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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're talking about FIFA. Thank you very much. About the World Cup, Mr. President, you're having --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- and they're both great guys. And by the way, they both get along fantastically well. Marco has done unbelievably as Secretary of State and Elon is a very unique guy who's done a fantastic job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Do you think he needs to be reined in, Mr. President?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Enough. Enough. It's FIFA. Is this a FIFA question?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
How do you see the World Cup playing out with the tensions you have with Canada and Mexico?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, I think it's going to make it more exciting. Tension is a good thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Even for the World Cup?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I think so. I think it makes it much more exciting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Aide
Sir, the entire committee is here for FIFA with Gianni.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, please come up.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Aide
Would you like them to come up and take a picture?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Please. Gianni, do you want -- get them up. That's great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, what type of enhanced security do you anticipate having for all of these big events that are happening over the course of the next --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'll let Kristi answer that question.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
I'll answer one question.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Security.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
The security for this event will be run by the Department of Homeland Security. So, we are signing today this document that will say that we will form task forces and partnerships. We'll have incident command centers in these 11 cities that will partner all the agencies and departments at the federal. We'll have some worldwide partners as well as long as --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
-- yes, it'll be under our umbrella, and we'll help facilitate that. But also working with our local law enforcement is incredibly powerful. So, streamlining those communications, it will be a wonderful event, and everybody will be safe and fun.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We better be, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Yeah, it will be. And this is the official ball with your name.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, that's nice. I would give it to Kristi except it has my name on it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Aide
We have another one for you over there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
Of course, of course.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's beautiful. Thank you very much. Is that going to be the ball?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
That's the official ball for this --<end_of_turn>
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[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This will be what -- it will look like the ball when they play?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
Yes, when they play.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Wow, that's great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Gianni Infantino
Yes, nobody played yet -- has played yet with that ball.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's great. Thank you very much, everybody. Gianni, thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much. It's a great honor. Great people and a lot of Irish friends right there, a lot of very, very good Irish friends. But thank you all for being here. Even though it's still a few days away, I want to be the first to wish each and every one of you a very happy Saint Patrick's Day. It's a big day.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And as a lifelong New Yorker, nobody knows the Irish better than me. I know too much about the Irish. So let me begin by saying, I really do, I love the Irish. I've had great, great friends over the years and I love the Irish special people and I've been to Ireland many times. I have a lot of property in Ireland, actually, and does very well so I like it. If it didn't do well, I wouldn't like it, but I'm always struck by the awesome beauty of the Emerald Isle and the strength and warmth and grit and grace of the Irish people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very few people can compare. Today, we're delighted to welcome Taoiseach Micheal Martin, a very special man, doing incredibly well and very popular, and his beautiful wife, Mary. And I want to thank you both for being here, the first official visit to the White House, so thank you very much for being here with us. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. I also want to extend a special welcome to Ireland's ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Byrne. And where are you, Geraldine? There you are, Geraldine Byrne Nason, and you're going to be working with this gentleman right here. He's a very great golfer, one of the best golfers that you'll ever see.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He'll be playing golf all day long with -- he'll take clients out to play golf, but he's won many, many club championships. And Ed Walsh, congratulations. Great, great. Going to be great. We're grateful also to be joined by the members and many members of our cabinet, proud Irish Americans, Sean Duffy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Where's Robert F. and Sean?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hi, Bobby. I knew that -- let's see, Duffy, we knew and Kennedy, we knew. Some of you, I wasn't sure. Pam Bondi, I don't know. Are you Irish? Are you Irish? I don't know. With that name, I haven't figured that out. She's doing a hell of a job, I'll tell you, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're doing a good job. Do you see the oil is going down? It's going down, $65 a barrel today. You're doing better than I even thought, because everything else is going to be coming down with it, all those expensive goods that you had to suffer with for four years. They're all coming down. Energy leads the way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Good job you're doing with our friend, right? HUD Secretary Scott Turner. You're not Irish, Scott. Where's Scott. Give me a break, Scott. I want to be politically correct and not mention it, but I'm going to say, how much Irish do you have in you, Sean? I don't know. He said he said zero. That's right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins. Doug? Thank you, Doug. You're Irish. EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, he's one of the most important guys. He's going to get those approvals. A nuclear power plant will take less than two weeks to get approved, right, Lee? It used to take 15 years. We're going to do it in a couple of weeks.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
US Trade Representatives, Jamieson Greer. Where are you, Jamieson? Jamieson Greer. Thank you, Jamieson. And I also, there's a very special man here that I've been watching for a long time, one of the greatest dancers ever in the world. Michael Flatley is around here someplace. There's nobody like this guy.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great, Michael. I've watched him, Radio city. I've watched you a lot, Michael. His feet, the way they moved, I don't know how the hell you do it. Can you still dance like that, or has Father Time caught up? You know, Father Time has never lost. You know that, right? But you're doing great. You look fantastic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Also with us are Representatives, John McGuire. John? Hi, John. Good. Bill Huizenga. Bill, thank you. Ronny Jackson, Doc Ronny, as I call him, even though he's a congressman, special guy. John Joyce. John? Thank you, John. David Joyce. David? Thank you. And Guy Reschenthaler. You know that Reschenthaler, that's actually the way you pronounce it, you know?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody else gets it right. But it's a hell of a name. Despite that, he's very successful at what he does, which is politics. And he's a great guy. Thank you, Guy. We have come together to this beautiful White House this evening for the annual Shamrock Ceremony, a living symbol of the long and unique friendship between Americans and the Irish.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're always going to have that friendship. Just like we have a great friendship, we'll always have that very special friendship. This wonderful tradition dates back to 1952, when the first Irish ambassador to the United States sent President Truman a box of shamrocks as a gesture of goodwill. Do you hear that Walsh?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're not the first. I don't know what you are. What number are you? Do you have any idea? It's been a long time, right? Let's see. I could figure it out pretty easily. The bond between our nations as the old America itself, and it is as old as our country. So many Irish volunteers risked their lives in the American Revolution.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And George Washington described Ireland as quote, the friend of my country and my country's most friendless day, meaning Ireland stuck with us when we were not doing so well when it was looking pretty bad. Irish heritage gave us the boldness of Andrew Jackson. I didn't know Andrew Jackson was Irish. The brilliance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford and Walt Disney and the leadership of the late, great President Ronald Reagan.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was men and women of Irish descent who built the hallowed halls of Notre Dame University. Notre Dame is great. What a great place. The legend of the Boston Red Sox and the golden arches of McDonald's, that's right. Today, one in every 10 Americans trace their roots back to the old country. We're discussing we have 5 million people living in Ireland, but we have 35 million people living here, right, of Irish descent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a pretty interesting statistic. I was looking at all these great dancers over here. You are very beautiful. Are you all great dancers, is that right? Look at that -- young, great dancers. Wow, that's great. Did you perform for the group before? Because I heard somebody was doing really fantastic. They said these people are fantastic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I didn't get to see you. Do you want to do it again? Okay. Well, we might have them do it again. I heard you did a fantastic job. Thank you. As we celebrate Irish American Heritage Month, we're grateful to be joined by hundreds of these proud patriots right here today. And I know from personal experience that many of the people that we have here they're just fierce.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They have fierce Irish flame, we call it, you never give up, you never ever give up. Oh, I even see Don. Hello, Don. You are definitely Irish, Don McGahn. You are definitely an Irishman; there's no question about that. But you never give up, we will never give up ever, right, for the young ones ever, because you never know what's going to happen, you know.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just a little bit more effort and you get there. Look at what happened to me. A lot of people said this was not a possibility [Applause]. He said that was going to be a tough race and we won in a landslide. And let's keep it that way, right. And we're having a great time bringing our country back and bringing it back at a level that people had no idea was going to take place this rapidly, this quickly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And a lot of our great people that are secretaries and the people working in the administration are here and they're doing a fantastic job. So, I want to thank all of you. Five blocks east of where we are today, that spirit once helped save the very heart of the city's Irish American community. You all know about it. During the War of 1812, British forces rampaged through the streets of Washington burning every building in their path, every single building was being burned down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Almost everyone fled but not Father William Matthews of Saint Patrick's Church which was built to serve the Irish workers who came to build the Capitol and the White House. They were building the White House, and they formed a great bond, and they were doing a pretty important buildings, the White House and the Capitol.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I would say that's about as good as it gets. As the fire spread, the priest and the group of his parishioners said that we're just going to have to barricade ourselves in. We're going to have to do something because it's really bad. It's really dangerous in here. And inside the church, they climbed to the roof armed with only buckets of water.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's the only thing they had. And the other thing they had was faith in God, they had a big faith in God, they said, God will never do this to us. Risking their lives, they defended the church and more than two centuries later, Saint Patrick still stands as a beautiful testament to their incredible resolve and bravery and the patron saint of the Emerald Isle.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's what it is, Saint Patrick. So, we have Saint Patrick's Day, and we remember their courage and we honor the bravery of countless Irish Americans who have kept our country safe, strong, prosperous and free. And I made a little talk with my friend right behind me before at the Capitol and they gave me one statistic that they don't have here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I thought it was an amazing statistic; 50 percent of the people that won the Congressional Medal of Honor were Irish. Can you imagine? And I want to check on that because that sounds to me -- it's just that I want to -- Pam, would you please have that investigated, necause how is that possible? Seriously, how is that possible?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I was very surprised to see that, Mary. Would you agree that that's possible?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mary Martin
Of course, it's possible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
