Full Video - Trump's First Press Conference as President-Elect: Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Hush Money..

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In his first press conference as president-elect, Donald Trump tackles a wide range of pressing issues, from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict to the controversy surrounding his hush money case. Trump also responds to questions on Syria, foreign policy, and potential future cabinet appointments. This lively and candid session gives us insight into his stance on crucial matters as he prepares to take office. Don't miss his direct answers and bold statements that continue to stir debate across the political spectrum.

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00:00:00Thank you very much.

00:00:09So, it's an honor to be with you, and we'll

00:00:13discuss a couple of points.

00:00:14We'll take some questions later, if you'd like.

00:00:16I'm sure you might have one or two.

00:00:19I'd be shocked if you didn't.

00:00:20I'd be very impressed.

00:00:22But I'm honored to welcome one of the most

00:00:25accomplished business leaders of our time, the

00:00:27founder and CEO of SoftBank.

00:00:29Everybody knows.

00:00:30Masa Yoshisan.

00:00:33Masa runs one of the largest companies in Japan

00:00:35and among the most successful investment and

00:00:39technology companies anywhere in the world.

00:00:41One of the most successful investors in the world.

00:00:44And we've just concluded a very productive meeting.

00:00:47And today, I'm thrilled to announce that SoftBank

00:00:51will be investing $100 billion in America,

00:00:55creating 100,000 American jobs at a minimum.

00:01:00And he's doing this because he feels very

00:01:02optimistic about our country since the election.

00:01:06And many other people are also coming in with

00:01:08tremendous amounts of money.

00:01:10You probably noticed that the poll was just taken.

00:01:14It's businesses.

00:01:17Literally, in 39 years, there's been nothing like it.

00:01:20It's been the biggest increase.

00:01:21Small business owners gave it a 41 percent jump.

00:01:26It's the biggest jump that we've had in 39 years.

00:01:30Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

00:01:32And it's just a very they're very optimistic.

00:01:35This historic investment is a monumental

00:01:38demonstration of confidence in America's

00:01:40future, and it will help ensure that artificial

00:01:44intelligence, emerging technologies, and other

00:01:46industries of tomorrow are built, created, and grown

00:01:50right here in the USA.

00:01:51One of the beautiful things about Masa is he's very

00:01:54much involved with emerging technology.

00:01:57Probably knows it maybe better than almost anybody.

00:02:00So, it's a great honor.

00:02:01And some of you remember, after the 2016 election,

00:02:05also, SoftBank committed to invest $50 billion in

00:02:09our country, and they did.

00:02:11And a very place to say that they kept that

00:02:13promise in every way, shape, and form.

00:02:16And now, they're looking to do 100.

00:02:19And I've looked at their books.

00:02:21They do have the possibility of doing more.

00:02:22I'm going to ask him to do a little bit more, but

00:02:25first, I'm going to ask him to speak.

00:02:27And just to say a few words.

00:02:29Masa, please.

00:02:31Please.

00:02:31Thank you very much.

00:02:32Appreciate it.

00:02:33Thank you so much.

00:02:38I'm very, very excited.

00:02:41I would really like to celebrate the great victory

00:02:45of President Trump.

00:02:47And my confidence level to the economy of the United

00:02:54States has tremendously increased with his victory.

00:02:59So, because of that, I'm now excited to commit this

00:03:06$100 billion and 100,000 jobs into the United States.

00:03:10This is double of last time, as President Trump said.

00:03:17Because I say, oh, President Trump is a

00:03:20double-down president.

00:03:22I'm going to have to double down, you know?

00:03:24$100 billion and 100,000 jobs.

00:03:27This is, you know, my confidence level because

00:03:31that has doubled down.

00:03:34So, I am truly excited to make this happen.

00:03:39And, of course, business is important.

00:03:42Technology is important.

00:03:44But one more thing I'm really hoping is that this

00:03:49President Trump would make the world, bring the world

00:03:57into peace again.

00:04:00That's my additional hope.

00:04:03And I think he will actually make it happen.

00:04:08So, anyway, I'm excited to go.

00:04:13And we were discussing, and President Trump said,

00:04:16Masa, you know, double-down is not enough.

00:04:19Maybe, you know, go for more.

00:04:22Right?

00:04:22The President That's right.

00:04:23I'm going to ask him right now, would you make it

00:04:26$200 billion instead of $100 billion?

00:04:29He can actually, believe it or not, he can actually

00:04:31afford to do that.

00:04:33Would you do that?

00:04:35Well, my promise is 100, but, you know, he's now

00:04:40asking to do more.

00:04:42I think, you know, with your leadership, my

00:04:47partnership with you, with your support, I will try

00:04:51to make it happen.

00:04:51The President That's great.

00:04:53All right.

00:04:53Two hundred.

00:04:54He'll make it happen.

00:04:55Two hundred million investments.

00:04:58That's great.

00:04:58He is a great negotiator.

00:05:00He's a brilliant guy and an unbelievable job.

00:05:06And the people of Japan and all over the world are

00:05:09very proud of him.

00:05:10They have tremendous respect for him.

00:05:12So what he does, what he just did, and I would be

00:05:16surprised if it didn't go to two.

00:05:18And when you say you'll try, I know you'll do it.

00:05:21I will.

00:05:22I will really try.

00:05:24And I need your support, though.

00:05:25You'll have my support.

00:05:26All right.

00:05:27We'll have our country's support.

00:05:28Oh, fantastic.

00:05:29Thank you, Masa, very much.

00:05:30I appreciate it.

00:05:32Great.

00:05:33Do you want to say hello to the people of Japan who

00:05:34are all watching?

00:05:35Well, I'm sure our people in Japan are proud to make

00:05:42the partnership of U.S.

00:05:44and Japan be stronger.

00:05:47And I'm very excited to make this happen.

00:05:50Thank you very much.

00:05:51Thank you, Masa.

00:05:55That's a great job.

00:06:01It's amazing.

00:06:02It's a great gentleman, a great leader, and a

00:06:05great investor.

00:06:07So, to have that offer made.

00:06:09And we have so many companies coming in now

00:06:11that will be announcing, or that will announce

00:06:13themselves.

00:06:14We don't have to be with them to do it.

00:06:16But they'll be announcing.

00:06:17And, as I said, small business optimism took a

00:06:2141-point jump.

00:06:22Forty-one points.

00:06:23It went up 41 points.

00:06:25That's unheard of.

00:06:26And that's the biggest, they think, in recorded

00:06:29history, but they know at least a minimum of 39

00:06:31years.

00:06:32So that's great.

00:06:33On behalf of the American people, I want to thank

00:06:36Masa for his faith in what's happening with our

00:06:39country and what's happening with the world.

00:06:40There's a whole light over the entire world.

00:06:42Many people, some reporters in speaking to

00:06:44him, they said, you know, it actually is true.

00:06:46A couple of them are not necessarily friends of

00:06:49mine, but they said it is actually true that

00:06:53there's a light shining over the world.

00:06:54We're trying to help very strongly in getting the

00:06:57hostages back, as you know, with Israel and the

00:07:00Middle East.

00:07:01We're working very much on that.

00:07:03We're trying to get the war stopped.

00:07:05That horrible, horrible war that's going on in

00:07:08Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine.

00:07:11We're going to — we've got a little progress.

00:07:13It's a tough one.

00:07:14It's a nasty one.

00:07:16It's nasty.

00:07:17People are being killed at levels that nobody has

00:07:20ever seen.

00:07:21You know, it's very level fields.

00:07:22And the only thing that stops a bullet is a body,

00:07:26a human body.

00:07:27And the number of soldiers that are being killed on

00:07:30both sides is astronomical.

00:07:31I've never seen anything like it.

00:07:33And rapidly, I get reports every week, and it's not

00:07:36even — you know, it's like just going down.

00:07:40Nobody has seen anything like it.

00:07:42It's a very flat surface, a very flat land.

00:07:44That's why it's great farming land.

00:07:46It's the — it's the breadbasket for the world,

00:07:50actually.

00:07:51But it's very flat, and there's nothing to stop a

00:07:53bullet but a body.

00:07:54There's no protection, no nothing.

00:07:57And it's — what's happening there is far

00:08:00worse than people are reporting for both sides.

00:08:03So we're going to do our best, and we've been

00:08:05doing our best, and we'll see what happens.

00:08:07But since the election, I've been working every

00:08:10day to put the world at ease a little bit, to get

00:08:13rid of the wars.

00:08:14We had no wars when I left office, and now it's —

00:08:17the whole world is blowing up.

00:08:19But there's great optimism, and you saw that

00:08:22by SoftBank.

00:08:24Starting on day one, we'll implement a rapid series

00:08:27of bold reforms to restore our nation to full

00:08:30prosperity.

00:08:31We're going to go full prosperity and to build

00:08:34the greatest economy the world has ever seen, just

00:08:37as we had just a short time ago.

00:08:40We had it in my term.

00:08:41We had the greatest economy that the world had

00:08:44seen.

00:08:45We were blowing away everybody.

00:08:46Our country was doubling up on China, doubling up

00:08:50on everybody, and everybody knows it.

00:08:53And then we had to slow it down with COVID,

00:08:54unfortunately, at the end.

00:08:56But even then, I gave it back with a substantial

00:08:59increase of the stock market — bigger than it

00:09:02was pre-COVID, so it was pretty amazing.

00:09:05Already, preparations are underway to slash massive

00:09:08numbers of job-killing regulations, eliminating

00:09:1210 old regulations for every new one.

00:09:14You put a new regulation on, you have to get rid

00:09:16of 10, and we'll be able to do it.

00:09:18And that was about the percentage we had.

00:09:20We cut more regulations than any President has

00:09:24ever cut, by far, actually, by approximately

00:09:28five times.

