President Trump takes questions from reporters during his Oval Office meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
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00:30Thank you very much.
00:52It's an honor to have a friend of mine because we went through this together and got along
00:59very well for my entire period of time.
01:04So I knew him as a very young man.
01:06Now he's just a young man.
01:08And he's done a fantastic job.
01:10Mr. President, it's an honor to have you.
01:12He's been doing incredibly for your country.
01:16And we appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime and so do we.
01:22And it's very, very effective.
01:25And I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a
01:29president.
01:31Okay?
01:31And I mean that.
01:32And I know him well.
01:32I know him as a very young man, Marco, even younger than you.
01:38You know, he started pretty young.
01:40He'll always be younger.
01:43Young at heart.
01:44But I want to thank you for the great job you're doing.
01:47I appreciate it.
01:49Well, it's an honor to be here in the Oval Office with the President and Leader of the
01:55Free World.
01:57We're very happy.
01:59And we're very eager to help.
02:01We know that you have a crime problem, a terrorism problem that you need help with.
02:09And we're a small country, but if we can help, we can do it.
02:12And we actually turned the murder capital of the world.
02:16That was the Journalist College, right?
02:18Murder capital of the world to the safest country, the Western Hemisphere.
02:22And, you know, sometimes they say that we increased in thousands.
02:27I like to say that we actually liberated millions.
02:31So, you know, like, it's very good.
02:35Who gave him that line?
02:36Do you think I can use that?
02:37Yes.
02:39In fact, Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate.
02:45But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some.
02:49You know, that's the way it works, right?
02:51You cannot just, you know, free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically.
02:55You have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the
03:01end of crime and the end of terrorism.
03:02I mean, it can be done.
03:03I mean, you're doing it already.
03:06And I'm sure that people have seen the change in the streets.
03:10A long way to go because you're just initiating your second term.
03:14But it's clear that, you know, with the numbers at the border, you know, even in Democrat-run series,
03:21they're going to help from the world view of the line.
03:25So I'm really happy to be here, honored, and eager to help.
03:31Well, we had a terrible thing happen.
03:33We had an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country,
03:40from not only South America, but from all over the world.
03:43Many from the Congo and Africa, Asia, all over the world.
03:48of Europe, rough parts of Europe.
03:50And they came from prisons, and they came from mental institutions,
03:54and they came from gangs, and the gangs of Venezuela and other places.
04:00And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them came.
04:04Twenty-one million people altogether, but many of the people that came,
04:08just a tremendous percentage of them, were criminals,
04:11in some cases violent criminals.
04:13We had 11,088 known murderers.
04:17Half of them murdered more than one person.
04:21This was allowed by a man who, what he did to our country is just unbelievable.
04:27So we're straightening it out.
04:28We're getting them out.
04:30But what they did and what that party did to our country, open borders.
04:33Anybody could come in.
04:34As soon as I heard that, I said, every prison is going to be emptied out into our country.
04:38That's what happened.
04:38And we're straightening it out.
04:41And we just had numbers.
04:43We had the highest recruiting numbers in the history of our country going into police departments.
04:49And a year ago, we had the lowest numbers.
04:51You couldn't hire a business change.
04:53Nobody's ever seen it.
04:54The lowest of the highest.
04:54And the military now, Marines, the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, every slot is, I mean, we have the best numbers we've ever had.
05:06We call it recruitment numbers.
05:08And we've never had anything like it.
05:10We had records on every single, at every single level.
05:15But very important, the policemen.
05:17The policemen are joining forces now that we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren't protecting our police.
05:25And we cherish our police.
05:27The police are great.
05:28And the firemen and everybody else.
05:29But we have the highest numbers that we've ever had.
05:33The most enthusiasm.
05:34We have great enthusiasm.
05:36And on trade and other things, we're doing great.
05:39We're taking in billions and billions of dollars.
05:41We made, two weeks ago, I gave them a little bit of a pause because, you know, you have to show a little flexibility.
05:49We go back to what we have to do.
05:51The markets have been very strong once they got used to it.
05:54But we were losing $2 billion a day.
05:58There's no company big like this.
06:01This is the biggest deal ever made.
06:03Now we're making $3 billion a day.
06:06We're a great country, but we had stupid people running this country.
06:11And I can say what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten.
06:18It's a sin what they did.
06:21And you are helping us out.
06:22And we appreciate it.
06:24Thanks.
06:27Actually, what you're doing with the border is remarkable.
06:30It has dropped, what, 95%?
06:33It's incredible.
06:34As of this morning, 99%, 99.1% to be exact.
06:40Why are those numbers not in the media?
06:42Well, they get out with the fake news, you know, like CNN.
06:45CNN over here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like putting out good numbers.
06:50They only like putting out because I think they hate our country, actually.
06:54But it's a shame.
06:56You're right.
