Aug. 15, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| President Trump is set to hold a press conference this afternoon from Bedminster, New Jersey. | ||
| Now, this is his second time taking questions from the press in the past 24 hours. | ||
| Meanwhile, we are still waiting on a news conference or even an interview from Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Waltz. | ||
| But wait, we may have the first sit-down interview from Kamala confirmed. | ||
| Look who it's with. | ||
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The most important call of my life, it popped up and we didn't recognize the caller ID. | |
| It went to voicemail. | ||
| Hi, this is Jim. | ||
| I'm not able to answer your call. | ||
| So, Harley, her first sit-down interviews with her running mate? | ||
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Yeah, it doesn't count as an interview when they're interviewing each other. | |
| But, man, the Harris campaign... | ||
| They're so smart, because they know that Kamala Harris' weaknesses are communication and her record, so they're limiting her communication on her record as much as possible, but it's totally deceptive as well. | ||
| They were asked about this, and the fact that they aren't talking to the media, not giving any press conferences when she has been the candidate for 25 days now, and they said, well, we may not be doing any traditional interviews, but we're meeting voters where they are. | ||
| Like on TikTok and on YouTube now. | ||
| I don't think that qualifies. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| Are you not entertained? | ||
| USA! | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| Are you not entertained? | ||
| I will actually do press conferences, which is what we're doing today, baby. | ||
| In the arena, it's hard to fight somebody who won't show up for a fight. | ||
| Kamala Harris doesn't show up. | ||
| Donald Trump doing his second press conference in as many weeks. | ||
| Goodness, President Trump stood for 70 minutes. | ||
| Last Thursday, doing a press conference. | ||
| And, well, today, Thursday, August 15th, 2024, he's going to do it again! | ||
| Kamala Harris won't see anyone in the media, won't be on camera. | ||
| Nobody even knows where the hell she is. | ||
| Nobody, like, who the hell is running the country now? | ||
| We'll go live to President Trump's press conference, and he has some special... | ||
| Little items he's brought with him this time. | ||
| Donald Trump's been using props again, which is a, well, a bit of a masterstroke from the president, and we love it. | ||
| We'll show you the TikTok video that's going viral on TikTok, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Kamala Harris has been in hiding for 25 days. | ||
| The Trump campaign deputy director of communications joins us here in the arena. | ||
| Caroline Sunshine! | ||
| Bring us from salt and light to our show. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson, and you are in the arena. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| you you Thank you. | ||
| All right, baby, what do we got here? | ||
| Look at, look at your boy! | ||
| Look at your boy! | ||
| Donald Trump is ready to bust out the, the fruits, the fruit loops here. | ||
| This is what we're going to see in just a moment. | ||
| This is them getting set up at Bedminster, which is President Trump's golf course in New Jersey. | ||
| And it's, you know, it's outside of New York. | ||
| And you got some fruit. | ||
| You got fruit. | ||
| I think those were croissants. | ||
| Boxes of croissants. | ||
| You have fruit loops and cinnamon toast crunch. | ||
| Honey bunches of oats and Maxwell House coffee along with Folgers. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| Here's my guess. | ||
| My guess is President Trump, and again, when President Trump is live, we have the feed up right now. | ||
| No one's there. | ||
| When President Trump is live, we will go to the feed. | ||
| And we'll show you, obviously, we'll be live with the president. | ||
| We'll be able to talk. | ||
| We'll be able to roll in the chat. | ||
| We'll be able to see what he does. | ||
| But Trump is getting ready for a real one here. | ||
| Here's my guess, is President Trump's going to talk about the price of these groceries under his administration and the price of these groceries under Kamala Harris administration. | ||
| Maybe talk about the size differences between them and so on and so on. | ||
| So it should be a rowdy little press conference. | ||
| You know it's over for the libs when Trump brings out the chart. | ||
| We've been fans of the Trump chart for a long time. | ||
| This is a post from us on Twitter back when, not a dead name here, but back in the day. | ||
| 2016 is the date of this. | ||
| The team went into the archives and pulled the sucker out from... | ||
| Over eight years ago, over eight years ago, I was admiring President Trump's charts. | ||
| Trump literally using props in his speeches. | ||
| Donald Trump then went on to get the famous tic-tac example. | ||
| You got to do more of this, man. | ||
| You got to do more of this. | ||
| It's amazing how Kamala Harris is able to win the messaging war by not saying anything at all. | ||
| And by simply having the infrastructure of the corporate press do all of the, you know, image fellatio for her, which is, again, a massive role reversal here. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we have Kamala Harris, who has been in office and has been the most unpopular vice president, not trying to yell at me, the most unpopular vice president in American history. | ||
| She's less popular than Dick Cheney. | ||
| Dick Cheney. | ||
| Dick Cheney shoots people in the face. | ||
| Conal Harris, I think, has committed many crimes. | ||
| I don't think she's done that, actually. | ||
| You know, she has locked up a bunch of innocent people. | ||
| Dick Cheney wouldn't be one of them. | ||
| Although she should. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is very bad. | ||
| You can go back. | ||
| I'm not sure if we have this clip loaded. | ||
| It'd be nice to go try and hunt it down. | ||
| You can go back and you can find a panel on CNN like 40 days ago. | ||
| 40 days ago. | ||
| Where they were talking about, ah, Kamala Harris, she's such a drag on Biden. | ||
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They gotta kick her off the team. | |
| Kamala Harris, she's such a liability for Joe Biden. | ||
| Everyone hates her. | ||
| She sucks. | ||
| She's so dumb and stupid. | ||
| She doesn't talk right. | ||
| She doesn't say anything. | ||
| Venn diagrams. | ||
| Uses fake accents when she's around black people. | ||
| You know, they were saying, dump Kamala. | ||
| This is what they were all screaming to have happen. | ||
| This is how smooth-brained, sadly, half the country is. | ||
| Maybe not half the country, but around 35% of the country is, like, deeply smooth-brained and is capable of having programming chips taken out of the back of their brain. | ||
| And they're plunking a new one in. | ||
| No, Kamal's good now. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Programming, updated. | ||
| It's like the Matrix. | ||
| Just shove the cable back in. | ||
| It's crazy, dude. | ||
| If you go... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Let's go ahead and check the production chat here. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not sure if we... | ||
| I'm not sure if we have that. | ||
| But it's wild, dude. | ||
| It's crazy how they've changed on Kamala. | ||
| Kamala has taken no question. | ||
| She's said no things. | ||
| She's done nothing. | ||
| Yet Kamala Harris is neck and neck in the polls now. | ||
| Based purely on propaganda. | ||
| There's no reason to be worried because the fundamentals of the campaign are the same. | ||
| Fundamentals of the campaign. | ||
| Is that when Kamala Harris says, yo, I'm going to fix all these things day one. | ||
| Lady, you're in office now! | ||
| President Trump made a great point yesterday. | ||
| How are you going to fix the problem when you're the problem? | ||
| This is the same point that President Trump made to Hillary Clinton's face back in the day. | ||
| And I don't remember any CNN pundits saying that Hillary Clinton is the least popular. | ||
| They were saying that about Kamala. | ||
| Give me that. | ||
| Let's get that clip. | ||
| Let's get that clip. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| We got to have that in circulation. | ||
| They were saying that about Kamala on CNN like 40 days ago. | ||
| Kamala is a liability. | ||
| She's garbage. | ||
| She's the worst thing Joe Biden's ever done. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| So this, ladies and gentlemen, is President Trump yesterday talking about the fundamentals of the campaign. | ||
| President Trump just had a big A big remix of the campaign. | ||
| He brought in a bunch of guys, Corey Lewandowski is his name, you might know, Alex Bruzewicz, Tim Murtaugh, into the campaign. | ||
| These are like, you know, hardcore Trump loyalists, very much a let Trump be Trump and, you know, end landing zone here for the campaign as we are 84 days away from a general election. | ||
| Donald Trump talking about Tic Tacs. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, is on message. | ||
| This is what President Trump had to say at a rally yesterday using the fundamentals of the campaign that life sucks for everyone to carry his message forward. | ||
| Smart. | ||
|
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Go. | |
| I had something here. | ||
| I did have something. | ||
| I would show you. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| I don't know if you've seen this. | ||
| I used it once. | ||
| I have it. | ||
| I do have it. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| This is Tic Tacs, right? | ||
| I don't know if I like the company. | ||
| I've never met. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| They're so lucky. | ||
| Look at all the television. | ||
| This is the greatest commercial they ever had. | ||
| But that's what happened. | ||
| This is inflation. | ||
| This is Tic Tac. | ||
| This is Tic Tac. | ||
| This is inflation. | ||
| This is what's happened. | ||
| I just happened to have... | ||
| Somebody gave me this one today. | ||
| I said, I think we'll put it up as an example of inflation. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| Inflation is destroying our country. | ||
| It's destroying our families. | ||
| Do that. | ||
| Do that. | ||
| The smartest campaign tactic is simply saying, are you better than you were four years ago? | ||
| That's really all you got to do. | ||
| That's what won Reagan 48, 49 states. | ||
| Are you better? | ||
| Were you better under Trump or were you better under Biden? | ||
| And you'd be shocked to see what happens when you go out in the field and you actually ask those questions. | ||
| I'm not talking about fake polls. | ||
| And you can see, you can look through these crosstabs. | ||
| These polls are fake. | ||
| Kamala's support is fake. | ||
| We've proved that on this program. | ||
| Time after time. | ||
| There's another one today. | ||
| We're going to do a full story on. | ||
| Time after time. | ||
| There are these... | ||
| These people come out and say, listen, this is a fake campaign, and they're paying people for their support. | ||
| Here's a new one. | ||
| I just got to pop it up. | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| Here's a new one. | ||
| Civil rights activist Umar Rashid in Abdullah Johnson announces that Kamala Harris' team offered him $10,000 for an interview. | ||
| They're paying to get Kamala on his show. | ||
| Dr. Umar uploaded a text message proving his claim and saying that Kamala Harris' team is also paying Steve Harvey, among other celebrities, to support Kamala Harris. | ||
| This matches, of course, dozens of streamers and influencers that have said, yo, this is the craziest thing. | ||
| The Democrat Party just said, how much? | ||
| How much to support Kamala? | ||
| This is why when I say it's a fake campaign, you don't got to use AI photos. | ||
| It's a fake campaign. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| The polling's fake. | ||
| The crosstabs are fake. | ||
| The way that they do the polls oversamples Democrats and oversamples Democrats in the way that they wish to be polled, right? | ||
| So the way that you actually reach a voter is also very important. | ||
| So anyway, when I say a fake campaign, this is literally what I mean. | ||
| President Trump... | ||
| Back to using props. | ||
| We expect him to do that in a moment here when President Trump is live at his press conference. | ||
| President Trump, all you have to do is go out into the field and ask people. | ||
| Of all places, I'm pretty sure it was MSNBC. | ||
| Of all places, MSNBC goes out and asks Gen Z voters, Yo, what makes you the angriest about politics right now? | ||
| Is it your identity? | ||
| Is it like, I don't know, whatever, George Floyd? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| What is it that makes you so the most upset? | ||
| You could hear the audible gasps in the room as like these Gen Z kids like answer honestly about what pisses them off the most about current modern-day America watch. | ||
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I'm 20 years old. | |
| Why is a one-bedroom apartment $600, $1600? | ||
| Like, oh my God, for 500 square foot. | ||
| One at a time, I said. | ||
| Rent prices is outrageous. | ||
| And then these jobs, they're bare minimum jobs. | ||
| Like, I'm supposed to be in customer service. | ||
| Before I was a server, I was working at, like, fast food restaurants. | ||
| Nothing against them. | ||
| Love it, but we need them jobs. | ||
| But why are you yelling at me over a burger? | ||
| So it's just one of those type of things. | ||
| It's like the work life, trying to balance out school, trying to balance out finding a house. | ||
| It's just overhyped. | ||
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Like, I really waited my whole life to grow up and do this. | |
| President Trump saying yesterday, I'm going to announce my economic plan. | ||
| Maybe he's going to do that today. | ||
| We're not exactly sure. | ||
| Kamala is waiting to announce so she can copy it. | ||
| See behind him. | ||
| The no tax on tips. | ||
| No tax on tips. | ||
| Something that Kamala Harris has already copied President Trump on. | ||
| President Trump with a fantastic line yesterday saying, how is Kamala Harris going to fix the problems when she created them all? | ||
| This ideal messaging. | ||
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Go. | |
| I mean, they came up with a plan to go after all these people violently. | ||
| Then one day she just uttered that sound, but she'll copy a lot of other things too. | ||
| But she'll never do them. | ||
| She'll never do them. | ||
| She'll say them for the election, but she'll never do them. | ||
| She can't solve the problem because she is the problem. | ||
| She really is. | ||
| People like her. | ||
| Can't solve it because you are the problem. | ||
| And just because I've promised you, you have to hear this before we get to Caroline Sunshine, who we're very excited, Deputy Director of Communication for the Trump campaign, who can talk to us about this tone change for the president, which is awesome. | ||
| You've got to see it. | ||
| You've got to see it. | ||
| I'm so glad that, well, we were alive. | ||
| 45 days ago. | ||
| Because we were able to tune into CNN and watch this. | ||
| This is what they had to say about Kamala just a couple of weeks ago. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| Interesting news. | ||
| Recent focus groups conducted by the Super PAC Republican voters against Trump found that swing voters don't like Harris. | ||
| And focus groups conducted by the Democratic National Committee also found Harris rubbed some people the wrong way. | ||
| So Jonah, how big a drag is Kamala Harris on the ticket? | ||
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I think she's a pretty big drag. | |
| I think she was arguably Biden's worst political decision of his presidency, to pick her in the first place. | ||
| And one of the special reasons that she's a drag is Biden's age concerns people. | ||
| They worry that he can't fill a term. | ||
| They worry that he's not up to the job. | ||
| And so the vice president matters more than they normally do. | ||
| I generally think going into the future that Democrats really should not nominate or front. | ||
| People who come from decidedly all blue states, unless they're like... | ||
| Ooh, man. | ||
| Brutal! | ||
| That's CNN for Mr. Straight News Reporter, Chris Wallace. | ||
| What a tone change. | ||
| What a sea change for libs. | ||
| A major change in multiple major changes happening inside of the Trump campaign today. | ||
| Who better to ask about all of this? | ||
| Along with the path to the next 84 days of the election, then Caroline Sunshine, the Trump campaign deputy director of communications, who joins us live now in the arena. | ||
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you. | |
| you you Caroline, thank you so much for being on the show. | ||
| We see that there are some props being trotted out at Bedminster for the bosses. | ||
| Yes, Benny, what's up? | ||
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Hi, thanks for having me. | |
| I love that you played that clip from yesterday because that was my favorite moment in President Trump's remarks where he brought out the Tic Tacs. | ||
| President Trump, I mean... | ||
| He's the greatest asset our campaign could ever have, right? | ||
| And when people ask our strategy, it's like, let Donald Trump be Donald Trump. | ||
| Nobody does it better, you know? | ||
| How do you sum up inflation so concisely just with those two tic tacs? | ||
| So, yes, there are some photos I know that are out on X right now of, yeah, of groceries. | ||
| Hey, who can afford those these days, right, Benny? | ||
| Can you afford a box of cereal? | ||
| man, last time I checked, the cost of a Big Mac was like $7.49 or something, which is an 85% increase from five years ago. | ||
| So yeah, stay tuned. | ||
| Nobody does it like President Trump. | ||
| And he's just telling the truth. | ||
| And this is where President Trump is at his best, because he's able to tell the truth in a way that I think is compelling to people, entertaining. | ||
| He understands that politics is downstream of culture. | ||
| And he also understands that we have an economy right now that isn't working for anybody. | ||
| And as he said, the woman that broke it ain't Yeah, that's right. | ||
| I mean, listen, you can zoom in on this image. | ||
| That is my favorite cereal. | ||
| On Earth, right? | ||
| Cinnamon Toast Crunch, right there. | ||
| The president's speaking my love language, right there, with a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. | ||
| So, yeah, I mean, it's banned in my household, because I eat far too much. | ||
| I eat far too much of it. | ||
| So, gotta cut back. | ||
| Everyone's cutting back, though. | ||
| Like, it's a good, it's like a good, it's a great messaging. | ||
| And these, focus group after focus group after focus group, whether it's an all-black focus group in downtown Philadelphia, or whether it's a rural focus group. | ||
| uh in in in wisconsin they all say the same thing and so i want like i would like to get that that messaging like locked in but it must be maddening on the trump campaign um to see somebody who was so so repulsive so reviled so hated by the by the corporate media who actually gave kamala kind of a hard time if you go back and look at some old interviews um hated by the base You know, hated by activists? | ||
| Kamala Harris was protested inside of the one naval observatory circle, her home, during a Christmas event by her invited guests? | ||
| I mean, she's, like, not popular at all. | ||
| And then suddenly she becomes an icon like that overnight. | ||
| What's that like, being inside the campaign and watching something like that happen? | ||
|
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Yeah, but you know, Benny, you've seen this before, right? | |
| This is the same playbook that was ran in 2016. | ||
| This is what happens, right? | ||
| Anytime you run as the anti-establishment candidate for president, which is who President Trump has always been, it's who he is today, anytime you're the anti-establishment candidate, you are never just running against the Democrat Party. | ||
