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In a dramatic White House press exchange, Trump was repeatedly challenged with the question: “Where’s the FUNDING coming from?” as journalists pressed for clarity on the Lincoln Memorial funding plan. The Trump Lincoln Memorial funding discussion quickly escalated into a heated back-and-forth, with critics questioning whether the project would require congressional approval or alternative funding sources. This Lincoln Memorial funding controversy is now dominating political headlines, with analysts calling it one of the most awkward exchanges of the week.
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00:00Hello, everybody. So we had incredible job numbers today, you saw that. And we have good everything, good numbers, but
00:10the job numbers just came out and they were fantastic. Far better than even anticipated. They anticipated pretty good, but
00:19they had no idea what was going to be that.
00:22And unfortunately, we're in a world where for the last 15 years or so, when you have good numbers, the
00:28market goes down. When you have bad numbers, the market goes down. Because too much emphasis is based on inflation.
00:35And you don't have to have inflation by having growth. And we have great growth. And that doesn't mean inflation.
00:42In fact, it can be anti-inflation growth.
00:44Yeah. So I hope the market starts to learn that when you have good numbers, the market should go up,
00:50not down.
00:53Question.
00:55I'm sorry, sir. Given those job numbers, do you think that that should come right at its next meeting? And
01:00do you think your chair can force?
01:01Well, I'm going to let Kevin make that decision. I'd like to see lower interest rates because each point, think
01:08of this, is $600 million.
01:11Okay. So, you know.
01:14You said yesterday, you know, you're going to have some candidates who are going to direct your initial intelligence. What
01:20is under consideration?
01:23I have five interviews. And I'm a very good person watching things, Bill Pulte. But I have five interviews.
01:32So, cutting rates, though, just getting back to you. You save hundreds of millions of dollars when you take one
01:39point off. Hundreds of millions of dollars.
01:42Two points. You save double hundreds of millions of dollars.
01:48And so, I therefore, you know, from that sample. But someday, we're going to have to go back to the
01:56old theory.
01:57When we're doing so good, we have more auto plants being built than we've ever had. We have more plants
02:03being built than we've ever had.
02:04Well, these numbers are good. But when the numbers are good, we should be allowed to grow, not to stymie
02:10the growth.
02:12And, you know, we had a, we had a vet chair that didn't understand that.
02:18Well, I would like to see that. But I leave that up. Look, I have a very talented guy. I
02:23leave it up to Campbell.
02:24But I've always said, and I've said it for years, when you have a country that's doing well, the market
02:33should go up.
02:34The market should. And the reason they go down is, if it's doing well, people say, no, we have to
02:39stop inflation.
02:40And it doesn't mean inflation. In fact, it could be just the opposite.
02:44So how high before the midterm elections mean that we were able to high?
02:47Remember, we save 600, 600 billion dollars every point.
02:52So, President, why do you want real content to cut the office?
02:55Sorry?
02:56Why do you want real content to cut the office of the director of national intelligence? And how long is
03:01he going to be in that role?
03:01It depends on how long it takes to get somebody approved.
03:05He'll do a very good job. He'll watch it closely.
03:09But Bill Pulte is very good. He's very talented.
03:12He's done a great job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
03:17The value there is close to a trillion dollars. We built a value that's incredible.
03:22So he's done a very good job in that. He'll do a good job. He's watching for, you know, during
03:26this time period.
03:27And you want to cut a number of people working there?
03:30I wouldn't mind. I've heard that's way too high for way too long.
03:33Yeah, I wouldn't mind. If he cut, I wouldn't mind.
03:36What intelligence are you considering the possibility of the U.S. government taking stakes in some AI companies?
03:44Well, something. I did it with Intel.
03:47So I made a deal on Intel. You know, we made, I made for the country, 50 million dollars.
03:55We took a stake in Intel. It was given to us by our helpmaker.
04:00I said, look, we'll help you, but you have to give us 10% of the company.
04:04That was Intel just nine months ago.
04:07And as I think you know, we made about 50 million dollars on that deal.
04:11Would you want to do anything?
04:12I did a very good job. I should be a stockbroker.
04:15Mr. President. Yes, sir.
04:17I'm going to change the subject, if you don't mind.
04:18Did you get a chance to watch Game 1 of the NBA Finals? What did you think?
04:21I did.
04:23Well, I'll be going to Game 3. I guess it's Game 3 on Monday.
04:26I thought it was amazing. I think the Knicks have an amazing team, the way they played.
04:33Started off slow, and it just got stronger and stronger.
04:36Wemby looks like he's going to be a great player, but they really played well.
04:41I thought it was.
04:42Quick follow-up. Did you see Wemby crossing his arms during the U.S. National Anthem?
