Trump Takes Questions On Iran, Ukraine War And US Politics After White House Signing — AC1D

[0:00] we're going to let you see the cabinet room too it was very substantially upgraded that also is [0:06] becoming a federal monument a national landmark and that will make it in theory impossible to [0:17] knock down change in any meaningful way the walls will remain the same as they've been [0:25] the interior will be pretty much the same as it's been we have put up brand new chandeliers they had [0:29] very bad lighting and very bad actually lanterns they had lanterns inside but the new chandeliers are [0:37] beautiful and the whole space is beautiful it's been very substantially upgraded so we're making [0:42] them both and there and as a unit a national landmark monument you could call what do you want steve [0:50] can any modifications be made i mean occasionally there's a need no major modification without the [0:55] approval approval of congress so if they want to say let's not have oval anymore let's make it square [1:04] what happens is they have to go back to congress and hopefully the congress the people in congress [1:10] will be smart enough not to let that happen and that includes also the cabinet room you know just [1:17] we've had great victories in these rooms and and they're so important i mean i have people coming [1:22] the biggest business people you know they're beautiful offices they walk in here and they say [1:26] this is incredible not the beauty it's the whole it's the whole aura of the oval office and the [1:31] cabinet room and you'll see the cabinet room in a second if they open it up yeah mr president thank [1:37] you so speaking of what you've done in this room you've signed about 300 executive orders in the past two [1:42] years how do you plan to use the record we signed a record number of executive orders how do you plan to [1:49] use executive orders in the next two years and in addition to the cabinet room and the oval office how [1:54] else do you plan to preserve your legacy in the next two years and onward so we're going to do [1:59] a lot of things you'll be seeing a lot of things over the next week two weeks we have a lot of things [2:04] cooking doing very well we have thousands of plants and factories being built in the united states and [2:12] somebody said oh about tariffs let me tell you if i took tariffs off right now every one of those plants [2:17] would immediately stop construction because they're only building them maybe for two reasons or three reasons [2:25] but the 99 is if they don't build them in order to sell their product into the united states they'd [2:32] have to pay a 50 100 150 250 even 300 percent tariff and once they start building and once they open up [2:42] they pay no tariffs so it's you know amazing so all of that money 22.2 trillion dollars is coming in [2:50] because these great companies from all over the world they'd rather not build them by the way if you took the [2:55] tariffs off they would be so happy they would stop construction immediately you know who knows that [3:01] better than anybody laura back there laura if we took the tariffs off you know every right we're building [3:08] over 3 000 factories right now every factory would come to an immediate halt they would say thank you [3:15] sir very much we're going back we'll send you the product from japan and if you didn't have tariffs [3:20] if we didn't put tariffs on uh we've been ripped off for years by other countries having tariffs and we [3:26] didn't have and that woman understands it i think maybe better than almost anybody she's covered it [3:32] very fairly young in other words if we took tariffs right now let's you know i watch these stupid people [3:40] we have 22.2 trillion dollars the highest number ever for any country at any time by maybe five times [3:49] if we took that off everybody would stop building you would have partially built factories all over the [3:56] country and they would just send in their product from china japan south korea the philippines everything [4:06] now but when they build they open and they don't have to pay any time so that's why and by the way [4:11] prices will come way down yes please mr president next week when house republicans vote for their next [4:17] leader in the new congress if they deadlock between steve scalise and jim jordan would you intervene [4:22] would you endorse one of those gentlemen well i might i mean i don't think i'll have to they'll end up [4:27] picking some money but those are two tremendous people great people yeah mr president there's a [4:33] tanker on its way across the atlantic filled with the russian diesel fuel there's a law that was passed [4:38] in 19 20 20 and where is it going it's coming to the united states supposedly there's a law that says [4:45] that that fuel cannot be unloaded in the united states it makes it illegal is that under the jones act [4:50] no it was passed by congress signed by president biden in 2022. how are you well that probably [4:58] makes it a pretty bad law i'll take a look at it sure mr there's reporting that iran is reviewing a [5:04] set of proposals presented by mediators that could shape the future of its nuclear program is the u.s [5:09] involved in that they're not doing anything without our approval remember what i said to you iran will [5:17] never have a nuclear weapon they're not doing anything