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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump The power of positive thinking. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale for many years ago wrote a book, The Power of Positive Thinking. And there is a lot to it. The power of positive thinking. Don't consider yourself a victim. Consider yourself a winner. In recent years, too many of our young people have really been taught to think of themselves as victims, and blame people and be angry.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Don't be angry. But in America, we reject that idea that anyone is born a victim. Our heroes are the ones who take charge of their own destiny, make their own luck, and determine their own fate, despite the odds, despite all odds, that's what happens. Really, they're given a little chance, in many cases, very little chance of success, and they become the most successful people in the world.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Whether you were born rich or poor, black or white, male or female in America, anyone can be a winner, and our whole country will be cheering you on. And I'll be at the front of the line cheering you on, especially because you come from this incredible university. And next is to be an original. The old time greats were people who had the confidence to be a little different.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Teddy Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Muhammad Ali, and so many other. So many others, far too many to name, lived their lives with pride, personality, and flair. God only created one of you. Remember that God created one of you. You're all different. Some are close, but nobody is the same.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You're one of a kind, so don't try to be someone else. Just be yourself. And finally, and most importantly, never ever give up. Never give up. Never give up. I've learned anything in life -- And it's so true. One of the most important things you can learn, if you just went a little bit longer, if you just held out a little bit longer, you would have been successful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump The stories of that are legend. But I've learned that perseverance is everything, so whatever happens, no matter where you are in life, stay optimistic and just keep pushing forward. Just don't stop. Never, ever give up. Victory is right around the corner. I've watched Coach Saban win games that really were, virtually, over.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You've seen it. You've been in the stands. He won a couple of games. I said, "Coach, you got lucky as hell." He said, "I didn't get lucky. I'm a talented guy." You know those little touchdowns that come out of nothing? He's amazing, but he's a guy that doesn't quit and doesn't know what the word quit even means.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He couldn't define it. He took victory out of the jaws of defeat, and you can do that, too. At every stage in my career, my enemies, of which there were many and probably are right now. I would say I can think of a couple of people that don't like me too much right now. But they said that they have to do everything they can to keep me from winning, to keep me from making it. I'm representing you, so I have to make it. I have big shoulders, but these are big shoulders.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I have to win for you. I'm not winning for myself. I'm winning for you. Do you remember when they said that, "Donald Trump will never become president of the United States"? Remember? Barack Hussein Obama said that. Barack Hussein Obama, "Donald Trump will never be president," like 50 other politicians said that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Where are they now? Oh, let me see. Oh, there they are. Where are they now? But here I am standing before you as the 45th and 47th president. You heard that a lot. But against all odds, I did great in 2016. 2016, how great was that? And then I did much better in 2020. [Audience members call out, inaudibly] Sorry, the election was rigged, probably, but it was a rigged election.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And then in 2024, I made it too big to rig. I said, "We got to do this again. We got to do this again." And we made it too big to rig. We made it. That was a great expression. I said, "You got to go and vote." Even though I was leading big in the polls, I said, "It doesn't matter. You got to make it too big to rig." And they did.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They went out, and they voted and voted and voted, and we won the whole thing. And it was so good. It's such a great mandate for our country. That's the important thing. So, never let anyone tell you that something is impossible, ever, ever, ever. In America, the impossible is what we all do best. There is nothing you cannot do, if you are willing to fight for it. You got to fight, fight, fight.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, I've heard that expression. Funny. That's not here. That's not here on the -- Actually, most of what I've said tonight is not on the teleprompter. That's all right. Isn't it nice to have a president that doesn't need a teleprompter and can have a little fun? Because I feel that this is home. It's been such a great state for me. I feel it's home.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump When they said Alabama, I said, "That has a good ring, to me." But it's something nice about somebody that doesn't need a teleprompter, isn't it? But for the past four years, you've lived in a state known for its fighters, its champions, and its warriors. You've lived in the great State of Alabama, one of the greatest of them all, from Huntsville to Birmingham, from Montgomery to Mobile, and from right here in Tuscaloosa to the gleaming shores of the Gulf of America.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Gulf of America, that is a nice ring. Everybody loves it. I wouldn't say Mexico is thrilled, but you can't have them all. They're not thrilled. You continue the legacy of Alabama legends who blazed the trails, won the games, tilled the fields, forged the steels, built the ships, and gave us the victories that built America and changed the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump The entire world was changed by our victories. This is the state that gave us the might of the Iron City, the power of the Saturn V rocket and the roaring engines of Talladega. Talladega. We love Talladega. We love Talladega. This is the state that gave us nothing but victory. The state of some of the greatest heroes and history, like Willie Mays, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, your coach, Nick Saban, Hank Williams, and many others.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Some of you will leave here today and travel the world, but you'll always know this state as -- This is really sweet home, Alabama, right? It's always going to be your place. I sort of feel that way myself because from a political standpoint, it's just been -- We connected from day one. From the first day I set my foot on this beautiful soil, I connected with Alabama and here in Alabama we believe that the men and women who built this country are heroes, and that America's destiny is to be the single greatest nation on the face of the earth, and we're bringing it back at a speed that nobody thought was possible.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We believe in freedom and family, God and country. We cherish our constitution, we revere our Bible, and we salute our great American flag. We honor our police, we respect our veterans, and we always stand for our one and only national anthem. We love our national anthem. We believe in strong parents, strong values, strong communities, and very strong borders, and we believe that the United States military is the greatest force for peace and justice the world has ever known.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have a great military. We just had people that didn't know how to lead it. We believe the South is beautiful. Alabama is great, and America is our home. We believe in the SEC and the USA. Graduates of the Alabama class of 2025, standing here before you in this magnificent arena, it is clear to see the next chapter of the American story will not be written by The Harvard Crimson.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It will be written by you, the Crimson Tide. True. That's true. That's true. That's true. I thought that was rather clever if you look at what's going on. They get their $5 billion a year. That is not going to be so forthcoming. Wasn't that a clever one though? Who would think of that? Because this is Alabama and at Alabama you fight, fight, fight, and you win, win, win.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's what you know how to do. Congratulations to you all. Congratulations to this great class of champions. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much, everybody. And I've been briefed on the Florida State University Tallahassee active shooting. I guess it's an active shooter. Uh, fully briefed as to where we are right now. It's a shame. It's a horrible thing. Horrible that things like this take place, and we'll have more to say about it later.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump In the meantime, it's an honor to have the Prime Minister of Italy with us, Prime Minister Meloni who's, uh, doing a fantastic job. I would say that she has taken Europe by storm and highly respected. Everybody loves her and respects her. And I can't say that about many people. And she's become a friend.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we really have a great relationship between Italy and ourselves, and we talked about trade. We talked about many, many things during our luncheon, and, uh, she'll be saying a few words. But she's a very special person, and it's nice to have you with us. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you for your warm welcome. Thank you for this occasion, which is aimed to strengthen our relation, our friendship that comes from very far. You know today is April 17th, and April 17th marks the anniversary of the agreement that allowed Cristoforo Colombo to make his trip.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni And I say it to remember our [Inaudible] or our ties but also to remind -- to remind that we both share another fight, which is the fight against the work and ideology that would like to erase our history. And as I know that we share lots of things on tackling illegal migration, on fighting against synthetic drugs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni You know, Italy has been one of the nations --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's right.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni That made a plan against fentanyl for example. But we have been talking about many bilateral topics and things that we can do together about defense, about economic -- about economy, about space, about energy. Uh, Italy will have to increase its LNG imports, uh, and also nuclear that we are trying to develop.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni I think there can be ways to work together, and the Italian enterprises will, uh, invest as they've been doing for many years as you know, in the next years, I think around 10 billion. That shows how interconnected our economies are. And that's very important, Mr. President. It's not only about Italy, it's about the entire Europe.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni The exchange between us is a very big one, investments, trade. It's a topic that we are discussing this week.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's right.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni But at the end of the day, look, somebody calls me, I was saying it before, such a Western nationalism. I don't know if it is the right word, but I know that when I speak about West, mainly, I don't speak about geographical space. I speak about civilization. And I want to make that civilization stronger.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni So I think even if we have some problems, OK, between the two shores of the Atlantic, it is the time that we try to sit down and find solutions. So I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future and consider a possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni The goal for me is to make the West great again, and I think we can do it together.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We can.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni And we will keep on working on that. I'm going to close. I want to say only, I'm proud of sitting here as prime minister of an Italy that today, has a very good situation despite the difficulties, a stable country, a reliable country, one million more jobs in the last two years and half.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Great.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni Inflation is going down. So forgive me if I promote a bit, my country, but you're a businessman and you understand me.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni So migration flow is going down 60 percent. So we are trying to do our best, but I think we can do it even better together. Also on Ukraine, I will close, together, we've been defending the freedom of Ukraine. Together we can build a just and lasting peace. We support your efforts, Donald. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Good. Thank you very much. And I think we're doing well in that effort, but we want to get it done and we'll see if we can. We want to save on average. Think of it, every week, 2,500 people are being killed, mostly soldiers, Russian, Ukrainian soldiers. And if we can save those lives, that would be a very good thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And so we'll see what we can do. And I think we're getting close, but we'll let you know very soon. And you've been very helpful. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any questions?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question On Russia. On Russia, Mr. President. How much longer does Vladimir Putin have to respond to your ceasefire proposal before you put secondary tariffs or sanctions on Russia?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll see what that will be. We're going to be hearing from them this week, very shortly, actually. And we'll see, but we want it to stop. We want the death and the killing to stop.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, on Jerome Powell. On Jerome Powell, you said that the termination of Jerome Powell could not come fast enough. He says he won't leave even if you ask him to.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to, he'll be out of there. But I don't think he's doing the job. He's too late, always too late, a little slow. And I'm not happy with him. I let him know it and, oh, if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, please. Question?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Are you trying to remove him, Mr. President?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You got a question?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] in a case against your administration, said the Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial order. Do you agree with that statement?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, you're going to have to speak to the lawyers. We have great lawyers. I can tell you this, we're doing a fantastic job of getting criminals out of this country who Biden allowed into the country, hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers and drug dealers. And I was elected because of the fact, I would say maybe that was the number one factor, a lot of reasons, the economy, a lot of things.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But one of the primary reasons I was elected is because I said, I'm going to get the criminals that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders, I'm going to get them out. And I got a lot of votes, record setting numbers of votes, as you know. We won everything, the popular vote, all seven swing states.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We want everything and that's what the public wanted. That's what I'm doing. But you'll have to speak to the lawyers because it's up to them. Say it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question What do you think of the proposal from France and the UK on a peace mission in Ukraine with soldiers? And do you think that Italy should take part into it?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I think Italy will have to make that determination, but peace missions are always good with me. I'm OK with peace missions. Yeah, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, have you discussed -- what areas of cooperation have you discussed with the prime minister vis a vis Italy and the United States and Europe and the United States? And China --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We discussed it very briefly. No, we're doing very well with negotiations. I think with all countries. And Scott could tell you a little bit, but we are doing very well. We have a lot of countries that want to make a deal. Frankly, they want to make deals more than I do. Go ahead, Scott. Would you say something, please?