Feb. 12, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| That's right, guys. | ||
| So Mark Fogle, an American teacher, is finally home after more than three years in a Russian prison. | ||
| He arrived at the White House last night, draped in an American flag, where he was welcomed home by President Trump and top lawmakers. | ||
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I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. | |
| And I want you to know that I am not a hero in this at all. | ||
| And President Trump. | ||
| Knowing I had the support of my fellow Pennsylvanians, my family, my friends, it was so overwhelming that it brought me to my knees and it brought me to tears. | ||
| Fogel was wrongfully detained at a Russian airport back in 2021 for drug possession and sentenced to 14 years in prison. | ||
| President Trump secured his release in an exchange with Russia, a promise he made to Fogel's mother while campaigning this summer. | ||
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He's got a great mother. | |
| And when I saw the mother at a rally, she said, if you win, will you get my son out? | ||
| And I promise she's 95 years old. | ||
| The details of the exchange are still unknown, but the president says it was very fair and very reasonable. | ||
| And he says another American hostage will be released today. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| I'll be Mr. Trump. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| I won't mess up your hair. | ||
| Step on it. | ||
| We'll lead. | ||
| Thanks, Mario. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Good luck with the show. | ||
| Thanks, Mario. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Good luck with the show. | ||
| Good luck with the show. | ||
| you you You wonder why we're living in the golden age of memes is because there's so much meme content that has already been given to us, bequeathed to all of us, ladies and gentlemen, of Donald Trump having 30, 40, some odd years as a celebrity there with Mario Andretti racing around New York and The Apprentice. | ||
| Speaking of New York, here, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news and welcome back. | ||
| We have the White House press conference that hasn't started yet, but will be starting soon. | ||
| But breaking news, the DHS, Department of Homeland Security, has clawed back the $60 million that was given to criminal aliens for luxury hotels. | ||
| This is because of the work of Doge. | ||
| Secretary Noem has clawed back the full payment. | ||
| That FEMA and deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels, there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interests and the safety of the American people. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Spicy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Speaking of spicy, we are going to be seeing Carolyn Levitt in moments right here. | ||
| You can see this is the White House press briefing room right now. | ||
| If you want to read the tea leaves with me, and I am actually drinking tea right now out of our Benny Show mugs. | ||
| The reason I'm drinking tea is that we had a little bug in the family. | ||
| If you have little kids, you realize they're always licking doorknobs and playing on the floor of Walmart. | ||
| So you tend to get literally everything under the sun. | ||
| So I'm still recovering here. | ||
| So thank you for bearing with us, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| If you wish to read the tea leaves of the White House press briefing room, you'll notice the front row there. | ||
| The front row is filled with the major news networks so that they can get shots of their on-camera TV anchors asking questions without having to shoot around other people's heads. | ||
| So the front row is the cable news networks on camera. | ||
| Whenever they're seated, that means that Carolyn Levitt Walking out will happen imminently. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Peter Doocy not there today. | ||
| Jackie Heinrich from Fox News. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt, again, we've been given a warning that they are ready to rock and roll at the White House. | ||
| No word yet on who will be the new media. | ||
| Today we will be in Washington, D.C. next week. | ||
| So we've reached out to see if we can take the chair next week. | ||
| That would be very, very fun. | ||
| What would you like for me to ask if we were in the chart? | ||
| What would you like, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| What should be the question? | ||
| It's hard to predict. | ||
| In fact, I wouldn't even be able to... | ||
| Come up with something off the top of my head right now because the news cycle changes so quickly, so severely. | ||
| Two-minute warning for Carolyn Levitt. | ||
| So the two-minute warning for Carolyn Levitt. | ||
| Last time, and every single time, Carolyn Levitt makes a lot of news. | ||
| I can expect that there is going to be quite a bit about what has happened in the... | ||
| Release of the hostages, but also the war against Doge. | ||
| The freakout over Doge is obviously what's driving the Democrat Party right now. | ||
| You can always tell when you're over the target based on how your enemy reacts. | ||
| You know, if your house is on fire and you get a chance to save one thing, you're going to run! | ||
| You're going to run to the one thing you want to save! | ||
| It's the easiest way to tell what people care about. | ||
| Right now, the deep state is on fire and they are running, they are sprinting to try and protect USAID, their giant pots of money laundering slush funds. | ||
| This is the singular goal of the Democrat Party right now, is to protect their money laundering. | ||
| Without federal dollar money laundering, the Democrat Party has no funding. | ||
| This is the kind of money that goes, and I'll trace it very easily for you. | ||
| USAID gives a grant of, oh, and it looks like we have some individuals coming out and taking seats. | ||
| Who is that? | ||
| Is that the social media chair? | ||
| Is that the social media person? | ||
| I kind of, I missed it. | ||
| ALX, who is that? | ||
| It looks like the social media person for the day. | ||
| Again, we're asking. | ||
| Okay, we're asking. | ||
| I don't live in D.C. I live a thousand miles away. | ||
| Frankly, it could be 3,000 miles away. | ||
| I don't like D.C. I lived there for a long time. | ||
| But, yeah, I guess they just seeded the individual who was going to be the new media chair is what they call it. | ||
| And so, yeah, who is it, boys? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Anyway, so USAID gives $60 billion to funding schools in Nigeria. | ||
| $59.9 billion remains in Washington, D.C. It gets sent to non-government organizations run by leftists and left-wingers who then pocket the money, pay themselves grandiose $7 million salaries for their hard work, and then take that money and fund Democrat campaigns. | ||
| Say, donate? | ||
| So then once it's... | ||
| Once it's been paid to them as a salary, they can take that money and immediately launder it right back into Democrats running for Congress, Democrat senators, the DNC, left-wing prosecutors, simple as. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| Now, that money was always your money. | ||
| It's money from the taxpayer. | ||
| The reason why they're losing their minds is that this is all being exposed. | ||
| This entire rat's nest is being exposed. | ||
| The entire system now is being proven as fraudulent. | ||
| They don't have real audiences for their news networks. | ||
| We're learning now that dozens of the mainstream corporate news channels and networks in the United States of America We're also learning that USAID was funding 700 different news outlets around the world and 6,200 journalists. | ||
| 6,200 journalists around the world. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why are we doing that? | ||
| Isn't the point of a free press that they're free and they don't have government intrusion? | ||
| And government dollars? | ||
| So yeah, it's a big problem. | ||
| What happens when you remove the funding is you actually kill the beast. | ||
| You kill the animal itself. | ||
| It's like blood in the bloodstream. | ||
| You remove the blood, you remove the life source itself. | ||
| And so by eliminating the actual channels of blob funding, you get rid of the blob because none of these people will ever work for free. | ||
| They don't actually believe in anything. | ||
| They're not actually good at what they do in the first place. | ||
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They're just criminals. | |
| Take this for example. | ||
| If you want to know how your federal government actually operates, take this. | ||
| So, Donald Trump offered federal employees eight months of severance pay. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Okay, so it's the CEO of Rumble. | ||
| Chris Pawlowski, who is the new media chair at the White House. | ||
| So it will be the CEO of Rumble, who is not typically sort of front-facing. | ||
| He's the person who runs the actual platform of Rumble. | ||
| Pardon me. | ||
| Again, we are still in recovery mode around here. | ||
| It is... | ||
| Can we pop this up ever so quickly? | ||
| Yeah, so we have the actual... | ||
