Pres. Trump speaks after election night

[0:00] Normally, as you know, I say this for the media, a helicopter, if it touched that roof, [0:05] it would come right through the ceiling. You could put as many helicopters as you want on [0:09] the roof. It's a very powerful ceiling. It's drone-proof. It's missile-proof. It's bullet-proof. [0:16] The sidewalls, the glass, is bullet-proof and drone-proof. There's no drone can pierce it. [0:22] There's no bullet can pierce it, no matter how big. The glass, when you see it, you'll see it [0:27] coming. It's starting to come now. It's just thick, and yet it's perfect vision. It's hard [0:33] to believe you can do that, so it's heavy, bullet-proof glass. It's also drone-proof and [0:38] small missile, if you can believe it, small missile. And what happens is you can take a [0:43] look at it, put it in front of your face, and you can see through it just like I'm seeing [0:47] you right now. It's pretty amazing. Amazing stuff, the technology they have today. So you [0:53] have ceilings, drone-proof, missile-proof, bullet-proof. The floor is very thick, and [1:00] all from underneath is totally designed in such a way. It's the safest. This is the safest [1:07] place in Washington. When we're having a dinner, this will be the safest place. So you can have [1:12] world leaders. You can have your president sitting here. They've been wanting a much bigger [1:18] space, a much better space than they've had for 150 years, presidents. You've heard me say [1:22] it. And what they never intended was getting something like this. This is going to be very [1:27] safe. You can just sit here and let people do whatever they want. Nothing's going to happen. [1:33] This is the most powerful building, structurally the most powerful building they say ever built. [1:39] And it was designed that way, so the president can have safety. He's having the president of China [1:45] Russia or anyplace else. When they're having dinner, when they have 2,000 guests, 2,500 guests, [1:54] they're totally safe. It's impervious. So I just want to tell you that what you've done is amazing. [2:01] What you're building, we're going to be finished pretty soon, but the hard part is done. And the one [2:07] thing that I'm most fascinated with is what they've done underneath, because this goes down five stories. [2:14] It's five stories underneath. And the military came to me, and they said, sir, we've never had this [2:20] opportunity at the White House, because it's fragile. And going underneath the building, would it be [2:26] possible? We did everything they wanted, and it's something. They said, that's been their dream for 50 [2:33] years. It's been the dream of presidents to have a ballroom for 150 years. So we have everything. [2:39] And on top, and you'll start to see it. We're building a drone port. It holds as many drones [2:45] as you want. It can hold over 100 drones at the maximum size. Weight is no problem. And you see [2:53] that when you see the power of the structure, when you look at steel. Normally, that would just be [2:57] light steel. You see it a lot when they build a plant where it's very light steel. You can barely walk on [3:03] it. It's dangerous. It's called a rain roof. This is a roof that's a structural roof and rarely done [3:10] because the span is so long that it's very hard to do structurally. We ordered the marble for the [3:16] floor. The marble is a really magnificent marble. It's a cut. It's a vein that people have been after [3:23] for 50 years. And the owner of the quarry didn't want to sell it. But he liked me, and he also was so [3:34] honored to be doing it for the country, for the White House. And the marble floor, you'll see it is [3:41] the most beautiful marble you'll ever see. It's a special vein. This is a vein that everybody wanted [3:47] for a long time. And I got it. And I got it for the floor of the ballroom at the White House. And it's [3:55] going to be beautiful. The walls are going to be very, you'll see a lot of glass. A lot of, you'll be [3:59] looking at the treasury building, which is right there. You'll be looking at the front of the White House. [4:05] And you see, if you look back there, you're looking at the other side of the White House. You have [4:10] north and south. And the kitchen is underneath because I put the kitchen on top. And we have [4:17] large staircases coming from the kitchen. If I put the kitchen on top, you would lose three walls [4:24] because the kitchen takes about 30 percent of the space. So the kitchen is all the space that you have [4:30] right underneath. And it's going to be top of the line. So there has never been anything built like [4:36] this. And it's for the country. And it's free. You got it free of charge. Thank you very much. [4:41] And some great patriots have devoted a lot of money, given a lot of money to get it built. [4:47] And so we didn't use taxpayers' money to build this ballroom. And it's going to be, when it's [4:54] completed, it'll be the best anywhere in the world. You know, when I was in China, we went to the Great [5:00] Hall. It's called the Great Hall of China. And it's, you know, it's incredible. But this is actually [5:06] larger. This is larger. And it will be, it'll be the most magnificent when you see what we're doing [5:12] between the marbles and the bronzes and all the different things that we're doing top of the [5:16] line. Great architects are top architects. And we have another man that's worked with me for a long [5:25] time together. And we were the ones that not only cleaned up Washington in terms of graffiti and [5:30] and open up, you know, the statues and the fountains and fixed everything up, made it beautiful. And [5:37] everybody's talking about it. But a man that helped us a lot with crime, because crime is [5:44] almost non-existent now in Washington. We went from one of the most unsafe cities in the country [5:50] to one of the safest cities in the country. And people all day long in the White House, I walk in [5:57] and people that work there, thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. So we have a White House [6:04] where people can walk to work. When I first came in two years ago, my first term was, it was different. [6:09] It wasn't, you didn't have the kind of crime. It developed during the Biden administration. [6:13] It may have had to do with COVID. Nobody knows exactly. But it was a killing field, Washington, [6:19] D.C. And we worked together with experts. And we brought in the National Guard, which were [6:25] fantastic. And we worked with Washington police. And we have now one of the safest cities anywhere, [6:31] anywhere in the world, but anywhere certainly in the country. And again, this was a place where [6:37] a young man would leave Iowa, come to see the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, [6:44] Jefferson, come to see whatever, come to see the White House. And they'd call up the parents, [6:49] I'm sorry, but your son has been killed. And they send the son home in a casket, [6:58] or the daughter in a casket. Three a week. We're losing three people a week, three murders a week [7:04] by savages. And we moved them out. We moved over 5,000 people out of Washington, D.C. They came [7:11] in through the open borders. And they came in viciously and violently. And we had a lot of [7:17] problems with Democrats because they wanted to protect killers. I mean, I don't understand it, [7:22] but who does? Who does? Makes no sense. But we got them out of here. We moved them back. Some were so [7:28] violent. Some killed many people that we didn't want to send them even back to their country. And we hate [7:34] to take the cost of having them in jail for the next 50 years. But we didn't want to take a chance [7:40] that they'd be able to come back. And, you know, speaking about being able to come back, for the last [7:46] 17 months, zero illegal migrants have been allowed into our country. Zero. Which is something that nobody [7:54] thought was possible. So we're very happy about that. We're very happy about Washington, D.C. People are [8:00] coming to Washington. All the restaurants were closing because of crime. And now all the [8:05] restaurants, you can't, if you're a restaurateur, you can't get a space. You can't get a space. And [8:10] people are dining and they're having a good time. And they have a safe, it's the capital. It's the [8:16] capital of our country. We have to make it beautiful and we have to make it safe. And this [8:21] will be down, this building, when it's completed, will be one of the great, one of the great buildings in [8:26] Washington, D.C. And they'll understand that. Most people understand it. Just this whole [8:30] magnificent space will be a very important space in the future life of our country. [8:37] So with that, I'd like to have the Secretary of the Interior, a great man, a great success, [8:44] a fantastic governor for eight years in North Dakota, a very successful businessman. And he's done a [8:51] really great job running the interior. And thank you very much. Doug Burgum, everybody. Thank you [8:56] very much. Thank you, Mr. President. Today, of course, is a day of celebration and it's a day of [9:07] gratitude. It's a day of celebration because there's our builder in chief, the greatest builder that has [9:13] ever been president of the United States knows. He, like he said, he grew up on construction sites. [9:17] When you get to this spot, the tradition is the workers have all signed the beam. The president's [9:22] going to sign the beam. This is the last beam that's going into place. It's going to be raised up. And [9:26] that's what we're here to celebrate. But none of that would have happened without the great [9:30] American worker. America was built by people that innovate, built by people that build great things [9:35] and build great things well and build them quickly. There's 512 of them here wearing their jackets out [9:41] there. Let's hear it for all the great American workers that are here today. Thank you. Thank you [9:46] so much. Think of it just over a year ago, this project was just getting started. And here we are today [9:51] at a beam signing. And of course, that wouldn't have happened without President Trump. The vision that he [9:57] had for this city for safe and beautiful also extends right here to this site, the White