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00:00Hello, everybody.
00:05So before we begin, we're going to talk about how good some of these numbers are.
00:09I'll be way ahead of schedule, especially as respect to manufacturing and manufacturing
00:14jobs.
00:15It's taking hold, and we've only been here a few weeks, but it's really going to be something
00:19— I don't know if the rest of the world likes it, but people in the U.S. like it,
00:23that I can tell you.
00:25If I might, Will, could you talk about the student loan situation?
00:29Yes, sir.
00:31So later this afternoon, we're going to have prepared for your signature an executive order
00:35dealing with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
00:38This is a program that's designed to expedite basically the conclusion of payments on student
00:44loans for people who have taken out federally-backed student loans.
00:49The problem, though, is that a lot of these people work for NGO organizations, for non-profit
00:55organizations that engage in illegal or what we would consider to be improper activities
01:00— supporting, for example, illegal immigration or foreign terrorist organizations or otherwise
01:08law-breaking activities.
01:10So this executive order will direct your Department of Education and Department of the Treasury
01:16to basically bring about modifications to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
01:21in order to ensure that people who are engaged in these sorts of activities can't benefit
01:26from a program that's really not intended to support those sorts of things.
01:29And what are the consequences if they are not good?
01:33The consequences would be that they wouldn't get forgiveness of their student loans as
01:38they would be eligible for if they were working for the government or a normal nonprofit that's
01:44not violating the law.
01:46All right.
01:47Any questions on that?
01:49Anybody have any questions?
01:53So we'll talk about the manufacturing turnaround, and it's been very early, but it's pretty
01:57significant.
01:58The numbers were much better, as you know, than projected by the media.
02:05And a little surprising, actually, how strong, how fast, because we have many — many companies
02:10are moving into our country.
02:13As you probably know, it's a statistic that everyone talks about but nobody seems to have
02:17done much about.
02:20Since the beginning of NAFTA, there's been 90,000 plants and factories closed in this
02:25country.
02:26Think of that.
02:27Ninety thousand plants and factories have been closed in this country.
02:33Many of them have been car manufacturing plants.
02:37And that's a terrible statistic, and we'll be turning that around.
02:40You're going to see it already.
02:41We already have numerous that are being built or starting to be built, and numerous that
02:46were being built in other countries, and they stopped, and they're coming here now because
02:50of the tariffs.
02:51And that's a big deal.
02:52That's what you want to hear.
02:54During the last year, the Biden administration saw a loss of more than 110,000 manufacturing
03:04jobs or 9,000 manufacturing jobs every single month.
03:10It averaged about 9,000 a month — 110,000 manufacturing jobs.
03:14During the first full month in office, we've not only stopped that manufacturing collapse,
03:19but we've begun to rapidly reverse it and get major gains.
03:25We created 10,000 manufacturing jobs in February alone.
03:30That hasn't happened in a long time.
03:33And these aren't government jobs, which actually we cut.
03:36These are private sector manufacturing jobs.
03:40And so we gained all of those jobs — 10,000 jobs — and we've barely started yet.
03:46That's a very unusual number.
03:47People are surprised by it.
03:48I'm even a little surprised.
03:50On auto jobs, we created almost 9,000 new jobs in the auto production field.
03:59And the reason for that is, largely, they think things are happening, so they're already
04:03geared up.
04:04In some cases, they had rooms in their plants, or they had empty plants that they were able
04:09to put into use quickly because they see, because of the tariffs, they don't want to
04:14be dealing with other places, and they don't want to go back and forth and around and through
04:19the borders and across Mexico border and Canada border and all of — they want to have the
04:24jobs in one location.
04:26And they've had space, and if they had space, they were able to create the jobs almost immediately.
04:31In some cases, they'll be building plants to take care of those jobs.
04:35So we created 9,000 new jobs already in the auto production, auto parts manufacturing.
04:42So we want the auto parts, ideally, and I think from a simplicity standpoint, too, to
04:47be built and made in the United States.
04:50It's in a single month.
04:51That all took place in a single month — 9,000 new auto jobs.
04:55You haven't heard that in a long time.
