President Donald Trump held his first Cabinet meeting of his second term, addressing major policies on government overhaul, Ukraine, immigration, and tariffs. Elon Musk, leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), clarified his federal worker "pulse check" emails, while Trump hinted at mass layoffs and warned non-responders were “on the bubble.” Trump also unveiled his "gold card" visa plan, confirmed an upcoming Ukraine deal, and announced 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports. He remained non-committal on Taiwan, saying he “never comments” on such matters.
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00:00:00We've put together a great cabinet, we've had tremendous success, we've been given a
00:00:05lot of credit for having a very successful first month, and we want to make that many
00:00:11months and years, actually, but we're going to have many good months and we're going to
00:00:15have many good years, I hope, and we're going to solve a lot of problems.
00:00:19We're doing very well with Russia and Ukraine.
00:00:22President Zelensky is going to be coming on Friday, it's now confirmed, and we're going
00:00:27to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement, and I want to thank
00:00:31Howard and Scott for the job you guys did in putting it together, you really did an
00:00:37amazing job, and that'll be on Rare Earth and other things, and as you know, we're in
00:00:44for probably $350 billion, Europe is in for $100 billion, and that's a big difference,
00:00:53so we're in for probably three times as much, and yet it's very important to everybody,
00:00:59but Europe's very close, we have a big ocean separating us, so it's very important for
00:01:03Europe and they hopefully will step up and do maybe more than they're doing, and maybe
00:01:10a lot more.
00:01:12The previous administration put us in a very bad position, but we've been able to make
00:01:15a deal where we're going to get our money back, and we're going to get a lot of money
00:01:19in the future, and I think that's appropriate because we have taxpayers that shouldn't be
00:01:26footing the bill, and they shouldn't be footing the bill more than the Europeans are paying,
00:01:31so it's all been worked out, we're happy about it, and I think that, very importantly, we're
00:01:37going to be able to make a deal, most importantly, by far, we're going to make a deal with Russia
00:01:41and Ukraine to stop killing people, they'll stop killing young Russian soldiers and young
00:01:48Ukrainian soldiers and other people in addition in the towns and cities, and we will consider
00:01:54that a very important thing and a big accomplishment because it was going nowhere until this administration
00:02:00came in, they hadn't spoken to President Putin in two years, so we'll keep you advised.
00:02:08Before we begin the cabinet, I'd like to have Scott and a couple of people say a few things,
00:02:15but most importantly, where are you?
00:02:18This is a gentleman who's going places, the head of HUD, and he's going to say, you all
00:02:22know him, and you're going to say grace, and then we'll have our meeting, right?
00:02:27Thank you very much.
00:02:28Thank you, Mr. President.
00:02:29Let's pray.
00:02:30Father, we thank you for this awesome privilege, Father, to be in your presence.
00:02:36God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day, the Bible says that your mercies
00:02:40are new every morning, and Father, God, we give you the glory and the honor.
00:02:45Thank you, God, for President Trump, Father, for appointing us.
00:02:48Father, God, thank you for anointing us to do this job.
00:02:52Father, we pray you will give the President and the Vice President wisdom, Father, God,
00:02:57as they lead.
00:02:58Father, I pray for all of our colleagues that are here around the table and in this room.
00:03:02Lord, God, we pray that we would lead with a righteous clarity.
00:03:06Father, God, as we serve the people of this country in every prospective agency, every
00:03:11job that we have, Father, we would humble ourselves before you, and we would lead in
00:03:16a manner that you've called us to lead and to serve.
00:03:18Father, the Bible says the blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
00:03:21Well, Father, we today honor you, and in your rightful place, Father, thank you for giving
00:03:27us this opportunity to restore faith in this country and be a blessing to the people of
00:03:32America.
00:03:33And Lord, God, today in our meeting, we pray that you will be glorified in our conversation.
00:03:37In Jesus' name, amen.
00:03:41Scott, that was a very good job you did.
00:03:43You've done that before.
00:03:47So Scott Turner's a terrific young guy.
00:03:50He's heading up HUD, and he's going to make us all very proud, right?
00:03:54Thank you, Mr. President.
00:03:55Thank you very much.
00:03:56Great job.
00:03:57In just over one month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody's actually
00:04:03ever seen before.
00:04:04It's much more than 100 percent.
00:04:06We've unleashed American energy at levels that will soon be reported, but we think we're
00:04:14going to get it going very quickly.
00:04:15We have incredible people on the energy front.
00:04:18I think we have really great people on every front.
00:04:20I'll let you know if they're not good, but I think they really are.
00:04:23And we're fighting every day to get the prices down.
00:04:27The inflation is stopping slowly, but part of the reason it's stopping is because of
00:04:33high interest rates and other problems that we inherited.
00:04:36But we have to get the prices down, not the inflation down, the prices of eggs and various
00:04:41other things.
00:04:42Eggs are a disaster.
00:04:43The Secretary of Agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind-boggling
00:04:48what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now.
00:04:52But I think we can do something about it, Madam Secretary, and I think you're going
00:04:56to do a fantastic job in that position.
00:04:59One of the most important initiatives is DOGE, and we have cut billions and billions and
00:05:08billions of dollars.
00:05:09We're looking to get it maybe to a trillion dollars.
00:05:11If we can do that, we're going to start getting to be at a point where we can think
00:05:17in terms of balancing budgets, believe it or not.
00:05:19Something you haven't heard in many, many years, decades actually.
00:05:23And it's a big, whether it's this year or next year, I think we'll be very close
00:05:27to balancing budgets.
00:05:29And the DOGE is very important.
00:05:31And Elon is here to give you a summary of what's happening, some of the things they've
00:05:36found, some of the horrible things they've found, some of the theft and fraud.
00:05:41And we call it waste and abuse, but a lot of fraud and probably some fraud that we're
00:05:47not going to be able to prove is fraud.
00:05:49But when you hear the names and the places where this money is going, it's a disgrace.
00:05:54But we've requested that a lot of people, we want to make sure that the people are working.
00:06:00So letters were sent out, and I think everyone at this table is very much behind it.
00:06:06And if they aren't, I'd want them to speak up, but they're very much behind it.
00:06:10Letters were sent out to people just to find out if the people exist.
00:06:14Do they work?
00:06:15Who do they work for?
00:06:16Where are they?
00:06:17Where have they been working?
00:06:18Have they been working for other companies or other entities at all?
00:06:23Are they being paid by the government?
00:06:24So they have two jobs, but they're supposed to have one.
00:06:27And the letter asks some simple questions like, what have you done lately?
00:06:32And if they can answer that, because I can, I can tell you everything I've done for the
00:06:36last long period of time, a lot more than a week.
00:06:40And in many cases, we haven't gotten responses.
00:06:44Usually that means that maybe that person doesn't exist or that person doesn't want
00:06:48to say they're working for another company while being paid by the United States government.
00:06:53So there's a lot of interesting things.
00:06:55It's very unique, but we have a very unique situation because we have a lot of people
00:07:00that were scamming our country.
00:07:01We have a lot of dishonest people.
00:07:03We have a lot of people that took advantage of a lot of different situations, and we're
00:07:08not going to let that happen.
00:07:10So I'm going to ask if it's possible to have Elon get up first and talk about Doge,
00:07:15because it seems to be of great interest to everyone.
00:07:17I will say that there is a large group of people in this country that have such admiration
00:07:24for what we're doing.
00:07:25I got elected with a tremendous vote, winning every swing state, winning the popular vote,
00:07:32winning the counties by thousands of counties.
00:07:35I think it was 2,800 to 500, 2,800 counties to 500 counties.
00:07:41Think of that.
00:07:42And so we have a mandate to do this.
00:07:44And this is part of the reason I got elected.
00:07:46I got elected based on taxes and based on many things in the border, but also based
00:07:52on balancing budgets and getting our country back into shape.
00:07:56And this is a big part of it.
00:07:58So Elon, if you could get up and explain where you are, how you're doing, and how much we're
00:08:03cutting.
00:08:04And it's an honor to have you.
00:08:05He's been a tremendously successful guy.
00:08:08He's really working so hard, and he's got businesses to run.
00:08:13And in many ways, they say, how do you do this?
00:08:16You know, he's sacrificing a lot.
00:08:19And getting a lot of praise, I'll tell you.
00:08:22But he's also getting hit.
00:08:24And we would expect that.
00:08:26And that's the way it works.
00:08:28So I'd like to have Elon Musk please say a few words.
00:08:32Thank you, Elon.
00:08:33Thank you, Mr. President.
