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Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to Reporters On Board Air Force One - September 18, 2025
Donald Trump : Yeah, good. Yeah, I think she's terrible. I think she [Ilan Omar] should be impeached. I think she's terrible. Is she originally from Somalia?
Question: Yes, sir.
Donald Trump: So, how are they doing this? How's their government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people that come from a place with nothing, with nothing, no anything. And then they tell us how to run our country. No, I think she if she got censored, that's great.
If she got impeached that's even better. They impeached me twice for nothing and they impeached me knowing the Republicans are on my side. So, they knew it was just -- and they impeach me, but she should be impeached and it should happen fast. What she says is out of line. Yeah, go ahead. Anybody else?
Question : Mr. President, would you like to see -- Mr. President, are you going to ask Brendan Carr to weigh in on other late-night hosts that you have said should be off the air?
Donald Trump Late night hosts on network television? There is a licensing. I'll give you an example. I read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me, again 97 percent negative, and yet I won it easily. I won all seven swing states, popular vote, won everything, and then 97 percent against. They give me only bad publicity or press.
I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He's a patriot. He loves our country and he's a tough guy. So, we'll have to see.
Question What do you think on the free speech issue?
Donald Trump When you think about this, 97 percent of the stories are opposed to me, and yet I win easily the election. It's pretty amazing when you think of it. That shows they have no credibility. Go ahead.
Question I was just going to agree with you. I mean, could you use that same logic with news? If someone --
Donald Trump In the old days, I remember the old days and every four or five years a network would reapply for its license, and their license is free. You know, they get this valuable thing for free and they reapply for a license. And if they did something wrong, well, I beat George Stephanopoulos -- Slopadopoulos I call him, George Slopadopoulos, they had to pay me $15 million for what he said.
Donald Trump I beat CBS for much more money than that, including advertising and other things, much more money because they totally changed the answer that Kamala gave for the question. I mean, they didn't change it, they took it out and put a different answer in and they didn't want to go to court with that. That's a tough one to go to court with.