President Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office

[0:00] years, the Biden disasters. [0:03] And we stopped that. [0:05] We stopped it down to zero. [0:08] Hard to believe, but the numbers come out. [0:10] Every month, they come out zero, zero, zero. [0:12] People don't come anymore because they know [0:13] they're not going to get through. [0:15] So we had caravans of 10, 15, 20, 25,000 people [0:19] coming up from countries. [0:21] And remember, I know these people. [0:23] I know the leaders of the countries. [0:24] They're smart, and they're cunning, and they're streetwise. [0:28] And they would put their people that were from [0:31] prisons in there, and they would put their [0:33] murderers in there, and they'd put a lot of bad people. [0:37] And they'd also put people that just didn't work. [0:40] They'd put all of their welfare recipients in there, [0:42] and they'd send them into our country. [0:44] And all of that stopped. [0:46] And many of those people are now brought back. [0:48] Many of the murderers, 11,888 were murderers. [0:53] I say it all the time, 50 percent of them were. [0:56] They murdered more than one person, two, three, four. [1:01] When seven people murdered into our country, [1:03] they let them into our country. [1:06] It's a sin that should never be forgotten. [1:08] So it's a much different country right now. [1:11] We're respected by everybody. [1:13] Everybody in the world respects. [1:14] We just got back from China, as you know. [1:16] Some of you were with us. [1:18] And President Xi was great, and anywhere in the world. [1:34] We're the most successful country in the world. [1:35] So this is very important what you're doing. [1:38] And I'd like to have Will just say a few words [1:40] about it specifically. [1:42] Yes, sir, as Rodney and Counselor Navarro said, [1:45] this is an executive order on strengthening [1:47] customs enforcement using new technologies [1:50] and new approaches. [1:51] The idea here is to ensure that importers of record, [1:53] other people moving goods across our border, [1:57] are accurately reporting what they're bringing in, [1:59] that contraband, that illegal goods aren't being brought [2:01] across the border, and that goods being brought in [2:04] are being accurately accounted for for purposes of duties [2:08] and tariffs and all of the other things we require [2:10] of importers of record. [2:12] But this executive order will launch a series [2:14] of bold new steps that I think we as an administration [2:17] believe will result in the tightest, [2:21] most controlled border in American history, [2:24] following on, obviously, your success [2:25] in closing the southern border [2:26] and stopping the scourge of illegal immigration [2:29] into the country as well, sir. [2:30] The President Trump So, Peter, [2:32] what kind of money do you think this involves [2:34] in terms of savings to our country? [2:36] I will guarantee you the first year will be [2:38] at least $15 billion, the next year $25 billion, [2:41] and out there there's $80 to $100 billion [2:43] that the tariff evaders are doing. [2:45] Plus, sir, we're going to stop more of the fentanyl [2:48] coming in and we're going to crack down on counterfeits. [2:50] This is good for America. [2:52] This is good for the people that elected you. [2:54] It's good for the country. [2:55] And we have fentanyl coming in, 59% less, [2:59] cut it by a number that nobody thought was even possible. [3:01] We're going to get it a lot lower than that, [3:03] but we haven't, and we did this in a very short period of time. [3:06] This is going to be a great one, sir. [3:07] This is the moneymaker for us. [3:09] And CBP has been doing a really great job innovating on this, sir. [3:13] The President Trump You've done a fantastic job. [3:15] Thank you. [3:15] The President Trump Appreciate it, sir. [3:16] The President Trump Okay, we'll start in one. [3:17] That's a good one. [3:30] The President Trump That's a nice one. [3:37] The President Trump What else do you have? [3:38] The President Trump This is another executive order [3:40] on reforms to the federal workforce, sir. [3:43] Currently, with respect to many policy-making positions [3:46] in the departments and agencies across government, [3:49] we lack the ability, because of existing personnel rules, [3:52] to effectively discipline or promote people [3:55] who are in policy-making roles. [3:57] This executive order follows on a number [3:59] of previous executive orders. [4:00] The end goal is making the federal workforce more