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Bessent Yeah, we've got [Inaudible] in place. We're working on the big 15 economies first. We had a fantastic meeting with Japan yesterday. I believe there have been calls with the EU already. And then we have a South Korea coming in next week. And I believe India is also talking. That's moving very quickly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has said he has evidence that China is supplying weaponry or ammunition to Russia. Do you have any evidence on those lines? And also, he said we could see a minerals deal signed this week. Is that --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, we have a minerals deal, which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday, Scott, next Thursday? Soon? And I assume they're going to live up to the deal, so we'll see. But we have a deal on that. No, I have no comment on that. I have no idea. That's his statement, not mine.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Can you comment on that? Is that accurate?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And they say the attack is what?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question That you waived off an Israeli plan to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I wouldn't say waived off. I'm not in a rush to do it because I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death. And I'd like to see that. That's my first option. If there's a second option, I think it would be very bad for Iran. And I think Iran is wanting to talk.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I hope they're wanting to talk. It's going to be very good for them if they do. And I'd like to see Iran thrive in the future, do fantastically well. I know the Iranian people, they're incredible people, always have been very smart, very energetic, very successful people. And I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt anybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I really don't, but Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's pretty simple. It's really simple. We're not looking to take their industry. We're not looking to take their land. All we're saying is you can't have a nuclear weapon. The deal that was made, the deal that was made with Obama, that deal would have expired already.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It was a terrible deal. It would have expired and that gave them a clear path to a nuclear weapon. I wouldn't have accepted. That's why I terminated the deal. Number one, it was way too short. When countries are involved, you don't make short term deals. These are countries with long lives. And I terminated that and it was a great termination because it didn't allow us to do anything once it terminated.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know what the deal was. It was a terrible deal, really, one of many terrible deals made by the US. But no, I'd like to see Iran thrive. And they can do that, I think very easily, or they can do it the other way. And the other way is not going to be good for them. It's going to be really bad for them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question What do you make of the NVIDIA CEO going to China and met with [Inaudible] officials there?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well Jensen's an amazing guy. He's become a friend of mine and I don't know. He's a person that's very proud of our country. He loves our country. I'm not worried about Jensen at all.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Mr. President [Inaudible] in contempt, will you take steps to return Kilmer of Borrego Garcia to the United States and put him in front of a judge?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I'm not involved in it. I'm going to respond by saying you'll have to speak to the lawyers, the DOJ. I've heard many things about him and we'll have to find out what the truth is. But I will say this, we were inundated by millions of people, many millions of people during the Biden administration. They say 21 million, and a big percentage of those are criminals, serious criminals.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I'm not saying just criminal because they came into the border illegally. I'm saying they're criminals at the highest level, murderers. Many of those people murdered more than one person and they're on the loose. And I was elected to get rid of those criminals, to get them out of our country or to put them away, but to get them out of our country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I don't see how judges can take that authority away from a president. We've done an amazing job, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem. We have done an amazing job. Nobody can believe the job we've done. Far greater than what I said. I mean, I got elected on that, but we've done much better. We have right now 99 percent border.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's at 99 percent. Nobody thought that would even be -- nobody's coming through our border practically. Two weeks ago, we had nine people come through all for medical reasons. We allowed them -- we brought them through because one had a heart attack, one had something else. All for medical reasons. We have a great border.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We had a great border four years ago, but we have a border now that's even tighter, and we did that in a matter of weeks. And, uh -- no -- we have to -- we need -- we need to get murderers and drug dealers and people that were in jail for horrible -- you know, they released jails, Giorgia, from all over the world and release them, not just South America -- all over the world.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The Congo in Africa. Many, many people come from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they came from the Congo. And all over the world, they came in, opened their jails -- Venezuela, practically all of their prisoners released into our country. We took them because we had an incompetent administration called the Biden administration and to think what they've done to our country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I was elected to straighten that out, and I'm doing that. But we have activist judges that don't want murderers to be sent out of our country. They don't want killers and drug dealers and drug lords and people from mental institutions. They want them to stay in our country, I guess. I don't know. Maybe that's the liberal way, or as they call it nowadays the progressive way.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But I don't think it's the way that our country believes, and that's why I won in a landslide.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, you did say that you were confident these deals would be done, but you also said that you're in no rush. Americans are seeing prices rise. They're seeing it on their bills. How long can they expect that pain to last?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, they've already seen it get much better because, if you were truthful, which you're not -- I know you very well are. You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states. You have gasoline way down. The price of oil has dropped substantially. The price of groceries are substantially down.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The, uh, the price of eggs -- you know, when I came in, they hit me with eggs. I just got there. I was here for one week, and they started screaming at me. Eggs have gone through the roof. I said I just got here. I was there for seven days, and I hear that eggs have gone through the roof before I got there.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And they were screaming at me, the press, the fake news like you. You're fake. And the fake news is screaming at me like about eggs. I said I've only been here -- I just -- this is my seventh day, and they were right. They went up 87 percent, and you couldn't get them. They said you won't have eggs for Easter, which is coming up. Happy Easter, everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You won't have eggs for Easter, and we did an unbelievable job. And now eggs are all over the place, and the price went down 92 percent. And our Commissioner of Agriculture, Brooke, has done a fantastic job, done really -- done a fantastic job. So, prices haven't gone up. The only thing that's gone up actually is interest rates because we have a Federal Reserve chairman that is playing politics.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Somebody that I've never been very fond of actually. But he's playing politics. Interest rates should be down now. They should be coming down. In Europe, as you know, they reduced them I guess seven times. It looks like they're going to reduce them again and again and again. But our guy wants to play cute.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But, uh, interest rates are pretty much even. Maybe they went up just a slight bit, but that's the only thing. But that's because of the Federal Reserve because they're not very smart people.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead? Yes, sir. Please. Go ahead please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you regret nominating him, Jerome Powell?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Uh look, in the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country. Stock market went up 88 points. Uh, I think he's terrible, but I can't complain because we had the most successful administration economically in the history of our country. Uh, I think we're going to do even better this time because you will see that the numbers that we're taking in are astronomical.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're taking in tremendous amounts of money with the tariffs. We were treated very unfairly on trade. And countries are having a hard time getting used to the fact that they can't do that to us anymore because we have a real president. We have a president that understands what it's all about. We had presidents that in some cases were smart, but they didn't understand business, or they didn't like business or, you know, it wasn't like a priority.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And then you had like the last administration. The only thing they were good at was cheating in elections. That's about all they could do. They couldn't do anything. They were useless. They were incompetent. Worst administration in the history of our country. Worse than Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter died a happy man.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know why? Because he wasn't the worst president. Joe Biden was. So, I think you're going to see some fantastic numbers when this all happens. It's happening now. I mean, everybody wants to make a deal. And if they don't want to make a deal, we'll make the deal for them because that's what's going to happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll just say this is what it is. But we want to listen to everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think -- I think I can -- I think I can say for Scott and the other people that are working on it that we're listening, and we're going to be very fair to people. But, you know, we're the one that really sets the deal, and that's what we'll be doing. OK.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead, please. Please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question My question today, our Prime Minister.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Oh, you have a great Prime Minister. You're so lucky. Yes. Yes<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [✧ AI Machine Transcript] In italiano. Presidente Meloni, volevo sapere cosa pensava del fatto che il presidente Trump ha considerato responsabile della guerra in Ucraina. [✧ AI Translation: "In Italian. President Meloni, I wanted to know what you thought about the fact that President Trump held you responsible for the war in Ukraine."]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [✧ AI Machine Transcript] E poi, se avete parlato delle spese militari e qual è il limite massimo a cui ha detto che può arrivare l'Italia? La percentuale delle spese militari. Abbiamo parlato di limiti massimi a cui può arrivare l'Italia. Abbiamo parlato del fatto che l'Italia sta mantenendo. [✧ AI Translation: "And then, if you talked about military spending and what is the maximum limit that he said Italy can reach? The percentage of military spending. We talked about the maximum limits that Italy can reach. We talked about the fact that Italy is maintaining."]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni [✧ AI Machine Transcript] I suoi impegni perché arriverà al prossimo vertice della NATO con il 2% che era già previsto, che è stato sottoscritto dai governi precedenti perché siamo una nazione seria, ma non abbiamo parlato poi di quanto vada aumentata questa percentuale anche se siamo ovviamente consapevoli che insomma il tema della difesa sia un tema particolarmente importante di questo tempo per quello che riguarda la guerra in Ucraina. [✧ AI Translation: "His commitments because he will arrive at the next NATO summit with the 2% that was already foreseen, that was signed by previous governments because we are a serious nation, but we have not spoken then about how much this percentage should be increased even if we are obviously aware that the issue of defense is a particularly important issue of this time with regards to the war in Ukraine."]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni [✧ AI Machine Transcript] Lei sa come la penso penso che ci sia chiaramente una diciamo ci sia stata un'invasione che l'invasore ha da quel punto di vista fosse Putin e la Russia ma non è questo che diciamo oggi quello che che rivela il fatto che insieme vogliamo lavorare e stiamo lavorando per cercare di arrivare in Ucraina una pace che possa essere giusta e duratura penso che questi siano gli sforzi sui quali condividiamo il nostro lavoro abbiamo condiviso anche oggi il nostro Presidente. [✧ AI Translation: "You know how I think I think that there is clearly a let's say there was an invasion that the invader from that point of view was Putin and Russia but that is not what we say today what reveals the fact that together we want to work and we are working to try to arrive in Ukraine a peace that can be just and lasting I think that these are the efforts on which we share our work we have also shared today our President."]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I -- that sounded absolutely -- that was so beautiful. What the hell did she -- [Laughter] What did she say? Please?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No. I mean, it sounded great. It was beautifully presented, but maybe I could hear what she said. Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [✧ AI Machine Transcript] Avete discusso di Cina -- [✧ AI Translation: "You discussed China --"]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified It was about asking --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Hold it. Hold it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Have some respect please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you. No, no. Wait. Wait. I want to hear what she said. Go ahead please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified President and Prime Minister Meloni was asked whether -- what she thinks about the fact that President Trump holds Zelenskyy responsible for the war in Ukraine, and Prime Minister Meloni answered, well, actually we were -- we have a no -- and also if -- you talked about the military spending, how -- and the raising of the military spending and the -- and the first thing, President -- Prime Minister Meloni said, is that no, actually we didn't talk about the raise in military spending.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Of course, Italy will keep its commitments with two percent, and then we will see because we are absolutely aware of the fact that it is very important to -- to do -- defense is very important.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni Well, I will do that. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. I will do that. They've been asking if we raise -- if we decided on defense percentage about the defense spendings.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Right. NATO. NATO.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni And I said -- yes, NATO. And I said that Italy is reaching the two percent as it was already decided. We didn't speak about the specific other percentage. But we are aware of the fact that defense is important for the future, and we see what also the work that we are trying to do at the European level.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I don't hold --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't hold Zelenskyy responsible, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the fact that that war started. That was a war that would have never started if I were president. You'd have millions of people living right now that are dead. You'd have cities that would be open and thriving, and they'd have their beautiful [Inaudible]. Those [Inaudible] are the most beautiful in the world, but they're not with us any longer.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're smashed to smithereens, laying on the ground in a million pieces, getting hit by rockets, bombs, and bullets. And so, I'm not happy with him, and I'm not happy with anybody involved. I think it's a war -- I know it's a war. It didn't happen for four years. It was never close to happening.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It was never even a thought. And I spoke to President Putin about it a lot. It was the apple of his eye, but there's no way he would have ever gone in if I were president. Now I'm trying to get him to stop, because as you know, Russia's a lot bigger. It's a bigger military force. And if you're smart, you don't go involved and get involved in wars.