Trump announced the Pentagon’s decision to move forward with a new next-generation fighter jet after awarding a contract to Boeing. The announcement coming just hours after Elon Musk met with senior officials at the Pentagon this morning. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth always announcing plans to operate in the Middle East next month. Following those announcements the president took questions from the media which included his decision to begin the process of shutting down the US Department of Education among other key issues he's tackling.
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00:00Mr. President, we're not ready yet.
00:07We're not ready yet?
00:09Yeah.
00:11I'll just make a note of this.
00:25Okay, thank you very much.
00:27It's a great honor to be with you.
00:29I want to start by saying we had a meeting yesterday on the Department of Education,
00:33which is being moved.
00:35We're going to educate the children in their states,
00:38where they can get a proper education.
00:41The numbers are horrible the way it is,
00:44and we're going to make a move that's very big.
00:46I don't think it's even risky a little bit.
00:48I think it's going to be amazing.
00:50It should have been done years ago.
00:52They've been talking about doing it for many years,
00:54but nobody ever got it off.
00:56But we did.
00:58And there was great excitement and great acceptance of it
01:02by almost everybody, including a lot of Democrats, actually.
01:06I do want to say that I've decided that the SBA,
01:10the Small Business Administration,
01:12headed by Kelly Loeffler,
01:14who's a terrific person,
01:16will handle all of the student loan portfolio.
01:19We have a portfolio that's very large,
01:21lots of loans,
01:24tens of thousands of loans.
01:26It's a pretty complicated deal.
01:28And that's coming out of the Department of Education immediately,
01:32and it's going to be headed up by Kelly Loeffler, SBA,
01:35and they're all set for it.
01:37They're waiting for it, and it'll be serviced
01:39much better than it has in the past.
01:41It's been a mess.
01:43And also, Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services,
01:46will be handling special needs
01:49and all of the nutrition programs and everything else.
01:52Rather complex, but that's going to be headed
01:55and handled by Health and Human Services.
01:58So I think that'll work out very well.
02:00Those two elements will be taken out of the Department of Education.
02:05And then all we have to do is get the students
02:08to get guidance from the people that love them
02:11and cherish them, including their parents, by the way,
02:14who will be totally involved in their education,
02:16along with the boards and the governors and the states.
02:19And it's going to be a great situation.
02:22I guarantee that in a few years from now,
02:25I hope I'm going to be around to see it,
02:27but I think we're going to see a lot of it.
02:29I think that you're going to have tremendous results.
02:32You're going to have results like Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
02:36a lot of the countries that do so well.
02:39I think you're going to have a lot of those results.
02:41If you look at Iowa and Indiana and Idaho,
02:44so many places that run so well,
02:47Florida, Texas, big ones,
02:50you're going to have great education,
02:52much better than it is now at half the cost.
02:55And we're not even doing it as a cost item,
02:57although you will save probably half, maybe more than that.
03:01And you're not going to be at the bottom of the list.
03:03You're going to be much higher.
03:04And maybe you'll be, I will guarantee,
03:07some of the states will be at the top of the list.
03:09They'll be comparable or better than these number one, two,
03:12three, four, five countries,
03:14the countries that are in the top five positions.
03:17So that's, to me, it's very exciting.
03:19And it's been received very well.
03:21So I just wanted to tell you about the student loans
03:23and special needs.
03:25But we're here for a reason today that is very exciting.
03:29And I'm thrilled to announce that at my direction,
03:33the United States Air Force is moving forward
03:35with the world's first sixth generation fighter jet,
03:39number six, sixth generation.
03:42Nothing in the world comes even close to it.
03:45And it'll be known as the F-47,
03:48the generals picked a title,
03:50and it's a beautiful number, F-47.
03:55It's something the likes of which nobody has seen before
04:00in terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet.
04:03There's never been anything even close to it,
04:05from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload.
04:10And this has been in the works for a long period of time.
04:14After a rigorous and thorough competition
04:17between some of America's top aerospace companies,
04:20the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract
04:23for the next generation air dominance platform to Boeing.
04:28As you know, it was highly competed for.
04:31There was a lot of competition, generals,
04:34and it's been going on for a long time.
04:37Very, very tough competition.
04:39But this plane has produced numbers
04:43that nobody has ever seen before.
04:45The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable,
04:48most lethal aircraft ever built.
04:51An experimental version of the plane
04:53has secretly been flying for almost five years,
04:57and we're confident that it massively overpowers
05:00the capabilities of any other nation.
05:02There's no other nation.
05:03We know every other plane.
05:05I've seen every one of them.
05:07And it's not even close.
05:08This is a next level.
05:10You know, level five is good.
05:12This is level six, they say.
05:14The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technology.
05:18It's virtually unseeable and unprecedented power.
05:23It's got the most power of any jet of its kind ever made.
05:28Maneuverability, likewise, is the...
05:31There's never been anything like it,
05:33despite the power and speed.
05:36Its speed is top...
05:39over two, which is something that you don't hear very often.
05:44America's enemies will never see it coming.
05:47Hopefully we won't have to use it for that purpose,
05:49but you have to have it.
05:51And if it ever happens,
05:54they won't know what the hell hit them.
05:57A new fleet of these magnificent planes
05:59will be built in the...
06:01and in the... during my administration
06:03over the next couple of years.
06:05It's ready to go.
06:06They've already built much of what has to be built
06:09in terms of production,
06:11including the sheds.
06:13We'll ensure that the USA continues to dominate the skies.
06:16We've given an order for a lot.
06:18We can't tell you the price because it would give...
06:21it would give way to some of the technology
06:24and some of the size of the plane, good-sized plane.
