President Trump holds a press gaggle on Air Force One.
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00:00Hello, everybody.
00:09Nice plane.
00:11Everyone having a good time.
00:13We'll be back in Washington soon.
00:16We have a lot of good news to report, and you'll be hearing about it.
00:20Probably not now, but you'll be hearing about it.
00:23We've had some good things coming out of the many war zones that were created by Biden
00:28and a group of incompetent people.
00:31But I think we have some pretty good news.
00:33We'll talk about that later or tomorrow.
00:36Any questions?
00:37Any plans to speak to President Xi this week?
00:40No.
00:41No plans to speak to him, but China and our people are talking about different things.
00:46Why did you decide to fall out of this position as a national security advisor?
00:51I actually think it's a higher position.
00:55We want to know that, too.
00:56I think it's an upgrade.
00:58Moving up there is an upgrade.
01:00Is there a question during the news stations called Paul who said that you didn't make any
01:05mistakes in the personal part of this?
01:07Was a point of my fault as a national security advisor?
01:10No.
01:11It's irrelevant.
01:12It's not a mistake.
01:13It's not a mistake.
01:14It's not a big deal.
01:15He was fine, and where he is, he'll do a good job.
01:19What made you lose confidence?
01:20I don't consider that.
01:22I didn't lose confidence in him.
01:24Why did I lose confidence?
01:26He's going to the United Nations.
01:28To me, I think it's personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing it, I'd rather have
01:33that job than the other.
01:34Did he resign on his bill before?
01:36He didn't resign.
01:38Resign.
01:39I just moved him.
01:40There's no resignation.
01:41You people are so bad.
01:43You're trying to make a big deal out of something.
01:45You are so bad.
01:46What's your choice?
01:47That's why nobody watches you anymore.
01:48Who are you with?
01:49Who are you with?
01:50Who are you with?
01:51I'm with Hurst.
01:52You're with who?
01:53Hurst.
01:54Hurst.
01:55I didn't know there was such a thing.
01:56Mr. President.
01:57Is there any trade deals coming this week?
01:59It could very well be.
02:01Can you tell us more about them?
02:03Nobody understands.
02:04We're negotiating with many countries.
02:07But at the end of this, I'll set my own deals.
02:10Because I set the deal.
02:11They don't set the deal.
02:12I set the deal.
02:13They've been ripping us off for years.
02:15I set the deal.
02:17Every country, almost without fail, friend and foe, has been ripping us off for years.
02:22So we're meeting with almost all of them, including China.
02:26And at the end, I'm setting the deal.
02:29They keep saying, when are you going to — this is not like a big deal that's going to be signed.
02:34In some cases, we'll sign.
02:35But we don't have to have — I'm going to be setting the deal.
02:38I'll be setting a tariff.
02:39You keep asking the same question.
02:41When will you agree?
02:42When will you agree?
02:43It's up to me.
02:44It's not up to them.
02:45It's up to me.
02:46Now, they don't have to deal with us, which is okay, because we lost — under Biden, we're losing $5 billion a day.
02:53Think of it.
02:54$5 billion a day.
02:56Now we're not dealing with China at all because the tariff's so high that they basically can't deal.
03:03And because of that, we're saving billions of dollars, you know?
03:07But just — and I'm not saying this to be a wise guy with you, to be mean.
03:11I don't want to be mean to you.
03:12You're, you know, a good professional.
03:14But you do keep asking me that same question.
03:18It's not like we're going to sit down in an ivory room and we're going to just — he's going to say — there'll be some of that.
03:24Very little.
03:25I don't see a lot of it.
03:27At some point in the next two weeks or three weeks, I'm going to be setting the deal.
03:32I'm going to say that such and such a country has had a tremendous trade surplus — surplus their way with us.
03:41They've taken advantage of us in various ways.
03:44And we fully understand what they were doing.
03:47We were being led by people that were not very smart that were able to be taken advantage of.
03:52But I can't be taken advantage of.
03:54So at a certain point, I'll be just setting a certain tariff number.
03:59The Pressure on PAPFAR, sir.
04:02Say it?
04:03On PAPFAR, AIDS treatment in Africa, there's a waiver in place.
