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So this just started, right? Is this live? He's been fantastic as the Speaker. I appreciate it. We won the state, Matt, and you helped me a lot. This is live? So, so, Mr. President. Wait a minute.

I was right within 10 minutes. That's crazy. So we're working on that very hard. What are the odds? I think it'll be, I think we'll come home with a winner for Michigan. Okay? Wow. I just spoke with the Secretary of Defense.

Sometimes we call it the Secretary of War. It used to be called the Secretary of War. They changed it. It sounds way cool. We became a little bit politically correct. Yeah, change it back. But I think we're in great shape. We're going to be in great shape.

So thank you very much for being here. Thank you very much, Matt. Congratulations. Great job. So we'll start with the first orders. And I think we have one for a man named Mike Huckabee. Does anyone know Mike Huckabee? You can tell how happy he is.

It's going to be a great ambassador to Israel. And they're thrilled to have him. That I can tell you. Give me one second. Yes, sir. So the Senate confirmed Governor Huckabee. to be your next ambassador to Israel earlier today. That's his commission as ambassador.

And then we also have a transmittal letter to the president of Israel requesting that he accept Governor Huckabee's, or excuse me, Ambassador Huckabee's credentials. He's gonna be fantastic. He's gonna bring home the bacon. Even though bacon isn't too big at Israel. That's just the third letter. I had to clear that up.

Okay. Thank you, sir. Congratulations to Mike Huckabee. Next, sir, this is a big one. As you've consistently identified, restoring our maritime dominance as a nation is very important, from shipbuilding to having a merchant marine that's capable of supporting American military efforts, really up and down the line, restoring maritime dominance has been a priority of this administration. This executive order, which was prepared primarily by your National Security Council staff and National Security Advisor Walt, has a number

of very significant policy steps, all aimed at restoring American maritime dominance and ensuring that we have the shipbuilding capacity and ability to compete globally, both militarily and in the civilian space as well. And that could be a good one for Michigan, too. This about boats and some Shit. Because we're going to be spending a lot of money on ship building. We're way, way, way behind. We used to build a ship a day. And now we missed the bacon joke. We have the capacity to do it. So we'll talk to you about that. Okay, Matt, think about that. That's a natural. He said your joke. Wait, what? We'll get to it. Okay. Shipbuilding. Wow. That's a good one.

That's a good one. Thank you. Thank you, sir. The next executive order, relates to defense procurement. Our current defense procurement process has been criticized by many folks on both sides of the aisle as being too slow to adapt to new and changing technologies, not delivering the sorts of weapons and systems that our warfighters need in order to compete on the battlefields of the future. So with this executive order, we're going to be modernizing the procurement structure the Department of Defense uses to allow it to more quickly adapt to changing circumstances around the world.

And we're also going to be launching a review of existing procurement programs to ensure that we're getting value for the money. Gravity weapons. We're getting the best possible systems in the field. All right. And which are currently horrible. I'll tell you they're horrible. That process is ridiculous. What they do, they get the highest price and not even good-looking equipment.

Yeah. And we're changing it. We're going to change it to the best. It doesn't even look good? This is very, very important. You guys are going to covenant moments, Raylo? I want to say hello to Brooke. Well, look at Brooks.

You got the cost of eggs down 87%. 87% government. Wow. We have somebody that's done a great job at Department of Agriculture. Gulf of America. Christenome, who perhaps a few of them have heard of. There it is. She has done the most unbelievable job as somebody that's watching over our country at the border.

And with Tom Holman and your whole staff of tremendous people. So thank you. Who would think, who would think that she's, she is like meant for that job, huh? She's meant for it, so I just saw you there both. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good.

We'll do it later, please. Thank you, sir. Lastly, in the defense space, one persistent issue that we've had, in terms of the issue of foreign defense sales, that we're unable to provide weapons systems in a reliable, effective way, to key allies of ours and a key driver of that is inefficiencies and inconsistencies with

the process by which we approve foreign military sales. So this executive order is going to direct your Department of Defense, Department of State, other relevant departments and agencies to rework our system of foreign defense sales. No wonder he showed up yesterday. ...provide equipment, creating American jobs. Now it makes sense. ...revenue to American defense manufacturers, but provide key military equipment to our key allies in a reliable effective way.

Okay, it's good. All very important. Yeah, sure does. Okay. Wow. Because the budget is just about approved, and it's a big budget, and we want to spend the money properly, get the best equipment in the world.

We rebuilt our military during my first term, rebuilt it entirely, beautiful. And then someone was given away to Afghanistan, so stupidly, the most embarrassing day in the history of our country, I think. But it's still, we have, we have to fix it up a little bit. Then that's what we're going to do.

We're going to do a good job of it too. Well, that would be good. Next up, sir, we have a series of executive orders. Oh, shit. There's more? Relating to deregulation, which has obviously been a major priority of your administration. The first of these is an executive order. The Biden administration launched what you've called a war on showers.

They had certain regulations that basically killed the water pressure of showers. Yeah. other water appliances. Yeah. You can say it. Go ahead. What are the appliances? I mean, it's everything, sir.

