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U.S. President Donald Trump commented on recent election outcomes, stating that the results are “not good for Republicans.” He cited two potential reasons for the party’s performance, though he did not provide detailed specifics in his remarks.
Trump emphasized the importance of understanding voter sentiment and party strategy as Republicans assess their standing ahead of upcoming elections. Analysts note that his comments reflect ongoing debates within the GOP about leadership, messaging, and electoral priorities.
Trump emphasized the importance of understanding voter sentiment and party strategy as Republicans assess their standing ahead of upcoming elections. Analysts note that his comments reflect ongoing debates within the GOP about leadership, messaging, and electoral priorities.
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00:00You probably know, and that'll get stopped also, but we've done a great job, so it's really, it's really been an honor to do it, and I did it with many of the people in this room, every one of you I know and every one of you I like, I like our leaders, I like everybody, but I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented, and what we should do about it, and also about the shutdown, how that relates to last night.
00:29I think if you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans, and that was a big factor, and they say that I wasn't on the back was the biggest factor, but I don't know about that, but I was honored that they said that, and I just want to thank everybody for being here, and a very special thanks to Vice President J.D. Vance, who's doing a terrific job. J.D., thank you very much.
00:59As well as the Senate leadership team that has been working very hard, working really, I will tell you, nobody's working any harder representing the American people, including Senator John Thune.
01:12John, thank you.
01:13Senator John Barrasso, John, thank you very much.
01:24Senator Tom Patton, wherever you may be, Tom, thank you.
01:28Thank you, Tom, thank you.
01:32Senator Shelley Moore Capito, who's been very involved.
01:35Thank you, Shelley.
01:36Senator James Lankford, from one of my favorite states, 77 out of 77.
01:43I've always said 77 out of 77.
01:47Reagan was 56.
01:48That was the record.
01:49We got every one of them.
01:51Thank you, James.
01:51Fantastic friend of mine and an incredible advocate during the election a year ago, Tim Scott.
01:57Thank you, Tim.
01:57So, as you know, we are in the midst of a disastrous, Democrat-created government shutdown.
02:07And it is Democrat-created, but I don't think they're getting really the blame that they should.
02:11That's now officially the longest shutdown in American history.
02:15The Democrat radicals in the Senate have shown zero interest in reopening the government.
02:21And I don't think they'll act so soon.
02:24A lot of people disagree.
02:25I've been saying for the last 30 days, we've had four or five different points.
02:30Yes, sir, they're going to get it right now.
02:32We should have it done in a day.
02:33I've heard that about four times.
02:35I heard it after King's.
02:36You know, they said I was a king.
02:38And I heard it after King's.
02:39I heard it after a couple of other moments in time.
02:43And I said, no, I don't believe so.
02:44And now I heard it's after the election.
02:46I don't believe so.
02:48I think they will.
02:49I think they're kamikaze pilots.
02:50I just got back from Japan.
02:52I talked about the kamikaze pilots.
02:54I think these guys are kamikaze.
02:56They'll take down the country if they have to.
02:58So I don't think so.
02:59Millions of Americans are going to be without SNAP benefits.
03:03And I will say about SNAP benefits.
03:05So when I was president, we had $7 billion worth.
03:08And now they have many times that because these benefits were given to anybody that asked.
03:13And they're up to, I hear, just many times, $47 billion.
03:18So it wasn't the purpose of SNAP.
03:22It was for people that really had problems, down and out, people that really had problems.
03:27But during Biden, they gave it to anybody that wanted it.
03:30I think it's something you have to talk about because the numbers are incredible.
03:34But countless public servants are now not being paid, and the air traffic control system is under increasing strain.
03:42We must get the government back open soon and really immediately.
03:46We have to get it open.
03:47We have the hottest economy we've ever had, and it's affecting the stock market now a little bit.
03:53But the stock market, as of Friday, has hit many record highs during the last nine months, many.
04:01And it will again.
04:02This is just the beginning because when these plants that are being built right now start opening up, we've never had anything like this as a boom.
