President Donald Trump Praises Elon Musk for His Contribution in DOGE
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00:00a fantastic job he didn't need this and we find out government's a little nasty on occasion
00:12government's a little bit nasty Peter you haven't noticed that yet you've had a charmed life right
00:20very chump I think you had a child but I think what I'll do if you don't mind numbers have just
00:26come out which are rather extraordinary and I thought I'd play a tape of one of the people who
00:31I've respected over the years from you know Joe Kiernan and Rick Santelli this just came out and
00:38we'll just play that for a second personal income is up eight tenths of eight tenths of a percent that
00:45is almost triple the expectations the income the income numbers really for the first four months
00:53of the year they're stellar they're really stellar I mean I could go back and look at the first four
00:57months of many different years really very strong numbers and you're right this administration is
01:03criticized for just about everything under the sun I've never ever in my lifetime had glimpses into
01:10the politics of an administration in the form of transparency like this one why don't we be you
01:16know give credit where credit is due I also income really shooting I also thought everybody
01:22was gonna get one last uh order of uh of imports that were gonna be careful and they were loading
01:29up on things how the hell did that how the hell they already fixed the trade uh or not fix it but
01:34to cut it in half um that's crazy so there wasn't a lot of front loading of things that they needed
01:41before the tariffs hit yeah I'll tell you what it really does call into question some of the
01:46conventional wisdoms and you know it's gonna be interesting to see what happens next month when
01:52we get this number or uh we see some of the other numbers uh like current accounts see how they fared
01:58because I don't know I've been watching these numbers a long time I don't think I've ever seen
02:02the trade deficit cut half in one month not bad not bad come on guys
02:09yeah see howard and scott are here so it's great you guys want to stand over here you might as well
02:20you're the ones that help produce those numbers and it'll only get better the tariffs are so important
02:25and that's why we were so happy with the decision yesterday uh where the uh tariffs continue
02:32because without the tariffs our nation would be in peril we would really be in peril I think I can
02:37say that with great charity scott and power and so we were very happy to get that decision that big
02:42decision yesterday and uh today it's about a man named Elon and he's one of the greatest business
02:51leaders and innovators the world has ever produced he stepped forward to put his very great talents
02:57into the service of our nation and we appreciate it and I just want to say that Elon has worked
03:04tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program
03:09in generations and you know the kinds of things that he's uh he's found and his people have found
03:15a group of very smart people in and they found things that are pretty unbelievable uh I have to say
03:23that the numbers that we're talking about are substantial but they're going to be very much
03:28more substantial with time because many of the things that we're working on right now uh we're
03:32going to have to remember Elon as we find them but the numbers could double and triple uh because many
03:39many things we don't want to go out with them until we're sure but we've said we've found things that
03:43are unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad with the department of government efficiency Elon's
03:50delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington doge has installed
03:57geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably talented people and computers I actually asked Elon
04:03one time what's what's their primary thing and they have a lot of primary things all having to do with
04:08being smart but he said the thing that they're really the best at is working with computers so that
04:14they can't be outsmarted by somebody that's uh not so honest that happens to also be good
04:19with computers but not as good as these people but the mindset and the senior ranks of every federal
04:24department and uh it's really changed and with Elon's guidance they're helping to detect fraud slash
04:32waste and modernize broken and outdated systems so as you know we're talking about various systems and
04:37changing systems and you know sadly it takes a long time to do that you'll change uh let's say a system
04:45at IRS and computerize it properly where the job can be done in one tenth a time but it takes uh it
04:52takes sometimes years to rebuild those systems but we've started in many cases we've started I will say
04:58that this has less to do with Elon but the air traffic control systems were bidding out to the best
05:04companies in the world those systems right now they were uh horrible what the previous administration was
05:10horrible what they did they spent billions and billions of dollars and in the end it didn't even
05:16come close to uh working they they tried to hook up wire to copper and it can't be done and they just
05:23spent billions of dollars and just wasted money actually made the system much worse so we're going to
05:28get a brand new modern system congress is working with us on that and we're going to get it done as
05:33quickly as we can but it's it's in the works and once it's done it'll be good for 30 years
05:38but we have a system that's 48 years old and would have a modern computer hooked into a very
05:44outdated computer and you they don't hook up I mean they didn't hook up so after spending billions
05:50of dollars they turned on the system and it in never any cases from local to uh countrywide they never
05:58worked more than 75 000 bureaucrats have voluntarily left their taxpayer funded jobs to uh come out and
06:06really do the do the job countless wasteful and unnecessary contracts have been terminated and
06:13you know that we have uh terminated many many contracts and many contracts elon are right now
06:20being looked at and uh it may be six months it may be almost a year in some cases we're going through
06:26procedures we're going through courts and uh we'll remember you as we announce billions of dollars of
06:33extra waste fraud and abuse just as an example doge cancelled 101 million dollars for dei contracts
06:42at the department of education 101 million dollars and that was just a small section of the department
06:48of education 59 million dollars for illegal alien hotel rooms in new york city and the landlord never
06:56made the kind of money that he made in the last short period of time 59 million dollars to a hotel
07:01in new york city 45 million dollars for diversity equity and inclusion scholarships in burma
07:07in burma does anyone know about burma 42 million dollars for social and behavioral change in
07:14uganda 40 million dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants i can say
07:23it's two billion dollars to uh stacy abrams and her environmental movement it was a hundred dollars
07:31in the account and all of a sudden they found two billion dollars in the account and i assume that's
07:36being looked at i don't know i'm not sure but i assume that's being looked at to think of that two
