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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[No audio] Nice group, what a brilliant group and a nice group. Nice to see you all. Thank you very much. Please, sit down. I have to be a gentleman.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
[No audio] Yes, thank you, sir. Always.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[No audio] So, we have a lot of press outside. I thought maybe we'd talk to friends before the press comes in. I don't know if this seat can be any lower. I think Bobby set it up --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[No audio] Brought $5.1 trillion back with us, we --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[Audio begins] Our country is hot and hot as it can be. It's amazing, if you go back six months, it was cold as could be. It was an embarrassment what was happening. And now I think we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. I don't even think it's close. I was told that also in the Middle East, three rulers, three very good men that were very nice to us. They said this is amazing, the transformation of the United States of America, they've never seen anything go so quickly and it's literally over a period of four or five months, but really since November 5th. And I think we have the hottest country in the world right now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, we're doing well, and we'll keep it going and we're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to make a lot of people happy, a lot of people well, that's why we're here. And I want to thank you all for being with us in the Great White House.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's nothing like it. There's nothing like -- every time I walk in, I say, man, this place is something special. You never get used to it. It really is. As we mark a historic milestone in our mission to Make America Wealthy Again. You know, we started Make America Great Again. Bobby, I'm not sure you can get away with that without having to make a major payment because you know, this was -- [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I copyrighted it. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- MAHA. He goes to MAHA. [Laughter] But no, MAHA has become hot. Over the past few years, we've built an unstoppable coalition of moms and dads, doctors and young people and citizens of all backgrounds who have come together to protect our children. Very importantly, keep the dangerous chemicals out of our food supplies, get toxic substances out of our environment and deliver the American people the facts as to really where we're going.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we want to have what we deserve. And we want to be healthy. And we want to have a lot of good things happen. And I think we're going to have that. I think this is just the beginning. We have some of the most brilliant people sitting on this panel. And likewise, in the audience. I recognize so many. Many of them are in the administration.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
With us today is the man who fought harder than anyone I know to bring these issues to the center of American politics, our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bobby, thank you very much. And we're also joined by Secretary's Brooke Rollins, Scott Turner, Linda McMahon, Doug Collins, Doug Burgum, Lori Chavez-DeRemer.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're doing a very good job, Lori. You know, she's -- considering she's a Democrat, you know. [Laughter] The unions say she's really good. I did it. You know, I took a lot of heat for doing it. And then they were all saying what a great job we did. Now they are -- everybody's happy with you. Great job. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As well as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Budget Director Russ Vought, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler. Kelly has been amazing. She runs small business, which is actually the biggest business there is, right? She had no idea how big it was. She's doing great.. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. Thank you, Marty.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Thank you very much, Jay. Thank you And let's see, who do we have here? CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. A tremendous guy actually. Thank you very much, Mehmet. A friend of mine, a really great Senator, Roger Marshall. Roger, thank you. Governors Mike Braun, Jim Pillen, Patrick Morrisey, Representative Vern Buchanan, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Newt is a very quiet man. A silent man. [Laughter] Nice to see you Newt. Four months ago, I created the Presidential Commission to Make America Wealthy Again. And today, the commission officially delivers its first report on childhood health. Here are just some of the alarming findings. And they really are alarming, unbelievable, terrible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
More than 40 percent of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50 percent. Five zero, 50 percent. Wow. In the 1960s, less than five percent of the children were obese. Now over 20 percent are obese.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A few decades ago, one in one -- think of this one, this is to me the one that gets me every time and it seems to be getting worse. Just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. Today it's one in 31. Last time I heard the number is one in 34, right? Now it's one in 31. There something wrong.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we will not stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic in America. We're going to get it done. For the first time ever, this report examines some of the root causes that many believe are making our children sicker and our population sicker. I guess it just doesn't stop with the children. So population also.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Such as the ultra-processed foods over medicalization and over prescription and widespread exposure to potentially toxic chemicals. Unlike other administrations, we will not be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyists or special interests. And I want this group to do what they have to do. We have to spell it out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In some cases, it won't be nice, or it won't be pretty, but we have to do it. When you hear -- when you hear 10,000, it was one in 10,000, and now it's one in 31 for autism. I think that's just a terrible thing. It has to be something on the outside. It has to be artificially induced. It has to be. And we will not allow our public health system to be captured by the very industries it's supposed to oversee.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we're demanding the answers. The public is demanding the answers. And that's why we're here. Already, we're phasing out eight of the most common artificial food dyes. And we ended the most serious conflicts of interest at the FDA. We had a lot of conflicts over there. Earlier this week, we approved a SNAP waiver request from Nebraska so they can stop taxpayer dollars from being used to make our children obese.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I understand requests from three more states will be approved shortly and more are expected to come in the following weeks. Over the next 80 days, the commission will build on its work in this report to develop a roadmap to bold and transformative public health reforms for our consideration. It's a consideration, and we'll lay out the facts.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Let me say congratulations to the entire MAHA movement. This movement has become very hot. People are -- people are really, I tell you, they're going crazy over MAHA. They're going crazy, right? And I look forward to continuing the historic progress. And I will say this. This whole group, this whole table, they're very -- you know, I use a word, it's -- because it's a beautiful word actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The Democrats took it and they used it, instead of the word liberal. They used the word progressive. And normally I'd say you're very progressive, meaning you're far. They're not progressive. You are progressive. They shouldn't be allowed to use that word. And I'm -- And so therefore, I'm not going to use it to describe you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But you are far forward thinkers. You're amazing thinkers. And we appreciate having you. It's just tremendous talent around this table. The most respected people -- Anywhere in the world actually. And -- and you know, I've -- I've been a fan of Bobby for years. He came up to see me 13, 14, 15 years ago, I remember.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he left. And I made a couple of the statements that he made because I agreed with the same thing. And we both went through hell. Do you remember that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I do remember that.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was a massive. But you know what? We turned out to be right. It was sort of interesting. [Laughter] But I've been a friend of Bobby. And he's been a foe, too. You know, he's tried to stop a couple of my jobs. [Laughter] In one case, he did stop a job. And I was really angry. And then about four months later we went into like a depression.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I saved a hell of a lot of money by the fact that he stopped -- [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
You're welcome. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I never minded it. I always said thank you very much for stopping that big job I was going to do. [Laughter] But he's a fantastic guy. And Bobby, we're with you all the way. And your beautiful wife is right sitting in the front row. And she's always been right there with you. And you know, it was very interesting when Bobby came, I really wanted Bobby to join.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he was doing very well as a candidate. Really well. He was being treated very unfairly by the other side, but he was doing so well that they treated you unfairly. They had no choice. [Laughter] I think they said in order to qualify, Newt, you had to have 80 percent of the vote. OK. Do you remember that deal?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You had to have 80 percent of the vote in order to qualify to run against Joe Biden. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Yeah. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And Bobby thought that was a little unfair. And that was about it. [Laughter] And he came on board. And we got very lucky. But you really helped, and I want to thank you very much really. [Inaudible] Thank you very much. So -- so Bobby, if you'd say uh, give them -- give them your thoughts, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. President. And I -- I do want to say something because I get a lot of credit for steering this administration toward the MAHA movement. And I joined the campaign in August. I joined President Trump in August and became, you know, went from independent to his campaign. And -- but it was in June, so I saw and he made a speech specifically on this issue.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
It was a MAHA speech before MAHA existed. And that -- I took note of that speech at the time and thought there is a potential here for a common ground. I want to thank you for your vision for your courage for standing up. You know, President Trump is a populist president. He's a president -- he's blamed for giving money to billionaires and all this stuff.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We hear about that all the time. But he is on the side of the middle class, the working class, the poor in this country, people -- And -- and following, I've met every president since my uncle was president, and I've never seen a president, Democrat or Republican, that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do. And willing to talk about really difficult issues and to hold his stand on those issues.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I've never seen anything like it and I'm very, very grateful to you. I've sat with industry again and again in a room with him and heard him say we can't do that, we're going to do something different, deliver news that they didn't want to hear. So, I'm grateful to this. This is a milestone. There's -- never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
And because of President Trump's leadership, it's not just one cabinet secretary, it's the entire government that is behind this report. And I can say again -- I talked a little bit about when I met Rachel Carson as a boy, my uncle tried to do this, but he was killed and it never got done. And ever since then, we've been waiting for a president who would stand up and speak on behalf of the health of the American people and say there is no difference between good economic policy, good environmental policy and good public health policy and good industrial policy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We can have all of them, but we need a united cabinet, and we need to go forward as a single people. I want to thank you for that, President Trump<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
At its core, this report is a call to action for common sense. We've relied too much on conflicted research, ignored common sense, or what some would call mother's intuition. It's common sense that ultra processed, nutrient poor food contributes to chronic disease. It's common sense that excessive screen time and isolation lead to anxiety and depression, especially in children.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
It's common sense that exercise and healthy foods should come before prescriptions and surgery. It's common sense that not all calories are equal in nutritional value. It's common sense that overmedicating kids is dangerous. It's common sense that we can celebrate the innovations of modern life while also demanding fearless inquiry into ameliorating the negative effects of medication, agriculture and environmental practices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
It's common sense that research funded by corporations deserves more scrutiny than independent studies. I'm so proud of this cabinet, and particularly Secretary Rollins and Administrator Zeldin who, again, I'll say it a third time, worked late, late nights early into the morning to make this happen. And to all the leadership from the White House staff beginning with Stephen Miller and Heidi Overton -- Dr. Heidi Overton with Vince Haley Their leadership and their steady hand in getting us to the goal line was -- we could not have done it without them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
They helped us grapple with weighty issues and committed this administration to solving large, complex challenges like children's health. We're joined here by senators, advocates, governors who I have worked with and CEOs who I know who are all ready to begin carrying out this mission. This is the beginning of a conversation, a national conversation that we are going to have with maturity, with nuance for the first time in history, thanks to your leadership, President Trump.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
