About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of President Trump answers reporter questions from ABC 7 Chicago, published October 21, 2026. The transcript contains 5,415 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"And I've been watching other countries for a long time. I have never seen anything like that. That wasn't a little bit of a riot. That wasn't a little bit of a protest. That was a full-on revolution. And it continues. And it continues. So, you know, we want to be helpful. We want to be with them..."
[0:00] And I've been watching other countries for a long time.
[0:03] I have never seen anything like that.
[0:05] That wasn't a little bit of a riot.
[0:08] That wasn't a little bit of a protest.
[0:10] That was a full-on revolution.
[0:14] And it continues.
[0:16] And it continues.
[0:16] So, you know, we want to be helpful.
[0:19] We want to be with them and all.
[0:20] But you're not going to have a Europe pretty soon
[0:23] if they keep going.
[0:24] And it's mostly immigrate.
[0:25] There are other protests.
[0:26] You know, J.D. wrote a great post on it recently.
[0:30] But he would say the same thing.
[0:31] I would have said it whether I looked or not.
[0:34] I mean, it's very much of an immigration problem.
[0:38] You have people coming into countries
[0:39] that don't like the countries.
[0:41] Somebody said it very well.
[0:43] I said it very well.
[0:43] They don't like the buildings.
[0:45] They don't like the art.
[0:47] They don't like anything about the country.
[0:49] And they don't like the people.
[0:51] They have no reason not to do what they did in France.
[0:54] And I told President Macron, who's a friend of mine,
[0:58] I have known him right from the beginning,
[1:00] right after I got elected the first time.
[1:02] I got to meet him.
[1:04] I liked him.
[1:04] I still like him.
[1:06] But I said, if you don't stop the immigration problem,
[1:09] you're not going to have a country left.
[1:11] And I said that to Germany.
[1:14] And I said it to the U.K.
[1:18] I mean, you take a look at the U.K.
[1:19] They have a mayor in London who's horrible.
[1:21] I mean, he's just absolutely horrible.
[1:24] And so bad what's happened to London,
[1:26] what's happened to Paris.
[1:29] They don't stop it and remove people.
[1:31] I'm not just talking about something.
[1:32] You got to remove people, get them the hell out.
[1:35] But they're not going to have a European Union.
[1:40] They're not going to have anything.
[1:41] And I like the people.
[1:42] They're friends of mine.
[1:43] I guess indirectly and directly,
[1:46] that's where I came from, right?
[1:47] Some of us come from that part, that neck of the woods.
[1:51] But they better get moving because they don't have much time.
[1:54] When you look at France, and it happened in Italy too,
[1:58] smaller scale, but it's right there.
[1:59] It's simmering, if you don't get that out.
[2:02] And you're going to have to remove the people.
[2:04] You're going to have to remove those people
[2:06] that are insurrectionists.
[2:07] You're going to have to get them out of the country.
[2:09] You can't just say, oh, we won't take anymore.
[2:12] And they continue to take.
[2:15] I mean, again, take a look at Spain just a couple of weeks ago.
[2:18] A hundred and some odd thousand people in just a matter of minutes
[2:22] rushed into the country.
[2:23] They don't do anything about it.
[2:25] I don't know where they're living.
[2:26] I don't know, it's a crazy situation going on.
[2:30] So we have now a border that's the strongest we've ever had by far.
[2:34] It's been that way since the very beginning of my second term
[2:39] or third term, depending on the way you want to define it.
[2:42] And I just don't want the results of this.
[2:44] I'd like the third term, but I don't want the results of the second term.
[2:49] But this has been an amazing thing has happened to it.
[2:54] We have the strongest border we've ever had.
[2:57] We have the single greatest moment in the history of our country
[3:01] in terms of the economy, meaning the big economy,
[3:04] meaning the trillions and trillions of dollars
[3:07] that's building plants and factories all over our country.
[3:10] We just, Toyota just announced they're coming in
[3:12] with a massive car plant.
[3:14] You know, we had a period of 49 years
[3:16] where we lost many car plants, but not one was built.
[3:20] And now we're building more car plants
[3:22] than we've ever built before.
[3:24] We're leading China in SI, super intelligence.
[3:28] We're leading them.
[3:29] We're leading everybody.
[3:30] We're leading the world in just about everything.
[3:32] And, you know, I call it the golden age.
[3:35] It's the golden age of America.
[3:37] It's a pretty amazing time.
[3:38] Yeah, sir, President, sir.
[3:39] You're offering 10% to whistleblowers
[3:43] for turning in what you're describing as fraud.
[3:46] One percent.
[3:46] One percent?
[3:47] Okay, that's actually worse.
[3:48] The False Claims Act, which has been on the books since 1863,
[3:52] whistleblowers can get between 10 and 25% through G-10 lawsuits.
[3:57] Why would someone who has evidence of genuine fraud go to your task force?
[4:02] Because it's a lot of money.
[4:03] And because when they did that, that's a certain type of crime.
[4:06] But nobody ever thought that you could have stolen $2 trillion
[4:11] or whatever the ultimate number is going to be.
