Press Grills Trump After GOP’s Midterm Humiliation; He Turns Attention To White House Ballroom

[0:00] Mr. President, Vice President Vance says the reason Republicans lost the war, lost last night, was the war in Iran. [0:07] Well, I think it's... [0:09] No, but the Vice President wrote a very lengthy post about how the war impacted Russia's last night. [0:16] Well, I knew he was, I know how he feels about it. [0:22] Notors? [0:24] No, no, no. [0:27] Not even a little bit. [0:29] Why don't we ask, if you want, a couple of questions while they're rigging, and how about having that in the background, right? [0:37] Mr. President, Vice President, Vice President for Minority. [0:48] We'll stay out of it. [0:50] You know, Jim, Jim was, I think he was really, all of them, everybody, everybody that we're dealing with. [1:00] But the Speaker was fantastic. [1:03] The people under him were fantastic. [1:07] All good people. [1:08] I guess right now you have two candidates, right? [1:10] Did you ask this question? [1:12] No, no, no. [1:13] Mr. President, Vice President Vance, the reason Republicans lost the war, lost last night, was the war in Iran. [1:21] Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term. [1:27] And probably that's, probably it's true. [1:30] But at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again. [1:33] Because long term, it's the only answer. [1:35] You can't let Iran have a nuclear war. [1:37] Do you feel like it was worth it? [1:38] I do, yeah. [1:39] I mean, well, you have no choice. [1:40] I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more, and I did it on that basis. [1:45] You have no choice. [1:45] You have to do it. [1:46] You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. [1:48] Or everything that you see here someday might not exist. [1:53] And maybe this, but this building might be the only one that does. [1:57] So, yeah, I think that, look, I mean, I'll get along probably with the Democrats, unless they want to be destructive. [2:04] But they have the power of the veto. [2:06] So, if we don't like what they're doing, they've already called, and they want to talk about things, and that's fine. [2:12] But, yeah, people, the Iran thing we had to do, and we continue to do it. [2:18] We have tremendous oil flowing out of the almost straight now. [2:21] At the beginning, there was none. [2:22] And probably that's the primary reason. [2:26] The price, not the war, the price. [2:29] Sir, are you going to rallies across the country? [2:38] No, look, I mean, if I were on the ballot, we would have won. [2:41] You saw the people. [2:42] There were thousands and thousands of people at every rally. [2:46] And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. [2:48] But they just, you couldn't transfer that love. [2:51] There was such love at those rallies. [2:52] It was incredible. [2:54] We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates. [2:57] Did you get any extra... [3:02] Which one are we talking about? [3:03] I heard it was a very good speech. [3:09] Got great reviews. [3:10] That was only a speech on the Reflecting Pool. [3:12] That had nothing to do with anything else. [3:14] That was a speech very much like this is today on this incredible place that we're building at the White House. [3:20] It's going to be here for many, many years and serving our country well. [3:24] That was only a sort of a ribbon-cutting because the Reflecting Pool hasn't worked since 1922. [3:32] So, you know, over 100 years, it's never worked. [3:34] It's always leaked and was always a mess. [3:37] And we fixed it. [3:38] We made it great. [3:39] That was not a speech. [3:40] I was just talking about the Reflecting Pool and then a couple of other comments. [3:45] I mean, our speeches were really the speeches made at the 30 rallies. [3:50] And those speeches were... [3:51] That was tremendous love. [3:53] It was pretty amazing. [3:54] I can't tell you that. [3:59] They may tell you, but I can't tell you that. [4:01] No, no, no. [4:06] Not even a little bit. [4:08] I think it would destroy... [4:09] I think it would destroy the Democrat Party if they did that. [4:13] It was impeachment for no reason. [4:15] What? [4:15] For having a successful country. [4:16] Our country is more successful now than at any time in its history. [4:20] Watch the beam go up. [4:21] No. [4:25] Okay. [4:50] You sure? [4:51] All right. [4:52] We're good to go. [4:53] Keep in the middle. [4:53] I'm off. [4:54] Now, envision chandeliers all over you, see? [5:12] Envision marble floor. [5:14] Oh, it's going to be built. [5:15] This will be the most beautiful building. [5:24] Please, in the middle of the year. [5:28] July. [5:29] It's going to be great. [5:36] Middle to end of next year, depending on surfaces. [5:53] What's your steel? [5:54] You know here. [6:02] It's not steel that's used on a roof to hold back rain. [6:06] It's to hold helicopters. [6:08] Did you guys see the helipad from uptown? [6:18] How beautiful that is. [6:21] It's incredible. [6:22] It's incredible. [6:27] This is going to be more incredible. [6:55] I thought the pressure would be