06:27This contract also represents a historic investment
06:30in our defense industrial base,
06:32helping to keep America at the cutting edge
06:34of aerospace and technology.
06:36Our allies are calling constantly.
06:39They want to buy them also,
06:41and we'll... certain allies will be selling them,
06:44perhaps toned-down versions.
06:46We like to tone them down about 10%,
06:48which probably makes sense,
06:50because someday maybe they're not our allies, right?
06:53But I would like to ask Secretary Hankseth,
06:56who's doing a fantastic job.
06:58He's... he's really...
07:00really been very inspiring in so many ways.
07:03And I must say that before he speaks,
07:06we have had record people wanting to join our military
07:10in the last two-and-a-half months,
07:13literally since this...
07:15I think probably since the election, November 5th,
07:19but especially since we came to office
07:22and since I announced Pete.
07:24He's young, he's smart, he's strong, he loves it,
07:27and they love him.
07:29But we've had record numbers of people
07:32wanting to join our military.
07:34Now, if you go back six months, it was the exact opposite.
07:37You had record numbers of people
07:39not wanting to join the military.
07:41Now you have record numbers of people
07:43wanting to be in our military.
07:45And that's a really... that's a great honor.
07:48That shows you we're really on the right track.
07:50So, Pete, maybe you'd say a few words.
07:52Sure.
07:53Well, Mr. President, this is a big day.
07:55This is a big day for our warfighters.
07:57This is a big day for our country,
07:59a big day in the world.
08:01This program is the next generation
08:03of air dominance.
08:05And, Mr. President, because of your leadership,
08:07your clarity,
08:09we are going... America is going to have
08:11generations in the future
08:13of air dominance
08:15because of this sixth-generation fighter.
08:18We've had the F-15,
08:20we've had the F-16, the F-18,
08:22the F-22, the F-35.
08:24Now we have the F-47,
08:27which sends a very direct,
08:29clear message to our allies
08:31that we're not going anywhere
08:33and to our enemies that we can...
08:35we will be able to project power
08:37around the globe, unimpeded,
08:39for generations to come.
08:41Mr. President, this is a gift
08:43to my kids and your kids,
08:45to my grandkids and your grandkids.
08:47This is a historic investment
08:49in the American military,
08:51in the American industrial base,
08:53in American industry,
08:55that will help revive the warrior ethos
08:57inside our military, which we're doing,
08:59rebuild our military, which the previous
09:01administration did not do, by the way, Mr. President.
09:03They paused this program
09:05and were prepared to potentially scrap it.
09:07We know this is cheaper,
09:09longer-range, and more stealthy.
09:11President Trump said, we're reviving it and we're doing it.
09:13And then we are also
09:15going to reestablish deterrence.
09:17Under the previous administration,
09:19we looked like fools. Not anymore.
09:21President Trump has reestablished
09:23American leadership. The F-47
09:25is part of it.
09:27Mr. President, thank you for having the courage
09:29to do it and leading the way for all our warfighters.
09:31Thank you very much, Pete.
09:33One of the things I will say,
09:35but the generals are going to speak
09:37in just a couple of seconds.
09:39This plane flies with drones.
09:41It flies with many, many drones.
09:43As many as you want.
09:45It's a technology that's new,
09:47but it doesn't fly by itself.
09:49It flies with many
09:51drones, as many as we want.
09:53And that's something that no other plane
09:55can do. So I'd like to introduce,
09:57if I might, Air Force Chief of Staff
09:59General David Alvin
10:01and also General Dale White,
10:03two incredible people that I've known
10:05over the years, but I got to know really
10:07well over the last few months.
10:09And would you say a few words, please, General?
10:11Thank you very much, Mr. President.
10:13Mr. President, Mr. Secretary,
10:15thank you so much for your
10:17unwavering commitment to our military.
10:19I will say this is a big day.
10:21This is a big day for our United States Air Force
10:23as well. You know,
10:25air dominance is not a birthright,
10:27but it's become synonymous
10:29with American air power.
10:31But air dominance needs to be earned every single day.
10:33And since the earliest days of
10:35aerial warfare, the brave American
10:37airmen have jumped into their machines,
10:39taken to the air, and they've cleared the skies.
10:41And whether that be clearing the skies
10:43so we can rain down destruction on our enemies
10:45from above, or we can clear
10:47the path to the ground forces below,
10:49that's been our commitment to the fight,
10:51and that's really been our promise to America.
10:53And with
10:55this, F-47, as the crown
10:57jewel in the next generation
10:59air dominance family of systems,
11:01we're going to be able to keep that promise well into the future.
11:05I also want to thank everyone
11:07from industry and with the government,
11:09our engineers, who have put
11:11work tirelessly on this program to bring it
11:13where we are right now today.
11:15This shows that American talent, American skill,
11:17and American determination are second to none
11:19because this platform is
11:21second to none.
11:23We believe that this provides
11:25more lethality,
11:27it provides more capability, more
11:29modernized capability in a way that is built
11:31to adapt.
11:33This, along with our collaborative combat
11:35aircraft the President talked about with drones,
11:37this is allowing us
11:39to look into the future
11:41and unlock the magic that
11:43is human-machine teaming.
11:45And as we do that, we're going to write the next
11:47generation of modern
11:49aerial warfare with this. This enables us to
11:51do this. The manner
11:53in which we put this program together puts more
11:55control in the hands of the government
11:57so we can update and adapt
11:59at the speed of relevance, at the speed of technology,
12:01not at the speed of b-rockers.
12:03This is more Air Force.
12:05This is more options for the President.