00:09:29Some of those regulations, unfortunately, were put

00:09:32back on, but we'll catch up very quickly.

00:09:35We'll catch up with it.

00:09:37One of the things I'd like to ask the Biden

00:09:39administration — as you probably heard, there are

00:09:43two events that took place.

00:09:44We're talking about a friendly takeover, a

00:09:48friendly transition, as they like to say.

00:09:51This is a friendly transition, and it is.

00:09:53But there are two events that took place that I

00:09:56think are very terrible.

00:09:57One is that if people don't come back to work,

00:09:59come back into the office, they're going to be

00:10:01dismissed.

00:10:01And somebody in the Biden administration gave a

00:10:04five-year waiver of that so that, for five years,

00:10:08people don't have to come back into the office.

00:10:10It involved 49,000 people.

00:10:13For five years, they don't have to go.

00:10:14They just signed this thing.

00:10:16It's ridiculous.

00:10:18So it was like a gift to a union.

00:10:21And we're going to, obviously, be in court to

00:10:23stop it.

00:10:23The other thing is — really terrible — we

00:10:27spent a tremendous amount of money on building the wall.

00:10:29The wall was designed specifically by the

00:10:32Border Patrol because it's very hard to climb.

00:10:35They need to have see-through.

00:10:37They need it to be steel because you can't cut —

00:10:39it's very powerful steel.

00:10:40It's very hard steel.

00:10:42It's a special type of steel, but very, very hard

00:10:45to cut.

00:10:46Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete.

00:10:49And that's a grade 10 concrete, which is a very

00:10:52strong concrete.

00:10:53Very — as though you were building about a

00:10:5660-story building.

00:10:57It's very powerful concrete.

00:10:59They've made tremendous technology advances in the

00:11:04word concrete.

00:11:04Who would think that?

00:11:05But I know that from the construction industry.

00:11:08Today, what you can do with concrete is incredible.

00:11:10So we have a very strong concrete.

00:11:12And then we have a rebar.

00:11:14We put rebar inside the concrete, and the rebar

00:11:18likewise is very hard to cut.

00:11:19So it's a very expensive process, very expensive

00:11:22wall.

00:11:23And then we put a anti-climb plate on the top.

00:11:26You saw that.

00:11:27And I didn't like the look of it, but then when I

00:11:29watched, we had people testing.

00:11:31We had mountain climbers actually testing, and they

00:11:34were not able to get over the anti-climb plate.

00:11:36So I said, all right, I guess we're going to put

00:11:37it on.

00:11:39That plate on top, which I — I never loved the look

00:11:42of it, but it works so unbelievably well.

00:11:45You have to do it.

00:11:47So we spent a lot of money on building it, and we

00:11:49have hundreds of miles that we put up.

00:11:51A lot of people don't realize, but we did 571

00:11:54miles of wall.

00:11:55That's why we had such good records, in addition

00:11:57to the fact that Mexico helped us with their —

00:12:00with their military.

00:12:01They kept people out, and they were actually very

00:12:04good under the past leader.

00:12:06But now we had — we ordered an additional 200

00:12:10miles of wall.

00:12:12It's very expensive.

00:12:13And now it's about double the price of what it would

00:12:16have been six years ago.

00:12:18And the administration is trying to sell it for five

00:12:22cents on the dollar, knowing that we're getting

00:12:24ready to put it up.

00:12:26And what they're doing is really an act — it's

00:12:29almost — it's almost a criminal act.

00:12:31They know we're going to use it.

00:12:33And if we don't have it, we're going to have to

00:12:35rebuild it.

00:12:37And it'll cost double what it cost years ago, and

00:12:40that's hundreds of millions of dollars because

00:12:42you're talking about a lot of — a lot of wall.

00:12:46I built much more than I said I was going to build.

00:12:48But then, after it was built, I said, you know,

00:12:51we can do some more because it's sort of like water

00:12:54people flow through.

00:12:56And that will pretty much really take care of it.

00:12:58And what happened is they just — as you see, they're

00:13:01trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar.

00:13:04And that's really — that has nothing to do with a

00:13:07smooth transition.

00:13:10And that has to do with people really trying to

00:13:13stop our nation.

00:13:14And all it means, really, is that we're going to

00:13:17spend hundreds of millions of dollars more — not

00:13:21even talking about the time.

00:13:23Time would be pretty long.

00:13:25But we'll spend hundreds of millions of dollars more

00:13:29on building the same wall that we already have.

00:13:32And people have already come back to us that have

00:13:36deals at five cents and four cents, and one guy

00:13:38had three cents on the dollar.

00:13:41And they offered to sell it back to us at more

00:13:44money than it costs us to build substantially.

00:13:47Can you believe it?

00:13:49So they make a deal with the United States to buy

00:13:51it for pennies.

00:13:52And then they call us and they say, do you want to

00:13:54buy it back?

00:13:56We'll sell it back to you for hundreds of dollars a

00:13:59foot.

00:14:00Hundreds of dollars.

00:14:01From pennies to hundreds of dollars a foot.

00:14:05And we can't let this take place.

00:14:07Now, we're going to go — I spoke with the Attorney

00:14:08General of Texas.

00:14:09I spoke to the senators of Texas.

00:14:12I spoke to a lot of people.

00:14:13And hopefully they'll be able to stop.

00:14:15We're going to be, you know, having a restraining

00:14:17order.

00:14:18But just think about how ridiculous it is.

00:14:20And this is just people that don't want this

00:14:22country to succeed.

00:14:24And this has nothing to do with Democrat or

00:14:25Republican.

00:14:27This has to do with common sense.

00:14:30We won on common sense, and this is maybe one of

00:14:33the most egregious examples I've seen.

00:14:35So the people that are buying it or trying to buy

00:14:38it are trying to make a deal with us to sell it

00:14:40back at hundreds of times more — hundreds of times

00:14:44more than we paid.

00:14:46And this is all because the Democrats.

00:14:50So I'm asking today Joe Biden to please stop

00:14:54selling the oil.

00:14:54We're going to use that to create a strong barrier.

00:14:59And it worked.

00:15:00That's why our numbers were so good.

00:15:02It really worked, and it worked well.

00:15:05And it's very expensive to do.

00:15:07And I'm asking Joe Biden to stop his people from

00:15:10giving it away.

00:15:11It's something that people can't even believe is

00:15:16happening.

00:15:16So hopefully Joe will be able to stop it.

00:15:20We'll soon unleash American energy, and this

00:15:23will be done at levels not seen before — issuing

00:15:25quick approvals for pipelines, drilling, and

00:15:28other infrastructure.

00:15:29It'll be clean energy, and we'll bring in the price

00:15:33of electricity, and we're going to bring it down

00:15:34fast.

00:15:35We're also going to create clean coal.

00:15:37Clean coal is something that has really taken over.

00:15:42We have coal that will last for over a thousand

00:15:45years.

00:15:46We have so much coal.

00:15:47And with the process, it becomes clean coal.

00:15:50It's very powerful energy.

00:15:51Unlike wind, it's very, very powerful.

00:15:54And we're going to be doing a lot of clean coal for

00:15:57the people of West Virginia and others —

00:16:00Wyoming, so many states.

00:16:01We have great states.

00:16:03And they'll be happy to hear it.

00:16:05But we're going to be very much into clean coal.

00:16:08I don't ever use the word coal.

00:16:10I use the word clean coal.

00:16:12And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts

00:16:15for American families, workers, and businesses

00:16:17that create jobs in America.

00:16:20As you know, we're giving tax cuts if they do it here.

00:16:23We brought it down from 44 percent, 42 percent.

00:16:28In some cases, it was 39.

00:16:30We brought it all the way down to 21 percent.

00:16:33And now we're bringing it down to 15, but only if

00:16:36they make their product, their car, or whatever

00:16:38they're doing in the United States, in the U.S.

00:16:41And people are thrilled.

00:16:42I have — I've had the smartest people on Wall

00:16:44Street call me.

00:16:44They said, Where did you get that idea?

00:16:46And it doesn't seem that complicated, right?

00:16:48But it's — nobody ever — it's like the paperclip.

00:16:51Nobody ever thought of it.

00:16:52One guy thought of it.

00:16:54Everybody looked at it.

00:16:54They said, Wow, that was a good idea.

00:16:57Why didn't I think of it?

00:16:59But we're bringing it down six more points, and

00:17:01that will put us, really, at the best level we've

00:17:07ever had for bringing in business.

00:17:09We've never been down to that level.

00:17:11We'll be among the lowest-taxed states, and a

00:17:15lot of businesses are going to come in.

00:17:16Between that and our taxing and tariff

00:17:19policies, we're going to have business like

00:17:20nobody's ever seen in this country before.

00:17:23That's why we're, you know, having a 41-year

00:17:25record in optimism from small businesses and big

00:17:28businesses.

00:17:30And I'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts

00:17:33for families, workers, and businesses that create

00:17:35jobs in America.

00:17:37Any business that invests $1 billion or more in the

00:17:40United States will be eligible for fully

00:17:43expedited permits and approvals, including

00:17:45environmental approvals, from the federal government.

00:17:48So, when companies come in, if they're going to

00:17:51invest $1 billion or more — and there will be many

00:17:53of them — and they'll go into Detroit, and they'll

00:17:55go into a lot of places where we want them.

00:17:58You saw how well I did with the autoworkers.

00:18:00We did unbelievably.

00:18:01You saw how well we did with the Teamsters.

00:18:03And also, the non-union.

00:18:06We're a record 98 percent, 97 percent.

00:18:10Nobody has ever gotten numbers like that because

00:18:12we're bringing business back.

00:18:13And they're all coming back.

00:18:15We lost them over years of stupidity, I call it.

