Donald Trump Warning: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order easing restrictions on medical marijuana while delivering a stern warning to young Americans: “Don’t take drugs!” Trump emphasised that the move does not legalise recreational use but recognises marijuana’s potential in carefully administered medical applications, including as a substitute for addictive painkillers. Speaking to the press, Trump highlighted the dangers of illegal and unregulated drugs and urged youth to stay away unless prescribed by a doctor.
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00:00The President is pretty amazing.
00:03Hello, everybody.
00:05Thank you very much.
00:15Well, this is a big day, and many reasons —
00:25and really, for many reasons.
00:27I have a very distinguished group of people behind me,
00:31mostly medical people and brilliant people,
00:35and they really know what they're doing.
00:37And I just want to thank them.
00:39They truly gave their lives in terms of the time
00:43and all of the incredible work they've done over the years
00:47in arriving at the position they have now —
00:50most respected people in the country.
00:52Today, I'm pleased to announce that I will be signing an executive order
00:55to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III control substance
01:00with legitimate medical uses.
01:03We have people begging for me to do this —
01:08people that are in great pain.
01:11For decades, this action has been requested by American patients
01:15suffering from extreme pain, incurable diseases, aggressive cancers,
01:20seizure disorders, neurological problems, and more,
01:23including numerous veterans with service-related injuries
01:27and older Americans who live with chronic medical problems
01:30that severely degrade their quality of life.
01:33And it's so — really, I mean, just — I can't tell you.
01:39I think I probably have received more phone calls on this —
01:44on doing what we're doing.
01:46I don't think I received any calls on the other side of it.
01:50But hopefully this reclassification —
01:53which, by the way, polls at 82 percent —
01:56will help many of those patients live a far better life.
02:01We're joined today by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
02:04who's doing a fantastic job.
02:06Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
02:11Dr. Mehmet Oz.
02:13The FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty McCary,
02:16Director of the National Institutes of Health,
02:19Dr. Jay Bhattacharya,
02:21and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
02:25Dr. Nora Valkow,
02:28as well as Dr. Ilana Braun
02:31from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
02:34Duke University's Dr. David Kassaret,
02:37the National Commander of the American Legion, Dan Wiley,
02:41and my friend Howard Kessler.
02:42Howard, how are you feeling?
02:43I'm telling you, he looks better than he did 20 years ago.
02:48But I don't want to go through what you went through.
02:50I don't want to go through what you went through to get there,
02:52but it looks like you're doing great.
02:54I'm proud of you.
02:55I want to emphasize that the order I am about to sign is not the legalization
03:03or it doesn't legalize marijuana in any way, shape, or form,
03:08and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug.
03:12It has nothing to do with it.
03:13Just as the prescription painkillers may have legitimate uses,
03:18but can also do irreversible damage and never, you know,
03:23if you look at some of the damage that can be caused, wrecked lives,
03:28and if it's abused, it's never safe to use powerful control substances
03:33in recreational manners, and especially in this case,
03:37if you take a look, illegal and unregulated drugs,
03:41a very, very bad thing.
03:43So I've always told my children,
03:45don't take drugs, no drinking, no smoking,
03:48and just stay away from drugs.
03:50I have been — they would look at me and they'd say,
03:53Dad, would you stop saying that?
03:55I would say it every time I looked at it, practically.
03:58Young Americans are especially at risk,
04:00so unless a drug is recommended by a doctor for medical reasons,
04:05just don't do it.
04:07At the same time, the facts compel the federal government
04:10to recognize that marijuana can be legitimate
04:14in terms of medical applications when carefully administered,
04:18in some cases.
04:19This may include the use as a substitute for addictive
04:22and potentially lethal opioid painkillers,
04:25and they cause tremendous problems.
04:27This can do it in a much lesser way,
04:30can make people feel much better
04:34that are living through tremendous pain and problems.
04:37Forty states and multiple U.S. territories
04:40have already recognized the use of medical marijuana.
04:44This reclassification order will make it far easier
04:47to conduct marijuana-related medical research,
04:50allowing us to study benefits, potential dangers,
04:54and future treatments.
