Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to Reporters Before Air Force One Departure - October 29, 2026

A great morning from the standpoint of GDP, it came out at a much higher number than any projections, 3.4, which was, uh, almost double some projections. So, we're doing great; the country is doing unbelievably well. The Alaska situation is terrible, but what Peltola is done and what Schumer and the Democrat Party have done with the scheme is election fraud.

Total election fraud at the highest level, criminal level. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. So, we'll see how that works out, I guess it's being looked at, but it's a very, very bad thing, very sad. We have a great Senator there, as you know, they tried to confuse him. And, you know, I'm a high IQ person.

You look at that list of names; they also put another person on nobody's even talking about. When you take a look at the names, you would be -- I would say most people would be inclined to vote for the Daniel as opposed to Dan, the way it sets up. Very unfair, very confusing and meant to be, it's a fraud.

On Alaska, sir -- On Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, she attacked your administration for filing the lawsuit. She went on to endorse the Democratic candidate for governor. What's your response on that?

Well, that's her problem. But she -- I noticed that she also agrees that what they did here was a very bad thing. This is -- you're talking about a totally different thing. She endorsed somebody that I think she shouldn't have endorsed, but that's her. But she also does think that this is terrible what's taking place with the governor, with the race for Dan Sullivan, the Senate race.

In California yesterday, the judge denied the lawsuit to throw out those 20,000 illegal votes. Do you think you're going to try to steal it from Steve Filner?

Oh, of course they are. California is very corrupt; the elections are extremely corrupt. The judge should not have done that, but we'll appeal that, of course. We found 20,000, but there are hundreds of thousands of bad ballots, bad votes in California, millions. In my opinion millions. It's a corrupt state and very, very corrupt elections.

On Alaska, sir --

If California were honest, if they honest vote count, I would have won it by a lot.

On Alaska, sir, if the Democrats win, if Mary Peltola wins, should Republicans refuse to see her come January?

Well, you're going to have to see what happens. It's hard to believe that she could even be allowed to run. Frankly, I don't know how you can allow somebody like that to run. It's so unfair; when you look at that, but nobody knows what to press. We've done studies, nobody knows, they have no idea who the Dan Sullivan is. You have Dan Sullivan, who's a great Senator.

You have another guy named Dan Sullivan who never even, I think, voted before. He didn't campaign; he was just put there as a fraud. But people aren't going to know that. So, nobody's going to know what to do. That's a fraud and it should be allowed to happen. And it was done in conjunction with Schumer and everybody else.

It's an absolute -- it's called voter fraud. It should not have been allowed to happen.

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You would respect the election results if they're honest elections. In your view, what constitutes an honest election?

Well, I think what they do, if they don't correct this, it would be certainly a dishonest election. If they don't correct it, because you can take a good student, a smart person, and give them that ballot. And a man that never ran for office and nobody ever heard of is going to get a lot of votes and it's very unfair.

Sir, on Brazil, you questioned the election there, but do you now recognize Lula as the president? Do you have any intention to talk to him and congratulate him on winning?

I'll talk to him. I think the election was a disgrace in Brazil. You're talking Brazil?

Yes, sir.

The election was a disgrace I thought.

Are you worried about the way that you're talking about Abdel El-Sayed is putting off Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan?

No, I do very well with the Arab vote. In fact, if you look at -- I won Michigan by a lot and I won the Arab vote, so.

And are you worried about Democratic rhetoric about trying to impeach Pete Hegseth if they win?

I think it's terrible. All they do is they talk about impeaching everybody. I mean, honestly, if we wanted to play that game, we could play it just as well, but they're talking about Pete Hegseth. He's doing a great job. He's a great warrior; I think he's the best at his job in many, many years and a lot of people agree with that.

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Mr. President, who in your mind is the legitimate winner of the Brazilian election?

I don't want to comment right now, but I thought the election was a very great embarrassment to the people of Brazil. I watched the election, I didn't take sides, I let it be. I was asked not to take sides by the president, the current president. I didn't take sides. But when I watched what went down in Brazil, it was a -- well, the market says, let's take a look at the market.

Their market went down through the floor.

On Israel, sir --

I thought -- I thought it was a very disgraceful situation for a president.

Did you hear that Lieutenant General Sylvia leaked classified information at the Pentagon?

Or what?

That Lieutenant General Sylvia leaked classified information at the Pentagon?

She's got problems. She's going to have big problems. She did -- we're very much looking for leakers, and she's going to have big problems, long-term problems.

Are you worried about how you're performing with young voters in this election?

I think I'm performing well. I mean, we're -- the rallies are unbelievable. I'm doing a rally now in South Carolina and it's packed. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. I have a 99 percent favorable number with the Republican Party that you saw just came out. I'm at 99 percent favorable. I don't know, I should hit 100. I don't know who the 1 percent is, but -- so I think I'm doing very well.

But the rallies are very well attended, and I think we've changed the whole -- you know, we've done a lot of them over the last week and a half, a lot. We did two the other day in Texas. We did a big one, a great one yesterday. We had a great rally yesterday there, most of you were there. And this one, we have lines of people going two miles long, so it'll be great.

I'd like to see Lindsey -- in honor of Lindsey Graham, I'd like to see his sister win. She's very talented, very smart. She loved her brother; her brother was a great guy. He loved South Carolina. He was a great politician. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Do you have any plans to meet with Flavio Bolsonaro?