President Trump and Dana White address job 'offer' and more at surprise briefing

[0:00] We're okay. [0:01] We want to make sure it's a long-term solution, [0:03] not just a short-term. [0:04] They'll never have a nuclear weapon, [0:06] but we have to make sure that's a long-term. [0:08] So it's ending quickly, but we want to take care of people [0:12] that have been very good to us over the years. [0:14] The Press. [0:18] Thank you, Mr. President. [0:19] You told 60 Minutes that you felt [0:22] that your deportation policy may have gone too far, [0:25] but then you named the architect of that policy, [0:27] Stephen Miller, to be your chief of staff. [0:30] Have you told him that you want changes [0:32] to the deportation policy? [0:34] No, no, we have a very strong deportation policy. [0:36] There's no amnesty, no anything. [0:39] We keep that. [0:40] But we focus on the worst of the worst. [0:43] We want to get the murderers out. [0:45] We've gotten most of them out. [0:46] We've gotten most of the really bad. [0:48] You know, they allowed, [0:50] Joe Biden allowed 100, well, 25 million people to come in. [0:55] Of that, 11,888 murderers, [0:59] most of whom committed more than one murder. [1:01] We've gotten most of them. [1:03] We want to get the worst of the worst, [1:05] and then we'll see what happens. [1:06] But they came in illegally. [1:09] Many of them have good jobs now. [1:11] They're productive. [1:12] Some of them are even paying taxes. [1:14] And we're seeing what's going to happen. [1:15] There won't be amnesty. [1:16] Somebody suggested, will there be amnesty? [1:18] No. [1:19] But they came in. [1:20] They knew the law. [1:22] And we're working with a lot of different groups to see [1:25] whether or not, but my policy hasn't changed. [1:27] What we are doing is absolutely the worst of the worst. [1:30] We're getting the murderers. [1:32] They allowed people to come in from prisons. [1:34] They emptied their prisons into our country. [1:36] Many countries, they emptied our prisons into our country. [1:40] The drug dealers that we have, [1:43] the people from the mental institutions. [1:45] Mental institutions all over the world were emptied out. [1:49] Prisons all over the world. [1:50] In the Congo, their prison population was emptied into our country. [1:58] All over South America, all over Asia, they did that too. [2:03] What Biden did to this country should never, ever be forgotten. [2:08] And I hope the Democrats will not try and allow that to happen again. [2:11] We've seen the stock market really take, you know, up and down like a rollercoaster. [2:19] The last couple of days today, up last week, it tanked. [2:22] Not last week. [2:23] Right after the election, it went down $3 trillion. [2:26] That was because of the result of the election, [2:29] because the stock market does not want to see Democrats. [2:32] And your 401 s have gone way down because of the ridiculous result. [2:39] It's not even a result. [2:41] It's almost hard to believe. [2:43] Now, I wasn't on the ballot. [2:44] I shouldn't take anything personally. [2:46] But I will tell you, I thought it was ridiculous. [2:48] But the stock market went way down right after that event. [2:53] I would say it's way up because I think they feel we have things under control. [2:58] Mr. President. [2:59] Thank you, sir. [3:00] Thank you, sir. [3:01] When were you first informed that there was an issue with Jensen Quang and the affair? [3:04] And what was presented to you at the time? [3:06] What was the concern? [3:08] I would say that when I heard about it, first of all, I was amazed because I view him [3:15] as a very high-quality person. [3:17] I've known him a long time. [3:19] It's actually the largest, I think by value it's probably the largest or one of the largest [3:23] companies in the world. [3:25] He did that with a chip. [3:26] You know, when you think about it, he's got a chip that's 10 years advanced. [3:30] Can't be, because of the complexity, can't even, the Blackwell, can't even be copied. [3:35] He's an amazing guy. [3:36] I just hope it's, I hope there's no problem. [3:39] If there is a problem, we'll let you know about