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President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on the 90th anniversary of Social Security.
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00:00Hello, everybody.
00:12How are you?
00:18Are you all set?
00:20How are you?
00:25How are you?
00:31Thank you very much for being with us.
00:33It's a good time for this country, whether you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:38I think you're hearing it from a lot of people, not just from me.
00:43We're doing very well in so many ways.
00:45And the gentleman on my right, we recruited him.
00:49We tried to get the best person.
00:52We got a man that you'll hear in a second.
00:53And he's done an amazing job with respect to Social Security.
00:58He's running it, and he's running it like nobody ever even dreamt possible.
01:04And it's the 90th anniversary right now of Social Security.
01:08So today we celebrate that 90th anniversary of one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law,
01:17the Social Security Act of 1935.
01:21And we're going to make it stronger, bigger and better, really doing a job.
01:26In the campaign, I made a sacred pledge to our seniors that I would always protect Social Security.
01:32And under this administration, we're keeping that promise and strengthening Social Security for generations to come.
01:39You keep hearing stories that in six years, seven years, Social Security will be gone.
01:43And it will be if the Democrats ever get involved, because they don't know what they're doing.
01:47But it's going to be around a long time with us.
01:50Very much, you'll be surprised to hear some of the numbers.
01:53I'm delighted to be joined by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank Pizzignano,
02:02who, in the world of business, in fact, I wrote some of the little things down.
02:08But he's had an amazing, amazing chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase.
02:14He worked for Jamie Dimon.
02:16And Jamie Dimon said that he was amazing.
02:19So think of that chief operating officer, JPMorgan Chase, had a storied career.
02:24Then he went to First Data.
02:27For those in the business, you'd know it's the largest payment company anywhere in the world.
02:32And they worked for Henry Kravis, and it was in big trouble.
02:36He took it over as a CEO.
02:37He made it incredible.
02:38They merged with Fiserv, and he became CEO of that.
02:43And that became extremely successful.
02:46I was in Milwaukee.
02:47I guess they have the Milwaukee Arena, where we had some good success and some good speeches.
02:54But he's a really legendary guy, and he wanted to do this.
02:58I mean, he just wanted to straighten out Social Security, because he loves our country.
03:02And what he's done in, you know, a few months is amazing.
03:05Almost 60 million American seniors rely on Social Security for peace of mind and a life of dignity in retirement.
03:14These Americans paid into the system, and they deserve leaders in Washington who are going to protect the benefits they've had and protect Social Security.
03:22Under Biden, Social Security went down like nobody's ever seen.
03:28It deteriorated.
03:29There's never been anything like it.
03:32The four years of Biden were very, very destructive.
03:36It couldn't have gone on much longer.
03:38Social Security was going to be destroyed.
03:41It was being destroyed.
03:42The average call wait time reached an all-time high of more than 42 minutes.
03:47Field office wait times were at 32 minutes, which is unheard of.
03:52And the disability claims backlog was the longest ever in recorded history.
03:58In other words, it was run just like the country was run.
04:01It was run really badly.
04:02But I'm pleased to report that under our leadership, and Frank in particular, the changes he's made and what he's done is sort of a miracle.
04:11Sort of like what happened with the country as a whole field office wait times are now down 30% since last year, and it looks like it's going to a total record number.
04:23And the record was set in a long time ago when the world was a lot different place.
04:29We're going to beat that record.
04:31Call wait times are down 73% while serving twice as many customers per day.
04:37The disability claims backlog is down 26%, and seniors now have 24-7 online access to their accounts, which they never had before, whereas under Biden, the website was down 29 hours a week for maintenance purposes.
04:55It was essentially not open very much.
04:58They were always maintaining it, but they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
05:00They had a person running that that had no idea what they were doing.
05:04Among my very first acts was to order all government employees to return to the office or be removed from the job, which means our Social Security offices are now open for full business hours, five days a week.
05:19So unlike being shut down all the time, we're open at record levels also.
05:25We're making it really great for the people that want and demand Social Security, and they paid into the system.
05:31They deserve it.
05:32Last month, I signed one big, beautiful bill and allowed no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
05:39Okay?
05:39So how's that?
05:41Not bad, right?
05:42No tax on Social Security for our seniors.
05:45And to protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
05:55These are people, many of them have already left the country, and yet we were sending them checks all the time.
06:02And 275,000, and that number is now even larger than that, Frank.
06:07It's an unbelievable job.
06:08And what that's doing is making the system strong.
06:13It's making it strong.
06:14Biden never kicked anybody off.
06:16Everybody joined.
06:18And we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud.
06:24It's the Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
06:29We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database over 120 years of age.
06:37Just think of that.
06:39So we had 12.4 million names where they were over 120 years old.
06:45Is that right?
06:46That's a hell of a statement.
06:48I have a feeling, Dan, that's not really going to, really didn't happen, did it?
06:53So you have 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database that were over 120 years of age,
07:04meaning you're breaking records, because I've never heard of anybody at 125.
