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00:00Thank you very much, everybody, and I've been briefed on the Florida State University Tallahassee active shooting. I guess it's an active shooter. Fully briefed as to where we are right now. It's a shame. It's a horrible thing. Horrible that things like this take place, and we'll have more to say about it later.
00:25In the meantime, it's an honor to have the Prime Minister of Italy with us, Prime Minister Maloney, who's doing a fantastic job. I would say that she has taken Europe by storm and highly respected. Everybody loves her and respects her, and I can't say that about many people.
00:44And she's become a friend, and we really have a great relationship between Italy and ourselves. And we talked about trade. We talked about many, many things during our luncheon, and she'll be saying a few words, but she's a very special person, and it's nice to have you with us. Thank you very much.
01:06Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you for your warm welcome. Thank you for this occasion, which is aimed to strengthen our relation, our friendship that comes from very far.
01:18You know, today is April 17th, and April 17 marks the anniversary of the agreement that allowed Cristoforo Colombo to make his trip.
01:30And I say to remember how ancient our ties, but also to remind that we both share another fight, which is the fight against the walk and ADI ideology that would like to erase our history.
01:46And as I know that we share lots of things on tackling illegal migration, on fighting against synthetic drugs.
01:57You know, Italy has been one of the nations that made a plan against fentanyl, for example.
02:03But we have been talking about many bilateral topics and things that we can do together, about defense, about economic, about economy, about space, about energy.
02:20Italy, Italy, Italy will have to increase its LNG imports, and also nuclear that we are trying to develop.
02:31I think there can be ways to work together.
02:35And the Italian enterprises will invest, as they've been doing for many years.
02:43As you know, in the next year is, I think, around $10 billion.
02:47That shows how interconnected our economies are.
02:51And that's very important, Mr. President.
02:53It's not only about Italy.
02:55It's about the entire Europe.
02:57The exchange between us is a very big one.
03:04Investments, trade.
03:07It's a topic that we are discussing in this week.
03:09But at the end of the day, look, somebody calls me, I was saying it before, such a Western nationalism, I don't know if it is the right word,
03:18but I know that when I speak about West, mainly I don't speak about geographical space.
03:24I speak about a civilization.
03:26And I want to make that civilization stronger.
03:28So I think even if we have some problems between the two shores of the Atlantic, it is the time that we try to sit down and find solutions.
03:40So I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future,
03:48and consider a possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.
03:54The goal for me is to make the West great again.
03:57And I think we can do it together.
03:59We can.
04:00And we will keep on working on that.
04:05I'm going to close.
04:06I want to say only I'm proud of sitting here as Prime Minister of Italy that today has a very good situation,
04:16despite the difficulties, a stable country, a reliable country, one million more jobs in the last two years and a half.
04:24Great.
04:24Inflation is going down.
04:26So you forgive me if I promote a bit my country, but you're a businessman and you understand me.
04:33So migration flow is going down 60 percent.
04:36So we are trying to do our best, but I think we can do it even better together.
04:41Also in Ukraine, I will close.
04:42Together we've been defending the freedom of Ukraine.
04:45Together we can build a trust and last in peace.
04:47We support your efforts, Donald.
04:50Thank you very much.
04:51And I think we're doing well in that effort, but we want to get it done and we'll see if we can.
04:56We want to save.
04:58On average, think of it, every week 2,500 people are being killed, mostly soldiers, Russian, Ukrainian soldiers.
05:04And if we can save those lives, that would be a very good thing.
05:08And so we'll see what we can do.
05:10And I think we're getting close, but we'll let you know very soon.
05:14And you've been very helpful.
05:15I appreciate it.
05:16Any questions?
05:17Mr. President, how much longer does Vladimir Putin have to respond to your ceasefire proposal before you put secondary tariffs or sanctions on Russia?
05:31We'll see what that will be.
05:33We're going to be hearing from them this week, very shortly, actually.
05:39And we'll see.
05:40But we want it to stop.
05:41We want the death and the killing to stop.
05:44Mr. President, on Jerome Powell, you said that the termination of Jerome Powell could not come fast enough.
05:50He says he won't leave, even if you ask him to.
05:53Oh, he'll leave.
05:54If I ask him to, he'll be out of there.
05:56But I don't think he's doing the job.
06:01He's too late, always too late, a little slow, and I'm not happy with him.
06:07I let him know it, and if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me.
06:14Yeah, go ahead.
06:15Go ahead, please.
