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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think well. I think well. Every test you can imagine. I was there for a long time. The yearly physical. Uh, d -- I think I did well. Y -- I think they're releasing the report on Sunday. Doctor is highly respected -- Doctors, great place. Great, amazing place.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Did they give you any suggestions or advice on anything you need to change up?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A little bit, but overall I think I'm in very -- I felt I was in very good shape, good heart, a good soul, very good soul. And, uh, I took -- I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test and I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right. Um, they took, uh, just a lot of different tests having to do with the heart, having to do with other things, and I think you'll find that I've g -- they're gonna release the report on Sunday.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think you'll find it very good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Can you tell us about the cognitive test? Is that man, woman, person, camera, TV?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a, uh -- I think it's a pretty well known test. Whatever it is, I got every one -- I got it all right, as I've done about four times. And I've taken, I've taken the cognitive test I think four times, and, a -- I've got nothing wrong. That's what the American people want. Right? Biden refused to take it. Kamala refused to take it. And I think most of them refused to take it, but I don't refuse to take it. What else?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Can I ask you what, what you thought of the, the market today and this week?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The which one?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
The markets this week and the [Inaudible] shares.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think the markets were solid today. I think people can see we're in great shape. We have, uh -- We're making a lot of money as a country now for the first time in a long time. We were losing billions of dollars a day and now we're making millions of dollars a day, and that's a big difference, and we didn't lower it down to 10 percents, and, uh, so that made it a little bit less.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But, uh, I did that because I wanted to be fair to other people, to other countries.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Is it up to President Xi to pick up the phone? Where [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I, I guess so. You know, whatever it is, it, so, you know, we have a lot of countries, not just China. And, but whatever it is, it is. I think we're in very good position. We're doing well. We have a lot of things happening, a lot of new companies that are coming on board because of the tariffs and because of the November 5th election.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Do you, um -- How does the administration -- How do you plan to respond to the Supreme Court ruling and the other courts about the gentleman who was in Maryland who was put in the El Salvador prison?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Is that the one that was not [Inaudible] but he was MS-13?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Just the one that they've said needs to come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, but is -- Was he MS-13? 'Cause I only know about that. I mean, I don't know which one, but if the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And the lower court judge as well? He's been asking for [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, no. I'm not talking about the lower court. I'm res -- I, I have great respect for the Supreme Court. So, uh, I'm not abou -- you know, I'm not totally well versed as to the specific case, but if they said to bring him back, I would tell them to bring him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Tell us a little bit about your negotiations, that, how they're going with other countries aside from China. It sounds like you were talking to someone before you left for [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. We're talking to a lot of countries, and ultimately, you know, we pretty much can do what we want to do, but we want to be fair. We c -- set the tariff. And, uh, they can choose to not deal with us or they can choose to pay it, and that's where we are. We can, you know, we can set the tariff or, uh, we can do it a number of different ways, but that seems to be appropriate, and they can pay it or negotiate it or they can not pay it. They can just say, "We can't do business with them," if they think it's too -- If they think it's too high, they don't have to do business.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I don't think anybody would think that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Is 10% the floor, Mr. President, you think?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Pretty close. Yeah. I would say.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Pretty close to floor?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It could be a couple of exceptions for, you know, obvious reasons, but I would say 10% is the floor.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
E -- Are you wanting to get to the table with China, or are you comfortable with the tariffs with the way they're operating right now?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm very comfortable. I mean, honestly, I'm very comfortable now, but, uh, I've always gotten along well with President Xi. We had a good relationship, very good. And I think something positive is going to come out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are you done with that level, they, their last response I think [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're gonna see what happens. I mean, look, China is a, uh, it's a very big, great country. S -- He's a very good leader, very smart leader. Just a different form of leadership. It's a different form of government. But they, uh, certainly are big, but you know, this should have been done -- What I've done should have been done by past presidents for many, many years, and they allowed this to happen.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, you could say that about more recently about how do you let people more into our country, like Biden allowed to happen. It's a big focus. We now have the best border we've had, ever. But, you know, how do you allow that to happen? It could have been stopped so easily. He didn't need legislation. You know the expression?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just needed a new president. We have d -- b -- we have now the best border that we've ever had.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Okay. Yep. Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yes. Um, who would you like to see, uh, win the Masters this Sunday?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh. They have so many great guys. They're all friends of mine. They're all friends of mine. You have some great ones. Scottie Scheffler's great. Bryson's great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Did you see his rounds today?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You have a lot of great one. Yeah. You have some really good. Justin Rose is a pr -- they're all friends of mine. But, uh, it's gonna be a good match. Looks like it's gonna be a very good match. You have some fantastic golfers at the top, so it should be good. [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What do you make of the dollar having gone down a little bit after the tariff and the [Inaudible]?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Doesn't matter. We're the currency of choice. We're a -- we're always going to be, as long as you have somebody smart a -- you know what, if a nation said, "We're not gonna deal with the dollar," I would tell you that, within about one phone call, they would be back on the dollar. You always have to keep the dollar.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No. The dollar is -- I think when, w -- people understand what we're doing, I think the dollar will go way up. I'm not talking about the d -- I'm talking about -- You're talking about the value of the dollar, which is what I'm talking about too. I think the dollar is, uh, tremendous. It's gonna be stronger than ever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
How are we dealing with the bond market right now? Certainly, 10 [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think e -- the bond market's going good. It had a little moment, but I solved that problem very quickly. I'm very good at that stuff. You know, I solved it very quickly. I didn't know I solved it that well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
How --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had the biggest day in history.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
How concerned were you about the bond markets? To what extent did that play a role?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Not -- It wasn't -- You know, a lot of people will say it was that. No, it wasn't. Um --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What was it?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I want to put the country in an unbelievable economic position, which is where we should be, and it should have been done many years ago by other presidents and they didn't do it. They didn't have the courage to do it. And to me, it's not a question of courage. I think we had no choice, but, uh, I think it's very obvious what's gonna happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're very strong. We're making billions of dollars a day. We were losing billions of dollars a day. This is in a period of two weeks. We're making billions of dollars a day. China now is losing billions of dollars. I don't want them to lose money, but they're losing billions, and we're making billions. I flipped it. Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
So on I -- on Iran, we know that your ultimate goal is to not allow them to hae a nuclear weapon. What are your short-term goals for talks this weekend?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Only that. I want them not to have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. And we're negotiating with them on Saturday. We have a big meeting with them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What do you hope to tell them?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And, uh, right now, we have a meeting with President Putin as we speak. There's a meeting going on right now. But with Iran, uh, I want them to flourish, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. Thank you, everybody.<end_of_turn>
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[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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Thank you, everybody. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Aide
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Jeff. So, uh, we're going to the fight and we have lots of fights going around the world, and I think we have a lot of good news coming soon about some of those fights. And, uh, we'll see how it goes. But it's been a -- it's been an interesting weekend. I think we have some pretty good news coming on some of the conflicts.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
How did Iran --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Can you give us the readout on the Iran talks, sir?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think they're going okay.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What was your [Inaudible]?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I can't tell you about, because it doesn't -- nothing matters until you get it done. So I don't like talking about it. But it's going okay. The Iran situation's going pretty good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are there other talks that are going well, sir?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are there other talks that are going well in addition to the Iran situation?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There are other talks going well. I think Ukraine/Russia might be going okay, and you're gonna be finding out pretty soon. You know, there's a point at which you just have to either put up a shut up. We'll see what happens. But I think it's going fine. Uh, I think we have the tariffs in very good shape. We have a lot of things going, don't we, huh, when you think about We got a lot of things going?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah, I was gonna say, [Inaudible] inflation dropping. Americans have more money.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Inflation's dropping. Americans have more money, and the country has more money. You know, we've been making $2 and $3 billion a day the last couple of weeks. We didn't make that ever. And we're making a lot of money. And then I -- to be nice, I lowered the tariffs on everybody. But we've been making a lot of money and, uh, it's always been the other way around.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Other -- other countries, in particular China, was making a lot of money.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah. It's interesting. I was with you on the campaign this time last year and Americans were telling me they weren't planning to take a summer vacation because of inflation, gas prices --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
-- airline tickets. It's a different scenario now. What's your message to the American family when they eye those summer vacations this year?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we have no inflation. We have lots of success. We have a lot of great things in the hope column. We hope it's gonna be concluded, some of these things. Uh, we have a, uh, border that's totally sealed at a level that nobody's seen, even during my four years. I was very successful with it, but I think we have it even a little more closed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We are allowing people into the country, but they have to come in legally. But I appreciate your question. Yeah, we have no inflation and people are doing well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
In Texas -- in Texas, Ken Paxton is running against John Cornyn for Senate. Are you gonna endorse in that race? Do you have any thoughts on that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, they're both friends of mine. They're both good men. And, uh, I don't know. We don't -- we don't know who else is running. But these two, you know, Ken and John, they're both friends of mine. So I'll make a determination [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, your administration announced some exemptions on the China tariffs, iPhones, computers, televisions, that kind of thing. You're preparing separate semiconductor tariffs. Can you walk us through that decision and what made you do that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'll give you -- I'll give you that answer on Monday.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Ah, okay.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll be very specific on Monday.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What -- are you suggesting you'll announce --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're taking in -- we're taking in a lot of money. As a country, we're taking in a lot of money. Uh, you guys have to sit down. We're landing. Okay. I don't want you to get hurt, especially. [Inaudible] Have a good time. Thank you, everybody.<end_of_turn>
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Thank you, sir.<end_of_turn>
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Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Are you all going to the fight tonight?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Who will win, do you think?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, you have a lot of good fights. You know who's gonna win? Dana White.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Dana White's gonna win. That's the only one --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Everyone wants to see that iconic walkout. You -- you light up arenas.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll be doing it tonight.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yes. Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Off the record, we'll be doing it tonight. Off the record. I think we're doing it tonight. Have a good time, everybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You'll shave some fun.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I appreciate it.<end_of_turn>
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Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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[The echo makes the audio difficult to hear for the first ~2.5 minutes. It improves at that point.]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. [Inaudible] shaking hands with him just before dinner. Sure, only about 400 people [Laughter]. [Inaudible] great people. I want to thank His Highness Sheikh Tamim and [Inaudible] thank you very much. It's a great honor. The beautiful welcoming. This is a home. This [Inaudible] nothing like it. So uh, it's just a perfect evening to meet so many people that I didn't know, to say hello to so many people I didn't know.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's a true privilege to visit your country [Inaudible] and gather as friends in this majestic palace -- palace indeed, which must be among us the most elegant in the world anywhere in the world. I don't think I've seen anything like it. I thought I saw it all. I want to recognize the Prime Minister ,who has done a fantastic job, His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed, whom I was honored to host at the White House for dinner last month.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Tonight, Qatar has returned the favor with unbelievable splendor and warmth. I'm honored to be the first American President ever to officially visit your great country. It's a great honor for me, especially since I known the incredible gentleman on my left for a long time, longer than I've been in politics.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I know [Inaudible] and I said I this guy's gonna make it some day, and I guess I was right [Inaudible] long time. It's a real honor. I didn't know that [Inaudible] and I didn't know how successful he would be and what he's done with this incredible piece of land, this beautiful piece of land and what he's done is incredible. Unthinkable.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we were both in a much different position long ago and it's been a lot of fun to see him rise. I also thank the Qatari government leaders who have joined us and let me say to my chief of staff, a very, very special person.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