00:08:35Well, I actually just call myself a humble tech support here.
00:08:38Because this is actually, as crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the
00:08:47work that the Doge team is doing.
00:08:49It is helping fix the government computer systems.
00:08:51Many of these systems are extremely old.
00:08:54They don't communicate.
00:08:55There are a lot of mistakes in the systems.
00:08:57The software doesn't work.
00:08:59So we are actually tech support.
00:09:04It's ironic, but it's true.
00:09:07The overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address the enormous deficit.
00:09:12We simply cannot sustain, as a country, $2 trillion deficits.
00:09:17Just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department's spending.
00:09:24We spend a lot on the Defense Department.
00:09:26But we're spending over a trillion dollars on interest.
00:09:29If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.
00:09:33It's not an optional thing.
00:09:35It is an essential thing.
00:09:37That's the reason I'm here.
00:09:39And taking a lot of plaque.
00:09:41And getting a lot of death threats, by the way.
00:09:43I like to stack them up.
00:09:45But if we don't do this, America will go bankrupt.
00:09:49That's why.
00:09:50It has to be done.
00:09:52I'm confident at this point.
00:09:54Knock on wood.
00:09:56Knock on my wooden head.
00:09:58There's a lot of wood up there.
00:10:01That we can actually find a trillion dollars in savings.
00:10:05That would be roughly 15% of the $7 trillion budget.
00:10:09And, obviously, that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room.
00:10:14And I'd like to thank everyone for your support.
00:10:16Thank you very much.
00:10:17This can only be done with your support.
00:10:20So, DOJ is a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments.
00:10:27To help achieve those savings.
00:10:29And to effectively find 15% reduction in fraud and waste.
00:10:36And we bring the receipts.
00:10:39So, people say, well, is this real?
00:10:41Just go to DOJ.gov.
00:10:42Line item by line item.
00:10:44We specify each item.
00:10:46And we will make mistakes.
00:10:49We won't be perfect.
00:10:50But when we make a mistake, we'll fix it very quickly.
00:10:54So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola.
00:11:01Ebola prevention.
00:11:02I think we all want Ebola prevention.
00:11:04So, we restored the Ebola prevention immediately.
00:11:07And there was no interruption.
00:11:09But we do need to move quickly if we are to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in financial year 2026.
00:11:20It requires saving $4 billion per day, every day, from now through the end of September.
00:11:26But we can do it.
00:11:28And we will do it.
00:11:30Would you have any questions of Elon while we're on the subject of DOJ?
00:11:33Because we'll finish off with that.
00:11:35And if you would have any questions, please ask.
00:11:38You could ask me or Elon.
00:11:40Go ahead, please.
00:11:41Thank you, Mr. President.
00:11:42Thank you, Mr. Musk.
00:11:44I just wanted to ask you that President Trump put out a truth social today saying that everybody in the Cabinet was happy with you.
00:11:52I just wondered if that's if you had heard otherwise and if you had heard anything about members of the Cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going.
00:11:59And if so, what are you doing to address those, any dissatisfaction?
00:12:04Elon, let the Cabinet speak just for a second.
00:12:08Is anybody unhappy with Elon?
00:12:11If you are, well, throw him out of here.
00:12:15Is anybody unhappy?
00:12:23I have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this.
00:12:26And some disagree a little bit.
00:12:28But I will tell you, for the most part, I think everyone's not only happy, they're thrilled.
00:12:32So go ahead, Elon.
00:12:34President Trump has put together, I think, the best Cabinet ever.
00:12:39Literally.
00:12:41And I do not give false praise.
00:12:44This is an incredible group of people.
00:12:47I don't think that such a talented team has actually ever been assembled.
00:12:51I think it's literally the best Cabinet that the country has ever had.
00:12:54And I think the company should be incredibly appreciative of the people in this room.
00:12:59Go ahead, please.
00:13:01Mr. President, thank you.
00:13:04Mr. Musk, about half of the government employees so far appear to have responded to your request for what they've been doing over the past week.
00:13:12Is there a timeline in place for next moves for people being fired?
00:13:16And when can the American people expect to see results?
00:13:19Yes.
00:13:21Well, to be clear, I think that email perhaps was best interpreted as a performance review.
00:13:28But actually it was a pulse check review.
00:13:31Do you have a pulse?
00:13:33Do you have a pulse and two neurons?
00:13:36So if you have a pulse and two neurons, you can reply to an email.
00:13:40This is, you know, I think not a high bar, is what I'm saying.
00:13:45Anyone could accomplish this.
00:13:49But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond.
00:13:58And some people who are not real people, like they're literally fictional individuals that are collecting paychecks.
00:14:04Well, somebody's collecting paychecks on a fictional individual.
00:14:07So we're just literally trying to figure out, are these people real?
00:14:10Are they alive?
00:14:11And can they write an email?
00:14:13Which I think is a reasonable expectation.
00:14:15You know, the American public would have at least that expectation of someone in the public sector.
00:14:20Mr. Mast?
00:14:22This is not a high bar, guys. Come on.
00:14:25One million employees have responded so far to this email.
00:14:28Does that mean that the remaining one million or so federal employees now risk being terminated?
00:14:33And is it your understanding and expectation when you post a directive on X that the cabinet secretaries will follow that order?
00:14:40Because several agencies have instructed employees that this is voluntary or not to respond.
00:14:45Yeah. Well, I mean, so I guess it was like last week the president encouraged me via Truth Social and also via a phone call to be more aggressive.
00:14:58And I was like, OK, you know.
00:15:01Yes, sir.
00:15:02Mr. President, we will do that.
00:15:04The president is the commander in chief.
00:15:07I do what the president asks.
00:15:09So I said, can we send out an email to everyone just saying, what did you get done last week?
00:15:15The president said yes. So it did that.
00:15:18And, you know, we got a partial response.
00:15:23We're going to send another email.
00:15:25Our goal is not to be capricious or unfair.
00:15:28It's we want to give people every opportunity to send an email.
00:15:32And the email could simply be what I'm working on is too sensitive or classified to describe.
00:15:39Like literally just that would be sufficient.
00:15:42You know, I think this is just common sense.
00:15:46And what is your target number for how many workers, employees you're looking to cut?
00:15:51We wish to keep everyone who is doing a job that is essential and doing that job well.
00:15:58But if the job is not essential or they're not doing the job well, they obviously should not be on the public payroll.
00:16:07I'd like to add. Wait a minute. Wait, wait.
00:16:10I'd like to add that those million people that haven't responded, though, they are on the bubble.
00:16:15You know, I wouldn't say that we're thrilled about it.
00:16:20They haven't responded. Now, maybe they don't exist.
00:16:23Maybe we're paying people that don't exist.
00:16:25Don't forget, we just got here. This group just got here.
00:16:29But those people are on the bubble, as they say.
00:16:32Maybe they're going to be gone.
00:16:34Maybe they're not around. Maybe they have other jobs.
00:16:37Maybe they moved and they're not where they're supposed to be.
00:16:40A lot of things could have happened.
00:16:42I wouldn't say that Biden ran a very tight administration.
00:16:46They spent money like nobody's ever spent money before.
00:16:49Wasted money. The Green New Scam, all of the different things they spent money on.
00:16:53And you've seen that. You've seen that with some of the things that I read in speeches.
00:16:59I read them and people can't believe when I read them.
00:17:01$20 million here, $30 million here for, you know, a little educational course on something.
00:17:07Circumcision, right? Circumcision.
00:17:10$20 million to inform the people of such and such a country on other things and other things other than that.
00:17:21So, yeah, those people are right now we're trying to find out who those people are that haven't responded.
00:17:27Now, there'll be some agencies like Marco has people within state that are right now doing very classified,
00:17:33very confidential work. And we understand that. We've talked.
00:17:36And, you know, we're being a little more surgical.
00:17:41And Marco's doing a lot of things himself.
00:17:43He's and some of the secretaries are going to be going to them.
00:17:47We're going to be talking about it today. We're going to ask them to do their own doge.
00:17:50In other words, they'll look in their group.
00:17:54I spoke with Lee Zeldin and he thinks he's going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental.
00:18:02And we're going to speed up the process, too, at the same time.
00:18:05You had a lot of people that weren't doing their job.
00:18:07They were just obstructionists and a lot of people that didn't exist.
00:18:11I guess you found a lot of empty spots.
00:18:14The people weren't there. They didn't exist.
00:18:17And I think education is going to be one of those.
00:18:20You go around Washington, you see all these buildings with Department of Education.