06:17Question.
06:18Are you trying to rebeam him, Mr. President?
06:20Yeah, question.
06:21Mr. President, when you hit Judge Roseburg in a case against your administration, so the Constitution does not tolerate billful disobedience of judicial order.
06:31Do you agree with that statement?
06:32Well, you're going to have to speak to the lawyers.
06:34We have great lawyers.
06:35I can tell you this.
06:37We're doing a fantastic job of getting criminals out of this country who Biden allowed into the country.
06:43Hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers and drug dealers.
06:48And I was elected because of the fact, I would say maybe that was the number one fact for a lot of reasons, the economy, a lot of things.
06:55But one of the primary reasons I was elected is because I said, I'm going to get the criminals that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders.
07:05I'm going to get them out.
07:07And I got a lot of votes, record-setting numbers of votes, as you know.
07:12We won everything.
07:13The popular vote, all seven swing states.
07:15We won everything.
07:16And that's what the public wanted.
07:19That's what I'm doing.
07:20But you'll have to speak to the lawyers because it's up to them.
07:23Mr. President, what do you think of the proposal from France and the U.K. about peace mission in Ukraine with soldiers?
07:32And do you think that Italy should take part into it?
07:35Well, I think Italy will have to make that determination.
07:38But peace missions are always good with me.
07:41I'm okay with peace missions.
07:42Yeah, please.
07:43We discussed it very briefly.
07:54We're doing very well with negotiations, I think, with all countries.
07:59And Scott could tell you a little bit.
08:02But we are doing very well.
08:03We have a lot of countries that want to make a deal.
08:06Frankly, they want to make deals more than I do.
08:09Go ahead, Scott.
08:09Would you say something?
08:10Yeah, we've been across this in place.
08:12We're working on the big 15 economies.
08:16We had a fantastic meeting with Japan yesterday.
08:20I believe they've been called with the EU already.
08:23And then we have South Korea coming in next week.
08:26And I believe India is also talking.
08:30That's moving very quickly.
08:34Go ahead.
08:35Well, we have a minerals deal, which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday, Scott, next Thursday, soon.
08:54And I assume they're going to live up to the deal.
08:57So we'll see.
08:58But we have a deal on that.
09:02No, I have no comment on that.
09:03I have no idea.
09:04That's his statement, not mine.
09:06Mr. President, there were reports that you've been waived off the Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
09:12Can you comment on that?
09:13Is that accurate?
09:15And they say the attack is what?
09:17That you've waived off an Israeli plan to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
09:21I wouldn't say waived off.
09:23I'm not in a rush to do it because I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death.
09:32And I'd like to see that.
09:34That's my first option.
09:36If there's a second option, I think it would be very bad for Iran.
09:41And I think Iran is wanting to talk.
09:45I hope they're wanting to talk.
09:47It's going to be very good for them if they do.
09:49And I'd like to see Iran thrive in the future, do fantastically well.
09:55I know the Iranian people.
09:56They're incredible people.
09:58Always have been very smart, very energetic, very successful people.
10:02And I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt anybody.
10:07I really don't.
10:07But Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
10:10It's pretty simple.
10:12It's really simple.
10:13We're not looking to take their industry.
10:16We're not looking to take their land.
10:19We're not always saying this week.
10:20You can't have a nuclear weapon.
10:22The deal that was made, the deal that was made with Obama, that deal would have expired already.
10:28It was a terrible deal.
10:29It was it would have expired.
10:31And that gave them a clear path to a nuclear weapon.
10:35I wouldn't have accepted.
10:36That's why I terminated the deal.
10:38Number one, it was way too short.
10:40You know, when countries are involved, you don't make short-term deals.
10:44These are countries with long lives.
10:46And I terminated that.
10:49And it was a great termination because it didn't allow us to do anything.
10:53Once it terminated, you know what the deal was.
10:55It was a terrible deal.
10:55And really, one of many terrible deals made by the U.S.
11:00But no, I want I'd like to see Iran thrive.
11:05And they can do that, I think, very easily.
11:08Or they can do it the other way.
11:10The other way is not going to be good for them.
11:12It's going to be really bad for them.
11:13Well, Jensen's an amazing guy.
11:23He's become a friend of mine.
11:25And I don't know.
11:26He's a person that's very proud of our country.
11:29He loves our country.
11:30I'm not worried about Jensen at all.
11:35Will you take steps to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States and put him in front of a judge?
11:43Well, I'm not involved in it.