06:56Isn't that a great question?
06:57Why doesn't the media, why don't they put out numbers?
07:00Yeah, 99%.
07:01I mean, it's crazy, right?
07:02We're doing great.
07:03It's a great time around.
07:04Christy, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing?
07:08You know, it's just been absolutely phenomenal what a great leader can do.
07:12Clear direction.
07:13Our laws matter.
07:14We should only have people in our country that love us.
07:17And the Border Patrol and our ICE officers and law enforcement officers have done fantastic work.
07:22So we're proud of them.
07:23Now we just need to get the criminals and murderers and rapists and dangerous gang members and terrorist organizations out of our country.
07:31So, Mr. President, Kelly, we thank you very much for your partnership.
07:35It has been wonderful for us to be able to have somewhere to send the worst of the worst and someone to partner with.
07:41And we'd like to continue that partnership because it's been a powerful message of consequences.
07:47Mr. President, you wanted people to know that there was consequences if you break our laws and harm our people and endanger families.
07:54And this is a clear consequence for the worst of the worst that we have somewhere to put them.
08:00Thank you very much.
08:02Yeah, we even had this gang member from Venezuela, one of the ones you sent, and we interviewed him just to get some information, et cetera, from them.
08:12And he said, oh, well, you know, I got arrested six times, but they released me that six times, so it should be released again.
08:19And then he said, well, what's the last thing you do?
08:21And he said, well, I shot a cop in the leg, but I didn't kill him.
08:25I just shot him in the leg.
08:27And we're like, this guy was arrested six times here in the United States, six times.
08:31He was released six times, and in the last, oh, no, he was released five times, and the last time he was sent to El Salvador, right?
08:38So he's not getting released.
08:39But the last thing, he shot a cop, actually, and he shot him in the leg.
08:44So this are, you know, like you said, yeah, there's something broken.
08:50It's the liberal establishment.
08:53But they're not running things anymore in this country, and we're run by, and I don't say conservative, I don't say anything.
08:59We're run by people with great common sense.
09:02Yeah, common sense.
09:03Because it's all common sense.
09:04It's not liberal conservative.
09:05It's common sense.
09:07Like, do you allow men to play in women's sports?
09:11Do you allow men to box your women in box?
09:13Because I know you have a lot of boxing.
09:15That's violence.
09:16That's abuse against women.
09:20It's abuse against women.
09:20Totally.
09:21But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports.
09:26And some of those sports, it wouldn't matter much, but it still matters.
09:31But some of them are very dangerous for women.
09:33Some years ago, like you said, a decade ago or so, women's rights movements were pressuring so that we enacted specific laws to avoid men abusing women.
09:47And I think those laws were great because there were a lot of men abusing women.
09:50But now some of the same people are trying to backtrack and actually trying to make new laws allowing men to abuse women in sports.
09:59So actually, that doesn't make sense.
10:01It doesn't make sense.
10:03You know, they have weightlifting records, right?
10:05Yeah.
10:06A woman gets up this way.
10:07She's incredible.
10:09A guy gets up and beats her by 100 pounds.
10:12What are you going to do?
10:13A record that hadn't been broken in 18 years.
10:15You know, they put on an ounce and an ounce, a quarter of an ounce, a eighth of an ounce for 18 years now.
10:22They have a guy come up, ping.
10:24The whole thing is crazy.
10:26But they continue to fight.
10:28And I don't like talking about it because I want to save it for just before the next election.
10:32I said my people don't even talk about it because they'll change.
10:36And I watched this morning, there was a congressman fighting to the death for men to play against women in sports.
10:47And you say to yourself, why?
10:50What are they doing, right?
10:51What are they doing?
10:52But your country is not too big in that.
10:55No, of course not.
10:56We're big in protecting women.
10:57Good.
10:58That's right.
10:59It's a very important form of protection.
11:01And as you can see, most of my cabinet are women.
11:04That's impressive.
11:05Yeah, yeah.
11:06That's why you're running.
11:07And they're not the EI hires or anything.
11:09They're just great at what they do.
11:11That's right.
11:12This is very impressive.
11:13This is a first.
11:15We've had women, but we've never had three of them right here.
11:19Four and three men.
11:20Look at what you have.
11:23You guys feel a little bit mistreated?
11:27That's good.
11:28I like it.
11:30We've been advanced.
11:31I've been very advanced in that regard, too.
11:33We have Pam and Sue's been so fantastic.
11:35I think Christy and the most powerful woman they see in the world.
11:40I know.
11:40It's great.
11:41They're all afraid of her.
11:42Susie Wells.
11:43Oh, she's stuffed.
11:45The most powerful woman in the world, according to magazines.
11:47What do I know?
11:48But I think she probably is.
11:49Yeah, she probably is.
11:50Yeah, she probably is.
11:53Congratulations.
