Donald Trump’s December 16, 2024, Mar-a-Lago press conference unveils SoftBank’s $100B U.S. investment—double prior commitments—while he slams Biden’s federal employee waiver and border wall material selloff as "criminal," promising sweeping deregulation, $1B+ investment incentives, and tax cuts for domestic manufacturers. He ties rising autism rates to vaccine/pesticide policies, defends RFK Jr.’s investigation, and dismisses Iran strike speculation, instead criticizing Ukraine’s missile strikes near Russia as "stupid." Accusing media outlets like 60 Minutes and the NYT of election interference via polling manipulation and defamation, Trump vows legal battles while touting $600B in China tariffs as a wealth driver. Owen Shroyer contrasts Trump’s sharp control with Biden’s chaos, calling him history’s worst president, and details his own legal struggles to restart Owenschroyer.store amid federal ID seizures, setting up a documentary watch party and InfoWars War Room follow-up. [Automatically generated summary]
But I'm honored to welcome one of the most accomplished business leaders of our time, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, everybody knows, Masa Yoshi-san.
Masa runs one of the largest companies in Japan and among the most successful investment and technology companies anywhere in the world, one of the most successful investors in the world.
This historic investment is a monumental demonstration of confidence in America's future, and it will help ensure that artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and other industries of tomorrow are built, created, and grown right here in the USA.
One of the beautiful things about Masa is he's very much involved with emerging technology.
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Probably knows it maybe better than almost anybody.
Isn't it amazing how this goes against everything we've been told for the last four years?
All the lies, all the lies from the Democrats, all the lies from the mainstream media.
Oh, the Bidenomics, Biden economy.
And it sucked.
Everybody knows the economy has tanked since Biden got in.
Everybody knows about inflation.
Everybody knows the cost of living has gone up.
The energy costs, the grocery bills, everybody knows it's all gone up.
And they just say, Bidenomics.
Biden was bragging about beating trickle-down economics just a week ago.
Biden was bragging about his economy just a week ago.
Kareen Jean-Pierre defending it.
Everybody knows it's bullshit.
Trump isn't even president yet.
For all intents and purposes, he is, but the Biden administration is going to try to screw as much things up as possible on their way out.
But everybody knows it.
Trump isn't even president yet, and everybody is anticipating an economic boom because he has better policies and he's smarter and he wants to see a better economy.
It's just amazing.
You know, it's just, it's just and everybody will witness it.
They'll witness it firsthand.
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This is double of last time, as President Trump said.
Because I say, oh, President Trump is a double-down president.
I'm going to have to double down, you know, $100 billion and $100,000 jobs.
This is, you know, my confidence level because that has doubled down.
So I am truly excited to make this happen.
And, of course, business is important.
Technology is important.
But one more thing I'm really hoping is that this President Trump would make the world, bring the world into peace again.
That's my additional hope.
And I think he will actually make it happen.
So anyway, I'm excited to go.
And we were discussing.
And President Trump said, Massa, you know, double-down is not enough.
And we're going to obviously be in court to stop it.
The other thing is really terrible.
We spent a tremendous amount of money on building the wall.
The wall was designed specifically by the Border Patrol because it's very hard to climb.
They need to have see-through.
They need it to be steel because you can't cut.
It's very powerful steel.
It's very hard steel.
It's a special type of steel, but very, very hard to cut.
Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete, and that's a grade 10 concrete, which is a very strong concrete, very as though you were building about a 60-story building.
It's very powerful concrete.
They've made tremendous technology advances in the word concrete.
Who would think that?
But I know that from the construction industry.
Today, what you can do with concrete is incredible.
So we have a very strong concrete.
And then we have a rebar.
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We put rebar inside the concrete, and the rebar likewise is very hard to cut.
You know, this is actually a big story that's barely gotten any play in the media, barely any at all.
And it's actually even worse than just that.
Because if you go to the beginning, Trump signed a deal for the materials and for the labor.
It was already paid for.
All the materials and all the labor were already paid for completely.
And when Biden became president, they basically voided the labor, even though it was already contracted.
They basically voided it so the wall didn't get completed.
