April 30, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| We're here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country. | ||
| And that's according to many, many people. | ||
| I ended all of the lawless so-called diversity, equity and inclusion. | ||
| the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. | ||
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I banned men from competing in women's sports. | |
| I signed a historic executive order to begin the process of eliminating the federal Department of Education. | ||
| The president also spoke about his plans moving forward. | ||
| To further rebuild the industrial bedrock of our country, I've imposed 25% tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel. | ||
| It's keeping our steel mills going. | ||
| We're ending the inflation nightmare, the worst that we've had probably in the history of our country, getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our government. | ||
| We're stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| And above all, we're saving the American dream. | ||
| We're making America great again, and it's happening fast, too. | ||
| Meanwhile, Senate Democrats held an anti-Trump all-nighter on the Senate floor in protest of the president's first 100 days. | ||
| This is a threat to our democratic republic. | ||
| He's acting like a king. | ||
| A mob boss, a wannabe dictator. | ||
| He said he wanted to be a dictator on day one. | ||
| It looks like he's extending it. | ||
| The turmoil and turbulence has produced confusion and, yes, anxiety. | ||
| Deep fear and apprehension about the future of this country. | ||
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Unimaginable amount of havoc and harm President Donald Trump has caused for Wisconsinites. | |
| Today, President Trump will kick off day 101 of his administration by meeting with his cabinet back in D.C. Okay, | ||
| I'm officially out of the studio, but I am banning. | ||
| I am banning from the top down at this company, face-swapping me with a camel. | ||
| I have never seen a greater abomination. | ||
| I hope my kids weren't watching. | ||
| Jerry, you are banned from face swapping me with camels. | ||
| No more. | ||
| No more face swapping. | ||
| I'm not going to allow it. | ||
| I'm not going to allow it. | ||
| Broadcasting here from the teeny little studio hotel in Los Angeles that we are staying in. | ||
| We are live right now today, hump day, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, day 101 of President. | ||
| Trump's golden era. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, live soon we will have a cabinet meeting with Donald Trump and his entire cabinet. | ||
| We're going to take that. | ||
| It's always entertaining. | ||
| Also, one of our friends, Jack Posobiec, got assaulted and incited by a member of Congress. | ||
| One of our least favorite members of Congress. | ||
| His name is Jamie Ratskin. | ||
| You will remember Jamie Ratskin from impeachment hoaxes and January 6th hoaxes. | ||
| Oh baby, Jamie Ratskin might be in some hot water. | ||
| We're going to cover it today. | ||
| Trump also torching ABC News live to their faces inside of the Oval Office. | ||
| A great interview that dropped after Trump's rally was live yesterday. | ||
| Live yesterday for the rally, and then that interview dropped. | ||
| Man, this thing is thermonuclear. | ||
| We're going to cover all of it all with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on the show. | ||
| Hogan Gidley as well on the show. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the golden era. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| It's going to be very interesting times. | ||
| We are not haters. | ||
| We are people that want a portion of our portfolio to be security. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, we want there to be... | ||
| You should always diversify your portfolios. | ||
| You should never go all hard in on one asset class. | ||
| And that is why, even at a relatively young age, I began investing in gold. | ||
| Gold has outperformed pretty much everything else in my portfolio. | ||
| That's just a matter of fact. | ||
| I'm not going to reveal my private financial records, but I can tell you, you can just follow the markets. | ||
| You can just see what gold's trading at right now. | ||
| When there are major changes in the economy, gold is a safe haven. | ||
| And there's going to be major changes in the economy. | ||
| This isn't a surprise to anybody who's been following President Trump. | ||
| Major changes, Advantage Gold can help you out. | ||
| Advantage Gold has made sure that I have a hedge against crashing crypto markets or up and down roller coasters in the stock market. | ||
| Gold and silver is my hedge and it's been performing great. | ||
| And of course, this is the golden era, okay? | ||
| So think about it. | ||
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| That's tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
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| Always consult your tax and financial professional. | ||
| Part of what I'm going to be doing out here in Los Angeles. | ||
| Okay, why are we in LA? | ||
| Why are we broadcasting from this funny little hotel room? | ||
| Please put up the video that we shot yesterday from the car. | ||
| Because I don't like traffic. | ||
| And I don't particularly like California. | ||
| But Gavin Newsom was bragging that California is like the best state in America. | ||
| And as a Floridian, I took that personally. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And I took that personally. | ||
| We're going to do the meme here. | ||
| So we came out here to do a number of things. | ||
| To go on our friend Adam Carolla's show, which we're going to do right after this. | ||
| To speak at CPAC. | ||
| To go talk with Chef Gruel. | ||
| Oh, this is going to be weird. | ||
| It's going to be two Bennys talking. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, the point is, I just wanted to show you one thing. | ||
| Just zip through the video. | ||
| I want to show you guys the homeless in camp. | ||
| I want to show you, like, there it is. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's the first couple seconds of the video. | ||
| This is, it might be a little hard to see. | ||
| We're going to go capture it a little better. | ||
| That's the Water and Power. | ||
| That's L.A. Water and Power Building. | ||
| Okay, this is just me driving to my hotel. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Pause. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This is the L.A. Water and Power Building. | ||
| These are the people responsible for the fires. | ||
| They're responsible for the cleanup. | ||
| They're responsible for the fact that there was no water in the fire hydrants here. | ||
| And what do you notice there? | ||
| It is a little bit hard to see. | ||
| We're going to go capture it. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| We're going to go get this. | ||
| There's a massive homeless encampment. | ||
| Blocks long homeless encampment all around this building. | ||
| These people are responsible for cleaning up after the fires here in Los Angeles. | ||
| And they can't even clean up their own home. | ||
| There was like a multi-block massive homeless. | ||
| Lean-to, shantytown, drug abuse, filth pile, all throughout their building. | ||
| We're going to capture things like this, and we're going to tell the story from the street. | ||
| We're going to ask a little bit about what people out here think about Kamala Harris. | ||
| And, yeah, that's what we're going to be doing this week. | ||
| And we'll keep you posted, obviously, on social media, but we want to let you know why we're out of the studio and what we're doing, and we don't want to miss shows. | ||
| And so we're going to rock and roll here from our little hotel room, okay? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Speaking of rocking and rolling, Jack Posobiec, this morning, posting that he has filed an official federal police report against the people who assaulted him. | ||
| I'm going to play you this clip. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, yesterday, he's a friend of the show. | ||
| He was at a little rally at Union Station yesterday. | ||
| Please pop it up. | ||
| And he was trolling a couple things. | ||
| One, Jack Posobiec is a reporter. | ||
| Jamie Ratskin's here giving a speech. | ||
| Jamie Ratskin is giving a speech in public and is, like, I think he's surrounded by members of a union. | ||
| Okay, whatever. | ||
| This is standard fare in Washington, D.C. What's also standard fare in Washington, D.C. is that reporters can ask questions. | ||
| What happened next is that Jamie Ratskin, and you can see it clearly on video, incited the mob to assault Jack Posobiec, who's a friend of our show, and we're going to throw it down for Jack. | ||
| Here, watch the video. | ||
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To organize unions! | |
| Yeah! | ||
| For redress agreements, we're going to defend the right to assemble! | ||
| Yes! | ||
| We know with Dr. King that the greatness of America is the right to protest for what is right. | ||
| And that's where we are today. | ||
| I'll leave you with my friends with the words of the great Marylander Frederick Douglass. | ||
| Jamie, why did you lose the popular vote? | ||
| Why did you lose every single swing state? | ||
| Why did you lose? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Jack says, I have filed a full police report with federal law enforcement. | ||
| Let's pop that up, please. | ||
| And then also the screenshot of Jamie Raskin inciting the mob. | ||
| This is an incitement to violence, clearly. | ||
| I filed a police report with federal law enforcement, says Jack. | ||
| And then you can see here clearly in the follow-up tweet that he is, Jamie Raskin is literally pointing at Jack. | ||
| Two sick union goons on Jack. | ||
| So at what point do we charge Jamie Ratskin? | ||
| Not a good idea, by the way. | ||
| First off, your name is Ratskin, and that's because of... | ||
| Well, the toupee that you wear. | ||
| And on some level, I like it when people have their comic book names. | ||
| On some level, it makes it easier to remember. | ||
| But this is Jamie Raskin, who continually drones on about the rule of law, continually drones on about how federal officials should conduct themselves. | ||
| And this seems like Jack has him dead to right on assault charges. | ||
| We'll have to see. | ||
| But there's a brand new sheriff in town, Ed Martin, who's the U.S. District Attorney, and he doesn't take these kind of things buying down. | ||
| You can see how Donald Trump handles it differently. | ||
| Do we have... | ||
| I'm going to skip here to the President Trump calling out last night at the rally. | ||
| I want to skip to Donald Trump roasting the protester. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Clip K. Notice the difference here between the way that Donald Trump does it and the way that Jamie Raskin does it. | ||
| Please. | ||
| You know, he was in North Carolina. | ||
| He did so great. | ||
| What's the problem over there? | ||
| What's the problem? | ||
| Is that a radical left lunatic? | ||
| He's just a child. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm sorry, ma 'am. | ||
| I thought it was a guy. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And she now has to go home to a mother who's a big Trump fan. | ||
| Her mother's watching. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I said he, and it's a she. | ||
| It's the most violence you'll get from a Trump rally. | ||
| The most violence you'll ever find at a Trump rally is Donald Trump misgendering you. | ||
| That's what happened to Donald Trump. | ||
| Go home to mommy. | ||
| You're a she, he's a he, whatever. | ||
| Go home to mommy. | ||
| And then, you know, what happens is they usher the people out. | ||
| They have good security, right? | ||
| And it's the people you don't want to mess with. | ||
| It's amazing to me that it's only at left-wing rallies. | ||
| Where people who are reporters or independent journalists like Jack or Alex Rosen here, I'm going to show you a clip that I love playing. | ||
| It's of Hillary Clinton speaking at a mayoral race in Houston. | ||
| And Hillary Clinton is campaigning here. | ||
| And an independent journalist named Alex Rosen gets up and asks Hillary Clinton for the first time ever, why is your husband on Epstein Island? | ||
| Why was your husband doing trips to Epstein Island? | ||
| Why was he on Epstein's jets nearly 30 times? | ||
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Notice... | |
| Here, yeah, please, please. | ||
| I'm just gonna talk a little bit over it. | ||
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Hey, Hillary! | |
| Why's your husband missing everything on him 26 times? | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Obviously, you know, obviously he's gonna ask, you know, you can ask this stuff. | ||
| It's an interesting question. | ||
| It's something that Hillary should have to answer for. | ||
| But what's fascinating to me is the response. | ||
| Have you ever seen any left-wing protester treated like this at a Trump rally? | ||
| You ever seen anything like it? | ||
| You ever seen anybody? | ||
| Like, they rip his shirt off. | ||
| They drag him. | ||
| Seven or eight guys. | ||
| Assault him. | ||
| Look at the way that they treat him. | ||
| Just for asking a question about Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| Like, is that the tell? | ||
| Is this the tell? | ||
| You've never seen a lib treated like this. | ||
| Again, this is independent journalist Alex Rosen getting his shirt ripped off and dragged, probably injured in some capacity, though he seems like a sturdy dude. | ||
| I don't know him. | ||
| I've never met him. | ||
| I don't like his contact. | ||
| So he asked the alert. | ||
| I mean, you never see this kind of stuff. | ||
| Anyway, they did this to Jack, and I hope that there's charges, okay? | ||
| I hope that they file charges. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, there's been a murder. | ||
| There's been a murder. | ||
| Donald Trump murdered ABC News live on air last night. | ||
| This is something that we didn't get a chance to cover, and I want to play this, and then I want to play you a great meltdown from Michelle Obama about all of it. | ||
| Trump murders ABC News reporter with scathing remarks as to why he was picked for a highly sought interview. | ||
| This is the headline, but there are a lot of other headlines here from the interview itself. | ||
| This is Donald Trump just on a roll. | ||
| He was just on a rampage yesterday. | ||
| I guess this guy, his name is Terry Moran. | ||
| You ever heard of this guy? | ||
| He's Terry Moran. | ||
| He's cross-eyed. | ||
| He's a complete goof-true. | ||
| He looks like a Joseph A. Banks two-for-one suit Toyota-thon guy in the catalog. | ||
| Anyway, I don't have any respect for this guy, and Donald Trump doesn't either. | ||
| President Trump continued to roast him to his face. | ||
| Beginning with covering up Joe Biden's decline and then ultimately saying that he doesn't trust him at all and that he's not going to finish the interview. | ||
| It was a rampage by President Trump. | ||
| Let's go Trump roasting first. | ||
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You think the reputation of the United States has gone down? | |
| No, I think it's gone way up, and I think we're a respected country. | ||
| Again, we were left at all over the world. | ||
| We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. | ||
| We had a president that was grossly incompetent. | ||
| You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| By the way, ABC is one of the worst, I have to be honest with you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| All right. | ||
| You have fake news. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| What an amazing timeline ALX just sent to the producer chat that Terry Moran has blocked him. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is... | ||
| What a biatch. | ||
| Look at this, guys. | ||
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I'm a real respected independent journalist. | |
| He's blocked... | ||
| Is that me, ALX, or is that you, ALX? | ||
| Did it block you? | ||
| Either way. | ||
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What? | |
| Like, for real. | ||
| Why would you block ALX? | ||
| Everybody needs to go follow ALX. | ||
| ALX. | ||
| Soaring to a million. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump wished, Terry Moran wished that he was able to block President Trump when he straight up roasted him for not finishing the interview. | ||
| This is my favorite clip. | ||
| There's a lot of good stuff in here. | ||
| This is my favorite clip. | ||
| I don't think we're going to finish this interview, says President Trump. | ||
| Keep in mind that Donald Trump got a $15 million settlement from ABC News. | ||
| You want to talk about, like, who has the cards? | ||
| You don't have the cards. | ||
| He doesn't have the cards. | ||
| You want to talk about who doesn't have the cards? | ||
| ABC News doesn't have the cards. | ||
| ABC News had to settle a defamation suit with Donald Trump two months ago, where they paid him $15 million. | ||
| They apologized to him, and that $15 million goes to pay for President Trump's presidential library. | ||
| These are facts, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So when Terry Moran's apologizing to Donald Trump for being fake news, there's some weight behind that. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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One question about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. | |
| There's a lot of turmoil at the Pentagon right now. | ||
| There's the signal chat with his wife on it where he's discussing that attack in Yemen. | ||
| There's another signal chat discussing the attack on Yemen. | ||
| There's a reporter accidentally involved. | ||
| You said the other day that you had a talk with the secretary. | ||
| Did you take him to the woodshed? | ||
| I had a talk with him, and whatever I said, I probably wouldn't be inclined to tell you. | ||
| But we had a good talk. | ||
| He's a talented guy. | ||
| He's young. | ||
| He's smart. | ||
| Highly educated. | ||
| And I think he's going to be a very good defense, hopefully a great defense secretary, but he'll be a very good defense secretary. | ||
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You have 100% confidence in... | |
| I don't have 100% confidence in anything. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Anything. | ||
| Do I have 100%? | ||
| It's a stupid question. | ||
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Look... | |
| It's a pretty important position. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| You don't have 100%. | ||
| Only a liar would say I have 100% confidence. | ||
| I don't have 100% confidence that we're going to finish this interview. | ||
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We will. | |
| I have confidence we're going to finish this interview. | ||
| He asked about Putin. | ||
| Do you trust Putin? | ||
| And the response for Donald Trump is golden. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Do you think Vladimir Putin wants peace? | |
| I think he does, yes. | ||
| I think he does. | ||
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Even with the raining mistletoe. | |
| His dream was to take over the whole country. | ||
| I think because of me, he's not going to do that. | ||
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Do you trust him? | |
| Do you trust him? | ||
| I don't trust you. | ||
| I don't trust a lot of people. | ||
| I don't trust you. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
| You come in all shooting for bear. | ||
| You're so happy to do the interview. | ||
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I am happy. | |
| And then you start hitting me with fake questions. | ||
| You start telling me that a guy whose hand is covered with a tattoo doesn't have the tattoo. | ||
| I mean, you're being dishonest. | ||
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No, I'm not. | |
| No, I am not, sir. | ||
| I don't trust a lot of people. | ||
| But I do think this, I think that he, let's say he respects me, and I believe because of me he's not going to take over the whole, but his decision, his choice would be to take over all of Ukraine. | ||
| I don't trust you. | ||
| He talked about the fake tattoo question. | ||
| Now, I want to make sure that we put this up. | ||
| Can we please grab that photo of the man's tattoos? | ||
| They're really wonderful. | ||
| Person named Kilmar. | ||
| The guy's name is actually Kilmar. | ||
| We're here in Studio City. | ||
| Like, this entire case is, like, straight out of a script. | ||
| So there is a gangbanger. | ||
| And now we have further documentation that he's a gangbanger. | ||
| I'm going to put up a couple things here. | ||
| One, we have the MS-13 tattoos, okay? | ||
| So this is the marijuana smile 13, right? | ||
| And this is why the wife of the wonderful Kilmar always covered his tattoos in photos. | ||
| Every single time that she took a photo with him, she covered up his hand. | ||
| I wonder why. | ||
