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President Trump holds a press gaggle on Air Force One.
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00:00With the European Union, and yesterday I spent pretty much a whole day with the Prime Minister of the UK.
00:08And we had a lot of good discussions, although I see something came up today, which is interesting.
00:16So, go ahead. Hello.
00:18Hi, Mr. President.
00:19Can we ask about that? Can we ask about that, please?
00:21On Gaza, Sir Keir Starmer has just announced the UK will recognize Palestinian sovereignty in September.
00:27If Israel does not commit to a ceasefire, ease the suffering in Gaza, and commit to a long-term solution that would deliver the two-state solution in the Middle East.
00:35Did you know that was coming? What is your response?
00:37No, we never discussed it, surprisingly.
00:39It was never really discussed, maybe a little bit at the news conference, but he was sort of discussing it with you.
00:45We never did discuss it, and we have no view on that.
00:49We're going to get a lot of money to the area so they can get some food. He's going to also.
00:54I think the European Union is going to put up money, too, for food, and hopefully it's going to be properly distributed.
01:01And it will be. I think it will be. We have some pretty good response on people for the distribution of the food.
01:09We want to take it one thing at a time. They need food, and they need people to be able to get them the food.
01:16But to follow up on that, I mean, is there any use at all in pressuring Israel now to come to some sort of longer-term solution?
01:23You could make the case that you're rewarding people that, you know, you're rewarding Hamas if you do that.
01:29And I don't think they should be rewarded. So I'm not in that camp, to be honest.
01:35We'll let you know where we are, but I am not in that camp.
01:39Because if you do that, you really are rewarding Hamas. And I'm not about to do that.
01:44Mr. President, you mentioned setting up food centers. When can we expect to see those food centers?
01:49Very soon. Yeah, very soon. So we said $60 million. That's a lot of money for food, a lot of money that can take care of people for a long time.
01:56And we want to make sure it's going to be, it's being spent properly. And part of the spending is the distribution.
02:05You know, the, if you know, a lot of money has been sent by other countries, but nothing compared to us.
02:12But a lot of things have been stolen. They sent money, they sent food, and Hamas steals it.
02:17So it's a tricky little game. But we're going to make sure we have some very good people. They're going to be watching it.
02:24Who is going to be running those food centers for you, and what kind of oversight can we expect?
02:28Well, we're going to be dealing with Israel, and we think they can do a good job of it. And they want to do it.
02:33Of monitoring the food centers?
02:34No, they want to do it. The food centers, yeah. They want to, they want to preside over the food centers to make sure the distribution is proper.
02:42Mr. President, I had a great time seeing that beautiful course, but there's some critics who say this was a promotional trip for you and your business.
02:48What?
02:49That have promoted you and your business personally. What do you say to that?
02:52I haven't heard that, no. I haven't heard that. Did you get to see my drive in the first hole?
02:58You get it straight and pretty high, yeah.
03:00Pretty long. It's pretty long. That's, that's no Joe Biden, let me tell you.
03:06That's not Biden, right? That was a good, that was a good drive.
03:11When did you last speak to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and when will you speak to him again?
03:14Two days ago.
03:15How many?
03:16Two days ago.
03:17When do you think you'll speak to him?
03:18You know, we sent money, and I want to make sure the money is spent wisely and it's spent judiciously, and that food is distributed in a proper manner. And he wants to do that.
03:30Mr. President, you talked about moving Palestinians out of Gaza. You said that in the past. Do you still support that idea?
03:36It's a concept that some people fell in love with and some people don't. We really have to see how it all works out before we do that. But, you know, you could do something spectacular, but that's a different concept.
03:49You could also probably do it if you left some. Some are leaving automatically, you know, that some would like to leave. I think many would like to leave if they were given an alternative. They really have no alternative now. But certainly that was a concept that was really embraced by a lot of people, but also some people didn't like it.
04:09Mr. Prime Minister Starmer, he was kind of critical of Israel and said more pressure needed to be put on Israel to allow food to get in at speed. Do you feel that Israel is, will be, is a good?
