Jan. 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, Tuesday, 7th January, Year of the Lord, 2025. We're going to Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| Momentarily, our own Brian Glensdown, the president, will come and give a press conference. | ||
| I've got to finish with the great Eric Prince here. | ||
| Eric, I've got to go back to this. | ||
| Why would we release these Yemenis to Oman who are going to let them bleed back in when the Houthis are kind of fighting us to a standstill? | ||
| I mean, they're lobbing the drones and the missiles. | ||
| They're hitting us every day. | ||
| Today we've got carrier battle groups under fire. | ||
| I'm sure the Gettysburg, if it was, and I don't believe it, but if it was a mistake of the surface Navy in naval aviation, is it because of the op tempo? | ||
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They were flying a lot. | |
| They've been very busy. | ||
| The Navy says that they've spent a billion dollars just in missiles shooting down all the Houthi incoming. | ||
| That's not even a real number. | ||
| I would say it's more like four or five billion, because if they say it's a billion, that's what they paid for in 1995 when they bought those missiles. | ||
| To replenish it now, Raytheon will charge him $4 or $5 billion. | ||
| Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, in another act of complete weakness, I guess wants to clear out Guantanamo, and so they're releasing these Houthis back into general circulation. | ||
| It's a wrong move. | ||
| It's almost like another symbol of servitude to Iran and the weakness. | ||
| Whether it's Sunni radicals or Shia radicals, the Biden administration definitely wants to prostrate itself before them. | ||
| Your opinion, your professional opinion is this is a massive mistake, sir? | ||
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Sure. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Look, there's a, there's a, when you look at how the U.S. treated terrorism or even subversion, From Nazis or Japanese or even Soviet agents during World War II, they were tried, they were executed. | ||
| I don't know why military tribunals can't get to that point. | ||
| I mean, we're still holding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the entire 9-11 plot, and we just allowed him to plea to some plea which will take death penalty off the table. | ||
| We need to have a much greater clarity and surety of what happens to our enemies when they endeavor to destroy or kill Americans. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well said. | ||
| Zelensky Sunday night came out and said, just blunt, no peace negotiations are going to make sense. | ||
| It didn't even make sense to sit down. | ||
| Unless the Europeans and Zelensky's regime in Ukraine has an American security guarantee, that they have an ironclad security guarantee from the United States of America. | ||
| And they left it that open-ended, but that means to me an unlimited amount of money we put up to do this. | ||
| But more importantly, young American men and women in uniform as a security force in Ukraine essentially held hostage. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
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That's a hard no. | |
| First of all, the U.S. forces probably need to be redeployed to secure our southern border from the illegal migrant and fentanyl invasion that we're under now. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| Zelensky is not even a legitimate figure to be negotiating with anymore. | ||
| The Russians don't even view him because Zelensky has canceled the last election that was supposed to be last May. | ||
| I don't think the Russians will even negotiate in good faith until they have a counterparty that can actually bind the Ukrainian state. | ||
| So I'd say he is trying to position himself to prolong this thing forever, because when peace is obtained, Zelensky is gone and out of power. | ||
| The fact is, there's going to be another election. | ||
| I understand it's scheduled in April or May of this year. | ||
| Sadly, the slaughter will continue until then. | ||
| But there will be a presidential election. | ||
| Zelensky is positioning himself to be the only candidate, but there will be some other competent ones. | ||
| And the other competent ones will actually run on a peace platform because the Ukrainian people, by and large, are done with the mindless slaughter. | ||
| That's what needs to happen. | ||
| What is your recommendation of President Trump? | ||
| You know the region. | ||
| You know the players. | ||
| What's your recommendation of President Trump on how he should? | ||
| Because he's got to get drawn into that immediately. | ||
| What should be his angle of attack on this, sir? | ||
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Look, you can't show complete readiness to roll over for whatever the Russians want. | |
| Of course not. | ||
| But the fact is, the Russians are tired. | ||
| The Russian economy is not doing fantastic. | ||
| And it is in the interest, what is in the interest of the United States government is to pull Russia away from the orbit, from the cozy relationship that they've been pushed into with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| That is not in our interest. | ||
| For 100 years, it was always the policy of the United States to keep German resources from combining with Russian resources. | ||
| Now all that we've done is pushed Russian resources into a junior relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| That is a disaster for our security. | ||
| That takes way more precedence over who controls Donetsk or Luhansk or Kersen or whatever. | ||
| Not my problem, not our problem. | ||
| America is our concern and American security and survival is in our interest. | ||
| You've been one of the architects of the America First. | ||
| By the way, my production team here, just give me a heads up when the president works out. | ||
| We're awaiting the President of the United States, President Trump, or the President-elect of the United States, President Trump, to come out. | ||
| We're going to do a press conference from Mar-a-Lago, Brian Glenn, Real America's Voice, where they're live. | ||
| We'll pick it up momentarily. | ||
| Since you're one of the architects of America first, you've got the Persians on their back foot because the IDF took down, took a big slug of Hezbollah and sent them out of this veil of tears. | ||
| The Persians are on their back foot, but they're expediting, getting plutonium-grade Weapons-grade material for a nuclear weapon. | ||
| You've got Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood have seen an opening here with the collapse of Syria. | ||
| They're trying to reestablish the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate to eventually take over the two holy sites, Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| What is your recommendation to President Trump for the absolute mess we have in the Middle East and to avoid American combat troops, sir? | ||
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First of all, they need to make it very clear who are agents of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood in and around Washington spreading Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. | |
| B, any kind of massive external strike against Iran tends to actually strengthen the regime. | ||
| People will group together. | ||
| The best way to take down the mullahs is internally. | ||
