00:00If you could, if we could, if we could keep the first questions, perhaps, to this subject, and then we'll go on to a few other questions.
00:07Please.
00:09Mr. President, thank you so much. Can you talk about how personal of an issue this is?
00:13You talked about flying over the Washington Monument and seeing the pride of what D.C. is.
00:19And do you believe that the status of the city, the cleanliness, the way that crime is low, is a direct reflection on how the country is run at a certain point?
00:26Yeah, I do. I think the capital, look, everyone comes here. They all, they're all coming. All the leaders, they're all wanting to come.
00:34And I say it, I've said it again, but I'm really just quoting other leaders from NATO, from the Middle East, King of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE.
00:44I was over there. We brought back $5.1 trillion of investment into our country. But I was, a month and a half ago, I was at NATO.
00:52We had a great thing. They agreed to put up 5 percent instead of 2 percent.
00:562 percent they didn't pay. 5 percent is already paid. We had a great meeting.
01:00And they all said the same thing. They said our country was dead. They thought our country was gone.
01:04One year ago, they said your country was dead. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
01:10We do. We have the hottest country in the world right now. The tariffs have helped. It's given us not only the money,
01:16it's billions, trillions of dollars of money, but it gives us great power over enemies.
01:22We solved five wars with Pakistan and India with, we just solved one, Azerbaijan and, as you know, and Armenia.
01:34The war was raging for 37 years. And the two leaders got up and they said,
01:40we never thought this would be solved. Russia tried to solve it. They all tried to solve it.
01:45It was a very tough situation, but we got it done and got it done. And I said to the two men, I said,
01:50are you guys friends? And they had a hard time. You know, they've been killing each other for 37 years, right?
01:56One was there five years. One was there for 22 years. He said, my whole life I've been fighting this war.
02:02And you got it solved. But we did many of those. We did in the Congo and Rwanda.
02:09That's been going on for 30 years. Eight to nine million people killed that they know of.
02:14But it was raging and we got that solved. We got a lot of them done. It's a great honor.
02:19But you want to have when they come, the leaders come to our country to sign documents that the war is over or whatever,
02:27or for other reasons. They come for trade. And you want them to come through so beautifully.
02:34You ride down those roads. Everything should be perfect. You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway.
02:41You know, the Canadian, you know, the metal things that are always somebody had a great, a great lobbyist,
02:47because I've never seen them look good. I've been looking at those things with a little, right?
02:53They're always broken, bad. But here they're really bad. And we're going to either put new or fix it.
03:01And it's not expensive. It's not really expensive. And we're going to fix our roads a little bit.
03:05We're going to clean up our sidewalks. You have countries where every Saturday the people go out,
03:10and they wash their sidewalks in front of their stores and their houses.
03:14They scrub. They scrub their sidewalks. So we aren't quite at that level yet.
03:20I don't think, Gatti, we're not quite there yet. But maybe we will. They go out and they scrub.
03:25I think it's so beautiful to hear that and to see those stories. But we're going to make it clean.
03:30But just to finish with your question, it's a very, very strong reflection of our country.
03:38And when they see a bad city, you know, my father always used to tell me,
03:44I had a wonderful father, very smart. And he used to say,
03:48son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door,
03:53don't go in. Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also.
03:58Same thing with the Capitol. If our Capitol is dirty, our whole country is dirty.
04:05And they don't respect us. So it's a very good question, actually.
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