04:24I think Israel wants to do it, actually. I think Israel wants to do that. They're going to want to, and I can tell you that they want to do it. They don't want Hamas stealing the money or stealing the food, and that's what they've been doing.
04:37Do you think Israel can be trusted to allow more food in faster?
04:40I think Israel wants to do it, and they'll be good at doing it. If they do it, and if they really want to do it, and I think they do, they'll do a good job. The food will be properly processed.
04:50There's a perception maybe that Keir Starmer didn't do so well in the press conference yesterday. Do you have any words of support for him?
04:58He did well in the press conference, and I thought, you know, I think they made a good deal. I think we all made a good deal.
05:06Why are you hearing otherwise, I guess?
05:09Yeah. I think the feeling is that he was maybe a little weak, and didn't really have very strong answers, and maybe wasn't entirely honest about free speech and immigration.
05:19I like him. I think he's good. I think he's a great representative for the UK. I haven't heard that.
05:24In your meeting with John Swinney today, did you offer to drop tariffs on Scotch whiskey? Did he have a —
05:30No, we really didn't discuss it much, but I have a lot of respect for him.
05:34Mr. President, I didn't have a lot of respect for the woman that preceded him. I thought she was terrible as a first minister of Scotland. But I think John is doing a very good job as first minister.
05:45Mr. President, your Treasury Secretary and Howard Blutnick, Secretary of Commerce —
05:51China talks wrapped today. Any sort of reaction coming out of the meeting? They're extending the truce. Are you pleased with that? Would you like to see —
06:00I just had a phone call from Scott Messon, and had a very good meeting with China. And it seems that — I mean, they're going to brief me tomorrow. We'll either approve it or not. But he felt very good about the meeting.
06:14Better — better than he felt yesterday. Yesterday — oh, here we go again. Here we go again. But today it worked out very well. I think the result is probably —
06:26I saw a report from Reuters that India is preparing to face higher U.S. tariffs between 25 — between 20 and 25 percent. Is that what you're tracking, or what do you think the rate will be for India?
06:36Mr. That they are going to pay 25 percent.
06:39Yeah, that India is preparing to face higher U.S. tariffs between 20 and 25 percent.
06:43I think so. Look, India's been — they're my friends, and he's my friend. And, you know, the end of the war with Pakistan and my request, and that was great. And Pakistan did also. You know, we did a lot of — a lot of great settlements, including the recent one, as you know, with Cambodia, blah, blah, blah. So, that was a great one. I think that's been pretty well finalized now, right?
07:07I don't know. I'm asking you. Did I do a good job on that one?
07:11No. I did a good job on about five different wars. Do you think I'll get credit for it? No.
07:17Will I get credit for it? She'll say yes. No.
07:21Is the deal with India finalized? No, it's not.
07:25Okay. So what rate are you expecting?
07:27We're going to see. We're going to see. But India's been a good friend. But India has charged basically more tariffs than almost any other country. You know that, right? Over the years. But now I'm in charge, and you just can't do that. I think the trade deals are working out very well, hopefully for everybody. But for the United States, they're very, very good.
07:49Mr. President, on the Wall Street Journal case, lawyers are seeking to depose Robert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, pardon me. Can you say what the lawyers hope to get out of that deposition?
07:59No, we're going to see. It's in the lawyers' hands. I've been treated very unfairly by the Wall Street Journal and everything. I mean, I don't know. They even hired people from the Washington Post, third-rate reporters, gossip-type reporters. It's all gossip. And, you know, I've been treated badly by the Wall Street Journal. I would have assumed that Rupert Murdoch controls it by the Wall Street Journal.
08:18But, you know, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. They are talking to us about doing something. But we'll see what happens. Maybe they would like us to drop that. So we'll see.
08:30Does that mean they're settling against us? Yeah, they're having, they want to settle it.
08:34With money involved? He's treated us wrong. I mean, you know, when I get treated unfairly, I do things about it. So we'll see what happens.
08:43On Gaza last week, you were rather dismissive of President Macron when he recognized the Palestinian state. Today, you're saying you don't really...
08:51That's his opinion. You know, he can have an opinion. It doesn't mean I have to agree. Emmanuel's a good man. He works hard. He's got a lot to say about everything.
