Trump Takes Qs After Threatening Oman, Scaling Back Military Exercises With South Korea

[0:00] Yeah, please. [0:01] Are you okay? [0:02] Policy question, Mr. President? [0:03] Go ahead. [0:04] There's a lot of debate right now about these [0:06] license plate scanners that are going up across the country. [0:09] They're called flop cameras. [0:10] People are worried that the police might misuse them. [0:13] Have you heard of them? [0:14] Yep. [0:15] What's your stance? [0:16] Well, it's being studied right now. [0:17] You know, you have pros and cons, right? [0:19] It's being studied right now. [0:20] We'll have an answer, sort of, as to our views on it [0:23] over the next couple of weeks. [0:25] Mr. President, yesterday, John Ossoff said [0:27] you'd rather travel with your aide, Natalie Harp, [0:29] and build the ballroom than do your job as president. [0:31] What is your response? [0:32] John Ossoff. [0:33] The President, you mean Pee Wee Herman? [0:36] Pee Wee Herman lookalike? [0:37] No, I would much rather do other things. [0:40] It's a — we're building a great facility here. [0:43] We're fixing a White House that hasn't been taken care of. [0:46] You can look at this. [0:47] This room was a disgraceful situation — the Oval Office. [0:50] And it was — it was let go. [0:53] The whole building, the White House, was let go. [0:56] The exteriors were falling apart. [0:58] The columns were falling apart. [1:00] The whole place was a mess. [1:01] In addition, they've been trying to get a ballroom for the last 150 years. [1:05] And when I said I was going to build a ballroom in the military yesterday, [1:08] they could see me. [1:09] And they say, sir, we have an opportunity to go down deep into the ground [1:13] and build a military facility to go to the White House [1:16] and to go with all of Washington, D.C., which would be so valuable. [1:20] And then they came up with the drone port on top, [1:23] which would be a major drone port to protect the White House and all of D.C. [1:27] And all of those things added up, and it became much more than just a ballroom. [1:30] And I said to myself, well, what an opportunity. [1:33] I mean, if I was just going to build a ballroom, I could have had it built very quickly, [1:36] because I do these — I build very well and very quickly. [1:39] We went five stories down into the ground. [1:41] We did a lot of tremendous things for the military, things that they could never get. [1:46] They said this is an opportunity that we have, because you're building the ballroom, [1:50] that if you would be willing to spend more time, we would love to be able — [1:55] we've been trying to do this at the White House for many, many years. [1:58] And they've been trying to have a ballroom at the White House for many, many years. [2:03] Now, what happened is we used to use tents. [2:06] And the tents are usually made of either plastic or plastic material or canvas. [2:10] And they wouldn't stop a .22 caliber. [2:16] They wouldn't stop anything in terms of safety. [2:18] It would be very dangerous. [2:20] And they haven't used a tent for years. [2:22] They haven't had any big — like we have President Xi coming on September 24th or so. [2:26] I think it's September 24th. [2:28] And we'd love to have 2,000 people coming to dinner and celebrating a nice evening, et cetera, et cetera. [2:35] But we only have a room that's going to hold 89 people. [2:38] And 89 people is not appropriate. [2:40] So maybe more importantly, it's totally secure with bulletproof windows, bulletproof sides. [2:46] It's drone-proof. [2:48] It's missile — every at the top of the line. [2:51] And we need it. [2:53] And especially with what's happened, unfortunately, to the world, you could say. [2:57] Yeah. [2:58] So do you believe the ball would have a bigger part of your presidency? [3:00] This morning you said you would bomb the ass out of Oman if they got in the way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. [3:08] Would you say you're out of patience with Oman as strategic — [3:10] No, I don't think they'd behave very well, but we'd handle them very easily, just like we do others. [3:15] Based on your answer on the ball, right? [3:16] Mr. President, I have two questions. [3:19] Go ahead. [3:20] There's a report by Center Square that nearly two dozen Democratic attorney generals, months before your reelection, were basically planning already lawsuits against you. [3:29] I wanted to see what your comment is on that. [3:31] Second question — [3:32] Well, I heard about that. [3:33] I'm not surprised, because they've weaponized this country like never before. [3:37] The Democrats — or the Democrats, as they call them — they've weaponized the country