President Trump Says Trade Deals Might Happen In Coming Week On Air Force One

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President Trump holds a press gaggle on Air Force One.

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00:00Hello, everybody.

00:09Nice plane.

00:11Everyone having a good time.

00:13We'll be back in Washington soon.

00:16We have a lot of good news to report, and you'll be hearing about it.

00:20Probably not now, but you'll be hearing about it.

00:23We've had some good things coming out of the many war zones that were created by Biden

00:28and a group of incompetent people.

00:31But I think we have some pretty good news.

00:33We'll talk about that later or tomorrow.

00:36Any questions?

00:37Any plans to speak to President Xi this week?

00:40No.

00:41No plans to speak to him, but China and our people are talking about different things.

00:46Why did you decide to fall out of this position as a national security advisor?

00:51I actually think it's a higher position.

00:55We want to know that, too.

00:56I think it's an upgrade.

00:58Moving up there is an upgrade.

01:00Is there a question during the news stations called Paul who said that you didn't make any

01:05mistakes in the personal part of this?

01:07Was a point of my fault as a national security advisor?

01:10No.

01:11It's irrelevant.

01:12It's not a mistake.

01:13It's not a mistake.

01:14It's not a big deal.

01:15He was fine, and where he is, he'll do a good job.

01:19What made you lose confidence?

01:20I don't consider that.

01:22I didn't lose confidence in him.

01:24Why did I lose confidence?

01:26He's going to the United Nations.

01:28To me, I think it's personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing it, I'd rather have

01:33that job than the other.

01:34Did he resign on his bill before?

01:36He didn't resign.

01:38Resign.

01:39I just moved him.

01:40There's no resignation.

01:41You people are so bad.

01:43You're trying to make a big deal out of something.

01:45You are so bad.

01:46What's your choice?

01:47That's why nobody watches you anymore.

01:48Who are you with?

01:49Who are you with?

01:50Who are you with?

01:51I'm with Hurst.

01:52You're with who?

01:53Hurst.

01:54Hurst.

01:55I didn't know there was such a thing.

01:56Mr. President.

01:57Is there any trade deals coming this week?

01:59It could very well be.

02:01Can you tell us more about them?

02:03Nobody understands.

02:04We're negotiating with many countries.

02:07But at the end of this, I'll set my own deals.

02:10Because I set the deal.

02:11They don't set the deal.

02:12I set the deal.

02:13They've been ripping us off for years.

02:15I set the deal.

02:17Every country, almost without fail, friend and foe, has been ripping us off for years.

02:22So we're meeting with almost all of them, including China.

02:26And at the end, I'm setting the deal.

02:29They keep saying, when are you going to — this is not like a big deal that's going to be signed.

02:34In some cases, we'll sign.

02:35But we don't have to have — I'm going to be setting the deal.

02:38I'll be setting a tariff.

02:39You keep asking the same question.

02:41When will you agree?

02:42When will you agree?

02:43It's up to me.

02:44It's not up to them.

02:45It's up to me.

02:46Now, they don't have to deal with us, which is okay, because we lost — under Biden, we're losing $5 billion a day.

02:53Think of it.

02:54$5 billion a day.

02:56Now we're not dealing with China at all because the tariff's so high that they basically can't deal.

03:03And because of that, we're saving billions of dollars, you know?

03:07But just — and I'm not saying this to be a wise guy with you, to be mean.

03:11I don't want to be mean to you.

03:12You're, you know, a good professional.

03:14But you do keep asking me that same question.

03:18It's not like we're going to sit down in an ivory room and we're going to just — he's going to say — there'll be some of that.

03:24Very little.

03:25I don't see a lot of it.

03:27At some point in the next two weeks or three weeks, I'm going to be setting the deal.

03:32I'm going to say that such and such a country has had a tremendous trade surplus — surplus their way with us.

03:41They've taken advantage of us in various ways.

03:44And we fully understand what they were doing.

03:47We were being led by people that were not very smart that were able to be taken advantage of.

03:52But I can't be taken advantage of.

03:54So at a certain point, I'll be just setting a certain tariff number.

03:59The Pressure on PAPFAR, sir.

04:02Say it?

