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Sept. 2, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Trump LIVE Right Now Making Massive Announcement From Oval Office
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peter doocy
We got a hint about this announcement from the Defense Department's website.
It says that it has something to do, this announcement, with the US Space Command Headquarters.
So we should know more about that within the next hour or so.
The President is already in the Oval Office preparing for that announcement that we will be in for.
And then there's this other big issue that you guys were just talking about with all those sound bites, crime, especially over a holiday weekend.
Officials here are talking about crime in big cities as a threat to homeland security.
And so they've now got the homeland security secretary, Kristi Nohm, running point on trying to make people safer.
kristi noem
I was a governor for many years.
So I recognize the responsibilities that you have on your shoulder when you're a governor.
And I'll tell you, as a governor, when I had to make tough decisions and when I was a governor, I had to disagreements with the Biden administration or challenges my people were facing, I called up the Biden administration.
I went and talked to them.
I asked for meetings.
I fought for my people.
This seems like it's more about Governor Pritzker's ego now, rather than actually protecting his people.
peter doocy
And President Trump has a message to Blue State governors about his standing offer to send in the guard.
He says on Truth Social, it can happen and it can happen fast.
Work with us.
Mayor Bowser's ratings have gone up in a short period of time, twenty five percent.
And the people of DC are thanking her for stopping crime wherever she goes.
It is not a miracle.
It is hard work, courage, and being smart.
Sending the guard in is common sense, but there are Democrats more worried about the dollars and cents.
unidentified
I respect Mayor Bowser, and I'm glad that the trend that she has seen over the past few weeks has continued the downward trend that DC has seen over the past year.
That's wonderful.
The idea of introducing the National Guard into every major American city is not sustainable, particularly when you're looking at the cost.
peter doocy
And so we expect to hear a lot more about this if the president takes Q&A after his big announcement, which 99% of the time he does.
unidentified
*music*
donald j trump
Cheap bronze scrap.
If it was gold, I would have melted it.
peter doocy
Okay.
benny johnson
This is the White House, the reference of that meme, and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
President Trump will be live shortly from the Oval Office to make a Pentagon announcement.
We believe this to be an announcement having to do something with Space Force and renaming the Pentagon.
The Department of War instead of the Department of Defense, which would of course be awesome.
That's exactly what that department is supposed to do and would send a message.
And we hope that happens live on our screen right now.
However, I don't even think we have a holding screen.
Do we, boys?
Do we even have a shot?
I'm not sure.
I can't even show you like an empty dias or anything like that.
This is all we have right now.
So we're rocking and we're rolling.
And as soon as the president.
is live inside of the Oval Office.
will be live with him.
The meme of Donald Trump throwing Well, I can show you exactly what that is all about.
So there was a video that was captured at the White House over the weekend.
And you could see in this video that there is a black bag somewhere describing.
What do you think?
There was something black that was thrown out of the White House.
Okay.
There, here it is again.
Well, there's more.
There's more of it.
So something is being chucked out of the window.
Now, I've covered the White House for a long time.
I lived in DC for a while.
I've never seen anything thrown out of a white house window so no one's quite exact no one's quite sure what this is the white house said ah it's contractors doing contract work okay donald trump's doing a ton of restoration of the white house he's building entirely new wings inside of the white house he's redone flagpoles the rose garden he's apparently redoing something in the west wing he was on the roof the other day on the west wing saying he's going to put up nuclear missile silos in the west wing President Trump has totally given a massive face look lift to the White House.
This is the Lincoln bedroom.
This would be like the schematic would be the private room inside the Lincoln bedroom.
So what do you think it is?
What do you think is being chucked out of the White House window here.
I'm not sure.
We'll find out.
Maybe President Trump will talk about it.
But something got thrown out of the White House from the window onto the ground below.
And I don't know what.
I don't know what it is.
Guess your guess is as good as mine.
Let me know in the chat.
What do you think this was?
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
There is some major changes that will be.
happening at the White House.
Now, Alex, do we have that photo of the Hall of Presidents, the wall of presidents there?
I know there's a photo of Donald Trump doing that.
I know there's a photo of Donald Trump walking the corridor looking at the new wall of presidents.
Donald Trump is going to be placing a wall of presidents.
Some people are saying maybe this is a bust of Barack Obama being thrown out the window.
Barack Obama's portrait, along with George W. Bush's portrait, has already been effectively moved out of view inside of the White House.
And so maybe this is Donald Trump.
donald j trump
Just, just.
benny johnson
So you're saying there's a chance this could potentially be Donald Trump throwing.
just personally throwing the bust of Barack Obama out the damn window.
We know that Donald Trump is going to be placing some brand new material inside of the White House.
He's going to be putting up a bunch of portraits right here in this colonnade in the White House.
And wait, Alex, I know there's a photo of this.
You keep holding out on me.
I know there's a photo of President Trump standing there with Judge Janine staring at the staring at this wall and looking at the new portraits.
All producers, all producers, Jack, Ashley, Danny, this is your call.
Get me this photograph.
This has been posted.
I think it's Margot Martin.
I'm not sure.
But there's a photo of Donald Trump with all the portraits that he's going to put up outside, like inside of this colonnade.
And he's assessing these giant, beautiful frames.
And he did an interview recently with the Daily Caller, this reporter named Regan Reese.
I don't know her.
That well, she seems like a very nice person.
Regan Reese, here's me in president before our interview yesterday.
He's very much alive and more coming soon.
This is of course the blue and on conspiracy theory that Donald Trump had died over the weekend.
This was the number one trending topic on the left.
I want to show you like where their moral and mental state is.
They, Donald Trump had a day without a single event.
Donald Trump had a day without an event and they all decided that President Trump was dead.
That's exactly where their brains went.
They're sick puppies, ladies and gentlemen.
But President Trump has announced what he is going to do on his new wall of presidents on his new wall his his new colonnade of presidents right here.
It's going to be very, very interesting.
He says that he's going to replace a photograph of Joe Biden with a photograph of an autopen portrait inside the White House Wall of Fame gallery.
This is from the interview that President Trump did with the Daily Caller.
How about that for American realism?
President Trump hinted that he will troll ex-President Joe Biden with an autopen portrait inside of the White House gallery.
He's calling the presidential wall of.
Fame, according to a report.
The two-time commander-in-chief shared his plan to mock his successor predecessor with a portrait featuring a notorious auto pen in a newly conceived Presidential Wall of Fame that's being constructed right now inside of the Rose Garden.
It's a decision that I have to make.
We'll put up a picture of an auto pen, Trump told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview published on Monday.
He then shared the publication, a mock-up of what the Biden auto, he showed the publication, a mock-up of what the Biden auto pen would look like inside of the special gallery.
I got to do it, Trump said.
Same picture, but black and white.
Yeah.
And I'm not going to use the one with the smile.
The Allies did not publish the photo of the mock-up, share details of the appearance, but Trump himself predicted that it would cause quite a stir.
Okay.
Let's read the direct.
So it looks something like this.
Here's the autopen machine.
Let's read the direct quotations here, shall we?
And so this is from the interview.
It's just a written interview, President Trump and a daily caller.
See what they're doing outside of the rose garden?
Putting up beautiful mirrors.
Did you see the mirrors out there?
Did you?
No, I haven't, says the reporter.
What we're doing is called the Presidential Wall of Fame.
Oh, yes.
I see.
There it is.
Thank you.
Goodness gracious.
Okay, thank you.
Okay.
So this is, let me just give you some context here.
Yes, let me give some context.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Here's some context.
You can see here, if you zoom in on the photo, you can see that those are two portraits.
It looks like George Washington, potentially, a George Washington and a Thomas Jefferson portrait that are being placed and hung there.
And then you have Judge Janine standing there with President Trump.
And then you have Donald Trump there observing what's going on.?
And then you can see here, Judge Gene and Donald Trump together on what will be the presidential wall of portraits.
And you can see how many portraits there are going to be.
There's going to be a lot.
Maybe there's going to be 47.
I'm not sure I haven't counted, but it looks like 47 potential portraits.
unidentified
Good.
benny johnson
Thank you, producers.
I knew I wasn't going insane.
I knew I'd seen these photos somewhere.
Okay, good.
So there's going to be potentially 47 different portraits of...
Okay, so let's go back to the interview.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
Oh, yes, I did see this.
Trump, come on.
Want to go watch?
Yeah, let's go see.
Trump and Reese walk out of the old office in the rose garden for several minutes while Hotel California plays in the White House.
Reese, you're going to put one up of President Biden, too?
Trump, okay, show it.
Trump, isn't it an interesting question?
I'm curious.
