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July 1, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson

02:09:42

🚨Trump Touring 'Alligator Alcatraz' for Illegal Aliens LIVE Right Now in Florida: 'Grand Opening'🐊

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	20% of all immigration arrests nationwide.
	So, what I would just say is: don't let Florida be the only state.
	We've got very red states that should be doing this just as much as Florida is doing.
	That will increase their numbers.
	And then, what happens is you'll have a lot of people that will deport on their own because they don't want to end up in an alligator alcatraz or some of those other places.
	So, I think this is a model, but we need other states to step up.
	I was going to ask you, would this be enticing for other states to come up with their own model?
	We are doing it.
	We have Louisiana doing it, big Alabama's doing it.
	We have a lot of states.
	They seem to be red states, not too many blue states for whatever reason.
	But the red states, Republican-run states are doing it.
	The blue states don't do very well at security and policing, unfortunately.
	What would you say, Chris?
	You know, I would say that exactly right.
	The governor here has been fantastic in forming this partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
	We were looking at different contracts with different vendors and thought, why not go straight to our governors and ask them to help us solve this problem?
	Florida was unique in what they presented to us, and I would ask every other governor to do the exact same thing.
	This is unique because we can hold individuals here.
	They can have their hearings, get due process, and then immediately be flown back home to their home countries.
	And their home countries are welcoming them.
	They're setting up loans for houses.
	They've got food assistance.
	They're helping to facilitate welcoming them home.
	I just got home from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and they're all excited about getting their individuals back home from the United States.
	And there is a lot of self-deporting.
	That's one thing.
	I was actually surprised.
	Got a lot of self-deporting.
	I flew over the Everglades.
	We did it in a circle.
	I said, let me see.
	That's a big piece of land.
	It took us 45 minutes to fly around.
	Is there potential for enlargement or additional facilities out here?
	There may be.
	I mean, I think what we're doing is because this is an important part of Florida, we're using the existing footprint of this airport.
	So when you guys go over there, you'll see all the beds, the medical, the galley, everything is on the concrete.
	We're not using any of the other stuff.
	Now, as you'll see, there's a lot of concrete, so there very well may be.
	I know Secretary Noam and her team have said as soon as the president departs, we'll be open to start receiving folks.
	And so we'll see what the tempo is.
	We do have the 2000 in Northeast Florida that will open very soon.
	So it is possible to do.
	One of the things I think that is exciting about this is we're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges.
	We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals.
	I'm sure Pam will approve.
	But then you have, I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here.
	Someone has a notice to appear.
	Biden would tell them to come back in three years and appear.
	Now you'll be able to appear in like a day or two.
	So they're not going to be detained, hopefully, for all that long.
	We'll have people here in this facility that can make, you know, it's a bureaucracy.
	The president's got to deal with the bureaucracy.
	Now that Supreme Court ruling was good because that's going to allow him to be able to exercise Article II the way founders intended.
	But you still have bureaucracy.
	So we want to cut through that so that we have an efficient operation between Florida and DHS to get the removal of these illegals done.
	Are you going after the worst of the worst, or are you now arresting anyone who is here?
	We're doing the worst of the worst, always first.
	And I think it's great government, what we've done.
	And nobody can ever forget what this group of people, Biden or whoever it was, because you know, it probably wasn't even Biden.
	I don't think he knew what that was.
	Biden, whoever it was, what this group of people, a small group that circled the resolute desk, what they did to this country.
	Think of it, what your time, all the time you have to waste doing this.
	It's an unforced era.
	We had no problem with this.
	It was never anything like that.
	Thank you.
	Just like an unforced error, yes.
	Mr. President, in 2018, you suggested putting alligators in the Rio Grande to prevent crossings in Texas.
	Is this a dream come true for you, sir?
	Well, I was thinking about that.
	I must say.
	It was meant more as a joke, but the more I thought of it, the more I liked it, if you want to know the truth.
	And they were serious.
	They were actually crocodiles.
	They were crocodiles from Africa.
	They are a step beyond.
	But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it.
	And a lot of people think we should do it, Franklin.
	The Senate, it appears, is about to vote on this.
	I hear we're doing well, Ron.
	I hear we're doing well.
	Are you confident this can get?
	I don't know.
	What does confident mean when you're like when you have one vote and you have 100 people going to vote?
	I think so.
	I think it's going to be the greatest bill ever passed, even for you as an example.
	Tremendous amount of homeland security money.
	Tremendous amount.
	It's going to keep the border secure because, you know, we have them secure now, but we need to build more wall.
	I built almost 600 miles of wall.
	We need more wall.
	And all of that's covered in this bill.
	This bill is amazing for everybody.
	It's an amazing bill for Florida, too.
	Really great for Florida.
	Are there concerns about the Medicaid cuts, though?
	No, no, we're not going to be playing with Medicaid.
	Only waste, fraud and abuse.
	Yeah, the Democrats have it wrong.
	Yeah.
	Waste, fraud, and abuse.
	In fact, if you look at what's gone on, we've gone way back.
	We take care of Medicaid.
	We take care of Medicare.
	They will blow Medicare and Medicaid because they have no idea what they're doing.
	Just like they don't have any idea what they did on the border, they have no idea.
	Medicaid is in big trouble with the Democrats.
	Almost anyone who loses their health care coverage, that is because of waste, fraud, and abuse.
	Only waste, fraud, and abuse, which is what everybody wants.
	Mr. President, Russia has about 50,000 troops stationed outside of Sumy in Ukraine.
	What will you do if Russia authorizes an offensive?
	We'll see what happens.
	I'm watching it very closely.
	Mr. President?
	About Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit next week.
	What are you hoping To get out of that, and do you think there'll be any progress?
	It's going to be a very quick celebration.
	We had a great hit, it was an obliteration.
	Okay, now it turns out it was an obliteration.
	You know, they demeaned CNN mostly in the New York Times, fake New York Times.
	They demeaned these great soldiers.
	They went over there 17 hours flying and they hit bullseye after bullseye after bullseye.
	It all blew up.
	Everybody saw it.
	Then they get back and CNN said, well, they did okay, but maybe it wasn't.
	Let me tell you, it was beyond obliteration.
	They can't, nobody can even get down there.
	The tunnels are busted.
	Everything fell into the well.
	It was a total and complete obliteration.
	And we should celebrate these heroes.
	And what I'm doing is I'm bringing them run.
	We're bringing them to Florida or to the White House.
	I gave them their choice.
	I think they're going to take the White House.
	Probably.
	I shouldn't tell you this.
	Mr. President, there's going to be a new bill called Make American Elections Great Again.
	I love it.
	Forcing the U.S. Census Bureau to redo the census to actually get an account of how many Americans proof of citizenship are in our area, in our country, redistricting some of the House districts.
	Your thoughts on that?
	So I'll speak for both of us.
	We love it.
	You like this one.
	I know all about it.
	We want to bring our elections back.
	The election in 2020 was rigged.
	Millions and millions of votes.
	It had to do with COVID and a lot of things, but it really had to do with the crooked people.
	The Democrats are very good at cheating on elections.
	And that's why I said too big to rig.
	They tried this one too, but after about 902, they gave up too many votes.
	You know, too big to rig.
	Ron would love it.
	I would love it.
	Christie would love it.
	That's what they have to do.
	They have to bring it back.
	And we have to look, you know, Ron, they include anybody that happens to be in your state.
	Well, California, California would lose like five seats if they get a fair census.
	And even beyond that, the Biden census gypped Florida of at least one seat.
	We only got one seat in the last census.
	Are you trying to tell me that Florida only had one seat in that?
	We should have had at least two.
	Texas should have had another one.
	That could be the difference in the House of Representatives in the majority.
	So I would love for them to redo the census for 26.
	My legislature will redistrict those lines.
	We'll get it to where it's fair.
	But as it's right now, this country is not fairly apportioned.
	I've got so many more millions of people in Florida that have representation because of that flawed census.
	I think it's going to do very well.
	A lot of people, I don't know if you've heard about it.
	It's like, it's captivated the country.
	Everybody wants it.
	It's going to get in.
	It's going to pass.
	And we're going to be very happy.
	Elon Musk is ripping into this bill again.
	Are you concerned that Republicans are going to be swayed by Musk and his money?
	No, I don't think so.
	I think what's going to happen is Doge is going to look at Musk.
	And if Doge looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune.
	Thank you very much, everybody.
	I don't think you should be playing that game with me.
	Mr. President, Jalon, thank you very much, everybody.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	He is here for Giotto Blow.
	This is Donald Trump.
	It's your president.
	2024, we coming back.
	Joe Biden in the crowd taking naps.
	Innocent, 100 doing crack.
	Call me what you want, but don't call me a Democrat.
	They want to put him in jail, but I write him in even if he's innocent.
	I write you in.
	Y'all need the dead dead.
	I'm still coming through your hood in my red head.
	I might buy a MAGA chain.
	Let me call my jeweler.
	I'm exposing all these rhinos like I'm Lurluma Luma.
	We still don't have the manifesto from the trans shooter.
	Your girl like AOC.
	I want a girl like Brad Cooper.
	Woo.
	Real MAGA gang.
	You know how I rock it.
	Trump trying still going.
	No, it ain't stopped.
	We going up, but they want us to fall like Joe Biden.
	Trip 2024.
	Ain't no other option.
	Hey.
	Red wave coming.
	Let them know what's on the way.
	Tell them liberals I ain't giving up my two-way.
	They pushing genders in these schools.
	First, we got to pray.
	Then after that, we say.
	Donald Trump is your president.
	2024, we coming back.
	Joe Biden in the crowd taking naps.
	Innocent Hunter doing crack.
	Call me what you want, but don't call me a Democrat.
	They want to put him in jail.
	But I write him in even if he's innocent.
	I write you in.
	Y'all need the dead dad.
	I'm still coming through your hood in my red head.
	I'm different.
	I'm different.
	But I am not wearing two chains.
	Eminem was cool, but do change when he grew fame.
	America became Gotham.
	So we need a Bruce Wayne.
	While at least I'm sending all my money to Ukraine.
	I'm feeling myself like Nikki.
	No heavy.
	So crazy how she switched for the bucks.
	No Brady.
	Hold on.
	They say I should get deported.
	I'm a citizen.
	Cause I keep going in like undocumented immigrants.
	I'm a slimy.
	This gon'take them by surprise.
	No kamikaze.
	They think I'm a Nazi.
	Cause I fight like I'm Muhammad Ali.
	Office mags.
	They ain't stopping that.
	So they got a copy.
	Trump 24.
	They know I can't let these comments.
	Joe president 2024.
	We coming back.
	Joe Biden in the crowd taking naps.
	Innocent hunter doing crack.
	Call me what you want.
	But don't call me a Democrat.
	Democrat.
