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"I thank all of you for being here. And again, this is a Cabinet meeting. It's open. We have done a lot of open Cabinet meetings, and I feel it works out very well. Everybody can ask certain questions. We'll let you talk about certain things, certain things we can't answer because they're ongoing..."
[0:00] I thank all of you for being here.
[0:02] And again, this is a Cabinet meeting.
[0:04] It's open.
[0:05] We have done a lot of open Cabinet meetings,
[0:09] and I feel it works out very well.
[0:10] Everybody can ask certain questions.
[0:14] We'll let you talk about certain things,
[0:16] certain things we can't answer because they're ongoing
[0:18] and very important.
[0:20] But this is one of the most talented teams ever
[0:22] to serve the United States and in the United States government.
[0:26] This is a talented group of people.
[0:28] Let's see, I'm going one after another.
[0:31] Yeah, there's a couple of steps, but that's okay.
[0:36] It's an amazing group.
[0:37] And America is safer and stronger and far more successful
[0:41] than it was two years ago.
[0:43] And I think, frankly, that it never was.
[0:45] I don't think it's ever been anything like this.
[0:49] We're building more factories and plants in this country
[0:52] than we've ever built before.
[0:54] And we're going to be, at some point,
[0:57] we'll be leaving this position,
[0:59] and we're going to leave this country in very, very good shape.
[1:02] Better shape than it's ever been.
[1:04] When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe.
[1:08] The last administration created the worst inflation in 48 years,
[1:12] the most dangerous and insecure border in history,
[1:15] and exploding trade deficits like we have never seen before,
[1:19] rampant crime, men and women's sports,
[1:23] transgender mutilization of your children,
[1:26] and chaos and bedlam all over the world.
[1:29] Other than that, they did quite a good job.
[1:32] In less than 18 months, we've turned around four years of disaster.
[1:36] And we now have the strongest border in American history.
[1:39] We went from the worst border, I believe, of any country in history.
[1:42] Twenty-five million people came through in four years.
[1:45] And these are people that, in many cases, you don't want.
[1:48] They were murderers.
[1:49] They were drug dealers.
[1:50] They were people that you do not want.
[1:53] Now we have the strongest border in American history.
[1:56] And for the last 15 months, the report just came out again.
[2:00] We've had no people coming in through our southern border.
[2:03] Zero.
[2:04] And it's almost hard to say because you'd say,
[2:06] is that even possible to have 25 million people came in?
[2:09] We have no people coming in through,
[2:11] illegally, through our southern border.
[2:14] And that's in history.
[2:14] So think of that zero, a big, beautiful zero.
[2:17] The murder rate saw its single-largest drop ever recorded,
[2:21] to the lowest in 125 years.
[2:23] That goes back to, think of it, that goes back to 1,800.
[2:28] Lowest murder rate in the history of our country.
[2:31] So that's something.
[2:33] Today, I just want to mention that we heard in Minnesota,
[2:37] there was a cyberattack, and they blame it on Iran.
[2:40] I don't think so.
[2:41] I think I blame it on Minnesota
[2:43] because they're grossly incompetent.
[2:44] There was a cyberattack of 30 water plants,
[2:48] and I would blame it on Minnesota
[2:51] and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota.
[2:54] They like to say, oh, it's Iran.
[2:55] Iran should be so lucky.
[2:57] Iran has got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.
[3:00] This month, it was announced that inflation is dropping
[3:03] at the fastest rate in more than six years.
[3:06] Walmart, Sam's Club, Giant Eagle, and others
[3:09] are slashing prices by hundreds of grocery stores.
[3:13] And all of the stores, I mean, throughout the country,
[3:15] they're slashing prices.
[3:17] Something that you haven't seen for a long time
[3:20] since my last administration.
[3:22] The stock market has set 73 all-time record highs
[3:25] since the election.
[3:26] That means all-time record highs, 73 days,
[3:30] out of a very short period of time.
[3:33] And the typical 401 is up by more than $30,000.
[3:37] And when you think of that, if you add another $1,000 to it,
[3:45] it will be we set the record in the last administration,
[3:48] a record still standing.
[3:50] This administration is going to blow my last administration away.
[3:54] When the factories that we're building at record,
[3:57] and we're not building them,
[3:59] all over the world they're building.
[4:00] They're coming from all over the world.
[4:02] They're coming from Germany with the cars.
[4:04] They're coming from Germany.
[4:05] They're coming from Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico.
[4:09] From all over the world, they're building auto plants here,
[4:11] because otherwise they have to pay tariffs.
[4:14] The tariffs have made our country rich and successful.
[4:18] And all of this, I mean, I'd like to say it was the election.
[4:21] On November 5th, it was the election, and that's fine.
[4:24] But without the election,
[4:25] you wouldn't have what I've done economically.
[4:28] So we have the most successful environment
[4:31] that we've ever had.
[4:32] There's never been anything like it
[4:34] from the standpoint of investment into our country.
[4:37] It's five to six times higher than anybody has ever seen
[4:40] than any other country, any other country,
[4:42] not just us, has ever had.
[4:44] On July 4th, we launched Trump accounts
[4:47] to keep a vision of our great, big, beautiful bill.
[4:51] And these tax-free investment savings accounts
[4:53] have already been activated by over 7 million children.
[4:56] These are investments made in our future,
[4:59] which is our children.
[5:00] Our children are the most important aspect of our future,
[5:04] with more being added each day.
[5:06] So it's a tremendous hit.
[5:08] Over 7 million and really, really just got going,
[5:11] I would say, Scott, about two weeks ago
[5:13] when it was — we got the final approvals.
[5:16] And we have over 7 million.
[5:18] Actually, there's never been anything quite like that.
[5:21] But millions of accounts are pre-funded with $1,000
[5:25] from the U.S. Treasury,
[5:26] or generous gifts from private donors
[5:28] like Michael and Susan Dell and others
[5:30] who have given billions of dollars — billions.
[5:33] people are putting up hundreds of millions
[5:35] and billions of dollars into it
[5:37] and buying, really, a great future for children.
[5:41] When they turn 18 or when they turn 21,
[5:43] instead of having no hope, no future,
[5:46] they will end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars,
[5:48] and maybe even more than that.
[5:50] So it's going to be something to see.
[5:52] With modest additional contributions,
[5:54] they'll grow by numbers that should be —
[5:58] it could be over $200,000.
[6:00] We're looking at the timeline.
[6:02] We're looking at — I wish we had an economy
[6:03] like we have now, with the stock markets going up.
[6:06] But they will benefit by our country being successful.
[6:10] And we're going to give every child
[6:11] a head start on the American dream.
[6:14] So go to trumpaccounts.gov.
[6:16] They're really something — the whole world is talking about it.
[6:19] And it's far ahead of schedule.
