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| I'm not sure the names he referred to, but when you talk about a little boy who's beaten cancer or possibly has cancer and you don't stand for that, you don't stand for all those other things and you don't stand for the waste, fraud, and abuse of billions of dollars. | ||
| And yeah, you're right. | ||
| I'm not going to name names because that would be a violation of the rules. | ||
| And until that is put forth in a court case, I would believe that that would be actually a violation. | ||
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So you're correct there, and I'm not going to do that. | |
| Speaking of court cases, as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, what was your reaction to the Supreme Court ordering on the freezing of... | ||
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We're going to break away here and bring you coverage of President Trump signing new executive orders at the White House. | |
| And we helped them out with the problem they were having, having to do with the tariffs, short-term tariffs. | ||
| And we had a very good conversation. | ||
| Also, we discussed drugs, and they've been working much harder lately, do you notice that, on people coming in and drugs. | ||
| We've made tremendous progress on both. | ||
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President Trump, what's your thought about why the markets are so spooked? | |
| Do you think they don't like the tariffs or do they not like the uncertainty with some of the changes and the carve-outs? | ||
| Well, a lot of them are globalist countries and companies that won't be doing as well because we're taking back things that have been taken from us many years ago. | ||
| We've been treated very unfairly as a country. | ||
| We protect everybody. | ||
| We do everything for all these countries. | ||
| And a lot of these are globalist in nature. | ||
| You know, they have, if you're outside of the United States, it's going to be a little bit different. | ||
| We just weren't treated right. | ||
| We were ripped off as a country. | ||
| I've been saying it for a long time. | ||
| And I did it to a certain extent in the first administration, but with COVID coming in, we had a focus on that toward the end. | ||
| But we had the greatest economy in history in the first administration. | ||
| And I think we'll do even better now. | ||
| But this is something that we have to do. | ||
| There'll always be a little short-term interruption. | ||
| I don't think it's going to be big. | ||
| But the countries and companies that have been ripping us aren't particularly happy with what I'm doing. | ||
| But the United States will be very happy. | ||
| And, you know, our farmers are going to be very happy. | ||
| And again, there'll be disruption. | ||
| But in the end, I said it before with China. | ||
| We signed an unbelievable deal with China, $50 billion in purchases, and we're doing great. | ||
| Biden, however, when he came in, they never enforced that deal. | ||
| So that's the only thing that basically you have globalist companies that have been ripping us off that won't be able to rip us off any longer. | ||
| I think that's what the big charge is. | ||
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Have you been influenced by some of these exemptions that have been announced and some of these temporary delays? | |
| Have you been influenced in those decisions because of the market reaction? | ||
| Well, there were no delays at all. | ||
| No, nothing to do with the market. | ||
| I'm not even looking at the market because long-term, the United States will be very strong with what's happening here. | ||
| Now, these are countries and companies, foreign companies, that have been ripping us off. | ||
| And no president did anything about it until I came along. | ||
| And then I did a lot about it. | ||
| You know, we took in tariffs from China, $600 billion. | ||
| Nobody else took in 10 cents from China. | ||
| They never did. | ||
| But when COVID came along, we had a focus on COVID. | ||
| We did a great job. | ||
| We got rid of that. | ||
| We ended up handing over with a market that was higher than it was previous to COVID coming in. | ||
| But this is very much about companies and countries that have ripped off this country, our country, our beloved USA, and they're not going to be ripping us off anymore. | ||
| So, you know, I think that has an impact on the market. | ||
| Mr. President, sir, this is a slate of nominees that's been prepared by the Presidential Personnel Office. | ||
| It includes a number of sub-cabinet-level appointments, a number of your ambassadors that have been previously announced, and also crucially, given the administration's concerted effort to focus on violent crime. | ||
| It includes a number of U.S. attorneys in major cities that have real crime problems. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Some very good people, too. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And then we have a number of ceremonial proclamations that Lindsay Halligan is going to proclaim. | ||
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So, two very special proclamations, the first of which is a proclamation that proclaims March 2025 as Women's History Month in honor of all the wonderful women in your administration, all the wonderful women in America, and in honor of everything you've done for women and this administration has done for women in just what a month and a half? | |
