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Into something we never ever dreamed it would be when we first began planning for it. | |
| And so, as Jimmy said, with our family, with our grandchildren, it's just a good time for us. | ||
| Thank you both very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| Happy New Year, Mr. President. | ||
| You look so beautiful today. | ||
| And what a party that you have here going on. | ||
| It is. | ||
| And apart from obviously winning the election, what are some of the highlights from 2024? | ||
| Well, we're just going to have a great nation again. | ||
| We're going to bring it back to better than it ever was. | ||
| I think we're going to see things in, and it's going to go fast. | ||
| We're going to see some amazing things. | ||
| We're going to bring it back at a level that a lot of people didn't think was really possible. | ||
| We're doing a job. | ||
| We're doing a real job. | ||
| We have great people. | ||
| Many are here tonight. | ||
| But you're going to be very happy. | ||
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unidentified
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Have you got any news resolutions for 2025? | |
| Well, I just want everybody to be happy, healthy, and well. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| New York Coast reports that Midas represents Robbie Up thinks he would have been here. | ||
| What do you say? | ||
| Well, he was way behind. | ||
| He would have really, I assume, not had a chance. | ||
| He was way behind her. | ||
| And we won in record numbers, as you know, won every swing state. | ||
| We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. | ||
| So, hey, look, I wish him well. | ||
| He had a chance to do it in the debate, and that didn't work out too well for him. | ||
| That was, I guess, the reason that really led to his downfall. | ||
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unidentified
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What are you looking forward to in 2025? | |
| Which is great, a great year. | ||
| I think we're going to do fantastically well as a country. | ||
| We're going to bring it back. | ||
| It has to be brought back. | ||
| People are not respecting our country very much, and they're going to respect us a lot. | ||
| I think a lot of progress has been made over the last five weeks. | ||
| It's been pretty amazing when you look at what's happened. | ||
| There's a whole light over the whole world, not just our country. | ||
| There are a lot of very happy people. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President. | |
| Mr. President. | ||
| Mr. Republicans who are still not supporting Speaker Johnson. | ||
| Say what? | ||
| What's your message to those Republicans who are still not supporting Speaker Johnson? | ||
| Well, I think they'll support Speaker Johnson. | ||
| I think we're going to have a great time in Washington, and I think we're going to get great support. | ||
| He's the one that can win right now. | ||
| People like him. | ||
| Almost everybody likes him. | ||
| Others are very good, too, but they have 30 or 40 people that don't like him, so that's pretty tough. | ||
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unidentified
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Are you calling me? | |
| Are you allowing me to? | ||
| Well, if necessary, but I think really we're going to have a great time. | ||
| We're going to get a successful vote. | ||
| He's a good man. | ||
| He's a very, he's a wonderful person, and that's what you need. | ||
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unidentified
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Are you going to change your mind on H-1B people, sir? | |
| I didn't change my mind. | ||
|
unidentified
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I've always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country. | |
| We need competent people. | ||
| We need smart people coming into our country. | ||
| We need a lot of people coming in. | ||
| We're going to have jobs like we've never had before. | ||
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unidentified
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But, sir, you said you changed your position. | |
| Do you plan to go to the Carter funeral next week? | ||
| Say it. | ||
| You plan to go to President Carter's house? | ||
| I do. | ||
| I'll be there. | ||
| We were invited. | ||
| Have you spoken with any Carter family members? | ||
| I'd rather not say. | ||
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unidentified
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Have you spoken to President? | |
| Well, I think we have great nominees. | ||
| We're doing very well, as you know. | ||
| I think most of them are being thought of very highly, just about all of them. | ||
| So I think we're going to do very well. | ||
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unidentified
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You said that he said he's eager to meet with you. | |
| Are you planning a meeting with him? | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| This is a traditional meeting. | ||
| Some people would say we already had that. | ||
| You know, we met a week and a half ago. | ||
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unidentified
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But if it's appropriate, I'd like to, you know, like to do that. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Any new thoughts on Ukraine and the situation there? | ||
| Do you intend to? | ||
| No, it's a shame. | ||
| The whole thing started. | ||
| It would have never started if I were president. | ||
| You wouldn't have Ukraine. | ||
| You wouldn't have Ukraine-Russia problems. | ||
| You wouldn't have had the Israeli problem with what happened on October 7th was just a horrible thing. | ||
| All of the things. | ||
| You wouldn't have inflation. | ||
| Inflation was a disaster. | ||
| One of the reasons we had the country. | ||
| We won the country by the kind of numbers we won by, which were record-setting numbers. | ||
| All of these things. | ||
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unidentified
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And then you take a look also, look at all of the other problems that they caused. | |
| The problems that they caused in this country. | ||
| And specifically, Iran on the border. | ||
| Millions and millions of people that flowed through our border from prisons, from mental institutions, people that should not be in our country. | ||
| And you see the crime numbers. | ||
| They're going through the roof. | ||
| Look at New York City. | ||
| Look at Chicago. | ||
| Look at Los Angeles. | ||
| They're going through the roof. | ||
| We're going to get them out. | ||
| We're going to get them out fast. | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| They'll use that if they don't have one. | ||
| By the time you take office, there will be help today. | ||
| We're going to see what happens. | ||
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unidentified
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Have you spoken to us? | |
| and let the hostages come back soon. | ||
| We all know what we want. | ||
| Do you see what they have challenges like Johnson? | ||
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