[6:21] Nobody thought it would be as successful as it's been.
[6:24] But it should be. It should be.
[6:26] And we start them off with $1,000.
[6:28] And this was part of the great, big, beautiful bill.
[6:31] With my most-navored-nation policy,
[6:33] you could say this is even a bigger thing,
[6:35] if that's possible, on drug prices.
[6:38] We're achieving record discounts on prescription drugs.
[6:41] The prescription drugs were going through the roof
[6:44] for many years, and now we're getting record discounts
[6:47] with price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600 percent.
[6:54] Nobody's ever heard of a thing like that.
[6:56] And what this is all about is that we were the highest —
[7:00] we had the highest prices anywhere in the world, by far.
[7:03] Most expensive drugs — prescription drugs and others.
[7:08] The highest in the world.
[7:09] The whole world was laughing at us.
[7:10] We paid for the rest of the world.
[7:11] We subsidized the whole world.
[7:13] And I said, we're not going to do that.
[7:15] And I started it in the first administration.
[7:18] I took it up.
[7:19] Obviously, Biden wasn't able to do anything about it.
[7:22] Because you had to get the consent of the drug companies,
[7:25] and you had to get the consent.
[7:26] More difficult would be the consent of other nations.
[7:29] The other nations had to agree.
[7:31] But they were paying a fraction —
[7:33] sometimes 10 percent, 20 percent, 40 percent, 70 percent less.
[7:39] So I had to call them, and I had to get them on.
[7:41] And I said, if you don't do it,
[7:42] we're going to have to charge your tariffs.
[7:44] And they all said no at first, very politely.
[7:47] They said, sir, we can't do that.
[7:48] We're not going to double our prices.
[7:50] They had to double their prices.
[7:52] And in some cases, triple their price.
[7:54] And we would come down.
[7:55] So a pill that sold for $10 in Germany would sell for $130 in New York.
[8:04] Same pill from the same company, the same factory,
[8:06] the same plant, same laboratory.
[8:10] From $10, and we pay $130.
[8:12] I said, no, no.
[8:14] Now, the world is a bigger place,
[8:15] so it's not as bad as it sounds for them.
[8:17] So they went up to 20, and we came down to 20.
[8:21] So we now have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world.
[8:24] We're tied with the lowest,
[8:26] but we're basically its favorite nation.
[8:28] So we have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world
[8:31] from the highest drug prices anywhere in the world.
[8:34] Now, what that does for your health care —
[8:36] I mean, I see these fake polls
[8:37] where the Democrats have wonderful numbers on this stuff,
[8:41] and they are horrible, what they've done.
[8:43] Obamacare is a total disaster.
[8:45] It's a costly wreck.
[8:47] It's unaffordable.
[8:48] We call it the Unaffordable Care Act.
[8:50] It's a disgrace.
[8:51] They never even thought of being able to do something like this.
[8:54] They didn't even try.
[8:55] They didn't even try.
[8:56] So I got the drug companies first,
[8:59] and then I got the countries.
[9:02] And the drug companies agreed
[9:03] because they knew the countries wouldn't agree.
[9:06] And when I called Germany, France,
[9:08] when I called the UK,
[9:10] when I called all of these countries,
[9:11] I said, you got to do it. It's unfair.
[9:13] We're paying 10 times more than you're paying for the same drug.
[9:17] You can't do this. And they said, well, we're not going to do that
[9:20] because we're going to have to double our price
[9:21] in order to make you happy.
[9:23] I said, no, maybe you're going to have to triple your price.
[9:26] They said, well, we can't do it.
[9:27] I said, that's all right.
[9:28] If you can't do it, then I can't do something also.
[9:31] And I'm going to charge you very substantial tariffs,
[9:34] which are far more than we're talking about.
[9:37] And they all said, we'd love to do it.
[9:39] We'd love to do it. It would be a great honor to do it.
[9:41] So nobody else would do this. This would have never happened.
[9:44] So your drug prices have gone down by numbers,
[9:46] not even thinkable. My first term,
[9:48] I had the privilege of having lower drug prices
[9:51] from the beginning of the year till the end
[9:53] for the first time in 28 years. You remember.
[9:56] And I called the news conference to announce it.
[9:59] So the year it ended, and I was turned out one-eighth of a percent.
[10:04] One-eighth of a percent. Little, tiny, this much.
[10:07] It went down that much during one year.
[10:10] First time in 28 years, it went down.
[10:12] And it was always like this, just up, more expensive.
[10:16] And I called the news conference. I was so proud of myself.
[10:19] And I said, ladies and gentlemen,
[10:21] the first time in 28 years,
[10:23] drug prices have gone down from January till the end of December.
[10:29] And I want to just congratulate everybody
[10:32] for being a part of this wonderful experiment.
[10:36] And one-eighth of a point now,
[10:38] we're talking about 400, 500, 600 percent coming down.
[10:42] We pay the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world
[10:45] from the highest. So, you know,
[10:47] and I'll say it again and again
[10:48] because the press doesn't want to record it.
[10:50] The fake news doesn't want to record it.
[10:52] They don't want to talk about it.
[10:53] What that does for healthcare, Bobby, is unbelievable
[10:56] because medicine is a big part of healthcare.
[10:59] So I wish that people would understand that.
[11:01] And I hope they're going to vote for us in the midterms
[11:04] because you'll see some stuff that will be horrible
[11:06] because they can blow it very fast
[11:08] and they don't know what they're doing.
[11:09] So your drug prices are great.
[11:11] You know, I saw Spain yesterday
[11:14] and I watched the catastrophe that took place.
[11:17] It was a — it looks like an invasion of a country
[11:21] by hundreds of thousands of people.
[11:24] And that same thing is going to happen to us
[11:25] if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse.
[11:29] Much bigger, much easier to get into,
[11:32] despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall,
[11:37] which I said we were going to do.
[11:39] But we didn't have that. Forget it.
[11:41] But we have the safest border in the world.
[11:43] If we're not in office, our country will be invaded
[11:48] at levels that made Spain look small-time.
[11:52] And when I watched it, I said,
[11:53] boy — I said, I'm going to say it
[11:56] because I knew you were going to be at Camp David.
[11:57] And I said, that's going to be a talking point for the midterms.
[12:02] Because when you look at what happened to Spain,
[12:04] they don't know what to do.
[12:05] And it's happening again today.
[12:07] They're coming in by the tens of thousands.
[12:09] They're just — they're just invading the country.
[12:13] And what that is is weak law, bad management,
[12:19] but very liberal law.
[12:22] They passed a couple of laws, and people read.
[12:25] You know, people are smart.
[12:26] They read from other countries.
[12:28] And they swam that three-mile swim,
[12:30] or however they got in.
[12:32] But nobody has seen anything like it.
