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Trump Talks Honorees, National Guard in D.C. and Russia at Kennedy Center
President Donald J. Trump said that he would be hosting the Kennedy Center Honors himself in December and announced the honorees, which included Sylvester Stallone and Gloria Gaynor. Mr. Trump then focused most of his remarks on the National Guard being deployed to Washington.
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“I’ll never forget. I was a young guy, and I went to see a thing called ‘Rambo,’ and it had just come out. I didn’t know anything about it. And I said, ‘This movie is phenomenal. What the heck.’ One person gets a little injured by somebody, they’ll say, ’Trump did not fulfill his promise.’ No, we’re going to be essentially crime-free. This is going to be a beacon.” Reporter: “When you meet with Vladimir Putin Friday in Alaska —” “Yeah.” “Do you believe you can convince him to stop targeting civilians in Ukraine?” “Well, I’ll tell you what. I’ve had that conversation with him. I’ve had a lot of good conversations with him. Then I go home and I see that a rocket hit a nursing home, or a rocket hit an apartment building and people are laying dead in the streets. So I guess the answer to that is no because I’ve had this conversation. I want to end the war.”
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