Speaker 1: A fantastic job. He didn't need this, he didn't need it.
And we find out government's a little nasty, but occasionally
I love Peters. Government's a little bit nasty. Peter, you
haven't noticed that you have? You've had a charmed life, right,
very charmed. I think you've had a charm life. I
think what I'll do if you don't mind. Numbers have
just come out which are rather extraordinary, and I thought
i'd play a tape of one of the people who
I've respected over the years, from you know, Joe Kiernan
and Rick Santelli. This just came out and we'll just
play that for a second. Personal income is up eight tents, up.
Speaker 2: Eight tens of percent.
Speaker 3: That is almost triple the expectations. So I'll tell you
that the income, the income numbers really for the first
four months of the year.
Speaker 4: They're stellar. They're really stellar.
Speaker 3: I mean I could go back and look at the
first four months of many different years, really very strong numbers.
Speaker 2: And you're right.
Speaker 3: This administration is criticized for just about everything under the sun.
Speaker 2: I've never ever in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: Had glimpses into the politics of an administration in the
form of transparency, like this one.
Speaker 2: Why don't we be you know, give credit where creditor
is due. Also some income really shooting. Ok.
Speaker 3: I also thought everybody was going to get one last
order of imports, that we're going to be cares and
they were loading up on things.
Speaker 2: How the hell did the how the hell they already.
Speaker 3: Fixed the trade or not fix it, but to cut
it in half?
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So there wasn't a lot of front loading of things
that they needed before the tariffs hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what it really does.
Speaker 3: Call them the question some of the conventional wisdoms, and
you know, it's going to be interesting to see.
Speaker 2: What happens next month when we.
Speaker 3: Get this number or we see some of the other
numbers like current accounts, see how they feared because I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I've been watching these numbers one time.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen the trade DEPSI cut
half for one month.
Speaker 2: Not bad guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, See Howard and Scott are here, so it's great.
You guys want to stand over here. You might as well.
You're the ones that helped produce those numbers, and it'll
only get better. The tariffs are so important, and that's
why we were so happy with the decision yesterday where
the tariffs continued, because without the tariffs, our nation would
be imperiled.
Speaker 2: We would really be imperiled.
Speaker 1: I think I can say that with great juity Scott
and Howard and so we were very happy to get
that decision, that big decision yesterday and today it's about
a man named Elon and he's one of the greatest
business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He
stepped forward to put his very great talents into the
service of our nation and we apprehed. And I just
want to say that Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead
the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations.
And you know the kinds of things that he's found
and as people have found. He's got a group of
very smart people in and they found things that are
pretty unbelievable. I have to say that the numbers that
we're talking about are substantial, but they're going to be
very much more substantial with time, because many of the
things that we're working on right now we're going to
have to remember Elon as we find them. But the
numbers could double and triple because many many things we
don't want to go out with them until we're sure.
But we've found things that are unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad.
With the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon's delivered a colossal
change in the old ways of doing business in Washington.
DOGE has installed geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably
talented people and computers.
Speaker 2: I actually asked Elon one time.
Speaker 1: What's their primary thing, and they have a lot of
primary things, all having to do with being smart, but
he said, the thing that they're really the best at
is working with computers so that they can't be outsmarted
by somebody that's not so honest that happens to also
be good with computers, but not as good as these people.
But the mindset and the senior ranks of every federal
department and it's really changed. And with Elon's guidance, they're
helping to detect fraud, slash waste, and modernize broken and
outdated systems. So as you know, we're talking about various
systems and changing systems, and you know, sadly it takes
a long time to do that. You'll change a let's
say a system at IRS and computerize it properly where
the job can be done in one.
Speaker 2: Tenth at time.
Speaker 1: But it takes it takes sometimes years to rebuild those systems.
But we've started. In many cases, we've started. I will
say that this has less to do with Elon, but
the air traffic control systems we're bidding out to the
best companies in the world. Those systems right now. They
were horrible. The previous administration was horrible.
Speaker 2: What they did.
Speaker 1: They spend billions and billions of dollars and in the
end it didn't even come close to working. They tried
to hook up wire to copper and it can't be done,
and they just spent billions of dollars and just wasted money.
Actually made the system much worse. So we're going to
get a brand new, modern system. Congress is working with
us on that and we're going to get it done
as quickly as we can. But it's in the works
and once it's done, it'll be good for thirty years.
But we have a system that's forty eight years old
and would have a modern computer hooked into a very
outdated computer, and they don't hook up. I mean they
didn't hook up. So after spending billions of dollars. They
turned on the system and it in never any cases,
from local to countrywide, they never worked. More than seventy
five bureaucrats have voluntarily left their taxpayer funded jobs to
come out and really do the job. Countless wasteful and
unnecessary contracts have been terminated. And you know that we
have terminated many, many contracts, and many contracts ELON are
right now being looked at, and it maybe six months,
it may be almost a year in some cases. We're
going through procedures, we're going through courts, and we'll remember
you as we announced billions of dollars of extra waste,
fraud and abuse. Just as an example, those canceled one
hundred and one million dollars for DEI contracts at the
Department of Education. One hundred and one million dollars, and
that was just a small section of the Department of Education.
