Trump holds executive order signing — NBC News

[0:00] to do with voter integrity and mail-in ballots and stopping the massive cheating that's gone on [0:07] and so we're going to be signing an executive order it's i believe it's foolproof and maybe [0:13] it'll be tested maybe it won't i think it's very obvious what's said and i'll ask will [0:18] scharf to start off attorney a great talent a very brilliant young man and if you could [0:24] discuss it and then i'm going to ask howard let dick to say a few words and then i'm going to sign [0:28] it and we'll take a couple of questions okay thank you mr president as you said you have in [0:33] front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity [0:38] as you've consistently identified two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity [0:42] in this country are one inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various [0:48] federal and state elections all over the country and secondarily you've consistently identified [0:53] that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud people returning ballots [0:58] are not going to be able to vote in the states that are going to be in the states that are going [0:58] to be eligible to return ballots ballots being sent to people who aren't confirmed to be eligible [1:04] voters so what this executive order is going to do is one we're going to take federal data we're [1:10] going to ensure that each state's election officials are provided with a comprehensive view [1:15] of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are [1:19] allowing them to properly verify that everybody voting in their elections [1:23] is legally able to vote and then it orders the postmaster general the u.s postal [1:28] service to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent [1:35] to people who are eligible to vote and then the ballots being returned are being properly returned [1:40] by eligible voters only and we believe that combined the measures in this executive order [1:45] will help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election [1:50] system in the past aren't repeated in future elections right howard so the fundamentals of [1:56] our democracy are built on voter integrity [1:59] right we all need it you've said it time and time again it's a total agreement amongst everybody [2:05] so here's the idea the states right run these elections they will if they want to use the u.s [2:12] mail the u.s postal service they're going to get a code a barcode from the u.s postal service [2:18] and they're going to put that on the envelope and we will have one envelope per vote none of [2:24] this time where we have no idea there's no observers to mail there's no envelope [2:29] there's no certainty that's all going to go away and what the president is doing today [2:33] is he's going to make sure that mail-in ballots are safe secure and accurate and will have a clear [2:41] distinction if you voted by mail you will have it on the envelope obviously not on the ballot [2:47] but on the envelope so we will know a million mail-in ballots there'll be a million envelopes [2:52] and you'll be able to know exactly correctly that citizens voted and this came up with some [3:00] legal minds they looked at the various documents and everything that was going on because the [3:05] cheating on mail-in voting is is legendary it's horrible what's going on and it's very clearly [3:12] covered very very clearly so i think this will help a lot with elections we'd like to have voter [3:18] id we'd like to have proof of citizenship and that'll be another subject for another time we're [3:24] working on that you would think it would be easy it's a 98 issue for republicans it's 86 [3:30] the thing just came out a poll and it's 86 with republicans and democrats not leaders because the [3:37] leaders of the democrats cheat and the only people that don't want to do voter idea people that cheat [3:42] there's no other reason for uh proof of citizenship they want to be able to cheat there's [3:47] no reason they have all sorts of reasons excuses but it's all nonsense they want to cheat but the [3:52] democrats themselves are very high it's a very positive very very good thing the democrat voters [4:01] they are all corrupt they want to use it for cheating because their policy is so bad with [4:06] think of their policy open borders for everybody where people pour into our country from countries [4:10] all over the world think of that uh you look at uh just take any issue take anything everything [4:18] they have is so crazy but the fact that they don't want to sign voter id is another issue it's a big [4:23] issue the fact that they don't have proof of citizenship that they want trans gender [4:29] for everybody [4:30] that they want men in women's sports so the only way they assume the only way they can win is to [4:37] cheat when you have men in women's sports it's fine it's wonderful by the way i worked very hard [4:42] with the olympic committee and got that terminated for the olympics very nice now girls won't have [4:48] to get beat up in the boxing ring like they did last time if you saw those fights too [4:52] people that transitioned beat the hell out of everyone out of other people women it was not [4:59] a pretty sight to watch so uh i worked very hard with the olympic committee and we were able to get [5:04] that out so the olympics will not have men in women's sports but these are the things that they [5:10] vote on and that's why we're having a problem with them they don't want ice because they don't want [5:15] people to be taken out of our country that are murderers that are drug dealers and that are [5:20] people from mental institutions the criminally insane these are not nice