Jan. 31, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Todd, good morning to you today. | |
| Divers are expected to return to the crash site as they work with the NTSB to begin debris removal as they also continue this investigation, trying to find what's left of both the helicopter and the regional jet involved. | ||
| Overnight, we also learned through the NTSB that they've recovered both the cockpit data recorder as well as the cockpit voice recorder. | ||
| They're now in a government lab for evaluation. | ||
| These are photos from the NTSB. | ||
| They say it'll be at least a month, if not longer, before a preliminary report is released about the crash. | ||
| They also caution it is far too soon to know whether or not air traffic control staffing was at the level needed to prevent a crash or if there was communications issues between the aircraft involved. | ||
| On Thursday, President Trump appointed a new acting head of the FAA, also signed an executive order directing the government to review all federal aviation hiring and safety decisions. | ||
| I do, yeah. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| Obviously, that was something that should not have happened. | ||
| And we're not going to let it happen again. | ||
| On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are accusing Trump of politicizing the tragedy, but there's already talk from lawmakers about holding hearings to look into the crash. | ||
| One of the big questions has been about whether or not there's too much congestion over the skies here in Washington. | ||
| Not only do we have three airports around here, including Reagan National, behind me, but we have a lot of military traffic that is continuing to go up and down the Potomac. | ||
| We haven't seen as many choppers out here, Todd, since the crash happened, but we'll look to see if whether or not the traffic returns as the sun comes up. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| I see your hobbies are drinking, smoking weed, and all types of ill s**t. | ||
| Well, congratulations. | ||
| You got yourself a job. | ||
| Right on, huh? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are back. | ||
| Here is the press dais and the press secretary. | ||
| Who was on time within a very, very high confidence interval last press conference. | ||
| Will, we assume, be on time this press conference. | ||
| The last press conference for Caroline Levitt was an absolute bombshell. | ||
| And thank you for joining us. | ||
| It's your boy, Benny, here. | ||
| We're going to watch together and have a rip-roaring good time. | ||
| Watching the press secretary dispatch what is a considerable amount of fake news that has been building up inside of the news ecosystem. | ||
| And you can see there in the front seats going to be the front seat of reporters. | ||
| They get seated when the press secretary is about to walk out. | ||
| And what you just saw there, head over to that. | ||
| I just saw Peter Doocy. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Peter Doocy taking a seat. | ||
| This means that she is imminently about to cut out. | ||
| So we have an entire thing built out. | ||
| For you and ready to go. | ||
| But we don't want to miss, of course, Caroline Levitt. | ||
| She was just a couple minutes late. | ||
| This is a 1 p.m. press conference call time. | ||
| And if the front row gets seated, you know what that means? | ||
| These are the corporate media reporters. | ||
| That means they've all been told to take their seats and that the press conference will begin imminently. | ||
| We have dozens of clips from the hearings. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Dozens of clips from the hearings yesterday, but we ain't gonna go to any of those, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We're not gonna go to any of those clips. | ||
| We are going to stay locked in right here because we've been sort of given the signal that Carolyn Levitt is out. | ||
| How are you? | ||
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And here she is. | |
| There we go. | ||
| Nice live shot. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Good to see all of you. | ||
| Happy Friday. | ||
| It's great to be back with you. | ||
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Way to go, Carolyn. | |
| I want to provide an update on President Trump's actions in the wake of the catastrophic air collision that tragically claimed the lives of 67 people at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. | ||
| Everyone in this White House continues to mourn the victims and keep their friends and families in our thoughts and prayers during this unimaginable time. | ||
| First, within moments of the collision, the President and his newly appointed team were in immediate communication. | ||
| The President was briefed on Wednesday evening following the crash, again on Thursday morning, and he has continued to receive updates as recovery efforts continue on the ground. | ||
| The President, as you know, took time to address the nation yesterday afternoon. | ||
| To deliver accountability, President Trump swiftly signed a memorandum directing an immediate assessment of the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure the federal government is maintaining the highest personnel and policy aviation safety standards. | ||
| The memorandum directs the Secretary of Transportation and the FAA Administrator to immediately review all hiring decisions and changes to safety protocols made during the prior four years and to take all necessary corrective actions to achieve uncompromised aviation safety. | ||
| The review will include a comprehensive assessment and reversal of any deterioration in hiring standards and aviation safety standards and protocols during the previous administration. | ||
| Aviation safety was addressed by President Trump before this tragic collision even took place. | ||
| On his second day in office, the president signed a memorandum to immediately stop Biden-DEI hiring programs and return to nondiscriminatory, merit-based hiring. | ||
| And in 2018, during President Trump's first term, the Department of Transportation announced it would put an end at that time to use the biological questionnaire that was introduced by the Obama administration, which punished skilled applicants. | ||
| President Trump has long led on the issue of aviation safety, and he will continue to do so. | ||
| He will continue to deliver on the promises he made to the American people at record speed. | ||
| The Senate has already confirmed eight of President Trump's exceptional cabinet nominees, including most recently, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, as you of course know, EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is scheduled to be sworn in later today. | ||
| We expect the Senate to continue quickly confirming the remainder of President Trump's well-qualified nominees in the days ahead. | ||
| Earlier this week in the East Room, the President proudly signed the Laken Riley Act into law, surrounded by Laken's loving parents and sister. | ||
| This common-sense bipartisan law mandates the federal detention of illegal aliens who are accused of theft, burglary, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury, like the animal who murdered Laken Riley in cold blood. | ||
| This was the first piece of legislation President Trump proudly signed as the 47th President of the United States, and it will guarantee that Lakin did not die in vain. | ||
| As Lakin's mother, Allison, tearfully said during the signing event, President Trump said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin, and he hasn't. | ||
| He's a man of his word, and we trust that he will fight for the American people. | ||
| Those are the words of Lakin's mother, and we will never forget them. | ||
| So to help lock up even more criminal illegal aliens, President Trump signed a memorandum this week to detain them at Guantanamo Bay. | ||
| This action will expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide critical extra detention space for high priority criminal illegals. | ||
| Our brave ICE agents continue to arrest more and more of these types of individuals every day in communities across our country. | ||
| And I have more updates for you. | ||
| On January 27, 2025, ICE Chicago arrested a citizen of Guatemala who has been convicted of solicitation to meet a child, disturbing, and sentenced to 24 months probation. | ||
| On January 28, 2025, ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of South Korea who has been convicted of nine counts of possession or control of material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct. | ||
| On January 28, ICE New York arrested a Mexican national previously charged by the state of New York for attempted murder and possession of a weapon and assault. | ||