| Yeah, we've done a lot, and women have done a lot for us. | ||
| This is an honor. | ||
| We have a wonderful woman here, Maria Bartiroma. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Nice to have you, Maria. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. President, and thanks for all that you're doing for women. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| She's going to do an interview of me later. | ||
| Maybe I shouldn't do this interview. | ||
| I should be like Biden, not doing the interviews. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Women, we love you. | ||
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We love you too, sir. | |
| Thank you. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Thanks, Lindsay. | ||
| So, the second one is a proclamation proclaiming March 2025 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of, to commemorate our amazing friendship between America and Ireland and to just honor all of the Irish Americans. | ||
| I'm a little bit biased because I'm American and Irish, but... | ||
| Good. | ||
| Well, they're great people. | ||
| They're great people. | ||
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Same project today is coming up as well. | |
| And they voted for me at heavy numbers, so I like them even now. | ||
| You have to like it. | ||
| You know, you're not supposed to, but you have to like that. | ||
| So, for the Irish American People proclamation. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thanks, Lindsay. | ||
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Mr. President, your envoy Steve Witkoff told us a little while ago that if Hamas does not release hostages, that the U.S. and Israel could take some action. | |
| What does that mean in your eyes? | ||
| Is that military action? | ||
| Would you join strikes with them? | ||
| What are you going to find out? | ||
| I had the honor of spending a lot of time yesterday with quite a few of the people that we got out, and I can't believe how badly treated they were, really badly treated. | ||
| Stories that you wouldn't even believe. | ||
| Some of it was documented, some of it was so bad you couldn't really, I don't think you can put it on. | ||
| And it's a shame. | ||
| And they said one thing: they have 59 hostages, of which many of them are killed. | ||
| They want to know if we could just continue. | ||
| They said without us, look, Biden wasn't able to get anybody out. | ||
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We came along and they started releasing. | |
| But we have 59 left, of which 24 are living. | ||
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The rest are dead. | |
| And I put out a statement. | ||
| It's sort of self-explanatory, I think. | ||
| But somebody's going to have to get a lot rougher than they're getting. | ||
| It's a shame. | ||
| And those 24 that are living, because they were with them just two weeks ago or three weeks ago, depending on when they got out. | ||
| But they said they're in very bad shape. | ||
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You spoke today with your cabinet members in Elon Musk. | |
| I did. | ||
| What did you tell them in regards to Elon Musk and his authorities to carry out actions? | ||
| We had a great meeting. | ||
| We had Elon and we had some of the representatives for, you know, the business reps. | ||
| We also had most of the cabinet members, not all of them. | ||
| It doesn't really pertain to all of them, but many of them. | ||
| And I thought it was a really good meeting. | ||
| It was about cutting because we have, everybody knows, the country's way out of control in terms of the number of people. | ||
| We have many people that don't work. | ||
| We have many people probably that aren't even living that are getting checks. | ||
| And we're finding all of that out and it's being reported. | ||
| We're going to save hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| We've already saved a lot. | ||
| And parts of it are contracts that are expired that we're paying on. | ||
| Many crazy things that, you know, you can see it happening. | ||
| It shouldn't happen, but you can see it happening. | ||
| You see a lot of it being put out. | ||
| But the other thing I think most important for today, I want the cabinet members to keep good people. | ||
| I don't want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut. | ||
| I want the cabinet members to keep the good people and the people that aren't doing a good job, that are unreliable, don't show up to work, et cetera. | ||
| Those people can be cut. | ||
| So I had a meeting and I said, I want the cabinet members, go first, keep all the people you want, everybody that you need. | ||
| And it would be better if they were there for two years instead of two weeks, because in two years they'll know the people better. | ||
| But I want them to do the best job they can. | ||
| Where we have good people, that's precious. | ||
| That's very important. | ||
| And we want them to keep the good people. | ||
| And so we're going to be watching them. | ||
| And Elon and the group are going to be watching them. | ||
| And if they can cut, it's better. | ||
| And if they don't cut, then Elon will do the cutting. | ||
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Mr. President, if you think Doge and Elon Musk have been moving too quickly? | |
| No, no, I think they've done an amazing job. | ||
| They've done an amazing job. | ||