Fifty nine million dollars for illegal alien hotel rooms in
New York City, and the landlord never made the kind
of money that he made in the last short period
of time. Fifty nine million dollars to a hotel in
New York City. Forty five million dollars for diversity equity
and inclusion scholarships in Burma. In Burma, does anyone know
about Burma forty two million dollars for social and behavioral
change in Uganda forty million dollars to improve the social
and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. I can say it's
two billion dollars to Stacey Abrams and.
Speaker 2: Her environmental movement.
Speaker 1: There was one hundred dollars in the account, and all
of a sudden they found two billion.
Speaker 2: Dollars in the account. And I assume that's being looked at.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not sure, but I assume that's
being looked at. To think of that two billion dollars,
and then Lee will tell you there's another one over
there for twenty billion dollars being spent on another environmental care.
Twenty billion, not twenty million, a lot, not two hundred thousand,
which is a lot.
Speaker 2: So think of it.
Speaker 1: In her case, you have one hundred dollars, all of
a sudden, she gets hit with an infusion of two
billion dollars just before I take office. Twenty million dollars
for Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows what that's all about.
Speaker 1: Nobody's been able to find it eight million dollars for
making mice transgender. So they spend eight million dollars on
making mice transgender, and those are better than many of
the others.
Speaker 2: I could sit here all day and.
Speaker 1: Read things just like that, but we have other things
to do, so it's much much more than just that.
We're totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent and
stopping much more of the waste, and the months to come,
we want to get our great, big, beautiful bill finished
and done. After that we're going to be We put
some of this into the bill, but most of it's
going to come later.
Speaker 2: We're going to have.
Speaker 1: It codorized by Congress, affirmed by Congress. In some cases
we'll make cuts, in some cases we'll just use it
in a different layer to save the money. But it's
hundreds of billions of dollars. DOZE is also fully modernized
the federal retirement process and continues to work very hard
on the IRS modernization.
Speaker 2: But we're taking that over with Dose.
Speaker 1: Many of the Dose people Elon are staying behind him,
so they're not leaving, and Elon's really not leaving.
Speaker 2: He's going to be back and forth.
Speaker 1: I think I have a feeling it's his baby, and
I think he's going to be doing a lot of things.
But Elon's service to America has been without comparison in
modern history. Is already running one of the most innovative
car companies in the world. You look at his factories
and compare them with some of the old factories we have,
and it's a big difference. And the most successful space company,
and I guess in history you would have to say,
the largest free speech platform on the Internet, et cetera.
Yet Elon willingly, with all of the success, he willingly
accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lives and attacks
because he does love our country.
Speaker 2: I know that very much, and loves our country.
Speaker 1: Comes from another country, country that's going through trials and tribulations,
I would say, but he's all about the USA and Americans. Oh,
I'm a great debt of gratitude. So I just want
to thank Elon for his time as special government employee.
Can you imagine they called him an employee, but it's
a special government employee, And for coming and helping us,
and he really has changed the mindset of a lot
of people. A lot of people thought you know, maybe
we'll cut one percent or two percent or three percent.
Then they said, well, we can cut a lot more
than that, and we're going to do it very surgically.
We're going to continue on the march. We're making America
great again. When I was in Saudi Arabia and we
were in, as you know, three really great countries, predominantly
the three. Qatar was great, Uae was great, maybe incredible,
what like such an incredible experience to be in those
three countries. But the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and
I must tell you, the leaders, the great leaders of
the other two that we just mentioned, they all said
the same thing that the United States is the hottest
country right now anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: And six months ago we thought it was dead.
Speaker 1: It was like a dead country, and it would have
been a dead country we didn't have the right result
of November fifth, there would have been a horrible, horrible
situation was going on with the borders, with transgender for everyone,
men playing in women's sports, and so much more. But
they were saying the hottest country anywhere in the world.
And then I played that little clip because there was
one person who was respected, but there are two people,
because Joe was in that one too.
Speaker 2: Joe's a good man.
Speaker 1: But that was one group of people saying something about
the success of what we've done over the last four months.
Speaker 2: They cannot believe it.
Speaker 1: They said, they've never seen anything like it as long
as they've been doing what they've been doing, They've been
doing it for a long time. So I just I
want to thank Elon for helping. And again, you know,
the United States right now is the hottest country anywhere
in the world. Is no country as hot. And we're
doing really well where we came. When I left, we
had no wars, we had no problems, we defeated Isis,
we rebuilt our military, and we had no inflation. And
when I came back, we had a lot of inflation.
We had wars all over the place. We had the
embarrassment in Afghanistan where we gave up billions and billions
of dollars of military equipment, the most embarrassing moment in
the history of our country. I believe, I believe that strongly.
We have Russia with Ukraine. We had the attack in
Israel in October, the horrible attack October seventh, horrible, horrible attack.
Speaker 2: Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: And now we have something where we're really healing a
lot of that. We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting.
I believe that could have turned out into a nuclear disaster,
and I want to thank the leaders of India, the
leaders of Pakistan, and I want to thank my people.
Speaker 2: Also.
Speaker 1: We talked trade and we said we can't trade with
people that are shooting at each other and potentially using
nuclear weapons. And they were they're great leaders in those
countries and they understood and they.
Speaker 2: Agreed and that all stopped.
Speaker 1: And we're stopping others from fighting also because ultimately we
can fight better than anybody. We have the greatest military
in the world. We have the greatest leaders in the world.