There is a reason that the MAHA moms sided with you, President Trump. It's because this administration has the bravery to tell the truth and solve problems through innovation and not nanny state regulation. President Trump, I'm honored to present you the MAHA report and work with this incredible cabinet that you have brought together to make our children healthy again<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Three things -- first, on behalf of an extremely grateful nation, and on behalf of a lot of extremely grateful MAHA moms who are out there, Secretary Kennedy and Mr. President, thank you. I see a MAHA mom and grandma in our amazing Chief of Staff right there, Susie Wiles. I see a MAHA mom and Karoline Leavitt and all across our cabinet.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Sir, my oldest son Luke is here. Stand up, Luke. I am a MAHA mom of four, and this hits particularly close to home for every single one of us in this room. That's the first thing. The second thing is that you mentioned, sir, in your remarks that we are on track to sign multiples of SNAP waivers to get junk food and sugary drinks out of our food stamp system and I am so proud.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
I am so proud to announce that on Monday I was in Nebraska with Governor Pillen where we signed the first one. An hour ago, I signed the second one for Governor Braun in Indiana. He may not even know that, I've got it right here, sir. I also signed the third one, Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa, about an hour ago with a half a dozen more coming down the line.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
And, sir, that has never happened before -- under Republican or Democrat administrations, we have never made that happen before. So, I am so proud and so grateful for your leadership.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We have Governor Morrisey here, who is the first one to apply, from West Virginia.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Oh, Governor Morrisey. We will make sure you're at the top of the pile, sir. I apologize. Governor Sanders has been a leader, Governor Polis from Colorado. It has been remarkable how these governors have stood up. That's the second thing. The third and final thing, sir, is we all know that at the center of making America healthy again is making American agriculture great again Without American agriculture at the center of this discussion, we have the most robust, the safest, the best agriculture system in the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
And in partnership with the amazing Secretary Kennedy and all of these incredible patriots sitting around this table, under the leadership of the Extraordinary President Donald J. Trump, we will make America wealthy again. And what an honor it is to be a part of that. Thank you, sir<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Mr. Policy Man, do you want to say something? Big, big policy man here well?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Vince Haley
Well, so much has already been said, but in your remarks, Mr. President, you made clear --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
This is Vince Haley by the way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Vince Haley
In your remarks and in the report, it's very clear that there are no sacred cows when it comes to our children's health. We are showing the courage to turn over every stone to figure out, to investigate what is behind the chronic childhood disease crisis and that's what this report represents, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Vince, very much Are you going to have other people speak?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I had everybody speak.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, good, most have already spoken, that's very good. But the fake news wasn't here [Laughter] What's going on? I mean -- I want to thank you for your work. Would you have anything to say to the media?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mehmet Oz
Thank you, sir. I think it's a moral failing if we don't address this, but it's definitely a financial failing as well. 50 percent of children are on Medicaid or on the CHIP program. It is an obligation we all have to address this reality. As you know, the cost of Medicaid has gone up 50 percent in five years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mehmet Oz
I thank you very much for having the bravery to commission this report. And Secretary Kennedy, Secretary Rollins, Lee Zeldin, everybody else on this panel, for being able to effect what has not been done since this law for Medicare and Medicaid was written in 1965. God bless you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much, Oz, thank you. A man who's just so highly respected, Dr. Marty Makary, would you say a couple of words, please?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marty Makary
Thank you, Mr. President. The United States is the best in the world when it comes to proton beam therapy, CAR T, sophisticated operations. But when it comes to the health of the population, it's been a 50-year failure. And we have got to change course, and it's not until you have had the courage to let us take on these giant issues.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marty Makary
As Vince Haley said, without any sacred cows that we've been able to change. And I think this will transform our health care system from a reactionary system where doctors are playing whack-a-mole to a proactive system. So, thank you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you, man. Highly respected man, Jay, please say a few words. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jay Bhattacharya
Thank you, Mr. President. I said earlier already that uh, it's shocking to me that what this report says, which is that our kids will live less long, less healthy, more unhappy lives than we will as parents. We can't have that. Uh, I'm so proud to be part of this moment. Because that doesn't have to be the future.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jay Bhattacharya
We can change things by doing excellent gold standard science, understanding the root causes of all these problems, reversing it. And Mr. President, this is an enormously important moment. Because it's -- from this moment forward, we will reverse course, so our kids will, will live longer than us, will live more healthy than us and will be happier than we have been.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jay Bhattacharya
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Jay. Good job. I have to say we have the greatest farmers in the world. And we love our farmers. And we want to pay respect to our farmers. And we always will. And we won the farmers by a lot in the election in all -- in every election, all three elections. And we won by a lot.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I will never forget that. And they are foremost in our thought. And representing uh, I think, the farmers better than just about anybody can do as Senator Roger Marshall. Could you say a couple of words, Roger, please?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Roger Marshall
[Inaudible] Mr. President -- Mr. President, we're not tired of winning yet. [Laughter] Congratulations. What -- what a week you've had. Overseas one win after another, one big, beautiful bill across the House floor this morning. You're the best closer in the game. And -- and this is one of the greatest days of my life, professionally speaking as well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Roger Marshall
And I just want to acknowledge my MAHA mom out here as well. That my wife, Lana, was a MAHA nurse and a MAHA mom and a MAHA grandma. Now, Lana, will you please stand up as well? My wife. Mr. President, as you know, I spent 25 years delivering babies most every day. We saw a huge epidemic of diabetes of pregnancy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Roger Marshall
And -- and this has exploded in so many different directions now. We have an epidemic of -- in mental health, uh, in our -- in our youth. Obesity rates, 20-30 percent, 20 percent of our children on a prescription drug, 60 to 70 percent of adults on our prescription drug. We can do better than this. And it does start with the farmer.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Roger Marshall
It starts with -- with soil health. And I just want you to know that our farmers are so committed to this as well. And so many of them are already doing great things. They're making the soil -- soil healthier. They're using less pesticides. They're doing all the right things. It's going to take a little bit more effort and time to get everybody with those practices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Roger Marshall
But the American farmer and rancher were the original environmentalists, the original conservationists. And they'll be right here working beside us. And we appreciate your support of them as well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Roger. Great. Thank you. So, I think I'll close by just saying that something happened a week ago that was very, very important, profound, but very important in so many ways. For years, I noticed that other countries paid much less for drugs and pharmaceuticals than we did. But I don't mean to percent less or 10 percent, which would be good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I don't mean 20 or 25 or 30 percent. I mean sometimes we paid ten times more, 12 times more, 13 times more than other countries where people from our country would be seen going into Mexico and seen going into other countries leaving on trips and bringing their drugs home because they'd get -- in London, they'd be able to buy a drug for one tenth the price of what it cost to New York City.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I watched this. And I watched it during my term. And I didn't like it, I didn't like it. And it's a very complex system. But you know, we're smart also, maybe much smarter than they are. And at some point, we had to figure out. I heard it was the middleman. Nobody told me who the middleman was. Nobody knew who the middleman was. [Laughter] Nobody ever heard.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
All I heard is the middleman. I said they've got to be the richest people in the world, whoever they are. We don't even know if there is a middleman. All I know is that the drugs were ten times higher and sometimes more than that. And I really got into it over the last year, and I figured the whole system out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And uh, for various and sundry reasons, the United States of America was being screwed. And we were being taken advantage of and being laughed at for years and years. And I said it's not going to happen anymore. And I brought a great gentleman, the head of Eli Lilly in, who's great. He really is. He's great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He's done a fantastic job. And others also of the companies and I have it out with them. I had debates with them actually. And pretty much it was a debate that was impossible to lose. You had to be a real bad debater to lose that debate. [Laughter] Because they couldn't justify it. They tried to say, well, you know, we pay for research and development and the United States has agreed to pay for 100 percent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said why? Why are we paying that? And by the way, that wasn't even the number because it's still way too high if you took all the research and development. But you have other countries that are a lot more vicious than us in terms of their representatives. And they'd set a price for a drug. And they'd say, tell the United States to pay for the rest.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We were subsidizing the whole world. And I said we're not going to do that anymore. We've been a laughingstock for so many years. The last four years we've been a laughingstock. I said it, we're a laughingstock. And now we're the most respected. And we're the hottest country in the world. We're going to remain that way.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're going to do that with drug costs too. And so I said I'm going to do something that's a very unpopular thing to do with a small number of people, mainly the people that own the drug companies and others. And I'm not even blaming them. They were able to get away with it. But it was really other nations that took advantage of us. Because the drug companies were under their thumb.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they would say this is what I'm going to pay. And the European Union was right at the top of the list. Let me tell you. We're going to pay $20 for this, and we're not going to pay any more. And America would pay $240 for the same thing that they're paying $20. They said tell America to pay for the rest.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And for years they went along aimlessly, and they did it. And I started making changes. And I'll never forget the end of my first term, which was very successful. We had the best stock market ever. We had the best economy ever of any president. We went up 88 percent in the stock market as an example. And I think 116 percent in one or the other indices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we had -- we're doing well, but I never -- this whole thing with the drug costs. It always bothered me. And I started really studying it. And it's very complicated stuff. And I said, you know what? We are paying so much more. And I demanded favored nations. We're the biggest buyer. We're the best buyer.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're the most solid buyer. We're the one that paid for all of the research and development. And I said, we're going to do something that's earth shattering. So at the end of my first term, I was so proud because it's the first time in 28 years that any president reduced drug prices during the course of four years.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you know what that number was? One fourth of one percent, but it was down one fourth, think of it a quarter of one percent. Very little. Essentially they remained the same, but I wanted to get it down. And I was so proud. I thought I was the greatest guy in the world. [Laughter] I took it down one quarter of a percent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I had news conferences. I was bragging. I'm the only one that did it in 28 years. And then I said that's not very much. Because we were still paying so much more. And I decided I've got to break the system. And it's the most powerful lobby in the world, the drug company. Most powerful, they are. The most powerful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I'm not saying bad, good. I'm not saying anything. But they have tremendous power over the Senate, over the House, over the governors, over everybody. And they spend more money, billions and billions of dollars. And I said I don't care. I've got to do what -- I have to do what's right. And I declared a favored nations, most favored nations where the United States from now on is going to pay the exact same price as the lowest price anywhere in the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In other words, if you take --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
