Donald Trump delivers explosive remarks as he lashes out at NATO allies and signals a potential U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe, including countries like Italy, Germany, and Spain.
In this full press briefing, Trump criticizes NATO partners for not doing enough, questions long-standing alliances, and suggests America may rethink its military commitments abroad. The comments come amid rising global tensions, including the ongoing standoff with Iran and broader geopolitical shifts.
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In this full press briefing, Trump criticizes NATO partners for not doing enough, questions long-standing alliances, and suggests America may rethink its military commitments abroad. The comments come amid rising global tensions, including the ongoing standoff with Iran and broader geopolitical shifts.
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00:00The President.
00:00Well, thank you very much, everybody.
00:01We very much appreciate it.
00:03This is a big afternoon.
00:05They all are, in a way, because all of these things
00:07that we do are very important.
00:09This afternoon, I'm thrilled to sign a historic executive order,
00:14expanding access to high-quality retirement savings accounts
00:17for millions of Americans.
00:19In my State of the Union, earlier this year,
00:23I promised to make these same types of retirement accounts
00:25enjoyed by the federal employees available to all Americans.
00:30So that's what we're doing.
00:31It only seemed fair.
00:33It's a tremendous — it's really a tremendous situation
00:36for all Americans.
00:38That was really much — promises made, as I say, promises kept.
00:42I'm thrilled to be joined by incredible people that I know
00:46and the warriors.
00:47Jason Smith — these are congresspeople —
00:50Brian Stile, Mike Carey, Lloyd Smucker,
00:54Bill Heisinger, Ryan McKenzie, John McGuire,
00:59Zach Nunn, Derek Van Orden, Jeff Crank, Nick Begich,
01:04Monica Dela Cruz, and Mike Lawler.
01:08Warriors, every one of them.
01:09They're great people.
01:10They fought very hard for what we're about to sign.
01:13And since my election, the stock market has set 59 —
01:17this is in a little bit more than a year —
01:1959 all-time record highs,
01:22adding $9 trillion in value to really the value of our country,
01:27if you think about it.
01:28Under four years of Biden, the average 401k rose
01:32at a rate of just $875 a year.
01:36Last year, under Trump, the average 401k balance was up $24,000.
01:42So, $875 versus $24,000.
01:46I would say that's pretty good.
01:48The President take it.
01:48The President take it.
01:48The President take it.
01:49The President take it.
01:49The President take it.
01:49This is really incredible.
01:51The numbers are incredible.
01:52The numbers being invested in our country
01:55are more incredible than anything.
01:56You see it.
01:57There are plants being built all over —
01:59all over the USA.
02:01We have auto plants.
02:02Not just AI.
02:03AI is doing great.
02:04We're leading China by quite a bit.
02:06But we have auto plants being built all over the country.
02:10They're coming back from Canada.
02:11They're coming back from Mexico.
02:13Germany.
02:14Japan.
02:16South Korea.
02:17Wherever they build autos, they're coming here.
02:20Nobody ever thought they'd see that.
02:21The union loves me.
02:22And I did very well with the auto workers.
02:24But they like me a lot more now than they did
02:27when I was just talking about it.
02:29Beginning at the start of next year,
02:31every American will be able to go to trumpira.gov
02:36and open a new low-cost IRA account.
02:38You'll then be able to access the same type
02:41of retirement accounts that federal employees enjoy
02:44through the thrift savings plans, which are incredible.
02:49As part of the Federal Savers Match Program,
02:52low-income Americans will be eligible to receive
02:54up to $1,000 per year in matching funds
02:58deposited directly into their accounts.
03:00It's a great thing.
03:03For millions of Americans who lack employer-sponsored plans,
03:07this will be really revolutionary because they'll be covered.
03:10Nobody thought that was possible.
03:12For example, if a 25-year-old who is eligible
03:15for a Savers Match Program invests just $165 a month
03:20under the matching federal contributions,
03:22they will have an estimated $465,000 in their account
03:28by the time they're 65 years old.
03:31In other words, they'll be rich.
03:34And there's something awfully nice about that.
03:36But this is only the first step.
03:39I was talking to Kevin Hassett a little while ago,
03:42and the people standing right behind me
03:45were going to take it to the next level.
03:47And the next level, Kevin, you're going to mention something,
03:50but the next level will be necessary
03:53to have congressional approval.
03:54What you just heard, we don't need congressional approval.
03:58And it'll never be terminated because the terminated,
04:01if somebody else is in office, the terminated,
04:03you'd have to take that money away.
04:05You'd have to really take away something that's so positive.
04:10I don't think any politician would do it.
04:12But to take it to the next level, we need congressional approval,
04:16which should be very easy to get.
04:18It should be bipartisan.
04:20Normally, it would be bipartisan, but today, nothing's bipartisan.
04:24I mean, it should be something that everybody supports.
04:27So, Kevin, before we stop, maybe you could just explain
04:29what we're talking about for the next level.
04:31Right. So, for the next level, sir,
04:33what we're already talking, Chairman Smith and I, about,
04:37and they're already, I've been talking with Mr. Smucker
04:40about this for a number of years,
04:42is that we're going to expand this program that you're creating here,
04:45which is for low-income people to, you know,
04:48middle-income people and maybe above as well,
04:51so that every American, you know, most high-income people
04:53have an employer that gives them a 401k with a match.
04:56But low-income people or Uber drivers or something,
04:59they don't have access to that.
05:00They don't have access to the match.
05:01What we've done here is you've given the match to low-income people
05:05when it comes below 35,000.
05:07But we think that there are a lot of people,
05:09even who make more than that,
05:11that don't have many assets for retirement.
05:13And so we're working with Congress to significantly expand this program
05:17and are looking forward for legislation this year to expand this.
05:21And also, the Trump accounts, you remember,
05:24with Michael Dell and Susan and the group that we had,
05:27are setting records.
05:29The numbers.
05:29We have five million sign-ups right now, sir.
05:31Five million sign-ups in a short period of time.
05:34Far above what we thought even possible.
05:37So congratulations to everybody that got that started.
05:41Michael Dell put in $6,250,000,000.
05:45So he put in a lot of money, and he's going to do more, too.
05:49But they were very responsible.
05:52So I just want to let you know, it's like record.
05:56Nobody — you are even surprised by that number, I think, right?
06:01The President Trump has said,
06:02I don't know if we can do that kind.
06:03But it's really way beyond what anyone thought.
06:06It's great.
06:07And we're going to be doing the same thing, I guess,
06:08in a certain way for older people.
06:11For grown-ups.
06:11We're going with a plan that, if it works,
06:13has to get approved by Congress.
06:15But we think it'll get approved.
06:18It'll be fantastic for the country.
06:21Let's go.
06:22Will, do you want to start?
06:23Sure.
06:23There are some other things,
06:24and we thought we'd let these great people from Congress
06:27and beyond — or below, I guess I could say.
06:31So first, sir, this is the IRA executive order
06:34that you just mentioned.
06:35This establishes the retirement accounts
06:37with the federal match for eligible people,
06:41as you said in your speech and as Kevin explained.
06:45This is a big step forward.
06:47It's going to provide access to high-quality retirement accounts
06:50to a lot of Americans who don't currently have access to such accounts.