11:53And, you know, Stephen has done such a great job.
11:56Thank you, sir.
11:56We have just, we have great people.
11:58We're paying the stuff.
11:59But we love working with the unions.
12:01It really lets them have it, right?
12:03Yeah, exactly.
12:03There's no games.
12:04No.
12:05It's very good.
12:06He knows.
12:07Do you have any questions, please?
12:09Mr. President Trump?
12:10No, let's not stop.
12:11Mr. President, because they're so, they're just so raw.
12:15Yeah, please.
12:15Yeah, thank you, Mr. President.
12:16You repeatedly mentioned last night that Russia's attack on Ukraine was a mistake.
12:22What is the exact mistake that had you given Putin a deadline to actually move toward a ceasefire?
12:28The mistake was letting the war happen.
12:31If Biden were competent and if Zelensky were competent, and I don't know that he is, we had
12:36a rough session with this guy over here.
12:38He just kept asking for more and more.
12:41That war should have never been allowed to happen.
12:43That war, I went four years and Putin wouldn't even bring it up.
12:47And as soon as the election was rigged and I wasn't here, that war started.
12:52There was no way that war should have been allowed to happen.
12:55And Biden should have stopped it.
12:58And you take a look at Putin, I'm not saying anybody's an angel.
13:03But I will tell you, I went four years and it wasn't even a question.
13:07He would never, and I told him, don't do it.
13:09You're not going to do it.
13:10And it was the apple of his eye, but there was no way that he would have done it.
13:14All you had to do is lower oil prices.
13:16If you lowered oil prices, Biden kept the prices so high because he made it impossible to get it.
13:23If you lowered oil prices, you would have never had the war.
13:25But you wouldn't have had it with me anyway.
13:27That war would have never happened.
13:28And I think it's a great abuse.
13:30So now what do you do?
13:32You get a country where 25% of its land is gone and the best locations, where millions of people are killed.
13:39You know, you haven't reported accurately the debt.
13:44And this was Biden's war, and I'm trying to stop it.
13:47And I think we're going to do a good job.
13:49I hope we're going to do it.
13:50They lose 2,500 young people a week, I think, on average.
13:56Now, they're Russians and they're Ukrainians, but it's 2,000.
14:00We don't care.
14:01It's like whatever it is.
14:03They're not from your country.
14:04They're not from mine.
14:05But I want to stop it.
14:062,500, it's a killing field.
14:09It's like the Civil War.
14:10You take a look.
14:11I look at the satellite pictures.
14:13This should not be happening in our time.
14:17Of course, our time can be pretty violent, as we know.
14:19But that's a war that should have never been allowed to start.
14:24And Biden could have stopped it.
14:26And Zelensky could have stopped it.
14:29And Putin should have never started it.
14:32Everybody's to blame.
14:34Have you spoken to President Zelensky, sir, about his offer to purchase more injury missile batteries?
14:39Oh, I don't know.
14:40He's always looking to purchase missiles.
14:42You know, he's against.
14:43Listen, when you start a war, you've got to know that you can win the war, right?
14:47You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.
14:54If we didn't give them what we gave.
14:57Remember, I gave them javelins.
14:59That's how they won their first big battle with the tanks that got stuck in the mud.
15:04And they took them out with javelins.
15:06They have an expression that Obama, at the time, Obama gave them sheets and Trump gave them javelins.
15:14But there's something that should have never happened.
15:17It's really a shame.
15:19The towns are destroyed.
15:20Towns and cities are, you know, largely destroyed.
15:23They have the spires, you know, the beautiful spires that go up.
15:29They say they were the most beautiful in the world in Ukraine, for whatever reason.
15:32But the most beautiful in the world.
15:34They're mostly laying on their side, shattered and broken.
15:38And most importantly, you have millions of people dead.
15:41Millions of people dead because of three people.
15:45I would say three people.
15:47Let's say Putin, number one.
15:49But let's say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing.
15:53Number two, Angelinsky.
15:56And all I can do is try and stop it.
15:59That's all I want to do.
16:00I want to stop the killing.
16:02And I think we're doing well in that regard.
16:04I think you'll have some very good proposals very soon.
16:09Last question.
16:09Have you attributed a motive through the FBI investigation?
16:15Behind the attack on Governor Josh Shapiro over the weekend?
16:18No, I haven't.
16:19But the attacker was not a fan of Trump, I understand.
16:23Just from what I read and from what I've been told.
16:27The attacker basically wasn't a fan of anybody.
16:29It was probably just a whack job.
16:31And certainly a thing like that cannot be allowed to happen.
16:35Is your good relationship with President Bukele?
16:38The best guarantee that this time you won't terminate the temporary protected status?
16:41I have a great relationship with this man.
16:43I have the best relationship with him.
16:46We've known each other.
16:47I've known him since he was a very young man, as I said.