[12:34] That will look good compared to what's going to happen
[12:36] to the United States.
[12:38] The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did
[12:40] is allowing 25 million people into our country.
[12:43] Because many of those people are criminals.
[12:45] They're murderers.
[12:46] A lot of murderers — 11,888.
[12:49] A lot of them are gone now.
[12:50] We got them out.
[12:52] But they allow people to come into this country
[12:54] that you can't allow to come into a country.
[12:57] We're also making an unprecedented investment
[12:59] in the United States Armed Forces,
[13:02] where we're doing great.
[13:04] We rebuilt the Armed Forces.
[13:06] We rebuilt our military in my first term.
[13:09] But we are doing great with our military.
[13:10] They spent a lot of money in our military.
[13:13] They gave away $300 billion worth of ammo
[13:17] and everything else in the — in Biden's term.
[13:20] But we're building it up fast, and we have a —
[13:22] we're — we just have a great military.
[13:24] That's all there is to it.
[13:26] But we rebuilt it in the — in my first term.
[13:29] And we're using it in my second term
[13:31] with Venezuela and other places, and Iran now.
[13:35] Iran is doing very poorly.
[13:36] Just in case you read incorrect stories,
[13:38] they're doing very, very poorly.
[13:40] They're having a hard time.
[13:41] They've been very dishonest.
[13:43] They've been very dishonorable to deal with.
[13:45] But that makes no difference.
[13:47] They're doing very, very poorly.
[13:49] We're also making that investment
[13:51] and looking forward to getting $1.5 trillion next year.
[13:56] And people see now how important it is.
[13:58] We want to keep a safe country.
[13:59] We have to keep a safe country.
[14:01] And the good news is all of that equipment
[14:03] is made in the USA.
[14:04] So we're making it here.
[14:06] It's jobs.
[14:07] And each one of our defense groups
[14:11] are building literally at least four new massive plants,
[14:16] as we speak, because we want them to do —
[14:19] we want them to move faster.
[14:20] We have the best equipment in the world,
[14:22] but we want them to move faster.
[14:24] We don't want to wait a year or a year and a half.
[14:26] We want to wait a week, maybe.
[14:28] So that's happening, and I think the results are very good.
[14:30] They're all — they're building at levels
[14:34] that nobody has ever seen before.
[14:36] And we've had tremendous success.
[14:38] And our military was just proud of it.
[14:40] Again, Venezuela was a one-day war.
[14:45] And we have a great relationship with Venezuela.
[14:47] We're working with partners with Venezuela now,
[14:50] taking out tens of millions of barrels of oil
[14:53] and going to Houston, going to Alaska, going to Louisiana,
[14:57] going to different places for refineries.
[15:01] And it's been very much amazing.
[15:04] The administration has done more in 18 months
[15:06] than most administrations have done in eight years,
[15:09] if you had a two-termer.
[15:11] We've done more in 18 months
[15:12] than anyone's ever seen before.
[15:14] Nobody has ever seen.
[15:16] This is the golden age of America.
[15:18] And we have a war that's going on, as you call it, a war.
[15:21] Maybe I call it a military operation.
[15:24] It's — they have no — Navy has been obliterated.
[15:27] Their Air Force has been obliterated.
[15:29] They have no planes. Their missiles have been —
[15:32] largely — they have some left. They have some.
[15:35] But they have far fewer than they had four or five months ago.
[15:39] They — their manufacturing capacity is almost gone.
[15:45] The drone capacity is almost gone.
[15:48] They're very few. But they have some.
[15:50] They have one that's too many, as far as I'm concerned.
[15:53] But we've done an amazing job with Venezuela.
[15:57] We've done an amazing job here. We're in there for five months.
[16:00] And I know that people like to say it
[16:02] because we've done a much bigger job,
[16:05] a much more important job than we originally anticipated.
[16:08] So we're in there for five months.
[16:10] And if you look at Vietnam, they were in there for 20 years.
[16:13] You look at Afghanistan, they were in there for many years.
[16:17] You look at any one of the wars, Korea —
[16:18] any one of them, they're in there for many years.
[16:21] We're in for five months,
[16:22] and we have obliterated their military capacity.
[16:25] Again, they've got some left.
[16:27] But soon, they won't have some left.
[16:29] So I just want to thank everybody around this table.
[16:31] You've been very special.
[16:32] I want to thank a lot of the media people
[16:34] because many of you have been very, very fair and very —
[16:37] that's one of the reasons you're here, frankly.
[16:39] But you've been very fair. You've covered me this time much more fairly,
[16:43] I think, than the first term.
[16:46] The first term was a great success.
[16:48] We had the greatest economy in history in the first term.
[16:51] And this term is going to blow it away.
[16:53] I think this term is going to actually blow it away.
[16:55] So it's an honor to have you.
[16:57] And I'd like to ask our great Vice President, J.D. Vance,
[17:00] to say a few words, followed by Marco and Pete and Scott
[17:05] and Bobby Kennedy. Okay?
[17:08] Thank you very much, everybody. Please, Gene.
[17:11] Well, great. Thanks, Mr. President.
[17:12] First of all, thanks for having us
[17:13] at this historical and beautiful place.
