Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 736： Trump Signs EO's Protecting Ticket Sales

00:00:01.000 Well, if you think of it like if Ticketmaster sells a ticket, if you buy a ticket and go to a show, you're in a lot of ways their worst customer.

00:00:09.340 They make another 17-whatever percentage every time that ticket resells, so they don't want to enforce the BOTS Act necessarily, because they're making more money off it.

00:00:16.740 The artists don't see any of that money, but that's not what I'm advocating for, is for me to make more money.

00:00:21.200 I want the fans to have fair ticket prices, to be able to go and enjoy more shows.

00:00:24.940 I know people that can only, they decide on a family vacation or going to their favorite concert once a year, rather than, you know, my parents used to go see multiple shows when you could afford them back in their day.

00:00:33.640 And I'd like to take my ticket prices lower, but if I set my ticket prices low, these BOTS immediately eat them up, and they resell for hundreds of dollars more, and I'm just making these bad actors rich.

00:00:43.840 Well, I think this is a big step to getting it stuck.

00:00:47.460 Do you have something, Brad?

00:00:48.480 Yeah, I do, actually.

00:00:49.620 I actually feel that the consumer is going to take the money that they've saved and actually buy merch, which you guys have a big percentage of, or do concessions, which you guys split with the venue on that as well.

00:01:02.780 So I think their money goes further.

00:01:04.480 We don't share concessions a lot.

00:01:05.500 No?

00:01:05.820 No, those are, we try to, but they don't want to share the beer prices and parking or any of that stuff.

00:01:12.100 But the bottom line is there's money for everyone to be made.

00:01:15.520 There's plenty of money to go around.

00:01:17.080 You know, no one's going to really lose here.

00:01:18.820 You know, Ticketmaster, if we can get a cap, they're going to lose some money.

00:01:21.760 But I've already talked to CEO Michael.

00:01:23.540 He's giving me his word.

00:01:24.180 He's on board for it.

00:01:25.220 I was talking to Jacoby with Papa Roach earlier, and by the way, he's a big fan of what you're doing, President Trump, digging into this whole scalping and the BOTS. 0.63

00:01:34.760 A lot of musicians, and you can say that, they're with Kid Rock, sir, on this, without a doubt.

00:01:40.840 A lot of people are.

00:01:41.920 President Trump.

00:01:42.920 Would you ever wear a jacket like that?

00:01:44.540 I don't know.

00:01:45.160 I was thinking about doing it for tomorrow.

00:01:46.680 We have a big event coming up, and I was thinking about doing it, but I'm not sure.

00:01:51.640 So you recently bought a Tesla for White House staff to use.

00:01:56.140 But now there's all these domestic terrorists targeting Teslas.

00:02:00.280 Are the staff scared to drive it?

00:02:02.520 I don't think so.

00:02:03.540 I haven't heard.

00:02:04.140 They weren't complaining.

00:02:05.020 I did buy one, and I let the staff use it.

00:02:07.040 We have it parked conveniently, and one day we give it to Margo, one day we give it to Chamberlain, give it to Natalie, we give it to everybody around, give it to Dan Scavino, but he's got so much money it doesn't matter.

00:02:20.360 But they love the car, and it's a great car, and it's made here, it's made in the country.

00:02:27.100 It's got a tremendous plant now in Texas, and he has one in California, does a lot of his work here, and he's been really unfairly treated, in my opinion.

00:02:37.120 And there's this other story, I know it's hypothetical right now, but if you were allowed, for some reason, to run for a third term, is there a thought that the Democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you?

00:02:51.400 I'd love that.

00:02:51.940 For his third term?

00:02:52.800 I'd love that.

00:02:53.780 That would be a good one.

00:02:55.260 I'd like that.

00:02:56.420 I know people are asking me to run, and there's a whole story about running for a third term.

00:03:01.140 I don't know.

00:03:01.620 I never looked into it.

00:03:02.600 But they do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that, but I have not looked into it.

00:03:08.400 I want to do a fantastic job.

00:03:10.560 We have four years, just about, almost close to four years.

00:03:14.300 Time is flying, but it's still close to four years.

00:03:17.040 And we're getting a lot of credit for having done a great job in the first almost 100 days.

00:03:23.580 And we have some big things we're going to be announcing over the next two days, and you know very well, Peter.

00:03:27.620 And I think it's going to be something that's going to bring a lot of wealth back to our country, tremendous wealth.

00:03:32.600 Back to our country, actually.

00:03:33.920 And other countries are understanding it because they've been ripping us for 50 years longer, but they've been ripping us off for years right from the beginning.

00:03:43.720 And I think this is going to be an amazing, you know, I call it a lot of different names, but it's really, in a sense, it's a rebirth of a country.

00:03:53.640 Because how we could have afforded to do what we did, we help everybody, and they don't help us.

00:04:01.100 I really, the term I like best probably is the liberation of America.

00:04:04.960 It's the liberation of this country because it's incredible.

00:04:09.420 Look, we have $36 trillion in debt for a reason, and that accumulates over a long period of time.

00:04:14.660 And so I think what you're going to be seeing over the next couple of days will be very inspiring to a lot of people.

00:04:21.340 You know, they had a lot of auto plants being built in a certain country.

00:04:25.980 I don't want to mention the country because we get along great with the country, but those plants aren't being built there anymore.

00:04:30.760 They gave them up today and yesterday, the day before, and they're building them all now in the United States.

00:04:37.280 And we have many examples, not only auto plants, chip companies from Taiwan are coming in.

00:04:43.460 The biggest, Mr. Wei, he's big.

00:04:46.200 I said, you are a smart guy, aren't you?

00:04:48.160 I've been reading about him over the years, but he controls a large portion of the chip business, as you know.

00:04:54.740 You don't get smarter.

00:04:55.680 They're going to be investing $200 or $300 billion.

00:04:58.220 Apple's investing $500 billion.

00:05:01.400 You know, they always built their places in China, and now he's building here.

00:05:04.160 And I think because of the, you speak to Tim Cook, because of the election, but maybe more importantly because of the tariffs.

00:05:12.080 He's got really an obligation to do it, but we have many, many companies that you haven't even heard of.

00:05:17.400 But I think we'll be at $5 trillion very soon.

00:05:21.660 And if you think about this, we've never been anywhere near that.

00:05:25.940 I don't know if we've ever been at a trillion dollars.

00:05:28.420 What do you mean by that?

00:05:29.140 Five hundred.

00:05:31.560 What do I mean by a trillion?

00:05:33.220 Five trillion, what are you referring to, sir?

00:05:35.000 I think that we're going to be at $5 trillion of investment.

00:05:39.260 I think you're going to have investments very shortly.

00:05:42.160 We're already three and a half, and we have commitments, verbal commitments, for a lot more.

00:05:48.240 And numbers like that have never been done in this country.

00:05:50.900 And it's going to get harder.

00:05:51.860 This is in two months.

00:05:53.840 It's really in less than two months, because since we've really gone out with it.

00:05:57.100 And we have other interesting things happening.

00:06:00.120 But to me, the whole tariff situation.

00:06:03.000 And essentially, they've done that to us for many years.

00:06:05.860 So if we're anywhere near $5 trillion in two months, this could be numbers like the country's never seen.

00:06:11.820 And every time you hear a dollar spent, that's another job, because the jobs are coming with it.

00:06:17.200 So auto plants, chip plants, pharmaceuticals, lumber coming in.

00:06:23.420 We have things happening in this country.

00:06:25.920 I don't think—I'm not sure that they've ever seen it.

00:06:28.980 Steel.

00:06:29.620 You know, we have tariffs on steel.

00:06:31.400 They've been here for a while.

00:06:33.700 Steel and aluminum.

00:06:36.920 Nobody's ever seen anything like we're witnessing now.

00:06:39.680 Nobody's ever seen anything.

00:06:41.100 Most of you agree with that.

00:06:42.340 I mean, there's nothing much you can't agree with.

00:06:45.740 We have things happening in terms of jobs and investment, the likes of which I don't think we've ever seen.

00:06:52.560 If you look at, let's say, $4 to $5 trillion in a period of a month and a half,

00:06:58.680 that's even more than you do with your concerts, which are always sold out, right?

00:07:03.580 Nobody's ever seen numbers.

