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President Trump Speaks to Reporters
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brian lamb ▲ ● ▼
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Up next, President Trump speaks to reporters with the installation of a new flagpole on the White House South Lawn.
He answered questions on the Israel-Iran conflict, immigration and deportations, tariffs and inflation.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Open about 1800, a little before that, just a tad.
And I've always said, why doesn't it have a flagpole from the grass?
They call it a flagpole from the grass.
They have a little one on top, very little one.
And this is about the largest you'll ever see.
And it's tapered.
It's at a quality that you guys rarely get to even put up.
They do that for a living.
They're incredible people.
I don't know them, but I love them.
And I would bet that they all voted for Trump.
I mean, I don't know for a fact, but I think so.
But we're about to lift it.
And we also have one going on what's called the front of the north.
We have one going there, identical.
So we'll have one on this side of the building.
We'll have one on that side of the building properly placed.
In this case, we had a lot of choices, putting it on that hill, putting it different places.
It's such a beautiful poll, we thought we'd put it near.
I mean, it always looks best when it's near.
A Dural, I put it right near.
I have a similar poll.
And these are the best polls anywhere in the country, or in the world, actually.
They're tapered.
They have the nice top.
You know, I don't know if you people are aesthetic.
You know, they're the fake news.
I don't know about you.
But it's a very exciting project to me.
And then at 11 o'clock, we're lifting the flag.
But we're going to lift the poll now, and then they're going to the other side, get that, and then we're going to do, I think, two flag liftings.
We'll be putting it up at 11 on here, and a couple of minutes later on the other side, we'll start here at 11.
So that'll be very nice, very patriotic.
We're doing well, and as a country, if the Fed would ever lower rates, you know, we'd buy debt for a lot less.
It's a shame.
This guy, I have a guy.
Do you ever have a guy that's not a smart person and you're dealing with him and you have to deal?
He's not a smart guy.
He's worried about inflation.
I said, that's right.
If there's inflation in six months or nine months, you lower the rates, or you raise the rates.
You can do whatever you want, Brian, right?
So let's say there's rampant inflation, which there's none.
You know what?
There is a success.
I got a call from Congress last night, sir, there's a problem.
I said, what is it?
Money is pouring in.
We don't know how to account for it.
I said, check the tariffs.
$88 billion came in from tariffs.
No inflation.
And it's going to get even more so.
I know what I'm doing.
So we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed.
He probably won't cut today.
Europe had 10 cuts, and we had none.
And I guess he's a political guy.
I don't know.
He's a political guy who's not a smart person.
But he's costing the country a fortune.
So what I'm going to do is, you know, he gets out in about nine months.
He gets fortunately terminated.
Biden, I would have never reappointed him.
Biden reappointed him.
I don't know why that is, but I guess maybe he was a Democrat.
You know, I got great advice from Minuchin on this one.
Great advice.
But he's done a poor job.
So we have no inflation.
We have only success.
And I'd like to see interest rates get down.
Now, Biden did a lot of very short-term debt.
So we have short-term debt coming due.
And because of this guy's rates, you know, if he'd lowered a point, I'd pay about a point less.
Then if it lowered two points, I'd pay about two points less.
And that's for 10 years, 12 years, 15 years, five years.
It's hundreds of billions.
It's even trillions of dollars that we're going to lose because of this too late.
I call him too late, pal, because he's always too late.
I mean, if you look at him, every time I did this, I was right 100%.
unidentified
He was wrong.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Maybe I should go to the Fed.
Am I allowed to appoint myself, Doug?
unidentified
I don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed?
I'd do a much better job than these people.
So anyway, we should be two points lower.
It'd be nice to be two and a half points lower.
We'd be saving $800 billion, $700 billion.
That's a lot of money.
Think of it for nothing, for absolutely nothing.
We'd save $60, $700, $800 billion.
We have, I think we're 38th now in interest, and we should be number one.
We should be the lowest.
And by the way, if he's worried about inflation, that's okay.
I understand that.
I don't think there's going to be any.
So far, there hasn't.
I mean, we have almost no inflation.
We've done a great job.
When I came in, we had a lot of inflation.
We went through four years of the highest inflation in the history of our country with Sleepy Joe Biden.
And Sleepy Joe.
And he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
And so we had the highest inflation we've ever had in the history of our country.
And then it came down because when I got elected, it started dropping because people understood that I knew what I was doing.