[17:15] And it's an honor to be on the team,
[17:17] honor to be able to work on fraud which is what i'm going to talk about today though i know we
[17:21] have a lot of things going on this has been an amazing team from kelly leffler at sba
[17:27] to doug at the da to todd and bobby kennedy this really has required a whole of administration
[17:34] approach to try to tackle fraud there are a few things that i want to talk about and celebrate
[17:38] the first is that just since the beginning of the fraud task force that i started under the
[17:42] president's leadership and direction we have identified 230 billion dollars of fraud that's
[17:49] being perpetrated against the american people and we have halted already 56 billion dollars of that
[17:54] it's sometimes hard once the money has already gone out the door it's hard to get it back but stopping
[17:59] it from going out the door is how we save the american people 56 billion dollars and of course
[18:04] we're going to keep on working on that just today mr president we will announce 17 new anti-prod actions
[18:10] that will total uh about a third of a billion dollars and that that's added to the 230 billion
[18:15] dollars that we've already uncovered and i want to just talk for the benefit of the american people
[18:20] about why do we care so much about this because what i always try to remind people is that fraud has
[18:25] two victims so to give one concrete example there is a program that is administered by medicaid
[18:33] and that program ensures that low-income moms and low-income babies have access to neonatal care now i
[18:39] think most americans probably share my view this is one of the great things about the united states
[18:44] of america that if we see a baby and we see a young mother that requires help we help our fellow
[18:50] americans that's a good thing it's something that we should be proud of and yet there is a program
[18:55] that has defrauded the moms and the babies who benefit from these you've gotten people who've gotten
[19:00] rich by setting up false companies that are providing false services so who loses in that equation
[19:07] number one of course is the american taxpayer that is 230 billion dollars poorer because of the fraud
[19:12] that this country has let go on but i actually think most importantly is that we've seen that
[19:18] program run out of money so we've seen moms and babies unable to access the health care that they need
[19:24] because the fraudsters have gotten rich that is a disgrace and until the president ordered us to
[19:30] stop it no one was doing anything about it so we've made a lot of progress mr president in just
[19:36] under a year but we're going to keep on working at it because we believe the american people deserve
[19:40] to have their money spent as you and the congress have to recommend there's big numbers here finally
[19:45] tremendous numbers they look like elliot nest does anybody know you look like that group of people
[19:52] you have lined up behind you that they're doing a great job yes billions think it not not millions
[19:58] billions of dollars is being recovered billions and you haven't seen anything yet we have things
[20:04] happening that people aren't going to believe the level of corruption and fraud that took place under
[20:09] the biden administration was unprecedented and minnesota california maine maine believe it or not
[20:17] you know you think of maine as this wonderful place yep it's uh the level of corruption is incredible
[20:22] all over all over so uh great job thank you very much thanks sir okay please oh my turn well first of all
[20:29] thank you for bringing us out here um i got the chance to drive for the first time in a year and a
[20:34] half which is the golf cart it was fun
[20:38] it was great and um so just a couple points that uh you we all know we've followed in the news
[20:46] obviously the events in the middle east and others who didn't talk about that not that they're not
[20:49] important but there's some other issues happening around the world mr president that you've shown great
[20:53] leadership and that have not gotten nearly as much attention i think they deserve to mention today the
[20:57] first is the international criminal court is an illegitimate international organization that
[21:02] frankly illegitimate they've made themselves illegitimate because they claim that even if
[21:05] you're not a member of that court they can come after you what that literally means in the future is
[21:10] that american servicemen political leaders and others could find themselves under the under
[21:15] indictment by this international criminal court if you want to know a little bit about it jack smith used to
[21:20] work there these are the people that think they can go out and basically indict any world leader and
[21:24] hollow into the hague so we've begun we try to get them to reform and listen to us they wouldn't do
[21:28] it they're very arrogant we've now begun an effort to really try to bring that court to heal there's no
[21:34] information that they're after me it could happen just so you know because she's talking about it
[21:43] he's not trying to defend me he's trying to defend bb and various other people but there are many people
[21:49] that shouldn't be looked at that way but there is no indication that uh i'm one of them at this
[21:55] moment well and i actually think the people who are biggest danger in our system are servicemen
[22:02] they'll try to go out for the rest of their lives or not be able to travel anywhere in the world with
[22:05] their families because they can be arrested on one of these i'm imagining you're a soldier you fought in
[22:09] a war and 20 years later they try to come grab you so this is a big problem so we've had dozens of
[22:14] countries already joined us and suffered since we started two weeks ago five countries have already
[22:18] quit the icc and notified them that they're leaving and we think there'll be more the second thing is
[22:23] we had an unprecedented ministerial 60 countries came to washington and were a part of an effort
[22:28] where we were shedding light on far left terrorism and violence you know the bomb goes off somewhere
[22:33] and it's tied to some right-wing group or what i you know i don't consider neo-nazis right-wing
[22:37] i consider them nazis right but you're going to get a lot of attention on that but if it's a leftist group
[22:42] an antifa group that gets no coverage or they ignore the ideological spin and the ideological
[22:48] reason behind it so we've got 60 countries came up here and hopefully creating a strong coalition to go
[22:53] after far left violent terrorism go after it and call it by name i think we're building a very strong
[22:58] coalition there we've had some success in the middle east mr president as you know in the diplomatic front
[23:04] the deal with lebanon and israel is unprecedented president ayun was here a week ago i think that was
[23:10] the first visit by a lebanese president in over 30 some odd years in fact this is the first time
[23:14] the israelis and the lebanese government have spoken at the official level close to 30 years
[23:18] and that was thanks to your leadership a lot of work to be done to keep that peace and build on it
[23:22] but it's a real achievable and of course as you announced last night mr president this disarmament
[23:27] deal that you brought about with stein and jared's work on on hamas is another big step as well
[23:33] it's something a lot of people thought would never happen it needs to happen but the fact that even
[23:36] agreed to it is real achievable last point is on the western hemisphere for the first time in
[23:43] 15 20 years the overwhelming majority of the countries in the western hemisphere are now led
[23:48] by pro-american leaders and pro-american governments it's an extraordinary achievement all of it happening
[23:54] virtually every election that's happened in the western hemisphere since you were elected president
[23:58] has elected someone who is pro-american and i think this is an incredible situation and last but not
[24:04] least and i have to thank a number of agencies here particularly the department of war after that
[24:08] terrible earthquake in venezuela within 36 hours the full force of the american government was on
[24:14] the ground providing humanitarian assistance it was a sight to behold the uss board i think was in
[24:20] their court our marines and and uh armed service personnel were helping run their airport in their tower
[24:26] it is one of the fastest most dramatic and most effective humanitarian responses certainly in recent
[24:32] history if not ever and it came at the direction of the president in fact within an hour of that
[24:37] earthquake hitting i remember because i was overseas the president called and said make sure we go in
[24:41] there and help these people recover from this and we did and thanks to your leadership mr president
