On Air Force One, President Trump was asked about his conversations with tech leaders this weekend on tariffs.
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00:00to happen.
00:01Sir, have you talked to any tech leaders over the weekend about the tariffs?
00:04Yeah.
00:05I talked to the biggest in the world.
00:08I talked to the biggest of them all.
00:11Many of them.
00:12But I've talked to, uh, I would say four or five that are considered the biggest.
00:17They don't, you know what they said?
00:19We don't blame you.
00:20Who did you talk to?
00:21Uh, I don't want to say.
00:22I'll put it out.
00:23I may give it to you.
00:24Did NVIDIA see you?
00:25I have to find out if they mind.
00:26You know, I don't know if they mind.
00:27You know, I don't know if that was a confidential call or not, but we had five or six.
00:33Uh, I've spoken to many countries.
00:35They all want to do it.
00:36Just so you understand the power of what I'm doing.
00:39Every country is calling and being very solicitous of us.
00:43Very, very nice and being very nice and, and we have to be able to justify where we, this
00:51is not sustainable.
00:53The United States can't lose $1.9 trillion on trade.
00:58We can't do that and also spend a lot of money on NATO in order to protect European nations.
01:04We cover them with military, then we lose money on trade.
01:08It's the whole thing is crazy and I got elected on that basis.
01:12We explained it.
01:13You know, the American people understand it a lot better than the media, but the media
01:18understands it and much of the media writes correctly about it, I must say.