That's amazing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right. In other words, if you take the uh, the country that's paying -- and let's say in a certain part of, you know, there may be some country out there that pays a little bit less for very good reasons because of the fact a thing called poverty or whatever. But we take the lowest countries, say European Union countries as a whole.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That will be fine, or take individual countries within the European Union. Or take various countries that nobody's even heard about. We pay the lowest. And what that's going to mean and I'd like to put somebody to police it because it should start immediately. It shouldn't start in two years, three years, five years, they'll say, yes, it kicks in. They always say kicks in, Marty. [Laughter] It kicks in, sir, in four years, you know. [Laughter] And then four years they get it changed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It should mean -- so remember I told you I was happy with one quarter of one percent. It could mean anywhere from 70 percent to 89 percent reduction in drugs and pharmaceuticals. That's a little different, right? And I've actually had some congressmen call me. And they say, sir, look, can we talk about this?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said no. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They wanted to talk because you know it's uh, it's tremendous power against them. And I understand that, and every one of them was covered, Senators were. I see Roger smiling and Roger probably was too. But you know what? He wants to do the right thing, right? He wants to do the right thing. And we're doing the right thing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We were taken advantage of. And forget the drug companies, we were taken advantage of by other countries that insisted, with the drug companies, that they were going to pay X dollars and we're not paying any more and you're not doing business here. And they were nasty about it, because these people are almost sort of afraid of them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we are going to now get a reduction in drug costs of up to 89 percent in some cases, but 50 percent would be a low -- a bad number. So, think of that, 50 percent versus one quarter of 1 percent. Think of that, 85, 89, 91, 72 percent. It's going to be massive numbers. It's going to be incredible for Medicaid, incredible for all forms of healthcare.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Medicare is going to be -- it's going to have a huge impact, so big that nobody can calculate it. I mean, this thing could drop by 25, 30 percent. The drugs are, Oz, a very big part of it, right? So, very big part. So, it'll affect everything. It'll affect your whole life. The amount of money you're going to be saving is going to be incalculable.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody can believe I had the courage to do it. I don't think it's courage. I think it would have been courage not to do it. I tell you what, not to do it would have taken far more courage because I was tired of it and I was listening to these guys. And they are -- you know, they make a lot of money every year, millions and millions of dollars a year.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I agree because at the beginning, because of the complexity, you'd walk out of a room, you'd hear them talking and they'd almost convinced you that it's a great system, it's a wonderful system, even though we were paying ten times more. That's why they make $30 million a year. Because they were good but not any longer.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And one of them just threw up his hands after I was just pounding on him. He said I can't do it anymore. It's the hardest thing I have to do is trying to justify this damn thing. I can't do it anymore. One of the biggest companies, I just can't do it anymore. You're right. And as soon as he said that that was like incredible, because I understood exactly, he couldn't do it. He said it's the hardest thing he had to do is trying to justify why we're paying $200 for something and somebody else is paying $12, that is a neighboring country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Take Canada, I mean people go up to Canada to shop because their prices are so much less and it's not going to happen anymore. So, we're going to take the lowest country anywhere in the world and that's what we're going to be paying, and we'll be saving from 50 to 89 percent. And these are big -- these are tremendous numbers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's not going to be anything where we're paying 10 times more than somebody else. And one thing that is very important and it's got to be implemented -- it's done. I've done the order, it's done. But we have to get somebody that's got a lot of strength and a lot of power because you have to implement it because these countries are going to go down fighting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They don't want this to happen because they're going to go up. Now, there are many more people involved in the world than there are here. So, they'll go up a little bit, maybe 15, 20 percent. And we're going to go down 60, 70 or 80 percent. But they will fight the drug companies. The drug companies are very worried that they're going to fight and that's OK. If they fight, we'll just say that's OK. We're not going to let you sell any more cars into the United States, or we're not going to let you sell anymore wine or liquor or alcohol or something that's actually much more important to them than the drugs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're going to be able to force that issue if we need to. They should do it. We're basically equalizing. They should do it, and you know the drug companies should do just as well. This shouldn't be a hit on their stock. I don't think it will be. It's basically -- it's going to be the same amount of money, but it's going to be redistributed and it's going to be redistributed so they're going to pay a little bit more and we're going to pay a lot less.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A little bit more because there's so many more. You know, it's a bigger number. And so, Bobby, I'd like to ask you and Dr. Oz and Marty perhaps and Jay and maybe representing the world's politicians, I can ask Roger, who's so great with this whole subject, if you would be very, very tough and very, very -- very powerful in a sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not easy. You know, you're going to have to get this done. The drug companies are going to say, well, they won't do it, and maybe they won't. And if they don't do it, we're going to not do business with that country or those countries. But we're going to have to be very tough until it's totally stabilized and equalized.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And Oz, I mean, I see your eyes are gleaming because you've been talking about this for a long time, but you've never had anyone willing to do it, but I'm willing to do it. And I think it's going to go down as one of the most important things we've ever done because drug costs are going down. Think of it, every year for 21 years, the costs have gone up, and now they're going down maybe by 85, 80 -- I'm telling you, 89 percent in two instances, 89 percent cut.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody's ever seen anything like it. So, I'd like to ask Oz in particular, because you and I know each other. He's a very tough hombre this one. He's tough as hell. And so, if you can lead the group -- and it's not going to be easy, you're going to have to get in and you're going to have to fight. If you do it, you can have -- within a period of weeks, you can have drug costs that drop like a rock, OK? So, you as a group I have great confidence.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And if you don't do it, I am firing every single one of you right? Good luck, Oz. All right. Can you handle it?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mehmet Oz
[Inaudible] The companies are all coming in. We've had some very promising interactions. Give me a little time to be a tough hombre.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You'll do a great job; I have no doubt about it. Thank you very much. Any help, I will be there to help you, OK?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mehmet Oz
Well, your part -- you mentioned something that has not been discussed in the past. People have talked about drug prices in a silo and in isolation. But when you start going to the countries where they give discounts to you because they're getting beaten up there and you support these companies, they see huge upside potential, even greater than the numbers you mentioned.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mehmet Oz
They should be able to charge more than what they would historically have been tolerant of if they have the support of the US government and you. And Secretary Kennedy is aware of all these discussions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, they were artificially low and artificially high. We were artificially high. They were artificially low. We're not going to let that -- and I think you're going to be able to handle it pretty easily. But speed is very important because we can do this immediately. This doesn't take two years, three years.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It doesn't take a month. So, do the best you can. Thank you very much Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you, Bobby. Are we concluded, Bobby?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Go ahead, why don't you finish it off?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Thank you, Mr. President. Let's all give a hand for President Trump for his leadership<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So, you brought how many paintings into the Oval Office this time? Very different from the first one.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Laura Ingraham interviewed Donald Trump at The White House on March 18, 2025. The interview aired on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" that evening. The transcript was provided by Fox News and cross-checked and confirmed for accuracy. Transcript and video courtesy and copyright Fox News.]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'm going to show you a lot. It's much different, never been like that. You had some of those paintings in vaults and safes for 100 years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Wow.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They haven't been exposed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
We got a readout of your call with Vladimir Putin, and it was a fairly optimistic take. Vladimir Putin agreed to a cease-fire immediately on energy and infrastructure --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
How did you pick --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I went by the presidents. I picked presidents, all -- almost all presidents, some Supreme Court justices -- after you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
-- but not to a 30-day cease-fire. Tell us what happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Are you -- are you paving over the grass here?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, you have a situation where you have a lot of guns pointing at each other, foolishly, because it would have never happened if I were president. That was not a war that was supposed to happen. And it did happen. So, that's where we are. And, right now, you have a lot of guns pointing at each other. And the cease-fire, without going a little bit further, would have been tough.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What was happening is it's supposed to have events. Every event you have, it's soaking wet.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Russia has the advantage, as you know. They have encircled about 2,500 soldiers. They are nicely encircled, and that's not good. And we want to get it over with. Look, we're doing this. There are no Americans involved. There could be if you have end up in World War III over this, which is so ridiculous, but strange things happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think we had a great call. It lasted almost two hours. Talked about a lot of things, and toward getting it to peace. And we talked about other things also.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's soaking wet. And people can't -- and the women with the high heels, it's just too much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Was there non-negotiables mentioned by Putin? It was reported that -- I think the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded an immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine in order to get to this multistep deal.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
That's where you did the Kavanaugh --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, he didn't -- we didn't talk about aid, actually. We didn't talk about aid at all. We talked about a lot of things, but aid was never discussed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's where we did --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
In the readout, it also stated that both sides want to get to an improved bilateral relationship, the United States and Russia.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Kavanaugh thing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
How can we trust that Vladimir Putin actually wants that and that he's not also being influenced at the same time by his close friend President Xi of China?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Amy Coney Barrett.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, look, we have our own discussions with President Xi of China, and he wants to get along also. And he's looking to get along and we're looking to get along with him. And we will. We have a problem with trade, where we have a very big imbalance with China. With Russia, we don't have that much trade. And they'd like to and we'd like to also.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And -- and the grass just -- it doesn't work and we have a gorgeous stone and everything else.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth. They have a lot of earth. They have a big chunk of real estate, the biggest -- actually the biggest in the world for a country by far. And on that, they have things that we could use, frankly, and they -- that other people could use.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
OK.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think that President Xi would like to get along and I think Russia wants to get along with the United States. I also think we're a much different country than we were just a few months ago. We're a country that's now respected. We were not respected. We were being laughed at. We had incompetent leadership.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But, you know, we use it for press conferences, and it doesn't work because the people fall into the -- you know, into the wet --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This was a war, as an example, that would have never happened if I were president.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
The roses stay, the grass goes?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Is part of your desire to forge this new relationship with Russia also impacted by Russia's closer relationship since you left office in 2021 with China? Because I think you talked about before the desire to box out China from that part of the world and have a closer relationship with Russia.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The roses stay. No, it's a rose garden. No, all of this is just the center section. It's going to -- I think it's going to be beautiful. I think it's going to be more beautiful. Look at that view over there. See that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes. So, as a student of history, which I am, and I have watched it all, the first thing you learn is, you don't want Russia and China to get together. With that being said, no, it's not a big part of it, but maybe that will happen or maybe it won't. Obama really forced them together through energy and bad energy policies and what he did, so many different things.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Pretty nice.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He forced a marriage which would never have taken place. It was not a natural, and for one reason. Russia has tremendous land, a lot of land, and China doesn't have enough land. Russia has a much smaller population than China. And it's sort of a natural -- it was always a natural enemy situation. They're probably friendly now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look at that. How is that, pretty good?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're going to be friendly with both. I think we're going to be friendly with both. China needs us in terms of trade very badly and -- but we have to straighten out the deficit. We have now more than a trillion-dollar deficit with China. It's not even believable. And we're going to be doing something about that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Pretty beautiful.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And with Russia, they would like to have some of our economic power.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a great place.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