	They want to put him in jail.
	But I write him in even if he's innocent.
	I write you in.
	Y'all need the dead dead.
	I'm still coming through your hood in my red head.
	Woo.
	Thank you.
	I'm a girl from the Bronx If you come at the king, you better get in line.
	Stand there, shake and wait for your turn Behind the oak fart, just heed this alert You better finish what you start six feet above the ground Because you better keep a good man down In
	America we don't worship government Keep a good man down Keep a good man down We worship God Come on, come on, take your best shot Fuck my fish, Give me what you got.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	biggest ships in the sea, all owned by the oldest kings And a dying legacy Media Dill weeds So will the Benny show come to mind the salt from lips for fun Be the gold and bring the gun We sail for
	number one So will the Benny show come to mine the salt from Lids For fun, leave the gold and bring the gun.
	We sail for number one.
	The biggest ships in the sea, all owned by the oldest king.
	Riding on the Air Force One.
	His babies were number.
	Nobody wanted him around.
	We took his cash and went out like DB Cooper.
	Run, Joe, run into the Amazon.
	Take your wife and crackhead, son.
	Maybe one day we find your fortune like FJB Cooper.
	Join us.
	In the hunt for truth and light.
	At the Benny Show, targets in sight.
	Run Joe, run into the Amazon.
	Take your wife, the crackhead son.
	Maybe one day we find your fortune like FJB.
	FJB.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	If you travel north of Panama or far south of Canada, or ride these of the whole, you'll find what is so great.
	Just please don't dead name to go for America.
	Gulf of America.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The voice became clear as the Cubans appear.
	They just wanted to be the 51st state this year.
	The great Gulf of America is upon us.
	And guess what?
	Before Canada could take a side.
	The Mexicans appeared.
	And so we replied.
	Guess what?
	Guess what?
	Everything will be okay.
	Guess what day?
	What day?
	It is.
	It's hump day.
	Get on.
	Hunk day.
	Whoa.
	The night's It glows in a moonlit park.
	On deck, you'll find a camel, the rarest kind of dog.
	It has tusks like a walrus.
	It has humps like a whale.
	With fur like a lion.
	It has teeth like a...
	...and it's a little bit...
	...where they will take...
	...where they will take...
	...we're going in...
	...yes, this is our medical...
	...the president has invited...
	...the president has invited...
	...the president's on the schedule, right?
	...yes...
	...are we able to do...
	...the president's on the schedule...
	...the president's on the schedule...
	...and it's a little bit...
	The story of your Kamala Roller, don't keep on the one I'm at.
	My man Willie Brown, deep in the Bowser, California.
	Nice to meet you, nice to know her.
	Would you like rice with your order?
	Come up and closer.
	I got something I want to show you.
	This is my spatula.
	This is my apron.
	My name is Kamala.
	You know what I'm saying.
	I load the pellets in the back.
	Golden hearts.
	I'm a wreck.
	Oh, Willie, you made a mess.
	King fries are done.
	King fries are done.
	Oh, what have I done?
	I just needed a job.
	One day I'll become a lawyer.
	King fries are done.
	One day I'll be a lawyer.
	King fries are done.
	One day I'll be a lawyer.
	King fries are done.
	Camel is a magical sound to me.
	The sound of a cow.
	They're sailing through the fleet, bombard the corporate sea, blichen through splinting trees, emerging from the debris.
	What is this day and the areas where the medical is and all?
	And they've really done between Christy and Ron and the whole group.
	It's really government working together.
	And congratulations to you two guys.
	But I wanted you to see it as opposed to waiting for us and then say, how was it?
	Right?
	It really is pretty amazing.
	Did they take the vote yet?
	How's the vote going?
	I would normally be home waiting for the vote.
	Yes, we would.
	Or in Congress.
	But I wanted to come down and see.
	I hear the vote's going to be good.
	You'll let me know.
	You'll let me know.
	I will let you know.
	What's that?
	They're taking it now.
	I don't think they're comfortable.
	Not concluded, but they are concluded.
	Boy, wouldn't that be an upset, huh?
	Are you confident that this can get through the House?
	Anybody with over 100 July 4th?
	It's the greatest tax cut in the history of our country.
	And if it doesn't pass, it's the biggest tax increase in the history of our country.
	That alone, 68% increase as opposed to a massive cut.
	It's the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
	And everybody gets it.
	Mr. President and Madame Secretary, CNN yesterday pushed an app that lets you track where ICE agents are.
	Tom Homan was saying that perhaps CNN should be prosecuted for that.
	That's construction of law enforcement your response.
	Yeah, we're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations.
	And we're going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of PAM if we can because what they're doing we believe is illegal.
	And they may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran.
	They were given totally false reports.
	It was totally obliterated and our people have to be celebrated, not come home and say, what do you mean we didn't hit the targets?
	We hit the target prison.
	You know, the pilots came home and they said we hit the target prison.
	So they may be very well prosecuted for that.
	What they did there we think is totally illegal.
	Okay, let's go.
	Follow us.
	You're right.
	Jill Williams, I'm very lucky.
	Maudie's allegedly.
	Oh, really?
	He works for who?
	He works for Real America's Voice.
	Okay, good.
	Do you think it's easy to engage with Maudie?
	Do you think I can take the lead?
	She was working out pretty hard this week.
	She actually was.
	She was working out pretty hard.
	I was just, right?
	I was a little worried when they get my one-year-old shot.
	So now that the thing is the kids, how do you think?
	Now, one in 32 versus one in 20,000 20 years ago.
	So it was one, think of it, one in 20,000 20 years ago.
	Now it's, I have one in 16 in California.
	One in 16.
	But that's because they've been something.
	I think Bobby's going to be good at it.
	So nice to see you.
	Thank you for visiting us down here.
	This is our team, our pharmacist, and our nurse practitioner.
	They actually did all the work.
	Thanks, James.
	Nice to meet you, too.
	Thank you guys for joining us.
	Thank you for your questions today.
	You had how many days to do it?
	We actually did it.
	This is day nine?
	24 hours.
	I was relentless.
	This is like a monoclonal antibody clinic on stereo.
	We did the model of the carol.
	All I did come there was a dude's knees.
	60 pounds.
	I didn't like it either.
	I'm going to go to the carol.
	okay We can do it.
	yeah That was great.
	I never did shit like that.
	You know, I'm not going to do it.
	You know, it's not like I would have been afraid of, but we were watching live streams and stuff.
	Like, there was never anything like that.
	Give me a little finger please.
	Yeah.
	I'll do the right one.
	Can you see your feet?
	Okay, you go.
	Good job, Brian.
	Up to your left.
	You're left.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Hi, everyone.
	We're going to move to our next stop, right this way.
	Thank you, Preston.
	Okay, Preston, let's keep going.
	Come on, guys.
	Please run.
	Run, Preston.
	Yo, what's up, guys?
	Welcome to the Bronx.
	This is where AOC says she's from.
	And this is where AOC is actually from.
	Welcome to Yorktown, the business hamlet of Yorktown Heights.
	There's mansions everywhere.
	It's beautiful.
	It's green.
	It's pristine.
	It's clean.
	They even have a Christopher Columbus society.
	I thought AOC got all those statues ripped down.
	Some structural racism right here in AOC's hometown.
	Today, we're going to investigate the biggest lie in all of politics, the fraud of AOC.
	Let's go.
	This is the Bronx.
	The Bronx is a gritty, working-class, hardscrabble historic borough of New York City.
	AOC is a communist who represents the Bronx in Congress.
	She's not just a rising star in the Democrat Party.
	She is the Democrat Party.
	Clearly, preparing for a 2028 run, AOC is breaking fundraising records and filling stadiums to hype her Bronx girl persona.
	I'm a girl from the Bronx.
	AOC won her seat in Congress in 2018 by attacking her establishment Democrat opponent as not being sufficiently from the Bronx.
	A Democrat who takes corporate money, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water, cannot possibly represent us.
	AOC reflexively repeats that she's from the Bronx.
	And again, first generation is the Bronx.
	Girls from the Bronx are welcome everywhere.
	So often that it's almost a pathology.
	In fact, AOC just pulled the Bronx Girl card again this week.
	Yeah, thank you.
	You guys here.
	We'll see you.
	Okay.
	You're in the chat.
	No, I'm not.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	What's he saying?
	What's up?
	What's up?
	Oh, you're getting the thing.
	There's no other thing.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, wow, this is the actual robot.
	Oh, wow.
	They're going to sweep this six times to make sure there's nothing that can be used for contraband or weapons before the detainees come in.
	You see what I mean?
	It's an amazing job.
	They've all done a great job.
	Proud of it.
	Mr. President, Mr. Governor, what's your message to Governor Gavin Newsom inside of this facility?
	Well, the first thing he should do is come here and learn something because they don't do this.
	They wouldn't know where to begin, and if they did, it would cost them 100 times more.
	So I would say he should call the governor and Christy, and I'm sure you'd give him because his state is a disaster, and he doesn't do this.
	But they have the original Alcatraz, so you guys could approve him being able to set one of these up over there.
	I'm sure the Secretary would be happy to do that and provide some.
	My sense is he's probably not going to fight on that, but you know.
	But I don't know that they'd be able to come in at cost because they tried to do this high-speed rail.
	They spent like $150 billion, no tracks.
	We've got a privately funded rail in Florida from Miami to Orlando.
	It costs the taxpayer zero, and it's very successful.
	So just a much different approach between states.
	We're not going to let him get anywhere near Alcatraz.
	It'll cost 100 times more than they thought.
	Now, he ought to come here and study this because he could learn a lot.
	That's the first person checking into the room, sir.
	Tomorrow?
	Hopefully, yeah, hopefully tomorrow within the next 20 years.
	They have the doctors, they have all the professionals.
	There's going to be a security sweep because there've been civilians here, so they will sweep this multiple times to make sure there's nothing can be used as weapons or any contraband.
	And then once that's cleared, then they'll do.
	So it's really up to Secretary.
	I know he's got people in the queue, and so they'll be ready to receive.
	I think our viewers at home should note that this is air-conditioned facility.
	So if any of the news claims are keeping them out in the hot, humid South Florida, that is wrong.
	It's probably 62 degrees to be honest.
	Hey, Biden wanted me in here.
	Okay.
	He wanted me.
	It didn't work out that way.
	But he wanted me in here then, Senator.
	What's your expectation of what this will do for the speed and force of deportations?
	A lot of things, and they're both telling me that these people come in here, they want to go home.
	And they want to go home.
	So we immediately send them home.
	You know, where it's appropriate.
	Now, if somebody's a real killer-killer, we don't send them anywhere.
	We put them in a maximum security.
	Look, what we inherited from this guy, this incompetent man, and his administration, which wasn't incompetent, it was radical left, lunatic, communist, whatever you want to say.
