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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good. That's right, we just got the House vote. And now we're well on our way to getting, as we call it, the big -- the great, big, beautiful bill. It's a beauty. There's never been a bill like this one. We're trying to get it all into one beautiful bill. It's tax cuts, regulation cuts and many other things, the border, a lot of money for the border.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And well, you're doing a fantastic job, so. Uh, but we just got a report that we, as you know, you knew before us. Were you surprised we got the vote? We got the vote. And we're happy to get the vote. So uh, I think we're going to be in very good shape. OK. OK, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz
Mr. President, last year, uh, the Chinese received 1,700 orders for new ships. American shipyards received five. Under your leadership, like so many other industries, we are going to revitalize and make shipbuilding and maritime great again. These blue collar jobs, these are the cranes, the ports opportunity zones and drive that investment back in. And we have.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Michael Waltz
Uh, under that executive order and also one to streamline foreign military sales, uh, for people that want to buy our equipment. And of course, acquisition reform. All just this week under your leadership, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we're going to be rebuilding our ship building business. We may order, would have to go to Congress for this, but we may buy some ships from other countries that, uh, we're close to and that do great jobs with ships. But we're going to start the process of rebuilding. We don't really essentially build ships anymore, which is ridiculous.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, it's going to be a very big business for us in the not too distant future. But in the meantime, uh, we have -- we have countries that do very well at building ships. And we'll be dealing with those countries. And we may be ordering, uh, top of the line ships from those countries. Uh, and within a fairly short period of time, we'll be building our own ships, so. We'll probably have to go to Congress for that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But uh, we'll have no -- we're not going to have a problem. Susie, thank you very much for the job you've done. Go ahead, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Susie Wiles
I just want to make sure you know that this cabinet, I think, pretty uniquely collaborates and cooperates and works together, um, to accomplish all that you've -- you've asked them to do. And I think they -- they deserve a lot of credit for that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's true. You're doing a great job. The chief, chief of staff, doing a great job. Lee, go ahead. sMr. President, the Biden EPA was strangulating the economy. The Trump EPA understands it's not a binary choice. We can protect the environment and grow the economy. Working with DOGE and -- and Elon Musk, we've now canceled $22 billion worth of grants, and we have launched what is the largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Just in one agency. That's how much of a mess the Biden EPA left us. It is going to end up reducing the cost of living. It's going to create jobs. It's going to make it easier to purchase a car. It will be easier to heat your home. We're proud of this effort. The -- the effort that we have is fulfilling the mandate that you earn from the American public.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Clean air, land and water for all Americans, unleashing energy dominance, permitting reform, advancing cooperative federalism, making America the AI capital of the world and bringing back American auto jobs. Uh, when you called me that day asking for me to take this position, I was honored. Uh, and you were very specific and clear in what you wanted us to accomplish.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, we understand our mission. And uh, at the Trump EPA, we're going to make you proud.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great job. You're doing a great job. And you have a lot of applications for approvals for power plants, which are going to really power the -- the regular plants. And they're going to be right next to each other. Because we can't rely on our grid. It's old and it's tired. And it's, you know, very, very, uh, subject to being attacked whether by rain or by bombs or by anything else.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're letting people build their own power plants. And these are -- a lot of them are being built with the AI and beyond the AI chips. And we're letting them build their own power. And that's never been done before. And we're going to get it done quickly and approved quickly. As part of a plant, they'll have a -- sort of be their own power company.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it's very exciting. They couldn't believe it when I told them that. I said we're going to get you the approvals very fast. As part of your regular plan, you're going to build electric producing plants. And it's very exciting. And they're able to do it very quickly and very well. And you made it possible.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. You have a lot of applications for some of the biggest plants that have ever been built in the world. These are serious, these are serious plants, aren't they, huh? [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Approved. Approved. Approved. [Laughter] [Inaudible] we're open for business, working with Secretary Burgum, Secretary Wright. Uh, we are going to make you proud.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good. Go ahead, Sean?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
First off, Mr. President, it's Brooke's birthday today, so --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yay! [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
Um, she keeps getting younger, so happy birthday to Brooke.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Thank you. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
Um, I want to thank you as well for the -- the shipbuilding at EO. Again, to build ships, you also need mariners to sail those ships. I was just up at Kings Point, uh, for the Merchant Marine Academy, uh, a couple -- a couple days ago. And we have some of the greatest young men and women who are learning how to uh be mechanical engineers to -- to -- to rebuild and fix the engines on those ships, but also how to sail ships.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Um-hum.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
I would tell you that over the past decades this academy has become -- it needs some love. It's been a little bit dilapidated. We have to invest in sailors. And I appreciate you taking the initiative. To be a global power, we have to build ships and have sailors to sail those ships. These are the very people that helped Pete, should be coming to Points of Crisis to support the military.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
So thank you for that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
Uh, number two, uh, the last administration announced 3,200 projects. Big, beautiful roads and bridges, most of them are good. Um, but they announced that they didn't sign a grant agreement. 3,200. So the money doesn't go out the door to -- to build the infrastructure in the country. And it's fun to do an announcement.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
It's actually the harder work to -- to put together these grant agreements. So we're doing the work right now at DOT to get these grant agreements done and build the projects. Most of them are good. And they also put in all of this green and social justice requirements on roads and bridges. We're pulling --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Take it out.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Sean Duffy
We're pulling all that out and putting the money toward the infrastructure, not the -- the social movement from the last administration.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good steel, right, as opposed to green paper mache. [Laughter] OK. Thanks. Great job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Sir, first, we are, I would say, more than friends, we've all become family. And I think that what you have assembled in your vision is a turning point and an inflection point in American history. And so just being a part of that is the greatest honor. So thank you for that. And -- and again just the -- the relationships here and the honor and respect we have for each other is a reflection of you and your leadership.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
So I just want to say that first. The second thing I want to say is that on behalf of the farmers and ranchers, food security is national security. We have to be able to feed ourselves. And your idea of using tariffs along with deregulation and tax cuts.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
But your idea of using tariffs to ensure that we are putting forward and putting America first. No one understands that better than our farmers and ranchers. But having said that, emerging from four years of Biden with a 30 percent increase in inputs for our farmers and ranchers with an almost $50 billion trade deficit.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
When we left the first time, it was zero, meaning that they are hurting. So, the period of uncertainty we're in, they know that your vision will move us into an age of prosperity for all Americans, but for my people, for the farmers and ranchers unlike any they have seen before. And I think they are really, really excited and so grateful for your leadership.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
But also, you have never failed to say that you have the backs of our farmers and ranchers. It was the first phone call that I had after I was -- after I was voted with the Senate. And that message just resonates with an almost 85 percent support of you in the last election. They're with you. Interestingly, the biggest budget driver at the United States Department of Agriculture is not farming and ranching or agriculture, it's food stamps.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
And so, as we emerge and embark, Secretary Kennedy and I, on your vision of making America healthy again, a massive part of that is realigning and reworking our food stamp program so that it better serves those who need it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, you'll do that.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Yeah, to the point of getting the transgender, DEI, Green New Deal out of the USDA and realigning is really important. So, thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's out of the military, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth
Yes, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Is it 100 percent out would you say?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pete Hegseth
99.9, sir? I'm going to get that last 0.1 [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Get the rest of it out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
But thank you, sir.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've got a much different military; I will tell you. Thanks very much. Good job. And eggs are down big, right? Big.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Eggs are down, yes, sir. Wholesale prices, retail will come. Easter is the Super Bowl for eggs. So, there may be a little fluctuation, but no, we feel really good about it. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's what I hear. Thank you. Scott?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Good, I would echo what Howard said on the trades deal, that we've got over 75 countries that want to come in. So, it'll be Treasury, Commerce, Jamison at USTR. And we're putting a process in place. And as you said, you're going to be part of the negotiations too, because I've had these countries call me up -- Secretary Bessent, we're happy you're going to be negotiating.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Well, President Trump's going to be involved too, [Laughter], so bring your best deal. On the budget, it's moving quickly in the House and the Senate, thanks to your leadership. We're also going to have a debt ceiling in there. So, we're going to get an increase in the debt ceiling, so -- and that will be the done and dusted for --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Part of the bill that we just got to vote on today.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
So, part of the bill, it will be done and dusted for two years, we won't have to worry about that. And then the -- I gave a speech yesterday to 1,400 Small and community bankers and they were so happy to hear from your administration. And I told them Wall Street's done great for the past four years, 10 years, 20 years, it can continue doing great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
But it's Main Street's turn now and it's those small bankers, through deregulation, through emphasis on Main Street, your Main Street agenda bringing back jobs that is going to power the smaller communities. And then finally, the bond auction went very well yesterday. We had a lot of foreigners show up as the support showing that the US is still the best place to invest.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
