[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"transcript-c4f5f19b-e157-4d8f-84c7-372d7112d8b7":3,"transcript-neighbors-c4f5f19b-e157-4d8f-84c7-372d7112d8b7":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},"c4f5f19b-e157-4d8f-84c7-372d7112d8b7","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=DcF7eCW4yOM","President Donald Trump:\nHow are you doing, Mr. President? Very good. We had a good time at the Alpha Alpha dinner. I think we did well. I hope we did well. But it was very good, tremendous people. So what's up?\n\nMale Reporter:\nSir, could you give us an update on what your thinking is right now with Iran, if you have made a final decision on what you want to do?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI certainly can't tell you that. But we do have very big, powerful ships heading in that direction, as you know. I can't tell you anything, but I hope they negotiate something that's acceptable.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nSaudi Arabia's defense minister reportedly said that if the US backs off a strike, that will only embolden Tehran. What's your reaction to that, sir?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, some people think that, and some people don't. If you could make a negotiated deal that would be satisfactory with no nuclear weapons, etc., they should do that. But I don't know that they will. But they are talking to us, seriously talking to us.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nDid you speak with President Bush at the Alpha Alpha dinner? Did you speak with President Bush?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI did. Yeah. Can you share what you talked about? Well, I mean Jeb Bush. Jeb. I think you mean Jeb. No, I introduced him. Nice, he's a good fellow. And he's been very nice to me the last six months. I don't know what happened, but he was very nice. We had a good time.\n\nMale Reporter:\nMr. President, on your Fed nominee, Mr. Kevin Warsh, why are you willing to wait for Senator Tom Tillis to leave the Senate essentially until, if you have to, if Senator Tillis won't back down?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI didn't say I would, but I mean he's leaving the Senate for a reason, because what he asked for didn't get done. So it's one of those things. I think he may get Democrat votes too. I think he's so good that he'll probably get Democrat votes. He should. He's very good. My choice, my Fed choice, should get Democrat votes.\n\nMale Reporter:\nDo you have a sense of what he's going to do as far as interest rates are concerned?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nOh, he's going to lower them. I mean if you watch him on television, you know, because I watch interviews and statements, I hope he's going to lower them. But you know, he's going to have to do what he wants to do.\n\nMale Reporter:\nDid he tell you, did he make any commitments?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nNo, no commitments. I don't want to do that. I couldn't do that, I guess, if I wanted, but I didn't do it. I based it on quality. I mean, he was a very high-quality person. He should have no trouble getting through.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nMr. President, did you make a comment at the dinner about saying that you would sue Warsh? About suing Warsh if he does not lower interest rates?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nIt's a roast. It's a roast. It's a comedy thing. So it was a joke? You didn't mean it seriously? It was all comedy.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nAnd then on a more serious note, you're suing the IRS. Can you talk a little bit about what it's like to be on both sides of a lawsuit?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, that's very interesting. I'm in another one where I've virtually won the Mar-a-Lago break-in suit. And you know, I have to work out some kind of a settlement. I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself, because you know, when the FBI broke in, we sued. When I was before I was President. I sued. And obviously it was a very good suit, and I've that one and I have to work out a settlement.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nWill you involve Pam Bondi on how to handle that at all?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI think what we'll do is do something for charity. We're thinking about doing something for charity where I'll give money to charity. We can make it a substantial amount, nobody would care because it's going to go to numerous very good charities.\n\nMale Reporter:\nSir, what about that tweet, the Truth today about Minneapolis and how you might not see federal authorities intervene? You asked Secretary Noem not to send in DHS.\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, I let them ask us. If they want help, you know, they're always complaining. If you go in, they complain. They complain no matter what. You know, we brought crime to the lowest point in the history of our country, 125 years, 1900. Think of it. Year, think of that. 1900. Can you imagine? We have the lowest crime in the history of our country despite the fact that our country was riddled with a lot of bad people from the Biden open border. But we've taken a lot of them out. We're at the lowest point in history, the least number of murders in the recorded history of our country. That's incredible.\n\nMale Reporter:\nCan this be seen as a de-escalation?