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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, can I follow up on that? Can I follow up on that? Are you -- so, are you saying you're OK with the continued use of Signal by administration officials for sensitive --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, that's not what I said. I said we'll look into it, but everybody else seems to be using it. It seems to be the number one used device or app -- whatever you want to call it. And we will certainly -- look, if it was up to me, everybody would be sitting in a room together, the room would have solid lead walls and a lead ceiling and a lead floor.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But you know, life doesn't always let you do that. In the meantime, the attack itself that we were talking about and discussing has been an unbelievable success.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
But you will conduct an investigation, is what you're saying, into this. We'll look into it, sure.<end_of_turn>
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[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
-- that investigation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I want to look into --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Is that the FBI --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Anything like that, I would ask them, it's not really an FBI thing. It's really something having to do with security -- security like will somebody be able to break in? Are people able to break into conversations. And if that's true, we're going to have to find some other form of device. And I think that's something that we may have to do. Some people like Signal very much, other people probably don't. But we'll look into it. I think, Michael, I've asked you to immediately study that and find out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If people are able to break into a system -- now in this case, it wasn't that the -- this attack was going on and nobody found out anything. And again, the person that was on, as I understand it, he left very early because he didn't find it very exciting, but I think it's something you should look into.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz
Yes, sir, we are -- we have our technical experts looking at it. We have our legal teams looking at it. And of course, we're going to keep everything as secure as possible. No one in your national security team would ever put anyone in danger. And as you said, and we've repeatedly said, the attack was phenomenal and it's ongoing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz
But the media wants to talk about everything else except for the hostages you're getting out of the Middle East, Iran on its back foot, sea lanes getting reopened, peace in Europe. As we just saw today with the Black Sea ceasefire we were just on with Steve Witkoff, myself, our team in Saudi Arabia. They want to talk about all this other stuff except for your amazing successes and the successes of your team.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One of the other things, and sometimes you have to move very quickly and there are other devices that are very good, but they are very, very cumbersome and you're not able to use them from a practical standpoint. So, all we can do is find out the best we have with modern technology. They'll probably get better over the years.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Sir, on the Black Sea -- so, the Kremlin has said that there are several conditions that would need to be met for this agreement to happen. This includes sanctions relief for banks and some companies. Did the US agree to all of those conditions that they laid out?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They will be looking at them and we're thinking about all of them right now. There are about five or six conditions, we're looking at all of them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
-- said that it's looking into how journalists got added to that Signal chat. Is it possible that there could be a firing of even a lower mid-level official once that person is identified?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
About what?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
About the Signal chat that we've been discussing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've pretty much looked into it. It's pretty simple, to be honest. It's not -- it's just something that can happen. It can happen, you can even prepare for it and it can happen. Sometimes people are hooked in and you don't know they're hooked in. They're hooked into your line and they don't even mean bad by it, but it's not a perfect technology.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There is no perfect technology. The really good ones are very cumbersome, very hard to access. And I think we're going to look at -- we always want to use the best technology. This was the best technology for the moment, but again it wasn't classified. So, they probably viewed it as being something that wasn't that important.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it obviously -- with the attack being -- I mean, I don't know if it's been read out to you yet, but that attack was a tremendous success for the US, a tremendous success.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Who said the information -- who said the information was not classified? Do you think that Mike Waltz made a mistake, and does he need to apologize?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I don't think he should apologize. I think he's doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect and probably he won't be using it again, at least not in the very near future. What are your --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz
Sir, I agree with you. Let's get everybody in the room whenever possible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A lot of times you find out defects by exactly things like that, but I don't think it's something we're looking forward to using again. We may be forced to use it. You may be in a situation where you need speed as opposed to gross safety and you may be forced to use it. But generally speaking, I think we probably won't be using it very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- the secretary of defense on that chain, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth and JD Vance, the vice president, said that the Europeans were freeloading. Do you agree with that assessment?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Do you really want me to answer that? Yeah, I think they've been freeloading. The European Union has been absolutely terrible to us on trade, terrible. And as you know, NATO, I got them to pay hundreds of billions of dollars. They were way behind. And if you look, even if you look at Ukraine, so we're in for $350 billion because of Biden -- should have never happened -- this war should've -- . All these dead people should not be dead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
All these broken cities that are demolished down to the ground, those gorgeous towers, the most beautiful in the world, the most beautiful spires in the world. The spires in Ukraine were said to be the most beautiful of all. Just about every one of them is lying on its side in a million pieces. It's so sad to see what's happened to a heritage.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I think that -- I think when they say the European Union and the -- and you could say NATO also. Look, NATO -- and I don't blame NATO for this. I don't blame Europe for this. I blame Biden for the fact that he didn't make them equalize. And to this day I said to him you got to catch up, you got to equalize.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But why are they in for $100 billion and we're in for possibly $350 billion? It shouldn't be -- it shouldn't be. And you could say more important for them because we have an ocean in between. So, it's one of those things. You'll be seeing a Liberation Day. I call it Liberation Day in America. You're going to be seeing an April 2nd -- didn't want to do it on April 1st for the obvious reason, April 2nd. But you'll be seeing tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think I've been very fair, I have them set, but I think I've been very fair to countries that have really abused us economically for many, many decades.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
But on the same --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- that information was not classified. Which of your National Security advisers told you -- ? Just following up on your comment on the economy. There is reporting that consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month. What is your message to Americans who are concerned about --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I know this, that for the first time in like 50 years, right track, wrong track -- we're on the right track and I think people see that. And if you look at prices, prices are way down. You know, when I first came here, the first time I met with you people officially, they were screaming at me about eggs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said I've been here for a week, and I'm being yelled at about eggs. Egg prices have come down 45-50 percent in the last week and a half. And our secretary of agriculture has done a great job. As you know, Brooke, she's done a fantastic job. And others working with her have done a great job. But we brought eggs down at a level that nobody thought we could get at. I inherited that situation, and I inherited a grocery situation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The groceries went way up -- an old-fashioned word, but it's a very descriptive word. Groceries have gone through the roof, and I used to campaign on it. I used to say we're going to get groceries down and we have got it down. I watched a certain newscast over the weekend and a congressman, democrat congressman said, well, Trump's done a lot, I agree.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He's been great on the border. He's been great on the military, but you know he hasn't brought prices down. That's false. Gasoline is way down, eggs are way down, groceries are down very substantially, but down, almost everything's down. Now I'd like to see interest rates come down a little bit. And you're going to see billions of dollars, even trillions of dollars coming into our country very soon in the form of tariffs because we were abused by presidents that, frankly, in all fairness, it wasn't their expertise, but they had no idea what they were doing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, you say tariffs will create more jobs here in America. So, which states?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I agree, it will be -- it'll create a lot of money and more jobs. But if you look, so in the last -- these gentlemen would know about it, and ladies, because some of the ladies are great businessmen in this room that are becoming ambassadors, great, really great, top of the line. When you look at the number of companies that have said, look, we're close to, I would say close to $4 trillion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We never had numbers like that. The number one chip maker in the world from Taiwan coming in with $200 billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have Apple -- look at Apple, $500 billion, $500 billion, and they're going to build plants all over the United States. They were all being built in China. You have many, many companies. And maybe above all, you have the car companies coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We have -- Honda is opening up one of the biggest plants in the world in Indiana.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And many car companies are coming in. We have AI. We're leading China by a lot in AI. And we're going to keep it that way. Because we've made it very good for them. And we're going to protect them. Once you're here, we'll protect them through taxes, through incentives and also through tariffs. Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hello, everybody. You know our ambassador to Scotland, and it's great to be in Scotland. We are going to be meeting with the Prime Minister, uh, I guess tomorrow, a little bit tomorrow and the next day. And, uh, we're gonna do some great things. Uh, do you have any questions?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] Ursula Von der Leyen on Sunday to discuss the EU deal?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are you meeting with Ursula Von der Leyen?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes, I'll be meeting with the EU on, uh, Sunday, and we'll be working on a deal. We'll see if we make a deal. Uh, Ursula will be here. Highly respected woman, so we look forward to that. That'll be good.msng[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Who else will you be meeting with? What media executives are you meeting with while you're here?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll have numerous executives that we're meeting with. A lot of -- we're gonna be meeting with a lot of people. A lot of people will be staying at Turnberry and then we're going to Aberdeen, which is the oil capital of Europe actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, can you explain what is kind of, what is missing in the UK deal that you have to work out?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nothing. We, uh, just, I think it's more of a celebration than a workout. It's, uh, it's a great deal for both and, uh, we're gonna have a meeting on other things other than the deal. The deal is concluded.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