11:44I'm going to respond by saying you'll have to speak to the lawyers, the DOJ.
11:50I've heard many things about him.
11:52And we'll have to find out what the truth is.
11:57But I will say this, you know, we're we were inundated by millions of people, many millions of people during the Biden administration.
12:06They say 21 million and a big percentage of those are criminals, serious criminals.
12:13I'm not saying just criminal because they came into the border illegally.
12:16I'm saying they're criminals at the highest level.
12:20Murderers.
12:21Many of those people murdered more than one person.
12:24And they're on the loose.
12:24And I was elected to get rid of those criminals, to get them out of our country or to put them away, but to get them out of our country.
12:33And I don't see how judges can take that authority away from a president.
12:38We've done an amazing job.
12:39Tom Altman, Kristi Noem.
12:42We have done an amazing job.
12:44Nobody can believe the job we've done far greater than what I said.
12:47I mean, I got elected on that, but we've done much better.
12:50We have right now 99 percent border.
12:52It's a 99 percent.
12:54Nobody thought that would even be.
12:55But nobody's coming through our border practically.
12:59Two weeks ago, we had nine people come through all for medical reasons.
13:02We allowed them.
13:03We brought them through because one had a heart attack.
13:06One had something else.
13:08All for medical reasons.
13:10We have a great border.
13:11We had a great border four years ago, but we have a border now that's even tighter.
13:16And we did that in a matter of weeks.
13:18And, you know, we have to, we need, we need to get murderers and drug dealers and people
13:26that were in jail for horrible, you know, they released jails, Georgia, from all over
13:33the world and released them, not just South America, all over the world, the Congo and
13:37Africa.
13:38Many, many people come from the Congo.
13:40I don't know what that is, but they came from the Congo and all over the world.
13:45They came in, opened their jails, Venezuela, practically all of their prisoners released
13:50into our country.
13:51We took them because we had an incompetent administration called the Biden administration.
13:57And to think what they've done to our country.
14:01And I was elected to straighten that out.
14:04And I'm doing that.
14:06But we have activist judges that don't want murderers to be sent out of our country.
14:11They don't want killers and drug dealers and drug lords and people from mental institutions.
14:17They want them to stay in our country, I guess.
14:19I don't know, maybe that's the liberal way, or as they call it nowadays, the progressive
14:23way.
14:25But I don't think it's the way that our country believes.
14:27And that's why I won in a landslide.
14:29Okay.
14:30Mr. President, back on train, Mr. President, you did say that you were confident these deals
14:36will be done.
14:37But you also said that you're in no rush.
14:38Americans are seeing prices rise.
14:40They're seeing it on their bills.
14:41How long can they expect that pain to last?
14:45So they've already seen it get much better.
14:49Because if you were truthful, which you're not, I know you very well, you have gasoline
14:55that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.
15:00You have gasoline's way down.
15:01The price of oil has dropped substantially.
15:05The price of groceries are substantially down.
15:08The price of eggs, you know, when I came in, they hit me with eggs.
15:13I just got there.
15:15I was here for one week, and they started screaming at me, eggs have gone through the
15:18roof.
15:19I said, I just got here.
15:20I was there for seven days, and I hear that eggs have gone through the roof before I got
15:25there.
15:26And they were screaming at me, the press, the fake news, like you, you're fake.
15:30And the fake news is screaming at me, like, about eggs.
15:34I said, I've only been here.
15:35I just, this is my seventh day.
15:37And they were right.
15:38They went up 87 percent, and you couldn't get them.
15:41They said, you won't have eggs for Easter, which is coming up.
15:44Happy Easter, everybody.
15:45You won't have eggs for Easter.
15:47And we did an unbelievable job.
15:49And now eggs are all over the place, and the price went down 92 percent.
15:53And our commissioner of agriculture, Brooke, has done a fantastic job.
16:00They really have done a fantastic job.
16:02So prices haven't gone up.
16:03The only thing that's gone up, actually, is interest rates, because we have a federal reserve
16:08chairman that is playing politics.
16:12Somebody that I've never been very fond of, actually.
16:14But he's playing politics.
16:18Interest rates should be down now.
16:19They should be coming down.
16:21In Europe, as you know, they reduced them, I guess, seven times.
16:25It looks like they're going to reduce them again and again and again.
16:28But our guy wants to play cute.
16:31But interest rates are pretty much even.
16:35Maybe they went up just a slight bit, but that's the only thing.