people [5:25] and uh it's a it's amazing [5:29] i just it's not even believable if you go back if you go back 12 13 15 20 years that we even have to [5:38] bring up a separate like there will be no trans uh mutilation we don't want any transgender gender [5:48] mutilization of our children we don't want to have people pouring into our country from [5:53] other countries all over the world where prisons are opened up all over the world they're opened up [5:58] and they pour into our country [6:01] and they pour into our colleges and we do not want to be seen as a discipline which means we [6:06] need to be an executive like a president and we need to believe and remind everyone in this country [6:11] that all of these things will happen and i think he's a boy really important because it's not just [6:15] bad his parents did a good things to him so i need him like i said yeah theproof reasons i also [6:19] got to be laughed around for [6:25] it was a bunch of good people you know i used to say don't be afraid of the police you'll find [6:29] you're gonna fall and hope you'll find it future [6:31] better than it ever was and so washington dc is now considered a very very safe city [6:36] we removed almost 4 000 people just so you understand you know an interesting stat is that [6:42] two percent of the people create more than ninety percent of the crime and the good thing about that [6:51] is when you get rid of two percent it's not that many you don't have a lot of crime but washington [6:56] dc we're very proud of we're very proud of memphis tennessee and uh louisiana and new orleans is [7:03] unbelievable that the safest they just finished their mardi gras the mardi gras they had the [7:09] safest mardi gras in 58 years the governor just called me jeff landry just called me he said it's [7:16] the safest mardi gras in 58 years because of us and really chicago should call and say we'd like [7:23] help new york should call they've had a lot of problems [7:27] that we want help los angeles should call and probably well i think they have to now we're [7:32] going to have to do something when it comes world cup time and we have to force ourselves upon them [7:38] which we have the right to do because we don't want to have any crime we don't want to have any [7:41] problems for the olympics and the world cup and even for 250. so with all of that uh i'm very [7:48] happy to be signing the voter integrity and i think it's going to be really great so if you [7:55] don't mind i will take some time and i'll make [7:57] a signature absolutely perfect so it looks very good so far so good [8:14] okay so that's a big deal very proud of it and i think i don't know how it can be challenged you'll [8:22] probably challenge it you may say to find a rogue judge you get a lot of rogue judges [8:27] very bad bad people very bad judges but that's the only way that can be changed and hopefully [8:33] well we don't appeal if it is but i don't i don't see how anybody can challenge it i don't see how [8:39] they can challenge it and remember it's about voter integrity we want to have honest voting in [8:45] our country because if you don't have honest voting you can't have really a nation if you [8:50] want to know the truth i'll give that to you do you have any questions uh please yes mr president [8:56] uh as you know issues right now with dhs uh not being funded and coast guard is one of them [9:02] it's very uh important especially with things going on with the moves and here in our own country you [9:09] have power to [9:10] uh transfer control from uh the department of homeland security to the navy um are you [9:15] considering moving back no i have a lot of powers to do things and we use the powers where appropriate [9:21] and sometimes you don't have to use those powers you know they're a little severe and then people [9:26] accuse me of being a king you see the king this is the new one they try they've been trying for a [9:33] long time including four years where i was out of office watching how badly this country was run [9:39] but they've been trying to [9:40] a long time you know what they really are doing is they want to have people coming into our country [9:45] they want to have open borders they want to have criminals coming into our country they want to [9:49] have people unchecked unvetted coming into our country that you can look at them say this is not [9:55] good and that's what happened they allowed 25 million people into our country many of those [10:00] people were criminals many of them were drug dealers and murderers and people that were [10:06] let let out of mental institutions prison populations in some [10:10] countries the congo almost its entire prison population was allowed to come into the united [10:17] states of america the congo many of the countries in south america they emptied their prisons out [10:24] into our country this was under biden and nobody can tell me that's a good thing and yet they [10:30] haven't changed their ways because if they ever took power they would open up the borders and they [10:34] would let people pour in and destroy our country so i have many powers but i don't have to use them [10:41] mr president thank you we're able to sign the executive board in the tsa agents why not do the [10:49] same for fema and other agencies within the department well fema is different because [10:53] fema i really believe that it's fine but i think it's very inefficient i think you know we have [10:59] smart governors and uh one way to tell whether or not they're smart is how well they do fema's a [11:05] a very expensive way of trying to put out a problem but what i'd rather do is let [11:12] states do it and help them financially but let the states do it in other words you'll