| And look at what they found. | ||
| I read it the other night in the speech. | ||
| I mean, they found these things where billions of dollars has been poured down the drain to things. | ||
| That's not about people. | ||
| That's about contracts where billions and billions of dollars was just thrown out the window. | ||
| It probably got kickbacks. | ||
| I'm sure there were tremendous kickbacks for the people that authorized those contracts. | ||
| But no, Elon has been really teaching everybody about the numbers that you can do. | ||
| But what I want is I want the numbers, but I also want to keep the good people. | ||
| We want to get rid of the people that aren't working, that aren't showing up, and have a lot of problems. | ||
| And so they're working together with Elon. | ||
| And I think we're doing a really great job. | ||
| We're cutting it down. | ||
| We have to, for the sake of our country. | ||
| You can't have that kind of fat. | ||
| It's bloat like nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| Where you need 20,000 and they have 120,000 people. | ||
| And you just don't need that many. | ||
| And it happens with companies and it happens with governments, I guess. | ||
| You could go to a lot of governments, you'd see the same thing. | ||
| But we're trying to get it down. | ||
| We want to be able next year, we could balance the budget. | ||
| I think there's a good chance we could balance the budget next year. | ||
| We have a lot of good things happening. | ||
| Plus, we have a lot of revenue things happening, like today with the shipbuilding. | ||
| And this gentleman behind me is going to create a lot of jobs. | ||
| And he's about the biggest there is in the world. | ||
| We had the biggest chip baker in the world here a few days ago. | ||
| He's going to be spending $200 billion on building plants. | ||
| We're not giving him any money to build it either. | ||
| You know, it's not, that chipback is ridiculous. | ||
| We're the Biden thing, where they give billions of dollars to people that have nothing but money. | ||
| They're not going to spend that money. | ||
| They're just taking that money. | ||
| We're giving nothing. | ||
| They're coming in because of the tariffs, because they don't want to pay the tariffs. | ||
| And they're opening up big. | ||
| But with respect to people, I said, I want to cut the people, but I want to keep the good people. | ||
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President Trump, on tariffs, sir, can you walk us through the next steps on this? | |
| Steel and aluminum tariffs are due to kick in next week on Canada, Mexico, and every other country. | ||
| Are those going to be modified as well? | ||
| No, those aren't modified. | ||
| Those are happening next week. | ||
| And the big one will be on April 2nd when reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| So if India or China or any of the countries that really, India is a very high tariff nation. | ||
| I'll tell you what's a high tariff nation, it's Canada. | ||
| Canada charges us 250% for our milk product and other product and a tremendous tariff on lumber and things as such. | ||
| And yet we don't need their lumber. | ||
| We have more lumber than they do. | ||
| We don't need Canada's lumber. | ||
| So what I'm doing is I'll be signing an executive order freeing up our forests so that we're allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money and then re-harvest trees. | ||
| Also, we're cutting fire divides. | ||
| A fire divide is a 50-yard to 70-yard SWA where the trees can't, you know, it's long enough, so trees don't burn forever until you can get them out. | ||
| And those trees can be sold and made a lot of money with. | ||
| But we'll be doing that. | ||
| We don't need trees from Canada. | ||
| We don't need cars from Canada. | ||
| We don't need energy from Canada. | ||
| We don't need anything from Canada. | ||
| So where we can be self-sustaining, which is in most things. | ||
| Look, we have more oil and gas than anybody. | ||
| Our forests are massive, massive forests. | ||
| We're just not allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics that stopped us. | ||
| So I'm going to be freeing that up very shortly so that we don't have to go to other countries to buy lumber. | ||
| You know, why should we be buying lumber from other countries, paying tariffs, paying big prices, extraordinary prices, and we have lumber. | ||
| We have the best lumber. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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And this USNCA exemption that you're essentially announcing today for this one month. | |
| It's just a modification short term because I didn't want to hurt the American. | ||
| It would have hurt the American car companies if I did that. | ||
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Would you consider the same sort of exemption or pause for the auto tariffs you're talking about next month? | |
| We're not looking at that now. | ||
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No, we're not looking at that now. | |
| We're going to give TPS for the Ukrainians who live here in the U.S. What about it? | ||
| Are you considering revoking the TPS titles for the more than 200,000 Ukrainians who live here in the U.S.? | ||
| What are you saying? | ||
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Yeah, the Ukrainians that are here in the U.S. are under a TPS tariff. | |
| On GPS? | ||
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TPS, temporary, temporary. | |
