Feb. 3, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Yeah, sure. | |
| Work with Congress to raise the fines, the caps on fines. | ||
| Our own work on things like focused inspections and the two-person crew rule. | ||
| And another thing that railroad companies don't have to wait on us to require them to do, which is getting better information to local communities. | ||
| Mr. Secretary, would you still be here? | ||
| What he misses there... | ||
| Some of these times, sometimes, man, I really wish I would have... | ||
| Some of these times, I really wish I would have just gone to these. | ||
| You know, there's moments, right? | ||
| There's moments. | ||
| I want to show you this. | ||
| This is where J.D. Vance is going to be speaking live in just a moment in East Palestine. | ||
| Just a preview screen, just to show you. | ||
| We're awaiting J.D. here, and we're going to cut over, of course, immediately to J.D. when he begins speaking. | ||
| But something that Pete Buttigieg sort of misses in that moment is that the federal government is responsible for all of this. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You get a lot of, like, mealy-mouthed statements about what they're doing. | ||
| Well, the federal government approved the explosion in East Palestine. | ||
| It happened on their orders. | ||
| They said, chemically bomb this community. | ||
| Do it! | ||
| So he's responsible. | ||
| Yet nobody ever took responsibility. | ||
| They wouldn't even show up. | ||
| So President Trump will be showing up. | ||
| President Trump did show up, and J.D. Vance will be there today making what we hear are some very big announcements. | ||
| The mayor of East Palestine roasting Joe Biden to his face. | ||
| This is probably why they didn't show up, because they don't really care about these people. | ||
| They actually don't want their towns to exist. | ||
| These are towns that voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| If this was something that happened in, let's say, Philadelphia, In a densely urban area that is required by Democrats to win the state of Pennsylvania, you can believe that they would have been sending in the United Nations in a binding resolution to fix and clean every single pipe and | ||
| scrub every blade of grass. | ||
| But it happened to Trump country, and so they ignored it. | ||
| They said, we want you people to die. | ||
| We want you to suffer. | ||
| And this is what the mayor said to Joe Biden's face when Joe Biden finally showed up 14 months later. | ||
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Thank you all for coming. | |
| On behalf of the Village of East Palestine, I want to welcome President Biden. | ||
| As we pass the first anniversary of the train derailment, the Village of East Palestine appreciates the support from the U.S. EPA, the Department of Transportation. | ||
| We'd also like to thank Governor Mike DeWine. | ||
| The Ohio EPA, the Ohio EMA, and the Department of Public Safety. | ||
| I'd like to thank Joe Biden for marking one year, one year from the train derailment bastard. | ||
| You know, it's like, it particularly stings if you followed Joe Biden very closely, and we were obligated to do this. | ||
| Joe Biden's constantly bragging about how much he loves trains, what a big train guy he is, how much he loves real America. | ||
| I'm the Scranton scrapper. | ||
| I'm Blunchpail Joe. | ||
| These are the people who I care about. | ||
| It's all fraudulent. | ||
| It's all been proven fraudulent again and again and again. | ||
| And the one guy that actually gets these people is the billionaire from New York with giant golden skyscrapers. | ||
| Isn't that amazing how that works? | ||
| Isn't it remarkable how it all works? | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is something that we cared a lot about. | ||
| Obviously not to do anything other than help our fellow Americans. | ||
| And we have a lot more of this in the pipeline. | ||
| That we wish to do. | ||
| But there was a time when, of course, Americans didn't have President Trump in office in the last four years and they were dependent upon each other. | ||
| We took it into our own hands. | ||
| I was so sickened by this. | ||
| And we went to East Palestine ourselves and just decided to take the 20 homes that were the closest to the blast radius of the train and just go hand those people The revenue that we made for the company that month. | ||
| And that's what we did. | ||
| So we just handed out envelopes full of cash to those people because we just felt sorry for them. | ||
| Here's just a short snippet of the small thing that we were able to do. | ||
| Thank God for these poor individuals. | ||
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I wanted to give you $1,000. | |
| For what? | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| You're not with NNS? | ||
| No, I'm not with anyone. | ||
| We wanted to come here and give a little money to people to help out and say that we're sorry that this happened to you. | ||
| We don't need anything from him. | ||
| Just wanted to say we love you. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| That's yours. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| No catches? | ||
| We don't want anything. | ||
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We just want to say that we're sorry. | |
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you a lot. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Don't make me cry. | ||
| Oh, thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Welcome to East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| It's a sweet, patriotic community. | ||
| 5,000 people live here. | ||
| They have homes here. | ||
| Their children go to school here. | ||
| There's playgrounds and businesses and restaurants. | ||
| And there's also a train track that runs right through the center of town. | ||
| And on that train track, there was a massive derailment a couple days ago. | ||
| Chemicals spilled into the air and into the water and into the soil. | ||
| These people have to live with that now forever. | ||
| Worse yet, the government came along and then lit it all on fire, sending a black toxic plume of smoke directly into the atmosphere. | ||
| And then they told everyone to go back into their homes. | ||
| Everything's safe. | ||
| But there's been no reassurances. | ||
| And in order to compensate these people, the railroad responsible has given them five whole dollars. | ||
| We think that's wrong. | ||
| And so we're here today. | ||
| We've identified the 20 homes closest to that toxic burn. | ||
| And we're going to walk up to those homes and we're going to hand them a thousand bucks. | ||
| And we're going to say, we're sorry this happened to you. | ||
| We don't need the government to come in and save us. | ||
| As soon as we arrived in East Palestine, we drove to these five houses. | ||
| These homes are the absolute closest in town to the toxic explosion. | ||
| So close, in fact, you can see the train car wreckage from their backyards. | ||
| We thought this would be a good place to start. | ||
| We're going to walk up and hand them an envelope. | ||
| Inside of that envelope is going to be $1,000 cash. | ||
| And hopefully this money will go towards clean food, water, whatever they need right now. | ||
| But nobody's helping these people. | ||
| So we're going to help. | ||
| We're going to help. | ||
| And we have 20. We have 20 of these to give out. | ||
| If you're interested in where we got this money, please stay tuned to the end of the video. | ||
| We'll tell you where every single dollar came from. | ||
| As soon as we were done filming this scene, a man named Smiley walked up to our car to talk with us, tell us his story and show us the train wreckage in his backyard. | ||
| So this is your house right here? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So no one's shown up to help? | ||
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No, I haven't talked to anyone from the railroad. | |
| You know, they're all hiding. | ||
| You've helped out other people before. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yourself? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| If I can give them food, I give them food. | ||
| They need something. | ||
| If I haven't had the ability to give it to them, I do. | ||
| We wanted to help you out today. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Inside of that envelope is a thousand bucks, and we hope that it can go to... | ||
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Oh, this will help out a lot. | |
| God bless you, sir. | ||
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Oh, thank you. | |
| All right. | ||
| Yeah, I'm just trying to move my things and I don't want to be bothered. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, I don't need to interview you. | ||
| I need to hand you this. | ||
| Inside of that is a $1,000 cash. | ||
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It's from people all around the country who care about people who are affected by this. | |
| Well, I'll just tell you right now, I appreciate you. | ||
| Definitely helps, man. | ||
| You just paid for my rent for my first month, so I appreciate you guys. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| I'm out of here and I'm going to be in a lot better shape after this. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| My man. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Have a great day. | ||
| How has this been affecting you? | ||
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Oh, God. | |
| My whole life's turned upside down. | ||
| Spent $148 on cleaning supplies. | ||
| But I'm more concerned about the elderly in the area. | ||
| Disabled, they can't clean their house top to bottom. | ||
| We're here to help. | ||
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We've brought this for you. | |
| So that'll pay for your cleaning supplies. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Don't make me cry. | ||
| For real? | ||
| That's yours. | ||
| No. | ||
| We don't want anything. | ||
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Thanks. | |
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Oh, you know, you do not have to do that. | ||
| This is why we came here. | ||
| We appreciate as much as we can get out there. | ||
| We absolutely appreciate it. | ||
| Has anybody been out to help or has anybody offered assistance? | ||
| Not so much. | ||
| Say hi. | ||
| This is my grandson. | ||
| God bless you guys for doing and helping people. | ||
| Just thank you so much. | ||
| Oh my god! | ||
| We have two daughters in here and we've struggled so hard. | ||
| My oldest daughter's been trying to help, but, you know, I mean, we really appreciate this. | ||
| Thank you guys so much. | ||
| I just wanted to give you a thousand dollars. | ||
| For what? | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| You're not with NS? | ||
| No, I'm not with anyone. | ||
| I can share you my social media. | ||
| Please? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Honestly, in the last ten days, it's hard to trust folks. | ||
| We're sorry that this happened to you. | ||
| So there's a thousand dollars cash in there. | ||
| We don't need anything from it. | ||
| Just wanted to say we love you. | ||
| I just can't even believe it. | ||
| It's a nightmare. | ||
| It's starting to weigh on my mind. | ||
| Not just my body, you know. | ||
| I have a cough now. | ||
| It's concerning. | ||
| Can I hug you? | ||
| That's what I'm here for. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| You're angels. | ||
| You are. | ||
| You truly are. | ||
| Here to just hand you this. | ||
| Inside of that envelope is $1,000 cash. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Where are you guys from? | ||
| Tampa, Florida. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I will pay this forward, absolutely. | ||
| There's a lot of people that need diapers and water and stuff. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah, I really appreciate it. | ||
| Really? | ||
| That's $1,000 cash. | ||
| Holy crap. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Is that for real? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's a blessing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for helping us. | ||
| That's a thousand dollars cash. | ||
| There's someone else that needs it more than me, so. | ||
| How about you pay for it? | ||
| Because you know this community better than I do. | ||
| You will know who needs it more, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| God will put that person on your path, okay? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All right? | ||
| God bless. | ||
| A thousand bucks being in. | ||
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I appreciate it. | |
| I really do. | ||
| That's a thousand dollars cash. | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| I'm dead serious. | ||
| That's all I need from you. | ||
