Pool Reports of August 5, 2025

In-town Pool report #1

Press are being kept temporarily from going outdoors from the Briefing Room. Will try to find the reason.

In-town pool report #3

"Some more color from the presidential roof walk (thanks to Haley Bull)

Taking a little walk"
"Anything I do is financed by me"

He also shouted hello to Peter from Fox

In town pool report #4

Presidential roof walk ended 11:05. White House said he was there for 20 minutes.

In town pool report #5

Lunch lid until 12:30 p.m.

In town pool report #6

Pool is gathering for the Olympic executive order signing.

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Event in the South Court auditorium had two stands / desks on each side of stage with presidential seals, one with the LA28 logo.

The Olympic rings and "2028 Olympic &Paraolympic Games - Los Angeles" behind the lectern with the seal in the center of the stage.
Stage left had a picture of an Olympic track; stage right had a picture of a swimming event.

The president, preceded by YMCA and Twilight Time by the Platters, and Be My Baby and Eye of the Tiger , entered at 4:37 with vance.

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Event ended at 5;09, concluding with 19 minutes of 17 questions. Quotes to follow. He said he sees VP Vance as the favorite in 2028, said he did not know Maxwell was being transferred to a minimum security prison and approved of Todd Blanche's questioning of her. He also decried the beating of a DOGE employee in DC and said he may have to federalism the city. He denied ever threatening 100 percent tariffs but said decisions will be made at a meeting tomorrow. He lamented "biden's war" in Ukraine. On Israel, he said he is focused on getting food to Gaze and any preoccupation is "pretty much up to Israel. " He also criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom on fire and water management-- but pointedly noted he was pronouncing his name properly this day.

In town pool report #9

Travel/photo lid at 6:01 p.m.

Here are the quotes from the president's Q&A:

Do you still plan to follow through on your threat to impose 100% tariffs on all countries that purchase Russian energy, including China?

Well, I never said a percentage, but we'll be doing quite a bit of that. We'll see what happens over the next fairly short period of time, but we'll see what happens. we're going to have a meeting tomorrow. We have a meeting with Russia tomorrow. We're going to see what happens at, we'll make that determination at that time.

Thank you, Mr. President on Ukraine. President Zelensky just signed a law allowing for citizens age 60 and above to serve in the military. We've seen dozens of videos of young men being hauled into vans and dragged in the front lines against their will. And we've even seen videos of a young man with down syndromes serving on the front line. You, when you campaigned, you said you wanted to see the people stop dying. A lot of people admired that statement. Now the people dying are elderly, mentally handicapped in conscripts. So even if a ceasefire doesn't work out, why should Americans continue to fund a foreign military that's scrapping the bottom of the barrel of its population like this?

Well, you have to understand very importantly, this is Biden's war. This is not my war. I'm here to get us out of it. It's a mess. And I'm here to get us out. I haven't heard that when you say about 60-year-old men, et cetera. But this is Biden's war and we're working very hard to get us out. I stopped five wars in the last five months actually, and I'd like this to be the sixth frankly. And that doesn't even include Iran obliterating their nuclear hall because they would've had nuclear weapons within two months. but stopped a lot of wars. You just take a look at the ones just over the last two or three months. It's been amazing. This is the one I'm trying to stop. This is the one we're working hardest on. The other ones I stopped with in a matter of days, almost every one of 'em, including India and Pakistan. And I could go over the whole list, but you know the list as well as I do. But this is the one we'd like to see. I'vet not heard that. But this is Biden's war and it's a war that he got us into or indirectly got us into. It should have never happened. It would've never happened. If I'd been President.

President, thank you. Mr. President, would you support Israel Reoccupying? All of Gaza has been suggested by Mr. Some Israeli officials.

Well, I don't know what the suggestion is. I know that we are there now trying to get people fed. As you know, $60 million was given by the United States fairly recently to supply food and a lot of food frankly, for the people of Gaza that are obviously not doing too well with the food. And I know Israel's going to help us with that in terms of distribution and also money. We also have the Arab states are going to help us with that in terms of the money and possibly distribution. So that's what I'm focused on. As far as the rest of it, I really can't say. That's going to be pretty much up to Israel.