| They are not popular at all in their own country. | ||
| And so I would argue for what the Catholic Church and the CIA did to the Communist Party in Poland in the 80s, providing the means to communicate, to organize for all the alternate centers of power, the Baluch, the Akwazi, the Kurds, the Azeris, inside of Iran, not to mention the students, the women's groups, the environmental groups, the labor groups, all those... | ||
| Alternate centers of power that don't like the mullahs, that's how you put the mullahs even more on their back feet, or preferably in the ground. | ||
| The Qatar's money and influence with the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington is a pretty open secret, right? | ||
| Nobody will shut it down, but it's an open secret. | ||
| Qatar is now pervasive. | ||
| Qatar is also now one of the financiers of Erdogan. | ||
| Does Qatar see... | ||
| Not the Persians, but to Qatar see the Turks as the horse to ride here for the return of the caliphate, Eric? | ||
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The fact is the Turks are the ones that sent troops to back up the Qatari government. | |
| There are Turkish troops guaranteeing that security. | ||
| Yes, the Turkish economy is not great at all. | ||
| There is actually a viable Turkish opposition. | ||
| Those folks should be reached out to and strengthened. | ||
| But yes, I don't think the Qataris are not going to ride the horse of the hidden imam and the mullahs. | ||
| They will definitely have thrown in with the Turks. | ||
| And when you see what Erdogan has been saying, even for the last five, eight years, when he talks about the greater Ottoman Empire, and he shows maps that show it, including Syria, northern Iraq, even parts of Bulgaria, other parts of places that are clearly even parts of Bulgaria, other parts of places that are clearly not, not, not part of Turkey, he definitely has the appetite to grow the Ottoman | ||
| Should the Muslim Brotherhood, we tried it in the first term, and I tell people of all the successes we had, my one absolute abject failure was trying to get the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a terrorist organization. | ||
| Should President Trump do that in the first days of his second term, sir? | ||
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Yeah, he should, but he won't. | |
| There's a lot of voices around him that will counsel against that, but he should. | ||
| But there's a lot of other ways to curtail their freedom of movement, and again, that's what having a properly run CIA and covert action would provide. | ||
| I hope that's the team that he's assembled this time. | ||
| Eric, About CIA covert action, paramilitary operations, we do know he's going to designate the Mexican cartels, the drug and human trafficking cartels, as terrorist organizations. | ||
| How would that change our angle of attack against the cartels once they're designated as a terrorist organization, sir? | ||
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Look, the fact is the cartels are the significant power in the Mexican state now. | |
| Can pretty much dictate terms to Claudia Scheinbaum. | ||
| But the best way to really hurt them, not just to kill them, but to actually go after their money. | ||
| And seizing it, seizing the cash houses, taking the big money out of... | ||
| When you look at a kilo of coke from where it's grown somewhere in South America to when it actually makes it... | ||
| To the streets. | ||
| It's a hundred to a thousand times value accretion. | ||
| But the people that make the most of that, because what the Mexican cartels have really learned, they've vertically integrated. | ||
| They learned from what the Colombian cartels built on, and the Mexican cartels have vertically integrated into the transportation and distribution of the entire value chain, and that's why they make so much money. | ||
| So going after their money. | ||
| And actually delivering consequences to some of the cartel leaders will at least start to diminish. | ||
| You're not going to ever remove their power. | ||
| And that's always the catch-22. | ||
| Years ago, actually when Chuck Colson was alive, I visited Death Row in Texas. | ||
| And I asked these guys who were locked up 24 hours a day in their cells, could they still get drugs? | ||
| And they can. | ||
| So the fact is, as long as there's a demand in the United States, there's going to be a supply. | ||
| An illicit one. | ||
| And I don't think legalizing drugs is the answer, but definitely curtailing the worst actors that are using actual terror on the Mexican society as part of their business plan, they have to be made to feel those consequences and to scale it back. | ||
| Okay, before I let you go, the Colombian example, yes, you've got to stop the money, and there's a lot of people in the U.S., a lot of political figures. | ||
| Particularly down in the border areas, judges, there's tremendous corruption. | ||
| The cartels control a lot of this. | ||
| You've got to stop the money transfers. | ||
| You've got to go off to the big banks. | ||
| But, like in Colombia, is there a point in time that you actually have to have paramilitary interdiction to start taking parts of the operation down? | ||
| And I mean killing people. | ||
| Do you advise that in Mexico? | ||
| Are we at that point that after we do the money and everything like that, since the federales in the Mexican government is compromised and people know this, we've got to start talking truth about this. | ||
| Do you, Eric Prince, recommend paramilitary interdiction into the nation of Mexico to take down the Mexican drug cartels? | ||
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Any and all means to push back has to be on the table, and that would include lethal access. | |
| Yes. | ||
| But the corruption is not just in Mexico. | ||
| It's even in our own country, in our own federal law enforcement. | ||
| When you put people next to that much money on a daily basis, inevitably there's going to be corruption that flows. | ||
| So whether it's CBP, the people that are checking payloads coming in, 100% there is a lot of corruption. | ||
| There's a lot of corrupted guys. | ||
| That's just the reality of it, because that is the nature of humanity, putting somebody that earns $50,000 doing inspections, and now someone will offer them another $50,000 a month to look the other way. | ||
| Of course, some of the people are going to take that deal. | ||
| Right. | ||
| For let you go just one more time back to Ukraine. | ||
| If you're hard, no on American troops in a security detail to guarantee the security of Ukraine, what then would be your recommendation for President Trump as he tries to negotiate a peace? | ||
| What should he do, sir? | ||
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Well, I know the Brits have talked about wanting to send some kind of forces there. | |
| They would be sent as non-NATO, just as British troops, to be that security guarantee. | ||
| If they want to do that, great. | ||
| But that is not the United States taxpayer or fighting Personnel's responsibility is to start doing security guarantees for Ukraine. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Has IDF cleaned out the combat brigades in Gaza, and are they prepared to go clean them out, the combat brigades of the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas in Judea-Samaria, sir? | ||
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Look, they still haven't finished the problem in Gaza. | |
| There's still 36 hostages being held. | ||