Dishwashers, toilets, sinks. But the showerheads are a huge deal. There's no water. You don't get water. It's ridiculous. So with this executive order, we're effectively going to be reversing that set of regulations to ensure that Americans

have choice in the consumer market. If they want a low-flow shower head, they can buy one. If they want a real-deal shower head. They don't. They should have to be a little- You buy a new house, you pay a lot of money, and the developers... Maybe I might shower once a week now. Do anything more.

They put restrictions on. I'm just kidding. They used to have a restrictor where you could take it out, but now they weld it in, and you take a shower or wash your hands, whatever you do, including dishwashers when no water comes out. But you wash your hands, and in my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes still.

It gets wet. out drip, drip, drip. It's ridiculous. And what you do is you end up washing your hands five times longer. So it's the same water. And we're going to open it up so that people can live and we're going to hopefully have Congress approve it so it's memorialized.

We're going to try and get all of these things including straws, a little thing like straws a month ago, where the paper straws were melting. Fuck paper straws. They weren't working well. And we went back to the plastic straws. We're going to get Congress to memorialize just about everything we're doing because most of its common sense.

But the water is horrible. When you go into a new, anytime you see a new faucet, you know it's going to be a long, it's going to be a long wash of the hands. And so we're changing. It's a big deal. I did it in the first administration. Biden came in in his like first week. Crazy old to die on. He had no idea what he was doing, but somebody told him to do it.

And his first week, he put the restrictions on all the bathroom utilities. even in areas that have so much water, they don't know what to do with it. You see those areas all the time with the flooding. So we're doing that, and we're going to get all of the things that you've seen. I think we set a record. We're up to almost 200 and 500 amendments. Nobody's ever done that. We're going to get them approved by Congress, so they're memorialized.

And we look forward to doing that. It's very important. And Congress is going to start working on it as soon as we get the big beautiful deal. A big beautiful deal is important. The biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. That's important. You can shower as much as you want now.

All right. Great. Make showers great again? I hear there are a lot of people that enjoy the. It's a 10. They're a good shower. We rate the signatures. That was a 10.

That's why I should. This is another executive order relating to deregulation. Sir. There are a lot of regulations on the books that either promote monopoly directly or prevent new market actions from entering into a given market. The net effect of that is very negative for consumers. What this executive order is going to do is direct your departments and agencies to work with the FTC, with the Attorney General, with the Department of Justice, to ensure that the regulations we have on the books don't function as anti-competitive barriers to new market entrance. The net effect of all of that is going to hopefully be market forces that were down to the benefit of consumers and ordinary Americans as opposed to monopolistic businesses.

I said yesterday he was a great, great student at Harvard before it went bad. It's kind of really bad. Now they're teaching their students' mathematics, basic mathematics. Can you believe it? So what does that mean? They're allowing people in that can't add to and do? What's going on at Harvard? of law school there, sir, and it was pretty liberal

when I was there, but it's gone way off the deep end in recent years. I don't know if you read that. They're teaching them basic mathematics. People that got accepted to Harvard. How come they got accepted if they don't have mathematics? Wait, what? And we're holding back $8 billion. They don't know math?

We give Harvard $8 billion. For what? And we're holding back Columbia. We're holding back a lot of the schools because they were woke. Fuck them. And they've heard a lot of people. Thank you. Requying freshmen to take remedial last bus?

There are a large number of regulations on the books. These are regulations that are currently in effect that we believe blatantly violate the law. Oh. Blatently violate Supreme Court precedent that otherwise are just blatantly illegal. So what this presidential memorandum does basically just directs the heads of your departments and agencies to follow the law and to cease enforcing regulations that are blatantly illegal or unconstitution. Like what? It's a big deal. No example.

Surely, surely, yeah. It's really very important that we get these memorialized. That's very vague. I wonder why. Very important. Yeah. Why could it possibly be vague? This is the last of our deregulatory EOs for the day.

This is like seven in one day? The idea here is that over time, regulations accumulate on the books and in the federal register. And people aren't taking a close detailed look at what's on the books and clearing them out as times change or as regulations become dated or ineffective. What this executive order is going to require is each of your departments and agencies to scrutinize on a continuing rolling basis all of the regulations they actually have on the books and sunset those that either no longer serve a purpose or the departments and agencies can't identify a specific reason for keeping them active. That's probably a good idea. It's actually so needed? Yeah, it's probably like horse regulations that have to do with cars and shit like that. I don't know if they still have any of those, but probably some very end of that.

You shower now with Queen Cole? Thank you, sir. No. Sir, you've taken action against a number of law firms that have in one way or another been involved in the weaponization of government or actions of lawfare. One of those law firms is Susman Godfrey, similar to what we've done previously with other law firms. Put him in jail? This is an executive order that takes certain measures against Usman Godfrey to ensure that they can't access government resources, government buildings, scrutinizing certain aspects of their practices as a law firm given their previous activities.

Yeah, it's harnished, yeah. And we signed with many law firms, the ones that we thought were inappropriate. and they've all agreed to pay $100, let's say, a million. They play, they went for some pretty big numbers. I guess we have a total. What do we have? What's the total right now, Steve, about what you say? Getting close to probably six, seven hundred million now, I would think.

We've multiple at 100 million, some of the hundred million. So the numbers are adding up. We're going to be close to a billion. So, wow. $40 million, $40 million. Millions of dollars an hour. But they don't admit guilt. Remember that.

