Trump holds impromptu WH press briefing with Dana White after midterm blowout, Massie resolution

[0:01] but numerous of these wars went for over 10 years and basically nothing was won nothing was [0:10] all that you ended up with was death so we had two wars we had venezuela which was over in 48 minutes [0:17] and we lost no soldiers and we're taking in billions and billions of dollars a day [0:23] and we paid for that war in many times over and we're getting along very well with government [0:30] we're much in charge we're totally in charge and getting along well and the venezuela people love us [0:36] because we're bringing the big oil companies are in there now they're taking in a lot of money they're [0:40] seeing more money now than they've ever seen before so venezuela was 48 minutes it was over so let's say [0:48] one day but 48 minutes it was done and it's been again millions of barrels of oil are coming in [0:56] every week millions of barrels and billions of dollars so that's one and the other is iran and [1:04] iran militarily is effectively over we're just keeping it the status quo and we're doing that [1:13] really at the behest of countries that are their neighbors but it's a failing country it's got 301 [1:22] inflation it's got problems like you don't want to even think about they're not paying their military [1:28] they're not paying their guard their navy is gone their air force is gone they have 158 ships they're [1:34] underwater they have 268 planes that were scattered all over the runways of iran so their military is [1:42] essentially gone their manufacturing capability is reduced to about they can still make some limited [1:49] numbers of missiles and drones but it's basically about 85 percent gone and they're talking to us and [1:57] they're talking very politely then we'll see what happens but there's a good chance that that could [2:01] get uh ended so at the conclusion of the military engagement the american people and the people of [2:11] the world will be far safer and more secure than they've been in many many years because iran was [2:17] killing many people you know that war was started in 1979 we didn't start the war they did even if you [2:24] go back to the ss call that was there that was their situation and a lot of people were killed a [2:31] lot of american people were killed a lot of people throughout the world were killed and if you go back [2:36] just over the last seven or eight months 75 000 at a minimum protesters have been killed so it's a nasty [2:44] place but uh we think that it's in pretty good shape we'll see what happens i don't guarantee anything [2:52] but if we do have to go back in we are locked and loaded and ready to go with that being said i was [2:58] having a little fun and i said how about dana white being the press secretary you know press [3:03] secretary he's a great guy he's done an unbelievable job most successful uh you know we talked don king [3:12] who's a friend of mine i got a lot of friends but you talk about fight promoters this is more than a [3:17] fight promoter this is a man that's uh done the most incredible job anybody's ever seen ufc it's [3:24] like broadcasting the nfl the numbers and what he's been able to do and he's done a lot of press and i [3:31] said you know what i want to elevate you i'm going to bring you into the press room and data white could [3:36] be our press secretary if you would only take the job there would never have been even caroline would [3:41] admit that data is really very unique the only problem is he'll talk for a little while and then he's [3:47] going to beat the hell out of you so i don't know if daniel would like that i don't think daniel wants [3:52] to take him on but he uh he's built an amazing an amazing machine he's got a big fight this weekend [4:00] at madison square garden with the two greatest women fighters of all time as far as i'm concerned [4:09] yeah women's fighting it's not a nice thing but they are they are very tough when i say no no men [4:15] in women's sports that's great i would not want to fight however i would not how would i do against [4:20] one of them would i do well i don't think so this would uh this would not be a good occurrence [4:28] anyway but i thought i'd bring data because he loves the idea and i love the idea the only thing is [4:34] we have other things we have to think about but he's a unique a unique person and he was seeing me [4:40] anyway unrelated and i thought maybe he would say a few words and i think he'd probably like the job [4:48] he loves the country and he would do a hell of a job so uh you were here he was here and [4:53] dana please say a few words dana white thank you i've always wanted to do this who has the first [5:01] question i have zero political aspirations uh i was in a fight for zufa boxing in london when he called [5:09] me and told me that he had done this in the last 24 hours of my life has been insane um but yeah good [5:17] to see you yes ma'am i have a question at ufc cage match between president trump and former president [5:24] joe biden same age same weight and considering like styles make fights could you give us an analysis [5:30] of the toughest most resilient human being that i've ever met in my entire life many times during [5:36] you know the last eight ten years whatever it's been i have told him why why do you keep doing [5:42] this why are you doing this when he was going through everything that he went through and i mean [5:47] as tough and as real as resilient as i thought he was after uh he got shot i uh yeah i he's he is a one [5:55] of one unique human being and uh yeah would it be a knockout victory for president trump it would be [6:02] it would it would be very bad yeah i i think it would be very bad i can't believe you actually [6:07] have questions for me yes the president has said he might