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Aug. 26, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec

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Presidential Cabinet Meeting Live From The White House

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	Christ is king.
	And so as it pertains to housing, we're being very focused on that, and even some that receive HUD funding to make sure like our Section 3.
	When you receive HUD funding that you are given opportunities for the most vulnerable Americans that you serve to have work, to have opportunities to work, to have work requirements.
	Work requirements are not a bad word.
	That's a great word.
	Time limits is a great word.
	great work to incentivize people, able-bodied, able-minded people to work.
	And I believe that we are, under your leadership, sir, changing that conversation in America to where working is an honorable thing.
	And Secretary Wright talked about revitalization.
	Revitalization means to bring new life.
	And I believe we're bringing new life to America, Mr. President, through work and through all the jobs that people are doing around this table.
	And with the one big, beautiful bill, the bill, the most extensive tax break in American history, opportunity zones are now made permanent.
	And you know how passionate I am, and you are too, sir, about opportunity zones.
	And so this will allow us to continue to build affordable housing around our country.
	And Mr. Vice President, I'm coming your way.
	I'm coming to Columbus later this week and to see how we can continue to build affordable housing in our country with opportunity zones.
	And you know, one million people, Mr. President, were lifted out of poverty.
	because of opportunity zones.
	$90 billion of private money was invested in opportunity zones, urban, tribal, and rural.
	And now that they've been made permanent, we're looking for millions more to be lifted out of poverty, $100 billion to be invested, hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created, hundreds of thousands of units of housing to come online.
	And so, sir, I sit here very excited about the future of this country.
	I'm very proud to be at this table, humbled to do so, and HUD, we're on a good path.
	So thank you for all your support in helping us, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	And I want to give credit to Tim Scott.
	great senator from a place called South Carolina that we love right and Tim really came up with opportunity zones and we did a good job of working with him and together we created something that nobody speaks of very much, but it's probably the most successful thing that's ever been done of its kind.
	It's been amazing.
	So Tim Scott deserves a lot of credit for this.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	So, Russell, go ahead.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	And I get the opportunity to go hand by hand with all of these people as they move their DRECs to the Office of Management and Budget.
	And I wanted to zoom out for a second.
	In the first term, you gave us a goal of two for one.
	And then we outperformed it through your leadership.
	We came in around five and a half, six for one.
	And then as you're running for your second term, you put out.
	a goal that when you put it out, I was thinking to myself, that's going to be a pretty ambitious goal.
	You said 10 for 1.
	Well, where we are right now, in just one year, basically eight months, we are at 245 deregulatory initiatives planned by these agencies.
	That comes out to 30.
	for one.
	So we are making incredible strides.
	And you know, as you're focused on the details of each one, I mean, these aren't small things.
	Endangerment finding is one of the most deregulatory things in the history of this country.
	NEPA reform, incredibly deregulatory.
	WOTAS just.
	came in, which is Wires of the United States.
	So Every single one of these agencies is doing incredible work when it comes to deregulatory.
	And when you add that to the work being done to get us going on energy, reduce spending, we're going to lower costs for the American people.
	We're going to be able to have innovative jobs and get them back to work.
	So thank you for your leadership, Mr. President.
	Thank you.
	Great job, Russell.
	Appreciate it.
	John, Central Casting.
	I got on.
	Well, Mr. President, I'm grateful to be with everyone today as we're talking about jobs and workforce at CIA.
	Consistent with your directives to all of us, we've embraced your mantra for a leaner, more effective, more efficient workforce.
	But at CIA, Mr. President, we had an additional challenge because, as you know, at times our workforce had been misdirected.
	Its focus put on political narratives, some that even worked against you and always worked against the American people.
	But under your leadership and your direction, we have been focused back on the core mission of what CIA is supposed to be doing, which is to provide you and this entire incredible team around the table with a decisive strategic advantage in accomplishing your goals.
	And your success in that regard, the examples are clear and many.
	With regard to Iran, everyone knows that our DOD partners executed that mission flawlessly.
	But flawless military operations are subject to flawless intelligence.
	And as you know, Mr. President, CIA was the backbone in terms of its intelligence operations in providing that flawless execution that allowed you and your team to obliterate Iranian nuclear facilities and set back a nuclear program by years.
	Likewise, with regard to your ability to prevent and to pre-empt wars between India and Pakistan, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	In all those cases, CIA intelligence supported you and your entire team in making that possible.
	It's not just you, it's folks around this table, Secretary Besson, Secretary Luckmick, Trade Representative Greer, and their great successful negotiations on trade and tariffs.
	again, it was a CIA workforce working to enable them to accomplish your goals.
	So as we roll into Labor Day, I tell you that a Thank you very much.
	You've been really fantastic, but I'm not surprised.
	I've known John a long time.
	I'm not surprised at all.
	Thank you very much.
	Steve, please.
	Mr. President, working for this government, for you, is the greatest honor of my life.
	I tell it to everybody and I really do feel that way and I thank you because it's a privilege to go out there and represent you in your humanitarian effort, in your goals of solving conflicts all over the world.
	I think there were actually more than seven conflicts that you put to bed in the last eight months.
	And I hear these, I travel all over the world.
	In Hostage Square, they talk about you reverentially.
	It's really quite amazing.
	I sometimes wish that I had a cam recorder with me I was in Gaza, the first American diplomat, on your behalf, and as we delivered food and aid pursuant to your new aid initiative pushed forth by your great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who it is a privilege for me to work alongside.
	The people were applauding you.
	The signs were up.
	I mean, these are people who, I just don't think you get the proper credit for it all.
	We are negotiating multiple entries into the Abraham Peace Accords because of your vision.
	Azerbaijan, all these different conflicts that we're out there on your behalf on, they're all, these are people who have never really seen the world change in this way.
	Peace through strength really, really works.
	Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Hamas, we're having meetings all this week on all three of those conflicts and we hope to settle them before the end of this year.
	Your team is nothing short of incredible.
	And there's only one thing I wish for, that that Noble Committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since the Noble Peace, this Noble Award was ever talked about to receive that award.
	Beyond your success is game changing out in the world today.
	And I hope everybody one day wakes up and realizes that.
	Thank you, Steve.
	Jameson, please.
	Mr. President, I like to think of Labor Day as the Trump Trade Policy Day because everyone around this table and everyone listening knows that one of the major reasons why American workers and organized labor voted for you is because of your trade policy and the policies you've had and advocated for for 40 years or more.
	You have reset global trade policy in the past few months and it shows that it's been working for American workers.
	When you look at President Biden in the last quarter of 2024, median weekly earnings fell 2.1%.
	In the first quarter of your term, they went up 3.3%.
	And that's why we're doing the trade policy we're doing.
	It's to help the workers of the United States of America.
	And they're the best in the world, but they can't do it without a level playing field.
	and you have flipped the script.
	For many years, the other countries had high tariffs and high non-tariff barriers, while we were open to To all of their labor and services and goods and capital.
	You flipped it.
	Now we have the tariffs and they have lowered theirs and the non-tariff barriers.
	And we couldn't have done it without you and the leverage you've created.
	So between the tariffs and the deals, the hot streak continues for the workers of America.
	So thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Really good job, by the way.
	Just good negotiator.
	Good negotiator.
	Thank you.
	Please.
	Well, Mr. President, I feel like, as everybody here has talked about how great working with this team is and all, but I do feel a special need that you've given me the privilege of working with the best of America.
	I get to take care of the veterans.
	I get to take care of the veterans who Labor Day really finds its roots in, if you think about it.
	We wouldn't have Labor Day if it wasn't for men and women who would leave their jobs and go fight this nation's battles to keep us free and independent so that they would have jobs to come home to.
	And over the past few years, they've been coming home to many times a government that was keeping them back, holding them back, taxing them, regulating them.
	And now we have veterans who represent the bill, the big, beautiful bill, they're the beneficiaries of.
	And I get to see them all the time.
	Because they're receiving the benefit, because they see the jobs, they see the care that they've been given.
	And these veterans can look at their country with pride, knowing that we're taking care of them, just like you told me to do.
	When your only statement you said to me, I asked you what to do, you said, go take care of my veterans.
	Well, that's what we're doing.
	One of the other things we're doing right now is, for many of you, I love to hear how you're deregulating everything, and I've worked from Congress and worked with many of you before.
	I get to do the same thing with the largest bureaucratic organization in the government.
	We're deregulating from the inside.
	And it's amazing to me because we have such a powerful workforce at the VA who really want to do good, but yet they kept tripping themselves up.
	They kept making their own, they'd take one step forward and put a regulation in that could have been three steps back, and it always hurt our veterans at the end.
	We're taking that away.
	We're making community care again, Mr. President.
	We talked about this yesterday.
	We're making community care a part of our direct care system.
	So if a veteran wants to get into the community, they have our direct care and they also have the ability to go into the community.
	Something that the previous administration decided they wanted to keep everybody inside because they thought it was a fiefdom they were building.
	I'm telling you we're not building a fiefdom at the VA.
	We're trying to take care of a service organization that takes care of veterans.
	So how do we do that?
	We make best medical interests where a doctor can send a veteran to the community a lot quicker without having to worry about miles and time logs and wait times.
	Just get them the help they need.
	We've actually expanded out and it's made a difference in this regulation and also unleashed a workforce that is now free of the collective bargain agreements and other things that have kept them from being able to do the job of national security that they've been intended to.
	I'm actually giving them the benefit of the doubt to actually go be the workers that they're called to be and that's what Labor Day is about.
	The VA is going to have the best workers.
	But just to let you know how that's working out, wait times at our hospital are going down because we're getting many.
	Our hospitals are in the community care.
	And then one for you, Mr. President, you heard about this a lot, and that was backlogs.
	At the backlog when I first came in, I've said this before, in February we had over 260,000 backlog.
	That means over 125 days of not getting an answer.
	In just a little over four and a half months, we dropped that over 100,000.
	We're under 150,000.
	and heading down to historic lows.
	We'll be within the next month lower than any time under the previous administration at all.
	That means our veterans are getting the help they need.
	So when you look at it this way, we've opened new facilities.
	We've put new facilities in places where workers can get to.
	We've expanded out hours over a million extra hours so veterans younger veterans in particular can get off of work and bring their sales and get their appointments in after hours on Saturdays that's what it means to be in the Trump administration that's what it means to take care of veterans that's what it means for Labor Day because you can't forget the ones who fought for us to be on this table today and it's all because of what you've done and the progress that we've made well you've done a tremendous job and I hear it all the time.
	We have a 93% approval rating at the VA now.
	And you know what it was before?
	It was like horrible.
	So thank you very much.
	There's been some conversation about the Pete and Bobby challenge.
	I would just note that I don't think Pete or Bobby could hold these sticks for two and a half hours.
	Exactly.
	If they want that to be the challenge, so be it, but I think 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups might be easy compared to the...
	LAUGHTER We're in and out very quickly.
	So kudos on Labor Day to the audio team that's holding the sticks.
	But, Mr. President, it's pretty great to celebrate Labor Day with Builder, who loves labor, who loves the men and women who built this country, the people that sweat, that have great skills, they have grit.
	They do the dirty jobs of America that have made this country great.
	And you know them very well because you have worked with them.
	The great Trump projects have come from the very men and women we're going into this weekend to celebrate.
	We all want to claim Labor Day in our departments, but I'm going to claim this at DOT because, you know, roads, bridges, pipelines, shipbuilding, rail, passenger, and freight all fall under the great men and women who wear boots and make this country wonderful.