04:08But people are saying to my colleagues that they're still not getting medicines.
04:12And the U.N. AIDS —
04:13Well, that shouldn't be happening.
04:14But the other thing — other countries should be helping us with that.
04:18And I'm a big fan of getting that solved.
04:22You know, we're the only country — where are the other — where is France?
04:25Where is Germany?
04:26Where are these other countries?
04:27Nobody does anything but the United States.
04:30And we spent, you know, billions and billions of dollars.
04:33So they should be helping also.
04:35But as you know, we did a waiver.
04:36You know that, right?
04:37Right.
04:38Well, I can't help that.
04:39Because if we did a waiver, then you have to get your people to act properly on the waiver.
04:45But I do ask, why are we the only country doing it?
04:48Mr. President, what's your timeline on the rest of your judicial nominations?
04:52And what's your criteria when you're taking judges?
04:54Which nominations?
04:55The future judicial nominations for the federal judge positions?
04:58Well, we're putting them in rapidly.
05:00We're trying to get very good ones.
05:01I mean, we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant.
05:07We have millions of people that have come in here illegally.
05:11And we can't have a trial for every single person.
05:14That would be millions of trials.
05:16The people elected me in a landslide with every single...
05:20We won every swing state.
05:22We won everything there is to win by big numbers.
05:25Not only swing state.
05:26We won the popular vote by millions of votes.
05:29They elected me.
05:30This was the number one issue.
05:31And now we have judges, radicalized, and they're crazy.
05:36Because they want us to have, if you believe this,
05:39they want us to have a trial for every person that came in illegally into our country.
05:44So they come into our country illegally.
05:46And then we're supposed to take weeks, I guess, and months to have a trial on every criminal.
05:51And we have murderers all over the country.
05:53I don't think the Supreme Court will stand for that.
05:56I can't believe it.
05:57Because you know what?
05:58If they do, we're not going to have a country.
05:59Go ahead.
06:00How will you make sure that the judges that you appoint are different than that?
06:03All you can do is do the best you can.
06:05You know, you try and appoint the best people to being judges or anything else that you appoint.
06:11But so far, you know, we've been very disappointed with the decisions that come out.
06:16And mostly from people appointed by others than me.
06:20But it's just so hard to believe that you have a murderer.
06:24Many, you know, we have 11,888 or whatever the number is.
06:30We have thousands of murderers in this country.
06:32We're getting them out.
06:34And they say, we don't want them out.
06:36We want them to stay in our country until they have a trial.
06:39Trials take years.
06:41They take years.
06:42It's so crazy.
06:43We won't have a country left.
06:45We can't have that happen.
06:46I'm from the economy.
06:47I'm from the economy.
06:48I'm from the economy, sir.
06:49Who are you with?
06:50The Wall Street Journal.
06:51That's what I...
06:52Well, you people treat us so bad.
06:54The Wall Street Journal is truly gone to hell.
06:56Go ahead.
06:57It's a rotten newspaper.
06:58You hear what I said?
07:00It's a rotten newspaper.
07:03Are there any updates and talks with the BlackRock?
07:06I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal because they'd be wasting my time.
07:10There are talks, but I don't want to talk to the Wall Street Journal.
07:13But, look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented, and they're really mad for this country.
07:19Go ahead.
07:20You say you want a fair deal.
07:21You say you want a fair deal with China.
07:23What is a fair deal like that you want them to do?
07:26Well, you know, I want a fair deal with China, but China's been ripping us off for many years,
07:29so maybe some things should be thought about, you know, a little bit of retribution.
07:35China's been ripping us off for many years, ever since they started.
07:39To me, I think it was the worst thing that Richard Nixon ever did.
07:42Is there a number in Mexico?
07:43Yeah, he's the one that got it started, and they've taken advantage of it.
07:47Is there a number in Mexico?
07:48No.
07:49No.
07:50Mexico's president is claiming that you offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico,
07:55and she said that she didn't want them to Mexico.
07:57Is that true?
07:58Can you tell us about those conversations?
07:59So Mexico is saying that I offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico to take care of the cartel.
08:05She wants to know, is that true?
08:07Do you think I'm going to answer that question?