| I saw the walk-in here, but we didn't actually get it. | ||
| So, the CEO of Rumble, there he is, walking in. | ||
| His main name is Chris Pawlowski. | ||
| Rumble Free Speech Platform. | ||
| We proudly broadcast on Rumble. | ||
| And he will be... | ||
| I guess asking the first... | ||
| This has been typically the first question, right? | ||
| The first question goes to the new media. | ||
| New media chair. | ||
| So this will be the first question. | ||
| And certainly new media would be Chris Pawlowski asking a question. | ||
| By definition, it would be the CEO of Rumble. | ||
| And so, good. | ||
| I'm very much looking forward to what Chris has to ask. | ||
| Elon Musk and Donald Trump offer buyouts to the two-million-person workforce of the federal government. | ||
| They got eight months of salary, severance. | ||
| You get paid for eight straight months of not working. | ||
| You get to do whatever you want, go find another job, earn two incomes. | ||
| And virtually no one took the buyouts. | ||
| Here's Carolyn Leavitt. | ||
| Just to show you how worthless your federal government employer is. | ||
| Good afternoon, everybody. | ||
| Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| It's great to see all of you. | ||
| On this very newsy day, to say the least, I have a couple of updates for you this morning or this afternoon. | ||
| As you know, this morning the President spoke to President Putin of Russia. | ||
| They spoke at length and the President released a statement following that conversation in great detail. | ||
| I can also confirm that the President just recently got off the phone with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. | ||
| His truth is as follows: I just spoke to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. | ||
| The conversation went very He, | ||
| and Ukraine. | ||
| like President Putin, wants to make peace. | ||
| I myself just spoke to the President about these calls, and he told me to tell all of you. | ||
| They were very good calls, they were very positive, and the administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal to end, once and for all, the Russia-Ukraine war. | ||
| I'm sure you'll have more questions to ask. | ||
| This week, the president has continued to deliver on his promises to the American people. | ||
| According to new polling that was released at the beginning of this week by CBS News, an overwhelming 70 percent of Americans said that President Trump is following through on what he pledged to do during his historic campaign. | ||
| The poll also revealed that Americans see President Trump as a tough, energetic, focused and effective leader fighting hard to improve their lives and our country. | ||
| And yesterday, in particular, was a truly special day for the United States of America. | ||
| Thanks to the great leadership of President Trump and the strong and tough leadership of President Trump, Mark Fogel, an American teacher detained by Russia, was returned to American soil and met with the President here at the White House last night. | ||
| Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the rest of President Trump's incredible national security team helped to negotiate the exchange that secured Mark Fogel's release. | ||
| This event shows a good-faith effort from Russia, and it's a sign, as I just said, that we are moving in the right direction to end this brutal war. | ||
| Malphine Fogel, Mark's 95-year-old mother, was understandably very worried that she would never see her son again after his arrest in 2021. | ||
| Mrs. Fogel was actually slated to join President Trump on stage at the July 13th Butler, Pennsylvania rally to speak out for Mark, and then the infamous assassination attempt against President Trump took place. | ||
| But that day before the rally, President Trump promised Mark's mother that when he returned to the White House, he would bring her son home. | ||
| God saved President Lifeson that President Trump's life on that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, and now Mark Vogel is back home safely with his family as a result. | ||
| God is good. | ||
| The president also continues to bring back common sense to our government. | ||
| This week, he signed an EO to end the procurement and forced use of paper straws. | ||
| Taxpayer dollars were wasted on these non-functional and massively unpopular products for no other reason than it made radical activists feel good about themselves. | ||
| And on trade, President Trump continues to take bold action to protect America's critical steel and aluminum industries, much like he did in his first term. | ||
| And the President signed proclamations to close existing loopholes and exemptions to restore a true 25% tariff on steel and elevate the tariff on aluminum to 25% as well. | ||
| And in the Oval Office yesterday with Elon Musk, President Trump took further action to make our federal government more efficient and effective. | ||
| He signed an EO implementing the Doge Workforce Optimization Initiative. | ||
| Now, agency heads will coordinate and consult with Doge to significantly shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions only. | ||
| Accountable bureaucracy will finally be reined in. | ||
| On another important matter this morning, Senate Republicans continued to confirm President Trump's exceptionally qualified nominees, most recently Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who will be joining us later at the White House for her swearing-in ceremony. | ||
| It's imperative that the remainder of the President's Cabinet nominees are confirmed as quickly as possible. | ||
| On another important matter this week, illegal alien criminals continue to be arrested and sent home as part of the ongoing mass deportation effort of the Trump administration. | ||
| Just this week, two planes with 190 Venezuelan illegal aliens arrived in the Venezuelan capital from Fort Bliss, Texas. | ||
| Here are some of the criminal illegal aliens who were arrested in the country this past week. | ||
| ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of Nigeria who had been convicted of money laundering. | ||
| ICE San Antonio arrested a citizen of Mexico who had been convicted of assault. | ||
| ICE Denver arrested a citizen of Mexico who had been convicted of aggravated assault. | ||
| And ICE Houston arrested a citizen of Mexico who had been convicted of aggravated assault. | ||
| Now, before I take questions, I would like to address an extremely dishonest narrative that we've seen emerging over the past few days. | ||
| Many outlets in this room have been fear-mongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House. | ||
| I've been hearing those words a lot lately. | ||
| But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to use Unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority. | ||
| We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law. | ||
| And they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits. | ||
| This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than the continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump. | ||
| Quick newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77 million Americans voted to elect this president. | ||
| And each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people. | ||
| As the President clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law in the courts, but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted. | ||
| So here in our new media seat today, we have Chris Pavlosky. | ||
| An entrepreneur who has a strong passion for protecting freedom of speech. | ||
| Chris started the video sharing platform Rumble in 2013 with a mission of protecting a free and open internet from censorship by big tech and governments around the globe. | ||
| The platform has always been a place for independent creators to share their authentic opinions and they have always included President Trump. | ||
| In contrast to the way he was censored by other platforms in years past. | ||
| Since its founding, Rumble has grown exponentially, recently marking 67 million monthly active users. | ||
| That's a lot of users. | ||
| If you're watching right now and interested in sitting in this seat, you can apply: whitehouse.gov /newmedia. | ||
| With that, I will take your questions. | ||
| And Chris, why don't you kick us off on this very busy news day? | ||
| Thank you very much to you and President Trump. | ||
| It's an honor to be sitting here in the new media seat for the White House press briefing and to be able to demonstrate why freedom of expression is so important. | ||
| Rumble was the victim of censorship at the hands of multiple foreign governments. | ||
| It's clear there are still many countries who oppose free speech and even target American companies. | ||
| Can you describe what the administration will do to protect U.S. interests and values worldwide? | ||
| MS. Sure. | ||
| Well, thanks for the very important question. | ||
| And I think that free speech and ending censorship both here at home and also abroad is an important part of President Trump's agenda. | ||
| I think-- First, President Trump has led by example on this front as the leader of the free world, the president of the United States, with his show of access and transparency on a daily basis. | ||