On Gaza, French President, Emmanuel Macron, just said that France will officially recognize the Palestinian state. What's your comment uh --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, that's what he does. I mean, you know, he, uh, that's fine if he does that. That's up to him. It's not up to me. I'm with the United States. I'm not with France.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, we give very dire warning about --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think it's terrible what happened with Hamas. They tapped everybody along, and we'll see what happens. We'll see what response Israel has to that, but it's getting to be that time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
On the EU deal, you said there's a 50/50 chance of a deal. What is left for now? What are the final terms?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
With the, uh, European Union, I think we have a good 50/50 chance.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
What advice?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a lot.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What are the sticking points that you [Inaudible]?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I don't want to tell you what the sticking points are, but the sticking points are having to do with, uh, maybe, uh, 20 different things. You don't want to listen to all of them. Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What advice are you gonna have for our Prime Minister about free speech? Very important to people here.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, it is, but I like your Prime Minister. He's slightly more liberal than I am, as you've probably heard, but he's a good man. He got a trade deal done and uh, you know, they've been working on this deal for 12 years. He got it done. It's a good deal. It's a good deal for the UK. So, uh, no, I'll be seeing him tomorrow, I guess, tomorrow evening.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And this is our wonderful ambassador, as you know. He's doing a good job. He'll be, he's a very, very successful man who'll be doing a good job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- is that something you gonna ask the Prime Minister [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The best course, the best course anywhere in the world is Turnberry. The players all want to be at Turnberry. Everybody wants to be at Turnberry. So we'll see how that works out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
But it's the infrastructure needs to be improved [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, the infrastructure and the course is good. In fact, the Royal & Ancient, uh, I don't know if you're aware of this, they spent a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars or probably into the millions of dollars, and they've laid all the wire for television and for electricity under the holes of Turnberry so that when the Open gets there, they have it all done.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They paid for that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
But we're talking about roads, the railway station, that sort of thing. That seems like a big [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know what you can -- All I can tell you is that it would be the best place anywhere in, in your country to have -- There's no place like it. There's no place like Turnberry. It's the best, probably the best course in the world. And I would say Aberdeen is right up there also. Aberdeen's great -- And while we're here, I'll be with my son and he's gonna cut a ribbon with the second course at Aberdeen, which is just about equal to the first.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, it's gonna be a battle that, you know, it's, as you know, they're very highly rated.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And the second course is great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sean Connery helped, helped get me the permits. Uh, if it weren't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't have those great courses.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Okay. Mr. President, were you briefed on your name appearing in the Epstein files ever?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I was never, never.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What are you hoping --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are you hopeful?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What are you hoping Todd Blanche interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell, what are you hoping that they get out of that?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I really have no, uh, really nothing to say about it. Uh, she is, uh, being talked to by a very smart man, by a very good man, Todd Blanche.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Being talked to by a very smart man, by a very good man, Todd Blanch. And, uh, I don't know anything about the conversation. I haven't really been following it. Uh --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- a lot of people are asking me about pardons. Obviously this is no time to be talking about pardons.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Did you --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But a lot of people have asked about pardon, and this is just not a time to be talking about pardons. And Todd will come back with whatever he's got. And you're making a very big thing over something that's not a big thing. We should be talking about, if you're gonna talk about that, talk about Clinton, talk about the former president of Harvard.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Talk about all of, uh, his friends. Talk about the hedge fund guys that were with him all the time. Don't talk about Trump.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, what you should be talking about is the fact that we have the greatest six months in the history of a presidency, according to a lot of people. And, uh, we had an amazing six months, and this is sort of an example of it. Now we're meeting with the European Union, uh, having, we're also meeting with, as you know, the head of, uh, UK, Prime Minister.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I look forward to that. So we're meeting in terms of a deal, we're meeting with the European Union, and that would be actually the biggest deal of them all if we make it.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Did you ask [Inaudible] Republican leaders to not vote on the resolution at all?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I was never, I was never involved in that. I'm focused on making deals, I'm not focused on conspiracy theories that you are. I mean, I watch you people. It's, it's so sad. You ought to talk about the success of our country instead of this nonsense you can talk about --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Sir, you've done --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- over and over again.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
You've done an amazing job on illegal migration. A lot of people here are very worried about the situation. Record numbers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I say things, I say two things to Europe. Stop the windmills. You're ruining your countries. I really mean it, it's so sad. You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds. And, and they're stuck in the ocean, ruining your oceans.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, stop the windmills. And I also, I mean, there's a couple of things I could say, but on immigration, you better get your act together. But you're not gonna have Europe anymore. You gotta get your act together. And we, you know, as you know, last month we had nobody entering our country, nobody. Shut it down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we took out a lot of bad people that got there with Biden. Biden was a total stiff in what he allowed to happen. But you're allowing it to happen to your countries and you gotta stop the, this horrible, uh, invasion that's happening to Europe, many countries in Europe. Some people, some, uh, leaders have not let it happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And, uh, they're not getting the proper credit they, they should. I could name them to you right now, but I'm not gonna embarrass the other ones. But, stop. This immigration is killing Europe. And the other thing, stop the windmills killing the beauty of your countries. Thank you very much everybody.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much. We're looking at the construction and uh, we're with the chairman as you know. Chairman, come on over. And we're just taking a look at what's happening. You know, it's a, it's a tough construction job. They're building basements where they didn't exist or expanding them. And a lot of very expensive work.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's no question about it. And, uh, Tim has been with me for a long time --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- and you're in charge of the committee.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
Indeed. One of the reasons I wanted to see it was the, the overruns of the expenses, wanting to figure out why.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. So we're taking a look and, uh, it looks like it's about 3.1 billion. It went up a little bit, or a lot. Uh, so the 2.7 is now 3.1. And --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
I'm not aware of that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, it, it just came out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
Yeah, I, I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, it just came out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
[Inaudible] About 3.1 as well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
3.1.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
3.1, 3.2.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
This came from us?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes. I don't know who does that.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
You're including the Martin renovation. You just added --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
The entire capital.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
You just add, you just added in a third building is what that is. That's a third building.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, no, but it's, it's a building that's being built.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
