"The meeting was organized by the White House to discuss plans for investment in Venezuelan oil and included executives from Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and Valero. "We have many others that were not able to get in," Trump told the room, sitting between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "I said if we had a ballroom, we'd have over a thousand people, everybody would -I never knew your industry was that big, I never knew you had that many people in your industry.""
"Trump then turned around. "Come to think of it, well, I got to look at this myself." He walked over to the window, where he stared out at a pile of unceremonious rubble where the now-demolished East Wing once stood. "Wow. What a, what a view." (Reminder: unceremonious rubble.) "This is the door to the ballroom," he said. "Wow, what a job." He then walks back to the table and tells everyone, "An unusual time to look, but I figured we might as well look.""
President Trump interrupted a White House meeting with more than 30 U.S. oil executives to look out a window at rubble where the East Wing ballroom had been. The meeting had been organized to discuss investment plans in Venezuelan oil and included executives from Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and Valero. Trump sat between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and commented that many others could not get in and that the industry was larger than he had realized. He walked to the window, praised the view of the demolished East Wing, called it the door to the ballroom, and returned to the table while observers described the behavior as babbling and unusually distracting.
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