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At a Rose Garden dinner, President Donald Trump joked to outdoor enthusiasts and industry executives that he could ban fishing due to his presidential powers. During the event, which coincided with the signing of executive orders aimed at expanding hunting and fishing opportunities, Trump emphasized his influence over related industries like Bass Pro Shops, owned by billionaire Johnny Morris. The president also boasted about recent renovations to the White House, including a new helipad constructed from six-inch-thick granite shaped like the presidential seal, which he claimed was funded by Sikorsky Aircraft due to concerns about damaging grass with their powerful helicopters.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-18,
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Story summary
At a Rose Garden dinner in July, Donald Trump addressed outdoor enthusiasts and industry executives, including Johnny Morris, founder of Bass Pro Shops. During the event, Trump signed executive orders aimed at expanding hunting and fishing opportunities while reversing some restrictions introduced by President Biden. Trump boasted about his presidential power, suggesting he could ban fishing entirely if he wanted to, emphasizing how such a move would negatively impact businesses like Morris’s. He joked that he might issue an order temporarily banning fishing just to see the reaction from Morris. The dinner highlighted Trump's perceived influence over industries and recreational activities related to the outdoors.
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Donald Trump told guests at a Rose Garden dinner for outdoor enthusiasts and industry executives that he is so powerful as president that he could ban them from fishing.
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he → tell → fishing
Trump made the quip during the Thursday evening event at the White House, where he signed executive orders aimed at expanding hunting and fishing opportunities and reversing certain Biden-era restrictions.
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he → make → restrictions
Trump told his audience that his executive orders would help expand the fishing season and help those industries participating in the activity.
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orders → tell → activity
“That means you can sell a lot of fishing rods, Johnny.
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you → mean → rods
You’re going to sell a lot of rods.
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You → go → rods
I could have made it so you couldn’t sell.
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you → make → it
You couldn’t sell anything.
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You → sell → anything
I could have banned fishing,” Trump mused.
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Trump → ban → fishing
“I’ll tell you what.
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I → tell → what
I could have banned fishing and driven Johnny right the hell out of business.
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I → ban → business
I think I’m going to do that.
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I → think → that
Just maybe just a quick order, just for a day or two, till he calls me and he says, ‘Please, President, please, you’re putting me out of business, sir.’”
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you → call → business
Trump told the audience that only one other president could rival the former New York City real estate developer for support from America’s hunters and fishermen:
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president → tell → hunters
“America's outdoorsmen have not had a better friend in the Oval Office for many, many years.
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outdoorsmen → have → years
In typical Trump fashion, the president also boasted to dinner guests about his latest renovation projects around Washington, D.C.
“We've done a lot of work on the White House,” Trump said in the Rose Garden, which he paved over to make way for a Mar-a-Lago style patio.
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he → boast → patio
Trump specifically mentioned his new black and white granite helipad designed to look like the presidential seal and constructed right on the South Lawn of the White House.
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Trump → mention → House
“What they've been able to do with stone, with granite, six inches thick, carved with a beautiful eagle.
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they → do → eagle
It's a helipad where the helicopters can land.
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helicopters → land → ?
Never had that before,” the president said.
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president → have → that
“Frankly, the new helicopters that were purchased are so powerful that they ripped the grass out.
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they → purchase → grass
I said, ‘What about trying to build a helipad,’ and it really came out good, very good.”
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it → say → helipad
At an Oval Office event in July, Trump said that Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of the mega defense contactor Lockheed Martin, was paying for the helipad because they felt “a little guilty” for not warning about the power of the fleet of helicopters they completed in 2024 for use as the president’s Marine One.
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they → say → One
“They are paying for the cost of it – it’s about $5 or $6 million,” Trump told reporters at the time.
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Trump → pay → time
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