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(00:01) you saw last week where we have somebody who’s going to go from 100 to $200 billion do and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sun Bel area and also to keep
(00:33) America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and who’s saying I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when
(01:10) he was elected in November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we’re very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this
(01:49) moment and we’re planning to invest 20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion and that Center catering for the AI and Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so Hussein we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a
(02:29) billion dollars in the unit United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guarantee it we’re going to move them quickly through
(02:57) the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review and one week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it and they were going nowhere was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that
(03:32) comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to
(04:07) rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people Millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a
(04:39) horrible Place one of the things we’re going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honors counts and they get done by 10 o’cl in the evening or something up thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drill uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations and the energy costs
(05:11) are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending on the green news scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green news
(05:37) scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes cuz I got the the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but
(06:12) they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen before so many I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged IND idual I guess he’s on his way back to the he and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing
(06:40) wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won him by a lot that tells you we won that house and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of
(07:13) votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York who’s a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m going do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America I’m a former very successful President we had the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m
(07:43) going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving
(08:20) billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Alban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw
(08:56) that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but but we know what we’re doing now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis says you know we we’re in no Wars I just finished a couple and we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers that would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one five or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a
(09:27) general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took him out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize that’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of
(10:04) an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people can say we manufacture we don’t manufacture thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the the world we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m
(10:46) going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in and they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you cuz I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now
(11:10) because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the justice department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were suping people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this
(11:42) country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t even know if it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect because you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his purple robe and he
(12:14) executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was a brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and
(12:48) prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the uh judge in Florida judge Cannon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and
(13:20) very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against so they say we’re going to have a smooth transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially Landmark it so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be
(13:47) doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but remember when when and just to get off the subject cuz I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 4 to 50 trillion dollar that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s thrown it away he’s thrown it away he’s H taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35
(14:23) trillion he’s taken $50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we
(14:57) don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai well we need more and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re
(15:28) much better they work much better they look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy there’s something wrong with them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no
(15:59) water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your
(16:29) dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the econ around very quickly because right now we
(17:02) have when I think of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the $200 billion dollar I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making a 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200
(17:34) right Brian dollars United States creating more than a 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month
(18:04) small business optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am
(18:35) I doing here they go in and they invest money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they’re investing in the United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things were being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for
(19:07) $1 and they were supposed to treat us well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a tril substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malaria mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know
(19:44) they have to treat us fairly they don’t treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but when not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and
(20:18) they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both ends of the Panama Canal China is running the Panama Canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either because that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of
(20:49) money China One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get
(21:23) nothing those days are over working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes that a pce the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy in history we had the we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four
(21:59) years and we were just getting started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion do a year plus other things they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military we they rely on our mil military it’s it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one
(22:37) of them is the great one Wayne Gretzky I said run for prime minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for a prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really in trouble a lot of trouble very
(23:10) dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be Chang sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s
(23:46) appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on in Mexico and Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs then we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got to it takes two to
(24:21) tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural res ources we have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made us number one we’re number three I made us number one in uh in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what
(24:55) happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive Ive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200
(25:23) windmills that people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without subsid you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive towers and they have 25 stories tall 40 stories they have 170 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales washer Shore and I
(25:54) think a 17-year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of year over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say
(26:26) because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fiber lass that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environmental so what do you do with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to Palm Springs California or any of these places where you have long-term windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them
(26:55) because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s it’s very expensive to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t
(27:21) allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked them today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the
(28:03) ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones
(28:37) people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you
(29:05) can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been any anything like what’s happened in the list since we won the election couple of months since we won
(29:33) the election the whole perception of the whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that War people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that
(30:04) he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities are all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a
(30:31) deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us
(31:06) a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote what what is the strategy I can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama now was built for a military milary I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country
(31:40) it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hos the hostages were a big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy
(32:10) but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two
(32:43) things talk on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it has started it’s you You’ well not only started the cities are largely knocked down you got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on The Leverage in dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them
(33:14) during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you if that were the case you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines of the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has
(33:46) somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating I said you’re G to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a
(34:16) satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago when I first started this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me NATO wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that
(34:41) weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening
(35:12) statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I saved NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in
(35:44) for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime
(36:15) minister stood up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% % it should be 5% not 2% but at that point it was to but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2%
(36:46) every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the one that got him to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you
(37:13) mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started pouring in that’s why it has money and the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but
(37:43) that’s not the way life Works Mr uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January 6 defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to
(38:16) find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be uh making major pardons yes please please on Jack SMI report good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see
(38:46) you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was turkey turkeyy has been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years uh those people that went in are from turkey and
(39:19) president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with
(39:47) Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went in they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt you do you have concerns about HTS taking control by the way I have the envo here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son Eric is Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I
(40:22) said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where rivers are and where the meats are bounds and Bounds are but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back that my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir another I didn’t
(40:51) know Steve was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of danger and the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up seve Mr President can I ask you second part of that Hamas video I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think
(41:26) that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things that he that he has said that that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be
(42:05) uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation going back I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident there’ll be a deal before January 20th R is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the
(42:38) president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get you better do this cuz the alternative you think they’re do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural but when you say all hell will
(43:08) be Pa all hell must be paid if they don’t release the hostes don’t you do I have to Define it for you look all hell will break out if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they not back by the time I get into office all hell will break out in the Middle East can you elaborate and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given him back a long time
(43:36) they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there from the United States just so you know they holding some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where
(44:11) they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 19 20y old beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just said say it this very simply Steve’s got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t
(44:41) know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there husin he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiators is a very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr you’ve done a great job more than 140 police officers were
(45:15) injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a uh magga person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot should have never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold
(45:51) back the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that but if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of
(46:24) lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I call it the department of Injustice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with Pam Bondi and with cash Patel and with other people that were putting in that will all come back uh if do do a poll in the FBI I I
(47:00) guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given them I actually told them come in anytime you want you could see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States
(47:36) but I’m suing them for other things too uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like Maran you ought to find out why do ask
(48:09) him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges is very bad we had one that valued this house at $18 million cuz it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $18 million and we have another one who was
(48:43) so nasty so horrible such a brute a most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that question please back on green uh your position is clear but have you directed your staff to take these specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh well we need Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it
(49:15) for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we needed fin National Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have China ships all over the place you have Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants
(49:48) to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United says but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even entered office yet secondly secondly sir Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative
(50:17) statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction of that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I can say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon
(50:46) do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s
(51:18) landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets within the I hope to have six months first three to six mon no I I would think I hope long before six months look Russia’s losing a lot of young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were
(51:51) president that war would have never happened would like nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice chair the I’ll be announcing some Mr President if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstances ever be the 51st maybe he won’t win but maybe he will point you would suggest list I sir real fast you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama in Greenland are you
(52:28) also considering military force to Annex and acquire Canada no economic Force because Canada in the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending
(53:01) hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their
(53:29) dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion year and more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of ice breakers I said you know we don’t really want to have a partner and the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a
(53:59) partner but right TOA I no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh our military is at their disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told too when he came down I said what would
(54:36) happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take that 20% of our car market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t
(55:05) really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a00 billion doll deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to
(55:33) have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but looks like Canon has blocked the doj uh from releasing the Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get
(56:07) it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential record act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally just destroyed people people are destroyed because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal
(56:46) but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they
(57:20) lost the lawsuit so this is uh dur ja Smith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s gone back to
(57:59) the hag or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is the and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report
(58:27) that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same man that took away 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our
(58:58) most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information yes sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get
(59:29) into office it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down we’ll get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energyy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham Apple app
(59:57) everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I won so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murders people that they’ve killed many 32% have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental
(1:00:29) institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote right maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead can we you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was
(1:00:58) a good thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just
(1:01:25) why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid them four times more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38 and then we gave it away for $1 Congress without getting your agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your radio interview yesterday for two Bill approaches it’s
(1:01:57) still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were already discarding the wall and five in the dollar and you know what they were
(1:02:27) doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar they were making deals unfortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it called I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border of Patrol wanted that was designed by them steel concrete rebar exactly as it want very very heavy
(1:03:01) steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in place no no the the the papers haven’t written that though you that that deal
(1:03:39) is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said cuz nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for 5 cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200 cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice return it will stop putting fact checks
(1:04:14) on a post on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its website and instead allow Community to well I watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was very impressive I watch it actually I watched it on Fox I’m not allowed to say that say it do you think he’s directly responding to the threats that you have
(1:04:41) made to him in the past probably probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously on Iran the US launching prehemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities I I don’t talk about it it’s a military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would answer it look it’s a military strategy and I’m
(1:05:11) not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress you expected to come here uh the next couple of days and you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by the way in the uh Senate I
(1:05:39) think has been great John Thun has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter white house it was built I don’t know if you know
(1:06:06) this marjerie marowa the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I saved it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know you built 10 mansions on one site but we saved it but this was built as the southern White House White House and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States so I didn’t I didn’t realize that
(1:06:36) I was just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it modly and uh Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the so fortunately for me he gave it back to the foundation and I bought it from the foundation reconciliation some Republicans saying in in in trade for a massive bill that that you and they share the interest in they want to see
(1:07:10) big spending cuts do you agree with that what well I’m okay with spending cuts I like spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there was a default it could
(1:07:39) be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sealing is not about raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension Mr on immigration sir on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you planning to do on Executive Order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one I at the safest Bo in the history of our country
(1:08:13) by far you remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the safest border by far in the history of our country and when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worse one I got elected because of the border the first time and I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was too big to rig you know you know the
(1:08:43) expression too big to rig they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very much from Congress at all I just said that we’re being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles a wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military so very simple I went
(1:09:13) to the military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invading our country now they weren’t releasing prisons into our country and they weren’t releasing mentolin into tions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I won all those suits and we built five we ended up building 571 miles of wall once that wall was built
(1:09:46) they start going around it so we’re going to add another 200 that would have been up in three weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election result and they said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for five cents on the dollar what what so we’ll do this again I just want to thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re going to have a great country again we’re a country right now
(1:10:15) Under Siege we have so many different problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other night just flew in and flew out you wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by the Prime Minister the president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and uh we have a great country but we have
(1:10:49) to run it properly it’s going to be run properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know we do have people that are hostages being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going to break out thank you very much ukra Russia War before you take office can you clarify what you mean by military force in the Panama Canal many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country
(1:11:28) and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respected Business Leaders in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of dmac properties Hussein Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today that damac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into to the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing and uh I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that
(1:12:08) he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody who’s going to go from a 100 to $200 billion dollar and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh
(1:12:39) investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sun Bel area and also to keep America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and who sayin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much
(1:13:16) thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected Ed November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we’re very very excited now with his leadership and his open
