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Episode 4759: Trump Changes Name From Department Of Defense To Department Of War
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donald j trump
Big demonstrations in Israel about the hostages, not about the war, about the hostages.
unidentified
Which puts Israel in a tough position because, you know, it's tough to prosecute a war when you have people wanting, they want the 20 people back.
donald j trump
They just want them back very badly and everything that goes with it.
unidentified
So it's very sad.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
unidentified
We're going to talk now about the G20.
I figured we could wrap two or three up.
The last time I took a day off, everybody said bad things happened to me.
You know that, sad?
I took one day off.
I didn't take it off.
donald j trump
I was working.
unidentified
In fact, I was here.
But I didn't do a news conference, and they said bad things happened to the president.
That's why that's fake news, Mr. President.
donald j trump
It's fake news.
unidentified
You know, Obid, if you look, Biden, he had a press conference.
He missed it for about a year, right?
donald j trump
About a year.
unidentified
And I never saw any stories like that about him.
And when he had one, they'd ask him, what flavor ice cream do you like?
He'd say vanilla.
How many times have they asked him that question?
donald j trump
Every, it's, what's your favorite ice cream, sir?
Vanilla.
unidentified
Okay, that's enough.
donald j trump
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
You don't have to go through this, but we all have a good time.
I only do it for one reason.
I think it's good for the country.
And we are very transparent.
donald j trump
There's never been transparency like we have.
unidentified
There's nothing to hide.
So thank you very much on this, Will.
donald j trump
Great job.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate it.
So we're going to talk about Florida, the great state of Florida now, because it's going to be a very exciting thing to host the G20.
And as we celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary next year, the United States will have the honor of hosting exactly that, the G20 summit right here in America for the first time in nearly 20 years.
This afternoon, I'm thrilled to announce that the 2026 G20 conference, which will be, I could read off the countries that we're talking about, but you know who they are, I think.
donald j trump
Does anybody want me to list them?
unidentified
Specifically, Jennifer, you're okay?
Okay, but will be held in one of our country's greatest cities, beautiful Miami, Florida, where we have the mayor with us, Mayor Suarez.
And I want to thank Francis for being here.
donald j trump
I thought he might be in this office.
unidentified
You know, he almost got there.
It was a couple of months.
A couple of them.
It's not as easy as they think.
donald j trump
It's not that easy.
unidentified
But he's an amazing guy, very popular and very popular in Florida.
The agenda for next year's summit is being organized by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who is right here.
donald j trump
Hi, Scott.
unidentified
I saw him standing over there, nice, tall, good-looking guy, but he moved very quickly.
Carolyn, you did a good job.
Does Caroline do a good job, would you say?
donald j trump
Is she a star?
unidentified
How do you compare her with the last administration's person?
donald j trump
No?
unidentified
You don't want to get into that.
I think we're very happy with Caroline.
But Scott Besson is talking about a good job.
He's done a fantastic job, and we're very proud of him.
donald j trump
He's very much involved with the G20.
unidentified
And the NEC director Kevin Hassett, who's truly a talented guy.
He's certainly being thought of to go to a different position.
And we'll find out about that pretty soon.
I don't know.
Would you like to be there?
I won't ask you.
I think.
Who wouldn't want?
donald j trump
I think it's the greatest position in the world.
unidentified
You know, you come out, you make a speech, and then you go and go away for 30 days or 40 days.
And you come out, make another speech.
The market goes up or down, depending on what you want to say.
I've never seen an easier position than that.
Unfortunately, you need good instincts.
donald j trump
So we have somebody in there now that doesn't have them.
unidentified
We call them too late.
But it will focus on unleashing economic prosperity by eliminating the burdensome regulations, unlocking affordable energy, and pioneering new technologies.
And it's going to be very important.
donald j trump
The United States is already leading by example.
unidentified
And America is the hottest country anywhere on earth.
donald j trump
We have more being built under construction now than they think anybody that they've ever seen.
unidentified
I mean, literally, some of these places are just really unbelievable what they're building, the size.
You know, if you spend $50 million on a shopping center someplace, it's a big building, pretty big building.
But when you spend $50 billion on essentially a building, they have buildings going up for $50 billion.
They're going to be building their own electricity.
And many of them have been given permits already to go, and they're starting construction.
Some have started construction quite a while ago.
And very early in the administration.
We let them do that.
You know, we have a grid that's obviously an old grid.
It's been around for a long time.
Could never handle the kind of numbers that you're talking about in terms of electricity.
And we're letting them build their own plants.
They build their own plants with their structures.
So they build their structure, they build their buildings, and they build an electric producing plant with it.
Like Con Edison in New York that I grew up with, and like others that make electricity, they make it for New York.
These plants will make it for their building, for AI.
Then you have a lot of the car plants going up.
donald j trump
Most of them won't need that kind of electricity, but they have the right to do that also.
unidentified
So we're allowing companies to build electric plants.
They become essentially, Scott, I guess they become utilities, right?
If you think about it.
And it's very exciting.
We're going to end up with more electricity than China.
And it's going to be built at no cost to us.
And I'm telling them, build more than you need and you'll sell it back into the grid.
So they'll be able to sell it back into the grid on top of everything else at no cost to the American taxpayers.
donald j trump
Very exciting.
unidentified
And frankly, if we didn't do that, we wouldn't be leading with AI.
donald j trump
We wouldn't be probably even doing any AI.
unidentified
It would be 20 years to get an approval.
So they're building massive amounts of electricity as we speak.
We've eliminated $5 trillion worth of federal regulations, another big thing since I took office.
And if you remember the first term, we took out more regulation than any other president in history times.
You could add the top four, and they wouldn't come anywhere close to what we were.
donald j trump
That's one of the reasons we had such economic, the most successful four years of any president economically.
unidentified
And this is blowing it away.
donald j trump
I think this will blow it away.
