Trump’s latest remark on Iran, Cuba & Russia-Ukraine as addresses press in White House

[0:00] maybe start where we left off yesterday and we showed you this picture and now it's opened [0:08] so this is now open that you see the size of that compared to some of the biggest buildings in the [0:15] country actually the biggest site peter and we haven't finished the water is pouring in as we [0:22] speak and maybe we'll show that what it looks like because i'm sure the fake news will be thrilled [0:29] take a look this is from just a little while ago nice clean water so we're here to talk about clean [0:40] beautiful coal that's clean beautiful water that's the longest pool anywhere in the world and here you [0:49] can tell they're not progressive because this is not a progressive because progressives never wear [0:55] or show an american flag these are proud people from oklahoma they came from oklahoma a company [1:01] from oklahoma to do it but you notice the american flag he's proudly showing off his work [1:08] you know he's not a liberal and or a progressive used to be a liberal but they changed their name [1:14] somewhere along the way because liberal wasn't working but progressive doesn't work too well the [1:18] progressive is a beautiful term they are not progressive they're degressive you got that what [1:24] do you think daniel's great he's a great guy he's a great reporter and again we have a picture of a [1:33] gentleman in a car proudly this is the head of construction for the job so you can see it's just [1:40] finished this is just minutes before and there's a gentleman named secretary bergam from interior [1:47] doug who's been doing an incredible job so doug we had we have 22 waterfalls most of them haven't [1:54] worked for over 50 years as of this morning they all work beautifully and they're clean the graffiti's [2:02] gone the broken marble is fixed well there's a way of fixing it you use a thing called silicone and [2:09] fix them and they look beautiful all of the hate and everything is removed from them some of them [2:16] done through stupidity actually but hey but here's another picture now you can tell this is a proud [2:22] american because he's got a flag protesters never have the bad protesters never have flags up they [2:30] somehow don't like the flag too much but we do so that's great uh we put in today as you know about [2:38] save america the save america act i don't know some someday the senate and the house will get it [2:45] done although i must tell you the house has approved it about three times already [2:50] save america act right here we have everybody can see that and then we'll talk about clean beautiful [2:57] coal you're not allowed to say coal within the trump administration unless it's preceded by the words [3:04] clean beautiful complicates our life but it's good right chris wherever you may be it is clean [3:11] got your back i'll tell you it's effective so the save america act is all voters must show photo id [3:20] so you go to vote and you show photo id not complicated right you know who could who could oppose it [3:28] but they say it's an 80 20 it's not it's about 99 1 and we'll never find the one person andy [3:35] congratulations and a big victory thank you for your house i agree i think i appreciate it but you're [3:41] you're very good at what you do and i pray i've been i've been backing you right from the beginning [3:44] for a long time right back in you too sir for years that's right you have thank you congratulations [3:49] you want a big election so you have all voters must show photo id identification all voters must show [3:58] a little thing called proof of citizenship would you say that's 99 one mr pennsylvania i would say [4:06] that's maybe a hundred to zero i would think so at least it should be no but they say it's 80 20 it's [4:12] not 80 20 it's 99 and we've never found the one person there's another one then you have no mail-in [4:20] ballots but we want to be liberal as they say or we'll say we want to be progressive [4:27] so it's no mail-in ballots you see that's what's happening in california they're rigging the election [4:33] now maybe we caught them and maybe they won't be able to get away with it [4:37] they tried with me they did it successfully the second time the third time we made it too big to [4:43] rig too many votes they couldn't do it they can only go they sort of gave up at about nine or seven [4:48] when they got slaughtered with the votes that came in but no mail-in ballots except for illness [4:55] disability military or travel so we're being very progressive and we just don't want cheating [5:03] in our elections and you see it happening in california those numbers are coming down rapidly they found [5:09] a lot of mail-in ballots last night shockingly so we don't want that then we added best stuff this is [5:16] best of trump no men in women's sports no trans gender mutilization surgery for our children [5:25] i would say that's pretty close to 99 to 1 also no men in women's sports i would say that's pretty [5:31] good we had the quarterback jackson was the quarter is the quarterback for the giants he's a big strong [5:38] guy and i said how do you think you're doing women's sports jackson he said pretty good sir [5:43] he didn't know i was joking he was not worried so let me put it that way he would have been the [5:49] greatest athlete in the history of women's sports you got to see the size of this guy like a male [5:56] model and he's going to be a great quarterback so uh we talk about that and so we just would like [6:04] the senate democrats republicans to pass it uh interestingly democratic people democrat people [6:12] not crooked politicians because most of them are crooked or they're sick or they're trump deranged [6:18] there is trump derangement syndrome but the people uh it's 86 87 percent democrats i mean democrats are [6:27] fun i have a lot of democrat friends but they i don't know for some reason when they go into politics [6:32] they get radical left crazy and they're trying to destroy our country but we're not going to let [6:37] that happen so today we're taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of [6:45] living for all americans with the power of clean beautiful coal if you look at china if you look at so [6:53] many of the successful countries they're using coal if you look at some of the real great failures [7:00] countries they're using wind this keeps blowing blowing blowing and puts you right out of business [7:07] very expensive most expensive energy there is so wind is not working very well but they keep it going [7:15] because people get subsidies by countries that are stupid doug i would say we haven't been long on [7:21] wind do you agree with that he understands numbers very well you know doug was very very successful [7:28] believe it or not i used to think it was in energy but he was successful in technology and he sold his [7:34] company to i think microsoft right and for a lot of money and he ran for politics he ran for office [7:41] went to north dakota won immediately one governor who was very successful for eight years and i watched [7:48] him during one of the performances of some very talented people and i said we're going to get him to work [7:55] for us and then i said i was going to put him in charge of energy and he said sir there's a better [8:00] man than me for that one not in all ways you feel that but in one way in energy you do and that was chris [8:08] right where's chris right he's a hard one to find and chris has done a fantastic job and he's one of the [8:18] reasons we're here today we have had uh we're right now double saudi arabia and russia if you double [8:26] them up that's what we produce more than anybody else times two so think of that uh as a result of [8:34] the 700 million dollar investment that i'm announcing today we will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coal mines [8:43] it's a tremendous number and build two new coal plants and one massive new export terminal because [8:50] we're exporting coal calls a a great business really a big business and it's real power it's in terms of [8:59] power there's really nothing like it you have so many different alternatives they talk about some [9:06] but there's no no real alternative china by the way last year built 52 coal plants they built about two [9:14] two windmills you know the only time they build a windmill is when they're trying to sell them to [9:19] stupid people from the united states the suckers and and by the way and all over europe they sell [9:27] the windmills but they don't use them i wonder why they use coal plants and other things these actions [9:33] will support over 14 000 jobs and save the american people 50 billion dollars in electricity costs we're [9:42] pleased to be joined by secretary of the interior doug bergerman he has been great i don't want to give [9:48] him a big swollen ego because then all of a sudden he'll leave me and i will be and i'll be stuck with [9:53] interior i don't want to be stuck but he's really done a great job secretary of energy chris wright is [9:59] fantastic and maybe our mvp what do you think doug it's close that's right here what do you think mvp [10:06] lee lee zeldon and the job he's done is great we had the auto industry in yesterday they don't want [10:15] people to fix their car i said that's strange i've never heard of that they have a thing to [10:20] nobody's allowed to fix their car they gave a man seven years in jail actually because he fixed his [10:26] own car so i thought we'd do something