00:07:04.860 And think of it where Apple's at $500 billion, as I said.

00:07:10.240 But they always used to spend that money on China.

00:07:12.440 Now they're spending it here.

00:07:13.800 That means they're going to build—now they don't have any tariffs.

00:07:16.440 Remember, there are no tariffs if you do your product here, if you build whatever it is in the USA.

00:07:22.340 One of the things we're also trying to get is if you build—if you buy a car that was built in the USA,

00:07:29.680 you get a deduction on interest.

00:07:31.580 So if you go out and borrow money to buy a car, if it's built in the USA, never been done before,

00:07:37.680 it's a big deduction for people that really aren't used to deductions, frankly.

00:07:43.040 Because people that buy cars like that are not big into the world of deductions,

00:07:47.720 and now they're going to learn about deductions.

00:07:50.200 So I think it's going to be great.

00:07:51.240 Yeah.

00:07:51.340 Mr. President, are you going to move that with a universal tariff or different individual tariff rates on a whole variety of different—

00:07:57.800 Well, you're going to see in two days, which is maybe tomorrow night or probably Wednesday, you're going to see.

00:08:05.220 And they're reciprocal.

00:08:07.180 So whatever they charge us, we charge them, but we're being nicer than they were.

00:08:11.540 We have a lot of countries, friend and foe.

00:08:13.900 I always say friend and foe, but the friend in many cases is worse than the foe.

00:08:18.080 Well, they took advantage of us, and we are going to be very nice by comparison to what they were.

00:08:25.220 The numbers will be lower than what they've been charging us, and in some cases may be substantially lower,

00:08:31.320 but we sort of have a world obligation, perhaps.

00:08:34.560 But we're going to be very nice.

00:08:36.360 Relatively speaking, we're going to be very kind.

00:08:39.400 Mr. President, even with the chairman—

00:08:41.240 Somebody said that about me the other day.

00:08:43.400 He said—who doesn't know me very well?

00:08:45.300 They said, you're such a kind person.

00:08:49.280 And I said—say that again.

00:08:51.180 They said, you're a kind person.

00:08:53.540 I said, I've never heard that before.

00:08:55.400 It was a weird saying.

00:08:56.480 I was kind.

00:08:57.160 What's that?

00:08:57.640 I've heard of words that—I don't know, I better not tell you.

00:09:00.260 You know, I've heard of—I've been called a lot of things, but it's sort of a different kind of a word.

00:09:04.980 It's like an old-fashioned word, isn't it?

00:09:07.200 Mr. President, you met with the chairman of Stellantis today.

00:09:09.900 Did he ask you for a pause on the auto tariffs?

00:09:13.820 What was that meeting about?

00:09:15.540 Just about some of the problems they have with the environmental, which we're going to clean up.

00:09:20.040 Have any of the auto—

00:09:21.000 We're going to probably go back to 1926.

00:09:23.680 If you look, we're going to go back probably to a 2020 standard.

00:09:28.820 So we'll have 2020 standard, and that's, you know, just a few years ago.

00:09:33.760 Oh, they're putting—they're making it so difficult.

00:09:35.760 All over the world, they're making it.

00:09:37.000 It doesn't mean a damn bit of difference for the environment.

00:09:39.640 It doesn't matter.

00:09:40.360 They're making it impossible for people to build cars.

00:09:44.100 So we're going to be doing much different.

00:09:45.840 2020 is a strong standard, but they've taken it to a level now that, you know, makes it very difficult to build a car.

00:09:53.200 So we're going to be—we're going to be bringing it back to a standard that is a very good environmental standard, but it makes it possible to build it.

00:10:03.860 Have you heard any concerns from the automakers, though, about the tariffs on parts that will go into effect over the coming weeks, about what that's going to mean for the price of—

00:10:10.840 Well, I gave them a big break for a month.

00:10:12.660 I didn't charge them anything, you know, for a big month, for that first month.

00:10:15.920 And they brought a lot of material into this country because they could bring it in without tariff.

00:10:21.140 If you look at Canada and Mexico, they were driving hundreds of thousands of cars into the market because they avoid the tariffs by doing it before the tariffs go on, which would be Wednesday.

00:10:32.260 And I looked at the—I saw in some of your shows where cars are lined up for miles and miles.

00:10:40.300 Some of them didn't have fenders on them.

00:10:42.080 Some of them didn't have the roof on yet.

00:10:44.040 They're driving it here brand new.

00:10:45.900 They're driving it in because they want to avoid the tariffs.

00:10:48.120 I let them have that.

00:10:49.400 They sort of took advantage of it because, you know, that wasn't part of the deal, but that's okay.

00:10:54.380 Are there any countries—

00:10:54.940 They're great American car companies and car companies.

00:10:58.840 And so I gave them a little break on that.

00:11:00.840 Are there any countries that you're not targeting for Wednesday?

00:11:04.560 Well, it depends.

00:11:05.500 You know, I said it's reciprocal.

00:11:07.260 Not everybody has made a fortune, but almost everybody has, but not everybody.

00:11:13.140 And the ones that haven't, we're going to be very nice to them.

00:11:17.660 And on a separate issue—

00:11:18.900 Because that word reciprocal is very important.

00:11:21.600 What they do to us, we do to them.

00:11:24.040 Can I just ask you briefly on President Putin?

00:11:27.640 You said over the weekend, or indicated over the weekend, some frustration with him.

00:11:31.200 How serious are you about imposing oil sanctions on Russia?

00:11:33.740 No, I want to see him make a deal so that we stop Russian soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers 1.00

00:11:39.680 and other people from being killed.

00:11:42.720 But mostly it's Russian and Ukrainian soldiers.

00:11:45.100 They're losing at least 2,500 human beings, beautiful human beings, a week.

00:11:52.820 And I wanted to stop.

00:11:54.180 And some people would say, why do you worry about Russian soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers?

00:11:59.140 I worry because it's like—they're just like you people.

00:12:01.480 They're like us.

00:12:02.140 They're like all of us.

00:12:03.020 And I seem to have an ability to do those things.

00:12:07.220 And if I can do that, I think it's a very worthwhile thing to do.

00:12:12.760 I think we will.

00:12:13.920 No, I want to make sure that he follows through, and I think he will.

00:12:18.140 I don't want to go secondary tariffs on his oil, but I think, you know,

00:12:21.380 it's something I would do if I thought he wasn't doing the job.

00:12:24.600 I did it with Venezuela, secondary tariffs.

00:12:27.500 And you know what happened?

00:12:28.240 Every boat left the harbor.

00:12:29.580 Did you see that?

00:12:30.240 It was a beautiful thing to see.

00:12:31.560 The whole harbor emptied out.

00:12:34.900 My words weren't even finished.

00:12:36.460 They have these massive shifts.

00:12:39.780 They're actually taking the hoses and dumping them into there.

00:12:42.500 They couldn't get out of there fast enough because they know I don't play games.

00:12:46.600 So I think he's going to live up to what he told me,

00:12:49.260 and I think he's going to fulfill his part of the deal.

00:12:55.120 Now, then you have Zelensky, and hopefully he's going to live up.

00:12:57.880 I see he's trying to renegotiate the rare earth.

00:13:00.820 But, you know, we did something because, as you know, the Europeans get paid back the money that they gave it.

00:13:06.100 We don't because Biden is an incompetent president, and he should have asked for rare earth,

00:13:11.980 or he should have asked for the loans to be guaranteed in some form.

00:13:14.660 That's what Europe did.

00:13:15.460 Europe is in for probably $100 billion, and we're in for $350 billion, so we're in for more than three times.

00:13:25.360 And now you could make it a little bit less than that, but it doesn't matter, whatever the number.

00:13:28.840 We're in for substantially more than Europe.

00:13:30.480 We could be in for $350 billion.

00:13:32.680 They have no idea because Biden wasn't a good bookkeeper except for himself.

00:13:37.200 And what happens is we made a deal for rare earth.

00:13:41.860 It was all done.

00:13:43.360 And I heard through you, I haven't spoken to them yet, but through you, I heard that they're now saying,

00:13:48.300 well, I'll only do that deal if we get into NATO or something to that effect.

00:13:53.040 Well, that was never, number one, discussed.

00:13:55.480 Number two, I think it's going to be very long before Putin, they said, you're not going into NATO.