With the Irish. No, think of it. The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award you can get in this country, and 50 percent -- well, there you also have the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But I will say, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, it's much easier to -- I mean [Laughter], you get it for achievement in something, but you don't have to take many, many bullets.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Although there has been one bullet that was [Laughter] -- there's been one bullet that was not too good. I'm the only one, the presidential, that got that. But think of that 50 percent of the people that received the Congressional Medal of Honor had Irish heritage and were involved in some form with the Irish, and that's pretty good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a pretty big statement. In closing, I want to remember one more Irish American patriot our nation lost this week. In 1979, Anthony R. Dolan -- some of you know that name; a lot of the people that work in the White House know it very well -- became the youngest ever Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on government corruption in Stamford, Connecticut.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In 1981, he became the chief speechwriter to President Reagan whom he served for eight years. That's a long time, that's the full time, eight years, coining the phrase, evil empire, that was his word, that's a very famous -- people aren't here. The evil empire was a very profound statement. Tony served as a White House adviser throughout my first term and most recently was a special assistant to the president on domestic policy and the Domestic Policy Council.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He passed away early Monday morning, and his family is devastated, to be honest, they're devastated. A couple of the family members are here, but they're devastated. He was a great person, a great brilliant writer. And so, he will be very greatly missed. And Tony is looking down on us right now and he was so proud of what he did and his heritage.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was so proud of his heritage. So, I want to thank him and his family for the incredible job they did. Once again, let me wish everyone a very happy Saint Patrick's Day. And with that I would like to ask Taoiseach Martin to say a few words. He's a very, very special man in Ireland, as you probably know.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He's a very popular guy, which is not easy in Ireland. And it's an honor to have both Mary and Michael here with us because we really -- we've gotten to know each other very well and they're great people. Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor to have Prime Minister Mark Carney with us. As you know, just a few days ago, he won a very big election in Canada. And I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him, but I can't take full credit. His party was losing by a lot and he ended up winning, so I really want to congratulate him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was one of probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics, maybe even greater than mine. But I want to congratulate you. That was a great election actually. We were watching it with interest, and I think Canada chose a very talented person, a very good person, because we spoke before the election quite a few times.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's an honor to have you at the White House, in the Oval Office and you see the new and improved Oval Office as it becomes more and more beautiful, with love. We handle it with great love and 24 carat gold. That always helps too. But it's been a lot of fun going over some of the beautiful pictures that were stored in the vaults, that were for many, many years, in some cases, over 100 years, they were stored in vaults of the great presidents who are almost great presidents, all having a reason for being up, every one of them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So it's very interesting, but I just want to congratulate you and ran a really great race. I watched the debate. I thought you were excellent and I think we have a lot of things in common. We have some tough points to go over and that will be fine. We're going to also be discussing Ukraine, Russia, the war, because Mark wants it ended as quickly as I do. I think it has to end.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not -- or they've announced to us at least that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight. And we will honor that and we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that's what the purpose of what we were doing, so that's just news -- we just found out about that. So I think that's very, very positive. They were knocking out a lot of ships going, as you know, sailing beautifully down the various seas. It wasn't just the canal, it was a lot of other places.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I will accept their word and we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately. And Marco, you'll let everybody know that, OK. Do you have something to say about that, by the way, It's a pretty big announcement.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Yeah, this was always a freedom of navigation issue. These guys, these are a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping and the job was to get that to stop. And if it's going to stop, then we can stop, so I think it's an important development.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we'll have maybe before -- we're going to, as you know, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. We're going to UAE and Qatar and that will be, I guess, Monday night. Some of you are coming with us. I think before then we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make, like as big as it gets and I won't tell you on what, and it's very positive.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'd tell you if it was negative or positive. I can't keep that out. It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave, but it will be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, a very important subject.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, you'll all be here. Mark, would you like to say a few words?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
Thank you, Mr. President. I'm on the edge of my seat, actually, but thank you for your hospitality and above all, for your leadership. You're a transformational president, the focus on the economy, with a relentless focus on the American worker, securing your borders, ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids, and securing the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And I've been elected with my colleagues here, with the help of my colleagues here, I'm going to spread the credit, to transform Canada, with a similar focus on the economy, securing our borders, again on fentanyl, much greater focus on defense and security, securing the Arctic and developing the Arctic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And the history of Canada and the U.S. is we're stronger when we work together and there's many opportunities to work together and I look forward to addressing some of those issues that we have, but also finding those areas of mutual cooperation so we can move forward.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great. That's great. Very nice. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
Thank you. Of course.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Anybody --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President? Mr. President? Mr. President, is U.S. embassy [Inaudible]?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, it was actually very effective and it's still very effective, but people have to follow it. So that's been a problem. People haven't followed it, but it was a transitional step a little bit. And as you know, it terminates fairly shortly. It gets renegotiated very shortly, but I thought it was a very positive step from NAFTA. NAFTA was the worst trade deal in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And this was a transitional deal and we'll see what happens. We're going to be start starting to possibly renegotiate that, if it's even necessary. I don't know that it's necessary anymore, but it served a very good purpose. And the biggest purpose it served is we got rid of NAFTA. NAFTA was a very unfair deal for the United States, very, very terrible deal.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It should have never been made. It was made many years ago, but it should have never been made. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] Canada and the United States, would you like to see your first trade deal be with Canada, our neighbors to the U.S.?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I would love that. Look, I have a lot of respect for this man and I watched him come up through the ranks when he wasn't given much of a chance and he did it. He ran a really great campaign. He did a really great debate. I think that debate was very helpful. I was going to raise my hand. I don't know if that's good or bad.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I shouldn't say that. That might hurt you. But no, he ran a really great election, I thought. And yeah, something could happen, something could happen. Yeah, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What's the top concession you want out of Canada? The top concession you want out of Canada?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Concession?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Friendship.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
That's not a concession.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I just -- we're going to be friends with Canada. Regardless of anything, we're going to be friends with Canada. Canada is a very special place to me. I know so many people that live in Canada. My parents had relatives that lived in Canada, my mother in particular. And no, I love Canada. I have a lot of respect for the Canadians.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Wayne Gretzky, I mean, the great one. You happen to have a very, very good hockey player right here on the capitals, who I have a lot of -- he is a big tough cookie too, just broke the record and he's a great guy. And we had the team here and I got to know a lot of the players, but no, Canada is a very special place.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister, I'd like to get your response to this too, but Mr. President, you have said that Canada should become the 51st state. Were you joking?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, no. Well, I still believe that, but it takes two to tango, right? But no, I do. I mean, I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens. You get free military, you get tremendous medical care and other things. There would be a lot of advantages, but it would be a massive tax cut. And it's also a beautiful -- as a real estate developer, you know I'm a real estate developer at heart.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
When you get rid of that artificially drawn line -- somebody drew that line many years ago with like a ruler, just a straight line right across the top of the country. When you look at that beautiful formation when it's together, I'm a very artistic person. But when I looked at that beauty, I said that's the way it was meant to be. But I do feel it's much better for Canada, but we're not going to be discussing that unless somebody wants to discuss it. I think that there are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens, tremendously lower taxes, free military, which honestly, we give you essentially anyway because we're protecting Canada, if you ever had a problem.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I think it would really be a wonderful marriage because it's two places that get along very well. They like each other a lot.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
Well, if I may, as you know, from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
We're sitting in one right now, Buckingham Palace that you visited as well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And having met with uh the owners of Canada, over the course of the campaign last several months, it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever, but the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together. And we have done that in the past. And part of that, as the president just said, is with respect to our own security.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And my government is committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership. And I'll say this as well, that the president has revitalized international security, revitalized NATO.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's true.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And us playing our full weight in NATO, and that will be part of it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true and they have -- I must say, Canada is stepping up the military participation because Mark knew they were low. And now they're stepping it up and that's a very important thing. But never say never, never say never.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
What it would take to get the tariffs off of Canada?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we'll be talking about different things. You know, we want to protect our automobile business and so does Mark. But we want to protect -- we want to make the automobiles and we want to -- we have a tremendous abundance of energy, more than any country. We have, just in Alaska alone, Anwar has been reopened now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Anwar is probably the largest find anywhere in the world. They say it's larger than Saudi Arabia. I don't know, but it's a lot. But we have tremendous amounts of energy. Other countries don't. We're both lucky in that way. They have energy, we have energy. We have more than we could ever use and more than we could ever sell, actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you have the same thing. So, we're two countries that are very lucky. If you look at China, they don't have that. It's a big disadvantage. Other countries, most countries don't have -- most countries don't have that. So Canada and us, we have a lot of advantages over other places.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, when you consider what Mr. Carney just said, that Canada is not for sale, does this make the discussion a little more difficult to start on?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, not at all. No, not at all. No, time. Time will tell. It's only time, but I say, never say never. I've had many, many things that were not doable and they ended up being doable and only doable in a very friendly way. But if it's to everybody's benefit -- Canada loves us and we love Canada. That's, I think, the number one thing that's important.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we'll see. I mean, over time, we'll see what happens. China.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, I was hoping you could clarify something. Earlier this morning on Capitol Hill, Secretary Bessent said that there had been no negotiations yet with China. You have said something different.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They want to meet and they're doing no business right now. And those ships are turning around in the Pacific Ocean, big turn. Those are big ships. Those ships take about 10 miles to turn. And we lost $1 trillion to China on trade because of an incompetent president that we had, who proceeded me, grossly incompetent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're finding it out more and more now. And by not trading, we're losing nothing. So we're saving $1 trillion. It's a lot. But they want to negotiate and they want to have a meeting and we'll be meeting with them at the right time.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