have a [11:17] hurricane in florida and people will come from alaska they haven't been to florida by the time [11:23] they get used to it you know problem can be solved so i've never been a big fan of fema i like to [11:28] keep it local i let like to see governors and neighboring states help each other as opposed to [11:34] fema fema is very expensive and it really doesn't get the job done you know north carolina they did [11:40] a terrible job until i [11:42] became elected a second time and i went and you know we had that tremendous water [11:47] flood there was a water hurricane that likes it which nobody has seen [11:50] land areas that never had lakes all of a sudden had lakes that you couldn't even get to it and [11:55] actually we were helped by elon musk with the communication with his great communication system [12:00] that worked very well we were very lucky saved a lot of lives but now i i we're going to do [12:07] things right and you don't do them right we shouldn't do them at all yeah please [12:13] sure um after you said today that's the wrong working in the soon the stock market closed [12:18] much higher do you have thoughts on that and also a judge just ordered you to stop construction [12:23] of the ballroom are you planning to stop well we'll appeal that but it's not i don't know this [12:28] it's basically i mean i wrote i wrote a part of his opinion but basically he's saying i need [12:35] congressional approval and he's so wrong this is being financed privately it's a donation that's [12:44] given by companies very rich companies very rich people so that for 150 years [12:51] they've wanted a ballroom here we're gonna have the finest ballroom I believe [12:55] anywhere in the world and he said we need congressional approval well they [13:00] don't get congressional approval from the White House when they do things [13:02] they don't especially when you don't we didn't ask for any tax money we have no [13:06] taxes it's taxpayer free we have no taxpayer putting up ten cents and I see [13:14] right here just wrote it out he said we need congressional approval well we've [13:17] built many things at the White House over the years they don't get [13:20] congressional approval when they build in the White House it's totally separate [13:24] and especially when it's a donation I mean the ballroom is a donation it's [13:29] gotten great reviews people love it and presidents for 150 years have wanted [13:34] this ballroom to be built because when we have President Xi or other presidents [13:38] or prime ministers coming we don't have a big room we have the East Room which [13:42] is very small [13:44] and he said we need congressional approval he also said but this is [13:48] positive for us I'm allowed that meaning we are allowed to continue building as [13:55] necessary to let's see what is that to cover the safety and security of the [14:06] White House and its ground so it says here very carefully the safety and [14:11] security have to be protected in the White House grounds well that's what [14:15] we're doing because everything's bulletproof glass [14:17] et cetera including the ballroom and then it goes construction and all of the [14:25] things necessary says personal safety of the president and his staff are part of [14:31] that so it talks about that we're allowed to continue building let's see [14:35] put an order on and even that he gave 14 days we don't need it because that's [14:39] what we're doing relax to continue building as necessary and when it talks [14:46] about the safety and security of the [14:48] white house and its grounds so just so you know i wrote some of the thing down we have a drone [14:55] proof roof and it talks about the president and his staff well we don't have a lot of bulletproof [15:01] glass the white house was built a long time ago this has the highest level of in fact they call [15:08] this graph this uh grass this the glass uh it's bulletproof and it's ballistic proof it's very [15:19] thick it's like that and it's going 45 feet high and every window is covered every door is covered [15:26] the roof is drone proof we have secure air handling systems you know bad things happen [15:32] in the air if you have bad people we have bio defense all over we have uh secure [15:42] telecommunications and communications all over we have bomb shelters that we're building [15:50] we have [15:51] We have a hospital and very major medical facilities [15:57] that we're building. [15:59] We have all of these things. [16:01] So that's called, [16:02] I'm allowed to continue building as necessary. [16:05] So think of it for the safety of the president. [16:09] So we have all these things. [16:10] So on that, we're okay. [16:13] Where he's totally wrong, [16:15] and he made, you know, a statement that's fine. [16:18] But where are we at? [16:19] I'll give you an example. [16:20] You have, right here, $300 to $400 million, [16:24] depending on finishes. [16:25] If I use very expensive marble, [16:28] if I use very expensive wall coatings, [16:31] if I could bring it up to 400. [16:34] Otherwise, we're right now ahead of schedule. [16:36] We're under budget. [16:38] But depending on finishes, from $300 to $400 million [16:42] are being given by great people, [16:44] people that you all know, [16:47] rich people, rich companies, big companies. [16:50] They wanted to see this built because every president, [16:53] literally, for 150 years has needed a space like this. [16:55] Many of you have gone to the tent [16:58] when we have a president of a big country [17:01] or somebody being honored of great distinction. [17:04] And they sit in a tent, and if it rains, you get soaked [17:07] because the grass gets wet here very fast. [17:09] It's a very wet