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Wow, man, that's really, really nice. | |
| We really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you a lot, guys. | ||
| That's really nice. | ||
| You're about to have a baby? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| What is your name? | ||
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unidentified
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We're going to call him Jordan Santino-Trooney. | |
| Jordan Santino-Trooney. | ||
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unidentified
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Yes, sir. | |
| Great name, man. | ||
| What's your name? | ||
| Cameron. | ||
| Cameron? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| Nice to meet you, man. | ||
| Nice to meet you. | ||
| I'm trying to struggle with this right now, and it's a pain in me. | ||
| This is for your son. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| This is for your child. | ||
| It's good to... | ||
| I'm a dad myself, so it's good to have a little something extra. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, thank you so much. | ||
| This is good. | ||
| Hug from you, too. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| We just want to say there's a country out there who loves you. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| The power of helping out your... | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, as we await J.D. Vance, just letting you know that this is something that is why we do the program. | ||
| It's interesting watching that. | ||
| It's like two years old. | ||
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It's crazy that's two years old. | |
| Seems like yesterday. | ||
| The money that we gave away is simply the money that we get from people who consume our content on social media across our platforms. | ||
| So we were able to take all the revenue for the company. | ||
| I talked with the employees at the company. | ||
| We just gave it all away. | ||
| I talked with my wife. | ||
| And so we want to be doing so much more of that. | ||
| In the coming months and years, we are in the process of creating an America First Foundation, is what we're going to call it. | ||
| We're going to be partnering with some very rich people to do philanthropic events and to have a philanthropic capacity on the program to go out into these communities and to do things like that for our fellow Americans. | ||
| And yeah, our scope of work is going to be America. | ||
| That's what it's going to be. | ||
| And so whether people lost their home in a fire or a tornado or some kind of man-made disaster that the government created, we're going to be going and helping them. | ||
| And we're going to use the profits from this program to do that. | ||
| And so thank you for watching. | ||
| You watching and sharing our content as a community, all of us together. | ||
| It helps us. | ||
| Do things like that. | ||
| It's not possible without you. | ||
| And so thank you. | ||
| Just you watching alone is how we are able to do something like that. | ||
| Honestly, that's how I'd quite frankly like all of this to be remembered by. | ||
| In the end, what are you going to be the most proud of? | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And it's honestly the most rewarding thing that you can do. | ||
| It's part of saving the country, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| J.D. Vance on the ground in East Palestine was touring moments ago the crash and derailment site for the first time as vice president. | ||
| J.D. Vance imminently will be walking up to the dais and taking questions from the press, and we'll be making some major announcements here in East Palestine. | ||
| Here he is seconds ago with the mayor of East Palestine and some other county commissioners. | ||
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Hey guys, I need everyone to start moving this way, please. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Pass the car, please. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| J.D. Vance on the ground right now. | ||
| Here's the live feed. | ||
| We'll show you sort of what we have here for an actual feed so that you guys can sort of see. | ||
| They've put the seal on the podium for the vice president and everything's zoomed in on that door awaiting J.D. Vance. | ||
| So this on a very, very busy day for the administration when there's so much going on. | ||
| It's great to see them prioritize this. | ||
| It's inspiring, frankly. | ||
| J.D. Vance met Vivek at the airport in Ohio. | ||
| Vivek imminently announcing a run for Ohio governor. | ||
| Proud of my friend, J.D. Vance, and honored to welcome him back to Ohio for his visit to East Palestine. | ||
| Our forgotten cities will be forgotten no longer. | ||
| Make America great again. | ||
| Make Ohio great again. | ||
| Let me tell you. | ||
| Just a secret between... | ||
| Us girls here. | ||
| Vivek Ranswamy is absolutely running for governor of Ohio. | ||
| It's effectively all been, like the cake's been baked on that, and now we're sort of waiting to make it official. | ||
| So this is Vivek Ranswamy pressing the flesh, as they say in politics, there in Ohio. | ||
| So J.D. Vance. | ||
| Again, doing what he promised to do, which is to make the American people who have been forgotten, forgotten no longer. | ||
| And very interesting. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| And my producers are telling me they're doing audio checks, and so I guess we are moments away. | ||
| And the reason why we are going live for this is that it is something that is near and dear to our hearts, not just because we went there. | ||
| And not just because we've been covering this, but because it is an iconoclast for the way that a worldview sees the nation in which they lead. | ||
| You are wholly and totally disqualified from leadership. | ||
| If you don't love the people of the nation, this is a prerequisite for leading people. | ||
| You must love those people. | ||
| And time and time again, the Biden administration proved that they didn't love people when the space lasers or whatever the hell happened in Lahaina, Maui, when those little working class villages were torched to embers. | ||
| And there were dozens of Americans who died there. | ||
| Biden did nothing. | ||
| They didn't help those people out at all. | ||
| Oprah did nothing. | ||
| The regime did nothing to help them. | ||
| Another $70 billion to Ukraine, please! | ||
| That was the response. | ||
| That's a blue area. | ||
| I doubt there's even a single Trump supporter in that town. | ||
| I guess I don't know. | ||
| But those poor people were trapped by the federal government and had their town burned to embers. | ||
| I know there were not many Trump supporters in the Palisades in Los Angeles. | ||
| The Pacific Palisades that had their entire lives torched to embers. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| No help. | ||
| No assistance at all. | ||
| From the state or from Biden. | ||
| Not even concerned. | ||
| Biden was in California when the wildfires were raging and he decided to talk about himself and say it was a great day because he had a grandson or something that day. | ||
| Not the time, jackass. | ||
| The same thing as the mayor of Los Angeles who decided to go on a vacation to Africa. | ||
| At the exact same time that Los Angeles was burning to cinders. | ||
| These people, they just don't care about their country. | ||
| It's like, let's get to the actual root of the issue here. | ||
| The problem is that they despise the people who live here, the Native Americans, the people who were born here, whose families fought and bled and died for this country. | ||
| They just don't like us. | ||
| We're inconvenient to them. | ||
| We're too used to our rights. | ||
| We're too used to having a functional country. | ||
| They wish to replace us and they wish to terrorize us on the way to replacement. | ||
| And that's what East Palestine is all about. | ||
| And so why this is so near and dear to our hearts and why we'll cover this speech live and this press conference live from J.D. Vance is because it marks a massive sea change in American politics when American politicians, whether it's with the border war with Mexico that Donald Trump just won, Or with Canada? | ||
| Or with Panama? | ||
| Or across the globe with China? | ||
| Our American political class is realigned at a neck-snapping pace to actually care about this country first. | ||
| And Palestine is sort of a watermark in all of that, ladies and gentlemen, to indicate to the American public that we won't be forgetting about you. | ||
| Even if you live in an unfashionable little hamlet buried in eastern Ohio, you know, in a hillside of East Palestine. | ||
| Killer Kline, is this a brand new, is this a video of J.D. Vance that's just gone up? | ||
| Or is that an old one? | ||
| This is from 2023. | ||
| This is from 2023? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is good. | ||
| Pop that up, please. | ||
| Just to show you that J.D. has been one of those guys who isn't just doing this for political expediency. | ||
| He was probably the first big-name politician to be on the ground in East Palestine. | ||
| Here's J.D. Vance in 2023. | ||
| This is before, obviously, his selection to be vice president for Donald Trump. | ||
| But perhaps the reason why he was selected to be vice president for Donald Trump, because J.D. Vance was unwavering in his commitment to helping out forgotten Americans. | ||
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It's recording whenever you're ready. | |
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| JD Vance here. | ||
| And behind me, you see this blue building. | ||
| And if you can see behind that is a beautiful farm. | ||
| I'm here in East Palestine. | ||
| And that maybe gives you a sense that everything's just fine and everything's normal. | ||
| But if you go just a little bit in this direction, you will see a massive mound of toxic dirt covered in white plastic because right now it's kind of snowing, kind of raining here. | ||
| So they're trying to prevent those chemicals from seeping back into the ground. | ||
| But here's the question. | ||
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Why is this toxic mound of dirt still here in the first place? | |
| Thousands and thousands of pounds of it. | ||
| The reason is because the Biden administration and the EPA is making it harder to get this stuff into licensed facilities where it can be properly disposed of. | ||
| I understand some states don't want to take it, but ultimately, you have to get this stuff out of East Palestine and get it in properly licensed facilities or it's going to continue to poison this community. | ||
| There is no recovery for East Palestine until you get this stuff out of their community. | ||
| It's time for the Biden administration. | ||
| To show some leadership and help us get this stuff out of East Palestine. | ||
| You guys, apply the pressure. | ||
| Don't forget about what's going on here in the community. | ||
| I certainly won't either. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| That's why it's important. | ||
| Countdown. | ||
| You hear the countdown there? | ||
| Klein. | ||
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When we're recording social, we do the same thing. | |
| Three, two, one. | ||
| Right? | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, yeah, it's something that the man's actually cared about. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| It's just completely inspiring to have a U.S. federal government aligned to look inward and help their own people. | ||
| President Trump actually speaking at the White House right now as well, signing executive orders for a sovereign wealth fund. | ||
| So we'll be getting you that very soon. | ||
| This is President Trump inside of the Oval Office signing, again, an executive order to create wealth for this country. | ||
| In a way, it's kind of doing the exact same thing that JD is doing, right? | ||
| Like explaining that we are going to be a nation that won't be taken advantage of anymore. | ||
| We're going to look inward to ensure that we protect our citizens first. | ||
| Boy, we haven't played a cringe Gene Pierre clip in a very, very long time. | ||
| Dare we do it? | ||
| Must we do it? | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, back from the ashes of history, something I never thought I'd have to say ever again. | ||
| But here is cringe Jean Pierre at the time when Peter Doocy was asking, why hasn't Joe Biden gone to the crash site in East Palestine? | ||
| Oh, you're going to love the explanation here. | ||
| It is vintage cringe. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Okay, just one more. | ||
| The president said over the long weekend that he hasn't had the occasion to go to East Palestine. | ||
| I just haven't been able to break. | ||
| The derailment was on February 3rd. | ||
| President Biden has not had a break since February 3rd. | ||
| The president will go to East Palestine. | ||