accountable [4:05] and ensuring that people, particularly in policy-making roles, [4:08] aren't unaccountable to the wishes of the administration. [4:13] The President Trump And the reason for this was what? [4:14] Whose idea was that? [4:16] The President Trump James Shirk, [4:18] who's here from the Domestic Policy Council, [4:19] who's here from the Department of Public Policy Council? [4:24] The President Trump Thank you, sir. [4:25] It's been a longstanding problem that is almost impossible [4:27] to fire a federal employee, even in cases of serious misconduct. [4:30] And as a result, if you have employees who are trying [4:34] to undermine the wishes of the American people [4:35] by pushing their own agenda or just incompetent [4:38] in what they're doing, agencies have a longstanding, [4:40] difficult time getting rid of them. [4:42] And that's a particular problem if you're in a senior policy-influencing role [4:44] where you're controlling the policy of the entire agency. [4:48] What this does is basically treats those employees [4:50] like private sector workers. [4:52] They can be hired on the basis of merit and competence, [4:56] but if they're messing up, then they can be removed quickly [4:59] rather than taking a year or longer to get rid of them. [5:02] That's great. [5:02] And you were very much involved? [5:04] I was, sir. [5:05] Central Press. [5:06] This is the gravy, sir. [5:08] He's like perfectly cast of a best-in-law. [5:11] You couldn't have done that any better. [5:13] Were you nervous? [5:14] No. [5:15] A little. [5:16] Thank you, sir. [5:17] Would anybody else like to say anything about either one? [5:21] What about you? [5:23] Come on over here. [5:24] Come on. [5:25] Can you drop him? [5:27] You don't have to. [5:28] Thank you very much. [5:29] Great job. [5:30] Go ahead, please. [5:31] Yeah, this Customs Reform EO is a long time coming for us. [5:35] It helps us solve problems that have plagued the custom system [5:38] for many years. [5:39] We've had a system where people have basically been able [5:43] to hide behind shell companies. [5:45] They move from one to the next, and then we can't go after them. [5:48] This EO really enables us to crack down and hold people accountable. [5:52] It's so important. [5:53] I know you took it so seriously. [5:55] See how serious they are? [5:56] I mean, there's a love of the country. [6:00] This isn't like normal stuff. [6:01] These are the smartest people in the world. [6:03] They can do anything they want. [6:04] They can have any job. [6:05] And they love this country. [6:06] They just want to be here. [6:07] They just want to be here. [6:08] And they hate what you saw. [6:10] And you fixed it. [6:11] Thank you very much. [6:13] All of you. [6:14] Anybody else? [6:15] It's a big one. [6:37] Okay. [6:38] Thank you. [6:42] Pulitzer Prize winner over there. [6:43] I got the great Pulitzer Prize winner. [6:46] Okay. [6:47] Thank you very much. [6:51] That's great. [6:52] Thank you, Mr. President. [6:53] Do you have any questions? [6:54] Mr. President. [6:55] Mr. President. [6:56] Mr. President. [6:57] Mr. President. [6:58] Mr. President. [6:59] Mr. President. [7:01] Mr. President. [7:02] Mr. President. [7:03] Given Iran's attacks on Kuwait, this latest attack on Kuwait, is the ceasefire with Iran still on? [7:09] Mr. President. [7:10] Well, you know, there's a reason for everything. [7:12] And we hit them pretty hard the night before and actually last night. [7:17] And what it was explained to me, I said, all right, so we'll do that. [7:22] But we've been hitting them pretty hard a little bit. [7:24] So there is a reason for certain things. [7:27] And there's usually a reason that some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason. [7:46] So they were reciprocating everything. [7:49] Mr. President, can you explain why? [7:50] Mr. President. [7:51] I hear the negotiation itself has gone through very well actually. [7:55] Very well. [7:56] Mr. President. [7:57] Mr. President yesterday. [7:58] Mr. I mean, if it happens, I mean, it might not happen, you know. [8:01] But if it happens, it could happen like over the weekend. [8:03] Mr. President yesterday. [8:04] Mr. President yesterday. [8:05] Mr. President yesterday. [8:06] Mr. President yesterday. [8:08] Mr. President yesterday. [8:09] Mr. President yesterday. [8:10] Mr. How do you define ceasefire? [8:11] Mr. Pretty much the way it is. [8:12] It's a different part of the world. [8:13] You know, I'd say in that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner. [8:16] Mr. President, can