| Oh, I thought you said GPS. | ||
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TPS. | |
| There was some news saying that they were going to be revoked and they were going to be deported from the country. | ||
| Are you considering that for the US? | ||
| Well, we're not looking to hurt anybody, and we're certainly not looking to hurt them. | ||
| And I'm looking at that, and there were some people that think that's appropriate, and some people don't. | ||
| And I'll be making a decision pretty soon. | ||
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President Trump is a little bit more than a hundred. | |
| No, we're not looking to hurt that. | ||
| President Trump is not that. | ||
| Especially Ukrainians. | ||
| They've gone through a lot. | ||
| Yeah, Peter? | ||
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The clocks are going to spring forward on Sunday. | |
| When are you going to get rid of daylight savings? | ||
| Okay, are you ready? | ||
| So, this should be the easiest one of all, but it's a 50-50 issue. | ||
| And if something's a 50-50 issue, it's hard to get excited about it. | ||
| I assume people would like to have more light later. | ||
| But some people want to have more light earlier because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark. | ||
| And it's very much, it's a little bit one way, but it's very much a 50-50 issue. | ||
| And it's something I can do, but a lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way. | ||
| It's very even. | ||
| And usually I find when that's the case, what else do we have to do? | ||
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And I gotta ask, because you were talking about this. | |
| Why do you think we don't know more about the guy who shot you here? | ||
| Yeah, no, well, and the second one with all of his cell phones. | ||
| So I want to find the answers. | ||
| I've told them. | ||
| In fact, today I said, I want to find, we can no longer blame Biden for that one. | ||
| He should have released that a long time ago. | ||
| So they are giving me a report next week sometime. | ||
| And I do believe I'll be releasing, I want to release the report. | ||
| A lot of people have asked that question. | ||
| You had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and who has the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don't live in necessarily a white shoe area. | ||
| What's that all about? | ||
| You know, the law firm. | ||
| The other one had seven or six cell phones, and I don't have six cell phones. | ||
| And why would somebody have six cell phones? | ||
| So we're going to be releasing a report on that soon, Peter. | ||
| But based on what you're saying right there, the lack of information and the data points that you just gave, does that make you think that there's some part of a, that there's some bigger... | ||
| It could be. | ||
| Well, it makes other people think that. | ||
| It makes me think it a little bit too. | ||
| I say, when you have three apps and two of them are foreign, and you had an FBI that wouldn't report on it, they didn't want to say why. | ||
| I would say that could be suspicious. | ||
| And then on the second assassin, you had, you know, and by the way, I have to tell you, Secret Service did a great job on that by spotting him. | ||
| But on the second one, he had six cell phones. | ||
| That's a lot of cell phones. | ||
| And a couple of them had some strange markings on them. | ||
| So, yeah, I want to find out, and I would be willing to release it. | ||
| I mean, maybe there's a reason that we shouldn't. | ||
| So I don't want to get too far ahead of my skis, but yeah, I would be very willing to release that. | ||
| I'd like to see it. | ||
| I want to see it myself, Peter. | ||
| Not only you, I want to see that one myself. | ||
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Mr. President, may I? | |
| President Macron yesterday said that France was ready to offer its nuclear protection to other European countries. | ||
| What do you make of it? | ||
| And in this case, would the U.S. also maintain a nuclear umbrella for European countries? | ||
| Well, France is also willing to put soldiers into Ukraine for safety reasons if we can get it. | ||
| I will say that we've made a lot of progress with Ukraine and a lot of progress with Russia over the last couple of days. | ||
| And it'd be great to bring that to an end so we don't have to talk that way about nuclear. | ||
| It would be great if everybody would get rid of their nuclear weapons. | ||
| You know, we have Russia and us have by far the most. | ||
| China will have an equal amount within four or five years. | ||
| And it would be great if we could all denuclearize because the power of nuclear weapons is crazy. | ||
| It is crazy. | ||
| And I was very far along a process with Russia, despite the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, which didn't make it easy. | ||
| It was a total hoax, a total rigged hoax by some bad people. | ||
| But despite that, I was very close to having a program with Russia, denuclearization, and we were going to get China. | ||
| I spoke to President Xi about it, and he would have been very happy to have gone along with it. | ||
| But bad things happened, like an election that was rigged happened, and so we had to come back four years later. | ||
| But I would very much like to start those talks. | ||
| The opposite of what you say, the denuclearization would be incredible. | ||