16:37But that's because of the federal reserve, because they're not very smart people.
16:42Do you regret nominating him?
16:44Go ahead.
16:46Yes, sir, please.
16:47Go ahead, please.
16:48Do you regret nominating him?
16:50Throw him out.
16:52Look, in the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country.
16:57The stock market went up 88 points.
17:00I think he's terrible, but I can't complain, because we had the most successful administration
17:05economically in the history of our country.
17:07I think we're going to do even better this time, because you will see that the numbers
17:13that we're taking in are astronomical.
17:15We're taking in tremendous amounts of money with the tariffs.
17:19We were treated very unfairly on trade.
17:21And countries are having a hard time getting used to the fact that they can't do that to
17:26us anymore, because we have a real president.
17:29We have a president that understands what it's all about.
17:33We had presidents that, in some cases, were smart, but they didn't understand business,
17:39or they didn't like business, or, you know, it wasn't like a priority.
17:43And then you had, like, the last administration, the only thing they were good at was cheating
17:46in elections.
17:47That's about all they could do.
17:48They couldn't do anything.
17:49They were useless.
17:49They were incompetent.
17:51Worst administration in the history of our country.
17:54Worst than Jimmy Carter.
17:55Jimmy Carter died a happy man.
17:57You know why?
17:59Because he wasn't the worst president.
18:01Joe Biden was.
18:03So I think you're going to see some fantastic numbers where this all happens.
18:08It's happening now.
18:09I mean, everybody wants to make a deal.
18:11And if they don't want to make a deal, we'll make the deal for them, because that's what's
18:15going to happen.
18:15We'll just say, this is what it is.
18:18But we want to listen to everybody.
18:19And I think I can say for Scott and the other people that are working on it that we're listening
18:30and we're going to be very fair to people.
18:33But, you know, we're the one that really sets the deal, and that's what we'll be doing.
18:37Okay?
18:39Go ahead, please.
18:41Please.
18:42A question.
18:43Today, our prime minister.
18:45Oh, you have a great prime minister.
18:46You're so lucky.
18:47Yes.
18:47In italiano.
18:48Oh, yes, that's right.
18:49Okay.
18:50I'm not sure if they do agree.
18:52President Meloni, volevo sapere cosa pensavo del fatto che President Trump ha considerato
18:57responsabile Zelensky della guerra ucraina?
19:00E poi, se avete parlato delle spese militari, qual è il limite massimo a cui ha detto che
19:06può arrivare l'Italia, il percentuale delle spese militari?
19:08Non abbiamo parlato dei limiti massimi a cui può arrivare l'Italia, abbiamo parlato del fatto
19:12che l'Italia sta mantenendo i suoi impegni, perché arriverà al prossimo vertice della
19:17NATO con il 2%, che era già previsto, che è stato sottoscritto dai governi precedenti,
19:23perché siamo una nazione seria, ma non abbiamo parlato poi di quanto vada aumentata questa
19:28percentuale, anche se siamo ovviamente consapevoli che il tema della difesa sia un tema particolarmente
19:33importante di questo tempo.
19:35Per quello che riguarda la guerra in Ucraina, le sa come la penso, penso che ci sia chiaramente
19:39una... diciamo ci sia stata un'invasione e che l'invasore da quel punto di vista fosse
19:45Putin e la Russia, ma non è questo che diciamo oggi quello che rivela il fatto che insieme
19:52vogliamo lavorare, stiamo lavorando per cercare di arrivare in Ucraina a una pace che possa
19:57essere giusta e duratura. Penso che questi siano gli sforzi sui quali condividiamo il nostro
20:03lavoro, abbiamo condiviso anche oggi il nostro lavoro.
20:05Grazie a tutti.
20:35Grazie a tutti.
20:38Grazie a tutti.
20:40Presidente, Prime Minister Malone was asked whether, what she thinks about the fact that
20:44President Trump holds Zelensky responsible for the war in Ukraine and Prime Minister Malone
20:53answered, well, actually, we have, and also, you talked about the military spending,
21:05how, and the raising of the military spending, and the first thing Prime Minister Moroni
21:12said is that, no, actually, we didn't talk about the raising of military spending. Of
21:17course, Italy will keep its commitments with 2%, and then we will see, because we are absolutely
21:23aware of the fact that it is very important to... Well, I will do that. The defense is
21:28very important. I will do that. They've been asking if we decided another defense percentage
21:34about the defense spending, and I said, yes, NATO, and I said that Italy is reaching the
21:422% as it was already decided. We didn't speak about the specific other percentage, but we
21:49are aware of the fact that defense is important for the future, and we see also the war that
21:56we are trying to do at the European level.
