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President Trump signed an executive order that imposes a $100,000 fee on certain visa applicants, saying that this could incentivize companies to hire more Americans.
The president also talked about free speech amid comedian Jimmy Kimmel's suspension from ABC and federal guidelines related to vaccines and autism.
That means the Democrats have to vote in the Senate.
And I don't think they will be voting.
Now, what we are doing, we're really here today to talk about something else, which is the gold card, which is going to bring a lot of money into our country, which is going to reduce taxes and lots of other good things.
But we'll save that for a little bit later.
Why don't we do this first?
And then we'll talk about the gold card.
Any questions?
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Mr. President, your call this morning with President Zeb.
We talked about Russia-Ukraine, obviously, and Gaza.
Talked about a lot of subjects.
It was a long call.
It was a good call.
We have a very good relationship.
But the TikTok deal is well on its way, as you know, and the investors are getting ready.
And I think China wanted to see it stay open, too.
They wanted to see it.
And I can tell you the young people in our country wanted to see it stay open very badly because, and if you take a look at my numbers, no Republican has ever done anything like we got massive numbers of youth vote.
And by the way, helped very much by Charlie Kirk.
So Charlie was very much in favor of TikTok.
He liked TikTok.
And he said, you know, you should use it.
And other people said that too.
And I used it.
And I don't know if I have the all, I think I set records.
I looked at numbers that are phenomenal.
We'll pass them out to you.
And it had probably a pretty big effect on the election because we won the election by a lot.
So we are at a situation where in a little while, meaning a number of days, we'll probably, I don't know if you can make a deal with these people.
I think these people are crazy.
You know, again, anybody who wants open borders and don't want to fight, they don't want to fight crime.
They hate to fight crime.
And in Chicago, last weekend you had 11 people killed, murdered, and you had 28 shot.
And those numbers have been pretty consistent all throughout a period of time, whether it was four people, five people, six people, 11 people, 12 people killed, murdered.
And they don't want to spend money to fight crime.
And it's not even much money, relatively speaking.
It's very little.
But we're going there anyway.
It doesn't make any difference.
We're going to Chicago.
We're going to Memphis next.
And we're going to clean up the crime in the cities because we have to do that, okay?
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With this deal today, are you confident that the CCP won't be exerting control?
At the same time, when you have networks that where I won an election, like in counties, I guess it's 2,600 to 525, that's called landslide times two.
When you have that kind of level of popularity or voter support, as I did in the last election, and yet 97 and 94%, different numbers, you see different numbers with different stats, but 97, 94, 95, 96% of the people are against me in the sense of the newscasts are against me.
The stories are 90%, they said 97% bad.
So they gave me 97%.
They'll take a great story and they'll make it bad.
See, I think that's really illegal, personally.
You can't have a free airwave, you're getting free airwaves from the United States government, and you can't have that and say, And somebody that just won an election, and I had to go through this during the election, I think it's a miracle that I can win.
When 97% of the stories on the networks are bad, or whatever it may be, whether it's 89, it doesn't matter.
It's a tremendous number.
You know it, you report it all the time, and it changes.
But when you have that kind of a negative reporting, fake negative reporting, when they take a great story and they make it into a bad story constantly, that's what they do.
Look, 60 Minutes took Kamala's answer and they threw it out and they gave her a different answer so that she sounded competent.
When things like that happen, George Slapadopoulos from your network, right?
George Slapadopoulos had to pay $16 million to me because of what he said.
And that's ABC.
You had to pay more than that.
Your network had to pay more than that.
So I think it's very sad.
But I think that reporting has to be at least accurate, at least accurate to an extent.
Again, when somebody is given 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech.
That's no longer anything.
That's just cheating.
And they cheat.
And they become really members of the Democrat National Committee.
That's what they are, the networks, in my opinion.
They're just offshoots of the Democrat National Committee.
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Mr. President.
Mr. President, thank you.
Liam Commstrom with Zero Hedge.
People are still anticipating who your pick for National Security Advisor will be.
They're worried Marco Rubio is a little overworked.
And one of the reported frontrunners is Michael Anton from the State Department.
He's just authored the National Security Strategy.
So we're setting records many, many days during my administration.
We set records.
And we'll see what happens with 50,000.
50,000 is a pretty big number.
Never come close.
We're not so far away from it.
So that's because they see what's happening.
Not so much what's happening exactly right now, but they see all the plants that are being built.