07:08There were nearly 135,000 people listed who were over 160 years old, and in some cases getting payments.
07:17So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that.
07:20We're also fighting the menace of inflation to make life more affordable for American seniors,
07:26and we've ended Biden's inflation nightmare.
07:28So we had the worst inflation in the history of our country, and now our inflation is down to a perfect number,
07:35a beautiful number, hardly any at all.
07:38And yet our country's taking in tens of billions of dollars, and trillions of dollars, actually,
07:44trillions of dollars in tariffs.
07:47And you know all about it.
07:49It's been amazing.
07:50They say, why are we taking in so much money?
07:53Last week, they found $29 billion, and they couldn't figure out where it came from.
07:59I said, check the tariff shelf.
08:01And they said, how did you know that's where it came from?
08:05We're taking in billions and even trillions of dollars in tariffs, paid by other countries
08:11who, frankly, were taking advantage of us for many, many years.
08:16And they were doing that to us, but our people didn't know it.
08:19We didn't have smart business people.
08:23We've ended Biden's inflation nightmare and came in below expectations.
08:27And yet, again, this past month, we have set records.
08:31Gasoline prices are way down, and really dramatically, as everybody knows.
08:37And energy prices have been going down, other than in certain states where you have Democrat-run states
08:44where they put windmills all over the place.
08:45Anytime you see a windmill, you'll say, well, they have bad energy costs, and it's happening in New Jersey.
08:52I saw that there's a revolution going on in New Jersey.
08:55They closed up a nuclear power plant, and they're raising electricity rates by 21, 22, and 28 percent, something like that.
09:05And you're going to have a new governor in New Jersey.
09:08I'll tell you what, you have a good man running in the Republican Party.
09:13He'll get them down.
09:13But what they've done is they've killed so many good sources of energy for very expensive windmills
09:20and lots of other things that don't work.
09:23401ks and retirement accounts are soaring, and the stock market is setting record highs.
09:29Almost every day we're going record highs, and yet we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs.
09:37So it's turned out that Trump was right, and they were wrong.
09:41A few smart people knew what was going to happen.
09:43A few of us were right.
09:45So we're going to keep the fighting going.
09:47We're going to make America's seniors every single day.
09:51We're going to fight for them.
09:52We're going to make them richer, better, stronger in so many different ways.
09:55But Social Security is like pretty much the one that we think about, and we love it, and we love what's happening with it.
10:03And it's going to be good for 90 years and beyond.
10:06Again, you were given only a short period of time.
10:09Social Security was supposed to be like down.
10:12Had they won the election, Social Security would have defaulted during Biden or Kamala's election, whoever they so chose.
10:20Two beauties.
10:22And now what I'd like to do is ask Frank to say a few words.
10:25Again, this is a man with a really storied past.
10:29One of the most successful anywhere in the world.
10:32What he did at JPMorgan Chase and what he did for Henry Kravis and all of the others are like legendary stories.
10:39And he just wanted to do this.
10:41He's making about a tiny fraction, I would say, a tiny fraction of what you used to make.
10:46But he didn't care.
10:47He wanted to do it.
10:48He made a lot of money, and he said, I want to run that system.
10:51I want to put it back on track.
10:52And he's got an unbelievable talent over there.
10:55It's like a different place.
10:57So, Frank, would you say a few words, please?
10:59There's less than 1% a tiny fraction, sir.
11:02Is that what it is, less than 1%?
11:05That's a tiny fraction.
11:06That's an honor.
11:07It's an honor.
11:08It is an honor.
11:09And I'd like to start off by thanking the president for his tireless effort in running the country and what he's done across the country, meeting every commitment.
11:21And, you know, I see it directly in the big, beautiful bill, the opportunity that it's brought to seniors.
11:26But his effort on every commitment, delivering against it, and delivering on world peace tirelessly.
11:34I'd like to also thank him for my opportunity.
11:38You know, he's teasing me.
11:39I'm teasing him about the economics of the job.
11:43But the reality is to serve 300 million Americans, which is what Social Security serves, is a tremendous honor.
11:54And him putting that faith in me and building what I believe, what I believe, and I think I have a right to say it, is the best leadership team ever assembled in the White House and in the Cabinet.
12:10So that's my great honor.
12:11So I come here and get the opportunity to serve the American public in a manner that I never imagined in my life.
12:21And what we found was the opportunity to fix a foundation.
12:25The reality is people talk about 72 beneficiaries.
12:29I talk about over 300 million Americans with a Social Security number that we must protect through the system.
12:38And when you look at what we talk about in eliminating Social Security numbers that were live in the system, they could carry fraud through the whole system.
12:49So the first thing was root out fraud, waste, and abuse.
12:54But while doing it, the best way to be more efficient is provide more accurate payments and better service.
13:04And you heard the numbers.
13:06I think the most staggering number is that we had a website that was down 29 hours.
13:13This will be a digital-first agency.
13:16And we are building my SSA accounts.
13:19That's the digital account.