	And at DOT, we don't want to have the Congress spend money.
	We want to take the money that Congress gives us and actually deploy it and put these men and women to work building the great projects of this country.
	You said the big beautiful projects that connect this country.
	And that's why we have got rid of the DEI.
	We've got rid of the green.
	We've done what we can to streamline the regulation to move these projects faster.
	Time is money and time has been money.
	So we're going to move these projects faster, putting the great American worker back to work.
	I want to make a quick comment.
	We've all probably talked about this horrific accident in Florida.
	And I appreciate the help of Christy and Marco on this very issue.
	But in May, we said, listen, it's a safety issue if you can't proficiently speak the English language.
	And we gave states a little over a month to comply.
	And Washington, California, and New Mexico have refused to comply.
	And by the way, this individual in Florida received a CDL from Washington, from California, and received a speeding ticket after our rule went into place, and they didn't stop him.
	And had they taken him out of service he wouldn't have been in Florida and we would have three beautiful people alive today and I just I make that point because it's it's the work that maybe no one sees that then you know shines a light when horrific things happen but also that your cabinet works together and teams up to make a difference for for the American people.
	Real quickly, so we have a safety mission at DOT.
	I don't know that you'd think of the transit unions in the greatest cities of the country, New York maybe being one of them, that support us, but they do because the violence in the subways and on our buses across the country, the transit workers are the ones who take the most abuse.
	And They're grateful for the mission of everybody around this table fighting to make their communities safer.
	So I appreciate everyone's help on that.
	But they, again, the Transit Unions love the effort that all of us have put in together.
	One quick, FAA.
	We are about to put out a request for proposals for a big, beautiful bill.
	We got $12.5 billion in the big, beautiful bill.
	We need more, but this is a great start.
	I expect the middle to the later part of July, we'll be through the process to bring the proposed integrators to you for selection.
	So we're looking forward to that.
	We will have the most, I'm learning from you, this is going to be the greatest contract ever crafted in the federal government for this build for air traffic control.
	Really, it's innovative and we have unique tools at FAA.
	It's going to be a great contract.
	Bobby left me out of the windmill conversation, Bobby, but I, so there was a study done in the last administration that said if you build windmills 1.2 miles within 1.2 miles from a roadway, it can mess up the automation and technology on a car.
	Same thing 1.2 miles from rail.
	The last administration buried that report, Mr. President.
	And so now what we've said is what we're going to do is say, listen, I'm sorry, it is a safety risk to build windmills this close to roads.
	By the way, they want to build them by roads and by rail.
	We're going to say no more, it is a safety risk.
	We have a report to show that.
	And just real quick.
	I wasn't invited to the party, but I'm still going to be invited to the party.
	Maybe next time, Bobby.
	One last thing.
	We have this Mars to Moon mission.
	at NASA.
	No moon to Mars mission.
	Sorry about that.
	But if you sometimes people think that space doesn't matter to them.
	But if you look at every rocket that's launched, the machineinists, the truck drivers, the electricians, the welders that build these rockets in the industry that has developed over the course of the last 10 years in space, it's truly remarkable.
	It's not just rich guys setting up rockets in partnership with NASA.
	There's a whole industry of working men and women who we celebrate this weekend that build, refurbish, design the rockets that are making America the leader in space.
	So thank you for your leadership and happy to celebrate this weekend with you, Mr. President.
	Really great.
	And he is doing a good job at NASA too.
	And we are, I think we'll have some pretty exciting announcements and you enjoy it.
	I said how about temperer he said well can I go a little bit longer he loves it he loves it and he's doing a really good job thank you very much so making America great again is one of the key statements and people don't always understand what you mean so we always talk about 1870 to 1913 but in the mid 1980s America owned more of the rest of the world than they owned of us.
	We owned $140 billion of the rest of the world net of what they owned of us.
	And when you came into office this time, the rest of the world owned $24 trillion more of our assets than we owned of theirs.
	And so when people argue with you about, you know, the trade deficit is nothing, the trade deficit sends $1.2 trillion of our dollars to them.
	And what do they do with it?
	They buy the great America.
	Because when we learned in college, what we learned was that if you keep printing these dollars, they're supposed to devalue.
	But the problem is we're too small.
	We invented the light bulb, the transistor, the GPU.
	So they keep buying us.
	And the only president ever to understand that, and you understood it in the 80s and the 90s, and I used to see you on TV and you'd say, God, what are these people doing?
	And finally, we've changed it.
	So let's go over what we changed.
	So Japan and Korea, they're never going to open their markets to us.
	So we've negotiated $900 billion that they're giving you to invest in national and economic security in America.
	The European Union.
	Union, the second largest economy, $20 trillion.
	And all the experts said you'd never get a deal done with them.
	And watching you in Scotland was my favorite thing, right?
	15%, they'll pay us 15%, and we will pay zero.
	So we can export to their $20 trillion economy, and they can pay to come to the great American consumer, right?
	So a couple of other things.
	Four days before you took office.
	Four days before you took office, the Commerce Department, which had the chips money, they set up this thing called Natcast, which was a make-believe not-for-profit.
	And they signed contracts to wire them $7.4 billion.
	This was just nonsense.
	So we stopped the payment.
	We've got the money.
	It's an illegal thing to try to set up a department that's not the Department of Commerce that kind of acts like the Department of Commerce.
	And what was it filled with?
	All these people who worked for the Biden administration.
	I mean, it's exact corruption that you talk about.
	$7.4 billion now clawed back.
	Last week was the most fun.
	one week intel came in right the Biden Corporate just gift.
	And you turned that into really, you know, it was like less than five minutes of conversation.
	And Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company, which of course was worth $11 billion.
	So it's not so...
	So it's amazing.
	You're going to watch semiconductors come home, right?
	We don't produce semiconductors.