Trump, and I'll listen to you, too, because this is a decision I have to make.
We put up a picture of an autopen.
Oh, that's hilarious, says the reporter.
Yes, we will put up a picture of Joe Biden as the autopen, says President Trump.
Maybe President Trump in the press conference.
that we're about to listen to from the president inside the Oval Office will show us this photo because he shows the reporter the photo.
Trump shows Reese.
This is the reporter.
What the Biden autopen portrait will look like in the rose garden probably will be a photo of Joe Biden plus the autopen.
Trump, what do you think?
Reese, I think you've got to do it.
Trump, I got to do it.
It's actually good.
Because I'll, Reese, I'm going to put this up in the transcript.
People are not going to be happy that I gave you advice on this, but I think it's very Trump.
Trump, you know, she could have said that, right?
It's going up in about two weeks because it's all being prepared.
Okay.
So now I've read you the direct transcript there.
President Trump is going to be putting a, and here's, I think, a photo of potentially President Trump.
unidentified
Yes.
benny johnson
And then the reporter.
You have Stephen Chung there.
And then you have Caroline Levitt who's sitting with her.
You have President Trump taking those questions.
Goodness.
Look at the stack on the president's desk.
Would you look at that?
Goodness gracious.
Look at that pile of work.
One of them is the Biden auto pen, apparently.
So this is what the president is going to do.
This is now making big national headlines that Donald Trump is going to put up a portrait.
There's going to be all the portraits of all the presidents, and then it's going to be a photo of the auto pen.
What did the former president direct versus what he did not?
One Trump administration official question.
The only time a legitimate use of the auto pen would have happened is if the president said he wanted something done or he wanted something asked for his approval.
In an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump further commented on Joe Biden's presidency and his dire prostate cancer diagnosis, which was revealed in May.
He didn't win the race.
He lost badly.
He's a horrible president.
But can you imagine?
He says he has stage nine cancer.
What was that two or three months ago?
Stage nine.
I've never heard of that more than stage four.
Stage four is the highest ever.
Stage four, you're dead, says Donald Trump on Joe Biden.
It's not clear that the Presidential Wall of Fame will be constructed and unveiled.
It's not clear when, sorry, correction there.
It will be constructed or unveiled, but the administration has made it a priority to revamp the White House grounds the first year of the term.
$200 million has been spent on a new White House ballroom and also...
Also a new West Wing.
President Trump was observing the West Wing and walking on the rooftop.
Also new flagpoles and so on.
And so this is what Donald Trump's going to do to troll Joe Biden and have the final last laugh at the White House.
The two of them will face off when Joe Biden gets an official portrait.
We'll see.
This is what Donald Trump has shared on social media before.
He shared this meme before.
Will it look like this?
Again, unfortunately, we don't have the photo that he showed the reporter.
It was just a written interview.
with a singular photograph of the interview going down.
We don't have it, but this is what President Trump has shared on social media before.
It's going to be up in about two weeks, says Donald Trump.
So be prepared.
Will President Trump talk about it today?
I don't know.
I hope so.
You can see there.
It's going up in about two weeks.
I can't freaking wait for the meltdown here.
You can see there, like these little boxes.
That's the little hall of fame, the wall of fame, as they say.
unidentified
There you go.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be a pretty fascinating series of events.
my look at this i forgot that jd shared this so here's jd vance what is this?
In March 16th, JD Vance sharing this is President Trump sharing this photo.
And then JD Vance sharing, I guess, 30,000 repos, 213,000 likes, 8,000 comments.
Many of the comments are JD Vance memes.
All right.
So that's a major announcement that happened over the last couple of hours.
And we'll see what happens.
I mean, just a reminder that Donald Trump has moved.
He replaced the Obama portrait with a fight, fight, fight portrait of himself, which is pretty awesome.
President Trump relegates Obama Bush portraits to the White House stairwell where no one can see them.
In the private section of the White House.
And what has been replaced is right here.
Some new artwork at the White House.
There you go.
This is what currently, I was able to see this in person at a White House event a couple months ago.
And it was glorious.
Just beautiful.
Just beautiful.
Portrait.
It's great.
Trump also showed the world leaders.
The world leaders were standing there in the corridor.
Do we have that clip?
Pretty neat.
Donald Trump had all the European world leaders and he pointed right to this, right to this moment.
He's like, that was a bad day.
Now I know, Alex, that's a Margot Martin video.
He says, that was a bad day.
So Donald Trump has gone off on the autopen before.
Here's President Trump during the flagpole construction.
for Donald Trump's 100-foot flagpoles on White House grounds, talking about Joe Biden and his autopen usage.
unidentified
Here we go.
donald j trump
I mean, so much of our effort goes to getting people out of the country that should never have been here in the first place.
What he's done to this country, it's not him.
He had no idea what was going on.
Everybody knows that.
It's other people.
It's Lisa and this one and that.
All these people, all this scum that was around the Oval, you know, the Oval Office or around the beautiful Resolute Desk, telling this guy, here, do this, do that, and not even telling him.
They just go over to the Otto Pen and sign whatever the hell they wanted to sign.
Because say what you want about Biden, he wasn't for open borders.
He wasn't for transgender for everybody.
He wasn't for men playing in women's sports.
But he has no idea what the hell he has no idea.
And they were very upset.
They wanted Bernie Sanders.
And after about a week of this guy, they said, Wait a minute, we just hit, we just hit gold.
This guy has no clue.
He'll do anything we tell him.
And then they realized they don't even have to get permission.
They just go up to the autopenn.
That's a subversion.
That's a takeover of our government.
And you people ought to start looking at that.
That's a takeover.
benny johnson
I love in DC, people who are like, we're currently being attacked because we said that DC is a crime-ridden, failed narco hellscape.
I love how every single clip, not some, not a few, every clip in DC always has wailing sirens, always.
Because per capita, it is the single most dangerous capital city in the world.
There are so many murderers.
There's so much death in DC.
I witnessed some of it.
So I just, just a little aside there.
I love how there's all, there's always a wailing, shrieking, screaming siren in Washington, DC.
whenever president trump is doing a press conference like that uh james comer is looking into the auto pen final thing on this auto pen i think it's i think I think it's, I think it'll be funny.
I can't wait for the president to unveil this.
I hope he does it live with us right now.
I think that we're imminently ready to go into the Oval Office and watch President Trump with his announcement.
No doubt Pete Hagseth will be there.
All that we know is that it's a massive Pentagon announcement.
We'll see.
sean hannity
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Jamie Comer on the auto pen scandal with the four people that you in fact are going to have transcribed interviews with and and the president's doctor Kevin O'Connor.
I would imagine there are a lot of other people you want to talk to too, but let's start with these five.
unidentified
Yeah.
james comer
Yeah, well, obviously the physician, he's the one that continuously told America that Joe Biden was in tip top physical condition.
He was mentally sharp, he was physically sharp.
We now know that to be 100% false.
The four staffers aren't well known staffers.
These four staffers operated behind the scenes, but while we're starting with them, Sean, we believe these are the staffers that were responsible for using the auto pin.
Someone got documents and manually placed them in the machine and pressed the power button to sign Joe Biden's signature.
That was not Joe Biden.
That was done by staffers.
That would be done by any staffer.
So we believe and have good reason to believe these are the four staffers that were responsible for that.
We want to ask them, who gave you the authority to use Joe Biden's signature?
And we'll go from there.
Obviously, we believe that some of the names like the chief of staff and perhaps the first lady were involved in a lot of the decision making.
If that's where the trail leads, then we'll bring them in as well.
We're going to get answers to all the questions that every American American deserves answers to well ladies and gentlemen What will happen next?
benny johnson
What will happen next?
We hope and pray that the president, as we have said, unveils this masterpiece live today, right here.
unidentified
But we'll see.
benny johnson
We'll see.
I'm going to send a tweet about it.
Like, please show us.
Let's just live.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, there's more news.
Some of this is sad and some of this is quite alarming.
They've hidden Barack Obama's portrait at the White House, maybe for good reason.
I'm not sure.
Barack Obama's remained hidden.
He's not doing many public appearancesance that Barack Obama made recently was to go on his wife, Michelle's podcast.
And it was a very interesting interview.
It was extremely strange.
But the strangest part is Barack Obama demanding that every straight man have a gay best friend.
unidentified
Here we go.
sean hannity
Bring a gay friend.
barack obama
I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out alive.
Who became one of my favorite professors.
You need that to show empathy and kindness.
And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who's gay or non-binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in this.
benny johnson
or what they have somebody that they can go okay i'm not alone in this right so the moment that clip surfaced Beebles kept bring up Larry Sinclair.
