Trump speaks at White House press briefing — 1/20/2026

Personal truck. >> I'm sure. Yes. 100% polyester%. That was good. Oh yeah. Basically Sorry. Hey, how are you? Yeah. >> Yes. You're These are off the record. Oh, don't worry. >> [laughter] >> 30 question. >> Yes, sir. >> [snorts] >> That's right. What was the Let's Oh my god. Take a moment. That Just go. two minute warning. >> Yeah, they just Wow, that's a big crowd. It's a lot of people. I think it's like a record. So these are accomplishments. We have a lot of accomplishments. And as you know, this is the anniversary, first anniversary,

January 20th. And it's been an amazing period of time. We have a Book that I'm not going to read to you, but these are the accomplishments of what we've produced. Uh all page after page after page, individual things. I could stand here and read it for a week and we wouldn't be finished, but we've done more than any other administration has done by far. And terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars, nobody's really seen very much like it. I think it's appropriate that because Minnesota is so much in the

in the fray, and I say to my people all the time, and they're so busy doing other things, they don't say it like they should. Uh they're apprehending murderers and drug dealers and a lot of bad people. And these are just some of the more recent ones that we have. And I can show you some of the people Vicious, many of them murderers. These are all out of Minnesota. Just Minnesota. I say, why don't you talk about that more because people don't know. And do you want to live with these people? International murder. These are

people that are living were if they're apprehended and either put in jails in their country from where they came and the countries respect us and so they actually put them there. In the old Days they didn't respect our country. Biden wouldn't do this because he let them all in. You know, if you didn't have open border policies of Biden, none of this, all of the things that we all the time that we spend talking about Minnesota and everything else, most of them are coming from out of the country. And it's been caused by a previous

administration. Look at this. One after one. Boy, these are rough characters. These are all criminal illegal aliens that in many cases they're murderers. They're drug lords, drug dealers. They're the mentally insane. There some of them who are brutal killers. They're mentally insane. They're killers, but they're insane. These are just in Minnesota. In California, it's worse. In other states, it's worse. No. Minnesota, the crime is incredible. The Financial crimes are incredible and the problem is because of the agitators and insurrectionists, whatever you want, troublemakers, but they're they're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Uh, nobody talks about the

fact that 19 billion dollars at a minimum is missing in Minnesota. Given to a large degree, but by Somalians, they've taken it. Somalians. Can you imagine? and they don't do it. A lot of very low IQ people, they don't do it. Other people work it out and they get them money and they go out and buy MercedesBenzes and they come from here, they have no money. They never had money. They never had a life. They never had a government. They never had a country because there's basically no country. Somalia is not even a country. They

don't have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it's considered just about the worst in the World. They come here and they become rich and they don't have a job. I was told that Elon Omar is worth $30 million. She never had a job. She's a crooked congressman. So here's another one. And I have Oh, by the way, we just took out what these are all what ISIS is doing. And it's a dangerous job. These are rough. These are rough people. weapons. This one here is very bad. I'm going through this

because I think we have plenty of time. So, I'm going to uh place beautiful place in Switzerland where we'll be I'm sure I'm very happily awaited for [laughter] in Switzerland. They don't know about this. They don't have this problem. They have other problems, but they don't have this problem. Look, killed somebody. Look, look. And these are rough people. These are not This was all allowed into our country through open borders. These dumbest policies, you know, men and women's sports is dumb. But to me, having an open border for the world to come in, uh, drug

dealers and prisoners, Venezuela, as an example, opened their prisons into the United States. That's why one of the reasons I felt so strongly against Venezuela. Now I'm loving Venezuela. They've been working with us so well. It's been so nice and uh an unbelievably nice woman. Also did a very incredible thing as you know a few days ago. Uh she's we're talking to her and maybe we can get her involved in some way. I'd love to be able to do that. Maria, maybe we can do that. But we're dealing with the people invented the president and

all of the people in Venezuela and we've been doing great. The oil companies are getting ready to make massive Investments there. They have more oil than even Saudi Arabia. There you go. These are real. These are rough one. This is all Minnesota. Every one of them. This is one state out of many. And these people are, let's see. Yeah, these are all so far people that came from outside of the country. They were allowed in by sleepy Joe Biden, crooked Joe Biden, whichever you like. You can call him whatever you Like. They're both right. He's

sleepy and he's crooked. It was the worst president we've ever had. And we've had some bad ones, too. I can tell you. All you have to do is look at trade. I You're not getting bored with this, right? I hope you don't. But these are people that you have to see. Strong arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and many other crimes. gang member known as one of the toughest People around. These are tough people. So this is what the people are trying to protect because all ICE wants to do is get them out of

our country. Bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came. That's all they want to do. They're patriots and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon who's a, you know, loser, lightweight. I saw him the way he walked in that church. It was terrible. I have such respect for that pastor. He was so calm. He was so nice. He was just accosted. What they did in that church was horrible yesterday. Look at this. 24 convictions. 24 times convicted. Not charges. These are convictions. So he comes from outside the

country. Do you think he's going to be good here? He convicted 24 times. He's going to be good here, right? It doesn't work that way. There's a man murder. One of many. One of many. All they want to do is get him out. They want to take him out of our country. And we're met with paid agitators and insurrectionists, troublemakers. They're paid. You know, when uh the woman was shot, and I felt terribly about that, and I understand both sides of it, but when she was shot, there was another woman that was Screaming, "Shame, shame,

shame, shame." Right? You saw so loud, like a professional opera singer. She was so loud and so professional. She wasn't a woman that was hurt like, "Oh, my heart's injured." She was a professional. Shame, shame. She's screaming, "Shame, shame." I said, "That's not a normal person." That's That's a professional. These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our Country do badly. But that's not happening because we have the hottest country anywhere in the world despite this stuff. Look at this. All topofthe- line criminals. They're not going to be good. They're not going

to be well behaved here. I could do I could do thousands. We had over 3,000 in the last fairly short well just in Minnesota. What's the number, Carol? >> 10,000. >> 10,000 >> 10,000 criminals arrested in Minnesota alone. >> 10,000 criminal. And these are serious criminals. Now, how can a place with 10,000 criminals, how can you have a state and yet they're fighting us? I like that guy keeps nodding to me. Do you agree with me? I guess I like him. I don't know who he is, but I like him. He keeps nodding. He says,

"You're right. He's obviously a little on the right Side, maybe." Look, these are rough ones. So, this we just took this off a stack. We have many stacks like this. Like, I could go 30 times what I'm showing you now. relations with Hezbollah. That's nice. Why do we allow them in our country? I'm just looking at these charges. It's It's just pretty incredible. Many murderers. Many many murderers. People That murdered So what what ICE does and Border Patrol is incredible, too. I mean, they're Paul Perez and that group is incredible. Mostly Hispanic, by the way.

They're like 60% Hispanic. You know, they talk about Hispanic. They're mostly Hispanic, right? And they're unbelievable people. And then they say, "Oh, we discriminate against." I love Hispanic. They are unbelievable. Entrepreneurial. They have everything. I did great. I did the Highest. Nobody ever got numbers like I got from the standpoint of being a Republican. But even the uh if you look at Texas, I won the entire border along Texas between Texas and Mexico. Never happened before. Nobody's ever done that before. I did it as a Republican. I did it. I love the Hispanic. And they

accuse us of all sorts of things. 60% of the people we're talking about, they're the best people we have and they're Hispanic. The Border Patrol is largely Hispanic. ISIS is largely Hispanic. They're unbelievable people. I don't know how they can take the abuse. They're They're taking rough They're taking rough people like this, like all of them. We have So, we have 10,000 at least. I could have done 10,000 of them. You're lucky I only did like a hundred. And this is just this isn't even the worst of the group. They have murderers. They have some

people we can't use their Picture for legal reasons, but they're up for murder in their own country. And we we jeopardize their case. Well, we send them back. We send them back and we coordinate with other countries. A tremendous amount of work. All allowed in here by an open border policy of the worst president in the history of our country. a man that didn't win the election, by the way, got was a rigged election. Everybody knows that now. And by the way, numbers are coming out that Show it even more plainly. We caught him. We

caught him. So, I just want you to know that it's uh it's a terrible It's a terrible thing. Here's uh the book on accomplishments. And this is something I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could have done some damage, but you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain. I would have gone back. What? Did you hear that? That That was nasty. But I would not have shown the pain. I Would have acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was a nasty I think somebody did that. I think some it

was him. It was my man. How were you? You didn't do it. I know you did. I know you didn't. So, um but here is the uh here's the book. These are all things we have. I'm going to read a few of the samples, but look at this. These are all Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. And it's it's big stuff, too. Look, we Have the hottest country in the world. So, I will read you a few. We ended Biden stagflation. We were in stagflation. That's a disaster. That's far worse

than inflation. As you know, he had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years. Pick your choice. But they had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. We we have it right down to a normal number. Now we're going to get it even a little bit lower. Created super high. What we've done with with growth is incredible. We created super high economic growth. And America is booming. It's booming. There are thousands of businesses right now that are being built. Many of the biggest factories in the world are being