Thank you. On transgender athletes in the Olympics, back to the safety, especially female combat boxers, will the Department of Justice considering pressing charges against any man that tries to masquerade as a woman coming into this country to beat up American athletes? And secondly, would your administration consider genetic testing so that these people can prove that there're actually women competing?

Well, I think there is going to be a very strong form of testing. As far as charges I'd have to ask the Attorney General about that. I don't know. But there will be a very, very strong form of testing that if the test doesn't come out appropriately, they won't be in the Olympics.

Thank you. Mr. President, do you believe that the US committee would've made this decision on men in the sports if you weren't president? And do you believe that this decision will stay in place once you are no longer president?

I think they probably would have because it just seems to be an issue that most people feel should be, I can't really say. I'd have to, you could have asked Chairman Wasserman, but I would say that there's a possibility you could go either way if you really want to know the truth. I feel strongly about it. I ran a campaign at least partially on that. That was one of the many issues that I talked about. Open borders, the economy, taxes, all of the things. But that was certainly one of the issues. So I really can't, don't know. Could have gone either way.

President. Sir, have you decided on a replacement for the Fed governor?

For Fed governor? I'll be making that decision before the end of the week and we'll either decide on one for permanence or the four month period. The term, there's a term of about number of months. We have a couple of candidates and everybody wants it. Okay. It's not a couple, but we've narrowed it to a couple of candidates. And we've also, we're looking at the Fed chair, and that's down to four people right now.
Who are the four president?

Well, I can tell you because I've already said there's two Kevins and two other people.

This has to do with the safety aspect of the Olympics. What can you do as a president to ensure that Southern California, the greater Los Angeles area, is safe from any fire danger? That state clears away brush and state parks very, the reason why this last fire happened in Pacific policies. What can you assure for that?

Well, as you know Brian, we have, I've been fighting with him for a long time about allowing the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest essentially. And we actually opened up that water pretty strongly. We got a lot of opposition from the governor and we opened it up anyway. And the water is coming down that we want it open further. They have a lot of water. They send it out into the Pacific Ocean in order to protect the smelt. It's a little tiny fish that's not doing very well, especially when they don't have water. They really do badly. But it's a fish environmentally protected, even though it's in many other areas. I think they just use that as an excuse, the smelt. You'll check that out. But I think it's just an excuse. They've got to allow full water. And they're working with Lee Zeldin is really helping us a lot, but they've got to allow the full compliment of water to come down from the Pacific Northwest.

There is so much water. If Gavin Newsom let the water come down. See the way I pronounced his name properly for change? If this guy allowed the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest, they have so much water, they don't know what to do with it. All of those sprinklers would've gone on. All of those people with those beautiful houses were sprinklers in the ceilings and with the water, the fire pumps outside all that water. They didn't have any water because they wouldn't let the water come down. There's so much water there. At first, when I got involved with this issue in my first term, I said to the congressman, they took me up because they wanted to show me the fields where they could farm 10 times more product. You'd see a hundred acres and you'd see one acre or two acres. Beautiful green.

It's very vibrant, but they don't give it the water that it's entitled to. And I said, oh, they have a drought. I said, no. They told me they don't have a drought. The Democrats don't allow the water to come down into the farms and into anywhere. By the time it gets down, even into certain parts of California, it's fed out stupidly into the Pacific Ocean if that water were allowed. So we broke into it and we allowed it to come down and it come down in a higher level. And we want that and we're demanding that of the governor. The other thing is we'll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military

… National Guard or military. This is going to be so safe and if we have to, Because obviously you have a mayor that is not very competent. She can't get the permits for the people. The people are still waiting for their permits. Lee Zeldin got them the federal permit, which is 10 times harder to get and everybody can build on the federal basis. And that's the hard one. But the mayor bass, she cannot, she refuses to or cannot get them permits. They're waiting. And I was there right after the fires and I saw all these beautiful people standing by their homes ready to get in and get to work. And they're waiting for their permits and they're still waiting for their state permits and city permits. It's a disgrace.

Mr. President India says that the US imports, Russian uranium chemicals, fertilizers while criticizing their energy imports. Your response to that, sir?

I don't know anything about it. I'd have to check, but we'll get back to you on that.

Have you seen the Hamas released video of Israeli hostage ti vie starving to being forced to dig his own grave in the Hamas tunnel?