04:56It's going to have a tremendously positive impact, I believe.
05:01We're also asking Congress to reconsider its classification
05:04of hemp-derived CBD to ensure seniors can access CBD products
05:10they have found beneficial for pain and are the reasons.
05:14Some people are literally dying,
05:16and they're dying with tremendous pain.
05:18And this can, in many cases, literally stop it.
05:23And they have their senses about them,
05:25as opposed to painkillers, which don't allow that.
05:29Don't allow them to die with dignity, frankly.
05:32I promise to be the President of Common Sense,
05:36and that is exactly what we're doing.
05:37This is really something having to do with common sense.
05:40And it's something having to do with the fact
05:42that so many people that I respect ask me to do it.
05:46People that are having problems, big problems.
05:48They are having big problems with illness,
05:50with cancer in particular.
05:52I now want to ask Dr. Oz to say a few words,
05:55followed by Dr. Braun, Dr. Casaret, Dan Wiley, and Dr. Valkow.
06:01And we'll sign the order as soon as they're complete.
06:08And we'll take some questions.
06:10Please, go ahead.
06:11Mr. President, thank you for always bravely pushing
06:13for common sense change, as you call it.
06:16So, President Trump, Secretary Kennedy,
06:18have been pushing for change.
06:20They are passionate and a desire to help the American people.
06:24And they have relentlessly pursued this agenda
06:26throughout this administration.
06:28This also includes a deep passion for research.
06:30Gold standard research, as Secretary Kennedy also says.
06:33But there's another side to the President
06:35that often isn't reflected in media reports.
06:38And that's the deep passion he has for the people in his life.
06:41And he has called me frequently about the people who are calling him,
06:44as he alluded to, who are saying that they've got problems
06:48and they've got relief from some of the solutions
06:51we're talking about today.
06:52Howard Kessler, who's standing behind me here,
06:54who's a mutual friend of ours,
06:56was an early caller of the President.
06:57Many others have reached out as well.
07:00And Howard's been a passionate advocate for avoiding narcotics,
07:03especially in seniors, and particularly seniors suffering from cancer.
07:07And that's a population that is a very important one.
07:10And it's a sympathetic population that's like,
07:12that's desirous of trying new ways,
07:14besides some of the conventional approaches
07:16that have been tested by pharmaceutical companies
07:18but have untoward side effects.
07:20At the beginning of the year,
07:22one of the first things the President told me,
07:24he doesn't actually tell you, he demanded from me,
07:26that my agency, CMS...
07:28Nobody demands from him.
07:30Nobody. You have to know him.
07:32That's right. Go ahead.
07:33Used all tools that is wherewithal to find a better way to help seniors.
07:38A passion for a population that has gotten left behind with these discussions.
07:43I promised that we would find an answer, even though it had not been done before.
07:47And today, we are delivering on that promise.
07:50Today, our Innovation Center at CMS is announcing a new model and additional actions
07:55to give seniors access to cannabinoids.
07:58These are CBDs.
07:59They're not addictive, which many are already using to manage pain.
08:03There's some clinical evidence that's showing that CBDs provide relief from common conditions that affect Americans,
08:09including cancer symptoms, and chronic pain, and a slew of other problems that affect disproportionately seniors and our veterans.
08:16And six in ten people who use the CBDs report that they improve their pain.
08:23I think all of those people are calling the President,
08:26judged on the number of calls in the support of what we're doing today.
08:30Because sometimes these decisions are difficult, and there's a reason this hasn't happened before.
08:34And there's a reason, Mr. President, that every President before you has whiffed on this issue.
08:38It's tough.
08:39And I know there's going to be a lot of discussion about it.
08:41That's why we're so passionate about making it clear that this patchwork that we're working within now,
08:47the laws and regulations, they're leaving patients and doctors without adequate guidance on the safeguards
08:53of how to use these products, even though they're still being used.
08:56At Medicare, we cover 68 million Americans, including people under the age of 65.
09:01And they did not have a way of providing these treatments until today.
