President Trump holds a press gaggle on Air Force One as he heads back to Washington, D.C.
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00:00We had a good time this weekend.
00:05We had a lot of very interesting things happen.
00:08I think we're making a lot of progress on Ukraine and Russia.
00:13There's always conflict, but I think we're making a lot of progress getting it stopped.
00:18We just want to see thousands of soldiers a week stop dying,
00:24because they're dying at numbers that we probably haven't seen since the Second World War
00:30for no reason whatsoever.
00:32It's a shame. It's a shame.
00:35So I think we are making progress.
00:39Step by step, there's tremendous hatred between the leaders,
00:44if you call the whole situation leaders.
00:48But I think we'll get that done.
00:52And the Middle East, a lot of things are happening with respect to Iran.
00:57And we'll see if we can get something done.
00:59And if not, it's going to be a bad situation, very, very bad.
01:03On the oil sanctions that you mentioned today, when will they start?
01:11We have a couple.
01:13We have the secondary tariffs on Iran, and we'll probably give it a couple of weeks.
01:19And if we don't see any progress, we're going to put them on.
01:21We're not putting them on right now, but if you remember, I did that six years ago,
01:27and it worked very well, to put it mildly.
01:30And if the election weren't rigged, you would have a situation
01:36where there would be no problem with Iran today, but it was.
01:39Biden didn't know what he was doing, obviously.
01:42And we have a very rough situation in the Middle East because of that.
01:48We ended up with October 7th, and you would have never had October 7th,
01:52and you would have never had Russia going into Ukraine likewise.
01:56But we're going to make a decision on secondary tariffs on Iran
02:00based on whether or not they're going to make a deal.
02:02If they're going to make a deal, then we're never going to put secondary tariffs on.
02:07We're going to hope they have a great, long, and successful life as a country.
02:14But we'll see what happens.
02:16Very interesting.
02:18I can't imagine them doing anything else but making a deal.
02:22I would prefer a deal to the other alternative,
02:26which I think everybody in this plane knows what that is.
02:29And that's not going to be pretty, and I do not prefer that.
02:33Mr. President, on the tariffs, you said at one point that the tariffs Tuesday
02:39would be more conservative than what people might think.
02:43There's reports that you are maybe now looking to make the tariffs higher.
02:48So are you weighing higher tariffs?
02:50The tariffs will be far more generous than those countries were to us,
02:56meaning they will be kinder than those countries were
03:01to the United States of America over the decades.
03:04They ripped us off like no country has ever been ripped off in history.
03:10And we're going to be much nicer than they were to us,
03:14but it's substantial money for the country nevertheless.
03:17On the tariffs that you're planning,
03:20so you're expecting to hit something like 10 to 15 countries.
03:24Is that right?
03:25No, no.
03:27All of the countries?
03:28Is it across the board?
03:29Not 10.
03:30Who told you 10 or 15 countries?
03:32Well, we heard that.
03:33So we heard that you were going to aim for the 10%.
03:35But you didn't hear it from me.
03:36So how many countries will be in that initial trunch?
03:39You'd start with all countries.
03:41So let's see what happens.
03:43There are many countries involved.
03:45I haven't heard a rumor about 15 countries, 10 or 15.
03:48So you're starting with all countries?
03:50Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about.
03:54We wouldn't be talking about all countries.
03:56That's not a cutoff.
03:58And if you look at the history and you look at what's happened to us,
04:02you go to certain places, go to Asia,
04:05and you take a look at every single country in Asia,
04:08what they've done to the United States in trade.
04:11And, by the way, in military in a certain way.
04:14You take a look at trade with Asia.
04:18And I wouldn't say anybody is treated as fairly or nicely.
04:25But we are going to treat them.
04:28We're going to be much more generous to them in terms of heart.
04:32We're going to be much more generous than they were to us.
04:35You said you were not joking about a third term,
04:39about possibly wanting a third term.
04:41Does that mean you're not planning to leave office on January 20th?
04:44I'm not looking at that, but I'll tell you,
04:46I have had more people ask me to have a third term,
04:49which is in a way a fourth term because of the other election.