| And on January 28, ICE Philly arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of possession of child pornography. | ||
| Our message is simple. | ||
| If you are a criminal illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported. | ||
| On another important matter, the nation's report card was released this week, and the news is not good. | ||
| It showed that U.S. students had record low reading comprehension scores last year. | ||
| It's National School Choice Week, and in part of the president's commitment to education, he just left a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room focused on this issue with leaders from across the country. | ||
| The national report card showed that 70% of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, and 40% of 4th graders did not even meet the basic reading levels. | ||
| This is completely unacceptable to the president, and he continues to take aggressive actions to address this education problem in our country. | ||
| He signed an executive order this week prohibiting federal funding of the indoctrination of our children, including radical gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom. | ||
| The President believes American education should focus on cultivating patriotic citizens who are ready for the workforce. | ||
| And this action will help get schools back on track and defend fundamental parental rights and education. | ||
| The President also signed a school choice executive order expanding educational freedom and opportunity for families. | ||
| And in lighter news, but in exciting news, after announcing our briefing room changes on Wednesday, this White House has received more than 10,000 submissions from individuals across the country who are eager to join all of you. | ||
| We might have to make this room a little bit bigger to do that. | ||
| Who want to participate in our new media seat at a future briefing. | ||
| So in this seat today, we have the Ruthless podcast. | ||
| They humbly started by entertaining small audiences on Capitol Hill, but after four years This program has become one of the most influential podcasts in America They previously reached number one on the charts and earned over 25 million downloads as they deliver political news with a humorous touch The hosts are Josh Holmes Michael Duncan comfortably smug and the man joining us today John Ashbrook So with that I will take your questions John Thank you very much. | ||
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Caroline, in your first briefing. | |
| The media went after this administration for supporting illegal immigrants they claimed were not criminals. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| The question is, do you think they're out of touch with Americans demanding action on our border crisis? | ||
| The media out of touch? | ||
| I think the media certainly is out of touch, and I think that's proven by a number of things, John. | ||
| Number one, there was a New York Times poll that was released prior to President Trump's inauguration by the New York Times, which of course is a legacy media outlet, that showed that 83% of Americans support deporting the individuals that you mentioned, illegal immigrant criminals, especially those who have committed heinous crimes in the interior of our country. | ||
| And I received a very, actually, interesting Statistic on this front from ICE this week, 97% of the deportations that this administration has made thus far are of individuals who had a removal order from the previous administration but were never removed from the interior of our country. | ||
| So this shows that the previous administration was actually defying our laws and all this administration is doing is simply Following the laws, the immigration laws of this great country. | ||
| Thanks for the question, John. | ||
| Anything else? | ||
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No, that's it. | |
| Okay, great. | ||
| Peter. | ||
| Thanks, Caroline. | ||
| If President Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, these DEI hires who never should have been brought on, then it's not safe to fly commercially, is it? | ||
| The President was asked and answered this yesterday and he believes that it is still indeed safe and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies. | ||
| With that said... | ||
| Two things can be true at the same time. | ||
| And we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration. | ||
| And the President wants to increase those standards. | ||
| He wants pilots in this country who have the great responsibility of flying American citizens by the tens of millions every single day to be chosen for that position based on their merit and their skills. | ||
| And so the administration will continue to prioritize this. | ||
| Was the air traffic controller in the DCA Tower on Wednesday night hired or not fired at some point because of his or her race? | ||
| That investigation is ongoing. | ||
| And so when we have updates on the exact individuals who were involved in the collision, including the air traffic controller, also the pilots of the helicopter and others, we will confirm those. | ||
| I don't want to confirm names from this podium today. | ||
| We're not in a position to do that. | ||
| But, I will say, the President has still rightfully pointed out that there has been problems with the aviation industry over the past several years. | ||
| And this started under Barack Obama in 2014. | ||
| And when the President says, on Truth Social, the Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot, it was far above the 200-foot limit, that's not really too complicated to understand, is it? | ||
| Is he suggesting a helicopter malfunction or a... | ||
| Is a crew error or a crew doing this intentionally? | ||
| No, the president is simply stating what he said in that true social post, which is that the helicopter was flying higher than it should have been, which is one of the reasons that led to this collision. | ||
| And the other reasons for that are still being investigated, and I will let that investigation play out. | ||
| Kelly. | ||
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Some of our colleagues have obtained a memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency that talks about not holding any activities or programming related to Black History Month to be in line with the President's views on diversity, equity, and inclusion. | |
| Does the President plan to have a proclamation about Black History Month? | ||
| His first term each of the four years of his term he did so and called on those in government to have programming activities and celebrations. | ||
| Is he going to do that this year? | ||
| Yeah, the president looks forward to signing a proclamation celebrating Black History Month. | ||
| I actually spoke with our great staff secretary. | ||
| It's in the works of being approved and it's going to be ready for the president's signature to signify the beginning of that tomorrow. | ||
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If an agency is calling off those kinds of activities In an attempt to be in alignment with the President's views on DEI and other things, should they adjust that now and have those programs and make those celebrations however they see fit in the office? | |
| The President is leading here at the White House, and I'll leave it to the proclamation that he will sign very soon. | ||
| Mary, great to see you. | ||
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Thanks for having us. | |
| So I wanted to follow up on the gender executive orders you mentioned. | ||
| We know that President Trump has taken a bunch of steps to protect children from irreversible transgender procedures. | ||
| Is he interested in backing congressional legislation on this point? | ||
| And does the Trump administration have interest in investigating doctors who perform these irreversible procedures on kids, such as a double mastectomy on a minor girl? | ||
| Well, the president has already taken a very strong stance on this issue this week with the signing of his executive order, a few executive orders in this space. | ||
| First, he made it the official policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female, and we have directed all federal agencies to comply with that policy. | ||
| As for congressional legislation to support the president's agenda in this space, and certainly ending the mutilation of young children, the chemical castration of young children, which is a barbaric practice. | ||
| That the vast majority of Americans do not support for young minor children. | ||
| Certainly the President would support Congress's efforts as he has already made that very clear this week. | ||
| Jennifer. | ||