06:55Okay.
06:57There it is.
06:58That's nice.
07:01Great.
07:02Thank you very much, everybody.
07:09We'll do some that aren't associated with this,
07:12and then we'll talk about this with the press.
07:14You'll ask some questions of the congresspeople.
07:17Okay?
07:18Because they were really responsible for this.
07:20All right?
07:21Yes.
07:21Who would like to hold?
07:22Good.
07:26Popular guy?
07:28Okay?
07:28Okay?
07:29Let's go.
07:29This is a presidential permit authorizing the Bridger pipeline, sir.
07:33This is a transporter pipeline similar to the old Keystone XL pipeline.
07:38It'll significantly expand our ability to move oil around North America,
07:43oil and gas around North America.
07:44It's a huge deal in terms of long-term energy dominance and energy security.
07:48They're slightly different than the last administration.
07:51Very different.
07:52They wouldn't sign a pipeline deal.
07:55And we have pipelines going up.
07:56And by the way, they're way underground.
07:59They're not a problem.
08:00Nobody even knows they're there.
08:02It's so crazy.
08:02But they wouldn't approve anything having to do with the pipeline.
08:06And they're great.
08:06As opposed to trucking it or training it.
08:10They're great.
08:13A lot of jobs, too.
08:15A lot of jobs.
08:16Okay.
08:17Very good.
08:17Next.
08:18This is an executive order on federal contracting, sir.
08:21Many federal contracts currently operate on a cost-plus basis.
08:25This provides, oftentimes, weird incentives for contractors, leads to cost overruns,
08:30costs the federal government a lot of money.
08:32What this executive order does is it establishes a fixed-price contract as the default in most
08:40federal contracts.
08:41This aligns the federal government with what would typically exist in the private sector.
08:45And we believe will continue to drive down fraud and abuse in federal contracting government-wide.
08:51Would anybody like to object to this?
08:53No.
08:54Absolutely not.
08:56They're fighting for this one, too.
09:04Next.
09:04You previously announced that we were withdrawing Casey Means as the Surgeon General, sir,
09:10and appointing Dr. Safir, or nominating Dr. Safir in her voice.
09:15Yeah.
09:15That, on the left, is the withdrawal, which will later be transmitted to the Senate.
09:20Okay.
09:21And on the right is the new nomination form for our new Surgeon General nomination.
09:25Nicole Safir, she's with Fox, was with Fox.
09:29Is it with Fox anymore, Peter?
09:31But she's great.
09:33She'll be the Surgeon General.
09:37Well said, yeah.
09:38I believe she's with Memorial Sloan Kettering in New Jersey, sir, and she's an outstanding
09:43doctor.
09:44She is.
09:57I just don't know how Biden used the auto pen.
10:01There's so many things to say.
10:03They say, here, please take this.
10:05It's crazy.
10:06All four years was crazy.
10:09Okay.
10:10Let's not bring it up.
10:16She's gonna be great.
10:18Surgeon General.
10:21This is a proclamation declaring this weekend to be National Fallen Firefighters Memorial
10:26Weekend.
10:27Awesome.
10:27As you know, firefighters do an incredibly difficult, dangerous job, help keep us all safe.
10:33All right.
10:34This is a proclamation honoring their sacrifice and remembering those who have fallen.
10:39All right.
10:40Everybody likes that?
10:41You bet.
10:44Okay.
10:46Firefighters.
10:46That one deserves one.
10:57Lastly, sir, this is another proclamation.
10:59Your administration, particularly the First Lady, have made foster and adoptive care major
11:04priorities.
11:06This is a proclamation declaring National Foster Care Month, honoring those who have participated
11:12in foster programs, who have helped raise foster children.
11:16Right.
11:16And speaking about the many things that your administration, including the First Lady's Office,
11:20have done on that set of issues.
11:22Yeah, it's been a big thing for the First Lady, so this is in honor of our First Lady.
11:26Well, thank you.
11:40Thank you very much.
11:42Thank you, Mr. President.
11:43So do you have any questions?
11:44Maybe we discuss the first signing first.
11:46Do you have anything on that?
11:47Mr. President.
11:48Please.
11:49How is this going to help small business owners?
11:51Do you think this is going to inspire more people to go?
11:54Is it, you know, small businesses that might be reluctant earlier?
11:56You know, for IRA, you know, to have their IRA business and, you know, help get them here?
12:00Well, I'll tell you, small businesses now are thriving.
12:04And as you know, more people are working right now than at any time in the history of our country.
12:08We're doing great.
12:09And there's more investment being made in the United States than any country at any time,
12:14any time in history.
12:17And a lot of that's AI and a lot of that's maybe in a certain way, maybe more importantly,
12:23auto plants are all coming back to our country.
12:25They're coming back from different countries where they left us for Germany, as you know,
12:31Japan and South Korea and Canada and Mexico.
12:35And they're all coming back at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
12:39And tariffs did it.
12:41I did it.
12:41Maybe the election did it, but tariffs did it.
12:44And if they build here, they don't have to pay tariffs.
12:47We have Germany is giving a lot of, a lot of companies are coming in from Germany, from Japan.
12:53Japan just announced $10 billion more plants going to be built between Toyota and Honda
13:01and all the different companies that are pouring into our country and South Korea.
13:07Canada, they're coming in — I don't know what they're doing, but I can tell you they're coming in tremendously
13:13from Canada.
13:14There's no reason they don't want to pay the tariff.
13:16And because of that, they're so — you know, they're investing at levels never seen before.
13:22We will — you know, for 30 years, we didn't — we virtually didn't build an auto plant in this
13:29country.
13:29And now we're doing more than we've ever done.
13:32And so I'm very proud of that.
13:34AI is going wild.
13:36We're doing great.
13:37And we're letting them build their own electric — but we're actually making them build their own electric plant,
13:41so they don't take — they take tremendous amounts of energy to have a successful plant.
13:45And they're building — all of the new ones are building their own electric plant, like a utility.
13:50And any extra, they'll either give it or sell it for a good price to local communities and to the
13:58grid.
13:59So it's going to be fantastic.
14:00But we have tremendous amounts of factories being built in our country now,
14:05more than we've ever had at any time ever before.
14:08And we have the biggest investment being made in our country.
14:11In the history of our country — by the way, in the history of any country,
14:15there's never been a country that has the kind of investment coming in that we have right now.
14:20And these things are being built right now.
14:22So you're not going to see the results.
14:24I mean, you'll see construction results.
14:25You'll notice that construction workers are through the roof.
14:27But when they open, the numbers are going to be staggering.
14:32Do you have a question?
14:33The Press.
14:33And I want to go back to what's happening.
14:34The Press.
14:34The Press.
14:37The Press.
14:38And look at it.
14:43The Press.
14:45And look at it.
14:45The Press.
14:49It's almost over 100%.
14:50Do you believe that this has been a big, beautiful tax cuts that
14:53decided to last year are working?
14:55And do you think the economy is going to continue to hum a hearth?
14:58The Press.
14:59The Press.
14:59Yeah, thank you.
14:59So, the biggest tax cut in history
15:01is in the great, big, beautiful bill.
15:04And I think, you know, I see it.
