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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We don't want them to build them in Japan. We love Japan. We don't want them building them in Japan. We want them to build them here. We want China to build them in here. We want them all to build them right in here. That's what they've done to us for 40 years and they've drained us. Now we're doing it to them at a better level than they ever dreamed possible.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump To further rebuild the industrial bedrock of our country, I've imposed 25 percent tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel. It's keeping our steel mills going. I did that -- if I didn't do that with steel in the first -- my first term, we wouldn't have a steel mill in the United States right now and everybody knows it. I did it for washing machines too, by the way, that's why I asked the people at Whirlpool -- they were going to close.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They were in deep trouble. I did it because they were dumping machines. I did a 50 percent tariff, was going to raise it to 100 percent. They didn't even have to bother. They became a tremendously successful company overnight. They were ready to close. They came to me with tears in their eyes, in my office early on first term.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we're doing it now at levels never seen before. And the results are going to be even better, even better because we've been abused by friend and foe, and in many cases, friend has abused us more so than foe on trade. So, I want to just let you know you're going to be very proud of this country very soon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And with my China tariffs, we're ending the greatest job theft in the history of the world. China has taken more jobs from us than any country has ever taken from another country and that doesn't mean we're not going to get along. We get along with China. I mean their tariff now is at 145 percent. So, essentially -- that's a big difference between that and zero.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But I think it's going to work out, they want to make a deal and they're going to -- we're going to make a deal. But it's going to be a fair deal. It's not going to be a deal that we lose $1 trillion a year like they did with Biden. That guy was so bad, he was so bad. Under Biden -- and remember this, we were losing $5 billion a day on trade and now we're making money, we're actually making money instead of -- do you know what $5 billion -- think of that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Mike, five -- how many pillows do you have to make to lose $5 billion. You can make them for 1,000 years. No, we were losing $5 billion a year. Now we've got it where we're making money, and the tariffs haven't even really kicked in. The 25 percent on cars have. But you know what that means? That means that you're going to make the cars.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We don't need the cars from outside. When they say, oh, sir, we want to send you a lot of cars. I said we really don't want your cars; we really don't want -- we want to make our own cars. That includes Canada, that includes Mexico who have taken tremendous -- a tremendous amount of our business. Canada has taken off a tremendous like 10, 12 percent.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Mexico is 32 percent. They took 32 percent of our car production. We don't want them to have that. We want that -- why are we giving it to them? Why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a year? Why are we subsidizing Mexico for $300 billion a year? There's no reason for it. I'm proud to be the president for the workers and not the outsourcers.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The president who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street. You know, I like Wall Street, I like Wall Street. I have a gorgeous, beautiful building on Wall Street, 40 Wall Street. Anybody, you want a little space? I'll get you some space real quickly. No, I've got one of the most beautiful buildings in the world on Wall Street, but I still like Main Street because you're Main Street, I want Main Street over Wall Street.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we want to protect the middle class, not the political class, that's all. I haven't done this very long. We want to protect -- we want to protect our people. You know, this is the greatest -- when you think about this, look here we are -- it's not even like election, it's after the election and you have crowds like this and have them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're going to do the commencement at University of Alabama and they just called and they said it's going to be the biggest crowd we've ever had for -- we've never had a crowd like this. And I'm doing it at West Point and they called and said the same thing. We love West Point. We love University of Alabama.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We love Alabama. You know what I won Alabama by? Like almost 50 points. So, when they called and they said would you like to do the commencement? I said, OK, I'll do it, but they're going to have the biggest crowd they ever had by maybe four or five times they told me. Thanks for all of the things that we've done and to our policies, trillions of dollars are now pouring into the United States because of common sense.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Just common sense. Apple, great company, was building everything in China. Now they just announced that they're spending $500 billion to invest in America, not in China. My friend Jensen from NVIDIA, they're spending -- you know what NVIDIA is, they're spending $500 billion. TSMC, the biggest chip maker in the world by far from Taiwan, they're spending $200 billion in the United States.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Amazon, $21 billion. Johnson and Johnson, $55 billion. The Mac, $20 billion, Merck Stellantis, General Motors are putting in billions and billions of dollars. And many other companies. And as a result of our policies, for the first time in modern history, more AmAricans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump They have a poll, a crazy poll probably a fake poll too. So I don't know, I don't care. But first time ever in I think ever that they're saying the country is headed in the right direction. Has never happened before. I don't know why. But we've accomplished more in three months than most administrations accomplished in four years or even eight years.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we're just getting started. Believe me, we're just getting started. We're pleased to be joined by some great people. A person that I, number one, I have so much confidence in him. The fake news is after him, really after him, but he's a tough cookie. They don't know how tough he is. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Pete. [Audience chants "Pete"] Wow, that's pretty good. How are the Houthis doing? Not too good, right? Our new administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, somebody that everybody knows, but this guy, you know, the show was a big success, but sometimes it hurts your image to have a television show.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's the top -- I mean, he went to Harvard. I shouldn't even mention that anymore because that used to be a good thing. Today, it doesn't mean much. [Laughter] But he went to University of Pennsylvania Medical School, top student, top doctor, top everything, one of the smartest guys in medicine. Also a big star, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Dr. Oz. Thank you, doctor.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. A man who waited today just came here. He was all sweaty and grimy. I said what the hell happened. He ran into the building because he wanted to vote in Congress. And I hear we passed the vote, John James, by a lot, right? And thank you for making it here. He wanted -- he had to vote. I said John, do me a favor, stay and vote.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're voting essentially on the big, beautiful -- that gorgeous big, beautiful bill. I said, you know, I want you there badly, but you got to vote please. So thank you very much, John. Good job. Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall. Matt, thank you. Thank you, Matt. Michigan Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you, Aric. Thank you very much. Michigan GOP Chair Jim Rundstedt. Thank you, Jim. Good job. Nice tight. Thank you, Jim. Great job. One of my favorite people. I mean, we just had such success. You know, we had so many votes stolen in 2020. And then this guy came in. And they didn't steal him from his state, North Carolina.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I told you. But they didn't steal them. He had 601 lawyers. And they had lawyers at every voting booth. And I said who is that guy that did so well because we won the state? Other states, you know, they inched us out. And you know, at the end, they inched us. They just inched us out. Crooked as hell. But this guy didn't let that happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump His name is Michael Whatley, North Carolina. And now he's the head of the Republican Party, RNC. And he's great. And I must tell you, he worked with a great woman, my daughter in law, Laura, who was unbelievable. He's got a very successful television show. That was a tremendous combination. That was a very important combination.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Also, the great, and you see him on television, he's unbelievable. Hey, Stephen, come up here, fast. The great Stephen Miller. Do we like Stephen? Where is Stephen? Come here, Stephen. I love this guy. I love this guy. There is nobody smarter or tougher than Stephen Miller. Stephen, say --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Stephen Miller Who is enjoying 100 golden days of AmArica? President Trump has achieved the most secure border in American history. He's fighting violent crime. He's fighting the drug cartels. He's cutting your taxes. He's cutting wasteful spending. He's draining the swamp. He's standing up to the radical left. He's standing up to the communists.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Stephen Miller And he's making AmArica stronger than it's ever been. President Trump will never stop fighting for you, your children and your family. And President Trump will make sure that in this country not illegal aliens, not criminals, not gangbangers, but AmArican citizens come first, last and always. Thank you. And thank you, President Trump, for being the greatest president in American history.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump [Inaudible] He's great. This guy, he is something special. And he's been with us right from day one. Right from day one, Stephen's been there, right. He's been great. A man who put on about 928 rallies for me. And they -- we didn't have -- we didn't have a glitch. Justin Caporale. Justin, thank you wherever you are.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's probably backstage working. He did -- we did over 900 of these. Thank you, Justin. And Margo Martin. Does anyone know Margo? Beautiful Margo. I call her the world's greatest photographer. Where is Margo? Margo is great. Where are you, Margo? And she's very shy, actually. She's both beautiful and shy.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Margo Martin Over here.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Where? Where? Margo! Come up here, Margo. Come up. Come on. You got to. This is the most beautiful -- now look, I'm not allowed to say this. It's the end of my political career, but I'm going to say it anyway, she's the most beautiful photographer in the world. I don't know if she's the best, but she's the most beautiful.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Margo Martin Trump 2028, anybody?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump People love Margo. And how about, Karoline? How's Karoline doing, huh? How is our Karoline doing? Karoline has taken the world by storm. She's taken it. And you know, we have a man here that I don't know, but he's defending me all the time on CNN, and he defends me really well, but he can't go too far because if he goes too far, he'll get fired.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I said you're amazing. You can take it right to the edge. And he really does a good job. He's not allowed to go any further. He would be off, you know, if he really went totally crazy, which he'd like to do. But I think he's terrific. Scott Jennings. Where's Scott? Where are you Scott? Come here, Scott? This guy really, I've watched him for years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't know him, but he likes Trump. Come here, Scott. Oh, CNN, this is the end of Scott. Who cares? Don't worry. We'll take care of you, Scott. Scott Jennings, really great.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Jennings Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Michigan, we were flying in here today and I said look at these farms, I got to get a farm in Michigan. Because when you own as many libs as I do, you got to put a place to put them all. Thank you all very much. [Inaudible] Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump [Inaudible] Thank you. Thank you, Scott. And I also want to thank the rest of the Michigan Republican delegation for all the work they do in Congress and who are back in Washington working on the big, beautiful bill. The big -- we're going to name it, I think, the big, beautiful bill. In 100 days, I've taken more than 1000 executive actions.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I could recite our accomplishments all night long. And by the way, did you just see what I did? Straws, I wiped out the paper straw, a little thing. These are the little things. You sink. Have you ever tried buying a new sink and no water comes out? Your showerheads, your toilets, the whole thing, it's a disaster.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We now have it so you can have as much water as you want. Because it's not an environmental problem. You have areas that can't get rid of their water and yet they have -- they put restrictions on them. You used to take them off, but now you can't because they're welded in. But now you don't have to worry about that because we've opened up your faucets and we've opened up. Especially me, I don't like taking a shower where the water goes, drip, drip, drip onto my luxuriant hair. [Laughter] I need a lot of water.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I need everything I can get. I don't need to be under a shower trying to get water to come out of that damn thing. So we've opened up the showerheads, the faucets, the toilets, the washing machines that don't give you water. All of that stuff has been opened up. And we're giving you gas ovens, gas stoves, if you'd like.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No more electric. You can have electric if you want. I have a lot of friends, they like gas better. You're supposed to sell your gas stove or get it -- I don't know, who do you sell it to? Maybe another country because we're the only country that would be so stupid to that. But the stoves, now you can have gas stoves, all you want.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Put four of them in your kitchen. I couldn't care less. [Laughter] It's all common sense. People were so angry about that. Remember? They were all angry. Get rid of your gas stove. You have to go to electric. There's something they have with -- I think that's amazing. And by the way, Elon makes a great car, but not everybody's going to want it. You know, they all say, oh, well, Trump is -- maybe he's under the thumb of Elon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Do you think Elon was happy about ending the all-electric mandate? I don't think he was too happy, but he's a great guy. You know, honestly, never said a thing. He says, let me just compete fairly. By the way, it's not fair what they've done to him too. That is a disgrace [Audience boos]. That is a disgrace.