The Trump Interview at The Most Critical Moment in American History…

[0:00] We love him. [0:00] Benny Johnson, who just interviewed me. [0:07] Thank you, Benny. [0:08] Good interview. [0:10] Good job. [0:13] Yo, what's up, guys? [0:14] We are here in Daytona Beach, Florida, waiting for President Trump. [0:19] This is how we roll. [0:20] We're backstage, and we're going to be asking the president tonight about topics of interest, [0:24] certainly, for this channel and for the country. [0:27] It is a rowdy crowd out there. [0:29] We just spent an hour out there. [0:30] It's unbelievable. [0:32] The line outside the door must be a mile long. [0:35] Thousands of people here. [0:36] The energy is off the charts, and President Trump is just three days away from the midterm [0:41] elections, critical for our nation, and we will have the president live with us in just [0:47] a moment. [0:48] Here we go. [0:53] All right. [0:54] Mr. President, this is your first election ever without Charlie Kirk. [1:00] What should the American people be thinking about this moment and Charlie's legacy, and [1:04] what are you thinking about it? [1:05] Well, it's just one of the saddest things that's ever happened in politics, as far as I'm [1:08] concerned. [1:09] He had a great future. [1:10] It may be a presidential future. [1:12] You never know. [1:12] I used to talk to him, Charlie, you're going to be president, but he was more interested [1:16] in getting me elected, getting other people like us elected, and he was just a tremendous [1:21] guy, and we miss him. [1:22] I think we're always going to miss him. [1:24] Special. [1:25] We're here in the great state of Florida. [1:27] There's a lot of patriots here, a lot of Cubans that hate communism. [1:31] What are the chances that the Castros are going to be in charge of Cuba over the next two years? [1:35] Well, I would say it's not going to last much longer. [1:37] Look, it's a failed country. [1:39] We're going to get people back there very soon. [1:41] Look at what we did with Venezuela, and it's going to work out very well. [1:45] It's something we're going to finish off one, and then we're going to maybe take a look [1:49] at the other. [1:50] But Venezuela has been tremendous, and now we're in a place called Iran, taking away [1:55] their nuclear weapon. [1:56] They're never going to have a nuclear weapon, and that's working out very well. [1:59] Their Navy's gone. [2:00] Their Air Force is gone. [2:01] Their anti-aircraft is gone. [2:04] Their leaders are gone. [2:04] Everything's gone. [2:06] But we'll finish that off. [2:07] But we're watching Cuba very closely, and we have Marco looking at it extremely closely. [2:12] His parents were from Cuba, and that'll work out definitely within two and a half years. [2:18] Long before that, actually. [2:19] You mentioned Iran. [2:21] There's a lot of rumors about the G20 at Trump Doral in December that you might be bringing [2:25] Russia and Ukraine together, maybe some type of larger peace deal, peace agreement. [2:30] Can you give us an update on that? [2:30] Well, I think we're getting very close to making a deal there, and I haven't been saying [2:34] that. [2:34] I wasn't saying that initially. [2:35] The hatred was tremendous between the two leaders, as you know. [2:39] But I think there's a real good chance we're going to have that one worked out also. [2:42] We're working out a lot of deals. [2:44] How about the deal with Ilhan Omar? [2:46] The toughest question in politics. [2:47] Did you marry your brother? [2:48] This is a real heater. [2:51] The Barack Obama administration confirmed that she did, in fact, marry her brother, according [2:55] to the New York Times. [2:56] Are you going to be signing her deportation order? [2:58] Well, they confirmed it, and then they didn't want to do anything with it, so they sort of [3:02] dropped it, which is not surprising, knowing him, Barack Hussein Obama. [3:07] No, it's a serious problem. [3:08] And when you look at Alaska, what's going on out there, that's pretty serious. [3:11] I think they go hand in hand. [3:14] You watch. [3:16] Barack Obama's on the campaign trail. [3:18] He's going after you. [3:19] And he said that you've decorated the White House like a cheesecake factory, a Saddam Hussein [3:24] cheesecake factory. [3:25] Any response to Barack Obama? [3:26] Well, you know, he doesn't understand, I would say, quality. [3:30] He doesn't understand cleanliness. [3:32] He doesn't understand we don't want broken windows in the White House. [3:35] We don't want broken moldings in the White House, on the exterior especially. [3:39] And we've made it beautiful again. [3:41] We brought it back. [3:42] And, you know, the White House is a symbol of our country, a very big symbol, maybe the [3:46] number one symbol in a certain way. [3:48] And we don't want a White House with cracked stone all over the place, with bed, no paint, [3:54] with missing paint, missing sidewalks, broken sidewalks, broken stone. [3:59] No, we made it beautiful. [4:01] It's more beautiful than it was in 1792 when it was built. [4:04] And people get that. [4:06] People get that. [4:07] He should have done something because he left it a mess. [4:10] He built that presidential library. [4:12] What do you think about the look of that? [4:13] Well, it's not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, but I wish him luck. [4:16] Look, I have nothing. [4:19] Well, you know, he's been going around. [4:22] I cannot understand when somebody goes out and hits you on fixing up, cleaning up, fixing [4:27] up windows of the White House. [4:29] There's something wrong. [4:30] No, not a fan of his architectural taste. [4:33] Elon Musk just invested a billion dollars in Skydance. [4:36] They own CNN. [4:38] And so Elon Musk is technically a part owner of CNN right now. [4:41] Do you think Elon Musk should run CNN? [4:42] Well, I like it certainly