Trump speaks about 'no tax on tips' with a 'DoorDash grandma'

[0:02] This doesn't look staged, does it? [0:18] They're all your favorites. [0:21] The reason for this is the fact that I heard you picked up an extra $11,000 that you didn't [0:31] get because the tax bill was so big, the refund was the biggest you've ever had. [0:36] Is that a correct statement? [0:38] It definitely was. [0:40] Yeah. [0:41] I saved over $11,000 by not having to claim. [0:45] Was that surprising to you? [0:47] It was very surprising. [0:49] Very surprising. [0:50] A great big beautiful bill. [0:51] And that doesn't include overtime in your case. [0:53] This is only just based on what we did in terms of every other aspect of the tax bill, right? [0:59] Yes, sir. [1:00] So it was $11,000. [1:02] Yes, sir. [1:03] Incredible. [1:04] And that's what it is. [1:05] The tax cut. [1:06] It's really, you know, we call it the great big beautiful bill. [1:08] We should call it the great big beautiful tax cut bill because it's a tremendous amount of money. [1:14] And that's overtime. [1:15] It's also on Social Security, as you know. [1:17] Yes. [1:18] And it's pretty amazing. [1:20] Yes, it is. [1:21] And you're really nice. [1:22] Would you like to do a little news conference one day with these people? [1:25] These are not the nicest people. [1:27] They're not nice like you. [1:28] You know that, right? [1:29] I'll do whatever you ask me to do, sir. [1:32] So the no tax on tips is something special, right? [1:35] It's very special. [1:36] And that's one that really pretends you more than anything else. [1:39] Yes, sir. [1:40] That's fantastic. [1:41] It's such an honor to meet you. [1:43] And I think you voted for me, do you think? [1:45] Oh, maybe. [1:46] Yeah? [1:47] I heard you're a great supporter. [1:49] We appreciate it. [1:50] Thank you. [1:51] I'll put this over here. [1:52] And why don't we have a news conference for the president? [1:55] Oh. [1:56] Sure. [1:57] I think they're looking about Hormone Street and various other things. [2:02] Do you have any questions? [2:03] Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ himself? [2:09] Well, it wasn't depicted. [2:10] It was me. [2:11] I did post it. [2:12] And I thought it was me as a doctor. [2:14] And it had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support. [2:19] And only the fake news could come up with that one. [2:22] So I had just heard about it. [2:26] And I said, how did they come up with that? [2:30] It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. [2:33] And I do make people better. [2:34] I make people a lot better. [2:36] As an example, the 11,000, I understand your husband's going through treatment. [2:41] Yes, sir. [2:42] Yes, sir. [2:43] He has cancer. [2:44] He's going through some very serious cancer treatments. [2:46] Yes, sir. [2:47] This goes a long way. [2:48] Yes, sir. [2:49] It sure does. [2:50] Mr. President, are another round of talks planned with Iran? [2:53] And if so, will you send Vice President Gene Vance with? [2:57] Well, he's done a good job. [2:59] Steve and Jared have all done a very good job. [3:02] And I can tell you that we've been called by the other side. [3:06] They'd like to make a deal very badly. [3:08] Very badly. [3:09] What was the sticking point over? [3:11] You said it was over nuclear. [3:12] It was over nuclear. [3:14] Very similar. [3:15] Yeah, very good. [3:16] I guess you're listening. [3:17] The fact that they will never have a nuclear weapon. [3:20] Iran, you're marking it down. [3:22] Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. [3:24] And we agreed to a lot of things, but they didn't agree to that. [3:29] And I think they will agree to it. [3:31] I'm almost sure of it. [3:32] In fact, I am sure of it. [3:33] If they don't agree, there's no deal. [3:34] There'll never be a deal. [3:36] Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. [3:38] And we're going to get the dust back. [3:40] We'll get it back either. [3:41] We'll get it back from them or we'll take it. [3:43] Mr. President, as far as the naval blockade is concerned, [3:46] what's the end game? [3:47] Is it to force Iran back to the negotiating table? [3:50] Is it to open up the strait so the gas prices ultimately come down? [3:54] Maybe everything. [3:55] I mean, both of those things, certainly, and more. [3:58] We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world, [4:04] because that's what they're doing. [4:05] They're really blackmailing the world. [4:07] We're not going to let that happen. [4:08] And, you know, the amazing thing is we don't, can you believe this? [4:12] We don't use the strait. [4:13] We don't need the strait. [4:14] We have our own oil and gas, much more than we need. [4:17] We have more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia. [4:20] Think of this. [4:21] We produce more. [4:22] Saudi Arabia and add Russia to it, substantially more. [4:27] And by next year, we'll have double that amount. [4:30] So we don't need it, but the world needs it. [4:32] And many ships are heading to our country right now, as we speak, [4:37] to load up with the best, really, I guess you could say, [4:41] somebody said the best and sweetest. [4:43] I don't know exactly what sweet is, but when it relates to oil, [4:46] it's a good thing. [4:47] But they're coming to our country right now. [4:50] There are many boats coming to our country. [4:51] Now, it could very well be this is going to be settled before that. [4:55] We've