REPORTER: "In your opinion, what makes a song great?"

POTUS: "It's something that has to be soft and soothing to your ear. I like some songs that other people don't like...

I love country music — and we have the King of Country music tonight."

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POTUS on tariffs: "We have tremendous flexibility with the current system. It’s unbelievable for national security. I've ended eight wars, largely because of trade and because of tariffs. If we go the other tariff route... it won't give you the same pure national security..."

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POTUS takes down Fake News reporter: "You're totally unprepared."

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POTUS: "I think CNN should be sold because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.”

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Ryan Suter is in the Oval Office representing his late father, Bob — a member of the 1980 Miracle on Ice ❤️

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Secretary Sean Duffy announces that 53% of New York’s non-domiciled CDLs were issued unlawfully:

"I am going to give New York 30 days... to come into compliance... If New York refuses to come into compliance...we are going to pull tens of millions of dollars."

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Tarja Lewis, representing her late father Mark Pavelich, a member of the Miracle on Ice: "I know so many people from Duluth, Minnesota, that love you." ❤️

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FLOTUS: "My thoughts and prayers go to the families of people who lost their loved ones around the world. In this difficult time, we are celebrating here Christmas, and I'm thinking about them — what they're going through. My heart is with them." ❤️

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POTUS: "When these factories and plants open up by the thousands... we have an age that's coming up the likes of which I don't think this country has ever seen."

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POTUS: "We'll soon have a good head of the Fed who's going to want to see interest rates go down... [Jerome Powell] is an incompetent person who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome... We have many of them, but we're fighting through that stuff."

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POTUS: "We inherited a mess from Biden... We now have inflation is totally neutralized... We had more people working on Friday than at any time in the history of our country. Wages have gone up more than inflation — first time that's happened in many years."

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Ilhan Omar says the highly credible accusations that she married her brother — which she has never disproved — are a "national embarrassment."

She's right — just not in the way she thinks.

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NEC Director Kevin Hassett: "It's looking like the deficit for this year will be $600B lower than it was last year... We've got the trade deficit cut in half from last year. And so, all of these things are things that should continue to move us towards the Fed targeted 2%."

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Ilhan Omar says it is "really disturbing and creepy" that President Trump is highlighting the Somali fraud scandal and the drain on public resources that has resulted from importing Somalis into Minnesota: "He is deflecting!"

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.Secretary Chris Wright: "On inflation-adjusted measures, gasoline prices are the lowest they've been in 20 years, except during a blip during Covid. I think POTUS' policies of pro-energy, energy addition... have been immediately effective in gasoline, in diesel, in other fuels."

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HASSETT: "Under Joe Biden, the fact is that real purchasing power dropped by about $3,000. So far this year, it's up by about $1,200 per family."

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POTUS: "The Governor of Colorado is a weak and pathetic man, who is run by Tren De Aragua — the criminals from Venezuela took over sections of Colorado — and he was afraid to do anything, but he puts Tina [Peters] in jail for 9 years..."

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President Trump and Pete Hegseth present the prestigious Mexican Border Defense Medal to our brave service members who heroically defend our Southern Border. 🇺🇸💪

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Trump’s Historic Border Victory: From Open Borders to Total Control

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/trumps-historic-border-victory-from-open-borders-to-total-control/

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POTUS on marijuana rescheduling: "A lot of people want to see it — the reclassification — because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can't be done unless you reclassify, so we are looking at that very strongly."

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POTUS: "Republicans should knock out the filibuster... If we knocked out the filibuster, it would be just a simple approval... and frankly, they should get rid of the blue slips, too."

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