President Trump Makes an Announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal 2026-06-04 19:18

Mr. President. I have a question about Hunter Biden. He's on social media now and he has suggested, maybe joking I don't know, that he could run for President in 2028. How would he do, Hunter Biden, in a 2028 Democratic primary?

Well you would think that that you know past has something to do with winning an election and I would say his past is not the greatest. Where's Hunter, right? Remember my where's Hunter? It became the number one shirt anywhere in the world for about three weeks. Um I'm not going to say bad. I'm sure you know, hey if the guy from Maine can do well, I guess Hunter could do well too because the guy from Maine is a basket case. And I would say worse than him is the one from Texas. That looks like Alfred E. Neuman. I would say that if he can do well, maybe Hunter could do well. I'm not sure. It'd be pretty close as far as I'm concerned.

And I've got a question about the nuclear dust. So the bombers go in, they entomb a lot of this enriched uranium. Yeah. At this point, do you need a deal with Iran to go get it or have you thought about just a covert daring, send in the SEALs, send in the Rangers?

But I didn't want to be Jimmy Carter, you know? I didn't feel like being Jimmy Carter. So we did. Well we thought about it right at the very beginning before you saw before we did what we did, before we destroyed their entire military. Um we thought about it and I didn't want to be in a position where you had to be you know to get there it's not like it's not like Venezuela like you go in you're there for a matter of minutes and you're out and everybody's waving goodbye as you you know take off. And you've you brought the cargo back. Uh this is different. You'd have to be there for two weeks. You'd need massive equipment. You'd have to airlift the equipment in. You know you're in a war zone. and there was a time at the very beginning when we thought about doing that because they would have not been watching but they would have found out. I mean during a period of a week to two weeks, you know that's you you would have had a major construction operation because that plane and more importantly those people that operate those planes including the mechanics, you know they flew for 37 hours round trip. Think of that. and the tankers that refilled them four times. and what an operation it was. Amazing. and uh but we would have been Peter we would have been there for a period of from a week to two weeks. We would have gotten it. But I said I don't like the idea of that. All of a sudden they you know pinpoint they still had missiles left. That means they would pinpoint you and just keep lobbing them in until one gets through and people would have gotten killed. So I didn't like it. Uh we could get it right now. I don't think they could stop us if we wanted, but there's no reason to. It's entombed, you use a good word. It's entombed. We also have cameras on it through space force. We have uh very powerful cameras. Every door there's a door you know where the doors go? They go to bad places. But every single uh place on that on those mountains, there's three um basically three uh because we also hit it with Tomahawks after. You know after that we hit it with Tomahawk. Uh every inch of that land is cameras on it. We have about nine of them and they're on and we cover it. So if anybody even got near it we would know what we had to do.

And would you meet with the new Ayatollah, the new Supreme Leader?

I don't want to meet, but if if I did meet, I'd be honored to meet him. I'd like to see if we make a deal. But if we make a deal, it's possible that I would meet. I'd be okay with it. Would that happen here in the US, White House? Camp David? [64:14] Oh I don't know, I haven't really heard too much about it and I didn't suggest it but some people have suggested it. If it happened it would happen, I'd be I'd be respectful.

Do you think because Epic Fury killed his dad and his wife and his kid that he's got hard feelings and wouldn't want to meet? Have you thought about that?

Well I would say I'm not his favorite person. But with that being said he's probably a professional, I don't know. He's probably a professional, in some circles he has a very good reputation actually. You know sometimes some people say bad but a lot of people say bad about me. Totally false of course.

Mr. President on jobs. Um tomorrow the jobs report will will be released. Um while the unemployment rate has been steady at 4.3%, the black unemployment rate has been at 7.3%. When you ran for President, you courted black voters and talked about what you described as black jobs. How do you describe why why this disparity is happening, what can you do to close that?

