President Donald Trump boards Air Pressure One en path to Florida at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport in Las Vegas, on Saturday.

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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about sharing his ideas since taking workplace, and he added a 20-minute Q&A with reporters aboard Air Pressure One to the combination Saturday night time. He held forth on every little thing from the colour of the presidential airplane to the destiny of TikTok, Greenland and Canada.

Trump popped in to the airplane’s press cabin whereas flying from Las Vegas to Florida, the place he was staying at his Doral golf membership via Monday night, although he insisted he’d be too busy to hit the hyperlinks.

The brand new president scoffed at reporters getting “a bit extra entry” than beneath his predecessor, Joe Biden, and joked it was “like 5,000%” completely different — that means he was keen to reply much more questions. Trump known as Air Pressure One a “particular airplane” however noticed that it hasn’t modified a lot from his final time period. And, sure, he nonetheless desires to alter the airplane’s exterior colours.

“We would like energy blue, not child blue,” Trump mentioned. “The whole lot has its time and place. We’ll be altering the colours.”

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Pressure One as he travels from Las Vegas to Miami, on Saturday.

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Listed below are some highlights from the dialog:

Trump says he is speaking with potential traders about the way forward for TikTok

Trump mentioned he is contemplating a number of doable traders who wish to buy TikTok, which faces the prospect of a U.S. ban if it is not offered by its Chinese language father or mother firm.

“Quite a few individuals are speaking to me,” he mentioned. “Very substantial folks.” He mentioned he expects to determine what occurs subsequent “most likely over the subsequent 30 days.”

The president mentioned he’d not been in touch with Oracle about shopping for TikTok, regardless of experiences that he had, and that he’d not spoken to Oracle’s billionaire co-founder Larry Ellison, whom he known as a buddy. He famous Ellison lives “proper down the street” from his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida.

However he mentioned there are various different potential patrons.

“Now we have a whole lot of curiosity in it, and the US can be an enormous beneficiary,” Trump mentioned of a possible sale. “I would solely do it if the US advantages.”

He added that, “I’ve a heat spot in my coronary heart for TikTok” as a result of he felt prefer it improved his standing with younger voters in November’s presidential election.

Trump actually desires federal employees again within the workplace

Requested in regards to the collection of government orders he is signed since taking workplace which have positioned new guidelines on the federal workforce, Trump mentioned he was against work-from-home concessions that turned extra frequent through the coronavirus pandemic.

“You must go to your workplace and it’s a must to work,” he mentioned. “In any other case, you are not going to have a job.”

Trump additionally mentioned he isn’t fearful about present federal staff leaving and the expertise pool to search out replacements being diminished: “Now we have very deep expertise. We even have a whole lot of extra folks.”

“This was a gimmick for Democrats, to a sure extent,” he mentioned of present federal employee rolls, which he recommended had been too giant.

Trump says he nonetheless desires Greenland, and Canada ‘needs to be a state’

Trump reiterated his want to in some way buy Greenland from Denmark, regardless of that nation insisting it isn’t on the market.

“I do imagine Greenland, we’ll get as a result of it actually has to do with freedom of the world,” he mentioned. “It has nothing to do with the US, aside from we are the one that may present the liberty.”

The president additionally made a few of his most in depth feedback about his current recommendations that Canada might change into a part of the U.S.

“I really like Canada,” he mentioned. “I’ve so many mates up in Canada. They usually like us, they usually like me. However Canada’s been profiting from the US for years, and we’re not going to let that occur.”

He recommended that the U.S. is dropping a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands yearly to Canada in commerce deficits whereas Canada does “nearly 90% of their enterprise with the US.”

“I do not need to spend a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on supporting the nation except that nation is a state. And, if it is a state, the folks of Canada can pay a a lot decrease tax.”

He mentioned Canadians would additionally “haven’t any navy issues, they’d be far more safe in each means, and I believe it is a fantastic factor for Canada.”

“I view it as, actually, a rustic that needs to be a state,” he mentioned. “Then, they will get a lot better remedy, a lot better care and far decrease taxes they usually’ll be far more safe.”