	We've got $165 billion for TSMC, but you're going to watch the whole ecosystem come home because Donald Trump is the only president who understands the magnet to make them come home is one word, which used to be a favorite word, now it's dropped to number four, which is tariffs.
	Tariffs are going to bring semiconductors home.
	They are going to empower Bobby to execute MFN.
	Tariffs are going to be one of those tools that he's going to use to do that.
	We're going to do it for furniture, we're getting autos, we got steel, aluminum, I mean it has been a blast, a blast.
	So two more things, the Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto president and we are going to put our GDP on the blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data.
	distribution and then we're going to make that available to the entire government so all of you can do it we're just ironing out all the details so we can do it patents we have given tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to universities for them to do research and they invent things.
	And you know who owns those patents?
	The universities.
	So we are going to make a deal with them all, which is if we give them the money, don't you think it's fair that the United States of America and the taxpayers who funded it get a piece of that?
	Right?
	So we wrote a letter to Harvard, so Linda and I working together.
	I mean, it's so much fun to work with everybody here.
	I mean, we just have a blast, you know, because Linda's hitting Harvard and she says, what can we do?
	And now we send them a patent letter and we'llre having fun together.
	This is the greatest cabinet working for the greatest president.
	And I just want to say thank you.
	I'm having the time of my life working for you, Mr. President.
	Thank you.
	That was very well stated, wasn't it?
	Things people don't think of too much.
	Thank you very much.
	Great job.
	Pete?
	Sir, well done.
	Amen to what Howard said.
	And I would just say...
	We like to think we have a different form of employees who need to be the toughest and the strongest and the most well-trained and the most lethal.
	And under the previous administration, and for decades frankly, it was social justice, it was political correctness, it was divisive ideologies seeping into the ranks and changing how well we do our job.
	No more.
	Now it is only merit-based, gender-neutral, colorblind.
	The best of the best from the top to the bottom.
	That's our expectation.
	And so you've enabled that.
	So from the troops directly, which they ask me to say all the time, thank you for your leadership, for your boldness, for your clarity, for common sense, for providing a shield for the rest of us to put America first and to apply peace through strength That's our job is to stand behind everybody here and alongside John in everything they do to keep the country safe.
	And the world is noticing.
	And I wish everybody could.
	There were two meetings yesterday that I think tell the story.
	One was, because today happens to be the four-year anniversary of what happened at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.
	Mr. President, you had the families in, who you've met with multiple times, who when the cameras were on and not on, acknowledged, Sir, you were the only one that gave them a proper greeting, that recognized what they gave their sons and daughters in the debacle that was the withdrawal in Afghanistan, that we will bring accountability for the Defense Department through our investigation.
	That's good.
	But at the same time, the world sadly took notice, whether it was Israel, whether it was Ukraine, those wars never would have started if you were president.
	Instead, they looked at the foolishness of Joe Biden.
	Under your military, your Pentagon, we are restoring deterrence.
	whether it's Midnight Hammer and those beautiful B-2s 37 hours straight, whether it's counter-drug operations in our own hemisphere, whether it's the border working with Christie and the National Security Team, whether it's LA, whether it's Washington, D.C., you name it, whether it's Europe.
	Our allies pa in the Indo-Pacific stepping up to do the same.
	That's a recognition that American leadership is here.
	And then in the second meeting, we were talking about what we're doing in D.C. and Pam's taking the lead.
	I have to say, just pause for a second.
	When I look around this table, yes, there's a national security team of Steve Whitcoff and John and Scott and Howard and the Vice President and Susie and Christy and Tulsi, but to every person here, we work together on a daily basis.
	And if you call me and I call you, the answer is yes, how do we do it together?
	I think that's exceptional.
	It's what the American people deserve, and you've demanded that, sir.
	So I very much appreciate it.
	In that meeting on D.C., I started my sentence by saying the Department of Defense to which you said that just doesn't sound right so maybe next time we'll hear my card will read Department of War we'll see but it's not here's the thing here's what people miss it's not just about words it's about the warrior ethos it's about what the department is supposed to do George Washington started the Department of War because he wanted us to win our wars.
	Our founders didn't want endless foreign entanglements.
	They didn't want endless contingencies and deployments.
	They wanted an empowered military that was, the handcuffs were taken off to fight, to win, and then bring those troops home.
	So my platoon in Guantanamo Bay, our motto was, those who long for peace must declare for war, must prepare for war.
	We don't want war, we don't seek it.
	You are the peace president, sir, because we are strong, our enemies know what we will do.
	And so whether it's Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense, that warrior ethos is changing.
	We're going back to basics.
	Our drill instructors can be drill instructors again, sir.
	So from the minute of the tactical of standards to the strategic of B-2 bombers, we're focused on what matters.
	Had a meeting yesterday on Golden Dome for America, which is on track to deliver strategically for the American people.
	Munitions and the Deputy Secretary making sure our stockpiles are overflowing.
	That's our job.
	I'm an honor to be a part of it, sir.
	Thank you for your leadership.
	That's great.
	I think I like Department of War better, but we'll make that decision, right?
	But you've been great.
	Thank you very much.
	So, Marco, go ahead.
	Well, Mr. President, first of all, everyone's made this comment already and needs to be echoed.
	Again, you were elected as the President of Working Americans, and that's why this Labor Day is so meaningful.
	For me personally, this is the most meaningful liberty of my life as someone with four jobs.
	But on the point, you made it very clear from the outset, even in foreign policy, everything we did has to be pro-American.
	It has to make America stronger or safer or more prosperous.
	And there's just a few things I want to touch to because it involves your team under your leadership making it happen.
	The first is, for the first time in the modern era, we are truly on offense against organized cartels that are pumping poison.
	killer poison into our cities.
	And that's a team effort.
	It's Christie's team.
	It's Pete's team.
	It's Pam's team.
