CSPAN - President-Elect Trump NYE Remarks at Mar-a-Lago
Aired: 2025-01-01
Duration: 07:51


=== Ask What You Can Do (02:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Into something we never ever dreamed it would be when we first began planning for it.
[00:00:06]  And so, as Jimmy said, with our family, with our grandchildren, it's just a good time for us.
[00:00:11]  Thank you both very much.
[00:00:13]  Thank you.
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[00:00:40]  Each weekend, listen to inaugural speeches from Franklin Roosevelt through Barack Obama on Saturday.
[00:00:46]  Hear inaugural speeches by President John Kennedy in 1961.
[00:00:50]  Ask not what your country can do for you.
[00:00:55]  Ask what you can do for your country.
[00:00:57]  President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.
[00:01:00]  I will leave and I will do the best I can.
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[00:01:28]  And now, President-elect Donald Trump delivering remarks from his annual New Year's Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

=== We're Going to Do Fantastically Well (05:13) ===

[00:02:51]  Happy New Year, Mr. President.
[00:02:54]  You look so beautiful today.
[00:02:55]  And what a party that you have here going on.
[00:02:58]  It is.
[00:02:58]  And apart from obviously winning the election, what are some of the highlights from 2024?
[00:03:03]  Well, we're just going to have a great nation again.
[00:03:05]  We're going to bring it back to better than it ever was.
[00:03:08]  I think we're going to see things in, and it's going to go fast.
[00:03:10]  We're going to see some amazing things.
[00:03:13]  We're going to bring it back at a level that a lot of people didn't think was really possible.
[00:03:26]  We're doing a job.
[00:03:27]  We're doing a real job.
[00:03:28]  We have great people.
[00:03:29]  Many are here tonight.
[00:03:31]  But you're going to be very happy.
[00:03:34]  Have you got any news resolutions for 2025?
[00:03:38]  Well, I just want everybody to be happy, healthy, and well.
[00:03:40]  Thank you.
[00:03:45]  New York Coast reports that Midas represents Robbie Up thinks he would have been here.
[00:03:49]  What do you say?
[00:03:49]  Well, he was way behind.
[00:03:51]  He would have really, I assume, not had a chance.
[00:03:53]  He was way behind her.
[00:03:56]  And we won in record numbers, as you know, won every swing state.
[00:04:00]  We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people.
[00:04:04]  So, hey, look, I wish him well.
[00:04:06]  He had a chance to do it in the debate, and that didn't work out too well for him.
[00:04:10]  That was, I guess, the reason that really led to his downfall.
[00:04:13]  What are you looking forward to in 2025?
[00:04:15]  Which is great, a great year.
[00:04:17]  I think we're going to do fantastically well as a country.
[00:04:20]  We're going to bring it back.
[00:04:21]  It has to be brought back.
[00:04:22]  People are not respecting our country very much, and they're going to respect us a lot.
[00:04:27]  I think a lot of progress has been made over the last five weeks.
[00:04:30]  It's been pretty amazing when you look at what's happened.
[00:04:33]  There's a whole light over the whole world, not just our country.
[00:04:35]  There are a lot of very happy people.
[00:04:37]  Mr. President.
[00:04:39]  Mr. President.
[00:04:40]  Mr. Republicans who are still not supporting Speaker Johnson.
[00:04:43]  Say what?
[00:04:44]  What's your message to those Republicans who are still not supporting Speaker Johnson?
[00:04:47]  Well, I think they'll support Speaker Johnson.
[00:04:49]  I think we're going to have a great time in Washington, and I think we're going to get great support.
[00:04:55]  He's the one that can win right now.
[00:04:56]  People like him.
[00:04:57]  Almost everybody likes him.
[00:04:58]  Others are very good, too, but they have 30 or 40 people that don't like him, so that's pretty tough.
[00:05:04]  Are you calling me?
[00:05:05]  Are you allowing me to?
[00:05:06]  Well, if necessary, but I think really we're going to have a great time.
[00:05:09]  We're going to get a successful vote.
[00:05:12]  He's a good man.
[00:05:12]  He's a very, he's a wonderful person, and that's what you need.
[00:05:16]  Are you going to change your mind on H-1B people, sir?
[00:05:19]  I didn't change my mind.
[00:05:20]  I've always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country.
[00:05:23]  We need competent people.
[00:05:24]  We need smart people coming into our country.
[00:05:26]  We need a lot of people coming in.
[00:05:28]  We're going to have jobs like we've never had before.
[00:05:31]  But, sir, you said you changed your position.
[00:05:33]  Do you plan to go to the Carter funeral next week?
[00:05:35]  Say it.
[00:05:35]  You plan to go to President Carter's house?
[00:05:37]  I do.
[00:05:37]  I'll be there.
[00:05:38]  We were invited.
[00:05:38]  Have you spoken with any Carter family members?
[00:05:41]  I'd rather not say.
[00:05:43]  Have you spoken to President?
[00:05:46]  Well, I think we have great nominees.
[00:05:47]  We're doing very well, as you know.
[00:05:49]  I think most of them are being thought of very highly, just about all of them.
[00:05:52]  So I think we're going to do very well.
[00:05:56]  You said that he said he's eager to meet with you.
[00:05:58]  Are you planning a meeting with him?
[00:05:59]  Well, I don't know.
[00:05:59]  This is a traditional meeting.
[00:06:01]  Some people would say we already had that.
[00:06:03]  You know, we met a week and a half ago.
[00:06:05]  But if it's appropriate, I'd like to, you know, like to do that.
[00:06:09]  Yeah.
[00:06:11]  Any new thoughts on Ukraine and the situation there?
[00:06:14]  Do you intend to?
[00:06:15]  No, it's a shame.
[00:06:16]  The whole thing started.
[00:06:17]  It would have never started if I were president.
[00:06:20]  You wouldn't have Ukraine.
[00:06:21]  You wouldn't have Ukraine-Russia problems.
[00:06:23]  You wouldn't have had the Israeli problem with what happened on October 7th was just a horrible thing.
[00:06:28]  All of the things.
[00:06:29]  You wouldn't have inflation.
[00:06:31]  Inflation was a disaster.
[00:06:32]  One of the reasons we had the country.
[00:06:34]  We won the country by the kind of numbers we won by, which were record-setting numbers.
[00:06:39]  All of these things.
[00:06:40]  And then you take a look also, look at all of the other problems that they caused.
[00:06:45]  The problems that they caused in this country.
[00:06:47]  And specifically, Iran on the border.
[00:06:50]  Millions and millions of people that flowed through our border from prisons, from mental institutions, people that should not be in our country.
[00:06:58]  And you see the crime numbers.
[00:06:59]  They're going through the roof.
[00:07:00]  Look at New York City.
[00:07:01]  Look at Chicago.
[00:07:02]  Look at Los Angeles.
[00:07:03]  They're going through the roof.
[00:07:04]  We're going to get them out.
[00:07:05]  We're going to get them out fast.
[00:07:06]  Thank you.
[00:07:10]  They'll use that if they don't have one.
[00:07:11]  By the time you take office, there will be help today.
[00:07:13]  We're going to see what happens.
[00:07:14]  Have you spoken to us?
[00:07:18]  and let the hostages come back soon.
[00:07:21]  We all know what we want.
[00:07:21]  Do you see what they have challenges like Johnson?
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