[4:14] And at one percent, people will make millions and millions of dollars
[4:18] for turning in what actually is a somewhat routine crime of, you know,
[4:24] of millions, of millions.
[4:25] But we're talking about, we're talking about billions
[4:29] and actually probably trillions of dollars.
[4:31] The President, sir.
[4:33] Okay, first of all, I think that's a fundamentally dishonest question.
[4:37] Because over 99% of the fraud that we're finding in the federal government
[4:41] isn't covered by the False Claims Act.
[4:43] What the President is saying is he wants all fraud to be the sort of thing
[4:46] where if you find it, if you uncover it, you find evidence
[4:49] and allow us to undo the money, you should be able to benefit,
[4:52] not just a very narrow slice that's covered by the False Claims Act.
[4:55] Timeline, thank you.
[4:56] The Independent.
[4:57] Who?
[4:58] The Independent, sir.
[5:00] Mr. President, Mr. President, on Ukraine, on Ukraine,
[5:05] sir, on Ukraine, do you believe the peace process is about a contract?
[5:09] Wait.
[5:10] Wait.
[5:12] Go ahead.
[5:13] Can I just ask you about Trump accounts?
[5:14] Could Trump accounts expand to adults?
[5:15] We've heard some rumors about it.
[5:16] Well, we haven't thought of it.
[5:17] We're looking at something as an alternative.
[5:20] Trump accounts has been one of the greatest things,
[5:23] one of the most successful things people have seen ever in government.
[5:26] And I want to thank Elon Musk.
[5:28] He saw what he was doing.
[5:29] He's one share to each child.
[5:31] And it's also going through, as you know, Trump accounts.
[5:33] And we have close to 80 million recipients.
[5:38] And that's going up rapidly.
[5:40] A lot of big companies are coming in.
[5:42] They're coming in with people.
[5:43] Some people are taking one person is going to take an entire state.
[5:47] A very rich person is going to take a very good and very large actual state.
[5:52] It's been amazing.
[5:55] We are looking at something different because it really is
[5:58] somewhat of a different thing having to do with adults.
[6:02] Yes?
[6:03] Mr. President, sir, on Ukrainian police suit,
[6:07] after today's talks in Oslo, do you believe the peace process is back on track?
[6:11] And what are your expectations when your special envoy, Steve Woodcock,
[6:16] heads to Russia tomorrow?
[6:18] Well, I think what's happening is that Russia would like to get it done.
[6:25] I think that, and you know, Russia's a big machine.
[6:28] They just keep grinding forward, and that's what they've done.
[6:32] They've taken a very large piece of land,
[6:35] and you know, you can say that Ukraine is doing well or poorly,
[6:41] but the land gets bigger and bigger all the time, week by week.
[6:45] They march forward. They just keep marching forward.
[6:49] They have an unlimited supply of people, whereas Ukraine, as you know,
[6:54] is a woman who's, I guess, not exactly a very beautiful woman, nice woman,
[7:02] and she was on television recently talking about the fact that our men are gone.
[7:07] She's a Ukrainian woman.
[7:09] Our men are gone. They're lost. They're dead.
[7:11] They're in mental institutions.
[7:14] They're walking around. They have no arms.
[7:17] They have no legs in many cases.
[7:19] They've been hurt so badly. They've been just decimated.
[7:23] And it was very poignant.
[7:25] When I heard this, I said, boy, that's some statement.
[7:29] And she said, Russia's a very big country.
[7:31] They can lose a lot of people in a war, and they have lost a lot of people.
[7:36] They lost 50 million people in the Second World War.
[7:39] They lose a lot of people, but they're very big.
[7:41] And she said, they have to settle this war.
[7:45] Look, Ukraine has lost a lot of people.
[7:49] Russia's lost a lot of people.
[7:51] Russia, though, is a giant nation.
[7:53] Ukraine is not.
[7:56] I can tell you this.
[7:58] We've been helping through Joe Biden originally,
[8:00] and he made a mistake because he should have done it through the European Union.
[8:05] He should have been paid.
[8:06] The European Union has quite a bit of money,
[8:08] although I have to tell you they're getting tired of spending it.
[8:11] But we gave $350 billion to Ukraine.
[8:18] And, you know, I insisted on getting something for that money.
[8:22] And we got a very big chunk of land and rare earth and other things,
[8:26] if anybody remembers.
[8:28] Let's see what that amounts to.
[8:30] But Ukraine has to want to settle this war.
[8:33] Zelensky has to want to settle this war.
[8:36] And if he doesn't, I think it's going to be a very bad thing.
[8:38] Look, we have given tremendous amounts to Ukraine.
[8:44] We've got nothing back other than high diesel.
[8:48] We have given probably, possibly more money to Ukraine
[8:54] than almost anybody over the years.
[8:58] Hundreds of billions of dollars.
[9:00] We've got nothing back.
[9:02] And the American taxpayers are tired of it.
[9:05] We want Zelensky to make a deal.
[9:07] He can make a deal.
[9:08] He could have made a deal two years ago
[9:10] when we had our little chat in the Oval Office.