House. [10:04] The National Park Service, which is part of the Department of Interior, is responsible for the [10:09] restoration at the White House. President Trump done more to restore the beautiful, historic White [10:14] House than any president. So when the teams are over there, and some of you have worked over there, [10:18] you're restoring history. When you're working here, you're making history. This is going to be a gift [10:24] for the next 100, 200, 250 years. This building will stand the test of time. Historic events [10:30] will happen here. And they will look back to this day, knowing that all of you were part [10:34] and it wouldn't have happened without President Donald J. Trump. Thank you. Thank you. And Jared, [10:45] would you just come up and say a couple of words? They've done such a fantastic job of building. [10:51] They've been our primary contractor. Please. Thank you, sir. It's a real honor to be able to work on this [11:02] campus every day, to be able to work under the leadership of the president. I just want to thank [11:06] everybody that's been involved in the project. It's really a spectacular effort over the last year to get [11:10] us to this point. I want to celebrate by raising the final beam. Thank you, sir. [11:14] Great job. Thank you. And before you do that, you know, it was sort of mentioned a little bit [11:23] during the campaign that about why does Trump spend time on the White House? Well, first of all, [11:29] it's very little time. Second of all, I like it. It's good. For me, it's relaxing. For somebody else, [11:34] it's the opposite. But for me, it's real. I love construction. But that beautiful white facade was [11:41] half falling off. And you know that because some of you helped us with it. It was in terrible shape. [11:47] The moldings were down in many cases. Probably 20 percent of the moldings were off the building. [11:52] You'd have windows with a beautiful window and a molding on one side, and the molding was missing [11:57] for many years on another. And it bothered me very much because that's what I do. I like beautiful [12:04] things, and especially when it comes to the White House. And we had a group of very talented people [12:09] work with me for the last year. And we've totally redone the facade of the White House in the finest [12:16] exterior plaster. The place was falling apart. It was cracked. It was broken. The windows were broken [12:24] and cracked. We replaced numerous windows that were cracked. In some cases, it was outright broken. [12:29] And you'd look at it as a guest. And when President Xi was here two weeks ago, he said, [12:33] wow, the condition is so beautiful. He said, I remember it wasn't that way a long time ago. [12:40] But I will tell you that right now it's flawless and it's beautiful. And you know, when I get [12:46] criticized, like, why are you working on the White House? I'm doing it because the White House is the [12:52] ultimate symbol of America. And it's got to be pristine. It's got to be perfect. And if you take a look at it, [13:00] that's what it is right now. You have no idea how much work we had to do. We'd take fiberglass [13:05] molds of the other side of the molding that was broken because they're very intricate. And they'd [13:12] take it back to shops and they'd remake moldings and they'd put it up the way it used to be. I mean, [13:17] you'd have windows with one third of a molding left. And it looked like hell to anybody that knows. [13:23] I think to people that don't know, it wouldn't have looked good. So we did that. I'm just looking here [13:27] and I'm looking at that beautiful facade, how it's gleaming. And then we re-caulked it, [13:33] re-painted it. And it's good for another 200 years now. You know, it opened in 1792 and it was [13:41] in terrible, embarrassing shape, including the entrances. You'd walk in, there were broken stones. [13:47] There were stones with big holes in them. It was terrible. So that's why I did it because that's [13:53] the ultimate symbol of our country. And this is now a part of that symbol. This will be something [13:58] very special. And so we're putting up the last piece of steel. And I thought it would be [14:04] appropriate to have the media here. You're going to see something really great. Thank you all. I want [14:10] to thank you all. Great job you've done. And we'll see you again at the official opening, which won't [14:16] be in too long a period of time. You're all invited. Thank you very much, everybody. [14:20] We'll call you family on top of that room. But it'll be all drones. [17:31] You want a couple of questions while they're rigging it? How about having that in the background? [18:08] You let me know when they're ready. Okay, go ahead. [18:16] We'll stay out of it. I mean, you're going to be able to... [18:19] You know, Jim, Jim was, I think he was really, all of them, everybody, everybody that we're [18:27] dealing with. But the speaker was fantastic. The people under him were fantastic. All good people. [18:35] I guess right now you have two candidates, right? No, no, no. [18:41] Do you think the Vice President has lost the war, lost last night was the war in