better than what we have right now. [4:45] Although they did get to a poll that I was way up on Abraham Lincoln. [4:49] So I guess I can't be that angry. [4:50] But he's a good man. [4:52] He does. [4:53] He does good work. [4:54] Is Nicki Minaj going to be the next press secretary? [4:57] That's a good idea. [4:58] I think I'll have to think about that. [4:59] I'm going to think about that. [5:00] How about you? [5:01] You'd be pretty good, too. [5:05] We are looking at the landscape culturally, and we're seeing major changes. [5:12] LeBron James fought with you a little bit in your first administration. [5:16] And then LeBron James is now standing for the national anthem the moment you tell him [5:20] stand for the national anthem. [5:21] And he changed real fast. [5:23] That was pretty impressive. [5:24] Well, I just didn't appreciate what he did when he was doing practicing his golf swing [5:29] during the national anthem. [5:31] That wasn't so good. [5:32] I don't know what's happened since then. [5:34] Are you telling me that he's been acting a little bit differently? [5:37] Yes, he's doing straight. [5:38] Well, that's nice. [5:39] I'm glad to hear that, actually. [5:42] Kamala Harris is hitting the trail as well. [5:44] Any advice to a Republican running against Kamala Harris, maybe, in 2028? [5:48] She is leading the polls. [5:50] I heard just a little while ago she was leading the Democrats fairly substantially. [5:56] I would say that we'd be very happy if she were the candidate. [6:00] But who knows? [6:00] I don't think it's going to happen. [6:01] But it might. [6:02] You never know. [6:03] We're going to be very strong. [6:05] We have a very, very good group of people. [6:07] I think we're going to have a very powerful. [6:08] This party is getting better and better all the time. [6:10] We're going to be very, very powerful, very strong. [6:13] The country is doing better than it's ever done. [6:16] There's never been a time like it. [6:17] You have never. [6:18] You see the crowds. [6:19] Look at the crowd inside. [6:20] There's never been crowds like that for a midterm election. [6:23] So a lot of good things are happening. [6:25] I think we're going to have a great Tuesday. [6:27] And the final message for Republicans. [6:29] Last question. [6:30] Just be smart. [6:32] Be strong. [6:33] Love your country. [6:34] And just keep going on the same path that we're on. [6:36] And we're going to make this country greater than ever before. [6:40] Thank you, Mr. President. [6:41] Thank you. [6:41] Great to be with you. [6:42] Thank you. [6:43] The president asked me to be his press secretary. [6:48] So can I do that? [6:50] You and Nicki Minaj are going to team up. [6:54] That would be must-see TV. [6:57] I mean, I would do it for that. [6:59] I would do it for that. [7:00] Yeah. [7:01] President Trump was in his element tonight. [7:04] It was packed. [7:05] The rafters were full. [7:07] There must have been, I don't know, 10,000 people there. [7:10] It was energetic and rowdy. [7:12] And no one ever does it like Trump. [7:14] It's like, you know, it's like watching Elvis. [7:15] Like, it's just nobody's ever going to do it like him. [7:20] That was a beautiful thing to say. [7:21] I mean, you're having a blast, obviously. [7:23] High energy. [7:24] He's 80. [7:26] 80. [7:27] 80. [7:28] I have Sundown Syndrome. [7:29] I have Sundown Syndrome. [7:31] I know, and like the crowd, the energy, like, he absorbs it. [7:35] Yes. [7:37] Got to, you know, got to interview, got to shout out, got to hang out with so many of the most wonderful people. [7:44] And let me just tell you, it's just like the takeaway, you know, sometimes the camera will pan to, oh, this guy's running for governor. [7:50] Or this guy's running for Senate. [7:52] The most wonderful part about MAGA rally are the actual MAGA supporters in the seats, in the stands. [7:59] Those are the most wonderful, salt of the earth. [8:02] Those are Americans. [8:03] That's an American. [8:05] The most wonderful people. [8:06] Also the way that they dress up everybody. [8:08] On earth, yeah. [8:09] Everybody comes in costumes. [8:10] It's amazing. [8:11] It's amazing. [8:12] It's like nothing you've ever seen. [8:14] You know, I sat there and I was just sort of like thinking about what is the takeaway message? [8:19] Well, President Trump, first off, there's no such thing as like a perfect man. [8:24] Okay. [8:24] It's Jesus Christ. [8:26] That's about it. [8:27] So you can disagree with things. [8:29] But let me tell you what, that guy took a bullet for you. [8:32] Our country would be in so much, our country would be over with Kamala Harris in charge. [8:37] You imagine. [8:38] And the left killed Charlie Kirk and they think that they're going to get away with it. [8:42] And I asked that, this first question I asked the president is about Charlie. [8:46] And what is this like? [8:47] This is your first time running without Charlie. [8:49] And Charlie was with you by your side every single other race, every, for a decade. [8:54] And, and it's like, it's sort of like a, you, you forget life moves so quickly. [8:59] You like, you kind of forget what these people have done. [9:02] And so please, I'm begging you vote. [9:04] You can vote early in most states, virtually all states. [9:08] You can vote early right now. [9:09] Vote right now. [9:11] Vote in swing states. [9:12] Vote in critical states. [9:13] Florida is a critical state. [9:14] Texas is a critical state. [9:16] Colorado. [9:16] There are big races in Iowa and Kansas and in Michigan. [9:21] There are massive races in Pennsylvania and from coast to coast. [9:26] Obviously, they're trying to cheat in Alaska. [9:27] Every state is an important race. [9:28] Yes. [9:29] So please get out there. [9:31] I beg of you, get out there and vote and do it for Charlie and do it for the man who took [9:35] a bullet for you on stage tonight.