Trump says he was ‘KIDDING’ about offering Dana White press secretary role

[0:00] A DIFFERENT WAR, SO IN RUSSIA AND [0:05] UKRAINE, THEY'RE LOSING 25,000 [0:07] MOSTLY SOLDIERS EVERY MONTH. [0:09] YOU HAVEN'T HAD ONE PERSON FROM [0:13] THE UNITED STATES, U.S. SOLDIER, [0:15] KILLED FOR SIX MONTHS, MAYBE [0:17] EVEN MORE THAN THAT, HAVING TO [0:19] DO WITH IRAN. [0:21] SO WE ARE, AND THEY WILL NEVER [0:24] HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. [0:25] AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT AND [0:27] THEY'VE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT. [0:28] OKAY, QUESTION? [0:29] MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT MADE YOU [0:31] SUGGEST DANA WHITE AND ARE YOU [0:32] SERIOUS ABOUT IT OR ARE YOU [0:33] KIDDING AROUND? [0:34] WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU [0:36] SAW THE ASSISTANCE I PUT. [0:37] I POSTED THE GREATEST WRESTLERS [0:40] AND UFC FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD, [0:42] RIGHT? [0:43] LIKE KHABIB, LIKE JUSTIN GACHE, [0:47] WHO IS PHENOMENAL. [0:48] AND YOU SEE A LOT OF ROUGH FACES [0:50] THERE. [0:51] AND YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT [0:52] PEOPLE WOULD HAVE SAID HE'S [0:53] HAVING A GOOD TIME. [0:54] I WILL TELL YOU, I WAS ONLY [0:56] KIDDING, BUT DANA LOVES THE IDEA [0:59] AND THERE'S ONLY ONE DANA. [1:01] HE'S GREAT. [1:02] I DON'T KNOW. [1:03] HE WOULD BE, YOU WOULDN'T MESS [1:04] AROUND WITH HIM SO MUCH. [1:05] BUT SO I WAS KIDDING, OF COURSE. [1:09] WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FIGHTERS THAT [1:11] I PUT IN, THAT'S WHY I SAID SOME [1:14] DON'T COME FROM OUR COUNTRY. [1:15] THEY COME FROM PARTS UNKNOWN. [1:17] THEY COME FROM A LOT OF AREAS [1:21] THAT ARE VERY ROUGH AREAS. [1:22] SO I WAS KIDDING. [1:24] BUT I THINK DANA LIKES THE IDEA. [1:27] AND HE IS A VERY CAPABLE GUY. [1:29] SO HE'S ACTUALLY COMING TOMORROW. [1:31] OF COURSE I WAS KIDDING. [1:32] AND YOU COULD SEE THAT BECAUSE I [1:33] PUT ALL OF THE GREAT FIGHTERS AS [1:35] HIS ASSISTANCE THAT THEY'RE ALL [1:37] GOING TO COME WITH HIM. [1:38] BUT IT WAS JUST A LITTLE FUN. [1:40] BUT DANA IS ACTUALLY COMING TOMORROW. [1:42] ACTUALLY ON OTHER, FOR OTHER [1:43] REASONS. [1:44] I THINK HE'S GOING TO BE IN [1:46] WASHINGTON. [1:47] SO HE'S GOING TO COME OVER AND [1:48] SEE ME. [1:49] THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING [1:51] WHERE I WAS KIDDING. [1:53] AND THEN PEOPLE SAID, YOU KNOW, [1:55] THAT'S ACTUALLY A PRETTY GOOD [1:56] IDEA. [1:57] YEAH, GO AHEAD, PLEASE. [1:58] PRESIDENT, NEVIDIA IS [1:59] INVESTIGATING JENSEN HUANG'S [2:00] RELATIONSHIP WITH A CHINESE [2:01] SPY. [2:02] HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO JENSEN HUANG [2:03] TODAY? [2:04] I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO HIM [2:05] ABOUT IT. [2:06] I JUST KNOW HE'S A FINE PERSON. [2:07] BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS [2:08] GOING ON. [2:09] I'M SURE. [2:11] I HOPE EVERYTHING IS FINE. [2:15] HE'S A FINE PERSON, IN MY [2:18] OPINION. [2:19] I THINK HE'S AN HONORABLE GUY. [2:21] I THINK HE PROBABLY HAS AN [2:22] EXCUSE FOR IT. [2:23] YOU HAVE TO HEAR IT. [2:24] NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH [2:25] PEOPLE. [2:26] HE'S DONE AN AMAZING JOB FOR [2:27] OUR COUNTRY. [2:28] YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE HOTTEST [2:29] COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE [2:30] WORLD. [2:31] WE HAVE THE HIGHEST COUNTRY. [2:32] WE HAVE THE HIGHEST COUNTRY [2:33] ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. [2:34] WE HAVE THE HIGHEST COUNTRY. [2:36] NOW, WE DID, RIGHT AFTER THE [2:38] ELECTION, I WAS NOT ABLE TO [2:39] THE HIGHEST COUNTRY. [2:40] RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, I [2:42] WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT. [2:43] BUT RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, WE [2:46] DID LOSE $3 TRILLION. [2:47] THE HIGHEST NUMBER EVER, WHICH [2:49] TELLS YOU THAT THE MARKET [2:52] CONSIDERS THE DEMOCRATS TO BE A [2:55] DISASTER. [2:56] A 401K'S WENT DOWN ONLY BECAUSE [2:58] OF THE DEMOCRATS, NOT BECAUSE [3:00] OF REPUBLICANS AND ME. [3:01] BUT THE MARKET WENT DOWN AT A [3:03] LEVEL THAT I GUESS ALMOST HASN'T [3:05] BEEN SEEN BEFORE. [3:06] BUT IT'S COMING BACK BECAUSE THE [3:08] NEXT DAY, WE ANNOUNCED UNBELIEVABLE [3:12] JOB AND GROWTH NUMBERS. [3:13] SHOULD YOU STAY ON HIS CDO? [3:15] I THINK SO. [3:16] OH, YEAH, SURE. [3:17] MR. PRESIDENT, IS HE GOING TO [3:19] GO WITH YOU ON YOUR TRIP TO [3:21] ASIA NEXT WEEK? [3:22] I DON'T KNOW, BUT I WOULD [3:23] CERTAINLY TAKE HIM. [3:24] I MEAN, WE'D HAVE TO FIND. [3:26] I HAVEN'T HEARD HE'S DONE [3:28] ANYTHING WRONG. [3:29] HE DEALT WITH SOMEBODY. [3:30] BUT, YOU KNOW, SO DOES EVERYBODY [3:31] ELSE. [3:32] MR. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRATS SAY [3:33] THEY WANT TO IMPEACH RFK [3:34] JUNIOR AND PETE HEGSETH. [3:35] HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? [3:38] THEY'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO THE [3:39] COUNTRY. [3:40] YOU KNOW, YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED [3:42] LAST WEEK WITH THE $3 TRILLION. [3:44] $3 TRILLION WITH THE TEAM. [3:45] THEY'VE GOT TO GET BACK. [3:46] THESE ARE TWO VERY FINE PEOPLE. [3:48] I MEAN, RFK JUNIOR WAS A [3:50] DEMOCRAT UNTIL. [3:51] AND HE'S HAD THOSE VIEWS AND THE [3:53] VIEWS ON ALL OF THE THINGS THAT [3:55] HE'S BEEN DOING. [3:56] AND HE'S A VERY POPULAR GUY. [3:58] A LOT OF PEOPLE AGREE. [4:00] AND PETE HEGSETH, SO HE WINS TWO [4:02] PEOPLE. [4:05] WE'VE TAKEN OUT HUNDREDS OF [4:07] BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE WON IN [4:09] 48 MINUTES. [4:10] AND WE WON IN IRAN. [4:11] WE WON THAT IN IRAN. [4:12] JUST A QUESTION OF CLOSING IT [4:14] OUT NOW OR LATER. [4:15] WE MAY WAIT. [4:16] SOME OF THEIR NEIGHBORS WOULD [4:18] PREFER THAT WE JUST KEEP IT THE [4:19] WAY IT IS. [4:20] AGAIN, WE HAVEN'T LOST ANYBODY. [4:21] NO SOLDIERS BEEN LOST. [4:23] IF YOU LOOK AT VIETNAM AND IF YOU [4:24] LOOK AT ALL THESE OTHERS, THERE [4:25] WERE FOR MANY YEARS WITH [4:26] THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS [4:28] OF PEOPLE KILLED. [4:30] SOLDIERS. [4:31] WITH US, SO WE'VE GONE TWO [4:34] WARS. [4:35] WE'VE LOST, AND BY THE WAY, ONE [4:37] IS TOO MANY. [4:38] BUT WE'VE LOST 18 SOLDIERS IN TWO [4:41] WARS. [4:42] AND THE ONE WAR IS SEVEN MONTHS. [4:45] THE OTHER ONE WAS 58, 48 MINUTES. [4:48] AND WE MADE A FORTUNE ON VENEZUELA. [4:51] WE'VE TAKEN OUT, AGAIN, BILLIONS [4:52] AND BILLIONS, MANY TIMES WHAT WE [4:54] PAID FOR THE WAR. [4:55] AND WE'RE GETTING ALONG GREAT [4:57] WITH VENEZUELA. [4:58] AND VENEZUELA IS DOING WELL [5:00] BECAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY [5:01] HAVE BIG ACTIVITY. [5:02] BUT WITH IRAN, THEY'RE NEVER [5:05] GOING TO HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. [5:07] THEY HAD THE J.C. [5:09] IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT, YOU KNOW, [5:11] THE OBAMA DEAL, THE OBAMA NUCLEAR [5:14] DEAL. [5:15] THAT WAS A ROAD TO A NUCLEAR [5:18] WEAPON. [5:19] IT WAS A TERRIBLE DEAL. [5:20] SO I ENDED THAT. [5:21] AND THEN WE HIT THEM WITH THE B-2 [5:23] BOMBERS. [5:24] AND WE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR [5:26] THEM TO GET THEIR NUCLEAR DUST. [5:27] SO WHEN YOU SAY ABOUT PETE [5:30] HEGSAT, I MEAN, HE'S GUILTY OF [5:32] TWO THINGS. [5:33] BASICALLY WINNING TWO WARS. [5:34] AND THE SECOND WAR, WE KNOCKED [5:36] OUT THEIR NUCLEAR CAPACITY AND [5:38] PROBABLY SAVED ISRAEL AND [5:40] PROBABLY SAVED THE MIDDLE [5:41] EAST. [5:42] I BELIEVE WE SAVED THE MIDDLE [5:44] EAST AND ISRAEL COMBINED. [5:46] AND IT'S AWFULLY HARD TO SAY [5:48] LET'S IMPEACH SOMEBODY WHO DID [5:50] THAT. [5:51] BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT [5:53] AFGHANISTAN AND IF YOU LOOK AT [5:55] IRAQ AND IF YOU LOOK AT VIETNAM [5:57] AND ALL THESE WARS THAT WE [5:59] FIGHT, YOU KNOW, THOSE PEOPLE, [6:01] IF THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT TO [6:03] BEAT EXCESS, WHAT ABOUT THINK [6:05] ABOUT IT. [6:06] VENEZUELA, WHICH EVERYONE SAID [6:09] DON'T DO. [6:10] CHINA WAS INVOLVED. [6:11] CHINA LEFT. [6:12] WE TOOK IT OVER. [6:14] IT'S DOING GREAT. [6:15] IT'S A BIG VICTORY. [6:16] IT LASTED LESS THAN HOURS, 48 [6:17] MINUTES. [6:18] THEN WE HAVE A WAR IN IRAN. [6:20] WE BLEW UP THEIR NUCLEAR DUST. [6:21] THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE NUCLEAR [6:22] WEAPONS. [6:23] AND WE SAVED ISRAEL AND THE [6:27] MIDDLE EAST. [6:28] IF THEY WOULD HAVE HAD IT, THERE [6:29] WOULD BE NO ISRAEL RIGHT NOW. [6:30] THERE WOULD BE NO MIDDLE EAST. [6:31] AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO [6:33] And what are we going to do with one of the guys that was most responsible? [6:37] They want to impeach him. [6:39] They have to go back and why didn't they impeach Lloyd Austin when he was missing in action for two weeks, right? [6:46] And presided over one of the worst things anyone's ever seen. [6:52] 13 dead, hundreds killed at the airport, the Afghanistan. [6:57] Honest, what's your reaction to Gadi Isakoff being tasked with forming a new government? [7:02] Well, you know, they're both fighting for that. [7:05] They're very similar in terms of their policy and their view. [7:11] And I guess he said very nice things about me. [7:14] He says he loves Trump. [7:16] But I don't know. I haven't seen what's happening. [7:18] But it's certainly a contest between him and Bibi Netanyahu. [7:23] We'll see what happens. [7:24] They have very similar views. They're both strong on what I do. [7:28] Mr. President, do you think that next week you're going to have a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin [7:32] and Xi Jinping? [7:33] Well, I'm going to be going to China. He just left here. [7:36] And one of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi. [7:42] And that'll be interesting. We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearization. [7:46] But we'll be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the war in Iran. [7:50] And we're doing well, because, you know, what