00:18:19I call it the years of stupidity, the decades of

00:18:21stupidity, through the Department of Government

00:18:24Efficiency.

00:18:25Elon Musk has been working very hard with various

00:18:28people, including Vivek.

00:18:31We're going to eliminate hundreds of billions of

00:18:34dollars of waste and fraud.

00:18:36And I can only tell you — I'll give you a little

00:18:37early report — they're finding things that you

00:18:39wouldn't even believe.

00:18:41So we're looking to save maybe $2 trillion.

00:18:43And it'll have no impact.

00:18:46Actually, it'll make life better, but it'll have no

00:18:48impact on people.

00:18:49It's not like we're — we will never cut Social

00:18:51Security, things like that.

00:18:53It's just waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:18:56And we'll immediately restore the sovereign

00:18:59borders of the United States and stop illegal

00:19:01immigration, which is costing us, I believe,

00:19:04trillions of dollars a year.

00:19:05I think it's a cost that nobody has ever seen

00:19:08anything like it.

00:19:09I don't know.

00:19:10How can you be satisfied releasing prisoners into

00:19:15the United — think of this, you're releasing

00:19:18prisoners from jails all over the world, not just

00:19:20in South America.

00:19:21From the Congo, I would talk about it all the time.

00:19:24They're a very big sender of people.

00:19:26But from all over the world, they're sending

00:19:29prisoners out of their jails.

00:19:31Some of their jails are empty, and they will be

00:19:33empty soon if this ever continued.

00:19:36I spoke with the President of Mexico, and as you

00:19:38know, I spoke with Justin Trudeau of Canada.

00:19:42And we told them, it's not fair, not right, you

00:19:46can't let these people come into our country.

00:19:48And they understand they're very much on

00:19:50notice, and they're going to have to stop this

00:19:53from happening.

00:19:55They're going to have to stop it.

00:19:56We lose a lot of money to Mexico.

00:19:58We lose a lot of money to Canada.

00:20:00Tremendous amount.

00:20:00We're subsidizing Canada.

00:20:02We're subsidizing Mexico.

00:20:03That can't go on.

00:20:05And I get along with the people of Mexico and

00:20:07Canada very well, but we can't let that happen.

00:20:09Why are we — why are we supporting and giving

00:20:14other countries hundreds of billions of dollars?

00:20:18It's not fair.

00:20:19It's not right.

00:20:19And the people of Mexico and Canada fully

00:20:22understand that.

00:20:23We've talked about it before, but now we're

00:20:25doing something about it.

00:20:26We started, and then we had to fix the COVID

00:20:29situation, and that's what we did.

00:20:32But now we're doing it.

00:20:33We're doing it from the beginning.

00:20:34Howard will be largely in charge.

00:20:36We'll be working on it together.

00:20:38Howard's terrific.

00:20:38He's done a fantastic job, and he's really helped

00:20:41us a lot with transition.

00:20:42I think we have fantastic people coming in.

00:20:45So all of these policies will help us rapidly

00:20:48defeat inflation, create millions of new jobs, and

00:20:52put money in the pockets of the hardworking

00:20:55families of our country, pay off debt.

00:20:57We're going to be paying off a tremendous amount

00:20:59of debt.

00:21:00We're at $36 trillion.

00:21:01You don't want to be there.

00:21:04And we're going to be using a lot of the money

00:21:07that we make.

00:21:08We're going to be opening up a lot of businesses

00:21:10that are going to be pouring in because of our

00:21:11tax policy.

00:21:13And we're going to use the money that we made to pay

00:21:15off debt and to reduce taxes.

00:21:18We're going to further reduce taxes.

00:21:19If you remember when we reduced them last time,

00:21:22that brought a tremendous amount.

00:21:24We brought it down to 21 percent, and that was a

00:21:27biggest tax cut in the history of our country.

00:21:30And nobody ever thought this would happen, but

00:21:33this is what's supposed to happen.

00:21:34We actually ended up taking in more revenue at

00:21:3721 than we did at 40 percent, which was pretty

00:21:40amazing.

00:21:41But this will be the most exciting and successful

00:21:43period of reform and renewal in all of

00:21:46American history, maybe of global history.

00:21:49The Golden Age of America, I call it.

00:21:52It's begun.

00:21:53So it's the Golden Age of America, and that's what

00:21:55it's going to be.

00:21:56And we hope we don't have any intervening problems

00:21:59because things happen.

00:22:01Like, out of nowhere came the China virus.

00:22:04Out of nowhere came other things.

00:22:06We don't want to have.

00:22:08You know, when I left, we had no wars.

00:22:09We had no problems.

00:22:10The Middle East was good.

00:22:11We did the Abraham Accords.

00:22:14We did things that nobody thought were even possible.

00:22:17But think of it.

00:22:18Four years ago, we had no wars.

00:22:21You didn't have Russia going into Ukraine.

00:22:23They wouldn't have done it.

00:22:24They weren't even thinking about it.

00:22:27When they saw what happened in Afghanistan, I think

00:22:29they gave them an idea.

00:22:30But they wouldn't have done it.

00:22:31They would have never gone.

00:22:32President Putin would have never gone in.

00:22:34And now you look at all those people are dead.

00:22:36All those cities are destroyed.

00:22:38You know, it's nice to say they want their land

00:22:41back, but the cities are largely destroyed.

00:22:45They've left Kiev because probably maybe they want

00:22:49to use it or occupy it, but they haven't done it.

00:22:51They've done a lot of damage, but relatively

00:22:55compared to the other cities, very little.

00:22:58But many of those cities are gone.

00:22:59Those beautiful towers, those beautiful buildings

00:23:03that they had are now laying on their sides,

00:23:08destroyed, totally destroyed.

00:23:11The turrets and all of the magnificent thousand-year

00:23:14old, 2,000-year old structures that were very

00:23:17strong are blown to smithereens.

00:23:21You look at some of those cities and not one

00:23:23building standing.

00:23:24So, you know, when you say take over the country,

00:23:28take over what?

00:23:30Take over what?

00:23:31That's a hundred-year rebuild.

00:23:32Take a hundred years to rebuild it and you can

00:23:34never have it the way it was.

00:23:36What a shame.

00:23:36It should have never happened.

00:23:37It would have never happened.

00:23:38If I were President, that war would have never

00:23:40happened, nor would Israel have happened with the

00:23:43attack on Israel.

00:23:45So we're inheriting big challenges at home and all

00:23:49over the world.

00:23:50Again, we had no wars.

00:23:52We had no problems.

00:23:54We had no inflation.

00:23:55We had no inflation.

00:23:56We had it less than 1 percent.

00:23:59Perfect number.

00:24:00And then we had inflation, the likes of which I say

00:24:04I don't believe the country has ever seen

00:24:05inflation like that.

00:24:06They say 38 years.

00:24:08I don't know.

00:24:08I think it's probably ever.

00:24:10But we're going to take care of all of it.

00:24:12We're going to get the prices down by energy.

00:24:15The energy is going to come in.

00:24:16We have more energy than anybody else.

00:24:18We're going to use it.

00:24:19We don't have to buy energy from Venezuela when

00:24:21we have 50 times more than they do.

00:24:24It's just insane what we're doing.

00:24:26So we will not rest until America is richer, safer,

00:24:30and stronger than it has ever been before.

00:24:33And we have a big head start.

00:24:35Last time we didn't.

00:24:36And last time we didn't know the people, we didn't

00:24:39know a lot of things.

00:24:40But by the time we got it up and going, it was

00:24:42incredible.

00:24:43Again, we built the greatest economy in

00:24:45history for that period of time.

00:24:47And we'll do it again, I believe, substantially

00:24:49more so, because we understand, number one,

00:24:53the people of Washington.

00:24:55I know them.

00:24:56I didn't know any of them, virtually.

00:24:57I relied on other people for recommendations.

00:24:59Some were very good recommendations.

00:25:01We had some great people.

00:25:03Bob Lighthizer, I thought, was great.

00:25:04We had a lot of great people.

00:25:06And but we had some people that I wouldn't have used

00:25:09in retrospect.

00:25:10And now I know, I know, I know them better than

00:25:13anybody, better than they know themselves.

00:25:15So once again, I'd like to thank Masa for what he's

00:25:18done with that investment, which will end up being

00:25:21$200 billion, I believe.

00:25:24But I just want to thank him.

00:25:26He's just an outstanding man.

00:25:27When you have that kind of brainpower wanting to

00:25:29invest in this country, and that's money that he

00:25:33can't invest elsewhere.

00:25:34So that's a big investment, but makes me

00:25:36feel very good.

00:25:37Makes me feel that we're absolutely on the right

00:25:39track.

00:25:39So, thank you to Masa.

00:25:40And we'll take a couple of questions.

00:25:42Yeah, please.

00:25:42Jeff.

00:25:43The Press Can you tell us what you said to the

00:25:47Prime Minister Netanyahu in a call on Saturday?

00:25:50And have you spoken to President Putin since

00:25:52your election?

00:25:53The President Well, I'm not going to comment on

00:25:54the Putin question, but I will comment on on Bibi.

00:25:59We had a very good talk.

00:26:01We discussed what is going to happen.

00:26:04And I'll be very available on January 20th, and

00:26:10we'll see.

00:26:12As you know, I gave warning that if these

00:26:14hostages aren't back home by that date, all hell is

00:26:17going to break out.

00:26:18And very strong.

00:26:20But we generally just discussed.

00:26:22I asked him, where are things?

00:26:26Mike Waltz is there doing a great job, by the way.

00:26:28Everybody is very happy.

00:26:30I think he's doing a fantastic job.

00:26:32But he's he was very much involved in the call.

00:26:34But it was a recap call more than anything else.

00:26:36The Press How do you plan to stop the ban on TikTok

00:26:40next month?