| You are always running against the liberal mainstream media that kicks in and chooses their candidate. | ||
| They did this in 2016 with Hillary Clinton. | ||
| She was the chosen girl boss of the moment. | ||
| They put Beyonce and Jay-Z up on that. | ||
| They write all the positive headlines they can. | ||
| They prop her up in the polls. | ||
| And then, oh, what happens on November 5th? | ||
| Tear after tear. | ||
| You remember all that footage on election night, right, of the meltdowns? | ||
| Because they got it so wrong. | ||
| But here's the crazy part about our country, Benny, is all of those same people back in 2016 who were on those networks, who were writing those articles, who conducted those polls, they all still have jobs, right? | ||
| They all still have jobs, and they're doing it again. | ||
| They never learn. | ||
| The same people that lied for the last four years, saying Joe Biden's fine, he's sharp as a tack, he's doing cartwheels. | ||
| Nobody worries. | ||
| Same people now who are telling you that Kamala Harris is a likable girl boss. | ||
| She's not going to ban fracking. | ||
| She's never been stronger on the border. | ||
| Like, we laugh, right? | ||
| Because it's so true. | ||
| And it's the same playbook and they never learn. | ||
| Maybe they don't want to learn, you know? | ||
| But that's the dynamic that's going on here. | ||
| And President Trump is in that same position he was in in 2016, always being that outsider to the system and the only person willing to tell the truth and the only person able to cut through, you know, the BS despite what you see, as I said. | ||
| You run for president as the anti-establishment guy. | ||
| You're always up against the system. | ||
| You're up against the swamp, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| But, I mean, the most glorious thing that I've probably ever seen on the internet, and I've been paying attention to the internet for a long time, has been something that you described so perfectly encapsulated here in this special moment. | ||
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And this is exactly what... | |
| It looks like, to believe, all of the fake suppression polls that come in that say that Donald Trump has, we have it framed actually in the studio, Donald Trump has a 0% chance of winning, says the Washington Post, a week before the election in 2016. | ||
| So, yeah, no blackpilling around here. | ||
| Like, enjoy the fight and the battle. | ||
| It seems like you're enjoying the fight and the battle. | ||
| There's been some campaign shift today. | ||
| It just announced about an hour ago, Corey Lewandowski being brought back in, Alex Bruzwitz, Tim Murtaugh. | ||
| Can you tell me about these changes? | ||
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Yeah, well, unlike Kamala Harris' campaign, we're not adding losers. | |
| We're adding winners. | ||
| Kamala Harris' campaign is staffing up with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton staffers, and we're bringing in fighters. | ||
| We're bringing in winners. | ||
| Our campaign has a big mission ahead of us. | ||
| Nobody understands more how high the stakes are for this country than Donald Trump himself, great American warrior. | ||
| President Trump said about two weeks ago in Pennsylvania, he said, you know, this election is between fake, fake, fake, fight, fight, fight. | ||
| We know what we're up against. | ||
| As I said, we're up against the entire swamp. | ||
| We're bringing in winners. | ||
| And we couldn't be more excited to have the names that you just mentioned, Corey, Alex, Taylor, joining our campaign. | ||
| These are great American patriots, by the way, who have fought with President Trump for a long time and who have been doing excellent work on behalf of this movement inside and out of the campaign for a long time. | ||
| So this is a very natural shift, if you will, and couldn't be happier to have them. | ||
| Like I said, these are proven battle-tested fighters. | ||
| Who know what it takes to win. | ||
| And around here, our motto is let President Trump be President Trump. | ||
| We take our direction from the top down. | ||
| We run the exact opposite campaign as Kamala Harris, where we don't coddle our candidate and we don't hide him from the press and we don't do all these things. | ||
| We take our direction from President Donald J. Trump himself, who is the greatest asset this campaign could ever have, also the greatest asset this country could have and needs more than ever right now. | ||
| So many people, you know, I see it all over my feeds, you know, some critics of the current moment and the current structure of the campaign. | ||
| This is a move towards stiffening and holding up the side flank, the Trump, like the let Trump be Trump flank, and allowing Trump to sort of ride, like I believe, if I remember correctly, happened in 2016, sort of ride through the finish line. | ||
| 84 days to go. | ||
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Yeah, as I said, we're in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl year. | |
| The stakes couldn't be higher for this country, and we're lucky that we have a talented bench of people that want to come do great work on behalf of our country. | ||
| You know this from being around campaigns and all that. | ||
| It's hard work, you know, and it takes people who know how to fight. | ||
| We've had that on our campaign. | ||
| We're bringing more of that in because, again, we realize just how high the stakes are, you know, and you watch. | ||
| It's crazy, Benny, because you think it's like over a month ago, right, was when President Trump had that dominant debate performance that was so dominant, it resulted in the Democrat nominee for president having to step down out of the race. | ||
| That's never happened before in American political history, right? | ||
| And now you look at Kamala Harris, who, as I said, getting that girl boss Hillary Clinton media treatment, you know. | ||
| This is a swamp apparatus that we're up against, and it takes the best American fighters we can bring in, and that's what we're doing. | ||
| As I said, the Kamala Harris campaign is bringing in losers from 2008 and 2016, so have fun. | ||
| How is this going to go in the debates? | ||
| I mean, it's like nobody's going to see Kamala Harris till the debates. | ||
| I guess that is only going to be about three weeks away. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| But they've agreed to now two debates. | ||
| Seems like Kamala's chickened out on the Fox debate that the president wanted on September 4th. | ||
| Do you have any indication if the Fox News debate is going to go forward? | ||
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Well, we're ready to debate anytime, anyplace, anywhere. | |
| Can't speak for her or her campaign. | ||
| She's probably nervous because she's not going to be able to use a teleprompter at any of them, you know? | ||
| And she's actually going to have to be forced to put her record up against President Trump's point by point. | ||
| And as we know, Kamala doesn't have a teleprompter when she doesn't have a friendly liberal mainstream media. | ||
| There's a lot of laughing that goes on from her and not a lot of substance and things, you know, President Trump kind of said it best. | ||
| I think he was talking to Tucker Carlson one time. | ||
| He said, you know, she just kind of talks and... | ||
| Rhyme and the wheels on the bus go here, go there, whatever. | ||
| So I understand why the Harris campaign isn't wanting to debate, but we're looking forward to it. | ||
| And we're looking forward to the American people deserve this. | ||
| The American people deserve to see. | ||
| They know it. | ||
| Unlike the liberal mainstream media, they live in reality every single day. | ||
| So this is nothing new to them. | ||
| But we're looking forward to being on that debate stage. | ||
| As I said, last time President Trump was on a debate stage, the Democrat nominee for president had to drop out of the race. | ||
| Maybe he'll have the historic victory of defeating not just one, but two Democrats in the same calendar year. | ||
| It certainly did show. | ||
| The president was so restrained and he just allowed Joe Biden to do all the damage to himself because it's like, how can you defend this record? | ||
| And the fundamentals of the campaign, some people are like freaking out about this poll or that poll. | ||
| The fundamentals of the campaign are the same. | ||
| And the president said such a great line yesterday. | ||
| We played it right before you came on the program, Caroline. | ||
| He says, listen, you're the problem. | ||
| It's the same thing he said to Hillary Clinton. | ||
| It's the same line. | ||
| You're the problem. | ||
| You created all of this. | ||
| How are you going to fix yourself? | ||
| Is this a tactic he's going to use when Kamala starts talking about the passage of time? | ||
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Yes, the concept of the passage of time, of course, Benny. | |
| No, but it's true, right? | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| Like, these people are all one in the same, right? | ||
| Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, like, none of them, well, some of them, but, you know, Tim Walz and Kamala Harris, for example, have never held a private sector job in their entire lives. | ||
| Majority of their lives have been spent running for office or in office. | ||
| You know, you talk about draining the swamp. | ||
| The swamp hasn't gone anywhere. | ||
| It's alive and well. | ||
| And all of these people are products that come from the same assembly line. | ||
| They might wear different colored pantsuits or different $62,000 Tiffany necklaces around their neck. | ||
| Like the one Kamala Harris wears, even though for the average American family life's costing 28,000 extra dollars a year. | ||
| Kamala Harris wears a necklace worth two times that amount around her neck every day. | ||
| And you want to tell me that she's the one who understands what it's like to go to the grocery store and, yeah, not be able to afford cereal for your kids or baby formula for your baby or when you go to the gas tank and it's stressful or when you're going to, you know, Walmart and you're worried if your card's going to decline because the cost of groceries is now, hey, if you buy three items, it's $200. | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| So these people are all career politicians. | ||
| As I said, they come from the same... | ||
| Assembly line. | ||
| And it's just interesting that all of those same dynamics from 2016 I think are playing out again in 2024. | ||
| Yeah, it really is. | ||
| It really is quite a remix. | ||
| One of the best sequels. | ||
| One of the best sequels ever. | ||
| And just as entertaining. | ||
| You have... | ||
| And I want to put up the preview here really quickly because you can see what the Trump live press conference will look like. | ||
| Look at all those groceries. | ||
| I mean you just brought up the grocery bill. | ||
| This is going to be an all-timer, Caroline. | ||
| I can feel it in my bones. | ||
| So, I know that you're in these meetings. | ||
| I know you're in these rooms with the president as he's going through the debate prep, right, as a high-level communications director for the campaign. | ||
| How does President Trump prepare for a debate with Kamala Harris? | ||
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We're bringing all of our Tic Tacs. | |
| No, I'm kidding. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Weird love. | ||
| That would be amazing, by the way. | ||
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I won't get out of the president. | |
| Like I said, we take our direction from none other than Donald J. Trump around here. | ||
| Lucky us, truly. | ||
| But President Trump prepares by the same way he prepared for the previous debate, which is by... | ||
| Going out and taking questions from the media, holding press conferences, doing his fantastic stream that he did the other night with Elon Musk on X. I know you saw and listened to that. | ||
| Going out and speaking directly with the American people because it's a feedback loop too, right? | ||
| You know, the other, the downside to what Kamala Harris is doing, even though they think it's a winning strategy, it's really a losing one. | ||
| She's completely sheltered and cloistered off from reality. | ||
| I mean, she hasn't lived in reality in a long time, but it's actually such a unique, it is a little bit of a unique feature about Kamala Harris because she's your classic, you and I both know this. | ||
| With California, she's a classic California liberal, right? | ||
| I always say you can take the woman out of San Francisco. | ||
| You can't take San Francisco out of the woman. | ||
| That's Kamala Harris. | ||
| All of her worst ideas, of course, are characteristic of a good old fashioned California liberal. | ||
| But what's the worst about this specific type of career politician is Kamala Harris is the type of person that will allow 10 million illegal immigrants. | ||
| 30 tons of fentanyl, 360 names off the terror watch list into your country. | ||
| She'll give them all free flights, free housing, free health care. | ||
| She'll make sure all the criminals and all the rioters are let loose into your community. | ||
| She'll make sure that you can't go to the grocery store and afford your groceries. | ||
| And then she'll fly back. | ||
| Oh, and she'll ban fracking. | ||
| And then what she'll do is fly back on her private jet, hop in her Prius, and go back to her gated community in San Francisco. | ||
| That is who this woman is at her core. | ||
| Anyways, so President Trump has always been a man of the people, right? | ||
| You look at, I mean, he resonates with the everyday American for obvious reasons because he's real. | ||
| He's not fake. | ||
| And so his preparation is being out with the American people and telling the truth, which isn't really hard to do if you're not Kamala Harris. | ||
| So we saw Kamala debate like two times over the last five years. | ||
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How'd that go? | |
| Not well. | ||
| Career ender with Tulsi Gabbard, right? | ||
| Total career ender, right? | ||
| You kept people as slave labor. | ||
| You kept them beyond their sentences. | ||
| You literally framed them, right, as DA. | ||
| You criminalized marijuana while laughing about smoking at yourself with Snoop Dogg. | ||
| I mean, it's like, destroyed, right? | ||
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Gender reassignment. | |
| Tulsi Gabbard, I mean. | ||
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Reassignment surgeries for prison inmates in California. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here's the boss, live right now. | ||
| Caroline, God bless you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Interesting things to talk about. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Enjoy. | ||
| We have some very specific things. | ||
| So we'll take our time. | ||
| We have plenty of time. | ||
| I think you have plenty of time. | ||
| I hope you like the weather. | ||
| It's very nice. | ||
| Nice place. | ||
| Nice location. | ||
| And I do thank you for being here. | ||
| And we don't have very much heat. | ||
| I'd say it's perfect weather for this. | ||
| The rain is not imminent based on the fact that there are no clouds. | ||
| So it's really nice. | ||
| It's really nice. | ||
| And let's go over some big facts and some very substantial truths about where we stand as a country because we're a failing nation because of the way it's been run for the last three and a half years. | ||
| We're a failing nation. | ||
| People are coming into our country by the millions and millions and millions. | ||
| We have no idea who they are, where they come from. | ||
| But we're also a failing economy. | ||
| Kamala Harris is a radical California liberal who broke the economy, broke the border, and broke the world, frankly. | ||
| Very destructive to the entire world because as we go, oftentimes the world goes. | ||
| She destroys everything she touches. | ||
| And if she wins, your finances and your country will never recover. | ||
| You're never going to recover. | ||
| A radical left person wants to put price controls all over the place, which will end up driving up your prices, not down your prices. | ||
| Harris has just declared that tackling inflation will be a day one priority for her. | ||
| It's going to be day one. | ||
| But day one, really, for Kamala was three and a half years ago. | ||
| Where has she been? | ||
| And why hasn't she done it? | ||
| Why hasn't she done it? | ||
| I hear her complaining all the time. | ||
| She was the Bordazar, but she didn't do anything. | ||
| The worst Bordazar in history. | ||
| There's never been a Bordazar so bad. | ||
| She's been unbelievable in terms of her badness to some of our allies, some of our great allies. | ||
| You know who I'm talking about. | ||
| Here is the record of economic calamity that Kamala is desperate for voters to ignore. | ||
| She cast a tie-breaking vote that caused record inflation. | ||
| She cast the votes. | ||
| She's trying to blame Biden, as you know. | ||
| So it was Biden, but I'm going to do a better job. | ||
| But it was her. | ||
| And if she wants to do a better job, she's still got five months left, right? | ||
| But she can't do a better job because she doesn't know how to. | ||
| And she's of a place in life where she wouldn't know what a better job is. | ||
| Going to destroy our country. | ||
| And as a result of Kamala's inflation price hikes, they've cost a typical household a total of $28. | ||
| $28,000. | ||
| These are numbers coming from government. | ||
| They're not coming from me. | ||
| $28,000. | ||
| These cost a typical household. | ||
| Economization nightmare continues to cost the average American family $1,100 every single month. | ||
| $1,100. | ||
| Again, government numbers. | ||
| You're paying $148 more a month on food. | ||
| It's every month. | ||
| Average family. | ||
| Because Kamala and her ideas, and Joe Biden, too. | ||
| I mentioned him, but he's sort of gonzo. | ||
| It all started with the debate. | ||
| I should have been a little bit easy. | ||
| Somebody said, your debate performance was horrible. | ||
| I said, why? | ||
| Because you forced him out of government. | ||
| But I believe she'll be just as bad. | ||
| I believe she's maybe in many ways going to be worse because he wasn't really a radical left. | ||
| But she is. | ||
| She's real. | ||
| He wasn't real. | ||
| So I think she's going to be, in many ways, easier to beat than Joe Biden. | ||
| What they did to him was disgraceful, by the way, and it really is a threat to democracy. | ||
| It was a coup by people that wanted him out, and they didn't do the way, not the way they're supposed to do it. | ||
| $129 more on energy and $241 more. | ||
| This is all per month on rent. | ||
| So you have that, 148, 129, 241, and then many other increases. | ||
| You add it all up. | ||
| It's thousands and thousands of dollars that she and he have cost people. | ||
| The cost of a typical monthly mortgage has doubled since I left office, and that number was about three months old from government, and now it's tripled. | ||
| We had mortgage rates at around 2%, close to 2%, and they're now at 10%, and you can't get a mortgage. | ||
| So that means it's a lot higher than 10%. | ||
| I guess it is whatever they want to give over the money, and that's a lot more than 10%. | ||
| So when you think about double, they've actually quadrupled or more than that. | ||
| Think of that, quadrupled, which really kills the American dream for young people. | ||
| Young people are being devastated by what they've done to our country. | ||
| Grocery prices have skyrocketed. | ||
| Cereals are up 26 percent. | ||
| Bread is up 24 percent. | ||
| Butter is up 37 percent. | ||
| Baby formula is up 30 percent. | ||
| Flour is up 38 percent. | ||
| And eggs are up 46 percent. | ||
| And many items are up at much higher rates than that. | ||
| Now Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls. | ||
| She wants price controls. | ||
| And if they worked, I'd go along with it too, but they don't work. | ||
| They actually have the exact opposite impact and effect. | ||
| But it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation. | ||
| Their Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, was a disaster. | ||
| It's what caused the inflation. | ||
