I never hear them say you can go here and look for it and go there and look for it.
How'd she find out all that stuff?
Just say that.
How would she even know?
And Trump, he was a draft dodger and all that.
And he was at a party with old Epstein.
Where do they hide all this stuff from?
You can finish watching this online if you go to our website, c -span .org.
We'll leave this here.
Go live now to Palm Beach, Florida, where President -elect Donald Trump is speaking to reporters.
Live coverage here on C -SPAN.
I'd be shocked if you didn't.
I'd be very impressed.
But I'm honored to welcome one of the most accomplished business leaders of our time, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, everybody knows, Masa Yoshisan.
We're good to go.
I think?
And he's doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country since the election.
And many other people are also coming in with tremendous amounts of money.
You probably noticed that the poll was just taken.
It's businesses, literally in 39 years there's been nothing like it.
It's been the biggest increase.
Small business owners gave it a 41 % jump.
It's the biggest jump that we've had in Thank you very much.
We're good to go.
We're good to go.
I'm very, very excited.
I would really like to celebrate the great victory of President Trump.
The confidence level to the economy of the United States has tremendously increased with his victory.
So because of that, I'm now excited to commit this $100 billion and 100 ,000 jobs into the United States.
This is double of last time, as President Trump said, because I say all.
President Trump is a double -down president.
I'm going to have to double down, you know?
$100 billion and 100 ,000 jobs.
This is, you know, my confidence level, because that has doubled down.
So I am truly excited to make this happen.
And, of course, business is important.
Technology is important.
But one more thing I'm really hoping is that this President Trump would make the world, bring the world into peace again.
That's my additional hope.
And I think he will actually make it happen.
So, anyway, I'm excited to go.
And we were discussing, and President Trump said, Martha, you know, double down is not enough.
Maybe...
You know, go for more, right?
I'm going to ask him right now.
Would you make it $200 million?
Believe it or not, he can actually afford to do that.
Would you do that?
Well, my promise is $100, but he's now asking to do more.
I think, you know, with your leadership, my partnership with you, with your support, I will...
I will try to make it happen.
Alright, 200.
He'll make it happen.
He is a great negotiator.
The President: I would be surprised if it didn't go to two.
When you say you'll try, I know you'll do it.
Mr. I will really try.
And I need your support, though.
The President: You'll have my support.
Mr. All right.
The President: You'll have our country's support.
Mr. Oh, fantastic.
The President: Thank you, Mr. President.
Mr. Fantastic.
The President: We appreciate it.
Mr. Thank you.
Thank you.
The President: Great.
And a word to the people of Japan who are all watching?
Mr. Well, I'm sure our people in Japan are proud to make the partnership.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
As I said, small business optimism took a 41 -point jump.
41 points.
It went up 41 points.
That's unheard of.
And that's the biggest, they think, in recorded history, but they know at least a minimum of 39 years.
So that's great.
But on behalf of the American people, I want to thank Masa for his faith in what's happening with our country and what's happening with the world.
There's a whole light over the entire world.
Many people, some reporters in speaking to him, they said, you know, it actually is true.
A couple of them are not necessarily friends of mine, but they said it is actually true that there's a light shining over the world.
We're trying to help very strongly in getting the hostages back, as you know, with Israel and the Middle East.
We're working very much on that.
We're trying to get the war stopped, that horrible, horrible war that's going on in Ukraine, with Russia, Ukraine.
We're going to -- we've got a little progress.
It's a tough one.
It's a nasty one.
It's nasty.
People are being killed at levels that nobody's ever seen.
You know, it's very level fields, and the only thing that stops a bullet is a body, a human body.
And the number of soldiers that are being killed on both sides is astronomical.
I've never seen anything like it.
And rapidly, I get reports every week, and it's not even, you know, it's like just going down.
Nobody's seen anything like it.
It's a very flat surface, a very flat land.
That's why it's great.
Farming land.
It's the breadbasket for the world, actually.
But it's very flat, and there's nothing to stop a bullet but a body.
There's no protection, no nothing.
And what's happening there is far worse than people are reporting for both sides.
So we're going to do our best, and we've been doing our best, and we'll see what happens.
But since the election, I've been working every day to put...
Uh, the world at ease a little bit to get rid of the wars.
We had no wars when I left office, and now it's, uh, the whole world is blowing up.
But there's great optimism, and you saw that by SoftBank.
Starting on day one, we'll implement a rapid series of bold reforms to restore our nation to full prosperity.