| Sorry, 64. There's 100 hostages. | ||
| 64, they think, are alive. | ||
| The rest, the Hamas is just holding the dead bodies. | ||
| So yeah, the whole Gaza thing is not as far from resolved. | ||
| I think they're hoping that a Trump administration with a bigger threat, with a threat of a bigger pushback, will finally resolve that problem. | ||
| But no, Gaza is not finished, nor is any other clean-out of the other West Bank territories. | ||
| Eric, you were going to be what we called the viceroy for Afghanistan. | ||
| You had a plan to get us out of Afghanistan starting in 2017. It wasn't executed because of McMasters and the rest of the deep state. | ||
| Are you prepared if President Trump asks you to go in and actually take an active role in the second term? | ||
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If the President asked for my help, I would certainly provide it. | |
| Eric Prince, how do people get to your podcast? | ||
| How do they get to social media, sir? | ||
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The podcast is called Off Leash with Eric Prince, and it's on X. You can also find me at Real Eric D. Prince on Twitter. | |
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| Eric Prince, you are a great American, a patriot and a hero, sir. | ||
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Thanks, Steve. | |
| Keep fighting. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Strong recommendation. | ||
| Three of our guests, I would think it would be fantastic if President Trump selected Pick Fenton, Trenert, And Prince and brought them all into the second administration. | ||
| You know, these guys don't play games. | ||
| They're absolute hammers. | ||
| Now, we have Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| Is Glenn available to Brian? | ||
| We've got a camera down there. | ||
| Right now, the Secret Service, I think, is deployed and getting ready. | ||
| Is that my little answer here? | ||
| Okay, President Trump's going to start here momentarily. | ||
| And I want to thank Real America's Voice. | ||
| Rob Sigg and the team, Parker Sigg, for letting us blow that break right there. | ||
| Quite fascinating. | ||
| Just a summary of what's happened today. | ||
| Tom Fenton, I had Tom on for a reason. | ||
| We don't bring Tom on a lot. | ||
| I bring him on when he wants to break news and actually wants to move the needle. | ||
| This is a guy, Judicial Watch, worked with Tom, I don't know, 12, 14 years, 15 years, made a film with him. | ||
| Incredible operation, kind of the... | ||
| You know, what I call the People's Justice Department, particularly during the Obama years, just done an incredible job in the Biden years. | ||
| Incredible, incredible job. | ||
| He is all over this conspiracy between the J6 Committee and Nancy Pelosi and these operations like Fannie Willis. | ||
| Caught Fannie Willis in a huge lie. | ||
| And he's recommending, and I think it's correct, and I think President Trump has to really spend some time thinking about this. | ||
| They're recommending two things. | ||
| They're recommending a special prosecutor or special counsel to be set up. | ||
| And they're also, he and Boyle, both saying something else quite profound that doesn't need to be attached to the Justice Department like Jack Smith was in kind of reporting to the Justice Department. | ||
| Pam Bondi and Cash Patel are going to have their hands full. | ||
| I mean, Cash particularly has to restructure the FBI. I'm of the strong belief, number one, it's so far off from its original course, but you have a law enforcement situation, then you have a counter-terrorism, counter-intel, intelligence apparatus that they just don't normally fit. | ||
| And I think that's got to be broken apart because you've got to get the counter-intel and the counter-terrorism. | ||
| It's got to be better. | ||
| Another epic fail down in New Orleans. | ||
| And they're sitting there saying they want continuity. | ||
| We don't want any continuity. | ||
| We particularly don't want Chris Wray. | ||
| Chris Wray should be gone today. | ||
| So given the PAM, and even with that fantastic team of lawyers who are very familiar with President Trump around her, the heavy lift they've got in the Justice Department is massive, and it's going to be fought every step of the way. | ||
| Folks, this is one of the things we're trying to get sure that people understand, that these are going to be fought every step of the way. | ||
| And so it is incumbent, we think. | ||
| That a special counsel, special prosecutor, be set up and be set up immediately in the first days of President Trump's second term. | ||
| And if that has to be run by the White House counsel or report in to the White House, so be it. | ||
| It has to be done. | ||
| Once again, to go back to this theory of the unified executive, this is different than when you had Dick Cheney and these guys. | ||
| Theirs was more about the legislative branch and the judicial branch. | ||
| Our theory, what we're trying to make sure is done now in President Trump's term, just deals with the executive branch. | ||
| Now, obviously, it's how it interacts with particularly the legislative. | ||
| But when you say unified theory, it's just to make sure that we make the – not just make the case, but you execute upon the following idea out of the Constitution, that the president, the opposite president, is the chief executive to the government, number one. | ||
| And all executive matters go back to them. | ||
| And their appointees. | ||
| That's why you have this confirmation process with the 1,000 confirmation that the Senate, as the Human Resources Department, independent, gets to sign off on. | ||
| Or at least gives their advice and consent. | ||
| Then you have the 3,000 that you just put in that basically need a security clearance. | ||
| And obviously other vetting. | ||
| The second is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. | ||
| And this has to be sorted out. | ||
| President Trump, and that's why we've argued that General Milley has to be called to active duty in a military tribunal under USMJ. A court-martial has to take place for Milley. | ||
| And I also believe Esper then has to be brought up, probably not in a military court, since he's a civilian. | ||
| But we've got to get sorted what happened back in the summer and fall of 2020, and then after the election. | ||
| When people say, we've got so much going on, how do you do that? | ||
| Well, look, you know what? | ||
| We're going to have to parallel process things. | ||
| This has to be done. | ||
| You can't look away from these things. | ||
| So that's number two, is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, to make sure the uniformed services understand that the office of the president, the commander-in-chief, President Trump, but I don't care if it's Bernie Sanders or AOC later on, that the way the Constitution is structured, they're the commander-in-chief. | ||
| And that's why the American people have the ability to not vote them into office, and particularly when you make sure the American people understand exactly what their jobs are, like their commander-in-chief of the armed forces. | ||
| I think AOC will have a tough time reaching the White House if that's presented to the American people with their job. | ||
| Number three, this gets back to Watergate. | ||
| It gets back to the post-Watergate Justice Department, which has spun out of control and become an independent power. | ||
| An independent power to thwart it. | ||
