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President Trump held a cabinet meeting and talked about several topics, including the Epstein files, the August 1st deadline for tariff deals, resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine, and his feelings about Elon Musk's intent to start a third political party.
Texas is strong, and the people of Texas are incredibly strong.
They've gone through something that is absolutely horrific.
And it is heartbreaking to watch these families suffer the way that they are.
As soon as this flash flooding event happened, you know, the governor has activated his emergency responders.
Nim Kidd is his emergency management director who is incredible and has immediately worked with the local first responders to get help to individuals and get them evacuated, put requests in to me.
We deployed Sir right away, as you know, because you and I were talking a lot during this time that Coast Guard.
We also had some assets out of customs and border protection.
Our BoardAc teams went in and helped with rescues and clearing debris so that we could get roads open and people get the help that they need.
I think when I got there the most, sir, that day, as soon as I arrived on site, was getting a briefing from all the emergency responders was just how unified they were in focusing on the fact that we're there to save lives.
They were there to rescue people, find people who were still alive, and to reunify them with their family members.
We as a federal government don't manage these disasters.
The state does.
We come in and support them, and that's exactly what we did here in this situation.
FEMA went to an enhanced level immediately, but as soon as you signed the major disaster declaration, we were able to get them resources and dollars right away, just like you envisioned, through state block grants to help them with cleanup.
And we're still there in presence, and FEMA's been deployed, and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA, streamlining it, much like your vision of how FEMA should operate.
And it's been a much better response to help these families get through this terrible situation.
We still are looking for people.
We're still looking for a lot of little girls and other family members that were camping along that river.
And they will continue until they find every single person, and we will continue to help them and assist in that.
I was surprised when I got there at the camp that day, right after this happened.
The parents that were there, the parents that were looking for their children and picking up their daughter's stuffed animals out of the mud and finding their daughter's shoe that might be laying in the cabin and just hugging and comforting people matters a lot.
I'm extremely grateful for God's hand in that whole situation because hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people were saved.
And this is a time for all of us in this country to remember that we were created to serve each other.
God created us to take care of each other.
And that when we do that, we are happier, we are more fulfilled, and we can walk alongside people on their worst day and help them get through it and come out the other side knowing that we can continue to live a life that God has purposed for us.
So they're grateful for you.
Several times the day after the flooding, you and Melania were on the phone with me, and I want to thank you for that.
That meant the world.
I was able to tell many of those folks that I had been visiting with you and that you had said, whatever they need, Christy, let's deploy it and get it down there and be helpful.
And on Sunday, when the families were waiting at a church to identify their children's bodies, Franklin Graham and I called in and prayed with the families and read some scripture with them and he was incredible in making himself available to that as well.
We'll be back down there in a couple of days and continue to do all we can.
But this is an unprecedented event.
It really is.
There's been tragedies like this around the country, but everyone is unique in different situations.
And, you know, the response the federal government had supporting the state through this, I'm proud of the people that stepped up and immediately came.
The Coast Guard, when they came in, they had a difficult time even getting the aircraft in and landed.
They had to try several times in the weather to get it in and deploy.
And I think we've heard about, you know, our one Coast Guard member that was responsible for saving over 165 people, but that entire crew did incredible work.
And all the first responders there did incredible work.
And I know people are getting tired now, but they're getting reinforcements and volunteers are showing up.
And I just want to commend the governor and his team for being the leaders.
And they're so thankful that you're letting them make the decisions and manage the response like it should be.
And then us supporting them with the resources of the federal government.
We've already deployed dollars to the state, much like the block grants that you've talked about.
And I had kind of fallen apart in there, but I walked out of the cabin and a gentleman was standing there and he said, that man over there needs a hug.
And so I walked over to him and I hugged him and I said, do you work here?
And he said, no, my little girl was in that cabin.
And he said, and I just found her best friend about an hour and a half ago.
She had passed away.
And he just fell apart.
And so then we just hugged and talked for probably an hour about that.
But then there was another, the grandpa was there looking for his granddaughter as well.
There was a dad there of one of the counselors.
The counselor was alive, but she was dealing with the fact that she had hung on to some of these girls and was trying to keep them out of the floodwaters and had gotten hit by something and had lost two of the girls and wasn't able to hang on to them and was going to live the rest of her life thinking about that moment when she wasn't able to hang on to these girls.
But these parents were picking up their kids' belongings out of the mud and throughout the camp and putting them in bags.
And then one of the dads said, I knew 50 of these girls here.
So I knew that was her dress and my daughter's friend's dress.
So he was picking it up and putting it in a bag to return to her parents.
And then the director was there comforting everybody who had lost his father the night before too.
And he was still there trying to facilitate all of these parents grieving their children and find them.
So the strength of people is incredible.
One of the things that I asked there that day was that they all have escorts or counselors when parents come in.
So from that point, that when they came into the camp, that they have somebody with them when they're going and looking for their children's belongings or looking for their children.
And we brought in a lot of helicopters from all over.
And we had a lot of helicopters.
It was actually dangerous.
A lot of helicopters up there.
But they were real pros and they were responsible for pulling out a lot of people.