Well we're doing very well with uh the black jobs, African-American jobs. We're doing what I saw some numbers that we're doing really well. But where we're really going to do well is when all these plants are open. You know we're building many car plants, we're bringing cars back from Germany, we're bringing you know we lost the car industry years ago. 54% of of the industry went to Germany, Japan, Canada, Mexico. It's all coming back. It's amazing. And uh where your black worker is really going to do well is when those factories open. So I think they're going to be great. You we've been doing very well. It's been a big focus for me. Yeah please.

Thank you Mr. President. Um on today's announcement, how do you ensure the estimated cost savings are passed on to the consumers and not held by the company? And then on Iran, what specific progress has been made today in talks with them and where are the sticking points still?

So we're uh really lowering costs. You know when I came into this job we had the highest inflation in the history of our country. 48 years they say, but I I think the history of our country, whether it's 48 years or more. But we had tremendous inflation with Biden during the Biden. They had the highest they had one of the highest ever. And uh I inherited that. The costs were very, very high. And at my first uh news conference, Peter and others were screaming at me about eggs. Remember Peter, eggs? What about eggs? Maybe it wasn't you but I I had want to inject Peter into it. But he was screaming to me about eggs. And I said, 'What tell me about eggs? This is two days in.' They said eggs had quadrupled. I said, 'Well they didn't quadruple under me, they quadruple' And they didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg hunt that was going to take place in a few months, right? And I said, 'Nope, we're not going to' they wanted me to order plastic eggs. and I said, 'Nope.' and we got eggs down to lower than what it was long prior to when I took over. And eggs today are about 15% lower. Um what we had is a bunch of con artists, the Democrat the dumbocrats. And what they did is they said they left, they gave the highest prices that we've ever had for all products, groceries everything, and they started saying affordability. They'd say, 'This is about affordability.' It's a con job. I inherited their high prices. We brought those prices way down. And when the and if you go back three months ago, if you go back before the the war started, think of it, three months. So uh with Vietnam we were there for 19 years. with Iraq it was about nine years. with another one it was about 12 years and with another one we had all these wars that lasted for 9, 10, 12, 19 years for Vietnam, think of it. And they said you're in there for three months. This is a terrible thing. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed in these other wars. We lost not one soldier in Venezuela. We didn't lose one soldier. and we lost a total of 13, which is 13 too many. But when you look at hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in these various wars, they lasted many, many years. We're in there for a few months and what we've done is amazing. and they won't have a nuclear weapon. And we did it was tough because we just got Doug and everybody came in to see me. We just got the best numbers. Well today again, the New York Stock Exchange and every other exchange just hit a new all-time high. That's 73 days out of my short term, we've hit brand new highs. Every 401k is setting records. A 401k is a lot of people have, you probably all have 401ks. Every look at your 401k. You happy about your 401k? You know the nice reporters are smiling at me and the stupid reporters are like that, but their 401ks are setting records. They should be happy. They shouldn't be angry, they should be very happy. But 401ks are setting records, they've never had anything like it. So you know we've done a good job. As far as Iran's concerned, you're going to find out what the deal is. But uh the main parts of the deal is that can't have a nuclear weapon, uh the strait will open immediately, you know it's going to open immediately. and we've largely swept for mines. We have the most sophisticated mines, they're underwater minesweepers. I actually said to somebody, one of the generals, 'Why underwater?' He said because usually it's hostile. You know when you're looking for mines typically it's not in a good neighborhood, right? So underwater made a lot of sense, and it didn't take long to figure that one out. So uh I think we're doing very well but we're going to see. If we we're going to win one way or the other. We're going to win on paper or we're going to win military. One one way or the other. It's going to be militarily or on paper.

Mr. President. Mr. President. Thank you Mr. President. How critical is energy dominance whether it be coal, whether it be LNG, whether it be oil to national security?

