[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"transcript-6535843f-970e-4105-9216-3e15fb597907":3,"transcript-neighbors-6535843f-970e-4105-9216-3e15fb597907":16},{"id":4,"youtube_url":5,"transcript":6,"created_at":7,"folder_id":8,"name":9,"upload_date":10,"is_public":11,"is_premium":12,"speakers":8,"persona":13},"6535843f-970e-4105-9216-3e15fb597907","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=jDw21pUBBMU","[00:00] Peter Doocy:\n6 points in Iowa sir? Not bad.\n\n[00:03] President Trump:\nI'm up. I'm up good in Iowa. We're up good everywhere, unfortunately I'm not running, except for you. I'm up everywhere Peter, unless you say I can't. I'll leave that up to you. I love that. I love that. Peter's just a great boy. Well thank you very much everybody. We very much appreciate it. This is a big afternoon, they all are in a way because all of these things that we do are very important. This afternoon, I'm thrilled to sign a historic executive order expanding access to high-quality retirement savings accounts for millions of Americans. In my State of the Union earlier this year, I promised to make these same types of retirement accounts enjoyed by the federal employees available to all Americans. So that's what we're doing. It only seemed fair. It's a tremendous, it's a really a tremendous situation for all Americans that was really much promises made, as I say promises kept. I'm thrilled to be joined by incredible people that I know and they're warriors. Jason Smith, these are congresspeople, Brian Steil, Mike Carey, Lloyd Smucker, Bill Huizenga, Ryan McKenzie, John McGuire, Zach Nunn, Derek Van Orden, Jeff Crank, Nick Begich, Monica De La Cruz, and Mike Lawler. Warriors, every one of them, they're great people. They fought very hard for what we're about to sign. And since my election the stock market has set 59, this is in a little bit more than a year, 59 all-time record highs, adding 9 trillion dollars in value to really the value of our country, if you think about it. Under four years of Biden, the average 401(k) rose at a rate of just 875 dollars a year. Last year under Trump, the average 401(k) balance was up 24,000 dollars. So 875 dollars versus 24,000 dollars, I would say that's pretty good. This is really incredible, the numbers are incredible. The numbers being invested in our country are more incredible than anything. You see it, there are plants being built all over, all over the USA. We have auto plants, not just AI. AI is doing great, we're leading China by quite a bit. But we have auto plants being built all over the country. They're coming back from Canada, they're coming back from Mexico, Germany, Japan, South Korea, wherever they build autos, they're coming here. Nobody ever thought they'd see that. The union loves me, you know, I did very well with the auto workers, but they like me a lot more now than they did when I was just talking about it. Beginning at the start of next year, every American will be able to go to TrumpIRA.gov and open a new low-cost IRA account. You'll then be able to access the same type of retirement accounts that federal employees enjoy through the Thrift Savings Plans, which are incredible. As part of the Federal Savers Match program, low-income Americans will be eligible to receive up to 1,000 dollars per year in matching funds deposited directly into their accounts. It's a great thing. For millions of Americans who lack employer-sponsored plans, this will be really revolutionary because they'll be covered. Nobody thought that was possible. For example, if a 25-year-old who is eligible for a Savers Match program invests just 165 dollars a month, under the matching federal contributions, they will have an estimated 465,000 dollars in their account by the time they're 65 years old. In other words, they'll be rich. And there's something awfully nice about that. But this is only the first step. I was talking to Kevin Hassett a little while ago and the people standing right behind me, we're going to take it to the next level. And the next level, Kevin, you're going to mention something, but the next level will be necessary to have congressional approval. What you just heard, we don't need congressional approval. And it'll never be terminated because to terminate it if somebody else is in office, to terminate it, you'd have to take that money away. You'd have to, you'd have to really take away something that's so positive. I don't think any politician would do it. But to take it to the next level, we need congressional approval, which should be very easy to get. It should be bipartisan. Normally it would be bipartisan, but today nothing's bipartisan, right? I mean it should be something that everybody supports. So Kevin, before we start maybe you could just explain what we were talking about for the next level.\n\n[04:11] Kevin Hassett:\nRight, so for the next level sir, what we're already talking, Chairman Smith and I about and there are already, I've been talking with Mr. Smucker about this for a number of years, is that we're going to expand this program that you're creating here which is for low-income people to middle-income people and maybe above as well, so that every American, you know, most high-income people have an employer that gives them a 401(k) with a match, but low-income people or Uber drivers or something, they don't have access to that, they don't have access to the match. What you've done here is you've given the match to low-income people with incomes below 35,000, but we think that there are a lot of people even who make more than that that don't have many assets for retirement and so we're working with Congress to significantly expand this program and are looking forward for legislation this year to expand this.\n\n[04:42] President Trump:\nAnd also the Trump accounts, you remember with Michael Dell and Susan and the group that we had are setting records, the numbers are.\n\n[04:52] Kevin Hassett:\nWe have 5 million, 5 million sign-ups right now sir.\n\n[04:54] President Trump:\n5 million sign-ups in a short period of time. Far above what we thought even possible. So congratulations to everybody that got that started. Michael Dell put in 6 billion 250 million, so he put in a lot of money and he's going to do more too. But they were very responsible. So I just want to let you know it's like record, nobody, you are even surprised by that number, I think, right? Way beyond what anyone thought is great. And we're going to be doing the same thing I guess in a certain way for older people, for grown-ups. We're going with a plan that if it, if it works, has to get approved by Congress, but we think it'll get approved. It would be fantastic for the country. Let's go. Will, you want to start? Some other things and we thought we'd let these great people from Congress and beyond, or below I guess I could say.\n\n[06:56] Kevin Hassett:\nFirst sir, this is the IRA Executive Order that you just mentioned. This establishes the retirement accounts with the federal match for eligible people as you said in your speech and as Kevin explained. This is a big step forward, it's going to provide access to high-quality retirement accounts to a lot of Americans who don't currently have access to such accounts.\n\n[07:22] President Trump:\nOkay, there it is. That's nice. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Well there are some that aren't associated with this and then we'll talk about this with the press, you'll ask us some questions of the Congress people, okay? Because they were really responsible for this. All right? Who would like to hold it? Okay, good. Popular guy. Okay, let's go.\n\n[07:52] Kevin Hassett:\nThis is a presidential permit authorizing the Bridger Pipeline sir. This is a transborder pipeline similar to the old Keystone XL pipeline. It'll significantly expand our ability to move oil around North America, oil and gas around North America. It's a huge deal in terms of long-term energy dominance and energy security.\n\n[08:34] President Trump:\nSlightly different than the last administration. Very different. They wouldn't sign a pipeline deal and we have pipelines going up and by the way they're way underground, they're not a problem, nobody even knows they're there. It's so crazy, but they wouldn't approve anything having to do with a pipeline and they're great. As opposed to trucking it or training it, it was, they're great. Lot of jobs too, lot of jobs. Okay, very good. Next.\n\n[08:43] Kevin Hassett:\nThis is an executive order on federal contracting sir. Many federal contracts currently operate on a cost-plus basis. This provides oftentimes weird incentives for contractors, leads to cost overruns, costs the federal government a lot of money. What this executive order does is it establishes a fixed-price contract as the default in most federal contracting. This aligns the federal government with what would typically exist in the private sector and we believe will continue to drive down fraud and abuse in federal contracting government-wide.\n\n[09:15] President Trump:\nWould anyone like to object to this? Defeat it for this one too. Okay, thank you. Next.\n\n[09:28] Kevin Hassett:\nYou previously announced that we were withdrawing Casey Meads as the Surgeon General sir and appointing Dr. Sapir or nominating Dr. Sapir in her place. That on the left is the withdrawal which will later be transmitted to the Senate and on the right is the new nomination form for our new Surgeon General.\n\n[09:50] President Trump:\nNicole Sapir, she's with Fox, was with Fox. Is she with Fox anymore Peter? But she's great. She'll be the Surgeon General. I'll sign it here.\n\n[10:02] Kevin Hassett:\nI believe she's with Memorial Sloan Kettering in New Jersey sir and she's an outstanding doctor.\n\n[10:08] President Trump:\nShe is. I just don't know how Biden used the auto-pen. Really there's so many things to sign, it's like here please take this. It's crazy. It was all, all four years was crazy. Okay, let's bring it up. She's going to be great. Surgeon General. Thank you.\n\n[10:44] Kevin Hassett:\nThis is a proclamation declaring this weekend to be National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. As you know, firefighters do an incredibly difficult dangerous job, help keep us all safe. This is a proclamation honoring their sacrifice and remembering those who have fallen sir.\n\n[11:21] President Trump:\nGreat. Everybody likes that. Okay, firefighters. No one deserves it more.\n\n[11:22] Kevin Hassett:\nLastly sir, this is another proclamation. Your administration, particularly the First Lady, have made foster and adoptive care major priorities. This is a proclamation declaring National Foster Care Month, honoring those who have participated in foster programs, who have helped raise foster children, and speaking about the many things that your administration, including the First Lady's office, have done on that set of issues.\n\n[12:00] President Trump:\nIt's been a big thing for the first lady, so this is in honor of our first lady. That's fantastic. I was in foster care. Oh it's great, it's great. God is good. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. President. So do you have any questions, maybe we discuss the first signing first? If you have anything on that.\n\n[12:12] Reporter 1:\nMr. President, how is this going to help small business owners? Do you think this is going to inspire more people to go into small businesses that might be reluctant earlier for IRA, to have the IRA that this is going to help give them?\n\n[12:24] President Trump:\nWell I'll tell you small businesses are now thriving and as you know, more people are working right now than at any time in the history of our country. We're doing great and there's more investment being made in the United States than any country at any time, any time in history. And a lot of that's AI and a lot of that's maybe in a certain way more importantly, auto plants are all coming back to our country. They're coming back from different countries where they left us for Germany as you know, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, and they're all coming back at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And tariffs did it, I did it, maybe the election did it, but tariffs did it. And if they build here, they don't have to pay tariffs. So we have Germany is giving a lot of, a lot of companies are coming in from Germany, from Japan. Japan just announced 10 billion dollars more plants going to be built between Toyota and Honda and all the different companies, they're pouring into our country and South Korea. Canada, they're coming in, I don't know what they're doing but I can tell you they're coming in tremendously from Canada. There's no reason they don't want to pay the tariff. And because of that they're, so you know, they're investing at levels never seen before. We will, you know, for 30 years we virtually didn't build an auto plant in this country and now we're doing more than we've ever done. So I'm very proud of that. AI is going wild, we're doing great and we're letting them build their own electric, but we're actually making them build their own electric plant so they don't take, they take tremendous amounts of energy to have a successful plant and they're building all of the new ones, they're building their own electric plant like a utility and any extra they'll either give it or sell it for a good price to local communities and and to the grid. So it's going to be fantastic but we have tremendous amounts of factories being built in our country now, more than we've ever had at any time ever before and we have the biggest investment being made in our country in the history of our country, in by the way, in the history of any country there's never been a country that has the kind of investment coming in that we have right now. And these things are being built right now, so you're not going to see the results, I mean you see construction results, you notice the construction workers are through the roof, but when they open the numbers are going to be staggering. Do you have a question?\n\n[14:57] Reporter 2:\nI certainly do, thank you Mr. President. You had some good economic news with GDP 2%, unemployment at the lowest level in 16 years, and IRS data shows that the average federal tax returns up by more than 11% when compared in the same time as last year. Do you believe...