They don't admit guilt. But then we have another five to go, I think, five of them. And this one is just, we're just starting a process with this one. Yes, sir. Because there were some very bad things that happened with these. Project 2025 is here? In the election of misconduct. Oh, yeah.

Weren't they all involved in the election in this card? I think they were all involved. Oh, geez. Anyway, so they went from $40 million to $125 million, and most of them are at about $100 million, sir. All right. Is it fascism yet? Unfortunately not.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. The next presidential memorandum we have for you. relates to Miles Taylor. You may recall that Miles Taylor served in the Department of Homeland Security during the previous administration. In his capacity with the Department of Homeland Security, he leaked classified information. He wrote a book under the pseudonym Anonymous, making outrageous claims both about your administration and about others in it. What this presidential memorandum is going to do, one, it's going to strip any act of clearance that he has.

in light of his past activities involving classified information. It's also going to order the Department of Justice to investigate his activities to see what else might come up in that context, given his egregious behavior during your previous. Bro, he's getting his chat logs pulled up right now. I had no idea. I saw him on CNN or one of the other than CNN, I guess CNN a lot. Holy shit. Saying that the president is the president.

I had no idea. It's like, you know, in this office you have a lot of young people. And they're here, I'll see him for two minutes, and I assume he was in the office, but I barely remember him. Barely remember him. It was somebody that went out and wrote a book and said all sorts of terrible things who were all lies. And it was like he was like he was this gentleman or that gentleman, like I dealt with him all the time. I had no idea who this guy. I said, who the hell is Miles Taylor?

And he made a living on going on CNN talking about the president. And I think what he did, he wrote a book anonymous, said all sorts of lies, bad things. And I think it's... They're going to investigate him? I think it's like a traitor. Like, it's like spying. He walks into the office. He's supposed to be sitting here.

A lot of people, you know, I'll be here and there'll be 20 people standing in the room. There'll be oftentimes young people in the office. I assume he was one of them, at least. but I didn't know anything about him. And he wrote a book, Anonymous, and I always thought it was terrible. Now we have a chance to find out whether or not it was terrible. But it was a work of fiction.

He got a lot of publicity, got himself a nice job with CNN or one of them. And I think we have to do something about it. You can't have that happen. If that happens to other presidents, it wouldn't be sustainable for other presidents. I seem to be able to sustain. But if that happened to other presidents, I mean, it's just unfair.

And if it was a Democrat president, I'd say that's a terrible thing. A thing like that can happen, that's a terrible thing. And it's time for find out whether or not somebody can do that. Can they write a book about very confidential meetings? And, you know, because they happen. Damn, so he might be a lot of people in the world. And they go out and write a book and,

I should that call it anonymous? It's a big deal. And everybody's saying, who is it, who is it, who is it? Then it was found out who he was a long time later. Yeah. And he got a lot of publicity off that one. He's like a promoter. But we're going to find out whether or not somebody's allowed to do that.

I think it's a very important case. And I think he's guilty of treason if you want to know the truth. But we'll find out. And I assume we're recommending this to the Department of Justice. Yes, sir. Man, so this guy's fucked. He seriously fucked. Yeah. Oh my god. The treason, yeah, bro.

So this guy got his logs pulled up on the Oval Office. Similarly, sir, Christopher Krebs, the former head of CISA. Oh, no. Weaponized his position against free speech in the election context and the context of COVID-19. This is another, it's a similar presidential memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government. existing clearances he might have and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government to investigate some of the Malign Act that he participated in

while he was still head of CESA. So these guys are getting pulled up. This is another one. I don't know that I met him. I'm sure I met him. Oh man. And he came out right after the election. Finally holding them accountable. Thank God. Badly raked the election. We did phenomenally in that election. Look what happened to our country because it had opened borders, millions of people coming into our country. Yeah. Russia and Ukraine, that would have never happened. October 7th would have never happened.

Afghanistan, the way that they withdrew with 13 dead, but so many killed, actually. I mean, so many killed outside of the 13 soldiers, hundreds of people killed. And maybe, I don't know, never mentioned, but I mentioned it, 42 or 43 people, so badly injured the legs, the arms, blown off the face. Sounds pretty bad. And this is all because of an incompetent group of people that preceded us. I think Miles could get permabound. And that would have never happened.

And this guy, Krebs, was saying, oh, the election was great. It was great. Well, it's been proven that it was not only not great. When you look at all these lawyers and law firms that are signing, giving us hundreds of millions of dollars, it was proven by so many different ways and so many different forms. forms from the legislature's not approving to to the 51 intelligence agents. Is this more about the election being fake? From all of the different scanning operations.

There's a very corrupt election. They use COVID to cheat. And we're going to find out about this guy too because this guy's a wise guy. He said, we've improved. This is the most secure election in the history of our country. Now, this was a disaster. And frankly, we should go to paper. ballots. Same day voting.

Oh. Voter ID. And one other thing, you should get a little certificate that says you're a citizen of our country. You get a citizen. Like a receipt? A piece of paper. It says you're a citizen before you can vote. But you want voter ID and you want

paper ballots. That way dumb people can't get it. If you don't have same day voting, if you don't have same day voting, they decide to change the air condition. Oh, we're fixing the air. Let's move all these boxes. We'll bring them back in a few days. and then they don't bring back those boxes. We've got to have safe elections. We have to have borders.

