Are you prepared to order National Guard
troops though into American cities if
those governors don't request the
federal deployment?
>> I am. But I I also think that look,
Chicago,
uh, everybody knows how bad it is.
Everybody standing there knows. We know
you don't have to be doing any studies.
They should be saying, "Please come in."
Uh, Pritsker should be saying that. You
know, I did a favor for Christie uh for
Christy Whitman Whitmer uh a good a good
favor, I think, uh with the fish, the
carp, the China carp. Did you ever hear
of it? China carp. And it's taken over
your great lakes. You know about that,
right? And she came and she wanted to
know if it's possible for us to do
something about it. And I said, "Well,
I'll do." But I think it's appropriate
that the person from Illinois, the
governor from Illinois asks also. It's a
tremendously expensive project,
actually. It's invasive. It's horrible
what's happened. And we can do it with
GSA and various people, but we can do
it. We're going to just have to see what
happens. Okay. We're going to have to
see what happens. But
>> you believe that you have the legal
authority.
>> The governor of Michigan came, was very
respectful, asked for it. uh she's done
a good job. We I I I did that I opened
the Air Force base, you know, kept it
open for F-35s and various planes,
F-22s, too. Uh I did that for the state
of Michigan at her request. And I will
and also at our congressman, you know,
we have congressmen that are
unbelievably
pro- Michigan up there. Uh but some of
this stuff like the lakes, the great
lakes, this is a big problem that nobody
ever talks about. Most of you probably
have never heard of. We have a very
pretty violent fish that has uh comes
from China. Uh China carp, Chinese carp,
and uh you see them jumping out. They
jump into boats and they jump all over
the place. They've got a lot of energy
and uh there's a way of getting rid of
them. was very expensive and
we I didn't get a request from the
governor of Illinois is affected maybe
more than anybody else. Right. And I
think until I get that request from that
guy, I'm not going to do anything about
it. And I feel the same way about crime.
We go in, we will solve Chicago within
one week, maybe less, but within one
week, we will have no crime in Chicago,
just like we have no crime in DC. But,
you know, I don't like to go in and do
it and then have somebody stand up and
say what a great job he's doing on crime
and we don't want the military in our
state. We don't want the military. Do
you understand?
>> Do you understand that?
>> Yeah. These governors will say there was
no emergency.
>> We're going to have a little meeting. I
think you know I I feel like
>> we go in and we do it like here to a
lesser extent with the mayor. She she
hasn't been terrible but she hasn't been
you know exactly saying oh great. She
said, she did say last night, I heard
her say that, "Well, we really don't
want the military in DC." Well, that's,
you know, not very nice. I guess that's
a little bit of a hit, but she's not as
bad as some. Uh, we saved Los Angeles
and all we did is get criticized by this
idiot that's running the state into the
ground, right, where people are leaving.
Uh, he should be thanking us and he
should be requesting us to be there and
the governor of Illinois should be.
Chicago is a disaster. And the governor
of Illinois should say, "President,
would you do us the honor of cleaning up
our city? We need help." They need help.
They need help.
>> We may wait. We may or may not. We may
just go in and do it, which is probably
what we should do.
>> The problem is it's not nice when you go
in and do it and somebody else is
standing there saying as we give great
results, say, "Uh, well, uh, we don't
want the military." They need they need
help badly. Chicago desperately needs
help. Just look at the the crime
statistics. Look at the statistics that
JD said about even I didn't know it was
that bad. That's terrible. But all I
know is we're being celebrated because
we went an entire week. Now it's 11
days. We went an entire week without a
murder. And I said, "Boy, that sounds
terrible." I didn't know how. I actually
made a speech. I didn't know how to say
it because it's a great number. It's a
great thing, but it sounds so bad. I
mean, supposing you're from a foreign
country which is properly run and they
don't have murders and things, right, so
much uh or in some cases virtually at
all. And you have somebody saying, "I'm
proud to announce that nobody was
murdered in the capital of the United
States this week." It sounds terrible,
>> but Mr. President, what about
>> Gavin Newsome? You mentioned Gavin
Newsome.
>> Gavin Newsome. Yes. Uh, is there a
federal mechanism you're hoping to use
to fight back against his redistricting
constitutional amendment or is that
count?
>> Well, I think I'm going to be filing a
lawsuit
uh pretty soon and I think we're going
to be very successful in it. We're going
to be filing it through the Department
of Justice. That's going to happen.
We're also going to be filing a lawsuit
on blue slipping. You know, blue slips
make it impossible for me as president
to appoint a judge or a US attorney
because uh they have a gentleman's
agreement. It's nothing memorialized.