\n\n[15:13] President Trump:\nIt is up over 100%. Do you believe that this is evidence that the big beautiful tax cuts that you signed into law last year are working and do you think the economy is going to continue to hum as the year progresses? Yeah thank you. So the biggest tax cut in history is in the great big beautiful bill and I think you know I see it, I actually see it reported where people are shocked at how much money they're making, they can't believe the refunds that they're making, 5,000, 6,000, 7, 8, 9. One I saw one last night on television, 11,000 dollars more than she thought she was going to get. And it's no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our seniors, no tax on social security, nobody can believe it even and the numbers are far greater than they thought. People that thought they were going to make an extra 500 dollars, turns out they're making an extra 5,000 dollars. So it's been really great, yeah. And that's going to carry forward. I think the country's doing really well. And that's despite a military operation, I don't call it a war, I'd rather have a military operation. We're really, I mean Iran is dying to make a deal, I can only tell you that. I don't want to get into the deal, but they got to, they cannot be nuclear, other than that, but they are, their navy's gone, their air force is gone, every ounce of any form of equipment practically is gone. You know, their drone factories are about 82% down and their missile factories are almost 90% down. And many of their missiles have been knocked out, they used some but we knocked out more than they used. And it's pretty, it's pretty amazing what's happened. They want to make a deal, but despite the fact that we are in what some people would call a war, we just hit a new high today on the stock market. We have S&P is through the roof, they're all, I mean they're through the roof. And you know, when we hit 50,000 on the Dow and 7,000 on the S&P, I said to myself, we got to do something about Iran, they want to have a nuclear weapon, you can't let them have a nuclear weapon and I hated to do it to my people because they hit 50,000 Peter, you know this, that 50,000 wouldn't be obtainable in my four years or anybody's four years. And we hit 50,000 in my first year, the end of my first year. We hit 7,000 on the S&P, they said that would be even less obtainable and we hit that at the end of the first year, before the year was up. And then I said to Kevin, sorry about this Kevin, but we have to, we have to put out a fire and the fire's taking place in the lovely country of Iran and they want to have a nuclear weapon. And if we didn't use this beautiful, see that plane right there? That beautiful B2 bomber. It looks small there but it's actually quite large. It doesn't look very powerful there but it's quite powerful, quite large actually. We ordered 25 more of them, the updated version, all built in America, which is very nice, right? But if we didn't have that B2 bomber, if we didn't go in and do what we did, we obliterated that nuclear capacity of theirs and so they never, they didn't get the nuclear bomb. If we didn't do that attack, should have been done long before I came along by other presidents or by another country or something, but it should have been done long before I came along. But they are in very bad shape and they've got nothing going, including leadership, I mean you know their leaders are gone. Now they have a whole new set, their first string leaders are gone, their second string leaders are gone, now we're dealing with their third string, but we'll see what happens. It's been an amazing period of time. Between Venezuela and where we're doing great, we're getting along with them great, we're working very closely with them there. They're, they're doing more oil now than they've done in many, many decades actually. And they're making more money and so are we, you know, we're like it's like a joint venture to be honest. And we paid for the attack many times over. The attack's something you've never heard before probably. I always used to say to the victor belong the spoils, but we've paid for the attack which is always expensive. But it was less than one day attack. It was actually a 45-minute attack. And that's a good, you know, they have good military in Venezuela but this they did not expect that and that and that and that. Other than that, but when these suckers come at you at 2500 miles an hour at 25 feet off the ground, they say this is not what I bargained for. This is no good. Anyway, so and now you know Venezuela was amazing, but now we're doing essentially it's larger but we're doing essentially the same thing in Iran. Can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon and their economy is crashing, the blockade is incredible, the power of the blockade is incredible, they're not getting any money from oil. And hopefully it can be worked out very soon. Yeah.\n\n[20:24] Peter Doocy:\nMr. President, Iran is proving to be very stubborn. The talks seem like they are stalled. Are you getting antsy to break this ceasefire?\n\n[20:34] President Trump:\nWell I mean I don't know what stubborn is because really nobody knows what the talks are except myself and a couple of other people. They want to make a deal badly. And we have a problem because nobody knows for sure who the leaders are, it's a little bit of a problem. You know the leaders have been wiped out along with their military, almost all of their military. I mean think of it, 159 ships was their total navy. 159 ships are gone. They're underwater, they're way below sea level. Sea level is a big difference, pretty deep waters over there too. So I don't know that we need it, we might need it.\n\n[21:56] Reporter 2:\nAnd on Iran, a little while ago the President of FIFA said that when the World Cup is here in the US, the team from Iran will be playing in the games.\n\n[22:06] President Trump:\nWell if Johnny said it, I'm okay. Are you sure Johnny said it? Johnny Infantino, that's a piece of work.\n\n[22:12] Reporter 2:\nWhat if they win?\n\n[22:14] President Trump:\nWell if they win we'll have to worry about that. That's that I'm going to have to worry about that one, that one down. But look, you know what? Let them play well. Johnny's fantastic, you know he's a friend of mine and he talked about it, I said you do whatever you want. You can have them, you don't have to have them. Probably have a good team, I don't know, do they have a good team? Do you have any idea? I have no idea. It'd be hard to believe actually, but I think let them play, right?\n\n[22:17] Reporter 3:\nMr. President, this is a little bit different, but what is your take on these reports that your show, The Apprentice, is going to come back, could come back on Amazon with host Donald Trump Jr?\n\n[22:29] President Trump:\nWell well I've been hearing it. Look we had a great success, 14 seasons and The Apprentice was a tremendous success. So I've been hearing that, yeah, a little bit. So we'll see what happens. He's a good guy, he'd probably be good. He's got a little charisma going, you need a little charisma for that suckers. So we'll see what happens.\n\n[23:01] Reporter 4:\nMr. President, thank you Mr. President. There's been some talks about changes to your security after what took place on Saturday.