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Press Briefing By Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt-August 28, 2025

Good afternoon. Good to see all of you. I want to begin today’s briefing by addressing the horrific shooting that took place yesterday at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a deranged shooter opened fire during morning Mass, killing an innocent 8-year-old and 10-year-olds. Fourteen other children and three adults were also injured during this horrible tragedy.

This was the first morning Mass of the school year for these beautiful, innocent children, and this sacred religious service was desecrated by an evil monster. We are all eternally grateful to the heroic law enforcement officers and first responders whose courage and swift response aided all of those impacted by this horrible tragedy. Continue reading “Press Briefing By Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt-August 28, 2025”

President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting, Aug. 26, 2025

Trump:
Hello. Thank you very much. Are you all set? You all ready? Nice group. Big group. But I want to thank you all for being here as we prepare to celebrate Labor Day, when we honor the incredible, hardworking men and women of our country—which is doing very well.

I have to tell you, every policy of the Trump administration is designed to lift up the American worker, promote great-paying blue-collar jobs, and rebuild the industrial bedrock of our nation. It’s also, obviously, for great defense. We have the greatest military in the world. We rebuilt it largely in my first term. Some of it was stupidly given away to Afghanistan—for what reason, nobody can figure out.

But it was still a relatively small amount compared to the concept of what they did. However, the country is doing well. We’re respected all over the world like never before, probably. We went to NATO, as you know, and they went from 2% to 5% of GDP. Nobody expected that. And the difference is—they didn’t pay the two, and they paid the five. So, as you know, we are selling a tremendous amount of equipment to NATO. We’re not spending any money. We’re making money. Continue reading “President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting, Aug. 26, 2025”

President Trump Signs Executive Orders, Aug. 25, 2025

Trump: Thank you very much. It’s a very important day for many reasons. We’ve had a lot of important days lately, but this is a meeting and a group of people that are doing an unbelievable job in a thing called crime—and in particular, violent crime.

Today, we’re going to be discussing it. And, uh, I watched as a very incompetent mayor from Chicago said, “Well, what do they know? They only arrested nine people.” I said, “Nine people? We didn’t arrest nine people. We actually arrested a total of well over a thousand people. We took hundreds of guns away from young kids that were throwing them around like it was candy. We apprehended scores of illegal aliens. We seized dozens of illegal firearms. There have been zero murders.”

It sounds sort of terrible to say. It’s embarrassing. I did this over the weekend. I’m making a speech, and I acted like I was so proud as I said, “We’ve had zero murders in the last week.” And some of these people were from foreign countries. They said, “That doesn’t sound so good.” And I said, “Well, it doesn’t sound good, but Washington was the most dangerous place in this country. And now, you know what? It’s probably the safest place in our country. Everyone’s starting to come here. The restaurants now—you can’t get in. Many of them closed because they couldn’t open with crime.” Continue reading “President Trump Signs Executive Orders, Aug. 25, 2025”

President Trump Makes a FIFA Announcement, Aug. 22, 2025

Trump: Thank you very much. We have a very big announcement to make today. You all know Gianni—he came all the way from Italy, the beautiful country of Italy, to be with us. He just got off the plane, and he’s a hardworking guy, does a phenomenal job with FIFA. Nobody like him.

I’m delighted to welcome FIFA President Gianni Infantino back to the White House for a major announcement about one of the most anticipated competitions in all of sports: the 2026 FIFA World Cup. That’s going to be the World Cup as we know it. It’s the biggest—probably the biggest event in sports, I guess, Gianni, right? Continue reading “President Trump Makes a FIFA Announcement, Aug. 22, 2025”