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You can blame the man that was sitting in this seat, Biden. He didn't know what the hell was going on, but I can guarantee you that, and everybody agrees to it, if I were president, that war would have never taken place. I'm not blaming him, but what I am saying is that I wouldn't say he's done the greatest job.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK? I'm not a big fan. I really am, I'm not a big fan. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [✧ AI Machine Transcript] Se ne avete discusso di Cina della possibilità che l'Europa ponga dei dazi sulla Cina mi sembra evidente. [✧ AI Translation: "If you have discussed China, the possibility that Europe will impose tariffs on China seems obvious to me."]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, are you sure about the [Inaudible]? Would you say again that the European --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni He's never said.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Would you say again, that --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump What? The European --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni Have you ever that Europeans are parasites? Have you said it?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, I haven't said -- I didn't even know what you're talking about. Go ahead, please. Go ahead. No, no, wait. Wait, next, next, next. Go.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you. Prime Minister Meloni just said we want to make Europe great again and we want it to be together, together --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Sure.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni With the West. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question I guess, that's what you said. And Ms. Prime Minister, how are you going to do that? And are you looking to do it to counter China who is really trying to gather influence against the United States with the help of [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I hope that Europe is going to be great again. Europe has gone through a lot of problems and a lot of it's having to do with immigration. And I'm not a big fan of Europe and what they've done with immigration at all. And I think they've got to get smart, because Europe is being very badly hurt by what they've done with immigration.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Now, I'll say this, that the prime minister has taken a very tough stand on immigration and I commented to her before, I said, I wish more people would be like you having to do with that subject, but they're not. Europe is very important to me. Europe is very important to the world. I want Europe to do very well.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think they have to get a lot smarter on immigration.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni But we are beginning doing it. You will see now the policies of the European Union in the last, let's say, two and a half years have been changing. OK? At the beginning, we were talking only about how we were redistributing illegal migrants coming to Italy. Now, we are talking mainly about how to stop illegal migration, work with the countries of origin and transit and to return people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni The European Commission suggested the new rules about repatriations and things like that. So things are changing, thanks also to the example that Italy brought in lowering the rates of illegal migration. So we are working now together, so I'm optimistic on that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Good. I hope so. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I'd like to ask President Meloni, if you have discussed the option of starting with direct communications? And President Trump, if you want to see the Google [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The Google what?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The Google company.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump What about it?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Google business, [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Giorgia Meloni Oh. Well, we didn't discuss about Starlink. We've been discussing about defense, space. We will work together also in the Mars missions. So there are big, big things to do together, but we didn't discuss it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] prime minister that changed your mind potentially about tariffs and what you plan to do going forward? Is there anything that the prime minister said to you that changed your perspective?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, tariffs are making us rich. We were uh losing a lot of money under Biden, trillions of dollars, trillions on trade. And now, that whole tide has turned. We're making a lot of money. We're taking a lot of money. Don't forget, we're taking in 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminum, 10 percent baseline.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We put penalties on China for sending us fentanyl. We put penalties on Mexico and Canada, 25 percent for allowing fentanyl and allowing the borders to be weak. No, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars while I sit here and talk to you. And we didn't take in anything before, other than the tariffs that I put on previous to Biden, which were the tariffs I put on China, where we took in, up until this point, probably $700 billion.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They were Trump tariffs. He tried to weaken them. He did everything he could. You know, he got paid money by China, right? The family got paid money, he did. So I don't know, maybe that was the reason or maybe it wasn't, but he tried to weaken them. But he couldn't because there was so much money that his budgets, they couldn't stand not doing it. But I took in, up until this point, my tariffs on China, nobody ever took in $0.10 from China.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No other president took in $0.10, I took in more than $700 billion from China. So we're doing very well. I mean, our country is doing very well. They had a bad report today from one of the health care companies that had an impact on the stock market, but this isn't about that. This is really, we're building a base.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're building a country like no other. And again, I had the strongest economy in the history of our country by far, history of any country probably, but the history of our country in four years and I think this has a chance to be much better.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Can you just clarify on the minerals deal, will not be signed here at the White House with Ukraine on Thursday? Will President Zelenskyy be coming here for that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't know exactly. I'm going to leave that to Scott. What do you think? Where would it be signed and when?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Bessent We're still working on the details we're shooting for around April 25th.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Is there any more detail that you could tell us about what's in that deal and how it came together?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Bessent It's substantially what we'd agreed on previously when the president was here. We had a memorandum of understanding. We went straight to the big deal and I think it's an 80-page agreement, and that's what we'll be signing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Can you clarify on rate cuts, do you intend to seek Powell's firing if he doesn't change his stance on rate cuts, or is that on the table or is that --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I think he should do the rate cuts because I think if Europe has done it, it puts us at a disadvantage to Europe. I mean, he plays right into their hands. So I think he should do the rate cuts. We don't have really inflation now. I just said, the major things are going down. Oil is great. Oil is way ahead of schedule and that's because of our policies.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But oil is down into the $65 range now per barrel. And I told you, in certain states we have less than $2 for gasoline. And food is down, groceries as we call it, are down. Other than interest rates, everything's down. Interest rates are pretty flat. It's not that they're up, but we should be better than flat.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump If he would lower the interest rate, I think it would have a good impact on that too. But the costs are down. We have very little inflation. I would say we have essentially no inflation. Hard to have inflation when oil goes down and oil goes down. When Biden came in, oil went through the roof. That's what caused our problem, that and his very dumb spending.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But when the oil prices go down, and they have gone down a lot, we've gotten it down really good. We've opened it up and we've gotten them down and that means that people driving cars are going to be paying $2 and $2.50 instead of $4.50. And even at the end, they tried just for the purpose of the election to get it down, but they had really lost that sucker.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump That was really -- it was not good. But if they had won, oil right now would be at $7 or $8 because of their policy and we're going to be at about $2, could be even a little bit less than that, and you're starting to see it. So I don't know how you can have inflation when oil has come down quite a bit. And I would say the fed really owes it to the American people to get interest rates down.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's the only thing he's good for, and he would have an effect on that if he lowered them. And I think at some point he will. He's going to have a lot of political pressure. They are political also. And I think there's a lot of political pressure for him to lower interest rates. OK? Yeah, go ahead. Please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you think Italy can be your best ally in Europe? And also, do you ever notice when you [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Only if the prime minister remains the prime minister, can it be our best. No, she's doing a great job. And yeah, certainly one of our great allies, not just in Europe, anywhere. She's a fantastic person and doing a great job, and our relationship is -- is great. And we have a lot of Italians in this country, I tell you, and they like Trump and they voted for Trump. [Laughter] Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You want to move down? We have some --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Yes, please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump -- come down, if you want. Leave the cameras there. That's fine. But -- but if you want, there's a lot of room over here. CNN should move out to the end [Laughter] -- way out to the left.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified [Laughs] -- to the left.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Are you able to get them all in the room. Are they in.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Yes sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified They're in.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Are you okay?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Thank you very much. We've had a tremendous six months, and we've had a tremendous two weeks, which now is I guess three weeks. And we have a tremendous group of people here that have done a great, unified, beautiful job. I want in particular, because of what she's gone through this last few days, have done an incredible job, as you know.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Kristi, you are -- I'm going to ask you to say a few words about Texas. The first person there was -- the first person I saw on television was you actually, and you've worked great with the governor who's terrific. And you might want to tell a little bit about the trials and tribulations. But we appreciate the job that you and everybody have done.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You had people there as fast as anybody's ever seen. So, I really appreciate it, we all do. And maybe you could say a few words.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem Sure. Well, thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank you for your leadership. Texas is strong and the people of Texas are incredibly strong. They've gone through something that is absolutely horrific, and it is heartbreaking to watch these families suffer the way that they are. As soon as this flash flooding event happened, the governor has activated his emergency responders.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem Nim Kidd is his emergency management director, who is incredible, and has immediately worked with the local first responders to get help to individuals and get them evacuated, put requests in to me. We deployed, sir, right away, as you know, because you and I were talking a lot during this time -- the Coast Guard, we also had some assets out of Customs and Border Protection.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem Our BORTAC teams went in and helped with rescues and clearing debris so that we could get roads open and people get the help that they need. I think when I got there the most served that day, as soon as I arrived on site, was getting a briefing from all the emergency responders, was just how unified they were in focusing on the fact that they were there to save lives.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem They were there to rescue people, find people who were still alive and to reunify them with their family members. We as a federal government don't manage these disasters, the state does. We come in and support them, and that's exactly what we did here in this situation. FEMA went to an enhanced level immediately.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem But as soon as you signed the major disaster declaration, we were able to get them resources and dollars right away, just like you envisioned, through state block grants to help them with cleanup. And we're still there in presence. And FEMA has been deployed and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA, streamlining it much like your vision of how FEMA should operate.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And it's been a much better response to help these families get through this terrible situation. We still are looking for people. We're still looking for a lot of little girls and other family members that were camping along that river. And they will continue until they find every single person and we will continue to help them and assist in that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem I was surprised when I got there at the camp that day right after this happened, the parents that were there, the parents that were looking for their children and picking up their daughter's stuffed animals out of the mud and finding their daughter's shoe that might be laying in the cabin and just hugging and comforting people matters a lot.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem I'm extremely grateful for God's hand in that whole situation because hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people were saved. And this is a time for all of us in this country to remember that we were created to serve each other. We were -- God created us to take care of each other and that, when we do that, we are happier, we are more fulfilled and we can walk alongside people on their worst day and help them get through it and come out the other side knowing that we can continue to live a life that God has purposed for us. So, they're grateful for you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem Several times the day after the flooding, you and Melania were on the phone with me, and I want to thank you for that. That meant the world. I was able to tell many of those folks that I had been visiting with you and that you had said whatever they need, Kristi, let's deploy it and get it down there and be helpful.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And on Sunday, when the families were waiting at a church to identify their children's bodies, Franklin Graham and I called in and prayed with the families and read some scripture with them. And he was incredible in making himself available to that as well. We'll be back down there in a couple of days and continue to do all we can.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem But this is an unprecedented event, it really is. There's been tragedies like this around the country. But every one is unique in different situations. And the response the federal government had supporting the state through this, I'm proud of the people that stepped up and immediately came. The Coast Guard, when they came in, they had a difficult time even getting the aircraft in and landed.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem They had to try several times in the weather to get it in and deploy. And I think we've heard about our one Coast Guard member that was responsible for saving over 165 people, but that entire crew did incredible work. And all the first responders there did incredible work. And I know people are getting tired now, but they're getting reinforcements and volunteers are showing up. And I just want to commend the governor and his team for being the leaders.