09:06With the President's insistence, that's all changes.
09:09The Innovation Center models are going to allow millions of Americans on Medicare to become eligible to receive CBD as early as April of next year,
09:17and at no charge, if their doctors recommend them.
09:20Thanks to the hard work of the entire CMS team, especially Abe Sutton and Guida Dio at the Innovation Center,
09:27the accountable care organizations in this country working in Medicare will be able to provide these products, again, at no cost to patients.
09:33Medicare Advantage insurers, and we've been calling them, are also agreeing to consider CBD to be used for the 34 million Americans that they cover.
09:41If you can hear my voice and you're over 65, you should pay attention to this executive order because it's going to touch your life.
09:46Again, this all becomes active after the first quarter of next year.
09:49These CBD products must first meet local and state quality and safety standards.
09:53They must come from legitimate sources, and they must abide by other regulations of those states.
09:58With these boxes checked, patients can be eligible for up to $500 of hemp-derived products each year.
10:05This is the first government-led testing of quality and outcomes for patients across different conditions,
10:10and it delivers on the need for more data collection and research into hemp usage.
10:15CMS is going to collect data, that's our job, on the patients that are being given these products by their physicians.
10:20And in accordance with all the privacy and security regulations, we're going to analyze that data.
10:24We're going to make it publicly available to everybody to be able to analyze with us.
10:28If it shows promise, we will expand access to these products to even more conditions amongst Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
10:35I want to thank not just the Secretary, but Marty McCary.
10:38We want a lot of companies who are doing this research that approach the FDA for formal approval.
10:42That is the right way to move forward.
10:44And Jay Bhattacharya, who's hiding in the back, he rarely hides.
10:47But Jay runs NIH, and he's agreed to support initiatives to study the data that we're collecting.
10:53Howard Castro, God bless you for being a pain in our sides.
10:57Mr. President, he's promised to stop calling you.
11:00But on this issue, we'll call you on other issues.
11:03And I thank you again, from the bottom of my heart, for taking a difficult stance.
11:06Thank you very much.
11:08Okay.
11:09Mr. President, members of the Cabinet, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here.
11:14And for your leadership in rescheduling cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
11:20This decision will accelerate scientific research and expand what can responsibly be studied.
11:27I'm a cancer psychiatrist and medical cannabis researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
11:32Over the past decade, federal investment in research has helped transform cancer care.
11:37People are living longer than ever before.
11:40But cancer care is not only about treating the tumor.
11:43It's also about addressing the anxiety, the fear, the stress that can come with a diagnosis.
11:48Symptoms that can interfere with treatment and make recovery much more difficult.
11:52Many medications we use for acute anxiety carry significant risks, particularly in the older adults.
11:59That's why we're studying specific natural compounds found in cannabis, including the non-addictive cannabidiol,
12:07to understand whether they can safely and effectively help manage anxiety during cancer treatment.
12:12Rescheduling allows us to ask these questions rigorously about dosing, about safety, and who may benefit most.
12:19This research reflects the best of federal investment, helping people not only live longer but live better.
12:26Thank you, Mr. President, for supporting careful science-based research that puts patients first.
12:33Thank you, Doug.
12:34That was beautiful.
12:36I'll add my vote of thanks, Mr. President.
12:39I never really thought this day would come.
12:42I met a patient about 20 years ago, a retired professor named Elizabeth, who came to my clinic.
12:48She was dying of pancreatic cancer.
12:50And she asked me then whether cannabis might help her.
12:54And I said no, because that's what I learned in medical school.
12:57She reached into her briefcase, took out a three-inch-tall stack of articles, put them down on my desk, and said,
13:04Really?
13:05Doctor?
13:06You should read these.
13:07You might learn something.
13:08And I did read those articles.
13:09Every single one, I found a bunch more.
13:11And I did learn something.
13:12I learned that there actually is some medical benefit to cannabis that I had not anticipated, never heard about in medical school.
13:19Second, I learned that there was a lot we don't know.
13:21And third, I learned it's really, really, really difficult to do high-quality randomized control trials of a substance that's federally illegal.
