Trump reads children's book on Usha Vance's podcast

[0:00] Another event that we wanted to play out for you happened earlier today, President Trump [0:04] taking part in a full story time with the second lady. [0:07] We wanted to play that out for you here on Live Not From Fox. [0:19] Hello, I'm Usha Vance and welcome back to story time with the second lady. [0:24] I'm so excited to share another great story today because when we read, we grow. [0:29] As you probably noticed, we're not in our normal reading net today. [0:33] Instead, we're actually across the street at the White House where the president of [0:37] the United States lives. [0:38] In fact, we're in his office, the Oval Office, because today's special reader is none other [0:45] than President Donald Trump. [0:47] President Trump, thank you so much for inviting us into your office today. [0:50] Thank you. [0:50] Thank you, Usha. [0:51] Would you mind telling the kids who are watching a little bit about this office and what makes [0:55] it so special? [0:56] It's the Oval Office. [0:57] It was built around 1900. [1:00] It's a spectacular place. [1:02] It's the most powerful piece of real estate probably in the world. [1:06] Everything starts here, ends here, starts again. [1:10] And we've used it well. [1:11] And your husband's been a great vice president. [1:13] I have to tell you, we've had a lot of fun working together, even in times of great stress [1:18] because the world is under stress. [1:20] But we're solving a lot of the problems. [1:22] And it's an honor to have you in the Oval Office. [1:24] The Oval Office basically represents the president. [1:26] And it's never been used for such a purpose, I don't believe. [1:30] But that's okay with me. [1:32] Well, it's a great honor to be here and to get to share it with so many kids. [1:36] Everything that you just described, all of these incredible accomplishments, they take [1:39] a lot of reading. [1:40] Do you have any time to read for fun these days? [1:43] So I end up reading mostly newspapers. [1:45] I usually read stories about myself. [1:48] Well, with so much going on in the world, it's really kind of you to take a moment to read. [1:52] And I know you have 11 grandkids, so hopefully some of them will tune in and watch you read [1:56] this story today. [1:57] Well, I'll make sure they watch. [1:58] I'll make it mandatory. [1:59] That won't mean anything. [2:00] That means they still won't do it. [2:01] But I'll make it mandatory. [2:03] Well, I'm sure they'll love it. [2:04] Now, I know you brought up a special book today. [2:06] I did. [2:09] This was done by the White House Preservation. [2:14] And it's really very cute. [2:17] Here's your cover. [2:18] It's called President's Play. [2:21] We don't play too much, right? [2:23] And it says, let's visit the White House. [2:28] So exciting. [2:30] Run, spot, run. [2:31] We used to have run, spot, run. [2:33] Remember when I was maybe even much younger. [2:36] But when I was growing up, we had a book, Run, Spot, Run. [2:38] That was the title of the book. [2:40] And every sentence was of that complexity. [2:43] I think this is a little more exciting. [2:44] It wasn't too hard. [2:45] This is much more exciting. [2:47] And this is Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan. [2:51] Two presidents, very different type presidents. [2:56] And it said, this is Lyndon Johnson, the Oval Office. [2:58] All the presidents work hard here. [3:01] I think the presidents all work hard. [3:03] But sometimes they take a break to have fun and exercise like Ronald Reagan. [3:08] He was in very good shape. [3:10] Lyndon Johnson wasn't into shape. [3:12] But he was a very tough cookie, a real great politician. [3:16] He found himself in a position of power. [3:19] And then Ronald Reagan was a highly quality, high-quality person. [3:24] He was sort of, it was just like your father was president. [3:28] You know, you looked up to him. [3:30] He was a good-looking man. [3:31] He was a man with, I think, was very highly respected by a lot of people. [3:35] Here's a man, President Harry Truman. [3:38] It says, took walks. [3:40] He'd walk right outside the White House and take a walk down the street. [3:43] Although Washington, D.C., with the help of your husband and others, has become a very safe place. [3:48] We do like walking here. [3:49] Right. [3:49] And you like, do you walk with your husband? [3:51] We do. [3:52] Good. [3:52] We try very hard. [3:54] With massive security? [3:56] Yeah, there's that. [3:57] I guess. [3:58] And then you have President Bill Clinton ran on a special jogging track. [4:03] He had a little track built for him at the White House. [4:06] That's nice. [4:07] I didn't even know that until recently. [4:09] But he had a track built at the White House. [4:11] I