(1:13:58) strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this moment and we’re planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion in data center catering for the AI and Cloud business for the hypers scalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so who saying we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes
(1:14:36) smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States un un fortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people
(1:15:07) with far less too but we guarantee it we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review in one week after spending 14 and A2 years trying to get it and they were going nowhere it was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done
(1:15:42) to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying
(1:16:16) everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting
(1:16:49) the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things with going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honors counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot
(1:17:24) of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending on the green news scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they’re just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s
(1:17:50) certified under the green news scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great
(1:18:24) election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen before so many I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way back to the ha and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big
(1:18:53) deal out of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican it’s not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won them by a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that
(1:19:25) and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York who’s a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m under a gag do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America I’m a former very successful President we have the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no
(1:19:53) Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way
(1:20:32) they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia
(1:21:08) went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but we know what we’re doing now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis says you know we were in no Wars I just finished a couple and we we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers there would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one five or 600,000 looking getting ready we had
(1:21:41) 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took them out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize it’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half
(1:22:18) an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people can say we manufacture we don’t manufacture thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world and we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m
(1:22:59) going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in and they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you CU I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I
(1:23:23) wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the justice department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a
(1:23:54) political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t even know if it it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect cuz you look at his picture you that’s a bad
(1:24:25) guy with his robe his P purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was a brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref
(1:25:00) they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the uh judge in Florida judge Canon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word
(1:25:32) to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against and so they say we’re going to have a smooth transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million Acres and they uh essentially Landmark it so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to
(1:26:01) be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 4 to 50 trillion do that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s throwing it away he’s thrown it away he’s
(1:26:34) taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken 50 trillion dollars of value and thrown it right out the window we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heater uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy
(1:27:09) loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive the heat is much better it’s a much better Heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source
(1:27:40) is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy this something wrong with them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from
(1:28:09) comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they
(1:28:42) want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense
(1:29:11) on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the 200 billion dollars I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about
(1:29:44) making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200 right Brian dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points
(1:30:14) for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for
(1:30:48) news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they’re investing in the United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace
(1:31:18) what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to to treat us well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you know was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a tril substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malarious mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job
(1:31:53) many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us fairly they don’t treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they morally violated
(1:32:24) it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both ends of the Panama Canal China is running the Panama Canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either because that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want $3
(1:33:00) billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they
(1:33:35) need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy and history we had we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more
(1:34:11) than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion do a year plus other things they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I
(1:34:49) have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne Gretzky said run for prime minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really
(1:35:23) in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America
(1:35:58) what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs and we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s
(1:36:33) it’s got it takes two to tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden ede it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made us number one we’re number three I made us number one in uh and in very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping
(1:37:07) garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive of energy there is it’s many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New
(1:37:36) Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills that people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive Towers me they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have one 70 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales
(1:38:06) where they had two whales wash ashore and I think a 17year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of years over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let
(1:38:39) them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fiid lass that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to Palm Springs California or any of these places we have long-term windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs
(1:39:07) and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you
(1:39:34) from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollar off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing he has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked him today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic
(1:40:15) viability of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t real realize that AI is going to be a big thing but you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger
(1:40:51) and better ones people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you’re go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you
(1:41:20) can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened in the list since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the
(1:41:52) whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have
(1:42:20) never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities were all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average deal maker deal could
(1:42:49) have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of question questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty
(1:43:26) are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote what what is the strategy and I can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama Canal was built for a military I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it
(1:44:02) to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were a big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine
(1:44:30) person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things if I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um
(1:45:04) on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it has started it’s you you well not only started the cities are largely knocked down you got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to leverage in dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you of that would you make a commitment to provide a security
(1:45:34) guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines that the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that
(1:46:07) negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating I said you’re going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now is they can never join NATO well my view is that that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and
(1:46:37) that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago when I first started this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me Neta would even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t
(1:47:05) paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a
(1:47:34) true sense I Sav NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as
(1:48:07) the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime minister up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay
(1:48:39) our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it should be 5% not 2% but at that point it was to but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think
(1:49:08) you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the one that got them to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills Bill s will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed
(1:49:36) door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started pouring in that’s why NATO has money and the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life Works Mr President uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going
(1:50:07) to Pardon January 6 defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had uh people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole
(1:50:38) thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be making major pance yes please on Jack report good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some
(1:51:08) 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was Turkey turkey’s been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years uh those people that went in are from turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that
(1:51:40) didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through
(1:52:12) different forms and different names and they went in and they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt you do you have concerns about HTS taking control of by way I have the envoy here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son Eric and Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and
(1:52:43) where the me bounds and Bounds are but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back well that was my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir another hostage I didn’t know see was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it
(1:53:13) he didn’t know about this kind of danger and the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up see Mr President can I ask you second part of that Hamas I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to
(1:53:48) announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things that he that he has said that are that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red
(1:54:28) lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation going back I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident there’ll be a deal before January 20th or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I know I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh
(1:55:01) president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get you better do this because the alternative you think they’re waiting do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural but when you say all off all hell must be paid if they don’t release the me don’t you do I have to Define it for you look all hell break
(1:55:31) out if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the time I get into office all hell will break out in the middle eastor and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given them back a long time they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed
(1:56:01) they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there from the United States just so you know they they’re holding some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to
(1:56:32) her sir she’s dead like a 19 20 year-old beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simply Steve’s got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there hus sayin he’s a great negotiator there are people
(1:57:04) they’re rare great negotiators are very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr You’ done a great job than more than 140 police officers were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady
(1:57:41) named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a uh magga person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot she had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley B
(1:58:16) but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that but if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know
(1:58:48) they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I call it the Department of Justice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with Pam Bondi and with cash Patel and with other people that we’re putting in that will all come back uh if do do a poll in the FBI I I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean
(1:59:26) you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given him I actually told them come in anytime you want you could see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing them for other things thanks two uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly
(2:00:00) hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like marshan you to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m
(2:00:30) not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we had one that valued this house at $18 million because it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house is $18 million and we have another one who was so nasty so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about
(2:01:11) that back position is clear but have you directed your staff to take specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh well we need Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we needed for National
(2:01:43) Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have China ships all over the place you have Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would
(2:02:15) tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even entered office yet secondly secondly sir uh Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know
(2:02:42) the people I can say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet
(2:03:11) until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human
(2:03:42) body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets conversation in the within the I hope to have six months first three to six mon no I would think I hope long before six months look Russia’s losing a lot of young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were president that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice chair of the I’ll be announcing some Mr if we were to work under the
(2:04:22) assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstance never be the 5 maybe he won’t win but maybe he will point you had suggested list I real you said you considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military force to Annex and acquire no economic Force because Canada and the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a
(2:04:57) look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits well losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make
(2:05:26) them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Tech Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I
(2:05:56) said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of ice breakers I said you know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner buta I oh no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re
(2:06:26) going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh our military is at their disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told Trudeau when he came down I said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take that 20% of our car up Market you know we
(2:07:00) again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our
(2:07:27) neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t
(2:07:59) take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but it looks like Canon has blocked the doj uh from releasing the Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential
(2:08:35) records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people are destroyed because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I
(2:09:12) never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh durang ja Smith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they
(2:09:52) lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s gone back to the hag or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to
(2:10:24) beat me so what you’re saying is the and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the C ban do you anticipate it’s it’s
(2:10:54) not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same man that took away 50 to $60 trillion worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of Common Sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information yes
(2:11:29) sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into offices always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down we’ll get them down energy going to bring down prices we’re
(2:11:52) going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energyy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I want so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into
(2:12:24) our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murders people that have killed many 32% have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insan asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote right maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead K you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington
(2:13:00) you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing I think it cost him the election that in the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want
(2:13:25) to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid him four times more more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and
(2:13:56) they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38,000 and then we gave it away for $1 agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your radio interview yesterday uh for two Bill approaches it’s still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for
(2:14:26) immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were already discarding the wall and 5 cents in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for 5 cents in the dollar they were making deals and fortunately we had
(2:14:56) a very smart judge that stopped it cold I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border patrol wanted that was designed by them steel concrete rebar exactly as they want very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for
(2:15:33) five cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in place no no the the the papers haven’t written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be
(2:16:06) stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said because nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for five cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200 cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice return that stoping fact checks on posts on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its website and instead allow Community well I watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news
(2:16:41) conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was very impressive I watched it actually I watched it on Fox I’m not allowed say that say it do you think he’s directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with yeah probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously
(2:17:10) on Iran the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities I don’t talk about it it’s a military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would answer it look it’s a military strategy and I’m not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who are expected to come here uh the next couple of days and
(2:17:38) you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by the way in the uh Senate I think has been great John Thun has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the
(2:18:05) one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter white house it was built I don’t know if you know marjerie marowa the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I saved it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have
(2:18:31) been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know you build 10 mansions on one site but we saved it but this was built as the southern white house and white house and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States so I didn’t I didn’t realize that I was just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had
(2:18:59) a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it modly and uh Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country so fortunately for me he gave it back to the foundation and I bought it from the foundation on reconciliation uh some Republicans saying in in in trade for a basset bill that that you and they share the interest in they want to see big spending cuts uh do you agree with that what well I’m okay with spending cuts I like spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt
(2:19:33) ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there was a default it could be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sealing is not about
(2:20:05) raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension on immigration sir on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you planning to do on Executive Order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one I the safest B in the history of our country by far you you remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the safest border by far in the history of our country and
(2:20:38) when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worse what I got elected because of the border of the first time and I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was too big to rig you know you know the expression too big to rig they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very much from Congress at all I just said
(2:21:06) that we being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles of wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military so very simple I went to the military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invading our country now they weren’t releasing prisons into our
(2:21:38) country and they weren’t releasing mental institutions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I won all those suits and we built five we ended up building 571 miles of w once that wall was built they start going around it so we’re going to add another 200 that would have been up in three weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election result and they
(2:22:10) said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for five cents on the dollar what what a so we’ll do this again I just want to thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re going to have a great country again we’re a country right now Under Siege we have so many different problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other
(2:22:39) night just flew in and flew out she wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by by the Prime Minister the president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and uh we have a great country but we have to run it properly it’s going to be run properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know
(2:23:11) we do have people that are hostages being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going toak with you many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respected Business Leaders in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of deac properties Husain Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today say that
(2:23:52) damac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing and uh I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody is going to go from 100 to $200 billion and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of
(2:24:27) them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the Sun Belt area and also to keep America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item
(2:25:00) in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and whoin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20
(2:25:41) countries around the world we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in Data Center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we’re very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this moment and we’re planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion
(2:26:17) in data center catering for the AI and Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so Hussein we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught
(2:26:53) in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guarantee it we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review in one week after spending 14 and