When these plants start even getting close to opening, I think you're going to see numbers that we've not seen before.
unidentified
And we've increased oil production by more than 300 barrels a day.
That's a lot.
Blue-collar wages are rising at the fastest rate in 60 years, and trillions of dollars of investment is pouring into the USA.
donald j trump
It's going to be over $17 trillion very shortly, and nobody ever thought a thing like that was possible.
What made it possible were, number one, they were happy with November 5th.
unidentified
They were happy with the election.
And number two, the tariffs are bringing countries in.
donald j trump
I mean, it's so vital to our country.
It's before the courts now, and I hope we're going to do very well.
We had four great opinions just come out, as you know, from judges.
unidentified
In a couple of cases, there were Obama-appointed judges that felt they had to do what was right for the country.
donald j trump
So I respect that greatly.
I respect them for doing it.
unidentified
But we have very strong opinions, and it'll end up going to the Supreme Court.
And it's just vital for the country.
Vital, absolutely.
We're at a level that we've never thought we'd be at.
And it's because of the tariffs.
Countries are pouring into our country because of the, you avoid tariffs if you build here.
If you don't build here, you pay a lot of money.
But if you build here, so what people are doing is they're coming in, they're building here.
donald j trump
No different than what other countries have done to us.
unidentified
But we have a big advantage over other countries.
donald j trump
We have a market that we built up during our four years that was amazing.
unidentified
We took a commanding lead during that four-year period.
So it's a very exciting thing.
But I look forward to showing our incredible success to the world when we visit Miami next year.
And I'd like to ask Mayor Suarez, truly a highly respected gentleman who's loved in his city.
And we're going to do a great job.
donald j trump
We're going to work together and do a fantastic job.
unidentified
Mayor, would you just say a few words, please?
francis suarez
Of course.
unidentified
Thank you, Mr. President.
francis suarez
It's a tremendous honor to be with you here today in the Oval Office to make this historic announcement, just looking at the sign, which is so beautiful.
donald j trump
Good job.
unidentified
Yeah, it's a great job.
You know, as you know, Mr. President, you were elected by double digits.
francis suarez
You were the first Republican president over 30 years to win Miami-Dade County.
unidentified
And you did it because you followed through on your promises.
And in Miami, what we're doing is we are following through on those promises as well.
francis suarez
We've kept taxes low.
unidentified
We've kept people safe.
We've leaned into innovation.
We've grown 150% in the last 10 years.
We've created one of the most intriguing ecosystems in the world.
francis suarez
And this decision is not only generationally important for the city, but it puts the city on the map as one of the truly great global cities.
So on behalf of all of the workers of Miami, those that work in the hospitality industry, I know you own many hospitality assets and properties.
unidentified
All of the small business owners who are going to benefit economically from having the G20 in Miami.
donald j trump
Tremendous, tremendous benefit.
It's going to bring in millions and millions of dollars.
unidentified
We just say thank you.
francis suarez
We thank you for believing in us.
unidentified
We thank you for highlighting our city in a time when we have the lowest homeless rate in 11 years.
francis suarez
We're on the precipice of having the lowest homicide rate in history with the lowest taxes.
So we're following your America First agenda and we're creating success in, you know, Miami's the greatest city in the world.
unidentified
We believe.
donald j trump
Thank you, Mayor.
unidentified
We'll see you down there before then, but we'll see you.
donald j trump
Scott, would you like to say a few words?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
So we're excited to have the G20.
And what's important about the G20, President Trump's America First Initiative does not mean America alone.
It means America leads.
So we will be holding the G20 in the capital of the world, Miami next year to showcase the beginning of President Trump's second term.
We'll be a year and a half into it.
We will have done peace deals, tax deals, trade deals.
scott bessent
We've made the U.S. the best place to come, start a business, have tax certainty, energy certainty, and regulatory certainty.
unidentified
And it's going to be an exciting event.
scott bessent
And the U.S., just as the President was saying earlier about the Defense Department of War, the U.S. is back on the international stage as a leader.
unidentified
We have whittled down the G20 back to basics.
scott bessent
We are making it work for the American people better than ever.
unidentified
We have the G20 had become basically the G100 this past year.
So it will be a concentrated group in Miami, seeing the best America has to offer with American leadership, thanks to President Trump.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Great job, and a great job you're doing.
Kevin, would you like to say a few words?
You know, Mr. President, I think this G20 meeting, where the world leaders will come to the great city of Miami, is going to be viewed as one of the most important meetings in global history because what's going to happen is the golden age is going to be documented so well at the data by next summer that you're going to have one of the best speeches written for you that you've ever seen because we're just going to be talking about the accomplishments of the next year.
donald j trump
A lot of these plants are going to be open by then.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
And a lot of jobs are coming in like I think we've never seen before.
It's going to be great.
donald j trump
Monica, would you like to say something?
monica crowley
Thank you, Mr. President.
We're so looking forward to having the United States of America host the G20 in Miami in December of next year.
unidentified
And we're also looking forward to having this as a showcase of American strength, vision, innovation, and power under your bold leadership, Mr. President.
monica crowley
It is going to be the G20 in the Trumpian golden age.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
donald j trump
Any questions on the G20?
unidentified
Can I just G20?
You just said a moment ago that you were very complimentary of Kevin's work, and I was just wondering if he's your man for the Fed.
Of Kevin?
Yes.
No, I am very complimentary.
donald j trump
I think he's fantastic.
unidentified
And for the Fed, he's your man.
I didn't say that.
I said he's fantastic.
I sort of know who I'm going to pick, but no, I didn't say anybody in particular.
But Kevin is certainly one of the three.
They say four, but probably three.
He's a highly respected person.
He's great.
He's great.
He believes in low interest rates, and we all do.
