Bannon's War Room - August 13, 2025


Episode 4703： Bringing Safety To The Nation's Capital; Trump Announces Kennedy Center Honor Recipients


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

162.3411

Word Count

9,637

Sentence Count

835

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Trump deploys the National Guard to the streets of Washington, D.C. to fight crime and bring order to a city that has been on edge, and it s time to ask the question, what does that mean for the rest of the country?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 They're just anti-institutionalists.
00:00:02.200 You know, Alex Wagner the other day, we're the ones that protect the institutions.
00:00:06.240 No, Alex, we're grabbing the institutions and taking power.
00:00:09.640 As the American people, the way our constitutional system works, gave President Trump the authority
00:00:16.300 to do.
00:00:17.720 So we're going to deconstruct the administrative state.
00:00:20.020 We're going to purge the deep state and the executive branch.
00:00:23.540 We're going to take over the Senate.
00:00:26.440 And we control the House already.
00:00:30.680 Oh, by the way, the judiciary, you're not going to get your judges through.
00:00:34.500 They're all going to be Trump judges.
00:00:35.780 I want you to you're on the fetal position.
00:00:38.420 So I'm going to give you something really to suck your thumbs about.
00:00:41.840 We are in charge.
00:00:43.980 OK, the American people have spoken.
00:00:48.980 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:52.760 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:59.200 I got a free shot.
00:01:00.460 All these networks lying about the people.
00:01:03.440 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:01:05.440 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:01:06.860 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:01:09.480 It's going to happen.
00:01:10.760 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:01:14.160 Mega media.
00:01:15.060 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:01:20.980 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:01:24.680 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:01:31.100 War Room.
00:01:31.900 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:01:33.960 Bannon.
00:01:34.300 It's Wednesday, 13 August, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:01:42.540 A president is going to leave momentarily and arrive at the Kennedy Center.
00:01:46.120 We're going to be covering all of it in this hour.
00:01:48.040 Our own Brian Glenn is there.
00:01:49.540 I want to go to Dr. John Lott, who's been a frequent guest here.
00:01:54.400 One of the best folks about statistics around, but also gets, I think, understands crime.
00:02:00.220 I mean, a blockbuster book, if you've never had a chance to read it, More Guns, Less Crime, monumental, with all the analysis and analytics to back it up.
00:02:09.260 But one of the reasons the Old West was such a polite society, right, when you get something on your hip.
00:02:18.140 John Lott, the president, the deployment of National Guard started yesterday.
00:02:23.200 You've also got the Park Police.
00:02:24.440 You're going to have every federal institution in the city focus on cleaning up the city and particularly cleaning up the crime.
00:02:33.040 People have talked about this and stumbled around on this for years, and now they're throwing out, oh, the crime statistics are down.
00:02:38.960 It's all nonsense.
00:02:40.440 The crime is out of control in Washington, D.C., and everybody knows it.
00:02:43.580 Everybody lives there, whether you're a progressive or whether you're a right-wing reactionary.
00:02:47.440 Your thoughts about how President Trump is doing with the deployment of the National Guard and others, because right now we essentially are seizing the institutions of the capital city, sir.
00:03:01.320 Yeah, well, I hope this is a template for the rest of the country.
00:03:04.720 I mean, Democrats have been saying there's nothing you can do to go and fix the crime problem.
00:03:09.560 And just like with the border being fixed, I think that this is going to make a real difference.
00:03:15.660 Look, right now, D.C., or before Trump did this, D.C. only had about 400 or so patrol officers on duty at any point in time.
00:03:27.000 For a city of 721,000 people, that, as the police unions have said, they were being stretched extremely thin and weren't able to go and do their job,
00:03:37.340 plus all the other restrictions that are put on them.
00:03:39.900 Just in the first night, Trump had an additional 850 officers that were able to be on duty there.
00:03:47.340 That's a huge percent change.
00:03:49.540 So there's like three times as many people out there, law enforcement people, trying to deal with it.
00:03:55.940 And this isn't rocket science.
00:03:58.720 The basic notion is if you want to reduce crime, you have to make it riskier for criminals to commit crime.
00:04:03.840 And that means more arrests, more prosecutions, more convictions and longer prison sentences.
00:04:11.140 And Judge Jeanine Pirro is dealing with part of that with the prosecutions under the Biden administration.
00:04:18.520 The U.S. attorney there in 2022 refused to prosecute 67 percent of those who were arrested.
00:04:29.280 Even in 2023, he refused to prosecute 55 percent of those who were arrested.
00:04:37.000 You know, if you if you don't punish these guys, it's not going to deter them from committing crimes.
00:04:42.160 And and I hope constituents around the country are going to say to their mayors and city councils,
00:04:49.320 if they can go and reduce crime, as I think they'll be able to do in D.C. here.
00:04:54.580 You know, why can't we do these types of things in our own jurisdictions?
00:04:58.480 What is your frustration, Ben?
00:05:03.560 Because you've been on this beat for a long time and you've written some brilliant analysis about it, both articles, interviews, books.
00:05:13.920 And it kind of defies common sense of why these types of of of methods have never been implemented.
00:05:20.460 You said go throughout the country.
00:05:21.820 Why has it not been done?
00:05:24.020 Why has it not been done to date?
00:05:25.960 I mean, even Democrats understand their constituents are sitting there going, hey, look, there's not enough cops around.
00:05:33.340 You particularly have these youth gangs.
00:05:35.340 You've got you've got real gangs and cartels are in partnership with cartels for both human trafficking and drug trafficking.
00:05:42.680 These cities are essentially out of control.
00:05:44.880 And the people that are the biggest victims are the people of color that actually live in these cities and try to be honest citizens and go to work and raise their families.
00:05:54.520 They're the ones that these predators come after.
00:05:58.240 So what has been the pushback?
00:05:59.780 Why are the Democrats not done what President Trump is doing right now in a very dramatic way, sir?
00:06:05.440 Right.
00:06:06.020 No, I mean, you put your finger on it.
00:06:08.060 Exactly.
00:06:08.660 Look, 90 percent of blacks are murdered by other blacks.
00:06:13.340 People tend to commit crimes against people who are like themselves in terms of race and socioeconomic status.
00:06:22.140 And so while you have a lot of these progressives who are saying, you know, blacks share of the population, maybe 13 percent, so they should be no more than 13 percent of the people that are in prison.
00:06:36.280 Who's being harmed by that rather than going and just looking at did somebody commit a crime irregardless of their race?
00:06:43.340 Because even while they may be caring about the criminals there, the people that they're hurting the most are the ones that Democrats claim that they care about, the poor and the minority.
00:06:55.220 But, you know, the one thing you'll say about the progressives is they're consistent in the sense that what you see is that, you know, they won't let law enforcement do its job and they won't let individuals go and protect themselves, too.