It's a gentleman's agreement that's
about a hundred years old where if you
have a president like a Republican and
if you have a Democrat senator, that
senator can stop you from appointing a
judge or or a US attorney in particular.
Those two those are the two I guess
anything but those are the two that are
very important. So we have numerous
states where we have unbelievable
people. Now Jay Clayton was just
approved in the southern district but he
was so good. He was a top student, top
schools, top everything. Went to
Sullivan at Cromwell became the head of
Sullivan and Cromwell. Came down here
was securities and exchange commission.
Ran it for four years during my term
like impeccably. Beautiful job. He did
an incredible job.
and we went to court and the judges,
Democrat judges, voted that he can.
That's the only way you get by it. But
generally speaking, you can't do that
because you'll have judges from the
other party. So, uh, so Jay Clayton just
got approved and he's in. But he didn't
get approved by the senators. He got
approved by the court system in New
York, which was a great thing. And I had
a big victory in New York, I might add.
I saved myself $500 million with a fake
corrupt uh attorney general, a a really
corrupt person with a corrupt judge who
was disgraceful and they're being
they're being mauled right now by
everybody. Just it's so corrupt and it
kept business out of New York. It stuff
like that. But the appellet division uh
vacated all of that stuff that you read
about and uh we we're going to do a big
number on that whole thing. uh you can't
have a corrupt court system, you can't
have that. You have to have borders and
you have to have a free press otherwise
you don't have a country. But uh you'll
be hearing about the blue slipping
because if you have not you don't need
two Senate, you just need one Democrat
senator with a Republican. The only
person that I can get approved are
Democrats or maybe weak Republicans, but
we don't want that. But the only person
I will be able to get approved in any of
those states where you have a Democrat
will be I can't get a US attorney. I can
only get a Democrat US attorney. Uh and
this is based on an old custom. It's not
based on law and I think it's
unconstitutional and I'll probably be
filing a suit on that pretty soon. Yeah,
please. During the campaign, you called
Camala Harris a communist, but the Biden
Harris administration, they never called
for nationalizing a private company with
the federal government like you're
proposing with Intel. What do you say to
some who say this is a bit hypocritical?
And is this the new way of doing
industrial policy?
>> Yeah, I sure it is. I want to try and
get as much as I can. people come in and
they need something. As an example,
as a real estate person, if I have a an
agreement and I have a uh I have any
form of a a stop gap where I can stop
somebody from doing something, right? I
have a covenant in an agreement and they
come to me and they say, "Would like you
to uh would like to do something, but
you have us restricted. Uh if I do that,
they usually have to pay." Now, in the
case of Intel was interesting, but I
hope I'm going to have many more cases
like it. Uh, Intel came in. I met with a
gentleman. I had a lot of respect for
him. He came in under a little bit of a
cloud. Uh, I liked his story. I thought
he was good. I think he really means to
do a good job with Intel. I said, I'd
like to ask whether or not you'd give
the give, you know, because it still a
lot of people said I invested in Intel.
I didn't invest but I invest my heart in
it and my soul because I want the
country to be strong but uh I said I'd
like you to give 10% of Intel to the
United States of America not to me to
the United States of America and I said
if you have them as a partner you have
the United States as a partner I think
that would be a very good thing for
Intel and he thought about it a little
bit different and he said I like that
idea very much we have a deal and that's
I just made10 billion or 11 billion for
the United States of America. And yeah,
there will be other cases if I have that
opportunity again. I would do that. And
then, you know, you do have stupid
people say, "Oh, that's a shame." It's
not a shame. It's called business. If
somebody's willing to give you 10% of a
company and you're not paying for it,
uh, and and I will tell you with a
company like Intel, as you know, it's
had difficulty. I want them to do well.
I have a I want them to do well anyway,
but I want them to do well in particular
now. But isn't public ownership of a
private company a new way of doing
business in the business of the United
States? Isn't that what you were sort of
expecting? So were tariffs. So as you
know, the stock market went up almost a
thousand points on Friday. And it went
up not because of uh this very uh
>> I think terrible Hello. Who's that? Who
is that back there? All right, get out
of the room.
It went up because of something much
different. It went up because uh it was
announced CBO announced the numbers and
as you know they gave no credit to
tariffs. They said they made a mistake
that the trade deficit will be reduced
because of Trump's tariffs will re be
reduced by four trillion dollars. Right.
Is that what they said? Right. They said
$4 trillion. And the market went up like
a rocket ship because the tariffs are
good. Well, tariffs aren't that usual.