[9:13] We had a now quite well-remembered chat with J.D., myself, some others, Zelensky.
[9:22] Could have made a good deal then.
[9:23] Could have made a much better deal then, probably, possibly,
[9:26] than he could make now.
[9:27] But he's going to have to want to make a deal
[9:29] because I don't think his people are going to stand for it.
[9:32] They've been fighting a war.
[9:34] So, last month, they lost 32,000 people between the both of them.
[9:39] They're mostly soldiers, mostly young soldiers,
[9:43] some people in a town that got hit or whatever,
[9:45] but mostly young soldiers.
[9:48] It doesn't affect us much.
[9:50] It doesn't affect us in theory at all.
[9:52] We're not involved.
[9:54] What affects me is to see that many souls lost so needlessly.
[9:58] So, what I'd like to see is I'd like to make a deal.
[10:01] I'd like to see if they can make a deal.
[10:03] I thought, you know, I settled eight wars.
[10:05] I thought that would be the easiest one.
[10:08] The hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky is tremendous.
[10:15] I think that's most of the reason they haven't been able to make a deal, actually.
[10:18] But Ukraine has to want to make a deal
[10:22] because the United States has spent a fortune.
[10:25] Europe has spent a fortune.
[10:27] And Europe's tired of it right now.
[10:28] They're tired of it right now.
[10:30] And if they don't make a deal,
[10:32] ultimately, it's just going to get, in my opinion,
[10:35] it's really just going to get worse.
[10:38] You have a very big country in Russia.
[10:40] They have a lot of people.
[10:41] They have a lot of people to draw from.
[10:43] Ukraine does not have a lot of people to draw from.
[10:45] And it's time to make a deal.
[10:49] And I say that.
[10:50] Remember this, though.
[10:52] We've given a lot to Ukraine.
[10:54] We've gotten absolutely nothing back
[10:56] except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.
[11:02] We've given incredible amounts of equipment and military,
[11:07] primarily military equipment, but equipment of all kinds.
[11:12] And it's time.
[11:14] I gave them javelins when the stupid general for Russia,
[11:20] a very stupid gentleman.
[11:21] They had 1,000 tanks riding up a concrete highway.
[11:25] They would have been in Ukraine in four hours,
[11:28] going maximum tank speed,
[11:30] which is 48 miles an hour, to be exact.
[11:33] Nothing to stop them.
[11:35] The war would have been over in one day.
[11:37] And this very stupid general, I have no idea who he is.
[11:39] I doubt he's still with us.
[11:41] I doubt he's still living.
[11:43] He decided to hang a right onto the farmland
[11:48] and then take a left and go up to Kiev.
[11:50] Kiev, and rather than staying on the highway,
[11:55] the concrete highway, perfectly good highway,
[11:58] where they were doing very nicely,
[12:00] would have been there in three and a half, four hours.
[12:03] And the whole war would have ended.
[12:05] He ended up getting stuck in the mud.
[12:08] It was like quicksand.
[12:09] They had, the night before,
[12:11] they had the heaviest rainfall they've had in 10 years.
[12:14] And the land was soaking wet.
[12:15] It was like quicksand.
[12:16] Most people don't remember, but I do,
[12:20] because it's called war.
[12:21] You never know what happens.
[12:23] But he made a terrible decision,
[12:25] legendarily bad decision,
[12:27] and the tanks got stuck.
[12:29] They couldn't go forward.
[12:30] They couldn't go back.
[12:30] They were dead stuck.
[12:32] And they used the javelins,
[12:34] that's the anti-tank weapon that I gave them.
[12:37] So, you know, the statement is,
[12:41] Obama gave them sheets,
[12:42] I gave them javelins.
[12:44] So I've helped Ukraine a lot.
[12:46] It's now time for them to end this war
[12:50] and stop all those young people from being killed.
[12:53] President, sir, I'll listen to you.
[12:59] Hey, I'm not playing.
[13:01] You better, you better,
[13:02] I don't know who the hell you are,
[13:03] but you better be careful.
[13:05] Go ahead.
[13:05] Can you confirm that the U.S.
[13:07] is on the verge of a deal
[13:08] to free the American teacher,
[13:11] Stephen Hubbard, from Russia?
[13:14] Just stick with me.
[13:16] Nobody else was able to do it.
[13:19] Just stick with me.
[13:20] I don't want to talk about it,
[13:22] but everybody's been after Hubbard
[13:24] for a long time,
[13:25] long before I got here.
[13:28] And just to remember that question
[13:32] for a couple of days from now, okay?
[13:34] President Trump,
[13:35] you know why?
[13:37] Because I do things
[13:38] that nobody else
[13:41] can do.
[13:42] I hate to say it.
[13:43] So watch what happens.
[13:45] We have been focused on Hubbard,
[13:47] and we don't give $6 billion
[13:49] like Biden.
[13:51] We don't give the number one
[13:52] in history,
[13:54] the number one arms dealer
[13:55] ever in history,
[13:58] and get a basketball player back
[13:59] and give $6 billion
[14:00] on top of it.
[14:02] The deals we made
[14:03] were done by stupid people.