00:07:10.160 The same people who put restrictions on law enforcement also are very strong gun control advocates and won't let the poor and others in those cities be able to go and defend themselves.
00:07:23.720 You know, in Washington, D.C., you only have about one percent of the adult population with a concealed carry permit.
00:07:31.200 And even then, there are all sorts of gun ban areas which make it very difficult for people to actually go and carry for their own protection.
00:07:41.300 So you have things like the murder rate is out of control in 2023, the last year that we have data for from across the country, from the FBI, the final data.
00:07:54.900 D.C. ranked fifth of the 60 most populous cities in the country.
00:07:58.760 You know, they'll go and point out that things like carjackings fell in 2024 and they were down to 496 from the 990 the year before.
00:08:12.560 But the problem is it's still five times higher than it was in 2017 and 2018.
00:08:19.440 So, you know, if you want to go and stop these types of crimes, you have to make it the law enforcement's there and you have to also try to make it so that individuals are going to be able to go and protect themselves.
00:08:32.760 But I hope Trump is going to be able to show and I believe he will that these are simple solutions, just like it was to fixing the border.
00:08:42.180 But Trump has done other things that have been helping.
00:08:44.360 I mean, one thing has been, and it's related to the previous guest that you had, when he's gone and closed the border and been deporting illegals.
00:08:54.140 One way, you know, he's not only deported a lot of criminals, but the other criminals that are there, one way to keep from being arrested and deported is to, you know, keep your head down and not commit much crime right now.
00:09:07.920 Because if they're not on police radars, because they're not committing crimes, they're less likely to be arrested and then deported.
00:09:16.860 And so I think one of the reasons why we've been having crime go down nationally right now is because of his immigration policies.
00:09:27.440 You've talked about this as a template and we're a big advocate of that.
00:09:31.740 And we believe that this is a template for particularly Los Angeles, Chicago and in New York City.
00:09:38.360 And we understand what's happening politically in New York City, Chicago.
00:09:41.840 The mayor is already saying that we don't want you in Los Angeles.
00:09:45.120 They're trying to do everything to thwart law and order.
00:09:49.240 Walk me through.
00:09:50.140 How can this be a template to basically from Los Angeles?
00:09:53.380 Let's just deal with those big three, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
00:09:56.160 How could this possibly be a template for actually getting crime out of these cities, sir?
00:10:03.200 Well, I mean, in New York, the leading Democrat nominee there, he wants to go and replace police officers with social welfare workers.
00:10:13.500 He wants to go and make it so that people aren't going to be able to be punished.
00:10:18.220 He wants to get he's in the past advocating getting rid of jails and other types of things like that, saying that it doesn't deter him.
00:10:27.140 You know, people are going to be able to see whether those types of claims are right or wrong with this big increase in in arrests and prosecutions and convictions.
00:10:38.940 They're going to be occurring.
00:10:40.120 My guess is, you know, it's going to be hard for them to go and deny the evidence.
00:10:44.320 With I just want to, in closing, have a this discussion about Judge Jeanine.
00:10:53.400 Now, we have a special situation in in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. attorney there where you have New York and you have Chicago, you have Los Angeles.
00:11:02.500 You have these source backed local prosecutors.
00:11:06.220 How can, for instance, the Southern District of New York?
00:11:08.440 I mean, what do you have to do?
00:11:09.720 Because it's twofold.
00:11:11.000 Number one, you deploy more resources, maybe National Guard.
00:11:15.460 You get more police officers on the street, a bigger show of force to thwart the criminals and make arrests.
00:11:20.520 But then you've got to prosecute.
00:11:21.720 How do you do that in these other cities, John?
00:11:24.880 Right.
00:11:25.280 Well, I mean, D.C. is a little bit of a unique case in the sense that the U.S. attorney there handles prosecutions involving adults.
00:11:33.660 She's asked for changing the rules to allow her to be able to go after juveniles because the prosecutors in D.C., the local ones, go and handle those cases.
00:11:47.740 And they have not been particularly tough on those cases.
00:11:51.400 Even when they've gotten prosecutions and convictions, they've often asked for those individuals not to have any real formal punishment that's there.
00:12:01.660 And that's one reason why the juvenile crime in D.C. has really been the most serious problem and out of control.
00:12:09.940 But, you know, you have people like Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.
00:12:16.800 He has refused to go and prosecute firearms violations.
00:12:21.600 And I'll just give you one example of the impact that this has on measuring crime rates.
00:12:27.380 The FBI collects data on aggravated assaults, not on simple assaults.
00:12:33.400 What often makes a difference between whether something's aggravated or simple is whether or not a weapon is used.
00:12:42.120 And he's refused to go and prosecute people who have charges, firearms violations that are there.
00:12:50.740 And so now what that's done is that's made it so that the police in many areas are not recording whether a firearm was used there because they don't want the prosecutors yelling at them later because the prosecutors, Alvin Bragg's office, doesn't want to take responsibility for reducing the charges on these individuals.
00:13:13.140 So they go and they try to put pressure on the police not to record it in their initial police reports that are there.
00:13:20.740 And that's one reason why, you know, it may look like crime is falling more when you look at the FBI data in a place like New York than it actually is.
00:13:30.720 So there's kind of political benefits for them kind of playing with these numbers.
00:13:35.800 And, of course, D.C.'s had its own problems and the police unions there accusing them of kind of hiding the crime data that's there.
00:13:44.460 But, you know, it's at least you can say they're consistent.
00:13:50.840 They just don't think punishment matters for whether or not people commit crime or not.
00:13:55.440 You kind of wonder whether these individuals have ever had children.
00:13:58.580 You know, anybody who's had kids know that you have to go and give them kind of clear guidelines of what they can do or not and make sure that they know that there'll be punishment.
00:14:09.500 But, you know, as an economist, it seems pretty obvious to me.
00:14:13.520 You know, if the price of apples go up, people buy fewer apples.
00:14:16.560 If you want to have less crime, you make it costlier and riskier for criminals to commit crime.
00:14:21.300 John, social media and website.
00:14:26.060 We've got to bounce.
00:14:26.720 We've got about 30 seconds.
00:14:27.840 Where do people go to get all your writings and your books?
00:14:31.260 Well, thanks.
00:14:32.400 Our website's crimeresearch.org, crimeresearch.org.
00:14:37.600 And my X account is my name, John R. Lott, Jr.
00:14:43.240 But thank you very much for being there.
00:14:47.180 Dr. John Lott, always amazing.
00:14:51.300 Thank you for your analysis and observations.
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00:16:59.720 Okay. As we thought, there might be a slight delay of the president actually getting there. And the reason is they did the, I think they did the, they had a call, maybe even a Zoom call with the EU folks and some of the NATO nations today about the situation in Ukraine.