If the seven wars I stopped, four of
them were because of the fact that I had
tariffs on trade. And I was able to say,
"Well, if you do this, if you go fight
and if you want to kill everybody,
that's okay. But I'm going to charge you
each 100% tariff when you trade with
us." You know what? They all gave up. I
stopped seven wars. numerous of them was
because of tariffs. So, you know, you
you never knew the word tariff. It
didn't exist really essentially in this
country until actually in uh the 1870s
up till 1913 it existed and we were the
richest country. We were richer then
proportionately than at any time in the
history of our country. And then
stupidly in 1913 they said let's go to
the income tax uh way of life. Let the
people pay instead of foreign countries.
No. uh we're taking in trillions of
dollars in tariffs and we're stopping
wars because of tariffs. So that's not
uh so normal either. But you know what?
Other countries did it to us and now
we're doing it to other countries. You
>> rolled out boots on the ground in
Ukraine.
>> But how would air support as part of a
security guarantee be any different?
those US
>> you really went from one question to the
next go from one that's I expected he'd
at least challenge you a little now
we're talking about boots on the ground
>> but US air assets over the skies of
Ukraine as part of a security guarantee
wouldn't those US airmen also be
>> well you don't know what security
guarantee is because we haven't even
discussed the specifics of it and we'll
see number one Europe is going to give
them significant security guarantees and
they should because they're right there
but we'll be involved at from the
standpoint back up. We're going to help
them. And I think if we get a deal, and
I think we will, but if we get a deal,
you're not going to I don't believe
you're going to have much of a problem.
But we'll back it up because I want to
stop seeing people being killed. You
know, uh when Biden was here, he gave
$350 billion dollars. You know this from
covering business. $350 billion to
Ukraine. I said that Zalinski is the
greatest salesman I think I've ever met
better than PT Barnum because he'd come
to the country. He'd walk out with $50
billion every time. He actually came
here once. He walked out with a hundred
billion dollars. We're up to 350
billion.
I got a trillion dollars worth of our
rare earth that we have from the country
because I felt badly for our taxpayer.
But I did something else at the NATO
NATO meeting. uh they are wealthy
countries but they weren't paying and we
don't pay any money to Ukraine anymore.
Do you know that?
In fact, it's the opposite. Uh they
request through NATO. We deal with NATO.
We don't deal really with Ukraine. Uh
NATO requests missiles. They want
patriots. They want missiles. We give
the missiles to NATO. NATO pays us in
full and does what they want. I mean, I
think they give them mostly to they can
do other things with them, too, because
we're dealing with NATO. We pay no money
to Ukraine. We gave $350 billion dollars
to Ukraine. You know, if we didn't give
that kind of money, and I was the one
that gave the Javelins, if you remember,
I gave the Javelins. They were very
effective. Uh they say Obama gave sheets
and Trump gave Javelins. They were very
effective with those tanks right at the
beginning. But you would have never had
a war if I were president. You would
have never had a war. Just to finish,
uh,
we
spent no money on Ukraine anymore. We
were getting fleeced by
a president that didn't know what he was
doing. To be honest, I don't blame
Ukraine. I mean, if if they come and ask
for hundred billion dollars and they get
it, but we were in for $350 billion. Now
we make money. I don't want to make
money on Ukraine. I want the war to end
because I want to save all those lives.
I want to just save. But just so you
understand, we're no longer losing money
on that thing. We were losing money hand
over fist and now we don't lose any
money. Now we sell weapons to NATO
because NATO agreed because of me to go
to 5%. They had 2% and didn't pay. Now
they have 5% and they're all paid up. So
they have trillions of dollars and they
give us that money. But I really want
the war to end and we're going to get it
end.
>> Mr. President historic summit here with
Ukrainian President Zullinsky and
European leaders all met here with you
at the White House. You said you wanted
to get this done bilateral as soon as
possible. Have you spoken to Putin since
last Monday since
>> I have
>> What is your conversation or every
conversation I have with him is a good
conversation and then unfortunately a
bomb is loaded up into Kiev someplace
and then I get very angry about it. Uh I
think we're going to get the war done.
It's tough. I thought that would be of
the seven that I settled, I thought that
would be the easiest of the group. See,
you never know what's going to happen.
You know, war, strange things happen in
war. Uh the fact that he went to Alaska,
our country, I think was a big statement
that he wants to get it done. That was
not easy for him to go to Alaska, you
know, for him to come here. But the fact
that he uh he showed up on a very
successful day, it was a very successful
day for other things because you know
we're also talking about um missiles,
nuclear, we're talking about a lot of
different things. We're talking about uh
limiting nuclear weapons. We'll get
China into that. We have the most,
Russia has the second most, and China
has third, but China is way behind, but
they'll catch us in five years. Uh we
would like to dnuclearize.