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On Rick Grinnell's trip to Venezuela to meet with Nicolas Maduro, is there anything you can share on timing on that? | |
| What his agenda is? | ||
| What the mission of that trip is? | ||
| Yes, so I can confirm that Rick Grinnell is in Venezuela today. | ||
| I can confirm that Rick Grinnell is going to Venezuela or is in Venezuela with a very two... | ||
| We have immediate directives from the President of the United States. | ||
| Number one, Rick Grinnell has been instructed to identify a place and ensure that repatriation flights of Trende Aragua members of Venezuelan nationals who have broken our nation's laws will land in Venezuela. | ||
| As I said at this podium a few days ago, we expect every nation on this planet to cooperate with the repatriation of our citizens, and so Rick Grinnell is in Venezuela to ensure that can continue. | ||
| And number two, Vercanel is in Venezuela to ensure that all U.S. detainees in Venezuela are returned home. | ||
| That's his mission, and I will provide a readout after this trip. | ||
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On Bob Hernandez, can you tell us if anyone has approached the White House or the President about a pardon or a commutation? | |
| I have not been part of those discussions. | ||
| If they have, I'm not sure if they have, but I won't speculate on potential pardons that may or may not happen. | ||
| To my awareness, the answer is no. | ||
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Justin. | |
| Friends of Reuters are reporting that the President has made a decision on I saw that report and it is false. | ||
| I was just with the President in the Oval Office and I can confirm that tomorrow, the February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place at a statement several weeks ago continues. | ||
| The President will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans. | ||
| These are promises made and promises kept by the President. | ||
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The President yesterday said that last night he was planning to discuss whether an exemption would be made on oil imports. | |
| Do you have any information on what decision he made there, or will there be exemptions at all offered under this? | ||
| I don't have an update or readout for you on the exemptions, but those tariffs will be for public consumption in about 24 hours tomorrow, so you can read them then. | ||
| Stephen Nelson. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| I have three questions, if that's all right. | ||
| I'd like to ask you about press freedom and then about two economic matters. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| On press freedom, on Tuesday, you announced plans to roll back the more restrictive press badge policy with Biden White House. | ||
| But there's a different anti-press freedom policy I wanted to ask about. | ||
| The Biden White House adopted a mysterious pre-screening process for journalists allowed into large event spaces. | ||
| In the pre-pandemic phase, first Trump term, we're open to all journalists on campus. | ||
| This effectively limited the diversity of reporters present and blocked the asking questions that large segments of the American public wanted answered. | ||
| As press secretary, can we commit to abolishing this mysterious pre-screening process? | ||
| There were a lot of mysterious processes that my team and I have had to unravel over the past two weeks that were implemented by the previous White House, and in particular, the previous press shop here. | ||
| And so I can commit to a greater access and transparency, which I believe we already have, by ensuring that the 440 journalists whose credentials were revoked will be reinstalled. | ||
| They will get their credentials if they wish to. | ||
| We've also, of course, opened up a new seat to new media. | ||
| And as far as open press events here at the White House, if we tell you it's open press, it's open press. | ||
| So just to confirm this prescreening thing is something you're working to undo to the When we say something is open press, it will mean it's open press. | ||
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And I just ask them both at once. | |
| Sure. | ||
| In New York City, Governor Hochul's congestion pricing went into effect this month. | ||
| Vehicles that drive through parts of Manhattan have to pay a $9 toll. | ||
| President Trump has made clear his opposition. | ||
| He said that it's, quote, "the most progressive tax known to womankind." Will the administration be trying to block this? | ||
| And the second question is, millions and maybe tens of millions of Americans voted for President Trump. | ||
| We're excited about his plans to do away with taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security benefits. | ||
| But there's uncertainty about the timing of this. | ||
| So can you clarify for them when this is going to happen? | ||
| Does President Trump want to see all three of those in the first batch of legislation early this year? | ||
| Well, to answer your question in one swoop, I will say that President Trump is committed to lowering taxes for Americans, cutting taxes for Americans. | ||
| As for congestion pricing in New York, I do know that the President spoke with Governor Hochul about that. | ||
| I don't have any actions, so to speak, to read out for you on that issue today. | ||
| Number two, when it comes to no taxes on tips and Social Security, the President has made it very clear to our allies on Capitol Hill that is a critical piece of this reconciliation package, and he expects that his tax cuts from 2017, which put a lot more money back into the American people's pockets, those must be implemented, and no tax on tips. | ||
| The President is intent on delivering on that promise, and he will get it done. | ||
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I'm also as part of reconciliation. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| Can you guarantee that those tariffs won't increase prices for Americans, including at the gas pump in the grocery store? | ||
| I think Americans who are concerned about increased prices should look at what President Trump did in his first term. | ||
| He effectively implemented tariffs, and the average inflation rate during the first Trump administration was 1.9%. | ||
| In fact, when President Trump left office, it was 1.4%. | ||
| So President Trump is going to do everything he possibly can to cut the inflation crisis that the previous administration That's a hypothetical question. | ||
| And the President is intent on ensuring that he effectively implements tariffs while cutting inflation and costs for the American people. | ||
| And, you know, the media has this way of just looking at everything in a microscope rather than looking at the whole of government economic approach that this President is taking. | ||
| He will effectively implement tariffs. | ||
| He's also, as I just-- And has the White House found any... | ||
| Fox Business, yes. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| You're welcome. | ||
| Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, said today that if U.S. imposes tariffs, he will respond and he will not relent until the tariffs are removed. | ||
| Are we seeing the start of the trade war with Canada? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think the President is going to implement those tariffs tomorrow, and he will respond to Mr. Trudeau's comments in due time, I am sure. | ||
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What kind of things have to happen? | |
| What does the administration need to see in order to avoid those tariffs? | ||
| Well, the tariffs are incoming tomorrow on Canada, and the reason for that is because both Canada and Mexico have allowed an unprecedented invasion of illegal fentanyl that is killing American citizens and also illegal immigrants into our country. | ||
| In fact, I have more language for you right here. | ||
| Canada, Mexico, and China, which, as I mentioned, President Trump will implement a 10 percent tariff on China, have all enabled illegal drugs to pour into America. | ||
| The amount of fentanyl that has been seized at the southern I'm sorry, I thought you called on me. | ||
| I called on Lindsey. | ||
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The president this morning said the blackout helicopter was flying too high. | |
| I'm wondering if he's basing that on what he learned from investigators and if you could offer a little bit more of a window into how he is keeping abreast of this investigation. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Is the NTSD briefing him separately? | ||
| Is he meeting in the Situation Room? | ||
| Can you just offer a window into that? | ||