like — nobody's ever seen anything like it. [3:44] When you see the reports that are coming out now that you would have never seen if I had not won the election in a landslide. [3:50] But you would have never seen it if I didn't win the election. [3:53] But the reports that you see coming out now and the kind of illegal activity that they used on the 2020 election and beyond [4:02] is — is earth-shattering. [4:04] These are very dishonest people, so I wouldn't be surprised to hear that. [4:08] Mr. President, it's on your answer. [4:10] Mr. President. [4:11] I'm sorry. [4:12] This is on D.C. [4:13] You have mentioned before that the Democrats get in again that they may eliminate the filibuster next time and make D.C. a state. [4:21] A while back, Senator Mike Lee had floated an — [4:23] It wouldn't be a state. [4:24] It wouldn't be — I mean, if we're talking about us, we have, as you know, a very radically left-person elected mayor. [4:31] Who I haven't met. [4:32] I'm sure she's very nice. [4:34] But very, very, very radical left. [4:37] And we would have to federalize D.C. [4:39] You know, we've made D.C. great. [4:41] When I got here, it was a very dangerous capital. [4:45] I would have said to Ryder, don't come. [4:47] It's too dangerous. [4:48] Now I can say you can walk down the street. [4:50] You can grab Nathaniel and all your friends. [4:52] You can walk in. [4:53] You're going to be very safe. [4:54] But if you were here a year and a half ago, the numbers were horrible. [4:58] The crime stats, the murders, the debt, the drug dealing, everything was — we have one of the safe — [5:05] We've taken it from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to as safe a city as there is. [5:11] Amazing what's happened to Washington. [5:13] And it's our capital. [5:14] We have to have a safe capital. [5:16] And we did it through a lot of different reasons, but we also put the national gun here. [5:20] But in addition to that, the cleanliness, the new grass, the graffiti's all gone. [5:27] We fixed up 82 monuments, fountains, and other things. [5:31] The places — and when you see it in six months from now, it's going to be even beyond that. [5:37] We're proud of our capital. [5:38] I think these things are important. [5:40] Whether you build — whether you do something to fix the White House where — you know, [5:45] now they've never had a real estate developer — a good one, a real good one — here before. [5:50] And they might not ever have one again. [5:52] But, you know, fixing up our great capital is a very important thing. [5:57] I think it's very important psychologically. [5:59] It's very important from the standpoint of people being able to come to the country and not get murdered in the capital. [6:06] People would come here — we had one of the worst, one of the most unsafe cities in the country. [6:11] Now we have one of the safest. [6:13] Just to finish, we have — we had a real problem with restaurants. [6:18] Nobody wanted to have restaurants, entrepreneurs, restaurant entrepreneurs. [6:21] Now you can't get space. [6:24] Every restaurant is packed. [6:25] The place is booming. [6:27] People aren't going to get mugged and raped and beat to hell and shot and killed in Washington, D.C. [6:33] One of the safest places. [6:35] Crime is down 84 percent. [6:37] And I did that in a short period of time. [6:40] It's also down in Memphis, where we went specifically. [6:43] And it's also down in New Orleans. [6:46] I was asked by the governor, could I do something? [6:48] Because they were having Mardi Gras. [6:49] It was very bad. [6:50] And they're the best Mardi Gras they've ever had. [6:52] The safest Mardi Gras that they've ever had. [6:55] And we could do it in New York. [6:57] We could do it in California. [6:58] We could do it in Chicago if we were asked to do it. [7:00] But the crime stats in the whole country, we have down 15, 16, 70 percent. [7:06] A record. [7:07] Mr. President, on South Korea. [7:09] Mr. President, on South Korea. [7:10] Why hasn't Kim Jong-un responded to your request to have a conversation? [7:15] How do you know he hasn't responded? [7:17] Has he? [7:18] Yeah, he has. [7:21] Did you speak to him? [7:22] Did you speak to him before you made the announcement yesterday? [7:24] Mr. President, where are you in conversation? [7:25] I'm very positive. [7:26] Well, just so you understand what South Korea is. [7:28] Look, South Korea has been protected by us for many, many years. [7:33] And during my first term, they agreed to pay close to $3 billion a year for protection. [7:39] Because we don't, you know, they essentially weren't there. [7:42] And I asked them to do that. [7:43] At my request, I said, not right. [7:45] They