CC-Transcript

• 00:00Mr. President, you told ABC News yesterday that you could get a very good Garcia back if you wanted to. Do you think President Bucheli would turn you down if you made that request? I really don’t know. I know that he’s been a great friend of our country and he’s gotten a lot less money than this would take from us if we were going to build these jails and do what he’s doing. And they run a very professional operation. I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to him. I really leave that to the lawyers and I take my advice from Pam and everybody that is very much involved. They know the laws and we follow the laws. Exactly. Mr. President, the transition, sir, you frequently took credit for the stock market highs. You said it was a reflection of how well you were doing in the polls. And then after you were elected, you said the stock market highs were a reflection of how well the transition is going and the American people’s confidence in your incoming administration. Now, the stock market’s not doing so well and you’re saying that’s dividing the stock market yet you are the president. Can you explain that? Yeah, I’m going to take credit for this. Credit for the stock market. I’m just saying that we inherited a mess both at the borders. You could look at every single one of the people here, and no matter who it is, they’re doing better. And they are far superior to what took place for four years before us. When you look at prisoners being allowed to come into our country at will, just at will, people from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers, when you look at that, what they’ve done to our country and also having to do with finance. Look at what happened with inflation. We had the worst inflation probably in the history of our country, they say 48 years. But I would say in the history of our country, it eat away at people. And even though you saw a stock market going up somewhat, because in my case, I had the biggest stock market increase, 88% in the last term in my last year. But I don’t view the stock market as the handle. It’s an indicator. But what the stock market really tells you and when you when you look at the stock market in this case is it says how bad a situation we inherited. I took place this is a quarter that we looked at today. And I took we took all of us together. We came in on January 20th. So this is by and you could even say the next quarter sort of buying because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or an hourly basis, but we’re turning it around. It’s a big shift to turn around and we’re going to have the greatest country financially in the history of the world, I believe. I think we’re going to do things and we had to do it. We reset the table. We were being ripped off by every single country with just about without exception. I could I’d have to really think hard for who hasn’t taken advantage. And I don’t even blame those countries. I blame the person that was sitting right near where I am and for allowing it to happen where our country was ripped off on trade, hundreds of billions of dollars. And now we’re doing better than we’ve done in a long time. You know, we were losing four, two, five to even $6 billion a day on trade with Biden. And now we have it down to a very manageable number. And the tariffs, for the most part, haven’t even kicked in yet. So that’s the way stock markets to me are an education. But the big indication is what’s happening. And the people around the table know what’s happening on the street because the deal is set to be signed in 24 hours. What is it true that the Ukraine minerals deal is about to be signed in the next 24 hours or so? There’s a report saying that. And if it’s true, has the deal changed at all from the last time we heard about it? Well, I’ll ask to answer the question, because he is responsible for our side and ready to sign. The Ukrainians decided last night to make some last minute changes. Well, we’re sure that they will reconsider that. And we are ready to sign this afternoon if they are. Can you talk about those last minute changes, What was removed or put in? Nothing’s been removed. It’s the same agreement that we agreed to on the weekend. No changes on our side. Just to put that in perspective, that when I came here, I said how much money will be given to Ukraine? The real number is about $350 billion. That’s of thinkable. And we had no security, We had no nothing. We just pouring money there, unsecured money, putting it in banks, and anybody could have taken it out. Anybody over there was their decision. I’ve never seen anything like it. Europe, on the other hand, which is obviously that whole situation is much more important to Europe because we have an ocean in between. But Europe gave about $100 billion. It’s a lot of money. It’s a big sacrifice they made also, but they gave much less than we did. And their money is secured, totally secured by deposits in banks. The deposits are largely Russian deposits as we. But their money is secure. And so they gave 100 million totally secured. We gave money like it’s throwing it out the window. And it was done by Biden. And this is Biden’s war. This is in Trump’s what I’m trying to get at. And more than the money. They’re losing about 5000 young