[14:06] I've been talking to President Putin
[14:08] about Mr. Hubbard.
[14:09] I've been talking to him
[14:11] at length.
[14:12] I've asked him to release him.
[14:15] Let's see what happens.
[14:16] Okay?
[14:17] Let's see what happens.
[14:18] I'd love to get him back.
[14:20] It's time to have Mr. Hubbard back.
[14:23] Yeah.
[14:23] Mr. President,
[14:24] I have a question.
[14:25] Are you guys okay with this
[14:26] or are you bored?
[14:28] You get bored.
[14:29] Not bored, sir.
[14:29] Not bored.
[14:30] It's good.
[14:31] Mr. President,
[14:32] let him go,
[14:34] and then you go.
[14:35] Thank you, sir.
[14:36] For a peace deal
[14:38] to happen in Ukraine,
[14:40] does that mean Zelensky
[14:41] and Putin
[14:42] will have to be
[14:43] in the same room
[14:44] at the same time
[14:45] to sign that agreement?
[14:46] I don't know.
[14:46] I mean, it depends.
[14:47] They don't have to be
[14:48] in the same room.
[14:49] I guess they can do it
[14:49] another way.
[14:51] It's hard for them
[14:52] to be in the same room.
[14:54] I don't care how it's done.
[14:57] I don't want to see
[14:58] 32,000, 25,000.
[15:00] Every month,
[15:00] I get a report
[15:01] 25,000,
[15:03] 28,000,
[15:04] 27,000,
[15:05] 32,000,
[15:06] 34,000
[15:07] four months ago.
[15:09] Soldiers killed a month.
[15:11] It's the craziest thing
[15:12] I've ever heard of.
[15:13] Over what?
[15:14] Yeah, please.
[15:15] Mr. President,
[15:16] I have a question
[15:16] for you and for Nick.
[15:17] Can I ask the one
[15:18] to Nick first?
[15:18] Go ahead.
[15:19] Nick, good to meet you.
[15:20] William Nelson
[15:21] with Salem Media.
[15:22] Nick, in my home state
[15:23] of California,
[15:24] Gavin Newsom signed a law
[15:25] that's been dubbed
[15:26] the Stop Nick Shirley Act
[15:27] after your videos
[15:28] exposing billions
[15:30] in immigration fraud.
[15:31] Why is he so intent
[15:33] on silencing you
[15:34] and your work?
[15:36] California,
[15:36] they actually need the fraud.
[15:37] That's why when I exposed
[15:38] the fraud in Minnesota,
[15:40] California,
[15:40] instead of going after
[15:41] the fraudsters,
[15:42] they came after me.
[15:43] And so with this law
[15:44] dubbed the Stop Nick Shirley Act,
[15:45] it will give somebody
[15:47] who's enrolled in this program
[15:48] who works inside
[15:49] of immigration support
[15:49] service providers,
[15:51] they can then give me
[15:51] a piece of paper
[15:52] and say I cannot publish
[15:53] that video.
[15:54] So it's a direct violation
[15:55] of the First Amendment.
[15:56] And the reason why
[15:57] they're attacking me
[15:57] is because I'm going after
[15:58] what funnels and funds
[16:00] all these crazy
[16:01] delusional ideas
[16:02] inside their states.
[16:03] It's one of the most
[16:04] incredible things
[16:06] I've ever seen.
[16:07] In other words,
[16:08] you cannot in California
[16:10] basically stop fraud.
[16:12] You know why?
[16:13] Because they want fraud.
[16:14] Because they're crooked.
[16:15] They're all crooked politicians.
[16:17] One of the most
[16:17] crooked states
[16:19] anywhere in the world.
[16:20] Not here.
[16:21] Anywhere in the world.
[16:22] California, Minnesota,
[16:23] a lot of them.
[16:24] But we're changing that.
[16:25] And we're going to be
[16:26] fighting by your side, Steve.
[16:27] We're going to be
[16:28] fighting by your side.
[16:29] You shouldn't be fighting
[16:30] that whole thing alone.
[16:31] What Nick is describing
[16:33] and what the president
[16:34] is describing
[16:35] is a criminal conspiracy
[16:36] where a state
[16:37] knowingly aids
[16:39] in advance fraud
[16:40] that's funneled
[16:41] into these communities,
[16:42] again, oftentimes
[16:42] migrant communities.
[16:43] They then use those funds
[16:45] to fund the Democrat Party.
[16:46] So it's a self-enrichment
[16:48] scheme that's being exposed
[16:49] that is fundamentally
[16:50] a criminal conspiracy.
[16:51] It reminds me of California
[16:53] that if you ask
[16:54] a person for identification
[16:57] during a voting process,
[16:59] they put you in jail.
[17:01] In other words,
[17:01] if you say,
[17:03] do you have voter ID?
[17:04] Do you have proof
[17:05] of citizenship?
[17:07] If you ask those words,
[17:09] they put you in jail.
[17:11] I would say they're equal.
[17:13] Yes.
[17:14] No.
[17:15] You're dealing
[17:16] with very corrupt people.
[17:18] These are corrupt politicians.