| The president takes questions from all of you almost every single day and really reveals what he's thinking and feeling, and I think that serves as a great example to the rest of the world. | ||
| As for tangible actions that the president has signed, he did sign an executive order, I believe, on day one. | ||
| Certainly within the first week of this administration to restore free speech and stop government-sponsored censorship here at home. | ||
| And the EO made it very clear that federal employees are not allowed to engage in any activity that would infringe upon the American people's right of free expression. | ||
| So I think the president has led quite strongly on this. | ||
| And I would just add, this is part of the reason we have a new media seat, to invite new voices into this room. | ||
| Again, we're going to need to expand this room because so many people are interested and we're very excited. | ||
| I'm excited about that. | ||
| It's a privilege to cover this White House, but we want all voices to be heard. | ||
| So thanks for being us with here, Chris, and I hope you enjoy the briefing. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| Data out this morning showed that consumer prices were up across a variety of goods. | ||
| And just before that report, though, President Trump called for lower interest rates. | ||
| The Fed said it's holding rates steady to try and tamp down further inflation. | ||
| So how would lowering rates-- Well, first of all, on the inflation point, we did receive those numbers, and they were worse than expected, which tells us that the Biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with. | ||
| It's far worse than I think anybody anticipated because, unfortunately, the previous administration was not transparent in where the economy truly was. | ||
| We know people at those very podiums told the American people that inflation was transitory and that it would go away. | ||
| That was not the case. | ||
| The last report of the Biden administration, as revealed today, shows that inflation is still about 4.5% higher over the past three months. | ||
| This is an indictment on the Biden administration's mismanagement of the inflation crisis and their lack of transparency in addressing it. | ||
| As for tackling inflation and interest rates, the president has made his position on this very clear. | ||
| He wants interest rates to be lower. | ||
| He wants inflation to be lower. | ||
| And he believes that the whole of government economic approach that this administration is taking will result in lower inflation. | ||
| I have said that from this podium many times. | ||
| The president had record low interest rates and inflation rates in his first term. | ||
| He believes that the economy can handle it and withstand it. | ||
| I do believe it will come before the Prime Minister's I will let the President discuss the details on the reciprocal tariff front. | ||
| But this is something he believes strongly in. | ||
| And it's very simple logic as to why the President wants to impose reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| It's the golden rule, which we all learned when we were growing up in school. | ||
| Treat others the way you want to be treated. | ||
| And far too many nations around this world have been ripping off the United States of America for far too long. | ||
| And that's why the President believes this will be a great policy that will benefit American workers and improve our national security. | ||
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J.J. Doge and the fraud claims. | |
| Elon Musk in the Oval yesterday gave us some information on that. | ||
| We're just wondering if there's some proof, evidence. | ||
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Is the White House willing to share evidence of those fraud claims, or can Elon Musk come to the briefing room? | |
| Sure. | ||
| I would love for Elon Musk to come to the briefing room. | ||
| That's why we had him go to the Oval Office yesterday, where I think he provided great answers. | ||
| He was speaking in layman's terms, speaking common sense to all of you in the media, but also to Americans at home. | ||
| But I would say especially to all of you in the media, because I think it's a real fallacy that there's this alleged lack of transparency when it comes to Doge. | ||
| President Trump and Elon Musk have been incredibly transparent on what Doge is doing. | ||
| There is an X account with the Doge handle. | ||
| They are tweeting out what they are doing on a daily basis. | ||
| They have a website where they are posting the receipts of the contracts that they are reviewing and the payments that they have stopped from going out the door. | ||
| The secretaries of our departments have stopped from going out the door. | ||
| And I would also say that before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable, it was some unnamed bureaucrat that none of you knew. | ||
| Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. | ||
| He's also now one of the most highly scrutinized men in the world alongside President Trump because of what he's doing and the access that he is allowing. | ||
| So there's great transparency. | ||
| As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them and I actually brought some today because all of you know I love to bring the receipts. | ||
| We have contracts upon contracts that we can send and provide this information to you. | ||
| Let me be very clear. | ||
| We are not trying to hide anything. | ||
| We have been incredibly transparent and we will continue to be. | ||
| These are screenshots of contracts. | ||
| That Doge found across our government. | ||
| This is a DEI contract, $36,000 for U.S. citizenship and immigration services. | ||
| That is against the President's policies and his America First agenda. | ||
| This is a $3.4 million contract, a Council for Inclusive Innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, another DEI contract that Doge identified. | ||
| I can continue to go through these. | ||
| Oh, I love this one. | ||
| $57,000 for climate change What is this doing to continue the interests of the American people? | ||
| Absolutely nothing. | ||
| These are the line items across the federal government that Doge is identifying daily. | ||
| They're moving very fast. | ||
| There's a lot of paper that we can show you, but we're happy to do it. | ||
| This administration has been more than transparent about what Doge is doing. | ||
| And here's one of their tweets that they posted about the mine. | ||
| I believe this is in Pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement system is being It's being processed. | ||
| Did anybody know this was even happening in our country before Elon Musk talked about it in the Oval Office yesterday? | ||
| A lot of Americans didn't. | ||
| So we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily basis when it comes to Doge. | ||
| And I also have a Doge Daily Report, if anybody would like it, on all of the things that they are identifying and finding. | ||
| We're happy to provide this information to you. | ||
| We're talking about it every single day. | ||
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Are all those things you just mentioned fraud, or are they waste, or are they just contrary to the President's policies? | |
| I would argue that all of these things are fraudulent, they are wasteful, and they are an abuse of the American taxpayer's dollar. | ||
| This is not what the government should be spending money on. | ||
| It's contrary to the President's priorities and agenda. | ||
| And again, we can continue to provide you the receipts for all of the fraud, waste, and abuse. | ||
| And if anybody in here wants to argue that the federal government is not fraudulent in some capacity, be my guest, because I think the American people watching at home would beg to differ. | ||
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More on the judges. | |
| Do you believe the courts have the authority to issue these nationwide injunctions? | ||
| We believe that the injunctions that have been issued by these judges have no basis in the law and have no grounds. | ||
| And we will, again, as the president said very clearly yesterday, comply with these orders. | ||
| But it is the administration's position that we will ultimately be vindicated. | ||
| And the president's executive actions that he took were completely within the law. | ||
| They were constitutional. | ||
| And we look forward to the day where he can continue to implement his agenda. | ||
| And I would just add, it's our view that this is the continuation of the weaponization of justice that we have seen against President Trump. | ||
| He fought it for two years on the campaign trail. | ||
| It won't stop him now. | ||
| Brian. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I want to go back to Doe just for a second. | ||
| Earlier, the subcommittee headed by Chairman Marcia Taylor Greene, her and her staff discovered $2.7 trillion in improper payments. | ||
| Medicare, Medicaid, overseas to people who should not have gotten it. | ||
| Some of this room might have missed that press conference. | ||
| Can you elaborate on what the President is thinking at this point? | ||
| Well, again, that's another example. | ||
| There's a very long list of the fraud, waste and abuse that Doge is identifying on a daily basis. | ||
