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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 ▲ ● ▼
Better, right?
Media.
Have you ever seen media before?
unidentified
You're lucky.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
About 1,800.
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.
This is about the largest you'll ever see.
And it's tapered.
It's inequality 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 pole, 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 that.
I don't know if they're.
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.
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 and 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 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 he'd 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%.
He was wrong.
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, right?
Think of it for nothing.
For absolutely nothing.
We'd save $6, $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 don't know how to sell.
I've been so nice to him, fellas, you wouldn't believe it.
Let's have dinner.
Too late?
I'd call him too late.
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 this, 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 I'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.
Because 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.
Do 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 crane.
That's some beautiful equipment.
There's nothing like America.
Have a good time, everyone.
alayna treene ▲ ● ▼
Have you been answered questions about whether you are moving closer or you believe the U.S. is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
unidentified
Where's your mindset on that?
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?
I mean, you don't know that I'm going to even do it.
You don't know.
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 said, 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.
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 ▲ ● ▼
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?
What?
Have the Iranians reached out to you?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yes.
unidentified
And what did they say?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I said, it's very late.
You know?
unidentified
I said, it's very late to be talking.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
We may meet.
I don't know.
There's a big difference between now and a week ago, right?
Big difference.
unidentified
Mr. Helm said we may meet.
This is about fans and what possible joint departments.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's about anybody.
They even suggested they come to the White House.
It's a big difference.
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 year?
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.
They've totally captured.
You know, we've totally captured the air, Brian.
unidentified
Mr. President, you've been fairly compassionate towards the Iranian people's suggestions.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 hellbeat 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.
A building falls down, they say nobody was hurt.
Ridiculous.
unidentified
Why should I deport there?
What do you mean?
You know what I mean?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Unconditional surrender.
Two 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.
But 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.
donald j trump [ai] ▲ ● ▼
And we've been threatened by Iran for many years.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Mr. President, on 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 then DHS said this week that work site enforcement would remain in place, that it's a cornerstone.
So what's your message to farmers?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 journey?
I don't think so.
You've known all these people for a long time.
Any illegal immigrants in here now?
If they were, they'll find out.
They'll be checking you.
unidentified
You won't believe.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 they started out.
They'll end up being, oh, he's so-and-so.
This one is from you know where.
Don't worry.
I think you're going to be okay.
I'll be right behind you.
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.
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.
Can you believe it?
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 the jails, many of them.
unidentified
I would.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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.
Are you okay?
unidentified
I'm just going to follow up on the immigration real quickly.
Can you comment on the impact of the Trump card and how much of that?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, we have a thing called the Trump Card.
donald j trump [ai] ▲ ● ▼
This has not been done before or thought of.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 got $53 billion.
That whole thing is coming to an end.
It's amazing what we found out.
What a disgrace.
$53 billion.
We gave them five, six, and some people say it's as much as $9 billion over a short period of time.
So that's very much Kamije.
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, progressive is too nice a word because they're destroying the country.
They're really destroying these liberal politicians that are 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 this 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 Otopen 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 up 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.
Your job is too easy.
unidentified
Okay?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Thank you very much.
unidentified
How tall is the flagpole?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Close to 100 feet.
unidentified
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.
donald j trump [ai] ▲ ● ▼
Modi from the India side and others.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 a war between two major nations, major nuclear nations.
I don't think I had a story written about it, but that's okay.
You know why?
The people know.
unidentified
The people know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Did anybody write that story about the war?
Did you write it?
unidentified
I wrote one, yes.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Did you write it?
unidentified
Yours.
You wrote it.
You others have asked me to get it.
More adjustments that need to be made for Marine 1 departures and Iran.
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.
No, we have to have it far away.
It's very far from Marine One's out there.
It's out in the field.
So you have to have a certain distance.
We're about three times that distance.
Thank you very much, everybody.
unidentified
Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Thank you, Brad.
How about getting involved?
Thank you, Brad.
Have a good view over there.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
If you want, you can come over here.
Come on over here.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Say good luck.
unidentified
What is the end of the one out?
Say it?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's already run out.
That's why we're doing what we're doing.
Yeah, they had 60 days and a big, you know, 60 days, plenty of time.
And they made a mistake, honestly.
Your country's in ruins.
So many people are dead.
They shouldn't be dead.
It's a very sad thing.
Let's watch this.
Over here, you don't have to ruin your shoes.
That's why we're changing the grass.