No, it's been, it was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
Part of its over.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's part of the overall work. So I --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
It's not new.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we're gonna take a look. We're gonna see what's happening, uh, and it's got along way. Do you expect any more additional cost overruns?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jerome Powell
Don't expect them. Uh, we're, we're ready for 'em, but we, we have a little bit of a reserve that we'll, we may use, but no, we don't. Expect to be finished in 2027. Um, we're well along as you can see.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, nice to take these off every once in a while when we're not under too much danger. Uh, so any questions?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, does the issue give you any -- [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
As a real estate developer, what would you do with a project manager who would be over budget?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, generally speaking, what would I do? I'd fire him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President gives you co-ops to do that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'm here just really with the chairman. He's showing us around, showing us the work. And so I don't want to get that. I don't want to be personal. I just, uh, would like to see it get finished. And in many ways it's too bad it started, but it did start. And, uh, and it's been under construction for a long time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That'll be, it's gonna be a real long time. 'cause it looks like it's got a long way to go.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tim Scott
Yes, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are there things, are there things the chairman can say to you today that would make you back off some of the earlier criticism?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'd love him to lower interest rates.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Other than that, what can I tell you? Uh, the country's doing really well. I just briefed the chairman on the deal we made with Japan. Japan is putting up $550 billion in order to lower their tariffs a little bit. That way, they have a little bit lower tariff. And, uh, they also opened their country to free trade, which nobody thought was even a possibility.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And, uh, we get a zero tariff in the free trade. We don't pay tariffs. And, uh, they're gonna pay 15% on everything they send into our country. So it's great. But they put up, uh, as you could call it, uh, seed money. Let's call it seed money. You could call it anything you want, but it's five, it's a total of $550 billion.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So nobody thought any of that was possible. And it's wonderful. And we're doing pretty well with the European Union, likewise. Uh, and we have some others. They're all really big, and our country's gonna make a lot of money. We would be helped if interest rates would come down, but we're gonna see how the board rules on that soon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I, I'd love to see 'em come down a lot. But, uh, we have a country that's, uh, thriving. Uh, we had a dead country one year ago today. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, and we'll get this one finished.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Mr. President, it is great to see you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah. You're happy?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know about happy. I'm thrilled to be here. We're going to make this a much better country. It's suffered greatly over the last four years like nobody can believe with the border and with the inflation and with all of the horrible things that took place. But we're going to make it great. We had tremendous two months, and I think we're going to make it back where we had it and beyond.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
President Trump, I want to ask you about something that I think the American people don't know enough about, and that is the attack on you in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the follow-on attack in West Palm Beach. This is something that Dick Cheney said publicly in a video. He said, "In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump." He said that in a campaign video for his daughter.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
His daughter has said equally horrendous things. To me, that was an invitation, quite frankly, to somebody in or out of government to do something bad to you. I think that is possibly a crime. But overall, we don't know enough about what happened, how do you feel about that? Was it possibly government involvement?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we don't know. But when I hear a statement like that from a guy that got us into spending nine -- think of it. They spent billions and billions, almost $1 trillion in the Middle East, blowing up everything, killing people all over the place, engendering tremendous hatred. What a mess. And then, just leave.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We leave -- we leave with nothing. And he got us in along with Bush. It was one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country. So, when I hear a guy like that make that statement -- and, you know, I did something that he couldn't do. He had a certain person that worked for him that they didn't take proper care of.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Scooter Libby?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Scooter Libby. And Scooter Libby was very badly treated by him and Bush. And he took a fall for them, frankly, and they didn't take care of him. I took care of him. I didn't do it for him. I did it because Scooter Libby was treated very unfairly. But when I hear that stuff --and then the daughter goes out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
She runs for office in a state that they virtually owned, and she loses by the largest margin in the history of Congress. You know that, the largest margin, like 44 points or something. And they've got a screw loose. They've got a screw loose.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
About a month ago or so, you said they were going to brief you on what happened --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
What they know, the investigation. Has that happened? Is there anything you can share with us? And maybe there should be a commission, maybe there should be something else.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, it is -- it has happened, and they don't seem to think there was anything other than abnormal people. And I'll assume that's true. They do have a case coming up, a case that a lot of people don't talk about, but it's coming up. Really, sort of a third case, I guess, you'd say. And so, we'll see how that one works out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But, you know, it's a dangerous profession being president, If you look, race car drivers, one in -- one in -- think of this, one-tenth of 1 percent bull riders, one tenth of 1 percent presidents. I won't tell you the number, but it's big.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a dangerous profession. Why didn't you tell me this? You could have told me this, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
This would-be assassin, Crooks, had apps that they can't get into --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Foreign, sophisticated. All right, let's face it. The team, the national security team, was using Signal. And I know you just spoke about that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Are you concerned, number one, about anybody on your national security team keeping in touch with a guy like Jeffrey Goldberg? So, it suggests that, perhaps, they've been talking to him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
It suggests. It doesn't guarantee that, but that seemed kind of weird.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, Goldberg's bad news. It's The Atlantic, it's failing. It's probably going to be out of business soon. And it is -- it's a terrible magazine. They made up all sorts of stories about me with -- with standing over the graves of soldiers. There's nobody that treats the military better than me, and they treat me well, too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They showed that in the election. But they -- they write stories. It's such a disgrace. And there are plenty of others also. But Goldberg's a loser. His magazine's a big loser. And what it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line, with permission, somebody that was with Mike Waltz -- worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level, had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And somehow, this guy ended up on the call. Now, it wasn't classified, as I understand it. There was no classified information. There was no problem, and the attack was a tremendous success. So, I can only go by what I've been told. I wasn't involved in it. But I was told by -- and the other people weren't involved at all.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I feel very comfortable, actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You were on the phone that day in the golf club. You were on a hard line. Are you concerned, Hey, no more Signal or actually --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I like hard lines. But the best way is to be in the Situation Room or some other room where you're all together where you don't have -- anytime you have a line, whether it's air or whether it's hard, there's always a risk that people are listening.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
One more thing on this. Is it possible that doing business through a secure line, even on a cell phone, is so cumbersome. I've heard that it can be very, very difficult.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Almost difficult on purpose. You know, they were leaking -- the intelligence community was leaking on you during the first term.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Is this a way around that, perhaps?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You got to have the right people. You know, we had some people that I inherited and that were recommended by RINOs or others. And the beauty is I gained a lot of experience in that first term, and we have wonderful people now. We have tremendous people. That's why when you look at what's happening with the economy, how well we're doing -- even the prices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, when I came in, everyone was complaining about eggs, the cost of eggs. I said, "I've been here a week." They were trying to blame me, and I was here a week. And, you know, they're down almost 50 percent. And there's plenty of them. I mean, they've done an amazing job. My people have done an amazing job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They talked about the price of groceries and how expensive it was. And I campaigned on it, in all fairness. I never -- I haven't used the word groceries. It's like an old-fashioned word. But really, it's not, and people understand it. And I campaigned very hard on groceries, and they're coming down very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If you look at your gasoline prices, it's -- it's really coming down tremendously, and that's bringing other prices down with it. So, I mean, I just have -- I have really great people. But it took a period of time. You know, I never did this before. Remember, I ran -- I was a real estate guy from New York.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I wasn't a Washington, DC, person, so I didn't know a lot of people in Washington. And when I came here, I had to rely on the -- on others. And by the way, I had some great people. I got the largest tax cuts in history. I got the largest regulation cuts in history. I rebuilt our military. They shouldn't have given it a lot of it to a place called Afghanistan in one of the dumbest worst days or periods of time in the history of our country, I think the most embarrassing period of time in the history of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But they shouldn't have given so much. But I had some great people, but I had some people that I wouldn't have used. Now, I have people, I have a team that's really fantastic, and I think you see the results. We have -- Apple is going to spend $500 billion. The biggest chip maker is going to spend fortunes, I mean, just fortunes of money coming out of Taiwan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen anything like it, and they're going up fast. Honda just announced their building in Indiana, one of the biggest. And the nation's doing really well. And a lot of that's the results of November 5th, and a lot of it is also the tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