We put one of them in charge of the Joint
chiefs of Staff, as you know, General Raisin Kan and
we wiped out ISIS, completely wiped out ISIS in three weeks.
They said it would take five years, and we did
it in three weeks. And that's the way it is.
But we don't want to have to use our military.
We want to be peace through strength when we can,
and that's the way we're going to have it. So
I just want to thank Elon and all of his people.
Most of those people are staying, almost all of them
are staying, and they're going to be with us, and
you're going to see the results coming long into the future.
Even a year and two years later, you're going to
see a lot of the results and those hundreds of
billions of dollars they are going to be adding up and
they're going to continue to add. It'll be interested, really
interesting to see what the final number is going to be.
Speaker 2: But again, Elon gave an incredible service.
Speaker 1: Nobody like him and he had to go through the
slings and the arrows, which is a shame, because he's
an incredible patriot. The good news is that ninety percent
of the country knows that and they appreciate it, and
they really appreciate what he did, and they gave him
a little special something. We have here, a very special
that I give to very special people. I have given
it to some, but it goes to very special people,
and I thought i'd i'd give it to.
Speaker 2: Elon as a presentation from our country. Thank you, Leon,
Thank you take care of us than we see the law.
Speaker 4: The luckgowness is amazing.
Speaker 2: Large luck.
Speaker 5: Well, let me say perhaps a few words that this
is not the end of Dose but really the beginning.
My time as a special government ploint necessarily had to end.
Speaker 4: It was a limited time thing.
Speaker 5: It's one hundred and thirty four days, I believe, which
ends in a few days, so.
Speaker 4: So that you know it comes with a time limit.
Speaker 5: But the Dog team will only grow stronger over time,
the Doge influence will only grow stronger.
Speaker 4: It's likely to sort of boson of Buddhism. It's like
a way of life.
Speaker 5: So it is permeating throughout the government. And I'm confident
that over time we'll see a twillion dollars of savings
and reduction in a trillion dollars waste and forward production.
The calculations of the Dose Dose Team thus far in
terms of an FYI twenty five to fy twenty six delta,
are over one hundred and sixty billion, and that's climbing.
We expect that probably that number will probably go over.
Speaker 4: Two hundred billion soon.
Speaker 5: So I think the Dose Team is doing an incredible job.
They're going to continue doing to doing an incredible job.
And and I'll be and I'll continue to be visiting
here and be a friend and advisor to the President,
and I look forward to, you know, times being back
in this amazing room. By the way, isn't this incredible,
This incredible look the I mean it's stunning. I think
the way that the Oval Office, the President has just
completely redone the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful. I love the gold in the ceiling.
Speaker 2: It's pretty nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been for a long time.
Speaker 2: That was last year. Nobody ever really saw it.
Speaker 1: They didn't know the eagle was up there, and we highlighted.
It's essentially it's a landmark, a great landmark, and that's
twenty four carrot gold and everybody loved it.
Speaker 2: And now they all see it when they come in.
So it's been it's been good.
Speaker 5: The Oval Office has, you know, finally has the majesty
that it deserves, thanks to the President. So so I
look forward to continuing to be a breend and advisor
to the President, continuing to support the dog team. And uh,
and we are relentlessly pursuing eight trillion dollars in wasting
for productions which will benefit the American taxpayer. So uh,
that's that's it, really, thank you.
Speaker 2: Missent, Thank you great che President.
Speaker 6: The President mentioned that you have to deal with all
the slings and arrows during your time at DOGE.
Speaker 4: There's this new people. You know, some of the media
organizations in this room were the slingers.
Speaker 6: There is your Time for Today that accuses you of
blurring right between.
Speaker 4: It's the New New York Times.
Speaker 5: Is that the same publication that's uh go to Pulitzer
Prize for a false reporting on the Russia Gate?
Speaker 2: Uh? Is it the same organization? I think it is so.
Speaker 5: I think that I think the judge just ruled against
New York Times for their lies about the Russia Gate hoax,
and that they might have to give back that Pulitzer
Prize that New York Times.
Speaker 4: Let's move on. Okay, next question, Trump.
Speaker 6: President Trump Biden, who used to work here, are in
talks with Republicans and Congress to go and testify about
what they did or didn't do to possibly conceal President
Biden's decline. Do you think that doctor Jill Biden should
also have to come in and testify about what she
did or didn't do?
Speaker 2: Well? I hate the concept of it.
Speaker 7: It's the wife of a man who was going through
a lot of problems, and everybody that dealt with him
understood that, and I guess it came out during the
debate loud and clear.
Speaker 1: That was the big That was the biggest signal of
all they have to do what's right the country was.
There was a lot of dishonesty in the election, as
you know twenty twenty that's been now caught.
Speaker 2: People understand it was a rigged election.
Speaker 1: And when you go further out, when you see the autopen,
I mean, I think the autopen is going to become
one of the great scandals of all time because you
have somebody operating it, or a number of people operating.
Speaker 2: Because I knew Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden wasn't in favor of opening up orders letting
twenty one million people into this from prisons and mental
institutions and gang members.
Speaker 2: He wasn't into that at all.
Speaker 1: And you know who signed the who signed these orders,
proclamations and all of the different things that he signed
that set our country so far back.
Speaker 2: That was that was so bad for our country. How
did it work?