21:59And I don't hold Zelensky responsible, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the fact that
22:08that war started. That was a war that would have never started if I were president. You'd
22:13have millions of people living right now that are dead. You'd have cities that would be open
22:17and thriving, and they'd have their beautiful terrets. Those terrets are the most beautiful
22:21in the world, but they're not with us any longer. They're smashed to smithereens, laying
22:27on the ground in a million pieces, getting hit by rockets, bombs, and bullets. And so I'm
22:34not happy with him, and I'm not happy with anybody involved. I think it's a war. I know it's
22:40a war. It didn't happen for four years. It was never close to happening. It was never even
22:44a thought. And I spoke to President Putin about it a lot. It was the apple of his eye,
22:49but there's no way he would have ever gone in if I were president. Now I'm trying to get
22:53him to stop because, as you know, Russia's a lot bigger. It's a bigger military force.
23:02And if you're smart, you don't go involved and get involved in wars that you can blame
23:09the man that was sitting in this seat, Biden. He didn't know what the hell was going on.
23:14But I can guarantee you that, and everybody agrees to it, if I were president, that war
23:18would have never taken place. I'm not blaming him. But what I am saying is that I wouldn't
23:24say he's done the greatest job. Okay? I'm not a big fan. I really am. I'm not a big fan.
23:29Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
23:38Mr. President, are you sure about the definition of parasite of urine? Would you say again that
23:52the European? Have you ever said that Europeans are parasites? Have you seen it? No. I haven't
24:01said it. I don't even know what you're talking about. Go ahead, please. Go ahead. No, no,
24:09wait, wait. Next. Next. Next. Go. Thank you. Friend, as you just said, we want to make Europe
24:17great again. And we want to do it together. Sure, Wes. Did you, I guess that's what you
24:23said, Mr. Prime Minister, how are you going to do that? And are you looking to do it to
24:29counter China? Who is really trying to gather influence against the United States with the
24:36hell of a destroyer? I hope that Europe is going to be great again. Europe has gone through
24:40a lot of problems. And a lot of it's having to do with immigration. And I'm not a big fan
24:46of Europe and what they've done with immigration at all. And I think they've got to get smart
24:51because Europe is being very badly hurt by what they've done with immigration. Now, I'll say this,
24:57that the prime minister has taken a very tough stand on immigration. And I commented to her before.
25:05I said, I wish more people would be like you having to do with that subject. But they're not.
25:11Europe is very important to me. Europe is very important to the world. I want Europe to do very
25:15well. I think they have to get a lot smarter on immigration.
25:20But we are beginning to do it. You've seen, you've all seen how the policies of the European
25:25Union in the last, let's say, two and a half years have been changing. Okay, at the beginning
25:30we were talking only about how we were redistributing illegal migrants coming to Italy. Now we are
25:37talking mainly about how to stop illegal migration, work with the countries of origin and transit,
25:43and to return people. The European Commission just did the new rules about repatriations
25:51and things like that. So things are changing. Thanks also to the example that Italy brought
25:57in lowering the rates of illegal migration. So we are working now together. So I'm optimistic
26:06on that.
26:07Good. I hope so.
26:08Go ahead, please. Go ahead.
26:09I'd like to ask, I'd like to ask, President Maloney, if you have discussed the option of starting
26:13here with the value of supply communications, and President Trump, if you want to see the Google
26:23company?
26:24The Google company?
26:25The Google company?
26:26The Google company?
26:27The Google company?
26:28The Google company?
26:29The Google company?
26:30The Google company?
26:31The Google company?
26:32Go ahead, please.
26:33Oh, well, we didn't discuss about Starlink. We've been discussing about defense space.
26:41We will work together also in the Mars missions. So there are big, big things to do together,
26:48but we didn't discuss it.
26:50Do you have any conversations with the Prime Minister that changed your mind potentially
26:55about tariffs and what you came through to move forward?
26:58The Prime Minister said to you, that changed your perspective?
26:59No.
27:00No, tariffs are making us rich. We were losing a lot of money under Biden. Trillions of dollars.
27:10Trillions on trade. And now that whole tide has turned. We're making a lot of money.