00:18:23We want to move education back to the states where it belongs.
00:18:27Iowa should have education. Indiana should run their own education.
00:18:31You're going to see education go way up right now where we're ranked at the very bottom of the list.
00:18:37But we're at the top of the list in one thing, the cost per pupil.
00:18:40We spend more money per pupil than any other country in the world.
00:18:44And yet it's Denmark and Norway, Sweden.
00:18:48And I hate to say this, and, you know, we're going to get along very well with China.
00:18:54But it's a competitor. They're at the top of the list.
00:18:58They're among the top 10, usually.
00:19:02And they're a very big country, so we can't use that as an excuse, right?
00:19:06Because we're a very big country, too.
00:19:08But we were ranked last time under Biden, we were ranked 40 out of 40.
00:19:12They do the 40 certain nations that they've done for a long time.
00:19:16It seems to be 40 for whatever reason.
00:19:18And we were ranked number 40.
00:19:20A year ago we were 38, then we were 39. We hit 40.
00:19:24And so we're last in that, and we're first in cost per pupil.
00:19:30So I would say that's unacceptable.
00:19:32Lawrence, you have something?
00:19:34Mr. President, I know you like competition, and I know it's early.
00:19:37So which department are you most impressed with?
00:19:40Which department have you received the most resistance from?
00:19:49Well, I think both of those questions are a little bit –
00:19:53well, you're a pretty controversial guy.
00:19:56Look, it's very early.
00:19:58Right now, I think I'm impressed with everybody.
00:20:00So far, everybody.
00:20:01If I wasn't in the first month with – and some of them just got here.
00:20:04They just got approved two days ago, right?
00:20:07But I think I'm very impressed with everybody.
00:20:09So far, I'm very happy with all of the choices.
00:20:11I think that Elon has done incredibly with some groups,
00:20:16and some groups are much easier than others.
00:20:18It is true. State is a, you know, very difficult situation.
00:20:21We're right now negotiating very successfully, I think, with Russia and with Ukraine.
00:20:27And we have a lot of countries involved,
00:20:29and we have to be a little bit careful what we do and who we're terminating.
00:20:33But Marco is doing that very – I think he's going to be very precise.
00:20:37He's going to be – we're cutting down government.
00:20:39We're cutting down the size of government.
00:20:41We have to. We're bloated. We're sloppy.
00:20:44We have a lot of people that aren't doing their job.
00:20:47We have a lot of people that don't exist.
00:20:49You look at Social Security as an example.
00:20:51I mean, you have so many people in Social Security where, if you believe it,
00:20:56they're 200 years old.
00:20:58And what we're doing is finding out – a check's going out for that.
00:21:01And if somebody cashed in those checks, who's maybe 35 years old, okay?
00:21:06So there's a lot of dishonesty. There's a lot of fraud.
00:21:09But I think at this moment – I'll take Elon off the spot.
00:21:12I think that he's impressed. He said it very well.
00:21:15Better than I can say it, that he's impressed with the people in this room.
00:21:18Very impressed. And I am too.
00:21:20And it's too early to say.
00:21:22But I think everybody is on board. They all know.
00:21:24We want to balance a budget.
00:21:25We want to have a balanced budget within a reasonably short period of time,
00:21:29meaning maybe by next year or the year after, but maybe even sooner than that.
00:21:34Mr. President, your number-one issue was the border.
00:21:36We just got new information that they're doxing our federal agents.
00:21:40They're putting their personal information out there, these activists.
00:21:44And they're disrupting operations.
00:21:46And you've got Trinidad and Tobago running all over the country.
00:21:48Well, we have activists, that's true.
00:21:49And a lot of those –
00:21:50So what are we going to do about the activists if you like?
00:21:51Yeah, a lot of those activists are acting illegally.
00:21:55And we'll give that to our Attorney General,
00:21:58and she'll take a look at that very strongly.
00:22:00But we're also having tremendous support from Border Patrol, from ICE.
00:22:04The ICE agents have been unbelievable.
00:22:06Border Patrol, their leadership at Border Patrol has been incredible.
00:22:10And they're working very well.
00:22:12And as you know – and I saw you reporting it this morning, actually –
00:22:16we set records on the least number of illegal aliens coming in,
00:22:22migrants coming into our country that we had – that we've had in more than 50 years.
00:22:27And we did this all within a period of weeks because we took over a mess.
00:22:31The world was pouring in.
00:22:32And remember, they were coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions
00:22:36and insane asylums, and there were gang members and drug dealers.
00:22:41Anybody wanted to come in, they came.
00:22:43And from not just South America, from all over the world.
00:22:46So it's amazing what they've done.
00:22:48And Christy and Tom Holman, the job they've done has been absolutely amazing.
00:22:53We set records for –
00:22:56and we want people to come into our country, by the way,
00:22:58but they want to come in – they have to come in legally.
00:23:00I want that to be really understood.
00:23:02We want people in our country, but they have to come in legally.
00:23:06Can I follow on that, Mr. President, about the Trump gold card idea that you unveiled yesterday?
00:23:11I hope you liked it.
00:23:13I await more information, but the question is,
00:23:16does this reflect a view on your part that the American immigration system
00:23:20has never been properly monetized as you feel it should be?
00:23:24Well, not so much monetized.
00:23:26It hasn't been properly run.
00:23:28I get calls from, as an example,
00:23:31companies where they want to hire the number one student at a school.
00:23:36A person comes from India, China, Japan, lots of different places,
00:23:43and they go to Harvard, the Wharton School of Finance.
00:23:47They go to Yale.
00:23:49They go to all great schools, and they graduate number one in their class.
00:23:53And they're made job offers, but the offer is immediately rescinded
00:23:57because you have no idea whether or not that person can stay in the country.
00:24:01I want to be able to have that person stay in the country.
00:24:03These companies can go and buy a gold card,
00:24:07and they can use it as a matter of recruitment.
00:24:10At the same time, the company is using that money to pay down debt.
00:24:14We're going to pay down a lot of debt with that.
00:24:16And I think the gold card is going to be used by – not only for that.
00:24:20I mean, it'll be used by companies.
00:24:22I mean, I could see Apple – I've spoken with Tim Cook,
00:24:25and by the way, he's going to make a $500 billion investment in the country
00:24:29only because of the results of the election, and I think because of tariffs.
00:24:34He's going to want to be in the country because of tariffs
00:24:36because if you're in the country, there is no tariff.
00:24:38If you're out of the country, you've got to pay tariffs.
00:24:41And it's going to be a great investment, I think, that he's making.
00:24:43I know it's going to be a great investment,
00:24:45but we have to be able to get people in the country,
00:24:49and we want people that are productive people.
00:24:52And I will tell you, the people that can pay $5 billion,
00:24:55they're going to create jobs.
00:24:56They're going to spend a lot of money on jobs.
00:24:58They're going to have to pay taxes on that too.
00:25:00So they're going to be hiring people.
00:25:01They're going to be bringing people in and companies in.
00:25:04And I don't know. Maybe it will sell like crazy.
00:25:07I happen to think it's going to sell like crazy.
00:25:09It's a bargain.
00:25:10But we'll know fairly soon.
00:25:13I think Howard and Scott, a few of you, really are responsible for it.
00:25:18But Howard, if you want to discuss that for a couple of minutes,
00:25:21I think I'd like to have you.
00:25:22I think it's going to be a very successful program.
00:25:24This is Commerce.
00:25:26So the EB-5 program, which has been around for many years,
00:25:32had investment of a million dollars into projects in America.
00:25:37And those projects were often suspect.
00:25:39They didn't really work out.
00:25:41There wasn't any oversight of it.
00:25:43And so for a million-dollar investment,
00:25:46you got a visa and then you came into the country
00:25:49and ended up with a green card.
00:25:51So it was poorly overseen, poorly executed.
00:25:55Then you had our border open where millions of people came through.
00:25:58So the idea is we will have a proper business.
00:26:02We will modify the EB-5 agreement.
00:26:06Christy and I are working on it together.
00:26:08For $5 million, they'll get a license from the Department of Commerce.
00:26:13Then they'll make a proper investment on the EB-5, right?
00:26:17And we think Scott and I will design the EB-5 investment model
00:26:21because Scott and I are the best people together to do that.
00:26:24So this is joint.
00:26:25This is exactly the Trump administration.
00:26:27We all work together.
00:26:29We work it out to be the best.
00:26:30And if we sell, just remember, 200,000.
00:26:34There's a line for EB-5 of 250,000 right now.
00:26:38200,000 of these gold green cards
00:26:42is $1 trillion to pay down our debt.