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nNo, I want the, I mean honestly, the crime-ridden cities are all Democrat-run cities. And if they want help, they have to ask for it. Because if we go in, all they do is complain. But if they want help, they can ask for it, and they're going to need help. Los Angeles as an example, we went in, we solved it. The chief law enforcement officer of Los Angeles said they couldn't have done it without the federal government. A week later he said they didn't need the federal government. You know, so we don't want that. If they want help, they'll ask, but they have to say please.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nOn DHS funding, sir, the Democrats have made three demands. They say they want no roving patrols, they want established rules for use of force, and they want masks off and body cams on.\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, we'll talk about it. It's not appropriate yet. We have to let a little time go by, but we'll talk about it. But you know, we want, I got elected for law enforcement, for the border, for the economy, things I've done a great job with. I mean when you have the lowest crime rate in the history of our country, recorded in 125 years to be exact. So I've fulfilled so much. We'll have to talk about that over the next three or four days.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nMr. President, what did you think of the latest release of Epstein files? And do you think your critics will be satisfied with this release?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, it looks like this guy Wolff, who's a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me. And I didn't see it myself, but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it's the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left, that Wolff, who's a third-rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically or otherwise. And that came through loud and clear. So we'll probably sue Wolff on that.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nMr. President, did you speak with, or did you have any knowledge of maybe the Epstein estate, I guess?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI don't know, but we're going to certainly sue Wolff. You want to sue the Epstein estate? Maybe. I guess so. Because he was conspiring with Wolff to do harm to me politically. That's not a friend.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nOn your plan for Venezuela oil, sir, how much...\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nAre you there? You okay? Doing all right. He ran atop of them.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nYou said that the profits will be split with the US and Venezuela both benefiting. What's Venezuela's share of the oil profits going to be?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, we haven't discussed that, but we're getting along very well with the leadership of Venezuela. They're doing a really good job. We're going to be selling a lot of oil and we'll take some and they'll take a lot. And they're going to do very well. They're going to make more money than they've ever made. And it's going to be beneficial to us too. We're going to really, I think Venezuela is really going to turn around. You know, I opened up the airspace over Venezuela so that now people from Venezuela, came from Venezuela here, they're going to be able to go back for the first time. Go back to Venezuela and stay perhaps, or go back and see their relatives, go for a short period of time.\n\nMale Reporter:\nSir, is, do you think China's going to get their money back from all the money they lent to Venezuela for oil?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI don't know. I don't know anything about that, but I'll tell you, China is welcome to come in and we'd make a great deal on oil. You know, we welcome China. We've already made a deal, India's coming in and they're going to be buying Venezuelan oil as opposed to buying it from Iran. So we've already made that deal, the concept of the deal. But China's welcome to come in and buy oil.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nOn President Venezuela, do you think that Machado should be able to return to Venezuela?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, we're going to be doing something with it and maybe putting the sides together, doing something. I think she's a very fine person. And but I think I have to say at the same time, the current leadership is doing a very good job.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nDid you happen, did you have any knowledge of the arrest of Don Lemon before it happened? Did you have any conversations with Attorney...\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI don't know anything about the Don Lemon thing, but he's a sleazebag. Everyone's known that. He's a washed-up, probably from his standpoint, the best thing that could happen to him. He's getting, you know, he had no viewers, he was a failure, he was a failed host. And now he's in the news. I didn't know anything about it, no.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nSir, what's your response to Claudia Sheinbaum's warning that the embargo, or the restriction on Cuban oil, oil to Cuba, could cause a humanitarian crisis there?