\n\n[23:02] President Trump:\nWell they did a pretty good job actually, you know, they stopped that NFL running back, I mean he was like a running back. In fact, if he ever got out there, probably going to sign him. He he was a speedy guy, but he was stopped and they had many levels in front of him before he would even come close. You know, you could be a baseball team and win 19 to nothing and somebody could say you should have won 21, you should have gotten 25 runs, the team was no good or something. So I don't know. I I can only say that I know a lot of those people, that Secret Service, and they were they were good and they were forceful. And I saw the guys in front of me, they were powerful looking guys. I said we could send them to Hollywood, they could they could make movies. I think that there's always room for improvement, right? And he got into the building. The problem is the, I know that's what I do, I build buildings like that. Much nicer actually, but I build buildings like that. And you know, when you have a thousand rooms sitting on top of a ballroom and you have the elevators coming down right near the entrance, it's a pretty tough situation. Now right outside we have something that's on time, on budget, actually ahead of time, ahead of budget depending on finishes. You know finishes is a big difference between marble and onyx in price. But it's right on budget, right on time. And that's built to the highest standards of security. No units on top, no hotel built on top where an elevator comes right down through the middle of it. It's a it's a tough location. But that's a tough location. So I think the guy, I know the people at Secret Service, I think they're great. And I think the Congress has to take care of those people. You know, they're what we're talking about, ICE, we're talking about Border Patrol, Secret Service, everyone is. The Democrats essentially want to defund the police, just so you know. They want to defund law enforcement. It's crazy. These people have gone crazy. I heard Hakeem Jeffries, a low-IQ person, he's a very low IQ, screaming today that the Supreme Court is illegitimate. I mean, that's a dangerous statement. Then if I say something modest, they say, \"Oh, he's a king. He's a king.\" They they're sick. But Hakeem Jeffries said the Supreme Court is illegitimate. That's a rough statement. If I made that statement, it would be the biggest story out there. Bad things would happen.\n\n[25:42] Reporter 4:\nThe average price of a gallon of gas is now 4 dollars and 30 cents in this country.\n\n[26:00] President Trump:\nAnd you know what? And we're not going to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran. The gas will go down as soon as the war's over, it'll drop like a rock. There's so much of it, it's all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world. And it'll be, it'll go down. But what won't happen is if Iran had a nuclear weapon and used it, then the whole world is a different place. You're not going to have to pay a little bit more for gasoline. The gasoline, the oil will go down rapidly as soon as the war's over.\n\n[26:19] Peter Doocy:\nMr. President, good to see you sir. I've got two questions. Uh, the first one follow up on Daniel's question. Uh, I've described you as the peacemaker. You're achieving peace around the world. Due to these latest policies, Big Beautiful bill, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Social Security, No Tax on Overtime, now the Trump accounts and then the retirement, the IRA account. Could we describe you as the wealth maker?\n\n[26:42] President Trump:\nWell I'm helping people out. I appreciate that. It's a nice question actually, but I'm helping people out. These people are with me, you know these these are great people. And and feel free to speak up if you'd like because they wanted this to happen and we got it done. And they're Republican people, I think in all cases, right? Which is crazy. We have to we need like always unanimous because the Democrats they will vote against anything, no matter how good. If they had their favorite thing in the world and we happened to want it, but we found a new strategy, we're going to oppose every single thing that we want and we'll get unanimous votes. So I'm going to come up and oppose everything, Brian, from this point forward and they'll vote for it. Go ahead.\n\n[27:28] Reporter 2:\nSecond question. Uh you created Space Force on the towards the end of your first administration. You just had the Artemis 2 crew in here. Uh I know it's a big accomplishment. What do you see moving forward the duration of your administration in terms of space exploration? I know that was a big moment for you.\n\n[27:46] President Trump:\nWell doing Space Force was I think it's going to go down as one of my more important things. It's turning out, even a lot of these great military operations that we have right now, when you look at Venezuela, when you look at like the decimation of of Iran which was considered powerful, it was the bully of the Middle East. And a lot of that took place so effectively because of what's coming out of space. When we did Space Force, when I did Space Force, I'm very proud of it. Uh space was like we were third. China was first, Russia was second. Now we're we've leapfrogged, we're way ahead of China, we're way ahead of Russia. And we made some great choices. The first person that headed Space Force and really after that we had a couple of really great people heading it, very always very important. And a new person who's heading it now, I think he could has a chance to be as good as anybody, as good as maybe better, I don't know. But we've had great people heading up Space Force. It's been very important, it's been very important for what we're doing with respect to the different places. And as far as peace, I settled eight wars. And people try and dispute it but then they go over them. And almost in every case they sent letters thanking me and letters to the Nobel committee, I don't care about that. I've Maria was very nice, she gave me her Nobel Peace Prize because she said she didn't deserve it. She was very, very nice. But but I settled eight wars. And in every case, the people, the prime ministers or presidents wrote letters thanking me. And in the case of India, I look, the biggest one would have been Pakistan-India. The Prime Minister of Pakistan said I saved from 30 to 50 million lives, but it could have been more than that. Two nuclear nations were going at it. 11 airplanes were shot down. They were in the first week of what would have been a very bad war and I got it solved. You know how I got it solved? By the use of tariffs. I said I'm going to charge you tariffs if you guys keep fighting. And they said oh please don't do that.\n\n[30:53] Reporter 2:\nYou just lifted some tariffs, right? On you just lifted some tariffs on whiskey? Is that correct?\n\n[31:20] President Trump:\nYeah what I'm doing is uh for for as long as I've been here they've wanted to, you know Kentucky which is a great place and where I also won Jason by a lot. But Kentucky, uh with the bourbon and Scotland with the whiskey and they've had trade for years and years and years and a lot of restrictions, a lot of different restrictions took place that didn't amount to much. Uh and it it really stopped them. Uh I don't know if you know it's a barrel trade, they use the barrels from the one to take care of the other and the barrels are only good for one unit, in other words they can't be used twice, they can only be used once, but the once makes it a better substance. I'm not a big drinker, so forgive me. But it makes them a big substance and a better a better taste. But they dealt for years. This was Scotland and Kentucky, mostly Kentucky. And uh I took I just took all the restrictions off, so Scotland and Kentucky can start dealing again. And I did it in honor of the King and Queen who just left. They're heading back and it was a big deal. They've been trying to get this for a long time.