you explain why you decided to drop the Anti-Weaponization Fund? [8:31] Mr. So, I love it. [8:33] I think it's so important. [8:36] People were, this is a victim right here, but not only a victim, he was also a student of it. [8:41] What happened to great people, great American people, the way they were victimized, the way they were savaged. [8:49] You have suicides. [8:51] They killed themselves. [8:52] They went bankrupt. [8:54] They were weaponized by the Biden administration, by a bunch of thugs, including Obama people. [8:59] And like nobody's probably ever been, I mean, I can think of maybe two instances in this country where they've had it. [9:06] To somewhere to that extent. [9:08] I'm not even sure if it was so much. [9:10] They were put in jail for long periods of time. [9:14] They were accused of things that never happened. [9:17] They had prosecutors that were radical lunatics. [9:21] And their lives were destroyed. [9:24] And frankly, we had a lawsuit that, against us on the, you know, on the weaponization, where the judge, a radical left judge ruled against it. [9:37] And we'll see how that all works out. [9:40] But a radical left judge ruled against it. [9:42] But these people, their lives have been destroyed. [9:45] Their families have been destroyed. [9:47] Many of them. [9:48] I'm not just talking about a few people. [9:50] Many of them. [9:51] I'm one of them. [9:52] I look, they raided my house, Mar-a-Lago. [9:56] That never happened. [9:58] Nobody ever thought of a thing like that. [10:00] And it turned out that it was a total fake. [10:02] Everything about it was fake and corrupt. [10:04] We have all the information. [10:05] You know, the good advantage to sitting here is we can get information that you wouldn't get by saying, [10:10] right? [10:11] So what we have and what we are going to be showing over the coming weeks or months, you're not even going to believe. [10:16] Some of you will believe it. [10:17] Like CNN will believe it because they knew what was going on. [10:20] They're crooked as hell. [10:21] CNN is a very corrupt organization, but with a corrupt reporter standing right there. [10:29] Never smiles. [10:30] You never smile. [10:31] She's a young, beautiful woman. [10:32] Never smiles. [10:33] I never see a smile off her face. [10:34] I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes. [10:36] Like, she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted. [10:46] And then we win our election in a massive landslide. [10:50] We win 87 percent of the counties in this country. [10:53] Nobody has ever heard of a thing like that. [10:56] And that's because we're doing the right job. [10:58] And we took a detour down to Iran because we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon under any circumstances. [11:04] We can't let that happen. [11:05] So the reporters should be happy. [11:08] They shouldn't be unhappy. [11:09] They should be very happy. [11:10] Can you just say, Mr. President? [11:11] Because you know what we're doing? [11:12] We're saving our country. [11:13] Just to follow up on that. [11:14] Yes, Mr. President, just to follow up on that. [11:15] Two questions. [11:16] One on Iran and then one on your birthday. [11:17] Okay. [11:18] Would you be willing? [11:19] The first one is, are you concerned at all that the IRGC could sabotage any potential deal? [11:24] And then the second one is, you have a birthday coming up. [11:27] I won't say which number, but it's a big birthday. [11:29] So you're going to blow out, you know, some candles on a cake, hopefully. [11:34] What are your wishes that you'd like to see accomplish for the next year for the United States and your presidency? [11:39] Well, I'll go in your order. [11:42] Anything can happen, you know, when you're dealing with Iran. [11:46] But when you're dealing with other countries, but that's a very volatile part of the world, [11:50] probably the most volatile part of the world. [11:52] It's very, the people are volatile. [11:55] The leadership, you see what's going on. [11:57] We've gone through three teams of leadership. [12:00] It's been a, you know, we're military. [12:02] There's no, never been a military like what we have. [12:04] We could go another two, three weeks and just wipe everybody out. [12:09] I'd rather not do that. [12:11] Very easy to do. [12:12] They're ready to do it. [12:13] They want to do it. [12:14] They want to do it. [12:15] But if we can get something down in writing which will accomplish the same thing without killing everybody, [12:20] I'd like to do that. [12:21] Most