But sometimes you have to raise them to stop inflation.
donald j trump
We had the worst inflation, I guess, essentially, that we've ever had in the Biden administration, and it really hurt people.
unidentified
You know, costs are way down.
donald j trump
Our energy costs are way down.
unidentified
And, you know, when energy comes down, everything comes down.
And we brought down the price of groceries and specifically the price of eggs.
donald j trump
You remember that first week when you were screaming about eggs?
unidentified
I said, I know nothing about them.
I just got here.
donald j trump
That's Biden's problem.
unidentified
But we got the cost of eggs down to really low numbers.
donald j trump
So we brought costs down for people.
unidentified
And, you know, it's something I said, and the Democrats have this false narrative.
They say, oh, costs, what up?
They just say things that it's just like incredible.
donald j trump
If you look at energy, I think you're going to be at $2 a gallon with cars very shortly.
unidentified
$2, it was $4, $5 under the Democrats.
That's a huge, it's like a massive tax cut.
And speaking of tax cuts, we gave you the largest tax cut in history in the bill that we just approved.
The largest tax cut in history.
And there'll be no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
donald j trump
One of the big things you get, you buy a car and you borrow money to buy the car.
unidentified
You're allowed to deduct your interest, which, Scott, has never happened before.
You know, rich people like to talk about deductions.
Middle income, they never gave them deductions.
I got them one of the best deductions, an interest deduction.
So it's great.
donald j trump
Jennifer, please.
unidentified
Yeah, a couple questions on the G20, sir.
Is there any update on your plans to attend this year's G20?
And then are you saying for next year?
I won't be going this year.
donald j trump
It's in South Africa.
unidentified
I won't be going.
JD will be going.
Great vice president.
And he looks forward to it.
But no, I won't be going to that.
And then I'll guess for 2026, are you saying it'll just be exclusively the 19 countries, the two blocks?
There won't be any.
donald j trump
No, we're going to invite other countries as observers.
unidentified
They call them observers.
But they'll have something to say.
donald j trump
But we're going to invite Poland.
unidentified
Already I've issued them an invitation.
donald j trump
They were just here, as you know.
Great leader.
unidentified
Great new leader.
donald j trump
One of the big surprises, I was so happy I endorsed him, actually.
unidentified
And he won.
And he's going to be a great leader of Poland.
donald j trump
But I've invited Poland already.
unidentified
What about Russia?
What about Russia?
I haven't thought of that.
donald j trump
No, I haven't thought of that.
That's an interesting question.
unidentified
I'm going to think about that for a little while.
Mr. President, you just mentioned that the tax cut bill.
Why the rebrand from One Big Beautiful Bill?
Oh, I just save words.
I said the bill, it's one big, I actually call it the great.
I actually call it the great big beautiful bill.
But it's a lot of words.
It's been having all the Republicans to kind of talk about it.
You know, I just want them to say what's in it.
It's an incredible bill for the middle class, for the working person.
You know, we are a party of the working.
It used to be the opposite.
donald j trump
The Democrats were for the working people and the Republicans were supposedly for the rich.
unidentified
The Republican Party's taken in millions of people and the Democrats have lost millions of people.
They've gone crazy.
Honestly, I think they're crazy.
What's happened to them?
I don't know.
They suffer major Trump derangement syndrome and it's turned out to be actually a disease, but it's a disease of weak people and stupid people because All we do is we cut taxes, we create great policy.
donald j trump
Their policy is so terrible.
unidentified
They refuse to acknowledge, as an example, I see today it's a big debate again.
The women, they don't want men playing in their sports.
They don't want it.
donald j trump
The Democrats want men to play in women's sports.
I saw the great governor, we have Governor Yunkin talking about it today, that the woman who's running against our Republican candidate, who's excellent, is like so much into the, you know, men being able to use women's bathrooms.
unidentified
Okay, what's that all about?
Men playing in women's sports wants open borders.
Again, once they want actually, after what we've gone through with millions, I think 25 million people came in from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers, drug addicts.
They're pouring into, they poured in.
Now we have none coming in.
The border's been sealed for a long time, actually almost since I got into office.
Remember when the Democrats said we need legislation?
I didn't have any legislation.
I said close the borders.
And now the borders for the last four months, not one person has been allowed to come into this country illegally, not one.
Done by people that would normally like to see you look bad.
Those are the numbers.
donald j trump
So it's been an amazing job.
unidentified
Yeah, please.
Mr. Brother, this is going to be a major event and a major meeting for South Florida for you, Premier Stuarez.
I know this is not until next year in Miami, but do preparations begin today, and if so, what is being done?
francis suarez
We've already begun.
unidentified
We first have to deconflict our puzzle with the dates.
And so we have already started doing that.
And so thanks to the president's death.
We started a long time ago, actually.
If you knew him, he was working on this long before this press conference.
Yes, sir.
donald j trump
It's in good shape.
unidentified
Going to be great.
Mr. President, we learned this morning that we've lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs this year.
How do you explain?
Well, one thing we have is, you know, we have the interest rates are too high.
donald j trump
That was, you know, a matter of the Fed.
unidentified
But the other thing is so many different elements aren't included yet.
And one of the things we've learned, and we learned that the hard way watching over the last few months, are the corrections that people have been making.
They'll say you're losing jobs, and then they'll say, by the way, we have a correction a month later of, you know, 100,000 jobs are missing.
They actually had a correction once of 850,000 jobs.
But I'll let Kevin just speak about that a little bit because I heard him speaking about it this morning.
I thought he did very well.
kevin hassett
Thank you very much, sir.
unidentified
Well, I think that if you look at the indicators, there's capital spending boom, industrial production at an all-time high.
The Atlanta Fed says GDP now is north of 3%.
And so all the indicators are saying that things are really strong.
And what we've also seen is that Golden Sachs put out a study yesterday that said that the August number tends to be really messed up because of seasonal adjustment things, and they tend to be revised way up.
