President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026

I 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.

Charity to pay for the ballroom and for the arch?

No, 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.

On 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?

Look, 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.

And the Canada tariff, sir, that you talked about?

Well, that was on the airplanes. You talking about the airplanes?

No, about the China deal that they, they did.

Oh, 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.

Speaking of China, sir, there was a military purge in that country a week ago. What do you make of that?

Well, 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.

Are there any concerns about stability or or with regard to Taiwan?

I think President Xi is the boss. I, I watch it very closely and he's highly respected in China. He's the boss.

Can 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?

In 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. I'll be able to work that out, yes.

Do 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?

You 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.

Mr. President, back to your post on ICE protests. What did you mean when you said people will suffer an equal or greater consequence?

If 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.

Sir, do you think it's good having lots of cameras on these kinds of incidents between law enforcement and the people?

I 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.

Who are you talking to tomorrow on law enforcement?

A 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.

How are you feeling about Secretary Noem's handling of of the matters in the last week or so?

I 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.