Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to Reporters Before Air Force One Departure - October 14, 2026

I hope you had a good time. We're now going to Montana. We're doing a big -- another big rally. The people are miles long, and it's gonna be fantastic, so you'll enjoy it. We're switching planes because of the small runway, and then we get back on the big one. Uh, but, uh, this is gonna be a great rally also.

That was fantastic. Uh, what did you think? Did you like it?

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Pretty good, right? Pretty good. And we have another big one. So I think these rallies have changed everything. They changed -- a lot of things have changed. I think a lot of people that maybe were having trouble won't have so much trouble. But I feel I owe it to the Republican Party. I love the party. I love the people in the Republican Party.

And, uh, I wasn't gonna do this, but, you know, we're gonna end up doing about 32, 33 of them. And, uh, we're off to a very good start. I guess this is number eight or so. And, uh, I think we're off to an amazing start. Every one of them is packed. The one we're going to right now is packed, Montana. It's just absolutely, uh, amazing what's going on. There's tremendous spirit.

We've brought back a spirit. You know, the country's doing so well, but we have to let people know about it. So thank you all very much.

Mr. President, could you --

Are you concerned about Abdul El, El-Sayed's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Yeah, he's a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdul, or as I call him, Mohamed, Mohamed El-Sayed. Uh, he's a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He said that years ago. He was a proud member, and you can't have a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress being on one of our security committees, right? Uh, but he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

And you have, in Mike Rogers, such an amazing candidate. He's, uh, apple pie. He's all apple pie. And that's what our country needs. We don't, we don't need the Muslim Brotherhood in, uh, as a senator.

Well, Mr. President, why- -- why Montana? It's a very red state. Uh, there are those of you that are saying you're playing defense as opposed to trying to go to Michigan, for instance.

Well, I probably, because I'm doing Michigan too, as you know. I'm doing Michigan in a few days. Uh, Montana, because we wanna make sure we win. I won, you know, it was one of my best states. I won by 45 points. Uh, and really two reasons. Normally I wouldn't be going, but I like to also pay my respect to places that I don't have to go. They're so looking forward to it. And I won by, uh, many, many, many points.

Wasn't even a contest. And, you know, my opponent, uh, was -- didn't represent the people of Montana well, and it was -- it's one of my better states, maybe my best state. And so I do it to, uh, to thank them. I also do it because we have some great people there that are running, and I wanna make sure they win.

Because when I don't run, which, you know, in theory I'm not running, but I feel that I'm running. When I don't run, we get 49% less turnout. When I do run, we win easily. We won every -- every time I've run, we've won, and I wanna keep it that way. So essentially I'm saying, "Please pretend I'm running." And in a true sense, I am running because I don't want them tearing down what we've built.

So we look forward to Montana, but we're going to Michigan. Uh, we're going back to Ohio. We're going back to Texas. We're, we're doing all the right places, but we have a little time left.

Mr. President, do you have a message for exactly Pope Leo being diagnosed with lung cancer?

I do. I want to see Pope Leo get well. I hear the prognosis for that type of a problem. It's a cancer. It's big stuff anytime you have cancer. But the prognosis seems to be good, I've watched. And we just want to wish him, uh, our love and our best wishes. His brother's a friend of mine who's a great -- he's a fantastic guy.

And his wife, you know, they're big Trump supporters. They have MAGA all over their house. And I can say that his brother loves him a lot, loves the pope a lot. And that's good. That's good enough for me. But, uh, I just want to wish him well. Uh, get better fast. Thank you.

Mr. President, did you discuss the inflation report today with Kevin Warsh? The, the market is increasingly betting on a rate increase.

Yeah, we're doing well. Look, we're at 1.7% inflation for the last three months. We inherited a terrible inflation from Biden, the worst in the history of our country. And we have, for the last three months, 1.7, 1.8%. Very low. We're doing great. We're doing great. And Iran will end very shortly. It's gonna be over very shortly, and your energy prices will fall very rapidly, very fast.

And remember, oil is less now under Trump with us taking away the nuclear chance of them destroying, frankly, the world, uh, than it was under Biden. Oil was higher under Biden than it is under Trump. And I had to make an excursion down to Iran to take away the nuclear weapon. And we've done that. They won't have a nuclear weapon.

Uh, the war's gonna be over very soon. Thank you very much.

Mr. President, [Inaudible]