| Their Inflation Reduction Act was a con job. | ||
| They actually admitted that it wasn't really for inflation that they did it. | ||
| They don't know why they did it, but... | ||
| They named it the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a very nice name. | ||
| Got approved based on that. | ||
| Unfortunately, people didn't understand it. | ||
| I understood it. | ||
| I said that's going to cause tremendous inflation, and it did, among other things like energy. | ||
| She's running on the Maduro plan. | ||
| We call it the Maduro plan, like something straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union. | ||
| This announcement is an admission that her economic policies have totally failed and caused. | ||
| Really a catastrophe for our country. | ||
| And beyond that, a catastrophe in the world. | ||
| A little bit unrelated, but not totally unrelated. | ||
| We have wars breaking out in the Middle East. | ||
| We have the horrible war going on with Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| All these things would have never happened if I was president. | ||
| Would have never, ever happened. | ||
| And they didn't happen. | ||
| Since Harris took office, car insurance is up. | ||
| 55% and they just announced it's going to be substantially higher than that within the next week. | ||
| They expect big increases in car insurance. | ||
| It's out of control and insurance generally. | ||
| Thanks to Kamala's war on American energy, electricity prices are up 32%. | ||
| Gasoline prices are up 50% and going higher. | ||
| Meanwhile, real incomes are down by over $2,000 a year. | ||
| So the incomes for people are down $2,000. | ||
| On average, a year. | ||
| Government numbers. | ||
| The typical American has seen a 4% pay cut under Kamala and Biden. | ||
| Crooked Joe. | ||
| Crooked Joe Biden. | ||
| Credit card debt has exploded by 50% under Harris to a record high. | ||
| It's now at a record high. | ||
| It's never been anywhere close since March. | ||
| And by the way, people are going to have to start paying that, and it's not going to be a pretty sight for the next period of time. | ||
| It could be a substantial time. | ||
| Since March of 2022, the average middle-class household has lost $33,000 in wealth. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| $33,000. | ||
| That's average. | ||
| In July alone, 350,000 people were added to the unemployment rolls. | ||
| That's a lot of people. | ||
| 350,000 people added to the unemployment rolls. | ||
| And think of that. | ||
| That's in one month. | ||
| That's in July. | ||
| Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants. | ||
| You know that? | ||
| Most of the job creation has gone to migrants. | ||
| In fact, I've heard that substantially more than, actually beyond the number of 100%. | ||
| It's a much higher number than that, but the government hasn't caught up with that yet. | ||
| But virtually right now, as of the time they did this, virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year Has gone to migrants. | ||
| Harris gave work permits and social security numbers to more than 3 million illegal immigrants to steal jobs from Americans. | ||
| So think of that. | ||
| And, you know, they're having a lot of problems with social security. | ||
| I'm going to be the one to save social security, but they're having a lot of problems with social security because under their system of putting all of these people into it, it's going to blow up and fail. | ||
| If she's elected, Social Security will fail. | ||
| It'll be a blow-up like you've never seen before. | ||
| It'll be a bankruptcy of the entire system, probably the nation itself. | ||
| You don't have to imagine what a Kamala Harris presidency would be because you're living through that nightmare right now. | ||
| And it is a nightmare. | ||
| It's a nightmare. | ||
| And you're going to stop inflation, but we're going to have a crash. | ||
| And we're going to have a crash like a 1929 crash if she gets in. | ||
| You saw a gentleman yesterday who got up, one of the top analysts in the world, frankly, and said that if Trump isn't elected, he predicts, and he's predicting you have a stock market crash like 1929. | ||
| He also said the only time and the only reason the stock market has gone up, even though it had some bad moments recently, but I think we'll take I think we'll take a substantial lead. | ||
| You saw the polls come out today. | ||
| We're leading in most of the polls. | ||
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I have a lot of friends over there. | |
| I don't think they're reporters, however, are they? | ||
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This was supposed to be for reporters. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| When I left office, I handed Kamala and crooked Joe Biden a surging economy with no inflation. | ||
| The 30-year mortgage rate was around 2%. | ||
| Gasoline had reached $1.87 a gallon. | ||
| We actually had many months where it was lower than that. | ||
| But we hit $1.87, which was a perfect place, an absolutely beautiful number. | ||
| Real income surged by more than $4,200 a year when I was president. | ||
| Harris and Biden blew it all up. | ||
| If Kamala wins the election, the worst is yet to come. | ||
| You'll have a real problem in the future because people don't respect her in the world. | ||
| People don't respect her in the economy. | ||
| Economists are laughing. | ||
| They can't even believe this is happening to our country. | ||
| And she wants to change a free enterprise type country into a communist type country. | ||
| That's what she knows. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| She's considered far more radical than Bernie Sanders. | ||
| That's all you have to know. | ||
| Far more radical. | ||
| And she picked somebody that's far more radical than Bernie Sanders. | ||
| He approved a bill recently. | ||
| Tampons in boys' bathrooms. | ||
| He wants tampons in boys' bathrooms. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| But that's the person that she picked. | ||
| Surprising pick to me. | ||
| I was shocked. | ||
| He's also got one of the worst run states. | ||
| Many people are leaving the state. | ||
| Sixth most. | ||
| And from her state, she destroyed, as the Attorney General, she destroyed California along with Gavin Newsom. | ||
| And she, San Francisco, you know, was a great city 15 years ago. | ||
| Now it's considered almost unlivable. | ||
| You can't live there. | ||
| True. | ||
| And what they've done to that great state with the beautiful weather like this weather, they have this weather all the time. | ||
| And they have the ocean, they have the sun, they have everything good. | ||
| But what they've done to it is a shame. | ||
| And she's going to do the same thing to our country. | ||
| It was the policies. | ||
| They had a recent article, and I didn't know this, but you're allowed to rob a store as long as it's not more than $950. | ||
| Has everyone ever heard of that? | ||
| You can rob a store, and you have thieves going into stores with calculators calculating how much it is. | ||
| Because if it's less than $950, they can rob it and not get charged. | ||
| That was her that did that. | ||
| Harris is campaigning on the largest tax increase in American history, including ending the Trump tax cuts, one of the largest tax cuts ever in our country's history. | ||
| And working with families, a gigantic capital gains tax hike they want, and a new wealth confiscation tax. | ||
| It's called wealth confiscation tax. | ||
| Which isn't going to make all of her supporters, you know, she's got some supporters that are wealthy people because they're stupid people, but they're wealthy people. | ||
| She said that a 70 to 80 percent tax rate is, quote, a bold idea that should be discussed and studied. | ||
| 70 to 80 percent. | ||
| She co-sponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 Americans rely on, dumping everyone. | ||
| Onto inferior socialist government-run healthcare systems with rationing and deadly wait times while massively raising your taxes. | ||
| She wants to take away your private healthcare. | ||
| There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private healthcare. | ||
| It's the best healthcare in the world, by the way. | ||
| But they want to do it. | ||
| They worked hard to make money and they want to do it. | ||
| Under her, you're not going to have private healthcare plans anymore. | ||
| And you can be a wealthy person or a middle-income person, and you want to spend on a really good plan, better than a government plan could be, far better. | ||
| And you're not going to be allowed. | ||
| You're all going to be thrown into a communist system. | ||
| It's a communist system. | ||
| You're going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care. | ||
| You wait for your doctor like 10 months, 12 months, 11 months. | ||
| You're going to see some of these plans. | ||
| How they work in other countries, it's disgraceful. | ||
| So private health care is gone. | ||
| She wants it out. | ||
| Now she could change on that and she might change on that. | ||
| She's changed on everything. | ||
| But I said, why are you changing? | ||
| I actually was asking somebody that knows her, why is she changing? | ||
| She had these policies and ideas for years and years and years and very solid on. | ||
| All you have to do is go back and look at your tapes, which many have been discarded because they don't want discarded by the fake news. | ||
| Because they don't want people to see what she said just a year ago and two years ago. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Even my statement on waiters, waitresses, caddies, a lot of great people, people that drive cars. | ||
| No tax on tips. | ||
| All of a sudden, out of the blue, she comes out. | ||
| That was months ago I said that. | ||
| And she came out and she said, no tax on tips. | ||
| She could have at least said, you know. | ||
| President Trump had some great ideas, but one of the ideas was no tax on tips. | ||
| I think it would have been nice, and people would have accepted that. | ||
| But she just came out like it was hers, and she never had. | ||
| In fact, just the opposite. | ||
| The IRS is all set up to really go after people that make tips. | ||
| And they passed legislation and signed executive orders, making it really hard on waiters, waitresses. | ||
| And that was very recently. | ||
| That was just before I made the proposal. | ||
| They were really going after people. | ||
| So they're lying when they say that, you know, this is what they want to do because their legislation, which everyone knows, and their executive orders were extremely tough. | ||
| They also put 88,000 new IRS agents in that can go and harass everybody. | ||
| She wants to close dozens of existing power plants, causing rollbacks of power in our country. | ||
| You're going to have brownouts, blackouts, the likes of which you've never seen, and plunging millions and millions of people into poverty. | ||
| That's going to put them into poverty. | ||
| And they're not going to have heat. | ||
| They're not going to have air conditioning. | ||
| She wants to abolish coal, oil, and natural gas, 84% of U.S. energy supply. | ||
| And it's the coal and the natural gas, clean coal, I call it, and oil, natural gas, that create electricity. | ||
| And by the way, I'm a big fan of electricity. | ||
| If we're going to go with the AI, if we're going to do that, I don't know if you know, but we need twice the amount of electricity currently supplied for everything to the entire United States of America. | ||
| Be competitive on AI. | ||
| I was talking to Elon Musk. | ||
| We had a great discussion the other night. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| And he said a big problem is getting the approvals to create all of that energy, all of that electricity, specifically electricity. | ||
| And you're going to need that for other forms of modern business, too. | ||
| And I'll get it done, but other people aren't going to be getting it done. | ||
| They're not going to be able to get it done. | ||
| As border czar. | ||
| And she was the border czar. | ||
| I don't know if she was proudly called border czar, but that's what crooked Joe Biden called her. | ||
| She's the border czar. | ||
| Everybody said it. | ||
| And then about two weeks ago, she didn't want to be called the border czar anymore. | ||
| She said, oh, I was never the border czar. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| She was the person responsible for the border. | ||
| And she never went there. | ||
| She went to a certain location. | ||
| Once, but I would have gone there and taken my family to dinner there. | ||
| That was not a place that is going to the border. | ||
| A place with no problem. | ||
| As borders are, she allowed 20 million people. | ||
| And I believe it's higher than that. | ||
| People say 13, 14, 12, 10. But now they're all up to around 12, 13, 14. They have no idea because you have millions and millions of what they call gotaways. | ||
| The gotaways. | ||
| Gotaways are people that pour into our country. | ||
| We have no idea who they are. | ||
| That's the worst of all. | ||
| But she allowed at least 20 million people to invade our country, and she wants to give them all citizenship and free government health care and let them raid Medicare and Social Security, which will, again, she will destroy Medicare. | ||
| She will destroy Social Security. | ||
| And frankly, there's nothing she can do about it once this happens. | ||
| There's nothing she can do about it. | ||
| She called for abolishing ICE. | ||
| These are great patriots who are tough. | ||
| Tougher than anybody in this audience. | ||
| Some of those people, I know I'm over there. | ||
| Some of those men and a couple of the women, to be honest. | ||
| They're tough as hell, but they don't want to fight MS-13. | ||
| I've seen it. | ||
| Long Island had a lot. | ||
| We got them out. | ||
| But now they're coming back because of weak policy and because of things that she wants to do, like defund the police. | ||
| You know she wants to defund the police. | ||
| Now, she has since said, no, no, I don't want to do that anymore. | ||
| The one thing I see with politicians, they always go back to where they were. | ||
| She wanted to defund the police, and she wanted to abolish ICE. | ||
| I was going to say that these ICE people are incredible patriots. | ||
| They're tough as hell. | ||
| And they go into a pack of MS-13 gang members, the toughest in the world, probably the toughest gangs in the world. | ||
| They come from different parts of South America, and they want to come in and... | ||
| In Long Island, not too recently, but recently, they carved up with a knife two beautiful 16-year-old girls who are walking to school. | ||
| And the reason they used a knife instead of shooting them was very simple, because it's more painful. | ||
| They wanted to watch them agonize. | ||
| And these are animals, and we have to get them out of our country. | ||
| Or we have to put them in jail because we don't want them back. | ||
| Sometimes you have to put them in jail because their country doesn't want them back. | ||
| They'll send them back the way they do. | ||
| Just so you know, I know all of the people that we're dealing with as the heads of countries. | ||
| And they're very smart. | ||
| They're very streetwise. | ||
| And what they're doing is they're taking all of their criminals and they haven't brought all of them yet. | ||
| They brought a lot of them, though. | ||
| But they'll bring all of them. | ||
| I'm shocked it's taken so long. | ||
| If I were in their country, it would have gotten a lot faster. | ||
| I will tell you that I would have gotten that, too. | ||
| And they're bringing them into the United States. | ||
| They're taking their drug dealers and their rapists, murderers, and every criminal, bringing them into the United States. | ||
| And their crime rates are way down. | ||
| They're bringing people from mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States. | ||
| And their population for the mentally ill is way down. | ||
| They're in the United States. | ||
| They're dumping them in the United States. | ||
| They're driving them through a border that's totally open. | ||
| We stopped them. | ||
| We didn't let it happen. | ||
| And when I first came into office, you know the story that President Obama at the time had no way of getting them back. | ||
| And I said, I want to get all of the MS-13 in particular out of our country, bring them back to where they came from. | ||
| A general said, sir, that won't be possible. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they blocked the airports. | ||
| They blocked the roads. | ||
| They blocked everything. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| I said, so they're making a concerted effort? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| They're making a concerted effort. | ||
| We can't do it. | ||
| They put planes on the runway so we can't land the planes, sir. | ||
| And the same thing with the roads. | ||
| They block up the roads. | ||
| So if we have buses coming in, they block up the roads. | ||
| They're totally blocked and they're terrible. | ||
| It's been that way for years, sir, all the way back to Bush. | ||
| It's been that way for years. | ||
| And I said, well, how much do we pay them in terms of economic development and aid? | ||
| Sir, we pay them $750 million. | ||
| I said, that's okay. | ||
| Call them immediately and tell them we're not paying them anymore. | ||
| And the following morning, I got a call from the three main culprits. | ||
| Sir, I'd like to speak to you because I don't understand what the problem is. | ||
| I said, well, you sent us gang members, and they send them. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| They sent them. | ||
| They said, we sent, you sent us gang members, you sent us killers, and you sent us Drug dealers and you send us horrible people and when we want to bring them back to your country you won't accept them and that's under President Obama and all the way through and therefore you're in default. | ||
| You are in total default of the money that we send you and we're not going to send you the money anymore. | ||
| You're not getting any of the 750 million dollars and more. | ||
| We're not giving you any. | ||
| You are delinquent. | ||
| You are delinquent in what you've done. | ||
| And you're not getting, sir, please, please, can we talk? | ||
| I said, yeah, we can talk. | ||
| What? | ||
| We would absolutely love to have MS-13 sent back to our country. | ||
| We think they're wonderful people. | ||
| They're not wonderful people. | ||
| They're wonderful killers. | ||
| But they changed their tune totally. | ||
| When I said they weren't going to get the money, I don't know why these people don't do it. | ||
| And the 750... | ||
| Million dollars now is billions of dollars because Biden increased it very substantially. | ||
| He thinks by sending them money, they're going to send fewer people into our country. | ||
| How stupid is that? | ||
| So they're giving him two and a half, three billion dollars. | ||
| The 750, not only did he give it, I didn't even pay after they made the call because I said, you know, you've treated this badly for so many years, we're not going to pay you anyway. | ||
| But now they've given him, they're giving him billions of dollars, billions, much more than... | ||
| When I took over, it was 750. | ||
| Now they're giving them billions. | ||
| But they said, there must be an understanding, sir. | ||
| We would love to take them back. | ||
| And I said, well, you're going to get them back. | ||
| And we started bringing them back by the thousands out of Long Island, out of Michigan, out of Ohio, by the thousands. | ||
| And she compared ICE agencies, brave people, to the KKK. | ||
| She said, The ICE people, the ICE agents, I compare them to the KKK. | ||
| Well, they don't really, because, you know, when you see, when you go into, like Long Island, like Ohio, like Michigan, we had a lot of them, and you see these men, in most cases, men, the agents, get out of a van and walk into, they call it a pack. | ||
| It's a pack, not like a political pack, slightly different. | ||
| Even nastier, even nastier. | ||
| Hard to believe, right? | ||
| But they would go into a pack of these killers. | ||
| And all you do, I've seen it so many times, all you do is see fists and feet and hands fighting. | ||
| Two minutes later, they stand up and they walk out. | ||
| They have them by the feet. | ||