00:26:47And that's why the president is doing it
00:26:50because we are going to balance his budget
00:26:52and we are going to pay off the debt under President Trump.
00:27:00No, because not all these people are going to be job builders.
00:27:03They'll be successful people
00:27:04or they'll be people that were hired from colleges,
00:27:07sort of like paying an athlete a bonus.
00:27:11Apple or one of the companies will go out
00:27:13and they'll buy five of them and they're going to get five people.
00:27:18Look, I've had the complaint from a lot of companies
00:27:22where they go out to hire people
00:27:23and they can't hire them out of colleges.
00:27:25And you know what they do?
00:27:26They go back to India or they go back to the country where they came
00:27:29and they open up a company and they become billionaires.
00:27:34And they're employing thousands and thousands.
00:27:36There are a lot of examples.
00:27:37There are some really big examples
00:27:39where they were forced out of the country.
00:27:43They graduated top in their class at a great school
00:27:47and they weren't able to stay.
00:27:49This is all the time you hear.
00:27:51And the biggest complaint I get from companies,
00:27:54other than overregulation, which we took care of,
00:27:56but we're going to have to take care of it here
00:27:57because a lot of that was put back on by Biden.
00:28:00But the biggest complaint is the fact
00:28:02that they can't have any longevity with people.
00:28:05This way they have pretty much unlimited longevity.
00:28:08Also with the five million, you know, that's a path to citizenship.
00:28:11So that's going to be, it's sort of a green card plus.
00:28:15And it's a path to citizenship.
00:28:18We're going to call it the gold card.
00:28:20And I think it's going to be very treasured.
00:28:22I think it's going to do very well.
00:28:23And we're going to start selling hopefully in about two weeks.
00:28:26Now, just so you understand, if we sell a million, right,
00:28:31a million, that's $5 trillion, $5 trillion.
00:28:35Howard was using a different number, but that's $5 trillion.
00:28:40If we sell 10 million, which is possible,
00:28:4210 million highly productive people coming in
00:28:45or people that we're going to make productive,
00:28:47they'll be young, but they're talented, like a talented athlete.
00:28:50That's $50 trillion.
00:28:54That means our debt is totally paid off
00:28:56and we have $15 trillion above that.
00:29:00And I don't know that we're going to sell that many.
00:29:02Maybe we won't sell many at all,
00:29:03but I think we're going to sell a lot
00:29:05because I think there really is a thirst.
00:29:08No other country can do this
00:29:09because people don't want to go to other countries.
00:29:11They want to come here.
00:29:12Everybody wants to come here, especially since November 5th.
00:29:18And they'll all be vetted, by the way.
00:29:19All these people will be vetted, okay?
00:29:22They'll be vetted.
00:29:23Can you talk a little bit about
00:29:25what kind of security guarantees you're willing to make?
00:29:29Well, I'm not going to make security guarantees
00:29:31beyond very much.
00:29:33We're going to have Europe do that
00:29:34because it's in, you know, we're talking about
00:29:36Europe as their next door neighbor.
00:29:38But we're going to make sure everything goes well.
00:29:41And as you know, we'll be making a,
00:29:43we'll be really partnering with Ukraine
00:29:46in terms of rare earth.
00:29:47We very much need rare earth.
00:29:49They have great rare earth.
00:29:52We'll be working with Secretary Burgum and with Chris.
00:29:57You'll be working on that together.
00:29:59And we're going to be able to have tremendous,
00:30:01I mean, this gives us,
00:30:02because we don't have that much of it here.
00:30:04We have some, but we don't have that much.
00:30:06And we need a lot more
00:30:07to really propel us to the next level of,
00:30:10to lead in every way.
00:30:11We're leading right now with AI.
00:30:13We're leading with everything right now.
00:30:15But we have to, we need resources.
00:30:17We have to double our electric capacity.
00:30:19We have to do many things.
00:30:20We have to really triple, if you think of it,
00:30:22the electric capacity from what we have right now,
00:30:24if you can believe it.
00:30:25So I just say this.
00:30:27So the deal we're making gets us,
00:30:31it brings us great wealth.
00:30:34We get back the money that we spent
00:30:36and we hope that we're going to be able to settle this up.
00:30:39We want to settle it.
00:30:40We want to stop.
00:30:41I tell you what, I'm doing it for two reasons.
00:30:43But the number one reason by far
00:30:45is to watch all these people being killed.
00:30:48I see pictures every week from,
00:30:50I assume satellite pictures mostly,
00:30:52but there's some pictures on site
00:30:54of thousands of soldiers that are being killed.
00:30:57They're being decimated.
00:30:58Because equipment today, military equipment,
00:31:00is so powerful and so devastating.
00:31:03And number one, I want to see people stop.
00:31:06And they're not from here.
00:31:07They're from primarily two other countries.
00:31:09And then, by the way, let's talk about the Middle East.
00:31:11We got to solve that problem too.
00:31:13And that's come a long way.
00:31:14We're doing very well in that also.
00:31:16A lot of things are happening on that.
00:31:18But I'm watching soldiers being killed,
00:31:21Ukrainian and Russian soldiers being killed.
00:31:23My number one thing is to get that stopped.
00:31:25My number two thing is
00:31:26I don't want to have to pay any more money.
00:31:28Because Biden has spent $350 billion
00:31:32without any chance of getting it back.
00:31:34Now we're going to be getting all of that money back
00:31:37plus a lot more.
00:31:38And we provided a great thing.
00:31:40I mean, we provided something very important.
00:31:43And we'll be working with Ukraine
00:31:45because we'll be taking that.
00:31:47We're going to be taking what we're entitled to take.
00:31:50Now, they spent $350 billion
00:31:53and Europe spent $100 billion.
00:31:57Now, does anybody really think that's fair?
00:32:00But then we find out a little while ago,
00:32:02not so long ago, a few months ago,
00:32:04I found out that the money they spent, they get back.
00:32:08But the money we spent, we don't get back.
00:32:11I said, well, we're going to get it back.
00:32:13And we'll be able to make a deal.
00:32:15And again, President Zelensky is coming to sign the deal.
00:32:19And it's a great thing.
00:32:20It's a great deal for Ukraine, too,
00:32:21because they get us over there.
00:32:23We're going to be working over there.
00:32:24We'll be on the land.
00:32:25And, you know, in that way,
00:32:26there's sort of automatic security
00:32:28because nobody's going to be messing around
00:32:30with our people when we're there.
00:32:31And so we'll be there in that way.
00:32:33But Europe will be watching it very closely.
00:32:36I know that UK has said and France has said
00:32:40that they want to put,
00:32:41they volunteered to put so-called peacekeepers
00:32:44on the site.
00:32:45And I think that's a good thing.
00:32:46Mr. President, you have been very clear.
00:32:48Mr. President, you have mentioned the high cost of eggs.
00:32:50And we've seen consumer confidence this week
00:32:52have a sharp drop from last month,
00:32:54the biggest dip in, I believe, three years.
00:32:56Why is that, your assessment?
00:32:58Why is that the case?
00:32:59Well, I think that consumer confidence,
00:33:01if you look at confidence in the nation,
00:33:03it had the biggest increase in the history of the chart.
00:33:06It went up 42 points in a period of, like,
00:33:10days after the election, since the election.
00:33:13So since the election, the confidence in our nation,
00:33:18including right track, wrong track,
00:33:21the first time it's ever happened
00:33:23where we were on the right track
00:33:25because this country has been on the wrong track
00:33:27for a long time.
00:33:28So the confidence in business,
00:33:31confidence in the country has reached an all-time high.
00:33:34We have never reached levels like we are right now.
00:33:37Okay.
00:33:38Mr. President, you've been very clear
00:33:40in saying that as long as you're President,
00:33:42Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.
00:33:44That's true.
00:33:45Is it also your policy that as long as you're President,
00:33:48China will never take Taiwan by force?
00:33:51I never comment on that.
00:33:53I don't comment on any,
00:33:54because I don't want to ever put myself in that position.
00:33:57And if I said it, I certainly wouldn't be saying it to you.
00:34:00I'd be saying it to other people,
00:34:01maybe people around this table.
00:34:03Very specific people around this table.
00:34:05So I don't want to put myself in that position.
00:34:08But I can tell you what.
00:34:10I have a great relationship with President Xi.
00:34:13I've had a great relationship with him.
00:34:15We want them to come in and invest.
00:34:17I see so many things saying that
00:34:19we don't want China in this country.
00:34:21That's not right.
00:34:22We want them to invest in the United States.
