Trump Discusses Charlie Kirk, Foreign Affairs, And More At Morristown Airport

MORRISTOWN, NJ — President Donald Trump was in New Jersey this weekend and fielded some questions before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sunday.

The President started the conference by saying it’s a “very sad weekend in the sense that we lost a great person,” referring to Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot and killed in Utah last week.

Trump said he’ll be attending Kirk's funeral in Arizona on Sunday. Several other politicians, including Vice President JD Vance, are expected to attend as well.

The assassination has sparked outrage across the country, with several politicians, including Trump, condemning those who celebrated the controversial figure’s death.

“When you look at the agitators, when you look at the scum that speak so badly of our country… that’s The Left, that’s not The Right,” Trump said. “We wouldn’t celebrate if something happened on their side, and we don’t. These are sick people, these are really deranged people.”

Trump added that “a lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on The Left” are under investigation in relation to the assassination, but did not provide specific details.

Russia/Ukraine Conflict

Trump claims to have stopped seven wars, and believed stopping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be one of the easier conflicts to diffuse.

However, three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the conflict continues as Ukrainian and Russian forces are killed by the thousands, weekly.

“I know for a fact almost 8,000 young soldiers died this week, between the two countries, a little bit more from Russia,” Trump said. “In war, when you’re the aggressor, you tend to lose more (troops)... They’re not American soldiers, but they’re still human beings, they’re souls, and I want to stop it.”

Trump called the hatred between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin “unfathomable.”

Trump said that because the two world leaders won’t talk to each other, he intends to get involved himself to stop it.

TikTok Ban

Trump also spoke on TikTok, the popular social media app that was briefly banned in January.

The app, which is used by 170 million Americans, was originally banned due to national security concerns related to its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.

The ban was lifted shortly after Trump was sworn in to his second term. The ban is expected to be reinstated by Wednesday, unless the lift is extended again.

“We’re negotiating TikTok right now, we may let it die… It depends. It’s up to China,” Trump said. “I’d like to do it for the kids, they like it. Selfishly speaking, I did very well on TikTok, and I got the youth vote… Some was attributed to TikTok, and a lot was attributed to Charlie (Kirk).”

Tensions With Venezuela

Trump’s decision to deploy warships to the Southern Caribbean “counter-narcotics operations” has fueled tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.

Earlier this month, the president announced that a single strike had been carried out on a Venezuelan boat thought to have been carrying drugs. 11 people were killed in the strike.

When asked if he anticipated strikes on the South American country’s mainland, Trump said, “We’ll see what happens.”

“A lot of Tren de Aragua, they’re trying to get out, but we’re stopping them successfully at the border in Venezuela…We have a tremendous amount of security,” the president said. “We don’t like what Venezuela is sending us, whether it’s their drugs or whether it’s their gang members.”

Trump also touched on tariffs, his ultimatum with NATO, and Qatar relations. Watch the full conference here.

The president returned to the White House before heading to the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit with King Charles III.

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