| They walk them out or they drag them out, mostly drag them out, put them in paddy wagons and they bring them back to their country. | ||
| They take them back to the country and the country is open arms now, open arms. | ||
| And it's an amazing thing for her to say KKK is very unfair, but she doesn't know. | ||
| She doesn't want to know. | ||
| She's a very strong communist lean. | ||
| She wants to end detention of illegal alien migrants, releasing vicious monsters into our communities to rape, maim, and murder our population. | ||
| She endorsed the funding of the police and no cash bail nationwide. | ||
| She was the original no funder. | ||
| And the only thing Kamala Harris can deliver is horrific inflation, massive crime, and the death of the American dream. | ||
| She is in favor of the death of the American dream because everything she does really stops. | ||
| Any one of these items stops the American dream. | ||
| We want our youth to go back and dream of being successful, someday being really successful and employing lots of people. | ||
| You can't get up early enough. | ||
| I gave up that life for a life of politics. | ||
| I gave up all of these beautiful places that I have all over the world for a life of being abused by the fake news media. | ||
| And yet I would do it again. | ||
| Somebody asked me the other day, would you do it again? | ||
| I said, absolutely. | ||
| Why would you do it? | ||
| Why would you put yourself through? | ||
| They go after you. | ||
| They weaponize government. | ||
| You have to deal with crooked judges that are after you and crooked prosecutors. | ||
| And the New York court system is vicious and totally biased and, frankly, totally crooked. | ||
| Why would you put yourself through? | ||
| I said, because we're going to make America great again. | ||
| That's what we're going to do. | ||
| And it's very important. | ||
| So when I win, I will immediately bring prices down. | ||
| Starting on day one, we will. | ||
| End Kamala's war on American energy, and we will drill, baby drill. | ||
| We're going to drill, baby drill. | ||
| That's going to bring down prices of everything, because energy brought it up when they went away from my policy. | ||
| They quickly went back to it, but by that time it was too late. | ||
| They lost control. | ||
| But they've gone back to it, and if they win the day after the victory, they'll stop with all the drilling. | ||
| But they went back to it because prices were going through the roof. | ||
| They were going really bad. | ||
| And that's what caused our... | ||
| And that's what destroyed the lives of many Americans. | ||
| Going to reduce energy and electricity prices, I will. | ||
| By at least half within a 12-month period, we'll be able to reduce prices between regulation and having a tremendous supply, which we have. | ||
| I always say we have more liquid gold under our feet, more than any other nation anywhere in the world, including Saudi Arabia and including Russia. | ||
| We're going to terminate the Green New Scam. | ||
| It's called the Green New Deal. | ||
| It's a scam. | ||
| And rescind all unspent funds. | ||
| We're going to rescind that and pay off debt. | ||
| And we're going to reduce debt. | ||
| We took almost $10 trillion for nonsense, for absolute nonsense. | ||
| We'll do bridges. | ||
| We'll do roads. | ||
| We'll do things that we need. | ||
| But we're not going to be spending it and wasting it stupidly and have China laugh at us. | ||
| I remember when, just a short while ago, Kerry goes, you know, hops in his private plane, flies to China to talk about the energy prices and the energy situation in China with President Xi, who I know very well. | ||
| Had a very good relationship until COVID came in, but that was a fence too far. | ||
| But we had a great relationship. | ||
| And Kerry would go up there and he'd leave so happy. | ||
| But they don't do anything. | ||
| They just talk. | ||
| They said, oh, yeah, we're going to do that. | ||
| Oh, as soon as we get to it. | ||
| In the meantime, they're building. | ||
| A coal plant every week. | ||
| But now I hear it's two coal plants a week. | ||
| And we're dying for energy. | ||
| We don't have energy. | ||
| And they're getting set for the AI because they're going to create so much electricity. | ||
| And we're not going to be able to do it. | ||
| But you'll do it if I have it. | ||
| Because that's an emergency. | ||
| We have to be able to compete with China and other countries that are able to create new energy if they want to. | ||
| And they're going to want to. | ||
| And they do want to. | ||
| But they're building at least one coal plant a week. | ||
| Germany, as you know, went a little bit like us, and that was the end of Angola because their whole economy crashed. | ||
| And their new government is building coal plants all over the place. | ||
| They're building brand new coal plants, nuclear plants, and other things because Germany was going to fail. | ||
| So why are we following these countries that tried it and failed? | ||
| And they're smart countries. | ||
| They tried it, they failed. | ||
| Why are we doing this? | ||
| Why aren't we? | ||
| Creating great energy plants, great sources of energy. | ||
| Instead of playing this game with wind that is ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields, all these gorgeous fields. | ||
| You got windmills all over the place and you have birds. | ||
| You want to see a bird cemetery? | ||
| Just go under a windmill. | ||
| You see thousands of birds dead. | ||
| The bald eagle, if you kill an eagle, they put you in jail for years. | ||
| And yet these windmills knock them out like nothing. | ||
| And nothing happens to the people. | ||
| Now, it's a green scam. | ||
| It's a shame. | ||
| Look, I'm all for clean energy. | ||
| I want clean water. | ||
| I want clean air. | ||
| But you can't destroy your country over it. | ||
| You just can't do that. | ||
| We want to stop wasteful spending and big government special interest giveaways. | ||
| You have giveaways. | ||
| You have some of these people that are giving... | ||
| Look, they're not giving millions and millions of dollars to politicians because... | ||
| They like their policy. | ||
| They're giving it because they made deals. | ||
| They're going to take over lots of different things in our country. | ||
| They're going to build windmills, as an example. | ||
| They're going to build big solar fields that take up half the desert. | ||
| Massive solar fields. | ||
| And I'm a big fan of solar, but it can't fire our plants. | ||
| It's not going to fire our plants. | ||
| Fire up those plants. | ||
| We've got to get them going. | ||
| And the only thing that can do that is fossil fuel right now. | ||
| And the only thing that can make electricity, which we all want, is right now fossil fuel and nuclear. | ||
| And nuclear has its place, a very big place in our country. | ||
| Very big place. | ||
| China's going with nuclear. | ||
| France has been going with nuclear for many years. | ||
| We want to end the Biden-Harris electrical vehicle mandate. | ||
| We have to get rid of the electric vehicle mandate. | ||
| And look, Elon endorsed me strongly, most powerful endorsement. | ||
| He said it three or four times the other night during our little chat. | ||
| But a chat that was very well listened to and attended, we know that, right? | ||
| Broke every single record, I think, in history. | ||
| And he's a great guy. | ||
| But I told him, I said, you know, I have one problem. | ||
| I'm all for the electric car, but it's a very small percentage. | ||
| I think the electric car is incredible. | ||
| I think what you've done is incredible. | ||
| But people are going to want, some people are going to want gasoline-propelled cars. | ||
| They're going to want hybrids. | ||
| They're going to want other types of cars. | ||
| And Elon, you know, they're going to have to do that. | ||
| And he understands that fully. | ||
| And I think he was amazed by this electric vehicle mandate. | ||
| They want it for trucks, too. | ||
| If you do it for trucks, you're not going to have any. | ||
| You talk about a supply chain problem. | ||
| A truck going from New York to Los Angeles, if it's electric, will have to stop six times for long periods of time. | ||
| If you have diesel fuel, it goes all the way and you can even come a piece of the way back before you have to reload. | ||
| And with diesel, the truck gets lighter because you're using up the fuel. | ||
| With the electric, it stays at a heavy weight. | ||
| An electric truck is two and a half times heavier than what we would call our traditional trucks. | ||
| And a man from a company said to me, you know, sir, I've been buying trucks. | ||
| For 50 years, I've been buying them. | ||
| And every single year, they got better and bigger and stronger and more powerful and more efficient, more fuel efficient. | ||
| And now we build apartments in the trucks, sir. | ||
| And you would be proud to stay in those apartments. | ||
| And then I say, I don't know if I would. | ||
| But I know exactly what he meant. | ||
| Those big, he said, it's incredible, the trucks. | ||
| I said, who builds the best truck? | ||
| He didn't tell me. | ||
| He said, they all do. | ||
| You have four companies, five companies. | ||
| They all do, sir. | ||
| They built great ones. | ||
| He said, but for 50 years, they got better. | ||
| Every year, I started off with one truck. | ||
| I said, how many trucks do you have now? | ||
| 27,000. | ||
| I said, 27,000, and all big ones. | ||
| He's the biggest. | ||
| This is the biggest. | ||
| He said, for 50 years, I've been buying, and every single year, they got better, more efficient, stronger. | ||
| He said, if they make us buy electric trucks, we will go back 70 years because the truck is worse than the one we had 50 years ago. | ||
| And he said, I won't partake in it. | ||
| They want people, they want the truckers, the trucking industry to do that. | ||
| One other thing, the truck is heavier and the battery is much larger than the tanks. | ||
| And the battery would take up about half of the payload. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| But just as importantly, the battery and all that goes into electric is much heavier. | ||
| The truck weighs two and a half times more than a normal truck fired up by diesel. | ||
| And he said, if that's the case, sir, you would have to rebuild every single bridge and road in America because the weight is so enormous. | ||
| It wouldn't be able to go on the bridges and all of the different weight-bearing roads in America. | ||
| I said, did you explain this to the people? | ||
| A five-year-old child, if he was hearing these things, it doesn't go far. | ||
| It takes too much room. | ||
| You don't have any room left for anything. | ||
| It's almost the whole thing would be carrying a battery. | ||
| Does anybody explain this to these people? | ||
| We do explain it. | ||
| They know it very well. | ||
| At the end of the meeting, they say, we don't care. | ||
| Just start making your electric truck. | ||
| We're not going to do it. | ||
| We're not going to do it, he said. | ||
| So we're going to repeal all that. | ||
| We're going to repeal Kamala's regulatory onslaught, saving households an estimated $5,000 a year at a minimum. | ||
| The massive tax cuts and no tax on tips. | ||
| We're going to make sure it gets done. | ||
| She's not going to get it done. | ||
| She didn't hear about it until I said it. | ||
| And then she went out and she went and did it. | ||
| And the other thing, no tax on Social Security. | ||
| We're not going to have seniors who have been decimated by inflation. | ||
| Pay tax on Social Security, and we'll get through it through growth. | ||
| We have tremendous growth potential in this country, but not with these people running it, because all they're going to do is take away, and they want to take away your growth and your growth potential. | ||
| Again, I say it all the time, we're a nation in decline. | ||
| We're a failing nation. | ||
| Right now, we're a failing nation, and we're going to soon be a great nation again. | ||
| That's going to happen. | ||
| Another thing we're going to do, having to do with... | ||
| A lot of reasons, a lot of things, and the economy in particular. | ||
| We're going to seal the border. | ||
| We're going to stop the invasion. | ||
| We're going to send the illegal aliens back home. | ||
| We're going to bring down the cost of health care and housing. | ||
| We're going to make sure that Social Security is not going to be increased in terms of years where people have to wait much longer. | ||
| I mean, we have an obligation to take care of these people. | ||
| And just so you know, I didn't do it in four years. | ||
| I never even thought about doing it in four years. | ||
| And they probably don't want to do it, but they're going to have no choice. | ||
| Because a lot of the people that are coming in are being signed into Medicare, they're being signed into Social Security, and it's just going to explode. | ||
| And it's going to happen very fast, and it's going to be very ugly. | ||
| It's not going to happen with us. | ||
| We're going to open up tracks of federal land for housing construction. | ||
| We desperately need housing for people who can't afford what's going on now. | ||
| And when we open it up and we take off some of the restrictions and regulations, you know, in California, 50% the cost of the house is regulations. | ||
| They have to adhere to regulations that bring the cost of the house up by 50%. | ||
| We're going to bring back our supply chains to stop costly supply chain disruptions. | ||
| We have tremendous disruptions. | ||
| I have it all the time, and I think you do, too. | ||
| We order things, and I keep saying, well, when's it getting us? | ||
| Sir, there's a supply chain disruption. | ||
| And I mean, you end up getting stuff like three months late now. | ||
| I don't know if all these geniuses over here, I think we can say that. | ||
| I'm not sure that you're necessarily as much into it, but they are. | ||
| And I will say that very often we have problems with supply chains where I'm waiting for things for weeks and weeks. | ||
| And I say, by the way, whatever happened to a supply chain, sir, it's not coming in. | ||
| And it's a terrible thing. | ||
| Nobody ever thought a thing like that would happen to our country. | ||
| We're going to restore peace and stability all throughout the world. | ||
| And you all know Viktor Orban. | ||
| He's the prime minister of Hungary and a very tough man. | ||
| He's a good man, but he's a tough man. | ||
| And they asked him, what do we need to stop all of the wars with Israel? | ||
| What do we need to stop the wars in Russia and Ukraine and all the other wars that are starting? | ||
| He said, when President Trump was here, we had no wars. | ||
| We didn't have Russia lining up at the borders to go and attack Ukraine. | ||
| We would have never had Hamas because Hamas had no money, because Iran had no money. | ||
| I said to China and everybody else, if you buy from Iran, you can't do business in the United States. | ||
| And I'm not looking to be bad to Iran. | ||
| We're going to be friendly, I hope, with Iran. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But maybe not. | ||
| But we're going to be friendly, I hope. | ||
| We're going to be friendly. | ||
| But they can't have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| They can't have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And we were all set to make sure that they don't have a nuclear weapon, because once they do, it's a whole different world. | ||
| It's a whole different negotiation. | ||
| But Viktor Orban said, if you put Trump in, nothing's going to happen. | ||
| Everyone's going to be peaceful, because they were afraid of Trump. | ||
| Now, I don't like saying that I said that. | ||
| I would say maybe they respected Trump. | ||
| But he said they were afraid of Trump. | ||
| They didn't know where he was coming from, and they were really afraid of him. | ||
| They're not afraid of these people. | ||
| And being afraid isn't so bad, but I would say, more importantly, they respected me. | ||
| But he didn't use that word. | ||
| He said they were afraid of Trump. | ||
| And we would have not had any problems with China and Taiwan. | ||
| We wouldn't have had any problems with Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| We wouldn't have any problems with anything. | ||
| But we will stop inflation. | ||
| We will make America affordable again. | ||
| And we're going to bring back the American dream. | ||
| We have all these young people that are coming out of schools, colleges, everything else. | ||
| And they're not going to have the American dream. | ||
| They don't even think about the American dream. | ||
| Right now, they just think about survival. | ||
| And I just want to end by saying we have tremendous potential in this country. | ||
| We can do amazing things, and we can do them fast. | ||
| We have to get the criminals out. | ||
| We have to get them out immediately and fast and tough. | ||
| We're going to rely on our local police. | ||
| Our local police law enforcement has been so incredible. | ||
| And they know. | ||
| Somebody said, how will you get them out? | ||
| How will you know? | ||
| The local police. | ||
| Know the name and serial number and middle name and last name and where they come from of every single bad guy that's come into our country. | ||
| And we're going to rely on local police and we're going to make sure that they have immunity from prosecution because, frankly, our police are treated horribly. | ||
| They're not allowed to do their job. | ||
| You know that better than anybody. | ||
| They're not allowed to do their job. | ||
| If they were allowed to do their job, we wouldn't have cities that have crime rates. | ||
| You look at Chicago. | ||
| On the 4th of July weekend in Chicago, think of this, 177 people were shot and 17 died. | ||
| Afghanistan isn't anything like that. | ||
| And speaking of Afghanistan, the single most embarrassing day in the history of our country. | ||
| And yesterday I saw the, you know, they gave $85 billion worth of... | ||
| Brand new military equipment. | ||
| I rebuilt the military, so this was equipment that, to a large extent, I bought. | ||
| But brand new. | ||
| And they had a parade yesterday, a beautiful parade. | ||
| We were going to get out with dignity and strength. | ||
| We were there for 21 years. | ||
| And we were going to keep Bagram because it's one hour away. | ||
| Bagram is this massive Air Force base that I visited. | ||
| It's a massive base. | ||
| And we were going to keep it because it's one hour, not because of Afghanistan. | ||
| But because it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. | ||
| And they were showing it off yesterday, but the fact is that China now controls Bagram, China. | ||
| Can you imagine that? | ||
| And we left. | ||
| We were going to stay there. | ||
| We were going to keep it. | ||
| We were going to get out with dignity, strength. | ||
| We were going to take our soldiers out last, not first. | ||
| We took our soldiers out first. | ||
| I dealt with Abdul, and he's still the leader. | ||
| Strong man, smart man. | ||
| But he understood that if he did anything, because we were losing a lot of people to the snipers, and under Obama, it was terrible, it was brutal, they'd be walking around and just get shot, and that was the end of him. | ||
| Our people, and other people too, civilians. | ||
| And I let him know that if you do that, if you do that, we're going to hit you so hard, like you've never been hit before. | ||
| But why, but why, he said, do you send me a picture of my home? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why do you send me a picture of my home? | ||
| I said, you'll have to figure that one out later. | ||
| But I said, we're going to have to hit you people so hard like we've never hit anybody. | ||
| And he understood. | ||
| And he said, yes, Your Excellency, I understand. | ||
| He called me Your Excellency. | ||
| I wonder if he calls that to Biden. | ||
| I doubt it, right? | ||
| But he understood that and he respected us. | ||
| And for 18 months, not one American soldier was killed. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| And then I... | ||
| I left because of an election where I got millions of more votes than we did in 2016. | ||
| We got millions of more from 10 to 12, 10 to 12 million votes more. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| No president has ever gone with that kind of an election uptick. | ||