They see the kind of investment that's going to be made.
When you take $17 trillion, so Biden had $250 billion.
Okay?
We're putting a simpler way.
They had much less than a trillion, but they had less than a trillion for four years.
I have $17 trillion for eight months.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
And I think they're looking at that and they're saying when those plants open right now, they're being built, a lot of them, and some are starting over the next year.
It takes a while.
But we're getting fast permits.
And when those plans get built, I don't think there'll be anything like what we're going to experience yet.
Mr. President, if I can, on the subject of free speech, Ted Cruz compared Brendan Carr to a mob boss, the way he's threatening television stations, and saying it's absolutely dangerous for the government to determine which speech is okay and which is not.
I think Brendan Carr is an incredible American patriot with courage.
You know, it used to be, I remember in the old days that networks would have to get licensed, relicensed, and it was always a big deal.
You know, they had to show honesty and integrity.
When you have a network, again, I'll use the same numbers, whether it's 90 or 94 and 97, all different numbers, but when you have networks that give somebody 97% bad publicity or 94% bad publicity, I think that's dishonesty.
And, you know, they're getting free airwaves, right?
You know that, right?
You get them for nothing.
These airways, they make millions and millions of dollars.
The news makes millions of dollars.
ABC, your network.
I mean, your network wrote very badly about me and they had to pay me $16 million.
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So you think I wasn't right for Brendan Carr's a right to take away the license?
I think Brendan Carr doesn't like to see the airwaves be used illegally and incorrectly and purposely horribly.
Doesn't like to see a person that won the election in a landslide get 97% bad publicity before the election.
I mean, it's amazing that I won the election with that.
But here's what happened.
The people have given your networks no credibility.
They don't give them any credibility, John.
If they did, they wouldn't vote for me.
They wouldn't have voted for me.
When you look at, I mean, you could also say the liberal media, the liberal left, when you look at these stories and papers, but we're not talking about that.
We're talking about, I assume you're talking mostly about the networks, but they have a licensing procedure, and you can read it as well.
They have to show honesty and integrity.
And when they take it, when they take a good, well, I think the people decide, that's why I'm president.
When they take a great success, like you often do, and you make it into like it's a loser, or you put a negative spin on it, I don't think that's right.
So I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot.
Nobody's done a better job than I've done on World Peace.
Nobody's settled so many wars as I have.
You know, I've been here probably a little bit more than eight months, and I've settled seven, and that doesn't include the destruction of a vast potential nuclear disaster in Iran, which we wiped out, totally, as I say, obliterated.
We obliterated it.
It's been turned right with this beautiful plane right here.
We just ordered some more of them, by the way.
The B-2 bomber.
Just ordered some more.
The more updated version.
Not that we needed that.
We just need the plane because it was so flawless.
These pilots flew 37 hours flawlessly.
Not an engine problem, not a screw, not a bolt came loose.
It was an amazing, compare that to many years ago, Jimmy Carter.
Same country with the helicopters and the problems and the prisoners and the hostages.
What a mess.
You know, these planes flew 37 hours without a stop.
They fueled up.
We had 52 tankers fueling the planes along the way.
It was an incredible, and every single bomb hit its mark.
And then we fired 30 of them from submarines, from a submarine.
What a job that was.
And I don't even include that, but that stopped a war.
That stopped maybe a catastrophic war.
Mr. President.
So I think that nobody has ever done anywhere near that.
Now, on top of that, we're working very hard to get Russia-Ukraine settled.
We'll see what's going to happen there.
I hope we're going to get it done.
President Xi and I spoke to him about it, and I believe that he really would like to see it done also, and I think he's going to work with us to help.
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What was your message?
What was your message to President Xi on the war in Ukraine?
We have a long time to go before I get up and speak at the UN because every day is a long time when it comes to Gaza, when it comes to Israel and the Middle East.
So we have a long time to go.
But you know a lot of my opinions.
And remember this, you can't forget October 7th either.
People are forgetting October 7th.
They forget it too quickly.
That was one of the worst days in world history.
It was the most evil attack that I think you could really say.
Babies were involved, little babies were involved, and having their heads chopped off and all of the things that took place.
It looks to me like she's very guilty of something, but I really don't know.
I know that the U.S. Attorney from the Eastern District or from that district in Virginia, that he was approved by two Democrat senators who, in my opinion, are among the worst.