consider a pardon for pete rose what is your [6:14] advice to the president about that part i don't advise the president on anything ever um but yeah i [6:20] think it's fair i think it's fair to pardon pete rose yeah i would do that by the way but why does he [6:25] need a pardon he does he was not really convicted of a criminal tax charges sir oh he did yes sir i'd give [6:30] pete rose a pardon all right let's make it happen i think pete rose was very mistreated he was you [6:36] know uh 4 200 and some odd hits way ahead of anybody else a record can never be broken [6:44] and he was caught gambling now it's legal right but he was gambling on his own team then he wasn't [6:50] gambling against that's different he was gambling he shouldn't have done it but he went through 40 years [6:54] of hell and they never and they should have given him a pardon they should have given him [6:59] into the baseball hall of fame a long time ago and i spoke to the commissioner about it [7:04] and he agreed to do it and then he waited though and pete rose died so it didn't help him too much [7:11] but uh i would give pete rose a pardon i would do that just to confirm did you tell the president no to [7:19] the press secretary job i don't tell the president no to anything i no i didn't say no i literally everybody [7:26] every media outlet was calling me and i didn't want to be disrespectful and say anything until he [7:31] he uh he said something first so we were having a very bad press day and i said i don't know why i [7:38] thought of his name he's been my friend for a long time i said you know i think i'm going to get dana [7:44] white to be my new press secretary they sent it to a group of the press and that was it i'm sort of [7:49] kidding and then they wrote the stories though i wasn't kidding and you were inundated and i was [7:55] inundated and he was here anyway with we thought to have a little fun and we brought dana here he [8:01] would be fantastic go ahead [8:04] mr president first of all were you surprised by the results of the midterms last tuesday and mr [8:11] president you on the campaign trail you had said that you had stopped iran from having a nuclear [8:19] weapon why not just declare an end to the conflict and be done with it because we have some great [8:25] allies there and we have to make sure they're not hurt and they would be hurt they are right now a lot [8:33] safer than they were six months ago because iran has been very much decapitated but they're still [8:39] the bully of the middle east a little bit and i see that we want to make sure they're okay [8:45] we want to make sure it's a long-term solution not just a short-term they'll never have a nuclear [8:49] weapon but we have to make sure that's a long term so it's ending quickly but uh we want to take care [8:55] of people that have been very good to us over the years [9:01] thank you mr president you told 60 minutes that you felt that your deportation policy may have gone too [9:08] far but then you named the architect of that policy stephen miller to be your chief of staff [9:14] have you told him that you want changes to the deportation policy we have a very strong deportation [9:19] policy there's no amnesty no no anything we keep that but uh we focus on the worst of the worst we [9:27] want to get the murderers out we've gotten most of them out we've gotten most of the really bad you [9:32] know they they allowed joe biden allowed 100 well 25 million people to come in of that 11 888 murderers [9:43] most of whom committed more than one murder we've gotten most of them we want to get the worst of the [9:48] worst and then we'll see what happens but they came in illegally many of them have good jobs now they're [9:55] productive some of them are even paying taxes and we're seeing what's going to happen there won't be [9:59] amnesty somebody suggested will there be amnesty no but they came in they knew the law and we're [10:06] working with a lot of different groups to see whether or not but my policy hasn't changed what [10:11] we are doing is absolutely the worst of the worst we're getting the murderers they allowed people to [10:17] come in from prisons they emptied their prisons into our country many countries and they emptied our [10:22] prisons into our country the drug dealers that we have the people from the mental institutions [10:29] mental institutions all over the world were emptied out prisons all over the world the congo [10:36] were in the congo their prison population was emptied into our country all over south america all over [10:44] asia they did that too what biden did to this country should never ever be forgotten and i hope [10:52] the democrats will not try and allow that to happen again we've seen the stock market really take you [11:01] know up and down like a roller coaster last couple of days today up last week it tanked not last week [11:07] right after the election it went down three trillion dollars that was because of the result of the [11:12] election because the stock market does not want to see democrats and your 401ks have gone way down [11:19] because of the ridiculous result it's not even a result it's almost hard to believe now i wasn't [11:27] on the ballot i shouldn't take anything personally but i will tell you i thought it was ridiculous but [11:32] the stock market went way down right after that event today it's way up because i think they feel we [11:40] have things under control mr president thank you sir when were you first informed that there was an [11:46] issue with jensen playing in the affair and what was presented to you at the time what was the concern [11:52] i would say that when i heard about it first of all i was amazed because i view him as a very [12:00] high quality person i've known him a long time it's actually the largest i think by value it's probably [12:06] the largest