don't think I'll ever do that. [4:12] I don't see myself doing that. [4:14] I don't know. [4:15] But he actually was a nice guy. [4:17] I like Bill Clinton a lot. [4:19] I still do. [4:20] And then you have President Abraham Lincoln rode horses. [4:23] He liked riding horses. [4:27] And that's great. [4:29] I'd like to ride horses, too. [4:30] In fact, it gives me an idea. [4:32] But when you fall off a horse, I've seen too many bad things happen. [4:35] That's fair point. [4:35] Falling off horses is not good. [4:37] No, it's not. [4:38] So, well, we got a nice old horse that's extremely slow, lazy, and maybe ride him. [4:48] Anyway, father and son presidents, and that's George Bush, his father. [4:54] They would like to pitch horseshoes, the Bushies. [4:59] And here's John Quincy Adams. [5:02] He was one of the very early presidents right at the beginning. [5:05] And he swam in what was called the Tiber, Tiber, T-I-B-E-R, Creek, which I don't know if it exists anymore. [5:14] In fact, I think we're building a beautiful ballroom on top of it based on this picture. [5:18] The Tiber Creek. [5:19] Then we have an indoor pool that was built for President Franklin Roosevelt. [5:24] That's right over here. [5:25] That's now the press room. [5:28] And he was our longest serving president. [5:31] He had four terms. [5:33] And he was respected. [5:35] He was on the liberal side. [5:37] That's a picture of him right up there, right above your head. [5:40] Oh, there he is. [5:42] And he was the longest serving. [5:43] In fact, because of him, they made a two-term. [5:46] Gerald Ford. [5:47] Gerald Ford was actually a pretty good athlete. [5:49] He was a football player, maybe Michigan, one of the good teams. [5:56] And he was a man, it says, an outdoor pool was built for President Gerald Ford. [6:02] And that's right on the side of the house. [6:03] I don't get to use it. [6:05] I don't know if I look good in a bathing suit. [6:07] I haven't had a bathing suit in a long time. [6:10] I'm too busy. [6:10] I never, I mean, it'd be nice. [6:12] I'm looking at these pictures of people swimming. [6:14] And I'm saying, I don't know. [6:17] You know, my attitude is here at the White House for a short period of time. [6:22] And it's an honor to be here. [6:25] And you should work for the people, right? [6:27] It's very important. [6:28] And here's another, John Kennedy, he was a great guy, handsome. [6:32] He was the second most good-looking president, they say. [6:36] President John F. Kennedy enjoyed sailing on the water, [6:40] while President Grover Cleveland relaxed by fishing. [6:45] So Grover Cleveland was a two-term president, [6:51] but he also had an in-betweener. [6:54] He was the only one other than me. [6:57] And I think it gave us much greater strength actually doing it that way. [7:00] I think he found that too. [7:02] But that's John F. Kennedy sailing, good-looking guy, [7:06] and Grover Cleveland, who's a good president. [7:11] That's why they brought him back for a second term. [7:14] Being a two-term president is sort of important, I think. [7:18] There's so much to do. [7:19] Well, there's so much to do, and I think it validates us a little bit. [7:23] But back at the White House, President Richard Nixon enjoyed bowling. [7:31] He spent a lot of time fighting to stay in office. [7:35] A lot of people got him into trouble. [7:39] And he got himself into trouble, I guess. [7:42] And then you had President Theodore Roosevelt practice jiu-jitsu. [7:45] He was sort of a tough guy, physically loved the outdoors. [7:49] He was a real athlete. [7:50] He was sort of an athlete, but he loved the outdoors. [7:55] And then the most sports played outside were done by Jimmy Carter. [8:00] He liked playing tennis. [8:02] He had a hard time as president. [8:05] And then you had Barack Hussein Obama. [8:08] He used the same court for basketball, so they used the tennis court for tennis. [8:14] Jimmy would play there with his daughter's wife. [8:18] He was a nice man, a very nice man. [8:21] And there's a picture of each, Jimmy as a tennis player, Barack Hussein Obama as a basketball player. [8:30] I don't know if he's a good basketball player. [8:32] I tend to doubt it. [8:34] Actually, his favorite sport is golf. [8:36] Oh, is that right? [8:37] Yeah, but he won't be in the Masters any time soon. [8:41] And then you have Dwight Eisenhower. [8:45] He was a much better president than he was given credit for. [8:48] He did the interstate system. [8:49] He was a very good, maybe great general. [8:54] So he won the war. [8:55] And he came back and ran for president, and he won. [8:58] That was good credentials, you know. [9:00] I just won the Second World War. [9:02] Let me run for president. [9:04] And he won. [9:05] And he was a nice man. [9:06] He loved