And so I think if they were revised up, which has happened on average over the last 15 years by about 60,000, then everything else would make sense.
kevin hassett
But right now we're puzzled about the BLS numbers and looking forward for new leadership there to make it so that the numbers are more reliable.
unidentified
And again, we're building, you know, they've started building all of these factories and plants, including car factories.
donald j trump
Car factories are coming back.
unidentified
We lost more than 50% of our car production over the years.
And I think we're going to get all of it back.
donald j trump
It's coming back in really rapidly.
unidentified
Really.
donald j trump
We're building a lot of car plants.
unidentified
Indiana, places that you don't think of it so much are taken, but also Detroit, lots of places it's coming in where I think we're going to get everything.
You know, we've lost it over a period of 40 years.
And I think we're going to get it all back in a very short period of time.
And big ones, big plants, incredible plants that were never going to come back.
Without the tariffs, they wouldn't have come back.
And I think without the election on November 5th, they wouldn't come back either.
The election was very important also.
Since we've been here, Mayor Adams of New York has announced that he's staying in the mayoral race there.
Can you react to that, but also tell us what you're doing?
donald j trump
No, I mean, he has to do what he wants.
unidentified
No, I mean, he's free to do what he wants.
It would seem to me, and everybody in this room, including you, that the only way you're going to beat the communists, because you have a communist running, which is fine.
I'll have to deal with a communist in New York City.
donald j trump
I never thought that was going to happen.
unidentified
This is something I didn't think was going to happen, Scott.
You're going to have to explain this one because we're going to have a communist mayor.
It would seem to me that if he stays in, if you have more than one candidate running against him, it can't be one.
If you have one candidate, if he's the right candidate, I would say that Cuomo might have a chance of winning if it was a one-on-one.
If it's not one-on-one, it's going to be a hard race.
And we'll get used to a communist, and he's going to have to go through the White House and get approvals for everything.
And we're going to make sure that New York is not hurt.
We want to make sure that New York is cherished and taken care of.
And so I didn't know he was running or not running.
But you didn't offer him an ambassador.
donald j trump
No, I didn't do that.
No, I wouldn't do that.
unidentified
It's nothing wrong with doing it, but I didn't do that.
We understand that it'll be held at Dural.
donald j trump
Yes, it's going to be at Durrell.
unidentified
You considered that with the G7 last time you decided against it.
Why go forward with it now?
Well, I think that everybody wants it there because it's right next to the airport.
It's the best location.
It's beautiful, beautiful everything.
donald j trump
They actually requested that it be there because location is the best.
unidentified
And we will not make any money on it.
donald j trump
You know, we're doing a deal where it's not going to be money.
unidentified
There's no money in it.
I just want it to go well.
And it's going to be each country will have its own building.
It'll be, I think it'll be really a beautiful thing.
And Dural's been very, very successful.
One of the most successful properties in the country.
And, you know, frankly, the problem is in December, that's the biggest month in Florida.
So, you know, using it for that, you can't get a room in Florida in December, January, et cetera, that area.
And that's the time we're talking about.
donald j trump
So from that standpoint, it's not good, but we want to make sure it's good.
unidentified
I think Dural would be the best location.
And again, they'll have their own buildings.
It'll be incredible for them.
And being like 10 minutes, less than 10 minutes from the airport, and it's a big airport, international, all of the plans we'll be able to land go right into their quarters.
So I think it'll work out very well.
Earlier on your Fed answer, sir, you said that you're looking at maybe three candidates or four candidates.
Three candidates.
Should we interpret that?
Do you like Secretary Besting in his current role?
donald j trump
Well, I like him too, but I had him as a fourth.
unidentified
No, I had four.
You know, you were talking about four.
Now I'm talking about three.
He told me I'm not leaving.
wants to be doing and if he was leaving uh I mean he would certainly be uh one of the people I'd wanted but I asked him specifically I could ask him right now would you rather stay where you are as treasurer or would you rather go to the sir I'm the only person on the planet who does not want the job okay He really told me, he said, I love what I'm doing.
I wouldn't want to really take him because he is doing a great job.
The top three is still there, Mr. Paperwaller.
I am looking at Cabinet also, and I'm looking at, yeah, I would say you could say those are the top three.
Good job.
Mr. Clarify, you're saying you believe Andrew Cuomo would be the best one-on-one candidate against the other.
Well, I think if I'm going, I'm only going by the polls.
It's not an endorsement or anything.
It just seems that he's second.
And what you do to win is you take the guy who's second and you hopefully add one and two.
But maybe if the one isn't getting out, then he's not getting out.
And that's okay.
I think the mayor's a very nice person.
I helped him.
He got caught up in a scam by the Biden administration, what they did.
donald j trump
So I helped him out a little bit.
unidentified
But I would understand why he doesn't do it.
I do think this.
I think if you have more than one candidate, we've got ourselves a communist mayor in New York.
And I don't like communist mayors.
donald j trump
I don't like them.
unidentified
Yeah.
You passed the movie Defense Bill, sir.
Five months, all enslaved next week.
World Cup, G20, all American D. Even what's your economic outlook?
How much road do you think is reasonable for us to expect economy next year?
Well, I heard, and you know, we were on a very downward path with Biden, and I heard that the most we could do is 1% GDP, and now I'm hearing 3.2% and 3.5% and all.
And our big year won't be really next year.
I think it'll be the year after because when these plants start opening up, it takes a period of time to build them.
We're going to have tremendous job growth.
donald j trump
It's unprecedented.
We have unprecedented, in history, there's never been anything like it, because we're going to have more than $17 trillion invested.
unidentified
There's never been anything like that.
If we did a trillion dollars in one year, and this is six months, seven months, because we really focused on it over the last six months.
But we're going to be doing, nobody's ever seen numbers like this.
donald j trump
When this stuff starts opening up, our country's being rebuilt.
