U.S. President Donald Trump tours ballroom construction site, Briefs press — USA News

[0:00] They've said what about a big room and you all know you probably attended they have some where they use tents if it rains [0:06] It's a disaster [0:16] We will have to have a safe country and we have to have a great country [0:20] We have to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon all of the things that you see me fighting for so hard [0:25] And it's always tough, you know, we're negotiating with Iran and then you have the Democrats [0:30] I call them the Democrats putting in a bill that Trump should immediately stop. Do you know how it is to negotiate with a country? [0:38] You're beating them badly. They come to the table. They're begging to make a deal because they're begging to make a deal [0:44] I hope we don't have to do the war but we may have to give them another big hit [0:47] We may have to give them another big hit. I'm not sure yet [0:51] You'll know very soon, but how do you feel when you're negotiating you're winning every point and they say but in Washington [0:59] They want to stop you from negotiating. They want to stop you and it's only political [1:05] It's the Democrats they're dumb. It's a new name. It's a very accurate name [1:10] So I'm in the middle of a negotiation [1:12] I'm saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon and it comes over the wire that the Democrats want to stop Trump from further [1:21] Negotiations they want to stop Trump from if he has to giving them another slap [1:27] They want to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the Middle East and to blow up frankly the world. It's not gonna happen [1:32] I was I was I was an hour away [1:43] We're all set to go. You're talking about yesterday. Yes, we were gonna be striking very it would have been happening right now [1:49] Yeah, it was all done. The boats the ships are all loaded. They're loaded to the brim and we're all set to start [1:56] They said that they feel they've had for the first time in almost [2:05] 47 years, you know Iran's been the bully of the Middle East for 47 years. I mean literally the bully of the Middle East and [2:12] They're nasty very nasty very dangerous. They wanted a nuclear weapon had I not terminated Barack Hussein Obama's [2:21] Iran nuclear deal had I not terminated it see that's the wind that can't happen with the real structure [2:26] Mr. President, I'm Cuba. I'm Cuba. What do you want to see from [2:34] Cuba Cuba, Cuba? [2:35] Well, we're gonna see look Cuba is calling us. They need help. Look Cuba is a failed nation [2:41] Cuba needs help and we'll do that. Just hold them though [2:47] It's like an exercise game for [2:49] Give that to me. I'll hold it [2:53] It's so beautiful. See I look so thin. They'll say oh he's gotten so thin because I'm holding this [3:00] You don't have to look at my waist. You can look at this. You saw enough of my waist along with president cheese [3:09] With Cuba I think so yeah, I think so we are I am very prone toward the Cuban Americans [3:16] They've been incredible people many of them have lost family members. They've been very badly hurt themselves [3:21] They've been in prison. They've come to this country. They've been very successful the Cuban American people in Miami. I mean they are [3:28] Amazing people most of them are in Miami in Florida, but mostly in Miami [3:33] I'm very very prone to helping them. I mean that's they've been I think I got 97% of that vote [3:39] I want to help them now. They have family members in Cuba. They've been treated very very badly [3:46] They've been treated extremely badly and we're gonna get that so that's not going to be hard for us to sell [3:51] You can do that without what I don't know about changing the regime like I could do that whether you change a regime or not [3:59] You know, it's been a rough regime. They've they've killed a lot of people, but it's it's a country that [4:06] Really needs help. It has nothing they can't turn on the lights. They can't eat. We don't want to see that [4:12] How much notice did the Gulf nations have how much those of the Gulf nations have that you were going to do these strikes before they asked you to pause? [4:21] They called me over the last two days to say they made a lot of progress in there because we have them [4:27] negotiating with us and [4:29] primarily Saudi Arabia and Qatar UAE [4:33] Kuwait a little bit and [4:35] Bahrain and some of the others and we have them negotiating with the world working together it's like a team and [4:41] Israel of course and Israel has been a great partner and [4:45] So we are [4:46] Negotiating together. I got a call from numerous of these people. They know the people in Iran don't forget when you talk about regime change [4:54] I think it's the ultimate regime change because the first level and the second level are no longer with us [5:00] There's someplace, but they're no longer with us. So [5:04] We have real regime change, but I got a call yesterday sir. Could you wait? [5:08] We think we're close to a deal and that's okay now [5:12] I've heard it before with these people they change their mind. I made deals with them. No nuclear [5:17] We immediately get the nuclear dust and they said you're the only one can get it because the bombers did such an [5:23] Unbelievable job that the mountain literally collapsed on top of it [5:27] They said us and they thought China would be the only two countries that could even get it [5:32] But I think it's important to get it maybe psychologically more than anything else [5:36] How long do they know that you were playing? [5:42] They knew I was getting ready to attack. I didn't tell them. I'd never tell anybody when you're a constant contact [5:48] I never tell anybody when but they knew that we were very close [5:51] I would say we were I was an hour away from making the decision to go today [5:56] And we would probably not be talking about a beautiful ballroom today. We'd be talking about that and [6:05] No, I we were I had made the decision [6:07] So they called up they had heard I made the decision. They said sir [6:11] Could you give us a couple of more days because we think they're being reasonable [6:15] Well, I mean I'm saying two or three days maybe Friday Saturday Sunday something maybe early next week a limited period of time [6:27] Because we can't let them have a new nuclear weapon if they had a nuclear weapon [6:31] They would start with Israel. They would blow it up and they would blow it up fast [6:36] But they'd blow it up and I'll tell you what they go after Saudi Arabia [6:41] They go after [6:43] Kuwait they go after UAE [6:46] They go after Qatar they go after I [6:49] Think they go after the entire Middle East and it would be a whole different negotiation [6:53] It would not be it would be it would be nuclear holocaust and [6:58] There's no question in my mind that they'd use it. There's no question and I deal with these people. They're extremely radicalized [7:07] These are not people like when I deal with you [7:10] You're a very nice guy. These are people that are seriously radicalized [7:15] They would use it the only question would it be the first minute the first hour or the first day [7:21] I'm not doing this politically I'm good look everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular when you when they hear that [7:36] It's having to do with nuclear weapons weapons that could take out Los Angeles could take out [7:42] Major cities very quick when they hear that you know when they're explain I'll tell you what would we explain it to people? [7:49] I don't really have enough time to explain to people I'm too busy getting it done [7:54] When they understand I think it's a very I think it's frankly very popular but whether it's popular or not popular [8:01] I have to do it because I'm not going to let the world be blown up with my watch not gonna happen [8:15] Thomas bass is a terrible congressman. He's been a terrible congressman from day one [8:20] Dealing with him is just a horrible. I don't think he's a Republican. I think he's actually I think he's actually a Democrat [8:26] He's not a libertarian, you know, sometimes they say he's really a Democrat. He votes against us all the time [8:33] He voted against the border wall. He voted against men playing in women's sports [8:39] He voted against transgender for everybody the utilization of your children. He voted against [8:46] Again open borders. We have the best border. We've ever had right now. Nobody's coming in [8:50] I mean a report just came out in the last 11 months literally nobody [8:54] Nobody has been allowed into our country illegally. We're taking people legally they go through a process [9:00] But nobody's coming to our country, but we've taken out hundreds of thousands of people we had [9:07] 10,000 it was a 10,000 eight hundred eleven thousand [9:12] Eight hundred and eighty eight murders many of these murders allowed into our country from prisons. They were in prisons [9:18] Many of these people killed more than one more than 50 percent killed more than one person [9:24] This was gross [9:26] Malfeasance this was on behalf of the biden admitted. I don't know but because I don't think he knew he was alive [9:31] But she kamala was the border czar. She never called that one time [9:37] She never called the border patrol. She never called ice. She never called law enforcement [9:42] She never went to the border think of it. I used to call every single day and that's recently now I call less [9:50] We have nobody coming through we have we had caravans coming through with tens of thousands of people [9:56] Pouring into our country. We had no idea who they were [9:59] We would have been I tell you what that would our country would have been destroyed if they won this election our country would have been [10:06] We have now the hottest country anywhere in the world if they had won the election our country would have been destroyed our country was a dead country [10:13] two years ago and now we have really the hottest country in the world and [10:18] This is the ballroom and it's going to be something incredible you see the quality of it [10:23] And they go write those columns go right into the roof and on top of the roof [10:27] We're gonna have the greatest drone empire that you've ever seen and it's going to protect washington. Thank you all very much [10:34] We have a little breakfast for you [10:37] Yeah, where is your breakfast? [10:40] I'd have it. Where is it? [10:42] Oh, it's right over there [10:44] We have a little bit of a breakfast for you. I figured I'd be nice to you for a change [10:47] We dedicate you to thousands of people gathered here [10:51] That's great [10:52] Yeah [10:54] I did [10:56] Scripture [11:02] Well, I think that it was great thousands of people showed up and it was a beautiful everything beautiful day [11:08] I did I did scripture you think it's easy to read scripture. It's not easy to read scripture [11:14] That's a whole different ballgame [11:15] That's not like reading a speech. We will build the wall [11:19] This is a whole different deal, but I did it proudly and I guess it was broadcast [11:26] We had tremendous class. I think religion is very important for a country. I think having really this country was was built [11:33] largely on religion [11:35] It was built so and when you have strong religion you have less crime [11:39] It's just a fact, you know, whatever it may be [11:42] It's like gee, I want to go to heaven, so I'm not going to do this or that who knows [11:47] But we have a country that was based on religion and I'm very proud of that [11:51] And if you look and you see all of the polling I've been calling is so fake [11:57] But this is not fake and religion is really going up in the last [12:02] Year and during the time I mean really during the time I first got elected in 2016 [12:07] It's a much different thing. I'm very proud of that [12:10] Religion is a good thing christianity. It's a great thing for our country [12:14] I mean all right so many of our the things that we we've done the successes [12:19] That we've had a bit based on christianity and religion so i'm very proud of that [12:25] Religion is taking off like our country is taken off our country is hotter now than it's ever been and i'll tell you [12:31] Religion is making a tremendous comeback you look at churches today [12:36] They're full you go back two three years nobody was going so we're very happy [12:45] Yeah, yeah, no i'm always concerned i see things happening [12:49] Look from the beginning of mankind you've had that you've had the good and you have the bad [12:53] I'd like to get rid of the bad, but somehow [12:56] That's going to be there, but the good has been many times what it was really many times [13:05] For your security funding would you be willing or would you like to go to your donors to ask for that money? [13:10] Well, this is money for the whole premises including the the east wing this is the east wing section [13:16] But the ballroom is as you see it's going up. It's ahead of schedule. It's uh [13:22] It's larger because we they wanted more military capacity [13:26] They wanted more drone capacity they needed a larger roof and frankly we needed a larger facility [13:32] And so we're doing that and we've done this in strict coordination with the military and with the secret service [13:39] And they've been great to work with the money that they're talking about is the surrounding areas and maybe enhancing some security aspects of the [13:46] But the building the building as you see [13:50] It's a very active site and a lot of people are amazed and by the way that floor goes down three floors just so you understand [13:56] You're seeing the almost the top floor that floor goes down three floors and there are many things in there [14:03] Having to do with security and many of those things are going to be taken from there and put onto the roof of the building [14:09] And that has to do with drone and missile