But now we have a man that just refuses to lower the Fed rate, just refuses to do it.
And he's not a smart person.
I don't even think he's that political.
I think he hates me, but that's okay.
You know, he should.
He should.
I call him every name in the book, trying to get him to do something.
I've been nice to him.
I do it always.
I know how to sell.
I've been so nice to him, fellas, you wouldn't believe it.
Let's have dinner.
Too late.
unidentified
I'd call him too late.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Come on, too late.
Let's have dinner.
I do it every way in the book.
I'm nasty.
I'm nice.
Nothing works.
He's like just a stupid person.
But I don't expect anything.
Maybe he does a little bit, but we should be two and a half points.
Remember, Europe had 10 cuts.
We had none.
We're paying more rate, more interest than a lot of European nations that can't carry our suitcase.
I'm going to be nice.
It's another expression.
You know what the other expression, can't carry, or you know what it is.
But I shouldn't use it in front of the fake news.
So it's very sad to see it.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go very short term, like six months, seven months, eight months.
Wait till this guy gets out, get the rates way down, and then go long term.
Because we have a tremendous appetite for our debt.
Because our country is doing well.
But think of it, I got a call from Congress three nights ago.
Sir, we can't account for the money coming in.
I said, that's a good problem.
You know, the bad problem is we don't have any money.
They can't account.
There's so much more money than we thought is coming into the Treasury.
We don't know where it's coming from, sir.
I said, check out the tariffs.
He calls back about a day later.
Wow.
I think you were right.
Yeah, I was right.
That's nothing.
You haven't seen anything yet.
More importantly than the money coming in.
We have factories being built, AI, auto factories.
Two of them stopped yesterday in Mexico, you read.
And they're coming here because they don't want to pay the tariffs.
They can't pay the tariffs.
It doesn't work.
So I just want to wish you a lot of luck with the new flagpole.
We have two of them.
And we're going to do this one now.
Then we're going to do the other one.
11 o'clock or so.
We're going to have a flag raising, which would be great.
And I got to get these guys back to work.
They're making a fortune.
They're standing around making a fortune.
But remember, there's somewhere in this group there's somebody that is going to captivate some movie producer.
Not Harvey Weinstein, but Harvey's seen a better day.
So it won't be Harvey, but it'll be somebody.
And they'll say, that guy is perfect for a movie.
And you're going to become a star, and your friends are going to call you, and you won't even return their phone call anymore.
And you say, what do you do for a living?
I put up flagpoles.
I'm not even going to talk to you.
I'm a big movie star.
So some way you have that.
Anyway, let's have a good, they call it a lifting.
They also use another word, but I'm not going to use that word.
You know what that is?
The word, it starts with an E. You know what the word is?
If I ever used it, I'd be run out of town by you people.
All right, so enjoy it.
Doug, you're going to get some good.
He's going to win another Nobel Prize, I think, for this picture.
So maybe the flag will be even more exciting.
But this is pretty exciting.
That's some equipment.
I'll tell you what.
Look at that crazy.
That's some beautiful equipment.
There's nothing like America.
Have a good time, everybody.
unidentified
Have you given to answer questions about whether you are moving closer or you believe the U.S. is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
Where's your mindset at?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I can't say that, right?
You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question.
Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?
And what time exactly, sir?
Sir, would you strike it?
Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch?
You don't know that I'm going to even do it.
unidentified
You don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I may do it.
I may not do it.
I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
I can tell you this: that Iran's got a lot of trouble.
And they want to negotiate.
And I say, why didn't you negotiate with me before?
All this death and destruction.
Why didn't you negotiate?
I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?
You could have done fine.
You would have had a country.
It's very sad to watch this.
I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
It's so, you know, everyone thought it was going to be the reverse.
I didn't.
I didn't think so.
And I was telling them, you got to do something.
You got to negotiate.
And at the end, last minute, they said, no, we're not going to do that.
And they got hit.
Remember, 60 days?
And then came the 60.
61 is going to become a very famous number.
That was one hell of a hit, that first hit.
That was one hell of a hit.
Not sustainable, to be honest.
That's where it ended on the first night.
Yes.
unidentified
Is it too late, though?
Do you think it's too late to now?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Not really.
Nothing's too late.
The only thing too late is Powell.
Powell's too late.