The inflation report, as you said, was quite good and energy prices are down more than 20 percent since January 20th.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Brooke Rollins
Amazing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great, very good. Good numbers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Great numbers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Pam?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
President, we've had some great wins in the last few days that -- you know, you were overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority. The US -- Americans want you to be president because of your agenda. And the courts are ruling that you have the authority to determine how the money of this country will be spent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
That's what the American citizens wanted and that's what they're getting. An example of that Friday was the Department of Education, that you can determine how the money will be spent, no more DEI. And that impacts every agency across the board. On the civil side again, NLRB, we had a big win in the Supreme Court there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
OPM, a big win there. But also 16,000 workers there, but also on the criminal side, the Alien Enemies Act, we are winning there. And your directive to me was to keep America safe and that's what we're doing, whether it's the alien enemies, all of these gangs -- and they are enemies of our country. They are terrorists, they are organized crime, they have come here, they are extremely organized.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
They are spread throughout our country, and they are creating terror. And no more under your directive and that has stopped. Yesterday in South Florida, we charged 11 defendants with $0.5 billion of pure cocaine coming into our country to kill our kids. They were caught; they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
These gang members are going back to where they came or they're going to an El Salvador prison at your directive. And you also gave us a directive to prosecute the people who are going after Tesla to the fullest extent of the law, some of the greatest police work I've seen. We've made four arrests. There will be no negotiations at your directive.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
They're all looking at 20 years in prison. And within the next 24 hours, you're going to be seeing another huge arrest on a Tesla dealership, president. And that person will be looking at at least 20 years in prison with no negotiations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's great. That's great. That will stop it cold.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Domestic terrorism?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thanks -- doing a great job, too. Thank you very much. Lori, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
Mr. President, accountability matters, that's what we're recognizing. With our partners at the Department of Labor, for government efficiency, just a few weeks ago, we realized there's about $4.4 billion in COVID funds that were not used that the state coffers were just holding on to. Out of that, we've returned $1.4 billion back to the state treasury.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
So, essentially to the American people. And we'll go back and claw the rest of those billions of dollars back. And on the heels of that, last night, late last night, we're understanding unemployment insurance fraud. That trust needs to be whole for the American people. When we need it, we need it for who deserves it. That's not what we're seeing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
And the numbers we saw last night, again exposed by our partners and at DOGE at the Department of Labor. Since 2020, over $400 million of payments have gone out already. And when you hear these numbers, apparently in the United States, we have over -- almost 25,000 people who are over 115 years old, who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out to people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
Talk about fraudulent behavior. Mr. President, 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old have collected fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million has gone out. And lastly, 10,000 people who have not been born yet, 15 years into the future.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
That's my favorite [Laughter].<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
$69 million and they haven't even been born yet. In one case, they will be born 129 years from now. The United States government sent them $41,000 and they're not born yet. So, under the Department of Labor, those are the things that we're uncovering. I couldn't be more honored to tell the American people that we're bringing back their dollars and we're saving them and returning them to the United States Treasury.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
Also, jobs numbers -- last Friday, 228,000 new jobs were reported. That is good for the American people. That is my primary job is to grow that workforce under your leadership. So, we've kicked off the America at Work Tour and we'll be visiting all 50 states. And I'll be working with my colleagues here to do just that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
So, thank you, Mr. President. We're going to grow this economy. We're going to keep our focus on the American worker.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, you're finding tremendous fraud, and those numbers are really bad when you --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
Unheard of.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Over 115 years old. And I think you had mentioned the oldest person in our country is 114 years old. That's pretty good.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
A woman living in Pennsylvania, but apparently there's 24,000 more of them that are 115 or older that's we're paying benefits to.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I hope you hear that. So, we have 24,000 older than the oldest person.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Definitely dead constituents [Laughter].<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And what are we doing about that? How do we get that money back?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
So, we're working with our IGs to do that further investigation. The House and Senate, we had a five-year statute of limitations. We've got an extension on that, another five years. And so, the goal, in my opinion, we should never have a statute of limitations to return the American dollars back to the Treasury when there's fraud.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-Deremer
But at this point, we will continue to work hard and double down and return those dollars to the Treasury.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great. Thank you. Great job. Kristi?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Well, Mr. President, thank you for your leadership at the border. For the second month in a row, you have broken the record in the history of the nation for the lowest number of encounters at the border, which is absolutely remarkable. You have said that America's laws matter and that they'll be enforced.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
And we're hard at work now to get people to go back home that are here illegally. So, the Alien Registration Act has been in place long enough now that those individuals that are here illegally, if they haven't registered, then they can be charged criminally and they can face fines up to $1,000 a day, and face deportation if they don't go home.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
And they'll never ever get the chance to come back to America. So we're encouraging people to use the CBP home app to register. And we're working on the resources and funding to buy him a plane ticket to send them home. I went to El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico. And those countries and others are thinking about setting up programs to support these individuals when they get back to their country.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
So when they get there, they'll have housing and food assistance. And so making sure that these folks have the opportunity to go home so that they can get the chance to come back to America is important. And --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure, it's a very big self-deport operation that we're starting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
It is. Thousands of people have already self-deported.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
We're just going to -- I mean, when you had 20, 21 million people that need to go home because they're here breaking our laws, then we need to facilitate that. And I've been working with the governors a lot lately on several different issues. One of them has been on FEMA for recommendations on how to do exactly what you've directed us to do. And then also, I sent a letter and communicated with them that they need to be setting up a skiff.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Some of our governors don't have secure facilities to have national security issues. I think one of the jobs Homeland Security has is -- is to give communication down to states to local cities and communities. And so recommending they get a skiff, they have secure comms with them at all times or nearby, so that they can have national security conversations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
And then to have somebody in their office designated, that is their communications person. A lot of them have emergency management officers, but they don't necessarily have somebody designated when it comes to a national security issue that we may need to communicate with them on. And I think American people need to know that real ID will be required to travel on May 7th, so, um, those governors have been notified to communicate that at home.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
We don't want anybody to get delayed and not be able to travel when they get to an airport. And this will also help us bring integrity back to all of our IDs and how they're used, how they're used for issuing driver's licenses. And governors know how I feel about making sure their driver's licensing system has integrity.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Because a lot of people use their driver's license to vote. And the backbone of our country and the foundation is election integrity, so.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Um, we're giving all those directions, uh, to our governors and communicating that so they can lead on it as well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we're going to work with people so that if they go out in a nice way and go back to their country, we're going to work with them right from the beginning on trying to get them back in legally. Is that right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
That's right. They'll have a chance to come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So it gives you a real incentive. Otherwise, they'd never come back. They'll never be allowed once a certain period of time goes by, which is probably going to be 60 days. We're also going to work with farmers that if they have strong recommendations for their farms for certain people, we're going to let them stay in for a while and work with the farmers and then come back and go through a process of -- legal process.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Yes.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we have to take care of our farmers. And hotels. And you know, various, various places where they're used, where they need the people. And we're going to be working with you very carefully on that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So a farmer will come in with a letter concerning certain people saying they're great. They're working hard. We're going to slow it down a little bit for them. And then we're going to ultimately bring them back. They'll go out, they're going to come back as legal workers.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
Yes.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Okay?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yes, sir. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Which I think it will be a -- I think it's very important to do.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Absolutely.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Okay. Thank you very much. Great job. Jamieson, I watched you testify for the last couple of days.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yeah, he did great.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're on every night at 3:00 in the morning. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
You did great.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you did great. You were fantastic. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
It's just what I like to do for fun, sir. [Laughter] You've been keeping us very busy. Last week, you started a reordering of international trade, something that hasn't happened for 80 years, something that should have happened decades ago. And you know that. You've known that for a long time, that's why you have us all working on this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