or one of the largest companies in the world he did that with a chip you know when you [12:11] think about he's got a chip that's 10 years advanced can't be cut because of the complexity can't even [12:16] the blackwell can't even be copied he's an amazing guy i just hope it's uh i hope there's no problem [12:23] if there is a problem we'll let you know about it but i hope there's no problem i believe he's [12:28] suffering greatly i read his statement and i believe he's suffering greatly more so because of his family [12:35] his wife who he loves and his family but he is definitely suffering and i hope just to follow [12:44] up on the when were you first told of these potential issues with mr flange you didn't answer that [12:48] question well i've been hearing about it and i've been reading a little bit about it over a period of [12:52] time but uh not too long ago we'll look into it i know the fbi is looking into it in terms of [13:00] something else and i think that he'll be in good shape mr president you say the war with iran will [13:08] be ending fairly soon but you've made this claim dozens of times over the past eight months why [13:12] should americans think this time is any different they won't have a nuclear weapon and they won't [13:17] have a nuclear weapon when we knocked them out a year ago uh that was i said i was going to do that [13:23] and i kept my word on that now what we're doing is we're uh it's really status quo territory we're [13:31] keeping it going we have the greatest military blockade ever we have the new iron gate iron gate [13:37] is land so by land and by sea and we will uh take care of business look iran i hope we're going to be [13:45] able to make a deal with them but nothing's going to happen and if we have to we'll take very serious [13:52] we are so loaded we just have another aircraft carrier it's all loaded up to the gills with [13:58] brand new beautiful stuff we're making more military equipment and munitions right now [14:03] than at any time in the history of our country we've built and are building more plants our [14:09] our defense companies are building more plants than ever at any time in the history of our country and [14:16] many of those plants are open some opened and some are opening soon we're building new patriots we're [14:22] building new tomahawks new thad systems and we have more under construction now than at any time [14:29] ever and uh and we're taking it and obviously we're taking it for ourselves first uh what happened is [14:35] and wasn't so much iran joe biden gave 350 billion dollars worth of free equipment to ukraine now that [14:47] was unbelievable now they pay and we give it to the european union we have a very good relationship we [14:53] took them from two percent to five percent is what they're paying now which is pretty amazing nobody [14:59] thought that could happen but they pay full for the equipment joe biden gave free equipment 350 billion [15:06] and we are now building more military equipment and munitions than at any time in the history of our [15:12] country uh we just had just in case we had another aircraft carrier we have many uh sailing over and just [15:21] arriving in the middle east so we have three and they're all locked and loaded and hopefully we [15:26] don't have to use them are you going to bring up the case of jensen wong with president xi when you [15:36] visit with him next week no i don't think so i mean maybe i'm sure president she will ask me about it [15:42] i just know jensen very well i just think he's a very honorable man i mean he's a great built a great [15:48] company american company and i think he's a very honorable guy and i feel very confident that he'll [15:54] be in good shape when you went to china earlier this year in may did you know about these alleged [16:03] ties with the chinese by then or no i didn't hear about it then but a lot of people have heard about [16:09] it and jensen totally denies that he had i asked him today because i did speak to him today just to see [16:15] if he's feeling all right how you doing and i asked him about that and uh he had he said he had [16:20] absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy i asked him that question did you have [16:27] any idea that she was a spy he said i had no idea that she was a spy and i really believe him yeah [16:38] i just think that ukraine and russia are tired of fighting they're tired of seeing dead young soldiers [16:45] mostly soldiers most of the people are soldiers think of it they're losing 25 000 denny can you [16:50] imagine 25 000 that's like a stadium medicine square garden you have your fights 25 000 that's what it [16:56] holds and they're losing that every single month dead young beautiful people and it's it's got to stop [17:05] you know it doesn't affect us but i'm able to get them together and we're meeting now right now as we [17:12] speak and the meetings are going okay but we're trying to get it settled only because we want [17:18] to say it doesn't affect us as a country but it affects me 25 000 people a month of being killed [17:28] mr president a number of senate of gop members are urging the conference to delay their leadership [17:34] votes tomorrow we know that john thune is running on a post in the senate do you think that mr thune has [17:39] earned the right to lead senator well look he's a very fine man i know him very well [17:45] but that's really up to the senators i like john thune i wish they could get more produced you know we [17:53] we've had save america up there we've had you know voter id and proof of citizenship and many other things [18:01] it's not easy he's got some people that first of all you have 100 negative democrats they never vote yes [18:07] they always vote no that means you have to get almost 100 of the republicans and you have some [18:12] republicans