12:07We say as our mission
12:09in the United States Air Force is
12:11to fly, fight, and win air power anytime,
12:13anywhere. If you want to go anywhere, you have
12:15to have a platform that gets you anywhere. This
12:17provides the President options
12:19from the very one end,
12:21which is a quick
12:23response, and then we can get right back into fight and stance
12:25without having to deploy troops
12:27that are going to take maybe months and cost
12:29more lives. We can be back in fight and stance
12:31and maybe restore that deterrence. All the
12:33way to decisive victory as part of a
12:35joint force that is most lethal and
12:37capable military I've ever known in history.
12:39That's what we provide now, and
12:41this allows us to provide into the future.
12:43It's more deterrence, more capability.
12:45It's what
12:47peace through strength looks like into the future, Mr. President.
12:49And so we're very proud to do that, and all we
12:51can say is, on behalf of the United States Air
12:53Force, let's deliver.
12:55Thank you very much. Thank you, General.
12:57Would you like to say something?
12:59No, sir. I'll just double down on what the Chief said.
13:01He knows what to do. He's a
13:03generational man.
13:05That's exactly right. Air superiority is what it's all about,
13:07and this is what we'll deliver. That's great. Thank you very much.
13:09Great job. We've worked together long and
13:11hard on this, and this was a
13:13big secret. In fact, we don't show too much
13:15of the plane for that reason. You see what we show?
13:19You see how beautiful that is,
13:21but that's just a very small part of it.
13:25I wasn't surprised. I was wondering
13:27how much you're going to show when they came in with that.
13:29You see a wheel in the front?
13:31That's about it.
13:33Any questions?
13:35President Trump,
13:37there are thousands of pages of documents.
13:39There's a lot to sit through.
13:41Can you just tell us who killed Kennedy?
13:43I was
13:45given the task of
13:47releasing that because many presidents
13:49have gone through it, and they haven't released.
13:51I said,
13:53we even released Social Security numbers.
13:55I didn't want anything deleted.
13:57They said, sir, what about Social Security?
13:59People long gone, but
14:01they're long gone, so I can't imagine.
14:03I said, if you don't
14:05delete it, if you do delete it,
14:07people are going to say, why did you delete it?
14:09There's something in there.
14:11We gave Social Security. We gave everything.
14:13The rest is for you to look at,
14:15Peter. You're going to see whether or not
14:17you see anything.
14:19We're doing it with
14:21Dr. Martin Luther King, too.
14:23They're preparing all of that. They're going to release everything.
14:27Whoever else
14:29they want.
14:31We really have nothing to hide.
14:33You know, when a lot of time goes by,
14:35but with the Kennedy
14:37files, in particular, they were
14:39going crazy on them.
14:41I don't think there's anything
14:43that's earth shattering, but
14:45you'll have to make that determination.
14:47It's 80,000.
14:49It's actually 88,000, and we have some
14:51additional things, as you know,
14:53come out today, and for that
14:55you can go to the offices and you can
14:57see whatever you want to see. Everything is out there
14:59totally open.
15:01The additional stuff is
15:03available later on today. You go over
15:05to the offices and you can have it immediately.
15:07And you'll make a determination.
15:09And on something else,
15:11these Trinidad and Tobago guys,
15:13because of your executive order, they are
15:15designated as foreign terrorists.
15:17If ISIS or
15:19Al Qaeda weren't terrorists, were operating
15:21here in the United States,
15:23cops would probably be
15:25shooting first and asking questions
15:27later, and so what is the
15:29difference between
15:31terrorists, between somebody like an
15:33ISIS or an Al Qaeda operative
15:35versus a MS-13 or
15:37Trinidad and Tobago? Well, these are people
15:39that focus on destroying people
15:41in their homes. They're
15:43not as international
15:45in that sense.
15:47They're a group of thugs. They come
15:49from Venezuela. They come from the prisons
15:51of Venezuela. They're very
15:53dangerous people,
15:55but they didn't look so dangerous when
15:57guards took care of the
15:59situation from El Salvador. And I want
16:01to thank the president. He's a friend of mine.
16:03He's done a great job.
16:05But
16:07I just can't imagine that the Democrats
16:09are taking this issue where they want to have them
16:11back, you know? So now they have
16:13men playing in women's
16:15sports. They have transgender for
16:17everyone. They have open borders. They have all of
16:19their crazy policies that are,
16:21I think, 95-5, not 90-10,
16:23okay? And their new policy
16:25is, let's bring
16:27Trinidad and Tobago back
16:29into our country. Let's bring the worst
16:31gang members there are.
16:33They looked amazingly
16:35frail, though, by the
16:37way they were handled. It's very amazing. You know,
16:39when they were in Colorado cutting the
16:41fingers off a man because he made a phone call
16:43to the police, they seemed a lot
16:45tougher then than they did
16:47when they were having their heads shaved
16:49and they were in shackles.
16:51They're tough people. They're bad people.
16:53We don't want them in our country. We can't
16:55let a judge say that he
16:57wants them. He didn't run for president. He
16:59didn't get much more than 80 million votes.
17:03And we just can't let that happen.
17:05It'd be so bad for our country.
17:07I won on the basis of getting
17:09criminals out of our country that were
17:11let in. It was called
17:13unforced error. They were let in by
17:15Biden, incompetently
17:17let in, and let in by the
17:19millions, actually. 21 million
17:21I believe it's 21 million.
17:23And that's not even including the
17:25gotaways, but these are rough people.
17:27We want them out of our country, and
17:29I won the election based at least
17:31partly on that, and that's a big part.
17:33Yeah?
17:35I don't know if you saw this.
17:37Tim Walls
17:39is now saying about Trump supporters,
17:41and forgive me, I'm just reading
17:43a quote from Tim Walls,
17:45I think I could kick most of their ass.
17:47Oh boy, he'd be in trouble.