And we got them there fast.
And Texas had some good ones too.
But the response has been incredible.
And the fact that we got along so well, I don't know, I don't even think that's a political thing.
But we got along so well and it was so unified.
I think a lot of lives have been saved.
That could have been as bad as it was.
And you could have lost double or triple.
This thing was just really horrible.
Well, congratulations on a great job and appreciate it.
I know you're going down.
I'll be going down on Friday with First Lady.
We'll be taking a trip and we don't want to get in anyone's way because that's what happens.
The president goes and everyone's around focused.
I don't want anyone to focus on us.
But it's possible they could have somebody saved still.
A lot of areas, it's a big area, and probably unlikely at this point, but there could be, I mean, they're thinking there could be the possibility, but what a tragic situation.
Good job, and we'll see you on Friday, and we'll finish out the day here.
I think you've been reading a lot about it.
terrible topic when you talk about financial after this, but we have a big country and we've been doing very well.
The tariffs, as you know, are starting to come in at record levels.
Tremendous amounts of money are coming in to our country.
We never did that before.
We're not used to it.
We only have tariffs going out.
We only adhere to the rules of other nations who charge us tremendous tariffs because we were led by stupid people, poor people without any business sense.
And I'd like to ask God, you could maybe talk a little bit about how well we're doing with regard to the money coming in.
And the big money will start coming in on August 1st.
I think it was made clear today by the letters that were sent out yesterday and today.
We will take it in about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year, and that's with the tariff, the major tariff not having started until the second quarter.
So we could expect that that could be well over $300 billion by the end of the year.
We don't agree with CBO scoring, but for those who do, the CBO scored tariff income over the next 10 years at $2.8 trillion, which we think is probably low.
It demonstrated the skill and courage of the United States military.
From those B-2 pilots and families that we had a chance to meet, sir, to the fighter pilots, to the refuelers, to the maintainers, to the air defenders who defended the base.
What was demonstrated on the world stage was American military might and capability.
And it wasn't just Fordot and Asfahan and Natans that took notice in Iran.
It was the rest of the world that we have a decisive commander-in-chief willing to use these capabilities, which are the best in the world.
As the President pointed out, no one else could have done what America did there on that night.
And everyone took notice of that.
With the one big beautiful bill, sir, we've got $150 billion additional to invest in Golden Dome and all the other weapons systems and stockpiles and shipbuilding priorities of yours.
Another month, another historic recruiting bump.
It's not just the Army and the Marine Corps anymore.
It's the Navy, the Air Force, and the Space Force all historically ahead of where they've ever been.
So historic spirit inside the military.
We had a chance to be at NATO, Marco and I, and see how the world responds to us saying it's time for you to shoulder the burden and take the lead for your continent.
That only happens with President Trump leading.
And we're proud to be a part of what's going on at the border, sir, with now a fourth national defense area where we're helping get to that number zero in securing the border.
But that mission, Operation Midnight Hammer, reestablished deterrence.
It reversed what happened in Afghanistan.
You saw the debacle of what Biden allowed to happen in Afghanistan and what that did to our image.
President Trump said, with Operation Midnight Hammer, reestablishing American leadership and deterrence, and we are proud to be a part of it, sir.
It was a perfect military performance, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time.
I mean, if you compare that to the same country, the hostages from years ago, Jimmy Carter, it was unfortunate for Jimmy Carter.
He's a nice man, but with the helicopters going down, the sandstorms, the prisoners, they got captured, then the election and the prisoners and Reagan and all the prop.
It was nothing but problems.
And that was a failure.
And notice was not only the pilots, I mean, those machines flew for 37 straight hours.
They didn't stop.
They went skedaddle.
You know the word skedaddle?
I mean skedaddle.
They dropped the bombs and somebody said, skedaddle.
Let's get the hell out of here.
And every bomb hit its mark and hit it incredibly.
And as you know, the Atomic Energy Commission said it's gone.
That place is gone.
We had a lot of fake reporting, mostly from CNN, where the scammer writer, a writer for CNN, who should be fired, by the way, she was involved with the 51 fake intelligence agents, if you remember that.
She did that story, created a story out of it.
Created a story out of the laptop from hell saying it came from Russia.
But it actually came from Hunter Biden's bedroom or worse, and just a scammer.
And she's still at CNN, which is pretty amazing, but we'll ask you a question about her.
But they came up with this concept that maybe the attack wasn't that good, maybe it and I saw it happen.
Right after the attack I saw this person on CNN.
I actually watch, I like to watch the enemy, you learn from the enemy and I watch because you have to know where they're coming from.
And I watched her say, Anderson, you know, I'm hearing stories that maybe they didn't hit their target, maybe it wasn't that good a hit, and they were hearing stories.
The next day it was a little more, and the next day a little more.
After three, four days she was saying, you know, I don't know, I don't think it was that.
Except by that time everybody knew it was hit perfectly.
The evidence is in the planes, the evidence will the pilots are their best evidence.
But they actually came out of their plane because they were here the other day and they said it was so sad.
We did such a good job.
We flew into very dangerous airspace.
I'll never forget.