But you haven't met with them yet?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I have not met with them. No, of course, you would know if I met -- I'd tell you. They want to meet, but we are, right now. Look, they're suffering greatly. Their economy is suffering greatly because they're not doing trade with the U.S.. And they made most of their money off the U.S.. Don't kid yourself.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They don't make the money off other countries like this. And they were making -- we had a trade imbalance. We had a deficit, or they had a surplus, another way of saying it, of more than $1 trillion. Think of it, more than $1 trillion and because of 145 percent. That's the only reason. But because of they have now 145 percent tariff, there's no trading.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You can't trade with 145 percent. We are therefore making, in a certain way, I guess $1.1 trillion. In other words, we're not losing $1.1 trillion. Our deficit is much better. When I started, I say we were losing billions of dollars a day on trade. That's rapidly turning around. We looked at numbers this morning.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we were losing -- the United States during Biden was losing more than -- I won't even give you numbers because they're so embarrassing. But billions of dollars a day on trade, those numbers are rapidly turning between the tariffs. Don't forget, we're now getting 25 percent on cars, 25 percent on aluminum, 25 percent on steel.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And maybe more importantly, massive numbers of companies are moving into the United States, Honda. We have tremendous -- the car companies are moving in at levels we've never seen before. The biggest investment ever made in the United States is being made right now, trillions of dollars. I would say we could be at $9 trillion, $9 trillion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You could go back to other presidents. They haven't had $1 trillion for their entire term. Look at Biden, he had bad numbers, people leaving. They weren't coming in, they were leaving with Biden and he didn't know the difference. The only thing he knew is people coming in. You know who they were, illegal immigrants, OK, from prisons, from mental institutions, from all sorts of places that weren't good, from gangs from Venezuela.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They were coming in and they were criminals and murderers, 11,888 people that murdered and at least half of them murdered more than one person. This is what Biden let into our country. I'm bringing in big companies. Apple is investing $500 billion. We have Jensen, as you know, is going to be 500 -- biggest chip maker or chip thinker, I call him.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He's really a thinker more than a maker. But we also have the maker, Mr. Wei. I get to know them all in the last -- it was a cram course, but they're all moving into America because of the tariffs and the -- I don't think people have appreciated it. Some people do, some of the smart people do. So we have more money coming in. It's really an amazing thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have more money being invested in the United States now than at any time ever before in our history and it's not even close. And I think the real number could be $9 trillion or $10 trillion. We don't know everybody that's doing it. We have many -- I just heard about a plant that's being built right now, a very, very top of the line company and they didn't come to the White House.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're just doing it because -- they're making it because if they build here, there are no tariffs. And this is the big market, this is the market. That sets us apart from -- this is the market where everyone wants to be. Now, if I didn't come here and do this, all of a sudden, we wouldn't be the market where everyone wants to be, so we're able to do it in time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're going to have a great announcement. And I'm not necessarily saying it's on trade. Going to the beginning, we're going to have a great announcement over the next few days, an announcement that will be so incredible, so positive. And I'm not saying, I don't want you to think it's necessarily on trade.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just to finish, we also have a situation, because everyone says when, when, when are you going to sign deals? We don't have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted. We don't have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market. We don't want a piece of their market.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't care about their market. They want a piece of our market. So we can just sit down, and I'll do this at some point over the next two weeks, and I'll sit with Howard and Scott and with our great vice president who has done a really good job. We have some good news to report on a lot of fronts, but JD, will be there and Marco and we're going to sit down and we're going to put very fair numbers down and we're going to say, here's what this country, what we want and congratulations, we have a deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they'll either say great and they'll start shopping, or they'll say not good. We're not going to do it. And I said, that's OK. You don't have to shop. Now, we may think -- well, they have it right, maybe we were a little bit wrong. So we'll adjust it and then you people will say, oh, it's so chaotic.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, we're flexible. But we'll sit down and we'll at some point, in some cases, we'll sign some deals. It's much less important than what I'm talking about. For the most part, we're just going to put down a number and say, this is what you're going to pay to shop and it's going to be a very fair number. It'll be a low number.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're not looking to hurt countries. We want to help countries. We want to be friendly with countries. But you keep writing about deals, deals, when are we going to sign? It's very simple. We're going to say, in some cases, we want you to open up your country. In some cases, we want you to drop your tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, India as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We're not going to put up with that and they've agreed already to drop it. They'll drop it to nothing. They've already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else, but me. So, we're going to put down some numbers and we're going to say, our country is open for business and they're going to come in and they're going to pay for the privilege of being able to shop in the United States of America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's very simple. It's very simple. So I wish they'd stop asking how many deals are you signing this week, because one day, we'll come and we'll give you 100 deals and they don't have to sign. All they have to do is say, oh, we'll start sending our ships right now to pick up whatever we want or to bring whatever we want. It's very, very simple. And I think my people haven't made it clear. We will sign some deals, but much bigger than that is we're going to put down the price that people are going to have to pay to shop in the United States. Think of us as a super luxury store, a store that has the goods. You're going to come and you're going to pay a price and we're going to give you a very good price. We're going to make very good deals, and in some cases, we'll adjust, but that's where it is. And we've been ripped off by everybody for 50 years -- for 50 years, and we're just not going to do that anymore. We can't do that and we can't let any country do that to us. We're just not going to do it anymore.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, on the Houthis, on the Houthis, can you tell us a bit more about the deal that you've reached with the Houthis that you mentioned at the top.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not a deal. They've said, please don't bomb us anymore and we're not going to attack ships.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And where did you hear about that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It doesn't matter where I hear -- a very good source, I can tell you. A very, very good source. Would you say, Marco? I would say pretty good, right, JD? A very good source.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They don't want to be -- they don't want to be -- they don't want to be bombed anymore. I sort of thought that would happen.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, no, behind you, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Clarify something you said on USMCA. Is the U.S. prepared to walk away from that pact?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What pact?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
USMCA?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, not -- no, no, it's fine. It's there, it's good. We use it for certain things. It's there. We have -- the USMCA is a good deal for everybody. I won't say this about Mark, but I didn't like his predecessor. I didn't like a person that worked -- she was terrible actually; she was a terrible person. And she really hurt that deal very badly because she tried to take advantage of the deal and she didn't get away with it. You know who I'm talking about.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But so, I had a -- we had a bad relationship having to do with the fact that we disagreed with the way they viewed the deal, and we ended it. You know, we ended that relationship pretty much. The USMCA is great for all countries. It's good for all countries. We do have a negotiation coming up over the next year or so to adjust it or terminate it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
I'll just say -- I'll say a word on USMCA, if I may, Mr. President. It is a basis for a broader negotiation. Some things about it are going to have to change. And part of the way you've conducted these tariffs has taken advantage of existing aspects of USMCA. So, it's going to have to change. There's other elements that have come and that's part of what we're going to discuss.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk] Mr. President, during the campaign, Prime Minister Carney talked about the American betrayal. How would you react if Canada decided not to shop in the American store as much as before and decided to partner with other countries?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we don't do much business with Canada from our standpoint; they do a lot of business with us. We're at like 4 percent, and usually those things don't last very long. You know, we have great things, great product, the kind of product we sell nobody else can sell, including military. Look, we make the best military equipment in the world and Canada buys our military equipment, which we appreciate.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we make the best military equipment in the world by far, the missiles, the submarines, everything. Everything we have is really top notch. I rebuilt our military during our last term. Stupidly, we gave some away to Afghanistan, which shouldn't have happened, but that was -- I think it was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was just very incompetent people. But if you look, the man that's now the head of our Joint chiefs, he led the attack on ISIS for me, that's why he's the head of the Joint Chiefs and Razin Caine. He's the -- he was unbelievable. And as you know, we defeated ISIS in three weeks. It was supposed to take five years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We did it in three weeks. And he ran the campaign, I said I like him, but I knew him before. I went to Iraq, and we agreed to a plan and that was the plan. And as you know, we did it in record time. So, we have the best equipment in the world. We have the best, a lot of things and -- but Canada does a lot more business with us than we do with Canada.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, your investments, Mr. President? When do you think the investments that you've announced, the trillions, will finally hit the economic data this year?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
When you're saying about the tariffs --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
No, no, about the investments that you've announced. You've announced --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, it's hitting right now. Look, they're already starting AI plants. These are not people that look for financing, that's a good thing. You know, in real estate you get a site and then you have to look for financing, you have to get your zoning, five years later you start building, you get a bank, then the bank's no good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
These people have massive amounts of cash. The CHIPS Act was a ridiculous thing because that doesn't get them to build. All we did is hand very wealthy companies money. The SHIPS Act that was done by Biden, billions -- we give them billions of dollars. They don't even have to do anything with it. And then if you weren't -- if you didn't have, and I won't -- I don't want to be a wise guy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But if you didn't go with DEI, if you didn't go with all of the different things woke, if you weren't woke, you couldn't even use the money. You had to have a certain percentage of this and that and that and that -- it's impossible, impossible to have. The people, the companies actually complain to me. They said they gave me all this money, but nobody can get these people to do anything.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I mean, look, President Obama, and if he wanted help, I'd give him help because I'm a really good builder and I build on time, on budget. He's building his library in Chicago. It's a disaster, and he said something to the effect, I only want DEI, I only want woke. He wants woke people to build it. Well, he got woke people and they have massive cost overruns.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The job is stopped. I don't know, it's a disaster. And I don't like that happening because it's -- I think it's bad for the presidency that a thing like that should happen. He's got a library that's a disaster, and he wanted to be very politically correct. And he didn't use good, hard, tough, mean construction workers that I love, Marco, I love those construction workers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he didn't want construction workers. He wanted people that never did it before and he's got a disaster on his hands, like millions of dollars, many, many, I mean really many millions of dollars over budget. And I would love to help him with it, or somebody else, I could recommend professionals, but it was not built in a professional manner.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
By the way, nor was in California, a little train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles that's being run by Gavin Newscum, the governor of California. Did you ever hear of Gavin Newscum? He has got -- that train is the worst cost overrun I've ever seen. It's like totally out of control. So, then they said, all right, we won't go into San Francisco, we'll stop 25 miles short, and we won't go into Los Angeles, we'll stop 25 miles short.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's hundreds of billions of dollars for this stupid project that should have never been built. And then they realized that it would have been a lot less costly if we just gave limousine service back and forth and gave it free, they would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars. They have airplanes that go there for one 1/100 the cost and they have cars, they have a thing called the highway that goes back and forth that's not fully utilized.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they got involved with this project. And Gavin -- you know, I always liked Gavin, had a good relationship with him. I just got him a lot of water, you know. I sent in people to open up that water because he refused to do it and we just got him a lot of water. If they would have had that water and if they would have done what I said to do, they wouldn't have had the fires in Los Angeles.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Those fires would have been put out very quickly. But if you think about it and you've got to take a look at this, it's the worst cost overrun I've ever seen. I've watched a lot of stupid people build a lot of stupid things, but that's the worst cost overrun I've ever seen, what's happening between San Francisco and Los Angeles.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you ought to ask about that because this government is not going to pay. I told our very great new Secretary of Transportation, he's doing a good job, Sean Duffy. I said, we're not going to pay for that thing, they are. Just -- it's out of control. This is something that you don't have things like this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not even conceivable, like 30 times over budget, 30 times. It's the craziest thing I've -- and now it's hundreds of -- it was supposed to be a simple train, and I think the media should take a look at it. And I'd love him to run for president on the other side. You know, I'd love to see that, but I don't think he's going to be running because that one project alone -- well, that and the fires and a lot of other things pretty much put him out of the race.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, what changes would you like to see to the USMCA? Or what changes would you like to make?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to work on some subtle changes, maybe. I don't even know if we're going to be dealing with USMCA. We're dealing more with concepts right now. Look, right now, we're doing trade, we have trade, they're paying a tariff on cars and steel and aluminum. And I think we have a baseline of 10 percent or something like that for the tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're getting along very well. Right now, going no further, but we have an agreement. We did something with even parts. You want to discuss that, Howard, with respect to Canada, which helps Canada out?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Howard Lutnick