	And obviously it's under your leadership.
	And by the way, we're getting incredible economic international cooperation.
	Countries just in the last week, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guyana, Trinidad, today Argentina, all joining us or trying to be helpful in advancing this.
	And this just, you know, one thing is there, we're going to stop drugs from coming in and we're having record seizures.
	But another thing is to build an international coalition against this scourge on the international stage.
	The second is mass migration, illegal mass migration, which is dangerous for the country but harmful for American workers.
	What's happening on the border is essential, but it's not just what's happening on the border.
	And again, Christy and her team have been essential in this.
	We have countries all over the world that are actually helping us, whether it's through safe third country agreements, whether through it's stopping the migration flow from coming here in the first place.
	Incredible international cooperation.
	We redefined our border.
	It's no longer just our physical border.
	We are doing things ahead of time to prevent this from happening and getting cooperations from countries that we've never seen before.
	And last, I would say, and Steve touched upon this, who by the way is doing a phenomenal job, Steve is both a great negotiator and he's also a nice guy, which are two tough things to pull off together.
	But it's incredible.
	But we both work for the peacemaker and chief.
	Think about it, how fortunate we are as Americans to have a president who's made peace a priority.
	And just since the last time we've met, there was a war going on in Cambodia and Thailand, between Cambodia and Thailand.
	The president just picks up the phone and tells them to stop fighting.
	Within 72 hours, the fighting had stopped.
	There's no other leader in the world that could have done it.
	The fact that you were willing to spend time to do that and to make it happen is, of course, essential.
	Then the war that didn't happen because of Azerbaijan and Armenia coming here to sign that peace deal, which is historic in so many countries.
	Many countries said it's never going to happen.
	It isn't possible.
	And it occurred, Mr. President, because of your leadership.
	And then on a point of personal privilege, I wasn't even going to raise it.
	I haven't even talked to you about this.
	It's a little controversial, but I think I need to bring it up at this time of year.
	This thing about people getting married on Saturdays during college football season is a scourge, Mr. President, it's dividing families.
	I don't know if we can have an executive order on this, which is insane, but it's really difficult.
	There's seven other months of the year that people can get married, so I just wanted to say that.
	Very, very difficult.
	Thank you.
	Fantastic.
	Thank you.
	Doug, please.
	Well, Mr. President, you've heard from around the table how people are grateful to have an opportunity to be part of this team, have an opportunity to work for you, and have an opportunity to serve the American people.
	And I would say as we head into this Labor Day, the thing that really differentiates you and your leadership and everybody around this table is one word, and that's respect.
	Because this is a group of people that respect our farmers and ranchers.
	We respect the people that are in law enforcement.
	That's a huge change.
	Respecting the people that are in uniform, respecting our veterans, respecting our shrimp fishermen, I mean, whoever it is in this country, people that are building our roads.
	This whole group embodies that sense of respect.
	And when we start with that, then who benefits?
	We come up with policies that help those people.
	And what have you done?
	You've led an opportunity for us to have lower taxes, way lower deregulation, record amounts of investment that's coming into this country.
	We're going to be seeing lower interest rates.
	All of those things coming together is a gift to the working people.
	The policies are lifting everybody up.
	There's 140 million Americans that get up and go every day and drive to work.
	They commute.
	And one of the most obscene things of the prior administration was their energy policies was creating a hidden tax on those people.
	The poorer you were, the usually the further you had to drive because you couldn't afford the housing if you were working at a hotel, if you were working in a service industry.
	We were taxing them.
	The hidden tax on them was the high cost of energy.
	You were perhaps one of the only leaders in the world that understood the connection between peace abroad and prosperity at home was directly connected to energy policy.
	You came in and said we're going to sell energy to our friends and allies.
	We're going to bring prosperity at home through policies here by having lower energy prices.
	And we're going to stop funding wars abroad with energy policies that help their adversaries and hurt us.
	You said we're going to sell energy to our friends and allies.
	And with the work that Jameson and Howard and Scott and everyone has done on these trade deals, we're going to have an opportunity to have a renaissance in American energy, selling energy to the world, which is going to help bring peace abroad.
	But the real key thing in closing I want to say is two things.
	One has to do with the U.S. Park Police.
	That's the group here in Washington, D.C. that are the oldest uniform, oldest uniform law enforcement group in the nation, you coming out and visiting with them in person before they went out on the surge.
	Not only are car jackings down, muggings down, homicides down, everything down, morale is through the roof.
	Just like Pete saw, we've got record people signing up to want to be part of our military.
	You have breathed life back into the profession of law enforcement.
	Your respect for law enforcement is so incredible.
	It's making a difference.
	And then us giving them the tools.
	On a lighter note for everybody here, one of the rules that under President Trump we were able to change for the U.S. Park Police was they could do a pursuit.
	I was shocked to find out when we were talking to me like, oh, you pull somebody over and they just drive away and you can't pursue them?
	I mean like, and they said, no, we can't.
	They said all rules.
	We got that rule changed in 24 hours because of President Trump's leadership.
	The next night they had so much fun.
	They pulled people over.
	They started to take off.
	They chased them.
	They stopped them.
	And then the bad guys, some of these were in cars that had stolen plates.
	So they take the plate off.
	They steal them off somebody else's car.
	They know that the plate doesn't match.
	They know they're doing this thing.
	The bad guys in the car said, you're not supposed to chase us.
	Like you're breaking the rules.
	The bad guys are telling us to break them.
	No, no, we're back in action.
	So it's like, and so the morale is high.
	They all wanted to say thank you to you.
	Yesterday you announced increasing the number of U.S. park police that we're going to hire.
	This is the group that protects not only our sacred monuments of democracy here, but also the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate.
	This is a great group, but on behalf of all law enforcement, we say thank you.
	And as Chris Wright was talking about electricity, I want to close with that.