(2:27:31) a half years trying to get it and they were going nowhere it was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that come comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many
(2:27:59) of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying everything they they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and
(2:28:37) that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things we’re going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honors counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts they have places
(2:29:07) where they’re still counting votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending
(2:29:40) on the green new scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they’re just taking money and giving it to any anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green news scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because
(2:30:12) they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called
(2:30:39) weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen before so many I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way back to the heg and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican it’s not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all
(2:31:10) seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won them by a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York who’s a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m
(2:31:42) under a gag do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America I’m a former very successful president we had the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with the Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the
(2:32:16) fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we
(2:32:53) would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but we know what we’re doing now and that’s going to all end and we have
(2:33:22) a great military I defeated Isis as you know we were in no Wars I just finished a couple and we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers that would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one five or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took them out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I
(2:33:57) saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize it’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know
(2:34:42) people can say we manufacture we don’t manufactur thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky
(2:35:11) they go in and they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you cuz I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the justice department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives
(2:35:39) were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were subing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I
(2:36:13) I don’t even know if it it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect because you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his P purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t
(2:36:43) know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was a brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they
(2:37:15) do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the the uh judge in Florida judge Canon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against and so they say we’re going to have a
(2:37:47) smooth transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially land market so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t
(2:38:16) believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 4 to 50 trillion dollar that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s thrown it away he’s thrown it away he’s taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken $50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window we can’t do that nobody can do that one of another thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to
(2:38:54) believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive
(2:39:24) the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy there’s something wrong with
(2:39:58) them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you
(2:40:30) they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing
(2:40:58) machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe at a level that we never had before there’s never been
(2:41:29) anything like it and over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the 200 billion dollars I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200 right Brian dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s
(2:42:03) money that’s in the bank he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it
(2:42:36) according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they’re investing in the
(2:43:01) United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you know was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the
(2:43:36) history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a tril substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malaria mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us fairly they don’t treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge
(2:44:09) more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both
(2:44:45) ends of the Panama Canal China is running the Panama Canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either CU that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to
(2:45:20) a million dollarss a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slay Cas regulations raise wages and boost incomes that a Pac the world has not seen before and
(2:45:55) certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy and history we had we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as
(2:46:32) you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion doll a year plus other things they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne grety said run for prime minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I
(2:47:07) don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially running by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be changing sort of the
(2:47:42) opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada they
(2:48:19) come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs and we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got it takes two to tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden ede it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we have number one nobody knew that until I
(2:48:51) came along I made as number one we were number three I made as number one in uh in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from
(2:49:24) the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills that people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build
(2:49:51) these massive towers and they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have 170 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash ashore and I think a 17year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of years over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen
(2:50:30) it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fire HD L that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do with them what do you do with
(2:50:56) them and I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to Palm Springs California or any of these places we have long-term windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection
(2:51:22) we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollar off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing he
(2:51:59) has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked him today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic viability of of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many
(2:52:35) different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the
(2:53:08) plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to
(2:53:37) happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened in the list since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have
(2:54:09) to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities were all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other
(2:54:38) at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten there too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to
(2:55:09) Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote what what is the strategy and I can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic
(2:55:44) Security the Panama Canal was built for our military I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were a
(2:56:17) big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most
(2:56:47) expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things if I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it has started it’s you you well not only started the city are largely knocked
(2:57:20) down you got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to leverage in dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you if that were would you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines of the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have
(2:57:52) NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating I said you’re going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is
(2:58:22) right now they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago when I first started this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary
(2:58:51) General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me Neto wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but
(2:59:23) Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I Sav NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a t tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now
(2:59:51) whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I
(3:00:21) said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime minister up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it should be 5% not 2 % but at that point it was super but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away
(3:00:54) including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the one that got them to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir
(3:01:23) could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started pouring in that’s why NATO has money and the secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen
(3:01:52) in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to have say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life Works Mr President uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January six defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28
(3:02:22) people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are
(3:02:53) in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be uh making major pance yes please on Jack report good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking over well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it
(3:03:24) was Turkey turkey’s been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years uh those people that went in are from turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he
(3:03:56) did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went and they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt you do you have concerns about HTS taking control of by way I have the envo here uh is that in the back it is
(3:04:30) standing with my son Eric and Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meats abounds and Bounds up but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages
(3:05:00) trying to get him back well that was my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir Le another hostage I didn’t know see was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of dang and the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up Steve Mr President can I ask you second part of that H just hostage video I’m going to give you a
(3:05:27) little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things that he that he has said that are that
(3:06:04) are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation going back to I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident there’ll be a deal before January 20th
(3:06:43) or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get you better do this because the
(3:07:17) alternative you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural but when you say all hell before take off all hell must be paid if they don’t release the means don’t you do I have to Define it for you all hell will break up if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the time I get into office all hell will break out in the Middle East elor and it will not be good for Hamas and will not
(3:07:48) be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given them back a long time they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there from the United States just so you know they they’re holding some some so called
(3:08:18) hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 19 20 yearold beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simply Steve got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there
(3:08:52) already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there who saying he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiators is are very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going
(3:09:20) to be 2 weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr you’ve done a great job thank you more than 140 police officers were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a magga person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was
(3:09:59) killed she was shot she had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that but if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one
(3:10:34) gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I call it the Department of Justice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the
(3:11:07) world and hopefully with Pam Bondi and with cash Patel and with other people that we putting in that will all come back uh if do you do a poll in the FB I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given him I actually told them come in anytime you want you can see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in
(3:11:46) litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing them for other things two uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again
(3:12:18) because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like marshan you had to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we had one that valued this house at $18 million cuz it was good for their case he actually
(3:12:51) valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $18 million and we have another one who was so nasty so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that back back up position is clear but have you directed your staff to takeing specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh and well we need Greenland for national security purposes
(3:13:29) I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we needed Financial Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have China ships all over the place you have Russian ships
(3:13:59) all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I me you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even
(3:14:26) entered office yet secondly secondly sir uh Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I can say elon’s doing a good job job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a
(3:14:54) couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and uh hundreds of thousands of
(3:15:27) soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets in the within the first I I hope to have six months first three to six months no I I would think I hope long before six months look Russia’s losing a
(3:16:00) lot of young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were president that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as uh Vice chair I’ll be announcing some if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstance never be the maybe he won’t
(3:16:35) win but maybe he will I point you had suggested real you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military Force to Annex and acquire no economic Force because Canada and the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh
(3:17:12) I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of ions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know
(3:17:41) restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their d da products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of
(3:18:11) ice breakers I said you know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner buta I oh no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh or military is at their
(3:18:48) disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told Trudeau when he came down I said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take that 20% of our car up Market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got
(3:19:15) a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of
(3:19:44) subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but it looks like Canon has blocked
(3:20:15) the doj uh from ateas in the Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people are destroyed because because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years
(3:20:56) he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off
(3:21:30) the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh durang jacksmith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just
(3:22:09) like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s going back to the Hager or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is the and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he
(3:22:38) was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the tow ban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same man that took away 50 to
(3:23:10) 60 trillion worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time
(3:23:42) magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into offices it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down we’ll get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think
(3:24:06) you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I won so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murders people that have killed many 32%
(3:24:41) have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote right maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead K you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked
(3:25:10) him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy C’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal
(3:25:38) that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 30 8,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid him four times more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38 and then we gave it away for $1 agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your radio interview
(3:26:13) yesterday for two Bill approaches it’s still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were already discarding the wall and 5 cents
(3:26:44) in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar they were making deals and fortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it cold I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border of Patrol wanted that was designed by them steel concrete rebar
(3:27:16) exactly as they what very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in place no no the the the papers haven’t
(3:27:54) written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said cuz nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for for 5 cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200 cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a
(3:28:27) nice returnc that it will stop fact checks on posts on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its website and instead allow Community well I watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was very impressive I watched it actually I watched it on Fox I’m not allowed to say that say it do you think he’s directly
(3:28:57) responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with yeah probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously on Iran the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran facilities I said I don’t talk about it it’s a military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would answer it look it’s a military
(3:29:28) strategy and I’m not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who are expected to come here uh the next couple of days and you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by the way in the uh Senate I think has
(3:29:58) been great John Thun has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter white house it was built
(3:30:23) I don’t know if you know this majer marowa the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I saved it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know you build 10 Mansions On One S but we saved it but this was built as the southern white house and white house and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States so I
(3:30:52) didn’t I didn’t realize that I was just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it modly and uh Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country so fortunately for me he gave it back back to the foundation and I bought her from the foundation on reconciliation uh some Republicans saying in in in trade for a basset bill that that you and they share
(3:31:27) the interest in they want to see big spending cuts uh do you agree with that what well I’m okay with spending cuts I like spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there
(3:31:55) was a default it could be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sealing is not about raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you planning to do on Executive Order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one I had the safest Border in the history of our country by far we you
(3:32:32) remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the safest border by far in the history of our country and when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worth one I got elected because of the border the first time and I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was too big to rig you know you know the expression too big to
(3:33:02) Rigg they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very much from Congress at all I just said that we’re being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles of wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military so very simple I went to the
(3:33:32) military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invading our country now they weren’t releasing prisons into our country and they weren’t releasing mental institutions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I won all those suits and we built five we ended up building 571 miles of wall once that wall was built they start going around it so we’re
(3:34:05) going to add another 200 that would have been up in three weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election result and they said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for five cents on the dollar what what if so we’ll do this again I just want to thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re going to have a great country again we’re a country right now Under Siege we have so many different
(3:34:35) problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other night just flew in and flew out she wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by the Prime Minister the president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and uh we have a great country but we have to run it properly it’s going to be run
(3:35:09) properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know we do have people that our hostages being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going to be with you many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respected Business Leaders in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of deac properties Hussein
(3:35:49) Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today that damac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing and U I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody who’s going to go from
(3:36:25) 100 to $200 billion doll and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sunb area and also to keep America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence
(3:36:58) he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and who sayin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to
(3:37:40) very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we’re very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this moment and we’re planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the
(3:38:16) opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion in data center catering for the AI and Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so Hussein uh we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used and in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to
(3:38:53) everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guar guantee it we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got
(3:39:27) it approved in literally a week they were through the review and one week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it and they were going nowhere it was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and
(3:39:58) you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the
(3:40:38) reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things we’re going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honors counts and they get
(3:41:05) done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting votes uh president Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up
(3:41:41) along with the the ridiculous spending on the green new scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they’re just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green news scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration
(3:42:12) very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side
(3:42:41) it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody ever seen before so many uh I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way back to the heg and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican it’s not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the
(3:43:10) popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won them by a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York who’s a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of
(3:43:43) the case that are the most vital aspect I’m going do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America I’m a former very successful president with the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with
(3:44:16) the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the
(3:44:52) group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but we know what we’re doing
(3:45:22) now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis as you know we were in no Wars I just finished a couple and we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers there would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one 5 or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took them out
(3:45:57) and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize that’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like
