President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from the White House, Oct. 6, 2026

We'll be going to a very special place. We're opening a big shipyard today. We're opening, really, a lot of shipyards over the next year. Our military is building like we've never built before. We have 17 different factories being built and munitions factories. And we're doing very well. Iran is doing very poorly. Their economy is gone. They have inflation of almost 300 percent. Their oil minister just quit. He said, We have no economy. We have no oil. We have nothing. The Hormuz Strait, tremendous amounts, millions of barrels of oil that's been delivered just over the last couple of days. We're getting it through at levels that were now even and sometimes exceeding prior to the war. And we've done very well. The Press Today's diesel announcement, should the federal gas tax be suspended? Well, we're thinking about that. Why did you change your mind, sir, on the taxpayer? Well, the ads, the ads were really good. They were a promotion for the country. Done by many presidents before, so we'll decide. Mr. President, you're meeting with the Gold Star families today. How did that go, ma'am? It was great. In fact, there they are. That was the most beautiful meeting. These are the most incredible people. So, I invited them out to check out the new helipad, check out the new ballroom, and check out the new helicopter. Thank you, everybody. That meeting went fantastic. Why was Wes Moore uninvited from the event? Mr. President, has the dollar strengthened too much versus the euro right now? No, we have a very strong dollar. That's because we're doing well. You know, a strong dollar is good in many ways. In certain ways, you could make a case that it slows things down, but a strong dollar gives you a lot of life. And by the way, you know what a strong dollar does? Gives you no inflation. For the midterm elections, how are you going to do? I think we're going to do very well. I think that the rallies I'm doing are really changing around it. I think the Republicans — all I'm doing is saying what we've done. But the rallies that we've — that we're having — I mean, I'm doing them every night. This is the opening of a shipyard. But the rallies have changed things around. We're letting people know what the Republicans have done, and it's incredible. And prices are now coming way down. And oil, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon, will be coming way down. Hi, Mr. President. Hi, Mr. Miller. Thank you for your free social. Oh, good. Hi, Emily. Good. You're fantastic. Thank you. And there are plenty of bills going to be refilled this week. Are you worried about vandalism in the future? And are you going to go see it? Yeah, well, we had vandalism there, and we have it about as vandal-proof as you can get. But only sick people do that. And we have their pictures. We have the — but sick people do that. Yeah, it's starting — I think they're going to fill it up this week. The Reflecting Pool is totally complete. We changed the old pipes. We wanted to get open for July 4th, and now we went and got rid of the old pipes, which we were going to do later during the winter. We did it. And I think it's almost complete, from what I understand. Are you going to go visit again? I'm going to visit. And they also — the grass, which they destroyed — you know, they destroyed the brand-new, beautiful grass. At the Reflecting Pool, the grass was destroyed with the letters — the famous letters. And that's been just about completed, too. We put all new grass in again. And this is brand-new grass. This is all new, with about 200 loads of brand-new topsoil. So this is going to be very healthy grass. Today, the March of Paramount. We're going to allow the — The March of the companies, yes. The merger. Yes. Yeah. Oh, I'm happy about that. I didn't know that you'd tell me that. That's great. It's a great — it's going to be a great company. They're terrific people, and it's going to be a great company. What do you mean by a great company? We're doing so well economically. We have numbers, the likes of which our country has never had anything like we have right now. We're building hundreds of factories and plants all over. That's a great merger. I'm glad they let it go. What does it mean when you said, like, this is the President?