I don't already have that. Ideally, we have to have a free press, which we don't have. Except me. We have a very dishonest press. Except me. This will be an honor. We're going to find out whether we're not. But yeah, everybody else is so true.

He was right. This was a disgraceful election. And this guy sat back saying, well, I'm a member or like he's a Republican or something. And right, almost right from the beginning. beginning and he's tried to make the case that this election was a safe election. I think he said this is the safest election we've ever had. And yet every day you read in the papers about more and more fraud that's discovered. That's a lot.

He's a disgrace. He's talking about. So we'll find out whether or not it was a safe election. And if it wasn't, he's got a big price to pay. And he's a bad guy. There's another one. I have no idea who he is. Crips, I'm sure he was in the room at some point, just like you're all in the room.

But I have no idea who he was. So thank you. So there's signing executive orders to just fuck some dude's life up. Thank you, sir. Lastly, we just have three proclamations. These are the sorts of things that most presidents use an autopen for. You obviously don't like using the autopen much, if at all. The first of these is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.

This is one that you did in each of, I believe, each of the previous administration, recognizes former prisoners of war. More generally, this proclamation is written to acknowledge the great steps you've made both in this administration and your previous administration on behalf of veterans, homeless veterans, others who have suffered in that way, and basically stating that it's a priority of your administration to ensure that veterans and homeless veterans are cared for properly. And you know what they ought to find out who was using that auto pen? That's a great question. Whoever that person was, he or she, that's the president. It was like the president of the United States. And I'm against autopens. I think auto pens are not a good thing, especially when you're talking about documents like we're signing today.

If he can't sign, then he can't be president. It's pretty simple. Let's see whether or not he could sign. but I think that should be tested. I really think that should be tested. It's another one. And you may think about it because how can a man that, did he really know that when they gave all false information on the council?

I mean, the whole unselected committee of political lunatics, they destroyed all the information. You can't get any information. They went for like a year and a half, almost two years, screaming and ranting and raving Democrats plus two worse than Democrats You had Cheney Liz Cheney and crying

Adam Kissinger Crying at him Every time I looked at him he was crying The guy was a crier But You can't do that You just can't do that So

Crying at? I think we're going to find out a lot These last three or four have been very He's been really He's been making up some new names nowadays right? Yeah, it's been a while. But I don't think a president should be allowed to use an auto pen when they're saying very, you know, important legislation.

I think a president should sign it, not use a bill pen. And we're going to find out whether or not he knew what the hell it was doing. I'm sure at this point he'll say I signed it. They'll tell him what to say. But to give pardons to people that destroyed all the information. If you destroyed information on a civil case, just a civil case, not a criminal case, a civil case.

They put you in jail for that. And they found out that Pelosi was the one that was in charge of the security of the Capitol. She knew all about it. And she admitted her guilt to her daughter, who was a movie documentary person. January 6. She was not too happy about that. Sure, Crazy Nancy's not too happy. But we found out all the things, everything.

And we go for the information. Sir, we've destroyed all of that information. information. If I ever destroyed it, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. I guarantee you that I'd be sitting someplace else. So I think it's something that we should really look at because that's so important the whole concept of an auto pen because whoever, who was, you know, auto pens are run by somebody. Whoever ran the auto pen was president of the United States. And I would be willing to bet that Biden didn't know, probably didn't know anything about any of it. Very dangerous, very dangerous. He just didn't.

You going to check that out, right now, sir. This is just another proclamation, sir, declaring national crime victims' rights week. You've obviously made it a major crime. He's still going to talk about Biden. Track down and at times deport criminals who have committed violence on our streets, who have victimized so many people. This is an annual proclamation that hopefully gets Americans to remember that when crimes occur, there are real victims.

There are real people who are affected. There are people who suffer as a result. Okay, it's very important. Thank you. I just want to add so we're working very hard with Democrats, the governor, with Matt Hall, with a lot of transportation, Sean, and all of the people trying to keep Selfridge Air Force Base open, strong, thriving. And I think we're going to be successful, Governor. I think we'll be very successful that. Bro is not getting a third term.

We meet Hanks, Seth, and Department of Defense. And talking about F-16s and talking about F-35s, you know, et cetera. It's a great piece of property. It's a great location. And it's a great state. So I think we're going to come back with a very good answer. We're also working on a certain fish that's taking over a beautiful lake called Michigan, right? What?

And that's a tough one. That's a tough. Do you want to just talk about that? Mr. President, yeah. First of all, I want to thank you for caring so much about Michigan. We've been working a long time. Oh, we still have the FIFA thing. We couldn't get Joe Biden to do anything about either one of these issues,

particularly Selfridge Air Force Base. It'll be critical to Michigan's economy and our security when you're able to deliver us another mission there. But on the Asian carp, you know, for years when Obama was there, we could never get anyone to do anything about this, this invasive species that's going to destroy our great lakes. You know how important recreational fishing and so much of that is to our state. Because of your work, we're hopeful that we'll get a solution there and we'll get that barrier built so we can protect our great lakes.

So thank you, Mr. President. Asian carp. I mean, I assume they jump out of the water. They jump at the fishermen. I've never said anything like it. Has this gotten into any of the other lakes yet? Because you would think it would be pretty easy because they're all sort of connected. Oh, shit.