No one has spoken -- and I want to -- I'll have to get back to the tariffs. But if you don't mind, no one has spoken as boldly and as with -- with as much truth as you about Ashli Babbitt. It was a bad shooting. My father can tell you that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Terrible.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Anybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a terrible thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I don't know if you know this, but the Department of Justice right now is still kind of fighting that case. The family of Ashli Babbitt is suing the government wrongful death. The DOJ right now, officially, is still opposing that lawsuit, trying to justify it. Shouldn't that be something that can just be settled at this point?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'll look into that. I mean, you're just telling me that for the first time. I haven't heard that. I'm a big fan of Ashli Babbitt, OK? And Ashli Babbitt was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan. And she was innocently standing there. They even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her. And I think it's a disgrace. I'm going to look into that. I did not know that, no.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
And the officer who shot her --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Michael Byrd, is still on duty. They gave him a raise, and they gave him a medal and I believe a promotion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think it's a disgrace.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
He's a federal employee.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Would you or could you do something?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm going to take a look at it. I'm going to look at that, too. His reputation was -- I won't even say. Let's find out about his reputation, OK? We're going to find out. But I watched that, and I saw that. And by the way, she was killed, but nobody else was killed. And, you know, the people that went down there, they had no guns.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They didn't have guns. There was something to do with the FBI. There was something to do with Antifa and others, and it wasn't mentioned. And there's never been a group of people, I think, with the exception of maybe over the years, a couple of groups were treated pretty harshly. But essentially, never treated so badly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And as you know, I gave -- I let them out with pardons. I know you were very happy. I watched your show all the time. You were extremely happy about it, and plenty of other people were, too. People don't realize. This whole movement that we have is just a -- it's a very inspiring thing, what's happened to our country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
These people are incredible people. They were treated so unfairly, so horribly. Some of them didn't even go into the building. And the judges, the system, the hatred, the vitriol, the prosecutors, the way they wanted to destroy these people. People would go in and they would be so proud to go before court, and they'd have a good lawyer, and they'd walk out of court like devastated, the way they were treated, devastated, given years in prison.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, but I took care of them. I said I was going to, and I did.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Is there any talk of -- because they lost opportunity, they lost income. Any kind of compensation fund or anything like that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, there's talk about that. We have a lot of people talk about it. A lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because they -- a lot of the people in government really like that group of people. They were patriots as far as I was concerned. I talked about -- I talk about them a lot. They were treated very unfairly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, the thing they show is they show a group of a thousand, whatever it may have been, 1,500 people down. What they don't show -- you never see the crowd that day. It was the biggest crowd I've ever spoken before. It went all the way to the Washington Monument. It was so wide, you couldn't -- you virtually couldn't see anything else but people.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They never show that. Whether it was a million people or less than a million, I don't know what it was. But, you know, I see Bernie Sanders has a few people out there, and they say, "Oh, the crowd is so big." They don't talk about the crowds. But a group of people went down there peacefully and patriotically, remember that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know that the J6 unselect committee, they wouldn't -- they refused to use the words that I used, peacefully and patriotically. They refused to use that. They burned and deleted and destroyed all evidence from that witch hunt because it showed that we were totally innocent. It showed that Nancy Pelosi was in charge of security, which everybody knew anyway.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And she's actually on tape talking to her daughter. And now, they can't find that tape. Her daughter taped her saying that she was responsible. She was saying, "I'm responsible. This was my responsibility." It was. She was offered 10,000 soldiers. All of these things -- or they have me attacking -- think of this, attacking two very young, very strong Secret Service agents sitting in the front of a car.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is a wacky story which is totally made up. And what happens? The Secret Service testified. They gave testimony. And the testimony was all destroyed. And then, Biden comes out and gave that whole committee a pardon because what they did is they found that we were right, they were wrong, they committed crimes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And Biden came out and actually gave them a pardon. Nobody can believe it, nobody can believe it.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
The Tesla violence, have you heard anything about billionaires on the left? Whether it's Soros or somebody else, have you heard anything about planning, coordination, funding for these attacks?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I believe that that is part of it, yeah. There are some of them that were involved with my trials that were, I think, probably involved with that also. And, you know, Elon has done a very good job. He's found tremendous waste fraud and abuse like levels you've never seen, people that don't show up to work and they get checks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, so many different things that you can't even go over it, it's so much. Done a great job. And he's basically a patriot. You know, he's in business in -- and I've gotten to know him primarily through the campaign. He endorsed me. I appreciated it. But I didn't know him very well before that, hardly at all.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he's essentially a patriot. He's a wonderful patriot. He loves the country. But he -- he has never asked me. Think of this. And he's got plenty of right to, I guess. Doesn't mean I'm going to do it. I probably won't.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
No favor.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he's never asked me for a favor. Not one time has he said -- you know, as an example, I just got rid of the electric car mandate. You're actually allowed to go out and buy a gasoline-driven car or a hybrid or whatever you want to, or electric. And he never came to me and said, "Could you do me a favor?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Don't do that." You know, he's a legitimate guy. And he's doing this because it's for the good of the country. And we are finding hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
So, with that in mind, and I -- we love what he's doing, I heard him say to Elon -- I'm sorry, he said to Ted Cruz last week, I think, that in five years computers are going to be driving cars for us --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Like 50 to 90 percent of the cars. In 10 years, robots will be doing virtually everything for us.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
It seems like he might be an additional duty or instead of, like that is going to totally throw society kind of for a loop.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It'll be different.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
It's exciting, but is -- should he be the guy preparing everybody for this AI revolution?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, it's a little scary, it's a revolution, and everybody with money is in AI. They all want to go in AI, and we'll find out. We'll speak in two years, we'll let you know about it. But it's a little bit scary when you see what it can do. It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing, but it's a little scary. It's a tremendous business that, in order to remain No. 1 -- we're No. 1 right now.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A long way in front of China, but China is trying to catch up. We need tremendous electricity and power, and we're going to supply that power. It's going to be a very big industry.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I know the conversations are ongoing, but -- and you can't say everything, you don't want to say everything probably about diplomacy, but we're hearing that maybe Russia is dragging its feet at this point. And Zelenskyy has shown some openness, especially after what happened in the Oval Office a few weeks ago.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Is that -- is that accurate at this point?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know. I mean, I'll let you know at a certain point, but I think that Russia wants to see an end to it, but it could be they're dragging their feet. I've done it over the years. You know, I don't want to sign a contract. I want to sort of stay in the game, but maybe I don't want to do it quite. I'm not sure.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But, no, I think Russia would like to see it end, and I think Zelenskyy would like to see it end at this point. We had a case last week where Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded by Russian soldiers, and this was not good. And I think I had a big impact on not having all of them killed, but they were killed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is a bloody war. You know, they lose 2,500 people on average a week. Think of that, 2,500. They're not Americans, but it doesn't matter to me from that standpoint. They are Russians and Ukrainians, and -- and they're killing each other at levels that, you know, you just don't see. There's been nothing like it since the Second World War. It's almost like -- I see the pictures of the battlefields, I'd rather not even see them, where you have arms and legs and heads all over the field.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's -- the weaponry is -- is ridiculous. It's a big drone deal now. You know, drones are taking over the world, and I just want to see it stop. I also don't want to pay. You know, Biden paid $350 billion, Europe paid $100 billion. And I said, "Why didn't they equalize? Why -- why were we so far ahead of -- of Europe?" Then, I found out that Europe, as you know, took loans.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In other words, they gave it in the form of loans. We didn't. But I was able to make a deal for rare earth, which will be good. At least we don't feel so stupid. But we had $350 billion and there -- so we're $200 billion, $250 billion more than Europe. Isn't it ridiculous? And we had a man in office who was grossly incompetent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I hate to say it, but he was grossly incompetent. And now, I'm learning a lot more than I learned. And, you know, now, I'm seeing some of the things they did, some of the fraud. Look at -- billions of dollars going to environmental groups that -- you know what that money's for, that money's not for environment.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's -- it's so incredible when I'm looking at what's happened to our country, allowing open borders where millions of people have come into our country, millions and millions of people, 21 million people, of which a number of millions of people are stone-cold, bad actors from jails from prisons and from mental institutions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I always say from insane asylums, which is a mental institution on steroids, from gangs and the gangs in the streets of Venezuela and many other places, not just South America. And when you think that a man would allow these people to come into our country, murderers -- we had 11,088 murderers, people that killed -- many killed more than one person.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