| Yeah, the president based that statement on truth because it is truth and it's fact and it was relayed to him by the authorities who are overseeing the investigation into this horrific plane collision and the president as I said in my opening remarks I think he continues to be briefed on the collision by everybody across his cabinet: the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Defense, the NTSB, who the commissioner there was in the Oval Office with him yesterday. | ||
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Lindsey. | |
| Lindsey, go ahead. | ||
| Lindsey, go ahead. | ||
| The Press: Thank you. | ||
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The Press: In the days, the CIA actually revealed that they do also believe that COVID-19 was from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. | |
| How is the President planning on responding to this additional intel from the CIA, and will it impact how he responds to the potential? | ||
| Yeah, kudos to John Ratcliffe for revealing that truth and that fact to the American people. | ||
| Many years too late, the Biden administration had a chance to let the American people know the truth about that and for some reason they chose not to. | ||
| I also would just like to point out that several years ago When I was working in this press shop and President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID very well may have came from a lab in Wuhan, China. | ||
| And many members in this very room mocked him for that, said he was spewing conspiracy theories. | ||
| He was not. | ||
| We now know that to be the confirmable truth. | ||
| It took many years for it to come out, but the President was right in this instance again. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Caroline, thank you. | |
| I wanted to ask about Secretary Rubio's trip to Panama first. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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What did the conversations look like with President Trump on that? | |
| The president of Panama says it is "impossible to negotiate over the canal." So what are you expecting from this visit? | ||
| So I have not been present for Secretary Rubio's conversations with President Trump about the Panama Canal. | ||
| I have been present for President Trump's own thoughts on the Panama Canal, and he's all seen them as well in his public statements that he has shown. | ||
| He believes it's unacceptable that the canal is essentially run by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| If you look at both ends of the canal, massive Chinese Communist Party-linked companies run the canal. | ||
| That's unfair to the American people, many of whom lost their lives many years ago building this canal. | ||
| The American taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for the canal, and the President believes it's in our national interest as a nation for Secretary Rubio to go there and begin these discussions, and that's exactly why he's doing that. | ||
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Thank you very much, Caroline. | |
| Is the United States in the process of pulling out of Syria militarily? | ||
| Because the President wanted to do that in his first term as well, and he had a lot of pushback from the Pentagon and Congress. | ||
| And based on what he said yesterday, is he considering doing that in a short time? | ||
| MS. The President was asked and answered this question yesterday, and he, as the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military, reserves the right to review troop deployments overseas at any point in time. | ||
| Is that a topic right now? | ||
| MS. Yes. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Two questions. | ||
| So we now know that the staffing was not normal at the air traffic tower, and so with the government increasing the hiring of new federal workers and offering buyout, are you not afraid that more incidents of different kind could happen with less staffing in different agencies? | ||
| Well, the President is intent on ensuring that we are increasing staffing at these agencies, and that's why he signed a very strong executive order on his second day in office, immediately terminating. | ||
| DEI hiring practices at the FAA. | ||
| He also, following the tragic crash, as you all know, in the Oval Office yesterday, signed a memorandum directing an immediate assessment of the FAA to ensure the federal government is maintaining the highest personnel and aviation safety standards. | ||
| And I would also just say there's a cultural piece to this as well. | ||
| If you are an American who has spent many years studying aviation and you graduate from school and you're an I think that deteriorates the morale of people in this industry. | ||
| And if you talk to people in this industry, they'll tell you that. | ||
| In fact, many of them filed a lawsuit against the FAA a couple of years ago under Joe Biden's administration because they were denied positions. | ||
| Because of this DEI hiring practice that was putting identity politics over merit and skills. | ||
| That's unacceptable. | ||
| And I think just to put a fine point on this, because this is the third or fourth question I've answered on this subject. | ||
| When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which every one of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely and gets you to your destination, or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? | ||
| I think we all know the answer to that question, and as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense. | ||
| Rob Crilly. | ||
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Yeah, I'd just like to follow up on that last question. | |
| Has there been any sort of assurance from the FAA that they will immediately improve staffing levels, given the reports of not normal staffing levels on Wednesday? | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| You had Secretary Duffy here yesterday at the White House at this podium saying that he is on it and we can all trust that he definitely MS. Yes, I did. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| MS. As long as your name's still John Decker. | ||
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It is. | |
| Absolutely. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The President's meeting today with the founder and CEO of NVIDIA. | ||
| What is that meeting concerning, and who sought that meeting? | ||
| MS. I don't have details on this. | ||
| It's a private meeting. | ||
| It will take place at 2:30 p.m. | ||
| I'll try to get there in time, and I can let you know after. | ||
| How's that? | ||
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On Guantanamo Bay, can you give more details about setting up that detention facility? | |
| At Gitmo, how will that come about? | ||
| What's the timing in terms of standing it up? | ||
| And of course, this has happened before, during the Clinton administration. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
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Detainees of Cuban and Haitian descent were both detained at Guantanamo. | |
| Are you looking at that model in setting up this detention facility? | ||
| Secretary Hegseth, I believe, was on television this morning answering this question, and he said that the Department of Defense is already on it. | ||
| He has directed his agency to ensure that Gitmo is increasing their capacity. | ||
| And that's exactly what President Trump's executive order did. | ||
| It directed Secretary Hegseth and also Secretary Noem to expand the Migrant Operations Center at the Naval Station to provide for this extra detention space. | ||
| And as Secretary Hegseth confirmed this morning, that operation is underway. | ||
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Can you clarify whether those will actually be going into effect tomorrow or whether there might be some need time? | |
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And are those-- they will be going into effect tomorrow? | |
| Correct. | ||
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And are those meant to be in place long-term, or is there a scenario in which Canada, Mexico, and China can offer concessions and then they would be removed? | |
| At this point, the President has made it very clear those tariffs are going to be implemented and in effect. | ||
| If the President at any time decides to roll back those tariffs, I'll leave it to him to make that decision. | ||
| But starting tomorrow, those tariffs will be in place. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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| Yes. | ||
| Can you confirm a report by our friends at the Daily Mail that the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is going to be visiting the White House in February? | ||
