Trump announces F-47 as part of the Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter platform. Designed to replace the F-22, the F-47 will feature advanced stealth, drone integration, and extended range. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls it a “historic investment” in air power. Air Force Gen. Allvin emphasizes its adaptability and superior technology. Trump promises the F-47 will be operational during his administration.
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00:00I just wanted to start by saying we had a meeting
00:03yesterday on the Department of Education,
00:05which is being moved.
00:07We're going to educate the children in their states
00:10where they can get a proper education.
00:13The numbers are horrible the way it is.
00:15And we're going to make a move that's very big.
00:18I don't think it's even risky a little bit.
00:20I think it's going to be amazing.
00:22It should have been done years ago.
00:24They've been talking about doing it for many years,
00:26but nobody ever got it off.
00:28But we did.
00:30And there was great excitement and great acceptance of it
00:34by almost everybody,
00:36including a lot of Democrats, actually.
00:38I do want to say that I've decided that the SBA,
00:42the Small Business Administration,
00:44headed by Kelly Loeffler, who's a terrific person,
00:47will handle all of the student loan portfolio.
00:51We have a portfolio that's very large, lots of loans.
00:56Tens of thousands of loans.
00:58It's a pretty complicated deal.
01:00And that's coming out of the Department of Education
01:04immediately, and it's going to be headed up
01:05by Kelly Loeffler and SBA.
01:07And they're all set for it.
01:09They're waiting for it, and it'll be serviced
01:11much better than it has in the past.
01:13It's been a mess.
01:15And also, Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services,
01:18will be handling special needs
01:21and all of the nutrition programs and everything else.
01:24Rather complex, but that's going to be headed
01:28and handled by Health and Human Services.
01:31So I think that'll work out very well.
01:33Those two elements will be taken out
01:35of the Department of Education.
01:37And then all we have to do is get the students
01:40to get guidance from the people that love them
01:43and cherish them, including their parents, by the way,
01:47who will be totally involved in their education,
01:49along with the boards and the governors and the states.
01:52And it's going to be a great situation.
01:54And I guarantee that in a few years from now,
01:58I hope I'm going to be around to see it,
02:00but I think we're going to see a lot of it.
02:02I think that you're going to have tremendous results.
02:04You're going to have results like Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
02:08a lot of the countries that do so well.
02:11I think you're going to have a lot of those results.
02:13If you look at Iowa and Indiana and Idaho,
02:17so many places that run so well.
02:20Florida, Texas, big ones.
02:22You're going to have great education,
02:24much better than it is now at half the cost.
02:28And we're not even doing it as a cost item,
02:30although you will save probably half, maybe more than that.
02:34And you're not going to be at the bottom of the list.
02:36You're going to be much higher. And maybe you'll be —
02:38I will guarantee some of the states
02:40will be at the top of the list.
02:41They'll be comparable or better than these number one,
02:45two, three, four, five countries —
02:46the countries that are in the top five positions.
02:50So that's — to me, it's very exciting.
02:52And it's been received very well.
02:53So I just wanted to tell you about the student loans
02:55and special needs.
02:58But we're here for a reason today that is very exciting.
03:02And I'm thrilled to announce that, at my direction,
03:05the United States Air Force is moving forward
03:08with the world's first sixth-generation fighter jet.
03:11Number six. Sixth generation.
03:14Nothing in the world comes even close to it.
03:18And it'll be known as the F-47.
03:20The generals picked a title, and it's a beautiful number.
03:25F-47.
03:27It's something the likes of which nobody has seen before
03:32in terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet.
03:36There's never been anything even close to it,
03:37from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload.
03:42And this has been in the works for a long period of time.
03:47After a rigorous and thorough competition
03:49between some of America's top aerospace companies,
03:52the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract
03:55for the next-generation air dominance platform to Boeing.
04:01As you know, it was highly competed for.
04:04There was a lot of competition, generals.
04:06And it's been going on for a long time.
04:10Very, very tough competition.
04:11But this plane has produced numbers
04:15that nobody has ever seen before.
04:17The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable,
04:20most lethal aircraft ever built.
04:24An experimental version of the plane
04:26has secretly been flying for almost five years,
04:29and we're confident that it massively overpowers
04:33the capabilities of any other nation.
04:35There's no other nation. We know every other plane.
04:37I've seen every one of them.
04:39And it's not even close. This is a next level.
04:43You know, level five is good. This is level six, they say.
04:46The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth
04:49technology. It's virtually unseeable
04:53and unprecedented power.
04:55It's got the most power of any jet of its kind ever made.
05:01Maneuverability, likewise, is the —
05:04there's never been anything like it,
05:05despite the power and speed.
05:09Its speed is top. It's over two,
05:13which is something that you don't hear very often.
05:16America's enemies will never see it coming.
05:19Hopefully, we won't have to use it for that purpose,
05:21but you have to have it.
05:23And if it ever happens,
05:26they won't know what the hell hit them.
05:29A new fleet of these magnificent planes
05:31will be built in the —
05:33and in the air during my administration
05:35for the next couple of years. It's ready to go.
05:38They've already built much of what has to be built
05:41in terms of production, including the sheds.
05:45We'll ensure that the USA continues to dominate the skies.
05:49We've given an order for a lot.
05:51We can't tell you the price because it would give —
05:53it would give way to some of the technology
05:56and some of the size of the planes — good-sized plane.
06:00This contract also represents a historic investment
06:03in our defense industrial base,
06:04helping to keep America at the cutting edge
06:06of aerospace and technology.