We're gonna go full prosperity and to build the greatest economy the world has ever seen, just as we had just a short time ago.
We had it in my time.
We had the greatest economy that the world had seen.
We were blowing away everybody.
Our country was doubling up on China, doubling up on everybody, and everybody knows it.
And then we had to slow it down with COVID, unfortunately, at the end.
But even then, I gave it back with a substantial increase of the stock market, bigger than it was pre -COVID.
So it was pretty amazing.
Already preparations are underway to slash massive numbers of job -killing regulations, eliminating 10 old regulations for every new one.
You put a new regulation on, you have to get rid of 10, and we'll be able to do it.
And that was about the percentage we had.
We cut more regulations than any president has ever cut by far, actually, by approximately five times.
Some of those regulations, unfortunately, were put back on, but...
We'll catch up very quickly.
We'll catch up with it.
One of the things I'd like to ask the Biden administration, as you probably heard, there are two events that took place.
We're talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition, as they like to say.
This is a friendly transition, and it is.
But there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible.
One is that if people don't come back to work, come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed.
Somebody in the Biden administration gave a five -year waiver of that so that for five years people don't have to come back into the office.
It involved 49 ,000 people.
For five years, they don't have to go.
They just signed this thing.
It's ridiculous.
So it was like a gift to a union.
And we're going to obviously be in court to stop it.
The other thing is really terrible.
We spent a tremendous amount of money on building the wall.
The wall was designed specifically by the Border Patrol, because it's very hard to climb.
They need to have see -through.
They need it to be steel, because you can't cut.
It's very powerful steel.
It's very hard steel.
It's a special type of steel, but very, very hard to cut.
Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete, and that's a grade 10 concrete, which is a very strong concrete, very as though you were building about a 60 -story building.
It's very powerful concrete.
They've made tremendous...
Thank you very much.
Anti -climb plate on the top.
You saw that.
And I didn't like the look of it.
But then when I watched, we had people testing.
We had mountain climbers actually testing.
And they were not able to get over the anti -climb plate.
So I said, all right, I guess we're going to put it on.
That plate on top, which I never loved the look of it, but it works so unbelievably well.
You have to do it.
So we spent a lot of money on building it, and we have hundreds of miles that we put up.
A lot of people don't realize, but we did 571 miles of wall.
That's why we had such good records, in addition to the fact that Mexico helped us with their military.
They kept people out, and they were actually very good under the past leader.
But now we ordered an additional 200 miles of wall.
It's very expensive.
And now it's about double the price of what it would have been six years ago.
And the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar, knowing that we're getting ready to put it up.
And what they're doing is really an act.
It's almost a criminal act.
They know we're going to use it.
And if we don't have it, we're going to have to rebuild it.
And it'll cost double what it cost years ago.
And that's hundreds of millions of dollars because you're talking about...
A lot of wall.
I built much more than I said I was going to build.
But then after it was built, I said, you know, we can do some more because it's sort of like water.
People flow through.
And that will pretty much really take care of it.
And what happened is they just, as you see, they're trying to sell it for five cents of the dollar.
And that's really, that has nothing to do with a smooth transition.
That has to do with...
People really trying to stop our nation.
And all it means, really, is that we're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more, not even talking about the time.
Time would be pretty long.
But we'll spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall that we already have.
And people have already come back to us that have deals at five cents and four cents, and one guy at three cents on the dollar.
And they offered to sell it back to us at more money than it cost us to build substantially.
Can you believe it?
So they make a deal with the United States to buy it for pennies.
And then they call us and they say, do you want to buy it back?
We'll sell it back to you for hundreds of dollars a foot.
Hundreds of dollars, from pennies to hundreds of dollars a foot.
And we can't let this take place.
Now, we're going to go.
I spoke with the Attorney General of Texas.
I spoke to the senators of Texas.
I spoke to a lot of people, and hopefully they'll be able to stop.
We're going to be, you know, having a restraining order.
But just think about how ridiculous it is.
And this is just people that don't want this country to succeed.
And this has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican.
This has to do with...
Common sense.
We won on common sense, and this is maybe one of the most egregious examples I've seen.
So the people that are buying it or trying to buy it are trying to make a deal with us to sell it back at hundreds of times more -- hundreds of times more than we paid.
And this is all because the Democrats -- so I'm asking today Joe Biden to please stop selling the wall.
We're going to use that to -- Create a strong barrier.
And it worked.
That's why our numbers were so good.