[17:20] Weak.
[17:21] Well, Gavin Newsom
[17:22] admits that he's
[17:24] a stupid person.
[17:25] He admits that he was
[17:26] a man who had poor results
[17:31] on virtually every test
[17:33] he ever took.
[17:34] He cannot read a speech.
[17:35] He's incapable of...
[17:36] And it's interesting.
[17:37] I didn't know what he meant
[17:38] by that.
[17:38] He couldn't read a speech.
[17:40] I saw him make a speech
[17:41] and who doesn't read it?
[17:43] He can't.
[17:43] He cannot read.
[17:44] He cannot read.
[17:45] There's something wrong with him.
[17:46] And when you have, you know,
[17:50] what they did with Nick
[17:51] or, you know,
[17:52] I think probably
[17:53] pretty much equal,
[17:54] but maybe that's even worse
[17:56] if you want to know
[17:57] the truth, Nick,
[17:57] because it has to do
[17:58] with voting.
[17:59] If a man who works
[18:01] in the Election Bureau
[18:02] asks,
[18:03] may I see your papers, please?
[18:06] Do you have voter ID?
[18:07] Do you have anything
[18:08] having to do
[18:09] with proof of citizenship?
[18:11] You've created
[18:12] an illegal act
[18:13] and you go to jail.
[18:14] That's pretty much...
[18:16] That's the same thing.
[18:18] Thank you, sir.
[18:19] So along the same lines
[18:20] of that last question,
[18:21] are you concerned about
[18:23] if after your presidency
[18:24] a Democrat is in office
[18:25] that they would try
[18:26] and target someone
[18:28] like Nick
[18:28] or anyone,
[18:29] a reporter
[18:29] that had written a story
[18:31] about fraud
[18:31] that was in a group state?
[18:33] Sure.
[18:34] We have the power of pardon.
[18:35] If I see somebody
[18:36] that's unfairly treated,
[18:37] I have the power of pardons.
[18:39] There's those that say
[18:40] it's the strongest power
[18:41] a president has.
[18:42] And if I have to use it
[18:43] to protect people like Nick,
[18:45] I'd use it very openly,
[18:46] very gladly.
[18:47] But they've already said
[18:48] they're going to...
[18:49] Yep.
[18:50] Weaponize.
[18:50] Look,
[18:51] the governor
[18:53] of a couple of states
[18:55] have made statements.
[18:57] But the senator
[18:58] from Michigan
[18:58] made a statement yesterday
[19:00] that was amazing
[19:00] where they want
[19:01] to frighten people,
[19:02] young people,
[19:03] from ever working
[19:04] in the Trump administration
[19:06] or a Republican administration
[19:09] that they want to go
[19:10] and they want to frighten people.
[19:13] And I heard it
[19:14] without commentary.
[19:16] And I said,
[19:16] wow, that's pretty bad.
[19:18] That's pretty bad.
[19:19] And then I heard commentary.
[19:20] And even the most liberal commentators
[19:23] couldn't believe
[19:24] that she made that statement.
[19:25] And she's a lightweight,
[19:26] by the way,
[19:26] total lightweight,
[19:28] stupid person.
[19:29] She's a person
[19:30] that should be tried
[19:33] for what she did
[19:34] where she said,
[19:35] no, no,
[19:35] we control government.
[19:37] You don't have to listen
[19:38] to the president.
[19:39] And we'll see what happens.
[19:40] That's still, you know,
[19:41] that's still up in the air.
[19:42] But she made a statement
[19:43] that was very, very dangerous,
[19:46] a very dangerous statement.
[19:47] Thank you.
[19:50] Mr. President,
[19:53] Mr. President,
[19:53] France has free health care,
[19:55] free child care,
[19:56] a 35-hour work week,
[19:58] and five weeks paid vacation.
[20:00] Despite all that,
[20:00] people are looting
[20:01] and burning down parts
[20:02] of their cities.
[20:03] Do you think spending
[20:04] a little more on education
[20:05] is going to stop this?
[20:06] No, it's not about education.
[20:08] It's about immigration.
[20:09] It's about illegal people
[20:10] coming in
[20:11] who basically hate France.
[20:12] They hate the people.
[20:13] They hate everything.
[20:14] They hate the architecture.
[20:15] You saw the building
[20:16] from the mid-1800s
[20:18] that fell down yesterday
[20:20] that burned down
[20:21] to the ground.
[20:22] It was a tragic, tragic sight.
[20:25] Now, these are people
[20:25] that hate France,
[20:26] but they've been let in.
[20:28] They hate France,
[20:29] but they've been let in.
[20:31] And you have to get them out.
[20:33] If you don't get them out,
[20:34] you're not going to have a France.
[20:34] Please.
[20:37] For the Vice President,
[20:38] for Adrian Ferguson,
[20:39] back on the incentives
[20:40] and the rewards,
[20:41] is it 1% up to a $30,000 limit,
[20:45] or is it unlimited?
[20:47] No.
[20:47] You go ahead.
[20:47] It's 1%.
[20:48] There's no limit.