Sure. So, we've made an arrangement with the car companies that 15 percent of their, A, USMCA parts are included, and then 15 percent of foreign parts from the manufacturer's suggested retail price are not tariffed to help domestic manufacturing really thrive.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, it gave them a chance to be able to build their car parts factories if they're going to -- a lot of these companies already have factories. And what they have to do is just fill them out, but they're able to build them in the United States. So, we gave them a pretty substantial period of time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, is there anything the Prime Minister can say to you today to change your mind on tariffing Canada?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Tariff in cars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Tariffing Canada. Is there anything he could say to you in the course of your meetings with him today that could get you to lift tariffs on Canada?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Why not?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just the way it is.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. Presiden, [Inaudible] 51st state? If Canadians don't want it, would you respect that?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure I would, but this is not necessarily a one-day deal. This is over a period of time, they have to make that decision. Yes, go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
Yeah, if I may. Well, I, respectfully Canadians view on this is not going to change on the 51st state. Secondly, we are the largest client of the United States in the totality of all the goods. So we are the largest client of the United States. We have a tremendous auto sector between the two of us and the changes made have been helpful.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
You know, 50 percent of a car that comes from Canada is American. That's not like anywhere else in the world. And to your question about is there one thing -- no, this is a bigger discussion. There are much bigger forces involved, and this will take some time and some discussions and that's why we're here, to have those discussions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Carney
And that is represented by who's sitting around the table.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
See, the conflict is, and this is very friendly. This is not going to be like -- we had another little blow up with somebody else. That was a much different. This is a very friendly conversation, but we want to make our own cars. We don't really want cars from Canada. And we put tariffs on cars from Canada.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And at a certain point, it won't make economic sense for Canada to build those cars. And we don't want steel from Canada because we're making our own steel and we're having massive steel plants being built right now as we speak. We really don't want Canadian steel, and we don't want Canadian aluminum and various other things because we want to be able to do it ourselves.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And because of past thinking of people, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. In other words, they have a surplus with us and there's no reason for us to be subsidizing Canada. Canada is a place that will have to be able to take care of itself economically. I assume they can. I will tell you that Trudeau, when I spoke to him, I used to call him Governor Trudeau.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think that probably didn't help his election. But when I spoke to him, I said so why are we taking your cars? Why are we taking your -- we want to make them ourselves. I mean, I said, and if the price of your cars went up or if we put a tariff on your cars of 25 percent, what would that mean to you? He said that would mean the end of Canada.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He actually said that to me. And I said, that's a strange answer, but I understand his answer. But no, I mean, it's hard to justify subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion a year. We protect Canada militarily and we always will. We're not going to -- that's not a money thing, but we always will, but it's not fair.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a year or whatever the number might be? It's a very substantial number. And it's hard for the American taxpayer to say, gee whiz, we love doing that. Thank you very much. We're going to have a very [Inaudible] thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Video begins in progress]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Zach and Alex, my friends also by the way, Aach, Alex, thank you, fellas. His girlfriend Lauren, who's a great golfer, I have to tell you, top of the line, and her daughter. Hi Finley, how are you? Finley, her daughter and his brother Robert. Robert, you're much better looking than Steve, and his sisters, Amy and Suzy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you both. His daughter-in-law Sophie. Hi, Sophie. His brother-in-law, Gary. Oh, there he is. Oh, hello, Gary, thank you. And his sister-in-law Elaine. There are also many others. Thank you all very much. I also want to thank our great Vice President JD Vance, Secretary Marco Rubio. And Marco, we're having a big day, I think, Marco, we'll find out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're having a big period of time -- I think that this is a potentially a great time for our country in solving a lot of problems that we inherited that we should have never had frankly. Attorney General Pam Bondi who is incredible and Senator Lindsey Graham -- Senator Graham, where are you? Where is Senator Graham?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hello Lindsey. Steve is a graduate of some great schools including Hofstra University where he studied political science and law. After graduating, he entered the real estate business, co-founding the Stellar Management Company in 1985 and launching a legendary career. He started off in a law office. In fact, he was one of my young lawyers and I said that guy is smart, but he just started.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was a very smart firm, Dreyer & Traub, killers. They were total killers. They said he's worse than all of them. But people don't know that; they think he's a nice guy, Pam. He's not that nice actually, but he is something. Steve quickly established himself as one of the toughest, smartest and best negotiators in the business.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In 1997, he founded the Witkoff Group, which now owns dozens of the most beautiful and iconic properties in the entire world, he owns some incredible properties. As a businessman, he's admired and respected by all. And now Steve is putting his talents to work for America as special envoy to the United States and making a lot of progress.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Our country is blessed to have a negotiator of such skill and experience who really selflessly steps up to the plate, puts himself forward all the time. Over the past few months, Steve has already helped negotiate the return of dozens of hostages from Gaza. And they come in and see me, many of them, and they are so thankful to Steve.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And also, hostages from other parts of the globe. He's met with President Putin, Prime Minister, Netanyahu, representatives of Iran and many other places. He is meeting with people that he never really thought he'd ever meet just a few months ago. And he's figuring it out. It takes him about an hour to figure it out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
After that, he's brutal. He does a great job. He's working tirelessly to end the bloody and destructive conflicts and one in particular with Russia and Ukraine and -- where you're losing 5,000 young people a week on average. Ukrainian soldiers, Russian soldiers and people in towns and villages that are being killed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We want to bring it to an end and we're working -- Steve is in the Middle East where I think we're having some very good success and you'll be hearing about it as we go. We had tremendous success over the last month, and we're taking the word of the Houthis, but they didn't want any more and I understand that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they have decided that they don't want to do this anymore. So, I'm proud to have him as a friend. Steve's a very fantastic guy. I picked him out of a lot of people; I had a lot of choices. But I said we need somebody with two things, a great personality and somebody that could negotiate and he's got both of them in spades.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He's also really smart. So, I want to thank everybody for being here. And I want to -- very, very importantly, I want to say to Marco Rubio, that you're swearing in a very important person. And Steve reports to Marco. I said Steve, you better do a good job, or Marco will fire -- he will fire you so violently, you have no idea [Laughter]. But Marco, if you could administer the oath.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much, Marco. Thank you, Steve.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Stand in front here. Raise your right hand. I, state your name.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
I, Steve Witkoff,<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Do solemnly swear.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Do solemnly swear.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
That I will support and defend.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
That I will support and defend.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
The Constitution of the United States.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
The Constitution of the United States.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Against all enemies.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Against all enemies,<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Foreign and domestic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Foreign and domestic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
That I will bear true faith and allegiance.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
That I will bear true faith and allegiance.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
To the same.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
To the same.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
That I take this obligation freely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
That I take this obligation freely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Without any mental reservations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Without any mental reservations.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Or purpose of evasion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Or purpose of evasion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And that I will well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
And that I will well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And faithfully.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
And faithfully.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Discharge the duties of the office.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
Discharge the duties of the office.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
On which I'm about to enter.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
On which I am about to enter.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
So help me God.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Steve Witkoff
So help me God.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Congratulations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Do you have any -- good job. Thank you, Marco. Any questions for Steve?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Do you have any reaction to the attacks between India and Pakistan?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, it's a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval, just heard about it. I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They've been fighting for a long time. You know, they've been fighting for many, many decades -- and centuries actually, if you really think about it. No, I just hope it ends very quickly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, are you considering adding a stop in Israel during next week's trip to the Middle East? And also, what's your reaction to Israel's plan to reoccupy Gaza if there is no ceasefire?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, the plan we haven't talked about, but we're not planning on stopping in Israel, but we will be doing it at some point, but not for this trip.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, there's a report that the UK is offering various trade concessions. What's your response to that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Who? What?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
The United Kingdom. And can you also say if you were discussing tariffs with Mr. Arnault?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what about the United Kingdom?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