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But he's a great guy and he's really helped us. And you know, they've saved $150 billion on waste, fraud and abuse, DOGE. So, we want to thank him. He's an incredible guy. Anybody that can land a rocket ship. I saw this thing come in. I said you've got to be kidding, this rocket's coming in. You know, most of them go right into the ocean, but he lands it. I was on the phone with somebody talking and I saw this thing coming in. It's spinning out of control coming down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's all burning. It's on fire, looks like hell. I said, well, just another rocket going into the ocean. And then all of a sudden you see the fire pouring out of the engines and it starts to slow up, slow, then it's straight. Then it starts moving over a little bit. Then I say, oh no, it's hitting the gantry, it's going to hit.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And the engines go errr, straightens it out and it gets hugged, like you hug your beautiful little baby, right? And I said, who the hell did that? It was Elon. And he told me you don't have a space program if you have to drop a $1 billion machine into the water every time you fly, you have to save those suckers.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, he does. He's an amazing guy and he's a great American and he loves our country, he loves you. And he's paid a big price to help, but I have a feeling it's going to end up being good for him, actually. I really do. I established the new Presidential Commission to Make America Wealthy again chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He's doing a good job, Dr. Oz, right?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's doing a good job. And he's a little bit different, but I want to tell you he's a great guy. He's a great guy and he loves this country. Just last week, Bobby announced that we're banning eight major artificial dyes from our food supply. Sounds good to me. And on day one, I created that very -- right now, very successful Department of Government Efficiency headed by Elon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That was a big thing, doing that. I mean, the numbers are really incredible -- DOGE. So, it was a very big thing. We terminated the left-wing money laundering scam known as USAID. How about the money that was going out? How about the money that was going out, billions and billions. They were giving individual people billions of dollars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Can you believe it? People that had nothing, they got $1 billion, they got -- one got $2 billion, $2 billion for the environment. Had $100 in the bank, they got $2 billion -- not $2 million, you know $2 million would have been a lot, $200,000 would have been a lot, but it would have been fine. $2 billion.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we directed all federal workers to return to the office in person or unfortunately they're fired. You're fired. You know, some of these guys got their golf handicap way down during the so-called time where they're supposed to be working at home. You know, they weren't working at home. Who the hell would work at home?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump How do you work at home? They're terrible. And we found a lot of them where they had second jobs. They were just taking us for a ride. They're all taking us for a ride. The foreign countries were really taking us for a ride, both on military and on trade. But we stopped it and we're stopping it. I withdrew from the unfair and ridiculous Paris Climate Accord where we were paying trillions of dollars.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We would have spent numbers like you wouldn't believe and China wouldn't have spent anything. Russia wouldn't have spent anything. India wouldn't have spent, but we would have spent over $1 trillion. I withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization where we were paying $470 million and China was paying, with a population quite a bit larger than ours, thank you, where let's -- the problem with us, we have no idea what size our population, they allowed so many people in under Biden.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But let's assume it's 325 million. China's 1.4 billion. We were paying $470 million, and China was paying $39 million, and China was running the whole show. So, I said no thank you. I withdrew. They offered me to sign up at $39 million. I still said no, because it was sort of scammy, I didn't like it. And Biden came back in and he signed up, and they knew we could have signed up for $39 million or less.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump He came back in and he signed up for the same as what they were paying before, almost $500 million. Now, that's a lot of money, but it's nothing compared to the trillions of dollars that they waste. But that's the way it is. They know they can sign up for less. They don't even care. It's like they don't want to have the conversation.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And you're talking about a $450 million difference. But they came up right in the first week. He said no, no, we're going right back in. OK, I can understand that. But you go in for $39 million, they could make a deal for $39 million. They signed up for $472 million. And I withdrew from the anti-American UN Human Rights Council, which is totally disgusting.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump In three months, my administration has brought home 46 American hostages and citizens detained abroad. We paid nothing. We don't pay. We don't pay. You know, if you pay those kidnappings go way up, we don't pay. Every time Biden brought people back, he'd pay $6 billion. $6 billion, $6 billion. Three times they brought back three hostages.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, how is it? Well, I think it's a fair deal. What do we pay? $ 6 billion. Wait a minute, for three people, $6 billion -- $ 6 billion. It's not right. I mean, it's just not right, they have no idea. Honestly, grossly incompetent, stupid people. More than Biden brought home in four years; we brought more back in just a matter of weeks than Biden brought home in years, and he paid a fortune, and we paid nothing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We got Mexico to turn over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country. And we're charging Mexico and Canada and China big tariffs because of the fact that they've allowed fentanyl to come in and poison our country. They're paying a lot of money for that. And because of that, you watch, it's going to stop, it's already slowing down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Within six weeks we also apprehended the terrorists responsible for the attack that killed 13 American service members known as Abbey Gate. I got to know them. I got to know those families very well, they're devastated -- during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and brought him home. I mean, we brought this guy home to America.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We got the guy that did it, we got him. They were looking for years, but we got him. It took us to get him. We got him in the first month, brought him home to face justice. And it was that gross incompetence that probably led Putin to go in and attack Ukraine because they were never going to -- that was never going to happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump If I were president, the Ukraine-Russia war would have never, ever happened, not even a little chance. We have ended the weaponization of law enforcement and fired Joe Biden's hand-picked crooks. These are pro-crime US attorneys, except if it's a political person like me. You know, I was under investigation more than the late great Alphonse Capone.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Al Capone was the greatest gangster of them all. If he had dinner with you and if he didn't like you, you were dead. You were a dead person; you'd be under a foundation somewhere in a nice big building or sports center going up. And I spent far more time under investigation than Alphonse Capone. How about that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You like that? I didn't like that. I didn't like it. We removed senior FBI officials who were corrupt and misdirected the resources. They sent SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages. What they did to those J6 hostages [Audience boos]. And they did nothing to the people that took over Portland and took over Seattle.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump They literally took over a big portion of Seattle or in Minnesota, Minneapolis, you remember that disaster where they said no, this is a peaceful rally. The CNN lunatic anchor, the guy has about the personality of an ant. This is not a man meant for television. He said, no, the rally is quite peaceful, then he got hit with a brick or something.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And over his shoulder, the entire skyline of Minneapolis was burning. You remember that one? The entire skyline was burning. And I have to be careful because that gentleman right there, one of the greatest purchasers of advertising in the history of the world, Mike Lindell, there has never been a better purchaser.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He comes from Minnesota. No Congratulations. He's the greatest purchaser of ads in history. If he would have bought my ads, I could have had ten times more ads on. There's never been -- is there any station that doesn't have a pillow ad on it? But he's great, and he's doing great. And he's got a beautiful new wife and all that stuff.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I'm proud of you. Look at them, holding hands. They're still holding hands. I'm very proud of you. That's nice. Usually, by this time, -- Usually, in a lot of people I know, Mike, by this time, it's over. It's over. Look at you holding hands. I love that. I saw that. I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We created a brand new DOJ task force on anti-Christian bias. It's a big problem. I stripped the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell. Remember the laptop from hell? Remember the laptop from hell? When you had the 51 agents, they said, oh, Russia did it. Russia?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Russia did it. Russia did everything. Russia did it. And it was all like horrible, disgusting stuff. You hadn't seen the worst of it, but it truly is the laptop. By the way, a very brilliant reporter for the New York Post wrote a book called The Laptop from Hell. You ought to read that book. It is really -- it tells you the facts, OK? It tells you the facts.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's divine. The great -- the great Ms. Divine. She wrote an amazing book, actually, The Laptop from Hell. We also terminated the clearances of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself because he's corrupt. And I banned all government censorship and restored free speech in America. We have free speech.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We didn't have free speech. I ended all of the lawless so-called diversity, equity and inclusion bullshit. All across the entire federal government and the private sector. And I made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. And a really easy one, this was the easiest one I had.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I banned men from competing in women's sports. You know, they always say that's an 80/20 issue. No, it's about a 97/3 issue. I also proudly banned the use of puberty blockers and other chemical and surgical -- , right? All these mutilations of our minor youth, I banned it all. I signed executive orders to abolish critical race theory and transgender insanity from our schools and from our military.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We fired the woke boards of visitors at our military academies. We have great people running our military academies now. And I've directed the reinstatement of patriots expelled from our military by the Biden vaccine mandate with full back pay. After years of missed targets, our military suddenly has the best recruiting numbers in 30 years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Every branch is setting records. Don't think of that. Six months ago, you and I were reading that nobody wanted to join the military, right? Now, we've just set a record of recruitment that's stuck. We have a waiting list of people that want to go into our military. And we have a waiting list, including for police and firefighters because our country has spirit again.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have spirit. Our country has great spirit again. Last month, I signed a historic executive order to begin the process of eliminating the federal Department of Education, and send education back to Michigan. We're going to send it back to our states, right? We're going to send it back to our states to run.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I mean, how the hell bad can we do? We're like in last place. They do badly, you're going to do better. They're going to do great though. I think they're going to do great. I'm very proud of it. Linda McMahon, by the way, is doing a phenomenal job. And I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I ordered the release of all remaining files related to the assassinations of presidents John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. And they're all out there. And I made myself very unpopular in Mexico by renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. And we are restoring the name of a great president, William McKinley to Mount McKinley in Alaska.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He was a very good President. And you Italians are going to love me. Because just yesterday, I brought back Columbus Day in America, especially for Italian Americans who were so badly treated by its removal. I also signed an order to require proof of citizenship to vote in American elections. That was easy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And the Democrats fought me on that. Think of it, why would they want no voter ID? Because they want to cheat. Why would they want to have no proof of citizenship? We don't want it. We trust everybody. No, they want to cheat. That's all they want to do. Think of that, no voter ID in Michigan. You must never allow ranked choice voting to be here.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Never. We've done this all in 14 weeks. That's one -- remember that, 100 days, we've done all of the things that I named and a lot more. And we're counting and it's going to be -- it's going to be better. Wait till you see the results of some of the things that we're doing. In the coming weeks and months, we will pass the largest tax cuts in American history.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And that will include no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. It's called the one big, beautiful bill. And it will be the biggest bill ever passed in our country's history. It will include the biggest tax cuts, regulation cuts, military supremacy and just about everything else. We will cut more than $1 trillion in wasteful and unnecessary spending.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And in the next fiscal year, it will all be done. We're going to have something that you won't even believe. We will end inflation. Slash prices. We've already ended inflation, raise wages, and give you the greatest economy in the history of the world. That's already happening. With our tax bill, the average family's take home pay will be at least $5,000 more than it was just a couple of months ago.