area. [17:12] They used to call it a wetland, [17:13] but I guess they don't do that for the White House. [17:15] But it's essentially a wetland. [17:17] And when it rains, you're in trouble. [17:19] The water can go up to three to four inches over their shoes. [17:22] That's not a good feeling for Prince, [17:24] what, who was Prince Charles, who, you know, was, you know, [17:26] who will be, who will be here next couple of weeks. [17:30] It's King Charles, who's a great guy. [17:32] We don't want him to sit in a pool of water. [17:36] And they've been wanting this for 100, [17:38] think of it, 150 years, and we're building it. [17:41] And it's covered perfectly. [17:42] What's not covered perfectly is the fact that the judge [17:46] said we need congressional approval. [17:48] Many things have been built in the White House. [17:50] They haven't gotten congressional approval, [17:52] especially when the money is being not put up by the taxpayer. [17:55] The taxpayer's not putting up a dime. [17:57] This building was necessary for many years. [18:00] By the fact that I've built many ballrooms, [18:03] and I've built many things, and I know how to build. [18:05] I'm not building the Federal Reserve, [18:06] where the guy's spending $4 billion [18:08] for a tiny little building, $4 billion [18:12] for the Federal Reserve building. [18:14] That contractor is going to be one of the richest men [18:17] anywhere in the world after he finishes the Federal Reserve. [18:20] The man is totally incompetent. [18:22] Jerome, too late, Powell, is totally incompetent. [18:26] And he's got to get out of office pretty fast. [18:28] He's doing a bad job, but he's also done a bad job [18:31] in shepherding the construction of that building. [18:33] Do you know they ripped down a part of that building? [18:35] And it was a nice, they say it's one of the nicest buildings [18:37] in Washington. [18:38] They ripped it down. [18:40] So we feel, and we don't feel, we know that congressional [18:45] approval is not necessary to put up a ballroom. [18:49] And many things have been built on the site. [18:51] They've never gotten congressional approval. [18:54] And especially when the money is all put up. [18:57] This is all donations. [18:59] By people that love our country, that love the White House, [19:01] and that feel it was very necessary. [19:03] Mr. President, a couple of questions for you on Iran. [19:06] The first one affects Americans' gas prices. [19:09] Today they hit $4. [19:12] We're at $4, yeah. [19:13] And we have a country that's not going to be throwing [19:15] a nuclear weapon at us in six months. [19:17] But Americans are feeling the effects in the interim. [19:20] And they're also feeling a lot safer. [19:22] What is the plan to bring them back down? [19:24] All I have to do is leave Iran. [19:26] And we'll be doing that very soon. [19:27] And they'll become tumbling down. [19:29] And stock prices were up today almost to a record [19:34] because they know two things. [19:37] Number one, we have a safe country. [19:39] We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named [19:43] Khomeini, who sadly is no longer with us. [19:46] And we had regime change already. [19:48] We've knocked out one regime. [19:50] Then we knocked out the second regime. [19:51] Now we have a group of people that's very, [19:54] that are very different. [19:55] They're much more reasonable. [19:56] I think much more, much less radicalized. [19:59] We've had regime change. [20:01] We're dealing with people that are much more rational. [20:05] And it's very, it's amazing what we've done. [20:08] We had to make a little detour. [20:09] So when the stock market broke all records, [20:12] just a few weeks ago, when it hit 50,000 on the Dow, [20:16] 7,000 on the S&P, I said to the American people, [20:20] it's time that we have make a little detour [20:22] because we have a madman that wants a nuclear weapon. [20:25] And if we did not come out with a B-2 bomber, [20:27] we would have a nuclear weapon right now. [20:29] We would. [20:30] It would have been used, [20:31] it would have been used before this, before today. [20:34] And you may not be standing there asking that question, okay? [20:37] So I think we have a country that understands that. [20:40] I see CNN did a poll, [20:42] and they talked about voters or MAGA voters. [20:44] And my poll came out at 100%. [20:46] Nobody, nobody covers that poll. [20:48] They had another poll where it was at 92% approval. [20:52] I think that the people understand it. [20:55] We'll be leaving very soon. [20:57] And if France or some other country, [20:59] once they get oil or gas, [21:02] they'll go up through the strait, [21:06] and almost strait, they'll go right up there, [21:08] and they'll be able to fend for themselves. [21:11] I think it'll be very safe, actually. [21:12] But we have nothing to do with that. [21:14] What happens to the strait, [21:16] we're not going to have anything to do with, [21:17] because these countries, China, [21:19] China will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships, [21:23] and they'll leave, and they'll take care of themselves. [21:25] There's no reason for us to do it. [21:27] We hit them hard, we got rid of a lot of, [21:29] a lot of the radicalized lunatics along the strait. [21:32] But if they want something, [21:33] but I would say that within two weeks, maybe, [21:38] two weeks, maybe three, [21:39] we're hitting them very hard. [21:40] Last night we knocked out tremendous amounts [21:42] of missile-making facilities. [21:44] We, as you probably read, or wrote, [21:47] we knocked out, excuse me? [21:50] Pardon me for interrupting. [21:51] The U.S. will be gone or done with the war? [21:53] I think we're two or three weeks in. [21:55] We'll