Bannon's War Room - April 23, 2025


Episode 4435: Trump Signs EO's Accrediting Colleges


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 6 minutes

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172.94026

Word Count

11,535

Sentence Count

1,114

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

On today's show, we talk about the Justice Department and what's happening behind the scenes, and why it's important to know what's going on with the DOJ and why you should not be worried about what's coming.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hardcore. Here's what we're going to do. The president is, I think, we're setting up to go
00:00:04.920 to the Oval Office. The president of the United States is going to sign some executive orders.
00:00:10.280 He's already had a couple of media veils today. One is the sticks. Another one, he stepped outside
00:00:16.160 to talk about Zelensky. I have just recently got something about Zelensky from the president's
00:00:22.560 office. We're going to read the true social you put up. I know he wants that out there. But before
00:00:25.980 we go to all that, Mike Davis, the viceroy is in the neighborhood, dropped by with a message.
00:00:31.920 I just had several meetings at the Trump Justice Department. I met with the Attorney General,
00:00:38.720 Pam Bondi, the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, the acting number three, Chad Mizell,
00:00:44.980 and the incoming number three, Stanley Woodward. I want to reassure the war room posse that they are
00:00:53.180 very much on top of what's happening in our country, right? And just because you're not seeing
00:00:59.620 criminal indictments right now, that does not mean they're not coming. They are very much in coming.
00:01:06.320 I want you to go back to that team because that's pretty impressive. This is not President Trump's
00:01:10.820 first term Justice Department. Walk through who the players are, starting with Pam.
00:01:14.700 So Pam Bondi is the Attorney General. She is a rock solid constitutionalist. She's bold. She's
00:01:23.020 fearless. She's not being flashy about what she's doing behind the scenes. She is very much doing
00:01:28.540 things behind the scenes. We love Pam. Okay, who else? She's great. Todd Blanche. Fabulous.
00:01:33.960 The Deputy Attorney General. Took the president on as a client when nobody else would touch it.
00:01:38.560 And got ostracized for it. Now these law firms are scrambling for Todd's blessing. Let's just put
00:01:46.240 it that way. Good luck to those law firms, especially law firms like Perkins Coie. Good
00:01:51.680 luck. So he's the deputy. He's the Deputy Attorney General. He runs the day-to-day of the department.
00:01:57.280 Chad Mizell is Pam's chief of staff, who's also the acting number three, the acting associate attorney
00:02:03.760 general. Is he going to stay? He's doing a great job as chief of staff. Is he going to go to be
00:02:07.540 number three and give up chief? He'll stay as chief? No, he's staying as chief of staff,
00:02:10.180 which is more important. It's just more important. Stanley Woodward is going to be the associate
00:02:15.940 attorney general once he gets confirmed. So he's moving from the White House over at DOJ.
00:02:22.020 Yeah, he's counselor to the AG right now. And he was Navarro's lawyer. Yeah, and he was
00:02:26.740 Stanley Woodward's, or excuse me, Walt Natas. Stanley Woodward was Walt Natas' attorney,
00:02:33.700 the co-defendant on the presidential records case. President Trump has a rock-solid team of
00:02:40.420 very good lawyers who are battle-tested, who are loyal to the president and in his agenda,
00:02:45.780 they should be. And the word is from Pam and the team is that, hey, we can't, we're not going to
00:02:52.340 screw any of these things up. We don't want to hurry it. Things are happening. Stand by.
00:02:56.820 Justice is definitely coming. Let me just assure the war room posse, justice is coming and there's
00:03:04.580 going to be accountability for this unprecedented Republican lawfare where the Biden Justice
00:03:12.500 Department was politicized and weaponized. There's going to be accountability for a lot of these crimes.
00:03:17.780 It takes time to build these crimes. Cash Patel is there. He's doing a hell of a good job. So is Dan
00:03:23.780 Bongino, his deputy. Justice is coming. So just because we don't see it publicly does not mean
00:03:31.140 it's not happening. I know what's happening. Okay, the viceroy speaks. I think it makes people feel a
00:03:36.180 lot better, right? Because we only have a certain amount of time to take the deep state. I don't
00:03:40.580 need to tell you that. We're burning daylight, but good. You've gone over and done a check and they're
00:03:44.900 good people. Pam and them are the best. I mean, we just want to make sure they know we have their back,
00:03:49.700 but the posse, the MAGA of MAGA is once action, action, action. Look, there's a difference this
00:03:56.820 time. Our attorney general actually has balls. Yes. This time, unlike the last two, this one
00:04:02.500 actually has balls and it's Pam Boddy. It's amazing. It takes a woman to have balls. Yes. So a couple
00:04:08.020 other things. Number one, you mentioned Perkins and you're going to give me the heads up. As soon as
00:04:11.700 the president starts in the Oval, we're going to jump in there. We're going to do the cold open
00:04:15.460 everything later, but I got to get the viceroy where I got him. Perkins Cooey, there's some
00:04:19.780 confusion today about the president and the lawsuit. And is the president suing Perkins Cooey
00:04:25.620 personally? Is the government going after Perkins Cooey again on a different thing? What's going on?
00:04:31.540 It sounds like the president's going to sue Perkins Cooey personally. And I would say this to Perkins
00:04:36.980 Cooey's clients like Boeing, you know, Boeing that still hasn't delivered Air Force One planes after
00:04:43.460 President Trump ordered them in his first term. They were supposed to be delivered by now. And
00:04:48.420 Perkins Cooey is Boeing's lead outside law firm. I think Perkins Cooey's 30% of its revenue comes
00:04:54.900 from Boeing. I would say to clients like Boeing, you might want to find new law firms because Perkins
00:05:00.340 Cooey is not the law firm you want to use with the Trump administration. That's just my uneducated
00:05:06.340 guess as the outsider, as the viceroy. Today, we're going to have hopefully Benzman and Mike
00:05:13.300 and Michael Patrick Leahy on here later about the MS-13 guy. It turns out now in Tennessee
00:05:21.940 that he was caught. He was stopped by Tennessee state police for driving a vehicle with eight
00:05:27.860 guys jammed into a car. And it turns out that our vehicle and it turns out that that was now
00:05:33.460 licensed to a human trafficker. He was taking these guys to a site. What I mean, this thing is so
00:05:40.020 egregious. What are your thoughts on that? Now that we have more information. So does Chris Van
00:05:44.260 Holland want to fly back down to El Salvador and have margaritas with this piece of garbage
00:05:50.260 who beats women, who traffics women, who traffics children? These Democrats are so malicious with
00:05:57.060 their PR campaigns. And Republicans, particularly Republicans on the Supreme Court, are so dumb that
00:06:03.780 they get duped by these hoaxes every single time. And you think this is pretty cut and dry because
00:06:09.460 it looks like human trafficking, right? He was taking guys to a job site. It's so obvious. No,
00:06:13.460 he's just a Maryland father driving his friends around. I mean, how stupid are these people?
00:06:17.140 They're doing for last anything else in any of the new developments today on either filed Supreme Court
00:06:22.980 or et cetera. And do you think still today that by delaying, they're denying that we're losing?
