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Saturday, September 20, 2025 10:05 PM Subject: In Town Pool Note #23 - Some Toplines from the dinner   President Trump delivered remarks at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder's Dinner He was introduced by the organization's founder Dr. Ben Carson, POTUS' former Housing Urban and Development Secretary during his first term. A few topline items from POTUS' remarks POTUS congratulated WH Chief of staff Susie Wiles for winning this year's ACI Founders Award. "Susie the first female White House Chief of Staff, that's really surprising. I thought there'd be like a few more, but it's in history.  "She's the first. She's also the best. I will tell you that she's the best. She makes problems go away...You know, she's most powerful woman anywhere in the world." Big announcement coming on autism on Monday "And I think it's going to be a very important announcement. I think it's going to be one of the most important things that we will do, because what's happened with autism? You know that if you go back 15 years, 15 years, maybe a little bit longer, it was one in 10,000 children had autism.  "Bobby told me, it's hard to believe that this is correct, that as of recently, it was one in 10 boys. Is that pretty Correct? Marty and ours, one in 10, one in 12. One in 12."  "Think of it, one in 10,000 before that was one in 20,000 but it was one in 10,000 let's say. 1617, years ago, and now it's one in 12. Boys and girls are slightly higher, not much, but they're slightly higher." Trump announces highest  civilian honor to be awarded to Ben Carson "But we are going to be presenting Dr Ben Carson with the highest civilian award and honor in our country. It's the civilian version of the Medal of Honor, which is our highest military award." "It's the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and we're going to have a ceremony at the White House honoring Dr Ben Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Congratulations, Ben, congratulations and everybody, thank you very much. We much appreciate it. Congratulations, Ben, he didn't know this. He didn't know it. I hope he's happy. Thank you very much." —audio attached

SEC Drops Cases Against Businessmen Granted Clemency by Trump Joint stipulations of dismissal were filed in Manhattan and Brooklyn federal courts in the SEC’s long-pending enforcement cases against Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson Jr. Archer and Milton have received presidential pardons and Watson's sentence was commuted.

Press was escorted out of the Oval Office at 5:47 PM. President Trump made extensive comments on free speech, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia and his plans to target groups that he allege fund antifa.  President Trump signed an executive order creating a "gold card" program that would allow people to obtain visa for $1 million and corporations for $2 million. He also signed a proclamation that would require applicants for H1B visas to pay a $100,000 fee. Secretary Lutnick said the fee would be paid each time that a worker reapplies for the visa. (full raw audio attached—iPhone Otter)

“When I heard the tragic news, I said, ‘I wonder who he was.’ And then all of a sudden, this overwhelming, this overwhelming sense of sorrow and kind of renewal.” “And I thought, I gotta learn about this guy. And the more I learned about him, I thought, this guy's a modern day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero.” “He's one that knew what Jesus meant when he said, the truth will set you free. And to do it, Now, I understand he was pretty blunt and he was pretty direct. He didn't try to avoid any controversy. He didn't even try to avoid confrontation. The difference is the way, the mode, the style that he did it, always with respect.”