Too late, Powell.
unidentified
Have the Iranians reached out to you, Mr. President?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
What?
unidentified
Have the Iranians reached out to you?
Yes.
And what did they say?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I said it's very late.
unidentified
You know?
I said it's very late to be talking, Mr. President.
Mr. President.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I don't know.
There's a big difference between now and a week ago, right?
unidentified
Big difference.
You said just about said we may meet.
Is this about fans and which possibly going to public?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's about anybody.
They even suggested they come to the White House.
unidentified
It's a big difference.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But they've suggested that they come to the White House.
That's, you know, courageous, but, you know, it's like not easy for them to do.
But they suggested, because I can't go now because of what's going on.
I had to come back early from the G7, which was terrific, by the way, in Canada.
Really terrific.
Good people.
unidentified
Is there a possibility of next week or sooner that you're either?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I don't know how much longer it's going to go on.
I mean, they're totally defenseless.
They have no air defense whatsoever.
We've totally captured.
You know, we've totally captured the air, Brian.
unidentified
Mr. President, you've been fairly compassionate towards the Iranian people.
I have been.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's human.
I know a lot of people from Iran, from New York, from Washington, mostly from New York.
They're incredible people.
They're smart.
They're energetic.
They can be difficult, but so can you.
You know, no, they're great people.
Smart people.
And those people are getting the hell beat out of them now.
And it's really a shame.
It's so stupid.
It's so stupid.
This is another one.
You know, Russia, Ukraine is so stupid.
Would have never happened if I was president.
You guys agree with that, right?
Would have never happened if I was president.
Putin would have never done it.
And I spoke to him yesterday and I said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate.
I said, do me a favor.
Mediate your own.
Let's mediate Russia first, okay?
I said, Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first.
You can worry about this later.
But I think that's going to work out too.
But so many people have been killed.
The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in the Ukraine, Russia.
Many, many more people.
The building falls down.
They say nobody was hurt.
unidentified
What does unconditional surrender mean?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, you know what it means.
patty murray ▲ ● ▼
Can you explain it for those people?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Very simple words.
Very simple.
Unconditional surrender.
That means I've had it.
Okay, I've had it.
I give up.
No more.
Then we go blow up all the military, you know, all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there.
No, they had bad intentions.
You know, for 40 years, they've been saying death to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that they didn't like.
They were bullies.
They were schoolyard bullies.
And now they're not bullies anymore, but we'll see what happens.
Look, nothing's finished until it's finished.
You know, war is very complex.
A lot of bad things can happen.
A lot of turns are made.
So I don't know.
I wouldn't say that we won anything yet.
I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress.
And we'll see.
The next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week, maybe less.
Is there anybody here that said it would be okay to have a hostile, very, you know, zealots, really, but to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles, but much more than that, could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust.
You know, that dust blows to other nations and they get decimated.
This is just not a threat you can have.
And we've been threatened by Iran for many years.
You know, if you go back and look at my history, if you go back 15 years, I was saying we cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon.
I've been saying it for a long time.
I mean it more now than I ever meant to.
unidentified
Mr. President, question on deportations, Mr. President, you said last week that changes would be coming for farmers.
We've seen a lot of the workers they rely on taken away.
But that DHS said this week that work site enforcement would remain in place.
It wouldn't cornerstone.
So what's your message to farmers?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Look, we've got to get the bad people out of here first, and we're doing that.
We're taking them out by the thousands.
Murderers, drug dealers, people that are mentally insane from insane asylums.
What they gave to us, fellas, they gave, do we have anybody in here that's a member of the?
unidentified
And you've known all these people for a long time.
Any illegal immigration anymore?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
If they would, they'll find out.
They'll be checking you.
You won't believe it.
Your whole life will be destroyed because of this press conference.
They'll destroy these people.
I didn't want to tell them that before this to happen.
They'll end up being, oh, he's a so-and-so.
This one is from you know where.
unidentified
Don't worry.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I think you're going to be out there.
unidentified
I'll be right behind you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Far behind you.
I'll be right behind you.
Now look, we have to take care of our farmers.
We have to take care of people that run leisure, hotels.
I mean, we have to take care of them.
But most importantly, we have to get the criminals out of our country.
And Biden let in thousands and 11,888 murderers.
Many of them murdered more than one person.
unidentified
Can you believe it?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Many, almost 50% of them murdered more than one person.
He let them into our country.