Iran? [18:48] Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short-term. [18:55] And probably that's, probably it's true. But at the same time, if I had it to do again, [18:59] I'd have to do it again. Because long-term, it's the only answer. You can't let Iran have a nuclear [19:04] weapon. Do you feel like it was... [19:06] I do, yeah. I mean, well, you have no choice. I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more, [19:11] and I did it on that basis. You have no choice. You have to do it. You can't let Iran have a nuclear [19:15] weapon. Or everything that you see here someday might not exist. And maybe this building might be [19:23] the only one that does. So, yeah, I think that, look, I mean, I'll get along probably with the [19:29] Democrats, unless they want to be destructive. But they have the power of the veto. So if we don't [19:34] like what they're doing, they've already called, and they want to talk about things. And that's fine. [19:39] But yeah, people, the Iran thing we had to do, and we continue to do it. We have tremendous oil [19:47] flowing out of the Hormos right now. At the beginning, there was none. And probably that's [19:53] the primary reason. The price, not the war, the price. [19:56] The Pressure in the rallies across the country. [20:06] No, look, I mean, if I were on the ballot, we would have won. [20:09] You saw the people that were packed, thousands and thousands of people at every rally. [20:13] And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. But they just, you couldn't transfer that love. [20:18] There was such love at those rallies. It was incredible. We weren't able to transfer the love to [20:23] candidates. Which one are we talking about? I heard it was a very good speech. Got great reviews. [20:37] That was only a speech on the Reflecting Pool. That had nothing to do with anything else. [20:41] That was a speech very much like this is today on this incredible place that we're building at [20:47] the White House. It's going to be here for many, many years and serving our country well. That was only [20:53] a sort of a ribbon cutting because the Reflecting Pool hasn't worked since 1922. It's, you know, [21:00] over a hundred years. It's never worked. It's always leaked and it was always a mess. [21:05] And we fixed it. We made it great. That was not a speech. It was just [21:09] talking about the Reflecting Pool and then a couple of other comments. [21:13] I mean, our speeches were really the speeches made at the 30 rallies. And those speeches were, [21:19] that was tremendous love. It was, it was pretty amazing. [21:22] Mr. President, which Democrats did you speak to? [21:25] I can't tell you that. They may tell you, but I can't tell you. [21:28] No, no, no, not even a little bit. I think it would destroy. [21:37] I think it would destroy the Democrat Party if they did that. [21:40] Because impeachment for no reason, what, for having a successful country. [21:44] Our country is more successful now than at any time in its history. [21:47] Watch the beam go up. [21:48] Mr. President, you've got to slide back those, I'm sorry. [21:56] Ms. Okay, I'll come back, get the way back. [21:58] Mr. Back, back, back, back, back, all the way back. [22:02] The President, bigger than you thought, right? [22:09] Ms. Yeah. [22:11] Mr. I'm going to sleep up here. [22:11] Mr. I appreciate it. [22:12] Mr. Chandeliers. [22:13] Mr. I appreciate it. [22:15] Mr. Okay. [22:16] The last one. [22:17] Mr. Okay, I'll stay here. [22:18] Ms. Sure. [22:18] Good to go. [22:20] Mr. Now envision chandeliers all over you. [22:38] Mr. Envision marble floor. [22:41] Oh, it's going to be, this will be the most beautiful ball. [22:44] Ms. Yeah. [22:54] Mr. Probably. [22:55] July, right around. [22:59] It's going to be great. [23:01] Middle to end of next year, [23:05] but depending on surfaces. [23:21] Watch your steel. [23:22] Okay, you know what you do. [23:30] It's not steel that's used on a roof to hold back rain. [23:33] It's to hold helicopters. [23:36] Did you guys see the helipad from up top? [23:46] How beautiful that is? [23:47] It's incredible. [23:50] It's all from Washington. [23:51] It's incredible. [23:52] This is going to be more incredible. [23:57] I thought the pressure would be here. [24:25] This was a non-press event. [24:26] I said, this is the greatest. [24:28] Right? [24:43] Well, the people that are there. [25:20] Very talented. [25:23] Put all this steel up in three weeks. [26:05] Can you believe it? [26:06] The whole thing was done in two and a half weeks. [26:09] Pretty amazing. [26:11] How are you doing? [26:12] Good job. [26:29] And that'll fit perfectly within a hundredth of an inch. [26:33] Can you believe it? [26:35] Seriously. [26:36] Yeah? [26:37] They rarely have to do any chopping. [26:40] Watch. [26:43] Pretty amazing, right? [26:48] The entire building, every single hole was perfect. [26:51] Which is rare, but we had great people. [26:53] The Federal Reserve. [26:55] Not quite. [26:57] And the others. [26:59] What a shame. [27:20] Those guys are standing under. [27:22] I know. [27:24] Personally, I'd pass on that. [27:26] Because if one bolt, ooh. [27:28] If one bolt fell down, that's