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President Trump spoke about the government shutdown and his decision to deploy National Guard troops to several U.S. cities during a ceremony in the Oval Office, where he signed an executive order to allow for more mineral mining in Alaska.
We have a very big signing today having to do with Alaska, a place that I'm very familiar with.
And we're making it greater, bigger, and more powerful and a job producing.
It's an economic gold mine, so to speak.
And I signed this years ago, and Biden unsigned it for me.
This was something that should have been long operating and making billions of dollars for our country and supplying a lot of energy and minerals and everything else that we're talking about.
And they undid it and wasted a lot of time and a lot of money, a lot of effort.
And now we're starting again.
At this time, we have plenty of time to get it done, and it's going to be done properly.
I'd like to ask your Department of Interior head, who has done a fantastic job, Doug Bergham, to say a few words about it.
And we'll go to Chris after you and anybody else that wants to say something.
And it's a very powerful deal, very, very big deal from the standpoint of minerals and energy.
He was going to importantly bolster critical supply chains around critical minerals for our country.
On day one, he signed a very important executive order, unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential.
And this is part of the continuation.
There's a number of things that have already happened with Alaska that are moving forward.
There's more to come.
But big milestone today in reversing this Biden decision about the Ambler Road.
This is a 211-mile long road that begins over 200 miles north of Fairbanks off the Hall Road that goes up to the North Slope.
This road goes through an area where there's no roads.
Ambler Mining District at the end of that has some of the richest mining deposits in all of America and in all of the world.
And these are minerals that are absolutely essential to defense, to industry moving forward today.
Just take copper alone.
This is one of the richest copper locations in the country.
And of course, today to build a data center, you can have tens of thousands of tons of copper required for that.
Even a single family home today may have as much as 400 pounds of copper in a home.
And we have, as a nation, in the past, basically gotten out of the mineral in energy and mining area.
President Trump, when he said drill, baby, drill, he also was mind baby mine.
We've got to get back in the mining business.
China controls 85 to 100 percent of all the mining and refining of the top 20 critical minerals.
And in this mine area up there, we got copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, gallium, germanium.
So rich in all of the minerals that we need to win the AI arms race against China and to prosper as a country.
And so again, today, this was his history being made.
When some of this was set aside in 1980 by Jimmy Carter, there was a special authority created for presidents to decide if there was a dispute.
And so, for the first time in history, a president is actually using that authority, President Trump, as he does using his authority for the benefit of the American people.
And the appeal came in from the state of Alaska asking that this road be built.
Alaska is not a colony, they're a state.
They have an opportunity to build roads like any other state.
With this signing, President Trump, Alaska, can go ahead and build this road.
It'll be a toll road, not a public road.
It's a toll road, so it'll be controlled in terms of traffic.
It's a gravel road.
It'll be sensitive to the environment.
There'll be collaboration with the Native Alaskan corporations in terms of how it's built and how it's used, supporting the Alaskan Native tribes with subsistence hunting regulations on either side of this.
But this opens up a wealth of resources.
In addition, there's going to be an announcement made later today that is part of this announcement: that the Department of War, the United States government, is making an investment in Trilogy Minerals.
They're one of the companies that has mining claims in this area that is a remote wilderness right now.
And again, making that investment so we can make sure that we're securing these critical mineral supplies and that ownership in that company will benefit the American people.
This is a tremendous achievement for the people of Alaska.
We were in the North Slope of Alaska a few months ago celebrating energy development there.
They want jobs and opportunity to develop the resources on their lands.
This is another major step forward.
We say energy is the lifeblood of society, the circulatory system.
Minerals and metals, they're the skeletal infrastructure, the physical upholding of everything we do.
Everywhere we walk and operate, your cameras, everything you hold, are made out of meterals and minerals.
President Biden thought it was appropriate to offshore both of these industries outside of our country.
That has not left us in a strong place.
President Trump, in his first term and even more strongly in his second term, is bringing those industries back to our country.
America was a mining powerhouse for a long, long time, and our mining industry got squelched.
Now we're seeing it come back to life.
You saw the President's truth not long ago about a deal for lithium production in Nevada just a week or so ago.
This will more than tenfold increase American lithium production.
And this infrastructure, this mining road in the Ambler Mining District, will just have immense impact on future mining opportunities for our country's security and economic opportunities for the people of Alaska.
Our critical minerals and mining expert within the administration is standing right next to me, David Copley.
I'll see if he wants to add any words.
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This is a really big deal for the American mining industry, and I think it shows the President's seriousness about getting this industry going and making sure we have the critical minerals we need for our defense industrial base and for our broader economy.
The first road, as President Trump said, will go quickly, which is they call it a pilot road.
We'll build a single lane gravel road through the full duration of it.
That'll be then expanded to a second phase and then a third phase over time.
But again, we want to get that pilot road built because then we can help get materials back to help the mine get started quickly as well.
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Mr. President, there's negotiations happening with your team in Egypt right now over your proposed use plan.
It was reported by Access over the weekend that you had a call with Prime Minister Netanyahu where you told him to stop being so negative and to take the win when it came to Hamas's response to that.