about that but we'll get we'll get it all straight going can [10:31] you believe it they want a bill that prohibits people from fixing so if you're mechanically inclined you [10:36] know i grew up i went to school with some guys they were in some cases horrible students but they [10:43] could fix an engine blindfolded they could take a car apart blindfolded but they weren't too good at [10:49] arithmetic and other things but they were great and so there's a move on to stop people from fixing [10:57] their car i didn't understand it but we had a great meeting yesterday with head of general motors and [11:02] roger penske head of ford we had a great meeting i think thanks as well to a friend of mine also for [11:10] a long time west virginia governor patrick morris i won by 45 points patrick it's not enough [11:20] i love those people and wyoming i think maybe even slightly more than west virginia just a little [11:26] more we did for this i like this group of people but wyoming governor mark gordon respected guy great [11:34] governor both of them really amazing and representatives dan muser riley moore derrick van orden juan [11:44] siscomani and andy barr so you have a lot of representatives here that are fantastic today [11:50] we're officially invoking the defense production act to save 13 coal plants in west virginia kentucky north [11:57] carolina indiana tennessee arizona arkansas oklahoma north dakota and wisconsin these were [12:05] incredible plants so productive really producing a lot of the electricity right it's the electricity [12:14] and it's it's really the best of that you know when they when they find something better chris i think [12:19] we'll be all set for it right but there are long ways from finding something better calls critical and [12:25] so when you look at that those states west virginia kentucky north carolina indiana tennessee arizona [12:32] arkansas oklahoma north dakota wisconsin what do they all have in common trump's won them [12:40] i want every one of them by a lot right yeah i'm not even mentioning pennsylvania which we won also right [12:47] but we won them all we won probably we won all 50 we had an honest count if you want to know that [12:53] uh our action will allow these facilities to invest in upgrades that will extend their operational lives [13:01] for decades into the future reinforce the reliability of our electric grid which is really the biggest [13:09] beneficiary and most importantly keep electricity prices very low for the american people this brings [13:16] the total number of coal plants that we've saved during my administration just like when we said we [13:22] saved 25 water fountains think of this these are fountains beautiful fountains that were so horrible [13:30] to look at with the graffiti over 40 years many of them closed over 40 to 50 years uh the big one the [13:38] reflective lake in fact there's some people go to pond some people it's like a lake but the reflective [13:45] lake was built in 1922 it never really worked from the beginning from 1922 that's a long ways [13:53] so it's over 100 years old and it never really worked because they had the wrong base it was always [14:00] leaking they didn't have what we have today so it's pretty amazing what's happened and you know i hate [14:06] to say it won't leak but it won't leak because uh we use the material that doesn't allow leaks you know it's [14:12] like like a swimming pool doesn't leak you use the right this is this is called swimming pool on steroids [14:19] so it's great stuff and uh today's actions we're also supporting coal mines and coal [14:28] miners in wyoming and pennsylvania kentucky west virginia ohio indiana illinois north dakota and new [14:36] mexico and they're gonna they're all going back to work you know it's interesting with the mines [14:43] that famous scene of hillary when we went to west virginia yeah and she had just left another state [14:49] and she was trying to convince everybody that they should go into technology no longer be miners and [14:55] these guys in west virginia they didn't want to hear about it they wanted to be remember that scene [14:59] around the table they talked to this beautiful big strong miner and they wanted him to make computer [15:06] chips she said we'll teach him how to make computer chips his hands were so large he couldn't hold a [15:12] computer chip he's looking at it he had fingers of like three inches around that they're talking about [15:18] making a computer chip and he didn't like it and he ended up being one of our best ads ever she wasn't [15:25] and she did rather poorly she lost i think she lost by 77 points or something like that pretty tough to go [15:32] knock you knock coal and then you go two weeks later to west virginia to try and win the state it [15:37] didn't work out well for her but the miners love us what do you think we got uh with the coal miners [15:44] would you say we got 90 percent a hundred percent what do you think we were on this pretty pretty [15:50] high probably higher than any group in the country pretty high yeah it can't it can't be bad well we did [15:56] well with all the groups i'll tell you the group that now likes us are the auto workers because we're [16:01] building more auto plants now than at any time in the history of our country so it's uh very it's [16:08] great to watch and see what's going on with the u.s we're the most respected country anywhere in the [16:13] world and we were dead country a year and a half we were dead country we're a laughed at we're a mocked [16:19] laughed at country starting this summer the west gateway project will break ground and by summer [16:26] 2028 over 12 million tons of clean beautiful coal per year will be shipped to countries all around [16:33] the world and this project's been delayed over 10 years and uh biden ended it and then barack hussein [16:43] obama have you heard of him barack hussein obama another one he's another beauty but that delay is now [16:49] over and it's going to be very productive it's going to fuel our electric plants in particular it's going [16:55] to be amazing finally we're taking nearly 200 million dollars in that to set aside for the green [17:02] new scam and it was set aside for the green new scam but the green new scam is history and repurposing [17:11] that money so that we start a coal plant in maryland and help build two brand new coal plants in alaska [17:18] and west virginia and these are all built with new technology it's very clean it's amazing what how [17:24] that's come along it's all very clean and the first new coal plants to open in our country since [17:30] 2013 you couldn't open you couldn't even think they were only closing them they were closing them and [17:36] you had brownouts all over the place but you don't have that anymore do you notice under four years of [17:42] sleepy joe biden and the radical left democrats in congress not a single permit was approved for a new [17:49] coal mining project but in over one year of our administration we've already approved 76 permits [17:55] for clean beautiful coal last year we prevented 17 gigawatts of coal-powered electricity from [18:03] going offline and that's enough power to for about 13 million homes think of that 13 million homes [18:10] at a very low price it's the lowest price so now i'd like to ask secretary burgum to say a few words [18:17] followed by secretary wright administrator lee zeldin and then governor mark gordon and whoever else wants to [18:25] say a few words including my new friend my new governor friend so uh doug go ahead well thank [18:31] you president trump uh with these announcements today and everything that your administration has [18:36] accomplished uh so far since you've taken office this administration has done more uh to save protect [18:42] and expand uh coal in our country uh than any administration perhaps ever uh clean beautiful [18:49] coal clean beautiful coal absolutely and none uh i'm all okay that's okay we uh with the uh when you [18:56] took office the first thing you did was declare an energy emergency some people questioned that [19:00] but the prior administration under biden had gone so far down the path of pursuing [19:06] the highly subsidized intermittent weather dependent sources of electricity that our grid was at risk you [19:11] understood that and you understood that key how key coal is it's the backbone of having affordable [19:17] reliable and secure american energy to power our country power electric grid power our competitiveness [19:24] and ai and power uh all the manufacturing that's coming back as you mentioned with those record coal [19:31] leases this is where we take federal public land lease it to the private sector they write a check that [19:36] comes into the treasury they create jobs help support local communities so there was zero coal leases held in [19:43] four years under the biden administration you heard the president talk about 76 here we've slashed red tape [19:49] those took years to get some of these projects for coal mining we've approved in less than one month [19:54] under the emergency procedures and we also have opened up for leasing another 13.1 million acres [20:02] that people can bid on in our country on public land and this is land that was set aside this is not national parks [20:07] it's not wilderness area it's not our wildlife refuges this is public land that was set aside for the [20:13] benefit and use of the american people including energy development making sure that we've got affordable [20:17] reliable energy so using those public lands is