| Elon Musk also talked about yesterday about Social Security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us. | ||
| Unfortunately, I would say that is certainly fraud. | ||
| There's also a lot of contracts they've Identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks, but only 500,000 went out the door. | ||
| So where's the rest of that cash? | ||
| And so those are the things that Doge is working on every single day. | ||
| And I would just remind everybody in this room, this is what President Trump campaigned on doing. | ||
| He's delivering on a promise that 77 million people elected him to do. | ||
| James. | ||
| Thank you very much, Caroline. | ||
| Two foreign policy questions, if I may. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| First, the statement that was released after This morning's phone calls identified Mr. Witkoff as the special envoy who will be part of the delegation that undertakes to resolve the Russian-Ukraine war. | ||
| I had thought that that individual was General Kellogg, so can you clear that up? | ||
| Sure, I'd be happy to. | ||
| As you mentioned, the President, in his truth, following the phone call with Vladimir Putin, said that he has asked Secretary of State Rubio, the Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, our National Security Advisor here at the White House Michael Watts, and Steve Whitcoff to lead the negotiations. | ||
| As for General Keith Kellogg, he remains a critical part of this team in this effort. | ||
| He's played a tremendous role in getting the negotiations to this point, and he's very much still part of the Trump administration. | ||
| The other subject is Iran. | ||
| I took note of President Trump's comments in his Super Bowl interview with our colleague Brett Baer, to the effect that he wants to do a deal with Iran. | ||
| However, that interview appeared after the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had already ruled out any additional negotiations with the United States. | ||
| So kind of a two-part question: A, what gives the President any confidence that Iran will come to the table? | ||
| And B, more fundamentally, why is the President interested in doing a deal with Iran instead of doing everything he can, perhaps short of U.S. military intervention, to try and hasten the end of what many of his own supporters regard as an evil regime? | ||
| Well, the President has made it very clear that he will never allow Iran to have nuclear capabilities. | ||
| That is a red line that he has drawn, and he will not allow that to happen. | ||
| But you asked why President Trump wants to make a deal. | ||
| I would remind you, he's the master of the art of the deal. | ||
| He is America's dealmaker-in-chief. | ||
| He leads from a position of securing peace through strength. | ||
| And I think time and time again, already in just four weeks, we have seen the president being able to negotiate successful deals with our partners, our adversaries all around this world. | ||
| You know, the release of Mark Fogel just last This is something that I think speaks to the president's deal-making ability. | ||
| This is something that the Biden administration allegedly tried to do for three and a half years. | ||
| I think you all should go back and ask some of those Biden administration officials what they even tried to do and why weren't they successful. | ||
| Because for three and a half years, Mark Fogel sat in a Russian prison and it took President Trump three weeks. | ||
| The Press: Thank you. | ||
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Two foreign policy questions. | |
| Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has said after the war that he wants NATO membership or nuclear weapons. | ||
| We heard Defense Secretary Hegstaff say that NATO membership was unrealistic. | ||
| Was the President's view on the other option on a nuclear Ukraine? | ||
| MS. I have not talked to President Trump about Ukraine's NATO membership or their nuclear capabilities. | ||
| I would leave it to him to discuss. | ||
| But I will tell you again that Secretary Rubio and also the Vice President J.D. Vance will be meeting directly with President Zelensky in Munich on Friday, and I'm sure they will provide a readout of that conversation and that discussion. | ||
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And then the second question: Given that this administration has called on Europe to I'm wondering, will the EU or any other European nation other than Ukraine be involved in these peace talks? | |
| I don't have any European nations who are involved currently to read out for you. | ||
| Certainly, you know, the President has employed a very strong team or deployed a very strong team to continue these negotiations. | ||
| And the fact that he was on the phone with both President Putin and President Zelensky today shows that he's very much involved in this effort as well. | ||
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And then just to follow up, I guess, should we expect the President to negotiate in person with Zelensky and Putin? | |
| I don't have anything to read out on that for you today. | ||
| Maggie, good to see you. | ||
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You talked about the transparency with Doge and Elon Musk's press availability yesterday. | |
| There is a conflict of interest law in place that says that people who have personal interests can't interact with government entities that could touch on those. | ||
| Has President Trump signed a waiver for Elon Musk? | ||
| Does such a thing exist? | ||
| If it does, will you guys release it in the interest of transparency that he's committed to? | ||
| I have not seen the law that you are referring to. | ||
| What I can tell you is that Elon Musk, as I've confirmed before, is a special government employee. | ||
| He is filing the proper financial disclosure, and he is complying with all applicable federal laws. | ||
| As you also heard, Elon addressed this directly yesterday in the alleged conflict of interest. | ||
| And he said everything he's doing is very public, and if you all perceive a conflict of interest, you're welcome to bring that up. | ||
| And as the President said, if he feels like Elon is engaging in something that's a conflict of interest, he will tell Elon not to do that. | ||
| And Elon also said yesterday that before he moves forward with anything, he consults with the President of the United States. | ||
| So we're very confident with the ethics and the guardrails that have been put in place here. | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| I have a few things for you. | ||
| But on the commitment by President Trump, he said that he and President Putin agreed to visit each other's respective nations. | ||
| Are there any preconditions that President Trump has that President Putin must do before he goes and meets with him, withdrawing some forces, withdrawing all forces, anything like that? | ||
| Not that I'm aware of. | ||
| That doesn't mean they don't exist. | ||
| But I was just talking with the President and our national security team. | ||
| I wasn't made aware of any conditions. | ||
| But if they exist, I'm happy to provide those. | ||
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And on the President himself, he styles himself as this master negotiator. | |
| He is now deploying these negotiations and saying that they start immediately. | ||
| We did hear from the Defense Secretary, Pete Hexed, today saying that NATO membership is not realistic for Ukraine and neither is returning to pre-2014 borders. | ||
| Aren't they giving away bargaining chips before these negotiations have been started? | ||
| Again, I haven't talked to the President about Ukraine's NATO membership. | ||
| And he appointed several individuals to negotiate on his behalf. | ||
| He's directly involved in these negotiations as well. | ||
| MS. Mm-hmm. | ||
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MS. Mm-hmm. | |
| MS. And I'm sure if you ask him that question in the near future, when you're able to, he'll give you an answer. | ||
| I just don't want to get ahead of him on it. | ||
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And finally, which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter from the Oval Office and the diplomatic reception room last night? | |
| Well, first of all, let me just set the record straight. | ||
| It is a privilege to cover this White House. | ||
| It's a privilege to be the White House press secretary. | ||
| And nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the President of the United States questions. | ||
| That's an invitation that is given. | ||
| And there are hundreds of outlets on this campus, many of you in this room who don't have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day and getting to ask the president questions. | ||
| We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today. | ||
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But isn't it retaliatory in nature, is the argument, because the reason that the AP was barred, which they said was because they're not using the phrase Gulf of America, they're using Gulf of Mexico in line with their standards. | |
| And so the question here is, is this setting a precedent that this White House will retaliate against reporters who don't use the language that you guys believe reporters should use? | ||