The company still got paid.
And then all this material for the wall that he's talking about just sat down there because they didn't have the contractors.
They didn't have the people to build it.
So the materials were just sitting down there.
It was already all paid for.
Now, with less than 50 days until Trump gets back into office and they do finish the wall, he's selling Biden after three and a half years in office, almost his complete term.
He's now selling the remaining materials for pennies on the dollar.
So he screwed us out of the work that we already paid for.
Now Biden is screwing us out of the materials that we already paid for.
And Trump is going to have to get back in there and pay for the work and the materials again.
And yes, it will be much more expensive this time around.
But then after it was built, I said, you know, we can do some more because it's sort of like water people flow through, and that will pretty much really take care of it.
And what happened is they just, as you see, they're trying to sell it for five cents of the dollar.
And that's really, that has nothing to do with a smooth transition.
That has to do with people really trying to stop our nation.
And all it means, really, is that we're going to spend hundreds of millions more.
Like Bidenomics for retarding time would be pretty long, but we'll spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall that we already have.
And people have already come back to us that have deals at five cents and four cents, and one guy had three cents on the dollar, and they offered to sell it back to us at more money than it costs us to build substantially.
Can you believe it?
So they make a deal with the United States to buy it for pennies.
And then they call us and they say, do you want to buy it back?
We'll sell it back to you for hundreds of dollars a foot, hundreds of dollars from pennies to hundreds of dollars a foot.
And we can't let this take place.
Now we're going to go.
I spoke with the Attorney General of Texas.
I spoke to the senators of Texas.
I spoke to a lot of people.
And hopefully they'll be able to stop.
We're going to be having a restraining order.
But just think about how ridiculous it is.
And this is just people that don't want this country to succeed.
And this has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican.
We won on common sense, and this is maybe one of the most egregious examples I've seen.
So the people that are buying it or trying to buy it are trying to make a deal with us to sell it back at hundreds of times more, hundreds of times more than we paid.
And this is all because the Democrats.
So I'm asking today Joe Biden to please stop selling the oil.
We're going to use that to create a strong barrier and it worked.
That's why our numbers were so good.
It really worked and it worked well.
And it's very expensive to do.
And I'm asking Joe Biden to stop his people from giving it away.
It's something that people can't even believe is happening.
So hopefully Joe will be able to stop it.
We'll soon unleash American energy, and this will be done at levels not seen before, issuing quick approvals for pipelines, drilling and other infrastructure.
It'll be clean energy and we'll bring in the price of electricity and we're going to bring it down fast.
We're also going to create clean coal.
Clean coal is something that has really taken over.
We have coal that will last for over a thousand years.
We have so much coal and with a process it becomes clean coal.
It's very powerful energy, unlike wind.
It's very, very powerful.
And we're going to be doing a lot of clean coal for the people of West Virginia and others, Wyoming, so many states.
We have great states.
And they'll be happy to hear it.
But we're going to be very much into clean coal.
I don't ever use the word coal.
I use the word clean coal.
And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for American families, workers, and businesses that create jobs in America.
As you know, we're giving tax cuts if they do it here.
We brought it down from 44%, 42%.
In some cases, it was 39%.
We brought it all the way down to 21%.
And now we're bringing it down to 15%, but only if they make their product, their car, or whatever they're doing in the United States and the U.S. And people are thrilled.
I've had the smartest people on Wall Street call me.
They said, where'd you get that idea?
And it doesn't seem that complicated, right?
But it's like the paperclip.
Nobody ever thought of it.
One guy thought of it.
Everybody looked at it.
They said, wow, that was a good idea.
Why didn't I think of it?
But we're bringing it down six more points and then we're going to be at the best level we've ever had for bringing in business.
We'll be among the lowest taxes and a lot of businesses.
It's pretty much between that and our taxing and tariff policies.
We're going to have business.
That's why we're having a 41-year-old optimism from small businesses and big businesses.
And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for families, workers and businesses that create jobs in America.
Any business that invests $1 billion or more in the United States will be eligible for fully expedited permits and approvals, including environmental approvals from the federal government.