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We will always protect Medicare and Social Security for our great seniors with no cuts. And we will defend Medicaid for those great people that are in need. House Republicans are working to invest more money in Medicaid than we spend today. The only thing we're going to cut is the corruption and the crooks that take advantage of some of the illegal schemes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump So we want to preserve Medicaid for the most vulnerable for our kids, pregnant women, the poor and disabled Americans. We will fully and permanently secure our border. We will make the largest ever investment in US military and build the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield. That's going to protect us, so we live a long and beautiful life.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's going to be made in Michigan. And it's going to be made right here in the USA. And one hour ago, I just made a speech at Selfridge Air Force Air National Guard Base, announcing that we are saving it, keeping it open, including thousands of jobs with a brand new state of the art F-15s, which are coming to Selfridge.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we will crush violent crime and give our police the support, protection, resources and respect they so dearly deserve. I will defend religious liberty. And I will defend the right to keep and bear arms. We will celebrate the 250th anniversary of America's founding in 2026. And we will teach our children to love our country, honor our history and always respect our great American flag.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And one day soon, American astronauts will plant the flag on the planet Mars. That's going to happen very soon. Every single day of my administration, we'll continue to live by the motto promises made, and you've seen it before, promises kept. From Marquette to Midland from Mackinac to Saginaw and from Lansing to right here in Macomb County, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded Michigan patriots.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump What great people. I love you, Michigan! Who laid the railroads, worked the factories, tilled the field, forged the steel, fought the battles and won the victories that built the Motor City and made this state into the pride of the American Midwest. And you know what? We're going to make it better than it ever was.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's already happening. You see what's happening. Michigan is the state that gave us the assembly line, Motown, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and put the world behind the wheel of an automobile. And under our leadership, we are making greater every single day, and the automobile business in Michigan will soon -- and it's going to happen really soon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's already happening. They're signing left and right -- because of my taxation and tariff policies, which are policies of common sense and genius, be bigger and stronger and better than ever before. It's going to get better than ever before, and it won't even be close. Companies will be pouring back into Michigan.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It was hard working patriots like you who built this country. And on November 5th, 2024, it was hard working patriots like you who saved our country. So, thanks to your help, your love and your support, after 100 days back in the White House America is a free, proud and sovereign nation once more and our magnificent destiny is closer than ever before.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's closer than ever before. You have no idea how close it is. Our golden age has only just begun. We are one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. We will never give in. We will never give up. We will never back down. We will never ever surrender, we will fight, fight, fight and we will win, win, win.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Together we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. I love you, Michigan, I love you. Have a good time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. God bless you all, God bless you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much. We have Jonas Gahr Store here, who is as you know, the Prime minister of Norway, a great gentleman highly respected, beloved in his country. And we've had talks on the war with Ukraine, Russia and trade. We're doing very well, I think, on both. We've had some pretty good movement in every respect.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The war is very important that it ends, with -- I used to say 2,500 people a week dying, young people, mostly soldiers from Russia and Ukraine, and we want to end that war. We want to end it quickly and I think we've made a lot of progress and we'll see what happens. This next few days is going to be very important.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Meetings are taking place right now. Additionally, we talked about trade and we will -- definitely, we get along very well on trade. We'll do something. But I think the prime minister knows that over the years, the United States has been very good to a lot of people and it's time for us to benefit also. So we're going to have a good relationship on trade and we discussed other things also, but Mr. Prime Minister, it's an honor to have you with us. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre Well, thank you Mr. President. This year is 200 years since the first immigration from Norway to the US. We come here early in your term. Appreciate that you take time. We have highlighted that very close cooperation. We are allies, we look after security in the north, in the Arctic, a lot of confidence between our services.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre We have discussed in detail, the war in Ukraine. I have saluted the president for his initiative to make progress towards something that can be a ceasefire and an end to this terrible conflict. It is a complex picture, but it needs political will and push and we have exchanged ideas on that. And then I think the president and his team have been open to hear our perspectives.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre And on trade, we have also emphasized that we can benefit both of us by trading, and we can be complementary and we can find good solutions. But first of all, I appreciate, Mr. President, the spirit and the tone of this conversation, which has been confirmation of a very strong partnership.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Any questions, please? Yes.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you. First, Mr. President, have you spoken about the tariff that you want to impose on Norway? Is there a chance that you could lower --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We spoke about trade and we understand each other very well. I think we'll have no problem.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you think that you will get an agreement with Norway?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think we'll have no problem whatsoever with Norway.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] possible visit to Norway? Did you two discuss a possible visit with President Trump to Norway?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We didn't, but I love it. I mean, I've been there and it is a beautiful place. They have --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre And I told the president that he is receiving us early in the term. He's welcome to visit Norway. We would like to have him, and it will be another way of emphasizing this strong friendship.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, Norway has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022. Has something been discussed here today that may have altered your views on things?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, very simply, I have no allegiance to anybody. I have allegiance to saving lives, and I want to save a lot of lives, a lot of young people, mostly young people. It's the war, it's the soldiers and if we can do that. Also, as you know, I got started because the money that's been spent on this war is insane.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It should have never happened, and it would have never happened if I were president. But Biden spent $350 billion on this and it's a shame. And that's what got me involved. And I see the results, it's horrible. It's a killing field, 5,000 soldiers a week on average and we want to stop that. We both want to stop that for a lot of reasons, but I would say that is my number one reason.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] Russia, that you will get Russia to accept a deal that also Ukraine and Europe is willing to?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think so, yeah. I do. I believe they will accept. And I think we're going to get this over with, I hope so, soon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question You continue to lack support from NATO allies and your goal of obtaining Greenland. How will you proceed if you don't get that support?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, Greenland is going to be interesting, but that's for another day. I think we need that for international peace and if you don't have that, I think it's a big threat to our world. So I think Greenland is very important for international peace. Yeah, please, go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President this morning in a truth social post, you used the words Vladimir, stop. That seemed like a slightly different message, a personal message. What is your level of frustration with President Putin at this point?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I didn't like last night. I wasn't happy with it. And we're in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired, and I was not happy with it. That's what I meant and that's what I said. I assume that's what you mean. Yeah? I assume that's what you mean.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question If the bombs keep falling, will you consider additional sanctions toward Russia, or what will you do if President Putin does not respond?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I'd rather answer that question in a week. I want to see if we can have a deal. No reason to answer it now, but I won't be happy. Let me put it that way. Things will happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, why are you not putting more pressure on Russia? I know a lot of Europeans [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Putting a lot of pressure. You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia. They're dealing. You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on Russia. We're putting a lot of pressure.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Can you maybe tell us, then? What kind of pressure on you putting on --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia and Russia knows that and some people that are close to it know or he wouldn't be talking right now. The prime minister understands that better than anybody. He wouldn't be talking right now. He's talking and we're putting a lot of pressure. I think he wants to make a deal.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're going to find out very soon, but it takes two to tango and you have to have Ukraine want to make a deal too and they're being hit very hard. And I do believe they want to make a deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Mr. Prime Minister, if I may? You've said that the Ukraine have to give some territory to win peace, among them, Crimea. Do you stand by that? And I know that former NATO general secretary today has told you that he does not agree and he believes the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. How will you deal with that with your allies and do you stand by that Ukraine have to give --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Former secretary general happens to be right here, so they can't put words in his mouth. He's been a great general, frankly, because that's what you are, really, you're a general, but he's been a great secretary general. We had a tremendous relationship, very successful and I think he could speak for himself.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's right here.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question But do you still agree that Ukraine had to give some territory away to win peace?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, it depends what territory. They've been fighting. They've lost a lot of territory and we'll do the best we can. Working with Ukraine, we'll do the best we can, but they lost a lot of territory. When you say Crimea, that was handed over during a president named Barack Hussein Obama. That had nothing to do with me, Crimea.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump That was 11 years ago with Obama and they made a decision. There wasn't a bullet fire. There was no fighting. There was no anything. They just handed it over. Now they say, well, can you get it back? I think that's going to be a very difficult thing to do. That was given by uh Barack Obama when he was president, not by Donald Trump.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you, Mr. President. [Inaudible] proposal that you put on the table, it's a 30-day ceasefire proposal. Your national security team presented it to both Ukraine and Russia. Two months ago, Ukraine agreed to that ceasefire proposal immediately. Russia has not. And my question is, is Russia the obstacle to peace based upon that, just getting to that 30-day ceasefire.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't think so. I think that they both want peace right now. They're ready to do something. We'll see what happens. Complicated, very complicated, but I think they are both very much looking to make a deal. Marco, what would you say?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Marco Rubio Well, first of all, what was put before our partners was options to discuss about things that it would take to end a war. This war is ended, both sides just have to agree to it. We've shown them a pathway forward. We've discussed those ideas. It was a good meeting yesterday. There'll be good meetings over the weekend.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Marco Rubio We've shown them the finish line. We need both of them to say yes. But what happened last night with those missile strikes should remind everybody of why this war needs to end. It's horrible those missiles landed; what's even worse is there are today people that were alive yesterday that are not alive today because this war continues, and the president wants to stop it. And everyone should be thanking the president for being a peacemaker and trying to save lives.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio That's what we're trying to do here. It's not our war, we didn't start it, as you know. But we're trying to end the dying. We're trying to end the destruction. And we've shown the path forward, we can see the finish line but both of them have to get there. And we're going to do everything we can to help them get there.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Marco Rubio But they have to ultimately say yes, both of them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We are using a lot of pressure on both. You know, if you think we're just in there because we're nice people, and we are nice people, but we're using a lot of pressure on both.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question What concessions, Mr. President? And to your national security team, what concessions has Russia offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Stopping the war, stopping, taking the whole country, pretty big concession.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, if you are going to take down the tariffs, what do you want Norway to buy more of from the US?