04:03On PAPFAR, AIDS treatment in Africa, there's a waiver in place.

04:08But people are saying to my colleagues that they're still not getting medicines.

04:12And the U.N. AIDS —

04:13Well, that shouldn't be happening.

04:14But the other thing — other countries should be helping us with that.

04:18And I'm a big fan of getting that solved.

04:22You know, we're the only country — where are the other — where is France?

04:25Where is Germany?

04:26Where are these other countries?

04:27Nobody does anything but the United States.

04:30And we spent, you know, billions and billions of dollars.

04:33So they should be helping also.

04:35But as you know, we did a waiver.

04:36You know that, right?

04:37Right.

04:38Well, I can't help that.

04:39Because if we did a waiver, then you have to get your people to act properly on the waiver.

04:45But I do ask, why are we the only country doing it?

04:48Mr. President, what's your timeline on the rest of your judicial nominations?

04:52And what's your criteria when you're taking judges?

04:54Which nominations?

04:55The future judicial nominations for the federal judge positions?

04:58Well, we're putting them in rapidly.

05:00We're trying to get very good ones.

05:01I mean, we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant.

05:07We have millions of people that have come in here illegally.

05:11And we can't have a trial for every single person.

05:14That would be millions of trials.

05:16The people elected me in a landslide with every single...

05:20We won every swing state.

05:22We won everything there is to win by big numbers.

05:25Not only swing state.

05:26We won the popular vote by millions of votes.

05:29They elected me.

05:30This was the number one issue.

05:31And now we have judges, radicalized, and they're crazy.

05:36Because they want us to have, if you believe this,

05:39they want us to have a trial for every person that came in illegally into our country.

05:44So they come into our country illegally.

05:46And then we're supposed to take weeks, I guess, and months to have a trial on every criminal.

05:51And we have murderers all over the country.

05:53I don't think the Supreme Court will stand for that.

05:56I can't believe it.

05:57Because you know what?

05:58If they do, we're not going to have a country.

05:59Go ahead.

06:00How will you make sure that the judges that you appoint are different than that?

06:03All you can do is do the best you can.

06:05You know, you try and appoint the best people to being judges or anything else that you appoint.

06:11But so far, you know, we've been very disappointed with the decisions that come out.

06:16And mostly from people appointed by others than me.

06:20But it's just so hard to believe that you have a murderer.

06:24Many, you know, we have 11,888 or whatever the number is.

06:30We have thousands of murderers in this country.

06:32We're getting them out.

06:34And they say, we don't want them out.

06:36We want them to stay in our country until they have a trial.

06:39Trials take years.

06:41They take years.

06:42It's so crazy.

06:43We won't have a country left.

06:45We can't have that happen.

06:46I'm from the economy.

06:47I'm from the economy.

06:48I'm from the economy, sir.

06:49Who are you with?

06:50The Wall Street Journal.

06:51That's what I...

06:52Well, you people treat us so bad.

06:54The Wall Street Journal is truly gone to hell.

06:56Go ahead.

06:57It's a rotten newspaper.

06:58You hear what I said?

07:00It's a rotten newspaper.

07:03Are there any updates and talks with the BlackRock?

07:06I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal because they'd be wasting my time.

07:10There are talks, but I don't want to talk to the Wall Street Journal.

07:13But, look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented, and they're really mad for this country.

07:19Go ahead.

07:20You say you want a fair deal.

07:21You say you want a fair deal with China.

07:23What is a fair deal like that you want them to do?

07:26Well, you know, I want a fair deal with China, but China's been ripping us off for many years,

07:29so maybe some things should be thought about, you know, a little bit of retribution.

07:35China's been ripping us off for many years, ever since they started.

07:39To me, I think it was the worst thing that Richard Nixon ever did.

07:42Is there a number in Mexico?

07:43Yeah, he's the one that got it started, and they've taken advantage of it.

07:47Is there a number in Mexico?

07:48No.

07:49No.

07:50Mexico's president is claiming that you offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico,

07:55and she said that she didn't want them to Mexico.

07:57Is that true?

07:58Can you tell us about those conversations?

07:59So Mexico is saying that I offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico to take care of the cartel.

08:05She wants to know, is that true?

08:07Do you think I'm going to answer that question?