| He promised that he would, and he will. | ||
| You saw him- So he was not on a break when he was in Lake Tahoe? | ||
| I will say this again. | ||
| The president is going to go to East Palestine, as he has said that he is committed to do. | ||
| You saw him just this Saturday visit a rural area that was devastated. | ||
| Some parts were devastated by Hurricane Idalia, and he was there with the First Lady. | ||
| They were able to hear directly from the American people, and he was able to talk about what is it that they need. | ||
| What else do they need from the federal government? | ||
| So the president is going to go to East Palestine. | ||
| I don't have a time or date to announce at this time. | ||
| All right, so the president is going to go to East Palestine. | ||
| It would be another 14 months. | ||
| So Joe Biden decided to go to Ukraine before going to East Palestine. | ||
| I mean, let's say your house was burning down and you decided to go to Pizza Hut or Texas Roadhouse instead. | ||
| And your children are inside of your house and they're screaming like, please, we know there's unlimited breadsticks at Olive Garden and we know they're great, but like, please come instead and help us because we're your children and your house is burning. | ||
| And you're like, no, no, I'd rather do two for one. | ||
| Southwestern egg rolls, right? | ||
| This is, I mean, it's immoral, actually. | ||
| It's evil. | ||
| It's immoral. | ||
| And it's exactly what the Biden administration did. | ||
| Do you know how close Ohio is to D.C.? | ||
| Do you know how quickly Joe Biden could have gotten to East Palestine? | ||
| Put up the holding clip here, please, and show you guys sort of where we're at with the live J.D. Vance. | ||
| Everybody's now cleared out. | ||
| I mean, it looks like J.D. Vance will be imminently here inside of this press conference and speech from East Palestine. | ||
| And also, our team is getting Donald Trump speaking live from the White House. | ||
| This will be a playback clip. | ||
| Donald Trump speaking from the White House, signing an executive order. | ||
| We're showing you here, this is the J.D. Vance live feed from East Palestine inside of the firehouse in East Palestine. | ||
| Donald Trump... | ||
| Speaking live from the White House and also answering questions from the press. | ||
| So it's happening both at the same time here. | ||
| J.D. Vance is live. | ||
| These clips of Trump were just moments ago at the White House. | ||
| But they're doing the exact same thing. | ||
| They're saying we're going to be putting the American people first. | ||
| Goodness, a breath of fresh air. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump. | ||
| In short part, we have a longer Q&A with President Trump that we are loading right now. | ||
| But here's what President Trump's communications team posted moments ago. | ||
| President Trump on wanting Canada to become the 51st state. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| What I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state. | ||
| We give them protection, military protection. | ||
| We don't need them to build our cars. | ||
| I'd rather see Detroit or South Carolina or... | ||
| Any one of our, Tennessee, any one of our states build the cars. | ||
| They could do it very easily. | ||
| We don't need them for the cars. | ||
| We don't need them for lumber. | ||
| We don't need them for anything. | ||
| We don't need them for energy. | ||
| We have more energy than they do. | ||
| We don't need them for energy. | ||
| So I say, why are we doing this? | ||
| Why are we willing to lose between $100 billion and $200 billion a year? | ||
| We don't need them. | ||
| As a state, it's different. | ||
| Well, Donald Trump. | ||
| Winner in Canada. | ||
| Donald Trump, of course, fresh off the victory, forcing Mexico down to their knees and surrendering to him this morning. | ||
| Mexico will be paying for the wall and will be supporting Donald Trump's vision for a safe and secure southern border by putting 10,000 troops fighting the cartels. | ||
| And ladies and gentlemen, in short order, we have cartel kingpins that are being arrested all throughout Mexico. | ||
| Grab me that, please. | ||
| There's like a... | ||
| Just fresh off of the President Trump negotiating table, suddenly Mexico is interested in arresting drug kingpins again in Mexico. | ||
| So that's happening, and Donald Trump is winning. | ||
| Here, ladies and gentlemen, is... | ||
| And it looks like the clips are now rolling in from moments ago at the White House. | ||
| These aren't live. | ||
| They're live to tape. | ||
| So President Trump does a press conference inside of the White House, signs an executive order, and then we get those clips after they're live. | ||
| Unlike J.D. Vance here, who in a moment will literally be live, we have to do it when they release the tapes, right, from the pool feed with President Trump in the White House. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump at the White House signing executive orders for sovereignty wealth funding in America. | ||
| You'd like to say something about it? | ||
| And I'd ask also Howard to say something about it? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| This is very exciting. | ||
| We're going to stand this thing up. | ||
| Within the next 12 months, we're going to... | ||
| We're going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people. | ||
| We're going to put the assets to work, and I think it's going to be very exciting. | ||
| We're going to study best practices that's done around the world. | ||
| It'll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country, as we work to bring them out for the American people. | ||
| The extraordinary size and scale of the U.S. government and the business it does with companies should create value for American citizens. | ||
| If we are going to buy two billion COVID vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these companies and have that grow for the help of the American people. | ||
| So I bring all these things together. | ||
| I think we'll create Scott and I will create an amazing sovereign wealth fund for you, sir. | ||
| Well... | ||
| Well, would you look at that. | ||
| Creating wealth for Americans and not for Ukrainians. | ||
| Or for Israelis. | ||
| Or for Chinese. | ||
| Or for whoever the hell we are creating wealth for right now who are not the American taxpayers. | ||
| Elon Musk sending out a meme. | ||
| Elon Musk sending out a meme earlier today. | ||
| Do you know any other nation that taxes its people and sends that money to America? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, we don't. | ||
| We're the only nation stupid enough to do that. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| Upon signing this order, ladies and gentlemen, just really quickly, let's pop that up, Killer Kline, to show you here. | ||
| J.D. Vance arriving here in Ohio. | ||
| Again, this is J.D. Vance arriving. | ||
| This was moments ago in Ohio. | ||
| J.D. Vance has been on the ground, but we weren't able to bring you his arrival. | ||
| We will bring you his press conference live here momentarily. | ||
| Donald Trump inside of the Oval Office explaining his executive order and what an American sovereign wealth fund means. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Today we have numerous fronts are being covered. | ||
| Before we do that, we'll give you certain proclamations. | ||
| We'll sign them. | ||
| And you'll hear a little bit about them. | ||
| Will, please. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| First, we have for your signature five official designations of special envoys. | ||
| The first is Mr. Steve Whitcoff, who's actually in the room to be your Middle East envoy. | ||
| Where is Steve? | ||
| Steve Whitcoff, everybody. | ||
| He's done a great job in the Middle East. | ||
| Really great. | ||
| But we'll see how it all turns out. | ||
| It's complex. | ||
| But I think he's going to do very well. | ||
| Next, we have Mauricio Claver-Carone to be your special envoy to Latin America, sir. | ||
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Good man Oh Okay. | |
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Next, we have retired General Keith Kellogg to be your special envoy on Russian-Ukraine issues. | ||
| We've made a lot of progress on Russia, Ukraine. | ||
| We'll see what happens, but a lot of progress has been made. | ||
| We're going to stop that ridiculous war. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Next, we have designation of Richard Grinnell, Rick Grinnell, to be your envoy for special missions. | ||
| I sent him to California to turn on the water. | ||
| We turned it on. | ||
| It was not easy because we had to go through a lot of environmentalists that are causing a lot of problems. | ||
| And we have billions of gallons of water. | ||
| It was on three days ago, you probably saw. | ||
| It should have gotten a lot of press, but it didn't get much. | ||
| All we're doing is giving Los Angeles and the entire state of California virtually unlimited water, which they could have done five years ago, which I told them they should do. | ||
| But the environmentalists stopped them. | ||
| And we opened it and we did it regardless of the state. | ||
| And now the state seems to be very happy. | ||
| I spoke with Gavin Newsom and he... | ||
| He's very happy. | ||
| I almost called him by the other name. | ||
| My little nickname for him. | ||
| But I think they're all happy. | ||
| They have a lot of water in California. | ||
| Too bad we didn't have it about two months ago, right? | ||
| By the way, that was a big move. | ||
| I don't know if you saw the pictures that were released of the water pouring down from the Pacific Northwest and Canada and lots of other places. | ||
| And it's a pretty amazing sight. | ||
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Mr. President, Rick Burnell had a big Friday trip as well. | |
| He had a very big Friday trip, you're right. | ||
| We'll talk about that. | ||
| He's a good man, Rick. | ||
| Lastly, sir, we have a designation of Mark Burnett as your special envoy to the United Kingdom. | ||
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You know, Mark Burnett is a figure. | |
| He should be good. | ||
| He's certainly done a great job. | ||
| Friend of mine. | ||
| Very talented guy. | ||
| We have very talented people working for us. | ||
| I'll hold that one up because Mark gets so much television. | ||
| We'll hold it up, right? | ||
| He'll be thrilled to see it. | ||
| He's going to do a good job. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Next, your administration has smashed records for appointing large numbers of highly qualified, capable people at all levels of the federal government. | ||
| These are 28 sub-cabinet-level officials being appointed to a number of different departments and agencies. | ||
| Some of them are quite important positions, like departmental general counsels, but these are people who have been pre-vetted and have received your approval previously. | ||
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very good. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Next, this is an executive order. | ||
| This charges your Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, and your Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, to begin a process that will hopefully result in the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund. | ||
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It's a very exciting event. | |
| We're going to have a sovereign wealth fund, which we've never had. | ||
| We have a lot of things that create wealth, and you've seen that over the last two weeks. | ||
| I think we've created more wealth. | ||
| Other people have created de-wealth. | ||
| The people, my predecessors, we're creating a lot of wealth. | ||
| De-wealth. | ||
| It's a new Trumpism. | ||
| Other people have created de-wealth. | ||
| We have a lot of wealth. | ||
| Now we're going to create more wealth for our people. | ||
| It's amazing what can happen when you're the most powerful country in the world. | ||
| You can just make other countries do things. | ||
| Lesser countries have to grovel at your feet. | ||
| If you give up the illusion that we're somehow some type of like... | ||
| Equal, right? | ||
| Like America isn't actually equal with these third world impoverished, corrupt, vile nations. | ||
| We're not equal with them. | ||
| There's a reason why we're the most powerful country in the world. | ||
| And so it is good actually to extract concessions from these nations, especially if those nations are poisoning our nation. | ||
| If those nations are torturing and killing our people. | ||
| And this is, of course, what happens externally and internally. | ||
| That's why the president says when he's sworn in, I will defend against enemies, foreign and domestic. | ||
| Something that is always said by the president. | ||
| And so enemies domestic would be what happens in East Palestine. | ||