06:09Our allies are calling constantly.
06:11They want to buy them also.
06:13And we'll — certain allies will be selling them,
06:17perhaps toned-down versions.
06:19We like to tone them down about 10 percent,
06:21which probably makes sense because someday,
06:24maybe they're not our allies. Right?
06:26But I would like to ask Secretary Higgseth,
06:29who's doing a fantastic job.
06:30He's really — really been very inspiring in so many ways.
06:35And I must say that before he speaks,
06:38we have had record people wanting to join our military
06:43in the last two and a half months, literally since this —
06:48I think probably since the election, November 5th,
06:51but especially since we came to office.
06:55And since I announced Pete, he's young, he's smart,
06:59he's strong, he loves it. And they love him.
07:01But we've had record numbers of people
07:05wanting to join our military.
07:06Now, if you go back six months, it was the exact opposite.
07:10You had record numbers of people
07:11not wanting to join the military.
07:13Now you have record numbers of people
07:15wanting to be in our military.
07:18And that's a really — that's a great honor.
07:20That shows you we're really on the right track.
07:22So, Pete, maybe say a few words.
07:24Please.
07:25Well, Mr. President, this is a big day.
07:27This is a big day for our warfighters.
07:29This is a big day for our country,
07:31a big day in the world.
07:32The name of this program
07:33is the Next Generation of Air Dominance.
07:37And, Mr. President, because of your leadership,
07:39your clarity, we are going to —
07:42America is going to have generations in the future
07:45of air dominance because of this sixth-generation fighter.
07:51We've had the F-15, we've had the F-16,
07:53the F-18, the F-22, the F-35.
07:56Now we have the F-47,
08:00which sends a very direct, clear message to our ally —
08:03allies that we're not going anywhere,
08:05and to our enemies that we can —
08:07we will be able to project power around the globe,
08:10unimpeded, for generations to come.
08:12Mr. President, this is a gift to my kids and your kids,
08:16to my grandkids and your grandkids.
08:19This is a historic investment in the American military,
08:23in the American industrial base, in American industry
08:26that will help revive the warrior ethos
08:29inside our military, which we're doing,
08:31rebuild our military,
08:32which the previous administration
08:34did not do, by the way, Mr. President.
08:35They paused this program,
08:37and we're prepared to potentially scrap it.
08:39We know this is cheaper, longer-range, and more stealthy.
08:43President Trump said, we're reviving it,
08:44and we're doing it.
08:46And then we are also going to reestablish deterrence.
08:49Under the previous administration,
08:51we looked like fools.
08:53Not anymore.
08:54President Trump has reestablished American leadership.
08:56The F-47 is part of it.
08:59And, Mr. President, thank you for having the courage to do it
09:02and leading the way for all our warfighters.
09:03The President Thank you very much, Pete.
09:05One of the things I will say —
09:06but the generals are going to speak
09:09in just a couple of seconds —
09:10but this plane flies with drones.
09:13It flies with many, many drones — as many as you want.
09:16And it's a technology that's new,
09:19but it doesn't fly by itself.
09:21It flies with many drones.
09:24As many as we want.
09:25And that's something that no other plane can do.
09:28So I'd like to introduce, if I might,
09:30Air Force Chief of Staff General David Alvin
09:33and also General Dale White —
09:35two incredible people that I've known over the years,
09:38but I got to know really well over the last few months.
09:41And would you say a few words, please, General?
09:43General Alvin Thank you very much, Mr. President.
09:44Mr. President, Mr. Secretary,
09:47thank you so much for your unwavering commitment
09:50to our military.
09:52I will say that this is a big day.
09:53This is a big day for our United States Air Force as well.
09:56You know, air dominance is not a birthright,
10:00but it's become synonymous with American air power.
10:03But air dominance needs to be earned every single day.
10:06And since the earliest days of aerial warfare,
10:08brave American airmen have jumped into their machines,
10:11taken to the air, and they've cleared the skies.
10:13And whether that be clearing the skies
10:15so we can rain down destruction on our enemies from above,
10:19or we can clear the path of the ground forces below —
10:22that's been our commitment to the fight,
10:23and that's really been our promise to America.
10:26And with this, F-47, as the crown jewel
10:30in the next-generation air dominance family of systems,
10:33we're going to be able to keep that promise
10:34well into the future.
10:37I also want to thank everyone from industry
10:40and within government, our engineers,
10:42who have worked tirelessly on this program
10:44to bring it where we are right now today.
10:47This shows that American talent, American skill,
10:49and American determination are second to none
10:52because this platform is second to none.
10:55So we believe that this provides more lethality.
10:59It provides more capability, more modernized capability
11:02in a way that is built to adapt.
11:05This, along with our collaborative combat aircraft
11:08the President talked about with drones,
11:10this is allowing us to look into the future
11:13and unlock the magic that is human-machine teaming.
11:17And as we do that, we're going to write
11:18the next generation of modern aerial warfare with this.
11:22This enables us to do this.
11:24The manner in which we put this program together
11:26puts more control in the hands of the government
11:29so we can update and adapt at the speed of relevance,
11:32at the speed of technology,
11:33not at the speed of piranhas.
11:35This is more Air Force.
11:37This is more options for the President.
11:40We say as our mission in the United States Air Force
11:43is to fly, fight, and win air power anytime, anywhere.
11:45If you want to go anywhere, you have to have a platform
11:48that gets you anywhere.
11:49This provides the President options
11:51from the very one end, which is a quick response,
11:55and then we can get right back into fighting stance
11:57without having to deploy troops
11:59that are going to take maybe months and cost more lives.