(3:46:39) the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people people can say we manufacture we don’t manufacture thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world and we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the
(3:47:11) courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you because I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the justice
(3:47:37) department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were subing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh
(3:48:08) third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t even know if it it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect because you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people
(3:48:37) because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we wanton all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was a brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m
(3:49:13) going to get these people off my back is to give vict ictory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the uh judge in Florida judge Cannon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their
(3:49:44) appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against and so they say we’re going to have a smooth transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially land market so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but
(3:50:14) remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 40 to 50 trillion dollar that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s thrown it away he’s thrown it away he’s uh taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken $50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window
(3:50:50) we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electricator I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he wants to
(3:51:21) get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they look much
(3:51:51) better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy there’s something wrong with them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what
(3:52:26) happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing
(3:52:55) pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling Now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think of our economy I think
(3:53:25) about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month SoftBank announced the $200 billion dollar I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200 right Brian dollars United States
(3:53:58) creating more than 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee CU I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business optimism soared
(3:54:28) 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest
(3:54:58) money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing in they’re investing in the United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us
(3:55:30) well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you know was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malarious mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us fairly they don’t treat us
(3:56:07) fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the panar canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help
(3:56:41) fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both ends of the Panama Canal China’s running the Panama Canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either because that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable
(3:57:13) structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with the
(3:57:48) Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes that a Pac the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy in history we had we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting started we’ll
(3:58:23) impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion dollar a year plus other things and they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military we they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne grety I said run for prime
(3:59:02) minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to happen to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be
(3:59:34) announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be Chang you’re sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s
(4:00:09) appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs and we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got to it takes two to tango we’re approaching the D of
(4:00:44) America’s golden age it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made as number one we were number three I made as number one in uh in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they
(4:01:18) turn to garbage most expensive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills the people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very
(4:01:48) expensive they don’t work without subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive towers and they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have 170 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales walk was Shore and I think a 17-year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the
(4:02:22) whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of years over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can
(4:02:51) because it’s a certain fiber L that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you have ever gone to Palm Springs California any of these places we have long-term windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive
(4:03:20) to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re
(4:03:51) going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked him today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but
(4:04:32) you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does
(4:05:06) it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the
(4:05:33) plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened in the list since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank
(4:06:04) you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have
(4:06:32) never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities were all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world War so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of
(4:06:59) questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote what what is the strategy and I
(4:07:37) can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama Canal was built for our military I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never
(4:08:12) been made by the way the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were a big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake
(4:08:41) we lost 38,000 people it cost cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things if I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complic at now much more
(4:09:15) complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it has started it’s you you’ve well not only started the cities are largely knocked down You’ got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to leverage in dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you if that were they can make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceas fire
(4:09:44) along the lines that the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating
(4:10:17) I said you’re going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now is they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago
(4:10:47) when I first started this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me Neto wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over
(4:11:16) $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I saved NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the
(4:11:44) problems that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small
(4:12:19) fraction of the number the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime minister up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it should be 5% not 2% but
(4:12:52) at that point it was super but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the
(4:13:19) one that got them to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started
(4:13:47) pouring in that’s why NATO has money and the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to have say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life Works president uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January 6th defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were
(4:14:18) charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I
(4:14:48) see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be uh making major pance yes please on Jack report good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told
(4:15:19) of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was turkey turkeyy has been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years uh those people that went in are from turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m
(4:15:50) talking about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went in they took over and that’s the way it
(4:16:22) is I’m sorry I don’t mean interrupt do you have concerns about HTS taking control of by way I have the envo here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son Eric and Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meats abounds and Bounds up but they can’t talk they can’t make
(4:16:54) deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back well that was my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir Le another hostage I didn’t know see was going to be here actually nether did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of danger and the other
(4:17:21) deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up Steve Mr President can I ask you a second part of that H just one hostage video I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I
(4:17:57) actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things that he that he has said that are that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll see save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving
(4:18:36) this negotiation I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident there will be a deal before January 20th or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of
(4:19:09) authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exorts orts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get you better do this cuz the alternative do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural but when you say all hell off all hell must be paid if they don’t release the hostes don’t you do I have to Define it for you look all hell will break up if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to
(4:19:39) hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the time I get into office all hell will break out in the Middle East elaborate and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given him back a long time they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from
(4:20:11) Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there from the United States just so you know they they’re holding some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 192 20-year-old beautiful
(4:20:45) girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simply Steve’s got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there Hussein he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiator is a very
(4:21:13) rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr you’ve done a great job than more than 140 police officers were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacks a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that
(4:21:51) was killed also a uh magga person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot she had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back to the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of
(4:22:26) insurrection or anything like that but if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI
(4:23:00) has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I call it the Department of Justice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with bondan with cash Patel and with other people that were putting in that will all come back uh if do you do a poll in the FBI I I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I
(4:23:38) would have given him I actually told them come in anytime you want you could see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing them for other things two uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly hurt between Comey who was the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the is and we’re going to make it great
(4:24:14) again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like marshan you ought to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam
(4:24:45) and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we had one that valued this house at $8 million because it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $18 million and we have another one who was so nasty so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that position is clear but have you directed your staff to take these specific actions to draw plans and can
(4:25:24) you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh and well we need Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we need it for National Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look
(4:25:54) at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have China ships all over the place you have Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I me
(4:26:26) you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even entered office yet secondly secondly sir uh Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I can say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people
(4:26:52) you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being
(4:27:24) killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and uh hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets in the within the I hope I hope to have six months first three to six
(4:27:59) months no I would think I hope long before six months look Russia is losing a lot of young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were president president that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice chair I’ll be announcing some if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative
(4:28:34) party in Canada said under no circumstances never be the1st maybe he won’t win but maybe he will I point you suggest listen I don’t but sir real fast you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military force to Annex and acquire no economic Force because Canada and the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we
(4:29:08) basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we
(4:29:39) don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because because stupid people put you know restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion dollar a year and more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we
(4:30:08) help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of ice breakers I said you know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner buta I oh no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but
(4:30:39) uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh our military is at their disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told Trudeau when he came down I said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take that 20% of our car up Market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things
(4:31:13) that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why
(4:31:40) should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year
(4:32:13) by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but it looks like Canon has blocked the doj uh from releasing this Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people
(4:32:49) are destroyed because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right
(4:33:25) but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh dur jacksmith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office
(4:34:07) probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s going back to the Hager or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is the and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not
(4:34:36) allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay
(4:35:04) billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same that took away 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information yes sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me
(4:35:38) right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into offices it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down we’ll get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what
(4:36:05) brought it up and energy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I won so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murders are
(4:36:36) now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murders people that have killed many 32% have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote right maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead K you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect
(4:37:10) there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on his day no I look I liked him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t
(4:37:38) bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid him four times more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38 and
(4:38:07) then we gave it away for $1 without getting your agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your radio interview yesterday for two Bill approaches it’s still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to
(4:38:36) sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were already discarding the wall and 5 cents in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar they were making deals and fortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it cold I think he called for an investigation too and he should but
(4:39:09) think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border patrol wanted that was designed by them steel concrete rebar exactly as they want very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb conrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay
(4:39:46) them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in place no no the the the papers have been written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said cuz nobody wants to report it they were
(4:40:18) selling the wall for 5 cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200 cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice returnc that sto fact checks on post on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its instead allow Community to well I watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was
(4:40:54) very impressive I watched it actually I watched it on Fox I’m not allowed to say that in the past say it do you think he’s directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with yeah probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously on Iran the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities I said I don’t talk about it it’s a
(4:41:23) military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would answer it look it’s a military strategy and I’m not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who expected to come here uh the next couple of days and you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh
(4:41:52) a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by the way in the uh Senate I think has been great John Thun has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White
(4:42:20) House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter white house it was built I don’t know if you know this maery marow the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I saved it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know you buil 10 mansions on one site but we saved it but this was built as the southern white house and white house
(4:42:48) and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States so I didn’t I didn’t realize that I was just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it and uh jimmmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country so fortunately for me he gave it back to
(4:43:19) the foundation and I bought her from the foundation on reconciliation uh some Republicans saying in in in trade for obass Bill that that you and they share the interest in they want to see big spending cuts uh do you agree with that what well I’m okay with spending cuts I like spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to
(4:43:47) see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there was a default it could be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sailing is not about raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you
(4:44:24) planning to do on Executive Order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one well I had the safest Border in the history of our country by far we you remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the safest border by far in the history of our country and when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worse one I got elected because of the border the first time and I think I got
(4:44:53) elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was too big to rig you know you know the expression too big to rig they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very much from at all I just said that we’re being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles a wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into
(4:45:22) the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military so very simple I went to the military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invaded our country now they weren’t releasing prisons into our country and they weren’t releasing mental institutions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took
(4:45:54) that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I wanton all those suits and we built five we ended up building 571 miles of w once that wall was built they start going around it so we’re going to add another 200 that would have been up in 3 weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election result and they said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for five cents on the dollar what what if so we’ll do this again I just want to
(4:46:27) thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re going to have a great country again we’re a country right now Under Siege we have so many different problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other night just flew in and flew out she wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by the Prime Minister the
(4:46:58) president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and uh we have a great country but we have to run it properly it’s going to be run properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know we do have people that are hostages being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going toak be
(4:47:30) with you many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respect Ed Business Leaders in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of deac properties Hussein Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today that damac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing
(4:48:13) and uh I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody who’s going to go from 100 to $200 billion dollar and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let
(4:48:43) people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sun Bel area and also to keep America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and
(4:49:21) hin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our invest ments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and
(4:50:00) Middle East and we’re very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this moment and we’re planning to invest $2 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion in data center catering for the AI and Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing
(4:50:38) he knows so Hussein we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling
(4:51:11) people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guarantee we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review and one week after spending 14 and A2 years trying to get it and they were going nowhere with is a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I
(4:51:47) think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of
(4:52:17) positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody
(4:52:51) even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things we’re going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning
(4:53:23) offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s it’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending on the green news scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re
(4:53:52) doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they’re just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green news scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re g to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years
(4:54:22) probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen before so many I defeated deranged Jack
(4:54:52) Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way back to the heg and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican is not easy for for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won them by
(4:55:21) a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York is a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m going do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America
(4:55:54) I’m a former very successful President we have the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and
(4:56:28) strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that
(4:57:05) withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 feet in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but we know what we’re doing now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis as you know we were’re in no Wars I just finished a couple and we got also our
(4:57:35) soldiers uh guarding Syria and Turkey were in the middle we had 5 th000 soldiers that would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one 5 or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took him out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job cuz now we have a
(4:58:11) tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize that’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people can say we manufacture we don’t manufacture the thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the
(4:58:53) world and we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in and they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t
(4:59:23) do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you because I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against a Justice Department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they
(4:59:51) were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh uh third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t even know if it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a
(5:00:23) small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect because you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through
(5:00:53) it and we won the case she was brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but
