Full Trump press conference discusses Iran war, World Cup, attempted shootings and more

[0:00] well thank you very much everybody we very much appreciate this is a big afternoon they all are [0:06] in a way because all of these things that we do are very important this afternoon i'm thrilled to [0:11] sign a historic executive order expanding access to high quality retirement savings accounts for [0:18] millions of americans in my state of the union earlier this year i promised to make these same [0:24] types of retirement accounts enjoyed by the federal employees available to all americans [0:30] so that's what we're doing it only seemed fair it's a tremendous it's a really a tremendous [0:36] situation for all americans that was really much promises made as i say promises kept i'm thrilled [0:43] to be joined by incredible people that i know and the warriors jason smith these are congress people [0:51] brian style mike gary lloyd smucker bill heisinger ryan mckenzie john mcguire zach nunn derek van orden [1:01] jeff crank nick begich monica de la cruz and mike lawlor warriors every one of them they're great [1:10] people they fought very hard for what we're about to sign and since my election the stock market has [1:16] set 59 this is in a little bit more than a year 59 all-time record highs adding nine trillion dollars [1:24] in value to really the value of our country if you think about it under four years of biden the average [1:31] 401k rose at a rate of just eight hundred and seventy five dollars a year last year under trump the [1:38] average 401k balance was up twenty four thousand dollars so eight hundred and seventy five dollars [1:45] versus twenty four thousand dollars i would say that's pretty good this is really incredible the [1:51] numbers are incredible the numbers being invested in our country are more incredible than anything you [1:57] see it there are plants being built all over all over the usa we have auto plants not just ai ai is [2:04] doing great we're leading china by quite a bit but we uh have auto plants being built all over the [2:10] country they're coming back from canada they're coming back from mexico germany japan uh south korea [2:17] wherever they build autos they're coming here nobody ever thought they'd see that the union loves me [2:23] i did very well with the other workers but they like me a lot more now than they did when i was [2:28] just talking about it beginning at the start of next year every american will be able to go to trump [2:35] ira.gov and open a new low-cost ira account you'll then be able to access the same type of retirement [2:42] accounts that federal employers enjoy through the thrift savings plans which are incredible as part of [2:50] the federal savers match program low-income americans will be eligible to receive up to one thousand [2:56] dollars per year in matching funds deposited directly into their accounts a great thing for [3:03] millions of americans who lack employer-sponsored plans this will be really revolutionary because [3:10] they'll be covered nobody thought that was possible for example of a 25 year old who is eligible for [3:16] savers match program invest just 165 a month under the matching federal contributions they will [3:23] have an estimated 465 thousand dollars in their account by the time they're 65 years old in other [3:32] words they'll be rich and there's something awfully nice about that but this is uh only the first step [3:39] i was talking to kevin acid a little while ago and the people standing right behind me we're going [3:46] to take it to the next level and the next level kevin you're going to mention something but the next [3:51] level will be necessary to have congressional approval what you just heard we don't need [3:57] congressional approval uh and it'll never be terminated because to terminate it if somebody else is in [4:02] office to terminate it you'd have to take that money away you'd have to uh you'd have to really take [4:09] away something that's so positive i don't think any politician would do it but uh to take it to the next level [4:15] we need congressional approval which should be very easy to get it should be bipartisan normally it [4:20] would be bipartisan but today nothing's bipartisan right i mean it should be something that everybody [4:27] supports so kevin before we start maybe you could just explain what we're talking about for the next [4:31] level right so for the next level sir uh what we're already talking uh chairman smith and i about [4:37] and they're already i've been talking with mr smucker about this for a number of years [4:41] uh is that we're going to expand this program that you're creating here which is for low-income [4:47] people to you know middle uh income people and maybe above as well so that every american you know [4:52] most high-income people have an employer that gives them a 401k with a match but low-income people [4:58] or uber drivers or something they don't have access to that they don't have access to the match [5:02] what we've done here is you've given the match to low-income people with incomes below 35 [5:06] 000 but we think that there are a lot of people even who make more than that that don't have many [5:12] assets uh for retirement and so we're working with congress to significantly expand this program [5:17] and we're looking forward for legislation this year uh to expand this and also the trump accounts you [5:23] remember with michael dell susan and the group that we had are setting records the numbers five million [5:31] signups right now five million signups in a short period of time far above what we thought even [5:37] possible so congratulations to everybody that got that started michael dell put in six billion 250 [5:44] million that was a lot he put in a lot of money and he's going to do more too but uh they were very [5:52] responsible so i just want to let you know it's it's like record nobody you are even surprised [5:59] by that number i think right i don't know if we can do that kind but it's really way beyond what [6:06] anyone thought it's great and we're going to be doing the same thing i guess in a certain way for [6:11] older people we're going with a plan that if it if it works has to get approved by congress but [6:15] that's right we think it'll get approved we it'll be fantastic for the country uh let's go will do [6:22] you want to start there are some other things and we thought we'd let these great people from congress [6:28] and beyond or below i guess i could say so first sir this is the ira executive order that you just [6:35] mentioned this establishes the retirement accounts um with the federal match for uh for eligible people as [6:42] as uh as uh as you said in your speech and as kevin explained um this is a big step forward it's [6:47] going to provide access to uh high quality retirement accounts to a lot of americans who don't [6:52] currently uh have access to such accounts okay there it is that's nice great thank thank you very much [7:03] everybody we'll do some that aren't associated with this and then we'll talk about this with [7:14] the press you'll ask some questions of the congresspeople okay because they were really [7:19] responsible for this all right yes who would