what we're doing and then the last thing within interior [20:22] i would say we did uh strategically designate through the u.s geologic survey which is part of interior [20:29] designate metallurgical coal as a critical mineral so it's on the list and that opens up a number of [20:36] opportunities but without metallurgical coal we don't have coke we don't have a steel industry the [20:40] biden administration was indiscriminate trying to shut down our metallurgical coal as well as our [20:45] thermal coal so and then last thing you mentioned the coal export facility again working through all [20:50] the permitting to drive towards that so that we can be selling clean reliable energy to our allies in [20:56] the pacific who want to do more trade with us and lastly again thank you for creating the national [21:01] energy dominance council our executive director jared agan is here today but chris [21:06] lee and i all uh have details on that team and uh and that operates right out of the white house [21:12] and that's why president trump is able to get so much done so quickly is this is the first time [21:16] ever we had a president with a white house council specifically focused on energy and what an impact [21:21] it's happening well and thank you perhaps slightly less importantly but i think very important [21:28] the national garden of american heroes is going to be unbelievable and i'd like to know how you're [21:34] doing on that and how are you doing on the great triumphal arc so every city just about every major [21:42] city has a triumphal arc this is an arc that's a a real bow a beautiful bow to your military and [21:51] military victories nobody's had more military victories including recently than we have and they [21:58] never got the ark built it's been the civil war stopped it that circle has been sitting there for [22:04] a long time for many many years no i guess you could go back to in 1902 they tried it and but in 1860 [22:15] and 1880 they just never got it done the the civil war stopped it the first time that was a good reason [22:21] i think that's probably not a bad that was a good excuse but after that it just never happened and we're [22:26] going to get it done and so we're doing it with the department of interior and we're also doing [22:32] the national garden of american heroes which is phenomenal and we're doing something that just came [22:36] up we'll have a little breaking news here because nobody's heard of it but at the lincoln memorial [22:44] the front was supposed to be the back the back was supposed to be the front it never got built [22:48] because they built two roadways behind it after it was built and it shut off the [22:55] gateway to the water that was really going to be the main entry and we're going to be doing that we're [23:00] going to call the promenade be the promenade they want to call it the trump promenade but i don't know [23:05] if i want to do that but it's going to be beautiful it's a beautiful project and it's going to take [23:11] the lincoln memorial right down to the potomac which it was always scheduled to do but when they [23:16] built the roads that was the end of that but we have a way of uh beautifully going over those two roads [23:23] the highways very very strong very important roads actually as you know from the bridge [23:28] but it's going to be great so could i ask that just for just a couple of seconds to talk about those [23:34] those three great projects that we're just starting well i'd say that the uh it's important for everyone [23:39] to know that uh as you described these are plans and ideas that have existed uh almost since the end [23:44] of the civil war but the mcmillan plan which is the one that designed the national mall as we see it [23:49] today uh that was in the early part of the 1900s envisioned this connection that you would have a [23:55] the memorial bridge between uh the lincoln memorial uh and arlington cemetery at the halfway point [24:02] there's a very large circle it was designed to hold a monument uh the the arc that would go there [24:09] is a fantastic complement and completion of this plan that's over 120 years ago president trump's vision [24:15] of how to build that uh and of course president trump has talked to uh president macron from france uh [24:21] more people visit the arc de triomphe than even visit the eiffel tower i mean this would be a [24:25] highlight for americans to come the views back at the city from the top of the arch would be amazing [24:31] the views from this side from west potomac where the national garden of heroes was looking across [24:35] at the arch would be amazing and of course the the promenade on the back side of the lincoln [24:40] memorial is as president trump described right now there's no pedestrian access you're on the mall [24:44] people come from around the world they don't know that a hundred yards away is the beautiful potomac [24:49] river which was part of the original plan and now they'd be able to walk around the lincoln memorial [24:53] walk on a pedestrian bridge over the first highway walk over the next one and right down to the water [24:59] it would complete the vision these projects would complete the original vision the mcmillan plan [25:04] and how fortunate are we to have the builder in chief someone who both has the vision and the [25:09] understanding of how to get projects done uh that would again make our city safe and beautiful [25:14] just like the executive order president trump put out last year has accomplished and while we are [25:18] ready for for the celebration of our 250th anniversary the city's never been safer it's never been more [25:24] beautiful but president trump's not stopping their uh vision that he has for these projects uh [25:29] would extend for generations forward so thank you president thank you very much great job and uh secretary [25:36] chris wright please okay look no coal no modern world state stated another way without clean beautiful [25:45] coal a modern world is impossible and we saw 17 years ago president obama's election an all-out attack [25:54] on the american coal industry the industry that built our nation we wouldn't have the buildings the [25:59] factories the industry the electricity grid we have today without the critical contribution of coal it's been [26:06] the largest source of global electricity for 125 years in a row and will be for decades to come [26:15] in the united states it remains a critical source of our electricity also critical source for our [26:20] industry can't produce steel and cement and other materials without coal and beyond the uh the the impacts [26:30] of coal in our electricity sector just think of the direct impact on human lives if president [26:36] trump had not been elected and inaugurated in january of 2025 and through his authority at the doe we were [26:45] able to force keeping open six coal plants as of today there'll be a seventh one and more than twice as [26:52] many that voluntarily said hey we're not going to have to close we need to stay open 17 coal plants were not [26:59] closed in 2025 because of president trump sitting at this desk and in this position right here that [27:07] saved that saved 17 gigawatts of electric generating capacity and the winter storm fern that hit our [27:15] country in the last week of january this year hundreds conservatively hundreds of americans would have lost [27:23] their lives if those 17 coal plants had closed we pushed the east coast electricity grid in the united states [27:29] absolutely to the limit a storm yuri hit five years ago in texas smaller in geographic extent not the [27:39] same magnitude over 300 people died but because we had those coal plants operating and running and not [27:46] only did they run wind power disappeared when the storm hit solar is irrelevant in the winter so the [27:52] things we talk about didn't even matter to our electricity grid except for cost burdens coal stepped up and [27:58] produced 25 percent more electricity during this storm than its normal reliable chugging out of [28:04] electricity without those plants without that increase in electricity production we lost a lot of americans [28:11] untold economic damage president trump is the president with the courage and the boldness to defend an [28:18] industry that has been maligned for far too long and to recognize its importance americans are upset about high [28:24] electricity prices blame closing existing reliable secure plants and replacing them with subsidized [28:31] unreliable plants a guaranteed way to drive electricity prices up but this administration is commit is [28:38] committed to reversing all of that that money we've talked about from the defense production act thank [28:45] thankfully because of the one big beautiful bill of these fantastic congressmen sitting around me and [28:49] governors without that legislation we wouldn't have the money and the and the defense uh production act authority to keep [28:59] open so many plants it is hard to overstate the magnitude of this if you look at our efforts across the whole [29:06] government so far 45 coal plants are open today that would not be open where would we be to re-industrialize [29:14] america where would electricity prices be if we had let all of those plants close but we're not doing it [29:20] the all of those plants that's 700 million dollars of government funding but it's matched with 1.7 billion [29:27] dollars of private investment from the owners and operators of those plants all the people in those [29:32] states that say phew we don't have to