| That in the intelligence community is the railhead of the deep state. | ||
| These radical lawyers that all Pambani's got to take a trenching tool and dig them all out and get them the hell out of the building. | ||
| Get them the hell out of the building. | ||
| So this is incumbent upon us to do, that he's the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer. | ||
| There, right there, we have the... | ||
| Do I have Jace Medical also in standby? | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| I'm trying to get to Jace Medical in a second. | ||
| I got President Trump right there. | ||
| Anyway, that's a one-minute warning. | ||
| Okay, we're not going to get... | ||
| Jace is going to hang around. | ||
| Jace Medical is back with us. | ||
| We're going to try to get him in today. | ||
| Maybe if I hadn't been on a rant, we could have done that. | ||
| If I had better time management. | ||
| I think my mom used to have something to say about that, too. | ||
| My time management. | ||
| President Trump, you see right there on the screen, if you're viewing with us this morning on the streaming of Real America's Voice or Getter or Rumble, any of our different platforms, if you watch it in the TV version, you see right there. | ||
| That's the famous store at Mar-a-Lago, I believe. | ||
| Don't have my glasses on, so I'm kind of winging this. | ||
| If you're listening to us, President Trump is going to give a press conference. | ||
| He's going to come out and make a couple of statements. | ||
| A lot going on. | ||
| And then answer some questions. | ||
| One of the things most important, and I think we're winning this fight, giving advice to President Trump, as we do, unexpurgated with the bark on. | ||
| We're very concerned about day one and going forward. | ||
| He's got shock and awe executive order. | ||
| He's got all these great things he's working on. | ||
| One of the things on the legislative side, we're a huge advocate of the two bills, not one. | ||
| If you get the two instruments of reconciliation that you can use to essentially avoid the filibuster. | ||
| I think it's very important that we get a win, get a victory out of the box with a smaller, tighter, more succinct bill that focuses on the border, that focuses on immigration, that focuses on the deportations, that also talks about energy, unleashing energy, actually codify it. | ||
| Is that President Trump? | ||
| No, here we come. | ||
| Is that President Trump? | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| We're going to go live to the microphone. | ||
| The President of the United States, President-elect Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Many things are happening that are exciting. | ||
| Very exciting for our country. | ||
| And we're honored to welcome one of the most respected business leaders in the Middle East, indeed the world. | ||
| He's a founder and chairman of Demac Properties, Hussein Sejwani. | ||
| Very respected gentleman. | ||
| And I'm thrilled to announce today that DeMac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States, and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money. | ||
| It's a great thing, and I believe he will say that he's doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election. | ||
| They wouldn't do it without that election. | ||
| I can tell you a lot of people wouldn't. | ||
| You saw last week where we have somebody who's going to go from $100 to $200 billion. | ||
| And we have many other people, and we'll be bringing some of them out. | ||
| Some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly, and some don't. | ||
| And they feel so strongly about the country that they want to let people know about it. | ||
| But it's an honor to have such a great investor investing in our country. | ||
| The investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest. | ||
| The Sunbelt area and also to keep America on the cutting edge of technology and artificial intelligence. | ||
| He's very big into the data centers, and that's going to be a very hot item in the coming years, as you know, with AI in particular. | ||
| The first phase of the project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana, those places. | ||
| And Hussein, I'd love you to come up and say a few words. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| It's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected in November. | ||
| We've been waiting four years to increase our investments in U.S. to a very large amount of money. | ||
| We are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world. | ||
| We have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline. | ||
| In data center, we are in 10 countries around the world, in Asia, Europe, and Middle East. | ||
| And we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to U.S. For the last four years, we've been waiting for this moment. | ||
| And we're planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us. | ||
| But at the moment, we're planning $20 billion in data center, catering for the AI and cloud business for the hyperscalers. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Great honor. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| So nice. | ||
| And that man knows what he's doing. | ||
| He knows. | ||
| So, Hussein, we're going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly. | ||
| We have powers that haven't really been used in terms of environmental. | ||
| If you invest over a billion dollars in the United States, we're going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone's afraid they're going to come in and get caught in the quagmire, which is very prevalent in the United States, unfortunately, the quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules. | ||
| And I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more, and we'll do this for people with far less too, but we guarantee it. | ||
| We're going to move them quickly through the environmental process. | ||
| Sometimes people held up 12, 13, 14, 15 years. | ||
| I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week. | ||
| They were through the review and one week after spending 14 and a half years I've been a victim of that myself over the years. | ||
| And I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played. | ||
| And much of it has just done to stop progress. | ||
| So we're going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don't get tied up for the rest of your life and you can't do anything. | ||
| This commitment further underscores that many of the greatest business leaders on Earth are Seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election. | ||
| As you know, a lot of positive things have happened. | ||
| We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult. | ||
| Inflation is continuing to rage, and interest rates are far too high. | ||
| And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for. | ||
| We had a landslide election. | ||
| We won every swing state. | ||
| We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. | ||
| Nobody even knows how many people. | ||
| Millions. | ||
| And they're still counting in some areas. | ||
| You know they're still counting the vote in some areas. | ||
| Can you believe this? | ||
| What a place. | ||
| What a horrible place. | ||
| One of the things we're going to do is we've got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10 o'clock in the evening or something thereabouts. | ||
| They have places where they're still counting votes. | ||
