'It's Going To Be Beautiful': Trump Teases Construction Of New Helipad For White House

[0:01] Yeah, that's a help. Yeah. So for 50 years, we've been landing helicopters on grass. [0:12] The grass is wet, soggy. The helicopters sometimes miss their little mark. You know, [0:18] they send people out. Marines. I watch them do it. They march out so beautiful. Great guys. [0:23] They have a piece of metal that he put down. And except for the fact that these pilots are so good, [0:28] they almost hit the mark all the time. But sometimes they miss their half the size of this [0:32] desk. Think of it. You're landing a big chopper. But, you know, years ago, and they just got [0:41] produced. But during my administration, they ordered brand new helicopters, the big ones, [0:47] the ones for president. It's called Marine One. And our other Marine ones are about 40 years old. [0:52] They're all like Air Force One. You know, it's time to make a change. And other presidents wouldn't do [0:57] that because I think it's not good to make a change to luxury. But you got to do it. You know, [1:01] other countries have them. So Sikorsky gave. We ordered a number of Sikorsky's as the helicopters [1:07] back and forth. Well, they're about two and a half times more powerful than the old ones. [1:12] And when you land on the grass, it's not that the grass gets discolored. It gets ripped out, [1:19] ripped out. And it was all over. They landed it once. And nobody planned for this. This was a little bit [1:26] of a planning mistake. So they landed the helicopter and half of the grass was sitting [1:32] in front of the Oval Office front door. The rest of it was scattered all over. I mean, [1:37] literally, it didn't singe it. It also singed it, by the way. But it literally lift because of the [1:43] power. It's tremendous. And everybody said, well, we'll keep using the old helicopters when we have to [1:52] land at the White House. And for everything else, we use the new helicopters. They said, [1:56] that's a pretty expensive deal. You wouldn't do that for your company. You'd figure out an answer. [2:00] So I said, because I have helicopters and three of them. And I said, because they've been great for my [2:07] business. I think they're incredible. So Sikorsky's. Sikorsky 76. And I always was lucky. [2:16] I always got helipads. Other people don't. Very hard to get. The hardest thing to get is a helipad. [2:22] Okay. There's no harder zoning thing to get is a helipad. And I had like seven of them at [2:27] different places. So I could go around by helicopter. And I said to the people, have you [2:31] ever thought these are generals, Air Force generals that are brilliant. And, you know, [2:37] you get used to a certain thing. They bring out the metal. But this was now the metal didn't work [2:42] because the power of these helicopters is so great, it ripped up the grass. So I said, [2:47] has anybody ever thought of a helipad? Because I build them and they go quickly and solves all [2:53] of the problems. Sikorsky's laughing. It's true, right? It's crazy. So it was funny. I said, [3:01] has anyone ever thought of a helipad? I had like six generals in front of me. And they're going like, [3:05] wow, that's a good idea. You know, it's like the paperclip. It was such a simple adventure. [3:10] Probably he says that about a laptop. To him, it's a simple thing. To other people, wow. But the [3:16] paperclip, 200 years ago, a gentleman came up with the idea for a paperclip. And he made a lot of [3:23] money, became very rich. Not as rich as Michael Dell, but rich in those money. And what happened is [3:30] everybody was jealous. They said, why didn't we think of this? Same thing with a helipad. So now [3:35] we're building a helipad, beautiful helipad. And it's got the seal of the White House on it in [3:41] granite, in carved granite. It's really a beautiful thing. And I'll tell you, Sikorsky is [3:46] paying for it. You know why? Because they didn't tell us how powerful these helicopters were. And they [3:52] felt a little bit guilty. They sold us heli... I like power, by the way. I think it's great [3:57] for a helicopter. But they probably, I don't know, they felt a little guilty. And they are paying for [4:06] the cost of it. It's about $5 or $6 million. They're paying the full cost. And when I heard [4:11] they were paying the cost, I went out and said, let's do a beauty. Let's not just do a piece of [4:16] concrete and paint it white, which is why I just put beautiful concrete, nice, and we paint it white. [4:21] This one is a beauty. It's got the seal of the White House. It's beautiful. The eagle. And it's carved out [4:27] of granite. It's done by some of the most talented people you'll ever meet. And you're landing on granite, [4:32] which is the strongest stone that we can, like the outside walk is black granite. It's got, [4:39] it's 35,000 pounds per square inch. It's got a 1 million plus lifetime. It's the strongest stone [4:46] there is. And that's being used out there. And it's going to be, I think, really beautiful. And [4:50] you can see the size. It's going to be beautiful. And it could be used for other things when helicopters [4:55] aren't landing. You can have other things out there like events. You could have news conferences [4:59] literally on it because it's the right size. So by doing this, we solved the problem and [5:04] we'll be able to finally retire 45 year old helicopters. Okay. How about, how about one [5:08] or two more and we'll get out. Go ahead, please.