Pool Reports of December 3, 2025

WH In-town pool report #1

Good Morning from the White House--

I'm you're pooler for today. The White House has called a lunch lid until 12pm.

In-town pool report #2

The pool is lining up and waiting outside.

In-town pool report #3

The pool entered the Oval at 3:26pm.

President Trump announced plans to weaken vehicle mileage rules for automakers and lessen regulatory pressure on the industry.

Attendees included Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Sens. Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, Bernie Moreno, Cynthia Lumis, Shelly Moore Capito, as well as House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain.

Ford President Jim Farley and Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa are among the representatives from the auto industry present

Your poolers saw Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walking along the colonnade

Earlier as the pool was waiting outside construction could be heard from where the East Wing used to be.

In-town pool report #4

The pool began filing out of the Oval Office at 4:23pm.

During the announcement, President Trump and most of the attendees spoke for around 47 minutes before he took questions from reporters.

Other figures present at the event included National Economic Council Adviser Kevin Hassett, Sen. Kevin Cramer, Sen. Eric Schmitt, Reps. Vern Buchanan, Mike Kelly, and GM Plant Manager Joe Urbanic.

Trump continued to criticize Democrats' message on affordability, calling it a "Democratic hoax." He specifically criticized former Tennessee Democratic special election chair Aftyn Behn on the issue: "the word affordability when they mention it…she said it's all about affordability. They never talk about specifics."

Trump was asked about the Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, saying he thought they had a "very good meeting."

"I don't know what the Kremlin is doing. I can tell you they had a reasonably good meeting with President Putin. We're going to find out."

The president also said he was under the impression that Putin wanted to end the war.

On Venezuela: "It's not a pressure campaign. It's much beyond that." Said that he spoke to Maduro and told him "a couple of things."

When asked specifically whether he supported the decision to kill survivors in the Sept. 2 boat strike operation: "I support the decision to knock out the boats and whoever is piloting the boats, most of them are gone, but whoever piloted those boats, they're guilty of trying to kill people in our country."

On his decision to pardon Henry Cuellar: "He was a respected person. He was treated very badly because he said that people should not be allowed to pour into our country and he was right. He didn't like open boarders....as soon as he made that statement, I then said 'I bet he gets indicted' and that's what happened...he got indicted for speaking the truth and his wife got indicted and that's sort of a first, usually they leave the wives alone."

The president criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar and Somalis living in Minnesota: "She's a disaster. She should not be – and her friends shouldn't be allowed, frankly they shouldn't even be allowed to be congresspeople...."Because they don't represent the interests of our country."

In-town pool report #5

Another newsy quote...

The president said he supports the release of the video from the second Sept. 2 boat strike:

"I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release, no problem."

In-town pool report #6

The White House called a travel/photo lid at 6:01 pm.

Have a great night, everyone!