	I know most of them.
	What we inherited should never, ever be forgotten.
	What they've made us do.
	This is all because of an open border policy where 25 million people float in.
	From all over the world, from prisons, from all over the world, they float in.
	For no reason whatsoever.
	You know, when I left, we had a very powerful border.
	We had no problem.
	He opened it up day one.
	He just opened the border.
	People couldn't believe it.
	That's right.
	They were standing there.
	What did they do?
	They said, go in.
	You look at the first day tapes.
	They opened it up and they said, go in.
	That's where all of this began.
	But this is an amazing thing that they've done here.
	Listen, people don't have to, they don't have to come here.
	If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally.
	We will let them come back.
	And there is a lot of self-deportation.
	But if you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don't ever get to come back to America.
	You don't get the chance to come back and be an American again and work here.
	They weren't with us when the President and Secretary Kevin and I, we went through the intake.
	So right when you do the intake, they have the information about voluntary departure.
	They have the ability, obviously you guys are funding that because it's a lot cheaper to do it that way.
	So even if they get brought to the front doorstep here, they still have an opportunity to just go back voluntarily.
	And then this way they're not like, hey, I want to stay here.
	I want to go back.
	We can put them on a plane that day and take them home.
	We'll buy their plane ticket, go home, and then they get the chance to come back legally.
	If they wait and say we're not going to do that, they can come back legally after business.
	You've talked recently about the idea of finding some way to get farm workforce and service sector workforce.
	And I think you've discussed somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and coming right back.
	Can you give us a little more detail about that and why, in the view of some hardliners, it's not a problem.
	And We're working on it right now.
	And Ron's going to be involved, and you're involved already.
	So we have a case, a lot of cases, where ICE will go into a farm, and these are guys working there for 10, 15 years.
	No problem.
	The farmers know them.
	We're going to put, it's called farmer responsibility or owner responsibility, where they're going to be largely responsible for these people.
	and they know these people.
	They've worked on the farms for 15 years and all of a sudden, And we're going to give them responsibility for people.
	And we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go.
	They can be here legally.
	They can pay taxes and everything.
	They're not getting citizenship, but they get other things.
	And the farmers need them to do the work.
	Without those people, you're not going to be able to run your farm.
	Mr. President, you and the governor tangled pretty hard in the 2024 election.
	Yet you stand here now as partners on this effort.
	How would you describe the relationship and what future does Governor Santas have?
	I think it's a 10.
	Maybe 9-9, because there might be a couple of little wounds.
	So maybe it's not 9.
	I think we have a 10.
	We get along great.
	Well, the thing about it is, I endorsed him immediately in January 2024.
	I raised one of his packs, millions and millions of dollars.
	And obviously, we saved him a lot of money in Florida because Florida was a deep red state.
	He didn't even have to do a rally in Florida, whereas 2016 and 20, this was like ground zero.
	And so we've been really happy to do that.
	And then we've worked very well on this and other issues with Florida.
	You can call him at any time, and he wants to be helpful for governors.
	I mean, I can tell you that.
	We did Hurricane Helene last year.
	You didn't hear from the president at the time then.
	But with President Trump, we know immediately, you just make the phone call.
	How firm are you going to be with Metanyahu about ending the war in Costa?
	Very firm.
	Very firm.
	But he wants it too.
	I will say, he's coming here next week.
	He wants to end it too.
	We had a tremendous success with Iran.
	They won't have to.
	Somebody said, when are you going to sign?
	Said, sign?
	They are so bombed out.
	Did you see the report issued this morning?
	The place was decimated.
	It'll be years before anybody even gets down there.
	So that's not a priority, but we'll have a report and we'll have whatever we want.
	We'll get whatever we want from Iran.
	And I think, and I hope they want to have a good country.
	You know, they have massive sanctions right now, biting sanctions.
	It's going to be very hard for them to do anything with those sanctions.
	And I look forward to maybe there'll be a time when we get along with them and they can rebuild their country.
	Is there a point where you tell Netanyahu like, you gotta end this now, you gotta strike a deal?
	He wants to, I can tell you he wants to, and I think we'll have it.
	I think we'll have a deal next week.
	That's what I think.
	Did you intend to announce your pick for successor to Jake Powell earlier than say, or as early as, say, this summer or this fall?
	Will I do something about who it's going to be?
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	Hey, he'd be a good candidate.
	She'd be a good candidate too.
	Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.
	No, he's causing us a fortune because he keeps the rate way up.
	I think it's trunk derangement syndrome personally.
	But, you know, we have a very strong country.
	We're the strongest country.
	Look, our country right now is at a level that we haven't seen for 40, 50 years.
	What we're doing now is nobody's seen anything like it.
	I told you, I was with in the Middle East.
	The king of Saudi Arabia said to me very strongly, he said, you know what?
	A year ago, you had a dead country.
	Now you have the hottest country in the world.
	We do.
	We have the hottest country in the world.
	Thank you very much.
	We'll be seeing it over the next couple of years.
	We'll kill those type of industries.
	Will Chilomar Abreu Garcia be the first inmate here?
	Thank you.
	This way?
	Thank you.
	There's your body over here.
	I'm going to put you on the buffer.
	Where's our full camera?
	Stills, right here.
	Stills over here, Brian.
	Press, right here.
	Right here.
	Pools, right here.
	Okay, well, right here.
	What does that mean?
	I'm not, but I don't know.
	It's going to be right here, and I have it to do.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Good job.
	Even the microphone works well.
	That's good.
	Wow.
	Well, I'd like to just thank everybody for the incredible job they've done.
	I love the state.
	As you know, Ron and I have had a really great relationship for a long time.
	We had a little off period for a couple of days, but it didn't last long.
	It didn't last long.
	And a lot of respect for each other.
	And it's a great honor to be deep in Florida, the Florida Everglades, to open America's newest migrant detention center.
	It's incredibly built, and you're seeing that yourself.
	That's why I said, let the press join us on our walk so they can see what's happening.
	It's known as Alligator Alcatraz, which is very appropriate because I looked outside and that's not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon.
	But very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.
	We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is really deportation.
	And a lot of these people are self-deporting back to their country where they came from.
	Quite a few were amazed at actually the number.
	We took the FEMA money that Joe Biden allocated to pay for the free luxury hotel rooms where he's paying hundreds of millions of dollars in New York City.
	And we used it to build this project.
	And Nirana was just a little fraction of that money.
	The money they spent on that project.
	I happen to know the real estate developer.
	He's a very, he never really made that much, but he became very wealthy.
	With luxury, he didn't do well.
	With people that are not exactly luxury, he's made a fortune.
	I want to thank Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.
	Where is James?
	Where is he?
	You do a very good job.
	I hear good things.
	I hear good things about you from Ron, too.
	Now you really do.
	He's even a good-looking guy.
	That guy's got a future, huh?
	Good job, James.
	I hear you did really, really fantastic.
	Worked hard.
	You're like in the construction business for a few days, right?
	Congratulations for all the hard work to make this facility possible.
	It's amazing.
	Thanks as well to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
	Where is Wilton?
	Where are you, Wilton?
	Hi, Wilton.
	It's been a long time.
	Thank you.
	Congressman Byron Donalds.
	Where's Byron?
	Hi, Byron.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Florida Speaker of the House, Daniel Perez.
	Daniel?
	Daniel, thank you, Daniel.
	Boy, you didn't want to sit up here with us, Daniel.
	Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie.
	Hi, Kevin.
	Good job.
	Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons.
	Todd, great job.
	And Senator Joe Gruyters, he is a great guy.
	Where is Joe?
	We love Joe.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Joe.
	Joe is great.
	With the help of those incredible Border Patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily border crossings ever recorded.
	As you know, last month, the month of May, just got released two days ago, the number of illegal aliens into the United States was zero.
	Zero.
	Even I find that hard to believe that somebody must have gotten it, I think.
	I don't know, but they say zero.
	And the people that count them are radical left Democrats.
	So when a radical left Democrat tells me it's zero, I believe him.
	But there's still much work to do.
	In the four years before I took office, Joe Biden allowed 21 million people.
	That's a minimum.
	I think it was much higher than that.
	Illegal aliens to invade our country.
	He invaded our country just like a military would invade.
	It's tougher because they don't wear uniforms.
	You don't know who they are.
	More than the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia combined.
	That's what came into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, from street gangs, drug dealers.
	It's disgusting.
	This enormous country-destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide with massive crime, crippling costs, and burdens far beyond what any nation could withstand.
	No nation could withstand what we did.
	And we're in the process of doing it, but we have some great people doing it now.
	And you see them up here with me.
	But it's, I'd call it like an unforced era.
	It's sort of like men and women sports.
	It's sort of like transgender for everybody.
	How could they have done this to our country?
	And we're never going to forget it.
	Last year, 15% of all the hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal aliens at costs that they never got for luxury.
	They never got this much for luxury people coming in from the wealthiest places on earth, they made more money with the illegal immigrants, with many rooms costing more than $300 a night, six times the rent of a typical American family.
	In Denver, Colorado, the city was forced to cut $10 million from its police and fire department budget as part of a $90 million plan to house illegal aliens.
	And it's a population that's growing and growing and destroying Denver and growing.
	And again, it's destroying Denver.
	And it's destroying many other cities too.
	Likewise, one of the city's largest hospital system is drowning in unpaid medical bills, unpaid in the billions after their emergency rooms were flooded with tens of thousands of illegals, leading to the closure of critical services.
	And these are really critical services.
	They can't even keep them open for American patients.
	The American patients were treated worse than any illegal immigrant.
	In Los Angeles, one in every four students in the public school system is from a household headed by an illegal, and most of them don't speak English.
	So they're in a school system and they don't have interpreters.
	They don't have anything.
	They don't speak English.
	What a mess.
	What a mess.
	Unforced error.
	All these people allowed to come in.
	The United States is now spending $78 billion a year on translation.
	Okay, think of that.
	$78 billion a year on translation and smaller numbers on special education programs for non-English speakers in our public schools.
	So $78 billion.
	I think that's not a mistake.
	I would say million dollars maybe, hundreds of thousands of dollars, $78 billion, Joe, on translators and non-English speaking work.
	Federal government, the Justice Department, it's more than twice the cost of maintaining the United States Justice Department, what we're spending on translation and other things to help.
	In total, the average illegal alien costs American taxpayers an estimated $70,000.
	That's each.
	$70,000.
	I think that number is even low.
	If you care about balancing the budget, the single most impactful step we can take is to fully reverse the Biden migration invasion, one of the worst invasions we've ever had.
	We've never had an invasion like this.
	We've had invasions, but we've taken care of them.
	We've never had an invasion like this.
	And it's with us.
	And we have some very bad people out there looking to do big harm.