17:49Well, he's a loser.
17:51I mean, the guy's a loser.
17:53He lost an election.
17:55He played a part. You know, usually a vice president
17:57doesn't play a part, they say.
17:59I think Tim played a part. I think he was so
18:01bad that he hurt her.
18:03But she hurt herself, and Joe
18:05hurt them both. They didn't have a great
18:07group, but I would
18:09probably put him at the bottom of the group.
18:11Have you heard that Biden wants to get back involved
18:13for Democratic politicians
18:15fundraising and campaigning
18:17against your policies?
18:19I hope so.
18:21Mr. President, there are families
18:23from some of the people
18:25from Argentina,
18:27there are families from some of the people that were on those
18:29flights to El Salvador
18:31that claim that they're not criminals,
18:33they're not members of Prenderagua,
18:35of MSF-13.
18:37What can you tell them, and what guarantees
18:39can you give them
18:41that everyone in those planes
18:43were actual criminals, terrorists, as you said?
18:45Well, I was told that they went through a very
18:47strong vetting process,
18:49and that that will also be
18:51continuing in
18:53El Salvador. And if there's
18:55anything like that, we would certainly want to find
18:57out. But these were
18:59a bad group. This was a bad group,
19:01and they were in bad areas, and they were with
19:03a lot of other people that were absolutely
19:05killers, murderers,
19:07and people that were
19:09really bad, with the worst records
19:11you've ever seen.
19:13But we will continue that process,
19:15absolutely. We don't want to make that kind of a mistake.
19:17Is the U.S. planning to give up
19:19the position of NATO's Supreme Allied
19:21Commander, and if so, why?
19:23NATO is something
19:25that I saved. NATO was gone
19:27until I came along. In fact, the
19:29previous Secretary
19:31General, very good man,
19:33both of them are good. The current man is
19:35fantastic. But both of
19:37them said, if it wasn't for Trump, you wouldn't even
19:39have a NATO, because we were paying
19:41the costs of almost all of the
19:43countries, and now they're paying. I said,
19:45we're not going to do this. We're not going to continue.
19:47You hurt us on trade. You do
19:49bad things on trade, and then on top of it, we're
19:51supposed to pay for your military.
19:53And because of what I did,
19:55hundreds of billions of dollars flown
19:57into NATO by countries that just weren't
19:59paying. They were delinquent. They weren't paying their bills.
20:01So
20:03NATO is solid.
20:05They're strong, but
20:07they have to treat us
20:09differently. Because, look,
20:11without us, NATO is not
20:13the same. And I can tell you, I've been having
20:15very good discussions, as you know, with
20:17President Zelensky and with
20:19President Putin. And President
20:21Putin will tell you that without the United
20:23States,
20:25he wouldn't be worried.
20:27But he is worried when the United
20:29States is involved. And I have to tell you,
20:31I've dealt
20:33very well with both gentlemen,
20:35and we have,
20:37I think we have the confines of a deal. I hope
20:39we have the confines of a deal. I'm doing it for
20:41two reasons. Number one,
20:43and by far, most
20:45importantly, thousands of young
20:47people, and they're not American people, they're
20:49Russian and they're Ukrainian, are being killed
20:51every week, thousands a week.
20:53And also, the United States
20:55has paid,
20:57because of Biden, $350
20:59billion on a war that should have never
21:01happened. If we had
21:03a competent president in this
21:05great city right here, that war would have never
21:07happened. It would have absolutely
21:09never happened with me. And it didn't happen.
21:11For four years, it didn't happen.
21:13Mr. President, do you think you have the authority, the power
21:15to round up people, deport
21:17them, and then you're under no obligation to
21:19a court to show the evidence against them?
21:21Well, that's what the law says, and that's what our
21:23country needs, because we were,
21:25unfortunately,
21:27they allowed millions of people
21:29to come into our country, totally
21:31unvetted, totally unchecked. So you ought to ask,
21:33did we have the authority to allow millions
21:35of people? Did Biden have the authority
21:37to do something that's
21:39unthinkable, have open borders
21:41where millions of people poured
21:43into our country, totally unvetted and
21:45totally unchecked, just as you would say?
21:47And many of those people were criminals.
21:49Many of them were from jails and prisons
21:51and mental institutions and gang
21:53members and drug dealers
21:55and very dangerous
21:57people. Many were murderers. We have
21:5911,088 that we
22:01call murderers. They murder. Of that
22:03number, at least half killed more
22:05than one person. They're in our country.
22:07They're in a location
22:09near you.
22:11Biden allowed that to happen to our country.
22:13And it's people
22:15that really ran the country.
22:17And the person that
22:19operated the auto pen, I think we ought to
22:21find out who that was, because I guess that was the
22:23real president. So when you ask me if we have
22:25the authority, did Biden have the authority
22:27to allow millions of people
22:29to come into our country? Many of these people
22:31hardened criminals
22:33at the top of the line who have caused
22:35tremendous damage
22:37in our country. You see them in New York City
22:39fighting with our police. I mean, literally
22:41having fistfights in the street with our police.
22:43These are tough, hard
22:45criminals. Many of them
22:47came out of jails and not just South America
22:49from all over the world. They came out of
22:51from Africa, from the Congo.
22:53They came out from Asia,
22:55not just South America, but many
22:57from South America. These are hard,
22:59tough criminals, and we have to
23:01get them out. And a judge
23:03sitting behind a bench someplace got a
23:05nice appointment.
23:07You can't take that away
23:09from the people that are responsible. Now, in this
23:11case, Marco Rubio has
23:13a lot of big decisions to make.
23:15And he's a fantastic person, a great
23:17man. I think he'll be
23:19our best. I think he has a chance
23:21to be our best Secretary of State.