And when I learned that two senators, Democrats, because as you know, it's very hard with the blue slip, it's very hard for a Republican to get somebody approved if you have one senator that's a Democrat because of an old custom.
It's not a law, it's a custom.
It's a ridiculous custom.
But if you have a Democrat senator, you have to get that senator to approve.
Well, in this case, we had two.
When I saw that he got two senators, two gentlemen that are bad news as far as I'm concerned, when I saw that he got approved by those two men, I said pull it because he can't be any good.
When I learned that he was blue-slipped through by two Democrat senators in Virginia, people that would never vote for it, people that haven't voted for us for probably years, okay, probably years.
In my opinion, two bad guys.
You know, they are Warner and Kane.
Two bad guys, bad senators, too.
They do a terrible job for the people of Virginia.
But when I saw that he got approved by these two terrible people that haven't voted, they just don't vote no matter what it is, we could give them the greatest deal ever, and they still wouldn't vote.
And they voted for this guy.
And I have other people, judges, and I have U.S. attorneys from other states where I have the same situation, and they can't get approved.
So when I learned that they voted for him, I said, I don't really want him.
Have you seen the polling, the Gallup poll out of Ukraine that shows 23% less than a quarter of Ukrainians actually support continuing the war against Putin?
We saw the European leaders come here and try to say the world is united for the war effort, but Ukrainians have war fatigue themselves.
Yeah, well, what we're doing is they're building plants all over the United States, and frankly, because of tariffs, we're taking in trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars.
And countries that have ripped us off for years, and everyone knows this, countries that have ripped us off for years, like nobody's ever been ripped off before, they're now having to pay up.
They're paying a lot of money to America, and we're reducing taxes with that money, and we're doing things that we were never able to do before.
So you're going to have a lot of jobs.
The jobs are being created right now.
And the tariffs are protecting our country.
And we used, you know, tariffs were used against us, but we didn't use them against others.
But we're really better at it than anybody else.
And we've taken in, we will have taken in trillions of dollars.
Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
Even people that were against the tariffs, now they see the way they're working.
And by the way, with no inflation, with no problem, we're just building up cash, and we're using that cash to reduce taxes, reduce debt, and other things.
It's a great thing to watch.
And your honest reporters are saying they've never seen anything like what's happening.
Our country is becoming very rich again only because of tariffs.
If we didn't have it, if we didn't have, if I didn't get elected, this country would be, it was a dead country.
Look, we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the most successful, most vibrant country anywhere in the world.
But I can tell you this, Operation Warp Speed, one of the greatest things a president has ever done for this country.
And you can say the world, because when we came up with that vaccine, the whole world opened up.
But I put Bobby there as somebody that will go either way.
And I want the facts, but I also look at facts from Pfizer, where they spent a lot of money and the other drug companies, they spent a lot of money on finding out the results after the fact.
And the results were amazingly good.
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I'm wondering if you've seen the video put out by former Israeli hostages.
40 Bodies Included00:03:50
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It's addressed to you.
One is a widow of one that died.
And these are people who are freed thanks to you.
But they're actually encouraging you to force a ceasefire, force Netanyahu ceasefire.
And they didn't address it to him because they think you're the one who might actually listen to them and get it done.
They're worried that the hostages who are still there are more at risk if the war continues.
Who would ever think that we'd be sitting here talking about saving Chicago?
Chicago's a great city.
They have a terrible mayor.
Terrible.
He's at like 5% approval rating.
He's an incompetent person.
They have an incompetent governor, in my opinion.
He's incompetent.
Eleven people get shot, and he says crime isn't a good shot.
I mean, they're losing four, five, six people a week, getting killed by bullets, by knives.
And then he says how wonderful it is, Chicago.
Well, it might be wonderful for him.
I think they're afraid.
Look, he's not a stupid guy.
I really believe they're afraid to say that politically, I guess, from an ideology standpoint, from a Democratic standpoint, he's afraid.
He is afraid to say the fact that they have a very unsafe, very dangerous city.
He should say, I'm going to call President Donald Trump, and I'm going to ask him to send in the troops, to send in the National Guard and clean this hellhole up.
Because Chicago can be a great city again.
I'll tell you what, Washington, D.C. is a great place again.
It's booming.
And the restaurants are booming.
And six months ago, seven months ago, nobody could go outside.
And even just walking around the White House, people here are thanking me for what I've done.
They're thanking me.
They're saying thank you.
I almost know what they mean.
Because they can walk to work.