They emptied out the jails of countries from all over the world, from the Congo, from Venezuela, from all over the place.
They emptied out just many of them.
I would.
If I were running one of the countries, I would have emptied out my prison population into the U.S.
And many countries did.
And we're getting them out, okay?
We're getting them out.
Thank you very much.
Let's watch this.
Brian, go ahead.
unidentified
Are you okay?
I'm just going to follow up on the immigration real quick.
Can you comment on the impact of the Trump card?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, we have a thing called the Trump Card.
This has not been done before or thought of.
And for $5 million, this is usually people that would either be working for companies like Apple, I think, is going to buy a lot of them, because they can't get people into the country.
You know, if you come in through the southern border, you have no problem.
You can be a criminal, you can be a drug dealer, and you have no problem.
But if you go and graduate number one in your class from a great school, you can't get a job because there's no access to getting it.
You can't get a green card.
So we're going to sell that to people, in some cases wealthy, in some cases not wealthy.
They'll be paid for by universities.
Look at Harvard.
They've got $53 billion.
That whole thing is coming to an end.
It's amazing what we found out.
What a disgrace.
They have $53 billion.
We gave them $5, $6, and some people say it's as much as $9 billion over a short period of time.
So that's very much coming today.
They want to make a deal more than, I would say Harvard wants to make a deal more than Iran wants to make a deal, and Iran wants to make a deal.
But, I mean, a lot of things, look, a lot of things are happening on a lot of fronts, Brian.
A lot of good things are happening.
And frankly, you know, it's a little bit of a, as we used to say, liberal, now they say progressive.
I use the word liberal.
Progressives too nice to work because they're destroying the country.
They're really destroying these liberal politicians and destroying our country.
Look what they've done during Biden's four years.
I mean, we're working on, I mean, so much of our effort goes to getting people out of the country that should have never been here in the first place.
What he's done to this country, it's not him.
He had no idea what was going on.
Everybody knows that.
It's other people.
It's Lisa and this one and that.
All these people, all the scum that was around the Oval, you know, the Oval Office or around the beautiful Resolute desk telling this guy, here, do this, do that, and not even telling them.
They just go over to the Autopen and sign whatever the hell they wanted to sign.
Because say what you want about Biden.
He wasn't for open borders.
He wasn't for transgender for everybody.
He wasn't for men playing in women's sports.
But he has no idea what the hell.
He has no idea.
And they were very upset.
They wanted Bernie Sanders.
And after about a week of this guy, they said, wait a minute, we just hit gold.
This guy has no clue.
He'll do anything we tell him.
And then they realized they don't even have to get permission.
They just go up to the Autopen.
That's a subversion.
That's a takeover of our government.
And you people ought to start looking at it.
That's a takeover.
Not only did they cheat, I guess you saw yesterday came out with China and the license plates.
Tens of thousands of cards.
They used those cards to vote on the second election, my second, the one 2020.
Because as everybody here knows, I won that election by a lot.
But the only good thing I can say is this is a much more historic term than I think I could have had as a second term.
This is a much more historic election.
And now we're going to put up a beautiful flagpole and we're going to put a flag.
And I hope you enjoy it.
And let's see how real people work.
These are real people.
You're not real people.
You're job is to reach you.
unidentified
That's why we're talking about close to 100 feet.
Real quick from Pakistan, sir.
You have a meeting today with the Pakistani Army Chief of Staff.
What are you looking forward to achieving diplomatically?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I stopped a war between Pakistan.
I love Pakistan.
I think Modi is a fantastic man.
I spoke to him last night.
We're going to make a trade deal with Modi of India.
But I stopped the war between Pakistan and India.
This man was extremely influential in stopping it from the Pakistan side.
Modi from the India side and others.
And they were going at it, and they're both nuclear countries.
I got it stopped.
I don't think I had one story.
Did I have one story written about it?
I stopped the war between two major nations, major nuclear nations.
I don't think I had a story written about it, but that's okay.
unidentified
You know why?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
The people know.
unidentified
The people know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Did anybody write that story about the war?
Did you write it?
unidentified
Did you write it?
Yeah.
patty murray ▲ ● ▼
Of course.
unidentified
Just one more time.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You wrote it.
unidentified
How did your patience run out with it?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
No, no, we put it so that Marine One is very far away.
We did it in conjunction with the Air Force, with everybody, and everybody signed off on it.
Now we have to have it far away.