She is considered the most powerful woman on Earth, I agree. If you know her, you would know that anyway. The most powerful woman, but she's really one of the greatest people you'll ever meet, Susie Wiles. I want to say happy birthday to you, Susie. Happy birthday. This is your birthday. She's a terrific person actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As I said in my address to the region last night in Saudi Arabia, the transformation that has taken place here in the Gulf with Gulf Nations has been extraordinary. Nothing less than extraordinary as Qatar's development has been among the greatest of them all. Nobody's seen anything like it. Your country now stands as a hub of global commerce, acts as a key diplomatic force on the world stage and has even hosted the World Cup.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And people said, "Oh, the World Cup is going." And by the way, "Johnny is here someplace." Where's Johnny? [Audience member responds, inaudibly] Congratulations, Johnny, because you're gonna be with us next. He's coming, [Laughs] he's coming to the United States actually. Thank you very -- Great job you do, Johnny.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The emir is building a stunning legacy of economic progress, engineering, marvels. What I've seen is incredible. And cultural attainment that should make this entire nation so very, very proud. They are proud. A lot of friends that live here, they're so proud. You only have to look at the shimmering skyline of Doha or the beautiful waterfront promenade, which I just looked at a little while ago.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
T. Here wasn't a tree out of place. Everything is perfect to understand Qatar's amazing path to modernization and prosperity. And you've done it all while honoring your heritage. You've always stayed with your heritage. You haven't given it up. Maintaining your culture and embracing your national traditions to the emir, to the royal family, and to this entire nation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Congratulations on a spectacular job. Well done. Congratulations. Really something. As you can see from the extraordinary range of leaders and pioneers in this room, the biggest people on earth, the successful people, the most powerful people, everyone wants to come and witness what is happening right here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As president, I'm proud that our growing friendship is blossoming into a full-fledged economic and security partnership. As we've seen clearly on this trip, because we're setting records on this trip. We're bringing a lot of investment back into the United States of America. It's coming back at levels never seen before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've never seen anything like it. In two months, we've done more than anybody. I don't think there's anything -- I don't think there's ever been anything close. And that means into any country, in addition to our agreement that will lead to the $1.2 trillion in economic activity. Before we even start about the big Boeing deal and all of the other deals that we talked about today, we're pleased to supply your military with billions and billions of dollars in brand new equipment.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're gonna get a glimpse of some of it tomorrow morning at your military base, which is incredible by the way. Earlier today we were honored by the escort of eight F-15s from your air force. And I will say that, uh, I asked the pilot of Air Force One, "Do we need them?" And he gave me a bad answer. He said, "Well, I'd rather have them." That wasn't really the answer I was looking for.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
To be honest, I thought he said, "No, we don't -- " This is just fun. This is just fun and games. He didn't say that, but, uh, here we are. But they were something -- We're looking out the window. Everybody was amazed. It's a little disconcerting when you see a plane that goes 2,000 miles an hour when actually going 500 miles an hour is a strain on the plane. [Laughs] But you look out and you can read the pilot's name on his helmet and, uh, it's pretty close.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But they were great. They were great pilots too. And it's fitting that you have chosen the Mighty Falcon as a symbol of your nation representing dignity and strength. That's what the Falcon represents. Our Qatari partners showed that spirit last weekend when you helped negotiate the release of the last living American hostage in Gaza, Edan Alexander.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And hopefully this is a stepping stone toward getting the rest of the hostages back. But that was something, and you really did help us a lot. And Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio are here. I want to thank you, Steve, Marco and Scott, Howard. Everybody was involved. Put a lot of hostages back. They've all been involved.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're also working with us very closely with respect to negotiating a deal with Iran, which is the far friendlier course that you would see. I mean, we have two courses. There's only two courses. There aren't three or four or five, there's two. There's a friendly and a non-friendly. And the non-friendly is a violent course.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I don't want that. I'll say it upfront, I don't want that. But they have to get moving. I hope the Iranian leaders understand that what you're doing and really what you're doing for them is a big favor. Your Prime Minister and, uh, your great leader right here on my left has been helping so much. And they respect them and they're listening to them, but they have to get moving.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we both understand that they have to make that decision. It's their decision. Because we want to see Iran do well and thrive, and be successful, and everybody be happy. I know many Iranians, I know many Iranians living in New York and Washington, DC and they're great people. And, uh, we want to have this end peacefully, not horribly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So I just want to thank, uh, Your Highness, for that act of help. But we're really helping the region. We're helping the world. We're helping your country, and we'll try and get it done if we can. We're gonna try and get it done. They have to move quickly. And I just hope Iran realizes what a good friend they have right here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And in a certain sense, I guess I'm a good friend because a lot of people would rather have me take a much more harsh road. But I know that if we can avoid that road, that'd be a great thing and I'd like to do that. This is an exciting time in America, as you know. It's really exciting. As you're hearing and seeing after years of recruiting shortfalls into the military enlistment has now reached the highest point in probably history, but definitely 30 years including for police and firefighters.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But our military, we have the highest recruitment we've ever had. And just about a year ago you read headlines that people weren't joining the military. We had a lot of empty spaces that we had to fill and we weren't able to fill them. And it's a pretty great thing when just in a short period of time, just a little short period of time, we went from not having people wanting to serve in our military, Army, Air Force.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I just think the Army and the Air Force in particular -- I don't know what was going on, but Navy, Marines. How about Space Force, Coast Guard? All great, but we couldn't get them. And now we have waiting lists to get in. So something happened. And I'll tell you what happened. It was called November 5th where I won on behalf of everyone.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I won on behalf of the people with common sense, the people that want to have a great country, the people with strength and intelligence. I won all seven swing states, the popular vote by millions and millions of votes. The electoral college, 312 to 226. Remember they were saying, "Well, he might get to 270"? Well, we got to 270, but we got to 312 actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we had a great day and a great evening. But very importantly, we won the counties throughout the United States, 2,660 to 451. That's why when you see the maps, they're all bright red. Red meaning Republican. So that was really something. There's a spirit going on in our country that we haven't seen in many, many years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But from that moment on, our country has taken in commitments. We think it's probably -- Uh, Scott is here and Howard's here, commerce. And the Secretary of Treasury, Scott has been great. Howard has been great, but I think these numbers are maybe looking, making them look better than they're supposed to be looking.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Where are they? Howard, where are you? And there's Howard. Stand up, Howard. Now, where's Scott? Boy, this is -- [Audience member responds, inaudibly] Oh, go on. You're not too far away. He's become a big star. You know, every time he goes on television, everything goes up. And sometimes they say, "Say it more forcefully." But he shouldn't do what I'm telling him because every time he goes, he's really considered one of the great gurus, one of the great geniuses of markets and understanding markets.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he does understand the market. And he also understands that we took on a terrible situation that was left to us by a prior administration. And within a short period of time, I think we're in great shape. I think we're one of the most, maybe the most talked about. We are the most talked about country anywhere in the world really.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And this is in a period of, short period of time. This is during really a hundred days, a little more than three months. And let's say the first month doesn't count because for the first months I wanted to fix up the Oval Office, make it look really nice. So, uh, just in a couple of short months, we've taken in numbers that nobody ever thought possible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't think there's ever been anything like it in any country. And certainly there hasn't been in ours, so we'll be well over $10 trillion. And, uh, I want to thank, your highness for helping with that number. It's a big, it's a big, uh, contribution, but, uh, you know, you can count on us and you know that it's going to be a great investment for you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's been a great investment over the years. So tonight, let us give thanks for the blessings of this friendship. We have a great friendship, our country and your country, added to by our friendship. And in keeping with the title of your national anthem, I want to wish peace to the Emir and to all Qataris working together.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We can help the entire region unlock its potential. You have unbelievable potential here. Such great, such rich land, such beautiful, magnificent. It's just a magnificent place and you're unlocking its potential. And you have a truly great leader and royal family, but you have a great leader because you can have great land.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You can have great wealth, you can have oil all over the place. You can have the oil and gas like nobody has. If you don't have a good leader, it doesn't mean a thing. And you see it all the time. There are a lot of places with oil, there are a lot of places with everything that you're supposed to have for success, and they're not successful.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But you're successful because of a man that's sitting on my left. That's a special man. So I just want to say it's an honor to be with you tonight and, uh, I look forward to coming back and watching some more buildings go up and everything else that you're doing here at a level that few people can even think about.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I hope you can help me with the Iran situation because it's a perilous situation and we want to do the right thing. We want to do something that's gonna save maybe millions of lives because things like that get started and they get out of control. I've seen it over and over again. They go to war and things get out of control and we're not gonna let that happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So I want to thank you and Prime Minister and everybody else for the help you've given us. And in turn, we'll do things for you that, uh, I think you'll be very, very happy about. And that's more important than anything else, leading a great and safe and prosperous life in a fantastic country. Thank you very much everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much, everyone. Great honor to have you. I know you've all been working very hard and very successfully. And it's a wonderful place, the White House. I want to begin. Is Gianni here from World Cup? I want to thank you for the selection. They just had a presentation in the Oval Office, and I thought this was such a beautiful -- this is the trophy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is a big deal. The World Cup is the biggest sporting event, and Gianni Infantino is my friend for a long time. And during my first term, we worked out a deal to get the World Cup. And then, because of lots of interesting things that happened, I end up being president. When it showed up, I was always disappointed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I wasn't going to make it. I was going to serve eight straight. Instead, we did it the -- we did it the hard way, but maybe the more important way. So, I will be with you as president, Gianni. So, maybe you could just make -- just say a few words and show how beautiful the World Cup trophy is. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
[Inaudible] first?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, sure. Please.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
[Inaudible] first. This is --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
The famous key.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a great key.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
Did you want to open it, President, or shall I?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, you go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
I'll go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I trust you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
So, this is the new trophy of the new [Inaudible] for the FIFA Club World Cup. There are 32 best clubs in the world with the absolutely best players in the world. And for the first time in history, this competition takes place in the United States, opening game on the 14th of June --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
In Miami, final on the 13th of July this year in New Jersey. [Inaudible] the trophy is special because it has a key and because, as you can see, [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
So, this is the trophy. It is a trophy which represents -- and that's why I think it's interesting to show this trophy exactly in this forum because it represents the past, but it's also projected to the future. There is no other sports trophy which looks like that. It has engraved the history of the game of soccer or football, as we call it, the participating teams of the first edition, the stadiums, beautiful stadiums in 11 cities in the United States of America, where this competition will take place.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
So, at the same time past, present, and projected for the future. And if I may, President, say other two words and I'll let you work, I'd like to congratulate the president and the administration for -- sorry, for the World Cup, the Club World Cup, the World Cup, and the great work done, but also for this initiative that we are speaking about here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
If I may add something in this respect, I am not an expert at all, but FIFA, as you know, is a brand which is globally known and a strong brand. The soccer economy in the world is worth around 170 billion a year. Seventy percent of that, Mr. President, is in Europe. So, imagine the potential that there is around the world only in soccer [Inaudible] and so, FIFA is very, very interested under my presidency to develop a FIFA coin to do it from here, from America, and to conquer the 5 billion soccer fans in the world.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
So, if there is anyone here who is interested to team up with FIFA, here we are in the United States of America, and we will conquer the world of soccer with the FIFA coin. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. That coin -- that's right. That coin may be worth more than FIFA in the end. It could be quite a coin, actually. Anyway, thank you, Gianni. Great job. I just thought you should see this trophy because it's really -- you know, it's the biggest sporting event in the world, and we have it here. And we appreciate being selected.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. And you do a fantastic job. And welcome to the first-ever White House Digital Assets Summit. I know that many of you have been fighting for years for this, and it's an honor to be with you at the White House. I want to thank the White House AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, treasury secretary.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is David right here, in case you don't know. You know David. And the man is doing a great job as secretary of the treasury, Scott Bessent, who's right here. Scott, thank you very much. Commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, wherever you may be, Howard.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick
I'm here.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hi, Howard. He's doing some interesting work right now with all that's going on. He's right in the middle of it and doing a great job. Thank you. SBA Administrator, Kelly Loeffler, and -- hi, Kelly. SEC commissioner, Hester Peirce. Thank you, Hester. Acting CFTC chairman, Caroline Pham. House majority whip, Tom Emmer.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hello, hello, Tom. Representative, Brian Steil. Thank you. Brian, thank you very much. Digital assets council director, Bo Hines. Good, Bo. Great job. And many other distinguished guests. We have a lot of very distinguished people around the table. Some of them will be speaking. I want to thank Marco Rubio, also who's right over there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we have tremendous people very interested in this subject. And last year, I promised to make America the bitcoin superpower of the world and the crypto capital of the planet, and we're taking historic action to deliver on that promise, as you know, around the table. Yesterday, I signed an executive order officially creating our strategic bitcoin reserve, and this will be a virtual Fort Knox for digital gold to be housed within the United States Treasury.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a big thing. The federal government is already among the largest holders of bitcoin, as you know. Really one of the largest holders in the world with as many as 200,000 bitcoin obtained via civil law and various other forms of law and including enforcement actions. These existing holdings will form the foundation of the new reserve.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Unfortunately, in recent years, the US government has foolishly sold tens of thousands of additional bitcoin that were worth billions and billions of dollars had they not sold them, but they did sell them, mostly during the Biden administration, and not a good -- not a good thing to have done. From this day on, America will follow the rule that every bitcoin knows very well.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Never sell your bitcoin, that's a little phrase that they have. I don't know if that's right or not. Who the hell knows, right? Who knows? Who knows? But so far, it's been right, and let's keep it that way. The Treasury and Commerce Departments will also explore new pathways to accumulate additional Bitcoin holdings for the reserve, provided it's done at no cost to the taxpayers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't want any cost to the taxpayers. In addition, my order directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of all crypto assets currently held by the US government and determine how they can be transferred easily to the treasury. Nonbitcoin digital assets will be held in a new US digital asset stockpile where they will be managed properly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
