Yes 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.
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And I imagine this will boost the stock market and economy further. Do you want to mention phase two?
Right, 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.
Or better, we have some ideas to make it even better. No they had a couple of little glitches that we'll get rid of.
But 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.
Can 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?
Yeah I have.
And can you tell us if they are connected?
Well 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.
Mr. 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?
Well they say it was not friendly fire.
So you're hearing that it's from the suspect?
Well that's what I heard. I've been I heard that. They said it wasn't friendly fire.
It was actually reported. Did you read the reports? Because it was actually reported.
Yes sir, I read the DOJ memo about it.
Well then why do you ask me the question?
I 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.
Okay, 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?
I 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.
How nervous are you about it happening again? Another assassination attempt.
I 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.
Mr. 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?
Why 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.
God's country.
It 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.
Thank you Mr. President! Thank you press! Thank you President Trump!
Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you Press.