12:02We can be back in fighting stance
12:03and maybe restore that deterrence,
12:05all the way to decisive victory as part of a joint force
12:07that is the most lethal and capable military
12:10I've ever known in history.
12:11That's what we provide now,
12:13and this allows us to provide it into the future.
12:15It's more deterrence, more capability.
12:18It's what peace through strength
12:20looks like into the future, Mr. President.
12:21That's why we're very proud of that,
12:22and all we can say is,
12:24on behalf of the United States Air Force, let's deliver.
12:27Thank you very much. Thank you, General.
12:29You'd like to say something?
12:31No, sir, I'll just double-check what the Chief said.
12:32He knows what to do.
12:33He's a generational leader.
12:35He knows who the boss is.
12:36That's exactly right.
12:37Your superiority is what it's all about,
12:39and this is what we'll deliver.
12:40That's great. Thank you very much.
12:41Great job. We've worked together long and hard on this,
12:43and this was a big secret.
12:46In fact, we don't show too much of the plane for that reason.
12:48See what we show?
12:51You see how beautiful that is,
12:53but that's just a very small part of it.
12:55Yes, sir.
12:57I wasn't surprised. I was wondering,
12:59how much are you going to show when they came in with that?
13:01Do you see a wheel in the front?
13:03That's about it.
13:05Any questions?
13:07President Trump, 8,000 pages of documents
13:10is a lot to sit through.
13:12Can you just tell us who killed Kennedy?
13:14Well, you know, I was given the task of releasing that
13:19because many presidents have gone through it,
13:21and they haven't released.
13:23And I said, release.
13:25We even released Social Security numbers.
13:27I didn't want anything deleted.
13:29They said, sir, what about Social Security?
13:31People long gone, but they're long gone,
13:33so I can't imagine.
13:34But I said, if you don't delete it, if you do delete it,
13:38we have people who are going to say,
13:39why did you delete it? There's something in it.
13:42So we gave Social Security, and we gave everything.
13:45And the rest is for you to look at, Peter.
13:47You're going to see whether or not you see anything.
13:50But we've given it.
13:51We're doing it with Dr. Martin Luther King, too.
13:54They're preparing all of that.
13:55They're going to release everything.
13:57And whoever else they want.
14:01I mean, you know, we have nothing.
14:03We really have nothing to hide. We shouldn't have.
14:05You know, when a lot of time goes by.
14:08But with the Kennedy files, in particular,
14:10they were going crazy on.
14:13I don't think there's anything that's earth-shattering,
14:17but you'll have to make that determination.
14:19In those, you know, it's 80,000.
14:21It's actually 88,000.
14:22And we have some additional things,
14:24as you know, come out today.
14:27And for that, you can go to the offices,
14:28and you can see whatever you want to see.
14:30Everything is out there, totally open.
14:33The additional stuff is available later on today.
14:36You go over to the offices, and you can have it immediately.
14:40And you'll make a determination.
14:42And on something else, these Trinidad-Aragua guys,
14:45because of your executive order,
14:47they are designated as foreign terrorists.
14:49If ISIS or al Qaeda foreign terrorists
14:52were operating here in the United States,
14:55cops would probably be shooting first
14:58and asking questions later.
15:00And so, what is the difference between terrorists,
15:03between somebody like an ISIS or an al Qaeda operative
15:06versus a MS-13 or Trinidad-Aragua?
15:09Well, these are people that focus
15:11on destroying people in their homes.
15:14They're not as international in that sense.
15:19They're a group of thugs.
15:20They come from Venezuela.
15:21They come from the prisons of Venezuela.
15:24They're very, very dangerous people.
15:27But they didn't look so dangerous
15:28when the guards took care of the situation from El Salvador.
15:33And I want to thank the President.
15:34He's a friend of mine.
15:36He's done a great job.
15:38But I just can't imagine that the Democrats
15:41are taking this issue where they want to have them back.
15:44You know, so now they have men playing in women's sports.
15:48They have transgender for everyone.
15:49They have open borders.
15:50They have all of their crazy policies
15:52that are, I think, 95-5, not 90-10, okay?
15:56And their new policy is,
15:58let's bring Trinidad-Aragua back into our country.
16:02Let's bring the worst.
16:03These are the worst gang members there are.
16:05They looked amazingly frail, though,
16:09by the way they were handled.
16:10It's very amazing.
16:11You know, they weren't, when they were in Colorado,
16:12cutting the fingers off a man
16:14because he made a phone call to the police,
16:16they seemed a lot tougher then than they did
16:19when they were having their head shaved
16:21and they were in shackles.
16:23They're tough people. They're bad people.
16:25We don't want them in our country.
16:26We can't let a judge say that he wants them.
16:29You know, he didn't run for President.
16:30He didn't get much more than 80 million votes.
16:35And we just can't let that happen.
16:36It'd be so bad for our country.
16:39I won on the basis of getting criminals out of our country
16:42that were let in.
16:43It was called unforced error.
16:45They were let in by Biden, incompetently let in,
16:49and let in by the millions, actually.
16:5221 million people.
16:53I believe it's 21 million.
16:55And that's not even including the gotaways.
16:57But these are rough people.
16:59We won them out of our country.
17:00And I won the election based at least partly on that.
17:03And that's a big part, yeah.
17:05And I don't know if you saw this.
17:11Tim Walz is now saying about Trump supporters.
17:14And forgive me, I'm just reading a quote from Tim Walz.
17:16I think I could kick most of their ass.