23:23He's been doing incredible.
23:25He works so hard. He's
23:27gone to so many different countries already.
23:29And he's got the authority
23:31to get bad people out of our country.
23:33And you can't stop that
23:35with a judge sitting behind a bench
23:37that has no idea what goes on, who happens
23:39to be a radical left lunatic.
23:41Do you think the judiciary...
23:43You guys today
23:45are denying
23:47this New York Times report
23:49that Elon Musk was going to be shown
23:51a 20 to 30 page presentation
23:53about a theoretical war
23:55plan against China.
23:57Why not just show it to Elon?
23:59Because I don't want to show it to anybody.
24:01You know, you're talking about a
24:03potential war with China.
24:05Now,
24:07I deal with these people all the time,
24:09and I'm dealing with Pete, I'm dealing with these
24:11gentlemen on numerous different
24:13airplane purchases, and I think they're all
24:15going to be great. But I don't want
24:17other people seeing, anybody seeing
24:19potential war with China.
24:21We don't want to have a potential
24:23war with China, but I can tell you, if we did,
24:25we're very well equipped to handle it.
24:27But I don't want to show that to anybody, but certainly
24:29you wouldn't show it to a businessman who
24:31is helping us so much.
24:33He's a great patriot. He's taking...
24:35He's paying a big price for helping us
24:37cut costs, and he's doing a great job.
24:39He's finding tremendous waste,
24:41fraud, and abuse. But I
24:43certainly wouldn't want... You know, Elon has
24:45businesses in China, and he
24:47would be susceptible, perhaps, to that.
24:49But it was such a fake story.
24:51The New York Times is just as fake as CNN
24:53and MSDNC.
24:55And anybody who read that
24:57story, people laughed at that story.
24:59Who would do such a thing?
25:01And the first thing I did is I called
25:03Susie, and I called
25:05Pete. I said, is there any truth
25:07to that? And they said, it's ridiculous.
25:09No, he's over there to talk
25:11about costs. You might want to address that,
25:13Pete, but Elon
25:15was over there today to
25:17address costs. Doge. A thing called Doge,
25:19which you've heard about. Pete? That's exactly
25:21right, Mr. President. You pointed out it was a
25:23fake story. We pointed out it was
25:25meant to sort of
25:27undermine whatever relationship the Pentagon
25:29has with Elon Musk.
25:31Elon Musk is a patriot.
25:33Elon Musk is an innovator. Elon Musk
25:35provides a lot of capabilities our government and our
25:37military rely on, and I'm grateful for that.
25:39We welcomed him today to the
25:41Pentagon to talk about Doge,
25:43to talk about efficiencies, to talk about
25:45communications. It was a great informal
25:47conversation. The rest of that
25:49reporting was fake. There was no war plans.
25:51There was no Chinese war plans. There was no secret
25:53plans. That's not what we were doing
25:55at the Pentagon. I might add that I think
25:57Elon, if they ever wanted to do that,
25:59I think Elon wouldn't do it. I think he
26:01wouldn't do it. He wouldn't want to put himself in that position.
26:03But if you read what's out
26:05of the New York Times, it's such a dishonest
26:07newspaper. It's such garbage.
26:09You know, it used to be called all the
26:11news that's fit to print. Well, it's all the news
26:13that's not fit to print. They have
26:15fake sources, or they don't
26:17have sources. I think they make most of it up.
26:19But this was a made-up story by
26:21the New York Times. I call it the failing. It's a
26:23failing newspaper. It's failing.
26:25And they shouldn't do that.
26:27They really are the enemy of the people.
26:29We really, we do need
26:31honest journalism
26:33in this. You know, we've made such big strides
26:35over the last two months,
26:37but we just need honest
26:39journalism, and we don't have it. When you
26:41have a CNN, I watch...
26:43You have to watch these people every once in a while
26:45just to see where they're coming from. And it's so
26:47dishonest. MSNBC is, I think,
26:49probably worse. And they're both doing horribly
26:51in the ratings. I think they're going to be turned
26:53off. I don't think... They're not doing
26:55any ratings. You're doing well in the
26:57ratings.
26:59Thank you, Mr. President.
27:01I understand that your trade rep
27:03is meeting their Chinese counterpart next week.
27:05Is there anything that they can
27:07do to stop
27:09April 2nd or to roll back
27:11the tariffs that you put on China?
27:13Well, we can talk, but basically
27:15I call April 2nd.
27:17I would have made it April 1st, but I didn't want
27:19to be April Fool's Day because then nobody would
27:21believe what I said. And they do believe me.
27:23April 2nd is going
27:25to be Liberation Day for America. We've
27:27been ripped off by every
27:29country in the world, friend and foe.
27:31We've been ripped off on trade.
27:33We've been ripped off on military.
27:35We protect people, and they don't do anything
27:37with us. It's just so unfair.
27:39For years and years, and
27:41now some of that money is going to be coming back
27:43to us in the form of tariffs.
27:47I mean, tens of billions.
27:49It's going to be numbers like
27:51nobody's ever seen. So,
27:53NVIDIA announced today,
27:55you saw that, hundreds of
27:57billions of dollars of investment.
27:59The biggest chipmaker in the world announced
28:01hundreds of billions of dollars
28:03of investment. Hundreds of billions.
28:05Not millions, but billions.
28:07They're all coming here. Apple just
28:09announced $500 billion worth.
28:11They're going to build plants here. You know, they built their
28:13plants in China. They're going to build them here.
28:15And they're
28:17starting immediately.
28:19We have
28:21investment the likes of which this country
28:23has never seen already announced,
28:25and they all want to have news conferences.