| And also, if I may, do you have any more details on Netanyahu's visit here next week? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I have not seen that report about the Prime Minister. | ||
| I can go check back with our friends at the National Security Council and get back to you on that. | ||
| I can confirm that Prime Minister Netanyahu will be here on Tuesday of February 4th for a working meeting and visit with the President. | ||
| And I'm sure you will all be here. | ||
| Very excited to cover that visit. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Daniel. | ||
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| You're welcome. | ||
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Back on the Guantanamo Bay subject, specifically, obviously, why does the president feel like that's the best location or a good location to make sure that Americans are safe from violent, illegal, migrant crimes? | |
| Well, it's a really good question. | ||
| And the memorandum that he signed, the order that he signed, builds on his previous executive actions, obviously, to secure our southern border and deport illegal criminals from the interior of our country. | ||
| We know that we have an issue with detention space here in the interior, which is a big reason why Congress needs to pass this reconciliation package as quickly as possible to ensure that DHS and ICE have the funding they need to detain these individuals that the administration is very swiftly. | ||
| Rounding up and deporting, arresting and deporting these illegal immigrant criminals. | ||
| And so the President feels it's an appropriate place. | ||
| Taxpayers are already funding it. | ||
| The space is there. | ||
| Why not use it? | ||
| And the Secretary of Defense, as I said, is working on that as we speak. | ||
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| So I want to talk more about the-- The success that ICE is having, finding these violent criminal aliens, some of them being sexual predators. | ||
| But my friend Ben Berkwam reports that the Chicago mayor and the Illinois governor are preventing ICE agents from going into jails and prisons to enforce detainers against illegal aliens. | ||
| In Maryland, the Attorney General has also put out a memo hindering local police cooperation with ICE. | ||
| Does the administration have any comment on leftist state medical officials defying ISIL? | ||
| Yeah, I think it's very interesting that Democrat officials in these cities who have been completely overrun and overwhelmed by illegal immigrant criminals would refuse support and help to cure this problem that has especially taken over their cities. | ||
| I guess they don't want to admit they've been wrong with their sanctuary city policies. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| You'll have to ask them about their intentions. | ||
| But they would be very wise to comply with this administration because this administration is hell-bent on enforcing our nation's immigration. | ||
| We will continue to defy our nation's immigration laws and this administration will continue to arrest and detain and deport illegal migrant criminals. | ||
| And what we won't do is defy our nation's immigration laws like the previous administration who had these orders of removal on illegal immigrants across the country and were refusing to execute on them. | ||
| We will continue to remove illegal criminals from our nation's interior. | ||
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Sanctuary city leaders, are they violating law? | |
| I would certainly think so. | ||
| I'd have to check back on which specific law they're violating. | ||
| But certainly, if they're not enforcing our nation's immigration law, it sounds like they are breaking the law. | ||
| And I would also add that their constituents don't approve of that. | ||
| You've seen residents in Chicago show up at their city council meetings infuriated with their leadership in that city because they are working very hard to provide for their families. | ||
| They want public safety and law and order, and their officials have abandoned those very basic American principles in these cities. | ||
| And the American people want law and order. | ||
| It's, again, an overwhelmingly popular policy to deport illegal criminals from our nation's interior, and this administration will continue to... | ||
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| We just interviewed Colombian President Gustavo Petro and he insisted that he's not going to take any Colombian deportee from the U.S. if they arrive in South America handcuffed. | ||
| How this administration responds to that? | ||
| When did the Colombian President make those remarks? | ||
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Today. | |
| You're in an interview with us at university. | ||
| Well, I will share those with the President of the United States, and I will get back to you on his response. | ||
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What happened to Nicolás Maduro? | |
| Caroline, there are more than 150,000 disabled Americans who are working today. | ||
| The President talked a lot yesterday about hiring the best and the brightest to work in the federal government. | ||
| Safety aside, does he believe that disabled people do have a place to work in the federal government? | ||
| And does he also support the current protections? | ||
| The president has made it very clear that this is a common sense solution to solving some of the problems that we have seen at the Federal Aviation Administration and also when it comes to many of the federal agencies across our government. | ||
| People should not be hired based on their disabilities, based on their skin color, their gender, their race. | ||
| None of that matters. | ||
| What matters to this president and this administration is how well you can do your job and the American people. | ||
| Agree with that sentiment. | ||
| So it's about competence, skill, and merit. | ||
| And so the president is focused on ensuring that the most competent individuals, the best and the brightest in this country, are in positions in this federal government, especially when it comes to public safety. | ||
| Can't overemphasize the importance of those jobs. | ||
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| Thanks, Caroline. | ||
| So this follow-up on her question before. | ||
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President Trump is putting China accountable on fentanyl by ramping up tariffs. | |
| So how is President Trump planning to put China accountable on COVID origins? | ||
| I haven't spoken to the President about the COVID origins specifically in regards to any actions he may or may not take when it comes to China, but as I have previewed quite a few times today, he will be implementing a 10% tariff on China tomorrow. | ||
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Has the president made up his mind about a timeline for terrorists on the MS. No, he has not. | |
| And will it be a one-size-fit-all, or will it be differentiated among the government? | ||
| MS. I won't get ahead of the President on tariffs when it comes to the European Union. | ||
| What I can tell you, again, is that the President will be implementing 25 percent on Canada, 25 percent on Mexico, 10 percent on China tomorrow for the reasons that I have repeatedly laid out in this briefing. | ||
| Newsmax, go ahead. | ||
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| MS. No, the gentleman behind you. | ||
| James Rose. | ||
| MS. Yes, James. | ||
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| Thank you, Caroline. | ||
| Two quick questions on foreign policy and then one very long and tedious and ponderous Rosen question thereafter. | ||
| First, on Iran, we've heard very little about the President's forthcoming Iran policy besides his determination to prevent that nation from achieving a nuclear weapons capability. | ||
| Is it the President's objective, short of the use of U.S. military force, to use The broad array of his powers to try to hasten the end of the Iranian regime. | ||
| I think the President has actually made his position on Iran very clear, and he made that clear when there were the negotiations about the ceasefire, which we know obviously is now in place, and the deadline on that ceasefire has continued. | ||
| He said that Hamas and Iranian-backed terrorists would have hell to pay if that ceasefire didn't move forward, and then quickly thereafter it did. | ||
| I also do have news on the hostage front, which I'm very surprised nobody asked about this because it is a big news story, and the White House applauds the I | ||