It really worked.
And it worked well.
And it's very expensive to do.
And I'm asking Joe Biden to stop his people from giving it away.
It's something that people can't even believe is happening.
So hopefully Joe will be able to stop it.
We'll soon unleash American energy and this will be done at levels not seen before, issuing quick approvals for pipelines, drilling and other infrastructure.
It'll be clean energy and we'll bring in the price of electricity and we're going to bring it down fast.
We're also going to create clean coal.
Clean coal is something that has really taken over.
We have coal that will last for over a thousand years.
We have so much coal.
And with the process, it becomes clean coal.
It's very powerful energy, unlike wind.
It's very, very powerful.
And we're going to be doing a lot of clean coal for the people of West Virginia and others -- Wyoming, so many states.
We have great states.
And they'll be happy to hear it.
But we're going to be very much into clean coal.
I don't ever use the word "coal." I use the word "clean coal." And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for American families, workers, and businesses that create jobs in America.
As you know, we're giving tax cuts if they do it here.
We brought it down from 44 percent, 42 percent.
In some cases, it was 39.
We brought it all the way down to 21 percent.
And now we're bringing it down to 15, but only if they make their product, their car, or whatever they're doing in the United States and the U .S.
And people are thrilled.
I've had the smartest people on Wall Street call me.
They said, where'd you get that idea?
And it doesn't seem that complicated, right?
But it's like the paperclip.
Nobody ever thought of it.
One guy thought of it.
Everybody looked at it.
They said, wow, that was a good idea.
Why didn't I think of it?
But we're bringing it down six more points, and that will put us really at the best level we've ever had for bringing in...
We've never been down to that level.
We'll be among the lowest taxed states and a lot of businesses are going to come in.
Between that and our taxing and tariff policies, we're going to have business like nobody's ever seen in this country before.
That's why we're, you know, having a 41 -year record in optimism from small businesses and big businesses.
And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for families, workers, and businesses that create jobs in America.
Any business that invests $1 billion or more in the United States will be eligible for fully expedited permits and approvals, including environmental approvals from the federal government.
So when companies come in, if they're going to invest a billion dollars or more, there'll be many of them.
And they'll go into Detroit, and they'll go into a lot of places where we want them.
You saw how well I did with the autoworkers.
We did unbelievably.
You saw how well we did with the Teamsters and also the non -union.
We're record 98%, 97%.
Nobody's ever got numbers like that because we're bringing business back and they're all coming back.
We lost them over years of stupidity, I call it.
I call it the years of stupidity, the decades of stupidity.
Through the Department of Government Deficiency, Elon Musk.
He's been working very hard with various people, including Vivek.
We're going to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and I can only tell you, I'll give you a little early report, they're finding things that you wouldn't even believe.
So we're looking to save maybe $2 trillion, and it'll have no impact.
Actually, it'll make life better, but it'll have no impact on people.
It's not like we will never cut Social Security or things like that.
It's just waste, fraud, and abuse.
And we'll immediately restore the sovereign borders of the United States and stop illegal immigration, which is costing us, I believe, trillions of dollars a year.
I think it's a cost that nobody's ever seen anything like it.
I don't know.
How can you be satisfied releasing prisoners into the United States?
Think of this.
You're releasing prisoners from jails all over the world, not just in South America.
From the Congo, I would talk about it all the time.
They're a very big sender of people.
But from all over the world, they're sending prisoners out of their jails.
Some of their jails are empty, and they will be empty soon if this ever continued.
I spoke with the president of Mexico, and as you know, I spoke with Justin Trudeau of Canada.
And we told them, it's not fair, not right.
You can't let these people come into our country.
And they understand.
They're very much on notice.
And they're going to have to stop this from happening.
They're going to have to stop it.
We lose a lot of money to Mexico.
We lose a lot of money to Canada.
Tremendous amount.
We're subsidizing Canada.
We're subsidizing Mexico.
That can't go on.
And I get along with the people of Mexico and Canada very well, but we can't let that happen.
Why are we supporting and giving other countries hundreds of billions of dollars?
It's not fair.
It's not right.
And the people of Mexico and Canada fully understand that.
We've talked about it before, but now we're doing something about it.
We started and then we had to fix the COVID situation, and that's what we did.
But now we're doing it.
We're doing it.
From the beginning, Howard will be largely in charge.
We'll be working on it together.
Howard's terrific.
He's done a fantastic job, and he's really helped us a lot with transition.