28:27I don't have enough time to have that many news
28:29conferences, but
28:31I would say so far at least $4 trillion.
28:33$4 trillion is coming
28:35in. Car companies, very
28:37importantly, a lot of the car companies that we're going to build
28:39in Mexico or Canada are now building
28:41here, because I don't want cars from Canada.
28:43I don't want cars from Mexico.
28:45They want to do it, it's fine, but
28:47I want the car companies to build here.
28:49You know, they were building in Mexico
28:51three plants, big plants, really
28:53big plants, and they were going to sell the cars right
28:55across the border. We wouldn't have the jobs.
28:57We wouldn't have the profits. We wouldn't get the
28:59taxes. We'd get nothing. All we'd get
29:01is unemployment and empty factories.
29:03Those days are over, so
29:05now those three places
29:07are going to build here, but many more than that. We have
29:09a big one. Honda is
29:11building, just announced, a really big plant
29:13in Indiana. Great state.
29:15Smart place to build.
29:17And we have many car companies coming
29:19here. The steel mills
29:21are going to be booming. Going to be
29:23booming. And many other things
29:25come with that,
29:27but we need that for defense.
29:29There are certain things you have to have. You have to have
29:31steel. We would have had, if I didn't do
29:33in my first term
29:35tariffs to stop
29:37the onslaught, because they were dumping
29:39steel in order to destroy
29:41our steel plants, if I didn't
29:43do 50% and even 100%
29:45in certain cases, tariffs on
29:47steel, you wouldn't have
29:49a steel plant in the United States.
29:51And Biden was unable to
29:53get rid of those tariffs because they
29:55threw off so much money
29:57that his numbers, which didn't work anyway
29:59because his numbers were terrible, what he did,
30:01the way he spent money was so horrible
30:03and what he allowed to happen to energy.
30:05That's the other thing. Energy is going to
30:07be like it's never been before.
30:09Mr. Vice President is here.
30:11Do you have anything to say while you're here?
30:13He's a very good vice president.
30:15I'm just here to watch the show, sir.
30:17I think airplanes are pretty cool, so I wanted
30:19to check this out.
30:21Mr. President,
30:23how are you going to take off the
30:25trade war at this point?
30:27I'll be speaking to President Xi. I have a great
30:29relationship with him. We're going to have a
30:31very good relationship, but
30:33we have a trillion dollar
30:35deficit because of Biden
30:37with President Xi. More than that, I mean, I've
30:39heard $1.2 trillion.
30:41We have a deficit.
30:43I've explained that to President
30:45Xi. We also have a problem where he's
30:47allowing fentanyl to be sent into
30:49Mexico and then cross the border and
30:51killing. I think
30:53it's much higher than the $125,000,
30:55$115,000. I think it's closer to
30:57$300,000 people a year.
30:59That's a problem.
31:01They have
31:03a tremendous surplus against the
31:05United States, and we don't want that.
31:09A number of ministries have come to you
31:11asking for exemptions on tariffs. Is that something
31:13that is under consideration by you?
31:15People are coming to me and talking
31:17about tariffs. A lot of people
31:19are asking me if they can have exceptions.
31:21Once you do that for one, you have
31:23to do that for all. Generally,
31:25I did
31:27something interestingly
31:29during two weeks ago.
31:31I gave the American
31:33car companies a break because
31:35it would have been unfair if I didn't.
31:37Everybody said, oh, he changed his mind
31:39on tariffs. I didn't change my mind. I helped
31:41our sort
31:43of big three, big four. I
31:45helped some of the American companies.
31:47Instead of taking it properly, they
31:49said, oh, he changed it. I don't change,
31:51but the word flexibility is an
31:53important word. Sometimes it's flexibility,
31:55so there'll be flexibility.
31:57Basically, it's
31:59reciprocal so
32:01that if China is charging us
32:0350 percent or 30 percent
32:05or 20 percent, and I don't mean China. I mean
32:07anybody, any country.
32:09Canada. Nobody knows
32:11that Canada is charging our dairy farmers.
32:13They have 270
32:15percent tariffs. Nobody
32:17knows that. Nobody knows
32:19that. They have up to
32:21400 percent. They have a couple of tariffs
32:23at 400
32:25percent. Nobody knows that. Nobody
32:27talks about that. Remember, with
32:29Canada, we don't need their cars.
32:31We don't need their lumber. We don't need their energy.
32:33We don't need anything from Canada,
32:35and yet it costs us $200 billion
32:37a year in subsidy to keep Canada
32:39afloat. When I say
32:41they should be a state, I mean that. I really mean
32:43that because we can't
32:45be expected to
32:47carry a country
32:49that is
32:51right next to us on our border.
32:53It would be a great state. It would be a cherished state.
32:55The taxes
32:57for Canadian citizens
32:59would go down in less than
33:01half. They don't
33:03spend money on military because they think we're
33:05going to protect them. There are many
33:07things that they do, like icebreakers.
33:09They want us to provide icebreakers
33:11for them. Oh, that's wonderful.
33:13Canada,
33:15they're very tough traders.
33:17I want to just tell you,
33:19they're tough traders. They trade
33:21very tough.
33:23The expression I use
33:25is, some people don't have
33:27the cards. I used that expression about a
33:29week and a half ago, right? Somebody
33:31was negotiating who didn't have the cards,
33:33who's now, I think, saying that
33:35he wants to do it, and I think we're
33:37going to have a big deal on that very
33:39special something. We've got to make a deal on that.
33:41Canada has been
33:43a very nasty negotiator against the
33:45United States, took advantage of the United
33:47States for a long time, but nobody
33:49knows that they were getting 270
33:51percent tariffs on dairy products.