| Usually a president will get less. | ||
| President Obama got less, much less his second time, but he won. | ||
| But he got much less. | ||
| We got 10 to 12 million votes more. | ||
| And that's not including other votes that we... | ||
| Can talk about it another day. | ||
| But this is their votes. | ||
| 10 to 12 million more. | ||
| And we left. | ||
| And that's when all the problems started. | ||
| We didn't have these problems. | ||
| We would have never had a problem with Abdul. | ||
| We would have never had a problem with anybody, frankly. | ||
| And I'd have to say, you're looking at things behind me. | ||
| They did a nice job. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I haven't gotten to see. | ||
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That's good. | |
| I don't like the... | ||
| The tags very much. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Up 46% eggs. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Up 65%. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| School lunch is up 65%. | ||
| How can a family afford that? | ||
| But look at this over here. | ||
| What a nice job. | ||
| I think I'm going to take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of fun. | ||
| Like the Cheerios. | ||
| I haven't seen Cheerios in a long time. | ||
| I'm going to take them back with. | ||
| Bacon is through the roof. | ||
| They're all through the roof. | ||
| The milk. | ||
| Everything is bad. | ||
| And we're going to straighten it out. | ||
| We're going to bring prices way down, and we'll get it done fast. | ||
| And with her, it's just talk. | ||
| She's a radical left San Francisco person who destroyed the place. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| It's hard to believe that she can even be in the discussion. | ||
| They had a group of 12 people that she was considering, and they put her name in there, and they marked them, who were the best and who were the worst. | ||
| And she was actually rated the worst of the 12. They had 12 plus her, 13 people. | ||
| And they rated her the worst. | ||
| Now, six weeks ago, she was considered to be a failed vice president and a failed administration, a disaster. | ||
| And now all of these people are talking about her like she's Margaret Thatcher, liberal version. | ||
| She's not smart. | ||
| I don't believe she loves our country. | ||
| And we cannot have our country destroyed, because once that happens, it'll never be able to come back. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| If you'd like, we can ask a few questions. | ||
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It's been reported that you recently spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu, maybe as recently as yesterday. | |
| Can you clarify when the last time was you talked to him, and what advice, if any, you're giving him about a ceasefire, about ending the war? | ||
| The last time I saw him was at Mar-a-Lago, and he came with his wife and a large group of people. | ||
| And we had a... | ||
| Very good relationship with him and with Israel. | ||
| Again, this would never have happened. | ||
| October 7th would have never happened. | ||
| Would have never, ever happened. | ||
| And he asked for the meeting. | ||
| We had the meeting. | ||
| It was about two hours, two and a half hours long. | ||
| And I expect I might be talking to him, but I haven't since then. | ||
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Did you encourage him not to take a ceasefire deal? | |
| Did you give him any advice about ending the war? | ||
| No, I didn't encourage him. | ||
| He knows what he's doing. | ||
| I did encourage him to get this over with. | ||
| You want to get it over with. | ||
| It has to get over with fast. | ||
| But have victory. | ||
| Get your victory. | ||
| And get it over with. | ||
| It has to stop. | ||
| The killing has to stop. | ||
| Yes, please. | ||
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Thank you, President Trump. | |
| You've spoken very passionately about how God saved your life. | ||
| And I'm wondering, have you put much thought into why God saved your life? | ||
| As in, for what purpose has he been shielding and protecting you? | ||
| What a question. | ||
| I don't know if you heard the question. | ||
| You've spoken about God saving your life, that I've spoken passionately about it. | ||
| And something happened because that was a miracle. | ||
| I never looked that way. | ||
| The audience was massive and it was in front of me. | ||
| I never have that particular graph. | ||
| That was a graph on, as you all know, now that it's very, I think everyone knows it very well, but it showed the great numbers on illegal immigration. | ||
| It was the lowest point we've ever had. | ||
| And it was one that I use less than 20% of the time. | ||
| It's always at the end of the speech, not at the beginning of the speech. | ||
| And it's always on the left side, not the right side. | ||
| And yet, for some reason, I called it. | ||
| It's not on a teleprompter. | ||
| I do things largely without a teleprompter, frankly, because it's hard to hold an audience if you're going to go for an hour and a half or two hours reading a script. | ||
| And I just talked about it, and I moved to my right, turned sharply to my right. | ||
| And if I didn't do that, I'm not here with you. | ||
| So, yeah, God has something to do with it. | ||
| It's a miracle. | ||
| And God had something to do with it. | ||
| And maybe it's we want to save the world. | ||
| This world is going down. | ||
| This world is going down. | ||
| So it could be. | ||
| But I believe that. | ||
| I believe that my sons are very good shooters. | ||
| They're like scratch golfers, better, relatively speaking, with great shooters. | ||
| And Eric and Don both told me, from 130 yards, I said, Well, that's pretty far away, isn't it? | ||
| They said, no, that's like a one-foot putt with, you know, weapons like the one being used. | ||
| Plus, he was a good shooter. | ||
| This guy was a good shooter. | ||
| He went to the range and shot a lot. | ||
| And he was supposed to be a pretty good shooter. | ||
| They said a bad shooter would hit the target almost 100% of the time. | ||
| So something happened. | ||
| And I have to say the Secret Service sniper did an amazing job. | ||
| He had five seconds to find the target. | ||
| Hit the target, and he hit the target within, think of this, five seconds. | ||
| And he was much further away because he was over here, and this other person was over there. | ||
| So you have to give credit. | ||
| And I have to also say about Secret Service, when I was hit, I knew it because when I touched, there was blood pouring all over my hand. | ||
| I said, I guess I know what that is. | ||
| And I was going down for protection. | ||
| They were screaming, get down, get down. | ||
| There was bullets. | ||
| Those Secret Service guys were, and person, Kate, they were on top of me in a matter of, I think, three seconds it was time to, and bullets were coming out. | ||
| I would hear the bullet. | ||
| I didn't realize you could hear it, but now I know very well. | ||
| Those bullets were going right over my head. | ||
| They were there, and very brave. | ||
| There was nobody that said, I'm not going to be going there. | ||
| They were there very quickly, and they were very brave. | ||
| And there were mistakes made, obviously. | ||
| He shouldn't have been up there. | ||
| The roof should have been taken care of. | ||
| There were mistakes made. | ||
| There's no question about it. | ||
| But there was a lot of bravery also. | ||
| We have to remember that. | ||
| Okay, thank you very much. | ||
| We're talking about credit card debt for just a second. | ||
| You've got all these ideas. | ||
| It's a record. | ||
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48% up. | |
| And many families going into debt just to pay for groceries. | ||
| What's your message to Americans right now that you can make America affordable again? | ||
| Well, I would say my message to them. | ||
| So he said, credit card debt is at the all-time high. | ||
| It's never been like this. | ||
| What's your message to America? | ||
| How are we going to solve that? | ||
| And what will they do? | ||
| You know what I think they should do? | ||
| They should, on November 5th or sooner, if it's early voting, which... | ||
| Largely it is, which is ridiculous. | ||
| We should have one day voting, paper ballots. | ||
| We should have voter ID and we should have proof of citizenship because people are voting and people are going on now without citizenship. | ||
| But we should do it and maybe we'll be able to get that done too. | ||
| It's one of the things I want to do. | ||
| But my message to them would be very simple. | ||
| Vote for Trump and we're going to fix the problem. | ||
| We're going to get it fixed. | ||
| We'll get it fixed. | ||
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Kamala's been promising on day one, I'll do this. | |
| And for basically four years, she's promised this day one. | ||
| What will you do on day one to turn this country around? | ||
| So she is saying when she gets in, she's in now. | ||
| And especially with Biden, because, I mean, he's not in the best of shape. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| She's in there now. | ||
| She can do anything she wants. | ||
| And she's still saying, if you elect me, I'll do this, I'll do... | ||
| Why didn't she do it? | ||
| Here's my one question. | ||
| It's the easiest question. | ||
| Because she complains about everything, everything, everything. | ||
| Why didn't she do it? | ||
| That's all I ask. | ||
| On day one, we're going to drill baby drill, and we're going to close the border, and we're going to let people come in, but they're going to come in legally. | ||
| They're going to come into our country legally. | ||
| But on day one, we're going to do many things. | ||
| I can do a lot of things at one time. | ||
| But the question often is, what's the first thing you're going to do? | ||
| I would say we have a tie. | ||
| We're going to close the border. | ||
| We're going to stop the millions of people coming in. | ||
| And we're going to take all of the criminals that have come in. | ||
| And we know every one of them I know. | ||
| And the local police know better than anybody else. | ||
| They're going to work with us. | ||
| I've spoken to a lot of the sheriffs. | ||
| Virtually every law enforcement group in America has endorsed Trump. | ||
| I don't think anybody's endorsed Kamala. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| I don't think anybody's endorsed them. | ||
| And you know that better than anybody in Florida, all over California. | ||
| They've endorsed me. | ||
| We have the relationship I have with law enforcement. | ||
| And these are great people and people that we have to really cherish and respect and let them do their job and protect them. | ||
| And you'll always have a bad apple in everything. | ||
| You have bad apples as reporters. | ||
| I can tell you many. | ||
| I'd say about 80%. | ||
| But you're always going to have bad apples. | ||
| But you have very, very few when you look at it. | ||
| Very, very few. | ||
| You have to let them do their job. | ||
| You have to protect them. | ||
| But basically, we're going to drill baby drill. | ||
| We're going to get the energy prices down almost immediately. | ||
| And we're going to close the border. | ||
| And we're going to get the crooked ones out, the bad ones out. | ||
| And we're going to let a lot of people come in. | ||
| Because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all of the different things. | ||
| And the farmers need. | ||
| Everybody needs. | ||
| But we're going to make sure that they're not murderers, killers, drug dealers, and the kind of people that we have largely coming in right now. | ||
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Mr. President, many of your allies who want you to win in November say your current strategy isn't working, that you need to stop with the personal attacks on Kamala Harris and deliver a more disciplined message. | |
| Do you agree? | ||
| And also, you added more people to your campaign today. | ||
| Is that a sign of a shifting strategy? | ||
| No, I think it's a sign of we want to close it out. | ||
| We have great people. | ||
| Susie is fantastic, as you know, and Chris is fantastic. | ||
| They're leading it. | ||
| Corey Lewandowski is coming in. | ||
| He'll be a personal envoy or he'll be at some level. | ||
| They're doing a great job. | ||
| Look, with all of the abuse we've taken from the fake news media, all of this horrific abuse we take, And all I want to do is make the country good. | ||
| All I want to do is have strong borders and good education. | ||
| We want to have choice for education. | ||
| So important. | ||
| So many different things. | ||
| You would think it would be the other way. | ||
| We rebuilt the military. | ||
| We did so many great things. | ||
| But that's the way it's been for Republicans, and I guess more so for me than anybody in history. | ||
| And that's okay. | ||
| Because we're leading in the polls. | ||
| For the most part, we're leading in the polls. | ||
| We were leading Biden by a lot. | ||
| We're leading now, but I think when she's exposed, I think we're going to beat her by a lot more than we would have beaten Biden by, because he had a little group of people that have been voting for him for a long time. | ||
| She doesn't have that. | ||
| People don't know who she is. | ||
| As far as the personal attacks, because of what she's done to the country, I'm very angry at her that she'd weaponized the justice system against me and other people. | ||
| Very angry at her. | ||
| I think I'm entitled to personal attacks. | ||
| I don't have a lot of respect for her. | ||
| I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence. | ||
| And I think she'll be a terrible president. | ||
| And I think it's very important that we win. | ||
| And whether the personal attacks are good, bad, I mean, she certainly attacks me personally. | ||
| She actually called me weird. | ||
| He's weird. | ||
| It was just a soundbite. | ||
| And she called J.D. and I weird. | ||
| He's not weird. | ||
| He was a great student at Yale. | ||
| He went to Ohio State, graduated in two years. | ||
| At the top of his class. | ||
| And all of these different things. | ||
| And we have this guy that's running a failed, really a very failed state, who's had a terrible career. | ||
| I mean, you have him saying they're weird. | ||
| No, he's a weird guy. | ||
| And she's weird in her policy. | ||
| Who wouldn't want to have strong borders? | ||
| Who doesn't want to have lower taxes? | ||
| You know, all my life I've watched as politicians campaigned, and I've always been on, you know, for the most part on the other side, on the side that these people are on. | ||
| And they always talked about, we're going to reduce taxes. | ||
| This is the only campaign I've ever heard where they're saying, we're going to increase your taxes. | ||
| And then people say they're going to vote for him. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So I don't think so. | ||
| I don't think people know who she is yet. | ||
| When people, because really people didn't know. | ||
| You can ask the man on the street. | ||
| I saw it on one of the shows today. | ||
| They asked the man in the street, what's the last name of Kamala? | ||
| Nobody knew. | ||
| It's Harris. | ||
| Nobody knew the last name. | ||
| I don't even use it because nobody knows who I'm talking about. | ||
| People don't know who she is. | ||
| She's a radical left socialist. | ||
| But beyond that, I mean, she's way beyond socialism. | ||
| Who's going to destroy our country? | ||
| And when they find out, I think you're going to see something. | ||
| But right now, even not knowing her, and with all of the, like the cover of Time magazine, they didn't put a picture. | ||
| They got a great artist to do with it. | ||
| What was that all about? | ||
| You know, what was that all about? | ||
| The whole thing is crazy. | ||
| I just want to win for the country. | ||
| Some people say, oh, why don't you be nice? | ||
| But they're not nice to me. | ||
| They want to put me in prison, you know, just so you understand. | ||
| You know, they tell me I should be nice. | ||
| They want to put me in prison. | ||
| It's never happened before in the history of our country. | ||
| I did nothing wrong. | ||
| I have crooked judges. | ||
| I have crooked prosecutors. | ||
| And they're all Democrats, all Democrat areas, other than in Florida, where you had a brilliant judge who ruled in my favor. | ||
| I won the case, the documents case. | ||
| Won it in its entirety. | ||
| And Jack Smith, deranged Jack Smith, suffered a defeat. | ||
| But in New York City, everything's clubhouse. | ||
| I know it very well. | ||
| I grew up there. | ||
| I know it very well. | ||
| And we have a very crooked system. | ||
| And it's one of the reasons that New York is dying. | ||
| Nobody wants to come in. | ||
| No companies want to come in because the courtroom system is so corrupt. | ||
| Both at a federal level and at a state level and a city level. | ||
| And they put you into an area where you have 3% Republican vote. | ||
| It's all a rigged deal. | ||
| Just like Fani. | ||
| F-A-N-I. | ||
| Fani. | ||
| With her. | ||
| Boyfriend. | ||
| And I think that's been discredited, too. | ||
| They've been discredited. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| They don't want me to be a little bit nasty. | ||
| They want to put me in prison. | ||
| Me. | ||
| It's never happened before in the history of our country. | ||
| It's happened in third world countries, but it's never happened here. | ||
| And they're in danger because you create a precedent for doing that. | ||
| And once that happens, that's a... | ||
| That's a really bad thing. | ||
| You know, in the years before, and I've said this a few times, not too much, but with Hillary, she was subpoenaed by Congress to give everything she's got. | ||
| And she burned it. | ||
| She acid washed it. | ||
| Bleach bit, they call it. | ||
| She totally scrubbed it. | ||
| And then they broke everything with hammers, with fire. | ||
| They burned it. | ||
| And then she said, I don't have anything. | ||
| Well, it turned out that she had a lot to give. | ||
| And everybody said, lock her up, lock her up. | ||
| And I used to go easy, just easy, easy. | ||
| Then we won. | ||
| And I said, wouldn't it be terrible? | ||
| And, you know, I lose. | ||
| Some people are upset when I did this, but you have to look at it maybe differently now. | ||
| I say, wouldn't it be terrible to put the wife of the president, former president of the United States, into a prison? | ||
| Now, think of that. | ||
| Hillary Clinton, she was Secretary of State. | ||
| She was the wife of a President of the United States, who used to be a friend of mine before I ran for, you know, for politics. | ||
| He was a friend of mine. | ||
| Used to play my golf course all the time. | ||
| I have a great golf course right next to their home in Westchester. | ||
| Used to be there all the time. | ||
| It was his favorite course. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I could have done that very easily. | ||
| She was so guilty. | ||
| And I said to my people, wouldn't it be terrible to put, I don't know, wouldn't it be terrible to take... | ||
| And we won the election. | ||
| Wouldn't it be terrible to take a former Secretary of State who was the wife of the President of the United States and put her into a prison? | ||
| But that's what they want to do with me. | ||
| And I did nothing wrong. | ||
| It's all crooked politics and really crooked judges. | ||
| You know I have a gag order? | ||
| Do you know I can't even talk about it right now? | ||
| Do you know that I have a judge who has a gag order? | ||
| He doesn't want me to talk. | ||
| And the reason he doesn't... | ||
| Want me to talk is because what I say is so devastating and so horrible for him. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| I have a gag order. | ||
| There's never been a politician in history. | ||
| I mean, probably for any politician for a city council office. | ||
| I'm the leading candidate to be president. | ||
| I won virtually unanimously. | ||
| You know, I beat everybody. | ||
| It was the quickest primary in history. | ||
| There's never been one that was done so early. | ||
| I had people that were very talented people, and I beat them by 45, 50, 60, 70, 80 points. | ||