weren't happy about it, but they agreed. [7:48] I asked for $10 billion. [7:50] And they were very unhappy. [7:54] But we agreed for short term that it would be $3 billion. [7:57] And the next year it would go up, and the next year it would go up. [7:59] So they start paying for their protection. [8:01] When the election was rigged, and I ended up watching for four years and then coming back, [8:06] I watched Biden rescind that $3 billion a year for whatever reason. [8:12] When I called recently President of South Korea, who I like, I think he's very nice, actually. [8:18] But I called him. [8:19] I said, would you like to give us a little hand? [8:21] We don't need help with Iran. [8:22] But if you'd like, give us a hand with Iran. [8:26] He said, no thanks. [8:27] And I said, wait a minute. [8:28] We have 39,000 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong-un, your next door neighbor. [8:36] And you're not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran? [8:42] That's strange. [8:43] No, no, we'd rather not get involved. [8:45] I said, well, why are we involved in helping you? [8:48] So, and I want to help them. [8:50] But, you know, when you ask somebody, would you like to give us a hand? [8:55] They say, no thanks. [8:56] And then we're guarding them from a country and paying ourselves billions of dollars. [9:02] It's costing us billions and billions of dollars to protect. [9:05] Not only them, but other countries. [9:07] Look at NATO. [9:08] We spend hundreds of billions of dollars protecting Europe from Russia. [9:16] Hundreds of billions mostly from Russia, but from other things, too. [9:19] And then they say, well, they don't want to get involved with getting, you know, guarding the strait. [9:26] Where they get most of their oil. [9:27] They get 50% of their oil. [9:29] And they don't want to get involved. [9:30] Why are we doing it? [9:31] So, all I want is fairness. [9:33] And South Korea, I get along with them very well. [9:35] But they were paying $3 billion a year. [9:38] And then they convinced Biden that I was probably a bad person. [9:42] And they shouldn't, and he immediately rescinded that order. [9:45] So, we were getting paid. [9:46] We would have been getting paid a lot more. [9:48] But we can't go around and protect all of these countries. [9:53] Especially when they're not there to help us. [9:55] Did you seek to conduct a memorandum of understanding? [10:00] On the expiration of a memorandum of understanding, are you any closer today to reaching a final deal to end Iran's new program? [10:06] Well, they want to make a deal, but they're not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary. [10:11] Look, we're in there for one reason. [10:13] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [10:17] You understand that? [10:18] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [10:20] And they won't have a nuclear weapon. [10:22] Right now, them building one after what we did previously with the B-2 bombers, it could be a long time we have. [10:30] But Iran cannot have it. [10:32] It's very simple. [10:33] They can't have a nuclear weapon. [10:34] Mr. President. [10:35] Mr. President of South Korea. [10:36] How do you respond to folks who say that you are prioritizing the interests of adversaries in North Korea over our long time? [10:43] No, just the opposite. [10:44] No. [10:45] I'm making it much safer. [10:47] You see, I'm actually making it much safer. [10:50] Kim Jong-un has always treated me with great respect. [10:54] And we met on numerous occasions, actually, two primary occasions. [10:59] Spoken and spent time. [11:04] I understand him. [11:05] He understands me. [11:06] You're doing war games. [11:08] I get along with him. [11:10] You know, he didn't like Biden. [11:11] He didn't like Obama. [11:13] He didn't like anybody. [11:15] But I get along with him very well. [11:17] No, what I'm doing is making things safer. [11:19] Did he ask you specifically to scale back on those? [11:24] Quiet. [11:25] Quiet. [11:26] You're very disrespectful in front of this young man. [11:27] Okay? [11:28] Don't you find her disrespectful? [11:30] He understands. [11:31] Quiet. [11:32] Who are you with? [11:33] I'm with CNN. [11:34] Fake news. [11:35] I just wanted to follow up on the South Korea question. [11:38] You're a loud, boisterous person. [11:40] You're fake news. [11:41] Be quiet. [11:42] Be quiet. [11:43] You're a fake reporter and you report fake news. [11:44] Go ahead. [11:45] Mr. President, is there enough food on the USS Lincoln? [11:46] Yeah, it is. [11:47] That was a CNN fake report. [11:48] The Lincoln has been out there for a period of time, a good period of time. [12:04] But over the