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Mr. President, on the auto-tariff that you were talking about, I know yesterday you spoke with the big three. | |
| Did you tell them that no more exemptions were on the way? | ||
| And what was that? | ||
| I told them, that's it. | ||
| This was a short-term deal. | ||
| They came back to me yesterday. | ||
| They said, could we have some help on the tariffs because of the speed? | ||
| And I said, look, I'm going to do it. | ||
| But that's it. | ||
| Don't come back to me after the 2nd, April 2nd. | ||
| I don't want to hear from you after April 2nd. | ||
| We're not going to be doing it anymore. | ||
| I want to help them. | ||
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What was their response? | |
| They didn't complain, but I helped them short-term during this short-term transition. | ||
| April 2nd is going to be a very big day for America. | ||
| Mr. President, my understanding is that the long-standing U.S. policy is that we do not negotiate with terrorists. | ||
| So how did you come with the decision to send somebody from your team to negotiate with Hamas? | ||
| We are having discussions with Hamas. | ||
| We are helping Israel in those discussions because we're talking about Israeli hostages. | ||
| And we're not doing anything in terms of Hamas. | ||
| We're not giving cash. | ||
| We're not giving $6 billion like you hear other administrations give. | ||
| In fact, I got 59 hostages out and we gave nothing. | ||
| In 59, we gave nothing. | ||
| Not included what's going on with Hamas. | ||
| I mean, I consider that something where we're helping Israel for the most part. | ||
| We had a couple of hostages, as you know. | ||
| We got a couple of hostages out, American hostages. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| But certainly, Peter, you know, I do have to negotiate. | ||
| There's a difference between negotiating and paying. | ||
| We want to get these people out. | ||
| If you would have seen the people yesterday, maybe you did, I don't know, but if you would have seen them the way they spoke about their captivity, it was unbelievable. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| Are you thinking about making any changes to NATO where a NATO country gets attacked, but they're not paying enough dues, so the United States doesn't defend them? | ||
| Well, I've said that to them. | ||
| I said, if you're not going to pay, we're not going to defend. | ||
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I said that seven years ago. | |
| And because of that, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| I said, if you're not going to pay your bills, we're not going to defend you. | ||
| And it also went for the attack. | ||
| But if they got attacked, they said, well, does that mean you won't defend us? | ||
| I said, are you current or are you delinquent? | ||
| They said, if we were delinquent, would you? | ||
| I said, nope, I would not. | ||
| And because of that, as you know, hundreds of billions of dollars came into NATO. | ||
| You wouldn't have NATO right now if I weren't there. | ||
| And your previous Secretary General has said that. | ||
| He said he's never seen anything like it. | ||
| When I came to NATO, when I first had my first meeting, I noticed that people weren't paying their bills at all. | ||
| And I said, I shouldn't wait till my second meeting, and I did. | ||
| And I brought that up. | ||
| And I said, if you don't pay your bills, we're not going to participate. | ||
| We're not going to protect you. | ||
| And when I said that, as soon as I said that, it was amazing how the money came in. | ||
| The money came in, and now they have money. | ||
| But even now, it's not enough. | ||
| It's really not enough. | ||
| They should be paying more. | ||
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Mr. President, a question on the investment, sir. | |
| You've overseen about $2 trillion worth of domestic private sector investments come in in just about two months. | ||
| This is the newest one. | ||
| It comes after your announcement of a new shipbuilding office at the White House during your joint session to Congress. | ||
| Can you talk about why this is important, not only for national security, but to continue the renaissance of domestic manufacturing? | ||
| Well, we have to maintain a strong country. | ||
| We have to maintain, and we want to pay off debt. | ||
| We have a lot of debt, but that'll start coming off quickly when this all comes around. | ||
| Look, we've been supporting the whole world. | ||
| You mentioned NATO, and you mentioned other things. | ||
| We've been supporting the whole world. | ||
| When I first came in, we were paying almost 100% of NATO. | ||
| NATO wasn't, it was crazy. | ||
| We were supporting NATO. | ||
| We were paying the bills for other countries. | ||
| And yet those same countries, mostly European, you know, the European countries, were ripping us off in trade. | ||
| They won't take our cars. | ||
| They wouldn't take our agricultural product. | ||
| They wouldn't take anything. | ||
| We were taking their cars by the millions, Mercedes and BMW and Volkswagen, all of them. | ||
| We were taking their cars. | ||
| They weren't taking it. | ||
| We were taking their farm products. | ||
| They weren't taking ours. | ||
| It was a total ripoff. | ||
| And yet we were protecting them. | ||
| by giving them the money. | ||
| And, you know, that adds up to a bad number at the end of a lot of years. | ||