[24:46] it's a great story enough needs to be told about it because the credit goes to so many agencies
[24:51] represented here today but really the department of wars effort was phenomenal so thank you thank you very
[24:56] much marco and just before we uh continue i want to just congratulate jay clayton he's with us today
[25:03] as you know he's had a big victory he's going to be a he's going to do a fantastic job he's only
[25:08] done a his whole life has been about doing the fantastic jobs congratulations thank you mr president
[25:22] for the invitation the opportunity to be here uh it's an honor for the war department to to help run
[25:27] this facility also from the from the food defense line uh it's it's an honor to have you and it's it's great
[25:33] americans here and all around the country and all around the world who are the core of what uh keep
[25:39] us safe but in order to do that you have to have a leader that's willing to put them in a position to
[25:44] do it and that's my takeaway mr president is um so three points one it takes courage two it takes
[25:52] restoring a spirit which you have done and third it takes investment and not just an investment but a
[25:57] generational investment and i think people miss that the courage it takes to seal the border to say
[26:02] we're going to do it and we're going to do it every single day and we're going to do it on behalf
[26:05] of the american people the courage to bomb the houthis and say we will we will maintain freedom
[26:11] of navigation and wonder why they're not involved in this conflict the houthis even though they're a
[26:14] proxy of iran because they felt the weight of american power for 45 days and you had the courage to do
[26:20] that courage to to do midnight hammer and conclude the 12 day war by obliterating their nuclear sites
[26:25] something no one other presidents had the option on their table to do but they never pulled the trigger
[26:31] because of the complications because of the challenges because of the risk courage courage
[26:36] to take on cartels and drugs drug votes and now forming the a triple c the america's counter cartel
[26:41] coalition with all those friendly governments that marco talked about who want to be shoulder to
[26:46] shoulder not just with america but with a bold strong america with clear leadership the courage to go
[26:54] get maduro in the most dangerous most heavily guarded house inside the most heavily guarded fort
[26:59] inside the most heavily guarded town in their capital city in the middle of the night and change
[27:03] the entire dynamic of that country and that region and the world saw what the american military was
[27:08] capable to do but that doesn't happen unless commander-in-chief says you're authorized to do it
[27:13] and you'll take the handcuffs off when you do it to ensure that americans come home the courage to
[27:19] undertake epic fury uh-huh and and this iranian regime and ensure they never have a nuclear weapon
[27:25] which remains your commitment and frankly the courage to negotiate with people that have shown
[27:30] no willingness to do so honestly incredible negotiators who are the best in the world and give
[27:34] them every opportunity to do it uh give those things up peacefully all of that takes guts but that comes
[27:41] on the back to the change in the spirit of our department you talk about spirit all the time and and
[27:45] and your right to do so when you rip out dei when you rip out social engineering and social justice and
[27:51] you put in merit and then you untie the hands of commanders to be commanders to enforce discipline
[27:57] and accountability to get back to basics then you get historic re-enlistment inside our ranks our best
[28:03] people as president are staying because they want to be in that kind of department and then historic
[28:08] recruitment record amongst young americans every month our department breaks records and when did that
[28:14] trend line start on election day 2024 when the american people said i want to serve under this
[28:20] president and that that new name the department of war has become the ethos the warrior ethos of our
[28:26] department again spirit and i will know uh the flyovers will indeed continue until morale
[28:33] but that's also spirit braids 250 flyovers the american people seeing and feeling their military in
[28:41] ways they have not in the past that spirit and then finally mr president a generational investment you
[28:46] rebuilt the military in your first term and you've spent in your first year one trillion and now we
[28:51] are committed in working with congress to get 1.5 trillion but this is not the same way we funded
[28:57] our department in the past this is a businessman in charge this is a deputy secretary of our department
[29:02] who's a turnaround guy uh just like the president is saying we will not fund money we will not fund
[29:07] the apartment the way we have in the past in fact so far 75 billion dollars in private investment from
[29:14] defense companies who are now investing in new plants new equipment new assembly lines to build
[29:19] the munitions of the future faster than ever possible that's saving taxpayer dollars uh because
[29:25] the companies themselves are investing that would never the arsenal of freedom would never happen without
[29:29] you uh so just like you use a lot of things ronald reagan's building was a part of um in this
[29:36] administration and in future administration they will look back at donald trump and the buildup that
[29:40] he has done and that will be the deterrence of the future will be established because of your
[29:44] investment so thank you mr president for your attention let's go ahead please mr president it's an
[29:51] honor to be here in this historic place as we celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary and i think if
[29:58] we look back whether our founders of president washington thomas jefferson uh alexander hamilton could not
[30:06] have imagined the economy that we would have created it is the envy of the world and as you said we have
[30:13] record investment coming in we've never seen anything like it and we're pulling away from the rest of the
[30:18] world because of your leadership the policies that you did from day one in terms of digital assets in
[30:25] terms of technology and bringing back american manufacturing it's you you've done it again you've had
[30:33] the incredible economy during the first term and we are seeing that carry over here and it is in stark
[30:42] contrast to the buying economy which was government jobs government spending and high inflation the worst
[30:49] inflation in 50 years and that with the working families tax type which i will add every democrat voted
[30:58] against every democrat voted against it is the perfect barbell for this economy on one side you
[31:06] have full expensing for factories for equipment for farm structures on the other side your four
[31:14] signature policies promises made promises kept no tax and tips no tax and overtime no tax and social
[31:20] security deductibility of auto loans if you buy an american-made car and the americans are starting
[31:28] starting to feel core inflation is low consumer confidence is strong we have the highest consumer
[31:35] confidence came up today via in five months and uh main street is back small small banks are
[31:44] linked thanks to your policies small banks community banks are lending again and the americans are starting
[31:51] to feel as you said these trump accounts are the most successful program launched in government history
[31:58] we've had seven million families sign up with them we're going to get to open enrollment and we will
[32:04] have 70 million families who have signed up with us 38 of american families households have no exposure
[32:12] to our great equity market and thanks to you we're going to have an ownership society an ownership
[32:18] society you were one of the first presidents to create assets for the american people not more debt
[32:24] we have the biggest tax refund season ever trade deals tax cuts energy dominance and direct
[32:32] the regulatory efforts america is ushering in the greatest reshoring wave in our history in june
[32:40] our manufacturing sector expanded for the sixth straight month we've got construction jobs and
[32:45] those are going to lead into manufacturing jobs we've got main street prosperity real wages are up a
[32:52] thousand dollars and serve what you've done again too is the bottom 25 of wagers just like in your first
[33:00] term are outperforming the top 25 this is a working families administration that last in the past year
[33:11] that group has had real wage or had wage increases 5.5 percent they have three times they have what the top
[33:20] in has done so you've done it again and these are private sector jobs we are creating as you often
[33:28] say in these meetings we could have created a million two million government jobs but we didn't the private