The criticism that you have heard since really 2015 is that you have more in common with Vladimir Putin than you do with globalist leaders, maybe some NATO leaders, and in this case with Zelenskyy. You're both nationalists. Zelenskyy's more of a globalist. How do you respond to that criticism?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So you thought there's no doubt you're -- you're coming back into office when you walked out of here?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I am a nationalist, but I'm a nationalist for the United States, not for anybody else. And it's interesting, because there's nobody been tougher on Russia than me. I'm the one that pointed out Nord Stream 2, and I stopped it. Nord Stream is the biggest pipeline, I guess, in the world, taking care of all of Europe.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I felt that, but I didn't know that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it was being built from before I got there. And they -- somehow, they were on the way. It was going to be -- and I stopped it. It was just stone-cold dead. I stopped it in its tracks. That's not somebody that's being particularly -- that was the biggest project they ever had. I had it stopped. When Biden got in, he immediately approved it, like immediately.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Is that a -- that's --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One of the first things he did in office was, he approved Nord Stream 2. Nobody ever heard of Nord Stream 2 until I was president. I said, what are you doing? You mean you're building a pipeline to Germany and various places in Europe. You're paying them billions of dollars a month, and then we're paying a lot of money to fight them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Let me say it, I didn't know if I was going to run because I knew how much I won that election by. But if I -- if I thought I didn't win the election, I absolutely wouldn't have run.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is not going to work out well. And it stopped. And then Biden approved it, which was a really stupid thing to do, but he did it. And Putin actually said to me: "If you're my friend, I'd hate to see you as my enemy." He said that very strongly. But I had -- with all of that, I had a very good relationship with Putin.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Wow.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I had a very good relationship with President Xi, a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, lots of good relationships. And that's a positive thing. That's not a negative thing. But, at the same time, I'm about our country. So that's why we're talking about tariffs. We will be taking in trillions of dollars to our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But because of the fact I did so well, it was such a horrible election.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
I want to get to the tariffs in a minute, because we're going to first hit the other big news of the day --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But if you didn't run, they would never come after you legally. They never would have done all that to you. If you didn't run, they would have let you alone.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I was told, so I took a big chance.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
-- which was the chief justice of the Supreme Court issued what -- a rare statement about your suggestion on TRUTH that you posted earlier today that Judge James Boasberg should be impeached after he ordered those deportation flights to El Salvador halted, essentially turned around. The chief justice said, more than two centuries, we understood that, essentially, impeachment was for very rare circumstances and not an appropriate response to rulings you disagree with.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yeah, you sure did.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
What's your reaction to the courts stepping in to make a statement here? They didn't make a statement when Joe Biden decided to forgive all those student loans.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I took a big risk actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
And the mug shot --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, he didn't mention my name in the statement. I just saw it quickly. He didn't mention my name.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody's ever told me that, what you just said. Nobody's ever said it. That's exactly correct. If I didn't run, none of this --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, no, no. They wouldn't have had any investigation. None of it would have happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But many people have called for his impeachment, the impeachment of this judge. I don't know who the judge is, but he's radical left. He was Obama-appointed. And he actually said we shouldn't be able to take criminals, killers, murderers, horrible, the worst people, gang members, gang leaders, that we shouldn't be allowed to take them out of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They hated me, but you have to get on with your life.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, that's a presidential job. That's not for a local judge to be making that determination. And I thought it was terrible. In fact, he said when they were well on their way, he -- there was an order issued, as I understand it, to bring them back or to not let them go or something. And this is not something that the country would stand for.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
They'd be on to the next target.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
These people, they were let in here by an incompetent president who had open borders, and anybody throughout the world could come in. And we were given murderers. We were given people from mental institutions and prisons and drug wars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
A judge is essentially saying -- excuse me, Mr. President -- that this -- there still is a process in place. That's -- you can read between the lines. There hasn't been a full ruling yet. And I know your Justice Department is appealing this on a couple of different grounds. But this is leading people to wonder whether there are court orders that you will defy because you believe that the judge has no jurisdiction or they're political questions and not justiciable at all.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
They would have been on to the next target.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
And what would you say to that? Are there circumstances where you would defy a court order?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's so interesting. You're right about that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think that, number one, nobody's been through more courts than I have. I think nobody knows the courts any better than I have. I would say the chief judge does. But nobody knows them better than I have. And what they have done to me, I have had the worst judges. I have had crooked judges. I have judges that valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million because that benefited his case because he wanted to see me convicted of something.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yeah. But that's a pretty big -- that's a -- that's a pretty big gamble.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I have judges that were -- had relatives making millions and millions of dollars on the election ruling on the election.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That was a big risk. So, this is the Oval Office, and we've spent a lot of time and a lot of effort. We've taken a lot of great paintings out of the vault. And I don't know, maybe you could circle that somehow. So, here's a question I ask. So, Reagan has a place of prominence and George Washington has a place of prominence -- prominence.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But, going forward, would you? Would you defy a court order?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I've asked this question maybe 200 times, people come in. I said, "So, who would you put in the place of prominence, George Washington or Ronald Reagan? Who would you put?"<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I had judges that were so corrupt.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Washington.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Because that -- we all know that. And that was outrageous.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, far it's 219 to zero, and they like Reagan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I never -- I never did defy a court order.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, I love Reagan.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
And you wouldn't in the future?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But here's what they like more than anything. So, this is the Declaration of Independence.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, you can't do that. However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges. And these are judges that shouldn't be allowed. I think they -- I think, at a certain point, you have to start looking at, what do you do when you have a rogue judge? The judge that we're talking about, he's -- you look at his other rulings, I mean, rulings unrelated.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Wow.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But having to do with me, he's a lunatic.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they -- they ask that this be done. It's never been up. It's been in the vaults for many, many decades. And they said we have to do something like drapes or something because the light eventually affects it. And it's very cool.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
He wants details of when flights departed and trying to -- I guess they seem to be trying to lay the predicate for your administration having defied a court order. Now, you all have said -- you haven't given specific times and you filed a motion in court, your Justice Department, to prevent any more information getting out about specific times of flights.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, my gosh.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So that seems to be where this is going. Do you have faith that the Supreme Court ultimately will rule your -- in your favor in this case?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Isn't that great? Just went up yesterday.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I do, because the job of getting people out of our country that are murderers, that are absolutely the worst people, the drug lords, they're causing such problems in this country. Drug lords came in, the biggest of them. They left other countries to come in here. They came through an open border. They're making millions of dollars destroying people's lives, killing people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Wow.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's a presidential thing. We're supposed to be getting them out or getting them brought to justice. We had a judge. I would call him a rogue judge. You can call him whatever you want. I know nothing about him. I heard about this very late in the process, and I said, that's a strange order. You have local judges, local federal judges, local judges, period, and DAs and prosecutors, DAs, state attorney generals, attorney generals that want to really take over.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You think Joe Biden would do this? I don't think so. Do you think he'd think of it? Do you think he knows what it is?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think some of it's for the publicity. They love the publicity. All of a sudden, they're on the front page of every newspaper, but they have no right to be.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, wow.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, but look at this. So -- but this was -- none of these pictures were up. You know, very few, like very little. And it's been -- it's been great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Moving on to DOGE, Judge Theodore Chuang, he is a federal district court judge in Maryland, has ruled against the Trump administration's efforts, Mr. President, to shut down USAID, ordering the government on an accelerated basis to basically reinstate the agency's statutory functions. Your reaction to this development?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Now, there was a lot made on another network about you're bringing in the gold accents --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look at the fraud that we have caught. We have caught so much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work, and we have a judge from a very liberal state who ruled like that. So bad for our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So I guess they closed the department. They're going to have to reopen the department.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
To Trumpify the Oval Office.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we will be appealing it, I guess. Not I guess. I guarantee you. We will be appealing it. We have rogue judges that are destroying our country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It needed a little life.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Well, do you believe that, at this point, given the totality of these lawsuits, it's a cavalcade of lawsuits, that your administration could be further hampered, your agenda could be slowed down? They're throwing monkey wrenches at you with these judicial rulings.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So, you have the mantle and you have the cherubs from --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we have to go through an appellate process. That takes a long time. We have a judge that wants that --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's right. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Do you have time?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Is that from Mar-A-Lago?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have a judge --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. That's actually -- they're gold, all gold. Look. And, you know, it's angels. They say angels bring good luck, and we need a lot of luck in this country with what they've done over the last four years. So, take a look. Do you know that -- little secret? I don't know if you're going to waste your time putting this on. But throughout the years, people have tried to come up with a gold paint that would look like gold.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