| Enemies foreign are what happens with Mexico, right? | ||
| And the cartels. | ||
| Do we have the cartel leader getting arrested? | ||
| Make sure, producers, we go and we source that out. | ||
| It's all over my timeline. | ||
| So let's do both, right? | ||
| We can just do things. | ||
| Here we go from Elon Musk. | ||
| How many countries tax their citizens and then send that money to the United States? | ||
| That's a very great question here, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| President Trump was saying at the White House that maybe it's time to do a European tariff to get the Europeans back on board. | ||
| And cooperating with the America that defends them and keeps them constantly from falling into the grips of larger, more powerful nations around the world like Russia, China. | ||
| Europe is, of course, a place that lives lavishly off of the American dollar. | ||
| is able to fund left-wing social programs off of the American might that defends it because Europe refuses to defend itself or to pay for its own defense instead they pay for refugee resettlement programs into the heart of Europe or universal health care while we the American taxpayer foot the bill no more no more being idiots here's the cartel member Who was captured just | ||
| moments ago. | ||
| This is Trump just doing things. | ||
| Breaking! | ||
| Mexico just arrested El Ricky, a top leader of the Cartel de Nortes, right after Trump pressured them to crack down on cartels. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| There is the cartel chief. | ||
| You can just do things, right? | ||
| Here's the actual arrest orders and the charges. | ||
| Man, isn't that wild? | ||
| You could just like... | ||
| You can just save your country. | ||
| You can just do things. | ||
| You can just arrest criminals. | ||
| You can just make sure that bad people, like, aren't allowed to go do bad things if you want. | ||
| Our nation was led by idiots who didn't want to do that and didn't want to protect us. | ||
| And so here we are. | ||
| Here we sit. | ||
| President Trump sits in the Oval Office. | ||
| We now have President Trump's full exchange with the press. | ||
| At the signing of the Sovereign Wealth Fund for America, something that Donald Trump promised to do on the campaign trail, Donald Trump and his full exchange... | ||
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Two-minute warning, I think. | |
| Did we hear a two-minute warning? | ||
| Well... | ||
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I think so. | |
| Okay. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| There's so much to talk about. | ||
| We've been live for an hour. | ||
| It doesn't even... | ||
| It doesn't even like... | ||
| It doesn't even... | ||
| It doesn't even brush... | ||
| Brush the... | ||
| So, there's been so much to talk about. | ||
| It's been quite easy to flow. | ||
| Nonetheless, we will await J.D. Vance, who is, I guess, imminent on his arrival here in East Palestine. | ||
| Again, the reason for the special live and the special coverage of this is that this marks a sea change in how the American government looks at its citizens and treats us. | ||
| While it might seem like a novel and semi-regional issue to have a massive toxic train explode in a place that you probably didn't know about and probably couldn't even pronounce the name correctly, there are thousands of Americans who live there. | ||
| There are tens of thousands of Americans who live around that area. | ||
| They're in what would be called the Forgotten America, an unfashionable little hamlet that used to have A vigorous manufacturing base where all the textiles were made. | ||
| Your grandmother probably has a plate or a spoon or something that was manufactured in East Palestine. | ||
| But all that manufacturing left 60 years ago with the dumbass globalists who decided to hollow out the manufacturing core of America and send all those jobs to Vietnam, Korea, wherever. | ||
| So this is a community that was of course... | ||
| Horribly affected by that. | ||
| And it's a community that struggles to be on its feet. | ||
| Given those corrupt policies, they didn't deserve this. | ||
| They didn't deserve this insult. | ||
| And now they're finally getting the attention and the care that they deserve from the leaders who actually lead them and act like it. | ||
| So it's a wonderful, wonderful thing to see. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, again, we're awaiting J.D. Vance in East Palestine Live in Ohio. | ||
| What you're looking at here on your screen is J.D. Vance. | ||
| J.D. Vance's imminent arrival here at a firehouse with first responders from East Palestine standing behind J.D. Vance. | ||
| He'll be making announcements here, and he'll be signaling once again that the American government is here to serve its people and not to serve the interests of Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese Communist Party leaders. | ||
| And Joe Biden's corrupt-ass family. | ||
| East, Palestine, fire and rescue is where we're at here. | ||
| So, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Again, this funny little glitchy camera. | ||
| It's not you. | ||
| It's not your screen. | ||
| It happens to be the live shot here. | ||
| And we will wait for... | ||
| We'll wait for JD. | ||
| It is refreshing. | ||
| It is refreshing just to have, like, the capacity to say, oh, yeah, you know what? | ||
| In his first hours, what has it been? | ||
| Two weeks? | ||
| Two weeks they've been in the administration? | ||
| JD Vance is visiting here. | ||
| Two weeks in. | ||
| We apologize for the crummy shot here. | ||
| It's just what happens when you're live sometimes. | ||
| Our team is efforting to ensure that we are able to switch over and switch over quickly so that we get a crisp and perhaps cleaner shot here. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There we go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| It looks like J.D. Vance is arriving here. | ||
| You can see the governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine there, soon to be replaced by Vivek Ramswami. | ||
| Governor of Ohio just taking, and the mayor of East Palestine, taking their spots behind the dais. | ||
| EPA administrators. | ||
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Here we go. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You can just do things. | ||
| Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator, righting the wrongs of the previous administration. | ||
| That is the rhino, creepy Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine. | ||
| Who nobody likes, for obvious reasons. | ||
| He actually looks like the mayor of Whoville. | ||
| That is the actual mayor of East Palestine. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| A good man who's done the best that he can inside of a very tough hand that he's been dealt. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| When I was United States Senator for the great state of Ohio was the train derailment in East Palestine. | ||
| And there are a few reasons why I want to come back, of course, on the second anniversary of the disaster. | ||
| I think the first is just a signal to the people here in East Palestine that we will not forget you. | ||
| I talked to the president about this visit a couple of days ago. | ||
| The president loves this community. | ||
| Of course, he visited himself personally. | ||
| And President Trump just wanted to deliver a message that this community will not be forgotten. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Well, one thing it means is that, of course, the environmental cleanup has to get done. | ||
| It's a tragedy and a shame that it wasn't done during the last administration, but I guarantee we're going to finish the cleanup during this administration under the great leadership of Lee Zeldin, our new EPA administrator who stands behind me. | ||
| And I also think that part of that means the long-term economic development of this community. | ||
| We know that a lot of local businesses and a lot of local people... | ||
| We are committed not just to finishing the environmental side of the cleanup, but hopefully seeing East Palestine build back better and stronger and more prosperous than it was before this disaster happened in the first place. | ||
| That's not going to happen overnight. | ||
| Of course, I'm a realist about this, but I just want the people to know here that President Trump, me, and the entire administration are committed to ensuring that the people of East Palestine That their community, their government does right by them, and we'll keep on working at it in the months and the years to come. | ||
| So before I take a few questions from the press, I want to invite first our new EPA Administrator and then Governor DeWine to come up and say a couple words. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| That was a sworn in middle of last week, and as soon as I was sworn in, I instantly heard from the Vice President's office saying, That your first order of business right away, your first trip, were going to East Palestine. | ||
| As someone who was watching this disaster strike two years ago, from somebody who was watching from out of state, I saw then Senator Vance go to this site and lead to be a voice for people looking for leadership from all levels of government. | ||
| It educated. | ||
| The rest of us around America, what was going on. | ||
| And it motivated all of us to want to be able to knowing this tragedy and what it meant for this community. | ||
| I know how much of a priority that this is for Vice President Vance. | ||
| And because it is such a high priority for him. | ||
| I will make sure that for the EPA, it is our highest priority, day in, day out, doing everything in our power to make sure that this is completed as quickly as possible. | ||
| Anything that is left will be done as fast as we possibly can. | ||
| That is our charge from our Vice President. | ||
| I'm honored to be here with him, alongside him, and with all of these great local leaders who make it very clear that this community will not be forgotten. | ||
| and this community's rebound will be greater than ever. | ||
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Mr. Vice President, thank you for coming back. | |
| Mr. Vice President said one of the first major crisis he dealt with was this one. | ||
| And he was here and he's been here a number of times and we're grateful that he is back. | ||
| Mr. Minister, thank you very, very much. | ||
| We look forward to working with you. | ||
| We had an opportunity to talk with the administrator a few moments ago and many things that we're going to be working with very, very closely. | ||
| We had the opportunity to listen to a number of the leaders in the community a moment ago. | ||
| And one thing I've noticed about the vice president is he's a very, very good listener. | ||
| And taking that information back, he's here to find out more information. | ||
| We're here to find out more information. | ||
| So there are some very, very positive things that we can do. | ||
| And that we're going to be working with the vice president, with the administrator, to make sure that it's done. | ||
| This is a community that is resilient, is tough, and is strong. | ||
| It's a great, great community. | ||
| It's a great place to raise a family. | ||
| My wife, Fran, and I spent some time in the school just talking with students over the last several years, and it's just a great, great community. | ||
| But it's also a community that continues to need some little assistance, and we're certainly going to be. | ||
| Willing to do that and are going to be doing that. | ||
| Mr. Vice President thank you very much for being here. | ||
| So before I take some questions, I just want to echo something the governor said and something the new administrator said, which is you've got great local officials here in East Palestine, Ohio, and in Columbia County. | ||
| I particularly want to thank Mayor Conway for your leadership, of course, during the terrible disaster, but of course, in the couple of years since. | ||
| And I think that this community will build back stronger. | ||
| And part of that is because the leadership of Trent standing behind me, of course, the great firefighters. | ||
| I'm honored to have you guys joining us. | ||
| I know that a lot of you took it upon yourselves to make sure this community thrived and survived in the wake of that disaster. | ||
| We're thrilled to have you here and we're honored by your presence. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| And of course, I can't leave out the great fire chief. | ||
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Chief, where are you? | |
| There he is. | ||
| The good thing about the fire chief is whether you're a United States senator or the vice president of the United States, he tells you exactly what he thinks you need to hear. | ||
| And in the case of this community, I think you've got a great advocate here in the fire chief and the mayor. | ||