17:19Oh, boy. He'd be in trouble.
17:20Is there any way to know?
17:22Well, he's a loser. Yeah, I think he's a loser.
17:25He lost an election. He played a part.
17:27You know, usually a Vice President
17:29doesn't play a part, they say. I think Tim played a part.
17:32I think he was so bad that he hurt her.
17:35But she hurt herself, and Joe hurt them both.
17:37They didn't have a great group.
17:40But I would probably put him at the bottom of the group.
17:43Have you heard that Biden wants to get back involved
17:45for Democratic politicians fundraising
17:48and campaigning against your policies?
17:50What do you think of that? I hope so, I hope so.
17:52Mr. President, there are several families.
17:53Mr. President, there are families from some of the people.
17:56I'm with La Nacion, especially from Argentina.
17:58There are families from some of the people
18:00that were on those flights to El Salvador
18:03that claim that they're not criminals,
18:04they're not members of Gendaragua, of MSF-13.
18:09What can you tell them, and what guarantees can you give them
18:13that everyone in those planes were actual criminals,
18:16terrorists, as you said?
18:17Well, I was told that they went through
18:19a very strong vetting process,
18:21and that that will also be continuing in El Salvador.
18:26And if there's anything like that,
18:28we would certainly want to find out.
18:29But these were a bad group.
18:32This was a bad group, and they were in bad areas,
18:34and they were with a lot of other people
18:36that were absolutely killers, murderers,
18:39and people that were really bad,
18:42with the worst records you've ever seen.
18:45But we will continue that process, absolutely.
18:48We don't want to make that kind of a mistake.
18:49Mr. President, is the U.S. planning to give up
18:51the position of NATO Supreme Allied Commander?
18:54And if so, why?
18:56NATO is something that I say.
18:58NATO was gone until I came along.
19:00In fact, the previous Secretary General, very good man.
19:05Both of them are good. The current man is fantastic.
19:08But both of them have said, if it wasn't for Trump,
19:10you wouldn't even have a NATO, because we were paying
19:13the costs of almost all of the countries,
19:16and now they're paying.
19:16I said, we're not going to do this.
19:18We're not going to continue.
19:19You hurt us on trade. You do bad things on trade.
19:22And then on top of it, we're supposed to pay
19:23for your military.
19:25And because of what I did,
19:27hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into NATO
19:29by countries that just weren't paying.
19:31They were delinquent. They weren't paying their bills.
19:34So, NATO is solid. They're strong.
19:38But they have to treat us fairly.
19:41Because, look, without us, NATO is not the same thing.
19:46And I can tell you, I've been having very good discussions,
19:48as you know, with President Zelensky
19:51and with President Putin.
19:52And President Putin will tell you that without
19:54the United States, he wouldn't be worried.
19:59But he is worried when the United States is involved.
20:02And I have to tell you, I've dealt very well
20:05with both gentlemen, and we have —
20:09I think we have the confines of a deal.
20:11I hope we have the confines of a deal.
20:12I'm doing it for two reasons.
20:14Number one — and by far, most importantly —
20:17thousands of young people — and they're not American people,
20:21they're Russian and they're Ukrainian —
20:22are being killed every week. Thousands a week.
20:26And also, the United States has paid,
20:29because of Biden, $350 billion on a war
20:32that should have never happened.
20:34If we had a competent President in this —
20:37sitting right here, that war would have never happened.
20:39It would have absolutely never happened with me.
20:42And it didn't happen. For four years, it didn't happen.
20:44Mr. President, do you think you have the authority,
20:46the power to round up people, deport them,
20:49and then you're under no obligation to a court
20:51to show the evidence against them?
20:53Well, that's what the law says,
20:54and that's what our country needs.
20:56Because we were — unfortunately,
20:59they allowed millions of people to come into our country —
21:02totally unvetted, totally unchecked.
21:04So you ought to ask, do he have the authority
21:06to allow millions of people —
21:07did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable,
21:12have open borders where millions of people
21:14poured into our country,
21:15totally unvetted and totally unchecked,
21:17just as you would say?
21:19And many of those people were criminals.
21:21Many of them were from jails and prisons
21:23and mental institutions and gang members and drug dealers.
21:28And very dangerous people. Many were murderers.
21:30We have 11,088 that we know of murderers they've murdered.
21:34Of that number, at least half killed more than one person.
21:38They're in our country. They're in a location near you.
21:43Biden allowed that to happen to our country.
21:46And it's people that really ran the country.
21:49And the person that operated the auto pen,
21:52I think we ought to find out who that was
21:54because I guess that was the real President.
21:55So when you ask me if we have the authority,
21:58did Biden have the authority to allow millions of people
22:01to come into our country?
22:02Many of these people — hardened criminals
22:05at the top of the line
22:06who have caused tremendous damage in our country.
22:10You see them in New York City fighting with our police.
22:12I mean, literally having fistfights
22:14in the street with our police.
22:15These are tough, hard criminals.
22:18Many of them came out of jails.
22:20And not just South America, from all over the world.
22:22They came out of — from Africa, from the Congo.
22:25They came out from Asia.
22:27Not just South America, but many from South America.
22:30These are hard, tough criminals, and we have to get them out.
22:34And a judge sitting behind a bench
22:36someplace got a nice appointment.
22:40You can't take that away from the people that are responsible.
22:42Now, in this case, Marco Rubio
22:44has a lot of big decisions to make.
22:47And he's a fantastic person, a great man.
22:50I think he'll be our best —
22:52I think he has a chance to be our best Secretary of State.