You came into an emergency situation where President Biden left us with a $1.2 trillion trade deficit. That's the largest of any country in human history, the largest. So you declared an emergency. You took action.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you said the largest in history, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
In history, on the planet.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's never -- there's never been anything like what he left us. He left us a mess. His whole administration was a mess. So go ahead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
So -- so you declared an emergency. You imposed a trade action. So now you have a tariff on the world. It promotes US manufacturing. It protects US workers. And you've also given room for negotiation during this time so we can open export markets for our farmers and other producers and American workers. And this is why the unions vote for you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
This is why the workers vote for you. This is why the families want you to be the president. Because you're standing up for American workers and American communities. We've had countries come, in over the past couple of weeks, that represent more than half of global domestic -- GDP, more than half. That's who's coming in to talk to you and to your -- your advisers about how to -- how to have reciprocal trade, how to have fair trade.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Jamieson Greer
It wouldn't have happened without you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Great job. Hello, Elon. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
Hello. Uh, well thanks to your fantastic leadership, this amazing cabinet and the very talented DOGE team, I'm excited to announce that, uh, we anticipate savings in FY '26 from reduction of waste and fraud by $150 billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a lot.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
And uh, I mean, and some of it is just absurd. Like, people getting unemployment insurance who haven't been born yet. I mean, I think anyone can appreciate whether -- I mean come on. That's just crazy. [Laughter] Um, so uh, you know, some of these things, people ask me like, well, how are you going to find waste and fraud in the -- in the government?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
I'm like, well, actually just go in any direction, that's how you find it. Um, it's just -- it's very common. [Laughter] It's, as the military would say, a target rich environment. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
So um, so I think we're doing a lot of good uh, an excellent collaboration with cabinet to achieve these savings. And it will actually result in better services for the American people. Um, and that we're going to be spending their tax dollars in a way that is sensible and fair and good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And your people are fantastic. In fact, hopefully they'll stay around for the long haul. We'd like to keep as many as we can. They're great. Smart, sharp, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yes.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Finding things that nobody would have thought of. Very computer savvy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yes. 100 percent.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
And we're working hard to get that the Trump gold card operational hopefully in the next week or so.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That'll be good.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Incredible.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That'll be very exciting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
It's really exciting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's a pathway to citizenship into the United States. It's --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
It's a big deal.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, it's a big deal. Thank you very much. Great job you're doing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Thank you, sir. Thanks to your leadership and setting the mandate of transparency and accountability across the US government. Um, I'm bringing that transparency and accountability to the intelligence community. First and foremost, to make sure that you and your cabinet have that real time relevant apolitical objective intelligence to best inform.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Whether it's negotiations for peace, negotiations around tariffs, the great work that you are leading around the cabinet today. Secondly, working with Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to increase our information sharing to achieve your goal of countering the narcotic trafficking and the our ability to go after cartels now designated as foreign terrorists.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
I met with the National Sheriffs Association this week. Being able to work to make sure that the information that they are getting on the ground that local law enforcement is getting on the ground is being fed back up through to our National Counterterrorism Center. And that we have all of the federal agencies, state and local law enforcement all on the same page as we are working to make our country safe again.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
And lastly, sir, as you know, declassification and rooting out weaponization politicization of the intelligence community is a huge priority. You know more than anyone else, the very dangerous and negative consequences of that. I've got a long list of things that we're investigating. We have the best of the best going after this.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Election integrity being one of them. Uh, we have, uh, evidence of -- of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, uh, and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Uh and lastly, we've been scanning. I've had over 100 people working around the clock to scan the uh paper around RFK, uh, Senator Robert F Kennedy's assassination, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
We'll have those ready to release here within the next few days.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's great. Bobby, how do you feel about that? That's -- that's --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I'm very gratifying to you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's hitting close to home, isn't it?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yeah, no kidding.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
When you think -- I'm thinking about Bobby when he -- when that statement is made.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yeah, no.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
I'm very grateful to you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good. And you'll let Bobby see some of this? Because you know, it's very personal stuff.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Yeah --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But it's time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
I -- I've asked him, I've asked him and his response is put it out. The world needs to know the truth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And his uncle that's been out and anything that hasn't been out will -- they can go to your offices and see, right?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
Everything that we have within our possession it's either online or it's physically at the National Archives and Records Agency. We also have hunters going out, Mr. President, and looking in the storage lockers at FBI and CIA.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Tulsi Gabbard
And other agencies specifically to find if there are -- if there is anything else that has not been reported, we're actively going out and trying to search out the truth.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Okay, yeah, we want to get it all out, 100 percent. Good. Thank you very much. Good job, guys.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
Mr. President, on behalf of America's manufacturers, I want to thank you for standing up to the Chinese Communist Party and fighting for our main streets, for our workers, and for those that make things in America. I'm out on a made in America manufacturing tour and, as I go across the country, people are grateful to have a president who's not just fighting on the tariff fronts, but to get inflation down, to create jobs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
After Biden destroyed 110,000 manufacturing jobs in just his last year, you've already brought back thousands and thousands of manufacturing jobs. So, the American worker is grateful. Main Street is grateful for you and, at the agency level, we're making sure that manufacturers have access to the capital they need.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
But we can't do that if we're not fighting fraud. So, we've modified our loan applications to have citizenship verification, to make sure we have birth dates, commonsense principles around lending that the Biden administration had waived. They waived $450 million of fees in one year. We're restoring that for the American taxpayer.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
And the American taxpayer, as Tax Day approaches, April 15th, they need to know that this cabinet, this administration -- and thank you, Elon Musk and DOGE for fighting for the American taxpayer to make sure that their hard-earned dollars are well spent, that they have a return on investment for this country and that we're fighting for them just as you are every single day.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kelly Loeffler
So, thank you, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Mr. President, we're doing -- we are working at HHS to advance your agenda to make America healthy again. I'm working with Lee Zeldin on to reassess the fluoride rules based upon the August release by the National Toxicity Program of New Science that shows a direct inverse correlation between exposure to fluoride and IQ loss, particularly in children.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
Lee and I were in Utah this week, Utah -- to announce that Utah became the first state in the country to ban supplemental fluoride. I'm working with Brooke and governors now in 24 states who are advancing MAHA legislation to get soda pops off of the food stamp program. Off the SNAP program, we've launched Operation Stork Speed to get the bad chemicals out of baby formula.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We're working with governors across the country to get good food into the school lunch programs and to get rid of food -- chemical dyes and other bad chemicals that are in our food. We've shown now that this directly affects academic performance, violence in the schools and mental health as well as physical health.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We are working with governors across the country to get cell-to-cell or bell-to-bell legislation to restrict the use of cell phones in schools, which again dramatically impacts academic performance. Today we announced a dramatic reduction in animal testing at NIH and FDA. We're going to switch over to AI, which we've now found is much more precise in identifying the impacts of toxics in various products.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We're working with Elon who has done an incredible job to eliminate the redundancies and to streamline operations at all the health agencies and to recalibrate our trajectory to your agenda of making America healthy again. And finally, on the -- CDC has done an amazing job at getting the measles outbreak under control.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We have about 680 cases now in 22 states compared to the same outbreak in Europe, which is 127,000 cases and 37 deaths. Our numbers in this country have now plateaued and I want to thank CDC for that. And we're trying to refocus the press. We've had three measles deaths in this country over 20 years. And we're trying to refocus the press to get them to pay attention to the chronic disease epidemic, as you've asked us to. We have now 38 percent of American youth are pre-diabetic.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
This was unknown 30 years ago. Every child that becomes diabetic, there should be a headline about them. We have 100 million adults who are pre-diabetic or diabetic and we have -- as you -- we have now, the autism rates have gone from now most recent numbers we think are going to be about 1 in 31 from 1 in 20. So, they're going up again -- from 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
And we are going -- at your direction, we are going to know by September, we've launched a massive testing and research effort that's going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- are so big. Think of that, so it was 1 in 10,000 children had autism and now it's 1 in 31 -- not 31,000 -- 31. That's a horrible statistic, isn't it? And there's got to be something artificial out there that's doing this. So, you think you're going to have a pretty good idea, huh?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Robert Kennedy Jr.