00:06:30.340 I look, I think the Supreme Court is going to start feeling the heat. And I hope the Chief Justice
00:06:36.500 Commanding General John Roberts understands that if you're going to tell the President of the United
00:06:42.660 States that he cannot fulfill his constitutional duty under Article II as Commander in Chief and get
00:06:49.380 foreign terrorists out of our country, the Supreme Court is going to lose its legitimacy. It's going to
00:06:54.580 lose its funding. It's going to lose its jurisdiction. It's going to lose everything. So this is
00:06:59.940 not some balancing test by Commanding General John Roberts and his, his other commanders,
00:07:05.620 his six other commanders on the Supreme Court. You're playing a high stakes game here and you're
00:07:09.700 going to lose. The House Judiciary and the rest of the House return next week. What should,
00:07:16.580 we want everybody to go to Article III and downloading and get the app, but what should we be thinking
00:07:20.660 about as our action item for next week in regards to this very topic? Well, I would say go to
00:07:25.380 article3project.org and take action. And I think we need to take a whack at the federal judiciary's
00:07:32.580 budget. They have a $10 billion annual budget. Right now, the Supreme Court let Judge Ali,
00:07:39.060 this new Biden radical in D.C. sent $2 billion out the door. We have Boesburg, who sabotaged,
00:07:46.980 exposed and sabotaged an ongoing military operation putting American allied lives in danger. So two action
00:07:53.380 items. Let's take $2 billion under the $10 billion budget and let's have the House Judiciary Committee
00:07:59.700 open impeachment proceedings on Judge Jeff Boesburg. And now it's very evident that Boesburg inserted
00:08:06.980 himself between the commander in chief and the commander in chief's actions, which I don't think
00:08:12.020 has ever been done before in American history, to basically get due process rights for guys like
00:08:19.060 the human trafficker. I mean, what's so stunning, it's so obvious that these guys fall into the
00:08:23.460 category of, you know, you've got to round these guys up and get them to get them the hell out of
00:08:28.340 the country. After they put Trump supporters in the D.C. gulag, as Julie Kelly has exposed for four years
00:08:34.900 without due process by violating their constitutional rights. But we care about Trendy Aragua,
00:08:41.140 foreign terrorist and MS-13 gang bangers. There's something very sick about Washington, D.C.
00:08:47.460 What about any developments at a Denver that were just filed yesterday? Is that I noticed he didn't
00:08:53.300 try to do a nationwide TRO? Well, I would say this. This is the Denver judge, Colleen Sweeney,
00:08:59.140 or whatever the hell her name is. I forget her name. Another Biden radical who thinks
00:09:03.140 that we have to give 21 days notice to these terrorists before we get them out of the country.
00:09:07.700 I would say this. Remember this. Illegal immigrants do not have constitutional due process
00:09:13.460 rights. The only time they have due process rights is when Congress provides them by statute.
00:09:20.500 And the Alien Enemies Act does not provide due process rights. And so if you're coming up with
00:09:25.060 due process rights under the Alien Enemies Act, you're making crap up. You are a judicial activist
00:09:30.980 making things up. And that is unacceptable. You would think the Supreme Court would understand this.
00:09:36.100 The Supreme Court is currently considering another case before the district court ruled, before the
00:09:42.740 Fifth Circuit ruled, before the solicitor general was able to submit a brief. And you have seven
00:09:50.660 generals, self-appointed generals on the Supreme Court. Who are trying to be military experts instead of
00:09:56.100 judges. Yeah. And telling the President of the United States, probably for the first time in our history,
00:10:00.180 in joining the President of the United States and in adjoining the President on an ongoing military
00:10:05.540 operation to deport foreign terrorists who are working with Venezuela. Look, this is a red line.
00:10:10.660 This is a red line for the federal judiciary. If Chief John, if Commanding General John Roberts wants to
00:10:16.900 light on fire the federal judiciary's legitimacy, this is the playbook. This is what you would do.
00:10:22.820 Why do you say that? Why do you say that this decision or around this situation with his Article II powers
00:10:30.980 as Commander-in-Chief, why is this the issue? Because this is a 90-10 issue for Americans. And
00:10:36.500 John Roberts and his six Lieutenant Generals think they're going to tell the President of the United
00:10:42.580 States he is enjoined from doing anything, let alone deporting foreign terrorists. This is unacceptable.
00:10:49.060 This is crossing the red line. This is lawless. This is dangerous. This is where the judiciary
00:10:55.060 loses the hearts and minds of the American people. And when that happens, when you lose
00:10:59.860 public legitimacy as a court, you lose everything. They do not have Green Berets as law clerks. They do
00:11:05.940 not have an army. Why Grassley heads up the Senate? Why is Grassley not going to step in? Why are we
00:11:13.860 depending upon the House to do it? It seems like to me, somebody up there is also got to have Trump's
00:11:18.900 back and getting a formal process, even though, you know, let's say it's not impeachment. There's
00:11:24.580 so many other tools they have to do this. You know, you got to cutting the budget, but you have other
00:11:29.380 things. Why is Grassley, if Jim Jordan's not going to move and people, you know, for years have said,
00:11:34.820 Jim Jordan's just not a guy that's going to take action or be forward leaning. Yeah. A good guy,
00:11:39.300 but just not going to do it. Why is Grassley not doing it? Grassley is a workhorse, not a show horse.
00:11:44.660 And I am working with Grassley and his staff right now on a legislative fix to all of this.
00:11:49.940 So stay a legislative fix. Stay tuned. So I was pretty good knowing there would be something
00:11:54.580 happening there. And so, and he's Grassley is not a lawyer as a farmer, right? He's a,
00:11:59.620 he's the smartest non-lawyer lawyer you're ever going to meet. He's been on the Judiciary Committee
00:12:04.980 for 40 years and he manages to outmaneuver. Why did he do that early on? You know, as a farmer,
00:12:11.620 not a lawyer, I think because it's almost unheard of not, they're all lawyers up there and they all
00:12:16.260 fight for judiciary because they want to be seen later in confirmation hearings, particularly on
00:12:21.380 Supreme Court justice. How did a guy that was not a lawyer, given the fact that they fall on
00:12:25.620 hand grenades to get that, how did he end up on judiciary? I think leadership wanted him to do
00:12:30.020 it. So he did it. I mean, the common sense of a guy that's not a lawyer. And he was able to,
00:12:34.100 he was very effective on the Judiciary Committee during the farm crisis. So that affected Iowa. He's,
00:12:40.020 yes, he is the most effective Senate judiciary chairman Republicans have ever had. You just
00:12:44.900 have to look at his results in the first term, a record number. And you know him so well because
00:12:48.980 you worked on the confirmation, which is people should understand the confirmation of these judges.
00:12:53.860 It's brutal. Grassley will outwork and outsmart anyone. Last thing, I know you've got to bounce
00:12:59.380 from the president. Ed Martin, I just realized in doing my research, there has not been a confirmation
00:13:05.940 hearing for 40 years for a U.S. attorney. They are confirmed, but it's done in a in a paperwork
00:13:11.460 process. The Democrats are demanding now a confirmation hearing for our buddy Ed Martin.
00:13:16.740 Your thoughts? I'm going to meet Ed Martin right after this, and I'm going to do everything I can
00:13:20.980 to help Ed Martin get through that process. Go to article3project.org, take action and light up
00:13:26.180 both of your home state senators. To say there should be no in-person confirmation hearing?
00:13:30.900 That's not going to happen. They're not going to start that. They're not going to go down that
00:13:33.700 path of having hearings for U.S. attorneys. Even with a controversial guy like Ed Martin?
00:13:38.260 He either has the votes or he doesn't have the votes. So let's call both of your home state
00:13:41.780 senators and light them up. This is huge. Article 3 project and what do they do? What's your task
00:13:47.860 and purpose today? Well, I would say one last thing. I hear, you know, maybe, just maybe,
00:13:54.740 Big Tish James, maybe, just maybe, she should lawyer up because maybe, just maybe, justice is
00:14:01.700 coming for lying on your Virginia mortgage application. Defrauding.
00:14:05.940 They're going to go in soon. Okay, Mike Davis. Yes, sir.
00:14:08.740 Article 3. You're in the middle of it all today. The Viceroy on Capitol Hill. Brother,
00:14:13.220 thank you so much. We're cutting to the what? In about 20 seconds.
00:14:16.900 We're cutting to the Oval Office. Let's go and pick it up early. Let's do it.
00:14:19.780 All right. President of the United States.
00:14:31.780 Awesome.
00:14:33.780 Do you want to get in here?