13:29This rescheduling has the potential to change all of that and to rewrite the way that we do research related to cannabis in the United States in three ways.
13:36First of all, it'll democratize the research process so that all academic institutions can participate in research, not just elite academic medical centers.
13:45Number two, it'll give patients and researchers access to highly refined, reliable sources of cannabis rather than relying on one or two sources around the country.
13:55And last but not least, it'll let us do the sorts of large-scale randomized controlled trials that we do in oncology and cardiology.
14:01Not dozens of patients, but hundreds of thousands of patients.
14:04That's how we learn.
14:05That's how we produce valuable knowledge that's useful in guiding treatment decisions.
14:09Mr. President, without you, this never would have been possible.
14:12And my patients and I and all of our families are grateful.
14:16Thank you, Doctor, very much.
14:17Thank you very much.
14:21Mr. President, I am Dan Wiley, National Commander of the American Legion, representing 1.5 million veterans.
14:27We are the biggest, largest veterans organization.
14:30We have 2.5 million members of our American Legion family.
14:34And I want to start by thanking you for your leadership on this issue.
14:39This issue is extremely important to the American Legion.
14:42And I want to thank you on behalf of the veterans who are going to benefit from potentially the research regarding this issue.
14:51I also want to thank you for your VA secretary, Secretary Collins, and his work on difficult veterans issues with us this past year.
15:01The VA has worked with us on our Be The One mission, which is a mission to fight the epidemic of veteran suicide.
15:12Veterans are disproportionately affected by conditions such as PTSD, TBI, depression, and chronic pain.
15:22And with this reclassification, it will allow research to be conducted with regard to cannabis.
15:31There is anecdotal evidence that cannabis benefits these conditions.
15:35And now we'll have an opportunity to see if research does prove that it is effective.
15:41And if it is so, then it will open up a whole new method of treatment for our veterans with regard to this particular issue.
15:51And so, again, I just want to thank you for your leadership.
15:55And thank you on behalf of the American Legion for this executive order.
15:59Such great people.
16:00Thank you very much, Mr. President.
16:01That have suffered and will suffer a lot less now.
16:03You're right.
16:04Based on what I hear.
16:06Good afternoon.
16:07Anybody else, please.
16:08I'm Nora Volkov.
16:10I'm Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
16:13And for us, the rescheduling opens the door to actually be able to accelerate the rate at which we can do research and discovery.
16:20And research is crucial in order for us to, for example, understand what may be and for whom the dangers of cannabis.
16:28Yes, cannabis can be addictive.
16:30And certainly people, adolescents and children may be the most vulnerable.
16:35But we cannot close our eyes to research and the opportunity that we are hearing from patients that, for some of them, cannabis can solve their problem.
16:44And so what we need to do is do research, number one, to understand what are those conditions.
16:49Number two, in order to be able to optimally learn how to use it.
16:53And to understand, number three, who is a danger.
16:56And it is knowledge that will allow us to optimally benefit, take the benefits that may be behind cannabis, as research shows.
17:05But on the other hand, also enable us better to do prevention interventions to protect those that are most vulnerable.
17:12So thanks very much.
17:13Great job.
17:14Thank you very much.
17:15Thank you, Doctor.
17:16Bobby, do you have something to say?
17:17I'll just echo thank you, Mr. President.
17:22Thank you for your leadership and vision.
17:25And finally, getting to closure on this issue.
17:28This is a question, a scientific question, that has divided our country for many, many years.
17:36And there are valid claims on both sides.
17:39On one side, patients and physicians attest that cannabinoids and THC can have miraculous effects on chronic pain, on epilepsy, on PTSD, on chemotherapy-induced nausea.
17:57My friend, Howard Kessler, without whom we wouldn't be here today, has drove this change in the schedule.
18:09And he did it because of his own experience in mitigating the impacts of chemotherapy.
18:16There's nothing to gain from this.
18:18He just saw something that worked for him, that worked for thousands of other Americans, and he wants to make it available to them.