16:51Very, very young.
16:52And I was impressed.
16:53I said, look out.
16:53This guy is, in fact, you sort of look like a teenager.
16:59You look like a teenager.
17:00I said, what kind of a temporary relationship?
17:03He grew up well in the last five years.
17:07Do you support the extension for Nationals of El Salvador under temporary protected status?
17:13Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:14Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:14Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:15Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:16Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:17Do you plan to ask President Bukele?
17:19Let's hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CB.
17:21Thank you, President.
17:21Do you plan to ask President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported?
17:26Which one is it?
17:27The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?
17:30Well, let me ask, Pam, would you answer that question?
17:33Sure, President.
17:34First and foremost, he was illegally in our country.
17:38He had been illegally in our country.
17:40And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country.
17:52Right now, it was a paperwork, it was additional paperwork that needed to be done.
17:57That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him.
18:01That's not up to us.
18:03The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if, as El Salvador wants to return him, this is international matters, foreign affairs, if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.
18:16So will you return him, President Bukele?
18:18And you are doing a great job.
18:20Can you just also respond to that question?
18:25Because, you know, it's asked by CNN and they always ask it with a slant because they're totally slanting because they don't know what's happening.
18:32That's why nobody's watching them.
18:33But would you answer that question also, please?
18:36Yes, gladly.
18:37So as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from El Salvador.
18:42So with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador.
18:46So it's very arrogant, even, for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.
18:55As two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13, when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the INA, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States.
19:13So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation.
19:25This issue was then, by a district court judge, completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here.
19:37That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful,
19:43and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador,
19:57who, again, is a member of MS-13, which, as I'm sure you understand, rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in the most barbaric activities in the world,
20:08and I can promise you if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.
20:10So you don't plan to ask for any help to get him back?
20:14And what was the ruling in the Supreme Court, Steve, was it 9-0?
20:17Yes, it was a 9-0.
20:19In our favor.
20:20In our favor, against the district court ruling, saying that no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States.
20:28As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual, at El Salvador's sole discretion, was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time.
20:37No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here, because he is a citizen of El Salvador.
20:44That is the President of El Salvador.
20:46Your questions about it, per the court, can only be directed to him.
20:49I asked President Bukele, can President Bukele weigh in on this?
20:53Do you plan to return him?
20:54Well, I guess, I'm supposed to have suggested that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right?
21:00How can I smuggle, how can I return him to the United States?
21:04If I could, I smuggle him into the United States, or what do I do it first?
21:07I'm not going to do it.
21:09It's like, I mean, the question is preposterous.
21:12How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?
21:15I don't have the power to return him to the United States.
21:18But you can release him inside of El Salvador.
21:20Yeah, but I'm not releasing, I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.
21:24I mean, we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere,
21:27and you want us to go back into the releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world.
21:33No, that's not going to happen.
21:35Well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know, released into our country.
21:38I mean, there's a fascination.
21:40They would love it.
21:41Yeah.
21:42These are sick people.
21:44Mark, do you have something to say about that?
21:45Yeah, I mean, Stephen Eitland, I don't understand what the confusion is.
21:49This individual is a citizen of El Salvador.
21:51He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.
21:55That's where you deport people, back to their country of origin.
21:57Except for Venezuela, that wasn't refusing to take people back or places like that.
22:01I can tell you this, Mr. President.
22:03No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States, not by a court.
22:08And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.
22:13It's that simple.
22:14End of story.
22:15And that's what the Supreme Court held, by the way, to Marco's point.
22:18The Supreme Court said exactly what Marco said,
22:20that no court has the authority to compel the foreign policy function of the United States.
22:24We want a case 9-0, and people like CNN are portraying it as a loss, as usual,
22:29because they want foreign terrorists in the country who kidnap women and children.
22:33But President Trump, his policy is foreign terrorists that are here illegally get expelled from the country,
22:38which, by the way, is a 90-10 issue.
22:40Well, Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned,
22:44that you would abide by that.
22:45You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago.
22:47And they said that it must be facilitated.
22:50Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country?
22:55Why can't you just say that?
22:56Why do you go over and over, and that's why nobody watches you anymore.
23:00You have no credibility.
23:02Please, go ahead.
23:03President Trump, thank you so much.
23:05How many illegal criminals are you planning on exporting to El Salvador?
23:10And, President Bukele, how many are you willing to take from the U.S.?
23:13As many as possible.
23:16And I just asked the President, you know, it's this massive complex that he built, jail complex.
23:21I said, can you build some more of them, please?
23:24As many as we can get out of our country that were allowed in here by incompetent Joe Biden
23:29through open borders, open borders.
23:33You probably hear open borders and you can't even understand it because nobody can understand it.
23:37Nobody smart or with common sense can understand it.
23:40So, we have millions of people that should not be in this country that are dangerous.