So when companies come in, if they're going to invest $1 billion or more, there'll be many of them.
And they'll go into Detroit and they'll go into a lot of places where we want them.
You saw how well I did with the autoworkers.
We did unbelievably.
You saw how well we did with the Teamsters and also the non-union.
We're record 98%, 97%.
Nobody's ever got numbers like that because we're bringing business back and they're all coming back.
We lost them over years of stupidity, I call it the years of stupidity, the decades of stupidity.
Through the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has been working very hard with various people, including Vivek.
We're going to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud.
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And I can only tell you, I'll give you a little early report, they're finding things that you wouldn't even believe.
So we're looking to save maybe $2 trillion, and it'll have no impact.
Actually, it'll make life better, but it'll have no impact on people.
It's not like we will never cut Social Security, things like that.
It's just waste, fraud, and abuse.
And we'll immediately restore the sovereign borders of the United States and stop illegal immigration, which is costing us, I believe, trillions of dollars a year.
I think it's a cost that nobody's ever seen anything like it.
I don't know how can you be satisfied releasing prisoners into the United States.
Think of this.
You're releasing prisoners from jails all over the world, not just in South America, from the Congo.
Now, imagine you're a member of the media, and it's not as bad at Mar-a-Lago when he has press conferences as it is in, say, D.C. Those are the true jackals.
In Mar-a-Lago, they're a little more realistic.
But imagine you're there talking to the D.C. press, the D.C. media, and you're explaining to them how criminals are pouring across the border.
And you just deny it.
You just don't even deny it.
Just don't accept it, deny it, don't even believe it.
And they understand they're very much on notice, and they're going to have to stop this from happening.
They're going to have to stop it.
We lose a lot of money to Mexico.
We lose a lot of money to Canada, tremendous amount.
We're subsidizing Canada.
We're subsidizing Mexico.
That can't go on.
And I get along with the people of Mexico and Canada very well, but we can't let that happen.
Why are we supporting and giving other countries hundreds of billions of dollars?
It's not fair.
It's not right.
And the people of Mexico and Canada fully understand that.
We've talked about it before, but now we're doing something about it.
We started, and then we had to fix the COVID situation, and that's what we did.
But now we're doing it.
We're doing it from the beginning.
Howard will be largely in charge.
We'll be working on it together.
Howard's terrific.
He's done a fantastic job, and he's really helped us a lot with transition.
I think we have fantastic people coming in.
So all of these policies will help us rapidly defeat inflation, create millions of new jobs, and put money in the pockets of the hardworking families of our country, pay off debt.
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We're going to be paying off a tremendous amount of debt.
By the way, Putin in a press conference yesterday blamed the war on Obama and the coup that Western intelligence groups and proxies ran in Ukraine in 2014.
That was Newland.
That was the Obama administration that ran that.
Putin pretty much came out and blamed them for that yesterday in a press conference.
Interestingly enough, the blood is on their hands.
Because we got a bunch of boring, lame, spineless, coward stiffs in the Republican Party.
And if you're a cool, suave, popular celebrity athlete, and you dare say anything conservative or support a Republican, they come after you and label you 100 different things.
The fact that this is getting brought up during a presidential press conference, the fact that the media is asking these questions is an incredible victory.
It just shows we are winning.
We are moving the ball in the direction towards the end zone where we want it to go.
The job she did at the RNC, chairman, along with Michael Watley, the combination, but I could just speak for Laura.
She is so highly respected by women.
I mean, even her workout routines are through the roof.
She lifts 150 pounds.
I don't know how the hell she does it.
She's a bad example for men and women's horse.
Because I wouldn't be able to beat her, I don't believe.
I'd try like hell.
But no, she's an incredible woman.
And, you know, it's funny.
People oftentimes talk about nepotism.
I never had, when I put her there, people said, how did you get her to do it?
You know, she could have run for the Senate in North Carolina.
Ted Budd would be the first to say, and he wouldn't have run.
Nobody would have run.
And she just said, no, I want to.
really focus on my children.
When the election, and my family, she has a great family.