like to hold it right popular guy okay let's go this is a [7:30] presidential permit authorizing the bridger pipeline sir this is a transporter pipeline similar to the [7:36] old keystone xl pipeline will significantly expand our ability to move oil around around north america [7:43] oil and gas around north america it's a huge deal in terms of long-term energy dominance and energy [7:48] security slightly different than the last administration they wouldn't sign a pipeline deal as we have [7:55] pipelines going up and by the way they're way underground they're not a problem nobody even [8:01] knows they're there it's so crazy but they wouldn't approve anything having to do with the pipeline and [8:06] they're great as opposed to trucking it or training it it was uh they're great a lot of jobs and a lot of [8:16] jobs okay very good next this is an executive order on federal contracting sir many federal contracts [8:23] currently operate on a cost plus basis this provides oftentimes weird incentives for contractors [8:29] leads to cost overruns costs the federal government a lot of money what this executive order does is it [8:35] establishes a fixed price contract as the default in in most federal contracts this aligns the federal [8:43] government with what would typically exist in the private sector and we believe will continue to [8:48] drive down fraud and abuse in federal contracting government-wide would anybody like to [8:53] do object to this this one too thank you next uh you previously announced that we were withdrawing [9:08] casey means as the surgeon general uh sir and appointing doctors to fear or nominating doctors to fear [9:14] in the calls um that that on uh on the left is the withdrawal which will later be transmitted to the [9:20] senate okay and on the right is the new nomination form for uh for our new surgeon general [9:26] michael sapphire she's with fox was with fox is it with fox anymore peter but she's great [9:34] she'll be the surgeon general [9:36] memorial sloan kettering in new jersey sir and she's an outstanding doctor she is i just don't know [9:59] how biden used the oil package there's so many things to say here please take this it's crazy uh all four [10:08] four years was crazy okay this set bring it up she's gonna be great surgeon general thank you this [10:21] is a proclamation declaring uh this weekend to be national fallen firefighters memorial weekend [10:28] as you know firefighters do an incredibly difficult dangerous job help keep us all safe [10:32] um this is a proclamation honoring their sacrifice and remembering those who uh who have fallen great [10:41] everybody likes that you bet okay firefighters that one deserves [10:57] lastly sir this is another proclamation your administration particularly the first lady [11:03] have made foster and adoptive care major priorities this is a proclamation declaring uh national foster [11:09] care month uh honoring uh those who have participated in foster programs who have helped uh raise foster [11:15] children right uh and speaking about the many things that your administration including the first [11:20] lady's office have done on that set of issues yeah it's been a big thing for the first lady so this is in [11:25] honor of our first lady thank you thank you very much thank you mr president so do you have any [11:44] questions maybe we discuss the first signing first you have anything on that please how is this going to [11:50] help small business owners do you think this is going to you inspire more people to go to you know [11:54] small businesses that might be reluctant earlier uh you know for ira you know to have their ira this is [12:00] kind of you know help well i'll tell you small business is now thriving and as you know more [12:05] people are working right now than at any time in the history of our country we're doing great [12:10] and there's more investment being made in the united states in any country at any time [12:14] any time in history um and a lot of that's uh ai and a lot of that's maybe in a certain way maybe [12:22] more importantly auto plants are all coming back to our country they're coming back from [12:26] uh different countries where they left us for germany as you know japan and south korea and canada [12:34] mexico and they're all coming back at levels that nobody's ever seen before and uh tariffs did it i [12:41] did it maybe the election did it but tariffs did it and if they build here they don't have to pay [12:46] tariffs we have germany is giving a lot of a lot of companies are coming in from germany from japan [12:53] japan just announced uh 10 billion dollars more plants going to be built between toyota and honda [13:02] and all the different companies they're pouring into our country in south korea canada they're coming [13:09] in i don't know what they're doing but i can tell you they're coming in tremendously from canada there's [13:14] no reason they they don't want to pay the tariff and because of that they're so you know they're [13:20] investing at levels never seen before we will uh you know for 30 years we we didn't we virtually [13:28] didn't build an auto plant in this country and now we're doing more than we've ever done so i'm very [13:33] proud of that ai is going wild we're doing great and we're letting them build their own electric but [13:39] we're actually making them build their own electric plants so they don't take they take tremendous [13:43] amounts of energy to have a successful plant and they're building all of the new ones are building their [13:49] own electric plant like a utility and any extra they'll either give it or sell it for a good price [13:55] to uh local communities and and to the grid so it's going to be fantastic but we have uh tremendous [14:03] amounts of factories being built in our country now more than we've ever had at any time ever before [14:08] and we have the biggest investment being made in our country in the history of our country and by the [14:13] way in the history of any country there's never been a country that has the kind of investment coming in [14:19] that we have right now and these things are being built right now so you're not going to see the [14:23] results i mean you'll see construction results you notice the construction workers are through the [14:28] roof but when they open the numbers are going to be staggering do you have a question i certainly do [14:34] thank you mr president you had some good economic news gdp two percent growth new orders for business [14:39] equipment searched the highest level in six years and irs data shows that the average federal tax return is [14:45] up by more than 11 percent when you compare it to the same time as last year do you believe that [14:49] this is over 100 do you believe that this is evidence that the big beautiful tax cuts that you [14:54] signed into law last year are working and do you think the economy is going to continue to hum as the [14:58] year progresses thank you so the biggest tax cut in history is in the great big beautiful bill [15:04] and i think you know i see it i actually see it reported where people are shocked at how much money [15:09] they're making they can't believe the refunds that they're making uh five thousand six