| think President Trump's working meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister next week He emphasizes his continued support for Israel in ensuring that brutal terrorists in that region have hell to pay. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| On the Grinnell trip, can I just finish the other two questions? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I know you want the long, ponderous Rosenberg. | ||
| But first, on the Grinnell trip, as you know, under the previous administration, the U.S. recognized the opposition candidate in last year's elections, Edmundo Gonzalez, now exiled. | ||
| As the legitimate President of Venezuela, does the President's dispatching of Ambassador Grinnell to negotiate directly with President Maduro today mean? | ||
| That the U.S. now officially recognizes President Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| As I made it very clear, former Ambassador and now Special Envoy Rick Grinnell is going to Venezuela with two very clear directives: Make sure that Trente de Aragua members, of which there are 400 currently in custody, are repatriated back to Venezuela, and that all United States detainees return home. | ||
| Thank you very much, guys. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And without seeking to cast myself as some kind of moral exemplar, because it's rather late in the day to try. | ||
| Nonetheless, this was an event yesterday that began with a moment of silence for the victims of the air crash and the President's own invocation of "a loving God." And then he uncorked that expletive to insult a former Cabinet officer. | ||
| It was the same expletive that I saw him use in the East Room in 2020 when he famously held up the "Trump acquitted" headline. | ||
| If you could shed any light for us on how the President perceives his use of public profanity, which is a practice that certainly sets him apart from all of his predecessors, does he regard it as an effective communications device part of his appeal, or is it something that he lapses into inadvertently, perhaps in times of frustration and later regrets? | ||
| I think one of the things that the American people love most about this president is that he often says what they are thinking, but sometimes lack the courage to say themselves. | ||
| And I think yesterday at this podium, you heard President Trump express great frustration, perhaps even anger, with the previous administration's policies, many of which have led to the crises that our country is currently facing and that this president is focused on fixing. | ||
| Thank you guys very much. | ||
| Have a great weekend. | ||
| We'll see you next week. | ||
| All right, we'll see you next week! | ||
| Carolyn Leavitt absolutely owning this moment. | ||
| Wow, what an unbelievable change, night and day, from the gaslighting and the DEI and the insufferable lying from the previous administration. | ||
| You remember that giant binder? | ||
| I don't have a script when we do the show, so I don't have anything like this, but where it would sound like... | ||
| I'll stack it here. | ||
| I have a couple books. | ||
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| This isn't going to cut it, okay? | ||
| I have a couple books. | ||
| Here, let me grab one more. | ||
| We have some books in the studio. | ||
| This isn't going to cut it, okay? | ||
| So we have some books here. | ||
| This you should pick up from the great Jamie Mitchell, who works on our team. | ||
| Here, do you remember when cringe Jean-Pierre would go to the press dais and it would sound like this? | ||
| This is probably going to be loud. | ||
| And she would, like, literally put her binder down. | ||
| Oh, and every single, every single, like, every single question would be like, hold on. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Just a second. | ||
| Just a second. | ||
| I almost got it. | ||
| Oh, I just got it. | ||
| Cringe, we just, we just asked you, what color is the sky? | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I have a note on that. | ||
| Just a second. | ||
| Circle back. | ||
| Circle back. | ||
| Just a moment. | ||
| Okay, we almost got it. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Blue. | ||
| And this would be the entire press conference? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That was so rage-inducing. | ||
| And we'd cover some of these live. | ||
| We'd do some of these live press conferences just for fun, to make fun of cringe. | ||
| And it was so hard. | ||
| It was so bad. | ||
| Now, Caroline Levitt began, and we have some highlights for you that we're going to play here in just a second. | ||
| She began by saying, yeah, the majority of our problem... | ||
| At this administration has been undoing the absolute cluster F of the last press shop that ran this place. | ||
| There are these really embarrassing photos. | ||
| ALX or Danny, both producers on the program, ALX and Danny, you guys got that photo of the press team? | ||
| There's a famous, hilarious photo of the last White House press shop. | ||
| It's exactly what you'd think it was. | ||
| It looks like a feminist studies major department and a small liberal arts college in the Northeast. | ||
| It's really bad. | ||
| Anyway, the point is that Carolyn Levitt began by saying, by commenting on the plane crash and then by commenting on the criminal aliens. | ||
| I guess they're going to do this every single time. | ||
| Can you just pop up that tweet, Killer Klan, please? | ||
| They're going to do this every time where they put on blast. | ||
| A criminal alien monster that has been arrested and deported. | ||
| I love this. | ||
| I love this style of, like, using the actual television screens there. | ||
| And then she immediately went into, this is a nightmare. | ||
| This is a nightmare. | ||
| No, no, that's from Obama. | ||
| It's a funny photo. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| But that's from the Obama administration. | ||
| I'm talking about Cringy Pierre and, like, her little press team. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Anyway, the Obama one's actually pretty fun. | ||
| Klein, can you put that up? | ||
| This is the Obama era. | ||
| This is the last. | ||
| This was when they were all listening to Obama say that Donald Trump's going to be the next president. | ||
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| It's still really funny. | ||
| Either way, there's Jen Psaki. | ||
| There you go. | ||
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| Oh, my God. | ||
| People make happier faces during colonoscopies. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
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| I'm a pout-pout fish. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So Carolyn Levitt starts by saying we have been trying to un-f the disaster that was left to us by these jack wagons here in the last administration. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Join our equity and inclusion club. | ||
| It includes Cooper. | ||
| Danny knows exactly what video I'm talking about. | ||
| Cooper! | ||
| Cooper was part of the last press team and he was very happy to do a video about it. | ||
| Maybe we'll show it to you just because we hate ourselves. | ||
| We should never have to play this video again. | ||
| Maybe one last time. | ||
| Here, ladies and gentlemen, is a palate cleanser. | ||
| Is Carolyn Levitt talking about the way that the administration will treat criminal aliens? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
| It will take place at 2.30 p.m. | ||
| I'll try to get there in time, and I can let you know after. | ||
| How's that? | ||
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On Guantanamo Bay, can you give more details about setting up that detention facility at Gitmo? | |
| How will that come about? | ||
| What's the timing in terms of standing it up? | ||
| And of course, this has happened before during the Clinton administration. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
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| Are you looking at that model in setting up this detention facility? | ||
| Secretary Hegseth, I believe, was on television this morning answering this question. | ||
| And he said that the Department of Defense is already on it. | ||
| He has directed his agency to ensure that Gitmo is increasing their capacity for beds. | ||
| And that's exactly what President Trump's executive order did. | ||
| It directed. | ||
| Secretary Hegseth and also Secretary Noem to expand the Migrant Operations Center at the Naval Station to provide for this extra detention space. | ||
| And as Secretary Hegseth confirmed this morning, that operation is underway. | ||
| Operation Send Benny to Gitmo is also underway. | ||
| Speaking of a press team that should go to Gitmo. | ||
| So you have a White House that not only is like, not only doing the meme, they're like... | ||
