NEWS: Trump Takes Questions From Reporters After DNC 2024 Autopsy Released

[0:00] okay thank you very much it's great honor we have tremendous people behind me you'll be hearing [0:14] about that in a minute today is my honor to be discussing uh the taking of a very historic action [0:24] to substantially lower costs for consumers protect hundreds of thousands of jobs and save americans [0:30] well over two billion dollars a year by officially terminating the biden administration's ridiculous [0:36] regulations imposing costly requirements on refrigerators and air conditioners it's [0:44] ridiculous unnecessary and costly and actually makes the machinery worse i want to thank epa [0:52] administrator lee zeldin senators john houston john thank you i heard you're doing very well in your [0:58] race i hear that's what the word is and ashley i know you're doing very well also ashley moody [1:04] florida great as well as representatives stephanie bice zach nunn and greg goldman thank you all [1:11] thank you thank you all you look good we're joined by kroger ceo that's a big one kroger that's a big [1:20] i see those stores all over the place greg farm where's greg greg very good you look like central [1:28] casting just like you're supposed to look fairway store ceo reynolds kramer [1:35] here mr president okay hello reynolds hello there maybe i won't look around every time [1:41] why not stop ceo and co-owner ann goutier yeah because it's ann i'm gonna columbiana foods co-owner [1:54] ron graff senior right here right here yeah hello ron neiman foods president richard neiman right here [2:05] sir hi richard piggy that's another piggly wiggly franchise owner and that's a big company too [2:14] it's not a cute name kevin mcdaniel it's kevin how is that name playing good [2:21] i've heard that actually that's great franchise owner kevin so you met kevin and food fresh owner [2:30] michael gay food fresh hi michael and this is a representative group of very large-scale [2:39] retailers under the biden administration the so-called technology transition [2:46] rule which was crazy forced companies to adopt specific high-cost refrigerants [2:52] massively driving up the price of transporting and strong and storing [2:57] refrigerants and various goods many grocery stores and restaurants had no choice but to replace their [3:05] refrigerators entirely they went out of business half of them and these costs rose americans faced [3:10] higher grocery prices and reduced access to critical medical supplies it was a very catastrophic thing [3:19] that they did at the same time this rule also drove up the cost of living by forcing consumers to purchase [3:25] higher cost residential air conditioning units because they went up very substantially in cost and [3:32] also they were going to be obsolete very quickly it created national security risk by adding additional [3:39] hurdles to the already complicated process of manufacturing semiconductors [3:45] so it was a mess likewise the so-called emissions rule imposed crippling leak repair requirements on [3:51] virtually all existing large-scale refrigeration systems hurting consumers and small businesses [3:58] making it almost impossible for many small businesses to even buy inferior before it inferior equipment [4:07] and this is all across the country the higher cost threatened thousands of jobs and [4:12] was passed on in the form of higher prices and higher taxes today's reforms will deliver significant [4:19] financial relief saving american families and businesses more than 2.4 billion dollars think of that each [4:26] year thanks to today's reforms the american people have lower grocery prices cheaper transportation of goods [4:32] lower cost of air conditioning at no detriment at all to our country zero my including environmental [4:42] detriment my administration's historic deregulatory agendas already saved our country an estimated 1.2 trillion [4:50] dollars that's been done over a relatively short period of time 1.2 trillion with a t were committed to [4:58] fixing the and and really completely ending biden's disasters regulatory policies and delivering financial [5:06] relief to each and every american which is what we're doing this was a tremendous burden a tremendous [5:12] cost these people had to live with it uh not only refrigerants but a lot more and it was making the equipment [5:18] unaffordable and the actual benefit was nothing it just made it worse made life worse and it made it worse and it [5:26] drove up costs tremendously so now i'd like to ask uh administrator lee zeldin who's absolutely fantastic [5:34] he's doing an incredible job we're proud of you lee really the job you're doing is incredible followed [5:39] by greg kevin and michael is that okay lee go ahead please well thank you mr president as you know many americans [5:48] were expressing a lot of frustration and anger of this rushed frantic reckless [5:55] sprints by the biden administration to phase out reliable equipment for grocery stores for [6:03] restaurants and for homes and the consequences well they've been devastating and once again the trump [6:10] administration is answering the call which will lower the cost of living for hard-working american [6:14] families now look at this chart to your far right today's actions are saving over 2.4 billion dollars [6:23] for american families it's safeguarding 350 000 jobs just at supermarkets alone we're going to see a [6:32] savings of 800 million dollars which americans will be able to see when they go and buy their food [6:38] to buy an epa face planted when trying to jam through their restrictions americans who wanted to be able to [6:47] fix their equipment were instead being required to buy far more costly new equipment and that just doesn't [6:54] make any sense refrigeration trucks were being handed impossible restrictions to meet and once again [7:03] here we are in the oval office president trump is writing another wrong at the trump epa we are proudly [7:09] implementing president trump's agenda every single