been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people, [5:01] and they want to work a deal. [5:02] They would like to work a deal. [5:03] Is it your anticipation, Mr. President, [5:05] that other countries will assist in this effort to blockade Iran in those? [5:10] Yeah, other countries are going to also. [5:12] Which countries, sir? [5:13] We don't need other countries, frankly, but they've offered the services. [5:18] We'll let it be known probably tomorrow. [5:20] Has the blockade started, sir? [5:21] Yeah, started at 10 o'clock. [5:23] Bishop Robert Barron supports you and your policies. [5:27] He praises you for defending religious freedom. [5:30] He now says you owe Pope Leo an apology. [5:34] Do you apologize? [5:35] No, I don't, because Pope Leo said things that are wrong. [5:38] He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran, [5:43] and you cannot have a nuclear Iran. [5:45] Pope Leo would not be happy with the end result. [5:48] You have hundreds of millions of people dead, and it's not going to happen. [5:52] So I can't. [5:54] I think he's very weak on crime and other things. [5:57] I mean, he went public. [5:59] I'm just responding to Pope Leo. [6:01] And, you know, his brother is a big MAGA person, and he's a great guy, Lewis. [6:05] And I said, I like Lewis better than I like the Pope. [6:08] Now, you have to have law and order in our country, and that's what we have now. [6:13] We have the lowest crime numbers we've had in a long time, despite the fact that many criminals were allowed into our country. [6:19] But we've gotten a lot of them out. [6:21] We've done a great job on crime. [6:23] So we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years, since 1900, the lowest murder rate. [6:30] So we believe strongly in law and order, and he seemed to have a problem with that. [6:36] So there's nothing to apologize for. [6:39] He's wrong. [6:40] And the other thing is, he didn't like what we're doing with respect to Iran. [6:44] But Iran wants to be a nuclear nation so they can exterminate the world. [6:51] Not going to happen. [6:52] The deal is not reached by the end of the ceasefire. [6:58] Does your threat from before still stand? [7:01] Yeah, I don't want to comment on that, but it won't be pleasant for them. [7:04] Let me put it that way. [7:05] Do you still play in charge? [7:06] Do you still play in charge? [7:07] Has your timetable changed in any way in terms of ending this conflict? [7:11] No, I would. [7:12] It's going on. [7:14] Right now there's no fighting. [7:16] Right now we have a blockade. [7:18] They're doing no business. [7:20] I didn't like seeing boats come out if they were doing business with Iran, but if there weren't, no boats came out. [7:25] So now they're doing, Iran is doing absolutely no business. [7:29] And we're going to keep it that way very easily. [7:31] Don't forget, the Navy is gone. [7:34] Their Air Force is gone. [7:35] Their anti-aircraft is gone. [7:37] Their radar is gone. [7:38] And their leaders are gone. [7:39] It's a lot. [7:40] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:41] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:42] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:43] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:44] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:45] Do you still want to charge on China? [7:46] No, but we have a very good relationship with China. [7:51] He would like to see this ended also. [7:53] He certainly wants it ended. [7:55] Everyone, I want to see it ended too, but we can't give a nuclear weapon to a group of people [8:03] that have caused nothing but havoc for 47 years. [8:06] Look, I'm the president that's done something about it. [8:09] This should have been. [8:10] And many other presidents regret that they didn't. [8:13] You know, so I'm doing something. [8:16] Ukraine impeachment documents that were misdeclassified show that Eric Charanella not only submitted [8:21] false information, but that he had no direct knowledge of the alleged conversation. [8:26] Do you feel vindicated by those? [8:29] Yeah, I do. [8:30] Are there a bunch of crooked people? [8:31] You're talking about with respect to all of the things that they put against me? [8:36] Yeah. [8:37] Well, it's come out that in so many different ways. [8:39] The election was rigged. [8:40] The 2020 election was rigged. [8:41] We found that out. [8:42] What you just said is just a piece of that. [8:43] It's a big piece, but minor, relatively speaking, compared to what they did. [8:46] They cheated on the election. [8:47] They cheated on the vote. [8:48] They cheated in every way possible. [8:49] And it's the only way we got an incompetent man to be a president. [8:50] And he was an incompetent man. [8:51] Many of the things that we're talking about, even including this, this would have been settled [8:54] a long time ago. [9:13] was a rigged election we can't let that happen to our country well it's very serious charge [9:21] against them and the democrats they cheat they can't get elected with their policy so their [9:28] policy is no good uh they want to have uh i mean open borders they want to have men playing in [9:34] women's sport do you think that men should play in women's sports i really don't have an opinion [9:40] on that you don't i'll bet you do no i i'm here about no tax on tips thank you mr president is it [9:53] your understanding that during this period of time while the u.s has instituted this naval blockade [9:58] that oil companies will be able to send their