18:26On the other side, there are valid claims about the negative impacts about addiction, about psychosis, about adverse public health impacts, and impacts particularly on young people.
18:40So the evidence on all of these is anecdotal and it's hypothetical because we have not been able to do the scientific studies.
18:50There is no standardized dosing.
18:55And if you don't have standardized dosing, any study that you do is comparing apples to pears.
19:01And we don't know the difference between botanicals and synthetics and all of these questions we're now going to be able to answer.
19:09Five administrations have promised to act on this issue.
19:13The Biden administration promised to do this and the proposal began during the Biden administration.
19:18It got mired down in the chaos and inertia and disorganization.
19:23And I want to thank President Trump, who made the promise during the 2024 election that he was going to come in and solve this issue, that he was going to take decisive action.
19:35And he has kept that promise today.
19:37And so thank you, President Trump, for your vision.
19:41And because of that, we will have answers very soon.
19:45This will finally allow us to study this issue and to answer these questions for the American people.
19:51Thank you very much, Robert.
19:56Howard Kessler, a friend of mine, one of the most successful people in the country, came to see me on more than one occasion, actually.
20:07And he had some real difficulty about three and a half, four years ago.
20:12And he went through hell.
20:14And during his going through hell, he probably sampled everything you can sample when you're going through that hour.
20:20Sure.
20:21And he came to me, said, there's been nothing like this.
20:24And we're going to have to take a good, strong look at it.
20:27And that's what he asked me to do.
20:29And others have likewise said that many others.
20:32I mean, you know, again, I've never been inundated by so many people as I have about this particular reclassification.
20:44And I don't know that you have anything to say, Howard.
20:46If you'd like, you could say whatever you like.
20:48I just want to help the people 65 and over and make a difference in their lives.
20:53And we have machines and talent that could do it, not in eight-year clinical trials, but in a year.
21:00And we're going to prove that to be — may change the world, really, in healthcare.
21:04So thank you, Mr. President.
21:06And I'm far younger than 65, so this does not pertain to me.
21:11I don't want it, okay?
21:13I'm not going to be taking it.
21:15But a lot of people do want it.
21:16A lot of people need it.
21:17And thank you, Howard, for really opening a lot of eyes.
21:23Okay.
21:24We'll sign it.
21:25We'll take some questions from the press.
21:27You can ask the doctors some questions.
21:29And it's an honor to do this.
21:34Well, that's a good one.
21:44Thank you very much, everybody.
22:05Any questions, please?
22:06Mr. President.
22:07Yes.
22:08A health-related question on your healthcare plan.
22:10You've said you want to make direct payments to Americans.
22:13But these Obamacare subsidies are expiring now in a matter of just a few days.
22:18More than 20 million Americans are now bracing for their premiums to skyrocket.
22:22Are you going to let this happen?
22:24Or will you intervene?
22:25They will skyrocket because it was never any good.
22:27I'd like to see the money that is going to the insurance companies.
22:31And by the hundreds of billions of dollars, you know, their stocks are up 1,400 percent,
22:361,800 percent, and 1,624 percent.
22:40Their stocks are up through the roof over a fairly short period of time because they're
22:45getting vast amounts of money.
22:47I want that money to go to the people directly and let the people buy their own healthcare.
22:52And they'll get much better healthcare than they get with the Unaffordable Care Act, as it's known by a lot of people.
23:01It is virtually unaffordable for people.
23:03It's a bad thing.
23:04We can have a great thing.
23:05Let the money go directly to the people and let them buy their own healthcare.
23:09But this is an urgent problem, Mr. President.
23:11Is there anything you can do now, Mr. President?
23:13This is going to be right now, as far as I'm concerned.
23:17Go ahead.
23:18We just got data today.
23:19Do we have federal exchanges where people come shopping for the ACA?
23:23And the President hasn't heard this yet, but we've talked to the team.
23:26The percentage change from last year was down 2.7 to 2.8 percent.
23:32Not the massive numbers that have been predicted.
23:35And there's many possible reasons for this.
23:37But right now, Americans are signing up for these programs, despite all the things that have been going on.