| And how does that align with-- The First Amendment commitment that you were just talking about. | ||
| I was very upfront in my briefing on day one that if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. | ||
| And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. | ||
| And I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that, but that is what it is. | ||
| The Secretary of Interior has made that the official designation and the geographical identification names. | ||
| And Apple has recognized that. | ||
| Google has recognized that. | ||
| Pretty much every other outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America. | ||
| And it's very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home, but also for the rest of the world. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Thank you, Caroline. | |
| The prisoner exchange with Russia coming at the same time as the president is now announcing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, the timing of that is hard to ignore. | ||
| Was Ukraine discussed as part of this prisoner swap? | ||
| I was not involved in those discussions, so I can't comment on whether that came up or not. | ||
| What I can say is that this was a very good deal for the United States of America and for the rest of the world. | ||
| As you know, we have confirmed that the Russian who will be returning home very soon, Alexander Vinik, was a nonviolent crypto criminal. | ||
| And as part of this exchange, he has forfeited more than $100 million that he And was Russia made aware ahead of time of the parameters that the administration | ||
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and Secretary Hague said was going to be announcing today? | |
| The NATO parameters? | ||
| MS. Sure, you'd have to ask Secretary Hegseth and the Defense Department on that, since he announced them. | ||
| Jackie. | ||
| Thank you, Caroline. | ||
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Just to be clear, so when we're listening for a shipment position on U.S. policy, Should we only listen to the President and maybe not the Secretary of Defense? | |
| Because what he outlined today would represent a shift in U.S. policy. | ||
| I'm not saying that. | ||
| I'm just saying I speak for the President of the United States behind this podium, and I will let him discuss that. | ||
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Can you tell us any more about the next hostage releases? | |
| I understand that Americans are coming out today. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'm glad you asked. | ||
| It speaks to President Trump's deal-making ability, and we can confirm the safe release of one American and two individuals from Belarus, one of whom worked for radio. | ||
| liberty out of respect for the privacy of these individuals their request we have no further details to announce on their identities but we can confirm that one American was released today and it's a remarkable victory on the heels of Mark Fogle returning to America last year I don't have details on that at this moment. | ||
| I don't have details on that at this moment. | ||
| I do know that these three individuals have been released and are on their way home to their respective countries. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Can you explain how President Trump envisions the war in Russia and Ukraine coming to an end? | ||
| Ukraine to hand over all the territory in question. | ||
| Again, these negotiations are ongoing. | ||
| I will allow the President to divulge any red lines that he may set. | ||
| But I think as deals in the past have come to fruition, the President has proven one of the things that makes him a very effective negotiator is not revealing what he's anticipating from both sides. | ||
| But he is at the forefront of these negotiations, in addition to the very qualified individuals who he's tasked And speaking of deals, a meeting with the President of the United States offers any foreign leader credibility. | ||
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Was it part of the prisoner swap with Vogel that President Trump agreed to meet with Putin? | |
| Again, I was already asked this question. | ||
| I said I was not made aware of that, but we can certainly get you an answer on that. | ||
| I'll check in with the NSC. | ||
| Sure, Monica. | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| It's clear that this administration is dedicated to both truth and transparency. | ||
| We know that with Doge, but we also know that because this administration recently announced it's going to declassify the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, and RFK. | ||
| I'm wondering, is it likely that we're going to see more information regarding the assassination attempts on the president's life while he was on the campaign trail? | ||
| In regards to the assassination of the individuals you mentioned, President Trump signed that executive order directing the respective agencies to do it. | ||
| I know that that process continues and is ongoing. | ||
| He's committed to transparency and the declassification of these very important files that I think many Americans are not only interested in learning about, but also have the right to know about. | ||
| As for the two heinous assassination attempts on the president's life... | ||
| He's spoken to this publicly. | ||
| I've spoken to him about it privately. | ||
| And as he said publicly to all of you, he feels he has a right to know about further information about the individuals who tried to kill him, tried to take his life. | ||
| And so if and when we get that information, I'll leave it up to the President to decide whether or not he would like to reveal it. | ||
| But I believe in the effort of transparency that we've seen consistently from this President, he certainly will. | ||
| Daniel. | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| I wanted to ask you about the $59 million that FEMA sent to New York City migrant hotels. | ||
| Secretary Kristi Noem just put out a statement saying that she clawed back the full payment that FEMA activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels. | ||
| She wrote, "Mark my words, there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people." What does the response of the Trump administration send to any federal bureaucrats that are thinking about obstructing the president's agenda? | ||
| They will be held accountable. | ||
| The president is signing executive orders daily and he expects all officials across the administration, regardless if they are a political appointee or if they are a career bureaucrat, to adhere to the will of the American people and the 77 million Americans who re-elected President Trump. | ||
| He is here for a reason and he is focused every day on implementing his administration's goals and sending 59 million bucks to a migrant hotel to house illegal immigrants when there are still people in North Carolina and California who have Thank you so much, Caroline. | ||
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One on New York and one Russia, please. | |
| On New York, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is accusing Doge of applying back $80 million. | ||
| That was intended for New York City FEMA funding. | ||
| I'm wondering if you've heard about that figure, if that figure is accurate, and why that money was taken back. | ||
| MS. I have not heard about that figure. | ||
| Doge is moving very quickly, but I can get the receipts and gladly send them to you. | ||
| I know that story is likely of great interest to the New York Post. | ||
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And then one of Russia, please. | |
| MS. Sure. | ||
| Is President Trump waiting for a kind of signal or an action from Putin to go to Russia and just-- Would he be willing to go to Ukraine in the future? | ||
| MS. I don't have any decisions to make on the President's potential visit to Russia or any in-person meeting at this time. | ||
| John. | ||
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Thanks a lot, Caroline. | |
| Two questions, one on foreign policy, one on domestic policy. | ||
| Following up on the President's call that he had with President Putin, does the President view Russia, does he view President Putin as an ally, as a partner? | ||
| As a competitor or as an adversary? | ||
| I believe this nation views Putin and Russia as a great competitor in the region, at times an adversary. | ||
| But as the President has said as well, he enjoys having good diplomatic relationships with leaders around the world, finding that common ground, also calling them out when they are wrong, and leading from a position of peace through strength. | ||
| That's the President's greatest strength, and we've seen that again, time and time again. | ||
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Your statement regarding the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard. | |
| There was one Republican who voted against the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| It was Senator Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Similarly, how does the administration view Senator McConnell? | ||
| Can he be a partner in the President's legislative agenda? | ||
| Are you disappointed that he voted against not only Tulsi Gabbard but also I think we're greatly disappointed in any Republican who chooses willfully to vote against the president's exceptionally qualified cabinet nominees and picks to lead his America First administration. | ||