00:13:59.840 And it could be, that's probably the reason the war started, actually.

00:14:04.460 Mr. President, we're four hours away from a very special election in Wisconsin, Florida.

00:14:09.860 Let me share your thoughts on Republican voters to not sleep on this.

00:14:13.300 Yeah.

00:14:13.460 The two very important races you've got to go.

00:14:14.880 Well, it's a big race, Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.

00:14:19.700 It's taking place essentially as we, as, you know, as early voting.

00:14:25.180 So we'll see what happens.

00:14:26.280 It's a big race.

00:14:27.860 I love Wisconsin.

00:14:29.080 We won Wisconsin.

00:14:31.100 Republicans typically don't do very well in Wisconsin, but I did.

00:14:35.020 I actually won it twice.

00:14:36.660 I actually probably won it three times, to be exact.

00:14:39.080 We played there, sir.

00:14:39.820 Not probably.

00:14:40.720 I won it three times.

00:14:42.320 We had a rigged election the second time, but that's, you know, one of those things.

00:14:46.220 We had to make this one too big to rig.

00:14:48.240 Would you agree with that, Brian?

00:14:49.620 Too big to rig?

00:14:50.460 Yes, sir.

00:14:51.860 So anyway, but yeah, there's a big race that I hope you get out and vote for the Republic. 0.99

00:14:56.320 The woman is a radical left lunatic. 0.96

00:14:59.500 And let's see who wins. 1.00

00:15:01.440 But the woman will be very bad. 1.00

00:15:04.400 And, you know, Wisconsin's a big state politically.

00:15:07.300 And the Supreme Court has a lot to do with elections in Wisconsin.

00:15:10.400 So if whoever it is that's running, including, you know, even Senate races, et cetera, but

00:15:17.200 whoever it is in four years that runs, having Wisconsin is a very big, you know, we won

00:15:22.560 it early and big.

00:15:23.600 But winning Wisconsin's a big deal.

00:15:26.000 So therefore, the Supreme Court choice, that's the one you're talking about right now, it's

00:15:32.840 a big race.

00:15:33.520 It's going to be announced fairly shortly.

00:15:36.600 On TikTok, big league deadlines, you've got Liberation Day and then TikTok deadline.

00:15:42.560 Yeah, we do.

00:15:43.560 Which I can extend if I want.

00:15:45.440 But we have a lot of enthusiasm for TikTok for buying it.

00:15:48.760 I think TikTok is good.

00:15:50.700 I used it very, I was a, I was a great TikTok guy.

00:15:54.700 And we won by 36 points, the youth.

00:15:57.420 You know, we won the youth, which Republicans don't do.

00:16:01.300 Maybe it's because Kid Rock likes Trump.

00:16:03.360 I don't know.

00:16:03.660 But we won, we won the youth by 36 points.

00:16:07.640 And I attribute some of that to TikTok.

00:16:10.560 Is the TikTok deal, the negotiations now, tied to a bigger tariff deal with China?

00:16:16.680 No, but you know, it could be.

00:16:18.380 I mean, you know, I've used tariffs for lots of different reasons, but I could see, you

00:16:23.020 know, one point in tariffs with China, big country, would be probably worth more than,

00:16:28.220 all of TikTok, as valuable as TikTok is, it's big stuff.

00:16:32.060 So there's a great example.

00:16:33.200 That's a great question, actually.

00:16:35.800 I'm a very flexible person.

00:16:37.520 I could use that for that.

00:16:38.920 Like, maybe I'll take a couple of points off if I get approvals for something.

00:16:43.100 I haven't done it.

00:16:45.220 Maybe I'll do it.

00:16:45.840 Maybe I won't.

00:16:46.520 But it's a very good question.

00:16:47.800 Peter, you're very good.

00:16:49.420 Thank you.

00:16:50.260 You'll love this one.

00:16:51.420 Go ahead.

00:16:52.040 It's not front page news.

00:16:53.340 But I am just curious.

00:16:54.460 What is your thought about Tiger Woods now becoming part of the broader Trump family?

00:17:00.200 Well, I love Tiger and I love Vanessa.

00:17:03.680 And they had a great relationship.

00:17:07.220 I happen to think the relationship with my son, I think I happen to think the relationship 0.99

00:17:12.540 was hurt very badly by the witch hunt that went on Russia, Russia, Russia and all the crap 0.98

00:17:16.680 that they put Don through. 0.98

00:17:18.120 Who knew nothing about it?

00:17:20.000 But Vanessa and Don had a very good relationship.

00:17:22.440 They have incredible children, five incredible children, all good athletes, all great students.

00:17:29.020 They're like, great.

00:17:30.400 And they broke up, you know, quite a while ago.

00:17:34.160 And which was to me very sad because I think they're both great.

00:17:38.160 Don and Vanessa and Tiger actually called me a few months ago and he and they have a very

00:17:44.160 special, very good relationship with Tiger.

00:17:46.420 I played golf with him a couple of times over the last month.

00:17:48.640 And he's a fantastic guy and a fantastic athlete.

00:17:52.100 And he told me about it.

00:17:53.760 And I said, Tiger, that's good.

00:17:56.180 That's good.

00:17:56.920 I'm very happy for both.

00:17:59.060 I just let them both be happy.

00:18:01.300 Let them both be happy.

00:18:02.460 They're both great.

00:18:03.580 To follow up on China, China, South Korea and Japan say they're going to work together

00:18:09.980 in cooperation to respond to the tariffs that you're going to put into effect this week.

00:18:13.660 Are you concerned that this move of the tariffs this week could push some of the United States

00:18:18.920 closest allies to work with China?

00:18:21.480 No, I'm not worried about it.

00:18:23.480 I'm not worried about it yet.

00:18:24.800 Mr. President, can I ask you about something?

00:18:25.940 I think they have a chance of doing better, actually, with the tariffs.

00:18:28.840 It can actually help them in a certain way.

00:18:31.080 And I think a lot of them will drop their tariffs because, you know, they've been unfairly

00:18:34.580 tariffing the United States for years.

00:18:37.960 And if you look at the European Union on cars, the European Union already dropped their

00:18:43.440 tariff down to two and a half percent.

00:18:44.900 It was announced a couple of days ago, which is what the United States, which is a very small

00:18:50.040 tariff.

00:18:51.000 The United States charged very little.

00:18:54.680 And a lot of I think I heard that India just a little while ago is going to be dropping

00:18:59.420 its tariffs.

00:19:00.760 And I said, why didn't somebody do this a long time ago?

00:19:03.760 A lot of countries are going to be dropping their tariffs.

00:19:06.120 About something that happened in France today, Mr. President, Marine Le Pen, the far-right

00:19:11.040 leader, got convicted in court and is now banned from running for office for five years.

00:19:16.320 Do you have a comment?

00:19:17.160 That's a big deal.

00:19:19.080 That's a very big deal.

00:19:20.280 I know all about it.

00:19:21.600 And a lot of people thought she wasn't going to be convicted of anything.

00:19:24.940 And I don't know if it means conviction, but she was banned from running for five years

00:19:28.480 and she's the leading candidate.

00:19:30.480 That sounds like this country.

00:19:33.080 That sounds very much like this country.

00:19:35.420 Okay.

00:19:35.700 Anybody else?

00:19:36.160 Mr. President, you've been presented with a bunch of proposals for tariffs by your advisors.

00:19:40.080 They've been talking about that idea publicly.

00:19:41.260 At who?

00:19:41.920 That your advisors have presented ideas about tariffs and what to do in the next two days.

00:19:47.080 Have you settled on that?

00:19:47.620 Well, you're going to see.

00:19:48.280 I've settled, yeah, a long, actually a long time ago.

00:19:51.100 But we talk about it.

00:19:52.100 We talk about it a lot.

00:19:53.720 We want to do what's right for the country and even the world.

00:19:56.700 You know, it affects the world, not just this country.

00:19:59.720 This has been the piggy bank for the entire world.

00:20:03.320 So it really does affect the world.

00:20:04.880 And that's important to me also.

00:20:06.140 Yeah.

00:20:06.600 Mr. President, in the past you have said that you want the quick return of Austin Tice,

00:20:13.000 a Marine Corps veteran and a journalist who went missing in Syria over 12 years ago.