years, we've had him out there much longer. [12:06] I was at a group meeting and an admiral came up to see me over the weekend. [12:11] And it was at a big group and he happened to be an admiral retired. [12:15] He said, I've been on ships that are out there much longer than that, sir. [12:18] And I know people on the Lincoln, they say it's beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of. [12:24] And other people went out and they found out to be true. [12:26] It was fake news reporting from CNN. [12:29] Mr. President, Mr. President. [12:31] There's a report that a senior intelligence official with the CCP just bought a historical building overlooking the White House. [12:37] Have you heard about this? [12:39] No, I haven't heard of that. [12:40] Mr. President. [12:41] Mr. President, yes. [12:42] Mr. President. [12:43] Mr. President. [12:44] Mr. President. [12:45] Go ahead. [12:46] Behind you. [12:47] Behind you, please. [12:48] The British Prime Minister recently, reportedly, sent texts to someone impersonating Susie Wiles. [12:52] Are you concerned about his judgment or the state of communications between the two countries? [12:57] No, but who happened? [12:58] What happened? [12:59] They sent texts? [13:00] Apparently, the Prime Minister sent texts to somebody impersonating Susie Wiles. [13:05] I'm sure that he had a miscommunication. [13:10] Mr. President. [13:11] Mr. President. [13:12] He's the Prime Minister. [13:13] Mr. President. [13:14] When I spoke to him, we had a good conversation. [13:15] A couple of them. [13:16] We had a good conversation. [13:17] One of the things he is going to do, I think he's going to open up the North Sea. [13:21] That'll make, that'll make UK pretty rich, I'll tell you. [13:26] Mr. President. [13:27] If he opened up the North Sea, now he's got an immigration problem, and he has an energy [13:32] problem. [13:33] He would have solved one of his problems. [13:34] That would be a big thing. [13:35] That would make UK rich. [13:36] If you open up the North Sea, it's one of the great finds anywhere in the world. [13:41] And if they would open up, the North Sea UK would be rich again. [13:44] Mr. President. [13:45] Mr. President. [13:46] Mr. President. [13:47] Yes, Mr. President. [13:48] Have the people, the people who... [13:49] Don't you find them nice? [13:50] Huh? [13:51] Nice people. [13:52] Right? [13:53] Let me say, where do people like this come from? [13:56] Go ahead. [13:57] The people who are opposing... [13:58] Especially here. [13:59] The people who are opposing the ballroom and challenging it, have they offered any sort [14:03] of solution or sort of compromise, or are they just saying there should be a role there? [14:12] The people that are opposing the ballroom are people that, in my opinion, are very disloyal [14:17] to our country. [14:18] Very, very disloyal to our country. [14:21] And I think we're doing very well. [14:22] We're way ahead of schedule. [14:24] We're under budget. [14:25] It's going to be the most beautiful ballroom of its kind. [14:28] You know, when I was in China, we went to the Great Hall of China. [14:31] It was a big, beautiful building. [14:32] And we don't have anything like that. [14:34] And we have to have that. [14:35] It's very important. [14:36] But we also are getting tremendous military protection. [14:40] Drone protection. [14:41] The building is drone-proof. [14:43] It's missile-proof, as much as something can be missile-proof. [14:47] It's totally bulletproof. [14:48] Any bullet, nothing can go through the windows. [14:51] We have, you know, all top-of-the-line stuff. [14:54] It's very safe. [14:56] And, you know, the one thing, it's not for me. [14:59] Because I'm going to be here a very short period of time when it's finished. [15:02] If it finishes right on time, on budget, on time, I'll be there for four, five, six months. [15:10] This is for future presidents. [15:11] This isn't for me. [15:12] This is for future presidents. [15:14] And it's a gift. [15:15] We're making a gift to our country, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a ballroom. [15:21] And it's a gift from great patriots of this country, from, as an example, I mean, I'll give you names. [15:28] I released some of the names. [15:30] In fact, I wanted to put them out today, but we got a little busy. [15:33] And this was, frankly, being with this group of people was very important to me. [15:37] But we'll be putting them out, some of the people that contributed. [15:40] But this is a gift to the United States of America. [15:43] No taxpayer money is necessary. [15:46] And you're going to have the finest ballroom anywhere in the world. [15:50] It's not something I wanted to do, but