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And they're so thankful that you're letting them make the decisions and manage the response like it should be, and then us supporting them with the resources of the federal government. We've already deployed dollars to the state, much like the block grants that you've talked about. So, they're grateful for that, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump There's never been a wave like this outside of the breaking of a dam. This was almost a wave that ended up being 30-feet high, more actually. Now with a dam, you can understand it. But this approached almost with that speed. When you see a dam break, it's not a pretty sight, it wipes out everything. And this is the kind of thing that built up so fast and it's happened two or three times before over the years, but not to this extent.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But tell them when you met the father who was picking up the daughter's clothing and --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem I had walked through the cabin where all the little girls died, and I had kind of fallen apart in there, but I walked out of the cabin and a gentleman was standing there and he said that man over there needs a hug. And so, I walked over to him, and I hugged him, and I said, do you work here. And he said no, my little girl was in that cabin.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And he said, and I just found her best friend about an hour and a half ago, she had passed away, and he just fell apart. And so, then we just hugged and talked for probably an hour about that. But then there was another -- the grandpa was there looking for his granddaughter as well. There was a dad there of one of the counselors.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem The counselor was alive, but she was dealing with the fact that she had hung on to some of these girls and was trying to keep them out of the floodwaters and had gotten hit by something and had lost two of the girls and wasn't able to hang on to them and was going to live the rest of her life thinking about that moment when she wasn't able to hang on to these girls.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem But these parents were picking up their kids' belongings out of the mud and throughout the camp and putting them in bags. And then one of the dads said I knew 50 of these girls here. So, I knew that was her dress, my daughter's friend's dress. So, he was picking it up and putting it in a bag to return to her parents.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And so, it was a -- and then the director was there, comforting everybody, who had lost his father the night before too, and he was still there trying to facilitate all of these parents grieving their children and find them. So, the strength of people is incredible. One of the things that I asked there that day was that they all have escorts or counselors when parents come in. So, from that point that when they came into the camp that they have somebody with them when they're going and looking for their children's belongings or looking for their children.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Kristi Noem And so very emotional, but also just so tragic.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah. The relationship with Texas and the governor has been obviously very good for years, with me, but the relationship with Texas and their first responders and us with our first responders and lots of other people and we brought in a lot of helicopters from all over. We had a lot of helicopters. It was actually dangerous, a lot of helicopters up there.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But they were real pros and they were responsible for pulling out a lot of people. And we got them there fast and Texas had some good ones too. But the response has been incredible and the fact that we got along so well. I don't know. I don't even think that's a political thing. But we got along so well and it was so unified.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I think a lot of lives have been saved. As bad as it was, you could have lost almost double or triple. This thing was just really horrible. Well, congratulations on a great job and appreciate it. I know you're going down. I'll be going down on Friday with the first lady. We'll be taking a trip and we don't want to get in anyone's way because that's what happens.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The president goes and everyone's around focused on -- I don't want anyone to focus on us, but it's possible they could have somebody saved still. You know, there's a lot of areas. It's a big area and it's probably unlikely at this point, but there could be. I mean, they're thinking there could be the possibility.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But what a tragic situation. Good job and we'll see you on Friday and we'll finish out the day here. I think you've been reading a lot about -- it's a terrible topic when you talk about financial after this. But we have a big country and we've been doing very well. The tariffs, as you know, are starting to come in at record levels.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Tremendous amounts of money are coming in to our country. We never did that before. We're not used to it. We only have tariffs going out. We only adhere to the rules of other nations who charge us tremendous tariffs because we were led by stupid people, or people without any business sense. And I'd like to ask Scott, you could maybe talk a little bit about how well we're doing with regard to the money coming in and the big money will start coming in on August 1st. I think it was made clear today by the letters that were sent out yesterday and today.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent Yes, sir. We will have taken in about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year and that's with the major tariffs not having started until the second quarter. So we could expect that that could be well over $300 billion by the end of the year. We don't agree with CBO's scoring, but for those who do, the CBO scored tariff income over the next 10 years at $2.8 trillion, which we think is probably low.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Scott Bessent And sir, under your leadership, we're witnessing --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And they gave us no credit during this last little, the great Big Beautiful Bill. I always use the word great. I add that to it because it really is what it is. There's never been anything like it actually. And I want to thank all the Republicans that voted for it. And I want to scold the Democrats because they're voting for tax cuts.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're voting for no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime and many, many other things far more important than that. Great health care and frankly, every Democrat should lose their election because it was purely political, the vote. They were told not to vote for it. So think of it, we got 218 to 2. And then with the Senate, we had 50 to 3. Democrats didn't vote at all, not one positive vote, with all of the good things in their economic development money, tremendous border money.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Now you're loaded up on the border. And I don't think we're going to need so much of it because we had zero come in last month. So I'm not sure how much of it we want to spend. You may think about that. You may actually think about saving a lot of money because the wall's been largely built and it obviously worked.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But you may want to think about that. So I think it's incredible when I watch the Democrats and they have standard lines like they had Russia, Russia, Russia. They had the laptop from hell. It all came from Russia. They make things up and they go with it and they feed it to you people, in many cases. And they said, here's the line.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I hear the new line is death. Oh, it's death. Everyone's going to die. It has nothing to do with that. In fact, we're saving our country. Death is from allowing 25 million people into our country, of which three or four are stone-cold, hard criminals. 11,888 are murderers, many of them committing more than one murder.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's death and the Democrats did that. Joe Biden did that by allowing people to come in here just totally unchecked, unvetted, open borders, open borders. The whole world was dumped into our country from prisons, from gangs from mental institutions. We have many people walking the streets, walking in areas that we don't know anything about that came out of insane asylums.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They released the insane asylum population into our country. And it's amazing the job that you and Tom Homan are doing, by the way, on that. But we have to get them out and we have no choice. We have to get them out. And we are getting them out. So Pete, do you want to tell them about our great military and how well we did with respect to the bombers and the B-2? We had the pilots here two days ago and they were incredible people.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth Yes, sir. Truly a historic mission and demonstrated the skill and courage of the United States military from those B-2 pilots and families that we had a chance to meet, sir, to the fighter pilots to the refuelers to the maintainers to the air defenders who defended the base. What was demonstrated on the world stage was American military might and capability.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth And it wasn't just Fordo and Isfahan and Natanz that took notice in Iran. It was the rest of the world, that we have a decisive commander in chief willing to use these capabilities, which are the best in the world. As the president pointed out, no one else could have done what America did there on that night and everyone took notice of that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth With the One Big Beautiful Bill, sir, we've got $150 billion additional to invest in Golden Dome and all the other weapons systems and stockpiles and ship building priorities of yours. Another month, another historic recruiting bump. It's not just the Army and the Marine Corps anymore, it's the Navy, the Air Force and the Space Force, all historically ahead of where they've ever been.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth So historic spirit inside the military. We had a chance to be at NATO, Marco and I, and see how the world responds to us saying it's time for you to shoulder the burden and take the lead for your continent. It only happens with President Trump leading and we're proud to be a part of what's going on at the border, sir, with now a fourth National Defense area where we're helping get to that number zero in securing the border.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth But that mission, Operation Midnight Hammer, reestablish deterrence. It reversed what happened in Afghanistan. You saw the debacle of what Biden allowed to happen in Afghanistan and what that did to our image. President Trump said with Operation Midnight Hammer, reestablishing American leadership and deterrence, and we are proud to be a part of it, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And our so-called enemies were watching. They watched every minute of it. They watched. It was very few people that weren't watching, actually, but they watched every minute. It was a perfect military performance, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. I mean, if you compare that to the same country, the hostages from years ago, Jimmy Carter -- was unfortunate for Jimmy Carter.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He was a nice man. But with the helicopters going down, the sandstorms, the prisoners, they got captured, then the election and the prisoners and Reagan and all the problems. It was nothing but problems. And that was a failure and ours was not only the pilots, I mean, those machines flew for 37 straight hours.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They didn't stop. They went skedaddle, you know the word skedaddle. I mean, skedaddle. They dropped the bombs and somebody said skedaddle, let's get the hell out of here and every bomb hit its mark and hit it incredibly. And as you know, the Atomic Energy Commission said it's gone. That place is gone. We had a lot of fake reporting, mostly from CNN, where the scammer writer, a writer for CNN, who should be fired, by the way.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump She was involved with the 51 fake intelligence agents, if you remember that. She did that story, created a story out of it. She created a story out of the laptop from hell, saying it came from Russia, but it actually came from Hunter Biden's bedroom, or worse. And just a scammer and she's still at CNN, which is pretty amazing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But we'll ask you a question about her. But they came up with this concept that maybe the attack wasn't that good. And I saw it happen right after the attack. I saw this person on CNN, I actually watch -- I like to watch the enemy. You learn from the enemy and I watch because you have to know where they're coming from.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I watched her say, Anderson, you know, I'm hearing stories that maybe they didn't hit their target. Maybe it wasn't that good a hit and they we're hearing stories. The next day it was a little more and the next day a little more. After three or four days, she was saying, you know, I don't know, I don't think it was that -- except by that time everybody knew it was hit perfectly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump The evidence is in the planes, the evidence -- well, the pilots are their best evidence. But they actually came out of their plane, because they were here the other day, and they said -- it was so sad -- we did such a good job. We flew into very dangerous airspace. I'll never forget, we were in the Situation Room, and they said they have entered Iranian airspace, and everyone took a deep breath because they had more missiles pointing at them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But the equipment is so good. It's stealth, way up in the air and it was stealth. And they went right through that, and they sort of -- by the time they found out they were there, they were already gone. That was the word skedaddle, get the hell out of here. But they were right in the most dangerous airspace in the world.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And they took those big, beautiful, very fast -- they're unbelievable planes. I mean they become really beautiful works of art. I always thought they sort of were cool, but now they look better than just cool. Don't they, huh? But they dropped the loads and literally they would hit. If you look at this table from here to there, they had half a refrigerator door is the way to best explain it. Take a refrigerator door, average size, cut it in half -- that was their target.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They hit every single one. Then we had 30 missiles, Tomahawk, shot from submarines 300 miles away. Every one of them hit their target. It was a perfect mission. Then they came back almost 37 hours, every plane worked perfectly, the mechanics were here too. I said you've got to get the mechanics here. We didn't have any problems.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump If you remember, they had a lot of problems with the helicopters, but they did fly through a dust storm, which they shouldn't have done. Sometimes you say let's go back and try it on a nicer day. Dust and sand don't work well with helicopters, if you know much about helicopters, but that was a horrible embarrassment to us. Then we had Afghanistan, which I think was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we would have gotten out -- I was the one that got them down. I would have kept Bagram, the big air base, which right now is controlled by China, among the most powerful runways in the world. Thick, thick with concrete and steel, anything could land. And right now, there were one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I was keeping it, outside of that we were leaving, and I would have been out faster than them, but we would have gotten out with strength and dignity. Instead that was the most botched up mess I've ever seen. They left all that equipment behind. And every year they have a parade, running down some third-rate street, with the equipment and it's supposed to be Fifth Avenue, it doesn't work.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But with all that equipment that they left, they should have taken every ounce of it. I was taking every -- I said every screw, every bolt, every nail you take out of there. And Milley said, I remember one time, sir, we're better off leaving the equipment. Why? Well, it's cheaper. I said cheaper. You mean it's cheaper to leave a $150 million airplane rather than flying into Pakistan or India or someplace, or just flying it straight home, it's cheap.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yes, sir. That's when I knew he was an idiot. It didn't take long to figure that one out, but they left all that equipment, but they left their dignity behind. It was the most embarrassing moment, in my opinion, in the history of our country. Not that we got out, we should have not been there, but that we got out the way we got out with great embarrassment and death.