| Not a single Democrat swayed from voting against President Biden's nominees, and we know how many of them turned out. | ||
| They turned out to be atrocious at their jobs, leaving America much worse than they were when they took the oath of office. | ||
| And so I've said it repeatedly from this podium. | ||
| I addressed it at the beginning of my remarks. | ||
| We expect all Republicans to vote, to stay tough and strong, vote for President Trump's nominees so we can get to work and continue to work very hard to implement this President's agenda. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Caroline. | ||
| On South Korea, South Korea is currently in a chaotic situation. | ||
| How does President Trump react to the-- the chaotic situation in South Korea. | ||
| Secondly, if South Korea needs help from United States, what role do you think the U.S. will play? | ||
| MS. Sure. | ||
| I haven't spoken to the President about the ongoing situation in South Korea. | ||
| I would defer you to his previous statements. | ||
| And I can also see if I can get you something new from the National Security Council, who I'm very confident the officials that are focused on South Korea are on this. | ||
| I just haven't spoken to them about it, but I'm happy to provide that for you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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The Press: Thank you, Caroline. | |
| Does Elon Musk have the power of the presidency? | ||
| Ms. Absolutely not. | ||
| That's a ridiculous question. | ||
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The Press: I ask that question because the Democrats have been hurling insults at Elon Musk, hurling attacks, calling in President Musk. | |
| Most recently, Jamie Raskin, the congressman, took it a step further, calling for Musk's impeachment, saying that he somehow usurped the power of the presidency. | ||
| What's your response? | ||
| It's utterly ridiculous. | ||
| Elon Musk addressed this in the Oval Office yesterday. | ||
| The President addressed it as well. | ||
| Elon Musk is serving at the pleasure of the President. | ||
| Just like everybody else on this team, he takes directives directly from the President of the United States. | ||
| And I think some of the comments that you referred to are nothing more than a failed attempt from the media and from Democrats to try to sow division in this White House. | ||
| We saw them do it in the first term. | ||
| We're not going to let them do it in the second term. | ||
| This is a unified team who is working at the pleasure of the-- President to do what's right for the American people. | ||
| I have one more quick housekeeping note before I leave you all today. | ||
| The president wanted me to share with all of you that he had a wonderful meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan yesterday. | ||
| They discussed many things, including the Gaza Strip and its future at great length. | ||
| The king would much prefer that the Palestinians stay in place with the additional land to be used for new development, which would greatly create jobs at levels never seen before. | ||
| But the president feels it would be much better And more majestic if these Palestinians could be moved to safer areas. | ||
| I would just add to that that the president remains wholeheartedly committed to seeing peace in the Middle East. | ||
| And our Arab partners in the region have been tasked with coming up with a peace plan to present to the president. | ||
| That is ongoing. | ||
| King Abdullah mentioned that yesterday. | ||
| He also committed to accepting 2,000 sick children from the Gaza Strip, which the president called a beautiful gesture. | ||
| So the administration... | ||
| It continues to work with our Arab partners in the region. | ||
| We stand closely with our ally Israel. | ||
| And the President has presented this big, new, bold idea to secure peace in the Middle East, and he is not going to waver from that. | ||
| And we look forward to seeing that goal of this administration achieved as well. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody, and we'll see you very soon. | ||
| Have a great day. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It's not fair to be compared to her. | ||
| If you're cringe Jean Pierre, I mean, just imagine having somebody who clearly has 50 to 70 IQ points on you, who can step effortlessly from topic to topic, who can take questions from something other than the front row, which, of course, in the... | ||
| Nomenclature of the White House Press Corps is just the safe USAID-funded press there. | ||
| CNN, the AP, CBS, NBC. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt with just a freaking flamethrower there. | ||
| Let's go through some top-line stuff and I'll get to you the two things that I loved the very most. | ||
| Her comments on Mitch McConnell going hard after Mitch McConnell. | ||
| And then... | ||
| Her comments on this really funny thing that we haven't covered yet about the AP. | ||
| And the AP getting kicked out of the White House yesterday. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt started off by saying 70% of Americans love what we are doing. | ||
| So honestly, F off. | ||
| Like, it just doesn't matter what you're going to do. | ||
| You're going to scream and scold. | ||
| I love also the gathering of the new PSYOPs. | ||
| She started off by saying, you know, the new PSYOP that just dropped is out with Russia collusion, okay, in with constitutional crisis, okay? | ||
| So it was like, threat to our democracy was what they had come up with. | ||
| That's been changed to constitutional crisis. | ||
| And you see all these headlines. | ||
| You know, you see how it all works. | ||
| The USAID funding. | ||
| Media. | ||
| They all write the same headline. | ||
| They all tweet the same thing. | ||
| They've all been told by their masters what to do. | ||
| Embarrassing slaves to this broken system. | ||
| And so they all go say the same thing. | ||
| And we're in a constitutional crisis. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt comes right up off the top. | ||
| It's like, this is not a constitutional crisis. | ||
| A constitutional crisis is what happens when you have a government that doesn't respond to the people. | ||
| We are living in a constitutional republic right now. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt torches fake journalists off the very top. | ||
| Many outlets in this room have been fear-mongering to believing we are having a constitutional crisis at the White House. | ||
| Nope! | ||
| This is actually how it's supposed to work, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Such an important thing to just grab the narrative by the big balls, right? | ||
| In the words of Doge. | ||
| And to just, like, be out with it. | ||
| Just come out. | ||
| Guns a-blazing, right? | ||
| Flamethrowers aflamin'. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt with the flamethrower. | ||
| It's a simple logic as to why President Trump wants to impose reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| Treat others the way you want to be treated. | ||
| Too many nations around the world have been ripping off America for too long. | ||
| And she goes into the ripping off that's been happening here domestically, holding up the receipts. | ||
| It's, like, awesome when she does this. | ||
| Holding up the receipts and talking through all of the line item expenses. | ||
| Like, for instance, climate change in Sri Lanka. | ||
| DEI payments. | ||
| Millions for inclusion at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. | ||
| Inclusion? | ||
| What does that mean exactly? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No white people. | ||
| That's what inclusion means. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, let's talk through my, probably my favorite clip. | ||
| Half the day. | ||
| Having to do with this AP reporter. | ||
| So we haven't covered this yet. | ||
| I was howling with laughter when I saw this last night. | ||
| So Elon Musk and Donald Trump did a full press conference inside the Oval Office yesterday. | ||
| It was hysterical. | ||
| It was really funny. | ||
| It was like a buddy comedy. | ||
| And it was this big, all these updates about how your federal government operates. | ||
| The AP was banned from access to that. | ||
| Now, this is the first time in history that... | ||
| That the AP, the Associated Press, has been banned from anything at the White House. | ||
| And this is what the AP editor had to say. | ||
| Today, our AP White House reporter was denied access to the Oval Office because Associated Press recognized the international body of water on our southern coastline as the Gulf of Mexico, while acknowledging Trump's order to rename it. | ||
| Our explanation here. | ||
| So they're deadnaming, deadnaming the Gulf of America. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| You know, goblins. | ||
| Look how miserable they all are. | ||
| Look, what a miserable group of wretches. | ||
| Although there are some great, like, some great conservative journalists, actually. | ||
| They got some free and independent journalists that actually got some questions today. | ||