day and delivering for the american people thank you [7:16] very much thank you please thank you mr president and thank you lee look on behalf of the kroger company and [7:24] we operate about 2700 supermarkets an orderly transition of equipment reduces both capital costs [7:34] and operating costs and at the end of the day that's good for consumers because we're able to take that [7:40] and put that into lowering prices which is the key objectives that we have in our business so thank you [7:47] very much save a lot of money and put it elsewhere like not having to do this exactly so it allows us [7:56] instead of having to outlay more capital uh at a faster rate and more operating costs to change that [8:03] equipment or to replace a refrigerator that's working perfectly right yeah so that allows us you know [8:09] obviously these things have a have a life span but an orderly transition allows us to move through that in [8:16] a way which keeps the price of groceries down and that's something that we're you know desperately [8:22] focusing on mr president thank you very much next my name is kevin mcdaniel uh we operate 14 pigly [8:33] wiggly stores uh in north florida alabama and georgia uh on behalf of nga the uh pigly wiggly family [8:42] which operates has about 250 stores in the southeast uh we want to thank president trump for rolling this [8:48] terrible biden uh legislation back because without it there have been a lot of independence out of [8:54] business uh and what people don't realize is it's just not a refrigerant change it was a equipment [9:01] change and those equipment per store you take a store our stores run from 25 to 50 000 square feet [9:08] you could look for 800 000 to a million and a half dollars per store to do a change out that would have [9:13] done equipment would not be as good as the old equipment no absolutely not it would be inferior [9:19] equipment because you weren't able to use a refrigerant it was thrown together too fast the [9:24] technology's not there yet it's just way too fast that's the problem good idea but it's it's terrible [9:31] so you would have had all these independents go out of business you'd had independence out of business [9:35] and you would have seen grocery prices soar that's what would have happened if this would have went [9:39] through president trump thank you very much on behalf of all every independent united states we cannot thank [9:44] you enough for what you've done for us thank you so much i mean just just the bottom line is so [9:50] you have great equipment that works incredibly takes care of your meats and foods and everything [9:56] else beautiful refrigeration systems take it out and replace it with stuff that barely works [10:03] costs a fortune and it's no good think of it and everyone's going to go bankrupt because the equipment [10:10] is much more expensive on top of everything right so the big thing now we're going to get rid of the law [10:15] that was signed quite a while ago and we have to get rid of that because ultimately we want to make [10:21] it permanent there's no negative impact by having a good system but there's a tremendous impact i think [10:28] it's going to be bad because a lot of people said the other stuff doesn't even it doesn't cool your [10:33] product no it's probably it's so crazy please uh michael gay uh i have a single store food fresh in [10:39] claxon georgia and exactly um i mean to echo everyone up here the uh these refrigeration costs [10:46] i'm the only store in a county of 10 000 um i literally two years ago put in equipment that [10:51] should have about 20 more years of useful life and to replace literally every single piece of equipment [10:56] in our store would have been unbelievably cost prohibitive um driving up costs as we fight every [11:02] day to try to keep them as low as we can and um you know if that cost gets too high especially [11:07] attached your regulation do you have independent stores closed in neighborhoods that once i go [11:12] away you've created a food desert um so it's very beneficial that this happened today it's uh it's [11:18] much more complicated than anyone thinks and to try to rush this through was just the wrong way to go [11:23] so we are very appreciative of you today thank you i have one grocer who's a friend of mine he's pretty big [11:28] and uh he said i'm gonna go ahead of the schedule and he actually replaced a lot of his equipment [11:34] he called me up he said this crap doesn't work it doesn't cool the food so you know about that right [11:41] what a shame okay uh would anybody kevin would you like to say something i'd just like to say sir that [11:47] this is part of your overall deregulatory agenda and uh the big number 1.2 trillion is the savings so far [11:55] but we're going to be hitting that every year uh and we're rolling back stuff that every every look [12:01] there's stuff that's as awful as this and i think that really one of the leaders has been lee uh [12:06] because the epa has been at a hold up for so many years but lee is just out there saving americans [12:12] money and right now again if you look at that number it's fourteen thousand dollars per family [12:16] it's been saved to reduce costs because of your deregulatory do we agree that lee is an mvp [12:21] mvp no he's done a great job and he sees what's good and he's a big environmentalist i mean he wants [12:30] to make sure everything's good but he also sees stupid things like this uh senator would you like [12:37] to each speaker well mr president i'd like to thank you for this because this hits our goal of trying [12:42] to keep prices low for working families in america cost of food i have the graft family here right behind [12:48] they they operate three grocery stores in columbiana county they had already upgraded their [12:53] refrigeration systems a few years ago this was going to cost them millions of more dollars in [12:58] columbiana county which is not an affluent county it has a grocery store in east of liverpool ohio which [13:04] is the hometown