| President Biden's actions yesterday on offshore drilling, banning offshore drilling, will not stand. | ||
| I will reverse it immediately. | ||
| It'll be done immediately. | ||
| And we will drill baby drill. | ||
| We're going to be drilling in a lot of other locations. | ||
| And the energy costs are going to come way down. | ||
| They'll be brought down to a very low level. | ||
| And that's going to bring everything else down. | ||
| That's what caused it to go up, along with the ridiculous spending on the Green News scam. | ||
| All this money, trillions of dollars. | ||
| It's like throwing it right out the window, what they're doing. | ||
| And they're trying to spend so much now, they're just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all, if it's certified under the Green News scam. | ||
| And they don't work, and it's too expensive. | ||
| And, you know, they told me that we're going to do everything possible to make this transition. | ||
| To the new administration, very smooth. | ||
| It's not smooth because they're doing that. | ||
| They're playing with the courts, as you know. | ||
| They've been playing with the courts for four years. | ||
| Probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a Republican, by far, actually, by a lot. | ||
| And, you know, we had a great election, so I guess it didn't work. | ||
| But even to this day, they're playing with the courts. | ||
| They're friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side. | ||
| It's called lawfare. | ||
| It's called weaponization of justice. | ||
| And it's happened at a level nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| So many... | ||
| I defeated deranged Jack Smith. | ||
| He's a deranged individual. | ||
| I guess he's on his way back to The Hague. | ||
| And we won those cases. | ||
| Those were the biggest ones. | ||
| And the press made such a big deal out of them. | ||
| But we did nothing wrong. | ||
| We did nothing wrong on anything. | ||
| And the people saw that. | ||
| You know, when they vote... | ||
| When a Republican, it's not easy for a Republican. | ||
| When the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the swing states, people said, well, he could win four. | ||
| We won all seven, and we won them by a lot. | ||
| That tells you we won. | ||
| And they've been watching this injustice. | ||
| I call it the injustice department. | ||
| What they've done is so bad. | ||
| The whole world has watched that. | ||
| And it took work, but it got me a lot of votes because when explained, I mean, we have a judge in New York who's a very crooked judge. | ||
| I'm under a gag order. | ||
| I can't even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects. | ||
| I'm under a gag. | ||
| Do you know that I'm the president-elect of the United States of America? | ||
| I'm a former, very successful president. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. | ||
| We had borders that were sealed and beautiful. | ||
| Everything was good. | ||
| We had no wars. | ||
| We defeated ISIS. We had no wars. | ||
| Now I'm going into a world that's burning with Russia and Ukraine, with Israel. | ||
| You took a look at that attack on October 7th, the attack on Israel, with the horrible way they got out. | ||
| Not the fact that they got out. | ||
| I would have been out before them. | ||
| But we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to... | ||
| Looking like a bunch of fools with 13 dead and many, many badly, horrifically injured. | ||
| Nobody ever talks about them. | ||
| No arms, no legs. | ||
| Nobody ever talks about them. | ||
| The way they got out was outrageous, leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban. | ||
| It's the group. | ||
| And we were... | ||
| Doing very well. | ||
| We would have been out. | ||
| We would have been respected. | ||
| I think it's one of the reasons it was so badly handled, that withdrawal, where people are jumping onto airplanes, falling off the sides of airplanes when they're 3,000 feet in the air. | ||
| And nobody's ever seen anything like that. | ||
| The worst. | ||
| And because of that, I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine. | ||
| When they saw that, they said, these guys are incompetent. | ||
| They don't know what they're doing. | ||
| But we know what we're doing now. | ||
| And that's going to all end. | ||
| And we have a great military. | ||
| I defeated ISIS, as you know. | ||
| We were in no wars. | ||
| I just finished a couple. | ||
| And we got also our soldiers guarding Syria and Turkey. | ||
| We're in the middle. | ||
| We had 5,000 soldiers. | ||
| They would have been gobbled up with two armies. | ||
| We had one army, 300,000. | ||
| We had another one, 500,000 or 600,000. | ||
| Looking, getting ready. | ||
| We had 5,000 people in the middle. | ||
| I said to a general, how do 5,000 people do in that case? | ||
| And the general just looked at me and said, not well, sir, not well. | ||
| And I took them out. | ||
| And you know what happened? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| I got criticized. | ||
| I saved 5,000 lives, actually. | ||
| And we did a great job, and we're going to do an even better job, because now we have a tremendous amount of experience. | ||
| We have people that I can rely on. | ||
| But the 625 million acres, people can't realize. | ||
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It's like the whole ocean. | |
| Take an acre. | ||
| You know, an acre, you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre. | ||
| If you have an acre, you have a big deal. | ||
| Now you multiply that by 625 million acres. | ||
| It's like, feels like the whole ocean. | ||
| And that's our strength, you know? | ||
| People can say we manufacture, we don't manufacture. | ||
| The thing we have, we have. | ||
| Oil and gas more than anybody in the world. | ||
| We're going to have more of it, too. | ||
| But they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling. | ||
| Nobody else does that. | ||
| And they think they have it, but we'll put it back. | ||
| I'm going to put it back on day one. | ||
| I'm going to have it revoked on day one. | ||
| We'll go immediately if we need to. | ||
| I don't think we should have to go to the courts. | ||
| But if we do have to go to the courts, you know, they try to be sneaky. | ||
| They go in and they sign. | ||
| Remember, this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth. | ||
| Well, you don't do the kind of things. | ||
| You don't have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you. | ||
| Because I did nothing wrong. | ||
| By the way, I did absolutely nothing wrong. | ||
| If I did something wrong, I wouldn't be standing here right now because I've won all these cases. | ||
| Nobody's ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department. | ||
| Jack Smith had cases all over the place. | ||
| People were being subpoenaed. | ||
| Lives were being ruined. | ||
| They were spending everything they had, money. | ||
| We were helping them out. | ||
| We had to. | ||
| They were subpoenaing people that had no idea what they were even talking about. | ||
| That's a sick group of people. | ||
| And it was all to influence the election. | ||
| It was all a fight against a political opponent. | ||
| We've never had that in this country. | ||
| We have had that in certain countries. | ||
| We've had that in... | ||
| Third-tier countries. | ||
| We've had that in banana republics, but we've never had that in a place like the United States. | ||
| I don't even know if it's been on a small level. | ||