capacity [14:12] A lot of the president have done renovations to the white house to all these things [14:16] Why do you think people are so mad about your renovations though? [14:20] Because i'm doing it [14:21] That meridian drill park you got the water flowing in all of it and and they just seem to hate you [14:26] Well, it's a sad thing actually, you know, you just it's very nice. I appreciate the question first [14:32] I said oh, this is going to be a negative question then I heard [14:35] She's really saying why do they hate you for fixing the water fountains so you know we have [14:40] We have 40 I know I want because I want to see washington to be beautiful to me. It's very important [14:45] But as an example, you mentioned the water fence we didn't have one water fountain [14:49] And I think we have 40 we didn't have one in washington that worked and soon they'll all be working many of them work right now [14:56] And the I think one of the best things [15:00] obama president obama president biden spent much more than a hundred million dollars on the [15:06] reflecting lake between the [15:09] Lincoln memorial and the washington monument they spent much more they spent some people say 200 million [15:15] You know what they got out of it a closed lake it never opened and when it did it shut right away it leaked it was a disaster [15:23] I'm doing a job on the reflecting lake for a fraction of what they paid now [15:28] I've upgraded it very soon. I got so into it. I've upgraded it like you wouldn't believe i'm doing all the walkways outside [15:35] You know i'm doing the i'm doing it properly [15:37] But it's a much bigger job [15:39] But you see it's happening now. It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be waterproof. It's going to be reflecting again [15:45] Uh, I took over a dirty filthy thing that wasn't open and it was disgusting [15:51] And friends of mine would come to the lincoln or the washington and they'd say [15:55] Sir it's disgusting [15:57] I said what's disgusting they're reflecting like so I drove down [16:00] I looked with with secretary bergum who's fantastic of interior he's fantastic and we got together [16:07] And we have uh it's under construction right now [16:10] I want to get it open before july 4th, which we'll easily be able to do it'll be open before that but easily be able to do [16:17] July 4th being a very special day [16:19] And it is going to be beautiful beautiful blue color dark blue color [16:24] Uh, it's very reflective. I put a thing out yesterday showing the reflection [16:28] We did a little test. We wanted to see it's unbelievable. It's like a mirror. Well, it's like it's like a mirror. It's beautiful [16:34] And I saw there was guys out there almost like having hand painting it. Is that how they're doing? [16:38] Yeah, well, they're fixing the stone outside [16:41] And they're sandblasting the stuff. We're doing a much bigger job than we wanted to do [16:46] But think of it [16:47] Obama and biden spent over a hundred million dollars, and you know what they got nothing [16:51] They opened it up and it leaked like a sieve and they closed it and it stayed close [16:56] They've been working on it for years. I've been working on this for a couple of months when it's finished. It's going to be incredible, but [17:01] Uh, we have other fountains beautiful fountains. They haven't worked in 30 years [17:08] They're just sitting there rotting and most of them are now open and right across the street [17:13] I made a donation and I'm building lafayette park [17:20] How much was the donation? How much was the donation? How much was the donation? About 10 million dollars. Are you happy with the american flag blue? [17:27] Well, I put up the american flag [17:28] No, the american flag blue. I think so. I mean, I'll let you know [17:32] I wanted a lighter color blue the person that really knows this stuff said no dark is much better [17:38] Uh, it you don't see the leaves and you know, you know things will get in there, but most importantly the dark reflects much better [17:44] Mr. President, why is the establishment media claiming so desperately that mag is divided? [17:51] Well, I think it's the strongest it's ever been [17:53] You know, you take a look at what happened in louisiana two nights ago with a certain senator that was very disloyal to me and to the republican party [18:01] He got he's not even allowed to run for office [18:05] We have another big race. This guy massey is terrible. Let's see what happens [18:08] It's not easy beating incumbents, but we have a great guy running against massey massey's a terrible car [18:13] I think the worst congressman the republican party's ever had [18:16] That'll be tonight. That'll be good television and we'll see what happens there [18:20] But I think maggots never been more together actually i'm going to be making an endorsement today [18:26] In texas i'm going to be putting out an endorsement in a little while in texas the great state [18:31] You know, I won texas all six times meaning primaries and the race [18:36] And I got the highest vote in the history of texas and I love texas, but i'm going to be making a [18:41] endorsement at about 12 31 o'clock today [18:45] for [18:46] the big race the senate race in texas and [18:50] I hope you find it good [18:52] So I I do think I mean I appreciate the question because even cnn they did a poll two three weeks ago [18:59] They said trump is at 100 [19:02] That's harry and i like harry and i got a lot of energy [19:06] But he did a poll and he's a good pro and he gives the good and the bad [19:11] But I think he's a [19:12] He's an honorable guy because we get a lot of good you know [19:14] He predicted I was going to do great with the muslims in michigan and win michigan and I did [19:20] I did good and I won michigan by a lot [19:22] He made a lot of good predictions but he did a poll two weeks ago that said trump is [19:28] I mean this is up you can check [19:31] 100 percent popularity with mega mega is most of the republican party the rhinos are gone to a large extent [19:40] A few of them are still left so hopefully we get rid of one tonight in the form of tom massey who's horrible [19:47] But uh no it's it's been amazing but i'll be making a [19:51] Statement in a little while as to uh [19:53] Who i'm endorsing in texas for the senate and there are those that say whoever i endorse is going to win [19:58] I don't know if that's true but historically that's absolutely true [20:01] I just don't like to say it because I don't like to brag [20:07] Well i've i've had my mind made up for a long time but i just think it's [20:11] i just think it's going to be you know i just think it's appropriate [20:15] Mr. President [20:16] There's a word that President Xi told you during your meeting that um perhaps russian president [20:22] Blackburn will come to regret invading ukraine did he say that to you no he never said that [20:28] Mr. President you mentioned that the ballroom is your gift to the country [20:32] It's a gift it's a gift from me and from [20:36] Incredible successful companies and patriots [20:39] uh and they put up close to 400 million dollars and you see the uh you see what's happening and [20:46] it's beautiful and again it's ahead of schedule unlike the fed building think of it this building [20:52] at 400 million the fed building at 4 billion and it's a tiny little project by comparison [20:59] you spent a lot of time renovating the white house the rose garden the power i do putting up the [21:04] american flag that's flagpole on each side why was this so important to be part of your legacy [21:12] well this is the most important because number one security and number two was so needed just on a [21:17] social basis for presidents and again i'll be here for a very short period of time when this opens i'll be [21:23] here for a very short period of time this is really being built for other presidents it's not [21:27] being built for me and i'm a really good builder the thing i do best in life is build i'm a great [21:32] builder and i build beautiful product this this there will never be anything like this i always [21:37] admired the facade of the supreme court i said i wonder if that can be duplicated or bettered even [21:45] not to say better but even better and we've actually bettered it what we're doing is something [21:50] that will you'll never see it again mr president one more honor if i may when you were having your [21:55] discussions with the uh regional partners the regional leaders did they express to you any [22:01] concern about ron's ability to still retaliate sure they have a little ability their missiles their [22:07] missiles are 82 gone we estimate their capacity to build is very little right now because we hit [22:14] you know we hit all of their manufacturing areas the same thing with drones largely gone but they still [22:20] have a little capacity yeah not much but they have a little their navy is completely gone their air force [22:25] is completely gone uh president xi has promised me that he's not sending any weapons to iran that's [22:31] a beautiful promise i i take him at his word i appreciated it we had an amazing time in china [22:39] you know look we got along very well before this but president xi and i had a really an amazing time [22:45] i think he'd say the same thing but he promised that he's not sending any weapons and you know if you [22:50] think about it he gets 40 of his oil he's not sending uh oil boats in you know tankers in with [22:56] 20 destroyers alongside of him no he wants it he does want it open like me i want it open and we'll get [23:04] it open but iran has used the straits as a as a military weapon for 47 years really much more than [23:11] that and that's not their straight that's international waterways that's not for them to do and look they've [23:18] learned their lesson if i left today it would take them 25 years to rebuild but we're not leaving [23:24] we're going to do it right so that in five years 10 years if you have a bad president who doesn't want [23:31] to do what's right to do this should have been done by obama this should have been done by biden it [23:36] should have been done by other presidents long before and everybody agrees to them they agree to it [23:42] mr president yeah are there other initiatives that you're well there may be it's very temporary [23:50] yeah yeah there may be anything to keep it down look as soon as this war is over gas is going you [23:56] know i had gasoline down to a dollar 85 cents in iowa i was in iowa and the stations had it at one [24:03] dollar and 85 cents but i was down to in many cases less than two dollars a barrel a gallon and then i [24:11] said to myself this is great we just hit a new high in the stock market everything's going good [24:17] i'm sorry but we have to go down and take a little journey down to we have to do something with rent we [24:24] cannot let them have a nuclear weapon you want to see the world exploded you want to see a problem [24:30] and this is peanuts and i appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while it won't be much [24:35] longer but uh you're going to have and frankly there is so much oil out there one of the things [24:42] that is happening is these big ships are coming up to texas louisiana and alaska and they're loading up [24:48] but i don't even think about that what i think about is you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon and they [24:53] won't have a nuclear weapon and they fully understand it mr president i at once asked you [24:58] how do you deal [25:01] you had some time ago during your first time yeah success yeah success [25:07] based on that why do you continue to do what you do knowing that some of the people are criticizing [25:13] every day to try to bring that success well you know you have some people disagree with like the [25:19] iran thing to me it's no question to me you have to have borders you have to have [25:24] walls and you have to let people in legally but you have to have borders uh some people think you [25:29] don't have borders you should let anybody murderers drug dealers you should let them in so there is [25:34] some but but i said to you once i remember it the greatest healer of our country when we had just [25:41] before covid we were so successful you know we had the best economy we've ever had in my first term [25:47] this term is going to blow it away i think and you see all the numbers even during the war [25:51] we have the highest stock market we've ever had i thought the market would go down 25 percent [25:57] and i was okay with that to get rid of a nuclear potential holocaust would have been a nuclear [26:03] holocaust so going down 25 percent is okay if you're going to get rid of a nuclear holocaust so [26:09] uh most people agree with me when when i'm with people and they let's say oh gee why do [26:14] and i say here's the problem is it okay for iran and they are [26:18] very volatile people i'm being nice is it okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon everybody says [26:26] no i said then we have nothing further to discuss you know it's like one of those things and they [26:31] will never have a nuclear weapon not going to happen and probably that's going to be very soon [26:36] so one way or the other whether it's a military or an agreement uh they that'll start opening up very [26:41] soon no i waited uh i've pretty much always known who i was going to endorse but uh i just thought [26:55] this was a good time you know the voting starting and i thought this was a good time i'm going to be [27:00] doing that very shortly already have you put any thought into potentially endorsing someone to run [27:05] against jb pritzker like darren bailey or well i like darren bailey jb pritzker is a slob of a governor [27:11] you know he could call me and i'd send the national guard in chicago would have no crime [27:16] look at washington dc did you see the crime stats it's down to like nothing people go to