it's something that's needed. [15:53] And again, I'm not going to get to use it very much. [15:57] Because by the time it's completed, I'll have four or five months left, three months, who knows. [16:01] But we're ahead of schedule. [16:03] It's going to be the best in the world, of its kind, in the world. [16:06] There'll be nothing like it in the world. [16:08] It fits beautifully with the White House. [16:11] It's gotten fantastic reviews, architectural reviews. [16:14] People think it's incredible. [16:16] And when you see it, you'll say, wow, that's really something. [16:19] And that's what the United States is all about. [16:21] We have to have that. [16:22] But in addition to the ballroom, we're building a great military complex. [16:26] The people that started the lawsuit, the head person, I believe, was fired. [16:32] And she was fired from another event just before that. [16:35] And she's the one that started it. [16:37] It's a national trust. [16:38] But the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [16:41] Now, they say it's a United States. [16:44] They use the word United States. [16:45] But it's not related to the United States. [16:47] In fact, the United States doesn't even contribute to it. [16:50] It has nothing to do with it. [16:52] It stopped contributing when they realized there were nothing but troublemakers. [16:56] Years ago, it stopped contributing. [16:58] So this isn't like an official United States Bureau or United States agency. [17:04] They stopped contributing to the National Trust. [17:08] And it's called the National Trust. [17:10] It has this great name, National Trust for Historic Preservation. [17:14] There are a bunch of troublemakers that the United States, many years ago, long before me, stopped contributing to. [17:21] The woman that started it was fired. [17:24] She's no longer there. [17:25] So this is the remnants of it. [17:27] And the bottom line is they're trying to stop something. [17:30] And they won't be successful. [17:32] But they're trying to stop something that's almost completed. [17:35] When you say, when you say, when they brought a suit, why didn't they bring the suit a year before? [17:40] Why did they bring the suit in the middle of construction? [17:43] When $400 million almost is spent on its construction. [17:50] Why wouldn't they have started the suit a year earlier? [17:52] Everybody knew it was going to be. [17:53] I mean, it was no secret. [17:55] Everybody knew that it was taking place. [17:57] So they should have done that. [17:58] But the National Trust is very disloyal to the country because they reveal things. [18:03] You know, I said the problem with the suit, I told them this, is that we have many military things in this ballroom. [18:09] And ideally, they shouldn't be revealed. [18:11] But now they are revealed, so the world knows about it. [18:13] That's okay. [18:14] They shouldn't have done it. [18:15] They're very disloyal. [18:16] But I think we're doing really well. [18:21] We're way ahead of schedule. [18:23] And somebody and many presidents are going to use it for many years to come. [18:27] The country will have one of the greatest gifts it's ever received. [18:30] Mr. President, I'm the ballroom. [18:32] Last week you said that you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz to be a territory of the United States. [18:38] Could you elaborate? [18:39] Well, I just think it's a great idea. [18:41] Yeah. [18:42] I mean, we control it. [18:43] We control it with the blockade. [18:44] We have a blockade. [18:45] We control it with the blockade. [18:47] And I like the idea of declaring it a territory. [18:51] When might we do that? [18:52] We have total control over the Strait. [18:54] Now, they can be a nuisance. [18:55] They can put a mine in the water. [18:57] And people don't like having mines hit their billion-dollar ships, you know, et cetera. [19:00] But the blockade has been very effective. [19:03] And, you know, we're taking out — now, maybe that will stop or maybe it'll open up even further. [19:08] But we're taking out millions of barrels of oil a week. [19:12] If you look at the kind of numbers that we're doing, we're doing — the Strait is open. [19:17] And the oil prices are coming down, and they will continue to come down unless we decide to do something far more drastic than we're doing. [19:25] Iran is in big trouble. [19:27] They have 300 percent inflation. [19:30] The country is a mess. [19:32] And the military is totally defeated. [19:34] Thank you very much. [19:35] Mr. President, are you seeking an extension on the MOU? [19:38] Thank you. [19:39] Mr. President, are you seeking an extension on the MOU? [19:42] Thank you so much, guys.