They're offering various trade concessions, apparently cars, steel, digital services.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're offering us concessions? I hope so. They do want to make a deal very badly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Did you say your guests here -- are you discussing tariffs or business?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I think that the United Kingdom\, like every other country, they want to go shopping in the United States of America. China wants to -- very much wants to make a deal, they all do. But yeah, I would say that every country wants to make a deal, and not the ones they had in the past where we were like -- look, we were being ripped off by every country, practically without exception, in the entire world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And those days are over; those days are over. And you know, I said before in our meeting with the new and very talented Prime Minister of Canada that we have some very big announcement to make. It's not about trade, it's about something else, but it's going to be a truly earth-shattering and positive development for this country and for the people of this country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that will take place sometime within the next few days.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President are there any plans for Mr. Witkoff to travel once again to Russia. And as you mentioned in your remarks, he's traveled to Russia on a number of occasions. He's met with President Putin. What type of progress is being made as it relates to all of those visits that he's made to Russia?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think a lot because I think Russia wanted to take all of Ukraine and they've stopped. That's a lot of progress. You know, it's small, it's a portion of Ukraine. But no, I think a lot. I think if we weren't here, they would be right now fighting to take the whole country and they're not doing that. So, I think that's a lot of progress.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, does it frustrate you that Russia continues to attack civilian areas inside Ukraine without any reservation? It leads to scores of casualties almost on a daily basis.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't like anything about that war. It's a war. I don't like anything about it and I'm not happy with that. No, not at all. Not even a little bit. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, you've said the Houthis are backing down. We're seeing conflicting reports that they plan on continuing to attack Israel in support of Gaza. Does that change the equation?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I don't know about that frankly, but I know one thing, they want nothing to do with us and they've let that be known through all of their surrogates, and very strongly.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
You said that all hell would break loose if the rest of the hostages weren't released. Is there a hostage deal that's imminent? And are you talking to Netanyahu right now about their plan to level the rest of Gaza?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're talking to him about a lot of things right now. This is really crunch time. I would tell you for Iran and for their country, this is a very important time for Iran. This is the most important time in the history of Iran for Iran. And I hope they do what's right. I'd love to see a peace deal, a strong peace deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They cannot have a nuclear weapon. But I would say that this is the single most important period in the history of Iran, which is a long history. And we want it to be a great country, let it be a tremendously successful, rich country. They have everything you need. The people are incredible. They have vast amounts of oil and assets.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We want it to be a successful country. We don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. And if they choose to go a different route, it's going to be a very sad thing. And it's something we don't want to have to do, but we have no choice. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. Do you understand that? OK.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] Mr. President, but with regards to the Houthis, have you ever -- have you told the military to stop attacks against -- as of now?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We just -- yeah, we just informed them a little while ago and all action is stopping. Some people probably haven't heard yet. You know, there are various people in various rather strategic locations. But by this moment they should just about all know, Marco, I think that the attacks are going to stop both ways.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's pretty much it. But we've just informed everybody just a little while ago.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
To follow up on the previous question, Houthis continue to attack Israel, which you said you didn't know about. But if they continue to attack Israel, just not attack --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I'll discuss that if something happens, OK, if something happens with Israel and the Houthis, yeah.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Do you expect to have a trade deal you're able to announce later this week?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I can announce all of them now, I can announce 50 to 100 deals right now because, you know, I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. And I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms. And they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping because everybody wants to shop here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is like a beautiful store. This is like one of Bernard Arnault, or maybe I should say Alex, even more importantly, young, the future. But Bernard, it's an honor to have you. We'll have a meeting after this. But he has the greatest stores in the world, and they want to shop. Our country is the greatest store in the world of that kind, and everybody wants a piece of it. And they took advantage of us for years because we allowed presidents -- our presidents allowed it to happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, I don't blame China, and I don't blame Vietnam, and I could name every single country all the way up and down the line, South Korea, every single country took advantage of us without exception, Japan. These are friends of mine, but they took advantage of this country. They ripped off our country, selling us millions and millions of cars a year and we sold them none.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We weren't allowed to sell them a car. They took advantage of us. I don't blame them. I blame the people that sat behind that desk that allowed it to happen. But I don't allow it to happen. I didn't in the first term, but this is a much stronger position because we did -- we had the greatest economy in history in our first term.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The stock market was up 88 percent, and we had numbers much better than that. But this is going to be, I think, a much better term. And I think the tariffs are coming in, starting to come in. We were losing $5 billion plus a day on trade. Now we're not losing that kind of money and we'll soon be making a lot of money a day and a year and a month.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
President Trump, a question for you and perhaps the attorney general. The Justice Department recently received a criminal referral against New York Attorney General Tish James for fraud. We haven't heard much about it. Could you or the Attorney General give us an update as to what's going on with that investigation?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I don't want to get involved in something that Pamela is involved with. If you'd like to say something, Pam, or --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I can say unrelated to that, she's a disaster for New York. She's a horrible, horrible human being, and I think she's a total crook. There's no question about it, but that's just my opinion. Pam is going to have to do what she wants. She's a very bad person. She's a very, very bad, a very bad person who campaigned solely on, I'm going to get Donald Trump, over and over again.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
She's a sick person. But that's has nothing to do with what Pam does. Pam is going to do what's right. She always does. I've known her a long time. Yeah, go ahead behind you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you. On Gaza, you said there's been progress and progress in the Middle East, but at the moment, as a colleague said, Israel -- Netanyahu is saying he now wants to conquer Gaza. Is there any prospect of any movement on that? Are you happy with what [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we've gone very slowly because we want to try and get as many hostages saved as possible and we've done a good job in that regard. Two weeks ago, I had 10 hostages come in and they thanked me profusely. And I said, you have nothing to thank me about. What they went through is incredible. They lived in a pipe.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, they keep hearing about caves. It was a pipe, 3.5 feet high, and they didn't know if they were going to breathe. They didn't know if they were going to live to the next day. They lived like hell. I couldn't believe the stories I was hearing. And they weren't grandstanding; these were people that were seriously mistreated.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
One was in for 512 days, one was in for 361 I guess days, and one was in for a shorter period of time. The stories were unbelievable. I said how many people are left. How many are left? They said 59. I said, oh, wow, that's more than I thought. They said, well, only 24 are living, but now it's 21. That was a week ago.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now it's 21 are living. And these are young people; these are -- young people don't die. Old people die; young people don't die under these conditions. So, of the 59 people, and they said 59 and I said really, but they said only 24 are living. And I now correct, I say 21 because as of today it's 21, three have died.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, this is a terrible situation. We're trying to get the hostages out. We've gotten a lot of them out. As the expression goes, there's 21 plus a lot of dead bodies. You know, parents came up to me on numerous occasions, but a couple in particular. They came up to me two weeks ago and they said, please, sir, my son is dead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Please get us back his body. They wanted his body. He's dead; they know he's dead. They wanted his body as much as you would want the boy if he was alive. It's a very sad thing. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hello, everybody. It's great to be with a friend of mine who was Prime Minister of the Netherlands. I got to know him very well. We had a great relationship always. Mark Rutte. Now he's Secretary General of NATO and doing a fantastic job. Everybody -- every report I've gotten is what a great job he did, and I'm not at all surprised when I hear it. We had to support him and we supported him as soon as I heard the name.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But he was a fantastic Prime Minister and he's doing a fantastic job, an even tougher job. Which is tougher, being the Prime Minister of Netherlands or --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
-- this job is quite tough.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I Would think so.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
But Dutch politics is also brutal so.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is pretty tough. But you're doing -- you're doing good. We're going to be discussing a lot of things. Obviously, we'll be discussing what's happening with respect to Ukraine and Russia. At this moment, we have people talking in Russia. We have Representatives over there, Steve Witkoff and others. And they're in very serious discussions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As you know, Ukraine has agreed, subject to this what's happening today, to a complete cease fire and we hope Russia will do the same. Thousands of people are being killed. Young people usually mostly young people. We're just talking about it. Thousands of young people are being killed a week and we want to see that stop.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they're not Americans and they're not from the Netherlands for the most part. They're not from -- they're from Russia and they're from Ukraine, but they're people. And I think everybody feels the same way. We want it to stop. It's also a tremendous cost to the United States and to other countries and it's something that would have never happened if I were president and it makes me very angry to see that it did happen, but it happened and we have to stop it. And Mark has done some really good work over the last week.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've been working together and he's done some really good work. So I'm very happy about that. We'll also be talking about trade and various other things and I think we'll have a very, very strong day. We're going to have lunch afterwards that'll go and then we'll see you all later. But Mark, would you like to say something?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Yeah. First of all, thank you so much, Mr. President, again, for hosting me and but also for taking time in Florida, a couple of weeks after you were reelected.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
And of course I have a phone call a couple of weeks ago and I must say, term 45, you basically, you originated the fact that in Europe we are now spending when you take it to aggregate $700 billion more on defense than when you came in office in 2016, 2017. But that was term 45, but then when you look at term 47.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That would be hard to tell.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
What happened the last couple of weeks is really staggering. The Europeans committing to a package of $800 billion defense spending. The Germans now potentially up to half a trillion extra in defense spending. And then of course you had Keir Starmer here, the British prime minister and others, all committing to much higher defense spending.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
We're not there. We need to do more, but I really want to work together with you in the run up to the Hague summit to make sure that we will have a NATO, which is really reinvigorated under your leadership and we are getting there. We also discussed defense production because we need to produce more weaponry.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
We are not doing enough, and not in the US, not in Europe and we are lagging behind when you compare it to the Russians and the Chinese. And you have a huge defense industrial base. Europeans buying four times more here than the other way around, which is good because you have a strong defense industry. But we need to do more there to make sure that we ramp up the production and kill the red tape, so I would love to work with you on that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
And finally, Ukraine. You broke the deadlock, as you said, all the killing the young people, dying cities, getting destroyed. The fact that you did that that you started the dialog with the Russians and the successful talks in Saudi Arabia now with the Ukrainians, I really want to commend you for this. The Hague is my hometown.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
I love to host you there in the summer and work together to make sure that that will be a splash, a real success, projecting American power on the world stage.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