23:48Not just people, because we have people, but we have millions of people that are murderers, drug dealers.
23:54They've been allowed to come into our country by other countries that were very smart.
23:58When they heard that this very low IQ president, and by the way, I took my cognitive exam as part of my physical exam,
24:07and I got the highest mark, and one of the doctors said,
24:11sir, I've never seen anybody get that kind of, that was the highest mark.
24:15I hope you're happy with that.
24:17Although, they haven't been bugging me too much to take a cognitive.
24:20But I did do my physical, and it was released.
24:22I hope you're all happy with it.
24:24I noticed there's no question, so probably you are.
24:26But the cognitive, they said to me, sir, would you like to take a cognitive test?
24:31I said, did Biden take one?
24:33No.
24:34Did anybody take one?
24:36No, not too many people took them.
24:38I said, what about Obama?
24:42Did he take one?
24:43No, he didn't take one either.
24:44I said, let me be the only one to take one.
24:47But I've actually taken them three times already.
24:49I like taking them because they're sort of, they're not too tough for me to take.
24:53But we had a great physical exam, so I know you're going to ask that.
24:58And the doctors, who are total professionals, Walter Reed Medical Center, they're great, great people.
25:04And I visited a soldier that was a badly wounded, incredible soldier, lost his leg.
25:11And we spent a lot of time with him, I mean great, with his mother.
25:15And it was really a very great thing.
25:17They do a phenomenal job.
25:18But I just want to say, Walter Reed, I was there for, what, five, six hours.
25:21You were there with me.
25:23But I took a full physical and it came out perfecto.
25:26So that's good.
25:27I mean, she got me for a little longer.
25:29Would you also be willing to pay for those facilities to be open if new ones were going to be built?
25:33I'd do something.
25:34We'd help them out.
25:35Yeah.
25:35We help them out.
25:36They're great facilities.
25:38Very strong facilities.
25:39And they don't play games.
25:43I'd like to go a step further.
25:44I mean, I say, I said it to Pam.
25:46I don't know what the laws are.
25:47We always have to obey the laws.
25:49But we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking.
26:00That are absolute monsters.
26:03I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country.
26:07But you'll have to be looking at the laws on that, Steve.
26:10Okay?
26:13And do you think more presidents should follow suit like you guys as far as taking a hard stamp on crime here in the United States?
26:20Well, I do.
26:20I think everybody has to.
26:22The president said it better than anybody.
26:25He said, you know, you have liberty and you have to have liberty.
26:28But to have liberty, you're going to, not everybody is going to be good.
26:31And, you know, some are bad because they're sick.
26:35They're mentally deranged.
26:36They're bad.
26:38And you have to take them.
26:39If you're going to have a country, you're going to have to take those people out.
26:43And we've been doing that.
26:45But this was like an unforced era, they would call it, where we had people that may hate our country or maybe they're just stupid people.
26:54I think they're probably stupid people more so.
26:57A lot of people said they did it for the vote.
27:00But I did better with Hispanic people than they did because I always use Hispanic.
27:04I did better.
27:05You people love me.
27:06I saw my poll numbers in your country.
27:09I'm through the roof.
27:10Right?
27:1091 percent.
27:12No, no.
27:14Some people think they do it for the vote.
27:17But they don't have to do it for the vote.
27:19They cheat.
27:19You know?
27:19They're professional cheaters.
27:21That's about the only thing they do well.
27:22So, we just have had a great relationship.
27:26And it's become bigger because of a strange thing that happened.
27:30You know, I came back.
27:32We had no war in Ukraine.
27:35We had no war with – we had no October 7th Middle East problem.
27:39We had nothing.
27:40We had no inflation.
27:42We didn't have the Afghanistan most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
27:47The Afghanistan – not withdrawing because I would have been out – you know, I was – I
27:50had it all set to bring people out with dignity and pride.
27:54That was the worst, most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan.
27:59We didn't have any of that.
28:01You wouldn't have had the war with Russia and Ukraine.
28:03You wouldn't have had the Middle East problem because Iran was broke.
28:06They had no money because we had secondary sanctions on and lots of other sanctions.
28:11And now every single thing.
28:14We've got a problem with Iran, but I'll solve that problem.
28:17That's almost an easy one.
28:19We've got to solve a war that should have never started, Ukraine and Russia, and we'll
28:24get that solved.
28:26And we have to solve problems.
28:28And we already solved inflation.
28:29You know, if you look at the numbers, the numbers are incredible, actually.
28:33The stock market's up.
28:35And we're not letting other countries take advantage of this country like they have for
28:40the last 40 years.
28:42So thank you very much.
28:43Do you have a question, please?
28:44Yes, Mr. President.
28:44Thank you so much.
28:45You scored another major investment win this morning when NVIDIA pledged to build its AI
28:50supercomputer, the first time ever, right here in the United States.
