Subject: Travel Pool Report #11
At 2:31pm local, pool entered a narrow conference room for POTUS’ bilat with the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
POTUS was flanked by Wilbur Ross, Robert Lighthizer, Robert O’Brien and Larry Kudlow. He briefly thanked Von der Leyen, remarking at one point that he’s heard she’s “a very tough negotiator.”
“We’re going to talk about a good trade deal. We’ll be discussing other things also,” he said.
Von der Leyen said she was looking forward to getting to work with POTUS, and described Americans and Europeans as “good friends.”
POTUS responded to one shouted question about supporting a motion to dismiss as his impeachment trial gets underway in the Senate: “That whole thing is a hoax.”
Poop was ushered out at 2:36pm. Please check quotes against transcript.
Subject: Travel pool report #14 — meeting with Swiss president
w/ a big assist from co-pooler Gabby Orr
The pool was brought into Trump’s bilateral meeting with Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga at 4:14 pm.
Scavino, Kudlow, Grisham, Lighthizer, O’Brien, Mulvaney, Mnuchin and Ross were all present.
POTUS said the meeting would focus on trade. He said the Swiss want to make a trade agreement.
TRUMP: “We have a tremendous relationship. We’re working on other matters also, but today we’re going to be discussing largely trade with Switzerland. They want to do a deal and we’ll see what we can do.”
SWISS LEADER:
“Very glad” to have this bilat. “We agree about three main issues: bilateral engagement, economic ties and also global warming. I think it’s worth it also to talk about that.”
TRUMP: “Sure. We look forward to it.”
Trump was asked what he agreed to with Macron on France’s digital tax. He said he and Macron had a “good conversation.”
“The US is very happy with the result.”
“We appreciate very much what president macron did.”
He did not say specifically what Macron did
“Poop was ushered out at 2:36pm. Please check quotes against transcript.”
So, Jenny, is this your description of the press or theirs? Had to look twice, thought we were talking about San Francisco.
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