We were in the situation room and they said they have entered Iranian airspace and everyone took a deep breath because they had more missiles pointed at them.
But the equipment is so good it's stealth way up in the air and it was stealth and they went right through that and they sort of, by the time they found out they were there, they were already gone.
That was the word skedaddle, get the hell out of here.
But they were right in the most dangerous airspace in the world and they took those big, beautiful very fast.
They're unbelievable planes.
I mean, they become really beautiful works of art.
You know, I always thought they sort of were cool, but now they look better than just cool, don't they?
Huh, but they dropped the loads and literally they would hit.
If you look at this table from here to there, they had a half a refrigerator door is the way to best explain it.
Take a refrigerator door average size, cut it in half.
That was their target.
They hit every single one.
Then we had 30 missiles, tomahawks shot from submarines 300 miles away.
Every one of them hit their target.
It was a perfect mission.
Then they came back almost 37 hours.
Every plane worked perfectly.
The mechanics were here too, I said you got to get the mechanics here.
We didn't have any problems, if you remember.
They had a lot of problems with the helicopters, but they did fly through a dust storm, which they shouldn't have done.
Sometimes you say let's go back and try it on a nicer day.
Dust and sand don't work well with helicopters, if you know much about helicopters.
But that was a horrible embarrassment to us that we had Afghanistan, which I think was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country and we would have gotten out.
I was, I was the one that got them down.
I would have kept Bagram, the big air base which right now is controlled by China, among the most powerful runways in the world thick, thick with concrete and steel.
Anything could land, and right now they were one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
I was keeping Outside of that, we were leaving, and I would have been out faster than them, but we would have gotten out with strength and dignity and said that was the most botched up mess I've ever seen.
They left all that equipment behind, and every year they have a parade running down some third-rate street with the equipment.
You know, supposed to be Fifth Avenue, it doesn't work.
But with all that equipment that they left, they should have taken every ounce of it.
I was taking every, I said every screw, every bolt, every nail you take out of there.
And Millie said, I remember one time, sir, we're better off leaving the equipment.
You mean it's cheaper to leave a $150 million airplane rather than flying into Pakistan or India or someplace or just flying it straight home?
It's cheap.
Yes, sir.
That's when I knew he was an idiot.
It didn't take long to figure that one out.
But they left all that equipment, but they left their dignity behind.
It was the most embarrassing moment, in my opinion, in the history of our country.
Not that we got out, we should have not been there, but that we got out the way we got out with great embarrassment and death.
You had 13 young people.
I've gotten to know their families very well, but you had hundreds of people killed that nobody talks about.
Yet the other side, many people were killed.
Many people are walking around with no legs, no arms from that whole thing.
They left from the wrong airport.
They should have left from Bagram because Bagram was a big base with hundreds of miles of fencing and territory around it.
Nobody would be able to get near it.
And they left.
So we've done a great job.
And I think people are really starting to see it.
They're starting to appreciate it.
Pete's done fantastically.
That mission was a work of art.
And I have spoken to some of our perceived, I don't know if they're enemies, but they're perceived as being potential enemies.
And they essentially said the same thing.
Very impressive.
There wasn't a thing that we didn't even, we didn't lose an engine.
We didn't lose.
It just, they landed and they were cheered.
But the sad thing was they were cheered.
And one of the pilots said, you know, we were a little concerned because when we got out, we were told that on television they were reporting that we may have missed our targets.
Sir, we hit every target.
That's what I do for a living.
We hit every target.
In fact, when I saw, when we dropped, when the bombs hit, a yellow haze came over the horizon that I've never seen before.
It just lit up the whole horizon, brighter than the sun.
It was like looking into the sun.
He goes, we hit our target, because you know what that was that was exploding.
But they were a little downbeat because they listened to that fake CNN reporting and the fake New York Times.
They worked together to try and say that it wasn't perfect.
They couldn't say what they missed.
All they could say is maybe it wasn't perfect.
And you ought to fire that reporter immediately.
You should fire her.
Real fake.
And so I just want to congratulate those pilots.
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And, you know, a lot of people don't like bringing things like that up.
I mean, why would you want to have open borders and criminals pouring into our country?
Why would you want to have men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone?
You'll have to figure that out.
But some of you don't.
I mean, I'm looking at some people, they love the country, but I look at other people and they can't.
But we're really proud of our military.
And the people that maybe don't like us or want to play games with us, because I think that had you not had the situation in Afghanistan, I don't think Putin would have gone in.
I think when Putin looked at how stupid and incompetent that operation was, he said, wow, this might be a chance.
And we're dealing with him now, too.
We're not happy with Putin.
I'm not happy with Putin.
I can tell you that much right now.
Because he's killing a lot of people.
And a lot of them are his soldiers.
His soldiers and their soldiers, mostly.
And it's now up to 7,000 a week.
And I'm not happy with Putin.
Okay.
Any questions?
Yes?
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Yes, sir.
You just said that you're not happy with Vladimir Putin.
Is there anything that you plan to do to act on that feeling?
It's turned out to be tougher, but it's only tougher.
And I will say the Ukrainians were brave, but we gave them the best equipment ever made.