kick our industry out and and and raise electricity prices again [29:38] common sense is returning to washington dc um and for that i'm incredibly thankful to be here [29:45] in the united states government to work for president trump who will stand up for what's right bring [29:50] common sense back and and reinvigorate an industry without which we would not have the america we have [29:56] today and we're going to re-industrialize america win in the next generation of technologies and we're going [30:02] to do it in critical part because of a growing and thriving coal industry thank you president trump thank you [30:08] thank you secretary burgum thank you lee zeldin good and lee zeldin how about saying a few words [30:16] for so many americans clean beautiful coal is their source of heat of energy of warmth of a job [30:24] an economy a community of family and for too long you saw democrats who were telling these coal miners [30:33] that they should just learn a code and what we saw during the biden administration at the epa for [30:37] example was regulation after regulation after regulation trying to strangulate out of existence [30:44] coal to destroy it enter president trump declares a national energy emergency creates a national [30:52] energy dominance council and he told us at the epa at trump's speed to be getting rid of these [30:57] regulations as quickly as possible on behalf of those americans who want to just stay warm who want [31:02] to live the american dream who want to have affordable access to energy the democrats were running for [31:08] power to sit at this desk and to leverage that power to destroy these communities enter president trump [31:16] he has saved clean beautiful coal and it's been an honor to be part of it thank you great job too [31:23] wyoming governor mark lorden thank you mr president it's an honor to be here thank you to the secretaries who [31:30] have breathed leaf life into an economy in wyoming that has been there for a long time wyoming produces [31:38] the cleanest most beautiful coal low sulfur coal you don't mind if i push them and it's fun because we [31:46] have a chance to um to educate our kids let me just talk a little bit about the other side of this [31:52] when a kid grows up in wyoming their education is paid for in large part by the coal severance taxes [31:58] by the royalties that come from mining that coal that was shut down by the democrats when they have [32:05] a chance to get a job they can go look to the coal mine and it's not just digging coal the way we used [32:11] to it's high tech jobs you know at this point we don't mine coal the way we used to at all it is very [32:19] very technologically proficient and what's more important it's environmentally sound i would invite [32:25] you to come and look at the reclamation that's happened in the powder river basin and we can [32:29] demonstrate that it's environmentally sound that actually wildlife populations thrive and do better [32:36] today mr president i really want to talk to you a little bit about our recent trip to japan and to [32:43] taiwan both countries that were going to forswear coal and now they realize that they need that reliable [32:50] dispatchable secure source of energy but they can't get it as clean as they can from the powder river basin [32:59] so to be able to open that oakland port is absolutely essential for the lifeblood of our state [33:07] and for our coal mines it is something that we tried to do in your first administration and we almost got [33:13] there we actually were prepared to go through that i guess belt that we have on the west coast with [33:20] california oregon and washington and finally enforce the commerce clause to allow states like new mexico [33:30] wyoming utah to have access to that asian market and let me just tell you one last thing about that [33:37] it's not just about clean beautiful coal we have companies like peabody that are now saying we believe [33:43] we can get rare earth minerals and critical minerals from what we're doing so we are advancing technology [33:50] advancing the opportunities and the security of the state all because of your vision sir thank you [33:56] thank you very much thank you very much would you like to say something on behalf of west virginia i [34:02] would i would like to say mr president all west virginians are so deeply grateful to you for your focus on [34:10] protecting their energy jobs the coal miners know the incredible importance of why we're here today and to [34:17] talk about the potential for new coal fire power plants that excites them and i think west virginians [34:24] are really inspired because we're america's energy state when you think about what's happening on the [34:30] global scene where that fight that international fight with china for information technology supremacy [34:38] we believe that your policies are going to allow america to compete and win and west virginia is going to [34:44] supply the coal the gas the nuclear to help make that happen so i'm very excited by everything you're [34:51] doing even some of the relatively small things when you come in and you sign agreements with your [34:57] administration putting hundreds of people back to work it's all making a big difference for west [35:01] virginia so thank you mr president election as an example the gulf of mexico into the gulf of america [35:09] it bothered me for many years we have 92 of the frontage and we made that little change and mexico [35:17] was thrilled they were thrilled about it but that was a good one right you were telling me before that [35:22] was a good one it's about the united states now for a little while if it's okay uh would you have any [35:30] questions please i guess president trump this was just crossing as we were heading in here president [35:36] zelensky wrote a letter to president putin he wants the two of them to meet to hash out the end of [35:43] the war in ukraine because he thinks you are too busy with the war in iran is he right well i don't know [35:51] i'm glad that they're maybe talking about meeting i think we had a lot to do with it i know exactly [35:55] what you're doing but uh i think it would be great if they met they should get it done there's been a lot [36:03] of talk lately about the treasury putting your face on a 250 dollar bill have you seen a mock-up [36:11] of the trump 250 bill and if that winds up being currency would you ever be able to tip anyone anything [36:20] but that well i think i'd probably leave it for everybody i haven't actually seen something just [36:26] about two days ago i know it's been pushed by a lot of our supporters and i'm honored that they're doing it [36:31] but uh we'll see how that all works out but i have heard about it and there is a group of people [36:37] they really like the job we're doing you know so that's a great honor yeah please you announced [36:42] just a few days ago that you're naming bill poulti as the acting director of national intelligence [36:49] there's been a little bit of a pushback from some senate republicans why do you think mr [36:53] president he's the best person for the job well he's very smart he's a person who's got high [36:59] integrity he's done a phenomenal job at fannie mae freddie mac you know you probably have a trillion [37:06] dollars in value there when he took over it was much less and i guess i'm responsible for that too [37:11] because everybody wanted me to sell it in my first term for 10 of what it's worth right now if i would [37:18] have sold it we would have lost 900 billion dollars we would have lost uh i mean think of it it's probably [37:25] worth a trillion dollars and i was offered every people want me to sell it at 100 billion [37:31] uh a very small percentage of what it's worth now so and he built it up a lot did a great job [37:38] and it's an acting position it's not a problem he's not going to be permanent because you know i don't [37:42] think he'd want to be permanent but he's a very smart guy and you may find out some things about [37:47] the rigged elections etc etc i think he'd like to do it i'd like to i think he wants to [37:52] to do it very much get a lot of energy uh but he'll be very good uh again it's not a permanent [37:58] position we're looking at we're interviewing people right now but it's somebody just to [38:04] take it over for a little while yeah necessary in your view mr president the necessary national [38:08] security experience to take on that well i do and i think he does actually because he's smart because [38:14] a lot of national security i look i would i wasn't greatly experienced in national security and i think [38:19] i've done a really great job with it a lot of people would say that i've ended eight wars and [38:25] soon to be a knife i hope that works out too you know frankly it's but uh probably and there's another [38:32] one also it could be ten no president i don't think a president's ended one war having to do with outside [38:39] of this country so you know we've done a good job uh i would say that bill is a guy that will be able to [38:46] figure it out very quickly again it's short term but it may be very effective for a short period of [38:52] time so what will there be a proportional share increase of electricity production as a percentage [39:01] of our nation's electricity output and my follow-up is i took that historic trip uh with secretary wright [39:07] of the small modular nuclear reactor yeah on the west coast early this year are we making more progress [39:13] because i know how critical gas and coal is for the secure