White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Arrival at Dubuque, IA, Nov. 1, 2026

So we just had some big news that came over the sets and just announced about Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers. That was a big move, I think. Nobody expected that, but it's a smart thing to do because al-Syed would destroy our country. So I thought that was fantastic. We have a tremendous crowd.

We're in Iowa. We have a tremendous crowd. And then we're going from here, going to Kansas, and we're going to get some people elected today. I think we've had tremendous this impact. You know, everybody around me, all stars.

We have Marco here too. All stars and all great people. But we're going to get a lot of people elected. Do you plan to reach out to Haley Stevens about her endorsement? There's not much to reach out.

Just call her and thank her and say she did the right thing. Do you think she should be a member of the Republican Party? I'd love to have her. I think Mike, you want to talk? I think Mike talked to her.

Come on over. Well, I sent her a note. I spoke to Haley and told her how courageous she was, how much we appreciate that. She's standing for truth. Haley's a good person.

She's always been very thoughtful. She loves her state. She's served it as best she could. And she's speaking the truth. This is a contrast election between common sense and crazy.

And there is no crazier choice on the ballot than El-Sayed and what he stands for. And he needs to answer for that. And I'm sad to tell you, the media has not done a great job in making him answer for that. But I believe the people of Michigan are going to make the right choice. And I think Haley did a heroic and important thing for the country.

Did you speak to her by phone? What did she say back to you? I've spoken to her, encouraged her to stay safe and keep speaking the truth. And I think she's doing that very well. She ought to be commended for that.

Do you think she's not safe? Look, I don't know. We're in a heightened threat environment. Everybody in politics is. And there are dangerous people out there.

Of course, she and her fiancé have been getting a lot of threats. And they're dangerous. Yeah, I think so. They're horrible. They're jihadists.

He's a jihadist. He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy. Yeah, I'd say she's in danger. I think she was very brave doing it. And she did it for the people of Michigan.

And I have great respect. I don't know her. I've never met her. But I have great respect for her, I will tell you. And she put up a great race.

You know, she was supposed to lose by like 25 points and she ended up losing by half a point. She almost won. In fact, a lot of people thought she won. So I have a lot of respect for that. President Joseph Wong, do you know if he has a security clearance?

I don't know. Do you know the nature of his relationship with the woman through the intelligence officers? No, I don't know. I just know that he's an outstanding person, and I can't imagine it would be a problem, but we'll certainly find out about it. How close do you think the race in Kansas is, President?

Say it. How close do you think the race in Kansas is looking for you? Well, I don't know. I'm going to Kansas next. Roger is a fantastic senator, one of the best, or I wouldn't be doing this.

I mean, we have to make sure that Ashley gets in here, and we have to make sure— and governors and everything else too. But we're really here for Ashley. We have to We can't allow the Muslim Brotherhood. You know, don't forget, when they have 1 or 2, 3 votes, they basically assume control of the party. The party has to go along with them.

They can blackmail the party and extort the party. So we have to make sure that Roger gets in and we have to make sure that Ashley gets in. And I think we'll do that. Look, these rallies have been incredible. You know that.

I mean, if you ever wrote the truth about them, I don't know if you do or not, but there's never— nobody's ever seen in the history of midterms. There's never been anything like this. We have sold out arenas everywhere. We haven't had an empty seat. We have tens of thousands of people that can't get in.

So I think there's tremendous energy like maybe never— nobody's ever seen, certainly not for midterm elections. Yeah. Mr. President, Senator Chris Murphy has had a stroke. He's in the hospital. Do you have any reaction to that?

How bad a stroke is it? Do you know? I don't know. This is recent. Are you going to reach out to him?

Do you have a reaction to that? Well, at the right time, I would certainly— would not like to hear a thing like that. I just I just heard about it inside. And he's a pretty young guy, so I was a little surprised to hear it. No, nobody wants to have that.

Is the Canada trade deal back on? You spoke to Mark Carney just. Now. So we have the concept of a very good deal with Canada. We've been losing money for many years with Canada.

