00:00Mr. Hello, everybody.
00:02The President Bushman — the game was fantastic.
00:04Well played by both teams.
00:06We all had a lot of fun.
00:07It was great to watch.
00:09Very talented players.
00:11We have ongoing negotiations in Iran and with Iran.
00:16And that hasn't stopped.
00:19And we could have at least an idea by one or two days from now,
00:25but I think it's going well.
00:28The blockade continues to hold 100 percent.
00:31Nothing is getting through our blockade.
00:33No oil, no income, no nothing.
00:36Nothing is getting through the blockade.
00:38We have our great Secretary of the Interior,
00:41and we have Lee Zeldin, as you know, environment.
00:44And you might give him a little update on what
00:47we're doing with a few different things, as long
00:49as we're here with the news, with the media.
00:52See, I'm being very nice tonight.
00:53The media.
00:57In California, I hear they've speeded the process
00:59up a little bit, and they had a good result.
01:02One good result out of two.
01:05Doug, would you like to say a couple of words?
01:07Well, I would just say, on the Middle East,
01:10President Trump has all the leverage that I'm confident
01:13we're going to come out of this with a great deal.
01:15In terms of getting ready for the spectacular celebration
01:19of our amazing country, our 250th,
01:22with President Trump's safe and beautiful in D.C.
01:26What's been accomplished?
01:28I want to give a shout-out to everybody that works
01:30for the National Park, the U.S. Park Police.
01:32But, you know, cleaning up dozens and dozens of monuments,
01:36dozens of fountains back working in the reflecting pool,
01:39which you've all known is near completion.
01:42It's going to be ready before the UFC event at the end of this week.
01:46So, everything's going great on that front.
01:48The city's never looked better, and President Trump,
01:52I think you've said, you've got, you've called them love letters,
01:54you've got more love letters about the fountains
01:57and the beauty of the city than ever before.
02:00But how fitting, as we go into our 250th,
02:02that President Trump personally getting involved
02:05in making sure that our capital reflects the greatness of our country.
02:09Because it's not, decline is a choice, and President Trump has shown
02:16a blueprint for every American city, every mayor in this country
02:20that's got a large metro, that's got a homeless problem,
02:23that's got a graffiti problem, that's got a crime problem.
02:25He's played out a blueprint of how you solve that,
02:28and that's the real lesson here.
02:32And I have to tell you that the main thing is,
02:35there's very little crime now in D.C.
02:38It was a, it was a crime haven a year and a half ago.
02:42Very little crime.
02:44Soon, I think it'll be almost no crime whatsoever.
02:47So, I want to thank really the National Guard, the D.C. police.
02:51We work very closely with them, and we, they do as we ask.
02:57And they've been terrific, really terrific.
02:59And we have very, very little crime.
03:01Also, Memphis.
03:03And if you look at New Orleans and Louisiana,
03:06they're down 77 percent.
03:08Memphis is down 74 percent.
03:11And I would say D.C. is down 95 percent.
03:14D.C. has become very safe and very beautiful.
03:17The grass is new, much of the grass.
03:20You know, grass has a life just like a human being has a life.
03:23And it hadn't been changed in a hundred years.
03:26But you see, there's nobody sleeping on the beautiful parks.
03:29The wire and fences are all taken down.
03:33And D.C. is very safe, and it's also become very beautiful.
03:36The reflective lake, as we call it, the reflective,
03:41beautiful reflective lake, I mean, it's like a mirror.
03:44And that's filling up now, still filling up.
03:47And the work, and we increased the scope quite a bit.
03:50And we've taken care of now all of the sidewalk
03:53and everything around the lake,
03:56because we have to bring it into the same shape.
03:57And a lot of it's granite.
03:59We sandblasted.
04:00It looks beautiful.
04:01And we had 22 different fountains,
04:04all of which didn't work for 40 or 50 years.
04:08They were loaded up with graffiti.
04:10And because of the Department of Interior working with me
04:13and some other people that are into it,
04:16we just want to beautify.