My administration also is working to end the federal bureaucracy's war on crypto, which was really going on pretty wildly during Biden until the election came about -- about five months before the election, he became a big fan because he heard how many people were in favor of it and how many people love it and respect it. But I guess it didn't work out too well for him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
People -- people understood what was going on -- and paved the way for groundbreaking innovations in institutional finance. Under the Bitcoin administration, regulators strong-armed banks. I mean, they really did. They strong-armed banks into closing the accounts of crypto businesses and entrepreneurs effectively, blocking some money transfers, to-and-from exchanges, and they weaponized government against the entire industry.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I know that feeling also. Maybe better than you do. All of that will soon be over, and we are ending Operation Choke Point 2.0. Now, some people really suffered. It was ridiculous what they were doing. But in the end, they came around, but they came around for the wrong reasons. They came around only because they wanted votes, and they saw that tens of millions of people are -- you know, were against them because of what they were doing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I also want to express my strong support for the efforts of lawmakers in Congress as they work on bills to provide regulatory certainty for dollar-backed stablecoins and the digital assets market. They are working very hard on that. This is a tremendous opportunity for economic growth and innovation in our financial sector and will really go a long way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think there's going to be a tremendous -- a tremendous -- we feel like pioneers in a way of tremendous method of growth. And things are very much tied, and we want to keep it that way, the US dollar. Long into the future, we're going to keep it that way. I hope lawmakers will send that legislation to my desk before the August recess if they can.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they're very much working with you, and you know a lot of them. And a lot of them were committed right from the very beginning. So, I just want to congratulate you all for being at the White House today. And the man who knows more about Bitcoin and I and just about everything else than anybody, David Sacks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I'd like to have you say a few words, David?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
Thank you, Mr. President. We're all here today because of your leadership, your vision, and your generosity. And I really want to thank you for that. We're also here because of your desire to make America great and to introduce a golden age in America, including for digital assets. And we're here because of your love of innovators, or, as you might say, high-IQ people.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>David Sacks
I know you love high-IQ people. We have -- we have about 30 of them here in the room today. These are the top people in the -- in the digital asset industry. And one other thing that I think that you love is -- is legal fairness. This is an industry that was subjected to prosecution and persecution for the last four years, horrible lawfare.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
And nobody knows what that feels like better than you do. So, we really appreciate the fact that you understand legal fairness and that you're always willing to fight for the right -- for the right thing, for legal fairness. You never back down. You stand defiant even in the face of an assassin's bullet.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
It's an inspiration to everyone in this room, I think. So, it's an honor.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
So, I just want to say it's -- it's an honor to work for you. It's an honor to -- to work for a president who works every day to get so much done on behalf of the American people. Your administration is moving at tech speed. It's really amazing. It's actually faster than any startup that I've been part of, is that your administration moves even faster.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>David Sacks
So, I just want to say thank you for having me be a part of it. I've enjoyed every minute of it. I love working for you, and thank you again for this opportunity.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, David, very much. Appreciate it. [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
And now I just want to pass the ball to Secretary Bessent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Scott?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Thank you, David. So, the -- today, when President Trump has signed the executive order to establish the strategic bitcoin reserve and stockpile, we're going to position the United States as a leader among nations in the digital assets strategy. It's important for the United States to recognize this fact and get ahead of the other nations in the digital age.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
I -- we applaud the President's direction to use the digital assets already in possession of the nation, and we are going to establish this bitcoin reserve. We will use this authority to augment the assets side of the United States balance sheet. As I've said many times, President Trump is creating assets for the American people, while most past presidents have created debt.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
And a large part of this asset program can be in digital assets. We are going to end the regulatory weaponization against digital assets. The Biden administration's actions did nothing other than punish innovators, and that all of you have made it here today is really a testament to your fortitude. Much of treasury's responsibility in this order relates to the tax code and determinations around risk weightings.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
And I'm here to assure you that we are going to work with the Comptroller of the Currency. the IRS, and we're going to rescind and amend all applicable previous guidance. And we are going to put a lot of thought into the stablecoin regime. And as President Trump has directed, we are going to keep the US the dominant reserve currency in the world, and we will use stablecoins to do that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Howard?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick
Technology is at the foundation of the Trump presidency. He understands technology, he embraces technology, and he's going to use technology to drive America forward. The blockchain and bitcoin technology are a key part of that thinking and embracing that. And here today shows how much a leader the Trump administration and our president is. He understands it, he embraces it. As you said, you're a pioneer in this place, and this is where we're going.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick
We're using the blockchain, we're using bitcoin, we're going to use digital assets to pound forward, and Donald Trump is leading the way. Can't be more proud of you today.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you, Howard. Kelly, go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
Thank you, Mr. President. This is truly a historic day. And as a crypto founder, I couldn't be more proud to be part of your administration. You're moving at the speed of tech for sure. And I will just say it's a great day to have the war on not just crypto, but the war on innovation done. And under your administration, we are truly going to enter under the gold -- into the golden age.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
And I'll just say as the administrator of the SBA, small business is a tremendous network that crypto can be deployed against. And so, the SBA is open to crypto, so I look forward to working with all of the leaders in this room to advance your efforts here. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Kelly. Thank you very much. Tom, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tom Emmer
Well, Mr. President, I want to say thank you. I want to thank you for the amazing team that you've put together. I want to thank you for David. I mean this -- this kind of a meeting, no one in this room could have envisioned this just a couple of years ago. You are the one that has the vision. You're the one that said we are going to do 21st century finance right here in the United States of America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tom Emmer
I've been doing this for nine years. It is amazing how far we've come, and that's a credit to you, Mr. President, and your leadership. And God bless you for doing this because it's going to make a huge difference with everything else you're doing. And by the way, Americans love it. They're going crazy. Thank you, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Tom. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anybody else? Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
Does anyone want to say a couple of words? Cameron or Tyler, do you want to --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're very shy in front of the camera.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
Actually, Cameron, I think you said something earlier that I thought was really profound. You said that a year ago, you thought it would be more likely that you'd end up in jail than at the White House. Do you -- not to put you on the spot because you didn't do anything wrong, but that was the environment a year ago?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
But you guys want to say something, either one of you?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Cameron Winklevoss
Sure. That was actually Tyler who said that, but -- but sorry I still -- I still get mixed up. But yeah, we never thought that we'd get attacked the way we did in our backyard after trying to do the right thing for so many years and always trying to raise the bar with respect to regulations. So, it's truly wonderful to see how things have changed and how the pendulum has swung back in the way that it has.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Cameron Winklevoss
And we've always felt that the US should lead in bitcoin and crypto, and it's ours to sort of lead and win. And it's just wonderful what President Trump has been doing with this, and we look forward to working together. And thanks for inviting us, David, and setting this up.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you, both. Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tyler Winklevoss
I was just going to say thank you, Mr. President. Cameron takes credit for a lot of my things I say. So, it's not the first time. But the US won the internet, and the US should win crypto. So, thank you for your leadership on this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, both, very much. High-IQ individuals around this table, that's what I always say. We need high IQ. So, thank you very much. Would anybody like to say anything? Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>David Sacks
OK. We'll come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sergey Nazarov
I just want to express my deep gratitude for the seriousness with which you're approaching our industry and how you're actually helping guide it in the right direction. I've worked with many central banks in other countries. And when I was working there, I was wondering why I, as an American citizen, can't help the United States financial system reached this higher level that the world is on course towards generally.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Sergey Nazarov
And so, I'm very grateful that, finally, there's been a new level of kind of common sense and -- and adoption of -- of these ideas. Me and the other people in this room do believe that the crypto-blockchain-Web3 infrastructure is the next iteration of the financial system. And I think that the US should have its leadership position continue in that new financial system.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sergey Nazarov
And I'm very, very happy to see people like David Sacks, Secretary Bessent, Secretary Lutnick taking this very seriously with their time, and very grateful to them, too. So, I'm -- I'm just overjoyed to see this. And I think it is a big part of how the US can continue its role in the global financial system.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sergey Nazarov
So, thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. I thought it was very important that we stay in the front of this one. This is a big one. And as you know, China is pushing forward and very strongly as usual. But we're way in the lead as we are in AI and other things, and we want to stay there. So, I thought this was very important.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we have some brilliant people sitting around this table, and it's an honor to have you involved. But we want to stay at the forefront of everything. And this is a very important day in your lives. I know you worked some of you very long, long before people really understood what was happening. And so, I congratulate you, but this is a big day.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Being in the White House is a big deal, and you have great support. Thank you, all, very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much. Thank you, media. Thank you. Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's good. That's good.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Pam, very much. What a job you're doing, and it's a true honor to be with you today. It's very stirring. This is a storied hall, if there ever was one. And based on the crowd, I think we broke the all-time record. But as we begin a proud new chapter in the chronicles of American justice, this really is something.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to Violent criminals. And we're restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. And you're the people that are doing it. Very, very proud of all of you. Under the Trump administration, the DOJ and the FBI will once again become the premier crime fighting agencies on the face of the Earth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
People ask me what am I going to do about law enforcement all the time. The fake news back there, they're asking me that all the time, what am I going to do and when are you going to do it? And I answer them by saying I've already done most of it by appointing the people that I've appointed. They're sitting right here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They've done most of it. I don't do it. They do it, right, Pam? I think, oh, you are so tough, they just don't know yet. Let me begin by congratulating the incredible people who will lead these historic reforms. And we start with somebody that you just saw, Pam Bondi. She's extraordinary and I've known her very well for a long time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I watched her for a long time in Florida, for years in Florida and highly experienced. She seems so young, but she's highly experienced, that I can tell you. She was a phenomenal attorney general in Florida and she's going to do a really amazing job. Also, a new director of the FBI, Kash Patel. Kash, right.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A man that I'm very proud of. I've known him and Emil for a long time under tremendous pressure. I saw these guys under some of the most corrupt judges I've -- it's not even imaginable how corrupt they were. And these guys never wilted, they never -- they were not shy, they fought, they weren't afraid, and they were brilliant.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanch, and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney, Emil Bove. And thank you both very much. Great people. They're great people. The chief of staff who's so highly respected, Chad Mizelle. Thank you, Chad. Chad? Thank you, Chad. Our next administrator of the DEA, Terry Cole. Terry?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Terry. Good luck, you're going to do great. Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Boy, I've been watching him on television the last couple of weeks. He is really a tough one and he's a great one. Leo Terrell, you watch how good he's going to be. He's going to be so good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Leo. Great guy. Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, who's got an incredible reputation. She'll do very, very well. Gail Slater. Thank you, Gail. Good luck. Great job. And we're joined by many, many great friends and terrific friends and I won't be able to -- too many to name, but some that I just see very quickly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