13:21And we have a bold goal of 200 million Americans to have a digital SSA account by the end of next year.
13:29It will happen.
13:31Just like we had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on the calls when they were at 40 minutes.
13:40And we did that.
13:41This is my 100th day.
13:42We did that within 90 days.
13:46Right?
13:46Get the web up and running.
13:48Bring technology to our field offices.
13:51Use digital presence to answer and serve the American public.
13:56That's the job.
13:57When we do all that, then we'll really know the answer to if we have a hole.
14:03Right?
14:03I was presented in my second week on the job with $18 billion in errors by the inspector general.
14:13It was public.
14:15In less than a month, we solved $9 billion of it.
14:20So that's the type of swift action we can take.
14:24Right?
14:24You see the things like the big, beautiful bill for the seniors.
14:28You see better digital services.
14:31You see field office wait times down.
14:34If you make an appointment to have a field office visit, it now happens in six minutes.
14:42Unprecedented.
14:43We are serving more people and delivering more than was ever delivered before in a manner with the highest possible quality.
14:52And we've just begun.
14:52You should expect this to be a great digital first agency.
14:56My commitment to make this happen is as deep as the president's commitment to make the world a great place.
15:06And you see the fabulous job happening here across America and what he's doing in the world.
15:11You should expect Social Security, just like the president, I thank him for making America great again.
15:20It's happening.
15:21Social Security will be great again.
15:25You have my commitment.
15:26Thank you, Mr. President.
15:27I'm going to sign the new proclamation, please.
15:33Sir, this is a proclamation both commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, the signing of the Social Security Act, and also the incredible accomplishments of your administration, fixing and promoting and safeguarding Social Security.
15:47And it also obviously mentions the fact that as part of the one big beautiful bill, a vast majority of our senior citizens are no longer paying taxes on their Social Security benefits, as you promised in your campaign and as you delivered for the American people.
16:00That's a big factor, isn't it?
16:02Yes, sir.
16:02That's great.
16:04I think they're very happy about it, too.
16:06They're very happy about a lot of things.
16:08Good job, Frank.
16:09Thank you, sir.
16:10And Frank has brought with him some of the most talented people in business, and they were making, again, they were making a lot of money, but they made a lot of money.
16:22They had money they didn't have to make anymore, and they just want to do this.
16:25They want to have our country become strong and good, and that's what's happening.
16:31And we're doing that in a lot of locations, a lot of areas.
16:34You deal with some of the people that are commissioners, that are secretaries of state, secretaries of treasury and commerce, people that were really, really successful people.
16:47And they gave all that up to make a very small amount of money.
16:52They don't even consider it a fraction.
16:54You say 1%, less than 1%.
16:56That's pretty good.
16:58That's a big pay cut, but Frank is one of the most outstanding of all.
17:02His career has been incredible, and you just have to look at what happened at J.P. Morgan Chase and look at what happened with First Data.
17:09First Data was the biggest company of its kind in the world, but it was not going to make it.
17:14He went in, and it became a tremendous success and merged into another company, and he became the head of that company.
17:22Then he said, let me go save Social Security, because as big as that stuff is, it's small potatoes compared in terms of numbers, right?
17:29In terms of numbers, these are big numbers.
17:31Government numbers are big numbers.
17:34So I want to thank everybody for being here, but I'm really proud of you, Frank.
17:37And here's your proclamation, and let's take a look at what that looks like.
17:42Signed by the human hand.
17:43For a change.
17:47That's good, right?
17:50Do you have any questions for Frank?
17:52How about questions for Frank?
17:54For Frank?
17:55Mr. President?
17:56Yes, on Social Security.
17:57Please.
17:58First and foremost, this was a major campaign promise that you had.
18:012023 was one of the first Agenda 47s that you put out.
18:04It was titled, We Must Protect Medicare and Social Security.
18:08Why was this important for both of you to get done, given the fact that it will impact millions of lives?
18:14Well, it was very important to me, because I knew how Social Security, I've been hearing about it for years, long before I came to office, that it was really going to die very shortly.
18:25And I had to put somebody outstanding in, and we were talking.
18:30I was talking to him on a business sense once, and I said, this guy's amazing.
18:34And he said, I'd love to help you with Social Security, because it's sort of what he does.
18:39You know, he takes troubled entities and turns them around.
18:43And he did some of the biggest messes in the world, and Social Security in a certain way, I guess.
18:51You know, you reported it all the time.
18:53In four or five years, it's going to go bust, but not anymore.
18:56It's not.
18:56And he's got it turned around so well.
19:00The proclamation helps.
19:01All of the things we've done help.
19:02And he's finding such tremendous fraud, where we have illegal aliens.
19:07We have people that don't even exist on Social Security now.
19:10They don't exist.
19:12And what it does, it makes it totally secure and powerful for the people that are on it and need it.
19:18And we're very proud of the job he's done.
19:21One of the best.
19:21This is the President.
19:22This is Laura Castro from Lindell TV.
19:23How are you today, sir?