Speaker 6: Like we're in the old oss right now, If there
was a group of rogue staffers that worked for you,
who wanted to advance a bill or an executive order
without your knowledge. How could they do it?
Speaker 1: Well, it's very hard because I'd read your newspapers or
your media the next day and I say, well, I
didn't approve that, and.
Speaker 2: I would find it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they wouldn't get away with it for a
long because let's say I never signed that.
Speaker 2: Who the hell signed that?
Speaker 1: Autopens to me are used to sign letters to people
because we get I think they said twenty thousand letters
a week, and you like to be able when somebody
takes it time to write a letter as sisest sort
of light back, and autopens are meant for that. Autopens
are not meant to sign major proclamations or tax cuts
or borders, anything having to do with the border, which
is so important and if it happened on my watch,
I would be able to see it, because the next
day or sooner, I'd be reading about something that I
knew nothing about, and who the hell signed is So
I almost never used the autopen. In fact, yesterday I
was signing about eighty one I think it was eighty
one proclamations and statements to people that I think should
be signed by US. I think when you write letters
to foreign dignitaries or presidents or prime ministers. You should
be signing those letters not done with autopens. I understand
he signed almost everything.
Speaker 2: With an auto pen. It's a very dangerous thing. It
really means you're not president.
Speaker 1: Whoever operated the autopen and we think we know who
that is, and it was actually more than one person,
But that's not what the presidency is all about.
Speaker 2: I hardly used to hear the triffs on China. You
said that they violated an agreement with the US.
Speaker 1: Well, they did, they were They violated a big part
of the agreement we made. You know, if you read
that all statement, I was very nice to them. I
helped them because they were in trouble with the stoppage
of a.
Speaker 2: Massive amount of business.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure that I'll speak to Presidency and hopefully
we'll work that out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a violation of the agreement.
Speaker 6: Yeah, can you give us an update to the latest
ceasefire agreement that Israel has agreed to, But I'm still
still considering.
Speaker 1: Well, they're very close to an agreement on Gaza, and
we'll let you know about it during the day or
maybe tomorrow, and we have a chance of that. I
think we have a chance of making a deal with Iran. Also,
they don't want to be blown up. They would rather
make a deal, and I think that could happen in
the not too distant future.
Speaker 2: That would be a great thing.
Speaker 1: If we could have a deal without bombs being dropped
all over the Middle East, that would be a.
Speaker 2: Very good thing.
Speaker 1: They we want them, we want them to be safe.
We want them to have a very very successful nation.
Let it be a great nation. But we can't have that.
They cannot have a nuclear weapons. Very simple, and I
think we're fairly close to a deal with the run.
Speaker 2: Good question for you.
Speaker 6: You said just now that you look forward to being a.
Speaker 4: Friend and advisor to the president.
Speaker 1: So do you expect to continue advising the president and
jo informally or are you going to sort of shift
your bogus entirely to your companies.
Speaker 5: Well, I expect to continue to provide advice whatever the
President would like advice if I mean, I'm yeah, it's
I expect to remain a friend and an advisor, and
certainly if there's anything the President wants me to do,
I'm at at the president service.
Speaker 2: You said that there was a trillion dollar promise for.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think we do expect over time to achieve
the trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: But what have you found in your time here was
the biggest roadblock to getting those cuts?
Speaker 4: Was it the cabinet, or was in Congress or something else?
Speaker 2: What was the biggest roadblock from your work?
Speaker 5: It's mostly just a lot of hard work. It's it's
really not any anyone personal congress. It's going through really
millions of line items and saying just each one of
them makes sense or not makes sense.
Speaker 4: Obviously, at times.
Speaker 5: When you cut expenses, those who are receiving the money,
whether they receive whether they were receiving that money legitimately
or not, they do complain. And you're not going to
hear someone confessing that they receive money inappropriately. Never, They're
going to always say that they received money appropriately for
an important cause. Naturally, that's what you'd expect. But so
we just have to it's a it's just a lot
of work going through the vast expenses of the federal
government and just really asking questions, what's this money for?
Are you sure it's actually being used? Well, many times
we can't even find anyone who defends it. So for
at a lot of the expenses, there's the rest actually
no defender at all, and then we have to just
go work through the process of stopping the stopping and
spending where there's often literally no defender.
Speaker 4: Nobody even knows why the money is being spent. It's
truly absurd.
Speaker 5: I mean, we find situations where there are millions of
software licenses where with zero people you seeing.
Speaker 4: Them, zero exactly. This is the quizzical expression.
Speaker 5: You're like, surely if there's millions of software licenses, someone should.
Speaker 4: Be using them.
Speaker 5: No, And then then we just we've got to go
through through the process of saying, Okay, look, if no
one's using this software, we terminate this software license agreement.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's that's that's everywhere ended up.
Speaker 2: By the way, what.
Speaker 5: Do you think would be colonizing. It's a tough call,
but I think colonizing was and making a life multiplanetrute
is hotter. And as I said, I we do the dough.
We do expect to achieve over time the twenty dollars
of savings. We can't do it in like a few months.
But if you say by the I think the official
end of dose, which the President may choose to extend,
is the middle of next year save by the middle
of next year, with the support of the President in Congress,
could we achieve twenty dollars of savings.
Speaker 4: I think so we're on track to do so.