General Flynn, thank you for being here. Here's a man who went through hell, by the way, and he shouldn't have. It was -- he's a patriot, he went through hell. We're also pleased to be joined by Senator Chuck Grassley and House Majority Whip. Hi, Chuck. House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer. Tom, great job you're doing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Representative Guy Reschenthaler, one of the toughest names to say but I got it perfectly I think. And state Attorney General, Ken Paxton, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Somebody who was with us early on and she's really become a big star and very popular, Brenna Bird. Thank you, Brenna. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Steve Marshall, Alan Wilson, James Uthmeier, Chris Carr, Dave Sunday, Marty Jackley, as well as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller. What a man Stephen is, become a big star, right? Steve Miller. Steve has been something very special. For generations, the federal Department of Justice was one of America's most revered institutions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The men and women of the DOJ brought down the Mafia, hunted down the killers, kingpins and spies, tracked down terrorists and traitors and tore down corrupt political machines all across America. This department commanded the respect and admiration of the entire world. And with Pam and Kash and all of the people I introduced and far more, big numbers and all of you sitting back there, I recognize so many of you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But with you leading the way, it will soon be the most admired and most respected of all. You're going to be more respected, and I really believe that there's also a lot of things to solve, a lot of problems to solve, but that's going to put you in the upper tier and maybe the top tier. And I believe that's going to happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So proud of the people in this room. But first we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from hell came from Russia, when they knew it came right from his bedroom. They knew that; it was a big lie, and they knew it so well. They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another, broke the law on a colossal scale.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Persecuted my family, staff and supporters, raided my home Mar-A-Lago and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the president of the United States. With the help of radicals like Marc Elias, Mark Pomerantz and these are people that nobody's ever seen anything like it. And so many others.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But these are people that are bad people, really bad people. They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and third world country. But in the end the thugs failed, and the truth won, freedom won, justice won, democracy won and above all the American people won. There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked, and that's what they were doing at a level that's never been seen before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their cronies. To do the building of the last four years they ripped -- what they've ripped down is incalculable, but what you're going to build up is likewise something that will be breaking all sorts of records. They set loose violent criminals while targeting patriotic parents at school board meetings.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They dropped charges against Antifa and Hamas supporters while labeling traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists, the Catholics. We did very well with the Catholic vote. So, I want to thank them for that. They imported -- they really did -- record numbers. I would say what's with the Catholics. They're really after the Catholics.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I don't know, they were after a lot of people, maybe they didn't even know why. They imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers and child predators from all over the world to come into our country while putting elderly Christians and pro-life activists on trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They went to jail for that. Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice, but I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back. They're never coming back. So now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible. We won every single swing state. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. We won districts, 2,750. Think of that, 2,750 districts compared to 505. So we won at levels that I don't believe ever seen before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's the one where you see the map of the United States and it's all red. Red for republican, not for communist. Red for Republican. They would like it to turn red for communist, but it didn't work out that way. The American people have given us a mandate and really, just a far-reaching investigation is what they are demanding into the corruption of our system.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's exactly, I'm sure, what Pam and Kash and everyone else mentioned here and not mentioned is going to be doing. We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. We will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct of which was levels you've never seen anything like it. It's going to be legendary.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's going to also be legendary for the people that are able to seek it out and bring justice. We will restore the scales of justice in America and we will ensure that such abuses never happen again in our country. And that's why on day one, I signed an executive order banning all government censorship and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech and many other things and values in America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
My administration stripped the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell. We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and the crooked law firms that aided their partisan prosecutions. And I went through it. These are state and city courts and the corruption is unbelievable.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We also terminated the clearances of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself. He didn't deserve it. In fact, he was essentially found guilty, but they said he was incompetent and therefore, let's not find him guilty, I guess. Nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn't want any part of it. I think I would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They said he didn't know what the hell he was doing and therefore, let him go. I said, you know, I'd rather be convicted, Pam. I think that -- that was not good. I said, please convict me, don't say that. I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated. We removed the senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages and it was a great honor for me to fire, I will tell you this, a great honor to fire James Comey, a great, great honor.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That was nothing -- that was no better day. A lot of people said, oh, that's too bad you did that. And they said that's going to be -- and you know what, a year later, they said that actually saved the administration because the level of corrupt things that we learned after that turned out to be that they were doing, in fact, really bad things.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was a terrible person, did terrible things and persecuted people and all in the guise of being an angel, but he wasn't an angel. We created a brand-new DOJ task force and anti-Christian bias. And under Director Patel, we're getting the FBI agents out of the headquarters in Washington, D.C. and back on the streets in pursuit of dangerous criminals where they belong and where they want to be. And you have that big FBI building, and it's a very big building, and they were going to build an FBI headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state, but that has no bearing on what I'm about to say.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're going to stop it, not going to let that happen. We're going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place, because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other. That's one thing I did learn from this persecution, the FBI and the DOJ work together. Now, in my case, they worked together for bad purposes, but they do, they were always together.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So how can you have one that's three hours away? But one thing I said to Kash, well, we're going to get a great building built. It's going to be a magnificent building. He said, sir, we don't need that kind of room. I said, what do you mean? He said I'm just going to take an old Department of Commerce building that's about 25 percent the size and that's what I need.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to have the best staff that you've ever seen and that's what I need. It's in a nice location, but I don't need that big building. Why don't you just sell the site to somebody? And we're going to be very happy and they want to have far fewer people, but we also want to have them in D.C. And if for no other reason, we like having law enforcement walking the streets of our capital.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because when the bad guys are out there and they see there's an FBI agent, that's the ultimate in law enforcement and they're not going to be acting so bad. We're cleaning up our city. We're cleaning up this great capital and we're not going to have crime and we're not going to stand for crime. And we're going to take the graffiti down and we're already taking the tents down and we're working with the administration.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And if the administration can't do the job, we're to have to take it back and run it through the federal government. But we hope the administration is going to be able. So far, they've been doing very well. The mayor has been doing a good job. We said, there are tents galore right opposite the State Department, they have to come down and they took them down right away.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And so, so far so good, but we want to have a capital that can be the talk of the world. When Prime Minister Modi of India, when the president of France and all of these people, the head of Prime Minister of United Kingdom, they all came to see me over the last week and a half. And when they come in, I had the route run, I didn't want to have them see tents.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I didn't want to have them see graffiti. I didn't want to have them see broken barriers and potholes in the roads. And we had it looking beautiful and we're going to do that for the city and we're going to have a crime free capital. When people come here, they're not going to be mugged or shot or raped. They're going to have a crime free capital again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's going to be cleaner and better and safer than it ever was and it's not going to take us too long. There's a new phenomenon that is taking place with these violent, vicious lawyers that we have all over. They play the ref, you know what playing the ref is, like the great Bobby Knight basketball coach.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He'd scream and scream at the ref. He'd scream. By the way, I love Bobby Knight because he endorsed me and having Bobby Knight's endorsement in Indiana was an extremely good thing. A friend of mine said I was running in Indiana at the time. This was early on 2016 and I was doing great, but friend came up and said, do you know Bobby Knight?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said, no, I don't, but I hear he was a tough cookie. Not only tough, he was beyond tough, but he's the most popular guy. You can imagine. It turned out, he wanted to endorse me. He called me about two years before. He said, sir, I'd like to endorse you. I said, is this really Bobby Knight? He said, it's me. I could tell it was Bobby Knight.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He had been known for throwing the chair across the court and slapping a player. Can't do things like that, right? And the man that came in fired him. He was a new administrator for the college. That guy didn't last very long. They were like 14 and zero and they fired Coach Knight. That was not good, but he had a little chip on his shoulder.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he loved Trump and he came in and he said, I'd love to endorse you. He said, if you ever run, please call me. So he said, do you know Bobby Knight? I said, well, I don't know him, but he called me a couple of years ago. It was an amazing phenomenon. I took his number. And on each side of my desk in New York, I had stacks of paper, like nice and neat but about two feet high each.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said, I wrote his number down and I put it here two years ago and I said, let me see if I can find it. It was almost like a miracle. I had other miracles that happened too. My ear is still throbbing. That was a miracle. That was a miracle also, wasn't it. That was a miracle also. How are you? Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Leo. Thank you. Thank you, my man. That was a miracle. Anyway. OK. That's very nice. Thank you. But so he said, Bobby Knight. So I said, I put his name down and I wrote it down, it's in one of these stacks, let me -- I lift it up, it would have to be 2,000 or 3,000 pages in each stack. I lifted it up, the first one, had no idea.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And there was his name on a little card, Bobby Knight, with his number. It was like incredible. I tell that story all the time. And I called him and dialed the number. He said, I've been waiting for you to call. And he went out and he made a speech for me in a packed arena in Indiana and it was over. It was over.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was a tough guy. He actually went a little far. If you remember, he made a great speech because he was actually a motivational type guy, to put it mildly. But he left the stage and then I'm talking and he walks back onto the stage. I said, uh-oh, this is trouble. Why is he coming back? He was a big guy too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Why is he coming back? He said, may I say a few more words, I said, yeah, go ahead, Bobby, say a few more words, a little different. And he said and let me tell you something about this guy, Trump. This guy is -- he has to -- will use the nuclear weapons that we have. He will use the -- he has no fear, he's going to use -- and that's the kind of guy, and he walked off the stage.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said, I think I'm in big trouble, Pam. That was not good, but it worked out OK. In the meantime, we won the state in a landslide, and it was great. And it was just an amazing period of time. But this is the most amazing period of time. I think this is more amazing. What's taking place is more amazing. I think it's more consequential and, if we do the job -- one of the big media outlets said what we did was the most consequential election in the last 129 years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, if we do the job that we're all capable of doing, I think it's going to be -- it's going to prove to be that and then some, and that's what we want to do. We have a real big shot at making this country so great, so great. What happened to our country was so sad. What they've done in four years to our country with the borders with Afghanistan, the embarrassing -- most embarrassing period of time, allowing the Russian situation.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was never going to happen with Ukraine. Allowing October 7th to happen, would have never happened because under me Iran was totally broke. They had no money. They weren't given any money to Hamas or Hezbollah. It was totally broke, but allowing inflation, look at what inflation has done to people, been so devastating.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And now you see that, by the way, the price of eggs is down 35 percent in the last week and a half. We're doing a good job. Brooke is doing a good job, Brooke Rollins and everybody. And inflation is down, interest rates are down. Gasoline has come down, down to a level that we haven't seen in a long time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
All things that we wanted to do because then everything else is going to be coming down. We want it to come down. We want bacon to come down and groceries, a term I used to use, it's sort of an old-fashioned term, but I used to use it on the campaign trail, those last 90 perfect, beautiful days. We just hit it. And I want to thank Suzy, you have done a great job, Suzy Wiles.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great job, Suzy. A big magazine just named her the most powerful woman in the world and that's okay with me. She is the most powerful woman if you think about it, John, right? The most powerful woman in the world, but she's great. And we had a great 90 days. It was a perfect 90 days, and it was a great result, but we want to put that result to good use by doing a phenomenal job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I want to tell you that Todd and Emil know this very well. We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name is Aileen Cannon, and I didn't know her. I still don't know her. I don't believe I ever spoke to her, even during the trial. But I did appoint her federal judge. And these fake lawyers, these horrible human beings were hitting her so hard public relations wise.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They were playing the ref. I don't think it's legal. I don't think it's legal, they might as well go out and just shout it in a courthouse. They were saying she was slow; she wasn't smart. She was totally biased. She loved Trump. I didn't know her other than I saw her the couple of days that I was in court, and I thought her decorum was amazing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Anything bad they could say though, they were saying about her. It was -- whatever they could say bad about a human being, all made up because actually she was brilliant, she moved quickly. She was the absolute model of what a judge should be and she was strong and tough. And how do you get them to stop if you're a judge?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
How do you get them to stop with the playing the ref? Bobby Knight would play the ref. That's why I brought up the Bobby Knight story. He would play the ref. He'd scream at the ref. He'd scream so hard, oh boy, it was terrible actually. And the people would come up, his assistant coaches would come up, the players.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Coach, coach, don't do that. Don't do it. He said he's not going to change his tune, coach. He called it. He's not changing. I don't care and he's screaming. That's when he threw the chair, he starts going crazy. And he said, no, he's not going to change this time, but he's going to change for the next play.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And sure as hell he did. Bobby, by the way, had the last undefeated team in basketball and, relatively speaking, he had a team, he always had a team. He never had that. He had a couple of great players, obviously, some top NBA players. But very few relatively, he had a team, but he had -- he won the national championship three times, but he had the last undefeated team in basketball.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he would play the ref, and he would scream at him. He knew exactly what he was doing. They're doing the same thing. They said, no, he's not going to change now, but he's going to change for the next one. That's what he wanted to do. He wanted to scare the hell -- they wanted to scare the hell out of the judges, and they do it. And how do you stop it if you're a judge because you want to go home, you have a family, you have children.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And the New York Times will write whatever these people say, and the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and MSDNC and the fake news, CNN and ABC, CBS and NBC, and they'll write whatever they say. And what do you do to get rid of it? You convict Trump. All you have to do is be really tough on him and ultimately convict him and they leave you alone.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's totally illegal what they do. I just hope you can all watch for it, but it's totally illegal. And it was so unfair what they were doing to her, but they do it all the time with judges. But in her case, she was very courageous, and it only made her angry. Wouldn't you say, it just made her angry? She didn't like it. A lot of them say, oh, please don't say that about me. My family, what's my husband going to say, what's my wife going to say or my kids, please don't say that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it had absolutely no impact on her. And the case against me, which was a case -- I will not use a bad word. I promised my wife, I would never use a bad word. So just a little bad, the case against me was bullshit and she correctly dismissed it. She correctly -- look at Emil, he's looking, he said that's interesting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But these two guys were warriors. You've got a warrior here; you've got two warriors. I can tell you that. You've got a whole bunch of them. But -- and they wouldn't quit. They wouldn't take no for an answer. They just wouldn't quit -- these two people right up here and some others that are involved with it indirectly.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what the lawyers do is they're doing it to the Supreme Court justices hoping that they'll be overcome by the horrible things they say about them. They say things about Supreme Court justices and judges that are just horrible. They're playing the referee. Remember the way they treated Justice Thomas and Justice Alito and Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Chief Justice Roberts gets treated unbelievably badly and they're hoping that they can sway them to go along because, again, what do they do? They're humans like any -- it would be wonderful if everybody was just a perfect computer machine. But they're not -- they're humans and they don't want to be accused of many, many things including gross incompetence.