33:55I don't think I've heard you say
33:57this in all the talk about Canada
33:59becoming the 51st state.
34:01I'm concerned that if they became the 51st
34:03state, they would be
34:05a very, very blue state.
34:07Very, very big and very, very blue.
34:09You know, there might be, but
34:11it would, you know, you have that artificial
34:13line that goes, that straight artificial
34:15that looked like it was drawn by a
34:17ruler, somebody with a, I don't mean a
34:19ruler like a king, I mean like a ruler like
34:21a ruler, this way.
34:23And it's just
34:25an artificial line that was drawn
34:27in the sand or in the
34:29ice. And can I tell you, Peter,
34:31just, you
34:33add that to this country, what a
34:35beautiful land mass, the most beautiful land
34:37mass anywhere in the world.
34:39And it was just cut off for whatever reason.
34:41It would be great. Now,
34:43is it liberal? Maybe, but
34:45you know, a conservative, until I got involved,
34:47because I don't care who wins up there,
34:49I frankly probably would do better with
34:51the liberal than the conservative, if you want to know the truth.
34:53But
34:55just a little while ago, before I got
34:57involved and totally changed the election,
34:59which I don't care about,
35:01probably it's
35:03our advantage actually, but
35:05the conservative was leading against,
35:07I call him Governor Trudeau,
35:09the conservative was leading by
35:1135 points, so I don't
35:13know about that. I think
35:15Canada is a place like a lot of other
35:17places, if you have a good candidate, the candidate
35:19is going to win.
35:21The two astronauts
35:23that you just helped save from
35:25space, they didn't get any overtime
35:27pay for all that extra time. They got
35:29$5 a day per diem.
35:31For 286 days,
35:33that is $1,430
35:35in
35:37extra pay. Is there anything
35:39the administration can do
35:41to make them whole?
35:43Well, nobody's ever mentioned this to me.
35:45If I have to, I'll pay it out of my own pocket.
35:47Okay? I'll get it for her.
35:49I'll take care of that. I like that.
35:51I'll pay it right
35:53out of my... Is that all? That's not a lot
35:55for what they had to go through.
35:57And I want to thank Elon Musk, by the way,
35:59because think if we don't have
36:01him. You know, there's
36:03only so long, even though they're in the capsule
36:05up there, that the
36:07body starts to deteriorate after
36:099 or 10 months and
36:11gets really bad after 14, 15
36:13months with the bones and the blood
36:15and all the things that you've been
36:17reporting on very well.
36:19And if we don't have Elon,
36:21they could be up there a long time. Who else is going
36:23to get him? And I just want
36:25to thank him. He's going through a lot,
36:27what they're doing to him.
36:29And these people are going to be caught and
36:31they're going to be caught and they're going to be prosecuted.
36:33And from what they
36:35tell me, I see this just
36:37by watching your programs
36:39and reading the news. But from what they
36:41tell me, they could get 20 years in jail
36:43and they'll get it. I'll tell you, there's going to be no
36:45leniency and there'll be no pardons.
36:47I can tell you that right now.
36:51You said this morning, 20 years in jail and then maybe
36:53they'll go to one of these prisons
36:55in El Salvador. Do you think with the way
36:57that the judges have been
36:59issuing injunctions, it would be
37:01easier or harder to send these
37:03Tesla domestic terrorists to
37:05a jail in El Salvador than these
37:07MS-13 or Trendy Aragua guys? Well, I view
37:09these people as terrorists just like
37:11others. When I
37:13looked at those showrooms burning
37:15and those cars, not one or two
37:17like seven, eight, ten burning,
37:19exploding all over the place.
37:21These are terrorists. You didn't have
37:23that on January 6th, I can tell you.
37:25You didn't have anything like that on January 6th,
37:27which is sort of amazing because
37:29on January 6th, the
37:31Democrats were talking.
37:33Nobody was killed
37:35other than a very
37:37beautiful young woman, Ashley.
37:39Ashley Babbitt.
37:41Nobody was killed.
37:43You look at what's going on now with these
37:45terrorists. These are terrorists and that's an organized
37:47event. Take a look at their signs.
37:49They're all made by the same
37:51sign company. A nice
37:53expensive job. Now these are
37:55the people that finance it
37:57are, in my opinion, in just as
37:59big a trouble as the people that are setting the match
38:01and setting the fires.
38:03So we'll see.
38:05It's under very serious investigation
38:07by the FBI and by the Justice Department.
38:09These people are terrorists.
38:11Okay.
38:13Yeah, go ahead, behind you.
38:15What do you say to American military families
38:17who are seeing Elon Musk at the
38:19Pentagon today, are hearing about
38:21the Justice Department cuts and
38:23their thoughts are immediately going to the
38:25safety of their loved ones who are currently
38:27employed? Well, we're making our country strong
38:29and when they see a thing
38:31like that and they hear that story about
38:33Elon and China,
38:35what they should do is realize that the
38:37New York Times is a corrupt
38:39institution because I think they're the ones, they knew
38:41that story wasn't true. Nobody believed that story.
38:43People that, when I first
38:45called, they laughed when they heard this
38:47story. Nobody believed it. That the Pentagon
38:49was giving him a briefing on
38:51what war with China would look like
38:53and he has business. No, they
38:55made that up because it's a good story to make up.
38:57They're very dishonest people.
38:59Look, I have it with the
39:01Times and you'll
39:03see more and more of it.
39:05To me, it's a very, very
39:07dishonest organization.
39:09But a story like that is made up.
39:11It's total fiction.
39:13And I just wanted to make sure.
39:15I called up
39:17the chief of staff and I called up Pete
39:19and I said, is there any truth to
39:21that? Absolutely not. He's
39:23there for Doge, not there for China.