[20:50] Do you have any criminal charges
[20:51] before someone's going to be able
[20:53] to get this incentive money?
[20:55] No.
[20:55] I don't think so.
[20:57] That's the answer.
[20:58] I put while I'm ahead, Jim.
[21:00] No, I just wanted to,
[21:01] you know,
[21:01] I didn't want to have you say,
[21:02] oh, we disagree on something,
[21:03] because we disagree on almost nothing,
[21:05] believe it or not.
[21:06] It is rather hard to believe.
[21:07] Yes, sir.
[21:08] But I figured if I answered it quickly,
[21:09] I'll make sure it's good.
[21:11] We don't have a problem.
[21:12] But no, no,
[21:13] it's not a criminal thing.
[21:14] It's, we hope that they go to jail.
[21:16] No.
[21:17] If we recover the money,
[21:18] that's what it is.
[21:20] You get 1%.
[21:21] And that includes you.
[21:23] Go ahead, JD.
[21:24] That's it, sir.
[21:25] Our plan is not to limit this
[21:27] just to criminal prosecutions.
[21:29] It's as the President said,
[21:30] if you find the money
[21:31] and you help us recover it,
[21:33] then you benefit from the program.
[21:34] We're going to make it very easy
[21:36] and very quick,
[21:37] and people can make a lot of money.
[21:40] But the only thing is,
[21:41] we want to make sure
[21:42] they're the people that turn it.
[21:43] Mr. President Trump,
[21:45] can you fill us in
[21:48] on what Secretary Hegseth
[21:50] spoke about
[21:50] with Prime Minister Netanyahu?
[21:51] I can't do that now.
[21:52] No.
[21:52] Mr. President,
[21:57] Nick Shirley over here.
[21:58] I love Salem, though.
[22:01] I'd let him go.
[22:02] I do like Salem.
[22:04] Salem is good.
[22:05] Go ahead.
[22:05] The Pressure on the trade deal
[22:06] with India is closed.
[22:07] Can you go into that?
[22:08] They want to make a deal?
[22:09] We're going to make a deal?
[22:10] They're pretty close, yeah.
[22:12] It's going to be a much different
[22:13] kind of a deal
[22:14] than we've been there.
[22:14] The Pressure on the foreign trade.
[22:15] The Pressure on the foreign trade.
[22:16] The Pressure on the foreign program,
[22:17] sir, if I may ask you,
[22:18] do you expect a phone
[22:18] to ring off the hook,
[22:20] as it were?
[22:20] About what?
[22:21] The Pressure on the foreign program.
[22:22] The new...
[22:22] I think it's going to ring
[22:23] off the hook, yeah.
[22:24] And is there enough money?
[22:26] There's $25 million there
[22:27] to, you know,
[22:28] for reward money.
[22:29] Is that enough?
[22:29] I think it's tremendous.
[22:31] I mean, if you look at it,
[22:32] I was thinking about,
[22:33] do we do 5%, 4%?
[22:35] Then when you start looking
[22:36] at the kind of numbers
[22:37] you're talking about,
[22:38] people will make millions
[22:40] of dollars
[22:40] by turning others in.
[22:42] The Pressure on the President.
[22:43] The Pressure on the President.
[22:44] One last question.
[22:45] Well, it could be
[22:46] we're going to protect the people
[22:47] if they want to be protected.
[22:51] If there is a problem
[22:52] with Ilhan Omar's age,
[22:53] could she be deported?
[22:55] Well, she could be.
[22:56] She could also go to jail.
[22:58] I mean, she could also go to jail.
[22:59] You know,
[23:00] they keep talking about deportation.
[23:01] No, she could go to jail.
[23:03] This is just my opinion.
[23:05] I think she's a sick,
[23:06] a very dishonest person,
[23:08] but who hates our country.
[23:12] And she comes from a country
[23:15] that is essentially
[23:16] not even a country,
[23:17] Somalia.
[23:19] It's a real shithouse, okay?
[23:22] It's got no government.
[23:24] It's got no police protection.
[23:26] All they do is have people
[23:27] running around
[23:27] shooting each other.
[23:28] Then she comes over here
[23:29] and she'll say,
[23:30] and she wants to tell us
[23:31] how to run America.
[23:33] She wants to tell us
[23:34] how to run the United States
[23:35] of America.
[23:36] And she'll say,
[23:37] oh, I have constitutional rights.
[23:39] And she never heard
[23:41] the word concept.
[23:41] She never saw that before.
[23:43] See that?
[23:44] She never saw that before.
[23:45] She says she has rights.
[23:47] She's a disgrace to our country.
[23:49] And it's amazing that
[23:51] she can get elected,
[23:53] but Somalians vote for her.
[23:54] You know,
[23:54] Somalians vote for her.
[23:56] And most of them
[23:57] shouldn't be here.
[23:58] Do you know they have
[23:58] like a 98% unemployment rate?
[24:01] They don't work.
[24:02] 98%.
[24:03] It's a disgrace.
[24:05] It's a disgrace.
[24:06] And they've ruined
[24:07] a great state.
[24:08] You know,
[24:08] you have a great state.