04:17We have one of the most beautiful capitals in the world
04:20and doing a really good job.
04:23So of the 22, not one of them worked for 40 or 50 years.
04:28Now, every one of the 22 work.
04:30And I think we have a couple of more to go, no?
04:32We're doing ribbon cuttings almost every other day.
04:36And fabulous to see all these coming back online.
04:39But what's most exciting is to see how much the people
04:42that live in Washington, D.C.
04:44and visit Washington, D.C., love coming to a safe and beautiful city.
04:47And I think it really reflects what we're celebrating here at our 250,
04:52is not just gratitude for the past and respect for all that's gone before us,
04:58but it's inspiration for the future.
04:59People come and see what America can be.
05:02You know, it's a little bit just sitting here and talking
05:04or standing here and talking to you.
05:06And we have a lot of respect for a lot of the people before me.
05:10I know some of you very well.
05:12But take a look at that plane.
05:14See that plane?
05:15That's in perfect mint condition.
05:18Take a look at that. Look at that.
05:19Isn't that amazing?
05:21And everything should look that way.
05:23We work with the military.
05:24We do a real job.
05:25But if you look at the polish, look at the way.
05:27Everything is beautiful.
05:29And that's the way we want D.C.
05:32And some people would laugh or smile at it,
05:34but there's nothing to smile at.
05:36So D.C. has become really safe and really, really beautiful.
05:40And we have some great things planned, like the promenade.
05:43We've got a promenade at the Lincoln Musi-
05:46at Lincoln, and you have to see this.
05:49This will be one of the most beautiful things.
05:52The Lincoln Memorial is going to be unbelievable.
05:56It was supposed to front on the Potomac,
05:58and they built two highways behind it.
06:00And we're taking care of that by bridging over the highways,
06:03it's going to be beautiful, what they're doing there.
06:06So we have some really — and the ARC will be maybe the greatest thing.
06:09I think the ballroom.
06:11But a combination of the ballroom and the ARC
06:13will be the two greatest projects of them all.
06:16So we've got a very — we've got a lot of exciting things happening.
06:21Getting back to other things, like jobs numbers.
06:24We have record jobs.
06:25We have more people working in the United States today
06:28than at any time in the history of our country.
06:30And you see the numbers on the — on the stock exchange.
06:35We had just today — 73 records.
06:39We have 73 new highs.
06:42So out of my short one-and-a-half years,
06:47we have — we've had 73 brand-new highs
06:51on the various stock exchanges.
06:53And that's a record.
06:55Nobody's ever had anything like that.
06:56And that's during a military conflict.
07:00So, you know, pretty amazing.
07:02And even the oil and gas, it's lower during a military conflict
07:08than it was during the Biden administration.
07:12And they didn't have that because, to them,
07:14it was okay that Iran has a nuclear weapon.
07:18And I say it's not okay.
07:20So we — the B-2 bombers did a big job, and a great job.
07:24And we have got that in very good control.
07:27They will not have a nuclear weapon.
07:29Okay.
07:30Could I ask Lee?
07:31He's done an incredible job, as you know.
07:34The environment is good.
07:35And he's approving more plans than any human being,
07:40I think, has ever approved anywhere in the world.
07:43We have more factories going up, car plans, AI plans.
07:47We have about $18 trillion being invested in the United States,
07:52which is a record by far.
07:54There's never been anything like it.
07:55Many, many times more than the last administration.
07:58I won't get into the numbers.
08:00The numbers are astronomical.
08:02But in the history of the world,
08:05there has never been a country that's had $18 trillion invested in it,
08:10and that's in 11 months.
08:12The last administration had much less than $1 trillion over a period of four years.
08:18We have $18 trillion in 11 months.
08:21We haven't gotten the final numbers on the 12th month,
08:24which will be very good.
08:25Lee, do you want to say something?
08:27Sure.
08:28Well, you know, the Spurs, they have some good players.