04:45Did you have any thoughts on that?
04:47I did not see that. Is that what he did?
04:49He did, yes.
04:50What did he mean by that?
04:52Nobody asked him.
04:54Well, I guess you have to ask him.
04:56Well, who's your favorite Knicks?
04:59Well, Brunson's fantastic. Towns is fantastic.
05:02Just have a great team.
05:04What do you think that the game you're going to, the cheapest price for the Game 3 you're going to
05:09is $8,000?
05:11Everyday Americans can't afford to support him.
05:14Well, I know, but they can watch it on television.
05:17It's sort of semi-free to watch it on television, but that's the way life goes.
05:22You know, you have some, and now if the game wasn't a big, if the team wasn't a big success,
05:27you could go very easily.
05:29So, you know, you can do that too, but that's the way life is, you know, and they've had great
05:35success.
05:36And don't forget, they've suffered also losses, and they've suffered during the bad time.
05:41Now they have a good time.
05:42They have a team that's amazing.
05:44I don't think they've lost a playoff game.
05:46Very unusual.
05:48Has that ever happened before?
05:50Has anyone ever had this kind of a run in a playoff game?
05:53Highly unusual.
05:55On the big promenade you announced yesterday, Mr. President, how is the funding going to come from?
06:00Well, it's not a lot of money, and it's going to be beautiful.
06:04You know, it's always been, the Lincoln Memorial has always been very tied to the Potomac River,
06:09but they built two roadways behind it, unexpectedly at the time, many years ago,
06:15but after the Memorial was built.
06:18It used to have a tie to the river, and then the highways cut it off.
06:21And we have a really beautiful plan where it goes over.
06:26It's beautiful.
06:27A beautiful series of platforms that bring you right down to the river.
06:32It's beautiful.
06:33It's cool.
06:34It's a promenade.
06:35It's a beautiful promenade.
06:38Probably, well, it could come from a lot of, we have a lot of sources of funding.
06:41We won't have to go back to Congress, or we have a lot of sources of funding.
06:45And a lot of people have asked me to stay involved with the Kennedy Center.
06:51We had a judge who's totally conflicted, but that's all right.
06:53He's a totally conflicted judge.
06:55He should be ashamed of himself.
06:56But they've asked me, in the strongest of language, to stay involved with the Kennedy Center.
07:02And we want to see, because the building, well, I mean, it's a very, it's very dangerous, number one.
07:07Number two, it was losing for years tremendous amounts of money.
07:11So I'm considering that.
07:13But a lot of people have asked me to get it fixed.
07:16We have to fix the Kennedy Center, both physically and from the standpoint of attendance.
07:22Mr. President, on oil and gas prices, I know you're saying that the oil prices and gas prices
07:27will fall after the consequences.
07:28Would you limit exports of gasoline if prices in the short term go off?
07:32I can do a lot of things.
07:33We have a lot of alternatives.
07:34But the beautiful thing from our standpoint is we have more oil and gas and coal than everything
07:40else in any other country on the planet.
07:42And then when you add Venezuela to it, we have probably 64 percent of that type of energy.
07:52That's unbelievable.
07:53The Venezuela is working out very well.
07:56We're getting along incredibly.
07:58The country is happy.
08:00The people love the USA.
08:02And we have a lot of, you know, the big oil companies are moving in there now as we speak.
08:07And we're going to be taking out millions of barrels of oil.
08:10But are U.S. oil majors doing enough to boost output in the U.S.?
08:13Are you asking that?
08:14Yeah, yeah, sure.
08:15Well, we have everything we need.
08:18The world does it.
08:20But I will say, people thought it was going to be a lot worse.
08:23You know, today I looked at $96 a barrel.
08:26People thought that was going to be $300 a barrel.
08:28And in the meantime, we're having great success with Iran.
08:32They're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
08:34They're in no position to have a nuclear weapon.
08:36Senator Tillis said he won't support Todd Blanchett's confirmation unless Todd Blanchett condemns January 6th.
08:43Do you have a reaction to that?
08:45Senator Tillis is a loser.
08:47That's why he didn't run.
08:48He didn't run because I wouldn't support him.
08:51And he's just an angry man because he's not going to be a senator any longer.
08:56He wasn't respected in the Senate.
08:58He fought a lot of people.
09:00He fought Pete Hexner.
09:02Hexner turned out to be a gem.
09:05Now, Senator Tillis is a loser.
09:07Stone Cold.
09:08And he's an angry man because I basically, he was forced to leave the Senate because I wouldn't support him.
09:15And he quit.
09:16So now he's trying to make trouble by, you know, opposing anybody.