of my people, I think, would like to do that. [12:23] Some people wouldn't, but most of them would. [12:27] But we had to take a detour. [12:28] As far as wishes for, and I'm very proud of that detour, as we have to do it. [12:44] I knew it would affect it, but I was very happily surprised when I saw that today we hit another stock market high. [12:52] I mean, we have the highest stock market in history with a military conflict going on or a war. [12:57] Some people call it war. [12:58] Some people call it a military. [13:00] It's not a big thing for us. [13:01] We have a great military. [13:02] It's not a big thing for us. [13:04] But if I didn't do that, I spoke to people like Peter, great financial people, Scott and Howard and lots of others. [13:11] I said, you know, we just hit the greatest stock market in history. [13:15] Everyone's 401 s are the highest they've ever been. [13:18] Everybody's making a lot of money. [13:20] Costs are coming down. [13:22] You know, we took over the highest cost and the highest inflation in the history of our country. [13:26] Costs are coming down. [13:27] Everything's good. [13:28] And I hate to tell you this, but we've got to take a little detour and go down to a place called the Islamic Republic of Iran. [13:35] And we're going to have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon. [13:39] That's what we've done. [13:40] And they've agreed to that. [13:41] By the way, they, I mean, if they sign the agreement, they will have agreed to, we will not have a nuclear weapon or bomb. [13:50] We will not. [13:51] We got it if they sign the paper. [14:02] In theory, they're pretty close to signing a paper. [14:05] We've actually gotten along with them very well. [14:07] And you know what? [14:08] You saw it for the last few nights. [14:10] It takes two to tango. [14:12] You understand that. [14:13] We hit them very hard on something else, unrelated. [14:15] And so they were responding. [14:18] But, and not, you know, not very strongly. [14:21] As far as birthdays, as far as wishes, I wanted to just, you know, we have a phrase. [14:25] I think it goes down. [14:26] I would think in the history of our country, maybe the history of the world, [14:29] is the greatest slogan or phrase ever. [14:33] Make America great again. [14:35] That's all I want. [14:36] I want to make America great again. [14:37] I think we've come a long way. [14:38] I think we're the most respected country in the world right now. [14:42] By far, the most respected. [14:44] President Xi told me I was talking about. [14:46] He's a friend of mine. [14:47] He's a good man. [14:48] I hate to say it because the press goes in and they say, [14:51] oh, he called him a good man. [14:52] He is a good man. [14:53] He's for China. [14:55] I'm for the USA. [14:56] You know? [14:57] It's like one of those things. [14:58] But we do very well now with China. [15:00] When I came here, we were not doing well with China. [15:03] My first term, when I inherited that, it was like what China was doing to us was incredible. [15:07] I don't blame China. [15:08] They took advantage of stupid people. [15:10] Really stupid people. [15:12] So, we're doing great. [15:14] But the phrase, make America great again. [15:17] That's all I want. [15:18] Very simple phrase to think of. [15:20] And I think it's the greatest in the history. [15:23] I would say that's probably the greatest phrase in the history of the world. [15:26] Not only here. [15:27] There's never been anything like it. [15:28] Make America great again. [15:29] That's what I've done. [15:30] And we've made it great. [15:31] In fact, in a way, I want to use it because I would never give it up. [15:32] MAGA is too good. [15:33] It's too good. [15:34] It's too good. [15:35] It really is the Republican Party. [15:36] That's why we're doing so well. [15:37] That's why we, you know, if you look at the Republican Party from before I came till now, [15:51] this is a much different party. [15:52] It's a much bigger party. [15:53] We have many, many more people. [15:55] And I think the thought, the mind, the thought is much different than it was 10 years ago. [16:03] It's been amazing. [16:05] A much more powerful party. [16:06] A much different party. [16:07] And a much more impactful party. [16:11] Thank you very much. [16:12] Two questions on the Iran side. [16:16] First, you said last week that the U.S. would go in and dig out the buried nuclear material. [16:24] With them. [16:25] With them. [16:26] Right. [16:28] Did Iran actually agree to that? [16:30] Well, it depends on what