| And that's what happened. | ||
| And now it's time for this country to stop being ripped off. | ||
| I had that done very much in the first administration. | ||
| But then we had to focus on other things at the very end with COVID. | ||
| But we had the greatest economy in history. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in history. | ||
| I think we're going to redo it here, but even better. | ||
| And I wanted to do what we're doing now in the first term, but we had so many other things to do. | ||
| We had to fix the border, which we did. | ||
| We had to fix our military. | ||
| We rebuilt our military. | ||
| We completely rebuilt the military, only to watch Biden give so much of it away to Afghanistan, if you can believe it. | ||
| It's not even believable. | ||
| It's not even believable what he did. | ||
| The damage that that man did or that administration did to this country is, frankly, not even believable. | ||
| And in particular, allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country. | ||
| Many of them were murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from prison for very heinous crimes. | ||
| For him to allow those people into our country. | ||
| And now we're spending tremendous amounts of time and effort, Nikki and Tom Holman, who's doing an unbelievable job. | ||
| But we shouldn't have to be spending anything on that. | ||
| We had the safest border ever. | ||
| Now we have actually, as you saw, the numbers just came out, where we have actually the lowest numbers in the history of our country. | ||
| But we shouldn't have had to do that. | ||
| What we're doing now is we're looking for murderers. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| We're looking for murderers because thousands of murderers, some, about 50%, killed more than one person. | ||
| One killed five or seven. | ||
| And we're looking for those people right now. | ||
| We shouldn't have to be looking for them. | ||
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President Trump. | |
| On Peter's question, are you going to make that policy, U.S. policy, that the U.S. wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay? | ||
| Well, I think it's common sense, right? | ||
| If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. | ||
| No, I'm not going to defend them. | ||
| I got into a lot of heat when I said that. | ||
| You said, oh, he's violating NATO. | ||
| And you know, the biggest problem I have with NATO, I really, you know, I mean, I know the guys very well. | ||
| They're friends of mine. | ||
| But if the United States was in trouble and we called them, we said, we got a problem. | ||
| France, we got a problem. | ||
| A couple of others I won't mention. | ||
| Do you think they're going to come and protect us? | ||
| They're supposed to. | ||
| I'm not so sure. | ||
| You know, with Japan. | ||
| You know, with Japan, we have a deal, which is a very interesting one. | ||
| And I love Japan. | ||
| We have a great relationship with Japan. | ||
| But we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us. | ||
| Do you know that? | ||
| That's the way the deal reads. | ||
| We have to protect Japan. | ||
| And by the way, they make a fortune with us economically. | ||
| There's another case. | ||
| But we have to protect Japan, but under no circumstances do they have to protect us. | ||
| I actually ask, who makes these deals? | ||
| Yeah, Peter? | ||
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Well, also, why standing so at all? | |
| I view NATO as potentially good, but you've got to get some good thinking in NATO. | ||
| It's very unfair what's been happening. | ||
| Until I came along, we were paying close to 100% of NATO. | ||
| So think of it. | ||
| We're paying 100% of their military, and they're screwing us on trade. | ||
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And when Zelensky inevitably comes back to the White House, what do you expect from him? | |
| And do you think you'll see him in the next time? | ||
| Well, I think what's going to happen is Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don't think they have a choice. | ||
| I also think that Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way, a different way that only I know, only I know, they have no choice either. | ||
| Are you still thinking of going to Saudi Arabia and meeting with Putin about this? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I can't tell you. | ||
| I'm going to Saudi Arabia. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| I've made a deal with Saudi Arabia where, because normally you'd go to UK first. | ||
| And last time I went to Saudi Arabia, they put up $450 billion. | ||
| You know that, right? | ||
| You were there. | ||
| We had American companies that took in $450 billion. | ||
| I said, well, this time they've gotten richer. | ||
| We've all gotten older. | ||
| So I said, I'll go if you pay a trillion dollars, $1 trillion, to American companies, meaning the purchase over a four-year period of a trillion dollars. | ||
| And they've agreed to do that. | ||
| So I'm going to be going there. | ||
| And I have a great relationship with them. | ||
| And they've been very nice. | ||
| But they're going to be spending a lot of money to American companies for buying military equipment and a lot of other things. | ||
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Is that a trip in the near future? | |