| Now, she had reported him for spousal abuse, and her ex-husband had reported him for being a gangbanger, saying, I don't want my children hanging around with this guy who's a gangbanger. | ||
| Now we find out from police reports that he was human smuggling. | ||
| He was caught human smuggling. | ||
| Joe Biden let him free. | ||
| He had a van that belonged to a human smuggler, working for a human smuggler, with a van full of people in it that couldn't speak English, driving through the state of Tennessee. | ||
| They let him go. | ||
| I think there are some big questions there. | ||
| Anyway, this is the person that Democrats are throwing down for. | ||
| Can we grab that police report from the husband? | ||
| That just broke recently. | ||
| It's flying on our ex. | ||
| Okay, there it is. | ||
| So this is from his wife's. | ||
| This is from the husband of his wife, right? | ||
| Ex-husband. | ||
| And he's like, no, no, no. | ||
| She's now married to a literal gang member. | ||
| These are the people who Democrats are going to bat for. | ||
| They're flying down and doing Margaritaville. | ||
| Trips. | ||
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Four. | |
| They're having vacations with. | ||
| It's very romantic. | ||
| They're cha-cha dancing. | ||
| And now it's been brought directly into the White House with this question from Terry Moran last night from ABC News. | ||
| Where he has the temerity to call Donald Trump fake news. | ||
| Oh, this... | ||
| It's not going to end well. | ||
| It's a bold strategy, Cotton. | ||
| Let's see how it plays out for you. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| The person that you're talking about, you know, you're making this person sound. | ||
| This is a MS-13 gang member. | ||
| A tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay? | ||
| This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland. | ||
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I'm not saying he's a good guy. | |
| It's about the rule of law. | ||
| The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir. | ||
| You came into our country illegally. | ||
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You could get him back. | |
| There's a phone on this desk. | ||
| I could. | ||
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You could pick it up, and with all the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back. | |
| Right now. | ||
| And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. | ||
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But the court has ordered you to facilitate that. | |
| I'm not the one making this decision. | ||
| We have lawyers that don't want to do this. | ||
| But the buck stops in his office. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| I follow the law. | ||
| You want me to follow the law? | ||
| If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. | ||
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Supreme Court says what the law is. | |
| Listen, I was elected to take care of a problem. | ||
| It was an unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man. | ||
| A man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful. | ||
| Great genius, right? | ||
| And now you find out all of the media now, they're saying what a mistake they made. | ||
| A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people float in. | ||
| I campaigned on that issue. | ||
| I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close. | ||
| I campaigned on that issue. | ||
| I've done an amazing job. | ||
| I have closed borders. | ||
| He said you couldn't do it. | ||
| You wouldn't be able to do it. | ||
| It would never happen. | ||
| Well, it happened, and it happened very quickly. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out, and we're doing it. | ||
| And you'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn't a member of a gang. | ||
| And then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS-13. | ||
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There's a dispute about that. | |
| Wait a minute. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo. | ||
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He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. | |
| But let's move on. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| Hey, Terry, Terry. | ||
| Terry. | ||
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He did not have the letter MS-13. | |
| It says MS-13. | ||
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That was Photoshopped. | |
| That was Photoshopped. | ||
| Terry, you can't do that. | ||
| Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. | ||
| You know, you're doing the interview. | ||
| I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. | ||
| I picked you. | ||
| Terry. | ||
| But you're not being very nice. | ||
| He had MS-13 tattoos. | ||
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We'll agree to disagree. | |
| I want to move on to something else. | ||
| Do you want me to show you the picture? | ||
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I saw the picture. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Don't Photoshop it. | ||
| Go look at his hand. | ||
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He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. | |
| I'm not an expert on them. | ||
| I want to turn to Ukraine. | ||
| I want to get to Ukraine. | ||
| He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted. | ||
| This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news. | ||
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When he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. | |
| But let's just go. | ||
| They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. | ||
| Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? | ||
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No, but they're there now. | |
| Terry, he's got MS-13 on his knuckles. | ||
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All right. | |
| Okay? | ||
| We'll take a look. | ||
| It's such a disservice. | ||
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We'll take a look at that, sir. | |
| Why don't you just say, yes, he does, and, you know, go on to something else. | ||
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He's contested. | |
| Here's my deal with this. | ||
| You ever hear any reporter talk like this to Joe Biden? | ||
| First off, Joe Biden didn't ever do interviews like this. | ||
| But just rewind the clock back a couple of days, all right? | ||
| We're only in day 101. | ||
| Did you ever hear any reporter speak to Joe Biden like this? | ||
| Joe Biden told an enormous number of lies from that position. | ||
| Inside of the White House. | ||
| Indefensible lies. | ||
| It lies about everything from Afghanistan to COVID to his family and to his administration's handling of the border. | ||
| January 6th, there are so many discernible, empirical, demonstrable lies that Joe Biden told. | ||
| And you never heard him pressed even a little bit on them. | ||
| Classified documents, next to my Corvette, nothing. | ||
| You never heard like the slightest, there was never even the slightest friction between the press and Joe Biden. | ||
| Because they know that he'd like collapse, like a house card. | ||
| They know he doesn't have the mental capacity to do it. | ||
| Donald Trump's like shadowboxing. | ||
| It's like watching Muhammad Ali just like warm up. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| I think it's great. | ||
| Donald Trump's just like the Floyd Mayweather of shadowboxing. | ||
| And these questions, I think it's fantastic that Trump does these interviews. | ||
| I think it's great. | ||
| And it shows that Trump is clearly on his feet and ready to spar. | ||
| And Trump gets the better of these exchanges. | ||
| Breaking news from here Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accused of being gangbanger in 2018 court documents in latest claim of MS-13 affiliation. | ||
| Would you look at that? | ||
| We actually have the court documents. | ||
| We have the official stamps. | ||
| We have everything. | ||
| So the dude was a MS-13 member. | ||
| I don't, you know, rule of law, right? | ||
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Remember, rule of law! | |
| Okay, well, here's the law. | ||
| Here's what it says. | ||
| Here's the official court documents about Abrego Garcia. | ||
| But ABC News is in the White House, like, arguing on his behalf. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Got it. | ||
| President Trump forces ABC News into admitting that he has won, not just won his defamation case against them where they had to pay out $15 million and apologize to Donald Trump and fund his presidential library, but that he has won on the border. | ||
| This is a good one. | ||
| It will tie directly into some breaking news about Michelle Obama. | ||
| Goodness gracious, I cannot believe this. | ||
| Let's move on to immigration. | ||
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And as you said, it is an undeniable fact that illegal crossings at the southern border have plummeted a staggering decline. | |
| But there are questions. | ||
| About your methods. | ||
| About my message? | ||
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Methods. | |
| About your methods. | ||
| How you're accomplishing this. | ||
| Well, they seem to work. | ||
| Do you acknowledge that under our law, every single person who gets deported gets a hearing first to make their case? | ||
| Well, are we talking about people that are citizens of our country or not? | ||
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No, you're not deporting citizens at this point. | |
| Well, let me ask you, did they get hearings when Biden allowed... | ||
| 21 million, because I think the number is 20 million people to flow into our country. | ||
| You had 21 million people that came into our country through a stupid open border, and they were prisoners, and they were people that you don't want in many cases in our country, right? | ||
| They came from all over the world. | ||
| They came from the Congo. | ||
| They came from South. | ||
| They came from all over the world. | ||
| We're talking about some of the roughest countries in the world. | ||
| They had... | ||
| They had here, including terrorists, by the way. | ||
| Now, did we give them a hearing when they came in? | ||
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Well, the law requires that every single person who is going to be deported gets a hearing first. | |
| Do you acknowledge that? | ||
| I'll have to ask the lawyers about that. | ||
| All I can say is this. | ||
| If you're going to have 21 million people, and we have to get a lot of them out because they're criminals, we're going to have to act fast. | ||
| Do you think we can give 21 million trials? | ||
| Let's say each trial takes two weeks. | ||
| Is that what you want us to do? | ||
| The law is the law, sir. | ||
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The law is the law. | |
| The law doesn't say anything about trials. | ||
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No, not trials. | |
| Hearings. | ||
| These people came in. | ||
| They're not citizens. | ||
| They came in illegally. | ||
| They came into our country illegally. | ||
| We have to get them out. | ||
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There's a legal process for that. | |
| Sure, and we follow the legal process. | ||
| I can't have a trial, a major trial, for every person that came in illegally. | ||
| We have thousands of murderers that came in. | ||
| They're going to murder people. | ||
| They already have murdered people in our country. | ||
| We have to get them out. | ||
| We have to get them out fast. | ||
| Really bad guys. | ||
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But in our country, even bad guys get due process, right? | |
| If people come into our country illegally, there's a different standard. | ||
| These are illegal. | ||
| They came in illegally. | ||
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But they get due process. | |
| Well, they get a process where we have to get them out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You get a process. | ||
| Your process is deportation processing. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| Now, there is some breaking news right now about Michelle Obama saying that she's a man. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Great. | ||
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| It is a different time zone. | ||
| Blackout Coffee travels with me everywhere. | ||
| My wife and I, this is a matter of fact, my wife and I bring, it's going to be embarrassing, but it's true. | ||
| We have a little, like, A coffee bubbler, right? | ||
| A little coffee perk in the morning. | ||
| And it travels with us. | ||
| Like, when we go on family trips, we'll bring our coffee maker. | ||
| And the coffee that we bring with that coffee maker, because we are a very caffeine-addicted family, is blackout. | ||
| And the reason why is that this is then the drink that powers the show, especially when we're in different time zones, right? | ||
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| I actually have two coffees sitting in front of me right now, and the coffee that fills our cup on this program is Blackout Coffee. | ||
| Here's the two coffees. | ||
| It is Blackout Coffee, all right? | ||
| Blackout Coffee is a spectacular company. | ||
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Start drinking real American coffee. | |
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is very interesting. | ||
| I'm very glad I hadn't. | ||
| My caffeine because of the news cycle that's about to break right now about Michelle Obama. | ||
| Michelle Obama saying, and I quote, please pop up a screen clip. | ||
| Michelle Obama, you're raising a trans kid that warms my heart as a black man. | ||
| Well, hmm. | ||
| Let's go ahead and listen to the clip, shall we? | ||
| There's no way this is an accurate quote, is it? | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I wanted to talk, Marlon, a bit about, you know, just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man. | ||
| You know, would you care to share that journey? | ||
| I learned. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| So is that it? | ||
| Okay, is that it? | ||
| Is it that? | ||
| Michelle Obama's talking about... | ||
| Is Michelle Obama talking to Marlon Wayans as a black man? | ||
| I think that this is open for interpretation. | ||
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Ah! | |
| It's like, okay. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, there's your internet trend for the day. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| Yikes! | ||
| Well, I mean, this is the quote. | ||
| This is actually... | ||
| This is an accurate quote. | ||
| Do with it what you will. | ||
| You're raising a trans kid. | ||
| Now arms my heart as a black man. | ||
| That's a quote. | ||
| We just played the full clip. | ||
| I'll leave it in the chat to interpret it. | ||
| I'll say this. | ||
| She definitely phrased it weird. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So Obama phrased it really weird here. | ||
| So that's a strange way to phrase that. | ||
| What an odd thing to say is the meme, right? | ||
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Whew. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Well, we were already going to do a Michelle Obama block based on Donald Trump's deportations and President Trump fighting ABC News about those deportations. | ||
| Michelle Obama went viral yesterday for saying that she's kept up at night about Donald Trump's deportation. | ||
| Donald Trump supported about 100,000 people. | ||
| And we gotta up those numbers. | ||
| Those are rookie numbers, as I say. | ||
| But her husband, Barack Obama, deported 5.3 million people. | ||
| So is Michelle Obama, like, did she lose sleep when her husband was doing this? | ||
| Also, can we add something here? | ||
| This is Michelle Obama's house. | ||
| Let's just go ahead and look. | ||
| These are public photos. | ||
| There's a big public Home and Gardens article. | ||
| The Obamas were really happy. | ||
| They wanted to show off their luxurious mansion. | ||
| You'll notice here, Michelle Obama's home in Martha's Vineyard is a palatial 30-acre estate. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Look at all that room. | ||
| Think of how many lean-tos, tents. | ||
| You could shove onto this land. | ||
| Think of how many criminal aliens you could shove into her property. | ||
| Why is Michelle Obama doing her part? | ||
| Look at this home. | ||
| I mean, this is just one of many mansions that they have. | ||
| Think of the number of criminal aliens that Michelle Obama could personally house here. | ||
| What, like 10,000? | ||
| You know if you really like pack the tents tightly together? | ||
| Has Michelle Obama offered at all? | ||
| Like this little beach? | ||
| To anybody other than her chef? | ||
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No? | |
| No. | ||
| Well, maybe it's time. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Like, this is Michelle Obama's pool. | ||
| That's a lot. | ||
| That's a lot easier to cross than the Rio Grande. | ||
| All these criminal aliens came to cross the Rio Grande. | ||
| That's dangerous. | ||
| They would love that pool, Michelle. | ||
| Look at the inside. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at the vaulted ceilings. | ||
| You could just hang. | ||
| You could hang. | ||
| Right here. | ||
| Like some tarps, right? | ||
| Some hammocks. | ||
| You could do it like a ship. | ||
| Like an old World War II ship. | ||
| You could do like 50 hammocks right here. | ||
| All the criminal aliens that Michelle Obama could house. | ||
| In this 20,000 square foot, 30 acre mansion in Martha's Vineyard. | ||
| And why is it important that it's in Martha's Vineyard? | ||
| Look at this from the air. | ||
| My God. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Their driveway could be a migrant shelter. | ||
| The reason why it's important is that when given the opportunity. | ||
| To house some criminal aliens themselves, the Obamas called the National Guard. | ||
| Remember when Rod Sanders sent like 50 illegal criminal aliens from Venezuela up to Martha's Vineyard? | ||
| They called the National Guard on them. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, good time to break in here, President Trump. | ||
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I don't know what their problem is, but we have a little difficulty. | |
| We won on the basis of a great border and of getting criminals out of our country. | ||
| That was... | ||
| Why we won every swing state. | ||
| We won by millions of votes. | ||
| We won everything. | ||
| Every metric we won by a lot. | ||
| It was a massive victory. | ||
| And we won, I think, largely because of this issue. | ||
| I put this issue as number one issue. | ||
| And they don't want us to do what we're supposed to do. | ||
| And I don't think that can be. | ||
| And I hope the Supreme Court is going to fully understand what's going on. | ||
| We have to get the criminals out of our country. | ||
| And that's... | ||
| The basis under which we won the election. | ||
| Core GDP. | ||
| And this is, you know, you probably saw some numbers today. | ||
| And I have to start off by saying, that's Biden. | ||
| That's not Trump. | ||
| Because we came in on January. | ||
| These are quarterly numbers. | ||
| And we came in and I was very against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy, destroying our country in so many ways. | ||
| Not only at the border. | ||
| The border was more obvious. | ||
| But we took over his mess in so many different ways. | ||
| Core GDP, removing distortions from imports, inventories, and government spending, was up plus 3% when you added. | ||
| We had numbers that, despite what we were handed, we turned them around, and we were getting them really turned around. | ||
| Gross domestic investment was a whopping 22%. | ||
| Now, that is a number that people are coming in at numbers. | ||
| For instance, I just walked in, I heard Samsung is now, because of the tariffs, they're going to build massive facilities in the United States. | ||
| If we didn't do the tariffs, they wouldn't be doing that. | ||
| So it takes a little while to get those facilities built, but they're coming in with big, big numbers. | ||
| They're all coming in with big numbers. | ||
| We have more money being spent at any time in the history of our country. | ||
| We're up to close to $8 trillion, I think I can say. | ||
| And really, it's going to be a lot higher than that. | ||
| Those are just the ones that we know about, $8 trillion. | ||
| I'm not going to say, but I don't think, I'm not sure if Biden did a trillion for four years, $1 trillion. | ||
| But we're at $8 trillion for two months, because let's give us a pass on the first month. | ||
| We were sort of getting a little bit used to things, right? | ||
| After two months, we have $8 trillion. | ||
| There's never been a number like that. | ||
| And that includes chip companies, car companies, every form of manufacturing, high-tech companies. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| So $8 trillion. | ||
| I can talk about gross domestic product, gross domestic investment. | ||
| I can talk about a lot of things. | ||
| But to me, the biggest number is the kind of numbers that are... | ||