00:34:24That's good.
00:34:25There's a lot of money coming in,
00:34:26and we'll invest in China.
00:34:27We'll do things with China.
00:34:29The relationship we'll have with China
00:34:31will be a very good one.
00:34:32I see all of these phony reports
00:34:34that we don't want their money.
00:34:35We don't want anything to do with them.
00:34:36That's wrong.
00:34:37We're going to have a good relationship with China,
00:34:39but they won't be able to take advantage of us.
00:34:41What they did to Biden was,
00:34:44he didn't know what was happening.
00:34:45He didn't know what he was doing.
00:34:47The administration didn't know what they were doing.
00:34:49It was very sad to watch.
00:34:51But we're going to have a good relationship
00:34:52with China and Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East.
00:34:56We're doing things that,
00:34:58look, when I left, we had no wars.
00:35:00We had defeated ISIS totally.
00:35:02We had no inflation.
00:35:04We didn't have the Afghanistan withdrawal,
00:35:06the worst withdrawal anybody's ever seen.
00:35:09I think that's one of the reasons
00:35:10that President Putin looked at that.
00:35:12He said, wow, these guys are a paper tiger.
00:35:15We're no paper tiger.
00:35:16Don't forget, we got rid of ISIS in three weeks.
00:35:19People said it would take five years.
00:35:21We did it because when I came in,
00:35:23I let them do what they had to do.
00:35:25And the man that headed that operation
00:35:27is now going to be your chairman, right?
00:35:29Yes, sir.
00:35:30Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
00:35:31Yes, sir.
00:35:32And Raisin came.
00:35:33I liked him right from the beginning.
00:35:34As soon as I heard his name, I said, that's my guy.
00:35:36Okay.
00:35:37Any other questions?
00:35:47No, no, I'm not stopping the tariffs.
00:35:49No.
00:35:50Millions of people have died
00:35:53because of the fentanyl that comes over the border.
00:35:56Even with the 9% drop in border crossings, though,
00:35:58it's less compared to about a year ago.
00:36:00Yeah, they've been good,
00:36:01but that's also due to us, mostly due to us.
00:36:04I mean, it's very hard.
00:36:05It's right now very hard to come through the border.
00:36:08But the damage has been done.
00:36:11We've lost millions of people due to fentanyl.
00:36:14It comes mostly from China,
00:36:16but it comes through Mexico and it comes through Canada.
00:36:18And I have to tell you that, you know, on April 2nd,
00:36:22I was going to do it on April 1st,
00:36:24but I'm a little bit superstitious,
00:36:25so I made it April 2nd.
00:36:27The tariffs go on, not all of them, but a lot of them.
00:36:30And I think you're going to see something
00:36:32that's going to be amazing.
00:36:33We've been taken advantage of as a country
00:36:35for a long period of time.
00:36:37We've been tariffed, but we didn't tariff.
00:36:40Now, I did.
00:36:41When I was here, I tariffed.
00:36:42We took in $700 billion from China.
00:36:45$700 billion.
00:36:46Not one president in the history of our country
00:36:49took in 10 cents from China.
00:36:51At the same time, China respected us.
00:36:53Now, when COVID came in, that was a different deal.
00:36:58I used to call it the China virus.
00:37:00I guess I can call it the China virus again,
00:37:02but, you know, it's an accurate term.
00:37:04But I won't do that out of respect to China.
00:37:07Say it again, what?
00:37:10On Gaza, I just wondered if there's any progress
00:37:13towards the second phase of the ceasefire.
00:37:16Well, I'm very disappointed when I see
00:37:18four bodies came in today.
00:37:20These are young people.
00:37:22Young people don't die, okay?
00:37:24Young people don't die.
00:37:25These are young people.
00:37:26Four bodies came in today.
00:37:28They think they're doing us a favor
00:37:30by sending us bodies.
00:37:32So, look, that's a decision that has to be made
00:37:36by Israel, by Bibi,
00:37:40but Israel has to make that decision.
00:37:43We got a lot of hostages back,
00:37:46but it's very sad what happened to those people.
00:37:48I mean, you had a young lady with her hand
00:37:50practically blown off.
00:37:52You know why it blew off?
00:37:53Because she put up her hand to try and stop
00:37:55a bullet that was coming her way,
00:37:57and it hit her hand and blew off her fingers,
00:37:59a big part of her hand.
00:38:01This is a vicious group of people,
00:38:04and Israel's going to have to decide
00:38:06what they're doing.
00:38:07Phase one is going to be ending.
00:38:10Think of it.
00:38:11Today, they sent in four bodies.
00:38:12Bodies.
00:38:14And I will say one thing, though.
00:38:16I've spoken to a lot of the parents
00:38:18and a lot of the people involved.
00:38:20They want those bodies almost as much
00:38:22and maybe even just as much
00:38:24as they wanted their son or their daughter.
00:38:27Amazing.
00:38:28Please, sir.
00:38:29Please.
00:38:30My son is dead, but they have his body.
00:38:32Please, can you get it for us?
00:38:34It's the biggest thing.
00:38:35It's incredible the level.
00:38:37They want the bodies of these people.
00:38:39They're dead.
00:38:40They're dead.
00:38:41And, you know, when I saw the ones
00:38:43that came in two weeks ago,
00:38:45they looked like they just got out
00:38:46of a concentration camp.
00:38:48Then the following week, a group came in,
00:38:50and they weren't as bad and as bad as shame.
00:38:53But Israel's going to have to make a decision.
00:38:55You're right.
00:38:56Phase one and now phase two has started.
00:38:58And today, we got some, you know,
00:39:01very, very sad.
00:39:02We knew they were dead, by the way.
00:39:04We knew that there were going to be bodies
00:39:06as opposed to people that were living.
00:39:08But a very sad situation.
00:39:12At some point, somebody is going to say,
00:39:14we got to do something about this.
00:39:16Mr. President, you were just talking
00:39:18about Afghanistan and the Ba'ath withdrawal.
00:39:21Have all the generals or command staff
00:39:23that were involved with the withdrawal
00:39:25fired or relieved of duty?
00:39:27Well, that's a great idea.
00:39:29I'm not going to tell this man what to do,
00:39:31but I will say that if I had his place,
00:39:34I'd fire every single one of them.
00:39:37That's a very good question.
00:39:39Well, it's a question we thought a lot about.
00:39:40We're doing a complete review
00:39:42of every single aspect of what happened
00:39:44with the Ba'ath withdrawal of Afghanistan
00:39:47and plan to have full accountability.
00:39:49It's one of the first things we announced
00:39:50at the Defense Department for that reason, sir.
00:39:52Certainly, General Raising Cain,
00:39:55who was on his way in, was not a part of that.
00:39:57Instead, he was a part of leading the effort
00:39:59against ISIS by untying the hands of warfighters,
00:40:02finishing the job properly,
00:40:03and then bringing our troops home.
00:40:05So we're taking a very different view,
00:40:06obviously, than the previous administration,
00:40:08and there will be full accountability.
00:40:10I don't see big promotions in that group.
00:40:12And I think they're going to be largely gone.
00:40:15I know the man on my left.
00:40:16I think they're going to be largely gone.
00:40:17That was a horrible display.
00:40:20And, you know, I've dealt with the parents
00:40:22and the family of the 13 that were killed.
00:40:24But, you know, nobody ever talks about the 40
00:40:26that were so badly hurt with the arms and the legs
00:40:29and the face and the whole thing,
00:40:31the missing arms and legs.
00:40:33It was so terrible the way that was handled.
00:40:36And it should have been gone through Bagram.
00:40:38You have a big base with big fences
00:40:40and nobody can get in,
00:40:41and you have, you know, hundreds of acres
00:40:43instead of a little local airport
00:40:45where the whole place went crazy.
00:40:47That was so badly handled.
00:40:49And I would think that most of those people
00:40:51are going to be gone.
00:40:52Are we going to take Bagram back?
00:40:54So I'll tell you what has bothered me very much,
00:40:59very, very much.
00:41:01We give billions of dollars to Afghanistan.
00:41:04Nobody knows that.
00:41:05Nobody knew that.
00:41:06Do you know we give billions of dollars to Afghanistan?
00:41:09And yet we left behind all of that equipment,
00:41:13which wouldn't have happened.
00:41:14You know, we were getting out under me.
00:41:15I'm the one that got it down to 5,000 people
00:41:17we were going to get out,
00:41:18but we were going to keep Bagram,
00:41:19not because of Afghanistan, but because of China,
00:41:22because it's exactly one hour away
00:41:24from where China makes its nuclear missiles.