| I'm sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever. | ||
| They brought this moron out of The Hague. | ||
| He's a mean guy. | ||
| He's a mean, nasty guy. | ||
| His picture was perfect. | ||
| Because you look at his picture, you say, that's a bad guy with his robe, his purple robe. | ||
| And he executes people. | ||
| He shouldn't be allowed to execute people because he'll execute everybody. | ||
| He's a nutjob. | ||
| But we won all of those cases with him. | ||
| And, I mean, I don't know the judge in Florida, but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it. | ||
| And we won the case. | ||
| She was a brilliant judge with great courage. | ||
| You know, the left, as we call them, the radical left, they have a way. | ||
| They play the ref. | ||
| And they play it. | ||
| Very hard. | ||
| They play the ref. | ||
| They go and say horrible things about judges and prosecutors. | ||
| And some judges and prosecutors say, look, the only way I'm going to get these people off my back is to give victory to them. | ||
| They're playing the ref. | ||
| I think it's illegal what they do. | ||
| It's almost like talking. | ||
| It's worse than talking to a judge. | ||
| But the judge in Florida, Judge Cannon, was brilliant and tough, and she didn't stand for it. | ||
| And I don't know her. | ||
| Never met her until the case. | ||
| And I don't believe I said even one word to her. | ||
| But she was very, very strong and very, very brilliant. | ||
| And her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal. | ||
| They couldn't beat the appeal. | ||
| So that's what we're up against. | ||
| So they say we're going to have a smooth transition. | ||
| All they do is talk. | ||
| It's all talk. | ||
| Everything they do is talk. | ||
| We're going to have a smooth transition. | ||
| And then they take 625 million acres and they... | ||
| Essentially, landmark it so you can't ever drill there again. | ||
| Well, we're going to be drilling soon. | ||
| We're going to be opening up ANWR. We're going to be doing all sorts of things that nobody ever thought was even possible. | ||
| But remember, and just to get off the subject, because I couldn't believe it when I heard it yesterday, I couldn't believe the size of it. | ||
| I mean, you put down a map and put this up, it's just massive. | ||
| And remember that that's worth probably, I mean, I've had estimates. | ||
| 40 to 50 trillion dollars. | ||
| That's more than our national debt. | ||
| Essentially, he's thrown it away. | ||
| He's thrown it away. | ||
| He's taken 50 trillion dollars. | ||
| So if we owe 35 trillion, he's taken 50 trillion dollars of value and thrown it right out the window. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
| Nobody can do that. | ||
| One other thing he did yesterday, which was in many ways worse. | ||
| It's hard to believe it can be worse. | ||
| He wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments. | ||
| He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters. | ||
| I don't know what it is with electric. | ||
| This guy loves electric. | ||
| We're going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way. | ||
| This guy loves electric. | ||
| And we don't have enough electricity. | ||
| And then we have AI where we need more. | ||
| And he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. | ||
| Gas heater is much less expensive. | ||
| The heat is much better. | ||
| It's a much better heat. | ||
| As the expression goes, you don't itch. | ||
| Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching? | ||
| That's what they want you to have. | ||
| They don't want you to have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric. | ||
| And the source is plentiful. | ||
| They're much cheaper to operate. | ||
| They're much better. | ||
| They work much better. | ||
| They look much better. | ||
| Sixty percent of homes and apartments have gas heaters. | ||
| He wants them all removed quickly. | ||
| These people are crazy. | ||
| There's something wrong with them. | ||
| There's something wrong with them. | ||
| They also want to go back, and they have already started that, to when you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve. | ||
| Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. | ||
| It's called rain. | ||
| It comes down from heaven. | ||
| And they want to do... | ||
| No water comes out of the shower. | ||
| It goes drip, drip, drip. | ||
| So what happens? | ||
| You're in the shower ten times as long, you know. | ||
| No water comes out of the faucet. | ||
| You want to wash your hands. | ||
| They want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now. | ||
| I, as you know, I ended that policy. | ||
| You can have all the water you want. | ||
| It makes no difference. | ||
| Especially in certain areas, we have so much water, we don't know what to do with it. | ||
| But these are all things. | ||
| They want very, very little water to go into your dishwasher. | ||
| Almost none. | ||
| And you know what people do? | ||
| They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keep it going. | ||
| They end up using more water. | ||
| Likewise, washing machines. | ||
| They want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine. | ||
| So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it four times instead of once. | ||
| You end up using more water. | ||
| We're a party of common sense. | ||
| And things that I'm telling you now is really all about common sense. | ||
| On January 20th, we'll turn the economy around very quickly. | ||
| Because right now, when I think of our economy, I think about inflation. | ||
| That's what we have. | ||
| We have inflation, I believe, at a level that we never had before. | ||
| There's never been anything like it. | ||
| And over the next four years, the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship. | ||
| But really, it's already doing it. | ||
| If you take a look, just last month, SoftBank announced the $200 billion. | ||
| I think it'll be $200. | ||
| He said between $100. | ||
| And I said, how about making it $200? | ||
| And he sort of said yes, but let's say it's 100, but it might be 200, right, Brian? | ||
| Dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs. | ||
| Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he's going to make, and that's money that's in the bank. | ||
| He's going to come and do it, and he'll do a great job, and he'll build the best centers in the country, I guarantee, because I know the way he builds. | ||
| Since my election, the stock market has set records. | ||
| The S&P 500 index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever, never even close. | ||
| In a single month, small business optimism soared 41 points. | ||
| It's not a 41. It went up 41 points. | ||
| And that's the largest in the 39-year history of the group that does it. | ||
| According to Gallup, the American people's confidence in the economy has just surged. | ||
| To the highest level in history. | ||
| That's why I have a news conference like that. | ||
| I take the greatest business leaders in the world. | ||
| I say, hey, do you want to say you're going to invest the money? | ||
| They're not looking for news conferences. | ||
| They're saying, what am I doing here? | ||
| They go in and they invest money. | ||
| But it's good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing. | ||
| And they're investing in the United States. | ||
| So we've done this all in two months of not being there. | ||
| You know, we haven't been there. | ||