It's too much power and we talked about
that also. That's part of it. But we
have to get the war over with.
>> On a great time.
>> Thank you. Um on Baltimore, you you said
that you are going to have to reconsider
bridge funding. Is that contingent on
Westmore cleaning up the streets?
>> No. We were very generous to him on a
bridge. You know, a boat ran into a
bridge and the bridge came down. Like
I've never seen anything. The boat was
just, it just shows you the mass of that
boat, the power of that boat. You know,
people were up on that bridge, painters,
they were painting the bridge and they
were watching it happen and they thought
they were very safe. They all died. They
were painting the bridge. Can you
imagine? And they watched the boat. The
engines were off and they watched the
boat and the power of that boat, the
mass of that boat went right through
that steel just like it was nothing.
It's amazing. It's called mass. Mass is
a big deal. But the mass of that boat,
those people all died, but they were
they thought they were totally safe. Two
of they were eating their lunch. They
were, you know, whatever. They were
watching it. They could have gotten off.
Somebody did a very good job. Uh, a
police officer called in and said,
"Close the bridge. Close." And he did it
with with power. Get everybody off the
bridge. Close that. That guy should get
a medal because he stopped the bridge. A
lot of people would have died. a lot
more people would have died. The ones
that died were the workers on the bridge
and they they were just they thought
there was no danger because you know
it's a big steel bridge and it it came
down like uh
like toothpicks. It was incredible to
watch that. It was just and they died.
They all died. But that police officer
again the police do a great job. The
police officer did an amazing job and I
heard the tapes. Uh he would say get
everybody off. Most people wouldn't have
said that. You know, when you see a
thing like that, you'd assume it's going
to, you know, tap the bridge and it's
going to be rebuffed. The thing just
came down. I've never seen anything like
it. So, he did a good job. In fact, I
think we should get him in for a medal.
The man that gave the warning, I
listened to him. Everybody get off
screaming. Everybody off. He had the
sense to realize that this could be a
catastrophe as opposed to a ship that s
because the engines weren't working. It
was just floating. It's an amazing thing
that a thing floating like that with no
power just knocked it right down like it
was like it was nothing.
>> Let's do that. Let's give him a medal.
I've been thinking about
>> Mr. President, do you plan to
investigate Chris Christie?
>> Say it. What?
>> Do you plan to investigate Chris
Christie?
>> Uh,
look, Chris is a slob. Everybody knows
it. I know Chris better than anybody in
the room. Uh, I always felt he was
guilty. But what he did is he uh took
the George Washington Bridge, which is
very serious. you closed down the George
Washington Bridge and you had medical
people, you had ambulances caught up,
you you know you this thing was closed
down and obviously he knew about it but
he blame he blamed the young lady that
worked for him and another person and
they got into a lot of trouble. She
ultimately was I don't know exonerated
but she got out of it a little bit but
but she went through hell. She was a
young mother, nice person. and I knew
her a little bit. And another man went
to jail and Chris got off. And so when I
listen to Chris speak his hate, I say,
"Oh, what about the George Washington
Bridge?" You know, tell me about the
George Washington Bridge.
Uh he uh he blamed other people, but he
knew all about it. So no, I don't know
if they want to look at it. It's not for
me. If they want to look at it, they
can. You could ask Pam. I think we have
other things to do, but uh I always
thought he got away with murder.
>> Mr. President, an endorsement um in the
Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and
John Cornin.
>> Well, I'll make up my mind. I like them
both. The worst situation I have is when
I have two people that I get along with
well, I hate it. And they all want the
endorsement. You know, I'm almost uh
100% of the people I endorse win. It's a
great honor. And I got, as you know, I
got the largest vote in the history of
Texas by far. Nobody's ever gotten more
votes in the last election. I think in
all the elections, the three elections,
but but they like me in Texas. So,
people are waiting for me, but I I just
I'd rather not comment on it right now.
I like both guys.
>> They're both friends of mine, and
they're both good and very different.
>> There's some talk among congressional
Republicans about another reconciliation
bill. Where do you fall on that? And
what would you like to prioritize?