00:17:17.240 Ukraine and this coming summit in Alaska with Putin. Remember, Zelensky's not going to be there and the EU's not going to be there and NATO's not going to be there, except as President Trump is the leading nation in NATO, the United States of America.
00:17:34.160 Also reporting, I've got it up on Getter. And this is one of the reasons Getter is totally free. And one of the reasons I keep saying, Hey, we try to get as much of our content up there as possible.
00:17:45.640 We don't have a paywall or anything like that, but I put it up on Getter. And of course, Grace and Mo do a fantastic job on their Twitter feeds and also reposting on occasion.
00:17:54.800 Some of my great thoughts or analysis. There's an article out there, the Russians, you know, and they're going to use as much battlefield leverage as possible.
00:18:03.680 The major assault in, in Ukraine, I think with 110,000 combat troops that they've breached one of the front lines as Putin tries to get as much territory as possible.
00:18:14.880 I think you get into this, which will be the framework, at least for negotiation. If you watch mainstream media, I mean, they're bringing out guys like John Bolton.
00:18:22.800 I mean, who cares? The guy's such a hater and also totally irrelevant and has gotten everything wrong in his entire life about this situation, about national security.
00:18:33.120 You know, they're just badmouthing President Trump and the White House, I think, has very specific ideas of what they want to do.
00:18:39.140 This is the first of a kickoff meme. Remember, it's an enormously complicated topic, this rapprochement, with the first step certainly being, how do we bring the Ukraine war to an end?
00:18:49.240 As you know, having been viewers of the show for years, we've been opposed to this war from the beginning.
00:18:55.780 And we told you exactly what was going to happen is Dr. Mersheimer at the University of Chicago said they're going to fight.
00:19:02.140 The West is going to fight until they've run out of Ukrainians. Now they're taking people 60 years old and now they're not drafting them.
00:19:10.960 But if you're 60 years old or older and want to volunteer, the Ukrainian, the high command will put you right in the front in the front trenches.
00:19:19.740 And those trenches are pretty brutal. The valor and the courage of the Ukrainian fighting forces cannot be denied.
00:19:27.340 And Ukraine, very knowledgeable, very cunning. They've really turned this into a large aspect, into a drone war, and they're really doing some big-time damage in that regard.
00:19:39.580 This is why I say, you know, when I was in the service back in the Pentagon after sea duty back in 1981,
00:19:45.780 the Red Army was a very different animal at that time.
00:19:52.120 And the fears that we had of coming across Poland and through the Folder Gap in the North German plane and actually attacking into Germany
00:19:59.700 is the reason that President Reagan at the time and Margaret Thatcher worked so hard to forward deploy tactical nuclear weapons,
00:20:07.820 the Pershing missiles and others, to make sure that we could basically get equivalents on the battlefield.
00:20:14.080 Back in those days, because why? Wait for it, NATO nations were not putting any money into their military.
00:20:20.800 It was all going to be the American Army. I think it was still the third army that was in Germany at the time.
00:20:26.480 And, of course, American troops with British troops would be called in to defend it.
00:20:31.280 So today the president's coming over to Kennedy Center to announce the recipients of the Kennedy Awards.
00:20:39.020 Those recipients, I think, will be honored in, I think it's after Thanksgiving in December,
00:20:44.700 but an announcement that until President Trump is taking it, there's a great shot right there.
00:20:48.780 President Trump will be at the Kennedy Center.
00:20:52.160 Like I said, he had this call this morning to prepare, and he'd get the, since there's going to be no Europeans
00:20:56.940 and no Zelensky at this meeting, to get their two cents in, as President Trump puts it all together for thinking this through.
00:21:04.100 We talked about seizing the institutions. President Trump also put out that they're going to get the Smithsonian's house in order.
00:21:11.400 That, I will tell you, as someone that is, you know, from the general area in Richmond, Virginia,
00:21:16.940 as a kid had came up to the museums with the family, wanted to be a great Sunday to go do it,
00:21:22.120 and also coming back and actually working in the Pentagon in the early 80s
00:21:27.840 and making sure you could avail yourself to the museums and everything the Smithsonian had.
00:21:34.120 The radical interpretation of American history and the woke nature of the Smithsonian
00:21:39.760 has called for President Trump to review the situation.
00:21:43.120 I think there's 11, 12, 13 different museums set up around the Smithsonian Institute,
00:21:49.120 and so they're going to take a look at all of it, and we were going to have,
00:21:53.260 trying to get Dr. Roger Kimball, or Roger Kimball, in over the next couple of days to go through all that.
00:21:57.880 As we seize the institutions, we told you this was going to happen, and President Trump is doing it now.
00:22:04.500 Myles Grimmer joins us.
00:22:05.940 Myles, I asked you to join us today in August for Field of Greens
00:22:11.400 because I wanted to make sure that people, you know, we've had Coach Tuberville here all the time.
00:22:17.620 Caroline Wren is a proud alumni of Auburn University.
00:22:22.440 You guys have been working on this study with Auburn University.
00:22:25.680 It's pretty dramatic, the results.
00:22:27.820 Can you walk us through what you guys have been working on
00:22:29.960 and the results of this clinical analysis you've done with the great Auburn University, sir?
00:22:36.320 Yeah, it's extremely exciting.
00:22:38.380 I know we've been on here before kind of hinting at it for a while,
00:22:41.140 but there's so many fruit and vegetable products on the market,
00:22:44.520 but they're just common products, and they're not backed by science.
00:22:48.780 I know you know Dr. Kim.
00:22:50.040 He medically selected each fruit and vegetable that is in the Field of Greens
00:22:54.540 for their specific benefits, whether it's for your heart health, liver health, metabolism.
00:23:01.280 Really, he selected them all for specific reasons.
00:23:03.900 And we've, in the past, come up with our doctor promise,
00:23:06.940 but we wanted to really put it to the test.
00:23:09.420 So we partnered with Auburn to do a full study of the health benefits of Field of Greens.
00:23:14.760 And the results were amazing.
00:23:16.780 So the participants, they changed nothing.
00:23:20.260 They had the same diet.
00:23:21.860 They were eating fast food.
00:23:23.340 They didn't change their exercise routines.
00:23:25.580 They were still drinking.
00:23:26.760 The only difference that they really had was adding Field of Greens every day.
00:23:30.740 And the results kind of put out what we knew that Field of Greens would do,
00:23:36.100 which is it does lower your biological age.
00:23:38.740 Now, your biological age is different from your natural age.
00:23:41.100 It's just how long you've been on this planet.
00:23:42.540 Your biological age is your cell's age and your vital organs' age.
00:23:47.780 And many peoples are 8 to 16 times or 16 years older than their actual age.