| Probably over the next month and a half. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| You told us a couple weeks ago that you were looking to speak with President Xi of China. | ||
| That hasn't happened. | ||
| How come? | ||
| What do you wait for? | ||
| I haven't spoken to him. | ||
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Since that last one? | |
| I don't want to say that, but I have spoken to him. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Yeah, Mr. President, regardless of the X. | |
| I have a great relationship with President Xi. | ||
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But you've spoken to him. | |
| It was hurt because of COVID. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| That's why I don't call it the China virus anymore. | ||
| He said, please don't call it the China virus. | ||
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But to be clear, you've spoken to him since January 17th? | |
| I don't want to say that, but I have spoken to him. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| And I speak to him a lot. | ||
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Regarding this executive order you signed revoking security clearances at Perkins Coi, do you think there should be more steps like this to be taken against other people involved in the Russia collusion? | |
| I do, but that's going to be up ultimately to the Attorney General and various other people. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| This is a follow-up. | ||
| The other night, you know, we saw Democrats' behavior during your joint address to Congress. | ||
| Do you think it shows just how out of touch they are with the American people, especially given that 79 percent, according to a CBS poll, approved of your speech? | ||
| I love this guy. | ||
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Who are you with? | |
| My name is Nick Gilbertson with Breitbart News. | ||
| I see. | ||
| I really liked your questions. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. President. | |
| Sir, regarding the executive order. | ||
| The answer is, just, Nick, just to, and I know your name very well. | ||
| Good job, you do. | ||
| Yeah, the answer is I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the other night. | ||
| And that's not said for any other reason other than it's obvious, it's a fact. | ||
| Even CNN Fake News said that. | ||
| They came out and they said it. | ||
| And worse than CNN is MS DNC, which is the worst. | ||
| And the good news is very few people watch them anymore. | ||
| They have lost such credibility. | ||
| And frankly, what Nicole Wallace said, I've never been a fan of hers, and she's not very talented. | ||
| But I'll tell you, what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. | ||
| She should be forced to resign. | ||
| And Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign. | ||
| Nobody watches her anyway. | ||
| I don't know if it's not possible they pay her as much money as I hear, but certainly she's lost all credibility, both of them. | ||
| But what they said the other day they should be forced to resign about that young person who is suffering greatly. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Will you extend, if a TikTok deal is not made on the timeline you gave, will you extend that week? | |
| Probably. | ||
| I will. | ||
| Because I think, look, we have a lot of interest in TikTok. | ||
| And China is going to play a role. | ||
| So hopefully China will approve of the deal. | ||
| But they're going to play a role. | ||
| So we have a lot of interest in TikTok. | ||
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How long would you extend it and how close are you to it? | |
| Oh, we'll see. | ||
| But if I need, I know right now we have at least another month, so we don't need an extension. | ||
| But if I needed an extension, I'd probably get it extended. | ||
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Yeah, but in our country, Mr. President, regarding the executive orders, there was talk that you might sign one winding down the Education Department. | |
| Which department? | ||
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The Education Department. | |
| Are you having second thoughts on that one, Senator? | ||
| No, I want to bring the schools. | ||
| I want to bring the schools back to the States. | ||
| And, you know, I've said it a hundred times, we're ranked at the bottom of the list, and yet we spend more. | ||
| We're ranked number one for cost pursuit. | ||
| We're ranked at the bottom of the list in education. | ||
| And I know if I bring it back to Iowa, Indiana, Idaho, all these great states, I think I could say 40 states. | ||
| I want to bring it back. | ||
| Ten states won't be perfect. | ||
| Five states will be probably not so good. | ||
| But they will be every bit as good as Norway and Denmark and Sweden and all of the states that are rated at the top. | ||
| If you tell me about Indiana and some of these great states that run really well, Iowa, you tell me about those states. | ||
| And if they run their own education, they're going to do a lot better than somebody sitting in Washington, D.C. that couldn't care less about the pupils out in the Midwest. | ||
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When did you sign that? | |
| Why would you sign that order? | ||
| Well, I want to just do it. | ||
| I mean, we're starting the process. | ||
| We're trying to get the schools back into the states. | ||
| Let the states run the schools. | ||