When the election started getting closer, I asked her, would she go to Washington and work on the, you know, as chairman of the committee along with Michael Watley.
And they did such an unbelievable job, especially on cheating, they stopped it.
I said, you know, if it doesn't work out, you'll never have the opportunity that you have right now in terms of the world of entertainment or business, whatever you want to call it.
You'll never have that opportunity again.
In fact, it could be just the opposite because it's nasty out there.
Somehow, I would, I mean, I'd have to see it because I don't know the facts.
I think he was treated.
You know, it's very interesting.
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When he essentially went against what was happening with the migrants coming in, and he made some pretty strong statements like, this is not sustainable.
Well, nobody knows what the final outcome is going to be in the region.
Nobody knows who really the final.
I believe it's Turkey, and I think Turkey is very smart.
He's a very smart guy, and he's very tough.
Interesting.
But Turkey did an unfriendly takeover without a lot of lives being lost.
I can say that Assad was a butcher here.
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What he did to children, you remember I attacked him with the 58 missiles, unbelievable missiles coming from ships 700 miles away, and every one of them hit their target.
But now their time is taken up with Ukraine, and we'd like to get them to stop on Ukraine and Ukraine stop also.
As you know, when I went to the cathedral, which is fantastic, the job that they've done in France and the job that Macron, you know, Emmanuel did, he did a phenomenal job on the rebuilding of that cathedral.
And one of the people that came to pay his respects is, as you know, Ukraine, Zelensky.
And he would like to have peace.
He wants peace.
Everyone's being killed.
It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II.
I've had pictures of fields where bodies are lying on top of bodies.
Looks like the old pictures of the Civil War, where just bodies are all over.
If you saw those pictures, you'd feel more strongly about it.
It's got to stop.
And we're trying to get it.
Well, we're going to see.
We're going to be talking, we'll be talking to President Putin, and we'll be talking to the representatives, Zelensky and representatives from Ukraine.
Well, I'm going to let you know that after I have my first meeting, but a lot of that territory, when you look at what's happened to those, I mean, there are cities that there's not a building standing.
Trump invites President Xi to the inauguration, which I think is a genius move, if not for the diplomacy, for the extra layer of protection and intelligence.
Because, I mean, look, I don't like to do much.
I don't do much of the fear-mongering.
But I would say that's the highest-level security event, highest-level threat event on the radar right now by far, is the inauguration.
For obvious reasons.
But you bring in Xi Jinping.
You got an extra layer of protection, extra layer of intelligence.
I'd invite Netanyahu, extra layer of intelligence, extra layer of protection.
That's what I'd be thinking about.
But the media reported that Xi turned down the invitation, and now Trump is saying that's not true.
So that's interesting.
Why they would be reporting he turned it down, Trump is saying that's not true.
I love them and they understand there's no reason to go there because she brought it from way up, walk away, which it was, and it turned out to be in the election too, by the way.
We're filing one on 60 Minutes, you know about that, where they took Kamala's answer, which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out and they replaced it with something else she said later on in the interview, which wasn't a great answer, but it wasn't like the first one.
The first was grossly incompetent.
It was weird.
And that was fraud and election interference by their news magazine, a big part of CBS News.
We're involved in one which has been going on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward, where he didn't quote me properly from the tapes.
And then on top of everything else, he sold the tapes, which he wasn't allowed to do.
He could only use them for reporting purposes, not for sale purposes.
And we have one very interestingly on Pulitzer, because reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes for their wonderful, accurate, and highly professional reporting on the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
Well, it turned out to be a hoax, and they were exactly wrong.
People, like many people, John Solomon, Sean Hannity's not for Pulitzer, but Sean Hannity got it right.
Well, you'll find out, but it's going to go quickly.
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And just to follow up on everyone, we had a discussion, sir.
In terms of your mass deportation plans, have you had any preliminary discussions with countries like Venezuela, from where the Trenda Aragua gang is now popping up?
If they didn't do such a bit, you know, we were pulling out of Afghanistan, but I would have pulled out with dignity and strength.
They wouldn't be having parades, I guarantee you, showing our equipment that they left behind, because we weren't going to leave any equipment behind, not 10 cents.