00:23:53.080 Now, the Field of Greens in this study proved that it actually lowers your biological age
00:23:57.660 with the participants.
00:23:58.420 So all you have to do is take Field of Greens,
00:24:01.400 and Auburn showed that you're actually lowering your biological age,
00:24:06.020 which is pretty crazy.
00:24:10.180 I want to make sure.
00:24:11.440 I want to go back to the study.
00:24:12.880 The participants didn't change any of their habits.
00:24:16.420 They still ate the same fast food, the ultra-processed food.
00:24:19.740 They still had the same exercise regimen or not.
00:24:23.980 They just did exactly what they did as normal, average, everyday Americans, right?
00:24:28.920 The only thing they changed was taking Field of Greens?
00:24:32.440 Exactly.
00:24:33.480 And which is pretty – go ahead.
00:24:38.100 No, you go ahead.
00:24:39.100 Go ahead.
00:24:40.500 Oh, and so when the studies came back,
00:24:43.500 we were able to prove that it actually reduced or lowered the biological ages
00:24:47.460 of the participants.
00:24:48.980 Literally, their cells were younger just by taking Field of Greens.
00:24:52.260 Right.
00:24:53.980 Now, why is that?
00:24:57.020 Why is that different than because your competitors carpet bomb cable television?
00:25:03.140 And you can tell the way they do it because cable TV,
00:25:06.640 not Real America's Voice or the streaming services,
00:25:08.940 but cable TV draws an older audience.
00:25:12.140 I mean, Fox and CNN and MSNBC,
00:25:14.220 these audiences are in their late 60s, early 70s on average, right?
00:25:19.080 Right.
00:25:19.720 And they're carpet bombing this.
00:25:21.940 Why would Field of Greens – why would you even do a study like this?
00:25:25.360 And what is it about Field of Greens that's so different
00:25:27.820 that you could actually lower the biological age of someone?
00:25:31.560 And why would you take the risk of doing this in this study?
00:25:33.820 It was risky, but you know Dr. Kim, and he always – you know, his science,
00:25:40.800 if he says it's going to do something, it does something.
00:25:42.800 So we did take a big risk working with Auburn University.
00:25:45.940 And we didn't just, you know, test this with older people.
00:25:48.700 We tested this with all ages of people.
00:25:50.260 And so we wanted to prove that Field of Greens and the way Mike made it,
00:25:55.980 which is using real foods, not extracts, and not just cheap common produce.
00:26:00.260 But like I said, Mike chose everything in the Field of Greens
00:26:03.480 to help a specific vital organ.
00:26:06.040 And so when it's – this just proves that it is helping the vital organs,
00:26:10.060 it is helping your cells age, and it's doing exactly what we say it does,
00:26:13.680 that the other – actually, there's no other fruit and vegetable product
00:26:16.860 on the market that can claim what we can now thanks to this study.
00:26:23.320 Now talk to me about – you have a thing called – is it the whey protein?
00:26:27.720 Walk me through this.
00:26:28.680 You just launched a new product on the site.
00:26:32.420 What is it?
00:26:33.720 Yeah, it's called the Brickhouse Whey.
00:26:35.700 We named it that because along with, you know, our Field of Greens,
00:26:38.560 we were a nutrition company that hasn't had a protein yet.
00:26:42.680 Because unless we can find a way to make something better
00:26:44.700 or completely different than our competition, we're not going to launch it.
00:26:48.480 So we finally – you know, Mike and his team launched a –
00:26:51.300 we were able to launch a protein that's completely different.
00:26:53.900 It's lactose-free, so it's really easily digestible for many people.
00:26:58.080 And we don't have to deal with, you know, the cows or the steroids they're on.
00:27:02.260 What happens is it's a fermentation process,
00:27:03.960 and it's using the same science as, you know, beer and yogurt
00:27:07.700 to create a same – you know, it's the same DNA sequence as a typical whey,
00:27:13.800 but it's without the lactose.
00:27:15.820 And so it's delicious.
00:27:17.440 It's easily mixable.
00:27:19.020 And it's great for you.
00:27:21.360 It's easy on the stomach.
00:27:24.800 I'm extremely excited about that one, too.
00:27:26.040 You get a discount also.
00:27:28.520 You guys ought to be.
00:27:29.640 The study's huge.
00:27:30.660 The new product's huge.
00:27:31.580 Where do people go for all this, sir?
00:27:34.200 Fieldofgreens.com.
00:27:35.120 Use the code BANNON for 20% off.
00:27:38.340 And please check out the study on the website.
00:27:40.440 Don't take my word for it.
00:27:41.580 Auburn put their own name on it to prove that Field of Greens
00:27:45.620 is the best fruit and vegetable product there is.
00:27:51.000 Humongous.
00:27:51.580 What are you talking about?
00:27:52.440 Lowers your biological age because it lowers the age of your cells.
00:27:57.320 Miles Grimard, you guys are knocking it out of the park.
00:27:59.780 Thank you so much.
00:28:00.500 Appreciate you coming on.
00:28:02.160 Thank you so much for having me.
00:28:03.700 Fieldofgreens.com.
00:28:05.940 Grace and Moe, if we can take that study,
00:28:08.000 I want everybody to take a look at it, a hard look at it.
00:28:10.180 This is why we said they were different from the beginning a couple of years ago
00:28:14.360 when we first partnered up with them.
00:28:16.100 Short commercial break.
00:28:17.140 We're going back to the Kennedy Center next in the War Room.
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00:30:45.680 Strong message from Europe as President Trump prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday in Alaska.
00:30:54.400 As concerns grow over Friday's summit in Alaska, Ukraine's President Zelensky and European leaders held a call with Trump this morning,
00:31:02.780 urging him to resist Putin's demands in any potential ceasefire agreement.
00:31:07.240 And only moments ago, Zelensky made his message very clear.
00:31:11.640 Let's wait for the results.
00:31:17.800 In any case, the key issues, which, you know, obviously we're asking as to our principles, as to our territorial integrity,
00:31:28.200 in the end will be decided on the level of leaders.
00:31:32.940 Without Ukraine, it's impossible to achieve.
00:31:35.920 And, by the way, everyone supports that.
00:31:41.760 Okay, bottom line is, hey, we're paying for it, dude.
00:31:44.900 The president's going to do what he's going to do.
00:31:46.820 And we've paid for this for too long.
00:31:48.540 There are too many people dead.
00:31:49.940 And American people have faith in President Trump.
00:31:53.560 One of the reasons President Trump's seizing the institutions, the cultural institutions, law enforcement.
00:31:57.920 There's a tweet out that the presence of National Guard and other law enforcement is even going to increase throughout the day and tonight in Washington, D.C.