08:31Wemba Yama.
08:32Castle did well tonight.
08:34But I'm still going with the Knicks.
08:36I think that they're going to pull it off.
08:38And, Mr. President, it was awesome to be able to spend the night with you.
08:41The energy was amazing.
08:43Jim Dolan was a great host.
08:46But this Knicks team, I mean, OG Andonovia is fantastic.
08:49Jalen Brunson is Mr. Clutch.
08:51They have great heart.
08:52So I'm feeling good about how that series is going.
08:56How many, Mr. Delvin?
08:56How many games?
08:57I'm going Knicks in five.
08:59I feel like it's a resilient, strong team.
09:03He knew every player.
09:04They're going to come out for game four, and they are going to deliver.
09:09I don't know.
09:10We're busy with a lot of important stuff right now at EPA, like a war.
09:16There's a lot of important stuff going on.
09:19But I happen to be in New York.
09:21We were just in Binghamton earlier today where we believe that we should build a new
09:27constitution pipeline to deliver natural gas from Pennsylvania to New England.
09:34We believe that New York should reverse its ban on the extraction of natural gas.
09:38We're getting held up by the governor of New York.
09:40She made a deal with us to allow us to build it.
09:43And she's holding it up.
09:45And Connecticut is suffering.
09:46And all of New England is suffering.
09:48And upstate New York is really suffering.
09:51And this is a pipeline that goes very substantially underground that nobody is going to see.
09:56And the people of New England and others are paying among the highest prices anywhere in the world,
10:02frankly.
10:03If you look at throughout the world, because you can't get — because we have a governor
10:08that just doesn't allow it.
10:10This has gone on for a long time.
10:11And we made a deal with her, and she broke the deal.
10:15We made a deal.
10:16We're going to give her a couple of windmills someplace because she likes windmills, which
10:19is a big mistake.
10:20And we made the deal.
10:22So I guess we're withdrawing those windmills.
10:24But she gave us two — one going out to Long Island, which is now under construction,
10:29and one going to New England.
10:32And the big one going to New England — the people in New England are paying a fortune for
10:36energy because of the fact that New York, for decades, has stopped the pipeline.
10:42So we made a deal with the governor, and she broke the deal.
10:44The Press here at New York, did you see mayor moddani at the game?
10:48The President did not.
10:48No.
10:49The Press here all night.
10:51I thought it was great.
10:52I mean, I thought it was amazing, actually.
10:55You mean when they had the camera on me?
10:57I thought it was very good.
10:59Yeah.
11:00It was certainly amazing.
11:01It was — I think, mostly cheers.
11:04It was, it was loud and it was very enthusiastic.
11:09Mr. President, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who has talked about running for president,
11:13said he would blame you if the Knicks lost the game. How do you respond to that?
11:17I think he's a nice guy. But you need a certain aptitude to run for president.
11:23You need a high IQ. I'm not sure that Stephen has that. I don't think he does, actually.
11:28Mr. President, what did you say to Prime Minister Netanyahu when you spoke to him?
11:32We had a very good conversation and he was hit and he hit back.
11:37And I can't blame him for that. But he was hit. He hit back.
11:41And now they've called it quits. So they're going to just leave each other alone for another week or something.
11:50It's been going on for a long time. You could say about 3,000 years, if you really would.
11:56But certainly it's been going on for 47 years.
12:00But, no, he hit back. They were going back and forth.
12:04And now they've both agreed, through May, to stop.
12:07And we're in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow in
12:13any way, shape or form nuclear weapons, etc.
12:17And that it straight will open up right away. It will open up immediately upon signing, which could be in
12:22two or three days.
12:22Did you ask for nothing at that? Did you ask for nothing at that?
12:25No, I said do what's right. But I want you to stop as quickly as you can.
12:31Because they have to stop. It's had to do with Lebanon. And it has to stop. We want to get
12:37it finished.
12:37I'm going to leave.
12:37I can just drop down and leave.
12:38I want you to stop there.
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