakistan—Mr. President, is that going to derail your——

Q. Mr. President, I have a question. How—do you have any—do you have any thought of whether or not you would send Haitians to El Salvador? I know you've already said that they could be foreign terrorists through the gangs.

The President. I haven't heard about it. No, I haven't heard about it.

Q. But you did—you designated the Haitian gangs as foreign terror——

The President. Yes. I mean, I haven't heard of—actually, I hope not.

Thank you very much.

[Several reporters spoke at once.]

Q. [Inaudible]—India-Pakistan is going to derail your trade deal?