07:41billion dollars and then uh lee will tell you there's another one over there for twenty billion dollars
07:47uh being spent on another environmental 20 billion not 20 million a lot not 200 000 which is a lot
07:55so think of it in her case you have a hundred dollars and now all of a sudden she gets hit with
08:02an infusion of two billion dollars just before i take office uh twenty million dollars for arab sesame
08:10street in the middle east nobody knows what that's all about nobody's been able to find it eight
08:15million dollars for making mice transgender so they spent eight million dollars on making mice
08:22transgender and those are better than many of the others i could sit here all day and read
08:28things just like that but we have other things to do so it's much much more than just that we're
08:33totally committed to making the doge cuts permanent and stopping much more of the waste and the months
08:39that come we want to get our great big beautiful bill finished and done after that we're going to be
08:44we put some of this into the bill uh but most of it's going to come later we're going to have it
08:50uh cauterized by congress affirmed by congress in some cases we'll make cuts in some cases we'll just
08:59use it in a different layer to save the money but uh it's hundreds of billions of dollars doge has
09:05also fully modernized the federal retirement process and continues to work very hard on the irs
09:10modernization but we're taking that over with doge many of the doge people elon are staying behind
09:17so they're not leaving uh and elon's really not leaving he's going to be back and forth i think i
09:23have a feeling it's uh it's his baby and i think he's going to be doing a lot of things but elon's
09:28service to america has been without comparison in modern history he's already running one of the
09:34most innovative car companies in the world you look at his factories and compare them with some of the
09:39old factories we have and it's a big difference and the most successful space company and
09:44i guess in history you would have to say the largest free speech platform on the internet etc
09:50yet elon willingly with all of the success he willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander
09:58and lies and attacks because he does love our country i know that very much he loves our our country
10:04comes from another country country that's going through uh trials and tribulations i would say
10:11but uh he's uh all about the usa and americans owe him a great debt of gratitude so i just want
10:18to thank elon for his time as special government employee can you imagine they called him an employee
10:25but it's a special government employee and for coming and helping us and he really has changed the
10:31mindset of a lot of people a lot of people thought you know maybe we'll cut one percent or two percent
10:36or three percent then they said wow we can cut a lot more than that and we're going to do it very
10:41surgically we're going to continue on uh on the march we're making america great again uh when i was in
10:48saudi arabia we were in as you know uh three really great countries predominantly the three uh qatar was
10:58great uae was great saudi arabia incredible what is like such an incredible experience to be in those
11:05three countries but the crown prince of saudi arabia and i must tell you the leaders the great leaders
11:12of the other two that we just mentioned they all said the same thing that the united states is the
11:17hottest country right now anywhere in the world and six months ago we thought it was dead it was like
11:23a dead country and it would have been a dead country we didn't have the right result on november 5th it
11:27would have been a horrible horrible situation was going on with the borders with uh transgender for
11:35everyone men playing in women's sports and so much more but they were saying the hottest country anywhere
11:42in the world and then i played that little clip because that was one person who's respected
11:47but there were two people because joe was in that one too joe's a good man but that was one
11:53group of people saying uh something about the success of what we've done over the last four
11:58months they cannot believe it in the one case they said they've never seen anything like it as long as
12:03they've been doing what they've been doing they've been doing it for a long time so i just uh i want to
12:08thank elon for uh helping and again you know the united states right now is the hottest country anywhere in
12:15the world there's no country is hot and we're doing really well we came uh when i left we had no wars
12:22we had no problems we defeated isis we rebuilt our military and we had no inflation and when i came back
12:30we had a lot of inflation we had wars all over the place we had the embarrassment in afghanistan where we
12:37gave up billions and billions of dollars of military equipment the most embarrassing moment in the history of
12:43our country i believe i believe that strongly we have russia with ukraine we had the attack in israel
12:51in october the horrible attack october 7th horrible horrible attack nobody's ever seen anything like it
12:59and now we have something where we're really healing a lot of that we stopped india and pakistan from
13:09fighting i believe that could have turned out into a nuclear disaster and i want to thank the leaders
13:14of india the leaders of pakistan and i want to thank my people also we talk trade and we said we can't
13:21trade with people that are shooting at each other and potentially using nuclear weapons and uh they're
13:29great leaders in those countries and they understood and they they uh agreed and that all stopped and
13:38we're stopping others from fighting also because ultimately we can fight better than anybody we have
13:42the greatest military in the world we have the greatest uh leaders in the world we put one of them in
13:48charge of the joint chiefs of staff as you know general raisin kane and uh we wiped out isis completely
13:55wiped out isis in three weeks they said it would take five years and we did it in three weeks and
14:01that's the way it is but we don't want to have to use our military we want to be peace through strength
14:06when we can and that's the way we're going to have it so i just want to thank elan and all of his people
14:12most of those people are staying almost all of them are saying and they're going to be with us
14:16and you're going to see the results coming long into the future even a year and two years later you're
14:21going to see a lot of the results and those hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be
14:25adding up and they're going to continue to add it'll be interesting it's really interesting to see
14:29what the final number is going to be but again uh elan gave an incredible service nobody like him
14:36and uh he had to go through uh the slings and the arrows which is a shame because uh he's an incredible
14:44patriot the good news is that 90 of the country knows that and they appreciate it and they really
14:49appreciate what he did and i gave him a little special something we have here thank you a very
14:55special that i give to very special people i have given it to some but it goes to very special people
15:03and i thought i'd i'd give it to elan on as a presentation from our country thank you elan thank
15:09you take care of yourself thank you
15:15you see the light the lock on this is amazing