That's the point.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they've never been able to do it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have time. We're going to be making a lot of money because of tariffs. The good news is, we have got it on -- we're going to very soon be on an even keel. We're going to be taking in a lot of money. The Trump card, the gold card, whatever they want to call, it's OK with me. Whatever's going to sell better is fine with me. It'd be nice to get a piece, but I don't get a piece, OK? I get nothing out of it. All I do is want to make this country successful again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Can't do it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're taking in tremendous amounts of money. We have car companies that are building here who six months were going to build in Mexico, massive plants. They're building them in the United States. We have Honda is going to Indiana. We have them opening up in Michigan. It's amazing what's happening.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You've never been able -- look at that. Look. You've never been able to match gold with gold paint. That's why it's gold. And this is very important, very proud of this, Gulf of America. And in fact, Elon said to me, "You know, we're landing in the Gulf of America." So, he was saying -- and he said it naturally, he said it so routinely.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But judges -- but, for federal judges, district court judges, to order a sitting president to reinstate fired employees, that -- you're the chief executive officer of the United States.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He said, "Yeah, the capsule, you know, is landing in the Gulf of America." So, I called Elon, "Where is it dropping down?" He said, "Gulf of America." How cool is that right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes. Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
What do you think all these presidents would think right now of the state of the country?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
You order that these agencies be reviewed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think they'd be proud of our country. I think, a year ago, they would have been disgraced by our country. And I think today, they're proud of our country. This is the Resolute desk, by the way. I had that just redone by an unbelievable group. They -- they do only the White House furniture. They do only -- very special.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Fired employees, many of whom didn't even report to work, many of whom were scamming this country. And you see the same thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is the Resolute desk. Many great presidents sat behind that desk, and many didn't. I mean, you know, they have seven -- when you're president, they give you a choice of seven desks. This is the one.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Why -- why did you want this one?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I could read them off. And I did. During various speeches, I read off deal after deal after deal, all big scams.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just like -- I like the history. You had Reagan, you had Kennedy. That was the famous one with John-John, who I knew very well, and he was a friend of mine. He was a great guy. He would have been maybe president someday. He would have been a real chance to be -- he was going to get into politics. He was actually a great guy, John-John.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But remember, when he was a young boy, the picture of him at the bottom of the desk.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we have a guy that wants to make a name for himself. In many cases, they're just grandstanders. They want to make a name for themselves. So we will appeal it. And, hopefully, we will meet with reasonable appeals. I have won great cases on appeals.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Where's the Coke button?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yes, some of the -- maybe people weren't fired. Maybe they were temporarily put on -- suspended. So we will see how this plays out. But he's very unhappy with what happened at USAID.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's right here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In the end -- well, he shouldn't be. You know what he should do? He should really look at where the money went. They don't ever want to do that. The Democrats always talk about, oh, our Constitution's been violated. The one thing they never talk about is, where did these billions of dollars go? They never want to look.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Is that on the desk?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because when you see where the money went and the scams, it's -- you don't even have to see anything. Just look at the heading and the scam that they have created. And a judge like him will never look at that. They will just say, oh, you want to -- it sounds so nice, USAID. Isn't that beautiful? But it's a whole big scam, Laura.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Everyone thinks that's the nuclear -- everyone thinks that's the nuclear weapon. They think it's a nuclear weapon. They say if I press this, it's the end of the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And a judge like that is so bad for our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, and then there's like 50,000 --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Well, it'd be interesting to see whether you're able to shrink the size of this government. Every Republican president has claimed a desire to. Even Obama said, we have to find waste, fraud, and abuse, but you're actually doing it, and the judges are trying to stop you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It doesn't seem to work out then.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're doing it. By the way, we're doing it at levels never seen before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Fifty thousand --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Lunatics are setting fire to Teslas all across the country. Another horrible incident happened in Las Vegas last night. The FBI is on the scene investigating, and there is an ongoing investigation being led by Pam Bondi. In what you have seen so far, do you consider what's happening an act of domestic political terrorism against one of your allies?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Doesn't that look beautiful, though, over there?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I do, sure. So Elon is a patriot. And, again, I didn't -- I hardly knew Elon until the election. And he turned out that he liked me better than he liked these radical lunatics that were -- better than Kamala, better than Joe, because he's an intelligent person. He liked -- and he backed me, and he went -- and he got very much involved.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Beautiful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He thought -- he actually would go around saying, if Trump doesn't win, our country is over.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
To me, you know, it looks beautiful. The Gulf of America, look at that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But do you consider this an act of domestic terrorism?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Which one's better? Which one --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure. Sure. I think so.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'll take the Declaration of Independence. I think so. Isn't that cool?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Why?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
When's the first time you signed -- the way you sign your name, it's just people are so fascinated by it. Have you had that signature since you were little?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think that, if and when they catch the people, and I hope they do -- the good thing is, they have a lot of cameras in those places, and they have caught some already having to do with that. I think that you will find out that they're paid by people that are very highly political on the left.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Pretty much, but it's become sharper. In other words, if I look at it from 20 years ago, it was similar, but it was much softer.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Meanwhile, it's because of Elon Musk, everything he did with SpaceX, that those astronauts, stranded for nine months, they're finally coming home, Mr. President. Your reaction to what's unfolding.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
And you like -- you like when your staff secretary reads out the executive orders to you when you're signing it?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, when I came in office, I said, Elon, we got to get them out. You have a rocket ship handy? How many people have a rocket? And Biden left them up. He abandoned them. We could have done this sooner, but Biden didn't want to, because he was embarrassed by what happened. So they were up there. They were supposed to be there for a few days.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I only do that for the media, for the fake news.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They were there for many months. And now they're coming back. But think of it. Elon's able to do that with his genius, and you have people that hate it. And I really believe these are people that hate our country. It's a big problem. But they don't -- there aren't so many of them. There are many more that love our country, and they love our country now more than they have maybe ever in their lives.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Oh, OK.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's never been a movement like MAGA, like America first. Call it whatever you want to call it. This is the greatest movement in the history of politics.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This way. Yeah, they read it out. And, you know, I'll do now because I don't even have to move. I'll do them just -- I'll sit here, I'll do them, and you can do a lot. They get a kick when I'm doing other work and doing a news conference when you had another guy that couldn't name his favorite ice cream.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
What's the next stop for the astronauts? Are they going to be coming to the White House?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They always used to ask him, "What's your favorite ice cream?" "Vanilla." Oh, great. He's done a press conference, ladies and gentlemen. It was crazy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, they're going to be -- number one, they have to get better. When you're up there, and you have no pull in your muscle, you have no gravity, you can lift 1,000 pounds like this -- they have to get better. It's going to be a little bit tough for them. It's not easy. They're up a long time. And when they do, they will come to the Oval Office.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Will you talk to him again, do you think? Joe Biden.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I'll talk to him. Sure.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
They have a $60 billion trade deficit. China has like a $300 billion last year. You said it goes up -- when you can add it all up, it's a trillion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Do you ever call any former --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Canada is --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You should see --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[No audio] -- way over 100, Canada. And here's my problem with Canada. Canada was --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
President? Do you any -- call any of the former presidents?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[Audio continues] -- meant to be the 51st state, because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year. We don't need their cars. We don't need their lumber. We have a lot of lumber. We got -- we freed it up, as you know, last week. We're freeing it up, so that you can actually cut down a tree without being given the death penalty, because what these -- what these radical environmentalists have done to our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, not much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we freed it up. But we don't need their lumber. We don't need their energy. We don't need anything. We certainly don't want their automobiles. They make a lot of -- millions of automobiles are sent in. I'd rather have them made in Michigan. I'd rather have them made in South Carolina or any one of our --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
No.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But you're tougher with Canada than you are with some of our most -- our biggest adversaries. Why?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A lot was made out of the fact that I got along very well with President Obama, right? You saw that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Only because -- only because it's meant to be our 51st state.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yeah, it seems so.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
OK, but we need --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I can -- you know, I can do things that a lot of people --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
You were friends with pretty much all of them at one point.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, no, but listen to this for a second.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I just didn't like the job they did --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
We need their territory. They have territorial advantage. We're not going to let them get close to China.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One of the most --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because it's not about friends. I didn't like the job they did. They let our country down.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look, I deal with every country indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. The people that -- now, this was Trudeau. The people that -- good old Justin. I call him Governor Trudeau. He was -- his people were nasty. And they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know that they say, well, we don't charge. Well, they do. They charge tremendous. They charge tremendous. And if you look at dairy products, what they have done to our farmers, I'd go up to Iowa. I'd go up to different places, Nebraska, and they would always complain about Canada, how they get ripped off.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Do you know that Canada has a 250 percent tariff, 250? Nobody knows that. They charge us numbers that are crazy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But what's the endgame?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have a very big deficit with Canada.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Sixty billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And there's no reason. Much more. We have much more.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
I don't think so.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just so you understand, we subsidize Canada. And I like Canada. I love Canada. I love Wayne Gretzky. I love his wife. I love every --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But now the Liberal guy is -- the Liberal Party is going to win now in the next election, most likely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't care.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
And they were -- they were on -- they were down and out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't care. I don't care.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But isn't that going to be -- make them more hostile to us and possibly open the door --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I'd rather deal with a Liberal than a Conservative.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
-- for China, closer to Canada? And that would really put us in a bind.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The Conservative that's running is stupidly no friend of mine. I don't know, but he said negative things. So, when he says negative things, I couldn't care less. I think it's easier to deal actually with a Liberal. And maybe they're going to win, but I don't really care. It doesn't matter to me at all.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