	We've solved amazing things in seven months, but the big challenge we have against remaining is, I mean, solving Iran's nuclear thing, that was an existential threat.
	China beating us in the AAR arms race, that's next.
	on threat.
	We finally have a president who talks about it.
	You talked about it in your opening remarks.
	You've signed executive orders.
	You understand that essentially we used to say hundreds of years ago, people started saying that knowledge is power.
	But now, for the first time in history, we can take electricity and we can convert it into intelligence.
	So it's flipped.
	It's no longer knowledge is power.
	Power is also knowledge.
	And while we're ahead on the technology, we're way behind China on the amount of electricity they're bringing online.
	And your strong position to support affordable, reliable energy using our nation's resources, including those across the Department of Interior, bringing back coal mining, bringing back mining, bringing back timber.
	All the industries that have been killed in this country are coming back to life because of you.
	And with your leadership, we have a chance to not only win the AI arms race, but actually dominate it the way we're dominating in other things.
	So thank you, Mr. President.
	Thank you very much.
	And we're leading that race right now by a lot.
	And we're going to keep the electricity coming.
	In China, they do it very quickly.
	They have one person that says, do it, and that's it.
	But essentially, we have one person that says, do it.
	And we've given that order, and the job they've done has been amazing.
	And I want to thank again, Lee, what you're doing in that regard is so important.
	And the rapidity, just as fast as them, because it's a question of a week versus a day, and that's not going to make the difference.
	But you've done fantastically.
	And Doug and Chris, amazing job.
	So we've done this for a little while now.
	I don't think you've ever seen anything like it.
	And I think Sean was right.
	These guys that are holding this up, if you ever try holding your hand out for two hours, that's a long time.
	These are pretty strong characters.
	You've been doing that a long time, I guess.
	Congratulations.
	Are you getting tired?
	Are you getting tired?
	I'm looking at these guys.
	They look like they have no problem.
	It's amazing, actually.
	I think they would have beaten you guys in the test.
	So I want to thank you.
	If you want, you know, it's been a long time.
	If you want, we could go in and we can call it a day.
	And feel free then to ask some of the questions here.
	Look, I believe in very open, you know, we want to be open, above board.
	We want to be honest with the media.
	I wish the media was totally honest with us, but I think they're getting better to be honest with you.
	So we'll see.
	But if you want to take a few questions, you're What is your response?
	Are you prepared for a legal fight?
	Oh, sure.
	Oh, we always have legal fights.
	Look, I had a legal fight that went on for years with crooked people, with very horrible people, people that have been found out now between John Radcliffe and Dulcie and Pam and, I mean, the things that we found out, of course.
	It's a very, very sad group of people.
	But no, she seems to have had an infraction and she can't have an infraction, especially that infraction because she's in charge of, if you think about it, mortgages, and we need people that are 100% above board, and it doesn't seem like she was.
	Yeah, please.
	Mr. President, first, I would love to ask you a serious question, but I have to tell you the biggest pop culture news of the year broke while we were in this cabinet meeting.
	Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged, and the world wants your reaction, sir.
	Well, I wish him a lot of luck.
	I think he's a great player.
	I think he's a great guy, and I think that she's a terrific person.
	So I wish them a lot of luck.
	I'm serious now, Mr. President.
	In May, Secretary Rubio said that they were aggressively removing visas of Chinese students.
	Yesterday you said you wanted to allow 600,000 Chinese students to study in the United States.
	Could you and the Secretary clarify what is the policy on Chinese students in the United States?
	Well, we think we're, you know, look, we're getting along very well with China.
	And I'm getting along very well with President Xi.
	I think it's very insulting to say students can't come here.
	because they'll go out, they'll start building schools, and they'll be able to survive it.
	But I like that their students come here.
	I like that other countries' students come here.
	And you know what would happen if they didn't?, our college system would go to hell very quickly.
	And it wouldn't be the top colleges.
	It would be colleges that struggle on the bottom.
	And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system.
	I like having, and I told this to President Xi, that we're honored to have their students here.
	Now, with that, we check and we're careful and we see who's there and Marco wants that.
	We spoke.
	We're in the same position.
	But we have a tremendous college system, the best in the world.
	Nobody even close.
	That's why China sends them here.
	And you can call it an industry if you want, but you're talking about millions of people and I'm honored to have the students from China come here and they're we're just getting along very well with China and it's a different relationship than we had for years where they took hundreds of billions of dollars just sucked it right out of our country they respect us again I respect them the relationship is very good I think it's important that we these are two very major powers
	nuclear powers at that but two very important powers.
	You know, when I get along with Putin, when I get along with President Xi, when I get along with these people, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
	We're tough and we're smart and we're smart and we're strong.
	We get along.
	It's a lot better than not getting along.
	You had somebody in here before, the war should have never started with Ukraine and Russia.
	It would have never started.
	And Putin said that himself.
	President Putin said that himself.
	So we want to see college students come in from countries.
	There are some countries that we can't necessarily say that.
	These are places that have ideologies that we can't live with.
	There are some areas, some countries that we can't say that, but we're honored to have the students come here.
	Mr. President, yesterday you said that within two to three weeks we'd have a conclusion conclusive, a pretty good conclusive end to the war in Gaza.
	What did you mean by that?
	And can you tell us more?
	On what?
	In the war in Gaza.
	You said in two to three weeks we would have a conclusive end.
	There's no conclusive.
	It's been going on for a long time.
	You're talking about, I guess if you really add it up, Steve, you're talking about thousands of years, okay?
	It's been going on for a long time.
	There's nothing conclusive, but hopefully we're going to have things solved very quickly with regard to Gaza and also with regard to Ukraine and Russia.
	Mr. President, are you considering for the replacement to nominate for Lisa Cook and what economic background or history are you using?