00:20:18.000 Have efforts been made to locate Austin Tice been extended beyond Syria, including potential leads in Iran?

00:20:26.180 And do you have plans to get in touch with Ms. Deborah Tice, the mother of Ms. Austin Tice?

00:20:32.560 And also at the same time, organizations like Hostage Aid Worldwide have been on the ground in Syria

00:20:38.400 searching for Austin Tice for many years.

00:20:42.700 Can I get your comment on the future, potential future plans to relocate, to locate Austin Tice and to bring him home finally?

00:20:51.640 So we've been looking, as you know, for Austin for years.

00:20:55.580 The, I don't know about Biden.

00:20:58.120 I don't think Biden was looking for anything.

00:20:59.680 But we were, and there's been virtually no sign.

00:21:05.420 You know that.

00:21:06.220 There's been no sign of Austin.

00:21:08.260 An incredible young guy.

00:21:11.900 Be less young now.

00:21:13.280 It's been a long time.

00:21:14.320 It's been many, many years.

00:21:15.980 The mother is fantastic.

00:21:17.640 She's a very committed mother that her whole life is to find her son who was in Syria and just disappeared off the face of the earth. 0.97

00:21:26.420 So, you know, a lot of bad things happen.

00:21:29.060 But we're always, you know, we will never, until we find out something definitive, one way or the other, we'll never stop looking for him.

00:21:36.440 But we have been.

00:21:38.100 And the response, it's just a lot of dead ends.

00:21:43.320 He's been gone for a long time.

00:21:44.880 The problem is there's never been a sighting.

00:21:46.920 You know, sometimes you'll have somebody looking for him and there's a sighting.

00:21:50.460 There's never been a sighting of Austin.

00:21:52.820 But we are out there, and we have great respect for his family and for his mother.

00:21:57.960 She's been unbelievable.

00:21:59.480 Yes, Mr. President, a question about...

00:22:01.080 No, behind you.

00:22:01.720 No, apologies.

00:22:02.060 Yes, you've had outreach with the leaders of Russia and China.

00:22:06.320 You made an outreach to Iran.

00:22:08.660 When are you going to plan to reach out to North Korea and Kim Jong-un?

00:22:12.980 Any time in the near future?

00:22:14.160 Well, I do.

00:22:14.840 I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un.

00:22:18.480 Now, you people hate to hear that, but it's very important.

00:22:22.560 I got along with him fantastically, as you know.

00:22:25.120 It started off very rough, very nasty.

00:22:28.640 Little Rocket Man, the whole thing was a nasty deal.

00:22:32.240 And then one day we got a call that they'd like to meet.

00:22:34.740 We met.

00:22:35.700 We have a great relationship.

00:22:38.460 And, yeah, we have...

00:22:41.880 There is communication, yeah.

00:22:44.300 I think it's very important.

00:22:45.680 You know, he's a big nuclear nation, and he's a very smart guy.

00:22:52.360 I got to know him very well.

00:22:54.440 I foot...

00:22:54.800 You remember, I put my foot across the line, and then I walked across the line.

00:22:58.960 I don't know if Secret Service was thrilled with that.

00:23:01.620 They actually wasn't.

00:23:02.600 They were not too thrilled.

00:23:04.520 But I have a very good relationship with him.

00:23:08.040 Yeah, we'll probably do something at some point.

00:23:10.840 Yeah, please.

00:23:11.360 Who's on your short list, Mr. President, to replace Elise Stefanik as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.?

00:23:17.160 So we have a lot of good people that want it.

00:23:21.480 First of all, Elise is fantastic.

00:23:23.140 And I just don't want to take chances where you guys are saying, how is the election going?

00:23:26.780 We have a congressional election that's a little bit close.

00:23:30.320 I guess the one is in good shape, but the other one's a little bit close.

00:23:33.920 But Randy Fine is a great guy.

00:23:36.520 They're both good candidates.

00:23:38.240 They're very good.

00:23:38.800 But it's, you know, a little bit...

00:23:41.400 We want to be careful.

00:23:43.140 And Elise is very popular in her district, and so am I.

00:23:46.860 We won by a lot of points, and so did she.

00:23:50.760 And there's a lot of people that wanted to run for it, but we have no idea.

00:23:54.360 Are they going to win?

00:23:55.140 I think it's just security.

00:23:56.700 And I said, Elise, what about going back?

00:23:58.860 Because they love you there, and she's going to take a big leadership position with Mike

00:24:04.500 Johnson and the group, the speaker.

00:24:07.240 And I can tell you that for the replacement, we have a lot of people that have asked about

00:24:14.420 it and would like to do it.

00:24:15.560 David Friedman, Rick Grinnell, and maybe 30 other people.

00:24:23.100 Everyone loves that position.

00:24:24.620 That's a star-making position.

00:24:26.000 And so we'll see what happens.

00:24:28.800 But we have a lot of people that are interested in going to the United Nations, as you can

00:24:32.700 imagine.

00:24:33.400 Yeah.

00:24:33.720 Just want to get a quick music question.

00:24:35.960 Favorite song to play live is what?

00:24:37.840 And then my question for you, Mr. President, your favorite rally you did last year, 2024,

00:24:43.240 what was your favorite one?

00:24:44.560 Favorite song to play live?

00:24:45.940 Yeah.

00:24:46.240 Favorite song to play live.

00:24:47.180 Oh, that's a tough one.

00:24:52.300 It'd have to be one of the hits, probably Cowboy or Ball with the Bar.

00:24:56.000 There's a song that I've played every night that was never a single hit that I probably

00:25:01.080 should not say the words to in this office right now.

00:25:04.920 He's never met a certain person like me.

00:25:06.600 His rallies are amazing.

00:25:08.420 He does great and gets big crowds.

00:25:10.860 He's been, he's been, he's really a star when it comes to that.

00:25:15.080 He is a very talented guy.

00:25:18.040 I would say maybe Madison Square Garden.

00:25:21.000 Yeah.

00:25:21.240 Because anybody that was there, the owner of the garden, Jim Dolan, who's, you know,

00:25:28.120 to me, always been terrific.

00:25:30.160 He said this, he's never said anything like it.

00:25:32.540 We had, when you announce Madison Square Garden, you know, it's a big arena, but we sell out

00:25:37.740 big arenas.

00:25:38.400 We sold out of Milwaukee.

00:25:39.400 We sold out of every big arena.

00:25:41.140 We don't have, we never had empty seats.

00:25:42.740 It's amazing.

00:25:43.540 They talk about Bernie Sanders gets two, three thousand people.

00:25:46.220 Everyone said, these crowds, I get 107,000 people in New Jersey.

00:25:51.700 In Butler, PA, we had over 100,000 the second time.

00:25:55.740 We had 55,000 the first time.

00:25:57.620 We have big crowds.

00:25:58.960 I would say Madison Square Garden, because I grew up in New York and the garden is great.

00:26:05.100 Jim Dolan treated us well, but everybody said that, because I think I could have filled

00:26:09.520 it up 10 times.

00:26:10.580 We had hundreds of thousands of people that were stacked all the way back to the Hudson

00:26:15.960 River and on the other direction, back to Fifth Avenue.

00:26:19.440 Nobody's ever said, I don't mean with a line, I mean like 50 deep, like 50 deep this way.

00:26:25.860 The streets were closed, the whole thing, it was crazy.

00:26:28.960 And when you take that, you know, you want to do well at Madison Square Garden.

00:26:32.160 You don't want to have empty seats, but we could have sold it out, Brian, 10 times and

00:26:36.980 everybody knows.

00:26:37.800 And I think we got a good indication that that's where the election was going and we

00:26:42.080 won every swing state and we won by millions of votes.

00:26:45.420 It was a, it was a great election.

00:26:46.980 Yeah.

00:26:47.260 Mr. President, the U.S. military transferred 17 individuals to El Salvador overnight.

00:26:51.940 Did you discuss with your team whether these deportations would run afoul of any recent

00:26:56.880 court orders?

00:26:57.800 No, I do want to thank, however, the president.

00:27:00.920 He has been unbelievable.

00:27:02.920 And, you know, in relation to us, but I think that our people have done an incredible job.

00:27:11.480 You know, I got elected on the basis of getting bad people out of our country that shouldn't

00:27:15.320 be here.