built right in our country. They're not going to other countries. They're leaving other countries. Fourth quarter GDP is on Track to pass perhaps much more than 5% growth. And that's despite the fact that we had a Democrat shutdown. They shut down our country and we had 5%. Nobody's in this room has ever heard about 5%. I think it could be 20% if we do it right. If we don't, every time we have good numbers, they raise interest rates. You shouldn't in the old days if you had good numbers, they'd lower interest rates or they wouldn't

do anything. Here, they try and kill it. They always Try and kill success. Over the last 20, 25 years, that's the way in the old days, if you had good numbers, the market would go through the roof. Today, if you have good numbers, the market goes down. But by the way, we've had the best stock market in history, the best 401ks in history, and we inherited a mess. The numbers that we inherited are way were way up, and now we brought them almost all of them way down. We brought them way down. I mean, I'm

not getting uh maybe I have the bad public relations people, but we're not getting it across. We inherited high numbers and we brought them way down. And uh look at gasoline. And they have places in the country now $1.99 a gallon 199 230 250 I guess the average now they're saying is 231 I mean he was at $450 and5 for periods of time and he went back to the Trump formula but he didn't do it properly and he really went back to parts of it because They were it you would have had $8 gasoline if

they didn't but he didn't do it properly had people that didn't know what they were doing coron inflation for the last three months is 1.6%. 1.6. Their core inflation was so high that nobody could even calculated under Biden. Real incomes declined $3,000. Think of that. $3,000. That's a year. In 12 months, Trump real incomes went up by $2,000 and 3,000 and even in Some cases $5,000. It's a tremendous difference. Stock market has set 52 all-time record highs during the course of the actually the 11 months because this was done on 11 months. Now we're now

we are actually officially 12 months as of today. 52 all-time record highs. That means 401ks did great. I have people see me all the time, policemen that guard us really well and got to know them a little bit and they said, "Sir, you're making me Look so good. My 401k is through the roof. My wife thinks I'm the greatest genius that I'm a financial genius like Warren Buffett." He told me that he said, "I I think they have better returns than Warren Buffett right now." But he said, "All my life, my wife has been criticizing

me for not being smart financially. And now all of a sudden she she's she loves me more. But uh we added $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts, saving Uh saving many people. I mean they were going out of business. Think of it. We added $9 trillion of value to retirement accounts, savings accounts, and 401ks. That's during the course of 12 months. And I think it's probably 11 months because I don't think they have it for the 12. They have it for the 11. added nine trillion dollars of value, lifted more than$1.2 million Americans off

food stamps in one year. They would have had another 1.2 million. We would Have had welfare would have gone up and instead of investing $18 trillion in our country. Now it's probably more than that, but 18 trillion and having thousands of plants being built all over the country, you would have had thousands of plants closing all over the country and you would have had disinvestment and you would have had welfare going way up. You know, if you look at SNAP, take a look at SNAP. What happened with that? It was at seven Billion dollars and

it came out to over 51 billion dollars. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The past administration, uh, they had no clue or they were really bad, but they basically had no clue. But they did have a concept. I mean, they're still trying to sell the idea of men playing in women's sports. You saw that in the Supreme Court. I mean, some of those justices were fighting for him, too. They were fighting for him. But you saw that just the other day in the Supreme Court. Men playing in women's sport doesn't work. Secured a record-breaking

$18 trillion in commitments for new investments. Apple, Nvidia, Soft Bank, Oracle, TSMC, Johnson and Johnson, Eli Lillian Company, Micron, Astroenica, General Motors, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, GE Aerospace, many, many others. I left a Ford plant a week ago in Michigan that they were going to close Two years ago and now they just announced that they're going 24 hours around the clock making cars. Terrorists did it. I don't know what the Supreme Court's going to do. I think it to me it reads so plainly. Couldn't be plainer. You're allowed to do a license. Tariff is probably less

severe than what a license could be, but think of it. you're allowed to do a license and then they Have a clause at the end something to the effect or what is necessary something to that effect and what is necessary with tariffs I don't know where there's a case even there but we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars and uh if we lose that case it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot

of people but we're waiting for that case Anxiously and we have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income. You know, we have and by the way, no inflation. So, everyone said, "Oh, tariffs will cause inflation." We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation and he didn't do tariffs. We had a huge problem. We had uh we have a 62% reduction in our trade deficit. So, if you had a 1% reduction, a normal president would have a 1% 2% reduction. Everybody would be high-fiving. Had a 62% reduction. Next year, we

won't have a trade deficit. We secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much. And to me, I think this might be the biggest thing of all. We get zero talk about it. Uh the New York Times had a story way in the back of the paper, little story about it. I think it's the biggest thing there is. When you talk about healthcare, drug prices will go Down more than ever before for any country because we was we were priced at such a level that we were subsidizing the entire world big place

in the world. We were paying 10 12 13 times more than other countries. 13 times more not 13% 13 times more. A pill that was selling in London for $10 would sell in New York for $130. That's 13 times more than that even. But we secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug Prices by as much as 300, 400, 500, and even 600%. including with Fizer, Astroenica, Eli Liy, Nova, Nordesk, Gilead Sciences, EMD, Cerranio and many others. If you look at some of the prices that are coming down where a price would come down 1,300

coming down to $87. Think of it. So something that was costing $1,300 is now costing $87 and the fake news doesn't want to write About it. That's why I do this. I don't like to do this to be honest with you, but uh I do it because got to get the word out. We signed one big beautiful bill. I call it the great big beautiful bill delivering the largest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. We made interest on car loans taxdeductible for US-built automobiles only.

So if you build the if you buy an automobile built in the United States, We're not doing it for Germany and Canada and different places. We're doing it only if it's built here. We want them to be built here. A lot of the Canadian auto plants are closing and they're moving into the United States. Same thing with Mexico. Same thing with Germany. And same thing with Japan and other countries. They're moving into the United States because of tariffs because they don't want to pay the tariffs. It's too much. They can't pay the tariffs. So, they're

coming here. Nothing different than what other smart countries did, but it works better for us under my leadership. It's not done properly, but uh it's done properly. We have again more more plants being built than at any time in the history of our country. Passed the largest spending cuts in American history. And that was true in my first, you know, we had a tremendous first term also. We rebuilt our military. We had One of the best, we had the best economy in the history of our country, but we're blowing it away now. This when this

stuff starts opening up, you're not going to see anything like it probably ever again. We slashed the federal budget deficit by 27% in a single year. Think of that. 27. You know, you could do it 2%, 1%, a half a percent. 27%. And that's with all of the things we Have to do, all of the people we have to put on the payroll to get rid of people that are murderers. Again, when you see people in Minnesota that are murderers, these people are fighting to keep them there. And I I say to Christie and to

Tom Holman, great people. They're working so hard. Look at the border. The border is now secure. First time you Biden said you couldn't do it. you need legislation. I had no legislation. I said, "Close the border." Within one Month, we had almost nobody coming in. Now, for the last eight months, nobody came into our country illegally. And I find that hard to believe because you'd think somebody because it used to be millions of people just brought into our country. And the people that do that are Democrat uh sort of aligned. So, I mean, they're not

doing me any favors. We had nobody come in. We have a very strong border. We have very few people coming up. They're not going to make the trek because they know they probably won't be coming in. So, it's not as hard as you think. But I didn't have to go back. Remember, they said, uh, we need legislation to close the border. They had millions of people coming in a month. We have nobody coming in and we're getting the murderers out. Murderers, people from prisons and jails. Many countries opened up their prisons and Dropped them into

the United States. Those are the people we're getting out and we have a lot of heart. They said, "You got to lighten up on this. We have a lot of heart for people. They came in illegally, but they're good people. And they're working now in farms and they're working in lunchonets and hotels and all. And we're not looking. We're looking to get the criminals out right now, the criminals. And uh I think it's very important. I Mean, I every once in a while you see a story, we take somebody, he should be out because they

came in illegally. So, in theory, they should be, but we're focused on the murderers, the drug dealers, the mentally insane. We have a lot of mentally insane killers. I mean, you can't even talk to them. Be nice if you could have a little reason, but you can't even reason. These are seriously pe ill people. You have a couple of countries where they were Loaded up. Their mental institutions and insane asylums were loaded to the gills. They couldn't get They're empty now, but they're filling up because we're bringing them all back. We know where they came

from and every country accepts them. You know, under Biden, they wouldn't take they had so little respect that they'd bring them there and they wouldn't take them. They said, "Get the hell out of here." They would we'd be bringing a plane in to land in a country And they'd put five planes on the runway so you couldn't land a plane. So, they'd come back with the people that they were bringing back. They don't do that with me. They do that with me. say they have problems. They don't do it. They accept them back. They're not