grid well the answer is we are but christy [39:18] want to answer that yes i mean our electricity grid essentially runs on gas coal and nuclear those are [39:25] the three key sources they're the backbone of the american electricity grid we're in favor of seeing [39:30] all three of them grow you will see all three of them grow during this administration and in fact later [39:36] today before the sun goes down you'll see a big announcement in the nuclear space related to the trip you [39:42] came on thank you thank you mr president uh president said today that he was willing to make compromises [39:49] that you requested to end the war with ukraine and ukraine was willing to make similar compromises [39:54] yeah what were the compromises that you well i'd rather not say because peter asked me i think it was [40:00] meant as a little wise guy question but i'm not sure but i'm very responsible when that happens it's going [40:05] to happen uh they're going to make both make compromises i suggested those compromises [40:10] and you know we've had a lot to do with it we'd love to see they're two very good people they're two [40:16] very i mean incredible countries beautiful countries they've got to stop last month they had 25 000 [40:23] people killed soldiers mostly soldiers some people but mostly soldiers uh and it's been averaging probably [40:31] almost 25 000 people every month of soldiers killed and uh i've been very strong on the fact that [40:38] they've got to get that over with so but they they do i want them each to make certain compromises i [40:43] think they're going to do that yeah daniel mr president thank you you saved and supported more [40:49] than 100 coal plants in your second term when you hear something like that and you try to create an [40:54] environment where they're not just surviving they're thriving what does that do to the reliability of our [40:59] energy grid but to the economies as well states of pennsylvania west virginia wyoming how does it bolster [41:05] those economies well we were destroying our grid because we're relying on wind and other things [41:10] that don't have the power they don't have the strength they're very expensive wind is the most [41:13] expensive form of energy it sounds good wind beautiful wind but you know it's very intermittent [41:19] but those windmills cost a fortune they break they kill the birds they're bad for the environment [41:24] nobody wants to be near the houses i don't know how they got popular they got they're not popular with [41:29] the people they're popular with investors because they get subsidy but we pretty much cut that [41:34] subsidy out i think doug right absolutely in the working families tax cut bill it all expires and [41:40] since the since the subsidies have gone away there's virtually no one uh particularly offshore no one [41:46] is trying to build one of those projects in america turns out they weren't trying to generate electricity [41:51] they're just trying to generate tax credits you're supposed to be making money with you know with [41:56] that with energy and here wind need subsidy energy shouldn't need subsidy we have so much so many different [42:04] forms of energy but you know i've talked about it for years wind is the most expensive it's the worst [42:10] it causes tremendous problems and it does it kills millions and millions of birds a year nobody mentions [42:17] that uh you'd think if that were the anything else that'd be everybody would be sued you know [42:23] if you kill a bald eagle to put you in jail for like four years or something and yet windmills [42:30] knock them out of the air all the time nothing happens it's uh it's disgraceful so uh we're into [42:37] energy that really works and works powerfully yes go ahead and we're waiting outside to come into the [42:42] oval office everyone's looking at the ufc struggling the claw are you happy with how that's coming along [42:48] and what are your expectations we put it up in uh five days it's incredible and i i told yesterday the [42:54] story of the eiffel tower and it was 1889 it was put up it was going to be brought down right after the [42:59] the world's fair ended which up for a short while and uh they said well let's leave it a little bit [43:05] longer then they said let's leave it a little longer it never came down that was 18 i think 1889 the [43:10] world's fair in paris so i jokingly said you know let me tell you story about the eiffel tower now [43:15] now it'll come down after the fire there were actually some people said he wants to leave it up [43:21] yes please mr president about the columbus statue columbus fountain a union station it looks amazing thank you [43:27] and what does that mean for the relations between italy and the united states well it means italian [43:32] people love trump because you know that was controversial people want to rip it down you see how [43:39] beautiful it is and we don't didn't only not rip it down but doug and his group and all of us together [43:45] we we beautified it it's uh i didn't know that marble was going to be so beautiful when we once we [43:51] cleaned it up you wouldn't believe it when you saw that that thing was loaded for 50 years with [43:57] filth and graffiti and everything else it's amazing it's amazing how good they did a really great job [44:06] do you still want european allies help we're discussing energy today and well we don't need [44:12] the help yeah we're the most powerful military in the world we gave them a chance to help but they [44:19] chose not to nato we went to the nato countries we went to others too in all fairness to nato and [44:26] i wouldn't say i gave them a hard sell i said hey if you'd like to help it'll be wonderful and [44:31] they all turned us down and you know it's going to be an expensive proposition for them because [44:35] they shouldn't have done that they should have helped you know we don't need it we have our own we [44:39] have much more than we need in terms of oil and energy generally but but european countries and [44:47] other countries they needed tremendous some of the european countries needed really big [44:52] and they should have said we'd love to help but if you could choose but mr president if you could [44:57] choose what what would you ask them to do sir if you well i would have asked there's not much look [45:04] we want they had there's no navy there's no air force we've wiped them out we've wiped out their [45:09] leadership and almost all of it we've wiped out all their military leaders they're down on the third now [45:15] maybe they're very good i don't know i can't tell you that but uh certainly the first ones didn't [45:19] do very good because they weren't they were literally after three days almost the entire [45:25] military was wiped out they had to get new generals and then after that they had to get more new generals [45:31] and uh we knocked out their anti-aircraft their air force it's about everything you can knock out [45:37] so um and then you'd read in the fake news that they're doing really well in the war i mean it's [45:44] unbelievable we knocked out everything there is to knock out and you'd pick up the fake news and [45:49] they say how well they've done they're doing brilliantly they have no air force you know that [45:55] exactly we knew that 159 ships andy out of 159 ships uh all 159 lie beautifully at the bottom of the [46:05] ocean we actually took pictures of them down there and then you read the fake news they say well [46:13] their navy is really great you know they have now little runabouts with a machine gun on the front [46:20] it's the ships don't even really deal with them they're like a gnat you know like get off [46:26] that's all they have it's uh it's crazy you know this country needs a fair press [46:31] and one thing i think that's done is expose how corrupt our media is uh and i really do while we're [46:37] here i hope the media looks at this election that's taking place in california where they [46:45] think it'll take seven or eight days to count the votes can you believe this i mean we're supposed [46:50] they spend all that money on the on the machines the big voting machines uh they think it's going to [46:57] be seven or eight days before we know who won the election but the numbers are looking strange because [47:03] without any vote counting the numbers dropped very precipitously for two republicans that are [47:08] doing well that had been doing well and uh i hope you're all watching it because i'm watching it very [47:15] closely are you worried that china is the data center movement here no i'm not worried about it we had a [47:23] great meeting with china and you know they do things to us and we do things to them i say it all the time [47:29] they say oh are you worried about china tapping your phones i said well you know they're worried [47:34] about the same thing no we're very highly sophisticated we've become very highly sophisticated we had four [47:40] years i rebuilt the military we had a military that was not good and we rebuilt it and i didn't know i'd [47:46] use it quite as much but we used it um ukraine has been given a tremendous amount of our without our [47:52] military and our equipment ukraine wouldn't uh be alive to fight today you know i mean just [47:59] in terms of the question uh we gave them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment [48:06] and the best equipment and we make the best equipment anywhere in the world but they wouldn't [48:11] have they wouldn't have lasted one or two days they wouldn't have been able to do