00:32:07.400 Even when we saw last night, that was kind of an opening salvo.
00:32:11.080 He's going to flood the zone.
00:32:12.380 You ever heard that term before?
00:32:13.620 He's going to flood the zone with law enforcement.
00:32:15.760 Let's go with Brian Glenn.
00:32:17.520 Brian, I believe the president may be – there he is right there.
00:32:21.520 Is that the president?
00:32:22.900 Let's go ahead and cut to it.
00:32:24.480 President of the United States at the Kennedy Center.
00:32:25.940 President of the Kennedy Center, Donald J. Trump.
00:32:49.220 Thank you very much.
00:32:50.380 This is a very exciting project.
00:32:52.540 We're going to do something that will go rapidly, relatively inexpensively, and will make it better than it ever was, frankly.
00:33:02.920 It will be something that people are going to be very proud of.
00:33:05.900 Along with, in the bigger picture, a place called Washington, D.C.
00:33:11.280 That is the bigger one, and we'll talk about that in a little while.
00:33:14.820 But let's talk about, right now, the Kennedy Center, and I'm delighted to be here as we officially announce the incredibly talented artists who will be celebrated later this year at the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors.
00:33:30.640 It's going to be a big evening.
00:33:33.240 I've been asked to host – I said, I'm the president of the United States.
00:33:39.360 Are you fools asking me to do that?
00:33:42.000 Sir, you'll get much higher ratings.
00:33:44.520 I said, I don't care.
00:33:45.460 I'm president of the United States.
00:33:46.900 I won't do it.
00:33:48.560 They said, please.
00:33:51.280 And then Suzy Wilde said to me, sir, I'd like to get a host.
00:33:53.760 I said, okay, Suzy, I'll do it.
00:33:55.980 That's the power she's got.
00:33:58.400 But I just – so I have agreed to host.
00:34:01.100 Do you believe what I have to do?
00:34:03.580 And I didn't want to do it, okay?
00:34:05.120 They're going to say he insisted.
00:34:06.380 I did not insist.
00:34:07.840 But I think it will be quite successful, actually.
00:34:11.040 It's been a long time.
00:34:12.020 I used to host the Apprentice finales, and we did rather well with that.
00:34:16.420 So I think we're going to do very well because we have some great honorees, some really great ones.
00:34:21.240 Since 1978, the Kennedy Center Honors have been among the most prestigious awards in the performing arts.
00:34:28.120 I wanted one.
00:34:28.800 I was never able to get one.
00:34:30.240 This year, it's true, actually.
00:34:32.740 I would have taken it if they would have called me.
00:34:34.520 I waited and waited and waited.
00:34:36.060 And I said, the hell with it.
00:34:38.120 I'll become chairman.
00:34:39.780 And I'll give myself an honor.
00:34:41.240 Maybe I'm going to honor – next year we'll honor Trump, okay?
00:34:45.380 This year, the board has selected a truly exceptional class of honorees.
00:34:49.400 I mean, really exceptional.
00:34:51.620 First is country music star, actor, and producer George Strait.
00:35:03.760 Great.
00:35:05.960 Over an extraordinary four-decade career, George has sold more than 120 million records worldwide,
00:35:12.960 amassed 60 number-one hits, wow, and produced 33 platinum-certified albums, more than any other living American.
00:35:23.180 That is amazing.
00:35:24.800 He's believed by millions of people to just be as good as you can get.
00:35:31.020 And he's beloved by hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
00:35:36.780 He's really something, and they call him the king of country, and we know him very well, George Strait.
00:35:45.780 Thank you.
00:35:47.220 Please.
00:35:49.440 Oh, and it looks nice.
00:35:52.100 You're a good-looking guy.
00:35:53.720 I hope he still looks like that.
00:35:55.000 Second is actor, singer, philanthropist, and star of the Broadway stage.
00:36:05.380 One of my favorite talents.
00:36:07.300 I think he's one of the greatest talents I've ever actually seen.
00:36:10.500 I've always said, and just so we don't get in trouble, I'll say among – but among the greatest artists in the world are the Broadway London actors, back and forth.
00:36:20.140 That's all they want to do is they want to do Broadway, and they want to do London.
00:36:24.040 They want to do eight shows a week, including matinee on Wednesday.
00:36:29.060 And if you said make a movie, they can't even think about it.
00:36:31.800 If you say go on television, they don't want to – all they want to do is be on the stage, the live stage, and it's amazing.
00:36:37.360 But I've always said they're the most talented people.
00:36:41.060 And this man may be the most of all.
00:36:43.300 Michael Crawford is being honored.
00:36:46.160 Michael was born in England in 1942.
00:36:55.440 He made his Broadway debut in 1967.
00:37:00.640 I was there.
00:37:02.520 I shouldn't say that, but I was there.
00:37:04.900 Seems like a long time ago.
00:37:06.420 Michael, and he became an international sensation in the 1980s for his original portrayal of the phantom of the opera, one of the greatest ever, ever, ever, ever.
00:37:19.320 You don't see him like that very often.
00:37:22.780 Winning him the esteemed Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
00:37:27.200 He's won so many awards.
00:37:28.580 Michael is truly a generational talent, had a voice that was unbelievable.
00:37:35.940 It was unbelievable.
00:37:37.140 There's never – I don't know.
00:37:39.240 Luciano Pavarotti had a very different voice.
00:37:41.640 The power was incredible, magnificent.
00:37:43.780 Michael had a different kind of a voice.
00:37:46.400 These are just unbelievable talents.
00:37:49.120 But Michael is very special and one of the greatest roles in the history of Broadway.
00:37:57.400 And nobody did it like him.
00:38:00.040 Michael Crawford.
00:38:00.920 Thank you very much.
00:38:03.380 Great guy.
00:38:06.140 Next, we look forward to honoring three-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe Award winner, an action movie icon, and a friend of mine.
00:38:14.240 He's a very unique man.
00:38:17.220 He's somebody that doesn't do these things.
00:38:20.020 I said, I wonder if he'll accept.
00:38:21.580 Because some people don't really want to be honored.
00:38:25.140 They don't care.
00:38:26.840 But he was very honored to be honored, I will tell you.
00:38:31.780 He was – he's a very special guy.
00:38:36.800 A real talent.
00:38:37.940 Never been given the credit for the talent.
00:38:39.820 There was – nobody else could have done the roles that he did like he did.
00:38:42.460 I'm not even close.
00:38:43.260 And they've tried, and they didn't work out too well.
00:38:46.180 His name is Sylvester Stallone.
00:38:57.100 So, it's very few, almost, if any, people that could have taken a name and made it so incredible, like Rocky, Rambo, Creed, and others.
00:39:11.720 But think of it, Rocky, Rambo.
00:39:13.740 If you did one, you're good.