15:05I actually see it reported,
15:06where people are shocked at how much money they're making.
15:09They can't believe the refunds that they're making.
15:12$5,000, $6,000, $7,000, $8,000, $9,000.
15:15When I saw one last night on television,
15:18$11,000 more than she thought she was going to get.
15:21And it's no tax on tips and no tax on overtime,
15:24no tax on Social Security for our seniors,
15:28no tax on Social Security.
15:29Nobody can believe it, even.
15:31And the numbers are far greater than they thought.
15:34People that thought they were going to make an extra $500,
15:37turns out they're making an extra $5,000.
15:40So, it's been really great, yeah.
15:43And that's going to carry forward.
15:45Look, the country is doing really well.
15:46And that's despite a military operation.
15:50I don't call it a war.
15:51I'd rather have a military operation.
15:55We're really — I mean, Iran is dying to make a deal.
15:59I can only tell you that.
16:01I don't want to get into the deal.
16:02But they've got to — they cannot be nuclear other than that.
16:06But they are — their Navy is gone.
16:09Their Air Force is gone.
16:11Every ounce of any form of equipment, practically, is gone.
16:15You know, their drone factories are about 82 percent down,
16:20and their missile factories are almost 90 percent down.
16:24And many of their missiles have been knocked out between —
16:27they used some, but we knocked out more than they used.
16:30And it's pretty — it's pretty amazing what's happened.
16:33They want to make a deal.
16:34But despite the fact that we are in what some people would call a war,
16:38we just hit a new high today on the stock market.
16:41We have S&P that's through the roof.
16:44They're all — I mean, they're through the roof.
16:46And, you know, when we hit 50,000 on the Dow and 7,000 on the S&P,
16:52I said to myself, we've got to do something about Iran.
16:55They want to have a nuclear weapon.
16:57You can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
16:58And I hated to do it to my people, because they said 50,000 —
17:02Peter, you know this — that 50,000 wouldn't be obtainable
17:05in my four years, or anybody's four years.
17:09And we hit 50,000 on my first year — the end of my first year.
17:12We hit 7,000 on the S&P.
17:14They said that would be even less attainable.
17:17And we hit that at the end of the first year,
17:20before the year was up.
17:21And then I said to Kevin, sorry about this, Kevin,
17:24but we have to put out a fire.
17:26And the fire is taking place in the lovely country of Iran,
17:31and they want to have a nuclear weapon.
17:32And if we didn't use this beautiful — see that plane right there?
17:35That beautiful B-2 bomber.
17:37It looks small there, but it's actually quite —
17:40It doesn't look very powerful there,
17:42but it's quite — quite large, actually.
17:45We ordered — actually, we ordered 25 more of them,
17:47the updated version, all built in America,
17:50which is very nice, right?
17:51But if we didn't have that B-2 bomber,
17:54if we didn't go in and do what we did,
17:56we obliterated that nuclear capacity of theirs.
18:00And so they never — they didn't get the nuclear bomb.
18:04If we didn't do that attack,
18:06it should have been done long before I came along
18:07by other Presidents or by another country or something.
18:11But it should have been done long before I came along.
18:15But they are in very bad shape,
18:18and they've got nothing going — including leadership.
18:22I mean, you know, their leaders are gone.
18:23Now they have a whole new —
18:25their first-string leaders are gone,
18:27their second-string leaders are gone.
18:28Now we're dealing with their third string.
18:31But we'll see what happens.
18:34It's been an amazing —
18:36it's been an amazing period of time,
18:38between Venezuela and where we're doing great.
18:43We're getting along with them great.
18:44We're working very closely with them.
18:46They're — they're doing more oil now
18:49than they've done in many, many decades, actually.
18:52And they're making more money, and so are we.
18:54You know, we're like — it's like a joint venture,
18:56to be honest.
18:57And we've paid for the attack many times over.
19:00The attack, something you've never heard before, probably.
19:03I always used to say to the victor,
19:05belong the spoils.
19:06But we've paid for the attack,
19:08which is always expensive.
19:10But it was a less-than-one-day attack.
19:13It was actually a 45-minute attack.
19:15And that's a good — you know,
19:16they have a good military in Venezuela,
19:18but this — they did not expect that, and that, and that, and that.
19:23Other than that —
19:25when these suckers come at you at 2,500 miles an hour,
19:29at 25 feet off the ground,
19:31they say, this is not what I bargained for.
19:34This is no good.
19:35Anyway, so — and now, you know, Venezuela was amazing,
19:39but now we're doing — essentially, it's larger,
19:42but we're doing essentially the same thing in Iran.
19:46You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
19:48And their economy is crashing.
19:51The blockade is incredible.
19:52The power of the blockade is incredible.
19:54They're not getting any money from oil.
19:57And hopefully, it can be worked out very soon.
20:00Yeah.
20:00The Press Press, Iran is proving to be very stubborn.
20:03The talks seem like they are stalled.
20:06Are you getting antsy to break the ceasefire?
20:10Well, I mean, I don't know what stubbornness,
20:13because really nobody knows what the talks are,
20:15except myself and a couple of other people.
20:18They want to make a deal badly.
20:21We have a problem, because nobody knows for sure
20:24who the leaders are.
20:25It's a little bit of a problem, you know.
20:26The leaders have been wiped out,
20:28along with their military — almost all of their military.
20:32I mean, think of it.
20:34159 ships was their total navy.
20:38159 ships are gone.
20:40They're underwater there.
20:42Way below sea level.
20:44Sea level is a big difference.
20:47Pretty deep water is over there, too.
20:52So, I don't know that we need it.
20:54We might need it.
20:55The Press Press And on Iran, a little while ago,
20:58the president of FIFA said that when the World Cup
21:00is here in the U.S., the team from Iran
21:03will be playing in the games.
21:05The President Well, if Johnny said it, I'm okay.
21:08Did Johnny say it?
21:09The President He did.
21:09What if they win?
21:11The President You know, that's a piece of work.
21:12The President What if they win?
21:14The President Well, if they win,
21:15we'll have to worry about that.
21:16That's not — I'm going to have to worry about that one.
21:19That would — look, you know what?
21:21Let them play well.
21:22Johnny's fantastic.
21:23You know, he's a friend of mine.
21:24And he talked about it and said, you do whatever you want.
21:29You can have them.
21:30You don't have to have them.
21:32Probably have a good team.
21:33Do they have a good team?
21:34Do you have any idea?
21:35The President I have no idea.
21:37It would be hard to believe, actually.
21:39But I think let them play.
21:42Right?
21:43The President This is a little bit different,
21:45but what is your take on these reports that you show?
21:48The Apprentice is going to come back, could come back on Amazon
21:52with host Donald Trump, Jr.?
21:55The President Well, I've been hearing it.
21:57Look, we had a great success — 14 seasons.
22:00And The Apprentice was a tremendous success.
22:02So I've been hearing that, you know, a little bit.
22:05So we'll see what happens.
22:06He's a good — he's a good guy.
22:09He'd be probably good.
22:11He's got a little charisma going.
22:13You need a little charisma for that sacrifice.
22:15So we'll see what happens.
22:17Yeah, they told me about it.
22:19We'll see.
22:19The President Thank you, Mr. President.