So your endgame is what with them?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
My endgame is, I don't want to have a big deficit. I don't want to see the United States of America -- and you say 60 and I say 200, but it doesn't matter. I don't want us to pay $60 billion or $200 billion to a country that, if they were a state, think of this, it would be our biggest, most beautiful. It would be great.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This state, it would be cherished. We'd take care of it. The people would pay half they're -- what they're paying right now. Canada -- you know, Canada pays very little for defense. We -- they think we're going to defend that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
We protect them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
We protect them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We protect them. We protect them. Do you know in NATO they pay less than anybody else? In everything else, they go -- we bought -- we're in the process of buying 48 icebreakers. All of a sudden, I see Canada's involved, where they're going to get a piece of them. I say, what are they paying? So I got tired of it. Here's the story.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I had one of the most successful economies. I had the most successful economy in the history of our country in my first four years. We did a great job, largest tax cuts ever, largest everything. We had right to try, where people were able to use drugs. Stupidly, for many years, they weren't able to use the far-reaching drugs, because they weren't approved yet.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Somebody's terminally ill, they couldn't do it. With me, they can do it. We did so many things. We rebuilt our military. Canada doesn't pay for military. They don't give anything. They give us nothing. And they are the worst people to negotiate with of everybody. They had the worst --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
You got them with USMCA. You finally got them around the edge on that, though. You got them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I got them there. And USMCA is good, but they cheat. An agreement's good, but they cheat. And Mexico cheats also.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
But China cheated on your 2019 agreement.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Can I tell you what?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
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<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Phase one, they totally cheated and dropped it with Biden. You had a great deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
When Biden took over, he didn't push them. I would call up once every two weeks, saying, you're not living up to the agreement, and they'd buy more corn, more this. So the most we ever did was $15 billion with China, the farmers and everything, and manufacturing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Laura Ingraham
Yes.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I had them up to $50 billion. And they were doing it. When Biden did it -- do you think Biden called up President Xi and said, you're screwing us?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hello, Michigan. [Audience chants "USA"] No, thank you very much. Hello Michigan. Hello. We love you, Michigan. We love you. We just had the biggest victory in Michigan. They said, sir, it's going to be hard. Well, we won it twice. We actually won it three times, if you want to really know that. But I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I love this state. [Audience member calls out "We love you"] Got a lot of auto jobs coming. Watch what's happening. The companies are coming in by the -- by the tens. [Laughter] You got to see what's happening. They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. Do you know why? Because of our tax and tariff policy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're coming from all over the world. They're coming up and they're opening up plants. And they're talking to us all day and all night. They want to get here. And they're coming in at levels you've never seen before. And I want to thank the auto workers for your support. That was great. But I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country. And that's according to many, many people. This is the best, they say, 100 day start of any president in history. And everyone is saying it. We're just -- . We've just gotten started.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You haven't even seen anything yet. It's all just kicking in. And week by week, we're ending illegal immigration. We're taking back our jobs and protecting our great American auto workers and all of our workers, frankly. We're protecting all of our workers. We're restoring the rule of law which was sort of out the window with this crazy guy we had. [Audience member calls out "Michigan loves you"] How the hell did that guy ever become president?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Could somebody explain to me? [Audience boos] How the hell did that happen? There's my friend. Blacks for Trump. I like that guy. He follows me. He follows me. We love you. Your whole group has been so supportive over the years. I want to thank you. I want to -- everyone thinks I pay you a fortune. I don't know, -- I don't even know who the hell he is. I just like him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true. [Laughter] Thank you very much. Thank all of the fellas. Thank them all. But we're ending the inflation nightmare. The worst that we've had probably in the history of our country. Getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our government. We're stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And above all, we're saving the American Dream. We're making America great again, and it's happening fast, too. What the world has witnessed in the past 14 weeks is a revolution of common sense. That's all it is really. We're conservative. You're conservative. You're liberal whatever the hell -- do you know what it's all about?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's about common sense when you think about it. We're for common sense. We like strong borders. We like good education. We like low interest rates. We like being able to buy a beautiful car. And now, deduct the interest on the loan. That's never happened before. We want a strong military. We want low taxes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, the Democrats, they campaigned on, we will raise your taxes. It's the first time. You know, I haven't been doing this that long. Actually, compared to a lot of people, they've been doing it for a long time. They say you became president, and I can't get out of Congress. And some of them can't even get into Congress. [Laughter] But you know, I haven't been doing it that long.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But all my life I've been watching, and I've never heard people campaigning that they're going to raise taxes. It's always been, we will reduce your taxes. Democrat, Republican. Now they go, we're going to raise your taxes. If our bill doesn't pass, the Republicans, we have 100 percent just about Republican support, but would be nice if we had just a couple of Democrats just to make sure.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because you know, every once in a while, you have a grandstander Republican. We have some grandstanders. But every once in a while, not many, not many, but remember who those grandstanders were and vote them the hell out of office, OK, will you do that? Vote them out of office. You know, they do it morally, they're morally bound.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know what the answer is? If you -- if you don't get it, you're going to have the highest tax increase in history instead of the greatest tax cut in history. If the Democrats prevail on this bill, you get a 58 percent tax increase. Would you like that? [Audience boos] These are the Democrats but I've never seen, all the years they campaign, we will raise your taxes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I say, what a -- this place has gone -- this country has gone crazy. And today they did it again, some guy that I never heard of. John James, is he a congressman this guy? He said, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to start the impeachment of Donald Trump. What the hell did I do? Here we go again, they want to impeach me. This lunatic -- this lunatic, he was up -- actually I had the television way down and I said to our great first lady, listen, did I just hear I was being impeached again?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're getting good at this though. No, they've gone totally crazy, these people. And you know what, they've totally lost their confidence too. They can't even tell a lunatic like this dumb guy that said it. And then you have the other one that's always with the cane. He's always impeaching. He raises his cane.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He always impeaches. But they have no control over those people. They have no control. And the reason is they've lost their confidence. They have no confidence anymore as a party. They have no candidates. And you know, when they say that Bernie -- Bernie's probably the best they have. By the way, he's about seven years older than me -- more, eight years older.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One thing I've got to give him credit -- he's a lunatic, but he's still pretty sharp. And he's going around with AOC plus 3, you know, the Plus 3 follow him. They hang on for little bits [Audience boos], they hang on for nuggets and they get crowds. They say, oh, the crowd was -- our crowds are so much bigger than their crowds.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Their crowds are small. If I ever had a crowd like their biggest crowd, they'd say it's over for Trump, he's lost the magic. But this is great and all the people outside, we love you. We put screens up. We're taking back our country from a sick political class that got rich selling America out and bleeding America dry.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't let that happen anymore. And we had four great years -- we had the greatest economy in the history of our country. The stock market went up 88 percent, we did great. And we're going to do better now because now we're really -- we learned a little bit. After years of leaders who sent your money to defend the borders of distant foreign nations -- that's what we did.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We would fight for other nations, but not for ourselves. You finally have a president who is defending our borders and our nation. Dr. Oz, Dr. Oz. After decades of politicians who destroyed Detroit to build up Beijing, you finally have a champion for workers in the White House. And instead of putting China first, I'm putting Michigan first and I'm putting America first.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
After a lifetime of unelected bureaucrats stealing your paychecks, attacking your values and trampling your freedoms, we are stopping their gravy train, ending their power trip, and telling thousands of corrupt, incompetent and unnecessary deep state bureaucrats, you're fired. Get the hell out of here, you're fired.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Get out of here. In 100 days, we have delivered the most profound change in Washington in nearly 100 years. I read an editorial today that this is the most consequential presidency in history. How about that? And it wasn't even by a group that would normally be supporting us. It was a group of people that I think they tend to be on the liberal side.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But they said it's the most important election, the November 5th, that changed it all. You have to see -- wait until you hear some of these numbers, but that is the most consequential election that we've ever had in our country. And what a nice thing. I'm going to start again subscribing to that particular paper.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Even if I don't read it much, I'm going to subscribe, but it was a very nice compliment, especially from them, they know who I'm talking about. We're ushering out the long reign of special interests and the Radical Left Lunatics and we're ushering in the golden age of America. That's what we have, right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Front Row Joe, look at you Front Row Joes, I miss you guys. I missed the campaign. You haven't changed. You've lost a couple of pounds. Oh, he's probably getting one of those jabbers. You've lost a couple of pounds, you look good. And I have Mr. Wall here, this guy, how many rallies have you gone to? Like hundreds and we love him here.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The wall -- one day, I'm going to get that suit and I'm going to wear it on stage. We appreciate it, fellas. Great. Thank you. You know, we have a group of ladies, I don't know if they're here, but we have a group of women from North Carolina, a large group like 50 of the most beautiful women. And they've been to 129 rallies.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're happily married I think too. They just keep going to rallies all the time. But they're great, North Carolina where we won by big numbers. Nowhere has this transformation been more dramatic than our southern border. You have seen a change on your southern border that Sleepy Joe said couldn't happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sleepy Joe, the worst president in history, said it couldn't happen. The last administration engineered a massive border invasion allowing gangs, cartels and terrorists to infiltrate our communities and rape and murder our citizens and that is being nice about it. That's actually being nice about it. They are the worst.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But standing before you today, I can proudly report that this heinous betrayal is over and that we have achieved the most secure border in American history by far in American history. For two months in a row, we have now set all-time records, and this is by the media, the fake news media, which most of it is fake.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've set all-time records for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. Think of that, ever recorded. The number of illegal border crossers released into the United States is down, listen to this please, 99.999 percent. Think of that, 99.999. Three people got in, three, and I got angry as hell at Tom Homan.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