22:56He's been doing incredible.
22:57He works so hard. He's stopped —
22:59he's gone to so many different countries already.
23:02And he's got the authority to get bad people
23:04out of our country.
23:06And you can't stop that with a judge sitting behind a bench
23:09that has no idea what goes on,
23:11who happens to be a radical left lunatic.
23:13Do you think the judiciary is going to be coming down on him?
23:16Do you think the judiciary is going to be coming down on him?
23:18You guys are denying this New York Times report
23:21that Elon Musk was going to be shown a 20-
23:24to 30-page presentation
23:25about a theoretical war plan against China.
23:29Why not just show it to Elon?
23:31Because I don't want to show it to anybody.
23:34You know, you're talking about a potential war with China.
23:37Now, I deal with these people all the time,
23:41and I'm dealing with Pete.
23:42I'm dealing with these gentlemen
23:43on numerous different airplane purchases,
23:46and I think they're all going to be great.
23:48But I don't want other people seeing —
23:50anybody seeing potential war with China.
23:54We don't want to have a potential war with China.
23:56But I can tell you, if we did,
23:57we're very well equipped to handle it.
23:59But I don't want to show that to anybody.
24:01But certainly, you wouldn't show it to a businessman
24:03who is helping us so much. He's a great patriot.
24:06He's taking — he's paying a big price
24:08for helping us cut costs, and he's doing a great job.
24:11He's finding tremendous waste, fraud, and abuse.
24:14But I certainly wouldn't want — you know,
24:16Elon has businesses in China,
24:19and he would be susceptible, perhaps, to that.
24:21But it was such a fake story.
24:23The New York Times is just as fake as CNN and MSDNC.
24:27And anybody who read that story — people laughed at that story.
24:31Who would do such a thing?
24:33And the first thing I did is I called Suzy and I called Pete.
24:38I said, Is there any truth to that?
24:39And they said, It's ridiculous.
24:42Now, he's over there to talk about costs.
24:44You might want to address that, Pete.
24:45But Elon was over there today to address costs.
24:50Doge. A thing called Doge, which you've heard about, Pete.
24:53That's exactly right, Mr. President.
24:54You pointed out it was a fake story.
24:56We pointed out it was.
24:58It was meant to sort of undermine
24:59whatever relationship the Pentagon has with Elon Musk.
25:03Elon Musk is a patriot. Elon Musk is an innovator.
25:06Elon Musk provides a lot of capabilities.
25:08Our government and our military rely on,
25:10and I'm grateful for that.
25:11We welcomed him today to the Pentagon to talk about Doge,
25:15to talk about efficiencies, to talk about innovations.
25:18It was a great informal conversation.
25:20The rest of that reporting was fake.
25:22There was no war plans. There was no Chinese war plans.
25:24There was no secret plans.
25:26That's not what we were doing at the Pentagon.
25:28I might add that I think Elon, if they ever wanted to do that,
25:31I think Elon wouldn't do it. I think he wouldn't do it.
25:33He wouldn't want to put himself in that position.
25:36But if you read what's out of the New York Times,
25:38it's such a dishonest newspaper.
25:40It's such garbage.
25:41It's, you know, it used to be called
25:43all the news that's fit to print.
25:44Well, it's all the news that's not fit to print.
25:47They have fake sources, or they don't have sources.
25:50I think they make most of it up.
25:51But this was a made-up story by the New York Times.
25:54I call it the failing. It's a failing newspaper.
25:56It's failing. And they shouldn't do that.
25:59They really are the enemy of the people.
26:01And we do need honest journalism in this.
26:06You know, we've made such big strides
26:07over the last two months,
26:10but we just need honest journalism,
26:12and we don't have it. When you have a CNN, I watch.
26:15You have to watch these people every once in a while
26:17just to see where they're coming from.
26:18And it's so dishonest.
26:20MSNBC is, I think, probably worse.
26:22And they're both doing horribly in the ratings.
26:24I think they're going to be turned off.
26:25I don't think they're not doing any ratings.
26:28You're doing well on the ratings.
26:30Mr. President, I understand that your trade rep
26:35is meeting their Chinese counterpart next week.
26:37Is there anything that they can do to stop April 2nd
26:42or to roll back the tariffs that you put on China already?
26:45Well, we can talk. But basically, I call April 2nd.
26:49I would have made it April 1st,
26:50but I didn't want to be April Fool's Day
26:52because then nobody would believe what I said.
26:54And they do believe me.
26:55April 2nd is going to be Liberation Day for America.
26:59We've been ripped off by every country in the world,
27:02friend and foe.
27:03We've been ripped off on trade.
27:05We've been ripped off on military.
27:07We protect people, and they don't do anything for us.
27:09We — it's just so unfair.
27:11For years and years. And now some of that money
27:14is going to be coming back to us in the form of tariffs.
27:16They're — I mean, tens of billions.
27:21It's going to be numbers like nobody has ever seen.
27:24So, NVIDIA announced today — you saw that?
27:28Hundreds of billions of dollars of investment.
27:31The biggest chipmaker in the world announced
27:33hundreds of billions of dollars of investment.
27:36Hundreds of billions. Not millions, but billions.
27:39They're all coming here.
27:40Apple just announced $500 billion worth.
27:43They're going to build plants here.
27:44You know, they built their plants in China.
27:46They're going to build them here.
27:47And they're starting immediately.
27:50We have — we have investment,
27:53the likes of which this country has never seen,
27:55already announced.
27:57And they all want to have news conferences.
27:58I don't — I don't have enough time
28:00to have that many news conferences.