We have just about every nation working on this deal and trying to get it done.
Something that you could say 3,000 years if you look at it in certain ways, or you could say centuries, but this is a deal that incredibly everyone just came together.
You know, it's very sad because you have hostages and you have people that are no longer living.
But the parents, and I've said this to you many times, the parents want the bodies of their boy back, the bodies of their loved one back.
In most cases, they're young men.
And they're dead.
And there's probably 32 or so about that number.
Nobody knows exactly what the number is.
They want that body back as much as if their son were alive.
And I've been with them.
You know, many have come to the White House, to the Oval Office.
I've been with many of the people that I got released.
We have a fantastic group working on it.
Steve Witkoff has been amazing.
Jared, I have Jared.
I took Jared out because Jared's a very, you don't find anybody more capable.
And we have the A-plus team working on it.
I think we've made tremendous progress.
And yeah, the people of Israel, the people of Israel want it to happen, but the people related to hostages, I mean, you see in Israel tens of thousands of people.
They really want the hostages back, and they really want things to end.
And I think Hamas now has been all I can say is they've been fine.
They've been fine.
I hope it's going to continue that way.
I think it will.
I really think we're going to have a deal.
We have a really good chance of making a deal, and it'll be a lasting deal.
We're going to have peace.
This is beyond Gaza.
Gaza is a big deal, but this is really peace in the Middle East.
And the amazing thing is, we have every Arab country, every Muslim country, we have every country surrounding.
They all want, I spoke with President Erwan of Turkey.
He's fantastic.
He's been pushing very hard.
He's a very powerful guy.
And he's been pushing very, very hard to get this deal done.
And Hamas has a lot of respect for him.
They have a lot of respect for Qatar.
They have a lot of respect for UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Everybody is on our side to get this deal done.
There's never been anything like it.
Nobody's ever seen it.
There's always been like 80% of them don't want something done.
I think virtually we have had a signal, a very strong signal, as you know from Iran, they'd like to see this done.
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Governor Abbott offered up the Texas National Guard to review.
Have you had any other conversations with other red state governors?
Yeah, they're willing to offer, every one of them is willing to offer whatever we need.
We thank Governor Abbott of Texas.
Every one of the red state, as you call them, red state governors is willing to give whatever we need because they want our agents protected.
You know, these ICE agents have a tough job.
They have to go in and get, in many cases, stone-cold criminals, hardened criminals, long-time criminals.
And every essentially Republican governor has offered up whatever we need.
And some Democratic governors also dead.
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Mr. President, thank you.
A quick question on the subject of the order.
The Biden administration, previously speaking, they shut down Alaska for business.
You reversed that, reversed it on day one.
You opened it up, going after all the critical minerals.
This mission of yours, Secretary Bergham, Secretary Byte, to boost our own independent production of critical minerals, rarely talk about how important that is over the next four years, sir.
You know, in the past, we were able to go to other countries, buy whatever we want, but all of a sudden, if those countries are hostile, and by the way, China hasn't been.
We've made deals with China.
You know, they approved the TikTok deal.
Everyone said you'd never get the TikTok deal approved.
They approved it, and we have great people buying it.
American, big, strong American companies are buying it, the most prestigious companies there are, actually, and they're going to make sure everything's good.
But President Xi was great.
He approved it.
So I'm not saying hostile, but it's good to have our own minerals.
And, you know, we create a tremendous value by creating a road.
We build a road that only we can do because we have the rights to do it, number one, and we have the power to do it.
And so we build a road that's over 200 miles long through a very beautiful area of the world.
Actually, it's incredible.
When you look at it, it's incredible.
But a rough area from the standpoint of building.
So we get a road done, and with that, we unleash billions and billions of dollars of wealth.
It's pretty amazing when you think of it.
And it's wealth that we need if we're going to be the number one country.
You know, we're number one now with AI.
You probably read.
We're beating everybody with AI at levels that nobody ever thought even possible.
And one of the reasons we are is because of energy.
So our grid is old and tired, like most grids are.
They get old with time.
I mean, you know, the older you are, the older the grid gets, right?
But I've allowed the people building AI or other plants, other types of plants, but AI in particular, because they need so much electricity, I've allowed them to build their own power.
And it's been amazing.
They're building massive plants, and with the plant, they're building their own electricity.
They've become a utility in a sense.
I said maybe you'll do better with the utility than you do with the AI.
I don't know.
But we're letting them build their own electricity.
So we don't have to worry about the grid.
We don't have to worry about anything.
And they're going to build it in such a way that if they have excess capacity, they're going to put it back into the grid.
It's pretty amazing.
So when they build, we're giving them permits to build their own electric power plants, and it's incredible when you see what they're doing.
And because of that and other things that we're doing, we're leading every country.
Nobody's even close to us with AI.
And AI seems to be the big thing.
I don't know.
I can't tell you that.
There are a lot of people building, and a lot of people have high stock prices because of AI.
So a lot of people think it's great stuff.
And I think it's great stuff.
I look at it, it's amazing what it can do.
