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Excerpts From Trump Conversation With Journalists on Air Force One<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Excerpts From Trump Conversation With Journalists on Air Force One:- The following are excerpts, as prepared and released on Thursday by the White House, from a conversation aboard Air Force One between President Trump and members of the press corps as they flew to Paris on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conversation was initially thought by the journalists to be off the record. However, the White House changed the terms of the exchange after Mr. Trump asked the pool reporter, who works for The New York Times, why it was not covered and she informed him that the journalists believed they were not allowed to use the material.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: Asterisks and ellipses denote sections of the president\u2019s conversation that were left out by the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the visit to France:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q When were you last in Paris? When were you last in France?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: So I was asked to go by the President, who I get along with very well, despite a lot of fake news. You know, I actually have a very good relationship with all of the people at the G20. And he called me, he said, would you come, it\u2019s Bastille Day \u2014 100 years since World War I. And I said, that\u2019s big deal, 100 years since World War I. SO we\u2019re going to go, I think we\u2019re going to have a great time, and we\u2019re going to do something good. And he\u2019s doing a good job. He\u2019s doing a good job as President.<\/span><\/p>\n

On North Korea, China, and trade:<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: A big thing we have with China was, if they could help us with North Korea, that would be great. They have pressures that are tough pressures, and I understand. And you know, don\u2019t forget, China, over the many years, has been at war with Korea \u2014 you know, wars with Korea. It\u2019s not like, oh, gee, you just do whatever we say. They\u2019ve had numerous wars with Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have an 8,000 year culture. So when they see 1776 \u2014 to them, that\u2019s like a modern building. The White House was started \u2014 was essentially built in 1799. To us, that\u2019s really old. To them, that\u2019s like a super modern building, right? So, you know, they\u2019ve had tremendous conflict over many, many centuries with Korea. So it\u2019s not just like, you do this. But we\u2019re going to find out what happens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Very important to me with China, we have to fix the trade. We have to fix the trade. And I\u2019ve been going a little bit easier because I\u2019d like to have their help. It\u2019s hard to go ***. But we have to fix the trade with China because it\u2019s very, very none-reciprocal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Is that your bargaining chip with them to get on board with North Korea? Is, like, you want to \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Nobody has ever said it before. I say it all the time. Somebody said, what cards do you have? I said, very simple \u2014 trade. We are being absolutely devastated by bad trade deals. We have the worst of all trade deals is with China.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have a bad deal with South Korea. We\u2019re just starting negotiations with South Korea. South Korea, we protect, but we\u2019re losing $40 billion a year with South Korea on trade. We have a trade deficit of $40 billion. The deal just came up.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was another Hillary Clinton beauty. Remember she said it was five-year deal, and now it\u2019s an extension period. She said this will put jobs in our country. She said we\u2019ll make money with it. Great. We\u2019re losing $40 billion a year. It\u2019s a horrible deal. So we\u2019re starting \u2014 we started, as of yesterday, renegotiating the deal with South Korea. We have to.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the biggest strength we have are these horrendous trade deals, like with China. That\u2019s our strength. But we\u2019re going to fix them. But in terms of North Korea, our strength is trade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q And do you think that\u2019s going to bring them around?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Well, yeah, when I say reciprocal \u2014 you make reciprocal deals, you\u2019re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. But before I did that, I wanted to give it a good shot. Let\u2019s see. And they helped us. I have a very good relationship with him. I think he\u2019s a tremendous guy. But don\u2019t forget. He\u2019s for China. I\u2019m for the U.S. So that\u2019s always going to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

So he could be a tremendous guy, but he\u2019s going to do what\u2019s good for China. And he doesn\u2019t want 50 million people pouring across his border. You know, there are a lot of things. I understand the other side. You always have to understand the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q What about steel?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Steel is a big problem. Steel is \u2014 I mean, they\u2019re dumping steel. Not only China, but others. We\u2019re like a dumping ground, okay? They\u2019re dumping steel and destroying our steel industry, they\u2019ve been doing it for decades, and I\u2019m stopping it. It\u2019ll stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q On tariffs?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: There are two ways \u2014 quotas and tariffs. Maybe I\u2019ll do both.<\/span><\/p>\n

On healthcare:<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: No, I think, first, I want to do \u2014 well, we have a few things. We have a thing called healthcare. I\u2019m sure you haven\u2019t been reading about it too much. It is one of the \u2014 I\u2019d say the only thing more difficult than peace between Israel and the Palestinians is healthcare. It\u2019s like this narrow road that about a quarter of an inch wide. You get a couple here and you say, great, and then you find out you just lost four over here. Healthcare is tough.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I think we\u2019re going to have something that\u2019s really good and that people are going to like. We\u2019re going to find out over the next \u2014 you know, we just extended for two weeks. Which, that\u2019s a big \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

