White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press Before Departing the White House, May 8, 2026

Give him a letter supposedly tonight. So we'll see how that goes. You think they're slow rolling it? He thinks they're intentionally slow in the process. We'll find out soon enough.

Mr. President, yesterday in Mexico he didn't either. Did you. Are you agreeing to minister the Paris with you and we discussed you. Well, we had a good meeting. We had a great meeting with the president of Brazil and we'll see what happens.

They want to do business with the United States. Everybody does. Are you planning to Ryder? We had a very good meeting. Fire Marty McRae.

What's going on with Marty McCrary? Nothing. Wrong. Are you going to fire him? I've been reading about it, but I know nothing about it.

Mr. President, are you. Are you. Are you optimistic about Iranian response to you tonight? Are you optimistic about Iranian response to your proposal? We'll see what happens.

Look, they have no military. They have not a lot left. We'll see what happens. Yeah, go ahead. When you, if you decide to pull you out.

I'm sorry. When you announced the three day cease. Fire the Ukraine, Russia war. Do you anticipate that that will be any longer than three days? I mean it could be.

It'd be nice. I'd like to see it stop. Russia, Ukraine, it's the worst thing since World War II in terms of life. 25,000 Young soldiers every month. It's crazy.

So it could very well be. If you. Mr. President, if you decide to pull troops from Germany, will you move them to Poland or maybe some other countries on the eastern flank? Well, Poland would like that. We have a relationship with Poland.

I have a great relationship with the president. Do you remember? I endorsed him and he won. And he came from way behind and he won. He's a great fighter.

He's a great guy. I like him a lot. So that's possible. But will you do it? He's asking to fight.

You. Seems unhappy about the election of new prime minister of Iraq. How is important Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraqi federal government and United States of America working together and reduce militia influence on the region and especially in Iraq. So we had a great election in Iraq. We had somebody that I very strongly endorsed.

He won by a lot. And I wasn't happy with the person who was there previously. So it was a great victory. We had a lot of great victories. We had a big.

We had a big victory today in Virginia, as you know and we have a lot of victories, but the victory in Iraq was really great. Are you bringing on a new FDA commissioner? FDA commissioner. Are you bringing Someone new in to lead the FDA? No, no.

Mr. President, how do you feel about. The UK election results all day? I sort of leave that to them. I'm happy about everything. Our country is doing well.

We just have new stock market records. Everybody's 401 is hitting a record. The numbers are absolutely incredible, the job numbers. We have more people working today than we ever had working in this job. Numbers today were incredible.

Thank you.

The French sent an aircraft carrier toward the Strait of Hormuz. Do you have any reaction? The French sent an aircraft carrier towards the Strait of Hormuz. French sent any reaction? No, I have no reaction for that.

I think we're doing very well. Iran is seeming to be coming along very well militarily. Very good. We'll see whether or not they can get there. Have you gotten an update on the Hana virus?

The Hana virus? We have it. Very good people looking at it. It seems to be okay. They know the virus very well.

They've worked with it for a long time. They know it very well. Not easy to pass on. So we hope that's true. President Trump, from all the topics that you discussed with the president of Brazil, it was a long meeting, right?

Yeah, we had a great meeting. Which topic got your. We discussed everything. President of Brazil. We discussed everything.

We had a very good meeting. We have a very good relationship with him and with Brazil. But what made you more interesting? We discussed everything, including tariff. Was it Putin that asked for the ceasefire?

Was it Putin that asked for the ceasefire? Did he ask you? Oh, no, I asked and President Putin agreed. President Zelensky agreed both readily. And we have a little period of time where they're not going to be killing people.

That's very good. And they also agreed to give a thousand on each side 1,000 prisoners back. So they're going to be transferring almost immediately. A thousand prisoners from each side. That's very good.

Russia, Ukraine, them again to try to get this to continue. I'd like to see a big extension.

Will European travel to Muslim countries that are leaving the World Health Organization because of the outbreak of Hantavirus. Now we seem to have things under very good control. They know that virus very well. It's been around a long time. Not easily transferable, unlike Covid.

But we'll see. We're studying it very close. We have very good people studying it very closely. We're at a point, almost 10 weeks after messing hitting girls school in Iran, who fired that missile? So that's under study right now and we'll give you a report as soon as we have.

Will you send your team to Moscow. Now that you broke your ceasefire in the Ukraine war to negotiate further? What? Will you send your team to Moscow. To negotiate further now that the broker?

Well, I would do it. If I thought it would help, I'd do it. I'd love to see that war end. I've settled eight wars and actually nine, and now it looks like we could have 10. But I would love to make that the 10th.

I will tell you, I would love to see. I would love to see an end between Russia, Ukraine, that war. 25,000 Young soldiers were killed last month and it's on average 25 to 30,000 soldiers a month. It's a terrible war.

You said that South Korean ship was attacked by Iran, but Iran denied it. This do you share with the President? I love South Korea. Mr. President. Mr. President,.

Do you think you need to resume the Project Freedom? I don't think so. We might do it, but I don't think so. I think we would go a different route. If everything doesn't get signed up and buttoned up, Project Freedom is good.

We were asked not to do that by Pakistan, who's our friend, as you know, the Prime Minister and the field Marshal. But I think Project Freedom is good, but I think we have other ways of doing it also. We may go back to Project Freedom if things don't happen, but it'll be Project Freedom plus, meaning Project Freedom plus other things.

For a ceasefire that Putin wanted. So we have a ceasefire and I think everyone's happy. President Zelensky, President Putin, I think they're happy to have it and we'll see what happens. Mr. President, do you understand it is important ceasefire include Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan? Because after ceasefire with Iran several times, Iranian regime and proxies targeting Iraqi Kurdistan as your ally.

We want to get the whole thing ended, not just individual movements. We want to get the whole thing ended and we will.