oil tankers through the strait get more oil out from [10:04] this area yeah i think they're going to be doing very well there and i think they're doing very well [10:08] here you know a lot of tankers are coming up here they're coming in empty and out full and we have [10:14] a great capacity to take care of that business may we know your name please have you delivered to the [10:19] white house before i have not my name is sharon simmons and uh are the white house good tippers [10:24] do you know um wait potentially yes very mr president could i ask you something that's great thank you you [10:34] reminded me mr president what i'm cuba sir you previously said that you had no problem with [10:41] countries sending fuel to cuba after previously promising to tear up what happened what changed [10:48] well we're going to see with cuba cuba is another story cuba's been a terribly run country for a long [10:54] time it's got a bad system it's been very oppressive as you know and we have a lot of great cuban americans [11:00] all of whom just about voted for me and they were treated very badly in many cases family members [11:06] have been killed they've been beaten up and mugged and like terrible things happened in cuba and cuba's [11:13] a failing nation and we're going to do this and we may stop by cuba after we're finished with this but [11:20] cuba is a nation that was has been horribly run for many years by castro you said regulator bill [11:28] pulky uh regarding those two recent referrals uh for letitia james for insurance fraud do you know [11:34] if federal prosecutors have evidence to charge well i don't know i know she's a very corrupt person [11:40] and the you're talking about the so-called attorney general of new york she's a very corrupt person [11:46] that's been proven now and i know they've i have nothing to do with it but they're looking at things [11:52] all over all over the place more than one state concerning her and concerning people like comey [11:59] who's a dirty cop uh comey's a dirty cop and dirty cops are bad i love nobody likes the police more [12:06] than me law enforcement more than me but comey's a totally dirty cop and not gonna we're not gonna [12:13] stand for it yeah the ufc fight that's happening at the white house this summer the ufc typically [12:19] numbers those fights consecutively but should they label this one ufc 1776 that's a good idea i'll tell [12:25] that to dana white i like that idea i will say i've been involved with a lot of big events i've [12:31] never had an event that's had more interest than the ufc fight that we have right at the front but [12:36] right there they're gonna start building a about a 4 500 seat arena and then in the back at the ellipse [12:44] we're gonna have uh maybe 100 000 50 to 100 000 people i guess they're building tremendous uh stages and [12:52] we're gonna have massive screens of the fight and it's you know very popular sport but i have never [12:58] been involved because of the white house and everything you know there's a lot of reasons for [13:02] it but we're having a fight at the white house on june 14th and we're gonna have an arena built right [13:07] at the front door and you know if you want is your husband up to coming you're there does he like [13:14] ufc he might if he's feeling good we'll make sure you come okay that would be wonderful that's better [13:19] than the tip i just gave you that's a lot better but no if he's feeling good right is he doing okay [13:25] he's doing very well he's doing very well he actually during the process uh he wrote a book [13:34] and don't give him the name maybe he hasn't had it published yet but it's uh it's a book on humility [13:41] and uh his name is leo and he's just good doing good he's doing great how long are you married um we [13:49] have been married for six years but we've you know like most people we've been together for over [13:56] ten so that's very good well that's right master say hello he's going to be good okay he's going to [14:02] get better and he's going to be good yes sir good well i want to thank you all and i especially want [14:06] to thank you for being here well i want to thank you for the no tax on tips it has helped my family [14:14] out immensely and i definitely appreciate it thank you you know the one thing that i i just didn't [14:20] leave it we've had more good press for change having to do with the fact that people are receiving more [14:27] money from their tax refunds than they ever thought possible uh we had a man the other day got five [14:33] thousand dollars another one got seven they weren't expecting anything like this and it's because of the [14:37] great big beautiful bill and that's why you came and i really appreciate it and tell your husband to get [14:43] better i will and if you're feeling good you'll come up and you'll watch that fight all right i [14:47] appreciate it all right thank you very much thank you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you [14:55] any update on who you want to leave doj well i think todd thus far is doing a fantastic job i will [15:00] say that he's a great lawyer i know that because he's been with me a long time and so far he's doing [15:06] a great job but we have incredible people in the doj getting better all the time thank you very much [15:12] thank you everybody thank you thank you you want to come in for a second thank you [15:27] support journalism you trust support pbs news donate now or even better start a monthly contribution today