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They don't like it and they don't want it. There's not much they can do about it. They're in a position; they can't really fight back really very well. And so, what they do is sometimes they get weak. I would say a majority maybe of the time, that's why I'm so impressed with Judge Cannon in Florida, how strong she was, how she held up. It actually made her more resolute than anything I've seen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean it was amazing because they were hitting her so hard. It was so sad to watch this, but it's sad what they do to other judges. It's very sad what they do to the Supreme Court. And all of -- a lot of the judges that I had, if you look at them, they take tremendous abuse in The New York Times and The Washington Post, all of the different networks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They take such abuse. And honestly, they're -- very simply, they're afraid of bad publicity. They don't want bad publicity and it's truly interference in my opinion. And it should be illegal, and it probably is illegal in some form. There's no difference than speaking to a judge or shouting to a judge or doing whatever you have to do in a courthouse.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're doing it behind the back. They're usually doing it anonymously. They're saying anonymously, off the record, the judge is no good, but everybody knows where it's coming from. And it's totally coordinated. It's a campaign and it's by the same scum that you have been dealing with for years like guys like Andrew Weissman, deranged Jack Smith.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's a guy named Norm Eisen, I don't even know what he looks like. His name is Norm Eisen of CREW. He's been after me for nine years now. CREW is a charitable organization. And the reason I'm saying this, Todd, is I'm only going to get one chance to say this, but these are bad people. I don't know who he is. I don't know what he looks like.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But everything I read is Norm Eisen of CREW, and CREW is a charitable organization and that's a political thing. His soul life is to get Donald Trump and he's been vicious and violent and he's trying -- and he probably had pretty good success over the years. But with me, how did he do? I think I'm president.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Am I here because I'm president? But we had to take all of that abuse. Even during the trials, we had to take tremendous abuse, like, these wonderful guys. They're not legitimate people there. They're horrible people. They're scum and you have to know that. And you're going to have these cases where you can't allow yourselves to be deflected.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You just can't let it happen. You have such a higher calling and I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me or political arms of the democrat party, and in my opinion, they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal. It makes no difference how big a victory I had.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes no difference what kind of a failure the other side has. These people are going to go after me. And I said it during the other night during the big speech on Tuesday night, I said about democrats and I don't like that. I have great respect, by the way, for what Schumer did today.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He went out and he said that we're going to have to vote with the republicans because it's the right thing to do. I couldn't believe what I heard, but I think he's going to get some credit for it. I think, let's see what happens tonight with the big vote as it comes. But these networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative and it has to stop.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It has to be illegal. It's influencing judges and it's really changing law and it just cannot be legal. I don't believe it's legal and they do it in total coordination with each other and everything we do, we're restoring law, restoring order and restoring public safety in America. That's what we want to do. And we're bringing honor and integrity and accountability back to the highest levels of the FBI, DOJ and throughout our government.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're bringing our country back faster than anyone ever thought possible. We're working so hard at doing it and we want fairness in the courts. The courts are a big factor. The elections, which were totally rigged, are a big factor. We have to have honest elections. We have to have borders and we have to have courts and law that's fair, or we're not going to have a country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly, but he didn't know about it and he, generally speaking, signed it with a pen. So how would he know? That auto pen is a big deal. I don't know. They're having, who's doing this? So when my people come up, Will and all of the people, Steve, they come up, and sir, this is an executive order.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They explain it to me and 90 percent of the time I sign it. 99 percent of the time, I say do it. But they come up and I sign it, but you don't use auto pen. Number one, it's disrespectful to the office. Number two, maybe it's not even valid because who's getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If he did, all of these bad things wouldn't be happening right now. But we're going to get you back into a great position and we've already started. They say that we had the most successful first month of presidency. It's not a long time, but it's still a lot. It's like if you're a golfer sinking a three-foot putt on the first hole, gives you confidence to sink something on the second hole.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But if you miss that first putt, you don't like to have the putt on the second hole and the third hole. It can be a very bad experience. It's nice to get that first month and now we have more than a month. Now we have a month and a half and it's going really, really well. I can tell you a little secret, although the cameras are blazing back there, so it's not that much, but I think we're doing well, as you have been hearing about Ukraine.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think we're doing now well with Russia. We're speaking with President Putin. We want to get the war over. Not only have we spent maybe $350 billion to Europe's -- think of that, $350 billion to $100 billion and yet we're across the ocean far away. So it shouldn't have been that way, but Biden let that happen too and we're getting a deal where we're going to get that back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But much more importantly, are the lives that we're talking about. On average, 2,000 young people are being killed every single day. Now, they're not from here. They're from nowhere close to here, but they're young people. They're human beings and they have parents. They have sisters and brothers, the mothers and fathers, the friends and the families and the towns where they grew up and they're losing on average 2,000, even 2,500 a week.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I want to get it stopped. And we've had some very good calls today with Russia and with Ukraine. They've agreed for a ceasefire if we can get it with Russia. And it's not easy. It's a tough one, but I think we're doing it. And as the secretary general said yesterday of NATO, a terrific guy, he said without Trump, we wouldn't be talking about it. It would just go on for years, and millions more people, millions of people have been killed, but millions more people would be killed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he said it was a great honor. Without me, it would just keep going on. We're looking for the ceasefire now with Russia and we've had some very good talks about it. We've had some very good responses. And I can tell you that there was a case where there would have been no war if I were president, and it's just 100 percent would not have happened, would never have happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I speak to President Putin a lot about it. I said, don't do it, don't do it. I won't tell you what the consequence was. I won't tell you what he -- but if he believed even 5 % of what I said then he would say I'm not going to do it and I think he did. But we had a good relationship and we had a professional relationship and he has respect for this country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think we've had some very good results. So I haven't been able to say that to anybody else. I haven't wanted to say it until just before I came here, I got some pretty good news. But we have to see what happens. It's still a long way to go. The fighting is unbelievable. Russia has a large group of Ukrainian soldiers as we speak, surrounded and in grave danger.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They've been able to surround them. They're in grave danger. Biden should have never let this war happen. First of all, you don't want to pick on somebody that's a lot larger than you, even with the money. There's a lot of money that we gave them and a lot of equipment. We make the best military equipment in the world, but even with all of that, it's unbelievable.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right now, you have a lot of Ukrainian soldiers that are encircled and in grave danger and I've asked them not to kill those soldiers, please, not to kill those soldiers. We don't want them killed. It's such a shame to see what's happened. A thing like that would have never happened. Inflation would have never happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
October 7th would have never happened, Israel. Iran had no money. They were totally broke. Think of it. They had no money to give to anybody. They were totally broke. And within a short period of time, as soon as Biden came in, he took out all the sanctions in China and everybody else that wasn't buying oil from Iran was buying it at levels that they never spent before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it was a sad thing. And if you look at Afghanistan, that was probably what got Putin started because when he looked at how horribly we looked, I think the most embarrassing day, not that we got out because we were getting out. I would have been out faster than them. I was the one that got it down to the right level.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we would have kept Bagram, the big Air Force base. We would have kept it. Right now, China occupies Bagram and the reason we would have kept it is because they were one hour away from where China has and builds its nuclear missiles and weapons. And they gave that up at the dark of night. They left the lights on and they left the dogs behind, by the way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A lot of people say what about all the dogs? They had a lot of dogs and they left the dogs behind. And what a shame, what a shame. The way we got out I think was the most humiliating time in the history of our country, the way it happened. Not that we were getting out because we wanted to get out, but we would have gotten out with dignity and strength.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what a difference a rigged and crooked election had on our country when you think about it, and the people who did this to us should go to jail. They should go to jail. So I just want to say, God bless America because we have to say, God bless. We're lucky we're still here, frankly, and this whole thing could lead, I think.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think we have it, I think we have it, but this could lead to World War III very easily. It could very easily lead to World War three, but I think we're in pretty good shape, a lot better than we were before we got involved. That I can tell you. That was heading into World War III territory and that would have been a war like no other because of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons that you don't even want to know about.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But as many of you do know well, we're focused on persecuting and these people were really focused on persecuting republicans. The last administration presided over the worst increase in violent crime in our country in many, many decades. We had levels of violence and crime and a lot of it had to do with the illegal immigrants that came in. Remember when I used to complain about it, because I knew how tough they were, how mean they were.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they said no, no people that come into our country are all wonderful people. No, they're not wonderful. These are stone cold killers. These are killers like -- they make our killers look nice by comparison. They make our killers look nice. These are rough tough people with the tattoos all over their face.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Historically speaking, I don't want to discriminate against anybody but historically speaking they're not going to be the head of any major bank that we know of. These are rough people. These are rough, rough killer people and they allowed them in by the millions. In major cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, mothers can't walk their children to the park without fear of being shot or killed or raped or anything.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Women can't ride the subway without worrying that a hoodlum will shove them onto the train tracks. In New York, it's happened twice in the last couple of weeks. They're standing there, a perfect Wall Street gentleman in one case, and another person who was a worker, good worker, an electrician -- gets pushed into a train going 45 miles an hour just prior to the train.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Not stopping, going to go through that. I know the stations very well. I used to take the subway. It used to feel safe. When I was young, I'd go to -- my parents would drop me off at the subway, I'd take the subway to my school. Can you believe it? Today they wouldn't be doing that. And we want to back -- we want to get a country back maybe where you can do that again, Pam. But it's so sad to see what's taking place.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Under the Biden regime, average monthly homicides increased by 14 percent, property crime rose tremendously, violent crime went up at least 37 percent that they know of. Rape soared by 42 percent, car thefts rose by 48 percent, and robberies surged to 63 percent to 100 percent, they don't even know what the number is. And I have no higher mission as president of the United States than to end this killing and stop this lawbreaking and to making America safe again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's what you're all about in this room. We want to protect Americans, and we protect everybody that's in our country, American or not American. We want to have a safe and proud country. We're joined today by dozens of police officers, sheriffs and sheriff's deputies from all across the country. My message to these law enforcement heroes is simple -- with me in the White House, you once again have a president who will always have your back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll always have your back. Thank you, fellas. Thank you. That's a lot of good-looking people. I will tell you, I feel safe. I'm glad you're in the room. I feel even safer. It's a lot of great people. On day one I signed an executive order directing attorney general to ensure that anyone who murders a police officer, immediately with as fast a trial as we can have, gets the death penalty.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And last month I fired all the radical left pro-crime US attorneys appointed by Joe Biden. There were so many that were bad, and I know there were some that were probably very good, but there were so many that were so bad and so evil, so corrupt. Instead of having Marxist prosecutors who want to put police officers in handcuffs and go after a police officer rather than a criminal, I appointed patriotic tough-on-crime warriors who will partner with police to put dangerous offenders behind bars, put them in jail.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're fully reviving 1033 program to provide state and local law enforcement with surplus military equipment, that we have so much of it. I did it in my last administration and I remember Obama wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it before me -- would not do it because he thought it made them look too strong, too military.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said no, that's what I want them to look like. I want them to look strong. And it was protective defensive equipment. We had billions of dollars. I gave it out and now I'm going to have a chance to give it out again. They didn't want to do it with Biden and Biden didn't know why. I didn't -- if they would have asked him, he wouldn't have been able to answer the question.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He could never answer a question. They said my press conference yesterday was longer than all of Biden's press conferences put together for the last four years. And I don't know if that's true, but it was close. And perhaps most importantly, we're securing our border and repelling the invasion of America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have -- you see the numbers have come down so -- and Tom Homan and Kristi were -- have been incredible, Kristi Noem, as secretary she's done great, and Tom Homan is -- I don't know if Tom Homan is here. But wherever he may be, I think he's chasing people out of our country. If he was here, I'd almost be disappointed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What are you doing, Tom? But he's a fantastic guy and he's a brave guy. Over the past four years, other countries emptied out their prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums and sent the killers, drug smugglers and bloodthirsty inmates from the filthiest dungeons of the world straight into the USA, an open border.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had an open border policy. Anybody could come in, no matter what you were, no matter where you came from, no matter what you looked like, no matter what you were doing, no matter what you did, no matter how many people you murdered, you could come right into our country. We have murderers right now walking the streets.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're joined today by Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter, Kayla, was attacked in her home three years ago, horrifically assaulted and strangled to death by an illegal alien MS-13 monster set loose into our country under the open border Biden regime. Kayla was one of countless American victims ripped away from their families by the open border policies of that administration.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're also joined by Kayla's stepfather, Jeremiah and several other courageous Angel families here today. And I'd love you to all just stand up and take a bow because you are incredible people. Please, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. But I want you to know that we are working every day to expel these savages from our country and ensure that what happened to your loved ones will never happen again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, their legacy is going to be a great one. Thank you all very much, appreciate it. On day one of my administration, I declared a national emergency on our southern border. Our first full month in office we achieved the lowest level of illegal border crossings ever recorded, OK, even lower than four years ago.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