27:16making a lot of money. We're taking in a lot of money. Don't forget, we're taking in
27:2025% on cars, 25% on steel, 25% on aluminum, 10% baseline. We put penalties on China for sending
27:29us fentanyl. We put penalties on Mexico and Canada, 25% for allowing fentanyl and allowing
27:39the borders to be weak. Now, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars while I sit
27:44here and talk to you. And we didn't do, we didn't take in anything before other than the tariffs that
27:51I put on previous to Biden, which were the tariffs I put on China, where we took in up until this point
27:57probably $700 billion. They were Trump tariffs. He tried to weaken them. He did everything he could.
28:04You know, he got paid money by China, right? The family got paid money, he did. And so I don't know,
28:11maybe that was the reason or maybe it wasn't. But he tried to weaken them, but he couldn't because
28:15it was so much money that his budgets, you know, they couldn't stand not doing it. But I took in
28:22in the, up till this point, my tariffs on China. Nobody ever took in 10 cents from China. No other
28:30president took in 10 cents. I took in more than $700 billion from China. So we're, we're doing very well.
28:38I mean, our country is doing very well. They had a bad report today from one of the healthcare
28:44companies that had an impact on the stock market. But this is about that. This is really,
28:50we're building a base. We're building a country like no other. And again, I had the, I had the
28:54strongest economy in the history of our country by far, history of any country probably, but the
28:59history of our country in four years. And I think this has a chance to be much better.
29:04I don't know exactly. I'm going to leave that to Scott. What do you think? Where would it be signed
29:18and what? We're still working on the details. We're shooting for around April 26th. Is there
29:24any more detail that you could tell us about what's in that deal and how it came together?
29:28It's substantially what we agreed on previously, but the president was here. We had a memorandum
29:35of understanding. We went straight to the big deal and the, I think it's an 80 take agreement
29:41and that's what we'll be signed.
29:43President Trump, on rate cuts, on rate cuts, can you clarify, on, can you clarify on rate cuts,
29:49do you intend to see Powell's firing if he doesn't change his stance on rate cuts? Or is that on the table?
29:56Well, I think he should do the rate cuts because I think if Europe has done it, it puts us at a
30:02disadvantage to Europe. I mean, he plays right into their hands. So I think he should do the rate cuts.
30:08We don't have really inflation now. I just said the major things are going down. Oil is great. Oil is
30:15way ahead of schedule. And that's because of our policies. But oil is down into the $60, $65 range
30:23now per barrel. And I told you in certain states, we have less than $2 for gasoline. And food is down.
30:33Groceries, as we call it, are down. Other than interest rates, everything's down. Interest rates are pretty
30:40flat. They're not, it's not that they're up, but we should be better than flat. We should, if he would lower the
30:46interest rate, I think it would have a good impact on that too. But the costs are down. We have very little
30:52inflation. I would say we have essentially no inflation. Hard to have inflation when oil goes down and oil goes down.
30:58When Biden came in, oil went through the roof. That's what caused our problem. That and his
31:04very dumb spending. But when the oil prices go down, and they have gone down a lot. We've gotten
31:11it down really good. We've opened it up and we've gotten them down. And that means that people driving
31:17cars are going to be paying $2 and $2.50 instead of $4.50. And, you know, even at the end, they tried,
31:24they tried just for the purpose of the election to get it down. But they had really lost that sucker. That was
31:31really, it was not good. But if they had won, oil right now would be at $7 or $8 because of their policy. And we're going
31:41to be at about $2. Could be even a little bit less than that. And you're starting to see it. So I don't know how you can
31:48have inflation when oil has come down quite a bit. And I would say the Fed really owes it to the
31:57American people to get interest rates down. That's the only thing he's good for. And he would have an
32:02effect on that if he lowered them. And I think at some point he will. He's going to have a lot of
32:08political pressure. You know, they are political also. And I think there's a lot of political
32:13pressure for him to lower interest rates. Okay?
32:20Yeah, go ahead. Please.
32:22Do you think that Italy can be your best alive in Europe? And also,
32:25do you ever know this when you want to use that for minutes?
32:28Only if the prime minister remains the prime minister can it be our best.
32:33She's doing, no, she's doing a great job. And yeah, certainly one of our great allies,
32:39not just in Europe, anywhere. She's a fantastic person and doing a great job. And our relationship
32:47is great. And we have a lot of Italians in this country, I tell you. And they like Trump
32:52and they voted for Trump. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
32:57Thank you Ganze. Thank you.
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