What Mark is saying is when I first went to NATO, my first meeting, I noticed that very few people were paying. And if they were, they weren't paying their fair share. There were only seven countries that were paying what they were supposed to be paying, which was --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Even worse.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It could be even worse. But they were just very few countries that were paying and even the paying it was a two percent, which is too low. It should be higher. It should be quite a bit higher. But you had Poland and I remember Poland was actually paying a little bit more than they were supposed to, which I was very impressed with.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they've been actually terrific and some of the others. But most of them weren't paying or they were paying very little and I didn't think it was appropriate to bring it up there. But I said, it's going to be brought up at my next meeting and my next meeting. The first meeting, you want to give them a little break.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The second meeting, it began and I was able to raise hundreds of billions of dollars. I just said, we're not going to be involved with you if you're not going to pay. And the money started pouring in and NATO became much stronger because of my actions and working along with a lot of people, including Mark, but they would not pay for other presidents.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I don't think other presidents even knew that they weren't paid. I asked first question, has everybody paid up? And literally, I mean they told me seven. You could be right. It could be three, but that makes it even worse, but they just weren't paying. And I said, no, I won't protect if you're not paying.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If you're delinquent or if the money isn't paid, why would we do that? And as soon as I said that, I got a little hit from the press because they said, oh, gee, that's not very nice. But if you said the other, nobody would have paid. And the money started coming in by the billions and hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into NATO and NATO became strong.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you remember that and your predecessor, who I thought was a very good man.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Absolutely. Yes, Stoltenberg. He sends his best greetings.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He was terrific, Stoltenberg, secretary general. And he made the statement that when Trump came in, the money started coming in like we never saw before, hundreds of -- actually, probably close to $600 billion came in and NATO became strong from that standpoint. And now we have to use it wisely and we have to get this war over with and you'll be back to a normal, much more normal life.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And maybe we're close. We're getting word that things are going Ok in Russia. And does it mean anything until we hear what the final outcome is, but they have very serious discussions going on right now with President Putin and others and hopefully they all want to end this nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's a horrible thing, when you look.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I get pictures every week. They give me the pictures of the battlefield, which I almost don't want to see. It's so horrible to see young people laying, arms and legs and heads laying all over the field. It's the most terrible thing that you'll ever see and it's got to stop. These are young people with mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and friends and it's got to stop.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we hopefully are going to be in a good position sometime today to have a good idea. We know where we are with Ukraine and we are getting good signals outside of Russia, as to where we are with Russia. And hopefully they'll do the right thing and so really humanity, we're talking about humanity, we're not talking about the money.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But then you add the money to it, and hundreds of billions of dollars is being spent and really wasted so unnecessarily. It should have never happened. So it's an honor to have you here. They picked a great gentleman. I'll tell you, I was so happy to hear because you had somebody -- Stoltenberg was really good and you have somebody that's going to do an incredible job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I was so much in favor of you. You have no idea. They had another person that I did not like. I was not happy. And I think I kept him from, you know what I'm talking about. I said, this is the right man to do it and he really did. He was a great Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He did a great job and that's what he's doing right now.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So thank you everybody for being here and very great honor to have you, and we even have some of our great energy people here today, right? We have the governor and we have Chris. You know Chris, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Absolutely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Is supposed to be the most talented man in the world of energy, according to the governor. So I don't know if he's right. We have, General, you've been fantastic. Thank you very much. And we have a lot of good people that won't be so much involved with this, but they wanted to see what was happening. It's become a little bit of a show, but they wanted to see what was happening, and I think a lot of good things are happening.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So with that, if anybody would have a question.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, on Russia.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Please, go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Sorry. Sorry, [Inaudible] Steve Witkoff's trip to Moscow, you spoke about it, what sort of agreement do you hope he comes away from it with?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we'd like to see a ceasefire from Russia and we have not been working in the dark. We've been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost and all of the other elements of a final agreement. There's a power plant involved, a very big power plant involved. Who's going to get the power plant and who's going to get this and that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And so it's not an easy process, but phase one is the ceasefire. A lot of the individual subjects have been discussed. We've been discussing concepts of land because you don't want to waste time with the ceasefire if it's not going to mean anything. So we're saying, look, this is what you can get, this is what you can't get.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They discussed NATO and being in NATO and everybody knows what the answer to that is. They've known that answer for 40 years, in all fairness. So a lot of the details of a final agreement have actually been discussed. Now, we're going to see whether or not Russia is there. And if they're not, it'll be a very disappointing moment for the world.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Vladimir Putin just said he is open to a ceasefire, but he does still have some concerns. He suggested that you two should speak directly. Do you have plans to speak to him soon? If so, are you confident you can get this across the finish line?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He did say that today. It was a very promising statement, because other people are saying different things and you don't know if they have any meaning or I don't know. I think some of them were making statements. I don't think they have anything to do with it. No, he put out a very promising statement, but it wasn't complete.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And yeah, I'd love to meet with him or talk to him, but we have to get it over with fast. Every day people are being killed. As we sit here, two people will be killed. Think of it, two people are going to be killed during this little period of time. Thousands of people a week are dying. So we really don't have very much time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have to make this fast. It shouldn't be very complicated.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President? Mr. President?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
A representative of Canada, the finance minister are in town and will meet members of your administration during the day. Any chances that you will bend on the tariffs on aluminum and the ones that are planned for April 2nd?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
You are not going to change your mind?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No. No, look, we've been ripped off for years and we're not going to be ripped off anymore. No, I'm not going to bend at all on aluminum or steel or cars. We're not going to bend. We've been ripped off as a country for many, many years. We've been subjected to costs that we shouldn't be subjected to. In the case of Canada, we're spending $200 billion a year to subsidize Canada.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I love Canada. I love the people of Canada. I have many friends in Canada, the great one, Wayne Gretzky, the great. How good is Wayne Gretzky? He's the great one. But I know many people from Canada that are good friends of mine, but the United States can't subsidize a country for $200 billion a year. We don't need their cars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't need their energy. We don't need their lumber. We don't need anything that they -- that they give, we do it because we want to be helpful. But it comes a point when you just can't do that. You have to run your own country. And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. It doesn't -- we don't need anything they have.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway. This would be the most incredible country. Visually, if you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the US, Just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago and it makes no sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping O Canada the national anthem, I love it. I think it's great. Keep it, but it'll be for the state. One of our greatest states, maybe our greatest state. But why should we subsidize another country for $200 billion? Costs us $200 billion a year. And again, we don't need their lumber.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't need their energy. We have more than they do. We don't need anything. We don't need their cars. I'd much rather make the cars here. And there's not a thing that we need. Now there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long, but they need us -- we really don't need them. And we have to do this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm sorry. We have to do this. Yes?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, you have made it very clear that NATO needs to step up, although great progress has been made in your first mandate. How do you envision this new transatlantic?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Are you talking about NATO stepping up?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yes.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, NATO is stepping up through this man. This man is a man that only knows how to step up. And we have the same goal in mind, we want the war ended, and he's doing his job. He only knows how to do a good job. That's one thing. That's why I fought for him to get that job because they had some other candidates that I will tell you would not have done a very good job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
I need this part of the -- of the movie for my family.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll get you a clip. We're going to get him a clip of that of that little essay. But the rest of the statements, he doesn't care about.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Sir, how does this new transatlantic cooperation, how do you envision it?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we have -- that's one thing. I mean, you know we're on the other side of the ocean and they're right there and yet we're in for $350 billion because of Biden and they're in for $100 billion. So it's a big difference and it's unfair. And I said you have to equalize, they should equalize, they should have -- it should have never happened where Biden just gave this money away.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now, as you know, we're -- we have an agreement with Ukraine on the rare earths and other things, and that'll get us something back. A lot back. It'll get us our money back. We're not doing it for that, though. We're doing -- I'm just doing this to get the war stopped. I'm doing it really to save lives. But at the same time, we were treated very unfairly as we always are by every country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're in for very substantially more than the European nations are in for and that shouldn't be. You know, they're much more affected by it than we are because we do have an ocean in between. But I don't know. I think good things are going to happen. I really do. I think good things are going to happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I do say we were talking before and Mark was very nice. He said if you did get involved, there would be nothing -- you'd just be going on and this thing would have gone on for a long time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Breaking a deadlock. It was crucial.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, we broke a deadlock. We did break a deadlock. I hope -- I hope it's meaningful. Yes. Did you have one?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yes, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yes, sir. Thank you. Mr. President. Amanda Head with Just the News. On the southern border, you've got DHS and ICE who are reporting that there was a little bit of fudging of numbers during the Biden administration on both the catch and the release side with respect to reporting the number of illegals coming into the country --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- They cheated on the numbers. They were -- the numbers were -- I love that question. Who are you with?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Just the news. Amanda Head.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very nice. That's good. That's good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Do you know how many of those are criminal, illegal aliens --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- Many of them --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- And Biden is out of office, Alejandro Mayorkas, who can --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- No, Biden fudged the numbers. The numbers were totally fake and he gave fake numbers. I knew they were fake, everybody knew they were fake, but now it came out and terrible what they did. That administration was a horror show for this country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Can you hold anyone accountable?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I don't know. They gave phony numbers and phony numbers are a very bad thing to give, but I'm not sure about that. I don't know how it would play. We want to get it straightened out. We have -- we're after many, many bad people that were let into our country and Kristi Noem and and my friend Homan, how -- how good is Tom Homan doing, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they're after him and they -- I mean, you see they're taking them out in record numbers. Gang members, gang leaders, drug dealers, this is a problem the Netherlands does not have. The Netherlands never had this problem. If you'd like to take it for a little --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
-- We have a few drug dealers, I'm afraid --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- I could deliver some people. I could deliver some nice people to the Netherlands, if you'd like. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
I'm not sure.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, what -- what -- what he did to this country, letting 21 million people flow through an open border, many of those people were hard criminals from prisons and jails from mental institutions. And I always say insane asylums because they were seriously deranged and they're here from not South America, from all over the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