Now, Larry Sinclair is the man who allegedly had gay sex with Barack Obama.
And he's been famously on the record talking about this, probably the single most notable time, even though he's done and spoken about this extensively and with anybody who will ask, was on Tucker Carlson's show.
Tucker Carlson quite famously was not allowed to have Larry Sinclair on, but as soon as Tucker went independent from the corporate space he was able to do this interview and it shocked the world kind of hard to listen to frankly but layer sinclair had his life destroyed by coming out and saying that when barack obama was simply a state senator uh he was a coke fueled degenerate that
used me for drugs and for sex Larry Sinclair has been saying this for a long time.
He didn't stand to gain anything by it.
As far as I know, he never got a penny.
He got bankrupted and destroyed.
The MSM went in and savaged him, the Democratic Party savaged him, and Barack Obama was able to crush and end this man.
But Larry Sinclair continued for decades to tell his story, the exact same story.
Here he is telling this story on Tucker Carlson's show.
larry sinclair
I had no idea that he was a representative in the Illinois House.
I had no idea he was in politics.
I just knew that he was supposedly married and at the time was going through some, some issues with the marriage.
tucker carlson
Did he say that?
larry sinclair
That was made clear.
unidentified
Yeah.
tucker carlson
Hmm.
Did he say what kind of issues?
unidentified
No.
larry sinclair
I don't remember.
unidentified
No.
tucker carlson
So you said, I'm looking for someone to wake up.
He knows you're referring to cocaine.
I know where to get it.
What happens next?
larry sinclair
We get back in the limousine.
The driver takes us wherever it is that Barack had instructed him to take us.
I had given Barack $250 to pay for cocaine.
He gets out, comes back.
I start putting a line on a CD tray to snort.
tucker carlson
And you're in the limousine.
Driving or parked?
larry sinclair
No, the driver's driving.
I start putting a line on a CD tray and I just happen to notice that he pulls something else out of his pocket.
And next thing I know he's got a little pipe and he's smoking.
So I don't have a problem with it.
I mean, some people smoke, some people snort.
tucker carlson
Smoking the cocaine.
larry sinclair
Yes.
So as I'm doing a line, I just start, this is the part where you, you know, you kind of make your move to see where things are going.
So I just started rubbing my hand along his thigh to see where it was going.
And it went the direction I had intended it to go.
So the night became somewhat active sexually and drugwise in the limo.
tucker carlson
So you hit on him.
Did he seem shocked by that?
larry sinclair
Not at all.
tucker carlson
Yeah.
I mean, if you're smoking crack with a stranger in the back of a limousine, like, you gotta imagine things are going to go crazy places.
larry sinclair
Well, not only imagine it, I look at it this way.
I look, I've done a lot of crazy things in my lifetime.
I'm a pretty good judge of character and I pretty much know whether or not I can move in a certain direction with an individual.
I didn't feel that I was going in the wrong direction.
I just wasn't so sure how much I could trust the individual at first.
benny johnson
Okay.
So the reason why we're replaying this clip of Larry Sinclair is that Larry Sinclair has now died.
According to recent news reports, Larry Sinclair is deceased.
We're not exactly sure how.
So it's a very odd, we're getting like to Hillary Clinton levels of peculiar.
deaths inside of the Obama orbit, but let's go ahead and read.
Breaking news.
The man who allegedly had a gay sex with President Obama, Larry Sinclair has passed away horrified to hear this.
He's a kind man.
Got the opportunity to collaborate during the exposing process.
I pray for peace for his family.
Larry Sinclair has died.
The final days were extremely painful and lonely.
Sinclair first publicized his claim in two thousand eight in a YouTube video alleging that on November 6th and 7th, 1999, while Obama was an Illinois state senator, the two met in Chicago through a limousine driver and engaged in sexual acts and used drugs together.
They claimed that Obama procured two hundred fifty dollars worth of powdered cocaine and snorted it in the back of a limousine and then in a hotel room.
Sinclair further accused Obama of involvement in covering up a December murder of a choir director at Obama's church, whom Sinclair described as another one of Barack Obama's gay lovers.
He also suggested ties between Obama, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and other figures of alleged scandals.
These allegations gained traction online, but were widely dismissed as baseless by mainstream media and fact-checkers.
And then he has re-upped this from September 6, 2023, Tucker Carlson.
Episode 22 of his podcast, Larry Sinclair says he had a night of crack cocaine-fueled sex with Barack Obama and that Obama came back for more the next day.
Assess yourself.
Here's our interview.
This was seen by 40 million people, 69,000 reposts, 194,000 likes, 18,000 comments, including one from Elon Musk.
Cue domino meme from Jack Ryan at a Paris X club to the alleged Obama drug-fueled gay orgy.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
benny johnson
There we go.
unidentified
Goodness gracious.
benny johnson
Okay.
Okay?
safe, Tucker.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
unidentified
So, okay.
benny johnson
The memes get out of hand.
Larry Sinclair, this is account on X. Larry Sinclair has been on our show, and this is the first that we're hearing of Larry Sinclair's passing here, taking care of us, Larry Sinclair RIP.
Let's go ahead and check the account here.
Obviously is a man who had a very interesting life.
I know that people on our team have met him before and he was, well, emphatic and magnanimous, I suppose, would be the right way to say it.
But here's what Larry Sinclair has to say in a strange series of tweets here.
Because it starts here.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Okay.
There's got to be a better way.
They didn't thread it, so they put it up on a Larry Sinclair, smart and funny guy, a person with a big heart, always gave more than 100% to anybody who needed anything, a person who wouldn't think twice to put food on your plate before him, a person who never judged no one.
Instead, he would do anything on his hands to protect you.
I always had different words to describe him, always found ways to say who was Larry, but right now, any words I find I want to use feels super short and not big enough to feel in the empty space left on Earth.
Larry was going through a rough patch in the past few weeks.
That through time got him sicker until last Tuesday.
I wasn't aware that he was sick.
He unfortunately passed away.
I'm taking the liberty to tell his friends on this website.
I'm trying to find the correct words to say this and put it's, but it's hard to just know he won't be here no more.
Larry, you will be remembered, not just by us, but all those friends, people who always looked up to you, you are always going to be remembered in the hearts and life.
Now those who wished you bad or envy you at one point, they're going to hate more than that your bright star above in the sky.
taking care of us, Larry Sinclair.
Okay, so posted not in the Twitter thread, but in sort of a, like just breaking it up and posting it just makes it nonlinear.
But this is the RIP, Larry Sinclair, who was, I guess, struggling and then got sick and then died.
Well, there we go.
This on the heels of Barack Obama announcing that every man needs a gay friend.
Strange that.
Larry Sinclair obviously was relatively active on social media.
Thank you, Tucker, for making me finally realize it was time to finally tell the whole story from beginning to end, hold nothing back.
So this was Larry St. He was also on our show.
He's also been on our show.
And this is Tucker Carlson talking about his experience with Larry Sinclair.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, we are awaiting President Trump live inside of the Oval Office, but finding some things to chat about.
Here we go.
tucker carlson
I love and know really well.
And the media is too, by the way.
I mean, the media is reporting on government, but it's also dependent on government.
You know, in 2008, it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack.
And a guy came forward, Larry Sinclair, and said, I'll sign an affidavit.
And he did.
I'll take a lie detector.
benny johnson
And he did.
tucker carlson
I smoked crack with Barack Obama and had sex with him.
Well, that was obviously true.
Nobody reported it not because they were squeamish about sex or drugs, but because the Obama campaign said, anyone who reports on this gets no access to the Obama campaign.
And so they didn't report on it.
So that happens, that's just one small example, but that happens all the time with lots of different issues.
unidentified
And do you believe that transpired or do you believe the guy is legitimate or both?
tucker carlson
Oh, the Larry Sinclair story, oh, that definitely happened.
Oh, for sure.
I mean, I've talked to Larry Sinclair about it and oh, definitely.
it happened.
I mean, if you Larry Sinclair's been in and out of prison during one period, I mean, you know, 40 years ago he was in and out of prison.
He's got a criminal record by definition.
He's poor.
He's got a disordered life.
He's missing a tooth.
Like he's not an Atlantic fellow.
He's not going to the Aspen Ideas Festival.
I think he has a record of deception.
Obviously he does.
But this story, if you listen to it in detail, is clearly true.
I mean, there's just I'm going to do an interview with him and you can hear it.
And again, it's not going to change the world that Barack Obama likes dudes.
I think this was well known.
Barack Obama said so himself in a letter to his girlfriend.
And By the way, that's kind of Barack Obama's business.
I'm not attacking him for liking dudes.