Russian and Ukrainian soldiers. And mostly there’s some people also being killed in towns where a missile should not have been shot. Small cities and towns. But we are trying to save the lives of about 5000 young, mostly soldiers that are losing their lives. I see satellite photos probably of one of his satellites, come to think of it, But I see satellite photos every week of fields with arms and hands and legs scattered all over. It’s a violent, violent, horrible situation. And more important than the money, I want to save the lives of people from other countries that are dying so stupidly, so needlessly, and they are dying. But I said, What? What are we doing? How did we get into this war? Would have never happened if I were president. Everybody knows and it didn’t happen for four years. Wasn’t even thought of. I discussed it with President Putin a lot. He claimed it was he opposes that, but there was no way he was going to do anything. Zero chance. And I said, you know, we feel foolish. The Europeans are putting up money. It’s totally secure. They get the money back. We’re putting up much more money and they have absolutely nothing. And I didn’t want to make it complicated deal. I didn’t want to make a deal that couldn’t be made because Ukraine does it have very much money. They’re going through a very bad period of time. It’s been brutal. But I felt very foolish, I being a judge. So I said, well, we want something for our efforts beyond what you would think would be acceptable. And we said rare earth and very good, rare earth. As you know, we’re looking for rare earth all the time. It’s rare. Earth is called rare for a reason. And they have a lot. And we made a deal where our money is secure, where we can start digging and doing what we have to do. It’s also good for them because you’ll have an American presence at the Cyprus. And the American presence will, I think, keep a lot of bad actors out of the country or certainly out of the area where we’re doing the digging. So we made a deal and I assume they’re going to honor the deal. And I put Scott in charge, and Scott said it beautifully, but we haven’t really seen the fruits of that deal yet. I suspect we will. I suspect. Mr. President, the progress let’s you set a 90 day deadline through an executive order for Secretary Hague said, and known to review whether to recommend to you whether to invoke the Insurrection Act to send troops to the southern border. Is that something you’re still considering? Well, I’m talking to them and it’s not a hard and fast, but talking to them. And I will tell you that the border is the most secure it’s ever been. We have never had anything like it. And when when you said Christie before, it’s 99.9, 99, and I guess that means one person, maybe or two people, it’s actually turned out to be three people came across the border versus hundreds of thousands of people and divide. And we’re talking about people come look, people, they have they have souls, they have hearts. Many of them are good. But we have a country that’s under siege. We have a country that really is under it. I think it’s under attack in many ways worse than under attack because there are no uniforms. You don’t know who the attacker is. So you really don’t understand. Like you’re fighting an army, you’re fighting people. You don’t even know who they are. But 11,888 murders, many of them murdered, far more than one person are roaming now. Some of them have already been caught. A lot of them have already been caught, taken out. But we’re being impeded by judges from doing our job. And hopefully that situation is going to be solved because I think nobody wants to have murderers and people from jail and I mean, for serious, serious crime. I remember the Biden people used to say, no, these are aliens that came into our country and they don’t commit crime. I said they don’t commit crime. They commit worse crime. They make our criminals Some of these people that they’ve allowed in through open border policies, the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. You can look at some of these people. You say this is not going to end well, but the people that they’ve allowed into our country are making our criminals look like the nicest people on earth. I will tell you, these are serious criminals. These are violent criminals. These are people that would kill you and win or lose an ounce of sleep. And they wake up the next morning and they don’t even remember it. This is a rough, rough, tough group of people. And we’ve got to get them out of our country. And the law says, I believe, I hope and I think Pam will be very successful in proving it. But we’ve run into I would just call them rogue judges. Somebody could criticize me for that. These are rogue judges. These are radical left, generally radical left, horrible judges. And we didn’t lose all of these people. You know, we’ve lost a lot of people to death and to rape all sorts of crimes committed by the people that poured into our country. And they came in totally unimpeded. Just come on in and you see it every night. You’d see thousands and tens of thousands of people pouring into our country. We have no idea who they are. And to this day, we’re looking for people. We have no idea. We hear that we have terrorists in our country