09:00But now you're saying you're not taking a view on Stokia Starmer's announcement. Does that mean your view is evolving?
09:06I guess Starmer is doing the same as Macron, right? He's basically, is he saying the same thing? I think so. Essentially, they're saying the same thing. And that's okay. But, you know, it doesn't mean I have to agree.
09:18Mr. President, you said yesterday your falling out with Jeffrey Epstein was over him taking some of the workers from your business. But your administration in the past said that you threw him out because he was a creep. So can you explain that discrepancy?
09:30Well, maybe they're the same thing. You know, sort of a little bit of the same thing. But no, he took people that worked for me. And I told him, don't do it anymore. And he did it. And I said, stay the hell out of here.
09:40Stay the hell out of here.
09:42So is that what you, what was meant by being a creep? I'm with, I'm the travel pool, but I'm with NBC News.
09:50With NBC. NBC Fake News. NBC is one of the worst. What else do you have?
09:57On Air Force One, the new Air Force One, when do you expect to be flying on the new Air Force One?
10:03They say February maybe. Much sooner than the others. The others are being built. Long time built.
10:09Long time built. That's a long time built. Now, they're not normal 747s.
10:14They, you know, have a lot of things on them that another plane wouldn't have.
10:18But we'll get this one a year and a half, two years earlier.
10:22How much will it cost to retrofit it?
10:24I don't know. It's up to the military. I don't know. I really don't know. I haven't been involved.
10:29They, it's their plane. It's, you know, the Air Force. They'll be spending that amount of money.
10:35You know, it is a different plane because it becomes for military use. So, but I don't know what the number is.
10:41Are there any questions about whether the amount that it'll cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars, whether that's worth it since considering how little time you'll be able to use it?
10:48You know, it's a, it's a great plane. It's one of the best planes in the world. The Air Force is going to have it.
10:57We're going to have a great 747. We need it. If you look at this plane, it's, what is it, 32, 34, 35? I don't know. It's, it's old. It's a good plane, but it's old.
11:09Can't get parts for it anymore. It's very hard to get parts. They have to go and take from the older planes. So, I mean, it was time.
11:17When you look at 747s and, you know, the heads of state from especially the Arab countries, you look at from Saudi Arabia, from some of those countries, and you put it next to this, it doesn't show well for the United States.
11:32And if you remember, it was Obama that wanted to get the plane. He was the one ready to sign a contract. And because he wanted to sign it, I assumed they paid too much. And I was able to get about a million, a billion seven off the price, maybe a billion five to a billion seven off the price for the exact same plane. And they're building it, but they're taking a lot longer than they should have taken.
11:55There's a report that a Secret Service agent tried to get his wife onto a support plane for this mission.
12:00That's a weird deal.
12:01I've been briefed as a concern.
12:02You were going to leave the wife in the car? Wouldn't you think that might be a little dangerous? I don't know if that has proper compression. I don't know. That's, that's a strange one. I just heard that two minutes ago. I think Sean's taking care of it.
12:18Mr. President, we've talked on Russia.
12:20Is that a serious story?
12:21I think it's at, well.
12:22I'm going to keep her in the car and she's going to be in a freighter.
12:26Will you tell me the details of how to do it?
12:28There's freighters that don't have, you know.
12:29Will you just keep her in the car? Tell us how it was going to work.
12:32I don't want to get involved, but it's a strange story. I just heard that one.
12:36Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, you said that you were going to send in a report.
12:40The British farmers, the British farmers are so grateful for what you said yesterday about the importance of farming.
12:47Because we have changed inheritance tax with death taxes.
12:50The British farmers are so important. Some farmers are, you know, they like to understand a couple of things yesterday.
12:56They liked what I said for the farm. I'm a big farmer person. I love the farmers. I think they're great.
13:01And we have to steer the laws so the farmers don't get hurt in our country and in their country.
13:08But Europe has a big immigration problem. But they also liked when I said that they have one of the worst mayors anywhere in the world in London.
13:16He's a horrible mayor. Nasty guy. Stupid guy, in my opinion. But he's a nasty man. And I want nothing to do with him.