How did you allow three, Tom? I called up, Kristi -- Kristi Noem is doing a great job, Tom Homan, I said how did you allow three people. No, they allowed a few in for medical reasons. Honestly, they had -- a couple of them were very sick. The ones that got in were really very sick and we had to take care of them, but it was a few people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But three people got in versus hundreds of thousands in the last administration, hundreds of thousands a month were pouring in. Biden had no control. Thank goodness he appointed a great border czar, right? Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, she was a great candidate [Audience boos]. She was fantastic. Joe Biden was down 35 points.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The debate was not a good one for him. He said, you know, if I didn't debate, I could have gone all the way. He was down 35 points, and they decided to replace him. That never -- nothing ever happens like what happens to me. It never happens to anybody else. I had to beat two candidates, so he's down. This is like you're in a fight.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Dana White, the UFC, you're in a fight and you're just beating the guy so badly and they say, oh, let's put in another fighter. That's what happened and I knew nothing about her. She was vice president, but nobody knew a damn thing about her. She had nothing to do with the border even though she was appointed border czar.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The great people, all of the great people, Paul and all of the Border Patrol people, they never spoke to her, they never heard about her. For four years she never called. But there's never been such a difference in anything as the difference between the border today and the border -- what it was just six months ago.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I want to say congratulations, America, it's about time. If we had not won the 2024 election, oh, does that sound good, right? We won the 2024 -- all that work. The radical left Democrats would right now be importing the next 10 million invaders in giving amnesty to 30 or 40 million illegals, many of them criminals, many of them frankly murderers and people of crime at the absolute highest level.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Real, real bad people. It would only be a matter of years or months until America itself became a failed third world nation. That was happening to us, we were going to be a third world nation. I'll tell you what, if these guys won, if this group of radical lunatics -- and by the way, you know Biden -- we find out that whoever operated the autopen was the real president and Biden new nothing about it. You know, he had a group of radical left guys who were very smart and -- and a woman, a particular woman.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very, very smart people. These are not stupid people. These are sick people, but they're not stupid people. And they were very smart. What they're best at is cheating at an election. They cheat on elections. That's their single greatest trait. They cheat like hell. And let me tell you, they tried to cheat on this election, but we made it too big to rig.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Remember Too Big to Rig. They tried. I watched those numbers. I watched those numbers. We had Elon with us. Elon is a smart guy. Elon -- Elon Musk. And I was sitting with Dana White and Elon Musk, and I'm watching the numbers in Pennsylvania. And we're winning so easily, and then all of a sudden it flatlined.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said, you know, I said I think they're cheating again. Look at this. What's going on? I think they're cheating again. And Elon looked at us, he goes, no, you're going to win, they just don't know it yet. And about 15 minutes later we won. You know, sort of crazy. I'll never forget, you're going to win, they just don't know it yet.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But you know what? We made it too big to rig. It was too big. Starting on day one, I deployed the US military to defend our country from the invasion of our border. I shut down all migrant flights. Do you remember when we're talking about people coming in? They're trying to deny it. OK. People are flowing in, they said, no, I don't see any people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's like what's wrong. But then we saw airplanes going overhead. We said what the hell are those airplanes doing? Big Boeing 757s were traveling right overhead loaded up with people. They say, where the hell are those planes going? They were loaded up with migrants coming in illegally, flying in by plane, paid for by the US government. [Audience boos] I'll tell you they are -- they are sick.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They are. Remember that day? That was the day we found out that not only do we have to defend it here, we have to defend it not only in the water, but we have to defend it in the air. The planes were going over us. I said, what the hell is that? I banned all welfare to illegals, and I signed an order that will end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No citizenship. For years, Joe Biden and the media told us that stopping the flood of illegal immigration was absolutely impossible. He said it was impossible. He didn't know what the hell anybody was talking about. He said it was impossible. That the president had no power to stop what was needed in the form of legislation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He needed legislation. He had no power to get it. But it turned out that all we needed was a new president. Within days of taking office, I signed the Laken Riley Act. Laken Riley. Beautiful Laken Riley. Who was killed by an illegal immigrant. Viciously, violently killed. But I signed the Laken Riley Act to facilitate the expulsion of dangerous criminal aliens.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And when necessary, we had to put them in jail. We couldn't take a chance that they'd come back in again. In recent weeks, ICE, who are great, these people are great, has arrested dozens of child rapists along with murderers, kidnapers, drug traffickers and thieves. And frankly, people from mental institutions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've designated six murderous Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organization. We have also designated two bloodthirsty transnational gangs, MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, TDA. They've been designated the highest level of terrorist. And that lets us do a lot of things that you wouldn't be able to do. We got to get them out of here before they kill more people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They've killed plenty. My administration has increased arrests of known and suspected terrorists by 655 percent. Is that OK? We tried to get it higher. We tried to get it higher, but the courts are giving us a hard time. Can you believe it? You know, I won on the basis of, I think, the number one thing was on illegal immigration at the border, the people pouring across our border that are from all over the world there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're unbelievably bad. In many cases, unbelievably bad people. I think that was the number one thing. And now the courts are trying to say that, you know, that doesn't matter. I don't think it's going to be allowed to stand. Democrats have vowed mass invasion and mass migration. We are delivering mass deportation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's happening very fast. And the worst of the worst are being sent to a no nonsense prison in El Salvador. Why don't you watch -- Watch this. Watch this. Take a look.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[Audience chants "USA"] So under President Trump America is a dumping ground for criminals no longer. They are not even trying to come in. But while we're fighting to protect Americans, the radical left Democrats who are so bad for this country are fighting to protect TDA, you just saw that, for years, Democrat politicians did not raise one word of protest as American women and girls were raped and slaughtered by these monsters.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They were raped and slaughtered by numbers that you don't even want to hear about. But the second we try to deport them, the Radical Democrat Party is racing to the defense of some of the most violent savages on the face of the earth. [Audience boos] Who the hell would vote for these people? [Audience boos] They're racing to the courts to help them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But this is not what the people want. This is not what they voted for in record numbers. I won the election. We won every swing state. We won the popular vote. And we got 312 electoral college votes. And just this month, two Venezuelan members of TDA, that's Tren de Aragua were arrested in Washington state for kidnaping a 58 year old woman driving a power drill through her hand to extort her bank account information, shooting her, leaving her for dead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And miraculously she just survived, but she's not feeling so well. In January, a Tren de Aragua member in Chicago kidnaped three women, took them in an alley, lined them up and shot them each in the head. They all died. And the FBI recently assessed that these vicious gangs have been sent by the foreign regime in Venezuela to foment violence and instability in the United States of America.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Can't let that happen. And it's not just -- in all fairness, not Venezuela, it's all over the world, it's all over. They come in from the Congo, they come in from Africa. The Congo, they emptied out their prisons into our country, but they come from Africa, Asia, South America. They come from all over -- bad parts of Europe.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's why we've invoked the Alien Enemies Act to expel every foreign terrorist from our soil as quickly as possible. Never forget the same people that we now claim were not -- and we're not going to -- we're just not taking this crap anymore. We can't. They're claiming that we're not allowed to deport illegals and they're the ones who orchestrated an eight-year campaign to jail their political opponents.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know what I mean? They wanted jail. They wanted jail. That's all they can do, jail their political opponents. What they did to people is a disgrace and now they come after us. Why are you not nice to them? Why are you not nice to them? They tried to jail your president, they tried to jail -- except for the really courageousness of a few very good judges, we could have been -- we could have been calling you from the other side of the bars saying, hey, fellas, how about a little protest?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
How about a little protest? But they cheered the assassination of CEOs, looted our cities and destroyed our property. No, they tried to jail our politicians and they tried to jail a lot of people, many of whom didn't even know what the hell they were being looked at for. These people are criminals. If they had their way we would be living in a third world hellhole.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's what they want. Removing the invaders is not just a campaign pledge, it's my solemn duty as commander in chief. I have an obligation to do it, save our country. And that's why we got, despite the fake polls -- you know, they do these polls where they interview far more Democrats than Republicans. I saw them over the last few days and I had them checked out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They interview far more Democrats for the polls. They interviewed Democrats by big numbers and then Republicans by small. They say Trump only has a 44 percent approval rating. Well, it's actually not bad. But when you figure that, if it were a legit poll, it would be in the 60s or 70s. These people are a bunch of crooked people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, they interview more Democrats than Republicans. In other words, they take the poll and they interview Democrats, they poll Democrats. And then they say -- they try and depress it as much -- just like they write bad stories. 97 percent of the stories written about me, think of it, were negative and yet we won in a landslide because they have no credibility.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And also, we cannot allow a handful of communist radical left judges to obstruct the enforcement of our laws and assume the duties that belong solely to the president of the United States. Judges are trying to take away the power given to the president to keep our country safe and it's not a good thing. But I hope for the sake of our country that the Supreme Court is going to save this because we have to do something.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
These people are just looking to destroy our country. Nothing will stop me in the mission to keep America safe again. It's very simple -- keep America safe again. And our first 100 days have also produced historic results in the battle to defeat Biden's inflation disaster and bring jobs and wealth back to America and bring them back to Michigan, OK. We want to bring it back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As an example, since I took office, the cost of eggs is down 87 percent. Now you remember a few weeks ago before Thanksgiving, before -- we heard about it before -- I heard about it a long time ago, before Thanksgiving I heard about it. And then I was hearing -- I wasn't president. This guy was barely president.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody knew, was he president? Who the hell was president. To this day, I say it was the one that operated the auto pen, but what do I know? But I was hearing about eggs and then, all of a sudden, we have a great election victory and my first week in office they start screaming at me, what about the price of eggs, eggs, eggs?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said I've only been here for six days. I was there six days. I said, what's wrong with eggs? They said, the price of eggs has gone through the roof and you won't be able to have them for Easter. So, I put a very capable Brooke Rollins, who's our wonderful commissioner of agriculture that you know in Michigan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said, Brooke, I've only been here six days before I heard, maybe even less, maybe five, maybe four, but it was my first week. And I said, Brooke, you've got to save me here. I'm getting killed about eggs, what the hell's going on with eggs? She said, well, you can't get them, the price is through the roof, and it looks like we're going to have a real problem for Easter, you're not going to have eggs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said Brooke, that doesn't sound politically viable to me. That doesn't sound good because nobody's going to believe me when you get out there that it's Sleepy Joe Biden's fault. So, Brooke, you got to get going, Brooke, please. And she did a great job, and you had so many eggs for Easter and your price was down 87 percent from that point.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Prices are coming way down. You know, the fake news doesn't say it. They said, he pledged -- now I pledged safe borders, I pledged all sorts of things, but they said he pledged to bring prices down. Well, that's what I've done. They're trying to say the prices have gone up, your energy, your car, your gasoline.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they have three states this week, a couple of days ago that were $1.98 a gallon. So, gasoline prices are down by a lot. Energy prices are down. Mortgage rates actually just went down. Prescription drug prices just saw their largest monthly decline ever recorded. How about that? Remember what you heard, prescription drug prices just took the biggest plunge ever since they've recorded the prices which have basically gone up except for my four years, they did pretty well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we got to know that system, the system is a bad system. But they just took the biggest dive ever in the history of prescription drug prices. Think of that, that's a big thing. I've got to say it again and again because they will never tell you that. The fake news will never tell you that. Grocery prices have gone down, everything's gone down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And yet I saw this person on MSNBC, which I think is probably even worse than CNN. It's probably worse, [Audience boos] probably worse than CNN. But I saw this horrible, horrible anchor, how these people get jobs. I wouldn't hire them to do the most menial of chores. But I saw this person -- he campaigned on bringing prices down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Every price has gone down. What am I going to do? I mean think of it. Gasoline was almost $4 not so long ago. And now, Mike, we just hit $1.98 in a lot of states. Think of it. And they're saying -- and you know what, and inflation is basically down and interest rates came down despite the fact that I have a fed person who's not really doing a good job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I won't say that. I want to be very nice. I want to be very nice and respectful to the fed. You're not supposed to criticize the fed; you're supposed to let him do his own thing. But I know much more than he does about interest rates, believe me. Core inflation has reached the lowest rate in four years and last month we had the largest drop in consumer prices since the pandemic.