That's why we're working so hard to make sure that, you know, we work with the Army Corps and erect a barrier so that the Asian car can't get into Lake Michigan. Holy fuck. The economy, tourism. And it's 20% of the world's fresh waters in the Great Lakes, Mr. President, which is why it's so important that as a nation we protect the first waters. Yep. Yeah, fuck them. all of a sudden, I assume the lakes, they're all interconnected, right? So at some point, they're going to be in the other lakes.

And so we're going to work hard on that. I spoke with the Army Corps of Engineers, and they have a method. It's a pretty gruesome method, but it's a method. And I think they know what to do, so we're going to work on that very hard. And thank you, Governor, very much. Sort of a bipartisan thing when you get it right down to it. It's a very expensive thing, actually. It costs a lot.

I looked at the numbers. I said, well, but we have to save Lake Michigan because these fish, they eat everything in the way, including the other fish. They eat everything. Are people endangered by the fish? I don't. I think it's, I mean, they're going to eat all the fish there. We won't be able to fish anymore. And that's a big deal in Lake Michigan. There's a lot of fishing, recreation. So it's going to be a problem there. But you're right, it's bipartisan, sir. But you're the one taking action on these issues. We couldn't get Biden to do it on Selfridge. This thing has been delayed for what 15 years where we were trying to do it.

We started under Obama where we were trying to do it. He wouldn't do anything about it. So we appreciate you paying so much attention to this and taking action. Well, I would. And the governor in all fairness called me about it. I had seen it. And she called me and John James called me. We spoke with your office.

And it's, you know, I want to put that down. It really is bipartisan. It's great to see it, actually. It's great to see that. And that includes self-rich, too. And we're going to get it done and we're going to we'll all stand there together and cut a ribbon. Okay, Gretchen, good. It's good.

We'll cut a ribbon when we kill all the fish. All right. You brought it up and I'm glad you brought it up, Matt. Appreciate it. Clark can get giant, not anymore. 70% of the time. Oh, geez. All right, good.

We'll have a big, we'll have something to celebrate pretty soon. So pretty sure about that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, great. You have any questions? Mr. President. Mr. President, where does the

TikTok deal stand. Given what we've seen, you know, the terror of China. But obviously, I would say right now China's not exactly thrilled about signing it. We have a deal with some very good people, some very rich companies that would do a great job with it. But we're going to have to wait to see what's going to happen with China. So is it all the president. So no, it's under-tentered very much.

I think China's going to want to do it, actually. Mr. President, do you plan to what you believe is the end game with China. Are you waiting for President Xi to blink? How do you think this is all going to be resolved? Look, for years we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by China and others, in all fairness. Oh, China. That's a big one. And just one of those things.

We're making $2 billion a day right now, this country. $2 billion a day with tariffs. Wow. And they were making $2 billion a day. Now they're not. We'll be making more. Now when you see what happened today, I don't know if it's still. there. I looked an hour ago, but we were up close to 3,000 points. Nobody's ever seen a day like

that. I think that's a record, isn't it? Fellas? Definitely. Definitely. Absolutely, sir. A hundred percent. After watching. But because the geniuses of the world, they get it. Our country is very strong. We were left a very, very weakened country, both economically, financially, because of all of the tariffs and all of the other companies just raiding us and ripping us off. And also at the border, where 21 million people were allowed to come in. Many of those people were criminals. And but the people that do this for a living, some of them are very smart and some of them aren't smart at all. But these guys are very smart. And my group is very smart. Right. Group is smart. And you've done so amazing on the border. I read the other day there were nine people and hundreds of thousands, two years ago with

Biden, and we had nine. We had it down to nine. And they were all let in for medical reasons. They were in bad shape. We let them in for medical reasons, not even for anything else. So you've been amazing. But that's a big thing. I think it's one of the greatest problems that I've never seen anything like it. Open borders. The whole world was emptied out prisons from all over the world. I thought this was about TikTok. In Africa, from Africa to Asia, a lot of themselves. America, but it wasn't just South America. Prisons emptied out. What about tickets?

And I set it outside with the drivers before, but El Salvador has been amazing a job that the president has done. He's coming to see me next week, and we look forward to that. Take a detour. That's really been amazing. Yes. Mr. President, the EU also announced increases in terrorists today. Right.

Why not triad timing for them? That's bad timing. Why not? They didn't put them in. No, they threatened them, but they picked a later date, which our expectation is. It's going to be later still. They roached out. If you were watching the market.

If this was the strategy all along to bring them to the table, why did you instruct or advise or maybe they did it on their own, some of your top aides to say this is not a negotiation, to hold the line, that they were going to hold the line, that you were not going to change their line. Sometimes it's not a negotiation until it is. And that happens. What do you mean? You know, I said outside that you have to have flexibility to do it right. What a stupid question?

We brought everybody to the table. And it may not be a negotiation. It may not last. A moron. Things may be as that I think are not fair to us. Look, we've been ripped off by essentially everybody for 35 years. This is not just a new thing. And Roger Penske just left.

He's a great gentleman, great man, actually. And he said no other president would have had the guts to do this. And I believe that's right. They wouldn't have done it. They should have done this a long time ago. A long time ago they should have done. I started it with China. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes from China in my first time.

And we had the greatest economy. We were up 88% on the stock market. That was the greatest ever in the history of our country. But it had to be done. It's something that had to be done. Mr. President, please. Mr. President, thank you so much. Which countries will be negotiating first?