(5:01:25) the uh judge in Florida judge Canon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against and so they say we’re going to have a smooth transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk
(5:01:59) we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially Landmark it so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just
(5:02:27) massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 40 to 50 trillion dollar that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s throwing it away he’s thrown it away he’s uh taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken $50 trillion dollar of value and thrown it right out the window we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and
(5:03:08) apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes
(5:03:36) you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you’re scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy there’s something wrong with them there’s something wrong with them
(5:04:07) they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the fet you want to wash your hands you they want to go back to even stronger than
(5:04:38) what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the
(5:05:07) washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and over the next four
(5:05:37) years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the $200 billion dollars I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200 right Brian dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank he’s going to
(5:06:11) come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has
(5:06:46) just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing in they’re investing in the United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we
(5:07:13) haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you know was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a substantially over a
(5:07:49) trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malarious mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us Fair they don’t treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because
(5:08:20) they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both ends of the Panama Canal China’s running the Panama Canal and they come to see
(5:08:56) this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either cuz that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they went $3 billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh
(5:09:31) meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of
(5:10:08) prior to covid coming in in my administ ation we had the greatest economy in history we had we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh
(5:10:43) about $200 billion a year plus other things and they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military we they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne grety I said run for prime minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for a prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no
(5:11:16) something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be announcing a a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of
(5:11:52) 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record
(5:12:29) numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs then we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got it takes two to tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made as number one we were number three I made as number one in uh
(5:13:02) in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter are country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many
(5:13:35) many times more expensive than clean Natural Gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills that people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive towers and they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have 170 stories tall the blades they take three
(5:14:06) ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash Shore and I think a 17-year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of years over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s
(5:14:42) about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fiber L that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you have ever gone to Palm Springs California or any of these places where you have long-term
(5:15:08) windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful
(5:15:35) golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing he has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and
(5:16:12) I’ll bet you if you asked them today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold
(5:16:51) electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well cuz I know how he does it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you’re going to grid the grids are old so they said that’s a
(5:17:20) great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported
(5:17:50) by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened in theist since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in
(5:18:21) that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities are all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a
(5:18:50) tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are
(5:19:25) not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote what what is the strategy I can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama Canal was built for our military military I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be
(5:19:58) that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were a big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know
(5:20:28) it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the cter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing
(5:21:02) and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things if I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it has started it’s you you’ve well not only started the cities are largely knocked down You’ got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to leverage
(5:21:31) in dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negot well I wouldn’t tell you if that were the case would you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines that the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like
(5:22:03) written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating I said you’re going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now is they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always
(5:22:33) understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago when I first thoughted this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t
(5:23:01) for me Neto wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it
(5:23:33) but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I Sav NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called
(5:24:04) the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the
(5:24:36) media hated to report on it but a the Prime Minister stood up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it should be 5% not 2% but at that point it was super but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should
(5:25:06) have 5% yeah you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the one that got them to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us
(5:25:34) from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started pouring in that’s why NATO has money and the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to say yes we’ll
(5:26:04) protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life works Mr President uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January 6th defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people
(5:26:38) that was strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be uh making major pardons yes please please rep good afternoon Mr
(5:27:10) President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was turkey turkeyy has been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years uh those people that went in are from
(5:27:41) turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it it so but if you look at what happened with
(5:28:11) Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went in they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt you do you have concerns about HTS taking control of by way I have the envoy here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son and Eric is Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I
(5:28:46) said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meats abounds and Bounds up but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back well that was my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir another I didn’t
(5:29:15) know Steve was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of danger in the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up Steve Mr President can I ask you a second part of that Hamas video I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t
(5:29:47) want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things that he that he has said that that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort
(5:30:26) of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation back I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident there will be a deal before January 20th or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I I would I would say um they
(5:30:59) better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get you better do this because the alternative think do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural but when you say all
(5:31:33) hell all hell must be paid if they don’t release the host don’t you do I have to Define for you look all hell will break out if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the time I get into office all hell will break out in the middle eastate and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given them back a long time
(5:32:00) they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there from the United States just so you know they they’re holding some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl
(5:32:35) where they threw her in the car pulled her by her Pony tailed and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 19 20 year- old beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simply Steve’s got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t
(5:33:05) know he’s said great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there H say he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiator is a very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr You’ done a great job more than 100 40 police officers
(5:33:39) were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a uh magga person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot should had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back the
(5:34:16) crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that but if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionist with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of
(5:34:48) lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I the department of Injustice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with Pam bondan with cash Patel and with other people that were putting in that will all come back uh if do do a poll in the FBI I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the
(5:35:27) Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given them I actually told them come in anytime you want you could see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing
(5:36:00) them for other things too uh the FBI has gone so its reput has been so horribly hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like marshan you had to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m
(5:36:35) not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we had one that valued this house at $18 million because it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $18 million and we have another one who was so nasty n y so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New
(5:37:14) York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that back up position is clear but have you directed your staff to takeing specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh in in we need Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right
(5:37:49) to it but if they do they should give it up because we need it for National Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have China ships all over the place you have Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence
(5:38:19) or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even entered office yet secondly secondly sir Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes
(5:38:47) people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I can say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine UK and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but
(5:39:17) I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and uh hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland
(5:39:47) and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets in the within the first I I hope to have six months to six no I would think I hope long before 6 months look Russia’s losing a lot of young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were president that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice
(5:40:24) chair I’ll be announcing somebody if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstances will ever be the 51st maybe he won’t win but maybe he will point you would suggest listen I don’t care fast you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military force to Annex an acquire no economic Force because Canada and the
(5:40:59) United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need
(5:41:32) their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion dollar a year and
(5:41:59) more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of ice breakers I said you know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner but righta I oh no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with
(5:42:32) their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh our military is at their disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told Trudeau when he came down I said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be
(5:43:05) able to function if we didn’t take the 20% of our car market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing
(5:43:33) it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350
(5:44:03) billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but it looks like Canon has blocked the doj uh from releasing this Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that wow that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records
(5:44:40) and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people are destroyed because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the
(5:45:16) prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh durang Jack Smith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told
(5:45:53) to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s gone back to the Hager or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed
(5:46:28) so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is they and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment
(5:46:54) uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of doar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same man that took away 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he
(5:47:31) does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on pay tril you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into office it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down
(5:47:59) we’ll get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I won so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the
(5:48:28) biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murderers people that have killed many 32% have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote right maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead
(5:49:03) go ahead can we you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was
(5:49:32) a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid them four times more than they would make in the
(5:50:01) United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38 and then we gave it away for $1 without getting your agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your radio interview yesterday for two Bill approaches it’s still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker
(5:50:32) because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were already discarding the wall and 5 cents in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from
(5:51:00) this guy for 5 cents in the dollar they were making deals and fortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it called I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border patrol wanted that was designed by them steel concrete rebar exactly as they what very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double
(5:51:36) what we paid for then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in place no no the the the papers have been written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re
(5:52:11) stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said because nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for five cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200 cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice return putting fact checks on posts on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its website and instead allow Community to well I
(5:52:47) watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was very impressive I watched it actually I watched it on Fox I’m not allowed to say that in the past say it do you think he’s directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching
(5:53:15) a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously on Iran the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities I said I don’t talk about it it’s a military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would answer it look it’s a military strategy and I’m not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to
(5:53:43) leaders of Congress who expected to come here uh the next couple of days and you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by the way in the uh Senate I think has been great John Thun has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills
(5:54:11) the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter white house it was built I don’t know if you know this maery marowa the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I say sa
(5:54:37) it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know you build 10 mansions on one site but we saved it but this was built as the southern white house and white house and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States so I didn’t I didn’t realize that I would just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate
(5:55:04) he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it modly and uh Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country so fortunately for me he gave it back to the foundation and I bought her from the foundation on reconciliation uh some Republicans saying in in in trade for a bass bill that that you and they share the the interest in they want to see big spending cuts uh do you agree with well I’m okay with spending cuts I like
(5:55:38) spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there was a default it could be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but
(5:56:10) it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sealing is not about raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension imig sir on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you planning to do on Executive Order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one I the safest bers are the history of our country by far you remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the
(5:56:44) safest border by far in the history of our country and when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worse what I got elected because of the border the first time and I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was too big to rig you know you know the expression too big to rig they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very
(5:57:13) much from Congress at all I just said that we’re being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles a wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military so very simple I went to the military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invading our country now they
(5:57:45) weren’t releasing prisons into our country and they weren’t releasing mental institutions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I won all those suits and we built five we ended up building 500 71 miles of wall once that wall was built they start going around it so we’re going to add another 200 that would have been up in 3 weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election
(5:58:17) result and they said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for five cents on the dollar what what if so we’ll do this again I just want to thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re have a great country again we’re a country right now Under Siege we have so many different problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other night just flew
(5:58:48) in and flew out she wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by the Prime Minister the president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and uh we have a great country but we have to run it properly it’s going to be run properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know we do have people that are hostages
(5:59:23) being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going to be with you many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respected Business Leaders in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of deac properties Hussein Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today that deac will be investing at least $20 billion
(6:00:04) over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing and U I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody who was going to go from 100 to $200 billion and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do
(6:00:38) it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sunb area and also to keep America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI
(6:01:13) in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and H sayin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected in November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have
(6:01:52) delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this moment and we’re planning to invest $2 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion in data center catering for the AI and
(6:02:30) Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so Hussein we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very
(6:03:05) prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guarantee it we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review and one week after spending 14 and A2 years trying to
(6:03:42) get it and they were going nowhere it was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on
(6:04:10) Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration and they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a
(6:04:48) landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things we’re going to do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something up thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting
(6:05:19) votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drill dring in a lot of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending on the green new scam all this money
(6:05:52) trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they’re just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green news scam and they don’t work and it’s too expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with
(6:06:22) the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen
(6:06:52) before so many uh I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way back to the heg and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you know when they vote to when you when a republican it’s not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven
(6:07:23) and we won them by a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world has watched that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York is a very crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m going do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of
(6:07:56) America I’m a former very successful President we have the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been
(6:08:29) out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 de dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the
(6:09:06) reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re doing but we know what we’re doing now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis says you know we were’re in no Wars I
(6:09:34) just finished a couple and we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers that would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one five or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me said not well sir not well and I took him out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and
(6:10:09) uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job cuz now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize it’s like the whole ocean take an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people can say we manufacture we don’t
(6:10:53) manufacture the thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world and we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in and they sign remember this
(6:11:22) is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you cuz I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against a justice department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending
(6:11:50) everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were suping people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh third tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t
(6:12:22) even know if it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest level ever they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect because you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his PO purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we
(6:12:54) had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they
(6:13:24) do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the uh judge in Florida judge Canon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against so they say we’re going to have a smooth
(6:13:56) transition all they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially Landmark it so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t
(6:14:25) believe the size of it I mean you put down a map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 40 to 50 trillion that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s thrown it away he’s thrown it away he’s taken 50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken $50 trillion doar of value and thrown it right out the window we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to
(6:15:03) believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive
(6:15:33) the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these these people are crazy there’s something wrong
