President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Chippewa Falls, WI, Jun. 5, 2026

We're looking at that, yeah. We're looking.

Are you still planning to talk to Taiwan's president about it?

We always talk to them, but we're looking at it.

What was your reaction to John Bolton agreeing to plead guilty in the classified documents?

Well, I was never much of a fan of John Bolton. I never thought he was a smart person and he was a radical right in terms of war, not in terms of other things. He was... he wanted to go to war with anybody that opened their mouth, anybody that talked. And I used him for a purpose, you know he was involved with Bush and he created a lot of problems. But he always wanted to kill people in war and that was okay for me as long as I didn't listen to him, which I never did. He's a... he's a bad guy, John Bolton. He's a dirty guy and we caught him, we caught him and you know he wrote a book, you look at all the information he took. I mean if you look at that case it's a great honor to have helped from the standpoint of encouragement, I... I looked at John Bolton as somebody that was a very dishonest guy and not a smart guy and I guess he's paying the price for certainly being dishonest.

You mentioned the Kennedy Center, sir, how do you want to be involved moving forward?

Same way it is, I'm the chairman. So we'll just keep it going. Somebody has to do it. It loses a lot of money, it has for years. It's lost hundreds of millions of dollars for years and yet it's something you have to keep going. You know, it's the arts. They all lose money, Carnegie Hall, you... you take a look at all of that kind of thing loses. So they really... everybody they want me to stay very badly. So we're going to... we're going to take a look. I actually hurt the Kennedy Center because he slowed down, we were going to, you know we're going to spend a lot of money on fixing it and making it, bringing it back to health and the judge really made it very hard to do that. But we'll... I'm going to... I'm going to look at his ruling on that. But we have to bring it back, physically we have to bring it back and we have to bring it back in other ways. So we'll take a good look at it.

You mentioned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. With Pulte's move over as now acting DNI, is an IPO off the table?

No, it's not. We're thinking about an IPO for that. It's not a rush. But we've created a tremendous... you know I could have sold that for literally less than 10% in my first term. I was offered... a lot of people were offering me money to... me meaning the country... to buy Fannie Mae Freddie Mac, as you know. And it suffered tremendous hardship and then we built it back and I could have sold it in my first term for one tenth of what it's worth now. I didn't want to do it. Now I think we'd... you know we would consider an IPO, yeah.

And he would stay at, he would potentially see that through.

He stays.

So who are the people you're talking to for DNI? Can you give us some names?

Five different people, all very good, all people that you know very well. All people that do that kind of thing and they're very respected people.

Mr. President, what do you think about Major League Baseball owners pushing for a salary cap? Do you think it's time for baseball to have a salary cap?

Don't they sort of have one? Don't they?

The luxury tax threshold, but the teams that have the money are willing to spend it, like the Dodgers.

Without a salary cap you don't have a sport, because they can't help themselves. You know, in sports they can't help themselves. Football has a salary cap.

Every major professional league except Major League Baseball, in America.

They should have done it a long time ago. I know... I know so much about sports, they should have done it a long time ago. We're trying to help save college sports because they got some rulings that really essentially destroyed college sports and we're working with Randy Levine and Nick Saban and some great people who are trying to save it because it's so horrible.

What do you think would happen if this NIL just gets completely out of control and nobody checks it?

Well, I think what's going to happen if you don't have what they're trying to do now, that sort of a cap in a certain way. If you don't have that you really have a problem and not only college sports, colleges. Where you see where Penn State lost 500 million dollars. Where a certain school that I like very much in Florida they lose 4, 500 million. You can't... you can't have that. Nobody can afford that because they go crazy. That's why when you say Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball it's shocking frankly that they didn't put a cap on many years ago. They had a chance to do a cap and they blew it.

Sir, on Ukraine. Now that Zelenskyy has proposed a face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy, do you still want them to go first before the US gets involved in talks?

No, a lot of mind, I mean let them deal. I'm the one that got them to this position. And I think that's going to get worked out. I think we're getting close to where Russia Ukraine should have... it's a war that should have never happened, would have never happened if I was President. But I think... I think that's going to get worked out, yeah.

Will Secretary Rubio take a more active role or do you expect Senator JD to...

Marco's going to be involved, JD, everybody. We'll all be involved. We want to see it done. You know, we're not spending money, they're buying things from us actually at full price. With Biden he gave them everything, just gave them hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons of everything else. But it's a war that should have never happened and it's a war that has to be, last week 25,000 people over the course of the month 25,000 people were killed, Russia Ukraine. 25,000. It's not acceptable. Not acceptable. Thank you very much, have a good time. Thank you, sir. Thank you.