These -- these people are in our country. But we're getting them out. And by the way, we have the best border numbers we've had, I would say, since mine, but -- but literally, it's soon going to be better than even I had in the first term. And it was not easy. The people are doing a great job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You know, a couple of things more if you don't mind. You're such a positive person, and I love it. You even acknowledge that there will be disturbances with the tariffs, there will be disturbances. The question is how far -- how bad could those disturbances be? And how far are you willing to go when it comes to April 2nd? I know there are some exceptions, and it's an ongoing discussion, but --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Not too many, not too many exceptions. No, I don't want to have too many exceptions.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look, we've been ripped off for 45 years by other countries, 50 years more. We always were soft and weak. It's almost like we had people that didn't know what -- what they were doing. We were just ripped as a country like nobody has ever seen before. That's why we are $36 trillion in debt. And it's time that we get some of that money back, maybe a lot of that money back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And this had to be done. We couldn't let this continue. And, you know, it's friend and foe, but oftentimes friend, the so-called friends were worse than the foes. You take a look at the European Union, what they did to this country, the way they took it to the cleaners. And China, you know about. And I charge -- you know, I had a tremendously successful first term.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had the highest increase for stock market in the history of our country, 88 percent, went up 88 percent. Nasdaq went up some enormous number. We had the best numbers in the history of our country. And yet, we were ripped off by so many of these nations, and it was so sad to watch it. And frankly, had COVID not come along because we had -- that was another thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had to fix it. It was a very destructive to the whole world, but we had to fix it. And yet, I handed back the reins of a company -- a country that was better. Think of it. The stock market was higher than it was just prior to COVID coming in. We had an amazing period of time. We rebuilt the military, biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history, and now we're doing it again.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I think we're going to do it even better and we have unbelievable people. Our economic people are the best in the world. Even now, I just -- you were here a little while ago. We just approved a lot of ambassadors going into other nations, etc., etc. And they're great -- they're just great people. I think we're going to have a tremendous success.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I know some people say, "Oh, do you think it's too much?" Well, they've been doing this to us for many years, whether it's China or India or Brazil or so many other places. And all we're going to do is reciprocal. We're just going to be reciprocal. In fact, I'll probably be more lenient than reciprocal because if I was reciprocal, that would be -- that would be very tough for people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we've been ripped off as a country like nobody -- like no country has ever been ripped off before. I read some of these deals that are made by my predecessors. And it's almost like saying how could anybody allow this to happen? Like, as an example, who would allow men to play in women's sports? Who would allow transgender for everybody?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Who would allow open borders where -- as soon as I heard that, I said, "If they're serious about open borders, every jail all over the world is going to be emptied out into our country." And that's what happened. We're getting them out now. You wonder, who would allow this? Are they stupid or do they truly hate our country?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's the only thing you can think of. A lot of people say, "Well, it was really because of the election. What they -- because they want the votes." But they cheat on the election. They don't need to do it this way. They don't have to destroy our country this way. But we're going to do -- we had a great election.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had a great mandate. You know, when you win all seven swing states -- on your show, you were saying, "Three or four is all he needs." Well, we got all seven. Who would have thought? We won by millions of votes. If you look at districts, they have districts where it shows the red and the blue where the whole thing is red.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We were at 2,750 to -- to 500. Think of it, 2,750, they had 500 -- 505 or something like that. And I guess we got 312 or 315 in terms of our number. They were 224, I think, to 312 or 315. The numbers were so astronomical, and it gives us a mandate to straighten out our country. If I didn't have those numbers, I don't know if we could be doing the things that we're doing right now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Hamas, can there be peace if Hamas remains in power? I saw -- I think The Journal said it will take years to destroy those tunnels. And there's some debate even in Israel, like, does a vestige -- does a remnant of Hamas stay in? Is that acceptable to you?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I don't know if you can do that. It's -- it's a vicious group of people. You know, I had 10 of the hostages -- we got a lot of people out. And I had 10 of them last week in my office, in the Oval Office, the beautiful office at which I think I'm going to show you in a couple of minutes, actually. You'll get to see it because it's special.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said to him, "Let me ask, you were there for -- one was there for 500 days, another one for 359 days." I said, "During that time you saw hundreds of Hamas, right? I don't know, they're soldiers, whatever they are. Was there any sign of niceness? Did they wink at you, Did they say don't worry, you're going to be OK? Did they give you a piece of bread or some meal that they weren't supposed to be giving?" And every one of them said no, no. Just absolutely not.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They said much worse. They said, "They'd slap us. They'd do things." I said, "But was there no vestige of any -- any kindness or anything?" They said, "Absolutely none." So, that's a pretty -- that's a pretty bad thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
We're going to go to the Oval Office. I've got some more questions for you of a personal nature. Real quick, though. Chuck Schumer. You know, I saw a picture of him at Roy Cohn's birthday party in the 1970s.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, that's right. That's fine.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Is he a profile in courage? I mean, he's going through hell right now with his party. And what's your take on him? And who's going to emerge as the top Democrat, do you think, when everything settles down?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I wrote him a letter when he said we shouldn't go out, and he was right about that. He was killed. But I wrote him a letter saying, "Dear Chuck, congratulations, you made a great and wise decision, and it's really good for the country, what you did." Well, he got excoriated because of that letter because they thought I was doing a little bit of shtick on him.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I wasn't, It was a serious letter. He did the right thing, but he's been absolutely, absolutely killed by his party. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if he -- if he makes it or doesn't make it, I really don't know. I will say this, they've got to get some policy because I watched a congressman, a Democrat congressman, this morning fighting like crazy on a television -- one of your competitors.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's hard to believe, right? But fighting like crazy over the men playing in women's sports, that he thinks it's absolutely fine. It's -- if they keep going like this, I don't think they can win another election. Between that and all of the other craziness that they do, I don't think they can win another election.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
One thing for our viewers, they watch some other channels sometimes, and they get freaked out. Social security is going to be --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You know, even though you've been pretty insistent that --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Totally insistent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Totally insistent, and you can insist once again, no one's going to lose their benefits, who's receiving them now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, no. Social Security. I said it, it'd be very easy for me to do. I wouldn't -- I have said it, you don't have to worry -- what the Democrats do is they make up stories. They're storytellers. They say, "Oh, Trump wants to destroy Social Security." It's like I have nothing to even think about with Social Security.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now, if you have an illegal immigrant on Social Security, I think everybody wants to make sure that doesn't happen. So, it doesn't mean make -- you know, I have to make sure there's as little fraud as possible. But, no, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, people don't have to worry. But they make up stories.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're liars. They lie so badly.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they lie so much. They can look at you, and I watched Adam shifty Schiff make up story after story about Russia; Russia, Russia, Russia. Turned out to be a hoax that he set up and formulated with Hillary Clinton and others that Russia, Russia -- just think of it, what we went through with that, two years of fighting these monsters off, and we had nothing to do with.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nothing. It was like nothing. Look at my son, Don. Look at what he went through. They -- they said -- he'd come to me, "Dad, I don't know what they're talking about." It was a total phony story that was made up by guys like Schiff. These are bad sick people, I'm telling you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Well, they haven't stopped you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