I'm just saying the amount of lying.
benny johnson
Tucker Carlson going in, letting Tucker Carlson off the corporate media chain, one of the greater gifts to the online media ecosystem, perhaps.
Larry Sinclair.
somebody who spoke not just with Tucker about this, but also with Dinesh D'Souza.
And so let's just go ahead and lock in the stories here and just look at this honestly.
Again, we don't know what the mystery was of Larry Sinclair's passing.
We know that there does seem to be always mysterious amounts of deaths around some of these powerful people.
donald j trump
And so, a locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, where life forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City.
Okay, so Huntsville, Alabama, we love Alabama.
I only won it by about 47 points.
I don't think that influenced my decision though, right?
That didn't, right?
But we had a lot of competition for this.
this and Alabama is getting it, Huntsville in particular.
So congratulations, everybody.
Katie, congratulations.
This will result in more than thirty thousand Alabama jobs and probably much more than that and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.
And that's billions because it can't be millions.
It's billions and billions of dollars.
Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the High Frontier, as they call it.
I want to thank Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He's doing a fantastic job.
And Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Mink.
Troy, thank you very much.
Great job you're doing, Troy.
This is such a big deal.
This is one that everybody wanted to know.
What are you doing?
I also want to thank Senator Katie Britt and I want to give my condolences.
Your grandmother, her grandmother just passed away.
She was 100, right?
katie britt
100.
unidentified
And she loves you, mister Britt.
donald j trump
Well, and she was very proud of you.
katie britt
Thank you very much.
donald j trump
Very, very proud of you.
So thank you, Katie.
She must have been.
To produce you indirectly, I can tell you she had to be.
Tommy Tuberville, who's a great coach.
And I won't say anything about what happened with Alabama football this weekend.
Let's leave that up.
But you're not, you're not used to that, right?
You're not used to that.
But Tommy Auburn won, is right.
So you're happy.
Tommy's been a great senator, you know, and a fantastic, fantastic guy all around.
He was also a tremendous coach.
House Armed Services Committee Chair, Mike Rogers.
Thank you, Mike.
Mike, thank you very much.
You're doing great, Mike.
Representatives, Barry Moore, all great friends, Robert Atterholt, Gary Palmer, and Dale Strong.
Thank you all very much, fellas.
Appreciate it.
In my first term, we created, and I created, a thing called Space Force.
So important.
You know, we were losing the race in space very badly to China and to Russia, and now we're far and away number one in space and reestablished SpaceCom with a mission to protect American space assets and detect any threat to our homeland.
We initially selected Huntsville for the SpaceCom headquarters, yet those plans were wrongfully obstructed by the Biden administration.
And as you know, they moved them to a different locale.
And today we're moving forward with what we want to do and the place that we want to have this.
And this will be there for hopefully.
hundreds of years.
That's where it's going to be.
I will say I want to thank Colorado.
The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting.
They went to all mail-in voting.
So they have automatically crooked elections and we can't have that.
When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections because that's what that means.
So that played a big factor also in Huntsville Space.
Com will play a key role in building the Golden Dome, as you know.
That's going to be a big thing.
Everybody wants to be a participant in it.
Missile Defense Shield.
We're going to be having a.
golden dome, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, The finest, the best.
And by the way, Canada called.
They want to be a part of it, and that will be great.
But Canada wants very much to be included in that.
And we're going to work something out with them, I hope.
We'll also ensure that our technological capabilities of which we're way ahead of anybody else, there's nobody close, remain unmatched long into the future.
So I'd like to ask Secretary Hegseth to say a few words.
He was very much a part of it.
And really, everybody behind me was, every one of these people would call me and lobby me.
I said, Katie, I don't want to talk to you anymore.
I know, I know what you want.
She said, That's right, sir.
That's what I want.
And they got their way.
So I just want to congratulate.
These are really special people.
They're politicians in many ways, but they're great patriots, I think even more so than politicians.
So they fought very hard to get it.
And it's an honor to give it to Huntsville.
Pete, say a few words, please.
pete hegseth
Thank you, Mr. President.
As usual, right place, right time for the right reason.
In your first administration, you established the Space Force at a time when we knew we had to be looking to that domain of space.
You also re-established Spacecom to ensure that priority was put in place.
place and you through the Air Force independently identified that Huntsville, Alabama was the right place to put it.
For other reasons in the next administration under Biden, they decided to move it somewhere else.
Well, during that time, the DoD Inspector General, the Government Affairs Office, they did their own assessments and where did they say SpaceCom could go?
Huntsville, Alabama.
So what you're doing today, Mr. President, is restoring it to precisely where it should be based on what the Space Force, the Air Force, your leadership believes will give us strategic advantage in the future.
That is Huntsville, Alabama.
We are way ahead in space, but this will ensure we stay leaps and bounds ahead because that's the most important important domain.
Whoever controls the skies will control the future of warfare.
And Mr. President, today you're ensuring that happens.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
donald j trump
Katie, would you like to say something?
katie britt
Mr. President, we are grateful for your leadership on this and restoring Space Command to its legitimate home in Huntsville, Alabama.
This delegation has worked together, both chambers, both parties, to make sure that Huntsville was the place that Space Command called home.
As was mentioned, obviously the Biden administration chose to make this political.
What we want to do make sure that our warfighter is put first and we want to make sure that America continues to lead.
And today, Mr. President, you've allowed that to happen.
Thank you.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
Tommy, please.
tommy tuberville
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
This is a great day for our country, not just for our state of Alabama.
We need help in our military.
We need to catch up, and as the Secretary has said, we – Now, this move will save the taxpayers $480 million.
It's not going to cost more.
It's going to cut $480 million.
We have the plans intact.
It'll be behind a secure wall in Huntsville, Alabama, Redstone Arsenal.
We have 40,000 people there.
We have the FBI there.
We have missile defense there.
We have NASA, Blue Origin, and SpaceX.
It is the perfect place for space command.
I would tell you today, and again, I've spoken with the president for the last three or four years about this.
If I thought it needed to go somewhere else because I understand the security of our country, I'd be for that.
But the best place for space command.
for Space Command is Huntsville, Alabama because what we have and what it means to this country is going to be so important.
So thank you, Mr. President, for this, and we look forward to building a huge Space Command and having the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
unidentified
Here you are.
jd vance
Can you hear the statement?
unidentified
Sure.
jd vance
Well, Mr. President, thank you.
I'll be very brief here.
I lobbied the president hard to put it in Ohio, but he said these people behind us, these Alabamas are just too powerful and too persuasive.
And so it's in Alabama, but as Tommy said, this is exactly the right place for Space Force and Space Force and Space Command.
I think Americans should appreciate and should appreciate The fact that you can't win the battle of the future unless you control the skies.
The cybersecurity, the communications, the entire infrastructure of the battle in the 21st century will be in space.
So it was a visionary move in the first administration for the president to set up Space Force.
And I think an equally visionary move to make sure that Space Force is right where it should be in Huntsville, Alabama.
Thank you, sir.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
Gentlemen, anyone wants to say anything?
Would you like to say?
dale strong
Mr. President, another promise made, another promise kept.
You think about it, Redstone Arsenal is critical to national security.
The President said when you were the 45th President, let's do what's right for exactly what we're doing.
It's not because of this or that.
It's because it's right for national security.
You think of the 21 categories that were evaluated to determine what was best for national security.
All indicators pointed back to Huntsville, Alabama, and Redstone Arsenal.
We have the right people at the right place at the right time.
Mr. President, on behalf of the people of the Fifth Congressional District and all of Alabama, thank you for keeping your word.
donald j trump
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Anybody?
unidentified
Let me just say, Mr. President, I want to say thank you.
And thank you for doing this because it was the right thing to do.
All the...
And like you say, it was unfortunately pulled out, but you made it right.
So I want to just say thank you again for a grateful nation and to the state of Alabama.
We're very grateful.
larry sinclair
Thank you and God bless.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Throughout history, military has always understood that whoever could hold the high ground held the advantage.
Space is the ultimate high ground.
And what we're doing with moving the Space Command to Huntsville is absolutely critical to our maintaining dominance in that sphere.
And it goes hand in hand with what we're trying to do with the Golden Dome and missile defense to defend against anyone else who tries to enter that sphere.
So thanks, Mr. President.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you, Mr. President.
mike rogers
And obviously, national defense is a huge issue.
And when you look at the scores, Alabama was number one.
And for political reasons, it was moved out of our state.
unidentified
But Mr. President, thank you for making priorities of defense and the warfighter and the safety of this nation.
And in the big, beautiful bill, that Golden Dome will be built in Huntsville, Alabama.