| Physically creating meme. | ||
| The meme was send them to Gitmo, right? | ||
| That's the post on X. The post was, why don't you send... | ||
| And then when we take back control, we'll send you all to Gitmo. | ||
| And the White House is like, no, actually, we think we'll do the meme. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Send them to Gitmo. | ||
| They're actually going to do it. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, here's how the White House talks about criminal aliens. | ||
| If you are a criminal alien... | ||
| Which has been a rule on this program. | ||
| Every new person that we hire at this show. | ||
| And thank you for supporting our show. | ||
| Thank you for watching. | ||
| You support jobs for actual creators and people who love their country. | ||
| And it's actually quite hard in the media landscape to do that these days. | ||
| There's a lot of change. | ||
| And so we thank you for that. | ||
| Every new employee that we hire gets a little lesson in terms that we use at this company. | ||
| And one of the top lessons is we don't call them migrants and we don't call them dreamers and we don't call them immigrants. | ||
| They're none of those things. | ||
| They're criminal aliens. | ||
| We've never said the term migrant on the show. | ||
| We will not say dreamer. | ||
| We will not say migrant. | ||
| We won't say even illegal. | ||
| They're actually literally criminal aliens. | ||
| And the White House Rings like a bell is now using that term and the reporters are saying it back to them. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| On January 27th, 2025, ICE Chicago arrested a citizen of Guatemala who has been convicted of solicitation to meet a child, disturbing, and sentenced to 24 months probation. | ||
| On January 28th, 2025, ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of South Korea who has been convicted of nine counts of possession or control of material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct. | ||
| On January 28th, ICE New York arrested a Mexican national previously charged by the state of New York for attempted murder and possession of a weapon and assault. | ||
| And on January 28th, ICE Philly arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of possession of child pornography. | ||
| Our message is simple. | ||
| If you are a criminal, illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported. | ||
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| It's like, just, just... | ||
| The angel's music to my ear. | ||
| If you are a criminal, a legal alien, you will be arrested and charged and deported and you'll never be allowed back in this country. | ||
| What have we done? | ||
| We've created a world where we can speak like that. | ||
| It used to just be found on this program, actually. | ||
| Don't check too many of the tapes for too many other commentators in this space who were happy to call them dreamers and migrants and just citizens of the world. | ||
| Remarkable. | ||
| Truly. | ||
| I'm glad that we've won that cultural battle because the words that we use is actually mind control. | ||
| You have to be able to speak truth. | ||
| You have to be able to name things correctly. | ||
| We have to be able to say what things are. | ||
| The manipulation of language is the manipulation of your mind. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And we've been living through truly literal hell. | ||
| Over the last four years, really over the last decade in this country, where they've tried to warp and distort reality, and now reality is back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Part of the way that they've distorted reality is to say diversity is our strength. | ||
| Of course, diversity is not our strength. | ||
| In no universe is diversity your strength. | ||
| Diversity is not your strength. | ||
| Are you married to somebody that speaks your same language? | ||
| I mean, I guess some people might be married to somebody who doesn't speak their language, but that's not a healthy relationship. | ||
| Diversity is not your strength in your marriage. | ||
| Diversity is not your strength with your employees. | ||
| I don't hire a bunch of people at this company who don't speak English because that's the language of the company that we're operating in. | ||
| And so nobody wants to be doing translators, right, all day. | ||
| We wouldn't have a great or effective company if we did that. | ||
| So no, diversity is not our strength. | ||
| No, DEI is natural poison. | ||
| And here's Carolyn Levitt saying DEI is D-E-D, dead. | ||
| Is that a topic right now? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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| Two questions. | ||
| So we now know that the staffing was not normal at the air traffic tower, and so with the government increasing the hiring of new federal workers and offering buyouts, are you not afraid that more incidents of different kinds could happen with less staffing in different agencies? | ||
| Well, the President is intent on ensuring that we are increasing staffing at these agencies, and that's why he signed a very strong executive order on his second day in office, immediately terminating. | ||
| DEI hiring practices at the FAA. | ||
| He also, following the tragic crash, as you all know, in the Oval Office yesterday, signed a memorandum directing an immediate assessment of the FAA to ensure the federal government is maintaining the highest personnel and aviation safety standards. | ||
| And I would also just say there's a cultural piece to this as well. | ||
| If you are an American who has spent many years studying aviation and you graduate from school and you're an Air traffic controller based on skill and merit and then you apply for a job and you're forced to fill out a biographical questionnaire asking you the color of your skin and asking you where you're from in details that aren't relevant at all to the job description. | ||
| I think that deteriorates the morale of people in this industry and if you talk to people in this industry they'll tell you that. | ||
| In fact many of them filed a lawsuit against the FAA a couple of years ago under Joe Biden's administration because they were denied positions. | ||
| Because of this DEI hiring practice that was putting identity politics over merit and skills. | ||
| That's unacceptable. | ||
| And I think just to put a fine point on this, because this is the third or fourth question I've answered on this subject. | ||
| When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which every one of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely and gets you to your destination, or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? | ||
| I think we all know the answer to that question, and as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense. | ||
| Rob Crilley. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| What a shock. | ||
| Do you pray that your plane lands safely and your children survive, and there were many children on that flight from Wichita that blew up? | ||
| When an Apache helicopter, sorry, Black Hawk helicopter slammed into it? | ||
| Or are you concerned about the sex or the skin color or who the pilot likes to have sex with? | ||
| Which one would you prefer? | ||
| Would you rather be dead with a pilot that matches some type of kaleidoscope rainbow of leftist wet dream utopian diversity? | ||
| Which actually is none of those things. | ||
| Which is actually the recipe for a zero-trust society in chaos. | ||
| Would you rather be alive on the runway and safely on your way to your destination? | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| Carolyn Levin making these points and is so freaking refreshing. | ||
| She's such a bombshell. | ||
| She is winning. | ||
| She's obviously literally built for this. | ||
| And to dovetail off that, here's some breaking news. | ||
| While she was out on the press dais. | ||
| Trump administration has mandated that all federal employees remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5 p.m. today. | ||
| D-E-I is D-E-D-A-D. | ||
| Speaking of the deaths of, I don't know which numbers you want to believe, but the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| The horrors of the man-made COVID virus continue as, obviously, Dr. Fauci gets a pardon for crimes against humanity, one of history's greatest, if not greatest, monster. | ||
| Dr. Fauci is responsible for more pain and suffering around the world than I think any human being who's lived in my lifetime. | ||
| That's for certain. | ||
| And I think arguably throughout all history, Dr. Fauci belongs at the very tip-top. | ||
| Of a list of the world's greatest monsters for infliction of human pain and suffering. | ||
| And how did he do it? | ||
| We know how he did it! | ||