We gave them the anti-tank busters that knocked out tanks.
I mean, you just aim them in the direction of the tank and the tank is gone.
We gave them missiles, the latest and the greatest.
They were able to shoot down a lot of things that would have normally wiped out, you know, probably would have been a very quick war.
It would have been a war that lasted three, four days.
But they had the benefit of unbelievable equipment.
And Europe gave it to it.
We gave them far more because Biden shouldn't have done that.
He should have equalized.
We should have given him the same, or we should have given actually less than Europe.
It affects Europe much more than us.
But we're in there for over $300 billion.
Europe's in there for over $100 billion.
But still, Europe gave a lot.
And I will say this, the Ukrainians, whether you think it's unfair that we gave all that money or not, they were very brave because somebody had to operate that stuff.
And a lot of people I know wouldn't be operating it.
They wouldn't have the courage to do it.
So they fought very bravely.
But we gave them the best equipment in the world.
We make the best military equipment by far.
There's nobody close.
You look at other equipment from other countries, it's not even close.
That's why everybody wants to buy our equipment.
And that's why we're going to step up these contractors now that make it.
And they're brilliant, but they make it too slowly.
And we have to step them up, Pete, and let them make it at a much higher rate.
Unfortunately, we have to do that.
But if you look at our Patriots, if you look at our tomahawks, if you look at our, well, what we do with tanks is you wouldn't want to be driving a tank.
You would feel nice and secure.
But they are javelins, they're called.
And I gave them the javelins.
Remember they said Trump gave the javelins and Obama gave them sheets.
Right?
They called Obama at that time.
Barack Hussein, Obama, if you haven't heard, did a terrible job.
But that was a war that, that was a war that should have never happened, and a lot of people are dying, and it should end.
And I don't know, we get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin for you want to know the truth.
It's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
They pass it totally at my option and to terminate totally at my option.
And I'm looking at it very strongly.
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Yesterday you said you guys speak the Council of Economic Advisors released a new report saying that imported goods have actually decreased in price from December through March.
Jerome Powell, and then I have a question for the Attorney General.
Jerome Powell, who you've been pressuring to lower interest rates, he's facing accusations of lying to Congress, which is a potential crime about the oculum.
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas.
First, to back up on that, in February, I did an interview on Fox, and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file, along with the JFK MLK files as well.
That's what I meant by that.
Also, to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.
Child porn is what they were.
Never going to be released, never going to see the light of day.
To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that.
We can get back to you on that.
And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
And what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter.
And what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video.
It's old from like 1999.
So every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing.
So we're looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night.
And that's it on Epstein.
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Mr. President, under tariffs first, you've said it is the deadline.
It's like, they just don't, because they're very spoiled, because for years they ripped us off and we didn't have a president that understood it or Secretary of Treasury or Secretary of a lot of different secretaries are involved, but certainly Commerce Secretary was not doing their job.
I don't know about Kelly's small business.
We'll keep it that way, okay?
Her small business is bigger than almost all big businesses.
But no, they are very respectful of our country, but the incentive is that they have the right to do business with us.
Without that, they don't have the right to do business.
That would be okay, too.
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In the next 24 hours, will we hear a flurry of deals?
We're picking a number that's lower than, in most cases, lower than what they charged us.
But it's amazing when you've paid all this money for years and they get one president that's a little bit different and a little tougher on this subject.
And they're willing to drop everything they've been charging us for years and years.
I mean, we have countries called, we will have no, you don't have to pay any tariff to come in and do business.
They're giving us total access to their countries.
They gave us no access to the country.
They say, well, you cannot go and talk.
Okay, now it's, we will give you total access and you don't have to pay any tariffs.
But please don't charge us tariffs.
And we don't like that deal.
So the letters I send out are, we have made some deals.
We can make a lot more deals.
It's just too time consuming.
It just makes it more complicated.
And we can do things over the years too.
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You know, we're going to, we're not going to, we're not hard line.
But it's about time the United States of America started collecting money from countries that were ripping us off, ripping us off and laughing behind our back at how stupid we were.
But then a couple days ago, you issued a new tariff threat to members of the BRICS countries for if they aligned with anti-American policies, that would be India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa.
Well, absolutely, but I would say on the pricing side, President Trump, the fact that you've endorsed and supported a policy of energy dominance, that sends a signal to the market that we're going to have more supply.
Why?
You talked during the campaign about inflation being a country buster.
You've broken the back of inflation in six months, among all the other things you've accomplished.
We have no inflation, and we've got, and then heading into the 4th of July, these were the lowest gas prices to pump in four years.
And again, for Americans, this is like hundreds of billions of dollars that stay in their pockets because we lowered the price of gas to the pump.
But when we lower the price of energy, it lowers the price of food, it lowers the price of the clothes you wear.
When you get energy down, 50 cents is like a massive tax cut.
And we've gotten it down much below that.
You know, we had great energy, great low prices, everything else when the election turned over.
I'm trying to be nice about it.
It turned over, shockingly, but nevertheless, it happened.
Energy started going up, and it went up really bad.
And then he went back to the Trump policy.
The problem was they didn't know how to do that, and he lost it.