| There was never a close race. | ||
| Nobody was even close. | ||
| Good talent. | ||
| They weren't close. | ||
| And I'm running against the Democrats. | ||
| So it's a two-party system, whether we like it or not. | ||
| I'm the Republican, and I'm leading. | ||
| But let's say I'm tied, but I'm leading. | ||
| I believe I'm leading by a lot more than people think, and I believe we'll be leading by a lot more. | ||
| And I have a judge who put a gag order in me. | ||
| So when you ask me a question or when you ask me a question, I can't give you an answer because if I give the answer, they want to put you in jail. | ||
| He said, we'll put him in jail if he talks beyond the gag order. | ||
| And this is in a state where, unfortunately, the laws have been very bad and they haven't been upheld. | ||
| By the appellate divisions generally. | ||
| Although I have one case where we judge, a certain judge, I won't use names, but the attorney general case where we won five appeals on the same case, the most ever trial. | ||
| It was a ridiculous, horrible decision where you have a very, very biased voting population and a judge whose hatred of Donald Trump was beyond belief. | ||
| And we won the case, but he ruled a ridiculous amount of money. | ||
| Civil case. | ||
| Ruled ridiculous. | ||
| Now, this is a... | ||
| What they're doing is interference with an election. | ||
| They want to interfere. | ||
| Look at the one thing they want to sentence right before the election takes place. | ||
| Let's sentence him. | ||
| Because who's going to vote for him if we sentence him? | ||
| Let's sentence him right before... | ||
| No. | ||
| This is interference with a presidential election at a state level. | ||
| And it's a state that always goes Democrat. | ||
| It's interference. | ||
| And as you know, the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and I'm immune from all of the stuff that they charge me with. | ||
| But isn't it a terrible thing? | ||
| And yet Hillary Clinton, when it came time to make a decision, I said, I don't want to put the wife of the president of the United States in prison. | ||
| I want the country to come together and to be unified. | ||
| And here it is a few years later, and these people say, let's put him, why? | ||
| Because I challenge an election? | ||
| Because I want to challenge an election? | ||
| Or some other reason? | ||
| It's a really disgraceful thing. | ||
| It's a shame. | ||
| And it's a very dangerous thing for both parties, because once they start that ball rolling, once they start it rolling, that's a nasty ball. | ||
| Yes, please. | ||
| Please. | ||
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Two quick questions here. | |
| Nikki Haley told our Bret Baier that Republicans need to stop whining about Kamala Harris, focus on courting those independents, those suburban women, the moderates out there. | ||
| What do you think of that strategy? | ||
| And would you consider having Nikki Haley on the campaign trail with you? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think that we've done very well. | ||
| I think that we're hitting a nerve. | ||
| I think this is a different kind of a race. | ||
| All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody that's going to destroy our country. | ||
| You know, I fought Nikki very hard. | ||
| I beat her in her own state by legendary numbers. | ||
| And I get along with her fine. | ||
| I appreciate that she endorsed me and all of that. | ||
| No, I think that I think relatively to what they're doing and how radical they are and how in many ways how sick they are. | ||
| I think I'm doing a very calm campaign. | ||
| I mean, we're here. | ||
| There's no shouting. | ||
| Now, you'll say he ranted and raved. | ||
| Not you, but some of you will say he ranted and raved. | ||
| I didn't rant and rave. | ||
| I'm a very calm person, believe it or not. | ||
| If I wasn't, I probably wouldn't be around anymore, you know? | ||
| Probably wouldn't be around. | ||
| But no, I think I appreciate her advice. | ||
| I have to do it my way. | ||
| You know, I ran against her and I did it my way. | ||
| People said I should maybe do it a different way, but... | ||
| I won in South Carolina by numbers that nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| You know, it wasn't even close. | ||
| And I think she's a good woman. | ||
| I'd love to have her support. | ||
| Yeah, she gave me support. | ||
| But I'd love to have her go around and campaign. | ||
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Quick follow-up on the economy. | |
| You mentioned this in your remarks. | ||
| Vice President Kamala Harris wants to put a ban on price gouging. | ||
| Do you think that the federal government should be responsible for determining food prices? | ||
| Well, not only responsible, they probably can't do it legally. | ||
| And that will drive up prices. | ||
| She wants no fracking. | ||
| Now, she may go and change that. | ||
| I think she's already changed it. | ||
| But she wants to have no fracking. | ||
| I want no fracking. | ||
| But for her whole life, she said that. | ||
| No fracking. | ||
| Then about, I don't know when, a couple of months ago, all of a sudden when she started looking at polls. | ||
| Remember this. | ||
| She all of a sudden says fracking. | ||
| I don't think any... | ||
| I won Pennsylvania and I did much better the second time. | ||
| I won it in 2016, did much better the second time. | ||
| I know Pennsylvania very well. | ||
| I don't think there's any way in hell that somebody that's intelligent living in Pennsylvania is going to vote for somebody that basically will eventually end fracking, end fossil fuel. | ||
| So whether it's Oklahoma or Texas or Pennsylvania, a big energy state. | ||
| People don't realize that 350,000 people work in that industry. | ||
| But maybe more importantly, they don't want to pay $9 a gallon for gasoline. | ||
| So, no, I think that she's made statements. | ||
| I don't know how you get out of it. | ||
| I don't know how you can say for 10 years there'll be no fracking. | ||
| I mean, we have tapes of her laughing at the stupidity of the question. | ||
| Of course I'm not going to allow fracking. | ||
| Then all of a sudden, a few months ago, she comes out. | ||
| In favor of—oh yes, I'd allow fracking. | ||
| I don't think anybody in Pennsylvania will be—I think she's going to do very badly in Pennsylvania. | ||
| You have to frack. | ||
| We need the energy, and Pennsylvania needs the jobs, but Pennsylvania needs the energy also. | ||
| That energy is going to support our new system for AI and all of the other modern things that need massive amounts of electricity and energy. | ||
| Massive. | ||
| So it's a very good question, actually. | ||
| But we have to— We have to unify as a country. | ||
| We have to come together. | ||
| And I think we can. | ||
| You know, I get that question oftentimes. | ||
| And I used to think maybe there's no way because, you know, some people want a border or some people don't want a border. | ||
| Most people do want a border. | ||
| But there's such a difference in people. | ||
| But just before COVID coming out, so three years, we went a long period of time. | ||
| And we had an economy going the likes of which no country had ever seen before. | ||
| I think you would agree. | ||
| There's never been anything like it. | ||
| People were coming together. | ||
| People were calling me very, I would call them radical left. | ||
| But I would say very liberal people, very progressive people. | ||
| They came to me. | ||
| We would like to get together. | ||
| In fact, we worked out criminal justice reform. | ||
| I was the only one that could have done that. | ||
| I won criminal justice reform. | ||
| And I got that for black leaders that came to see me. | ||
| Criminal justice reform. | ||
| Obama couldn't do it. | ||
| Biden wouldn't even try. | ||
| But nobody could do it. | ||
| I got that done. | ||
| And I got conservative votes to get it done. | ||
| They needed at least five very conservative votes. | ||
| It was very hard to do. | ||
| I got that done. | ||
| Our country was coming together. | ||
| And I can tell you the story of criminal justice reform. | ||
| When you do that, that means that's a big step. | ||
| But I was seeing people that were not seeable, that I wouldn't want to see them and they wouldn't want to see me. | ||
| And all of a sudden, I was having lunch with people that, if I told you who they were, you wouldn't even believe it. | ||
| Our country was coming together. | ||
| Success was bringing our country together. | ||
| And it can be done. | ||
| Success will bring our country together again. | ||
| It can be done. | ||
| It was an amazing phenomenon. | ||
| And I used to say, I don't know, it's awfully tough to get it together. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Like, for instance, me getting criminal justice reform done. | ||
| And I did that with Democrats and some very conservative Republicans who said it's very unfair where people are staying in jail for 35, 40 years. | ||
| And today they wouldn't even be charged with a crime for what they did. | ||
| And we got it done and I was very proud of it. | ||
| But our country was coming together. | ||
| The black population had the best numbers they've ever had on jobs, on income, on everything. | ||
| The Hispanic population had the best numbers. | ||
| Asian population, men, women, young people with diplomas from the best schools, Harvard, MIT, the Wharton School of Finance, they're all coming together. | ||
| And everybody was happy. | ||
| And young people without a high school diploma, the best MIT students. | ||
| And people without a diploma were all working. | ||
| They were making more money than they've ever made. | ||
| There wasn't one group that wasn't doing better than it was the year before, two years before, or ten years before. | ||
| It was the best our country had ever done. | ||
| And we were leapfrogging China. | ||
| China didn't have a chance. | ||
| I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from China. | ||
| Hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| No president ever took in 10 cents. | ||
| And what happened was an amazing thing. | ||
| We had a great, successful country, and our country was unifying. | ||
| It was the first time anyone's seen it, but our country was unifying. | ||
|
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From some of the polling out there, I know you're saying that you're leading in some polling, but there is other polling out there. | |
| A Fox News poll out just yesterday has you up by just one point. | ||
| How do you break away? | ||
| One or two points, yeah. | ||
| And Fox News has always been my worst poll, believe it or not. | ||
| Even Fox News had me up by one or two points yesterday. | ||
| It came out, I think, two points, one point. | ||
| I also think, you know, I tend to poll low. | ||
| In some cases, really low. | ||
| You know, in 2016, I was polling low because people didn't want to say who they're voting for. | ||
| I don't know if that's supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing, but it is what it is. | ||
| And we did very well in 2016, and we did much better in 2020. | ||
| Much better, but bad things happened. | ||
| Through COVID, very bad things happened. | ||
| So we're not happy about that. | ||
| Yes, I've seen you around a little bit. | ||
| So go ahead, please. | ||
|
unidentified
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Mr. President, thank you for doing this. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| So you talked about how COVID from China was a fence too far. | ||
| What's your plan for holding China accountable if you get reelected? | ||
| Well, I want to get along with China. | ||
| I had a great relationship with President Xi. | ||
| We made a fantastic trade deal, $50 billion of farm products and manufacturing products they had to buy here, and they were adhering to it. | ||
| They don't adhere to it anymore because they don't respect Harris or Biden. | ||
| But as you know, we signed a trade deal with China, and it was actually better than even the USMCA. | ||
| It was a great trade deal. | ||
| China had to buy $50 billion, not $15 billion, not anything else, $50 billion. | ||
| And it was a great trade deal. | ||
| I think that that's one of the underrated things. | ||
| I think we'll have a great relationship with China. | ||
| I hope we're going to have a great relationship. | ||
| But it's got to be a fair relationship. | ||
| China was taking advantage of the country for years. | ||
| But so was every other country, in all fairness to China. | ||
| Every single country was taking advantage of the United States. | ||
| I can't think of one country where we were doing better than them. | ||
| Japan was taking. | ||
| Abhi was my dear friend, one of the great men. | ||
| Great leader. | ||
| But all of these countries were... | ||
| I used to say, who signs these agreements? | ||
| Actually, it's amazing that we economically survived because we had such bad negotiators or people were getting paid off. | ||
| I actually looked at some deals. | ||
| I'd say, nobody could be so stupid to sign a deal that's so one-sided. | ||
| Whoever made this deal has been paid off. | ||
| And then I'd look into it a little bit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And all of a sudden, he's working as an agent for that country three years later, five years later. | ||
| Now, we change a lot of those deals. | ||
| South Korea, we changed the South Korea deal. | ||
| We made it from a horrible deal to a good deal. | ||
| I changed the Japan deal. | ||
| But I made a great deal with China. | ||
| They had to buy $50 billion worth. | ||
| They never bought anything like that. | ||
| In fact, it was a misunderstanding. | ||
| When I said the people are negotiating, what number are we talking about? | ||
| They said 15. I thought they said 50. So when they came back to me, they said, sir, we're all set to get it going. | ||
| I said, good. | ||
| What's the number? | ||
| 15. I said, you told me 50. Why are we going down to 15? | ||
| They said, no, we said 15. I said, you told me 50. Actually, I heard them wrong. | ||
| They said 15, but I heard them wrong. | ||
| So I said, go back and get 50. And we got 50 instead of 15. And it was great. | ||
| You know, I really think that we can have a great relationship with China. | ||
| We can have a great relationship with a lot of countries right now. | ||
| One of the things with China, I know as much as any country, but all of the countries, the one thing is they have to respect you if they don't respect you. | ||
| And, you know, I was very tough in countries like Japan. | ||
| And yet, Abe, who was a great man, assassinated, horribly assassinated. | ||
| He was a great man. | ||
| He was a great leader. | ||
| But I believe, and I was very tough on him. | ||
| I was very tough on Russia. | ||
| Russia, I was probably the toughest. | ||
| I ended Nord Stream 2. I ended Nord Stream 2. The biggest deal they've ever done. | ||
| The biggest pipeline in the world. | ||
| The biggest. | ||
| All of Europe was going to be supplied by Russia. | ||
| And I ended the deal. | ||
| It was dead. | ||
| And then Biden comes in and approves it. | ||
| And they say, oh, I was nice to Russia. | ||
| Now, Putin actually said to me one time, you know, if you're supposed to be, like, friendly with me. | ||
| I would hate like hell for you to be angry at me because you are brutal. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| Not only that, the sanctions. | ||
| But forget the sanctions. | ||
| I ended Nord Stream 2. The pipeline was dead. | ||
| And then Biden comes in. | ||
| And he got $3.5 million, in all fairness, from the mayor of Moscow's wife. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| During the debate, we brought it up. | ||
| And Chris Wallace, who's not the father, he's not. | ||
| There is no resemblance between him and Mike Wallace, that I can tell you. | ||
| He said, you shouldn't be talking about that. | ||
| I said, why not? | ||
| They got three and a half, the family, three and a half million dollars from the mayor of Moscow's wife. | ||
| Why wouldn't I talk about that? | ||
| He wouldn't let me talk. | ||
| I'm negotiating against two people, not one. | ||
| I turned out to be right, because a year later, that was a big scandal. | ||
| Why did he get $3.5 million? | ||
| But Biden approved immediately the pipeline in Russia. | ||
| And he killed the Keystone XL pipeline, 48,000 jobs. | ||
| He killed it. | ||
| He did the exact opposite of what he should have done. | ||
| Yes, please. | ||
| I know you had your hand up. | ||
| Nice to see you. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Thanks for taking my question. | ||
| You referenced your conversation with Elon Musk earlier this week. | ||
| I want to ask you about that. | ||
| You praise how he treats workers, saying they go on strike and you say, that's okay, you're all gone, you're all gone, so every one of you is gone. | ||
| Are you really comfortable with companies threatening to fire workers who go on strike? | ||
| Well, no, I want companies to get workers that are going to love them and work for a wage that lets the company make a profit so they can go and expand. | ||
| In that case, they moved, as you know, they moved the company from California, Elon, from California to Texas because they were able to get things that California wouldn't give. | ||
| And I did ask him one question. | ||
| You're moving a very big company out of California that's been there for years into Texas. | ||
| Did the governor ever call you and say, like, let's work it out because we don't want to lose you? | ||
| And he said he never called. | ||
| Governor Newsom, he never called. | ||
| And you would have thought if I were governor of California and if Elon or anybody else, they have oil companies leaving, I would be calling. | ||
| But no, Elon wants to run an efficient company. | ||
| And if he has to get, he got rid of a lot of people on X or former Twitter. | ||
| A lot of people gone and it still works. | ||
| It still works. | ||
| So you got to run the company. | ||
| Productively. | ||
| And there are going to be a lot of jobs around. | ||
| I want it so that a person doesn't get lucky and find a job. | ||
| I want a person that can look for 10 jobs and all 10 companies want them. | ||
| And you negotiate much more than you'd get by doing what you just suggested. | ||
| So, you know, he's a strong man. | ||
| He's a strong guy. | ||
| He's a brilliant guy. | ||
| And he wants to get the best he can and he wants to get the best workers. | ||
| He pays a lot of money to a lot of his workers. | ||
| It's, to a certain extent, supply and demand. | ||
| But ultimately, that's what's going to lead to a great country. | ||
|
unidentified
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Just to follow up on that really quickly, because some people took it that as you saying that you would be comfortable with companies threatening to fire workers. | |
| Sean O 'Brien, who spoke at the Republican National Convention, saying that firing workers who are wanting to organize or striking is economic terrorism. | ||
| So just to be clear, that's something that you are not... | ||
| They weren't organizing against Elon. | ||
| He let them go because he was having a lot of problems in California. | ||
| They were making it impossible for him. | ||
| In California, what they were doing with the taxes and everything were making it impossible for him. | ||
| And Sean O 'Brien's a great guy from the Teamsters you're talking. | ||
| Yeah, Sean is great. | ||
| I think Sean would understand it better than anybody. | ||
| Don't forget, the unions are really threatened by what's coming in, by these millions and millions of people coming in. | ||
| Sean O 'Brien understands that. | ||
| The black population is absolutely threatened. | ||
| The Hispanic population is absolutely threatened because these people are coming in. | ||
| They're going to take their jobs. | ||
| They're going to make it very, very hard. | ||
| What's happened in our country is very dangerous, very bad thing. | ||
|
unidentified
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Governor Tim Walz is out on the campaign trail today, and he's been saying that he believes that you want things to get worse so that you can campaign on it, that you're rooting for failure. | |
| What's your response to that? | ||
| I wish I didn't have to do this. | ||
| If our country were run by Democrats and it was run beautifully, where we were really being productive and everything else, I would have never done this. | ||