09:20Todd Blanchett is a brilliant guy who everybody likes and everybody respects.
09:25And Tillis is always like, I'm going to do this.
09:27I'm going to do that.
09:28But he should have done it before when he was a senator.
09:30He would have gotten wiped out in a race.
09:33But he needed my support.
09:34And I said, I can't give you my support.
09:36He's not qualified.
09:37He's not good for the position of senator.
09:41I didn't hear about what he did with Todd Blanchett.
09:44Todd Blanchett is fantastic.
09:51You know, there's a concept out there.
09:54There's so much money and it's so big that there are concepts where pieces could be given to the American
10:01public,
10:02where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies.
10:07And I will tell you, yeah, I have spoken to all of them.
10:11There's something very interesting about it where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public.
10:18And we'll look into that.
10:19We are looking.
10:20I actually have a meeting scheduled in the very short, very near future with, did you know that, with all
10:28of the companies.
10:29And we're talking about it where the American people can benefit from the success of AI.
10:37And by doing that, they're going to like it better.
10:40Because we're leading China.
10:42We're leading everybody in the world with AI.
10:44And we want to keep it that way.
10:46It's probably the biggest industry maybe that we've ever seen.
10:49Which companies?
10:50All of them.
10:51All the big ones, yeah.
10:54They're all coming to the White House probably next week.
10:57Is the idea that that would be dividends for the American people?
10:59I don't know.
11:00We're going to see.
11:00I mean, we're going to see.
11:01It's like you make them a partnership in this revolution would be a beautiful thing.
11:07It would make them rich.
11:09Senator Bernie Sanders proposed this 50% managed public-private partnership.
11:14Well, I've been talking about it for the last year.
11:17But is it odd to be kind of on the same page with Senator Sanders?
11:21You know, actually, when Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of with Hillary Clinton and
11:28he lost in the primaries, a lot of people think he didn't lose.
11:33I mean, he didn't get two of them, right?
11:34He lost a second time with Biden.
11:39But when Bernie Sanders lost, you know that I got many of his people.
11:43They voted for me because we are on an economic plan as far as economics is concerned.
11:50We have certain things that aren't that far apart.
11:52People are surprised.
11:54But many of you, if you'll take a look, many of the people that voted for Bernie Sanders,
12:00but he was no longer there to vote for, they went to me.
12:02I picked up a lot of his, a tremendous amount of his voters.
12:09How much oil have you gotten through the strait with the help of naval escorts?
12:13And are you asking, are you directing U.S. forces to guide those ships through the strait
12:17or tankers through the strait?
12:18A lot.
12:19I don't want to say how many, but a lot.
12:21A lot of oil is coming into our country.
12:23A lot of oil is coming into the world that people don't even know about.
12:27And that's why it's at $97 a barrel instead of $300 a barrel.
12:31And when that whole thing is straightened out, it shouldn't take long.
12:34One way or the other, it's going to get done.
12:36And when it's all straightened out, you're going to have oil prices drop down to maybe
12:40even lower than they were.
12:42I would, and you've heard me say this, I was in Iowa.
12:45And for a gallon of gasoline, it was at $185.
12:51That was three and a half months ago.
12:53Last year, the FBI reopened its investigation into the cocaine found in the White House
13:00or the Biden administration.
13:01Have you agreed for where that investigation stands?
13:04No, but I might ask about it.
13:06I might ask.
13:07You mean in the shelves where they found the cocaine, actually?
13:13I might ask about it.
13:19We're looking at that.
13:20Are you still planning to talk to Taiwan's president about it?
13:23I'll always talk to him, but we're looking at it.
13:26What was your reaction to John Bolton, agreeing to be guilty and reclassified documents?
13:31Well, I was never much of a fan of John Bolton.
13:34I never thought he was a smart person.
13:37And he was a radical right in terms of war.
13:42Not in terms of other things.
13:44He wanted to go to war with anybody that opened their mouth, anybody that talked.
13:49And I used him for a purpose.
13:51He was involved with Bush and he created a lot of problems.
13:55But he always wanted to kill people in war.
13:59And that was okay for me as long as I didn't listen to him, which I never did.
14:05He's a bad guy, John Bolton.
14:08He's a dirty guy.
14:09We caught him.
14:10We caught him.
14:13And he wrote a book.
14:15You look at all the information he took.
14:17I mean, if you look at that case, it's a great honor to have helped from the standpoint of encouragement.
14:24I looked at John Bolton as somebody that was a very dishonest guy and not a smart guy.
14:31And I guess he's paying the price for certainly being dishonest.
14:35You mentioned the Kennedy Center, sir.
14:37How do you want to be involved in the war?