Speaker 6: You had mentioned earlier in the week that do should
become a whipping boy.
Speaker 2: And as the President mentioned, he went through a.
Speaker 4: Lot to go through this process.
Speaker 2: Was it worth it for you and what would you change?
Speaker 5: Yes, So what we found was happening was that if
there were any cuts anywhere, uh, then people would assume
that was done by Doge.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 5: We became like the essentially the Doge boogey man, where
if you know, any cut anywhere.
Speaker 4: Would be ascribed to Doge.
Speaker 5: You know, a friend of mine's daughter who's at law
school Georgetown, thought that Doe should cut the Senate, you know,
the internships for the legal internships for the Senate, and
we have nothing to do with that. So if they
haven't cut, not to do with us, just as an example,
So you know, it just became a bit ridiculous where
anything any cut anywhere was senha Doge and including things
that no sense and.
Speaker 4: We would agree made no sense.
Speaker 5: So there are many things that occur in the government
because it's it's the it's the banal evil of bureaucracy.
It's sort of the the the the frankly largely largely
uncaring nature of bureaucracy. It's, as the great Milton Freeman said,
money is spent most clearly when it is someone else's
about money being spent on people you don't know. And
that's that's how federal spending is. And and then you
can't really even blame the individuals because the way the
government works is complaint minimization. So when you do try to,
when someone within the government tries to stop money being spent,
there's usually someone that complains, and then their manager will
say it's not worth.
Speaker 4: The trouble, just pay it anyway. That happens over and
over again. I think it was I think it's an
important thing.
Speaker 5: I think it was a necessary thing, and I think
it will have a good effect in few Thank you,
President Trump.
Speaker 6: This week there was a video on more a plane
that showed the First Lady of France slapping her husband.
Speaker 4: Emmanuel McCrum.
Speaker 6: Do you have any world leaders, world leader marital in life.
Speaker 2: Make sure the door remains closed. It was not good.
Speaker 1: I spoke to him and he's he's fine.
Speaker 2: They're fine. They're two really good people.
Speaker 1: I know him very well, and I don't know what
that was all about, but I know him very well,
and they're fine.
Speaker 4: A little center.
Speaker 6: Here plan to avoid being sweating in every digund the
state again by spending.
Speaker 2: To study how to speed to American plan.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, they spent.
Speaker 1: They spent two point eight million. We spent one point
five We spent much less. We spent about half of
what they spent, and at the end they were twenty
eight million dollars short. They had to be u They
spend two point eight billion. It's a lot, but they
couldn't get twenty eight million at the end. And now
they want to spend I read that they want to
spend money to learn how to talk.
Speaker 2: It's fake. You don't want to be fake.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to hire consultants to say what America needs,
because you know, then they should be the consultants should
be running the deal, not them. But I read that
they want to spend a lot of money in each state.
So we won all seven swing states, seven out of seven.
Speaker 2: We want a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: We want them popular, but we want everything, and they
want to spend money to find out what they did wrong.
Speaker 2: And I mean I can tell you what they did wrong.
I can tell you every one of their programs.
Speaker 1: When they say men playing in women's sports, I would
say that's not a winner. When they say transgender for everybody,
I think that's not a winner. When they say open
borders so the entire world's population of criminals can pour
into our country, I don't think that's a winner.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can.
Speaker 1: I just gave them that for free. But I don't
know if they'll change their ways. I see them all
the time. I see people that I know in Congress Democrats.
They're trying to justify some of the things I just said.
You can't justify them. They're you know, I always see
the eighty twenty issues. I say, they're not eighty twenty.
They're ninety seven three. They might be ninety nine to one.
They're not eighty twenty. They wish they were eighty twenty.
And they're wasting a lot of money if they're going
to continue with that nonsense.
Speaker 2: And this is the president six question.
Speaker 6: But most of the apprentice.
Speaker 2: You mentioned once in twenty twelve that Diddy was.
Speaker 6: A good friend heres back then he is saying to
himself in some very serious legal trouble, that's true. Would
you ever consider pardoning him?
Speaker 1: Well, nobody's asked. You had to be the one to
ask Peter, but nobody's asked. But I know people are
thinking about it. I know they're thinking about it. I
think people have been very close to asking. First of all,
i'd look at what's happening, and I haven't been watching
it too close, although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen him. I haven't spoken to him in years.
He used to really like me.
Speaker 1: A lot, but I think when I ran for politics,
he sort of that relationship busted up from what I read.
I don't know he didn't tell me that, but i'd
read some little bit nasty statements in the paper.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you know, it's different.
Speaker 1: You become a much different person when you run for
politics and you do what's right. I could do other things,
and I'm sure he'd like me, and I'm sure other
people would like me, but it wouldn't be as good
for our country.
Speaker 2: As we said.
Speaker 1: Our country is doing really well because of what we're doing,
so I can't It's not a popularity contest, So I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I would certainly look at the facts.
Speaker 1: If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me
or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact.
Speaker 2: On the Big Beautiful bill.
Speaker 6: Would you like to see the Senate building some support
for your tariffs on the Big Beautiful bill?
Speaker 4: Or should that be a standalone bill?
Speaker 2: I have green support on the tariffs.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was so honored that we got that
ridiculous staylifted, because that would have taken away presidential power.