We will know by September.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There will be no bigger news conference than that. So, that's it. If you can come up with that answer where you stop taking something, you stop eating something or maybe it's a shot, but something's causing it. It can't be from 10,000 to -- can you imagine that, Marco? That's a big -- that's a big number.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you very much. You're doing great. Thank you, Bobby. Please, Doug?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
Well, Mr. President, one of your primary administration goals is to make sure that we unleash American energy. And of course, the strategy behind that is when we do that, it helps make it more affordable for all Americans. Energy isn't just an industry. It is the foundation of every other industry, whether it's food manufacturing, clothing, transportation.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
And then also when we've got the ability to generate and not just be energy independent, but energy dominant, then we have the opportunity to sell energy to our friends and allies versus them buy it from our adversaries. And our adversaries were funding terrorism and conflicts against our allies by their oil and gas sales that were going through a Swiss cheese set of sanctions.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
So, with your creation of the National Energy Dominance Council, over half the people at this table serve on that. Everyone has been engaged, whether it's interactions with negotiations with other countries, with putting sanctions in place that actually work, with cutting deregulation, working on biofuels, building infrastructure for transportation.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
There's a whole range of things that that are being tackled, but the outcome of all that is that your -- the Biden administration was restricting supply, you're increasing supply. When you increase supply, then prices start to come down. And we have a huge opportunity to do this just in interior alone. There's 500 million acres of surface, 700 million acres of subsurface and 2.5 billion acres of offshore, and the Biden administration was trying to restrict this so that you couldn't get a timber lease, you couldn't cut a tree, you couldn't graze a cow.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
You couldn't develop oil and gas minerals, and you couldn't develop the critical minerals we need for our technology, for our defense industries and to be able to help us win the AI arms race against China. So, we're opening up this and with your executive orders and your work, we've -- on Tuesday, an historic day, you ended the war on beautiful clean coal, which has been going on since Obama took office.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
China gets 60 percent of their electricity from coal. They're opening up a -- they've opened up 94 gigawatts of coal in the last year as part of this AI arms race. 94 gigawatts, that's enough for 94 Denver's to be able to -- 1 gigawatt per metro area like that, it's unheard of. So, we have an opportunity under your leadership to come back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
The Gulf of America had its first offshore lease sale, which is scheduled for later this year, but that was -- the industry loved that because we're now -- the Gulf of America is now open for business again. And there's as much as 7 billion barrels of oil accessible now, they've increased the upside of what they think that is. On the coal front, the estimate is the financial value of the coal in America is $8 trillion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
That was an asset on the balance sheet that we've -- is now being put back on again. And of course, in Alaska, with your separate executive orders to unleash Alaska Energy, between ANWR, the North Slope, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, all of those, we've reversed Biden's decision. Those are all open for business again.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
And all of this is leading to the investment coming to America.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Doug Burgum
The smart money is coming to the US, that's why we've got, you know trillions of dollars of investment that is showing up at the door because they know if they're going to do manufacturing here, there's going to be energy to power their plants. And so, again, thank you for your leadership and thank you for everything you're doing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Very good. Thank you. Marco?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Well, Mr. President, one of the most important things I believe you'll achieve in your presidency is, is is reordering the world in a proper way. For 31 years, more than 31 years now, multiple administrations have allowed the Chinese to de-industrialize this country to take away jobs and factories and the pillars of our national strength.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And what you're doing now, I think is a great service to our country, but ultimately, to the world. And I want to congratulate you and your team that's working on that. Because it has extraordinary geopolitical implications as you see from all these other countries that are now coming here and wanting to join something that actually makes -- it's just crazy to allow these.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
I mean basically we lived in a world where country -- company -- Chinese companies can do whatever they want in America, but our companies cannot do anything over there unless they allow it. And even then, they steal our stuff and reverse engineer it. So just reordering all of that has dramatic implications on the -- on peace and security of the world.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
So we thank you. An important meeting, thanks to you, is going to happen on Saturday. For the first time in a long time, there'll be direct talks between Ambassador Witkoff and a top level leader in Iran. We hope that will lead to peace. You've been very clear what Iran is never going to have as a nuclear weapon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And I think that's what led to this meeting. And we'll wait for him to come back from it. And we're hopeful about that. I would also say that we are receiving, and I think the Department of Homeland Security can confirm this, historic cooperation from countries all over the world, number one, in taking back their citizens.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Every country in the world has to take back people that are illegally in another country. And we have countries that refuse to do it or were kind of ignore our calls. All of them are doing it. The ones that are not are paying a price. And we've also found cooperation in other countries that are willing to take some of these people, some very dangerous criminals.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
I know the president of El Salvador will be here next week. He has really been a good friend to the United States in that regard. These are some of the worst people you'll ever encounter. And -- and Pam knows this, and Kristi knows this from the work they're doing. Um, you know, and -- and one last point I want to make, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And again, it's under your leadership, it's actually under your executive order. If you come to this country as a student, we expect you to go to class and study and get a degree. If you come here to like vandalize a library, take over a campus and do all kinds of crazy things, you know, we're going to get rid of these people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And we're going to continue to do it. So when we identify lunatics like these, we take away their student visa. No one's entitled to a student visa. The press covers student visas like there's some sort of birthright. No, a student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I'm going to kick you out of my house. [Laughter] And -- and so, you know, that's what we're doing with our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
Thanks to the president. And last but not least, a very important development this week. Both Pam and I are very excited. The finest higher education institution in the United States, University of Florida, is also now the national champions in basketball. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Easy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
And we hope you'll host them here soon, Mr. President. Go Gators.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're coming. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Good for the SEC.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're coming. [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Congratulations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much. You're really doing a great job. We appreciate it. Any questions?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, can you give us a reaction to today's stock market drop? And also give us a sense of the next steps with China?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I haven't seen it because I've been here for 2.5 hours, so I'll be -- I'll be seeing it. [Laughter] I think Scott went out. Scott, do you want to have a statement on that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
Sure, look, the up, two down, is not a bad ratio, or up ten, down five. And I think as we have talked about, as we go through the queue and settle with these countries who are going to bring us their best offers, you know, we will end up in a place of great certainty over the next 90 days on -- on tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Scott Bessent
We had very good inflation numbers today. Oil's down. We had a successful bond market, so I don't see anything unusual today.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And next steps for China, sir?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we'll see what happens with China. We would love to be able to work a deal. They've really taken advantage of our country for a long period of time. They've ripped us off beyond anybody. Nobody -- how people stood for it, sitting in my position is not even believable. And we're talking about many presidents, not just a couple, but they did.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And all we're doing is putting it back in shape. We're resetting the table. And I'm sure that we'll be able to get along very well. I have great respect for President Xi. He's been -- in a true sense, he's been a friend of mine for a long period of time. And I think that we'll end up working out something that's very good for both countries.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I look forward to it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, China retaliated today by reducing the number of American films that can be shown there. What's your reaction to them now targeting cultural exports from the United States?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think I've heard of worse things. [Laughter] Yes, please.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Also on China, the Ukrainians say they have evidence that Chinese soldiers being found fighting for the Russians in Ukraine. Can the US verify this? And if so, what does the US plan on doing to China to counteract that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We'll look into it. But I think beyond that, we're really looking to get that war stopped. We're losing 2,500 and even more than that, young people a week. They're Russian and they're Ukrainian. They're not American, but they're -- they're people. And we're seeing if we can get it stopped. And I think we're making progress.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I appreciate the ballerina who was released. It was at the request of a very good friend of all of ours, actually. Dana White called me, and he said it's, uh, it's the friend or the relationship of one of the fighters for UFC or one of the fighters. And Dana is an incredible guy. And we spoke to President Putin about it, and they made a deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They released the young ballerina. And she is now out. And that was good. So we appreciate that. We hope that we're going to be able to make a deal relatively soon with Russia and Ukraine to stop the fighting. It's so senseless. It's such a horrible thing that would have never happened if I were president.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But it did happen. And we were given that card. And I think we're going to get it -- I think we're going to get it stopped. We've got to get going. We got to get it. We have to move it faster. Likewise, with the hostages, we're making progress. We uh, you know, there's 59 hostages, but only 24 of them are living.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And that's the way it's been presented to me by the mothers of some of the dead, mothers and fathers of some of the dead hostages. And they want the bodies of their -- of their baby, as they say, their baby, their young boys, they want -- they want them back as much as if they were alive. It's amazing. Because when I met the hostages two weeks ago here, I couldn't believe what they had to go through, by the way.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But when I met them, they said, yeah, there's 59, but 24 are living. And they actually consider -- I guess if you're a parent, you do consider it this way, that the -- the remainder who are dead, the 24 that are alive, the remainder that are dead, they want them back just as much as they would want them back if they were alive.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's really pretty amazing and pretty sad. So we're -- we're getting close to, uh, getting them back. We have -- a lot came back. A lot of people are very grateful. And some came back in pretty bad shape. Some came back, they're OK. I think they're going to be scarred mentally for a long time. Because if you sit down and talk to them as I have, what they went through is incredible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we're making progress. We're dealing with Israel. We're dealing with Hamas. And it's uh, it's a nasty group.