By the way, Washington, D.C. is being rebuilt.
unidentified
You know, in addition to the fact that we have a safe city now, and our National Guard was fantastic and worked with the mayor, worked with everybody, we're also doing a refurbishing of Washington.
We're going to redo some of the roads, the surfaces.
We're going to redo the medians.
We're going to take the broken tiles off the tunnels and put brand new tiles up.
And we're going to regrass all the parks.
They're going to be regrassed by people that build world-class golf courses and not necessarily people that work for me because I don't care about that.
donald j trump
I just want to, I'm very good at grass.
unidentified
You know, grass has a life just like you have a life, right?
donald j trump
It has a life.
unidentified
Well, this grass has been up longer than, it's like four lives, okay?
That's why there's a lot of areas where there's just no grass.
But we're going to regrass all of the parks.
donald j trump
We're going to, in a year from now, you won't even recognize it.
unidentified
Graffiti's gone, the tents are gone, the medians falling into the roads are gone, the potholes will be gone, the marble's going to be polished and beautiful.
It's all going to be beautiful.
We're working with Clark Construction, who's, you know, one of the, well, definitely the biggest here, one of the biggest in the country.
And they've been great.
And we're going to do about a 10-mile radius from the White House, from the Capitol, looking sort of at both of them, go right in the middle of both of them and start drawing circles.
And everything is going to be spit-shined.
donald j trump
You know, when the head of Poland came here last week, and when other leaders came here, they came, a lot of them have been here over the last eight months.
unidentified
I say, what do you think?
And they said that we're a little surprised at the look, the filth on the road.
Now it's much better.
We've got it much better, but we have to do some construction things.
I mean, you know, you have medians that are all broken and rotted and rusty and disgusting.
And they're all going to be changed.
You're going to have a very different look.
donald j trump
You're going to have the look of prosperity, not the look of poverty.
unidentified
But the big thing right now, initially, is we have no crime in Washington.
Literally have no crime.
They said it's down 87%.
donald j trump
It's not down 87%.
unidentified
It's down like 100%.
donald j trump
We have almost no crime.
unidentified
People are going to restaurants that wouldn't have even thought about it.
And I know families that have gone four, five, six times to restaurants over the last few weeks.
And you people are in the same category.
donald j trump
I mean, yes.
unidentified
I agree on that.
Thank you.
It's a whole different place, right?
donald j trump
It's very nice.
unidentified
And you're so tough usually.
donald j trump
I like her now, right?
unidentified
No, because she was truthful.
Is that a correct statement, Brad?
Yes, sir, it is.
donald j trump
I heard you were actually mugged.
unidentified
You're a big, strong guy.
donald j trump
I can't do anything when you have to be off this.
unidentified
No, no, you can't.
You know, you say, thank you very much.
And I'll follow up with the beautification of D.C.
Yeah.
Just out front of the White House is a blue tent that originally was put there to be an anti-nuclear tent for nuclear arms.
It's kind of morphed into more of an anti-American at some times, anti-Trump at many times.
Where is this blue tent?
Right in front of the White House in the North Lawn on the other side of the Black Gate in Lafayette.
I haven't known this.
All of us in here walk right by it every day.
It is an eyesore.
donald j trump
Oh, I didn't know that.
unidentified
Take it down.
Take it down.
Today, right now.
Nobody told me that.
So you're saying there's a blue tent?
It's been there for 30 plus years.
It was originally a peace tent, but it's kind of morphed into the center.
donald j trump
Oh, yeah, morphed into radical left.
unidentified
Okay.
Is it in the ellipse?
Where is it?
No, it's in Lafayette Park.
It's actually.
Lafayette Park.
Take it down.
Okay.
What's interesting about it is I've had people tell me it's a public house health hazard because people sleep in there, they eat, there's rats.
But also it could be a national security risk because people can hide things in there.
We're going to look into it right now.
We have removed over 50 tent sites.
Not 50 tents, hundreds and hundreds, maybe a thousand.
I think it's over a thousand tents, but 50 sites.
So I'm a little surprised to hear that.
But we're going to look into it right now.
Lafayette.
From the National Guard, the D.C. Mayor has, of course, gotten on board with your cleanup of D.C., but the D.C. Attorney General has said that he plans to, that he's suing you for your federalization of the police.
donald j trump
What's your reason?
unidentified
Can you imagine we have an attorney general who's not related at all to the mayor, by the way?
You know, it's a totally separate department.
donald j trump
We've got so many separate departments.
You have the district attorney who has nothing to do with the mayor.
unidentified
The whole thing is crazy.
donald j trump
But how about this?
unidentified
We just set a record on low crime in Washington, D.C., and we have a man suing us to let us go back to high crime.
We're going to have to be here for a little while to make this really work long term after we're gone.
And so we're going to meet that head on, and I suspect we'll be very successful.
And I can always declare a national emergency because this was a national emergency.
But right now we have the safest city.
We have now one of the safe cities in the country.
We had almost the worst.
I mean, a city that was as bad as some of the horror shows that you've heard about for years.
And we're going to fix some of those horror shows too.
President, have you posted a ruling today that you posted on Truth Social about, with Europeans finding Google?
Can you?
So Google is a great company.
donald j trump
Google is a great company, American company.
unidentified
Apple is a great American company and so many others.
donald j trump
And the European Union, I don't know why they do it, but they have been finding them numbers that have been astronomical, more so before I got here.
unidentified
But Apple paid $17 billion a fine in the last year.
Apple $17 billion on a case that a lot of people think they weren't guilty of.
And no, I'm going to be speaking to the European Union, but it's not fair.
Google just got fined $3.5 billion, and they've already paid $13 billion.
donald j trump
They're up to $16.5 billion.
unidentified
And people say there was nothing wrong with what they did.
It's almost a source of income to run Europe.
It's become a source of income.
And many other companies too.
mostly tech companies, but we can't let that happen.
What are you speaking from the Europeans and by WIN?
