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Trump Gaggles with Press Before Departing the White House, Sep. 21, 2025

September 21, 2025 · The White House · 0:02:23

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What happened

President Donald Trump took questions on the South Lawn on September 21, 2025, before departing for the Charlie Kirk memorial in Arizona, in a brief gaggle carried on the White House channel. “Celebrate the life of a great man today. Really a great man… We want to look at it as a time of healing,” he said.

Asked whether Attorney General Pam Bondi’s job was at risk if an indictment he sought did not come, the President defended her: “She’s doing a great job. Pam Bondi is doing a great job. I think Pam Bondi is going to go down as one of the best attorney generals of the ages.” Asked whether he had threatened GOP leadership over a prosecution, he said: “No, I don’t do that. I look at the facts like everybody else… That’s going to be up to the DOJ.”

Asked directly whether he would help defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia kept escalating, the President answered: “Yeah, I would. I would.” Asked whether the Pentagon should control what reporters can report, he said: “No, I don’t think so… nothing stops reporters.”

Why it matters

Two commitments enter the record in two minutes: a full public defense of his Attorney General at the height of the prosecution-pressure reporting, and an unqualified Article 5-style defense commitment to Poland and the Baltics — the line Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s diplomacy then carried into UNGA week.

Scoreboard watch

This gaggle is a scoreboard candidate: the President’s September 21, 2025 defense commitment to Poland and the Baltic states, as stated on the South Lawn, to be checked against subsequent alliance policy.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Gaggles with Press Before Departing the White House, Sep. 21, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the President in the gaggle.