Subject: Travel Pool Report 7/Coin toss and Risch
The situation for reporters is quite chaotic. Please keep that in mind before sending me unpleasant emails. I passed along all noteworthy remarks from the locker rooms, which were merely encouraging and focused on professional sports waivers for athletes.
The coin toss resulted in a tails winning. None of us had eyes on it and we do not know which team that advantages.
I asked Sen. Risch about his traveling with the president today. He said he was “hanging out.” Asked if he was in the running for a new job, he said, “no, no.”
Subject: Travel Pool Report 8/Full locker room remarks
Per request, Trump said in Army locker room:
“The last time I saw your coach, he said, ‘What about a waiver?’ I said, ‘What are you talking about a waiver?’ He said some of these guys could play in the NFL, you could play for the Yankees, you could play for the Mets, you could play basketball, you could play whatever. But you have to serve a long time. And what we are doing now is you’ll go out and make a fortune and after you are all finished with your professional career you will go and you will serve. And everybody is thrilled. That means you can go out and do whatever you want. And it probably gives the coach no reason to ever [inaudible] a game. You’ll never lose a game. So I want to congratulate you ... So good luck to you.”
He made nearly identical remarks to Navy players.