DOOCY: “Not too long ago, Elon Musk said today, ‘I love Donald Trump as much as a straight man can love another man.’ What does the First Lady think about that?”
President Trump: “Oh, I think she’ll be okay with it somehow.”

NBC’s Garrett Haake: “I wonder what you make of the criticism from Democrats that these staff reductions, the cuts that Elon Musk and doge are doing are an unlawful power grab. Is there anything you’ve told Elon Musk he cannot touch?”

Trump: “Well, we haven’t discussed that much. I’ll tell him to go here, go there. He does it. He’s got a very capable group of people. Very, very, very, very capable. They know what they’re doing. They’ll ask questions and they’ll see immediately as somebody gets tongue tied that they’re either crooked or don’t know what they’re doing. We have very smart people going in, so I’ve instructed him, go into education, go into military, go into other things as we go along, and they’re finding massive amounts of fraud, abuse, waste, all of these things, so — but I — I will pick out a target and I say go in. There could be areas that we won’t, but I think everything’s fertile. You know, we’re a government. We have to be open and as an open government, I don’t know, I guess you could say maybe some high intelligence or something, and I’ll do that myself if I have to, but generally speaking, I’ll just say go, but he will be looking at education pretty quickly, and he will be looking at military too.”

Doocy: “As part of the DOGE cost cutting effort, one of the DOGE engineers was fired for some inappropriate posts. The Vice President says bring him back. What do you say?
Trump: “Well, I don’t know about the particular thing, but if the Vice President said that, did you say that? I’m with the Vice President.”

Trump on DeepSeek and whether it’s a national security threat: “No, I think it’s happening — I mean, it’s — it’s a technology that’s happening. It’s very — it’s — actually, I think it’s — I think we’re going to benefit —if it’s correct — what’s going on now that it’ll be a lot less expensive. The A.I. we’re talking about will be a lot less expensive than people originally thought. That’s a good thing. I view that as a very good development, not a bad development.”

On 2/7/2025, Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a press conference in the East Room of the White House this afternoon following a meeting and lunch between the two this morning. Trump and Ishiba discussed a variety of critical topics, including training exercises, foreign investments in the U.S., semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and energy exports.

CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY (D): Do you know the percent of Iowans are white and black? … Iowa is 90% white and only 4.5% black. So, that is drastically different than the national population. This doesn’t reflect our country.

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