Trump signs executive order investing in quantum computing

[0:00] and lie. I used to have that sock when it was much, much lower. I brilliantly sold it when I [0:08] became president. That was not a good move. And inflection CEO Matthew Kinsella, as well as Nobel [0:17] Prize winning quantum physicist John Martinez. Great job, man. Should you tell him how many [0:24] years ago it was? Well, about 40 years ago. Pretty good. And you still look good. Thank you. Great [0:30] job. I've been waiting for one of them, too. They don't think eight wars is enough. I have to do [0:37] 12 or 13, I think, even though nobody's ever done one. Quantum technologies represents the next [0:44] generation of innovation across computing, sensing and networking with enormous significance for our [0:50] country's economic growth, scientific research and cyber security. It's really a big deal that we're [0:57] doing today, and the country is doing really well, as you know. In 2018, I signed the National [1:03] Quantum Initiative Act into law, which led to doubling the federal government investment in quantum [1:09] research and development. I think you all know about that. That helped unleash billions of dollars [1:14] of private investment in America's quantum industrial base, promoting significant scientific [1:21] and technological progress, like progress like we've never seen before, actually. We want to keep [1:26] that positive momentum going in America with the orders that I'm signing today. And these will [1:32] really have a, I think, place at a big step forward. We're already the leader by a lot. And we're going [1:38] to be now the leader by a lot more. With the first executive order launches a national effort to produce a [1:45] quantum computer capable of performing important scientific calculations and to develop quantum enabled [1:51] sensors and networks in the next five years. And we're going to be investing in [1:56] American quantum leadership like never before to stay ahead of the pack. We're way ahead right now. We'll keep [2:02] it that way. The second order I'm signing directs federal agency to transition to what is called quantum [2:09] cryptography. Do anybody know what that is? You're going to hear very soon. So you're going to find it [2:17] interesting cryptography for their computer systems by 2031 and to lead the way for wider adoption of these [2:25] extremely strong security standards. America is celebrating 250 years of ingenuity, innovation [2:33] and invention this year. And today's commitments to quantum leadership will help secure that legacy [2:38] for decades to come. I just want to say before we introduce a couple of the people, we're doing [2:44] very well with respect to the Armour Strait. We took in more oil yesterday than we've ever than has ever [2:51] gone through the strait. You probably see that. We have an oil gusher. The strait is totally open. [2:58] You know that. And we're negotiating. We'll see how that all goes. But we have two things. We have an [3:05] open strait and we have a country that will never have a nuclear weapon. Will never ever have a nuclear [3:10] weapon. So now I'd like to invite Michael Kratios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, [3:16] to say a few words, followed by National Cyber Director Sean Karen Cross and Secretary Wright, [3:25] who's doing a fantastic job over in Venezuela and every place else he touches. Venezuela, by the way, [3:30] has been amazing. We are really having a great relationship with that country, taking out tremendous [3:37] amounts of oil, far, far more than that particular war cost, many, many times, sending it to Houston, [3:46] sending it to Louisiana, sending it to lots of places. And Venezuela is also doing well. Venezuela [3:52] is doing better than it's done and maybe ever. So it's been an amazing, it's been an amazing [3:57] situation. Where did you ever hear of getting money back from the war by 42 times over? Repeat. [4:05] Nobody, nobody does that. And I think Iran, I can say on a sort of a different scale, is in its own way [4:12] working out very well. Maybe it's hard to say just as well, but maybe almost just as well. [4:18] And we're doing very well in terms of negotiating a fair and reasonable deal. One of the things that we [4:24] are doing also, and it came up last night, is money that's being unfrozen is going to be used to buy food, [4:31] and the food's going to be bought exclusively through the United States from our farmers. And corn, [4:38] soybeans, all of the things they need are going to be bought from our farmers. So our farmers are very [4:44] happy. I've had a lot of calls that were very happy about that. So now I'd like to ask Michael, say a few [4:50] words, and I will follow up by the other two gentlemen, or three gentlemen. And then if anybody has [4:55] anything to say, and we'll