04:09There's a construction boom right now.
04:11But that's going to be bigger than that.
04:12That's going to be an economic boom as soon as they open up.
04:16And it's going to be something special.
04:18We have car companies coming in.
04:20When I was in Japan, Toyota, Mr. Toyota, I said, what's your name?
04:24Toyota.
04:25I said, oh, you're rich.
04:29I said, how much of the company do you own?
04:3292.1%.
04:33I said, I'm glad you said the one.
04:35He wants to be here.
04:36I said, you're a rich guy.
04:38And he said, I'm investing $10 billion in the U.S.
04:42And you know who I'm talking about, right?
04:45You introduced me, Mr. Senator.
04:48You introduced me originally when you were the ambassador to Japan.
04:51He's still good.
04:52He's still strong.
04:53But he had no interest in investing in this country.
04:56Now he's investing $10 billion as of one week ago in building new plants.
05:00We have auto plants coming in incredibly, but we have AI in all of them.
05:04And we can't be extorted to give $1.5 trillion to people that came into the country illegally,
05:12many from prisons, many drug dealers.
05:15A lot of people came in from mental institutions.
05:19They want to give a lot of money to the people that came in illegally.
05:22We have to get them out.
05:23We can't.
05:23No country can sustain that.
05:25That's like an attack on our country.
05:27In no country, these are not going to be productive people.
05:29These are going to be anti-productive people.
05:32And we can be all have big hearts.
05:34They have a bigger heart than anybody, but we can't let that happen.
05:37It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that's terminate the filibuster.
05:41It's the only way you can do it.
05:43And if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape.
05:47We won't pass any legislation.
05:49There'll be no legislation passed for three and a quarter.
05:51We have three and a quarter years.
05:52That's a long time.
05:53But when they can't do an extension, and John, I think they've done an extension every single
05:59time they've ever been asked forever.
06:01This is the first time they haven't done an extension.
06:03Extensions are supposed to be easy, but if they won't do an extension, they won't do
06:06any bill, even a simple bill.
06:08And we should do our own bills.
06:10We should get out.
06:11We should do our own bills.
06:12We should open up.
06:13We should start tonight with the country's open.
06:17Congratulations.
06:18Then we should pass voter ID.
06:21We should pass no mail-in voting.
06:23We should pass all the things that we want to pass to make our elections secure and safe,
06:27because California is a disaster.
06:29Many of the states are disasters.
06:31But can you imagine when they vote almost unanimously against voter ID?
06:36All we want is voter ID.
06:37You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID.
06:40You go to a gas station, you give ID.
06:42But for voting, they want no voter ID.
06:45It's only for one reason, because they cheat.
06:47We would pass that in 15 minutes.
06:49If you don't get it, you'll never pass that.
06:52You'll never talk about mail-in ballots.
06:54Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt.
06:56If you have mail-in ballots, automatically it's correct.
06:59Even Jimmy Carter, they had the Carter Commission after he got out of office, and he had a group
07:04of very distinguished people, Democrats and Republicans, and they passed.
07:07They recommended things take place.
07:10It was a long time ago.
07:11And they said about mail-in ballots, if there is mail-in ballots, there will definitely be
07:16corruption, because, you know, they passed through too many hands.
07:19I mean, you go in to vote, and they want your card.
07:21Even me, I went into Palm Beach.
07:23You go in to vote, they want your card.
07:26You're this, you're that.
07:27They say, I'm sorry to do this, sir, but I have to look at your identification.
07:29I said, that's all right.
07:31I love that.
07:33But, you know, you're really not going to get away with much.
07:35It was very, very professional and very good, the way it's supposed to be.
07:39But these people don't want that.
07:41They have legislation in California where it's illegal to ask somebody for voter ID.
07:48If you ask somebody for voter ID, if you're an official, and you say, I'd like to see
07:53your voter ID, they can arrest you, okay?
07:57They can arrest you, because they want to cheat, and they get away with it, and the Republicans
08:02let them get away with it.