it. [3:41] But I hope there's no problem. [3:43] I believe he's suffering greatly. [3:45] I read his statement and I believe he's suffering greatly. [3:48] More so because of his family, his wife, who he loves, and his family. [3:54] But he is definitely suffering. [3:55] And I hope so. [3:56] Mr. President, just to follow up on the, when were you first told of these potential [4:01] issues with Mr. Blank? [4:02] You didn't answer that question. [4:03] Mr. Well, I've been hearing about it and I've been reading a little bit about [4:07] it over a period of time. [4:09] But not too long ago. [4:11] Well, when is that? [4:12] Mr. We'll look into it. [4:13] I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else. [4:16] And I think that he'll be in good shape. [4:19] Mr. President, you say the war with Iran will be ending fairly soon. [4:25] But you've made this claim dozens of times over the past eight months. [4:28] Why should Americans think this time is any different? [4:29] Mr. Well, no, I made the claim that they won't have a nuclear weapon. [4:31] And they won't have a nuclear weapon. [4:33] Well, we knocked them out a year ago. [4:35] That was, I said I was going to do that. [4:39] And I kept my word on that. [4:41] Now what we're doing is we're, it's really status quo territory. [4:46] We're keeping it going. [4:48] We have the greatest military blockade ever. [4:51] We have the new iron gate. [4:53] Iron gate is land. [4:54] So by land and by sea. [4:56] And we will take care of business. [4:59] Look, Iran, I hope we're going to be able to make a deal with them. [5:03] But nothing's going to happen. [5:06] And if we have to, we'll take very serious. [5:08] We are so loaded. [5:10] We just have another aircraft carrier. [5:12] It's all loaded up to the gills with brand new, beautiful stuff. [5:16] We're making more military equipment and munitions right now than at any time in the history of our country. [5:21] We've built and are building more plants. [5:24] Our defense companies are building more plants than ever at any time in the history of our country. [5:31] And many of those plants are open. [5:33] Some opened and some are opening soon. [5:36] We're building new patriots. [5:38] We're building new tomahawks, new THAAD systems. [5:41] And we have more under construction now than at any time ever. [5:45] And we're taking it. [5:47] And obviously, we're taking it for ourselves first. [5:50] What happened, and it wasn't so much Iran, Joe Biden gave $350 billion worth of free equipment to Ukraine. [6:00] Now, that was unbelievable. [6:04] Now they pay, and we give it to the European Union. [6:07] We have a very good relationship. [6:09] We took them from 2 percent to 5 percent is what they're paying now, which is pretty amazing. [6:14] Nobody thought that could happen. [6:16] But they pay full for the equipment. [6:18] Joe Biden gave free equipment, $350 billion. [6:21] And we are now building more military equipment and munitions than at any time in the history of our country. [6:29] We just had, just in case, we had another aircraft carrier. [6:33] We have many. [6:34] Sailing over and just arriving in the Middle East. [6:38] So we have three. [6:39] And they're all locked and loaded. [6:42] And hopefully, we don't have to use them. [6:43] Mr. President. [6:47] Are you going to bring up the case of Jensen Wang with President Xi when you visit with him next week? [6:53] No, I don't think so. [6:54] I mean, maybe, I'm sure President Xi will ask me about it. [6:57] I just know Jensen very well. [6:59] I just think he's a very honorable man. [7:01] I mean, he's a great, he built a great company, American company. [7:05] And I think he's a very honorable guy. [7:08] And I feel very confident that he'll be in good shape. [7:11] Mr. President. [7:13] In sticking with Jensen Huang, when you went to China earlier this year in May, [7:17] did you know about these alleged ties with the Chinese spy then? [7:21] No, I didn't hear about it then. [7:23] But a lot of people have heard about it. [7:26] And Jensen totally denies that. [7:28] He had, I asked him today, because I did speak to him today, [7:30] just to see