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, it doesn't have to be a humanitarian crisis. I think they probably would come to us and want to make a deal. So Cuba would be free again. They'll come to us, they'll make a deal. But Cuba really, they've got a problem, you know, they have a problem. I know so many people from Cuba, but we have a lot of people in the United States right now that would love to go back to Cuba. And we'd like to work that out.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nWhat do you want to see from Cuba? I mean, what do you need to see to make that kind of a deal?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, I think we're going to work a deal with Cuba. I think, you know, we'll be kind. We have a situation that's very bad for Cuba. They have no money, they have no oil. The Venezuela, they lived off Venezuelan money and oil. And none of that's coming now. And then the President of Mexico, President Sheinbaum was very good. And I said look, we don't want you sending oil there. And she's not sending oil there.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nOn the plans for Washington DC, sir, the Washington Post reported that you're considering an arch that's 250 feet high. Um, can you talk a little bit about that and address critics who say it might be a little bit too large for the space?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWe're considering an arch that's like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. So for 200 years they've wanted to build an arch. They have 57 cities throughout the world that have them. We're the only major city, Washington DC, that doesn't. The circle prior to the bridge, you know, the Arlington Bridge, has been waiting for hundreds of years to have this done. In fact, they have four eagles that got built. But it was interrupted by a thing called the Civil War. And so it never got built. Then they almost built something in 1902 but it never happened. So we're, we have an unbelievable arch and that I think will be the most beautiful in the world being built there, going to be built there.\n\nFemale Reporter:\n250 feet, the height...\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI don't know what the height is. It's just appropriate for the site. Now we're setting up a committee and the committee's going to be going over it. But it'll be substantial. I'd like it to be the biggest one of all. We're the biggest, most powerful nation. I'd like it to be the biggest one of all.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nWhat about the charity...\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nIt's a very exciting job, actually. They've been waiting for many years. Just like the ballroom. For 150 years they've wanted a ballroom. Now we're going to put up the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world as far as I'm concerned. And a real, and I could have built a much bigger one. I didn't want to do that. I wanted it to be in keeping with, I didn't want it to be taller than the White House, etc. So I wanted it to be in keeping, but it's a really beautiful building done by some of the best architects in the world, the ballroom. Likewise the arch. I think it's going to be great. We're just setting up a committee now for the arch.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nWould the money for the lawsuit that you may settle with yourself go towards paying for that arch or for the ballroom?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI haven't thought of it, but we're going to probably, you know, I mean it's sort of a strange position because I have a lawsuit like the break-in of Mar-a-Lago and if I pay myself that somehow will never look good. So what I had, and other people, a lot of people, a lot of outside people said what a great idea. Because nobody cares how much if it goes to good charities. So you settle by giving charities a lot of money. And I think we're going to do something like that. We're looking to do something like that.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nCharity to pay for the ballroom and for the arch?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nNo, I don't think either of those two. I'm talking about American Cancer Society. A lot of very, I think they should be probably established charities. I would say established and respected charities.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nOn Iran, sir, you had threatened those secondary tariffs on countries doing business with Iran. We haven't seen those yet. What are you holding off on, what are you waiting on?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nLook, we have a lot of things happening right now with Iran. We have a tremendous fleet going in that direction and they're talking to us. So a lot of things could happen.\n\nMale Reporter:\nAnd the Canada tariff, sir, that you talked about?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, that was on the airplanes. You talking about the airplanes?\n\nMale Reporter:\nNo, about the China deal that they, they did.\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nOh, oh, if they do a deal with China, yeah, we'll do something very substantial. Because we can't look, I have a great relationship with China President Xi, but we don't want China to take over Canada. And if they make the deal that he's looking to make, China will take over Canada. And the first thing they're going to do is end ice hockey.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nSpeaking of China, sir, there was a military purge in that country a week ago. What do you make of that?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nWell, as far as I'm, you talking about China? Yeah. As far as I'm concerned, there's one boss in China, that's President Xi. That's the person I'm dealing with.