04:58Last year, auto workers lost more than 27,000 auto jobs in the final year of Biden.
05:06These are also high-paying jobs.
05:07These are very prime jobs.
05:09The ISM Manufacturing Survey and the S&P Manufacturing Survey have also confirmed that our administration
05:16is presiding over a brand-new domestic manufacturing boom after major collapse under Biden.
05:23It was a collapse.
05:25All he did is keep adding new government jobs, which are not the jobs you want.
05:29We're trying to shrink government and grow the private sector.
05:33That's what we've been doing.
05:35Under the final two years of Biden, one in every four jobs created in America was a government
05:41job.
05:42That's a tremendous percentage.
05:43But under the first full month of President Trump, which we haven't even gotten started
05:47yet, an incredible 93 percent of all job gains were in the private sector.
05:52So that just — that statistic just came out.
05:56Big gains for native-born Americans.
06:00For the first time in 15 months, the job gains for native-born Americans, for American people
06:07— people born in America — exceeded job gains for migrant and foreign-born workers.
06:13This is the first time that's happened in more than 15 months.
06:18Job gains for native-born workers went up by 284,000, while foreign-born workers went
06:24down by 87,000.
06:25Now, you know, you've heard the same stat where foreign workers were taking up all the
06:31jobs, or almost all the jobs — in some cases, literally all of the jobs.
06:37And now it's 284,000 native-born jobs here — people born in our country, 284,000 — while
06:47foreign-born workers went down by 87,000.
06:50First time that's happened in a long time.
06:53So these are incredible numbers.
06:55And they're — they're very early.
06:57I mean, you know, we're here for five weeks.
07:00But we have been talking about it since the big win in November — November 5th.
07:06So a lot of these people, they listen to us speak and they say, well, I'm going to gear
07:11up.
07:12And they're gearing up.
07:13And so they've been gearing up.
07:14They've had a little time.
07:15It's not just — it's not just five weeks.
07:17It's five weeks, plus a few months.
07:19And they are — you know, they put it into effect pretty quickly.
07:22They have confidence that I'm — what I'm saying is going to happen.
07:26So with that, I'd like to ask a highly respected gentleman, Kevin Hassett.
07:29He's been with us for a long time, and he's been right about a lot.
07:33We had the greatest economy in history in the first term, and Kevin was a big part of
07:38it.
07:39So, Kevin, could you maybe give a little description, please?
07:41Yeah, thank you very much, Mr. Trump.
07:43I think that the three things that you emphasized during the campaign is that you wanted to
07:46create domestic, high-paying manufacturing jobs, that you wanted to end wasteful government
07:51spending and reduce the unproductive government workers, and in fact, unleash them into the
07:56private economy where they could be more productive, and to create jobs for Americans.
08:00A lot of people said that if you deported illegals, that employment would go down because
08:05no one — no Americans would take those jobs.
08:06And if you look, 280,000 American-born folks were hired.
08:11Manufacturing jobs are going up.
08:13And this is just out of the expectation of your future policies, really, sir.
08:17It's in April when your Reciprocal Trade Act is expected to happen.
08:19The tax cuts haven't passed yet.
08:21And so people are clearly expecting the golden age.
08:23And if you want to forecast the future numbers, everybody, just keep in mind that President
08:27Trump has already gotten us $1.7 trillion in commitments of new factories.
08:32And those haven't even happened yet.
08:33Those aren't even in the numbers.
08:34And so I expect that this is going to be a glimpse of a golden age to come, sir.
08:39Thank you very much.
08:41One other thing.
08:42In Canada, you know, we find that they're charging us over 200 percent for dairy products.
08:48You know about that.
08:50And when I left, we had that well taken care of.
08:52But under Biden, they just kept raising it.
08:55Very difficult to deal with, the Canadian representatives — 250 percent for dairy
09:01products.
09:02Tariff.
09:03So, where do you hear that?
09:04You don't hear that.
09:06They have a tremendously high tariff — I'll give you the exact numbers in a little while
09:12coming out — on lumber.
09:15So they sell us lumber.
09:16They have a tremendous tariff.