thousand seven [15:14] eight nine one one i saw one last night on television eleven thousand more than she thought she was going [15:21] to get and it's no tax on tips and no tax on overtime no tax on social security for our seniors no tax on [15:29] social nobody can believe it even and the numbers are far greater than they thought people that thought [15:35] they were going to make an extra five hundred dollars turns out they're making an extra five [15:39] thousand dollars so it's been really great yeah and that's going to carry forward look the country's [15:46] doing really well and that's despite a military operation i don't call it a war because you'd rather [15:52] have a military operation uh we're really i mean iran is dying to make a deal i can only tell you that [16:01] i don't want to get into the but they gotta they cannot be nuclear other than that but they are [16:08] the navy is gone their air force is gone every ounce of any form of equipment practically is gone you [16:15] know their their drone factories are about 82 percent down and their missile factories are almost 90 percent [16:23] down and many of their missiles have been knocked out between they use some but we knocked out more than [16:30] they use and it's pretty it's pretty amazing what's happened they want to make a deal but despite the [16:35] fact that we are in what some people would call a war we just hit a new high today on the stock market [16:41] we have uh s p is through the roof they're all i mean they're through the roof and you know when we [16:48] hit 50 000 on the dow and 7 000 on the s p i said to myself we got to do something about iran they want [16:56] to have a nuclear weapon you can't let them have a nuclear weapon and i hated to do it to my people [17:00] because they said 50 000 peter you know this that 50 000 wouldn't be obtainable in my four years or [17:07] anybody's four years and we had 50 000 in my first year the end of my first year we had 7 000 on the [17:14] s p they said that would be even less attainable and we had that at the end of the first year before [17:21] the year was up and then i said to kevin sorry about this kevin but we have to we have to put out a [17:26] fire and the fire is taking place in the lovely country of iran and they want to have a nuclear [17:32] weapon and if we didn't use this beautiful see that plane right there that beautiful b2 bomber [17:38] it looks small there but it's actually quite it doesn't look very powerful there but it's [17:43] quite look quite large actually we ordered actually we ordered 25 more of them the updated version [17:49] all built in america which is very nice right but uh if we didn't have that b2 bomber if we didn't go [17:55] in and do what we did we obliterated that nuclear capacity of theirs and so they never they didn't [18:03] get the nuclear bomb if we didn't do that attack should have been done long before i came along by [18:08] other presidents or by another country or something but it should have been done long before i came [18:15] along but they are in uh very bad shape and they've got nothing including leadership i mean you know [18:22] their leaders are gone now they have a whole their first string leaders are gone their second string [18:28] leaders are gone now we're dealing with their third string but uh we'll see what happens uh it's been an [18:35] amazing it's been an amazing period of time between venezuela and where we're doing great we're getting [18:43] along with them great we're working very closely with them there they're uh they're doing more oil now [18:49] than they've done in many many decades actually and they're making more money and so are we you know we're [18:55] like it's like a joint venture to be honest and we've paid for the attack many times over the attack [19:01] something you've never heard before probably i always used to say to the victor belong the spoils [19:07] but we paid for the attack which is always expensive but it was a less than one day attack it was [19:14] actually a 45 minute attack and that's a good you know they have a good military in venezuela but this [19:19] they did not expect that and that and that other than that but when these suckers come at you at [19:28] 2500 miles an hour at 25 feet off the ground you say this is not what i bargained for this is no good [19:36] anyway so uh and now you know venezuela was amazing but now we're we're doing essentially it's larger but [19:43] we're doing essentially the same thing in iran can't let iran have a nuclear weapon and their [19:50] economy is crashing the blockade is incredible the power of the block blockade is incredible they're [19:55] not getting any money from oil and uh hopefully it can be worked out very soon yeah iran is proving to [20:02] be very stubborn the talks seem like they are stalled are you getting antsy to break the ceasefire [20:10] well i mean i don't know what stubbornness because really nobody knows what the talks are except [20:16] myself and a couple of other people they want to make a deal badly we have a problem because nobody [20:23] knows for sure who the leaders are it's a little bit of a problem you know the leaders have been wiped [20:28] out along with their military almost all of their military i mean think of it 159 ships was their total navy [20:36] navy 159 chips are gone they're underwater they're way below sea level sea levels it's big difference [20:47] pretty deep waters over there too so um i don't know that we need it we might need it [20:56] and on iran a little while ago the president of fifa said that when the world cup is here in the u.s [21:02] the team from iran will be playing in the games well if johnny said it i'm okay did johnny say it [21:09] he did what johnny infantino that's a piece of work what if they win well if they win we'll have to [21:16] worry about that that's not i'm gonna have to worry about that one that would not look you know what [21:21] let him play well uh johnny's fantastic you know he's a friend of mine and he uh he talked about it [21:28] i said you do whatever you want you can have them you don't have to have them probably have a good [21:33] team do they have a good team do you have any idea i have no idea would be hard to believe actually [21:40] but uh i think let them play right it's a little bit different but what is your take on these reports [21:47] that your show the apprentice uh is going to come back could come back on amazon with host donald trump [21:55] junior well well i've been hearing it look we had a great success 14 seasons and the apprentice was [22:01] a tremendous success so i've been hearing that you know a little bit so we'll see what happens he's [22:07] good he's a good guy he'd be probably good he's got a little charisma going you need a little charisma for [22:15] that sucker so we'll see what happens uh yeah they told me about it we'll see [22:19] thank you mr president there's been some talks about changes to your security after what to play [22:26] changing my security changing your security after what well they did a pretty good job actually you [22:30] know they stopped the nfl running back i mean he was like a running back in fact if you ever got out [22:37] they're probably going to sign him he he