Trump Takes Multiple Questions From Reporters During Tour Of Kennedy Center

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President Trump speaks to reporters during his tour of the Kennedy Center.

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00:30You

01:00So, thank you very much, we're here to have our first board meeting

01:10Kennedy Center and it's in tremendous disrepair

01:14As is a lot of the rest of our country most of it because of bad management

01:20This is a shame what what watched and witnessed they spent a fortune

01:26250 million dollars

01:29And they built these rooms that nobody's going to use rooms underground

01:33And I've often wondered what are the big cubes that they have outside that block the view

01:38The cubes with the door in them so the people can get down to rooms that nobody's in the years

01:43And it's a shame. It's a shame. The other thing is

01:48We're gonna have a little problem with some people that work here

01:52We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today and because of the cost in the union structure

01:58For him to sing a song just for the board. It's the board meeting. I was going to cost

02:04$30,000 that doesn't sound too good. They wanted $30,000 to move a piano

02:09So you can't have that so we're gonna we're gonna fix it up, but it's really emblematic of our country

02:17But the Kennedy Center's you look at the columns outside you look at and they're supposed to be covered by

02:23Something whether it's marble or whatever granite they were never covered they were painted but

02:30Bring it into more modern times a lot of money has been given to it and the money has not been properly spent

02:36They built rooms

02:38Underground with no windows. No nothing

02:41That will not be used ever. You're not going to have people use them

02:44Such a waste of money such a terrible waste, but we'll make it. We'll bring it back

02:49We'll make it great again, but it is so much like what I'm witnessing in other places. We have open borders

02:55We have men playing in women's sports. It's all the same thing

02:59It's all the same mentality and thinking so I'm very disappointed when I look around

03:04the bottom line it has tremendous potential and we'll work with Congress as you know, it's

03:11very public a very public facility and

03:14We'll do what has to be done. We'll be

03:16Having a meeting with the speaker in the not-too-distant future. I think it's important to save this

03:22Structure in this building. I think maybe we close up some of the work that's been done and built

03:27Because it was done terribly. It was done terribly. The concept was very bad

03:40This represents a very important part of DC and actually our country

03:46and I think it's important to make sure that our country is

03:50In good shape and is represented. Well when people look at this, I've been hearing for a long time

03:56That they come here and they're very disappointed

03:59When they come here, I want them to be excited. We're bringing a big move on to Washington DC

04:04We're going to stop the crime. We actually worked with the mayor. We took down a lot of tents

04:09They were all over the place in front of the State Department and they did a good job of that

04:13I was very happy with what the mayor did

04:15She was able to get him out quickly as at my direction and at the direction of the administration

04:22But we're cleaning up Washington DC. This is a big part of Washington, DC

04:36Yeah, I'd say come here and see a show I was never a big fan of I never liked Hamilton very much and

04:44I never liked it, but

04:46We are gonna have some really good shows

04:49I would say this come here and watch it and you'll see over a period of time

04:54It'll improve very greatly physically and we're going to get some very good shows the thing that does well a Broadway hits

05:01We have some beauty. I guess we have Les Mis coming and we have some others but the Broadway hits have done very well

05:09So I'm going to spend some time. We have a good board

05:12In the meantime, we're running the country and we're running it. Well, we have

05:16Tremendous things to report tomorrow. I'm speaking with President Putin of Russia

05:21To save some soldiers who are in deep trouble. They're captured. Essentially. They're

05:27Surrounded by Russian soldiers. So I give it to you a lot of different

05:31I give you a lot of different things in one news conference, but it's a big deal. They're surrounded by

05:36Russian soldiers and I believe it was if it wasn't for me, they would be

05:42They wouldn't be here any longer. I was able to get them not to do anything at this moment

05:47But it's a bad situation in Russia and it's a bad situation in Ukraine. What's happening in Ukraine is not good

05:55But we're going to see if we can work a peace

05:58Agreement a ceasefire and peace and I think we'll be able to do it. I'm speaking to President Putin tomorrow morning. Yes

06:07Yeah

06:18No, not at all, no

06:20Really the opposite. I think it was

06:23Appreciated and we have to understand and you have to understand that if I see somebody doing something bad

06:29That's going to cause a lot of death. The only reason I'm involved and this is Russia and Ukraine

06:35But a lot of people to humanity I'm involved for humanity a lot of people are being killed over there and

06:42We had to get Ukraine to

06:44Do the right thing. It was not an easy situation. You've got to see a little glimpse at the Oval Office

06:51But I think they're doing the right thing right now and we're trying to get a peace agreement done

06:55We want to get a ceasefire and then a peace agreement

07:00Who you in

07:04You

07:11So

07:12We're going to see how it all works out

07:16This was Joe Biden's deal, this isn't Trump's deal. This is Joe Biden's deal

07:22He gave three hundred and fifty billion dollars to Ukraine and he shouldn't have done it. It wasn't secured

07:28Europe gave a hundred billion dollars that it was in the form of a loan. They get their money back and

07:34They should they should actually have much more in it than us

07:37But Joe Biden was grossly incompetent and it's a shame what they did three hundred and fifty billion dollars

07:44We could have rebuilt our entire Navy for that kind of money

07:47Well, we have done that with many I would say if there are 18 with Hunter Biden that will be something I look at this afternoon

07:54Okay, sir. I just heard about it for the first time. So you have 18 Secret Service

08:00Going where is he exactly in South Africa in South Africa in South Africa, you know is

08:07a

08:09big part of the

08:11Going where is he exactly in South Africa in South Africa in South Africa, you know is

08:18On a watch list, you know that

08:20Because what they're doing to people is brutal and I've stopped having money go to South Africa, you know that billions of dollars

08:28So he's in South Africa

08:30That's very interesting. All right, I'm going to take a look at that. Thank you

08:40I

08:56We're gonna take a look I love Wichita, you know, I got big votes there we won that state by a lot

09:02We'll take a look at that. What did this happen?

09:05I

09:08Think it's a terrible thing and this was a Catholic Church. I'm gonna take a look at

09:16Thank you very much everybody

09:34You

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