And we're grateful for that.
Thank you.
mike rogers
Listen, I'm as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, I care very much about what's most important for our..
national security.
And the president held a nationwide competition to determine where we should have this command.
If you all remember at the end of that competition where Alabama came in first, there were a lot of complaints from the other states who did not place well.
He said, We'll do it over with new criteria to accommodate your concerns.
Alabama came in first in that second competition.
His Secretary of the Air Force reviewed the results, said it was fair, and the president named Huntsville.
It was the Biden administration that decided to make it political, even though his own Secretary of the Air Force said it was a fair competition and it should be in Huntsville.
So I want you to know I appreciate this president standing up and being strong and saying he's going to make this right and put it where it rightfully belongs.
That's Huntsville, Alabama.
donald j trump
So thank you all very much.
You are going to leave me alone now.
You're not going to call me anymore and talk about this subject, right?
You promise.
They'll start something else.
But I just want to congratulate you.
It's a very big deal.
When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that we just over the last few minutes literally shot out a boat, a drug carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat.
You'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that.
It just happened moments ago.
Our great general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out potential nuclear power for long-term, I think within a month they would have had it if we didn't do what we did.
But he gave us a little bit of a briefing and you'll see.
And there's more where that came from.
We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country coming in for a long time and we just these came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela.
A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela.
So we took it out and you'll get to see that after this after this meeting is over.
Do you have any questions please?
Yeah please.
unidentified
Senator Pumblebill talked about the cost savings associated with this announcement.
Can you talk about the strategic benefits by having Space Force Command headquarter in Huntsville?
donald j trump
Well, it just works because we have so much else there and having a central, you could call it a central command, but it really is a command station also even locally.
Even locationally, where it is and when you think about flying distances, if you can save a half an hour as fast as some of these planes go and things go and even the rockets go, if you can save by having the best location.
So we went out, as you know, to experts and we had four different groups of experts.
They all said this was the best location.
I also loved it from the standpoint, I know the people of Alabama, they are great people, work hard, and there's no games, and they're very proud of it.
And I would say they fought harder for it than anybody else also.
A lot of states, five states really wanted it, but they wanted it more.
And I kid you not when I say that these people, they spoke to me a lot.
That's all they wanted to talk about.
They didn't want to talk about the weather.
They only wanted to talk about moving to this location, moving to Alabama, Huntsville in particular.
So we're honored to do it.
They really wanted it badly and they got it.
Peter.
peter doocy
President Trump, something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend.
How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?
You see that?
unidentified
No.
peter doocy
People didn't see you for a couple days.
1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.
unidentified
Really?
You didn't see that.
donald j trump
You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences.
unidentified
I did.
I did.
donald j trump
It's all successful.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what's happening with our production, but something is obviously terribly off.
So all producers will fix it.
donald j trump
They didn't do anything.
And they said, There must be something wrong with him.
Biden wouldn't do him for months.
You wouldn't see him.
And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him.
And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.
I get reports.
Now, you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody, and everybody saw that was on one of your competitors.
I did numerous shows and also did a number of truths, long truths, I think pretty poignant truths.
No, I was very active over the weekend.
They also knew I went out to visit some people at the club that I own pretty nearby on the Potomac River.
And no, I've been very active actually over the weekend.
I didn't hear that one.
That's pretty serious stuff.
Well, it's fake news.
You know, it's just so, it's so fake.
That's why.
I don't know why the media has so little credibility.
I didn't.
I knew they were saying, like, is he okay?
How's he feeling?
What's wrong?
I said, I just left.
And it's also sort of a longer weekend, you know, it's Labor Day weekend.
So I would say a lot of people know I was very active this Labor Day.
I had heard that, but I didn't hear it to that extent.
Go ahead, Peter.
peter doocy
We know that this country has a huge problem with school shootings.
You've said that you're open to sending the National Guard pretty much anywhere.
Would you ever consider sending an armed National Guardsman to every school?
donald j trump
Well, we have a big problem with school shootings, but we also have.
thousands and thousands of schools that run perfectly.
You know, they talk about you can do things construction wise.
And that's really, I think nobody knows more about construction than me.
You can build the construction doors.
You can build what they call safety doors, where they lock on the outside, the inside and everywhere else.
Well, but if one of these lunatics happens to get through, then the police can't get in.
Then they're looking for keys all over the place.
And it takes a lot of, a lot of disadvantages to doing, you know, spending billions and billions of dollars and actually making it safer in some way.
way for some of these lunatics that we're dealing with.
But I don't think so.
I've thrown out the concept.
We have great teachers that love our children.
The parents love the children.
Teachers love the children too.
And if you take a small percentage of those teachers that were in the military, that were distinguished in the military, that were in the National Guard, et cetera, et cetera, and you let them carry, that's something that a lot of people like.
I sort of liked it.
It has to be studied, but they're trained.
They've they know about weapons.
You can't do it with every teacher because most teachers don't know.
But I always thought that would be an alternative.
But it's just we've.
had a lot of instances.
Other countries have also.
They have different kinds of problems than we have.
But we do have this something going on, something going on.
And it's a bad thing.
Yes, please.
unidentified
Have you spoken with President Putin in the past week?
Have you spoken with President Putin in the past week?
donald j trump
Yeah, I don't want to.
I have I have learned things that will be very interesting.
I think in the next few days you'll find out.
unidentified
What could be any consequences if there isn't some type of announcement of a meeting with President Putin and President Zelensky?
Yeah, there will be.
And what could those consequences be?
donald j trump
We're going to see what happens.
We're going to see what they do and what happens.
I'm watching it very closely.
Last week they lost seven thousand between the two countries, seven thousand three hundred and thirteen soldiers, to be somewhat exact, for no reason whatsoever.
And they're Russian and they're Ukrainian, but, you know, they're soldiers.
I want to see it end.
Yeah.
unidentified
Have you decided you're definitely going to send National Guard troops to Chicago?
donald j trump
I didn't say when, but the answer is, look, Chicago is very interesting because I watched Pritzker get up and say about, we don't need help, we're safe.
But two weeks ago they had six people murdered, murdered, and they had 124 people hit by bullets.
Last week, as you know, it was seven people, 24 people hit, and seven people died.
And then over the last two days, it was the that was the crown jewel.
They had, I guess, nine killed, nine or ten killed, and 50 hit by bullets.
And you have this governor, get up, who's a terrible governor, probably he and Gavin Newscomb would be probably the two worst and most naive.
They're naive.
Either they're naive or they're very untruthful.
And he'll say, we don't want any protectionction.
We don't need.
So in the last three weeks, he's lost almost twenty people killed.
There's no place, there's no place in the world, including you can go to Afghanistan, you can go to places that you would think of.
They don't even come close to this.
Chicago is a hell hole right now, Baltimore is a hell hole right now.
Parts of Los Angeles are terrible.
If we didn't put out the fires, and I mean the other fires, the bullet fires, they didn't do a good job with they should have had the water coming down, like I said.
You know, we had to release the water.
We had to go in and release the water to LA.
It's so badly run.
But if we didn't get, if I didn't send the National Guard into Los Angeles, you wouldn't I would be making an announcement today.
I'd be talking about Huntsville.
And I'd be simultaneously saying, by the way, the Olympics is not coming to Los Angeles.
If we didn't do that, if we didn't do that, and even the sheriff, the top law enforcement person in Los Angeles said, we couldn't have handled it without them.
So that's what he said.
unidentified
You think you mind about Chicago then?
donald j trump
Well, we're going in.
I didn't say when, we're going in.
When you lose, look, I have an obligation.
This isn't a political thing.
I have an obligation.
When twenty people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and seventy five are shot with bullets.
So let me tell you a little story about a place called DC, District of Columbia, right here where we are.
It's now a safe zone.
We have no crime.
It's in such great shape.
You can go and actually walk with your children, your wife, your husband.
You can walk right down the middle of the street.
You're not going to get shot, Peter.
You're safe.
Everyone likes you anyway.
They probably wouldn't do it.
It's so dangerous.
There are people in this audience that you've suffered greatly.
There are people in this audience that have been mugged and hurt badly.
They don't want to talk about it.
Maybe you were very brave in talking about it.
You made quite an impression on a lot of people.
I appreciate it.
There were other people in this room that have been hurt very badly just walking down the street in D.C. Washington, D.C. is a safe zone right now.
It's a safe city.
The restaurants are open.
They're booming.
You can't get a restaurant.
restaurant new restaurants are announcing that they're going to be open This took place in 12 days.
Now it's 15 days, but three days ago it became what's known as a safe zone.
It's a safe city.
And this city was really bad.