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President? Yeah, um, so, uh, how close are you to the first country coming to actually make a deal with the United States over tariffs? Is it days, months?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think it's very close, but you know, we have to have a deal that we like. We don't want a deal that's going to be a bad deal, or I could -- I could make every deal in one day if I wanted to. I could do this in all in one day. I could just say here's what we'll do. And uh, I was saying to the people, before to Scott, mostly to Scott and Howard, and some of the other people that work with us on the negotiations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, we have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money in the form of legal fees. We're going to probably use those firms, too, uh, if we can. I think we can. I'll make a contribution to the country. But they're great firms. They're the best firms, the biggest and really the most prestigious.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And we may be using them to help you guys out because you're going to need a lot of lawyers. [Laughter] And I'm not sure Pam's going to be happy if I say can you send over about 200 lawyers and work on trade. Because she's working on criminal stuff. And I think that's going to be her focus more than anything else.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So we'll find out if we can do that. But we have a lot of lawyers that you've been reading about where they paid $100 million a firm on average. Now we have the final four or five are at $125 million now. So I have a lot of legal fees I could give to you people, but -- [Laughter] And we might as well use them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hopefully, I won't need that many legal fees or that much. I may. Who knows? After -- after it ends, after -- after we leave, maybe I'll need it. But if I do, it's not going to be very pleasant.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Unidentified
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So I think we're going to try to use these -- these very prestigious firms to help us out with the trade. Because you know, we have a lot of countries. But we want to make deals that are proper for the United States, not just -- we can make deals easily. But we want to make them proper.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, if you aren't able to reach the deals that you want to see at the end of the 90 days, will you put those higher tariffs in place or will you extend<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, that's what would happen. I mean if we can't make the deal that we want to make or we have to make or that's good for both parties, it's got to be good for both parties. And then we'd go back to where we were.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Go back to the numbers that you announced last week.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, I think.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
So, you wouldn't extend the pause?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, we'll have to see what happens at that time.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, you said yesterday you were considering some exceptions for companies. Can you talk about what you're considering? And then also on the reciprocal tariffs, said they'd be substantially lower. Is the same math formula going to be used or is that tossed out?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'm not considering now for any country or company, but it's possible that I would, but I'm not -- we don't have that situation right now. People understand where we are, what we're going to do, but it could happen. It's called flexibility. You have to have certain flexibility.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, what are you planning on using the money that you're getting from revenue through the tariffs on?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Paying down national debt, reducing taxes, creating good budgets, helping Kristi with the border and all of the other things. We built -- I built hundreds of miles of wall, as people now understand, 571 miles of border wall in the first administration, but we're going to beef it up and we're going to add more.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you know, the numbers are incredible. Really the numbers are -- what's taking place. We had great numbers, but these numbers are topping my last administration. And Kristi and Tom Homan have done an amazing job, but it's an expensive process. This weekend, where they used to have hundreds of thousands of people standing there pouring through the border in Tijuana, Mexico.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This weekend they had nobody -- you had a man sweeping this massive piece of concrete, which is the area where they sit, massive. And I've looked at that -- during the Biden administration, you couldn't see a piece of that concrete there were so many people on it. You couldn't -- if you had a helicopter shot, you couldn't see concrete.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now this weekend you had nobody there, but a man with a broom, sweeping it and cleaning it up, pretty amazing. It's really an amazing job, but it will be used for that. It'll be used for a lot of things. It'll be used by the Department of Justice for doing a great job. Pam is doing a fantastic job. So, it's going to be used for a lot of different things.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President on the 10 percent tariff, is that a basement -- is that the --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a baseline.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Can countries negotiate that to bring that down?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It depends on what they're adding. You know, some countries have -- we have massive deficits with, or they have big surpluses with us, and others it's not that way. So, it depends. That's why it's really all -- they're all different. Every country is different. Some have certain advantages that others don't have and certain things.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We have some -- China has a surplus of $1 trillion. I mean, the numbers are crazy, and others have basically no surpluses. We have some that are pretty even, but they hurt us in other ways and we just want to get that taken care of. So it's -- every one is a little bit different.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- but are you going to go with the EU as one bloc or individual nations for the [Inaudible] of the tariffs?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're looking at it as one bloc. They've been very tough, but they were very smart. They were ready to announce retaliation and then they heard about what we did with respect to China and others, but China. And they said, you know, we're going to hold back a little bit [Laughter], they decided to hold back, I thought they were very smart.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look, the EU is very smart, but they really have taken advantage of the United States. They were formed for the purpose of taking advantage of the United States. And I don't blame them, and I don't blame China. I don't blame anybody. I blame the people that were sitting at that desk in that other beautiful Oval Office for allowing it to happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Many presidents I blame, they should have never allowed it to happen. And I'm doing something that a lot of them wouldn't want to do. But I'm here, I do those things and we're going to make this country great again. We were taken advantage of by almost everybody. I sat back -- in the last administration, I would actually read -- I don't have to read them now, I know them so well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I would read some of these documents that were signed, deals, and I said who would do a deal like this? Who would do it? You've seen it, Elon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I'd look at deals where it's so one sided, even -- we have a deal with Japan and we get along great with Japan and we had the Prime Minister here, he was fantastic. As you know, Abe was great. Shinzo was great, he was a good friend of mine, unfortunately no longer with us. But we defend them, but they don't have to defend us. I said that doesn't sound too good.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we have a deal where -- a defense deal. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to defend them. But if for any reason -- in other words, we pay all the money, they don't pay anything. But if we're ever attacked, they don't have to do a thing to protect us. They said, oh, that sounds like a wonderful deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So, I just -- that's just one out of thousands. And I just wonder who did this? And it's people that either hate our country or didn't care, an expression that you use. I think it's really the -- a lot of them didn't care. They just -- it's just hard to believe how bad they are. Now, that's a little bit of a defensive deal.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I'm talking about trade deals, the same thing. They're so bad you would say how come? And even when I'd renegotiate, like I'd go to a country, they'd give me everything I asked for. I said why didn't somebody ask for it like originally. They give me everything. I think when they were negotiating, they didn't care, or they didn't ask, or they were shy, or they were very stupid, or they hate our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, go ahead, Jeff.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
You were speaking about Japan. Can you clarify what your vision is for US Steel? You referenced it yesterday. There were some questions about what you actually want --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Sure, look, US steel is going to do very well now because of tariffs. And I don't know why they even need a deal. But the only thing is US Steel, if you go back 80 or 90 years, that was a behemoth in this. That was our biggest, most -- if we were around, we would have been very proud of it. Today we have different types of companies that are big, Google -- it's not the same as US Steel.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I love Google, and I got to like the people that run it, very capable people. They didn't like me so much in the first administration, but they like me a lot now. I don't know what happened, but I like them. But I think they would be the first to admit, when I envisioned -- you look at some of those steel factories from 90 years ago when we were -- it was a different kind of a country, but they were miles long.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Today, you see just empty hulks. Those hulks are going to be filled up very soon because of what I'm doing with tariffs. It was a different kind of a thing. But if I didn't do that in the first term, my first term, if I didn't put tariffs on, we would have -- because China and others were dumping steel, billions of dollars of steel.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Our steel companies were all closing every factory. We wouldn't have one steel plant open and now we have a steel industry that's doing very well, but soon it's going to be thriving, really thriving. And those factories are going to be filled up. But more importantly, they're going to build brand new ones.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nucor. And so many other companies call me, Nucor being a big steel company. They're building massive new steel plants and it's great. And likewise, car companies, we have many, many car companies. Three of them -- I'm not looking to hurt Mexico, and I like Mexico. And by the way, I think the new president is a terrific person, a fantastic woman.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We've had many conversations. She's a very elegant -- just a fantastic person. And she's been very nice, very, very nice. But I'm not looking to hurt them. But we have three car plants that were under construction in Mexico. They stopped constructing and now they're going to build in the United States because of tariffs.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
See we should have never let this happen because whoever it was that was president at the time, we lost 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA, 90,000. It's not believable. How about that, Lori, you know you're that sort of world of factories and plants.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-DeRemer
We're going to build back manufacturing and construction jobs and bring those workers back home.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's right. We're going to bring them all back. But think of it -- from that period of time, which isn't so long ago, we lost -- I said the other day if you had a map on a big wall like this and if you had pins, 90,000, I don't know if you'd have enough -- I don't think you'd have enough room on the map to put the pins.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
