This is a YouTube video (press gaggle) capturing President Trump answering reporters before departing the White House (Sep. 7, 2025). In this excerpt he denies intentions to start a war, emphasizes a law-and-order domestic agenda to "clean up" cities, comments on sanctions/Russia and RFK Jr., and references international security topics (Hezbollah in Lebanon, cartels in Venezuela, Kazakhstan). The gaggle includes specific casualty counts for Chicago cited by the President (8 killed last weekend; 7 the week before; 74 wounded).
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Mr. President. Mr. President. Mr. President. President. Are you planning to go to war? Mr. President.
Mr. President. Mr. President. Are you trying to go to war?
When you say that, darling, that's fake news.
But why would you want to defend.
Listen. Be quiet. Listen. You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second grade. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's. That's common sense.
Mr. President, are you ready. Are you ready to move to the second phase? Are you ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia or punishing Putin? What do you think of all the establishment attacks on RFK Jr. Well, he's.
A different kind of a guy. He's got a lot of good ideas, but he's got a lot of ideas. You know, normally they don't have any ideas. And that's why we have problems with autism and so many other things, because we're coming up with the answers for autism.
You watch.
We're coming up with the answers for other things that normal people, regular people, easy to get along with people wouldn't be able to do. He's got a lot of ideas, and so do I. And we're going to.
Why target Chicago and Boston when there are cities of red states at a higher crime rate?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really higher than Chicago.
They're on it. Like Memphis.
Excuse me. Excuse me. Do you know how many people were killed in Chicago last weekend? 8. You know how many people were killed in Chicago the week before? Seven. You know how many people were wounded? 74 people were wounded. You think there's worse than that? I don't think so.
A question about Lebanon. Hezbollah refuses to hand over its weapon to the Lebanese government, The Iran ally. Hezbollah refuses to hand over its.
We'll respond to that later.
Are you considering attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela? You attack what?
You're going to find out.
You're gonna find out.
Has announced that he's going to step down.
I don't know anything about that.
What do you think about Kazakhstan? Are you going to visit this Central Asian?
I may. I had a great conversation with him. Say hello to him. He's a good man. Thank you.