[33:34] sector is creating we've got incentives we've got money coming in and we are rebuilding so and then our
[33:41] energy dominance thanks to you and these policies you can come to the u.s you're going to have regulatory
[33:46] certainty tax certainty and energy certainty so it's the best place in the world to build your factory
[33:52] and finally i want to add it has been a pleasure to be a part of our privilege to be a part of as we
[33:58] go on from epic purity to economic purity to constrict on your orders constrict the iranian regimes
[34:05] the financial tentacles all around the world we started it and on your orders we started in march 2025
[34:13] in december of 2025 the largest bank in iranian collapsed the central bank had to print money
[34:20] that caused inflation now they got 180 percent inflation they aren't able to pay their troops
[34:25] and on your orders we are searching for their assets all around the world and that money will go to the
[34:31] iranian people americans who have been harmed by the iranians whether the us is cold they are the barracks
[34:38] from lebanon they have or it will go back to when the iranians attacked these ships coming out so
[34:47] it's been a privilege to be part of that and yeah i look forward to it thank you very much and i want
[34:53] to just add that today there are more people working in the united states than at any time in the history
[34:59] of our country we have more people working today and we think of that number and more people working
[35:05] today by far than at any time in the history of our country so it's been something very very special
[35:12] uh bobby please thank you mr president let me just take a moment to take note of the historical
[35:19] significance of this occasion before the press came in you asked all the cabinet members who had been to
[35:26] camp david before and about i think about three quarters of them had i raised my hand but i haven't been
[35:32] here for 62 years i came here on weekends as many weekends we could between 1961 and 1963. my father
[35:43] loved this place my uncle loved this place he was nobody knows about this because i'm a history book but
[35:50] he was resentful at y eisenhower for renaming it camp david and he if he had got made it to his second term
[35:58] he was going to rename it chamberlain which was the original name that roosevelt had had named it
[36:05] my uncle prided himself on being the most open transparent administration in history who's the
[36:11] first president to have televised press conferences earning his thousand days in office he had about
[36:16] 30 press conferences you mr president had press conferences every day
[36:22] and here you've opened the intersection of the presidency to the first time in history and i think
[36:31] that's a beautiful thing because you also face although you gave these guys a lot of compliments
[36:37] the most hostile press corps that any president in united states in history
[36:42] i'm going to talk just briefly about a subject you alluded to which is the mfn and just so everybody
[36:56] has a background when you were here to every president promised to fix that disparity between what we pay
[37:03] and what the other developed countries pay when you came into office the list price for osempic was
[37:09] 1350 for americans you can internet any pharmacy in london hamburg frankfurt for 88 dollars and this
[37:18] every president president bush president biden president clinton president obama have all promise
[37:25] fixes none of you did anything you fixed it today office assuming that's in 2028 um 95 percent of the
[37:43] drugs that are available to americans they will be paying the lowest prices in the world trump rx just
[37:51] in the short time that we since we put it out has saved americans 700 million dollars we now have 800
[37:58] drugs on there we have deals with amazon with good rx we're adding more and more drugs every day and i'll
[38:05] just give you one example preluent is a very popular cholesterol drug its list price is 522 dollars that's
[38:15] what everybody's paying we now have it on trump rx for 237 dollars that means that the 300 000 americans
[38:24] who take that drug will be saving 3 700 a year on pharmaceuticals every year and you can apply that across the board
[38:36] this is going to change it's making pharmaceuticals affordable the most affordable in this country of
[38:42] any country thank you mr president how are you doing on the autism research we will have an answer for
[38:50] you we just got so important okay we'll be talking about that we'll be having something of interest
[38:58] such an important thing there's a picture of your uncle right there on the wall i know he's looking
[39:02] a handsome guy and uh that's quite a picture did you see it yeah maybe that gave me the idea to
[39:09] start out that way but it's it's quite a picture uh any questions mr president mr president go ahead
[39:15] i think we've seen these strikes between iran and united states for the past few days how do you go
[39:19] about reviving the ceasefire and getting diplomacy back on well i think we just want to win you know we
[39:25] just want to win we're doing very well uh we're trying to be nice as nice as you can be in a situation like
[39:32] that but you know they're they're being decimated they have no navy they have no air force they have
[39:38] no anti-aircraft doesn't mean they don't have any capability they have some but very little
[39:45] we just want to win we don't want to have them it's very simple uh they cannot have a nuclear weapon
[39:53] iran will not have a nuclear weapon and they can't have a nuclear weapon if they did the middle east
[39:57] would have been wiped out by now if i didn't stop the jcpoa the obama deal if i didn't turn
[40:05] to terminate that they would have had a nuclear weapon i believe israel would no longer be with
[40:09] us in big parts of the middle east and perhaps other countries in different continents frankly
[40:15] these people are crazy so they cannot have a nuclear weapon and they won't
[40:20] mr president
[40:25] we'll be hitting them very hard
[40:28] you know at some point they're going to say we just can't take it anymore mr president on the disarmament
[40:32] meal deal that you announced do you have assurances from israel that they are on board with this deal
[40:37] and what comes first does israel pull back and then hamas disarms or does hamas need to disarm
[40:43] and then israel we do have an understanding with israel israel is very happy about it israel helped us
[40:49] and they've been very good they've been very good about most people said that would be a deal that would
[40:54] be undoable now will it go through its ups and down it's a very complex situation over there the
[41:00] people are very complex and difficult uh many cases wonderful in many cases not so wonderful
[41:07] but that will be a uh it's a great breakthrough nobody's ever thought that would nobody thought
[41:12] that would be possible to disarm hamas that shows you how much success we're having with iran
[41:20] because if you go four months ago five months ago a deal like that would have been impossible so it's
[41:25] a big step for the middle east and people are really impressed by it and they're surprised
[41:29] and what comes first mr president what comes first mr infantino speak to you about their proposal to
[41:34] sell a stake in the world company is that something you support about who uh did fifo or mr infantino speak
[41:40] to you about their proposal to sell a stake in the united mr president on the you said this morning on
[41:46] true social that victims of government abuse should be paid back even if it's not the anti-weaponization
[41:52] fund would you still want the acting attorney general i'm talking about the weaponization against
[41:59] large numbers of people in our country by the biden administration and by obama but by the biden
[42:05] administration in particular in this case but large numbers of people their lives have been ruined
[42:10] they've been destroyed their families have been you know decimated they've gone to prison for no reason
[42:17] whatsoever there's never been a group of people most likely i mean i can think of a couple that were
[42:22] treated pretty badly groups but there's essentially never been a group of people treated so badly as these
[42:28] people and this fund this fund was not for me this fund was for those people that have been
[42:34] weaponized that have been abused now i was abused they attacked my house mar-a-lago where i live
[42:39] and i was you know big damages should have been given to me i don't want anything i i'm not talking
[42:45] about myself i think that there's a group of people in this country history will show that were treated
[42:54] like nobody else has ever been treated so badly so horribly their families have been ruined many