It would have taken away everything that was granted by
the founders. It would have been a terrible thing, and
it would have most importantly, it would have left us vulnerable.
We have a lot of countries that use tariffs on
us and use them viciously, actually viciously, and if we
didn't have the power to use tariffs on them and instantly,
not when you go back to Congress and try and
get hundreds of people to agree on something that would
take months to get just one simple proclamation. If we
didn't have the power to counteract their powers, you wouldn't
have a country lift.
Speaker 2: We have to act fast.
Speaker 1: We have to be fast and nimble, as they say,
and that was a really great moment I think yesterday
when that stay was lifted, and hopefully now we'll go
to court and just win that battle, because if we
don't have the power to do what they're doing to us,
we are going to be a great nation no longer.
Speaker 5: Musk was once idolized by folks in the left in
this country before joining your administration.
Speaker 2: Now he's considered a hero by conservatives.
Speaker 7: Why do you think this man, what he's done in
American life has been so politicized it doesn't want well.
Speaker 1: His life has been His life has been amazing. When
I look at so many different things. I look at
that rocket being, you know, guided back into position. I've
never seen that before. I thought it was a space movie.
I thought it was a movie.
Speaker 2: You look at what.
Speaker 1: He's done in terms of communication, it's been unbelievable. So
many different even tunnels going underground, not having to go
through all the process of going.
Speaker 2: You know, he's got a company that does that.
Speaker 1: He's got so many different companies, Starlink as an example.
He saved a lot of lives, probably hundreds of lives
in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you remember, but I called you.
Speaker 1: They needed starlink in North Carolina and I didn't know
what the hell starlink was.
Speaker 2: I said, what is it? Who owns it? He said,
do you know Elon Musk? I said, you happen to
know the gentleman.
Speaker 1: This was before his government stay, and they said, we
really needed because North Carolina was literally became an island.
There was people had no communication, they had no access
to anything.
Speaker 2: And they were dying. And I call up Elon.
Speaker 1: And you can't get it because it's so success was
very hard to get. And he had so much of
it brought over there, and they told me it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Saved a lot of lives. So, you know, he's just
done a lot of things.
Speaker 1: He I don't think frankly, I don't think he gets
credit for what he's done.
Speaker 2: But uh, he's and he's a very good person too.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't a good person, if he wasn't it,
but he did the same things. You know, I probably
maybe speak differently. He happens to be a really good
person who loves the country.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Speaker 5: Bill, you had indicated this week that there were some
things you didn't like about what had passed in the House.
Speaker 4: Uh, what changes do you want to see?
Speaker 5: Send me?
Speaker 1: And you had also indicated there were things you didn't
like about the bill.
Speaker 2: What would you be suggesting? He pushed senators to change
in their version.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you I'll go first. It's an unbelie
levable bill. It cuts your deficits, it cuts you know,
it's a huge cutting. But there's things I'd like to see,
maybe cut a little bit more. I'd like to see
a bigger cut in taxes. It's going to be the
largest tax decrease or cut in the history of our country.
I'd like to see it get down to any even
lower number. I was shooting for a slightly lower number.
I would have liked to have done that. But with
all of that being said, when you look at the
tax cut and the fact that the original tax cut
which made us we had the most successful four years
in the history of our.
Speaker 2: Country the economy, and this is going to be even better.
Speaker 1: And you see that by the reports that came out
just yesterday or tonight, I guess they were released this
morning at eight o'clock. You see the kind of numbers
where somebody that's a pro is like, WHOA, I haven't
seen numbers like this since I've been doing this. You know,
these are human emotions of professionals that have never seen
numbers like and we've just started. The bill is a
great bill. It's going to be jiggered around a little bit.
It's going to be negotiated with the Senate, with the House.
But the end result is it extends the Trump tax cuts.
If it doesn't get approved, you'll have a sixty eight
percent tax increase. You're going to go up sixty eight percent.
That's a number that nobody's ever heard of before.
Speaker 2: You'll have a massive tax increase.
Speaker 1: If it does get approved, you'll have a large tax cut,
the largest we've ever had when you add the passed
tax cuts that we've got you the Trump tax they
call them the Trump tax cuts. It's an amazing bill.
It does amazing things. With all of that, It's going
to be adjusted a little bit over the next coming weeks,
and I think it's going to be a pass. The
Republicans want to pass it with all of the great
things it does, including an extension of debt. It's the extension.
We have to extend the debt. If we don't extend debt,
we're in default. Now, the Democrats Michael country to be
in default, but in two hundred and fifty years we've
never been in default. That was handed to them by
a very well meaning man that gave it to them
because he thought it was the right thing to do.
It could have been their problem before the election, but
this man thought it was the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: And it was well meaning.
Speaker 1: I don't hold anything against him for that. But that
was put on our plate when it should have been
on the Democrats. September twenty eighth, the famous date. It
should have been taken care of by the Democrats. But
this person, a man of power, gave it to us,
so that in June that comes toe. Well, we have
to take care of that, because if we don't take
care of it, we have a country in default.
Speaker 2: And we don't ever want to have a country in defaul.
You know, I'll tell.
Speaker 1: You a certain Senator, Elizabeth Warrer, said that she would
never ever.
Speaker 2: Allow a default on our dead.