13:25But I didn't think it was a big statement. And I was, so many people said thank you for saying that. He's a bad guy.
13:32Khan is his name, I guess. He's done a lousy job, I can tell you that. Terrible America.
13:38Mr. President, Mr. President.
13:39No, but people liked it so much when I said that.
13:42Mr. President, yesterday, you mentioned that you would change the Russia deadline to 10 to 12 days. Has that started yet? Or when can we, you know, see the official statement that that is the new deadline?
13:55I'll tell you what, I'll give it to you now. Do you want a big scoop?
13:57Yes, please.
13:58Everybody else, close your ears, okay? You ready?
14:00I'm ready.
14:01Ten days from today.
14:02Got it.
14:03Okay?
14:04Got it.
14:05Good.
14:06Good.
14:07Good.
14:08Good.
14:09Good.
14:10And then, you know, we're going to put on tariffs and stuff and I don't know if it's going to
14:11affect Russia because he wants to obviously probably keep the war going. But we're going
14:16to put on tariffs and the various things that you put on. It may or may not affect them, but
14:23it could.
14:24Are you going to have any of the families of the victims of the Manhattan shooting?
14:28I don't want to tell you that. I don't want to tell you that.
14:31Have you spoken in the hands?
14:32That's a very boy. That's a bad one. That's a bad one. But I won't tell you about that. Have you talked to Mayor Adams? Have you spoken with Mayor Adams? One of the other things our readers like from yesterday was when you were talking so forcefully about illegal immigration in the United Kingdom. One of the big political flashpoints is migrant hotels where people are being put up while their claims are processed. People see it as a source of luxury hotels. They also think there's low security and it's a problem for their communities.
15:01Is that appropriate or does Britain need an alligator Alcatraz? It's not an alligator. It's just that they're putting people in luxury hotels and other people that are working their asses off are living, you know, from hand to mouth. They're not living the same way. I mean, I looked at some of the hotels they're using and they've done it in our country also. They've put them in like the best hotels anywhere in the world because they could get rooms there. Thousands of dollars a night.
15:30And other people are living out of the streets, including our veterans. They can't get a room. Our veterans are living on the streets. There are pictures of our veterans saying right by the door where they're walking in to live. And the veterans are sitting out of the sidewalk in front of a fancy hotel.
15:47And the illegals are coming in into that hotel and staying there for a week. That's no good.
15:54Just a button up on Mar-a-Lago. You're saying that Jeffrey Epstein coached two of your staffers. Who were they? Were they young?
15:59I don't want to say two or I don't want to say any number. You're talking about many years ago. But yeah, he took people. And because he took people, I said, don't do it anymore. You know, they work for me.
16:08And he took, beyond that, he took some others. And once he did that, that was the end to him.
16:14Were they young?
16:15I didn't like, when they steal people, I don't like it.
16:17Did anybody, did anybody ever go to prison for a social media post?
16:22Are you saying that that's taking place in the U.K.?
16:27Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
16:29I mean, I'm hearing that. Well, we, I looked at him yesterday. Well, they said they canceled Truth Social. I'll bet it's uncancelled very quickly.
16:38I'll bet it's uncancelled.
16:40No, it's a little different. It's different.
16:42I see it in some countries that you would never suspect it. Not only there. I've seen it in other countries where, you know, they're like bread and pudding countries, I think. And then all of a sudden, they become somewhat violent.
16:54You know, when people go socialistic or when you get the radical left or the left going in, the countries actually become very mean.
17:03They become two things, mean and incompetently run simultaneously.
17:09How is Caroline doing? Is she doing a good job?
17:13Look at him. She's such a star. Come on, Caroline. Come here.
17:16Chloe, do you want to come over? Chloe is a great, she's a great golfer, a great, talented golfer.
17:25She's probably the most talented golfer other than Kai, but I think it's about the same, right? Don't you hear that?
17:31She hits the ball long. This little girl has a lot of muscle, right?
17:35Yeah.
17:36So, and she wins, she wins every tournament she plays in of her age.
17:41She wins every weekend. She wins every weekend. Yes, very fun.
17:44You love golf, right? Yes.
