About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Trump thanks himself while taking reporter questions on Iran & economy from LiveNOW from FOX, published July 2, 2026. The transcript contains 1,669 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"i said to boeing what's the best one they said this is the best plane ever built and you're gonna have the privilege of flying it and i have a privilege also of flying it but this is the first flight we're going to the teddy roosevelt presidential library opening and that'll be very good that'll be"
[0:00] i said to boeing what's the best one they said this is the best plane ever built
[0:04] and you're gonna have the privilege of flying it and i have a privilege also of flying it
[0:09] but this is the first flight we're going to the teddy roosevelt presidential library
[0:15] opening and that'll be very good that'll be a lot of fun but i think you know to be honest with you
[0:22] uh i'm excited about the first flight it's something nobody's ever seen anything like it
[0:28] even you people with all your experience and all of your talent you will never see anything like
[0:34] this so they just completed it they made it appropriate for a president that means the
[0:41] security and all of the different bells and whistles they put on very complex now but it's really
[0:48] quite something and this is a plane that the united states of america should have our
[0:52] air force one was 35 36 years old and it would be parked next to the new ones like this and
[1:02] it really didn't look appropriate for our country so we're very proud of this the country is very proud
[1:08] of it and you can do two things you can low-key it or you can show it and i think the country should be
[1:15] very proud of it and it's beautiful and you'll see that in a little while when you board as far as
[1:21] things are going the denuclearization of iran is moving along well they've had very good meetings
[1:30] and we'll see we hit them very hard for three nights as you know but we're getting along very well so i
[1:36] call it the denuclearization and uh it's all taking place it's all going well the stock market is setting
[1:45] records virtually every day the oil price is way down we're down at 68 i see it hit 68 today
[1:52] that's lower than when i started the uh i guess you could call it an attack on iran so that they
[1:59] never have a nuclear weapon so the oil price is now lower the retail prices the gasoline is coming
[2:05] down rapidly and if you have any questions let's go mr president what's your favorite upgrade to the
[2:11] new plane and how much did it cost american taxpayers to upgrade the plane of course very little relative to
[2:17] what it would cost if we did it a different way so this was a gift from a country that's treated us
[2:24] very well and they're an ally of us over in the middle east qatar and i went to boeing i said who
[2:31] has the best one they said qatar there's no there's never been a plane like it frankly we couldn't build
[2:37] a plane like this because we wouldn't be willing to spend the kind of money necessary they spent top
[2:43] top dollars so the head of boeing said this is considered the best 747 they've ever built
[2:49] and i went to qatar i said i'd like to use it for a period of time because the other ones as you know
[2:54] are under construction they'll be here in two years and because you know the plane is 35 years old
[3:01] so i said i'd like to use it and the emir tamim who's a great gentleman he said no no i'd like to
[3:09] make a contribution to the country so uh it was very nice and we're able to do it in about five months
[3:17] you know bring it up to the presidential standard meaning security wise and uh you're gonna get
[3:24] you're gonna get a kick out of it there's just nothing like it hey mr president you had a very
[3:29] lucrative year last year what message does this send to average americans especially
[3:34] those who may be struggling right now financially i don't get involved in my personal we have funds
[3:39] that run my money well i've made a lot of money before i became president and they invest my money
[3:46] and i don't talk to them i never i don't even speak to them so i have many people i don't know what
[3:51] they call closed accounts or something you put your money in and that's it i don't talk to them they're big
[3:56] institutions and they run it but yeah i've had a great career in business i've had a great career
[4:02] concerns about conflict of interest i don't know if i've had a better career in politics or business
[4:07] but i had a great career in business and uh you know you saw the cash and you report the different
[4:13] things and what they do is we gave it i think it's called the blind account but they basically they take
[4:19] it and i purposely i never speak to any of the people that run the money but they're at big institutions
[4:24] and they invest in whatever they invest but to critics who say to critics who say you're profiting
[4:29] off the presidency mr well you know why i'm profiting because the stock market's going up everybody's
[4:34] profiting if you have you have a 401k how's your 401k done it's about up 85 thank you president trump
[4:43] so we're all profiting i'm profiting because i have a lot of money and a lot of cash and we i give it to
[4:49] institutions i don't know if they know what they're doing or not but uh they buy a vast array of
[4:55] things secretary hexes and general kane about potentially returning to an all-out war with iran
[5:03] does this mean you've been unhappy with iran's adherence to the mou well i think they've uh come a
[5:09] long way we hit them very hard last week i think they're fine i think we're gonna it's it's the
[5:15] denuclearization of iran it's very simple and iran cannot have a nuclear weapon otherwise all of
[5:21] this stuff that we look at all of these things that we do the country's never had activity like
[5:26] it's got right now so we're building more factories and car plants and other things we went for years
[5:32] without ever building one car plant now we're building many car plants we're building ai we're
[5:37] building we're building all over the country 19.1 trillion dollars being invested the record was
[5:44] like two and we've got 19.1 and it's going to continue and when those buildings open you're going
[5:51] to see something like the country's never seen before that's why the stock market's going up every
[5:56] day that's why you're 401k because everybody benefits when the stock market goes up everybody
[6:02] benefits more jobs more everything and we're creating more jobs we have more people working today
[6:08] that have ever worked in the history of our country it's great and that's before these places open
[6:13] they'll be opening up over the next year and we have them coming into taiwan we have from taiwan
[6:19] we have more chip makers and the biggest the biggest company in the world actually the chip maker
[6:26] but they're coming in they're building in arizona and they just announced they're going to double
[6:30] the size we could have 50 of the chip market by the time i leave office you know what we had now
[6:36] nothing and then i uh got as a gift another gift i said to intel give the united states of
[6:44] they needed something they needed some help the chip banker i said give the united states of america
[6:50] i'll do it for you but give the united states of america 10 of your company he said you have a deal
[6:58] he said it so fast i said i should have asked for more but he said you have a deal and that stake
[7:05] is now worth 80 billion dollars i made 80 billion dollars for the country in eight months does
[7:12] anybody talk about it no have a good time have a good flight enjoy the plane quick question
[7:19] got dni poulti over there as the new director we also know you have the task force set up on
[7:24] declassification maybe looking talking about international maybe looking at some declassification
[7:29] are you able to give us an update on declassify almost everything and you know by the way we have
[7:34] jay clayton is going in you know bill pulte is a very talented guy but he's just there temporarily
[7:40] until jay clayton and jay clayton is going through the process and jay clayton highly respected and so
[7:45] is bill pulte but bill is there just for a fairly short period of time but while he's there i said you
[7:52] can declassify whatever you want do you think we're going to get something soon or maybe 20 i told him
[7:56] you can do it you got to ask him all right but uh i think he's a friend of yours i think that i think
[8:03] that uh bill will declassify i told him you can declassify whatever you want so bill's there just
[8:10] you know for maybe a month or two months or something and jay is going through the process
[8:15] he's got a hearing in two weeks highly respected man jay clayton okay thank you thank you
[8:20] you get any more bullets not yet you know what a bullet surprise a picture of the plane margo are
[8:28] you taking care of everybody how's margo okay thank you everybody what was your question all right
[8:41] president trump very briefly speaking to the media there as he is on his way to north dakota right now
[8:48] once again he is going to be participating in a tour of the theodore roosevelt presidential library and also
[8:54] at 3 15 p.m eastern time president trump said to deliver some remarks there as well now before he
[9:01] does that he's also participating in a freedom 250 train ride and welcome ceremony there in north dakota
[9:07] as the president now departing there and you may notice air force one looks a little bit different