restaurants [27:21] now new restaurants restaurants are all being closed in washington now they're building new [27:26] restaurants it's a hot city we have a beautiful city we have very little crime almost no crime and [27:33] we could have the same thing in chicago all he'd have to do is say president i don't want to have any [27:38] crime in chicago can you help me within three months chicago would be a different place what [27:44] about the mayor brandon what can i say he's so bad he's so good mr president you're going to law [27:52] alerts i talked about making health care more affordable right who's done that you made a major [27:58] announcement yesterday that was a big announcement got no coverage i reduced drug prices by 50 60 70 80 [28:05] percent and it gets no coverage i think it's maybe the other than medical itself like a cure i think [28:13] it's the biggest thing to happen in health care ever maybe i brought the price we paid the highest price [28:18] in the world now we're paying as of now we're paying the lowest price in the world prices of drugs have [28:25] gone down 70 80 90 percent for 28 years they never went down within my administration i got it down one [28:33] eighth of one percent that i thought it was great the first time the only time in 28 years that it [28:37] went down now i got them down 50 60 70 and even 80 percent and that has a huge impact on health care [28:45] listen go have breakfast have a good time thank you have breakfast enjoy your site you can shoot down [28:50] there but those those the next time you come here those columns will be standing even taller how long [28:58] did it take to design the underneath like you said kind of the military was like what was the architecture [29:03] actually the underneath part's good question it's far more complex than the upper because what you [29:08] don't see are the floors that are beneath beneath here and they have very very uh important rooms [29:14] down there very the most important this was the one opportunity for the military to do something [29:20] you know they came normally i'd build a ballroom on flat land i wouldn't have any of this [29:25] whatever it would have been built i would i'm very fast i'm a very fast builder uh we're way ahead [29:30] of schedule here but we went down six stories so it's actually far more complex than what the easy [29:38] part is up but again we have a drone proof roof we have all it's all sealed and all of this that you [29:44] see is totally sealed and we use it as a drone port we can have unlimited drones up there and and drones [29:50] or what's happening right now thank you over and thank you thank you thank you very much don't eat [29:56] too much you're right over here for me this is my gift to the united states of america i'm going to [30:09] be able to use it very little finish we're talking about six or seven months but we'll be used for [30:18] hopefully hundreds of years for other presidents and there will never be anything like this [30:24] built again there'll never be a room built like with the safety as an example if we had the white [30:30] house correspondents dinner here and i tell you we have everybody wants to be here for the first event [30:53] we're talking about heads of nations so we have some very special places that it could happen you [31:01] know we have if we had literally queen you know we had this finish we would have had a event that would [31:11] have been 10 times i mean we literally we're in a little room in the white house president now now [31:17] we're not even talking about safety president for this literally from the time the white house has been [31:23] built but on record for 150 years they've said what about a big room and you all know you probably [31:29] attended they have some where they use tents if it rains it's a disaster [31:34] yeah we'll have to have a safe country we have to have a great country we have to make sure that [31:48] iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon all of the things that you see me fighting for so hard [31:53] and it's always tough you know we're negotiating with iran and then you have the democrats i call [31:57] them the democrats uh putting in a bill that trump should immediately stop you know how it is to [32:02] negotiate with the country where you're beating them badly they come to the table they're begging [32:09] to make a deal because they're begging to make a deal i hope we don't have to do the war but we may [32:13] have to give them another big hit we may have to give them another big hit i'm not sure yet uh you'll [32:18] know very soon but how do you feel when you're negotiating you're winning every point and they say [32:25] but in washington they want to stop you from negotiating they want to stop you and it's only political [32:32] it's the democrats they're dumb it's a new name it's a very accurate name so i'm in the middle [32:38] of a negotiation i'm saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon and it comes over the wire that [32:43] the democrats want to stop trump from further negotiations they want to stop trump from if he [32:51] has to giving them another slap they want to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the middle east and to [32:57] blow up frankly the world it's not going to happen nice to see you by the way i was i was i was an [33:08] hour away we're all set to go you're talking about yesterday we were going to be striking very it would [33:15] have been happening right now yeah it was all done the boats the ships are all loaded they're loaded to [33:20] the brim and we're all set to start they said that they feel they've had for the first time in almost [33:32] 47 years you know iran's been the bully of the middle east for 47 years i mean literally the bully of the [33:38] middle east and uh they're nasty very nasty very dangerous they wanted a nuclear weapon had i not [33:45] terminated barack hussein obama's iran nuclear deal had i not terminated it see that's the wind that [33:51] can't happen with the real structure you're talking about cuba well we're going to see look cuba's [34:04] calling us they need help look cuba is a failed nation cuba needs help and we'll do that just hold [34:11] them though it's like an exercise game give that to me i'll hold it oh it's so beautiful see i look [34:23] so thin they'll say oh he's gotten so thin because i'm holding this you don't have to look at my waist [34:28] you can look at this you saw enough of my waist along with president cheese are you confident that you [34:34] can reach a different back with cuba i think so yeah i think so we are i am very prone toward the cuban [34:42] americans they've been incredible people many of them have lost family members they've been very [34:47] badly hurt themselves they've been imprisoned they've come to this country they've been very [34:51] successful the cuban american people in miami i mean they are amazing people most of them are in miami [34:57] in florida but most extremely badly and uh we're going to get that solved that's not going to be hard [35:02] for us to solve you can do that without well i don't know about changing the regime i can do that [35:09] whether you change your regime or not you know it's been a rough regime they've [35:13] they've killed a lot of people but uh it's it's a country that really needs help it has nothing [35:19] they can't turn on the lights they can't eat we don't want to see that how much notice did the gulf [35:26] nations have um how much does the gulf nations have that you were going to do these strikes before [35:31] they asked you to pause because we have them negotiating with us and negotiating with us and primarily [35:42] saudi arabia qatar uae kuwait a little bit and bahrain and some of the others and we have them [35:50] negotiating with we're all working together it's like a team and israel of course and israel's been [35:55] a great partner and so we are negotiating together i got a call from numerous of these people they know [36:02] the people in iran don't forget when you talk about regime change i think it's the ultimate regime change [36:08] because the first level and the second level are no longer with us there's some place but [36:13] they're no longer with us so uh we have real regime change but i got a call yesterday sir could you wait [36:21] we think we're close to a deal and that's okay now i've heard it before with these people they changed [36:26] their mind i made deals with them no nuclear we immediately get the nuclear dust and they said [36:31] you're the only one can get it because the bombers did such an unbelievable job that the mountain [36:37] literally collapsed on top of it they said us and they thought china would be the only two countries [36:42] that could even get it but i think it's important to get it maybe psychologically more than anything [36:54] they knew i was getting ready to attack i didn't tell them i'd never tell anybody when you're in [36:59] i never tell anybody when but but they knew that we were very close i would say we were i was an hour [37:05] away from making the decision to go today and we would probably not be talking about a beautiful [37:13] ballroom today we'd be talking about that and uh no i we were i had made the decision so they called up [37:20] they had heard i made the decision they said sir could you give us a couple of more days because we [37:25] think they're being reasonable well i mean i'm saying two or three days maybe friday saturday sunday [37:34] something maybe early next week a limited period of time because we can't let them have a new nuclear [37:40] weapon if they had a nuclear weapon they would start with israel they would blow it up and they would [37:47] blow it up fast but they'd blow it up and i'll tell you what they go after saudi arabia they go after [37:54] kuwait they go after uae they go after qatar they go after i think they go after the entire middle east [38:03] and it would be a whole different negotiation it would not be it would be it would be nuclear [38:08] holocaust and there's no question in my mind that they'd use it there's no question and i deal with [38:15] these people they're extremely radicalized these are not people like when i deal with you you're a [38:22] very nice guy these are people that are seriously radicalized they would use it the only question [38:29] would it be the first minute the first hour or the first day i'm not doing this politically i'm [38:41] doing look everyone tells me it's unpopular but i think it's very popular when you when they hear that [38:47] it's having to do with nuclear weapons weapons that could take out los angeles could take out major [38:55] cities very quick when they hear that you know when they're explaining i'll tell you what when we [39:00] explain it to people i don't really have enough time to explain to people i'm too busy getting it [39:05] done when they understand i think it's a very i think it's frankly very popular but whether it's [39:11] popular or not popular i have to do it because i'm not going to let the world be blown up on my watch [39:17] it's not going to happen [39:18] yeah uh thomas massey's a terrible congressman he's been a terrible congressman from day one [39:31] uh dealing with him is just a horrible i don't think he's a republican i think he's actually [39:36] i think he's actually a democrat he's not a libertarian you know sometimes they say he's really [39:41] a democrat he votes against us all the time he voted against the border wall he voted against [39:48] men playing in women's sports he voted against transgender for everybody the mutilization of [39:55] your children he voted against uh again open borders we have the best border we've ever had right now [40:01] nobody's coming in i mean a report just came out in the last 11 months literally nobody has been [40:07] allowed into our country illegally we're taking people legally they go through a process but nobody's [40:12] coming to our country but we've taken out hundreds of thousands of people we had uh ten thousand it [40:19] was a ten thousand eight hundred eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty eight murderers many of [40:26] these murders allowed into our country from prisons they were in prisons many of these people killed more [40:31] than one more than fifty percent killed more than one person this was gross malfeasance this was on [40:39] behalf of the biden admitted i don't know but because i don't think he knew he was alive but she [40:44] kamala was the border czar she never called not one time she never called the border patrol she never [40:51] called ice she never called law enforcement she never went to the border think of it i used to call every [40:58] single day and that's recently now i call less we have nobody coming through we have we had caravans [41:05] coming through with tens of thousands of people pouring into our country we had no idea who they [41:10] were we would have been i'll tell you what uh that would our country would have been destroyed if [41:15] they won this election our country would have been we have now the hottest country anywhere in the [41:20] world if they had won the election our country would have been destroyed our country was a dead [41:25] country two years ago and now we have really the hottest country in the world and uh this is the [41:31] ballroom and it's going to be something incredible you see the quality of it and they go right those [41:36] columns go right into the roof and on top of the roof we're going to have the greatest drone empire [41:41] that you've ever seen and it's going to protect washington thank you all very much we have a little [41:47] breakfast for you really yeah where is the breakfast i'd have it where is it oh it's right over [41:54] here we have a little bit of a breakfast for you i figured i'd be nice to you for a chance [41:59] we dedicate you to thousands of people gathered it was great yeah [42:05] i did [42:14] well i think that it was great thousands of