17:47But she's a great athlete.
17:48How did the golf course play today? And be honest, did anyone in your foursome hit that massive bunker on the ninth?
17:55That is a massive bunker. Fortunately, nobody did.
17:58Well, I played two of the guys who were pros and really good players. One of them won the tournament last year. And you could see they were very good players.
18:06Who at the moment holds the course record?
18:09Well, we played a first round, I think. We played, we only played one round. This was our first round. So I'd have to go into that, exactly. But they're two really good players.
18:21One of them, you know, one of them, you know, is the one that, you know, the story, you know, that, you know, so he took Tiger, I guess, 18 holes. He, Tiger, you know, went wild with his putting, meaning he started dropping putts from all over the place and Tiger took him.
18:41But that's the quality, you know, they're really good players. We had, those two guys were, and terrific guys, two terrific guys. We had, we had a good time. But I was watching, the only shot that mattered to me was the driver in the first hole, because if I would have missed it, you would not have let me forget it.
18:59Did you take a bit of a practice here on the driving range beforehand?
19:02I hit some, yeah, I did. I hit some balls on the driving range. It's a great course. It's a great course. It's been fantastic. You know, I built one.
19:10And then I had to build this one. Otherwise, you would have lost your zoning. You have, like, a certain period of time to build it. So they built it. It opened. My son did a very good job on building it.
19:21So you kind of went over to the last Dune course. Are you talking about environmental regulations?
19:25We have, we obey the regulations, the environmental regulations. You really want to. And it's top of the line. It's really, the pros were saying this is as good as any course they've ever played. It's as good as it gets.
19:39The pros were surrounded by windmills. Did you talk to Sarmer about the windmills?
19:43I did. Yeah, I think windmills are a disgrace. I think they hurt everything they touch. They're ugly. They're very inefficient. It's the most expensive form of energy there is.
19:55People hate it when they become visible from their house. When you see them from a house, the value goes down by 50 percent and more. They make noise. When they're out in the ocean, they're bad for the sea life. Very bad for the whales, obviously, because they wash up on shore like nine times more than they did without them.
20:14No, they are really bad. And they cost a lot of money. You know, there's not a wind farm that's put up without subsidy. So instead of making money, what they should do is open up the, you know, the whole North Coast oil.
20:28They have tremendous oil right there, right where we play. And they've made it impossible for people to drill. It's crazy. It's I mean, that's one of the best oil areas in the world.
20:44They've made it impossible for people to take it out. Instead, they put up these ugly windmills all over the country and all over the world. I don't know what it is. Nobody likes them. They have the greatest lobby, but it's starting. I think I'm starting to get to it now.
20:59They have bad energy. They look bad. They killed the birds. They're really terrible things. And it's the most expensive energy of any energy there is. And in fact, every, I mean, not every, I guess, I don't know, maybe some, but almost every windmill put up needs subsidy from the government.
21:18So instead of making money, they lose money. And that's why UK energy costs are very high, because when we were flying over to the plane, they're all over the place. It's terrible. It's a terrible thing.
21:29I'll say it until I can't speak anymore. And I think, but I think we are having an impact. And they're starting to take a lot of windmills down. I mean, they're literally starting to take them down. They don't work. They're bad. And they're too costly.
21:42And every year you see them up there, the government is paying a lot of money. Whereas if you have oil, if you have other forms of energy, you make money on it. In other words, you bring down taxes.
21:54Well, your friend Bryson DeChambeau said LIV Tour players weren't playing enough Lynx golf. Is that something we might see at the...
22:03Well, Lynx golf is just different golf. It's quite a bit different. I love Bryson. Bryson's great. He's a great player. Very powerful guy. Long hitter. Great putter. Great everything.
22:14And it's interesting because he plays well in Lynx courses.
22:18But is that in the future for the greatest 36?
22:21Oh, yeah. I mean, look, we have a tournament this weekend there. And we have another tournament next weekend. Big tournaments.
22:28And we're looking to get the Irish Open in Doonbeg. You know, I have a course in Doonbeg in Ireland. And we have a lot of great tournaments coming to mind. I build the best courses.
22:41Mr. President, I'm back to Russia.