19:24Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continue to peddle the lie and the claim that you're trying to cut Social Security, despite your repeated promises to protect it.
19:33Why do you think they keep pushing this misinformation and literally terrorizing the elderly in America that sadly keep watching the very misleading industry media?
19:41I love your question.
19:42I should have called you almost first, but I love his questions also.
19:46But it's such a good question.
19:49It's so vicious what they do.
19:51Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian.
19:55We call her Pocahontas.
19:57She's a liar.
19:57She lied her whole career based on the fact that she was an Indian.
20:02She was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there.
20:10She's a liar and a mean person.
20:12She's a nut job.
20:14I watched her the other night.
20:16She's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City.
20:19And she was all excited and jumping up and down.
20:22She's got to take a drug test.
20:24She really does.
20:24She's got to take a drug test.
20:25There's no way somebody can act that way and be normal.
20:29What she's done to our financial institutions, she destroys people.
20:33You know that you had a lot of great banks in the Midwest and banks that loaned to farmers and others and they went out of business.
20:39She put them out of business.
20:41Stone cold, mean.
20:42Banks that were open 150 years.
20:44Family banks that supplied the farmers and manufacturers and others.
20:48And she put them out of business.
20:50She's a mean, horrible human being.
20:51Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders.
20:54I don't mind him so much.
20:56He's just a liberal guy.
20:57Very liberal guy.
20:58He's a wacky guy.
21:00He's still sharp.
21:02I got to tell you, you know, he's 86 or 87 or something.
21:05He's still sharp.
21:06You compare that to Joe Biden.
21:08It's, you know, sort of what happened.
21:10So I don't mind Bernie Sanders.
21:11With him, you know what you're getting.
21:12You're getting a guy.
21:13He's a nasty guy.
21:15But he's somebody that, I don't know if I call it a fastball, but he's able to throw the ball pretty well.
21:24He's okay.
21:24I watched him the other day.
21:25He was totally on the opposite side of things.
21:27I will say this.
21:28Because the biggest issue right now and an issue that's really taken hold is crime.
21:33Stopping crime in the cities.
21:35And the Democrats are fighting the stopping of crime.
21:39So I think that's like men playing in women's sports is okay or transgender for everybody okay.
21:47But this is a bigger issue.
21:48This is the biggest of all issues.
21:50Crime is rampant in D.C.
21:52It's rampant in our generally blue-run cities.
21:56And they've got to do something about it.
21:58And they're never going to win another election.
21:59And instead of calling me a dictator, they like to say Trump's a dictator.
22:03Trump's a dictator.
22:03Well, I had calls from many, many friends, including Democrats.
22:09I have a lot of Democrat friends, but they're normal people.
22:12And they were thanking me so much for what I'm doing in D.C.
22:15They feel so safe already.
22:18And, you know, at the border, we had, Frank, we had zero people come in.
22:22And this is done by a liberal group.
22:24They're the people that do it.
22:26I have nothing to do with it.
22:27Zero people in three months.
22:29We had zero, zero, and zero for three months.
22:31And last year, we had millions of people pouring in from all countries, from jails, from drug addicts, gang members, drug dealers, by the thousands and thousands.
22:4411,888 murderers, half of whom committed more than one murder.
22:51They flowed into our country.
22:54And for the last three months, we had none.
22:56And I didn't get, remember when Joe Biden used to always go, I need legislation.
23:00I need, I had no legislation.
23:01I just said, we're closing the borders.
23:03And the whole world understood it because they respect your country again.
23:06They really respect this country again.
23:09They didn't respect it.
23:10When he said it, it didn't mean anything.
23:12But now they know it meant a lot.
23:14And Mexico does what we tell them to do.
23:17And Canada does what we tell them to do.
23:19Because we had the two borders.
23:20We have the northern border, the southern border.
23:22And they were both horrible.
23:24But now it's, some people say it's a miracle.
23:28Well, what Frank has done with Social Security also is something very special.
23:32But what we're doing with crime, which will be your next question, I guess.
23:36That's because everyone's fascinated.
23:38They're afraid.
23:39Half of the people here, maybe all of the people here, most of you live in D.C., you are petrified
23:44to go out.
23:46And you're liberal.
23:47And if you're liberal, you're going to have to change.
23:49You're Democrats, you're going to have to change your ways.
23:52So we will have crime under control very shortly in D.C.
23:56But they're record numbers.
23:58And sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to
24:04be fudged so that it would show less crime than the fact.
24:07The fact is, it's worse than it's ever been.
24:09And we will have it, just like we did at the border, where borders are totally in great
24:14shape right now, the best ever, record-setting shape.
24:17We'll have the crime situation solved in D.C. very soon.
24:20And we're also going to beautify the city.
24:22We have a beautiful city, but you can't have graffiti and you can't have roads with potholes
24:27and you can't have the medians, the dividers in the roads, falling down on the street.
24:33We're going to be beautifying the city, making it really beautiful.
24:36Well, we're going to be getting the criminals the hell out of here.