leave, because there's no reason for us to do this. [21:58] Look. [21:59] A guy can take a mine, drop it in the water, [22:02] and say, oh, it's unsafe. [22:04] It's not like you're taking out an army, [22:06] or you're taking out a country, or you're, [22:09] they can drop it. [22:09] Or you can take a machine gun from the shore [22:11] and shoot a little few bullets on a ship, [22:13] or maybe an over-the-shoulder missile, small missiles. [22:19] That's not for us. [22:21] That'll be for France. [22:22] That'll be for whoever's using the strait. [22:25] But I think when we leave, probably that's all cleared up. [22:27] Today I heard tremendous numbers of ships were sailing [22:30] through. [22:31] We're negotiating with them right now. [22:34] They've been, again, we have had regime change. [22:36] Now, regime change was not one of the things I had as a goal. [22:40] I had one goal. [22:41] They will have no nuclear weapon. [22:43] And that goal has been attained. [22:45] They will not have nuclear weapons. [22:48] But we're finishing the job, and I think within maybe two weeks, [22:52] maybe a couple of days longer, to do the job. [22:55] But we want to knock out every single thing they have. [22:58] Now, it's possible that we'll make a deal, [23:00] before that, because we'll hit bridges. [23:02] And we've hit some. [23:04] We'll hit some bridges. [23:05] We've got a couple of nice bridges in mind. [23:07] But if they come to the table, that'll be good. [23:10] But it doesn't matter whether they come or not. [23:13] We've set them back. [23:14] It'll take 15 to 20 years for them to rebuild [23:17] what we've done to them. [23:19] They have no Navy. [23:20] They have no military. [23:22] They have no Air Force. [23:23] They have no telecommunications. [23:24] They have no anti-aircraft systems. [23:27] They have no leaders. [23:28] You know, their leaders are all gone. [23:29] That's why we have regime change. [23:31] We have nice new leaders. [23:32] Peter. [23:33] The Press Thank you, President Trump. [23:33] You talked about how the ballroom needs to have [23:35] a drone-proof roof. [23:38] The President Right. [23:39] The Press There have been drone swarms flying over [23:41] sensitive military installations in the U.S. [23:44] over the last couple of weeks. [23:45] The reports are they don't look commercial, [23:47] and they can't be jammed. [23:49] Is this another country's military? [23:52] The President I don't think so. [23:52] We have a great system of — do you notice that, [23:55] over the last four or five days, [23:57] you haven't seen very many drone hits, right? [23:59] We have some unbelievable [24:00] anti-drone weaponry that's incredible. [24:03] But you want to have, like, for instance, [24:04] the ballroom, we have a very powerful steel — [24:07] very steel roof with other things in it. [24:10] And you want to have, if you're building — [24:12] a building for security, like — [24:13] just like is judges' opinion, [24:15] you have to have security for the President and his staff. [24:18] They have — you need heavy, strong ceilings. [24:23] You need seriously thick, bulletproof, ballistic glass. [24:28] And we have that. [24:30] Other buildings don't. [24:31] You know, modern — fairly modern buildings don't have that. [24:34] They have roofs that are weak, [24:35] and they have regular glass windows. [24:38] The Press There was this incident down at Barksdale, [24:39] though, where apparently a whole swarm of drones [24:42] for a couple hours was over the flight line. [24:44] There's a lot of really important planes down there. [24:46] The President Yeah. [24:47] The Press How concerned are you that this is — [24:49] The President Well, I'm not concerned. [24:51] Yeah. I know about it. [24:53] They've checked that out, [24:54] and they've gotten to the bottom of it. [24:58] You know, you have a lot of people now, [25:01] that fly these things all over the place, [25:03] and we're coming down very hard on them. [25:05] But we're able to take them out. [25:07] Militarily, we're able to take them out very easily. [25:10] And a new thing is lasers. [25:11] You know, the lasers are becoming very, very effective. [25:14] You hit a drone, and it melts in air. [25:16] It's a beautiful thing to see. [25:18] If it's coming at you, having a laser is a very nice thing. [25:22] But we have — there are methods of defending against — [25:26] I mean, the advantage from the standpoint of defense [25:28] is they don't go very fast, relative to a — [25:31] F-22, that plane right over there. [25:35] They go very slow. [25:37] They can be also shot out of the air [25:38] by, you know, high-quality aircraft, [25:40] which we have more than anybody ever had. [25:43] The Press And — there was a viral video this week. [25:46] I don't know if you saw it. [25:47] Army helicopters hovering near Kid Rock's house in Nashville. [25:50] Did you see that video? [25:50] The President I didn't see it, no. [25:51] But I'm sure they had a good time. [25:52] The Press Well, so, the Army just said [25:54] the crews of these helicopters have been suspended. [25:57] What do you think of that? [25:57] The President Well, it depends. [25:58] Are they — well, they probably shouldn't have been doing it. [26:01] Yes. [26:01] They're supposed to be playing games, right? [26:03] But I'd take a look at it. [26:05] They like Kid Rock. [26:06] I like Kid Rock. [26:07] Maybe they were trying to defend him. [26:09] I don't know. [26:10] The Press Does Iran have to make a deal [26:13] for the U.S. to end its operation in Iran? [26:15] The President No, no. [26:15] The Press And have you spoken — [26:16] and have you spoken directly to Iran? [26:18] The President Iran doesn't have to make a deal, no. [26:20] Yeah, I've spoken