take some questions at the end. So Michael, go ahead. So Mr. President, [5:01] as you mentioned your remarks, you were the first president history to prioritize quantum as a [5:05] scientific priority of United States government in your first administration. And since then, [5:09] there's been a big leap in the investment the private sector has made in this particular domain. [5:14] And we're now at the moment where a lot of that research is starting to pay off into commercial [5:18] applications. And what this executive order will do is turbocharge that. First and foremost, [5:23] it's going to task the Department of Energy to create a scientifically relevant quantum computer, [5:29] which is going to help pave the way for even larger computers for the private sector. Secondly, [5:34] we're going to be focusing on sensors and networking. So agencies like the Department of War, [5:38] along with the Department of Energy, are going to be doing a wide variety of sensing and networking [5:42] work. So this is a big step forward. And as one of our two top science technology priorities, [5:47] we're excited to kick things off today. Good. Thank you very much. Good job, Michael. Sean, [5:53] please. Yeah, thank you, sir. You continue to be the most forward-leaning president [5:59] in innovation in American history. Is that all? That's not necessary. But no, [6:06] and while you recognize the tremendous potential quantum has to advance medical research and [6:14] cryptography and improve the lives of American people, you also recognize the security implications. [6:21] As quantum rolls forward, it will challenge public key cryptography, which is what secures everything. [6:28] It secures our financial transactions, our civilian critical infrastructure, [6:33] and it secures the digital systems that Americans rely on for their daily life. And these two executive [6:39] orders, which pair innovation and security, will address those issues. As we move forward, innovation and [6:49] security have to be balanced. You recognize that. The actions that you take today will make sure that [6:55] American systems are trusted and secure and safe moving forward. And I just want to thank our [7:02] tremendous American companies with whom we've been working so closely. I think it's fair to say we have [7:07] an unprecedented relationship in this. I want to thank our colleagues in the interagency who have been [7:12] tremendous. It's such a mission-focused group of people. And obviously, none of this happens, [7:17] sir, without your leadership. So you're securing our systems for generations to come. Thank you. [7:23] And you've done a great job. All of you have, actually. Chris Wright, please. [7:27] Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. So 100, 120, 141 years ago, Albert Einstein, 121 years ago, [7:37] Albert Einstein published a paper- Nobody cares. [7:44] And usually they won't catch you, but go ahead. Published a paper on the photoelectric effect, [7:49] recognizing the quantum behavior of light, that it came in quanta. 40 years after that, [7:56] President Trump's uncle, John Trump, was a pioneer in applying light radiation and the reflections of it [8:04] to develop radar at the MIT Radiation Lab, critical in D-Day, critical in the end in winning World War II. [8:11] That's the parallel of quantum innovation. 40 years after that, John Martinez, down there, [8:18] pioneered taking quantum effects and building them into a device to capture that behavior. He was [8:25] awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics just last year for that discovery, that breakthrough. But 40 years, [8:32] quantum phenomena are tough to harvest and tough to work with. But here we are, thanks to President [8:37] Trump's leadership in the first term with Director Kratios, to launch a major national effort on [8:42] quantum. This is taking it to the next level. The future of computing is going to be a three-legged stool. [8:49] High-performance computing, basically Moore's law in semiconductor manufacturing. It's artificial [8:55] intelligence that everyone's seeing and hearing about that's supercharging it. The third leg of that [9:00] computing stool is going to be scientifically relevant quantum computing. This is tricky. We're not there [9:06] yet. We're close. But with this executive order and this coordinated effort, we will have [9:12] scientifically relevant, meaning error-corrected quantum computing, during this administration. [9:18] The impacts of it will be tremendous. Just if I might, so with respect to the Strait, [9:25] Hormuz Strait, a lot of oil pouring out, right? A lot of oil pouring out. Despite Iran's efforts or [9:32] pushback, we are flowing oil through the Strait of Hormuz and natural gas at pre-crisis levels. [9:38] We could get to above that. We will get to above that. But things today are