it remember the [48:16] um the anti-tank missiles remember that right when the tanks got stuck in the mud [48:22] and then they went around and boom boom boom boom and those were uh given by years earlier they said [48:30] obama gave sheets and trump gave uh the anti-tank that is one of the most devastating weapons [48:39] but uh you check that out but we we have we have the greatest military we have the greatest [48:48] military equipment anybody's ever seen before look at venezuela we went in there was over after [48:53] about 48 minutes and you know they have a strong military different kind of a military but a lot [49:00] of soldiers and uh you look at iran where we essentially wiped wiped out their military now [49:06] there's some missiles left but very few compared to what they had our military and iran i want to [49:12] ask you about this report that you would only restart the conflict with iran if they killed us troops [49:17] is that your red line for ending the ceasefire if they killed us troops what does that mean that you [49:23] would restart the war with iran if they killed us well it would be a good reason i'll be honest with you [49:30] have they killed us troops i think i would do that very quickly yeah that's a very interesting [49:34] question you've responded to the vote in the house yesterday on the war powers resolution also [49:41] has a lot of reject the u.s broker he's lebanon you said the negotiator negotiations are final [49:48] stages but iran's saying they're stalled reject me they didn't reject that and they're looking i think [49:54] hezbollah i will tell you they called us and they said how about stopping and i think you're going to [50:00] see things happen over there that that's been like um a little bit of a different world but it's [50:05] interconnected with iran and it would be really nice if lebanon could have some peace lebanon's been [50:12] under attack for so many years and always like an underdog and it would be really nice if it could end [50:18] and i spoke to bb netanyahu about that and i speak to them about it and i actually spoke to hezbollah [50:24] about it and i think progress has made that's been going on for a long time you know when you [50:29] look at that for years and years 48 years i say well let's get this settled how long has it been [50:36] going on 48 years i said that's a long time not that easy but go ahead as we get closer to the [50:42] midterms are you starting to factor in domestic reaction to this in your handling of this or are you [50:49] no i mean look it was like venezuela was very unpopular then we won [50:54] and my numbers went through the roof i have very high poll numbers they went through the roof [50:59] it was very unpopular when i went to venezuela they said oh we don't want well first of all that [51:03] one's relatively close it's sort of a semi-neighbor right and the relationship with venezuela is [51:09] incredible we've taken out millions and millions of barrels of oil out of venezuela it's very [51:15] oil prone i guess chris one of the most right yes and we've taken out you're sort of leading it but [51:22] do you want to just tell them real fast about the uh relationship we have with venezuela chris [51:26] yeah things with venezuela have gone very well venezuelan oil exports today are three times higher [51:33] than they were right before we went in so it has been a meaningful incremental supply of oil to the [51:39] world and one of the reasons we're solving a 47 year old problem of iran's race for nuclear weapons [51:45] and oil prices uh in the u.s we wish they were lower [51:49] but uh gasoline prices in the u.s are you know a little over four dollars they're ten dollars in [51:54] europe they're higher in asia they're very high in california the bigger threat to energy prices in [51:59] the united states is democratic green energy policies they have driven up energy prices far more than a [52:07] conflict in iran and the conflict in iran will come to an end we hope uh that crazy green energy drive up [52:14] energy prices policy the democrats at federal and state levels we hope that comes to an end too [52:19] and remember this with if you want to call it a war or if you want to call it a military operation you [52:24] cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon and everybody agrees to that no matter almost everybody but but [52:30] wait a minute our gasoline prices are lower than they were with biden without that and he would have [52:37] let them have in fact he inspired them to have frankly a nuclear weapon him and obama obama [52:44] picked the wrong country you know that and the obama deal i terminated that or they would have had a [52:49] nuclear that was a road to a nuclear weapon our deal if we make that deal and it's going well but [52:55] who knows if we make that deal it's the exact opposite they will not have they will never have [53:00] a nuclear weapon it sounds like you're in it for as long as it takes i'm not going to let them have [53:04] a nuclear weapon no with obama it was a road you know that it was a road to a nuclear weapon that [53:09] was a short-term agreement and at the end of which they would have a nuclear weapon so they would have [53:14] had it four years ago then we attacked with this beautiful plane right here the b2 bomber we attacked [53:21] 10 months ago we attacked their nuclear sites and they were obliterated it turned out that you know cnn [53:27] was wrong they said well maybe they weren't hit that hard they were hit so hard nobody knows if [53:31] you could even get it out but the only ones that have the capability of getting out is us in china [53:37] we're the only ones with that kind of equipment that's uh powerful enough to go down that deep into [53:42] a mountain but that mountain crushed it that mountain literally collapsed on top of it those pilots did [53:49] one hell of a job and now the atomic energy as you know has backed us up and that they think it's a [53:56] very very hard thing to get it but we'll get it anyway but we're the only one and china i believe [54:01] china too but we're the only two that have the capability joe biden is out promoting a new book [54:10] when you met with joe biden president joe biden right here in the oval office on november the 13th [54:15] of 2024 could you detect any cognitive decline in president biden at that time no not really i mean [54:23] he was the same guy i've been watching for a long time i mean you could go back 40 years i watched him [54:30] 40 years ago 30 years ago he's never the sharpest guy you do know that right it wasn't like he was [54:36] sharp as a tack but uh no it was the same guy they actually invited me here before the election which [54:44] was strange you know we went here before but then i met also as you know we did the ritual and uh i mean [54:52] he was fine as far as i was concerned i don't know something happened to him during the debate it could [54:58] have been me you know i thought i had a very good debate nobody ever says that they say that they [55:04] say that biden did badly what about me did i do well you know there's a reason he did badly so the [55:09] question is did he do badly because he choked or because he didn't have it but he didn't have a good [55:16] i would say this he did not have a good night but during that during that time period you met with him [55:21] for about two hours you didn't feel he was no he spoke softly very softly and as we started to speak [55:30] you know i mentioned this to people he spoke very very softly very low very low and as we talked we [55:38] got along really well and i thought he was fine i thought he was fine when i say fine i mean was he [55:45] like talking to doug bergham was he like talking to chris was he like talking to any of these monsters up [55:51] here all these tremendous politicians and environmental geniuses was he like talking to [55:57] andy barr no he was fine i have a question about hunter biden he's on social media now and he has [56:06] suggested maybe joking i don't know that he could run for president in 2028 how would he do hunter biden [56:13] in a 2028 democrat what you would think that you know pass has something to do with winning an [56:18] election and i would say his past is not the greatest where's hunter remember my where's hunter [56:24] it became the number one shirt anywhere in the world for about three weeks um i'm not gonna say [56:31] bad i'm sure you know hey if the guy from maine can do well i guess hunter could do well too because [56:38] the guy from maine is a basket case and i would say worse than him is the one from texas that looks like [56:46] alfred e newman i would say that if he can do well maybe hunter can do well i'm not sure it'll be [56:52] pretty close as far as i'm concerned and i've got a question about the nuclear dust so the bombers go in [56:59] they entomb a lot of this enriched uranium yeah at this point do you need a deal with iran to go get [57:07] it or have you thought about just a covert daring send in the seals send in the rangers but i didn't [57:13] want to be jimmy carter you know i didn't feel like being jimmy carter so we did well we thought [57:18] about it right at the very beginning before you saw before we did what we did before we destroyed [57:24] their entire military we thought about it and i didn't want to be in a position where you had [57:30] been you know to get there it's not like it's not like venezuela like you go in you're there for a [57:35] matter of minutes and you're out and everybody's waving goodbye as you you know take off and