In terms of medical, in terms of medical costs, in terms of knowledge, it's basically information and information at a level that nobody thought possible before.
So we'll see.
But they're building plants where you saw the one overlay that I did where, in this case, it's Meta.
One of their plants is essentially the size, almost the size of Manhattan.
And that's a building, you know?
It's a building that covers Manhattan.
So it's big stuff.
And nobody's even close to us.
We're leading AI by so much.
Mr. President, President, I want to please.
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Since the startup of your administration, it's seen a lot more Americans wanting to join ICE.
And as we're seeing more attacks on them right now, what's your message to reconcile ICE agents who are trying to do their jobs but increasing a thousand percent increase in attacks?
So, the bottom line on your question, we're just going to make things real safe.
We're going to have a country that you can be proud of, not a country that you read about every day where somebody gets mugged from behind or hit over the head with a baseball bat.
Those people aren't with us any longer.
Yeah, please.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Mr. President.
On today's call with Luga from Brazil, considering lowering tariffs after the court.
Well, I guess he's going to ask about tariffs because a lot of companies from Canada are moving into the United States.
Everybody's moving back into the U.S. and he's probably going to be asking about tariffs.
They're losing a lot of companies in Canada that are coming into the...
They left here.
They left here 20 years ago.
when presidents that sat right at this desk weren't doing their job properly.
They were probably good politicians, but they weren't good at business and they allowed these companies to leave.
All they had to do is do what I'm doing right now.
And, you know, I'm not saying it's the easiest thing to do, but it is.
It's effective.
We're a rich country again.
We're a powerful country because, you know, I've ended seven wars.
At least half of them was because of my ability at trade and because of tariffs.
If I didn't have tariffs to throw around a little bit, you would have at least four wars raging right now with thousands of people a day being killed that aren't happening.
We've settled.
You know, we settled seven.
We're getting close to settling eight.
That would be a big one.
And that's something that could happen.
But so I think he's coming probably to talk about tariffs because a lot of companies are leaving Canada to come into the U.S.
And they're leaving Mexico.
And by the way, they're leaving China.
They're leaving all over the world to come into the U.S. Nobody's actually seen anything like it.
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Would you shift your position on tariffs in response to whatever you want?
Well, we have, and we're dealing, as you know, with all of the different, and not just evangelicals, Christians.
We're dealing with lots of different faiths, religions.
And I felt for a long time that, you know, if you don't, if a country doesn't have religion, doesn't have faith, doesn't have God, it's going to be very hard to be a good country.
I want to be good because you want to prove to God that you're good so you go to that next step, right?
So that's very important to me.
I think it's really very important.
And yesterday was amazing.
We went out, we went to the naval base, largest in the world, actually, and I saw things that were incredible.
The level of just, I don't want to use the word weapons, but they are weapons.
The technology on these planes, or the carriers, and all of the different things that we saw.
They gave us missile displays.
They did the whole thing.
I don't think they've ever done anything like it, but it was really impressive.
And the talent of the pilots where they can land, you know, the aircraft carriers look massive, but when you put them in the middle of like the Atlantic or in this case, pretty far off the coast of Virginia, and it's sitting in a big ocean, and it was pretty calm yesterday, but it's still a little bit testy, right?
And you have these guys land right on a thing and come to a sudden screeching halt, and they're really something.
They were taking off yesterday and they look over, and then you see them, and you see them just get ripped back into the seat because the G-forces are so great.
And actually, if you're not in great shape, because they were doing maneuvers that were incredible yesterday, and the admirals were explaining that if you're not in really good shape, you don't make it because you pass out.
These guys, and women, I met some women pilots that, I mean, it's incredible what they're able to do.
So we saw something that was great, and you saw the spirit, because we had for a couple of thousand, I think they had probably 20,000, 22,000 largely sailors, all dressed in the most beautiful white.
There wasn't a spot on any of those uniforms.
I looked at them.
It was just a wave of white.
And it was a great crowd and great reception.
So, you know, getting back to a very important question that was asked, when you go back a year ago, people weren't joining the armed forces.
They weren't joining the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, the Coast Guard, Air Force.
If you look at, you know, any of them, they weren't joining the Space Force.
And now we're setting records recruitment.
And that goes for the police and fire.
Now, they want to be policemen.
They want to be firemen.
And firemen, people don't mention them, but they're incredible.
I know so many of them, they're brave as hell.
I wouldn't want to do it.
But they weren't able to recruit.
The police weren't able to recruit.
And the military wasn't able to recruit.
We were really off.
And I got elected, and it really started on November 5th.
I got elected.
And somehow the country developed a spirit.
Financially, yes, but also with the military.
And now we have record levels of people wanting to be in.
Every force is filled.
We have waiting lists to get into the Marines, to the Army, to the Navy, to the Air Force.
We have Coast Guard.
We have waiting lists to get in.
It's amazing, actually, what's happened.
We have a country that's a dead country.
And I say it all the time.
We had a dead country one year ago.
Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
As the government shutdown extended into its sixth day, the Senate again failed to pass a funding measure during two votes on the chamber floor.
Funding Blocked, Silence From White House00:02:07
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