day you're talking about. [16:33] They did agree. [16:34] And then sometimes they did. [16:35] They agreed. [16:36] Well, that's what I'm saying. [16:38] It's one of the things we talk about. [16:41] It's very overrated. [16:43] I'm the one that overrated it. [16:45] I thought, to me, it was important to other people. [16:47] It's not important. [16:48] Because those beautiful B-2 right here, the B-2 bombers, they obliterated. [16:54] You know, when CNN said maybe it was an obliteration, they knew it. [16:59] I mean, before the pilots even came back home, before anybody saw the site. [17:02] But then the Atomic Energy Commission went, they said it was obliterated. [17:06] And that stuff is buried underneath a mountain and virtually collapses. [17:11] Very, very hard to get it. [17:13] But one of the — but nevertheless, I want to get it. [17:16] We're the only ones — us and probably China are the only two countries that have the equipment where you can do that. [17:22] So, yeah, I want to get it. [17:23] We have, at different times, had different — I mean, they've changed their mind a couple of times. [17:29] But as it stands now, we will go in at some time in the not-too-distant future. [17:33] It's very safe down there. [17:35] You know, we have — with Space Force, we have cameras. [17:38] Every angle of that — those three sites are being watched at all times. [17:43] If anybody went there, we'll see exactly what's happening, and we'll blow it up a little bit further. [17:50] But as far as getting it, it's very — the B-2 bombers did a job like nobody's ever seen. [17:56] In the night, with no moon, dead darkness, at one o'clock in the morning or so, they dropped those bombs — [18:03] the biggest — just about as big a bomb as you can ever find. [18:06] And it hit — it went down air chutes. [18:08] It's hard to believe that they can do the technology. [18:10] It followed a beam right into the air chutes, right — exploded. [18:14] Now, very hard to get that material, but I still nevertheless want it. [18:19] And I don't want to do it if we're in conflict. [18:22] I don't want to put men in that kind of danger. [18:24] I remember Jimmy Carter had some bad problems in Iran with the hostages. [18:29] I don't want to ever put our people in that kind of danger. [18:31] But when it's over, as of this moment, it's agreed that we will go in with them. [18:36] We will get it, and we will destroy it. [18:38] It will be destroyed. [18:40] Mr. President, my second question. [18:43] Is it possible to get to a deal with Iran, whether to go in and do that [18:48] or to open up the Strait of Hormuz without seeing an Israeli cessation of their hostilities in Lebanon? [18:56] I think it worked. [18:57] We're trying to separate it. [18:58] I mean, you know, it's a very different kind of a thing. [19:03] We actually spoke with Hezbollah for the first time ever. [19:08] We didn't know they spoke. [19:10] And they agreed yesterday. [19:15] They're not going to shoot. [19:16] Israel's not going to shoot. [19:17] We're just going to see. [19:18] But I'd like to separate it. [19:20] I'd like to have a separate thing, because it is separate. [19:24] But Israel, hey, look, they've been a great partner. [19:30] Bibi Netanyahu has been, for me, a great partner. [19:33] For other people, not so good. [19:34] For me, he's been very good. [19:36] We were very effective, what we've done. [19:38] And they needed us. [19:39] They couldn't have done it without us. [19:40] Couldn't have even come close. [19:41] And they needed us. [19:42] And they got us to help them with a real problem. [19:46] Because Iran was a real problem. [19:47] A big problem. [19:48] A worldwide problem. [19:49] Because they wouldn't have stopped with Israel. [19:51] They would have blown up the Middle East. [19:53] And you saw that by the rockets. [19:54] All those rockets that went to the five, mostly for the most part, [19:58] the five countries outside of Israel, those rockets were in the first term [20:11] when they terminated the Iran nuclear deal penned by Barack Hussein Obama. [20:17] It was one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. [20:19] And this is by Barack Hussein Obama. [20:21] It was one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. [20:23] And this has no relation. [20:24] You know, I like these morons, these Democrats. [20:27] D-U-M Democrats that go on television and say, [20:31] oh, well, this is just like the Obama deal. [20:34] This is the exact opposite. [20:36] This is no path to a nuclear weapon. [20:39] That was an absolute path