\n\n[31:07] Reporter 4:\nMr. President Trump, you talked about uh possibly pulling out some troops of Germany. Uh would you be considering the same thing for Spain and Italy? I mean they haven't been exactly on board.\n\n[31:20] President Trump:\nYeah probably, yeah probably will. Why should I? You know, why shouldn't I? Uh Italy has not been of any help to us. And Spain has been horrible. Absolutely horrible. You know it's NATO. It's not even the fact that they're bad, it's one thing if they say nicely, or if they say okay, we'll help but the help's a little slow. But the level, and we help them with Ukraine, you know they made a mess out of Ukraine, a total mess. And we help them with Ukraine. Ukraine has nothing to do, you know we're an ocean apart, it has to do with them, it's like for them it's their front door, we help them. And Biden gave them 350 billion dollars, which was insane, it's one of the reasons the war went on. But when we needed them, they were not there. We have to remember that. And so if we ever have a big one, because we didn't need any help with Iran, we we had Iran right from the first day it was over. It was over. And now it's even more so, we're so locked and loaded if we want to do. But uh we didn't need the help. And to a certain extent I asked them, I didn't need the help but I say yeah we'd love to have you help because I want to see if they'd do it. And they in all cases they said we don't want to get involved. And you know the amazing thing is they use the Strait of Hormuz, we don't. We don't use it, we don't need it anymore. We have a lot of oil. Wait a minute, and they use it, we don't. And you would have thought they would have said we would love to help you, but they didn't, which I think was a very and Germany, I mean he's doing a terrible job. He's got immigration problems, he's got energy problems, he's got problems of all kind and he's got a big problem with Ukraine because they're in that mess. And he criticized me for doing the whole thing with Iran. But I said would you like to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran? He said no I don't. I said well then I guess I'm right. He didn't have any answer to that. The bottom line is for this world, for our country, but certainly for Israel, the Middle East, and Europe, much closer. Uh you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon and if you agree that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, which most people agree, almost everybody, it should have been done a long time ago. But if you agree they can't have a nuclear weapon then what I did has been executed perfectly because our military has decimated them, yeah.\n\n[34:02] Reporter 5:\nMr. President, two questions for you. Olivet Shazi from the Daily Mail. You have called this the new regime uh before in Iran, but I speak to Iranians on a daily basis and they tell me that these are the same people that have murdered them, executed them, repressed them. I talk to them through the blackout and they wanted me to ask you this question. And second of all, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, how come he's not involved uh in these conversations?\n\n[34:30] President Trump:\nHe oh he's very much involved. Marco is very totally he's negotiating with them all the time. No look, Iran killed 42,000 people over the last two months, protesters. Uh they were going to kill eight women whose lives I saved and I appreciate that they didn't do it. I asked them not to do it, they didn't do it. They were getting ready to hang the women. They were going to hang eight beautiful women that had just caught the imagination of a lot of people, people were talking about it, you know it was inconceivable. You saw those eight beautiful people and they were going to be executed that evening, this was a week ago. And I got on the phone very quickly and I said don't do it, don't do it. The whole world is watching, don't do it. And they didn't do it. I appreciate it, I guess four were released and the other four are going to be released in a month. They were ready to be executed that night. So they take a tough, you know, they knocked out the wrestler they killed. They killed the wrestler's teammates. Uh he was he was a world champion wrestler too. He was a great wrestler, great talented wrestler. They killed him because he protested, he spoke. He didn't he wasn't wrestling, what he did is he spoke negatively about the regime and they killed him. They executed him along with his friends. They killed 42,000 people. So when you say about they they say that I do the same, I don't do the same. I'm trying to I'm trying to save that country in a certain way and nobody's ever seen it out there. Think of it, they killed 42,000 innocent, not weapon-carrying people for protesting. 42,000. And the number they say is a lot higher than that. This is a rough group. But we have decimated them. And their economy is a disaster. So we'll see how long they hold out. We'll see.\n\n[36:27] Reporter 6:\nSaudi Arabia is pulling the plug on LIV Golf. Once that tour is gone, do you think the PGA tour should welcome the defectors back with open arms?\n\n[37:03] President Trump:\nWell I do, it's a great question. In fact, if I had time, I'd love to watch television today because the PGA tour is playing at Doral, the Cadillac Championship. And I said who's winning? I don't get a chance, I can't even look. Jordan Spieth is in the lead. Who is? Jordan Spieth. Oh that's good, he's good. Great guy. Good putter, to put it mildly, right? He's a very great guy. Chipper putter. Uh no it's they're at my tournament right now, the PGA. In two weeks, LIV is going to be at my course right here on the Potomac. No I'd love to see LIV, but I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing, the great golfers should be playing against each other. I do believe, you know, it's sort of they sort of they were viewing something as a monopoly, but in a way in a way it should be the opposite of a monopoly. All I want to see Rory playing Bryson DeChambeau, I want to see Big John Rahm playing uh Scotty who's so great, right? Scott. Scotty Scheffler's great. And I want to see him play John Rahm and Bryson and all the different guys, they have great players on the LIV. But it's almost like people want to see that. That's why the Masters were so good because you saw everybody together. Patrick Reed played great, you know he's on LIV and he played great and they all did, they all played, they're great players. They play with them, they're very good. When I think I'm a good player and then I play with them, I don't think I'm that good. But but there's something nice about all of the players play together. Now they'll all be accepted by the tour, there's no question because they're great. If they weren't, you know, but the tour really will, the tour wants to have the best player. You can't have the best player that they're boycotting. Now they may do something, you know, a little bit, but uh they'll all be back on tour and it'll be great. And you know, having LIV too, now I don't know that what's happening with LIV, I'm not sure what's happening with LIV, but they are playing in my course uh two weeks on the Potomac, beautiful course. But right now they're playing at Doral, which I own and uh if I ever if we end this early I'll be able to watch for about three minutes because I get back onto the economy and every other subject that we have including Iran. We're doing so well with Iran so ho I think so, yeah.