you you [57:41] brought the cargo back uh this is different you'd have to be there for two weeks you need massive [57:48] equipment you'd have to airlift the equipment in you know you're in a war zone and there was a time [57:54] at the very beginning when we thought about doing that because they would have not been watching but [58:01] they would have found out i mean during a period of a week to two weeks you know it's you would have [58:06] you would have had a major construction operation because that plane and more importantly those people [58:12] that operate those planes including the mechanics you know that flew for 37 hours round trip think [58:18] of that and the tankers that refilled them four times and what an operation it was amazing and but [58:25] we would have been peter we would have been there for a period of from a week to two weeks we would [58:29] have gotten it but i said i don't like the idea of that all of a sudden they you know pinpoint [58:36] they still had missiles left that means they would pinpoint you and just keep [58:41] lobbing them in until one gets through and people would have gotten killed so i didn't like it [58:45] uh we could get it right now i don't think they could stop us if we wanted but there's no reason [58:51] to it's entombed you use a good word it's entombed we also have cameras on it through space force we have [58:59] very powerful cameras every door there's a door you know the you know where the doors go they go [59:04] to bad places but every single uh place on that on those mountains is three basically three uh because [59:14] it we also hit it with tomahawks after you know after that we hit it with tomahawk uh every inch [59:19] of that lands his cameras on it we have about nine of them and they're on and we cover it so if anybody [59:24] even got near it we would know what we had to do and we heard you want to meet with the new [59:30] i told the new supreme leader i don't want to meet but if if i did meet i'd be honored to meet him i'd [59:35] like to see if we make a deal but if we make a deal it's possible that i would meet him i'd be okay [59:42] with that happen here in the u.s oh i don't know i haven't really heard too much about it i i didn't [59:47] suggest it but some people have suggested it if it happened it would be happen i'd be i'd be respectful [59:53] do you think because epic fury killed his dad and his life and his kid that he's got hard feelings [1:00:00] and wouldn't want to meet well i would say i'm not his favorite person but with that being said [1:00:06] he's probably a professor i don't know he's probably a professional in some circles he has a very good [1:00:12] reputation actually you know sometimes some people say bad but a lot of people say bad about me it's [1:00:17] totally false of course on jobs uh tomorrow the jobs report will be released um while the unemployment [1:00:26] rate has been steady at 4.3 percent the black unemployment rate has been 7.3 percent when [1:00:30] you ran for president you courted black voters and talked about what you described as black jobs [1:00:35] how do you describe why why this disparity is happening what can you do to close it well we're [1:00:39] doing very well with uh the black jobs african-american jobs we're doing i saw some numbers that we're [1:00:46] doing really well but what we're really going to do well is when all these plants are open you know [1:00:50] we're building many car plants we're bringing cars back from germany we're bringing you know we lost [1:00:55] the car industry years ago 54 of of the industry went to germany japan canada mexico it's all coming [1:01:03] back it's amazing and uh where your black worker is really going to do well is when those factories [1:01:10] open so i think they're going to be great we've we've been doing very it's been a big focus for me [1:01:15] yeah thank you mr president um on today's announcement how do you made it cost savings [1:01:19] are passed on to the consumers and not held by the company and then on iran what specific [1:01:24] progress has been made today in talks with them and where are the sticking points still [1:01:28] so we're uh really lowering costs you know when i came into this job we had the highest inflation in [1:01:34] the history of our country 48 years they say but i i think the history of our country whether it's 48 [1:01:39] years or more but we had tremendous inflation with biden during the biden they had the highest they had one [1:01:45] of the highest ever and uh i inherited that the costs were very very high and at my first uh news [1:01:55] conference peter and others were screaming at me about eggs remember peter eggs what about eggs maybe [1:02:01] it wasn't you but i wanted to inject peter into it but he was screaming to me about eggs and i said what [1:02:08] tell me about eggs this is two days in they said eggs had quadrupled i said well they didn't quadruple [1:02:14] under me they could and they didn't want me to order eggs for the easter egg hunt that was going [1:02:18] to take place in a few months right and i said nope we're not going to they wanted me to order plastic [1:02:22] eggs and i said nope and we got eggs down to lower than what it was long prior to when i took over [1:02:30] and eggs today are about 15 percent lower uh what we had is a bunch of con artists the democrats the [1:02:38] democrats and what they did is they said they left they gave the highest prices that we've ever had [1:02:45] for all products groceries everything and they started saying affordability they'd say this is [1:02:51] about affordability it's a con job i inherited their high prices we brought those prices way down [1:03:00] and when the and if you go back three months ago if you go back before the the war started think of it [1:03:05] three months so uh with vietnam we were there for 19 years with iraq it was about nine years with [1:03:12] another one it was about 12 years and with another one we had all these wars that lasted for 9 10 12 [1:03:18] 19 years for vietnam think of it and they said you're in there for three months this is a terrible [1:03:26] thing hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed in these other wars we lost not one soldier [1:03:33] in that is well we didn't lose one soldier and we lost a total of 13 which is 13 too many but when [1:03:42] you look at hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in these various wars they lasted many many [1:03:47] years we're in there for a few months and what we've done is amazing they won't have a nuclear weapon [1:03:53] and we did it was tough because we just got doug and everybody came in to see me we just got the best [1:03:58] numbers well today again the new york stock exchange and every other exchange just hit a new all-time [1:04:05] high that's 73 days out of my short term we've hit brand new highs every 401k is setting records a 401k a [1:04:16] lot of people have you probably all have 401ks every look at your 401k you're happy about your 401k [1:04:22] you know the the nice reporters are smiling at me and the stupid reporters are like that but their [1:04:29] 401ks are setting records they should be happy they shouldn't be angry they should be very happy [1:04:34] but 401ks are setting records they've never had anything like it so you know we've done a good [1:04:39] job as far as the rent's concerned you're going to find out what the deal is but the main parts of the [1:04:44] deal is they can't have a nuclear weapon uh the uh straight will open immediately you know it's going to [1:04:49] open immediately and we've largely swept for mines we have the most sophisticated mines with their [1:04:55] underwater mine sweepers i actually said to somebody one of the generals why underwater is it because [1:05:02] usually it's hostile you know when you're looking for mines typically it's not in a good neighborhood [1:05:07] right so underwater made a lot of sense when it didn't take long to figure that one out so uh i think [1:05:13] we're doing very well but we're going to see if if we're going to win one way or the other we're going [1:05:17] to win on paper or we're going to win military one one way or the other it's going to be militarily [1:05:23] or on paper how critical is energy dominance whether it be coal whether it be lng whether it [1:05:32] be oil to national security without it you can't win as an example ai is a big deal whether we like it [1:05:40] not like it's going to be amazing in many ways it's going to be i think for medical it will be amazing but [1:05:45] without massive amounts of energy you can't even play the game and we're leading china by a lot in [1:05:51] ai i was talking to president xi about it uh but if we didn't do lee zeldon's done so great because [1:05:59] number one fast approvals from professionals you know they'd have the best firms in the world [1:06:03] submitting papers to them and we didn't keep them waiting for 10 years and then vote against them after [1:06:09] 10 years that way guys would file with the environmental for a plant of some kind after 15 [1:06:16] years they would be rejected it was terrible now we have great professionals there and we accept [1:06:23] we only accept plans from great professionals but we give them fast turnaround and it's it's been [1:06:29] really amazing i think the biggest thing we've done lee is we let these geniuses with all this money [1:06:35] build their own electric plant we don't take it from our grid we let them build their own plant [1:06:40] they become a utility so they're building a plant and at the same time they're