22:42That's not only said by me. That's said by everybody.
22:44Back to Russia, sir. Since you made the announcement of the 10 to 12 days, have you gotten any feedback or any officials gotten any feedback that it had a response that Russia is going to do something?
22:57No, I haven't gotten any. I haven't had any response. It's a shame. So I used to say to you, 5,000 people die a week. Now it's 7,000 people are dying a week. Mostly Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. But people also from having bombs dropped on their head. It's a disgusting war.
23:19How worried are you on the oil markets if you were to put sanctions on Russia?
23:23I don't worry about it. We have so much oil in our country. We'll just step it up even further. I mean, oil is down pretty low right now. We'll step it up even further.
23:35I heard you mention compression. How were you feeling out there when you were playing? Like, how did you feel? Because I think it's the first time you played since you saw the dog, right?
23:41I felt good. I thought it was great. I thought the course was great. It looks even more beautiful than I thought. You know, we did the first one like 11 years, 12 years ago. And it's gotten tremendous reviews. It's one of the best courses in the world.
23:55And I had the other piece of land to do this one. Also on the ocean and the North Sea. And we really have it. By the way, the North Sea is the exact term for the oil.
24:07They have the greatest among the greatest reserves. It's tremendous. And they're not using it. Instead, they're putting up these stupid windmills. It's so crazy.
24:18UK could reduce their energy costs by 70% if they would use the North Sea oil. It just doesn't make sense. It's just not a liberal thing to do. But it's becoming more a liberal thing to do.
24:33I love being out there. It's great. Good feeling.
24:36Mr. President, are UK and the US both have increasingly unhealthy populations?
24:42Is that what they say?
24:43We do, don't we?
24:44Well, I can see it.
24:45I'm interested in the work that makes America healthy again.
24:49I can see it. I should think about it for myself.
24:53Bobby's doing a great job. People are loving Bobby Kennedy and the whole group.
24:58Dr. Oz, Marty McCary. We have a fantastic group. And you're going to see a lot of things happening over the next couple of months.
25:06I mean, true activists. And, you know, they're going with the science.
25:10And, you know, if you take a look at some of the problems, some of the diseases that are coming up to a level that we've never seen before,
25:21there's something wrong. There's something wrong. And we're going to, I think we're going to solve the problem.
25:26But he's really working hard. A lot of, all we're doing now is stats, statistics.
25:32And I think we're going to make a big change. We're going to save a lot of lives.
25:36You know, when the babies are born and they end up having problems that they've never had before.
25:42And by, like, 15 to 20 times more. So there's something wrong. And we're going to find what it is pretty soon. We think pretty soon.
25:50Mr. President, I think Epstein has a certain reputation, obviously. I'm just curious.
25:56Were some of the workers that were taken from you, were some of them young women?
26:00Were some of them?
26:01Were some of them young women?
26:03Well, I don't want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken.
26:08And it was, the concept of taking people that work for me is bad.
26:14But that story's been pretty well out there. And the answer is yes, they were.
26:19Yes, they were young women?
26:20What did they do?
26:21In the spa.
26:22In the jobs.
26:22In the spa?
26:23Yeah, people that work in the spa. I have a great spa. One of the best spas in the world at Mar-a-Lago.
26:28And people were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone.
26:33And other people would come and complain, this guy is taking people from the spa.
26:39I didn't know that.
26:40And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen, we don't want you taking our people,
26:45whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people.
26:49And he was fine.
26:51And then not too long after that, he did it again.
26:53And I said, out of here.
26:56Mr. President, did one of those stolen, you know, persons, does that include Virginia?
27:01Virginia referee?
27:04I don't know.
27:06I think she worked at the spa.
27:09I think so.
27:10I think that was one of the people.
27:12He stole her.
27:14And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know.
27:17None whatsoever.
27:19We've seen how good your security detail is this weekend.
27:23And the team around you are amazing.
27:25They're doing a good job.
27:25Amazing.
27:26Do you have any answers yet as to what happened with the assassination attempt?
27:31Having seen them in action, it seems remarkable that that was able to happen.
27:35You mean the assassination with...