We were going to take every screw and every bolt.
So, yeah, the biggest difference is that people want to get along with me this time.
Well, they've gone through four years, and you know, it wasn't easy for me, but it wasn't easy for them either.
And that's a great thing, though.
Getting along is a great thing.
So, Tim Cook was here.
I think he's done an incredible job at Apple.
He talked about the future of Apple.
It's going to be a bright future.
But we have many others also, and not in that business.
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And we do have Jeff Bezos, Amazon, coming in sometime during the week.
You mentioned Bezos a second ago, and I've always thought Bezos would be a key person to go in there and really streamline the logistics of the post office.
We're going to make great deals, and we have all the cards.
And until I came along, don't forget, and Howard was going over the numbers with me last night.
We took in $600 billion and more in taxes and tariffs from China.
No other president took in 10 cents, not 10 cents, not 10 cents.
And no, well, we're going to be doing things.
We're going to be treating people very fairly.
But the word reciprocal is important because if somebody charges us India, we don't have to talk about own, if India charges us 100%, that we charge them nothing for the same, you know, they send in a bicycle and we send them a bicycle.
They charge us $100 and $200.
India charges a lot.
Brazil charges a lot.
If they want to charge us, that's fine, but we're going to charge them the same thing.
Putin has to make a deal, and Putin would have never gotten in if I was president.
If I was president, we wouldn't have had inflation.
Our oil prices would have been lower.
I had a good relationship with Putin.
Despite the Russia hoax, which made it more difficult, if we had that election, if it were an honorable election, we wouldn't have had any of the problems that we're talking about right now.
Putin would have never gotten in.
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You said that you make that deal before you take office.
All right, President Trump from Mar-a-Lago earlier today.
That would be his December 16th, 2024 press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
You haven't seen Biden do anything like that.
Not even close.
Totally in control of himself, but the room, the media.
It's just nice.
It's just refreshing to have a real president back, even if there's things you disagree with him on, even when he says things that upset you, whatever.
It's just nice to have a president that is the president and can talk and handle himself in important situations like this.
So he said more about Syria.
He said more about drones.
He said more about a lot of things than Biden even has, and Biden's the president.
We'll do this.
I just noticed this real quick.
Do you see what's happening here?
This is Fox News on at Trump's little office at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump watches Fox News 24-7, guys.
That's where he gets his news.
That's where he gets most of his politics.
It's Fox News.
Okay.
So just understand that.
But obviously, he has his own intelligence and his own sources and everything else.
But it's just nice to have a president.
And he, for all intents and purposes, is more so the president than even Biden right now, even though Biden is doing everything he can to sabotage Trump's incoming administration before he even gets into office.
It's very upsetting.
You know, Biden kind of had this redemption arc a little bit after they ran the coup on him and gave him Harris.
And then he wore the Trump hat and kind of just shut up and quit doing anything for a minute.
Then he came back with these despicable pardons, sending more money to Ukraine, trying to sabotage Trump before he gets in.
And it's just right back to Biden.
It's just a complete, utter scumbag piece of trash.
Worst president in U.S. history.
No doubt about it.
All right, that's going to do it for tonight.
Let me address something because I saw some people in the Rumble Rants chat asking about this.
We are having some issues at Owenschroyer.store, and it's the federal government getting in the way, literally.
It's not discrimination per se.
It's because the BOP and the FBI have my IDs and I can't get them back.
And so this grace period that we had at the store to start up all this stuff without the ID, they have now put a red light and put me in a holding pattern.
And so I can't restart the store to take orders until I give them my IDs and I can't get them.
Literally, the federal government has the two IDs that they're asking me for to run this store and have it connected to my bank account.
So literally, because the federal government has my IDs, I can't turn my store processing back on.
That's the insanity.
And again, it's not discrimination.
I mean, maybe it is.
I don't know.
I think it's just more incompetence technicalities.
So I'm working with my lawyers to get my IDs back, but it looks like I'm probably going to have to take an alternative route and just go through a whole government process of getting new IDs, which has been a pain in my ass.