>>187352, >>187353, >>187354, >>187355, >>187356, >>187357, >>187358, >>187359, >>187360, >>187361, >>187362, >>187363, >>187364, >>187365, >>187366, >>187367, >>187368, >>187369, >>187370, >>187371, >>187372, >>187373, >>187374, >>187375, >>187376, >>187377, >>187378, >>187379, >>187380, >>187381, >>187382, >>187383, >>187384, >>187385, >>187386, >>187387, >>187388, >>187389, >>187390, >>187391, >>187392, >>187393, >>187394, >>187395, >>187396, >>187397, >>187398, >>187399, >>187400, >>187401, >>187402, >>187403, >>187404, >>187405, >>187406, >>187407, >>187408, >>187409, >>187410, >>187411, >>187412, >>187413, >>187414, >>187415, >>187416, >>187417, >>187418, >>187419, >>187420, >>187421, >>187422, >>187423, >>187424, >>187425, >>187426, >>187427, >>187428, >>187429, >>187430, >>187431
POTUS noted that inaugurations are often cold and the most recent was moved to the US Capitol. "It's a very small space. It's not safe. It's not. They didn't have drones in mind when they built it. They didn't have other things in mind either. But we were able to get 921 people in and this will hold many times that number of people without the tables and seats. And bulletproof, drone-proof, missile-proof in many cases and beautiful at the same time. And a big military component, including on the roof, a drone port. Can you believe we have a drone port and it's like no other, so we're doing a great service. It's great national security.
"…The beauty of it and the size will be great. So it's exciting and that will be done. Actually, I will get to use it for, you know, people say he's building it for himself. I'll be using it, I'll be lucky if I get six months because it'll be done toward the middle of '28. So I'm really building it for other presidents, but it will give them great safety. Glass windows that are this thick that can withstand any form of shot, rifle, drone, anyone nothing gets through steel walls. Steel ceiling. Extra strength. I mean, it's really an amazing thing. And yet all of that security made it more beautiful because you have very thick walls, very powerful walls, very beautiful."
Crime in Washington DC
"We've brought it down 91% and it's considered now one of the safest. We're going to do better than the 91% because 9% is even too much, but we're going to bring it back to almost nothing. The only thing we have a hard time stopping is a crime of passion. Do you know what that is? Anybody? This is a group that probably knows something about crimes of passion. But these crimes of passion, we can't do much about. Just one of those things. But we have Washington way down. We worked well with the mayor's office. The National Guard and our military was unbelievable.
"…They used to go in and rob the restaurants…It was like the old Wild West. They'd say stick them up, give me your money. The whole restaurant is handing them money. And now if that ever happened, those people would be in deep trouble deep, deep. We, we hit it very hard. And we have tremendous military people involved, and they do the trick."
ENDS
David Smith
Guardian News & Media
Mon. July 6, 1:38 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2074187367984861635

White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - WH in-town pool report #13
Some detailed quotes from POTUS at the Rose Garden Club Lunch:
Welcome
"Lee Greenwood, wow, has he been great, huh? That's been with me a long time, that song. We won three elections with that song. And we have a country that's a much different place than it was just a short while ago. We have the hottest stock market in history. We did great the first time. We had the greatest economic numbers ever in history for the first term, and I think we're going to be blowing them away."
[full quotes as above in previous post, but this is the distinct post at 16:50]