00:14:43.780 Hello, everybody.
00:15:09.780 Hello, everybody. So we have a very special group of wounded veterans who are amazing. I've
00:15:17.460 actually visited many of them in the hospital, and they came out better than me. They came out
00:15:25.220 looking good. If I had that look, I would have been president 20 years ago. I wouldn't have had to wait
00:15:30.100 so long. You look great, fellas. But we have many of them. I didn't even realize it at the time, but I
00:15:35.780 visited many of you in the hospital. They did an incredible job. The doctors are absolutely
00:15:41.700 unbelievable, the job they do. So we were having a little meeting. And at the same time,
00:15:46.340 we're signing some very important legislation, what will become legislation. And right now,
00:15:52.260 it's an executive order. And having to do mostly with education. We have our secretary of education,
00:16:00.580 Linda McMahon, who's been so incredible over the last few weeks. I've been watching her on television.
00:16:05.060 I'd like to tell her she can do better, but she can't. She can't do any better. So I want to thank
00:16:09.940 you, Linda. Fantastic. And we also have commerce. And we have labor with us today. And you have been,
00:16:16.260 thank you very much. And Howard, thank you very much. And we'll take some questions after we're
00:16:22.420 finished. Maybe I'll ask Will to step forward. And you can go through some of these. Also,
00:16:30.740 Lindsay, you work with Will, two very talented lawyers, as you all know by now. Thank you,
00:16:37.380 Mr. President. And we'll go through them. And Linda, why don't you come over here? In fact,
00:16:40.500 one of the three of you come over here. We also have a special guest with us today, sir.
00:16:46.260 Oh, that's right. Annette Albright. Where is Annette? Annette Albright. Charlotte Mecklenburg
00:16:57.300 school teacher. Very special one. Thank you very much. It's a great honor to have you get all sorts
00:17:02.980 of awards for talent. That's good. Thank you very much for being with us. Appreciate it. Thank you.
00:17:09.220 Okay, please. Sir, the first executive order we have prepared for your attention. There are
00:17:13.620 currently laws on the books requiring certain disclosures of universities when they accept
00:17:19.460 large foreign gifts. We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard,
00:17:25.220 have routinely violated this law. And this law has not been effectively enforced. So this executive order
00:17:31.460 charges your departments and agencies with enforcing the laws on the books with respect to foreign gifts to
00:17:37.380 American universities. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll put it right here.
00:17:48.500 Next for you, sir. University accreditation is currently a process controlled by a number of
00:17:54.660 third party organizations. That's by statute, by law. Many of those third party accreditors have relied
00:18:01.620 on sort of woke ideology to accredit universities instead of accrediting based on
00:18:07.140 merit and performance. This executive order affects a number of changes to the university accreditation
00:18:13.940 process also applies to law schools and other sort of graduate programs. But the basic idea is to force
00:18:21.700 accreditation to be focused on the merit and the actual results that these universities are providing
00:18:28.340 as opposed to how woke these universities have gotten. So we're setting up new accreditation pathways.
00:18:34.100 We're charging the Department of Education to really look holistically at this accreditation mess and
00:18:39.060 hopefully make it much better. Will we look into the past people that they've taken? For instance, I hear
00:18:45.620 all about certain great schools and then we read where they're going to teach people basic math,
00:18:51.940 math that we can all do very easily, but they can't do their, you know, going to the top school and they're
00:18:56.900 going to come out with a program of teaching basic math to somebody that got into a Harvard or Princeton
00:19:04.100 or Yale. Is that part of this? When universities are not performing appropriately, whether that's in
00:19:11.940 admissions or whether that's in their actual instructional activities, that's certainly something
00:19:16.500 that accreditors should be considering that right now we believe they're they're not doing a good enough
00:19:21.540 job of. And I think Secretary McMahon could probably speak to that better than I could. So they're
00:19:25.700 allowing people into school. They can't do math and yet kids who've worked really hard and number one
00:19:31.700 in their class in a high school someplace in New Jersey or in Mississippi, they can't get into the best
00:19:37.540 schools. What is that all about? Yeah, and I think that gets to your policy, sir, of meritocracy,
00:19:43.220 that we should be looking at those who have real merit to get in. And they and we have to look harder at
00:19:48.500 those universities that aren't enforcing that. Okay, thank you. And this pretty much does it, right?
00:19:53.620 Yes, sir. Thank you.
00:20:04.820 Okay.
00:20:10.820 Thank you. Sir, during your first administration, you made promoting historically black colleges and
00:20:17.460 universities HBCUs a major priority. This executive order takes existing law on HBCUs and brings it into
00:20:26.260 effect. We're going to be setting up a White House initiative on HBCUs. The basic idea here is making
00:20:32.020 sure that every aspect of your administration is working to ensure that HBCUs are able to do their
00:20:38.100 job as effectively and as efficiently as possible.
00:20:57.620 This next executive order relates to artificial intelligence education, sir. You've obviously done a
00:21:03.860 lot in the artificial intelligence space already. The basic idea of this executive order is to ensure
00:21:10.180 that we properly train the workforce of the future by ensuring that school children, young Americans are
00:21:17.140 adequately trained in AI tools so that they can be competitive in the economy years from now into the
00:21:23.460 future as AI becomes a bigger and bigger deal. That's a big deal because AI is where it seems to be at.
00:21:29.700 We have literally trillions of dollars being invested invested in AI. And there are somebody today, a very smart
00:21:38.740 person said that AI is the way to the future. I don't know if that's right or not, but certainly very smart people
00:21:45.060 are investing in it heavily.
00:21:46.340 Good.
00:22:03.060 Okay.
00:22:04.580 Next here we have an executive order on workforce development. This executive order is going to
00:22:09.380 charge numerous departments and agencies within the government to reshape the way that we do workforce
00:22:16.260 development. One example from the executive order, for instance, we're looking to get the total number
00:22:21.460 of apprenticeships, new apprenticeships up to a million in the country to ensure that in critical
00:22:28.180 jobs areas and in areas where we currently don't have enough trained workers, that we're recreating that
00:22:34.420 pipeline to ensure that particularly as we onshore industrial jobs and new industries, that those industries
00:22:41.700 have the workforce they need to be competitive globally.
00:22:44.900 Right. Very important.
00:22:46.900 And this is the EO that we're all here working together.
00:22:50.740 And in a way, this is like a training center, right, for what we're trying to do, which is jobs and
00:22:57.380 great salaries. These are great salaries, too.
00:22:59.940 Right. It's exactly. So all those factories that you're bringing in because of your trade policy,
00:23:05.460 we're going to train people in tradecraft, bring back tradecraft to America so that people can work
00:23:11.780 in these factories with great paying jobs. And we're going to train them and we're going to remake the
00:23:16.420 American dream for all these people. We're working together.
00:23:19.860 That's right. Right, Lori?
00:23:20.900 Absolutely. This plays right into America at Work Tour, which I have kicked off. We will work with our state
00:23:28.340 partners and work with our businesses to see exactly who they need in that workforce. And we will skill and upskill
00:23:33.220 these apprentices so they can get right to work and get in the field and build back this economy for
00:23:38.100 exactly the living the American dream.
00:23:43.780 Next, sir, we have an executive order on school discipline policies.
00:23:47.780 Under, I believe it was the Biden administration, first Obama and then Biden, the Department of Justice
00:23:52.980 issued guidance that made it almost impossible for schools to enforce adequate disciplinary policies.
00:24:00.340 This created issues in the classroom for teachers and students alike. Basically,
00:24:05.540 they focused on CRT and sort of diversity ideology instead of actually just enforcing the rules in
00:24:12.580 classrooms to ensure a safe learning environment. This executive order revokes that prior guidance
00:24:18.260 and puts us back in a place where hopefully the Department of Education can focus on education and
00:24:23.540 teachers can focus on teaching in a safe environment.