going very well, [9:43] thanks to the U.S. military and Pete Hegseth down the line here. And two days ago, we set a record, [9:49] most ever taken out of the Strait. It's pent up, but it's a record. Did you know of my uncle at all? [9:55] No, no. You didn't? No. Sorry. I don't. You missed a good bit. Would you like to- [10:03] Berkeley and MIT. No, but MIT's- [10:05] Well, but MIT's- [10:09] Howard, do you want to say something? Yeah. So you're accelerating quantum with the CEO, [10:14] pushing, continuing to push America forward. Now, I have the honor that John Martinez was a member of [10:23] the Commerce Department at NIST and is a Nobel Prize winning alum, which is, if you don't think [10:30] the people in the Commerce Department and in NIST are the best, I mean, here's an example. Nobel Prize [10:35] winner was part of our team. You all know that the government invested $2 billion just a couple of [10:42] weeks ago in quantum to drive it forward. And besides investing in the companies, we've also invested in [10:49] fabs to build quantum for others so we can manufacture these quantum in America. Now, you have Ruth Porat [10:57] from Alphabet. They are doing amazing investing in building quantum. And you have Arvin right next from IBM. [11:05] We invested in his fab. He's got a leading fab. So he's going to be building those chips, right? So that's that idea. [11:12] And then lastly, post-quantum cryptography, right? Once you have quantum chips, we've got to protect [11:19] everyone in this government post-quantum cryptography. So NIST and the Department of Commerce is going to lead [11:25] the charge to make sure all of us are protected and defended so we know how to deal with quantum. [11:32] When it comes, we're going to lead in quantum and we're going to make sure we stay safe. And these are [11:36] both the things you're signing today. And that's why you have such an amazing team behind you because [11:42] you are leading the charge in quantum for America. And Ruth, would you like to say something? Well, [11:47] thank you. First, thank you so much for convening us for this important meeting in these two executive [11:51] orders. We completely agree. Quantum is a breakthrough critical technology. The U.S. is in the lead. We [11:57] will stay in the lead. At Google, we're really proud of our innovations. And thank you, Secretary Letnick. [12:02] We've been investing for more than a decade in quantum. And back in 2019, we were the first company [12:08] actually to achieve quantum supremacy. Didn't stop there. About a year and a half ago, [12:13] we unveiled a new chip, the Willow chip, which is a great example of American innovation manufactured [12:21] here in the United States. And what the Willow chip does, it enabled us to do a computation in less [12:27] than five minutes that previously on the best supercomputer would have taken 10 septillion years, [12:33] which is one with 25 zeros. So it's a lot. It's a lot. And what's exciting about this is what it means [12:39] for our children and grandchildren. It's about medical breakthroughs, nuclear fusion, material science. [12:46] So we're really excited about the opportunity. And then also around post-quantum cryptography, [12:53] absolutely critical that we also keep America safe, everyone safe. So we have been deploying that across [13:00] our products and services. And it's a critical opportunity. I think with these two EOs, it lays [13:05] the foundation for one, protecting America, as well as continuing to benefit on the upside. It's great [13:12] to be here. Thank you. Say hello to everybody. I absolutely will. Arvin, please. IBM. So first, [13:17] I'd like to thank the president for both of these EOs. The role of the government is often underestimated. [13:24] The role of the government in pushing innovation and technology forward is what both of these will [13:28] achieve. Asking for the investment in quantum computing, asking that the departments all work [13:34] together will actually accelerate what industry does, because that gives us the confidence to invest [13:40] even more. And that is what we commit to do to get these systems out and to get what both the [13:48] secretaries asked for to get the systems out during your current term. So we will go and invest in doing [13:55] that. And I'd also like to thank Commerce for the investment they made in accelerating the ability [14:00] to build fabs so that we can actually make these in America. Good. Thank you very much. Would you like [14:07] to say something, Russell, about how well we're doing on the budget, do you think? Well, we went through tons [14:11] of progress. I think last year you had the most fiscally consequential year in history, a story that's [14:18] largely been unwritten, but today- They don't want to write it. They don't want to write it. It's true. [14:24] You