\n\n[39:01] Reporter 7:\nThank you so much Mr. President. Jennifer Shonberger with Yahoo Finance. Question on clarification of the Trump IRAs versus a regular IRA. Does it come down to the difference of a federal match? Who would qualify for that? And secondly do you have any reaction to Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell staying on the board of governors? Were you prepared to take any action on that front?\n\n[39:23] President Trump:\nNo I don't care if he if he stays on he stays on. That doesn't I just wanted to make sure that Kevin became the head. Uh it's very unusual that they stay on, you know, I I predicted he would because you know, who's going to hire him frankly? Uh so I predicted he would stay on. But uh you know, he's a negative i think he's a negative force. The thing that angered me about him more than interest rates was the fact that he could allow a building to cost billions of dollars more than it was supposed, I could have built that building, I could have renovated fixed that building, which is what I do, I always did well with it, for 25 million dollars. They're going to spend maybe 4 billion dollars, it's not even close to being open. You know Kevin, who's going to be fantastic, I don't know if he's going to have an office. I'm going to have to put him right here, I'm going to give him that, we'll cut the Oval in half, I'll give him half of the Oval. No it's uh I think I'm very happy about Kevin. I think Kevin's he's a star. And the other Kevin we're going to talk to you. Could you answer her question?\n\n[40:23] Kevin Hassett:\nYes sir, it's a great question and the match is a super important part of it and it's one reason why we're calling on our friends here to potentially expand it. So that right now the match is capped at 35,000, but there's a whole academic literature that this match has a big effect on people's willingness to save and their long-run welfare. And so the differences really are the match. Uh we're creating the TrumpIRA.gov website so it'll be really, really easy for people to have access to private companies that have to follow the TSP rules that are really low cost and so on so that they'll get the best possible investment. And finally you've noticed that Michael Dell has given money, uh promised money for the Trump accounts. Uh we've also uh made it clear that the Trump IRA charities can contribute to other people's accounts.\n\n[41:11] President Trump:\nAnd I imagine this will boost the stock market and economy further. Do you want to mention phase two?\n\n[41:14] Kevin Hassett:\nRight, so so the basic headline is that if you look at the huge success of Australia in their retirement savings accounts, that we're working with the Treasury Secretary he and I and Jason Smith and other members of Congress to come up with something that's pretty close or or in the direction of the Australian system.\n\n[41:48] President Trump:\nOr better, we have some ideas to make it even better. No they had a couple of little glitches that we'll get rid of.\n\n[41:54] Kevin Hassett:\nBut but there's absolutely no uh contemplation of harming Social Security in any way. This is meant to be an add-on for that. It'll be very exciting, it's going to be great. We'll be pretty quick, we'll move pretty fast.\n\n[42:05] Reporter 8:\nCan I follow up? Something something that we talked about a couple weeks ago. Um there are all these missing scientists who had access to classified material. Uh a bunch of them have turned up either they're missing or they have turned up dead. Have you been briefed yet about whether or not these cases are connected?\n\n[42:25] President Trump:\nYeah I have.\n\n[42:26] Reporter 8:\nAnd can you tell us if they are connected?\n\n[42:28] President Trump:\nWell so far, I mean they're individual, we have a lot of scientists. So when you see, you know, you put together 10, it's a lot, but it's, you know, a very small number compared to what overall. We have a lot of scientists. Who's asking that question? Thousands, hundreds of thousands of scientists. So no, some of them that we looked at are very sad cases in some cases, some were sick, uh some left this earth self-inflicted, some had other things. So so far it's there's not a major, you know, there sometimes is a little bit of a connection anyway and you say, \"Oh, this is this is a terrible thing,\" but so far we're finding that uh there's not much of a connection. We'll let you know. We're going to be doing a full report on it. It's very serious stuff.\n\n[43:11] Reporter 4:\nMr. President i just want to follow up on my question earlier. Have you been informed if the Secret Service agent who was shot on Saturday if that was from friendly fire or if it was from the suspect?\n\n[43:20] President Trump:\nWell they say it was not friendly fire.\n\n[43:26] Reporter 4:\nSo you're hearing that it's from the suspect?\n\n[43:28] President Trump:\nWell that's what I heard. I've been I heard that. They said it wasn't friendly fire.\n\n[43:32] Reporter 4:\nIt was actually reported. Did you read the reports? Because it was actually reported.\n\n[43:34] President Trump:\nYes sir, I read the DOJ memo about it.\n\n[43:38] Reporter 4:\nWell then why do you ask me the question?\n\n[43:43] President Trump:\nI don't believe it said that the the agent was struck by... I'm just saying they said it wasn't friendly fire. It wasn't us.\n\n[43:51] Reporter 4:\nOkay, and he hasn't been charged yet with that of course that could come. I want to follow up on the security changes. Is there talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward given you have now been shot at so many times?\n\n[44:01] President Trump:\nI don't know if I can handle looking 20 pounds heavier. You know these guys they look so good, so big some of these guys. Some of these guys are physical specimens just looking. Some of these guys are in trouble because they get in the way. I don't want to be near him. No no. If you if you oh if you want to gain 20 to 25 pounds, gotta wear the vest. And believe me, frankly, the vest did an amazing job because it took a bullet close up. And uh he didn't even want to go to the hospital. I mean we sent him to the hospital just in case, but he didn't want, you know, it's still a hit. But uh he didn't want to go to the hospital. It the vest totally protected him. Still a lot of power behind that shot though, that's like getting getting hit by Mike Tyson. Uh but it it's amazing. I've been asked about that and uh I guess it's something you consider. In one way you don't like to do it because you're you're giving in to a bad element and so I don't know. But I have been asked about it.