28:55That's a question I like.
28:57That's true.
28:57What is your reaction to this announcement, sir, and how will this positive event
29:01for Americans across America, too?
29:03Well, it's one of the biggest announcements you'll ever hear.
29:07Because NVIDIA, as you know, controls that almost the entire sector, which is one of the
29:15most important sectors in the world, between chips and semiconductors and everything else.
29:20And they're the biggest.
29:23And the other biggest we already have coming in is spending $300 million, as you know.
29:27They announced two weeks ago.
29:29But NVIDIA is so highly respected.
29:32And this was an announcement that a lot of people, I knew it was going to happen, but not to the extent
29:39that it happened.
29:40It's big.
29:41And the reason they did it is because of the election on November 5th and because of a thing
29:46called tariffs.
29:47As I say, the most beautiful word in the dictionary.
29:49After love, God, relationship.
29:53The press actually hit me.
29:55I said, tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.
29:58What about family, love, God?
30:02So I got hit even on that.
30:04You understand?
30:04I said, okay.
30:05So now I say it's my fifth most favorite word.
30:09Because they get you on anything.
30:11But no, NVIDIA, it's one of the great companies of the world.
30:17Modern, super modern companies.
30:19Control segments that nobody, you know, sort of controls the world in a sense.
30:24And they're coming in here in the biggest way with hundreds of billions of dollars.
30:28Not like millions of dollars.
30:31Hundreds of billions of dollars.
30:33And I'm honored by it.
30:35And I want to thank Jensen and all of the people that we deal with.
30:40They're great people.
30:41They're brilliant people.
30:42And without tariffs, they wouldn't be doing it.
30:45Thank you very much.
30:46Are you considering additional sanctions against Russia after their latest attack?
30:53And do you have an update on the rate and when you might announce something?
30:57Well, there we have sanctions on Russia.
30:59I put them there.
31:00If you remember, Nord Stream 2, that's the big pipeline that goes through Europe.
31:07I stopped it.
31:08That's Russia's pipeline.
31:09The largest pipeline, I think, in the world.
31:12It goes to Germany.
31:13And I stopped it.
31:14And when Biden came in, he approved it.
31:18And then they say, oh, I'm friendly with Russia.
31:20No, no.
31:21Putin said, you know, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you when you're my enemy.
31:26I stopped the biggest economic job they ever had.
31:29I stopped at coal.
31:30Right?
31:30It was dead.
31:31You know that, right?
31:31And Biden came in and he immediately approved it.
31:36What was that all about?
31:38And it's a pipeline that takes care of a lot of the needs.
31:42Now, you know, it was a very controversial thing.
31:46But I stopped it and Biden approved it.
31:49Questions?
31:50On tariffs.
31:51No, not you.
31:51Not you.
31:52We have, we don't make our own drugs, our own pharmaceuticals.
32:07We don't make our own drugs anymore.
32:08The drug companies are in Ireland and they're in lots of other places, China.
32:14And all I have to do is impose a tariff.
32:18The more, the faster they move in.
32:20The higher the tariff is very serious.
32:22It's inversely proportional.
32:24The higher the tariff, the faster they come.
32:27And, yeah, we're going to be doing that.
32:29That's going to be like we have on cars.
32:31We have, as you know, a 25% tariff on cars.
32:34We have a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum.
32:38And that's what that category fits right now.
32:41Do you have a percentage in mind?
32:42Do you have a timeline?
32:43I have a timeline.
32:44Yeah, not too distant future.
32:46We're doing it because we want to make our own drugs.
32:49We're doing it because we want to make our own steel and aluminum.
32:52Lumber, other things.
32:55And they're all coming in.
32:57We have record numbers.
32:58Seven trillion dollars.
33:01Since I announced, like, a month and a half, it does.
33:05Since I came, basically.
33:06Since I came in.
33:07We have over seven trillion dollars being invested in the country.
33:11We didn't have one trillion.
33:13We didn't have a half a trillion dollars for some of these guys.
33:16They didn't know what the hell they were doing.
33:18So we have the largest investment that we've ever heard of.
33:21And we're only two months in.
33:23And that will continue at levels that you've never seen before.
33:26That's what's going to happen.
33:28And even the stock market's up today.
33:30It's, we also, you know, we, a lot of people didn't say it the way it was.
33:36We had the largest gain in the stock market in history on every single category last week.
33:42That was a nice, nice game because we were getting a little hit because people didn't understand the power of our economic, our country economically, if you use it right.
33:56Do you have something to say on that, J.D.?
33:58Yes, sir.
33:58I mean, look, for 40 years we have lost manufacturing capacity.
34:03Workers have seen their wages stagnate.