might as well say it, because they won't. More savings than ever before in history. Today's [14:29] about the investments that we're going to prioritize. So we'll save in places, but we're going to do what's [14:34] necessary to invest in the future and industries of the future. That's what today is about. Quantum is [14:39] one of those areas in the first term and now in the second term. Okay, thank you. Thank you, everybody. [14:44] Any questions? If the sanctions go out, money's going to be put into this country. All that money's [15:02] coming back in the form of purchases of food, which they desperately need. They have 91 million [15:07] people. They can't feed them. So the money that we lift is going to go to our farmers, [15:14] largely to our farmers. Can you ensure that the Iranians won't use profits from oil sales to [15:18] rebuild their military? Well, they're not supposed to be doing that. So we'll see, [15:22] but they're supposed to use money to buy food for their people, because right now the people are [15:27] very hungry and they're buying it exclusively from us. Corn, soybeans. It should be a lot of money. [15:34] I hope it's a lot of money. If a war with Iran could cause a worldwide depression, [15:39] as you noted, Mr. President, are you willing to risk economic catastrophe and strike Iran again? [15:44] Well, not the way I'm doing it. It's not going to cause depression. [15:47] Yes, but if they don't abide by the... Well, nuclear weapon [15:50] supersedes depression. Depression is real bad. Nuclear weapon will cause depression much more quickly. [15:58] The way we're doing it, we have the opposite of a depression. We're doing really well. [16:05] The numbers are incredible. The oil is at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Oil prices are way down. [16:12] I think they're very comparable to what they were. Chris, I don't know, pretty comparable [16:17] to what they were before we started. They've returned most of the way back down. [16:21] So if Iran does not abide by the MOU, are you still willing for strikes? [16:27] When I didn't say it would cause a depression, I said it could cause a depression. [16:33] And they said that I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. That's a president I don't want to be, [16:38] because he, you know, he was in charge during the Great Depression. And certainly a lot of bad [16:46] things could happen. That would be one of the things. I don't think it would, but if it did. But [16:50] no, if Iran doesn't live up to their agreement or if they're not behaving, I will do what I have to do. [16:59] Does that give them leverage, the Iranians leverage over you? [17:04] Oh, you're so, leverage. You know, their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. [17:12] Their leaders are all dead. Their whole country's a mess. Their economy is shot. [17:19] The, you know, the Times, the fake New York Times said, oh, it's about the same as it was four months [17:23] ago. No, four months ago, they had a navy, 159 ships to be exact. It's gone. The whole navy's gone. [17:30] Their 250 airplanes, all gone. Their, their anti-aircraft is gone. Their radar is gone. [17:39] These guys love radar. Their radar is gone. Everything's gone. Their leaders are gone. [17:45] Their whole country is gone. And the Times said, oh, they're about the same as they were four months [17:49] ago. And the reason the news is doing so badly, or let's put it another way. The reason that I won in [17:57] a landslide, even though I got 92% negative press, all fake press, is because nobody believes the press [18:05] anymore. And they have to start believing, you know, when, when the Times and a couple of others, [18:11] they just, they're grasping for stress. When they say that Iran is about the same as it was four months, [18:17] four months ago, they had a powerful navy, they had a powerful air force. You know, [18:21] most of their missiles are gone. Most of their launching pads are gone. Most of their manufacturing [18:26] capacity for drones and missiles is gone. About 87% gone. And then I hear, oh, they're in such great [18:36] shape. No, they're gone. And their first level of leaders, gone. Their second level of leaders, [18:44] gone. Their third level of leaders, you have to hear the conversations. Who wants to be president? [18:50] Well, I don't want it. Nobody wants to be president. And then we have to read that they're doing well. [18:56] They're doing so badly. In the meantime, we're setting records. We have the strongest economy [19:01] we've ever had. We have 18 to 19 trillion dollars being poured into our country. We're building [19:07] factories all over the place. We have more people working today than at any time in the history of [19:13] our country at higher salaries. So when you ask a question like that, it's so stupid. [19:22] Here's another beauty. Watch this one. Here's a real beauty. Go ahead. [19:25] Well, earlier today, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces are not leaving [19:29] Lebanon. That is a sticking point. Who did he tell that to you? [19:32] He said it publicly in Israel. Well, we're going to take a look at it. [19:35] Well, what would you do to make sure that he knows? Well, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do, [19:39] but it gets solved. I'm a problem solver. I get problems solved real fast, including with [19:43] Bibi. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. What's the latest you heard from the [19:48] Vice President? Are you happy with his negotiations? Yeah. Can you share a little [19:51] bit about what Secretary Rubio will be doing in the Middle East this week? I think that they're doing [19:55] a fantastic job. Our secretary is fantastic. I think he's maybe going to go down as the best ever. [20:01] And I thought J.D. Vance this morning was fantastic. I watched his news conference and from [20:06] Switzerland. He's a very smart guy. Did a great job. You know, when I look at the Democrats, [20:13] I call them the Democrats. They're dumb. The Democrats. When I watched that, [20:17] where one of them thought it was World War 11. She said World War 11. She went to World War II. [20:23] You know about that, right? This is one of their potential leaders, Ilhan Omar, who married her [20:29] brother to get into the country, by the way, illegally. But when I watch AOC, have no idea what a simple [20:38] question. What happened when she was over in Switzerland, which she probably never went there [20:43] before, but she was. And then I watched somebody like J.D. or Marco. What a difference. I said, [20:48] what a difference. What a difference. What a difference a brain makes. [20:52] Mr. President, you've been quite critical of Prime Minister Starmer, and he's now resigned. [20:58] Your thoughts? And who would you like to see as the next Prime Minister? [21:01] I was critical only from this, because I think he's a lovely man. But I said, [21:05] you're really messing up energy. You have windmills all over the place. In the meantime, [21:09] you have the North Sea oil, and they won't let anybody drill. It's one of the great fields in the [21:14] world. They haven't even found most. You know that the U.K. buys much of its energy. You know where? [21:22] Norway. You know where they get their oil? The North Sea. The U.K. has a much better portion of the [21:28] North Sea. They don't want to do it for environmental purposes, okay? And I told him, he's a very nice man. [21:33] I mean, he's sort of a friend of mine. I mean, he was not good to us with NATO people, right? [21:37] He said, we can't use the island to land. That was the first for a couple of weeks. He said, [21:43] well, but ultimately, I gave it to you now. That was a bad move. That hurt him badly. But, [21:47] but, I mean, I wish him well. But he's got two problems, energy and immigration and crime. [21:55] But energy and immigration. You know, he's really hurt himself very, very badly. Please go. [22:02] Mr. President, can you tell us about your meeting with the defense contractors on Wednesday and what [22:06] you plan to tell them? The meeting coming up, because I've met with them before. [22:12] We're building plants all over the country. They are not allowed to take any more stock buybacks. [22:18] Do you do stock buybacks by any chance? Not too much, right? No, because he wants to invest in [22:22] product. It's just an artificial way of raising a price if you're running a bad company. [22:28] So they spent 51 billion dollars on stock buybacks instead of spending them on plants. [22:35] Now they're spending, they can't do that anymore. Now they're spending a lot of money. We're building [22:39] many plants throughout the country. They're dealing with General Motors. They're dealing with Ford. [22:46] But I know General Motors is all excited about building weapons now. They have some plans, [22:51] which you're going to switch over. And we're going to build weapons, including the Patriot, [22:55] including the Tomahawk and lots of other things. And we're in a big, really a big, strong economic [23:04] push to do the weapons. And some of the car companies, if they have any excess capacity, [23:10] they're making a deal to build missiles and the Patriot in particular. We have quite a few of them, [23:18] but we want to make sure we have always a lot of them. Mr. President of Colombia, [23:22] the candidate, did you endorse this? Thank you, Mr. President. Congratulations [23:25] on the quantum physics EO to all of you. Thank you. Vice President Vance said that there are [23:30] mechanisms in place to make sure that there's not escalations with the Strait of Hormuz [23:34] and with Israel and Lebanon. Can you talk about