22:22There's been some talks about changes to your security
22:24after what took place on —
22:26The President Changing my security.
22:26The President Changing your security
22:27after what took place on —
22:28The President Well, they did a pretty good job,
22:29actually.
22:30You know, they stopped at the NFL running back.
22:33I mean, he was like a running back.
22:34In fact, if you ever got out, they probably got a sign.
22:37And he was a speedy guy, but he was stopped.
22:41And they had many levels in front of him
22:44before it would even come close.
22:47You know, you could be a baseball team and win 19 to nothing,
22:53and somebody could say, you should have won 21.
22:56You should have gotten 25 runs.
22:58The team was no good or something.
23:00So I don't know.
23:01I can only say that I know a lot of those people
23:03at Secret Service.
23:04And they were — they were good, and they were forceful.
23:08And I saw the guys in front of me.
23:11They were powerful-looking guys.
23:13I said, we could send them to Hollywood.
23:14They could make — they could make movies.
23:17I think that there's always room for improvement, right?
23:22And he got into the building.
23:23The problem is that — I know that's what I do.
23:27I build buildings like that.
23:29Much nicer, actually, but I build buildings like that.
23:33And, you know, when you have 1,000 rooms sitting on top of a ballroom,
23:37and you have the elevators coming down right near the entrance,
23:42it's a pretty tough situation.
23:45Now, right outside, we have something that's on time,
23:48on budget — actually, ahead of time.
23:51And ahead of budget, depending on finishes.
23:54You know, finishes is a big difference between marble
23:57and onyx in price.
23:59But it's right on budget, right on time.
24:01And that's built to the highest standards of security.
24:06No units on top.
24:07No hotel built on top, where an elevator comes right down through the middle of it.
24:12It's a tough location.
24:14That's a tough location.
24:15So, I think — I know the people at Secret Service.
24:21I think they're great.
24:22And I think that Congress has to take care of those people.
24:26You know, we're talking about ICE.
24:28We're talking about Border Patrol, Secret Service, everyone.
24:32The Democrats essentially want to defund the police, just so you know.
24:36They want to defund law enforcement.
24:38It's crazy.
24:39These people have gone crazy.
24:41I heard Hakeem Jeffries, a low-IQ person — he's a very low IQ — screaming today that
24:47the Supreme Court is illegitimate.
24:50I mean, that's a dangerous statement.
24:53And if I say something modest, they say, oh, he's a king.
24:57He's a king.
24:58They're sick.
24:59But Hakeem Jeffries said the Supreme Court is illegitimate.
25:07That's a rough statement.
25:09If I made that statement, it would be the biggest story out there.
25:13Bad things would happen.
25:14The Press- The Press- The average price of a gallon of gas is now $4.30 in this
25:21country.
25:21The Press- All right.
25:22And you know what?
25:22And we're not going to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran.
25:25...and it's going to happen – the gas will go down.
25:27As soon as the war is over, it'll drop like a rock.
25:29There's so much of it.
25:30It's all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world.
25:35And it'll be – it'll go down.
25:37But what won't happen is, if Iran had a nuclear weapon and used it, then the whole world is
25:44a different place.
25:45The Press- What about the returns?
25:46Do you have to look at the Republicans in it?
25:48The Press- The gasoline, the oil, will go down rapidly as soon as the war is over.
25:54Good to see you, sir. I've got two questions. First, I want to follow up on Daniel's question. I've described
26:02you as the peacemaker. You're achieving peace around the world. Due to these latest policies, big bit of the bill,
26:08no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, now the Trump account, and then the
26:13IRA account. Can we describe you as the wealth maker?
26:17Well, I'm helping people out. That's a nice question, actually. But I'm helping people out. These people are with me.
26:23These are great people. And feel free to speak up if you'd like, because they wanted this to happen, and
26:32we got it done. And they're Republican people, I think, in all cases, right?
26:39It's crazy. We need, like, always unanimous. Because the Democrats, they will vote against anything, no matter how good. If
26:48they had their favorite thing in the world, and we happen to want it, but we found a new strategy,
26:54we're going to oppose every single thing that we want, and we'll get unanimous votes.
26:58So I'm going to come up and oppose everything, Brian, from this point forward, and they'll vote for it. Go
27:03ahead.
27:03Second question. You created Space Force on the second end, towards the end of your first administration.
27:10You just had the Artemis II crew in here. I know it's a big accomplishment. What do you see moving
27:16forward, the duration of your administration, in terms of space exploration? I know that was a big moment for you.
27:22Well, doing Space Force, I think it's going to go down as one of my more important things. It's turning
27:27out. Even a lot of these great military operations that we have right now, when you look at Venezuela, when
27:32you look at, like,
27:33the decimation of Iran, which was considered powerful. It was the bully of the Middle East. And a lot of
27:40that took place so effectively because of what's coming out of space.
27:44When we did Space Force, when I did Space Force, I'm very proud of it. Space was, like, we were
27:52third. China was first, Russia was second. Now we've leapfrogged. We're way ahead of China. We're way ahead of Russia.
28:00And we made some great choices. The first person that headed Space Force, and really, after that, we had a
28:07couple of really great people heading it. Very — always very important.
28:11And a new person is heading it now. I think he could — has a chance to be as good
28:15as anybody. As good as — maybe better. I don't know. But we've had great people heading up Space Force.
28:21It's been very important. It's been very important for what we're doing with respect to the different places.
28:26And as far as peace, I settled eight wars. And people try and dispute it, but then they go over
28:32them. And almost in every case, they sent letters thanking me and letters to the Nobel Committee.
28:39I don't care about that. I — Maria was very nice. She gave me her Nobel Peace Prize because she
28:45said she didn't deserve it. She was very, very nice. But —
28:48But I settled eight wars. And in every case, the people — the prime ministers or presidents — wrote letters
28:56thanking me. And in the case of India —
29:00I — look, the biggest one would have been Pakistan, India. The prime minister of Pakistan said,
29:06I saved from 30 to 50 million lives. But it could have been more than that. Two nuclear nations were
29:11going at it. Eleven airplanes were shot down. They were in the first week of what would have been a
29:17very bad war. And I got it solved.
29:19Do you know how it got it solved? By the use of tariffs. I said, I'm going to charge you
29:22tariffs if you guys keep fighting. And they said, oh, please don't do that.
29:25You just lifted the tariffs, right? On — you just lifted some tariffs on whiskey? Is that correct?
29:31Yeah. What I'm doing is, for — for as long as I've been here, they've wanted to — you know,
29:36Kentucky, which is a great place —
29:40and we're — I also won Jason by — a lot. But Kentucky, with the bourbon, and Scotland, with the
29:50whiskey —
29:50and they've had trade for years and years and years. And a lot of restrictions —
29:55a lot of different restrictions took place that didn't amount to much. And it — it really stopped them.
30:02I don't know if you know, it's a barrel trade. They used the barrels from the one to take care
30:07of the other.
30:08And the barrels are only good for one year. In other words, they can't be used twice. They can only
30:13be used once.
30:13But the once makes — it makes it a better substance. I'm not a big drinker, so forgive me.
30:18But it makes them a big substance and a better — a better taste. But they dealt for years.
30:25This was Scotland and Kentucky — mostly Kentucky. And I took — I just took all the restrictions off.