to a lot of people. [26:22] It's a new regime. [26:24] They are much more accessible. [26:26] They are right. [26:28] You know, they said, we have a present for you, [26:30] Mr. President, out of respect. [26:32] And they said, wait a minute. [26:33] Do you want me to answer the question? [26:34] You're a fresh person, you know? [26:37] We've had a lot of problems with you, haven't we? [26:40] No, they don't. [26:41] You asked me a question. [26:42] No, they don't have to make a deal with me. [26:44] When we feel that they are, for a long period of time, [26:49] put into the Stone Ages and they won't be able to come up [26:52] with a nuclear weapon, then we'll leave. [26:56] Whether we have a deal or not is irrelevant. [26:59] Now, it's possible that we'll have a deal [27:01] because they want to make a deal. [27:03] They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal. [27:05] But in a fairly short period of time, we'll be finished. [27:09] They will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years. [27:12] And when they already may be, in a long time from now, [27:17] able to do a nuclear weapon, you'll have a President [27:20] that will be like me in that he will go there [27:23] and he'll knock the hell out of them again [27:25] because they cannot have a nuclear weapon. [27:27] They are very radicalized people. [27:30] They're very sick leaderships. [27:32] And I will say, though, that the leadership [27:33] we're dealing with now, with the new regime, [27:35] because we have a new regime, and the new regime [27:38] is much better than the past. [27:41] Yeah. [27:42] The Press Mr. President, the Iranian government [27:44] threatened a bunch of U.S. companies today [27:46] in the region, including Google, Apple. [27:49] The President With what? [27:51] What did they threaten them with? [27:52] PP guns? [27:53] They don't have much left to threaten. [27:55] The Press My question for you is, are you [27:57] Mr. I don't know. [27:58] I mean, what are they? [27:59] You made a statement. [28:00] What did they threaten them with? [28:01] I don't know. [28:03] Tell me. [28:04] How did they threaten them? [28:05] The Press Yes, sir. [28:06] The President What does that mean? [28:07] The Press Fair enough? [28:08] The President They said something nasty. [28:09] The Press Is the government in touch with these [28:10] companies? [28:11] Are you helping to backstop them? [28:12] The President You don't even know what the threat was. [28:13] What was the threat? [28:14] I haven't heard it. [28:15] What was the threat? [28:16] The Press I don't get that. [28:17] The President Did they say they're going to blow [28:18] them up? [28:19] They're going to hit them? [28:20] The Press They set them up? [28:21] The President You know what they're not going to [28:22] do? [28:23] They're not going to hit them with a nuclear weapon. [28:24] Yeah. [28:25] The Press Isn't this something you're concerned [28:26] about, sir? [28:27] The President No. [28:28] The Press Iran's IRGC issues a warning that they [28:29] will target 18 U.S. technology companies if the U.S. continues targeted assassinations [28:30] of Iranian leaders beginning on April 1st. [28:31] Those companies are Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft. [28:32] The President Most of those people are dead already. [28:33] Yeah, Peter? [28:34] The Press I got one. [28:35] Your son Eric posted a photo of what will be the Trump Presidential Library. [28:36] The President Yeah. [28:37] The Press It's a huge skyscraper. [28:38] The President In Miami? [28:39] The Press Is that all a library? [28:40] What else is going in there? [28:41] The President Well, it's a library. [28:42] It's a museum, a library. [28:43] It's a presidential. [28:44] But I wouldn't sell it until I'm out of office. [28:45] I don't believe it's going to happen. [28:46] I don't believe it's going to happen until I'm out of office. [28:47] I don't believe it's going to happen until I'm out of office. [28:59] I don't know. [29:00] They're building libraries or museums. [29:01] It's really like the Barack Hussein Obama one in Chicago in not a good location and [29:07] it's a very unattractive building that's seriously late and seriously over budget. [29:13] I think you're going to see a great one here and it'll go up on time, on budget, best location [29:20] in Miami. [29:21] They say it's the best block in Miami and the state worked with it. [29:23] The President Will people live in the floors? [29:25] The President No, it's going to be most likely a hotel. [29:27] You know, this is the concept. [29:29] Could be office, but it's mostly hotel. [29:30] most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One [29:37] in the lobby, which is going to be a trick. [29:39] And I think the Supreme Court tomorrow is going to hear arguments about your executive [29:43] order trying to get rid of birthright citizenship. [29:47] And I'm going. [29:48] You're going to go to the Supreme Court tomorrow? [29:49] I think so. [29:50] I do believe. [29:51] And you'll sit there and listen? [29:52] Because I have listened to this argument for so long, and this is not about Chinese billionaires [29:58] or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children or 59 children [30:03] in one case or 10 children becoming American citizens. [30:08] This was about slaves. [30:10] And if you take a look, slaves, we're talking about slaves from the Civil War. [30:15] And if you take a look at when it was filed, all of this legislation, all of this, everything [30:21] having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War. [30:26] The reason was it had to do with. [30:28] The babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. [30:33] It didn't have to do with the