people showed up and it was a beautiful [42:18] everything beautiful day uh i did i did scripture you think it's easy to read scripture it's not easy [42:24] to read scripture that's a whole different ball game that's not like reading a speech we will build [42:30] the wall this is a whole different deal but i did it proudly and uh i guess it was broadcast we had [42:37] tremendous stress i think religion is very important for a country i think having really this country was [42:43] was built largely on religion if you look it was built so and when you have strong religion you have [42:50] less crime it's just a fact you know whatever it may be it's like gee i want to go to heaven so i'm [42:56] not going to do this or that who knows but we have a country that was based on religion and i'm very proud [43:02] of that and if you look and you see all of the polling i mean polling is so fake but on this it's not [43:09] fake religion is really going up in the last year and during the time i mean really during the time i [43:16] first got elected in 2016. it's a much different thing i'm very proud of that uh religion is a good [43:22] thing christianity it's a great thing for our country i mean so many of our the things that we [43:29] we've done the successes that we've had have been based on christianity and religion so i'm very proud [43:35] of that uh religion is taking off like our country has taken off our country's hotter now than it's ever [43:42] been and i'll tell you religion is making a tremendous comeback you look at churches today [43:47] they're full you go back two three years nobody was going so we're very happy [43:56] yeah yeah no i'm always concerned i see things happening look from the beginning of mankind you've [44:03] had that you've had the good and you had the bad i'd like to get rid of the bad but somehow that's going [44:08] to be there but the good has been many times what it was really many times what it was [44:14] if congress is not going for this one billion dollars for your security funding would you be [44:18] willing or would you lean to go to your donors to ask for that money well this is money for the [44:23] whole premises including the the east wing this is the east wing section but the ballroom is as you [44:29] see it's going up it's ahead of schedule it's uh it's larger because they wanted more military capacity [44:38] they wanted more drone capacity they needed a larger roof and frankly we needed a larger facility [44:44] and so we're doing that and we've done this in strict coordination with the military and with the [44:49] secret service and they've been great to work with uh the money that they're talking about is the [44:54] surrounding areas and maybe enhancing some security aspects of the but the building the building as you [45:01] see it's a very active site and a lot of people are amazed and by the way that floor goes down three [45:06] floors just so you understand you're seeing the almost the top floor that floor goes down three [45:12] floors and there are many things in there having to do with security and many of those things are [45:17] going to be taken from there and put onto the roof of the building and that has to do with drone and [45:23] missile capacity a lot of the president have done renovations to the white house to all these things [45:28] why do you think people are so mad about your renovations though because i'm doing it [45:32] the meridian hill park you got the water flowing in all of it and and they just seem to hate you [45:37] well it's a sad thing actually you know you just and it's very nice i appreciate the question first [45:44] i said oh this is going to be a negative question then i heard uh she's really saying why do they hate [45:48] you for fixing the water fountains so you know we have we have 40 i know i want because i want to [45:54] see washington to be beautiful to me it's very important but as an example you mentioned the water [45:58] fence we didn't have one water fountain i think we have 40 we didn't have one in washington that [46:04] worked and soon they'll all be working many of them work right now and the uh the i think one of [46:10] the best things uh obama president obama president biden spent much more than a hundred million dollars [46:16] on the reflecting lake between the lincoln memorial and the washington monument they spent much more they [46:24] spent some people say 200 million you know what they got out of it a closed lake it never opened [46:30] and when it did it shut right away it leaked it was a disaster i'm doing a job on the reflecting lake for [46:37] a fraction of what they paid now i've upgraded it very i got so into it i've upgraded it like you [46:44] wouldn't believe i'm doing all the walkways outside i you know i'm doing the i'm doing it properly but [46:49] it's a much bigger job but you see it's happening now it's going to be beautiful it's going to be [46:54] waterproof it's going to be reflecting again uh i took over a dirty filthy thing that wasn't open [47:01] and it was disgusting and friends of mine would come to the lincoln or the washington and they'd say [47:07] sir it's disgusting i said what's disgusting they're reflecting like so i drove down i looked [47:13] with with secretary bergham who's fantastic of interior he's fantastic and we got together [47:18] and we have uh it's under construction right now i want to get it open before july 4th which will [47:24] easily be able to do it'll be open before that but easily be able to do july 4th being a very [47:30] special day and it is going to be beautiful beautiful blue color dark blue color uh it's very reflective [47:37] i put a thing out yesterday showing the reflection we did a little test we wanted to see it's unbelievable [47:42] it's like a mirror well it's like it's like a mirror it's beautiful and i saw there was guys out [47:47] there almost like are they hand painting it is that how they're doing yeah well they're fixing the stone [47:51] outside and they're sandblasting the stuff we're doing a much bigger job than we wanted to do but [47:57] think of it obama and biden spent over 100 million dollars and you know what they got nothing they [48:03] opened it up and it leaked like a sieve and they closed it and it stayed closed they've been working [48:08] on it for years i've been working on this for a couple of months when it's finished it's going to be [48:12] incredible but uh we have other fountains beautiful fountains they haven't worked in 30 years they're [48:19] just sitting there rotting and most of them are now open and right across the street i made a [48:25] donation and i'm building lafayette park and it's going to be beautiful i like her how much was the [48:33] donation how much was the donation about 10 million dollars are you happy with american flag blue well i put [48:39] up the american flag no the american blue i think so i mean i'll let you know uh i wanted a lighter [48:45] color blue the person that really knows this stuff said no dark is much better uh it you don't see the [48:51] leaves and you know you know things won't get in there but most importantly the dark reflects much [48:56] better well i think it's the strongest it's ever been you know you take a look at what happened in [49:07] louisiana two nights ago with a certain senator that was very disloyal to me and to the republican [49:12] party he got he's not even allowed to run for office we have another big race this guy massey [49:18] is terrible let's see what happens it's not easy beating incumbents but we have a great guy running [49:23] against massey massey's a terrible car i think the worst congressman the republican party's ever had [49:28] that'll be tonight that'll be good television and we'll see what happens there but i think maggot's never [49:33] been more together actually i'm going to be making an endorsement today uh in texas i'm going to be [49:39] putting out an endorsement in a little while in texas the great state you know i won texas all six [49:44] times meaning primaries and the race and i got the highest vote in the history of texas and i love texas [49:50] but i'm going to be making a uh endorsement at about 12 30 one o'clock today uh for the big race the [49:58] senate race in texas and uh i hope you find it good so i i do think i mean i appreciate the question [50:06] because even cnn they did a poll two three weeks ago they said trump is at 100 percent that's harry [50:14] endan i like harry endan you know he's got a lot of energy i like him but he did a poll and he's a good [50:19] pro and he gives the good and the bad but i think he's a he's an honorable guy because we get a lot of [50:25] good you know he predicted i was going to do great with the muslims in michigan and win michigan [50:31] and i did i did good and i won michigan by a lot he made a lot of good predictions but he did a poll [50:37] two weeks ago that said trump is i mean this is up you can check 100 percent popularity with mega mega [50:47] is most of the republican party the rhinos are gone to a large extent a few of them are still left so [50:54] hopefully we get rid of one tonight in the form of tom massey who's horrible but uh no it's it's [51:00] been amazing but i'll be making a statement in a little while as to uh who i'm endorsing in texas [51:06] for the senate and there are those that say whoever i endorse is going to win i don't know if that's [51:10] true but historically that's absolutely true i just don't like to say it because i don't like to brag [51:15] well i've i've had my mind made up for a long time but i just think it's i just think it's going to [51:24] be you know i just think it's appropriate mr president what is that president he told you [51:30] during your meeting that um perhaps russian president's black culture would grant uh invading [51:37] ukraine did he say that no he didn't no he never said that mr president you mentioned that the ballroom [51:42] is your gift to the country it's a gift it's a gift from me and from incredible successful [51:49] companies and patriots uh and they put up close to 400 million dollars and you see the uh you see [51:57] what's happening and it's beautiful and again it's ahead of schedule unlike the fed building think of it [52:02] this building at 400 million the fed building at 4 billion and it's a tiny little project by comparison [52:09] and you you spent a lot of time renovating the white house i do putting up the american flag this [52:17] flagpole on each side why was this so important to be part of your legacy well this is the most [52:24] important because number one security and number two was so needed just on a social basis for [52:30] presidents and again i'll be here for a very short period of time when this opens i'll be [52:34] here for a very short period of time this is really being built for other presidents it's not [52:39] being built for me and i'm a really good builder the thing i do best in life is build i'm a great [52:43] builder and i build beautiful product this this there will never be anything like this i always admired [52:49] the facade of the supreme court i said i wonder if that can be duplicated or bettered even not to [52:56] say better but even better and we've actually bettered it what we're doing is something that will [53:01] you'll never see it again mr president one more on iran if i may when you were having your discussions [53:06] with the uh regional partners the regional leaders did they express to you any concern about [53:13] iran's ability to still retaliate in sure they have a little ability their missiles their missiles are 82 [53:19] percent gone we estimate their capacity to build is very little right now because we hit you know we [53:25] hit all of their manufacturing areas same thing with drones largely gone but they still have a little [53:31] capacity yeah not much but they have a little their navy is completely gone their air force is [53:36] completely gone uh president xi has promised me that he's not sending any weapons to iran that's a [53:42] beautiful promise i i take him at his word i appreciated it we had an amazing time in china [53:50] you know look we got along very well before this but president xi and i had a really an amazing time [53:55] i think he'd say the same thing but he promised that he's not sending any weapons and you know if you [54:00] think about it he gets 40 of his oil he's not sending uh oil boats in you know tankers in with [54:07] 20 destroyers alongside of him no he wants it no he does want it open like me i want it open and we'll [54:14] get it open but iran has used the straits as a as a military weapon for 47 years really much more than [54:22] that and that's not their straight that's international waterways that's not for them to do and look they've [54:29] learned their lesson if i left today it would take them 25 years to rebuild but we're not leaving [54:35] we're going to do it right so that in five years 10 years if you have a bad president who doesn't [54:41] want to do what's right to do this should have been done by obama this should have been done by biden [54:47] it should have been done by other presidents long before me and everybody agrees to them they agree to [54:53] what's going on in iowa mr president yeah are there other initiatives well there may be it's very [55:00] temporary yeah yeah there may be anything to keep it down look as soon as this war is over gas is [55:06] going you know i had gasoline down to a dollar 85 cents in iowa i was in iowa and the stations added [55:13] it one dollar and 85 cents but i was down to in many cases less than two dollars a barrel a gallon and [55:21] then i said to myself this is great we just hit a new high in the stock market everything's going [55:27] good i'm sorry but we have to go down and take a little journey down to we have to do something [55:34] with rent we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon you want to see the world exploded you want to see [55:40] a problem and this is peanuts