I have

And what was your reaction to it?

I think it's horrible. I think it's horrible, and I hope a lot of people do get to see it as bad as it is because I think it's a horrible thing.

Can you speak to just how this drop off in foreign foreign workers is going to benefit Americans and will it force American companies to pay fairer wages to American workers?

Well, we want to take care of our American workers and first and foremost, and that's what we're doing. We also want to help our farmers because our farmers are producing like never before. We have to help them. And we're working out some very complicated strategies and language. But the main thing that I think I was elected to do is to get the illegals out of our country who are, especially in particular, criminals. 11,888 murderers were allowed into our country with Biden's open border policy with our bordersczae who never spoke to the border patrol, never went to the border one time. That's Kamala and when you think of it, we have murderers where people coming in from all countries all over the world, from prisons, from prisons in the Congo and Africa, from prisons all over South America, all over rough parts of Europe, all over Asia. They're pouring into our country. Not anymore.

So we just announced, we had our third consecutive month where we rated zero people. And these are frankly very liberal people that make up these charts. So I don't know what's wrong with them. They seem to not be doing their job for the Democrats, but I'm honored by the fact that they say it, we're very tough in the border and people can come into our country, but they have to come in legally. So I think that we've done an amazing job, actually, but we have to get the criminals out of our country. Murderers, drug dealers, gang members, they empty prisons into our countries. One of the reasons, I think even beyond the economy, it's one of the reasons I got elected. It may be the number one. It was between the economy and that. But as I said before, our nation is doing really well, but we have to get these really bad people. They should have never been allowed in our country. Open border policy is for fools. We're the only country in the world with an open borders policy, but we don't have that anymore. We had zero now for three months in a row. Peter,
Thank you very much. President Trump, nice to see you. Not off the roof. All right.

Yeah.

You said this morning that you probably won't be running for a third term this weekend. Secretary of State Rubio said that he thought JD Vance would be a great nominee. You could clear the entire Republican field right now. Do you agree that the heir apparent to Maga is JD Vance?

Well, I think most likely, in all fairness, he's the vice president. I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get together with JD in some form. I also think we have incredible people, some of the people on the stage right here. So it's too early obviously to talk about it. But certainly he's doing a great job and he would be probably favorite at this point.

And on Texas, if Texas redrawing their congressional map would get you a five safe red seats means that California, New York, Illinois, and Maryland are all going to redraw their masks to add safety. Is it worth it?
Yeah, they'll do it anyway. Why? If we stop over there, they would've done it anyway. Look, a lot of these states I watched this morning as Democrats are complaining and they're complaining from states where they've done it in Illinois. Like in Massachusetts, I watched this lunatic Pocahontas, she's a total lunatic. I don't know what she's on. She's all jumping up and down. I've never seen anything like it talking about supporting the communist mayor. And he's not a socialist. He's a communist. Okay? This is not a socialist man. This is a communist. If you look at any of his policies and go back six months, you don't even have to go back further than that. So they want to put a communist in New York. Now, the good news is we have a lot of power over that because we're the ones with the money. We send the money, we don't send the money.
It's up to the White House, A lot of power in the White House. But when I watched her jumping up and down talking about that and supporting the communists, but if you look at what's going on with the redistricting or whatever you want to call it, the Democrats have done it long before we started. They've done it all over the place. They did it in New York. They did it in a lot of different states, but in Massachusetts. So somebody used this as an example. Today I was interviewed this morning and they said, it's pretty unfair. Trump got 40%. I'm not proud of that, but I think I probably got more, but that's okay. I got 40% in Massachusetts, and yet they have a hundred percent of the voting terms of Congress. So there's no Republican, there's no anything. So we should have 40%. You know why they redistricted and they've done it all over the place and they've done it in California, by the way before this.

They've done it in California. So we'll see what happens. We have a wonderful governor in Texas. He feels strongly about it. It's going to be up to him. I think there's tremendous support for it. And we've watched the Democrats destroy our country in four years. They've destroyed between their open borders that we talked about, transgender for everybody, all of the horrible things that they've done. High taxes, horrible medical provision for people. We've watched them destroy our country for four years and people don't want that. People in Texas, as you saw, I got the highest vote in the history of Texas. I love Texas. Texas likes me, obviously, but I got the highest vote. And that was checked out on the show. Did you see that? Where they checked it out? They said he actually did get the highest vote in the history of Texas, which disappointed them. They were very disappointed to hear that. But Texas is a place that's done very well with a free enterprise kind of an attitude with the exact opposite of what's happening in New York with a communist mayor. They know what they're doing and they're doing the right thing. Yeah.