No, I can just say you can't do that.
donald j trump
I mean, you know, they respect us now.
unidentified
They didn't respect us a year ago.
European Union respects us.
donald j trump
Look, they're paying us $950 billion, right?
unidentified
You've got to respect us.
They were very disrespectful of our country.
I have great respect for Ursula.
donald j trump
I've gotten to know her very well.
unidentified
And I just don't think it's fair that they're taxing and really it's almost become like a tax.
It's become so regular.
And I've gone to lawyers and I've asked them, what do you think?
They said, they didn't do anything wrong.
We can't do that.
donald j trump
It's not fair.
unidentified
And it's interesting.
I don't hear that about China, and I don't hear that about other places.
I hear it about the European Union.
We were talking about it last night.
I think we had a gathering.
It was the highest IQ group of people I think any room has ever had last night.
It was about as high as you can have.
All the tech geniuses were there.
They love their computers.
They would tell me more about chips that I want to know.
It did come up last night.
Yeah, it did come up.
donald j trump
A couple of companies said that they were taxed by the European Union.
unidentified
It's interesting.
They weren't complaining about, in that regard, China.
They weren't complaining about other places.
It's the European Union.
And they have.
Apple was, again, forced to pay $17 billion last year.
So I think we're going to change that around.
donald j trump
It's just not fair.
We don't want that to happen to our companies.
unidentified
And you know, if somebody does that, we should be doing it to them.
They've got to pay, let them pay us.
But you just can't do that to our companies.
Was Elon Musk invited to the dinner last night?
I wanted to go back to the G20 real quick in Miami.
You know South Florida very well.
Many cities are being considered for the G20.
Was this a hard decision, or did Miami just stand out to you?
It wasn't a hard, really.
donald j trump
I mean, look, it's got the weather.
unidentified
We're in December, so it's, you know, cold in some places, and that's beautiful too.
Cold weather's nice.
It's all nice, you know, depending on the city.
But no, Miami really wanted it.
donald j trump
The mayor really wanted it.
unidentified
The people down there really wanted it.
You might just address that for a second, Mr. Mayor.
Yeah, as I said, I mean, a conference of this kind does two things.
francis suarez
Number one is it puts us on the global map with the great global cities.
unidentified
And I think that's something that we've been trying to achieve for a generation.
And I think number two, it's a tremendous boom for your economy.
I mean, as the president knows, he has, you know, multiple hospitality assets.
And the working people of Miami, the small business owners, are going to benefit tremendously from the economic impact of a conference like this in our city.
francis suarez
So it's an image thing, but it's also benefiting working people in our community.
unidentified
Do you think she and Bookman will attend the G20?
That's an interesting question.
I'd love them to if they want to.
donald j trump
I mean, they can, you know, as observers.
unidentified
They'd be observers, so I'm not sure they want to be an observer.
But if they want to, we can certainly talk.
The vaccine mandates that we roll back for schoolchildren.
What do you think about that?
donald j trump
Well, I think we have to be very careful.
unidentified
Look, you have some vaccines that are so amazing.
The polio vaccine, I happen to think, is amazing.
A lot of people think that COVID is amazing.
You know, there are many people that believe strongly in that.
But you have some vaccines that are so incredible.
And I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don't have to be vaccinated.
donald j trump
It's a very, you know, it's a very tough position.
unidentified
So I'd give you an answer.
I'll give you a feeling.
But just initially, I heard about it yesterday, and it's a tough stance.
Look, you have vaccines that work.
They're just pure and simple work.
donald j trump
They're not controversial at all.
unidentified
And I think those vaccines should be used.
donald j trump
Otherwise, some people are going to catch it and they endanger other people.
unidentified
And when you don't have controversy at all, I think people should take it.
One more follow-up on your comments on the taxes.
On the upcoming tax bill, are you discussing, do you want that new tax bill to eliminate inflation from calculating capital?
donald j trump
When you say the upcoming tax bill, because when you have an upcoming, we just passed the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
unidentified
So there's nothing upcoming.
There's something that we just passed.
So we passed the biggest tax cut in the history of our country for the middle class, for the worker.
And that's the only bill that we're really talking about.
We did a good job.
donald j trump
It's very comprehensive.
unidentified
And I will say the Democrats, if you gave them every point that they wanted, every point that they've dreamt of all their lives, you wouldn't get one Democrat vote.
They really are.
They've become deranged, sick.
It's crazy.
If you gave them a list of the top 10 things that the Democrats wanted and you put them in a bill to get passed, you wouldn't get one vote.
It's the only thing they have, they stick together, but they're dying.
donald j trump
I mean, down to 16% approval rating, the lowest rating in history for either party.
unidentified
And we have the highest rating we've ever had.
donald j trump
The Republicans have the highest rating we've ever had.
unidentified
Well, the National Guard, have you decided which city that you want to go into now?
Yeah, I have.
I have.
I'm not going to say it now, but yeah, I have.
We're going to go into another place and straighten it out.
And I will say this.
I watched today.
I didn't know that was continuing to go on.
But Portland is unbelievable what's going on.
Portland, the destruction of the city.
donald j trump
Well, I'm going to look at it now because I didn't know that was still going on.
unidentified
This has been going on for years.
donald j trump
So we'll be able to stop that very easily.
unidentified
We'll be able to stop it.
But, you know, that was not on my list, Portland.
But when I watched television last night, this has been going on.
You wouldn't be standing if you were the mayor.
Can you imagine what they're doing?
They're walking in, throwing smoke bombs into stores.
These are paid terrorists, okay?
These are paid agitators.
donald j trump
These are professional.
unidentified
I watched that last night.
I'm very good at this stuff.
These are paid agitators.
They get paid money by radical left groups.
Not radical right groups, radical left groups.
And they get paid a lot of money.
And you see it with the signs.
You know, they all have perfect signs that are printed.