09:18They make it impossible for us to sell lumber or dairy products into Canada.
09:25But our numbers are a tiny fraction of that, almost non-existent.
09:31And what we're doing is freeing up our forests from the environmental nonsense that they
09:35put on them.
09:37So we cut down a tree.
09:38And we have to cut down trees in order to build the firewalls.
09:41And those trees are sold.
09:42But we're going to — we're freeing it up on an emergency basis because Canada has been
09:47ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and for dairy products — 250 percent.
09:55Nobody ever talks about that.
09:57250 percent tariff, which is taking advantage of our farmers.
10:01So that's not going to happen anymore.
10:03We're going to be — they'll be met with the exact same tariff unless they drop it.
10:09And that's what reciprocal means.
10:11And we may do it as early as today, or we'll wait until Monday or Tuesday.
10:16But that's what we're going to do.
10:17We're going to charge the same thing.
10:18It's not fair.
10:19It never has been fair.
10:21And they've treated our farmers badly.
10:22Look, our country has been ripped off by everybody.
10:25That stops now.
10:27I had it stopped in the — my first term.
10:31And we're going to really stop it now because this is — this has been very unfair.
10:36Our company from — our country, from an economic standpoint, a financial standpoint,
10:41and a trade standpoint, has been absolutely ripped off by almost every country in the
10:48world — Canada, Mexico.
10:52And then you just go right down the line.
10:54India charges us massive tariffs.
10:56Massive.
10:57You can't even sell anything into India.
10:59It's almost — it's almost restrictive.
11:01It is restrictive.
11:02You know, we do very little business inside.
11:05They've agreed — by the way, they want to cut their tariffs way down now because somebody
11:09is finally exposing them for what they've done.
11:11And same thing with China.
11:13Same thing with a lot of other countries.
11:15And the EU has been a terrible abuser of this country.
11:18I mean, the EU was formulated in order to take advantage of the United States, and they
11:23have taken it, but they're not taking advantage when I'm in charge.
11:26So sometimes you'll hear some negative things.
11:29It's always from outside countries.
11:31America will be very strong.
11:32And, you know, if I'm a foreign country, they're going to do fine.
11:37But they can't do like they used to do because we're going to bring back our business into
11:43this country.
11:44We need it from a job standpoint.
11:46We need it from even just a psychological standpoint.
11:49Think of it — 90,000 factories are gone since the beginning of NAFTA.
11:54So we're not going to have that.
11:55And we're going to see them build it back.
11:57Now, we have — we've already had five major automobile companies — first time you've
12:04heard this in a long time, since my first term, actually — where we were really rocking
12:09and rolling.
12:10And then Biden came in, and he stopped everything like such a stupid thing to do.
12:15Not even a believable thing.
12:17But we have many auto plants now coming in.
12:20We have big chip plants.
12:21We have the best — the biggest chip company in the world.
12:23Most powerful — probably one of the most powerful companies in the world.
12:27Wouldn't you say, Kevin?
12:28And he's coming in, and they're building one of the largest chip plants in the world.
12:33That'll be done in Arizona — mostly in Arizona.
12:38And that'll give us a big percentage.
12:39One plant will give us a big percentage of the chip market, something we have very little
12:43of.
12:45We used to have Intel, and Intel was run by a man named Andy Grove.
12:49And Andy Grove was a tough, smart guy.
12:52I used to read about him when I was a young man, and he did an incredible job.
12:56He really dominated the chip business.
12:59And then he died, and I guess they had a series of people that didn't know what the hell
13:02they were doing.
13:03And we gradually lost the chip business, and now it's almost exclusively in Taiwan.
13:09They stole it from us.
13:10They took it from us.
13:11And I don't blame them.
13:13I give them credit.
13:14I don't blame the people that were sitting in this seat, because they allowed it to happen.
13:18We could have protected that so easily.
13:20So we had the chip business, and now it's all in Taiwan.
13:24Almost exclusively — a little bit in South Korea, but mostly in Taiwan.
13:28And it's very important.
13:29Everything you do, everything you touch is now about chips.
13:32The brake of a car — cars have chips all over the place.
