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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Pool report #17
POTUS concluded his remarks at 10:37 p.m.and returned to his seat to YMCA.
Roughly half the room stood up for a standing ovation.
Joked that Oz Pearlman did not predict the shooting.
On Collins:
"Smile, Caitlin. Just smile."
Compares her to Dylan Mulvaney.
On reporters calling his phone:
"I said, 'You know what? I'm going to give the press my phone number.' That was the stupidest thing I ever did."
"You're much better putting your name because if there's no name, I just, I just can't do that."
"I always find that when you don't speak to the press, you always get a bad story. When you do speak to the press, you have a shot at getting a good story."
On Biden:
"He was leading the deceased crowd, and there were a lot of them."
Criticizes Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), former Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
On Warren:
"I'm not going to say this next one…She wasn't high up on her totem pole."