was a speedy guy uh but he was stopped they had many levels [22:43] in front of him before he would even come to us um you know you could be a baseball team and win 19 [22:53] to nothing and somebody could say you should have won 21 you should have gotten 25 runs the team was [22:59] no good or something so i don't know i i can only say that i know a lot of those people in secret [23:04] service and they were they were good and they were forceful and i saw the guys in front of me they were [23:12] powerful looking guys i said we could send them to hollywood they could make they could make movies [23:18] i think that uh there's always room for improvement right and he got into the building the problem is [23:24] that i know that's what i do i build buildings like that much nicer actually but i build buildings like [23:32] that and you know when you have a thousand rooms sitting on top of a ballroom and you have the [23:39] elevators coming down right near the entrance it's a pretty tough situation now right outside [23:47] we have something that's on time on budget actually ahead of time in ahead of budget depending on [23:54] finishes you know finishes is a big difference between marble and onyx in price but it's right [24:00] on budget right on time and that's built to the highest standards of security no units on top no [24:08] hotel built on top where an elevator comes right down through the middle of it it's a it's a tough [24:13] location it's a that's a tough location so um i think i know the people at secret service i think [24:22] they're great and i think the congress has to take care of those people you know that we're talking [24:27] about ice we're talking about border patrol secret service everyone is the democrats essentially want [24:34] to defund the police just so you know that's right they want to defund law enforcement it's crazy [24:40] these people have gone crazy i heard hakeem jeffrey's a low iq person he's a very low iq [24:47] screaming today that the supreme court is illegitimate i mean that's a dangerous statement [24:53] then if i say something modest they say oh he's a king he's a king they're sick but hakeem jeffrey said [25:04] the supreme court is illegitimate that's a rough statement if i made that statement it would be the [25:12] biggest story out there bad things would happen one of the ideas yeah the the average price of a [25:19] gallon of gas is now four dollars and three cents in this country and you know what and we're not [25:23] going to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of our end the gas will go down as soon as the war's over [25:29] it'll drop like a rock there's so much of it it's all over the place sitting all over the oceans of the [25:34] world and it'll be it'll go down but what won't happen is if iran had a nuclear weapon and used [25:42] it then the whole world is a different place you're not going to have to pay a little bit more [25:48] for gasoline the gasoline the oil will go down rapidly as soon as the war is over [25:58] i've got two questions uh first i want to follow up on daniel's question uh i've described you as [26:02] the peacemaker you're achieving peace around the world due to these latest policies big beautiful bill [26:08] no tax on tips no tax on social security no tax on overtime now the trump account and then [26:13] the retirement the ira company could we describe you as the wealth maker well i'm helping people [26:19] out that's a nice question actually but i'm helping people these people are with me you know these these [26:25] are great people and and feel free to speak up if you'd like because they wanted this to happen and we [26:32] got it done and they're republican people i think in all cases right it's crazy we have to we need like always [26:42] unanimous because the democrats they will vote against anything no matter how good if they had [26:49] their favorite thing in the world and we happen to want it but we found a new strategy we're going to [26:55] oppose every single thing that we want and we'll get unanimous so i'm going to come up and oppose [27:00] everything brian from this point forward and they'll vote for it uh second question uh you create a space [27:06] force on the second end uh towards the end of your first administration uh you just had the archivist [27:12] 2 crew in here um i know it's a big accomplishment what do you see moving forward the duration of your [27:18] administration in terms of space exploration i know that was a big moment for you well doing space [27:24] force is i think it's going to go down as one of my more important things it's turning out even a lot of [27:29] these great military operations that we have right now when you look at venezuela when you look at like the [27:33] decimation of of iran which was considered powerful it was the bully of the middle east and a lot of that [27:41] took place so effectively because of what's coming out of space when we did space force when i did space [27:47] force i'm very proud of it uh space was like we were third china was first russia was second now we're [27:56] we've leapfrogged we're way ahead of china we're way ahead of russia and we made some great choices the [28:02] the first person that headed space force and really uh after that we had a couple of really great [28:08] people heading it very always very important and a new person is heading it now i think he could [28:14] has a chance to be as good as anybody as good as maybe better i don't know but we've had great [28:19] people heading up space force it's been very important it's been very important for what we're [28:24] doing with respect to the different places and as far as peace i settled eight wars and people try [28:31] and dispute it but then they go over and almost in every case they sent letters thanking me and [28:37] letters to the nobel committee i don't care about that maria was very nice she gave me her nobel [28:44] peace prize because she said she didn't deserve it she was very very nice but but i settled eight wars [28:52] and in every case the people the prime ministers or presidents wrote letters thanking me and in the case [28:59] of india look the biggest one would have been pakistan india the prime minister of pakistan said [29:06] i saved from 30 to 50 million lives but it could have been more than that two nuclear nations were [29:11] going at it eleven airplanes were shot down they were in the first week of what would have been a very [29:17] bad war and i got it solved you know how i got it so by the use of tariffs i said i'm going to charge [29:22] your tariffs if you guys keep fighting and they said oh please don't do that you just lifted some [29:29] tariffs on whiskey is that correct yeah what i'm doing is for for as long as i've been here they've [29:36] wanted to you know kentucky which is a great place and i also won jason by a lot but kentucky [29:46] uh with the bourbon and scotland with the whiskey and they've had trade for years and years and years [29:54] and a lot of restrictions a lot of different restrictions took place that didn't amount to [29:59] much uh and it it really stopped them i don't know if you know it's a barrel trade they use the barrels [30:06] from the one to take care of the other