| So we'll keep working at it. | ||
| We recognize this is a long-term commitment, but we're in it for the long haul. | ||
| Jack, you got a question? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| You streaked that stick along the creek bed two years ago. | ||
| Everything changed. | ||
| Could you speak to your leadership role in that, President Trump's leadership role, and will that include going forward advocating for something like the Railway Safety Act? | ||
| Yeah, so Jack, what I did, I came here a couple years ago. | ||
| I talked to people on the ground. | ||
| It was kind of crazy. | ||
| The first person I met was at a gas station. | ||
| We had to stop and get gas, and I asked her what was going on, and I expected her just to be, you know, it's a small town, but it's not that small of a town. | ||
| I expected her to be a person who was just generally aware. | ||
| What was going on? | ||
| And she actually was living in a house that was over one of the creeks where she was smelling the fumes coming into her house. | ||
| And I realized that, you know, the most important part sometimes of being a leader is just listening to the people. | ||
| Who are on the ground and experiencing this. | ||
| And that's what I've tried to do. | ||
| As the governor said, that's what I tried to do, talking to local businesses. | ||
| Because it is different now, right? | ||
| In that initial phase, what we were most worried about is, is the water clean to drink? | ||
| Is the air safe to breathe? | ||
| That's what we were really worried about two years ago. | ||
| Now what we're worried about is finishing the cleanup and getting this community back on the path of economic prosperity. | ||
| And you asked about the Railway Safety Act. | ||
| I mean, I sponsored the Railway Safety Act because I thought then... | ||
| And I still think now that we could do a lot better. | ||
| We could have smarter regulations that actually empower the railways to experiment with technology that will make their business safer, but most importantly, make these communities safer. | ||
| And I think that we could do a lot better at ensuring that when you have a terrible train disaster, like what happened in East Palestine, the railways actually pick up the tab. | ||
| And that is one thing, as much as I'm inspired and gratified by the resiliency of this community, I heard a lot. | ||
| about Norfolk Southern making promises to this community that it didn't keep. | ||
| And you can be damn sure that over the next six months, you're going to hear a lot from the Vice President of the United States and the entire administration. | ||
| If Norfolk Southern doesn't keep these promises, we are going to talk about it and we are going to fight for it. | ||
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Does it bother you that Congress is still, that the real estate yet is still hung up in Congress? | |
| Sorry, say that again, sir. | ||
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Does it bother you right now that the Rail Safety Act is still hung up in Congress? | |
| And what is your message to the members of Congress over that legislation? | ||
| Well, look, I'm bothered that it wasn't brought up for a vote in the last Congress because I at least know in the United States Senate we had the votes to pass it. | ||
| And I think that now that falls, of course, to the United States senators standing behind me. | ||
| I know we're thrilled to have... | ||
| Bernie Marino and John Husted here, but also to the Pennsylvania Senators, I think, to actually work that legislation to make it as good as possible and to make it possible for it to come up for a vote in the United States Senate. | ||
| I do think that is a very viable and a very reasonable goal. | ||
| I do think that we continue to need to do better at rail safety in this country. | ||
| And I even talked to the fire chief a little bit. | ||
| He's got strong views about rail safety, probably how we can make the bill a little bit better, but also how we can make sure that common sense rail safety makes its way into our public laws. | ||
| Henry, any question? | ||
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I have a question on carrots, if you don't mind. | |
| Sure. | ||
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The president said yesterday that there could be some pain associated with the carrots. | |
| We've seen some news of the last few hours with Mexico. | ||
| How concerned do you think Americans should be about the impact carrots will have on prices to them? | ||
| So, Henry, let me bracket that question just because I want to focus on East Palestine, at least for the next couple of questions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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You're talking about the cleanup that has to be done here, both economically and environmentally. | |
| What definitive action can the people here depend on from your administration? | ||
| I think the first and most definitive question is... | ||
| Natalie, is that right? | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| I have a good memory. | ||
| The first and most important... | ||
| And concrete promise is that we're going to be transparent as the cleanup proceeds. | ||
| Now, I remember talking to the Biden administration when I was a junior United States senator, and I would say, well, when is the cleanup going to be done? | ||
| And they'd give me a date. | ||
| And then I'd call a couple of weeks after that date, and I'd say, well, is the cleanup done? | ||
| And they'd say, no, it's going to take another few months. | ||
| And so I'd call a few months later. | ||
| Is the cleanup done? | ||
| We're going to be honest and open with the people of East Palestine about this cleanup as it proceeds apace. | ||
| I'm not saying everything's going to go perfect because it never does, but we will always be honest and transparent with the people here. | ||
| I think the second thing that we need to do, and we certainly commit to doing, is when you talk to people here on the ground, they know that this disaster left a mark on this community. | ||
| They know also that to rebuild, you're going to have to have a government that's in it for the long haul, that's doing the long-term well testing, the long-term water testing, the long-term air testing, the long-term health testing, and that's something that we're going to fight to make sure that we do over the next few years of this administration because, again, to rebuild this community. | ||
| And I think it's a beautiful place. | ||
| It's got great workers. | ||
| It's got incredible natural landscape. | ||
| It's got great people. | ||
| But people have to be confident that they can invest in a business here, that they can build a business here, that they can raise a family here. | ||
| That's going to take the long-term commitment, I think, of the Environmental Protection Agency, but of the whole administration. | ||
| And that's certainly something that people here should expect, and they'll have. | ||
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Speaking with residents here over the past few years, one of the things that they tell us is Is that they want a federal disaster declaration so that federal funds come in so that they can get Medicare and they can get long-term health monitoring. | |
| I know the previous governor has asked this. | ||
| When I spoke with you last year, you asked President Biden to sign this. | ||
| Will the Trump administration declare a disaster here so people can get these resources that they need? | ||
| Yeah, so the long-term health monitoring, by the way, is something that we're very focused on, and I'm personally very focused on. | ||
| It's something my Senate office worked a great deal on and, frankly, was very disappointed that the Biden administration wasn't willing to meet us halfway there. | ||
| We're going to do a lot there, and I think there's a lot that could be done. | ||
| On the disaster declaration, it's an interesting question. | ||
| Because a disaster declaration may have been very helpful 18 months ago. | ||
| I don't know that it's still helpful today. | ||
| And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask the governor behind me. | ||
| I'm going to talk to Lee about this, and I'm going to say, is a disaster declaration still helpful? | ||
| Because if the answer is yes, then I'm going to take that message back to Washington. | ||
| But the answer may well be no. | ||
| Because we're not in the same phase of this thing now that we were two years ago. | ||
| Thank God for that. | ||
| We're going to do right by the community. | ||
| That answer may not be the same as it was 18 months ago, but we're still going to work at it. | ||
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In talking to locals as we have the last few years, many of them say that they're now worse off than they were before. | |
| They're closing their businesses, selling their businesses. | ||
| What can you tell them now in this forum that they're going to hear at some point in the next 24 hours that leaves them thinking this is not just more lip service that they have heard for the last few years? | ||
| So I guess what I'd ask him is, first of all, you're right. | ||
| A lot of people in East Palestine have dealt with unspeakable tragedy. | ||
| And then economic calamity on top of that. | ||
| I've talked to a lot of local businesses just here today who have lost customers, who feel like the bottom line is a lot worse than it was before this disaster happened. | ||
| And that's local retailers. | ||
| That's oil and gas businesses. | ||
| But I guess what I'd ask them is don't give up on this community because we're not going to give up on this community. | ||
| And it's not always going to be easy. | ||
| And I'm not going to be able to take away the two years of economic pain that have been caused by this train disaster. | ||
| But you do now have a government that cares about you that's going to work on these problems and isn't going to snap its fingers and fix everything because that's not how any of this works, but is going to fight every single day to make sure you get the infrastructure, the redevelopment aid, and certainly the health and environmental aid that you need to get back on your feet. | ||
| I really do believe that if we work this the right way, that the federal government, the state government, the EPA administrator, and the people on the ground... | ||
| Are willing to work for this community, then we're going to do better by East Palestine than we have over the last couple of years. | ||
| That's certainly my commitment to this community. | ||
| Okay, John. | ||
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We talked about rail safety probably more than anything over the last few years. | |
| When you introduced it, you spoke for yourself, you spoke for the constituents of Ohio. | ||
| Now speak for the administration. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Does the administration stand behind the rail safety act as you introduced it? | ||
| Well, John, the president endorsed the Rail Safety Act, of course, when it came out. | ||
| And so certainly I think that we can say with confidence the president shares my view that we need some common sense rail safety. | ||
| And yes, that is something that we're going to work on over the next couple of years. | ||
| It's something that I think that we have a much better shot at, frankly, with Republicans in charge. | ||
| Remember, we had the legislation. | ||
| It was bipartisan. | ||
| We had it in a place where it would have passed the United States Senate. | ||
| Chuck Schumer just refused to bring it up to the floor for a vote. | ||
| And so, yeah, I think things... | ||
| Things are a little bit different this time, and we're going to make sure we get this right. | ||
| Now, Henry asked me a question about tariffs. | ||
| Let me say this, Henry. | ||
| So I think for a couple of, look, not just a couple of years, for 40 years, with one very obvious exception, I think that we have had... | ||
| Successive administrations who have not recognized that America's economic power is not just a source of prosperity, but is also something that we should be willing to put to use to make the American people safer and healthier. | ||
| And unfortunately, we have had, especially at our southern border, a southern neighbor, and I think an important ally if they want to be, who has not taken their basic responsibility seriously. | ||
| About securing their own border and doing basic law enforcement within their own country. | ||
| Now, what's happened? | ||
| What's happened is that even in communities like East Palestine, you've seen a massive explosion in the amount of deadly poisonous fentanyl that exists in this country. | ||
| We've seen the toll in orphaned children and families who have lost loved ones and over 100,000 lives per year, most of which have come, excuse me, 100,000 lives per year, lost to drug overdose. | ||
| Most of which have come from the fentanyl problem. | ||
| Mexico has got to do a better job. | ||