| I wouldn't have done it if I thought I couldn't have won. | ||
| I think I can win. | ||
| I think I can win easily. | ||
| Once they're exposed for what they are, which is, you know, radical left lunatics, and that's what they are. | ||
| They're going to ruin. | ||
| She's going to ruin our country. | ||
| Going to ruin our country. | ||
| And I just hope the people of our country, and I believe they are because I see it already happening. | ||
| But I hope they are able to think for themselves. | ||
| Because if they think for themselves, if they look at the destruction that's going to be caused by Kamala and this person from out of nowhere he came, out of nowhere, a state that I love that state, but a state that's doing so poorly, where he's the one that signed in tampons in boys' bathrooms. | ||
| He signed a bill that boys' bathrooms, all boys' bathrooms in Minnesota will have tampons. | ||
| And what's going on? | ||
| What's wrong with us? | ||
| What's wrong with us as a country? | ||
| So, no, I would, if we had somebody doing a phenomenal job, I would be extremely happy. | ||
| What I want to do is I want to see, even the last few months, I hope the country does really well, even though it would make it probably a little bit harder to win. | ||
| I hope the country does really well. | ||
| It's country first. | ||
| I want our country to do great. | ||
| If they were great leaders, I would be the first to say they're doing a fantastic job. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
unidentified
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Do you regret debating President Biden so early on in the race? | |
| Do I regret debating Biden so early? | ||
| It was his request. | ||
| He said we should get the debates on early. | ||
| And I was willing. | ||
| Don't forget, I got CNN. | ||
| I got Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. | ||
| They're not Trump people. | ||
| They wanted to have a debate where their mics are turned off when the other person's answering the question. | ||
| They gave me every single thing that I couldn't approve, and I said, yeah, I'll do it. | ||
| So they got the debate on their terms. | ||
| They got the network that they dreamt of. | ||
| But that was really his decision. | ||
| I had to decide whether or not I felt I wanted to debate him. | ||
| And I think they didn't want to debate, but I agreed to every single thing. | ||
| It was a debate where they said, we'll give him something that it'll be impossible for him to accept. | ||
| And I accepted all the terms, other than when they had us sitting down at a desk. | ||
| And I said, I think that makes us look bad. | ||
| I don't want to sit down. | ||
| Let's stand up. | ||
| And they agreed to that. | ||
| Other than that, we gave them CNN, we gave them Dana, and we gave them Jake. | ||
| And by the way, I have to say, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were unbelievable. | ||
| Unbelievably straight and honest. | ||
| And I give him a lot of credit for that. | ||
| A lot of people were saying you couldn't have a fair debate. | ||
| I think we have that with ABC. | ||
| I have some people at ABC that don't like me too much. | ||
| I find it to be about the worst. | ||
| George Slopadopoulos. | ||
| I have a lot of people at ABC that I find it to be actually the most unfair of all the networks. | ||
| And they want to do it on ABC. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| You know, I don't mind. | ||
| The question that you're asking, though, about whether or not the debate should have happened would have been a better question to ask of Joe Biden. | ||
| Because had he not done the debate, he would still be running for president and people would be hiding him. | ||
| Just like they're hiding her right now. | ||
| You know they're hiding her no different than him. | ||
| Because I believe she's grossly incompetent. | ||
| And I don't think that when people hear what she has to say, they're going to buy it. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| There you go. | ||
| Go in. | ||
| I want them, too. | ||
|
unidentified
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Which one are you picking? | |
| What happens to all these groceries? | ||
| Keep going! | ||
| She wants my autograph. | ||
| I think we should do it. | ||
|
unidentified
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Go do it. | |
| Mr. President, I'm so glad you're ready to be up. | ||
| Follow him if you can. | ||
| Follow him if you can. | ||
| I think it's gonna be a big test. | ||
| Let's just stay with it here. | ||
| See what's up. | ||
| Obviously, some of the lady Ghostbusters there. | ||
| We have breaking news for you on the Secret Service, by the way. | ||
| President Trump is meeting some of his... | ||
| It would have to be club members, right? | ||
| So if you're a member of his club there, President Trump says he's giving an autograph to a 100-year-old woman. | ||
|
unidentified
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I got to ask a couple questions, actually. | |
| We'll see if the president comes to the rope line here. | ||
| I mean, this would be a very interesting shot. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| What a monster. | ||
|
unidentified
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Sir. | |
| Maybe there are going to be some questions gotten in. | ||
| I think these are just reporters doing their stand-ups. | ||
|
unidentified
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...the line again is doubling down on how to change the strategy as far as lifting up the media needs. | |
| Looks like President Trump is still signing autographs and saying hello to members of his club. | ||
|
unidentified
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So I'm going to have a final stretch of the phrase that you think that... | |
| And then we have no audio. | ||
| Oh, there we go. | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| Audio back. | ||
| Boys, I just want to stay here because I don't know if he's going to work the rope line. | ||
| Like, will he come up and talk to the press? | ||
| You have no idea! | ||
| We're live, baby! | ||
| So let's do it. | ||
| We're live. | ||
| Unfortunately, because of the press gaggle, we don't have a shot. | ||
| Trump right here. | ||
| It does seem like he's maybe... | ||
| We're going to loop back around. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| Breaking news from the Secret Service. | ||
| Holy moly. | ||
| Secret Service apparently... | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay, here we go. | |
| We've got the fight chants. | ||
| Our hope here is... | ||
| You have no idea with Trump, he can loop back around and just work the rope line. | ||
| And talk to everybody on the line so you just don't know. | ||
| So we're going to stick... | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Why not, right? | ||
| So President Trump doing what I call Alpha Trump locked in, baby. | ||
| President Trump is locked in. | ||
| President Trump was saying, hey, and we're just going to keep this up in case Trump... | ||
| You look at the agents, he's going to come back this way. | ||
| Is he going to keep taking questions? | ||
| You don't know! | ||
| He's a madman. | ||
| But while we're waiting, President Trump going alpha mode on Kamala Harris. | ||
| Exactly what he must do. | ||
| An interesting question at the very last. | ||
| Do you think they set up Joe Biden? | ||
| Do you think they set up Biden with this debate? | ||
| Do you regret doing this debate with Biden? | ||
| If they hadn't done this debate with Biden, Biden would still be in the race. | ||
| However, the polls really collapsed for Biden when President Trump Demolished him. | ||
| As you recall, they were pretty close. | ||
| They were pretty close with Joe Biden before the debate. | ||
| There were many people being like, oh yeah, it's a close race, it's a tied race. | ||
| We're still live, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We'll see where President Trump goes. | ||
| He's gripping and grinning, as they call it in politics, with his members of the club, but this is still a live shot there. | ||
| Bed Minister. | ||
| President Trump for 90 minutes, my team tells me. | ||
| 90 minutes! | ||
| This, in and of itself, is an own of Camilla. | ||
| Camilla. | ||
| Cammy. | ||
| Cammy Kamala. | ||
| Communist Kamala. | ||
| Donald Trump finally said Communist Kamala. | ||
| We're so angry. | ||
| And look at this, boys. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| It's spinning. | ||
|
unidentified
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Let's... | |
| Okay. | ||
| There's another one. | ||
| Let's go get... | ||
| Let's hop on over. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Let's hop on over. | ||
| We have a shot of Trump. | ||
| Okay, we've been able to actually get a shot of Trump. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| We have a shot of Trump. | ||
| Let's pop it on. | ||
| We'll see where Trump is right now. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Took us a second to kind of adjust the cameras here. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| So we have President Trump. | ||
| He's working the rope line right now. | ||
| If he pops back on and takes more questions... | ||
| You saw him end twice and he was like, actually... | ||
| Let me get you. | ||
| So there's President Trump just working the rope line and saying what's up to his club members there at Bedminister Club in New Jersey is where we were today. | ||
| And let's just stay on the shot, boys. | ||
| Stay on the shot until he officially departs. | ||
| Because he's a madman, and you don't know what he's going to do, so we're going to stick with it. | ||
| There's Donald Trump pointing to the sky, talking about God. | ||
| He was asked a great question about God sparing his life. | ||
| We'll replay that when Trump has officially departed. | ||
| President Trump, somebody who's obviously locked in and has had a major shift in strategy and in tone. | ||
| President Trump calling Kamala Harris communist Kamala. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Who said to do that? | ||
| Our chat! | ||
| Shout out to the chat. | ||
| We see you. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We polled you. | ||
| And you said, call her Kami Kamala. | ||
| We did that. | ||
| We pushed out on social media. | ||
| Wouldn't be the first or last time that we've had some good ideas on this program. | ||
| Did President Trump see him? | ||
| Did one of his advisors see him? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| His advisors are on the show day and night. | ||
| So, maybe. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| But Donald Trump saying communist Kamala. | ||
| Good. | ||
| They had this... | ||
| Idiot strategy. | ||
| Sorry, I'm just going to say it. | ||
| They have this, like, strategy where they're, like, they're calling Kamala a liberal. | ||
| She's not a liberal. | ||
| Not a liberal. | ||
| Actually, the term liberal is what we are. | ||
| I know it's going to sound a little nuts, but if you look up the term liberal and the liberals back in, like, the 70s were like, we want free speech. | ||
| We hate the FBI. | ||
| We don't like the CIA. | ||
| We think too big of a government is very scary. | ||
| That's fascistic. | ||
| We just kind of want everyone to live in peace and not hurt anybody else, and you just do your own thing. | ||
| That's actually liberal. | ||
| Kamala Harris is the opposite of that. | ||
| Talk about price controls today. | ||
| Donald Trump with the lines of groceries and housing and data. | ||
| We have all that broken down, too. | ||
| President Trump just kind of riffing and rolling kind of into a campaign speech, which was really funny. | ||
| I think we have all the TVs. | ||
| So what Trump did here was trick him. | ||
| It's kind of funny. | ||
| Trump tricked him. | ||
| Trump said, he tricked him. | ||
| Trump goes, hey, listen, I got something for you. | ||
| I'm gonna do a campaign rally speech and I'm gonna tell you it's a press conference. | ||
| And I'm going to destroy Kamala over destroying our economy. | ||
| I'm going to tie her directly to Joe Biden. | ||
| I'm going to talk about how they, you know, they shivved and threw away Joe Biden and threw a flaming trash compactor and how these people, you know, how they did him dirty and how they cheated and they swapped out the candidate. | ||
| Now, now I got to face Kamala, but he says he's going to do better than Kamala when they actually go to work, when they actually go to work on her. | ||
| And this sets the tone change for President Trump today. | ||
| What did President Trump say? | ||
| Recall with me. | ||
| What did President Trump say? | ||
| Kamala Harris is the border czar. | ||
| She has destroyed the country. | ||
| She's a psychotic radical. | ||
| She's a communist. | ||
| Kamala the communist. | ||
| It works. | ||
| Use that. | ||
| Kamala the communist. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| He got Gandalf the Grey waiting there for an autograph from Donald Trump. | ||
| Pretty awesome. | ||
| There he is. | ||
| Gandalf! | ||
| Look at that beard. | ||
| So you have, and you have Secret Service moving this direction. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| Does Trump do a lap and come back here? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We're on Trump. | ||
| This is live right now. | ||
| You can't hear what he's saying. | ||
| So we do our very best, by the way, to not talk over the president or really anybody during the lives because we want you to be able to hear and we want to be able to hear. | ||
| But what did Trump say? | ||
| Trump finally went in and was just like, listen. | ||
| She destroyed everything. | ||
| She says she's gonna fix it? | ||
| She's claiming she's gonna fix these things? | ||
| She destroyed it! | ||
| It's her fault! | ||
| Alright, here we go. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Come on, take more questions. | ||
| You know you wanna... | ||
|
unidentified
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Audio up! | |
| Thank you, sir! | ||
| Thank you, sir! | ||
| Thank you for your time! | ||
| There we go! | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| Very nice. | ||
| I saw you there very nice. | ||
|
unidentified
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Would you ask your attorney general to drop the federal cases against you? | |
| If you would you ask your attorney general next year if you get in the White House to drop the federal cases against you? | ||
| Can we talk about asking for the delay? | ||
| Okay, I'll see you too. | ||
| What is the last time you went grocery shopping? | ||
| What is the last time you went grocery shopping? | ||
| All right. | ||
| ALX, how many of these do we do? | ||
| How many of these do we do? | ||
| ALX, you better prepare. | ||
| I'm popping you on. | ||
| How many of these press conferences? | ||
| You can tell. | ||
| We have, like, the instinct. | ||
| Just bring on ALX whenever he's ready. | ||
| Poor ALX. | ||
| We do the pop-on. | ||
| He's doing his producer thing. | ||
| He's like, eh, why not? | ||
| Yo. | ||
| We knew he was going to come back and take a few more questions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We were going back and forth in the chat. | ||
| We're like, oh, he's done. | ||
| He's done. | ||
| I'm like, no, it's Trump. | ||
| He's going to come back. | ||
| No, I had the same instinct you did because he finished up twice. | ||
| Well, he did the same thing with Elon, too. | ||
| Oh, yeah, just to wrap things up. | ||
| And then they got into another question for 20 minutes. | ||
| Same thing here. | ||
| He's like, oh, yeah, I'll take one more. | ||
| And then he walks away and takes two more. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| I'm like, yep, hold it. | ||
| He's coming back. | ||
| This is a tone change for Trump. | ||
| Whereas the last press conference, Trump was very defensive about his positions. | ||
| This was offense against Kamala Harris. | ||
| The first 45 minutes was a campaign speech against Kamala Harris. | ||
| Yeah, and I think one of the best lines, they're like, oh, what's up with all the personal attacks? | ||
| He's like, yeah, these people want me to be nice. | ||
| They're trying to throw me in prison. | ||
| Yeah, so first of all, he just got shot a month ago. | ||
| And it's like people are saying, oh, what's up with all the personal attacks? | ||
| That's all Kamala's been doing, is mobbing personal attacks. | ||
| And Biden, too. | ||
| Biden is spiraling today, calling him Donald Dump, taking notes from Chris Christie. | ||
| And no one will ask Joe Biden. | ||
| Well, I mean, they won't have the opportunity to, but they won't ask Joe Biden what's up with the personal attacks. | ||
| I mean, we're playing with the same playbook we have for the last eight years anyway. | ||
| We already know that the press is unfair. | ||
| But yeah, playing offense is just the way to cut through it. | ||
| And to keep holding these press conferences or mini-campaign rallies, as you said, I think it's a perfect way to do it. | ||
| There was a... | ||
| We've got to see this. | ||
| This is from our dear friend Caroline Levitt. | ||
| She has this image. | ||
| It's hard to really describe here. | ||
| You can see the president right there. | ||
| It's hard to really describe. | ||
| This is a wall three reporters deep and two or three reporters high that President Trump is doing the press conference with and for. | ||
| You can see here, you have at least dozens of members of the press there making a wall, like a phalanx wall. | ||
| You've seen it, like what a real press conference looks like. | ||
| You will never see Kamala Harris do one of these, ever. | ||
| And she's started to ditch her press pool when she goes and travels because she doesn't even go to them. | ||
| And we saw J.D. Vance go up to her own press pool and answer questions from them. | ||
| But yeah, I think she's actually started ditching them and not even traveling with them when she does events now, I heard. | ||
| I love this look with all the items behind him. | ||
| More props. | ||
| Here's Jason Miller right here. | ||
| You have Wheaties boxes. | ||
| I think these are sausages, right? | ||
| A bunch of Jimmy Dean sausages and bacon. | ||
| And then some of these signs, which were a little hard to see, and Trump talked in and around. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| You can zoom in here on the photos. | ||
| You can see the baked goods, cereal and grocery products. | ||
| I really appreciate that they have cookies on there. | ||
| And here you can see just some of the... | ||
| Higher-end close-ups. | ||
| And then, of course, you have housing right here, represented by this kind of adorable little toy house. | ||
| The little dollhouse, yeah. | ||
| I think we actually have the images, too, of the actual... | ||
| Oh, you can see them there. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| So these are what Trump posted on Truth Social. | ||
| Yeah, it's smart. | ||
| So, President Trump... | ||
| I mean, my big takeaway is he's on the attack. | ||
| My big takeaway is, again, it was a defensive... | ||
| It was a semi-defensive position last press conference, and now it is an offensive position against Kamala Harris. | ||
| Like, gloves off. | ||
| Gloves off. | ||
| Enough of this. | ||
| Like, I just survived an assassination. | ||
| You're a communist. | ||
| Enough with calling her a liberal. | ||
| First off, I think that's definitionally incorrect, but stupid. | ||
| Yes, okay, she's a liberal. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Wow, that must really hurt her feelings. | ||
| Boy, call me America first. | ||
| That really hurts me. | ||
| It's like Joe Biden calling us MAGA. | ||
| Wow, you got us! | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Well, that's the thing. | ||
| Trump always turns that around and says, does he know what MAGA means? | ||
| He's like, the make America great again Americans are a threat to our country. | ||
| Yeah, MAGA is a threat to our country. | ||
| Making America great, that's really a threat? | ||
| Okay, so yeah. | ||
| It's the same for them. | ||
| They embrace the label, liberal or Democrat. | ||
| Hence, they're running as a Democrat. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| They're not going to embrace communists, though, so make them eat it, right? | ||