and i appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while [55:45] it won't be much longer but uh you're going to have and frankly there is so much oil out there [55:52] one of the things that is happening is these big ships are coming up to texas louisiana and alaska [55:57] and they're loading up but i don't even think about that what i think about is you can't let iran [56:03] have a nuclear weapon and they won't have a nuclear weapon and they fully understand it [56:06] mr president i once asked you how do you deal with the high [56:11] power and some time ago during your first time yeah success yeah success [56:18] based on that why do you continue to do what you do knowing that some of the people [56:22] are criticizing you every day to try to bring that success well you know you have some people disagree [56:29] with like the iran thing to me it's no question to me you have to have borders you have to have [56:34] walls and you have to let people in legally but you have to have borders some people think you [56:40] don't have borders you should let anybody murderers drug dealers you should let them in so there is [56:45] some but but i said to you once i remember it the greatest healer of our country when we had just [56:51] before covid we were so successful you know we had the best economy we've ever had in my first term [56:57] this term is going to blow it away i think and you see all the numbers even during the war [57:02] we have the highest stock market we've ever had i thought the market would go down 25 percent [57:07] and i was okay with that to get rid of a nuclear potential holocaust would have been a nuclear [57:14] holocaust so going down 25 is okay if you're going to get rid of a nuclear holocaust so uh most people [57:21] agree with me when when i'm with people and they let's say oh gee why do and i say here's the problem [57:27] is it okay for iran and they are very volatile people i'm being nice is it okay for iran to have [57:34] a nuclear weapon everybody says no i said then we have nothing further to discuss you know it's like [57:41] one of those things and they will never have a nuclear weapon not going to happen and probably [57:45] that's going to be very soon so one way or the other whether it's military or an agreement [57:50] uh they that'll start opening up very soon why don't you wait so long to wait for [57:55] the country because now both of their names are going to be on the ballot no no i waited uh i've [58:02] i've pretty much always known who i was going to endorse but uh i just thought this was a good time [58:07] you know the voting starting and i thought this was a good time i'm going to be doing that very [58:11] shortly have you put any thought into potentially endorsing someone to run against jb fritzker like [58:17] darren bailey or well i like darren bailey jb fritzker is a slob of a governor you know he could [58:23] call me and i'd send the national guard in chicago would have no crime look at washington dc did you [58:29] see the crime stats it's down to like nothing people go to restaurants now new restaurants restaurants [58:34] are all being closed in washington now they're building new restaurants it's a hot city we have a [58:39] beautiful city we have very little crime almost no crime and we could have the same thing in chicago [58:45] all he'd have to do is say president i don't want to have any crime in chicago can you help me within [58:52] three months chicago would be a different place what about the mayor brandon what can i say he's so [59:00] bad he's so good mr president you're going to law enforcement right who's done that and you made [59:08] a major announcement yesterday that was a big announcement got no coverage [59:12] uh i reduced drug prices by 50 60 70 80 and it gets no coverage i think it's maybe the other than [59:21] medical itself like a cure i think it's the biggest thing to happen in health care ever maybe i brought [59:27] the price we paid the highest price in the world now we're paying as of now we're paying the lowest price [59:34] in the world prices of drugs have gone down 70 80 90 percent for 28 years they never went down [59:41] within my administration i got it down one eighth of one percent that i thought it was great [59:46] the first time the only time in 28 years that it went down now i got them down 50 60 70 and even 80 [59:52] percent and that has a huge impact on health care listen go have breakfast have a good time [59:58] have breakfast enjoy your site you can shoot down there but those those the next time you come here [1:00:06] those columns will be standing even taller how long did it take to design the underneath like you said [1:00:11] kind of the military was like what was the architecture actually the underneath part's good [1:00:15] question it's far more complex than the upper because what you don't see are the floors that are [1:00:20] beneath beneath here and they have very very uh important rooms down there very the most important [1:00:27] this was the one opportunity for the military to do something you know they came normally i'd build a [1:00:33] ballroom on flat land i wouldn't have any of this whatever it would have been built i would have [1:00:38] very fast i'm a very fast builder we're way ahead of schedule here but we went down six stories so [1:00:46] it's actually far more complex than what the easy part is up but again we have a drone proof roof we have [1:00:52] all it's all sealed and all of this that you see is totally sealed and we use it as a drone port [1:00:58] we can have unlimited drones up there and drones are what's happening right now thank you over [1:01:04] our mouth thank you thank you thank you very much don't eat too much [1:01:13] we have uh tremendous amounts of military able to be on the top it'll be the highest point it'll be [1:01:20] actually higher than this building and close you know we have sites all over washington so that's [1:01:27] important but it will be it will be something very special so uh if you look up at the top you'll see [1:01:34] uh you'll see some interesting things and i'll show that to you in a second you want to grab that [1:01:38] please i'll show that to you in a second the um it's the facade of the building there will never be [1:01:47] another building like this built that i can tell i built a lot of great things but there will never [1:01:51] be anything like this built and what we have is the roof is dead flat with absolutely nothing but [1:01:58] strength on it it's very strong steel it's drone proof and it's meant for our military to be able to [1:02:04] stay on it you get a view of washington also uh for the drone building capacity uh some of that takes [1:02:12] place right down here you can see the uh very large uh piping and the other things and it's a very [1:02:18] complex building it's all knit together the roof goes with the ground floor the ground floor goes with [1:02:24] the roof the uh roof also goes down into the basement everything is connected intertwined uh elevators [1:02:32] heating air conditioning it's one building that's why we're trying to explain that this is one well knit [1:02:38] building one doesn't one thing doesn't work without the other uh very importantly though in terms of [1:02:45] the beauty uh probably the closest thing to this would be the u.s supreme court the facade of the [1:02:52] u.s supreme court so here's a couple of uh things you can look at [1:02:59] how are you all right there will never be another thing like this i don't believe built from a court [1:03:07] standpoint uh this is all my money and donors money this is tax-free so everyone's talking about [1:03:14] they're going to give money they're going to give money the money they're going to give is really for [1:03:18] the uh security of that and the whole white house premises and i guess you probably need that nowadays [1:03:25] we've done the fencing on the outside of the white house it's all titanium you see the black fencing [1:03:31] that's been just done recently and it was approved originally by me and it's been completed and it's [1:03:37] very powerful very powerful the tractor a bulldozer cannot knock it over it goes down deep and it's [1:03:44] titanium which is the strongest of all of the metals uh much stronger than steel as an example [1:03:50] the ballroom is all uh it's going to be a tremendous uh tremendous thing as an example what [1:03:56] happened a couple of weeks ago at the white house correspondent said it could not happen here uh one [1:04:01] thing that we have is we don't have people living above it we don't want that that's no good way [1:04:06] they have a thousand units above it with the elevator coming right down next to where the [1:04:11] convention or whatever it may be is so this is a room that's been wanted for 150 years by presidents [1:04:20] we have no room to have an event the only way you can have an event is if you build a tent on the [1:04:24] lawn and the tent would not do the job and by the way if it rains here because this is built on a [1:04:30] wetland the lawn is is impossible to deal with the water goes over everybody's shoes it literally goes [1:04:36] over the shoes so um and they've had a lot of catastrophes with the tent so we have this and if [1:04:44] you take a look at this section this is the different facade so this is a greek more or less it comes [1:04:54] out of greece this is the ultimate facade for greece this face is the treasury building this faces [1:05:02] this is a different facade that's rome and that faces the uh washington monument the lincoln memorial [1:05:10] etc so you have two facades primarily you have two entrances you have here you have here but the [1:05:16] primary entrance is through the white house directly through the white house and it's really something [1:05:22] i think you can see the complexity all of these columns go directly up to the roof and the roof [1:05:28] is a barrier it's a shield because it's made out of uh the side walls are steel impenetrable steel [1:05:36] and also impenetrable glass the glass is approximately four inches thick and yet it's amazing you can see [1:05:45] through it as though it didn't exist it's amazing and it can stop just about anything just about anything [1:05:53] on the other side of the glass we have steel and concrete so that the glass is uh very powerful [1:06:00] what's holding the glass is equally as powerful and that's here you can see they're just about ready to [1:06:06] go up to the top all of these columns they go directly right to the roof of the building and again we [1:06:12] call it a drone port it's set up for uh unlimited numbers of drones purposely we don't have any air [1:06:20] conditioning equipment up there because we don't want anything coming down through the pipes if [1:06:25] anybody gets normally you'd have a lot of air conditioning equipment on the roof we built it all [1:06:30] inside of the building inside the case of the building because we don't want to have anything [1:06:36] having to do with air or air quality or any problems playing with the air so you'll notice it's a dead [1:06:42] flat roof with no equipment on it all of the equipment is inside of the building and that's [1:06:50] for safety reasons normally you do a lot less expensive you do it a different way so all of [1:06:55] this was paid for by myself and because i keep hearing like i'm not we are making a gift of this [1:07:02] one this is a gift this is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer that we have a judge that thinks it's [1:07:07] a terrible thing that we're making a gift he said it's terrible that we're making a gift that should [1:07:12] be paid for by the taxpayer that's what i've never heard before i'm sure maybe i don't know maybe he [1:07:18] doesn't understand this is a gift to the united states of america and more than a gift it's going [1:07:25] to be one of the most beautiful buildings that's ever been built in the country or in washington dc [1:07:30] these great classical great classical buildings they're taken out of different parts of the world [1:07:41] from very glamorous times this is rome they like the flat roof greece likes the they call it the triangles [1:07:50] and you see that this is a porch that looks out over the city also it's developed in such a way that [1:07:59] we can have military there but the entire roof is developed for military they're very high they're [1:08:05] higher than just about anything else they have a 360 degree vision of washington dc [1:08:12] they have a massive drone capacity not only is it drone proof if a drone hits it it bounces off [1:08:19] it won't have any impact but uh it's also meant as a drone port so it protects all of washington the roof [1:08:27] of the buildings okay now uh does anybody have any questions if you want you can take [1:08:35] i think you can bring your camera but you might want to take a look at the complexity these are all [1:08:41] different rooms down here they're building a hospital they're building it's a military hospital they're [1:08:47] building a uh all sorts of research facilities also meeting rooms and rooms that go hand in hand for the [1:08:55] military using the ballroom and the ballroom is really a shield and protecting all of the things [1:09:02] that are built here this goes as you see it's already up to the ground this goes down very deep [1:09:09] you get a better view right over here this is down because we've already done these floors but these are [1:09:16] already down two floors that is down about six stories deep it's big stuff normally when you build a [1:09:23] ballroom you build it flat you just build a ballroom it would have been built the complexity of this [1:09:28] and again it's all knit it's all knit together between the drone proofing the missile proofing we [1:09:35] have uh and the drone capacity upstairs we can have all sorts of military up whether i hate to use the [1:09:41] word snipers but we have great sniper capacity it's built for our snipers not the