Do you have any criteria? Because for example, Brazil and the UK, they do not have deficits with the U.S., they have a surplus. They do not have a surplus. They have deficits with the U.S. So what is the criteria? And also, would you consider talking or meeting with Xi Jinping? No, sure. He's a friend of mine.

I like him. President Xi, I like him. I respect him. But they haven't treated our country. sure I'd meet with him. On the other countries, we have, Japan is here and South Korea is here. Others are here and we're trying to see him. From what I hear, it's much more than 75. I said 75 plus. It's so many. It's everybody wants to make a deal, actually. And, you know, we want to do what's right for our country. We didn't even listen to the question. The world is important. I mean, it's the world, right? And I think we're going to make a lot of

people very happy. And I think investing in the United States of America will be the greatest investment that anybody's ever made. Mr. President, we just expect to see the sectoral tariffs, so the pharmaceuticals steal. Is that something you're still considering moving forward? Yeah, well, I will be because we want them coming back. You know, we realized during COVID that we don't make our drugs and our pharmaceuticals in this country. So I realized that. And it was a big realization. We had to go to China, get drugs. We had to go to other places. I won't even mention the names, but we had to go to other places. We don't make it. And that's because we let them leave. And now if they want to

come back, we're going to put tariffs on the pharmaceutical companies. And they go, make America showers great again. I'm not going to pay them any money like Biden with the chip deal. That chip deal was horrible. They give billions and billions of dollars to chip companies. All they have is money. They have so much money. And they give billions of dollars. They're just going to keep the money. They're not going to spend it. And the only thing that's going to bring them back is you say, we have a barrier. You have to pay 50% or 100% or 200% and if they have to pay that, they're going to say, we're not going to pay that. We're going to build here. And that's what happened with the biggest, most prestigious chip company in the world. Spending $2 to $300 billion,

billion. Think of that, billion dollars to build. Essentially one massive plant. It'll be one of the largest plans. I was like two weeks ago, actually. Very quickly, we're going to get them energy. We're going to get them the electricity they need and the energy that they need. And it'll be approved by Lee Zeldon, a total professional. And it'll be approved very quickly. They'll get their zoning very quickly. They'll have everything done in a matter of months. Thank you, sir. You've procured a record amount of private sector investments since your election. Seven trillion dollars. You talked about the important. all of all that. Can you talk about how these investments will have a positive impact on families

who felt like the previous economy left them behind and why your executive orders on coal yesterday is so important. What about McDonald's and pizza? Thank you. And what about that? Which is correct. We have, I would say, more than $7 trillion now, right, of investment coming in. Apple is coming in for $500 billion alone. We have other companies coming in with massive numbers. We have, we have, car companies that are coming in. We've never seen anything like it. Maybe in the 1940s or 50s or something, but we've never seen anything like it. They had three plans canceled in Mexico. Not that we want to hurt Mexico, but we're for us. And that's what my job is. It's not to take care of other countries. I want to help other countries as much as I can, but we have to take care of America

first. And it's about America first. So we have many, many companies coming in that would have never come in if we didn't win the election and then put the tariffs on. And they're coming in because when they build in the United States, there are no tariffs. You don't have to pay any tariffs. So instead of paying 30, 40, 50%, or 25%, but it could go a lot higher in some of the industries. So we have steel mills right now that are raging.

The steel industry was gone. If I didn't put the tariffs on steel, because China was dumping massive amounts of steel in my first term, and I put tariffs on it. I saved the steel industry, but now it's going to thrive, maybe like never before. I mean, if you go back to U.S. Steel from 90 years ago, it's incredible. It's the number one company in the world for a long time. That's why we don't want to see it go to Japan.

And we love Japan, but, you know, U.S. Steel is a very special company. We don't want it to go to Japan or any other place. So we're working with them, and, you know, I don't know if they need any money now. I'll be honest with you there. They hit gold. They hit gold because if you look at it, they have such orders for steel now. It's incredible. What's going on in our country is incredible with respect to plans.

So we lost 90,000 plants and factories from the beginning of NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made in the history of this world. That's pretty good. But certainly in the history of trade. There's never been a worst trade deal. We were able to cancel that. We had to get approval from Congress. It was like it was like a disastrous curse because you know, you had to go to Congress to get it terminated.

You couldn't just terminate it because it was a bad deal. And you had people in Congress that didn't want to do it because they had other reasons, maybe bad reasons. Mostly not there anymore those people. But it's amazing what's up. I appreciate that question because it's incredible. I don't think we've ever seen anything like it. $7 trillion. And it's much more than that because, you know, these are.

places that we know, seven trillion dollars is unheard of. I never looked at the Biden numbers. Are we getting that much money? You could go a whole year and it was it was peanuts. People, everybody was leaving. They weren't coming in. They were leaving and that means jobs are leaving. And so we're not, we're not playing games.

We're going to make this country greater than ever before. Wow. Thank you for that question. Mr. President, it seems that John has take me. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Thanks for the past few days, we've heard from the past few days. administration no pause. Was this idea of doing a pause? Did that just come about this morning? He invented it. Tell us exactly what came into consideration for you and your advice.