| And these people are coming in. | ||
| Our Secretary of Commerce spent the weekend, he went down to Arizona to see what was happening with the chip, the biggest chip company in the world. | ||
| And he said, Howard, he said, you've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Would you just describe what you saw? | ||
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So they're investing $165 billion in 1,100 acres in Arizona. | |
| And they're building the highest tech chip manufacturing semiconductors and 4,000 employees. | ||
| You know, American trade craft, right? | ||
| Technicians doing every kind of work. | ||
| The classic foundation of America is building it. | ||
| They have 14,000 people. | ||
| They're expecting 40,000 people to build the rest of their plants and to employ 20,000 people for the rest of time. | ||
| This is all driven. | ||
| You never saw a site like that. | ||
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And this is all driven by your tariff policies. | |
| No chance this would be happening without you. | ||
| It's going to be about 40% of the chip market from that one section. | ||
| And this is the biggest chipmaker. | ||
| They have 99% of the market. | ||
| They come from Taiwan. | ||
| And unlike the CHIP Act, which was done by Biden, where they hand everybody billions of dollars, the thing they don't need is money. | ||
| They've got plenty of money. | ||
| What they need is an incentive to come in. | ||
| And the tariffs, they're building because of the tariffs. | ||
| And I'd like to say they're building because of November 5th, the election, and the tariffs. | ||
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I'm going to be a little more blunt. | |
| They're building because of the tariffs. | ||
| And November 5th gave them the tariffs. | ||
| So it's amazing when you look. | ||
| And these are not companies that go out and say, well, we're going to build. | ||
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We have to go get our financing. | |
| Let's go. | ||
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Like we would, in New York, everybody would look, you know, you'd get a building site and then you'd look around for money. | |
| You'd look around for financing for six months. | ||
| You'd get your financing. | ||
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You build your building. | |
| The market would be good. | ||
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You'd make money. | |
| The market would be bad. | ||
| It wouldn't be so pretty. | ||
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You'd have to negotiate. | |
| This is different. | ||
| These people have so much money. | ||
| They don't know what to do. | ||
| I asked Howard, did they finance it? | ||
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No, they do it through cash. | |
| And they say that site and they just started, you know, they just announced it like a month ago and they've already started. | ||
| He said, I've never seen a site like it so big. | ||
| So, you know, you're talking about essentially a $50 billion building. | ||
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Now, if you build a warehouse for $50 million, that's a big warehouse, Scott. | |
| But a $50 billion building, that's a lot. | ||
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They're building the electric. | |
| They've become a utility. | ||
| And I've given them the right to become. | ||
| They're going to build their own electric. | ||
| They're going to build their own electricity, which they need tremendous amounts of electricity. | ||
| They're going to build it themselves. | ||
| Anything they have left over, they'll hook that into the grid. | ||
| But the grid is old, and they're unreliable, and bad things can happen to grids. | ||
| I said, if you want, you can hook into the grid, but that's a little bit risky. | ||
| Or you can build your own electricity and become your own utility, and they, I think, in all cases are deciding to do that. | ||
| So it's very exciting, and we have a lot of things going. | ||
| We took over on January 20th. | ||
| These are quarterly reports. | ||
| We took over on January 20th. | ||
| The tariffs haven't kicked in yet. | ||
| I know that, and I don't want this to happen, but I know that China's doing very poorly right now. | ||
| I just saw some reports coming out, and I don't want that to happen to China. | ||
| I like the president a lot, President Xi. | ||
| I don't want it to happen. | ||
| I was actually saddened to hear it, but they are getting absolutely hammered in China. | ||
| And, you know, they're sending boats, the biggest boats in the world, carrying cargo like... | ||
| Nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| These are the biggest boats in the world, biggest cargo ships in the world. | ||
| And they're coming and they're turning around in the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| They're doing a big U-turn and going back because they don't want the goods because 145% tariff. | ||
| But at a certain point, I hope we're going to make a deal with China. | ||
| We're talking to China, but their factories are closing all over China because we're not taking their product. | ||
| We don't want their product. | ||
| Unless they're going to be fair with us. | ||
| And that includes intellectual property and other things. | ||
| There are a lot of things far beyond just buy-sell. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| But, you know, I was not because somebody said, well, were you happy? | ||
| I said, I am not happy. | ||
| I want China to do well. | ||
| I want every country to do well. | ||
| But they have to treat us fairly also. | ||
| So with that, I think we're going to maybe go around. | ||
| And we have some letters where the secretaries and people around the table are... | ||
| Making statements about how they're doing and what's happening. | ||
| And I could start with Pete on the left because he's my least controversial person. | ||
| I don't know how good he is. | ||
| So we'll go around the table and you can hear it. | ||
| These are cabinet meetings where they're very open and transparent. | ||
| And I can guarantee you Biden didn't do this. | ||
| He didn't do this. | ||
| Go ahead, Pete. | ||
| Well, Mr. President, I think we're controversial because we're over the target. | ||
| Like so many things, Mr. President, you inherited a demoralized military that couldn't recruit, that was perceived as weak after what happened in Afghanistan and elsewhere because of Joe Biden. | ||
| And what we have seen since your election and the inauguration has been nothing short of a recruiting renaissance. | ||
| It hasn't been decades since we've seen this kind of recruiting in the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force. | ||
| The men and women of America want to join. | ||
| The United States military led by President Donald Trump. | ||
| And the police, by the way. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And fire. | ||
| I always mention the fire, but the police and fire. | ||
| But the police and fire likewise are, I mean, they have waiting lists now. | ||
| And six months ago was a disaster. | ||
| Truly historic. | ||
| We can barely absorb the volume and retention as well. | ||
| Men and women in the military who don't want to get out now that they have a real commander in chief. | ||
| We're reinforcing standards. | ||
| We're going to be fit, not fat. | ||
| In our formations, we welcome back all the COVID, the folks who were forced out because of the COVID mandate, ripped wokeness out of the military, sir, DEI, trans, and it's Fort Benning and Fort Bragg again at the DOD. | ||
| We're rebuilding the military, sir. | ||
| The Golden Dome is well underway. | ||
| F-47, reassuring allies and deterring enemies. | ||
| We found nearly $6 billion in... | ||
| Doge savings that we're going to reinvest, including $50 billion from the Biden administration focused on things like climate that have nothing to do with lethality and warfighting. | ||
| And we will have, as you said, sir, the first trillion-dollar budget that we plan to spend wisely on behalf of our warfighters. | ||
| From day one, sir, we've gotten 100, helped get 100% operational control of the border, come alongside DHS and CBP. | ||
| We've got 11,000 troops on the border who now, because of the new national defense area, sir, can help detain illegals at the border and hand them over to CBP. | ||
| It used to be if you saw camouflage on the border, they could hold binoculars and that's it. | ||
| Now we can detain and assist and we are going to get 100 percent operational control of that border. | ||
| Our NATO allies know they have to step up. | ||
| The Houthis in the Middle East are feeling the weight of American power and we're deterring Communist China. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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So I have the pleasure of running the Investment Accelerator, which gets to recruit these companies. | |
| And you've never seen anything like the companies committed to building in America. | ||
| Technology companies have committed over $2.5 trillion to build in America based on your tariffs, right? | ||
| Sovereign countries all backing the whole Middle East and all these countries backing their sovereign wealth funds. | ||
| They all want to invest in America and they're coming in again. | ||
| Over $3 trillion committed. | ||
| So just those two topics, you're at $5.5 trillion. | ||
| And then you've got the whole pharma industry knows it's got to come home because America pays for all the drugs in the world. | ||
| So the pharmaceuticals have to come home, right? | ||
| Autos coming home, industrials coming home. | ||
| So, you know, we've got to train and your great secretary of labor together and secretary of education together. | ||
| We're going to train the workforce to build America. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| We've got so much as I travel around, the attention on the Trump gold card. | ||
| I mean, it makes me very popular. | ||
| Last night, I was out to dinner and someone came up and said, can I buy 10? | ||
| And how do I buy 10? | ||
| And I'm like, that's pretty good. | ||
| It's $50 million for dinner. | ||
| So, you know, I was paying for my dinner. | ||
| The external revenue service, right? | ||
| You've got the tariffs and the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars coming in to build the external revenue service. | ||
| Our objective, of course, is to replace the internal revenue service and let those outside countries trading with us, let them pay their fair share to America. | ||
| And then, of course, you got rid of De Minimis. | ||
| And what happened is these foreign countries were sending in little packages for free and knocking out our mom-and-pop businesses across America. | ||
| You put an end to it. | ||
| And you're going to rebuild the mom and pop and the small business of America. | ||
| You're their president, and I'm proud to support you. | ||
| It's very important, to minimum. | ||
| It's a big deal. | ||
| It's a big scam going on against our country, against really small businesses, and we've ended. | ||
| We put an end to it. | ||
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So, cafe standards, we have the fuel economy standards on vehicles that are going to go to 50 miles per gallon. | |
| We are going to rewrite those standards, bring it down to something that's far more reasonable. | ||
| Elon's fine with that, I hope. | ||
| But it's going to drive down the price of a car in America, making cars more affordable for families. | ||
| Biden had the social cost of credit when we build infrastructure roads and bridges, adding three to five percent on infrastructure costs. | ||
| We've gotten rid of the social cost of carbon driving down the cost to build roads and bridges across the country. | ||
| We have what is called follow the law. | ||
| So we have so many states and municipalities that don't follow the law. | ||
| So whether it's DEI, discriminating against Americans, whether they Give illegal drivers license or their sanctuary cities or states. | ||
| If you don't follow the law, if you're giving license to illegals, if you're having DEI policies, we're not going to fund your projects. | ||
| So you've got to certify in your state or in your city to get road and bridge money or rail money that you're actually following the law, which includes executive orders from you, Mr. President. | ||
| We're cutting back funding. | ||
| We send research money, Mr. President. | ||
| To universities to do research on more equitable and sustainable transportation systems. | ||
| Projects that'll use data and public opinion to inform policy and infrastructure and technology benefiting diverse communities, including women and gender non-conforming people. | ||
| Just stupid waste of money. | ||
| We're pulling that money back from universities. | ||
| We should do good research if we're doing research in universities. | ||
| And then one last thing. | ||
| Air traffic control. | ||
| We don't have enough air traffic controllers. | ||
| We're about 3,000 short. | ||
| We're working on an agreement with the union. | ||
| So when controllers become retirement eligible, we're going to cut a deal to try to get them to stay longer, stay in the tower. | ||
| And then we have a plan to put more butts in seats in Oklahoma City so we can get more students through the academy and into towers as well. | ||
| It's going to take us a while to do that. | ||
| I think we have to bring it up. | ||
| We have very obsolete equipment for air traffic controllers. | ||
| The towers have horrible equipment. | ||
| It's been renovated for years. | ||
| The money they spent over the last four years. | ||
| This booted edge did a horrible job. | ||
| They wasted billions and billions of dollars hooking up. | ||
| Wire equipment to non-wire equipment to satellite equipment. | ||
| A third grade student would know, does it work? | ||
| You can't work. | ||
| They wasted tens of billions of dollars. | ||
| But we want to put a brand new air traffic control system in, and you might want to discuss that. | ||
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You and I have talked about this. | |
| It's a state-of-the-art system, envy of the world. | ||
| Our system is safe, but you would have hoped someone would have seen that there's a problem with With fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters coming in at DCA. | ||
| Someone should have seen that before we lost almost 70 lives. | ||
| It's our job to look and see that we have an aging infrastructure around air traffic control. | ||
| And so if we don't build a brand new system, there's going to be failures and people will lose their lives. | ||
| And so we need to help Congress to help fund this. | ||
| It's going to be all brand new. | ||
| And after you build a brand new system, we have the bedrock and the foundation to actually build on top of it. | ||
| But no one has done this, Mr. President. | ||
| There's Band-Aid fixes that have happened over the course of 20 years. | ||
| You can't have a Band-Aid fix. | ||
| It doesn't get done. | ||
| It has to be brand new. | ||
| The technology, it looks like it's out of a 1980s movie. | ||
| Old computers, floppy disks. | ||
| We're using copper wires, not fiber. | ||
| So there are great solutions we have available. | ||
| By the way, everyone's sick of their delayed flights or their canceled flights. | ||
| We have more capacity in the airspace. | ||
| And if we rebuild, not rebuild, if we build this brand new system, what you'll have is more efficiency in the airspace and it will be safer. | ||
| So the economy will be stronger. | ||
| We can have more flights and less delays. | ||
| So I appreciate your support on that, Mr. President. | ||
| Rebuilding, that is very important. | ||
| You wouldn't have had the helicopter crashing into the plane at 400 feet up, when it's supposed to be 200 feet. | ||
| Bells and whistles would have been gone over, and you would have heard the screaming equipment saying, there's a problem coming up in 15 seconds. | ||
| You've got to do something about it right now. | ||
| And it would have also sent the word right into the helicopter, because I guess you'll be doing the full report on that. | ||
| It was pretty obvious what happened. | ||
| And there was supposed to be 200 feet. | ||
| There were 400 feet and a terrible thing. | ||
| And that wouldn't have happened if we had the right equipment. | ||
| If we had the right equipment, you would have heard bells and whistles going off and it would have alerted them long before that would have happened. | ||
| Two minutes before. | ||
| It would have had a lot of time. | ||
| So we have to do this. | ||
| We have no choice. | ||
| And we're going to do it. | ||
| We're going to be very proud of it. | ||
| They did old equipment and new equipment. | ||
| And you can't hook in old equipment to new equipment because it's different. | ||
| Some is satellite and some is ground. | ||
| The satellite doesn't work. | ||
| This man would know that better than anybody. | ||
| But you can't hook up a satellite system to a ground-wired system. | ||
| And if you do, you're wasting a lot of money. | ||
| They spent billions. | ||
| This is Buttigieg. | ||
| They spent billions and billions of dollars trying to patch a system together. | ||
| They had hundreds of different contractors. | ||
| And the contractors were all fighting with each other. | ||
| We're going to have one great, big contractor, like the great, big, beautiful Bill, which is going along very well. | ||
| I guess I like great, big, beautiful, but we're going to have one great, big, beautiful contractor, whether it's maybe Raytheon, maybe IBM, maybe it could be any one of four or five different groups, but you put one in charge. | ||
| They're very big, very powerful monetarily, and they give you a guarantee, and they hook up everything. | ||
| They do every single thing. | ||
| So they're responsible for the digging of the ditches and the fiber and every single element. | ||
| And it's one system that's hooked in. | ||
| It's not all these hodgepodge systems that don't work together. | ||
| And it's just a shame. | ||
| I mean, it's basic construction. | ||
| But it's complex stuff. | ||
| And there are a few companies that do it unbelievably well. | ||
| And we're going to have that. | ||
| So good job, Sean. | ||
| I know that you're... | ||
| That's your big project. | ||
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Mr. President, no one has done it. | |
| It is complex. | ||
| It's hard to do because as you're building a brand new system, you have planes taking off and landing. | ||
| And so because it's complex, no one has done it. | ||
| And you've given the directive and the support to make this happen. | ||
| Well, ours is going to be an all new system. | ||
| It's going to all hook up. | ||
| It's going to be the same. | ||
| The same tower is going to have the same equipment and all towers all over the country, all over the world, actually, mostly are going to be hooked in together. | ||
| And when there's a problem, when planes are too close, you will hear a sound that's very ear-shattering. | ||
| I've heard it. | ||
| And it's amazing. | ||
| I mean, honestly, it's amazing. | ||
| It's real genius stuff. | ||
| And we didn't do that. | ||
| What we did was just waste money. | ||
| You could have just thrown it right out the window. | ||
| What they did in this last four years was disgraceful. | ||
| Whether it was the border or this, you name a hundred different things. | ||
| The worst administration ever. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Mr. President, thank you. | |
| And I think one of the things I want people to understand about the VA is we're part of the national security interest you have. | ||
| And you've laid the groundwork for that leadership and making sure that with the Secretary of Defense and myself, we take care of veterans on two ends. | ||
| One when they come in and one when they serve, they've earned the benefits that we have. | ||
| And one of the things is that we're not doing our job on our end. | ||
| Recruitment and all goes down on the other end because we have a full spectrum. | ||
| That's what leadership is about. | ||
| What we found, speaking in the last four years, is we found an administration that wanted to throw money and people at problems, but they didn't want to put leadership in. | ||
| They just put money and people at it, and we saw wait times stay the same. | ||
| We saw issues of suicide rates, death by suicide not change. | ||
| We saw homelessness issue barely go down. | ||
| We saw disability claims skyrocket when you took place over 250,000. | ||
| We're already bringing down almost 40,000 so far just in the last couple of months. | ||
| We've also put back what you and I was in Congress when this happened. | ||
| I was glad to see it. | ||
| The Mission Act is back front and center at the VA. | ||
| We're actually doing community care. | ||
| We're actually giving the veteran the choice that they've earned and they deserve whether they can get their VA care inside our facilities or in the community. | ||
| It's their choice. | ||
| It's VA care. | ||
| We're going to give them the highest quality care wherever they want to go. | ||
| Also, we're expanding out options for treatments and others for those that are new. | ||