protection of multimillionaires and billionaires wanting [30:39] to have their children get an American citizenship. [30:41] It is the craziest thing I've ever seen. [30:44] It's been so badly handled by legal people over the years. [30:49] If you look at the original birthright citizenship papers, they all happened right after the [30:55] Civil War. [30:57] The reason was it had to do with. [30:58] The babies of slaves. [31:01] And hopefully it's going to say because our country is being scammed. [31:05] We're getting all of these people, they're selling the rights to them. [31:09] People are making a living, a big living, getting hundreds of thousands and even millions [31:14] of dollars from bringing people in and saying, congratulations, your whole family is going [31:20] to be a citizen of the United States of America. [31:23] That's not what it was for. [31:24] It wasn't for billionaires bringing people in or family in. [31:29] It was for the children of slaves. [31:32] And what you really have to do, and I don't think the lawyers talk about it as much. [31:38] Look at when the Civil War ended and look at the date of when this was enacted. [31:43] Okay. [31:44] No, I went once before the opening of the Supreme Court and the last administration. [31:51] And which justices will you be listening for most closely? [31:55] I love a few of them. [31:58] I don't like some others. [32:00] You know, you say what you want, but you have the ones that were appointed by Barack [32:05] Hussein Obama and Biden. [32:07] I don't care how good your case is. [32:10] You can have the greatest case ever. [32:12] They're going to rule against you. [32:14] They always do. [32:16] And it's not supposed to be that way. [32:18] Now, the Republicans tend to be very different. [32:22] They want to show how honorable they are so a man can appoint them and they can rule against [32:27] them. [32:28] It's so proud of it. [32:29] We're so proud. [32:30] We ruled against Trump. [32:31] We're so proud. [32:32] We're above it. [32:32] There are those that say that's wonderful. [32:36] And there are those that say they're so stupid, but the Democrats never fail at one thing. [32:46] When Barack Hussein Obama or when Biden appoints somebody, they go along that line. [32:51] You can have the greatest case in history and almost, I guess I have to say almost maybe [32:58] I don't have to say it almost without fail. [33:02] Those people. [33:04] Four of them. [33:07] Sometimes five of them. [33:08] But four of them. [33:09] We'll vote against you. [33:10] You don't have a chance. [33:11] You don't have a chance. [33:12] And that's not what the court system is. [33:15] Now, the Republican appointees tend to go and this has been long before me. [33:19] This has been for many years. [33:23] Some people would call it stupidity. [33:25] Some people would call it disloyal. [33:26] Some people would say they're right in doing it. [33:29] And I don't mind being right. [33:30] But the other side almost never does it. [33:33] Almost. [33:34] I think you could find maybe a couple of instances. [33:36] Almost never does. [33:37] When a Democrat appoints a judge. [33:39] And I'm talking about judges, not just judges. [33:40] You go before some of these Democrat judges in Washington, D.C. and you don't have a [33:48] chance. [33:51] That's why I gave pardons to hundreds of people that were so badly treated having to do with [33:57] J6. [33:58] Yeah. [33:59] Next. [34:00] Oh, do you have a question? [34:01] Let's go. [34:02] I didn't see you over there. [34:03] Sorry. [34:04] You've been so nice. [34:05] Here we go. [34:06] Now she's going to hit me with a bad one. [34:07] Go ahead. [34:08] On the Save America Act, Mr. President, you've been so nice. [34:09] Now she's going to hit me with a bad one. [34:10] Go ahead. [34:11] On the Save America Act, Mr. President, do you still think it's going to pass? [34:12] Were you signed? [34:13] I don't know. [34:14] It's the craziest thing. [34:15] The Democrats are totally against it. [34:16] Again, they're unified. [34:17] I think maybe you would have Fetterman, who I have a lot of respect for. [34:18] But the Democrats are unified against it. [34:19] And you need Democrat votes. [34:20] Unless you do something smart called the filibuster, terminate the filibuster, which they should [34:21] do. [34:23] Republicans should do that. [34:24] But there are a couple of Republicans that maybe they're not so smart because the Democrats [34:25] will do it on the first day in office. [34:26] They're not going to do it. [34:27] They're not going to do it. [34:28] They're not going to do it. [34:29] They're not going to do it. [34:30] They're not going to do it. [34:31] It's a question, will it be the first hour or the first day? [34:38] So who can believe that a person — you can't even get it to the floor — that a person [34:55] wouldn't vote for — think of it — for citizenship, proof of citizenship, for voter [35:00] rights, for the entire country's vote? [35:02] What is the answer? [35:03] identification and we also added one we added a mail-in ballots mail-in ballots [35:08] with exceptions for the military for people that are sick people that are [35:12] traveling the disabled we have very generous exceptions but who would [35:18] believe that that would be possible not to get those things to vote for and then [35:21] we added best of Trump we added no men and women sports different subject but [35:27] we ended that and we said no transgender utilization of our children these are [35:32] all 90 95 maybe 98 in some cases maybe 99 in terms of if you those first two if [35:43] you talk about the first two I think you know I think I think in 98 99 percent [35:49] voter identification right when you think don't you