we have to do, we're choking it off. [7:54] We have Operation Iron Gate that just went into effect. [7:59] That means nothing comes in by land. [8:01] And as you know, the naval blockade, nothing comes in by water. [8:06] So we have it very well blocked off. [8:08] And they're not paying their soldiers. [8:10] They're not paying their guard. [8:12] They have 301 percent inflation. [8:17] They have no money. [8:19] And they're not doing well. [8:20] And at some point, they're going to be reasonable. [8:22] Now, I could go in and blow them up right now. [8:25] The problem with that is you'll never be able to rebuild it. [8:27] If I blow up the bridges and the power plants, [8:31] the thing that takes is the hardest to rebuild are the big bridges. [8:35] They have very big bridges there. [8:36] They had a big mountainous terrain, and they're connected by bridges. [8:40] It would take them years. [8:42] It would take them 10, 12, 15 years to rebuild. [8:45] Also, power plants. [8:46] Second is power plants. [8:48] The thing that's second hardest is power plants. [8:50] To rebuild that, that puts an awfully big burden on the people. [8:54] I don't like that. [8:55] Mr. President, U.S. Central Command is putting out a reward [8:58] for information about Iran moving their nuclear materials. [9:01] Do you have information? [9:02] Is that a concern? [9:03] No, it's just no. [9:04] If they are, we want to know about it. [9:06] And we'll take them out. [9:07] But we have not seen it. [9:10] You know, through Space Force, which I created in my first time, [9:13] we're able to read the patch, your name, right over here. [9:18] We're able to see anything. [9:20] We know exactly what's going with Pickaxe Mountain, as an example. [9:23] We never hit Pickaxe because there was no activity there. [9:26] But we could do that in five minutes if we needed to. [9:30] Has J.D. Vance's comments about Iran questioning some of those decisions, [9:34] has that impacted your relationship at all? [9:36] No, not at all. [9:37] But a lot of people didn't like his comments, but not me. [9:41] He was right. [9:42] Other than one thing, he should have made one other statement. [9:44] One statement that I think is very important. [9:47] If you had it to do again, would you do it again? [9:49] The answer is yes. [9:50] I can tell you, if I had it to do again, this historically, [9:54] for history, will go down as one of the best things we ever did. [9:58] Because if they ever had a nuclear weapon, [10:01] they would blow up the world. [10:02] You know why? [10:03] Because they're crazy. [10:04] Thank you very much, everybody. [10:05] Thank you, Mr. President. [10:06] Mr. Department, we want them to investigate the donors of yours. [10:11] Or rather, your donors of yours are going to be investigated. [10:13] Well, then we'll investigate their donors. [10:15] Because their donors did bad things. [10:18] Okay, thank you. [10:22] All right, you just saw President Trump answering questions [10:26] on his way to Air Force One, head back to Washington, D.C. [10:30] from West Palm Beach there. [10:33] Did not turn down any questions, guys. [10:35] I mean, he answered all of them. [10:37] And honestly, if I can say, seemed to be in good spirits. [10:41] Didn't seem to be overly stressed about the fact Democrats won so much. 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