13:35I was reading an article the other day where they talk about the brakes of a car are loaded
13:40up with chips.
13:41Who would think that a brake has a chip in it?
13:44But it's all about chips.
13:46So that was a big thing.
13:48And they'll be investing hundreds of billions of dollars in this country, and we'll be taking
13:52back a big, big portion of that industry.
13:55We have others coming in, too.
13:57But a lot of car manufacturers are coming in, and they're coming in fast.
14:00And one of the reasons you see these numbers — and again, Kevin said it, and I said it
14:04a little bit — but the fact that they know I won the election.
14:09So after I was President-elect, they assumed that I was going to do what I said, because
14:13they do what I said.
14:15And so these numbers really reflect a lot of the — a lot of things that took place
14:19since November 5th.
14:21Right?
14:22So, Kevin, thank you very much.
14:23Great job.
14:24Any questions?
14:25The Press.
14:26Mr. President, how concerned are you that the large-scale federal government layoffs
14:27will weaken the labor market?
14:28How concerned are you?
14:29The large-scale fentanyl what?
14:30The federal government layoffs will impact the labor market — will weaken the labor
14:31market.
14:32Oh.
14:33No, I think the labor market is going to be fantastic, but it's going to have high-paying
14:42manufacturing jobs as opposed to government jobs.
14:45We had too many people in government.
14:47You can't just do that.
14:48We had many, many, too many.
14:50This is for 40 years, you know.
14:53This isn't just now.
14:54This built up and got worse and worse, and they just hire more and more people.
14:59You look at Department of Education, it seems like so many buildings — I ride by, it says
15:04Department of Education.
15:05They're all over the place.
15:07And we don't even want it.
15:08We want the education to be given by the states.
15:11It'll be much better.
15:12It'll be — it'll move us to the top of the list from the bottom of the list and actually
15:17save us money.
15:18But it's too important to even talk about the money.
15:20It'll save us a lot of money, but we don't want that.
15:23We want education to be given.
15:25So you go to Iowa and Indiana and Idaho and all these places that are so well run, they're
15:33going to be producing education that will be the equivalent of — like, Denmark is
15:39one, Norway, Sweden.
15:41Actually, China is one of the better in terms of education, and so we can't blame size anymore.
15:47You know, China is 1.4 billion people, but they're very high on their list.
15:52The one thing we're doing well on — we're number one on the list — is cost per pupil.
15:56We spend more money than any other country in the world, by far.
16:02So I jokingly say the one thing we do well on is the cost.
16:05We spend more money, and yet we're toward the bottom of the list.
16:08Yeah.
16:09Q Mr. President, I want to ask you the joint address.
16:10Millions of Americans watched your joint address earlier this week, where you warned that there
16:13could be a little disturbance that Americans could feel as a function of these taxes — these
16:18tariffs.
16:19What kind of disturbance are you willing to accept in the near term as a function of that?
16:23And to set expectations, how long should Americans expect things to cost a bit more?
16:28THE PRESIDENT Well, so far, Peter, there hasn't been very
16:30much because these numbers are coming out.
16:33We're here for just a little over four weeks.
16:36And these are fantastic numbers.
16:38I was watching some of the reports this morning.
16:40They were surprised.
16:41There could be some disturbance, a little bit of disturbance.
16:44I solved a little bit of that because I have respect for our auto companies, and I gave
16:49them a little bit of a one-month reprieve because it was — it was unfair, although
16:55I'm sure they'll take advantage of it.
16:57I see they're driving a lot of cars into the U.S. to try and avoid the tariffs and,
17:01you know, taking advantage of it a little bit.
17:03But they were — they called me, they asked me, they said, could they have a little bit
17:09of help?
17:10And I decided, you know, they're American companies, USMCA, and I let them have that.
17:16But this really kicks in.
17:18The reciprocal, as you know, kicks in on, let's see, I guess the second.
17:24And I wanted it to be the first so badly.
17:26It just didn't want to be on April Fool's Day.
17:29So I made it the second.
17:30That's going to cost a lot of money.
17:31That one day is going to cost a lot of money, but that's okay.