00:26:41The President Who?

00:26:42The Press How do you plan to stop the ban on TikTok

00:26:43next month?

00:26:44The President We'll take a look at TikTok.

00:26:47You know, I have a warm spot in my heart for

00:26:48TikTok because I won youth by 34 points.

00:26:53And there are those that say that TikTok has

00:26:56something to do with that.

00:26:57Now, Joe Rogan did and some of the other people

00:27:01that were recommended by my son, Barron.

00:27:04Whoever he knew names, I said, Who is that?

00:27:06Tell me who's that?

00:27:07Dad, you got to be kidding.

00:27:09I can't believe you don't know.

00:27:11And I did those interviews and it was actually sort

00:27:13of cute.

00:27:14Do you want to know the truth?

00:27:15But we did them and that had an impact.

00:27:17But TikTok had an impact.

00:27:19And so we're taking a look at it.

00:27:21But, you know, we won youth.

00:27:23Republicans are always 30 points down in youth.

00:27:25I don't know why, but we ended up finishing.

00:27:28We were there was one poll that showed us down about

00:27:3130.

00:27:32We were thirty five or thirty six points up with

00:27:34young people.

00:27:36So I have a little bit of a warm spot in my heart.

00:27:38I'll be honest.

00:27:39Yes, President.

00:27:39Are you are you entertaining the idea of

00:27:42preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear

00:27:44facilities?

00:27:45Against Iran's nuclear?

00:27:48Well, I can't tell you that.

00:27:49Would you?

00:27:50I mean, it's a wonderful question.

00:27:51But how can I?

00:27:52Am I going to do preemptive strikes?

00:27:54Why would I say that?

00:27:56Can you imagine if I said yes or no, you'd say

00:28:00that was strange.

00:28:01And he answered that way.

00:28:02Am I going to do preemptive strikes on

00:28:04Iran?

00:28:06Is that a serious question?

00:28:07How could I answer a question like that?

00:28:09Would you say it in support of Israeli strikes on

00:28:16Iran?

00:28:17How could I tell you a thing like that now?

00:28:19It's just so you don't talk about that before

00:28:22something may or may not happen.

00:28:24You know, just I don't want to insult you.

00:28:27I just think it's just not something that I would

00:28:29ever answer having to do with there or any other

00:28:32place.

00:28:32Well, I don't look right now.

00:28:46You have some very brilliant people looking

00:28:48at it.

00:28:49I had dinner the other night with the head of

00:28:50Pfizer, the head of Eli Lilly and RFK, as you

00:28:55know, and Oz.

00:28:57And we had and other people within the

00:28:59administration that are involved in the medical.

00:29:03And we're looking to find out, you know, if you

00:29:05look at autism.

00:29:07So 30 years ago, we had I've heard numbers of like

00:29:10one in 200,000, one in 100,000.

00:29:14And now I'm hearing numbers of one in 100.

00:29:18So something's wrong.

00:29:19There's something wrong.

00:29:21And we're going to find out about it.

00:29:23What about?

00:29:23Can I follow up on Robert Kennedy?

00:29:32He's on the Hill today.

00:29:33He's meeting with senators.

00:29:34What do you say to people who are worried that his

00:29:36views on vaccines will translate into policies

00:29:38that will make their kids less safe?

00:29:40No, I think he's going to be much less radical than

00:29:42you would think.

00:29:43I think he's got a very open mind or I wouldn't

00:29:45have put him there.

00:29:45He's going to be very much less radical.

00:29:48But there are problems.

00:29:49I mean, we don't do as well as a lot of other

00:29:51nations, and those nations use nothing.

00:29:54And we're going to find out what those problems are.

00:29:57And another thing that came up, the dinner was

00:29:59fascinating because I had Bobby and I had, again,

00:30:03the head of Pfizer.

00:30:04You know who that is.

00:30:05He's a highly respected man who has run an

00:30:09incredible company.

00:30:10Likewise, with Lily, the top two people.

00:30:13And we had the head of the industry also.

00:30:16So all companies were represented.

00:30:18And I said, let's have it out now a little bit.

00:30:21And, you know, what came out of that meeting is

00:30:23that we're paying far too much because we're paying

00:30:25much more than other countries.

00:30:27And we have laws that make it impossible to reduce.

00:30:31And we have a thing called the middleman.

00:30:32You know the middleman, right?

00:30:34The horrible middleman that makes more money,

00:30:36frankly, than the drug companies, and they don't

00:30:38do anything except they're a middleman.

00:30:40We're going to knock out the middleman.

00:30:41I'm going to be very unpopular after that

00:30:43statement.

00:30:44I don't know who these I don't know who these

00:30:47middlemen are, but they are rich as hell.

00:30:50And we're going to knock out the middleman.

00:30:53We're going to get drug costs down at levels that

00:30:56nobody has ever seen before.

00:30:58And that really I tell you, we spent more time

00:31:00talking about that with Bobby and with the

00:31:03executives and Oz, all of them.

00:31:05We spent more time talking about that than

00:31:07anything else.

00:31:08The Press What about the polio vaccine?

00:31:13President Trump Well, I'm a big believer in it.

00:31:15And I think everything should be looked at.

00:31:18But I'm a big believer in the polio vaccine, the

00:31:20stock vaccine.

00:31:22The Press Do you think schools should mandate

00:31:23vaccines?

00:31:24Do you think schools should mandate vaccines?

00:31:27President Trump I don't like mandates.

00:31:28I'm not a big mandate person.

00:31:29So, you know, I was against mandates.

00:31:32Mostly Democrat governors did the mandates, and

00:31:35they they did a very poor thing.

00:31:37It was, you know, retrospect, they made a

00:31:38big mistake having to do with the education of

00:31:41children.

00:31:42You know, they lost like a year, two years of their

00:31:44lives.

00:31:44The mandate was a bad thing.

00:31:45I was against the mandate.

00:31:46The Press So is that something you'd want to

00:31:47do?

00:31:48President Trump Yes, please.

00:31:49The Press Do you expect Ron DeFantis to appoint

00:31:51Laura Trump to sign her Marco Rubio seat?

00:31:54President Trump No, I don't.

00:31:57I probably don't, but I don't know.

00:32:00Ron's doing a good job.

00:32:01That's his choice.

00:32:02Not nothing to do with me.

00:32:05Laura's unbelievable.

00:32:07She was incredible.

00:32:09The job she did at the RNC, as chairman, along

00:32:13with Michael Watley, the combination.

00:32:16But I could just speak for Laura's.

00:32:17It's she is so highly respected by women.

00:32:22I mean, even her workout routines are through the

00:32:25roof.

00:32:25She lifts a hundred and fifty pounds.

00:32:28I don't know how the hell she does it.

00:32:30She's a bad example for men and women because I

00:32:33wouldn't be able to beat her.

00:32:34I don't believe I'd try like hell.

00:32:37But no, she's an incredible woman.

00:32:39And, you know, it's funny.

00:32:42People oftentimes talk about nepotism.

00:32:45I never had.

00:32:46When I put her there, people said, How did you

00:32:49get her to do it?

00:32:50You know, she could have run for the Senate in

00:32:52North Carolina.

00:32:52Ted Budd would be the first to say, and he

00:32:55wouldn't have run.

00:32:56Nobody would have run.

00:32:58And she just said, No, I want to really focus on

00:33:01my children.

00:33:02When the election and my my family, she has a great

00:33:04family.

00:33:06When the election started getting closer, I asked

00:33:09her, Would she go to Washington and work on the

00:33:12you know, as chairman of the committee, along with

00:33:14Michael Watley?

00:33:15And they did such an unbelievable job,

00:33:19especially on cheating.

00:33:21They stopped it, or at least they stymied it too

00:33:25big to rig.

00:33:26And we wanted a landslide.

00:33:27You know, we won tremendously.

00:33:29She did an amazing job.

00:33:31Now, Ron is going to have to make his.

00:33:32Marco is has been really a star already, and we

00:33:37haven't started.

00:33:38But, you know, we see signs of from some people

00:33:41or very early.

00:33:42We see signs of stardom and Marco has done

00:33:46incredibly.

00:33:47He's sort of born for it.

00:33:51It was such an easy decision.

00:33:52The Marco decision was such an easy, but he

00:33:55leaves a vacancy in Florida and Ron's going to

00:33:58have to make that decision and he'll make the right

00:34:00decision.

00:34:01I also know that Laura's got so many other things.

00:34:04I mean, she's got so many other things.

00:34:06People want her to be on television.

00:34:07They want to give her contracts.

00:34:10You know, her predominant thought is our country

00:34:13and her family.

00:34:14Those are her thoughts.

00:34:17But she's got so many other things that she's

00:34:19talking about.

00:34:19He'll make he'll make the right decision.

00:34:22If they are unreasonable, I'll give you a different

00:34:32answer, an answer that you'll be shocked to

00:34:33hear.

00:34:36If they're unreasonable, if they're opposing

00:34:38somebody for political reasons or stupid reasons,

00:34:43I would say has nothing to do with me.

00:34:44I would say they probably would be primary.

00:34:47But if they're reasonable, fair and really disagree

00:34:51with something or somebody, I can see that

00:34:52happening.

00:34:53But I do believe that if they're unreal, I think

00:34:57we have great people.

00:34:58I think we have a great, a great group of people.

00:35:01Pam has been unbelievably received.

00:35:03You take a look.

00:35:04Pam Bondi.

00:35:06So many have been just unbelievably received.

00:35:10I think Pete Hegseth is making tremendous strides

00:35:14over the last week.

00:35:15He's going to be great.

00:35:16Look, he went to Princeton.

00:35:17He went to Harvard.

00:35:17He was a great student there.

00:35:18But he really was from the first day I met him, all

00:35:22he wanted to talk about was military.

