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| President Donald Trump spoke about the role of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. during his visit to the Performance Center. | ||
| During his remarks, he also spoke about the war in Ukraine. | ||
| What is your primary message? | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| We're here to have our first board meeting at Kennedy Center, and it's in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management. | ||
| This is a shame what I've watched and witnessed. | ||
| They spent a fortune, $250 million, and they built these rooms that nobody's going to use, rooms underground. | ||
| And I've often wondered what are the big cubes that they have outside that block the view, the cubes with a door in them, so that people can get down to rooms that nobody's going to use. | ||
| And it's a shame. | ||
| It's a shame. | ||
| The other thing is I'm going to have a little problem with some people that work here. | ||
| We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today. | ||
| And because of the cost in the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board, just a board meeting, it was going to cost $30,000. | ||
| That doesn't sound too good. | ||
| They wanted $30,000 to move a piano. | ||
| So you can't have that. | ||
| So we're going to fix it up. | ||
| But it's really emblematic of our country. | ||
| But the Kennedy Center, if you look at the columns outside, you look at, I mean, they're supposed to be covered by something, whether it's marble or whatever, granite. | ||
| They were never covered. | ||
| They were painted. | ||
| But bring it into more modern times, a lot of money's been given to it, and the money has not been properly spent. | ||
| They built rooms underground with no windows, no nothing, that will not be used ever. | ||
| You're not going to have people use them. | ||
| Such a waste of money, such a terrible waste, but we'll make it, we'll bring it back, we'll make it great again. | ||
| But it is so much like what I'm witnessing in other places. | ||
| We have open borders. | ||
| We have men playing in women's sports. | ||
| It's all the same thing. | ||
| It's all the same mentality and thinking. | ||
| So I'm very disappointed when I look around. | ||
| The bottom line, it has tremendous potential. | ||
| And we'll work with Congress. | ||
| As you know, it's very public, a very public facility. | ||
| And we'll do what has to be done. | ||
| We'll be having a meeting with the Speaker in the not too distant future. | ||
| I think it's important to save this structure in this building. | ||
| I think maybe we close up some of the work that's been done and built because it was done terribly. | ||
| It was done terribly. | ||
| The concept was very bad. | ||
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Mr. President, why is it so important to come here today to the Kennedy Center? | |
| You have so much on your plate. | ||
| Why come today here? | ||
| This represents a very important part of D.C. and actually our country. | ||
| And I think it's important to make sure that our country is in good shape and is represented well. | ||
| When people look at this, I've been hearing for a long time that they come here and they're very disappointed. | ||
| When they come here, I want them to be excited. | ||
| We're bringing a big move on to Washington, D.C. We're going to stop the crime. | ||
| We actually worked with the mayor. | ||
| We took down a lot of tents. | ||
| They were all over the place in front of the State Department. | ||
| And they did a good job of that. | ||
| I was very happy with what the mayor did. | ||
| She was able to get them out quickly at my direction and at the direction of the administration. | ||
| But we're cleaning up Washington, D.C. | ||
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This is a big part of Washington, D.C. Mr. President, for Americans visiting Washington, perhaps they're thinking about seeing a show at the Kennedy Center, what would you tell them? | |
| They've never been here before and they want to come check it out? | ||
| Yeah, I'd say come here and see a show. | ||
| I was never a big fan of, I never liked Hamilton very much, and I never liked it. | ||
| But we are going to have some really good shows. | ||
| I would say this, come here and watch it, and you'll see over a period of time it'll improve very greatly physically and we're going to get some very good shows. | ||
| The thing that does well are Broadway hits. | ||
| And we have some beauty. | ||
| I guess we have Les Miz coming and we have some others. | ||
| But the Broadway hits have done very well. | ||
| So I'm going to spend some time. | ||
| We have a good board. | ||
| In the meantime, we're running the country and we're running it well. | ||
| We have tremendous things to report. | ||
| Tomorrow I'm speaking with President Putin of Russia to save some soldiers who are in deep trouble. | ||
| They're captured. | ||
| Essentially, they're surrounded by Russian soldiers. | ||
| So I give it to you a lot of different, I give you a lot of different things in one news conference, but it's a big deal. | ||
| They're surrounded by Russian soldiers. | ||
| And I believe if it wasn't for me, they wouldn't be here any longer. | ||
| I was able to get them not to do anything at this moment. | ||
| But it's a bad situation in Russia, and it's a bad situation in Ukraine. | ||
| What's happening in Ukraine is not good. | ||
| But we're going to see if we can work a peace agreement, a ceasefire, and peace, and I think we'll be able to do it. | ||
| Speaking to President Putin tomorrow morning. | ||
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Yes, yeah. | |
| No, not at all. | ||
| No, really the opposite. | ||
| I think it was appreciated. | ||
| And we have to understand, and you have to understand, that if I see somebody doing something bad that's going to cause a lot of death, the only reason I'm involved, and this is Russia and Ukraine, but a lot of people, it's humanity. | ||
| I'm involved for humanity. | ||
| A lot of people are being killed over there and we had to get Ukraine to do the right thing. | ||
| It was not an easy situation. | ||
| You got to see a little glimpse at the Oval Office. | ||
| But I think they're doing the right thing right now, and we're trying to get a peace agreement done. | ||
| We want to get a ceasefire and then a peace agreement. | ||
| Who you with? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So we're going to see how it all works out. | ||
| This was Joe Biden's deal. | ||
| This isn't Trump's deal. | ||
| This is Joe Biden's deal. | ||
| He gave $350 billion to Ukraine, and he shouldn't have done it. | ||
| It wasn't secured. | ||
| Europe gave $100 billion, and it was in the form of a loan. | ||
| They get their money back. | ||
| And they should actually have much more in it than us. | ||
| But Joe Biden was grossly incompetent, and it's a shame what they did. | ||
| $350 billion. | ||
| We could have rebuilt our entire Navy for that kind of money. | ||
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Sir, there were 18 Secret Service agents protecting Hunter Biden in South Africa this weekend. | |
| Who's paying for that? | ||
| Would you plan to revoke a Secret Service protection? | ||
| Well, we have done that with many. | ||
| I would say if there are 18 with Hunter Biden, that will be something I'll look at this afternoon. | ||
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unidentified
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Okay? | |
| Sir? | ||
| I just heard about it for the first time. | ||
| So you have 18 Secret Service going. | ||
| Where is he exactly? | ||
| In South Africa. | ||
| In South Africa. | ||
| And South Africa, you know, is on a watch list. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| Because what they're doing to people is brutal. | ||
| And I've stopped having money go to South Africa. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| Billions of dollars. | ||
| So he's in South Africa. | ||
| That's very interesting. | ||
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All right. | |
| I'm going to take a look at that. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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The Catholic Church, the Wichita Kansas over the weekend, was vandalized. | |
| Statues destroyed, glass smashed, graffiti all over the place. | ||
| Church officials in Kansas call it a hate crime. | ||
| I know you're signed an ego, eradicating anti-Christian bias. | ||
| But, sir, what more can the White House do to protect places of worship like St. Patrick's Church and Wichita Fund? | ||
| Well, we're going to take a look. | ||
| I love Wichita. | ||
| You know, I got big votes there. | ||
| We won that state by a lot. | ||
| We'll take a look at that. | ||
| When did this happen? | ||
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This happened over the New Guinea surrounding statues destroyed. | |
| Terrible. | ||
| I think it's a terrible thing. | ||
| And this was a Catholic church. | ||
| I'm going to take a look at it. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| At the Kennedy Center here in Washington, D.C., President Trump announced the release of 80,000 pages of unredacted Kennedy assassination files. |