And even when they took Uber and they took other forms of transportation, they felt unsafe because the car was hijacked while they're in there.
They take a car and it's being hijacked as they get into the car.
And they did that for safety.
And now we have a safe place.
You know, we've taken 1,500 people out of career criminals have been taken out of Washington, D.C.
Yeah, I just want to settle this free speech question because you've said that you restored free speech in America.
Is that free speech, including for people who are harshly critical of you, for your political opponents, for people who say things you don't like to do?
We're going to talk about something that's going to reduce our taxes greatly, that's going to hopefully bring some great people into our country.
You know, as you know, right now nobody's coming in because we've succeeded in closing.
We've closed the border very successfully.
I think you will agree.
We had nobody come in for the last few months.
I mean, it was actually said zero.
Even I can't believe zero, but the numbers are put out by very impartial people or people that have a tendency to be on the left.
And they actually said for the last three months, nobody came in.
We have a very strong border.
It's a closed border.
People are coming into our country, but they're coming in legally.
It's a beautiful thing to watch.
But we are doing something where rather than coming into the border, 25 million people came into our country during Biden.
One of the saddest things, the worst thing, look, he was horrible in inflation.
He was horrible in just about everything you could be.
I don't think he was good on.
He wasn't even fair on anything.
It was a horrible administration.
He was the worst president in the history of our country.
And we have to mop it up.
The hardest thing that we have to do is to get rid of the criminals that he allowed into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers, and we're getting them out, and we're getting them out fast, and we're making America safe again, great again, but we're making America safe again.
And it's an honor to do it.
But this is something, this is an unforced era.
What they've done is this is just an unforced era.
So I'm going to ask Howard to speak.
Howard's done a fantastic job, as you know, Secretary of Commerce.
And I'm going to ask Howard and Will, Will, could you just give a quick description of what we're doing and what we're signing, et cetera?
A major focus of your administration has been shifting the conversation and shifting the policy dynamics around the issue of immigration, closing the border, preventing illegal immigration, but also, as is the case with the executive order in front of you, opening new pathways for truly extraordinary people to come contribute to America instead of taking away from it.
So this executive order is entitled the Gold Card.
It will set up a new pathway, a new visa pathway for foreigners of extraordinary ability who are committed to supporting the United States for a payment of $1 million to the U.S. Treasury, or if a corporation is sponsoring them, $2 million by that corporation, and that will give them access to expedited visa treatment as part of this new gold card program.
And one of the biggest problems we have is that people, they go to the best schools and they do great and they get great marks and then they're thrown out of the country.
You're not allowed to stay.
This way a corporation will be able, sort of like a signing bonus in baseball or football, a corporation will be able to get them to stay in the country.
And I think it's going to be tremendously successful.
Howard, would you say a few words about it, please?
Which we'll use for cutting taxes and paying down debt.
We think it's going to be very successful.
Essentially, we're having people come in, people that in many cases, I guess, are very successful or whatever.
And they're coming in, they're going to spend a lot of money to come in, they're going to pay, as opposed to walking over the borders, and they may come from jails, prisons, and everything else.
These people don't.
They're very productive people.
And they're going to pay a million dollars.
The corporation is going to pay $2 million.
And it's going to raise billions of dollars, billions and billions of dollars, which is going to go to reduce taxes, pay off debt, and other good things.
Companies are having a hard time getting people to be able to stay in the country.
It's very difficult.
Now, if you want to walk through the border, you can have no problem.
People say, well, the best way to come in is walk right through the border.
But they can't do that anymore.
Because under our administration, the border is totally closed.
You can only come in if you come in legally.
And that's the way it's been, and that's the way it should be.
And we're taking a lot of people out of the country that are here from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, and even insane asylums, people that are crazy.
We're taking them out of the country.
We're getting them out of the country because you can't have a country like that.
And I tell you, Christy and Tom Holman and all of the people that have worked so hard on this, they've done an unbelievable job.
And I think we're getting great marks for it.
People feel safe.
Washington, D.C. is just the beginning.
You know, we brought the numbers down in Chicago a little bit by having the FBI in there for the last five months.
We brought the numbers down in Memphis a little bit, but now we're going for the big one.
Now we're going to go for the big one.
But we set ourselves up very well in Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans a little bit, going in early just to see what was happening.
Well, ideally, look, if somebody's got the people, they're not going to want to spend $100,000 as an example in your second category.
So it's not taking jobs.