24:39We don't want the criminals in Washington, D.C.
24:41Mr. President, one on your Putin meeting and then one on D.C. crime.
24:45Are you prepared to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare minerals to incentivize him to end
24:51the war?
24:52We're going to see what happens with our meeting.
24:54We have a big meeting.
24:56It's going to be, I think, very important for Russia and it's going to be very important
25:00for us and important for us only that we're going to save a lot of lives.
25:04Look, we have, you know, we're not paying any money, as you know, to Ukraine.
25:09We're supplying equipment.
25:11We're being paid 100 percent plus for that equipment by NATO.
25:16And I got NATO up from 2 percent to 5 percent of GDP.
25:20They now have billions of dollars.
25:24NATO is a very rich group of countries and we make the best military equipment anywhere in
25:30the world by far and they're buying our equipment and they're paying 100 percent for the equipment.
25:34100 percent.
25:35In fact, they owe us about two billion dollars now.
25:37They're going to send the check.
25:39Another one was sent recently for a billion dollars.
25:42So we don't we're not spending any money anymore.
25:44Biden gave them 350 billion dollars.
25:46Got nothing for it.
25:48And if you look and by the way, we also signed a rare earth deal where we get, you know,
25:53years of rare earth to get our money back, the money we spent.
25:56But what I'm really doing this for is to save thousands of soldiers a week.
26:02You have Russian soldiers, you have Ukrainian soldiers, and then you'll have missiles dropped
26:07into various cities and towns in Ukraine.
26:10And they're losing seven.
26:12Last week, they lost 7,251 people, mostly soldiers, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers.
26:21I'm doing it for that reason.
26:22We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow.
26:25I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second
26:29meeting that we're having.
26:30We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe
26:35we'll bring some of the European leaders along.
26:37Maybe not.
26:38It's I don't know that it's going to be very important.
26:40We're going to see what happens.
26:42And I think President Putin will make peace.
26:46I think President Zelensky will make peace.
26:48We'll see if they can get along.
26:50And if they can, it'll be great.
26:52You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months, a little more than six months now.
26:59And I'm very proud of it.
27:00I thought the easiest one would be this one.
27:01It's actually the most difficult.
27:03We had one war raging, as you know, for 37 years.
27:06One in the Congo with Rwanda was raging for 31 years.
27:10We solved six of them.
27:11Made peace.
27:12Not just solved them.
27:13We made peace.
27:14If you look at Pakistan and India, that was, planes were being knocked out of the air.
27:20Six or seven planes came down.
27:22They were ready to go.
27:24Maybe nuclear.
27:25We solved that.
27:26I thought this would be maybe an easier one.
27:30It never made sense, this war.
27:32It would have never happened when I was President.
27:33If I were President, this war would have never happened.
27:36But millions of people have been killed.
27:38And I'm there for one reason, to see if I can solve.
27:41This was Biden's war.
27:42This isn't my war.
27:43I want to see if I can stop the killing.
27:45Yeah.
27:46Do you plan to offer him access to that at all?
27:50We have great rare earth.
27:53We made that as payment for all of the money that we've spent so foolishly in Ukraine.
28:01We spent $350 billion.
28:04Now, Europe spent a billion.
28:06That's a lot of money.
28:07They spent $100 billion.
28:09That's a lot of money.
28:10But we shouldn't be spending a lot more money than them.
28:15And they understand that.
28:16And I think that's maybe why we're not spending money anymore.
28:20We're not spending any money.
28:21They're paying us for everything.
28:23So it's pretty...
28:24People are shocked when they hear it.
28:25They don't even understand.
28:26They don't even write about it.
28:27But we're not spending money.
28:29But we are spending a lot of time trying to get the war solved.
28:31If we can get the war solved, we'll be very happy.
28:34As far as rare earth, that's very unimportant relative to that.
28:36I'm trying to save lives.
28:38On D.C. crime, sir.
28:40On D.C. crime, do you have a message for the Democrat lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi or media
28:45who are saying, after living here for many years, that there is no crime and you're trying
28:48to start a new news cycle?
28:50It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide.
28:54They lie.
28:55It's just why.
28:56Look, the crime is very bad.
28:57I think they'd be much better off saying, we want to help President Trump with a crime
29:01because it's an epidemic.
29:03It's a tragic situation.
29:05It's the worst it's ever been.
29:06And we want to help President Trump with a crime as opposed to, he's a dictator.
29:11He's a dictator.
29:12People are so happy to see our military going into D.C. and getting these thugs out.
29:18As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday.
29:20We arrested a lot of people today.
29:22We're getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn't believe.
29:2828 arrests, 15 arrests, brutal, brutal people.
29:34And we're going to have to do something about this cashless bail because people shoot somebody,
29:40they kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less than an hour.
29:43Now, that's when it's all started.
29:46In New York, in Chicago, Los Angeles, you take a look.