building electricity [1:06:46] because if we didn't do that you couldn't have anything you couldn't and we're letting that happen [1:06:49] too with car plants and other plants if they want to build their own electric but with the ai you know [1:06:54] you hear so much about it but one of the biggest things they build their own and then excess energy that [1:07:00] they create will go back into the grid yeah please mr president on cuba mr president just let him [1:07:06] have a word mr president secretary rubio was in delhi last week he delivered a letter from you to [1:07:10] prime minister modi and so you also have these people of india to your favorite ambassador sergio [1:07:17] both of them have said the trade deal is around the corner where do you stand well we have it and you [1:07:22] know look india for years has and i don't blame them i blame us because we had stupid people here [1:07:29] india for years really took advantage of the united states you know that are you from india by [1:07:34] any chance huh i thought you were from germany i'm only kidding uh you're central casting okay and [1:07:42] that's a very good thing india for years took advantage of this country they charged us tremendous [1:07:47] tariffs uh and they paid nothing they wouldn't let hardly as an example in the past they wouldn't let [1:07:55] harley davidson sell this motor they would charge 200 percent tariff so harley davidson was precluded [1:08:03] they ended up going to india and building their own plans which is unfortunate that that happened but [1:08:08] it happens it was before me but uh they charged tremendous amounts of tariffs to our company and [1:08:15] we didn't charge them anything you know they sell sold motorbikes here too you know we charged them [1:08:21] nothing and now it's the exact reverse and we're making a lot of money with india but we'll get to [1:08:28] a deal because i like you know i like your prime minister a lot he's a good friend of mine get along [1:08:34] great and we're going to make a deal we get we have a very good relationship mr president speaking of [1:08:38] deals mr president on cuba are your sanctions on cuba meant to accelerate its collapse no it's just we just [1:08:46] want them to be uh a nicely run country that can feed its people look it's a failed nation without [1:08:53] venezuela you know venezuela because it has such wealth in the ground mostly in the ground but venezuela [1:09:02] took care of them for years and they took care of venezuela they were like the bodyguards when we went [1:09:06] in and burst into their country the venezuelans were guarding maduro and everybody else it was mostly [1:09:12] i mean the soldiers were in that case we were a lot we had a lot of cubans were guarding the cubans [1:09:18] were the guards and and they're good soldiers but the country is starving and it's got no energy it's [1:09:26] got no oil it's got no money it's got nothing it's got a beautiful piece of land you can have beautiful [1:09:31] resorts doesn't have oil but venezuela was giving them the money to survive and now you know the money is [1:09:42] i guess you could say is coming to us and is going to venezuela venezuela has been an amazing thing [1:09:47] because we've paid for the cost of the attack many many times over and it's been a long time since [1:09:53] you do you think that he was close to collapsing though based on everything you just laid out do [1:09:56] you think that he was close to collapsing it sort of collapsed um and we're going to handle that as [1:10:02] soon as we've finished i like to do one thing at a time and we'll take care of uh the islamic republic of [1:10:10] iran and as soon as that's done on our way back we'll just make a little brief stop we'll take [1:10:17] care of it we want to help them out look um we have a lot of people that voted for trump whether [1:10:22] they did or not it didn't matter but i had 95 of the cubans voted for me they're unbelievable people [1:10:29] they're energetic they're entrepreneurial you know some of the richest people in miami are cuban [1:10:34] they're unbelievable and uh i'm going to take good care of them i'm going to let them go back [1:10:39] to their land they want to be back with family you know they have a lot of family over there [1:10:43] uh they've been treated very badly by cuba but we're going to treat cuba well and we're going to [1:10:48] let our people go back and let them invest in cuba if they'd like so we have some we have some very [1:10:55] good plans for cuba i think you know we have to get rid of the the regime was was very tough very [1:11:01] nasty the difference is now they don't have money coming in they had a lot of money coming in from [1:11:06] venezuela they don't have any money coming they had oil coming in they had money coming in [1:11:10] uh but we're going to take care of cuba and they you know what they want us to the people want us [1:11:17] there so bad last night huge night for the city of new york the next one game one of the nba finals [1:11:24] there's been a lot of speculation have you decided whether or not you want to attend a game at madison [1:11:29] square well i've been a nick fan for a long time and i'm also a jim dolan fan he's a nice guy okay [1:11:34] he's been he's been a long time wanting to win and he's he's a competitive guy and he's got a team [1:11:39] that's amazing you know they i don't think they've lost a playoff game can you imagine that and uh it [1:11:45] was not looking good i saw the beginning of the game and it wasn't looking good i missed the middle [1:11:49] because i talked to generals all night long now but uh i watched that end of the game and they were [1:11:55] dominant really amazing and wendy's a great player is going to be a great player and he is already a [1:11:59] great player i say how do you guard this guy seven foot five and he's got a great shot right but they [1:12:06] find a way to do it they're they're really great they're a great team and i'm happy for jim because [1:12:11] jim has really been fighting hard to you know produce such a team so you never know uh the answer [1:12:17] is yes he's invited me i'm going i'll be excited sir say it could be monday yeah maybe i'll do both [1:12:29] you mentioned your meeting with the automakers yesterday can you tell us a little bit about [1:12:33] that uh more about that in particular did you discuss trade tariffs we had a great meeting with [1:12:38] the auto i mean most of them were here they were really talking about the fix your own car kind of [1:12:42] a thing right but um they're doing very well since i'm in office because i got rid of a lot of [1:12:48] environmental restrictions and in fact you might just tell them a little bit about that lee we made [1:12:55] it so much easier for them to build a car they could build a less expensive car that's much better [1:13:00] and they were so choked up with environmental nonsense and in order to save four ounces of gasoline [1:13:06] you had to spend thousands and thousands of dollars lee do you want to go into that president trump we sent [1:13:11] to congress uh congressional uh three biden epa waivers to california that congress passed president [1:13:17] trump signed last year getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate that a whole bunch of other states [1:13:21] had signed on to just a couple months ago president trump announced here at the white house the largest [1:13:26] act of deregulation in the history of the united states the repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding [1:13:31] all the greenhouse gas emission standards and light medium and heavy duty vehicles were following the law [1:13:36] and what that means for cost of living just on that act alone twenty four hundred dollar [1:13:40] more affordable per vehicle for americans uh the the victories come out every single day [1:13:47] president trump gave us very clear guidance he wanted us to act at trump's speed to get this [1:13:51] done as fast as possible and what you see now all across america is billions upon billions of [1:13:57] investments all across this country with new factories being built they believe in america they're [1:14:02] investing in america with the american jobs to come come up with it and by the way consumer choice [1:14:06] we got rid of that climate participation trophy for that annoying start stop feature in cars to make [1:14:13] your car die at every stop site a stop sign and red light uh so yeah the gift the the gifts uh the the [1:14:20] receipts the wins they keep coming and we're just getting started no they didn't just they're making so much [1:14:30] money now because uh you know i did something else that i don't know does it because we have no tax on [1:14:36] tips and no tax on social security no tax on overtime right so that's really been big that turned out to [1:14:42] be much bigger than anyone knew if you look at the people they're saving from five to seven eight thousand [1:14:48] dollars even uh on average because of that so it's pretty good but i did something else that nobody talks [1:14:54] about if you buy a car and you borrow money you're allowed to deduct the interest for income tax [1:15:01] purposes never happened before and deductions were always meant for rich people they weren't meant [1:15:07] for middle class people or other people wanting to buy a car so now you're allowed to get a deduction of [1:15:13] your interest payment that's a tremendous thing i mean it's a true but what's the key only if the car [1:15:21] is made in america thank you very much everybody