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You had 13 young people. I've gotten to know their families very well, but you had hundreds of people killed that nobody talks about. You had the other side, many people were killed, many people are walking around with no legs, no arms from, that whole thing. They left from the wrong airport. They should have left from Bagram because Bagram was a big base with hundreds of miles of fencing and territory around it. Nobody would be able to get near it and they left.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So, we've done a great job and I think people are really starting to see it. They're starting to appreciate it. Pete's done fantastically. That mission was a work of art, and I have spoken to some of our perceived -- I don't know if they're enemies, but they're perceived as being potential enemies. And they essentially said the same thing, very impressive.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump There wasn't a thing that -- we didn't even -- we didn't lose an engine, we didn't lose -- it's just they landed, and they were cheered. But the sad thing was they were cheered and one of the pilots said, you know, we were a little concerned because when we got out, we were told that on television they were reporting that we may have missed our targets.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Sir, we hit every target. That's what I do for a living. We hit every target. In fact, when I saw when we dropped, when the bombs hit, a yellow haze came over the horizon that I've never seen before, it just lit up the whole horizon brighter than the sun. It was like looking into the sun, he goes we hit our target.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Because you know what that was, that was exploded. But they were a little downbeat because they listened to that fake CNN reporting, and the fake New York Times, they worked together to try and say that it wasn't perfect. They couldn't say they missed. All they could say is maybe it wasn't perfect, and you ought to fire that reporter immediately.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You should fire her, a real fake. And so, I just want to congratulate those pilots. And a lot of people don't like bringing things like that up. I do; I always like confronting because otherwise the public doesn't know that you're a bunch of crooked people. But they know, they've learned, and the media has to straighten out their act.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know the media is down to 17 percent approval. You've got to do a little better than that. It's important for the country that you do better. I think they ought to make a lot of changes. I think changes are going to be made to the media. But it's hard to have a really successful country if you have a corrupt media and we really have a corrupt media and nobody really knows why.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I mean, why would you want to have open borders and criminals pouring into our country? Why would you want to have men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone? You know, you'll have to figure that out. But some of you don't. I mean, I'm looking at some people, they love the country, but I look at other people and they can't. But we're really proud of our military.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It was -- and the people that maybe don't like us or want to play games with us because I think that, had you not had the situation in Afghanistan, I don't think Putin would have gone in. I think when Putin looked at how stupid and incompetent that operation was, he said, wow, this might be a chance. And we're dealing with him now, too.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's -- we're not happy with Putin. I'm not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now, because he's killing a lot of people. And a lot of them are his soldiers, his soldiers and their soldiers mostly, and it's now up to 7,000 a week, and I'm not happy with Putin. OK, any questions? Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Yes, sir, you just said that you're not happy with Vladimir Putin. Is there anything that you plan to do to act on that feeling?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I wouldn't be telling you don't. We want to have a little surprise. You know, one of the things we did with the attack is that -- you asked that question, I don't want to -- I didn't mean to be rude, but I'm in a rude -- because I'm looking at some of these crooked people up here. So, I'm rude, but your question was asked very nicely.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But one of the things we did is we went over every fact. We wanted to get every fact straight. We wanted to have the distance straight, the number of pilots straight. Everything had to be correct because we want to be -- this was a very important mission. If we failed on this mission, it was beyond the war that, obviously, we had with Iran and Israel, a lot of hatred, a lot of years and years of hatred, centuries of hatred.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump People have never seen anything like it. So, we wanted to be correct with all our facts. So, you know, what I was doing is just asking, it would be great if the media would be correct with their facts, that's all we ask for. So -- and go ahead. So, finish it up.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Oh, yes, just sort of turning back to Russia, if there's anything that you would signal about your displeasure with them?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, just -- look, I'm very unhappy with them. There's no reason for this. It's turned out to be tougher, but it's only tougher. And I will say the Ukrainians were brave, but we gave them the best equipment ever made. We gave them the anti-tank busters that knocked out tanks. I mean, you just aim them in the direction of the tank and the tank is gone.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We gave them missiles, the latest and the greatest, they were able to shoot down a lot of things that would have normally wiped out -- probably would have been a very quick war. It would have been a war that lasted three or four days, but they had the benefit of unbelievable equipment. And Europe gave them too -- we gave them far more because Biden shouldn't have done that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He should have equalized it, we should have given him the same or we should have given actually less than Europe. It affects Europe much more than us, but we're in there for over $300 billion. Europe is in there for over $100 billion, but still Europe gave a lot. And I will say this, the Ukrainians, whether you think it's unfair that we gave all that money or not, they were very brave because somebody had to operate that stuff.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And a lot of people I know wouldn't be operating it. They wouldn't have the courage to do it. So, they fought very bravely, but we gave them the best equipment in the world. We make the best military equipment by far, there's nobody close. You look at other equipment from other countries, it's not even close.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's why everybody wants to buy our equipment and that's why we're going to step up these tractors now that make it and they're brilliant, but they make it too slowly and we have to step them up, Pete, and let them make it at a much higher rate. Unfortunately, we have to do that. But if you look at our Patriots, if you look at our Tomahawks, if you look at our -- well, what we do with tanks is -- you wouldn't want to be driving a tank.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You would feel nice and secure, but they are Javelins, they're called. And I gave them the Javelins. Remember they said, Trump gave the Javelins and Obama gave them sheets, right? They called Obama at that time, Barack Hussein Obama, if you haven't heard, did a terrible job. But that was a war that that should have never happened.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And a lot of people are dying and it should end. And I don't know, we get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin for -- you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, Lindsey Graham has a sanctions bill on Russia. Do you want him to --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I'm looking at it. Yeah, no, I'm looking -- the Senate is passing and passed a very tough sanctions bill. Yeah, I'm looking at it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Can you sign that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's an optional bill. It's totally at my option. They passed it totally at my option and to terminate totally at my option. And I'm looking at it very strongly. Go ahead, Please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The Council of Economic Advisers released a new report saying that imported goods have actually decreased in price from December.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I know [Inaudible] --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Well, my question, the chairman --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump With the tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Well, the fed chairman keeps saying that tariffs are going to cause price increases. Are prices just not --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Chairman of the fed?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Yes, exactly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You do a better job than him.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you. Are the prices just not passed through yet?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, I think what's happening is everything's evening out. You know, when we charge -- see, what people don't understand, the other countries have been charged -- almost every country charges US tariffs. We had deficits with everybody for years, for decades and we were like this big monolith that made bad deals with everybody.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, we rebuilt South Korea. We stayed there. It's OK. We rebuilt it and we stayed there. And they pay us very little for the military. I got them to pay billions of dollars and Biden then canceled it when he came in. I said to South Korea, as an example, we give you free military essentially, very little, and I think you should pay us $10 billion a year and they went crazy, but they agreed to $3 billion.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So I got $3 billion with a phone call and I was satisfied. I said, but next year we have to talk and then we had a rigged election and we never got to talk and you know what Biden did, they probably went to him and they said, listen, Trump treated us terribly and we shouldn't be paying anything and he cut it down to nothing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump So that's what happens. It's ridiculous. That's the other thing, we're talking to countries about contributing to the military, not only just paying more in NATO but contributing. We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea. We have 45,000 soldiers in Germany, 52,000 actually. And you know, that's a huge economic development for them.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's tremendous amount -- that's like having a city. That's tremendous money for them and it's a tremendous loss for us. So we're talking -- in a very nice way, we're talking to them about it. It's very unfair. We supply the military to many very successful countries. I mean, South Korea is making a lot of money and they're very good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're very good, but they should be paying for their own military.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question President Trump, can I ask you a question about Jerome Powell as well, and then a question to the commission --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump A question about what?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Jerome Powell. And then I have a question for the attorney general. Jerome Powell, who you've been pressuring to lower interest rates, he's facing accusations of lying to Congress which is a potential crime, about the --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Then should resign immediately. We should get somebody in there that's going to lower interest rates.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Do you want Congressional --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Why don't you call for his resignation?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Do you want Congressional Republicans to investigate --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK with me. I think he's terrible. Look, we're paying, I call him too late, t-o-o, too late, like too tall Jones for the Dallas Cowboys, right? Too late. He's always late, but he wasn't late with Biden before the election. He was cutting him like crazy. It didn't help too much, did it? But he was cutting them like crazy before the election with Kamala and Biden.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He was trying to get them in, I guess. I don't know. He was recommended by somebody that worked for me. I like you better.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Can I ask the attorney general a question too?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Sure.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Your memo and release yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein, it left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for an American or foreign intelligence agency? The former labor secretary who was Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta, he allegedly said that he did work for an intelligence agency.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question So could you resolve whether or not he did? And also, could you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse tape on the night of his death?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pam Bondi Yeah, sure. If I could --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Could I just interrupt for one second?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pam Bondi Sure.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking -- we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things and are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time? Do you feel like answering?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pam Bondi I don't mind answering.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration, but you go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi Sure, sure. First, to back up on that, in February I did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said -- I was asked a question about the client list and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That's what I meant by that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pam Bondi Also to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein. Child porn is what they were, never going to be released, never going to see the light of day. To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that. And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively -- the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide and what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter and what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every night, they redo that video.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Pam Bondi It's old, from like 1999. So every night, the video is reset. And every night should have the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night. And that's it on Epstein.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, on tariffs again, August 1st you said is the deadline. What incentives do countries have to negotiate? It seems that deadline keeps moving. It was April 2nd, now it's --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We didn't move -- no, no, it's always been August 1st. That's when we're paying it. A statement was put out today and I put it out just to make it clear, it wasn't a change, it was August 1st. We don't change very much. You know, every time we put out a statement they say he made a change. I didn't make a change, clarification maybe.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, August 1st, they pay and everybody pays, everybody has to pay and the incentive is that they have the right to deal in the United States. If they don't want to, they don't have to pay and they don't have to deal here. But if they want to buy and make a lot of money and sell in the United States, they have to do that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, if you go back and look at some of the good presidents, our country was the wealthiest, proportionately the wealthiest from 1870 to 1913, it was an all tariff country. We didn't have income tax. That came in in 1913, we had tariffs and we had so much money we didn't know what to do with it. I mean, we had a couple of presidents that were very, very strong.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump McKinley, I guess more than anybody, but he was the Tariff King, but he was very, very strong. It was sort of sad. He made a fortune for this country, became very rich and then Teddy Roosevelt went out and vice president and he spent the money and they said Roosevelt was a great president. And let's say he was a great president, but the money was paid by McKinley with tariffs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Tariffs are charged by other countries at levels that are ridiculous. And you know, I call those other countries and every one of them is willing to give us everything now, by the way, just so you know. Sir, we'll charge you no tariffs, nothing. We'll give you everything. We'll give you access to our markets.