30:32So Scotland and Kentucky can start dealing again. And I did it in honor of the king and queen, who
30:39just left.
30:40They're heading back. It was a big deal. They've been trying to get this for a long time.
30:43Yes, Mr. President. You talked about — you talked about possibly pulling out some troops out of Germany.
30:52Would you be considering the same thing for Spain and Italy?
30:56I mean, they haven't been exactly on board —
30:58Yeah, probably. Yeah, I probably will. Why should I — you know, look, why shouldn't I —
31:05Italy has not been of any help to us. And Spain has been horrible. Absolutely horrible.
31:13You know, as NATO — it's not even the fact that they've been — it's one thing that if they
31:18said nicely,
31:19or if they said, okay, we'll help. But the help is a little slow. But the level — and we
31:26helped them with Ukraine.
31:28You know, they made a mess out of Ukraine. A total mess. And we helped them with Ukraine.
31:34Ukraine has nothing to do — you know, we have — we're an ocean apart.
31:38It has to do with them. It's like, for them, it's their front door.
31:41We helped them. And Biden gave them $350 billion, which was insane.
31:46It's one of the reasons the war went on. But when we needed them, they were not there.
31:53We have to remember that. And so, if we ever have a big one —
31:57because we didn't need any help with Iran. We had Iran right from the first day it was over.
32:03It was over. And now it's even more so. We're so locked and loaded that we want to do.
32:09But we didn't need the help. And to a certain extent, I asked them —
32:13I didn't need the help, but I said, yeah, we'd love to have you help,
32:16because I wanted to see if they'd do it. And they — in all cases, they said,
32:22we don't want to get involved. And, you know, the amazing thing is,
32:25they use the strain of hormones. We don't. We don't use it. We don't need it.
32:29We have a lot of oil. And — well, wait a minute.
32:32And they use it. We don't. And you would have thought they would have said,
32:35we would love to help you. But they didn't, which I think was a very —
32:39and Germany, I mean, he's doing a terrible job. He's got immigration problems.
32:45He's got energy problems. He's got problems of all kind.
32:48And he's got a big problem with Ukraine, because they're in that mess.
32:53And he criticized me for doing the whole thing with Iran.
33:00But I said, would you like to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran?
33:04He said, no, I don't. I said, well, then I guess I'm right.
33:08He didn't have any answer to that.
33:10The bottom line is for this world, for our country,
33:14but certainly for Israel, the Middle East, and Europe — much closer.
33:19You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
33:22And if you agree that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon —
33:25which most people agree, almost everybody —
33:28it should have been done a long time ago.
33:30But if you agree they can't have a nuclear weapon,
33:32then what I did has been executed perfectly,
33:35because our military has decimated them. Yeah, please, go ahead.
33:38Mr. President, two questions for you.
33:40Anita Shafi from the Daily Mail.
33:42You have called this the new regime before in Iran,
33:45but I speak to Iranians on a daily basis,
33:48and they tell me that these are the same people
33:50that have murdered them, executed them, repressed them.
33:53I talked to them through the blackout,
33:55and they wanted me to ask you this question.
33:58And second of all, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
34:01how come he's not involved in these conversations?
34:04He's very much involved.
34:05Well, Marco is very — totally — he's negotiating with them all the time.
34:08Now, look, Iran killed 42,000 people over the last few months —
34:13protesters.
34:15They were going to kill eight women whose lives I saved.
34:18And I appreciate that they didn't do it.
34:20I asked them not to do it. They didn't do it.
34:22They were getting ready to hang the women.
34:24They were going to hang eight beautiful women that were —
34:28I mean, it just caught the imagination of a lot of people.
34:31People were talking about it.
34:32You know, it was inconceivable.
34:33You saw those eight beautiful people,
34:36and they were going to be executed that evening.
34:39This was a week ago.
34:41And I got on the phone very quickly, and I said,
34:44don't do it. Don't do it.
34:46The whole world is watching. Don't do it.
34:48And they didn't do it. I appreciate it.
34:50I guess four were released, and the other four
34:53are going to be released in a month.
34:55They were ready to be executed that night.
34:59So they take a tough — you know, they knocked out the wrestler they killed.
35:04They killed the wrestler's teammates.
35:07He was a world champion wrestler.
35:09He was a great wrestler.
35:10Great, talented wrestler.
35:12They killed him because he protested.
35:15He spoke.
35:16He didn't — he wasn't wrestling.
35:18What he did is he spoke negatively about the regime, and they killed him.
35:22They executed him along with his friends.
35:25They killed 42,000 people.
35:28So when you say about — they say that I do the same.
35:32I don't do the same.
35:33I'm trying to — I'm trying to save that country in a certain way.
35:37And nobody has ever seen them there.
35:40Think of it.
35:41They killed 42,000 innocent, not weapon-carrying people for protesting.
35:4942,000.
35:50And the number, they say, is a lot higher than that.
35:53It was a rough group.
35:55But we have decimated them.
35:58And their economy is a disaster.
36:00So we'll see how long they hold out.
36:02We'll see.
36:03Mr. President.
36:03President Trump, Saudi Arabia is pulling the plug on Live Golf.
36:09Once that tour is gone, do you think the PGA Tour should welcome the defectors back with open arms?
36:17Well, I know.
36:17It's a great question.
36:18In fact, if I had time, I'd love to watch television today because the PGA Tour is playing at Doral,
36:24the Cadillac Championship.
36:26And I said, who's winning?
36:28I don't get a chance.
36:29I can't even look at it.
36:30Mr. Jordan Spieth was in the leader.
36:31Who is?
36:31Mr. Jordan Spieth.
36:32Oh, that's good.
36:33He's good.
36:33Great guy.
36:34Good putter, to put it mildly, right?
36:36He's a very great guy.
36:38Chipper putter.
36:40No, it's, they're at my tournament right now, the PGA.
36:44In two weeks, Liv is going to be at my course right here on the PGA.
36:48Oh, my.
36:49No, I'd love to see Liv.
36:50But I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing, the great golfers should be playing
36:56against each other.
36:57I do believe.
36:58You know, it's sort of, they were viewing something as a monopoly.
37:01But it's a way, in a way, it should be the opposite of a monopoly.
37:06Oh, I want to see Rory playing Bryson DeChambeau.
37:10I want to see big Jon Rahm playing Scotty, who's so great.
37:17Right?
37:17Scott.
37:18Scotty Scheffler is great.
37:19And I want to see him play Jon Rahm and Bryson and all the different guys.
37:24They have great players on the Liv.
37:27But it's almost like people want to see that.
37:31That's why the Masters were so good, because you saw everybody together.
37:34Patrick Reid played great.
37:35You know, he's on Liv and he played great.
37:37And they all did.
37:38They all played.
37:39They're great players.
37:39I play with them.
37:40They're very good.
37:41When, when I think I'm a good player, then I play with them.
37:43I don't think I'm that good.
37:45You know?
37:45But, but, uh,
37:49there's something nice about all of the players playing together.
37:53Now they'll all be accepted by the tour.
37:55There's no, because they're great.
37:56If they weren't, you know, but the tour really will, the tour wants to have the best player.
38:02You can't have the best player that they're boycotting.