He lost that sucker.
That big sucker was out of control, and his energy prices went way up, and that's what caused it.
But it was also stupid spending.
They spent money like they used to use the term drunken sailors, but I won't use that term.
Although it is very descriptive, I won't use that term.
I refuse to use it.
But they spent money at levels that nobody had ever seen before.
And trillions and trillions of dollars wasted on the Green News scam, greatest scam in the history of our country, other than maybe Russia, Russia, Russia, that might have been.
But the Green News scam was the single greatest scam in the history of our country and continues to be, but it's weakened badly.
It's hobbling along because people are finally finally getting it.
But they spent trillions of dollars on the Green News scam, getting nothing for it.
Devised by a couple of young people that weren't even good college students.
Lee Zeldon, who may be the most important man in this room, I'm sorry, but he's the one that gets the permits, whereas he's the one that has to get the permits for the plants and the factories and permits that used to take five years, he's getting in record-setting times.
AI, we're leading China a lot in AI.
And if we go with this, you know, I'm allowing the plants to build their own electric.
I'm allowing them to become an electric utility so they can produce their own electricity because we need double the electric, to be successful with AI, which is the biggest thing now.
We need double the electricity that we have, which is hard to believe.
We need even more than that.
And they're building plants with their own electricity substations.
They don't have to use the grid.
And anything they build extra, they're putting into the grid.
So we're supplying the grid with brand new electric sources.
And you know, it's funny, when they came to see me, they never even asked for that.
I told them about it.
The reason they didn't, they thought that was an impossibility.
You're not allowed to build your own electric.
These are massive investments that are being made in building electricity for their plants, and they're going to have, I think, Doug, a lot of electricity left over, and that electricity is going to be passed into the grid and give us no more, you know, like you look at California.
Yeah, I think a huge thing in the One Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President, because of your leadership, is the ending of these subsidies, as you call them, the Green New Scam.
That saves our country a half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, the next 10 years.
But American taxpayers were paying twice.
They're paying that money half a trillion dollars in the subsidies, and they were paying more expensive electricity price.
If you subsidize something, you should at least lower the cost of it.
But in this case, we were subsidizing something and paying more for it.
So the One Big Beautiful Bill had two huge things.
Ending wasteful spending.
Wind, solar, and batteries combined are 3% of U.S. total primary energy.
3%.
For a trillion dollars, another half a trillion dollars coming.
That's just not a good investment, hurting our businesses, hurting our consumers.
And the One Big Beautiful bill also unshackled oil, gas, and coal development in the United States, onshore and offshore.
Secretary Bergham has been working tirelessly on how by getting the government out of the way, private businesses will develop more resources in the United States, lowering costs for American consumers and making much better leverage for the United States to help our allies abroad and reduce the power of our adversaries abroad.
So just a huge win in the energy front all around, but I thank you for your leadership.
And he said, I hate the business because it's the only energy where you need subsidy.
He said, energy shouldn't need subsidy.
You should make money with energy.
So wind.
The other one is the solar, those big solar fields.
They're taking our farmland.
Our farmers are mortified by it.
They hate it.
It's very, very inefficient and very ugly too.
You know, probably better than a windmill.
But you go around and you see all these things that are three miles long by three miles wide and you say, what the hell is that?
And it's a lot of plastic from China.
It's plastic, black plastic from China.
Now, we want to be smart.
We're going with, look, China right now is building 58 coal-fired plants, 58 big ones.
They have 62 on the books to build.
We are, we've reintroduced clean, beautiful coal, because you know you can do a lot with coal now, clean, beautiful coal, and natural gas, and all of the other things that we have.
But we don't want wind, and we don't want solar, because they're a blight on our country.
They hurt our country very badly, and smart countries don't use it.
Solar sounds good, I will say, and I like on occasion you'll see a roof which is made out of solar brick, but it's a smaller use.
We need the kind of thing that's going to fire up our plants, and it's not going to be wind, you know, that is very intermittent, as you probably know.
But they've spent a fortune.
They've spent trillions of dollars on this stuff.
And I'll just give you one other story.
A friend of mine is a very successful guy.
He went back to see his mother in Minnesota, hadn't seen her in a long time.
And he wasn't back for 10 years, which isn't a nice story.
I mean, you don't see your mother for 10 years.
She's got some difficulties, which I know the guy.
He does have some difficulties.
He's very successful, but probably not the nicest person.
It was actually longer than 10 years, but he went back and he told me he wanted to go look at the valley.
There's a valley in Minnesota that he thought was so beautiful.
I hadn't seen it in a long time.
He's driving along the road.
He said, oh my, I'll use the word gosh, oh my gosh.
He said, oh, oh, he said it looked like a junkyard.
He had 159 windmills.
They were all over the place.
Some were old, some were newer, different companies, different shapes, different sizes, different colors.
Many of them were terminated.
Terminated meaning clothes.
You can't take them down because the environmentalists don't let you bury the blades because they're made out of a fiber they say is bad for the earth.
So they want you to put them up, but they don't let you take them down.
But many of them were turned off.
He said it looked like a junkyard.