happy about it, but they accept them back. Cut a record number of regulations. I promise to eliminate 10 old regulations for every one new regulation. Instead, we cut 129 old regulations for each one added. Think of that. I want to do 10. Last my first four years, I did when we put on a new regulation, you had to cut eight. This year, I said you have to cut 10. Instead we cut 129. So every time so far can't remain like that. I don't imagine. I hope it can because we have so much wasted regulation. Stupid

regulations. Regulations where they go by California which is a disaster state with a with a governor that truly is doing a bad job. It's killing that state. If he ever ran the country, this country would be Venezuela very quickly, using tariffs slash the US trade deficit by an incredible 77%. The trade deficit is down. And that doesn't include the last month where we had our best month. We slashed the trade deficit by an incredible 77% in one year with no inflation, something that everyone said could not be done. So we had essentially no inflation. In

fact, the last month we Had very almost no inflation, but we slashed the trade deficit by 77%. If you slash it by 1%, that was good. Again, we did that with tariffs and and intelligence. We did that with November 5th, great election. We secured historic trade deals to reduce barriers on US exports with countries covering 40% of all US trade. Think of that. American exports are up by more than$150 billion dollars this year. People said, "Oh, we're not in exporting. All we do is Buy. If you keep buying, you're not going to have a country

for very long." So, we increased exports by more than 150 billion dollars. Investment in American factories is up 41%. That's a record. Nobody goes 41% up. You go 2% up. 1% up, you go down by 3%. If Kamala got elected, the 41% up would be 41% down. We removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal pay. That's another thing. So we have, you know, we announced our Uh our unemployment numbers called unemployment or employment and they were very good, but we could make them great. But we've slashed tremendous numbers of people off the federal payroll because

ultimately if you're on the federal payroll, I mean we have we have jobs where they had 10 people for every job. So we cut. Now, if you want to see some good numbers, I'll put I'll hire a million people. We cut millions of people off the federal Payroll. I don't like doing that. But the good news, I don't feel badly because they're getting private sector jobs and they're getting sometimes twice as much money, three times as much money. They're getting factory jobs. They're getting much better jobs and much higher pay. But all I have to

do is say like, you know what the Democrats do all the time. They hire a million people and then they hire another million, another million, They load it up and it says, "Oh, they only have a 3% unemployment rate. It's a fake rate." So with us, we're proud of the fact that we cut so many because again, I don't want to cut people, but when you cut them and they go out and get a better job, I like to cut them. And sometimes they have to be forced to do that because, you know, it's like

they want to stay where they are. They don't know. And then all of a sudden they end up we have many cases Caroline Where where people were devastated. They hated Trump. I got caught from my very boring federal job where they had again sometimes 10 people to do one job and they were very upset. And now they ended up with a job where they get paid three times more money. They're ending up buying houses. It's like crazy. So they went from not liking me to liking me a lot because they're it's hard to get. We

need people. We need people. It's one of the reasons I mean I want to when you Have good people in the farm or good people in hotels and everything else, we want to work with them as much as we can. Under Biden, one out of four jobs added was a government job. Think of that. So 25% of the jobs added. That's when you when you know that that's 25% of jobs aren't real jobs. But again, I could do that. I could add two million jobs right now would have an unemploy I could say just hire

some more people. I do the opposite. I say get rid of Everybody that's unnecessary because that's the way you make America great again. When you have, you know, all these jobs where people are sitting around doing nothing and they get a lot of money by the government, it's no good. But that's what the Democrats do. They show, oh, we were at 4% unemployment. That's a good number. But they just add jobs or they wouldn't cut. They would never cut jobs. Under Trump, 100% of all new jobs created have been In the private sector. Think of

that. Not 1% has gone to federal. So under Biden, one out of four was a government job. Under Trump, 100% of the new jobs created. 100% came from the private sector. That's how you make your country wealthy and strong and good. We inherited the worst border in history and turned it into the strongest border in history. Illegal crossings have plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded. Down 99.999%. That means down 100%. 99.999. We want to find out who that one person is. For eight months in a row, zero. And these are government numbers. These are

not my numbers. For eight months in a row, zero illegal aliens were admitted to our country. Zero. Nobody came in unless they came in legally. We have a big process for having people come in legally. By the Way, a lot of people are coming in legally. They have to prove they love our country. They have to prove that they're not going to need welfare. A lot of things they have to prove. For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration where we're getting because we're getting all of these illegal people out.

People that came in illegally. Many cases they're criminals in many, many cases. You remember when they used to Say that the people that come into our country as immigrants are very nice people. They're wonderful people. They don't commit crime. No, they make our criminals look like babies. They make our Hell's Angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The Hell's Angels are now considered a nice, highquality person. I like the Hell's Angels. They voted for me. They protected me, actually, believe it or not. But they make our criminals Look like babies. These are some of

the most vicious people anywhere in the world. They came from the Congo, the prisons. I know the Congo because I ended the war with the Congo and Rwanda. Tough group. Very tough group. They came from prisons in the Congo. Some of the toughest, meanest people you'll ever meet. Thank you very much. They allowed him to come into America. These are tough people. Before my election, 100% of net job creation was Going to foreign migrants. Since my inauguration, 100% of the net jobs created have gone to Americanborn citizens. That's a big thing. In other words, we're

now taking care of our people. 100% of net jobs created have gone to the American born people. Before that, we didn't care. Uh designated Trend Dear, MS-13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And we've hit them hard. You've seen what we've done On the water. We're starting to do that on land. The land is much easier. Actually, water is incredible. We did that on the water. So that when you do it on the land, they don't go to the water. Nobody's going into the boat business right now. I can tell you 97%

down drugs coming in by water. They 97%. Nobody ever heard of that before. 90. They heard 2%, 1%. It went up 2%. 97. And we're looking for The 3%. Who the hell are the 3%. They're crazy. But, uh, we we've we've taken out almost 100% of the drugs coming in by water. Now, we're going to be very shortly starting drugs coming in by land. We know exactly where they're coming from. removed tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters, Savage criminals, and others. We removed them from our

country. They're out. They're gone. In some cases, they're so dangerous that we put them in jail because we don't want to give them to their country. Their country doesn't do anything and they end up coming back. We We have some that we're just they're so bad that we don't want to really release them. We want to put them in a jail where we know they're properly uh enscconced. Think of that. Remove tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters, and savage criminals. Why wouldn't you want them removed?

The reason is because these are insurrectionists that are doing this work. And you know, they're going to make mistakes sometimes. ISIS is going to be too rough with somebody or, you know, they're dealing with rough people. They're going to make a mistake sometimes. It can happen. We feel terribly. I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman who was uh had the tragedy, it's a tragedy, it's a horrible thing. Everybody would say, ICE would say the same thing. But uh when I learned her her parents and her father in particular is like was

a I hope he still is but I don't know was a tremendous Trump fan. He was all For Trump. Loved Trump. And uh you know it's terrible. I was told that by a lot of people. They said, "Oh, he he loves you. He he was a I hope I hope he still feels that way. I don't know. It's a hard hard situation." But her father was a tremendous and and parents were tremendous Trump fans. It's so sad. It just happens. It's terrible. Halted all refugee admissions to the United States, including from Somalia, which is a

terrible, terrible Place and other dangerous places. And we also stopped the pirates because they get the same treatment as the drug boats. So when Somalia, they're Somalians, you know what they're good at. That's about the only thing they're good at is they're good at uh pirating ships at sea, big ships. So, you have a huge oil tanker with millions of gallons or millions of barrels of oil. And if it gets hit by a big weapon, the whole thing blows up. And they don't want to fight because if they do, they're told by their insurance companies,

"Do not hand over the ship." And they're not allowed to have any guns on the ship. that literally you have these massive ships being taken over by a Somalian small boat with a big weapon because if they hit the side of the ship the ship can blow up to I mean you talk about a blow up bad we've seen we've seen some bad things happen and the insurance companies some of these ships Cost more than a billion dollars to build and the insurance companies say look we'd rather give them money than take a chance on

a billion dollar insurance policy. But they don't have to worry about it because we hit them the same way we hit the people with the drugs in their boat. They don't know what the hell happened. But all of a sudden there are no pirates at sea. Do you notice we haven't had a boat taken in a Little while? Came out of Somalia. Really corrupt place. It's not a country. They don't have government. They don't have anything. I I I always hate to see this. Elon Omar, she comes from Somalia. uh a backward country. Probably the

worst country. They say it's the worst country in the world. If it's a country, I don't even think it's a country. There's no organization or anything. They don't have police. They don't have Military. They don't have anything. They just have people running around killing each other and and trying to pirate ships. But uh she'll come here comes and then she wants to tell us how to run our country. The Constitution says that I am entitled to this. I can't stand her. terminated all taxpayer funded benefits for illegal aliens and kicked 275,000 illegals off of social

