President Trump Meets with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026

Yeah, we want to... I'm always going to help our farmers. I would do that, yeah. If they if they need relief we'll be there for them. We're going to always be for our farmers. Yeah, please, in the back.

Mr. President, just speaking of the economic impacts of FIFA and possibly moving to another city some games if you feel there's crime. Is there like a timeline that you would do that? Because these cities, there's sponsorships, there's economic impacts for these communities. Is there...

Well, you know, the governors are going to have to behave, the mayors are going to have to behave. You know, in the case of California you have a problem. You have high crime, and you have a place that just suffered great fires and everything else and they didn't do a very good job. And if we didn't go in from the crime standpoint, you would have had a disaster. It was not going to be handled properly. It wasn't able to be. The head of the police said without as I said, without the federal government they could not have done it. So here's the story: I love Los Angeles. If they want help during this, I would love to send in National Guard or whoever's necessary to help them. I want it to be great, I'd love it to be in Los Angeles. I love the place. It's a natural for Los Angeles. If we think they're going to there's going to be crime, if we are obstructed by the governor, and maybe he won't obstruct, maybe he'll be great. But I'd love him for him to call and say, you know we'd like to have some extra help. Because if there's even a hint of a problem we want to get in there before the problem occurs. We want to make it totally safe for Gianni and FIFA and all of the great people that are going to be there. And I think that's going to happen. I would I would be honored to help California if they're going to have a problem. And if they think they're going to have a problem they should say so. We can be in there in 24 hours notice and do a great job. I think this: if they would tell us if they would tell us now, they're not going to have a problem. Because if we go in they don't have a problem. Look at D.C., there's no crime in D.C. anymore. And D.C. was a mess. If they want us to go in, I'd like them to tell us right now. But if we go in, there will be no problem, there will be no crime.

What's the message then to like local businesses who are considering sponsoring...

Tell your governor to ask for federal help. We'd love to help them. Would you launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? Okay with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Mexico is... look, I looked at Mexico City over the weekend, there's some big problems over there. If we had to, would we do there what we have done to the waterways? You know, there's almost no drugs coming in through our waterways anymore. Isn't it that way like 85%? I don't know who the 15% would be. It wouldn't be you. No, that's for sure. I think it's been tons and tons and tons. You would say that's a big signal. Absolutely. We have almost no drugs coming into our country by the sea, by you know the waterways. And you know why, okay, I mean it's pretty obvious. Would I do that on the land cars? I would... Look, every boat we knock out we save 25,000 American lives, not to mention the destruction of families. These families are decimated forever. The mother, the father, the children, they never recover really from it, you know when you lose somebody like the way they lose... if you lose them, but the way they die is horrible. So when we knock out a boat we save 25,000 lives, that's great. Now, do I feel the same way about the corridors that they use? We know every one of them. We have every one of those corridors under major surveillance. We have nobody coming in through our southern border. But we know exactly how they get there, things here, how they get the drugs here, fentanyl, cocaine. Colombia has cocaine factories where they make cocaine. Would I knock out those factories? I would be proud to do it personally. I didn't say I'm doing it, but I would be proud to do it because we're going to save millions of lives by doing it.

Would you need Mexico's permission though?

I wouldn't answer that question. I've been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand. We're losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So now we've stopped the waterways, but we know every route. We know every route, we know the addresses of every drug lord. We know their address, we know their front door, we know everything about every one of them. They're killing our people. That's like a war. Would I do it? I'd be proud to, probably go into Congress and say hey... and you know what? The Democrats and the Republicans would both agree. Unless they're crazy, and they are a little crazy on the Democrats' side. But we have lost hundreds of thousands of people a year, dead. And that's not talking about family destruction, that's talking about that. And much of it comes through Mexico. So let me just put it this way: I am not happy with Mexico, okay? Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.