38:04Now they may do something, you know, a little bit, but they'll all be back on tour and it'll be
38:09great.
38:09And, you know, having one tour, now I don't know that what's happening with Liv.
38:13I'm not sure what's happening with Liv.
38:15But they are playing in my course two weeks on the Potomac.
38:19Beautiful course.
38:20But right now they're playing at Doral, which I own.
38:24And, uh, if I ever, if we end this early, I'll be able to watch for about three minutes.
38:29I get back onto the economy and every other subject that we have, including Iran.
38:33We're doing so well with Iran, so I think so.
38:36I just want to follow up.
38:38Yes.
38:38Thank you so much, Mr. President.
38:39Jennifer Schoenberger with Young Finance.
38:41Question on clarification of the Trump IRAs versus a regular IRA.
38:47Right.
38:47Does it come down to the difference of a federal match?
38:49Who would qualify for that?
38:51And secondly, do you have any reaction to the Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell staying on the Board of Governors?
38:57Were you prepared to take any action on that front?
38:59No, I don't care.
39:00If he stays on, he stays on.
39:01That doesn't, I just wanted to make sure that Kevin became the head.
39:06It's very unusual that they stay on.
39:08You know, I predicted he would.
39:10Because, you know, who's going to hire him, frankly?
39:13So I predicted he would stay on.
39:16But, you know, he's a negative, I think he's a negative force.
39:20The thing that angered me about him more than interest rates was the fact that he could allow a building
39:25to cost billions of dollars more than it was supposed.
39:28I could have built that building.
39:29I could have renovated and fixed that building, which is what I do.
39:32I always did well with it for $25 million.
39:36They're going to spend maybe $4 billion.
39:38It's not even close to being open.
39:41You know, Kevin, who's going to be fantastic, I don't know if he's going to have an office.
39:45I'm going to have to put him right here.
39:46I'm going to give him that — we'll cut the oval in half.
39:48I'll give him half of the oval.
39:50No, it's — I think I'm very happy about Kevin.
39:54I think Kevin sees a star.
39:55And the other Kevin, we're going to talk to you.
39:58Could you answer her question?
40:00Yeah, sure.
40:00It's a great question.
40:01And the match is a super important part of it.
40:04And it's one reason why we're calling on our friends here to potentially expand it so that right now the
40:09match is capped at 35,000.
40:11But there's a whole academic literature that this match has a big effect on people's willingness to save and their
40:17long-run welfare.
40:18And so the differences really are the match.
40:21We're creating the trumpira.gov website so it'll be really, really easy for people to have access to private companies
40:28that have to follow the TSP rules that are really low cost and so on so that they'll get the
40:33best possible investment.
40:35And finally, you've noticed that Michael Dell has given money — promised money for the Trump accounts.
40:40We've also made it clear that the Trump IRA charities can contribute to other people's accounts.
40:45And I imagine this will lose the stock market in the economy first.
40:48Oh, yeah.
40:48Do you want to mention phase two — we're in phase one today because I can do that without Congress.
40:55But phase two is going to be something that would be unbelievable.
40:57Do you want to just give a little —
40:59we'll be going back to Congress to ask for this?
41:03So the basic headline is that if you look at the huge success of Australia in their retirement savings accounts,
41:11that we're working with the Treasury Secretary, he and I, and Jason Smith and other members of Congress,
41:17to come up with something that's pretty close or in the direction of the Australian system —
41:21Or better.
41:22Or better.
41:23No, they had a couple of little glitches that we'll get rid of.
41:26But there's absolutely no contemplation of harming Social Security in any way.
41:32This is meant to be an add-on for that.
41:34It'll be very exciting.
41:35It's going to be great.
41:37We'll be pretty quick — pretty fast.
41:39We're going to move pretty fast.
41:40Can I pull up —
41:41Something that we talked about —
41:43Something that we talked about a couple weeks ago.
41:45There's all these missing scientists who had access to classified material.
41:50A bunch of women have turned up either — they're either missing or they've turned up dead.
41:54Have you been briefed yet about whether or not these cases are connected?
41:59Yeah, I have.
42:00And can you tell us if they are connected?
42:02Well, so far — I mean, they're individual — we have a lot of scientists.
42:06So when you see — you know, you put together 10 — it's a lot, but it's, you know, a
42:10very small number.
42:12Compared to what — overall — we have a lot of scientists.
42:14I was asking that question with thousands — hundreds of thousands of scientists.
42:19So, you know, some of them that we looked at are very sad cases in some cases.
42:24Some were sick.
42:27Some left this Earth self-inflicted.
42:31Some had other things.
42:33So, so far, it's — there's not a major — you know, sometimes there's a little bit of a connection
42:38anyway, and you say, oh, this is — this is a terrible thing.
42:42But so far, we're finding that there's not much of a connection.
42:46We'll let you know.
42:47We're going to be doing a full report, and it's very serious stuff.
42:49I just want to go up — I want to go up on my question earlier.
42:52Have you been informed if the Secret Service agent who was shot on Saturday, if that was from friendly fire
42:58or if it was from the suspect?
42:59Well, they say it was not friendly fire.
43:02So you're hearing that it's from — Well, that's what I heard.
43:04I mean, I heard that.
43:05They said it wasn't friendly fire.
43:07Okay.
43:07And —
43:07It was actually reported.
43:09Do you read the reports?
43:10Because it was actually reported.
43:11Yes, sir.
43:11I read through the DOJ.
43:12Well, then why do you ask me the question?
43:14I don't believe it said that the agent was struck by —
43:18I'm just saying.
43:19They said it wasn't friendly fire.
43:21And he hasn't been charged yet.
43:21It wasn't us.
43:22Okay.
43:23And he hasn't been charged yet with that.
43:24Of course, that could come — I want to follow up on the security changes.
43:28Is there talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward, given you have now been shot at so
43:35many times?
43:35I don't know if I can handle looking 20 pounds heavier.
43:38No, these guys — they look so — some of these guys — some of these guys are physical specimens.
43:47I don't want to be near him.
43:51No, no.
43:52If you — if you — if you — if you — if you want to gain 20 to 25
43:55pounds, get a West vest.
43:57And — frankly, the vest did an amazing job, because it took a bullet close up.
44:03And he didn't even want to go to the hospital.
44:06I mean, we would send him to the hospital, just in case.
44:08But he didn't want — you know, it's still a hit.
44:11But he didn't want to go to the hospital.
44:14The vest totally protected him.
44:16Still a lot of power behind that shot, though.
44:19That's like getting — getting hit by Mike Tyson.
44:22But it — it's amazing.
44:26I've been asked about that.
44:30And I guess it's something you consider.
44:32In one way, you don't like to do it, because you're — you're giving in to a bad element.
44:37And so — I don't know.
44:38But I haven't asked it.
44:39How nervous were you about it happening again, another assassination?
44:43I don't think about it.
44:44You don't think about it at all?
44:45If I did, I wouldn't be doing a very good job here.
44:47I've been thinking about nothing but that.
44:49I don't think about it.
44:50Are there — I don't think about it.
44:52If I did, I wouldn't be effective.
44:53Okay.
44:54Mr. President, more quickly.