00:27:16.320 Very dangerous people out of our country.

00:27:18.820 And that's what I did.

00:27:20.500 And then you have a judge that wants to take over.

00:27:22.940 And I can't imagine it can be allowed.

00:27:25.240 It was up to him.

00:27:26.240 They'd all be put back in our country. 1.00

00:27:27.780 These are killers. 1.00

00:27:28.940 These are drug lords. 1.00

00:27:30.120 These are really bad people.

00:27:31.660 So, but I want to thank the president of El Salvador because he's, he did a, he's done an amazing

00:27:38.280 job.

00:27:38.780 You saw, yeah.

00:27:40.400 Elon Musk's special government tenure is coming to an end, 130 days, I think another month.

00:27:45.840 Yeah.

00:27:45.960 Do you want him to stay longer or is it time for him to go back to running his companies

00:27:50.300 in Europe?

00:27:50.540 Well, I think he's an amazing, but I also think he's got a big company to run.

00:27:54.640 And so at some point he's going to be going back.

00:27:56.500 He wants to.

00:27:57.820 Would you want to keep him around?

00:27:59.300 Oh, I'd keep him as long as I could keep him.

00:28:01.340 He's a very talented guy.

00:28:03.420 You know, I love very smart people and he's very smart and he's done a good job.

00:28:07.960 You know, Doge, Doge is, we found numbers that nobody can even believe.

00:28:15.420 Like 400 billion, 500 billion.

00:28:18.860 It could be close to a trillion dollars by the time they end on different things.

00:28:25.000 And he's led the charge and you've seen a lot of his people.

00:28:28.240 And these are people that joined up.

00:28:30.280 I would say the high IQ people.

00:28:32.080 I like high IQ people and they've done a great job.

00:28:35.900 No, at some point, Elon's going to want to go back to his company.

00:28:38.660 I will say he's got, despite the way he's been treated.

00:28:42.480 So he's an American patriot.

00:28:44.440 But the way he's been treated with Tesla is just terrible.

00:28:48.340 It's just terrible.

00:28:49.320 Once he goes back.

00:28:49.780 In fact, you have a Tesla and you love it.

00:28:53.400 You know, he was saying before he bought a Tesla.

00:28:55.580 I love it.

00:28:55.860 A lot of people are buying Teslas, I think.

00:28:58.240 And I hope they are.

00:28:59.340 He should not be treated that way.

00:29:00.780 He's done an incredible service.

00:29:03.320 Once he goes back.

00:29:04.140 Is Doge going to keep operating even without Elon here?

00:29:06.980 Well, I can't tell you that.

00:29:08.180 I can say this, that a lot of the people that are working with Doge are the secretaries,

00:29:12.840 you know, the heads of the various agencies.

00:29:15.140 And they've learned a lot.

00:29:16.900 And they're dealing with the Doge people.

00:29:19.060 I think some of them may try to keep the Doge people with them.

00:29:22.480 But, you know, at a certain point, I think it will end.

00:29:25.540 But they have also gotten a big education.

00:29:27.800 And they're doing a really good job.

00:29:30.120 There will be a point at which the secretaries will be able to do this work and do it very,

00:29:35.940 you know, as we say, with a scalpel.

00:29:38.240 And that's what we want.

00:29:39.440 Yeah, Jeff?

00:29:39.920 Mr. President, have you had any updates on the U.S. soldiers missing in Lithuania?

00:29:44.140 I have.

00:29:44.780 Can you give us an update?

00:29:46.420 So three are no longer with us.

00:29:50.120 And one is unfortunately probably in the same category.

00:29:55.440 But they haven't declared that yet.

00:29:56.820 And it was a very heavy truck, like I told you.

00:29:59.800 But, I mean, really heavy.

00:30:01.400 It lifted the heaviest equipment.

00:30:03.940 It would seem that the bank of a lake collapsed.

00:30:07.860 You know, the weight is so big.

00:30:09.280 And it was at night.

00:30:10.260 And it was very cold weather.

00:30:11.620 Ice.

00:30:12.440 A lot of ice.

00:30:13.820 And it's possibly slipped.

00:30:15.860 And the weight is so enormous of this thing.

00:30:18.380 It's a massively heavy vehicle.

00:30:22.900 And if they slipped a little bit, that's probably what happened.

00:30:26.140 And it flipped.

00:30:28.120 And three are gone.

00:30:32.760 And one is missing.

00:30:34.560 On a separate topic, a follow-up on immigration.

00:30:37.680 Did you see the video of a Tufts University student who was taken off the street by ICE agents last week in hoodies and masks?

00:30:46.800 There's been a lot of criticism of that.

00:30:48.540 Are you comfortable with how that was handled?

00:30:50.060 Well, I haven't really looked at it in any detail, but I will.

00:30:53.500 I mean, I have seen it quickly, but not – I wouldn't want to comment on – yeah, please.

00:30:57.760 Yeah.

00:30:58.240 Mr. President, would you be able to confirm recent reporting that you are making plans to go to Saudi Arabia next month?

00:31:05.200 And if so, why is Saudi Arabia so important?

00:31:07.380 So, I have a very good relationship with the Middle East.

00:31:12.160 In fact, if you look at Michigan, I won the vote by a lot.

00:31:15.480 People were a little surprised.

00:31:17.460 And I have a very good relationship with Mohammed and the king.

00:31:22.380 His son is Mohammed.

00:31:23.500 He's great.

00:31:24.280 Crown Prince, actually, he's prime minister, too.

00:31:27.200 He's got a lot of good titles.

00:31:28.320 But he's great.

00:31:31.020 And the king has been wonderful.

00:31:33.460 And if you remember, last time I went to Saudi Arabia, I put him first on the list because they agreed to buy $450 billion worth of American goods, military and otherwise.

00:31:46.540 And they did.

00:31:47.260 And it was an unbelievable day.

00:31:49.060 It was in this gorgeous ballroom.

00:31:50.860 And companies were there from many, many, probably 100 companies.

00:31:55.800 And they were given anywhere from $40 or $50 million to less.

00:32:04.000 And more, actually.

00:32:05.180 Okay, some of them were given numbers that were just many times that amount.

00:32:09.200 I think we had a couple of $20 billion deals and big stuff.

00:32:13.920 And it's a very rich country because of oil.

00:32:16.740 And we are a very rich country, ultimately, when we straighten it out because of oil.

00:32:21.880 Oil is always good.

00:32:23.120 And I agreed to do it again.

00:32:26.700 And they've agreed to spend close to a trillion dollars of money in our American companies, which to me means jobs.

00:32:34.720 So they're going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars giving them to American companies that are going to be making equipment for Saudi Arabia and other places in the Middle East.

00:32:49.440 And for that, I think it's worth it.

00:32:51.300 I did it last time, $450 billion.

00:32:53.480 And the press was there.

00:32:55.020 It was one of the most unique days I've ever seen where companies would get up and you're getting $20 billion.

00:33:02.520 The name of the company, the chairman, we're all there.

00:33:04.960 Every chairman and top person in the company.

00:33:07.160 You remember that, Peter?

00:33:07.920 I don't know if you were there.

00:33:09.160 You might be too young for that.

00:33:10.820 I was on the Democratic campaign trail.

00:33:12.940 Oh, that was boring.

00:33:14.260 This was a much better deal.

00:33:16.180 But it was amazing, actually.

00:33:18.280 It was an amazing day.

00:33:19.120 We sold and we partook in $450 billion worth of investment into American companies.

00:33:27.860 And they announced the company, the amount of money, $1 billion, $5 billion, $25 billion.

00:33:33.460 And the chairman of the company, many of whom, you know, are well-known figures, prestigious figures, great business leaders, they went up, they shook the hand of somebody, and they would sit down.

00:33:46.760 And we just had a big investment made.

00:33:48.720 So it was a record.

00:33:50.440 Nobody ever beat it before.

00:33:51.940 $450 billion worth of jobs.

00:33:54.280 I view it as jobs more than anything else.

00:33:56.360 And now we're close to a trillion dollars.

00:33:58.860 So it's more than double the number that we did when I first came to office.

00:34:03.700 And this trip takes place next month.

00:34:06.820 It could be next month, maybe a little bit later, yeah.