(6:16:07) with them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a forcet no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the shower it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you they want to
(6:16:39) go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little
(6:17:09) water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and
(6:17:40) over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the $200 billion dollars I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be 200 right Brian dollars United States creating more than a 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank
(6:18:14) he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American
(6:18:47) people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest money but it’s it’s good good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they’re investing in the United
(6:19:11) States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country
(6:19:46) relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a tril substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malarious mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us fairly they don’t treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our
(6:20:19) Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both
(6:20:54) ends of the Panama Canal China’s running the Panama Canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for Pres president of course she shouldn’t have either cuz that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want three billion dollars to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the
(6:21:27) numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes that a Pac the
(6:22:02) world has not seen before and certainly not for from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first 3 years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy in history we had the we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the
(6:22:37) USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion a year plus other things and they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military we they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne Gretzky I said run for prime minister you win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for a prime minister
(6:23:13) or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot they’re essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico’s really in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re
(6:23:49) going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs
(6:24:25) on Mexico and Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs then we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got it takes two to tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age it’s going to be a golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we
(6:24:57) have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made as number one we were number three I made as number one in uh in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off
(6:25:31) windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills the people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you
(6:25:58) don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive Towers me they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have one 70 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash a Shore and I think a 17-year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually over I think 125 or something over a number of years over a number of
(6:26:37) years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fiid L that the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do
(6:27:03) with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to Palm Springs California or any of these places where you have long-term windmills standing they’re a disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive to take them down and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them
(6:27:30) because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country’s ballot B sheet
(6:28:05) because some man that has no idea what he’s doing has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked them today how much acridge did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and well you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right
(6:28:42) now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones people like Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits
(6:29:16) because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making
(6:29:44) America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened in the list since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have
(6:30:15) to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities are all
(6:30:43) blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on
(6:31:12) fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote what what is the strategy I can’t assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on
(6:31:47) either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama Canal was built for our military military I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy
(6:32:21) Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were a big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh cuz because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe
(6:32:53) more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it would have never started right but it
(6:33:24) has started it’s you you’ve well not only started the cities are largely knocked down You’ got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to Leverage dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you if that were the case would you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines of the the French and the Germans so uh
(6:33:54) you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with you Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating I said you’re going to end up in a war
(6:34:25) and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago when I first started this I didn’t know
(6:34:54) too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me Netto wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over $680 billion that was the number he gave
(6:35:26) by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I Sav NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems that I have and I’ve
(6:35:52) said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States
(6:36:26) is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime minister stood up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it should be 5% not 2% but at that point it was super many
(6:36:59) people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5% not 2% uh I’m the one that got them to pay 2% but a
(6:37:28) gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started pouring in that’s why NATO has money and
(6:37:55) the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to have say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life Works Mr uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January 6th defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were charged with violent offenses well we’re looking at
(6:38:27) it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things
(6:38:59) weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be making major pardons yes please on Jack Smith good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell
(6:39:30) you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was turkey turkey’s been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years those people that went in are from turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about the Kurds I don’t know how long that’s going because
(6:39:59) they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went in they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to interrupt you do you have concerns about
(6:40:31) HTS taking control of the envoy here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son Eric is Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meats bounds and Bounds up but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working
(6:41:04) endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back well that was my second question Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir I didn’t know Steve was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of danger in the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger come on up Steve Mr President can I ask you second part of that
(6:41:35) H I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great progress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the president his reputation the things
(6:42:11) that he’s that he has said that that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe we’ve been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in any way but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation going back I’m going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night are you confident
(6:42:50) there’ll be a deal before January 20th or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all and we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically and emphatically means you better get
(6:43:23) you better do this because the alternative you think they’re do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inauguration but when you say all hell will be all hell must be paid if they don’t release the hostes don’t you do I have to Define it for you look all hell will break out if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the time I get into office all hell will
(6:43:52) break out in the Middle East elaborate and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given them back a long they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there
(6:44:22) from the United States just so you know they they’re holding some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 19 20y old beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simply Steve’s got a
(6:44:57) job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there H say he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiator is a very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but I tell this I don’t want to hurt the
(6:45:25) negotiation if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr you’ve done a great job more than 140 police officers were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a uh magga person but people don’t give it aund 100%
(6:46:04) credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot should had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like like that but if there were this would be the only
(6:46:36) Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionist with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of the doj or as I call it the department of Injustice it’s
(6:47:13) the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with Pam bondan with cash Patel and with other people that were putting in that will all come back uh if do do a poll in the FBI I I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given them my I actually told them come in anytime you want you could see anything they
(6:47:51) raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing them for other things too uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great again we’re going to make the Department
(6:48:23) of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like marshan you ought to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we had one that valued this house at $18 million do
(6:48:57) because it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $118 million and we have another one who was so nasty so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that back back up position is clear but have you direct your staff to take these specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out Military coercion uh well we need
(6:49:35) Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we need it for National Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look out side you have China ships all over the place you have
(6:50:07) Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I me you are you no we’re not at that stage but we have people I haven’t even entered office yet secondly
(6:50:37) secondly sir Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I can say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are
(6:51:03) running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is very flat and uh hundreds of thousands of soldiers
(6:51:36) from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets the within the I I hope to have six months first three to six mon no I would think I hope long before six months look Russia’s losing a lot of
(6:52:10) young people and so is Ukraine and it should have never been started that’s a war that should have never happened I guarantee you if I were president that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice I’ll be announcing somebody if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstances will ever be the 51st maybe he won’t win but
(6:52:45) maybe he will point you would suggest listen I don’t care real F you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military force to Annex an acquire Canada no economic Force because Canada and the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up
(6:53:19) there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people
(6:53:49) put you know restrictions on but I can do that with an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of
(6:54:20) ice breakers I said you know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner but right toim us I no right nope no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a
(6:54:54) year uh our military is at their disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told toau when he came down I said said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take their 20% of our car market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we
(6:55:22) don’t need their milk we got a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to him well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in
(6:55:52) terms of subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either you’re European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of
(6:56:22) this but it looks like Canon has blocked the doj uh from releasing this Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people are destroyed because of what they did
(6:56:58) destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the
(6:57:33) judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh durang ja Smith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page
(6:58:16) report and it’ll be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s gone back to the Hager or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is they and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report
(6:58:46) that’s the way it should be because he was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that we’re sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden
(6:59:17) that’s the same man that took away 50 to 60 trillion dollar worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very
(6:59:49) fast but then you recently told Time magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into office it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up like they did but we’ll bring them down get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energy is going to bring it down we’re going to have
(7:00:13) prices down I I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I won so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they release their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murders people that have killed
(7:00:48) many 32% have killed more than one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason we got such a large vote maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead can we you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked
(7:01:19) him as a man I I disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a
(7:01:47) deal that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid them four times more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38,000 and then we gave it away for $1 getting your agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door in your
(7:02:21) radio interview yesterday uh for two Bill approaches it’s still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were
(7:02:50) already discarding the wall and 5 cents in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar they were making deals and fortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it called I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it they were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border patrol wanted that was designed
(7:03:21) by them steel concrete rebar exactly as they what very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave it in
(7:04:00) place no no the the the papers haven’t written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said because nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for five cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for 200 cents or less but for 200
(7:04:33) cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice return fact checks on posts on its website and meta said today would stop putting fact checks on its website and that allow Community to well I watched their news conference and uh I thought it was a very good news conference I think they’ve honestly I think they’ve come a long way meta Facebook I think they’ve come a long way I watched it the man was very impressive I watched it actually watch it on Fox I’m not allowed to say that say it do you think he’s directly
(7:05:06) responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with probably the last time we were the last time you were here you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran you said you wouldn’t answer that question obviously on Iran the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities I said I don’t talk about it it’s a military strategy but it is a legitimate question something well it’s not really because only a stupid person would
(7:05:35) answer it look it’s a military strategy and I’m not answering your questions on Military strategy all right one more Brian go ahead could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who expected to come here uh the next couple of days and you’ve got a very uh supportive Congress behind you they’re great so we have a wonderful Republican Congress we have uh a leader that I have a lot of confidence in I think he’s going to be hopefully a great leader a great speaker and we have a leader by
(7:06:05) the way in the uh Senate I think has been great John th has been doing a fantastic job but it goes through the house first and the question is whether or not we do the two bills the one bill and you know look I can live either way I like the idea of the one big Bill but I can live either way but they’ll be coming down the Senators also will be coming down and then ultimately we’ll be meeting in the White House in a few weeks but right now this is uh the winter season you know they sort of call this the winter White House it was built
(7:06:32) I don’t know if you know this marjerie marowa the post and EF Hutton built this it was the greatest of all the Estates in our country and I saved it and I got a lot of credit for saving it most of these big great houses have been knocked down in Palm Beach just about all of them actually and they you know You’ build 10 mansions on one site but we saved it but this was built as the southern white house and white house and she gave it to the government and by the way Jimmy Carter gave it back he said it’s too expensive for the United States
(7:07:01) so I didn’t I didn’t realize that I was just I was just told actually Jimmy Carter Nixon was through Watergate he came down he Nixon came here once and he thought it was incredible but he had a thing called Watergate if anybody remembers that and uh his mind to put it mly and uh Jimmy Carter felt that it was too extravagant for the country so fortunately for me he gave it back to the foundation and I bought her from the foundation on reconciliation uh some Republicans said in in in trade for a bass bill that that you and they share
(7:07:36) the the interest in they want to see big spending cuts uh do you agree with that well I’m okay with spending cuts I like spending cuts just I’m on the record for spending cuts and the debt ceiling was given to us it shouldn’t have been but it was put in our lap and what I want in terms of debt ceiling isn’t the ceiling I just don’t want to see a default that’s all I want I never talked about spending more money necessarily than all I want to see is no default because nobody knows what would happen if there
(7:08:04) was a default it could be 1929 and it could be nothing but that was put into our lap and it shouldn’t have been but it was and so we’ll handle it but uh debt sealing is not about raising a lot of money it’s really just about extending it I just want to see an extension on immigration sir on immigration um how much can you do by executive order are you planning to do on executive order when it comes to immigration and how much do you want Congress to tackle this issue and also on day one the safest in the history of
(7:08:40) our country by far you you remember the famous chart that I brought down I love that chart very much for a lot of reasons but I have the safest border by far in the history of our country and when I took it over it was a mess nothing like it is now this is 10 times worse what I got elected because of the border the first time and I think I got elected largely because of the border the third time and the second time I did equally well well not as well as the last time but I did very well and I will say this was
(7:09:08) too big to rig you know you know the expression too big to rig they couldn’t do it they tried but they couldn’t do it uh I didn’t get very much from Congress at all I just said that we’re being invaded and I took the money out of the military much of the wall I built 500 over 500 miles a wall much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military we took it out because we couldn’t get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming
(7:09:37) from the military so very simple I went to the military I said our country is being invaded by very similar nothing like what’s invading our country now they weren’t releasing prisons into our country and they weren’t releasing mental institutions in but some some Bad Dudes were coming in right and I said our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress and I won all those suits and we built five we ended up building 571
(7:10:10) miles of wall once that wall was built they start going around it so we’re going to add another 200 that would have been up in 3 weeks and then we had a very unfortunate election result and they said we don’t want to put it up we’ll sell it and they started selling it for 5 cents on the dollar what what areina we’ll do this again I just want to thank everybody very much I’m just telling you this will be the Golden Age of America this is the Golden Age of America we’re going to have a great country again
(7:10:41) we’re a country right now Under Siege we have so many different problems and nobody respects us overseas but now they do the Italian Prime Minister as you know came here the other night just flew in and flew out she wanted to she wanted to see me and uh great respect is being shown when I went to the cathedral in France great respect was shown by the Prime Minister the president by everybody France was and by the way I have to say they did a great job in the cathedral but great respect is being shown to our country again and
(7:11:14) uh we have a great country but we have to run it properly it’s going to be run properly uh we want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us you know we do have people that are hostages being held and I’ll just say it again if this deal is not done with the people representing our Nation by the time I get to office all hell is going toak be with you many things are happening that are exciting very exciting for our country and we’re honored to welcome one of the most respected Business Leaders
(7:11:49) in the Middle East indeed the world he’s a founder and chairman of demac properties Hussein Sani very respected gentleman and I’m thrilled to announce today that damac will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money is a great thing and uh I believe he will say that he’s doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election they wouldn’t do it without that election I can tell you A lot of
(7:12:30) people wouldn’t you saw last week where we have somebody who’s going to go from 100 to $200 billion doll and we have many other people and we’ll be bringing some of them out some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don’t and uh they feel so strongly about the country that they they want to let people know about it but it’s an honor to have such a great investor uh investing in our country the investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest the sunb area and also to keep
(7:13:03) America on The Cutting Edge of technology and artificial intelligence he’s uh very big into the data centers and that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years as you know with AI in particular the first phase of the project will be in Texas Arizona Oklahoma Louisiana Ohio Illinois Michigan and Indiana those places and whoin I’d love you to come up and say a few words thank you very much thank you than you thank you thank you Mr President it’s been amazing news for me and my family when
(7:13:40) he was elected in November we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investments in us to very large amount of money we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline in data center we are in 10 countries around the world in Asia Europe and Middle East and we very very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to us for the last four years we’ve been waiting for this
(7:14:19) moment and we’re planning to invest $2 billion and even more than that if the opportunity the market allow us but at the moment we’re planning $20 billion in Data Center cathering for the AI and Cloud business for the hyperscalers fantastic thank you Mr great honor thank you very much so nice and that man knows what he’s doing he knows so Hussein we’re going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly we have powers that haven’t really been used in terms of environmental if you uh invest over a
(7:14:59) billion dollars in the United States we’re going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone’s afraid they’re going to come in and get caught in the Quagmire which is uh very prevalent in the United States unfortunately the Quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules and I made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we’ll do this for people with far less too but we guarantee it we’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process sometimes
(7:15:29) people held up 12 13 14 15 years I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I got it approved in literally a week they were through the review and one week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it and they were going nowhere it was a terrible thing so uh I’ve been a victim of that myself over the years and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played and much of it is just just done to uh stop progress so we’re going to be helping you you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to