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is all done in 100 days. Think of that, this is all done in 100 days, but when you watch the fake news, you see fake polls. Again, they poll more Democrats than Republicans. Democrats aren't going to say I'm going to vote for Trump, and we still got 45-44 percent. But on the legitimate polls, I think we're in the 60s. I really -- I think we're in the 60s or 70s or something.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In three months, we have created 350,000 jobs. Think of that. For the first time in recent memory job gains for native born Americans now exceed job gains for foreign workers. This is for the first time in nobody even knows when, Americans now are doing better than foreign workers. How about that? I mean that's OK. I want the foreign -- I want everyone to do well, but that's OK. And to curb inflation, we're cutting a record number of job killing regulations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We beat, in the four-year first administration which was a tremendous success. We cut more regulations than any president in history, including two term presidents, including Roosevelt, who was more than a two term president. We cut more regulations than any president in history in one term. And now our second term.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you know, I don't know why it was so important to win because they used to say the fake news. To be a great president, you have to serve two terms. So now we're going to serve two terms. Now they've taken that one -- Cross that one off, cross that one off. Right? Right, Dr. Oz? Cross that went off. Cross that went off.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, they say it all the time. When I was out, they say well -- [Audience member calls out, inaudibly] They got through. [Laughter; Audience boos] Thank you. Thank you, sir. But we've ended the radical left. Well, we actually already served three, but -- if you count -- [Audience calls out "Yeah"] But remember, I like the victories.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I like the three victories which we absolutely had. I just don't like the results of the middle term. The results, I don't want those results, John. I don't want those results. What results? What a disgrace. If we would have had this group for another year, we wouldn't have a country left. I really mean it. I don't think we would have had a country left.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And now, we're respected all over the world. They're coming from all over the world to see your president. They're coming from India. They're coming from France. They're coming from Spain. Yeah, they're coming from China too. Yeah, they're coming from China. They're coming from all over the world to see your president.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They want to make a deal. They want to make a deal. And you know, we'll make deals, but we don't have to. We are the ones that have the product. We are the ones that the United States, they want a piece of our product. We can just set the price. But I want to be respectful, and I want to be nice. But if it takes too long, I'll just set a price.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Say you could buy, or you don't have to buy. We lost -- think of this, we lost billions and billions of dollars a day, billions, not millions, billions of dollars a day, and under Sleepy Joe Biden. What's better, Crooked Joe or Sleepy Joe? Ready, a poll. A free poll. Because these pollsters are so corrupt, this is a real poll.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to poll Crooked Joe or Sleepy Joe. Ready? What's -- what's a better name for us to call him, Sleepy Joe? [Audience calls out "Yeah"] Or Crooked Joe? [Audience calls out "Yeah"] That's -- I'm not surprised this happens. I sort of loved Sleepy Joe. You know, it just had a nice ring to it. Because he had one ability I didn't have.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He goes to the beach, right? And he could fall asleep on a cottage drooling out of the side of his mouth. And he'd be sleeping within minutes, carrying the aluminum chair. You know, the kind that's meant for old people and children to carry. It weighs like about four ounces. [Laughter] And he couldn't get his feet out of the sand.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he'd sleep. He'd fall on this thing, and within -- and he'd have -- you know, he's president, so you'd have cameras. He'd be in a bathing suit. Somebody convinced him that he looks great in a bathing suit. He's 82 years old. [Laughter; Audience boos] Cary Grant didn't look great in a bathing suit when he was 82. You don't look great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, at some point you -- you have other assets, OK, but that's not one. [Laughter] But he'd -- he'd go and he'd walk in the sand. And he'd fall into that thing. And within seconds, he was sleeping. I'd be tossing and turning and scheming and thinking and saying how am I going to beat China? How am I going to stop the war with Russia and Ukraine?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This guy could fall asleep with cameras blazing, right? Well, not too many cameras were blazing but enough were blazing that you saw it. I thought it was a great ability that he had actually. We've ended the radical left war on American energy. We've stopped their crusade on coal. Did you see what I did the other day?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Clean, beautiful coal. I said you're not allowed to use the word coal unless you say clean, beautiful coal. So you have guys getting up, Department of Energy, we have great people at Department of Energy. They talk about clean, beautiful coal. You know, China uses coal. They're opening up a coal plant every week, a massive coal plant.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're not allowed to use it. But now we are, because last week, I gave it absolute total approval. And you know what, I don't give approval to? Those stupid windmills that go round and round and round. And we've ended the green new scam. We've reopened ANWR, the greatest drilling site anywhere in the world in Alaska.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And implemented the new energy policy of the United States. You know what it is, we have a policy. It's called drill baby drill. [Audience responds "Drill baby drill"] That's our policy. That's our policy, Michael, right? Great Michael Whatley, head of the Republican Party. He's done a good job. Him and Laura.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They took the party by storm, right? He had -- But he had a good candidate. But he had a couple of good candidates, didn't he? Michael's been incredible actually. Michael Whatley, North Carolina. He watched -- in 2020, he did so good for me. [Audience boos] And you know, he was in North Carolina. He did so great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What's the problem over there? What's the problem? Is that a radical left lunatic? [Audience boos] He's just a child. All right, get him out. Yeah. [Audience boos] Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am. I thought it was a guy. [Audience boos] Thank you. [Audience boos] And she now has to go home to a mother who's a big Trump fan. [Laughter] Her mother's watching.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I -- I said he and it's a she. I'm sorry. It's good. To keep my promise to the great state of Michigan, I terminated Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate where you were mandated to buy an electric vehicle. You were mandated within just a few years to buy an electric vehicle. How about that?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you know what? They're great, but people don't -- not everybody wants them. You got to be able to buy a hybrid, a gasoline powered car. You can buy lots of different cars, but you can't be mandated to do anything. And I've already proudly imposed a 25 percent tariff on all foreign automobiles. Any -- Any foreign car like they do tires.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is going to create more jobs in this state and this country. And to help these automakers bring their factories home as rapidly as possible, I've just signed an executive order to give partial tariff rebates to any company that assembles its cars right here in the USA. In other words -- In other words, if they can't make it in time because they have to do it here, otherwise, they have to -- I'm giving them a little bit of a break, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They took in parts from all over the world. I don't want that. I want them to make their parts here. But I gave them a little bit of time. It's 15 percent and then 10 percent of the parts. So it's not so bad. Somebody would say, oh, well, that's a change, but it's not. It's called a little flexibility. The guys were crying.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They love it, everything's good. But just in case we can't get everything in time, we gave them a little bit. So it's 15 percent of the parts and then it's 10 percent of the parts. We give them a little time before we slaughter them if they don't do this. Right? They're going to make so much money. They're going to have so many jobs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, but jobs are way up. Jobs are way up. We're pleased to be joined tonight by Brian Pannebecker. Do you know who that is? Of the autoworkers for Trump. And Brian is a union guy. Loves the unions, loves everything. But he knew that Trump was right. Brian. Come up here, Brian. I got to see Brian. Look at the arms on this guy, look at the arms.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
Thank you, Mr. President. [Audience chants "Brian"] Thank you, Mr. President. It's a great honor to be here on your 100th day in office of your second term. And I just want to remind you of something I told you at one of your last rallies before the election. I've got it on video. I've watched it dozens of times at home.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
After I was able to speak, I turned to you, and I said, Mr. President, Macomb County is going to win Michigan for you! And that's exactly what happened. We had a margin of victory of 70,000 votes in this county alone. Thank you, Macomb County! You know, I met President Trump eight years ago in Novi. And we had never met before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
And as I was stepping towards them backstage, to get my picture taken, I knew I only had 10, 15 seconds to say something to him before we got our pictures. Fortunately, my son was standing behind me, so I've got a witness to this. And I said, Mr. Trump, we've got the keys to the White House waiting for you in Macomb County.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
And he kind of chuckled. He said, oh yeah, how's that? And I said, well, Macomb County is the home of the Reagan Democrats. If you come to Macomb County and you ask for their support and you get it, you might win Macomb County big enough to carry the whole state of Michigan. And that's exactly what he did.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
Thank you, guys. So, I want to say thank you to the autoworkers, everybody who works in the automotive field, the suppliers, every one of you, the truck drivers. Thank you so much for supporting the greatest president in our lifetimes. Now I've got a little business announcement I want to make. I hope the President doesn't mind, but when I was backstage with him earlier and got my picture taken, I said, Mr. President, I've got a deal that you can't refuse.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
And he said what's that? And I said, well, I'm writing a book and it's going to be about my political journey. I've been involved in some things here in Michigan, conservative causes like Right to Work and the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. And I said, you have a publishing company, Winning Team Publishing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
It's run by Don, Jr. and his partner. I said I'll agree to use your publishing company if you agree to write the foreword to my book. He stuck out his hand and said I'll do it. That's how you negotiate with the best negotiator in the world. So, listen, I've got one last thing to say, all of us have a job to do. Number one, we have to win the 2026 elections.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
It has to happen. Shri Thanedar, that lunatic Democrat [Audience boos] from Detroit, is already threatening to impeach President Trump if they get the majority back. But luckily, right now we've got good people in congress like Congressman John James over here who are stopping that from happening. But listen up. So, we've got to get out and we don't have any time to waste.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
We've got to start talking to our friends, our neighbors, our family, our coworkers. The campaign for 2026 starts tomorrow. We've got to win that election. So, the work is not over. The work has just begun. November 5th, was not the end; it was the beginning of the golden age. And let's all tell President Trump how much we support what he's done the first 100 days in office?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Brian Pannebecker
Oh, yeah, I forgot. There's one other thing I wanted to say in front of all these thousands of people to President Trump. President Trump. I love you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. That's great. Thank you. Good, good man. He's a great guy. You know, he was with me from day one 2015, before 2016. He was there from day one. He got it. He said we're losing our car industry. That's what he really cared about. He lost -- he just said I had so many friends they were laid off. It's horrible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They lay us off like it's nothing and the business went to China, it went to Japan, went to all countries all over the world. They're laying us off, sir. Then he said we can solve that. I told him we can solve that so fast. He's one of the early people that got it, and we've solved it. We're going to be doing numbers that nobody's ever believed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll be the number one in the world again, nobody can believe it, because we have been beaten up so badly by these countries that have rigged the whole thing. They fight like hell, they're smart, their product is good, but our product is going to be a lot better. We're going to do something that nobody believes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he saw it right at the beginning. So, I appreciate it, Brian, and he was there at the -- I love the guys from the beginning. I love those early guys. Those guys are right there. They were there from the beginning too. No, you're going to see numbers and you're already seeing them. Look, you know, we have many Hondas coming in and they're coming in. They can't -- we let them build their cars here.<end_of_turn>
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