if he's feeling all right, how you doing. [7:33] And I asked him about that. [7:35] And he said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy. [7:41] I asked him that question. [7:43] Did you have any idea that she was a spy? [7:44] He said, I had no idea that she was a spy. [7:46] Why are you so sorry? [7:47] And I really believe him. [7:48] Yeah. [7:49] The Press. [7:50] Is there a breakthrough on Ukraine at the talks in Abu Dhabi this week? [7:53] And if so, why do you trust President Trump? [7:54] I just think that Ukraine and Russia are tired of fighting. [7:58] They're tired of seeing dead young soldiers. [8:00] Mostly soldiers. [8:01] Most of the people are soldiers. [8:03] Think of it. [8:05] They're losing 25,000. [8:06] Denny, can you imagine 25,000? [8:08] That's like a stadium. [8:09] Madison Square Garden. [8:10] You have your fights. [8:11] 25,000, that's what it holds. [8:14] And they're losing that every single month, dead. [8:17] Young, beautiful people. [8:20] And it's got to stop. [8:21] You know, it doesn't affect us, [8:24] but I'm able to get them together, [8:26] and we're meeting now, right now as we speak, [8:29] and the meetings are going okay, [8:31] but we're trying to get it settled. [8:32] Only because we want to say, [8:35] it doesn't affect us as a country, but it affects me. [8:38] 25,000 people a month are being killed. [8:40] Mr. President, a number of Senate GOP members [8:47] are urging the conference to delay [8:49] their leadership votes tomorrow. [8:51] We know that John Thune is running on a post in the Senate. [8:53] Do you think that Mr. Thune has earned the right [8:56] to lead Senate Republicans? [8:58] The President Well, look, he's a very fine man. [8:59] I know him very well, but that's really up to the Senate. [9:03] I like John Thune. [9:06] I wish they could get more produced. [9:08] You know, we've had Save America up there. [9:11] We've had, you know, voter ID and proof of citizenship [9:15] and many other things. It's not easy. [9:18] He's got some people that, first of all, [9:20] you have 100 percent negative Democrats. [9:22] They never vote yes. They always vote no. [9:25] That means he has to get almost 100 percent of the Republicans. [9:28] And you have some Republicans in there, [9:29] I can name them, but why should I, that are very difficult. [9:34] And, you know, I said, as leader, [9:36] you have to get those people. But John is a good man. [9:39] I guess they're going to be voting tomorrow, [9:40] or maybe it's too late. I don't know what the status. [9:43] But, you know, he's a friend of mine. [9:45] I wish the Senate could get more done. [9:48] The Press Press You spoke about Venezuela. [9:52] Do you plan on having elections there before the end of the term? [9:55] The President At some point, yeah. At some point, yes. [9:57] The Press Press Mr. President, [9:59] earlier today you posted on social media [10:01] where you questioned whether the midterm election results were honest. [10:04] Do you believe that the election was rigged? [10:06] And separately, did you watch Senator Thomas Massey [10:11] lay out his articles of impeachment this afternoon? [10:13] No, I don't watch Massey. Look, Massey's a loser. [10:17] He shouldn't be taking up the time of Congress or the Senate [10:22] or anything that he's doing. [10:24] The guy's a stone-cold loser. [10:26] Would always, he's a Republican, always he would vote against. [10:29] We could come up with the best bill. [10:32] We could come up with, and he would always vote against. [10:35] There's something wrong with him. [10:37] And I said, look, I've got to challenge him. [10:39] And I challenged him, and he lost in a landslide [10:42] to a very good man. [10:43] We have a very good man, Ed Gilrain, who took his place. [10:48] But, you know, I went and did something that is very tough to do. [10:52] Now, I challenged others also. [10:53] I challenged Cornyn, I challenged Tillis, [10:57] and I challenged, if you look at Louisiana, Cassidy III. [11:02] So that makes things a little bit harder to get their votes, [11:05] because I wouldn't say they like me. [11:07] But of all of them, I would