[43:01] many suicides they've committed suicide people that were very successful that wanted to go to
[43:07] a rally or an event and ended up spending the rest of their lives in horror no so i mean you can say
[43:16] what you want about the fund and uh they've they've agreed to not have a fund but there are a lot of people
[43:22] that are very upset about it a lot of republican people a lot of democrat people are very upset
[43:27] about it a lot of people were covered i wasn't covered by that fund i don't want to be covered by
[43:31] the fund i probably was abused more than anybody in the history of our country but i i wasn't looking
[43:36] for it but there were a lot of people and i'll tell you something todd todd blanche is a very very
[43:42] good man and he shouldn't be in the middle of this he should get approved because you will never get
[43:47] anybody like him you're never going to get anybody and to make him a pawn on this whole thing
[43:52] this is being done by a senator and i don't really blame him to be honest with you i endorsed his
[43:57] opponent and as soon as i endorsed his opponent his opponent went through the roof and he won the
[44:02] primary election in texas was said and the man that lost the man that i didn't endorse has become
[44:11] very angry and that's okay i mean i understand that i probably would do the same thing you want
[44:15] to know the truth i think i do the same do you agree just to be clear do you agree with the acting
[44:21] attorney general that the anti-weaponization fund is dead and why not just put that well it is dead
[44:26] but you know i wish it weren't to be honest with you i think people were horribly treated horribly
[44:32] abused this has nothing to do with this was me uh horribly abused and i'd like to see them
[44:38] compensated for the the pain they lost their families they committed suicide many people committed
[44:44] suicide they went down for an innocent journey and i'm not only talking there i'm talking about
[44:50] not even having to do with that the way they were treated the biden administration and the obama
[44:56] administration weaponized government and destroyed lives are you willing to accept limits on the scope
[45:04] of the autoimmunity deal in order to get attorney general blanche concerned well he should be approved
[45:09] forthwith i mean you're never going to get a person like that everybody agrees to it don't forget
[45:16] senator cornell thought he was phenomenal until he lost you know when he lost is that a correct
[45:21] statement you come from texas i mean he thought this was the most incredible person then when he lost
[45:27] then he lost because of me i endorsed somebody else and as soon as i endorsed the other person
[45:32] the other person became a rocket ship upward and you lost and you know i think i'd be the same
[45:38] but would you i mean i shouldn't say that but i'd be upset also and i so i fully understand it
[45:47] he shouldn't be that way i shouldn't be that way but he is that way he's become a very angry person
[45:52] and i understand you have a couple of others that i've caused their defeat too and you know probably
[45:56] hear from them too yeah mr president back on a bond there's a report that you got a proposal from the
[46:01] military to go big and hit them hard over 10 or 14 days well we're going big are you going to be
[46:06] we've already gone big look i mean what's big they had 159 ships that was their entire navy 159
[46:13] their entire navy is laying at the bottom of the sea i'd say that's going big
[46:18] they had 200 airplanes are all gone every one of them they're not one airplane
[46:22] they had anti-aircraft weaponry they're very good but it didn't work
[46:26] and it's all gone their radar is all gone their leaders are all gone everything's all gone
[46:32] but they'll fight onward mr president on ukraine you said the other day that you're
[46:37] not sure about whether to grant ukraine the patriot missile license that have been discussed
[46:42] do you want to see more from zielinski before you take that action well it's a big step look
[46:47] we have the greatest weapons in the world we have the greatest drones in the world people don't know
[46:52] that we have the greatest weaponry in the world we have in the case of uh president zielinski he'd
[46:58] like to have some patriots he'd like to have some tomahawks which is you know lethal one offensive
[47:04] one defensive but when you give somebody the right very complex weapons by the way i mean the
[47:09] patriot as an example the other day you read that five missiles were shot they were going 8 600
[47:17] miles an hour think of it 8 600 now a car if you go 60 it gets to be a little faster if you go 100
[47:25] 8 600 miles an hour and they were big missiles and they were shot at jordan and our guys were there
[47:32] and we shot all five them before they got closed nobody else has that capacity these weapons are
[47:53] incredible we have to be very careful about letting somebody build them you know it's very
[48:00] very important now.
[48:01] We are building many plants now to make those.
[48:05] And the tomahawk whistle is the most incredible thing.
[48:08] You can go into a doorway.
[48:09] You can put it through a window of a house.
[48:12] Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
[48:14] You have to be very judicious,
[48:16] but you have to be very careful.
[48:19] Now, we have not agreed to that.
[48:22] We're talking about it.
[48:23] But it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology.
[48:28] And I don't think this would ever happen.
[48:29] But, you know, those people that you give that technology,
[48:31] they can someday turn on you.
[48:33] You know, that is possible.
[48:35] You look at war.
[48:36] It's happened a couple of times over the years, right?
[48:38] So we have to be very careful.
[48:40] I mean, we guard that.
[48:41] We have the greatest military in the world,
[48:44] but we have the greatest weapons in the world.
[48:45] Now we have to make them a little bit faster
[48:47] because we've given a lot away.
[48:49] You know, President Biden, unfortunately,
[48:52] gave a lot away to Ukraine.
[48:55] And he gave — and so did I.
[48:56] I mean, I gave them the javelins and the tank busters.
[49:00] Without the javelins, that war would have been a one-day war.
[49:03] It would have been over.
[49:04] They wiped out the tanks going up to Kiev
[49:07] when they got stuck in the mud.
[49:08] They had a general that decided to go through the mud
[49:11] instead of going up the highway
[49:12] where they were going very nicely.
[49:14] It would have been over.
[49:14] But, no, I gave them the javelins.
[49:17] The javelins are unbelievably —
[49:18] we have the greatest weapons in the world.
[49:21] We have to be very careful about giving out
[49:24] the secrets to those weapons.
[49:25] And they're not — you can't copy them.
[49:29] It's a little like NVIDIA.
[49:32] They have a chip.
[49:33] They say you cannot copy it.
[49:35] The complexity is so great, you cannot.
[49:37] You know, most things you copy.
[49:39] China is known for, and other countries,
[49:41] that we do something.
[49:42] And I guess we copy also.
[49:44] But most things you can copy pretty easily.
[49:47] There's a chip that they made there —
[49:49] ultimate chip, and they always have the ultimate chip.
[49:52] And I say, well, why doesn't somebody copy it?
[49:55] Because they can't — they're complains.
[49:57] They can't copy our weapons.
[49:58] We have the greatest weapons in the world —
[50:00] many of them.
[50:01] Those are just two or three that I mentioned.
[50:03] But you cannot copy them.
[50:06] So we have to be very careful.
[50:07] The Press Press.
[50:08] As Hamas disarms as part of this plan,
[50:10] who do you see is taking possession of those weapons
[50:13] that they have?
[50:13] Does that go to the new government?
[50:15] The President.
[50:15] It's going to be the Board of Peace, mostly.
[50:17] It's going to be run by the Board of —
[50:18] This Board of Peace has been an amazing —
[50:20] it's led by some amazing people.
[50:22] Board of Peace.
[50:23] Mr. President, you said they do have some capabilities left.
[50:26] Should Americans be prepared for these back-and-forth
[50:29] attacks to continue until Iran's opinion is able
[50:32] to strike the ground?
[50:33] The President.
[50:33] They'll get weaker.
[50:34] They'll get a little stronger, maybe, now.
[50:36] But they'll get weaker.
[50:37] And then they peter out.
[50:39] Yeah, sure, I think so.
[50:41] I mean, it would be foolish to say no.
[50:42] You know, you always have to keep your guard up.
[50:44] The Press Press.
[50:44] What is the status of talks?
[50:46] Who went from the administration —
[50:47] The President.
[50:47] Well, they always want to talk,
[50:48] but they break their word so often.
[50:50] Steve is talking.
[50:51] I mean, Jared, we have very good people.
[50:53] J.D.'s involved — very strongly involved.