without our approval so you've seen [5:22] proposed you've seen this proposal that iran is looking at it doesn't make any difference what [5:26] they're looking at they're not going to have a nuclear weapon they know that so do i go ahead what [5:31] do you think about al-sayed not backing chuck schumer do you think that it signals a larger divide [5:37] within the democratic party work out their own situation he made a statement that he wouldn't early on and [5:42] so he's just living by that statement i think schumer probably gets it because yeah he's been around a [5:48] long time he's actually not a bad guy i know i know very well i know him better than most yeah and on [5:55] the election so this week democratic socialists win today for example the mayoral race in l.a and [6:00] also in washington dc now together with new york three major cities are going to be led by democratic [6:05] socialists what's your message to these mayors who will be leading these cities and also what's your [6:10] message should residents in these cities who might not have voted for them and are worried about where [6:14] their cities well they're going to have to see what happens i mean there'll be a point at which [6:19] if people are unhappy there'll be changed but unfortunately usually that happens so late that [6:25] you'll never be able to bring back a city or a country or a state you know when it goes too far [6:31] i watched the election in los angeles and it was a very disgraceful event because i thought [6:39] spencer pratt would be in the final and so did everyone else so did the one who's leading or [6:43] winning she broke down and cried and she said oh i lost i lost but then they found the votes necessary [6:49] to bring her in our elections are so crooked you have no idea so but look uh if you go by history it's [6:57] going to be a disaster going to be a disaster i deal with a very nice gentleman i get along with him [7:02] great from new york we'll see how that all works out i'd like that i'd like to make sure that new [7:08] york does well and hopefully it will but it's tough those policies are very tough [7:14] they're very tough on a city a state or a country that's been proven over a thousand years with [7:20] different names we see some chatter about pete hegseth are you expecting any staffing changes [7:26] between now pete hegseth has done a fantastic job now he's got some interesting things you know we had more [7:35] generals that we had we did in world war ii we had so many generals everybody was a four-star general [7:41] i never saw anything like it and many of those people were awoke i don't like a woke general and [7:48] so he probably has opposition i think he's doing a fantastic job so we had a war with venezuela it was [7:54] over in 48 minutes we had total success no deaths we have we have i guess you have i don't know if it's [8:01] a war because there hasn't been anybody killed in many months but we have a war with a place called [8:09] the islamic republic ever and lovely place and we control the straits we're doing more oil right now [8:19] going through the straits that we did before the war started and nobody's been killed in uh about seven [8:28] months six months and you know if you look at russia ukraine see that's a war that's a war 25 000 people [8:35] being killed a month we're going to get that settled pretty soon by the way but 25 000 people [8:41] a month being killed they fight day and night day and night all day and you have world war one world [8:47] war ii those are wars somebody said a war with iran no we have succeeded with the blockade tremendously [8:58] and we have destroyed somebody a man told me today that's from the area a neighboring country [9:06] that'll take them 25 to 30 years right now to rebuild their country and you know so we'll see [9:13] how that all works out i think it's working out very well somebody else called you know they say [9:18] it's an occupation remember because it is virtually an occupation and we're not looking to be wise guys but [9:26] it is an occupation and remember this so we've lost 18 lives and 18 is far too many but in vietnam [9:34] we've lost thousands and thousands of lives over a 21-year period in afghanistan we lost tremendous [9:41] numbers of life 18 is too many one is too many but we lost 18 lives and we've been there for seven months [9:50] and we have full control of that place they can they shoot a rocket everyone saw we get hit by a drone [9:57] and it bounces off of metal objects you know or we shoot it down most of the time we shoot it down [10:02] but uh there's nobody been killed in a long time i don't want to jinx myself by saying that because [10:10] we'll walk out the door and say guess what just happened but it's 18 souls and that's too many [10:16] but in vietnam if you look it's thousands and thousands of americans uh and you can also look [10:23] at it in a different way uh over the years the ss coal and iran has caused a lot of bloodshed for america [10:31] they started they started it in 19 think of it they really started it in probably 1979 right that's [10:41] when it started and during that period of time they killed thousands of americans and many other [10:47] people and if you go back just over the last seven months they've killed 75 000 at least that's as of two [10:55] months ago they've killed 75 000 protesters hanging many from