	That's why the one big, beautiful bill includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents.
	And I've gotten to know the Border Patrol and ICE very well.
	Unlike Kamala, she was the Border Czar, but she never saw the border.
	She never made one phone call.
	She was some border czar.
	She would have been some president.
	Probably would have been slightly better than Biden, though.
	I had to run against both of them.
	You know, the one guy, it's like a fighter.
	You knock out the one guy who's doing badly.
	Then they put somebody else in.
	But fortunately, she was a stiff ulcer.
	Otherwise, I would have been very angry.
	I would have been extremely angry.
	The heroes of ICE will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels which are coming back into our country.
	And we got them out.
	Now some of them came back in.
	We just got them out again.
	And that's going to be a vicious cycle.
	But these are foreign gangs here, horrendous people, killers that have infiltrated our territory, including eight, which we have designated as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives us a lot more power for speed and getting them out much easier.
	And we had a great court victory, as you know, on Friday, that allows us to do what we have to do from the Supreme Court of the United States.
	In five months, my administration has already arrested over 2,700 members of the murderous Venezuelan gang known as Trendi Aragua, including a pack of these sadistic animals arrested last month with over 280 guns, and these are guns of the latest caliber.
	These are guns that were made over the last period of less than a year, getting brand new guns, the latest and the greatest.
	Every day, our brave law enforcement officers are hunting down and deporting migrant criminals who have committed heinous crimes, including more than 13,000 murderers.
	11,888 to be exact, but I'd probably say the 13,000 is right also.
	Think of it, 11,888, and more than half of them, they committed more than one murder.
	So, Ron, many of them are out of here already, but it's still a hell of a number to be confronted with.
	Just this year, ICE agents in Miami have apprehended illegals with arrests for murder, kidnapping, rape, child sexual abuse, and arson, people of the worst order.
	We're getting these monsters out of the United States, out of Florida, out of all the places that they're in.
	And on January 20th, I signed an executive order empowering governors and state police to be deputized to enforce federal immigration laws.
	And Ron's already taken advantage of it.
	It really, it's a tremendous advantage for the states.
	Most of them are doing it.
	Actually, the blue states tend not to do it.
	Even a couple of them have, though.
	And I want to express my tremendous thanks to the state of Florida for embracing this opportunity and being a true partner.
	They've worked so well with the federal government.
	It's been just a beautiful, beautiful partnership.
	So, Ron, I'd like to thank you personally.
	You are my friend, and you'll always be my friend.
	And we may have some skirmishes even in the future.
	I doubt it.
	But we'll always come back because we just seem to, we have blood that seems to match pretty well.
	We have a relationship that's been a very strong one for a long period of time, and I appreciate it.
	Very much appreciate it.
	And also, Secretary Noam, I'd like to have you say a few words.
	You have been unbelievable, the job you've done.
	You and our favorite person, Tom, Tom Holman, have done, and your whole staff, because it's a lot of people.
	And Tom acknowledges it all the time.
	He respects you so much.
	He respects the staff that you both built.
	And you're really doing one of the great jobs.
	And it was great that you could work with Ron in Florida so well, built such a great facility.
	So please say a few words.
	Thank you very much.
	I don't know if this will work.
	Well, thank you, Mr. President.
	First of all, I want to thank you for putting the safety and the security of the American people first and the way that you never lose focus on making sure that America stays our priority and that the families that live here get the chance to grow up and to raise their children in communities that are safe and that give them an opportunity to pursue the American dream.
	This facility here is a fantastic representation of what can happen when all of government works together and when it's accountable to the taxpayers and to the citizens that live here.
	The president signed an executive order that allowed us to build partnerships with states and with local law enforcement officers, which is exactly how things should function in this country.
	More power, more authority given to people locally so that they can take control of their own destiny.
	And so we have already been working under the 287G program to deputize law enforcement officers, whether they be state highway patrol, local sheriff's departments in all of our states, and allow them to go out with our ICE officers, our border patrol officers, and make sure that we're getting the worst of the worst off of the streets.
	We also recognize that as we've been doing that and returning people back to their home countries, that we need detention facilities.
	We need beds to put them in place so that they can have their due process before they return home.
	And this facility is exactly what I want every single governor in this country to consider doing with us.
	What happened to start this conversation was that a young man named Jimmy Percival in my office, my general counsel, who came from Florida and used to work here, called up the Attorney General and the governor and said, hey, what do you think about partnering with us on a detention facility that we could put in place that would allow us to bring individuals there?
	There's an airstrip close by.
	You guys volunteered the assets that you have and the connections that you have and worked with Kevin extensively so that we could come here, have their due process given, and return them home to their countries.
	And in eight days, this facility has been stood up.
	And I want everybody to recognize the detention facilities that ICE adheres to is a higher standard than is required at state levels, at local Department of Corrections facilities, sheriff's offices.
	This is a state-of-the-art facility, air-conditioned, isolated though, for security purposes, which is very helpful.
	And I appreciate so many people being willing to work together to make a project like this happen.
	Right here on this location, we'll have about 3,000 beds.
	Other location, we'll have another 2,000 beds that will allow us to bring individuals across the country that we are bringing in and incarcerating for violating our laws and immediately get them out of the country as soon as we possibly can.
	It's exactly what we need to be perpetuating in other states.
	And what I would say is, I want all of you to notice these flyers that we've got, is that everybody who sees these flyers or anybody who sees these news clips should know you can still go home on your own.
	You can self-deport.
	If you go on the CBP Home app and go home now, you will get the chance to come back to the United States legally.
	You will get the chance to come back and do it the right way.
	If you don't, you may end up here.
	And you may end up here and being processed, deported out of this country, and never get the chance to come back.
	That is the consequences of breaking the law in the United States of America.
	Listen, our job is to uphold the law.
	This is a country of laws.
	We have a border now.
	And we, because we have a president that cares and recognizes that we need to be a nation of borders and a nation that upholds the law.
	If you break the law, there's consequences.
	We will deport you and you will never get to be a United States citizen.
	You'll never even get to come back here and work and to pursue the American dream.
	But if you decide you want to go home now, go home and we'll help facilitate it.
	We'll buy your plane ticket.
	We'll get you there.
	In fact, I just got back from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras.
	Those countries are excited to get their citizens home.
	They're setting up programs to loan them money to buy houses when they get there, help them with food assistance, get their children educated, scholarships.
	They want their citizens that are living here in the United States illegally to come home and to be a part of their economy and help their countries grow.
	So this is a win-win for everyone.
	And I just want to end, Mr. President, by thanking our law enforcement officers, by thanking our ICE officers and our Border Patrol officers for what they do every day.
	They are out on the streets and violence against them has increased over 500% since Trump has gone back into the White House because he's upholding the law and because a bunch of liberals, socialists, and Marxists are out there lying about what President Trump is doing.
	President Trump is upholding freedom by what he is doing.
	The freedom to live safely in this country and to do things legally and to have justice.
	And because those liberals, and I'm calling out you, CNN, I'm calling you out because you lie every single day about what these operations are.
	We are going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets and getting them out of this country because Joe Biden let the worst of the worst come in here.
	The other day I was talking to some marshals that have been partnering with ICE.
	They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home.
	And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself.
	And they had to get him off and get him medical attention.
	These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we're trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged, they don't belong here.
	And they shouldn't be walking the streets with our children.
	And they shouldn't be living in the communities with our families who just want to grow up, go to job, raise their children to grow up and get a job and to live the American dream.
	So thank you to all of our law enforcement officers, those in our military that have been helping our National Guard.
	Thank you to Governor DeSantis for stepping up and being an example to other governors.
	I hope my phone rings off the hook from governors calling and saying, how can we do what Florida just did?
	How can we do exactly what they did?
	Because if this, we need this big, beautiful bill.
	We absolutely have to have this big, beautiful bill that has the funding so that we can continue this operation and We can get those bad criminals off of our streets and have the officers to do it so that when they go out on an operation, somebody's got their back.
	Somebody's got their back, they can do it safely, and they can go home to their families at night, too.
	So, this bill needs to pass through Congress so we have the resources at the Department of Homeland Security to make sure that our homeland truly is secure.
	And, Mr. President, thank you for Stephen Miller.
	I just want to thank you for him.
	This guy calls me night and day and tells me all of his wise advice and wisdom.
	But he's a rock star because he loves this country and he's passionate about making sure that nobody is prioritized over an American citizen.
	We love everybody.
	We do.
	We love everybody.
	Not everybody.
	Well, a lot of people.
	But we shouldn't be putting people illegally above citizens.
	We should be making sure that we do things right.
	And that's what America has always stood for.
	And we're an example to the rest of the world because we do it right.
	So, Mr. President, you surround yourself with great people.
	And I think that's because everybody wants to work for the greatest president that the United States has ever had.
	And that's President Donald J. Trump.
	So thank you very much, Christie.
	Thank you, Peter.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	And I have to say that, you know, when Christy's name was put before me by Tom Holman, by the way, because I wanted him for the border, and somehow I thought that was going to be good in that sort.
	But he didn't want the upper job.
	And I said, who do you recommend?
	Christy Noam.
	I said, oh, are you kitty?
	She's great, but she's such a fine, elegant person.
	He said, sir, she's tough as hell.
	I said, are you sure?
	You are tough as hell.
	I tell you.
	And you're, and you do it in a very nice way, but you are, if you ever saw her ride a horse, she rides a horse like she should be in the rodeo.
	She's like an unbelievable horse person.
	And you've done a fantastic job.
	And Steve Miller would even agree to that.
	And he likes nobody, by the way.
	I don't think he likes anybody.
	And another one we like is Ron.
	And Ron, would you say a few words, please?
	Sure.
	Well, thank you, Mr. President.
	Welcome back to Florida.
	And I think this is the first time you've been back since the events of a couple of weeks.
	So just let me say, as somebody that was serving on active duty in Iraq back in the day, we witnessed the number of our troops that were killed or wounded by the Iranians.
	We know that they're a militant Islamic regime that was hell-bent on getting nuclear weapons.
	And under Joe Biden, they were about to get nuclear weapons.
	And because of your strong actions, those dreams and those ambitions have been reduced to rubble.
	And I thank you.
	I know a lot of veterans thank you.
	And people in Florida really thank you for stepping up and really making a strong, tough, but strong decision.
	I think we're much safer as a result of that.
	Now, on the immigration, I think President Trump's election represented the chance for us to finally solve this illegal immigration and border problem once and for all.
	I knew he was going to do the border, although he did it very quickly and very thoroughly.
	I think that no one can say that that's been anything but a spectacular success.
	But then we have the issue of Biden let in how many millions of people?
	And you had millions that had been in over decades previous to that.
	You can't have a country if you don't have respect for the rule of law.
	You can't have a country if foreigners get to decide who comes in.
