have removed thousands of MS-13 gang monsters. Thousands. They’re out of this country. We take them out by the thousands. And they are monsters.
Okay. Do you have any questions? Yeah. John, go ahead.
Q Mr. President — (inaudible).
AIDE: Yes, we do. There you go.
Q You were prepared. Mr. President, a lot of the money —
THE PRESIDENT: Were you saying I was prepared?
Q With the microphone and prepared for questions.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I thought you meant I was prepared. I couldn’t believe you said that.
Q (Laughs.) No, no, no. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: People don’t like saying that.
Q You were prepared for questions.
THE PRESIDENT: I am prepared. I’m always prepared.
Q A lot of the money that goes to count toward your $8 billion is money that’s being reprogrammed in the DOD budget. How can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall will take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that is desperately needed in our military?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. So, John, we had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the discretion of the military. Some of them haven’t been allocated yet, and some of the generals think that this is more important. I was speaking to a couple of them. They think this