And they're not going to.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, we can't let that happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I want to run this by you. Millions of people pray for you, the churches organize it. Are you ever aware of that in any way? Do you think -- can you feel those prayers? Can you feel that support?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, if you think about it, I shouldn't be here with you right now. You know, I have sons that are great shots. They said it's not possible to miss from that distance. Now, it wasn't a complete miss. It -- you know, I still get that little throbbing feeling. But had I not turned away at that very, very, very instant, I wouldn't be sitting here with you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, in that way -- but I think you might be talking about -- because I think praying before the fact, but after that, I think it might have been to a new level. I've had great support, and I do feel the support. I really do. And I -- I think, you know, somebody said that God saved me in order to save this country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This country was going down, Greg. If -- if this election wasn't won, this country had no chance. This country is going to be -- remember, I used to say for years, we're going to be Venezuela on steroids, and that's what was happening to the country. And now, we're turning it around, and I think we're turning it around fast.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody's done so much in such a short period of time. And in two months, I think we've done more than any president. I got the award for the first month, and I think you can add the second month. But I don't think anybody's done what we've done in terms of turning it around. When you look at the businesses that are pouring into our country now, these were businesses that would have never come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And now, they're racing back, and it's a beautiful thing to see.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
DOJ, you said, that certain people -- a lot of people, they're really susceptible to criticism.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You know, the judges they don't want to be --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Talked about on cable news. That doesn't bother you. And my question to you is, did you learn that like in the 70s or 80s? Were you born that way? You are very different in the best possible way, but not many people are like you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'd be able to lead a much different life. But in terms of what I'm doing for the country, it would never be able to get done. Some people say, "Why do you have to be so nasty or so?" And it's not a question that -- you only have so much time, and you can't waste the time, and you have to get it done.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're getting a lot of things done for the country, and you have to act quickly. This country was gone. I'm telling you, this country -- if some remnant of Joe Biden, who was the worst president in the history of our country -- Jimmy Carter died a very happy man because he said, "At least I wasn't the worst." He -- Joe Biden was a terrible president, and they did things that are so bad.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And yet, they were evil people. When I look at what they did to people, how they destroyed people -- look at the J6. We talked about J6, look at those people. When I looked at how they destroyed people, he was an evil guy who wasn't smart.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
As we go into the Oval Office, I want to ask you something. These people are bad people, and they did horrible things to you, and there's accountability right now. But can you ever forgive them?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I try. I try.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
They say forgiveness is like for the person. You know what I mean?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, well --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
More for you than them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure, sure. But they did things to me that have never been done to anybody before. They were just bad and just crooked. They're corrupt evil people who also did a bad job for the country. You know, if I thought I lost -- because I won that election by so much. If I thought I lost, I would have never run again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And to have the kind of a landslide victory, it was such a -- you know, so good. But we find so many things. I mean, we're finding so many things about the corruption. We knew -- I knew it before, but -- and most people knew it before, too. But you mentioned something today, Ashli Babbitt. I'm going to look into that because what happened to Ashli Babbitt is -- is so sad, that whole -- that whole story, that whole period of time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what they -- what they did was so bad, what -- there were so many forces at work that people are starting to find out about it. It was an evil period of time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, quite frankly, for winning because I don't know where we'd be right now.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It wouldn't be good, it wouldn't be good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You mind if we take a look at the Gulf of America map?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Let's go.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I'd love to see it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Check out the Gulf of America.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Commercial break]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Was that your idea?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Declaration -- yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
When did you get that idea?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I had it for a couple of years. It was down in the vault for many, many years. And I said let's take it out. And the reason I have the drapes is because it's not good for light -- you know, the light --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Oh, protecting the declaration --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes, right over there. The Gulf of America, you may be talking about.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I've long thought, why isn't it called the Gulf of America? Why is it called the Gulf of Mexico? So, I changed it. Now, it's changed. When the rocket splashed down last week, which was great --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Elon. When that came down, they said, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's landing right now in the Gulf of America." And they said it routinely --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Which is cooler. They didn't say, "Oh, the Gulf of," they just said, "Coming down in the Gulf of America." So, it was pretty cool.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Very cool, awesome. And there's the new Air Force One.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Correct.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Beautiful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And this is -- this is -- if you would have been here a year ago, you would have seen a much different office. It's -- these are all past presidents and, I think, generally good ones. George Washington. So, I'll ask you a question. So, that's the place of honor, considered the place of honor. That's George Washington, and that's Ronald Reagan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you like Ronald Reagan, right?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Sure, we like Ronald Reagan a lot. The question is where -- who goes there?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So -- so, who goes there? George Washington or Ronald Reagan? And you're a big Reagan fan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I am a big Reagan fan. I know more about what he did than what he did.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
However --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I'll tell you what, if he is over there, it's more of a conversation starter --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, that's true.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Because not everybody recognizes that -- they all look like, you know, old-timey guys.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
This will start people talking, and the inevitable comparison to you, and I think you win that comparison.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I heard you say that. That's why I like -- that's why I do interviews with this guy. When you say that, that's right.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
But you know what I mean? They'll talk about it --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
More.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But George -- George, generally, I'd say, it's -- it's about 215-to-1 or 2 that people say we got to give it to George Washington.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
I don't even think -- look --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's great, all right. Isn't it great?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
He -- that is Reagan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was a good man. He was --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
How about that job they did in Colorado? That is the worst portrait, right, the silly portrait?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, that was -- that was -- what they did -- it's the governor that -- you know, he was -- Tren de Aragua was not too good to him. But I will tell you, they did a number on him. But that is just typical. A friend of mine called up and said, "Somebody did a cartoon thing." And the person that did it wasn't that bad of an artist because they -- the same person, a woman, did -- because I don't know who the person was -- did Obama.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And he looked fine.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This was a thing they did a big number, and that's what they do. That's all they're good at. They're no good at policy, they're no good at governing. They're only good at cheating and doing bad things. Bad people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You know, nobody in the world is going through what you're going through right now. President, you've got -- I guess you have some peers. Number one, have you talked to Bush, Clinton, or Obama since you got here?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I actually talked to President Obama at the famous funeral --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it was a nice talk. I have spoken to President Clinton, I haven't spoken to Bush. But you've got to do your own thing. You know, it's one of those things. It's like I don't get into too much about rating some of the presidents that surrounded me, but I don't think they did too good a job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