it. [27:32] Your history. [27:33] Pretty amazing. [27:34] Would you like to move over there? [27:38] Dan? [27:39] Right under that. [27:40] Look, that's right under there. [27:41] We'll send Margo. [27:43] Let's send Margo. [27:44] Hold on. [27:45] No, if anything fell off there. [27:47] But they'd do it. [27:49] Except the Secret Service guy's not very well protected. [27:53] I don't think he has any idea what's going on above. [27:57] See the way that fits? [27:58] It's like a glove. [28:00] See this rug that they put right through it? [28:03] Look at that. [28:04] It fits perfect. [28:06] Now they bolt it in, and that's the end of that. [28:12] Pretty good, right? [28:13] That's pretty good. [28:15] Go ahead. [28:16] Did you have any other questions? [28:17] Did you know the Vice President so much about the [28:23] results of the war and how it impacted it? [28:26] Well, I knew the war was going to impact it. [28:29] But whether it impacted or not, Iran can't have a [28:31] nuclear weapon. [28:32] The Vice President wrote about how the war impacted the [28:39] results of us. [28:40] Did you know he was going to do that? [28:43] I knew he was — I know how he feels about it. [28:45] I think it was — I think it was fine, yeah. [28:47] I thought it was good. [28:48] We knew that. [28:49] I know that — I knew that when I went in. [28:51] And we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. [28:54] And they will never have a nuclear weapon. [28:55] The Vice President then? [28:57] The President. [28:58] Yeah. [28:59] Yeah. [29:00] About what is the aim? [29:01] What is it? [29:02] I'm speaking about a lot of things. [29:03] But, I mean, we'll see what happens. [29:06] Everybody — I mean, you don't know who's talking [29:10] about running. [29:11] You can have people running. [29:12] You can have a lot of people — maybe a lot of [29:14] people running. [29:15] Maybe nobody's going to run. [29:16] Maybe he won't run. [29:17] I don't know who's going to run. [29:18] But I can tell you that, as far as that war is [29:21] concerned, I would have done nothing different. [29:23] We've totally broken their military. [29:26] Their Navy's gone. [29:27] Their Air Force is gone. [29:28] Their anti-aircraft is gone. [29:38] Good job. [29:39] I don't know how they do it. [29:44] That is a dangerous job. [29:50] What? [29:53] Well, it's just there — it's a thing that they do. [29:56] And here's the interesting thing. [29:58] Somebody will walk after we're gone. [30:00] They'll walk right across that, pick up the tree [30:02] and walk — there aren't too many people can do that. [30:05] You need very good balance. [30:07] You know that? [30:08] They'll leave that tree. [30:09] Well, we're gone. [30:10] A guy will walk right on that beam, take it. [30:12] Well, what did end — no, I didn't say that. [30:20] I said their nuclear weapons will be destroyed. [30:24] And that happened with Midnight Hunters. [30:27] Pretty dangerous job. [30:52] And you know what? [30:53] They fall sometimes. [30:54] And when they fall, it's terrible. [30:56] They're so windy. [30:57] Whenever I wanted to. [31:00] But it's got to be done right. [31:02] And we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. [31:04] It's got to be done right. [31:05] But, of course, I knew that. [31:07] I knew fuel would go up. [31:10] I thought it would go up two or three times higher than it is. [31:14] And now, today, it's coming down. [31:16] And yesterday, it dropped — or the day before, it dropped 10 points. [31:19] No, we've done a great job. [31:21] The Homo Strait is open. [31:23] It's producing Wall Street Journal — cover of the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago. [31:28] It's producing more oil right now than at any time prior to the war. [31:33] So — [31:34] No, I think he's doing a very good job. [31:38] So you don't want him to fill the course of Blackburn in the Senate to be appointed — [31:42] Well, I think he — I think he's doing a very good job. [31:44] And I — I actually think he'd be very popular if he did that. [31:48] But I haven't heard that at all. [31:49] No, no — look, when I said fast, we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon very early on. [32:00] When we did the raid. [32:01] Great stuff, right? [32:09] You ever see it? [32:10] If you want to see the helipad — bring the cameras over here. [32:16] Let me show you. [32:17] We'll just let — look at it. [32:27] It's a work of art. [32:28] Go up there. [32:29] Watch your head. [32:30] Watch your head. [32:31] Watch your head. [32:33] Watch your head. [32:34] The helipad is so beautiful. [32:35] People love it. [32:36] Watch your feet as good. [32:37] We go through the rebar through here. [32:38] So we go to the far side. [32:39] Watch your step. [32:40] Should I walk out the other way? [32:41] I probably should walk through the man. [32:42] Walk through the man. [32:45] Jared, I think I'll go this way. [32:49] Just what? [32:50] Just this. [32:51] Okay. [33:56] That's my husband. [33:57] Gotcha. [33:59] At least you're trying to get a shot. [34:09] Want to be here, Brian? [34:10] I'll be able to do that. [34:12] I'll be able to do that. [34:14] I'll be able to do that.