	Well, we have some very good people for that position and I think we have some very good people we're down to I mean I think I maybe in my own mind have somebody that I like but I deal with Scott and I deal with Howard and we're dealing with a lot of people actually that are going to be involved in that decision ultimately it's a very important decision as we see I mean I got a bad recommendation when I went with Jerome too late you know he's too late nickname is too late costing us
	a lot of money, hurting the housing.
	I mean, our housing industry is good, but it could be phenomenal.
	Most of this country, in terms, economic terms, has been.
	phenomenal.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	Because of him and his high interest rates, the housing is less than it could be.
	We're going to get that straightened out very quickly.
	He gets out very quickly, fortunately.
	He's been the wrong guy.
	Not a bad person, I don't think, but I do think he has motives, by the way, but I don't consider him.
	I've dealt with worse.
	But he hasn't done the job.
	The recommendation from a certain person was not a great recommendation.
	That person vouched for him, but we're doing a very careful study.
	We'll see what happens.
	Look, we just put a very good man in one position.
	We might switch him to the other.
	It's a longer term and pick somebody else, but we're very happy with the person we have in there.
	And we'll have a majority very shortly, so that'll be great.
	Once we have a majority, housing is going to swing and it's going to be great.
	People are paying too high an interest rate.
	That's the only problem with housing.
	We have to get the rates down a little bit.
	And when we do, it's going to be a tremendous difference.
	But the country is doing so well.
	It sort of blows through the fact that we have a man who's too late and not doing a very good job.
	Please, it blows.
	President, regarding crime in D.C., something that might help especially ladies is being able to carry.
	I know you've talked about reciprocal carry.
	Would you like for that to apply here in Washington, D.C.?
	When you say carry, I assume you're talking about carry what we're talking about.
	In other words, carry a gun.
	Is that right?
	Would you like to carry a gun?
	I would like to, yes, sir.
	You'd feel a hell of a lot better, right?
	I absolutely would.
	I agree with you, 100%.
	OK, great.
	But I'll tell you, within You're not going to have to carry.
	You're going to be safe.
	now.
	The turn has gone fast.
	I knew it was going to go fast, but this turn has gone really fast.
	And within a month or two, this is going to be one of the safest places in the country.
	I have no doubt about it.
	And we'll do an extension.
	We'll work with Congress, or I could declare an emergency, but I don't think that's going to be necessary.
	We're going to be working with Congress.
	I spoke with our great speaker, and I will be speaking to John Thune.
	and we're getting tremendous support from Congress, especially maybe here.
	Everybody wants to see our capital be great.
	Who say be great again?.
	You know, it's such a beautiful place, but if you have crime, nothing looks beautiful.
	So, but you won't need to carry a gun, but if you do, well, I would like to have the option just in case.
	Well, a lot of people feel that.
	Also in other blue cities, you've got Karen Bass in Los Angeles, Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
	It seems to be very popular here, the fact that people can walk around, go to restaurants, shop, and not have to worry about their safety.
	If blue city mayors oppose those efforts in their cities, do you anticipate that Democrat voters are going to take it all on them at the end?
	I think so.
	I think that crime is going to be a big thing.
	And we are the party, the Republicans.
	are the party that wants to stop crime.
	We're against crime.
	The Democrats like crime.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, we talk about common sense.
	I think I got elected on talking about common sense, the border.
	We have to have a wall.
	We don't want transgender for everybody.
	We don't, as I said before, we don't want to have men playing in women's sports.
	I mean, you see the difference weightlifting.
	Take a look at weightlifting.
	Take a look at long distance running where a runner came in five hours and 14 minutes ahead of another runner, both champions, one male, one female.
	It's not fair.
	It's demeaning to women.
	It's so bad.
	But they have another one.
	And I think this is the beauty of them them all, crime.
	They're against crime prevention.
	You can't do that.
	You can't do that.
	And I think to myself, I say, is there some game?
	You know, they're smart people.
	Anybody that can cheat like that in elections is smart, okay?
	And there's never been in history anybody that could cheat like that.
	They're smart.
	They're brilliant in many ways.
	I say, is there some trick to this?
	When they say, Trump is in Washington, D.C. stopping crime.
	He's a dictator.
	And people are being mugged like He didn't just go, all he had to do is this, right?
	And, you know, it's pretty amazing.
	So we have something, I think we have two things.
	I think what Bobby was talking about with respect to drug prices is unbeatable.
	Nobody else could have done it but us.
	And I think that crime.
	I think crime will be the big subject of the midterms and will be the big subject of the next election.
	Think of it.
	They are, instead of.
	saying Trump's right about crime, it's really bad in Chicago.
	You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently and Trump is a dictator.
	And most people say, if you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants.
	I'm not a dictator, by the way, but he can be whatever he wants.
	I think it's going to be a big project for the midterms, and I think the Republicans are going to do really well.
	They called it a trap.
	This Democrat consultant, they said, he's put them in a trap again., because these are all traps, you know, 80-20, but they're not 80-20, they're almost 100 to nothing, all these issues.
	But I would say that crime is stronger than men playing in women's sports.
	I think it's stronger than transgender for everybody.
	You know, it's transgender for everybody, according to them.
	It's stronger, of course, this is the cause of it, open borders.
	Open borders gave us a lot of this crime, so, you know, so they're sort of on an equal footing, I guess.
	But crime is going to be a very big subject.
	And you know what he should do if he was smart?
	Illinois or New York, if they want, or Gavin Newsom?
	They should call me and they should say, you know, we've got a problem.
	You know, we could solve with this team different players but work the same way because you'd leave them here.
	You don't want to take them out and let it go to hell.
	Everybody's so happy and why.
	I bet you walked over here today and you had no fear.
	Nobody has any fear anymore.
	Last 12 days.
	But if they...
	It would be so smart.
	Gavin is...
	Chicago in particular maybe right now.
	I mean it's a It's a disaster.