On the border wall:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q You were joking about solar, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: No, not joking, no. There is a chance that we can do a solar wall. We have major companies looking at that. Look, there\u2019s no better place for solar than the Mexico border \u2014 the southern border. And there is a very good chance we can do a solar wall, which would actually look good. But there is a very good chance we could do a solar wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the things with the wall is you need transparency. You have to be able to see through it. In other words, if you can\u2019t see through that wall \u2014 so it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what\u2019s on the other side of the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll give you an example. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don\u2019t see them \u2014 they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It\u2019s over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. But we have some incredible designs.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we are seriously looking at a solar wall. And remember this, it\u2019s a 2,000 mile border, but you don\u2019t need 2,000 miles of wall because you have a lot of natural barriers. You have mountains. You have some rivers that are violent and vicious. You have some areas that are so far away that you don\u2019t really have people crossing. So you don\u2019t need that. But you\u2019ll need anywhere from 700 to 900 miles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus we have some wall that\u2019s already up that we\u2019re already fixing. You know, we\u2019ve already started the wall because we\u2019re fixing large portions of wall right now. We\u2019re taking wall that was good but it\u2019s in very bad shape, and we\u2019re making it new. We\u2019re fixing it. It\u2019s already started. So we\u2019ve actually, in the true sense \u2014 you know, there\u2019s no reason to take it down or ***. So in a true sense, we\u2019ve already started the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Donald Trump, Jr.:<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Don is \u2014 as many of you know Don \u2014 he\u2019s a good boy. He\u2019s a good kid. And he had a meeting, nothing happened with the meeting. It was a short meeting as he told me \u2014 because I only heard about it two or three days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

As he told me, the meeting went \u2014 and it was attended by a couple of other people who \u2014 one of them left after a few minutes \u2014 which is Jared. The other one was playing with his iPhone. Don listened, out of politeness, and realized it wasn\u2019t . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, in a world of politics, most people are going to take that meeting. If somebody called and said, hey \u2014 and you\u2019re a Democrat \u2014 and by the way, they have taken them \u2014 hey, I have really some information on Donald Trump. You\u2019re running against Donald Trump. Can I see you? I mean, how many people are not going to take the meeting?<\/span><\/p>\n

On President Putin and Russia:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Are you mad that Putin lied about the meeting that you had with him, especially about \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: What meeting?<\/span><\/p>\n

Q At the G20, when he said that you didn\u2019t \u2014 you know, you accepted that the hacking wasn\u2019t real.<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: He didn\u2019t say that. No. He said, I think he accepted it, but you\u2019d have to ask him. That\u2019s a big difference. So I said, very simply \u2014 and the first 45 minutes, don\u2019t forget, most of the papers said I\u2019d never bring it up. Had to be the first 20 to 25 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I said to him, were you involved with the meddling in the election? He said, absolutely not. I was not involved. He was very strong on it. I then said to him again, in a totally different way, were you involved with the meddling. He said, I was not \u2014 absolutely not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Do you remember what the different way was that you asked \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Somebody said later to me, which was interesting. Said, let me tell you, if they were involved, you wouldn\u2019t have found out about it. Okay, which is a very interesting point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q But did you say, okay, I believe you, let\u2019s move on?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: What I said, I asked him, were you involved? He said, very strongly \u2014 said to him a second time \u2014 totally different \u2014 were you involved? Because we can\u2019t let that happen. And I mean whether it\u2019s Russia or anybody else, we can\u2019t let there be even a scintilla of doubt when it comes to an election. I mean, I\u2019m very strong on that.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not saying it wasn\u2019t Russia. What I\u2019m saying is that we have to protect ourselves no matter who it is. You know, China is very good at this. I hate to say it, North Korea is very good at this. Look what they did to Sony Studios. They were the ones that did the whole deal to Sony. You know, we\u2019re dealing with highly sophisticated people.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, China is very good. You have many countries. And you have many individuals that are very good at this. But we can\u2019t have \u2014 and I did say, we can\u2019t have a scintilla of doubt as our elections and going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Have you told him that?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I told him. I said, look, we can\u2019t \u2014 we can\u2019t have \u2014 now, he said absolutely not twice. What do you do? End up in a fistfight with somebody, okay? Because then I brought up Syria, and I said \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Afterwards?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Very shortly there afterward. And I said, there\u2019s so much killing in Syria. We got to solve Syria. We\u2019ve got to solve Ukraine. And you know, I\u2019ve always said \u2014 and I\u2019m not just talking about Russia \u2014 we\u2019re a lot better off \u2014 like it\u2019s a good thing that I have a good relationship with President Xi. It\u2019s a good thing I have a good relationship with every one of them \u2014 Modi \u2014 you saw that. Every single one of them of all 19 \u2014 there\u2019s 20 with us. All 19, I have a great relationship with.<\/span><\/p>\n