90,000 factories that we've lost since NAFTA. And it's not even -- and about 6 million jobs really, I think probably a lot more than that. But they say 6 million jobs. We're going to bring many of that back. I think we're going to bring more than all of them back. We're going to bring -- we're going to be better and stronger than ever before.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But if a president, when they were leaving, said, look, you can leave. But if you're going to build a factory someplace else and you think you're going to come and sell your steel or your car or any product that you make. your pharmaceuticals, which we're going to do, we're going to get them all back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But if you think you're going to just -- all they had to do is say this and they wouldn't have left. You know, I said it the other day. I said it with respect to -- I made a speech a year ago and I told them if I win, we're going to charge a big, big tariff at the border. And people were thinking about building in Mexico a car plant.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I said we're going to have a big tariff. So if you want to build a car, you're going to have to pay 25 percent more than the cost of that car. You're going to have to pay 25 percent tariff at the border. They would have never left. They could have kept everybody. If a president said, if you leave this country, you leave Michigan, you leave Detroit, you leave any -- any of the -- any part -- any of our states.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because to me, they're all the same. I love them all. I love them all. And I probably won them all, but -- [Laughter] they say I won most of them, but I probably -- I think I won them all, but that's OK. But all you had to say if you were the president is if you leave and you think you're going to now fire all those workers, leave all that, you know, everything behind and you're going to build in another country and sell it. You know, you're not going to. You're going to pay 50 percent or 100 percent tariff.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They would have never left. And all you had to say, Marco, is -- all you had to say very simply is you don't have to write it down, all you have to do is say it verbally. If you leave, you're going to pay 100 percent tariff, therefore don't leave, they would have never left. But they left 90,000 plants. I mean, it's hard to believe that many.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's not -- you -- you can't envision it. So just getting back to your, you know, because I'm the great weaver of all time, you know. [Laughter] To weave you have to be a genius. [Laughter] To go on tangents, anybody can do that, but we'll get back to your original US steel. US steel is, uh, is a big name in this country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, it's -- Babe Ruth is a big name. We have a lot of big names, but not too many. You -- US Steel is one of the great names in the history of our country. And normally I wouldn't mind so much. I wouldn't be thrilled with it, but to buy for a foreign country and we love Japan, but for a foreign country to buy that cherished US Steel brand, it's hard for me to do. I mean, somebody else, uh, somebody else may want it, the company Nippon, that's involved with it is a big powerful company would, do a good job.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But why can't they just build a plant themselves? I mean, why do they have to, you know, take US Steel. So, as you know, I rejected the deal. Now they've come back in a different form. They're coming back as an investor. And you know, I feel better about that, I guess. But you know, I know them very well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I know -- I know their thinking. That's the investor, they'll invest and somebody else may be sitting in this chair and they will no longer have an investment. They'll have the whole thing. You know, that's the way it works here. Very smart. They're very, very smart people. We're dealing with very smart people throughout the world.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Great geniuses actually. Look what they've done to our country. And again, I don't blame China. I don't blame anybody. If I could have done it, if I were in that position, I'd have great respect. I have great respect for the people. They ripped off the United States. And all we had to do have a president that knew what the hell was going on and none of those countries would have left -- those companies, none of them would have left.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So that's a little lesson in basic business. And it's really basic business. It's not complicated business. It's very basic business. And we'd have every one of those car plants going just the way they were 30 years ago, none of them would have left. But now they're coming back.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President? Mr. President? Mr. President, have you ever -- Mr. President, the Labor Department has confirmed that $400 million went to fake people for unemployment benefits.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What are your initial reactions?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think it's terrible. I just heard it from Lori, and I appreciate it. And you heard it from Elon's people, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Lori Chavez-DeRemer
That's right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, Elon's done a fantastic job. Look, he's sitting here. And I don't care. I don't need Elon for anything other than I happen to like him, but I'm telling you this guy --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Elon Musk
[Inaudible] I like you, too, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This guy did a fantastic job. [Laughter] I don't need his car. I actually bought one because -- and they said, oh, did you get a bargain? No. I said give me the top price. I paid a lot of money for that car. [Laughter] But honestly, he makes -- he makes a great car. You know what I do with it? I let the people in the office drive around in it. [Laughter] Margot and Natalie.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're all -- Chamberlain. [Laughter] They're all driving around in the most beautiful car. They think it's gorgeous. Uh, but I did that as a sign of just a show of support. Numerous people have done that, just a show of support. Because you know, he's done a fantastic job. But uh, he hasn't been treated properly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He hasn't been treated properly. Yeah?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, can you talk to us about your communications with China? Has President Xi reached out at all since the tariffs?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I don't want to say who's reached out. I'd just say that I think -- I think it's going to work out. Hopefully, well.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're very big. It's hard to get over. If you're me, the -- what they've done to our country, they've destroyed our economic base to a large extent. The good news is we're very vibrant. And we're going to get it back fast. We already have. Look, we're making $2 billion a day now. And uh, during Biden, we were losing $3 billion a day.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Biden was a disaster. He was the worst president in the history of our country. And you know, to me, worse than that because the money you can make if you have the right guy in this position, worse than that was what we have to what they did on the border. By allowing the jails of the world, not South America, all over the world, to be opened up so that we take everybody from Africa, Asia, South America, Europe.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The bad ones. They opened up their jails and they dumped them in the United States. And now this beautiful young woman, who seems to be, boy, she loves what she does though. [Laughter] I think she loves what she does. Because she's a patriot, she hates to see it, and Tom and all the people. But for us to spend, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars to -- this is just, I don't know, either -- again, they either hated the country -- who would do this?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Who would want millions of people to pour through an open border? We have no idea who the hell they are. And just walk right through. And half of them, whether you like it or not, you could look at them and you could say they are not going to help us. These are some rough people. But they empty out their jails and they'd empty out their mental institutions, insane asylums.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they let them into the United States of America. And inflation we can fix. And all of the other things we can fix. We'll get it going. But this is something, it's -- it's such a horrible thing. And it's really hard. You know, we have to do deportations. Now, we're doing self-deportation. We're coming up with all sorts of ideas.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And they must have known it's not going to work out well. And you know, we want people to come into our country, by the way. We need them badly for the jobs, but we want them to come in legally. They have to come in legally. They have to show that they can love our country. Thank you very much, everybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, Democrats are making accusations about market manipulation yesterday?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Aide
Thank you guys.<end_of_turn>
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Guys.<end_of_turn>
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Thank you guys.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you very much.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. Nobody's ever done this, you know. We let --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- the press likes to have the cameras there.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Unidentified
We just had a three hour cabinet [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No. Where we let --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Unidentified
This could be a record breaker.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Did ya have fun?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Hi, everybody. We had a great time at the big soccer match today at the Meadowlands. It was phenomenal. There was a little bit of an upset, I guess they would say, but it was a great, great match, very well played, tremendous crowd. And that's sort of a, uh, pre-World Cup. We have World Cup coming, we have Olympics coming, and we have, uh, 250 years coming.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's, uh, gonna be a big one, maybe the biggest one of all. So that was great. Uh, we had, uh, some tremendous financial numbers released on Friday, as you've probably heard, that our country made $25 billion last month. 25 billion. It hasn't done that in a long time and a lot of that's done because of good management and, number one, and maybe even more importantly, the tariffs that are pouring in. We have tariffs pouring in at levels that we have never seen before and they've only just started.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's really a small portion. It's mostly from cars, and aluminum and steel, a little bit of lumber. Uh, but they really start, uh, in about another week, and then in about a month they'll come in at levels that are extremely strong. And our country is making a lot of money. Lot of money. Uh, we're dealing with other countries and certain countries that would rather have, uh, a deal than a regular tariff, and we're -- we're willing, if they're willing to open up. These are countries that have been shut to us, but we've been open to them.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
In other words, they wouldn't let us do business there, but they would do business in our country. It's not a fair deal. So the European Union is talking to us, they wanna open up their country. Uh, I would say Japan, to a much lesser extent in terms of opening up their country. Japan, as you know -- and, and we're very close to Japan, but they sell us millions and millions of cars a year.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We sell them no cars because they won't accept our cars and they won't accept much of our agriculture either, so. Uh, but they're all changing their ways very, very rapidly. Uh, South Korea wants to make a deal other than tariffs. Right now, as you know, they're paying a substantial tariff, but they wanna make it different.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
So some of these deals, maybe I'll change them and maybe I won't. But our country is, uh, making a lot of money, a lot of money for the first time in a w- -- long time, in decades. And that's the way it should be. We have a country that, uh, and I said it the other day to you people, we have a country that was dead.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It was dead. It was a goner one year ago, and now we have the hottest country in the world. Okay, questions?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible] about $40 billion that would go to illegal benefit. What does that mean to the bottom line that we're taking away a lot of the [Inaudible] to illegals?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Getting rid, uh, a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. Uh, one of the reasons I think you'll see the numbers very good for the country. But I think more than anything else, we have tariffs coming in, in the, uh, will be hundreds of billions of dollars.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
What's the [Inaudible] guidance on Gaza, Mr. President?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh-<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Ye-<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
-- Gaza, we are talking and hopefully we're gonna get that straightened out over the next week. Let's see what happens.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
And so Gavin Newsom [Inaudible] Gavin Newsom is fighting. Gavin Newsom's fighting to keep men and women sports, he's fighting with Bondi, McMahon. As a father, as a husband, does he hate women? Why does he want men and women sports so bad?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now, I don't know if he hates women. But n- -- look, he thinks it's good politically, I guess. He's just saying Gavin Newsom wants to keep men and women's sports. Uh, nobody understands it. Very few. I'd say, it's a 3% issue. You know, they say it's 80/20. It's not 80/20, I think it's 97/3. Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