They look as good as that sign.
donald j trump
Those signs aren't made in basements.
They're made at professional printing offices, and they cost a lot of money.
unidentified
These are paid agitators, and they're very dangerous for our country.
And when we go there, if we go to Portland, we're going to wipe them out.
They're going to be gone, and they're going to be gone.
They won't even stand the fight.
donald j trump
They will not stay there.
unidentified
They've ruined that city.
I have people that used to live in Portland.
They've left.
Most of them have left.
But what they've done to that place is just, it's like living in hell.
Yeah, go ahead.
Thank you for your statement before.
It is reporting that you would be banning visas of delegations who will be attending the younger of the UN General Assembly, including Brazil.
Your reaction on that, sort of.
That who's banning them?
The Trump acts.
Well, I don't know.
donald j trump
We are talking about things.
unidentified
We're very upset with Brazil.
We tariff them very high because of the fact that they're doing something that's very unfortunate.
donald j trump
I love the people of Brazil.
unidentified
We have a great relationship with the people of Brazil.
But the government of Brazil has changed radically.
It's gotten very left.
It's gotten very radical left, and it's hurting Brazil very badly.
donald j trump
They're doing very poorly, very, very poorly.
unidentified
So we'll see.
And are you ready to reset relations with India at this point?
I always will.
I'll always be friends with Modi.
He's great.
donald j trump
Prime Minister.
unidentified
He's great.
I'll always be friends, but I just don't like what he's doing at this particular moment.
But India and the United States have a special relationship.
There's nothing to worry about.
We just have moments on occasion.
How are trade talks going with India, with other countries that you haven't reached a trade deal with?
They're going great.
Other countries are doing great.
donald j trump
We're doing great with all of them.
unidentified
We're upset with the European Union because of what's happening with not just Google, but with all of our big companies.
They just, you know, hit them with these mess, these unbelievable fines.
You know, $17 billion and $14 billion.
And they use that money to run Europe.
It's almost become like common.
It's almost become a yearly occurrence, like it's a tax.
So it's very unfair.
I want to thank you all very much, and we'll see you around.
donald j trump
We're going to see you in Florida, but we'll see you a little bit before that, I suspect.
unidentified
What are you having for dinner?
Thanks, guys.
Thank you, President.
Well, I'll be having something good here.
I'll be at the White House.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, guys.
Being here.
Thank you, Sky.
Well, absolutely historic day.
Friday, 5 September, year of our Lord, 2025, right there.
The President of the United States doing a couple of things.
Number one, signing an executive order that changed the Department of Defense for the first time, I think, since 1947, right after the Second World War, to the Department of War to hearken us back to days when we used to win things called war, not fought eternal wars or everlasting wars or wars that won't end into no victory.
So President Trump seizing the institutions, as we say, and taking a maximalist strategy.
Pete Hegseth said that the Defense Department of Day is maximum lethality, not maximum legality or lethargy or whatever he said.
We're going to get that clip in a second.
Pete was on point here.
I know he's been advising the president about this.
Incredible.
Incredible.
Whole change of attitude over at the Pentagon, looking for warfighters, a whole new esprit de corps in there.
So just absolutely incredible.
Today, President Trump signed an executive order.
steve bannon
Congress has already told him they would go along with it.
unidentified
Of course, the Democrats are outraged.
In addition, signed a very technical and complicated executive order about hostages, letting people know that we're not going to negotiate.
You're not going to be able to take Americans overseas and hope to get massive payments from it.
You saw Dr. Seb Gorka right there, my old colleague at Breitbart and in the White House.
Dr. Seb has kind of headed that team, and they got that through.
And then the last was the announcement.
This had kind of been rumored, the announcement that the G20, the G20 meeting is going to be next year in Miami.
We haven't had the G20, I think, in 20 years.
The G20 is going to be in Miami, and it's going to be at Dorow.
So I know the president will get a kick out of hosting that because that means he's really hosting not just in the country, not just in the city, but in his own place.
And he's very proud of Dural, particularly proud of not just how he's put money in to take the basic facilities, but he's taken a classic American golf course, what is known as the Blue Monster.
And he's refurbished it back to standards where now the big live tournament on the Live Golf Tour.
steve bannon
I think it's the end of season tournament is played there, but he's brought it back to the standards of what it was.
unidentified
So very active day.
A couple of other things.
Number one, Scott Bessant has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal, and then he's come out with a 27-page piece in a journal called International Economy.
You talk about the deconstruction administrative state, and Scott Bessant's not a guy that runs around with his hair on fire.
steve bannon
It literally is a takedown of not just Powell, deeper than Powell, really Bernanke and even Greenspan, of what the Federal Reserve.
unidentified
So if any of you guys have ever said we've got to end the Fed, if any of you are Ron Paul or Rand Paul people, if any of you have gotten into the end of the dollar empire, as we've gone through it and talk about central banks and seen gold on a tear, Scott Besson, who is a steady Eddie, that's how he got the job.
That's why he recommended you.
steve bannon
I remember he was a contributor here on all the time over a number of years.
unidentified
And, you know, we pushed hard to make sure he's Secretary of Treasury.
He's been a great safe pair of hands.
He literally takes the Federal Reserve apart.
It's called the gain of function Fed.
He compares it to what Fauci was doing over there with viruses to weaponize viruses.
He says the Fed's been weaponized, and he goes through how it's expanded its power to now being everywhere, regulating banks, setting their profitability, lending to them.
It's a takedown.
And so President Trump right there said on the Fed, Warsh, Hassett, and Waller, I think Warsh is going to be the favorite there.
steve bannon
He was the cover bid Mnuchin when Mnuchin pushed Powell, and Powell was a disaster, as we all told the president at the time, pushed by the Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin very hard.
unidentified
Warsh was the cover bid.
Kevin Warsh was the cover bid then.
Looks like Hassett and Waller's over at the Fed right now.
One of the governors, I think.