and the barrels are only good for one year in other words they [30:12] can't be used twice they can only be used once but the once makes it makes it a better substance i'm [30:17] not a big drinker so forget it but it makes them a big substance and a better a better taste but they [30:24] dealt for years this was scotland and kentucky mostly kentucky and i took i just took all the [30:32] restrictions off so scotland and kentucky can start dealing again and i did it in honor of the king and [30:39] queen who just left they're heading back it was a big deal they've been trying to get this for a long [30:44] time yes you talked about uh possibly um pulling out some troops out of germany uh would you be [30:53] considering the same thing for spain and italy i mean they haven't been exactly on board yeah probably [30:59] yeah i probably will why should i you know look why shouldn't i uh italy has not been of any help to us [31:09] and spain has been horrible absolutely horrible you know it's nato it's not even the fact that [31:17] they've been it's one thing if they said nicely or if they said okay we'll help but the alps a little [31:23] slow but the level and we helped them with ukraine you know they made a mess out of ukraine a total mess [31:32] and we helped them with ukraine ukraine has nothing to do you know we're we're an ocean apart it has to [31:39] do with them it's like for them it's their front door we helped them and biden gave them 350 billion [31:45] dollars which was insane it's one of the reasons the world went on but uh when we needed them they [31:53] were not there we have to remember that and so if we ever have a big one because we didn't need any [31:59] help with iran we we had iran right from the first day it was over it was over and now it's even more so [32:07] more so we're so locked and loaded if we want to do but we didn't need the help and to a certain [32:12] extent i asked them i didn't need the help but i said yeah we'd love to have you help because i wanted [32:17] to see if they do it and they in all cases they said we don't want to get involved and you know the [32:24] amazing thing is they use the strain of hormones we don't we don't use it we don't need it we have a [32:30] lot of oil and well wait a minute and they use it we don't and you would have thought they would [32:35] have said we would love to help you but they didn't which i think was averse and germany i mean [32:42] he's doing a terrible job he's got immigration problems he's got energy problems he's got [32:47] problems of all kind and he's got a big problem with ukraine because they're in that mess and he [32:55] criticized me for doing the whole thing with iran but i said would you like to have a nuclear weapon [33:03] in the hands of iran he said no i don't i said well then i guess i'm right he didn't have any [33:09] answer to that the bottom line is for this world for our country but certainly for israel the middle [33:16] east and europe much closer you cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon and if you agree that iran [33:24] can't have a nuclear weapon which most people agree almost everybody it should have been done a long [33:30] time ago but if you agree they can't have a nuclear weapon then what i did has been executed perfectly [33:36] because our military has decimated them yeah please go ahead mr president two questions from the daily [33:42] mail you have called this the new regime before in iran but i speak to iranians on a daily basis [33:49] and they tell me that these are the same people that have murdered them executed them repressed them [33:54] i talked to them through the blackout and they wanted me to ask you this question [33:58] and second of all uh secretary of state marco rubio how come he's not involved uh in these [34:04] conversations well he's very much about marco is very totally he's negotiating with them all the [34:08] time now look iran killed 42 000 people over the last two months protesters they were going to kill [34:17] eight women whose lives i saved and i appreciate that they didn't do it i asked them not to do it they [34:22] didn't do it they were getting ready to hang the women they were going to hang eight beautiful women [34:27] that were just caught the imagination of a lot of people people were talking about it you know [34:33] it was inconceivable you saw those eight beautiful people and they were going to be executed that [34:39] evening this was a week ago and i got on the phone very quickly and i said don't do it don't do it the [34:46] whole world is watching don't do it and they didn't do it i appreciate it i guess four were released [34:52] and the other uh four are going to be released in a month they were ready to be executed that night [34:58] so they take a tough you know they knocked out the wrestler they killed they killed the [35:05] wrestlers teammates uh he was a he was a world champion wrestler he was a great wrestler great [35:11] talented wrestler they killed him because he protested he spoke he didn't he wasn't wrestling [35:18] what he did is he spoke negatively about the regime and they killed him they executed him along with [35:25] his friends they killed 42 000 people so when you say about they say that i do the same i don't do the [35:33] same i'm trying to i'm trying to save that country in a certain way and nobody's ever seen it now think [35:41] of it they killed 42 000 innocent not weapon carrying people for protesting 42 000 and the number they [35:51] say is a lot higher than that there's a rough group but we have decimated that and their economy is a [36:00] disaster so we'll see how long they hold out we'll see yeah saudi arabia is pulling the plug on live golf [36:10] once that tour is gone do you think the pga tour should welcome the defectors back with open arms [36:17] well i do it's a great question in fact if i had time i'd love to watch television today because [36:23] the pga tour is playing at the ral the cadillac championship and i said who's winning i don't get [36:29] a chance i can't even look at it jordan speed was in the leader who is jordan speed oh that's good he's [36:33] good great guy good putter to put it mildly right a very great guy chipper putter uh no it's uh they're [36:42] at my tournament right now the pga in two weeks live is going to be at my course right here in the [36:48] patel mic no i'd love to see live but but i do believe that all of the golfers should be playing [36:55] the great golfers should be playing against each other i do believe you know it's sort of [36:59] they said they were viewing something as a monopoly but it's way in a way it should be the opposite of [37:06] a monopoly oh i want to see rory playing bryson de chambeau i want to see big john rom playing uh scotty [37:16] who's so great right scott scotty schaeffler is great and i want to see him play john rom and bryson [37:23] and all the different guys they have great players on the lip but it's almost like people [37:30] want to see that that's why the masters were so good because you saw everybody together patrick reed [37:34] played great you know he's on lib and he played great and they all did they all play they're great [37:39] players i play with them they're very good when