(Inaudible) Look, in D.C. we took one of the most dangerous cities in the world and you can walk – you can take your husband, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, whoever you want to take. You can take them out to dinner tonight in D.C. and you’re going to be safe. It’s really safe. We did a great job. We’re going to do the same job in Memphis. And we’re going to Chicago. And I told you the head of the Union Pacific, who’s a great gentleman, a great businessman, started as a low-level [railroad worker] 25 years later he’s the chairman of the Union Pacific. He said sir you have to save Chicago. It’s a great city. You can’t let it go. And when he said that, I said I don’t really have time to wait a couple of months. Last weekend they lost 11 people were murdered and 28 people were shot. That’s not shot at, that means actually hit. A hundred were shot at and missed. That’s what I call dangerous. And Pritzker is going out and saying, we’ve got crime under control. Now it went down a little bit because for four months, five months ago, I put the FBI there and they’ve done a good job, but that’s limited what they can do. What you really need is a - big, strong soldiers to get them into shape. We’re not letting Chicago fail and we’re going to get started in Memphis. We’ll be very successful. Just like we were in D.C. And we’re going to have to stay in D.C. for a while because, you know, you leave, and people have a tendency to go back. … If they come back you’re just wasting your time. Q – Mr. President, just one more, who would you like to see replace Kimmell on late night? A lot of people. Anybody could replace him. The guy had no talent. Kimmell had – look, he was fired, he had no talent. He’s a whack job. But he had no talent and more importantly than talent - because a lot of people have not talent, they get ratings – he had no ratings. His ratings were worse than Colbert, I think. They got rid of Colbert, which was a good thing to do. Look, that’s something that should be talked about for licensing too. When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do. If you go back and you see they haven’t had a conservative on in years, I think somebody said, when you go back take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They are an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you everyone.  Q – why are they not allowed to do that? Why is that not free speech? Q – Isn’t that a free speech violation? You know why I say that, because I’m on the flight. Otherwise, I wouldn’t care. (crosstalk)  Q – can we just have one word on how beautiful all the women looked last night – Karoline? And your wife and Catherine? I’m not allowed to say that because it could be the end of my career. However, I’ll say it anyway. The women looked beautiful. You looked beautiful. (To Karoline Leavitt.) The women looked really beautiful. And your super-star over here looked great. (Points to Karoline Leavitt.) Has she done a good job? Everybody looked great. Even the men looked beautiful. It’s hard not to look beautiful in that room. That was one of the coolest rooms – that room was built for a table. With the table happen to be carrying 200 people.  Q – what did you eat? Whatever the hell they served us. Q – Did Melania enjoy her time with Princess Kate? She did. She thought she was great. I did too. I sat with her last night, Melania went with her today, she thought she was great. A very wonderful person. She went through a lot too – but hopefully that’s all gone.  William is wonderful. And I knew Charles as a prince and now I know him as a king and he’s doing very well. It was a lovely trip and I thought the press was really nice. The president also sounded off about windmills and Joe Biden and was asked again about Starmer’s Christianity.

You know what, a late night host is on network television. There is a license. I’ll give you an example. I read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me. I get 97 percent negative. And yet I won in, easily, I won all seven swing states. Popular. I won everything. And if they’re 97 percent against and they give me only bad publicity, press and they’re getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It would be up to Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He’s a patriot. He loves our country. And he’s a tough guy. So, we’ll have to see. Q – why is that not a free speech issue? When you think about this, 97 percent of the stories are opposed and I win easily the election? That’s amazing when you think about it. That shows they have no credibility. (crosstalk)  Some of the old days, I remember the old days, every four, five years, a network would reapply for its license. And their license is free, they get this valuable thing for free. And they would reapply for a license and if they did something wrong – well, I beat George Stephanopoulos, Slopadopoulos I call him, George Slopadopoulos. They had to pay me $15 million for what he said. I beat CBS for much more money than that, including advertising and other things, much more money. Because they totally changed the answer that Kamala gave. They didn’t change it, they took it out and put a different answer in. And they didn’t want to go to court for that, that’s a tough one to go to court on. So no I think that, if you remember years ago, I remember as a kid, they would file, it was a big deal, every four, five years … they would have them file for a license extension. I don’t hear about that. The only one I’ve even heard bring it up was Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is doing a great job and I think he’s a great patriot.  Q – What do you think you attend an event in England, a state visit, and yet the mayor of London can’t be there? I didn’t want him there. I asked that he not be there. I think the mayor of London, Khan, is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones, if you look at Chicago, Illinois but I think he’s the equivalent of the mayor of Chicago. I think he’s done a terrible job. Crime in London is through the roof. The mayor of London, Khan, Mayor Khan. He’s done a terrible job and on immigration he’s a disaster. No, I asked that he not be there. He wanted to be there, as I understood it, I didn’t want him. I’ve not liked him for a while. I just think, I have a certain pride in London, the U.K., my mother was born in Scotland as you know. When I see Mayor Khan do a bad job, the stabbings and the dirt (inaudible) it’s not the same. Q – Did Starmer try to talk to you about Ukraine? He did. Well, he was really a little bit embarrassed that I caught Europe, you know, NATO countries, EU countries, you could call it either way because they’re very similar, but I caught them buying oil from Russia. And he said that’s not good. He appreciated that I said that, but he said that’s not good. How about that?  We’re supposed to do all this stuff and they’re buying oil from Russia. That’s not good. Do you agree? I would do something. But also they have to stop buying oil from Russia. Q – did he say he would be willing to do sanctions? He said he would do sanctions, yes. And he’s not one of the culprits in terms of the [Russian oil]. Q – Gov. Josh Shapiro said your administration was cherry-picking violence that’s OK and that’s not OK, what is your response to that?