14:39Well, it's the same way it is.
14:40I'm the chairman.
14:41So we'll just keep it going.
14:42Somebody has to do it.
14:44It loses a lot of money.
14:46It has for years.
14:47It's lost hundreds of millions of dollars for years.
14:51And yet it's something you have to keep going.
14:54You know, it's the arts.
14:55They all lose money.
14:57Carnegie Hall.
14:57You take a look at all of that kind of thing loses.
15:02So they really, everybody, they want me to say very badly.
15:05So we're going to take a look at it.
15:08The judge really hurt the Kennedy Center because he slowed down.
15:12And we were going to, you know, we're going to spend a lot of money on fixing it and making
15:15it and bringing it back to health.
15:17And the judge really made it very hard to do that.
15:20But we're going to, I'm going to look at his ruling on that.
15:23But we have to bring it back.
15:25Physically, we have to bring it back.
15:27And we have to bring it back another way.
15:29So we'll take a good look at it.
15:31You mentioned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
15:33Yeah.
15:33Where's all these move-overs now acting?
15:36D&I.
15:37Is an IPO off the table?
15:40No, it's not.
15:41We're thinking about an IPO for that.
15:44It's not a rush.
15:46But we've created a tremendous, you know, I could have sold that for literally less than 10% in my
15:53first term.
15:53I was offering, a lot of people were offering me money to me, meaning the country, to buy Fannie Mae
16:00and Freddie Mac, as you know.
16:02And it suffered tremendous hardship.
16:06And then we built it back.
16:08And I could have sold it in my first term for one-tenth of what it's worth now.
16:12And I didn't want to do it.
16:14Now, I think, you know, we would consider an IPO, you know.
16:17And he would stay at, he would potentially...
16:19No, he'd be there.
16:19No, he's staying there.
16:20So then who were the people you're talking to?
16:23I'm looking at five different people, all very good, all people that you know very well, all people that do
16:31that kind of thing.
16:32And they're very respected people.
16:33Mr. President, what do you think about Major League Baseball owners pushing for a salary cap?
16:38Do you think it's time for baseball to have a salary cap?
16:41Don't they sort of have one?
16:43Don't they?
16:44No.
16:44It's a luxury tax, it's a threshold, but the teams that have the money, you're willing to spend it.
16:48Well, if you don't have a salary cap, you don't have a sport, because they can't help themselves.
16:53You know, in sports, they can't help themselves.
16:56Football has a salary cap.
16:57Every major professional league except Major League Baseball in America.
17:01They should have done it a long time ago.
17:04I know so much about sports.
17:06They should have done it a long time ago.
17:08We're trying to help save college sports, because they got some rulings that really essentially destroyed college sports.
17:16And we're working with Randy Levine and Nick Saban and some great people who are trying to save it, because
17:23it's so horrible.
17:24What do you think could happen if this NIL just gets completely out of control and nobody checks it?
17:28Well, I think what's going to happen, if you don't have what they're trying to do now, that's sort of
17:32a cap in a certain way.
17:33If you don't have that, you really have a problem.
17:36But not only college sports, colleges, where you see where Penn State lost $500 million, where a certain school that
17:45I like very much in Florida, they lose $500 million.
17:48You can't have that.
17:50Nobody can afford that, because they go crazy.
17:54That's why when you say Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball, it's shocking, frankly, that they didn't put a cap
18:01on many years ago.
18:03They had a chance to do a cap, and they blew it.
18:05Screwing Ukraine, now that Zelensky has proposed a face-to-face meeting with Zelensky, do you still want them to
18:10go first before the U.S. if he's involved in the talk?
18:12Well, I don't mind.
18:13I mean, let them deal.
18:15I'm the one that got them to this position.
18:19And I think that's going to get worked out.
18:21I think we're getting closer to where Russia and Ukraine should have.
18:24It's a war that should have never happened, would have never happened if I was president.
18:28But I think that's going to get worked out.
18:31Will Secretary Rubio take a proactive role?
18:33He'll be involved.
18:34They'll be involved.
18:35J.D., everybody.
18:36We'll all be involved.
18:37We want to see it done.
18:38You know, we're not spending money.
18:40They're buying things from us, actually, at full price.
18:44With Biden, he gave them everything.
18:47He just gave them hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and everything else.
18:53But it's a war that should have never happened.
18:55And it's a war that has to be.
18:57Last week, 25,000 people over the course of the month.
19:0125,000 people were killed.
19:03Russia, Ukraine, 25,000.
19:06It's not acceptable.
19:08Not acceptable.
19:09Thank you very much.
19:09Have a good time.
19:10Thank you, sir.
19:10Thank you, sir.
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