when i think i'm a good player and then i play with [37:43] them i don't think i'm that good you know but but uh there's something nice about all of the players [37:53] playing together now they'll all be accepted by the tour there's no clue because they're great [37:57] if they weren't you know the tour really will the tour wants to have the best player you can't have [38:03] the best player that they're boycotting now they may do something you know a little bit but they'll [38:08] all be back on tour and it'll be great and you're having one to know i don't know that what's happening [38:13] with live i'm not sure what's happening with it but they are playing in my course uh two weeks [38:19] on the potomac beautiful course but right now they're playing at dorale which i own and uh if i [38:25] ever if we end this early i'll be able to watch for about three minutes i get back onto the economy [38:31] and every other subject that we have including iran we're we're doing so well with iran so i think so [38:41] question on clarification of the trump ira's versus a regular ira right does it come down to the [38:48] difference of the federal match who would qualify for that and secondly do you have any reaction to [38:54] fellow reserve chair jay pal staying on the board of governors were you prepared to take any action [38:59] no i don't care if he stays on he stays on that doesn't i just wanted to make sure that kevin became [39:05] the head uh it's very unusual that they stay on you know i predicted he would because you know who's [39:11] going to hire him frankly uh so i predicted he would stay on but uh you know he's a negative i [39:18] think he's a negative force the thing that angered me about him more than interest rates was the fact [39:24] that he could allow a building to cost billions of dollars more than it was i could have built that [39:29] building i could have renovated and fixed that building which is what i do i always did well with [39:33] it for 25 million dollars they're going to spend maybe four billion dollars it's not even close to being [39:40] open you know kevin who's going to be fantastic i don't know if he's going to have an office i'm [39:45] going to have to put him right here i'm going to give him that we'll cut the oval in half i'll give [39:49] him half of the oval now it's uh i think i'm very happy about kevin i think kevin's he's a star and [39:56] the other kevin we're going to talk to you uh could you answer her question uh it's a great question and [40:02] the match is a super important part of it and it's one reason why we're calling on our friends here [40:07] to potentially expand it so that right now the match is capped at 35 000 but there's a whole [40:12] academic literature that this match has a big effect on people's willingness to save and their [40:17] long-run welfare and so the differences really are the match we're creating the trumpira.gov website so [40:25] it'll be really really easy for people to have access to private companies that have to follow the tsp [40:31] rules that are really low cost and so on so that they'll get the best possible investment and finally [40:36] you've noticed that michael dell has given money uh promised money for the trump accounts uh we've [40:41] also made it clear that the trump ira charities can contribute to other people's accounts and i [40:46] imagine this will boost the stock corporate and economy oh yeah do you want to mention uh phase two we're [40:51] doing phase one today because i can do that without congress but phase two is going to be something [40:57] that would be unbelievable you want to just give a little explanation we'll be going back to congress to [41:02] ask tennis right so so the basic headline is that if you look at the huge success of australia [41:08] in their retirement savings uh accounts that we're working with the treasury secretary he and i [41:15] and jason smith and other members of congress to come up with something that's pretty close or in the [41:20] direction of the australian system or better we have a couple of little glitches that we'll get rid of [41:26] but but but but there's absolutely no uh contemplation of harming social security in any way [41:33] this is meant to be an add-on for that it'll be very exciting it's going to be right we'll be pretty [41:38] quickly pretty fast we're going to move pretty fast something that we talked about something that we [41:44] talked about a couple weeks ago um there's all these missing scientists who have access to [41:49] classified material a bunch of them have turned up either they're either missing or they have turned up [41:54] dead have you been briefed yet about whether or not these cases are connected yeah i have and can [42:01] you tell us if they are connected well so far i mean they're individual we have a lot of scientists [42:06] so when you see you know you put together 10 it's a lot but it's you know a very small number uh compared [42:13] to what overall we have a lot of scientists i was asking that question thousands hundreds of thousands [42:18] of scientists so now some of them that we looked at are very uh sad cases in some cases some were [42:25] sick some left this earth self-inflicted some had other things so so far it's there's not a major you [42:36] know there's sometimes a little bit of a connection anyway and you say oh this is uh this is a terrible [42:42] thing but so far we're finding that uh there's not much of a connection we'll let you know we're going [42:47] to be doing a full report it was very serious a follow-up on my question earlier have you been [42:53] informed uh if the secret service agent who was shot on saturday if that was from friendly fire [42:58] or if it was from the suspect well they say it was not friendly fire so you're hearing that it's [43:04] well that's what i heard i mean i heard that they said it wasn't friendly it was actually reported you [43:09] read the reports because it was actually reported yes sir i read through the doj middle well then why [43:14] do you ask me the question i don't believe it said that the uh the agent was struck by i'm just [43:19] saying they said it wasn't friendly fire meaning it wasn't us okay and he hasn't been charged yet [43:24] with that of course that could come i want to follow up on the security changes is there talks about [43:30] you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward given you have now been shot at i don't know [43:35] i can handle looking 20 pounds heavier these guys they look so good some of these guys some of these [43:43] guys are physical specimens some of these guys are traveling i don't want to be near him [43:54] if you want to gain 20 to 25 pounds get a west and frankly the rest did an amazing job because it took a [44:02] bullet close up and uh he didn't even want to go to the hospital i mean we sent him to the hospital [44:08] just in case but he didn't want you know still a hit but uh he didn't want to go to the hospital [44:14] the vest totally protected him still a lot of power behind that shot though that's like getting [44:20] getting hit by mike tyson but it uh it's amazing i've been asked about that and uh i guess it's something [44:32] you consider in one way you don't like to