| But this is... | ||
| Kate Land Collins, who used to work for Tucker Carlson's news outlet, The Daily Caller. | ||
| Who was a Republican and a conservative and was going on Fox News talking about how bad George Soros is. | ||
| As soon as she got a paycheck from CNN, she flipped and became a Trump derangement syndrome sociopath. | ||
| Anyway, the point is, is that she decided to ask, why did you ban the AP yesterday? | ||
| AP reporter barred from White House over Gulf of America. | ||
| And the response is, ooh. | ||
| Show fire. | ||
| Rings like a bell. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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And finally, which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter from the Oval Office and the Diplomatic Reception Room last night? | |
| Well, first of all, let me just set the record straight. | ||
| It is a privilege to cover this White House. | ||
| It's a privilege to be the White House Press Secretary. | ||
| And nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the President of the United States questions. | ||
| That's an invitation that is given. | ||
| And there are hundreds of outlets on this campus. | ||
| Many of you in this room who don't have the privilege of being part of But isn't it retaliatory in nature, is the argument, because the reason that the AP was barred, which they said was because they're not using the phrase Gulf of America, they're using Gulf of Mexico in line with their standards. | ||
| And so the question here is, is this setting a precedent that this White House will retaliate against reporters who don't I was very upfront in my briefing on day one that if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. | ||
| And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. | ||
| And I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that, but that is what it is. | ||
| The Secretary of Interior has made that. | ||
| The official designation in the geographical identification name server. | ||
| And Apple has recognized that. | ||
| Google has recognized that. | ||
| Pretty much every other outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America. | ||
| And it's very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home, but also for the rest of the world. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Thank you, Caroline. | |
| Kate Land Collins. | ||
| Boy. | ||
| You know, Pepperidge Farm remembers Kate Land Collins back when... | ||
| We worked at the same outlet together when she was writing very... | ||
| They've deleted now her byline. | ||
| I don't know if this is part of some deal or what, but they deleted her byline. | ||
| Caitlin Collins used to write just a pretty atrocious... | ||
| Clickbait-y stuff that was, you know, let's just say stuff that would very much embarrass her today if it were to get out. | ||
| Like these old Fox News clips of her that you can be reminded of exactly how it works in Washington, D.C. Pay! | ||
| Pay, people! | ||
| To abandon! | ||
| Their principles, and they will immediately. | ||
| There weren't principles in the first place. | ||
| People like Caitlin Collins. | ||
| People like Caitlin Collins. | ||
| It's exactly the problem with the corporate media. | ||
| It's exactly the problem. | ||
| And I'm not talking about changing your opinions on one thing or another. | ||
| I'm talking about you are for sale. | ||
| You are to be purchased. | ||
| You can be bought and sold. | ||
| And just stamp right on your ass the tattoo, a brand, of whoever happens to have purchased you that day. | ||
| It is media prostitution. | ||
| Because suddenly, now that she's getting a respectable paycheck from CNN, even though they have zero viewers, and our show regularly does more views than them, like, on a daily basis. | ||
| Caitlin Collins has abandoned all the people who got her there, which is, of course, the conservative movement, which put her on Fox News to say stuff like this. | ||
| Our nation's capital. | ||
| Caitlin, what does that mean? | ||
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What's George Soros trying to do with the immigration crisis? | |
| Good morning. | ||
| Okay, so George Soros is this foreign-born left-wing guy who essentially wants to change the nature of our country. | ||
| And in this data dump, one of the memos was about the refugee crisis. | ||
| And they made three points. | ||
| They think that they've been successful at influencing immigration policy across the world. | ||
| They think that the refugee crisis is an opportunity to continue doing so. | ||
| And I think the refugee crisis is the new normal. | ||
| And George Soros is this guy who is a staunch advocate for open borders. | ||
| He wants people to be able to go wherever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason. | ||
| And for him, he sees this immigration policy, this crisis as a vehicle to further hit. | ||
| He's a foreign-born billionaire who is trying to create open borders around the world and destroy our civilization. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| What happened to Kate Land Collins? | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just tune into the people who haven't changed their opinions. | ||
| Many people who work in media end up having to... | ||
| Oh, is this their response? | ||
| Oh, this is great. | ||
| This is the White House. | ||
| Yeah, it's great. | ||
| White House. | ||
| Comms Director Stephen Chung responding to the Associated Press crying about... | ||
| Being kept out of the briefing room. | ||
| Well, here's their style. | ||
| You know, the Associated Press, right? | ||
| So when the Gulf of Mexico is renamed to the Gulf of America and that's an official renaming, you would assume that a news source would use the official name because it's now real. | ||
| It's on all the maps. | ||
| Apple, Google Maps, the American Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. | ||
| This is all done. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| It's finished. | ||
| Associated Press sitting here. | ||
| These resistance people are so, so cringe-inducing. | ||
| This is like their own version of the song that we played this morning. | ||
| Let me load up that song. | ||
| This is like their own version of it. | ||
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America, the body of water that shared border between US and Mexico. | |
| Trump's order carries authority with the United States. | ||
| Mexico and other countries do not have to recognize the name change. | ||
| We didn't ask your opinion. | ||
| By the way, do you realize that like... | ||
| You know, American Mexico was also the name of, like, 15 to 20 different American states. | ||
| But you still call American states the names of the states that they are. | ||
| I mean, just off the top of your head, like Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California. | ||
| This was all part of Mexico at one time, 400 years ago. | ||
| Yet the AP uses the name Texas. | ||
| Even though 400 years ago that was called Mexican America. | ||
| So what's the governing principle here exactly? | ||
| Texas exists because America owns it and that's what we call it now. | ||
| And so the Gulf of America is what we call it now. | ||
| CAP is like... | ||
| Screaming and crying over this. | ||
| The AP will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen. | ||
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Jeez. | |
| Like, why do you listen to these people? | ||
| Like, don't ever listen to these people. | ||
| So they were kept out of the Oval Office for that. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| And then they get frauds like Caitlin Collins, who can be purchased for just the highest dollar, you know, in the media marketplace. | ||
| They get her to go there and bitch and moan about it. | ||
| These tactics don't work here anymore. | ||
| We just don't care. | ||
| We like seeing your salty tears. | ||
| We drink your salty tears. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt sends direct message to Mitch McConnell, who just voted against Tulsi Gabbard as he's being wheeled around utter eggplant. | ||
| He's a vegetable. | ||
| He's being wheeled around inside of a hospice that is the United States Senate. | ||
| We're disappointed by any Republican that is doing this. | ||
| And then she lights the flamethrower. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I think we're greatly disappointed in any Republican who chooses willfully to vote against the President's exceptionally qualified Cabinet nominees and picks to lead his America First administration. | ||
| Not a single Democrat swayed from voting against President Biden's nominees, and we know how many of them turned out. | ||
| They turned out to be atrocious at their jobs, leaving America much worse than they were when they took the oath of office. | ||
| And so I've said it repeatedly from this podium. | ||
| I addressed it at the beginning of my remarks. | ||
| We expect all Republicans to vote, to stay tough and strong, vote for President Trump's nominees so we can get to work and continue to work very hard to implement this president's agenda. | ||
| Isn't it so enraging that it's only ever our party that nominates cucks and people who betray us? | ||
| Like, find me a Democrat that did that to Democrats. | ||
| It doesn't happen. | ||