Many, many years. 70, 75 Years. So we are now very close to having a deal. I spoke with the Prime Minister the other day. I spoke to him again Yesterday, and we have the concept of a deal that's going to be great for our farmers, great for our country, and it'll be fine for Canada too.

Is the Keystone Pipeline a part of the negotiations? Yeah, they're going to build, which I think is great. They're going to build the Keystone Pipeline. They're going to pay for it. They're going to pay for all of it.

We're going to give them the route, and it's largely been determined, but they'll build the Keystone Pipeline. You might mention, come to think of it, I have an expert at the Keystone Pipeline. What do you think? Well, I think the The projects are great projects, and Canada exports over 4 million barrels of oil to the United States, and that's a great thing for American farmers, ranchers, for diesel prices. Keep that Canadian oil flowing down here.

And nobody's done more for ranchers and farmers in this country than President Trump. That's why we're going to Iowa and Kansas today. This is the heartland elected President Trump. They're going to turn out for him, and I'm very confident about where the elections are going to go in the Midwest because of everybody here. Everybody that's grown up in a rural area like I have knows that no one's cared more about them than President Trump, and his policies back that up.

And then just on energy, the—. Just before I say that, well, Doug said it very well. One thing we didn't talk about is the fact that our farmers were paying tremendous tariffs to send things to Canada. All those tariffs will be gone. There will be no tariff.

There will be no tariff. They were paying as much as 400% for milk products and other things. So part of the agreement is that our farmers will have to pay No tariffs. Okay, so on energy. And I hope I remember to mention that in my speech today.

That's pretty good. I'm in the right place. I'm in the right place. Being in Iowa, that's a good thing to do. Could you please repeat my intervention?

The Pentagon released its hold on a number of wind farms, including one here in Iowa. Do you have any comments on why they did that and how that factors into your energy? Well, we're going to see how it works out. I'm not a believer in wind. I think wind is a very expensive form of energy.

We don't need it. I happen to think it's a very ugly thing when you have these windmills all all over the place that in 3, 4 years they end up rusting and rotting. And he knows too, he's an expert. So I'm not a big believer in that, especially when we have more oil and gas. And now with Venezuela and actually Greenland too, you know, Greenland has a lot of oil and gas and other things.

So we have more than any other 2 countries in the world combined. Mr. President, why are you holding an event under a reflecting pool on the last day of the campaign? Just to show how beautiful it is. It's been finished.

It was vandalized badly.

We have cameras all over the place now for the vandals. But we're going to be holding— I don't know, we might hold it tomorrow or something. But it's finished. It looks beautiful. Hasn't worked since 1922.

It's always leaked terribly. And it works really well now. We had it working well, but it was vandalized. But we did a temporary opening because we had to do the pipes. We wanted to be able to get it open for July 4th.

So we were going to close it. But in the meantime, they vandalized the hell out of it, including the grass. The grass surrounding it, you know what they put? They put the certain thing that I won't even say, but we've replaced the grass or the whole lawn. We had to replace.

They burned it out with acid. Yeah. You spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday. Can you tell us anything about that conversation? No, just had a very good talk with him.

We had a very good talk. Okay. Did you talk to Ron DeSantis? Excuse me? Did you talk to Ron DeSantis?

I did. Yeah, I did. Did you listen to Attorney General Sullivan curse the federal judge who dismissed the DOJ lawsuit calling it meritless? This is a Republican-run state government saying that. And also—.

I didn't hear that. No. What is Maryland? The lawsuit against Alaska. You mean about Dan Sullivan?

Maryland? Yeah. That Dan Sullivan? I think it's one of the most meritful things. You have to be kidding.

I haven't heard this. I mean, we have— there's a big federal situation. From what I heard, they're going to dismiss it only on the basis that let the federal government take over. But no, that's a very important lawsuit. That was a fraud.

That's voter fraud at the highest level. Thank you very much, everybody.