of the late great blue holes and and these people not only would it raise food costs [13:11] but it might force them to shut a grocery store down so that the town didn't even have a grocery store [13:15] so you're saving uh you're saving uh money for working families and their grocery prices you're [13:21] also saving grocery stores so that we don't have food deserts in rural places across our country [13:26] mr president i think it is so important that the people see what you choose to hang right by your [13:31] desk which is the declaration of independence which is a reminder that government at its core [13:36] is supposed to function in a way that allows people the opportunity to pursue happiness and not work [13:41] against them by coming up with regulations that just make it harder to live more expensive to live [13:48] and from day one i remember standing with you with the same crew of folks from day one you have been [13:54] digging into all of these regulations that are issued with no thought to how they affect real people and [14:01] real small businesses and businesses trying to step up and provide jobs and lift up their communities [14:08] thank you for that thank you for getting back to the core of what government is supposed to be and [14:11] that is working in the interests of the people thank you thank you ma'am good job thank you everybody [14:17] so any questions please yes thank you mr president how much do you expect this will save the average [14:24] american family every week on groceries and do you expect this change okay very very substantial they're [14:30] going to be a big saving i could uh we're breaking it down in fact numbers are coming out this afternoon [14:36] sometime but the average family will save a lot of money and you can have stores you know nobody [14:42] actually thought of it until it was mentioned this morning you will have stores closing down in areas [14:46] where they're not going to have a store anymore that's right and you really are being forced to spend [14:53] money much more money on much more expensive equipment that really doesn't work this friend of mine is a [15:00] very savvy guy and you know big league stuff and he put some in because he wanted to see and he said [15:06] the stuff doesn't work it doesn't cool the food properly that's why they call the thing that we're [15:12] talking about a refrigerant for a research it's a refrigerant so that's it please thank you very much [15:18] yeah thanks mr president trump are there any insurances from the grocery chains that will pass these [15:24] savings down on the consumers well let's ask kroger about that come on that's a very good question you [15:29] have the you have the biggest right here yeah um we're actually right in the middle of doing that [15:35] at the moment so uh we're concerned about the cost of living it makes a big difference when you get [15:41] your pricing right and uh we certainly are interested in ensuring that all our customers right across the [15:47] country are paying the right price you know if it were the right thing to do it would be you know bad for [15:55] the environment what they had or and i'm all for it i'm all for this but when you're forced to put in [16:02] very inferior equipment that's not going to work it's not you're going to be wasting a lot of food [16:06] product because it doesn't cool the food properly uh and it's actually a bad thing and it's the bad [16:13] thing is more expensive than what they already have and in many cases they just put it in you know they [16:18] just put in the other uh apparatus and and and a lot of people have said they've spent money recently [16:27] to do it and then this rule came up out of nowhere and the stuff they just put in they have to change [16:33] i'd be all for changing if it you know if it was good even if it was a little bit good but this is [16:38] actually bad no there is no environmental concern and lee covered that really well there's no [16:46] environmental concern it's not going to have any impact on the environment mr president with many [16:52] americans concerned about affordability ahead of the midterms there is some backlash from the senate [16:57] republicans to some of the other priorities uh the ballroom and that anti-weaponization fund you [17:02] clearly still have a stronghold in the republican party your candidates did very well this week during [17:07] the primaries but are you my candidates did well not all candidates but are you in control of the [17:13] senate sir are you losing control of the senate senate republic i don't know i really don't know i [17:19] can tell you i only do what's right uh i don't need money for the ballroom you know i'm making a gift [17:25] of the ballroom this is the biggest uh misreporting that i've ever seen the ballroom is being built it'll [17:31] cost we've done it was going to be 200 million i've doubled the size of it because we need it and it's [17:36] being done in conjunction with the military and with the uh very much in conjunction with the military [17:42] and secret service we're on time on budget it's going beautifully uh i have all the money i need [17:49] we're making a gift to the united states uh they came along and they said we want to make it uh the [17:55] house the white house overall more secure and i understand that not for me because i'll be gone you [18:02] know i'll be gone and you'll have somebody else in for uh hopefully hundreds of years but that's what [18:08] they're doing it for uh the ballroom is paid for it's a gift i mean i i want to make it clear because [18:14] so many people say i thought you were giving this away and all of a sudden the money that they're [18:17] spending is for security having to do maybe around the ballroom and other parts of the house but this [18:23] is not for the ballroom the ballroom is uh being a tremendous amount of what's being done with respect [18:30] to the ballroom is for national security including as an example a drone port on top of which was [18:37] top secret until litigation