President Trump Michigan rally: Full exclusive convo with Roop Raj

[0:00] Welcome back to Michigan. Thank you very much. I want to ask you and begin by talking about the folks who live about 10 minutes away from here in Canada. [0:07] This trade war, of course, continues. You just eased the tariffs to help, of course, the state of Maine. Will you do the same to help the state of Michigan? [0:16] You know, Canada has been making $90 billion a year off us for years and years. They've taken advantage of our country, but we're getting close to a deal. [0:25] And a deal could happen that's going to be very good for everybody, but especially for the United States. [0:30] Look, for years, they've taken advantage of this country. And I love Canada. I love everything about it, other than some of the leaders I'm not thrilled with because they have taken advantage of us. [0:42] You like Carney better than Trudeau, though. [0:44] I get along well with everybody, but it's not a question. It's a question that they took advantage of our country for many, many decades. [0:51] We would lose billions and billions of dollars every year. And I'm straightening it out. [0:58] I will have it straightened out entirely. And you'll have a pretty good answer very shortly. [1:03] And the people, actually the people of Michigan, the people of Maine, the people of everywhere are going to benefit greatly by it. [1:09] As an example, our farmers were charged 400 percent in some cases for dairy products. [1:16] And nobody reads about that. They don't like to, you know, let you know about that. [1:20] But they were really taking our farmers were hurt badly with Canada. [1:23] And now they're not going to be hurt badly at all. It's going to be actually reversed somewhat. [1:27] Well, Mr. President, the auto industry, of course, depends on the trade that we do with Canada. [1:32] So many parts go up and down between these two countries. You got that Senate race coming up. [1:37] There are auto workers who supported you. Now they're wondering what's going to happen with this tariff situation. [1:42] What do you tell them? [1:43] Well, I'll tell you the following. Number one, it's worked itself out already. [1:47] But we're having more car plants being built in our country and including you. [1:51] You're expanding all of your plants. They're building brand new plants in Michigan. [1:55] I'm announcing one today. We're building car plants in history. [2:00] We've never built so many plants and they're under construction. [2:03] That's why when you look at the employment numbers, which are doing so well, but construction employment, [2:07] because they're building plants, AI plants, car plants. [2:10] But we're building more car plants now than we did at any time in the history of our country. [2:14] And, you know, we lost our car business. We lost, I think, 58 percent of our car business over the years. [2:21] And now it's all coming back because of the tariffs. [2:25] What you're talking about specifically is parts, you know, some parts. [2:28] And they're actually building those places here because of the tariffs. [2:32] They're building the part places and it's almost taken care of itself. [2:36] You're thinking when you say soon, are you talking weeks, months before we see the Canadian resolution? [2:41] I'm talking about, yeah, probably a couple of months, yeah. [2:44] Well, maybe it could be sooner. It could be before the actual election. [2:48] But, look, I want to make the right deal. I'm not a short-term person. I'm a long-term. [2:54] When the deal is made, it'll be a great deal for America. [2:57] I want to ask you about the situation in Iran. There are so many people who are concerned about it. [3:02] Mike Rogers himself recently said, hey, you know, we've got to end this war. [3:06] It's the only thing that him and Abdul Al-Sayed agree on, probably, is that they both believe that. [3:09] What do you have to say about that? [3:12] Mike wants to make sure they don't have a nuclear weapon. Abdul doesn't care. [3:16] So I care a lot. And Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. [3:20] And we've already sort of taken care of that, but we have to take care of it permanently. [3:25] It won't last very long. And when it does, when we end, those prices are going to come way down. [3:31] Mr. President, you have said, of course, at the beginning it was unpredictable. [3:34] It'll be months, perhaps weeks, perhaps months. And then you said very soon. [3:38] Would you be able to say and give us a timeline? Are you thinking kind of like the Canada situation? [3:42] Are we talking months? [3:43] I sort of think, well, you know, I don't want to put myself in a position. [3:46] I want to make a great deal long-term, whether it's Canada or Iran. [3:50] And they will both be great deals. [3:52] In one case, they will not have a nuclear weapon. Never. [3:55] They already won't, because we've blown that capability up. [3:59] But we don't want to allow them to start it again. [4:02] In the case of Canada, we'll have a fair deal for our country, finally, [4:05] after 50 years of really bad trade