Go to Palm Springs, California, and take a look at that pile of junk.
You go into a wealthy neighborhood.
Before you get there, you have to ride through hundreds of windmills that are, most of them are turned off, they're rotting, they're rusting, they're 30 years old, 20 years old, and they have a very short life.
You know, those windmills have a very short life, especially the ones that are in the nice, salty Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean where the salt just gets under that steel and decimates it.
Now, it's a horrible, horrible thing for our country.
And I speak out.
It would be nice to say wind, because it sounds so good, doesn't it?
So if you're in the cabinet room, you can tell the president and his team on behalf of Texans, thank you so much for the quick response and the loving and the hugs I saw that you gave.
Looks like we have a rogue judge, an Obama-backed rogue judge that is attempting to block the funding to Planned Parenthood, which the big, beautiful bill cuts off the funding to Planned Parenthood.
Yes, this morning, Secretary Hayseth, Secretary Noam, and Attorney General Bondi and I had a press conference at the USDA.
I just happened to have a chart in case it came up.
But obviously, the Chinese owning of farmland in our country is a massive national security issue.
And for the media, you can see the yellow is where all of the farms have been purchased over the last number of years.
And the red is around all of the military bases where that farmland has been purchased.
So this is a massive national security issue.
The press conference this morning included three of our greatest governors as well, Sarah Sanders from Arkansas, Jim Pillen from Nebraska, and Bill Lee from Tennessee.
The states have begun taking a leadership role to ban the purchasing of China farmland.
Obviously, Congress needs to step up and catch up, and we're going to be working alongside of them as well.
We had some of our members, great members of Congress there.
But it is time, and I think that this morning was symbolic of many things.
The first, of this administration working every day to effectuate President Trump's leadership and unequivocal support of America First.
But second, just how close we are as a cabinet.
I don't know in any other administration that you'd have four cabinet members at the USDA on a Tuesday morning when it's about 110 degrees outside with the sun beating down on us talking about surrogacy.
So I think it was a great day.
It was just the start.
There's an executive order coming and some other things coming behind that.
But protecting America's farms isn't just about protecting our farmers.
On immigration, the Secretary of the Agriculture did say this morning that undocumented workers would not be covered by an amnesty for working on farms.
You had said maybe that the ISA folks won't go after those folks on farms.
Yeah, this morning we talked about, of course, this was a top-of-mind question.
This morning we talked about protecting the farmers and the farmland, but obviously this president's vision of no amnesty, mass deportation continues, but in a strategic way, in a big way, and then ensuring that our farmers have the labor that they need.
Secretary Chavez Durimer has been a leader on this.
Obviously, this comes out of the labor department, but moving toward automation, ensuring that our farmers have that workforce, and moving toward an American workforce.
The President- We've got to give the farmers the people they need, but we're not talking amnesty.
Laura, do you want to say something?
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Yeah, thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Secretary Rollins, how important this is never to displace the American worker.
What the Department of Labor is doing is focusing on what the law entails now, being more modernized, more streamlining to work through the H programs.
We're going to have a concierge approach to that where we have developed a new office to answer the need of our farmers and ranchers and producers and not to displace the American worker and fall within the law now.
And that does not include an amnesty program at all.
And we've seen that working and we'll continue to have that roll out.
On the other topics that we somewhat talked about, the jobs numbers, Mr. President, four months in a row we've seen those jobs numbers increase.
That's an exciting time for our manufacturers that was asked earlier.
We know it's going to take some time, but through that deregulation process that Lee and I are working on as well, the Department of Labor has rolled out 63 new deregulations that we're going to be moving through.
In the first Trump administration, it was successful with over 30.
We've just rolled out 63 new ones in order to double down on those manufacturing companies to let them know that we have signaled through this process that we will assist them in getting the workforce that they need.
It's an exciting time.
That one big, beautiful bill, that was the signal to my former colleagues in Congress to get this done.
It's been an important time.
I spent time on the ground visiting seven states in nine days prior to that bill being passed because it was the most pro-worker piece of legislation that we will ever see really in this country right now.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
That matters to the American worker because we don't want to take their money and give it back.
We want them to keep more of their hard-earned dollars in their pockets currently, and that's what they're excited about.
And as I move forward with this tariff talks, I heard a company, Orthopedic Company, in Indiana, say to me for the first time since you have taken office, Mr. President, their increase in their bottom line by 8% since these tariff talks have happened.
Not one company has said the president is not doing a good job.
These tariff talks are working.
They're feeling it on the ground.
The media has told a false story because what's happening on the ground is positive and that's what we're seeing with these job numbers.
So I really, through the Department of Labor, to come in behind all the secretaries and build this workforce is going to be key to the American workers.
So thank you for what everybody did this last week.
The one big beautiful bill is a doubling down of this and we're going to see these workers start to grow.
And that apprenticeship program is going to be worth it.
We'll have that million apprentices across the country.
As you know, we're building plants all over the country now, which you weren't building any plants four years ago.
weren't building anything.
But those plants, when they open up, it's going to be, you'll see numbers like you haven't seen ever.
I don't think in history you'll never see numbers like what we're going to see in the very near future.
