Wednesday, June 5, 2019

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR OF IRELAND BEFORE BILATERAL MEETING Shannon Airport Shannon, Ireland

Office of the Press Secretary
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR OF IRELAND
BEFORE BILATERAL MEETING

Shannon Airport
Shannon, Ireland

 
4:59 P.M. IST

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  So, I just want to welcome all the members of the press who traveled here.  And it's a great pleasure to be able to welcome President Trump to the Uni -- to the United States -- to Ireland.  And certainly not the first time he's been here, or in County Clare.  This is the first he's been here as President of the United States.  Only, I think, the sixth time an American President in office --

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  I think so.

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  -- has visited Ireland.  So we're very pleased to have you here and look forward to meeting later on.

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, I appreciate it.  The Prime Minister has done a fantastic job.  And we've become friends over the last very short period of time.  And great relationship with Ireland.  I think as good as it's ever been.  Maybe better.  Tremendous trade.  We do a lot of business together.  A lot of trade business together.  A lot of tourism together.

     And maybe most importantly, you are certainly one of the leading countries in terms of people moving and living in the United States.  We have millions of Irish.  And I think I know most of them because they're my friends.  We love the Irish.

     So, it's an honor to be here.  We'll be discussing various things.  Probably, you'll ask me about Brexit because I just left some very good people that are very much involved with Brexit, as you know.  And I think that'll all work out.  It will all work out very well.  And also, for you, with your wall, your border.  I mean, we have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here.  But I hear it's going to work out very well.  I think it's both going to work out well.  It's going to work out very well here.

     And, again, both the military and the trade is such a big factor, and we're going to be discussing that very much.

     So, it's an honor to be in Ireland with my friend, and he's doing a great job as your Prime Minister.

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  The main thing we want to avoid, of course, is a border or a wall between both sides.

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  No, I think you do.  I think you do.  The way it works now is good.  You want to try and keep it that way.  And I know that's a big point of contention with respect to Brexit, is your border.  And I'm sure it's going to work out well.  I know they're focused very heavily on it.

     Q    Mr. President, can I ask you: Do you think Brexit will be bad for Ireland?  You said it's good for the UK, but will it not be bad for Ireland?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  No, I think it should be good.  I mean, the big thing is going to be your border, and hopefully that's going to work out.  I think it will work out.  There are a lot of good minds thinking about how to do it, and it's going to be -- it's going to be just fine.  I think, ultimately, it could even be very, very good for Ireland.  But the border will work out.

     Q    Mr. President, what do you think of our President's comments, where he said your stance on climate change was "pernicious" and "reckless"?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, I haven’t heard those comments.  But, you know, we have the cleanest air in the world, in the United States, and it's gotten better since I'm President.  We have the cleanest water; it's crystal clean.  And I always say I want crystal clean water and air.  So I haven’t heard his comments, but we do have -- we're setting records, environmentally.

     Q    Mr. President, are you concerned that Ireland is not sufficiently worried about the threat from Huawei?  I know that issue came up in Britain.  Some people worry about it in this country, as well.

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, I know that.  And we deal very closely, as you know, with your intelligence and your security.  And we're working on that together, and I know you're concerned like we're concerned.  We're all concerned about it.  So we'll have it --

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  Well, that's something --

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Right.

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  That's something that the Irish government is concerned about as well, and we've been offered some further briefings, information, from the U.S. side, just to give us a security briefing on that.  And we'll do our own security analysis first, and then a (inaudible).  But it is something that we're also concerned about.

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  We're working on that together, very much, with not only Europe but with Ireland.

     Q    Mr. President, you'll be spending a few days in Doonbeg.  What's your plan?  What will you be doing in Doonbeg?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  So, we'll be going there, and then, as you know, I'm making a trip tomorrow to Normandy.  We had an incredible time today.  This was just something that -- the likes of which few people have seen anything like it.  We were with the Queen and the Royal Family, and we were with the Prime Minister, and it was something very special.  And many of you were there.  I think almost all of you were there.  But it's been very well covered, and it was truly beautiful.

