President Donald J. Trump discusses big tech censorship, claiming a 10% ban risk on platforms like Twitter and Facebook while highlighting his hundreds of millions of followers across sites including Locals.com. He contrasts his consistent foreign policy views against corrupt mainstream media that ignores Russia despite his 75 million votes, asserting no proof existed for his impeachments unlike Nixon's tapes. Trump speculates Susan Rice and the Obama or Clinton machines truly run the country, criticizing Biden's radical executive orders, before detailing his near-100% successful endorsements in states like Georgia and Texas to restore American pride through future rallies. [Automatically generated summary]
We are doing a sit-down, although it's a slightly different sit-down because he is doing it via the phone, the classic style of interviewing from an undisclosed location.
But before we start, I wanna say one thing, which is that his team made it very clear.
I can ask him absolutely anything.
Nothing is off the record.
Nothing is to be hidden or not to be asked.
And will I get booted off YouTube for this?
I suppose we will find out.
So here we go, my interview with President Donald J. Trump.
All right, President Donald Trump, welcome to the Rubin Report.
Yeah, when did you realize that you were going to fully have to say what you thought?
Because when I started going to some of your rallies, and I'm here in crazy Los Angeles, I was going to the Trump rallies in Beverly Hills and it was a joy fest.
Like it was, it was truly unbelievable.
I couldn't believe it.
And the main thing people would say to me when they would come, they'd say, Dave, you know, I'm just sick of being called a racist and a homophobe and a bigot and everything else.
And I met these people.
These were the nicest, joyous, happiest, decent Americans ever.
But when did you realize that you were just going to have to sort of walk through that fire and take those those labels?
Oh yeah, she wanted to come on and they all wanted to come on.
I watch Erin Burnett, you know, now, but she would beg me to go on the show.
She was on three or four times.
She would virtually beg me to be on The Apprentice.
And now I watch her hit from, you know, all sides on MSDNC.
I don't watch her very much, but I see she's on there and I assume she says, Nothing but bad, but she would beg to be on, as did others, as did many others.
But the show was a great success and they wanted to extend it a lot, like at the highest level.
They came over to my office and I said, no, I have to do this.
When did you realize how connected the sort of mainstream media was to the swamp?
You know, you were talking about draining the swamp and obviously the media was going after you and you started punching back and Republicans or conservatives or people on the right usually don't punch back.
Yeah.
Did you realize it?
Was it by the time you were president that you fully realized or it was really, was it that first debate?
No, I thought it was bad, frankly, but I never knew it was this bad and now it's worse than ever before.
It's now it's so ridiculous.
I mean, You see where Biden gets up and says things that nobody can believe or doesn't say things.
And they say, could that be FDR?
FDR, great speaker.
And, you know, now now it's it's out of control.
But I've always known that they were shaky.
But I used to get great press, you know, before I ran for I guess that's probably one of the reasons I won.
Before I ran for president, I got a lot of great press.
I was getting I was the king.
I was getting press like nobody.
And, you know, I did fine.
But I also understood where and how they were functioning as much as you can.
Nobody understands the press fully, to be honest with you.
I don't care how well you do with it.
But once I announced and when I made the first speech in Trump Tower, once they get down from the escalator, I will tell you, I would say the press turned radically different.
And now they've become very corrupt.
I mean, they're really corrupt.
It's a terrible thing to watch.
We don't have freedom of the press anymore.
We don't have free press or fair press.
We have a very, very corrupt press.
And you don't even have to get into the argument, although you say plenty.
We're doing a big one in Ohio on Saturday night, and people are already lined up, and, you know, there's just been a great connection to the people.
I've had a great connection to the people, and it's amazing because when you get virtually 100% bad press, and Fox is a whole different ballgame from what it was, too, by the way, but when you get 100% anti-press, it's just...
Look, you have some really great people who should have gotten the Pulitzers.
You have people that called Russia, Russia, Russia exactly right.
They don't get the Pulitzers.
They give Pulitzer Prizes to people that were totally wrong.
Totally wrong.
It's a disgrace.
But when you have that, and it's amazing that even in the last election, I got far more votes in the last election and did far better than I did in the first election in 2016.
And it's amazing that you can Have the press so against you, big tech against you, and you end up getting 75 million votes, which is the highest anybody's ever gotten as a sitting president.
It's pretty amazing.
But what it shows you is that the people of our country get it.
Yeah, you must be incredibly psyched to get back out there with the people, and I know you're doing some shows with Bill O'Reilly, and the rallies are gonna start up again.
I mean, to me, it's just that people just wanna be proud of America again.
I can't wait till they start up rallies, whether you're there or not, just to get people out there and holding flags and being proud to be Americans again.
And frankly, you know, I have a lot of good relationships in Congress, in the Senate and in the House.
And I will say this, Richard Nixon did not.
Now, he also had, you know, 300 tapes, right?
That didn't help him.
The tapes weren't exactly positive.
They were a total disaster.
But I have a lot of great friends in Congress.
Jim Jordan and so many others.
Banks and Debbie Lesko.
I just have so many great friends.
And I felt in the same way in the Senate.
I have a lot of great friends in the Senate.
And I didn't feel that assuming I was innocent, I didn't feel that they would Sell me down the river, and I you know I felt very confident And you know you'd see a CNN where they say he's walking the White House He's walking in his room, and I'd be in the Oval Office right I'd be you know not even I'll never forget I was with a group of people very very big business people from another country having to do with bringing business to this country, but I'll never forget a day of where I
The television was on and CNN was saying I was up in my bedroom, storming the bed.
And I'm in the Oval Office with these business people trying to get them to invest in America.
I think it's a group of people and a lot of people say Susan Rice and Obama and a lot of people say perhaps Clinton to a lesser extent, although she never got along with Biden.
She's very, very angry because she said, why didn't you do that for her?
You know, she was saying.
Because it's it was far easier because that race was far closer than the race we just had, the 2020 race.
And but you have people that it's it's it's a group of people.
I don't think it's Biden, frankly.
And I, you know, in many ways, wish it were because that's the way it's supposed to be.
But I don't believe it is.
And Maybe Harris to an extent, although I don't think she's distinguishing herself with her her border trips.
And now all of a sudden, I said, as soon as I announced I'm going to the border, I actually made a minor bet.
I said, watch what happens.
She's going to announce.
And right after I announced, as you know, she announced that she's going down.
I guess she's going tomorrow or something, but she would have never gone to the border.
And I'm going next week.
So I think it's just a group of people.
I mean, think of it when he signed those 17 Uh, declarations, special orders, presidential orders.
He signed them and he didn't really seem to know what the hell he was signing.
And when you think of them, they were all sitting there waiting to be signed and they were radical.
They were radical.
They were, Bernie Sanders would have never asked for most of the things that he's signing.
This is far worse than Bernie Sanders ever imagined.
And it's pretty amazing.
So a lot of people ask that group, who is it?
It's really, I think it's a group of people and you know, the same names, but it's a group of people and they get together and this is what they want to do.
And they're destroying our country, really destroying our country.