made it less than top secret but we have a drone port we had we have also we [18:45] have the glass that's four inches thick bulletproof glass we have bulletproof walls we have things you [18:51] need a place like this but this is being made as a gift from me and other people that are great [18:56] patriots that spend a lot of money we're building what will be the finest ballroom anywhere in the world [19:02] if they want to spend money on securing the white house i think it would be very very much a good [19:09] expenditure but the ballroom is being built but if congress doesn't sign off on the security money [19:14] so uh then the white house won't be a very secure place but then regarding cuba there was an aircraft [19:21] carrier that just arrived there um just uh this week aircraft carrier are you sending that there to [19:28] intimidate the cuba no not at all the cuba look it's a failed country everybody knows it they don't have [19:34] electricity they don't have money they don't have really anything they don't have food and we're going [19:39] to help them along and we're going to help them because the people because number one i want to help them [19:44] you don't want to on a humanitarian basis but we have the cuban american population much of it living [19:50] in miami and florida that's a great group of people amazing group of people industrious just they're [19:56] great americans they've wanted this to happen they want to go back to their country they want to help [20:01] their country i hope they're going to stay here but they want to go back they want to invest in their [20:05] country and you know see if they can bring it back uh other presidents have looked at this for [20:12] 50 60 years doing something and uh it looks like i'll be the one that does it so we'd be happy to [20:17] do it we want to open it up to cuban americans where they can go back and help [20:25] last election on why you won and democrats lost one thing that it mentions is how they failed to reach [20:31] middle america southern americans do you think they've learned lessons from that election and have [20:37] you seen that report i think the elections are so rigged and we have to do something about it and we're [20:42] going to do something about it but we cannot continue to have and frankly uh the senate and [20:47] the house they ought to get together and they ought to pass the save america act so that you have [20:51] voter id and it's so important you have proof of citizenship a little thing like proof of citizenship [20:58] and also mail-in voting which is so crooked so in maryland as you probably saw they had 500 500 000 mail-in [21:06] votes that were corrupt they were corrupt they said the printer made a mistake don't believe that [21:12] and they got caught with 500 000 mail-in ballots that were corrupt we're going to stop it we have a [21:18] country that has a very corrupt we have more corrupt elections than third world countries have [21:25] and we ought to get smart pass the save america act that'll be a long way yeah voter id voter identification [21:32] the democrats don't want to pass now i'll tell you what the democrat voters do want to pass 87 [21:38] but the democrat politicians don't want to pass and the reason is they'd never be elected again [21:44] because with their policy of open borders transgender for everyone i call it transgender [21:51] mutilization of your children for everybody uh men playing in women's sports all of the the stuff that [21:56] they do high taxes they want to tax high they voted in favor of high taxes they voted against a [22:03] tax cut they voted in favor of men playing in women's sports i don't know what these people are [22:09] thinking the only way they can win is to cheat and that's what they want to do and we ought to [22:13] pass the save america act yeah please yes mr president i have two questions first about the uh the ballroom [22:20] and the second about iran um first i'm curious what is the stone that you're going to be using and i ask [22:26] that for a reason because i live in staffer county and you know a lot about history yeah so you know [22:31] the stone that was poured for the capital of the white house is from staffer county they still have [22:35] quarries so hint down there we're using marbles and granites mostly marbles and granites all right [22:41] excellent and then my second question is the vice president mentioned the end of the day [22:45] there will be accommodations that we're willing to make accommodations with the iranian field um could [22:50] you kind of expand on those possible accommodations as does that include when you say combination of what [22:55] accommodations he's talking about accommodations as far as making a deal uh making a deal going [22:59] is that i don't know i can't tell you right now we're negotiating and we'll see but either we're [23:05] going to get it one way or the other they're not going to have a nuclear weapon you know when people [23:09] hear it because oftentimes they won't put up the second part of the sentence having to do with i'll say [23:15] this is more important than anything that we have to talk about and usually they'll cut it off the fake news [23:20] i said because this is the nuclearization of a country that some people would say is somewhat crazy [23:30] and we cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon that's all it is we can't let it you will have [23:36] uh a nuclear war in the middle east and that war will come here that war will go to europe [23:42] we cannot let that happen and it won't happen it's not going to happen that's more important than anything [23:46] else that we can't i can think of nothing that's more important than the fact that we cannot let [23:51] iran have a nuclear weapon and and we won't yeah jeff uh following up on the honest negotiating with [23:57] to set up a formalization of charging tools in the strait of hormuz is that acceptable to you well [24:04] we're looking at it we hear about it they've negotiated they've had a