think it's nice with [35:54] picture when you think it's nice when the Democrats had their convention I [35:59] remember it so well you have identification to get into the arena and [36:05] had a card that was bigger than most of their chests and it had everything it [36:10] had their picture it had and if you didn't have that card they threw you [36:14] away in New York City recently we had big snowstorm Mayor mandami had he [36:23] called out for people to shovel snow but you had to give identification with [36:29] picture if you didn't have and it wasn't one identification you had to have two [36:35] so to shovel snow in New York City you need identification [36:39] with picture but to vote which is maybe our most cherished thing you don't need [36:45] they don't want voter ID the Democrats because they want to cheat the problem [36:51] is we need their votes in order to get it you need their votes and look they [36:57] know their policy is so bad they know that if they gave those votes they might [37:01] never win another election so they're fighting like hell they're actually [37:05] fighting them for their survival because their policy the Republicans have great [37:11] policy smart policy strong borders low interest rates low taxes we just gave [37:17] you the largest tax cut in history all these great policies you know we want a [37:22] strong military look at our military we have the strongest military look what [37:25] happened in Venezuela it was so incredible people said the greatest [37:30] military maneuver they've ever seen look what's happening in Iran we're just I [37:35] mean we're totally unchecked everything's been bombed out they have no [37:40] anti-aircraft protection they have no anti-aircraft protection they have no [37:42] anti-aircraft protection they have no anti-aircraft protection they have no [37:42] They have no nothing. They don't have anything. [37:47] Look at our military. The Democrats don't want that. [37:50] And when I read the fake New York Times, [37:51] you take a look at it, it's like, [37:54] oh, they're putting up a good fight. [37:55] They're not putting up a fight. [37:56] They're not even shooting at us, okay? [37:58] We have planes. [38:00] Planes are just ruling the sky. We have airplanes. [38:05] Those two. Those two. We have airplanes. [38:08] Nice, right? Lincoln with a little modern touch. [38:11] The great Benjamin Franklin with a little modern touch. [38:15] But think of it. [38:17] They are roaming the skies over Tehran. [38:20] They're not even being shot at [38:22] because their equipment's been totally decimated. [38:25] They have nothing to shoot. [38:27] We have, they have no Navy. They have no anything. [38:31] And just think about this. They have no Navy. [38:34] They have no military. They have no nothing. [38:37] They're losing. They admit they're losing. [38:40] They're begging to make a deal. [38:42] And if you read the fake New York Times, [38:43] a corrupt New York Times, [38:44] a newspaper where I'm suing them [38:46] and I think I should do very well. [38:48] But you would almost think, who's winning? [38:52] It's so fraudulent. [38:54] But just to finish up with the New York Times, [38:57] if you read the New York Times [38:59] prior to my election victory, [39:01] including the first one and the second one too, [39:05] I won three times. [39:07] I won three times convincingly. [39:10] But let's go to the third victory. [39:12] If you read the New York Times, you would say, [39:15] oh, Trump's going to lose. [39:16] But I won in a landslide. [39:18] I won the popular vote. [39:20] I won the electoral college in a massive number. [39:22] Right? Massive. [39:24] I won the counties. [39:26] 86% of the counties I won all of these different things. [39:30] Winning the popular vote for Republicans, [39:33] they were pretty amazing. [39:34] But if you read the New York Times [39:36] for months and months and months, [39:38] you're hearing, oh, Trump, this works so badly. [39:43] We have to straighten out our media. [39:45] The reason their circulation is way down, [39:48] the New York Times, [39:48] circulation, you know, has gone way down. Washington Post is almost extinct. The papers that are being [39:57] dishonest, the papers generally, people don't believe the media. And to finish, I got 93% [40:06] bad publicity. Some people say 97, but between 93 and 97. A person that gets 97% of bad stories, [40:15] maybe Caroline's doing a poor job. I don't know. She's my representative. You're doing a terrible [40:20] job. Should we keep her? I think we'll keep her. But I get 93 to 97% bad press, fake press, [40:27] all fake. I won in a landslide. When you get 93 to 97 bad stories, bad press, and you win in a [40:37] landslide, you know what that says? People don't believe the press. And when people don't believe [40:43] the press, that's a very bad thing for our country. And when you look at, let's say the New [40:47] York Times or the Washington Post, the stories are so fake. Wall Street Journal too, a lot of [40:52] bad stories. I don't know what happened to them, but they're bad. Their circulation went way down. [40:58] Wall Street Journal, I don't know if you saw the numbers that came out yesterday. New York Times, [41:02] way down. Wall Street Journal, way down. Washington Post, number one, way down. Because people don't [41:08] believe them anymore. And until they get, it's not the paper, it's not the big, it's that they [41:13] have no credibility anymore, which is a very sad thing for our country. Thank you very much. [41:23] Thanks, President Trump. Thank you very much. Hey, Peter, can I do that? He said, I've got more [41:33] questions for you than I did in this whole four years. Good man. How's your father? He's doing great.