04:52The 2020 election was totally rigged.
04:55So it's actually sort of a fourth term in a certain way.
04:58I just don't want the credit for the second
05:00because Biden was so bad.
05:02He did such a bad job.
05:04And I think that's one of the reasons that I'm popular,
05:07if you want to know the truth.
05:08I think I'm popular because we've done a great job.
05:10I think we've had the best almost hundred days of any president.
05:14And most people are saying that.
05:17And it's an honor.
05:19We're bringing back our country.
05:20We're respected as a country again.
05:22And we're strongly respected.
05:24And people are amazed.
05:26I was with some very important people today,
05:29and they said that they've never seen a turnaround of a country
05:32as fast as this.
05:33Even look at our border.
05:35We have nobody coming in.
05:38And you can come into our country,
05:40but you have to come in legally.
05:41But we have nobody coming in to our country.
05:44It's almost shut down.
05:46They've never seen anything like this.
05:48The Constitution limits a president to two terms.
05:52Is it your understanding that they have to be—
05:54Well, I don't even want to talk about it.
05:56I'm just telling you,
05:57I've had more people say, please run again.
06:01I said, we have a long way to go before we even think about that.
06:04But I've had a lot of people.
06:06Yeah, go ahead.
06:07Did you have something?
06:08Yeah, I just wanted to ask,
06:09do you think that's an appropriate precedent to set,
06:11even if it wasn't you in this position,
06:14to see a president serve a third term?
06:17I don't want to talk about a third term now
06:19because no matter how you look at it,
06:23we've got a long time to go.
06:24We have a long time.
06:25We have almost four years to go,
06:28and that's a long time.
06:30But despite that, so many people are saying,
06:32you've got to run again.
06:34They love the job we're doing.
06:35Most importantly, they love the job we're doing.
06:37So you said you were upset with Putin.
06:39Would you say your relationship with Vladimir Putin
06:41is at its lowest point right now?
06:43No, I don't think so.
06:44I don't think he's going to go back on his word.
06:49You're talking about Putin.
06:50I don't think he's going to go back on his word.
06:52I've known him for a long time.
06:54We've always gotten along well,
06:56despite the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
06:59It's a hoax created by Clinton and Schiff
07:01and all of these lunatics.
07:03And that really was a dangerous point.
07:06That was a very dangerous thing they did to this country.
07:08It was a pure, unadulterated scam, hoax.
07:13But, no, I think he'll be okay.
07:16But if he isn't, I was disappointed in a certain way.
07:20Some of the things that were said over the last day or two,
07:23having to do with Zelensky,
07:25because when he considers Zelensky not credible,
07:29he's supposed to be making a deal with him,
07:31whether you like him or you don't like him.
07:33So I wasn't happy with that.
07:35But I think he's going to be good.
07:38And I certainly wouldn't want to put
07:40secondary tariffs on Russia.
07:42But if they were put on, it would not be very good for that.
07:46We put secondary tariffs on, as you know, in Venezuela.
07:52And it's had a very strong impact on Venezuela.
07:55You know that every ship just got out and they left.
07:58A lot of them left.
07:59They dropped the hoses right into the ocean and they left.
08:02They didn't want to be there for a minute
08:04because they didn't want those tariffs to catch on
08:07or they didn't want me to see them there.
08:09So the Venezuelan secondary tariffs,
08:12all secondary tariffs are very strong
08:15because essentially it says if you disobey our orders,
08:19you cannot do business in the United States of America.
08:22And that's the cash cow.
08:24Would that apply to Chinese companies
08:26buying Russian oil as well if you plan to go ahead with those tariffs?
08:29So if, in the case of Venezuela, as you know,
08:32China pulled up anchor and left.
08:34They were there.
08:35They had two ships there and they left.
08:37They left empty.
08:38They didn't want to take a chance.
08:40No, we're not playing games.
08:41Okay, any other questions?
08:44Will you clarify, are you planning to leave office January 20th, 2029?
08:48Or are you saying you might not?
08:49Go ahead, any other questions?
08:50On TikTok.
08:51TikTok.
08:52TikTok.