say there's something wrong with Thomas Massey. [11:11] He was an automatic no vote. [11:13] You could go in with the greatest bill. [11:15] Bills where even Democrats were voting. [11:19] And he'd be no. [11:20] And I said, what is wrong with this guy? [11:22] He's a sick guy. [11:23] There's something wrong with him, actually. [11:24] Now, he's after Pete Hexth. [11:26] He doesn't like Hexth. [11:28] But really, what has Hexth done? [11:30] He won the war. [11:31] He was in charge. [11:32] He won the war in Venezuela. [11:36] As I said, 48 minutes. [11:38] It was flawless. [11:38] Nobody killed. [11:40] And he certainly, I think he's won the war in Iran, [11:43] but he's certainly winning the war. [11:44] Iran would love to make a deal. [11:47] And they've been obliterated. [11:48] Their Navy, their Air Force. [11:51] So he won the war in two places, two big places. [11:56] Very important, very impactful. [11:58] And they won one. [11:59] They're not like Vietnam when nothing was won, or [12:02] Afghanistan, or Iraq, or any of these wars when [12:05] nothing was won. [12:06] There was nothing won. [12:07] Just lots of death, and then let's leave. [12:10] In one case, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [12:13] In the other, we're making hundreds of billions of [12:16] dollars for this country. [12:18] So I say this. [12:21] Pete Hexth won two wars. [12:23] Oh, let's impeach him. [12:24] What about impeaching the gentleman from Biden, his [12:31] person that disappeared for two weeks and nobody [12:33] had any idea where he was? [12:35] What about impeaching the people that ran the Vietnam [12:38] War? [12:38] What about impeaching that went, that ran Iraq and [12:42] Afghanistan and all of these other wars where [12:47] thousands of lives have been? [12:48] You know, we lost 18 people. [12:51] 18. [12:53] They lost 65,000 in Vietnam. [12:56] We're in there for seven months. [12:58] They're in there for 21 years. [13:00] What about impeaching those people? [13:02] What about impeaching the leaders of these stupid [13:05] wars that were done when nothing was gained? [13:08] In Iran, they won't have a nuclear weapon. [13:11] That's a big thing. [13:12] Now, short term, probably bad for me, because people [13:15] want to have a little bit lower energy cost. [13:17] We'll get it back down. [13:18] I created the lowest cost. [13:20] You know, it's even lower now than it was with [13:22] Biden and Obama. [13:25] But I've done something different. [13:26] They won't have a nuclear weapon. [13:27] That's a big thing. [13:28] And with the other, we're making a fortune and we [13:30] have tremendous amounts of oil. [13:32] We're going to have we have more oil, including [13:35] Venezuela, than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, by [13:41] far. [13:41] In fact, by two. [13:43] Yeah, please. [13:43] Do you believe the midterms were rigged? [13:44] Do you believe the midterms were rigged? [13:45] Sir, to follow up, do you believe the midterms were rigged? [13:46] Well, I think the numbers were terrible in terms of those [13:51] early votes. [13:51] You look at all those early votes and look at another one. [13:55] I'm watching Alaska. [13:56] So you have a guy named Dan Sullivan and another guy named [14:00] Dan Sullivan runs. [14:02] And one's a J and one's an S. And the one with the J, which is [14:05] the fake Dan Sullivan, tries to have his initial change to S. He never ran before. [14:11] He never was a political person before. [14:15] He was fraudulently put in the race. [14:17] And then they tried to change his middle name so it was a nested to confuse. [14:21] So Dan Sullivan and the woman, Peltola, is they're very close. [14:28] He's only I guess he's four or five hundred votes. [14:32] But this fake Dan Sullivan, because of confusion, only because they meant to vote [14:37] has two thousand five hundred, almost three thousand votes. [14:39] That means he wins the election. [14:41] But in addition, they have a second person they put in. [14:46] And they made a big issue with the second. [14:48] And that person has four thousand or five thousand votes. [14:51] Those votes should go