08:09That's why I'm asking.

08:10We'll see.

08:11I will answer it.

08:12It's true.

08:13Absolutely.

08:14And why did you do that?

08:15I'm sure.

08:16Because they should be...

08:17They are horrible people that have been killing people left and right.

08:21That have been...

08:22They've made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people.

08:26We've lost 300,000 people last year to fentanyl and drugs.

08:31They're bad news.

08:32Yeah, that's true.

08:33If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it.

08:37I told her that.

08:38I would be honored to go in and do it.

08:40The cartels are trying to destroy our country.

08:43They're evil.

08:44And, you know, we had 300,000 people die last year from fentanyl and all that.

08:49We had hundreds, we had millions of people brought into this country that shouldn't be here.

08:54The cartels brought them in.

08:56So if she said that I offered to do that, she's 100% right.

08:59And are you disappointed that she denied that request that she doesn't want to...

09:02Well, she's so afraid of the cartels, she can't walk.

09:05So, you know, that's the reason.

09:06And I think she's a lovely woman.

09:08But the president of Mexico is a lovely woman.

09:12But she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight.

09:15So on Friday, you told Mr. Walker that maybe a little bit of all this person is going to be $35.

09:22Maybe they just...

09:23Let's...

09:24Let's...

09:25What a...

09:26What a...

09:27What a...

09:28All I'm saying is that you don't...

09:29That a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl doesn't need $37.

09:38She could be very happy with two or three or four or five.

09:41Right.

09:42I would...

09:43I wouldn't...

09:44Let's not waste a lot of time.

09:45What else?

09:46Well, I don't know about it, but I'm honored if they're going to name a road after me.

10:00If that's the case, I'm honored.

10:01Thank you very much.

10:02I'm honored.

10:03Thank you very much.

10:04I understand...

10:05Go ahead.

10:06Who are you considering to be your more permanent national security advisor?

10:08Well, I have a lot of people that want the job, I can tell you.

10:11It's...

10:12I mean, a lot of people say it really works in with what Marco's doing.

10:17But we have a lot of people.

10:19I'm going to be naming somebody, but we...

10:21What time would you do that in?

10:23I would say within six months.

10:25Would you like...

10:26He would do the job permanently, but I don't...

10:29I think it's...

10:30You know, it's an appropriate job.

10:32Are you considering Stephen Miller?

10:33Are you considering Stephen Miller without...

10:35Stephen Miller's at the top of the totem pole.

10:38I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job.

10:41You understand.

10:43Because he has a lot to say about a lot of things.

10:46He's a very valued person in the administration, Stephen Miller.

10:51As we've reached 100 days, what do you see as you're managing the items for the next 100 days?

10:55I think we have the greatest 100 days in the history of our country for an administration.

11:00I think we've done more, and we've gotten rid of what was strengthening up our military...

11:05Think of it.

11:06Six months ago, we had the worst numbers in the history of our military for joining our military and police.

11:15Now we have the best numbers we've ever had.

11:18Just think of that.

11:19It's not even possible.

11:21Inflation's down.

11:22All costs are down.

11:23Everything is down.

11:24Other than, as Tristan said, the thing that could carry the babies around in.

11:33But that's up 3%.

11:34Energy's down.

11:35Gasoline's down.

11:36Nobody's ever seen anything.

11:37Far ahead of schedule.

11:38So people that were paying a lot for groceries, they're paying a lot less.

11:47And interest rates are even down.

11:48You know, we have a very stubborn Fed.

11:50But, I mean, the Fed should lower, but that's okay.

11:54But interest rates are down.

11:55Mortgage rates are down.

11:56It's been pretty amazing.

11:58We've done, I think, I don't think there's ever been a better opening 100 days.

12:03We have a lot of fake polls where they interview Democrats, not Republicans, but meeting more Democrats.

12:09I had a pollster that said to me, a legitimate pollster, John McLaughlin, top person.

12:14He said he's never seen polls that were so fake before, where they overweight the Democrats.

12:21And I only bring that up because I think it's something that should be said.

12:24It's a shame how dishonest the media is.

12:27The media is corrupt and they're dishonest and they're so bad for our country.

12:31Thank you very much, everybody.

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