00:41:27So they were going to keep Bagram.
00:41:29We were going to keep a small force on Bagram.
00:41:31We were going to have Bagram Air Base,
00:41:33one of the biggest air bases in the world,
00:41:35one of the biggest runways,
00:41:36one of the most powerful runways in the sense
00:41:38that it was very heavy concrete and steel.
00:41:41You could carry about anything.
00:41:43You could land anything on those runways.
00:41:45We gave it up.
00:41:46And you know who's occupying it right now?
00:41:48China.
00:41:49China.
00:41:50Biden gave it up.
00:41:51So we're going to keep that,
00:41:52and we're going to have a withdrawal,
00:41:54and we're going to take our equipment.
00:41:55We're going to do it properly.
00:41:56We're going to do it very —
00:41:57we're going to keep the equipment.
00:41:59Well, they ran out.
00:42:00It was — what happened there was —
00:42:02in fact, you know, in all fairness to Putin,
00:42:04when he saw that, he said,
00:42:05well, this is our time to go and go into Ukraine,
00:42:10I guess, because it was —
00:42:11the timing seemed to be about right.
00:42:13But we sent them billions of dollars in aid,
00:42:17which nobody knows.
00:42:18If the American public knew that,
00:42:20they know it now.
00:42:21And if we're doing that,
00:42:23I think they should give our equipment back.
00:42:25And I told Pete to study that.
00:42:27But we left billions,
00:42:28tens of billions of dollars' worth of equipment behind.
00:42:31Brand-new trucks.
00:42:32You see them display it every year,
00:42:33or their little roadway someplace,
00:42:35where they have a road,
00:42:37and they drive the — you know,
00:42:38waving the flag and talking about America.
00:42:42Beautiful equipment that's all —
00:42:46I mean, the top-of-the-line stuff.
00:42:48Brand-new stuff.
00:42:49Now it's getting older.
00:42:50But you know what?
00:42:51We're going to pay them.
00:42:52I think we should get a lot of that equipment back.
00:42:53You know that Afghanistan is one of the biggest sellers
00:42:56of military equipment in the world.
00:42:58You know why?
00:42:59They're selling the equipment that we left.
00:43:01We're first.
00:43:02They were second or third.
00:43:03Can you believe it?
00:43:04They're selling 777,000 rifles,
00:43:0770,000 armor-plated —
00:43:10many of them were armor-plated —
00:43:12trucks and vehicles.
00:43:13Seventy thousand.
00:43:15If you think of a used car lot,
00:43:17the biggest one in the country.
00:43:19I would say, J.D.,
00:43:20if somebody had 500 cars,
00:43:22that would be a lot.
00:43:23This is 70,000 vehicles we had there.
00:43:27And we left it for them.
00:43:29I think we should get it back.
00:43:31Mr. President,
00:43:32your spending bill that passed last night
00:43:34aims to cut $2 trillion.
00:43:36Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid,
00:43:38Social Security will not be touched?
00:43:40Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times,
00:43:42you shouldn't be asking me that question.
00:43:45Okay?
00:43:46This will not be read-my-lips.
00:43:48It won't be read-my-lips anymore.
00:43:51We're not going to touch it.
00:43:52Now, we are going to look for fraud.
00:43:54I'm sure you're okay with that,
00:43:56like people that shouldn't be on,
00:43:57people that are illegal aliens and others,
00:44:01criminals in many cases.
00:44:03And that's with Social Security.
00:44:05We have a lot of people.
00:44:06You see that immediately
00:44:07when you see people that are 200 years old
00:44:09that are being sent checks for Social Security.
00:44:12Some of them are actually being sent checks.
00:44:14So we're tracing that down.
00:44:16And I have a feeling that Pam
00:44:17is going to do a very good job with that.
00:44:19But you have a lot of fraud.
00:44:21But, no, I'm not —
00:44:22we're not doing anything on that.
00:44:23Mr. President, part of your mission —
00:44:27I'm sorry.
00:44:28Part of your mission has been
00:44:29to restore executive control
00:44:31over the executive branch.
00:44:33Is it your view of your authority
00:44:35that you have the power to call up
00:44:38any one or all of the people
00:44:39seated at this table
00:44:40and issue orders that they're bound to follow?
00:44:43Oh, yeah, they'll follow the orders.
00:44:45Yes, they will.
00:44:46No exceptions?
00:44:47No exceptions.
00:44:48Well, let's see.
00:44:49Let me think.
00:44:50Oh, yeah.
00:44:51Yeah.
00:44:52She'll have an exception.
00:44:54Of course, no exceptions.
00:44:56You know that.
00:44:57Mr. President,
00:44:58can you clarify the Canada-Mexico tariffs?
00:45:00You had put that 30-day pause.
00:45:02You just referred to it.
00:45:03It's 25 percent.
00:45:0425 percent.
00:45:05When does it go to effect?
00:45:06April 2nd.
00:45:07April 2nd for Canada-Mexico tariffs.
00:45:08Correct.
00:45:09And for everything.
00:45:11Well, we have the fentanyl-related —
00:45:15it's a pause.
00:45:16If they can prove to the President
00:45:18they've done an excellent job,
00:45:20that's what they first do in 30 days.
00:45:22But then the overall is April 2nd.
00:45:25So the big transaction is April 2nd.
00:45:27But the fentanyl-related things,
00:45:29they're working hard on the border.
00:45:31At the end of that 30 days,
00:45:32they have to prove to the President
00:45:34that they've satisfied him.
00:45:36To that regard, if they have,
00:45:38it'll give them a pause, or he won't.
00:45:40But that's up to him to satisfy.
00:45:42We lose 300,000 people a year to fentanyl.
00:45:46Not 100, not 95, not 60, like you read.
00:45:49You know, you've been reading it for years.
00:45:52We lost, in my opinion,
00:45:54over the last couple of years,
00:45:56on average, maybe close to 300,000 people.
00:45:59Dead.
00:46:00And the families are ruined.
00:46:01You know, when they lose a daughter,
00:46:02when they lose a son,
00:46:03the families are never the same.
00:46:05You're never going to be the same.
00:46:06So you're talking about a million people.
00:46:09But when the daughters die —
00:46:10I see daughters die and the sons die
00:46:13because of fentanyl.
00:46:15And in some cases,
00:46:16I don't even know they're taking it.
00:46:17They're buying something else,
00:46:18and it's laced with fentanyl,
00:46:20and they end up dying.
00:46:22And I've known many people
00:46:24who've lost children to fentanyl,
00:46:27and for other reasons,
00:46:28but to fentanyl, it's such a big killer.
00:46:31And those people are never the same people.
00:46:33I mean, I've seen people that,
00:46:35for the rest of their lives,
00:46:36they're not the same people.
00:46:37They're so different, it's not even believable.
00:46:39Dynamic people, happy people that are —
00:46:42they die a miserable death.
00:46:44And that's because of the crap
00:46:46that comes in through China
00:46:48and through Mexico and through Canada.
00:46:50It comes — a lot of it comes through Canada.
00:46:52Canada — look, we support Canada.
00:46:56$200 million a year in subsidies,
00:47:00one way or the other.
00:47:01We let them make millions of cars.
00:47:04We let them send us lumber.
00:47:06We don't need their lumber.
00:47:07We're going to free up our lumber.
00:47:10Lee is going to do the head of environmental.
00:47:13We're going to free up our lumber.
00:47:14We have the best lumber there is.
00:47:15We don't need their lumber.
00:47:16What do we need their lumber for?
00:47:18When you look at the —
00:47:20we subsidize them $200 billion a year.
00:47:24Without us, Canada can't make it.
00:47:26You know, Canada relies on us 95%.
00:47:30We rely on them 4%.
00:47:32Big difference.
00:47:34And I say Canada should be our 51st state.
00:47:38There's no tariffs, no nothing.
00:47:40And I say that.
00:47:41We give them military protection.
00:47:43They have a very small military.
00:47:44They spend very little money on military.
00:47:46On NATO, they're just about last in terms of payment
00:47:51because they say,
00:47:52why should we spend on military?
00:47:54That's a tremendous cost.
00:47:55Most nations can't afford to even think about it.
00:47:58Why should we spend on military?
00:48:00The United States protects us.
00:48:01And I would say that's largely true.
00:48:04We protect Canada, but it's not fair.
00:48:06It's not fair that they're not paying their way.
00:48:09And if they had to pay their way,
00:48:11they couldn't exist.
00:48:12When I spoke to, let's call the prime minister
00:48:17rather than the governor.