17:35But I don't see it.
17:36I don't see anything.
17:37I see good reports.
17:38I think — I think we're going to have good numbers from the beginning.
17:40Now, globalists won't love this because this brings jobs back to America.
17:44So if they're coming back to America, maybe you'll lose some in other parts of the world.
17:50But the other parts of the world have done very well, and they'll continue to do very
17:53well.
17:54But I think the United States is going to be doing record business.
17:57We'll bring a lot of those 90,000 factories that have been lost over the last number of
18:02years.
18:03It's been — it's hard to believe — 90,000 — think of what 90,000 is — 90,000 plants
18:08and factories are gone.
18:09We're going to bring back many of those plants and factories.
18:12One day, the tariffs are on.
18:13The next day, they're off right now.
18:14The markets, as you know well, prefer stability.
18:15Are you done going forward with the pauses and the car bouts?
18:16Is that it for those?
18:17There'll always be changes and adjustments.
18:18And, you know, you can't just — I could have, for instance, told the American car
18:19companies, no, I'm not going to give you anything.
18:20And then you wouldn't have had to say, well, they're getting a little extra.
18:21It's just a little bit of a one-month reprieve.
18:22They're very happy about what's happening.
18:23They won't have to go across borders.
18:24And you see the Zimbabweans.
18:25They're very happy about what's happening.
18:26They're very happy about what's happening.
18:27They're very happy about what's happening.
18:28We don't want that.
18:29We want it made here.
18:30But there'll always be some modifications.
18:31I mean, if you have a wall in front of you, sometimes you have to go around the wall instead
18:32of through it.
18:33But I think very little.
18:34I think very little.
18:35I think very little.
18:36I think very little.
18:37I think very little.
18:38I think very little.
18:39I think very little.
18:40I think very little.
18:41I think very little.
18:42I think very little.
18:43I think very little.
18:44I think very little.
18:45I think very little.
18:46I think very little.
18:47I think very little.
18:48I think very little.
18:49I think very little.
18:50I think very little.
18:51I think very little.
18:52I think very little.
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18:55I think very little.
18:56I think very little.
18:57I think very little.
18:58I think very little.
18:59But I think very little.
19:00I think very little.
19:01On occasion, if we can do something, we want to help companies.
19:03We want to help companies create jobs.
19:05So I could have left that and you wouldn't have had a minor change.
19:10Instead, I was asked by the major, the real majors, the big majors, if they could do this.
19:16And I said, yeah, I'll do it.
19:17I want you to produce a lot of jobs.
19:19And numerous of the people, actually all of the people I spoke to have already been, they're
19:24very much on the way to already doing it.
19:27And that's why you have auto jobs increase.
19:29And the man, I don't know him, Sean Fane, I don't know him.
19:34And I did great, as you know, with the autoworkers, with the Teamsters, with unions.
19:38I did fantastically well.
19:39Best numbers ever by a Republican.
19:42And I have a lot of respect for those people.
19:44But Sean Fane, who I don't know, but wasn't a supporter, although the autoworkers were
19:51big supporters.
19:52I watched him last night and he said, Donald Trump is absolutely right on tariffs.
19:59He said what he's doing on tariffs is an incredible thing.
20:03And it's about time somebody had the guts to do it because we're going to save auto
20:07manufacturing.
20:08And I said to people when I was campaigning, you're going to have so many auto jobs, you're
20:12not going to believe what's going to happen.
20:13We're going to load up Michigan.
20:14I won the state of Michigan, as you know, and part of the reason I won it was I got
20:19a lot of autoworkers that voted for me, Detroit, et cetera.
20:22But I think people are going to be very surprised.
20:24Yes.
20:25Thank you, Mr. President.
20:26You mentioned in your remarks chips manufacturing, how a significant percentage is now in Taiwan.
20:31You also mentioned it in your address to Congress and you called on Congress to overturn the
20:37Chips Act, which had bipartisan support in the last Congress.
20:41Why would you like to see this particular law overturned?
20:45Because it's hundreds of billions of dollars and it's just a waste of money.
20:48Now, some people have already taken the money and used it.