| And President Trump's message is very simple. | ||
| We are done being taken advantage of. | ||
| Now, actually, I was in the air. | ||
| I talked to the president very briefly about this. | ||
| He spoke with the president of Mexico this morning, and the president of Mexico committed to putting 10,000 additional Mexican troops on that southern border, our southern border, of course, the Mexicans' northern border, to take law enforcement more seriously, to go after those Mexican drug cartels a little bit more aggressively. | ||
| So for literally three days, I heard... | ||
| The far left in this country say that these tariffs would make Americans' lives worse off. | ||
| And what actually happened is the Mexican government was so afraid of the tariffs that they actually are taking their border enforcement and their anti-cartel activity more seriously. | ||
| That is not a pathway to making Americans worse off. | ||
| That's a pathway to making Americans better off. | ||
| Now, the president has also been very clear that we have to rebalance our trade relationship in this country. | ||
| Every single country, if you look even at our northern neighbors, Canada, do Americans realize that the Canadians charge massive, massive tariffs on our products that go into the country of Canada, including on our great agricultural products that people right here in the state of Ohio depend on? | ||
| Well, if the Canadians are going to use their economic power to penalize Americans, I think it's totally reasonable for the American president to say, we're done being taken advantage of. | ||
| We, of course, want to have a great relationship with Canada, but that goes both directions, and that's all his conduct and his activity over the last few days was about. | ||
| We're done being taken advantage of in this country. | ||
| We have got to rebalance the trade relationship between ourselves and our allies, ourselves and our adversaries. | ||
| President Trump is committed to that, and tariffs is one tool that he's going to use to accomplish it. | ||
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Listen, in talking to folks today and over the last few years, the biggest thing they heard is they don't want this to happen. | |
| In another community, what are some of those action items you heard talking to the folks during your visit today? | ||
| You can take back to DC, kind of, all right, let's hit the ground running on these things. | ||
| Yeah, so it's interesting. | ||
| Most of what I heard today was actually concerns about economic development. | ||
| Okay, but of course, I've been to East Palestine. | ||
| This is my, I think, fifth or sixth visit. | ||
| I've heard a lot about the concerns related to rail safety. | ||
| And I think there are a few very basic common sense things that can be done. | ||
| And look, some of this the railways are already doing, but some of this I truly believe is going to have to happen through things like the Railway Safety Act. | ||
| Number one, you've got to inspect these cars more before they go off. | ||
| You've got to better use technology to monitor when a train is about to have a catastrophic failure. | ||
| These are all things that were sort of built into the infrastructure of the Railway Safety Act, and it's something we're going to keep on working on. | ||
| Look, this can't happen again. | ||
| As much as I believe in East Palestine, and I really do believe in this community and its people, what they're rebuilding through shouldn't have happened. | ||
| It's not their fault, and if we can take any learning from this, it's hopefully not to force another community to go through it again. | ||
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I still want more assurance. | |
| So to Lee Zeldin, one of the things that was done, the question that still is raised is why the initial burn was allowed to happen from the EPA standpoint in the first place. | ||
| And then when that flu went across in Pennsylvania and other states, a lot of testing wasn't done there. | ||
| Back to what you were just talking about, the tariffs. | ||
| So much money was spent on poor countries, on allowing illegals into our southern border. | ||
| A lot of this community feels like it's been abandoned and it's been addressed already, but what is going to be done tangibly that you can see going forward that may address some of the more testing done on areas that haven't been tested yet, more funding or holding Northrop 7 accountable, more than the $70,000 we've offered per person. | ||
| Yeah, so a couple of quick things on that, and I'll take one more question, then we'll have to hit the road. | ||
| So if you go back to the original promises that Norfolk Southern made, right? | ||
| One, there was a big settlement for all the people who were personally injured from the disaster. | ||
| I'm not talking about the environmental problems. | ||
| I'm talking about those who were directly injured, like some of the chief's firefighters who sacrificed. | ||
| And need to be compensated for it. | ||
| It turns out that a lot of those compensation promises have not been met. | ||
| Even though they've been built into court orders, that is unacceptable. | ||
| We're going to talk to Norfolk Southern about it. | ||
| Another Norfolk Southern promise is we talked about building a training facility in East Palestine that would train firefighters from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. | ||
| But also, and the governor made this point to me privately, unfortunately... | ||
| The firefighters behind me know more about how to deal with a railway disaster than almost any firefighting corps in the entire country. | ||
| Let's turn that into knowledge that we can spread across this tri-state area and actually make Better firefighters, or at least more well-trained firefighters, out of that process. | ||
| Well, Norfolk Southern promised they were going to provide the money to build that training facility, and every single person to a man has told me that money has not come. | ||
| Well, that's unacceptable too. | ||
| So I think that a lot of this comes down to making sure the promises of Norfolk Southern actually turn from promises into reality, and that's something we're going to work on and certainly take back to Washington. | ||
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Vice President, residents still want more assurance that any health concerns in the future will be covered, and they also want further health studies, which may be highly unlikely if the administration is making cuts to agencies like the National Institute of Health and the CDC. | |
| So what will you do about this? | ||
| Well, first of all, I'd say cutting ridiculous bureaucracy actually facilitates providing important services to people here on the ground. | ||
| We all know that we have a government that wastes too much money. | ||
| Frankly, where there's a lot of fraud built into how our government spends money. | ||
| And one of the things that does is waste taxpayer dollars. | ||
| But the other thing that it does is it ensures that the money that we have in our resources at the federal government don't end up going to the people who actually deserve it. | ||
| And so President Trump's desire to bring some efficiency back to the federal government, that's not going to be bad for the people of East Palestine. | ||
| It's actually going to ensure that the resources we spend on health actually go to people on the ground rather than bureaucrats. | ||
| And frankly, we're not talking about a lot of money. | ||
| When I was working on this with the Biden administration... | ||
| You know, we needed three, five million dollars to start the long term health study that we wanted to start. | ||
| I know there's some negotiation about where exactly that money is going to come from. | ||
| I think it should come from Norfolk Southern and not from the taxpayers. | ||
| But we are committed to ensuring that people's long term health needs are met on the one hand and that those long term health questions are answered. | ||
| I really do believe that a critical piece of rebuilding East Palestine is giving people confidence. | ||
| That they can raise a family in health and safety here in this community. | ||
| Now, I believe that's true. | ||
| But the only way that other people are going to believe that's true is if folks like Lee Zeldin at the EPA and the broader administration take those health and safety concerns seriously. | ||
| I promise the people of East Palestine we are taking those concerns seriously, and we will do so for the remainder of President Trump's administration. | ||
| God bless you guys. | ||
| Thank you for being here. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, somebody who actually cares about his own people, somebody who actually cares about the people of this nation, J.D. Vance. | ||
| Now, we have President Trump taking questions at the White House. | ||
| We want to throw to that because why not? | ||
| We had a live Q&A there from J.D. Vance that was happening live. | ||
| This happened at the White House moments ago, and we're going to let the president speak. | ||
| That's what we do on this program. | ||
| We will be your front seat to the golden era, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| President Trump moments ago at the White House taking questions from the press. | ||
| Open season right now, a total press conference, and let's get it started. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump, total G, from inside of the White House as he and his vice president are, let's just say, tag-teaming the destruction of the Biden regime and ushering in the new golden era in America. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| So other countries have sovereign wealth funds, and they're much smaller countries, and they're not the United States. | ||
| We have tremendous potential in this country. | ||
| Tremendous. | ||
| You're seeing that, what's happened just in a short period of time. | ||
| And as an example, TikTok, we're going to be doing something perhaps with TikTok, and perhaps not. | ||
| If we make the right deal, we'll do it. | ||
| Otherwise, we won't. | ||
| But I have the right to do that. | ||
| And we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make. | ||
| Or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people, a lot of options. | ||
| But we could put that as an example in the fund. | ||
| And we have a lot of other things that we could put in the fund. | ||
| And I think in a short period of time, we'd have one of the biggest funds. | ||
| And, you know, some of them are pretty large, I must tell you. | ||
| Like the Saudi Arabia fund is on the large side. | ||
| But eventually we'll catch it. | ||
| But we're going to create a lot of wealth for the fund. | ||
| And I think it's about time that this country had a sovereign wealth fund. | ||
| And these two gentlemen and some others are going to work with them very closely. | ||
| And they'll be heading it up. | ||
| And they're going to do a great job. | ||
| Two highly respected people that have done unbelievably well in the world, in the real world. | ||
| So that's a big deal, huh? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| I think it's going to create value and be of great strategic importance. | ||
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Mr. President, why is it important for Elon Musk to have access to the payment systems at Treasury? | |
| Well, he's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good, if we agree with him. | ||
| And it's only if we agree with him. | ||
| He's a very talented guy from the standpoint of management and costs. | ||
| And we put him in charge of seeing what he can do with certain groups and certain numbers. | ||
| Some of the numbers are horrible, what he's found. | ||
| A hundred, think of it, a hundred million dollars on condoms to Hamas. | ||
| Condoms to Hamas. | ||
| And many other things that are, frankly, even more ridiculous. | ||
| And they're finding tremendous waste, really waste, more than anything else, I think you could say. | ||
| Probably fraud and abuse can be added to it. | ||
| The more standard waste, fraud and abuse. | ||
| But they're finding tremendous amounts of really bad things, bad spending. | ||
| You've been reading about, you've been writing about some of it, frankly, and some of the things that they've been doing is just terrible. | ||
| Elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval. | ||
| And we'll give him the approval. | ||
| We're appropriate. | ||
| We're not appropriate. | ||
| We won't. | ||
| But he reports in and he... | ||
| It's something that he feels very strongly about, and I'm impressed because he's running, obviously, a big company. | ||
| It has nothing to do with there's a conflict that we won't let him get near it. | ||
| But he does have a good natural instinct. | ||
| He's got a team of very talented people. | ||
| We're trying to shrink government, and he can probably shrink it as well as anybody else, if not better. | ||