| It's pretty amazing, and we think we're going to do some really great things, really great things. | ||
| We're being respected again all over the world. | ||
| The Panama Canal is a disgrace, what took place at the Panama Canal. | ||
| Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1, and they were supposed to treat us well. | ||
| I thought it was a terrible thing to do. | ||
| It was the most expensive structure ever built in the history of our country, relatively. | ||
| It would be the equivalent of substantially over a trillion dollars today. | ||
| We lost 38,000 people. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| 38,000 people, they died from malaria. | ||
| Mosquitoes. | ||
| They were unable to stop the mosquitoes. | ||
| They paid people five times more to take the job. | ||
| Many of those people died. | ||
| We gave it away for a dollar. | ||
| But the deal was that... | ||
| You know, they have to treat us fairly. | ||
| They don't treat us fairly. | ||
| They charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries. | ||
| They charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries. | ||
| They laugh at us because they think we're stupid, but we're not stupid anymore. | ||
| So the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now. | ||
| They violated every aspect of the agreement, and they morally violated it also. | ||
| And they want our help because it's leaking and not in good repair. | ||
| And they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it. | ||
| I said, well, why don't you get the money from China? | ||
| Because China's basically taking it over. | ||
| China's at both ends of the Panama Canal. | ||
| China's running the Panama Canal. | ||
| And they come to see this Biden, this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president. | ||
| Of course, she shouldn't have either, because that never happened. | ||
| It had to be two people, not one. | ||
| But they want $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that's run by China and makes a lot of money, China. | ||
| One of the most profitable structures ever built, because you have ships lined up back to Florida, frankly, and they just keep going through, and the numbers are staggering, half a million to a million dollars a ship. | ||
| And they took it away from us. | ||
| Meaning we gave it to them for a dollar. | ||
| But not going to happen. | ||
| What they've done to us, they've overcharged our ships, overcharged our Navy. | ||
| And then when they need repair money, they come to the United States to put it up. | ||
| We get nothing. | ||
| Those days are over. | ||
| Working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes, slash regulations, raise wages, and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before. | ||
| And certainly not from our country. | ||
| We had a big chunk of it for the first three years prior to COVID coming in, in my administration. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in history. | ||
| We cut the most regulations in the history of our country. | ||
| And I did that all in four years. | ||
| By four times more than any other president cut, we did that in four years. | ||
| And we were just getting started. | ||
| We'll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words, made in the USA. And we are not treated well, as you know, by Canada. | ||
| Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year, plus other things. | ||
| They don't essentially have a military. | ||
| They have a very small military. | ||
| They rely on our military. | ||
| It's all fine, but... | ||
| You know, they've got to pay for that. | ||
| It's very unfair. | ||
| I have so many great friends. | ||
| One of them is the great one, Wayne Gretzky. | ||
| I said, run for prime minister. | ||
| You'll win in a... | ||
| It'll take two seconds. | ||
| But he said, well, am I going to run for prime minister or governor? | ||
| You tell me. | ||
| I said, I don't know. | ||
| Let's make it governor. | ||
| I like it better. | ||
| But no, something's going to have to be done. | ||
| Same thing with Mexico. | ||
| We have a massive deficit with Mexico. | ||
| And we help Mexico a lot. | ||
| They're essentially run by the cartels. | ||
| And I can't let that happen. | ||
| Mexico's really in trouble. | ||
| A lot of trouble. | ||
| Very dangerous place. | ||
| And we're going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we're going to change, because we do most of the work there, and it's ours. | ||
| We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden, where he's... | ||
| Closing everything up, essentially getting rid of $50 to $60 trillion worth of assets. | ||
| We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. | ||
| The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. | ||
| And it's appropriate. | ||
| It's appropriate. | ||
| And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. | ||
| They can stop them. | ||
| And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers, record numbers. | ||
| So we're going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada, substantial tariffs. | ||
| And we want to get along with everybody, but, you know, they have to, it's got to, it takes two to tango. | ||
| We're approaching the dawn of America's golden age. | ||
| It's going to be a golden age for America. | ||
| We have things that nobody else has. | ||
| We have more natural resources. | ||
| We have number one. | ||
| Nobody knew that until I came along. | ||
| I made us number one. | ||
| We're number three. | ||
| I made us number one in a very short period of time in drilling. | ||
| And, you know, you can talk about windmills. | ||
| They litter our country. | ||
| They're littered all over our country like dropping paper. | ||
| Like dropping garbage in a field. | ||
| And that's what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage. | ||
| Most expensive energy ever. | ||
| They only work if you get subsidy. | ||
| The only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills, getting massive subsidies from the U.S. government. | ||
| And it's the most expensive energy there is. | ||
| It's many, many times more expensive than clean natural gas. | ||
| So we're going to try and have a... | ||
| Policy where no windmills are being built. | ||
| You know, off the coast of New Jersey, they want to build like 200 windmills. | ||
| The people are going crazy. | ||
| Nobody wants them, and they're very expensive. | ||
| They don't work without subsidy. | ||
| You don't want energy that needs subsidy. | ||
| Energy is a good business. | ||
| You don't need subsidy. | ||
| But when you build these massive towers, and they're 25 stories tall, 40 stories. | ||
| They have 170 stories tall. | ||
| The blades, they take three ships to ship them. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| They're dangerous. | ||
| You see what's happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales, where they had two whales wash ashore in, I think, a 17-year period. | ||
| And now they had 14 this season. | ||
| The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously. | ||
| And they had actually over, I think, 125 or something over a number of years. | ||
| Over a number of years, and we don't want that to happen. | ||
| It's a disaster. | ||
| It's amazing the way a true environmentalist would say, oh, we love wind. | ||
| It sounds good, but that's about where it ends. | ||
| You know, after 10 years, you have to redo them. | ||
| And what happens is they don't do that. | ||