| We're experimenting and looking at new counseling ideas on new drug techniques that we can help with PTSD, TBI, the things that are affecting our veterans right now. | ||
| But also, we've taken the... | ||
| Leadership to take people and bring them back into work, where they're actually communicating. | ||
| They're back in our offices. | ||
| We put thousands of people back in. | ||
| We're processing more claims daily than we were in the last little bit. | ||
| Hit a million before it has ever happened, and we're actually bringing it down. | ||
| I've actually taken our Deputy Secretary, and he is actually handing a strike for us now to bring down that disability claim, plus our regular work we're having done. | ||
| We've also taken almost $300-plus million and taken it out of contracts that we've all heard about so far. | ||
| We were doing contracts for meeting notes and PowerPoints. | ||
| And if our folks didn't know how to do meeting notes and PowerPoints, go online and learn yourself. | ||
| We're not going to pay for it anymore. | ||
| And we took $360 million to put it back into community care and also our health records management system that we have. | ||
| We've opened six new facilities just in the last little bit for all the media who wants to talk about how we're hurting health care. | ||
| We just opened six new facilities. | ||
| By the way, thank you. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| As we go from that, we continue. | ||
| We've also took $11.6 billion in ceiling values of contracts and terminated that we did not need, resulting in significant cost avoidance for the future, but also still maintaining the ability to take care of our patients and also our disability benefits. | ||
| We've also gotten unity again. | ||
| We did away with $14 million in DEI spending. | ||
| We've ended gender dysphoria treatments. | ||
| We phased that out. | ||
| All directed. | ||
| The savings from that go to paralyzed veterans and amputees. | ||
| We've also continued to work toward anti-Semitism and also anti-Christian bias that we saw. | ||
| The biggest thing, though, Mr. President, I want to state, is you told me when you said for me to take this job, you said take care of my veterans. | ||
| Well, we've done something in taking that step forward. | ||
| The veteran is back first at the VA. | ||
| The VA is not about the self anymore. | ||
| We're not a self-feeding animal. | ||
| It's about a service organization that takes care of one of the best we have, and that's our veterans. | ||
| And that was, Mr. President, we're just getting started. | ||
| Okay, Doug, how are you dealing with the suicide rates? | ||
| It's tough, Mr. President. | ||
| That's something that we're looking at. | ||
| This is something that we've had. | ||
| $588 million has been spent over the last four or five years to prevention, and yet the numbers stayed at 17 or 21, wherever you want to have it. | ||
| We're now opening that back up, taking in non-profits. | ||
| We're bringing in others who have things that are actually looking at. | ||
| Secretary Kennedy and others on the idea that we're opening up the possibility of psychedelic treatment and others to give us an opportunity. | ||
| We've got to research it, make sure it's good, but it's opening up that possibility. | ||
| And I think, again, veterans are understanding now that we're putting them first. | ||
| When I go to these hospitals, they're actually coming up saying thanks. | ||
| We're back where we need to be, and we're seeing a workforce development. | ||
| So suicide is going to come out. | ||
| It's also going to take some transition stuff that your Secretary of Defense has been very helpful on. | ||
| We've got to transfer them out of the military so they come to us better, but we're working on that. | ||
| Mr. President, it may come as a surprise, but this has been the busiest 100 years in history. | ||
| You know, this is the biggest deal ever done. | ||
| If you sold IBM, Exxon, Mobil, and five other companies together, it's peanuts compared to what we're doing. | ||
| This is the biggest deal ever done financially in the history of the world. | ||
| And we're doing, I think we're doing great. | ||
| You're going to see some big, big results. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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And I'll just say something that Secretary Duffy said in his context, because it's complex, no one has done it. | |
| So this is something, a reordering global trade that hasn't happened since the end of World War II. | ||
| And it's long overdue because we've seen manufacturing offshore under the old global trading system. | ||
| With the net result of the global trading system, that all the manufacturing goes to Asia and other places. | ||
| That's a system you have to replace. | ||
| That's what you're doing. | ||
| They said you wouldn't be able to do global tariffs. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| They said everyone would retaliate. | ||
| No one retaliated outside of China. | ||
| They said no one would come to negotiate. | ||
| We're talking to dozens of countries. | ||
| They said no one would have offers. | ||
| We have dozens of written offers. | ||
| We have lots of countries in this week. | ||
| This is like a break for me to come. | ||
| You have the list of these government with all the countries that want to negotiate. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Don't zoom in on this. | ||
| Yeah, this is just a, this is like a tracker, right? | ||
| We have all these columns of which countries have come in, when we started negotiations, who gave us an offer, are we in technical talks, and when do we expect to have deals done? | ||
| Those are some weeks out, but we're working very quickly on this. | ||
| Thank you, James. | ||
| You can have a lot of fun for the next week. | ||
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It will be fun. | |
| Mr. President, the last four years, the world experienced a total lack of zero leadership under... | ||
| Under Biden, and then we've had 100 days of your leadership with respect, with strength, starting with they'll be all hell to pay if you don't let our people go. | ||
| Dozens, over 40 Americans have come home under your leadership. | ||
| Far more terrorists are no longer threatening the homeland under your leadership, pulling all of these agencies together, including The person, the evil individual responsible for the Abbey Gate bombing and to sit with the 13 Gold Star families and you showing that follow-up and that justice has been incredible. | ||
| But pulling this great team together, Mr. President, everything from revitalizing shipyards to cyber to space that takes this entire team working together, it's an honor. | ||
| To serve you in this administration. | ||
| And I think the world is far better, far safer for any men. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| The abrogate is really important. | ||
| This was a horrible thing. | ||
| Destroyed the image, frankly, of the Biden administration. | ||
| What happened there was a disgrace. | ||
| It should have never happened. | ||
| And Pam is working very much on prosecuting that person. | ||
| We have the person. | ||
| And he'll do well. | ||
| I have no doubt about it. | ||
| Thank you very much, Michael. | ||
| So the CIA, I don't know, Radcliffe, I don't know if he's going to say anything. | ||
| He's probably the one person here that's not allowed to talk about the great job he's done, but go ahead. | ||
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Mr. President, as you know, at your direction, the CIA has deployed our unique covert action authorities in various places and continents to successfully advance your national security and foreign policy priorities, to advance peace, to end wars, to take terrorists off the battlefield, and to keep illicit drugs from coming into this country and harming Americans. | |
| Unfortunately, as much as I would love to detail your accomplishments in that regard, we can't do so in terms of this crowd. | ||
| But you and I both know, Mr. President, that you have had a profound, positive impact on America's national security posture. | ||
| What I can talk about publicly is, as has been mentioned, the CIA provided the intelligence that led to the apprehension of the Abbey Gate bomber, who is now being prosecuted by our great Attorney General and providing a measure of justice to those 13 families that suffered as a result of that disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal during the last administration. | ||
| In addition, in your direction, Mr. President, the CIA has Negotiated and secured the release of Americans like Mark Fogle and Kassinia Carolina, who have been wrongfully detained, sending the message that you will forget about no Americans that are being held in other places unfairly and unjustly. | ||
| And finally, Mr. President, the CIA is being restructured at your direction to focus on our core mission and to eliminate the well-documented politicization that has taken place in the intelligence community. | ||
| From bad actors in the past to focus on our core mission and to make America safe again. | ||
| Thank you for the opportunity, Mr. President. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| You're doing a great job. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Russell? | ||
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We're obviously involved in a number of budget bills that are moving, trying to make sure all of your priorities are reflected in the reconciliation, working on our upcoming budget. | |
| Wonderful job by the entire cabinet on that front. | ||
| Detail soon on that front. | ||
| Sending in precision bills to Congress for things that Elon has found. | ||
| But the regulatory aspect is something we don't talk about enough. | ||
| And right now, you've given us a goal of 10 for 1. We are working right now with all of the agencies to rack up how big of a deregulatory agenda that we can have. | ||
| When you came into office, you basically stopped $200 billion in costs to American families just by stopping the Biden regulatory agenda. | ||
| That's about $2,000 per family. | ||
| We think when we're going to hit these 10-for-1 goals that we could be in the neighborhood of about $900 billion in savings to American families that would be substantially bigger than that $2,000 number. | ||
| And the point that I would make in addition to just... | ||
| You know, savings cheaper to the American people. | ||
| There's an aspect of wisdom when you're enforcing these rules that comes into play. | ||
| And I'm your regulator for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. | ||
| And we found this small mortgage lender in Chicago. | ||
| His name is Barry Sterner. | ||
| He had a firm called Townstone. | ||
| And CFPB had gone after him because he complained about crime in Chicago. | ||
| Literally the same thing that the Democrat mayor had talked about. | ||
| And they came after him for seven years on a redlining, disparate impact claim and ruined his life. | ||
| We overturned that. | ||
| We apologized on mere behalf to that individual. | ||
| And we basically, without having to go through notice and comment, we ended. | ||
| The policy that set that in motion. | ||
| And so that's happening across these agencies with how they are using their enforcement discretion. | ||
| And it will only continue based on the stone wall of backing that you've given us to make these hard calls. | ||
| I don't think they're actually that hard, but no one's done it to this point. | ||
| And we were able to go forward and do that because of the backing that you've given us. | ||
| So maybe the biggest thing we're working on, maybe bigger than tariffs in a certain sense, is the, we call it the one big beautiful bill. | ||
| And that's wielding its way right now through the Senate. | ||
| And John Thune has been actually amazing. | ||
| And the Speaker has been so great in Congress. | ||
| Mike Johnson has been really two guys. | ||
| They get along great and it's just been a beautiful unified attack. | ||
| Really, because we have to attack because the Democrats are trying to stop it at every turn. | ||
| It would mean a 58% tax hike if they were successful and lots of other bad things beyond the tax hike. | ||
| But with us, it'll be the biggest tax cut in American history. | ||
| How are we doing with the bill? | ||
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We're doing great. | |
| We're day in, day out, hour by hour negotiations to make sure your stuff is in there. | ||
| And to make sure we have the border resources, the defense resources, and to save the people some tax money and make sure all those tax cuts that you ran on are in there that help get people back into the workforce. | ||
| And I think we're making a ton of progress. | ||
| I think we're doing well. | ||
| Like I said, the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. | ||
| And it would be the biggest tax increase if the Democrats are successful. | ||
| They're the only people I've ever seen running for office where they want to increase taxes. | ||
| But this would be a 58%, maybe a 60% tax increase. | ||
| Unsustainable for the American people. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Great, Janet. | ||
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Susie, the most powerful woman in the world. | |
| I agree with that. | ||
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I'll be brief so you can hear from these amazing people. | |
| Congratulations to everyone on 100 days. | ||
| It's unparalleled. | ||
| In my memory and best I can tell ever. | ||
| But it hasn't been busy for busy's sake. | ||
| The president's promises made to the American people have been kept time and time and time again. | ||
| You all have been out there spreading the word with community groups and states and media. | ||
| It hasn't gone unnoticed. | ||
| Let's work hard to the next 100 and have equally as much success then. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, John. | ||
| Great job, Susan. | ||
| I think everybody agrees, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Do we have anybody that disagrees, please? | ||
| In front of the media. | ||
| Please raise your hand if you have the courage to do something. | ||
| Anyway, go ahead. | ||
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Yes, sir, Mr. President. | |
| Thank you. | ||
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And you made it very clear that you wanted to put America first. | |
| And also from day one, you wanted to make housing affordable again, because we do have a housing affordability crisis in our country. | ||
| And so at HUD, we've been cutting all the red tape and bureaucracy as it pertains to housing affordability. | ||
| Unleasing creativity of our builders and developers around our country and restoring local control. | ||
| We took down the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule, as you know, which was a zoning tax from Washington. | ||
| So no longer will Washington be picking winners and losers, but localities and elected officials in different states and cities will have that flexibility. | ||
| Also, you alluded to securing the border and such a great job has been done with all of our partners at the table. | ||
| And at HUD, we want to make sure that the resources that we have now, which is American taxpayer dollars and the Biden administration, they prioritize illegal aliens over the American people. | ||
| And so we signed an MOU with Secretary Noem at DHS to make sure that HUD-funded housing only goes to American citizens and no longer will it go to illegal aliens coming across our border. | ||
| We have about 9 million People living in subsidized housing in our country. | ||
| 59% of illegal alien families use some sort of welfare program costing us $42 billion a year. | ||
| And so we have prioritized American and American people only to live in HUD-funded housing. | ||
| And also to make housing affordable, we also signed a partnership with Secretary Burgum at DOI to use underutilized federal lands as you campaigned on and promised. | ||
| To identify those lands, to build affordable housing in our country so that people can realize the American dream. | ||
| We also restored biological truth, as you did in sports. | ||
| We have the Equal Access Rule at HUD, which we took that rule down to ensure that at women shelters, that those that enter those shelters would be of the same sex and that we would protect the ladies. | ||
| of our country. | ||
| No longer will those that identify as women but are not women be able to enter our shelter so that we can protect the ladies that we serve. | ||
| Along with our Doge Task Force, we identified over $2 billion in savings. | ||
| At HUD, $260 million at HUD was just in contracts, $4 million with DEI. | ||
| And so we took those contracts down and de-obligated. | ||
| And sent back $1.9 billion back to the Treasury for the American people. | ||
| Again, we want to be good stewards over the American taxpayer dollars. | ||
| And so, Mr. President, thank you for your leadership in this. | ||
| And we have a tremendous team at HUD. | ||
| And I'm so grateful to be part of this team around this table to take care of the American people. | ||
| And I consider it a great honor and humble to do so. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
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Appreciate it. | |
| Well, I'm not sure if anyone's heard, but the price of eggs is down. | ||
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I know it's news. | |
| I know it's news. | ||
| I think that it's just such a joy and an honor to continue to do this work. | ||
| So thank you for that. | ||
| We have been obviously very focused on the cost of groceries, specifically eggs led the way, as you have so eloquently discussed over the last few months. | ||
| And we're holding tight on a very significant decrease, which is great, and investing where we need to there. | ||
| As I mentioned before, the press came in. | ||
| We have had a massive issue with Mexico on water, getting water to our farmers along the border. | ||
| For decades. | ||
| When I worked in Texas 25 years ago, we were fighting with the Mexican government over the water then. | ||
| You got involved about two weeks ago. | ||
| That evening, I started conversations, and as of just a few days ago, thanks to Secretary Rubio's great deputy secretary and I, have been negotiating, and we hit the best deal. | ||
| I believe in history on behalf of our farmers and thanks to your leadership and your strength on that. | ||
| And that's a really big deal long term for those farmers in the southern part of the country. | ||
| On the energy side, I know we've got Secretary Burgum and his partner Secretary Wright, but we often forget that agriculture has a major piece of the energy dominance agenda, not just timber, not just minerals, but biofuels. | ||
| So we continue to support that great leadership coming from those agencies. | ||
| And doing hopefully our part as well. | ||
| And they've been incredible in that. | ||
| Our farmers have been hurting under the Joe Biden administration. | ||
| There was a 30% increase in the cost of input. | ||
| So the cost of doing business for these farmers over those four years. | ||
| When we left the White House the first time four years ago, we had a zero dollar trade deficit with our agriculture products. | ||
| After four years of Biden, that hit 50 billion because they just didn't make an effort. | ||
| And so obviously that's 50 billion less dollars. | ||
| At a time of very thin profitability for our agriculture community. | ||
| So the Congress passed a, because the last administration didn't get a farm bill done either, the farmers were hurting there. | ||
| So Congress stepped in. | ||
| I say all that and basically said $10 billion to move out. | ||
| USDA, fastest in history, that money went out to those farmers that couldn't plant their crops. | ||
| And so I'm really proud of that. | ||
| And you'll hear a lot of that from the farmers today, that this USDA is moving more quickly than any ever before. | ||
| And we're not organizing money based on the color of skin and other ways, which was how the last administration was moving out. | ||
| We've canceled $6 billion in contracts thanks to our great friend Elon Musk and his DOGE team. | ||
| A lot of those were DEI, gender, studying transgender mice. | ||
| You know, who knew? | ||
| The racism in pest management. | ||
| We've canceled all of it. | ||
| We're going through a major, major restructuring. | ||
| USDA is one of the biggest agencies. | ||
| It's sort of a catch-all. | ||
| And we're really, really downsizing and aligning around putting farmers first, which is really, really important. | ||
| A big part of USDA is food stamps. | ||
| Perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest welfare program. | ||
| And it's a supplemental nutrition program. | ||
| Secretary Kennedy and I have been working very closely. | ||
| We were in Texas yesterday talking about nutrition and agriculture. | ||
| You can't make America healthy again without your farmers and your ranchers as your partner. | ||
| So ensuring that our food stamp program and those at the bottom end of the socioeconomic ladder really have access to nutritious foods as we're facing an obesity. | ||
| A crisis and a chronic disease crisis, which I'm sure Secretary Kennedy will touch on. | ||