| Where we think there's a conflict or there's a problem, we won't let him go near it. | ||
| But he has some very good ideas, and we have a lot of other talented people also. | ||
| We're bringing in the most talented people in the world. | ||
| By the way, we're just unrelated, but we have two of the most talented people in the world, the legendary Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison. | ||
| So they are two legends in business, publishing, and probably every other. | ||
| Rupert is... | ||
| Larry pretty much in a class by himself, right? | ||
| I mean, although you may have a couple of bucks more. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| But Rupert is in a class by himself. | ||
| He's an amazing guy. | ||
| And Larry is Larry. | ||
| Larry is one of the most serious players anywhere in the world. | ||
| So it's an honor to have you. | ||
| This has nothing to do with you people, but they hear it. | ||
| I thought it would be appropriate. | ||
| I'm sure you didn't recognize them. | ||
| They're all going crazy to say, what are they doing here? | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| Mr. President, on the tariffs, is there any chance that Canada or China could also get out of the tariffs after you start to deal with Mexico? | ||
| Well, nobody's out with Mexico. | ||
| We had a great talk with Mexico, and we had President Scheinbaum. | ||
| As a woman, I like her very much. | ||
| We've had good relationships, but we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in. | ||
| I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years, much higher than the 100,000. | ||
| It could be even closer to 300,000. | ||
| And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently. | ||
| Like forever, 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. | ||
| They have a big incentive to do. | ||
| Other than that, we've agreed to talk and consider various other things. | ||
| We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't. | ||
| But we have a very good relationship. | ||
| I also spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada. | ||
| And we had a good talk in the morning, but I did ask him a couple of questions, like, you know, banks aren't allowed to do business in Canada. | ||
| Canada is very tough. | ||
| Canada is very, you know, we're not treated well by Canada, and we have to be treated well. | ||
| Banks are not, as an example, allowed. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| That banks, American banks, are not allowed to do business in Canada. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| And that's one of many things that we talked about, and I think we'll win most of the subjects. | ||
| But for some reason, a lot of things have been very unfair with Canada. | ||
| I noticed that in the first term, you deal with people and after a while you begin to realize, like you learned that Larry Ellison is very tough to do business with, okay? | ||
| He's a very tough guy. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure you're shocked to hear that. | ||
| But Canada is very tough. | ||
| They're very, very tough to do business with. | ||
| And we can't let them take advantage of the U.S. They don't take our agricultural product for the most part. | ||
| They don't take our cars. | ||
| They make cars, but they basically don't take our cars. | ||
| And, you know, we don't need, and look, I think we're going to have another good conversation today. | ||
| We're actually speaking at 3 o 'clock again. | ||
| But we don't need them to make our cars. | ||
| We don't need them to give us lumber. | ||
| We don't need them for agricultural products because we have all the agriculture we need. | ||
| They don't take our agricultural product for the most part, our milk, dairy, etc. | ||
| A little bit they do, but not much. | ||
| We take theirs. | ||
| And as far as cars are concerned, they took in a big percentage, almost 19% of the market. | ||
| And, you know, I wouldn't mind making our cars in the United States. | ||
| So we have a problem there. | ||
| I'd like to make our cars. | ||
| In the U.S., we don't need Canada to make our cars. | ||
| With that being said, we're going to have another call at 3 o 'clock. | ||
| We had a call this morning. | ||
| It was a pretty good call, I'd say. | ||
| So the call with Mexico went very well in the sense that they're very strong now on the border. | ||
| They're going to put soldiers there. | ||
| Actually, they're best military soldiers, and they're going to be at the border. | ||
| 10,000. | ||
| That's a lot of soldiers. | ||
| And they want to protect it also. | ||
| You know, they want, they don't want people running through Mexico, coming through Mexico to come into our country. | ||
| So they're going to do that. | ||
| And then we're going to talk about other things over the next, and we're going to have, over the next 30 days, we're going to have Scott, Howard, and Marco, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, lead the delegation. | ||
| And we're going to have a big negotiation with Mexico. | ||
| I'll be involved, too. | ||
| And President Scheinbaum will be involved to see whether or not we can work something out on the tariffs. | ||
| China will be speaking to China probably over the next 24 hours. | ||
| We don't want fentanyl coming into our country. | ||
| Now, we had another big thing. | ||
| Speaking of China, China's involved with the Panama Canal. | ||
| They won't be for long. | ||
| And that's the way it has to be. | ||
| Marco just got back, as you know. | ||
| He's in the process of coming back. | ||
| I guess he's almost back by now. | ||
| And he had a very long conversation with the leader of Panama, the respected man, and some others, the entire leadership group. | ||
| And we're trying to work a deal with the Panama Canal. | ||
| The Panama Canal was given foolishly. | ||
| Years ago to, it shouldn't have happened, years ago to Panama, like Jimmy Carter and the group. | ||
| We lost 38,000 people building the Panama Canal, like one of the great wonders of the world. | ||
| It's the biggest job we've ever built, the biggest project we've ever built in this country, dollar-wise and every other way. | ||
| 38,000 people died, Americans, all men, just about laborers and construction people. | ||
| They went to Panama. | ||
| The mosquito got them. | ||
| Between mosquito and snakes, we lost 38,000. | ||
| The most expensive we ever built. | ||
| We gave it away for one dollar, okay? | ||
| We gave it away essentially for nothing. | ||
| And we either want it back, or we're going to get something very strong, or we're going to take it back. | ||
| And China will be dealt with. | ||
| And we didn't give that to China, we gave it to Panama. | ||
| We shouldn't have given it to Panama, but Panama, as you know, has violated the agreement. | ||
| Totally violated the agreement. | ||
| So that's in the process right now. | ||
| But they did have a very good meeting with the head of Panama. | ||
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No, I haven't talked about that. | |
| But they do have tariffs. | ||
| Honestly, nobody. | ||
| The amount of money that was lost and most importantly, the lives lost because of COVID is not something that anybody could ever even imagine. | ||
| It's probably $60 trillion that all the countries in the world don't have $60 trillion. | ||
| The amount of death and the amount of destruction and the amount of money lost is probably $60 trillion. | ||
| I had it figured by people about three months ago. | ||
| I was just, it just figured. | ||
| Nobody knows what the real number is, but it's a... | ||
| Almost an infinite number, the damage done. | ||
| But I have not discussed that. | ||
| What I have discussed is we'll have some good meetings with China. | ||
| We have meetings planned, and we'll see what happens. | ||
| But that was just an opening salvo. | ||
| If we can't make a deal with China, then the tariffs will be very, very substantial. | ||
| Okay, I'm going to sign this one. | ||
| Sir, you've obviously made making America healthy again a key priority of this administration. | ||
| A key component of that is obviously heart health. | ||
| This is a ceremonial proclamation declaring the month of February to be National Heart Month. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I hear we're doing very well with nominations. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| But it looks like we're doing very well with nominations. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I've gotten a great response. | ||
| They want to do what's right. | ||
| And we've had a good response. | ||
| I think we'll do well. | ||
| We have great people. | ||
| People like this. | ||
| We have great, great people coming in. | ||
| I'd like to say the best ever recruited. | ||
| For government. | ||
| I think we have the finest people ever recruited for government. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| You're starting to see that because we've done more in two weeks than Biden's done in five years, six years. | ||
| They could be here between him and Obama. | ||
| You add it up, okay? | ||
| We've done more in two weeks than they've done in 12 years. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I don't think so. | ||
| Not when it comes to fraud. | ||
| If there's fraud, these people are lunatics. | ||
| And if it comes to fraud, you wouldn't have an act of Congress. | ||
| And I'm not sure that you would anyway. | ||
| But we just want to do the right thing. | ||
| It's something that should have been done a long time ago. | ||
| It went crazy during the Biden administration. | ||
| They went totally crazy what they were doing and the money they were giving to people that shouldn't be getting it and to agencies and others that shouldn't be getting it. | ||
| It was a shame. | ||
| Tremendous fraud. | ||
| But we'll be doing a report. | ||
| We'll be giving you that report at the appropriate time. | ||
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In the first term, though, USAID was something that you liked in some respects. | |
| I love the concept of it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I love the concept, but they turned out to be radical left lunatics. | ||
| And the concept of it is good. | ||
| It's all about the people. | ||
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Mr. President, you said you also want to impose tariffs on the EU. | |
| What kind of tariffs are you thinking about? | ||
| Well, we have massive deficits with the European Union. | ||
| Massive. | ||
| Like $350 billion, if you can believe it. | ||
| They don't take our farm product. | ||
| They don't take our cars. | ||
| They don't take almost anything, but we take their cars. | ||
| We have millions of cars coming in. | ||
| BMW and Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen and just so many different... | ||
| We don't do anything about that, and we don't charge them tariffs. | ||
| They make it impossible to sell cars in the European Union. | ||
| They make it very difficult agricultural product. | ||
| They actually don't take it, and they have a lot of excuses. | ||
| Some of them are the pesticides and the different chemicals used, and Bobby Kennedy actually is looking at that very... | ||
| Very seriously. | ||
| Because maybe it's not necessary to use all of that. | ||
| You know, we want to be the healthiest country, and we're not. | ||
| We spend more money on food than anybody else in terms of its creation, but we're not the healthiest country. | ||
| So maybe there is something to the fact that we shouldn't be using so much chemical, and maybe that'll stop. | ||
| But Bobby Kennedy is the one, because he is not a believer in all of the things we have done, and neither are the Europeans. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| But they use it as an excuse not to buy our product. | ||
| And you tried, I asked a couple of the leaders, I don't want to use names, but how many Chevrolets or Fords do you see in the middle of Munich? | ||
| And the answer is none. | ||
| Because they don't take any cars. | ||
| They don't take anything. | ||
| So the European has abused the United States for years. | ||
| And they can't do that. | ||
| And they want to make a deal. | ||
| Let me tell you, in all cases, they all want to make deals. | ||
| There's nobody that doesn't want to make deals. | ||
| They've been abusers, and they want to make deals. | ||
| So we'll see about that. | ||
| But we'll have, I think, some very fair... | ||
| All we want is a fair deal. | ||
| And, you know, there's a word reciprocal. | ||
| I'd go right now, reciprocal tariffs on everybody. | ||
| Because many of the countries that you feel so horrible about, the way they're being treated by Trump... | ||
| You're saying, oh, President Trump is so terrible to them. | ||
| Well, they charge us tariffs. | ||
| European Union is a VAT tax, which is through the roof, okay? | ||
| It's a similar thing, similar to a tariff. | ||
| It's a VAT. | ||
| And they have it, and it's numbers like you wouldn't believe. | ||
