Well I do have closing remarks, I just want to say how proud I am. You look at the people that we just dealt with, these are the top people in our country, these are just beautiful people inside and out. They're brave, they're smart, they're brilliant. And I just want to say it's an honour to be with you, it's an honour to be working with you. We have the strongest country we've ever had. We make the best equipment in the world, we have the best military in the world. Nobody can even come close. And everybody knows it. And they respect us now again. A year ago, two years ago, four years ago, three years ago they didn't respect us at all, they laughed at us. Nobody's laughing anymore. So I just want to thank you all very much. I'm very proud of you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. We can we can cut that then. We can cut that.
President Trump Participates in a Call with Service Members
Hello Mr. President, good to see you, thank you so much, Happy Thanksgiving. A question about this tragic shooting in Washington, DC. US officials say that the suspect worked very closely with the CIA in Afghanistan for years, that he was vetted and the vetting came up clean.
He went kookoo. I mean he went nuts. And that happens too, it happens too often with these people. You see them. But look this is how they come in, this is how they're standing on top of each other in an airplane. There was no vetting or anything, they came in unvetted. And we have a lot of others in this country, we're going to get them out. But they go kookoo, something happens to them.
Your DOJ IG just reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the US. So why do you blame the Biden administration?
Because they let them in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here. And you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person. And we the there's a law passed it almost impossible not to let them in not to certify them so to speak once they come in. And they came in and they shouldn't have come in and frankly the whole thing was a mess, the whole Afghanistan situation was a mess. We should it should have never taken place if we're going to go out and we would have gone out because I had everybody ready to go we were going to go out with strength and dignity and precision and we would have left from Bagram and we would have kept Bagram by the way because of its very close relationship to China and where they make their missiles. But when you let the people come in by the thousands and thousands and thousands they made a terrible mistake. But they were incompetent, yeah.
Yeah Mr. President, thank you for having us here tonight. You've spoken with Sarah and Andrew's family?
We have a call in a little while actually right after this. Well the family is devastated as you can imagine. But we have we have spoken I mean my people have spoken with the family, we'll be speaking tonight but tomorrow you have to give them a little they just found out about their daughter you know you can't just call two seconds later. It's a very, very tough situation. She was so outstanding I mean I just heard outstanding in every single way.
It's in the early stages obviously but do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
I haven't thought about it yet but it's certainly something I could consider you. I love West Virginia, you know I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any President anywhere. And it's you know these are great people, I love the people of West Virginia, I love the people of our country. But I haven't given it any thought but it sounds like something I could do you. It's very it's very raw. Yeah of course.
The suspect does have a wife and five children who live in Washington, do you plan to deport them?
The suspect has? The suspect. Well we're looking at that right now, we're looking at the whole situation with family. It's a tragic situation, yeah. Jeff. [46:56] No, just I want to have more. We've as you know we're sending 500 more. We had very little crime in Washington now for many months. Record setting low crime and this happened. And I don't know how you put this on the scale of that, this is sort of different, this is a terrorism threat and this was done because they're so effective. If they weren't effective, you probably wouldn't have had this done, but this was done because the National Guard has been so effective. You know you went from having a a tremendous amount of crime and death killing everything else to having none. And this happened I assume because it was so effective and maybe this man was upset because he couldn't he couldn't practice crime, who knows what his motivation was, but what he did was horrible.
And you've changed you've made changes for Afghani's ability to apply for asylum, do you blame all Afghans for this one man's...?
No but we've had a lot of problems with Afghans because we had a lot of them coming in on these planes again I show you this picture we had a lot of them coming in on this these planes that are Look at them there was no checking they just poured into the plane. And many of these people are criminals many of these people are people that shouldn't be here. And many of them have been gotten out I mean we've gotten out some a lot of the people that you know we've taken a lot of them out of here. But many many are wonderful yeah I'm sure. [48:28] Well they can't be happy. Okay? They can't be happy. Because what's taking place between that, if you look at Somalia they're taking over Minnesota and they are we got a lot of problems with the gangs with all of the things taking place in Minnesota we have an incompetent governor, a dope. We have a dope governor. They can't be happy about what's going on. And if you talk about the Afghans you know there's a problem because so many bad ones came in on the planes. They just walked up whoever the strongest people were physically in a way but whoever the strongest they got on the plane. There was no checking. They just swamped the planes, they took off. We had no idea who the who they were. Yeah do you want to ask a question behind? [49:20] Nothing but Somalis of course a lot of trouble, they're ripping us off for a lot of money, there's a tremendous amount of money going back to Somalia. What the hell are we paying money to Somalia for? But they're ripping off our country at a level that few people have been able to see before. That's about the only thing I you talk about competence we have Ilhan Omar who does nothing but complain about our country and our constitution and she comes from a country with practically it's practically no country. It's devastated, it's crime ridden, it's a mess, it's a disgrace. And we took their people at a tremendous we're not taking their people anymore. We're not taking their people and we're getting a lot of their people out because they're nothing but trouble. Okay thank you very much everybody. Go ahead.
Question about this asylum claim that is being floated. Of course you just detailed that this suspect was flown in under the Biden administration. But was he granted asylum under your administration?
Well when it comes to asylum when they're flown in it's very hard to get them out no matter how you want to do it it's very hard to get them out but we're going to be getting them all out now. Thank you very much. Thank you. [50:38] The fact that America's great again. We've made America great again. America was a dead country, we've made America great again. There you go. Thank you. Take care Mr. President. Happy Thanksgiving.