20:51Actually, it's very hard to qualify because they go by race, they go by gender, they go
20:56by all sorts of things.
20:59Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
21:00You won't be able to find those people.
21:03So I don't even think anybody can qualify.
21:05They have so many different categories in order to qualify.
21:09You have to have so many of a certain race, a certain gender, a certain this, a certain.
21:14And it's I don't think they can qualify, but if they take the money, they're better qualified
21:19because they'll be watching them.
21:20But it's a tremendous waste of money.
21:22I didn't give the great the greatest chip company in the world, one of the greatest
21:26companies.
21:27I didn't give him 10 cents.
21:28They came here because of tariffs, because they didn't want to pay the tariffs.
21:31And they also came here because they like the results of the election, because they
21:35know that I'm very pro business and pro jobs.
21:38I mean, I'm pro business, not for business sake.
21:41I'm pro business because of jobs, because business is producing the jobs.
21:45Yeah.
21:46I believe him.
21:47I believe him.
21:48I think we're doing very well with Russia.
22:01But right now they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine and Ukraine.
22:05I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine.
22:09And they don't have the cards.
22:11They don't have the cards.
22:13As you know, we're meeting in Saudi Arabia on sometime next week early.
22:19And we're talking.
22:20Would I find that in terms of getting a final settlement?
22:25It may be easier dealing with Russia, which is surprising because they have all the cards.
22:29I mean, and they're bombing the hell out of them right now.
22:33And I put a statement in a very strong statement.
22:35Can't do that.
22:36Can't do that.
22:37But we're trying to we're trying to help them.
22:39And Ukraine has to get on the ball and get a job done.
22:42Michael, could you come up here?
22:43I see Michael back there.
22:44Good.
22:45I'm glad he's traveling all over the world.
22:48I just saw him come in the door.
22:50Could you give a little definition of what's going on, please?
22:54Sure.
22:55Well, the president has been crystal clear and he's been clear to all sides.
22:58The fighting has to stop.
23:00Both sides need to get get to the table.
23:03We had a good engagement.
23:05Both leaders have said only President Trump could do so and only he has been able to do
23:12so.
23:13We had an initial engagement with the Russians.
23:14The Ukrainians had a great opportunity to bind our economies together through that mineral
23:20deal.
23:21Unfortunately, that didn't go so well.
23:25But we think we're going to get things back on track.
23:28Secretary Rubio, myself and the Ukrainian delegation will be meeting in Saudi Arabia
23:36next week to get these talks back on track, get the ceasefire in place and drive peace
23:41home under President Trump's leadership.
23:44I think both parties want to settle.
23:47I think if I wasn't president, this war would have had no chance of settlement, zero chance.
23:55But I think we're going to get it settled and stopped.
23:57We got to stop.
23:58They're losing on average 2,000 soldiers a week.
24:01That's a lot of soldiers.
24:02Do you agree, Peter?
24:03It's a lot of soldiers on both sides.
24:04I agree.
24:05Do you, Mr. President, think that Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the U.S. pause
24:11right now on intelligence and military aid to Ukraine?
24:15I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do.
24:17I think he's I think he wants to get it stopped and settled.
24:22And I think he's hitting them harder than than he's been hitting them.
24:27And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now.
24:31He wants to get it ended.
24:32And I think Ukraine wants to get it ended.
24:35But I don't see it.
24:36It's crazy.
24:37They're taking tremendous punishment.
24:39I don't quite get it.
24:41But I suspect, Michael, he probably wants to get it ended.
24:45He does, Mr. President.
24:46The Russians are taking incredible losses on the front, as the president has said.
24:50This is a meat grinder of people, of material, of national treasure.
24:56And no one else has any solutions except to let this war continue forever.
25:00But I'll add, the president has had multiple conversations and a visit from President Macron
25:06of France, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom.
25:09We have the NATO Secretary General coming next week.
25:12We have this meeting with the Ukrainians.
25:15We've had it with the Russians.
25:16All of this in the president's first month and his leadership.
25:19We will engage in the shuttle diplomacy, and we will continue to use his leadership and
25:24what leverage we have to get both sides of the peace table.
