00:00Mr. President, your financial disclosure shows
00:02you had a very lucrative year last year.
00:04What message does this send to average Americans,
00:07especially those who are making drugs right now?
00:09The President Well, you know, I don't get involved
00:10in my personal.
00:11We have funds that run my money.
00:13The Press But you are benefiting.
00:15The President Well, I've made a lot of money
00:16before I became President, and they invest my money.
00:20And I don't talk to them.
00:21I never — I don't even speak to them.
00:22So I have many people — I don't know what they call
00:24closed accounts or something.
00:26You put your money in, and that's it.
00:28I don't talk to them.
00:29They're big institutions, and they run it.
00:32But, yeah, I've had a great career.
00:34In business, I've had a great career.
00:35The Press But you talked about conflict
00:37issues with the President.
00:37The President I don't know if I've had a better
00:38career in politics or business, but I had a great
00:41career in business.
00:42And, you know, you saw the cash, and you report
00:46the different things.
00:47And what they do is we gave it — I think it's called
00:50a blind account, but they — basically, they take it.
00:52And I purposely — I never speak to any of the people
00:55that run the money, but they're at big institutions.
00:57And they invest in whatever they invest in.
01:00The Press But the critics say you're profiting
01:03off the presidency.
01:04The President Well, you know why I'm profiting?
01:05Because the stock market is going up.
01:07Everybody is profiting.
01:08If you have a — do you have a 401 ?
01:10How has your 401 done?
01:12It's about up 85 percent.
01:14Thank you, President Trump.
01:16So we're all profiting.
01:17I'm profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot
01:20of cash, and I give it to institutions.
01:23I don't know if they know what they're doing or not,
01:25but they buy a vast array of things.
01:30The Press But the President has been meeting
01:31with Secretary Ex-Sat and General Tain about
01:34potentially returning to an all-out war with Iran.
01:36Do you mean you've been unhappy with Iran's
01:39adherence to the MOU?
01:40The President Well, I think they've come a long way.
01:43We hit them very hard last week.
01:45I think they're fine.
01:46I think we're going to — it's the denuclearization of Iran.
01:51It's very simple.
01:52And Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
01:54Otherwise, all of this stuff that we look at,
01:56all of these things that we do,
01:57the country has never had activity like it's got right now.
02:01So we're building more factories and car plants
02:04and other things.
02:05We went for years without ever building one car plant.
02:07Now we're building many car plants.
02:09We're building AI.
02:11We're building — we're building all over the country.
02:13$19.1 trillion being invested.
02:17The record was like two, and we've got $19.1.
02:20And it's going to continue.
02:22And with those buildings open,
02:23you're going to see something like the country
02:26has never seen before.
02:27That's why the stock market is going up every day.
02:29That's why you're 401 .
02:31Because everybody benefits.
02:33When the stock market goes up, everybody benefits.
02:36More jobs, more everything.
02:38And we're creating more jobs.
02:40We have more people working today
02:42than have ever worked in the history of our country.
02:44It's great.
02:44And that's before these places open.
02:47They'll be opening up over the next year.
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