\n\n[45:04] Reporter 4:\nHow nervous are you about it happening again? Another assassination attempt.\n\n[45:07] President Trump:\nI don't think about it. You don't think about it at all? If I did I wouldn't be doing a very good job here. I can't be thinking about nothing but that. I don't think about it. I really don't think about it. If I did I wouldn't be effective. Okay.\n\n[46:22] Reporter 8:\nMr. President, real quick real quick. You pushed on Truth Social calling on Senate Republicans to blow up the filibuster. It is a big issue with MAGA. MAGA wants you to get rid of it. Why don't they do it?\n\n[46:40] President Trump:\nWhy don't they do it? I have no idea. You know why I guess because they have three or four that are like hard-line, the same same ones, the same ones that are hard-line no to everything. And you don't have all of them, you know we have very small majority. Uh John Thune's a good man, I said to him, John, just go take the vote, let's expose who the people are. But you know if we got rid of the filibuster, we could vote on the Save America Act, Voter ID, you know you ask so good I love this. He's a great you know I don't love his girlfriend too much, okay. I won't tell you who the girlfriend is. But I like him. And I've always liked him. Thank you. Thank you. It's great that he hasn't changed. That's right. I'm the same man. And Brian, I think here's the problem. It's not even imaginable to me why. And people are angry about it. People are angry. I'm talking about Republicans are angry about it. The filibuster should be terminated. If the Democrats ever get a shot, which probably based on history sometime they will, they will use it in the first minute of the first hour and they will execute all of the bad things. 21 justices, you know they really like 21, I heard 13 but they really want 21 Supreme Court Justices. And they really want to have DC and Puerto Rico become states. That would mean an automatic four senators go into the Democrat column. And there's not even a chance that they don't do it and do it immediately. Now with that knowledge, because you could argue whether it's good or bad, but not I don't think it's that much of an argument frankly, but you could argue. Uh with that knowledge that they're going to do it immediately, why wouldn't you do it as a Republican? Unless you have bad motives almost. But if we did it, we could pass one bill after the other. We could pass laws and acts and things that we never even dreamt of passing. And you know what else? We wouldn't lose for 50 years. You know if we passed, if we terminated the filibuster, we would have a 50-year run. You'd stop cheating, I mean look, they're professional cheats and they're great at it. That's what they're best at because you can't get elected with their policy. You can't get elected with men in women's sports, with transgender mutilation of our children, with open borders for jails to be dropped into our country and mental institutions and drug dealers and murderers. Think of it, 11,888 murderers come into our country, nobody even talks to them about it, right? We got a lot of them out because of you know why? Because of ICE which they don't want to they don't want to fund. They're defunding our police. When they defund ICE and with Border Patrol and Secret Service, they're defunding our police. The same thing as they're doing with an officer on the street corner. So why the Republicans Senate doesn't just sit in there and just do it and take a negative vote and do it again and again like the Democrats do? They go again and again. The war power, I'm negotiating a deal with Iran and every week, every three days they put in a thing that the war should stop, the war and people ask me how the hell do you negotiate like that? You're destroying them. Every day I read, think of it, we militarily decapitated the country. And every way day I read about how well they're doing militarily. They got nothing left, they're done. And yet I read in the New York Times, I see on that stupid CNN which I only watch because you have to watch a little bit of the enemy so I watch it for a very short period but you have to, you know, you have to be smart. And if you see CNN you'd think they're winning the war. If you read the New York Times, it's actually seditious in my opinion. You read the New York Times, you actually think they're winning the war. You I read some of these columnists and but it all starts from the top. It's a terrible thing. So we're negotiating with them and they read how well they're doing. And they're sitting in a cave and all their leaders are dead, everyone's dead around them. Missiles are all over the place. They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no nothing. We can fly right over the middle of Tehran without being shot at because they have no anti-aircraft, they have no nothing. And they're reading that they're winning the war. They're trying to figure out. They get the New York Times I guess in some form and they think we're crazy. But you know, I'm supposed to be negotiating and they make you negotiate from weakness not strength. But the difference is I don't care and everybody knows the facts. We are decimating that country. I got a call today from another country that's more on our side than them, Middle Eastern country, saying sir please don't hit them anymore they're decimated, please. He's actually helping them, he's actually saying please. And yet the New York Times will tell you that they're winning the war. It's it's so sad. I hate to even say that because when I say that people out watching they'll say oh maybe they're winning the war just by the fact that I'm saying it. It is so ridiculous. They're being decimated. We have the greatest military in the world and one thing that's come out of this and Venezuela some of the things that have happened, I rebuilt the military in my first term and did a good job. And also the first year of of this term. Uh we have the greatest military in the world. When I spoke with President Xi, when I spoke with President Putin they have great respect for what I've done and what our military does. We have a military like no other. You know when we attacked Venezuela, their equipment none of it worked. It was all good equipment but it was discombobulated. You know what that means? They pressed a buttons and nothing happened. They said what the hell's going on? They heard that weird buzzing sound from way up high. It's it's amazing how great our military is. And for us to read, it's like the B2 bombers right there. Late at night, 8 months ago, they went into Iranian territory and Iran was waiting for them. And they were firing at the wrong targets. They were firing at their planes, but they're they didn't see them. And with no moon, dark at night, they dropped each plane in two bombs, 14 bombs. Every one of those 14 bombs went right down an air chute. Think of it. They followed the beam right into the chute. And every single one of those bombs, very powerful, 200,000 pound bombs, every one of those bombs went right down an air chute late at night. Think of it, late at night with no moon you couldn't see a thing. They put those and they went into territory all of a sudden, I was watching, they got faster then they go like that because the bombs go faster when they head down. I wouldn't want to head down like that. I want to get the hell out of there. And they let the bombs go and then the first one that let them go was a perfect hit. He said skedaddle and that plane turned over on its side and went back to a place called Missouri.