	No, we, the American people, make that decision, who's allowed or not allowed to come into our country.
	We've seen Europe be overrun by open borders.
	So we're not going to let that happen here.
	So when president got elected, I knew that the states had an important role to play in facilitating this really, really historic mission.
	We're the only state in America, Florida, that requires full cooperation with ICE from all state and local law enforcement entities.
	And what is the net result of that?
	We have these agreements for these 287G task force with sheriff's departments, police departments, state agencies.
	And it's really instrumental in rounding up a lot of really bad people who shouldn't be here.
	If you look at the number of those full-blown 287G agreements that have been executed around the country, the state of Florida accounts for 60% of those.
	If you look at the number of immigration arrests of illegal aliens on any given day, the arrests happening in Florida constitute between 15 and 20 percent nationwide.
	So we're all in on this because we understand how important it is to our citizens.
	It crowds schools, it crowds medical, it crowds housing.
	Yes, you have illegal alien crime as well, and people want the problem solved.
	And the only way we're going to solve it is if states like Florida step up and help the president, help Secretary Noam get the job done.
	Now, this facility here was really in response to us working with DHS and ICE from the time the president got sworn in.
	And the number one thing they kept coming back to was, you know, Biden decimated the agency.
	I mean, let's just be clear.
	You could have illegals in Florida.
	Biden would just release them.
	Even when they had notices or they had orders to be removed, Biden wouldn't send them back.
	So their interior enforcement collapsed under Biden.
	So they're building it back up, but they're like, we need detention space in order to be able to bring about more deportations.
	And so what we have here is can hold 3,000 now.
	We have 2,000 facility up at Camp Blanding that we're going to be open, which is our National Guard site.
	But think about what you have here.
	They come here, say they already have been ordered to be deported.
	You drive them 2,000 feet to the runway, and then they're gone.
	It's a one-stop shop.
	And this airport that's been here for a long time is the perfectly secure location.
	It's going to make a big difference.
	And let me just thank everyone who was involved.
	We got the call from DHS a little bit more than a week ago.
	And here we are, eight days later with this facility open.
	And as soon as Air Force One departs, it'll be swept and it'll be open for business to be able to do.
	But our goal here is to process them and be able to effectuate their return to their home country.
	This is the opposite of what they were doing in New York by just putting them up in a hotel and then just letting them stay there indefinitely.
	No, we want to be able to do to send back.
	And when you walk into the processing, the president and I, Secretary Noam, Kevin Guthrie, walk through that initial intake, the first thing you see is information how to go home on your own.
	Why would you want to come through Alligator Alcatraz if you can just go home on your own?
	I think a lot of people are going to make that decision.
	So, you're going to have a lot of deportations that are going to be done by the administration, but I think you're going to have a lot of voluntary as well.
	So, this is a force multiplier for the president's efforts.
	I would just say and echo what Secretary Noam says, there is no reason why other states can't be doing.
	And I know Louisiana, Texas, a couple of them, but we've got how, I mean, if only the red states did this, they would be able to expand their capacity by tens of thousands, maybe 50, 100,000 on a given day.
	That's how you really start to make a difference.
	And so we're proud to be able to partner with the Trump administration on that.
	Mr. President, thanks for coming down.
	I think you highlighting this is going to move the needle in a big way throughout the country.
	And I think it's going to help all of us achieve the really big results that I think our voters want to see.
	Thank you.
	Great job.
	Thanks.
	Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity.
	My name is Kevin Guther.
	I'm the Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
	I'd also like to thank President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Noam for joining us here today and for their continued support.
	I want to thank by first by thanking the man to my right, and that's Governor Ron DeSantis, whose bold leadership and swift action made this project possible.
	Would no miss, make no mistake, this facility would not be standing here without the president, the secretary, and the governor's vision and determination to uphold the rule of law.
	Florida is and will always be a law and order state.
	Even before the president took office, the governor made it clear that illegal immigration would not be tolerated in the state of Florida.
	When the president and the secretary asked Florida to help, the governor empowered our state and private partners to work collaboratively and deliver real results on a rapid timeline.
	The Florida Division of Emergency Management is best known for leading the nation in hurricane response and other natural disasters.
	We understand how to act fast without bureaucracy in the face of any emergency.
	Our teams built roads in eight hours, bridges in three days, base camps in 72 hours, and full causeways in two weeks.
	Getting things done quickly, efficiently, and correctly is at the core of our mission.
	We simply just want to be the best at what we do in the nation.
	When the governor called me, we answered, and we are proud to bring our logistical expertise to the table.
	We know how to set up base camps for guardsmen, first responders, linemen, volunteers, and other aid sources and distribute that in a matter of days before a storm.
	We're able to translate this knowledge to what we did here at Alligator Alcatraz.
	Florida has put the best teams together who check their individual logos and egos at the door to get this done.
	Not just for you, Governor, but Mr. President, for you as well.
	There are over 13 different vendors that came together to get this solved in eight days.
	Truly a whole of private sector partnership to get that done.
	Behind you on these boards, in only eight days, we have built a fully compliant detention facility with a detainee capacity of up to 3,000 people with room for additional capacity if you asked us to do so.
	The detention facility includes over 158,000 square feet of housing and is a fully aluminum frame structure rated for winds of 110 miles an hour or a high-end category two for those people that don't think that we're taking that into consideration.
	This is Florida, by the way.
	Power supply is fully redundant with backup generators in place.
	We've put a staff village here on site with a capacity of 1,000.
	Our services are hot meal three times a day, 24-7 medical facility, pharmacy, air conditioning, access to indoor and outdoor recycls, legal and clergy support services, laundry.
	Our security element is over 200 security cameras throughout the facility, more than 28,000 feet of barbed wire, 400-plus security personnel to include 200 men and women, soldiers and airmen underneath Major General John Haas's command as the Adjutant General of Florida.
	And it's all surrounded, as you pointed out, Mr. President, by 10 miles of beautiful Florida Everglades.
	Contingencies, as with all state correctional facilities, we have a hurricane plan.
	We will not wait for a Cat II.
	We will follow our normal evacuation procedures, as we do for any other facility statewide in our great state of Florida.
	We have on-site fire and EMS resources so that we do not locally, we don't burden the locals with any type of response.
	All in all, sir, this has been a perfect state logistics exercise for this hurricane season.
	Everything we did here in the last eight days, God forbid, if we have a hurricane, we're going to do it again.
	This was a dress rehearsal for us, and we are ready, willing, and able to support you, sir, the governor, secretary, and everything that you need us to do.
	Just a week ago, it was a taxiway and a runway, and now is a fully functioning facility.
	We are happy to support you, Mr. President, governor, secretary.
	Thank you.
	All right, let me finish.
	Ah, there we go.
	First of all, Mr. President, we all have to thank you for your leadership and for the mandate that the American people gave you to finally secure our borders and to deport criminal illegal aliens and long-standing illegal aliens out of the United States.
	That is a mandate given to you by the American people.
	I know Secretary Noam, Stephen Miller, Governor DeSantis, myself, on behalf of the other members of Congress in the Senate, and of course here in Florida, we are behind you 100% in that mission.
	To the governor, I really appreciate you and commend you for your leadership on this, taking swift, decisive action to building this facility.
	One of the things that has occurred because of the work you did earlier this year with the legislature is that our sheriffs are out there every single Day, they are arresting these criminal aliens in our streets, and they're seeing some backlog in their jails.
	So, this facility primarily goes to address some of that backlog and then to help us fulfill the mission that the president has led us to.
	So, governor, thank you for your leadership and thank you for your decisive action on this.
	It really does mean a lot to all the people of Florida, of course, the people of the 19th Congressional District.
	Secretary Noam, I mean, what can I say?
	The president's right, you're double tough.
	So, we appreciate all your leadership.
	You and Tom Holman have been doing a great job.
	And I'm actually going back to DC after this because we have to vote on one big, beautiful bill in the House.
	We have to get that to the president's desk so we can get you the resources that you need to fulfill the mission that the American people have asked us to do.
	I totally agree with what Mr. Guthrie has said.
	This is a logistical marvel when something like this occurs.
	We've seen Florida Department of Emergency Management answer the bell time and time again.
	The governor has said we need to accomplish this, and DEM gets that job done.
	And we had a side conversation about, I know there were some concerns.
	People are like, well, what happens if a hurricane comes?
	What happens if this happens?
	And I looked at Kevin Guthrie and I said, you already have a plan, don't you?
	And he goes, of course we have a plan.
	You know that we do.
	This is what Florida does, Mr. President.
	And so I want to commend you for your leadership and your vision on this.
	Governor, thank you for all that you've done with your vision and determination.
	Secretary Noam, we're going to get the bill done so you get the resources you need.
	See you, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, thank you.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	You know, I'm waiting, listening to these wonderful words, and they are music to my ears, but I was also wondering how we're doing because I know this is prime time.
	It shows that I care about you because I'm here and I probably should be there, but we do care.
	Thank you very much.
	James, please.
	We're all happy now, James.
	Yeah.
	Well, I can speak on behalf of all of our sheriffs, state law enforcement, our police chiefs.
	We are going to continue to make arrests, our pedals to the metal, as many as we can.
	We want to fill this place up.
	The governor and Kevin have shown they can build bridges in three days, so why not some detention facilities?
	Hopefully there's more to come.
	And you really kind of were the inspiration for this.
	We liked the idea of reopening the original Alcatraz.
	I don't know if that can happen or not, but we thought, hey, we've got our own natural Alcatraz in the middle of the Everglades.
	Great runway, great perimeter.
	So let's make it happen.
	In Florida, we walk the walk, and we will deliver for all of you.
	Thank you.
	Well, I heard you were responsible for the locational pick, and you cannot have picked a better location.
	I said, whoever the hell made this choice, I know you're taking a little heat from some environmental groups, but I take it all the time.
	That's an honor.
	But I heard you were very responsible for that choice, and that was a big choice.
	Thank you very much.
	Great job, James.
	Thank you.
	We want to finish over here, and then we'll go over here.
	We'll go back and celebrate the big, beautiful bill that just got passed.
	You sure that's right, correct, Brian?
	All right.
	Wow.
	Good.
	He's doing a good job.
	Wow.
	Mr. President, first of all, I just want to say how grateful we are that you're back here in your home state of Florida.
	You've been doing an amazing job, not only at our border, but around the world, keeping this country safe.
	Americans, we are grateful for your leadership.
	God had a plan for us, and it was Donald Trump.
	So thank you for that.
	As a member of the Immigration Board and as the Commissioner of Agriculture of this state, I've been happy to help lead with the governor and the rest of the cabinet on this issue.
	We're very proud of Secretary Noam's here today and others to represent not only the United States in our efforts to make this commitment to keep our citizens safe, but we're going to continue in Florida to remove the barriers to have your vision come true of a safe United States.