44:55You pushed on Social — True Social, calling on Senate Republicans to blow up the filibuster.
45:03It is a big issue with MAGA.
45:05MAGA wants you to get rid of it.
45:06They should do it.
45:07Why don't they do it?
45:09Why don't they do it?
45:10I don't know.
45:10I have no idea.
45:12You know why?
45:13I guess because they have three or four that are, like, hard-line.
45:17Same ones — same ones — that are hard-line no to everything.
45:24And you don't have all of them.
45:25You know, we have a very small majority.
45:28John Thune is a good man.
45:29I said to him, John, just go take the vote.
45:32Let's expose who the people are.
45:34But, you know, if we got rid of the filibuster,
45:36we could vote on the Save America Act, voter ID.
45:41You know, you act so good.
45:42I love his girlfriend.
45:43He's a great guy.
45:44Even though I don't love his girlfriend too much, okay?
45:47I won't tell you who the girlfriend is.
45:49But I like him.
45:50And I've always liked him.
45:52I'm actually curious.
45:53It's great that he hasn't changed his people.
45:55I'm the same man.
45:55Brian, I think here's the problem.
45:58It's not even imaginable to me why.
46:01And people are angry about it.
46:03People are angry.
46:04I'm talking about Republicans are angry about it.
46:06The filibuster should be terminated.
46:08If the Democrats ever get a shot, which probably,
46:12based on history, sometime they will,
46:14they will use it in the first minute of the first hour.
46:18And they will execute all of the bad things.
46:21Twenty-one justices.
46:22You know, they really like 21.
46:23I heard 13, but they really want 21 Supreme Court justices.
46:27And they really want to have D.C. and Puerto Rico become states.
46:32That would mean automatic four senators go into the Democrat golem.
46:37And there's not even a chance that they don't do it and do it immediately.
46:41Now, with that knowledge, because you could argue whether it's good or bad,
46:44but I don't think it's that much of an argument, frankly.
46:47But you could argue with that knowledge that they're going to do it immediately.
46:51Why wouldn't you do it as a Republican?
46:54Unless you have bad motives, almost.
46:56But if we did it, we could pass one bill after the other.
47:01We could pass laws and acts and things that we never even dreamt of passing.
47:07And you know what else?
47:09We wouldn't lose for 50 years.
47:11You know, if we passed — if we terminated the filibuster,
47:15we would have a 50-year run.
47:17You'd stop cheating.
47:19I mean, look, they're professional cheats, and they're great at it.
47:24That's what they're best at, because you can't get elected with their policy.
47:27You can't get elected with men and women's sports,
47:31with transgender mutilization of our children,
47:34with open borders for jails to be dropped into our country,
47:38and mental institutions, and drug dealers, and murderers.
47:42Think of it — 11,888 murderers come into our country.
47:46Nobody even talks to them about it, right?
47:48We got a lot of them out because of — you know what?
47:51Because of ICE, which they don't want to — they don't want to fund.
47:54They're defunding our police.
47:55When they defund ICE and with Border Patrol and Secret Service,
47:59they're defunding our police.
48:02The same thing as they're doing with an officer on the street corner.
48:06So, why the Republicans' Senate doesn't just sit in there and just do it,
48:13and take a negative vote and do it again and again like the Democrats do.
48:17They go again and again — the war power.
48:20I'm negotiating a deal with Iran.
48:23And every week, every three days, they put in a thing that the war should stop.
48:31And people ask me, how the hell do you negotiate like that?
48:34You're destroying them.
48:36Every day I read — think of it — we militarily decapitated the country.
48:41And every day I read about how well they're doing militarily.
48:45They got nothing left.
48:47They're done.
48:48And yet, I read in the New York Times.
48:50I see that stupid CNN, which I only watch because you have to watch a little bit of the enemy.
48:55So, I watch it for a very short period.
48:57But you have to — you don't — you have to be smart.
49:00And if you see CNN, you think they're winning the war.
49:03If you read the New York Times, it's actually seditious, in my opinion.
49:09You read the New York Times, you actually think they're winning the war.
49:12You — I read some of these columnists and — but it all starts from the top.
49:17It's a terrible thing.
49:19So, we're negotiating with them, and they read how well they're doing.
49:23And they're sitting in a cave, and all their leaders are dead.
49:25Everyone's dead around them.
49:27Missiles are all over the place.
49:29They have no Navy.
49:30They have no Air Force.
49:31They have no nothing.
49:33We can fly right over the middle of Tehran without being shot at because they have no anti-aircraft.
49:38They have nothing.
49:41And they're reading that they're winning the war.
49:44They're trying to figure it out.
49:45That's right.
49:45They get the New York Times, I guess, in some form.
49:48Yeah.
49:48And they think we're crazy.
49:50But, you know, I'm supposed to be negotiating.
49:53And they make you negotiate from weakness, not strength.
49:59But the difference is I don't care.
50:02And everybody knows the facts.
50:03We are decimating that country.
50:06I got a call today from another country that's more on our side than the Middle Eastern country, saying,
50:12Sir, please don't hit them anymore.
50:14They're decimated.
50:15Please.
50:15He's actually helping them.
50:17He's actually saying, please.
50:19And yet, the New York Times will tell you that they're winning the war.
50:23It's so sad.
50:25I hate to even say that because when I say that, people out watching, they'll say,
50:30oh, maybe they'll win it just by the fact that I'm saying it.
50:33It is so ridiculous.
50:35They're being decimated.
50:37We have the greatest military in the world.
50:41And one thing that's come out of this and Venezuela and some of the things that have happened.
50:45I rebuilt the military in my first term.
50:47And did a good job.
50:48And also the first year of this term.
50:52We have the greatest military in the world.
50:55When I spoke with President Xi, when I spoke with President Putin, I have great respect for what I've done
51:01and what our military does.
51:03We have a military like no other.
51:06You know, when we attacked Venezuela, their equipment, none of it worked.
51:10It was all good equipment, but it was discombobulated.
51:14You know what that means.
51:15They pressed the buttons and nothing happened.
51:17They said, what the hell is going on?
51:19They heard that weird buzzing sound from way up high.
51:24It's amazing how great our military is.
51:28And for us to read, it's like the B-2 bombers right there.
51:32Late at night, eight months ago, they went into Iranian territory and Iran was waiting for them.
51:39And they were firing at the wrong targets.
51:42They were firing at their planes, but they didn't see them.
51:45And with no moon, dark at night, they dropped each plane in two bombs, 14 bombs.
51:53Every one of those 14 bombs went right down an air chute.
51:57Think of it.
51:58They followed the beam right into the chute.
52:01And every single one of those bombs — very powerful, 200,000-pound bombs —
52:05every one of those bombs went right down an air chute.
52:08Late at night.
52:10Think of it.
52:11Late at night, with no moon.
52:13You couldn't see a thing.
52:15They put those — and they went into territory.
52:18All of a sudden, I was watching.
52:20They got faster.
52:21Then they go like that because the bombs go faster when they head down.
52:24I wouldn't want to head down.
52:26I'd want to get the hell out of there.
52:28And they let the bombs go.
52:31And then the first one that let them go was a perfect hit.
52:35He said, skedaddle.
52:36And that plane turned over in its eyes.