00:48:19But when I spoke to him, I said,
00:48:21why are we giving you $200 billion a year?
00:48:24He was unable to answer the question.
00:48:26I said, why are we letting you make millions of cars
00:48:29and send them in?
00:48:31He was unable to answer the question.
00:48:34Justin Trudeau.
00:48:35Nice guy.
00:48:36I think he's a very good guy.
00:48:37I call him Governor Trudeau.
00:48:38He should be governor.
00:48:39He should be governor.
00:48:40Because the fact is that if we don't give them cars,
00:48:44we don't have to give them cars.
00:48:45The tariffs will make it impossible
00:48:47for them to sell cars into the United States.
00:48:50The tariffs will make it impossible
00:48:52for them to sell lumber
00:48:54or anything else into the United States.
00:48:56And all I'm asking to do is break even
00:48:59or lose a little bit,
00:49:00but not lose $200 billion.
00:49:02And we love Canada.
00:49:03I love Canada.
00:49:04I love the people of Canada.
00:49:06But honestly, it's not fair for us
00:49:09to be supporting Canada.
00:49:11And if we don't support them,
00:49:12they don't subsist as a nation.
00:49:23We have made a decision.
00:49:25We'll be announcing it very soon.
00:49:27And it'll be 25%, generally speaking.
00:49:31And that'll be on cars and all other things.
00:49:34The European Union is a different case than Canada.
00:49:37A different kind of case.
00:49:38They've really taken advantage of us
00:49:39in a different way.
00:49:40They don't accept our cars.
00:49:42They don't accept, essentially, our farm products.
00:49:45They use all sorts of reasons why not.
00:49:47And we accept everything of them.
00:49:49And we have about a $300 billion deficit
00:49:52with the European Union.
00:49:53Now, I love the countries of Europe.
00:49:55I guess I'm from there at some point
00:49:58a long time ago, right?
00:50:00But indirectly.
00:50:03Pretty directly, too, I guess.
00:50:05But I love the countries of Europe.
00:50:07I love all countries, frankly.
00:50:08All different.
00:50:09But European Union's been...
00:50:11It was formed in order to screw the United States.
00:50:13I mean, look, let's be honest.
00:50:15The European Union was formed
00:50:17in order to screw the United States.
00:50:19That's the purpose of it.
00:50:20And they've done a good job of it.
00:50:22But now I'm president.
00:50:27They can't.
00:50:28I mean, they can try.
00:50:29But they can't.
00:50:33That's right.
00:50:37That's right.
00:50:38Now, they can do it.
00:50:39And they can try.
00:50:40But the numbers can never equal what ours.
00:50:43Because we can go off.
00:50:44We are the pot of gold.
00:50:46We're the one that everybody wants.
00:50:48And they can retaliate.
00:50:50But it cannot be a successful retaliation.
00:50:53Because we just go cold turkey.
00:50:55We don't buy anymore.
00:50:56And if that happens, we win.
00:51:00No.
00:51:02No, I haven't.
00:51:08With who?
00:51:10CBS?
00:51:12Well, CBS did something that was amazing.
00:51:15Kamala was unable to answer a question properly.
00:51:19And they took the question that they asked.
00:51:22And they inserted an answer.
00:51:24They gave her an answer.
00:51:26This was two days before the election.
00:51:28Right before the Sunday night before the election.
00:51:31And they wrote out a...
00:51:33They put her words from another question that was asked about a half an hour later.
00:51:40And they put that into the question.
00:51:42Nobody has ever even heard of it before.
00:51:44Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before.
00:51:46But they then did it, they say, on numerous occasions.
00:51:51And the FCC is looking at it very strongly.
00:51:55And everybody is looking at it.
00:51:57But nobody has ever seen anything.
00:51:59Think of it.
00:52:00They took her answers.
00:52:01And they changed them.
00:52:03And I don't mean they changed a word or two.
00:52:05Or they cut off a half a sentence.
00:52:06Or they cut off a couple of words.
00:52:08I mean, I've had that happen too.
00:52:10But that is just saying, you know.
00:52:11Then they say, well, we want brevity.
00:52:13You know, we wanted to do it for time.
00:52:15They took out her answer.
00:52:17And they inserted an entirely different answer that made her sound confident.
00:52:21And they did this.
00:52:23And nobody has ever...
00:52:24I thought I've heard of everything when it comes to that stuff.
00:52:27No, I've never heard of it.
00:52:28Nobody has ever seen.
00:52:29So we sued.
00:52:30And we are in discussions of settlement.
00:52:33What would a number be?
00:52:35What's a number that you would...
00:52:37I think it's a lot.
00:52:39I mean, it could have...
00:52:45It probably did affect the election.
00:52:47I mean, we won by a lot.
00:52:49As I said, too big to rig.
00:52:51But it probably did affect the election.
00:52:53Yeah, probably could have won by more.
00:52:55But I could have lost the election because of that.
00:52:58It's...
00:53:00We have to get to honest elections.
00:53:03We have to go back to paper ballots.
00:53:05We have to go back to voter ID.
00:53:07One-day election, ideally, or short-term.
00:53:09Not these 48-day and 61-day elections where boxes are put in a room.
00:53:14And, oh, let's move the boxes because we're putting in a new air conditioning system.
00:53:18And you see the boxes move.
00:53:20And then you say, well, where are all the boxes?
00:53:23You know, what happened to the boxes that never came back?
00:53:26Now, our elections are extremely dishonest.
00:53:31We're the only country in the world that has mail-in voting
00:53:34and all of these different things that we put in.
00:53:36Nobody, no other country in the world has it.
00:53:38You know, France went to...
00:53:40They had some of the things that we had.
00:53:43And they went to same-day voting, all paper.
00:53:47And, you know, paper is very sophisticated now.
00:53:49It's a very sophisticated...
00:53:51It's a very sophisticated form of voting right now.
00:53:54It's a very safe form of voting.
00:53:56You know, the other things for the governors, I wish the governors would do it
00:53:59because the paper ballots will cost 9% of the machines.
00:54:03And they're 100%.
00:54:05You know, they're...
00:54:06Nothing's foolproof, but they're as close as you get.
00:54:09So we'll see what happens.
00:54:11But on the 60-minute thing, nobody's ever seen anything like it.
00:54:17I don't think it's linked, but probably the lawyers look at it, you know,
00:54:21because I know it's going along.
00:54:23FCC is headed by a very competent person.
00:54:26And you have some very competent people on the board.
00:54:29And so I think they're looking at it very seriously.
00:54:39He's a very smart guy.
00:54:40He's a very cunning person.
00:54:42But I've dealt with some people that...
00:54:46I've dealt with some really bad people.
00:54:48But I will tell you, as far as this is concerned,
00:54:53we've...
00:54:54You have to understand, he was...
00:54:57He had no intention, in my opinion, of settling this war.
00:55:00I think he wanted the whole thing.
00:55:02When I got elected, we spoke.
00:55:05And I think we're going to have a deal.
00:55:08I can't guarantee that.
00:55:09You know, a deal is a deal.
00:55:10Lots of crazy things happen in deals, right?
00:55:12But I think we're going to have a deal.
00:55:15If I didn't get elected,
00:55:16I believe he would have just continued to go through Ukraine
00:55:20and over a period of time.
00:55:22A lot of people...
00:55:23A lot of people would have been killed,
00:55:25would have lasted for a period of time.
00:55:27And the reason that Ukraine...
00:55:29And I have great respect for Ukraine as fighters,
00:55:32as great fighters.
00:55:33But without our equipment, that war would have been over,
00:55:36like people said, in a very short period of time.
00:55:39And if you remember, I gave the javelins,
00:55:41and the javelins are the things that knocked out those tanks
00:55:43right at the beginning of the war.
00:55:45They said that Obama, at the time, gave sheets
00:55:49and Trump gave javelins.
00:55:50Well, I was the one that did that.
00:55:52But I want to see it come to an end.
00:55:54Will he have to make concessions to President Putin?
00:55:57Yeah, he will. He's going to have to.
00:56:00And I think...
00:56:01I believe that because we got elected,
00:56:06that war will come to an end.
00:56:08And I also believe if we didn't get elected,
00:56:10if this administration didn't win the election by a lot,
00:56:16that that war would go on for a long time,
00:56:19and he would want to take the whole thing.
00:56:22The big question I had is, does he want to take the whole thing?
00:56:26But the reason...
00:56:28And the Ukrainians are good fighters, I have to say,
00:56:31but without the equipment, without our equipment...
00:56:33We have the best equipment in the world.