25:27It's not going to be easy, but President Trump will have to make it happen.
25:30This war should have never happened.
25:31It would have never happened if I were president.
25:33But it did happen.
25:34So a lot of other things shouldn't have happened, too.
25:37We shouldn't have 21 million people pouring into our country through open borders, many
25:41of whom are criminals, very bad criminals, including murderers, thousands of murderers.
25:47Many killed far more than one person, and they're roaming our streets.
25:51But Tom Holman and Kristi Noem are doing an incredible job, and we're getting them
25:55out of here.
25:56And we'll get them out.
25:57We'll get them all out.
25:59But all these things shouldn't have happened.
26:01We shouldn't have inflation.
26:02We shouldn't have had this horrible inflation where the prices have gone up.
26:06Look at eggs.
26:08So we're doing a good job.
26:09We're doing a good job.
26:10Mr. President, in regards to the pause on military assistance to Ukraine, you put out
26:11on your social media post today that Russia is pounding Ukraine.
26:22That's right.
26:23Why not provide Ukraine with air defenses?
26:24And what happens, Mr. President, when Ukraine runs out of the Patriot missile battles?
26:30Well, because you — yeah, yeah.
26:31Good question.
26:32Because I have to know that they want to settle.
26:34I don't know that they want to settle.
26:35If they don't want to settle, we're out of there.
26:39Because we want them to settle.
26:41And I'm doing it to stop debt.
26:44More important than anything else.
26:45Secondarily, way down the line is the money.
26:48So we're in for $350 billion, and Europe is in for $100 billion.
26:53They should be in for the same or more than us.
26:55And, you know, I watched over the last week or so what's going on in Europe.
27:01This thing could end up in World War III if we don't get it settled.
27:05This could really end up in a World War III.
27:07We got to get it settled.
27:08Mr. President, on Iran, how confident are you that the Iranians will negotiate with
27:13you?
27:14And is Israel on board with this hostage?
27:16Yeah, I saw the hostages the other day.
27:18They came in — people that were not young.
27:22Some young and some older, much older.
27:26And they gave — it was hard for them to do it, actually.
27:30They gave statements as to what happened.
27:33I was asking, what happened?
27:34How was it?
27:35I said, did you see anybody in there that was kind, like, out of the hundreds of people
27:41that you were seeing in Hamas?
27:44Did some of them wink at you and say, don't worry, you're going to be okay, or give you
27:47a piece of bread, or — no.
27:50I said, were there any people that were, like, kind?
27:53I was shocked.
27:54The answer was nobody.
27:55There was nobody.
27:56Just the opposite.
27:57They'd be slapped and punched.
28:00One man broke his ribs.
28:01He couldn't breathe for a month.
28:04It was brutal.
28:06I was so surprised.
28:07Could you think there'd be a couple of people that would be kind, that would say, you're
28:12going to be okay?
28:13But they had none of that.
28:15It's pretty amazing.
28:16Brian?
28:17Thank you, Mr. President.
28:18He's a kind person.
28:19Well, according to —
28:20Although not to — not to Zelensky, he wasn't.
28:24Well, you know, that's another topic.
28:26But to Trump, he's been good.
28:27Yeah.
28:28Go ahead, Brian.
28:29Nice tie, by the way.
28:32I like yours, too.
28:33Two questions.
28:34One on peace.
28:35I don't think any other European countries are offering a peace deal.
28:38It seems like no one's come to the table for peace except for you.
28:44Yeah.
28:46It's a very good question.
28:48Sometimes questions aren't answerable.
28:51They're in a very unusual position.
28:54They don't know how to end the war.
28:56I think I do know how to end the war.
28:59Despite the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, I've always had a good relationship with Putin.
29:05And you know, he wants to end the war.
29:08He wants to end it.
29:10And I think he's going to be more generous than he has to be.
29:13And that's pretty good.
29:15That means a lot of good things.
29:18Because frankly, you could have made a great deal if you — if this war never started,
29:22you could have made a great deal.
29:24I don't know that anything would have had to be given up.
29:26This was not a war that was going to start, Brian.