29:50If we didn't go to Los Angeles to help this incompetent governor and a mayor that doesn't
29:55know what the hell she's doing, if we didn't go to Los Angeles, you wouldn't have a big
30:00part of it burned down.
30:01The other part of it would have burned down, too.
30:04You would have not had, I don't think you would have been able to have the Olympics.
30:07We have the Olympics.
30:08I have a lot at stake with that because I'm the one that got the Olympics.
30:12I got it in my first term.
30:13And I was saddened because I got it for what would be my third term, okay, which turned
30:20out to be second term.
30:22And the Olympics, it's a great honor, but I felt badly because I said I won't be president
30:29when the Olympics came.
30:30Well, through circumstance, I am president.
30:33I want to make sure the Olympics is great, the World Cup is great, and the 250, maybe the
30:38most important of all, is the 250-year celebration is great.
30:41So what's happening is we will work very hard.
30:46You would not have had, I don't believe that if I didn't send in the troops, I don't think
30:51you would have had Los Angeles in condition to have the Olympics.
30:55I think you would have had to tell them, I'm sorry, you're going to have to go someplace
30:58else.
30:59And if you look at the police commissioner or the sheriff, he said, we really needed them.
31:04Thank God they were here.
31:05We really needed them.
31:06That was the first two or three days.
31:08After we solved their problems, then he said, well, I think we could have maybe done it.
31:12Now, he was told what to say.
31:14He said, you go back to your files and see what he said.
31:17He said, thank goodness they came.
31:20If I didn't go and put our military there or National Guard in that case, and we'll go
31:25military if we have to.
31:26But the National Guard went there, they were very effective.
31:29If we didn't do that, I don't think you would have had the Olympics in Los Angeles.
31:32The place would have been just like the 25,000 houses that burned down.
31:37Where, by the way, the governor ought to focus on getting their permits.
31:41You know, the federal permits are given.
31:43Those are the hard ones.
31:44And they were given a long time ago.
31:46People can't rebuild the house because they can't get permits from the state and the city.
31:51And they ought to focus on that because it's very upsetting.
31:54I went there right after the fires.
31:57I walked the streets, and I met a lot of great people.
32:00They wanted to rebuild their homes.
32:01We took care of it from the federal standpoint.
32:03But they're not taking care of it from the city, the mayor, and the governor.
32:08They're not getting their permits.
32:09They can't build their houses.
32:11Mr. President, on this week, go ahead, please.
32:13Mr. President, thank you.
32:14Do you think this summit and the incentives for peace you were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine?
32:23And what kind of signal do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors?
32:27No, I don't think it's a reward.
32:29I think that what we have is a situation that should never have started.
32:34Should have never started.
32:35It didn't start under me.
32:36And for four years, it wasn't even discussed.
32:38And I could see it was going to happen after I left.
32:42I could see what was happening.
32:44Everything that we did was wrong.
32:46Everything that was done was wrong.
32:49Everybody's to blame.
32:50Putin's to blame.
32:52They're all to blame.
32:53This is a war that would have never happened.
32:56Mr. President, do you see what you have?
32:57The other question on L.A.
32:59Mr. President, earlier today, the Washington, D.C. police chief issued an executive order
33:04allowing metropolitan police officers conducting traffic stops to notify federal immigration
33:09and customs enforcement about undocumented immigrants that they encounter, yet the city
33:14has a long-standing pro-immigration policy, including allowing non-citizens to vote with local elections.
33:21Which is ridiculous.
33:21And limiting cooperation with federal immigration agencies.
33:24Right.
33:24Did your administration pressure the D.C. police chief to review and repeal these policies?
33:29And will you require other cities to roll back similar policies to avoid possible federal
33:34takeover of local law enforcement?
33:36So what you're saying is that it was a very positive thing.
33:38When they stop people, they find they're illegal, they report them, they give them to us, etc.
33:41That's a very positive thing.
33:43I have heard that.
33:44It just happened.
33:45That's a great step.
33:47That's a great step if they're doing that.
33:49Yeah, I think that's going to happen all over the country.
33:51We want to stop crime.
33:53I think if the Democrats aren't strong in this issue, they won't be able to do it.
33:56I think this is a bigger issue than all of the other ridiculous things, like open borders.
34:02Well, open borders is bad.
34:03Open borders has caused a lot of this problem, allowing millions and millions.
34:08I think 24 million people were allowed to come into our country.
34:11Many of these people from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions.
34:16This was the Biden policy.
34:19And I don't believe it was him.
34:20He was never there before.
34:21It was the people that encircled this very beautiful desk, the Resolute Desk, radical
34:27left lunatics who were smart, but radical left.
34:32And I'm very happy to hear what you just said, because I've heard that.
34:35And Mr. President, on L.A., if I may, the mother of a 15-year-old California boy was
34:41briefly detained at gunpoint in the case of mistaken identity.
34:45The L.A. USD superintendent says that surveillance video shows armed agents wearing police and
34:51border patrol insignia.
34:53Given the National Guard, the border control, ICE agents, they're not trained in local policing.