It's very far from Marine One's out there out in the field.
So you have to have a certain distance.
We're about three times that distance.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Here we go.
unidentified
Thank you, Prince.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Prime Minister Nekar.
unidentified
Thank you, Brian.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Thank you for that.
unidentified
You have a good view over there, if you want you can come over here, come on over here.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Say good luck.
unidentified
When does the location run out with Iran?
Say it?
When does locations run out?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's already run out.
unidentified
That's why we're doing what we've done.
You could take out the best.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They have 60 days and a big, you know, 60 days, plenty of time.
And they made a mistake, honestly.
unidentified
The U.S. does strike.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
So many people are dead.
They shouldn't be dead.
It's a very sad thing.
Let's watch this.
unidentified
Everybody's up there.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Over here, you don't have to ruin your shoes.
That's why we're changing the rest.
People are ruining their shoes.
unidentified
That's a great place.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And the wires go inside.
You know, when they're outside, they're very noisy.
unidentified
They snap in the wind.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's true.
unidentified
Yeah.
Right here, this is a personal project for you, sir.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It is.
unidentified
Well, I'm paying for it.
Wow.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I'd say each ball is like $50,000.
unidentified
Is there any update?
On the ballroom?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, we start pretty soon.
unidentified
Women have a beautiful ball.
Good question.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Right here.
unidentified
See East Windows?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Goes from here all the way.
See the big piece of land down here?
Goes all the way over to using one of the top architects.
unidentified
How large will the flags be?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They're big.
unidentified
They're beautiful.
They're big.
Mr. President Houston, if you got any mail?
Yeah, I'll be good.
Think so.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You see the company in there, anything?
unidentified
Hard work.
What they do, the mind, what they can develop.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They don't know what we're doing.
They don't know it's tough, it's easy.
They just want to put up flags and go to work.
These are great workers.
unidentified
What gave you the idea to do this?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I've had it for a long time.
unidentified
The first time I had it, you know, you guys were after me.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I said I had a focus.
I was the hunted.
And now I'm the hunter.
unidentified
It's a big difference.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But he was the same no matter what.
unidentified
Yeah, it is surprising that out of all the presidents we've had, that this has never taken place.
It's crazy.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
There's a little flag ball that's like 5 feet with a little tiny flag up top.
This is the real deal.
unidentified
This is the best you can get.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
There's nothing like this.
unidentified
You know, most of them are 20 feet, 25 feet.
This is close to 100 feet.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And I think it's a great location, too.
unidentified
And then you put it out there, people don't appreciate it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And then we're going to do a flower bed around it.
unidentified
Beautiful flower bed.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
So you have the ball and then you have to.
unidentified
When are you going to come out here and hit some golf balls?
When you find time in your school.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
35 club championships.
unidentified
You all know that.
I know that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
35 club championships.
unidentified
I haven't hit a ball in three weeks, four weeks.
Time to get out there.
It's time to get a little busy.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Wouldn't you rather have me be doing what I'm doing now?
unidentified
Of course.
In the end.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
See the way they have that hoisted, it's great.
Because if you lift it up, you have to lift it from the bottom, but you have to get it there.
But if you lifted it without that, the whole thing would split.
unidentified
So interesting.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Because it's in big sections, and they connect so incredibly.
unidentified
Mr. President, while we're watching, could I ask, when was the last time you spoke with Governor Newsing?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, the phone call that he said I didn't make, that I documented, did you see it?
I haven't spoken to it.
unidentified
Squeeze yellow.
That was the last time.
That was the last show.
Any changes to the troops being deployed there?
I won the case yesterday.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I didn't read that I won it because I don't think anybody wrote it.
They only write if I lose it.
Did you notice I won the case?
unidentified
Nine seconds.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You know what's interesting here is that when it goes in, they then put sand inside.
And if they use dirt or anything else other than sand, it rots out the pole over a period of years.
But sand, for some reason, chemically, just works.
It gives you flexibility, and it doesn't do anything to the cask.
It's amazing.
So watch, that's nine feet deep, and then what it's a beautiful, it's a perfect pole for this.
unidentified
Oh, so it's going nine feet down.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It goes nine feet down.
And then there's nothing in there right now.
Just a tube goes nine feet down.
And when they fill it, they fill it with sand.
Pure sand.
Absolutely pure sand.
If they didn't, the chemicals do, you know, they work on it, on the bottom part.