also. [14:53] But even if you don't include that, you have a Dan Sullivan and a Dan Sullivan. [14:59] And the Democrats put him up in order to confuse the voters. [15:04] So anybody that voted for that second Dan Sullivan, the fake Dan Sullivan, was supposed [15:09] to be a vote for the real Dan Sullivan. [15:12] So they stole it. [15:13] And that election should be called right now because Dan Sullivan won easily if you add [15:19] up the numbers. [15:20] Now, if you add up the numbers for the second person they put in, he's leading by six, seven [15:25] thousand votes. [15:26] Can you stand by, Mr. President, can you stand by Pete Hexner if he's impeached? [15:31] Go ahead, please. [15:32] Can you stand by Pete Hexner if he's impeached? [15:33] Yeah, I'll stand by him. [15:34] So even if he's impeached, you're going to keep him as your defense secretary. [15:37] He won two wars. [15:38] He was in charge. [15:40] We all won. [15:41] I had great people. [15:42] You what? [15:43] Massey says that he's carried out a lot. [15:44] Massey's a loser, just like you're a loser at CNN, [15:49] just like your ratings are a loser. [15:51] Massey is a loser, stone-cold loser. [15:55] I ran, I did something that nobody's done. [15:58] I took on a guy that was, in his own way, [16:00] sort of popular in his state, and I beat him badly. [16:07] Beat him easily with a man that never ran before, [16:10] but a good man. [16:12] Massey has a lot of hatred in his heart. [16:15] I watched, I heard what Massey did. [16:16] I don't want to watch. [16:17] I don't want to waste my time watching him. [16:20] We won two wars. [16:22] We won two wars, and we've made the world a lot safer place, [16:27] and then we're supposed to impeach. [16:28] Why haven't we gone after all these other people [16:31] that ran wars that lost? [16:33] What about this? [16:33] What about, what about, what about good old Lloyd? [16:37] Why didn't we go after him? [16:38] Why didn't we go after the people that disappeared? [16:42] They're in charge of the military, and they disappeared from, [16:46] nobody knew, had any idea that nothing happened to him. [16:50] What about all these people that lost wars? [16:53] You don't go after them. [16:54] All I can say is this. [16:56] We have the highest recruit, the recruit numbers of, [17:00] you know, when I came in, when I was campaigning, [17:03] we had the worst recruitment people wanting to join the military [17:08] in the history of our country. [17:09] We couldn't fill any of the spots. [17:11] It was a disaster. [17:13] Now we have the best numbers we've ever had. [17:15] More people want to be in the Army, Navy, Air Force, [17:18] Marines, Coast Guard, even the police, Space Force, firemen, [17:24] anybody with a uniform. [17:26] So now we have the best numbers we've ever had. [17:29] And I will say this, the soldiers, the actual soldiers, [17:33] the great people that do the work, the great patriots, [17:36] they love Pete Hexth. [17:39] So if you go back two years ago, before I got into office, [17:43] two years ago, we could not recruit people. [17:47] And you know that better. [17:48] The Army was way beyond everybody. [17:51] Now we have waiting lists of people trying to get in. [17:55] He's done a very good job. [17:56] The Pressure of the National Security Council. [18:01] The Pressure of the National Security Council. [18:03] The Pressure of the National Security Council. [18:05] Go ahead. [18:06] The Pressure of the National Security Council. [18:07] You have given Vladimir Putin multiple deadlines [18:08] over the last 22 months to enter into a ceasefire, [18:12] but also to meet directly with Vladimir Zelensky. [18:14] He has repeatedly ignored your demands, [18:16] yet you have provided, [18:18] well, received a few... [18:20] Has he been fighting us in the war? [18:21] You also... [18:22] Yeah, let me ask you this question. [18:24] At what point does appeasement... [18:25] Whose you with? [18:26] MSNOW it's a fake question. [18:29] No, what's appeasement? [18:31] MSNOW gets the worst ratings. [18:34] Ratings in their history used to be MSDNC. [18:38] It's one of the worst. [18:40] You're a fake