One follow up. So, Rosie O'Donnell, she went on Chris Cuomo recently. She blames you for the fact that she's overweight, depressed, and drunk. What do you say to that? Do you think CVS is gonna ever [Inaudible] diagnosis?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know about Rosie. [Laughs] I watch Rosie. Rosie's a mess. [Laughs] She's a mess. But, uh, she left our country, which is a good thing [Laughs] not a bad thing.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President of NA- -- [Inaudible] NATO deal [Inaudible] that he's now the [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna have a meeting with the Secretary General who's coming in tomorrow. But we basically are going to send them, uh, various pieces of very sophisticated military, and they're gonna pay us 100% for them. And, uh, that's the way we want it. And we've been trying to get that and get ag- -- Bi- -- I don't think Biden ever asked for it. We're in for about $350 billion.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Europe is in for a 100 billion. That's a lot of money, 100, but they should be in actually for more than us. So as we send equipment, they're gonna reimburse us for that equipment. Doesn't that sound good?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Mr. President, y-<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's the way it should have been a long time ago.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Just a follow-up. Are you still gonna send 10 Patriot missiles to Ukraine?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, I haven't agreed on the numbers yet, but they'll gonna have some because they do need protection. But the European Union is paying for it. We're not paying anything for it, but we will send it. It'll be business for us, and we will send them Patriots, which they desperately need because Putin really surprised a lot of people.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Uh, he talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evenings. That is a little bit of a problem there, and I don't like it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
[Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Oh, I think so. I did, I spoke to him today. Dan Bongino, a very good guy, I've known him a long time. I've done his show many, many time, and he's sounded terrific, actually.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
I was gonna ask you, on this one year anniversary of Butler, what was going through your mind this morning, Mr. President?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Will you repeat that question?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
On this one year anniversary of Butler, what was going through your mind this morning when you woke up? I know that you're praising God, and you're alive, but a lot of people wanna know how you're taking this day on this one year anniversary.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
God was protecting me. Maybe because God wanted to see our country do better, or do really well, make America great again. But God was protecting me, Brian, I'll tell you, it's, uh, the more you think about it, the more you see it. But uh, no, I just, I don't like to think about it much. You know, I have a job to do, so I don't like to think about it much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's a little bit of a dangerous profession being president.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
I'd say that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But I really don't like to think about it too much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
You were able to accomplish-<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I think you're better off not thinking about it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah. And you were able to accomplish 20 promises so far.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, no, I think we've, we've more than delivered. Thank you for saying that. But, you know, we made a lot of promises and we've actually given a lot more promises than we even made.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And, uh, you add on that a tremendous success with the strike that we had getting rid of nuclear weapons in Iran. That was a big, big strike. And, you know, when the pilots came to my office, they were there like, you know, with some of the other people having to do with that strike. And they said something very interesting.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They said, "You know, we've been practicing this for 22 years, but no president had the guts to tell us to do it." But this has been on our minds for many, many years and many years and we did it. And I would say from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, that attack was a 15.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
What do you think about this new bill that's going to basically eliminate no capital gains tax on home sales to be able to free up the money, people who've owned a house.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
For a long time, can't afford to pay the capital gains.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah, well, we're looking at that and it's gonna be, it could be a very big positive for, I don't think for you because you make so much money.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It doesn't matter. But I think, I think it's gonna be a great, you know, a great incentive for a lot of people that, that really need money.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
So between that and Jerome Powell stepping down, that could really boost home sales.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, I think if Jerome Powell stepped down, it would be a great thing. I don't know that he's going to, but, uh, he should. Jerome Powell's been very bad for our country. We should have the lowest interest rate on Earth, and we don't, uh, he just refuses to do it and yet he's spending two and a half billion dollars rebuilding the Fed, the Federal Reserve building.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And I don't know what he knows about building, but uh, you talk about cost overrun. So he got this approved and he started the work during the Biden administration, and he doesn't look like the kind of a guy, frankly that wants to spend two and half billion dollars. And it's very interesting, because out of 71 economists, one person, me, and then one other person I think from Wharton got it right.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And the others were all wrong in terms of the success of our country this quickly, we have no inflation. We have cash pouring in.It was me, and somebody else. And I can tell you I don't need 5,000 people working for me behind the scenes like Jerome Powell to tell him what he should say once a month, because they got it wrong.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The Fed got it wrong. I call him too late. He's always too late. Every point costs us $360 billion. Think of that. And we should be three points. That's almost a trillion dollars, approximately a trillion dollars less we should be just with the signing of a piece of paper. So, we'll see what happens. I mean, you're telling me he's going to quit.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I hope he quits. I don't know that he's going to quit, but he should quit, because he's been very bad for the country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
On Russia, are you going to be announcing sanctions on Russia tomorrow?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're going to see what we will see tomorrow, okay? And we have the, uh, Secretary General, as you know, Europe has announced sanctions. Uh, but I am very disappointed with President Putin, and I thought he was, uh, somebody that meant what he said, and he'll talk so beautifully and then he'll bomb people at night.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We don't like that. Thank you everybody.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
We're glad you're alive, Mr. President.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well thank you very much. It's an honor to have a friend of mine -- because we, we went through this together, and got along very well for my entire period of time. So I knew him as a very young man, now he's just a young man. He's done a fantastic job. Mr. President, it's an honor to have you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You're doing incredibly for your country, and uh, we appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime and so do we and it's a very, very effective and I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say, they have one hell of a president. I know him as a very young man, Marco, even younger than you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He started pretty young.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Marco Rubio
I'll always be young.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Young at heart. But I want to thank you for the great job you're doing. I appreciate it very much.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
It's an honor. Thank you.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you. Well, it's an honor to be here in the Oval Office with the president and leader of the free world. We're very happy and we're very eager to -- and we're a small country, but if we can help, we will do it. And we actually -- that was the journalist call it, murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere -- if they saw the -- president, you have 350 million people to liberate.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That's the way it works, right? You cannot just free the criminals and think crime's going to go down magically. You have to imprison them, so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And it can be done. I mean, you're doing it already. And I'm sure that people have seen the change in the streets, a long way to go because you're just initiating your second term. But it's clear that with the numbers at the border, even in Democrat-run cities, they get help from the work you're doing. So I'm really happy to be here, honored, and eager to help.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, we had a terrible thing happen. We had an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country, from not only South America but from all over the world, many from the Congo, in Africa, Asia, all over the world, Europe, rough parts of Europe. And they came from prisons and they came from mental institutions and they came from gangs, the gangs of Venezuela and other places.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them came. 21 million people all together, but many of the people that came just a tremendous percentage of them were criminals, in some cases, violent criminals. We had 11,088 known murderers. Half of them murdered more than one person. This was allowed by a man who, what he did to our country is just unbelievable, so we're straightening it out.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
We're getting them out. But what they did and what that party did to our country open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said every prison is going to be emptied out into our country. That's what happened and we're straightening it out. And we just had numbers. We had the highest recruiting numbers in the history of our country going into police departments.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And a year ago, we had the lowest numbers. You couldn't hire a police --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Biggest change. The lowest to the highest.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Nobody's ever seen -- and the military now, Marines, the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, every slot is -- I mean, we have the best numbers we've ever had. We call it recruitment, recruitment numbers, and we've never had anything like it. We had records at every single level, but very important, the policemen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The policemen are joining forces now that we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren't protecting our police. And we cherish our police. The police are great and the firemen and everybody else. But we have the highest numbers that we've ever had, the most enthusiasm. We have great enthusiasm.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And on trade and other things, we're doing great. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars. We made -- two weeks ago, I gave him a little bit of a pause because you know you have to show a little flexibility, but we go back to what we have to do. The markets have been very strong once they got used to it, but we were losing $2 billion a day.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's no company big like this.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
No.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
This is the biggest deal ever made. Now we're making $3 billion a day. We're a great country, but we had stupid people running this country and I can say it, but what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It's a sin, what they did. And you are helping us out and we appreciate it.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Thanks. Thank you. Actually, what you're doing with the border is remarkable. It has dropped, what, 95 percent? It's incredible.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
As of this morning, 99 percent, 99.1 percent to be exact.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Why are those numbers not in the media?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, they get up with the fake news. You know, like CNN, CNN over here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like putting out good numbers. They only like putting out -- because I think they hate our country, actually. It's a shame. You're right. Isn't that a great question, why doesn't the media -- why don't they put out numbers?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Yeah, 99 percent, I mean, it's crazy, right? It's a crazy turnaround.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Kristi, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