relationship with them before [24:09] uh and we'll see uh we have total control of the strait of hormuz as you know with our blockade [24:17] the blockade's been 100 effective nobody's been able to get through it's like a steel wall it's our navy [24:22] we have the greatest military anywhere in the world we wiped out their navy we not wiped out their air [24:27] but i think they're down to about uh i would say we knocked out 85 percent of their missile capacity [24:33] it's very hard for them now to build missiles uh to build drones we have great drone technology [24:42] anti-drone technology now that frankly we didn't have even two months ago we have unbelievable drone [24:48] technology both both for making them and also for knocking them down uh but look we're going to either [24:55] make sure they don't have a nuclear weapon or we're going to have to do something very drastic and [25:00] uh the people of the country i believe when it's put to the people of our country they will all agree [25:06] that we cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon yes daniel just let me just do one follow-up on that how do [25:11] you want things to end up with the strait of hormuz though would you like that well we want it open [25:16] we want it free we don't want tolls uh it's international it's an international waterway they're not [25:22] charging tolls uh right now they are losing 500 million dollars a day is what it's projected i don't know it [25:28] sounds like a lot of money but whether it's 500 or 200 or 300 they're losing a lot of money [25:34] there hasn't been a ship that's been able to get through without our approval and uh the navy has [25:40] done an amazing job and uh no ship is going to iran as you know no ship is going to or out of iran [25:48] without our approval can they keep their highly enriched uranium no no we get the highly enriched we [25:54] will get it and we don't need it we don't want it we'll probably destroy it after we get it but [25:59] we're not going to let them have it okay mr president i have two questions first on deregulation [26:04] and second on you coming from business you've seen the effects of what unnecessary red tape [26:11] business do you believe that given the amount of deregulatory actions [26:15] making a lot of this danger man finding the cafe standards tax cuts and tariffs do you believe that [26:21] you've made the united states the most pro-business pro-investment country yeah thank you very much for [26:27] that question because we are we are for every one new regulation that we had we're getting rid of 20 to 30 [26:34] to 40 and now it's actually at even a number in my first term uh for every regulation that was added [26:41] we got rid of a minimum of 10. and i understand lee that it was up it's up to 43 or 44 right now so if [26:49] we add a regulation we get rid of 43 44 we're making it a much more uh pro-business pro-people uh you know [26:58] regulations are very costly for the people they're bad for everybody they're bad for jobs bad for everybody [27:03] and we have as of today we have more people working in the united states than at any time in the history of [27:08] our country to me it's one of my favorite stats but we have more people today working in the united [27:13] states than at any time in the history and this is with the iran conflict that'll end soon very soon [27:20] and when it ends your gasoline prices will go down lower than they were before you know i left iowa [27:26] a few months ago and gasoline was at one dollar and 85 cents a gallon uh and we'll be hitting numbers [27:33] like that again but we'll we'll be hitting them in a much nicer way by the way [27:38] we'll uh we will be hitting them and we will have a country that will not have a nuclear weapon [27:42] yeah daniel so so long is today yeah let me just finish with him on the supreme court sir we're still [27:47] waiting for the decision on birth rights yeah birth rights can you just explain what's at stake [27:55] it's a big decision that we're waiting for from the supreme court uh we had a terrible tariff [28:01] decision they cost they cost our country a fortune they said do it a different way we're doing it a [28:07] different way but uh we're going to most likely have to pay back 149 billion dollars all they had [28:13] to do is put a little sentence in there half a sentence saying that any money's paid don't have [28:18] to be paid back you know you're talking about the people in many cases that hate our country [28:23] give them back money it was a terrible decision and uh it's not going to affect because we do the [28:29] tariffs a different way the tariffs are what's bringing in all of this money it's it's really made our country [28:35] rich modernly rich now we have another one coming up which is birthright citizenship and we're the only [28:43] country in the world that has it you step into our country and you're all of a sudden a citizen you come [28:48] in a certain way this was not meant for chinese billionaires to have their children become citizens [28:56] of our country this was meant or other rich people poor people this was meant for the babies of slaves this [29:05] was signed during right after the civil war you look at the dates the dates alone immediately after [29:11] this was having to do with the babies of slaves and people have used it and if this is allowed to [29:19] stand it will be a disaster economically for our country and you'll have 25 of the people coming into [29:26] our country coming in through birthright citizenship and we won't have any control this decision by the [29:33] supreme court is a very big one they'll probably rule against me because they seem to like doing [29:39] that uh you know frankly uh uh i'm not happy with some of the decisions look at nil look what they've [29:47] done look what look what the courts have done to college sports they're destroying college sports they're [29:52] destroying universities but birthright citizens a big deal and uh literally if that's allowed to stand and [30:01] again