security. They were illegally getting social security. 275,000 people. I'm telling you, it's not that this is pleasurable, but if I weren't elected president, this country was d was going to be destroyed quickly. very quickly. I think within a year if you had Kamala or a Joe type I mean Joe was a disaster but if you had Kamala he was the replacement I was up by like 25 points on Joe and they said hey let's get somebody else this never happened I was a I had so Many firsts you're leading somebody by a lot and they

say oh let's take him out let's put somebody that's like I said to Dana White the other night I said you know Dana it's like you have a fighter two fighters one guy is winning by a lot and they say oh let's take this guy Yeah, let's put a new fighter in the ring with him. That's what happened to me. I was doing great with Biden. The whole campaign was against Biden. All the money was spent against Biden. And All of a sudden, I got Kamla. Everyone said, "Who the hell is she?" But that didn't

work out too well for them. But never happened before. We are about lots of firsts. Designated English as the official language of the United States of America. We did that very powerfully. And while we're at it, we also took the Gulf of Mexico and now it's the Gulf of America because we have 92% of the shoreline. It always bothered me. I'd Say, you know, we have most of the shoreline. Mexico has a small percentage, talks about 8%. We have 92%. And I said, why why is it the Gulf of Mexico? It should be the Gulf

of America. I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought that I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it. I wanted to. My people work so hard. Sir, I don't think it'll look too good. I'm telling you, it's a good thing. And it'll be hotter than ever. I said, "No, But I decided not to do that." I'm I'm joking, you know, when I say that. I was not going to call it the Gulf of Trump because tomorrow be Trump wanted to call it the Gulf of Trump,

but he was rebuffed by his people. My people don't rebuff me too much. the Gulf of Trump. That does have a good ring, though. I don't Maybe we could do that. It's not too late. No, we have the Gulf of America now. It's great. It's our country is proud. The attack on Venezuela, the attack on the Iran nuclear capability, wiped it out. I mean, be first administration, Solomaini, the father of the roadside bomb, Albaghaghdaddy, the father of ISIS, who was rebuilding ISIS. We wiped them out. Done a great job. Signed an order that will end

birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants. You know, that case is in court right now. That case was meant for The children of slaves. All you have to do is look at the years. Look at the look at the years where the cases were filed and where the decisions were made. They were right at the end of the Civil War. trying to say that, you know, in China is making a big business out of that. They come to the country, they have a child, they're American citizen, they get all the benefits. It has nothing to

do with that. That was For the children of slaves. And I hope the Supreme Court so rules designated fentinol as a weapon of mass destruction. It is. We lost, I believe, 300,000 people last year. This year, 300,000 people. That's like filling up one of those big football stadiums five times. It's not even believable. I mean, you could be in a war and you wouldn't lose that many people. So, we designated fentinol a weapon of Mass destruction. Conducted numerous successful military strikes against narot terrorists operating in our hemisphere, including the water strikes. Drugs brought in by

ocean. So, I told you that we're down by I mean close to 100%. It's hard to get somebody to pilot those boats very hard. They have to be people that don't watch television, don't read the news. And we just blew up their uh facility. They had a docking facility where the drugs were stored. And now we have a great relationship with Venezuela. We're getting along fantastically with the leadership in Venezuela. So, we wouldn't have to do that. This was done before before the attack, but we captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela,

Nicholas Maduro, who through drugs killed millions of people in our country. Tremendous drug dealer. Also Sent millions of people into our country, including Trend Deaga, the worst gang. They say it's the worst gang in the world. They took over parts of Colorado. They just take the apartment building. They just took it away. Just took it away like we're here. They cut the hand off one man because he called the police. Who called the police? I did. You took my apartment from me. Boom. No hand. This is what they sent us. Restoring law and order. New

category. DC and Memphis. Federal task forces deployed massive numbers of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard to restore safety. Crime down in DC is almost down to nothing. DC was a very very dangerous place and I think you probably know better than I do. I have a lot of people in the media thanked me for that. But uh some of them found it hard to thank me. But you know uh DC is now look how Beautiful DC is now. You can walk right from here to a restaurant right through the center of town. You

can be with your child, with your loved one, with your lover. Your lover's not going to be killed anymore. So, you can act like a real lover. But you can be you can walk right through the middle of the town and DC is beautiful again, too. You know, you notice we took all the fences down. Almost all the rest are coming down. We took got the graffiti all off. National Guard's been amazing. You know, we didn't tell them to do that. That's not their job description. But they were picking up garbage and they were great.

And I don't know to me that to me a town it looks better when you have military people. These are big strong guys and bad guys look at them and they say we're not going to mess around. But uh what they don't know is that we took over 2,000 people out permanently out of DC. These were career criminals. But I feel much better uh seeing those people there. I went in a couple of times and had dinner in DC. I walked right down the middle of the street. I felt very safe. A year ago, I

couldn't have done that. I would have been crazy to have done that. Secret Surfers wouldn't let me do it. They weren't thrilled anyway. I will tell you. Wasn't like they were thrilled, but but uh we Did it and it was great. But DC is a great thing. We have uh virtually no crime in DC anymore. And before before we did this move, it was and we could do the same thing with Chicago. You know, we brought Chicago down 25% even though we just had a minimal crew there. We brought uh we brought uh Wisconsin uh

down. We brought Minnesota down way down even though everything's a fight, you know, because they want to keep those people that are lying on the Floor. They want to keep those people in Minnesota, but they really don't. I don't think the real people of Minnesota, very corrupt place. Uh and the elections are totally corrupt. I feel I won it all three times. Nobody's won that state since Richard Nixon. It's a rigged state. And the Somalians vote as one group, even if they're not citizens. And they vote as one group. And you know, you get 600,000

votes against you. They all ought to get the Hell out of here. They're bad for our country. Nationwide achieved the largest reduction in violent crime on record. So this just came out. nationwide over the last 11 months achieved the largest reduction in violent crime on record, including the largest one-year drop in murders ever recorded. Almost 2,000 lives were saved. That's despite the fact that we took in criminals under the leadership of the Democrats and Joe Biden. More motor vehicle theft is down by 100,000 vehicles nationwide. That's another nationwide. The motor vehicle theft is at was

out of control and now it's very much in control. Uh it was down by more than 100,000 vehicles to a low a record low. Began the process of eliminating cashless bail policies across the nation. You got to get rid of your sanctuary cities. And I Hope our people know that we're not going to pay sanctuary cities. We're not going to pay them anymore. They are sanctuary for criminals. They hold criminals. We're not going to pay. They can sue us and maybe they'll win, but we're not giving money to sanctuary cities anymore. As of the beginning

of the month, we began the process of eliminating the cashless bail. Well, cashless bail is where it all started. It's a disaster. And then Other places, I don't know if it started in New York. I remember it starting in New York. So, somebody comes and murders somebody and they let him out. No bail, no nothing. Basically, cashless bail means you just get the hell out and they go outside. We have one case where a guy murders somebody, gets released, and goes out and murders somebody, two people in one day. No, we got to get rid

of cashless bail. They got to pay. Gonna have bail. There's a reason for bail. Long tested. Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums. We're going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but but you got to get the people off the streets. You know, we used to have when I was growing up, we had in my area in Queens, I grew up in Queens. We had a place called Creedmore. Creedmore. Did anybody know that? Creedmore. It was a big I said, "Uh, mom, why are those bars

on The building?" I used to play little league baseball there, place called Cunningham Park, who's quite the baseball player. You wouldn't believe. But I said to my mother, "Mom," she would be there, always there for me. She said, "Son, you could be a professional baseball player." I said, "Thanks, Mom." I said, "Why are those bars on the windows? Big building, big powerful building. It loomed over the Park actually. She said, "Well, people that are very sick are in that building." I said, "Boy, I used to always look at that building and I'd see this big

building, big tall building. It loomed over the park. It was sort of now that I think it was pretty unfriendly site, but I I'll never forget I don't know if it's still there because they got rid of most of them. You know, they the Democrats in New York, they took them down and the People live on the streets now. That's why you have a lot of the people in in California and other places. They live in the streets. They took the mental institutions down. They're expensive. But I'd say, why does that building have those bars?

Boy, it didn't it wasn't normal. You know, you're used to looking at like a window, but this one you're looking at all this steel, vicious steel, tiny windows, bars all over the place. Nobody was getting Out. It's called the mental institution. That was an insane asylum. Designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and many others. It is America's respected again on the world stage. That's another topic. obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capability. And Operation Midnight Hammer was one of the most successful anyone's ever seen. CNN fake news. I don't know where they are. CNN, anybody from

CNN here? Fake News. Nobody wants to raise their hand anymore. They used to be here. Now, if you're with CNN, you don't raise your hand. But they said, "Well, maybe it wasn't that successful." Which I really went was angry because these pilots took their life in their hands. two o'clock in the morning with no moon, dead dark, gun shooting at him. They went in with those beautiful B2s and every single bomb went down an air shaft and obliterated it. And CNN came out and Said, "Well, maybe it wasn't by the same by a scam writer."