For a period of time, I would say this morning over the last few days I've been thinking about it. I've been dealing with Scott, with Howard, with some other people. It was a vibe. Yeah. It came to him in a dream. I think it probably came together early this morning, fairly early this morning. We didn't have the use of Oh, shit. We didn't have access to lawyers or it. We just decided we're going to do it. It was written from the heart.

And I think it was well written to it. He's actually winning the whole thing. It was written from the heart. It was written as something that I think was very positive for the world and for us. Wow. And we don't want to hurt countries that don't need to be heard. And they all want to negotiate. Yeah.

The only problem is, you know, you can only do so many at one time. It's like, we want to do it right. We want to get it right. We want to take care of them. We need to take care of our cards. But this was something certainly we've been talking about for a period of time, and we decided to pull the trigger. And we're happy about it.

I didn't know it would have that kind of an impact, but it's, you know, I think you have the biggest increase in the history of the stock market. That's pretty good. That's pretty, you're almost. Is that true? Probably not, right? It was four weeks ago. But it was a sick market four weeks ago, you know, because there's trade.

It was only a question of time. I don't blame the tariffs. I think the tariffs just sort of magnified what was happening. It was sick. Biden allowed these people to get away with murder. Biden allowed China to just take advantage of us. Biden wasn't even there. He was asleep with China.

Trillion dollar deficit. So that was going to only be a matter of time. I think the tariffs brought it out faster and they magnified the problem. But I think this was a problem that existed far beyond. tariffs. This is a this was a systemic problem and do you guys think the real president was with Biden? Maybe to a large extent we have because we've revealed it and we've revealed it very strongly. Yes sir please. Thank you Mr. President. So it seems China has made some serious

missteps here in these negotiations and Secretary Besson said earlier you may have goaded them into a tough position here. I'm wondering is are you in a way putting together a coalition against China in terms of trade. Yes, you are. Yes. That's exactly what you're doing. I don't blame China for what happened.

I blame the people sitting right at this desk, right behind this desk or another desk. You get your choice of seven. I happen to pick the resolute. But I blame the people sitting behind in this chair, behind this desk for being stupid and competent or not having courage. This should have been done years ago. This should have been done before.

Obama, in all fairness. Wow. Not only Biden, Obama. You should have been done many years ago. This started with the World Trade Organization, which was owned by China. It was owned and paid for by China. That's not good.

They didn't even have to do things. They considered them. We don't blame Bush for anything for a while. Undeveloped. Besides, you know. They said they were a developing nation. Well, we're a developing nation, too, if you think about it. Look at our inner cities. Look at what's happened. I think we're starting from ground zero there.

Right. So we're a developing nation too. No, I don't, I know it's... I don't know why you did it either. I don't think people to keep for saying that, but I blame the people sitting at this desk more than I blame China. If China can get away what they got away with, with taking hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars right out of our pocket. Can't hate on... Because our people here were stupid. They were stupid people. Maybe corrupt. I don't know. I don't know how you can be that stupid.

How do you get to be president and you're stupid? But they certainly weren't courageous. And they allowed this to happen. Oh, man. And with many other countries that took advantage of us. We had deficits with almost every country. I used to read these things. First term, I'd read them.

I'd actually read the agreement. So I'd say, how could anybody agree to this stuff? Yeah. So certainly, and they were rough, and they were tough and they were smart. And you can blame them. But I really blame the people that allowed them to do. it because you know you if you could read first grade and you could read these agreements you'd say these are terrible deals so Biden's retarded and he made us lose a lot of money

deals like this to be made for our country is his second dream today yeah and maybe it's people that didn't care maybe it's people that weren't courageous maybe it's people that were corrupt I don't know but uh I blame those people more than I blame anybody else yeah you can't hold it against China and saying that you would like the EU to purchase U.S. energy. Is there something specific that you would like China to do? Well, you'll be hearing about that. Yeah, there are a lot of things I'd like China to do.

There's a lot of things that I want China to do, and I'll be telling China what that is. Not you, but I'm telling China. You said the other day that if they do not agree to a potential nuclear deal, that it would be very dangerous for them. What specifically did mean? Well, they can't have a nuclear oil. That's a wrong.

The military action, though, if they don't. Oh, we're going to blow them up. Oh, if necessary, absolutely. Yeah. I told you guys. I told you. You didn't want to listen. Yeah.

Do you have something definitive this weekend, or do you see this as a sort of a process? It's a start. Yep. We have a little time, but we don't have much time. Who is he starting? Because we're not going to let them. Absolutely. And we're going to let them thrive.

I want them to thrive. I want to thrive. Didn't Russia say they wouldn't defend a wrong? The only thing they can't have is a nuclear weapon. And they understand that. You know, the people are so incredible in Iran, and they're so smart. They're very smart people. Yes, sir.

But, you know, they're in a rough situation, rough regime. But they understand, and the leaders understand. And I'm not asking for much. I just, I don't, they can't have a nuclear weapon. And I've said that. And I was a little bit surprised because when the election was rigged, I figured they'd get the weapon because with me they were broke. They were broke.

They had no money because of the sanctions. Nobody could buy oil. We did that to Venezuela just recently. And we'll do it to other countries if we have to. I want to see Russia and Ukraine make a deal. Rip Iran, I guess. When schools get blown up and bad things happen like I'm hearing about, it's no good.

