President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from the White House, Oct. 2, 2026

This is the way the White House is supposed to look. Not asphalt. >> Broken, dirty asphalt. Look at it. The finest stone you could buy anywhere in the world. Okay. >> So, I'm heading to >> I'm heading to Alabama, a place that I won all three times. Record votes like Texas, like Oklahoma, like a lot of them. And uh we're going to give a little speech and I hope they like it. >> President Trump, you're saying now that if Democrats win control of Congress, they will impeach you. >> But you've already been impeached twice. So what the third time? >> Well, I don't know, but I'm getting good at it. >> And it's being impeached. >> It's a fake impeachment. And we could have done that with Sleepy Joe, but we didn't do it because it would have been appropriate. I could have done that with Hillary Clinton, as you know. I just had the chance to do it if I wanted and I said that would be inappropriate but with me they like to do it. So >> and as you travel around now 32 stops before the midterm. Do you think it's going to be harder for Republicans to keep the House or to keep the Senate? >> I think it's pretty evil. I think that we're making a lot of progress. When I go there we win. >> If I don't go there we would not do as well. You know, if as you know, when I run, we get 44% more votes. So, I'm asking them to go out and vote because I'm not running. But I'm saying pretend I'm running. We want to pretend I'm running. I hope you like what you're seeing here. That's getting all sorts of rewards. And the best of all, you see the new crane, the red the red boom. That's one of the biggest cranes in the world that lifts up the steel for the roof. Pretty cool, right? deal with Europe. He's >> always got the same question about the same country. Mr. >> Always the same question about the same country, but he's a nice >> Mr. President, >> people believe you never get tired. >> I never get tired. >> And Mr. President, what will be >> If I got tired, it would be a big story. I can tell. >> Mr. President, what will be what will be your next step regarding Iran? See? >> Well, if I told you, you'd have a major story, right? But you'll see. It's working out very well. Iran is not doing well. >> So, your message to pro-life Americans ahead of the good church. Your message to pro-life Americans ahead of the church. >> We love them. We love them. We love everybody. I like actually I love everybody. One of those things, but we do love them. President, South Korea says they have not signed off on this Alaska pipeline yet. They're still studying it. Did you jump the gun? >> Well, I didn't jump the gun. I mean, they were there and they were represented and let's see. If they don't want to do it, that's okay with me. I'll just charge them more. >> What did you think about the jobs? >> What do you think about the jobs report? They said they didn't sign >> your diesel. >> Tell them if they don't sign shortly, I'm going to double it up. Okay. >> Your diesel deal with Europe. Your diesel your diesel deal. >> I do this. Your your diesel deal with Europe. Share your diesel deal with Europe. How did that happen? Your diesel deal with your diesel deal with >> I asked for it. Europe has a lot of diesel and they're going to be making a major world contribution and so are we. And we're not going to be uh doing the export ban. We're going to be doing what we're supposed to do. But I did ask them that they're gonna we're gonna have a lot of oil very shortly. As soon as Iran ends, which won't be long, not going to be long, you're going to have oil go down to the price it was before, maybe even lower than I got it at the beginning. >> Democrats, Democrats, you think the high democratic a man on your oil to your an Europe and they wanted to do it because they have a lot of diesel. They use diesel and then a lot of diesel. I said it would be great if you put it out to the market. They did it and that's a great thing. >> What about the relationship with George Maloney now? >> Very good. I think it's a very good relation. >> Mr. President, I always like that. >> Mr. President, the diesel export ban officially off the table now that you're getting supply from Europe. >> Well, we were never going to do it. I don't think we ever but basically Europe was great because they're putting a lot of diesel oil out there. They have diesel. They use diesel disproportionately more than most. And they did a great job. And Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President on President >> You said at the NATO summit back in July that you don't sanction your friends and it's time to lift the sanctions on Turkey. What's to hold up to? >> Who are you with? >> CNN Turkey. >> Turkey. >> Yes. >> I love Turkey. I always speak to President and I'll always make a lot of leaders in Latin America who won the election. Are you going to support Bolson? >> Well, we're looking at the whole thing and we're watching that election very closely. intelligence now. >> Well, it was never really on the table, but what Europe did was a great thing. >> The Republicans pulled funding out of the Senate race in North Carolina. Are you worried about Wally? >> I am because he's a great man and I am worried about him. I hope he wins. He's a great He's a great man. and he was a great leader for the whole Republican party when I won and he'd be a great senator. And as you know, the man Cooper, he's got a lot of bad crime numbers. He's got horrible crime. >> What do you think about New York's governor appointing a special prosecutor in the Cornell rape case, Leticia James? >> Well, Leticia James is a corrupt person. He's totally corrupt and I can't imagine it. And uh I feel badly for whoever she's looking at because they won't get a fair shake. But Disha James is a corrupt person.