Really, really bad.
We took 1600 people out, hardcore criminals that won't be coming back any time soon.
And we're very proud of it.
To have our nation's capital lose every week, it was like years, many years where every single week, somebody was killed for many, many, many consecutive weeks.
This went on for years.
And then we had last week, it was announced that nobody was killed last week.
And I made that announcement in front of a very distinguished leader of a country.
And I'm saying proudly, ladies and gentlemen, nobodyody was killed in Washington, DC this week.
He looked at me like, was that what's that all about?
I say, yeah, we have a little bit of a crime problem and we don't have a crime problem in Washington anymore.
And the mayor has been very helpful and the police commission has been very helpful and it's been a great team and I would love to have governor Pritzker call me.
I'd gain respect for him and say, we do have a problem and we'd love you to send in the troops because you know what?
The people, they have to be protected.
I saw it today on one of your networks, not a friendly network, exactly the opposite, I would say, very unfriendly.ly network.
And they interviewed about twelve people on this morning.
Most of them were African American, who were black.
And they were saying, please, please, please let the president send it.
These were people from Chicago.
Please, we need help.
We need help.
We can't walk outside.
We're petrified.
If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up.
I would love to do it.
Now, we're going to do it anyway.
We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country.
And that includes Baltimore.
I saw where governor Moore was asking me to take a walk down the street of Baltimore.
Well, Baltimore is a very unsafe place.
It's rated number four in the city, one of the worst, one of the most unsafe places anywhere in the world.
But, you know, we took care.
This was a beautiful thing that happened in Washington because we showed we showed that it could be done.
And this wasn't just sending big strong guys, and they are big and they are strong.
You know, we had a great decision from the Supreme Court that had to do with sort of talent.
It had to do with you are put down based on merit.
You can hire based on merit.
for a soldier, for a policeman is strong, physically fit, something, you know, having a certain ability, not a person that is woke and got the job through woke, but wasn't strong enough to lift a gun out of the holster, et cetera, et cetera.
No, I looked at the police, as you know, last week I went over, we had a meeting with, there had to be 300 people, and they were all very impressive looking.
And when the bad guys see them, they're not going to do anything.
And so I'm very proud of Washington.
It serves as a template, and we're going to do it elsewhere.
But Chicago is certainly going to be high.
high.
I would love to have him call.
I would love the governor of Illinois.
I'd be honored to take his call.
All he has to do is say, Sir, we need help.
It's out of control.
And everyone knows it is.
He's not joking anyone.
I would love to have, I would say, Governor Moore call because I watched him over the weekend trying to explain that Baltimore, what they need is housing.
No, they don't need housing.
They need to get rid of the criminals.
He's a hardcore criminals.
You know, we took many people off the streets of Washington, DC.
They're hardcore.
They're not going to be good in ten years, in twenty years., in two years, they're going to be criminals.
They're going to be, they were born to be criminals, frankly.
They were born to be criminals and they're tough and mean and they'll cut your throat and they won't even think about it the next day.
They won't even remember that they did it.
And we're not going to have those people.
Washington, DC is now a safe zone.
It's a safe place and you can walk, Katie, you can walk right down the street with, by the way, one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen, which is her husband.
He was a football player for like eleven years in the NFL.
He's a big person.
But big doesn't mean anything when they have guns and when they have knives and everything else that they have, right?
But you can walk right down the street even by yourself and you're totally safe..
Washington, D.C. is a great thing.
Yes, ma'am, please.
unidentified
Mr. President, how is it going on, Democratic leaders across the country to work with you on crime?
Do you see your efforts here in D.C., including, for example, working with Mayor Bowser here as a model for bringing more bipartisanship in matters not only with crime but also issues that matter to everyday American people's lives?
donald j trump
So Mayor Bowser's been great.
She could have taken the thing all well.
And then after I clean it up, they'll take credit for it.
You know what they do is they take credit.
Like we cleaned up Los Angeles.
We did a great job there.
And it was overwhelming what was going on.
And again, the police chief made a statement that we could not have done, there's no way they could handle it.
You saw what was happening out there.
It was going to be a disaster.
We stopped it cold.
If we didn't do that, it would have been a very sad day.
And you know, remember, we have the Olympics, we have the World Cup, we have all these things coming, and we have 250, all of these things coming.
But I watched Newsom get up and say, he's doing a great job.
He's not, we're the ones that did it, and that's okay, whatever it takes.
But the main thing is, but he got up and said, we did it.
Well, he didn't want us there, and he's going to need us again because it's starting to form again.
I see it.
It's starting to form again.
You know, we have to maintain.
It's like maintenance on an airplane.
You can buy it, but you have to maintain it.
And if you don't maintain it, a good plane becomes very unsafe very quickly.
So it's an honor to do it.
It's a lot of presidents wouldn't do what I'm doing.
I don't need this heat.
But when I watched television last night and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, that's not this country.
We have to do something.
And I do say this.
I say this very much.
I'm not speaking to anybody but them right now.
I would love to receive calls from governors and mayors saying they need help.
We'll help them.
We have a lot of people.
We have a great force.
We have a great military force.
You know, Pete will tell you that when I was running for office, when, and this was a big headline, I think, you know, probably got me a couple of votes, but you couldn't sign people in the military.
Nobody wanted to join the military, the army, air force, any of the Navy, Marines, Space Force, Coast Guard.
We never forget Coast Guard because they've done such a great job, never.
But nobody wanted to join any of them.
We were way below what we wanted.
Every single one.
The closest was the Marines, whatever that is, you'll explain that to me, but the closest was the Marines.
But every service was way down, way down.
And then I was elected and our country is the hottest country anywhere in the world right now.
Everyone's talking about the USA.
They're talking about the job that we're doing, everyone, we have the best economy.
We have a very, very important decision being made by the Supreme Court because our country is the richest, the strongest, the most powerful.
But if for some reason some liberal court, I'm talking about the court that just ruled, where even an Obama judge voted in favor of us, which I gave him a compliment yesterday, as you know., I said that took great courage.
But it's a liberal court, and it's going up to the Supreme Court, who I think have been incredible people.
I think they've made very wise decisions.
But the tariff question, because without the tariffs, this country is in serious, serious trouble.
We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment is coming in.
Most of it is coming in because of tariffs.
And if for some reason, someone wanted to be politically correct, I actually think it's unpolitically correct.
I think politically correct is to approve it, because there's nothing so popular as what's happeninged to our country.
Our country is doing so well, but we had a liberal court gave us a very shocking ruling.
And that ruling is basically saying that the trillions of dollars that are pouring into our country, putting us in a position like no country is anywhere in the world, that they'd like to see us that take it away.
By the way, a lot of the people behind that lawsuit, that particular, are from foreign countries.
I might dad.
peter doocy
There's a video that is circulating online now of the White House where a window is open to the residents upstairs and someone is throwing a big bag out the window.
Have you seen this?
unidentified
No.
donald j trump
No, that's probably AI generator.
Actually, you can't open the windows.
You know why?
They're all heavily armored and bulletproof.
peter doocy
That's a big video.
donald j trump
It's got to be because I know every window up there.
The last place I'd be doing it is that because there's cameras all over the place, right, including yours.
No, but every window, I've never seen a window that's, in fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day.
She said, Love to have a little fresh air come in, but you can't.
They're bulletproof.
And number one, they're sealed.
And number two, each window weighs about 100 kg.
You have to be pretty strong to open them up.
No, that has to be.
Where was the window?
unidentified
Thank you.
Maybe for the renovations.
benny johnson
This is amazing.
This is Peter Ducey.
unidentified
It looks like this is on the fifteenth street sign, I think.
benny johnson
Showing Trump.
The clip that we started off with.
donald j trump
Those windows are all they're all sealed.
You can't open them.
benny johnson
That's so strange.
donald j trump
That's the kind of thing they do.
And one of the problems we have with AI, it's both good and bad.
If something happens really bad, just blame AI.
But also they create things, you know, it works both ways.
If something happens that's really bad, maybe I'll have to just blame AI.
But there's truth to it because I see so many phony things.
I saw something as I was growing up from the time I was a baby till now.
I said, Who did that?
It was AI generated.
So it's a little bit scary, to be honest with you, but those windows are all very heavily sealed.
unidentified
Thank you, Mr. President.
I know what you were saying regarding that federal appellate court that ruled against you and your administration as it relates to your administration.
donald j trump
Well, they ruled against our country, the court, and they ruled against us before.
It's a very liberal court.
Well, it certainly is.
It certainly is.
unidentified
In fact, it was along ideological lines, seven to four.
donald j trump
Well, except that we actually got one of the Obama judges that was appointed by President Obama voted in favor of the tariffs because he felt it was imperative for our country to thrive and survive even.