POTUS: I hope you had a good time everybody. We had a good – think it was a really good day and a half. Very intensive. Q – what was the best part?  I don’t know, I think just being with King Charles. He’s a wonderful guy. I got to know him very well. I knew him before but now I know him a little better. The artwork. I saw more paintings than any human being has ever saw and statues. But they treated us great. They treated our country great. I view that as being really respect for our country the way they did it because last night was beautiful. And we had the biggest people in the world there. That was respect for our country. Q – have you had conversations with Secretary Rubio or any of your military leaders about possible regime change in Venezuela? No, I haven’t.  Q – you haven’t had any discussions about plans or how to make it happen? No, I haven’t.  Q – you mentioned in your remarks at the press conference something about Bagram and bringing it back to the U.S.? I would like to get Bagram back. Q – do you know how you plan to do that sir? Uhhh they need a lot from us and I’d like to get it back. It should have never been given. Bagram. It should have never been given. … It was gross incompetence to give that up. You know it’s one of the most powerful bases in the world in terms of runway strength and length. The strength. You could land anything on there. You could land a planet on top of it. Can you imagine? They gave it up for nothing. It’s an hour away … (inaudible) Q – It’s been a month since your meeting with Putin, is it time for a ceasefire? It’s been a month? It doesn’t feel like it. But at the right time I’m going to have to do it, it will be harsh. Q – Mr. President regarding Antifa … Who are you with?  Q – NPR, sir.  NPR. Oh my God. Are they still here? Are they still here? Congratulations. Q – Regarding designating [Antifa] as a terrorist organization – when they don’t have defined leadership or membership how do you target them? Wait, who doesn’t? Q – Antifa. Uhhh we’re going to find out. We’ll see. People have been talking about it for a long time. We’re going to see. Did they have anything to do with your network? Antifa? Q – No.  We’re going to find out. Q – You said earlier this week that the women who yelled at you, who were protesting, when you were at Joe’s Stone Crab should be in jail. Do you actually think that that is an offense that deserves jail time? I don’t know how they got in there. But certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. And they said things that were very – and it was a question of – when you take a look at the way they acted, the way they behaved, yeah, I think they were a threat.  Do you agree with that? (Trump motions to Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice) Brian – I think they’re a nasty organization. Q – but you think they deserve jail? (crosstalk)  Q – Zohran Mandani said he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York City because of the ICC warrant, would you intervene? I think that’s inappropriate. Yeah, I would. Yeah. It’s inappropriate. Q – Rep. Ilhan Omar was censured. I want to get your reaction to that? They did censure her? When did this happen? I think she’s terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible. Is she originally from Somalia? So how’s their government doing with that president? Do they have a council, do they anything? I love there people that come from these places with nothing, nothing. No anything. And then they tell us how to run our country. If she got censured that’s great. If she got impeached that’s even better. They impeached me twice for nothing. … She should be impeached and it should happen faster.  Q – Are you going to ask Brendan Carr to weigh in on other late night hosts that you have asked to be taken off the air?

(Inaudible) Look, in D.C. we took one of the most dangerous cities in the world and you can walk – you can take your husband, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, whoever you want to take. You can take them out to dinner tonight in D.C. and you’re going to be safe. It’s really safe. We did a great job. We’re going to do the same job in Memphis. And we’re going to Chicago. And I told you the head of the Union Pacific, who’s a great gentleman, a great businessman, started as a low-level [railroad worker] 25 years later he’s the chairman of the Union Pacific. He said sir you have to save Chicago. It’s a great city. You can’t let it go. And when he said that, I said I don’t really have time to wait a couple of months. Last weekend they lost 11 people were murdered and 28 people were shot. That’s not shot at, that means actually hit. A hundred were shot at and missed. That’s what I call dangerous. And Pritzker is going out and saying, we’ve got crime under control. Now it went down a little bit because for four months, five months ago, I put the FBI there and they’ve done a good job, but that’s limited what they can do. What you really need is a - big, strong soldiers to get them into shape. We’re not letting Chicago fail and we’re going to get started in Memphis. We’ll be very successful. Just like we were in D.C. And we’re going to have to stay in D.C. for a while because, you know, you leave, and people have a tendency to go back. … If they come back you’re just wasting your time. Q – Mr. President, just one more, who would you like to see replace Kimmell on late night? A lot of people. Anybody could replace him. The guy had no talent. Kimmell had – look, he was fired, he had no talent. He’s a whack job. But he had no talent and more importantly than talent - because a lot of people have not talent, they get ratings – he had no ratings. His ratings were worse than Colbert, I think. They got rid of Colbert, which was a good thing to do. Look, that’s something that should be talked about for licensing too. When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do. If you go back and you see they haven’t had a conservative on in years, I think somebody said, when you go back take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They are an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you everyone.  Q – why are they not allowed to do that? Why is that not free speech? Q – Isn’t that a free speech violation? You know why I say that, because I’m on the flight. Otherwise, I wouldn’t care. (crosstalk)  Q – can we just have one word on how beautiful all the women looked last night – Karoline? And your wife and Catherine? I’m not allowed to say that because it could be the end of my career. However, I’ll say it anyway. The women looked beautiful. You looked beautiful. (To Karoline Leavitt.) The women looked really beautiful. And your super-star over here looked great. (Points to Karoline Leavitt.) Has she done a good job? Everybody looked great. Even the men looked beautiful. It’s hard not to look beautiful in that room. That was one of the coolest rooms – that room was built for a table. With the table happen to be carrying 200 people.  Q – what did you eat? Whatever the hell they served us. Q – Did Melania enjoy her time with Princess Kate? She did. She thought she was great. I did too. I sat with her last night, Melania went with her today, she thought she was great. A very wonderful person. She went through a lot too – but hopefully that’s all gone.  William is wonderful. And I knew Charles as a prince and now I know him as a king and he’s doing very well. It was a lovely trip and I thought the press was really nice. The president also sounded off about windmills and Joe Biden and was asked again about Starmer’s Christianity.