| That it's like John Fetterman. | ||
| Oh, I'm so independent. | ||
| John Fetterman's voted against all of Trump's nominees. | ||
| At least the ones that are close. | ||
| And the ones that are close that matters. | ||
| Like there's the nomination for Marco Rubio. | ||
| Democrats voted for Marco Rubio. | ||
| Because Rubio's been in the Senate for a million years. | ||
| He knows all these people. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's one big club. | ||
| So Rubio was able to get Democrats to vote for him. | ||
| To say that no Democrats have voted for any of Trump's nominees is not true. | ||
| But on these close votes where it would really matter to get guys like John Fetterman, the Independent, to come over and vote, you know, Fetterman's a no. | ||
| Fetterman's a no on Tulsi, a no on Hegseth, RFK, Cash. | ||
| So it's all fraud. | ||
| The Democrat Party stands as a united brick, right, with no independent thought, NPC. | ||
| It's only ever Republicans. | ||
| That have to cower and worry about the sabotage inside of our ranks and Mitch McConnell proving once again that he is a total arsonist inside of the Republican Party. | ||
| What a cancer in the Republican Party. | ||
| U.S. Senator texted me the other day when I watched Mitch McConnell vote against Pete Hegseth, causing a total panic in D.C. We were live during it. | ||
| J.D. Vance had to rush back. | ||
| J.D. Vance had to run and sprint to the Senate in order to cast the tie-breaking vote because of Mitch McConnell. | ||
| And a senator texts me and goes, Mitch McConnell has a cancer inside of our party. | ||
| We need him out. | ||
| He's causing major problems inside of the Senate. | ||
| But luckily, he's effectively mute at this point. | ||
| He's being carted around. | ||
| Again, like a bag of eggplants. | ||
| I'm the best friend that Mitch McConnell has in the world. | ||
| The best friend he's got in the world. | ||
| Resigned. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I'm telling you what you need to do is you need to resign. | ||
| But by the looks of it, you don't have much left. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's just the way we're all built. | ||
| You don't got much left. | ||
| So resign. | ||
| Go to Kentucky or whatever and, you know, live on your little horse farm and drink bourbon and be with your grandkids. | ||
| I don't even know if he has grandkids. | ||
| But either way, you shouldn't be doing this. | ||
| And he's sitting there, like his staff, his bloated, obese, slobs of staff, sitting there carting him around. | ||
| Like a literal bag of potatoes, like a literal vegetable, humiliation, just so that he can vote against Donald Trump, so all of them can vote against Donald Trump. | ||
| Let me tell you something that I've never told anybody about McConnell staffers that I knew in Washington, D.C. They would brag. | ||
| They would brag about how they'd ever been to Kentucky. | ||
| That seems insane, right? | ||
| He's from Kentucky. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| It was a point of pride for them. | ||
| To laugh about how they don't even like bourbon, which is, of course, sacrilegious in Kentucky. | ||
| They don't like bourbon. | ||
| They've never even been there. | ||
| I remember distinctly the event where these high-level Mitch McConnell staffers were laughing about how they'd never been to Kentucky and they don't even like Kentucky. | ||
| The whole thing is a massive fraud on the American people. | ||
| It's all coming crashing down. | ||
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It's just extraordinary. | |
| Extraordinary. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, another banger of a press briefing by Carolyn Levitt. | ||
| Do we have breaking news? | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| My team telling me we have multiple pieces of breaking news very quickly. | ||
| President Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin for an hour and a half this morning. | ||
| It's a crazy long phone call. | ||
| And now he's announced that he spoke with Zelensky. | ||
| Conversation went well. | ||
| He, like Putin, wants to make peace. | ||
| We discussed a variety of topics, but mostly meeting, getting set up in Munich, where J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio will lead the delegation. | ||
| I'm hopeful for the results and that they will be positive. | ||
| It's time to stop this ridiculous war, death and destruction. | ||
| God bless the American people and the people of Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| Isn't that beautiful to see? | ||
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Peace breaking out around. | |
| And Melania announces the opening of the White House to public tours again. | ||
| She did this the first administration. | ||
| The Obamas stopped it. | ||
| Melania Trump saying the People's House will be given back to the people. | ||
| First Lady Melania announced today the White House will officially open for public tours on February 25th. | ||
| The president and I are excited to reopen the White House. | ||
| To those interested in the extraordinary story of the iconic, beautiful landmark, much to learn about the American presidency. | ||
| And as Rich History, the opportunity is unique among this nation and the globe. | ||
| We are honored to open our house, the People's House, says First Lady Melania Trump. | ||
| Just beautiful. | ||
| Just beautiful. | ||
| You know, who could stand against this? | ||
| Who could possibly stand against cutting government waste and inefficiency, fraud, the returning home of American prisoners, the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, which is so badass? | ||
| Who could possibly stand against peace in Ukraine? | ||
| Peace? | ||
| In the Middle East, these people. | ||
| These are the people we're fighting against. | ||
| What did we do to deserve this as our enemy? | ||
| What things have we done? | ||
| Why has God blessed us so much by giving us these people as our enemy? | ||
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We'll fight from dawn to dusk. | |
| Oh, which side are you on? | ||
| Which side are you on? | ||
| Which side are you on? | ||
| Trump's come! | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, I have an image. | ||
| This is what I look like after hearing that song for the 50th time today. | ||
| I'm very sorry. | ||
| We need to do a warning. | ||
| We need to do a trigger warning. | ||
| My poor ears and your poor ears. | ||
| We promise not to play that song for you unless there is fair warning. | ||
| Very thankful, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is a good final meme. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Very thankful that the shrunken head, shrunken Beetlejuice head is no longer at the White House. | ||
| In her Gambino crime family outfit. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Dude, look at what we just lived through. | ||
| We just lived through the DEI hire of all DEI hires. | ||
| It's just so embarrassing. | ||
| Oh, and it's over! | ||
| And ladies and gentlemen, we are so excited. | ||
| We are so very excited that Carolyn Lovett is back in the chair. | ||
| How excited is our press corps? | ||
| You haven't seen the press this miserable or sad in so long. | ||
| Look at them. | ||
| It's like a funeral. | ||
| Dude, it's like a funeral. | ||
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Look at this. | |
| It's like a feminist meeting. | ||
| It's so bad. | ||
| Ah, it's just great. | ||
| It's exciting to cover it with you and to have a laugh together. | ||
| Really, the golden era truly lives up to its name. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
| There is a big press conference that Pam Bondi is having at 4.30. | ||
| So we're talking internally about covering it. | ||
| We'll cover it one way or another. | ||
| What will Pam Bondi be telling the American people? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| Pam Bondi has teased that there is going to be a big announcement at 430. | ||
| He's obviously the number one law enforcement official in America. | ||
| So we'll stay tuned for that. | ||
| Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for tuning into our channel. | ||
| Please subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. | ||
| This helps us, obviously, make sure that we grow our movement and stay strong so that we can bring the news to you. | ||
| Have a beautiful rest of your Wednesday in this, the greatest country on earth. | ||
| It's your boy, Benny. | ||
| See ya. | ||
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As we steer our boat down, looking for these dangerous predators. | |
| Boy, there's a King Croc right there. | ||
| He must be 4 meters, 12, 13 feet long at least. | ||
| I've got to be careful. | ||
| So what I'm gonna do is sneak up on it and jam my thumb in its butthole. | ||
| Holy crap, dude! | ||
| But I better be real careful jamming my thumb in its butthole. | ||
| Oh boy, he is pissed off now! | ||
| Go, dude, go! | ||
| I'm gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now! | ||
| This should really piss it off! | ||
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Oh yeah, that pissed it off! | |
| I'd hate to have to come back here. |
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