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump To buy more? Well, you don't need snow [Laughter], you don't need skis, you don't need ski champions either, right? You have a lot of them. We just want to keep the relationship the way it is. We've had a great relationship. I think now maybe closer than ever. But we've had a great relationship with Norway.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think just keep it the way it is. You can't do better.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Really? Not even by, say --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, if they want to give us some additional concessions that's OK. You can't do much better. Yes. Yes.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, you had a long meeting with Norway today. You said that Norway is doing a lot of things right. But on the Ukraine, if I can ask both you and the prime minister, did you find common ground today on Ukraine and the peace plan?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Totally, it's totally common ground. The prime minister can speak about it, but I can just say he wants to see people stop dying more than anything else and he'd like to see it end. He's going to help us end it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre Can I say that to move towards an end of this war, US engagement is critical. And President Trump made that possible. That is clear. That is obvious. It's really happening. Now the important thing is that both parties have to know that they have to deliver, and they have to feel the pressure to deliver. Ukraine is under attack; they are defending themselves.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre Lives are being lost, and we believe very firmly that there needs to be a ceasefire, the initiative taken by the US some time ago needs to be respected. And then to move on to something which both parties can own. That is the complicated part in such a dramatic war. And here I believe Europeans and Americans working together, as we do much closer now, and I salute the team of President Trump of being -- you know, opening that process.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre We had a good discussion on this today, and then we have to move on and we cannot lose time because this is too much drama happening. One thing is people losing their lives, but it is a bad thing for Europe and it's a bad thing for the world to have such a broad conflict going on. It can have ramifications far beyond Ukraine.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, a follow-up question on China. Mr. President, if -- I forgot my question. I wanted to ask about -- it happens sometimes. Yeah. No, Mr. President, I wanted to ask about the -- well, actually Zelenskyy has said that he wants more Patriot missiles. So far there has been no response from the United States.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question If you and the United States decides to pull out of negotiating for peace, trying to broker peace, does that also mean a no on Patriot missiles, a no on sharing intelligence with Ukraine?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Let's see what happens. I think we're going to make a deal. And if we make a deal that'll be wonderful, we won't have to worry about your question. You can ask that question in two weeks, and we'll see, but I think we're getting very close. The prime minister feels the same way and we'll hopefully not have to answer that question.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, Norway is the third country to be officially invited to the White House after Liberation Day. Why did you invite Norway so soon to the White House?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Because I like them [Laughter], and I like your prime minister, and I like the way your government runs. And I respect the king. He's highly respected in Norway, it's a great thing, not an easy thing to do. He's done it. He's done a great job. Yeah.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Would you like an invitation to visit the king?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Absolutely. You get me that invitation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre I just told the president, he's welcome to visit Norway.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question -- you've said before that you like the Norwegian Petroleum Fund and I'm wondering if that has been up for discussion today, the way that [Inaudible] our [Inaudible] whether or not --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre Well, this fund was created in the late 1990s to save for future generations the income from our oil and gas. Norwegians should continue to work as hard, dedicated, innovate and move forward despite having these incomes, which we happen to be in the period of our history where we can harvest. And we have transferred that into investments, half of them, by the way, here in the United States.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre So, I think this is a model which we have been able to explore if we can share experiences, and we do with our colleagues in the US. You never copy this 1 to 1, but there can be techniques and a way of working that we have used in organizing our front. Jens Stoltenberg was the finance minister when the first dollar entered that fund, so he is a safe hand to have as a finance minister today.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre What do you say?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jens Stoltenberg No, and as you said, Mr. Prime Minister, we are ready to sit down with the US to also work with them on if they want to establish a sovereign wealth fund because we have very good experience with our fund. And I think that one example of how we work together with United States is that half of the fund, close to US$1 trillion are invested in the United States, mainly in equity, but also some in fixed income including government bonds.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jens Stoltenberg So, this is an expression of trust in the United States expressed by the strong investment of the sovereign wealth fund. Just briefly on Ukraine, since it was mentioned, we had a very good and extensive discussion about Ukraine, the path forward to peace. And as the prime minister said, we commend the US for pushing forward to try to find a negotiated solution.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Jens Stoltenberg At the same time, we need to continue to support Ukraine, and therefore I'm proud that Norway has actually tripled the military support to Ukraine. And this year, we will allocate close to US$8 billion to Ukraine; that will strengthen them and also their hand on the negotiating table.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jonas Gahr Støre And we add to that, if there is a peace, and there will be a peace, we have a common responsibility in securing democratic Ukraine for the future. And the best security guarantee they can have is the ability to defend themselves. And we are investing in that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. Prime Minister --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question If I may, as it relates to tariffs, Mr. President, when you unveiled your reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd, the tariff rate for Norway was 15 percent. Based upon your conversations that you've had today with the prime minister; do you see that tariff rate coming down from what you proposed just a few weeks ago?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, they have a great fund of $2 trillion, it's a big fund, and they don't have any debt. So, I think they'd probably be willing to pay us more than that, I hope.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, in 2018, your former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, called for an end to Russian occupation of Crimea. Why does this administration -- why has this administration changed its stance on territorial concessions with them?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, the war started. It would have never started if I were president. This is a war that is a horrible -- a horrible -- all wars are horrible. This one is, in particular, bad. And I don't know that you can ever say there's going to be a winner to this because so many lives have been lost, not only soldiers.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I mean, a lot of lives have been lost. I think that we want to do one very simple thing. It would have never happened if I were president, zero chance it was going to and it didn't. You know, people say how do you know that? Number one, it didn't happen. We never even discussed it. I would talk to Putin about it, it was the apple of his eye.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, Ukraine was the apple of Putin's eye, but we never -- there was never even a thought that he'd go in and I think he understood that I would not be happy if he did. And it was only when I got out -- and you know, when you mentioned what happened to Ukraine, years ago under President Obama and a vice president that was also president later, unfortunately for this country, what happened is large chunks of land were given up and it was called Crimea and that was a big thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump That was a big moment. But this is in my war, this is Biden's war. This is a war that Biden was president when this war happened. But I'm trying to put out the fire and I think we'll be successful. And if we do, we're going to save a lot of lives, otherwise, and the prime minister had a statement, he said, This is just a point in time.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're very lucky because this is a point, and if this doesn't happen, this could go on for a long time.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, will you have meetings with other world leaders when you're in Rome, sir? [Inaudible] future Democrat president?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't think he will. I think he wants to make peace. I think he wants to end it, and I feel pretty confident of that, but we're going to know pretty soon.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Will you have meetings with other world leaders when you're in Rome?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yes, I will.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Which leaders do you want to meet, sir?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I'd like to meet them all. That would be nice. I'd like to take care of all of them, but we have many of them there and they all want to meet. They want to meet about trade. And we are making some great inroads and great deals. You might want to speak about that, Mr. Secretary.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Bessent We had a very successful bilateral meeting with the Republic of South Korea today. We may be moving faster than I thought and we will be talking technical terms as early as next week, as we reach an agreement on understanding as soon as next week. So South Koreans came early. They came with their A game and we will see if they follow through on that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you think you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize if you manage to --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Do I deserve the Nobel Prize? Well, maybe for the Abraham Accords. I don't want to get ahead of myself on this one, but they say for the Abraham Accords. And by the way, speaking of that, we're going to be filling it up. A lot of countries want to come into the Abraham Accords. You know we have four, and Biden did nothing on that one too.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's the same four, but they're great countries and they were brave doing it and it's worked out very well. And we're going to be filling up the Abraham Accords. They're going to be, I think, filling it up very rapidly. Marco, could you say something about that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Marco Rubio There's great, enormous opportunity to grow the Abraham Accords, but I would just point to one thing, of all the leaders in the world today, no leader is working harder to prevent wars or end them than President Trump is right now. That's why we're talking to Iran. That's why we're engaged with Ukraine and Russia.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Marco Rubio It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out and to end the ones that exist already. And again, I just think it's tremendous for our country to be led by a president who desires to bring peace and establish peace and protect peace. So it's hard work.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, Marco just mentioned something that maybe we should talk about for just a second if we could, Mr. Prime Minister, and you're involved in it too because you've been involved in the world and peace. But I think we're doing very well with respect to Iran and we're having very serious meetings. And there are only two options.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And the one option is not a good option. It's not a good option at all. And I think we're doing very well on an agreement with Iran. But that one -- we're doing a lot of things, I will say, but that one is well on its way. We could have a very, very good decision and a lot of lives will be saved.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, on --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question On the economy, there was a slowdown as it relates to home sales in the month of March, the slowest pace since 2009. Is that an economic indicator? And perhaps the treasury secretary can weigh in on this as well. Is that an economic indicator that concerns you about the broader US economy?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, they had very good numbers on housing today, extremely good numbers. And that's despite interest rates, because if you look at what happened, everyone said, oh, I said I was going to get prices down. I did. Energy just hit $1.98 in a couple of states. It's way down. Energy is down and we're about $64 a barrel.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump When I came in and we were looking at $89, $90, $95. And by the way, that helps us solve the war too, having those energy prices is a big incentive for Russia to also agree with solving the war problem. Groceries are down. When I was with you two months ago, you were complaining about eggs. I said, I just got here.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I was here for about a week when the press started saying about eggs have gone through the roof. I said, I just got here, tell me about eggs and they have been. They went through the roof and you couldn't get them. So we just had a big Easter egg hunt at the White House, thousands and thousands of eggs and the price was down 87 percent, so we did a great job.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Housing is doing very well. We should lower interest rates, that's the fed, I hope they lower interest rates. That's the smart thing to do, be ahead a little bit, although already it's a little bit late. But in the end, we just have a great country. We have a very strong country and we have -- every other country, I can't think of one country that doesn't want to negotiate a deal and they either negotiate a deal or we set a deal that we think is fair, because we don't have to go through all of these.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It would be physically impossible. You have so many people that really understand it, which is a very small group of people here and we are going to, at some point, just set prices for deals. Some will be tariffed. Some treated us very unfairly. They'll be tariffed higher than others, but we've been ripped off for many, many years.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The United States has been ripped off like no country, probably in the history of the world has been ripped off, for 45, 50 years. And countries have gone rich by doing that with the United States. We've taken care of their militaries. And military is another subject we talk about. We're not going to make that subject to any of the deals.