08:03And we won't do that if we have the filibuster.
08:06So I'm just going to, we're going to talk about that a little bit, and we're going to
08:09see if we can sway, because I know we have a lot of, not a lot, I'd say half feel this
08:14way, maybe a little bit less than half, and it's time to have a really good talk.
08:19If I thought that they weren't going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn't even bring it up.
08:24They're going to pass it within the first hour, and if they take power, and it's more likely
08:29that they take power if we don't do it, because we're not going to be passing any legislation.
08:33They're not going to approve anything.
08:34We're going to go three and a quarter years.
08:35There won't be one bill that we're going to pass, because the easiest thing to pass is
08:39exactly right now what they won't pass.
08:42And they'll do that, and they'll wreak havoc, but let's assume they get it.
08:46They're doing it anyway, so it wouldn't matter.
08:49They're doing it anyway.
08:50And, you know, I have a case where I have great U.S. attorneys that can't be approved
08:54because of the blue slips.
08:55The blue slips, I think you should terminate blue slips, too.
08:58It's a mental termination, because it's really a custom.
09:01But if you have a Democrat senator or two, two is bad, but it doesn't make any difference.
09:08If you have one senator who writes a negative letter on some great U.S. attorney, we had
09:12it in Manhattan, Southern District.
09:14Jay Clayton, one of the most respected lawyers in the whole country, by far one of the most
09:19respected, and couldn't get approved.
09:23The courts approved him.
09:24The courts couldn't believe it.
09:25They did it, like, instantly.
09:28He went to the best schools, got the best marks, top of his class.
09:31Everything was perfect.
09:32I mean, he was, like, led the perfect line, went to Sullivan and Cromwell, almost immediately
09:37became the head of Sullivan and Cromwell.
09:39You know, the most prestigious law firm, I would say, in the country, just about, whether
09:45it's Sullivan or two or three, I could name, but Sullivan, I would say, really, maybe number
09:49one.
09:50He was the head of Sullivan and Cromwell for, like, 20 years.
09:53He went to the SEC, was flawless.
09:55He did it for me.
09:56He was the SEC chairman.
09:59He was flawless.
10:00Then he went to Apollo, where he was the chairman of Apollo, and it was flawless.
10:07Everything went good.
10:08The stock went through the roof and everything.
10:09I asked him to go to the Southern District, and he said, I'll do what you'd like to do,
10:14sir.
10:14He's a very high-quality person.
10:16But he couldn't get approval from Schumer.
10:19Schumer didn't approve him.
10:21The best student, the best schools, everything.
10:23He's, like, flawless.
10:25And the courts actually said, you're not approving Jay Clayton, right, Lindsay?
10:30You heard this.
10:30The courts actually interceded, and they approved him.
10:34But that's an unusual guy.
10:36We have other people that are really good, but people don't know how good.
10:40Top students, top colleges, and they're U.S. attorneys, and they won't be approved.
10:47They're not going to be approved.
10:48We have one in Los Angeles who's phenomenal.
10:52The senators are, the Democrats are, you know, again, they're kamikazes.
10:56The Democrats are not going to approve them.
10:59Blue slips are a disaster.
11:01So the only people I can get approved are Democrats.
11:04I was told that by the Democrats.
11:05We'll only approve Democrats.
11:07I said, really?
11:08Is that right?
11:09Not going to work that way.
11:10Not going to work that way with me.
11:12But the blue slips are a total disaster.
11:14We will, I have 10 people right now that will not be, that are doing a phenomenal job, and
11:20they will be out of office pretty soon.
11:21They've got another two, three weeks, a couple of them, and then they're going to have to
11:25leave.
11:26And it's actually a blight on their record, because, you know, nobody knows why they left,
11:30but it looks like they served eight weeks, and then they had to leave.
11:34But they're not going to get the approval, because the Democrat, radical left, lunatic
11:39senators are saying you can't, we're not going to approve you.