34:04And some of the most critical things that we need from the pharmaceuticals, the drugs that we give to our children, the antibiotics that we give to our kids, to the weapons that we actually need to fight a war, if, God forbid, we had to fight a war, we don't make enough of that stuff.
34:19And so President Trump ran explicitly on changing that.
34:22Yes, as the President mentioned, it caused a little bit of disruption in the market.
34:25But I actually think over the long term, workers are going to benefit, stocks are going to go up, American businesses are going to benefit as we reinvest and reindustrialize our country.
34:34And the autoworkers and the teamsters and all of the unions, you know, not traditionally Republican, but I'm winning those unions by, what, 40, 50 points on the Democrats.
34:46They're losing everything.
34:48They're losing everything because they just have policies that are not believable.
34:54They fight for policies that are 5% popular, and nobody knows who the 5% are.
35:00I mean, nobody can find the 5%.
35:02But if you go back to Ohio, and by the way, we have the great championship team from Ohio coming in today, right?
35:09Very big day.
35:10And that's going to be a little bit later.
35:13But, and that'll be, if you want to stick around, I'll introduce you to some of you.
35:18You'll see some very large people, right?
35:20You'll see some people that even you have not seen people like this.
35:25These are big, these are 6'7", 380 pounds, with no fat.
35:30Okay, that's pretty good, right?
35:32But the team, the national championship team, is being honored today at the White House, so that'll be exciting.
35:37You're around.
35:38You want to stay around.
35:39I'll have you up there.
35:40You can tell them all about your prison, how you have to behave.
35:45Okay.
35:47Who else?
35:47You said yesterday that you're making a decision on Iran very quickly.
35:56What do you mean by that?
35:57Is that a decision to strike Iran?
35:59Well, that'll solve their problem very quickly.
36:00Iran wants to deal with us, but they don't know how.
36:03They really don't know how.
36:04We had a meeting with them on Saturday.
36:06We have another meeting scheduled next Saturday.
36:09I said, that's a long time.
36:12You know, that's a long time.
36:13So I think they might be tapping us along.
36:16But Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon.
36:20They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
36:22He can't have a nuclear weapon.
36:23Nobody can have it.
36:24We can't have anybody having nuclear weapons, you know?
36:27We can't have nuclear weapons.
36:29And I think they're tapping us along because they were so used to dealing with stupid people in this country.
36:35And I had Iran perfect.
36:38You had no attacks.
36:39You would have never had October 7th in Israel, the attack by Hamas, because Iran was broke.
36:46It was stone cold broke when I was president.
36:48And I don't want to do that.
36:49I want them to be a rich, great nation.
36:52The only thing is one thing.
36:53Simple.
36:54It's really simple.
36:55They can't have a nuclear weapon.
36:56And they've got to go fast, because they're fairly close to having one.
37:02And they're not going to have one.
37:05And if we have to do something very harsh, we'll do it.
37:08And I'm not doing it for us.
37:09I'm doing it for the world.
37:11And these are radicalized people.
37:13And they cannot have a nuclear weapon.
37:15Does that include a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities?
37:19Of course it does.
37:20And just a follow-up question, a clarification.
37:22You mentioned that you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens, brought criminals, to El Salvador.
37:29Does that include potentially U.S. citizens fully naturalized in Iraq?
37:33If they're criminals and if they hit people with baseball bats over their head that happen to be 90 years old?
37:39And if they rape 87-year-old women in Coney Island, Brooklyn, yeah, yeah, that includes them.
37:49What, do you think they're a special category of person?
37:52They're as bad as anybody that comes in.
37:54And we have bad ones, too.
37:55And I'm all for it.
37:58Because we can do things with the president for less money and have great security.
38:05And we have a huge prison population.
38:08We have a huge number of prisons.
38:10And then we have the private prisons.
38:11And some are operated well, I guess.
38:13And some aren't.
38:14But he does a great job with that.
38:18We have others that we're negotiating with, too.
38:21But, no, if it's a homegrown criminal, I have no problem.
38:27Now, we're studying the laws right now.
38:30Pam is studying.
38:31If we can do that, that's good.
38:32And I'm talking about violent people.
38:34I'm talking about really bad people.
38:36Really bad people.
38:37Every bit as bad as the ones coming in.
38:39And I made the statement when I heard about this a long time ago now, four years ago.
38:46When I heard that this guy was having open borders, I said,
38:50every single criminal from all over the world is going to be dumped into our country.
38:55And that's what happened.
38:56Jails.
38:57The jails of the Congo were emptied out.
39:00The jails of Venezuela were emptied out.
39:02And you know what happened?
39:03Their crime went way down.
39:05But now Venezuela has other problems.
39:08You know what the problem is?
39:09They have no money because I shut off their oil and we put secondary tariffs
39:15because they're not doing what's right over there.
39:19They know what to do.
39:20We spoke to them.
39:21I spoke to them.
39:22They know what to do.