34:59What specific steps are you taking to ensure that young people are not putting harm's way
35:03with these types of operations?
35:05Yeah, what they are trained in is common sense, and they're very tough people.
35:09And they have great common sense, and they are highly trained.
35:13I heard the mayor of L.A. was saying, oh, they're not trained this way.
35:17I heard this character from, where was he from?
35:21They talk about him as a candidate.
35:23He's got no chance.
35:24The governor of Maryland, I watched him this morning saying that, the governor of Maryland,
35:30yeah, they say maybe he'll be a president.
35:32He's not presidential timber at all.
35:35But I heard him today talking about how the National Guard or the military is not trained
35:41in police, but they're trained in common sense, and they're trained in not allowing people
35:46to burn down buildings and bomb buildings and shoot people and all of the things.
35:50So they've done a great job.
35:51Again, if we didn't send them, and very importantly, if we didn't send them into Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
35:57the rest of Los Angeles would have been burned down to the ground.
36:01When you look at Minnesota, Minneapolis, I sent them into Minneapolis because the governor
36:05wouldn't make the call.
36:06If I didn't do that, you wouldn't have a Minneapolis.
36:09It wouldn't be, I don't think it would be existent today.
36:12You remember the famous scene burning over the CNN anchor's shoulder?
36:16He said, everything seems to be very peaceful.
36:18And behind him, the whole city's burning down.
36:21So you had the whack job governor who ran for vice president and made a fool out of himself.
36:26You would have had, I saved that city, I'll tell you, I saved that city.
36:32So the bottom line is, these are very tough people that are trained in a thing called common
36:40sense, and they're also trained in doing what we're talking about right now.
36:43And you watch Crime Stop, but you wouldn't have Los Angeles, it wouldn't be existent today.
36:48We would have had to cancel the Olympics if I let that go on.
36:51Mr. President, Mr. President, will you pressure Israel to allow journalists into Gaza to cover
36:58the humanitarian efforts the U.S. is pursuing?
37:02I'd like to see that happen, Jim.
37:03Would you pressure them?
37:04I would like to see it happen.
37:06I would be very fine with journalists going in.
37:08It's a very dangerous position to be interviewed, as you know, if you're a journalist.
37:12But I would like to see it.
37:14Add on tariffs.
37:15Brazil, Mexico, and Latin America are getting closer to China.
37:18And they say it's partly because of the tariffs you're imposing in those countries.
37:22Are you concerned about them getting closer to China?
37:25No, not at all.
37:26I'm not concerned at all.
37:27They can do what they want.
37:28You know, none of them are doing very well.
37:30And what we're doing in terms of economics, we're blowing everyone away, including China.
37:35We're doing better than any other country in the world right now.
37:38Now, Brazil has been a horrible trading partner in terms of tariffs.
37:44As you know, they charge us tremendous tariffs, far, far more than we were charging them.
37:48We weren't charging anything, essentially.
37:51And Brazil has some very bad laws happening where they took a president and they put him
37:56in jail or they're trying to jail him.
37:58And I happen to know the man.
37:59And I will tell you, like, I'm pretty good at people.
38:02I think he's an honest man.
38:03I think what they've done, this is an electric.
38:05This is really a political execution that they're trying to do with Bolsonaro.
38:10I think that's terrible.
38:12But they also treated us very badly as trading partners for many, many years.
38:16One of the worst.
38:16One of the worst countries on earth for that.
38:19They charged tremendous tariffs and they made it very difficult to do anything.
38:23So now they're being charged 50 percent tariffs.
38:27And they're not happy, but that's the way it goes.
38:29Mr. President, Mr. President, on D.C. crime, sir, on D.C. crime,
38:33are you concerned at all that some federal officers that are helping D.C. police
38:38might be being pulled away from other high-priority assignments?
38:41Like what?
38:42Like what?
38:43Terrorism.
38:44Oh, really?
38:45Terrorism?
38:45They'll stop terrorism as part of what they're doing right now?
38:48No.
38:50The soldiers that we have, first of all, we have plenty of them,
38:54long beyond what they, that you have here.
38:57We're just using a very small force.
38:59You know, in Washington, D.C., they have thousands of police.
39:03They have a lot of police.
39:05But the police weren't allowed to do their job.
39:07We have a lot of great ones.
39:08And you have some that weren't so good, to be honest.
39:10But they weren't allowed to do their job.
39:12But now they are allowed to do their job.
39:14And essentially we've, we've, it's only two days,
39:17but if you look at the numbers already, they're dropping.
39:20And no, they're not being pulled off for anything.
39:22Mr. President, as you know, there were some very concerning reports
39:26about crime statistics, police are manipulating crime data
39:29to downplay crime in D.C.
39:31Will the administration release its own crime statistics
39:33to counter their misinformation?
39:35And will those individuals who are intentionally
39:37misrepresenting crime data and fudging the books, like you said,
39:41be penalized for endangering the public?
39:43They are under investigation right now.