(7:16:05) invest their money that you don’t get tied up for the rest of your life and you can’t do anything this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest Business Leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election uh as you know very a lot of positive things have happened we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing Administration they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult uh inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too high and I’ve
(7:16:42) been uh disappointed to see the Biden administration’s attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for they just we had a landslide election we won every swing state we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people nobody even knows how many people millions and uh they’re still counting in some areas you know there they’re still counting the vote in some areas can you believe this what a what a place what a horrible Place one of the things we’re going to
(7:17:10) do is we’ve got to fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts they have places where they’re still counting votes uh President Biden’s actions yesterday on offshore drilling Banning offshore drilling uh will not stand I will reverse it immediately it’ll be done immediately and we will drill baby drill and we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations and the energy costs are going to come way down they’ll be
(7:17:43) brought down to a very low level and that’s going to bring everything else down that’s what caused it to go up along with the the ridiculous spending on the green new scam all this money trillions of dollars it’s like throwing it right out the window what they’re doing and they’re trying to spend so much now they just take money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it’s if it’s certified under the green new scam and they don’t work and it’s too
(7:18:10) expensive and uh you know they told me that uh we’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new Administration very smooth it’s not smooth because they’re doing that they’re playing with the courts as you know they’ve been playing with the courts for four years probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually by by a lot and uh you know we had a great election so I guess it didn’t work but they’re even to this day they’re playing
(7:18:44) with the courts have their friendly judges that like to try and make everybody happy on the Democrat side it’s called lawfare it’s called weaponization of justice and it’s happened at a level nobody’s ever seen before so many uh I defeated deranged Jack Smith he’s a deranged individual I guess he’s on his way way back to the heg and we won those cases those were the biggest ones and uh the Press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong on anything and the people saw that you
(7:19:13) know when they vote to when you when a republican is not easy for a republican when the Republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the Swing States people said well he could win four we won all seven and we won them by a lot that tells you we won that tells and they’ve been uh watching this uh Injustice I call it the Injustice Department what they’ve done is so bad the whole world is watch that and uh it took work but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean we have a judge in New York who’s a very
(7:19:47) crooked judge uh I’m under a gag order I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m under do you know that I’m the president elect of the United States of America I’m a former very successful President we had the greatest economy in the history of our country we had borders that were sealed and beautiful we had everything was good we had no Wars we defeated Isis we had no Wars now I’m going into a a world that’s burning with Russia and Ukraine with uh Israel you
(7:20:20) took a look at that attack on October 7th the attack on Israel with the horrible uh way they got out not the fact that they got out I would have been out before them but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of Fools With 13 dead and many many badly horrifically injured nobody ever talks about them no arms no legs nobody ever talks about them uh the way they got out was outrageous leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the
(7:20:55) hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban it’s the group and uh we were doing very well we would have been out we would have been respected I think it’s one of the reasons it was so badly handled that withdrawal where people are jumping onto airplanes falling off the sides of airplanes when they’re 3,000 ft in the air and uh nobody’s ever seen anything like that the worst and because of that I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys are incompetent they don’t know what they’re
(7:21:29) doing but we know what we’re doing now now and that’s going to all end and we have a great military I defeated Isis as you know we were’re in no Wars I just finished a couple and we got also our soldiers uh guarding Syria and turkey we’re in the middle we had 5,000 soldiers that would would have been gobbled up with two armies we had one Army 300,000 we had another one five or 600,000 looking getting ready we had 5,000 people in the middle I said to a general how do 5,000 people do in that case and the general just looked at me
(7:22:02) and said not well sir not well and I took him out and you know what happened nothing I got criticized I saved 5,000 lives actually and uh we did a great job and we’re going to do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience we have people that I can rely on but the 625 million Acres people can’t realize it’s like the whole Ocean Think an acre you know an acre you have a house on a half an acre or a quarter of an acre or an acre if you have a an acre you have a big deal now you multiply that by
(7:22:43) 625 million Acres it’s like feels like the whole ocean and that’s our strength you know people can say we manufacture we don’t manufacture thing we have we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world we’re going to have more of it too but uh they took away 625 million Acres of offshore drilling nobody else does that and they think they have it but we’ll put it back I’m going to put it back on day one I’m going to have it revoked on day one we’ll go immediately if we need to I
(7:23:19) don’t think we should have to go to the courts but if we do have to go to the courts you know they try to be sneaky they go in and they sign remember this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth well you don’t do the kind of things you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you cuz I did nothing wrong by the way I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong if I did something wrong I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases nobody’s ever won so many cases as I
(7:23:45) have against the justice department I mean Jack Smith had cases all over the place people were being subpoenaed lives were being ruined they were spending everything they had money we were helping them out we had to they were being they were suping people from that had no idea what they were even talking about that’s a sick group of people and it was all to influence the election it was all a fight against a political opponent we’ve never had that in this country we have had that in certain countries we’ve had that in uh third
(7:24:18) tier countries we’ve had that in banana republics but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States I I don’t even know if it’s been on a small level I’m sure it has been on a small level but this was the largest La they brought this out of the heg he’s a mean guy he’s a mean nasty guy his picture was perfect cuz you look at his picture you say that’s a bad guy with his robe his P purple robe and he executes people he shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he’ll execute
(7:24:47) everybody he’s a nut job but we want all of those uh cases with him and uh I mean I don’t know the judge in Florida but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case she was a brilliant judge with great courage you know the uh the left as we call them the radical left uh they have a way uh they play The Ref and they play it very hard they play The Ref they go and say horrible things about Judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look the only way I’m
(7:25:22) going to get these people off my back is to give Victory to them they’re playing The Ref I think it’s illegal what they do it’s almost like talking it’s worse than talking to a judge but the uh judge in Florida judge Canon was brilliant and tough and she didn’t stand for it and I don’t know her and uh never met her until the case and I don’t believe I said even one word to her but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their
(7:25:53) appeal they couldn’t beat the appeal so that’s what we’re up against so they say we’re going to have a smooth transition all the they do is talk it’s all talk everything they do is talk we’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they uh essentially Landmark it so you can’t ever drill there again well we’re going to be drilling soon we’re going to be opening up anoir we’re going to be doing all sorts of things that uh nobody ever thought was even possible but
(7:26:23) remember when when and just to get off the subject cuz I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday I couldn’t believe the size of it I mean you put down map and put this up it’s just massive and remember that that’s worth probably I mean I’ve had estimates 4 to 50 trillion dollar that’s more than our national debt essentially he’s thrown it away he’s thrown it away he’s H taken $50 trillion so if we owe 35 trillion he’s taken $50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window
(7:26:59) we can’t do that nobody can do that one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse it’s hard to believe it can be worse uh he wants all gas heaters uh out of your homes and apartments he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters I don’t know what it is with electric this guy loves electric we’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly by the way this guy loves electric and he we don’t have enough electricity and then we have ai where we need more and he
(7:27:30) want want to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater gas heater is much less expensive the heat is much better it’s a much better heat uh as the expression goes you don’t itch does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratching and that’s what they want you to have they don’t want you to have gas where you don’t have the problems of the electric and the source is plentiful they’re much cheaper to operate they’re much better they work much better they
(7:28:00) look much better 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters he wants them all removed quickly these people are crazy there’s something wrong with them there’s something wrong with them they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a foret no water comes out because they want to preserve even in areas that have so much water you don’t know what to do it’s called rain comes down from comes down from heaven and uh they want to do uh no no water comes out of the sh
(7:28:32) it goes drip drip drip so what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long you know no water comes out of the faucet you want to wash your hands you they want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now I as you know I ended that policy I get you can have all the water you want makes no difference it comes we especially in certain areas we have so much water we don’t know what to do with it uh but these are all things uh they want very very little water to go into your dishwasher almost none and you know what
(7:29:02) people do they just keep pressing pressing pressing keep it going they end up using more water likewise washing machines they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water uh we’re a party of Common Sense and things that I’m telling you now is really all about common sense on January 20th we’ll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we have when I think
(7:29:33) of our economy I think about inflation that’s what we have we have inflation I believe uh at a level that we never had before there’s never been anything like it and over the next four years the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship but really it’s already doing it uh if you take a look just last month soft Bank announced the 200 billion dollars I think it’ll be 200 he said between 100 and I said how about making it 200 and he sort of said yes but let’s say it’s 100 but it might be
(7:30:03) 200 right Brian dollars United States creating more than 100,000 jobs Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he’s going to make and that that’s money that’s in the bank he’s going to come and do it and he’ll do a great job and he’ll he’ll build the best centers in the country I guarantee because I know the way he builds since my election the stock market has set records the S&P 500 Index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever never even close in a single month small business
(7:30:34) optimism soared 41 points it’s not a 41 it went up 41 points and that’s the largest in the 39 39e history of the group that does it according to Gallup the American people’s confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history that’s why I have a news conference like that I take the greatest Business Leaders in the world I say hey do you want to say you’re going to invest the money they’re not looking for news conferences they’re saying what am I doing here they go in and they invest
(7:31:07) money but it’s it’s good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they’re investing in the United States so we’ve done this all in two months of not being there you know we haven’t been there and uh it’s pretty amazing and we think we’re going to do some really great things really great things we’re being respected again all over the world the Panama Canal is a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us
(7:31:39) well I thought it was a terrible thing to do you know was the most expensive uh structure ever built in the history of our country relatively it would be the equivalent of over over a tril substantially over a trillion dollars today we lost 38,000 people think of it 38,000 people they died from malaria mosquitoes they were unable to stop the mosquitoes they paid people five times more to take the job many of those people died we gave it away for a dollar but the deal was that you know they have to treat us fairly they don’t
(7:32:16) treat us fairly they charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries they charge more for our Navy than they charge for navies of other countries they laugh at us because they think we’re stupid but we’re not stupid anymore so the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now they violated every aspect of the agreement and it’s they’ve morally violated it also uh and they want our help because it’s leaking and not in good repair and they want us to give $3 billion to help
(7:32:50) fix it I said well why don’t you get the money from China because China’s basically taking it over China’s at both ends of the Panama Canal China’s running the Panama canal and they come to see this Biden this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president of course she shouldn’t have either because that never happened I had to beat two people not one but they want three billion to fix the Panama Canal that’s run by China and makes a lot of money China One of the most profitable
(7:33:22) structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida frankly and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a million to a million dollars a ship and they took it away from us uh meaning we gave it to them for a dollar but uh not going to be not going to happen what they’ve done to us they’ve charged us they’ve overcharged our ships overcharged our Navy and then when they need repair money they come to the United States to put it up we get nothing those days are over working with
(7:33:56) the Republican majorities in Congress will cut taxes slash regulations raise wages and boost incomes that have paced the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country uh we had a big chunk of it for the first three years of prior to covid coming in in my Administration we had the greatest economy in history we had we cut the most regulations in the history of our country and I did that all in four years uh by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years and we were just getting
(7:34:31) started we’ll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the USA and uh we are not treated well as you know by Canada Canada is subsidized to the tune of uh about $200 billion a year plus other things and they don’t essentially have a military they have a very small military we they rely on our military it’s all fine but you know they got to pay for that it’s very unfair I have so many great friends one of them is the great one Wayne Gretzky I said run for
(7:35:10) prime minister you’ll win in a it’ll take two seconds but he said well am I going to run for a prime minister or Governor you tell me I said I said I don’t know let’s make it Governor I like it better but no something’s going to have to be done same thing with Mexico we have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot there are essentially run by the cartels and uh can’t let that happen Mexico is really in trouble a lot of trouble very dangerous place uh and we’re uh going to be
(7:35:43) announcing at a future date pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours we’re going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets we’re going to be uh changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory the Gulf of America what a beautiful name and it’s appropriate it’s appropriate and Mexico has to stop
(7:36:21) allowing millions of people to pour into our country they can stop them and uh we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and can Canada because Canada they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers record numbers so we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada substantial tariffs and we want to get along with everybody but you know they have to it’s it’s got it takes two to tango we’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age it’s going to be a
(7:36:55) golden age for America we have things that nobody else has we have more natural resources we have number one nobody knew that until I came along I made us number one we were number three I made us number one in uh in a very short period of time in drilling and you know you can talk about windmills they litter our country they’re littered all over our country like like dropping paper like dropping garbage in a field and that’s what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage most expensive
(7:37:29) energy ever they only work if you get subsidy the only people that want them are the people that are getting rich off windmills getting massive subsidies from the US government and it’s the most expensive energy there is it’s uh many many times more expensive than clean natural gas so we’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built you know off the coast of New Jersey they want to build like 200 windmills the people are going crazy nobody wants them and they’re very expensive they don’t work without
(7:37:58) subsidy you don’t want energy that needs subsidy energy is a good business you don’t need subsidy but when you build these massive towers and they’re 25 stories tall 40 stories they have 1 70 stories tall the blades they take three ships to ship them it’s crazy they’re dangerous you see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash ashore and I think a 17-year period and now they had 14 this season the windmills are driving the whales crazy obviously and they had actually
(7:38:35) over I think 125 or something over a number of year over a number of years and we don’t want that to happen it’s a disaster from it’s amazing the way a true environmentalist would say oh we love wind it sounds good but that’s about where it ends you know after 10 years you have to redo them and what happens is they don’t do that they let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment I’m not a believer in this but they say you can because it’s a certain fiber lass that
(7:39:02) the blades cannot be buried in Earth that that’s an environment so what do you do with them what do you do with them and I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to Palm Springs California any of these places where you have long-term windmills standing they’re are disaster they’re rusting rotting closed falling down this is as you enter Palm Springs and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down because why should they take them down it’s very expensive to take them down
(7:39:30) and you can’t do anything with them because the blades you can’t bury them because of the Environmental Protection we’ll look at that doesn’t make sense but that’s what they say so we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business and I think we’re also at a golden age of common sense because everything I’m saying to you from a simple water foret that doesn’t allow water to come out appropriately to uh all of the other elements of what we do and what we’re going to do uh to take
(7:40:04) 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country’s balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he’s doing has no idea you know it I know it the Democrats know it what they did is a crime by allowing that to happen and I’ll bet you if you asked him today how much acreage did you submit essentially did you destroy you destroyed the you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean and with AI coming along and all you know a lot of people don’t realize that AI is going to be a big thing but
(7:40:41) you’ll need double the electricity at least that we have right now so right now we produce electricity for many many different things AI is a very big deal in terms of the future China is already building electric facilities big bold electric facilities and you know how they’re being fired up with coal they’re being fired up with coal and uh we’re going to build bigger and better ones people like uh Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is I bet they don’t do it as well because I know how he does
(7:41:15) it but they’re doing a lot of things the problem is they can’t get their permits because I say build the plant with the building so with the structure build the plant because if you go into grid the grids are old so they said that’s a great idea in other words build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it you can make it larger pretty inexpensively you could have extra output which you’ll sell to the public but build it with the
(7:41:42) plant and people are loving that idea so we’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again and it’s going to happen I think very very quickly it’s already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news there’s never been anything like what’s happened to the list since we won the election couple of months since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world is different people from other countries have called me they said thank you thank
(7:42:13) you the perception of the whole world is different we’re going to have to settle some big problems that are going on right now we’re going to have to settle up with Russia Ukraine that’s a disaster I look at numbers every week the number of people being killed in that war people don’t know mostly soldiers now but the towns have been obliterated this was a Biden Fiasco that he got us he could that should have never happened if we had a real president if we had a president that knew what he was doing Russia would have
(7:42:41) never ever gone in but they did go in and we have a mess the cities are all blown up the people have largely left and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven’t been seen since the second world war so we’ll have to get that one straighten out too that’s a tough one much tougher than it would have been before it started I can tell you that a deal could have been made just by an average dealmaker deal could have been made on that uh so thank you all for coming we’ll take a couple of
(7:43:08) questions yeah go ahead please president thank you um wanted to touch on uh the world on fire that you mentioned but let’s start if we could with uh your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth can you assure the world that as you try to uh get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion no and can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is are you going to negotiate a new treaty are you uh going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote what what is the strategy I can’t
(7:43:46) assure you you you’re talking about Panama and Greenland no I can’t assure you on either of those two but uh I can say this we need them for Economic Security the Panama Canal was built for our milit I’m not going to commit to that now it might it might be that you’ll have to do something uh look the Panama Canal is vital to our country it’s being operated by China China and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama we didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it they’ve abused that gift it should have never
(7:44:21) been made by the way giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election in my opinion more so maybe than the hostages the hostages were big deal but if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because you know it’s inappropriate I guess but uh because it’s a bad part of of the Carter Legacy but uh he was a good man look he was a good man I knew him a little bit and he was a very fine person but that was a big mistake giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake we lost 38,000 people it
(7:44:52) cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive of structure if we call it a structure which I guess you can ever built and giving that away was a horrible thing and I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages those two things if I call on Ukraine and and Iran the two negotiations you’ll be heading into um on Ukraine you said just before it’s a lot more complicated now much more complicated do you believe because it
(7:45:26) would have never started right but it has started it’s you you’ve got only started the cities are largely knocked down you got what you’ve got at this point would to hold on to leverage and dealing with uh President Putin would you make a commitment to the ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations well I wouldn’t tell you if that were the case would you make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a Armistice or a ceasefire along the lines
(7:45:54) that the the French and the Germans so uh you know a big part of the problem was Russia for many many years long before Putin said you could never have NATO uh involved with Ukraine now they’ve said that that’s been like written in stone and somewhere along the line Biden said no they should be able to join NATO well then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep and I could understand their feeling about that but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating
(7:46:26) I said you’re going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and it could escalate that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now they can never join NATO well my view is that it was always understood in fact I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it uh they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else but that Biden said no you have to be able to join NATO and that’s always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know years ago