39:25And if you ever mentioned
39:27China, I think he'd walk out of the room. He wouldn't
39:29take it anyway. So,
39:31it's just a made up story.
39:33Nobody's taking better
39:35care of the military. One of the things that
39:37I know that Pete's doing is he's talking
39:39about a lot of the civilian staff
39:41and
39:43we're going to get them other jobs. You know,
39:45we have a lot of jobs in this country.
39:47But we don't want to have wasteful jobs. We want to have
39:49meaningful jobs.
39:51And those were wasteful jobs. Those are jobs that
39:53not only military, but
39:55jobs where people don't show up.
39:57You take a look at Department
39:59of Education. I've never seen so many
40:01buildings with the names on it. You go past
40:03one after another Department of Education
40:05and they're empty.
40:07The people don't show up. You know why? Because they have
40:09other jobs. Because they're playing
40:11golf or they're playing something.
40:13They're doing something.
40:15And we have a lot of great people, but we have to move
40:17that back to the states. We're going to make our
40:19country strong and we're going to get people
40:21much better jobs because
40:23we have companies moving into our country
40:25the likes of which we've never seen before.
40:27Nothing like this has happened.
40:29And it's automatic.
40:31They don't want to pay the tariffs.
40:33How do you avoid
40:35paying the tariffs? You build
40:37your plant in the United States
40:39and it's a beautiful
40:41thing to see. I see it.
40:43So far, I would say $4 trillion.
40:45Nobody's ever heard of
40:47numbers. No country's ever heard of numbers like
40:49that. $4 trillion. And those are the best
40:51ones. The biggest,
40:53best chip maker in the world.
40:55I'm not a fan of the chip act
40:57where you give billions away to
40:59billions of dollars away to companies that don't
41:01need it. And it won't bring
41:03them here. I'm giving
41:05nothing away. All they're doing is coming here.
41:07They're building because they want to avoid. Remember
41:09this on the tariffs, too, because that's going to be
41:11Liberation Day, April 2nd.
41:13It's reciprocal.
41:15If they charge
41:17us, we charge them. So
41:19somebody will say, well, how much are the tariffs?
41:21Very fair.
41:23If India, as an example,
41:25has been very bad to us
41:27on tariffs. They charge 100%,
41:29200%.
41:31Whatever they charge. Now, Europe
41:33just announced
41:35they're lowering the tariffs on cars.
41:37You know, we charge
41:39like a joke, 2.5%. That's
41:41what this country charges.
41:43Europe just announced that they're reducing
41:45their tariffs on cars to 2.5%.
41:47It's nice.
41:49But they also have non-monetary tariffs
41:51where they make it impossible for the cars
41:53to get in, even without the dollars
41:55on them and the dollar signs.
41:57It's called a non-monetary tariff where
41:59they put on controls where no matter
42:01what happens, because they don't want cars.
42:03They don't want the American car in their market.
42:05And yet they send us millions
42:07of cars. They send us big agriculture.
42:09They don't want our agriculture. They don't want anything
42:11from us. European Union's very
42:13tough. But
42:15now it's fair. So whatever they do
42:17to us, we do to them.
42:23As Russia continues to attack
42:25Ukraine, are you planning to impose any sort
42:27of sanctions? Well, they're fighting against each other.
42:29Yeah, I think we're going to have
42:31a ceasefire on a lot
42:33of areas. And so far, that's all held
42:35very well. And
42:37getting that ceasefire, you know, they
42:39had a lot of guns pointing at each other.
42:41You had some soldiers, unfortunately,
42:43surrounded by other soldiers.
42:45And they are
42:47going to be, I believe,
42:49we're going to pretty soon have
42:51a full ceasefire, and then we're going to have a contract.
42:53And the contract's being negotiated.
42:55The contract in terms of dividing
42:57up the lands, etc., etc.
42:59It's being negotiated as we speak.
43:01What do you say to critics who say
43:03that your actions towards law firms
43:05amount to coercion?
43:07Well, the law firms all want
43:09to make deals. You mean the law firms that
43:11were going after, that went after me for
43:13four years ruthlessly, violently,
43:15illegally? You mean, are those the
43:17law firms you're talking about? They're not babies.
43:19They're very sophisticated people.
43:21Those law firms
43:23did bad things.
43:25They went after me for years.
43:27Russia, Russia, Russia,
43:29Russia hoax. All a hoax.
43:31It was Hunter Biden's
43:33laptop. It didn't come out of Russia, by the
43:35way. It came out of his bedroom.
43:37It was all
43:39a hoax developed by
43:41Democrats. Hillary,
43:43I don't think Biden did, because I don't think
43:45Biden knows what the hell he's doing, frankly,
43:47based on everything I see.
43:49I've seen things since
43:51being here that are so sad. What he's done
43:53to this country,
43:55what he and they did to this country,
43:57those people that surrounded him, who, by the way,
43:59are radical left, but smart.
44:01He's not smart. He was never smart.
44:03But these are radical left, smart
44:05people. They totally controlled him.
44:07He did whatever they told him to do.
44:09And it's a shame. It's so
44:11sad to see what happened. What they've done to this
44:13country, both, not only the
44:15inflation, the inflation you saw, but
44:17allowing millions of criminals,
44:19millions and millions of criminals
44:21into our country, that's
44:23an inexcusable act.
44:25And many other things besides that.
44:27Thank you very much, everybody.
44:33Thank you, everybody.
44:35Thank you, guys.
44:37We're here.
44:39President Donald Trump there is speaking with
44:41Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
44:43just before that,
44:45announcing some new fighter jets that were going to be
44:47employed within the Air Force
44:49and then also taking several
44:51questions from reporters.