A scam writer who wrote, you know, fake stories, a lot of fake stories on other topics, right? Because when we did it, we said, "That's a terrible thing." You know, the pilots came back and they said, "We hit everything. They did a great job." Then on top of that, we launched from a submarine about 30 tomahawks on top of everything else. Place was obliterated. CNN said, "Well, maybe it wasn't that bad. It was turned out it was worse than it was." You know who could tell you that? The Iranians would tell you that because if

they do anything, they're going to have to start a brand new place. But they did an amazing job. That was a that was like what we did with Venezuela. I mean, nobody's ever seen a military operation like that. Ended eight unendable wars in 10 months. These were unendable wars. Cambodia and Thailand fighting for Years. Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, they were really going at it. Eight planes shot down. They were going to go nuclear in my opinion. the um prime minister of Pakistan was here and he said President Trump saved

10 million people and maybe much more than that. They're both nuclear countries. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia were going to fight over a dam. And I got them to stop. I still got to work it out Because they put a dam up in Ethiopia that stops the flow from a little river called the Nile. I always think of the Nile being in Egypt. You know, it's beautiful Nile with the pyramids, but they put a dam up. You know who paid for the dam? The United States of It's biggest dam I think in the world.

They put a dam up. I said, "How did you let that happen? Why would we have done that? We financed it. This country would I don't know. I don't Know. Maybe it was a Republican president, but I don't think it was. I think it was a Democrat. But what a terrible thing. So Egypt basically is, you know, they don't have enough water in the Nile and they use that for uh a lot of things including entertainment and travel and tourism and everything. I mean, I don't know. They they got a big dam. I got to

work that one out now, too. Armenia and Azerbaijan. President Putin told me, "I Cannot believe you settled that war. I've been trying to settle that war for 10 years. Armenia and Azerbaijan. They were fighting it for many, many years. And I ended up getting the heads of the both countries in my office, the beautiful Oval Office, much more beautiful now than it ever was. And once out of one side, one side of the other said, you know, I've been the head of Azerbaijan for 22 years, and for 22 years, I've been killing his people. And

the other gentleman and both very good guys said, "I've been here for seven years and for seven years I've been killing his people." And they started over there and within an hour they were next to each other and by the time we ended they were hugging each other and it's been a great piece. You know, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for each war. But I don't say that. I saved millions and millions of people. And don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. Okay? It's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. They'll

say, "We have nothing to do with it." Uh, it's a joke. They've lost such prestige. Got all That's why I have such respect for Maria doing what she did. She said, "I don't deserve the Nobel Prize." He does. When she got it, they named They said, "Wow, that's amazing. I thought President Trump would get it." President Trump deserves it. He ended up eight wars. How nice, right? Good woman. got all 20 living hostages returned to their families and the remains. Uh they all came out. We got the 20 living hostages. We got the 28 hostages.

They have one left that we think we know where it is. Amazing. Looked like we weren't going to get anywhere near that. Now they've gotten almost. And uh more importantly, we got many more. Hundreds. Get them all. If we didn't if we didn't do it, you wouldn't have had most of those People would have been dead. I don't know if that's covered properly, but you know, the 20 is great. They were the last ones. I always said the last 20 are going to be hard, but we got them. We got the last 20 and we

got close to 28 of the uh of the bodies of the dead. And to those parents, that was just as important as getting their son back alive. They they were almost even more intent on getting they knew their son was dead. They wanted to get the body And got him back. We just created the Board of Peace, which I think is uh going to be amazing. I wish the United Nations could do more. I wish we didn't need a board of peace, but the United N, you know, with all the wars I settled, the United

Nations never helped me on one. I mean, I guess I'm not blaming them. I didn't call them to help, but I got, you know, the presidents and prime minister together. We knocked heads. We got along. And they Liked me. I like them. Every single one of them nominated me for a Nobel Prize. Every one of the wars among many other people nominated me for a Nobel Prize. But Putin told me, "I cannot believe you got this war settled. I've worked on it for 10 years because it's his territory. Rescued 83 American hostages and citizens detained

from abroad without paying a lot of money. Paid no money. apprehended terrorists responsible for The Abbegate bombing that claimed the lives of 13 US service members in Afghanistan, the lowest point in the history of our country. That was a Biden disaster. I was getting out, but I was getting out with dignity and strength. We were the boss. Oh, we were the boss. They wouldn't do a thing against us. And this very stupid person got in. And what a shame. They should have left from Bram, which is the big military base which has Hundreds of acres

around it. Should have left from Bram. Terminated visas of Hamas sympathizers and deported pro- jihad foreign nationals. Got NATO members to agree to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP from 2% and they paid the 5% and they didn't pay the 2%. And by the way, I did more for NATO than any other person alive or dead. Nobody's done for NATO. And I think for the most part they'll tell you that. I think you could ask the secretary General about that, but he said it a lot. I've done more for NATO than anybody. And I

see all this stuff, but NATO has to treat us fairly, too. The big fear I have with NATO is we spend tremendous amounts of money with NATO and I know we'll come to their rescue, but I I just really do question whether or not they'll come to ours. You know just I'm just asking just saying right you remember during The debate just saying signed1 trillion dollar investment in US military and next year we hopefully will go to 1.5 trillion we're building battleships that are 100 times more powerful than the battleships of World War II which

are the big beautiful those big beautiful things with the guns they said what about bringing them out of dry dock they said sir what we're building will blow them away it's think of These ships are 100 times more powerful Than the battleships that you see on Victory at Sea. Do you ever see Victory at Sea? What a great thing that is to watch. Renamed the Department of Defense into the Department of War, which everyone loves, by the way. Signed landmark critical minerals deals with Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Ukraine, Japan, and many others. We're going to have

so much rare earth. It's actually not that rare. Getting it processed is rare, but there's a lot of rare earth. There's a lot of earth around, I can tell you. Withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization where we were paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year. So, we were paying 500 million dollars a year and China is paying $ 37 million a year. I said, "Why aren't we paying the same as China?" They said, "Well, nobody asked." They said, "China's got 1.4 billion people. We have 350 million probably with all the illegals." You Know,

China probably knows more accurately, but we have much smaller in terms of the number of people. We have a much more powerful military, but we have much smaller. I rebuilt the military during my first term, by the way. And while they gave away a lot to Afghanistan, the Taliban, which was just horrible, seeing them every year seeing them do that military down some dirty street is a disgrace. But while they gave while Biden gave a Lot of it away, it's a tiny fraction compared to what we did. I rebuilt the military and now we're re

we're continuing to to build it and uh bigger and better. We needed peace through strength. But we uh withdrew from the corrupt world health organization. So I remember we were paying 500 million. They were paying 37 or 39 million. And I said, "How come?" So I withdrew and they called, "We'll give you the same deal that they had." I said, "Well, it should Be less than that because if they're at 37 and you have three times, four times the number of people, even maybe five times, I don't know. So, it should be less, but I

I didn't want to chisel around." And I thought about it. So, I could have taken 500 million to 37 and everybody knew it. I chose not to do it because it was actually very popular when I got out because they were terrible. And so, I chose not to take that deal. First thing Biden did is go back into it. You know what he paid? More than 500 million. So I actually called them. I said, "You know, you can buy it for less. You can make a deal at 37. There's no reason to pay 500." They

didn't care. They paid more than 500. Did you know that they paid more than 500 million? I made a deal at 37. I could have had 37. They were public about it. We'll give you the same deal that China has for 37. And they paid 500. They paid $500 Million. That's the way you ruin a country. And it's the same attitude that you know you have on everything else with these people. They were terrible. The anti-American UN Human Rights Council we ended the UN relief and works agency. We ended and the fake Paris climate accord

which was a ripoff of America where we had to pay a trillion dollars and they were paying nothing. China didn't kick in until 2035. We kicked in immediately. We were supposed to pay a trillion dollars. Russia went to a standard of 1991, which was a dirtier standard, but we had to pay top dollar. So I terminated that. Another Rick. We ended the woke lunacy and restored common sense. Abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI policies throughout the federal government and the private sector. They're gone, everybody. They're gone. Terrible. Terminated the Green New Scam. And

ended the insane electric vehicle mandate. I love electric vehicles. That caused me a little problem with a man named Elon, but he understands and he's a good guy. We get along. But I said, Elon, we can't have all electric cars. Just can't do it. I like the electric cars. I like his car, but uh in particular I like his car, but we can't do that because some people don't want an electric car by 2030. And to build the power stations all over the country, it would have cost $4 trillion. Four trillion. That's more than any

country has. If you got China, the United States, and everyone, you couldn't do it. And it would have taken years. And yet they were supposed to be switching over electric vehicle mandate. Some people don't like electric cars. Some people want hybrids. Some people want regular gasoline powered cars. We have more gasoline than anybody. And now With Venezuela, we have, you know, we have 62% of the market when you include Venezuela. So I ended the green new scam and I ended the insane electric vehicle mandate. Now you can buy a gasoline powered car, a hybrid, and