Many of them are building the plants.
Some are just starting right now.
You know, it's a brand new administration.
But, and they wouldn't be here except for two things.
November 5th, the election, and the tariffs.
And frankly, I guess the election was more important because of tariffs.
I mean, another person wouldn't have done this.
But they're coming in because of the tariffs.
They're not going to pay 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 70%, and 100%.
And we'll be announcing something very soon on pharmaceuticals.
We're going to give people about a year, a year and a half to come in, and after that, they're going to be tariffed.
If they have to bring the pharmaceuticals into the country, the drugs and other things into the country, they're going to be tariffed at a very, very high rate, like 200%.
Look, we cut hundreds of billions of dollars with Doge.
We could have done it differently.
I would have done it differently a little bit maybe, but it was something that we saved a lot of money.
You can always second guess.
I guess some of the people in this room maybe would have done it slightly differently, and some would have done it exactly the way it was done.
But it was dramatic, and it was important.
And we found a lot of things, like billions of dollars given to people for environmental protection where they had $100 in the account, like in Atlanta, Stacey.
And then you had another one with $20 billion here, $20 billion here, and $2 billion here, and $15 billion.
And Lee, you might want to mention just a couple of those things.
And they want accountability with their tax dollars.
And they got it.
So in the example of the Stacey Abrams Connected NGO, they received $100 in 2023.
They got $2 billion in 2024.
They had to complete training on how to develop a budget that was put into their grant agreement.
They, out of nowhere, started paying a CEO $800,000, a COO $450,000, 22 people making over $150,000.
Out of nowhere, this is tax dollars.
So money goes through pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, and we lose oversight over it.
And you see that it's going to former Biden officials, it's going to former Obama officials, it's going to Democratic donors.
And we're not here saying we want to take money from a left-wing NGO and give it to a right-wing NGO.
We want to give it back to the taxpayer.
This is about us being good stewards of American tax dollars without any apology or regret.
That's why President Trump was elected last November, because there were a whole lot of people who maybe they hadn't voted Republican in a long time.
Maybe they didn't even vote for President Trump the first time around in 2016, but they're regretting that vote from 2016 and they were making it right in 2024.
So the One Big Beautiful bill gave us the tools to rescind billions of dollars more.
We're seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars that will get wasted per electric vehicle as an example of this money that was going through it.
They gave $50 million to a group called Climate Justice Alliance.
They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
The Biden EPA gave $50 million to a group that says that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
We say that if you're going to spend a dollar in the name of remediating an environmental issue, then spend the dollar on remediating an environmental issue.
We say that we can protect the environment and grow the economy.
We want to help grow more baseload power in this country.
So why is it that it took this long for this team to get assembled to be able to fix the mess that we inherited?
But gosh, we love showing up at our jobs every single day, first thing in the morning, because all day long we get things done for the American taxpayer.
And Congress did its part last week by passing the One Big Beautiful Bill to deliver this accountability and to cut off the Green News scam.
So maybe it's a bad day for Stacey Abrams.
Maybe it's a bad day for all those well-connected Democrats getting paid off.
But you know what?
God bless America.
Because at the end of the day, President Trump is here, JD Vance is here, and the greatest cabinet ever assembled to deliver that much needed and highly demanded accountability.
The Ukrainians have asked the international court to go after Russia for using toxic chemicals inside Germany and Dutch, Italy, and the Netherlands have intelligence saying that.
What does U.S. intelligence believe and what do you believe about the use of chemical weapons in the movement?
Would you agree that that's a case for a committee?
Well, Mr. President, obviously, chemical weapons, if it's documented in its use, it's illegal.
It's against all international laws of armed conflict and treaties.
And obviously, I can't share in this room with this audience the intelligence that I can share with you privately, but obviously you're not going to stand or allow for any violations of international law by anyone.
And could I ask you to just discuss a very important subject to me, and that's the modernization of our equipment at airports so that planes aren't crashing into each other and bad things don't happen.
It should have been done many years ago.
We were going to do it, and then the election precluded that, unfortunately, but we're doing it now.
Just to cover that, you know, there have been accidents.
And my pilots, I would often hear them say, oh, good.
And they would use a different system, a different country to land in New York.
They'd use the radar and other things from a different country.
I said, what's that up?
He says, oh, our system is so bad.
And I knew that.
We were all set to start.
And BudEd Edge came in, and what they did was so crazy because they hooked in copper into fiber, into steel, into all.
They had all different systems.
They had hundreds and hundreds of contractors, different contractors for different airports.
They spent billions of dollars and they made the system worse because you can't hook copper into fiber.
It doesn't work that way.
You just can't do it.
It's not doable, but they tried to do it.
Didn't work out too well.
And in the end, it was just a complete disaster.
We want to have one great company.
Now, Raytheon's going to bid.
IBM's going to bid.
We have five or six bidders that really are good and do this stuff.
And we want one, I tell, because I know about overruns.
I look at the railroad out in California, headed up by one of the worst governors in our country, who I used to get along with actually, but he's just, you know, when you lose 25,000 houses and you would have had your cities burned down.
If we didn't step in, Los Angeles would have been burned to the ground.