00:24:26.340 And this was important for you, Linda, as I understand it?
00:24:29.060 Yeah, absolutely, because it gives teachers the authority now to have discipline in their classroom
00:24:34.420 and discipline the person who is being disruptive. We took that away.
00:24:40.500 Okay.
00:24:50.260 Okay.
00:24:56.660 Nice.
00:24:57.060 Cool.
00:24:57.380 I feel like you should hold that.
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00:28:46.820 We have an executive order on disparate impact theory. This is a theory that underlies a lot of
00:28:52.480 the modern DEI and CRT-driven diversity culture. The basic idea here is instructing your departments
00:28:59.400 and agencies to no longer rely on disparate impact theory as they're regulating, as they're
00:29:05.240 issuing guidance, as they're making rules. We want to focus on results. We want to focus
00:29:10.840 on actual fairness. We want to focus on merit, not things like disparate impact theory and the
00:29:16.360 whole sort of diversity, equity, and inclusion cult. It's getting out of that, huh? Yes, sir.
00:29:21.160 Thank you very good job. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much. Would you like to introduce again Annette and perhaps Annette wants to say something?
00:29:47.160 Annette is right here. Yes, Annette. Yes, please come over.
00:29:57.960 Would you like to have some comments to make? I know you're a former Charlotte Mecklenburg school teacher.
00:30:02.120 I'm a North Carolina girl, so it's nice to be here. Yes, New Bern. Yes. Thank you so much for having me.
00:30:08.760 Thank you so much. I am so honored to be here. This has been an eight-year
00:30:12.920 journey for me to raise awareness to the violence that's in public schools and the critical need to
00:30:20.040 address violence in public schools. Again, been doing it eight years because most administrations
00:30:26.040 like to keep the violence hidden. We have three students that should be here with us today. We have
00:30:31.720 Austin McClough, I'm sorry if I say his name wrong, Serenity Baker, and Niger Taylor from Charlotte,
00:30:38.840 North Carolina who was shot in the back as he was getting off of a school bus because they thought
00:30:44.040 he was a part of a big brawl that happened inside a public high school. So this is very important and
00:30:50.680 critical legislation that we have to keep our educators safe, we have to keep our students safe,
00:30:56.680 and public schools have to be safe environments. So I think, like I said, I've done this journey alone,
00:31:02.920 I've been on it, but I have a whole team behind me now. I spoke at the RNC, and I told millions that
00:31:10.840 Donald Trump and his administration was going to make schools great again,
00:31:14.200 and I feel that we're on the right path, and I'm just honored to be here. Thank you.
00:31:18.360 Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. What an honor.
00:31:36.600 Great job. Could I ask Sarah to speak? Yes, sir. Thank you.
00:31:41.080 Tell us a little bit about these great gentlemen. These heroes, Mr. President, are extraordinary.
00:31:46.920 This is my husband, Michael, and so many of our dear, dear friends who are here today.
00:31:51.880 Many of them have met you, sir, in your first administration in the hospital,
00:31:55.160 many times at Walter Reed, and they've had long recoveries. Tomorrow, for my husband,
00:31:59.960 marks 15 years since he was wounded in Afghanistan. And on that day, about six years ago, he had his
00:32:05.960 120th surgery post-Afghanistan, and you came to see him at Walter Reed and so many others. And we saw
00:32:13.560 great reform in the VA access, same-day access to prosthetics, mental health care, and we know that
00:32:19.400 that is back. We're going to these gentlemen were saying, Alex here earlier was saying in the last few
00:32:24.600 years when he's gone to get a wheelchair, the VA has asked him, this gentleman, they've asked him to
00:32:29.240 prove that he still has his injuries as though maybe his limbs would grow back. And they unfortunately
00:32:36.120 did not. Yes. And we've seen that many times. And so we're excited for you bringing back the VA
00:32:40.840 accountability, Mission Act, community care, that were the hallmark of your first term.
00:32:45.560 And we're so excited, sir, to be here. We're honored to be here. And thank you for all you do for
00:32:49.720 our nation's heroes. Thank you. Who's that picture on there?
00:32:54.040 That is Joe Biden, and it says, Let's go, Brandon.
00:33:01.160 I'm saying, What was that picture?
00:33:04.200 I told him he wasn't allowed to ask you to sign it.
00:33:06.360 That's great. That's very good. Well, thank you all very much. Would you like to say anything,
00:33:13.080 fellas? There's a big chance you have a lot of good people watching that believe in
00:33:18.760 you. They happen to be the media, but they believe very much in you like I do. Anybody?
00:33:23.480 Mr. President, we're just very happy with the energy that this administration is bringing.
00:33:27.480 And it's an administration that says, does what it promises. And so we're behind you. We believe in
00:33:33.240 you. And I think we all love you. Thank you very much. And I'm going to get you a better hat.
00:33:38.760 Say I have better hats. That's a good one. That was the original.
00:33:42.200 It was. That means he was there.
00:33:43.720 I've been wearing it before it was cool.
00:33:44.920 That's right. That's an early one. We'll save that one, though, right?
00:33:48.360 Yes, Mr. President.
00:33:49.160 Thank you. Anybody, please?
00:33:50.280 I'd like to say, yeah.
00:33:51.800 Okay. I was just going to say thank you for loving America, sir.
00:33:54.840 Thank you. Thank you so much.
00:33:55.960 Very nice. Thank you very much. True. Thank you.
00:33:58.600 Sir, the manager spoke to save Michael Brardo's life. And of course, he goes immediately to say
00:34:03.320 thank you, as he was the one that saved Michael Brardo, put him in the helicopter,
00:34:07.320 and got him off the combat zone. So the selflessness of these men is unspeakable.
00:34:11.640 That's great to you.
00:34:12.760 He's alive because of that man right here.
00:34:14.440 That's very good.
00:34:22.920 These are amazing people, great heroes. So that's really great. Anybody else?
00:34:27.960 I'd like to say it was an honor to serve. You are worth it. This country's worth it. And it's
00:34:32.920 because of what Christ paid for it. Thank you. And we have a spirit that people haven't seen in many
00:34:38.120 years, at least five, that they haven't seen. I think even then, because we've been through so
00:34:45.960 much for the last four years together, it was so bad. It was so bad, what they've done to the borders,
00:34:51.320 what they've done all over the place. And it's really an honor to be with you, all of you.
00:34:57.160 Incredible. And I'm going to give you these coins. I think you're going to really like them.
00:35:01.400 I think they're the best. These are the best coins. And you have your chairs. This is gun metal.
00:35:06.920 I don't know, soldiers like the black, but I think you like this one. It's okay.
00:35:12.760 A lot of soldiers like the black. Here you go. What do you like?
00:35:16.680 I'll go to the black in prison. See, I told you.
00:35:24.680 These are choices. I'll take a black one, sir.
00:35:27.720 Look at this. That rarely happens. You're different, huh?
00:35:32.840 Take a black one, sir. There you go. That's great.
00:35:35.880 They call the military. No, but I always say the soldiers, they do like it. It's gun metal.
00:35:41.800 What do we like here? That's what I heard, that it was gun metal.
00:35:44.200 I'm giving him two.
00:35:49.560 We have three girls. They're going to fight.
00:35:51.480 We'll get another one, too. Okay.
00:35:54.040 This is actually fun. I'll take the gold one, sir.
00:35:59.720 Okay. I thought you were going to take that gold one. Okay.
00:36:05.720 Gold one, sir. Okay. You got it.
00:36:07.800 I had an opportunity to sail across the Gulf of America two days after you named it right.
00:36:11.400 Oh, wow. Is that good?
00:36:15.080 It's been an honor. And now people say it routinely.
00:36:18.920 Yep.
00:36:19.320 They don't even think about the other. They say it routinely.
00:36:22.120 That's been a great honor for me.
00:36:24.840 Okay.