00:34:08.900 And we're going to Qatar, and also we're going to possibly a couple of other countries.

00:34:20.120 UAE is very important.

00:34:21.620 It's a great leader in UAE.

00:34:23.960 And I had his brother here the other night, if you saw that.

00:34:27.960 We had a wonderful guy, a wonderful family.

00:34:31.180 So we'll probably stop at UAE and Qatar.

00:34:33.640 And as I used to go at Qatar, nobody's ever told me right or wrong.

00:34:39.060 I always like to say Qatar, but it's Qatar.

00:34:42.200 They like to say Qatar.

00:34:43.860 And Saudi Arabia, the three of them.

00:34:45.740 And then we'll go other places also.

00:34:48.200 But in the Middle East, those seem to be the three.

00:34:49.940 And again, tremendous amounts of jobs will be created in those two or three days.

00:34:57.580 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:34:58.840 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:00.240 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:00.800 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:01.240 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:01.940 And cut it out the back door. 0.93

00:35:02.940 Thank you, everybody.

00:35:03.860 Thank you, guys.

00:35:04.280 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:04.580 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:06.420 That was good.

00:35:10.420 Okay, ready, everybody?

00:35:13.520 Thank you.

00:35:14.960 Good stuff.

00:35:15.740 You better do well with this.

00:35:18.560 He's going to do it.

00:35:19.460 Make sure everything is nice and clean, right, for your industry.

00:35:23.040 Make America fun.

00:35:23.640 Because you're not in a clean industry.

00:35:25.660 Hold that up.

00:35:28.920 Okay?

00:35:30.080 Thank you, everybody.

00:35:31.200 Thank you, sir.

00:35:31.520 Thank you, Fred.

00:35:32.280 Thank you, Fred, everyone.

00:35:33.780 And out this way.

00:35:35.320 Thanks, everybody.

00:35:36.800 Thank you.

00:35:37.780 Thank you.

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00:39:53.740 We may get the signing tomorrow, and the announcement on Wednesday, we may do the signing.

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00:40:26.960 In fact, Shannon Breen tried to jump my brother, Peter Navarro, yesterday.

00:40:31.680 Peter Navarro was giving a very rash.

00:40:33.540 We played a clip of it at the beginning of the show.

00:40:36.640 Peter Navarro, Dr. Navarro, who's one of the architects of this, along with Scott Besson, Howard Blutnik, and others.

00:40:44.160 Brother Greer over at the trade office is now replacing Bob Lighthizer.

00:40:51.320 Peter's going through a rational walkthrough of what tariffs are, how they're bringing jobs back.

00:40:56.460 You heard President Trump right there time and time again refer back to the amount of massive capital investment by companies.

00:41:03.820 Not private equity funds, not hedge funds, not venture capital funds, not sovereign wealth funds.

00:41:09.720 I mean major industrial companies investing tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars on plant and equipment here in the United States.

00:41:18.400 And Shannon Breen, and I like Shannon a lot, if you ever get to know her, she's a very, very nice person, very straightforward.

00:41:24.280 Man, oh, man, the Murdoch's had a trap, and she sits there and gets all kind of uppity and, boom, hits him with, well, look at the polling here with the American people.

00:41:32.720 The American people has not been explained to them, Shannon, because Fox News, owned by the Murdochs, neoliberal neocons, and, of course, the progressive nutcases over at MSNBC and CNN continue to harp on facts that just don't happen to be true.

00:41:48.920 Let's go back to the China tariffs.

00:41:50.520 No price increases.

00:41:51.500 With the largest tariff increase in the history of China, go back to my previous explanation.

00:41:58.900 China sends finished goods here, and we send raw materials there.

00:42:03.280 It's like we're a colony.

00:42:04.620 We are an economic colony.

00:42:05.920 We're a massive market for them, but we just provide very few finished goods.

00:42:11.300 What they call the value chain, a value-added kind of labor and production, technology, productivity, and that value chain, we don't send a lot.

00:42:20.640 Most of it's just essentially raw materials.

00:42:22.880 They look at us as a colony.

00:42:24.720 It's like they look at Brazil and an end market, a massive end market.

00:42:28.280 That's because we're propped up, and you say, well, Steve, how's the economy work?

00:42:32.200 Well, it's quite simple.

00:42:33.820 You go into any town, particularly in kind of rural America, with the biggest things, the university or the health care system or the jail system or the county administration, where are the jobs of actually producing high-end manufactured goods?

00:42:48.140 They're not there.

00:42:48.740 And this is all propped up by government spending.

00:42:51.620 This is what happens when you have $36, $37 trillion in debt, and you're adding $2 trillion every year.

00:42:56.140 It's a Ponzi scheme.

00:42:57.160 It's the long con, and that long con, I had in the interim today between the morning show and the afternoon show, I had some very smart people on a call, and they said, hey, they don't see Congress ever having the guts or the courage to actually face voters and have to tell them, hey, we can't afford to do this anymore.

00:43:19.760 This is what we can't afford to do.

00:43:20.960 And guess what?

00:43:21.940 For the wealthier, taxes are going to go up.

00:43:24.020 They said that courage is not there.

00:43:25.780 He says, you're dreaming about a courage that doesn't exist.

00:43:29.180 I said, well, listen, they're not going to have to have courage when you have a failed treasury auction.

00:43:33.200 This is what Ray Dahlia said the other day.

00:43:37.140 One of those two realities is just going to be it's going to create an absolute financial crisis.

00:43:41.980 You're going to have to react immediately, and you're not going to like the choices you make.

00:43:46.200 One thing I did leave out from earlier when we talk about finished goods, even in generic medicines, and China looks at all of this of controlling the supply chains as strategic.

00:43:58.700 If anything has ever come up, remember, they used to own a trillion dollars of our debt.

00:44:03.860 They have the supply chains.

00:44:05.920 Of course, they've infiltrated many, many institutions in our country, but they think they actually have leverage over us.

00:44:10.780 If we have military leverage, they think because the chip plants in Taiwan are right there, they have leverage there.

00:44:17.120 They think they have a lot of leverage on us on doing what they want to do throughout the Eurasian landmass as they rise to become a hegemon in East Asia, then a hegemon on the Eurasian landmass, and then a hegemon throughout the world directly in conflict with the United States of America.

00:44:32.460 Jace Medical, that's why being a War Room Posse member, you're going to be an active part of this.

00:44:40.600 You're going to be an active part.

00:44:41.580 Your voice is heard.

00:44:42.640 You know that.

00:44:43.160 When we contact senators or congressmen and you guys get on top of things, things change.

00:44:48.440 Pete Hexas gets to be Secretary of Defense.

00:44:53.040 President Trump gets to be President of the United States.

00:44:54.800 When you put your shoulder to the wheel, like tomorrow, if we're to win, and particularly in Florida 6, Florida 1, I think Jimmy Petronas, and we had a little trouble technically getting Jimmy up earlier, but Jimmy Petronas is going to win.

00:45:08.440 He's not going to win at the gap, at the spread that Matt Gaetz had.

00:45:11.520 Trump's not at the top of the ticket, but I think from all of our indications and what we're tracking in Florida 1, he should win.

00:45:19.160 And Florida 6 is going to be much tighter.

00:45:20.920 That's a tight race.

00:45:22.760 Whether Fine is the perfect candidate or not, it is a lot of pressure down there, and that's going to be a tight one.

00:45:29.480 President Trump won that by 30.

00:45:31.180 Gates and President Trump won it by 32.

00:45:33.140 And Florida 1 won by 30.

00:45:34.440 With Mike Waltz, that's going to be much tougher.

00:45:36.960 In Wisconsin, we have to represent on Tuesday, on tomorrow.

00:45:42.900 That is so important because it's two congressional seats.

00:45:47.040 It's two congressional seats, I think, before even the 2020 seat.

00:45:52.300 If they can pull it off, they're going to try to redistrict it.

00:45:54.360 I think have a special.

00:45:55.340 I don't know.

00:45:55.660 Maybe they have to make it contingent upon doing it the next election.

00:45:59.260 But these people are so radical that you don't know what they're going to try to pull.

00:46:03.360 It's all on the line in Wisconsin today.

00:46:05.520 I will tell you, some of the smartest people I know in Wisconsin, including I had a long talk with Scott Preston.

