00:00And we have to bring the White House up to, like I'm fixing the country, we're fixing the White House
00:04too.
00:05It's the people's house.
00:06One of the things we're doing, and this was always asphalt, which is very basic, not appropriate for a great
00:14house,
00:14for a great place like the White House, which is to be, now again, one of the most beautiful buildings
00:19anywhere in the world.
00:21As you know, we stripped the paint off.
00:23That's many, many years of paint.
00:25And we stripped it and we brought it down to its natural.
00:28We're doing the same thing on the other side.
00:30It's in the process.
00:31If you want, you can go over and look at it.
00:32I think you see it.
00:34But we stripped it.
00:36We got rid of the asphalt here.
00:37And this is granite.
00:39And if you notice, it's radial.
00:41Radial meaning it's cut about two degrees.
00:44Every stone is two degrees rounded.
00:46So that instead of putting straight pieces down, we have the stone is absolutely perfectly rounded.
00:54If you look at it, it's sort of amazing because you can barely see it.
00:57But it's just a slight radial cut.
01:00And it's a perfect job.
01:02It's a white granite.
01:05It's called a flawless granite.
01:07We get the best stuff.
01:09One thing I know how to do is build.
01:11And so we put a brand new face on the front of the White House, on the ground.
01:16The cars will pull up.
01:17And this is what you'd have, as opposed to the asphalt, which was literally, they had potholes in it.
01:24It's ridiculous the way this place was taken care of.
01:28Nobody, including other presidents, they didn't see it, but I see it because I was very good at real estate,
01:33like maybe the best in a lot of ways.
01:36And I love construction.
01:38I love seeing things properly taken care of.
01:40As you know, we've redone the colonnade, going to the Oval Office.
01:45We put the black granite down, and now we're out here.
01:48So for 50 years, more than that, they've wanted to have a heliport, but nobody knew how to go about
01:56it.
01:56And we are building a great heliport.
01:59It's donated by Sikorsky, by the helicopter company, because we have helicopters that can't even land here.
02:07They have brand-new helicopters that were bought a long time ago, manufactured, and recently arrived.
02:15And they couldn't land on the grass because the power is so great of the engines that the grass would
02:21get ripped up.
02:21They tried it, and the grass was literally scattered all over the place.
02:25And I don't mean it was burned a little bit on top.
02:27I mean it was dirt, and the grass was all over the place.
02:32So they've been trying to build a heliport, meaning a pad, for more than 50 years.
02:41And we had it designed.
02:43Again, we had it.
02:44It was paid for by the company that manufactures the helicopters.
02:48We didn't pay any money for it.
02:51This is different.
02:52This is the road for the White House, and that was done through donations, including donations from me.
02:59And you can see the kind of granite this is.
03:01This granite has a million-year life.
03:04It's a very strong stone.
03:05It will never break.
03:06It will never leak.
03:08It will never do anything.
03:08This is the highest quality stone you can get.
03:11And especially for something like this, it's got – it's rated a million-year plus.
03:16That means it has a million-year life.
03:18Can you imagine that?
03:19It's 35,000 pounds per square inch.
03:22If you look at hard concrete – hard concrete is 5,000 pounds.
03:26This is 35,000.
03:28So nature is stronger than what the human can produce.
03:32It's really pretty amazing.
03:34It comes from California, from a quarry in California, and it's a very special stone.
03:41This is also used.
03:42This carries on out into the helipad.
03:46The pad is out there now.
03:47It's very close to being finished.
03:49The hard work is done.
03:50The beautiful work is finished.
03:52That's – they're putting the granite top on.
03:54And the granite top says, the seal of the United States of America.
03:59That's the exact term.
04:01If you look at the seals of the presidents, the seal of the president of the United States
04:09of America, meaning the president is in the White House.
04:13This is for many presidents.
04:14This isn't for – this is for many presidents.
04:17They will have it for a long time.
04:20The other thing we could do – if you notice, we took it up and redid some – one aspect
04:25because we had a lot of slope on it, and I felt it was too much slope.
04:28It's a slope for the rain, but I felt it was too much slope.
04:32So rather than doing it and not really having it the way it should be – because that will
04:38be used for other things, greeting visitors and lots of other things when helicopters aren't
04:43landing.
04:43It's now dead flat.
04:45We actually put a one-half of one-degree slope so the rain gets off, but I didn't want
04:51to have the slope that they had.
04:52They had a slope that would have been, like, for a waterfall, not for rain.
04:55And so we – before we put the letters down, we lifted it and made it dead flat.
05:01It sort of reminded me of the Wallman Rink in Central Park.
05:04So it starts here, and this goes into the entrance of the White House, and this is pure
05:09white granite, very high quality and the highest quality.
05:13And again, when you hear that – 35,000 pounds per square inch – that's a really powerful
05:20stone.
05:20That stone that if you took a hammer and you started hammering right now, all day long,
05:26you would not see where you have it.
05:29I don't care how strong you are.
05:30You wouldn't see a mark on it, literally.
05:32That's the kind of power it is.
05:33So it's the kind of thing that should have been done.
05:36It's also four inches thick.
05:38Normally, you'd get an inch or an inch and a half.
05:40It's four inches thick.
05:41It makes it much more powerful because it's the White House.
05:45And this comes through contributions, donations from numerous people, including me.
05:51And now we're going to walk over, and we're going to see – this goes equidistant on the
05:56other side.
05:57And right over there, if you notice, is where the ballroom and military complex will be.
06:03And the military complex is going to have a drone-proof roof, and you're going to have
06:08– on top of the roof, you're going to have drones – many drones, which will protect
06:12Washington, D.C. and will protect the White House.
06:15Very important.
06:16So, let's take a look at the helipad, and we'll walk together if you'd like.
06:22The cutouts here are meant for stanchions in stainless steel.
06:27So, they take that piece up, and they put a stanchion right here.
06:32Because a lot of people, they have events.
06:34And over the years, they've just put stanchions here.
06:38They never had any place to put it.
06:40And so, what you do is you take that in, and you put a stainless steel pole, and you
06:44have a stanchion.
06:45You have a rope line, or whatever you might call it.
06:48And we pick the exact location where they've had it, but they were never able to do much
06:54with it, because they weren't able to secure it.
06:57We put the stainless steel pieces in, they take it off, they put in a stainless steel rod,
07:02and they put the rope.
07:08And we'll see you next time.
07:09Bye.
07:10Bye.
07:10Bye.
07:12Bye.
07:14Bye.
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