enemy snipers our snipers [1:09:49] and because of the height we get a uh a very clear view of everything all over washington yeah [1:09:55] the president you mentioned that this became pay for uh out of pocket but why is congress and [1:10:00] hush they're playing for the difference well they're not the congress is approving yeah congress is [1:10:05] approving money for security uh it may go some of it may go here for additional security i don't know [1:10:11] but uh congress is approving money but this building i mean i put i put up the money built this building [1:10:17] along with a lot of great patriots people have put up a lot of money to build the building and we [1:10:23] have a building that is going to be i think it's going to be potentially the most beautiful building [1:10:29] in all of washington and with that is great military capacity we're building it in conjunction [1:10:36] with the united states military and the secret service [1:10:38] well they have a budget in secret service and the military to do some of the work that you see [1:10:48] right here so the answer is i think they want to enhance what you see uh it's it's very powerful you [1:10:55] see what's happening it's very powerful concrete it's 9 000 pound concrete that if you know anything [1:11:01] about contract that's very very strong that's very strong concrete but they probably want to enhance [1:11:08] the area they're going to spend money uh this is a very sacred piece of land this is the white house [1:11:14] and they want to do things but uh all of everything that you see and the money that's being put up to [1:11:20] build the ballroom and again the ballroom it's necessary for the ballroom to be built with what you see [1:11:28] over here it's all knit in the air conditioning the heating the drone capacity the shield you know [1:11:36] the ballroom becomes a shield for everything that you see right here without that they couldn't have [1:11:41] this they couldn't build the lower floors without that shield over the top of it it's a shield that [1:11:46] will totally protect what's downstairs they have a lot of things going on downstairs and some of it you [1:11:52] see this goes down six stories you see three stories because it's already been built [1:11:58] this will be very shortly this will be uh in the form of uh this the roof goes along these lines [1:12:06] basically it goes outside you see where the the wood is you're going outside of that line and then [1:12:13] it goes straight up and it's all protection and everything's together you can't build one without [1:12:20] the other and what we have is we have the safest building ever built in my opinion you can have [1:12:29] and you know the other thing is when we're right on budget we're right on plan uh the only budget [1:12:36] change would be that we doubled the size at the request of the military we doubled the size [1:12:41] but we're right on budget right on plan and uh originally we're going to build a much smaller [1:12:46] room and it wouldn't have done the job it just wouldn't have done the job you have too many [1:12:49] events like if we have president and she coming here we have no place to put them we had the king [1:12:55] and the queen the other day and we had a thousand people wanted and we had we ended up having a hundred [1:13:01] people sitting in a very small room so they've been after this for a long time but maybe more [1:13:07] important is the safety element this is a shield that protects everything that's inside everything that's [1:13:12] on top and you know obviously the white house was built in 1792 uh yeah it's awfully hard to [1:13:22] it's awfully hard to do that kind of a capacity that we did here so this will give future presence [1:13:28] but you have to understand when this is finished my term ends shortly after that this is really for [1:13:35] other presidents this is not for me this is my gift to the united states of america i'm going to be [1:13:41] able to use it very little because when it's finished we're talking about six or seven months [1:13:46] but we'll be used for hopefully hundreds of years for other parents presidents and there will never be [1:13:52] anything like this built again there'll never be a room built like with the safety as an example [1:13:58] if we had the white house correspondents dinner here would have been no problem [1:14:04] i have i have i better not tell you about that daniel but yeah we have everybody wants to be here for [1:14:18] the first event we're talking about heads of nation so we have some very special places that it could [1:14:26] happen you know we have we had literally the king and queen where you know we had this finished we [1:14:35] would have had a event that would have been 10 times i mean we literally were in a little room in [1:14:41] the white house president now now we're not even talking about safety presidents have been asking for [1:14:47] this literally from the time the white house has been built but on record for 150 years they've said what [1:14:54] about a big room and you all know you probably attended they have some where they use tents if it [1:14:59] rains it's a disaster [1:15:11] we have to have a safe country we have to have a great country we have to make sure that iran doesn't [1:15:15] get a nuclear weapon all of the things that you see me fighting for so hard and it's always tough you [1:15:21] know we're negotiating with iran and then you have the democrats i call them the democrats [1:15:26] putting in a bill that trump should immediately stop you know how it is to negotiate with a country [1:15:31] where you're beating them badly they come to the table they're begging to make a deal because [1:15:36] they're begging to make a deal i hope we don't have to do the war but we may have to give them [1:15:40] another big hit we may have to give them another big hit i'm not sure yet uh you'll know very soon but [1:15:47] how do you feel when you're negotiating you're winning every point and they say but in washington they want [1:15:53] to stop you from negotiating they want to stop you and it's only political it's the democrats they're [1:16:01] dumb it's a new name it's a very accurate name so i'm in the middle of a negotiation i'm saying you [1:16:07] cannot have a nuclear weapon and it comes over the wire that the democrats want to stop trump from further [1:16:14] negotiations they want to stop trump from if he has to giving them another slap they want to have a [1:16:21] nuclear weapon to blow up the middle east and to blow up frankly the world it's not going to happen [1:16:27] nice to see you by the way how close were you striking around uh i was i was i was an hour away [1:16:37] we're all set to go you're talking about yesterday yes we were going to be striking very it would have [1:16:41] been happening right now yeah it was all done right the boats the ships are all loaded they're loaded to [1:16:47] the brim and we're all set to start they said that they feel they've had for the first time in almost [1:16:58] 47 years you know iran's been the bully of the middle east for 47 years i mean literally the bully [1:17:04] of the middle east and uh they're nasty very nasty very dangerous they wanted a nuclear weapon had i not [1:17:11] terminated barack hussein obama's iran nuclear deal had i not terminated it see that's the wind that [1:17:18] can't happen with the real structure mr president on cuba what do you want to see from cuba's [1:17:24] security up here cuba well we're going to see look cuba's calling us they need help look cuba is a [1:17:33] failed nation cuba needs help and we'll do that just hold them though it's like an exercise game for [1:17:42] give that to me i'll hold it so beautiful see i look so thin they'll say oh it's gotten so thin [1:17:52] because i'm holding this you don't have to look at my waist you can look at this you saw enough of [1:17:57] my waist along with president chi with cuba i think so yeah i think so we are i am very prone toward the [1:18:08] cuban americans they've been incredible people many of them have lost family members they've been [1:18:13] very badly hurt themselves they've been in prison they've come to this country they've been very [1:18:18] successful the cuban american people in miami i mean they are amazing people most of them are in miami [1:18:24] in florida but mostly in miami i'm very very prone to helping them i mean that's they've been i think i got [1:18:31] 97 of that vote uh i want to help them now they have family members in cuba they've been treated [1:18:38] very very badly they've been treated extremely badly and uh we're going to get that solved that's not [1:18:43] going to be hard for us to solve you can do that without well i don't know about changing the regime [1:18:50] i can do that whether you change your regime or not you know it's been a rough regime they've [1:18:55] they've killed a lot of people but uh it's it's a country that really needs help it has nothing they [1:19:01] they can't turn on the lights they can't eat we don't want to see that how much notice did the gulf [1:19:08] nations have uh how much notice did the gulf nations have that you were going to do these strikes before [1:19:13] they asked you to pause uh because we have them negotiating with us and negotiating with us and [1:19:22] primarily saudi arabia qatar uae kuwait a little bit and bahrain and some of the others and we have them [1:19:32] negotiating with them we're all working together it's like a team and israel of course and israel's [1:19:36] been a great partner and so we are negotiating together i got a call from numerous of these [1:19:43] people they know the people in iran don't forget when you talk about regime change i think it's the [1:19:49] ultimate regime change because the first level and the second level are no longer with us there's [1:19:54] some place but they're no longer with us so uh we have real regime change but i got a call yesterday [1:20:01] sir could you wait we think we're close to a deal and that's okay now i've heard it before with these [1:20:07] people they changed their mind i made deals with them no nuclear we immediately get the nuclear dust [1:20:13] and they said you're the only one can get it because the bombers did such an unbelievable job [1:20:18] that the mountain literally collapsed on top of it they said us and they thought china would be the [1:20:24] only two countries that could even get it but i think it's important to get it maybe psychologically more [1:20:29] than anything else how long did they know that you were playing the goldfield uh they knew i was [1:20:37] getting ready to attack i didn't tell them i'd never tell anybody when you're in constant contact [1:20:41] i never tell anybody when but but they knew that we were very close i would say we were i was an [1:20:47] hour away from making the decision to go today and we would probably not be talking about a beautiful [1:20:55] ballroom today we'd be talking about that and uh no i we were i had made the decision so they called [1:21:02] up they had heard i made the decision they said sir could you give us a couple of more days because we [1:21:07] think they're being reasonable well i mean i'm saying two or three days maybe friday saturday sunday [1:21:16] something maybe early next week a limited period of time because we can't let them have a new nuclear [1:21:22] weapon if they had a nuclear weapon they would start with israel they would blow it up and they [1:21:29] would blow it up fast but they'd blow it up and i'll tell you what they go after saudi arabia they go [1:21:35] after kuwait they go after uae they go after qatar they go after i think they go after the entire middle [1:21:45] east and it would be a whole different negotiation it would not be it would be it would be nuclear [1:21:50] holocaust and there's no question in my mind that they use it there's no question and i deal with [1:21:57] these people they're extremely radicalized these are not people like when i deal with you you're a [1:22:04] very nice guy these are people that are seriously radicalized they would use it the only question [1:22:11] would it be the first minute the first hour or the first day [1:22:15] i'm not doing this politically i'm just look everyone tells me it's unpopular but i think it's [1:22:27] very popular when you when they hear that it's having to do with nuclear weapons weapons that could [1:22:33] take out los angeles could take out major cities very quick when they hear that you know when they're [1:22:40] explaining i'll tell you what when we explain it to people i don't really have enough time to [1:22:45] explain to people i'm too busy getting it done when they understand i think it's a very i think [1:22:51] it's frankly very popular but whether it's popular or not popular i have to do it because i'm not going [1:22:57] to let the world be blown up on my watch it's not going to happen yeah uh thomas massey's a terrible [1:23:10] congressman he's been a terrible congressman from day one uh dealing with him is just a horrible [1:23:16] i don't think he's a republican i think he's actually i think he's actually a democrat he's not [1:23:21] a libertarian you know sometimes they say he's really a democrat he votes against us all the time [1:23:27] he voted against the border wall he voted against uh men playing in women's sports he voted against [1:23:34] transgender for everybody the mutualization of your children he voted against uh again open borders [1:23:41] we have the best border we've ever had right now nobody's coming in i mean a report just came out [1:23:46] in the last 11 months literally nobody has been allowed into our country illegally we're taking people [1:23:52] legally they go through a process but nobody's coming to our country but we've taken out hundreds [1:23:58] of thousands of thousands of people we had uh ten thousand it was ten thousand eight hundred eleven [1:24:04] thousand eight hundred and eighty eight murders many of these murders allowed into