Is that interesting, Daniel?
unidentified
So you prefer the rope on the inside of the pole?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Oh, much better.
The first one looks better.
I mean, I've never seen it on this side.
This is the newest and the greatest.
I've never seen it at Mar-a-Lago.
unidentified
I have a similar pole, not quite as tall as this.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But the ropes on the outside.
And you hear that rope.
unidentified
Bang and playing it on the top of the ball.
The little thing sticking up out of the top there.
You see the little thing sticking out?
The ball?
Yeah, the bar.
Finial.
Like a little fence.
Oh, I see.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
That's so they can hook up the ropes.
unidentified
They put the rope in later.
Sometimes you see eagle on top of the flagpoles.
I like these bands.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
This is a little more classic.
unidentified
I'm a big eagle person, as you probably, but this looks better.
Mr. President, can you share some of what you've told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yape?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Keep going.
What way?
unidentified
Have you given him any indication?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I speak to him every day.
He's a good man, doing a lot.
Been very unfairly treated by his country, I think.
Very unfairly treated.
unidentified
Have you given him any indication that you may seek to aid them more than you have already?
No.
I haven't done that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
So far he's done a good job.
He has been treated very unfairly by his doctor.
You know, he's a wartime president and he's going through this nonsense.
It's ridiculous.
unidentified
It seems like you agree with him that...
We do.
Yeah, the National Security Council.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Very good meeting.
unidentified
Anything that came up in particular that?
Little things, big things, but it was a good meeting.
It's working well.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You see how straight that is?
Look, they put that dead straight and then they pour in the sand.
It's amazing, right?
Who would think you have to have sand?
And it's got to be pure sand.
unidentified
I know you enjoy being president.
We have a misbelief.
I love the structure, yeah.
It's in your heart, I do.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I love it.
unidentified
I know it better than anybody.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
When I see a train, a railroad going from San Francisco to LA, I think it's a hundred times over that.
unidentified
That's incredible.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
One of the most incompetent things.
That's NISCO.
unidentified
Why do they keep funding that?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I think we're not going to, I mean, in fact, a little bit of a story.
unidentified
We're not going to find out anything.
It's out of control.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
First of all, it doesn't go where it's supposed to.
It was supposed to go from LA to San Francisco.
Now, because they don't have any money, they've spent, what is it, 30, 40 times more than those that does this morning.
And they made it much shorter, because it no longer goes into the cities.
It stops miles outside of the cities.
unidentified
If you were a builder and you went 34 times over the budget, you would be fired, right?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
If you went one time, if you went a half a time over the budget.
So see what they're doing?
They're unwrapping the sand.
It's all pure sand.
unidentified
Along those lines.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And if it weren't pure sand, it would eat away at the roof.
unidentified
Mr. President, with the rail funding in California, will your recent dust-ups with Governor Newsome impact additional wildfire relief out there?
They've requested 40 billion.
Sure, maybe.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
The man's incompetent.
He shouldn't have fires like that.
You clean the floor of your forest and you won't have any forest friends.
unidentified
You know, Austria has very, very flammable trees.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They don't have forest friends because they clean the floors.
They maintain their forests.
It's a good effect.
You know, hatred is never a good thing in politics.
When you don't like somebody, don't respect somebody.
It's harder for that person to get money if you're on top.
But he's not a big job.
unidentified
How will you ensure that?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I'll tell you one thing: if I didn't bring in the military to Los Angeles, you wouldn't even have a city.
You probably wouldn't be here.
You'd be covering the riots in Los Angeles right now.
And we got a great ruling, as you know, yesterday from the judge.
Absolutely.
If we didn't bring in the military in Los Angeles, you would have maybe no city.
You'd have just what you have with the housing burned to the ground.
unidentified
How will you ensure they take this out?
With the ruling.
It seems like you agree with Israeli prime minister and ask for the money.
Yeah, well, with the ruling yesterday, does that mean you're more empowered to send National Guard to other cities as well, maybe New York?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I don't think more empowered.
I always thought I was empowered.
unidentified
It would be a shocking ruling.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Only a guy like Newsca would even ask for it.
You know, he should be thanking me instead of fighting.
Newsom, he wouldn't have a city right now.
It would be burning to the ground.
He'd have people running all over, throwing rocks.
Did you see them breaking up the concrete?
Because we caught the bricks.