00:35:23He's just a military guy.

00:35:25I think it's a natural.

00:35:26This was my idea.

00:35:29And, you know, Pete Hegseth gave up a lot

00:35:31because he was going big places in Fox, big, big

00:35:34places, a lot of money.

00:35:36And he didn't even hesitate.

00:35:38When I said, do you want to do this?

00:35:40He said, absolutely.

00:35:41I said, you know, if it doesn't work out, you'll

00:35:45never have the opportunity that you have

00:35:47right now in terms of the world of entertainment or

00:35:50business, whatever you want to call it.

00:35:52You'll never have that opportunity again.

00:35:54In fact, it could be just the opposite because it's

00:35:56nasty out there.

00:35:58He said, I don't care.

00:35:59I have to do it for my country.

00:36:00He gave up a tremendous amount.

00:36:02You know, if this didn't work, it would be it

00:36:04would be a tragedy because but that's what he loves.

00:36:08He loves the military.

00:36:09I never talked to him about anything else.

00:36:10He'd talk about the military.

00:36:11He'd come to see me about a soldier that was

00:36:14unfairly treated.

00:36:16And could I help?

00:36:18That's the only thing I virtually ever talked to

00:36:21him about.

00:36:21And I always remembered it.

00:36:23I've seen him many times, and I don't think I've

00:36:25ever had a subject on anything other than

00:36:27military with him.

00:36:28That's where his love is.

00:36:30And he didn't say, well, I'd like to think about

00:36:32it.

00:36:33I'd like to talk to my family.

00:36:34He said, not even a contest.

00:36:36And, you know, he was going through the roof

00:36:38over there.

00:36:39He was doing great.

00:36:39They have the number one show that Saturday and

00:36:42Sunday with Will and Rachel.

00:36:45That's that was great chemistry.

00:36:48And if this didn't work out for him, it would be

00:36:51actually sort of tragic.

00:36:53Yeah.

00:36:53Yeah, I would.

00:36:59I think that he was treated pretty unfairly.

00:37:02Now, I haven't seen the gravity of it all, but it

00:37:04seems, you know, like being upgraded in an

00:37:07airplane many years ago.

00:37:08I'd say I know probably everybody here has been

00:37:11upgraded.

00:37:12They see you're all stars and they say, I want to

00:37:14upgrade that person from NBC.

00:37:17I'm going to upgrade him.

00:37:19And that would mean you'll spend the rest of your

00:37:20life in prison.

00:37:21I don't know.

00:37:22Somehow, I would.

00:37:23I mean, I'd have to see it because I don't know the

00:37:25facts.

00:37:25I think he was treated.

00:37:26You know, it's very interesting when he

00:37:30essentially went against what was happening with

00:37:33the migrants coming in.

00:37:34And, you know, he made some pretty strong

00:37:36statements like this is not sustainable.

00:37:39I said, you know what?

00:37:40He'll be indicted soon.

00:37:42And I said it not as a prediction, a little bit

00:37:45lightheartedly.

00:37:46But I said it.

00:37:47I said he's going to be indicted.

00:37:49And a few months later, he got indicted.

00:37:51So, yeah, I would certainly look at it.

00:37:54Mr. President, can I ask you a question about the

00:37:56drones?

00:37:56The Presss Well, you know, we had 5,000 troops along

00:38:06the border, and I asked a couple of generals.

00:38:09So we have an army of 250,000 in Syria, and you

00:38:13had an army of 400,000.

00:38:14They have many more people than that.

00:38:16Turkey is a major force, by the way.

00:38:17And Erdogan is somebody I got along with.

00:38:20Great.

00:38:21But he has a major military force, and his

00:38:23has not been worn out with war.

00:38:27It hasn't been worn out with all of the other

00:38:29things.

00:38:29I mean, he's built a very strong, powerful army.

00:38:33And so we have 5,000 soldiers in between a 5

00:38:36million person army and a 250,000 person army.

00:38:40And I asked a general, what do you think of that

00:38:43situation?

00:38:43He said, they'll be just they'll be wiped out

00:38:47immediately.

00:38:48And I moved them out because and it took a lot

00:38:51of heat.

00:38:52And you know what happened?

00:38:53Nothing.

00:38:54Nothing.

00:38:55I saved a lot of lives.

00:38:57Now we have 900.

00:38:58They put some back.

00:39:00But 900, if you're talking about two.

00:39:03Now that one of the sides has been essentially

00:39:05wiped out.

00:39:05But nobody knows who the other side is.

00:39:08But I do.

00:39:09You know who it is?

00:39:10Turkey.

00:39:11Okay.

00:39:12Turkey is the one behind it.

00:39:13He's a very smart guy.

00:39:14They've wanted it for thousands of years, and he

00:39:17got it.

00:39:19And those people that went in are controlled by

00:39:24Turkey.

00:39:25And that's okay.

00:39:26It's another way to fight.

00:39:28But no, I don't think that I want to have our

00:39:30soldiers killed.

00:39:32But I don't think that will happen now anyway

00:39:34because the one side has been decimated.

00:39:37The Press.

00:39:37Well, nobody knows what the final outcome is going to

00:39:46be in the region.

00:39:47Nobody knows who really the final.

00:39:49I believe it's Turkey, and I think Turkey is very

00:39:53smart.

00:39:53He's a very smart guy, and he's very tough.

00:39:56But Turkey did an unfriendly takeover

00:40:00without a lot of lives being lost.

00:40:02I can say that Assad was a butcher.

00:40:04What he did to children.

00:40:06You remember, I attacked him with the 58 missiles.

00:40:11Unbelievable missiles coming from ships 700

00:40:16miles away.

00:40:17And every one of them hit their target.

00:40:19But I did that.

00:40:20That was the red line in the sand.

00:40:21Obama drew it, and then he refused to honor what he

00:40:24did.

00:40:25He said, if anybody goes across the red line, and

00:40:27Assad killed many more children after that.

00:40:30And Obama did nothing, but I did.

00:40:32I hit him with a lot of missiles.

00:40:33In fact, President Xi was sitting here the night he

00:40:37was in that dining room having chocolate cake.

00:40:39Remember the famous chocolate cake?

00:40:42But and that's when I explained what we were

00:40:44doing, as the missiles were shot.

00:40:47And it was amazing as to precision, because every

00:40:51one of those missiles hit its target from a long

00:40:55distance away.

00:40:57Had President Obama drawn the line where it meant

00:41:02something, you wouldn't have even had Russia there.

00:41:05But in the end, I never understood why Russia went

00:41:07there.

00:41:08They were not getting very much out of it.

00:41:10But now their time has taken up with Ukraine, and

00:41:13we'd like to get them to stop on Ukraine and

00:41:16Ukraine stop also.

00:41:18As you know, when I went to the cathedral, which

00:41:21was fantastic, the job that they've done in

00:41:23France and the job that Macron, you know,

00:41:28Emmanuel did, it did a phenomenal job on the

00:41:31rebuilding of that cathedral.

00:41:33It's magnificent.

00:41:34And they did a great thing.

00:41:35And they had great respect for our country.

00:41:36They treated me, meaning I'm the country.

00:41:39I'm the representative of our country.

00:41:41And we were treated with great respect.

00:41:44And one of the people that came to pay his respects

00:41:49is, as you know, Ukraine, Zelensky.

00:41:54And he would like to have peace.

00:41:56He wants peace.

00:41:58Everyone's being killed.

00:41:59It's the worst carnage that this world has seen

00:42:03since World War Two.

00:42:05I've had pictures of fields where bodies are

00:42:08lying on top of bodies.

00:42:10It looks like the old pictures of the Civil War

00:42:13where just bodies are all over.

00:42:15Just if you saw those pictures, you'd feel more

00:42:18strongly about it.

00:42:19It's got to stop.

00:42:21And we're trying and we're trying to get it to stop.

00:42:25Well, we're going to we're going to see what we're

00:42:27going to be talking.

00:42:28We'll be talking to President Putin and we'll

00:42:30be talking to the representatives, Zelensky

00:42:33and representatives from Ukraine.

00:42:35We got to stop it.

00:42:36It's it's carnage.

00:42:38What about the fear of the drones?

00:42:42Good to see you.

00:42:43Can you comment on the drones that are flying

00:42:46around New Jersey ports?

00:42:48It seems like the American people have a big

00:42:49discontent.

00:42:50The government knows what is happening.

00:42:53Look, our military knows where they took off from.

00:42:59If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.

00:43:01They know where it came from and where it went.

00:43:05And for some reason, they don't want to comment.

00:43:08And I think they'd be better off saying what it

00:43:10is our military knows and our our president knows.

00:43:14And for some reason, they want to keep people in

00:43:15suspense.

00:43:17I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the

00:43:19enemy that blasted out.

00:43:21Even if they were late, they'd blast it.

00:43:24Something strange is going on.

00:43:25For some reason, they don't want to tell the

00:43:27people.

00:43:28And they should because the people are really I

00:43:30mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.

00:43:32You know, they're very they're very close to

00:43:36Bedminster.

00:43:37I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in

00:43:38Bedminster.

00:43:39I've decided to cancel my trip.

00:43:42Have you received an intelligence briefing on

00:43:43the drones?

00:43:44I don't want to comment on that.

00:43:45Have you been?

00:43:46Do you have any reason to think there is a threat?

00:43:49Two quick questions.

00:43:50First, on vaccines, do you want RFK Jr.

00:43:53to revoke any vaccines?

00:43:56No, I want him to come back with a report as to

00:43:58what he thinks.

00:43:59We're going to find out a lot.

00:44:01We're doing two things.

00:44:02We're going to have tremendous cost savings

00:44:04will come out of this.

00:44:05That's a minimum.