practices. [4:08] What about the stuff underground in Iran that people are still worried about? [4:12] We've done all these airdrops, right? [4:14] Destroyed a lot of their navy and their infrastructure. [4:16] What about the underground uranium? [4:17] Are you concerned that it will take a matter of months if you pull out, [4:20] that they can go back and start again? [4:21] No, because it's thousands of tons of rock on top of it. [4:27] But over a period of time, I guess they could. [4:29] Right now, there are only two countries that could do that, [4:32] China and the United States. [4:33] We're the only ones with the kind of equipment to do it. [4:37] But no, I wouldn't be concerned. [4:38] Well, don't forget, we have Space Force because of me. [4:41] So we have Space Force, and Space Force can see everything. [4:44] I could read if you had a badge on your jacket [4:46] and your first name was Mohammed, [4:48] I could read that name beautifully right on your jacket. [4:51] So from Space, it's amazing. [4:53] So we have every site under watch. [4:55] If there's any movement at the site, we know exactly what to do, [4:59] but there won't be. [5:00] First name's ROOP, R-O-O-P. [5:01] Okay. [5:02] Just so you know. [5:03] I thought so. [5:03] I wanted to ask you a question about AI data centers. [5:06] I was only referring to if you were over there, [5:08] because the fact is we have such unbelievable equipment [5:12] that we literally can read the name tag on a jacket. [5:16] That's how far and far-reaching that technology is. [5:19] It's amazing technology. [5:20] I want to ask you about AI data centers. [5:22] There are people who live in this community, [5:24] not far from here in Saline, Michigan, [5:26] who are going, why did Governor Whitmer [5:28] and all the rest of the folks, including President Trump, [5:30] just say, hey, we've got to do data centers. [5:33] Here we go. [5:33] And Mike Rogers recently said, you know what? [5:35] Maybe a one-year moratorium is a good idea. [5:37] Do you agree with the aspiring senator? [5:40] I think there's, look, people with data centers, [5:43] communities are becoming very rich. [5:45] Their taxes are going way down. [5:47] And a new phenomenon is taking place [5:49] where the data center will pay the people living in a community. [5:52] So we had a community in Louisiana, [5:55] and they were really, you know, opposed to everything else. [5:58] All of a sudden, they got paid $10,000. [6:01] Everybody living in the community got a check for $10,000, [6:04] and everybody loved it. [6:06] They said, where do we do our next data center? [6:08] You know, the data centers, because of what I did, [6:11] they make their own, it's very important, [6:12] they make their own electricity. [6:14] So we don't take from the electricity. [6:16] We give it back. [6:17] The excess capacity, they give back, [6:19] they put it back into the grid. [6:21] You know, the data centers will make a lot of money for communities. [6:24] And when they see that, I think, you know, [6:25] I told the data center people, take care of the communities. [6:29] And they're starting to do that. [6:31] And I think it's going to be very popular, actually. [6:33] But where they, many states really want the data, [6:36] like West Virginia is really very, very strong [6:39] in trying to get data centers. [6:41] But the place that really wants them is China. [6:44] And when they want them, that's not good. [6:47] But it tells you the importance of them. [6:49] But the communities now are being paid more and more. [6:53] And I think they've become very, because of that, very popular. [6:56] But, sir, right now, for instance, Saleen, [6:58] they're not getting paid. [6:59] They're actually worried about the power being depleted [7:02] and not having enough of it. [7:03] How do you change that? [7:04] You get your politicians to tell the data center people, [7:07] take care of our citizens. [7:09] What about gas prices? [7:11] Final question for you here. [7:13] These gas prices are driving people mad. [7:16] We have an election coming up here. [7:18] You talked about the Iran war. [7:19] There's also the Ukraine-Russia situation. [7:22] I know you're getting diesel being delivered from Russia to New York [7:26] coming up, I think, in November, right? [7:27] Well, really all over the world. [7:29] It's going all over. [7:29] So what's going to happen is Iran's going to end soon. [7:33] And as soon as it ends, oil is going to drop like a rock. [7:36] Gasoline's going to drop. [7:38] So just before I started the war, which I had to do, [7:40] you can't let them have the number one state sponsor of tariffs. [7:44] You can't let them have a nuclear weapon. [7:48] And so I said, you know, just before I was in Iowa [7:51] and I saw $1.85 a gallon, $1.95 and $1.85, two stations. [7:57] I look, I watch the top of those meters. [8:00] And I said, boy, that's tough because that's going to be going up [8:04] a little bit if I do it. [8:05] It's a price, but it's not a big price to pay [8:08] for keeping a nuclear weapon out of the hands of Iran. [8:12] And it's going to