00:36:26.920 I'll take a gold one, sir.
00:36:28.440 Okay.
00:36:33.960 Almost even. I think gold is an edge.
00:36:36.440 I would love a gold one, sir. Thank you so much.
00:36:38.440 Thank you.
00:36:39.160 The gold, it picked up at the end, right?
00:36:42.680 Are we all okay? That's good.
00:36:45.000 Yeah. So, I want to thank you very much. And especially, that's a great story.
00:36:50.440 Yeah?
00:36:51.320 Yes, sir.
00:36:51.880 So, what do you think of a guy like that? Pretty good.
00:36:53.960 Oh, we actually, him from Manhattan, we all served together.
00:36:58.600 Wow.
00:36:59.240 And Jared over there.
00:37:01.080 And Jared over there.
00:37:01.880 And Jared over there.
00:37:02.520 And Jared over there.
00:37:02.680 Oh, I forgot.
00:37:03.480 So, you guys got hit, huh? Pretty good.
00:37:05.960 You got hit.
00:37:06.600 Pretty good.
00:37:07.320 Amazing.
00:37:07.800 Amazing.
00:37:08.360 We're in a pretty tough area in the Argonaut River Valley.
00:37:11.240 Right outside Kandahar.
00:37:12.680 Their unit had a more than 50% purple heart rate, sir.
00:37:15.960 Wow.
00:37:16.520 In 2010.
00:37:17.160 You deserve it.
00:37:18.760 You deserve that and more.
00:37:19.960 We appreciate it so much.
00:37:21.560 Brave, really brave, brilliant people.
00:37:24.440 Thank you very much.
00:37:25.720 Do you have any questions of the guys here?
00:37:29.720 I want to say thank you to the veterans who are here.
00:37:32.600 Thank you so much for defending us.
00:37:34.200 And then I wanted to ask you, Mr. President, because you said
00:37:36.680 you want to bring the tariffs on China down soon.
00:37:40.440 How soon do you want to bring the tariffs on China?
00:37:44.680 Well, that depends on them.
00:37:46.040 We have a situation where we have a very, very great place.
00:37:51.560 It's called the United States of America.
00:37:53.560 And it's been ripped off for years and years.
00:37:56.520 These people know it.
00:37:57.400 We talked about it before you came in.
00:37:59.800 We've been ripped off by every country in the world,
00:38:01.960 practically, and friend and foe.
00:38:04.040 And we will.
00:38:06.920 We're not doing that anymore.
00:38:08.040 So what's happened is we've.
00:38:10.520 Howard, how many countries have we spoken to already?
00:38:13.080 Ninety.
00:38:13.560 Ninety.
00:38:16.680 And they all want to make deals.
00:38:19.640 We're going to make deals, but they're going to be fair deals.
00:38:22.120 They're not going to be rip off deals.
00:38:23.480 And, you know, we were losing almost five billion dollars a year.
00:38:28.360 No country can do that.
00:38:30.280 And now we have it down almost to even, maybe even better than even,
00:38:34.280 because of the tariffs on cars and aluminum and steel.
00:38:38.120 We have tariffs 25% on cars, aluminum and steel.
00:38:42.040 And there's a rush to build new steel plants, a rush to build new aluminum plants,
00:38:46.680 and a biggest rush I've ever seen that we've ever seen to build car plants.
00:38:51.320 We have like 11 of them or something, big ones, where you guys maybe work.
00:38:55.960 Maybe you won't want to work.
00:38:57.000 You'll do something else instead of that.
00:38:58.680 But if you like cars, you'd like to work on one of these plants,
00:39:01.080 the biggest plants in the world.
00:39:02.920 Three of them have left Mexico before construction started,
00:39:05.960 one of them during construction.
00:39:08.200 And they're coming to this country.
00:39:09.800 They're coming back.
00:39:10.520 Don't forget.
00:39:11.080 And we get along great with Mexico.
00:39:13.160 But Mexico took 32% of our car building business.
00:39:17.320 So it's amazing what's happened.
00:39:20.920 Remember this number.
00:39:22.520 Anywhere from three to five billion dollars a day.
00:39:27.720 That's not million dollars.
00:39:28.920 That's a billion dollars a day.
00:39:30.280 Nobody can even imagine it.
00:39:32.360 And that's what we were losing.
00:39:33.800 And, you know, hence we have 36 trillion dollars in debt and everything else.
00:39:38.040 And in the end, I think what's going to happen is we're going to have great deals.
00:39:41.560 And by the way, if we don't have a deal with a company or a country,
00:39:45.560 we're going to set the tariff.
00:39:46.680 We just set the tariff.
00:39:47.640 It's something that we think that will happen, I'd say, over the next couple of weeks.
00:39:51.400 Wouldn't you say?
00:39:51.960 I think so.
00:39:52.600 Over the next two, three weeks, we'll be setting the number.
00:39:56.760 And we're going to pick, could be for China, too.
00:39:59.160 Could be for China.
00:40:00.120 Well, we're dealing with almost all of them.
00:40:03.000 Too many to fully deal with, but we're going to be fair to them.
00:40:06.120 But we're dealing with a lot of countries right now.
00:40:08.600 And it could be with China, but maybe we'll make a special, you know, a deal.
00:40:14.360 And we'll see what it will be.
00:40:15.640 Right now, it's 145 percent.
00:40:17.400 That's very high.
00:40:18.840 It got there because of the fentanyl.
00:40:21.320 They're sending, you know, massive amounts of fentanyl into our country and killing a lot of
00:40:26.600 people, probably 200,000 plus a year, wiping them out.
00:40:30.040 You probably all have friends who were killed.
00:40:32.520 Somebody was killed in your family or your friends with fentanyl.
00:40:36.120 And somehow it's made almost exclusively in China.
00:40:39.960 And as you know, we essentially taxed them 10 and then another 10.
00:40:46.920 We also taxed Mexico 25 and we taxed Canada 25.
00:40:51.720 And that's the kind of money that's what's pouring into our country right now.
00:40:56.840 And it's gotten us down from losing three to five billion dollars a day to
00:41:01.240 actually making money, but breaking even, let's say.
00:41:03.960 But we're going to make a lot of money.
00:41:06.040 And that money is going to be used to reduce taxes.
00:41:08.280 We're going to get big, big tax breaks.
00:41:09.880 We're going to, you know, there was a time.
00:41:12.680 I said it this morning.
00:41:13.720 I think some of you were there.
00:41:15.400 There was a time from 1870 to 1913.
00:41:19.320 It was a long time ago.
00:41:20.280 We were an all tariff nation.
00:41:22.440 The foreign nations paid taxes.
00:41:24.280 They paid money to us in the form of tariffs.
00:41:27.000 And that was when we were the wealthiest.
00:41:28.760 We were the wealthiest proportionately that we ever were.
00:41:32.280 And they formed committees in 1887 in particular.
00:41:37.160 But they formed committees to determine what we should do with all the money.
00:41:40.920 We had so much money. You guys would have loved it.
00:41:43.880 We had so much money. They didn't know what to do with it.
00:41:46.280 We gave it away to different causes.
00:41:49.080 And you haven't seen that too much anymore.
00:41:52.280 Although we gave plenty away, but now we shouldn't be giving it away.
00:41:54.680 We have to take care of ourselves first, right?
00:41:57.000 Absolutely.
00:41:57.720 But we were very wealthy and proportionately the wealthiest we ever were.
00:42:02.360 We built the Panama Canal.
00:42:03.720 Jimmy Carter gave that away for one dollar, by the way.
00:42:06.680 One of the most profitable things ever built the Panama Canal.
00:42:09.800 We gave it away for one dollar to Panama.
00:42:13.240 Why? I don't know.
00:42:14.920 Nobody knows, but that's what we had.
00:42:16.520 We have people like that sitting behind this desk.
00:42:19.240 And that shouldn't have happened.