From South America, but from all over the world. And it's -- so it's so sad. You'd say why would anybody do this? Why? Go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And one more. There's some new internal Democrat polling that doesn't look great for Democrats, but it also has 54 percent unfavorability for Republicans in swing states and battlegrounds for the midterms. You consider those voters capturable for -- for Republicans?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, well, we did -- you know, I won every swing state as you know by a lot and I won the popular vote by a lot and we won the counties. If you look at the counties and district plan, we had 2725 and they had 501. That's a real -- that's why the map is all red. So we had a great thing, yeah, I think -- I think winning from the Democrats -- I saw -- if you look the other night, I made a speech and I introduced two young ladies who were killed and two killed viciously, violently killed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Young, unbelievable both outstanding people, they were killed by illegal aliens and the Democrats wouldn't get up and applaud. The mothers were, I mean, inconsolable. They were crying and everybody was crying. The Democrats sat there with stone faces, they didn't clap, they didn't stand, they didn't do anything.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had a young man with very serious cancer who wanted his -- his dream is to be with the police department someday. And he was introduced. They didn't even clap. Yeah, I mean, they were disgusting. Frankly, they were disgusting. There's something wrong with them. They're deranged. They're deranged like Jack Smith.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're deranged people. And I never saw anything like it. I'm standing up and I introduce the mother and the parents of these two young girls that were just recently, essentially killed, violently killed, and the Democrats are like this. It's so sad. And I saw this morning with one of them is pretty well known, one is arguing fighting like crazy over men being able to play in women's sports.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said, yeah, I thought that was tried. I thought that was about a 95 -- I think it's a 95 percent issue. But in a way, I want them to keep doing it because I don't think they can win a race. I mean, I tell the Republicans I said don't bring that subject up because there's no election right now. But about a week before the election bring it up because you can't lose.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And everything's transgender this transgender that. You know, it's -- they have bad politics. But one thing they stick together. You know, I wish -- and the Republicans stick together mostly, but we have a couple that are grandstanders. You know, you always have grandstanders in life. But the Democrats, they don't seem -- they have grandstanders, but when it comes to a vote, they do stick together, right?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
If they say they'll stick together on the shutdown. Will that hurt Democrats going into midterms?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, if they do a shutdown and ultimately that might lead to very, very high taxes because we're talking about a shutdown. We're talking about getting to work immediately on the greatest tax bill ever passed. That was the one we did. It was a renewal and it's in addition to it and we're going to cut people's taxes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And if the -- if we don't open, the Democrats are stopping all of these good things that we're providing. We're -- we're providing the greatest package of benefits that this country has ever provided. The biggest part of that's going to be tax cuts for the middle class and for businesses, small businesses, employers, people that hire people and jobs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And if it's shut down, it's only going to be -- if there's a shutdown, it's only because of the Democrats and they would really be taken away a lot from our country and from the people of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, on tariffs, you made clear you're not backing down from this, but many Americans, small business owners say they are concerned that these tariffs are going to hurt them. What's your message to them?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're going to be so much richer than they are right now. And we have many -- yesterday, General Motors was in. They want to invest $60 billion. The people from Facebook were in yesterday. They're going to invest $60 billion by the end of the year. Other people are talking about numbers. Apple, as you know, a few days ago, announced $500 billion investment.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're going to build their plants in the United States, which as you know, all -- almost all of their plants are in China, now they're building in the United States. Look, the reason is two things. Number one, the election, November 5th, and the other thing is tariffs. I think probably in that order. But Tim Cook came in and he announced $500 billion, think of it, $500 billion, not million. $500 million is a lot when you think about it, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I would have been happy with $500 million, but it's $500 billion investment by Apple in the United States. And that's because of the election result. And it's because of the tariffs and the tax incentives too, tariffs and tax incentives. And I've never seen anything like it. We have plants going up now in Indiana.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have plants going up in Michigan. A lot of plants going to be planned for -- I'm trying to steer them to Michigan because Michigan got so badly beaten by what happened with Europe. If you look at Europe, take a look at the EU, we're not allowed to sell cars there. It's prohibitive because of their policies and also their non-monetary tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They put obstacles in your way that you can do nothing about. But if you take a look at what happens, so we sell no cars to Europe. I mean, virtually, no cars and they sell millions of cars to us. They don't take our agriculture, we take their -- it's like a one-way street with them. The European Union is very, very nasty.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They sue our companies. Apple was forced to pay $16 billion on a case, very much like my case is that I won. They shouldn't have been even cases, but we felt they had no case and they ended up having an extremely favorable judge and decision. But they're suing Google. They're suing Facebook. They're suing all of these companies and they're taking billions of dollars out of American companies, many more than the ones I just mentioned.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I guess they're using it to run Europe or something. I don't know what they're using it for, but they treat us very badly. China, obviously treats us very badly, almost everybody does. And I blame past presidents, to be honest. Because when I was president, we received so far about $ 700 billion from China over the years on the tariffs that I put in. No other president got $0.10 from China.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that was only beginning except for COVID, I would have been able to finish the process, but we had to fight the COVID thing and we did really well with it, but we had to fight. And then we, actually, as you remember, Mark, we actually handed over the stock market. It was higher than just previous to COVID, coming in, which was sort of a miracle, frankly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We did a good job, but the tariffs are very important. And I think the psychology, there's great spirit. When Mark came in, he said, congratulations, there's a whole new spirit, there's a whole new light over this country and really over the world because you have somebody that -- a whole group of people, really, because I talk about this whole group that we know what we're doing and a lot of great things are happening.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I've never seen investment like this. Trillions of dollars is being invested in the United States now that would have never -- our country could have failed. Another four years of this, what happened in the last four years, our country would have been a crime-ridden mess. And I don't know if you noticed, a little thing they call it, but it's not a little thing if you like eggs and you don't have a lot of money.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Eggs have gone down 25 percent in the last couple of weeks. We inherited that problem, eggs. Groceries have gone down a little bit. Energy has gone down. Do you want to speak to that for a second, Governor? Would you just say a couple of words, you and Chris about energy, what's happened?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
Well, happy to, but I think that Chris and I just came from CERAWeek, which is the largest conference in the world. So global leaders, people from the EU, officials from all the energy producing countries, all there and all the global nationals, all the US. The -- the spirit of that group is through the roof because now they realize that in the United States that President Trump's policies are pro developing more energy as opposed to we're trying to shut down energy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
And that pro-growth, pro-business, pro-energy approach is giving people the optimism. So then the markets are reacting to that and energy prices on the futures market are going to go down because people know we're not going to be killing off the energy we need for prosperity in all of our countries, but also for peace, because people have used energy to fuel these wars that President Trump is working so hard to end.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
And we know that energy, high energy prices were driving the inflation that he talked about. So it accomplishes two goals for us, which is prosperity for the world, peace for the world when we have smart energy policies and President Trump has brought common sense back to how we think about energy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's brought down now $65 a barrel, I saw this morning. That's phenomenal news and that's what brought it up. They took our beautiful energy policies and they just messed them up and then they went immediately back to them, because by that time, they lost it. They lost that Bronco, as the expression goes.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Chris, do you have something to say?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Chris Wright
Oh, I think Doug said it well, but you just can't overstate how important the return of common sense, the return of knowledge about energy and pro-American consumers, pro-investment in our country. I think globally, that was welcomed. It means capital flows. It means more sobriety and lower energy prices, more economic opportunity for Americans.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Chris Wright
So yeah, it was elated atmosphere at a global energy conference.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we're working on one project. It should be very easy. It's a pipeline going through a small section of New York. New York has held it up for years, actually, for years. They've wanted to do it for years and years. And it will reduce, the most expensive energy almost in the world is in New England, because they have no way of getting it there because it's been held up by New York.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And the whole of New England and Connecticut and New York, the energy prices are through the roof. And there's one pipeline will save for per family $2,500 just on heating and another $2,500 on everything else. So the energy by just a simple pipeline going through an area that wants it, an area that's not a rich area, it's actually a very poor area, would create jobs and everything else and it's going to be way underground.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody's going to see it. Once they fill it up, nobody's going to see it. Nobody's going to know it's there. And families in New York and Connecticut and New England are going to save $5,000 a family. Think of that, because right now they have the highest energy prices maybe in the world, they say, New England.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a disaster. So we're working on that. In fact, the governor is coming in governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, who's a very nice woman. She's coming in tomorrow morning at 9:00 to meet me on that and other things, not only that, but other things. So I hope we don't have to use the extraordinary powers of the federal government to get it done.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But if we have to, we will, but I don't think we'll have to. I can tell you, Connecticut wants it and all of New England wants it and who wouldn't want it? And it's also jobs on top of everything else. So that's going to be very exciting. So we're meeting with the governor tomorrow morning.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you, Mr. President. Greenland, what is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland and getting them potentially to --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think it will happen and I'm just thinking, I didn't give it much thought before, but I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental. You know, Mark, we need that for international security, not just security, international. We have a lot of our favorite players cruising around the coasts and we have to be careful and we'll be talking to you and it's a very appropriate, really a very appropriate question.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
-- issue with the high north, so architecture, what you did. So when it comes to Greenland, yes, we're or not joining the US. I would leave that outside for me this discussion, because I don't want to drag NATO in that. But when it comes to the High North and the Arctic, you are totally right, the Chinese are now using these routes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