28:01But I would say, so far, at least $4 trillion —
28:05$4 trillion is coming in.
28:08Car companies — very importantly,
28:09a lot of the car companies that were going to build in Mexico
28:12or Canada are now building here
28:14because I don't want cars from Canada.
28:15I don't want cars from Mexico. They want to do it, it's fine.
28:18But I want the car companies to build here, not —
28:22you know, they were building in Mexico three plants —
28:24big plants, really big plants.
28:26And they were going to sell the cars right across the border.
28:28We wouldn't have the jobs. We wouldn't have the profits.
28:30We wouldn't get the taxes. We'd get nothing.
28:32All we'd get is unemployment and empty factories.
28:35Those days are over.
28:36So now those three places are going to build here.
28:40But many more than that. We have a big one.
28:42Honda is building — just announced a really big plant
28:45in Indiana. Great state. Smart place to build.
28:49And we have many car companies coming here.
28:51The steel — the steel mills are going to be booming.
28:55Going to be booming.
28:56And many other things come with that.
29:00But we need that for defense.
29:01You know, you have — there are certain things you have to have.
29:02You have to have steel. We would have had —
29:04if I didn't do, in my first term,
29:07tariffs to stop the onslaught —
29:10because they were dumping steel
29:12in order to destroy our steel plants.
29:14If I didn't do 50 percent and even 100 percent,
29:17in certain cases, tariffs on steel,
29:20you wouldn't have a steel plant in the United States.
29:23And Biden was unable to get rid of those tariffs
29:26because they threw off so much money that his numbers —
29:30which didn't work anyway because his numbers were terrible.
29:32What he did — the way he spent money was so horrible.
29:35And what he allowed to happen to energy.
29:37That's the other thing. Energy is going to be like
29:39it's never been before.
29:41Mr. Vice President is here. Do you have anything —
29:43do you have anything to say while you're here?
29:45You're a good Vice President.
29:48I'm just here to watch the show, sir.
29:49I think airplanes are pretty cool,
29:51so I wanted to check this out.
29:52It is cool.
29:53Mr. President, what do you think China can do
29:55to take off the trade war at this point, though?
29:58Well, I'll be speaking to President Xi.
30:00I have a great relationship with him.
30:01We're going to have a very good relationship.
30:04But we have a trillion-dollar deficit
30:07because of Biden with President Xi.
30:09More than that. I mean, I've heard $1.2 trillion.
30:13We have a deficit.
30:14And I've explained that to President Xi.
30:17We also have a problem where he's allowing fentanyl
30:20to be sent into Mexico and then cross the border.
30:22And, you know, killing — I think the number is much higher
30:25than the 125, 115 that you —
30:28I think it's closer to 300,000 people a year.
30:32And so that's a problem.
30:33But they have — they have a tremendous surplus
30:36against the United States, and we don't want that.
30:38The Press. Mr. President, why do you want to control
30:40the trade power play?
30:41A number of the trades have come to you
30:43asking for exemptions on tariffs.
30:44Is that something that is under consideration by you?
30:47Well, people are coming to me and talking about tariffs.
30:50A lot of people are asking me if they could have exceptions.
30:53And once you do that for one, you have to do that for all.
30:56So, I mean, generally —
30:58I did something, interestingly, during — two weeks ago.
31:03I gave the American car companies a break
31:07because it would have been unfair if I didn't.
31:09And everybody said, oh, he changed his mind on tariffs.
31:11I didn't change my mind. I helped our, you know,
31:15sort of big three, big four.
31:17I helped some of the American companies.
31:19And instead of taking it properly,
31:21they said, oh, he changed it.
31:22I don't change, but the word flexibility
31:25is an important word. Sometimes it's flexibility.
31:27So there'll be flexibility.
31:29But basically, it's reciprocal so that if China is charging us
31:3550 percent or 30 percent or 20 percent —
31:38and I don't mean China, I mean anybody.
31:40Any country. Canada.
31:42Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers.
31:45They have 270 percent tariffs. Nobody knows that.
31:50Nobody knows that. They have up to 400 percent.
31:54They have a couple of tariffs at 400 percent.
31:58Nobody knows that. Nobody talks about that.
32:00And remember, with Canada, we don't need their cars.
32:03We don't need their lumber. We don't need their energy.
32:05We don't need anything from Canada.
32:07And yet it costs us $200 billion a year in subsidy
32:10to keep Canada afloat.
32:12So when I say they should be a state, I mean that.
32:14I really mean that. Because we can't be expected
32:18to carry a country that is right next to us on our border.
32:25It would be a great state. It would be a cherished state.
32:28The taxes for Canadian citizens would go down in less than half.
32:34They don't spend money on military
32:36because they think we're going to protect them.
32:38There are many things that they do, like icebreakers.
32:41They want us to provide icebreakers for them.
32:44Oh, that's wonderful.
32:45So, the Canada — they're very tough traders, too, Canada.
32:50I want to just tell you, all the people — they're tough traders.
32:52They trade very tough.
32:55And, you know, the expression I use is,
32:58some people don't have the cards.
32:59I used that expression about a week and a half ago, right?
33:02Somebody was negotiating who didn't have the cards,
33:05who's now, I think, saying that he wants to do it.
33:08And he's — I think we're going to have a big deal on that.
33:10Very special something. We got to make a deal on that.
33:13But Canada has been a very nasty negotiator
33:17against the United States —
33:18took advantage of the United States for a long time.
33:21But nobody knows that they were getting 270 percent tariffs
33:24on dairy products.