You know what, a late night host is on network television. There is a license. I’ll give you an example. I read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me. I get 97 percent negative. And yet I won in, easily, I won all seven swing states. Popular. I won everything. And if they’re 97 percent against and they give me only bad publicity, press and they’re getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It would be up to Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He’s a patriot. He loves our country. And he’s a tough guy. So, we’ll have to see. Q – why is that not a free speech issue? When you think about this, 97 percent of the stories are opposed and I win easily the election? That’s amazing when you think about it. That shows they have no credibility. (crosstalk)  Some of the old days, I remember the old days, every four, five years, a network would reapply for its license. And their license is free, they get this valuable thing for free. And they would reapply for a license and if they did something wrong – well, I beat George Stephanopoulos, Slopadopoulos I call him, George Slopadopoulos. They had to pay me $15 million for what he said. I beat CBS for much more money than that, including advertising and other things, much more money. Because they totally changed the answer that Kamala gave. They didn’t change it, they took it out and put a different answer in. And they didn’t want to go to court for that, that’s a tough one to go to court on. So no I think that, if you remember years ago, I remember as a kid, they would file, it was a big deal, every four, five years … they would have them file for a license extension. I don’t hear about that. The only one I’ve even heard bring it up was Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is doing a great job and I think he’s a great patriot.  Q – What do you think you attend an event in England, a state visit, and yet the mayor of London can’t be there? I didn’t want him there. I asked that he not be there. I think the mayor of London, Khan, is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones, if you look at Chicago, Illinois but I think he’s the equivalent of the mayor of Chicago. I think he’s done a terrible job. Crime in London is through the roof. The mayor of London, Khan, Mayor Khan. He’s done a terrible job and on immigration he’s a disaster. No, I asked that he not be there. He wanted to be there, as I understood it, I didn’t want him. I’ve not liked him for a while. I just think, I have a certain pride in London, the U.K., my mother was born in Scotland as you know. When I see Mayor Khan do a bad job, the stabbings and the dirt (inaudible) it’s not the same. Q – Did Starmer try to talk to you about Ukraine? He did. Well, he was really a little bit embarrassed that I caught Europe, you know, NATO countries, EU countries, you could call it either way because they’re very similar, but I caught them buying oil from Russia. And he said that’s not good. He appreciated that I said that, but he said that’s not good. How about that?  We’re supposed to do all this stuff and they’re buying oil from Russia. That’s not good. Do you agree? I would do something. But also they have to stop buying oil from Russia. Q – did he say he would be willing to do sanctions? He said he would do sanctions, yes. And he’s not one of the culprits in terms of the [Russian oil]. Q – Gov. Josh Shapiro said your administration was cherry-picking violence that’s OK and that’s not OK, what is your response to that?