00:44:06And we're also going to have, and I think very

00:44:08serious discussions about certain things, whether

00:44:11it's pesticides on, you know, Europe doesn't use

00:44:14pesticides, and yet they have a better mortality

00:44:18rate than we do.

00:44:19They don't use pesticides.

00:44:20In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our

00:44:23farm product.

00:44:24We spend billions and billions of dollars on

00:44:27pesticides and something bad is happening.

00:44:31Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20,

00:44:3525 years ago.

00:44:36It's like not even believable.

00:44:38So we're going to have reports.

00:44:39No, nothing's going to happen very quickly.

00:44:41I think you're going to find that Bobby is much.

00:44:44He's a very rational guy.

00:44:46I found him to be very rational.

00:44:47No, nothing.

00:44:48You're not going to lose the polio vaccine.

00:44:50That's not going to happen.

00:44:53I saw what happened with the polio.

00:44:54I have friends that were very much affected by that.

00:44:59I have friends from many years ago, and they have

00:45:02obviously they're still in not such good shape

00:45:05because of it.

00:45:06You know, that was and many people died.

00:45:08And the moment they took that vaccine, it ended.

00:45:13Dr. Jonas Salk did a great job.

00:45:16So I don't anticipate that at all.

00:45:18But we're going to look into finding why is the

00:45:21autism rate so much higher than it was 20, 25, 30

00:45:23years ago.

00:45:24I mean, it's like it's 100 times higher.

00:45:28There's something wrong.

00:45:29And we're going to try finding that.

00:45:30We're also going to find out why are we paying more

00:45:33than other countries.

00:45:35And we were in the process of doing that through

00:45:37transparency and other things.

00:45:39We were doing a good job in that first term, and we

00:45:41brought it down.

00:45:42We got the $35, all of the different things.

00:45:46We got you know, we were the ones that got all of

00:45:49that done.

00:45:49Every every one of those things.

00:45:51We got them done.

00:45:52I said, you know, I hope I win because otherwise

00:45:54somebody is going to take a lot of credit for what we

00:45:57did.

00:45:57But now what happens is we're going to we're going

00:46:00to have a big conversation on price.

00:46:03Why is it that Germany and UK and other countries are

00:46:07paying so much more for the same box of medicine

00:46:11made in the same plant?

00:46:14Why is it that we're paying many times more?

00:46:17And I know the answer because our government

00:46:19didn't do what they were supposed to do.

00:46:21And what I put in place was terminated unexpectedly

00:46:24by the Biden administration, and they

00:46:26shouldn't have terminated it.

00:46:27It would have had a huge impact.

00:46:28Okay?

00:46:29The Press And Mr. President, one quick

00:46:30question on Ukraine.

00:46:31You mentioned that some of the areas are already

00:46:34decimated.

00:46:35Do you believe that Ukraine should cede

00:46:38territory to Russia?

00:46:39The President Well, I'm going to let you know that

00:46:42after I have my first meeting.

00:46:44But a lot of that territory, when you look at

00:46:47what's happened to those, I mean, there are cities

00:46:49that there's not a building standing.

00:46:52It's a demolition site.

00:46:53There is not a building standing.

00:46:55So people can't go back to those cities.

00:46:57There's nothing there.

00:46:59It's just rubble.

00:47:01Just like when I knocked down a building in

00:47:03Manhattan, which is actually this is worse,

00:47:07actually, because we do it step by step.

00:47:11This thing is just got demolished.

00:47:14And by the way, in those buildings are many people.

00:47:16Many people were in those buildings.

00:47:18You know, when they said the number in Ukraine is

00:47:20going to be a much higher number of death is going

00:47:23to be a much higher number than you're hearing.

00:47:25You know, they're big buildings.

00:47:27That's what I did very well.

00:47:29And these are very long buildings.

00:47:30They're 15 to 20 stories high.

00:47:32They're massive buildings.

00:47:33I was surprised at how big.

00:47:35And they're flattened like a pancake.

00:47:37One or two bombs hit them and they just collapsed.

00:47:41And they'd say nobody was hurt.

00:47:44Well, nobody knows who was in those buildings.

00:47:46There were a lot of people in those buildings.

00:47:48They're going to find that when they start doing the removal.

00:47:52Many more people are being killed in the Ukraine war

00:47:55with Russia than is being reported.

00:47:58And that includes soldiers.

00:47:59The soldiers are being it's a carnage that we

00:48:03haven't seen since the Second World War.

00:48:05It's got to be stopped.

00:48:06And I'm doing I'm doing my best to stop.

00:48:09Yeah, please.

00:48:09Go ahead.

00:48:10You had a meeting with Mrs. Abe yesterday, but

00:48:15Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Japanese Prime

00:48:18Minister Ishiba is hoping to have a meeting anytime soon.

00:48:22I sent him a memento.

00:48:25I sent him a book, the prime minister.

00:48:28But Mrs. Abe was very close with our first lady

00:48:31with Melania, and she loved Melania's book.

00:48:35And she called and wanted to know if she could have.

00:48:37I was very close to the prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

00:48:42He was great.

00:48:43He was a great man.

00:48:45And his wife wanted to know if it would be possible

00:48:48to have dinner.

00:48:49And it was just out of respect to Shinzo.

00:48:51And, yes, I'd love to see the prime minister.

00:48:54And we will do that.

00:48:55I actually sent him a book and some other things

00:48:58for him through through Mrs. Abe.

00:49:01Will that happen before the inauguration day?

00:49:03It could.

00:49:04If they'd like to do that, I would do that.

00:49:06Yeah.

00:49:06I have great I have great respect for the, you know,

00:49:11for the position.

00:49:12And if he'd like to do that, I'd be here.

00:49:14Ambassador Japan will be on George Glass.

00:49:19Is that your final decision?

00:49:21Highly respected man.

00:49:22That's right.

00:49:23Highly respected.

00:49:24He's been an ambassador before.

00:49:27Did a fantastic job.

00:49:28We consider Japan very important.

00:49:30He's very highly respected.

00:49:31Okay, a couple of questions.

00:49:33Which other world leaders have you invited to the inauguration?

00:49:35Which other world leaders have you invited

00:49:37to the inauguration?

00:49:39The world leaders are calling me.

00:49:41And some really would like to meet.

00:49:45No, I mean, literally, they're they're calling me.

00:49:48And I'll be seeing some of them.

00:49:51I think it's rude not to.

00:49:52I mean, it's hard to say I'm not going to see you.

00:49:55And I've spoken to way over 100 where they call

00:49:59to congratulate on the not only the election,

00:50:02but the size of the election, the extent of the victory.

00:50:06And they were great.

00:50:08I mean, I spoke to over 100 countries.

00:50:10You wouldn't believe how many countries there are.

00:50:13And I'm trying the best I can to get back to everybody.

00:50:17But there are a lot of countries.

00:50:19And every one of them, literally everyone called.

00:50:21And it was very nice.

00:50:22So, yeah, I'd see some if some felt it was an emergency.

00:50:26I've seen, as you know, I've seen President Zelensky.

00:50:29He came to France while I was there

00:50:32for the cathedral opening.

00:50:33They actually had about 70 presidents and prime ministers

00:50:37and, in one case, a king.

00:50:41And we saw some great people.

00:50:44I also met with William.

00:50:47And I was very impressed by William.

00:50:50I think William is terrific.

00:50:51I was very impressed by William.

00:50:53As you know, I met with him, too.

00:50:55The Press Did you invite Zelensky

00:51:01to the inauguration?

00:51:03No, but if you'd like to come, I'd like to have him.

00:51:08I mean, I didn't invite him, no.

00:51:10The Press Are you disappointed that China

00:51:14Xi won't be at the inauguration?

00:51:16I don't know that he won't be at the inauguration.

00:51:18I mean, I haven't really spoken to him about it.

00:51:22I don't know that, actually.

00:51:23I would say that if he'd like to come,

00:51:25I'd love to have him.

00:51:27But there's been nothing much discussed.

00:51:30I have had discussions with him, letters, et cetera,

00:51:33et cetera, at a very high level.

00:51:36You know, we had a very good relationship until COVID.

00:51:38COVID didn't end the relationship,

00:51:42but it was a bridge too far for me.

00:51:45But if he'd like to come, I'd certainly be happy.

00:51:49But he hasn't — just so you understand,

00:51:51he hasn't said one way or the other,

00:51:53because a lot of people say he won't come, he will come.

00:51:55People think he will come, he won't come.

00:51:58It's something we barely discussed,

00:52:00just about didn't discuss.

00:52:02But I have had, especially through letters,

00:52:07some very good conversations.

00:52:08The Press Have you had conversations

00:52:09with Venezuela, sir?

00:52:10China and the United States can, together,

00:52:14solve all of the problems of the world,

00:52:18if you think about it.

00:52:19So it's very important.

00:52:20And, you know, he was a friend of mine.

00:52:22I mean, he was here for a long time, right in that spot,

00:52:25except sitting in a very comfortable chair.

00:52:27He wasn't standing like you are.

00:52:29But we spent hours and hours talking.

00:52:33And, you know, he's an amazing guy.

00:52:36Have you spoken to Venezuela?

00:52:38The press hates when I say that, but he's an amazing person.

00:52:41The Press Can I ask you about the UnitedHealthcare shooting?

00:52:45The President Real quick.

00:52:46The Press UnitedHealthcare shooting,

00:52:47the shooting of the CEO.

00:52:48The President I think so.

00:52:49The Press Can you give us your thoughts about that?

00:52:50And what do you make of the reaction

00:52:51around this suspected shooter?

00:52:52The President Well, I think it's terrible.

00:52:53The Press Does that tell you anything

00:52:54about how people think about healthcare?

00:52:55The President Yeah, yeah.