| And Canada, I told you about the banks, and I told you they charge us. | ||
| And people don't say that. | ||
| They don't like to say it. | ||
| Just like they don't like to say that I opened up the water for California. | ||
| It's a great thing. | ||
| It's too bad they didn't do it themselves. | ||
| I had to do it, and it was not easy. | ||
| We did it a very rough way, and I didn't like to do it a rough way. | ||
| We shouldn't have to do it a rough way. | ||
| But a lot of these countries that we're talking about, you know, they're so-called allies, but they don't treat us well. | ||
| And just like I got $420 billion, and now it's actually over $600 billion. | ||
| The Secretary General of NATO came in two weeks ago and he said it was a miracle when Trump came in, when President Trump came into NATO, he said it was $636 billion by saying to them, no, you have to pay. | ||
| And if you don't pay, we're not going to be there for you. | ||
| You know, somebody has to say it and they paid. | ||
| And it was a large amount of money. | ||
| And one of the problems we have with the Russia-Ukraine situation is that we want to see some... | ||
| Equalization. | ||
| Because we're in for close to $300 billion and they're in for $200 billion less. | ||
| Why are they in for less? | ||
| Because Biden never asked them for money. | ||
| He never said, you got to pay. | ||
| He never did. | ||
| All he did is hand out money. | ||
| So we're talking with them right now and we're actually working some deals right now so we have some guarantees and some other things to keep that whole situation. | ||
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I'm going to have to talk to him. | |
| I've been right over the Wall Street Journal many times. | ||
| I don't agree with him on some things. | ||
| Not only is it not them, you're going to see. | ||
| You're going to see. | ||
| Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because they're ripping us off really badly. | ||
| And the United States is tired of just being ripped off. | ||
| And that's why we have $36 trillion in debt. | ||
| We have it for a reason, because we make bad deals with everybody. | ||
| And we don't allow that anymore. | ||
| So the Wall Street Journal is wrong, because very simply, every single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal. | ||
| Because the deals they have right now are so good and so good for them and so profitable for them. | ||
| You didn't know that Canada didn't allow our banks. | ||
| You didn't know all of these different things. | ||
| And I think in the end you're going to see that... | ||
| Either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them, or they're going to make some kind of a deal. | ||
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Did what? | |
| There was no blanking. | ||
| No, she's a wonderful woman. | ||
| But she did agree to 10,000 soldiers on the border. | ||
| I would say that's a lot. | ||
| Would you say that's pretty good? | ||
| 10,000 soldiers on the border? | ||
| And the 10,000 soldiers are going to keep illegal aliens out, and they're going to keep them seriously out. | ||
| And otherwise, they're going to have a big penalty. | ||
| Mexico is going to be penalized. | ||
| They're not going to come through Mexico anymore. | ||
| And they're not going to let the fentanyl come in from China. | ||
| And China, hopefully, is going to stop sending us fentanyl. | ||
| And if they're not, the tariffs are going to go substantially higher. | ||
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Sir, just to clarify, when you said about Ukraine earlier, the rare earths, is that something you want them to give the rare earths to the United States? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to have security of rare earth. | ||
| We're putting in hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| They have great rare earth, and I want security of the rare earth. | ||
| And they're willing to do it. | ||
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Mr. President, on Canada, when you talk to Justin Trudeau again, is there anything he can give you at 3 p.m. when you talk again to also take a pause, like you said, with Mexico? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| We have big deficits with Canada, like we do with all countries. | ||
| I mean, I look at some of the deals made, I say, who the hell made these deals that are so bad? | ||
| But with Canada, I have a talk with him, and you maybe know, maybe not. | ||
| We're going to meet again or talk again at 3 o 'clock, right after my next meeting, and we'll see what happens. | ||
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I can't tell you what's going to happen. | |
| Agree to, to change your mind on the terrorists? | ||
| Well, we can always... | ||
| Look, what I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state. | ||
| We give them protection, military protection. | ||
| We don't need them to build our cars. | ||
| I'd rather see Detroit or South Carolina or any one of our... | ||
| Tennessee, any one of our states build the cars. | ||
| They could do it very easily. | ||
| We don't need them for the cars. | ||
| We don't need them for lumber. | ||
| We don't need them for anything. | ||
| We don't need them for energy. | ||
| We have more energy than they do. | ||
| We don't need them for energy. | ||
| So I say, why are we doing this? | ||
| Why are we willing to lose between $100 billion and $200 billion a year? | ||
| We don't need them. | ||
| As a state, it's different. | ||
| As a state, it's much different. | ||
| And there are no tariffs. | ||
| So I'd love to see that, but some people say that would be a long shot. | ||
| If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100% certain that they'd become a state. | ||
| But a lot of people don't like to play the game because they don't have a threshold of pain. | ||
| And there would be some pain, but not a lot. | ||
| The pain would be really there. | ||
| So we're going to meet. | ||
| Again, by phone at 3 o 'clock, and we'll let you know. | ||
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On Israel, President Trump, you're here to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
| Coming in tomorrow. | ||
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Yes, you mentioned in the past you're concerned about Israel being too small geographically. | |
| Would you support annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel? | ||
| Well, I'm not going to talk about that. | ||
| It certainly is a small country in terms of land. | ||
| See this pen, this wonderful pen? | ||
| My desk is the Middle East. | ||
| And this pen, the top of the pen, that's Israel. | ||
| That's not good, right? | ||
| You know, it's a pretty big difference. | ||
| I use that as an analogy. | ||
| It's pretty accurate, actually. | ||
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It's a pretty small piece of land. | |
| And it's amazing that they've been able to do what they've been able to do. | ||
| When you think about it, there's a lot of good, smart brainpower. | ||
| But it is a very small piece of land, no question about it. | ||
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Mr. President, you said earlier that Elon Musk is doing everything with your state system. | |
| Is there everything that he has done thus far, going to all the agencies, shutting off access, getting access to federal payments, that all has your own case model? | ||
| For the most part, yeah. | ||
| I mean, if there was something that didn't have my okay, I'd let you know about it really fast. | ||
| No, no, I haven't seen that. | ||
| And he would know not to do it. | ||
| So we haven't had that yet. | ||
| But if there was a conflict, we would let them work in that. | ||
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You said in regard to Panama that you're going to make a deal, or the U.S. is willing to take it. | |
| How long do they have to make that sort of deal, and are they still reading on the table? | ||
| We're going to meet with Panama on Friday at about 3.30 in the afternoon by phone. | ||
| And maybe there'll be some representatives here or there. | ||
| But we're going to be talking to Panama on Friday, essentially. | ||
| And they've agreed to certain things, but I'm not happy with it. | ||
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On the Middle East, Mr. President, if I may, do you still have doubts that the ceasefire will hold? | |
| On what? | ||
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On the Middle East, do you think the ceasefire will hold? | |
| I have no assurances that it'll hold. | ||
| I mean, I've seen people brutalized. | ||
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I've never... | |
| Nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| No, I have no guarantees that the peace is going to hold. | ||
| Steve, you might want to say something about that. | ||
| Steve Whitcoff? | ||
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It's holding so far. | |
| And we're certainly hopeful. | ||
| And that's the President's direction. | ||
| Get the hostages out, save lives, and come to, hopefully, a peaceful settlement of it all. | ||
| So, so far, it's holding. | ||
| Mr. President, on a different topic, questionnaires have been going on to FBI agents across the country who were involved potentially in the investigation. | ||
| Do you believe anyone involved at any level should be fired, sir? | ||
| Well, I think the FBI was a very corrupt institution, and I'm a victim of it in a true sense. | ||
| I was able to beat it, but other people have been treated horribly. | ||
| I think the FBI has a great reputation, had a great reputation. | ||
| I think its reputation was really damaged badly, as is DOJ. | ||
| Look at what they've done in terms of weaponization. | ||
| Look at what they've done to a political opponent. | ||
| I think I was doing well anyway, but they might have got me elected. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| We have to have pristine, beautiful, perfect law enforcement. | ||
| What we want to do, and Cash is the one to do it. | ||
| He's the one guy that is going to do it. | ||
| We have to bring the reputation of the FBI. | ||
| We have to bring the fact of the FBI back to what it could be. | ||
| Not even to what it was, even better than it ever was. | ||
| Because who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted like they were corrupted? | ||
| Who would have thought that would have happened? | ||
| Who would have thought they would have been used to go after political opponents, essentially? | ||
| Me being the number one. | ||
| And so many other things beyond that. | ||
| And they've been hurt very badly, and we'll see what happens. | ||
| But Cash is the one to do it, and I hear he's doing very well. | ||
| Cash will straighten it out. | ||
| We have great confidence that we can make the FBI great again. | ||
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Okay, one or two more and we'll be done. | |
| Say it. | ||
| I think Tulsi's going to be doing okay. | ||
| I can't guarantee anything, but she's liked by so many people, especially people in the military and law enforcement. | ||
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She has a little bit of trouble with some senators over her thoughts on Edward Snowden. | |
| I know with Snowden, you've mentioned in the past you're thinking about pardoning him. | ||
| Are you still, and what do you think about that? | ||
| No, I don't talk to him about it right now. | ||
| I just, people feel very differently. | ||
| Some people... | ||
| I think he should be pardoned, and some people think it would be a terrible thing to do, but I don't get involved in that. | ||
| Just respect. | ||
| I have great respect for Rupert Murdoch. | ||
| I disagree with him a lot of times with the Wall Street Journal, but that's all right. | ||
| We disagreed before, and I'm sure they didn't have any idea what they were talking about, because already you see what's happening. | ||
| Look at Columbia. | ||
| Look at what happened with that. | ||
| Everybody said that with Colombia, it was going to be a disaster. | ||
| In one hour, everything was settled. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Tariffs. | ||
| Tariffs. | ||
| Without tariffs, they wouldn't have been the same way. | ||
| They would not have treated me the way they treated me, which was extremely nicely. | ||
| And I don't want to use countries. | ||
| I don't want to use names. | ||
| Tariffs are very powerful, both economically and in getting everything else you want. | ||
| Tariffs for us, nobody can compete with us because we're the pot of gold. | ||
| But if we don't keep winning and keep doing well, we won't be the pot of gold, and then tariffs won't be so good for us. | ||
| But when you're the pot of gold, the tariffs are very good, they're very powerful, and they're going to make our country very rich again. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
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