For years, democrats and the media kept saying that we needed new legislation, we had to have new legislation. We needed it immediately, and I never had legislation, and I had the best border in the history of our country for almost four years. And by the time I got out, we had the lowest numbers ever. My favorite chart of all time was brought down that day, and on that chart said we had the lowest numbers ever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But it turned out that we really didn't need new legislation. All you needed was a new president. And I said that -- I said that the other night, that's all you needed was a new president saying close the borders because the Border Patrol is unbelievable, ICE is unbelievable. And all of our law enforcement is just incredible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
All of you guys are amazing, and the people of our country respect you and they love you. And a lot of times you don't hear that because you have to listen to the fake news back there. But they have great respect for you. So, I just want you to know that. And you know that includes our fire departments, too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They don't get spoken about enough. They go into some of the areas, I read where they're shooting them off ladders. Can you believe it? They go up to put out a fire, Leo, and they go and they shoot them off a ladder. It's just unbelievable. These firemen and women are incredible. So, I want to put them in the same category because they're just incredible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I also like the fact they voted for me like at 94 percent. So, I have to mention them. I have no choice, right? But the truth is they're phenomenal people, the law enforcement, fire, everybody, they're phenomenal. Basically, first responders, because that's what they are. They're first responders. And we're ending the migrant occupation of America.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what we're doing now is we're liberating our cities and our suburbs, and our towns and you see a big difference. I'm getting calls all the time from even leaders of other countries saying, sir, the whole world feels liberated now. It feels like there's a light over America, but there's a light over the whole world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I hear that so much. It's so nice to hear too. And I feel it -- I mean, I feel it. I look at -- I see the polls. I don't know if the polls are right, but they're certainly very good. I'll take them right now. It's amazing, amazing what's taken place in such a short period of time, really six weeks, but it's longer than that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's really November 5th. I think that hopefully will go down. If you do your job great, it'll go down as the most important day -- one of them at least in the history of our country. You know, July 4th was pretty -- 1776, It was pretty important, too. But let's see if we can top it. Can we top it? I don't know.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a tough one, but we're going to try. But it will be one of the most important days in the history of our country. So, I think -- and I think everybody in this room wants that to happen. Last month, we officially designated MS-13 and Tren de Uruguay. That's the Venezuelan gang, the toughest gang they say in the world and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a big deal. Nobody wanted to do that in the past. And by the way, we've caught hundreds of them, the Venezuelan gang, which is as bad as it gets. And you'll be reading a lot of stories tomorrow about what we've done with them and you'll be very impressed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you'll feel a lot safer too, because they are a vicious group. They went into Colorado. They took over areas of Colorado. They sort of were like me. They were in the real estate business, but they didn't go out and get financing. They just took over a building and kept it, and they said to the tenants, get the hell out of here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One man called the police and they cut off his fingers and they say, you call again, your other fingers and you call a third time and you're dead. These are tough people and bad people and we're getting them out of our country. And some are so bad, we don't want to get them out. We have to put them in jail because we don't want to even take a chance that they can come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including the depraved kingpin charged with the 1985 murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena, and that was a big deal. If you know, they've been looking for this person for years, many years and we got them. This evil killer will be now prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and we know that -- well, let's put it this way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I have to be nice. It's a very strong case. We're stopping the criminals pouring across our borders at record levels, and we're also stopping the massive quantities of deadly drugs. In 2023 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans in 12 months than they did during the entire decade between 1980 and 1990, so 10 times more, but it's much more than that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
More Americans died from fentanyl last year than died in the Korean War or the Iraq War, or the Afghanistan war, all of them combined. That's why I've placed large tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and they will remain in place until these deadly poisons stop pouring into our country. And I will tell you, as soon as I put on the tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, unbelievable results have been seen in the last few weeks, unbelievable results.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They weren't happy about it. You probably read, they weren't happy, but they are working like hell to end it and they weren't working very hard before I did that. With us today is a brave mother and advocate and funder who lost her beautiful 15-year-old son Weston to fentanyl. And Anne, if you would, I'd like to ask you to come up and say a few words, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, darling. You're going to be great. Let me put that down a little bit.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
Thank you. Well, first I want to say thank you. I think this is the biggest honor of my entire life, being on stage with President Trump. But I want to tell you a little bit about my son Weston, who absolutely loved President Trump. He had a beautiful Trump 2020 flag hanging in his bedroom and he had it on the beach one day and we took a picture and it became our 2020 Christmas card, with the most perfect slogan for President Trump, peace on Earth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
What would happen in the next four years would be devastational [ph] to our country and our safety of our children. And in 2022, Weston lost his life, a freshman in high school at the age of 15, from a single pill that took his life. The cartels were allowed to operate on American soil and took hundreds of thousands of American lives.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
And so we knew there was only one person that could save us from the devastation on our American soil and that was President Trump. And so in 2024, we did the best thing that we could do to keep America safe again and we elected President Donald J. Trump. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
Thank you, and he's done everything that he has promised. We have a 98 percent decrease in border crossings and he has labeled the cartels terrorist organizations. And he has instilled tariffs because there is no price on human life. And so I feel like I can speak for the entire fentanyl fighting community when I say thank you to President Trump and thank you to Pam Bondi and everyone out here who is fighting this fight.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
God bless you. God bless you, President Trump and God bless America. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. You did a great job. He's up there, watching you. He's up there watching you and he's so proud of mom.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Anne Fundner
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, Anne, very much. And Weston is -- I just said to Anne, Weston is up in heaven, watching his mom and he's so proud of you. He's so proud of you. Thank you. We're also joined today by a number of other American families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl. And I'd love you to just stand up for a second and we want to acknowledge you and also your daughters, your sons.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're looking down on you and they're loving you like crazy, so thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This department will not rest until we have ended the fentanyl epidemic in America once and for all. In less than two months since I took office, the DEA and FBI have seized nearly one million deadly doses of fentanyl and that's just the beginning.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
At my direction and working with Pam and everybody else, we've launched an all-out war on fentanyl traffickers, and it's a war that we're going to win. We're going to win this war. I spoke with the president of Mexico, very nice woman, very fine woman. And I said, let me ask you, you're sending a lot of drugs into our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're not liking it at all, can't do that. But I said, is Mexico, does it have much of a drug? She said no, we're not a consuming nation. I thought it was an interesting term. And I said why? Which I've heard also, by the way, they're not a consuming nation. They distribute, but they don't consume. But I said, why are you not a consumer?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we're very close with family. I said, so we're very close with family too. I mean, our families are being devastated and we're just as close. Why else? She said, well, we spend a lot of money on advertising saying how bad drugs are and they're very rough ads. They show the skin falling off and the teeth falling out and going blind and losing hair and everything that these things do that you look like you just came out of a horrible concentration camp.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And she said it was their rough adds. And it's not often that I feel I've learned something from a phone call, because I've had a lot of phone calls over my life, but I realized right then and there what a great idea that is. And we have hired Susie, a great person who did a lot of our campaign work and we've come up with an advertising campaign that's, I think, really incredible.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
More than anything else, it's terrible to watch. It's terrible to watch. It's the only way it's going to work. And I would be -- because we got the numbers down, 18 percent, would have a blue-ribbon committee headed by the First lady of the United States who everyone loves and some of her friends and they work so hard.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But it's a tough, it's a tough deal. They're dealing with a very smart and very vicious people. Some of those businesses, those cartels are run better than any business in America. They say they're run incredibly, not just here, they all over the world. They run like a major business, but in many cases, better.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said, we got it 18 percent down. Well, 18 percent is incredible. It's like a record. But when you think of it, it's not very much. And the way you get it down, if you want to get it down to close to 100 percent is with the death penalty, but I think maybe America is not ready for that. China has the death penalty.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Singapore has the death penalty. Various places have the death penalty. Wherever you have the death penalty, you don't have drugs, but I just don't know if this country is ready for it. So I tell people and it's always an option, but I don't know. I just don't know if you're ready for it and that's OK. It's nothing you can do. But what we're going to do is we're doing this campaign and I think we can get it down 50, 5-0 percent with this campaign, because when people see all the horrible things that these drugs do to you and we're especially focused on fentanyl.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
When they see all of the horrible things that happen when you take drugs, how you look, you lose your look. Everyone's vain. They don't want to lose their look, the look is so important, and I think when they see these things, they may say, you know what, I'm going to take a pass. But there is big danger. Pam and I were talking about it before. A lot of people are taking fentanyl and not even knowing. They think they're doing something else or maybe taking another drug, but at a much lower level, and they die.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You can put on the pin -- think of this, the head of a pin, fentanyl, and it's too much and it will kill the strongest person in the room. And it's amazing, but we're going to do this campaign. It's going to be launched fairly soon, Suzy, and I think it's going to have a big impact. I think if we got it down by another 30, 35 points, and I really believe we can.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think that's an incredible idea. So, I thank the president of Mexico actually. It was a call on tariffs, and we talked about drugs. And she gave me an idea that I think will be very successful. And based on what I saw, it's going to be amazing. Under our leadership, this department is once again laser focused on protecting the American people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're defending our borders, our streets, our children and our good -- really God given -- this is God given rights and liberties. Once and for all we're going to defend our country and we're going to defend our rights. Etched onto the walls of this building are the words English Philosopher John Locke said, where law ends tyranny begins.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I see that, and I saw it over the last four years when somebody was allowed to attack viciously, with this department and the FBI, his political opponent. How did that work out? Didn't work out too well, but it wasn't pleasant. It wasn't pleasant. I was attacked by a political opponent and probably it helped that I was attacked more than anybody in the history of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Alphonse Capone, the great Alphonse Capone, legendary Scarface, was attacked only a tiny fraction of what Trump was attacked, and maybe it worked out well. I don't know. If I had to give it up, I probably wouldn't, but only because I've gone through it. But I wonder what the difference would be. Maybe they helped get me elected by those margins, the big margins, the big mandate that we received.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But you can't go after your political opponent. Nobody's ever seen anything like it actually, and hopefully they won't see anything like it. But now with the return of law and order, the entire world is witnessing the triumph of American justice and American freedom. That's why we're here today gathered with people that have love for our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In the coming years, we will revive the storied legacy of this department and it's happening right now, I can feel it, and rekindle the spirit of the great lawmen and legal lions of the past, Americans like Wyatt Earp, Eliot Ness, Frank Hamer, Rudy Giuliani -- Rudy Giuliani had to suffer greatly, greatly; the greatest mayor in the history of our country had to suffer greatly -- Ed Meese, Antonin Scalia, Robert Jackson and Robert F. Kennedy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We will rebuild pride in our institutions, we will restore the prestige of this great department, and we will bring back faith in our justice system for the citizens of every race, religion, color and creed. And I want to just tell you that this has been a great honor. I was asked to do it, and I said, is it appropriate that I do it? And then I realized it's not only appropriate, I think it's really important and I may never do it again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I may never have another chance to do it again because this is something that I'm leaving to the greatest people I know, the best people, the smartest people, the toughest people I know and they're going to do an incredible job. And it's an honor for me to have won this election so that I could appoint these people to do their job and they're going to do it like you have never seen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I just want to wish all of you good luck. It's going to be an interesting journey. It's not going to be easy, but you're going to win. You're going to win, win, win and fight, fight, fight, and it's going to end up being a tremendous result for this country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, thank you all very much. God bless America. God bless you all. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you, coach. Wow, what a nice-looking group this is. What a beautiful group of people. And especially a very big hello to the University of Alabama. Congratulations to the class of 2025. Roll Tide. Roll Tide. There are things that happen in life that are very important, and you always remember where you were when they happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As a student at Alabama, you'll always remember where you were when your head coach, Nick Saban, retired. Remember that? Because he's done such a fantastic job. The last time I was here -- And that's true with Nick, what a great coach. Let's bring him back. No, you have a good coach right now though. You have a good coach right now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was great. But the last time I was here, the Crimson Tide beat the Georgia Bulldogs, 41 to 33. I was here, I got to watch it, that was some game. Today, it's my pleasure to return to this campus as the first president ever to deliver the keynote commencement address to this truly great American university.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a great school. And there's nowhere I'd rather be than right here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Title town, USA, that's what it's become. And I love this place, maybe it's because I won Alabama by 45 points. Could that be the reason, 45? The way they say, the polls have closed in Alabama, Trump has won Alabama immediately.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was very quick. It was very, very quick and nasty. That's what we like. They put all seven of your commencement ceremonies, I don't know if you know this, but they put them all together, first time ever, so I better do well, or I'm in big trouble. But I want to thank President Bell for his 10 years of distinguished service, highly-respected gentlemen.