I think we have fantastic people coming in.
So all of these policies will help us rapidly defeat inflation, create millions of new jobs, and put money in the pockets of the hardworking families of our country, pay off debt.
We're going to be paying off a tremendous amount of debt.
We're at $36 trillion.
You don't want to be there.
And we're going to be using a lot of the money that we make.
We're going to be opening up a lot of businesses that are going to be pouring in because of our tax policy.
And we're going to use the money that we made to pay off debt and to reduce taxes.
We're going to further reduce taxes.
If you remember when we reduced them last time, that brought a tremendous amount.
We brought it down to 21%, and that was the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
And nobody...
I don't know.
And we hope we don't have any intervening problems, because things happen.
Like, out of nowhere came the China virus.
Out of nowhere came other things.
We don't want to have...
You know, when I left, we had no wars.
We had no problems.
The Middle East was good.
We did the Abraham Accords.
We did things that nobody thought were even possible.
But think of it.
Four years ago, we had no wars.
You didn't have Russia going into Ukraine.
They wouldn't have done it.
They weren't even thinking about it.
When they saw what happened in Afghanistan, I think they gave them an idea.
But they wouldn't have done it.
They would have never gone.
President Putin would have never gone in.
And now you look at all those people are dead.
All those cities are destroyed.
You know, it's nice to say they want their land back, but the cities are largely destroyed.
They've left Kiev because probably maybe they want to use it or occupy it, but they haven't done it.
They've done...
A lot of damage, but relatively, compared to the other cities, very little.
But many of those cities are gone.
Those beautiful towers, those beautiful buildings that they had are now laying on their sides, destroyed, totally destroyed.
The turrets and all of the magnificent thousand -year -old, 2 ,000 -year -old structures that were very strong.
What a shame.
It should have never happened.
If I were president, that war would have never happened.
Nor would Israel have happened with the attack on Israel.
So we're inheriting...
Big challenges at home and all over the world.
Again, we had no wars.
We had no problems.
We had no inflation.
We had no inflation.
We had it less than 1%.
A perfect number.
And then we had inflation, the likes of which I say, I don't believe the country's ever seen inflation like that.
They say 38 years.
I don't know.
I think it's probably ever.
But we're going to take care of all of it.
We're going to get the prices down by...
We have a big head start.
Last time, we didn't.
And last time, we didn't know the people.
We didn't know a lot of things.
But by the time we got it up and going, it was incredible.
Again, we built the greatest economy in history for that period of time, and we'll do it again.
I believe substantially more so, because we understand, number one, the people of Washington.
I know them.
Thank you very much.
President Trump: Well, I'm not going to comment on the Putin question,
On Bibi, we had a very good talk.
We discussed what is going to happen, and I'll be very available on January 20th, and we'll see.
As you know, I gave warning that if these hostages aren't back home by that date, all hell's going to break out, and very strong.
But we generally just discussed.
I asked him, where are things?
Next month?
How do you plan to stop the ban on TikTok next month?
TikTok had something to do with that.
Now, Joe Rogan did, and some of the other people that were recommended by my son, Baran, he knew names.
I said, who is that?
Tell me, who's that?
Dad, you've got to be kidding.
I can't believe you don't know.
And I did those interviews, and it was actually sort of cute.
Do you want to know the truth?
But we did them, and that had an impact.
But TikTok had an impact.
President Trump: So we're taking a look at it.
But, you know, we won youth.
Republicans are always 30 points down in youth.
I don't know why.
But we ended up finishing.
We were -- there was one poll that showed us down about 30.
We were 35 or 36 points up with young people.
So I have a little bit of a warm spot in my heart, I'll be honest.
Yes.
I mean, it's a wonderful question, but how can I, am I going to do preemptive strikes?
Why would I say that?
Can you imagine if I said yes or no?
You'd say, that was strange that he answered that way.
Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran?
Is that a serious question?
How could I answer a question like that?
Say it?
How could I tell you a thing like that now?
It's just so...
You don't talk about that before something may or may not happen.
I don't want to insult you.
I just think it's just not something that I would ever answer having to do with there or any other place in the world.
Do you believe there's a link?
I've heard numbers of like 1 in 200 ,000, 1 in 100 ,000.
And now I'm hearing numbers of 1 in 100.
So something's wrong.
There's something wrong.
And we're going to find out about it.
Can I follow up on Robert Kennedy?
He's on the Hill today.
He's meeting with senators.