be over very soon. [8:13] And when it's over, it's going to get down to that $1.85 level again. [8:17] Do you worry that people are going to vote with their pocketbooks [8:19] and not reflect as deeply, perhaps, as you are on the Iran war? [8:24] They're just worried about getting food on the table, gas in the tank. [8:26] I do think about it. [8:28] If they're great Americans, they're going to do what I'm doing [8:32] because you cannot let, you want to see problems. [8:35] You want to see not only energy problems, but death problems. [8:38] Let them have a nuclear weapon because they would use it. [8:41] And I have to do that first. [8:43] I knew when I did it, look, we blew the hell out of their nuclear capacity. [8:47] You know that. [8:48] It's far greater than anyone even thought. [8:51] It's gone. [8:52] But I knew that that was going to raise the prices a little bit. [8:56] Now, if you take a look, the oil, [8:58] just on the front page of the Wall Street Journal yesterday, [9:01] oil coming out of the Strait of Hormones is now topping what it was before the war [9:06] because we have a blockade. [9:07] And it's been our Navy is our military, but our Navy has been incredible. [9:12] We have a naval blockade. [9:13] And we have more oil coming right now out of the Strait of Hormones than it was before the war started. [9:20] You're here to stump for a couple of different people, but John James is one of them for governor. [9:24] And, of course, Mike Rogers. [9:26] You had Obama, President Obama, the former president, in town yesterday. [9:29] It seems like a campaign against two presidents rather than these senators. [9:34] What do you make of this situation we're in? [9:35] Well, I won Michigan big, as you know, the last time and won it big the first time. [9:41] And the auto people are very happy with me because of the auto plants being built. [9:46] Their wages are going way up. [9:47] I ended the electric mandate, which people were not happy with because it takes a lot less workers, et cetera. [9:54] But when I terminated the electric mandate, and I have great support from the Teamsters, from the right to work. [10:01] I have support from them and from the auto workers. [10:03] But I think nobody has ever done more for the auto business, maybe, than Henry Ford, if you want to know the truth. [10:09] What I've done for autos. [10:11] And, again, we're building more auto plants in the United States now than at any time in the history of our country. [10:17] Do you worry about approval ratings? [10:19] I know that you don't like to talk about them, but Fox News had one that had yet 36%. [10:23] I know the CNN folks had another poll. [10:26] Do you look at those ratings? [10:27] Do you reflect on them? [10:28] I look at the CNN poll. [10:30] I don't believe in the Fox poll. [10:31] I think they have one of the worst pollsters in the world, actually. [10:34] I've been talking to them about it for years. [10:36] They got everything. [10:37] He always gets me wrong. [10:38] But you do listen to the CNN poll? [10:40] I listened to the CNN poll that just came out that said I'm at 99% within the Republican Party, a record, the highest ever. [10:48] Just came out. [10:49] You'll be seeing it today. [10:50] We're putting it up. [10:51] What about the overall rating, though, sir? [10:52] I think the overall rating is very good. [10:54] If I ran against anybody right now, they say I'd win by 20, 25 points. [10:59] So let's see what happens. [11:00] But I think I'm not running. [11:02] Again, I'm not running. [11:03] But look at the crowds. [11:04] You have 20,000 people outside trying to get in. [11:07] And Obama was here yesterday. [11:09] He didn't have a very big crowd. [11:10] It was sparse. [11:11] Let's put it that way. [11:12] So he opposed me with Hillary. [11:16] How did that work out? [11:17] He opposed me with Kamala. [11:19] And how did that work out? [11:20] He opposed me. [11:21] He came. [11:21] He was very strong about it. [11:23] That Hillary Clinton will win, I won. [11:26] Kamala will win. [11:27] I won in a landslide. [11:28] Obama opposed me twice. [11:30] And so far, he's batting zero. [11:32] Who runs in 2028? [11:34] Well, I could tell you who I think, but it's a little bit early. [11:37] Who do you think? [11:38] What's the names that you vote? [11:39] Well, I mean, we have great names. [11:41] You have J.D., Marco, and many others. [11:43] We have a great bench. [11:44] They have no bench. [11:46] Well, right, Gavin or Kamala. [11:47] What do you think of them? [11:48] I guess there are possibilities. [11:50] I mean, I look at their name. [11:51] I think Kamala's leading right now, which is pretty amazing, but that's okay. [11:55] She's leading. [11:57] I haven't seen Gavin's name much lately. [12:00] No, you have four or five. [12:01] You have some good people that people don't talk about, actually. [12:04] I hope they continue not to talk about them. [12:07] Mr. President, thank you for your time here in Michigan. [12:08] Thank you very much. [12:09] Good to see you. [12:09] Thank you. [12:11] Okay. [12:11] Thank you. [12:13] Thank you.