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But you know the same countries that I do, where we virtually take care of their military and then don't get treated fairly on trade. So the people -- and I don't blame those countries. I blame the people that sat at that beautiful desk right behind you, because those people didn't do the job for this country and they let us lose $4 billion a day on trade.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We were losing $4 billion or $5 billion a day on trade when I got here and now we're going to be much better than breaking even and we're going to be making $4 billion or $5 billion a day on trade. I don't blame any country, not the worst. I mean, we were abused by countries. I blame the president of the United States that happened to be sitting when these deals were made, disgraceful. When I was here, we had a great four years. We had the most successful economy in the history of our country, my first term, and we were very tough on trade. And with China, as you know, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, but nobody else ever did that. China paid not $0.10 to any other president. And they, but not only China, virtually every country got away with murder and we just can't let that happen. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Okay. We had a big day today. Had the bill passed, and I think it's gonna do very well in the House. We'll see how that works out. But, uh, it looks like it's ahead of schedule, see what happens. Happy about it. This was great today, going down to Florida and seeing what, uh, Homeland and Ron and everybody else have been able to do in a very short period of time.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So happy about it, I hope you enjoyed it. Go ahead. Any questions?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Hello, everybody. The trip was nice and the job they've done is fantastic and this is what you need. And Ron worked beautifully with Kristi and all of the people at Homeland Security and got it done in how many days?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] Thomas Massie?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis Eight days, a new facility was up and running.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump What about him?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question And is this the model going forward, Mr. President?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Just give us a little idea of, not only who you want to replace him --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It can be. You don't always have land so beautiful and so secure. We have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops that are in the form of alligators. You don't have to pay them so much. But I wouldn't want to run through the Everglades for long. They'll keep people where they're supposed to be. This is a very important thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, I think he does a good job for the country. He's always a no. Uh, I call him Rand Paul Jr. He's always a no. Nothing constructive at all, at all. I mean, been just terrible. Thomas Massie from Kentucky and, uh, nothing constructive. I don't think he's a very smart guy. Good education, but that's about it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're setting records at the border. We had no people come through last month, zero, no people, but we're going to keep it that way. So Ron did great and [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question And that's what I should have asked this. To what degree are you trying to make an example out of him so that no one else, like --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis Look, we -- thank you, Mr. President. Thanks for your leadership. The border, you did that quicker than -- we knew you'd do it, but you did it so quick. This is great. But Biden let in how many millions and you got to take care of them. And so this is one example of state operating this, the feds are approving it, supporting it. We're also going to have 2,000 more at Camp Landing, which is our National Guard site and we're the only state in the country that mandates our state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't think about it. I mean, you know, when I oppose somebody, I oppose somebody. And if for some reason the voters -- a -- almost always, they seem to go along with me 'cause they know I'm working hard. I have a nice high IQ. They like that, you know, we like high IQ people. But, uh, they know I, I make good decisions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis It's made a huge difference.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's why we have that hat, Trump was right about everything, right? But, you know, I don't like guys like, they just keep saying, no, "I vote no. I vote no." There's no, nothing. Let him do something, let him get what he wants to vote, yes. But if you look at his voting record, it's always against --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis On any given day, Florida constitutes about 20 percent of all immigration arrests nationwide and that's just because of the partnership that we have. So I think it's great that the president is here. What I would just say is, don't let Florida be the only state. We've got very red states that should be doing this just as much as Florida is doing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Who do you like?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis That will increase their numbers. And then what happens is you'll have a lot of people that will deport on their own because they don't want to end up in an Alligator Alcatraz or some of those other places. So I think this is a model, but we need other states to step up.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, he's gonna have an opponent. He's got -- He's, he's gonna have a big opponent. A good opponent who's gonna win -- A, a poll just came out, and it showed anybody I endorse against Massie, Massie loses by 25 points. So he's, he's gonna be history, I think.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I was going to ask you, [Inaudible] be enticing for other states to come up with their own model?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question How arm -- Uh, sir, how much arm-twisting do you think you'll have to do with, uh, to get, get it past the House now? What's your game plan for that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They are doing it. We have Louisiana doing it. Alabama is doing it. We have a lot of states. And they seem to be red states. There are not too many blue states for whatever reason. But the red states, Republican run states are doing it. The blue states don't do very well at security and policing. What would you say, Kristi?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I felt the Senate was gonna be tougher than the House. We got there, we got pretty much what we wanted. It was, uh, it's an amazing package. It's the biggest bill ever passed, if we get this done. You know, most of the people wanted seven or eight different bills. And I thought that was tougher because it'd be, you know, a 100%, but there'd be nothing [Inaudible] -- this bill has something for everybody by doing it this way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem I would say that's exactly right. The governor here has been fantastic in forming a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security. We were looking at different contracts with different vendors and thought why not go straight to our governors and ask them to help us solve this problem. Florida was unique in what they presented to us and I would ask every other governor to do the exact same thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So we're happy about it. We're happy with the results.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem This is unique because we can hold individuals here, they can have their hearings, get due process and then immediately be flown back home to their home countries and their home country are welcoming them there setting up. They're setting up loans for houses. They've got food assistance. They're helping to facilitate welcoming them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question So are you concerned that they're gonna be, wanna make further changes in the House?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem I just got home from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and they're all excited about getting their individuals back home from the United States.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, they're gonna ask for certain changes, probably. I don't know, I mean, I guess what would happen, if that happens, you then have to run it fast passed the Senate. So, you know, it never ends. Uh, I don't know if that's gonna happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And there is a lot of self-deporting.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you think it's still possible to get this done by Friday?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem There is.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump [Inaudible] on occasion that will happen, where they'll make a change and get it passed. So we go pretty quickly. But, uh, I think th- -- the Senate was a very big movement, they worked very hard. I didn't get along with Tillis, and he resigned, [Inaudible] that's a good thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump [Inaudible] when you have something like this, [Inaudible] so I'd ask Ron one question. I flew over the Everglades, you did it in a circle. I said, that's a big piece land, just [Inaudible] is there potential for enlargement for additional facilities [Inaudible]?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question He wants, who you want to run for that seat, sir Thom Tillis' seat.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis There may be. I mean, I think what we're doing is because this is an important part of Florida, we're using the existing footprint of this airport. When you guys go over there, you'll see all the beds, the medical, the galley, everything is on the concrete. We're not using any of the other stuff. Now as you'll see, there's a lot of concrete.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, somebody that would really be great is Lara, she grew up there. But, uh, they live in Florida. They have a very good life and they, you know, they're great people. She did fantastically running the RNC, she's even got a show that's, it's like the number one show. And Mark Levin is likewise, I mean, they have the number one, number two show over the weekend.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis So there very well may be. I know Secretary Noem and her team have said as soon as the President departs, we'll be open to start receiving folks. And so we'll see what the tempo is. We do have the 2,000 in Northeast Florida that will open very soon. So it is possible to do. One of the things I think that is exciting about this is we're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump So she's, she's done what? She's a great person, Lara Trump. I mean, that would always be my first choice, but she doesn't live there now. But she's there all the time, her parents are there. You know, she really knows North Carolina well, and I won it three times. I, I don't know who the candidates are gonna be. I think you're gonna have one of the congressmen step up, but she'd do very well.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals. I'm sure Pam will approve. But then you have -- I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here. Someone has a notice to appear. Biden would tell him to come back in three years and appear, now you'll be able to appear in like a day or two. So they're not going to be detained hopefully for all that long.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question So she, did she talk to you about it at all about?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis We'll have people here in this facility that can make -- it's a bureaucracy. The president's got to deal with the bureaucracy. Now, that Supreme Court ruling was good because that's going to allow him to be able to exercise Article 2 the way founders intended. But you still have bureaucracy, so we want to cut through that so that we have an efficient operation between Florida and DHS to get the removal of these illegals done.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, no, no, no. She did so soon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] prioritizing going after the worst of the worst or are you now arresting anyone who Ð<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Yeah.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're doing the worst of the worst, always the first and I think it's great government is what we've done. And nobody can ever forget that this group of people, Biden or whoever it was [Inaudible] Biden, whoever it was, what this what this group of people, a small group that circled the Resolute Desk, what they did to this country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Uh, I had it out with this guy two nights ago and he resigned, you know, which I was happy about. He did us all a favor.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Think of it, what you're [Inaudible] all the time, you have to race through this. It's an unforced error. We have nothing, we have no problem with this. It was never anything [Inaudible] we had great -- it was bad when I came in. Within three months, I fixed up -- this is in 2016. Now I come in, the difference is this was 20 times worse.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Sir, you spent a lot of time with Secretary Noem today, obviously. Did you discuss with her at all this report about an $80,000 dark money payment she received in '23 and appears to have been kept off her federal disclosure forms this record?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Their open border policy did so much damage and we're fixing it, but the effort and the money and all the things that it takes to do [Inaudible] Yes.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, I haven't. I didn't do. You're telling me this for the first time. I think she's done an amazing job.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, [Inaudible] Alligators in the Rio Grande [Inaudible] crossing in Texas, it is a dream come true for you, sir?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question All, on Secretary Noem, you know, you talked about how --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I was thinking about that. As I said, it was meant as a joke, but the more I thought about [Inaudible] and they were seriously -- they were actually crocodiles. They were crocodiles from Africa. They are a step beyond. But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it, a lot of people think we should do it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Who are you with?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The Senate appears about to vote on --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The Washington Examiner, sir. Christian Datoc.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I hear we're doing well, Ron, I hear we're doing well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Good paper. Excellent.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Are you confident this can get done by the 4th of July?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you. Are you concerned right now, again, with the speed of the deportations? Obviously Tom Homan, Stephen Miller have talked about this isn't enough. What exactly is enough?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't know [Inaudible] like that [Inaudible] one vote [Inaudible] vote. I think so. I think it's going to be the greatest bill ever passed. Even for you [Inaudible] it's going to keep the borders secure. Because we have them secure now, but we need to build more walls. I built almost 600 miles of wall.