00:46:11.300 Scott saying, hey, we really need a big turnout on game day.

00:46:14.380 I've talked to some other senior people, and they're saying, hey, we've got to have it.

00:46:17.360 But, you know, this is an incredible amount of money.

00:46:19.880 It's over $100 million that has gone into that race.

00:46:22.900 And so tomorrow you're going to have a – I think you're going to have a wake-up call of the fight that we have in front of us.

00:46:29.260 President Trump just – right when we're – during the – right when coming on the air for the signing of the executive order,

00:46:37.680 a judge rescinded President Trump's pulling of the temporary status for 350 Venezuelans.

00:46:45.060 Remember, he did this for Venezuelans, I think for some folks from Afghanistan, I think one or two Central American companies.

00:46:51.820 It might have been Haiti, a couple of countries.

00:46:53.280 This temporary protective status allows you to stay here much longer than you would normally be able to.

00:46:59.940 It's one of the ones we've always – it's been a huge bone of contention for folks who want to get our hands around immigration

00:47:05.600 and make sure there's more opportunity for American citizens.

00:47:08.700 And President Trump rescinded temporary protective status for 350,000 Venezuelans.

00:47:15.660 And a federal judge just walked in and overruled President Trump.

00:47:20.260 A lot of questions there for President Trump, particularly about what President Trump's going to do as far as commander-in-chief.

00:47:27.580 Remember, filings are due tomorrow, I think at noon.

00:47:32.060 We're going to get Julie Kelly, try to track her down tomorrow to join us.

00:47:35.680 Just on the judge of Bosberg, they're due at noon.

00:47:39.060 They've already gone.

00:47:39.960 President Trump has requested – the administration has requested to be on the emergency docket of the Supreme Court.

00:47:45.720 That has not totally been accepted.

00:47:47.300 They're looking for kind of arguments tomorrow.

00:47:50.880 But I believe, and I think one of the reporters mentioned it, I think that President Trump –

00:47:56.600 and I'm looking to my producer, I think he – I think they deported 17 Venezuelans back to Venezuela last night on a military aircraft.

00:48:04.780 Some people, I think, might argue that violates the judge's stay or temporary restraining order.

00:48:11.440 That will all get fought out in the courts in the next couple of days.

00:48:13.560 As I have told people time and again, I think President Trump is prepared to engage in his chief executive, and he doesn't agree with it, and he's going through the courts, being the chief law enforcement officer of the country, chief magistrate, which is another aspect of the unified executive theory.

00:48:29.640 I don't believe President Trump, if he deems it in the country's national security interest as the commander-in-chief, I'm not so sure he is going to allow a district court judge or maybe even an appellate court judge to interfere or intervene in that.

00:48:50.940 I think he deems – I think he deems that his role as a commander-in-chief – yes, we have Scott Pressel.

00:48:56.340 We're going to get – yeah, Pressel just left.

00:48:58.900 In fact, Pressel was down in Milwaukee doing an event.

00:49:02.580 Let's get Scott up.

00:49:03.680 I think Scott's going to tell you you're going to have to go to the ramparts tomorrow.

00:49:06.440 This thing in Wisconsin is very, very important.

00:49:09.280 And these Supreme Court, as you know, from North Carolina to Louisiana, when it comes to these redistricting, these are huge fights.

00:49:20.300 You've participated in some of the biggest we've had the last couple of years.

00:49:22.820 I would respectfully submit I think we hold the House of Representatives because this audience put their shoulder to the wheel in places like Missouri, in places like Tennessee, in places like Florida, in places like North Carolina, just to throw out some random examples of where the folks down there needed some support in Louisiana to make sure that these districts were redrawn.

00:49:44.400 I think in Alabama – remember, it was a couple of years ago, DeGrasse led this effort to get the Warren Posse involved, and it showed that, you know, what needed to be done.

00:49:52.700 A lot of questions about economics.

00:49:54.260 One thing I want – I'll cut it for tomorrow morning.

00:49:56.040 The one question that really got President Trump up and like, hey, that's a big deal, was the question about Le Pen.

00:50:05.560 He said, hey, that's a very big deal.

00:50:07.380 And he repeated essentially what we were talking about in Warren.

00:50:10.120 He says, hey, she was way up.

00:50:11.880 She was 10, 12, 15 points up in the projection of a presidential race of which she's a candidate. 1.00

00:50:17.500 And I think – I don't think Macron's running again against other competition.

00:50:23.220 And he said, hey, this thing was relatively small.

00:50:27.560 They made a mountain out of the molehill.

00:50:28.740 And he tied it directly to himself, which I thought was pretty extraordinary.

00:50:33.840 And President Trump said it was a big deal.

00:50:35.400 We're going to play that again.

00:50:36.940 I don't think we had it cut quickly enough.

00:50:38.980 We'll play it again tomorrow in case we got it.

00:50:40.400 But he got – he had so many great jewels in that of things he's talking about as we're on the eve of these huge elections tomorrow, two in Florida, one in Wisconsin, and then the next day the rollout of the biggest geoeconomic retorquing or resetting in the – since World War II.

00:50:58.820 When you talk about the post-war international rules-based order, this is a order that's been based upon essentially a free and open market to the United States and the allowing of the free flow of labor.

00:51:13.100 And that means that capital has basically taken the high-value manufacturing jobs in the United States and has shipped them overseas, whether through NAFTA to Mexico or whether they did it in the decades of the 90s or early 2000s to China.

00:51:26.360 Now, Shali Kumar comes on and talks about between 1998 and 2005, I think in Illinois alone, there was something over a million – I think it was 5,000 factories and something like 500,000 to a million jobs.

00:51:42.580 High-value light manufacturing jobs were shipped over to China.

00:51:46.680 And Shali Kumar is someone who is adamantly about not just tariffs but sustainable tariffs.

00:51:51.760 He says, hey, the tariffs don't have to be large, but they have to be sustainable.

00:51:55.520 In other words, you can't be in and out.

00:51:57.420 You have to set it.

00:51:58.380 And that's what President Trump is doing.

00:51:59.660 President Trump is looking at an economic reformulation of the country. 0.92

00:52:04.380 He thinks it's ridiculous.

00:52:05.460 You can't run a country that is a superpower with no manufacturing base, no advanced manufacturing base.

00:52:11.940 You just can't do it.

00:52:13.100 We've shipped all those jobs overseas.

00:52:14.700 And, of course, the globalists say, well, you make it up as being the marketing chain and you can do a final assembly here.

00:52:20.360 No, that is not high-value added.

00:52:23.260 And the pay is not there.

00:52:24.380 The high-value added comes from the machining, the tooling, the skill set.

00:52:30.500 It comes from actually manufacturing, the excellence by wandering around, which was that book in the management book in the late 1990s.

00:52:37.780 I think it was Thomas Peters wrote that book.

00:52:40.760 When the factory and R&D, they're all kind of together.

00:52:42.960 That's the greatness of American manufacturing.

00:52:44.740 That's the greatness of the arsenal of democracy.

00:52:47.400 Look what was created in this country when the Industrial Revolution hit this country.

00:52:51.480 Look at the magnificent, you know, entrepreneurship.

00:52:55.440 Look at the innovation.

00:52:56.980 And you didn't need huge universities doing massive research.

00:52:59.580 You didn't need to put tons of, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars into these universities to let them become basically citadels of the woke and to lord it over you as you get some R&D.

00:53:10.860 There's no doubt you get some, you know, advanced research and you get some applied research or basic research and applied research.

00:53:17.500 But back in the old days and even up to the 1950s and 60s, you had companies, you had people who were engineers.

00:53:23.820 A lot of people weren't engineers.

00:53:24.960 A lot of people were not even going to college but had that kind of ability to think through the manufacturing process, to think through innovation and create tremendous value.

00:53:33.560 We're going to need you up on the ramparts tomorrow, either on Bill Blaster or somebody go to the local apps.

00:53:40.840 Scott, we're going to try to track Scott Pressler.

00:53:42.600 Scott Pressler is, I had a long talk with him before the show today.

00:53:45.840 Scott has been bouncing around event to event to event.

00:53:48.380 There's been, I think, a freeze situation up in north central Wisconsin.