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But 10 years of service to this great university overseeing the education of 100,000 proud Alabama graduates. That's something to have on your record. I also want to thank Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, who's here with us, and she's a fantastic -- Where is she? Where is she? She's around here someplace. She's here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I just took a picture. I said, "You're doing a great job." Along with the very wonderful man, a friend of mine, Senator Tommy Tuberville. Where's Tommy? Tommy's great. When he wanted to run for the Senate, I said, "Well, you beat Alabama six times in a row. How can you run for the Senate?" He said, "Well, I just look at them and I say, 'well, I was responsible for them getting Nick Saban.'" I said, "That's a good reason." And he won, very easily he won, but I'll never forget that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thanks also to a wonderful person, representative Lisa McLean, a great person, highly respected. Gary Palmer, Robert Adderholt, Dale Strong, Ronnie Jackson, Ralph Norman, along with Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth, Alabama Attorney General, Steve Marshall, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen. Great people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Alabama Senate President pro tem Garland Gudger, Chancellor Sid Trant and members of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. But most importantly, and they would agree with this, let's give a big round of applause to your incredible parents, grandparents, and family members, because they made this wonderful day possible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Without them, it doesn't happen. Without them, you probably aren't here and you wouldn't have that big, beautiful smile on your faces. This year, the graduating Alabama class of 2025 has over 6,600 graduates. You're the largest class in school history. Among your ranks are among the 800 first generation college students and nearly 3000 students from right here in the great state of Alabama.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Amazing. And this class also includes many Rhodes Scholars, Goldwater Scholars, 213 Merit Scholars, and over 1500 students graduating with red caps. You know what that signifies? 4.0 GPA. That's a lot of students. That's a lot of students. That's pretty good. I know who I'd pick. I'd look for a red cap. I'd say, "I want you to work for the beautiful Trump Administration, this lovely administration." In addition, the class of 2025 is nearly 130 active duty service members, veterans and members of the University of Alabama ROTC.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you. Everywhere you look, you can see the fierce spirit of this school, but nowhere more clearly than in your world-class athletics, there's nothing like it. Probably, there's no school like it. That's why I would like to recognize the 11 graduating seniors on the University of Alabama football team.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Where may they be? Where are they? You just have to look and they're about a foot taller than everybody else. Oh, great. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Great season. Thank you. Thank you. Great season. There is something truly special about the players, coaches, and the fans who packed the stands at Bryant-Denny Stadium and proudly sing Dixieland Delight.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We like that. Alabama has changed college football forever and inscribed into the history books the names of Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, four Heisman Trophy winners, and of course the great Nick Saban. This place is truly where legends are made. It really is. It's a special place. When your President called, we talked about it. It took me about two seconds to say, "I'll go." I wasn't looking to do it, and we are busy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're winning a lot of battles right now. We love winning. Don't we love winning? We're winning a lot of battles, but I wanted to do this. For the University of Alabama, good isn't good enough, tough isn't tough enough, and great isn't great enough. The Crimson Tide does not rest, does not quit, and does not stop winning until it's all time.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's all time. You're always winning and you're going to keep winning. That's why the University of Alabama football team has won more games in the last decade than any college football team in America. That's not bad. And it's why, last fall, you beat Auburn for the fifth year in a row. That's not bad. That's not bad.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The University of Alabama has a brand, and that brand is winning. That brand is winning. Great school. Last year, the Crimson Chaos watched the Tide Hoops make it to the final four for the first time ever, and this year, you built on your incredible record and returned to the Elite Eight. So, not only is Alabama a great football school, it's now one of the nation's best basketball schools and congratulations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I love sports. I think I should have come here. I think I should have come here. Congratulations as well to the women's track and field team for winning two SEC titles this year. That's something. And as long as I'm President, we will always protect women's sports. Men will not play in women's sports.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No way. They say that's an 80/20 issue. No, it's a 97/3 issue, I think. No men will not be playing in women's sports. I said that and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know. It's done. The class of 2025 was the first to enter the halls of this university in the aftermath of COVID-19. Following a difficult senior year of high school, many of you came here to Tuscaloosa from around the country, and for the very first time, you experienced something called freedom.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You had freedom. So, let's give a big round of applause to the leaders of this state who chose liberty over lockdowns. They did. They did a good job. They did a good job. As you know, there are few campuses in the world more beautiful than this one, and there are few memories sweeter than the ones you have formed really at this capstone, and at the capstone, you'll miss the beautiful sounds of Denny Chimes, the excitement of lining the Walk of Champions, the Saturday tailgates at the Quad.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As you graduate, it's natural to reflect on four years of happy memories, and you've really had happy memories here. You've done a lot of winning. Winning is a good thing to do, but today, I'm also asking you to look forward to really something very, very bright and more promising, and it's going to be an even more promising tomorrow.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I promise you that. You are the first graduating class of the Golden Age of America. We're in the Golden Age. You watch, it's the Golden Age. This is the Golden Age. We've done things that nobody thought possible. 100 days, yesterday. 100 days, and we've done things that nobody thought even possible. Like many generations before you, you're graduating at an exciting time for our nation, a period of both extraordinary change and incredible potential and what will be unbelievable growth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're going to see that very soon. You're going to see it starting very, very soon. Whole world is talking about it. Our country has always been defined by its ability to reform and reinvent itself to meet the challenges of the next era. The last four years were not good for our country. But don't let that scare you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was an aberration. We're run by people who truly -- At that time, four years, we were run by people that didn't have a clue. They didn't have a clue, and I'm trying to be nice when I say it that way. They allowed our beautiful USA to be laughed at, scorned and taken advantage of by everybody. We were ripped off on trade by nations all over the world, both friend and foe.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And oftentimes a friend was far worse on trade than the foe. But those days are over. You're at the start of something very, very big. You're going to see that very soon. Now, exactly, 250 years after the first patriots stood and fought at Lexington and Concord, we're in the midst of another kind of revolution, a revolution of winning and a revolution of common sense.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Common sense. Everywhere you look, broken systems, corrupt institutions, and tired dogmas are being swept away by the tide of history. Ancient wisdom is being rediscovered, and the best and strongest traits of America are coming back for all to see; bigger, better, and greater than ever, coming back, and they're coming back fast.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The spirit of our age is one of boldness, vigor, ambition, and adventure, and it's exciting to be you and young. Oh, I'd pay a lot of money to have your age. You have a great future. The people have rejected the voices of a failed establishment. You saw that in the election. We've turned the page on endless wars, crippling debt, open borders, ruinous inflation, and the lack of respect for our country and for its leaders.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're turning that all around and we're turning it around very fast. We will very quickly make America great again. Right? This week, we're celebrating the most successful first 100 days of any presidential administration in the history of our country. And we've been given a lot of credit for that, but a hundred days does not a full term make.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're going to do even better as we move along. In a matter of weeks, we've achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded. And you've seen it, hundreds of thousands of people pouring into our country, from prisons, from mental institutions, from gangs and all over the world, not just in South America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You'd see hundreds of thousands of people pour across in one day. You know what we had just recently? Three. Three, three. And we slashed the number of illegal aliens released into the United States by 99.999%. And if that number's wrong, the fake news, which is all over the place today, is going to be correcting me before I get to the next sentence.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now, 99.999%. How about that? Nobody thought that was possible. They said you needed legislation. No, you just needed a new president, that's what you needed. But despite the tremendous success, as you've been reading, the courts are trying to stop me from doing the job that I was elected to do. We won by millions of votes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We won all seven swing states, seven out of seven. We won 312 electoral college votes. They said, "Oh, 270 would be great." We won 312, and 2,750 counties versus 525 counties throughout the nation. That's why, when you look at a map, it's all red. It's all red. Every inch of it is red. A little couple of blue dots.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But they have to let us do the job that the voters want us to do. Judges are interfering, supposedly based on due process, but how can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally? They want to give them due process. I don't know. We've created 350,000 new jobs, and brought core inflation down to its lowest level in many, many years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Energy is down. Look at your cost of energy, way down. Groceries are down. Even eggs are down. Remember, I came in, remember I was here a week and they started screaming at me, the fake news, "Egg prices have doubled." I said, "I just got here. I've been here for four days." I said, "Tell me about egg prices." They said, "They've doubled." Well, they didn't double under me. I just got there and we did a great job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We brought down the cost of eggs. In fact, they said, you won't have eggs for Easter. They wanted to give -- we have a big Easter egg hunt at the White House, you saw it just take place, and they thought we should order thousands of plastic eggs, plastic. They said, "No, we'll do it." And we straightened out the egg situation very quickly.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Our great Secretary of Agriculture did a fantastic job, and we had so many eggs we didn't know what the hell to do with them. And prices of eggs have gone down 87% since I took office. That's something, right? But the price of food has gone down and mortgage rates are down and gasoline prices just hit $1 and 88 cents a gallon in three states.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Can you believe it? It was at 3.50. It was at four. We're drilling. Oh, we're drilling. You know drill, baby drill, right? We drill, baby drill. We do that. We got it down, we have it going good. And when energy drops that much, you don't have much inflation. It's hard to have inflation. It was just announced that in the first quarter, investments in the United States are up 22%, that we're leading the whole world in investment.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Everybody's pouring into our country with big dollars. And it's all about November 5th. The November 5th election and tariffs and incentives that we've given that are going to make this country so much richer. We have $36 trillion in debt. That's going to start to come off. It's going to come off rapidly, but we'll be over $8 trillion in investment with Apple and others investing $500 billion each.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've never had a period of time in two months because we're here for three months, a little bit more, but give me a break for the first month, had to get a little acclimated. Had to see where the enemy lies because they're already looking to impeach Trump, these crazy people. Let's impeach him. For what?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't know exactly, but we'll try it. These people are crazy. So we had to get our bearings for the first couple of weeks. So in two months we had over $8 trillion, think of it, committed. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. There's never been anything like it in any country at any time and it's all because they want to avoid the tariffs.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We want to get here fast. And I said a number of times, tariff, it's the most beautiful word in the world. And I got absolutely decimated by the fake news. They said, what about love? What about your wife? What about your parents? What about religion and God? So I said, all right. It's the fifth-nicest word I've ever seen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And since I've done that, I've been in good shape. Nobody's bothered me. They've been very nice. So it's the fifth most beautiful word I've ever heard, but it's making us very rich and you'll be seeing the results pretty soon, sooner than most people think, because that's what other countries have been doing to us just so you understand.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They were tariffing the hell out of us. We couldn't sell cars in Europe. We couldn't sell cars in China. We couldn't sell cars in Japan or anywhere else. We couldn't do anything. And all we're doing is we're doing it to them, but we're doing it much better. And the US military is suddenly seeing its best recruiting numbers ever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've never had numbers like this. We now have waiting lists because there is such incredible spirit in our country. There's a great spirit. And just think, six months ago, and you remember, and it was embarrassing, -- before the election, six months ago we were hearing and reading that numbers of those joining our military were at the worst levels ever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've never had anything like it, right? You remember that? And now they're at the best levels ever. We have waiting lists to get into the military. We couldn't fill the positions. And that included in our police forces, our fire departments, we love our fire departments also. We can never forget our fire departments.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But our police forces were begging for help and now they're brimming over with people and applicants and they're getting great ones. It's amazing what's taken place, and that's really the spirit. Each of the graduates in this arena will soon have the chance to help lead this project of national renewal. And that's what it is. It's a national renewal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We suffered so badly for four years. We had one of the greatest economies. We actually had the greatest economy in the history of our country during the first term of Trump. And then we got hit hard with inflation during the Biden economy. It was horrible. We were hit so hard, the worst probably ever, they say 48 years, we'll accept that, but I would say ever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You'll embrace this moment and you'll step forward with strength and grit, faith and patriotism to put America on a new trajectory for your children. And then you'll take your place among the greatest generations in the history of our country. I think you have a chance to be the greatest generation in the history of our country because we're turning it around and you happen to be available.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're available. It's a good time to be available. There are some times when it's not so good to be available, but this is a great time. I'm absolutely confident that the Alabama class of 2025 is up to the task. Are you up to the task? You learned a lot about winning here at Alabama, and now we need you to help win for America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
For the business majors here today, I challenge you not merely to use your talents for financial speculation, but to apply your great skills that you've learned and had to forging the steel and pouring the concrete of new American factories, plants, shipyards, and even cities which are going up all over our country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Don't just build a strong portfolio. Build a very, very strong America, and you're going to do that. To the engineers, brilliant you are. Technicians, scientists and math majors, we need your Alabama spirit and competition to keep our country at the forefront of every single domain. America should have the world's tallest buildings, design the fastest airplanes, build the greatest cars, do everything the absolute best, better than any other nation in the world, and you can do it. And we will soon land American astronauts on Mars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That will happen. That will happen. In every field you have studied, there are problems to be solved and breakthroughs to be made. To the journalism majors, of which I've had a lot of problems with, I must be honest. I'm not sure I like them. No, I do. I do. But you're really leading of everything because we need a great and free press.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We need a brilliant press. They're like a watch keeper. They're very important. And you can go out and take it down a new track, help save the country; so important. Your task is so important, and it's to build a media that Americans can trust and remember. The people of this country, they know the truth when they hear it. That's why the ratings, the approval numbers of the media are so low.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We need those ratings to be 100%. We have to be able to trust our media. They say you have to have that. You need strong, strong borders, and you need really free, fair, clean elections. You need those things, but the media is a big part of it. In the world of health and medicine, there is an exciting new movement to get poisons out of our food supply, keep toxins out of our government, clean out our environment, and make America healthy again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think Bobby is going to do a great job, don't you? I think so. I think he's the guy we needed. And in government, it is the task of your generation to replace bureaucracy graft and waste with a new system that defends American freedom. These are big tasks before you, but the reward for your hard work will be the United States of America is stronger, prouder, better, and more unified than ever, ever, ever before.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's going to be. As you embark on this great adventure, let me share some of the biggest lessons I've learned from a lifetime spent building dreams and beating the odds. I beat a lot of odds, a lot of odds. A lot of people said, "I don't know." But it worked out okay. Where are we? Oh gee, I'm President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