>> Well, I don't want to do cutting. I want
to save all the different things. I'm
I'm going to cut things that are
unnecessary, but uh the one thing I said
and I gave my word, we're not going to
hurt anybody on Medicaid, Medicare, or
Social Security. And in fact, we're
we're doing great on Social Security. We
found 300,000 illegals on Social
Security. We got them out. And you know,
things like that make Social Security
very very strong. So, no, we're I'm I am
very big into certain things. And one of
those three, you could say three of
those things are Medicare, Medicaid,
Social Security. We're going to protect
it. And so, we'll see how everything
works out. Uh, if we're talking about
recisions on other things, I'm I'm
always open to cost cutting. If we can
cost cut, I like it. But nothing's going
to happen to medical. We have something
coming up, favored nations, where I'm
going to be reducing drug prices by
14,500%.
where a pill that sells in Germany for
$10 cost $150 here because of the bad
and I was all set to do it and then we
had the co come up and I had to focus on
that because we had the greatest economy
in history my first term. Uh I will tell
you that we are going to be doing uh
numbers on the cost of drugs in this
country that it's I'm not talking about
a 20% decrease which would be great. I'm
talking about a,000% decrease. We're
talking about uh where a product would
sell for $80 in Germany and $1300 here.
Uh and uh we're not going to do that. We
were subsidizing the entire world and
we're not doing it anymore. I informed
the uh drug companies. I informed the
world. And if the world wants to if
countries in the world don't want to go
along, then I'm going to put tariffs on
those countries and I'll make we'll make
more money. But they have to go along
with it. So this is moving along
rapidly. Uh Dr. Oz is in charge, Bobby's
group, and they're doing very well. And
we're getting great cooperation from the
drug because the drug companies know
it's unfair. You know, for years they'd
say, "Well, we had to do research and we
had to do I said, I don't care. You had
to do research for these other countries
also. Uh they are ready to go and I'm
ready to go." And you know, if I pull
that off, there's no way a Republican
will lose an election. There's no way.
All right, one more question. Ukraine.
>> Back to Ukraine.
>> Watch this guy. He's the nicest guy I
know. And he asked the most vicious
questions.
>> Why do you think President Putin is so
reluctant to meet with President
Silinski?
>> Because he doesn't like him. He doesn't
like him. You know, they don't like I
have people I don't like. I don't like
to meet with them. Sometimes I do like
to meet with people I don't like.
>> So, how do you get them together?
>> They don't like No, they don't like each
other really. And uh if we had a real
president instead of a guy that got in
there with a fraudulent election, if we
had a real president, that war would
have never happened. Putin actually said
he said if Trump were president, it
wouldn't have happened. Happened for a
lot of reasons. Happened because of
Afghanistan. When he saw how incompetent
Millie was and all these guys were uh I
think he said, "Wow, this might be it."
Because it was the apple of his eye. It
would have never happened if I were
president.
>> Mr. President, you have built
relationship with Russian leaders and
also North Korean leaders as they are
getting closer. How would that affect
your diplomat diplomatic?
>> Well, I have very good relationships
with Kim Jong-un, North Korea. I mean, a
lot of people would say, "Oh, that's
terrible." No, it's good. In fact,
someday I'll see him. I look forward to
seeing him. He was very good with me. We
had two meeting. We had two summits. We
got along great. I know him better than
you do. I know him better than anybody
almost other than his sister. his sister
knows him pretty well now. I know him
well and I got along with him. You know,
I'm not supposed to say I really like
him a lot because if I do that, I get
killed in the fake news media. But I got
along with him very well and we had no
problem. If uh if at the time Hillary
Clinton won the election, you would have
had a nuclear war. You would have had a
nuclear war. We're not going to have a
nuclear war. Once that happens, it's
over. We're not going to have a nuclear
war. No, but Kim Jong-un, we'll we'll
meet at some point. I look forward to it
actually. But uh do you notice that
since I came into office, you haven't
had a problem with him. Hasn't been, you
know, it tests lots of rockets. He does
have great capability. I will say that.
But uh I think a lot of good things, a
lot of good things are happening for our
country. A lot of really good things.
And the thing we're here today to talk
about is crime. and specifically in DC.
I am so proud of what these people,
every one of them, what they've done uh
in DC because to literally stop crime on
a button. I'd walk down that street
right now. If I were friends of mine are
going out to dinner now, they haven't
gone out to dinner in four years. They
were afraid. They were petrified. Half
the restaurants closed because nobody
could go because they're afraid to go
outside. Now those restaurants are open
and new restaurants are opening up. It's
like a boom town. It's a great thing to
see and I'm very proud of the people
behind me. Thank you very much
everybody.
>> Pleasure to hear us. Thank you guys.
Thank you guys.