to a nuclear weapon [20:44] that you couldn't have done anything about. [20:46] This is the exact opposite. [20:47] They gave billions and billions of dollars to Iran, [20:51] including $1.7 billion, put into a Boeing 757 [20:56] with the seats taken out because there wasn't enough room [20:59] if you left the seats, with $1.7 billion in cash [21:03] taken from the banks in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia [21:08] and flown to Iran, $1.7 billion in green cash [21:13] and then tens of billions of dollars given to Iran [21:18] by our government. [21:28] Not the bombing that wouldn't have worked without the blockade. [21:30] The blockade is the most powerful thing. [21:32] I think the blockade maybe has more impact than the bombing has. [21:35] But the blockade that we have, the naval blockade, is incredible. [21:38] Not one ship has gotten through unless we wanted it to. [21:41] And people respect it a lot. [21:43] And we'll see. [21:44] But, you know, there's a chance if this really worked out, [21:47] they could rebuild. [21:49] You know, it used to be a very, very good nation. [21:52] You go back. [21:53] I have friends that used to — old-timers. [21:55] They used to go there and they used to do well. [21:57] They used to build and run. [21:58] They built apartment houses and they built office buildings in Iran. [22:01] Hard to believe, right? [22:02] But there's a chance that maybe that comes back. [22:07] But whether it comes back or not, [22:09] I think we have a very powerful deal that we're negotiating. [22:12] The exact opposite as the Obama deal. [22:15] The Obama deal was a disgrace. [22:17] It gave them a nuclear weapon. [22:18] We do the exact thing. [22:19] We, under our deal, they will never, ever have a nuclear weapon. [22:23] One of the other things that happens — and this is important — [22:27] but there's nothing more important than taking away the capability [22:30] of a nuclear weapon from Iran. [22:32] Mr. President, I — [22:34] But one of the other things that's important — and very important — [22:37] is that immediately upon signing the Memorandum of Understanding, [22:42] the Hormone Strait will open. [22:44] And it'll open up quickly. [22:46] And we've already had our minesweepers there. [22:49] You know, we're sweeping, as you probably have heard. [22:53] And these are underwater minesweepers. [22:55] They're great, amazing technology. [22:57] They're underwater because usually when you're looking for mines, [23:00] that usually means you have some dangerous characters out there. [23:02] That's why — so we're underwater. [23:04] But we've swept mines. [23:06] And we've gotten most of them, we think. [23:08] So — but the Hormone Strait will open immediately upon signing. [23:14] Now, that's subject to a couple of areas being cleaned out also of mines, [23:18] which we don't think there are any. [23:20] So it'll happen very quickly. [23:22] And we'll take the southern route anyway. [23:24] But immediately upon signing, we open up the Hormone Strait. [23:30] Mr. President, just to clarify on what you said — [23:34] Excuse me, Mr. President. [23:35] Just to clarify on what you were asked earlier. [23:37] Is the $1.8 billion DOJ fund dead, or is it on hold? [23:41] It's — I'd have to ask the lawyers. I don't know. [23:44] I know one thing — the weaponization — [23:46] Are you talking about the weaponization fund? [23:48] Yeah, what's your decision? [23:49] The weaponization fund, as far as I'm concerned, was a beautiful thing. [23:54] It was something I was — I didn't make it, but I was — I heard that. [23:58] I thought that was the greatest thing because people like you have abused our people so badly. [24:03] The fake news, like CNN, like The New York Times, and like others have abused our people — [24:08] Well, Republicans were critical about it, Mr. President, on Capitol Hill. [24:09] — have abused our people so badly, and you should be ashamed of yourself. [24:14] You used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama. Can you believe it? [24:19] But CNN — in particular, CNN does such false reporting. [24:23] But now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. I doubt it. [24:26] But it's hard to straighten garbage out. [24:29] But CNN has abused — and others have abused so badly — people. [24:34] These are people that are great people that were destroyed. [24:38] Their families have been destroyed. Many suicides — they committed suicide. [24:42] People that went there to — with love. They went there with love. [24:46] You know, when I made that