People are rooting this.
unidentified
Some pole.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And the wires go inside.
You know, it's very nice.
You know, when they're outside, they're very noisy.
They snap in the wind.
unidentified
Just press it.
Yeah.
A personal project for you, sir.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It is.
unidentified
Well, I'm paying for it.
You're spending our money on it?
Yeah.
Wow.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I'd say each barrier was like $50,000.
unidentified
Is there any update?
On the ballroom?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, we start pretty soon.
unidentified
We have a beautiful ballroom.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Good question.
Right here.
unidentified
See the East Wind Combat?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Goes from here all the way.
unidentified
See the big piece of land over here?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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.
Yeah, I'll be good.
I think so.
Anything equipment in there, when you think, huh?
Like 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, but you know, you guys were after me.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I said I had to focus.
I was the hunted.
And now I'm the hunter.
It's a big difference.
unidentified
Big difference.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But he was the same no matter what.
unidentified
Yeah, it is surprising that out of all the presents we've had, that this has never taken place.
It's crazy.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Look, there's a little flagpole that's like 15 feet and there was a little tiny flag up top.
This is the real deal.
This is the best you can get.
There's nothing like this.
You know, most of them are 20 feet, 25 feet.
unidentified
This is close to 100 feet.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And I think it's a great location.
unidentified
You know, you put it out there, people don't appreciate it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And then we're going to do a flowerbed around it.
unidentified
Beautiful flower bed.
Oh, bigger than that.
So you have the pole and then you have the flag.
When are you going to come out here and hit some golf balls?
When you find time on your schedule.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
35 club championships.
unidentified
You all know that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
35 club championships.
unidentified
I haven't hit a ball in three weeks, four weeks.
I don't know.
It's time to get out there.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's time to be a little busy.
Would you rather have me be doing what I'm doing?
Of course.
unidentified
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.
unidentified
But you have to get it there.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But if you lifted it without that, the whole thing would split.
unidentified
So interrupt.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Because it's in big sections, and they connect so incredibly.
unidentified
Mr. President, while we're watching, can 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 that?
I haven't spoken to anything.
Screen controls, yeah.
Screen shot.
unidentified
That was the last time.
That was the last one.
Any changes to the troops being deployed there?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I won the case yesterday.
I didn't read that I won it because I don't think anybody wrote it.
They only run them and 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, it ends 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.
unidentified
You can give the pole.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It gives you flexibility and it doesn't do anything to the cask.
It's amazing.
So watch when, so that's nine feet deep.
And then, boy, it's a beautiful, it's a perfect call for this.
unidentified
Oh, so let's go on nine feet down.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It goes nine feet down.
And then there's nothing in there right now.
Just the tube grows 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?
unidentified
Any little bit of a building?
Well, you're a builder.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Oh, much better.
The first one looks better.
I mean, I've never seen it on this.
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.
unidentified
And you hear that rope bang playing in all the top.
The little thing sticking up out of the pumpkin.
The little thing sticking out?
Yeah, the bar.
Like the little tent.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Oh, I see.
That's so they can hook up to the ropes.
They put the rope in later.
unidentified
I'm going to see eagles up with flag poles.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I like these guys.
These are a little more classy.
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?
Keep going.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
What do I say?
I speak to him every day.
He's a good man, doing a lot.
Been very unfairly treated by his country, I think.
unidentified
Very unfairly treated.
Have you given him any indication that you may seek to aid them more than you have already?
No.
I haven't.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
So far he's doing a good job.
unidentified
He has been treated very unfairly by his country.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
You know, he's a wartime president and he's going through this nonsense.
It's ridiculous.
unidentified
Sounds like you've got a good meeting.
I agree with him that.
Yeah, the National Security Council.
Very good meeting.
Anything that came up in the picture that?
Little things, big things, but it was a good meeting.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It's working well.
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 something?
And it's got to be pure sand.
unidentified
I know you enjoy being president.
You ever miss the thing?
I love those structures.
It's in your heart, anyway.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I love it.
I know it better than anybody.
When I see a train, a railroad going from San Francisco to LA, I think it's 100 times over budget.
unidentified
Incredible.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
One of the most incompetent things.
That's newscoming.
unidentified
Why do they keep funding that?
I think we're not going to anymore.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
In fact, a little bit of a story.
We're not going to find out anything that's out of control.
First of all, it doesn't go where it's supposed to.
It was supposed to go from L.A. to San Francisco.
