President Trump Speaks To Reporters And Takes Questions Before Departing For Pope Francis's Funeral

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President Trump spoke to reporters as he left the White House to head to JBA to board a flight to Pope Francis's funeral.

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00:00Mr. President, Mr. President, you said that you have spoken to President Xi.

00:12When did that happen?

00:14China says it hasn't happened.

00:16The President has spoken to him numerous times.

00:18So, we're leading and going to Rome, where we'll be attending the funeral of Pope Francis.

00:25Some of you are going to go.

00:27Anybody going?

00:29It's going to be very interesting.

00:31We're going to meet with a lot of the foreign leaders they want to meet.

00:35Trade deals are going very well.

00:37I think Russia and Ukraine, I think they're coming along, we hope.

00:42They're very fragile.

00:44And Iran, I think, is going very well.

00:46We'll see what happens.

00:47We're working on plenty of things that shouldn't be worked on,

00:50because none of this stuff should have happened.

00:52This should have been taken place by Biden.

00:54It should have been fixed by Biden.

00:56But he couldn't do it.

00:57Nor could he come close to doing it.

00:59So, anyway, we're going to Rome to fair respects.

01:02And we'll be leaving that same day.

01:05We'll be coming back home tomorrow night.

01:07And I'll see some of you over there.

01:09Otherwise, I'll see you on television.

01:11So we're going to .

01:12Mr. Facebook.

01:13The Pressure.

01:14You said you spoke with President Xi.

01:15Have you spoken to him since the terror?

01:18When did you last between him?

01:20The President Donald Trump.

01:21I don't want to comment on that, but I've spoken to him many times.

01:23Yes, from Japan.

01:24From Japan I'm getting along very well with Japan.

01:28We're very close to a deal.

01:30We're very close to a deal.

01:31The Press Press.

01:35Sir, would you be meeting with the Italian?

01:37The President's Prime Minister.

01:38Yes.

01:39Your Prime Minister?

01:40The Press Press.

01:42The President's Prime Minister.

01:44The President's Prime Minister.

01:45Oh, it's possible.

01:46The Press Press.

01:47How would you remember Pope Francis, sir?

01:50How would you refer to him?

01:51The President's Prime Minister.

01:51Very well.

01:52Good man.

01:53He loved the world, actually.

01:55And he was just a good man.

01:58I met him twice.

02:00I thought he was a fantastic kind of a guy.

02:02The Press Press.

02:03When did that happen and what did you discuss?

02:09I'll let you know at the appropriate time.

02:11Let's see if we can make a deal.

02:12The Press Press.

02:13Any updates on the Whitt-Hoff-Putin meeting,

02:15sir, the meeting right now?

02:16What do you hope to see transpired?

02:18The President's meeting with Putin right now as we speak.

02:21And we have a lot of things going on.

02:23And I think, in the end, we're going to end up with

02:24a lot of good deals, including tariff deals and trade deals.

02:28We're going to make our country rich, but we're going

02:30to try and get out of war so that we can save 5,000 people a week.

02:34And that's what my aim is.

02:36I want to save 5,000 young men.

02:38They happen to be mostly Ukrainian, Russian.

02:425,000 young Ukrainian and Russian men.

02:45And that's a big honor, if I can do it.

02:48I think we're pretty close.

02:49The Press Press Press No deadline.

02:54I just want to do it as fast as possible.

02:56What?

02:57The Press Press Press Press I think the tariff plan is doing very well.

03:03We're resetting the table.

03:05We're going to make our country very rich.

03:07Very, very rich.

03:08It's already happening.

03:09Thank you very much.

03:35Let's get started.

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