Speaker 1: As president.
Speaker 2: The criticism that I've seen I'm sure you've seen regarding
Speaker 2: Elon must and your beautiful bill. Once your reaction to that,
Speaker 2: do you think in any way it hurts passage in
Speaker 2: the Senate.
Speaker 1: Which is, of course, what is you're seeking. Well, Clock,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always liked Elon and it's always very surprised.
Speaker 1: You saw the words he had for me, the words
Speaker 1: and he as I said anything about me that's bad.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill, because
Speaker 1: the bill is incredible. It's the biggest cut in the
Speaker 1: history of our country. We've never cut. It's about one
Speaker 1: point six trillion in cuts. It's the biggest tax cut
Speaker 1: tax You would say people's taxes will go way down,
Speaker 1: but it's the biggest tax cut in history. It's we have.
Speaker 1: We are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And would you look at what we're doing for small businesses,
Speaker 1: for people, for middle income people, all of the things
Speaker 1: that we're doing. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And
Speaker 1: you know, Elon's upset because we took the EVL and
Speaker 1: which was a lot of money for electric vehicles and
Speaker 1: having a hard time the electric vehicles and they want
Speaker 1: us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know,
Speaker 1: I Elon knew this from the beginning. He knew it
Speaker 1: for a long time ago. That's been in there, that's
Speaker 1: been I would say it, j Ad, that hasn't Jay
Speaker 1: just been right from the beginning, mister I think, mister secretary,
Speaker 1: that hasn't changed it all right from the beginning. But
Speaker 1: I know that it disturbed him. He wanted and rightfully,
Speaker 1: you know, he recommended somebody from that he I guess
Speaker 1: knew very well. I'm sure he respected him, but to
Speaker 1: run NASA, and I didn't think it was appropriate. And
Speaker 1: he happened to be a Democrat, like totally democrat. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know, we won we get certain privileges,
Speaker 1: or one of the privileges went not to appointed democrat.
Speaker 1: NASA is very important. We have great people. General Chaine
Speaker 1: is going to be picking somebody with our will be
Speaker 1: we'll be checking him out. But he wanted that person,
Speaker 1: a certain person, and we said no. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: can understand why he's upset. Remember he was here for
Speaker 1: a long time. You saw a man who was very
Speaker 1: happy when he stood behind the oval desk, and even
Speaker 1: with the black guy. I said, you want to learn
Speaker 1: the makeup, we'll get you in the makeup. But he
Speaker 1: said no, I don't think so, which is interesting and
Speaker 1: very nice. He wants to be who is so you
Speaker 1: could make that statement. Two, I guess. Look, Elon and
Speaker 1: I had a great relationship. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: will anymore. I was surprised because you were here. Everybody
Speaker 1: in this room practically was here. As we had a
Speaker 1: wonderful send off. He said wonderful things about me. You
Speaker 1: couldn't have nicer, said the fascinate he's worn the hat
Speaker 1: truck was right about everything, and I am right about
Speaker 1: the great big beautiful bill. We call it a great,
Speaker 1: big beautiful bill because that's what it is. And again,
Speaker 1: biggest tax cuts in history, biggest economic development moves anywhere.
Speaker 1: We'd never done anything like it. Business is spur and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the numbers, but the
Speaker 1: numbers came out. Even the CBO, which is run by Democrats,
Speaker 1: said that we're going to be doing you know, I'd
Speaker 1: like you to discuss it. The two point eight billion
Speaker 1: a triton that CBO. This is a group of people
Speaker 1: that are Democrats, they're very hostile to us. They just
Speaker 1: came out with phenomenal numbers. What it does you want
Speaker 1: to mention?
Speaker 3: That's yes, sir. So what we've seen is we keep
Speaker 3: hearing from the CBO that there's going to be a
Speaker 3: worse deficit from the bill, which we disagree with. But
Speaker 3: using the CBO scoring, they came out and scored the
Speaker 3: tariff revenue. We think it'll be the minimum of two
Speaker 3: point eight trillion over the ten year window, which actually
Speaker 3: puts the bill in surplus. If you include the tariff revenue,
Speaker 3: which they won't do.
Speaker 1: It gives you a tremendous surplus. But we're not allowed
Speaker 1: to use that for some reason, they say scoring. Nobody
Speaker 1: knows what scoring means. Maybe a couple of people, but nobody.
Speaker 1: Somebody sits in the background they say, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to allow that. They're not allowing other things that
Speaker 1: we have that are tremendously profitable for our country. But
Speaker 1: if you saw they remember eggs, eggs, we weren't going
Speaker 1: to buy another ink for the next twenty years. There
Speaker 1: was so expensive, right, Remember you guys all hit me
Speaker 1: about eggs. Eggs have come down four hundred percent. Everybody
Speaker 1: has eggs. Now they have an eggs for breakfast again.