| And the final thing I'll say is this morning, Secretary Noem and I, together, and I brought a picture because I think this is important, and it goes to why we're here. | ||
| This is a South Dakota ranching family named the Mauds. | ||
| They are a fifth-generation ranching family. | ||
| Charles Maud, in his 30s, bought... | ||
| The ranch from his granddad, I'm going to show the press, when he was 17 years old. | ||
| Those beautiful children, Kyle, Lyle and Kennedy, his wife Heather, under the Biden administration, they had of their several hundred acre operation, they used about 20 acres and had a fence that had been there since 1910 when their family took over the ranching operation. | ||
| There had never been really any problem that had been brought to their attention. | ||
| Perhaps there was a minor dispute over, again, 20 acres. | ||
| This family was indicted, prosecuted, threatened with jail time, told to find guardians for their children over a fence line dispute. | ||
| That the Biden DOJ pushed forward. | ||
| So this morning and the steps of the U.S. Department of Agriculture with Secretary Noem, who was their governor as the governor of South Dakota, which is where these great people are from, all charges, criminal charges were dropped and really appreciate the Department of Justice. | ||
| It was a really big day as we sent the signal that the over criminalization and using government. | ||
| And you know this better than anyone, because you were in the crosshairs for so long, that those days are over, and the regulation through prosecution is no more. | ||
| And so this family is one of many that we'll now be talking to to ensure that never happens again. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Sir, it's been a momentous hundred days with you. | ||
| At the helm. | ||
| And I view this 100 days as setting the table for peace deals, trade deals, tax deals. | ||
| So the next 100 days will be harvesting. | ||
| You've created negotiating leverage and leadership. | ||
| They're going to yield remarkable results. | ||
| Energy costs have plummeted. | ||
| Mortgage rates are down. | ||
| Food costs are moving lower. | ||
| And American families are finding their financial footing again. | ||
| I had a group in today. | ||
| We, America, under your leadership, is on the verge of becoming an AI superpower, that our economy had become barbelled. | ||
| We had high tech and finance on one side, natural resources led by energy, which the previous administration tried to kill on the other. | ||
| And you're filling in between with precision manufacturing that we're going to be bringing back through good trade policies, good tax policies. | ||
| Under the Doge at Treasury and the IRS, cost, tech support and efficiency have increased. | ||
| We have the IRS, revenues are up. | ||
| And thanks to the young man sent over by Doge, the IT update that began in 1990, which was begun before he was born, is going to be finished during your term. | ||
| You couldn't make it up. | ||
| Trade, taxes, and deregulation. | ||
| The one big beautiful bill under your leadership. | ||
| Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune have done a great job, but they have you as the closer on many of their members. | ||
| And I'll just close by saying economic security is national security. | ||
| National security is economic security, and it's never been better. | ||
| Rebuilding it. | ||
| And as I said last week at the IMF and World Bank conferences, America first does not mean America alone. | ||
| Under President Trump, it means leadership. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Are you busy enough? | ||
| He's doing a great job. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Mr. President, thank you. | ||
| And thanks to the cabinet. | ||
| So, at the risk of insulting everybody else at the table, I believe that I'm the youngest member sitting at the table. | ||
| And, you know, it occurred to me that from the time that I was born to the time that Donald J. Trump was inaugurated just a few months ago, we went from, again, 40 years, we went from the world's manufacturing superpower to one in which we depend. | ||
| On the People's Republic of China to make the things that we need. | ||
| We went from the proudest military in the world to one in which we failed to meet our recruiting goals. | ||
| And we went from one in which bipartisan border policy was the consensus of both Democrats and Republicans to one in which we allowed 20 million people to run roughshod illegally over the countryside, causing crime, causing a stress in the welfare system. | ||
| And again, that happened over the lifetime. | ||
| of the youngest member of the cabinet. | ||
| And what has happened in 100 days is that we've started to reverse every single one of those negative trends. | ||
| And I think what it shows to me is that the president, and you sit in the Oval Office and you see these portraits of presidents past. | ||
| And let's be honest, most of them have been placeholders. | ||
| They've been people who have allowed their staff to sign executive orders with an auto pen instead of men of action. | ||
| And the reason The media attacks this administration as chaotic is because the president is solving the problems the American people set about to solve. | ||
| He's actually doing the things that he promised that he would do. | ||
| And Mr. President, it's been an honor to be part of it for the past 100 days. | ||
| And let me just make one other observation because it's interesting. | ||
| I've seen the data. | ||
| I've monitored it. | ||
| I've looked at it. | ||
| But the most underreported fact of the first 100 days is that we came in with a massive recruitment shortfall. | ||
| And in 100 days with Secretary Hegseth and President Trump's leadership, we now have people breaking down the doors to join our military. | ||
| To the media assembled here, it's a really interesting question. | ||
| Why has that happened? | ||
| Completely aside from the fact that I think it's a good thing or I think that President Trump deserves political credit for it, why did we go from a military where people didn't want to serve to now all of a sudden they do want to serve? | ||
| That's a story you guys should cover. | ||
| But compared to that, how much time have you instead focused on the fact that we deported an MS-13 gang member with a valid deportation order? | ||
| And why is it that the press is so focused on the fake BS? | ||
| Rather than what's really going on in the country, I think that what we've shown, sir, is that you can do a lot. | ||
| You can do a lot in 100 days, but you've also unfortunately revealed that too much of the American media hasn't learned the lessons of the past 40 years. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| President, your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country, ever. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| Never seen anything like it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Your directive to me was very simple. | ||
| Make America safe. | ||
| And despite that, we've still been defending over 200 civil lawsuits filed against you. | ||
| On top of everything else, I think I'm representing every one of you in this room in some capacity. | ||
| I know you will not be arrested by the U.S. Marshals. | ||
| Over 200 lawsuits, over 50 injunctions, and now we've got multiple cases in front of the Supreme Court, and we will succeed, and we are doing great in front of the Supreme Court president, and we'll continue on with that. | ||
| I was at DEA yesterday, and they said to me, You, Donald Trump, have taken the handcuffs off of DEA agents. | ||
| And as a result of since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl since you've been in your last 100 days, which saved, are you ready for this media, 258 million lives. | ||
| Kids are dying every day because they're taking this junk laced with something else. | ||
| They don't know what they're taking. | ||
| They think they're buying a Tylenol or an Adderall and a Xanax. | ||
| And it's laced with fentanyl and they're dropping dead and no longer because of you, what you've done. | ||
| ATF, since you've been in office, President, along with DOJ agencies, sees... | ||
| 14,500 guns off the streets. | ||
| Why aren't people reporting that? | ||
| 651,000 rounds of ammo. | ||
| That's up 151% from 2024. | ||
| That's keeping America safe. | ||
| We've rescinded... | ||
| Death penalty. | ||
| We are now seeking the death penalty on cases. | ||
| I'm signing death warrants. | ||
| We are going after terrorism. | ||
| We are going after arsonists. | ||
| Whether you're burning Teslas, we've arrested nine people so far in seven jurisdictions, no negotiations, 20 years in prison, or you're burning down the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania. | ||
| We will be there to protect you. | ||
| And I've been talking to Governor Shapiro, and he greatly appreciated you reaching out as well. | ||
| ISIS terrorists. | ||
| We got one in New York. | ||
| Right around the corner, we got an ISIS terrorist in New York. | ||
| We have an October 7th task force. | ||
| We just broke up a huge human trafficking ring by the Sinaloa cartel. | ||
| A thousand pounds of meth. | ||
| Meth. | ||
| Methamphetamine on our streets. | ||
| Ton of fentanyl. | ||
| 20,000 molly pills. | ||
| Those are the drug of choice at clubs and bars for young kids. | ||
| They were fake, but you know what they had in them? | ||
| Fentanyl. | ||
| That's 20,000 lives saved because of you right there. | ||
| We brought back 29 cartel members from Mexico at your direction. | ||
| And one killed the Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent in 1985. | ||
| And many of us got to talk to his widow and his son, who is now a judge. | ||
| And they started crying. | ||
| They have tried to get that guy back. | ||
| Forever. | ||
| And thanks to so many of you in this room working together. | ||
| They have justice. | ||
| They were crying on the phone because of what you did, President Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're going after anti-Semitism. | ||
| We're unleashing everything you told us. | ||
| No more DEI. | ||
| No more weaponization. | ||
| We have rescinded, as I said, 200 policies. | ||
| And I could go on all day long, but we are doing everything in our power to keep America safe at your direction. | ||
| Thank you, President. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Okay, let's go. | ||
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Nice to see you, Mr. President. | |
| Well, first of all, I think what you've heard amongst this team is... | ||
| The leadership, because it's given us the latitude really to collaborate amongst each other. | ||
| Not only in this room, as Jameson mentioned, we kind of get a break for a couple of hours here, but we stay in contact actually every other day that we're working for you. | ||
| And I think what that says is I was speaking to, for instance, the Farm Bureau of Texas yesterday. | ||
| I'm not the Ag Secretary, but it matters to the workforce. | ||
| I'm working with the other secretaries, Lutnik and McMahon, on education and the workforce investments that you've asked me to do. | ||
| As you've come in and negotiated these great repatriation of these companies and the investments, we're going to need that workforce to build back this economy. | ||
| And I couldn't see that more as I've kicked off my 50-state tour. | ||
| We've been in five states so far. | ||
| We'll finish all 50 states by the end of the year. | ||
| And what we're talking to is the American workforce and these companies about what the market demand is. | ||
| That's the difference that we finally have made that connection. | ||
| What do they need? | ||
| How quick do they need it? | ||
| And how fast can I get these either apprenticeships toward that million that we've put that lofty goal? | ||
| We've already added 80,000 new apprenticeships already just since January. | ||
| So at the Department of Labor. | ||
| That tour has kicked off, and I couldn't be more honored to be on the ground and see my colleagues that were passing in the skies, but we're on the ground together because we're all collaborating together. | ||
| One of the things that we're talking about, illegal immigration, I have put states on notice. | ||
| I warned all 50 governors that if they continue to reward illegal immigration by treating unemployment benefits as a handout, they're going to lose their federal funding as well. | ||
| We can no longer continue to give unemployment insurance. | ||
| To illegal immigrants. | ||
| And so I've let those governors and I sent out that letter last week. | ||
| We also eliminated discriminatory DEI offices within the department, specifically the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. | ||
| Most of our federal contracts were really just a focus on DEI enforcement. | ||
| We were really punishing a lot of these companies. | ||
| If they weren't complying, they weren't going to have a federal contract. | ||
| We've let go of that program completely. | ||
| $4.4 billion in unspent COVID funds came back to the Treasury from the CARES Act. | ||
| Billions were collecting dust in these coffers, in the state coffers. | ||
| We've asked for that money back to return to the Department of Treasury. | ||
| We saved $250 million by canceling America last, is what I call it, foreign handouts, including funding for things like transparency and accountability for Uzbekistan cotton industry. | ||
| It doesn't make sense that we're funding. | ||
| You know, these foreign, and thank you to Doge and to the government efficiency, what we have found with the fraud that we're seeing. | ||
| I mean, some of these things are so ridiculous, you can't believe it. | ||
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No, I write them down and I read them more than once. | |
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And so, again, with the executive order preparing Americans for high-paying skilled trade jobs of the future, that's our goal. | ||
| The trades is where we're being focused. | ||
| But all companies, we want to make sure we're on hand for that. | ||
| And, you know, what I want to say is thank you. | ||
| To government efficiency, because you asked us, when this transitions out, will our departments and our agencies continue that government efficiency? | ||
| And I think that we've surpassed that in the Department of Labor. | ||
| Out of our 14,000 federal employees, 3,000 have taken the DRP, and we offered it again. | ||
| So over 21% have taken that offer, and we'll keep our critical workforce, MSHA, OSHA, and wage an hour, and make sure our workers stay safe. | ||
| So with your leadership, Mr. President, I couldn't be more honored to serve. | ||
| I know we were probably... | ||
| We're the last to know each other, but we're getting to know each other well. | ||
| And the team that you have assembled is really an honor to serve with. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're doing great. | ||
| Thank you very much, y 'all. | ||
| Chris, please. | ||
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Mr. President, you ran on Unleashing American Energy, and 100 days have shown the tremendous impacts that can arise from the unleashing you have enabled. | |
| I'll just hit a few highlights. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Oil, gasoline, and diesel prices are the lowest they've been in years. | ||
| How does that happen in 100 days? | ||
| That's a messaging. | ||
| Your message that we're pro-energy. | ||
| We're not against energy. | ||
| We're for it. | ||
| That sends a message to the marketplace that supply is easier to grow now and supply will be coming. | ||
| And that's already led to tremendous savings for American consumers across the country. | ||
| And we need not only more affordable energy. | ||
| But we need a lot more energy. | ||
| One highlight that a couple of us have touched on is AI. | ||
| This is a new, emerging, critical industry that's very energy intensive. | ||
| It is not acceptable for the United States to not be the leader in AI. | ||
| We must win the AI race and lead in that, and that's going to take a lot more energy. | ||
| If you had not won election, we would not have won the AI race. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| Energy would not have been there to enable us to win. | ||
| Reshoring of manufacturing. | ||
| These trillions of dollars you let off with that's going to come back to our country to make chips, to make steel, to make automobiles, to make artificial intelligence, to make all of these industries we've outsourced, that's only going to be possible with way more American energy. | ||
| But we have that energy. | ||
| We have those resources. | ||
| We have those businesses. | ||
| We have those capitalists. | ||
| We just need to stop standing in the way of them and follow the lead you've set. | ||
| Which is to enable them, not to subsidize them, not to help them, to enable them to invest American money and create American jobs here. | ||
| Regarding our balance of trade, the second largest export of the United States is liquefied natural gas. | ||
| Second fastest. | ||
| In the next few years, it'll be our largest export in our country. | ||
| But yet, 18 months ago, the Biden administration had said, we're going to stop issuing permits for new LNG export terminals. | ||
| That's just nuts. | ||
| That's a great competitive advantage. | ||
| We have huge balance of trade driver, a huge industry just coiled and ready to go. | ||
| I just came back from Poland last night. | ||
| They are thrilled that America's back in business again and that the rest of Europe can get off of Russian energy and can enable their own economic growth with secure, reliable, affordable energy from the United States. | ||
| Also, witness the signing ceremony. | ||
| For a deal between two large American businesses to build a huge nuclear power plant in Northeastern Poland. | ||
| The first of this design built in Europe. | ||
| It'll be the first of many. | ||
| I spoke with many other nations over there. | ||
| They want to buy more American gas. | ||
| They want to get American technology. | ||
| They want to have a partnership with us. | ||
| And they shared... | ||
| The message I delivered to Europe in my keynote remarks is that unleashing energy is the way you make your society safer, more prosperous, more free, and that these sort of over-the-top climate alarmism doesn't do anything to help the environment of our world, but it does impoverish people, it does reduce the security of your nation, and it makes you weaker. | ||
| I think that's a constant message many of us around this table have brought to Europe. | ||
| We want our friends in Europe standing up again and leaning in. | ||
| A lot great is happening under your leadership. | ||
| We're unleashing consumer products that Americans wanted to buy that Biden was making illegal. | ||
| I'll be in Georgia on Friday at Renai's manufacturing plant. | ||
| Tankless natural gas water heaters. | ||
| Incredibly popular product. | ||
| They almost became illegal. | ||
| The return of common sense is incredibly welcome across this country, across the world. | ||
| And back to Elon, that extra thing, we're going to deliver all of this. | ||
| With less people, less money, less burden on the U.S. taxpayers. | ||
| Not smaller departments and smaller services. | ||
| Better, more thoughtful services done more efficiently and smarter. | ||
| The way you'd have to run a business. | ||
| We've got to get our fiscal house in order and you and the people around this table are making it happen. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| I'm honored to be here. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Please. | ||
| Yes, Mr. President. | ||
| You are 100% correct. | ||
| The border is 99.99% safe, under control. | ||
| You have completely reversed the entire situation. | ||
| In fact, the day before yesterday, I was down in El Paso, and those Border Patrol agents are so impacted by how you have changed things in a year. | ||
| They have put up huge pictures that say... | ||
| Under the Biden administration, the mobs of people that were pushing through razor wire and trampling children and the chaos and the violence that was happening at that same location, they have a picture there that says this is what the Biden administration looks like and this is what the Trump administration looks like. | ||
| It's peaceful. | ||
| People who do business between Mexico and America are coming through. | ||
| They're doing it legally. | ||
| They're following the law and it's all because of... | ||
| What you've done and what you've empowered them to do. | ||
| The recruitment for Border Patrol is through the roof. | ||
| For ICE agents, they want to be a part of ICE because they recognize they actually get to do their jobs. | ||
| I have the Coast Guard too. | ||
| Coast Guard recruitment is up over 20% just in the last 60 days. | ||
| Everybody wants to be a part of what the heritage is of this country. | ||
| We've repositioned the entire Coast Guard fleet to focus on border and drug interdiction. | ||
| As we've secured the border, the cartels have gone to the water. | ||
| And are going out in maritime waters to move their drugs into this country. | ||
| The Coast Guard just in the last two months has taken into custody over 126 tons of cocaine, millions of doses of fentanyl. | ||
| It's just amazing. | ||
| And the aliens that they are deporting is incredible, too. | ||
| We've been working with all of them. | ||