What do you say to people who are worried that his views on vaccines will translate into policies that will make their kids less safe?
No, I think he's going to be much less radical than you would think.
I think he's got a very open mind, or I wouldn't have put him there.
He's going to be very much less radical.
But there are problems.
I mean, we don't do as well as a lot of other nations, and those nations use nothing.
And we're going to find out what those problems are.
And another thing that came up, the dinner was fascinating, because I had Bobby and I had, again, the head of Pfizer, you know who that is.
He's a highly respected man.
He's running an incredible company.
Likewise with Lilly, the top two people.
And we had the head of the industry also.
So all companies were represented.
And I said, let's have it out now a little bit.
And you know what came out of that meeting is that we're paying far too much because we're paying much more than other countries.
And we have laws that make it impossible to reduce.
And we have a thing called the middleman.
You know the middleman, right?
The horrible middleman.
That makes more money, frankly, than the drug companies, and they don't do anything except they're a middleman.
We're going to knock out the middleman.
I'm going to be very unpopular after that statement.
I don't know who these middlemen are, but they are rich as hell.
And we're going to knock out the middleman.
We're going to get drug costs down at levels that nobody has ever seen before.
And that, really, I tell you, we spent more time talking about that.
President Trump, what about the polio vaccine?
Do you think schools should mandate vaccines?
Do you think schools should mandate vaccines?
I don't like mandates.
I'm not a big mandate person.
So, you know, I was against mandates.
Mostly Democrat governors did the mandates, and they did a very poor thing.
You know, in retrospect, they made a big mistake having to do with the education of children.
You know, they lost like a year, two years of their lives.
The mandate was a bad thing.
I was against the mandate.
So is that something you'd want to...
Yes, please.
No, I don't.
I probably don't, but I don't know.
Ron's doing a good job.
That's his choice.
Nothing to do with me.
Laura's unbelievable.
I mean, she was incredible.
The job she did at the RNC, as chairman, along with Michael Watley.
Who's pregnant?
People oftentimes talk about nepotism.
When I put her there, people said, how did you get her to do it?
You know, she could have run for the Senate in North Carolina.
Ted Budd would be the first to say.
And he wouldn't have run.
Nobody would have run.
And she just said, no, I want to really focus on my children.
When the election, and my family, she has a great family.
When the election started getting closer, I asked her, would she go to...
We're good to go.
I think?
From some people, very early, we see signs of stardom.
And Marco has done incredibly.
He's sort of born for it.
It was such an easy decision.
The Marco decision was such an easy.
But he leaves a vacancy in Florida.
And Ron's going to have to make that decision.
And he'll make the right decision.
I also know that Laura's got so many other things.
I mean, she's got so many other things.
People want her to be on television.
They want to give her contracts.
You know, her predominant thought is our country and her family.
Those are her thoughts.
But she's got so many other things that she's talking about.
Mr. President.
He'll make the right decision.
Senators who oppose your nominees, your cabinet nominees, should they be primary?
If they are unreasonable, I'll give you a different answer, an answer that you'll be shocked to hear.
If they're unreasonable, if they're opposing somebody for political reasons or stupid reasons, I would say it has nothing to do with me.
I would say they probably would be primary.
But if they're reasonable, fair, and really disagree with something or somebody, I could see that happening.
But I do believe that if they're unre...
I think we have great people.
I think we have a great group of people.
Pam has been unbelievably received.
You take a look, Pam Bondi.
So many have been just unbelievably received.
I think Pete Hegseth is making tremendous strides over the last week.
He's going to be great.
Look, he went to Princeton.
He went to Harvard.
He was a great student there.
But he really was from the first day I met him, all he wanted to talk about was military.
He's just a military guy.
I think it's a natural.
This was my idea.
And, you know, Pete Hegseth gave up a lot because he was going big places in Fox.
Big, big places.
A lot of money.
And he didn't even hesitate when I said, do you want to do this?
He said, absolutely.
I said, you know, if it doesn't work out, you'll never have the opportunity that you have right now in terms of the world of entertainment or business, whatever you want to call it.
You'll never have that opportunity again.
In fact, it could be just the opposite because it's nasty out there.
He said, I don't care.
I have to do it for my country.
He gave up a tremendous amount.
If this didn't work, it would be...
It would be a tragedy.
But that's what he loves.
He loves the military.
I never talked to him about anything else.
He'd talk about the military.
He'd come to see me about a soldier that was unfairly treated and could I help.
That's the only thing I virtually ever talked to him about.