this was a civil war this was right after the civil war and it has to do with the babies of slaves [30:08] it doesn't have to do with the babies of very rich people coming into the country one of them came in [30:14] with 57 children okay 57 children uh they're using the system and it's usually people that hate our country [30:22] if you want to know the truth a birthright citizen is done by no other country no other country in the world [30:31] the way we're doing it it's it's we're a laughing stock and if the supreme court approves that [30:39] decision they have done a great disservice to the united states of america just like they did a [30:44] great disservice by costing us 149 billion dollars on tariffs by saying do it a different way get the [30:52] same result do it a different way we should have won that decision we had a very strong very powerful [30:58] dissent we had three dissents so it wasn't like a unanimous decision by any means we had very [31:04] powerful dissents when you read that dissent people that read that dissent say you really should have [31:08] won this case we should have won that case on tariffs that case cost our country 149 million dollars it [31:14] goes to people that hate our country so now we have another one coming up birthright citizenship it would [31:22] be a disgrace it would be a disgrace if the supreme court of the united states allows that to happen [31:31] remember what i said 20 to 25 percent of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright [31:39] citizenship they'll become citizens through birthright citizenship and it'll cost us numbers that are [31:47] i don't even think they're doable and it's all up to a couple of people and i hope they do what's right [31:54] birthright citizenship is a disgrace the fact that look at the people that are bringing the suit [32:01] study the people that are bringing the suit these are not people that love our country i can tell you [32:05] that mr president because i didn't like certain aspects of it i postponed it i think it gets in the [32:16] way of uh you know we're leading china we're leading everybody and i don't want to do anything that's [32:21] going to get in the way of that lead we have a very substantial on ai it's causing it's causing [32:27] a tremendous good and it's also bringing in a lot of jobs tremendous numbers of jobs again we have more [32:33] people working right now than we've ever had uh i i really thought that could have been a blocker and [32:39] i want to make sure that it's not i did i discussed it and he uh acknowledges how well we're doing we're [32:57] doing well he's doing which the two of us the two countries are fighting for it other countries uh [33:03] are way behind way way behind they're fighting for it they want everybody wants it but they're way behind [33:09] but i didn't want to do it i i postponed that meeting it was a press conference it was a signing [33:13] actually and because i didn't like what i was seeing mr president a few moments ago the commission [33:18] of fine arts approved your design the design for your arch do you think you need congressional [33:22] oh that's good news i finally get good news what was the vote do you know what the vote was [33:29] what was the vote i i'm just seeing the headline here i don't have the exact vote so we're building [33:34] what's called the triumphal arc uh right opposite the arlington memorial bridge right by arlington [33:40] cemetery it's beautiful it's uh the arc de triumph would be the one that you would probably know [33:45] in paris it's one of the most beautiful it's a very similar size slightly larger we're doing we have [33:50] to do slightly larger it doesn't have to be a lot otherwise you'd all be disappointed in me [33:56] but it's even far more beautiful and i think that the arc de triumph is beautiful it's you know a couple [34:01] a hundred years old but i think it's beautiful and some marks go back over a thousand years [34:08] and it's called a triumphal arc it's usually done for victories and war and things and 59 of them in [34:15] the world and some are really beautiful and we're the only major washington dc which should be number one [34:23] we're the only important and major city that doesn't have one we don't have a triumphal arc so [34:28] uh it was meant to be built for many years the circle going up to the bridge it was people pass [34:35] that circle they say why isn't something built here and so uh that's very good we just got approval [34:41] from fine arts that's fantastic you need congress to sign off no we don't no no we're doing it it's uh [34:47] the land is owned by secretary by the interior department we don't need anything from congress [34:53] are you attending your son's wedding this weekend by the way uh he'd like me to go but it's going to [35:00] be just a small little private affair and i'm going to try and make it i'm i'm in the midst i said you [35:06] know this is not good timing for me i have a thing called iran and other things uh that's one i can't win [35:13] on if i do attend i get killed if i don't attend i get killed by the fake news of course i'm talking about [35:20] no but he's uh got a very uh a person who i've known for a long time and hopefully they're going [35:28] to have a great marriage mr president actually to add to that i just actually passed by it on my way [35:33] here right there's just geese in there all the time so uh how long will that take and also i have to say [35:40] i have to pass along something for my mother she drove in with me she was amazed by all the people [35:45] uh she was seen on the streets here in dc she doesn't get in here dc is hot again she was she [35:50] was noticing how clean it's clean that's right well that's what i do clean you take a look outside [35:56] we had a broken uh we had broken path it was so terrible coming into the white house it was slate [36:03] slate's a roofing material it's not a walking material but the slate was all broken and chipped and [36:08] terrible and i put down a new granite