33:25You see, that is a problem on Canada.
33:28And I don't think I've heard you say this
33:29in all of the talk about Canada becoming the 51st state.
33:32Are you concerned that if they became the 51st state,
33:36they would be a very, very blue state?
33:39Very, very big and very, very blue.
33:41You know, they might be. But it would —
33:44you know, you have that artificial line
33:45that goes — that straight artificial —
33:47that looked like it was drawn by a ruler.
33:50Somebody with a — I don't mean a ruler like a king.
33:52I mean, like a ruler, like a ruler. This way.
33:55And it's just an artificial line that was drawn in the sand.
33:59Or in the ice.
34:01And you know what? Can I tell you, Peter?
34:03Just — you add that to this country,
34:06what a beautiful landmass.
34:08The most beautiful landmass anywhere in the world.
34:11And it was just cut off for whatever reason.
34:13It would be great. Now, is it liberal?
34:16Maybe. But, you know, a conservative —
34:18until I got involved, because I don't care who wins up there.
34:21And, frankly, probably would do better with the liberal
34:23than the conservative, if you want to know the truth.
34:25But just a little while ago, before I got involved
34:29and totally changed the election — which I don't care about.
34:34Probably it's to our advantage, actually.
34:37But the conservative who is leading against —
34:39I call him Governor Trudeau.
34:41The conservative who is leading by 35 points.
34:44So, you know, so I don't know about that.
34:46I think Canada is a place like a lot of other places.
34:49If you have a good candidate, the candidate is going to win.
34:51And the two astronauts that you just helped save from space,
34:58they didn't get any overtime pay for all that extra time.
35:01They got $5 a day per diem for 286 days.
35:05That is $1,430 in extra pay.
35:10Is there anything the administration can do
35:13to get them — to make them whole?
35:15The President Well, nobody has ever mentioned this to me.
35:17If I have to, I'll pay it out of my own pocket.
35:19Okay? I'll get it for them.
35:20The Press Mr. President, can I just ask you guys —
35:22The President I like that. I'll pay it right out of my —
35:25is that all? That's not a lot for what they had to go through.
35:29And I want to thank Elon Musk, by the way,
35:31because think if we don't have him.
35:34You know, there's only so long,
35:36even though they're in the capsule up there,
35:38that the body starts to deteriorate
35:40after nine or 10 months,
35:42and gets really bad after 14, 15 months,
35:46with the bones and the blood and all the things
35:48that you've been reporting on very well.
35:51And if we don't have Elon, they could be up there a long time.
35:54Who else is going to get him? And I just want to thank him.
35:57He's going through a lot, what they're doing to him.
36:01And these people are going to be caught,
36:02and they're going to be caught,
36:04and they're going to be prosecuted.
36:06And from what they tell me —
36:08I see this just by watching your programs and reading the news —
36:12but from what they tell me, they could get 20 years in jail,
36:14and they'll get it.
36:16I'll tell you, there's going to be no leniency,
36:17and there'll be no pardons. I can tell you that right now.
36:20The Press And you said this morning 20 years in jail,
36:22and then maybe they — you said this morning 20 years in jail,
36:24and then maybe they'll go to one of these prisons in El Salvador.
36:28Do you think, with the way that the judges
36:30have been issuing injunctions,
36:32it would be easier or harder to send these Tesla
36:35domestic terrorists to a jail in El Salvador
36:38than these MS-13 or Trinidad and Tobago guys?
36:40The President Well, I view these people as terrorists,
36:42just like others.
36:44These are — when I looked at those showrooms burning
36:47and those cars — not one or two,
36:49like seven, eight, ten, burning,
36:51exploding all over the place — these are terrorists.
36:54You didn't have that on January 6th, I can tell you.
36:57You didn't have anything like that on January 6th,
36:59which is sort of amazing,
37:00because on January 6th, the Democrats were talking.
37:06Nobody was killed other than a very beautiful young woman,
37:10Ashley — Ashley Babbitt. Nobody was killed.
37:15And you look at what's going on now with these terrorists.
37:17These are terrorists. And that's an organized event.
37:19You know, take a look at their signs.
37:20Take a look. They're all made by the same sign company.
37:24A nice, expensive job.
37:26Now, these are — the people that finance it are,
37:30in my opinion, in just as big a trouble
37:32as the people that are setting the match
37:33and setting the fires.
37:36So we'll see.
37:37It's under very serious investigation by the FBI
37:40and by the Justice Department. These people are terrorists.
37:43The Press Mr. President, what do you say to American military
37:48families who are seeing Elon Musk at the Pentagon today,
37:52are hearing about Defense Department cuts,
37:54and their thoughts are immediately going
37:56to the safety of their loved ones
37:57who are currently deployed?
37:59The President Well, we're making our country strong.
38:01And when they see a thing like that
38:03and they hear that story about Elon and China,
38:07what they should do is realize that The New York Times
38:09is a corrupt institution, because I think they're the ones —
38:12they knew that story wasn't true.
38:13Nobody believed that story.
38:15People that — when I first called —
38:17they laughed when they heard this story.
38:19Nobody believed it. That the Pentagon was giving him
38:21a briefing on what war with China would look like,
38:26and he has business in it. No, they made that up
38:27because it's a good story to make up.
38:30They're very dishonest people.
38:32Look, I have it with The Times,
38:35and you'll see more and more of it.
38:37To me, it's a very, very dishonest organization.
38:42But a story like that is made up. It's total fiction.