I hope we're going to make a deal with Russia and Ukraine. But with Iran, yeah, if it requires military, we're going to have military. Israel will obviously be very much involved in that. So we're going to blow them up through Israel? But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do. When would the talks? When would the talks need to conclude before you might?

Get some use of that money. When you start talks, you know, if they're going along well or not. And I would say the conclusion would be when I think they're, not going along well. So that's just a feeling. Mr. President, on the subject of U.S. troops stationed in Europe, do you have any plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Europe or in other NATO countries? Well, good. I mean, it depends. The vibe, president.

We pay for military over in Europe. You know, we don't get reimbursed by much, South Korea, too. So it would be one of the things we discussed that's unrelated to trade, but I think we'll make part of it because it makes sense. Be nice to wrap it all up in one package for each country. You know, it's nice and clean, and we have plenty of law firms. These are great law firms that we signed with, the best. And I think part of the way I'll spend some of the money that we're getting from the law firms, you know, in terms of their legal time. South Korea is our hassle state, are there? If we can do it, I think we can do it. Using these great law firms to represent us with regard to the many, many countries that we'll be dealing with, we have good lawyers

representing us, but we want to have good lawyers and these are the best, considered the best in the world, right? I mean, considered the best in the world. I don't know. They just went off a little bit. Mr. President, two questions. Don't Iran, do you have an update on who will be participating or conducting these conversations? We would be there on Saturday for this directs. Iran. And on China, some economies are saying that right now is technically a embargo on China with 125% tariffs. Are you concerned of escalation beyond the trade war with China? No, I'm not concerned.

I think President Xi is a very smart guy, and I think we'll end up making a very good deal for both. But, you know, we've been treated so badly for so many years. Again, we allowed that to happen. Oh, jeez. We've been treated so badly for so many years. But, no, I don't expect that. I think President, she is one of the very smart people of the world,

and I don't think he'd allow that to happen. And we're very powerful. This country is very powerful. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have, more powerful than anybody even, not even close.

So nobody's going to do that. But I think that if that's what you're referring to, maybe it's not. But just in terms of basic escalation, which is what you said, No, I think that President she is a man who knows exactly what has to be done. Man. He's a very smart man. He loves his country. I know that for a fact. I know him very

well. And I think he's going to want to get to a deal. I think that's going to happen. We'll get a phone call at some point, and it'll be off to the races. It'll be a great thing for them. It'll be a great thing for us. It's going to be a great thing for the world and for humanity. Do you have plans to meet with Kudu in Saudi Arabia? At some point, I would you? We'll have to see.

I mean, we have to get there right now. We've got to get there. In the meantime, they're losing 2,500, on average, young people. Every single week, think of that. 2,500 people a week. It's not even conceivable. Nuclear bunker stocks about to go crazy? I have a feeling that won't matter.

Yes. Do you have to increase tariffs on China even more before they come? come to the table or give you a call? I can't imagine it. No, we can't imagine. I don't think I'll have to do it. Great. I don't think we'll have to do it more. That way they let their guard down and then he can do it and it feels worse. By the way, you know, when you hear 100, a lot of people charge much more than that.

Canada charges much more than that to our farmers, our dairy farmers. Yeah. Many, many people charge. That's why he's saying it. Much more than 100 or 125 in this case. But I don't you know it's still a significant number. I don't see no I don't see that again. I see the investigation. Yeah.

Mr. President, so do you think some of your tariff critics would prefer, you know, to see the United States go through turmoil than to actually see it succeed just because they are your policies? Yes. You mean just leave the tariffs the way they are now and just relax, right? Some people have said that. Look, yeah, again, we're making. Yeah. It'll be soon much more than $2 billion a day. That's not the worst thing that I've ever heard.

So, yeah, some people say that. But, you know, we look at the other side, too. I think as the United States, we have an obligation to look also at the other side. We want what's good for everyone. I mean, it's America first, but we also want to make sure there's a world that can live and live happily and all of that. Wow. So, you know, what a nice guy. There are people that say, look, where we are now, I've been in worse positions in my life than making $2 billion a day plus, plus, right?

It's really plus plus. Thank you very much, everybody. Man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The markets are what really changed your mind when it came to. The markets right now are extremely good.

Thank you. What a surprise. He made an exception to answer a question about how well he's doing. Wow. What a dude, who could have expected that? That's crazy. Wow, what are the odds? So basically, let me get this straight.

The tariffs were a vibe. The negotiations are a vibe. Getting rid of the tariffs was a vibe. The countries you're going to negotiate is also somehow about, man, go back for the bacon. joke? Okay. I'll see if I can find it on Twitter. Give me a second. So the Senate confirmed Governor Huckabee to be your next ambassador to Israel earlier today. That's his commission as ambassador. And then we also have a transmittal letter to the

president of Israel requesting that he accept Governor Huckabee's or excuse me, Ambassador Huckabee's credentials. He's going to be fantastic. He's going to bring home the bacon. No, bacon isn't too biggan is wrong. It's just a... I had to clear that up. Oh, my God. Oh, my fucking God. Holy shit, guys.

All right. Well, there it is. So the vibe he got today was total economic collapse from bod-market implosion. Maybe. I don't know. But, yeah, apparently, are we on a good path? I think this is probably a good idea. I mean, if he's able to negotiate deals that are better for us,

then I feel like we're better than before the deals. Doesn't that make more sense? Yeah.