00:42:21.160 Panama Canal, we spent, it was the most expensive thing ever built by our country in history.
00:42:27.560 I'm talking relative dollars.
00:42:30.040 We've never built anything so expensive.
00:42:31.960 I think it was the equivalent of 1.7 billion dollars.
00:42:35.880 And we've never built anything like that.
00:42:39.400 We built, we built a lot of things, but never so expensive.
00:42:44.040 Then we started building other things.
00:42:45.720 We had a lot of money to do it, all based on foreign countries coming in and paying us tariffs.
00:42:51.640 And we're doing that again.
00:42:52.600 And I think we're going to make so much that we're going to be able to reduce taxes in this country by a lot.
00:42:57.000 And we're also going to treat those countries very fairly.
00:42:59.800 But if we don't make a deal, which is possible, we're going to just set the price.
00:43:04.600 Because you remember, they have to come in.
00:43:06.280 They want to come in here and they want to do business with the United States.
00:43:10.040 So we want to set a fair price and we'll do that.
00:43:13.000 We're going to be very fair, but we'll set a fair price.
00:43:15.560 And then they can make a determination as to whether or not they want to do business with the United States.
00:43:20.200 And I think most of them will.
00:43:21.800 And I think we're going to treat them very fairly.
00:43:23.640 Were you worried about what the 145% tariffs were doing to small businesses here in the U.S.?
00:43:29.720 Is that why you're bringing it down?
00:43:30.680 No, no, no.
00:43:31.720 No, I haven't brought it down.
00:43:33.320 I haven't brought it still 145.
00:43:35.720 I haven't brought it down.
00:43:36.760 I said it's a high tariff.
00:43:38.200 It is a high tariff, but I haven't brought it down.
00:43:40.840 It basically means China's not doing any business with us, essentially, because it's a very high number.
00:43:45.960 So when you add that to the price of a product, you know, a lot of those products aren't going to sell.
00:43:51.880 But China's not doing any business.
00:43:53.560 They were doing they were doing one point one trillion dollars.
00:43:59.240 Think of the one point one trillion dollars.
00:44:01.720 You know what that is?
00:44:03.160 And it was just very unfair to us.
00:44:05.560 And we were doing very little relatively very little with them.
00:44:08.440 It was a one sided, very one sided.
00:44:11.080 But we get along.
00:44:12.040 I get along very well with President Xi.
00:44:13.800 And I hope we can make a deal.
00:44:14.920 Otherwise, we'll set a price.
00:44:16.200 And if they don't, that's OK.
00:44:21.880 Sir Ryan, on your trip to Rome, there's a lot of leaders attending the Post funeral who also said they'd like to meet with you while you're there.
00:44:28.760 Do you have any meetings set up?
00:44:30.040 Yes, I do.
00:44:30.920 I have a lot of meetings set up.
00:44:32.600 I don't know if I can do it.
00:44:33.560 Do you want to help me out, fellas?
00:44:35.480 I've had a lot of meetings.
00:44:36.840 I got every leader in the world, which tells you that we have a good product.
00:44:41.640 It's called the United States of America.
00:44:43.720 And it's great.
00:44:45.080 And these people know about it better than anybody in this room.
00:44:49.320 But we have a great we have a great place.
00:44:51.880 And it should be a lot greater.
00:44:55.080 And that's what we're going to do.
00:44:56.120 We're going to make it greater than ever before.
00:44:58.680 It's very simple.
00:44:59.400 Who are you going to be meeting with President Xi?
00:45:01.160 Well, I have a lot of meetings set up.
00:45:02.680 Yeah.
00:45:03.160 And are you bringing anyone with you in the U.S. delegation to the funeral, like Secretary Rubio or a former president?
00:45:09.000 We have a couple of people coming.
00:45:11.400 We'll announce it probably this evening or tomorrow.
00:45:14.360 The first lady is going.
00:45:17.880 And some people are coming with me from staff.
00:45:21.320 But we'll have a number of people going.
00:45:23.240 It's going to be I'm sure it's going to be a beautiful ceremony.
00:45:26.920 I had one on Ukraine, but I wanted to ask you one about veterans since they are here today.
00:45:30.680 And thank you for your service and sacrifice.
00:45:32.760 I wanted to ask you about the cuts that have been made, including with the VA.
00:45:36.920 Can you assure that veterans like these men here, those that have been suffering from mental health
00:45:43.800 issues or birth pits, for example, will be taken care of?
00:45:47.880 Yeah, very much so.
00:45:49.000 In fact, they will tell you it's been better with me than any president in history.
00:45:54.120 We had a 92 percent approval rating, which is unheard of, up 50 points from the previous administration
00:46:00.760 in my first four years.
00:46:01.960 And we're doing better now.
00:46:03.240 In fact, now they have something to call in to call in doctor stuff where it's really become,
00:46:08.280 you know, it's really become modernized and great.
00:46:10.520 We don't have to go and travel sometimes long distances to get to a clinic or get to the VA.
00:46:17.240 And I just heard this morning.
00:46:18.520 I was listening to Doug Collins, who's the secretary.
00:46:21.000 He was being interviewed.
00:46:22.680 And the numbers are incredible.
00:46:24.280 The approval ratings are the highest.
00:46:26.760 I've never heard numbers like this.
00:46:28.280 It's better than the first four years.
00:46:30.440 So, no, there's nobody.
00:46:32.200 There's no group of people more important than the people in this room.
00:46:37.000 And I'm not talking about the media.
00:46:39.080 I'm talking about I'm talking about these people right here.
00:46:41.640 There's no group and they're going to be taken really well care of.
00:46:44.920 That's very important to me.
00:46:46.040 And on the war in Ukraine, are you going to be meeting with President Zelenskyy?
00:46:50.360 He's asked to meet with you this weekend.
00:46:51.640 Will you be meeting with him?
00:46:52.600 I don't know.
00:46:53.160 I don't know that he's going to the funeral or not.
00:46:55.560 But I just hope he gets this thing solved.
00:46:59.240 Because we're losing about, think of this, 5,000.
00:47:03.240 I was saying 2,500.
00:47:05.320 Everyone was telling me that's low.
00:47:07.320 5,000 soldiers are being killed every week, approximately.
00:47:11.960 Think of that.
00:47:12.760 Every week, 5,000 soldiers.
00:47:15.080 But let's say from 3,000 to 5,000 are being killed.
00:47:18.920 They're Russian and Ukrainian.
00:47:20.280 They're not Americans, but they're Russian, but they're people.
00:47:23.320 And they're humans.
00:47:24.680 They're human beings.
00:47:25.480 They have families.
00:47:26.200 They wave goodbye to their son.
00:47:28.200 And then they get a call that the son's no longer there.
00:47:31.080 It's a vicious war.
00:47:33.160 And if I can help solve it, you know, we're not losing our soldiers,
00:47:36.760 but we're losing soldiers, a lot of people.
00:47:39.240 And if I can solve it because of a certain ability, that would be great.
00:47:42.440 And if it doesn't happen, I will say that I think Russia is ready.
00:47:48.040 And a lot of people said Russia wanted to go for the whole thing.
00:47:51.640 And they've, I think we have a deal with Russia.
00:47:56.200 We have to get a deal with Zelenskyy.
00:47:58.600 And I hope that Zelenskyy, I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelenskyy so far.
00:48:02.840 It's been harder, but that's okay.
00:48:05.000 It's all right.
00:48:05.720 But I think we have a deal with both.
00:48:09.640 I hope they do it because I'm looking to save.
00:48:12.200 And, you know, we spend a lot of money, but this is about a lot of humanity.
00:48:16.840 This is the worst.
00:48:18.680 I get the pictures, the satellite pictures.
00:48:21.480 I've never seen anything like it of the fields after these, some of these battles.
00:48:25.640 It's horrible that it's going for nothing.
00:48:28.280 We would have never had this problem.