	We're going to get these illegals, the illegal criminals out of this state, and we really appreciate you and your leadership in this effort.
	So thank you for being here.
	Thank you very much.
	You're doing a great job, too.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Joe Gruyter's state senator.
	I'm a member of your Homeland Security Advisory Council, your vice chairman.
	Thank you for that appointment.
	And thank you for coming back to Florida and everything that you do.
	Every single day you are delivering on the promises that you promised to us at all of the events you've done throughout the years, but specifically this last campaign.
	You deserve all the credit for everything and you were surrounding yourself with incredible people like Secretary Noam, Stephen Miller.
	And just like your big, beautiful bill here in Florida, there was a lot of commotion about our immigration bill.
	And we had three Bs in that, beds, badges, and bad guys.
	And this goes right along with our beds and the resources.
	And I give the governor, Ron DeSantis, a lot of credit for stepping up and making sure that we all work together because at the end of the day, even if sometimes there are skirmishes, as a result of the back and forth, we ended up with a better bill and we all win.
	And what we're doing here in Florida, hopefully will happen all across the country.
	You've done your leadership is amazing.
	Keep up the great work and just know that Florida loves President Donald J. Trump.
	Thank you very much, Joe.
	Appreciate it.
	For a long time.
	Appreciate it.
	By the way, Okeechobee is something that we did together also.
	And that was a lot of money spent.
	I hope it was well spent.
	I know we did a Rolls-Royce job, but it's a lot of money that we spent out there together.
	And how is it going?
	You can delegate that to us because we move faster than the Army Corps.
	So we will finish that reservoir.
	If you delegate it to us, I'll get it done and much quicker.
	Oh, I would do that.
	Let me ask myself permission.
	Permission granted.
	Go ahead.
	Get it complete.
	You want to do it?
	All right, we're going to go talk to the Army Corps then after this.
	You can't move faster, actually.
	Please.
	I think it.
	Oh.
	Sir, just first on behalf of the men and women of ICE, we just want to thank you for allowing us to do our job again.
	You know, your vision and under Secretary Noam's leadership, this is what the American people want.
	And I hope that you see great results of what we're doing out there every day, getting the worst of the worst Out of our communities.
	Because of you and Secretary Noam, I have the privilege to lead one of the most premier and the finest law enforcement agencies that we do have in the United States.
	And the men and women of HSI and ERO Miami do incredible work, like you highlighted.
	And with the governor and the state of Florida, the partnership in Florida has been amazing.
	The 287G program is only going to help us to identify all those known gotaways and get the worst of the worst out of the neighborhoods.
	And through our Homeland Security Task Force, we are going to make America safe again.
	So thank you very much to both you and the Secretary.
	Thank you, Todd.
	Great job.
	Really great job you're doing.
	Thank you, please.
	Good morning, Mr. President.
	Thank you so much for coming.
	Again, as Garrett Rip, I'm the Field Office Director for ICRO here for the Miami Field Office.
	Incredible collaborative work we've been doing together, working with the state, working with our local partners.
	And again, just the 287G is going to open up that aperture and allow us to get those bad ombres off the street and get them into this facility.
	And we're looking forward to it.
	And again, just appreciate all your support.
	Thank you.
	Always, thank you.
	You've always been so great.
	Thank you very much.
	Please.
	Good afternoon, Mr. President.
	On behalf of Air Marine Operations, my name is Andrés Blanco.
	I'm the Executive Director for Southeast Region.
	AMO continues to execute and support your executive orders.
	Air Marine Operations brings a unique capability to both to the air and maritime domains.
	And in partnership with our Border Patrol, OFO officers, and ERO, we continue to conduct effective operations both interior along the border and along the maritime approaches.
	Thank you very much.
	Good job.
	Good afternoon, Mr. President.
	Josef Figueroa.
	I am the acting special agent in charge for homeland security investigations here in South Florida, and our office covers from Key West to four piers.
	Tremendous collaboration here with the state and our federal partners.
	HSI is conducting criminal investigations into TDA, MS3 teams that are involved in human smuggling, sex trafficking of minors, and we will continue that effort with your support.
	Governor DeSantis, thank you very much for this facility.
	Looking forward to continuing the great work.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Steve, would you like to say something?
	Our star.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	I just want to say on a personal note, getting to watch what you've done over the last five months to deliver on a 50-year hope and dream of the American people to secure the border, when President Trump came into office on January 20th, the United States had endured the largest wave of illegal immigration in human history.
	Not just American history, human history.
	And within just a few days, President Trump, through his strength, leadership, diplomacy, and vision, achieved the most secure border anyone in the world has ever seen.
	When we recently went overseas to the NATO summit, I had senior staff in foreign governments come up to me and ask me how he achieved the Trump miracle on his border and could that be replicated in their countries.
	For individuals who don't work in this space, to have zero successful illegal entries in an entire month should be an impossible achievement.
	There is a 2,000 mile border with one of the poorest countries in the world and you have open travel from 150 countries into Central America and South America.
	There are 2 billion people in the world that would economically benefit from illegally coming to the United States.
	And through the deployment of the military, through the deployment of novel legal and diplomatic tools, through the building of physical infrastructure, through the empowering of ICE and border patrol, and the entire federal law enforcement apparatus, President Trump achieved absolute border security.
	And now, once this legislation is passed, he will be able to make that with those resources permanent.
	Watching what you've done, sir, has been one of the honors of a lifetime.
	I'm proud to be able to play any role in it.
	And what President Trump is going to achieve next with the resources in this bill will make America safer, stronger, freer, more sovereign, and more prosperous than it has ever been before.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you, Steve.
	Thank you.
	And the bill is going to be great for Ron.
	It's going to be great for Florida, too.
	A lot of set-asides for Florida, some of the things that you wanted, you wanted to do.
	And so it's great news to hear that it was approved.
	Do you want to take a few questions, Ron?
	We'll take a few questions from this.
	Yeah, please.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Given the likelihood of the one big, beautiful bill passing, and we look forward to the success of this facility here.
	How many more facilities like this do you feel that the country needs in order to enact your agenda of mass deportations?
	Well, I think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states.
	This one, I know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more.
	And, you know, at some point they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.
	You know, it's not that far away from jails that take years to build and money is spent and wasted.
	And, you know, like the railway that they have in California, they cost like 40 times more than it was supposed to cost.
	The same things happens with prisons.
	You look at this in a short period of time.
	Ron, James, and some of the people that really worked on it along with our people, they did this in less than a week.
	And you look at it, it's incredible.
	Look, the incredible thing is picking the site because the site was one of the most natural sites.
	It might be as good as the real Alcatraz site.
	Oh, that's a spooky one, too, isn't it?
	That's a tough site.
	But so I really think it could last as long as they want to have it.
	I mean, you may morph this into your prison system, frankly, which I know you always need, unfortunately.
	I'd like to say it, you know, a little controversial, but I couldn't care less.
	We have a lot of bad criminals that came into this country, and they came in stupidly.
	It was an unforced era.
	It was an incompetent president that allowed it to happen.
	It was an autopin maybe that allowed it to happen.
	And it did happen.
	But we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time.
	People that whack people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking to kill them.
	People that knife you when you're walking down the street.
	They're not new to our country.
	They're old to our country.
	Many of them were born in our country.
	I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too.
	You want to know the truth?
	So maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together.
	But I think getting them out, you know, we forget about them.
	We have some very bad, we had some bad accidents in New York, and they're not accidents.
	They were done very much in purpose.
	People being pushed into a subway just before it arrives, going 40 miles an hour.
	And they're 10 feet away from where the thing is to get pushed right into the face of the subway train, get whacked and killed.
	These are sick people.
	I'd like to get them out of here too.
	Yeah, please go ahead.
	White shirt, glasses.
	Ugh, Rosas, Blazemedia, yes, sir.
	A couple months ago, I ran into former DHS Secretary Mayorkis, and I asked him a couple questions about his disastrous handling of the border.
	He didn't like my questions.
	But the number one question that I heard from people in responding to my video was, why hasn't he been arrested yet?
	You know, obviously you guys are cleaning up the mess that was made deliberately for the past four years.
	And so people want accountability.
	It's great to see that the border is secured and it's great to see the state level cooperation.
	But I guess I would ask you, why hasn't he been held accountable or anybody?
	Well, you know, pardons were given out to many people and they shouldn't have been given out.
	Like the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs was given a pardon because they destroyed all of the information from two years of hearings and they should be arrested, but they were given pardons.
	Was he given a pardon, Mayakis?
	Was he not?
	I don't believe so.
	Well, I take a look at that one because what he did is it's beyond incompetence.
	Something had to be done.
	Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people, and he was really doing the orders.
	And you could say he was very loyal to them because it must have been very hard for him to stand up and sit up and talk about what he allowed to happen to this country and be serious about it.
	So he was given orders.
	If he wasn't given a pardon, I could see looking at that and back.
	Why don't you take a look at it, Chris?
	He was impeached, but yeah, it was just a fake impeachment.
	It was a fake impeach.
	But why don't you take a look at it?
	I think he was so bad.
	They were all so bad.
	Look, it was the worst president in the history of our country.
	We've had some bad ones, but he was the worst president.
	But somebody told my orchestra to do that, and he followed orders, but that doesn't necessarily hold him armless.
	So take a look at it.
	Very good question, actually.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, please.
	Go ahead.
	Mr. President, you and the Secretary have both said that many people have self-deported since you came back into office.
	How many is many, and has the rate gone up?
	How do you see the tempo of that moving forward going on?
	We have had several hundred thousand, but also we have many that have self-deported not even using the CBP home app.
	When I have gone to these other countries to negotiate security agreements and information sharing on criminals who's coming and going into their countries, they report that hundreds of thousands have come home that weren't on our radar, that they are coming home on their own and self-deporting because they want the chance to be able to go back to America someday.
	So we believe it's over a million, possibly more than that.
	I'm asking all of those countries for their information on what they have of individuals that may have returned home that they have taking advantage of their programs to help them become a part of their civilization again too.
	So we know it's over a million, but we have to, I'm getting more information and that number will grow.
	If they don't leave, they never get the chance to come back.
	If we have to take them out, and we will, they'll go out, but they never get a chance to come back.
	The other way, we actually make it a little bit easier for them to come back.
	Okay?
	Thank you.
	Good question.
	Thank you.
	The bill is now passed in the Senate, but we are already hearing from some Republicans in the House who say they cannot get on board with the changes that were made to the bill in the Senate.
	What is your message to those holdouts?
	Well, I just heard that about the Senate and the bill just passed.
	And it tells you there's something for everyone.
	I mean, we have, it's a great bill.
	There is something for everyone.
	And I think it's going to go very nicely in the House.