08:09That's why I'm asking.
08:10We'll see.
08:11I will answer it.
08:12It's true.
08:13Absolutely.
08:14And why did you do that?
08:15I'm sure.
08:16Because they should be...
08:17They are horrible people that have been killing people left and right.
08:21That have been...
08:22They've made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people.
08:26We've lost 300,000 people last year to fentanyl and drugs.
08:31They're bad news.
08:32Yeah, that's true.
08:33If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it.
08:37I told her that.
08:38I would be honored to go in and do it.
08:40The cartels are trying to destroy our country.
08:43They're evil.
08:44And, you know, we had 300,000 people die last year from fentanyl and all that.
08:49We had hundreds, we had millions of people brought into this country that shouldn't be here.
08:54The cartels brought them in.
08:56So if she said that I offered to do that, she's 100% right.
08:59And are you disappointed that she denied that request that she doesn't want to...
09:02Well, she's so afraid of the cartels, she can't walk.
09:05So, you know, that's the reason.
09:06And I think she's a lovely woman.
09:08But the president of Mexico is a lovely woman.
09:12But she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight.
09:15So on Friday, you told Mr. Walker that maybe a little bit of all this person is going to be $35.
09:22Maybe they just...
09:23Let's...
09:24Let's...
09:25What a...
09:26What a...
09:27What a...
09:28All I'm saying is that you don't...
09:29That a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl doesn't need $37.
09:38She could be very happy with two or three or four or five.
09:41Right.
09:42I would...
09:43I wouldn't...
09:44Let's not waste a lot of time.
09:45What else?
09:46Well, I don't know about it, but I'm honored if they're going to name a road after me.
10:00If that's the case, I'm honored.
10:01Thank you very much.
10:02I'm honored.
10:03Thank you very much.
10:04I understand...
10:05Go ahead.
10:06Who are you considering to be your more permanent national security advisor?
10:08Well, I have a lot of people that want the job, I can tell you.
10:11It's...
10:12I mean, a lot of people say it really works in with what Marco's doing.
10:17But we have a lot of people.
10:19I'm going to be naming somebody, but we...
10:21What time would you do that in?
10:23I would say within six months.
10:25Would you like...
10:26He would do the job permanently, but I don't...
10:29I think it's...
10:30You know, it's an appropriate job.
10:32Are you considering Stephen Miller?
10:33Are you considering Stephen Miller without...
10:35Stephen Miller's at the top of the totem pole.
10:38I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job.
10:41You understand.
10:43Because he has a lot to say about a lot of things.
10:46He's a very valued person in the administration, Stephen Miller.
10:51As we've reached 100 days, what do you see as you're managing the items for the next 100 days?
10:55I think we have the greatest 100 days in the history of our country for an administration.
11:00I think we've done more, and we've gotten rid of what was strengthening up our military...
11:05Think of it.
11:06Six months ago, we had the worst numbers in the history of our military for joining our military and police.
11:15Now we have the best numbers we've ever had.
11:18Just think of that.
11:19It's not even possible.
11:21Inflation's down.
11:22All costs are down.
11:23Everything is down.
11:24Other than, as Tristan said, the thing that could carry the babies around in.
11:33But that's up 3%.
11:34Energy's down.
11:35Gasoline's down.
11:36Nobody's ever seen anything.
11:37Far ahead of schedule.
11:38So people that were paying a lot for groceries, they're paying a lot less.
11:47And interest rates are even down.
11:48You know, we have a very stubborn Fed.
11:50But, I mean, the Fed should lower, but that's okay.
11:54But interest rates are down.
11:55Mortgage rates are down.
11:56It's been pretty amazing.
11:58We've done, I think, I don't think there's ever been a better opening 100 days.
12:03We have a lot of fake polls where they interview Democrats, not Republicans, but meeting more Democrats.
12:09I had a pollster that said to me, a legitimate pollster, John McLaughlin, top person.
12:14He said he's never seen polls that were so fake before, where they overweight the Democrats.
12:21And I only bring that up because I think it's something that should be said.
12:24It's a shame how dishonest the media is.
12:27The media is corrupt and they're dishonest and they're so bad for our country.
12:31Thank you very much, everybody.