11:44And if we're not going to approve you, I had actually one Republican who got two great
11:47letters, but it turned out that he was a rhino, but that was a nice term for him.
11:53Now, he got two letters of approval, and when I said two Democrats approved him, I had to
11:58fire him, because I figured if two Democrats approved him, they wrote the most beautiful
12:02letters.
12:02I found out, man, this is strange.
12:05And he was no good.
12:06I fired him.
12:07He was really not much of a Republican.
12:10The recommendation of that one wasn't such a good recommendation.
12:14Someday I'll tell you who recommended him, but it wasn't exactly the best.
12:17But when I saw two, you know, when I saw the two senators from Virginia gave him glowing
12:22marks, Tim, I said, let me see this.
12:25I read the most beautiful letters I've ever seen.
12:27I said, I called him up.
12:30I said, sorry, you're fired.
12:31Get the hell out of here.
12:33And, but it's, it's a horrible thing.
12:34Blue slips is a horrible thing, because I have the right to pick judges, and I have the
12:38right to pick U.S. attorneys, and this takes away the right from me.
12:43And I think we're going to go to court on it, and, you know, we'll see what happens in
12:46court, but it, it gives the president, it takes away the right of the president to pick
12:51people to serve on the court and to serve as U.S. attorneys, which is very important.
12:56But the biggest thing is the filibuster.
12:58We have to get the country going.
13:01We will pass legislation at levels you've never seen before, and it'll be impossible
13:06to beat us.
13:06By the way, if they do, they're going to do it anyway, and they are going to immediately
13:11do the filibuster.
13:12And when they do the filibuster, they're going to pack the court.
13:15They want five, at least five, just, now they, I hear it's up to five.
13:19I actually heard up to seven and up to nine, okay?
13:22They want new judges.
13:24They want to pack the court, and they will do it in first day, maybe the week.
13:29Maybe they'll slow it down, because there's no reason to rush.
13:33But they'll do it first week.
13:34They'll vote on this, and I have friends over there that are Democrats, very, I'm close
13:39to a lot of people, and I ask them about that, because some people say, well, maybe they
13:44won't do that.
13:45I mean, they destroyed the career of Manchin and Sinema, and they got them out.
13:49They were the only objectors.
13:50Nobody else is going to object.
13:52They're going to do it the first day.
13:53They're going to pack the court.
13:55They're going to make D.C. a state, and they're going to make Puerto Rico a state.
13:59So now they pick up two states.
14:01They pick up four senators, okay?
14:04You think you have problems?
14:06They're going to do all of the things.
14:07They're going to pick up electoral votes.
14:09It's going to be a very, very bad situation, and it's done.
14:13It's done.
14:14As soon as they attain power.
14:15Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never attain power, because we will
14:20have passed every single thing that you can imagine that it's good, and all good for the
14:26country.
14:26And there'll be no reason to do it.
14:28If we don't do that, people will say they're not doing much, and they're in power.
14:34So the good news is we did the great big beautiful bill, and it's the greatest thing we could
14:38have done.
14:39And the smartest thing with John and our Speaker of the House, who's so good, Mike Johnson,
14:47we did all in one bill.
14:50If we didn't, John, it would be a problem, because we would have gotten a small piece passed.
14:54A lot of people wanted to do that.
14:55A lot of people in the room wanted to do that.
14:57They went along with me and John and everybody, and we got this thing passed.
15:02Honestly, it's four years' worth of goodies.
15:05No tax on tips.
15:06No tax on Social Security.
15:09No tax on, think of it, no tax on overtime.
15:12It's an unbelievable tax cut for the workers and for business, where business is going to
15:17create jobs.
15:18And we are.
15:19We're creating jobs at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
15:21All these things are good.
15:22We have to be able to get the word out.
15:24If we don't get the word out, we're making a very big mistake.
15:27So I have this long, beautiful, and very boring speech.
15:29I won't bother.
15:30But, because we can just start talking.
15:34And I think it's very important.
15:36We have to get the country open.