00:48:29.640 You would have never had that war if I were president.
00:48:31.880 I guarantee you that.
00:48:32.680 And for four years, you didn't have it.
00:48:35.880 Are you going to meet the Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia?
00:48:40.520 It's possible, but most likely not.
00:48:42.600 I think we'll meet with him shortly thereafter.
00:48:45.080 What is this that I'm going to present to the...
00:48:47.160 Federal Reserve Chairman Jamal Powell, during the Biden administration in the campaign,
00:48:53.560 with inflation raging, he lowered interest rates two times.
00:48:58.120 That's right.
00:48:58.760 Now, with two consecutive months of inflation being down, all economic theory you learned
00:49:05.240 in the eighth grade says it's time to cut rates when inflation is down.
00:49:09.240 You're right.
00:49:09.560 He's not done that.
00:49:10.760 Have you had any direct conversation with him?
00:49:13.000 No, I haven't.
00:49:13.480 I haven't called him.
00:49:14.360 I might call him.
00:49:15.720 I haven't called him, but I believe he's making a mistake by not lowering interest rates.
00:49:19.960 And I think as well as we're doing, we do much better.
00:49:23.160 He's keeping rates too high.
00:49:25.640 He historically has been late, except when it came to Biden.
00:49:29.240 He was recommended by a certain person that I'm not particularly happy with.
00:49:34.440 But he will hopefully do the right thing.
00:49:38.840 The right thing is to lower interest rates.
00:49:40.600 So we'll see what happens.
00:49:41.560 I think we're sitting on something that's going to be very good.
00:49:44.440 With all the tariff money starting to come in, our country is going to be doing really well.
00:49:49.240 And hopefully he'll be...
00:49:50.760 We don't have inflation.
00:49:52.280 Grocers are down.
00:49:53.800 When I first came in, you people were there.
00:49:56.760 They hit me with the first day that I was president.
00:49:59.240 Somebody started screaming at me that eggs are up.
00:50:01.800 I said, I've just, I just got here.
00:50:03.960 And in the first week, they were going crazy.
00:50:05.880 You remember that, Linda?
00:50:06.840 Yes.
00:50:07.240 They were going crazy.
00:50:08.200 They're saying egg prices or two.
00:50:10.040 I said, I'm here for one week.
00:50:12.760 Just leave me alone.
00:50:14.040 This is a fake news radio.
00:50:15.880 And I said, you know, what can I tell you?
00:50:18.600 But Brooke Rollins, our secretary of agriculture, and a group working with her have done an amazing
00:50:23.000 job.
00:50:23.320 And egg prices have gone down 87%.
00:50:27.320 Energy now is now $65 a barrel.
00:50:29.720 They have some energy selling gasoline for less than $2 in a couple of states, in Alabama,
00:50:35.560 a couple of great states.
00:50:37.160 But all over the country, it's way down from what it was six months ago, three months ago.
00:50:43.480 And that has a lot to do with the war.
00:50:47.560 You know, when Biden allowed energy to skyrocket, it just skyrocketed.
00:50:53.080 It was out of control.
00:50:55.400 Russia made a lot more money because they make their money on energy.
00:50:58.840 And I kept saying, you know, he supposedly wants to end the war,
00:51:01.480 but he lets energy go out of control.
00:51:03.720 Well, I've gotten it.
00:51:05.000 We are drilling like crazy right now.
00:51:07.080 And we have it down to $65 a barrel.
00:51:09.960 It went up to almost $100 a barrel.
00:51:13.160 And at that number, Putin and Russia made a lot of money.
00:51:17.560 So I think one of the reasons, look, I think he has a certain respect for me.
00:51:22.440 But one of the reasons, one of the big reasons is oil prices are down.
00:51:25.640 I think this is a good time to get the war settled.
00:51:27.480 Thank you.
00:51:27.960 Thank you.
00:51:28.280 One more question.
00:51:28.920 Thank you for that question.
00:51:30.120 For those of us that live here in the district, you said when you came in,
00:51:33.960 you were going to make Washington, D.C. great again.
00:51:36.760 Right.
00:51:37.240 One of the issues we've got right now is we understand there might be an imminent deal
00:51:41.240 between the owner of the Washington football team, whatever you want to call them now, commanders,
00:51:46.600 and locally in getting the Redskins back to D.C. and RFK Stadium.
00:51:52.600 That's on federal property.
00:51:54.520 Right.
00:51:54.840 Are you going to be involved in that negotiation?
00:51:57.160 Yeah.
00:51:57.480 And would one of the stipulations be they change their name back to the Redskins?
00:52:01.720 Oh, I see.
00:52:02.200 Well, that's a little bit, nobody's asked for that one.
00:52:05.640 Look, I think when the Indian population is a great part of this country, great heritage,
00:52:14.760 and we're talking about Massapequa, Long Island, the Chiefs, they call them the Chiefs,
00:52:19.560 or the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:52:20.760 They're not changing their name, but great team, great people, great owners, great coaching,
00:52:25.960 quarterback.
00:52:26.760 I love the quarterback, like his girlfriend, too, and his wife.
00:52:30.920 His wife is great. She's been a big fan. His quarterback's mother is incredible. I like that
00:52:39.160 team. They're called the Chiefs. And frankly, I see nothing wrong with it. They call them the Warriors,
00:52:45.640 and not that team, but a lot of other teams. And all of these Indian surnames and different names.
00:52:51.960 And I'm saying that I think that's a positive thing. And when you go back to India, they pull
00:52:57.560 this. They don't know why these names are being taken off. They're trying to, I think it's degrading
00:53:03.480 to the Indian population. And it's a great population. And they like when they're, you know,
00:53:08.760 called by various names. Now, Washington, the Redskins, perhaps, that's a little different,
00:53:15.400 a little bit different. But I can tell you that I spoke to people of Indian heritage that love that
00:53:21.320 name, and they love that team. And I think it's a much, you know, I think it's a superior name to
00:53:25.800 what they have right now. And it had heritage behind it. It had something special. But a lot
00:53:30.360 of the names having to do with, you know, different places, not just Indians. But I think it's,
00:53:35.560 they changed the name of the Cleveland Indians. Why would you take the name Indians off the Cleveland
00:53:41.160 Indians? And now it's called the Cleveland something else. Right? Guardians. It just doesn't
00:53:47.800 make sense to me. So, you know, we're about bringing common sense back to this country.
00:53:53.720 And it may be popular or unpopular, what I'm saying. And I've just said to you,
00:53:57.720 he's a nice guy. He got a lot out of me on this one. But I think most people agree with me.
00:54:03.560 I think it really is demeaning to Indians. But to change the name of the Cleveland Indians as an
00:54:09.080 example to the Cleveland Guardians is not, it's not the same. And I'm sure it has an impact on the
00:54:15.160 team. Thank you, sir. Elon Musk said he'll be stepping back from his work with Doge a little
00:54:20.600 bit and only dedicating maybe a day or two a week to it. How long would you like to see that
00:54:24.760 continue? And how would you like to see him continue? Well, first of all, I can't speak
00:54:29.560 more highly about any individual. He's an incredible guy. He's a brilliant guy. He's a wonderful
00:54:34.920 person. I've seen him with his family. I've seen him with a lot of his children. He's got a lot of
00:54:40.040 children. He treats him good. He loves his children. But he's a brilliant guy. And he was
00:54:48.280 a tremendous help both in the campaign and in what he's done with Doge. And, you know, we're talking
00:54:56.200 about almost $200 billion and rising fast because many of the things that we were looking at are now
00:55:02.680 being found out to be fact. It's terrible. I mean, the fraud, the waste, the abuse, the
00:55:11.240 everything that's happened is just terrible. So I also know that he was treated very unfairly by the,
00:55:18.840 I guess he caught the public by some of the public, not by all of it. But he makes an incredible car,
00:55:24.040 makes everything he does is good. But they took it out on Tesla. And I just thought it was so unfair
00:55:31.560 because he's trying to help the country. But he has helped the country. I also want him to make
00:55:36.280 sure that he's going to be in great shape. And I know he is. I mean, he's going to be,
00:55:40.040 he's going to do great. He loves the country. He didn't need to do this. He did it.