speech early in the day — tremendous crowd. [24:51] I hate to say because they'll say, oh, I was wrong on the number, [24:54] but I believe it's the largest crowd I've ever spoken to by twice. [24:59] The biggest crowd, I think — bigger than the inaugurations, bigger than anything. [25:03] And there was so much love and friendship. It was the most amazing thing. [25:08] People were crying. They were like, wait a minute, let me finish. [25:11] Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. [25:13] And those people have been abused by you and by others and by the politicians, by the Democrats. [25:22] They're dumb people. They want to have open borders. [25:24] They want to have transgender mutilization of your children. [25:27] They want to have men playing in women's sports. They want to have high taxes. [25:30] They turned down — you know, they fought us on the tax bill. [25:33] And they fought us because they want people to pay high taxes, because they're crazy. [25:38] There's something wrong with them. There's something wrong with you. It's a shame. [25:41] Yeah, go ahead, please. [25:42] Mr. President, thank you so much. On communism, today you have some stern words on communism on — [25:46] I just wrote that. Did you like it? Did you think it was well-written? [25:49] Well, it's certainly very meaningful to a lot of Americans who wrote it for you — [25:52] Well, I read it. Do you want to read it? Do you have it? You can read it so I'm true. [25:56] I just wrote it. For sure. [25:57] I just felt — I've seen what's going on with communism, and I see this country. [26:02] Read it. I'd love to have you. Thank you. [26:04] Sure. You wrote that quote, [26:05] The communists always do well with the voters, or as they would say, the people in the early years. [26:10] But in the end, the country, state or city, goes to hell. [26:14] Great violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into — [26:18] And it's so easy, you know. I'd be the greatest in the world. [26:36] Nobody would be as good as me. I'd get away every — I could be the greatest. [26:40] I would sell them. You're going to get free rent. You're going to get free houses. [26:44] You're going to get free food. You're going to get free everything. [26:47] But eventually, that ends, and it leads to death, destruction, and squalor. [26:54] A hundred percent of the time. [26:56] When I watched New York, and, you know, I liked him very much. [26:59] He stood right here, and he's been in the office a couple of times. [27:02] The mayor of New York. I think he's a very nice person. [27:05] But — and I don't know. He's a smart guy. [27:08] I don't understand why he thinks it's okay for all these companies [27:12] that pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes a year to leave. [27:16] Because you're not going to have any tax base. [27:19] And you're going to end up in hunger, and squalor, and death, and destruction. [27:24] I would be better than him if I wanted to go that route. [27:29] Ladies and gentlemen, you'll no longer pay rent. [27:33] You're no longer — you're no longer going to have — [27:47] you're going to have the greatest life ever. [27:49] Follow me. You're going to have the greatest life — [27:51] and you know what? [27:52] For a couple of years, that's such a powerful — [27:54] I would be the best ever at giving it. [27:56] Nobody would ever be. [27:57] I had to sell free enterprise. [27:59] Free enterprise is tougher to sell, [28:01] but that's what's made our country great. [28:04] And that's why it's great again now. [28:07] If I didn't get elected, we wouldn't have a country. [28:09] We really wouldn't have a country. [28:10] This country would be finished. [28:12] But I see what's happening in Los Angeles. [28:14] I see what's happening in New York, where — [28:16] Look at Chicago. You have a stupid governor. [28:18] A dumb governor. A really dumb guy. [28:21] I know him well. He's a failure in his family. [28:23] Pritzker. I know the family. [28:24] His partner's in a deal with them. [28:26] I made a lot of money. They made money. [28:27] We made a good partnership. [28:29] But he was like an outcast in the family. [28:31] He was a slob. [28:33] And the mayor is a low IQ person. [28:36] I mean, he's a stupid person. [28:38] Chicago has a real chance to become great again. [28:43] There's a case great again. [28:45] If we were allowed to do what we did in Washington or Memphis. [28:51] You know, I was with the governor of Tennessee yesterday. [28:53] And he said, I want to come in — he came in to thank me. [28:57] I