They were bringing bricks, heavy bricks, red bricks, by the bag.
unidentified
Five or six big bags.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
The guys could hire strong guys that could hardly even carry them.
They're going to hand them out to people to throw at the police.
And by the way, the chief of police in Los Angeles said that we needed the help.
If we didn't have the help, we would have been in trouble.
Now, he changed his mind four days later because he put a little bit.
unidentified
And he actually needed it more.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But we did a great job.
unidentified
We quelled that thing.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And the fact that we are even there thinking about going in, they won't bother with it anymore.
They'll go someplace else.
But we'll be there too.
We'll be wherever they go.
unidentified
We're going to be.
Did you see the main numbers for immigration?
Extended again?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, great numbers.
unidentified
Zero.
Yeah.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
We had zero.
Did you see that, everybody?
unidentified
You were going to ask me.
Zero.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
She's on our side.
Because most people don't want to ask.
unidentified
Well, she said, she told early, she could probably see the main numbers.
chuck grassley ▲ ● ▼
It's zero.
unidentified
Zero, yeah.
How is that even?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Because we really have a tight border.
unidentified
Now, we have let a lot of people in, but they came in illegally.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They actually have to take a little test, and they have to say, I love America, you know, minor things like that.
unidentified
Minor things like that.
Mr. President, can you talk about extending it?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, we'll be extending it.
We're going to extend it.
We're going to probably make a deal.
I think we'll need China's blessing on it.
unidentified
I think they'll bless it.
Mr. President.
How was Prime Minister Carney towards you?
Very good.
Yeah.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It couldn't have been nicer.
We enjoyed the Canada stay a lot.
unidentified
And I had to come back, obviously, for all that's happening in the Middle East, but I got everything done.
He's a good man.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I think Carney's a good man.
Very well, a good representative of Canada.
unidentified
You think he's liked by the people?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I think so.
unidentified
Mr. President, have you given the Iranians an ultimatum?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You could say so.
unidentified
They know what's happening.
Maybe you could call it the ultimate, the ultimate ultimatum, right?
What essentially was that, though?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Oh, I don't want to say it.
unidentified
Look, I mean, give me a point.
What about the Paramount deal?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I would say the elders, she's doing great.
unidentified
She's doing well.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
She's really enjoying it.
unidentified
Baron's enjoying it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
All my kids are enjoying it, actually.
unidentified
It's pretty hot out here, isn't it?
What's muggier?
The DC or West Palm Beach in the song?
I think this is muggy.
This is a muggy.
This was out of the way.
Mr. President, could I ask you about the Paramount deal and the margin of Skydance and the Ellisons?
Like, what's holding that up and being involved in it?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I hope so.
Ellison's great.
unidentified
He'll do a great job with it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
So what they did is they interviewed 60 Minutes.
unidentified
They interviewed Kamala.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Her answer was horrendous.
unidentified
I would say election threatening.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
This is the day before the election.
Her answer was election threatening or so incompetent.
So they took the entire answer out, and they took another answer to another question.
And they did that, I understand, a number of times.
unidentified
But you don't have to do it a number of times.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
The main question they asked, and we caught them.
unidentified
And they're very embarrassed, and they're working on a settlement now.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But think of it.
unidentified
Did you ever hear that one before?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They took the entire, every word, threw it out, put another answer, didn't they?
You think they do that for me?
unidentified
I think it happens daily.
Mr. President.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I've never seen it.
unidentified
I thought I've seen everything.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
That I've never seen.
unidentified
It's very embarrassing.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
The head of 60 Minutes got fired.
The head of CBS got fired.
unidentified
They're all getting fired, right?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You see what they're doing here?
unidentified
What are you doing right now?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Only here in construction is exciting.
See, they have to get it perfectly straight.
And once it's perfect, then they pour in the sand and it's there for 100 years.
unidentified
Mr. President, as the Senate works on the Big Beautiful bill, it seems like salt is going to be a really big issue between Senate Republicans and House Republicans.
What are you telling senators?
Because the New York Republicans on the House side are making clear that that's a red line for them.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, if it were a red line, then get ready for a 68% tax increase in 1929, because we're taking care of that issue, too.
You know what that is.
unidentified
That's debt ceiling.
The debt ceiling, we have to move the debt.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And if we don't move the debt, you violate governance.
It's a terrible thing.
unidentified
Actually, Pocahontas even agreed with me on that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
She's been wanting to get rid of the debt ceiling because she said it's too violent.