38:45And I just wanted to make sure —
38:48I called up Chief of Staff and I called up Pete and I said,
38:52Is there any truth to that? Absolutely not.
38:55He's there for Doge, not there for China.
38:58And if you ever mentioned China,
38:59I think he'd walk out of the room.
39:00He wouldn't — he wouldn't take it anyway.
39:02So it's just a made-up story.
39:06Nobody is taking better care of the military.
39:08One of the things that I know that Pete is doing is —
39:10he's talking about a lot of the civilian staff.
39:13And we're going to get them other jobs.
39:16You know, we're going to have a lot of jobs in this country
39:18because — but we don't want to have wasteful jobs.
39:20We want to have meaningful jobs. And those are wasteful jobs.
39:24Those are jobs that not only military,
39:26but jobs where people don't show up.
39:29We had — you take a look at Department of Education.
39:32I've never seen so many buildings with the names on it.
39:34You go past one after another at Department of Education,
39:37and they're empty. The people don't show up.
39:40You know why? Because they have other jobs.
39:42Because they're playing golf or they're playing something.
39:45They're doing something.
39:47And we have a lot of great people,
39:48but we have to move that back to the States.
39:50We're going to make our country strong,
39:52and we're going to get people much better jobs
39:55because we have companies moving into our country
39:57the likes of which we've never seen before.
39:59Nothing like this has happened.
40:01And it's automatic. They don't want to pay the tariffs.
40:05How do you get — how do you avoid paying the tariffs?
40:08You build your plant in the United States.
40:11And it's going to be — it's a beautiful thing to see.
40:13I see it. So far, I would say $4 trillion.
40:18Nobody has ever heard of them.
40:19No country has ever heard of numbers like that.
40:21Four trillion dollars. And those are the best ones.
40:24The biggest, best chipmaker in the world.
40:27I don't — I'm not a fan of the CHIP Act,
40:29where you give billions away to — billions of dollars away
40:32to companies that don't need it.
40:34And it won't bring them here. I'm giving nothing away.
40:38All they're doing is coming here.
40:39They're building because they want to avoid.
40:40Remember this on the tariffs, though,
40:42because that's going to be — you know,
40:43Liberation Day, April 2nd. It's reciprocal.
40:48If they charge us, we charge them.
40:51So somebody will say, well, how much are the tariffs?
40:53Very fair. If — India, as an example,
40:57has been very bad to us on tariffs.
40:59They charge 100 percent, 200 percent.
41:03Whatever they charge. Now, Europe just announced
41:07they're lowering the tariffs on cars.
41:09You know, we charge, like a joke, two and a half percent.
41:13That's what this country charges.
41:15Europe just announced that they're reducing their tariffs
41:18on cars to two and a half percent.
41:19It's nice.
41:21But they also have non-monetary tariffs,
41:23where they make it impossible for the cars to get in,
41:25even without the dollars on them and the dollar signs.
41:29It's called a non-monetary tariff,
41:30where they put on controls where, no matter what happens —
41:34because they don't want cars.
41:35They don't want the American car in their market.
41:37And yet, they send us millions of cars.
41:39They send us big agriculture. They don't want our agriculture.
41:42They don't want anything from us.
41:44European Union is very tough. But now it's fair.
41:48So whatever they do to us, we do to them.
41:50The Press.
41:52The Press.
41:53Mr. President, Russia continues to attack Ukraine.
41:58Are you planning to impose any sort of sanctions on them?
41:59Well, they're fighting against each other.
42:01Yeah, I think we're going to have —
42:03we have a ceasefire on a lot of areas.
42:05And so far, that's all held very well.
42:08And getting that ceasefire —
42:10you know, they had a lot of guns pointing at each other.
42:13We had some soldiers, unfortunately,
42:15surrounded by other soldiers.
42:17And they are going to be — I believe we're going to pretty
42:22soon have a full ceasefire,
42:24and then we're going to have a contract.
42:25And the contract is being negotiated —
42:27the contract in terms of dividing up the lands,
42:30et cetera, et cetera.
42:31It's being negotiated as we speak.
42:33Mr. President, what do you say to critics who say
42:35that your actions towards law firms amount to coercion?
42:40Well, the law firms all want to make deals.
42:42You mean the law firms that we're going after,
42:44that went after me for four years ruthlessly,
42:46violently, illegally?
42:48You mean those are the law firms you're talking about?
42:50They're not babies. They're very sophisticated people.
42:54Those law firms did bad things. Bad things.
42:58They went after me for years.
43:00Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
43:02All a hoax. It was a hoax. It was Hunter Biden's laptop.
43:06It didn't come out of Russia, by the way.
43:07It was his — like, came out of his bedroom.
43:10It was all a hoax developed by Democrats.
43:14Hillary — I don't think Biden did
43:16because I don't think Biden knows
43:18what the hell he's doing, frankly,
43:19based on everything I see.
43:21I've seen things since being here that are so sad.
43:24What he's done to this country.
43:26What he and they did to this country.
43:29Those people that surrounded him — who, by the way,
43:31are radical left but smart.
43:33He's not smart. He was never smart.
43:35But these are radical left, smart people.
43:37They totally controlled him.
43:39He did whatever they told him to do.
43:42And it's a shame. It's so sad to see what happened.
43:44What they've done to this country, both —
43:46not only the inflation — the inflation you saw,
43:49but allowing millions of criminals —
43:51millions and millions of criminals into our country.
43:54That's an inexcusable act.
43:57And many other things besides that.
43:59Thank you very much.
44:01Can we talk one more time about Ukraine?
44:03Why do you want to control Ukraine's power?