00:52:56I think it's a terrible thing.

00:52:57I think it's really terrible that some people seem to admire him,

00:53:00like him.

00:53:02And I was happy to see that it wasn't specific

00:53:05to this gentleman that was killed.

00:53:07It's just an overall sickness, as opposed to a specific sickness.

00:53:13That was a terrible thing.

00:53:14It was cold-blooded.

00:53:15Just a cold-blooded, horrible killing.

00:53:18And how people can like this guy is —

00:53:22that's a sickness, actually.

00:53:24That's really very bad.

00:53:25Especially the way it was done.

00:53:27It was so bad, right in the back.

00:53:30And very bad, very — a thing like that,

00:53:33you just — you can't believe that some people —

00:53:36and maybe it's fake news.

00:53:38I don't know. It's hard to believe that

00:53:39that can even be thought of.

00:53:40But it seems that there's a certain appetite for him.

00:53:45I don't get it. Yeah, please.

00:53:46The Press I want to expand on the defamation lawsuits.

00:53:50Could you see moving that to other people

00:53:53with individual platforms, social media influencers,

00:53:57people that —

00:53:58The President Or newspapers, yeah.

00:53:59Yeah. Oh, I do. I do.

00:54:01I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest.

00:54:05We need a great media. We need a fair media.

00:54:09We need — it's very important.

00:54:11And we need borders. We need walls.

00:54:13But we need borders, and we need fair elections.

00:54:17You look at California.

00:54:18Millions and millions of ballots were sent out.

00:54:20They're still counting the vote in California with the machines.

00:54:24They're counting the vote.

00:54:25If you had paper ballots,

00:54:26their votes would have been counted four weeks ago,

00:54:28three weeks ago.

00:54:30No, you need fair elections.

00:54:32You need borders, and you need a fair press.

00:54:34And the press is — no, I see others.

00:54:37I have a few others that I'm doing.

00:54:40I'm going to — as an example, we're bringing —

00:54:42I'm doing this not because I want to.

00:54:44I'm doing this because I feel I have an obligation to.

00:54:46I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa,

00:54:51their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster,

00:54:54who got me right all the time.

00:54:56And then just before the election,

00:54:58she said I was going to lose by three or four points.

00:55:00And it became the biggest story all over the world

00:55:04because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points.

00:55:07The farmers love me, and I love the farmers.

00:55:10And it was interesting the way she did it.

00:55:12She brought it down two weeks before.

00:55:14She said I was going to only win by four.

00:55:16That was a big story. But that was good

00:55:18because she brought it down from like 22 points to four,

00:55:21or whatever the number was.

00:55:23Way up. Way up. An easy win.

00:55:25Never even thought to go there. I respect them. I love them.

00:55:28And they understand there's no reason to go there

00:55:30because she brought it from way up,

00:55:33walk away, which it was.

00:55:35And it turned out to be in the election, too, by the way.

00:55:37It was a win by many, many points.

00:55:40And then she brought it down very smartly to four

00:55:43a couple of weeks before.

00:55:45And everyone said, wow, that's amazing.

00:55:46He's only up by four points.

00:55:48Then she brought it down to where it was down by three

00:55:51or four, whatever number she used.

00:55:53And that was the Des Moines Register.

00:55:57And it was their parent.

00:56:00And in my opinion, it was fraud.

00:56:02And it was election interference.

00:56:04You know, she's gotten me right always.

00:56:05She's a very good pollster. She knows what she was doing.

00:56:08And she then quit before.

00:56:10And we'll probably be filing a major lawsuit

00:56:12against them today or tomorrow.

00:56:14We're filing one on 60 Minutes, you know about that,

00:56:17where they took Kamala's answer,

00:56:19which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer.

00:56:23And they took the whole answer out

00:56:25and they replaced it with something else

00:56:26she said later on in the interview,

00:56:29which wasn't a great answer, but it wasn't like the first one.

00:56:32The first was grossly incompetent.

00:56:34It was weird.

00:56:36And that was fraud and election interference

00:56:38by their news magazine, a big part of CBS News.

00:56:42So, as you know, we're involved in that one.

00:56:44We're involved in one which has been going on for a while

00:56:47and very successfully against Bob Woodward,

00:56:51where he didn't quote me properly from the tapes.

00:56:55And then, on top of everything else, he sold the tapes,

00:56:59which he wasn't allowed to do.

00:57:01He could only use them for reporting purposes,

00:57:03not for sale purposes. And he admits that.

00:57:06And I think we'll be successful on that one.

00:57:08And we have one, very interestingly, on Pulitzer,

00:57:14because reporters at The New York Times,

00:57:16Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes

00:57:19for their wonderful, accurate,

00:57:21and highly professional reporting

00:57:24on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:57:26Well, it turned out to be a hoax,

00:57:28and they were exactly wrong.

00:57:30People, like many people, John Solomon,

00:57:34Sean Hannity is not for Pulitzer,

00:57:35but Sean Hannity got it right. Many people got it right.

00:57:38Tucker got it right. Jesse got it right.

00:57:41Laura got it right. Janine got it right.

00:57:43A lot of people got it right. They didn't get anything.

00:57:46They gave it to reporters that got it absolutely wrong.

00:57:49And now everybody admits it was a hoax.

00:57:52And I want them to get back, take back the Pulitzer Prizes,

00:57:55and pay big damages.

00:57:57And I think we're doing very well on that one.

00:57:59They have no excuse for it.

00:58:00They gave a Pulitzer Prize to writers

00:58:03that got Russia, Russia, Russia wrong.

00:58:06And so, I think we're doing well.

00:58:07And I feel I have to do this.

00:58:09I shouldn't really be the one to do it.

00:58:11It should have been the Justice Department or somebody else.

00:58:15But I have to do it.

00:58:16It costs a lot of money to do it.

00:58:19But we have to straighten out the press.

00:58:22Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.

00:58:26Are you worried about Venezuela?

00:58:28Sir, have you had any discussions with Venezuela?

00:58:31For January 6th defendants, you had said,

00:58:33in the first few minutes of your administration,

00:58:35you want to issue pardons for January 6th defendants.

00:58:38Does that include — will that be a blanket pardon?

00:58:40Does that include everyone?

00:58:42Well, you'll find out, but it's going to go quickly.

00:58:43And just to follow up on your previous question —

00:58:45Have you had any discussion, sir,

00:58:46with — in terms of your mass deportation plans,

00:58:49have you had any preliminary discussions

00:58:51with countries like Venezuela,

00:58:52from where the Trinidad-Oragua gang

00:58:54is now popping up across the country?

00:58:56They'll take them back.

00:58:57They're going to take them back?

00:58:58They're all taking them back, yep.

00:59:00And if they don't, they'll be met very harshly economically.

00:59:04Okay? They'll all take them back.

00:59:06You know, Venezuela and other countries

00:59:10were not behaving very well with us during my administration,

00:59:14and within 24 hours, they were behaving very well.

00:59:16They'll all take them back.

00:59:18Jeff, nice to see you, Jeff. This is like the old days, right?

00:59:21It's nice to see you too, sir.

00:59:22Actually, you look much better now

00:59:24than you did four years ago. What are you doing?

00:59:26What's he doing? All right, go ahead.

00:59:28Thank you, sir.

00:59:30The first day you just mentioned that you're in office,

00:59:32I imagine you've got some executive orders

00:59:34that you have a lot to go through.

00:59:35Can you tell us what your priorities are?

00:59:36We'll have a lot. Well, I'll bet you could tell —

00:59:39you could say as well as I could.

00:59:41We will have many executive orders

00:59:44and other things that we'll be signing on the first day.

00:59:47And you also — just going back to my initial question

00:59:49about the Middle East, you said that your conversation

00:59:51with Prime Minister Netanyahu was kind of a review.

00:59:55Did you repeat that?

00:59:56We just had a very good conversation.

00:59:59And, you know, the real conversations

01:00:02will start on the 20th.

01:00:05But we had a really good conversation,

01:00:07and I think we're going to be in a good place in the Middle East.

01:00:10I think the Middle East is — will be in a good place.

01:00:13I think, actually, more difficult

01:00:15is going to be the Russia-Ukraine situation.

01:00:17I see that as more difficult.

01:00:20I don't think they should have allowed missiles

01:00:22to be shot 200 miles into Russia.

01:00:25I think that was a bad thing.

01:00:27And that brought the Koreans in, North Korea —

01:00:30another man I get along with very well.

01:00:32I'm the only one that does.

01:00:34But that did a lot of bad things.

01:00:37I don't think that should have been allowed.

01:00:39Not when there's a possibility —

01:00:41and certainly not just weeks before I take over.

01:00:43Why would they do that without asking me what I thought?

01:00:46I wouldn't have had them do that.

01:00:47I think that was a big mistake they made.

01:00:49The Press Will you reverse that decision

01:00:50when you're in office to let those missiles be —

01:00:52I might, yeah.

01:00:53I thought it was a very stupid thing to do.

01:00:55And when you say that —

01:00:56Do you have any reaction to Duterte's clause?

01:00:58— when you say that there will be hell to pay

01:00:59if the hostages are not released before January 20th,

01:01:02what does that mean?

01:01:03Well, they're going to have to determine what that means.

01:01:05But it means it won't be pleasant.

01:01:08The Press Mr. President, even if how was your meeting?

01:01:09It's not going to be pleasant, yeah.

01:01:11How was your meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook?

01:01:14And did you talk about tariffs in that meeting?

01:01:16The meeting with who? Apple CEO Tim Cook.

01:01:19I did have dinner with Tim Cook.

01:01:23I had dinner with sort of almost all of them,

01:01:26and the rest are coming.

01:01:28And this is one of the big differences, I think,

01:01:30between — we were talking about it before.

