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April 23, 2025 12:02-12:06 - CSPAN
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President Trump Speaks to Reporters
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donald j trump
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barack obama
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bill clinton
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george h w bush
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george w bush
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jimmy carter
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ronald reagan
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jimmy carter
Democracy is always an unfinished creation.
ronald reagan
Democracy is worth dying for.
george h w bush
Democracy belongs to us all.
bill clinton
We are here in the sanctuary of democracy.
george w bush
Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies.
barack obama
American democracy is bigger than any one person.
donald j trump
Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected.
unidentified
We are still at our core a democracy.
donald j trump
This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom.
unidentified
Earlier today, President Trump spoke briefly to reporters outside the White House as he returned from looking at spots on the White House North Lawn for a new flagpole.
He also talked about trade negotiations with China.
They all want to be involved with America.
donald j trump
Be careful, folks.
They all want to be involved with America, and we have a lot of action going on.
We're making a lot of money this country.
This country is not going to be losing money on trade anymore.
We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.
Now we're going to be making money, a lot of money.
So that's very good.
Every country wants to partake, even countries that have ripped us off for many, many years.
China is an example.
But it's not just China.
European Union, they ripped us off for many, many years, and those days are over.
We're going to make a lot of money for our people.
We'll be able to lower taxes substantially.
And we're going to be proud of ourselves.
They're not going to be a laughing stock that got taken advantage of by virtually every country in the world.
unidentified
We thought you said you were going up to launch for a flag.
What was going on on that?
donald j trump
We're putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side.
Two flags, top of the line.
And they've needed flagpoles for 200 years.
It was something I've often said, you know, they don't have a flagpole per se.
So we're putting one right where you saw us, and we're putting another one on the other side on top of the mounds.
It's going to be two beautiful polls.
Paid for by Trump.
unidentified
When are the flags going to be a trip?
donald j trump
They arrive in about a week or so.
unidentified
Can you clarify, Mr. President, on China?
Yeah, we are going to have a fair deal with China.
donald j trump
It's going to be fair.
unidentified
Are you talking to them actively now?
donald j trump
Actively.
Everything's active.
Everybody wants to be a part of what we're doing.
They know that they can't get away with it any longer, but they're still going to do fine.
And we're going to have a country that you can be proud of, not a laughing stock all over the world for many years.
You know, in 1913, they traded to the income tax system.
We used to be all tariff, and we had no income tax, and we had the wealthiest country we've ever had proportionately from about 1870 to 1913.
It was all tariffs, and we did, we had more money than anybody.
They had committees, how to spend the money.
They had so much money they didn't know how to spend.
Then some brilliant person said, let's go income tax.
Let's let the people pay.
Now, we're going to be able to substantially lower taxes when this is finished.
unidentified
So, Mr. Service, how does it look in the meantime?
donald j trump
It looks good, yeah.
unidentified
No, it looks good.
donald j trump
It looks good.
We were losing anywhere from three to five billion dollars a day.
Think of it.
We're losing billions of dollars a day under Biden and other presidents, frankly.
But under Biden, it got really worse.
China got out of control.
We're losing a trillion dollars a year.
unidentified
Trillion, not a billion, not a million, a trillion.
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