00:39:15.000 You do two.
00:39:16.980 And I'll never forget, I was a young guy, and I went to see a thing called Rambo, and it had just come out.
00:39:24.000 I didn't know anything about it.
00:39:25.220 But I got – I was in a movie theater, like we used to go to movie theaters a lot.
00:39:29.480 And I said, this movie is phenomenal.
00:39:32.800 What the heck?
00:39:34.640 And that turned out to be a monster.
00:39:36.400 Rocky is Rocky.
00:39:37.460 I mean, the way that happened, you know, Sly had no money, nothing.
00:39:43.680 And he went around, and everybody wants to do a boxing movie.
00:39:46.480 It's the most – you know, probably more than any other type of character, boxing.
00:39:50.700 Boxing.
00:39:51.100 Always boxing.
00:39:51.760 It's so great.
00:39:52.440 And there's rarely been anything like this one.
00:39:59.000 John Voight did a great one, as you know.
00:40:01.360 Champ, great.
00:40:03.780 I think that was right there, too.
00:40:06.640 John Voight's a phenomenal person, a phenomenal actor.
00:40:10.240 But Sly came in, and he had no money.
00:40:13.500 He wrote a script, along with thousands of other people writing scripts on a boxer.
00:40:18.320 And for some reason, a studio picked up this – and liked it.
00:40:25.280 And Sly had – he's in an old car that he came in from Brooklyn, or someplace in New York,
00:40:32.560 but I think Brooklyn.
00:40:33.960 It barely made it to California.
00:40:36.180 He was sleeping in the car.
00:40:37.360 I mean, he had nothing.
00:40:39.740 And he wanted control over who the actor was going to be, because he said it can't be successful
00:40:46.160 if you're going to pick a movie actor with a bad build, okay?
00:40:49.640 A nice face, but a bad body.
00:40:52.580 And he said, I can't have these guys, because he's a tough cookie.
00:40:55.760 And he knew exactly what it took.
00:40:57.980 He knew what a boxer's body was.
00:41:01.620 So they brought him one, and I won't tell you who it was, but it was a big name.
00:41:06.460 But the chest wasn't exactly what you need.
00:41:09.980 One shot, and your heart would pop out.
00:41:13.700 That wasn't too good.
00:41:14.780 But then he did another one.
00:41:16.000 He was fat, sloppy, but had a good face.
00:41:20.280 Then he did another one, and another one, and another one.
00:41:24.360 And he turned it down.
00:41:25.520 He wouldn't take $1 million.
00:41:27.480 He wouldn't do it.
00:41:29.460 And it turned out that when they saw him, they said, you know, you'd be actually pretty
00:41:33.780 good for this role.
00:41:35.420 And he had never done this before, anything like it.
00:41:38.720 But think of it.
00:41:39.480 He turned down $1 million.
00:41:41.260 He had nothing.
00:41:42.300 He refused to let somebody else play.
00:41:45.000 He didn't want to play it.
00:41:45.840 He wasn't originally.
00:41:46.580 He did it as a writer.
00:41:48.320 But he ended up playing it because he couldn't find anybody else that fit the role.
00:41:52.300 And who knew what would have happened?
00:41:57.220 He's become a legend of the silver screen.
00:42:00.640 A true legend.
00:42:01.680 And he's a great guy.
00:42:03.120 He's a little bit tough, a little bit different, I will tell you.
00:42:05.400 He's a little tough guy.
00:42:06.320 But he's a phenomenal person with a phenomenal wife and family, incredible wife, incredible
00:42:13.500 family.
00:42:14.800 His films are grossing more than $7.5 billion, which is either a record or very close to it.
00:42:21.640 I can't imagine anybody doing more.
00:42:23.220 If you add up Rambo and Rocky and these others, I can't imagine anybody doing much more.
00:42:28.040 $7.5 billion worldwide over the course of six decades.
00:42:33.720 And Sly is a pillar of the really American pop culture and a Hollywood superstar, like
00:42:42.300 few others.
00:42:43.880 And one of the biggest names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
00:42:48.240 In fact, the only one that's a bigger name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they say, is a
00:42:52.040 guy named Donald Trump.
00:42:53.520 I'm on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, too, if you can believe that one.
00:42:58.600 But he's amazing.
00:43:00.420 He's really amazing.
00:43:01.680 And he's actually a great actor.
00:43:04.900 Fourth will be together celebrating one of the most revered singers of the American disco
00:43:12.220 era, Gloria Gaynor.
00:43:14.680 Best known for her chart-topping 1978 hit, I Will Survive, Gloria won the 1980 Grammy for
00:43:28.900 Best Disco Recording, and her song was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2016.
00:43:36.440 Four decades later, Gloria won a second Grammy in 2020 for her gospel album, Testimony.
00:43:44.600 Which is incredible.
00:43:46.380 Truly a historic achievement.
00:43:48.480 Not only in times of the, not only in terms of the years that have gone by to be great
00:43:53.400 that long, but to have the two-top, two-top of anything in that span of time and with that
00:44:01.160 kind of period between is pretty amazing.
00:44:04.480 But I will say that I Will Survive is an unbelievable song.
00:44:12.300 I've heard it, you know, like everyone else here, thousands of times.
00:44:16.880 And it's one of those few that get better every time you hear it.
00:44:20.780 And nobody can sing it like her.
00:44:23.740 And that's an honor.
00:44:25.000 So, Gloria Gaynor.
00:44:26.820 Thank you.
00:44:27.280 And finally, we'll be honoring one of the greatest rock bands of all time, KISS.
00:44:36.620 So, KISS was formed in 1973 in New York City by founding band members and incredible people,
00:44:49.840 by the way.
00:44:50.340 Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Fraley, and Peter KISS.
00:44:58.280 KISS became a global phenomenon, sold more than 100 million records worldwide,
00:45:04.120 and produced 30 gold albums and lots of other things they produced.
00:45:08.840 They made a fortune.
00:45:09.560 And they're great people, and they deserve it, and they work hard, and they're still working hard.
00:45:15.900 And it's an honor to present KISS.
00:45:21.180 Thank you very much.
00:45:22.400 Got it?
00:45:22.840 Yeah.
00:45:23.460 Thank you.
00:45:27.980 And they're going to do something very special.
00:45:30.000 KISS is going to be here on a little bit before the show.
00:45:34.860 I think they're going to do something very special.
00:45:36.620 We're going to have a good time.
00:45:37.520 The 48th Kennedy Center honorees are outstanding people, an outstanding group, incredible.
00:45:46.060 We can't wait to celebrate the Kennedy Center honors.
00:45:51.940 It'll be in December.
00:45:52.940 It'll be on CBS.
00:45:55.940 In a few short months since I became chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center,
00:45:59.540 we have completely reversed the decline of this cherished national institution.