in there i can name them but why should i that are very difficult and you know i said as [18:19] leader you have to get those people but john's a good man i guess they're going to be voting tomorrow [18:24] or maybe it's delayed i don't know what the status but you know he's a friend of mine i wish the senate [18:30] could get more done you spoke about venezuela uh do you plan on having elections there before the end [18:39] at some point yeah at some point yes mr president uh earlier today you posted on social media where [18:45] you questioned whether the midterm election results were honest yeah believe that the election was [18:50] rigged and separately did you did you watch uh senator thomas massey lay out his articles of impeachment [18:57] no i don't watch massey look now massey's a loser um he shouldn't be taking up the time of uh congress [19:05] or the senate or anything that he's doing the guy's a stone-cold loser would always he's a republican [19:11] always he would vote against you just we could come up with the best bill we could come up with and he [19:17] would always vote against there's something wrong with him and i said look i've got to challenge him and [19:23] i challenged him and he lost in a landslide to a very good man we have a very good man ed [19:28] gilraine who's great took his place but you know i went and did something that is very tough to do now [19:36] i challenged others also i challenged cornyn i challenged uh tillis and i challenged uh if you look [19:42] at louisiana cassidy three so that makes things a little bit harder to get their votes because i wouldn't [19:49] say they like me but of all of them i would say there's there's something wrong with thomas massey [19:55] he was an automatic no vote you could go in with the greatest bill bills were even democrats were [20:01] voting and he'd be no and i said what is wrong with this guy he's a sick sick guy there's something [20:07] wrong with him actually now he's he's after pete hacksath he doesn't like hacks out but really what has [20:13] hacks have done he won the war he was in charge he won the war in venezuela as i said 48 minutes [20:21] it was flawless nobody killed and he certainly i think he's won the war in iran but he's certainly [20:28] winning the war iran would love to make a deal and they've been obliterated their navy and their air [20:34] force so he won the war in two places two big places very important very impactful and they were [20:42] one they're not like vietnam when nothing was one or afghanistan or iraq or any of these wars when [20:49] nothing was one there was nothing one just lots of death and then let's leave in one case he's not [20:55] they're not going to have a nuclear weapon in the other we're making hundreds of billions of dollars [21:00] for this country so i say this pete hacksath won two wars oh let's impeach him what about impeaching [21:10] the gentleman from biden his person that disappeared for two weeks and nobody had any [21:18] idea where he was what about impeaching the people that ran the vietnam war what about impeaching that [21:23] when that went ran iraq and afghanistan and all of these other wars where thousands of lives have [21:32] been you know we lost 18 people 18 they lost 65 000 in vietnam we're in there for seven months they're in [21:42] there for 21 years what about impeaching those people what about impeaching the leaders of [21:48] these stupid wars that were done when nothing was gained in iran they won't have a nuclear weapon [21:54] that's a big thing now short term probably bad for me because people want to have a little bit lower [22:00] energy cost we'll get it back down i created the lowest cost you know it's even lower now than it was [22:06] with biden and obama but i've done something different they won't have a nuclear weapon that's [22:11] a big thing and with the other we're making a fortune and we have tremendous amounts of oil [22:16] we're going to have we have more oil including venezuela than saudi arabia and russia combined [22:24] by far in fact by two yeah please do you believe the midterms were great sir to follow up do you [22:30] believe the midterms were well i think the numbers were terrible in terms of those early votes you look [22:35] at all those early votes and and look at another one i'm watching alaska so you have a guy named dan [22:42] sullivan and another guy named dan sullivan runs and one's a j and one's an s and the one with a j which [22:49] is the fake dan sullivan tries to have his initial change to s he never ran before he never was a [22:57] political person before he was fraudulently put in the race and then they tried to change his middle name [23:03] so it was a nested to confuse so dan sullivan and the woman peltola is they're very close he's only [23:13] i guess she's four or five hundred votes but this fake dan sullivan because of confusion only because [23:19] they're meant to vote as 2 500 almost 3 000 votes that means he wins the election but in addition they [23:27] have a second person they put in and they made a big issue with the second and that person is 4 000 or [23:33] 5 000 votes those votes should go also but even if you don't include that you have a dan sullivan [23:41] and a dan sullivan and the democrats put him up in order to confuse the voters so anybody that voted [23:49] for that second dan sullivan the fake dan sullivan was supposed to be a vote for the real dan sullivan [23:56] so they stole it and that election should be called right now because dan sullivan won easily if you add [24:03] up the numbers now if you add up the numbers for the second person they put in he's leading by six [24:09] seven thousand votes [24:09] one two wars he was in charge we all won i had great people you what massey says that he's carried [24:28] out massey's a loser just like you're a loser at