27:36They just weren't as good that day.
27:39They had a bad day.
27:41They shouldn't have had a roof that was, you know, unpatrolled.
27:44They should have had coordination with the local police because, you know, you had a lot of
27:50talk going on.
27:52You had the woman screaming, there's a man up there with a gun.
27:55And a number of people were screaming, there's a guy up there with a gun.
27:58And they didn't have...
28:01The one group wasn't hooked into the other group.
28:04I'll tell you, the Secret Service shooter, David, was amazing.
28:09Because in four seconds, it was over.
28:13And if this lunatic was allowed to keep shooting, because then they had a lot of...
28:18Tens of thousands of people there, so a lot of people could have been killed.
28:21I mean, we lost a great person and two people very badly injured.
28:25But the shooter, one bullet, think of that, one bullet from a very far distance.
28:33It's amazing.
28:34It changed you.
28:34So he was great.
28:36Do you feel like it's changed you as a person?
28:38I don't know, you know, maybe and maybe not, but it's...
28:41I like to not think about it, you know.
28:45It affects some people greatly.
28:47I can't afford to be affected because they have a job to do, so I like not to think about it.
28:52Does it not get there?
28:53I think about it too much.
28:54It's probably not a good thing.
28:56Does it not go through your mind at all on a morning like this morning, when you're outside,
28:59there's a crowd and you're getting a speech?
29:01I don't think about it.
29:01I don't know.
29:02I think you see the kind of protection now.
29:06I think they're very good.
29:08It's a whole different level.
29:10Look, these people went to Biden and Biden's people and asked for more help because I was
29:16having rallies, 60,000, 70,000 people.
29:19I had 115,000 people and Biden would have two people.
29:25Nobody wanted to see the guy.
29:27And he'd have a bigger security detail than I had.
29:30And they were asking.
29:32Sean and the various people were asking for more people and they were denied.
29:36So they denied him and, you know, so you could make that case.
29:41I don't think they made that case well because they, I knew for a fact that they were asking
29:46for more people a lot.
29:48They haven't wanted, they have said it, but not that publicly.
29:51But they wanted more people and the Biden people would not give it to him.
29:55And we had massive crowds.
29:57You know, you were there.
29:58But we would have routinely 50, 60, 70,000 people and he would have nobody.
30:05He couldn't fill the circles, you know, the eight circles.
30:09And he didn't need very many people.
30:12And so that was, that was a problem too.
30:15Can I ask about the first lady?
30:17You mentioned a couple of weeks ago her role in talking to you about the war in Ukraine.
30:21And perhaps it being part of your evolution in thinking.
30:24Have you discussed the crisis in Gaza and the terrifying, horrific images?
30:28She thinks it's terrible and she sees the same pictures that you see and that we all see.
30:34And I think everybody, unless they're pretty cold-hearted or worse than that, nuts.
30:41There's nothing you can say other than it's terrible when you see the kids.
30:45And those are kids, you know, whether they talk starvation or not.
30:48Those are kids that are starving.
30:51That's, that's, I mean, they are starving.
30:54And you see the mothers, they love them so much.
30:57And there's just nothing they seem to be able to do.
30:59They got to get them food.
31:01And we're going to get them food.
31:02Do you plan to attend the G20 summit this year in South Africa?
31:05No, I think maybe I'll send somebody else because I've had a lot of problems with South Africa.
31:11And they have some very bad policies.
31:15Very, very bad policies, like policies where people are being killed.
31:20A lot of people are being killed.
31:22So I think I probably won't.
31:24I'd like to, but I don't think I will.
31:26Any update on where you'll meet with President Xi?
31:29When can we expect that, that, that present?
31:31Well, he wants to meet.
31:32And I look forward to the meeting, too.
31:34But I would say before the end of the year.
31:37I mean, just to go full circle.
31:40So we had a very good meeting today.
31:42If you would have asked me the question yesterday, no, it wasn't looking too good.
31:46I would have said, maybe I might have said nothing, but I might have also said it wasn't going too good.
31:52I just heard from Scott that the meeting went very well today with China.
31:57Thank you all very much.
31:58Enjoy the flight.
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