what those mechanisms are? And are you in direct [23:39] talks with the system? Well, yeah, look, look, here's the thing. As long as they respect us, [23:44] I don't want to use the word fear because that's an inappropriate word. But as long as they respect [23:49] us, we're not going to have any trouble. We have total control of the Strait. You know, [23:55] we have a Navy that had a blockade. I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs, [24:01] if you want to know the truth. It was like I said, they call it the steel wall. Nobody got through. [24:04] Not one ship got through, able to go to Iran. They got through if we wanted them to go through. [24:10] And we could set that up again in about 15 minutes. I would say, Pete, [24:15] one phone call. How long would it take? Maybe half hour? [24:18] They're ready to go right now if you need to. [24:19] It'll be before we finish the meeting. No, we have, as long as they respect us, [24:27] we're going to be fine. If they don't respect us, things wouldn't be good, [24:30] but they have a lot of respect. Don't forget, we had presidents that should have done this for 47 [24:35] years. Nobody did it. Obama gave them a road to a nuclear weapon. I gave them a wall against a nuclear. [24:41] They'll, they can never, under this agreement, they'll never even think about building a nuclear weapon. [24:46] Mr. President, on Colombia, they can't. Oh, El Tigre. Yeah, El Tigre. [24:51] We know that you had a phone call. I endorsed him. He was in 10th place. [24:54] I endorsed him, but he won the election. Yeah. Surprised. No different than this country. [24:59] You had a phone conversation with Abelardo. I did. I had a great call. [25:03] What can you tell us about that phone conversation? And what did you see? What did you anticipate? [25:07] You're from Colombia? Yes, sir. I'm from Colombia. So he called, he called me last night and he [25:11] thanked me for the endorsement. He won. He won the election. It wasn't, he wasn't anticipated to win, [25:16] but he won and he won handily. It's just an honor. He was just a good man. I'd watch him a little bit [25:25] speak and he always speak. You know, when people like me, I like them. It's very simple. It's a very [25:30] simple formula and I liked him. He said really nice things about me and the job we've done in the [25:35] United States and, uh, very, very powerful. And he won an election in Colombia that, [25:42] I don't know, some people were surprised because he was a little bit further down the pack, but he won [25:48] easily last night. He won by, he called me at 8 30 in the evening just to thank me very much. And I, [25:54] I said, you ran a great campaign. He's El Tigre, right? Yeah. And what do you anticipate for the [26:00] relation with Colombia? Good. Much better. It'll be better. He's going to be a great president. [26:08] Are the contractors who did the initial work for the reflecting pool, are they [26:12] to blame for the current condition or is it the vandalism? No, no, we have vandalism. You know, [26:16] we have a hundred and we have a, I think, 290, 300 foot slit right through it, probably a box cutter [26:24] or a knife of some kind. Well, we had people lifting up the basic, uh, some of the, but it's, [26:30] it's not a lot of damage, but it's, we'll probably have to let the water out and refix it. They went [26:36] in there with, with a knife. Uh, I was just told by the, uh, by the people over at Parks, they have, [26:43] five people are arrested and five people are under investigation right now. And it's a sad thing. [26:50] In addition to that, they, you know, we put brand new, beautiful grass all around. They put these [26:55] massive letters on the grass. Uh, you probably know about that, right? And, uh, they said 8647. [27:03] They probably got that from the dirty cop, Comey. You know, he's a dirty cop, don't you? Dirty cop. [27:09] He's a crooked guy. Uh, they destroyed the grass. So, uh, that's a big thing, but we're going to get [27:15] it back very soon. National Guard police have been all over the mall. How would these vandals have gotten [27:21] so close to do something like that? Do you have any proof of this? I mean, we didn't have, we didn't [27:25] have a lot of them then. Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife [27:29] and start cutting it? Did you have proof of that? Yeah, yeah, we have proof. Well, let's put it this [27:34] way. When you have a 350, I think it's 350, not 250, a 350 foot slit from one end to the other. [27:43] You think that's proof? You think that's proof? The reporters have been down there today looking for that slit [27:47] that you mentioned and there's no evidence. All you have to do is see the parks department. They'll [27:51] show it to you. See, see, uh, the secretary, but I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently. [28:00] The same thing with the floor. They cut it and then they lifted it. They pulled it and that's what it [28:05] is. And you know, we've done over 50 monuments. Uh, number one, we start with, this is now a safe city. [28:13] It's the safest, as safe a city as you're going to get in the country. And when I came here, it was a [28:18] very dangerous city. Uh, and number two, what we did is the beautification with the parks and the [28:24] grass and everything, removal of all the tents. And this is like a different place. One of the [28:29] things we did is over 50 fountains and statues, most of which were in horrible shape. All of them [28:36] were bad, but some were just absolutely horrible. Graffiti, you couldn't even see the stone. [28:41] They've all been fixed. We also fixed the, uh, reflecting pool. In fact, if you go over there [28:47] right now, it looks very good. It's, uh, up. Uh, they put somebody said fertilizer in the water. [28:53] If you put fertilizer in the water, you get algae. But somebody said they might have put fertilizer. [28:58] They just something to create the algae, but that doesn't matter because that's been, uh, purified. [29:05] It's dead laying at the bottom. They're taking it out. They vacuum it out. They vacuum it very carefully [29:11] out and it'll be back to health pretty soon. We're going to have to let the water out to fix the one [29:17] little. There's two little areas, very little areas where they were cut. And we'll fix that, [29:21] but it's not leaking or anything. It's got a base underneath. Part of what's curious about this [29:26] situation is we stood here with you in April when you first revealed the plans. I said what? [29:31] In April, you showed us pictures of what you were going to do at the pool. You said you had a guy [29:36] who was going to do it in a week for about a million dollars. Well, it's been two months, [29:39] 16 and a half million dollars. Yeah. Okay. Ready? Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him? Yeah. [29:44] He spent two years and over a hundred million dollars when trying to fix it. You know what [29:50] happened to it? Never even opened. Right. He took the water for the river. You know about that, [29:54] right? It turned out to be putrid and it destroyed the whole thing. Spent over a hundred million. [30:00] Him and Biden together spent $147 million. You know what happened? Never opened. You don't mention that, [30:07] right? But I spent, we spent about 10, many of the, much of the money we spent are, are park workers. [30:12] They're there whether they do this or not, as you know, they work in the park and they're very good [30:17] workers. They did a great job. So they were going to spend three to $400 million. You know that. [30:24] And it was going to take four years. I spent, I spent about six, seven weeks and I spent, uh, [30:35] probably in terms of outside, probably $10 million, around 10 million, they say 16, but a lot of those [30:40] workers that work for the same thing. So they were going to spend $400 million. I spent $10 million. [30:47] They were going to spend four years. I spent two months, maybe less. And I have a better product. [30:55] Now, I can't help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up. Uh, and we also have [31:02] pictures of it. You know, we have pictures. Can you release the photos? We've been asking for them. [31:04] Yeah, at the right time you'll see it. You'll see it in court. You'll see it in court. But all you have to [31:09] do is call the parks department, uh, call the department of interior. And I don't know if [31:14] their lawyers will allow you to speak to them because, you know, you write fake, you write fake [31:17] news, but, uh, call the, uh, interior department. And I understand they've arrested five people and [31:24] they have another five people that are under investigation. Uh, here's the bottom line. [31:30] We made so much progress in this city. People don't even recognize it. By the way, Memphis, [31:35] Tennessee, crime is down 78% in a matter of months. It was a hell hall. Uh, New Orleans, [31:43] crime is down 79%. And, uh, they had Mardi Gras. It was the safest Mardi Gras they've had in 50 years. [31:50] The governor called me. Governor Landry called me. Safest Mardi Gras they've had in, and by the way, [31:56] Chicago, which is a shooting field right now, if the governor would call me, Governor Pritzker would [32:01] call me, I would solve the Chicago problem in three, four months. You'd have virtually [32:08] a crime-free city. We'll remove all of the bad ones. You have criminals. You have career criminals [32:13] that came in through the border because of sleepy Joe Biden. You ever hear of sleepy Joe Biden? Do you [32:18] ever hear of him? He let people come into this country and we can never forget that that happened. [32:25] Guys like