And I gave him credit.
I said, you know what?
That took a lot of courage from him to do it because you don't see that often.
unidentified
So my question is, I imagine, I suspect you're going to appeal that all the way to the Supreme Court.
donald j trump
Well, we already have.
Yeah.
In fact, we're doing something else.
We're going to be going to the Supreme Court, we think, tomorrow because we need an early decision.
I mean, look, the financial.
fabric of our country.
We're a rich, incredible country right now.
And we're able to, you know, other countries use tariffs on us for years.
And we never did.
I did a lot during my first term, but then we had COVID and we had to focus on other things.
You couldn't be tariffing Italy, Spain, France as they were dying by the thousands and millions.
But we did with China and China paid us billions and billions of dollars.
And I started the process, but then I had to end it a little bit because of COVID.
We focused on that.
But no, it's a very important decision.
And frankly, if.
they make the wrong decision, it would be devastation for our country.
We've taken in trillions of dollars.
And, and, by the way, all these countries signed agreements.
As an example, they signed they're all happy, everybody's happy.
But some whack job put in a lawsuit.
It went before a very liberal court, and the liberal court ruled it was eleven.
They ruled seven to four with one of the most liberal of them all voting in our favor because they're patriots.
I think I give tremendous credit to that judge.
And now it's going to the Supreme Court.
Now we're going to be asking for.
for early admittance, we're going to go tomorrow and we're going to ask for an expedited ruling because when you look at the stock markets down today, the stock markets down because of that.
Because the stock market needs the tariffs, they want the tariffs.
If you look at AI, all of those, all of that money that's going to be invested, trillions and trillions of dollars, the biggest thing, bigger than the internet, I suspect, it's the internet plus three or four other things combined.
We are leading very substantially with AI.
We're leading because of tariffs.
We're leading because of talent, and this is where they'd like to be.
But without the tariffs, we wouldn't have a chance because we wouldn't be able to protect those investments of the companies coming in.
So if you took away tariffs, we could end up being a third world country.
That's how big the ruling.
So we're asking for an expedited ruling.
unidentified
As a backstop to that president, you have a Republican controlled Congress.
You control the House.
You control the Senate.
donald j trump
Yeah, but we don't have 60 votes.
We don't have 60 votes.
I'd love to do that.
Oh, if we had 60 senators, if we got the 60 votes, we would get them.
But we need 60 votes.
So we need, you know, a certain number in the House.
We'd get, I think we'd get I don't know, we have about five of them here.
Would everybody agree with me on tariffs?
Without tariffs, we're a different country.
We have taken in so much money.
And here's the thing.
We signed a deal with Japan.
They're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.
We signed a deal with South Korea.
We signed a deal with the European Union.
We signed a deal with Europe.
And those countries are paying us 950 billion dollars.
And they're happy about it.
They're okay.
As one of them said, it's amazing that we got away with it so long.
One of my friends, a leader of one of the countries, and they're fine with it.
They all signed.
If that ruling ever went against us, I guess we'd have to give back hundreds of billions.
We would have to give trillions and trillions of dollars back to countries that have been ripping us off for the last 35 years.
And I can't imagine it happening on a legal basis.
They have no legal basis whatsoever.
But on a common sense basis, it would destroy America.
unidentified
Okay.
You talked about controlling the sky.
On Sunday, the satellite signal, Ursula?
donald j trump
Well, she had an interesting event.
She's a tremendous woman.
And so what are you asking me about her?
Well, nobody knows where it came from, but they did take away her ability to use a phone.
You know, sometimes that's a good thing.
Sometimes that could happen to me.
I'd be very happy.
unidentified
Are you considering reducing the tariffs on India from 50%?
donald j trump
What does that mean?
unidentified
Are you considering taking away some of the tariffs that you've imposed on India?
donald j trump
No, we get along with India very well, but India has, you have to understand, for many years it was a one-sided relationship.
So we had a very strong relationship only now since I came along and because of the power that we have with tariffs, India was charging us tremendous tariffs about the highest in the world.
They were about the highest in the world, number one.
And we therefore weren't doing much business with India, but they were doing business with us because we weren't charging them foolishly.
We weren't charging them.
So they would send in massive, you know, everything they made, they'd send it in, pour it into our country.
Therefore, it wouldn't be made here, you know, which is a negative.
But we would not send in anything because they were charging us 100% tariffs.
And, you know, I'll give you an example, Harley Davidson.
Harley Davidson couldn't sell into India.
There was a 200% tariff on a motorcycle.
So what happens?
Harley Davidson went to India and built a motorcycle plant.
And now they don't have to pay tariffs.
Same thing as us.
So what we're doing is literally thousands of companies are coming into the U.S., car companies, AI, but more traditionally, car companies.
We have so many car company factories under construction or being designed right now.
And they're coming from China, they're coming from Mexico, I must tell you, and they're coming from Canada, a lot of them coming from Canada.
But they're coming into our country because they want to build here and they want to build here for two reasons.
Number one, They'd like to be here.
And number two, the tariffs are protecting them.
And number three, they want to avoid paying tariffs.
When they build their cars here, they don't have any tariffs to pay.
You know, when you build here, you don't have any tariffs.
unidentified
In light of the Minnesota shooting last week, the Department of Homeland Security is now awarding more than $100 million to hundreds of faith organizations across the country to help them ramp up security.
What's your vision for further protecting religious liberty across the country amid incidents of threats?
donald j trump
Well, religious liberty is so important.
And we're talking about every religion now.
And we're doing things on that that nobody else has ever done.
And we're going to be announcing, we're going to be having a big announcement in about two weeks on that question.
Yeah, please.
unidentified
Space Command, sir, are you concerned that people may not be willing to relocate from Colorado to Alabama?
donald j trump
No, I'm not worried, dude.
We'll get somebody else.
I mean, the problem with Colorado is they have a very corrupt voting system.
They look, I have so many friends in Colorado.
Any time you have mail in voting, you have corrupt elections.
Very simple.
It's very simple.
Even Jimmy Carter said it with his commission.
They set up a commission with him and Scoop Jackson and some people, highly regarded people.
And they said the one thing the finding was, if you have male in voting, you will have corrupt elections.
Well, the your radical left governor decided that he was going to have all male in voting in Colorado.
Once you have all male in voting, and for whatever reason, the Democrats cheat, and they cheat like, you know, they're not stupid.
That's the only thing.
They're no good on policy.
They're no good on management.
They're no good at government.
But they're great at cheating.
And they stick together too.
I give them credit for sticking together.
Mr. President, please.
unidentified
Obviously, this is a big win for national security moving this to Alabama.
donald j trump
We've all agreed with that.
unidentified
Is there any idea of the economic impact this has on the state and on that local area?
donald j trump
Okay, did you want to answer that?
katie britt
Well, I mean, this would be good.
peter doocy
Please go.
katie britt
This is going to be tremendous.
I mean, the state of Alabama, what we've seen through this process is the worst of Washington.
We've seen politics get in the way of what is best for the warfighter, what's best for national security.
And the state of Alabama is about to show the country the best among us.
So we know the economic impact is going to be tremendous.
There at Redstone Arsenal, we're proud to house everything from the FBI to headquarters there for material command to a number of things.
We obviously have NASA with Marshall Space Flight Center.
And so this naturally fits within.
When you look at the decision matrix that they placed in front of us, that's why we ranked so high.
It's because we have the resources necessary and the ability to build out quickly to meet the needs in front of us.
As far as economic impact, it would be tremendous.
Does anyone have an exact number?
1600 jobs.
With 3000 spin-offs.
With 3000 spin-offs.
unidentified
Look at this.
katie britt
This is teamwork right here.
So we are really proud and the people of Alabama are ready to get to work.
unidentified
I have a following question.
If you could just in a second.
donald j trump
Yeah, please.
unidentified
Owning a home and going about the American dream seems like a down the flesh for a lot of Americans.
Just recently, you pushed out a statement about addressing an emergency housing situation.
donald j trump
That's right.
We're thinking about doing that.
Can you just say We have a man named Jerome Too Late Powell.
You probably heard of him.
He's too late.
Way too late.
And the economy is so strong that it's pushing through that.
Normally, it would have been much tougher, but we're doing so well that we're pushing through it.
But it makes it very hard for people to get mortgages because too late is too late.
Very simple.
He's too late.
And probably political, whatever.
He wasn't too late before the election.
Before the election, he was cutting rates, right?
Because he was hoping that, I guess, Biden would get in or that Kamala would.
He was a big Biden guy.