(7:46:56) when I first started this I didn’t know too much about NATO but I got it right anyway I said they’re taking advantage I’m the one that got and the Secretary General was here as you know two weeks ago saying that if it weren’t for me Neto wouldn’t even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren’t paying their bills at that time 28 countries uh 20 of them were not paying their bills 21 to be exact they weren’t paying and or they were paying a very small portion and I raised over
(7:47:25) $680 billion that was the number he gave by saying if you don’t pay we’re not going to protect you and as soon as I said that the money came pouring in but Obama could have said it other people could have said it Bush could have said it nobody said it but me I took a lot of heat they said oh that’s a threatening statement well they weren’t paying their bills I said we’re not going to protect if you’re not paying the bills so in a true sense I Sav NATO but NATO’s taking advantage of us and one of the problems
(7:47:53) that I have and I’ve said it openly I said it to president zalinski Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in now whether you like that situation or not Europe is much more affected than the United States we have a thing called the ocean in between us right why are we in for billions and billions of dollars more money than Europe and you know they’re a similar size a little smaller but they’re a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up and yet Europe is in for a a small
(7:48:28) fraction of the number of the United States is in now Biden could have called them up during the ter that’s what I did I said you have to pay your bills and they all one stood up I won’t say who you’ll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it but a prime minister stood up from a country you know a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press no anybody in the room he stood up he says does that mean if we don’t pay our bill and at that point it was 2% it should be 5% it it
(7:48:59) should be 5% not 2% but at that point it was super but many people didn’t pay some people didn’t pay anything but many people were away including Germany Germany was at less than 1% you’re going to press for 5% well I think NATO should have 5% yeah well you can’t do it at two I mean at 2% every country if you’re going to have a country in a regular military you’re at 4% I think they should be you know they’re in dangerous territory I think you should be they can all afford it but they should be at 5%
(7:49:26) not 2% uh I’m the one they got him to pay 2% but a gentleman stood up a prime minister stood up and he said to me sir could I ask you a question you’re saying we have to pay our bills if we don’t pay our bills will the United States protect us from Russia I said if you don’t pay you mean you’re delinquent he said yes he said if you’re delinquent we will not protect you I took a lot of heat although it was somewhat closed door I took a lot of heat from the media and you know what happened the money started
(7:49:56) pouring in that’s why NATO has money and the Secretary General said uh it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation now if I would have said yes we will nobody would have paid if I I would have loved to say yes we’ll protect you even if you don’t pay but that’s not the way life Works Mr President uh two questions related uh to each other first you said on your first day of office you’re going to Pardon January 6th defendants are you planning to Pardon those who were
(7:50:27) charged with violent offend well we’re looking at it and we have other people in there and as you see I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly nobody reported it but they had people in some form related to the FBI they had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI we have to find out about that we have to find out about Hezbollah we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted you know I see it all the
(7:50:58) time time and you see it too people that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now so we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be making major pardons yes please on Jack Smith report good afternoon Mr President it’s good to see you again two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza about Syria the Pentagon disclosed last month the US has some 2,000 troops in Syria that’s almost double the number initially we were told
(7:51:28) of 900 will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking well I won’t tell you that because it’s part of a military strategy but uh I will say it was Turkey turkey’s been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2,000 years those people that went in are from turkey and president erdogan is a friend of mine he’s a guy I like respect I think he respects me also he’s the one that didn’t go after certain people after I requested that he not you know who I’m talking about the Kurds I don’t
(7:52:01) know how long that’s going because they’re natural enemies they hate each other but he didn’t do that yet and he did didn’t do it in the past also he started and I said please don’t do that and he didn’t do it so but if you look at what happened with Syria uh Russia was weakened Iran was weakened and he’s a very smart guy and he sent his people in there through different forms and different names and they went in they took over and that’s the way it is I’m sorry I don’t mean to
(7:52:33) interrupt you do you have concerns about HTS taking control of by the way I have the envoy here uh is that in the back it is standing with my son Eric is Steve witkoff who’s just got back from the Middle East and he’s done a fantastic job he’s a he’s a a great dealmaker I said what we need there is a dealmaker because nobody makes a deal we have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meatsa bounds and Bounds up but they can’t talk they can’t make deals Steve’s done a great job I
(7:53:04) just want to thank you Steve you’ve been working endlessly for months and he’s working specifically on the hostages trying to get him back well that was my second question is Steve come up for a second maybe you might want to say a couple of words sir another I didn’t know Steve was going to be here actually neither did I he’s done a fantastic job and it’s a dangerous job too and we appreciate it he didn’t know about this kind of danger and the other deal making he does now he sees a lot of big danger
(7:53:34) come on up see Mr President can I ask you second part of that H just one I’m going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can Steve thank you very much thank you Mr President wow um well I think we’re making a lot of progress and I don’t want to uh say too much because I think that uh some some really great ress and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president I actually believe that uh we’re working in tandem in a really good way but it’s the
(7:54:11) president his reputation the things that he that he has said that that are driving this negotiation and and uh so hopefully it’ll all work out and we’ll save some lives I I believe been on the verge of it I don’t want to discuss sort of what’s delayed it that no point to be uh to be negative in anyway but I think it’s the president his stature what he said he expects the red lines he’s put out there that’s driving this negotiation going back I’m going back probably either this evening or
(7:54:51) tomorrow night are you confident there’ll be a deal before January 20th or is that something that’s likely to H if if there’s a deal even at all we’ve been hearing this now for the better part of I I would I would say um they better be right I would say that the president is exasperated I don’t want to talk for for him but but look I don’t know anyone who delegates better than uh president Trump he gives us a lot of authority to speak on his behalf and he’s he exhorts us to speak emphatically
(7:55:24) and emphatically means you better get you better do this because the alternative do you think they’re waiting do you think they’re waiting for president Trump to take office no I think they heard him loud and clear better get done by the inaugural when you say all hell will be all hell must be paid if they don’t release the hostes don’t you do I have to Define it for you look all hell will break out if those hostages aren’t back I don’t want to hurt your negotiation if they’re not back by the
(7:55:52) time I get into office all hell will break out in the middle eastate and it will not be good for M and it will not be good frankly for anyone all hell will break out I don’t have to say anymore but that’s what it is and they should have given them back a long time they should have never taken them there should have never been the attack of October 7th people forget that but there was and many people are killed they’re no longer hostages I have people from Israel and others calling begging me to get you know we had also people there
(7:56:25) from the United States just so you know they they’re holding so some so-called hostages from the US but I’ve had mothers come to me and fathers crying can I get the body of their son back can I get the body of their daughter back that beautiful girl where they threw her in the car pulled her by her ponytail and threw her in the car like she was a sack of potatoes I said what happened to her sir she’s dead like a 19 20y old beautiful girl and the way they treated her and I just say it this very simple
(7:56:59) Steve’s got a job to do he’s a great guy great negotiator great person they respect him over there already it’s what we needed over there we have people that know everything about the Middle East but they can’t speak properly they don’t know he’s a great negotiate that’s what I needed I could have sent that gentleman right over there H say he’s a great negotiator there are people they’re rare great negotiator is a very rare like a great surgeon but we have the right person but
(7:57:26) I tell this I don’t want to hurt the negoti a if the deal isn’t done before I take office which is now going to be two weeks all hell will break out in the Middle East thank you Mr you’ve done a great job more than 140 police officers were injured by riers on January 6th will you pardon anyone who attacked a police officer well you know the only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashley babbit she was killed killed and there was actually somebody else that was killed also a uh magga
(7:58:03) person but people don’t give it 100% credibility I’m going to find out about it and we’re going to find out but Ashley babbett was killed she was shot should had never been shot she was shot for no reason whatsoever in fact they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people so we’ll see but I will tell you this uh the person that was was killed was Ashley bab but the other thing is when they talk you know there was never charges of insurrection or anything like that but
(7:58:37) if there were this would be the only Insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionist with not one gun okay and let me tell you the people that you’re talking about have a lot of guns in their home for hunting and for shooting and for entertainment a lot of lot of good reasons but there wasn’t one gun that they found and why didn’t they find the bomber the pipe bomber you know they know who the pipe bomber is the FBI knows who it is the status of the FBI has gone down so far and the status of
(7:59:12) the doj or as I call it the department of Injustice it’s the department of Injustice being laughed at all over the world and hopefully with Pam bondan with cash Patel and with other people that were putting in that will all come back uh if if do do a poll in the FBI I I guarantee you I’m at like 90% with the Agents of the FBI but they have hurt hurt that incredible Place law enforcement I mean you think of the FBI they raided this house by the way they could have told me could I see this I would have given them I actually told
(7:59:49) them come in anytime you want you could see anything they raided the house and the case was dismissed and now I’m in litigation I’m suing them for doing that and I feel so badly doing it I’m the president of the United States and I’m suing the United States but I’m suing them for other things too uh the FBI has gone so its reputation has been so horribly hurt between Comey who is the worst and all of the others what’s happened to the FBI is and we’re going to make it great again we’re going to make the FBI great
(8:00:24) again we’re going to make the Department of Justice fair and strong but fair again because all they did was attack me because I’m their political opponent and that includes with local judges like Maran you ought to find out why do ask him why do I have a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak think of it I’m the president of the United States and I’m not allowed to speak why because if I did speak people would understand the scam it’s a scam and we have very dishonest judges and New York judges very bad we have had one
(8:00:58) that valued this house at $18 million cuz it was good for their case he actually valued that that chandelier is worth more than $18 million he valued this house at $18 million and we have another one who was so nasty so horrible such a brute most vicious vile person these are New York judges but we’ve won most of the cases so we’re very happy about that question back up their position is clear but have you directed your staff to taking specific actions to draw plans and can you elaborate again you didn’t rule out
(8:01:35) Military coion uh well we need Greenland for national security purposes I’ve been told that for a long time long before I even ran I mean people have been talking about it for a long time you have approximately 45,000 people there people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it but if they do they should give it up because we need it for National Security that’s for the Free World I’m talking about protecting the Free World you look at you don’t even need binoculars you look outside you have
(8:02:06) China ships all over the place you have Russian ships all over the place we’re not letting that happen we’re not letting it happen and if Denmark wants to uh get to a conclusion but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest the people are going to probably vote for Independence or to come into the United States but if they did if they did do that then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level have you asked your staff to draw plans for acquisition I me you are you AC no we’re not at that stage but we have people I
(8:02:38) haven’t even entered office yet secondly secondly sir uh Elon Musk has drawn some criticism and a lot of attention for some of his actions and and provocative statements about uh foreign affairs including in in Europe uh your reaction to that is that appropriate for you mean where he likes people that were that tended to be conservative I don’t know the people I could say elon’s doing a good job very smart guy uh I don’t know the people you’re talking about he he was uh I know he said some negative
(8:03:05) things about a couple of people that are running for office but that’s not so unusual yes please I wanted I wanted to ask you about uh Ukraine and Putin uh how soon do you anticipate going to meet with Putin uh to discuss the Ukraine situation well I can’t tell you that but I know that Putin would like to meet I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet until after the 20th which I hate because you know every day people are being many many young people are being killed soldiers you know the land is
(8:03:35) very flat and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they’re laying in fields all over the place nobody to even collect there’s landmines all over it’s a disaster but it’s very flat it’s great it’s farmland and it’s very very flat and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body and and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets in the within the I hope I hope to have six months first three to six month no I would think I hope long
(8:04:10) before six months look Russia’s losing a lot of young people and so is Ukraine that war would have never happened who would you like to nominate to replace Michael bar as Vice chair of the I’ll be announcing somebody Mr President if we were to work under the assumption that you’re serious about making Canada 51st state of the United States the leader of the conservative party in Canada said under no circumstances will ever be the 51st maybe he won’t win but maybe he will points you would suggest list sir real
(8:04:46) fast you said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland are you also considering military force to Annex an acquire C no economic Force because Canada and the United States that would really be something you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for National Security don’t forget we basically protect Canada but here’s the problem with Canada so many friends up there uh I love the Canadian people they’re great
(8:05:21) but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada we we lose uh in trade deficits we’re losing mass we don’t need their cars you know they make 20% of our cars we don’t need that I’d rather make them in Detroit we don’t need the cars we don’t need their Lumber we have massive fields of lumber we don’t need their Lumber we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put you know restrictions on but I can do that with
(8:05:48) an executive order we don’t need anything they have we don’t need their dairy products we have more than they have we don’t need anything so why are we losing 200 million dollar a year and more to protect Canada and I said that to as I called him Governor Trudeau I said listen what would happen if we didn’t subsidize you if we didn’t because we give them a lot of money we help them as an example we’re buying ice breakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of ice breakers I said you
(8:06:18) know I we don’t really want to have a partner in the buying of ice breakers we don’t need a partner but right to claim to I no right no no right here’s what we have we have a right not to help them with their financial difficulties because we owe $36 trillion too we’re going to start knocking it out pretty fast but we’re going to be able to do it because of energy and other things but uh no no no right no no no right but why are we supporting a country 200 billion plus a year uh our military is at their
(8:06:54) disposal all of these other things they should be a state that’s why I told Trudeau when he came down I said what would happen if we didn’t do it he said Canada would dissolve Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take that 20% of our car up Market you know we again they send us hundreds of thousands of cars they make a lot of money with that they send us a lot of other things that we don’t need we don’t need their cars and we don’t need the other products we don’t need their milk we got
(8:07:20) a lot of milk we got a lot of everything and we don’t need any of it so I said to them well why are we doing it he said I don’t really know he was unable to answer the question but I can answer it we’re doing it because of habit and we’re doing it because we like our neighbors and we’ve been good neighbors but we can’t do it forever and it’s a tremendous amount of money and why should we have a $200 billion deficit and add on to that many many other things that we give them in terms of
(8:07:50) subsidy and I said that’s okay to have if you’re a state but if you’re another country we don’t want to have it we’re not going to have it with European Union either European Union we have a trade deficit of $350 billion they don’t take our cars they don’t take our farm product they don’t take anything and so we’re not going to have it with them either Brian go ahead yes happy New Year by the way thank you we have some breaking news you may not be aware of this but looks like Canon has blocked
(8:08:20) the doj uh from releasing the Smith report until further uh Court proceedings get your thoughts on that W that’s a big story yeah so uh if I get it right the the fake Witch Hunt started by the doj having to do with books and records and and Biden had many more and he wasn’t protected by the presidential records act I was but all of that fake stuff that that took the lives of people I mean literally destroyed people people are destroyed because of what they did destroyed but we got to be president but Biden did it for 40 years he did it
(8:09:02) when he was a Senator that was illegal and they ruled it was illegal how about that they said it’s illegal but he’s unfit to stand trial so he can stand and be president of the United States but the prosecutor found that he’s unfit for trial I was going to use that as a major talking point but I never got to use it because all of a sudden I had a new candidate who was also sort of unfit to stand trial right but uh so what you’re saying is that the judge just blocked the uh so Canon was thrown off
(8:09:36) the case they dropped their appeal because he had no case they dropped all of that uh the lawsuits against us they lost the lawsuit so this is uh dur Jack Smith so he dropped the lawsuits he was told to by the doj because they had no lawsuit they lost in court in front of of a very strong and a very brilliant judge they lost in court and that pertained to other cases in other courts so he wanted to do a report just before I take office probably so he’ll do like a 500 page report and it’ll be a fake report just
(8:10:15) like the investigation was a fake investigation and I said well wait a minute this guy was thrown off in disgrace in disgrace he’s going back to the hag or wherever they’re going to send him in disgrace because he failed so badly because it was a fake case against a political opponent they thought they were going to use this to beat me so what you’re saying is the and I I’m just hearing that that they’re not allowed to issue the report so if they’re not allowed to issue the report that’s the way it should be because he
(8:10:44) was thrown off the case in disgrace why should he be allowed to write a fake report it’ll only be a fake report that’s great news good and if I can just follow real quickly you want to comment uh many Americans are angry that were say sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban do you anticipate it’s it’s not even believable billions of dollar not millions billions we pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban Afghanistan and that’s given by Biden that’s the same man that took away 50 to
(8:11:16) 60 trillion dollar worth of value from the United States think of it probably our most valuable asset took away our most valuable asset this can’t be allowed to happen we are now a nation of common sense when he does that 625 million Acres this can’t be allowed to happen I’m thank you for the information yes sir most other people probably knew about it but they wouldn’t have told me right Mr on the campaign Trail you vowed to bring down the prices at grocery stores very fast but then you recently told Time magazine
(8:11:48) that bringing down prices would be very hard so what can the American people expect when you get into office it’s always hard to bring down prices when somebody else has screwed something up they did but we’ll bring them down we’ll get them down energy is going to bring down prices we’re going to have a lot of energy and energy is what brought it up energy and their bad spending is what brought it up and energy is going to bring it down we’re going to have prices down I I think you’re going to see some
(8:12:12) pretty drastic price reductions as an example food bacon uh ham apples everything has gone through the roof it’s one of the reasons I want so as you know and I said it inflation was one of the reasons I won but I think the biggest reason I won was the fact that they are allowing prisoners to come into our country they released their prisoners their murderers thousands of murderers are now walking around the streets of our cities and and farmland all over murderers people that they’ve killed many 32% have killed more than
(8:12:48) one person they released them from their jails their prisons and their mental institutions and insane asylums into our country I believe that’s the reason that we got such a large vote all maybe one or two more questions yeah please go ahead go ahead can we you go can can you uh President Carter is laying in state today in Washington you had some harsh words for him about the Panama Canal is there any disconnect there do you feel a little bit bad about doing that on this day no I look I liked him as a man I I
(8:13:17) disagreed with his policy so hey he thought giving away the Panama cadal was a good thing I think it cost him the election that and the hostages I actually think that was a bigger Factor because that’s a deal that just should not have been made but uh again this was a question that was asked of me I didn’t bring it up I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death but people don’t bring it up but you know you and other people have asked me about it no it’s a deal
(8:13:44) that I was very strongly against I was a young guy when this took place but just why would we spend all of that money lose 38,000 people to malaria the mosquito they were dying it was horrible what was happening they paid them four times more than they would make in the United States but they knew they were going to go over there and die and they died in the jungles of malaria there was nothing we could do to stop it 38 and then we gave it away for $1 without getting your agenda through Congress you appeared to open the door
(8:14:18) in your radio interview yesterday for two Bill approaches still your preference for one big beautiful bill as you have said well I like one big beautiful bill and I always have I always will but if if two is more certain it does go a little bit quicker because you can do the immigration stuff early now you have to understand for immigration and for the wall we won the case on the wall you know they tried to sell the wall for 5 cents on the dollar by the way and we had fortunately a judge that stopped that but they were
(8:14:47) already discarding the wall and five cents in the dollar and you know what they were doing they were calling us up and saying we’ll sell it back to you at 200 cents in other words double what we paid for it so they were going to buy it from this guy for five cents in the dollar they were making deals unfortunately we had a very smart judge that stopped it called I think he called for an investigation too and he should but think of it there were selling the wall that was exactly the wall that the border patrol wanted that was designed
(8:15:18) by them steel concrete rebar exactly as they want very very heavy steel very powerful steel hard to cut uh very very heavy 7,000 lb concrete which is a very strong concrete everything was top of the line very expensive would be double what we paid for it then six years ago but let me just tell you they were selling it for 5 cents on the dollar to people and those people were calling us asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it immediately and you know what immediately is just leave
(8:15:55) it in place no no the the the papers haven’t written that though you that that deal is like all the other things that these people doing these people either hate our country or they’re very stupid and I don’t believe they’re stupid because nobody can cheat on elections like they cheat and be stupid they either hate our country or they’re stupid so remember what I said because nobody wants to report it they were selling the wall for 5 cents on the dollar and trying to resell it back to us for2 200 cents or less but for 200
(8:16:30) cents on the dollar that’s a that’s a nice return