our country from [1:24:10] prisons they were in prisons many of these people killed more than one more than fifty percent killed [1:24:16] more than one person this was gross malfeasance this was on behalf of the biden admitted i don't know [1:24:23] biden because i don't think he knew he was alive but she kamala was the border czar she never called [1:24:29] not one time she never called the border patrol she never called ice she never called law enforcement [1:24:36] she never went to the border think of it i used to call every single day and that's recently now i call [1:24:43] less we have nobody coming through we have we had caravans coming through with tens of thousands of people [1:24:49] pouring into our country we had no idea who they were we would have been i'll tell you what [1:24:55] that would our country would have been destroyed if they won this election our country would have [1:24:59] been we have now the hottest country anywhere in the world if they had won the election our country [1:25:05] would have been destroyed our country was a dead country two years ago and now we have really the [1:25:10] hottest country in the world and uh this is the ballroom and it's going to be something incredible [1:25:15] you see the quality of it and they go right those columns go right into the roof and on top of the [1:25:21] roof we're going to have the greatest drone empire that you've ever seen and it's going to protect [1:25:26] washington thank you all very much we have a little breakfast for you really yeah where is the [1:25:32] breakfast i'd have it where is it oh it's right over there we have a little bit of a breakfast for [1:25:39] yeah i figured i'd be nice to you for a chance [1:25:41] we dedicate you to thousands of people gathered there that's great yeah [1:25:46] yeah i did [1:25:49] scripture [1:25:56] well i think that it was great thousands of people showed up and it was a beautiful [1:26:00] everything beautiful day uh i did i did scripture you think it's easy to read scripture it's not easy [1:26:06] it's not easy to read scripture that's a whole different ball game that's not like reading a [1:26:10] speech uh we will build the wall this is a whole different deal but i did it proudly and uh i guess [1:26:18] it was broadcast we had tremendous class i think religion is very important for a country i think [1:26:23] having really this country was was built largely on religion if you look it was built so and when you [1:26:31] have strong religion you have less crime it's just a fact you know whatever it may be it's like gee i [1:26:37] want to go to heaven so i'm not going to do this or that who knows but we have a country that was based [1:26:42] on religion and i'm very proud of that and if you look and you see all of the polling i mean polling is [1:26:49] so fake but this is not fake religion is really going up in the last year and during the time i mean [1:26:57] really during the time i first got elected in 2016 it's a much different thing i'm very proud of that [1:27:03] uh religion is a good thing christianity it's a great thing for our country i mean so many of our [1:27:10] the things that we we've done the successes that we've had have been based on christianity and [1:27:16] religion so i'm very proud of that uh religion is taking off like our country has taken off our [1:27:22] country's hotter now than it's ever been and i'll tell you religion is making a tremendous [1:27:27] comeback you look at churches today they're full you go back two three years nobody was going so [1:27:33] we're very happy yeah yeah no i'm always concerned i see things happening look from the beginning of [1:27:44] mankind you've had that you've had the good and you have the bad i'd like to get rid of the bad but [1:27:49] somehow that's going to be there but the good has been many times what it was really many times what [1:27:55] it was if congress is not going for this one billion dollars for your security funding would you be [1:28:00] willing or would you willing to go to your donors to ask for that money well this is money for the [1:28:05] whole premises including the the east wing this is the east wing section but the ballroom is as you [1:28:12] see it's going up it's ahead of schedule it's uh it's larger because they wanted more military [1:28:19] capacity they wanted more drone capacity they needed a larger roof and frankly we needed a [1:28:25] larger facility and so we're doing that and we've done this in strict coordination with the military [1:28:31] and with the secret service and they've been great to work with uh the money that they're talking about [1:28:35] is the surrounding areas and maybe enhancing some security aspects of the building but the building [1:28:41] the building as you see it's a very active site and a lot of people are amazed and by the way that [1:28:47] floor goes down three floors just so you understand you're seeing the almost the top floor that floor [1:28:53] goes down three floors and there are many things in there having to do with security and many of [1:28:58] those things are going to be taken from there and put onto the roof of the building and that has to do [1:29:04] with drone and missile capacity a lot of the president have done renovations to the white house to all [1:29:09] these things why do you think people are so mad about your renovations though because i'm doing it [1:29:14] the meridian hill park you got the water flowing again all of it and and they just seem to hate [1:29:19] you well it's a sad thing actually you know you just and it's very nice i appreciate the question [1:29:25] first i said oh this is going to be a negative question then i heard uh she's really saying why [1:29:29] do they hate you for fixing the water fountains so you know we have we have 40 i know i want because [1:29:36] i want to see washington to be beautiful to me it's very important but as an example you mentioned the [1:29:40] water fountain we didn't have one water fountain i think we have 40 we didn't have one in washington [1:29:46] that worked and soon they'll all be working many of them work right now and the uh the i think one [1:29:52] of the best things uh obama president obama president biden spent much more than a hundred million [1:29:58] dollars on the reflecting lake between the lincoln memorial and the washington monument they spent much [1:30:06] more they spent some people say 200 million you know what they got out of it a closed lake it never [1:30:12] opened and when it did it shut right away it leaked it was a disaster i'm doing a job on the reflecting [1:30:18] lake for a fraction of what they paid now i've upgraded it very i got so into it i've upgraded it [1:30:26] like you wouldn't believe i'm doing all the walkways outside i you know i'm doing the i'm doing it properly [1:30:31] but it's a much bigger job but you see it's happening now it's going to be beautiful it's going to be [1:30:36] waterproof it's going to be reflecting again uh i took over a dirty filthy thing that wasn't open [1:30:43] and it was disgusting and friends of mine would come to the lincoln or the washington and they'd say [1:30:49] sir it's disgusting i said what's disgusting they're reflecting like so i drove down i looked with with [1:30:55] secretary bergham who's fantastic of interior he's fantastic and we got together and we have uh it's [1:31:02] under construction right now i want to get it open before july 4th which we'll easily be able to do [1:31:07] it'll be open before that but easily be able to do the july 4th being a very special day and it is [1:31:14] going to be beautiful beautiful blue color dark blue color uh it's very reflective i put a thing out [1:31:20] yesterday showing the reflection we did a little test we wanted to see it's unbelievable it's like a [1:31:24] mirror well it's like it's like a mirror it's beautiful and i saw there was guys out there [1:31:29] almost like are they hand painting it is that how they're doing yeah well they're fixing the stone [1:31:34] outside and they're sandblasting the stuff we're doing a much bigger job than we wanted to do [1:31:39] think of it obama and biden spent over a hundred million dollars and you know what they got nothing [1:31:45] they opened it up and it leaked like a sieve and they closed it and it stayed closed they've been [1:31:50] working on it for years i've been working on this for a couple of months when it's finished it's [1:31:54] going to be incredible but uh we have other fountains beautiful fountains they haven't worked in 30 [1:32:00] years they're just sitting there rotting and most of them are now open and right across the street i [1:32:06] made a donation and i'm building lafayette park and it's going to be beautiful i like her how much was [1:32:15] the donation how much was the donation about ten million dollars are you happy with american flag [1:32:19] blue well i put up the american flag no the american blue i think so i mean i'll let you know uh i [1:32:26] wanted a lighter color blue the person that really knows this stuff said no dark is much better uh it [1:32:32] you don't see the leaves and you know you know things will get in there but most importantly the [1:32:37] dark reflects much better mr president why does the establishment media claiming so desperately that mag is [1:32:43] divided well i think it's the strongest it's ever been you know you take a look at what happened in [1:32:49] louisiana two nights ago with a certain senator that was very disloyal to me and to the republican [1:32:54] party he got he's not even allowed to run for office we have another big race this guy massey is [1:33:00] terrible let's see what happens it's not easy beating incumbents but we have a great guy running [1:33:05] against massey massey's a terrible car i think the worst congressman the republican party's ever had [1:33:10] that'll be tonight that'll be good television and we'll see what happens there but i think maggot's [1:33:15] never been more together actually i'm going to be making an endorsement today uh in texas i'm going [1:33:21] to be putting out an endorsement in a little while in texas the great state you know i won texas all six [1:33:26] times meaning primaries and the race and i got the highest vote in the history of texas and i love texas but [1:33:33] i'm going to be making a uh endorsement at about 12 30 1 o'clock today uh for the big race the senate [1:33:41] race in texas and uh i hope you find it good so i i do think i i mean i appreciate the question because [1:33:50] even cnn they did a poll two three weeks ago they said trump is at 100 percent that's harry endon i like [1:33:57] harry endon you know he's got a lot of energy i like him but he did a poll and he's a good pro and he gives the [1:34:03] good in the bad but i think he's a he's an honorable guy because he got a lot of good you know he [1:34:08] predicted i was going to do great with the muslims in michigan and win michigan and i did i did good [1:34:14] and i won michigan by a lot he made a lot of good predictions but he did a poll two weeks ago that [1:34:20] said trump is i mean this is up you can check 100 popularity with mega mega is most of the republican [1:34:31] party the rhinos are gone to a large extent a few of them are still left so hopefully we get rid of [1:34:37] one tonight in the form of tom massey who's horrible but uh no it's it's been amazing but i'll be making [1:34:44] a statement in a little while as to uh who i'm endorsing in texas for the senate and there are [1:34:50] those that say whoever i endorse is going to win i don't know if that's true but historically that's [1:34:54] absolutely true i just don't like to say it because i don't like to brag well i've had my [1:35:02] mind made up for a long time but i just think it's i just think it's going to be you know i just think [1:35:08] it's appropriate mr president you mentioned that the fall world was your gift it's a gift it's a [1:35:27] gift from me and from incredible successful companies and patriots uh and they put up close [1:35:34] to 400 million dollars and you see the uh you see what's happening and it's beautiful and again [1:35:41] it's ahead of schedule unlike the fed building think of it this building at 400 million the fed [1:35:47] building at 4 billion and it's a tiny little project by comparison and you you spent a lot of time [1:35:54] renovating the white house the road starting the power i do putting up the american flag there's [1:35:59] flagpole on each side why was this so important to be part of your legacy well this is the most [1:36:06] important because number one security and number two was so needed just on a social basis for [1:36:12] presidents and again i'll be here for a very short period of time when this opens i'll be here for a [1:36:17] very short period of time this is really being built for other presidents it's not being built for me and [1:36:22] i'm a really good builder the thing i do best in life is build i'm a great builder and i build beautiful [1:36:27] product this this there will never be anything like this i always admired the facade of the [1:36:33] supreme court i said i wonder if that can be duplicated or bettered even not to say better but [1:36:39] even better and we've actually bettered it what we're doing is something that will you'll never see [1:36:44] it again mr president one more on iran if i may when you were having your discussions with the uh [1:36:49] regional partners the regional leaders did they express to you any concern about iran's ability to [1:36:56] still retaliate sure they have a little ability their missiles their missiles are 82 percent gone [1:37:02] we estimate their capacity to build is very little right now because we hit you know we hit all of [1:37:08] their manufacturing areas same thing with drones largely gone but they still have a little capacity [1:37:14] yeah not much but they have a little their navy is completely gone their air force is completely gone [1:37:19] president she has promised me that he's not