	It's a disaster We could solve their problem in it's bigger than this let's say two months Okay working with their police.
	I know their police very well.
	I have a big project in Chicago I built I was so proud of it.
	It's the best site in Chicago I got it nobody else got it I was happy as though that was when I was a real estate guy and I got it the Sun Times site they call it and I built the building.
	It's a great building and I'm so embarrassed when I see the kind of crime stats coming out there.
	So, so embarrassed.
	And if I were a governor, a Democrat governor, or mayor or anybody having to do, I'd call up President Trump and say, President Trump, we need your help.
	We saw what you've done in D.C. in a period of 12 days.
	This is 12 days.
	We haven't even started.
	This is going to be so safe.
	It's going to be the safest place on Earth.
	we'll do the same thing in Chicago.
	But I'd like to be asked as opposed to just going in and doing it.
	Because, you know, when you go in and do it, then they start screaming, oh, he shouldn't be here.
	We don't need him.
	We're doing so well.
	And then the better we do, they take credit for it.
	So it's really pretty unfair.
	For a lot of victims like myself, a big concern is long-term sustainability.
	Can you share with the American public about your plan in ensuring that D.C. is saved in the long term?
	Longer term, yeah.
	Well, it's a great question.
	Number one, we want to stay there for longer than 30 days, as you know.
	We have an absolute mandate, and I can extend it, but I'd rather not have to declare a national emergency because by that time, I mean, right now there's not an emergency.
	We've done, as you sort of said yourself, it feels like a different world.
	got under arrest and prosecution and we've thrown out taken some and we're in the process of taking hundreds out of our country that shouldn't be here and these are hardcore professional criminals.
	They were born to be criminals, in my opinion, but they're seriously bad people, murderers, drug dealers.
	You know them all.
	You see them all as you walk beautifully to work, and every once in a while somebody puts a gun to your head, because that's what happened in your case.
	We're getting a lot of them out of the country.
	We're putting a lot of them in prison because we're afraid to bring them out of the country.
	They could come back.
	As good as we're doing, they could come back.
	We don't want them back.
	And that's going to solve a lot of it.
	We also think there should be a presence here for long enough.
	We should also work with our police department because you have very good police here.
	Very good.
	We're working very well with them, by the way.
	And we have to work together for a while.
	We have some people that are very tough and very strong working with the police.
	They're going to be able to handle it.
	And you know what?
	If it gets a little bit bad, a little bit, just a little bit, I'll bring them back in and we'll straighten it out.
	We'll make it perfect.
	You're going to be so safe in the city.
	And you're going to have the city beautified.
	We're going to be giving out, we're working with Clark.
	as you know construction they're the biggest they're working with me also we're building a beautiful ballroom for the white house they've been after it for 150 years employs a lot of people it's going to be as beautiful a ballroom as has ever been built and that clark is the big builder in this city.
	They've done, I guess, a majority of the good work, the big work.
	And we're working with them on the beautification, the fixing up of the roads, the fixing up of the medians between the roads so cars don't wrap into each other.
	They wrap into, I have one piece sitting on the ground for weeks.
	This was a year ago when I had to come in, unfortunately, for fake court cases.
	And I looked at the condition.
	We have it fixed up a lot right now.
	You know, the tents are removed and a lot of things have taken place.
	But I'd come into this city and I say, boy, does it look bad?
	The filth on the roads, the medians were broken and always laying down and nobody would fix them.
	And all of that, well, we're going to have new medians, we're going to have a nice topping put on the road.
	We're not going to rip the roads apart and start a construction project that lasts for two and a half years as they rebuild a road which they don't have to do.
	And we're going to have this place so beautiful.
	That's going to be a part of it.
	Now, the biggest part is crime.
	But it's also a part, you know, when you see a dirty city, it's like I told, I don't know, it became the number one thing viral.
	I said my father, he's a smart guy, he's a great guy, he's a loving, wonderful father, but he could be a little on the tough side.
	He told me that, son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty, filthy door going into the restaurant, don't go there because the kitchen is dirty also.
	When they see a dirty capital, the rest of the world, they lose a lot of respect for our country.
	This capital is going to be so beautiful.
	We're going to have new poles, new lights, new fences.
	Stuff that when you add it up, it's money, but it's peanuts compared to what we're talking about.
	And we're also going to have great safety.
	Mr. President, I want to ask you on crime and also a question on foreign policy that maybe other officials can weigh into.
	way into and on crime iris shared her story and you mentioned you know people going that was a terrible story because i'm just amazed she's here when when the gun is pam when the gun is put to the head did they ever capture these people by the way i kept calling but i haven't heard back about this guy it'd be really great if you could maybe give the information she's very good at capturing people you know she's very good if you could give that information to Pam would be great.
	Would you do that?
	Yes, would you?
	Wouldn't you'd love to see them?
	I would assume you'd like to see them captured.
	You can't, you just can't.
	Yeah, take a good look at that.
	Go ahead.
	Just a few weeks ago, I was out to dinner with my husband and then we're taking the metro back and then we get attacked on the metro.
	They're throwing things, some teenagers are throwing liquid at us.
	Oh, they're throwing things.
	They throw, how about where they chop down the granite curbs and the concrete curbs, but the granite curbs, so expensive.
	You know, those granite curbs, nobody uses them because they're so expensive.
	And you see a guy chopping them and handing out big chunks of them like a brick because they couldn't get in because people were stopping them from walking out.
	A little bit unusual when you walk out with a bag of bricks.
	Generally speaking, Sean, that's not a good sign.
	It's not a good sign.
	But they now come in with hammers.
	They can disguise a hammer and they start pounding the concrete and the granite and they hand out chunks.
	And those people take those chunks and start throwing them on cops or they stand on the top of bridges and they drop them down into the windshield of your car and you get killed running into a light pole.

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