| They let them stand, and they rust, and they say, because of the environment, I'm not a believer in this, but they say you can, because it's a certain fiberglass, that the blades cannot be buried in Earth. | ||
| That that's an environment. | ||
| So what do you do with them? | ||
| What do you do with them? | ||
| And I don't know if you've ever gone to Palm Springs, California, or any of these places where you have long-term windmills standing. | ||
| They're a disaster. | ||
| They're rusting, rotting, closed, falling down. | ||
| This is as you enter Palm Springs. | ||
| And they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down. | ||
| Because why should they take them down? | ||
| It's very expensive to take them down. | ||
| And you can't do anything with them because the blades, you can't bury them because of the environmental protection. | ||
| We'll look at that. | ||
| Doesn't make sense, but that's what they say. | ||
| So we are at the beginning of a great, beautiful golden age of business. | ||
| And I think we're also at a golden age of common sense. | ||
| Because everything I'm saying to you, from a simple water faucet that doesn't allow water to come out appropriately, to all of the other elements of what we do and what we're going to do, to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our countries. | ||
| Because some man that has no idea what he's doing has no idea. | ||
| You know it. | ||
| I know it. | ||
| The Democrats know it. | ||
| What they did is a crime by allowing that to happen. | ||
| And I'll bet you, if you asked him today, how much acreage did you submit? | ||
| Essentially, did you destroy? | ||
| You destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean. | ||
| With AI coming along and all, you know, a lot of people don't realize that AI is going to be a big thing, but you'll need double the electricity at least that we have right now. | ||
| So right now we produce electricity for many, many different things. | ||
| AI is a very big deal in terms of the future. | ||
| China is already building electric facilities, big, bold electric facilities. | ||
| And you know how they're being fired up? | ||
| With coal. | ||
| They're being fired up with coal. | ||
| And we're going to build bigger and better ones. | ||
| People like Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is. | ||
| I'll bet they don't do it as well because I know how he does it. | ||
| But they're doing a lot of things. | ||
| The problem is they can't get their permits because I say build the plant with the building. | ||
| So with the structure, build the plant. | ||
| Because if you go into grid, the grids are old. | ||
| So they said, that's a great idea. | ||
| In other words, build your electric facility alongside of your plant. | ||
| And you could have extra output if you want, because once you build it, you can make it larger pretty inexpensively. | ||
| You could have extra output, which you'll sell to the public, but build it with the plant, and people are loving that idea. | ||
| So we're going to have a lot of fun making America great again, and it's going to happen, I think, very, very quickly. | ||
| It's already happened, so I would say this, and this has been pretty openly reported by the news. | ||
| There's never been anything like what's happened since we won the election. | ||
| A couple of months since we won the election, the whole perception of the whole world is different. | ||
| People from other countries have called me. | ||
| They said, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The perception of the whole world is different. | ||
| We're going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now. | ||
| We're going to have to settle up. | ||
| With Russia, Ukraine, that's a disaster. | ||
| I look at numbers every week. | ||
| The number of people being killed in that war, people don't know. | ||
| Mostly soldiers now. | ||
| But the towns have been obliterated. | ||
| This was a Biden fiasco that he got us. | ||
| That should have never happened. | ||
| If we had a real president, if we had a president that knew what he was doing, Russia would have never, ever gone in. | ||
| But they did go in, and we have a mess. | ||
| The cities are all blown up. | ||
| The people have largely left. | ||
| And the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven't been seen since the Second World War. | ||
| So we'll have to get that one straightened out, too. | ||
| That's a tough one. | ||
| Much tougher than it would have been before it started, I can tell you that. | ||
| A deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker. | ||
| A deal could have been made on that. | ||
| So thank you all for coming. | ||
| We'll take a couple of questions. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you. | ||
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I wanted to touch on -- This is -- this is the war room. | |
| Stephen K. Bannon, we're going to turn -- Charlie Kirkshaw, we're going to go with the questions right now. | ||
| The President of the United States is going to continue. | ||
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Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? | |
| And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? | ||
| Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? | ||
| Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote? | ||
| What is the strategy? | ||
| I can't assure you. | ||
| You're talking about Panama and Greenland. | ||
| No, I can't assure you on either of those two. | ||
| But I can say this. | ||
| We need them for economic security. | ||
| The Panama Canal was built for our military. | ||
| I'm not going to commit to that now. | ||
| It might be that you'll have to do something. | ||
| Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country. | ||
| It's being operated by China. | ||
| China! | ||
| And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. | ||
| We didn't give it to China. | ||
| And they've abused it. | ||
| They've abused that gift. | ||
| It should have never been made, by the way. | ||
| Giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election, in my opinion, more so maybe than the hostages. | ||
| The hostages were a big deal. | ||
| But if you remember, and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal because, you know, it's inappropriate, I guess, but because it's a bad part of... | ||
| Of the Carter legacy, but he was a good man. | ||
| Look, he was a good man. | ||
| I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person, but that was a big mistake. | ||
| Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake. | ||
| We lost 38,000 people. | ||
| It cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars, maybe more than that, probably the most expensive, they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can, ever built. | ||
| Giving that away was a horrible thing. | ||
| And I believe that's why Jimmy Carter lost the election, even more so than the hostages. | ||
| Those two things. | ||
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If I just talk on Ukraine and Iran, the two negotiations you'll be heading into. | |
| On Ukraine, you said just before it's a lot more complicated now. | ||
| Much more complicated. | ||
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Do you believe... | |
| Because it would have never started. | ||
| Right. | ||
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But it has started. |
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