sending any weapons to iran that's a beautiful promise [1:37:26] i i take him at his word i appreciated it we had an amazing time in china uh you know look we got [1:37:33] along very well before this but president xi and i had a really an amazing time i think he'd say the [1:37:38] same thing but he promised that he's not sending any weapons and you know if you think about it he gets [1:37:43] forty percent of his oil he's not sending uh oil boats in you know tankers in with 20 destroyers [1:37:51] alongside of it no he wants it no he does want it open like me i want it open and we'll get it open [1:37:57] but iran has used the straits as a as a military weapon for 47 years really much more than that [1:38:04] and that's not their straight that's international waterways that's not for them to do and look they've [1:38:11] learned their lesson if i left today it would take them 25 years to rebuild but we're not leaving [1:38:17] we're going to do it right so that in five years ten years if you have a bad president who doesn't [1:38:23] want to do what's right to do this should have been done by obama this should have been done by [1:38:28] biden it should have been done by other presidents long before me and everybody agrees to them they [1:38:34] agree to it yeah are there other initiatives that you're well there may be it's very temporary yeah [1:38:43] yeah there may be anything to keep it down look as soon as this war is over gas is going you know [1:38:48] i had gasoline down to a dollar 85 cents in iowa i was in iowa and the stations had it at one dollar [1:38:56] and 85 cents but i was down to in many cases less than two dollars a barrel a gallon and then i said to [1:39:04] myself this is great we just hit a new high in the stock market everything's going good i'm sorry but [1:39:10] we have to go down and take a little journey down to we have to do something with rent we cannot let [1:39:17] them have a nuclear weapon you want to see the world exploded you want to see a problem and this [1:39:23] is peanuts and i appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while it won't be much longer [1:39:29] but uh you're gonna have and frankly there is so much oil out there one of the things that is [1:39:35] happening is these big ships are coming up to texas louisiana and alaska and they're loading up [1:39:41] but i don't even think about that what i think about is you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon and [1:39:46] they won't have a nuclear weapon and they fully understand it [1:39:48] mr president i have once asked you how do you deal [1:39:54] some time ago during your first time yeah yeah success [1:40:00] based on that why do you continue to do what you do knowing that some of the people are criticizing [1:40:05] you know you have some people disagree with like the iran thing and to me it's no question [1:40:14] to me you have to have borders you have to have walls and you have to let people in legally but [1:40:19] you have to have borders uh some people think you don't have borders you should let anybody [1:40:23] murderers drug dealers you should let them in so there is some but i said to you once i remember it [1:40:30] the greatest healer of our country when we had just before covet we were so successful you know [1:40:36] we had the best economy we've ever had in my first term this term is going to blow it away i think and [1:40:41] you see all the numbers even during the war we have the highest stock market we've ever had i thought [1:40:47] the market would go down 25 percent and i was okay with that to get rid of a nuclear potential holocaust [1:40:55] would have been a nuclear holocaust so going down 25 is okay if you're going to get rid of a nuclear [1:41:00] holocaust so uh most people agree with me when when i'm with people and they let's say oh gee why do [1:41:07] and i say here's the problem is it okay for iran and they are very volatile people i'm being nice [1:41:14] is it okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon everybody says no i said then we have nothing further [1:41:21] to discuss you know it's like one of those things and they will never have a nuclear weapon not going to [1:41:26] happen and probably that's going to be very soon so one way or the other whether it's a military or [1:41:31] an agreement uh they that'll start opening up very soon why don't you wait so long to wait for [1:41:37] the country such as that now both of their names are going to be on no no i've waited uh i've i've [1:41:44] pretty much always known who i was going to endorse but uh i just thought this was a good time [1:41:49] you know the voting's starting and i thought this was a good time i'm going to be doing that very shortly [1:41:53] mr president have you put any thought into potentially endorsing someone to run against [1:41:59] jb pritzker like darren bailey or well i like darren bailey jb pritzker is a slob of a governor [1:42:04] you know he could call me and i'd send the national guard in chicago would have no crime [1:42:09] look at washington dc did you see the crime stats it's down to like nothing people go to restaurants [1:42:14] now new restaurants restaurants are all being closed in washington now they're building new [1:42:18] restaurants it's a hot city we have a beautiful city we have very little crime almost no crime [1:42:25] and we could have the same thing in chicago all he'd have to do is say president i don't want to [1:42:31] have any crime in chicago can you help me within three months chicago would be a different place [1:42:37] what about the mayor brandon what can i say he's so bad he's so good mr president you're going to [1:42:45] law enforcement i talked about making healthcare more affordable right who's done that and you made [1:42:51] a major announcement yesterday that was a big announcement got no coverage i reduced drug prices [1:42:56] by 50 60 70 80 and it gets no coverage i think it's maybe the other than medical itself like a cure [1:43:05] i think it's the biggest thing to happen in healthcare ever maybe i brought the price we paid [1:43:10] the highest price in the world now we're paying as of now we're paying the lowest price in the world [1:43:17] prices of drugs have gone down 70 80 90 percent for 28 years they never went down [1:43:23] within my administration i got it down one eighth of one percent that i thought it was great [1:43:28] the first time the only time in 28 years that it went down now i got them down 50 60 70 and even 80 [1:43:34] percent and that has a huge impact on healthcare listen go have breakfast have a good time have [1:43:41] breakfast enjoy your sight you can shoot down there but those those the next time you come here those [1:43:48] columns will be standing even taller how long did it take to design the underneath like you said kind [1:43:53] of the military was like what was the architecture actually the underneath part's good question it's [1:43:58] far more complex than the upper because what you don't see are the floors that are beneath beneath [1:44:03] here and they have very very uh important rooms down there very the most important this was the [1:44:10] one opportunity for the military to do something you know they came normally i'd build a ballroom on [1:44:16] flat land i wouldn't have any of this whatever it would have been built i would not very fast i'm a very [1:44:21] fast builder uh we're way ahead of schedule here but we went down six stories so it's actually far more [1:44:29] complex than what the easy part is up but again we have a drone proof roof we have all it's all [1:44:35] sealed and all of this that you see is totally sealed and we use it as a drone port we can have [1:44:41] unlimited drones up there and drones are what's happening right now thank you all very much thank you [1:44:47] thank you very much don't eat too much we have tremendous amounts of military able to be on the [1:45:00] top it'll be the highest point it'll be actually higher than us building up long sites all over [1:45:08] washington so that's important but it will be it will be something very special so uh if you look up at the [1:45:15] top you'll see uh you'll see some interesting things and i'll show that to you in a second you [1:45:20] want to grab that please i'll show that to you in a second the uh it's the facade of the building [1:45:28] there will never be another building like this built that i can tell i built a lot of great things [1:45:33] but there will never be anything like this built and what we have is the roof is dead flat with [1:45:38] absolutely nothing but strength on it it's very strong steel it's drone proof and it's meant for our [1:45:45] military to be able to stay on it you get a view of washington also uh for the drone building [1:45:51] capacity uh some of that takes place right down here you can see the uh very large uh piping and [1:45:59] the other things and it's a very complex building it's all knit together the roof goes with the ground [1:46:04] floor the ground floor goes with the roof the uh roof also goes down into the basement everything is [1:46:11] connected intertwined uh elevators heating air conditioning it's one building that's why we're [1:46:17] trying to explain that this is one well-knit building one doesn't one thing doesn't work without [1:46:24] the other uh very importantly though in terms of the beauty uh probably the closest thing to this would be [1:46:31] the u.s supreme court the facade of the u.s supreme court so here's a couple of uh things you can look at [1:46:38] uh how are you all right there will never be another thing like this i don't believe built [1:46:48] from a court standpoint uh this is all my money and donors money this is tax free [1:46:55] so everyone's talking about they're going to give money they're going to give money [1:46:58] the money they're going to give is really for the uh security of that and the whole white house [1:47:04] premises and i guess you probably need that nowadays uh we've done the fencing on the outside of the [1:47:09] white house it's all titanium you see the black fencing that's been just done recently and it was [1:47:16] approved originally by me and it's been completed and it's very powerful very powerful the tractor [1:47:22] a bulldozer cannot knock it over it goes down deep and it's titanium which is the strongest of all of the [1:47:28] metals uh much stronger than steel as an example the ballroom is all uh it's going to be a tremendous [1:47:36] tremendous thing as an example what happened a couple of weeks ago at the white house correspondent [1:47:41] said it could not happen here one thing that we have is we don't have people living above it [1:47:46] we don't want that that's no good way they have a thousand units above it with the elevator coming [1:47:51] right down next to where the convention or whatever it may be is so this is a room that's been wanted for [1:48:00] 150 years by presidents we have no room to have an event the only way you can have an event is if you [1:48:05] build a tent on the lawn and the tent would not do the job and by the way if it rains here because [1:48:11] this is built on a wetland the lawn is is impossible to deal with the water goes over everybody's shoes [1:48:18] it literally goes over the shoes so um and they've had a lot of catastrophes with the tent so we have this [1:48:25] and if you take a look at this section this is the different facade so this is a greek more or less it [1:48:36] comes out of greece this is the ultimate facade for greece this faces the treasury building this [1:48:44] faces this is a different facade that's rome and that faces the uh washington monument the lincoln [1:48:51] memorial etc so you have two facades primarily you have two entrances you have here you have here [1:48:58] but the primary entrance is through the white house directly through the white house and it's really [1:49:03] something i think you can see the complexity all of these columns go directly up to the roof and the [1:49:10] roof is a barrier it's a shield because it's made out of the side walls are steel impenetrable steel and [1:49:18] also impenetrable glass the glass is approximately four inches thick and yet it's amazing you can see [1:49:27] through it as though it didn't exist it's amazing and it can stop just about anything just about [1:49:34] anything on the other side of the glass we have steel and concrete so that the glass is uh very [1:49:41] powerful what's holding the glass is equally as powerful and that's here you can see they're just [1:49:48] about ready to go up to the top all of these columns they go directly right to the roof of the building [1:49:53] and again we call it a drone port it's set up for uh unlimited numbers of drones purposely we don't [1:50:01] have any air conditioning equipment up there because we don't want anything coming down through the pipes [1:50:07] if anybody gets normally you'd have a lot of air conditioning equipment on the roof we built it all [1:50:12] inside the building inside the case of the building because we don't want to have anything having to do [1:50:18] with air or air quality or any problems playing with the air so you'll notice it's a dead flat roof [1:50:25] with no equipment on it all of the equipment is inside of the building and that's for safety reasons [1:50:33] normally you do a lot less expensive you do it a different way so all of this was paid for by myself [1:50:40] and because i keep hearing like i'm not we are making a gift of this one this is a gift this is not going [1:50:46] to be paid for by the taxpayer that we have a judge that thinks it's a terrible thing that we're making [1:50:51] a gift he said it's terrible that we're making a gift that should be paid for by the taxpayer [1:50:56] that's what i've never heard before but i'm sure maybe i don't know maybe he doesn't understand [1:51:01] this is a gift to the united states working mom ho na job ke saath sabka dihan rakhna patta [1:51:07] bachchon ko spune ke liye ready karo husband ko