[50:56] We have great people talking.
[50:58] Marco is involved.
[50:59] The Press Press.
[50:59] Because they say talks aren't happening.
[51:00] The President.
[51:01] Very good people.
[51:01] We're the best people.
[51:02] But they'll make a deal.
[51:04] As an example, we'll talk about nuclear.
[51:07] And we'll be in there talking about nuclear for seven hours.
[51:09] I say, why is it — what do you need seven?
[51:11] You can take 10 minutes.
[51:12] You have five minutes.
[51:14] You should solve it.
[51:15] But seven hours.
[51:16] And then they'll go out, and I'll say they discussed nuclear.
[51:20] And they'll go out and they'll say,
[51:21] we never discussed nuclear.
[51:23] And I'll say, why — why did they say that?
[51:25] All they do is make me angry.
[51:27] You know, they just make me angry.
[51:29] Any other questions?
[51:30] The Press Press.
[51:31] Do you believe that you can reach a deal with Iran,
[51:33] given that you talked about how —
[51:34] The President.
[51:34] Yes, you can.
[51:35] I mean, look, I'm — I'm losing faith in them,
[51:39] because they do lie and do — they do misrepresent.
[51:43] Well, the other day, the five missiles were shot.
[51:45] We knocked them down, but we were in the midst of a negotiation.
[51:48] I mean, I'm waiting for Steve to call me.
[51:49] How's the negotiation going?
[51:52] And instead, I got a call from Pete
[51:54] that they just shot five missiles at one of our bases in Jordan.
[51:59] And we have bases in Jordan.
[52:00] Fortunately, our people operated the equipment.
[52:03] It's also very complex to operate.
[52:05] I mean, you're talking about the equipment.
[52:07] It's very — you have to be — oftentimes, you see,
[52:10] when did you go to school?
[52:11] MIT, Caltech — I mean, you know, they go to schools
[52:14] that are not as normal for the military, to be honest with you.
[52:18] We have unbelievably brilliant people operating that equipment.
[52:22] And when you don't, you know, the equipment —
[52:25] the shots miss — the safety misses or the accuracy misses.
[52:29] We have unbelievable people.
[52:31] Think of it.
[52:31] We had 111 — at one point, a couple of months ago —
[52:36] 111, over a short period of time, missiles were shot
[52:39] at the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.
[52:41] Great, beautiful ship.
[52:43] One of the most beautiful ships to me — designed ones.
[52:46] 111 missiles going out.
[52:49] Out of the 111 missiles, 111 missiles were shot down
[52:56] quite a bit earlier than they got —
[52:58] I mean, long before they got there.
[53:00] They were shot down — it was almost — in a couple of cases,
[53:03] they were shot down almost as they were taking off.
[53:06] It's incredible technology.
[53:07] So you have a ship that costs billions of dollars,
[53:11] and you have missiles heading to it.
[53:13] 111 missiles were shot down — routinely shot down.
[53:20] And I speak — I spoke to the people.
[53:22] I like to reward people.
[53:23] I call them up on the President.
[53:25] And they were cool as a cucumber.
[53:28] The Press Press.
[53:29] Mr. President, the last two weeks of strikes by CENTCOM —
[53:32] CENTCOM has said that those were meant to degrade
[53:34] Iran's ability to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.
[53:37] How many more strikes will it take to significantly —
[53:39] The President Biden's —
[53:39] No, no, look, I mean, most people would have given up on them.
[53:42] You know, they've got no Navy, they've got no Air Force.
[53:45] Most people would have given up to have it.
[53:46] So I give them credit for that.
[53:48] I mean, they're known as being tough.
[53:49] They're tough.
[53:50] The Press Press.
[53:51] The Press Press.
[53:52] The Press Press.
[53:53] The Press Press.
[53:54] What did you tell President Zelensky about the Patriots?
[53:55] Did you explain all that to him?
[53:56] I did.
[53:56] I spoke to him about Patriots.
[53:57] I spoke to him about Tomahawks.
[53:59] I spoke to him about everything.
[54:00] I also spoke to him about, let's get this world over in.
[54:03] So last month, they had 25,000 people.
[54:05] It's averaging about 25,000 people a month die.
[54:08] Mostly soldiers.
[54:10] Almost entirely.
[54:11] But, you know, missiles are hitting areas also.
[54:13] But mostly soldiers.
[54:15] They had 25,000 soldiers.
[54:17] The month before that, it was 32,000 soldiers.
[54:20] I said, you've got to get this world over with.
[54:23] I think he wants to make a deal,
[54:24] and I think Putin wants to make a deal.
[54:26] But there's a lot of dislike, as you probably noticed.
[54:29] The Press Press.
[54:29] He seems very reluctant to make concessions, President Putin.
[54:32] The Press Press.
[54:33] Well, nobody wants to make concessions,
[54:35] but they're both going to have to make some concessions.
[54:37] I mean, you've got to make a deal.
[54:39] Twenty-five thousand young, beautiful people.
[54:42] Soldiers.
[54:44] Mostly soldiers.
[54:45] And dying a month.
[54:47] It's — I ended eight wars.
[54:50] That was the war I thought would maybe go first.
[54:52] And it really hasn't.
[54:53] It's gone last.
[54:54] I mean, it ended wars that were, in theory,
[54:56] much more difficult to end.
[54:58] We had a couple that were into the 30-year category.
[55:03] Well, the Congo — look at the Congo and Rwanda.
[55:06] That was our nasty war.
[55:08] And they have peace.
[55:10] I don't know how long that one's going to stay.
[55:12] But we ended India and Pakistan.
[55:14] Eleven planes were shot down.
[55:16] That was raging.
[55:17] That was — I used tariff.
[55:19] They said, if you're going to go to war,
[55:21] 250 percent tariff — each of them.
[55:25] And they screamed and yelled and were very angry.
[55:27] They were both angry about it.
[55:28] And a day later, they called and they said,
[55:31] we will not go to war.
[55:32] But I ended up — and the Prime Minister of Pakistan
[55:36] said, I saved 50 million lives,
[55:39] because that's two nuclear powers — serious nuclear powers.
[55:42] Thank you very much, everybody.
[55:44] Thank you.
[55:45] The Press.
[55:52] The Press.
[55:53] The Press.
[55:54] The Press.
[55:55] The President.
[55:56] The Press.
[55:57] The President.
[55:59] The President.
[56:00] I don't think there was an Iranian soccer attack.
[56:03] I think that Minnesota had to get its act together.
[56:06] It's one of the worst-run states.
[56:08] J.D. will make it —
[56:09] he found tremendous corruption in Minnesota.
[56:12] And by the way, he just gave me a report.
[56:14] Massive, massive future things having to do with corruption in Minnesota are happening right now. Thank you.