And we need certain jobs.
We need certain skilled jobs that we don't have.
But they won't be taking jobs because, you know, ideally, the people aren't going to want to be investing in America and creating jobs.
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That's why I'm asking.
They're really investing in.
You have two categories.
One, Secretary Lutnick's, the gold card and EB5 that create jobs, add investment, and then there's other ones that seem to take, you know, whether it's a J-1 and O or an H-1B that take U.S. jobs.
But the main thing is we're going to have great people coming in and they're going to be paying.
I mean, it's wonderful to say, oh, gee, this is, we took in 25 million people that, look, many criminals, jails were opened from Venezuela, from many other countries, and they were let out of jail and poured into our country.
Our poor country, how it suffered with this stupid president that we had and the stupid people that surrounded him right around this desk, these liberal, crazy people that have destroyed, they could have destroyed.
If we didn't win this election, our country would have been dead.
Our country was dead.
Think of it.
And I've said this, man.
The king of Saudi Arabia said, your country was dead one year.
They thought it was dead.
This country couldn't have survived another year of those people running it.
And now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Think of that.
And this is going to help.
And we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars.
This will be taking in the gold card will be taking in hundreds of billions of dollars.
And companies will be able to keep some people that they need.
You know, they need people of expertise, great expertise.
And I think it's going to be a fantastic thing.
And we're going to take that money and we're going to reduce taxes.
We're going to reduce debt.
We have a very, very strong country.
Assuming everything works out great with the lawsuit that we have, we have a lawsuit that's inspired by foreign countries that ripped us off for 25 years.
But assuming we win that, we hopefully win it in the Supreme Court of the United States.
We have a country that no stopping us.
We're rich, we'll be rich.
We can take care of poor people.
We can take care of our military.
We can take care of everything.
We can take care of beyond the country.
We can help take care of the world.
It would just be the same struggle that we've had for years where other countries charged us tariffs and they ripped us off.
Our country has been ripped off more than any country in the history of the world.
And now we're doing what we have to do.
We're taking in billions and billions of dollars at levels that nobody has ever seen, trillions of dollars.
And we're using it to reduce debt.
We're using it to reduce taxes.
The Great Big Beautiful Bill is a big tax reduction.
It's being paid for by the tariffs.
And people are paying a lot less money in taxes.
Think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
It's an unbelievable phenomenon.
It really is.
It's the golden age.
We're making it the golden age.
Without the tariffs, it would be impossible.
And China, for years, charged us tariffs, and they continue to do it.
And so do other countries.
Most countries, they charge us, they were ripping.
Look, the European Union, as you know, I get along very well with them.
But they ripped us off so badly.
Nobody's ever seen anything now.
The European Union is paying us $950 billion, and they're paying us $750 billion to buy our energy.
And they're okay with it.
They signed the agreement.
You know, it's not like anybody forced them to do it.
They're okay with us.
Tariffs are making our country very rich again.
And we'll be able to take care of our debt.
We'll be able to take care of our taxes, lower taxes.
We'll be able to take care of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
We're going to be a rich country again.
Without tariffs, we'd be in very big trouble.
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We still want Europe to pay 100% tariffs in China.
Excuse me.
HOVs are sometimes used by people already in the country legally on other visas or student visas.
Does this apply to them or to renewals?
Or does it only apply to people applying for the first time from abroad?
The company needs to decide, do they want, is the person valuable enough to have a $100,000 a year payment to the government, or they should head home and they should go hire an American.
The whole idea, it's annual, and it's for total.
It can be a total of six years.
So $100,000 a year.
So either the person is very valuable to the company and America, or they're going to depart, and the company's going to hire an American, and that's the point of immigration.
Hire Americans and make sure the people coming in are the top, top people.
Stop the nonsense of letting people just come into this country on these visas that were given away for free.
What happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy.
What happened, as you mentioned, to the state legislators in Minnesota, that is horrific.
It is a tragedy.
And there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
The central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really contentious debates without resort to violence.
And when it happens to some, buddy, even if you think they're quote unquote on the other side of the argument, that's a threat to all of us.
And we have to be clear and forthright in condemning it.
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Barack Obama on the recent cases of political violence, including the assassinations of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk and Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.
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This week, the debate over free speech and censorship took center stage after ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over comments he made on his show about the reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination and the threat of a government shutdown looms after the Senate rejected dueling House Republican and Democrat short-term spending proposals.