[24:10] I remember Minnesota
[24:11] in the old days.
[24:12] What a beautiful,
[24:14] what a beautiful,
[24:14] with lakes all over the place
[24:16] and more lakes
[24:16] than any place
[24:17] I've ever seen.
[24:18] So beautiful.
[24:19] They're destroying it probably.
[24:21] Maybe they've destroyed it.
[24:23] And I only hope
[24:24] a Republican woman
[24:25] who happens to be
[24:26] very respected
[24:27] by everybody
[24:27] gets in
[24:29] because you will see
[24:29] a difference.
[24:30] But I will say this.
[24:32] I hope they
[24:35] treat her fairly.
[24:37] But I think
[24:38] she's a very
[24:39] dishonest person.
[24:40] President Trump!
[24:40] Mr. President!
[24:41] Mr. President!
[24:42] Mr. President!
[24:43] Mr. President!
[24:43] Mr. President!
[24:44] Mr. President!
[24:44] Mr. President!
[24:45] Mr. President!
[24:46] Mr. President!
[24:46] In the new Fox News
[24:48] power rankings,
[24:49] it shows that
[24:49] less than a quarter
[24:50] of rural voters
[24:51] are happy
[24:51] with the state
[24:52] of the economy.
[24:53] Are you concerned
[24:53] about these people
[24:54] to adopt this?
[24:54] No, because as soon
[24:55] as the war's over,
[24:56] it's going to end
[24:56] very soon.
[24:57] The Iran war,
[24:58] I had no choice.
[24:59] You can't let them have it.
[25:00] It's the number one
[25:01] state sponsor of terror.
[25:02] As soon as that war
[25:04] is over,
[25:05] oil is going to drop
[25:06] like a rock,
[25:07] and that's the only
[25:08] thing holding it back.
[25:09] No, we have
[25:10] tremendous support.
[25:11] You know,
[25:12] when people are unhappy
[25:14] with the gasoline,
[25:15] I hate to sound trivial,
[25:16] but they say it
[25:19] themselves.
[25:19] It's a big price,
[25:21] but actually it's
[25:22] a small price to pay
[25:23] for not letting Iran
[25:24] have a nuclear weapon.
[25:26] And they will never
[25:27] have a nuclear weapon.
[25:27] And that's already,
[25:29] but we could leave
[25:29] right now,
[25:31] and we would have
[25:31] done a good job,
[25:32] a great job.
[25:34] That beautiful plane
[25:35] right there took them out,
[25:36] but it's under
[25:37] hundreds of tons
[25:38] of rock.
[25:40] But it's not good
[25:42] enough for me.
[25:42] We have to make sure
[25:43] it doesn't happen
[25:44] in five years,
[25:46] six years,
[25:46] ten years,
[25:47] and that's what's
[25:48] going to happen.
[25:49] So it really is,
[25:50] it's a very small price
[25:51] to pay for not letting
[25:53] the most dangerous
[25:54] country in the world
[25:56] have a nuclear weapon.
[25:57] President Trump,
[25:58] President Trump,
[25:59] you own a lot
[26:03] of golf clubs.
[26:04] Quiet, quiet.
[26:06] What's wrong with you?
[26:07] Are you a sick person?
[26:09] Not that I know him, sir.
[26:10] Mr. President,
[26:11] on the Vitares...
[26:12] I actually think
[26:13] there's something
[26:14] wrong with you.
[26:15] Go ahead.
[26:15] I wanted to ask
[26:16] Mr. President,
[26:18] since we have
[26:18] the Vice President here,
[26:20] the Vice President
[26:21] said in an interview
[26:21] yesterday that he thought
[26:23] that you would endorse him
[26:24] if he does decide
[26:25] to run in 2028,
[26:27] since we're here.
[26:28] Could you tell us...
[26:28] Well, I tell you
[26:29] this,
[26:30] he's a very talented
[26:31] person,
[26:32] and he's a very good
[26:33] person,
[26:34] but we've literally,
[26:35] I don't think we've ever
[26:36] talked about it.
[26:37] No, sir.
[26:38] I said that, too.
[26:39] You know,
[26:39] who would believe that?
[26:40] I don't talk about it
[26:41] with him.
[26:41] He doesn't talk about it.
[26:42] It's early.
[26:43] We are very early
[26:44] right now.
[26:45] We have to get through
[26:45] the midterms.
[26:46] We'll see how it goes.
[26:47] I'm going to a rally
[26:48] in North Carolina.
[26:50] We had an amazing rally
[26:52] last night,
[26:53] Kansas,
[26:54] for a tremendous,
[26:55] a tremendous person,
[26:57] a number of great people,
[26:58] but in particular,
[27:00] a senator who's done
[27:01] a fantastic job,
[27:02] as you know,
[27:03] Roger.
[27:04] And I think Roger Marshall
[27:07] was helped a lot
[27:08] last night
[27:08] when we had that.
[27:10] I think it was,
[27:11] it really took him
[27:12] to a very high level,
[27:13] which,
[27:13] where he should be.