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll give you everything. Is that a correct statement, Scott?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent Yes, sir.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Howard, would you say that's a correct statement?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick Exactly correct.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's likeFG they just don't -- because they're very spoiled because for years they ripped us off and we didn't have a president that understood it or secretary of treasury or secretary of -- a lot of different secretaries are involved. But certainly, Commerce secretary was not doing their job. I don't know about Kelly, she's small business.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll keep it that way, OK? Her small business is bigger than almost all big businesses when you add it all up. But no, they are very respectful of our country, but the incentive is that they have the right to do business with us. Without that, they don't have the right to do business. And that will be OK too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question In the 24 hours, will we hear a flurry of deals?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, we have a lot of them going out, but the deals are mostly my deal to them. We're picking a number that's it's low, we don't want to hurt them, and fair. We're picking a number that's lower than -- in most cases lower than what they charged us. But it's amazing when you've paid all this money for years and they get one president that's a little bit different and a little tougher on this subject and they're willing to drop everything they've been charging us for years and years.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I mean, we have countries going we will have no -- you don't have to pay any tariff to come in and do business. They're giving us total access to their countries. They gave us no access to the country. They say you cannot go into our country, OK, good. Now it's -- we will give you total access and you don't have to pay any tariffs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But please don't charge us tariffs. And we don't like that deal. So, the letters I send out are -- we have made some deals, we can make a lot more deals. It's just too time consuming. It just makes it more complicated. And we can do things over the years too. You know, we're going to -- we're not hard line, but it's about time the United States of America started collecting money from countries that were ripping us off, ripping us off and laughing behind our back at how stupid we were.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump OK? Thank you<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump In the yellow.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question On the tariff issue -- so, you've talked about India coming, but then a couple days ago you issued a new tariff threat to members of the BRICs countries for -- if they align with anti-American policies.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump 10 percent charge.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question That would be India, Brazil --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's right, they have to pay 10 percent if they're in BRICs, because BRICs was set up to hurt us. BRICs was set up to degenerate our dollar and take our dollar as the standard -- take it off as the standard. And that's OK if they want to play that game, but I can play that game too. So, anybody that's in BRICs is getting a 10 percent charge.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Is that immediate, sir?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, pretty soon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Or is that if they engage in some behavior?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, if they're a member of BRICs, they're going to have to pay 10 percent tariff just for that one thing, and they won't be a member along. I thought BRICs was -- you know, I said this about a year ago and it largely broke up. But you know, there are a couple that hang around, but I thought it largely broke up. BRICs is not -- in my opinion, not a serious threat.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But what they're trying to do is destroy the dollar so that another country can take over and be the standard, and we're not going to lose the standard at any time. If you have a smart president, you will never lose the standard. If you have a stupid president like the last one, you would lose the standard.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump You wouldn't have the dollar as you know. And if we lost the world standard dollar, that would be like losing a war, a major world war, we would not be the same country any longer. We're not going to let that happen. The dollar -- you ever hear the expression, the dollar is king, The dollar is king, we're going to keep it that way, OK?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I'm just saying if people want to challenge it, they can, but they're going to have to pay a big price. And I don't think any of them are willing to pay that price.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Thank you, Mr. President. Are you optimistic about reaching a tariff deal with the European Union soon?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, the European Union has been speaking to us, Ursula and the whole group, and they've been very nice. They treated us very badly until recently. Now they're treating us very nicely. It's like a different world actually. They've treated us very badly. They were among the toughest to deal with. Actually in many respects they were much worse than China.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Look at what they do to our companies, they sue Apple, they sue Google. $17 billion they got from Apple on a lawsuit that they didn't have a case. They have judges that are European Union judges, and they ruled -- they take so much money away from our country in terms of that, in terms of other things that they do, they're very tough.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But now they're being very nice to us and we'll see what happens. We're probably two days off from sending them a letter. We are talking to them. I just want you to know a letter means a deal. A lot of people said we've got 200 countries. We can't meet with 200 countries. We have a few trusted people that know what they're doing, that are doing a good job, but you can't do it. You have to do it in a more general way.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But it's a very good way. It's a better way. It's a more powerful way. And we sent him a letter. You read the letter. I think it was well crafted. And mostly, it's just a little number in there. You'll pay 25 percent, 35 percent. We have some at 60, 70 percent. Those are ones with massive -- where we have massive trade deficits because they've treated us very badly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But I would say in every case, I'm treating them better than they treated us over the years. Don't you agree with that? I could have done much -- I could have been much harsher. I don't want to do that. We want to have relationships. But in every case they treated us far worse than I'm treating them. I'm treating them very good.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I could go higher with the tariffs, but I don't want to hurt them. That's why when you just read and you come up with the number, it's so incredible that prices are actually going down. Just so you know, when I got in everyone said, oh, eggs, eggs are going through the roof. That was the first. I was in for about four days, and they started screaming at me about eggs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I said that's Biden's problem. I didn't know about eggs, but eggs went up about five times. You did a fantastic job, and we ended up shortly -- in fact, for Easter, they said go out and buy plastic eggs, you can't use real eggs. Well, we bought 200,000 eggs for the White House, for the Easter egg hunt that we have at the White House and there were eggs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We had the price down and now the price is lower than it was before. We did a good job with eggs, but we did a good job with groceries. Prices are down in this country, a big part of it's oil, the oil. You had a couple of places last week you had a $1.99 for oil, for gasoline. Nobody thought they'd see that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I want to get it lower if I can. But we've done a good job. You've done a very good job. Do you want to say a couple of words about that, you and Chris about what's happening with energy?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Doug Burgum Well, absolutely, but I would say on the pricing side, President Trump, the fact that you've endorsed and supported a policy of energy dominance, that sends a signal to the market that we're going to have more supply. You talked during the campaign about inflation being a country buster. You've broken the back of inflation in six months, among all the other things you've accomplished.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have no inflation.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Doug Burgum And we've got -- and heading into the 4th of July, these were the lowest gas prices at the pump in four years. And again, for Americans, this is like hundreds of billions of dollars that stay in their pockets because we lowered the price of gas at the pump. But when we lower the price of energy, it lowers the price of food, it lowers the price of the clothes you wear.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's the biggest thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Doug Burgum It's the biggest thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's like a big tax cut. When you get energy down every $0.50 is like a massive tax cut and we've gotten it down much below that. You know, we had great energy, great low prices, everything else when the election turned over. I'm being -- I'm trying to be nice about it. It turned over shockingly, but nevertheless it happened.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Energy started going up and it went up really bad and then it went back to the Trump policy. The problem was they didn't know how to do that, and he lost it. He lost that sucker, that big sucker was out of control and his energy prices went way up and that's what caused it, but it was also stupid spending.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They spent money like -- they used to use the term drunken sailors, but I won't use that term, although it is very descriptive. I won't use that term. I refuse to use it. But they spent money at levels that nobody had ever seen before. And trillions and trillions of dollars wasted on the green new scam, the greatest scam in the history of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Other than maybe Russia, Russia, Russia, that might have been. But the green new scam was the single greatest scam in the history of our country and continues to be. But it's weakened badly. It's hobbling along because people are finally -- they're finally getting it. But they spent trillions of dollars on the green new scam, getting nothing for it, devised by a couple of young people that weren't even good college students, not even good students, check out their marks.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, not for CNN, not for CNN. Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question The last jobs -- in the last jobs report, Mr. President, in the last jobs report, manufacturing jobs actually lost 7,000 jobs. When will the investments that you've been talking about have an effect?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, they're building the plants now, about seven have started. We're going to have hundreds started within a short period of time. Lee Zeldin, who may be the most important man in this room, I'm sorry, but he's the one that gets the permits. Where is Lee? He's the one that has to get the permits for the plants and the factories and permits that used to take five years, he's getting in record setting times.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump AI, we're leading China a lot in AI. And if we go with this, you know, I'm allowing the plants to build their own electric. They'll be -- I'm allowing them to become an electric utility so they can produce their own electricity, because we need double the electric -- to be successful with AI, which is the biggest thing now, we need double the electricity that we have, which is hard to believe.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We need even more than that. And they're building plants with their own electricity substations. They don't have to use the grid, and anything they build extra, they're putting into the grid. So, we're supplying the grid with brand new electric sources. And you know, it's funny, when they came to see me, they never even asked for that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I told them about it. The reason they didn't, they thought that was an impossibility -- you're not allowed to build your own electric. These -- the massive investments that are being made in building electricity for their plants and they're going to have, I think, Doug, a lot of electricity left over and that electricity is going to be passed into the grid and give us no more -- like, you look at California, they have blackouts and brownouts every week.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're totally out of control. They have a really incompetent governor. Where's Chris? Is he here? Do you want to speak to the subject?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Chris Wright Yeah, I think a huge thing in the One Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President, because of your leadership, is the ending of these subsidies as you call them, the green new scam that saves our country $0.5 trillion over the next 10 years. But American taxpayers are paying twice. They're paying that money, $0.5 trillion in subsidies and they were paying more expensive electricity price.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Chris Wright If you subsidize something, you should at least lower the cost of it. But in this case, we were subsidizing something and paying more for it. So the One Big Beautiful Bill had two huge things, ending wasteful spending. Wind, solar and batteries combined are three percent of US total primary energy, three percent for $1 trillion, another $0.5 trillion coming.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Chris Wright It's just not a good investment hurting our businesses, hurting our consumers and the One Big Beautiful Bill also unshackled oil, gas and coal development in the United States onshore and offshore. Secretary Burgum has been working tirelessly on how by getting the government out of the way private businesses will develop more resources in the United States, lowering costs for American consumers and making much better leverage for the United States to help our allies abroad and reduce the power of our adversaries abroad.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Chris Wright So just a huge win on the energy front all around and I thank you for your leadership.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're setting records now on energy and there'll be nothing compared to what they'll be in about a year from now, but we're setting records. And wind is a very expensive form of energy. It's very bad for your beautiful surroundings, the plains and the valleys and the birds are dying all over the place. You know, the whole thing is a disaster.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They're almost exclusively made in China, not that I have anything against China because I don't. I have a great relationship with President Xi. But I asked him, how many wind farms do you have? He makes them, but they don't have a lot of wind farms, I'll tell you, very, very few. And wind is tremendously expensive and is very ugly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And if you own a house that's inside of a windmill, your house is worth less than half and people -- and you hear noises. And interestingly, in New England, you probably read where for 50 years they had two whales washed up, 50 years. And last summer, they had 14 washed up. Now, I'm not saying that's the wind farm that was built, but maybe it is, right, probably is. It's tremendously expensive and it can only be done with subsidy.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I know a man that's in that business and one of the biggest in the world actually, runs a company that builds these stupid windmills. And he said, I hate the business because it's the only energy where you need subsidy. He said, energy shouldn't need subsidy. You should make money with energy, so wind. The other one is the solar, those big solar fields, they're taking our farmland.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Our farmers are like mortified by it. They hate it. It's very, very inefficient and very ugly too. Probably better than a windmill, but you go around and you see all these things that are three miles long by three miles wide and you say what the hell is that, and it's a lot of plastic from China. It's plastic, black plastic from China.