08:53On TikTok.
08:54The deadline's coming up.
08:55We're working on TikTok.
08:56We have a lot of potential buyers.
08:57There's tremendous interest in TikTok.
09:00The decision's going to be my decision, as you know, through Congress.
09:04They've given me the power to make the decision.
09:07We have a great team of people essentially taking bids.
09:11We have a lot of people that want to buy TikTok.
09:14We're dealing with China also on it because they may have something to do with it.
09:19And we'll see how that goes.
09:21But it's something I think you're going to have.
09:25I'd like to see TikTok remain alive.
09:27I mean, I'll be honest, selfishly speaking, I won the young vote by 36 points.
09:34Republicans generally don't do very well with the young vote.
09:37And I think a lot of it could have been TikTok.
09:40It could have been Joe Rogan.
09:41And it could have been a lot of things.
09:42But it was also TikTok.
09:45TikTok is very interesting.
09:48And a lot of people want to buy it.
09:50If no deal, will you extend the deadline?
09:52Well, there'll be a deal with TikTok.
09:54We would.
09:55We would.
09:56Is there a deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire?
10:04It's a psychological deadline.
10:06If I think they're tapping us along, I will not be happy about it.
10:11Do you think they are right now?
10:12I don't know.
10:13I don't know.
10:14I don't think so.
10:15I think he wants to make a deal.
10:16And I think Zelensky, by the way, I see he's trying to back out of the Rare Earth deal.
10:22And if he does that, he's got some problems, big, big problems.
10:27We made a deal on Rare Earth.
10:29And now he's saying, well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.
10:33He wants to be a member of NATO.
10:36Well, he was never going to be a member of NATO.
10:38He understands that.
10:39So if he's looking to renegotiate the deal, he's got big problems.
10:44Go ahead.
10:45Mr. President, have you had any more outrage from the automakers?
10:48And are you reconsidering that at all?
10:50No, no, no.
10:51The automakers are going to make a lot of money, the American automakers or international
10:58automakers.
11:00You're talking about they're going to build in the United States.
11:03The people that are going to make money are people that manufacture cars in the United States.
11:09Outside of the United States, that's going to be up to them.
11:12I don't care too much about that.
11:14But you have a lot of companies coming into the country to manufacture cars.
11:20As you know, the Auto Workers Union, I did great.
11:22I won Michigan by a lot.
11:25But the Auto Workers Union, they were fantastic to me.
11:28Now they're really fantastic.
11:29And even Sean Fane, who I don't know, but he obviously wasn't a supporter of mine.
11:35He's a Democrat.
11:36He said wonderful things about Donald Trump.
11:39He said, I can't believe this is finally happening.
11:42People that make, manufacture automobiles in the United States are going to make money,
11:49the likes of which they've never seen before.
11:51But beyond that, we have the computer companies, the chip companies, the pharmaceutical companies.
11:57We have lumber.
11:58We have everything.
11:59Steel.
12:00They're all going to do really well, as long as they do their product in the United States.
12:05Thank you very much, everyone.
12:07Mr. President, there's been a lot of discussion about stagflation now.
12:09Is that something that you're worried about, given the impact of your efforts to readjust the economy?
12:14I haven't heard that term in years.
12:16I don't know anything about it.
12:18This country is going to be more successful than it ever was.
12:22It's going to boom.
12:23We're going to have boomtown USA.
12:26We're going to boom.
12:27And many industries.
12:30And we're going to bring manufacturing and we're going to bring product.
12:33For instance, we need pharmaceuticals in our company.
12:36We don't want to be buying our pharmaceuticals from other countries because if we're in a war, we're in a problem.
12:41We want to be able to make our own.
12:43We want to bring – we have our own lumber.
12:45We have our own energy.
12:47We don't need energy from Canada.
12:49We don't need lumber from Canada.
12:51We don't need anything from Canada.
12:53We don't need cars from Canada, as an example.
12:56So, we are going to – I think we're going to have – I call it the golden age of America.
13:03I believe this will be the golden age of America.
13:06Thank you very much.
13:07Have you decided on your first foreign trip?