     And tomorrow we go to where it all took place; we go to Normandy.  And I'll be leaving from Doonbeg.  I'm staying here overnight, and I thought this would be the best place.  I'd love to come to Ireland and stay at Doonbeg, and tomorrow we'll be leaving and going to Normandy.  So, many of you will be coming with us.

     Q    Is this trip about promoting your golf club?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Say it?

     Q    Mr. President, is this trip, for you, just about promoting your golf club?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  No, this trip is really about great relationships that we have with the UK.  And I really wanted to do this stop in Ireland.  It was very important to me because of the relationship I have with the people and with your Prime Minister.

     Q    (Inaudible) the E3 visa?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Yeah, we're looking at that.  We almost made it last time.  It was one vote; you know that.  And we're looking at that, and I'm sure that's something we're going to discuss.  And I spoke to the one vote, who's a great senator, by the way.  And -- he really is; he's a great senator.  And we think we're going to be successful.  He's a terrific person.  He doesn’t mean to do any harm -- that, I can tell you.  He was telling me he loves Ireland, actually.  So I think we're going to be in good shape.

     We had just about a unanimous vote.  And --

     PRIME MINISTER VARADKAR:  Yeah.  (Inaudible.)

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  And if we get a unanimous vote, we do something that they've been trying to do for a long time.  So I want to do that for the people of Ireland, but I want to do it for the people that are in the United States that want this vote to happen, that happen to be of Irish descent.

     Q    President Trump, as USA is co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, what assurances can you offer the government in helping to protect peace in Northern Ireland and avoid a hard border?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, I think what's going to happen is, over the next period of time -- first, they're going to have to see who's going to be Prime Minister.  And I think it's a very important decision.  We'll see what happens over in the UK, because that's going to be decision number one: who is going to be Prime Minister.  And once that happens, that person will get in and try and make a deal.  And maybe if they don’t make a deal, they do it a different way.

     But I know one thing: Ireland is going to be in great shape.  Ireland is, you know, a special place.  It’s going to be in very good shape.  I don’t think the border is going to be a problem at all.

     Q    Sir, did you see those reports of executions in North Korea of the folks who were involved in your summit?  Does that worry you at all that Kim would execute these people?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, I don’t know if the reports are correct because one of the gentlemen who we deal with is -- this is North Korea they’re talking about -- is somebody that we know well.  He’s a strong man.  He’s a strong person.  And they like to blame Kim Jong Un immediately.  But they said he was killed, and he wasn’t.  He was at the theater the other night, so he wasn’t killed.  The other four people I know nothing about.  But it is -- it’s an interesting situation.

     And I think that they would like to make a deal and we'd like to make a deal with them.  We’ll see how it goes.  It’s been going pretty well because there hasn’t been testing of anything major, and, frankly, there’s been no nuclear testing in a long period of time.

     When I became President, and before that, as you know, it was all the time: nuclear testing, ballistic missile testing.  And now there’s nothing.  I think that Chairman Kim would like to make a deal, and I’d like to make a deal with him.  I look forward to seeing him in the appropriate time.

     And, again, one of the people they were talking about that was supposedly executed wasn’t executed at all. 

     Q    Corporation tax -- Ireland’s corporation tax over here --

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Say it?

     Q    Are you going to talk about Ireland’s corporation tax with the Prime Minister?

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, the corporation tax -- you mean the fact that it’s so low?  It is a very low tax.  I have to agree.

     You know, we have our tax very, very low, but they’ve done a very good job in Ireland.  And your Prime Minister has kept it there.  And he’s -- they have a lot of great companies here.

     He should try -- he should try keeping it low.  I agree.

     Thank you very much, everybody.  Thank you.

     Q    (Inaudible) tariffs --

     PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Oh, it's true.  They’re having a meeting at 3 o’clock today.  And, look, I think Mexico has to step up.  And if they don’t, tariffs will go on.  And if they go high, the companies are going to move back into the United States.  That’s all.  It’s very simple.

     The people aren’t going to have to worry about paying the tax because the companies are going to move back into the United States.  There won’t be any tariff.