	Actually, I think it will be easier in the House than it was in the Senate.
	And just to be clear, on the Medicaid cuts, you've promised not to cut Medicaid, said this is all just targeting waste, fraud, and abuse.
	Are you saying that the estimated 11.8 million people who could lose their health coverage, that is all waste, fraud, and abuse?
	No, I'm not saying that.
	I'm saying it's going to be a very much smaller number than that.
	And that number will be waste, fraud, and abuse.
	And if you look, they took a much more liberal stance on the Medicaid situation than they could have.
	They had a tough stance and a weak stance.
	They took not a very strong stance on that to start off.
	And it's waste, fraud, and abuse.
	And everybody wants that covered.
	What number is that?
	What analysis are you seeing?
	I'm not seeing a number, but I know it's much less than the number you gave.
	And we really were very, very cognizant of three things.
	Social Security, we're going to take care of it beautifully.
	Medicare and Medicaid.
	And we are going to save it.
	Whereas the Democrats are going to, you won't have it.
	They will destroy Medicare and Medicaid.
	And they have to because their numbers don't work.
	So it's not going to happen.
	They're the ones that have destroyed Medicaid.
	They have made it so bad already, they're going to make it a lot worse.
	But now we'll be in charge.
	So we're going to have no problem with Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Hi, Mr. Breslau.
	Claire Gall with Wink News and Fort Myers.
	What is your direction to ICE when it comes to arresting farm workers here illegally, other workers in industries that are pretty critical to Florida's economy?
	Well, we're very much cognizant of that.
	And as you know, I won the farmers by 92%.
	And I'm not going to be abandoning my farmers.
	We were strong on the borders, but we're also strong for the farmers and for others in the hotel industry, et cetera.
	You know, we have similar situations.
	And Christy and I, and we'll be working with Ron and a lot of the states.
	We're going to work something where the farmers can be responsible for some of the people that have been.
	They have people around for 10, 15 years that they know very well.
	We're going to put them responsible and have, we're going to issue a form of a card or document.
	And the farmers are going to be responsible for these people.
	They're not going to have citizenship, but they'll be working, they'll be paying taxes.
	We need to get our farmers the people they need.
	Otherwise, our farmers aren't going to be able to do their land.
	You know, we tried once before, many, many years ago, where there was a very strong guy, and he got everybody out and every farm almost in the country, but every farm in California, every farm in Iowa, almost all the farms went bankrupt.
	They had nobody to work, and we don't want to have that situation.
	So we're going to work it.
	We're going to put our farmers and others in charge of the people that they have under them.
	They know the people, and I think it's going to work out really well.
	We're going to take care of our farmer, but we're going to get the criminals out.
	Okay?
	Yeah, go ahead, please.
	Thank you.
	Mr. President, how do you respond to critics who fear that a 3,000-bed detention center and the waste that that could produce will pollute the surrounding federal protected land, including land that both administrations have invested billions of dollars in restoring?
	Well, I was one of those that invested billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of dollars right here in the Meadowlands, but in the Everdlands, and the Meadowlands too in New York.
	If you look at what we did up there, speaking of the Meadowlands, a lot of places like this, but this is a very unique one.
	One thing I'll say about this land, we'll be gone a million years and this land is still going to be here.
	It's not going to be much different.
	You'll have the water moccasins.
	You'll have the alligators.
	You may not have people, but you're going to have all those animals.
	They're going to be around.
	And you got plenty of them out here.
	I think it was a brilliant choice.
	And I think almost anybody in his or her right mind would say this was a brilliant choice.
	I give the governor a lot of credit for using this piece of land.
	And in addition to that, it's on top of something that was already developed.
	It's an airport.
	You know, you have the runways, it's already been developed.
	So it's not like you're dropping dirt right into the thing.
	There was zero movement of that.
	That was done many years ago because the airport's very old, but it was an abandoned railroad, an abandoned airport.
	And frankly, it's like perfect.
	And you can do expansion on this site substantially without doing anything.
	So the people, I heard them complaining about the Everglades.
	There's no, there's no, I don't think you've done anything to the Everglades.
	I think you're just enhancing it.
	This was already here.
	How long has the airport been here?
	Decades.
	Many decades.
	And they have, Kevin, all these guys, you know, have a waste plan, like the wastewater gets trucked out, potable water gets, literally, they have, even our DOT has put things up in case there's any seepage, which we don't.
	So you are literally doing this on concrete that's already here.
	So I don't think those are valid and even good faith criticisms because it's not going to impact the Everglades at all.
	President's been a champion.
	We've been a champion, really changed the game in Florida on it.
	I think it's just people don't want to see illegal immigrants deported and that's their ideology and they have a right to that.
	But illegal immigration is unpopular.
	So they know that they're going to have less effect.
	So they're going to try, oh, well, no, it's just about the Everglades.
	But really, I think a lot of those people, they just don't want to see illegals deported.
	Because if you actually hear everyone's here, you obviously know there's zero land that's being disturbed.
	Well, you know, when we talk about popularity, though, I will say I ran on the issue of illegals and we have to get them out.
	And I won 82% on that issue.
	So I think that they may not like certain aspects of it, but ultimately they do not want them in their country.
	And if this is a part of a use.
	But I think from an environmental standpoint, it's incredible.
	In fact, when we landed that very big, heavy plane today, they came out and checked it fairly.
	You know, I think they want the president to be able to land on a piece of concrete that's not going to go six feet underground.
	And they checked it.
	They came back and they said, this thing is really solid.
	So it's been there a long time.
	It's going to be here a long time.
	And it was a great choice, I would say.
	Thank you.
	Yes, please.
	Brian, go ahead.
	The people of Syria were recently seen on the streets waving American flags, chanting Trump, Trump, Trump.
	They're so appreciative of the economic sanctions that was lifted on that country, giving them a little bit of hope for prosperity.
	You want to comment on that?
	Well, they're great people.
	And the man that is leading them has a reputation.
	You know, he's the head of some pretty tough organizations.
	And a lot of people criticized me for that.
	I said, well, what are we going to do?
	Take him out of a day school, a country day school.
	It's going to be by nature.
	I would think, Ron, they'll be pretty tough.
	And he is pretty tough.
	But I think I met him, spent a lot of time with him, good guy.
	I took off the sanctions because if I didn't do that, they wouldn't have had a chance.
	And Syria has a chance.
	You know, the people are great.
	They work hard.
	They're very smart.
	It used to be a place of professionals, accountants and lawyers and doctors and high academic credentials in that part of the world.
	And I think it's going to work out great.
	I took off the sanctions and they were very appreciative.
	They were shocked, but they were very appreciative.
	We're giving them a chance at survival.
	With the sanctions, it couldn't have worked.
	Thank you.
	Mr. President, your beloved New York City, your beloved New York City may well be led by a communist soon, Zorhan Mandami, who in his nomination speech said he will defy ICE and will not allow ICE to arrest criminal aliens in New York City.
	Your message to communist Zorhan Mandami.
	Well, then we'll have to arrest him.
	Look, we don't need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I'm going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation.
	We send him money.
	We send him all the things that he needs to run a government.
	And by the way, they get already, they get about three times what you get, Ron.
	If you look at the per capita, Florida gets one-third of what New York gets in terms of the numbers.
	Why don't you give us those numbers?
	Because that's what we should send him.
	Yeah, like sometimes people say Florida gets more because they count Social Security recipients, but that's not money to the state.
	Those are seniors that live here.
	If they move to North Carolina, you could count it there.
	So it has no interaction with the state government.
	They get more on the city and state governments than we get.
	Right.
	Substantially.
	We're going to be watching that very carefully.
	And a lot of people are saying he's here illegally.
	You know, we're going to look at everything.
	And ideally, he's going to turn out to be much less than a communist.
	But right now, he's a communist.
	That's not a socialist.
	You know, I've always said we will not have socialism in this country.
	And the speeches, I said, well, what?
	He skipped socialism.
	And you get a lot of them like that.
	And you see AOC, she's out there with her, you know, bad IQ.
	She's out there ranting and raving about how wonderful he is.
	And look, so far he's winning.
	He still has a race to win, but so far he's winning.
	And he has an advantage as a Democrat in New York City.
	I was there a long time ago.
	And it's a long time since the Republican won the city.
	But you would think that a Republican would be able to win.
	Or you have a good independent running, Mayor Adams, who's a very good person.
	I helped him out a little bit.
	He had a problem, and he was unfairly hurt over this question.
	He made a statement to the effect that this is terrible.
	New York City can't have all these immigrants come in.
	And like he was indicted the following day.
	And I said, that was a phony indictment.
	That was a phony indictment.
	That was a Biden indictment.
	I said, don't feel bad.
	I got indicted five times every time you opened your mouth.
	That was a bad group.
	That was a very dangerous group, I will tell you.
	These were not nice people.
	That was the only thing they could do.
	They had no policy.
	They had no skill.
	They had no anything.
	But they were very good at that.
	They were vicious, vicious, horrible people.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, please go ahead.
	Anna Gierteli with Washington Examiner.
	Governor DeSantis has proposed using National Guard, deputizing them as immigration judges to get through this massive backlog of people in the immigration court.
	Would you be open to that?
	Yes, he has my approval.
	That wasn't too hard to get, was it, Front?
	He didn't even have to ask me, James.
	You didn't even need James to ask me.
	He has my approval, okay?
	I also like what he's doing in Okeechobee.
	He has my approval for that too.
	I don't know how we work that out, but we'll work it out.
	We'll follow up.
	Go ahead.
	Please.
	President Trump, Jake Stoffan with Action News Jax from up in Jacksonville.
	There's some talk about a facility similar to this up in Camp Landing.
	Has that been approved by DHS?
	If not, what's the timeline?
	When could we see ground break on that?
	Well, I'll ask Ron or James to talk about it.
	Do you want to mention it, James?
	The overarching plan, I think the Secretary has said she supports the whole plan.
	So we'll guys have to keep going.
	Mr. President, just specifically, the response for proposals is out for that today.
	It closes, I can't even remember what day of the week it is, but it closes on Wednesday at 5 o'clock.
	Then we will do notice to proceed.
	So I would say right after our wonderful Independence Day, we will be starting construction near that facility.
	You have another big runway there, too.
	Wow.
	Well, I love these runways.
	It's really convenient, I must say.
	Having a runway is a nice thing.
	Today, you don't get runways approved.
	I will tell you, it's tough to get a runway.
	Although in the age of Trump, you get them approved as, you know, we're approving massive electrical bins, what do you call them bins, but big electrical facilities for all of the factories and the AI that's coming in.
	They're going to build their own electric.
	They're going to be really, they're going to be made into electrical providers.
	They're going to have a lot left over.
	They'll put it into the grid.
	I think they're going to end up doing so much.