39:23But they have no money.
39:24Venezuela has no money.
39:26But Iran had no money.
39:29And Iran behaved so beautifully.
39:31And then Biden took all those secondary tariffs and tariffs on.
39:36I told China you can't buy oil.
39:37If you buy oil from Iran, China.
39:42I told it to President Xi that we no longer want you to do business with the United States of America.
39:48And those ships disappeared from that harbor so quickly.
39:51China.
39:52It'll look great with China.
39:54Are the talks of Iran productive?
39:55Do you want to continue that?
39:58The talks of Iran, do you believe those are productive?
40:00Do you want to continue that?
40:01I think Iran could be a great country as long as it doesn't have nuclear weapons.
40:07If they have nuclear weapons, they'll never get a chance to be a great country.
40:10They will never get a chance.
40:11It won't even come to us.
40:12Yesterday, you mentioned short-lived product exemptions.
40:19Which specific products are you considering and how long is short-lived?
40:23Least months?
40:23I'm looking at something to help some of the car companies with it.
40:26They're switching to parts that were made in Canada, Mexico, and other places.
40:31And they need a little bit of time because they're going to make them here.
40:36But they need a little bit of time.
40:38So I'm talking about things like that.
40:40What about any Apple products and other cell phones?
40:43Look, I'm a very flexible person.
40:46I don't change my mind, but I'm flexible.
40:48And you have to be.
40:49You just can't have a wall and you'll only go.
40:52Sometimes you have to go around it, under it, or above it.
40:56There'll be maybe things coming up.
40:58I speak to Tim Cook.
41:00I help Tim Cook.
41:01Recently, and that whole business.
41:03I'm not.
41:04I don't want to hurt anybody.
41:06But the end result is we're going to get to the position of greatness for our country.
41:10We're the greatest economic power in the world if we're smart.
41:15If we're not smart, we're going to hurt our country very badly.
41:19We lost, with China, over the Biden years, trillions of dollars on trade.
41:26Trillions of dollars.
41:27And he let them fleece us.
41:31And we can't do that anymore.
41:32And you know what?
41:33I don't blame China at all.
41:34I don't blame President Xi.
41:36I like him.
41:36He likes me.
41:37I mean, you know.
41:38Who knows?
41:39Who the hell cares?
41:40Do you have any updates on talks with China?
41:42But you know what?
41:43What?
41:43Do you have any updates on talks with China?
41:45No, let me just tell you this.
41:47I don't blame China.
41:48I don't blame Vietnam.
41:50I see their meeting today.
41:51Is that wonderful?
41:52That's a lovely meeting.
41:54The meeting like trying to figure out, how do we screw the United States of America?
41:58Don't forget, the European Union was formed to do just that.
42:02The European Union was formed to hurt the United States on trade.
42:08And they get us on NATO because they don't pay their bills.
42:10But now, since I got involved, they have been paying their bills.
42:13I took in over $600 billion for NATO.
42:20Nobody took in anything.
42:21I mean, they were all delinquent.
42:23Most of the – they had eight nations out of 28 paid their bills.
42:27The rest of them were way delinquent.
42:29And I said, if you don't pay your bills, we're not going to protect you anymore.
42:32And the money poured in over 600.
42:33The Secretary General last week made that statement.
42:36He said, I've never seen anything like it.
42:37We couldn't get anybody to pay because the United States was footing the bill for NATO.
42:42Well, we got hurt there, and we got hurt on trade, likewise, European Union.
42:48And they've got to come to the table.
42:51And they're trying to.
42:52They're trying to.
42:54But the European Union has taken terrible advantage.
42:56They don't take our food products.
42:58They don't take our cars.
43:00We take – we have millions of their cars, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, many others.
43:08They come in by the millions.
43:09They don't take – there are no Chevrolets in Munich.
43:12I can tell you that.
43:14I said to Angela Merkel, and when she was there, as she was letting millions of people infiltrate
43:19Germany, which was not so good from – we would call them illegal immigrants, but she made
43:25them legal.
43:26But I said to her – and I got along with her very well.
43:29I said, how many Chevrolets do we have in Munich or Frankfurt?
43:33And I said, why none, Donald, none?
43:36I said, you're right.
43:39And yet we take in millions and millions of cars.
43:42No, those days are over.
43:45Okay.
43:45Thank you very much, everybody.
43:47Thank you, press.
43:48Thank you, press.
43:48Thank you, press.
43:49As on the floor.
43:49Thank you, guys.
43:51This is for the media.
43:52Comment on the FTC's case against Mark – against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.
43:55Thank you, press.
43:56Thank you, press.
43:57Thank you, naive.
43:58Thank you, press.
43:59Thank you, press.
44:00Thank you, press.
44:01Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, thank you, thank you.
44:25Thanks, guys.
45:11You took me all the way out.