More on the Visit to France and Trade:<\/span><\/p>\n

So we\u2019re doing well. I mean, we\u2019re doing well and we\u2019re having a good time. Now what we\u2019ll do is we\u2019ll go celebrate with the President of France \u2014 we have a good relationship \u2014 open up a little trade with them. But it\u2019s got to be fair trade. I mean, every deal we have is bad. It\u2019s got to be fair trade.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, the European Union, as an example \u2014 I\u2019m all for the European Union, but we have things that we can barely sell into the European Union. They\u2019re very protectionist. And we\u2019re not. And you have to be reciprocal.<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, the word reciprocal is a beautiful word. Because people can say, we don\u2019t like a border tax or we don\u2019t like this or we don\u2019t like that. But what they can\u2019t say is that, if you\u2019re selling a motorcycle and they\u2019re coming into your country and not paying tax, and they\u2019re going into another country and paying 100 percent tax, people understand that\u2019s not fair. So we say we make it reciprocal.<\/span><\/p>\n

More on President Putin and Russia, and on energy:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q Do you think you\u2019ll invite Putin to the White House?<\/span><\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I would say yes, yeah. At the right time. I don\u2019t think this is the right time, but the answer is yes I would. Look, it\u2019s very easy for me to say absolutely, I won\u2019t. That\u2019s the easy thing for me to do, but that\u2019s the stupid thing to do. Let\u2019s be the smart people not the stupid people. The easiest thing for me to tell you is that I would never invite him. We will never ever talk to Russia. That all of my friends in Congress will say, oh he\u2019s so wonderful, he\u2019s so wonderful. Folks, we have perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don\u2019t have dialogue, you have to be fools. Fools. It would be the easiest thing for me to say to Maggie and all of you, I will never speak to him, and everybody would love me. But I have to do what\u2019s right.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, by the way, I only want to make great deals with Russia. Remember this, I have built up \u2014 we\u2019re getting $57 billion more for the military. Hillary was going to cut the military. I\u2019m a tremendous fracker, coal, natural gas, alternate energy, wind \u2013 everything, right? But I\u2019m going to produce much much more energy than anyone else who was ever running for office. Ever. We\u2019re going to have clean coal, and Hillary wasn\u2019t. Hillary was going to stop fracking. She was going to stop coal totally. Hey, in West Virginia I beat her by 42 points. Remember, she went and sat with the miners and they said get the hell out of here. So, I was going to \u2014 if Hillary got in, your energy prices right now would be double. You\u2019d be doing no fracking. You\u2019d be doing practically no fossil fuels.<\/span><\/p>\n

So Putin, everything I do is the exact opposite. I don\u2019t believe \u2014 in fact, the one question that I didn\u2019t ask him that I wish I did \u2014 but we had so many other things going, and really the ceasefire was a very complicated talk, it was a very important talk to me because I wanted to see if we could start a ceasefire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, why does that affect Russia? Because Russia makes its money through selling of oil, and we\u2019ve got underneath us more oil than anybody, and nobody knew it until five years ago. And I want to use it. And I don\u2019t want that taken away by the Paris Accord. I don\u2019t want them to say all of that wealth that the United States has under its feet, but that China doesn\u2019t have and that other countries don\u2019t have, we can\u2019t use. So now we no longer have the advantage. We have a tremendous advantage. We have more natural resources under our feet than any other country. That\u2019s a pretty big statement. Ten years ago, five years ago even, you couldn\u2019t make that statement. We\u2019re blessed. I don\u2019t want to give it up. I don\u2019t want to say oh, okay, we won\u2019t use it. But think of it. So, if Hillary is there, you\u2019re going to have a far less amount of fuel. Therefore, energy prices will be much, much higher. That\u2019s great for Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, the next time I\u2019m with Putin, I\u2019m going to ask him: who were you really for? Because I can\u2019t believe that he would have been for me. Me. Strong military, strong borders \u2014 but he cares less about the borders \u2014 but strong military, tremendous. We\u2019re going to be an exporter of fuel this year. We\u2019re going to be exporting. What was the first thing I signed when I got in? The Keystone Pipeline, and the Keystone Pipeline goes from Canada all the way through our country right into the Gulf, and the ships are there to take it all over and compete with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-air-force-one-excerpt-transcript.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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