Speaker 1: She would never let let it happen, and she would
like to get rid of the dead ceiling, what's called
the dead ceiling. I go with the dead extension because
we really need an extension that she'd like to see
that gotten rid of. And there are many people that agree,
many Democrats.
Speaker 2: Agree with that. But we gave that through and you know,
I don't.
Speaker 1: Want to say an ere he did it well, meaning
they gave that to us. It was a Democrat problem
just before the election. What I had a huge impact
on the election and to our benefit. We want anyway,
but to our benefit. But felt that really for the
good of the country, we should extend that. But Elizabeth
Warren and various other people would like to see that
her whole career. She wanted to see it terminated, gotten
rid of not being voted on every five years or
ten years, and the reason was because it's so catastrophic
for our country. And I always agreed with her. There
was one thing I agreed with her. Now I haven't
spoken to her, but I would say that if you
asked her that question now, she'd say, no, no, it's
their problem.
Speaker 2: But it's a very unfortunate situation. It's very unfair situation.
Speaker 1: And she happened to be right on that it should
be gotten rid of or it should simply be extended.
But that's one of the things that gets taken care
of in this bill. That automatically gets extended for a
four year period, and it should be. But I agree
with Elizabeth Warren on that, I think you should get
rid of it.
Speaker 2: It's too catastrophic place studios.
Speaker 1: States to students, Well, we want to have great students here.
We just don't want students that are causing trouble. We
want to have students. I want to have foreigs students.
I think Harvard, you know, it's close to thirty one percent.
Speaker 2: That's a lot. Our country's given five billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars plus to Harvard over a short period of time.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew that. We found that out.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that was a dose thing, but we
found that out over a period of time.
Speaker 2: That was sort of a trump thing.
Speaker 1: We ended up in litigation for other reasons because they're
very antisemitic, and in finding out and in going through
the books, we found out that the country gave them
five million dollars plus much more than that actually, and
we're having it out with them, and let's see what happens.
I think we have a very.
Speaker 2: Good well, it's a very sad case.
Speaker 1: It's a case we win. We can't lose that case
because we have the right to make grants. We're not
going to make any grants like that.
Speaker 2: But I don't think.
Speaker 1: Harvard's been acting very nicely. I think Columbia wants to
get to the bottom of the problem. They've acted very well,
and there are other institutions too, they're acting, but Harvard's
trying to be a big shot. And all that happens
is every three days we find another hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: That was given.
Speaker 1: Least two days ago, we found two hundred million dollars more.
The money's given to them like gravy. I'd like to
see the money go to trade schools where people learn
how to fix motors and engines, where people learn how
to build rocket ships, because you know, somebody has to
build those rocket ships. And I'd like to see trade
school set up because you could take five billion plus
hundreds of billions more, which is what's spent, and you
could have the greatest trade school system anywhere in the world.
And that's what we need to build his rockets and
robots and things that he's doing, and to build lots
of other things. And you know, I went to school
with people. In some cases they weren't good students, but
they could fix the engine of a car better than
anybody I've ever seen. They could take it apart blindfold
and they had an ability of that, and they did
very well.
Speaker 2: They made a lot of money, and it's a very
skilled job. It's great.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to see a lot of money going
into tradescos I've always felt that, and we probably found
our pot of gold. And that's what's been wasted at
places like Harvard, and the money's been wasted.
Speaker 2: Yeah places.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it wasn't wasn't anywhere near fronts. So but
I didn't.
Speaker 8: Even about the six left, you know, I didn't know,
so uh yeah, I was just watching around with Alex
and I said, go ahead, punch me in the face,
and he did.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: Turns out even a five year old punching you in
the in the face.
Speaker 2: Actually it was exod if you knew his mom right now.
Speaker 5: But I didn't feel I didn't really feel much at
the time, and then I guess it bruises up.
Speaker 4: But I just watched around the king.
Speaker 6: I didn't Actually I know that you tried to stay
a pretty neutral because not your war.
Speaker 1: But by the way, not my war. I just want
to solve the problem for people. This was not a
war that was going to happen if I'm a president,
So not your war.
Speaker 6: But as you try to fix it, and as you
surveyed this hellscape of.
Speaker 4: The Ukrainian front line, and you.
Speaker 6: Guys, you and your team deal with a very stubburn
flattener poop you.
Speaker 2: But if you look at this stubborn Zelenski too.
Speaker 6: Treating differently now, like do you look at this and
seat Putin as the good guy.
Speaker 2: Or the bad guy.
Speaker 1: So I've known him very well and I went through
a lot of things with him because Russia was you know,
the Russian Russian and Russia hoax turned out to be
a total hoax. New York Times they got a pullit serprise.
They have to give back to Pulit serprise. That's my lawsuit,
and they're doing very poorly in that lawsuit. But you know,
they wrote stories about how it was true and it
was false, and you know a lot of Washington Post also,
I have gotten to see things, and I was very
surprised that rockets being shot into cities like he have
during a negotiation that I felt was maybe very close
to ending. We were going to solve a problem, and
then all of a sudden rockets got shot.
Speaker 2: Into a couple of cities and people died.
Speaker 1: I saw things that I was surprised that so, and
I don't like being surprised, so I'm very disappointed in
that way. With that being said, I'd like to see
then five thousand people. I think a numbers that even
more than that, but five thousand people a week are
being killed, mostly soldiers, but also people that live in
little cities and towns throughout Ukraine.