Without it you can't win. As an example AI is a big deal. Whether we like it, not like it. It's going to be amazing in many ways. It's going to be I think for medical it'll be amazing. But without massive amounts of energy you can't even play the game. And we're leading China by a lot in AI. I was talking to President Xi about it. Uh but if we didn't do Lee Zeldin's son so great because number one fast approvals from professionals. You know you'd have the best firms in the world submit papers to him. And we didn't keep them waiting for 10 years and then vote against them after 10 years. That was guys would file with the environmental for a plant of some kind. After 15 years, they would be rejected. It was terrible. Now we have great professionals there and we accept we only accept plans from great professionals, but we give them fast turnaround and it's it's been really amazing. I I think the biggest thing we've done Lee is we let these geniuses with all this money build their own electric plant. We don't take it from our grid, we let them build their own plant. They become a utility. So they're building a plant and at the same time they're building electricity because if we didn't do that you couldn't have anything you couldn't and we're letting that happen too with car plants and other plants. If they want to build their own electric plant with the AI, you know you hear so much about it. But one of the biggest things they build their own and then excess energy that they create will go back into the grid. Yeah please.

Mr. President. On Cuba are you Mr. President. Secretary Rubio was in Delhi last week, he delivered a letter from you to Prime Minister Modi. and sir you also addressed people of India through your favorite ambassador Sergio Gor. That's right. Yeah. Both of them have said this trade deal is around the corner. Where do you stand on trade deals with India?

Well we have it and you know Look. India for years has and I don't blame them, I blame us because we had stupid people here. India for years really took advantage of the United States. You know that. Are you from India by any chance? Huh? Both people. I'm from India sir. I'm only kidding. Um you're central casting, okay? and that's a very good thing. India for years took advantage of this country. They charged us tremendous tariffs uh and they paid nothing. Uh they wouldn't let hardly as an example in the past. They wouldn't let Harley-Davidson sell its motorbikes. They would charge 200% tariff. So Harley-Davidson was precluded. They ended up going to India and building their own plant, which is unfortunate. That that happened. That was before me. But uh they charged tremendous amounts of tariffs to our company. and and we didn't charge them anything. You know they sell sold motorbikes here too. You know what we charged them? Nothing. And now it's the exact reverse. and we're making a lot of money with India. But we'll get to a deal because I like you know I like your Prime Minister a lot. He's a good friend of mine. Get along great. And we're going to make a deal. We have a very good relationship.

Mr. President. Speaking of deals Mr. President. On Cuba, are your sanctions on Cuba meant to accelerate its collapse?

No, it's just we just want them to be uh a nicely run country that can feed its people. Look, it's a failed nation. Without Venezuela, you know Venezuela because it has such wealth in the ground, mostly in the ground. But uh Venezuela took care of them for years. And they took care of Venezuela. They were like the bodyguards. When we went in and uh burst into their country the Venezuelans were guarding Maduro and everybody else. It was mostly, I mean the soldiers were in that case. We had we had a lot of Cubans were guarding. The Cubans were the guards and and they're good soldiers. But the country's starving and it's got no energy, it's got no oil, it's got no money, it's got nothing. It's got a beautiful piece of land. You could have beautiful resorts, doesn't have oil, but uh Venezuela was giving them the money to survive and now, you know the money is I guess you could say is coming to us and is going to Venezuela. Venezuela has been an amazing thing because we've paid for the cost of the attack many many times over and it's been a long time since you burst in.

Do you think they're close to collapsing though? Based on everything you just laid out, do you think that Cuba is close to collapsing?