POTUS: I hope you had a good time everybody. We had a good – think it was a really good day and a half. Very intensive. Q – what was the best part?  I don’t know, I think just being with King Charles. He’s a wonderful guy. I got to know him very well. I knew him before but now I know him a little better. The artwork. I saw more paintings than any human being has ever saw and statues. But they treated us great. They treated our country great. I view that as being really respect for our country the way they did it because last night was beautiful. And we had the biggest people in the world there. That was respect for our country. Q – have you had conversations with Secretary Rubio or any of your military leaders about possible regime change in Venezuela? No, I haven’t.  Q – you haven’t had any discussions about plans or how to make it happen? No, I haven’t.  Q – you mentioned in your remarks at the press conference something about Bagram and bringing it back to the U.S.? I would like to get Bagram back. Q – do you know how you plan to do that sir? Uhhh they need a lot from us and I’d like to get it back. It should have never been given. Bagram. It should have never been given. … It was gross incompetence to give that up. You know it’s one of the most powerful bases in the world in terms of runway strength and length. The strength. You could land anything on there. You could land a planet on top of it. Can you imagine? They gave it up for nothing. It’s an hour away … (inaudible) Q – It’s been a month since your meeting with Putin, is it time for a ceasefire? It’s been a month? It doesn’t feel like it. But at the right time I’m going to have to do it, it will be harsh. Q – Mr. President regarding Antifa … Who are you with?  Q – NPR, sir.  NPR. Oh my God. Are they still here? Are they still here? Congratulations. Q – Regarding designating [Antifa] as a terrorist organization – when they don’t have defined leadership or membership how do you target them? Wait, who doesn’t? Q – Antifa. Uhhh we’re going to find out. We’ll see. People have been talking about it for a long time. We’re going to see. Did they have anything to do with your network? Antifa? Q – No.  We’re going to find out. Q – You said earlier this week that the women who yelled at you, who were protesting, when you were at Joe’s Stone Crab should be in jail. Do you actually think that that is an offense that deserves jail time? I don’t know how they got in there. But certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. And they said things that were very – and it was a question of – when you take a look at the way they acted, the way they behaved, yeah, I think they were a threat.  Do you agree with that? (Trump motions to Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice) Brian – I think they’re a nasty organization. Q – but you think they deserve jail? (crosstalk)  Q – Zohran Mandani said he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York City because of the ICC warrant, would you intervene? I think that’s inappropriate. Yeah, I would. Yeah. It’s inappropriate. Q – Rep. Ilhan Omar was censured. I want to get your reaction to that? They did censure her? When did this happen? I think she’s terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible. Is she originally from Somalia? So how’s their government doing with that president? Do they have a council, do they anything? I love there people that come from these places with nothing, nothing. No anything. And then they tell us how to run our country. If she got censured that’s great. If she got impeached that’s even better. They impeached me twice for nothing. … She should be impeached and it should happen faster.  Q – Are you going to ask Brendan Carr to weigh in on other late night hosts that you have asked to be taken off the air?

AF1 touched down at JBA at 7:52 pm against a night sky with a bit of a jolt. POTUS and FLOTUS, who was wearing sunglasses, deplaned at 8:03 pm, holding hands for part of it.  About 50 minutes after takeoff from Stensted Airport, POTUS came back and gaggled for nearly 20 minutes. Audio should have been broadcast in the briefing room, but thanks to co-pooler Nikki Schwab, I’ll send a transcript of most of it in a separate email.   Marine One and support helicopter were wheels up to the White House at 8:12 pm.

ROGAN: “Did you get COVID?” JENSEN: “I got COVID like six times.” ROGAN: “Of course you did, because you got vaccinated. The people who didn’t get vaccinated got it once or twice.” JENSEN: “Really? … Sh*t!”

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“Charlie Kirk had ‘break-up’ with Candace Owens after she went ‘too down the rabbit holes” —NYPOST https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/media/charlie-kirk-had-break-up-with-candace-owens-after-she-went-down-rabbit-holes/

POTUS gaggle on AF1. The conversation covered various topics, including discussions on potential regime change in Venezuela, the loss of the Bagram airbase, and the need for a ceasefire in Ukraine. The President expressed concerns about foreign truck drivers in the U.S. and criticized the UK's energy policies. He also discussed the need for sanctions against Russia and the importance of reducing crime in U.S. cities. The President criticized late-night TV hosts for their negative coverage and praised the FBI's role in reducing crime in Washington, D.C. He also mentioned his positive experiences with the British royal family. (audio attached)

Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM EDT To: [...]  Subject: Out of Town Pool Report #14 — Leavitt statement about Marine One Out of town pooler Maggie Haberman called from Air Force One to pass along a statement from Karoline Leavitt about the delay in Marine One landing at Stansted airport: "Due to a minor hydraulic issue, and out of an abundance of caution, the pilots landed at a local airfield before reaching Stansted airport. The president and first lady safely boarded the support helicopter."

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