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, we want to be smart. Look, China right now is building 58 coal-fired plants, 58 big ones. They have 62 on the books to build. We've reintroduced clean, beautiful coal because you can do a lot with coal now, clean, beautiful coal and natural gas and all of the other things that we have. But we don't want wind and we don't want solar because they're a blight on our country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They hurt our country very badly and smart countries don't use it. Solar sounds good, I will say and I like -- on occasion you'll see a roof which is made of solar brick, but it's a smaller use. We need the kind of thing that's going to fire up our plants and it's not going to be wind. It's very intermittent, as you probably know, but they've spent a fortune.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump They've spent trillions of dollars on this stuff and I'll just give you one other story. A friend of mine is a very successful guy. He went back to see his mother in Minnesota. He hadn't seen her in a long time and he wasn't back for 10 years, which isn't a nice story. I mean, you don't see your mother for 10 years.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He's got some difficulties, which I know the guy, he does have some difficulties. He's very successful, but probably not the nicest person. It was actually longer than 10 years. But he went back and he told me he wanted to go and look at the valley. There's a valley in Minnesota that he thought was so beautiful and hadn't seen it in a long time.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump He was driving along the road and said, oh, my -- I'll use the word gosh, oh my gosh. He said, oh, oh. He said, it looked like a junkyard. You had 159 windmills. They were all over the place. Some were old, some were newer, different companies, different shapes, different sizes, different colors, many of them were terminated.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Terminated meaning closed. You can't take them down because the environmentalists don't let you bury the blades because they're made out of a fiber they say is bad for the earth. So they want you to put them up, but they don't let you take them down. But many of them were turned off. He said it looked like a junkyard.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go to Palm Springs, California and take a look at that pile of junk and you go into a wealthy neighborhood, before you get there, you have to ride through hundreds of windmills that are -- most of them are turned off, they're rotting, they're rusting, they're 30 years old, 20 years old and they have a very short life.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump You know, those windmills have a very short life, especially the ones that are in the nice, salty Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, where the salt just gets onto that steel and decimates it. No, it's a horrible, horrible thing for our country and I speak out. It would be nice to say wind because it sounds so good, doesn't it, Doug, wind, wind, but it's not.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's these ugly machines and they're all made. You got to see, some are a little taller, a little shorter. They're made by different companies. They have different stocks. They have different blades, they have different everything. It is so horrible. And if you look at smart countries, they don't use it. Smart countries don't use it and we're now a smart country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're a brilliant country. We're not smart, we're brilliant now. We're going to be a brilliant country. We have to be because we have to catch up for some really stupid people that did a bad job. Yes, Brian.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Yes, Mr. President, I've got a quick comment, some feedback as a native Texan, someone that I grew up bringing my kids to a camp very near the affected camp now. Thank you on behalf of Texas. I've gotten hundreds of messages that want to thank -- they say, if you're in the cabinet room, you can tell the president and his team, on behalf of Texans, thank you so much for the quick response and the loving and the hugs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I saw that, that you gave. Two quick questions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I saw a Palestinian Senator. His name is Schumer. He's a Palestinian. No, he's a Palestinian. He's become a Palestinian. He's abandoned the Jews, but I saw him say, it's Trump's fault. Yeah, yeah, that's right, it's Trump's fault. He was actually -- do you ever see Jon Lovitz, the liar, where he goes, yeah, yeah, I went to Harvard, that's right.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump This was Schumer, he goes, yeah, yeah, it's Trump's fault, that's right, it's Trump -- I actually saw that stupid guy try and blame it on me and I said, man, that's a tough one to take. But his career is limited because I hear AOC is going to beat him and she's no bargain either, by the way. Go ahead.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Let me just say, that's an example of an America first team effort to get this country back. So that's what America First looks like for the viewers watching us at home. But two questions, it looks like we have a rogue judge, an Obama-backed rogue judge that is attempting to block the funding to Planned Parenthood, which the Big Beautiful Bill cuts off the funding to Planned Parenthood.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Any plans to challenge that?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi Absolutely. Yes, we're on it. We're on it. And I texted, I believe I talked to yesterday, Secretary Lutnick and Secretary Bessent, I reached out to you to let you know that we were on it in the Big Beautiful Bill.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Wonderful.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I let her handle that question. Did you notice? I said, go ahead, handle that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Toss it to her. Then my second question for Secretary Rollins, you did an amazing press conference today in front of the Department of Agriculture. You talked about the Farm Act and the need to get China out of our country, owning farm land. For the viewers at home that might have missed that, can you recap what that means for national security to make sure we can grow our own food?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins Well, thank you, Brian. Sir, if you don't mind.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead. Please.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins Yes, this morning Secretary Hegseth, Secretary Noem and Attorney General Bondi and I had a press conference at the USDA. I just happened to have a chart in case it came up. But obviously, the Chinese owning of farmland in our country is a massive national security issue. And for the media, you can see the yellow is where all of the farms have been purchased over the last number of years and the red is around all of the military bases where that farmland has been purchased.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins So this is a massive national security issue. The press conference this morning included three of our greatest governors, as well as Sarah Sanders from Arkansas, Jim Pillen from Nebraska, and Bill Lee from Tennessee. The states have begun taking a leadership role to ban the purchasing of China farmland. Obviously, Congress needs to step up and catch up and we're going to be working alongside of them as well.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins We had some of our members, great members of Congress there. But it is time, and I think that this morning was symbolic of many things, the first of this administration working every day to effectuate President Trump's leadership and unequivocal support of America First. But second, just how close we are as a cabinet.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins I don't know in any other administration that you'd have four cabinet members at the USDA on a Tuesday morning when it's about 110 degrees outside with the sun beating down on us talking about, sir, your vision. So, I think it was a great day. It was just the start. There's an executive order coming and some other things coming behind that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins But protecting America's farms isn't just about protecting our farmers, it's also about national security. So, that's what we discussed this morning.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I do want to say that I think we have had a really good relationship with China lately and we're getting along with them very well. They've been very fair on our trade deal, honestly. And I hope we're going to have a great relationship. It's a big, strong powerful country. We're more powerful than they are.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have much better military equipment than they do, but we are getting along with them very well. I'm getting along with President Xi very well, we speak often. And with all of that being said, and I understand what you're saying, but I think we're getting along with China very well.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, you want to send more weapons to Ukraine, as you said last night. Last week, the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine. Did you approve of that pause?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We want to put defensive weapons because Putin is not treating human beings right. He's killing too many people. So, we're sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine and I've approved that.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question So, who ordered the pause last week?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I don't know. Why don't you tell me?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question I think that's a question [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question Mr. President, on immigration. The Secretary of Agriculture did say this morning that undocumented workers would not be covered by any amnesty from working on farms. You had said maybe that the ICE folks won't go after those folks on farms. So, which is it?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, no, there's no amnesty. What we're doing is we're getting rid of criminals, but we are doing a work program. Do you want to explain that, please?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins Yeah, this morning we talked about -- of course, this was a top-of-mind question -- this morning we talked about protecting the farmers and the farmland, but obviously this president's vision of no amnesty, mass deportation continues but in a strategic way and then ensuring that our farmers have the labor that they need.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins Secretary Chavez-DeRemer has been a leader on this. Obviously, this comes out of the Labor Department, but moving toward automation, ensuring that our farmers have that workforce and moving toward an American workforce. So, all of the above --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We've got to give the farmers the people they need, but we're not talking amnesty. Laura, do you want to say something?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer Yeah, thank you, Mr. President, on this. Thank you, Secretary Rollins. How important this is never to displace the American worker. What the Department of Labor is doing is focusing on what the law entails now, being more modernized, more streamlining, to work through the H programs. We're going to have a concierge approach to that where we have developed a new office to answer the need of our farmers, ranchers and producers and not to displace the American worker and follow within the law now.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer And that does not include an amnesty program at all. And we've seen that working and will continue to have that roll out. On the other topics that we've somewhat talked about, the jobs numbers, Mr. President, four months in a row, we've seen those jobs numbers increase. That's an exciting time for our manufacturers, that was asked earlier.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer We know it's going to take some time, but through that deregulation process that Lee and I are working on as well, the Department of Labor has rolled out 63 new deregulations that we're going to be moving through. In the first Trump administration it was successful with over 30. We've just rolled out 63 new ones in order to double down on those manufacturing companies to let them know that we have signaled through this process that we will assist them in getting the workforce that they need.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer It's an exciting time. That One Big Beautiful Bill, that was the signal to my former colleagues in Congress to get this done. It's been an important time. I spent time on the ground visiting seven states in nine days prior to that bill being passed because it was the most pro-worker piece of legislation that we will ever see really in this country right now.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, that matters to the American worker because we don't want to take their money and give it back. We want them to keep more of their hard-earned dollars in their pockets currently and that's what they're excited about. And as I move forward with this tariff talks, I heard a company, orthopedic company in Indiana say to me, for the first time since you have taken office, Mr. President, their increase in their bottom line by 8 percent since these tariff talks have happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer Not one company has said the President is not doing a good job. These tariff talks are working; they're feeling it on the ground. The media has told a false story because what's happening on the ground is positive and that's what we're seeing in these jobs numbers. So, I really, through the Department of Labor, to come in behind all the secretaries and build this workforce is going to be key to the American worker.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer So, thank you for what everybody did this last week. The One Big Beautiful Bill is a doubling down of this, and we're going to see these workers start to grow. And that apprenticeship program is going to be working. We'll have that million apprentices across the country.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's right, it's going to be. As you know, we're building plants all over the country now, which you weren't building any plants four years ago, you weren't building anything. But those plants, when they open up, it's going to be -- you'll see numbers like you haven't seen ever. I don't think in history, you'll see -- you'll never see numbers like what we're going to see in the very near future.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Many of them are building the plants, some are just starting right now. You know, it's a brand-new administration. And they wouldn't be here except for two things: November 5th, the election; and the tariffs. And frankly, I guess the election was more important because of the tariffs. I mean, another person wouldn't have done this, but they're coming in because of the tariffs.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They have to -- they're not going to pay 25, 30, 40, 50 percent, 70 and 100 percent. And we'll be announcing something very soon on pharmaceuticals. We're going to give people about a year, a year and a half to come in. And after that, they're going to be tariffed. If they have to bring the pharmaceuticals into the country, the drugs and other things into the country, they're going to be tariffed at a very, very high rate, like 200 percent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump We'll give them a certain period of time to get their act together. But they were all here, now they all left, they went to other places because we allowed -- people that sat in this room allowed it to happen and I don't allow it to happen. The people in this room don't allow it to happen. So, we're going to be announcing pharmaceuticals, chips and various -- a couple of other things, you know, big ones.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We did steel, as you know, they're 50 percent. We did aluminum 50 percent. Lumber just came out.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick Why don't you announce copper?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And we did cars -- cars, and now today we're doing copper.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question What would that be on -- the section --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump I believe the tariff on copper, we're going to make it 50 percent.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick 50 percent.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Any breakthroughs?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump I'm sort of glad he didn't question it because I sort of -- just sort of thought what would that be? That was a quick one. I didn't have much time, but he agreed with me. That's why he's Howard. [Laughter]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question On Gaza with the prime minister? And there's reports that you're meeting with Netanyahu again tonight.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Yeah, I am -- he's going to come over again tonight. We're talking about Gaza, mostly Gaza right now. He's been very unfairly treated. I think what they've done to him in Israel is very unfair having to do with this trial. You know, he's a wartime prime minister, had an unbelievable outcome and I think he's been treated very unfairly.