floor and paid for it myself by the way but i put down a nice [36:14] new granite floor it looks beautiful it's actually getting rave reviews it's beautiful it's a terrible [36:19] having people walking up to the white house and they're walking over broken tiles and broken floors [36:24] so now we just finished it's going to be finished when the moldings are put on but [36:29] we just you might take a look at it i don't know if you've seen it but it's beautiful [36:33] other things we're doing while you're at it we've fixed we have 31 fountains in washington [36:42] of the 31 not one worked now we have 21 working and the others are going to be fixed and people are [36:48] calling and saying it's amazing what's happening the fountains and they're working top level and [36:54] my most exciting is the reflecting pool between the washington monument and the uh the the washington [37:02] monument lincoln memorial it's a it's 200 2500 feet long by almost 200 feet wide it's a massive structure [37:11] if you think of it it's taller than the tallest building in the world if you sat the building [37:16] down the tallest building in the world would not reach the end of it it's a very big thing it hasn't [37:22] worked properly since it was built in 1922 uh president obama and biden spent hundreds of millions of [37:29] dollars trying to fix it they didn't of course they couldn't do that they didn't fix it it was a mess so [37:34] mostly they turned it off uh collecting garbage it looked horrible and we are very close to getting [37:41] it finished and when it's finished it'll be beautiful it'll be blue water dark blue we call it american [37:47] flag blue because that's the name of the color that we chose american flag blue can't do better than that [37:54] it's a rich dark blue and it'll be i think very reflective very very good uh big project [38:03] i decided to do a much bigger job i was going to just get it open but i said let's do it right let's [38:08] get it open and let's have it be good because uh president obama president biden spent hundreds [38:14] of millions of dollars much more than a hundred million but hundreds of millions it never worked [38:19] uh in fact when they finished it it was much worse than it was before it leaked at a higher level [38:26] they would have to fill it up every single day with water with the whole thing was ridiculous so they [38:30] ended up turning it off and it became like a garbage dump well it's uh pretty close to finished so they [38:38] were going to they had estimates of 350 million dollars to fix it i'll be doing it for a tiny fraction of [38:46] that a bigger job than i've i originally thought i'd do it for two or three million dollars just to [38:52] a base but now we're fixing up the exterior of it we're doing so we'll probably be in there for less [38:57] than 20 million dollars and uh the estimate was going to be using a different method 350 it was going to [39:05] take uh four years 350 million i'll be doing it in basically a couple of months for less than 20 million [39:15] dollars that includes all of the exterior base which i never included in my original numbers [39:21] when i went there last week i saw the exterior was in very bad shape as well as the interior so i said [39:27] we're going to fix that too the stone it's going to be beautiful when that's done you might see it [39:32] it's probably three quarters done we have rain delays we get a lot of delays but uh it that will be [39:39] that will be something special the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln and washington monuments uh [39:47] i think it's going to be incredible it's largely done if you want to go see it you can see it before [39:52] we put the water in we'll uh the key is to have it done before july 4th we want to see if we can have [39:57] it done before july 4th but we have uh about 20 or 21 of the water water features in washington open [40:06] and i can say we top top of the line they are they look better than they did the day they were built [40:13] some of them have been closed for 25 30 years there's been no water for 25 or 30 years and they're [40:20] really beautiful some of the fountains are as beautiful as i've ever seen and you probably see [40:25] them and in addition to that you brought up something washington dc is now a safe city we had a city that [40:33] was one of the most unsafe cities anywhere in the country and now it's considered a very safe city [40:39] restaurants are opening restaurants were closing you couldn't you couldn't go to a restaurant the [40:45] restaurants were closing all over because of the danger from during the biden administration [40:52] now you have restaurants opening it's thriving and it was very nice that you said that i like this [40:57] reporter no it's nice it's we have a vibrant city again people are going out i have a lot of people [41:05] in the white house every time i see somebody they thank me and i know immediately what they thank me [41:10] for making the city safe they walk to work now before that they would they'd take uber or something [41:15] and they were they felt unsafe even in over you know we moved over 5 000 people out of the city career [41:23] criminals that came in through the open borders and other reasons and we moved over 5 000 and [41:29] an interesting statistic is that two percent of the population creates 91 of the crime and the reason [41:40] i like that is that you can handle two percent of the population mr kroger i see do you you have [41:45] stores in washington you see a big difference we do boy you said the right thing that would have been [41:53] the end the crow all right okay we'll do we'll do one or two more please do you think democrats are [42:00] genuine and they're focused on affordability especially after the deliberate 40-year high [42:05] inflation last time they were in power and then um or do you think they're using it uh or focusing on [42:10] it as a means to try and win midterms and begin the impeachment process the second look the democrats had [42:16] the