You know, and I know it sounds ridiculous, you're surrounded by people and family, and everybody loves you. Is there a loneliness factor to this job? I saw you when you left the State of the Union. There's something about it, the responsibility, nobody can really relate. Is there -- is there --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, there is great responsibility. I -- I'm -- honestly, I'm so busy, and I think it really solves the loneliness. You do have a problem with loneliness, but I'm so busy doing so many different things. I'm trying to end that war, that horrible war that's going on. I'm trying to end another one before it goes on and -- but it's been going on for centuries, in all fairness, in the Middle East.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, think of it. October 7th would have never happened. Russia-Ukraine would have never happened. We wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had Afghanistan, that whole disaster of Afghanistan not leaving the way they left. And this would have been such a different place. But yet, this is a much more historic presidency, by the way, we're doing.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I mean, if it would have been -- if it would have been the eight years as opposed to the four, and then you watch people how bad they are, how bad they are, and then you do it, it's much more historic. So many people have said that. But it's so sad to see what they did to our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Greg Kelly
We have to let you get back to work.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't think so, but I'm not happy that Israel's going out now. There was one rocket that I guess was fired overboard. It was after the time limit, and it missed its target. And now Israel's going out. These guys got to calm down -- ridiculous.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
How will you respond if [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I didn't like plenty of things I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't have to unload. And I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong. But in all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot. And now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's not what we want. I'll tell you and I'm telling you, I'm not happy about that Israel either.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Are you going to tell that to Prime Minister Netanyahu?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because all I do is play both sides. I'm going now, as you know, to NATO. Some of you are going with me and I think it's going to be successful, we'll see. I'll let you know.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are you going to see the -- There's a new dawn [Inaudible] in the Middle [Inaudible] women you managed to achieve. What are your future plans for the region, for Saudi Arabia, Israel, Gaza, the hostages?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look, you're asking me about women in the Middle East. It's getting a lot better. Things are happening at a high level. As you know, Saudi Arabia has done a really good job. It's coming out far faster than I thought. So, we're very happy about what's happening with women in the Middle East.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
No, I'm talking about a new dawn in the Middle East that you managed to achieve last night. It's been -- you know, the region is going to a new place with women.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Can you tell us what your future plans for Gaza, for the hostages, for --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a new dawn. I appreciate the question. You're very nice. Who are you?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you. I'm Maria [Inaudible] from Israeli Channel [Inaudible] News.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very good. Well, we have to have Israel calm down because they went on a mission this morning. I've got to get Israel to calm down now.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Do you have to speak with --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- did you talk to [Inaudible] last night?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I spoke to everybody, yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] both sides not to violate the ceasefire. But reports coming from the region suggest that the sides accuse each other for violence --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think they both violated it. I don't think they -- I'm not sure they did it intentionally. They couldn't reign people back. I don't like the fact that Israel went out this morning at all, and I'm going to see if I can stop it. So, as soon as I get away from you, I'm going to see if I can stop it, OK?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think it's been completely demolished. I think the reason we're here is because those pilots, those B-2 pilots did an unbelievable job. And you know the fake news, like CNN in particular, they're trying to say, well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed. You know what they're doing?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line. CNN is scum and so is MSDNC, they're all -- and frankly the networks aren't much better. It's all fake news, but they should not have done that. Those pilots hit their targets. Those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're not after the pilots, they're after me, they want to try and demean.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No. Iran will never rebuild its nuclear. From there? Absolutely not. That place is under rock. That place is demolished. The B-2 pilots did their job; they did it better than anybody could even imagine. They hit late in the evening -- it was dark with no moon, and they hit that target with every one of those things and that place is gone.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But when I see CNN, all night long, they're trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought. It was demolished. You take a look at the pinpricks, and you see that place is gone. And I will say, I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s. I think that MSDNC ought to apologize.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think these guys, really -- these networks and these cable networks are real losers. You really are -- you're real losers.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're gutless. You're gutless losers. I say that to CNN because I watch it. I have no choice. I've got to watch that garbage, it's all garbage, it's all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people. And the people that run it, nobody even knows this it's been sold so many times, but the people that run it ought to be ashamed.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
MSDNC, a guy named Brian Roberts, he heads it. He's a disgrace. He's a weak pathetic disgrace.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
That Iran violated the peace agreement and the ceasefire agreement. Do you believe that Iran is still committed to peace?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I do. They violated, but Israel violated it too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Are you questioning -- is Israel committed --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know when I say OK, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land that was shot perhaps by mistake that didn't land. I'm not happy about that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know what? We have -- we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Mr. President, your first 100 days, this is the first 89 days, these are first 89 days.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We work hard.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
You work really hard. I actually met some of the people that write the executive orders last night and they need sleep, they're working overtime.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What a great team?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Yeah. So, I remember when I was at Fox, Barack Obama -- we didn't call it this, but it was shock and awe. It was -- I couldn't keep up with it. It was going too fast. You have put that to shame.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Blew them all away.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Blew them all away. Was that by design to --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No. There were just so many things that the country needed. I mean, honestly, this country, what they did in four years was so disastrous for the country. I wish I didn't have to do so much, but they did things that were just horrible. I mean with energy, they terminated ANWR, which is the biggest find in the world, in the whole world, in Alaska, they terminated it. They did things on the border that are shocking, just absolutely shocking.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know we have the best border we've ever had now, and three months ago it was the worst border in history, probably for any country, not just here. There was no border. There's never been a border like that where prisons and gangs and drug dealers and murderers are allowed to walk in without being checked or vetted?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, it wasn't by design, it was just that they have so many things. I mean we're doing a lot more. There are a lot more to come.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
So, I want to get into this a little later, but this seems appropriate to bring it up here. Where the hell is congress? Where are the Republicans?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think they're working hard. I think you're going to see that. If we pass the -- as I call it, the Big, Beautiful Bill, you know we're talking about one bill. We were talking, as you remember, it was a debate on should we do one big one or should we do three or four or two? And we're doing it in one bill, which I thought was much more beautiful because it's everything.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's everything, it's tax cuts, it's regulation cuts, it's things that you wouldn't believe, lots of, you know -- big, it's big and we get that done, it's beautiful. And we are getting along very well. I will tell you, the Republicans, we had a majority a few months ago of one in the House, now we have seven.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a lot. We won two races and picked up a couple of others in addition, but we're up to seven, that's a big -- that's a big difference.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Will this be -- will all your work go away, however, if they don't codify?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, we're going to codify and we're going to wait till after the bill is passed and then we're going to work on nothing but codifying. As an example, the other day I did showerheads and sinks and the whole thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Isn't it nice?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Yes, it is.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, you go into a new building, the hotel, and no water comes out, no water comes out of the sink. All of that's done, dishwashers. We did a little thing, very little thing, but it was a big thing to some people -- straws. We are now making again straws that are plastic straws as opposed to paper that melts -- that melts in your mouth.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And so many different things. It's been really amazing. A lot of them, common sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
What is the one thing that you think is maybe overlooked that you think is the most significant thing that you did?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I mean, I really think we've done a lot because we -- the biggest tax cuts like last -- you know, we had a tremendous four years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