| The one thing that I want to point out is the fake news has been saying that Biden deported more people than you. | ||
| And it's an absolute lie. | ||
| And they're letting the Biden administration get away with manipulating and cooking the books. | ||
| What they're counting for the Biden administration is every single person that came to that border that they processed and let into this country. | ||
| They're allowing Biden to say that was a deportation just by processing somebody and letting them come into the country. | ||
| It's absolutely false. | ||
| It's not true at all. | ||
| You have deported over 250 known terrorists. | ||
| You've deported thousands of foreign terrorist organization members and gang members, hundreds of thousands of people that were in this country illegally. | ||
| We've collected $30 billion worth of tariffs through CBP, and we've also collected millions and millions, hundreds of millions of fines and penalties from people that have overstayed here in this country. | ||
| So I just want to thank you. | ||
| You've been a game changer. | ||
| I want to thank Pete for his leadership at DOD and what they've done. | ||
| I want to thank Marco for his diplomacy and getting his travel documents into these countries. | ||
| Mexico has finally come to the table and now is going to take a lot more people that we're able to send back to that country. | ||
| And the president of Mexico told me, sir, she turned around over a half a million people in Mexico before they ever reached our border. | ||
| We should be counting those as deportations because they never even made it to the border because she turned them around because you forced her to. | ||
| So those are all people that never even came here because they got the message because you were so aggressive. | ||
| So thank you for what you're doing. | ||
| And every day we get to get up and do jobs that matter. | ||
| And we appreciate that. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Tom's a great messenger for us. | ||
| He just, yeah, he's hardcore. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Thank you. | ||
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Kelly? | |
| Mr. President, it's such an honor to serve in this administration. | ||
| On behalf of Main Street America, for our 34 million small businesses that make up 99% of all businesses in this great nation, I have to tell you under your leadership, Main Street is open for business again. | ||
| They're thriving and they're investing. | ||
| And the data that we have at the Small Business Administration, the loans that we're putting out, a record 26,000 loans in your first 100 days, means that 2,000 small businesses each Each week are receiving that funding, that investment in the future. | ||
| Small businesses create two out of every three new jobs in this country, and we've already seen under your leadership, the jobs economy is back. | ||
| Manufacturing jobs are back. | ||
| We've seen a 38% increase in manufacturing loans. | ||
| We put out 1,500 manufacturing loans in your first 100 days. | ||
| We saw startups increase by 54%, and we saw businesses under five people increase by 95%. | ||
| So your leadership on the economy matters to every region of this great nation. | ||
| I'll tell you on the manufacturing front, I'm out on a national manufacturing tour. | ||
| We've met with 250 manufacturers, and as I walk through the factory floors, they all ask me to thank you for fighting for their jobs, for these industries, and for the people who are creating things from pharmaceuticals to aerospace to food and all these essentials that this nation needs to be independent. | ||
| And to that end, I'm working with Congress. | ||
| We'll be announcing tomorrow an upsizing of our manufacturing loans to make sure that that economic engine, because 98% of all manufacturers are small businesses. | ||
| It's incredible to walk through these factories. | ||
| That are really creating what you had in your first administration, the blue-collar boom. | ||
| It's now a new-collar boom because it's the intersection of technology and manufacturing and what they can create for our warfighters, for our aerospace, for pharmaceuticals with less than 300 to 500 employees, sometimes 100 employees. | ||
| I was at a factory in Georgia on Monday that is creating machines to help with the Iron Dome in Israel. | ||
| Less than 50 employees. | ||
| This is the engine of our economy. | ||
| It's the heartbeat of our communities. | ||
| It's the small businesses that helped elect you because they needed your economic agenda. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| It's such an honor. | ||
| And congratulations on an epic 100 days. | ||
| I do have to thank Elon. | ||
| I do want to note. | ||
| We just cut $3 billion in contracts because of Doge's work. | ||
| That's $3 billion that hardworking families that won't have to work until April 15th to pay for the waste, fraud, and abuse that we continue to find in this government on behalf of taxpayers. | ||
| So again, thank you, Elon. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Elon, I love the double hat. | ||
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Well, Mr. President, you know, they say I wear a lot of hats. | |
| And as you can see, it's true. | ||
| Even my hat has a hat. | ||
| So, you know, the American people voted for secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending. | ||
| And that's what they've gotten. | ||
| A tremendous amount has been accomplished in the first 100 days. | ||
| As everyone has said, it's more than has been accomplished in any administration before ever, period. | ||
| So this portends very well for what will happen for the rest of the administration. | ||
| I think this could be the greatest administration since the founding of the country. | ||
| We all want to thank you for the you really have sacrificed a lot. | ||
| I've been treated very unfairly. | ||
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Well, I do like to rent my cars, which is not great. | |
| It could be better. | ||
| But you have been treated unfairly. | ||
| But the vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you. | ||
| And this whole room can say that very strongly. | ||
| It's really been a tremendous help. | ||
| You opened up a lot of eyes as to what can be done. | ||
| And we just want to thank you very much. | ||
| You know, you're invited to stay as long as you want. | ||
| At some point, I guess, he wants to get back home to his cars. | ||
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He's done an incredible job. | |
| $150 billion. | ||
| Think of this. | ||
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$160 billion. | |
| Yeah, $160 billion. | ||
| They said, oh, it could have been more. | ||
| And a lot of, you know, a lot of stuff is being worked on. | ||
| That number could be doubled and even tripled. | ||
| A lot of things are being worked on that we don't count yet because it's not quite there, but you've done a fantastic job and we appreciate it very much. | ||
| It's also an honor to work with your incredible cabinet. | ||
| I just like to say thank you everyone. | ||
| You know, it's great to work with you. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. President, congratulations on this truly historic first 100 days of your administration. | ||
| Really only made possible by your focused leadership on delivering the mandate the American people gave you. | ||
| You've empowered all of us to deliver that mandate. | ||
| And I'm grateful to have the privilege of leading the intelligence community towards ending the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community that's gone on for far too long. | ||
| And building out what is truly a lean and agile and effective intelligence community. | ||
| That is helping you deliver that promise to the American people of safety, security and freedom. | ||
| So, Mr. President, I'd like to highlight just three of the areas where we are helping to support your leadership and your work in making America safe again and bringing about these changes. | ||
| First of all, because of your designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, I took immediate action with our National Counterterrorism Center to prioritize their focus on those terrorists and gang members. | ||
| who are trying to enter our country through legal or illegal means and to seek out those who already are here in our country because of the Biden administration's | ||
| We've been working very closely with Your great Attorney General's team at the DEA to get these known cartels into our systems to be able to stop them at the border and turning over names to Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to be able to find those who are already here in our country. | ||
| Just the other day, we found 700 alien terrorists who have ties to MS-13, Trende Aragua, and the Sinaloa cartel. | ||
| Just yesterday, our NCTC identified almost 600 individuals with ties. | ||
| To other terrorists who came through our borders illegally, claimed asylum, and under the Biden administration were paroled here within our borders. | ||
| Secondly, Mr. President, like too many organizations in the federal government, the ODNI has become very bloated with too much waste and abuse going on within the organization. | ||
| We've done a few immediate steps. | ||
| We are doing more. | ||
| The ODNI is 25% smaller and more lean today than it was when I walked in the door and when you took office. | ||
| Secondly, we have just this morning actually shut down a human capital office. | ||
| As soon as you issued the executive order to stop all DEI activities, we did that, shut down the DEI office. | ||
| We discovered this human capital office that was essentially a slush fund for DEI initiatives. | ||
| Hidden under the guise of human capital that closed down this morning, saving taxpayers $150 million. | ||
| We'll soon be announcing an additional $2.6 billion in savings with other programs and contracts that do nothing to ensure our national security interests. | ||
| And lastly, we're working every day to hold the deep state accountable, to end the politicization, weaponization of the intelligence community. | ||
| This past week, I sent three criminal referrals for illegal and unauthorized leaks to the media of classified intelligence for prosecution. | ||
| We have 11 more that are under investigation. | ||
| We've revoked at your direction 67 security clearances, and we continue the work of declassifying documents, as we have already around JFK assassination. | ||
| We have more coming for the assassination of Bobby's father, Senator Kennedy, and MLK assassination. | ||
| And we continue our extensive investigations around exposing the very serious issues we have related to election integrity, illegal abuses of FISA, crossfire hurricane, and others. | ||
| Mr. President, under your leadership, we are working every day to bring about that transparency and accountability. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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| Mr. President, at the Biden EPA, the Green New Deal was raging. | ||
| At the Biden EPA, we saw billions of tax dollars burning. | ||
| At the Biden EPA, we saw industries suffocate. | ||
| But at the Trump EPA, the Green New Deal is dead. | ||
| At the Trump EPA, we know that we can both protect the environment and And grow the economy. | ||
| I have 13 pages of accomplishments from our first 100 days in here. | ||
| And in it, part of it is 100 environmental accomplishments at the Trump EPA. | ||
| You don't have to take my word for it. | ||
| We released it to the media this morning. | ||
| Every single day that President Trump is in this office, there will be a major environmental accomplishment every single day of the Trump administration. | ||
| At the Trump EPA. | ||
| We're also launching what is the largest deregulatory action in the history of the country. | ||
| We're going to be giving our director of the OMB a whole lot of work because we inherited a big mess from the Biden EPA. | ||
| And working with Elon and Doge, I've canceled now $22 billion worth of grants. | ||
| Now today is a special day for many reasons. | ||
| The most consequential, historic first 100 days in the history of this country. | ||
| Today, while we're here, the House of Representatives is voting on Congressional Review Act bills, considering the EPA waivers that were given to California's tailpipe admissions, where California set their own standards. | ||
| But there should be one national standard, and right now, Congress, on the House side, is going to be voting on that today. | ||
| On a personal note, while this is a bit outside of the EPA jurisdiction, today is my last day serving in the United States Army. | ||
| And I first signed up towards the end of the 90s. | ||
| And I've had a chance to see a lot of national security teams over the course of the last 27 years. | ||
| There has never been a national security team ever assembled that had the backs... | ||
| Of our warriors, like this national security team right now. | ||
| And we have never had a president so deeply committed towards ending foreign wars instead of starting new ones. | ||
| There's a reason, Mr. Vice President, why everyone is racing to join our Department of Defense. | ||
| We have a Secretary of Defense who, with all due respect to our great president, would probably rather be swimming with Navy SEALs right now. | ||
| Be running somewhere in the Middle East with our service members. | ||
| And from our Secretary of Defense to our Secretary of State, our Vice President and more, I just want to say thank you as a veteran of our military for assembling what is the greatest national security team that I have ever seen in my 27 years associated with the United States Army. | ||
| as Pete's side office retirement. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you for your service. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're doing a fantastic job. | ||
| We appreciate it very much. | ||
| So Well, Mr. President, I don't think I have ever worked so hard to try to fire myself. | ||
| We're certainly making great strides in that. | ||
| We've reduced the folks over at the Department of Education by about 50% now through our RIF program, and so we've closed a lot of the district offices, consolidating, so there are. | ||
| There are a lot fewer people working a lot more efficiently in the Department of Education. | ||
| The Commissioners of Education in every state and I... | ||
| I was at a meeting with them not too long ago for not only our states but our territories. | ||
| They are thrilled with the opportunity now to be able to have more control over the education in their states, to get rid of a lot of the red tape and regulation that's kept them from doing what they're doing. | ||
| So we're seeing, I think, great improvements. | ||
| We'll see test scores, I believe. | ||
| It'll take a bit. | ||
| For them to be able to go up, but I think now that they're going to have the opportunity to put in their own programs, we'll see that grow. | ||
| At the same time, we've been focused on higher education for our universities. | ||
| We've returned proper enforcement of Title IX protections to schools. | ||
| We have stopped funding. | ||
| To Columbia, for instance, and some other schools for not only Title IX, but Title VI infractions. | ||
| And those are moving along. | ||
| I think we've brought people to the table. | ||
| They know that you're serious. | ||
| You meant what you said. | ||
| They're going to make changes. | ||
| They're making their campuses safer again. | ||
| Anti-Semitism was just out of control in many of our universities. | ||
| And so some tried to, in fact, Harvard is sued, and they're saying that it's First Amendment infraction. | ||
| No, this is civil rights. | ||
| Safety on our campuses for our young students who are there. | ||
| And with Pam's help and the task force that we formed with HHS, with GSA, with other agencies, we're going to make sure that our campuses are safe. | ||
| And so there's a lot of good work going on. | ||
| I think one of the biggest things, and you'll be very happy to hear this, Mr. Boat, that we are putting back into place collecting on our student loans that have been... | ||
| That have been delinquent since March of 2020. | ||
| There's been no effort to recollect on this loan. | ||
| So as of May 5th, the letter goes out that the loan recollection is beginning again. | ||
| So for those people who have borrowed money and have not been paid, that's just not to be punitive. | ||
| There are many ways that they can go online to understand how they can get back into the right payment structure, because when they're in default... | ||
| They can't buy a house. | ||
| They can't buy a car because their credit scores are down. | ||
| So it's helpful to them as well as to get this money back into the country. | ||
| I mean, $60 billion of increased student loan debt since 2020. | ||
| And in total, we've got almost $1.7 trillion in student debt. | ||
| So we're going to start getting it back. | ||
| And Scott and his team have been incredibly helpful. | ||
| We appreciate that so very, very much. | ||
| And so a lot's going on at the department. | ||
| And what I would really like, as I'm firing myself, I'd like for you to be known as the education president because of the best-in-practice systems that we want to put in every state to incorporate AI so that we are training. | ||
| These new entrepreneurs and business leaders in our country. | ||
| We can't do it with the infrastructure we have in place today. | ||
| So we have to be working on that at the same time. | ||
| So we're going to be doing that. | ||
| So thank you for your charge to elevate education so that we are providing for every student access to excellent education. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much, Linda. | ||
| What's going on with Harvard and some of these colleges that are taking vast amounts of money who also have They've got $52 million and really scamming the public and hiring people like de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot, who are certainly two of the worst mayors in the history of our country, paying them a fortune of salary and having them teach our children how to manage cities and how to manage government. | ||
| What's the word as of this morning on, let's say, Harvard? | ||
| Well, we're negotiating with them. | ||
| When we went back to them to say we welcomed them back to the negotiating table, their response was a lawsuit. | ||
| So Pam and her team are helping work with that. | ||
| And I am, you know, enjoying the fact not only am I firing myself up, but I'm now being sued fairly regularly by different departments of education. | ||
| But we're staying tough with them. | ||
| The other thing that we're looking at also are the... | ||
| Are the 117 violations of these big universities like Harvard and others who are not reporting, as they're required to do by law, foreign money that comes in and how much that is and where it comes from. | ||
| And students. | ||
| Where are these people coming from? | ||
| We pulled back their grants because Harvard isn't responding to us, criminal activity by their students, and until they give us that list, they're not getting anywhere. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you for your extraordinary leadership. | ||
| Over the past 100 days, we are already making America healthy again. | ||
| We announced last week the ban on the nine petroleum-based synthetic dyes, food dyes. | ||
| Within two years, within two months, we're going to ban the worst two of them. | ||
| I am working with Secretary Rollins on dietary guidelines, the dietary guidelines that President Biden's administration gave us. | ||
| 453 pages. | ||
| They're basically unreadable. | ||
| And they are the product of the same kind of politicized science that drove Froot Loops to the top of the fruit pyramid. | ||
| And we're going to do real science, gold standard science. | ||
| We're going to develop within. | ||
| We have until December to do it, but we are working very, very fast together. | ||
| We're going to get it done by the end of the summer. | ||
| In time to drive major dramatic changes in the school food, school lunch programs over the next school year. | ||
| I'm working also with Secretary Rollins on the SNAP program to get sodas and candy off of the food stamp program. | ||
| 10% of food stamps go to SNAP. | ||
| And I want to thank you for your courage. | ||
| You are a business-friendly president, probably the most business-friendly in our history, but you're also willing to stand up to very, very powerful businesses, and you've shown that again and again. | ||
| Secretary Rollins had the soda industry come and knock on her door very much, very loudly, and they said to her, "Well, the SNAP program is not supposed to be about nutrition." She pointed out to them that there is no nutrition in a soda. | ||
| And they said, "Well, it's not supposed to be about nutrition." And she said, "The name of the program is Supplemental Nutrition. | ||
| It is about nutrition." And we shouldn't, you know, we have 38% of our kids. | ||
| Our diabetic or pre-diabetic, and we are paying at both ends. | ||
| We're paying for the food, the food-like substances that make them diabetic, and then we're paying, we're being bankrupt. | ||
| We're paying a trillion dollars a year on metabolic dysfunction. | ||
| It's existential and it's not sustainable. | ||
| We have, I visited Arizona. | ||