52:39And it went back to a place called Missouri.
52:44God's country.
52:46It went back.
52:47It wanted to say hello to a very powerful congressman, by the way, from Missouri, Jason.
52:52So every one of those bombs.
52:55And yet, before they landed, CNN came out with a report that maybe the damage wasn't that great.
53:01The damage was far greater than we said.
53:04It was obliteration.
53:05And when the Atomic Energy Commission went there one week later, they say Trump was right.
53:10It was obliteration.
53:11And they still haven't been — they've had possession of the site.
53:15They haven't been able to do anything with it.
53:18That stuff is buried.
53:21And the reason I took such — I was angry about it was because it's disrespectful to those pilots and
53:28those incredible people,
53:30including the people that maintained the planes.
53:32Those planes had to fly for 37 hours without stopping.
53:36They got the tankers.
53:37They had three tanker lifts, meaning they had to get refuel up in there.
53:42They never landed.
53:43They went all the way from Missouri to here and then back.
53:46Some went to Guam, which there are those that say that was a way of camouflaging and all that.
53:53Because they followed the ones that — they thought the ones from Guam were not coming.
53:58They were going to take it easy at Guam.
54:00That didn't work out too well.
54:01But that was amazing.
54:04And the New York Times and CNN, they said, well, maybe the B-2 attack wasn't so good.
54:11Even to this day, I hear it.
54:13Because we want to get the nuclear dust.
54:15It's way down there.
54:16You need excavators and everything to get it.
54:19But we want to get it.
54:20We'll take it one way or the other, we'll get it.
54:21We'll either get it or we'll take it.
54:23They'll either give it to us or we'll take it.
54:25But I think it's very disrespectful to our incredible military when they say maybe they missed the target.
54:33Every single bomb hit the target.
54:35Then on top of that, we shot from submarines 30 unbelievable missiles that also hit the target.
54:44On top of that, it was complete obliteration.
54:48And it was confirmed by Atomic Energy.
54:50But even the other day, I saw on CNN, well, I don't know.
54:54They want the stuff.
54:55So, therefore, the bombs didn't hit.
54:56You know, we want the stuff.
54:57It's way buried.
54:59But we want to get it.
55:00We will get it.
55:02Won't even be hard.
55:05But they have to respect our military.
55:07They have to — if it were missed, I'd tell you, you know, it would be fine.
55:10It would have done a lot of damage.
55:11But this was — these bombs went down the air chutes.
55:14They'll never build air chutes again in the mountains.
55:17You know, they built these air chutes to get a little air up there.
55:19They'll have to find a different way because it didn't work.
55:21But our military is amazing.
55:24There's never been anything like — we have the most powerful military on Earth.
55:30And it's too bad we have to use it.
55:32But we're doing really well.
55:33So, we'll see how that all works out.
55:35Thank you very much, everybody.
55:36Thank you very much.
55:37Thank you very much.
55:38The tile looks beautiful, Mr. President.
55:40The tile looks gorgeous.
55:41The tile looks beautiful, Mr. President.
55:41The tile looks gorgeous.
55:41Oh, yeah.
55:42How do you like the new floor?
55:44So, we had all — what I do best is build.
55:48That's what I do best.
55:49I think — I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?
55:53And most of them say politician, but that's okay.
55:56What I do best is I build.
55:57The ballroom will be just like that.
55:59So, I went out and I have a special black granite.
56:04Granite is the most powerful stone there is.
56:07Marble is much weaker than granite.
56:09I like marble more because marble can be more beautiful.
56:13But it's a much weaker stone.
56:15When you look at grave sites and you look at a marble plaque —
56:20a hundred years old — you'll see oftentimes you can almost not read it.
56:24When you look at a granite plaque — a hundred years old —
56:26it looks like it just got put there yesterday.
56:29You know, that's a test.
56:30But we have the finest granite — anyone's ever seen it.
56:34It's called flawless granite.
56:35There's very little of it.
56:37And I replaced broken slate that was put here many years ago.
56:41I saved the ramp because it's in honor of FDR.
56:44FDR, right up there, he had that built as a ramp.
56:48They said, oh, sir, we'll straighten it.
56:49I said, no, you have to leave the ramp.
56:52It was built.
56:52That ramp was built for FDR with a wheelchair because, you know,
56:56it's a not — it's a pretty good slope.
57:00But a lot of people say, why is it a ramp?
57:02They say, because of FDR.
57:03They say, ah, I get it.
57:04But we saved that.
57:05But we replaced the broken slate.
57:08And the slate, by the way, is meant for a roof.
57:10It's not meant for a sidewalk.
57:12And we replaced it with granite — the highest grade granite.
57:17It's valued at — you know, they value stones in terms of —
57:20that's valued at one million-plus.
57:23That means one million-plus years.
57:26A marble will oftentimes be valued at 200 years, 300 years.
57:31Just giving you a little lesson in stone.
57:33Somebody will say, he went off on a tangent.
57:36Like I did with the pen.
57:37I gave you a little thing on the pen.
57:39That that pen is better than the one that costs 2,000 that you're handing to everyone.
57:43See, this one — I can hand to these guys.
57:45That's worth three bucks.
57:46That's right.
57:48So, anyway.
57:49But —
57:51You know, you said, he went off on a tangent.
57:53But —
57:54I always say —
57:55I always say, if you don't find it interesting, leave during the —
57:58But the granite —
58:00in fact, if you can, let them leave through that door.
58:04It's just completed.
58:05We had it completed.
58:07For King Charles.
58:08— Do you —
58:09Did he love —
58:09On time, on budget.
58:11I paid for it.
58:12So, you know, it's very expensive —
58:13Does he love this?
58:14Does he love all this —
58:15did he love all these —
58:15The President.
58:15He loved it.
58:16He loved it.
58:16And he'd seen some nice stoner.
58:18The Trump Renaissance.
58:18This is a Trump Renaissance here in the city.
58:20Well, we're fixing the White House.
58:21But it was sort of terrible.
58:23People would walk to the Oval Office over a broken slate.
58:27Again, slate is used on roofs.
58:29It's not used where people walk on it.
58:31And it's been walked on for a long time
58:32and many, many broken pieces.
58:34So I said to do it right.
58:36Now, the other thing I did, if you want to have a look,
58:38all of the columns, they had 200 years of paint on them.
58:41The Press- Wow.
58:42And they looked terrible.
58:43And, you know, they were chipped and broken.
58:45And when you have a lot of paint,
58:47and I stripped the columns back down to the original stone
58:50and painted them, and you'll see it.
58:52But you may want to have final touches,
58:56a little touch up here with the paint,
58:58get a little hit by a couple of these heavy stones.
59:00You know, they're very heavy, thick.
59:02It's thick granite.
59:03But that granite is valued at over a million years.
59:05So there was a lifetime.
59:06One million-plus.
59:08That's your max.
59:09Why don't you walk out there and take a look, okay?
59:12The Press- Well, I'll be selling around
59:13and the company that did it,
59:15if you look at the settings,
59:17each point is perfect.
59:19So take a- Peter, take a look.
59:20Tell your father if I did a good job.
59:23Thank you, guys.
59:25Thank you, guys.
59:26Thank you, guys.
59:27Thank you, guys.
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