	They'll put it into the grid.
	It won't even cost anything from their standpoint.
	So we have a lot of that happening.
	We get approvals fast.
	But I was just saying, runways are hard to get, but we'll get them now.
	But in the past, I would say over the past 30, 40 years, when you can get a runway that was considered gold.
	Okay, please go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Sure.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Yes.
	President Trump, Laverne-McGee, News 6, Orlando, you have fulfilled several campaign promises, along with the help of Governor Ron DeSantis.
	What is the next campaign promise that you plan to fulfill to the American people?
	So we have turned this country around in less than six months.
	And when I was away, and I was telling Ron, I was telling some others, I've said it a little publicly, I guess, but I met a lot of very important people.
	The king of Saudi Arabia, I was there two weeks ago, and Qatar, the leader of Qatar, who's great, and the leader of UAE, who's great.
	These are very substantial people, very smart people, and good people.
	And all three of them said essentially the same thing, along with many other people, because I just left NATO.
	NATO's going to, we took it up to 5%.
	Nobody can believe that one run.
	That would be a hard one.
	Nobody believes that what happened in NATO, over a trillion dollars a year from like nothing.
	It was an honor.
	But every leader said that a year ago, this country was dead.
	They had no confidence in the United States.
	They really felt it was a dead country and it was going to, bad things were going to happen.
	But they used the term, it was a dead country.
	And now they said you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
	We're the hottest country in the world right now.
	And we turned it around fast.
	I thought it would take longer than this.
	We turned it around fast.
	Some of it was psychology.
	And we had to know how good we were.
	But others was getting rid of rules, regulations, and all of the things that I got rid of already.
	I signed more executive orders than anybody in history times, like three or four.
	And I got rid of just one I got rid of the other night.
	You buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe.
	And the faucet, the water doesn't come out.
	They have a restrictor.
	In areas where you have so much water, they don't know what to do with it.
	You have a shower head.
	The shower doesn't, the shower doesn't, you think it's not working.
	It is working.
	The water's dripping out.
	And that's no good for me.
	I like this hair nice and I like that hair nice and wet.
	You have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair.
	And I put a thing in, and it sounds funny, but it's really not.
	It's horrible.
	And when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet.
	No water comes out.
	You're washing.
	The water barely comes out.
	This was done by crazy people.
	And I wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can't just change it because I did it in my first term.
	Everyone's so happy.
	And then one of the first things that Biden did when he came back is he put the restriction on showers, toilets, and sinks, and washing machines.
	The washing machine, they give you like a quarter of this bottle to do your clothing.
	And people needed 10 of these bottles.
	And the people came to me from Whirlpool.
	they said, We can't make a machine that's competitive.
	We can't make a machine that doesn't work.
	Why?
	They don't let us use water.
	Do you have any problems with water?
	No, we have so much we don't know what to do with it.
	You know, it comes down from heaven, right?
	And I approved all of that, the washing machines, the whole thing.
	The dishwashers, that was the other one.
	They give you like this much water right up there there to do your dishes.
	So people, you know what they do?
	They keep pressing the button.
	So they end up doing the dishes 10 times.
	They end up using more water than you would have used if you did it right in the first place.
	So all of that stuff has been written off.
	It sounds crazy.
	It's little things.
	The straw.
	I let you go back to plastic straw.
	I was tired of having straws melt in my mouth, you know?
	It wasn't working.
	The paper wasn't working too well.
	So these are little things that I did.
	Then we have the big things.
	We have the biggest things.
	And that has to do with some of the subjects we're talking now.
	I think the things we're talking about now are the biggest because if you don't have borders in this country, borders and good elections, and we're working on that next.
	There's some bills coming in that's going to make sure that you're a citizen, that people aren't counted in the voting when, you know, they were here and they're here as illegals and they're criminals in many cases, and they give them a count and you end up with extra congressmen.
	We're going to work on that.
	We're going to straighten that out next.
	That's going to be easy compared to what we were doing.
	But we did the big things too.
	But little things like that, a straw, little things like a washing machine with no water.
	People go out, they spend all their money on a washing machine.
	The damn thing doesn't work.
	You can't use the water.
	Then you go to your sink and that doesn't work either.
	You're stuck.
	You know what you do?
	You have dirty plates the next day.
	That's it.
	And we solved so many common sense problems.
	And they weren't easy.
	You know, there are people that really believe in this stuff.
	But, you know, most states have so much water, they don't know what to do with it.
	And look at North Carolina.
	I mean, they had a lot of water and they have to get restrictors on their, you know, in their kitchen faucets.
	So we're very proud of the things we did and we're going to do a lot more of them.
	Yeah, please go ahead.
	Guys in good shape.
	It's Eric Bowling.
	How you doing, sir?
	Something we've talked about for, I'd say, better part of 20 years.
	I think it's something near and dear to your heart, energy, or energy security.
	Under Joe Biden, average price of oil for the four years was about $79 a barrel.
	He drained the SPR halfway down, promised to replenish it, never did.
	Under you, first term, $53, average price for four years.
	Biden was $78 for eight years.
	It was never refilled.
	The question is now $64 or so.
	Coming down rapidly.
	Coming down, and what a great opportunity to fix another one of Joe Biden's problems, one of the things he broke in America, giving us the energy security of an emergency SPR, fill it to, maybe even go beyond and fill it to a billion barrels this time at a much cheaper price.
	Thoughts on the energy sector?
	So it holds 77 million barrels, and we had it up to the top, if you remember.
	And I was proud of that.
	And I made a deal to buy it at the lowest price of oil.
	It was a good deal, good instinct.
	And we filled it up.
	And when he came in, he started using it to keep oil prices down because he blew our energy policy out.
	Energy is what caused energy and his bad spending is what caused inflation.
	So now we have no inflation.
	Gasoline just hit $199 today in five states.
	$199.
	Isn't that a nice sound?
	It was up to $4 and going up to $5, $6 and $7.
	In California, it was $7.70.
	But we just hit in five states, $199, $198.
	And it's coming down to that level.
	So that'll be a big thing.
	And one of the reasons the prices and costs are going down when you go to the supermarket, because I said I was going to get costs down, we're getting the cost down.
	Food is coming down.
	When I came out, my first week, if you remember, I had a lunatic reporter screaming at me saying, eggs are going through the roof.
	What are you going to do about eggs?
	I said, I just got here.
	I didn't know anything about eggs.
	I had to call you.
	I said, look, I just got here.
	Tell me the problem.
	Well, they're doubled in price and they're going to be five or six times higher.
	They were right, actually.
	I said, let me work on it.
	And now we have eggs down to the same numbers it was when I first came in.
	You know, we lowered the cost of groceries.
	A simple word like that, groceries.
	It was like almost a strange word.
	I hadn't heard the word in so long.
	But what could be more beautiful than the word grocery?
	And we have the prices way down.
	We have the energy way down.
	Energy brought the groceries down, if you want to know the truth.
	And, you know, so we think we're going to get it lower and we're going to fill up the national strategy.
	It's called the strategic national reserves.
	I had it topped out and this guy would use them every time before the election.
	He'd use them whenever they had an election.
	It was artificial.
	But believe it or not, as big as that are, tens of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil all filled up at low prices.
	But it was really meant for wars and it wasn't meant for keeping your prices down during a holiday so that somebody could get elected.
	But they used it and they didn't bring it.
	The only mistake you made, they didn't bring it a little down.
	They brought it right down to the bottom.
	The thing is practically empty.
	They never filled it up.
	They never spent 10 cents in filling it up.
	And we'll do that.
	When the market is right, we'll fill it up.
	I want to fill it up when the market's right.
	Thank you.
	How about one more question?
	Okay, please, in the back.
	Dana Marie McNichol Fox News Channel.
	Mr. President, is there an expected timeframe that detainees will spend here days, weeks, months?
	And does that have anything to do with the immigration judges you just spoke about being trained and staffed here?
	When you say, what was the first part of your question?
	Is there a specific timeframe you expect the detainees to spend here days, weeks, months?
	In Florida?
	Yes, here in Algeria.
	I'm going to spend a lot of time.
	Look, this is my home state.
	I love it.
	I love your government.
	I love all the people around.
	These are all friends of mine.
	They know very well.
	I mean, I'm not surprised that they do so well.
	They're great people.
	Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time.
	I feel very comfortable in the state.
	I'll spend a lot of time here.
	I want to, you know, for four years, I've got to be in Washington and I'm okay with it because I love the White House.
	I even fix up the little oval office.
	I make it.
	It's like a diamond.
	It's beautiful.
	It's so beautiful.
	It wasn't maintained properly, I will tell you that.
	But even when it wasn't, it was still the oval office.
	So it meant a lot.
	But I'll spend as much time as I can here.
	You know, my vacation is generally here because it's convenient.
	I live in Palm Beach.
	It's my home.
	And I have a very nice little place, nice little cottage to stay at, right?
	But we have a lot of fun.
	And I'm a big contributor to Florida.
	You know, pay a lot of tax.
	And a lot of people move from New York.
	And I don't know what New York is going to do.
	A lot of people moved to Florida from New York.
	And it was for a lot of reasons, but one of them was taxes.
	The taxes are so high in New York, they're leaving.
	I don't know what New York's going to do about that because some of the biggest, wealthiest people and some of the people that pay the most taxes of any people anywhere in the world for that matter, they're moving to Florida and other places.
	So we're going to have to help some of these states out, I think.
	But thank you very much.
	I'll be here as much as I can.
	Very nice question.
	With that, I'd like to just end by saying I want to thank Ron and James and all of the people that have done such a great job, all of your staff.
	Really fantastic work.
	And it really started with site selection.
	You can do a great job, but if you have the wrong site in real estate, you have the wrong site, you're dead.
	And this was a great site selection, despite what you may read in the environmental press.
	Good job.
	And this was an honor for Christy and myself and Steve and all of our people to be here.
	And I also appreciate the media.
	They've treated us very fairly.
	Over the last few weeks, I've been treated very nicely.
	And it's so unusual.
	I'm not used to it, but we've gotten great accolades.
	Brian, I want to thank you for calling out because I was waiting here because I knew the vote was taking place and I'm answering questions, right?
	So I want to thank you very much and say hello to our friend.
	And I will see a lot of you.
	Thank you very much.
	We're going to make America great again.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	If you come at the king, you better get in line.
	Stand there shaking, waiting for your turn.
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	You need a clown tone for the attack.
	But I stand six feet above the ground.
	you can't keep a good man down come on come on take me to my grave i'll rise again and again and say you can't keep a good man down no you can't keep the gold man down Keep a good man down.
	In America, we don't worship government.
	Keep a good man down.
	Keep a good man down.
	We worship God.
	Come on, come on.
	Take your best shot.
	Fuck the fish.
	Give me what you got.
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