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's gonna be a long period of time. We're gonna have a lot of, uh, we're gonna have a lot of angst because it's a tough, it's a tough thing. But no, I think they're doing an amazing job. And you know, we're doing a lot of home deportations. We're doing a lot of deportations or self deportations where they come and they deport and then they wanna come back into the country and they can only come back into the country under no circumstances unless they go out the proper way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We need more wall and all of that's covered in this bill. This bill is amazing for everybody. It's an amazing build for Florida too. It's really great.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Otherwise, they're never coming back in. Now I think it's going very well. Look, Biden did us a tremendous disservice when he allowed this to happen to our country. And I always said it's the toughest thing, you know, I had inflation and I got rid of them. We don't have inflation. I had a bad economy and we got, you know, we set a new stock market high today, we're doing unbelievable.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question You've heard the concerns about the Medicaid, though, cuts. Mr. President --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The country's doing unbelievable. I always said the most difficult thing is what happened at the border, allowing 21 or 25 million people to come into our country. It's the most difficult thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, no, we're not going to be playing with Medicaid, only waste, fraud and abuse. Yeah, the Democrats have it wrong. Yeah, waste fraud and abuse. In fact, if you look at what's gone on, we've gone way back. We take care of Medicaid and take care of Medicare. They will blow Medicare and Medicaid because they have no idea what they're doing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question What do you think is going on there?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Just like they don't have any idea what they did on the border, they have no idea. Medicaid is in big trouble with the Democrats.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think we're doing a fantastic job at getting them out. But you have a lot of self deporting and a lot more than people understand that those people are eligible maybe to come back in.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question But you can promise anyone who will lose their health care coverage, that is because of waste, fraud and abuse?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, are you thinking of extending the pause on tariffs beyond July 9th?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Waste, fraud -- only, waste, fraud and abuse, which is what everybody wants.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No. No, I'm not. I'm not thinking about the pause. Uh, I'll be writing letters to a lot of countries and I think you're just starting to understand the process. We've dealt with Japan. I'm not sure if we're gonna make a deal. I doubt it, but Japan, they're very tough. You have to understand, they're very spoiled.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I love Japan. I, I really like the new Prime Minister too. Abi was one of my closest friends, as you know, the new prime minister is, he's great. He is a very strong guy, but they and others are so spoiled from having ripped us off for 30, 40 years that it's really hard for them to make a deal. You know, it's very hard.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll see what happens. I'm watching it very closely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump As an example with Japan, uh, they won't take rice, and yet they desperately need rice. You know, that. But they won't take rice. Uh, they won't take other products that we have, but think of it, they need rice so badly, but they won't take rice. I think that was an easy one. Uh, or the cars, as you know, they send out millions.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President? [Inaudible] Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We, we didn't give them one car in 10 years. They won't take any cars, but they'll sell millions. So we tell 'em, "Sorry, you can't do that." And we have a great relationship, great reliance, and really a great, uh, sort of a partnership in a way. But on, on trade, they've been very unfair. And those days are gone.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, it's going to be a very quick celebration. We had a great hit. It was an obliteration, but they now turns out, it was [Inaudible] you know, they demean, CNN mostly, and the New York Times, say New York Times, they demean these great soldiers. They went over there 17 hours flying and they hit bullseye after bullseye after bullseye.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So what I'm gonna do is I'll write 'em a letter and say, "We thank you very much and, uh, we know you can't do the kind of things that we need, and therefore you'll pay a 30%, 35%, or whatever the number is that we determine because we also have a very big trade deficit with Japan, as you know. And it's very unfair to the American people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It all blew up. Everybody's gone. Then they get back and CNN said, well, they did OK, but maybe it wasn't -- it was beyond obliteration. Nobody can even get down there. The tunnels are busted, everything fell into the well. It was a total and complete obliteration and we should celebrate these heroes. But what I'm doing is I'm bringing him on, we're bringing him to Florida, or to the White House.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, uh, they maybe will be happy, they maybe won't be happy. But some countries we won't even allow to trade. But for the most part, we'll, we're gonna determine a number and just very simply write 'em a nice letter, probably one page or a page and a half at the most. And it's gonna be, uh, essentially congratulations.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I gave him [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Uh, it's gonna be an honor to allow you to go and do business in the United States of America because it really is an honor to be able to do that. But we never viewed it that way in this country. And you saw we took in 129 billion in tariffs already. We haven't even started. No inflation. Our country's strong.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, there's going to be a new bill called Make American Elections Great Again --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Our interest rate should be three points lower. If our interest rate was three points lower, that's almost a trillion dollars in cost. And it's done just by the signing of a pen. But we have a moron at the head of the thing. He's a moron.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Love it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Speaking of, speaking of Jay Powell, do you, do you have a top choice of someone to succeed him?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question -- forcing US Census Bureau to redo the census to actually get an account of how many Americans with proof of citizenship are in our area, in our country, [Inaudible] your thoughts on that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I do, I have two or three top choices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I speak for both of us. [Inaudible] you're going to like this. I know all about it. I want to bring our elections back. The election in 2020 was rigged, millions and millions of votes. It had to do with COVID and a lot of things, but it really had to do with [Inaudible] but the Democrats are very good at cheating elections and that's why I said [Inaudible] they tried this one too, but after about 902, they gave up [Inaudible] too big to rig.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Can you tell us those?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Ron would love it. I would love it. Kristi would love it. That's what they have to do. They have to bring it back and we have to look Ð Ron, they include anybody that happens to be in your state.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No [Laughing]. You almost got me there.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis In California -- California would lose like five seats if they did a fair census. And even beyond that, with Biden's census, it gipped Florida of at least one seat. We only got one seat in the last census. Are you trying to tell me that Florida only had one seat on that? We should have had at least two. Texas should have had another one.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Are there other trade deals that, that are close to being done that you think you will announce over the next week?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron DeSantis That could be the difference in the House of Representatives and the majority. So I would love for them to redo the census for '26. My legislature won't redistrict those lines. We'll get it to where it's fair. But as it is right now, this country is not fairly a fortune. I've got so many more millions of people in Florida that have representation because of that flawed census.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I hope we're gonna have a deal with India, possibly. And that's gonna be a different kind of a deal. It's gonna be a deal where we're able to go in and compete. Right now, we, India doesn't accept anybody in. I think India's gonna do that, and if they do that, we're gonna have a deal for less, much less tariffs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think it's going to do very well, a lot of people, I don't know if you've heard that, but [Inaudible] it's captivated [Inaudible] everybody wants it. It's going to get in, it's going to pass and we're going to be very happy.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question De -- DeSantis was, uh, smart.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Elon Musk is ripping into this bill again. Are you concerned that Republicans are going to be swayed by Musk and his money?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you for telling me, by the way.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, I don't think so. I think what's going to happen is DOGE is going to look at Musk. And if DOGE looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune. Thank you very much, everybody. I don't think he should be playing that game [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Oh, you're, you're welcome.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Hey, real quickly, uh, you mentioned Alejandro Mayorkas.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yes.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Uh, he was impeached in the House, cleared in the Senate, uh, investigating him, could we investigate the auto pen? What's the further investigation on that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The auto pen is, is under investigation. The auto pen's a, a serious thing. I think it's one of the most serious things I've heard. Mayorkas was a terrible, terrible secretary, but he was given orders to do things and the people that gave those orders probably have, uh, pardons. You know, Biden pardoned a lot of people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump The only one he didn't pardon was himself. But I don't know if I do to him what he did to me. Problem is he wouldn't understand what happened. So maybe it wouldn't be so bad.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question There's a video with Speaker Johnson is telling him about how he stopped the LNG gas and he thought it was something else. How many more examples do you think there are, that Speaker John- -- or that President Biden just didn't in fact know what he was doing?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump President Obama was a terrible president. President Biden was the worst president in the history of our country. President Bush should not have gone into the Middle East and blown the place up, so I don't give him high marks either. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I give Trump very high marks. Good bye, everyone.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much. We're going to have a little session today on the ambassadors. It's a group of people that were selected. They're doing very well. They're very far along in the process. And they're going to each introduce themselves and talk about the country that they're going to. And they might say a little bit about themselves also because people are very interested in that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're also going to sign right now some executive orders. And Will, if you come -- would come forward.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf Yes, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I'll start thinking about signing them, right?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf A few things for you today, sir. First, we have a pardon for Devon Archer. Uh, Devon Archer was a former business partner of the Biden family. Uh, he's, uh, was prosecuted relating to a fraud investigation. But notably, the tone and tenor of that prosecution changed dramatically after he began to cooperate with Congressional investigators and serve as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf We believe that was an injustice and therefore, we're asking you to -- to pardon him.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And many people have asked me to do this. They think he was treated very unfairly. And I looked at the records, studied the records and he was. He was a victim of a crime as far as I'm concerned, so we're going to undo that. All right. That's nice. Devon Archer. Congratulations, Devon. [Laughter]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf Next, sir, we have a Presidential Memorandum for your attention. This memorandum requires the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. This was obviously one of the instances of the weaponization of law enforcement powers of prosecution against you and others.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf We believe that it's long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of what exactly is in those files.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Which gives the media the right to go in and -- go and check it. You probably won't bother because you're not going to like what you see. But this was total weaponization. It's a disgrace. Should never happen in this country. But now you'll be able to see for yourselves all declassified. Is that correct, would you say, all declassified?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Yes, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Everything?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf The, uh, the FBI file with a -- there's a classified annex, but other than that, this -- we'll put everything in the public eye.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [The president signs the document]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Is anybody going to look, huh? Are any of you going to look? And frankly, the FBI should be ashamed of themselves and so should the Department of Justice and so should Biden, OK.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Next, sir, we have an executive order for your attention. We've taken action against the number of law firms that have participated either in the weaponization of government, the weaponization of the legal system for political ends or have otherwise engaged in illegal or inappropriate activities. The law firm of Jenner and Block is one of these law firms.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf This is a law firm that as you know employed Andrew Weissmann after he came off of the Mueller investigation. It's a law firm that's engaged in invidious, racially and sexually discriminatory practices. It's also a law firm that has participated in the weaponization of the legal system against American principles and values.