00:46:06.080 It was being run down.
00:46:09.780 Money wasn't being spent properly.
00:46:12.360 They were building things they shouldn't have built that nobody wanted instead of taking care of the great gem that it is.
00:46:17.900 You look at the marble.
00:46:18.820 Look at the quality of the marble and the things that, with a little fix-up and a little work, we can make it unbelievable.
00:46:25.000 These columns, when you see them the next time, they'll be magnificent.
00:46:29.480 I mean, we have some great plans for this.
00:46:31.660 The bones are so good.
00:46:34.040 The bones of a building.
00:46:35.620 If you don't have the bones, you might as well forget it.
00:46:38.560 I'm working in another building, I think, called the White House.
00:46:41.680 We're fixing it up so beautifully.
00:46:43.320 It needed it.
00:46:44.500 It's been many, many years since it's been properly taken care of.
00:46:48.160 It's incredible.
00:46:48.840 One of the great places of the world.
00:46:50.360 Maybe, I mean, truly, to me, is there anything else even close?
00:46:55.100 But we're doing that and doing some other things.
00:46:59.060 And we're going to also fix up a place called Washington, D.C.
00:47:02.120 We're going to make it so beautiful again.
00:47:04.340 We're going to be redoing the parks, redoing the grass.
00:47:06.740 You know, grass is a lifetime like people have a lifetime.
00:47:10.680 And the lifetime of this grass has long been gone.
00:47:14.160 When you look at the parks where the grass is old, tired, exhausted, we're going to redo
00:47:21.260 the grass with the finest grasses.
00:47:24.380 I know a lot about grass because I own a lot of golf courses.
00:47:27.480 And if you don't have good grass, you're not in business very long, Lindsey Graham.
00:47:31.640 By the way, you have very good poll numbers, Lindsey.
00:47:33.440 I just saw congratulations.
00:47:36.740 But a few short months ago, I became chairman of the Kennedy Center, and we completely reversed
00:47:44.720 it.
00:47:45.100 We reversed what was happening.
00:47:47.340 We ended the woke political programming, and we're restoring the Kennedy Center as the
00:47:52.720 premier venue for performing arts anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world.
00:47:56.960 This has the potential to be anywhere in the world.
00:47:59.360 We're going to make it something that people can't even believe.
00:48:02.280 We have some unbelievable plans.
00:48:04.140 And ultimately, it's about the talent you get, though.
00:48:06.560 You know, you can have a beautiful, you can have a beautiful building, you can have nice
00:48:10.540 marble walls, you can have nicely done columns, as I was saying.
00:48:14.480 But if you don't have the talent on the stage, and we're going to get the best talent in the
00:48:18.520 world.
00:48:19.420 To that end, the world-renowned musical Les Mis had a phenomenal five-week sold out run
00:48:25.180 this summer.
00:48:25.700 It beat projected revenues by 35 percent.
00:48:29.680 And we've raised over $10 million in private funds from a lot of generous donors.
00:48:35.000 And we closed the $26 million budget shortfall that they had for before we got here.
00:48:43.680 And with the help of Congress, we secured the critical funding necessary to rebuild the building.
00:48:49.400 And we're going to get all brand-new, highest-level seats, magnificent seats, and it's going to
00:48:56.340 be all new.
00:48:56.760 We could have taken the existing ones and do a little paint job, a little fabric, but it's
00:49:02.240 not the same thing.
00:49:03.140 And so we'll be taken out next season.
00:49:05.860 All of the seats will be taken out.
00:49:10.140 The room is being completely rebuilt.
00:49:12.740 And I just want to thank the Republicans in the Senate, headed by Lindsay in that case.
00:49:17.680 Lindsay was very much, she's a big fan of this building.
00:49:21.280 And they got a record $257 million that's going to go toward renovations that the building really
00:49:30.060 needs.
00:49:30.500 And all of the exterior is going to be incredible.
00:49:32.580 It's going to be exciting.
00:49:34.500 So I thank you very much and thank all of your Republican senators.
00:49:37.860 I don't think we had too many Democrat votes, probably.
00:49:40.180 You never have.
00:49:41.060 We don't have Democrats voting even for crime.
00:49:44.040 But I shouldn't make this political because they made the Academy Awards political and
00:49:47.800 they went down their tubes.
00:49:49.780 So they'll say, Trump made it political.
00:49:52.000 But I think if we make it our kind of political, we'll go up, okay?
00:49:55.300 Let's see if I'm right about that.
00:49:57.740 But I want to thank the executive director for an incredible job.
00:50:01.220 He's done great.
00:50:02.400 He's been with me for just about the beginning.
00:50:04.440 And everything he's touched has been good.
00:50:07.700 He was on high intelligence.
00:50:09.800 He worked in low intelligence and high intelligence.
00:50:12.960 He did better with the high intelligent people.
00:50:16.000 But he's been fantastic.
00:50:17.860 He's the executive director, Rick Grinnell, for his work.
00:50:20.420 Thank you very much, Rick.
00:50:21.960 Unbelievable job.
00:50:27.460 And as well as Lindsay and all the people that helped us in Congress, I want to thank.
00:50:32.060 And the Senate has been incredible.
00:50:34.080 By the way, leader Thune has been unbelievable.
00:50:40.660 And Speaker Mike Johnson, these are great people.
00:50:45.880 What we're doing with the great big beautiful bill is you're going to see a whole different
00:50:50.280 country.
00:50:50.800 You're seeing it already.
00:50:51.600 We're coming in where trillions of dollars is coming in from tariffs from all over the
00:50:57.660 world, from countries that took advantage of our country.
00:51:00.920 They were, they thought we were children.
00:51:02.860 They took advantage of us for decades.
00:51:05.740 And now the money is flowing to us.
00:51:09.180 And we have, we've become the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:51:12.820 But the Kennedy Center board members, many of whom I knew and many of whom I put on the
00:51:19.020 board and they're, it's an outstanding, it's as good a board as I've ever seen.
00:51:24.540 And on the board also, and some people that are doing an incredible job.
00:51:29.060 One in particular is Attorney General Pam Bondi.
00:51:31.420 The job she's doing is incredible.
00:51:33.620 Thank you very much.
00:51:34.880 Long beyond the Kennedy Center.
00:51:37.040 The Kennedy Center is the easy part.
00:51:39.900 She's incredible.
00:51:40.900 And she's, you're going to see a big change in Washington crime stats very soon.
00:51:44.620 Oh, they're not the stats that they gave because they turned out to be a total fraud.
00:51:48.480 The real stats, the stats went through the roof.
00:51:50.800 You know, they had a man that was forced to put up stats like they were doing better.
00:51:55.060 They're not doing better.
00:51:55.880 Crime is the worst it's ever been.