It's sort of collapsed um and we're going to handle that as soon as we finish I like to do one thing at a time and we'll take care of uh the Islamic Republic of Iran. And as soon as that's done on our way back we'll just make a little brief stop. Mr. President. We'll take care of it. We want to help them out. Look, um we have a lot of people that voted for Trump whether they did or not, it didn't matter. But I had 95% of the Cubans voted for me. They're unbelievable people, they're energetic, they're entrepreneurial. You know some of the richest people in Miami are Cuban. They're unbelievable. And uh I'm going to take good care of them. I'm going to let them go back to their land. They want to be back with family. You know they have a lot of family over there. Uh they've been treated very badly by Cuba. But we're going to treat Cuba well and we're going to let our people go back and let them invest in Cuba if they'd like. So we have some we have some very good plans for Cuba. I think you know we have to get rid of the the regime was was very tough very nasty. The difference is now they don't have money coming in. They had a lot of money coming in from Venezuela. They don't have any money coming in. They had oil coming in, they had money coming in. Uh but we're going to take care of Cuba. and they you know what? They want us to. The people want us there so bad.

Mr. President sir, last night huge night for the city of New York. The Knicks won game one of the NBA finals. There's been a lot of speculation. Have you decided whether or not you want to attend a game at Madison Square Garden?

Well I've been a Nick fan for a long time and I'm also a Jim Dolan fan. He's a nice guy, okay? He's been a long time wanting to win and he's he's a competitive guy and he's got a team that's amazing, you know they I don't think they've lost a playoff game. 12 straight wins. Can you imagine that? And uh it was not looking good. I saw the beginning of the game and it was not looking good. I missed the middle because I talked to generals all night long now. But uh I watched that end of the game and they were dominant. Really amazing. and Wemby's a great player, going to be a great player and he is already a great player. I say, 'How do you guard this guy? He's 7 foot 5 and he's got a great shot, right?' But they find a way to do it. They're really great. They're a great team. and I'm happy for Jim because Jim has really been fighting hard to, you know produce such a team. So you never know. Um the answer is yes, he's invited me, I'm going. Which game have you decided sir? Game 3? Game 4? Are you excited? It could be Monday, yeah Monday. Maybe I'll do both.

Mr. President you spoke in New York with the automakers yesterday. Can you tell us a little bit about that, more about that in particular. Did you discuss trade, tariffs, US?

We did. We had a great meeting with the auto workers. I mean most of them were here. They were really talking about the fix your own car kind of a thing, right? But um they're doing very well since I'm in office because I got rid of a lot of environmental restrictions that in fact you might just tell them a little bit about that Lee where we made it so much easier for them to build a car. They can build a less expensive car that's much better. and uh they were so choked up with environmental nonsense that in order to save four ounces of gasoline you had to spend thousands and thousands of dollars. Lee you want to go into that?

President Trump we sent to Congress, congressional the three Biden EPA waivers to California that Congress passed, President Trump signed last year getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate that a whole bunch of other states had signed on to. Uh just a couple months ago President Trump announced here at the White House the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding. All the greenhouse gas emission standards on light medium and heavy duty vehicles we're following the law, and what that means for cost of living, just on that act alone $2,400 more affordable per vehicle for Americans. Uh the the victories come out every single day. Uh President Trump gave us very clear guidance, he wanted us to act at Trump speed to get this done as fast as possible and what you see now all across America is billions upon billions of investments all across this country with new factories being built. They believe in America, they're investing in America with the American jobs that come come up with it. And by the way consumer choice, we got rid of that climate participation trophy for that annoying start-stop feature in cars to make your car die at every stop site a stop uh sign and red light. Uh so yeah the the gifts the the receipts the wins they keep coming in and uh we're just getting started.

Do they ask you for any tariff changes on auto imports?

No, they didn't. They didn't have. They're making so much money now because uh you know I did something else that I don't know if Peter likes it but because we have no tax on tips and no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, right? So that's really been big. That's turned out to be much bigger than anyone knew. If you look at the people, they're saving from five to seven eight thousand dollars even uh on average because of that. So it's been good but I did something else that nobody talks about. If you buy a car and you borrow money, you're allowed to deduct the interest for income tax purposes. Never happened before. And deductions uh were always meant for rich people, they weren't meant for middle class people or other people wanting to buy a car. So now you're allowed to get a deduction of your interest payment. That's a tremendous thing. I mean it's a but what's the key? Only if the car is made in America. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you guys.