00:55:44.840 And I told him, I said, you know, whenever you're ready, I'd like to keep him for a long time. But
00:55:51.320 whenever you're ready, he's an exceptional guy. When you see those rockets go up and come back and
00:55:56.120 land in the same gantry, nobody else can do that but this man. So he's just an incredible person.
00:56:03.160 And he's a friend of mine. And he's a nice person, too. He's a very nice person. He really helped the
00:56:07.320 country, saved us a lot of money. And I heard him say that he'll start easing, which is always,
00:56:13.640 he was always at this time going to ease out. And when he goes back to Tesla, that'll be taken care of.
00:56:20.120 It was just, it's artificial. These were sick people that thought they were doing something.
00:56:25.720 He really, he's a great patriot. And he should, really, it should be, it shouldn't be the way.
00:56:32.520 That should never have happened to him. And I will tell you right now, he makes a great product.
00:56:37.960 He makes a great product. It's a great car. It's great everything. Starlink is great.
00:56:42.680 What he does is good. He's doing medical things that are amazing. And we have to, at some point,
00:56:49.400 let him go and do that. And we expected to be doing it about this time. And, but I'll talk to,
00:56:55.720 I'll talk to Elon about it. Thank you for the question.
00:56:58.040 Mr. President, I have a second question.
00:57:00.440 Canada has an election coming up. How, do you have a prediction for that?
00:57:03.800 And what do you think the results of that?
00:57:05.160 With respect to Canada?
00:57:06.200 With the negotiations?
00:57:06.680 Oh, I don't want to predict other nations' elections. It's tough enough doing this one.
00:57:14.520 Look, I love the Canadian people. I like Canada. But it's costing us
00:57:21.400 200 billion dollars a year to support Canada. 200 billion. And I say, why are we doing that?
00:57:27.320 You know what? We can make our own cars. We have more energy than they do. We have
00:57:31.800 more energy than anybody in the world. We don't need their lumber, obviously. We have
00:57:36.920 more lumber. We have a lot of lumber. We have a lot of everything that they sell us.
00:57:41.560 But in particular cars, they took a large percentage of the car making. And I want to
00:57:46.200 bring it back to this country. I really don't want cars from Canada. So when I put tariffs on Canada,
00:57:51.400 they're paying 25 percent. But that could go up in terms of cars. When we put tariffs on, all we're
00:57:58.120 doing is we're saying, we don't want your cars in all due respect. We want really to make our own
00:58:05.400 cars, which is what we're doing in record numbers. Now, you know, we're going to be at record levels
00:58:09.320 in a very near future because of all the plants, the car plants that are being built. And I'd rather
00:58:14.840 see them made in Michigan and made in South Carolina and made in different states. Tennessee,
00:58:20.840 we have a lot of great car making states and we have some that aren't car making yet. But they
00:58:26.520 will soon be car making states. And that's what I want to see for our country. At the same time,
00:58:32.520 I want to help Canada as to I have spoken to the current prime minister. He was very, very nice,
00:58:40.120 I will say. Very nice. We had a couple of very nice conversations. Very good. But I don't think
00:58:45.400 it's appropriate for me to get involved in their election. This deal that you have with Russia,
00:58:52.600 does it include recognizing Russia's sovereignty over Crimea? Well, everything is good. Look,
00:59:00.920 I just want to see the war end. I don't care if they're both happy. They both signed an agreement.
00:59:07.640 I have no favorites. I don't want to have any favorites. I want to have a deal done. I want to
00:59:12.280 save their lives. Now, with that being said, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars
00:59:17.960 through Biden. Biden should have never let that war happen. We're spending hundreds of billions,
00:59:23.400 maybe $350 billion we've given to Ukraine. And we could use that money right here. So I'd like to see
00:59:31.560 that. But most importantly right now is when I see the pictures, the satellite pictures of the battlefield,
00:59:37.400 if I can stop that because of an ability I have to do things, I want to see if I can do that.
00:59:45.080 Mr. President, on tariffs, you just mentioned that 25% could go up on cars in terms of Canada. Does
00:59:51.480 that mean that you're considering changes to the auto tariffs and auto parts? No,
00:59:55.080 we're not considering it now, but at some point it could go up. Yeah, because again,
00:59:59.000 we don't really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars,
01:00:05.400 and we're now equipped to do that. They took a lot of our car business. Mexico, too,
01:00:10.360 took a lot of our car business. We want to make the cars here. I'm running this country. I'm not
01:00:14.360 running Canada. And that's why I asked Trudeau, who I call Governor Trudeau, affectionately,
01:00:22.360 but I asked him, why are we spending $200 billion to support Canada, to subsidize Canada? And he was
01:00:30.520 unable to answer the question. I mean, why are we doing that? And I have to be honest. As a state,
01:00:37.720 it works great. As a nation, considering the fact that most of the nation, you know, 95% of Canada,
01:00:45.480 what they do is they buy from us, and they sell to us. They sell to us. If we didn't buy their oil,
01:00:52.200 if we didn't buy their oil, and we don't need their oil. We have more oil than anyone, but we don't need
01:00:57.240 their oil. We don't need their lumber. We don't need their cars. We don't need anything. So I said,
01:01:01.560 why are we doing this? Why are we spending $200 billion? It doesn't make sense. If we needed
01:01:06.120 something, that would be a different subject. So I'm working well with Canada. We're doing very well.
01:01:13.720 We're working on a deal. We'll see what happens. But again, you know, why, representing this country,
01:01:21.000 why are we spending $200 billion to support and subsidize another country? Because if they didn't
01:01:30.600 have us, and if we didn't spend that money, as Trudeau told me, they would cease to exist. He said
01:01:37.400 that to me. They would cease to exist, which is true, certainly as a country. On tourism, there's been
01:01:44.040 a steep drop off in international travel to the United States. It was down 12% last month,
01:01:50.840 down even more from Western Europe. Why do you think that there are fewer people suddenly who want
01:01:56.760 to travel to the United States? Well, there could be a little, you know,
01:01:59.480 there's a little nationalism there, I guess, perhaps. It's not a big deal. But, you know,
01:02:04.120 with the dollar being where it is, because, you know, China would always fight for having a low dollar.
01:02:10.280 Japan would always fight for having a low dollar, meaning a low yen, or in the case of China, the
01:02:16.920 yuan. They'd always want to have China. I'd speak to President Xi a lot. I'd say it's unfair that you,
01:02:23.640 you know, your yuan is so low. I'd call up a great man, Prime Minister Abe, great, great man, Shinzo,
01:02:33.000 who was unfortunately assassinated. And I used to tell you, he was a good friend of mine. I used to say,
01:02:39.160 Shinzo, you got to, you can't let your yen go down. It makes it very hard for us to sell tractors.
01:02:44.280 It makes it very hard for us to get tourism. And our dollar is a little bit on the low side.
01:02:51.320 And that means that a lot of tourism is going to come in. But I could see a little bit of nationalism
01:02:56.520 at work. And I can see it likewise with us, not wanting to go to certain countries. But that will
01:03:03.000 work out very easily. Do you think some people are scared to come here because they hear the stories of
01:03:07.640 tourists who are detained for a few days or even a week or two?
01:03:12.360 No, we treat our tourists great. We're the tourism capital of the world. There's nobody,
01:03:18.280 no place like this. And there may be a little bit of nationalism, but I doubt it. I actually doubt it.
01:03:24.520 Yeah. Mr. President,
01:03:25.560 has there been any direct contact between the U.S. and China or trade at all?
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