| West Virginia, Utah, and Indiana in the last two weeks, who have all applied for SNAP waivers, were encouraging, thanks to Brooke Rollins' leadership, all of the states to apply for those waivers. | ||
| I also visited Utah, which is the first state to ban supplemental fluoride. | ||
| Florida yesterday passed a bill to... | ||
| And supplemental fluoride. | ||
| I'm confident Governor DeSantis is going to sign that. | ||
| We are working, Liesel and I are working together to change the federal fluoride regulations, to change the recommendations, and we're looking at the science now. | ||
| I want to point out that in August, the National Toxicity Program, which was an arm of the NIH, did a meta review of all the science on fluoride and found that there's a direct inverse correlation. | ||
| Between fluoride exposure and lowered IQ in children. | ||
| So the more you get, the stupider you are. | ||
| And we need smart kids in this country. | ||
| And we need healthy kids. | ||
| And thank you for your leadership. | ||
| We're going to get there. | ||
| We're reviewing the GRAS standards now to get... | ||
| We're revamping them to get 10,000 ingredients that are in our foods. | ||
| The Europeans only have 400 ingredients. | ||
| We have 10,000. | ||
| They're chemicals we know nothing about. | ||
| And we are going to stop that process, and then we're going to go back and look at these chemicals and make the companies either get rid of them or to label them. | ||
| We've launched Operation Stork Speed, and we're going full speed ahead to make sure that we have good, high-quality milk for children. | ||
| We have launched the autism study at your direction. | ||
| By September, we'll have some of the first answers. | ||
| Within six months of that, we will have definitive answers, not only for autism, but for the ideology of a whole range of autoimmune diseases that have become epidemic in our children. | ||
| We have ended HHS as the role, as the vector, the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. | ||
| And during the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator. | ||
| In child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. | ||
| And we have ended that, and we're very aggressively going out and trying to find these children, 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration. | ||
| And we have ended funding for gender mutilation, surgeries, and other kind of gender dysphoria practices. | ||
| And thanks to Elon, We have saved $67 billion at our agency without compromising any of our critical programs. | ||
| Mr. President, I want to thank you for your vision, for your leadership, for giving me the 100 busiest days of my life, and most exciting and most rewarding. | ||
| And over the next 100 days, we're going to do much, much more. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Very important. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Doug, please. | ||
| Well, President Trump, on your first day in office, you wisely declared a national energy emergency. | ||
| And this was essential because it was the signal that we're going to go 180 degrees from the disastrous and dangerous Biden policies that were based on a climate ideology that was... | ||
| The root cause of the inflation in this country. | ||
| It was the root cause of wars abroad. | ||
| It was the root cause of our manufacturing disappearing from our country. | ||
| We can't have energy security. | ||
| Without energy security, we can't have national security, and you understood that. | ||
| But now with everything that's flowed from that... | ||
| Dozens of other EOs that you've done. | ||
| America is back in the energy business. | ||
| As Chris said, there's been a signal that's sent around the world. | ||
| Capital is flowing, coming back in. | ||
| The smart money is coming to this country. | ||
| And now you've given us a chance to win the AI arms race against China. | ||
| We know we're up against a formidable competitor. | ||
| China opened up 94 gigawatts of coal in the last year. | ||
| That's more than all of California and all of New York combined in the last year. | ||
| We've had presidents in the past, the Biden administration, that were running away, again, under this climate ideology. | ||
| You've embraced baseload power in this country. | ||
| I'll never forget standing in the East Room with you, surrounded by the coal miners from around this country, where you said, hey, big, beautiful coal. | ||
| As we work to try to identify the balance sheet of America... | ||
| Our earliest estimate is that the coal resources in America, just on public lands, could be worth $8 trillion with a T. That was all going to be taken off our balance sheet if we weren't going to touch it. | ||
| But now we're back in the business. | ||
| I was 1,800 feet underground in a coal mine in Alabama a couple weeks ago. | ||
| They do metallurgical coal. | ||
| Without metallurgical coal, we can't produce steel. | ||
| This is a plant that would have been in a mining operation that would have been shut down under the Biden administration. | ||
| What we're doing here back in the business, we're doing leasing. | ||
| We're leasing for oil and gas. | ||
| We're leasing for timber with Brooke Rollins. | ||
| We're leasing for grazing. | ||
| We're leasing for critical minerals, which is key. | ||
| And when we lease the public lands appropriately and by the law to do that, we're bringing in revenue. | ||
| We're bringing in jobs. | ||
| We're helping strengthen America. | ||
| And so we're treating our natural resources like the American balance sheet they are. | ||
| And America's resources, the 700 million acres of surface that's public, the 700 million of subsurface, the 2.5 billion of offshore, all contain what we need to have self-sufficient supply chains. | ||
| And so in this, we're focused deeply on critical minerals. | ||
| The Biden administration put us in a real... | ||
| Predicament right now, the whole trade team, the whole cabinet, Susie's jumping in, leadership across everybody in the National Energy Dominance Council. | ||
| But of the top 20 critical and rare earth minerals that we need for defense, that we need for industry, China's controlling 85% of the refining for that. | ||
| So we are running at warp speed seven days a week to try to put ourselves back in business in that way. | ||
| So, and I want to just close out by saying a couple other things. | ||
| Is the border. | ||
| Few people realize that 41% of the southern border is in Department of Interior. | ||
| Then we've got a few more percent that come with Brook and with the Forest Service. | ||
| But that's been a risk area. | ||
| Part of the reason everybody was pouring into our country, Biden wasn't enforcing the border laws. | ||
| They definitely weren't enforcing it on public lands. | ||
| And so again, tying two presidents that had a great... | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 created what was called the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot strip that go from Texas all the way to the Pacific Ocean because he was worried in some future state there might be smuggling. | ||
| I don't think he was anticipating human smuggling and fentanyl trafficking, but that has been largely unused. | ||
| He gave us the authority to transfer that. | ||
| So working with Christy and working with Pete, we've transferred that to the DOD. | ||
| So transferring land from the other agencies, like Interior, to the Department of Defense, and as Pete said, they can do the detain and assist with the military. | ||
| And having been down at the border multiple times in recent weeks, I can confirm everything Christy said. | ||
| The enthusiasm, the morale of that group is exactly 100% opposite of when Christie and I were down there as governors. | ||
| I had Border Patrol people say that they were multi-generational service in that law enforcement that said, my wife and I are telling our children never to go into this thing, go into Border Patrol. | ||
| People this time were saying, I got a 17-year-old. | ||
| As soon as they turn 18-year-old, they're signing up. | ||
| My wife is thrilled. | ||
| They're going into law enforcement. | ||
| They're so proud to be serving with you. | ||
| Everybody I've met, whether it's in a coal mine or at the border, law enforcement, the one thing they say on those trips is, please thank President Trump from all of us, the change that you're making. | ||
| And I want to say especially this became very dear when we, last week, renamed U.S. Wildlife Refuge in honor of Jocelyn Nungere. | ||
| Jocelyn Nungere, of course, lost her life tragically to illegal Venezuelan gang members in this country in a horrific way. | ||
| But her mother, Alexis, was at that ceremony. | ||
| Her grandmother was there, and Jocelyn's great-grandmother was there. | ||
| Three other generations of that family were there. | ||
| they all wanted to pass on their thank you to you too. | ||
| And we've, we've secured her name forever as a sanctuary and really is saying that every child, every 12 year old, every child in America should be safe in their own communities. | ||
| You've dedicated a beautiful piece on the coast in honor of her. | ||
| President Trump, in your first term when I had a chance to wear you as governor, you were courageous. | ||
| The thing that's empowering this amazing group of people around this table, and you've probably assembled the greatest cabinet ever, is that this time you're not just courageous, you're actually fearless. | ||
| And it's your fearlessness to take on the issues that other presidents would not touch. | ||
| Whether it's the work that we're doing with successfully streamlining and right-sizing government, or whether it's taking on the issues at the border, or whether it's embracing the power we need to win the AMS rights, you're fearlessly doing that, and that creates, and just all of us can sprint because you're running ahead. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Doug. | ||
| You're doing a great job. | ||
| And with Chris, that's a pretty much unbeatable combination, I have to tell you. | ||
| So thank you both very much. | ||
| Thank you, Doug. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Marco? | ||
| Well, it's not easy to go last after all these reports that have come here. | ||
| First of all, it's Mr. Mayor. | ||
| So I better be good, and I'll be short as well. | ||
| A couple things, Mr. President. | ||
| I think you deserve a lot of credit for two things. | ||
| The first is assembling this great team of people, some of whom I've owned for a long time, others who I've gotten to know during this period of time. | ||
| But putting together a team, not just of talented individuals, but that work well together, is something never going to be reported on in the media or fully seen, but it happens every single day. | ||
| For the most part, I interact with almost everyone around this table. | ||
| At some level. | ||
| And because of Secretary Kennedy, I'm afraid to eat anything. | ||
| He said Tootsie Rolls are okay in moderation. | ||
| But it's a great team. | ||
| And here's the second, and I tell this to people all the time, this is incredibly rewarding service and you hear it in everyone's voices. | ||
| Traditionally in the past, And it's one of the problems we got in as a country is presidents would say, okay, let's go do something. | ||
| And then they would have to do a study and then a study on the study and then a long internal deliberative process. | ||
| And by the time you got to it, it was too late or somebody had forgotten it. | ||
| And this administration, it's moving. | ||
| You know the direction because you know why you were elected. | ||
| American people elected you very clearly. | ||
| And basically it's measured, I used to say, by days and weeks. | ||
| Now it's measured by hours and minutes. | ||
| But action is happening. | ||
| And that's what people want to see. | ||
| And I'm going to talk about foreign policy in particular because I'm not sure this is fully appreciated. | ||
| This president inherited 30 years of foreign policy that was built around what was good for the world. | ||
| In essence, the decisions we made as a government in trade and foreign policy was basically, is it good for the world? | ||
| Is it good for the global community? | ||
| And under President Trump, we're making a foreign policy now that's, was it good for America? | ||
| I was appointed by you and confirmed by the Senate. | ||
| To be the head of the United States Department of State. | ||
| Not the World Department of State. | ||
| Not the Global Department of State. | ||
| The United States Department of State. | ||
| And what that means is our foreign policy is guided by three things. | ||
| Does it make America stronger? | ||
| Does it make America safer? | ||
| Does it make America richer? | ||
| If something doesn't do one of those three things, and hopefully all three of those things, we're not doing it. | ||
| Now, we went out and hired a consulting firm to help us organize ourselves. | ||
| Luckily, they were free. | ||
| They're called the Department of Government Efficiency. | ||
| And they helped us do a couple of things. | ||
| Number one is our foreign aid. | ||
| We were funding some crazy stuff. | ||
| Crazy stuff. | ||
| You tell me, how does a puppet show in some country around the world make us stronger, safer, and more prosperous? | ||
| So we got rid of puppet shows and a bunch of other things. | ||
| I'm sure there are very good puppet shows. | ||
| And I'm sure that a bunch of charities in the world can go pay for it, but the American taxpayers should not. | ||
| We've also, by the way, Mr. President, under your direction, reorganized the Department of State. | ||
| We had offices within offices within offices that didn't even know they existed themselves, not to mention the rest. | ||
| And so we've begun to reorganize that as a way to be able to empower our embassies and our ambassadors and our regional bureaus to do what many of them signed up to do. | ||
| We have a great team of ambassadors. | ||
| They're coming online every single day. | ||
| Very talented people. | ||
| Very talented people are involved. | ||
| Something else we got out of the business. | ||
| It wasn't widely reported, or maybe it was. | ||
| We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans. | ||
| And by the way, I'm not going to say who it is. | ||
| I'll leave it up to them. | ||
| There's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. | ||
| We have these dossiers. | ||
| We are going to be turning those over to these individuals. | ||
| We can follow up on the media. | ||
| Well, we are going to turn over these dossiers to the individuals and they'll decide whether they want to disclose it or not. | ||
| But just think about the Department of State of the United States had set up an office to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens to identify them as vectors of disinformation. | ||
| When we know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency. | ||
| And so that's what we're going to be in the business of doing. | ||
| We're not going to have an office that does that. | ||
| Beyond that, Mr. President, and this will move quickly because this has been a team effort. | ||
| We have gone to countries all over the world and said, hey, you want good relations with the United States? | ||
| You need to take back your people that are here illegally. | ||
| And we've had historic cooperation. | ||
| Beyond that, and I say this unapologetically, we are actively searching for other countries to take people from third countries. | ||
| So we are active, not just El Salvador. | ||
| We are working with other countries to say... | ||
| We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your countries. | ||
| Will you do that as a favor to us? | ||
| And the further away from America, the better. | ||
| So they can't come back across the border. | ||
| I'm not apologetic about it. | ||
| We are doing that. | ||
| The president was elected to keep America safe and to get rid of a bunch of perverts and pedophiles and child rapists out of our country. | ||
| Here's something else we've done. | ||
| We stopped giving student visas to people who are coming here to burn down our universities and take over libraries and harass people. | ||
| Why are we giving student visas to people who are coming here to create disruption? | ||
| And we've taken away the student visas of people that have come here to do that. | ||
| It's simple. | ||
| If you're coming to America to start riots, we're going to take away your student visa. | ||
| And by the way, every country in the world that I travel, 14 countries in 14 weeks, you know what they all say to me? | ||
| Yes, that's what we would do too. | ||
| So the only people who seem to disagree with us are a handful of federal judges and a bunch of crazy people who get paid to write and report. | ||
| So anyway, we're getting rid of that. | ||
| The last, but now here's some good news. | ||
| You know, we're going to have the World Cup, the FIFA World Cup. | ||
| The FIFA Club Cup, and then we're going to have the Olympics. | ||
| So we have to have a consular affairs bureau. | ||
| We have very good talented people there, but we are going to infuse technology. | ||
| Again, working with our consultants to be able to get millions of people are coming into this country for this. | ||
| And but I also we've done it to improve customer service. | ||
| For some of us who served in Congress recognize that about a year and a half ago, we had a meltdown under Biden. | ||
| You couldn't get a passport. | ||
| You have people calling. | ||
| I have a cruise on Friday. | ||
| My passport expires in the month of March. | ||
| We've processed 2.78 million Americans, their passports. | ||
| That is the historic, never in any, it's the largest single month processing of passports ever. | ||
| And we think it's a good way to build the momentum to be able to do the visas. | ||
| Two last points I want to make. | ||
| We have a great team that you've built. | ||
| I want to especially acknowledge Steve Woodcock. | ||
| This is a person that doesn't have to be doing what he's doing. | ||
| He has a very good life in Miami, my hometown as well. | ||
| He has worked incredibly hard. | ||
| He has done it without any agenda, and we need to acknowledge him. | ||
| I want to acknowledge Mr. Boulos as well, who did something really great last week. | ||
| They told us this war between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda is an intractable. | ||
| It can never happen. | ||
| It will never happen. | ||
| I sent Mr. Boulos, your envoy. | ||
| A week later, I look on my schedule. | ||
| The signing of a declaration of peace between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, we signed it at the State Department last week. | ||
| We hope it will lead now to a lasting permanent peace that we hope to invite them back to Washington to sign. | ||
| So two great, and we have a lot of good people working on our teams as well, but these are two great people. | ||
| Mike Waltz alluded to this earlier, and this is the last point. | ||
| In the first 100 days of the 47th presidency, 47 wrongfully detained Americans. | ||
| I've been returned to the United States, thanks to your leadership and the diplomacy that was exercised to make that happen. | ||
| 47 for the 47th President in the first 100 days. | ||
| And that's all credit to you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you for the honor to be able to serve alongside you, for you, and alongside all these excellent people. | ||
| Thank you very much, Marco. | ||
| You did a really great job. | ||
| So, you know, I've been involved in a lot of groups of people over the years. | ||
| Good groups, bad groups, all types of groups, but I have been involved in some incredible groups, but I've never been more proud and impressed, frankly. | ||
| Impressed is maybe even more important, but I've never been more proud or impressed than I am with this group. | ||
| This is an amazing group of people. | ||
| I hope some of those television cameras were blazing and it was on so people could watch this because, frankly, you know... | ||
| No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, this is an impressive group of people. | ||
| I sat around being somewhat competitive. | ||
| I said, well, let's see, who did the best job? | ||
| Who did the worst job? | ||
| And I determined that everybody is like the same, and there was no worse job. | ||
| Everybody was outstanding. | ||
| Everybody did a job. | ||
| You couldn't pick a winner. | ||
| The only thing you can say is nobody did a bad job or even a fair job. | ||
| You're outstanding. | ||
| And so I want to just congratulate you all. | ||
| Well, this is really something. | ||
| And, you know, we have a job to do. | ||
| We've done a lot of work in this 100 days. | ||
| We've established things that are going to start taking place in the next 100 days. | ||
| I want to see what it's going to be like. | ||
| I think we're going to have to do this in 100 days, Susie, and we're going to see some very big results from the things that we've done. | ||
| But I just want to thank everybody. | ||
| This is really very impressive, and I hope the people at home got to see some of it. | ||
| Nobody's ever done public. | ||
| Cabinet meetings. | ||
| They were quiet for a reason, because they weren't impressive. | ||
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And especially in the last administration, they were not impressive. | |