Explain that one.
And then he was a Kamala person.
But he was hoping, I guess, she'd win, I guess.
I don't know.
It didn't work out too well.
But yeah, we need a very serious cut.
You know, I think that if you look back many decades ago, the United States was always the lowest.
Even if they were doing badly, the United States was because without the United States, everything in the world would die.
It's true.
It's so powerful, it's so big, and I've made it real.
I made it really big in the first four years.
Then it started to degenerate with what this Biden administration did.
But we've built it up to a level that I never thought we could be at this quickly.
We're the hottest, we're the best, we're the best financially.
The money coming in is so big because of tariffs and other things, but because of tariffs.
Tariff gets us even those other things.
Plus, it gets us great negotiating.
I settled seven wars, and numerous of those wars were because of trade.
And numerous of the trade deals that I made were because of tariffs.
It gives you a great negotiating ability.
If that ability were taken away from us by a liberal court acting on essentially foreign nations asking to get help from the United States government, when they've been doing this to us for 40 years, that's why we have $38 trillion in debt.
We won't have it for long if they allow us to do what everybody knows we should be able to do.
Yeah, please.
unidentified
Mr. President, another Biden action is that you signed a deal last week to make federal buildings adopt and embrace classical architecture styles again can you talk to us about why you do that and also what's your vision well we want to see beautiful buildings now you know it's in the eye of of the beholder.
donald j trump
I've seen architectural reviews over the years.
I'm an expert at it.
I've gotten a lot of great reviews.
But I've seen buildings that I didn't think were very good get great reviews.
And I've seen great buildings get bad reviews.
So, but it's just a standard.
We want to have a good standard.
We're building something here.
You know, for 150 years they wanted a ballroom at the White House.
We're doing something at the highest level using great architects and all.
And, you know, it's very exciting.
But we have a lot of interesting things happening architecturally in DC.
And DC is like a different place.
And, you know, even the contractor said, Sir, we walked down today.
We feel like much safer.
It's like a different place.
Washington, DC is great.
Now we're going to also beautify it.
We're going to put a topping on the roads.
We're not going to rip them apart and take four years to build a road that was exactly the same by the time you build it.
But we're going to put toppings.
We're going to put new medians in.
We're going to get the graffiti off.
We're going to put tiles up in the tunnels where the tiles are missing.
We'll do the whole tunnel instead of, you know, a little area where you see new tiles, old tiles that never look too good, but they could use it.
You know, they've been up for 50 years.
They've served their duty.
But we're going to make this within about a 20 mile radius from the White House.
We're going to have this place spic and span.
It's going to be crime-free and it's going to be spic and span.
You'll be proud of Washington again.
Go ahead, please.
unidentified
Sir, China's having a massive military parade that President Putin and Kim Jong-un will be attending.
Do you interpret that as a challenge to the SNR?
Are you concerned at all about those countries?
No.
donald j trump
Not at all.
China needs us.
And I have a very good relationship with President Xi, as you know.
But China needs us much more than we need them.
No, I don't see that at all.
unidentified
No.
donald j trump
And I had actually a very good meeting with President Putin a couple of weeks ago.
We'll see if anything comes out of it.
If it doesn't, we'll take a different stance.
unidentified
So the judge on March today in California ruled that the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles was illegal.
Do you have any response to that?
donald j trump
Well, it was a radical left judge.
But very importantly, what did you not tell me in that question or statement that you made?
Pretty much of a statement, I think.
unidentified
Well, I was asking for your response.
donald j trump
No, no.
You didn't say what the judge said, though.
The judge said, but you can leave the three hundred people that you already have in place.
They can continue to be in place.
That's all we need.
But why didn't you put that as part of your statement?
Because the judge, the same judge ruled exactly as you said, except the judge said that you could leave the 300 people that you already have in place.
They can stay, they can remain, they can do what they have to do.
Thank you very much, everybody.
We appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
As wide ranging, wild as ever, President Trump saying that it's AI.
The video of something being thrown out of the White House saying he's going to be moving America's Space Force to Alabama.
Needed this asset on.
Here we go.
There we go.
So this is what President Trump, this is Peter Doocy showing President Trump, this visual of something being chucked out of the White House.
I've been begging, I've been telling Jerry to make a meme of this, but apparently Jerry is refusing to do so.
So we will show you the meme template that is going to be really So here you go.
Ladies and gentlemen, a Renaissance painting.
JD Pants.
Peeking his head over.
The official line from the White House is that this is a construction job that's being done.
But it does seem very odd that something, some giant black object is being hurled out of the window.
And it's very strange.
And what we've said is that those windows are bulletproof and cannot be opened for a security reason.
So then why is there something being chuucked out of the window?
That's just peculiar.
I don't have any evidence that there's any deeper cover up there.
But it is really funny when Donald Trump asks Peter Doocy to come wander over and show him the actual photograph.
And I assure you, if this hasn't already happened, this will be the newest, hottest meme template in the world.
Donald Trump getting Donald Trump getting president, getting a personal.
unidentified
There you go.
benny johnson
There it is.
There was a lot of very important news that was made here.
Obviously, the moving of Space Force to Alabama.
This is a great decision.
It's a power move.
Colorado is a blue hell state.
And Donald Trump saying that if Colorado has such rigged and corrupt elections, we're not going to be spending any federal dollars there and coming down hard on the state of Colorado.
President Trump moving to the dark red state of Alabama, 30,000 jobs for Space Force.
Will one of those jobs be meme maker with my Greta meme?
Is it ready?
I want to see it.
President Trump was asked if he's dead.
And President Trump apparently hadn't seen that trend, that it was the number one trend on Earth that President Trump had allegedly died.
So it's kind of funny.
Here's grand old memes.
He's jumping in on it quickly.
There you go.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
Would you look at this?
This guy in the back, I don't actually know which member of Congress this is.
This is, there you go.
You know it.
You know it's going to happen.
Donald Trump saying that he's going to go into Chicago and that he's guaranteed to head into Chicago and that they're going to be sending federal troops there.
That's also breaking news.
President Trump saying that he loved what happened in DC, that it's gone very, very well, that he's alive and well.
President Trump looking spry and on his feet.
Took 40 minutes of questions from the press.
So Donald Trump, very much alive.
Haters down bad.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're not a hater.
We're a lover.
And we love these memes and we wait.
Jerry's version, the grand old memes version, we'll see Jerry's version and maybe we'll play a compilation on the show tomorrow.
That's all we have for this live.
It's been an exciting day back.
Huge wars with the New York Times, Donald Trump doing a couple hours, couple hours of a press conference.
And ladies and gentlemen, we're back at it.
So let's just see.
Jerry, you have one final shot here.
I see Jerry's typing.
Is Jerry sending his version of the meme or not?
Let's see.
We're live, so we might as well, might as well just check and think.
Okay, all right, okay.
Okay, here we go.
We're going to do our uh we're gonna do our sad sad trump on here oh did you make this it says grand old it's it says grand old memes on it jerry oh Oh, so it's a grand old.
Oh, I see what you did.
Okay, so you added grand old memes meme to the meme template.
Meme inception.
There you go.
Memeception.
All right.
So, five.
unidentified
All right.
Five.
benny johnson
Cheers.
Cheers.
There we go.
That's right.
Jerry, are you adding yourself as grand old memes as well?
This, Jerry, what you need to do is you need to ask the producers.
Producers, send in the Greta photo.
That's what they're there for, Jerry.
Producers, what's wrong with you?
Danny, Jack, AOX.
I'm going to start roasting everyone live.
I just feel a little extra energy today.
Ashley, get Jerry the photo of the new haircut for Greta.
Give me that Greta photo.
I'm going to see that Greta photo.
This is the most important photo on the internet right now.
There's Jack.
Thank you, Jack.
So this is this, this, there you go.
There Look at that.
unidentified
Everyone working together at the company to make a meme for the stream.
benny johnson
That's right.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
We're back at it.
I hear that there's going to be a lot of things going on and it's going to be a rowdy week and it's going to be, well, buckle up.
There's going to be a lot more meme templates in our future.
President Trump is having an emergency.
meeting tomorrow with, according to sources at the White House, he's going to be doing an emergency live on tariffs tomorrow.
There was a judge that ruled that his tariffs were unconstitutional.
And so there we go.
We'll expect us to be live tomorrow morning.
Do we have a time for that?
I'm not sure.
But we do have, we do have, ladies and gentlemen, officially now our new, our meme template.
Did you get a lot of this?
It's Craig's new haircut.
Welcome back.
It's your boy Benny.
Thank you for joining us on this live.
Remember, in the end., we win.
So stay salty out there.
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