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf And we believe that the measures in this executive order will help -- help correct that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And Andrew Weissmann is the main culprit?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf He's certainly --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump With respect to this firm.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf He is one of a number of reasons that we believe this executive order is warranted.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's a bad guy.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [The president signs the document]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Next, sir, we have an executive order for your attention relating actually to government payments. Historically, checks issued by the Treasury, I believe, are 14 times more likely to become the subject of fraud than electronic transfer payments. This is an executive order that's going to push the Treasury Department to modernize its payment system to ensure that where possible, they're using electronic methods of payment as opposed to paper checks in order to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the government.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf Which is obviously an endeavor that we've -- we've been pursuing in numerous aspects of government under your leadership.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's basically modernization of equipment and methods. And it's something that really, I think, is going to be a great. The secretary of the Treasury wanted it, Scott. And so we're doing this. And we have other modernization programs going on. We could let somebody else whoever's next, whoever that may be do it, but it's something that should have been done 25, 30 years ago.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [The president signs the document]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Along similar lines, sir, this is an executive order. We're calling it Protecting America's Bank Account. The basic idea here is that instead of having lots of different departments and agencies and offices issuing payment often without justification, often without any provided rationale, we're going to be centralizing payment processes where possible in the Department of the Treasury.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf And ensuring that measures are taken in Treasury against waste, fraud and abuse to ensure that money that's leaving the public Treasury is as protected as it possibly can be.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump All right, good.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [The president signs the document]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Many of these things should have taken place decades ago or longer. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Lastly, sir, we have an executive order for your attention on the very important subject of election integrity. We believe that this executive order is the -- the farthest reaching executive action taken in the history of the Republic to secure our elections. Among numerous other aspects of this executive order, this is going to cut down on illegal immigrants, on the voter rolls, ensure that the Department of Homeland Security and the data that they have available is being fully weaponized to ensure that illegal immigrants aren't voting.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf This will include a citizenship question on the federal voting form for the first time. This executive order instructs the EAC to cut federal funding to states that don't take reasonable steps to secure their election. This calls on the Department of Justice to vigorously prosecute election crimes, particularly in states that we don't believe are in compliance with federal law around election integrity.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf I could go on and on for a while, sir, but compliance with National Election Day rules cracking down and investigating and prosecuting foreign interference in our elections, revoking President Biden's Executive Order 14019, which essentially weaponized government to corrupt and pollute our election process.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf There's a lot in here, but we believe that these are very important steps that we need to be taking as an administration, at your direction, to ensure that our elections are as secure as they possibly can be.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK, you all understand that, yes? Election fraud, you've heard the term. We'll end it, hopefully. At least this will go a long way toward ending it. There are other steps that we will be taking in the next -- in the coming weeks. And we think we'll be able to end up getting fair elections. Perhaps some people think I shouldn't be complaining because we won in a landslide.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But uh, we got to straighten out our election. This country is so sick because of the election, the fake elections and the bad elections. And we're going to straighten it out one way or the other.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [The president signs the document]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And it's an honor to sign this one. To sign all of them, but to sign this one is a great honor.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Will Scharf Excuse me.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Will Scharf Sorry, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So we're going to go around the room a little bit quickly. And we're going to introduce these very outstanding people. They've had, uh, in all cases, outstanding careers. They're very incredible people that are going along as rapidly as the system can go along. We're ahead of, I guess anybody else thus far.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So I want to thank John Thune. He's done a very good job and the whole Senate. We're being delayed as much as possible by Democrats, but that's standard. It gets to be just standard.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But the process is moving along very quickly. So, Sergio, just say hello and then we'll introduce everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sergio Gor Absolutely. Sergio Gor, Director of Presidential Personnel. It's been an absolute pleasure to get to know every one of you every step this way. As the president said, we're at a record pace. We have more nominees today from the Senate than at any previous point, over 70. And that's a record in two months and we're proud of that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sergio Gor And we're determined to ensure the world has America first Patriots in all of our posts.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Charlie.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Charles Kushner Charles Kushner, I'm going to France and Monaco and I'm proud to serve under the greatest president of our country. I'm very proud to serve.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. Thank you, Charlie.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>James Blair James Blair. Honored to work here in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff. And Mr. President, I think that all of these successful people who'd want to go serve the United States under your leadership is a testament to your vision and leadership.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you, James.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>David Perdue I'm David Perdue. I'm going to the People's Republic of China and it's my honor to represent President Trump, the people of America, represent our interests and values in China.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Leah Campos I'm Leah Campos, I'm going to represent the president in the Dominican Republic. Mr. President, thank you for the honor to serve you and -- thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, look forward to working with every one of you on behalf of the president, his leadership and the American people.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>John Arrigo John Arrigo. I am going to the Republic of Portugal. And I am very excited to do so and serve our -- what I consider one of my closest friends and one of the best presidents this country has ever had. Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kevin Cabrera Kevin Cabrera, nominated to be ambassador to Panama and it truly is an honor, president, to be part of your administration.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Tom Barrack Tom Barrack, nominee to the Republic of Turkiye. Delighted and honored to be with you, Mr. President, and the host country, which is one of the most ancient and civilization, is in search for your peace, prosperity and security program. Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Good place. Good leader, too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pete Hoekstra Mr. President, thank you, it's an honor. I'm Pete Hoekstra, you know that, but I am going to Canada. I look forward to serving you in Canada and your agenda.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And you'll do a great job. Thanks, Pete.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron Johnson Thank you, Ron Johnson, sir. Thank you for the nomination to represent you and the United States to the United Mexican States. And I'm really encouraged by some of the conversations you've had with President Sheinbaum recently and to the increase in support that we've seen of her government along our border on the important issues.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Ron Johnson So, thank you, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They have stepped it up a lot, Mexico and Canada. So, let's see how it works. Right. Thanks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Ron Johnson Yes, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Matt Whitaker Matt Whitaker from Des Moines, Iowa. I'm proud to, as soon as I'm confirmed, go represent you at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you, Matt.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>George Glass George Glass on my way to Japan. I -- previous administration, I served for you in Portugal. It is a great honor to be able to do this a second time and thank you very much for the opportunity.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much. Thank you, George. President Trump.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Ken Howery My name is Ken Howery. I'm your nominee to be ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, a very close partner and ally. I served for you last time for the Kingdom of Sweden. I want to thank you for the faith you've placed in me as your nominee to Denmark.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Stacey Feinberg President Trump thank you for the honor of a lifetime. My name is Stacey Feinberg and hopefully I'll have the honor of serving in Luxembourg. And I think that this is the greatest presidency and the greatest time in history and it's all because of you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Nicole McGraw Nicole McGraw, nominated to serve in Croatia. And it's such an honor to be here with you today and to serve you and the American people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brandon Judd President Trump, thank you very much for your nomination to the Republic of Chile and let me tell you, Border Patrol agents are so thankful for everything that you've done for them. But -- .<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That man knows more about the border than anybody. I tell you. Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brandon Judd It's a great honor. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thanks, Brandon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Burch Mr. President, Brian Burch. If I'm confirmed I'll be representing you at the Holy See. Catholics are very proud of your work. Your team is doing an excellent job. So, thank you, very honored to serve.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Somers Farkas Mr. President, thank you again for the honor, the greatest privilege. My name is Somers Farkas. I will serve this great man at the Republic of Malta. Thank you, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Joe Popolo Thank you, Mr. President, Joe Popolo from Dallas, Texas. Very proud to serve you at the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the very first country to recognize the United States 250 years ago. Thank you.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mike Huckabee Mr. President. If I'm confirmed, I will be representing you in the State of Israel. It will be an extraordinary honor. And you've done more for Israel than any president in any time of its history. And we are grateful. And I'm hoping I'll get to be there by Passover.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you, Mike. And Mike is an outstanding guy. We all -- they all are. And Mike, I think he's going to do wonders for Israel. He actually probably gets along with both sides and that'll be interesting to see. But the world is watching you, Mike. So good luck.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Mike Huckabee Thank you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Good luck. You're going to do well. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Tilman Fertitta Mr. President, thank you for this great honor to serve the Republic of Italy and San Marino. I'm so looking forward to going over there and working with that great ally and for the pleasure to serve you. Your staff has been great working with us and have done a great job and we really appreciate them. Thank you, sir, for pushing this along.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And have a good time. A really good time [Laughter].<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Warren Stephens I'm Warren Stephens from Little Rock, Arkansas, and I have the honor to represent the president and the United States in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And to be chosen to go to such an important ally of ours -- I know sir and I'm looking forward to it, but thank you for the honor.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You're going to do fantastically. These are tremendously successful people and you two guys and then you add on Mike, I think they have a little more money than Mike [Laughter], but he's got some other advantages. He's got some other -- like upstairs. He's got some big advantages [Laughter]. It's very exciting.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's really exciting to have all of you. Would you have any questions, media, for the people that you just saw -- so outstanding, and I thought it would be nice to bring them before you. And so, if you have any questions, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I wanted to ask you about the talks in Saudi Arabia. It sounds like you've made some progress on a Black Sea ceasefire. Could you update us on that? What happens now?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, we've made a lot of progress on two fronts, on both sections that we call them, we call them sections, but they're much more than that -- Russia, Ukraine and also the Middle East. And we'll see what happens. We're in deep discussions with Russia and Ukraine. And I would say it's going well, but it's a very -- it's a situation we should have never had to even think about, should have never happened.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And on the Middle East, that's been going on for a lot of years, centuries and centuries, it just keeps going. And we are making a lot of progress. So, it's all I can report. But some very, very big talks are going -- and detailed talks are going on right now on both fronts.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, you said that your national security adviser learned a lesson after a reporter -- .