you can buy a electric vehicle. I mean, if you think if you want electric, you can buy it. Make a good deal on them right now because they made a lot of them. Permanently stopped Joe Biden's Ridiculous cafe standards. That's having to do with the environment. So ridiculous. Cancel the EPA's absurd. totally absurd tailpipe emission standard which made you spend hundreds of thousands it may for hundreds of thousands of cars the numbers the cost numbers were incredible that the consumer has to pay imposed 25% tariff on all foreign automobiles and 100% tariff on Chinese cars

which don't come into the country because of Tariffs only because of tariffs we didn't have tariffs you wouldn't have any car we have now more car factories being built in the United States than ever before because of tariffs. If they take those tariffs away, China will eat our lunch. They'll take all of our car business. Now, there's another way of doing it, but it's more cumbersome, etc., etc. I don't want to scare you, but it's more much more cumbersome. Not as good, not as good for national Security as this. We have a perfect system right

now. We're making a fortune. We've never been stronger. And I hope the Supreme Court does the right thing for our country because if they don't, it's such a pro. It's just so it would be so sad. We're doing so well because of tariffs. And the people that are heading up the lawsuit like there's a guy named Leonard Leo who's uh Bad guy and people that are very China oriented and foreign car oriented and foreign businessoriented but in particular China. They're suing to get rid of tariffs because they don't want tariffs like coke. Ko has businesses

outside of the United States. If you have them outside, you don't want tariffs. But because of tariffs, they treat us well. Without tariffs, they would treat us very badly, as you saw for many years. They respect us more now Than they ever have respected us by a lot. And revoke the California emissions waiver to stop San Francisco communists from regulating the automobile industry and destroying automobiles and the industry in the nation. And I was with Bill Ford of Ford Motors. I was with all the people at General Motors the other day and they are making

more money and building more cars than they've ever they are doing so good. All because of tariffs and what I've done. And they're Building their plants all in the United States. Reopened Anoir for drilling. That's a big deal. Launched a massive Alaskan pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal with South Korea and with Japan that gives us money the likes of which no nobody's ever seen before. Signed executive orders to end Biden's war on coal and put I say clean, beautiful coal. I never say the word coal. This has to

be preceded by the Words clean, beautiful coal. And put miners back to work. The miners love Trump. I think I got 100% of their vote. We banned transgenders from the military. We don't want transgender in the military. Ordered reinstatement of patriots expelled from our military with full back pay. So we had some people that were terminated and they're coming back into our military. Fired the woke boards of visitors at our military servicemies. The boards of visitors were Run by radical left. Maybe communists, maybe not, but they were still heavily radical left and they were bad

for us. signed an executive order to remove anti-American propaganda from federal museums and national parks, required the federal employees to return to work in person or be fired. We don't want them sitting in their home on their bed working. We want them in an office that we're paying for in Washington DC or wherever it may Be. Then we've largely taken care of that mess. That was crazy. I guarantee you they're out on the ball fields. I guarantee you they're out playing golf and you can't run a country or a company that way. I think it's

happening even so with countries and companies. But we had so many of our federal workers, they wouldn't come into work. Signed an order banning all government censorship and restoring free speech made it the official policy of the United States Government that there are only two genders. This was not a tough one. Two genders. Can anybody guess what they are? male and female. I think the Democrats know that too, but they refuse to admit it. Ban the use of puberty blockers, hormone injections, and other chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Can you imagine saying this 15

years ago that we banned the use of puberty Blockers, hormone injections, and other chemical and surgical mutilation of our children? You know when I say it I say is do I have to say that? I actually asked my people today. Yes sir. Because people it's where the country banned men from playing in women's sports. Big Supreme Court case and I mean I I can't believe it. Some of the justices were fighting hard for men to be able to play in women's sports. Couple of them. I can't imagine it, but I think anybody that rules that

way should should lose a lot of credibility. But we banned men from playing in women's sports. All you have to do is look at the records, look at weightlifting records, look at swimming records, look at track and field. It's not fair. It's very uh demeaning to women. Banned transgender ideology and critical race theory from our schools. secured unprecedented settlements with Brown University, Columbia University, and many other colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, where I went, the great old Wharton School of Finance, to restore fairness and merit. We're working with Harvard right now. They've been very

anti-Semitic. Terrible what they've done. And we'll see what happens. I I hear we have a deal, but who the hell knows with them? They have a lawyer that wants to show How hot he is. ended taxpayer funded student loan forgiveness for radical left and anti-American activists. Can you believe it? Began the process of abolishing the federal department of education and returning education back to the states. And Linda McMahon is doing a fantastic job. Ended Joe Biden's weaponization of our government and removed his handpicked radical left Marxist prosecutors From the Department of Justice like deranged Jack

Siksmith. He's a sick son of a They gave me the worst of the worst and here I am. How did that happen? How did that happen? He's a sick guy. And Leticia James is sick. And Alvin Bragg is sick. They're sick people and others. Fanny. Fonnie. You can't call her Fanny. She doesn't like it. She wants to be called Fawnie. Fonnie Willis. I won. Can you imagine have putting somebody through that? And then if I suggest that somebody may be guilty of a terrible crime, oh, he's weaponizing government. Trump is weaponizing government. It's terrible. Can

you imagine? They say to me about weaponize. I don't weaponize anything, but what they did to me, nobody ever went through what I went through. And here I am in a place called the White House. It's a beautiful place. Who would Have thought, right? Signed legislation to cut all taxpayer funding to woke and biased NPR and PBS. And they're sort of gone now, I guess. I heard they closed up. They were terrible. They were so unfair. They were so terrible. Officially reinstated Columbus Day. I like the name Columbus Day. The Italian people are very happy

about it. Remember when you go to the voting booths, I reinstated Columbus said that Was an easy one. Christopher Columbus cut Social Security weight times by 50% serve 65% more social security recipients by phone and are on track to doubling the service and performance compared to the Biden administration. We're two and a half to three times better and faster. slashVA claims backlog to the lowest number ever recorded. Created Trump accounts starting with $1,000 for every newborn baby. This is something that's become so popular and I give Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dell Dell computer uh who

put in six billion 250 million started with nothing and he actually invested all that money to give to kids so that when they grow up they have an account that might be worth a lot of money. It'll it'll be riding with the markets and you know they can at 20 years old, 21 years old they could have $100,000. They could have a lot of Money. That's going to be amazing. But I give a lot of credit to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dell. Signed AI executive order to ensure the United States dominates the future of artificial

intelligence. So we're leading China. We're leading the whole world. We're producing more electricity than we ever have because I'm allowing every one of those plants to build their own electric facility. We're giving them very, very fast approvals unlike Los Angeles with the Fire. So, the federal government, I want to give a lot of credit to Lee Zeldon, the hardest approval for the 20,000 houses or more that burned down in Los Angeles because they didn't have the water. They didn't allow the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest. They routed the water into the Pacific

Ocean. So, we had no water there. Not No, he had I would say open up the water. Open it up to the governor, to the mayor. They didn't want to do it. That they want to protect a tiny little fish. That's, you know, I said, "How can you have a fish when you don't have any water?" It was just an excuse, I guess. But, uh, it's it's amazing. We took 20,000 houses and Lee Zeldon, the the mo the toughest permit is from the federal government. Within two weeks, every single permit was given to the people

to build their houses. Then you have the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles. He's not who decided to go to Africa during the fire. So you have this incompetent mayor and I had it out with her the night when I got right after the fire went there. She said, "We're working on it so that we can have everybody starting to build within two or three years." Remember that? I said, "You mean two or three days?" "No, I mean two or three years." And the place went crazy. Well, they still haven't gotten their permits, but every f

Federal permit, every single one has been given a year ago, and Lee Zeldon has done a great job, and he's done a great job in the approval of all these big plants and factories and all of the electricity that they're creating for themselves. I said to Zuckerberg, I said to all of them, I said to Jeff Bezos, I said to everybody, Mark Zuckerberg couldn't believe it. He he said, "You know, where are we going to get all the electricity?" Because you Need double the electricity that the c the country currently makes just to fire up

those big plants. I said, "Well, nobody can do that. So, what we're going to do is let you make your own electricity." Nobody believed it. And I said, "We're going to get you fast permits." So, we get them within two weeks. And they're coming up with some of the most incredible electric plants you've ever seen. So, each one of those massive buildings, AI or otherwise, is Building their own electricity. They're building their own plant, and it's incredible. Many of them are under construction already. They're going to have uh we're leading AI, and we're leading China

by a lot. established a MA presidential commission, banned many artificial food dyes, as you know, issued new vaccine recommendations and created new real food pyramid. And Bobby and Dr. Oz have been incredible. Provided 12 billion in aid for American Farmers. Just gave them 12 billion dollars in aid because they got screwed by other nations. And the number of drug dealers have fallen every single month since I took office. Drug dealers are way down in the United States. And that's a small version of what's sitting right there. That's just a small version. We took a country