Senator John Cornyn is asking for your help to force Democrats back to the state and hold them accountable. Do you want the federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats who've left the state?

Well, I think they've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it twice before. And in a certain way it almost looks like they've abandoned the state. It looks very bad. Yeah, go ahead, please.

But should the FBI get involved? Should the fbi I get involved?

Well, they may have to. They may have to. No, I know they want 'em back. Not only the attorney general, the governor wants. In fact, if you look mean the governor of Texas is demanding. They come back. So a lot of people are demanding. They come back. You can't just send it out. You have to go back. You have to fight it out. That's what elections are all about.

Two questions for you. One, were you aware of, and did you personally approve the prison transfer for delaying Maxwell that your Justice department?

I didn't know about it at all. No. I read about it just like you did.

And do you believe that she's a,

It's not a very uncommon thing.

Do you believe that she's credible to be listening to your Deputy Attorney General sat down with her recently?

Well, let me tell you, he's a very talented man.

But what about her?

His name is Todd Blanche. He's a very legitimate person. Very high. I just, a very highly thought of person, respected by everybody. And I didn't talk to him about it, but I will tell you that whatever he asked would be totally appropriate. And it's not an uncommon thing to do there. And I think he probably wants to make sure that people that should not be involved or aren't involved or not hurt by something that would be very, very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people. But I will say this, Todd Blanche is one of the most highly respected people you'll ever meet. So I know this. I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked about with her or the fact that he did that, not unusual, number one, and most importantly, is something that would be totally above board.

But what was justified, Mr. President, how much more would you like Doge to cut from the federal government?

Well, it's not so much Doge anymore. And by the way, I have to say that somebody from Doge was very badly hurt last night. You saw that a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC and either they're going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we're going to have to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to be run. But it's not a question of Doge. We have great people, secretaries, and all working with Doge and cutting, I said, with a scalpel as opposed with an ax.. Cutting with a fine tooth comb, and they're getting rid of people that aren't doing their job or bad people or bad things, bad policy, et cetera, et cetera. And I think we've been very successful in that. And there's more cutting to do, but there's also more getting, we want smart people in government.

Our country is doing great. I think we are doing probably maybe in many ways better than we've ever done before. We're taking in trillions not big. Its trillions and trillions of dollars from other countries who for years took advantage of us. They took advantage of the United States like we were children, and that's not happening anymore. Now they're paying a lot of money and they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars. Individual countries paying hundreds of billions of dollars. You're seeing what everybody else is seeing, and we have a lot of things we can do. One of the questions asked of me this morning is, are you going to make a dividend to the people? And the purpose of what I'm doing is primarily to pay down debt, which will happen in very large quantity. But I think there's also a possibility that we're taking in so much money that we may very well make a dividend to the people of America.

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Before taking questions, the president signed an executive order setting up an Olympic Task Force to guarantee the safety of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, promising that every agency will work together to make the games safe and successful. He began declaring this "a very big day" and recalling that when the games were rewarded to the United States he did not expect to be in office when the torch was lit. He joked that he had taken a "very circuitous route" so that he will be president at the time. Joining him on stage were ten men and five women, including Attorney General Bondi, HHS Secretary Noem, Vice President Vance, FCC Chair Carr and White House aides Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, James Blair and Dan Scavino, as well as a retired Olympic and retired ParaOlympic athlete. In the audience were Reince Priebus and former speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The president seemed a little surprised when he boasted that he had blocked biological males from playing in women's sports at the Olympics and no one applauded. "No one wants to clap; it's crazy," he said. He also praised the inclusion of baseball in the games and said Venice Beah "will be one of the great venues."

He was presented with medals from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles by Casey Wasserman, the chairman of LA 2028. "Can I say I won them athletically?" asked the president with a smile. Then, after signing the executive order, he said in a raised voice, "Pam – no auto pen!" There was applause.