It's just been absolutely phenomenal, what a great leader can do, clear direction. Our laws matter. We should only have people in our country that love us and the Border Patrol and our ICE officers and law enforcement officers have done fantastic work. So, we're proud of them. Now we just need to get the criminals and murderers and rapists and dangerous gang members and terrorist organizations out of our country.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
So, Mr. -- President Bukele, we thank you very much for your partnership. It has been wonderful for us to be able to have somewhere to send the worst of the worst and someone to partner with. And we'd like to continue that partnership because it's been a powerful message of consequences. Mr. President, you wanted people to know that there was consequences if you break our laws and harm our people and endanger families.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Kristi Noem
And this is a clear consequence for the worst of the worst that we have somewhere to put them.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Thank you very much. Yeah, we even had this gang member from Venezuela, one of the ones you sent, and we interviewed him just to get some information, etc., from them. And he said, oh, you know, I got arrested six times, but they released me there six times. So, I should be released again. And then I said, well, what's the last thing you do. And he said, well, I shot a cop in the leg, but I didn't kill him, I just shot him in the leg.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
And we're like this guy was arrested six times, here in the United States six times, he was released six times and in the last -- no, he was released five times. And the last time he was sent to El Salvador, right, so he's not getting released. But the last thing, he shot a cop actually and he shot him in the leg.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
So, these are --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
-- yeah, I mean, yeah, there's something broken.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
The liberal establishment. But they're not running things anymore in this country. And we're run by -- and I don't say conservative, I don't say anything. We're run by people with great common sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Yeah, common sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Because it's all common sense, it's not liberal, conservative, it's common sense. And like do you allow men to play in women's sports? Do you allow men to box your women and box -- because I know you have a lot of boxers --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
That's violence. That's abusive to women.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's abusive --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It's abusive [Inaudible]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Totally.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports. And some of those sports it wouldn't matter much, but it still matters. But some of them are very dangerous for women.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Some years ago, I would say a decade ago or so, women's rights movements were pressuring so that we enacted specific laws to avoid men abusing women. And I think those laws were great because there were a lot of men abusing women. But now some of the same people are trying to backtrack on that and actually trying to make new laws allowing men to abuse women in sports.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
So, actually that doesn't make sense.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You do it in sports.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
It doesn't make sense. It's crazy.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know they have weightlifting lifting records, right? A woman gets up, lifts weight, she's incredible, a guy gets up and beats her by 100 pounds. What are you going to do? A record that hadn't been broken in 18 years, they put on an ounce and an ounce, quarter of an ounce, eighth of an ounce for 18 years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Now they have a guy come up, pint, the whole thing is crazy, but they continue to fight. And I don't like talking about it because I want to save it for just before the next election. I said to my people don't even talk about it because they'll change, and we'll have a -- But I watched this morning, there was a congressman fighting to the death for men to play against women in sports.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you say to yourself, why? What are they doing, right? What are they doing? But your country is not too big in that.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
No, of course not. We're big in protecting women.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Good, that's right. That's a very important form of protection too.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
And as you can see, most of my cabinet are women, so --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's impressive.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Yeah, yeah. They're not the [Inaudible] I hire for anything. They're just great at what they do, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
That's right. This is very impressive. This is a first. We've had women, but we've never had three of them right here.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Four and three men.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Look who we have. You guys feel a little bit mistreated [Laughter]. That's good. I like it. I like it. Well, we've been advanced. I've been very advanced in that regard too. We have Pam, who's been so fantastic.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Yes, I know. Kristi and --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Kristi, and the most powerful woman they say.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
I know, exactly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're all afraid of Susie Wells. They say, oh, she's tough. Most powerful woman in the world, according to magazines. What do I know? But I think she probably is -- she probably is.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Congratulations.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And you know Stephen who has done such a great job. We have just -- we have great people.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
He's very famous, too [Laughter]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But we love working [Laughter] he really lets them have it, right?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
Yeah, exactly.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There's no games.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
No, no, no, it's very good.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
He knows. Do you have any questions, please? Let's not start with CNN because they're so -- they're just so wrong. Yeah, please.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Yeah, thank you. Mr. President, you repeatedly mentioned last night that Russia's attack on Ukraine was a mistake. What is the exact mistake? And have you given Putin a deadline to actually move toward a ceasefire?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Yeah. The mistake was letting the war happen. If Biden were competent. And if Zelenskyy were competent -- and I don't know that he is, we had a rough session with this guy over here. He just kept asking for more and more. That war should have never been allowed to happen. That war -- I went four years, and Putin wouldn't even bring it up. And as soon as the election was rigged, and I wasn't here, that war started.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
There was no way that war should have been allowed to happen, and Biden should have stopped. And you take a look at Putin -- I'm not saying anybody's an angel, but I will tell you, I went four years, and it wasn't even a question. He would never -- and I told him don't do it. You're not going to do it. And it was the apple of his eye but there was no way that he would have done it. All you had to do is lower oil prices.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
If you lowered oil prices -- Biden kept the prices so high because he made it impossible to get it. If you lowered oil prices, you would have never had the war, but you wouldn't have had it with me anyway. That war would have never happened. And I think it's a great abuse. So, now what do you? You get a country where 25 percent of its land is gone and the best locations where millions of people are killed.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You know, you haven't reported accurately the death, and this was Biden's war and I'm trying to stop it and I think we're going to do a good job. I hope we're going to do. They lose 2,500 young people a week on average. Now they're Russians and they're Ukrainians, but it's 2,000 -- we don't care, it's like whatever it is.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Nayib Bukele
It's intolerable.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They're not from your country, they're not from mine, but I want to stop it. 2,500, it's a killing field, it's like the Civil War. You take a look -- I look at the satellite pictures. This should not be happening in our time. Of course, our time can be pretty violent, as we know, but that's a war that should have never been allowed to start.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
And Biden could have stopped it, and Zelenskyy could have stopped it, and Putin should have never started it. Everybody's to blame.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Have you spoken to President Zelenskyy, sir, about his offer to purchase more Patriot missile batteries?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I don't know. He's always looking to purchase missiles. He's against -- listen, when you start a war, you've got to know that you can win the war, right? You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles. If we didn't give them what we gave -- remember, I gave them javelins, that's how they won their first big battle, with the tanks that got stuck in the mud and they took them out with javelins.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
They have an expression that Obama at the time -- Obama gave them sheets and Trump gave them javelins. But just something that should have never happened. It's a really shame -- the towns are destroyed; towns and cities are largely destroyed. They have the spires; you know, the beautiful spires that go up. They say that were the most beautiful in the world in Ukraine for whatever reason.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
But the most beautiful in the world, they're mostly lying on their side shattered and broken. And most importantly, you have millions of people dead. Millions of people dead because of three people, I would say three people. Let's say Putin number one, but let's say Biden who had no idea what the hell he was doing, number two; and Zelenskyy and all I can do is try and stop it. That's all I want to do. I want to stop the killing, and I think we're doing well in that regard.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
It should -- I think you'll have some very good proposals very soon.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Last question, sir. Have you attributed a motive -- sir, have you attributed a motive for the FBI investigation behind the attack on Governor Josh Shapiro over the weekend?<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
No, I haven't. But the attacker was not a fan of Trump, I understand just from what I read and from what I've been told. The attacker basically wasn't a fan of anybody. He's probably just a whack job. And certainly, a thing like that cannot be allowed to happen.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
-- good relation with President Bukele the best guarantee that this time you won't terminate the temporary --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I have a great relationship with this man. I have the best relationship with him. We've known each other -- I've known him since he was a very young man, as I said, very, very young and I was impressed. I said, look how this guy is. In fact, you sort of look like a teenager, he looked like a teenager. I said what kind of a country is this --<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
[Laughter] He grew up -- he grew up well in the last five years.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Do you support the extension for nationals of El Salvador and their --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Note
[Crosstalk]<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I support him.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Question
Do you plan to --<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
I support him. Go ahead. Let's hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CNN, low-rated.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
Thank you, President Trump. Do you plan to ask President [Inaudible] to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Which one is that?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.<end_of_turn>
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<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
Well, let me ask, Pam, would you answer that question?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
Sir, President. First and foremost, he was illegally in our country. He had been illegally in our country. And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court ruled that he was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country. Right now, it was a paperwork. It was additional paperwork that needed to be done.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Pam Bondi
That's up to El Salvador, if they want to return him. That's not up to us. The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if as El Salvador wants to return him, this is international matters, foreign affairs. If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Question
So will you return him?<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>Donald Trump
You are doing a great job. Thank you, Pam.<end_of_turn>
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