that was dead and it's the hottest country in the world right now. And that's after one year. So let's go. >> That's a that's a lot of people. >> All right. Please. Yeah. Go ahead. >> Thank you so much, Mr. President. Uh I have two questions for you. one, do you want uh your board of peace to replace the UN? >> Well, it might. I mean, the UN just hasn't been very helpful. I'm I'm a big fan of the UN potential, but it has never lived up to its potential. The UN should have settled every

one of the wars that I settled. I never went to Them. I never even thought to go to them. Uh they should be able to settle those wars. They don't I I believe you got to let the UN continue because uh the potential is so great. >> You invited Lula from Brazil to be part of the board of peace. What what role do you expect him to play especially like Venezuela and another one because the you are you from Brazil? >> Yes. The EU and Americaur just signed a trade agreement this weekend which is Going

to be the the biggest uh trade zone free zone in the world. >> Uh at the moment you were talking a lot about tariffs. Um what is your reaction to that? So two questions. >> Well I look I just think this I think we have trade like we've never had before. We're doing better in trade than we ever have before. We're not being ripped off by every country in the world like we were before. Uh we're doing we're doing numbers that nobody's ever thought Possible. We're the richest we ever were. It's because of tariffs and

the proper use of tariffs. And we're also the most secure. As an example, Iceland without tariffs, they wouldn't even be talking to us about it. So we'll see what happens. I think it's going to work out quite well. >> Right behind. >> Thank you, Mr. President. How would you characterize your relationship with Emanuel Mccron and Kier Starmer right Now? And have you spoken to them since your recruit social post office? >> No, I haven't. But I think I get along very well with them. I mean, they they always treat me well. They get a little

bit rough when they're, you know, when I'm not around, but when I'm around, they treat me very nicely. >> And, you know, I like both of them. They're both liberal. Uh, they've got to straighten out their countries. You can't, you know, London is having a lot Of problems. And if you look at Paris, got a lot of problems. They have two problems. immigration and energy. They got to stop with the windmills and they got to go back like uh UK has an unbelievable asset called the North Sea. Norway uses it, makes a fortune. They have

a better section of it and they don't do it. They could straighten out their countries and it would be good. But I get along very well. >> You uh told Norway's prime minister, >> are you from Norway? >> No. >> You look like you would be from [laughter] She looks like she's from Norway. Yeah. Go ahead. >> Uh, you told Norway's prime minister that you not winning the Nobel Peace Prize made you feel less obligated to think purely of peace. >> Well, I lost a lot of respect for Norway and I believe and I believe

very strongly that Norway controls the Nobel Prize. But you have to understand I settled eight wars. I've had uh every one of those wars, every participant wrote. I didn't ask them to do it. They sent in strong recommend. You know, they make recommendations for that. But I settled eight wars. No president's probably ever settled one war. I don't know. Think of it. I did eight. The reason I do it is because it's easy for me to do. And I didn't do it for a Nobel Prize. I did it because I'm saving a lot Of lives.

I'm trying to settle the final one. I'm trying to do Russia Ukraine. And when Russia's ready, Ukraine's not. When Ukraine's ready, Russia's not. But they're losing 25,000 people a month on average. And I'm trying to get that one done. But no, I feel but I feel that Norway has tremendous control over who gets the the Nobel Prize despite what they said. >> How far are you willing to go to acquire green? >> You'll find out. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Kevin Hasset has said that those $2,000 tariff rebate checks would be up to Congress to

decide whether or not to disperse that. Do you agree with Kevin Hass on that or do you think you can do that unilaterally? I don't I don't think we would have to go the Congress route, but you know, we'll find out. The reason we're even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs that we'll be Able to issue at least a $2,000 dividend and also pay down debt for the country. Uh but we do a $2,000 dividend to the people of our country. Would probably set a limit of, you

know, income limit uh where it made sense. But uh we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country. Uh, I believe we can do that without Congress. >> Uh, last night on True Social, um, you said that the British plan to hand the Base of Diego Garcia over to Maitius and then rent it back was an act of great stupidity. Previously, you backed that deal. Is it now your position that the deal should not go ahead? I think that they, you know, when they originally were going to do

it, they were talking about doing some concept of ownership, but now they're looking to essentially just do a lease and sell it. And I'm against that. You know, it's a reasonably nothing like Greenland, but It's a reasonably important uh area of the globe. Not to anywhere near Greenland, but I think they should keep it. I don't know why they're doing it. Do they need money? >> Mr. President, uh, with your support to the Syrian government, most probably you avoided another civil war and a bloodshed in Syria, especially after the fall of the regime. >> Good

job. I did a good job. >> And the Syrian government the last two Weeks uh had to use some force to to implement its force on uh specific areas and >> to keep to keep the prisoners, the terrorist prisoners, which are some of the worst in the world, at bay. So they they were able to keep that. He's working very hard. The president of Syria is working very very hard. Strong guy, tough guy. Uh pretty rough resume, but you're not going to put a choir boy in there and, you know, get the job Done. Uh

I spoke with with him yesterday because we were talking about the prisons and you know what was going. We have some of the worst terrorists in the world in those prisons and he's watching them. >> Syria, sir. >> Mr. President Gavin Newsome is going to be at Davos if he's not already there. You're probably going to run into him. I presume that this is for him to raise his platform for 2028, but what do you Anticipate his foreign policy platform is going to be? >> I I don't know. I mean, I don't know that he's

going to be the nominee. I I know this I had a very good relationship with Gavin Nuome when we were, you know, in office together. I was president. He was the governor of California. We had a really He would talk about it often and somewhere we just went astray. I I just I just hate the way California is being run where you actually have people Leaving. It's never happened before, but I hate the way it's being run. He and I had a very good relationship that really uh clo close to the word exceptional, but now

we seem not to. >> President Trump, Mr. President, you're you've been hearing from allies. >> No. >> Thank you so much. President Trump cared over from Lindell TV and you spoke earlier about the 2020 election. Uh now That uh Maduro Maduro is in US custody and he was criminally charged. Has any more information emerged that you could share with us regarding Venezuelan election software and Venezuelan ties to tampering with the 2020 election? And would you consider speaking to Maduro personally in prison uh in New York to get some answers on Venezuela's involvement with the 2020

election? >> No, I don't think I would be doing that. I think my lawyers would be very unhappy If I didn't. >> Yeah, they've learned they've learned some things. Please, >> what happens to the tariff threat to Greenland if the Supreme Court comes out and rules against you on the tariffs and >> Well, I'll have to use something else. I mean, look, >> willing to use force, >> you know, take a look at the word license. Take a look at other things. I mean, we have other alternatives, but The what we're doing now is the

best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated. Sir, if you move ahead um with the the Greenland related tariffs on Europe, you secured almost a trillion dollars of commitments from them to invest in the United States. Does that go put out the window if that happens? >> Uh I doubt it. Look, they want to they need that agreement very badly with us. They really do. They they fought very Hard to get it. So I doubt that. But we'll see what happens. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland. I'm leaving tonight as

you know, Davos. and we have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland and I think things are going to work out pretty well actually. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Will you uh still go to Paris for the G7 emergency meeting as offered by President Mron? No, I wouldn't do that >> because you know Emanuel Emanuel is not Going to be there very long and you know there's no longevity there. He's a friend of mine. He's a nice guy. I like Mcronone but but he's not he's not going to be there very much longer as you

know and I think you know I have meetings with the people that are directly involved not uh some of the people you're talking about. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy New Year. >> I've never seen this room like this. Is This a celebration of the first year? >> Have you ever seen it? I've never seen this many. >> I hope we have a very good I hope we have a very good structural floor. You know, this used to be a swimming pool. You're sitting over a swimming pool. I could see

that happening. But this we need a good structure here, don't we? Huh? Yeah. >> Mr. President, >> thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy Oney year anniversary. >> Thank you. >> And my my question is sorry on Syria. The Kurds as the most loyal US partners facing attacks by some Syrian elements within the Syrian government. What will you do to ensure the Kurdish rights protected and their effective forces against terrorism in Rojaba, Syria continued as the Kurdish see you as a president does not abandon his allies? >> Well, I like the Kurds, but just so

you Understand, the Kurds were paid tremendous amounts of money were given oil and other things. So, uh, they were doing it for themselves more so than they were doing it for us, but we got along with the Kurds and we are trying to protect the Kurds. That's correct. >> Ahead of your speech in Davos, can you give us a preview of what we can expect as far as, you know, laying out the plans for Americans to be able to buy homes. >> I think more than anything else, what I'm going to be speaking about is

the tremendous success that we've had in one year. I didn't think we could do it this fast. Uh, think of it. It's just now 12 months and you know I say it often. We have the most successful country in the world. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. And this country would have been absolutely stone cold dead. Uh, and I'm going to be talking about it. I'm going to be Because, you know, a lot of them could use some of the advice as to what we did. They need energy. You take