15:37And the way we're going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster.
15:42And it's possible you're not going to do that.
15:44And I'm going to go by your wishes.
15:45You're very smart people.
15:46We're good friends.
15:47But I think it's a tremendous mistake, really.
15:49It would be a tragic mistake, actually.
15:52It's time.
15:54It's time.
15:54If I thought they weren't going to approve, I'd sort of be with you.
15:58It'd be fine.
15:59I'd be neutral to with you.
16:01But knowing that they're going to pass it as soon as they get any semblance of control,
16:06they'll pass it first thing.
16:08Then it's like we have to do it first.
16:09And we have two years.
16:11We'll end up with two, three years.
16:14And we'll have this country so perfect.
16:16We will pass more legislation than any Congress and any group of senators or a group of congressmen.
16:23And we will get it through.
16:25They'll send it to us.
16:26We'll send it to them.
16:27It'll be a beautiful machine.
16:29Otherwise, we're just going to sit around and argue with these people all day long.
16:34And they're highly unrealistic.
16:36Highly unrealistic.
16:37Many of them are radical left subversives, frankly.
16:42So I want to thank everybody.
16:44And we're going to talk.
16:45And I want to thank the press for treating us so really well for that foreign trip.
16:49It was an amazing, we had just an amazing meeting.
16:52Don't forget, two months ago, it looked like the whole world was in trouble over rare earth.
16:58And that's no longer even a subject that people talk about.
17:01It was all worked out very quickly.
17:03Without tariffs, I couldn't have done it.
17:05I put a 100% tariff on China.
17:08As soon as I heard it, within 20 minutes, I put a 100% tariff on China.
17:13When President Xi, who's really a friend of mine, as much as he can be a friend, he's a tough man.
17:18He's a tough man.
17:19Smart man, actually.
17:20Very smart.
17:22The press doesn't like it when I call him very smart.
17:24They think I'm not supposed to call him smart.
17:26But at least 1.4 billion people, without question.
17:30In fact, during the meeting, we were there.
17:33A couple of you were there, and some of you saw it.
17:36So he's here, and he's got about six people on each side.
17:39And every one of those people was standing like this.
17:43They weren't attached.
17:44And I made a comment to one of them, and he got no response.
17:48I said, are you going to answer me?
17:49I got no response.
17:51And President Xi didn't let him have any.
17:53So, if there's any question, I said, I want my cabinet to behave like that.
17:58I'm demanding that my cabinet.
18:00I want them sitting up like that, Tim, just nice and straight.
18:03I never saw a posture like that.
18:04I've never seen men so scared in their lives.
18:06They have the equivalent of a vice president.
18:11He was, I said, are you going to answer my question?
18:14And he's like, he doesn't move.
18:16I said, what's wrong with this guy?
18:17I will answer all questions.
18:19Why don't you behave like that?
18:21J.D. doesn't behave like that.
18:23J.D. buds into conversations.
18:26I want to have that for at least a couple of days, okay, J.D.?
18:30We'll keep you long-term, but a couple of days.
18:33A couple of days of that would be very, very nice.
18:36Okay, I want to thank you, and we'll talk a little bit.
18:39And I see they set me up with a podium.
18:41I thought I'd just be sitting, but it's probably easier.
18:44I want to thank you all very much.
18:45Thank you to the press, and you can go, and we'll speak to you later.
18:48I'm going to Miami to make a speech today at a big group,
18:52and we have a nice big crowd, and we'll see you there.
18:55A lot of you are traveling down with me.
18:56Thank you very much.
18:57Mr. President, you sound very frustrated by last night's election.
19:00What are the takeaways for people in this room?
19:03Thank you, press.
19:04What happened to the donor when they made the press?
19:06Thank you, press.
19:08Please wrap.
19:09Thank you, guys.
19:09Please.
19:10Keep moving.
19:12Thank you, guys.
19:13Keep moving.
19:14Keep moving, guys.
19:15Keep it going.
19:16Keep moving.
19:27Keep moving.
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