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nAre there any concerns about stability or or with regard to Taiwan?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI think President Xi is the boss. I, I watch it very closely and he's highly respected in China. He's the boss.\n\nMale Reporter:\nCan we go back to Cuba for one second? Um, who exactly are you negotiating with on the island? Who's the government representative there you're speaking with?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nIn Cuba, who are you speaking with on the Cuba side? We're talking to Cuba, yeah. We're starting to talk to Cuba because they need help, a humanitarian crisis, and we're starting to talk to Cuba. But don't forget, a lot of people that live in our country were treated very badly by Cuba. And we want them to be, they all voted for me and we want them to be treated well. We'd like to be able to have them go back to home to their country, which they haven't seen their family, their country for many, many decades.\nI'll be able to work that out, yes.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nDo you have any updates on what's happening with Greenland negotiations and have you been in contact with President Macron, Starmer, some of those European leaders?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nYou talking about on Greenland? Yeah. Um, yeah, we're we have started a negotiation. And I think it's pretty well agreed to. I mean they want us to do it. I think it's going to be a good deal for everybody. Very important deal actually from a national security point of view, very, very important deal. I think we're going to make a deal there.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nMr. President, back to your post on ICE protests. What did you mean when you said people will suffer an equal or greater consequence?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nIf they do anything bad to our people, they will be, they will have to suffer. I'm sorry. If they start spitting in people's faces, punching our people, punching our soldiers, our patriots, they'll they will get taken care of in at least an equal way. They're not going to do that, like you see it, the way they treat our people. And I said you're allowed, if if somebody does that you can do something back. You're not going to stand there and take it. If somebody spits in your face, that will not be a pleasant thing for the person that spits. We're not letting people spit in our soldiers' face as they stand at attention and they're not allowed to do anything. If they throw bricks at a car, at a you know, one of our vehicles, our very expensive vehicles, they're going to be met with very, very serious force.\n\nMale Reporter:\nSir, do you think it's good having lots of cameras on these kinds of incidents between law enforcement and the people?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI think it would help law enforcement, but I'd have to talk to them. I'm going to be talking to them tomorrow. Um, actually I think it would help law enforcement. You know, that works both ways. But I think overall I think it's 80% in favor of law enforcement.\n\nMale Reporter:\nWho are you talking to tomorrow on law enforcement?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nA lot of people. Well, I'm speaking to Chris Simms, I'm speaking to Tom Homan, a lot of people. We have it in good shape. And you know, Minnesota crime is way down because of what we've done. We've taken out thousands of criminals. What we want in Minnesota, we want them to open their jails and give us their criminals and we're gone. That's all we want. And they're going to have to do it.\n\nFemale Reporter:\nHow are you feeling about Secretary Noem's handling of of the matters in the last week or so?\n\nPresident Donald Trump:\nI think she's done great. I mean we have a closed border. We've taken out thousands and thousands of of killers, of murderers and everything else, removed them from our country by the tens of thousand. And we have the crime rate that's the lowest in history. You know, I didn't do the crime rate sense, it just came out yesterday that we have the lowest crime rate in the history of our country. So how's she doing? I think she's doing well. And she's a good person, she works hard. Tom Homan is a star, you know, he's incredible. I mean the guy's incredible. He's got an unbelievable, he's tough and yet everybody likes him, both sides. So he's been great. But he said to me just tonight, he said look, they've got to open up their prisons and give us their criminals and their murderers and their drug lords, and you know, and we'll take care of them. And that's why crime is down in Minnesota, not because of anything they did, it's because of what we did. Same thing in Chicago. We have crime down in Chicago and most people don't even know we're there, but we're there doing a good job. We have crime down all over the nation. Thank you very much everybody.","2026-09-04T15:14:25.702543+00:00",null,"President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026","20260201",true,false,{"name":14,"slug":15,"image_url":8},"Donald Trump","donald-trump",{"prev":17,"next":20},{"id":18,"name":19},"d73a888f-b03d-400a-a360-afff4f3a32f1","President Trump Participates in Signing Time, Feb. 2, 2026",{"id":21,"name":22},"5119568a-8406-4384-b698-d20d095dfd45","President Trump Signs Executive Orders, Jan. 30, 2026"]