do it because you're you're giving into a bad element [44:37] and so i don't know but i have been asked about it how nervous about it happening again another [44:43] assassination i don't think about it you don't think about it at all if i did i wouldn't be doing a [44:47] very good job here i've been thinking about nothing but that i don't think about it i don't think about [44:51] it if i did i wouldn't be effective okay mr president you pushed on social uh true social calling on [45:00] senate republicans to blow up the filibuster it is a big issue with maga maga wants you to get rid [45:06] of it they should do it why don't they do it i don't know i have no idea you know why i guess [45:14] because they have three or four that are like hard line the same same ones same ones that are hard line [45:22] no to everything and if you don't have all of them you know we have a very small majority [45:27] uh john thune's a good man i i said to him john just go take the vote let's expose who the people [45:33] are but you know if we got rid of the filibuster we could vote on the save america act voter id [45:40] you know you act so good i love this he's a great guy even though i don't love his girlfriend too [45:46] much okay i won't tell you who's a girlfriend but i like him and i've always liked him it's great that [45:53] he hasn't changed but brian i think here's the problem i it's not even imaginable to me why and [46:02] people are angry about it people are i'm talking about republicans are angry about it the filibuster [46:08] should be terminated if the democrats ever get a shot which probably based on history sometime [46:14] they will they will use it in the first minute of the first hour and they will execute all of the [46:20] bad things 21 justice you know they really like 21 i heard 13 but they really want 21 supreme court [46:27] justices and they really want to have dc and puerto rico become states that would mean automatic [46:34] four senators go into the democrat column and there's not even a chance that they don't do it [46:40] and do it immediately now with that knowledge because you could argue whether it's good or bad [46:45] but not i don't think it's that much of an argument frankly but you could argue with that knowledge [46:50] that they're going to do it immediately why wouldn't you do it as a republican unless you have bad motives [46:56] almost but if we did it we could pass one bill after the other we could pass laws and acts and things [47:05] that we never even dreamt of passing and you know what else we wouldn't lose for 50 years you know [47:12] if we passed if we terminated the filibuster we would have a 50-year run you'd stop cheating [47:19] i mean look they're professional cheats and they're great at it that's what they're best at because you [47:25] can't get elected with their policy you can't get elected with men and women sports with [47:32] transgender mutilization of our children with open borders for jails to be dropped into our country [47:38] and mental institutions and drug dealers and murderers think of it 11 888 murders come into [47:45] our country nobody even talks to them about it right we got a lot of them out because of you know why [47:51] because of ice which they don't want to they don't want to fund they're defunding our police when they [47:56] defund ice and with border patrol and secret ship they're defunding our police the same thing as [48:03] they're doing with an officer on the street corner so why the republicans senate doesn't just sit in [48:12] there and just do it and take a negative vote and do it again and again like the democrats do they go [48:18] again and again the war power i'm negotiating a deal with their hand and every week every three days [48:27] they put in a thing that the war should stop and people ask me how the hell do you negotiate like [48:34] that you're destroying them every day i read think of it we've militarily decapitated the country [48:42] and every way day i read about how well they're doing militarily they got nothing left they've done [48:49] and yet i read in the new york times i see in that stupid cnn which i only watch because you have to watch [48:54] a little bit of the enemy so i watch it for a very short period but you have to you know you have [48:59] to be smart and if you see cnn you think they're winning the war if you read the new york times [49:06] it's actually seditious in my opinion you read the new york times you actually think they're winning [49:12] the war you i read some of these columnists and but it's all sorts from the top it's a terrible thing [49:19] so we're negotiating with them and they read how well they're doing and they're sitting in a cave and all [49:25] their leaders are dead everyone's dead around them missiles are all over the place they have no [49:31] navy they have no air force they have no nothing we can fly right over the middle of tehran without [49:36] being shot at because they have no anti-aircraft they have nothing and they're reading that they're [49:43] winning the war they're trying to figure it out they get the new york times i guess in some form [49:48] and they think we're crazy but you know i'm supposed to be negotiating and they make you negotiate from [49:58] weakness not strength but the difference is i don't care and everybody knows the facts we are decimating [50:06] that country i got a call today from another country that's more on our side than that middle [50:11] eastern country saying sir please don't hit them anymore they're decimated please he's actually helping [50:17] them he's actually saying please and yet the new york times will tell you that they're winning the [50:23] war it's it's so sad i hate to even say that because when i say that people out watching they'll [50:30] say oh maybe they are winning just by the fact that i'm saying it and it's so ridiculous they're being [50:36] decimated we have the greatest military in the world and one thing that's come out of this and [50:43] venezuela some of the things that have happened i rebuilt the military in my first step [50:47] thank you and did a good job and also the first year of this term uh we have the greatest military [50:54] in the world when i spoke with president she when i spoke with president putin i have great respect for [51:00] what i've done and what our military does we have a military like no other you know when we attacked [51:08] venezuela their equipment none of it worked it was all good equipment but it was discombobulated you know [51:14] what that means they pressed the buttons and nothing happened they said what the hell's going on they [51:19] heard that weird buzzing sound from way up high it's uh it's amazing how great our military is and for [51:29] us to read it's like the b-2 bombers right there late at night eight months ago they went into iranian [51:36] territory and iran was waiting for them and they were firing at the wrong targets they were firing at their [51:43] planes but they were they didn't see them and with no moon dark at night they dropped each plane in two [51:51] bombs 14 bombs every one of those 14 bombs went right down an air chute think of it they followed the [51:59] beam right into the chute and every single one of