23:422.8 percent is a tiny fraction of what many had claimed would happen.
23:47And I think it speaks to the fact that the American people appreciate these ACA plans are already subsidized over 80 percent.
23:53So it's a good deal, even if you don't get the extra 15, 20 percent.
23:58It's a great solution to much better healthcare at a much lower cost.
24:05Yeah, please.
24:06But do you want Congress to extend these ACA subsidies?
24:09Well, I'd like not to be able to do it.
24:10I'd like to get right into this and ask Oz this question in particular.
24:14But I'd like to see us get right into this.
24:16I don't know why we have to extend.
24:18This could be done rapidly if the Democrats would come along.
24:21We have a problem.
24:22The insurance companies own the Democrat Party.
24:27They own it.
24:28And the Democrats are having a hard time.
24:30They give a lot of money to the Democrats.
24:32Very little money to Republicans, by the way.
24:34A lot of money to Democrats.
24:36And they're going to have to decide.
24:38Do they want to do the right thing or do they want to be beholden to the insurance companies?
24:44They're making a fortune.
24:46I want the money to go to the people.
24:48Go ahead, Oz.
24:49How would you say that?
24:50I agree with the President.
24:52We have some ideas out there.
24:53Congress is working through some concepts.
24:55But I just want to emphasize that the ACAs are not imploding based on the data we just received from the federal marketplace.
25:01This can go very quickly, actually.
25:03Yes, please.
25:04Mr. President, can I clarify something for me on the Federal Reserve?
25:07How many people are you interviewing for the Fed Chairman?
25:10And what did you think of Chris Waller?
25:12I think he's great.
25:14I mean, he's been a man who's been there a long time.
25:18Somebody that I was very involved with in the sense of his career.
25:22And he's a fantastic man.
25:24I met him yesterday, again.
25:26So how many people are you looking at?
25:28We're talking to three or four.
25:31I think every one of them would be a good choice, honestly.
25:34So Michelle Bowman?
25:35We'll be making a decision pretty quickly.
25:37Is Michelle Bowman on that list, too?
25:38Are you going to interview her?
25:39She's fantastic.
25:40She's a fantastic person.
25:42Thank you, Mr. President.
25:44Some GOP lawmakers have written to you in recent days saying they're concerned this executive order could normalize drug use for youth.
25:50How would you respond to them?
25:51Do you think about this particular today?
25:54Well, I think I'd let one of the doctors respond to it because they can do it a lot better than me.
25:58But I can only tell you that when you see polls of 82% of the people want this.
26:04When I have friends that are really, really sick and they've gone through, I guess you could say, fortunately I don't want to become too involved in it because I don't want it happening.
26:14But these are people who really know what's going on.
26:16Very smart people.
26:17This is one of the most successful people in the country and a very brilliant guy.
26:21And when they go through this horrible ordeal of cancer or other things and they realize that this is something that makes them feel better without all of the side effects of some of the drugs where you're just totally knocked out and out of it.
26:39But I'd like to have one of the doctors maybe respond because you people do it better than anybody.
26:43I'm happy to respond.
26:44Yes.
26:45And my answer is we have had cannabis scheduled for how long?
26:49And it hasn't protected neither the adolescents nor the adults.
26:52We have 20 million people in the United States with a cannabis use disorder.
26:56This is not legalizing it.
26:58It's making it easier to do research so that we can use it when it is indicated and optimal.
27:06So it's also a big part of this is research.
27:09In other words, you'll now have a much larger sample and you'll be able to see if it's as good as many people say it is.
27:15I mean, people say it is beyond good and you'll be able to find that out now.
27:21On housing, you talked in your address last night about housing.
27:25Yeah.
27:26Are you still considering a national emergency over housing?
27:28I'm looking at it.
27:29What would that look like?
27:30What would that mobilize?
27:31You know, I have two.
27:32There's two thoughts on housing.
27:33You have a lot of people have housing that because we have such a strong time and such a strong market there, houses are very valuable.
27:41It's a big part of their net worth, their house.