     As far as China is concerned, China wants to make a deal.  I have no doubt about it.  And the -- every signal is they want to.  And at the right time, probably that will happen.  But right now, they’re paying many billions of dollars to the United States.  We never got that before from China.  And we haven’t even started.  It’s relative peanuts compared to the numbers that we’re talking about.

     But I think China wants to make a deal, and Mexico, you know, wants to make a deal.  They have their entire delegation right now going over to, probably, the White House location, but to negotiate with our people.  It’s headed up by Mike Pompeo and Bob Lighthizer, and Mike Pence is involved.  So we have a great group.

     But Mexico -- look, the drugs that are coming in, the people that are coming in unchecked, they’re swamping our border.  They’re coming up by the millions.  Mexico can stop it.  They have to stop it.  Otherwise, we just won’t be able to do business.  It’s a very simple thing.

     And I think they will stop it.  I think they want to do something.  I think they want to make a deal.  And they sent their top people to try and -- we’ll see what happens today.  We should know something.

     Thank you very much. 

                         END                 5:10 P.M. IST

1600 Daily The White House • June 5, 2019 Why Mexico Must Act

1600 Daily
The White House • June 5, 2019

Why Mexico must act


America’s border crisis reached another milestone today—and not an encouraging one. A few hours ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its apprehension figures for last month. There’s only one way to describe the new report.

“Just stunning,” in the words of The Washington Post’s immigration enforcement reporter.

144,278. That’s how many immigrants were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at our southern border last month alone. The May figure represents a 32 percent spike from April and makes for the third straight month with at least 100,000 apprehensions or inadmissibles. All told, CBP officials have detained more than 680,000 such migrants this fiscal year alone—more than the entire population of Miami, Florida.

“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: The system is broken,” acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders told reporters today.

The changing face of illegal immigration demands immediate attention. Families and unaccompanied children make up a growing share of those who circumvent our legal immigration system, which makes an already-severe humanitarian crisis even worse. Last month, 88,676 family unit migrants—including both legitimate families and groups that human smugglers pose as families to game the system—and 11,893 unaccompanied children were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at the border.

President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to address the holes in our immigration system that cause this crisis. Just as it has for decades, Capitol Hill ducked. Congressional Democrats have gone so far as to deny that any crisis exists at all.

Americans deserve the real action that politicians have promised them for years. Last Thursday, President Trump took it, announcing that the United States would place tariffs on goods from Mexico until our southern neighbor steps up and helps stop the massive number of migrants who violate its laws to illegally access our border.

More than words are needed. America has been good to Mexico for many years. All we ask now is that Mexico do its fair share to support our Border Patrol officers and bring law and order to its side of the border, as well. President Trump is confident that Mexico can and will act swiftly to confront this dangerous situation.

Something to share: Ending a system where the criminals win—and citizens lose. 

By the numbers: CBP officers face a worsening crisis at the border.

President Trump: “The migrant crisis is a calamity that must now be solved.”

Day 2: The President and First Lady in the U.K.

Last night, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump wrapped up the second day of their official State Visit by hosting members of the Royal Family and other dignitaries at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Some of yesterday’s most powerful moments came early in the day, when Prime Minister May gave the President and First Lady a pair of special tours. First came an up-close look at a rare copy of the Sussex Declaration, also known as our Declaration of Independence, followed by a visit to the Churchill War Rooms—the famed bunkers used by Winston Churchill and his war cabinet as they strategized for Allied victory during World War II.

More: President Trump and Prime Minister May lead a business roundtable 

Photo of the Day

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
President Trump gives remarks during a D-Day National Commemorative Event at the Southsea Common in Portsmouth, England | June 5, 2019

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE

Office of the Press Secretary
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:

     Kenneth Charles Canterbury, Jr., of South Carolina, to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, vice Byron Todd Jones, resigned.

     Kelley Eckels Currie, of Georgia, to be Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues.

     Amy Karpel, of Washington, to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission for a term expiring June 16, 2023, vice Irving A. Williamson, term expired.

WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE:

     Amy Karpel, of Washington, to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 16, 2020, vice F. Scott Kieff, resigned, which was sent to the Senate on January 16, 2019.

The GoldFIsh Report No. 364: Planting Seeds of Change with YouTuber Tim Emslie


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