But I mean, the thing that you think to yourself, why isn't this getting more attention? This is big.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, if you look at -- and this is not the biggest thing, but it's a big thing, men in women's sports. How these people can be promoting it even now is unbelievable. The men playing in women's sports. When you -- you know, we put a whole thing out on that and that's no longer a part of our fabric. Hopefully, we have a couple of people like Maine, the governor of Maine, who wants to play the game and she's going to lose an election if she runs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know if she runs, I couldn't care less, but she was one that wanted to take it on. Even in California, they gave up on that one pretty much. That was something that's amazing. Open borders to me are amazing. We don't have open borders. We have nice, closed borders now. We have -- people can come into our country, but they have to come in legally.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I mean, how amazing is that when you have -- because you're asking about things that I see that are amazing. That's amazing that you can have an open border where prisoners from all over the world are allowed to come into our country. 11,888 murderers are allowed into our country, we have that number of murderers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're taking them out as rapidly as we can. And by the way, we're being met with strong resistance from judges that are -- I don't know where they come from. I don't know where they come from.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Let me go there. There's some amazing stats that I looked up. I don't think most Americans know this. Bill Clinton turned away 12.3 million people, formally returned home 1 million. He had 12 injunctions on him. George W. Bush, 10.3 million people, 2 million he turned around formally, six injunctions. Barack Obama, 5.5 million, 3 million he formally turned around and he had 12 injunctions.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
You have six, you had 30 last time, 30 -- I'm sorry, 30 last time, 30 this time and you're facing 190. You're 100 days in and you have 190 cases against you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's obstruction and what they're doing to the country is unbelievable. But we're getting it done and we're winning, but it's so much more difficult than it should be. When you have a murderer that people are protecting. When you have people like -- you know, you read so much about the wonderful man from Maryland, who was just wonderful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he had on his knuckles tattooed MS-13. We didn't know he was MS-13. And the Democrats are working hard to protect him. And you know, it's not -- I don't want to get into his reputation, but it's not exactly stellar. And when they do that that's like, you know, how they protect open borders, as I said, or so many of the other things, you know, transgender for everybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
What does it tell you that the Democrats are trying to protect him, stop you at the border. And when you shut down USAID, which a lot of their money was coming from.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
A lot.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
A lot of their money. All the color revolution money was there and coming back here for color revolution that they -- they Immediately respond to that to Tesla or to Elon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
And the worst of the worst, what does that tell you about them?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, they don't want to do anything about it. That's right. Well, when you look at the kind of money that we found, fraud, waste, abuse, when you look at billions of dollars given to people that had nothing, and billions -- I mean, Stacey Abrams was given $2 billion into an environmental account where she had $100 -- $2 billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now $2 million is a lot, $200,000 is a lot, she's given $2 billion out of that grouping. No, it's a terrible, terrible -- oh, and that was nothing compared to some of the ones that we found. And you know, the -- and the press doesn't even want to write about it by the way.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
My audience I hear from every day, they're concerned about tariffs, we'll talk about that in a minute. But they're also concerned about justice and not seeing the wheels of justice turn like Stacey Abrams. If she did something illegal, she should go to jail. Is justice going to be pursuing these people on Russiagate or whatever the crimes might be -- COVID?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think -- Pam Bondi is doing a fantastic job. She's our law enforcement person that's doing outstanding work, I really think so. I think Kash is going to be -- at FBI, is doing a really great job. Now it's very early, so I can't really tell you, but I think a lot of the things that you're talking about have to be looked at, they have to be looked at.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Let me go back to the border here for a second. Mexico, I mean it seems that it is a failed Narco-state. Is Mexico a failed state, Narco-state?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I would say in all due respect -- and I really like the president a lot, I've gotten to know her and I really like her. She's an elegant, beautiful woman, but I think it's run by the cartels.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they have so much control over it and I think the politicians are -- you know, they're afraid. I think the police are probably afraid, a lot of them are shot and killed. And even the military is very much afraid.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
I had a guy, an ATF agent, reach out to me and he said, Glenn -- and I wrote it down someplace. But he said have people in our ATF actually trace the numbers. He said they keep talking about all these guns that are in the hands of cartels and how they get them across the border from America. He's like all of those numbers correlate with the numbers that come from the Pentagon of the arms that we officially ship to their military.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
And he said they're in the -- they're taking the military guns and using those. He's like there's --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nothing surprises me. When you see the kind of drugs coming in, comes in from China. You know, we tax them 20 percent because of what they've done with fentanyl, but it goes through Mexico largely. And it goes through Canada too, by the way, right, a lot goes through Canada, but it comes through Mexico and Canada.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But when you watch Mexico, what's happening, It's pretty amazing. And we've shut down the border, but we've shut it down and I didn't need laws passed, you know, as the expression goes, they just needed a new president. They said shut down the border, we shut it down and we shut it down tight. But yeah, Mexico's got some very big problems.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
I would imagine the people of Mexico -- because if I were in Mexico, I've often role played. If I were in Mexico and I was living in a failed Narco-state and everybody I voted for was being killed and my family was being threatened, I'd try to get across the border as well. It would only make sense. But when your government won't do anything about it or can't do anything about it, honestly, I would be at bed at night next to my kids praying that, you know, special forces might just kind of pay some people some visits in the middle of the night?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're right, Glenn. And I've asked to -- I said, would you like some help? I'd be glad to give you help. No, no, no, we don't want help. They really don't want help. Please, please. We do not want help and I think they need help.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
But isn't it -- at some point, doesn't it --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I can't tell you about that because that would be -- that would be breaking news, wouldn't it? But you know, you could say at some point maybe something's going to have to happen. It can't go on the way it is. Look, when we closed the borders, that was a big deal and we had to fight very hard to close.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That was not just as simple as it sounded because it happened fast. There were lots of skirmishes that went on because that was a big revenue source.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
For some -- a lot of people. But no, we're here to help Mexico if we can. I like the president very much. I like the people, so many of the Representatives, but it can't be easy for them. It really -- it's -- I think it's a very dangerous job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
So, some people -- you know, the last administration, they didn't want to check anybody's ID or ask any questions on the way in. During COVID -- in the height of COVID, don't even check them for that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Don't check them for anything.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Bring them in. Now they all seem to want to check them on the way out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
And the judges are -- what did the -- I think it was -- it was uh Senator Mike Lee that said, this is judicial insurrection.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I think he could say that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
I'm not a big fan of Andrew Jackson. I know you are. Andrew Jackson took care of this constitutionally. Would you consider taking care of this some way or another with the judges in a constitutional way?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I hope we don't have that problem, and I hope we don't have to get into it. But I will say we have millions of people in this country right now that are criminals, and you see how fast we're getting them out. And we're going to get them out even faster. But when you have to get out and do court cases for individual people and you would have, in theory, millions of court cases, you know what that means.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If you had one court case it takes forever. Millions of court cases? They're really saying you're not allowed to do what I was elected to do. I was elected for -- a very big part of it was the border and getting people out, because I said -- and the stats reveal it. When you look at Tren de Aragua, when you look at MS-13, when you look at these gangs and just really bad criminals coming in -- you know, we have many murderers, people that killed, 50 percent of which killed more than one person.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They put them into our country through open borders, and now we have to go to court to get them out. I don't think the people of our country are going to stand for it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
Let me switch, you were elected for several things, one of which was to reduce the size of the government and thank you for the Department of Education. Thank you for the USAID. Thank you for the things you're doing on that. It was announced, I think, yesterday that Elon is possibly reducing his role, not leaving but reducing his role in May.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
It was a true $2 trillion goal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
It was reduced to $150 billion. Is that lawsuits, Is that deep state?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, that's money found and it's a lot of money, you know, it's $150 billion. And think of it, that's a lot of money. Now, that's continuing, and it will continue. You know, it's not easy, these are thieves.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
No, I know.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In many cases, thieves. In many -- in some cases it's incompetence and all, but it's also thieves. That number is continuing, but that's -- if you just stopped at that number, that's a tremendous number. We found things that you wouldn't believe. And then there's others that you look at certain rolls of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security where people that don't exist are on, where people that do exist, but they're not supposed to be on are on it. You know, we have -- that's just building up, that number's building up very rapidly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Glenn Beck
I think you're going to be remembered as the AI president. I think -- I don't know if you feel this way at all, but AI is going to define the next --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very big, yeah.<end_of_turn>
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