We know that the Russians are rearming. We know we have a lack of icebreakers. So the fact that the seven outside Russia, there are seven Arctic countries working together on this under US leadership is very important to make sure that that region that that part of the world stays safe. And we know things are changing there and we have to be there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Well, we just had an election there the other day. Do you see a referendum, a plebiscite where the people of Greenland would be in a position to decide if they want to become part of the United States?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, it was a good election for us, as you know. It was not a referendum. It wouldn't be called that. It was an individual election. But the person that did the best is a very good person, as far as we're concerned. And so we'll be talking about it and it's very important. Mark mentioned the word icebreaker.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we're in the process of ordering 48 icebreakers, and Canada wants to know if they could use them. I said, well, you got to pay for them. Think of it, Canada. We pay for their military. Canada pays very little for their military because they think we're going to protect them. But even with the icebreakers, so we're going to order 48, and Canada wants to be part of the deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I say, you got to get your own icebreakers. And if you're a state, you can be part of the deal, but if you're a separate country, you got to get your own icebreakers. Russia, as you know, has about 40 of them. And we have one big icebreaker, but that whole area is becoming very important. And for a lot of reasons, the routes are very direct to Asia, to Russia and you have ships all over the place and we have to have protection.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we're going to have to make a -- on that, and Denmark is not able to do that. You know, Denmark is very far away and really has nothing to do -- what happens, a boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true or not. I don't think it is, actually.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we've been dealing with Denmark. We've been dealing with Greenland and we have to do it. We really need it for national security. I think that's why NATO might be -- have to get involved in a way because we really need Greenland for national security. It's very important. You know, we have a couple of bases on Greenland already and we have quite a few soldiers and maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know. What do you think about that, Pete? So don't answer that, Pete. [Laughter] Don't answer that question. But we have -- we have bases and we have quite a few soldiers on Greenland.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] question your commitment to NATO. Will anything change? Your commitment to NATO? Will anything change? Same amount of money, same amount of --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- Well, I think they've made a great step by putting Mark in charge. I think, to me, that's a great step because he and I have seen eye to eye on everything for a long time. We've been doing this a long time now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Nine years now.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And so that's a great step. You have to keep NATO strong, you have to keep it relevant. But the biggest thing we have to worry about right now is what's going on right now. I think the rest is going to take care of itself. I don't see this having -- this was a fluke. This was something that if we had a competent president, it would not have happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The man was grossly incompetent. All you have to do is look and -- take a look at -- he signs by Autopen. Who was signing all this stuff by Autopen? Who would think you'd sign important documents by Autopen. You know, these are major documents you're signing. You're proud to sign them. You have your signature on something.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In 300 years, they say, oh, look, can you imagine, everything was signed by Autopen? Almost everything. Nobody's ever heard of such a thing. So should have never happened.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Tomorrow at the Justice Department about law and order, could you tell us a little bit about that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, we're going to be with the Justice Department. We have a great Justice Department. Pam Bondi is so fantastic and Todd Blanche and Amo, you got to know him a little bit. He was acting for a little while and some other people are incredible in the Justice Department and I consider the FBI to be a part of it in a sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And Cash is going to be fantastic and all the people, he's -- Dan Bongino, I love that. I mean, I love that. I think Dan is great. I think we have unbelievable people and all I'm going to do is set out my vision. It's going to be their vision, really, but it's -- it's my ideas. And basically, we -- we don't want to have crime in the streets.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't want to have people pushed into subways and killed and then the -- the person that did the pushing ends up in a 15 year trial and gets off scot free. We want to have justice and we want to have -- we want to have safety in our cities as well as our communities and we'll be talking about immigration.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll be talking about a lot of things, the complete gamut. So I look forward to -- that will be tomorrow at the Justice Department.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, you are a man of peace, you said it several times and you made it very clear. A man of peace dealing with belligerent people and I'm thinking we saw how you handled Zelenskyy in this very own room. What is your leverage on Putin? Are you thinking sanctions? What if he refuses to --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- Well, I do have leverage, but I don't want to talk about leverage now because right now we're talking to him and based on the statements he made today, they were pretty positive, I think. So I don't want to talk about that. I hope Russia's going to make the deal, too, and I think once that deal happens, you're never going to be in a process.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't think they're going back to shooting again. I really believe if we had a -- if we get a peace treaty, a ceasefire treaty, I think that leads to peace. That's going to really lead to peace. I don't think anyone wants to go back. They've been doing this for a long time and it's vicious and violent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think if -- if President Putin agrees and does a cease fire, I think we're going to -- we're going to be in very good shape to get it done. We want to get it over with. That's why it was very important what I instructed everybody, including Steve, what we're looking for to discuss concepts of land concepts of -- of power plants because it's complicated.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, you have a whole -- you're sort of creating the edge of a of a country. The sad part is that country if they didn't -- if this didn't happen, and it wouldn't have happened, I don't know if that would have to give anything back. I guess, Crimea. You know, I said it last time, Crimea was given by Obama, Biden gave him the whole thing and Bush gave him Georgia and Trump didn't give him anything.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I gave him -- you know what I gave him? I gave him -- I gave them javelins and the javelins were very effective. As you know, I gave them nothing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
2019<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And then also, if you take a look, I was the one that stopped the pipeline going into Europe. It was totally stopped Nord Stream II. Nobody ever heard of Nord Stream II before I came along. But I got along very well with President Putin. I got along with most of them. I get along great with President Xi. I got along great with Kim Jong Un. I got along great with all of them and we had no wars.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We had no problems. We wiped out ISIS in record time. General Raisin' Cain and he wiped him out and he was going to be our new chief, right? He's going to be the head of Joint Chiefs of Staff and he's a highly respected man. He's going to be great. Pete's going to be fantastic. I have no doubt about it. We have a great team.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Really great team. Yeah, please, go ahead. Please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, some of our allies have said that they're worried that they could be the next to be attacked by Russia. You've spoken directly with the Russian President. Do you think those fears are justified?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I don't -- I think when this gets done, it's done. They're going to all want to go home and rest. I don't see it happening. No. I don't see that happening. And we'll make sure it doesn't happen. Not going to happen, but we'll make sure it doesn't happen. Yeah. Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Leaders from Russia and Iran are heading to Beijing tomorrow to discuss nuclear programs. What do you hope to get out of that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, maybe they're going to talk about non-nuclear programs. Maybe they're going to be talking about the de-escalation of nuclear weapons because, you know, I was talking about that with President Putin very strongly and we could have done something. Had -- had that election not been rigged, we would have had something.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think I would have made a deal with Putin on de-escalation, denuclearization as they say. But we would have de-escalated nuclear weapons because the power of nuclear weapons is so great and so devastating. And and right now, Russia and us have by far the most, but China will catch us within five years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
China doesn't have, but they're in the process of building and they build. And within four or five years, they'll probably have the same.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
And by the way, this is a Republican tradition. Ronald Reagan, when he negotiated with Gorbachev in the 1980s about bringing down the number of nuclear weapons is what you have been doing your first term and it is important.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It would be a great achievement if we could bring down the -- the number. We have so many weapons and the power is so great and number one, you don't need them to that extent. And then we'd have to get others because, as you know, in a smaller way, Kim Jong Un has a lot of nuclear weapons by the way, a lot and others do also.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You have India, you have Pakistan, you have others that have them and we get them involved. But we started off with Russia and us, we have by far -- actually, by far the most and we were going to denuclearize. And that was going to happen and then we were going to China and I spoke to China -- I spoke to President Xi about it and he really liked the idea.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, he liked not to spend trillions of dollars building weapons that, hopefully, he's never going to have to use and because they are very expensive, also. So that would have been great. OK, one or two more.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
There's been tension in the -- -- Thank you. We're looking at an impending government shutdown Friday at midnight. Democrats for 30 years straight have said if there's a shutdown bad things happen. Do you anticipate direct negotiations yourself with conference leader of the Democrats, Chuck Schumer?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If they need me, I'm there, 100 percent. It's right now, it's -- it's two or three people. If they -- if it shuts down, it's not the Republicans' fault. You know, we passed a bill where we had an incredible Republican vote. We only had one negative vote, a grandstander, you know, one grandstander, there's always a grandstander in the lot.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But it was amazing. People were amazed that the Republicans were able to vote in unison like that so -- so strongly. If there's a shutdown, even the Democrats admit, it'll be their fault. And I'm hearing a lot of Democrats are going to vote for it. And I hope they do, this is an extension, but ultimately we want to vote for one big beautiful bill where we put the taxes in, we put everything in. We're going to have big tax cuts.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to have tremendous incentives for companies coming into our country and employing lots of people. It'll be -- I called it in a rare moment. One big beautiful bill. That's what I like.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's used to be that's where they're heading. And we'll have to take care of something to do with Los Angeles, a place called Los Angeles almost burned to the ground. By the way, I broke into Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I had a break in. I -- I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They have so much water, they don't know what to do. They were sending it out to the Pacific for environmental reasons, OK, can you believe it? And in the meantime, they lost 25,000 houses. They lost -- and nobody's ever seen anything like it. But we have the water. I'd love to show you a picture. You've seen the picture.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The water is flowing through the half pipes, you know we have the big half pipes that go down. You used to -- 25 years ago, they used to have plenty of water, but they turned it off for, again, for environmental reasons. Well, I turned it on for environmental reasons and also fire reasons, but -- and I've been asking them to do that during my first term.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I said do it. I didn't think anything like -- could happen like this, but they didn't have enough water. Now the farmers are going to have water for their land and the water is in there. But I actually had to break in. We broke in to do it because we had people that were afraid to give water. They were -- in particular, they were trying to protect a certain little fish.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said how do you protect the fish if you don't have water? They didn't have any water. So they're protecting a fish and that didn't work out too well, by the way. So they have a lot of water going down throughout California, all coming out from the Pacific Northwest, even some from Canada. Thank you, Canada, very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I appreciate it. Next thing, you know they'll want to turn the water off. They want to charge us for the water, but it comes up from the Pacific Northwest and it's -- it's a beautiful thing to see. I mean, it is brimming with water. Now, if they would have had that done, you wouldn't have had the damage because the fire would have been put out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The fire hydrants would have been loaded. The sprinklers in people's living rooms and bedrooms would have been loaded up with -- they had no water. The government makes them put sprinklers and they had no water in the sprinklers because they had no water. So the water is flowing and we're going to have to give a lot of money to Los Angeles to help them and the Democrats are going to want to do that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So that's the one thing different. And frankly, I think that makes it a lot easier. But one of the -- the big thing is we have the big beautiful bill, we got to get that done and that will put our -- our country in a position like it's never been. It's a reduction of taxes. It's tremendous incentives for companies to come from all over the world into our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's great environmentally, but it's not this environmental scam that we went through -- that we all went through. It provides for everything, it's a big beautiful bill and I hope we can get it approved and that will be next. But in the meantime, we have the continuing resolution and the Republicans have approved it and now the Democrats have to approve it, and I hope they will.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I think a lot of them -- I can tell you they want to. I've spoken to some of them. They really want to. Their leadership may not want them to and if it closes, it's purely on the Democrats. One more on.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
On Korea, sir, we've seen tension increasing in the peninsula. You've talked about Kim Jong Un. Do you have any plans of getting -- of reestablishing the relationship you had during the first mandate?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I would. I had a great relationship with Kim Jong Un, North Korea. If I wasn't elected -- if Hillary got in, you would have had a nuclear war with North Korea. He expected it. He expected it. And they said, oh, thousands of people. No, millions of people would have been killed. But I got in. We went to Singapore.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We met -- we went to Vietnam, we met -- we got along really good. We had a very good relationship and -- and we still do. We still do. You don't have that threat that you had. I mean, look, when I was running the first time, it looked like there was going to be a war with North Korea. You know that better than anybody, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Mark Rutte
Tensions were high.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, and -- and it started off --<end_of_turn>
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