00:53:53.820 They're not sure they actually could get the final day of voting in, which I think was Saturday, that they, or it might have been Friday in Wisconsin.

00:54:04.560 But they want to make sure that people know that they should talk to their local election officials, particularly tomorrow, to get the vote out.

00:54:11.260 If they can't get the vote out, let people know early so that things could be filed because this is going to come down to every vote counts.

00:54:16.540 The polling from Trafalgar, Trafalgar guys have been pretty accurate, has the Republican candidate for the Supreme Court down by two, maybe a little even over two.

00:54:27.540 So it's all going to be about turnout tomorrow.

00:54:29.400 Trafalgar's had a pretty good reputation of doing that.

00:54:32.500 Other people around Wisconsin said, hey, maybe I'm down a little bit more, but it all comes down to the game day vote.

00:54:37.860 Although I think it's been kind of a record number of turnouts anyway in the early vote.

00:54:42.980 So make sure tomorrow it's going to be Wisconsin is going to be very, very important.

00:54:47.960 Also in the economy, let's go back to gold for a second and the geostrategic reset and what we're talking about, the budget.

00:54:55.240 Right now, up on Capitol Hill, there's so much going on.

00:54:58.740 We really haven't had a chance to cover a lot of it, but they're working through legislation.

00:55:03.100 They're working through this massive legislation package.

00:55:05.540 President Trump calls it my one big, beautiful bill.

00:55:08.760 It's so enormous.

00:55:09.820 It's got taxes.

00:55:10.560 It's going to have defense spending. 0.98

00:55:12.540 It's going to have border security.

00:55:13.680 It's going to have the money for deportation. 0.83

00:55:16.920 Some of these numbers are going to shock you, particularly the fact you say, hey, look, we already spend over $6.5 trillion to $7 trillion.

00:55:26.020 Isn't that enough?

00:55:27.020 And that we have a $2 trillion deficit, isn't that enough?

00:55:30.180 Do we have to add $170 billion for deportations?

00:55:34.380 And do we have to add, I think the number they're looking for is $125 to $150 billion of additional defense spending.

00:55:40.880 At some point in time, someone's going to say, hey, look, guys, this is just not going to go because we're not getting the cuts we saw.

00:55:48.100 And we're not generating additional revenue.

00:55:51.080 And we've got more additional tax cuts for the working class and for the middle class.

00:55:55.340 And something's got to give you.

00:55:56.440 This was one of the reasons we're a huge proponent of the extension of the tax cuts.

00:56:03.180 The extension of the tax cuts should not go for the upper bracket.

00:56:05.960 In fact, you should take that and roughly President Trump's tax cuts were about $4 trillion added to deficits of revenue that essentially didn't come in.

00:56:17.960 And it is a supply side tax cut.

00:56:20.320 So the assumption is you're going to generate some economic growth here.

00:56:24.120 My point is that with so much debt hanging over you and so much interest payment, so much crowding out of this debt, the rest of the capital markets, it's tough to get your traction.

00:56:33.140 They're talking about a concept called stagflation.

00:56:35.200 Ever heard of that?

00:56:36.700 Remember, we've discussed that over the last couple of years.

00:56:39.240 That's both stagnant growth and inflation.

00:56:42.380 So it's not a recession, but it's low growth plus inflation.

00:56:45.720 So you kind of get the double whammy, the worst of both worlds.

00:56:49.540 The way you get out of that is you have to have growth.

00:56:52.080 One thing you have to do, and this is what the current, I think at least some people are seriously looking at this in the White House is to, of the $4 trillion, and I'm just kind of rounding here,

00:57:02.140 where essentially $2.6 trillion goes for people filing, I think, joint $450 and below.

00:57:08.640 There's another couple of hundred billion dollars for the S-Corps and for entrepreneurs, the pass-throughs.

00:57:15.240 So that essentially leaves a trillion dollars out there.

00:57:17.200 I think they're talking about that would not be extended, that that actually, if it's not extended, consider it a tax increase.

00:57:24.320 The lower tax rates are, you get rid of those, it goes back to the original, and so that would be a tax increase.

00:57:31.140 And in that, you would also get, you'd have to be able to pay for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on bonuses.

00:57:39.540 I'm not sure all those last two are definitely in there, but I know they're being discussed, the number's being run.

00:57:44.220 And then the big one that's supposed to be in there is no tax on Social Security.

00:57:48.520 So that is all coming on the tax side, and somehow you're going to have to make up the revenues.

00:57:56.380 That revenue comes from President Trump saying, hey, the tariffs, Peter Navarro says $100 billion is coming in for the tariffs,

00:58:05.960 just on the 25% of tariffs of automobiles not manufactured, not assembled, not manufactured.

00:58:12.860 A lot of that's going to come from the German automakers, I think they make very few of their automobiles here in the United States.

00:58:20.080 So a lot of it will come from the Germans.

00:58:21.980 That's $100 billion right there before you get to the reciprocal taxes, the reciprocal tariffs, excuse me.

00:58:28.560 So the tax increase got that, then you're still going to have this, you're still going to have this deficit.

00:58:32.780 That means you have to then have cuts, and those cuts can come from two basic broad generalizations.

00:58:40.000 I'm not sure we're going to have time for Scott right now.

00:58:42.320 We've only got three minutes left.

00:58:43.460 We'll get Scott tomorrow morning.

00:58:44.880 He's, like I said, in Milwaukee at an event.

00:58:49.140 You're going to have two areas.

00:58:50.860 One is Doge.

00:58:52.080 And here's what I think on Doge.

00:58:53.380 I think Doge immediately, because remember, we have committed legally, contractually through the CR to pay for all the waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:59:02.180 I think we've got to get a number.

00:59:03.920 I don't care what that number is now.

00:59:05.380 I don't care if it's $25 billion, $50 billion, $100 billion, $500 billion.

00:59:08.520 Just let's get a number.

00:59:10.720 I'm probably pretty sure it's under $100 billion, but that's fine.

00:59:13.800 Let's just get it.

00:59:14.740 Let's get the Russ vote.

00:59:15.760 Let's get it verified.

00:59:17.200 Let's go and pound that immediately. 1.00

00:59:19.660 Let's say we're not going to pay for that.

00:59:21.860 We're going to get that fraud money back.

00:59:23.480 We're just not going to pay for it.

00:59:24.480 That's coming out of the CR.

00:59:25.960 In addition, this fiscal year, not the appropriation process you see going for next fiscal year that starts October 1st,

00:59:32.800 you have to go back into this situation of the spending of this year.

00:59:38.180 And I think you're going to have to start looking at some cuts for this year.

00:59:41.480 And people are going to come and try to confuse and say, well, that's part of reconciliation or reconciliation.

00:59:45.220 The problem with the reconciliation bill, I can tell you right now, is that it's a misdirection play.

00:59:51.100 How's a misdirection play?

00:59:52.200 Remember, the political class never wants to take any heat.

00:59:54.700 So it talks about 10 years.

00:59:56.600 It's in the legislation.

00:59:57.640 You've got to talk about a 10-year cut.

00:59:59.440 And look, they play a lot of games.

01:00:01.380 You've been around here for a lot of these bills that all talk about the great cuts they're going to do in the out years.

01:00:06.160 It never happens.

01:00:06.980 It's like in finance.

01:00:08.700 After the first couple of years, it's just kind of assumptions of what's going to happen in the future.

01:00:13.840 We have a problem with the here and now.

01:00:15.920 And I can tell you the reality is both the House version of the increase in the debt ceiling is $4 trillion.

01:00:21.660 I believe in the Senate, it's $5 trillion.

01:00:23.860 We'll just add it to where we are now.

01:00:25.280 You have $37, $38 trillion and another $4.

01:00:28.860 It just gets to be ridiculous.

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01:01:18.040 We're going to be back live tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time.

01:01:21.100 We're going to play a couple of clips from the president today.

01:01:23.160 And we're going to tee in for some other news we're going to break around.

01:01:27.020 Michael Pack on.

01:01:28.700 Talking about Carrie Lake's new job, what he would do.

01:01:30.840 He used to run that group during President Trump's first term.

01:01:34.400 He's got a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about what President Trump is doing

01:01:37.740 and how we have to have his back.

01:01:39.460 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning.

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Bannon's War Room - March 31, 2025

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