| And I'll tell you, you see something. | ||
| It's going to blow your mind. | ||
| It'll be run so well. | ||
| The school system. | ||
| And I also believe in school choice, but that will take care of itself. | ||
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I'll up to that, Mr. President. | |
| If the Education Department were eliminated, how would you see sort of what department, what agency would handle student loans and the other types of federal government? | ||
| Yeah, that would be brought into either Treasury or small business administration or commerce. | ||
| And we've actually had that discussion today. | ||
| I don't think the education should be handling the loans. | ||
| That's not their business. | ||
| I think it'll be brought into small business. | ||
| Maybe Kelly really liked it and really would like to do it. | ||
| So the loans would be brought into a group where they really do that. | ||
| And I think it's that is, by the way, the most complicated thing in moving, but it's very simple if you do that. | ||
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And France rejected your plan to move out more than 2 million people out of Gaza. | |
| What's your reaction to that and to Egypt's plan and to this meeting that happened? | ||
| Out of Gaza? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think that Gaza is a mess. | ||
| And I think that Gaza could be good. | ||
| I think it's got to be run properly. | ||
| But right now, Gaza is an absolute mess, and it has been for many, many years and decades. | ||
| Yeah, Peter, did you have one more? | ||
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I did. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I have these two Starliner astronauts stuck in space for eight months. | ||
| Are you spoken today? | ||
| They left them alone. | ||
| Biden left them up there. | ||
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And what do you know about that? | |
| I know everything about it. | ||
| I said, we have two astronauts that are stuck in space. | ||
| I have asked Elon, I said, do me a favor. | ||
| Can you get him out? | ||
| He said, yes, he is preparing to go up, I think, in two weeks to a. | ||
| About how this went down because he's saying that the Biden White House was offered some kind of SpaceX rocket to go get these guys, and they said no. | ||
| That's what I heard. | ||
| I can't tell you that, but that's what I heard. | ||
| But Biden was embarrassed by what happened, and he said, Leave them up there. | ||
| I would have said, If you're embarrassed, you got to get them out. | ||
| Elon is right now preparing a ship to go up and get them. | ||
| I'm sure that they will see this in space. | ||
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What is your message to them? | |
| We love you, and we're coming up to get you, and you shouldn't have been up there so long. | ||
| The most incompetent president in our history has allowed that to happen to you. | ||
| But this president won't let it happen. | ||
| We're going to get them out. | ||
| We're coming up to get you. | ||
| I've authorized Elon. | ||
| I said, Can you get them out? | ||
| Because, you know, they've been left up there. | ||
| I hope they like each other. | ||
| But maybe they'll love each other. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But they've been left up there. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| And I see the woman with the wild hair, good, solid head of hair she's got. | ||
| There's no kidding. | ||
| There's no games with her hair. | ||
| But, and you know, there's a danger up there, too. | ||
| They can have some failures up there that would be very bad. | ||
| You've got to get them out. | ||
| So I've authorized Elon a week ago. | ||
| I said, you know, we have two people up there that Biden and Kamala left up there. | ||
| And he knows it very well. | ||
| I said, are you equipped to get him? | ||
| He said, yeah, he's got a starship. | ||
| And they're preparing it right now. | ||
| And so Elon is going to go up and get him. | ||
| Should I go on that journey just to be on the ship when we stop? | ||
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That's an option. | |
| Yes. | ||
| I should do it. | ||
| Oh, that's terrible. | ||
| I thought he liked me. | ||
| I thought he liked me. | ||
| I thought, Maria, should I do it? | ||
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Well, you should. | |
| Maria likes me better. | ||
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Should they come back from space? | |
| Well, when they come back, I'll greet them. | ||
| How about that? | ||
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Mr. Carter. | |
| No, no, we're going to get him out. | ||
| I've authorized Elon Musk to go and get them. | ||
| And he's prepared to do so. | ||
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Mr. President, what are you making of the market sell-off as you just have to do it? | |
| I think it's just globalists that see how rich our country is going to be, and they don't like it. | ||
| You know, a big market out there. | ||
| But again, they've been ripping off this country for years, and now, and they're going to do great. | ||
| Everyone's going to do great. | ||
| But we can't let this continue to happen to America. | ||
| Otherwise, we're not going to have a country any longer. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Great. | ||
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