White House

POTUS greets Trinidadian PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar: I had to be careful with that first name.

By HYGO News Published · Updated

POTUS greets Trinidadian PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar: I had to be careful with that first name.

POTUS greets Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at the Shield of the Americas Summit: “I had to be careful with that first name. I didn’t want to get it mixed up because it would ruin your reputation completely.” 🤣 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1462820762098986

POTUS at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Miami: “On this historic day, we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region…We’re calling this military partnership the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition.” https://www.facebook.com/reel/1234615542048624

POTUS welcomes fellow world leaders to the Shield of the Americas Summit in Miami https://www.facebook.com/reel/941825065166409

https://facebook.com/HygoNewsUSA

Key Quotes

Transcribed from the video audio:

  • Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, I have to be very careful with this because you know, your word, your first name is very similar to a first name that we have, but fortunately it’s pronounced different
  • And I just want to say thank you very much, but I had to be careful with that first name
  • I didn’t want to get it, I didn’t want to get it mixed up because it would ruin your reputation completely
  • On this historic day we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region
  • One of the things when we were talking backstage, you would tell me the crime, the cartels, and we’re knocking the hell out of them, where we can, we’re going to go heavier
  • There’s not a lot of people coming in by boats anymore
  • We knocked down drugs coming in by sea, drugs coming in through water, is down 96%
  • We’re trying to find out who the other 4% are because I think they’re the bravest people in the world, either that or they don’t watch television, right
  • They’re either very brave or they’re not watching
  • But we’re calling this military partnership the America’s counter cartel coalition

343 words transcribed via Whisper AI.

Watch on YouTube →