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But he's coming over later. We're going to be talking about, I would say, almost exclusively Gaza. We've got to get that solved. Gaza is a tragic -- it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy and he wants to get it solved, and I want to get it solved, and I think the other side wants to get it solved. Steve, could you talk on that, please?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff We're in proximity talks now and we had four issues and now we're down to one after two days of proximity talks. So, we are hopeful that by the end of this week we will have an agreement that will bring us into a 60-day ceasefire, 10 live hostages will be released, nine deceased will be released. We're meeting at the president's direction with all the hostage families to let them know.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff And we think that this will lead to a lasting peace in Gaza.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And you're doing a good job. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. A lot of hate, this is long-term hate, but we think we're going to have it solved pretty soon. Hopefully with a real solution, a solution that's going to be holding up.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question And this is, I think, the first cabinet meeting since Elon Musk has not been a special government employee, not here anymore. He's now saying he's going to create a third political party. Are you worried about the impact that that could have?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, I think it will help us. It will probably help. Third parties have always been good for me. I don't know about Republicans, but for me.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question Are you second guessing any of the cuts that DOGE made since --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump No, look, we cut hundreds of billions of dollars with DOGE. We could have done it differently. I would have done it differently a little bit maybe, but it was something that we saved a lot of money. You can always second guess. I guess some of the people in this room maybe would have done it slightly differently, and some would have done it exactly the way it was done.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump But it was dramatic and it was important and we found a lot of things, like billions of dollars given to people for environmental protection, where they had $100 in the account, like in Atlanta, Stacy. And then you had another one with $20 billion here and $20 billion here and $2 billion here and $15 billion.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And Lee, you might want to mention just a couple of those things we really got because of DOGE.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin At the Trump EPA, the One Big Beautiful Bill was filled with many big, beautiful wins for the taxpayer. It delivered a sledgehammer to the green new scam, billions of dollars rescinded. So it's a big deal for the American taxpayer who sees money go through passthroughs that are filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin They see unqualified recipients. They see reduced agency oversight and they want accountability with their tax dollars and they got it. So in the example of the Stacey Abrams connected NGO, they received $100 in 2023. They got $2 billion in 2024. They had to complete training on how to develop a budget that was put into their grant agreement.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin They, out of nowhere, started paying a CEO $800,000, a COO $450,000, 22 people making over $150,000 out of nowhere. This is tax dollars. So money go through pass throughs, through other pass throughs, through other pass throughs and we lose oversight over it. And you see that it's going to force Biden officials.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin It's going to former Obama officials. It's going to Democratic donors. And we're not here saying we want to take money from a left-wing NGO and give to a right-wing NGO. We want to give it back to the taxpayer. This is about us being good stewards of American tax dollars without any apology or regret. That's why President Trump was elected last November, because there are a whole lot of people who maybe they hadn't voted Republican in a long time.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin Maybe they didn't even vote for President Trump the first time around in 2016, but they're regretting that vote from 2016 and they were making it right in 2024. So the One Big Beautiful Bill gave us the tools to rescind billions of dollars more. We're seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars that'll get wasted per electric vehicle as an example of this money that was going through it. They gave $50 million to a group called Climate Justice Alliance.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine. The Biden EPA gave $50 million to a group that says climate justice runs through a free Palestine. We say that if you're going to spend a dollar in the name of remediating an environmental issue, then spend the dollar on remediating an environmental issue.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin We say that we can protect the environment and grow the economy. We want to help grow more baseload power in this country. So why is it that it took this long for this team to get assembled, to be able to fix the mess that we inherited? But gosh, we love showing up at our jobs every single day, first thing in the morning because all day long, we get things done for the American taxpayer and Congress did its part last week by passing One Big Beautiful Bill to deliver this accountability and to cut off the green new scam.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lee Zeldin So maybe it's a bad day for Stacey Abrams. Maybe it's a bad day for all those well-connected Democrats getting paid off. But you know what, God bless America because at the end of the day, President Trump is here, JD Vance is here and the greatest cabinet ever assembled to deliver that much needed and highly demanded accountability.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Well said.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That was a very good answer.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Unidentified Well said.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And that's from the heart. That's from the heart.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question [Inaudible] Ukrainians have asked your national court to go after Russia for using toxic chemicals in the fight. Germany and the Netherlands have had intelligence saying that what does US intelligence believe and what do you believe about the use of chemical weapons? And would you agree that that's the case [Inaudible]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Well, I'd ask John, maybe to discuss it, if you'd like, John?<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>John Ratcliffe Well, Mr. President, obviously chemical weapons, if it's documented and its used, it's illegal, it's against all international laws of armed conflict and treaties. And obviously I can't share in this room with this audience the intelligence that I can share with you privately, but obviously you're not going to stand or allow for any violations of international law by anyone.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump That's right. That's right. Thank you. Could I ask Sean to -- Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, former -- great Congressman, very popular, decided to go out and make a couple of bucks. He made a lot, and he got bored with that though. He likes serving people better, the people. And could I ask you to just discuss a very important subject to me? And that's the modernization of our equipment and airports so that planes aren't crashing into each other and bad things don't happen.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It should have been done many years ago. We were going to do it and then the election precluded that, unfortunately, but we're doing it now. Could you tell them where we are?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy Yeah, if I could start with Newark. You guys all covered what happened in Newark. We had outages for a couple of -- 32nd outages a couple months ago. We have, in two months, Mr. President, it's historic speed, laid new fiber lines for communication and tested those in the next month. So those new lines for the Philly Tracon that controls the Newark airspace, they're up and running lightning fast speed.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Very good.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy June was the most on time June ever in the history of Newark for air travel. So that's going incredibly well. By the way, we shouldn't have dealt with this because Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg had moved the center from New York to Philadelphia. They didn't test the lines. They didn't do the work, which is what brought us all these problems.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy But in the Big Beautiful Bill, we got $12.5 billion. This is a historic investment in air traffic control. And so what the money is going to allow us to do is move from move from copper to fiber all over the country. So new copper lines. We think we can do that in a year and a half to two years. We have a radar that dates back to the 1950s, some of it from the 60s and 70s. We get brand new radar across the country as well.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy We have some infrastructure money to build Tracons and centers, the enroute centers that control the traffic across the country. So this is a massive new start to rebuild air traffic control. And again, this is dilapidated. Americans think that their government takes care of them and makes investments that are necessary to make the country work.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy And for 30, 40 years, the investments weren't made. And so under your leadership and direction, we are making those investments. And per your direction, right now, we are interviewing what we could call a general contractor or an integrator, one company to -- it's a massive project. The FAA is not qualified to manage this kind of a project.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy So we are now going through the process of finding who that one company will be to manage the whole project. We'll interview those companies together and make that selection. So we'll write one big, beautiful check to one beautiful company that will be responsible for this whole bill. But if I could just make one last point, this is not enough money.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy We're going to need more, but this is a massive new start, the biggest investment. We'll need some more money on top of it, but a great start from the Big Beautiful --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's a start.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy It's a start.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump It's very important to us. And just to cover that, there have been accidents and my pilots, I would often hear them say, oh good -- and they would use a different system, a different country to land in New York. They'd used the radar and other things from a different country. I said, what's that? Oh, our system is so bad.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I knew that. We were all set to start and Buttigieg came in and what they did was so crazy because they hooked copper into fiber, into steel, into all -- they had all different systems. They had hundreds and hundreds of contractors, different contractors for different airports. They spent billions of dollars.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And they made the system worse, because you can't hook copper into fiber. It doesn't work that way. You just can't do it. It's not doable, but they tried to do it. It didn't work out too well. And in the end, it was just a complete disaster. We want to have one great company. Now, Raytheon is going to bid.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump IBM is going to bid. We have five or six bidders that really are good and do this stuff. And we want one -- I tell -- because I know about overruns. I look at the railroad out in California headed up by one of the worst governors in our country, who I used to get along with actually. But he's just -- when you lose 25,000 houses and you would have had your cities burned down.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump If we didn't step in, Los Angeles would have been burned to the ground. But you look at that, and I said, I really know how to build. And you got to have one guy, one contractor, one great one, whether it's IBM or Raytheon is good. But you have four or five that are really great and they're all bidding against each other.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump But you don't want to have one doing the wire and one doing the digging and one doing the demolition and one. And then they're all saying they all blame each other because they're saying they were late and therefore you have to pay me millions of dollars more money. I know the system so well and we're going to have a great company do the whole thing.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We're going to get a fantastic price, maybe we'll get them -- very big and very strong and maybe we'll get them to make a contribution toward it, toward getting it done at the right price, but we're going to have a great system. When we finish, we will have the best system on earth and done by one of the two or three best companies.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump There are only a few companies can do this. This is not -- but if you would have seen what this other group did. They were going crazy. They had -- I think I heard 3,000 contractors, and then when it all came together, guess what? It didn't work; it's a disaster. So, we're going to have, in a pretty short period of time, it's going to take us about two years to build it, and we'll have a contract given out probably over the next couple of months.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump We have some great bidders, some great companies that want to do the job. You're going to have great air traffic control.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy Can I just make one last point on this. So, the last administration signed a contract with an American company to fix the copper to fiber and that contract was a 15-year contract. The system is failing today, but that's how idiotic and incompetent the last administration was. And under your leadership, we're saying, listen, we don't have time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy We don't have 15 years, we don't have five years, we have to do it right now. And so, the president always talks about on time and on budget. We have embraced that; we are going to be on time and on budget. And by the way, you mentioned a train out in California, stay tuned for -- probably give us five days and you'll have an answer on what's going to happen with the $4 billion that we potentially have invested on a train that's going to go nowhere.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy It's going to be $120 billion that will never connect San Francisco to LA. Again, the last administration wasted so much money on projects that never work. If you're going to have high speed rail, you're going to invest billions, we should actually have high speed rail in America, not boondoggles that fund political friends and allies and family members.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump They have from San Francisco, inside of San Francisco to inside of Los Angeles, it should have never been built because airplanes do it better and you could drive it. You could drive it, no problem with driving it. The roads aren't even crowded. So, they were going to do -- this is somebody's idea, somebody got paid off a lot of money and they started it. It was going to cost a very small amount of money, and it ended up costing literally hundreds of times what the original.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And now what they did is they said well, going into the city is too big a deal. So, we'll leave it 25 miles short of the city. So, now they're leaving it. They're not going to finish it really -- it's not the same project. So, now they're leaving it outside of San Francisco and outside -- short of each, they just want to get it done.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump And it's -- I've never seen cost overruns -- you know, if you have a cost overrun of 10 percent, you should be ashamed of yourself. 20 percent you should not do any more jobs. This is a cost overrun of 2,000 percent, something like that. It's unlimited, and it's not finished, and maybe it will never get finished.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump And I told Sean, look at it from every standpoint. But we don't want to -- you know, we have federal money going into that and it's like throwing it out the window. So, whatever you can do to stop it.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Sean Duffy $15 billion and not one track has been laid. $15 billion and we're 16 years into the project, not one track.<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Note [Crosstalk]<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Question On New York, you're the most prominent Republican in the country from the city. What do you want to --<end_of_turn> <start_of_turn>Donald Trump Anywhere else too. [Laughter] I think I can say. I don't want to be a wise guy. Perhaps I -- maybe, Marco?<end_of_turn>

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