How did that happen? Now you're going to be in the same position. Would you like to hear some of the ideas, or should I just skip over that part, huh? That's going to be more interesting than all the other stuff which was slightly political. Right? I'm going to give it to you though, just as I see it and as I've learned it; the hard way and the easy way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
First, if you're here today and think that you're too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong. You're not too young. You can have great success at a very young age. You're all very young. In America, with drive and ambition, young people can do anything. I was 28 when I took my first big gamble to develop a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the Grand Hyatt, and it worked out incredibly well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I was very young at the time. I was a very young person in an old person business. Steve Jobs was 21 when he founded Apple. Walt Disney was 21 when he founded Disney. James Madison, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, they were no older than 25 when they began the journeys that etched their names into the history books for all time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So to everyone here today, don't waste your youth. Go out and fight right from the beginning. From the day you leave this incredible university, go out and fight. Fight tough, fight fair, but go out and fight. You're going to be very successful, because now is the time to work harder than you've ever worked before.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Push yourself further than you have ever pushed yourself before, find your limits and then smash through everything. Go and smash through. You've watched that football team smash through; you're going to do the same thing. You're at the age when you have the time and vitality to do really incredible things.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If you give, just give it your all. You'll look back in a decade from now, you'll be astounded by what you've achieved. You'll remember this day. You'll remember when the guy named Trump was giving the Commencement address and he said I could do it, and guess what, I did. I think you're going to remember that very fondly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I hope so. Second of all, and very importantly, you have to love what you do. Okay? You have to. I rarely see somebody that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does. That's why really work isn't work; it's fun. I find it fun. I work all the time and I find it fun. If I didn't find it fun, I wouldn't be successful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Whether it was real estate or in show biz. I had a lot of different careers, but I loved real estate so much and I was very successful at real estate because I loved it. I learned a lot from my father because I watched him work. He was a workaholic. He worked. He loved to work. He's a good man. He was a tough guy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Tough as hell actually. Now that I think back, I don't know if you could even get away with that nowadays. He was tough, but he was a good man, I'll tell you. And he worked seven days a week. He worked Saturdays, Sundays. It didn't matter. And I learned by watching him. He loved his life. He loved what he was doing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He had a great long-term marriage. A long, long, many, many years, he beat me on that one. Mine are very successful, but they haven't lasted quite as long. It was close to 70 years. That was a long time. I said, "Pop, you beat me on that one." But you know what I learned from him? That he just loved life and all he did was work.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I see people that don't work hard and they're miserable, so go out and find -- But he loved what he was doing. And you have to find something that you love and you have to follow your own instincts. Listen to your parents. They're very wise, but you have to follow your instincts and your heart, your soul, and you want to be the very, very best you can be. Treat every day like a home game against Auburn.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Fight like hell and enjoy doing it. And your coach can tell you all about that. Third thing is to think big. You're going to do something, you might as well think big because it's just as tough. You can think small. I know a lot of people, they thought small, they're very smart. I know others that weren't nearly as smart, but they had a better picture of the big picture because it's just as hard to solve a small problem as a big problem and it's just as much energy and everything else except the result is going to be a smaller one.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So love what you do, but think big if it's possible. Now, if it's not possible, that's okay too. If you do something, you have to do something that you love. You will have all the same headaches and challenges, all the same delays and setbacks, so you might as well do something that's just amazing. America doesn't aim small.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Alabama doesn't aim small and neither do you. So think big. When possible, think big. Fourth is work hard. Work hard, never ever stop. An example is a great athlete, actually Gary Player, golfer, great, great golfer. He wasn't as big as other men. He was actually on the small side. Don't tell him that. Friend of mine, don't tell him that because he doesn't understand that.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he worked very, very hard. He made up for it. He never stopped. He won 168 golf tournaments. Think of that. 100. I said, "Gary, you're winning like every weekend. Do you ever choke or anything?" "I don't know what choke means." And he made a statement years ago that I read and I thought it was sort of an incredible statement.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He said, "It's funny, the harder I work, the luckier I get." Right? Think of that. The harder I work, the luckier I get. So you really have to work hard and you're going to be successful because you have the talent to get into this school. It's not easy to get through, it is even more difficult. You have a lot of talent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Fifth is don't lose your momentum. You just want to keep it going. And you have to know, if you are losing it, you have to know when you're losing it. So maybe you stop and maybe it's time to stop. Listen to the feedback, think through your plan very carefully and keep moving fast. The word momentum is very important.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, I'll just tell you a little story about a great real estate developer named William Levitt. He built Levittown. Some of you might live in a Levittown. He was the biggest developer of the whole country in the 1940s and he built these jobs. He started with one house, then two houses, then 20 houses, then thousands and thousands of houses.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And a company, Gulf and Western, came along and they said, "We're going to make you an offer to buy your company." And they offered him a lot of money, a lot of money, more money than he ever thought he could make and he retired, lost his momentum. He retired and he led a beautiful life. He had a wife, I must tell you, it was his second wife.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was a trophy wife. What can I say? I don't like telling you everything, but we're all friends, right? Can we talk? We're all friends. He had a trophy wife and he lived a different life. He moved to the south of France, but it was a life of tremendous luxury. He had so many millions of dollars, he was given a fortune for the company.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And 10 years went by and then 15 years went by and he got a call from this big conglomerate, Gulf and Western, and they said, "We're not doing well with the purchase," because he used to pick up every nail, every piece of sawdust, every piece of wood, every chip, everything, and he'd sell it and make a couple of bucks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Everything was perfect. They can't do that. These big companies, they don't do that. You see it a lot when an entrepreneur sells to a big company and then he ends up buying the company back for peanuts later on. Happens a lot. But he was the best at what he did. But 15 years went by and he was so excited and they sold him back his company, and he started and he was going to tear apart the world because he got bored with the life of luxury.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he started building and building and building, and the markets turned on him and he went bad. He lost everything and he went bankrupt, absolutely bankrupt. And it was a sad story to read. It was such an amazing story because he was so rich, but he paid them and he bought it for the right price, bought it low, but he went wild.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he lost his momentum. He wasn't good at it anymore. And he was at a party on Fifth Avenue, I'll never forget, and it was a party of, a very, very powerful man, was having the party, in a magnificent apartment overlooking the park. And I walked in and there were 50 or so people. I recognized most of them.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
All the biggest business people in the world, actually. Very glamorous. I was doing well. I was young and I was doing well, and I was invited to parties like that. And I looked in the corner and there was Mr. William Levitt sitting all by himself on a chair looking very glum. Nobody was talking to him. Because you'll find that when you're not successful, you lose a lot of friends.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not a good situation. But there was nobody talking to him, but I wanted to talk to him because I was in the real estate business and he was, and most of these people were in different businesses. And I went over and talked to him and I said, "How are you Mr. Levitt?" He goes, "Donald," he knew who I was, "not well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm not well." I said, "So can you come back?" He said, "No, son. I lost my momentum. I shouldn't have done it. I lost my momentum." And I never forgot that expression, he lost his momentum. If he would've kept going instead of selling and relaxing and going into a different life, he probably would've been three times bigger than he was.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he lost his momentum. And you have to know when it's your time. I mean, there'll be a time when you do lose. You see it with fighters. You see it with a lot of people. They have a great record and they retire. And then four years later they say, "I'm going back. I can beat that guy." And they get knocked to hell, and it's not good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not good. So he lost his momentum. You have to know when your momentum time is up. I call it momentum time. But follow your momentum. It's a very important word. You don't hear it from too many, but I've seen it. I've seen it a lot. Number six, if you want to change the world, you have to have the courage to be an outsider.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In other words, you have to take certain risks and do things a little bit differently. Otherwise, if that weren't the case, everybody would be successful. Doesn't it work that way. Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of a broken system, it comes from those who want to fix the broken system.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you'll make the bigger money, you'll make them more success by acting that way. The other way, may be more secure. But if you want to go to the top, you're just never going to do it unless you break the system. Change is never easy. And the closer you get to success, the more ferociously those with a interested interest in the past will resist you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They want to resist. So I just say, trust me on that, because I know, you really do, you have to break the system a little bit and follow your own instincts. But if your vision is right, nothing will hold you down. Nothing. You have to have the right vision. If you look at some of these internet people, I know so many of them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Elon is so terrific, but I know now all of them, they all hated me in my first term and now they're kissing my know ass. You know [Inaudible] -- it's true. All of them. It's true. It's amazing. It's nicer this way. Now, in the first, they didn't know what happened because I won an election that there was never a businessman that won a presidential election out of a hundred percent, 8% were generals, and 92% were politicians.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Not even admirals, not even -- just generals. There are eight generals, General Washington, General Grant. Generals. General Eisenhower. But 8% were generals and 92% were politicians. And when I ran, everyone said, "Well, he can't win. He's a businessman. That's not going to work." But you have a natural instinct for things.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I guess I had a natural -- I said to somebody, "Was I a better businessman or politician?" And they said, "Well, there are a lot of guys that made a lot of money, but there's only one guy that became president that was a businessman, so I guess you're a better politician." But I don't think of myself as a politician.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think of myself as a businessman, and I'm proud of that. And I've applied business instinct, and that's why I think you're seeing us doing so well. So number seven is to trust your instincts. Common sense. You can go very far in life with common sense. And I applied that to politics because some of these things, like they had open borders, let everybody in the whole world flow into our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's not common sense. They had transgender for everybody. We ended that, if you noticed. Okay, but they had transgender for everybody. I said, this is not working. This is not going to work. As I said before, so simple, men playing in women's sports. Did you ever see some of the records? Did you ever see some of these boxing matches?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have to protect, these women are great athletes, but we have to protect. If you looked at the Olympics where they had transitioned people going into the boxing where the women had boxing and they had a great champion, a female boxer, I mean after one punch, she walked back to the corner said, "I can't get hit like that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I've never been hit like that before." You look at all the volleyball players that have been hurt so badly with balls that are hit at levels that they've never seen before. But the greatest is like weightlifting. You ever see the weightlifting, where they have a record that wasn't broken in 18 years, and they have, should I imitate it? My wife gets very upset when I do this.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
She said, "Darling, it's not presidential." I said, "Yeah, but people like it." Should I do it, or not? [Audience responds "Do it"] All right. I'm in trouble when I get home, but that's okay. What the hell? I've been in lots of trouble before. But no, you look at the weightlifting, where 18 years it stands, and they have this young woman and her parents are right where you are in the front row.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they're so proud of her. And it's like 209 pounds, and she's going to lift that. The record stood for 18, think of it, 18 years. And they put an eighth of an ounce here and an eighth of an ounce here, a little tiny little bit. And she's going to do it, "Mom, I love you. I'm going to do it for you, mom." And she goes, and she lifts, and she gets it. "Mom, I'm going to do it, mom." Can't do it. And then a guy comes along, or a gal, or whatever.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A transitioned person comes along. And he was a failed weightlifter as a man. But he comes along, 206 pounds. They put the little thing on, and he goes, "Mom, mom." And breaks a record like by 119 pounds. That's not right. The other one is the swimming. You've heard me talk about it. Great swimmers. And they rose to the top, women swimmers, and they grew up together.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And there are Olympic class swimmers, and they're qualifying for some big tournament. And now the race is getting ready to start, the big race. And one young lady, she was going to set the record. And she fought all her life to set the record, just to win it by one ninth of a second. Think of that one ninth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't like those odds. One ninth of a second, right? But she looks to the left and she sees all the friends that she grew up with down in California from all over the country. They're all the best swimmers. Then she looks to the right, and she sees the same thing, but there's a person next to her who's a giant.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And she looks, and, "Oh my God, who is that? I have, I don't recognize that person." That was a person that transitioned, and he had the wingspan of Wilt the stilt Chamberlain if anybody knows him. And as you know what happened, she was very, very badly injured in that meet, because he went by her so fast that she was windburned.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They had to take her out. She got serious windburn. He flew back and forth and back and forth, and she didn't know what, but she got the hell knocked out of her, knowing that I'm only kidding, she wasn't windburned. She was just beaten by a lot. Or the race, did you see the race where they had the best female runners, and they had a guy who was a decent runner, a long-distance race?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he won by five hours and 19 seconds. Normally you win by like 12 seconds, 2 seconds, a quarter of a second. He won by five hours and 19 seconds. It's crazy. And honestly, it's demeaning for women. Very demeaning. These are great athletes. It's very demeaning. And we're going to protect women. We're going to protect women.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to protect everybody. So now that I'm in trouble with my wife, I'm going to blame the University of Alabama for asking me to go through with that stuff. But it's pretty descriptive, isn't it, really? It helps when you know that borders are not racist. Speech is not violence. America is good. Terrorists are bad.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Men can never become women. Police are not criminals. And criminals are not victims. Eighth, everybody should believe. Thank you. Thank you very much. Everybody should believe in the American dream. It's real. It's there, and it's right before you. We're coming back to the American dream. Ninth, think of yourself as a winner.<end_of_turn>
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