27:46I don't want to knock those numbers down because I want them to continue to have a big value for their house.
27:52At the same time, I want to make it possible for young people out there and other people to buy housing.
28:00In a way, they're at conflict.
28:02In other words, you create a lot of housing all of a sudden and it drives the housing prices down.
28:07So I want to take care of the people that have houses that have a value to, you know, to the house that they never thought possible, that have sort of made them wealthy and happy.
28:17And, you know, especially in their later years, got to be careful with that.
28:21I want to keep them up.
28:22At the same time, I want to make it possible for people to go buy houses.
28:26Daniel, please.
28:27Mr. President, you announced the Warriors' dividend last night in your primetime speech.
28:32Very patriotic, very generous.
28:34What was the rationale and the thought process?
28:36How did you come up with the idea?
28:37What made you want to give back to us?
28:38Well, the 1776 was easier to come up with because we're actually at 1775.
28:43You know, the number was 1775.
28:46And I said, wow, I think we can afford one more dollar.
28:50But we actually, they came up to me, it was 1,775.
28:56So I said, well, let's add a dollar to it.
28:59I think we can find that.
29:01And very simple.
29:03We've had a military that, in my opinion, by other presidents, was not treated well.
29:09They're incredible.
29:10They're finest people.
29:12They're protecting us.
29:14And because of tariffs, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars more than we ever have before.
29:21With no inflation, by the way.
29:23With no inflation.
29:24You saw the inflation numbers that just came out today.
29:26What great timing.
29:27Practically no inflation.
29:29And yet we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars.
29:32And this is small potatoes by comparison.
29:35But it's a way of taking care of our warriors, our soldiers.
29:39And I appreciate that question, Daniel.
29:42It was an easy one.
29:44She just posted on X, your press secretary, that the board members of the Kennedy Center voted unanimously to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.
29:53What is your reaction to that?
29:54Well, I was honored by it.
29:55The board is a very distinguished board.
29:57Most distinguished people in the country.
29:59And I was surprised by it.
30:01I was honored by it.
30:02You know, we're saving the building.
30:04We saved the building.
30:05The building was in such bad shape, both physically, financially, and every other way.
30:09And now it's very solid, very strong.
30:11We have something going on television, I guess, on the 23rd, December.
30:17I think it's going to get very big ratings.
30:19And the Kennedy Center is really, really back strongly.
30:24It's a very bad shape.
30:26Very, very bad shape physically.
30:28And we're also to get Congress to put up a lot of money and other people to put up a lot of money.
30:34We had a lot of donors come in for record-setting numbers.
30:37So we saved the Kennedy Center.
30:39And I was really — this was brought up by one of the very distinguished board members.
30:44And they voted on it.
30:46And there's a lot of board members.
30:47And they voted unanimously.
30:49So I was very honored by it.
30:51Mr. President, will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?
30:58For any what?
30:59For any land attacks on drug cartels in Venezuela?
31:02I wouldn't mind telling them.
31:03But, you know, it's not a big deal.
31:04I don't have to tell them.
31:05It's been proven.
31:07But it wouldn't — I wouldn't mind at all.
31:10I just hope they wouldn't leak it.
31:12You know, people leak it.
31:14They are politicians and they leak like a sieve.
31:17But I'd have no problem doing that.
31:20On that, Mr. President.
31:21Mr. President.
31:22Mr. President.
31:23Mr. President, there's a meeting this weekend on Ukraine in Florida.
31:27What are you hoping will come out of that meeting?
31:29Well, they're getting close to something.
31:30But I hope Ukraine moves quickly.
31:32I hope Ukraine moves quickly.
31:34Because Russia's there.
31:35And, you know, every time they take too much time, then Russia changes their mind.
31:41Twenty-seven thousand soldiers were killed last month.
31:46Think of that.
31:47What do you think of that, doctors?
31:48Twenty-seven thousand — it's like a half a football stadium — were killed in one month.
31:54And it's that way.
31:56It's anywhere between 20,000 and 30,000.
31:59Mostly soldiers.