that are so bad they couldn’t stay in any other country. But we’re getting them out. And the group between Pete and Christy and Tom Homan and everybody working together, people that you would least suspect are reporting them, getting in. And the public is reporting. The public is saying the public is calling and they’re saying, you know, I live in a house and next to me moved in a group of people and they are very violent and would go and would find out and would say, yeah, you’re right, They were really violent and we have information on most of them. So I just think it’s incredible what’s taken place. But we right now have a very, very secure border. Right now we have the most secure border in the history of our country. So I don’t think we have to worry about your question to Mr. President. Mr. President, I ran against not only against the conservative, but also against you yesterday. Yeah. And yesterday he spoke about American betrayal. Are you interested in rebuilding relations with Canada? And if so, how? No. Well, I think we’re going to have a great relationship. He called me up yesterday, said, let’s make a deal. He had he was running for office. They were both they both hated Trump and it was the one that hated Trump. I think the least that one I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the and the so-called liberal. He’s pretty liberal guy. But no, I spoke to him yesterday. He couldn’t have been nicer. And I congratulated him. You know, it was a very mixed signal because it’s almost even, which makes it very complicated for the country. It’s a pretty tight race, but he’s a very nice gentleman. And we will he’s going to come to the White House very shortly, within the next week or less. Mr.. Mr.. One of your speech to President Xi of China was my first look right now. And I told you before that having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business and they made $1,000,000,000,000 with Biden, $1,000,000,000,000 even a trillion won with by selling this stuff. Much of it we don’t need. You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be opened. Well, maybe the children will have $2 instead of $30, you know, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. But we’re not talking about something that we have to go out of our way. They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which not all of it, but much of which we don’t need. And we have to make a fair deal. And we’ve been ripped off by every country in the world. But China, I would say, is the leading the leading one and the leading candidate for the Chief Ripper offer. But there has never been there has never been a country that’s been ripped off more than the United States of America under some of the dumbest leadership. And it usually starts with the president. And you can go back and I’m not just talking about Biden. That’s been the worst. I mean, the trade deficits and everything else, he’s been the worst. But but he he had no idea what he was doing. And I think somebody had to look at the Europe and to find out who is really running this country, because it wasn’t Biden’s, because nobody could agree to what he agreed to. We put our cash where we put our country at risk, at tremendous risk and fiscal risk. Financial risk. So I think we have it very much. I really believe that the next hundred days is going to be even better than this. Look, I read an editorial yesterday from a group that normally would write good that this is the most consequential presidency in history in the history of our country. This is not a particular group that would write that kind of an editorial. But they see what we’re doing and what we had to do. And I believe that this group, not just me and this group. Wasn’t here. I think our country was going to be in, if it was lucky. Just serious trouble, but a lot worse than that. I think our country could have been a total disaster. Bad things were happening with our country. And we’ve we’ve stem the tide. We’ve turned it around. But we’re going to really turn it around over the next over the next three years, three and a half years, we’re going to turn it around and then hopefully it’ll be in such great shape. That’s my goal, to put it in such great condition that it can’t be destroyed. Do you think you know. You mentioned this last night in your speech in McComb that we’re facing an unprecedented situation where there’s a lot of abuses of nationwide injunctions sort of seemingly designed to curtail your power, specifically when it comes to deporting these illegal, violent aliens that came in under the previous administration. Have you spoken to your team about ways to mitigate this and continue to deliver for the American people that there are ways to mitigate it and there’s some very strong ways is one way that’s been used by three very highly respected presidents. But we hope we don’t have to go that route. But there is one way that has been used very successfully by three presidents, all highly respected, and hopefully we don’t have to go that way. But there are ways of mitigating that. I want to thank you all very much. I thought this was an incredible cabinet meeting. I think there’s probably there’s never been a cabinet meeting like this. You’ve never seen it on tape that I can tell you.