a look at their energy policies. They're going to destroy themselves with what they're doing with the windmills and all the nonsense. They need energy help badly or they're going to be in big trouble and they need immigration help badly. How much longer do you want to go? >> I do. >> I I have I have a very I have a very Important call with President Erdogan who I like who I like a lot. One or one or two more questions. Go ahead. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Go ahead. >> Thank

you, Mr. President. >> The red blouse. Go ahead. >> You talked a lot at the beginning of this about the economy. Some positive economic indicators. Polling shows a Majority of Americans don't feel the economy is doing well. Are you worried you're making the same mistake as President Biden? >> I hope I don't make the same mistake as him. Look, I inherited a terrible I mean, it's a great question because we inherited a terrible terrible mess uh between the border between all the problems. The whole country was falling apart and in 12 months, less than 12

months. I mean, in 12 months, we have The strongest border we've ever had. We have prices that are much much lower than they were for the last we inherited very high prices. We inherited remember this inflation was at a historic high. We had never had inflation like that. They say 48 years but whether it's 48 years or ever. We had the highest inflation in my opinion that we've ever had. Prices because of that were very high. I inherited we brought down eggs immediately. Remember the first news Conference they were screaming at me about eggs. I

was in the position for two days and they're sc we brought eggs down to lower than what they were before and by the way they continue that way. We brought the prices down from when I came into office and from what Biden had way down. We're going to bring them down further. But the job we did is is a miracle. The one of the reasons I'm doing this today is to explain. We inherited a mess and we've made it a Beautiful beautiful picture. Think of gasoline at a $1.99 in many states. $1.99 a gallon. It

was $450, $5, in some cases six or seven dollars. We're at a $1.99. And energy is so big that with energy, everything else comes down, but the prices are coming way down. And uh they're we're going to bring them down further. But we started up here with these guys. We inherited a country that was broken. We inherited a country and it's a I have a very warm spot. We've Done very well with Venezuela and by the way that even in itself is going to help us bring down the oil prices. I mean the Venezuelan oil

we've taken 50 billion 50 million gallons of oil. We've taken 50 million barrels of oil out of Venezuela in the first four days. We've got millions of barrels of oil left. We're selling it on the open market. We're bringing down oil prices incredibly. And when they come down, and they've already come down again, $1.99 A gallon for oil. Nobody thought they'd ever see it. All right. One or two more. >> Go ahead. Go, go, go. Yes. >> I want to ask you about Iran. Is the military option still on the table? And can you assure

us that the killing in Iran has stopped? And when regard to the peace council, which members have to pay one? >> So with Iran, are you from Iran? >> No, I cover the White House. >> Where are you from? >> I'm Palestinian American. >> So with Iran, they were going to hang 837 people. And I let them be known that and we let them know that if that happens, that will be a very bad day for them. And they decided not to do it. They didn't hang the people. I can't tell you what's going to

happen in the future, but supposedly they've taken that off the table, but they were going to last week they were going to hang on Thursday or Wednesday. One, they were Going to hang hang I think 837 people and they didn't hang anybody. So, we're just going to have to see what happens with Iran. Is the military option open? Go >> ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. President Trump. >> Thank you, President. Thank you, Mr. President. Go ahead. I'll take your question. >> Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Right Here. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, you

promised during your second inaugural to always put America first. I'm curious, how would you winning the Nobel Peace Prize improve the lives of average everyday Americans? Why is this prize so important? >> It wouldn't improve the lives of any what what improved the lives of people are people that are living. I saved probably tens of millions of lives in The wars. You know, if you add up the numbers, just just if you look at uh if you look at any one of those wars, you're talking about millions of people. You multiply times eight. But when

you look at India and Pakistan, that could have been 10, 15, 20 million people. Could have been more than that. So I saved millions of people. So that to me is the big thing. What? >> You suggested a moment ago that perhaps The reason why a positive story about the economy isn't getting through is because of, you know, bad communications people. But are average Americans wrong to still feel high prices? And how much longer does the White House hope that they >> So I think a lot of people a lot of people are listening to

the fake news a little bit. And I'm not blaming anybody. I think I I blame ourselves. I think we've done a much better job than we're Able to promote. We're not promoting. We're doing a great job and we're sort of letting the promotion take care of itself. One of the reasons I'm doing this news conference, I think it's important. We have taken a mess and made it really good. It's going to get even better. But if you look at prices from a year or a year and a half ago, you look at the Biden prices,

they were way up through the sky. And you know, they use the word affordability. They just say Affordability and they don't talk about it. They created the affordability problem and we have we are solving it. We have solved a lot of it. Again, everybody agrees in this room. I think gasoline prices have come per gallon way down. When that happens, everything else comes down. But they've come down way down. Uh many of the groceries have come way down. It's all happening and it's happening strong. But if you go back a year, a year and a

half, two years, take A look at those prices and look at the prices now. Thank you. Venezuela, you made you made a condition. >> Where are you from? >> I'm from Spain. >> Um, >> thank you. Uh, you made a condition that uh the political prisoners should be freed. It seems that they are not being as fast as they promised in the beginning. Would that be an issue for The current government? >> They've agreed that they're going to let I guess most of them out. Depends on what they did. But uh they have released a

lot of they have a lot released a lot of political prisoners in Venezuela. >> President earlier on last year you had mentioned you had indicated that you want to take back the Panama Canal. I know we've we've heard a lot about Greenland. Is that still on the table? >> I don't want to tell you that. >> Sort of. >> I must I must say sort of. That's sort of >> Okay, one more. Uh, yes. Blonde. >> Blue. >> Yes. Go ahead, ma'am. Go ahead. With the blue >> holding >> the computer. >> A consequence of

your determination to take control of Greenland is the ultimate breakup of the NATO alliance. Is that a price you're willing to pay? >> Uh, you mean the breakup of of >> It's very interesting. NATO alliance. So, I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody. Nobody's done more for NATO than I have. As I said before, uh, in every way, getting them to go up to five% of GDP was something that nobody thought was pos. And pay at 2% they weren't paying. At 5% they are paying. And they're Buying a

lot of things from us. And they're giving them, I guess, to Ukraine. That's up to them, but they're giving them to whoever they're giving them to, but they're buying a lot. Uh, I think that we will work something out where we're going to be very happy, but we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important. How about >> Thank you very much. Um, first of all, Last year you told me that you believe that the reason you won election is because God put you in this

place so that you could save the world. Looking back one year, do you feel like God is proud of the effort that you've >> I do actually. I think God is very proud of the job I've done and that includes for religion. You know, we're protecting a lot of people that are being killed, Christians, Jewish people, and lots of people are Being protected by me that wouldn't be protected by another type of president. Uh, no, I think uh I think a lot of people are very proud of the job we've done. We've had an amazing

year. This has been one of the greatest years. Even some people that wouldn't necessarily love me instinctively, they're saying this was an incredible year. We've had an incredible year economically. Uh look at our border. Our border was a disaster. People poor mill. It was an Invasion into our country of a lot of very bad people. Good people too, but a lot of very bad people from prisons and drug dealers and gangs and horrible people. Murderers. thousands and thousands of murders allowed into our country. And we now have the strongest border of any country. There's probably

not a country I guess North Korea has a pretty strong border, by the way. But there's not a country in the world that has a border Like we do. And we took it from the worst border. We had the worst border in the world. Now we have one of the strongest borders in the world. >> One more one more question. >> Mr. President, you said your comment something's going to get worked out in Greenland, but Greenlanders have made it clear they don't want to be part of the US. The right to take away that self-determin,

Are you committed to keeping the US in NATO? >> I've I've had a such a good relationship. I've made it so much better, so much stronger. It's so good now. NATO is so much stronger now. Uh, I don't agree with a lot of the things they've done, but that was done before I got there. Uh, I think NATO's been uh, good. Sometimes it's overrated, sometimes it's not, but we have a strong NATO. Uh, when I came here, we had a Weak NATO. We had a NATO NATO at 2% and they weren't paying. You had a

a nothing NATO. Uh, NATO's, whether you like it or not, it's only as good as we are. If NATO doesn't have us, NATO is not very strong. Yes. No. Behind you, please. >> Thank you, President Trump. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Greatly appreciate it, sir. We heard a long list of accomplishments from the last year. Could you cherrypick the top Three and then looking forward, what are your three most important priorities in 2026? >> So, I think the building of a really powerful military has been a great achievement. And that would include the Venezuela thing.

that would include uh the uh attack on Iran and the wiping out of the nuclear threat. I think that's been really amazing what we've done militarily. I think what we've done in business has been incredible. We have $18 trillion coming in. Plants are being built all over. Thousands of plants are being built all over the country. 18 trillion is a record. No country has ever come anywhere even close to that. I think that's a record. And I think uh that uh most favored nations for drugs is something that nobody thought they'd be able to get.

Tariffs helped me there because the nations would have never gone along with it if I wasn't able to say if you don't go along with it, we're Going to put a 10 or 15 or 20% tariff on your nation and they went along and our drug prices are going to come down at numbers never even seen before, never even thought possible before. So those would be three things. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. >> How was the game?