39:46They are giving us phony crime stats,
39:48just like they gave other stats in the financial world.
39:51But they're phony crime stats.
39:54And Washington, D.C. is at its worst point.
39:57And it will soon be at its best point.
39:59You're going to have a very safe, you're going to have a crime-free city.
40:01I mean, I say that, you're going to have virtually a crime-free city.
40:05And these are strong men, but the criminals are strong men and women,
40:10but they're strong men.
40:12And these are people that don't play games.
40:15We're not playing games.
40:16These are criminals we're dealing with.
40:18And they treated people.
40:19They took one of the people that worked for us the other day.
40:22You saw the beating, the pounding.
40:24Ten against one.
40:26And they pounded the hell out of him.
40:28He's lucky to be alive.
40:29He's barely, almost killed.
40:31And we're not going to have that happening.
40:33Please.
40:33Mr. Tulsi Gabbard declassified more documents last night
40:36related to the Russiagate hoax.
40:38She's doing a great job, by the way.
40:39That was another fake story.
40:40I'm very happy with the job she's doing.
40:42That's right.
40:43They declassified some terrible documents
40:46talking about Democrats and what they did.
40:48Radical left lunatics.
40:50It showed that then DNI James Clapper sent out emails to IC officials
40:54saying that it would be a team sport to push them to debunked 2017 ICA report
40:59and that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities.
41:03What's your reaction to the latest declassification?
41:06And in your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for the players?
41:10It's incredible what we're finding.
41:13Absolute proof of guilt.
41:15And we'll see what happens.
41:17But Clapper and Comey and that whole group of criminals, they're criminals.
41:23And they made it very tough.
41:24You know, they did the fake Russia, Russia, Russia witch hunt that lasted for two years.
41:30And I got totally exonerated.
41:33There was no doubt about it.
41:34They should have done it in one day, not two years.
41:37But there was a whole scheme to try and demean Trump so that I couldn't win an election.
41:43And that is a criminal group of people.
41:45They're sick people.
41:47And they're criminals.
41:48And they should be taken care of.
41:50Does Putin have a strong hand tomorrow?
41:54Well, he came to our country.
41:56And I heard CNN fake news talking about that that was a big win for him.
42:03Normally, you would say the opposite.
42:05But they said, oh, it's a big win that he came here.
42:07Normally, we'd say the opposite.
42:09You know, he came here.
42:10I think that President Putin would like to see a deal.
42:14I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine.
42:17It's a war that should have never happened.
42:20If I weren't president, in my opinion, he would much rather take off, take over all of Ukraine.
42:28But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me.
42:31On Russia, Mr. President, would you support or agree to reducing NATO troops in Europe,
42:38in countries like Poland, in order to get Russia to agree to a peace deal?
42:43That hasn't been put before me, and I'll think about that for later.
42:46But it has not been put before me.
42:48Go ahead.
42:48Is anything less than an unconditional and immediate ceasefire a victory for the U.S.?
42:53Tomorrow?
42:54Yes.
42:55Well, tomorrow we'll see.
42:56I say, you know, I don't know where that comes from.
42:59It's sort of not a good question.
43:01I would say that tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting,
43:05which should happen shortly.
43:07I'd like to see it happen very quickly, very shortly after this meeting.
43:10I'd like to see it actually happen maybe in Alaska, where we just stay, because it's so
43:15much easier.
43:16But I think that, I think it's going to be very interesting.
43:20We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll know within the first two minutes,
43:25three minutes, four minutes, or five minutes, like we tend to find out, whether or not we're
43:29going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting.
43:31And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly.
43:34And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.
43:37Okay?
43:38How about one more?
43:40Thank you, Mr. President.
43:42On the Smithsonian, I know that your administration is seeking to weed out a lot of this left-wing
43:46spin that's in the museums, but we're seeing from people like Brian Stelter or other commentators
43:51that they're insinuating that you are trying to change history according to your narrative.
43:56What's your response to that, and is there anything you'd particularly like to take on that?
43:59Well, we want the museums to treat our country fairly.
44:02We want the museums to talk about the history of our country in a fair manner, not in a woke manner
44:07or in a racist manner, which is what many of them, not all of them, but many of them
44:11are doing.
44:12Our museums have an obligation to represent what happened in our country over the years,
44:16good and bad, but what happened over the years in an accurate way.
44:21Thank you very much, everybody.
44:22Thank you, Press.
44:23Thank you, Press.
44:25Thanks, guys.
44:26Cut it out right here.
44:27Thank you, Press.
44:28Thanks, guys.
44:29Cut it out right this way.
44:30Right this way.
44:31Thanks, guys.
44:32Keep coming.
44:33Let's go, guys.
44:34You see the video of the sandwich thrown at the officer?
44:35Thanks, guys.
44:36Thank you, Press.
44:37Thank you very much.
44:38Thanks, guys.
44:39Thank you, Press.
44:40Sir, can I have you look right over here for a moment?
44:52Yeah.
44:53Thanks, guys.
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