cranes so we've done a good job [11:05] so you're not looking at staffing changes here between i think i was just going to say so pete's [11:11] in charge of war right department of war we made that change venezuela has been unbelievable consider [11:21] one of the greatest attacks anybody's ever seen he was in charge of that along with me and others but [11:28] venezuela we've taken out billions and billions of dollars worth of oil i saw this uh lightweight congressman [11:37] the other day criticizing me on iran for spending 25 million dollars i said well we've taken much [11:43] more money out of venezuela than that you know if you add them up because it's basically two wars [11:48] so in venezuela we lost nobody it lasted 48 minutes i caught one day but it lasted 48 minutes and it was [11:55] over it was a violent attack and in iran we are there for seven months and we control everything that we've [12:05] wanted to control and now we'll make a decision do we want to go further and just certify it by [12:11] certifying it meaning where it'll never happen again i think it'll take them 25 years to rebuild [12:17] the country i would rather not destroy the rest of the country if possible but maybe i'll have to [12:23] you'll know soon enough mr president on republicans in congress what would you like them to focus on the [12:28] next two months when they still have the majorities so we had a tremendous [12:31] it's been a tremendous two years i don't think there's ever been a president that's done more [12:37] between the uh great big beautiful bill with the tax cuts with the biggest tax cuts in history [12:43] biggest regulation cuts in history uh what we've done is amazing now even in the military between iran [12:50] and uh venezuela and the border take a look at the border i mean the border so we we're now in the 18th [12:58] month with not one person and i don't make out these statistics they're made by people that lean [13:04] left as they say not one person has come into our border our southern border over the last 18 months [13:11] i think you know it's pretty amazing so we had a tremendous border probably got elected on the [13:15] border i can't even talk about it now because people say nobody's interested because you fixed [13:19] it from my own people they say nobody is interested in the border you fixed it and but we've had a [13:26] tremendous success the stock markets hit 91 all-time highs 401ks are the highest they've ever been by [13:35] far with biden they were down 25 percent with me they're up 74 percent it's in a short period of time [13:43] so 401ks are the highest stock market is the highest i mean we've had a tremendous period of time it's [13:48] been it's been amazing we've rebuilt our military we're building more weapons right now in our military [13:55] than we've ever built before and uh and we're locked and loaded if we if we have to do the [14:02] rest of the iran thing we're very much locked in yes sir thank you what prompted this decision and [14:09] what do you hope future generations will understand about this decision and what do you say to those [14:14] who criticize your updates i mean all this gold hillary clinton even criticized your updates about the [14:20] gold she did yeah i don't like her house either i know her house very well uh look the oval office [14:30] is a place of victory it's a place of prestige like the white house if you would have looked see [14:35] that beautiful white wall there's no gold in that but i fixed all of the monuments i fixed all of the [14:42] the borders you have border borders and you have broken windows we had broken windows or cracks in [14:48] many windows you'd look up you'd see a crack in a window this is representative of our nation i think [14:54] to me maybe more than it was between the capital the white house maybe a few others supreme court building [15:00] but to me the white house is so important if you looked at that wall if you looked at that wall [15:09] one year ago it was badly damaged from years of service it was badly damaged with cracks broken stone all over [15:19] the place the uh the borders their borders up on top the they were all broken the they call them monuments [15:28] the figures on the sides you'd have a window with one broken one not broken so we made a mold of the [15:34] one that was not broken and placed it very carefully and then it's been resurfaced so because the surface [15:41] was falling off it was falling off the columns outside you can take a look at them they're all beautiful [15:47] they were all in horrible shape you know from being beaten up over hundreds of years actually [15:54] being they got beat up and the building was beat up and it was a shame and i fixed it and i do it very [16:00] easily i don't i didn't devote time to it a lot of time i just said i have very talented people that [16:05] were able to do it i paid for it and we fixed up the exterior of the white house there's no gold but [16:12] there's no cracks there's no broken stone uh they have beautiful ornamentation on it original from [16:20] 1792 when it was built but much of it was broken it was either broken or gone and in many cases you'd [16:28] have it on one side of a window and on the other side there was nothing there because it would fall [16:33] you'd see the holes you'd see this the metal that held it from from all these years and uh it was many [16:41] years and i said we got to fix it so because i did that i get criticized oh isn't that terrible [16:47] i view the white house as a very important symbol of our country and we can't have broken windows we [16:52] can't have broken stone i mean they'd have a big hole in the stone a gaping hole this deep and instead [16:59] of fixing it beautifully that you can't even see they just paint it who would look up say this is the [17:05] white house it's so inappropriate so uh i devoted very little time to it the ballroom's going to be the [17:13] most the best in the in the entire world even president xi of china he said wow that's going [17:19] to be something and he has the great hall of china which is quite nice i must tell you but we didn't [17:25] have a place so 150 years and then we have a big military component drones on top and five stories [17:32] underneath of all military stuff that was supposed to be top secret until i got sued by a group of people [17:38] that are very bad for our country we asked them not to sue because then people will see the [17:44] under you know when you sue they see what you're building we build five stories underneath that [17:49] ballroom and uh it's going to be great but when you look at that white house you know i hear obama [17:55] but he doesn't obama doesn't know about dirt and filth and he doesn't know about cracked stone [18:00] and he doesn't know about broken windows he's probably fine with them but i'm not i'm not fine with [18:04] them today here at the white house today here at the white house the first lady brought together russian as [18:10] well as ukrainian officials to celebrate the ceasefire and the lush scheme do you see that as a [18:15] stepping stone for a larger peace deal i do i think it's great i think she's doing a great job and [18:21] we're we're i think we're going to be very close to settling russia ukraine did you yourself meet with [18:27] president uh putin's envoy who was here earlier meeting with the first lady you said you met with him [18:33] yeah i did what did you what did you discuss i don't can't tell you what i discussed but i'm just [18:38] telling you there's going to be an agreement it's going to be a big agreement and it's going [18:42] to involve more than ukraine it's going to be a very big it's going to involve more than ukraine [18:49] and i could even say it might involve all of europe it's going to be a big beautiful [18:54] agreement and everyone's going to be thrilled yes did you meet with the ukrainian delegation as well [18:59] today no just with the head person of russia okay are you ready to reinforce the texas [19:05] right now kills ukrainian civilians in their apartments in their buses in their schools and [19:13] he's targeting civilians all the time did you bring that up with i always bring it up and i also bring [19:19] it up the other way because uh the other way they kill two you know a lot of people are being killed [19:25] they have they're losing between the two of them they're losing 25 000 people to death 25 000 people a [19:35] month and i bring it up on both sides uh you know russia is losing civilians also they they are it is a [19:43] bloodbath and it has to end and i think we're going to get it ended pretty soon very soon maybe yeah are [19:49] you ready to reinforce the texas southern border now that democratic the new democratic governor is [19:55] removing state manpower from border defense i am sure that the new governor is going to want to have [20:03] security of this texas border there were people on television two days ago saying how it's like [20:10] living in heaven compared to living in hell when biden was there and i'm sure they'll continue my policy [20:16] and if they don't continue my policy i will okay on alaska today you are should transfer the votes of the [20:24] two reportedly recruited candidates to senator the real senator dan solomon how do you see that actually [20:30] happening and what other actions you have you have a dan solomon the real dan i call him the real [20:36] dan solomon you have the fake dan solomon the fake dan solomon got a lot of votes meaning two percent or [20:41] something but a lot and then they also have somebody else in there that they put they put two people [20:46] not just dan solomon they put the fake dan solomon they put another guy who never ran for office or [20:52] anything and they said certain things and he got like three four thousand votes and when you add up [20:58] those votes dan solomon the real dan solomon wins in a lance not a lance but wins by thousands of votes [21:05] and i say they because it was a fraud it's voter fraud because it was a fraud and they took that and [21:12] they took that fraud and they thought they confused the voter and the people that like dan [21:17] so he's a very good senator the people that like dan solomon by mistake voted for the fake dan solomon [21:24] likewise they have another republican candidate in there so people said a republican candidate probably [21:29] had some policy down there and they voted for him so they cheated on thousands of votes it's everyone [21:35] knows it's a cheat and they should be mandated to take the fake dan solomon's votes and the other [21:41] person they put in there and give it to the real dan dan solomon and when that happens [21:45] he wins by thousands of votes thank you very much everybody thank you