Speaker 1: But if you look at gasoline, very important, I think
Speaker 1: always the most important because if the energy is a
Speaker 1: big the biggest factor. That's what happened. He screwed up
Speaker 1: our energy policy and everything went up because energy went up.
Speaker 1: But now energy is way down and they have states
Speaker 1: were you at one dollar and ninety eight cents a
Speaker 1: gallon for gasoline, so the costs of weight have come
Speaker 1: way down. And one of the things I ran on
Speaker 1: was that I ran on the border. We have the
Speaker 1: best border in the history of our country. Ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine nine percent. It was last week three people
Speaker 1: came in, two of them for medical reasons. We let
Speaker 1: them in because one of them had an art attack.
Speaker 1: I think it was a nice thing to do, and
Speaker 1: one of them had something else. So we've never had
Speaker 1: I had very good numbers for four years, but we
Speaker 1: were really top there. And I want to thank Christy
Speaker 1: and Tom Holman. They've done a fantastic job, but nobody
Speaker 1: mentions that anymore. Remember a few months ago, the boarder
Speaker 1: was a total disaster. People were coming in by the
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people a day, a week, a month.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a month two million people came
Speaker 1: in in one month. The border was being overrun and
Speaker 1: a lot of bad people, criminals, murderers, drug dealers. We
Speaker 1: had some of the worst people in the world coming
Speaker 1: in from all over the world. It's totally close and
Speaker 1: you know what. People are coming into our country, but
Speaker 1: they're coming in legally, so we've done a great job.
Speaker 1: Elon knew that. Elon endorsed me very strongly. He actually
Speaker 1: went up in campaign for me. I think I would
Speaker 1: have won SUSI would say I would have won Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: easily anyway, even if the governor read the real governor,
Speaker 1: not the governor from Minnesota. Who's I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: sick puppy. That guy that pulled I feel sorry for
Speaker 1: but they made a bag of choice with him. But
Speaker 1: if you picked Shapiro or anybody else. I spoke to
Speaker 1: him recently about his you know, his house being set
Speaker 1: on fire, which was terrible. But if they picked Jim,
Speaker 1: I would have won Pennsylvania. I want to buy a lot,
Speaker 1: but I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings
Speaker 1: of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better
Speaker 1: than you people. He knew everything about it. He had
Speaker 1: no problem with it. All of a sudden he had
Speaker 1: a problem. And he only developed the problem when he
Speaker 1: found out that we're going to have to cut the
Speaker 1: ev mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and
Speaker 1: it really is unfair. We want to have cars of
Speaker 1: all times electric. We want to have electric, but we
Speaker 1: want to have a gasoline combustion. We want to have
Speaker 1: different we want to have hybrids, we want to have all.
Speaker 1: We want to be able to sell everything. And when
Speaker 1: that was cut and Congress wanted to cut it, he
Speaker 1: became a little bit different. I can understand that. But
Speaker 1: he knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it
Speaker 1: better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem
Speaker 1: until right after he left. And if you saw the
Speaker 1: savings he made about me, which I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: get for he's it's very fresh on tape. He said
Speaker 1: the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn't said
Speaker 1: bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.
Speaker 1: But I'm very disappointed in you, and I've helped you
Speaker 1: a lot and a lot.
Speaker 2: Did he I just want to clarify, did he raise
Speaker 2: any of these concerns with you privately before he raised
Speaker 2: them publicly. And this is the guy you put in
Speaker 2: charge of cutting spending. Should people not take him seriously
Speaker 2: about spending? Now he singing this all sour great Now.
Speaker 1: He worked hard and he did a good job. And
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I think he misses the place. I
Speaker 1: think he got out there and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he wasn't in this beautiful Oval office and he was.
Speaker 1: And he's got nice officers too. But there's something about
Speaker 1: this when I was telling you the Chancellor, this is
Speaker 1: where it has. People come in here, even from Germany.
Speaker 1: They come in and they they walk into the Oval
Speaker 1: Office and it's just a special place. Its World War
Speaker 1: One it started and it ended here in World War Two,
Speaker 1: and so many other things. Everything big comes right from
Speaker 1: this is beautiful space. It's now much more beautiful than
Speaker 1: it was six months ago. A lot of good things
Speaker 1: are happening in israelm And I'll tell you he's not
Speaker 1: the first people leave my administration. And they love us,
Speaker 1: and then at some point they miss it so badly,
Speaker 1: and some of them embrace it, and some of them
Speaker 1: actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it,
Speaker 1: but we have it with unders do they leave? They
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and the glamour's gone, the
Speaker 1: whole world is different. They become hostile. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. Someday you write a book about it.
Speaker 1: You'll let us know.