But you look at that, and I said, I really know how to build.
You've got to have one guy, one contractor, one great one, whether it's IBM or Raytheon is good.
But you have four or five that are really, really good.
And they're all bidding against each other.
But you don't want to have one doing the wire and one doing the digging and one doing the demolition.
And then they're all saying they all blame each other because they're saying they were late and therefore you have to pay me millions of dollars more money.
I know this system so well.
And we're going to have a great company do the whole thing.
We're going to get a fantastic price.
Maybe we'll get them, they're very big and very strong, and maybe we'll get them to make a contribution toward it, toward getting it done at the right price.
But we're going to have a great system.
When we finish, we will have the best system on earth done by one of the two or three best companies.
There are only a few companies can do this.
This is not.
But if you would have seen what this other group did, they were going crazy.
They had, I think I heard 3,000 contractors.
And then when it all came together, guess what?
It didn't work.
It's a disaster.
So we're going to have, in a pretty short period of time, take us about two years to build it.
And we'll have a contract given out probably over the next couple of months.
We have some great bidders, some great companies that want to do the job.
And by the way, you mentioned a train out in California.
Stay tuned for probably give us five days and you'll have an answer on what's going to happen with $4 billion that we pretend to have invested on a train that's going to go nowhere.
It's going to be $120 billion that will never connect San Francisco to LA.
Again, the last administration wasted so much money on projects that never work.
If you're going to have high-speed rail, you're going to invest billions.
We should actually have high-speed rail in America.
Not boondoggles that fund political friends and allies and stuff.
I think one of the biggest accomplishments we had over the past week was University of Pennsylvania with the Title IX ruling that Julia Thomas was stripped of her title.
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Riley Gaines and Paula Stanlin and other women who have stood so strong against men and women's sports.
And when you put out the executive order, I mean, that just solidified it and gave them the opportunity.
Here we put, you know, these lamps have been very important, actually, whether people love them or not.
But if you see pictures like Pearl Harbor and Toratorator, you see movies about the White House where wars are being discussed.
Oftentimes they'll show those lamps or something like those lamps, something that looks like them, probably not the reals because I don't think they were allowed to.
This is a very important room.
It's a sacred room.
And I don't think they made movies from here.
You never know what they do.
But they were missing medallions.
See the medallions on top?
They had a chain going into the ceiling.
And I said, you can't do that.
You have to have a medallion.
They said, what's a medallion?
I said, I'll show you.
And we got some beautiful medallions.
And you see them.
They were put up there, makes the lamps look better.
So we did these changes, and when you think of it, the cost was almost nothing.
We also painted the room a nice color, beige color.
Well, McKinley was a great president who never got credit.
In fact, they changed the name of Mount McKinley, and I changed it back because he should have been, the people of Ohio were very, he was the governor of Ohio.
The people of Ohio were very happy when I did that.
They were very insulted.
They took the name of Mount McKinley off.
That was done by Obama a little while ago, and I had to change it back.
I changed it back.
He actually was a great president.
He was a president.
He was the tariff, the most, I guess, since me.
I think I'm going to outdo him, but he was a tariff president.
He believed that other countries should pay for the privilege of coming into our country and taking our jobs and taking our treasure.
That's the way he explained it.
They took our jobs and they took our treasure, and for that they should pay.
And he made them pay, and he built a tremendous fortune.
In fact, in 1887, they had the Great Tariff Committee.
It was set up in 1887 because our country had so much money, we didn't know what to do with it.
And they set up a committee of, as they called them, elites, a term that we have to change, because I think a lot of the people that are elites aren't elite.
I think the people that aren't elite are elite, so we're going to have to maybe switch that around somehow.
But they had a committee that was set up to spend the money because it was such a large amount of money.
And then later, they tried to bring back tariffs, but the whole thing was, you know, this was after the Depression.
That was one of the great misconceptions as people like to say, oh, but it was during the no.
We went, the country had a Great Depression.
And then after the Depression, long after it started, they brought back tariffs to see if they could save it.
But it took them really 25 years.
When you say about 25 years to get out of the Great Depression, a lot of people don't understand that.
But I thought it would be interesting for you to get a little view of this room.
This is a very important room, very powerful room, great room.
And we've done similar, but even beyond this, in the Oval Office, we brought back pictures of some of the great presidents.
Many of them were in the vaults for over 100 years.
Originals all, beautiful, beautiful things.
And rather than sitting in a vault downstairs for 128 years, I thought we should display that.
And we did that, I think, in a really good way.
We've gotten very high marks.
But it's interesting.
People walk into that room and they look around the room.
They don't even want to talk to me.
They could look at it for hours.
It's funny when people come into the Oval Office, it's such an incredible, it's a sacred place.
When people come into the Oval from the biggest people in the world, presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, one case at least, queens and the biggest business people in the world, they walk into that office and they always say this, there's no place like this in the whole world in terms of the power.
I mean, it's beautiful at all, but there are other beautiful offices.
You have businessmen that have offices that are, you know, full floors of office buildings, floor-to-ceiling glass, and they walk in there and they say, there's no place like this anywhere in the world.