(22 Jul 2025)
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Washington – 22 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“We’re going to end up in a few months, we’ll have more ammunition than any country has ever had. We’re going to have more missiles than any country has ever had. We’re going to have all the speedy missiles. We’ll have the speedy ones, the slow ones, the accurate ones, the ones that are slightly less accurate. We have everything. But we will have more ammunition than any country has ever had is very important to me. Okay.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“The country (Philippines) was maybe tilting toward toward China. But we un-tilted it very, very quickly. But, you know, you did have you had a country that was tilting toward China for a period of time. And I just don’t think that would have been good for you. You could deal with China. We should deal with China. But but, when I got elected, everything changed and they came right back to us to do this. (crosstalk)”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ferdinand Marcos Jr., President of the Philippines:
(REPORTER: I also had a question to President Marcos.)
“Yes, yes. I’m sorry, what was the question again?
(REPORTER: It was about whether having U.S. missiles hosted in the Philippines could be considered escalatory by China or–) all of the what, what we consider part of the modernization of the Philippine military is really as a response to the circumstances that surround the situation around the South China Sea. And now what we used to refer to the as Asia Pacific, which we have expanded now to the Indo-Pacific. And, if we would certainly look into any kind of military spending, we would wish that it wasn’t necessary, but it is. And so that is what we are doing. And as an adjunct to the question about the, ammunition production, this is actually the United States is, is assisting the Philippines in what we call our self-reliance defense program, which is to allow us to to be self-reliant and to be able to stand on our own two feet, whatever the circumstances that occur in the future. And that, and, the reason that we have all we have encouraged, more interaction with the United States is because it is again, it is necessary and it is not just with the United States. It is with all our neighboring countries and even countries, as far afield as the Scandinavian countries, the EU. And so this is an ongoing, an ongoing process. And again, I will, I will stress the point that,, we do this because we feel it is necessary.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“And we have a very hostile judge (in Harvard’s lawsuit against the administration) appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, a very, very hostile judge, who knows exactly right from wrong. But, you know, we, we, we expect to win it in appeal, she hasn’t given it a decision yet. But she’s very hostile and she’s been– she was put (there) by Barack Hussein Obama. And generally speaking, anybody that does that, it’s going to we’re going to have problems with. So we don’t expect to have– we won the case yesterday. Anybody that was there, that was a neutral would say we easily won the case. But a lot of the case and and a big part of it’s going to be how much money Harvard gets in the future. That’s not part of the case. And they’re not going to get very much.”
6. Cutaway reporters UPSOUND: “Where are we in terms of negotiating about the reciprocal tariff. How far are we from–”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
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