[27:16] But I've done a lot
[27:17] of rallies
[27:18] in the last week,
[27:21] and I guess we're up
[27:23] to 10 or 11,
[27:25] and it's not easy
[27:26] to stand up there
[27:27] for two hours
[27:28] ranting, raving.
[27:30] You have the crowds,
[27:31] but there's a lot
[27:32] of love in those rooms,
[27:33] and I think it's
[27:34] made a big difference.
[27:35] It's made a,
[27:36] the Republican Party
[27:37] has got tremendous spirit,
[27:40] tremendous spirit,
[27:41] tremendous love,
[27:42] and I'm going to be
[27:43] going for another one.
[27:44] I'll be going also
[27:45] to Ohio,
[27:46] where our candidate,
[27:48] who turned out
[27:49] to be a great football player
[27:50] that a lot of people,
[27:51] I mean,
[27:52] a great player,
[27:53] not a good player,
[27:54] a great player,
[27:55] but he's a humble man,
[27:56] and he didn't brag about it.
[27:57] I would have been
[27:58] bragging like hell about it.
[27:59] I would have said,
[27:59] I'm an All-American.
[28:01] I ripped the heads
[28:02] off people.
[28:03] You know,
[28:03] John Gruden,
[28:05] who's a fantastic guy,
[28:06] great coach,
[28:07] and he was a very good
[28:08] college player.
[28:09] He said that he was up
[28:12] to be with his friend.
[28:14] He said,
[28:14] what are you doing here?
[28:16] And he was saying how,
[28:17] and this is our candidate,
[28:19] who nobody,
[28:20] I guess,
[28:20] actually people from Ohio,
[28:22] a small group of sports,
[28:24] big sports fans knew,
[28:25] but we found out
[28:28] about the real man,
[28:30] and you probably saw
[28:33] the polls.
[28:33] He's now leading,
[28:34] and he was down
[28:35] by quite a bit,
[28:37] but I looked at the jersey,
[28:41] Usted,
[28:42] and Usted was a real,
[28:43] he was a real,
[28:45] he was a top-of-the-line player.
[28:46] John Gruden said,
[28:48] they had the championship team.
[28:50] He said he was the best player
[28:51] on the team.
[28:51] He had 17 interceptions.
[28:53] He was an All-American.
[28:55] Nobody knew this,
[28:56] and in Ohio,
[28:58] when you have those credentials,
[29:00] it helps,
[29:01] and that was an unbelievable rally,
[29:03] but we've gotten others up also.
[29:05] We've gotten them way up,
[29:05] so let's see what happens.
[29:07] I think you're going to have a good,
[29:08] you know,
[29:08] I watched our Speaker of the House,
[29:10] and he talks about the fact
[29:14] that there's a lot of things going on
[29:17] that the media's not seeing.
[29:19] I really believe it, too.
[29:20] I just feel there's a great,
[29:21] I don't know.
[29:22] The President always loses,
[29:25] for whatever reason,
[29:27] the midterms.
[29:27] Whoever it is,
[29:28] Republican, Democrat,
[29:29] great President,
[29:31] lousy President,
[29:32] for some reason,
[29:33] I guess they've won
[29:34] two out of 25.
[29:35] I don't, I don't know.
[29:36] Oz, is there a reason
[29:37] you can think of medically?
[29:39] Why do people vote?
[29:40] But there should be no reason.
[29:42] In fact, you'd think it would be
[29:43] an asset, not a liability.
[29:45] But Presidents,
[29:46] they go in,
[29:46] good ones, bad ones,
[29:47] Republicans, Democrats,
[29:49] they tend to lose the midterms.
[29:52] We'll see what happens.
[29:54] I do say this.
[29:55] When I was on the ticket,
[29:57] when I ran,
[29:58] we won everything.
[30:00] We won everything.
[30:01] When I don't run,
[30:02] people don't show up to vote
[30:03] by 49%.
[30:04] Exactly.
[30:05] It's very, you know,
[30:05] no great science.
[30:06] It's 49% less.
[30:08] If I can get my voters,
[30:11] MAGA, Republicans,
[30:12] whatever you want to call,
[30:14] if they get out to vote,
[30:15] we'll win in a landslide.
[30:16] But they have to want
[30:17] to get out to vote.
[30:18] And if you're not on the ballot,
[30:21] it's a little harder.
[30:21] So I'm asking them
[30:23] to pretend I'm on the ballot.
[30:24] Thank you very much, everybody.
[30:26] Thank you.
[30:26] Thank you so much, guys.
[30:31] Keep your head out that door.
[30:32] Thank you, guys.
[30:33] Thank you for us.
[30:34] Thank you, guys.
[30:35] I better not get involved.
[30:37] There's a looming lockout.
[30:38] There's a looming lockout
[30:39] coming at Major League Baseball,
[30:40] as we know.
[30:40] I think it will.
[30:41] That is going to happen.
[30:43] Two teams are lower salary.
[30:45] Do you think that doesn't impact?
[30:46] Okay.
[30:46] Let's do it another.
[30:47] Nobody cares.
[30:50] Thank you.
[30:52] Keep moving.
[30:53] You guys, you guys.
[30:54] All right.