It is violent.
So, I mean, anybody that votes against it, they voted to give a 68% tax increase and many other bits.
There would be no money for the border.
You know, we have billions of dollars allocated to immigration, the border, keeping criminals out, getting criminals out too.
If that doesn't pass, you'll get a 68% tax increase.
And I would say this, any senator that votes against it, and that includes Democrats, I think they'll be finished in politics.
unidentified
On salt specifically, do you think Senate Republicans or House Republicans will have to bend more in order to get the bill up largely?
I don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
We're going to see how it works out.
It's a very difficult issue, to be honest here.
It's very difficult, and I understand both sides, but we'll just have to see.
Hopefully a compromise or something is going to be made.
But it's a very difficult issue.
unidentified
But remember that, you know, people say, what do you think?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
68% tax, all those numbers I told you, how well the economy is doing, it all gets wiped out.
You'd have the largest tax increase in history by far, by three times, if they don't get the big, beautiful deal.
unidentified
I always say the great, big, beautiful deal.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I put the word great in there.
unidentified
It's going to be great, great piece.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
If we get that passed, it'll be the best, one of the greatest pieces.
And that's just the beginning of a lot of things that are going to happen.
Because we're going to get numbers down, we're going to get them way down.
But that's the beginning.
That's our big first step.
But that's a big, it's the most important piece of legislation.
In terms of dollar value and everything else, there's nothing as big as that.
You know, they thought that might be seven or eight bills.
It's all in one.
unidentified
Speaking of taxes, starting in July 1st, California is upping their tax on gasoline again per gallon.
I mean, that's...
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, you know, I beat the California mandate.
Congress just passed the bill ending it.
It was terrible.
They were saying everybody by 2030 has to have an electric car.
unidentified
People don't want it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I'm all for electric cars, but you have to want one.
And right now it's about 7%.
But they were forcing everybody to have it.
I ended that.
And now they're coming out with more.
No, in California, we've got some gas stations where just two weeks ago it was $1.98, $1.99.
We've got the gas down low.
We have this little situation which will drive it up a little bit, but very little.
And it's going to come down again, going to give people a lot of extra money.
Groceries are down.
Eggs are down.
You know, the eggs.
It hit me the first week about eggs.
But no, I think that look, you know what I do whenever they talk about Gavin Newscomb?
I say, look at the railroad.
unidentified
Look at the railroad.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's not even possible.
Do you think he comes out and sees the construction workers?
I don't think so.
unidentified
I don't think he'd put an American flag in front of the capital either.
Mr. President, some of his supporters are split on the U.S. response to CNN.
There's a sport of the state.
Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Unfortunately, nobody watches.
unidentified
But my question is.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Anybody watching CNN nowadays?
I haven't seen it in a long time.
unidentified
But some of your supporters are wary of the U.S. getting involved in another foreign law.
And some believe that we should support it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Do you ever ask a positive question at CNN?
My supporters are more in love with me today, and I'm in love with them more than they were even at election time where we had a total landslide.
You know, we won all seven swing states.
Did CNN report that?
We won all seven out of seven, which everyone said would be almost impossible.
And we won by millions of votes.
We won 2,750 districts versus 505 districts.
Think of that, 2,750 versus 505.
And CNN...
unidentified
I think what she might be alluding to is the base is going to stay with you regardless.
And you've gone through different...
I think they all are.
Regardless.
But some of the people in the base don't want a long-term war.
They're afraid that we're going to get into a long-term war.
We're looking at a long-term war.
I only want one thing.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
I'm not looking long-term, short-term.
And I've been saying that for 20 years.
I've been saying it as a civilian who got a lot of publicity.
unidentified
People would cover it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Very simply, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
It's not a question of anything else.
And if you did, you wouldn't have much of a country because they would use it on us and they'd use it on other people and they'd be a terror all over the world.
So I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy.
And I have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening.
They're so happy.
And there was a poll that just came out today that my approval rating is the highest it's ever been.
All I'm doing is saying you can't have a nuclear weapon.
And I tried to do it nicely.
And then on day 61, I said, let's go because we can't let that happen.
And I've been saying it for 20 years.
unidentified
Okay, I'm going to leave.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you guys.
I know what you are.
I try to get it.
Yeah, but the base is good.
They don't want to turn it off.
Thank you.
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