Good guy.
But the president knows Warsh.
steve bannon
I think if you're looking at it that way, given the relationship the president has, it'd probably be Warsh.
unidentified
But the blueprint for taking it apart.
Oh, and by the way, I was able to, I went over and gave this talk yesterday to the, I guess it was two days, no, it was yesterday.
steve bannon
God, it all blends together when you're back here.
unidentified
To Polish Media with Jack Bisovic and Darren Beatty.
We had a couple of talks.
We gave some remarks, and I came by, and I had not been, I've seen the Fed on Constitution.
I had not seen it from the side of the new construction.
It's outrageous.
It is, first of all, it's one of the most beautiful buildings in D.C.
And what they've done and what they're doing to build it, I mean, Powell would be fired just for that.
I saw the money, but I didn't see the scale of what it's doing.
It's outrageous.
steve bannon
Anyway, short commercial break.
unidentified
Back in the warm in just a moment.
We will fight till they're all gone.
We rejoice when there's no more.
Let's take down the CCP.
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Okay, next Friday at this time for the 5-7 show.
And then, and that's going to be live.
And then the next morning, 10 to noon, and then we're going to go a little longer on that day, maybe an hour or so even longer.
Peter Navarre is going to be with us.
So we're going to have, it's going to be incredible, insane.
Two live shows, one Friday evening and the other Saturday morning going into Saturday afternoon.
steve bannon
We'll have a whole, I think we're taking a whole hour, at least an hour with Peter Navarre after the morning show, and he'll be with me for the morning show.
unidentified
We're going to do meet and greet.
We'll get to meet and do photos of everybody there.
It's going to be food trucks, all of it.
We're taking the show on the road this year.
We're starting here this year.
Well, we're back from summer vacation, so we always figure this is the close of the year.
We're going to take it on the road in the fourth quarter.
And I'll add September to that too.
September, October, November, December.
It's all one piece.
Really excited about this.
And I've never been up to the America First Center, but people rave about it.
steve bannon
Rudy raves about it.
unidentified
Bernie Carrick raves about it.
Just absolutely fantastic.
steve bannon
So looking to do this.
unidentified
By the way, I might have done something with Bernie.
I might have done something years ago with Bernie and with Rudy.
I might have stepped in.
steve bannon
I think I might have.
unidentified
I think I stepped in and co-hosted the show, but I was in and out.
I think.
All blends together.
It's going to be fantastic.
steve bannon
We couldn't be more excited.
unidentified
Go to what AmericaFirst.com, get your tickets right now.
Obviously, there's limited space, and we all want to see you in the greater New York area.
So make sure you go check it out today.
So much going on.
Scott Besant, and I'm trying to get the Secretary of Treasury maybe tomorrow, if not sometime next week.
This is what he put out on the Federal Reserve Today.
And so many huge things are going on all day long.
Bobby Kennedy, we're going to have Naomi on it.
steve bannon
We're going to have a whole defense of Bobby Kennedy.
Numbers coming out in support of Bobby Kennedy.
unidentified
And remember, he's got two huge.
He's got the Make America Healthy Again report of the path forward.
That's coming out in about a week or so.
They're going to eviscerate him on that.
And then he's got the autism report.
steve bannon
He put out something today, it was leaked about Tylenol in autism, particularly, I think, Tylenol taken by pregnant women.
unidentified
I don't know.
Wall Street Journal thinks kind of exclusive breaking scoop.
We'll get more to that.
I want to thank Birch Gold, and I've got Philip Patrick since you couldn't get him on tonight.
You're going to get him on tomorrow morning.
I mean, Gold's been on a tear.
What you, I think, would be helpful to understand is why that's so.
We say all the time on here, it's not about the price.
It's about the process.
steve bannon
Make sure you understand how the value of gold is driven, particularly as a hedge.
unidentified
As we've explained this over the last four years with the end of the dollar empire, and this is what the Bricks Nations are doing.
steve bannon
This is why they had this call right after the Shanghai cooperation organization and the military parade where the Chinese Communist Party tried to take credit for, try to take credit for the victory in World War II, which they had nothing to do with.
In fact, what they did is they fought the Chinese nationalist on the side of the Japanese, really, if you want to be brutally frank about it.
unidentified
So make sure you go and check it out.
steve bannon
We've got four years of it, seven free installments.
unidentified
We're going on the 8th and 9th.
And also, I'm putting the finishing touches on a physical copy because now they're teaching it actually in finance courses, undergraduate finance courses.
steve bannon
I want to make sure you have access to it and can understand it, no matter what your education level is and no matter what your skill in mathematics, do not be intimidated.
unidentified
I think you'll find it quite a ride.
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Talk to me.
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mike lindell
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unidentified
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If y'all want to see, I told the whole story about it on my show.
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mike lindell
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There's the My Store Square.
Click on that.
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mike lindell
Over 1,000 entrepreneurs.
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Get those big ticket items.
Sleep well.
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You guys call that.
Call the number 800-873-1062.
You guys, talk to my operators.
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And I can't thank the Warbroom posse enough, you guys.
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Brother, incredible.
Have a good, have a good weekend.
You deserve it.
Mike Lindell, hardest working guy I know, in working on making sure our election platforms are secure because 26 is going to be a dog fight, a dog fight.
Okay, stick around.
A couple of minute break.
We're going to be back at the 6 o'clock.
Ben Harnwell is going to pick it up.
steve bannon
I'll be back at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, Eastern Daylight Time.
Show's already packed.
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Trying to go through.
We're going to go through Scott Bessness's takedown of the Federal Reserve, plus so much more.
We got three weeks worth of news.
We're going to cram in to a on-fire show tomorrow morning.
The right stuff takes us out.
Couldn't be a better way to take you out on the Friday.
Magnificent book, classic movie, great Score Academy Award winning.
Turn it over to Ben Hanwell right now.
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