golf. [9:07] He would play golf every day if he could. [9:09] And there's a putting green for golf, a favorite of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. [9:15] That's this picture right here. [9:16] And the putting green's right outside. [9:19] I've never used it because I don't want to be seen putting at the White House. [9:25] I want to be seen working at the White House. [9:27] And then you have President Herbert Hoover made up a game called Hoover Ball. [9:34] And that worked out better for him than the economy because he was the president under which we had the Great Depression. [9:41] And here's a great picture. [9:42] Many presidents, it says, like Donald Trump, invite winning teams to the White House. [9:47] We've had them all, which is right here. [9:50] And it's true, winning teams. [9:54] We have all the Super Bowl teams. [9:56] In fact, we have the team coming very soon. [9:58] We have all the baseball. [10:01] The Dodgers were here twice in a row. [10:03] They won two World Series. [10:06] We have the basketball. [10:07] We have everybody come. [10:08] And then others like President William Taft throw out the first pitch of baseball. [10:14] He was a large man, very large. [10:18] And he loved baseball. [10:19] He'd go to baseball games, loved the hot dogs at the baseball games. [10:23] He was our heaviest president. [10:25] And I have to be careful because I don't want to supersede his record. [10:29] And a thing like that would be possible if I allowed it to happen. [10:34] For all of you out there watching, keep yourself in good shape, right? [10:36] Like you. [10:38] You're in such good shape. [10:39] And then in closing, when they aren't playing sports, presidents have fun watching them, too, just like you did. [10:48] See, this is the Super Bowl, and his president is watching football together. [10:56] Now, maybe I should invite Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden, with the Bushes, or Bush. [11:03] Maybe I should invite some of those people to watch a football game together. [11:06] Wouldn't that be a nice story? [11:08] The press would go wild. [11:09] A president reunion? [11:11] That would be fun. [11:12] So here's the book. [11:13] And they've really done a great job. [11:15] Publication, White House Historical Association. [11:17] Mm-hmm. [11:18] They do a lovely job. [11:19] What a job they do. [11:20] Here's another picture. [11:21] That's the president and some children watching a football game. [11:27] And I'm doing this for a great second lady. [11:31] And she's been so popular around the White House. [11:35] Everybody loves you. [11:36] It's a great honor. [11:37] Well, it's a great honor for us. [11:38] Thank you so much for inviting all the children watching into the Oval Office today. [11:42] So do you have any advice for kids on why they should get out there and celebrate our country on the 4th of July? [11:49] So we have a great country. [11:50] We have a country that is on a little bit of a ledge right now. [11:54] It can go one way or another. [11:55] You understand that. [11:57] But we're going to make it go the other. [11:59] And we're going to make America greater than ever before. [12:02] But the 4th of July is a fantastic day. [12:05] It's a day of celebration. [12:06] It's a very important day for this country and the life of the country. [12:10] And it's a 250th year anniversary on top of everything, which is just wonderful, isn't it? [12:15] That's right. [12:15] We're going to have a good time. [12:16] And what we really are doing is celebrating America. [12:19] We love our children. [12:21] They are our most important people when you think about it, right? [12:24] Our great children. [12:25] And that goes along with teachers and all of the people that make them, that help to form a perfect person. [12:33] And that's what we want in this country. [12:35] So we have great respect for teachers and for everybody. [12:39] And I guess most importantly, the parents of children. [12:42] So many people go into that job of making somebody really good and sound. [12:48] It's so important. [12:49] So thank you very much. [12:50] Well, thank you for everything that you're doing for children. [12:53] Thank you. [12:53] I hope all of you out there celebrate the 4th of July with some fun in the sun and with a good book or two about our beautiful country. [12:59] We'll see you soon for another story right here on Storytime with the Second Lady. [13:04] All right. [13:05] So we were just listening in to Storytime with the President and the Second Lady. [13:10] That happened earlier today. [13:11] We wanted to play that out for you here on Live Now from Fox. [13:13] Let's get started. [13:19] Let's sing. [13:27] Let's get started. [13:33] Let's get started. [13:34] Let's get started.