<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Excuse me, I didn't pick you. Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, the ceasefire agreement that was brokered today allows for third-party countries to help implement the agreement. What does that look like and who's going to be involved?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump The ceasefire agreement?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Yes, the maritime ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, they're going to get together. Look, it's -- they agreed to something, and they got broken. There's tremendous animosity. There's a lot of hatred, as you can probably tell. And it allows for people to get together, mediate it, arbitrate it and see if we can get it stopped. And I think it will -- it'll get stopped.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question What countries are you looking to work with, sir, to help implement and monitor that ceasefire?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have other countries involved and they're involved very strongly in the process. And that'll be resolved. Actually, as bad as it is that's the least of the problems. So, that will -- we'll get that resolved. And we are being aided by other countries too. Yes, please, all right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Tomorrow, the subcommittee on DOGE is going to review funding for NPR and PBS. Now every republican president has always promised to take away this money that's going to these two public news outlets. If they're successful, I know Senator Kennedy has backed it, Marjorie Taylor Greene in congress has backed it. Would you be interested in defunding and taking away taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I would love to do that. I think it's very unfair. It's been very biased. The whole group, I mean the whole group of them. And frankly, there's plenty of -- look at all the media you have right now. There's plenty of coverage. I was from a different age, and they spent more money than any other network of its type ever conceived.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, the kind of money that's being wasted and it's a very biased view, you know that better than anybody. And I'd be honored to see it end. We're well covered, look at all the people that we have here today. We're well covered, and we don't need it. And it's a waste of money, especially -- I don't even know what DOGEs recommendation is. I assume their recommendation is to close them up.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Well, after they hear all the testimony, I think they're going to make a decision relatively sooner than later. But we'll see what that turns out.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I can't imagine that they wouldn't because they have found so much waste, fraud and abuse, hundreds of billions of dollars and just waste, fraud, abuse. You heard yesterday some of the new things that were found, $22 billion just in -- billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, if you had $22 million, it would be nice, but $22 billion, put into environmental accounts. One was $2 billion, into one account. Stacey Abrams, where they had $100 in the account. And just before I came in, they put $2 billion, and you guys are looking. And say you mean $2 million or maybe $200,000. No $2 billion were put in the account.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump What do you think of that, Mike? Do you think that's a straight deal? $2 billion?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz Just write me the check, Mr. President. [Inaudible; Laughter]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's just -- it's a horrible thing. And we had -- we have so many of those things. So they've done an incredible job. And the country wants to hear it. I think DOGE is actually very popular because of what's happening. They're hearing about all of these scams and for big, big money, tremendous amount. And when you add it up, uh, just hundreds of billions of dollars being wasted.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And much of its fraud. You know, we talk about waste, and it is waste and abuse, but a lot of its fraud to.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Can I follow up on something? Mr. President? I have a question on DOGE?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, go ahead, Brian.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I am, I just want to follow up on that. If Planned Parenthood is defunded, would you look into the harvesting of baby organs that they've done throughout the years and maybe go after some criminal prosecution on that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I think you're talking about a subject that is a heated subject. And we'll look into it. We're going to look into everything. But that's certainly a subject that's been debated for a long time. And we will look into it, yeah.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President? Mr. President? Mr. President, a lot -- some senators have expressed hope that the White House will support a rescission package to codify some of the DOGE cuts into law. Where does the White House stand on that? And are you making progress on --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump On which package?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question A rescission package to codify some of the DOGE cuts into law.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, well, it would be great. I think we're going to do that. I think they're going to do it. I think we're also going to be codifying a lot of the executive orders that we've done, which have been very popular. And we're looking at one, I will tell you right now that I think perhaps will be controversial but not with the people and that sanctuary cities.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're going to end sanctuary cities for some of these jurisdictions that aren't cooperating with law enforcement. They're guarding criminals. They're taking the rights away from the citizens of this state and their city. And we're going to be ending sanctuary cities if we find it necessary to do in certain major areas.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we may just end the entire thing all together. Because it's just a way of protecting criminals. And nobody else is benefited by that. And for some reason, Democrats want to keep it and they want to shield criminals from being sent back to their countries or being sent to prison. And in the meantime, the crime rate has gone through the roof.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Under Biden, it was through the roof. It's starting to come down, but we're taking a lot of people out of here. So we may be presenting you very shortly with an executive order ending sanctuary cities.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, are you going to change any of the practices that your national security officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now, and I've given a few answers and they've all been the same. We have an amazing group. Our national security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have had a very, very successful numerous attacks on that area. These are people that shoot down ships, not only our ships, ships all over the world, they're shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly or they're going down.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area. We hit them very, very hard. There was no classified information as I understand it. They used an app, if you want to call it an app, that a lot of people use. A lot of people in government use. A lot of people in the media use. And I think I'll ask Mike.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Mike is here. Do you want to respond to that please?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz Yes, Mr. President. You asked about lessons. I think there's a lot of the lessons. There's a lot of journalists in this city who have made big names for themselves, making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia hoax or making up lies about Gold Star families. And this one in particular I've never met, don't know, never communicated with.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz And we are -- and we are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got into this room. But I'll tell you what, the world owes President Trump a favor. Under Biden, global shipping was shut down. Pinprick attacks months between them, our destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took decisive action with his national security team, took out the head missileer knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked out communication sites.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz And for once, as we hear, as you all hear from every one of our allies, thank God for American leadership. Again, thank God for American strength. You're welcome world [Inaudible]. And -- and look, we have a national security team that was coordinating these efforts. As Director Ratcliffe testified today.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz His first day on the job he was introduced to this app on his government systems at the CIA and at the State Department and otherwise. So look, this journalist, Mr. President wants the world talking about more hoaxes and this kind of nonsense rather than the freedom that you're enabling. And a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes and knocking the crap out of terrorists.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Michael Waltz Which is exactly what your team and Pete Hegseth, a good friend and fellow veteran is leading the charge on. And it's an honor to be a part of it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We had a very, very successful -- excuse me. We had a very, very successful evening. And we've had numerous successful evenings and days in that area. The Houthis are absolutely on the run. The worst of them have been killed. This should have been done a long time ago by Biden, but Biden was an incompetent president.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He couldn't do anything. He wouldn't -- he didn't know where -- where he was going. He had no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have been done a long time ago as they shoot missiles at ships, randomly shoot missiles at ships. And -- and they make their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent group of people.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They make their own missiles. They get the missiles also from Iran. It's an offshoot of Iran. Another offshoot. You have Hamas. You have Hezbollah. You have the Houthis. You've got a lot of stuff going on with Iran. And we sent a letter to Iran. You're going to have to be speaking to us one way or the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But that's an app that a lot of people use. And somebody got on it. I happen to know the guy's a total sleazebag --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question How did the --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump From the Atlantic. The Atlantic is a failed magazine. It does very, very poorly. Nobody gives a damn about it. It gives -- this gives it a little bit of a shot. And I will tell you this that they've made up more stories and -- and they're just a failing magazine. The public understands that. He's a very good man.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That man is a very good man right there, that you criticize so strongly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Sir, did you make a mistake? To ban the use of --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's a very good man. And he will, uh, continue to do a good job. In addition to him. We had very good people in that meeting. And those people have done a very, very effective job. And you're going to see it. And it goes on, by the way. It's going to go on. And I think the Houthis wish that it didn't happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But that's what it's all about. We have to create a safe country, a safe world, and that's what we're doing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, where -- Do you feel our national security was put at risk, Mr. President? Do you plan to ban the use of senior officials using Signal --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Do I plan to ban who?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The use of Signal to communicate from senior officials --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I don't know what is -- I don't know anything about Signal. I wasn't involved in this. But I just heard about it. And I hear it's used by a lot of groups. It's used by the media a lot. It's used by a lot of the military. And I think successfully. But sometimes somebody can get onto those things. That's one of the prices you pay when you're not sitting in the situation room with no phones on, which is always the best frankly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But you know, you -- the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've been in the -- in fact, just last week, I was in the situation room with something very important. And we had a couple of people hooked up by line. And I said cancel the line. Sorry, fellas. What you do is we'll tell you all about the meeting.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Because I know people do get on those lines, whether it's Signal or anything else. Yeah?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Are you going to change any procedures as a result of this?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I mean, look, we look at everything. And you know, they've made a big deal out of this because we've had two perfect months we're bringing -- we are bringing in business. We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one very big. Like, in the history of our country, nobody's ever seen anything like it. And I think probably a lot of people are saying it's -- they started by saying it was the greatest first month that a president has ever had.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I think that's true. And now they say it's the best second month. And they had to find something. And this -- certainly, we'll look at this. But the main thing was nothing happened. The attack was totally successful. It was I guess from what I understand, it took place during. And it wasn't classified information, so this was not classified.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Now if it's classified information, it's probably a little bit different. But I always say you get -- you have to learn from every experience. I think it was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. Uh, he's a good person. The person that was on just happens to be a sleazebag, so maybe that's just coincidence.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't know.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question But you are the -- Mr. President, would it be a -- Investigation -- Mr. President? Problem if the Atlantic released all the text messages if they're not classified?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I don't know. I'd have to ask the military about that. Because you know, maybe you wouldn't want that. I don't know. I will say this. That from what I heard, the -- the man that we're talking about, who's not somebody that I don't think most people have ever heard of, he left -- he -- sounded very boring and he left early, he got off the line very early.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, I can't speak to it other than that. So, he's made up a lot of stories and I think he's basically bad for the country. But it's a failing venture, a very failing venture. They're very upset and a thing like this is publicity for them. But I don't think we should allow people that are very good like that man sitting right at the end of the table who's done a great job -- we shouldn't allow them to be hurt by it.<end_of_turn>

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