00:51:57.320 But it's, it started as of about yesterday.
00:51:59.740 It started to, you see a big change and people are feeling safe already.
00:52:05.080 I've had so many calls.
00:52:06.080 Thank you, sir.
00:52:06.880 Thank you.
00:52:07.960 They were afraid to walk out.
00:52:09.200 They're not afraid anymore.
00:52:11.280 And this will get, this will be like the border.
00:52:13.880 We started off with millions and millions of people coming in from all over the world.
00:52:17.620 Gang members and people from jails.
00:52:19.720 They were unloading their jails into our country all over the world.
00:52:23.620 They were coming drug dealers.
00:52:26.440 They came from Africa.
00:52:28.100 They came from Asia.
00:52:29.460 They came from South America, Venezuela in particular.
00:52:32.200 They were coming in.
00:52:33.940 Trendy, Aragua.
00:52:35.660 And the toughest people you've ever seen.
00:52:38.060 And by the millions, and for the last three months, we had zero, zero, and zero.
00:52:47.100 We had zero people come in for three months.
00:52:49.700 They respect our country again.
00:52:51.660 That's the other thing.
00:52:52.700 All over the world, our country is respected again.
00:52:55.900 So I also want to thank the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who's fantastic.
00:53:00.760 She's done an incredible job.
00:53:04.240 And Sergio Gore for the job he's done with personnel.
00:53:08.260 Thank you very much, Sergio.
00:53:09.480 Fantastic.
00:53:10.020 In the coming months, we'll fully renovate the dated and really the entire infrastructure of the building
00:53:19.060 and make the Kennedy Center a crown jewel of American arts and culture once again.
00:53:25.800 I think we'll bring it to a higher level than it ever hit.
00:53:28.440 Actually, it hit a certain level, but we're going to bring it to a higher level than it ever hit.
00:53:32.640 We have the right location.
00:53:35.520 And soon we will be a crime-free area.
00:53:38.660 This is going to be a crime-free area, by the way.
00:53:41.400 You'll be able to go out.
00:53:42.500 People tell me they can't run anymore.
00:53:44.300 They're just afraid.
00:53:45.880 And they'll be running again.
00:53:47.340 We're going to have a crime-free.
00:53:48.380 It's a big statement because if one thing happens all year, Pam, you better be good
00:53:53.580 because they'll say Trump did not fulfill his promise.
00:53:56.920 One person gets a little injured by somebody.
00:53:59.780 They'll say Trump did not fulfill his promise.
00:54:02.140 No, we're going to be essentially crime-free.
00:54:05.260 This is going to be a beacon.
00:54:07.800 And it's going to also serve as an example of what can be done.
00:54:12.560 We have to get rid of this cashless bail nonsense.
00:54:15.480 If you look at New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, which is so badly run.
00:54:21.440 Los Angeles, they can't get their houses.
00:54:22.920 They can't get the people their permits to build their houses.
00:54:25.780 They're trying to rebuild their houses from the ridiculous fire that should have never allowed to have taken place.
00:54:31.900 They should have had the water coming down from the Pacific Northwest.
00:54:34.740 But they didn't do that.
00:54:36.600 But they can't get the permits for the people.
00:54:38.700 They want to build their houses.
00:54:39.940 But I want to thank Lee Zeldin because the federal government has gotten all of their permits,
00:54:45.320 which are much more difficult permits, actually, and had them literally within 30 days after the fire.
00:54:51.900 Everybody had their permit.
00:54:53.760 But you don't have the city and state permits.
00:54:56.040 They've got to get going.
00:54:57.240 The governor and the mayor have to get going.
00:54:58.920 It will just be a matter of time that we're going to do something that's going to be incredible.
00:55:05.840 We're going to use the Kennedy Center as a big focus of it.
00:55:08.880 And that's the 250th anniversary celebration that we're having.
00:55:13.340 So it's 250 years.
00:55:15.340 So we have the Olympics.
00:55:17.740 We have the World Cup.
00:55:19.760 And we have the 250th anniversary celebration all in this administration.
00:55:25.700 And it's an honor that we were able to not be allowed to do what we were illegally and what we were supposed to do.
00:55:36.580 And that was we we had a great election in 2020.
00:55:40.320 We won the election by a lot.
00:55:42.560 But it was a rigged election.
00:55:44.660 And we had to wait four years.
00:55:46.300 And we waited four years.
00:55:47.860 And it's interesting because I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup.
00:55:51.040 I can't claim that I got the 250th.
00:55:53.160 That one's a big one.
00:55:54.080 But I happen to be here.
00:55:55.940 But but I got the Olympics.
00:55:57.780 I got the World Cup.
00:55:58.740 And I said, the shame of it is that I'm not going to be president when it happens.
00:56:03.580 And lo and behold, look what happens.
00:56:06.080 We have some bad things took place.
00:56:08.780 And now I'm going to be president for the Olympics.
00:56:11.480 I'll be president for the World Cup.
00:56:14.000 And the 250th is going to be maybe more exciting than both.
00:56:18.180 It's a great celebration of our country.
00:56:19.880 We're going to be using this building for a lot of the celebration having to do with 250 years.
00:56:27.040 But as I said earlier, I'm determined to make Washington, D.C. safe, clean and beautiful again.
00:56:32.080 It's going to take place very rapidly.
00:56:33.640 Be prepared.
00:56:34.220 And a big part of that's going to include the Kennedy Center.
00:56:39.020 So thank you very much.
00:56:40.740 And I want to thank everybody for helping us.
00:56:43.880 This is mostly the group right here.
00:56:45.680 That's they're young.
00:56:47.120 They're smart.
00:56:48.380 They're ambitious.
00:56:49.640 They want my job.
00:56:51.300 One of them will probably have it.
00:56:53.120 But we have a great group of people that are putting this together.
00:56:56.860 And they're also helping us with Washington, D.C.
00:56:59.320 We're going to make Washington beautiful.
00:57:01.640 We're going to redo roads.
00:57:02.840 We're going to redo the medians, the pavers, and the medians all throughout the city.
00:57:08.260 We're going to take all the graffiti off.
00:57:09.820 We're going to have to remove the tents and the people that are living in our parks.
00:57:15.080 We're going to be redoing the parks, the grasses and all.
00:57:18.160 We're going to be going to Congress for a relatively small amount of money, and Lindsey and the Republicans are going to be approving it.
00:57:25.420 I don't know about the Democrats.
00:57:27.200 They don't approve anything.
00:57:28.860 It's amazing.
00:57:29.620 It's like they just don't want to vote for anything.
00:57:32.820 They've got the yips.
00:57:33.960 You know, in golf, they say the yips.
00:57:36.200 The Democrats are afraid to do anything because they don't want to be criticized.
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