On Wednesday, President Donald Trump displayed a moment of playful apprehension upon being introduced to several dairy farmers from Butler, Pennsylvania.
The President was in the Oval Office, engaged in the ceremonial signing of a new piece of legislation aimed at reintroducing whole milk to public school cafeterias. During this event, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins took the opportunity to introduce some members of the group.
“Some of these farmers—back here from Butler, Pennsylvania,” she announced.
President Trump paused briefly.
“Where?” he inquired, prompting laughter from those present.
He then jokingly leaned back in his seat and raised his hands in a mock gesture of retreat.
‘I love Butler, I do,’ Trump then said with a skeptical smile.
Butler was the locale of the campaign rally Trump attended on July 13, 2024, where he was nearly assassinated, a bullet whizzing by and clipping his ear.
President Donald Trump played scared after being told some of the dairy farmers visiting the Oval Office on Wednesday came from Butler, Pennsylvania
Butler, Pennsylvania is where President Donald Trump nearly got killed by an assassin’s bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024
He later commended one of the Butler-based farmers, telling the gentleman he had ‘beautiful red hair.’
While Trump joked about Butler from the Oval on Wednesday, earlier in the day, Iranian state television was using footage of the assassin’s near-miss to send a message to the U.S. president.
‘This time, the bullet won’t miss,’ the message said.
But at the top of the Oval Office event, and again during the question-and-answer period, the president seemed to pump the brakes on any immediate military intervention against Iran’s Islamic regime.
‘We were told the killing in Iran is stopping, has stopped, is stopping. And that there’s no plan for executions or an execution or executions,’ Trump said, adding that if he finds out that’s not the case, he would be ‘very upset.’
The president previously said the U.S. was ‘locked and loaded’ and Iran could face an attack if anti-regime protesters were murdered.
Trump also told reporters in the Oval that he hadn’t been fully briefed on a meeting that took place earlier Wednesday between representatives of Denmark and Greenland and Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The president has continued his demands for Greenland, despite Denmark being a member of the NATO alliance, which already allows the U.S. military on bases in Greenland.
President Donald Trump had a prop – a jug of whole milk in an old school glass bottle – as he signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act in the Oval Office on Wednesday
‘Well, we’re going to see what happens with Greenland. We need Greenland for national security. So we’re going to see what happens. They’re going to brief me on the meeting right after this conference,’ Trump said. ‘In fact, the sooner I get you out, the faster I’m going to know exactly what happened,’ the president joked.
He touted the U.S.’s ‘very good relationship’ with Denmark, but said the U.S. was building a ‘golden dome’ and so needed the Danish island.
‘If we don’t go in, Russia is going to go in, and China’s going to go in, and there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it,’ Trump continued. ‘We’re going to see what happens, but we need it.’
The bulk of Trump’s only public appearance Wednesday revolved around whole milk.
He even had a prop – an old-school glass bottle of whole milk – positioned on the Resolute Desk.
‘We have some milk here. It’s been sitting here for five days,’ the president joked. ‘It’s from the original bottle, and I brought it so the press could have some.’
The reporters in the room declined his offer.