29:29And it didn't start.
29:30For four years, it — you know, somebody said, well, how do we know that?
29:33Well, for four years, it didn't start.
29:35I used to speak to Vladimir about it.
29:38I used to speak to him about it at length.
29:39It was the apple of his eye.
29:40But there was no way he was going in.
29:42And he knew that, you know, there were going to be consequences.
29:46But it did start.
29:48I mean, think of — think of what happened.
29:52Inflation.
29:53You have the war with Ukraine and Russia.
29:55That wouldn't have happened.
29:56October 7th would have never happened.
29:58Israel, they had no money.
30:00Iran had no money.
30:01Iran was stone-cold broke.
30:05And now they have a lot of money.
30:09But that's going to be the next thing you'll be talking about, is Iran — what's going
30:12to happen with Iran.
30:13And there'll be some interesting days ahead.
30:15That's all I can tell you.
30:16You know, we're down to final strokes with Iran.
30:18That's going to be an interesting time.
30:21And we'll see what happens.
30:23But we're down to the final moments.
30:27We're at final moments.
30:28You can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
30:32I think that I would have had a deal within one month after the rigged election of 2020.
30:38They were all set to make a deal.
30:40And then when I lost, they saw this person who's a stupid person — very stupid person
30:44— and they said, let's not make a deal.
30:47And they were right.
30:48He took the sanctions off.
30:49They became rich under Biden.
30:52They went from having no money to having $300 billion.
30:57All in a short period.
30:58It's oil.
30:59Oil builds up fast.
31:00It's a nice — nice living if you have a nice oil well.
31:03And they do.
31:04They have a lot of nice oil wells, right?
31:06So anyway, so it's — it's going to be a big thing.
31:09It's an interesting time in the history of the world.
31:13But we have a situation with Iran that something is going to happen very soon.
31:21Very, very soon.
31:22You'll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess.
31:24And hopefully we can have a peace deal.
31:26You know, I'm not — I'm not speaking out of strength or weakness.
31:30I'm just saying I'd rather see a peace deal than the other.
31:34But the other will solve the problem.
31:35Mr. President, your allies — your allies are calling on you to pardon Derek Chauvin.
31:40Are you considering pardoning Derek Chauvin?
31:42No.
31:43I haven't even heard about it.
31:44No.
31:45Mr. President, on peace —
31:46I haven't heard that.
31:47In the first term, you may recall, I broke the news that you were nominated for the Nobel
31:52Peace Prize.
31:53And the reason for that was the work that you led on the Abraham Accords.
31:58I spoke yesterday with the member of parliament, the Norwegian parliament, that nominated you.
32:03And he said what the Nobel Committee is looking for from you, Mr. President, is security guarantees
32:12for Ukraine.
32:13Is that a possibility, Mr. President?
32:16So, before I even think about that, I want to settle the war, get it finished.
32:22Because if I'm not here, nobody is going to settle it.
32:25And President Macron has said that, and every president — everybody has said that.
32:29The prime ministers and presidents were pushing very hard.
32:33That's all I'm thinking about now.
32:35As far as the question about security later, that's the easy part.
32:40The hard part is getting it settled.
32:42We got to get them.
32:43We're losing 2,000 human beings every week.
32:48More than that, actually — 2,000 nice, young — although they're getting older because
32:54they're drafting much older now.
32:57In the case of one country, much older, because a lot of the young people have been killed.
33:02It's very sad, and I'd like to see if I could stop that.
33:05And I'd like to also see if we could stop making these massive payments from the United
33:10States.
33:11I mean, Biden gave away money like it was — like it was water, with no — anything.
33:16Got nothing for it.
33:17Europe — Europe did it in the form of a loan.
33:20They get their money back.
33:21We don't.
33:22So, that's how we came up with the rare-earth deal.
33:26But we started, you know, behind the eight ball.
33:29He could have — he could have gone to Europe.
33:30He could have said, Come on, you got to put up money with us.
33:32You got to put up money with us.
33:34But he never did that.
33:35They just kept handing money out because he was grossly incompetent.
33:39All right, thank you very much, everybody.