said, for what? [28:58] He said, what you did for Memphis. [29:00] Memphis, the crime is down about 72 percent. [29:03] And it's going — he said, it's like a different city. [29:05] Washington is even more so. [29:08] We saw that a little bit earlier. [29:10] In Washington, you walk down the streets and people feel safe here again. [29:15] It's a safe city. [29:17] If I were — oh, by the way, in Louisiana, what I've done there is unbelievable. [29:24] Because the governor, Jeff Landry, called. [29:26] He said, you've got to help me with New Orleans. [29:28] We have a tremendous crime problem. [29:30] And I sent in our really talented people, including National Guardsmen. [29:36] And they did it unbelievable. [29:38] They had the safest. [29:39] They said they had the safe — we just ended about three weeks ago. [29:43] They had the safest Mardi Gras they've ever had. [29:45] I could do that in Chicago. [29:47] But you have to have the support of a governor. [29:50] You can't have a slob that says, you know, we don't want it. [29:53] People get murdered. [29:54] And he says, it's fine. [29:55] They lost five or six people last week. [29:57] And they said, it's fine. [29:58] They're not going to lose five or six people. [30:00] And I would make Chicago so good and so safe. [30:03] It's got potential. [30:04] The longer it goes, the harder it is to fix. [30:07] And San Francisco, we could do such a good job. [30:11] My friend said, please let the mayor — he's a liberal guy. [30:13] Nice guy. [30:15] I talked to him. [30:16] He wants to make San Francisco good. [30:20] And he's trying very hard. [30:22] I said, look, I can do it much faster than you. [30:25] Please let me have a time. [30:26] I mean, I spoke to the mayor. [30:27] And some very important people asked me to give him a chance, [30:31] because they'd like to see if he could do it. [30:33] And he's doing okay, but I could do it much faster, much better. [30:36] And we can remove — don't forget, 2 percent of your people create 90 percent of your crime. [30:42] That's a great number, because 2 percent of the people you can take care of. [30:46] It was 90 percent of the people that's no good, but 2 percent. [30:50] In Washington, right here in D.C., we removed close to 5,000 hard-line criminals. [30:57] Many came in through the Biden open border. [30:59] We removed them from Washington, D.C. [31:02] And it's one of the reasons that we're so safe now. [31:05] We have a great, beautiful place. [31:07] Again, the fountains are almost all open. [31:10] You're going to have the reflecting pool opened within hours. [31:15] I mean, literally within hours. [31:17] The water starts pouring in tonight. [31:18] It's going to be beautiful. [31:19] You haven't seen that since 1922. [31:21] Think of that — 1922. [31:23] It hasn't worked. [31:24] Never worked. [31:25] From the day they built it, it never worked. [31:27] But you're going to see that. [31:28] And people are all thanking me, because Washington is beautiful again. [31:32] The parks are open. [31:33] We changed the grass. [31:34] You know, grass has a life also. [31:36] Like people, grass has a life. [31:39] And that grass hasn't been changed in 70, 80 years. [31:42] It died many times over. [31:45] We have beautiful grass, beautiful parks, beautiful everything. [31:48] We don't have people living on it. [31:50] And Washington, D.C., in a matter of 14 months, [31:56] Washington, D.C. is like a different place. [31:59] People are coming here. [32:00] You know, you — the restaurants were all going out of business, as you know, [32:04] because you used the restaurants. [32:06] And now the restaurants are hot as a — in fact, if anything, [32:10] we don't have enough restaurant space. [32:11] They're all reopening. [32:13] It's — it's become vibrant. [32:14] It's a beautiful thing to watch. [32:16] And I am honored that I've been able to do it to our nation's capital. [32:19] Thank you very much, everyone. [32:20] Thank you, press. [32:21] Thank you, press. [32:22] Thank you, press. [32:25] Thank you, press. [32:26] Thank you, press. [32:27] Thank you, press. [32:28] Thank you, guys. [32:29] Thank you, press. [32:31] Thank you, guys. [32:32] Thank you, sir. [32:33] Thank you, guys. [32:49] Thank you, press. [32:50] There you go. [32:51] That's what I'm talking about, Will. [33:04] Now we give up. [33:05] Let's go, guys. [33:06] Thank you, guys. [33:07] Thank you, sir. [33:09] Thank you, everybody. [33:10] Thank you. [33:11] Thank you. [33:12] Thank you, guys. [33:13] Thank you. [33:14] Thank you. [33:15] Thank you, guys.