those bombs very powerful 200 000 pound bombs every one [52:06] of those bombs went right down an air chute late at night think of it late at night with no moon you [52:13] couldn't see a thing they put those and they went into territory all of a sudden i was watching [52:20] they got faster then they go like that because the bombs go faster when they head down i wouldn't want [52:25] to head down i'd head up i want to get i'd want to get the hell out of there and they let the bombs go [52:32] and then the first one that let them go was a perfect hit he said skedaddle and that plane turned over [52:38] in its size and it went back to a place called missouri if you don't know jason god's country [52:47] it went back it wanted to say hello to a very powerful congressman by the way from missouri jason [52:52] so uh every one of those bombs and yet before they landed cnn came out with a report that maybe the [53:00] damage wasn't that great the damage was far greater than we said it was obliteration when the atomic energy [53:07] commission went there one week later they say trump was right it was obliteration and they still [53:13] haven't they've had possession of the site for they haven't been able to do anything with it it's [53:19] that stuff is buried and the reason i took such i was angry about it was because it's disrespectful to [53:27] those pilots and those incredible people including the people that maintain the planes those planes had [53:33] to fly for 37 hours without stopping they got the tankers they had three tanker lifts meaning they [53:40] had to get refuel up in there they never landed they went all the way from missouri to here and then back [53:47] some went to guam which there are those that say that was a way of camouflaging the whole thing [53:54] because they followed the ones they thought the ones from guam were not coming they were going to take [53:59] take it easy a glove that didn't work out too well but that was amazing and the new york times and cnn [54:08] they said well maybe the b2 attack wasn't so good even to this day i hear because we want to get the [54:15] nuclear dust it's way down there you need excavators and everything to get it but we want to get it we'll [54:20] take it one way the other will get it we'll either get it or we'll take it they'll either give it to us or [54:25] we'll take it but i think it's very disrespectful to our incredible military when they say [54:32] maybe they missed the target every single bomb hit the target then on top of that we shot from [54:39] submarines 30 unbelievable missiles that also hit the target on top of that it was complete [54:47] obliteration and it was confirmed by atomic energy but even the other day i saw on cnn [54:53] well i don't know they want the stuff so therefore the bombs didn't hit yeah we want the stuff [54:57] it's way buried but we want to get it we will get it won't even be hard but uh they have to respect [55:06] our military they have to if we were missed i tell you you know we'd be fine it would have done a lot [55:11] of damage but this was these bombs went down the air shoots they'll never build air shoots again in [55:16] the mountain you know they built these air shoots to get a little air up there they'll have to find a [55:21] different way because it didn't work but our military is amazing there's never been anything like [55:26] we have the most powerful military on earth and it's too bad we have to use it but we're doing [55:33] really well so we'll see how that all works out thank you very much everybody thank you [55:42] how do you like the new floor so we had all what i do best is build that's what i do best i think i say [55:51] to people am i a better builder or politician and most of them say politician but that's okay what [55:56] i do best is i build the ballroom will be just like that so i went out and i have a special black granite [56:05] granite is the most powerful stone there is marble is much weaker than granite i like marble more because [56:12] marble can be more beautiful but it's a much weaker stone when you look at gravesites and you look at a [56:19] marble plaque a hundred years old you'll see oftentimes you can almost not read it when you [56:24] look at a granite plaque a hundred years old it looks like it just got put there yesterday you know [56:29] that's a test but we have the finest granite anyone's ever seen it's it's called flawless granite there's [56:36] very little of it and i replaced broken slate that was put here many years ago i saved the ramp because [56:43] it's in honor of fdr fdr right up there he had that built as a ramp they said oh sir we'll straighten [56:49] it i said no you have to leave the ramp it was built that ramp was built for fdr with a wheelchair [56:56] because you know it's not it's pretty pretty good slope but a lot of people say why is it a ramp [57:02] they say because of fdr they say ah i get it but we saved that but we replaced the broken slate it was [57:08] and a slate by the way is meant for a roof it's not meant for a sidewalk and we replace it with [57:14] granite the highest grade granite it's valued at you know they value stones in terms of that's [57:21] valued at one million plus that means one million plus years uh a marble will oftentimes be valued at [57:29] 200 years 300 years this is giving you a little lesson in stone somebody will say he went off on a [57:35] tangent or something like i did with the pen i gave you a little thing of the pen that that pen [57:40] is better than the one that costs 2 000 that you're handing to everyone see this one i can hand to [57:44] these guys that's worth three bucks so anyway but i always i always talk about but they said he went off [57:52] on a tangent i always say i always say if you don't find it interesting leave doing it but the granite [58:00] path in fact if you can let them leave through that door it's just completed we had it completed [58:07] for king charles on time on budget i paid for it so you know it's very expensive i want to tell you [58:14] that's he loved it he loved it he loved and he's seen some nice stuff well we're fixing the white house [58:22] but it was it was sort of terrible people would walk to the oval office over broken slate again slate is [58:28] used on roofs it's not used where people walk on it and it's been walked on for a long time and [58:33] many many broken pieces so i said to do it right now the other thing i did if you want to have a look [58:38] all of the columns they had 200 years of paint on them and they look terrible and you know they were [58:44] chipped and broken and when you have a lot of paint and i stripped the columns back down to the original [58:50] stone and painted them and you'll see it but you may want to uh that final touches little touch up here [58:57] with the paint you get a little hit by a couple of these heavy stones you know they're very heavy [59:01] thick it's thick granite but that granite is valued at over a million years it was a lifetime [59:07] one million plus that's your max uh why don't you walk out there and take a look okay and the company [59:14] that did it if you look at the setting each point is perfect so take a peter take a look tell your [59:21] father if i did a good job