highest inflation in the history of our country 48 years they say but the history of our country [42:21] uh they had the highest inflation that we've ever had uh when i inherited it i inherited very high [42:28] prices and from day one they said affordability affordability is a word because they're good at [42:35] that they're good at words but i'm good at words too but they hit me with affordability i just got [42:40] there they hit me with eggs uh we had a news conference on my third day and they said uh egg prices [42:48] are through the roof i said i just got here tell me about eggs and we got the prices down way down [42:53] actually lower than it was four years before but we've gotten everything the thing that we have now [42:59] the only thing that's really of great concern two things beef is coming down and the reason is they put [43:06] restrictions on beef under the biden administration and it takes a while to settle that but prices are down [43:13] but the big thing is uh of course energy we had the energy way down but i had to do a journey to iran i [43:20] had to say you know we just hit the best markets by the way the stock market today is at the highest [43:25] it's ever been and we've had 59 of them 59 days out of a very short period of time where the stock market [43:33] hit all-time high so we have a all-time high stock market we have all-time high job numbers we have [43:39] 401ks just hit the highest number they've ever been so many of you have 401ks you that means you're [43:45] richer than you've ever been and we're doing really well but they they came up with this word affordability [43:53] but it's them that caused the problem and they used that word senator senator they used that word right [44:00] from the beginning i was in one day and i heard somebody on television say affordability and i inherited [44:09] this mess from them but we've got it uh in great shape the country's doing well we're respected all [44:15] over the world this country is respected we're the hottest country we're a dead country two years ago [44:20] and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world so i think uh most of you appreciate that [44:26] some of you don't yeah please [44:30] if the supreme court doesn't rule in your favor on birthright citizenship are there any other avenues [44:35] that your administration has explored to remedy this and did you talk with president xi about uh [44:41] chinese foreign nationals taking advantage of birth tourism here in this country and how [44:47] well it's a great question no if the supreme court hurts our country by ruling against us on birthright [44:54] citizenship that that would be just between that and tariffs what damage they've done what damage they've [45:01] done again they they could have said which they said do the tariffs a different way but they could [45:09] have said the money taken in hundreds of billions of dollars 149 billion dollars we have to pay back [45:17] kevin understands that better than anybody all they had to do is say any money taking it because [45:22] they agree you could do it a different way any money this is a better way but the other way is a very [45:29] secure way and maybe in many ways it's a stronger way they could have said any money taken in thus far [45:36] does not have to be paid back to in many cases the enemy people that don't like our country or it was [45:42] a half a sentence the supreme court could have saved us 149 billion dollars with a half a sentence [45:51] but they chose not to do that now they have a ruling which is a much bigger ruling actually birthright [45:56] citizenship the cost forgetting about the fact that it's wrong the cost of birthright citizenship [46:04] is barely not affordable by our country it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars [46:12] and it's in their hands what can i tell you it's a common sense ruling it's common sense it was about it [46:18] was exact timing and it's about the babies of slaves thank you for that question [46:25] mr president so do you think if democrats were to take control of congress again they would [46:31] immediately begin the impeachment process i think if democrats took control of the congress i think that [46:38] and let's say took control of the country i think that this country's finished these people are sick [46:46] they suffer from trump derangement syndrome but really they they have bad policy they have horrible [46:52] policy they cheat on elections they get elected by cheating on elections but you would have two states [46:58] added they'll terminate the filibuster immediately republicans should do that they'll terminate the [47:03] filibuster you'll have washington dc and you'll have puerto rico as a state which will be a disaster [47:10] uh which would be four senate seats uh tremendous numbers of electoral college votes uh you will have [47:19] uh you will have the that that's that's really bad but you have the destruction of our country they [47:26] want to go to 21 supreme court judges that's their perfect number they talk about 13 but uh they want [47:33] to go to 21 21 supreme court judges if they get in power i think this country would be maybe finished if [47:44] i didn't win the election i'll say this we've become the hottest country anywhere in the world we [47:49] were a dead country two years ago if i didn't win this election we would have been a country that was [47:56] essentially would have been i don't even know that we would have been a country any longer they were [48:01] destroying our country they were letting hundreds of thousands millions of people pour through our [48:08] southern border criminals people from jails people from mental institutions drug [48:15] dealers and drug addicts they were sending everybody countries were sending everybody that [48:20] they didn't want by the millions 25 million people if i didn't win this election i believe our country [48:28] would have been finished thank you very much thank you press thank you guys thank you guys [48:36] thank you guys