network. [18:41] Go ahead. [18:43] Jennifer, Jennifer, go ahead. [18:44] Jennifer. [18:46] Go ahead. [18:48] MS, now what a jerk you are. [18:50] Go ahead. [18:51] Stephen Miller is doing a great job. [18:54] I just think he's going to be great. [18:58] He's been with me from the beginning. [19:00] He's smart. [19:01] He's tough. [19:01] He's fair. [19:03] And he actually will get along, I think, very well with the Democrats. [19:06] Would he like to put a deal with Democrats on immigration? [19:11] I want to put a finer point. [19:12] They're going to try. [19:13] You know, I'm open to it. [19:15] We're not going to have amnesty or anything. [19:17] We're going to, you know, people are going to do it the right way. [19:20] You have to do it. [19:21] It's unfair to other people. [19:22] But certainly I'm open to it. [19:24] But he's okay with Stephen Miller on this? [19:26] No, no, not you. [19:26] Not you. [19:27] Go ahead. [19:28] I wanted you to put a finer point on what exactly you were made aware of the intelligence around Jensen Wang. [19:34] Oh, I have to check. [19:35] But there are reports that Secretary Grifio put an intelligence memo out last year. [19:38] Did you read that? [19:39] Well, I'd certainly check with the intelligence people. [19:43] They could have been mentioned. [19:44] Certainly, it didn't make much of an impact on me. [19:46] Yes. [19:47] One of your first tests for bipartisanship in this new era is going to be working with Democrats on this permitting bill, which was expected to get a vote. [19:54] The permitting bill is a great bill that's supposed to be bipartisan. [19:58] We are behind it 100 percent. [20:00] Are you going to whip that in the House if it's still harder? [20:02] Well, we may see. [20:03] But the Democrats want that. [20:04] I mean, maybe they've changed, but they want it as much as the Republicans. [20:07] And you're going to approve wind turbines in the future? [20:09] Being very critical of that. [20:10] No. [20:10] I know I will not approve wind turbines. [20:11] Well, that's part of the bill, sir. [20:12] I know. [20:13] But I won't approve it. [20:14] Well, the bill hasn't been fully negotiated. [20:16] I will not approve wind turbines because wind turbines are a major loser. [20:21] Go ahead. [20:25] Is this still the plan to take Cuba? [20:28] As you said before, it was going to be your pleasure to take Cuba in your mandate. [20:32] Do you still plan on taking Cuba or? [20:34] Well, Cuba is falling. [20:35] It's a failing nation. [20:37] It's got an ideology very similar to what the Democrat ideology is. [20:43] And it's a failing nation. [20:44] It's a communist nation, socialist nation, sort of everything all wrapped into one. [20:50] We have tremendous people who were treated very badly, Cuban Americans. [20:56] And they voted for me 94 percent. [20:58] And we take care of those people. [21:00] But Cuba is a failing nation. [21:02] We will help them on a humanitarian basis. [21:05] We are helping them, actually. [21:07] But we'll see what happens. [21:10] Cuba is going to be interesting. [21:11] I would imagine it will fall fairly soon. [21:13] I can't keep this man waiting. [21:17] He's a very, very proud man. [21:19] So let me ask. [21:20] Wait, wait, wait. [21:21] So let me ask you the big question. [21:23] Dana, would you like to be press secretary of the United States of America? [21:28] Look at a sign. [21:29] You'd have this behind you all the time. [21:31] The White House, Washington. [21:32] Would you like that? [21:33] Or do you just want to stay with this ridiculous UFC? [21:37] Huh? [21:38] Thank you for the offer, sir. [21:39] For the offer. [21:40] I have no, no, I do not want to be in politics. [21:43] I am devastated to hear this. [21:44] Goodbye, everybody. [21:45] Do you have any comments on allegations against this trial? [21:58] Thank you, everybody. [22:00] Just to conclude, our country is doing really well. [22:04] We're respected by everybody in the world. [22:06] Something that was not true two years ago. [22:09] Our country is doing better than it's ever done before. [22:11] Thank you very much. [22:12] Can you get along with Democrats, sir?