And I always remembered it.
I've seen him many times and I don't think I've ever had a subject on anything other than military with him.
That's where his love is.
Would you consider pardoning Eric Adams?
I think that he was treated pretty unfairly.
Now, I haven't seen the gravity of it all, but it seems, you know, like being upgraded in an airplane many years ago.
I know probably everybody here has been upgraded.
They see you're all stars, and they say, I want to upgrade that person from NBC.
I'm going to upgrade him.
And that would mean you'll spend the rest of your life in prison.
I don't know.
Somehow.
I hope not.
I mean, I'd have to see it, because I don't know the facts.
I think he was treated.
You know, it's very interesting.
When he essentially went against what was happening with the migrants coming in and, you know, he made some pretty strong statements like, this is not sustainable.
I said, you know what, he'll be indicted soon.
And I said it, not as a prediction, a little bit lightheartedly, but I said it.
I said, he's going to be indicted.
And a few months later he got indicted.
So, yeah, I would certainly look at it.
Mr. President, can I ask you a question about the drones?
Well, you know, we had 5 ,000 troops along the border, and I asked a couple of generals, so we have an army of 250 ,000 in Syria, and you had an army of 400 ,000.
They have many more people than that.
Turkey is a major force, by the way, and Erdogan is somebody I got along with great, but he has a major military force, and his has not been worn out with war.
It hasn't been worn out with all of the other things.
I mean, he's...
And so we have 5 ,000 soldiers in between a 5 million person army and a 250 ,000 person army.
And I asked the general, what do you think of that situation?
He said, they'll be just, they'll be wiped out immediately.
And I moved them out because, and I took a lot of heat.
And you know what happened?
Nothing.
Nothing.
I saved a lot of lives.
Now we have 900.
They put some back.
But 900, if you're talking about two, now that one of the sides has been essentially wiped out, but nobody knows who the other side is.
But I do.
You know who it is?
Turkey.
Okay?
Turkey's the one behind it.
He's a very smart guy.
They've wanted it for thousands of years.
And he got it.
And those people that went in are controlled by Turkey.
And that's okay.
It's another way to fight.
But no, I don't think that I want to have our soldiers killed.
But I don't think that will happen now anyway because the one side's been decimated.
Well, nobody knows what the final outcome is going to be in the region.
You know, nobody knows who really the final.
I believe it's Turkey and I think Turkey is very smart.
He's a very smart guy and he's very tough.
But Turkey did an unfriendly takeover.
Without a lot of lives being lost.
I can say that Assad was a butcher.
What he did to children.
You remember I attacked him with the 58 missiles.
Unbelievable missiles coming from ships 700 miles away and every one of them hit their target.
But I did that.
That was the red line in the sand.
Obama drew it and then he refused to honor what he did.
He said, if anybody goes across the red line and Assad, We're good to go.
We're good to go.
And one of the people that came to pay his respects is, as you know, Ukraine, Zelensky.
And he would like to have peace.
He wants peace.
Everyone's being killed.
It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II.
I've had pictures of fields where bodies are lying on top of bodies.
Looks like the old pictures of the Civil War, where just bodies are all over.
If you saw those pictures, you'd feel more strongly about it.
It's got to stop.
Thank you.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
The President: The government knows what is happening.
Look, our military knows where they took off from.
If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
They know where it came from and where it went.
And for some reason, they don't want to comment.
And I think they'd be better off saying what it is our military knows and our President knows.
And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.
I can't imagine it's the enemy, because if it was the enemy, they'd blast it.
Have you received an intelligent briefing?
Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones?
I don't want to comment on that.
Two quick questions.
First, on vaccines, do you want RFK Jr. to revoke any vaccines?
No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks.
We're going to find out a lot.
We're doing two things.
We're going to have tremendous cost savings that will come out of this.
That's a minimum.
And we're also going to have, and I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it's pesticides.
You know, Europe doesn't use pesticides, and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do.
They don't use pesticides.
In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm product.
We spend billions and billions of dollars on pesticides.
And something bad's happening.
Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20, 25 years ago, it's like not even believable.
So we're going to have reports.
No, nothing's going to happen very quickly.
I think you're going to find that Bobby is a very rational guy.
I found him to be very rational.
You're not going to lose the polio vaccine.
That's not going to happen.
I saw what happened with the polio.
I have friends that were very much affected by that.
I have friends from many years ago, and they have, obviously, they're still in not such good shape because of it.
You know, that was, and many people died.
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