| But I just want to say that we're very proud of you, and I am in particular. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
| Great job, and I think we're going to have some tremendous success for our country. | ||
| And I don't know, it doesn't seem like a time to be asking questions. | ||
| That was so impressive that to be taking Questions. | ||
| Why did you do this? | ||
| Why did you do that? | ||
| It just doesn't seem to be appropriate. | ||
| I guess we probably have to take a couple because that was the purpose. | ||
| But if you'd like to ask some, I think they should be very respectful questions at this point. | ||
| This was an amazing meeting. | ||
| And so if you'd like to ask a couple, if you'd like to pinpoint them to some of the secretaries, et cetera, would be fine. | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| Secretary Rubio, can I ask your question? | ||
| You brought up El Salvador in your remarks. | ||
| Have you been in touch with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia as a formal request from this administration? | ||
| Well, I would never tell you that. | ||
| And you know who else I'll never tell? | ||
| A judge. | ||
| Because the conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the President of the United States and the executive branch, not some judge. | ||
| So we will conduct foreign policy appropriately if we need to. | ||
| But I'll never discuss it. | ||
| And no one will ever make us discuss it because that's how foreign policy works. | ||
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Mr. President, yesterday you told ABC News, Mr. President, you told ABC News yesterday that you could get the break of Garcia back if you wanted to. | |
| Do you think President Bukele would turn you down if you made it? | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| I know that he's been a great friend of our country. | ||
| He's gotten a lot less money than this would take from us if we were going to build these jails and do what he's doing. | ||
| And they run a very professional operation. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I haven't spoken to him. | ||
| I really leave that to the lawyers. | ||
| I take my advice from Pam and everybody that is very much involved. | ||
| They know the laws and we follow the laws exactly. | ||
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Mr. President, can you just go through the transition, sir? | |
| You frequently took credit for the stock market highs. | ||
| You said it was a reflection of how well you were doing in the polls. | ||
| And then after you were elected, you said the stock market highs were a reflection of how well the transition is going and the American people's confidence in your incoming administration. | ||
| Stock markets aren't doing so well, and you're saying that's the Biden stock market, yet you are the president. | ||
| Can you explain that? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not taking credit or discredit for the stock market. | ||
| I'm just saying that we inherited a mess, both at the borders. | ||
| You could look at every single one of the people here, and no matter who it is, they're doing better, and they are far superior to what took place four years before us. | ||
| When you look at prisoners being allowed to... | ||
| Come into our country at will, just at will. | ||
| People from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. | ||
| When you look at that, what they've done to our country, and also having to do with finance, look at what happened with inflation. | ||
| We had the worst inflation probably in the history of our country. | ||
| They say 48 years, but I would say in the history of our country, it ate away at people. | ||
| And even though you saw a stock market going up somewhat. | ||
| Because in my case, I had the biggest stock market increase, 88% in the last term, in my last term. | ||
| But I don't view the stock market as the end-all. | ||
| It's an indicator. | ||
| But what the stock market really tells you, and when you look at the stock market in this case, is it says how bad a situation we inherited. | ||
| I took place, this is a quarter that we looked at today, and we took all of us together. | ||
| We came in on January 20th. | ||
| This is Biden. | ||
| And you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn't just happen on a daily or an hourly basis. | ||
| But we're turning it around. | ||
| It's a big ship to turn around. | ||
| And we're going to have the greatest country financially in the history of the world, I believe. | ||
| I think we're going to do things. | ||
| And we had to do it. | ||
| We reset the table. | ||
| Every single country with just about without exception. | ||
| I'd have to really think hard. | ||
| For who hasn't taken advantage? | ||
| And I don't even blame those countries. | ||
| I blame the person that was sitting right here, where I am, for allowing it to happen, where our country was ripped off on trade, hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| And now we're doing better than we've done in a long time. | ||
| You know, we were losing four to five to even six billion dollars a day on trade with Biden. | ||
| And now we have it down to a very manageable number. | ||
| And the tariffs, for the most part, haven't even kicked in yet. | ||
| So that's the way stock markets to me are an indication. | ||
| But the big indication is what's happening, and the people around the table know what's happening. | ||
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The deal is set to be signed in 24 hours or so. | |
| Is it true that the Ukraine minerals deal is about to be signed in the next 24 hours or so? | ||
| There's some reports saying that. | ||
| And if it's true, has the deal changed at all from the last time we've heard about it? | ||
| Well, I'll ask Scott to answer the question because he's responsible for it. | ||
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Yeah, our side is ready to sign. | |
| Ukrainians decided last night to make some last-minute changes. | ||
| We're sure that they will reconsider that, and we are ready to sign this afternoon, if they are. | ||
| Can you talk about those last-minute changes, what was removed or put in its place? | ||
| Nothing's been removed. | ||
| It's the same agreement that we agreed to on the weekend. | ||
| No changes on our side. | ||
| Just to put that in perspective, when I came here, I said, how much money have we given to Ukraine? | ||
| The real number is about $350 billion. | ||
| That's unthinkable. | ||
| And we had no security. | ||
| We had no nothing. | ||
| We were just pouring money there, unsecured money, putting it in banks, and anybody could have taken it out. | ||
| Anybody over there, it was their decision. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Europe, on the other hand, which it's obviously that whole situation is much more important to Europe because we have an ocean in between. | ||
| But Europe... | ||
| Gave about $100 billion. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| It's a big sacrifice they made also. | ||
| But they gave much less than we did. | ||
| And their money is secured, totally secured, by deposits in banks. | ||
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The deposits are largely Russian deposits. | |
| That's what Europe did. | ||
| But their money is secured. | ||
| So they gave $100 billion totally secured. | ||
| We gave money like it's throwing it out the window. | ||
| And it was done by Biden. | ||
| And this is Biden's war. | ||
| This isn't Trump's rule. | ||
| I'm trying to get out. | ||
| And more than the money, they're losing about 5,000 young Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, mostly. | ||
| There's some people also being killed in towns where missiles should not have been shot, small cities and towns. | ||
| But we are trying to save the lives of about 5,000 young, mostly soldiers that are losing their lives a week. | ||
| I see satellite... | ||
| Probably one of his satellites come to think of it. | ||
| But I see satellite photos every week of fields with arms and heads and legs scattered all over. | ||
| It's a violent, violent, horrible situation. | ||
| And more important than the money, I want to save the lives of people from other countries that are dying so stupidly, so needlessly. | ||
| And they're dying. | ||
| But I said, what are we doing? | ||
| How did we get into this war? | ||
| It would have never happened if I were president. | ||
| Everybody knows. | ||
| And it didn't happen for four years. | ||
| Wasn't even thought of. | ||
| I discussed it with President Putin a lot. | ||
| It was the apple of his eye. | ||
| But there was no way he was going to do anything. | ||
| Zero chance. | ||
| And I said, you know, we feel foolish. | ||
| The Europeans are putting up money. | ||
| It's totally secure. | ||
| They get the money back. | ||
| We're putting up much more money. | ||
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We have absolutely nothing. | |
| I didn't want to make a complicated deal. | ||
| I didn't want to make a deal that couldn't be made because Ukraine doesn't have very much money. | ||
| They're going through a very bad period of time. | ||
| It's been brutal. | ||
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But I felt very foolish at being a judge. | |
| So I said, well, we want something for our efforts beyond what you would think would be acceptable. | ||
| And we said rare earth. | ||
| They're very good rare earth. | ||
| As you know, we're looking for rare earth all the time. | ||
| Rare Earth is called Rare for a reason. | ||
| And they have a lot. | ||
| And we made a deal where our money is secure, where we can start digging and doing what we have to do. | ||
| It's also good for them because you'll have an American presence at the site, Chris. | ||
| And the American presence will keep a lot of bad actors out of the country or certainly out of the area where we're doing the digging. | ||
| We made a deal, and I assume they're going to honor the deal. | ||
| I put Scott in charge and Scott's done it beautifully, but we haven't really seen the fruits of that deal yet. | ||
| I suspect we will. | ||
| I suspect you're aware. | ||
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Mr. President, sir, you had set a 90-day deadline during the executive order for secretaries like that and known to review whether to recommend you whether to invoke the Insurrection Act to send troops to the Southern Board. | |
| Well, I'm talking to them, and it's not hard and fast, but I'm talking to them, and I will tell you that the border is the most secure it's ever been. | ||
| We have never had anything like it. | ||
| And when you said, Christy, before, it's 99.999, and I guess that means one person, maybe, or two people. | ||
| It's actually turned out to be three people came across the border versus hundreds of thousands of people under Biden. | ||
| And we're talking about people coming up. | ||
| People, they have souls, they have hearts. | ||
| Many of them are good. | ||
| But we have a country that's under siege. | ||
| We have a country that really is under, I think it's under attack. | ||
| In many ways, worse than under attack because... | ||
| There are no uniforms. | ||
| You don't know who the attacker is, so you really don't. | ||
| It's not like you're fighting an army. | ||
| You're fighting people. | ||
| You don't even know who they are. | ||
| But 11,888 murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, are roaming. | ||
| Now, some of them have already been caught. | ||
| A lot of them have already been caught and taken out. | ||
| But we're being impeded by judges from doing our job. | ||
| And hopefully that situation is going to be solved because I think nobody wants to have murderers and people from jail. | ||
| And I mean for serious, serious crime. | ||
| I remember the Biden people used to say, no, these are aliens that came into our country and they don't commit crime. | ||
| I said, they don't commit crime. | ||
| They commit worse crime. | ||
| They make our criminals. | ||
| Some of these people that they've allowed in through open border policies, the dumbest thing I've ever seen. | ||
| You can look at some of these people and you'd say, this is not going to end well. | ||
| But the people that they've allowed into our country are making our criminals look like the nicest people on earth, I will tell you. | ||
| These are serious criminals. | ||
| These are violent criminals. | ||
| These are people that would kill you and wouldn't lose an ounce of sleep, and they wake up the next morning and they don't even remember it. | ||
| This is a rough, rough, tough group of people, and we've got to get them out of our country. | ||
| The law says, I believe, I hope, and I think Pam will be very successful in proving it. | ||
| But we've run into, I would call them rogue judges. | ||
| Somebody could criticize me for that. | ||
| These are rogue judges. | ||
| These are radical left, generally radical left, horrible judges. | ||
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And we didn't lose all of these people. | |
| You know, we've lost a lot of people to death and to rape, all sorts of crimes committed by the people that Poured into our country. | ||
| And they came in totally unimpeded. | ||
| Just come on in. | ||
| And you see it every night. | ||
| You'd see thousands of tens of thousands of people pouring into our country. | ||
| We have no idea who they are. | ||
| And to this day, we're looking for people. | ||
| We have no idea. | ||
| We hear that we have terrorists in our country that are so bad. | ||
| They couldn't stay in any other country. | ||
| But we're getting them out. | ||
| And the group... | ||
| Between Pete and Christie and Tom Holman and everybody working together, people that you would least suspect are reporting them, getting it. | ||
| And the public is reporting them. | ||
| The public is saying, the public is calling and they're saying, you know, I live in a house and next to me moved in a group of people and they are very violent. | ||
| And we'd go and we'd find out and we'd say, yeah, you're right. | ||
| They were really violent. | ||
| We have information on most of them. | ||
| So I just think it's incredible what's taken place. | ||
| But we right now have a very, very secure border. | ||
| Right now we have the most secure border in the history of our country, so I don't think we have to worry about your question. | ||
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The Prime Minister of Canada ran not only against the Conservatives, but also against you. | |
| Yesterday he spoke about American betrayal. | ||
| Are you interested in rebuilding relations with Canada? | ||
| And if so, how? | ||
| No, well, I think we're going to have a great relationship. | ||
| He called me up yesterday. | ||
| He said, let's make a deal. | ||
| He was running for office. | ||
| They both hated Trump. | ||
| And it was the one that hated Trump, I think the least that won. | ||
| I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the so-called liberal. | ||
| He's a pretty liberal guy. | ||
| No, I spoke to him yesterday. | ||
| He couldn't have been nicer. | ||
| Then I congratulated him. | ||
| You know, it was a very mixed signal because it's almost even. | ||
| Which makes it very complicated for the country. | ||
| It's a pretty tight race. | ||
| But he's a very nice gentleman, and he's going to come to the White House very shortly within the next week or less. | ||
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When will you speak to President Xi of China? | |
| That'll happen. | ||
| Look, right now, and I told you before, they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business. | ||
| They made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars, even a trillion one with Biden selling us stuff. | ||
| Much of it we don't need. | ||
| You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be open. | ||
| Well, maybe the children will have $2 instead of $30. | ||
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And maybe the $2 will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. | |
| But we're not talking about something that we have to go out of our way. | ||
| They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which, not all of it, but much of which we don't need. | ||
| And we have to make a fair deal. | ||
| We've been ripped off by every country in the world, but China, I would say, is the leading one, the leading candidate for the chief ripper offer. | ||
| There has never been a country that's been ripped off more than the United States of America under some of the dumbest. | ||
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Leadership. | |
| And it usually starts with the president. | ||
| And you can go back. | ||
| And I'm not just talking about Biden. | ||
| It's been the worst. | ||
| Trade deficits and everything else. | ||
| He's been the worst. | ||
| But he had no idea what he was doing. | ||
| And I think somebody ought to look at the auto pen to find out who was really running this country. | ||
| Because it wasn't Biden. | ||
| Because nobody could agree to what he agreed to. | ||
| He put our country at risk. | ||
| At tremendous risk. | ||
| And fiscal risk, financial risk. | ||
| So I think we have it very much. | ||
| I really believe that the next 100 days is going to be even better than this. | ||
| Look, I read an editorial yesterday from a group that normally wouldn't write a good that this is the most consequential presidency in history, in the history of our country. | ||
| This is not a particular group that would write that kind of an editorial. | ||
| But they see what we're doing and what we had to do. | ||
| And I believe if this group, not just me, if this group wasn't here, I think our country was going to be in, if it was lucky, just serious trouble. | ||
| But a lot worse than that. | ||
| I think our country could have been a total disaster. | ||
| Bad things were happening with our country. | ||
| And we've stemmed the tide. | ||
| We've turned it around. | ||
| But we're going to really turn it around over the next three years, three and a half years, we're going to turn it around. | ||
| And then hopefully it'll be in such great shape. | ||
| That's my goal, to put it in such great condition that it can't be destroyed. | ||
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You mentioned this last night in your speech in Oklahoma. | |
| We're facing an unprecedented situation where there's a lot of abuses, of nationwide injunctions, sort of seemingly designed to curtail their power, specifically when it comes to deporting these ethical, violent aliens that came in at the previous administration. | ||
| Have you spoken to your team about ways to mitigate this and continue to develop Yeah. | ||
| Well, there are ways to mitigate it, and there's some very strong ways. | ||
| There's one way that's been used by three very highly respected presidents, but we hope we don't have to go that route. | ||
| But there is one way that has been used very successfully by three presidents, all highly respected. | ||
| And hopefully we don't have to go that way. | ||
| But there are ways of mitigating that. | ||
| I want to thank you all very much. | ||
| I thought this was an incredible cabinet meeting. | ||
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I think there probably has never been a cabinet meeting like this. | |
| You've never seen it on tape, that I can tell you. | ||
| And I want to just congratulate everybody at the table. | ||
| But we have a lot of work to do, but we're off to a great start. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| All right, everybody. | ||
| ALX here in for Benny. | ||
| He actually is in California and is doing an interview with Adam Carolla, which is going to air next week, I believe. | ||
| I think on Monday. | ||
| But he's also doing a bunch of recording and a lot of exciting content that's going to be coming out in the next couple weeks. | ||
| But yeah, as we know, Trump likes to go very long and these cabinet meetings are unpredictable if they're going to take questions or not. | ||
| So he had to head out early. | ||
| So I'm here to close out the show with the verse of the day. | ||
| Let's see, today from Isaiah. | ||
| So don't worry because I'm with you. | ||
| Don't be afraid because I am your God. | ||
| I will make you strong and I will help you. | ||
| I will support you with my right hand that saves you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| With that, we'll close out the show. | ||
| Have a good day, everybody. | ||
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Hey, hey, hey. | |
| Guess what day? | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| I'll tell you the tale of Trump's first hundred days. | ||
| The left is throwing a fit of rage. | ||
| They belong in a cage. | ||
| Like those border crossers to rip money in the coffers. | ||
| We're bound to take Canada and the Panama Canal. | ||
| La la la. | ||
| Turning Hoolies into smoothies as Elon went for the jugular. | ||
| The Department of Diversity shutting down the Ivy Leagues. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Everything will be okay. | ||
| Guess what day? | ||
| It is, it's hump day Get it on, hump day Woo! | ||
| Woo! | ||
| The biggest ships in the sea All owned by the oldest kings And their dying legacy Mediadel leaves So will the penny show |
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