01:01:33One of the big differences between the first term —

01:01:36in the first term, everybody was fighting me.

01:01:38In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.

01:01:40I don't know. My personality changed or something.

01:01:43But I had — as you know, I had Sundar from Google,

01:01:48but I also had Sergey. Nobody reported that.

01:01:51Sergey is the owner, the primary owner,

01:01:55along with his friend, as you know.

01:01:58And Sergey was here also.

01:02:00I can't believe you didn't pick that one up.

01:02:02Nobody picked that up. But I will tell you.

01:02:04No, it's a big difference. The big difference is that

01:02:08the first time, everybody was fighting me on all fronts.

01:02:12And we had a great administration.

01:02:14We got the biggest tax cuts in history.

01:02:17I rebuilt the military.

01:02:18Too much of it was given away to Afghanistan.

01:02:21It was stupidly given away. Horribly given away.

01:02:24I think that's one of the reasons that Putin

01:02:25went into Ukraine,

01:02:27when he saw the stupidity of a million of these guys.

01:02:30They're stupid people. Very stupid people.

01:02:33If he didn't — if they didn't do such a bad —

01:02:35you know, we were pulling out of Afghanistan,

01:02:37but I would have pulled out with dignity and strength.

01:02:39They wouldn't be having parades, I guarantee you,

01:02:41showing our equipment that they left behind

01:02:43because we weren't going to leave any equipment behind.

01:02:45Not 10 cents.

01:02:47We were going to take every screw and every bolt.

01:02:50So, yeah, the biggest difference

01:02:53is that people want to get along with me this time.

01:02:57Well, they've gone through four years.

01:02:58And, you know, it wasn't easy for me,

01:03:00but it wasn't easy for them either.

01:03:02And that's a great thing, though.

01:03:03Getting along is a great thing.

01:03:04So, Tim Cook was here.

01:03:06I think he's done an incredible job at Apple.

01:03:08And he talked about the future of Apple.

01:03:12It's going to be a bright future.

01:03:15But we have many others also — and not in that business.

01:03:18And we do have Jeff Bezos, Amazon,

01:03:21coming in sometime during the week.

01:03:23I look forward to that.

01:03:25We have a lot of great executives coming in.

01:03:27The top executives, the top bankers, they're all calling.

01:03:30And, honestly, in the first — I don't know what it was.

01:03:33It's like a complete opposite.

01:03:35In the first one — and the press has covered

01:03:37that fairly, actually, for a change.

01:03:40The first one, they were very hostile.

01:03:45And maybe it was my fault, but I don't really think so.

01:03:47They were just very — right from the beginning.

01:03:50And this one is much less hostile.

01:03:53It's really the opposite of hostile.

01:03:54Can I get your reaction on that?

01:03:55Well, you're afraid to give up a shot.

01:03:57I know that you had some, I believe,

01:03:59involvement 18 years ago

01:04:01with the students at Duke accused of rape in lacrosse.

01:04:04Now we have this development.

01:04:06Well, I thought it was a hoax when it happened,

01:04:09the Duke situation.

01:04:11I didn't believe the woman, as you know.

01:04:14And you destroyed —

01:04:16they destroyed the lives of these kids.

01:04:19They destroyed — and I don't care what they got.

01:04:21Their lives have been destroyed.

01:04:22Their lives have been shortened by what took place.

01:04:27And now the woman admitted that it never happened.

01:04:31That is horrible.

01:04:32And as you know, I took a lot of heat

01:04:35when I said that this is — this did not happen.

01:04:40And those kids were beautiful kids with beautiful families.

01:04:43And they were, in some cases, will never be the same.

01:04:46They will never be the same.

01:04:48Have you talked to them by chance?

01:04:50Any thoughts on the Postal Service?

01:04:52You mentioned Bezos a second ago,

01:04:53and I've always thought Bezos would be a key person

01:04:56to go in there and really streamline

01:04:57the logistics of the Post Office.

01:04:59But they lose billions.

01:05:01Well, there is talk about the Postal Service

01:05:03being taken private. You do know that.

01:05:06Not the worst idea I've ever heard. It really isn't.

01:05:09You know, it's a lot different today with —

01:05:12between Amazon and UPS and FedEx

01:05:15and all the things that you didn't have.

01:05:18But there is talk about that.

01:05:19It's an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.

01:05:22We're looking at it. I think we're looking at that,

01:05:24along with a lot of other —

01:05:25any questions for Howard, by the way?

01:05:27Commerce.

01:05:28Sure, I'll ask one. Mr. Incoming Secretary,

01:05:31do you see another trade deal with China coming?

01:05:36I think the President —

01:05:37That's a California question.

01:05:39Oh, it's easy for me. You're sitting next to me,

01:05:41so it's okay.

01:05:43The President has a very clear agenda for tariffs.

01:05:46And I think reciprocity is something

01:05:50that is going to be a key topic for us.

01:05:53How you treat us is how you should expect to be treated.

01:05:56Would you like to weigh in, sir, on that?

01:05:57How do you set it so well? Reciprocal.

01:06:00If they tax us, we tax them the same amount.

01:06:03They tax us — forgetting just for a second

01:06:06about the word tariff.

01:06:07They tax us, we tax them.

01:06:10And they tax us almost — in all cases, they're taxing us,

01:06:14and we haven't been taxing them.

01:06:15Is that deal already underway?

01:06:18Is there a deal already underway with respect to that?

01:06:22Let's just say this. We're going to make great deals.

01:06:25And we have all the cards.

01:06:27And until I came along — don't forget —

01:06:30and Howard was going over the numbers with me last night —

01:06:33we took in $600 billion and more in taxes

01:06:38and tariffs from China.

01:06:40No other President took in 10 cents.

01:06:42Not 10 cents. Not 10 cents.

01:06:45And, no, we're going to be doing things.

01:06:48We're going to be treating people very fairly.

01:06:50But the word reciprocal is important

01:06:52because if somebody charges us —

01:06:54India — we don't have to talk about own.

01:06:56If India charges us 100 percent,

01:06:58do we charge them nothing for the same?

01:07:00You know, they send in a bicycle,

01:07:01and we send them a bicycle.

01:07:03They charge us 100 and 200. India charges a lot.

01:07:06Brazil charges a lot.

01:07:08If they want to charge us, that's fine,

01:07:10but we're going to charge them the same thing.

01:07:12That's a big thing. And you know what?

01:07:14The senators — some of them aren't necessarily

01:07:17business people.

01:07:19When I give that to them, they say,

01:07:21that sounds fair to me.

01:07:23The Press. Are you concerned that tariffs

01:07:24might hurt the stock market rise

01:07:26that you have seen in the economy more broadly?

01:07:28Make our country rich.

01:07:30Tariffs will make our country rich.

01:07:33But won't they raise prices? Properly used.

01:07:35They make — no.

01:07:36Well, I didn't have any inflation,

01:07:38and I had massive tariffs on a lot of things.

01:07:41We put tariffs on steel.

01:07:42If I didn't put tariffs on steel —

01:07:4450 percent and more — they were dumping steel in.

01:07:48China and others. I put tariffs on, and it stopped.

01:07:51And we took a fortune. We made a fortune on it.

01:07:54Tariffs. Properly used, which we will do.

01:07:58And being reciprocal with other nations.

01:08:01But it will make our country rich.

01:08:03Our country right now loses to everybody.

01:08:06Almost nobody do we have a surplus with.

01:08:08There are a couple of countries,

01:08:10and they're embarrassed by it. But almost nobody.

01:08:13And tariffs will make — I always said, to me,

01:08:16tariffs — most beautiful word in the dictionary.

01:08:18It will make our country rich.

01:08:20You go back and look at the 1890s, 1880s, McKinley,

01:08:23and you take a look at tariffs.

01:08:25That was when we were at our — proportionately the richest.

01:08:28Go ahead.

01:08:29The Press.

01:08:30The Press.

01:08:32The Press.

01:08:33The Press.

01:08:34What should Zelensky, if anything,

01:08:36be prepared to give up to annexation?

01:08:38He will be prepared to make a deal.

01:08:41That's all. Got to be a deal. No? Got to be a deal.

01:08:44Too many people being killed. That is a war.

01:08:47That's a lot. Too many — we've got to make a deal.

01:08:49And Putin has to make a deal, too.

01:08:51The Press.

01:08:52The Press.

01:08:53The Press. And Putin would have never gone in

01:08:55if I was President. If I was President,

01:08:57we wouldn't have had inflation.

01:08:59Our oil prices would have been lower.

01:09:02I had a good relationship with Putin.

01:09:03He would have — despite the Russia hoax,

01:09:05which made it more difficult — if we had that election.

01:09:12If it were an honorable election,

01:09:14we wouldn't have had any of the problems

01:09:16that we're talking about right now.

01:09:17Putin would have never gone in.

01:09:18Based on — based on your understanding.

01:09:20The Press.

01:09:21The Press.

01:09:22The Press. You said that you could make that deal

01:09:23before you take office.

01:09:25Do you still think you could make that deal?

01:09:26The Press.

01:09:27I'm going to try.

01:09:29Will you ask Putin to give up Assad?

01:09:33Well, I hadn't thought of it.

01:09:36I think we have to get on with our lives.

01:09:38We'll have to see what happens.

01:09:39But right now, Syria has a lot of —

01:09:43you know, there's a lot of indefinites.

01:09:44Nobody knows what's going to happen with Syria.

01:09:46But I think Turkey is going to hold the key to Syria, actually.

01:09:50I don't think you've heard that from anybody else,

01:09:52but I've been pretty good at predicting.

01:09:53I want to thank you all,

01:09:55and we're going to make America great again.

01:09:57Thank you very much.

01:09:59Thank you very much, everybody.

01:10:00Thank you. Thank you.

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