Now, because they don't have any money, they've spent, what is it, 30, 40 times more than those at Boston's farm.
And they made it much shorter, because it no longer goes into the cities.
It stops miles outside of the cities.
unidentified
Because 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 regular.
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 every metal.
unidentified
Mr. President, with the rail funding in California for your recent gust-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.
You know, Austria has very, very flammable trees.
They don't have forest fans because they clean the floors.
They maintain their forests.
Good impact.
You know, hatred is never a good thing in politics.
When you don't like somebody, you don't respect somebody, it's harder for that person to get money if you're on top.
But he's done a bad 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.
unidentified
Absolutely.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
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 that they're not going to be able to do that as they take this out?
With the ruling yesterday, you agree with Israeli Prime Minister Henry Yannis?
Yeah, well, well.
With the ruling yesterday, does that mean you're more empowered to send National Guard to all the cities as well, maybe New York?
I don't think more empowered.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I always thought I was empowered.
It would be a shocking ruling.
Only a guy like Nuska would even ask for it.
You know, he should be thanking me instead of fighting.
Newsom would, he wouldn't have a city.
Right now, it would be burning to the ground.
You'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.
Five or six big bags.
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 it a little bit.
And he actually needed it more.
But we did a great job.
We quelled that thing.
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?
Yeah, great numbers.
Zero.
Yeah.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
We had zero.
Did you see that, everybody?
unidentified
You were going to ask that.
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 brought you see the main numbers.
It's zero.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Zero, yeah.
unidentified
How is that even?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Because we really have a tight border.
Now, we have let a lot of people in, but they came in legally.
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.
I mean, are we talking 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.
I think they'll bless it.
unidentified
How was Prime Minister Carney towards you?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Very good.
It couldn't have been nicer.
We enjoyed the Canada stay a lot.
And I had to come back, obviously, for what's happening in the Middle East, but I got everything done.
He's a good man.
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, too.
unidentified
Mr. President, could you give me Iranian ultimate?
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 break.
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 ▲ ● ▼
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 what's Palm Beach in the summer?
I think this is muggier.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
This is a muggy.
unidentified
This is a mistake.
Mr. President, could I ask you about the Paramount deal and the mother and skydance and the Ellison's?
Like, what's holding that up and all that?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I hope so.
Ellison's great.
He'll do a great job with it.
So what they did is they interviewed 60 minutes.
unidentified
They interviewed Kamala.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Her answer was horrendous.
I would say election threatening.
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 for example.
And they did that, I understand, a number of times, but you don't have to do it a number of times.
The main question they asked, and we caught them.
And they're very embarrassed by it.
And they're working on a settlement now.
unidentified
But think of it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Did you ever hear that one before?
They took the entire, every word, threw it out, put another answer.
unidentified
Do you think they do that for me?
I think it happens daily.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, I've never seen it.
unidentified
I thought I've seen everything.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
That I've never seen it.
It's very embarrassing.
The head of 16 Minutes got fired.
The head of CBS got fired.
unidentified
They're all getting fired.
Do you think that people will be able to do that?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Do what they're doing here, where they're doing right now.
Only if you're in construction, this is exciting.
You 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.
So 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.
That's debt ceiling.
unidentified
The debt ceiling, we have to move the debt.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And if we don't move the debt, you violate covenants.
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 at large?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I don't know.
We're going to see how it works out.
It's a very difficult issue, to be honest with you.
It's very difficult, and I understand both sides, but we'll just have to see.
Hopefully a compromise or something's going to be made, but it's a very difficult issue.
But remember that, you know, people say, what do you think?
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.
I always say the great, big, beautiful deal.
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 for gallon.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I mean, that's, well, you know, I beat the California mandate.
Congress just passed a bill ending it.
That 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.
Now 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.
They hit me the first week about eggs.
But no, I think that look, you know what I do whenever I talk about Gavin Newscomb?
I say, look at the railroad.
unidentified
Look at the other.
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 Capitol Sacramento either.
Supporters are playing on the U.S. response to who you at CNN.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Fake news.
Fortunately, nobody watches.
Is anybody watching CNN nowadays?
I haven't seen it in a long time.
unidentified
Some of your supporters are wary of the U.S. getting involved in another foreign law.
And some believe that we should support.
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.
We had, 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 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.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I only want one thing.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
That's it.
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.
People would cover it.
Very simply, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
That's it.
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.
Okay, I'm going to leave.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir.
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