\n\n[53:07] Kevin Hassett:\nGod's country.\n\n[53:08] President Trump:\nIt went back it wanted to say hello to a very powerful congressman by the way from Missouri, Jason. So every one of those bombs. And yet before they landed, CNN came out with a report that maybe the damage wasn't that great. The damage was far greater than we said. It was obliteration. And when the Atomic Energy Commission went there one week later, they say Trump was right, it was obliteration. And they still haven't been they've had possession of the site for they haven't been able to do anything with it. That stuff is buried. And the reason I took such, I was angry about it, was because it's disrespectful to those pilots and those incredible people, including the people that maintain the planes. Those planes had to fly for 37 hours without stopping. They got the tankers they had three tanker lifts, meeting they had a get refueled up in air. They never landed. They went all the way from Missouri to here and then back. Some went to Guam, which there are those that say that was a way of camouflaging the whole thing because they followed the ones they thought the ones from Guam were not coming, they were going to take take it easy at Guam, that didn't work out too well. But that was amazing. And the New York Times and CNN they said well maybe the B2 attack wasn't so great. Even to this day I hear it because we want to get the nuclear dust, it's way down there, you need excavators and everything to get it. But we want to get it, we'll take it one way the other we'll get it. Well either get it or we'll take it. They'll either give it to us or we'll take it. But I think it's very disrespectful to our incredible military when they say maybe they missed the target. Every single bomb hit the target. Then on top of that we shot from submarines 30 unbelievable missiles that also hit the target on top of that. It was complete obliteration. And it was confirmed by Atomic Energy but even the other day I saw on CNN, \"Well I don't know, they want the stuff so therefore the bombs didn't hit.\" Yeah we want the stuff it's way buried. But we want to get it. We will get it. It won't even be hard. But uh they have to respect our military. They have to if it were a miss i'd tell you, you know, would have done a lot of damage, but this was these bombs went down the air chutes. They'll never build air chutes again in a mountain. You know they build these air chutes to get a little air up there, they'll have to find a different way because it didn't work. But our military's amazing, there's never been anything like we have the most powerful military on earth and it's too bad we have to use it, but we're doing really well. So we'll see how that all works out. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you Press. How do you like the new floor? So we had all what I do best is build. That's what I do best. I think I say to people, am I a better builder or politician? And most of them say politician, but that's okay. What I do best is I build. The ballroom being just like that. So I went out and I have a special black granite. Granite is the most powerful stone there is. Marble is much weaker than granite. I like marble more because marble can be more beautiful, but it's a much weaker stone. When you look in gravestones and you look at a marble plaque a hundred years old, you'll see oftentimes you can almost not read it. When you look at a granite plaque a hundred years old, it looks like it just got put there yesterday. You know that's a test. But we have the finest granite anyone's ever seen. It's it's called flawless granite, there is very little of it and I replaced broken slate that was put here many years ago. I saved the ramp because it's in honor of FDR. FDR right up there. He had that built as a ramp. I they said oh sir we'll straighten it. I said no you have to leave the ramp. It was built that ramp was built for FDR with the wheelchair because you know it's a not it's pretty pretty good slope. But a lot of people say why is it a ramp? They say because of FDR they say ah I get it. But we save that. But we replace the broken slate. And that slate by the way is meant for a roof it's not meant for a sidewalk. And we replace it with granite, the highest grade granite. It's valued at, you know they value stones in terms of that's valued at 1 million plus, that means 1 million plus years. Uh a marble will oftentimes be valued at 200 years, 300 years, I'm giving you a little lesson in stone. Somebody will say, \"He went off on a tangent\" or something's wrong with like I did with the pen. I gave you a little thing on the pen. That that pen is better than the one that costs 2,000 that you're handing down to everyone. See this one? I can hand it to these guys, it's worth three bucks, okay? 80 bucks. So anyway but I always feel good but they said he went off in a tangent. I always say I always say if you don't find it interesting leave during the but the granite path, in fact if you can let them leave through that door. It's just completed. We had it completed the King Charles on time, on budget. I paid for it, so you know, it's very expensive I want to tell you. He loved this. He loved it and he's seen some nice stones. The Trump Renaissance, this is a Trump Renaissance here. We're fixing the White House. But it was sort of terrible, people would walk to the Oval Office over broken slate. Again slate is used on roofs it's not used where people walk on it and it's been walked on for a long time and many many broken pieces. So I said to do it right. Now the other thing I did if you want to have a look, all of the columns, they had 200 years of paint on them and they looked terrible and you know they were chipped and broken and when you have a lot of paint and I stripped the columns back down to the original stone and painted them and you'll see it, but you may want to not final touches, a little touch up here with the paint. Got a little hit by a couple of these heavy stones, you know they're very heavy thick, this thick granite. But that granite's valued at over a million years. In other words it's a lifetime. One million plus such your max. Uh why don't you walk out there and take a look, okay? And the company that did it, if you look at the setting, each point is perfect. So take a Peter, take a look, tell your father if I did a good job.\n\n[59:46] Mixed Reporters:\nThank you Mr. President! Thank you press! Thank you President Trump!\n\n[59:58] President Trump:\nThank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you Press.","2026-09-04T15:20:28.585196+00:00",null,"President Trump Participates in an Executive Order Signing, April 30th, 2026","20260430",true,false,{"name":14,"slug":15,"image_url":8},"Donald Trump","donald-trump",{"prev":17,"next":20},{"id":18,"name":19},"fe130c78-c57f-4a20-92f9-0720e789cacb","President Trump Participates in The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Dinner",{"id":21,"name":22},"a1d58af2-e42d-40fe-a1f5-88e28fd4b371","President Trump Participates in a Greeting with Artemis II Astronauts"]