00:00Mr. President, thank you. And thanks to the cabinet. So, at the risk of insulting everybody else at the table, I believe that I am the youngest member sitting at the table.
00:11And, you know, it occurred to me that from the time that I was born to the time that Donald J. Trump was inaugurated just a few months ago, we went from, again, 40 years, we went from the world's manufacturing superpower to one in which we depend on
00:29the People's Republic of China to make the things that we need. We went from the proudest military in the world to one in which we failed to meet our recruiting goals.
00:38And we went from one in which bipartisan border policy was the consensus of both Democrats and Republicans to one in which we allowed 20 million people to run roughshod illegally over the countryside causing crime, causing a stress in the welfare system.
00:54And again, that happened over the lifetime of the youngest member of the cabinet. And what has happened in 100 days is that we've started to reverse every single one of those negative trends.
01:06And I think what it shows to me is that the president and you sit in the Oval Office and you see these portraits of presidents past. And let's be honest, most of them have been placeholders.
01:16They've been people who've allowed their staff to sign executive orders with an auto pen instead of men of action. And the reason the media attacks this administration as chaotic is because the president is solving the problems the American people set about to solve.
01:35He's actually doing the things that he promised that he would do. And Mr. President, it's been an honor to be part of it for the past 100 days. And let me just make one other observation because it's interesting.
01:46I've seen the data. I've monitored it. I've looked at it. But the most underreported fact of the first 100 days is that we came in with a massive recruitment shortfall.
01:58And in 100 days, Secretary Hegseth and President Trump's leadership, we now have people breaking down the doors to join our military to the media assembled here.
02:07It's a really interesting question. Why does that happen? Completely aside from the fact that I think it's a good thing or I think that President Trump deserves political credit for it.
02:15Why did we go from a military where people didn't want to serve to now all of a sudden they do want to serve? That's a story you guys should cover. But compared to that, how much time have you instead focused on the fact that we deported an MS-13 gang member with a valid deportation order?
02:33And why is it that the press is so focused on the fake BS rather than what's really going on in the country?
02:40I think that what we've shown, sir, is that you can do a lot. You can do a lot in 100 days.
02:45But you've also unfortunately revealed that too much of the American media hasn't learned the lessons of the past 40 years.
02:50Thank you, sir.
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