here. [6:56] This was a non-press event. [6:58] I said, this is the greatest. [7:00] Right? [7:01] Did you see the helipad from uptown? [7:16] Yes. [7:17] Paul? [7:18] Talented people that do that. [7:53] Very talented. [7:57] Pull this steel up in three weeks. [8:38] Can you believe it? [8:39] The whole thing was done in two and a half weeks. [8:42] Pretty amazing. [8:43] How are you? [8:44] Good job. [8:47] And that'll fit perfectly. [9:03] Within a hundredth of an inch. [9:05] Can you believe it? [9:07] Seriously. [9:08] Yeah. [9:08] They rarely have to do any chopping. [9:15] Watch. [9:19] Pretty amazing, right? [9:20] The entire building, every single hole was perfect. [9:24] Which is rare, but we had great people. [9:27] The Federal Reserve got quick. [9:29] At the office. [9:31] What a shame. [9:32] You know, those guys are standing under. [9:56] Personally, I'd pass them. [9:58] Because if one bolt, ooh, if one bolt fell down, that's it. [10:05] Your history. [10:06] Pretty amazing. [10:07] I love it. [10:09] Would you like to move over there? [10:11] Then, right under that. [10:13] Look, that's right under there. [10:14] We'll send Margo. [10:15] Let's send Margo home. [10:16] No, if anything fell off there, but they do it, except the Secret Service guy's not very [10:25] well protected. [10:26] I don't think he has any idea what's going on in the boat. [10:30] See where that fits? [10:32] It's like a glove. [10:33] See the sprug that they put right through it? [10:37] Look at that. [10:38] It fits perfect. [10:38] Now they bolted in, and that's the end of that. [10:45] Pretty good, right? [10:46] Yep. [10:47] That's pretty good. [10:48] Go ahead. [10:48] Did you have any other questions? [10:50] Did you know the Vice President was going to post that message, talking so much about [10:56] the results of the war and how it impacted it? [11:00] Well, I knew the war was going to impact it, but whether it impacted or not, Iran can't [11:04] have a nuclear weapon. [11:06] No, but the Vice President wrote a very lengthy post about how the war impacted the process [11:12] last night. [11:13] Well, that's it. [11:15] I knew he was, I know how he feels about it, and I think it was, I think it was fine. [11:19] Yeah. [11:19] I thought it was good. [11:20] We knew that. [11:21] I know that, I knew that when I went in, and we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon, [11:26] and they will never have a nuclear weapon. [11:28] Have you spoken to Vice President Vance? [11:30] Yeah. [11:30] Yeah. [11:31] Yeah. [11:31] I'm going to speak to him about a lot of things, but, I mean, we'll see what happens. [11:39] Everybody, I mean, you don't know who's talking about running. [11:43] You can have people running, you can have a lot of people, maybe a lot of people running, [11:47] maybe nobody's going to run, maybe he won't run. [11:50] I don't know who's going to run. [11:51] But I can tell you that as far as that war is concerned, I would have done nothing different. [11:56] We've totally broken their military. [11:58] The Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone. [12:02] That's a dangerous job. [12:13] I don't know how they do it. [12:14] That is a dangerous job. [12:22] What? [12:25] Well, it's just there, that's a thing that they do, and here's the interesting thing. [12:31] Somebody will walk after we're gone, they'll walk right across that, pick up the tree and walk. [12:35] There aren't too many people can do that. [12:38] You need very good balance. [12:40] Now, do you know that? [12:41] They'll leave that tree. [12:42] Well, we're gone, a guy will walk right in that field, take it. [12:44] Well, what did end, no, I didn't say that. [12:53] I said their nuclear weapons will be destroyed. [13:24] And you know what? [13:26] They fall sometimes, and when they fall, it's... [13:28] So when do you think? [13:32] Whenever I wanted to. [13:34] But it's got to be done right. [13:35] We're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon, it's got to be done right. [13:39] But of course I knew that. [13:40] I knew the fuel would go up. [13:42] I thought it would go up two or three times higher than it is. [13:47] And now today it's coming down, and yesterday it dropped, or the day before it dropped 10 points. [13:51] No, we've done a great job. [13:54] The Hormoz Strait is open. [13:56] It's producing Wall Street Journal, cover of the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago. [14:00] It's producing more oil right now than at any time prior to the war. [14:05] Are you considering replacing Secretary Hickson? [14:09] No, I think he's doing a very good job. [14:10] So you don't want him to fill Marshall Blackburn's Senate seatbelt, to be appointed to be a senator? [14:14] Well, I think he's doing a very good job, and I actually think he'd be very popular if he did that. [14:20] But I haven't heard that at all. [14:22] Can you give me advice on how we could keep you on and have... [14:26] No, no, look, when I said fast, we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon very early on, when we did the raid. [14:41] Great stuff, right?