| We actually literally have the documentation. | ||
| He did it through becoming one of these, like, organs of the federal government. | ||
| He's been in the federal government. | ||
| This is the 1970s. | ||
| He was part of the Patriot Act that gave him a carve-out in the Patriot Act to run bioweapons programs through the Pentagon and the CIA. | ||
| This is why Dr. Fauci went to the CIA so many times during COVID to try and convince their doctors to not say with certitude that COVID came from a laboratory in China. | ||
| Even though when you look at the COVID molecule, you can clearly see the spike protein that's been inserted into it. | ||
| We've studied this a little too much. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| But we know this because it's important. | ||
| Dr. Fauci created COVID. | ||
| Dr. Fauci created COVID with your tax dollars. | ||
| And then they loosed it on the world. | ||
| To create the conditions to try and destroy President Trump in 2020. | ||
| That is what I believe with my heart of hearts. | ||
| That is what many members of Congress believe. | ||
| And that is now what the White House believes. | ||
| Can you hear the angels sing? | ||
| Listen to Carolyn Levitt here. | ||
| Truth and that fact to the American people, many years too late, the Biden administration had a chance to let the American people know the truth about that. | ||
| And for some reason, they chose not to. | ||
| I also would just like to point out that several years ago when I was working in this press shop and President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID very well may have came from a lab in Wuhan, China. | ||
| And many members in this very room mocked him for that, said he was spewing conspiracy theories. | ||
| He was not. | ||
| We now know that to be the confirmable truth. | ||
| It took many years for it to come out, but the president was right in this instance again. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Caroline, thank you. | |
| I wanted to ask about Secretary Rubio's trip to Panama first. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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What have the conversations looked like with President Trump? | |
| Okay, so yeah, that clip had a little extra question at the end. | ||
| That wasn't pursuing what we're talking about. | ||
| This is going crazy thermonuclear viral right now. | ||
| The White House saying, yeah, COVID came from a lab. | ||
| We need to start investigating who created it. | ||
| We know who created it. | ||
| It was illegal to do this. | ||
| So, again, not wanting to compliment Barack Obama on this program, but even Barack Obama said, wait a second, you're creating mutant viruses that could kill people? | ||
| We're going to not do that in the country. | ||
| And Barack Obama, to his credit, signed an order that says we're not doing gain of function in this country. | ||
| Well, guess what Dr. Fauci did? | ||
| Little evil bastard, rat bastard. | ||
| He went around them by funding an organization called EcoHealth Alliance with American taxpayer dollars to go internationally and do the funding abroad. | ||
| He did this with the help of other evil scientists. | ||
| Ralph Baric is the name of one. | ||
| And he went to China and paid the Chinese lab in Wuhan to go. | ||
| High up into the hills of eastern China, pull out horseshoe bats from their caves. | ||
| Horseshoe bats don't like people. | ||
| They don't like being around people. | ||
| They live high up in these caves in China. | ||
| They have naturally occurring coronaviruses that don't hurt them. | ||
| They extract the coronaviruses from them, and then they snip them and add human spike proteins to make them transmissible to humans. | ||
| Dr. Fauci paid for that funding through the EcoHealth Alliance, and that laboratory had a long history of lab leaks of bats biting humans that were infected, of humans getting these sicknesses, and that's where you get COVID. | ||
| Was it released on purpose? | ||
| Well, it sure would be nice to have a proper investigation into that, wouldn't it? | ||
| But we know as a matter of fact that it's man-made. | ||
| And so, there you go. | ||
| We've done our research on these things, I'll tell you. | ||
| We've also done our research on making America blonde again. | ||
| And here is the photo of your press secretary getting her hair and makeup done. | ||
| Maybe getting her hair cut. | ||
| Make America blonde again! | ||
| What part of the timeline are we in here, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| Man, I guess... | ||
| I guess having a press secretary that you actually want to look at is back on the menu. | ||
| Goodness gracious, what have we lived through? | ||
| Cringe Jean Pierre is what we lived through. | ||
| Jen Psaki is what we lived through. | ||
| A reminder that this is what you voted for, ladies and gentlemen, and this is what you voted against. | ||
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Hi, my name is Cooper, and this is a day in my life as a White House intern. | |
| We did it, Joe. | ||
| Hey, everyone. | ||
| Vogue. | ||
| Usually I start off with a big coffee. | ||
| Sorry, they're like really strict in here. | ||
| Hey Jenny, I booked you a nail appointment, love. | ||
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Yeah, I didn't tell you to do that. | |
| It's called initiative. | ||
| Hi, White House, this is Cooper. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Oh, doesn't matter. | ||
| This is actually the entrance to the West Wing. | ||
| This is so fun and it's really prestigious. | ||
| Hey, POTUS. | ||
| Is Olivier Rodrigo still here? | ||
| No. | ||
| We've come a long way in our fight against this virus. | ||
| We've vaccinated 160 million Americans. | ||
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Are you getting this all down? | |
| Don't worry, queen. | ||
| It's all right here. | ||
| Cooper! | ||
| Sorry, Miss Jen. | ||
| Hey, Jen, don't forget to have fun. | ||
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Spirit fingers, mama. | |
| We need to get shots in the arms of every single American. | ||
| I'm heading to a haircut. | ||
| Comment if you want me to make more of these. | ||
| In fact, uh, Cooper, 100 million Americans Told you that you should not only never be near the White House, you should probably never be near any school, and maybe you'll be the first one deported to Guantanamo Bay. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Amazing things are happening in this country. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting moment, and we're so happy to be able to cover it along with you. | ||
| We're thankful for you, and to that end, we make you memes, and here's one of them. | ||
| Brought to you by the amazing Ashley on our team. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| Ashley, you made this, right? | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
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It really does. | |
| It freaking works. | ||
| Look at these dopey corporate media reporters. | ||
| Look at those slobs. | ||
| And then you have Peter Doocy, who's clearly Buddy the Elf for all these little elves, all these little urchins, little slobs. | ||
| Dopey, dandruffy degenerates there in the front row. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| It's perfect, Ashley. | ||
| It's freaking perfect. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| One more meme to send us off here. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, a Carolyn Levitt meme from Jerry. | ||
| Do we not load the closer? | ||
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah, the closer? | ||
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Okay, here we go. | |
| All right. | ||
| I mean, we did have the other one. | ||
| Uh-oh, uh-oh. | ||
| Do we have an Elon Musk? | ||
| Okay, well, we do have an Elon Musk shout-out. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| I mean, it's kind of like, well, why not? | ||
| Elon Musk says yes to our tweet saying, confirm, Cash Patel. | ||
| Elon Musk says yes! | ||
| And because, because we were not fast enough with the original cold open meme, we'll do, how about we do, how about we do two? | ||
| Two, Carolyn Levitt. | ||
| Two. | ||
| Not to put us on the spot here, but let's, let's, let's go. | ||
| Let's do this one. | ||
| We're going to do two Carolyn Levitts. | ||
| Two Carolyn Levitt memes! | ||
| All right? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We just want to say thank you again. | ||
| Have an amazing weekend in this, the greatest country on Earth. | ||
| It's Benny from here, the seat in the front of the Golden Era. | ||
| This, your front row seat to the Golden Era. | ||
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