32:00Also some people from Kiev and other places.
32:03But largely it's the soldiers.
32:06They're losing their lives.
32:07Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
32:08It's the worst since World War II.
32:11And, you know, you've heard me say, I settled eight wars.
32:16Some going on for 35 years.
32:18One going on for 37.
32:19One going on for 32.
32:21And eight wars.
32:23And I thought this would be an easier one.
32:26This is because of the animosity, the hatred.
32:29It's a little bit more difficult than we thought.
32:31But there's a chance we can get this done maybe soon.
32:35Sir?
32:36Remember that.
32:37Twenty-five to 30,000 people being killed a month.
32:41Young people being killed a month.
32:43Stan, please.
32:44What do you expect to make your announcement about the new Fed chair, sir?
32:47Before the end of the year?
32:49What do you think?
32:50Over the next couple of weeks.
32:51I mean, I don't know before the end of the year, but pretty soon.
32:54And then Rocky Mountain, North Carolina tomorrow night.
32:57Tell us what your message is going to be there, sir.
32:59Say what?
33:00When you go to Rocky Mountain, North Carolina tomorrow night, what's your message going to be there?
33:04Well, it's not going to be that much different from what I did last night.
33:07I mean, we've had tremendous success.
33:09We're bringing prices down.
33:10We inherited a mess.
33:12And part of what we inherited was the worst inflation in 48 years.
33:17I say history, but we had the worst inflation.
33:20It drove prices up.
33:22Now we're bringing those prices down.
33:23But I'll be talking about that.
33:25I'll be talking about the fact that we secured the border where literally nobody can come into
33:29our country illegally anymore.
33:31And they came in from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers and, you know,
33:37a lot of bad people from all over the world.
33:39Venezuela emptied their prisons into our country.
33:42We had Tren de Aragua, which supposedly the doctors don't know this.
33:48It's it's the meanest gang of them all.
33:51OK, doctor, you don't have to know about it.
33:53You got other problems, but they let a lot of bad people in here.
33:58And so I think I'll be talking about that.
34:00I think I'll be talking about the tremendous success we have by sending the National Guard
34:05into various cities and D.C. is the ultimate example.
34:09People walk to work and they they thank me all the time.
34:13People in the White House.
34:14They just walk to the White House from 10 blocks away before I came into office.
34:18They couldn't do that.
34:19They were they were getting badly hurt in many cases and beyond hurt killed.
34:26So we were losing people.
34:28We're losing on average a person a week.
34:30Can you believe it more?
34:32And now we haven't lost anybody a long time.
34:34I consider the two people that got so badly hurt.
34:38The National Guard.
34:39That's a different city.
34:40That was terrorism.
34:41That was terrorism and probably terrorism, maybe terrorism, because they were unhappy
34:46with the tremendous success we've had because they don't want to see this country be successful.
34:51But Washington, D.C. now is a safe, beautiful city where the restaurants are booming.
34:57The town is booming.
34:58People walk to the restaurants with their wife or their children and have a good time.
35:04We were losing all the restaurants.
35:06We were losing our life in this.
35:08We were just the whole the whole heritage of Washington, D.C. was was down the drain.
35:14And we brought it back.
35:15And now everybody's thrilled to be here.
35:18It's the hottest.
35:19It's it's a part of the hottest country anywhere.
35:22Though we become in 10 months the hottest country anywhere in the world.
35:26And we were.
35:27And I say it all the time.
35:28We're a dead country one and a half years ago.
35:31Do you expect to meet Prime Minister Net.
35:33Not while you're down in Florida.
35:34Yeah, he would like to see me.
35:36We haven't set it up formally, but he'd like to see me.
35:39We've had great success.
35:40Peace in the Middle East.
35:41Aside from everything else, we now have peace in the Middle East.
35:44Yeah, he'll probably come to see me in Florida.
35:46Are the Egyptians as well?
35:47I'd love to have him.
35:49LCC, he's a friend of mine.
35:51Yeah.
35:52I'd love to have him.
35:53Thank you very much, everybody.
35:59Let's go.
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