00:56:35We have the best military equipment in the world.
00:56:37Without our equipment, that would have been over very quickly.
00:56:40What concessions would you like to see?
00:56:43I don't want to tell you right now,
00:56:45but I can tell you that NATO you can forget about.
00:56:50I think that's probably the reason the whole thing started.
00:56:53And I think, J.D., we can say that.
00:56:56Do you have a statement on that?
00:56:58You've been very much involved.
00:57:00I gave him the beauty.
00:57:01Great. Give me the hardest question, sir.
00:57:03I mean, look, as the President said,
00:57:05we're not going to do the negotiation in public with the American media.
00:57:08He's going to do it in private with the President of Russia,
00:57:12with the President of Ukraine, and with other leaders.
00:57:15And I think that's how this has to go.
00:57:17I just want to push back against some of the criticism
00:57:20I've seen of the administration on this,
00:57:22because every single time the President engages in diplomacy,
00:57:26you guys preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia.
00:57:29He hasn't conceded anything to anyone.
00:57:31He's doing the job of a diplomat,
00:57:34and he is, of course, the diplomat-in-chief as the President of the United States.
00:57:38How's the goal?
00:57:39Is there a little bit more of a vetting process?
00:57:42He'll go through a process.
00:57:43The process is being worked out right now,
00:57:46and we're going to be very careful.
00:57:48Will there be restrictions on, for instance, Chinese nationals?
00:57:51No, we're not going to restrict.
00:57:52We're probably not going to be restricting too much in terms of countries,
00:57:56but maybe in terms of individuals.
00:57:58We want to make sure we have people that love our country
00:58:00and are capable of loving the country.
00:58:03There's a measles outbreak in Texas at the moment,
00:58:05in which a child is reported to have died.
00:58:08Do you have concerns about that,
00:58:09and have you asked Secretary Kennedy to look into that?
00:58:12Well, why don't we –
00:58:14Bobby, do you want to speak on that?
00:58:15We are following the measles epidemic every day.
00:58:19I think there's 124 people who have contracted measles at this point,
00:58:25mainly in Gaines County, Texas,
00:58:28mainly, we're told, in the Mennonite community.
00:58:33There are two people who have died,
00:58:37but we're watching it,
00:58:40and there are about 20 people hospitalized, mainly for quarantine.
00:58:46We're watching it.
00:58:47We put out a post on it yesterday,
00:58:49and we're going to continue to follow it.
00:58:51Incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country.
00:58:57Last year, there were 16.
00:59:00It's not unusual.
00:59:02We have measles outbreaks every year.
00:59:04You sound a little under the weather yourself.
00:59:06I just – I have a permanently bad throat.
00:59:09Mr. President, would you send U.S. peacekeepers to support the European peacekeepers?
00:59:16Would you do any sort of U.S. –
00:59:19No, we're going to support Europe, yeah.
00:59:21And how would –
00:59:22We're very friendly with Europe.
00:59:23We have a great relationship with Europe.
00:59:25I mean, you could ask – you could talk about France.
00:59:29I mean, we have a great relationship with Europe.
00:59:31But how will the United States do that?
00:59:33Would there be –
00:59:34Well, how?
00:59:35I mean, you're asking me a question.
00:59:36What are we doing?
00:59:37Let's worry – I hope we have that problem where we can worry about peacekeeping.
00:59:40We've got to get there first.
00:59:41But I hope we have the problem of worrying about peacekeeping.
00:59:45That will be the easiest problem, I think, J.D., that we've ever had.
00:59:48How do you have a deal, presumably?
00:59:50We'll do it at the time.
00:59:52But we'll – peacekeeping is very easy.
00:59:54It's making the deal that's very tough.
00:59:56And, again, nobody was speaking to Russia at all.
01:00:01And, you know, probably a million and a half soldiers have been killed,
01:00:07close to a million and a half soldiers, not to mention a –
01:00:11I will tell you, the thing with that horrible war that should have never started
01:00:16would have never started if I were president.
01:00:18And it didn't start for four years.
01:00:20And it was not even thought about starting.
01:00:22But the thing with that war is that you're highly underestimating
01:00:25the number of people that have been killed.
01:00:27Far more people have been killed in that war than you talk about.
01:00:30You know, you like to talk about numbers like a million people.
01:00:34Well, they had much more than a million soldiers killed.
01:00:37But you have a lot of cities that have been knocked to the ground.
01:00:40They're demolition sites, literally demolition sites.
01:00:43Every single building is knocked to the ground.
01:00:45And a lot of people were killed in those buildings.
01:00:47And you'll hear a report, two people were minorly injured or just injured a little bit.
01:00:53No, no, people killed by the thousands.
01:00:56And there are a lot more people killed in that war than the media wants to talk about
01:01:01because Biden did a horrible, horrible job.
01:01:06He should have prevented that war.
01:01:07He could have prevented that war.
01:01:09Putin would have never gone in.
01:01:10I'll tell you one thing, he would have never gone in.
01:01:12That war would never have taken place if I were president.
01:01:16Mr. President, how would the United States,
01:01:19what would you be willing to do to support this European peacekeeping effort?
01:01:23Again, you're asking me the same question?
01:01:26How many times do you have to answer?
01:01:28You're talking about after we make peace.
01:01:31Let me make peace first.
01:01:33Once we make peace, I'll give you all the answers you want.
01:01:36But how many times can you ask the same question?
01:01:40Go ahead, behind.
01:01:42Is loosening of sanctions on Russia a potential option as part of the deal?
01:01:46Not now. No, no.
01:01:47We have sanctions on Russia.
01:01:48No, I want to see if we make a deal first, but I think we will.
01:01:51I've had very good conversations with President Putin.
01:01:55I've had very good conversations with President Zelensky.
01:01:59And until four weeks ago, nobody had conversations with anybody.
01:02:04It wasn't even a consideration.
01:02:06Nobody thought you could make peace.
01:02:07I think you can.
01:02:08But if Russia gets to keep the land that was claimed by force,
01:02:12if the Russians get to keep the territory they claimed by force,
01:02:15doesn't that send a dangerous message, let's say, to China?
01:02:18Oh, okay. You try and take it away, right?
01:02:21We're going to do the best we can.
01:02:23We're going to do the best we can to make the best deal we can for both sides,
01:02:27but for Ukraine.
01:02:29We're going to try very hard to make a good deal
01:02:31so that they can get as much back as possible.
01:02:35We want to get as much back as possible.
01:02:38We'll cut it out after maybe this question. Go ahead.
01:02:41Unless it's a bad question, then we'll get back to it.
01:02:44You always like to finish on a good one.
01:02:46Sir, they want you to negotiate with them instead of President Putin.
01:02:49They want to continue to talk about the peacekeepers.
01:02:52You have a lot of confidence in us because you assume there's going to be peace.
01:02:57You know, it's possible it doesn't work out. There is possibility.
01:03:00But I hope it does for the sake of humanity,
01:03:03because if you look at the pictures that I've looked at,
01:03:06you don't want to look at them. Go ahead.
01:03:08I have a question back on these cuts to the federal workforce.
01:03:10You mentioned you're interested in doing another round of this email.
01:03:13When would you like to see that? What would be the deadline?
01:03:15I'm not. I think Elon wants to, and I think it's a good idea
01:03:19because, you know, those people, as I said before, they're on the bubble.
01:03:22You've got a lot of people that have not responded,
01:03:24so we're trying to figure out, do they exist?
01:03:26Who are they?
01:03:28And it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired.
01:03:32And if that happened, that's OK, because that's what we're trying to do.
01:03:36This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run.
01:03:42I think we had the worst president in the history of our country.
01:03:45He just left office. I think he's a disgrace,
01:03:48what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people
01:03:51to come into our country like that.
01:03:53And all of the other things, the inflation,
01:03:56which he caused because of energy and stupid spending,
01:03:59to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars
01:04:04on the Green News scam, a total scam.
01:04:07I have the best energy people, the best environmental people
01:04:10in the world around this table,
01:04:12and they can't even believe he got away with it.
01:04:15And then in leaving office to send $20 billion here
01:04:19and $20 million there and $10 million and $5 million,
01:04:24and they couldn't spend the money fast enough.
01:04:26And let's get it out before Trump gets in.
01:04:28Let's just get it out to anybody.
01:04:30And this is a disgrace to our nation.
01:04:33And you don't write the fair thing.
01:04:35But look, you know, the good news, the people see it.
01:04:38And that's why we won the election by so much.
01:04:40Thank you very much, everybody.
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