you should never forget that that happened. They were murderers, drug dealers, [32:30] mental patients. They took them out of prisons. They took them out of mental institutions. You [32:36] should never forget that that happened. Mr. President, let's leave on a nicer note. [32:44] You're meeting with NATO, uh, Mark Ruta on Wednesday. You've had Secretary Hegseth review [32:51] U.S. presence in NATO countries. Talk to us about that conversation. Are you planning on drawing [32:56] look NATO? It's NATO basically the question. So, uh, we have been a great member of NATO. The, [33:04] oh, in many ways, certainly the predominant member. We paid trillions of dollars over the years, [33:10] not billions, trillions over the years to protect Europe. When we wanted to know, I didn't need, [33:16] we didn't need any help at all. I was more curious than anything else. So I said to Pete, [33:22] let's see if they'd actually come. So we asked him to come and they weren't there for us. So we spent, [33:27] it's stupid that they weren't. By the way, Starmer wasn't there. And you know what? The people of the [33:32] UK did not like it that he wasn't there. Starmer said no. Starmer said worse than no. He said, [33:39] we'll be there as soon as you win. I said, we don't need you as soon as we win. Before I went in, [33:45] we called him. He said, oh, wow. We'll be there. This was not Winston Churchill, [33:51] we're dealing with that. I can't tell you. But Starmer said, we'll be there. Right, Pete? [33:55] As soon as we win, as soon as we win, they're going to come and help us. Okay. But you know what? [34:01] Italy was very bad. Italy was very bad. And other countries, Germany was very bad. [34:06] So we spent all of this money, probably 600. I think we spent 600 billion a year, right? I would say [34:14] that. I think the real number, think of that. The numbers that we spend are so crazy on NATO, [34:21] and they weren't there for us. So I say to Pete and I say to everybody else, [34:27] if we're spending all of this money, hundreds, just hundreds of millions of dollars to protect [34:33] them from Russia, mostly. Okay, so we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year. You know, [34:42] the case could be made that we spent all of the money over the years before me. I cut it back. But [34:49] listen, we spent all of this money. And then when we want to maybe have help on small stuff, [34:55] this is a small time. This is not the big one. This is small potatoes. If they say no, [35:01] we'd rather not help. Stupid thing to say, because we can say that to them if we want, [35:06] and we might. It's the one year anniversary of Operation Midnight Hammer. If you could go back [35:14] in time, is there anything you would do different? No. Nothing at all? It was the most successful [35:18] attack that anyone's ever seen with a bomber that totally wiped out their nuclear potential. If we [35:25] didn't do that, you'd have no Israel right now. Israel would not exist, and most of the Middle East [35:30] would not exist. They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. If we wouldn't have done that, [35:35] Pete, they would have had a nuclear weapon. You want to say something about that? Yes, [35:38] sir. I didn't. I wasn't aware it was one year. But you don't have the situation we have now, [35:43] a position of strength, where Iran's going to give up their nuclear program without [35:47] Midnight Hammer, which no other country on planet Earth could remotely conceivably pull off [35:53] that from start to finish, 37 hours back and forth. Iran never saw it. And every munition, [35:59] precision munition that only we make, hit exactly where we wanted it to because... [36:03] And they knew we were coming. And they could do nothing about it. [36:06] And they could do nothing about it with their air defenses, which are even further now degraded. [36:10] And that's what everyone misses in the press, and the president's right to call it fake news, [36:13] because the overwhelming military victory that has been had over Iran is what has set the conditions [36:19] for them to be at the table with our negotiators. And we will ensure, whether it's through a deal or [36:24] through the war department, that they never get a nuclear weapon because of this president right here. [36:28] Okay. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. [36:33] Thank you. Thank you guys. [36:35] I will hang with this for just a second longer to see if President Trump takes any questions. [36:40] And it looks like he's actually going to go ahead and sign the thing now. So let's go ahead and listen [36:44] into that. [37:06] I say no thanks. [37:09] Okay. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. [37:24] Thank you guys. Thank you. [37:26] Okay. [37:27] Thank you. [37:28] Thank you guys. [37:28] Thank you. [37:29] Thank you.