cnn just like your ratings are a loser massey is a loser [24:36] stone cold loser uh i ran i did something that nobody's done i took on a guy that was in his [24:43] own way sort of popular in his state and i beat him badly beat him easily with a man that never ran [24:53] before but a good man massey has a lot of hatred in his heart i watched i heard what massey did i [25:01] don't want to watch i don't want to waste my time watching him uh we won two wars we won two wars and [25:08] we've made the world a lot safer place and then we're supposed to be why haven't we gone after [25:14] all these other people that ran wars that lost what about this what about what about what about [25:20] good old lloyd why didn't we go after him why didn't we go after the people that disappeared [25:26] they're in charge of the military and they disappeared from nobody knew had any idea that nothing [25:32] happened to him uh what about all these people that lost wars you don't have to all i can say is [25:38] this we have the highest recruit the recruitment numbers of you know when i came in when i was [25:46] campaigning we had the worst recruitment people wanting to join the military in the history of our [25:52] country we couldn't fill any of the spots it was a disaster now we have the best numbers we've ever [25:59] had more people want to be in the army navy air force marines coast guard even the police space [26:06] force firemen anybody with a uniform so now we have the best numbers we've ever had and i will say this [26:14] the soldiers the actual soldiers the the great people that do the work the great patriots they love [26:21] pete hexath so if you go back two years ago before i got into office two years ago we could not recruit [26:30] people and you know that better the army was way beyond everybody now we have waiting lists of [26:36] people trying to get in he's done a very good job [26:50] vladimir putin you have given vladimir putin multiple deadlines over the last 22 months [26:54] to enter into a ceasefire but also to meet directly with the lodimir zelensky he has repeatedly ignored [27:00] your demands yet you have provided well you know you're saying he's not has he been fighting us [27:05] in the war also yeah yeah let me ask you this question does appeasement who are you with who are [27:10] you with with ms now what at what ms now it's a fake that's nobody does appeasement [27:16] ms now gets the worst ratings in their history used to be ms dnc it's one of the worst uh you're a fake [27:25] network go ahead jennifer jennifer go ahead jennifer go ahead ms now what a joke go ahead [27:36] steven miller's doing a great job [27:41] i just think he's going to be great he's been with me from the beginning he's smart he's tough [27:45] he's fair and he actually will get along i think very well with the democrats [27:55] i want to put a finer point they're going to try and you know i'm open to it [27:59] we're not going to have amnesty or anything we're going to you know people are going to [28:03] do it the right way you have to do it it's unfair to other people but certainly i'm open to it [28:08] but he's okay with the steven miller no no not you not you go ahead i wanted you to put a finer [28:13] point on what exactly you were made aware of the intelligence around jensen wang oh i'd have to [28:18] check but there are reports but this has been going on put an intelligence memo out last year did you [28:23] read that well i'd certainly check with the intelligence people they could have been mentioned [28:28] certainly it didn't make much of an impact on me yeah one of your first tests uh for bipartisanship [28:34] this new era is going to be working with democrats on this permitting bill which is expected to get [28:38] a vote the permitting bill is a great bill that's supposed to be bipartisan we we are behind it a [28:43] hundred percent are you going to whip that in the house well we may see but the democrats want that [28:48] i mean maybe they've changed but they wanted as much as the right you're going to approve wind [28:52] turbines in the future being very critical of that no i will not approve winter but that's part of the [28:56] bill sir i know but i won't approve it well the bill hasn't been fully negotiated uh i will not [29:02] approve of wind turbines because wind turbines are a major loser [29:12] as you said before it was going to be your pleasure to take cuba in your monday [29:16] do you still plan on taking cuba or well cuba is falling it's a failing nation it's got an ideology [29:23] very similar to what the democrat ideology is and it's a failing nation it's a communist nation socialist [29:31] nation's sort of everything all wrapped in into one uh we have tremendous people who were treated [29:38] very badly cuban americans and they voted for me 94 percent and we take care of those people but cuba [29:46] is a failing nation we will help them on a humanitarian basis we are helping them actually but we'll see [29:53] what happens cuba is going to be interesting i would imagine it will fall fairly soon [30:00] i can't keep this man waiting he's a very very powerful so let me ask wait wait wait so let me [30:06] ask you the big question dana would you like to be press secretary of the united states of america [30:13] look at the sign you'd have this behind you all the time the white house washington would you like [30:18] that energy you just want to stay with this ridiculous ufc uh thank you for the officer for the offer i have no [30:25] no no no i do not want to be in politics i am devastated to hear this goodbye everybody [30:43] thank you everybody just to conclude our country is doing really well we're respected by everybody in [30:50] the world something that was not true two years ago our country is doing better than it's ever done [30:56] before thank you very much