| Like, make them eat it. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, and I think Trump should do kind of this schedule that he's been doing the past couple weeks, every week. | ||
| He should do what he did, like, a couple weeks ago with Aiden Ross, then he held a press conference, then he held a rally. | ||
| I think that's a pretty smart and diverse campaign schedule, because he's doing, you know, a culture-type interview and making waves in culture. | ||
| Which he did with Aiden Ross. | ||
| And this week he did the Elon Space to lead off the week. | ||
| And then both weeks he held the press conference on Thursday. | ||
| And then he has a rally this weekend as well. | ||
| So he's kind of hitting all of his bases there. | ||
| And then obviously he should start attacking swing states. | ||
| But what I think he should do, and a lot of people talk about Kamala's crowds and everything, people don't give Trump enough credit for campaigning in blue cities. | ||
| And if you notice, it's like, so Trump is going to Atlanta. | ||
| And then Kamala is in Atlanta. | ||
| It's a blue city. | ||
| And Trump is pulling basically the same crowd that she is, if not bigger. | ||
| Because at the Atlanta rally, actually, she had the bleachers pushed in. | ||
| And she flipped the stadium on its side. | ||
| So there weren't a lot of people on the floor. | ||
| But Trump should do the same thing except the opposite. | ||
| He should go to deep red places like in Texas, Florida. | ||
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Hold on, Alex. | |
| Hold on just a moment, sir. | ||
| She also brought Grammy award-winning, super popular artists, as much as we make fun, of Megan Thee Stallion. | ||
| And we know that part of having her on stage was to attract Tim Walz to her campaign. | ||
| Nonetheless, she's sitting there tweaking, twerking, and, you know, like, Again, Tim Walsh is like, I thought this was going to be a real stallion. | ||
| I was really excited. | ||
| I didn't want to just be a rapper. | ||
| But here we go. | ||
| That also brings in people. | ||
| Savannah Hernandez, who's a dear friend of our program, filmed tons of people leaving after the rap concert was done. | ||
| Yeah, so there. | ||
| And then also in Phoenix, when they realized they weren't going to fill the upper deck, they pulled out the classic black tarp to put over the seats. | ||
| And a week earlier, a couple people from the top row left five minutes before Trump was ending his speech, and we had our classic Democrat friends online saying, Trump's rally was basically empty. | ||
| And also, the other thing, they were posting the Montana event three hours before he took the stage, and they were like, oh, this event's totally empty. | ||
| I'm like, yeah, Trump goes on stage in three hours. | ||
| So, yeah, I think... | ||
| I think Trump should hold massive rallies in, like, Alabama and Texas and Florida and really, like, have the FU optics to her because, you know, she's clearly trying to taunt him with the crowd sizes. | ||
| And, like, we all know Trump can pull a crowd. | ||
| And we saw the high school gyms that they were filling for the past, like, the last couple of months with Joe Biden and Kamala. | ||
| I think that would be a huge offensive move, would be to just hold a mega rally in a super red district. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| I apologize, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I was going to put up this awesome rally footage. | ||
| I actually played a different series of B-roll that had the Trump assassination attempt B-roll. | ||
| Nonetheless, Donald Trump will be going back. | ||
| Talk about balls! | ||
| Donald Trump's going back! | ||
| ALX, to Butler County, Pennsylvania. | ||
| We don't know the date. | ||
| We do know it's happening. | ||
| We don't know if it's on the same grounds. | ||
| Now, that would be extremely alpha. | ||
| Can you talk me through the news that broke while President Trump was live about the Secret Service and outdoor rallies? | ||
| Yeah, so they're actually going to start doing the bulletproof glass right outside. | ||
| And I guess that kind of makes sense. | ||
| They usually do that in more open spaces, too, like in D.C. I remember when he gave the 4th of July on the National Mall on January 6th. | ||
| He had the whole glass because it's a huge open area and it's very hard to secure. | ||
| Yeah, if they did it at the same place, obviously they'd have the rooftop secured, but it would be a lot more safe to have bulletproof glass as well on that. | ||
| But yeah, I think they're going to go back in October. | ||
| They don't have a date yet, but I believe that's when it's going to be in October. | ||
| That's going to be massive. | ||
| I loved, if you were to give me the best, I mean, first off, I agree with this entirely. | ||
| Obama never gave a speech without bulletproof glass. | ||
| Obama could be talking, you know, inside of one of his multiple beachside mansions. | ||
| To his maid, and he has bulletproof glass in front of him. | ||
| Obama always had bulletproof glass in front of him. | ||
| This would have prevented... | ||
| I mean, as long as it covers, like, 180 degrees, it would have prevented the bullet, I believe, in Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| I'm not, you know, I guess I need to actually see the setup, right? | ||
| But, like, it was certainly... | ||
| Yeah, some of the pictures I've seen, it's kind of like 180. | ||
| It covers the whole front. | ||
| From what I've seen, the picture would have covered it. | ||
| But yeah, again, I agree with this, especially because you'd think that there's heightened security around Secret Service after what just happened a month ago. | ||
| But like we just talked about this morning, last night, one of the Secret Service details just, you know, wandered off to go breastfeed. | ||
| Or like, how is that allowed when, you know, you're not even allowed to take family members and stuff? | ||
| And they were actually like in a secure area where it's designated for emergencies, like in an instance where the president is injured or shot or whatever. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Like, I don't care if it was to feed your dog. | ||
| This seems utterly... | ||
| It's insane that this is a circumstance. | ||
| This is not a job that you walk off of. | ||
| If you're an airline pilot, if you're driving a plane, if you're protecting the life of the president, if you're protecting the lives of kindergartners in a daycare, it's not a job you walk off of, right? | ||
| Like, jeez. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| The reason is irrelevant. | ||
| You walked off the job, right? | ||
| It's just wild. | ||
| So, I mean, maybe. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I have no faith in the Secret Service. | ||
| After what we've heard from Mike Benz and Julie Kelly over the last couple of days, I have zero faith in the Secret Service. | ||
| And it's so sad, too, because it's one of those agencies that I... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I guess I had this kind of glassy-eyed, like, optimist look. | ||
| And I was like, no way the Secret Service would be politicized. | ||
| But, dude, since January 6th and since the revelations and since watching Kim Cheadle testify and Roe testify... | ||
| It's like, bro, this agency has also deeply been corrupted, obviously. | ||
| Yeah, and there's obviously the... | ||
| So the core detail is probably really good, because I know they have personal agents that are generally with them all the time, but then once it expands into events and stuff, and then they... | ||
| Passed the buck off to, like, local law enforcement and all of that. | ||
| And then, like, we were talking about with HSI and, like, how they didn't have enough, like, agents at the time. | ||
| And that's when it becomes all, like, really dicey, too. | ||
| Because it's kind of like, who's on first? | ||
| And there's no accountability. | ||
| And people are like, well, I thought they had it. | ||
| They thought they were covering it. | ||
| And, you know, it's just, you know, insane at that point. | ||
| Bro, do you remember at RNC when Don Jr. was like, I knew all those Secret Service agents. | ||
| Every one of them on stage. | ||
| And Don Jr., who's a harsh critic and I think pulls zero punches on anybody and will just – will straight up say it. | ||
| Gets him in trouble a little bit. | ||
| Like if there was a guy to like really go ballistic, right, it would be Don Jr. | ||
| And he said of the core agents, he was very proud of them, right? | ||
| It's the leadership where the rot is, brain rot, political rot. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Don says he goes hunting with all those guys. | ||
| It's like all those guys would do anything. | ||
| So outdoor rallies are back, and the Secret Service has now a plan. | ||
| Don't trust them. | ||
| I don't trust them. | ||
| I don't trust them. | ||
| I still don't. | ||
| You know, I'm still like, Trump, don't do it! | ||
| Don't do it! | ||
| If you see the Lady Ghostbusters, grab a proton pack! | ||
| You're going to have a problem! | ||
| Okay, so the best question. | ||
| These are great tactics. | ||
| These are my favorite tactics. | ||
| The best question, though, was like, do you think God saved your life for a reason? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| To the point of, you know, you think God saved your life for a reason. | ||
| I think it's the one clip. | ||
| We'll replay some of these in other content, but I think it's the one clip that we should totally replay here. | ||
| Let's hit it. | ||
| Do you think God saved your life for a reason? | ||
| President Trump's response. | ||
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President Trump, you've spoken very passionately about how God saved your life, and I'm wondering... | |
| Have you put much thought into why God saved your life? | ||
| As in, for what purpose has he been shielding and protecting you? | ||
| So, I don't know if you heard the question. | ||
| You've spoken about God saving your life, that I've spoken passionately about it. | ||
| And something happened, because that was a miracle. | ||
| I never looked that way. | ||
| The audience was massive, and it was in front of me. | ||
| I never have that particular graph. | ||
| That was a graph on, as you all know, now that it's very... | ||
| I think everyone knows it very well, but it showed the great numbers on illegal immigration. | ||
| It was the lowest point we've ever had. | ||
| And it was one that I use less than 20% of the time. | ||
| It's always at the end of the speech, not at the beginning of the speech. | ||
| And it's always on the left side, not the right side. | ||
| And yet, for some reason, I called it. | ||
| It's not on a teleprompter. | ||
| I do things largely without a teleprompter, frankly, because it's hard to hold an audience if you're going to go for an hour and a half or two hours reading a script. | ||
| And I just talked about it and I moved to my right, turned sharply to my right. | ||
| And if I didn't do that, I'm not here with you. | ||
| So, yeah, God has something to do with it. | ||
| It's a miracle. | ||
| And God had something to do with it. | ||
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And maybe it's we want to save the world. | |
| This world is going down. | ||
| This world is going down. | ||
| I think that President Trump had sort of an aura around him. | ||
| Entering the RNC convention. | ||
| And they have done everything they can to downshift that and to change those narratives as quickly as possible. | ||
| And starting with immediately switching the candidate out as soon as the RNC convention was done. | ||
| Immediately stopping the candidate and focusing on cyber attacks, focusing on anything other than the unifying RNC convention. | ||
| What a weird, what an interesting question at the very end there. | ||
| Are you sad you said yes to the debate? | ||
| Man, that one got me thinking, Alex! | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Last thought, last thought. | ||
| That one got me thinking. | ||
| I was like, wait a second. | ||
| So they clearly drugged Biden. | ||
| I'll say it! | ||
| I don't care what you think. | ||
| What I mean is they clearly maybe didn't give drugs to Biden. | ||
| Something was horribly wrong with the man that night. | ||
| You know, he was worse. | ||
| Do you agree with me? | ||
| He was worse than he ever was. | ||
| Like, he's as bad as we've ever seen. | ||
| We've seen him comatose and actually passed out at events, like in the Lahaina event in Maui. | ||
| We saw him literally asleep. | ||
| But other than being physically comatose, I've never seen Biden that bad. | ||
| Well, his first answer, he had like a frog in his throat, like the entire time. | ||
| And people were like, I remember everyone's reaction was... | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| He's really bombing. | ||
| And, like, it was so funny because he was posting that, oh, it's just water, Jack, or whatever, in the can or whatever, and saying, oh, I'm not drugged. | ||
| It's just water. | ||
| And everyone's like, he's going to crush it. | ||
| Oh, Republicans are not going to know how to handle it when he crushes the debate. | ||
| And then, like, that's his... | ||
| He's like... | ||
| And he's like a frog in his throat. | ||
| I'm like, oh, my God. | ||
| He's actually bombing this. | ||
| But, yeah, I mean, to Trump's point, though, It wasn't really up to him. | ||
| He literally just said, I will debate you anytime, anywhere outside of the courthouse for the past two years. | ||
| And Biden's like, one time he's like, oh, when are you going to debate me? | ||
| I'll do it on CNN super early or whatever. | ||
| And then he's just like, yeah, as long as we're standing up. | ||
| And like we've all talked about on our show was that they did this, the Democrats forced him to do this because... | ||
| They wanted to see if he could actually perform a debate and make the decision to turn on him, which ended up happening, which sounded like a conspiracy theory at the time, but it was actually what was playing out. | ||
| So they tricked him into unwittingly doing it, and he got betrayed and got forced to step down. | ||
| This is why I think that it was a setup. | ||
| I would say that maybe they were just rolling the dice and seeing if it could happen. | ||
| I think it's a setup ALX. | ||
| Because Joe Biden was so off. | ||
| And that guy's on a very special cocktail to stay upright. | ||
| And the dosage was off that night. | ||
| It's worse than I've ever seen him. | ||
| And we watch all these events live. | ||
| We watch them live. | ||
| We knew what Donald Trump was going to do today. | ||
| You just end up knowing the cadence and the flow of these people. | ||
| Biden was worse than ever that night. | ||
| Something happened. | ||
| And he disappeared for a week before that, too. | ||
| Like, Camp David to prepare or whatever. | ||
| And that was the first time we saw him in a week. | ||
| So, yeah, I don't know what was going on there. | ||
| All these leaks out of Camp David. | ||
| When did they leak out of Camp David? | ||
| They were like, he was taking naps. | ||
| He was only working an hour a day. | ||
| Like, you know, he was not with it. | ||
| They were leaking on him. | ||
| Man, it was just brutal. | ||
| But that really got me thinking. | ||
| Should you have debated Biden? | ||
| If Trump said no, then they would have kind of been stuck with Biden. | ||
| Like, it'd be Biden accepting the DNC nomination right now, for sure. | ||
| Like, next week. | ||
| Because they would have had no reason to dump him. | ||
| Without that debate, that was the reason. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| They set him up to fail. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| Man, it's dark chess, man. | ||
| It's dark chess. | ||
| It's a little creepy. | ||
| But it does make you think. | ||
| And also, it's important to know that these people aren't actually in power. | ||
| They think they're in power, but they don't actually control things. | ||
| They found out in 2016. | ||
| And I'll leave with this, and I just want to get your thoughts on it, and then we can sit. | ||
| Mike Benz said this, and it really made me ponder. | ||
| He's like, has Trump lost a single vote from 2016? | ||
| Has he lost a vote from 2020? | ||
| No, dude. | ||
| If anything, he's gained a lot of votes. | ||
| He's more popular. | ||
| He's doing better in polls than he was in both those elections. | ||
| And so no blackpilling. | ||
| No dooming. | ||
| No blackpilling. | ||
| You aren't built for this if you're going to look at a poll where Trump is tied with Kamala Harris and blackpilling. | ||
| No. | ||
| He's doing great. | ||
| He's doing better than he's ever done. | ||
| And Mike Benz is like... | ||
| You know, Trump's pulling down, like, 75 million, like, legal votes in 2020. | ||
| You know, he's just added to that, and so that's just pretty powerful. | ||
| Even, yeah, and even Obama lost votes from, you know, his first to his second election. | ||
| He lost votes. | ||
| Trump gained votes. | ||
| And also, the thing is, I think it was on CNN that they were saying this, people underestimate the fact that Trump has gotten more popular. | ||
| Since 2016 and 2020. | ||
| Even in these polls where he's quote-unquote losing, he's more popular than he's ever been. | ||
| And plus, I love the Real Clear Politics page when you go to compare this day in history in 2020 and 2016. | ||
| It's like the numbers are astronomically better in almost all cases. | ||
| So yeah, all these black pillars, I don't know, man. | ||
| They just don't look at the data the same way that we do. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| It's just blackpilling because it's psychological warfare. | ||
| It's why, ladies and gentlemen, we keep up our energy on this channel. | ||
| We say thank you. | ||
| The chat just absolutely rolling today. | ||
| We thank you to Tenet for helping us build this show. | ||
| Tenet Media, follow their page. | ||
| It's linked. | ||
| Or if you're watching on Tenet Media... | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, like, this is just me, Tim Pool, a bunch of other incredible creators, Lauren Chen. | ||
| It's an awesome family of, like, actual, real America, like, America First, patriots, people who love this place, people who are critical thinkers and free thinkers. | ||
| Dare I say liberal? | ||
| Like, in the classical sense of the word, free speech. | ||
| Free speech, free thought. | ||
| No fascism or communism in that vein. | ||
| ALX, that was a wild one. | ||
| Ultimately, all Trump's doing here is trolling Kamala. | ||
| The whole thing's a troll to Kamala. | ||
| Oh, I'm just going to do two hours live. | ||
| Troll to Kamala. | ||
| Yeah, I think this should be his new schedule, absolutely. | ||
| We got it. | ||
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It's so funny. | |
| All right, Alex. | ||
| We out of here. | ||
| Do we have any good memes to play? | ||
| Any good funny meme? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Good funny meme? | ||
| Robbie, I want to load up memes. | ||
| I want to always send people away with a laugh, okay? | ||
| We always have a meme. | ||
| Always have a meme. | ||
| What did we play at the start? | ||
| Let's play what we played up at the front of the show, okay? | ||
| We got that loaded, Colin. | ||
| I think it was the Gladiator one, right? | ||
| We're going to rock and roll. | ||
| Yeah, that's the one. | ||
| That's exactly the one. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, an exciting evening. | ||
| And again, the entire thing is a massive troll. | ||
| Since we have a second, as we load our meme, we always want to play a meme. | ||
| We're going to play the meme for you. | ||
| As we load up our meme... | ||
| Just a reminder, if you check online, you'll find this little account called Kamala HQ where she stole. | ||
| It finally got noted. | ||
| Yeah, they got community noted. | ||
| The entire account never posts anything good about Kamala. | ||
| Only ever clipping Donald Trump out of context. | ||
| The entire thing. | ||
| You'd assume that they'd want to post something nice about Kamala, but nope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Sadly, no. | ||
| Alright, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Have a wonderful Thursday evening. | ||
| Signing off, your boy Benny and ALX. | ||
| Here's a good meme for you. |
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