Speaker 2: And I'd like to see that stuff.
Speaker 6: And I alas yesterday, but I want to ask you directly.
Speaker 2: So many other things you're trying to do are held
up in court right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the court are going to have so much influence
over US policy. Do you wish you would have just
become a judge?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, look, it wasn't meant to be that way.
Speaker 1: If you look at the founders, the president had certain powers,
and you have your three groups, and they all had
supposed to be equal pretty equal powers. But you can't
have a judge in Boston running foreign policy and places
all over the country because he's got a liberal bent
or he's a radical left person.
Speaker 2: That's what the executive branch is for. And you have
checks and balances.
Speaker 1: But we had millions of people pour into our country,
many many criminals poured into our country. Murderers, murderers, mental
institutions from all over the world being emptied out into
our country. And if we don't get him out and
get him out quickly, we're gonna could lose your country
very easily.
Speaker 2: This is a bed that anybody would allow this to
happen to our country.
Speaker 1: You know, with all of the things we took over inflation,
we took over some wars, we took over a lot
of problems that didn't exist when I was president. None
of it existed. We wiped out Isis. Other than that,
we had no wars. Putin was never going to hit Ukraine.
Israel would have never been attacked that attack. As you know,
Iran had no money. They didn't have money for Hamas,
they didn't have money for Hesbola, they had no money
whatsoever that was going to happen. All of these things
that happened weren't happened, you wouldn't have had inflation. So
it's very sad when I came back. But the thing
that is the hardest is that they allowed twenty one
million people into our country and many of those people
are stone cold criminals. They moved their criminal population into
the United States.
Speaker 2: And of all the things.
Speaker 1: That you know our bad I solved inflation, I believe already.
I got the fuel prices down. The fuel prices came down.
That's one of the reasons. They screwed up the energy.
They screwed up the cost of gasoline and oil and gas,
and you had tremendous inflation. Had the greatest inflation probably
in the history of our country under Biden. And when
people said, oh, but the economies are no, the economy
was terrible for the people because they couldn't afford the energy,
and the energy brought everything else up.
Speaker 2: Energy is the big deal. But with all of that,
we solved that already in four months. We solved it.
Speaker 1: A dollar ninety nine dollar ninety eight gasoline, first time
people have seen that in a long time since my term.
But the hardest thing to solve is millions of people
pouring into our country, many of whom are criminals. Because remember,
these countries are smart, their leaders are very street smart.
Speaker 2: They're sending the people that they don't want. They don't
want the people that.
Speaker 1: Are there that are law abiding, that are productive, that
are working hard. They want people that are in jails,
we have them, they allow them to come in. And
I always look to the other side, like why would
somebody do something? You know, in business, I try and
study why would they want to do this?
Speaker 2: Why would they want to sell it? Why would they
want to buy it?
Speaker 1: One thing I can figure out is what would an
administration what were they thinking? Would they allowed millions of
people from prisons all over the world, not just from
South America, Venezuela, all over the world, from the Congo
in Africa, hundreds of people, thousands of people from the
Congo rough rough prisoners from Asia, from Europe, rough parts
of Europe.
Speaker 2: Why would they allow them to come into our country?
Why would they do that? It's the one thing I
can't figure out. And I don't believe it was Jill Biden.
I really don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been a sort of a moderate person
over his lifetime, not a smart person, but somewhat vicious person.
I will say, if you feel sorry for him, don't
feel so sorry because he's vicious. What he did with
his political opponent and all of the people that he heard.
He hurt a lot of people by and so I
really don't feel sorry for him. But he wasn't a
person that would allow murderers to come into our country.
He wasn't a person that was in favor of transgender
for anybody that wanted it, take kids out of families,
et cetera, et cetera. So I just don't understand why
why a thing like this, thing like this could have
been allowed to happen. Very sad, very sad, very sad
for our country if.
Speaker 2: I can, which is.
Speaker 5: I think the fundamental moral flow of the left is
empathy for the criminals and not empathy for the victims.
Empathy for the criminals, but not empathy for the victims.
And there's there's been way too much of that that
needs to stop. To the Presidence point, there's been immense
judicial overreach that is unconstitutional, that was never intended, and
it's undermining the people's faith in the legal system.
Speaker 4: It needs to stop. It's gone too far.
Speaker 1: And just today we had just a couple of hours ago,
we had a great decision from the Supreme Court, thank
goodness that it was very important. We had two important
decisions yesterday on the tariffs, because again, we have to
be able to fight.
Speaker 2: Fair fight with other countries.
Speaker 1: How or would you say we have to be able
to use tariffs to fight people that use tariffs on us.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we didn't have that power of tariffs,
we would.
Speaker 1: We would economically but destroyed as the country because they
will destroy us. Other countries will destroy us with unchecked tariffs.
We can check them when we have the use. They
tried to take that that power away from us. And
if you take that power away, we're not going to
have a country. We won't have an economically viable country.
But it's very important on immigration that we be able
to get people out without having to go through a
long court case. I mean it was up to some
of these judges, every single single one of these millions
of people, millions of people, criminals, prisoners that were let
go from jails because they save a fortune when they
did they brought them into the United States.
Speaker 2: You know what they're saving, the money they're saving. But
some of murders, it's very important.
Speaker 1: That we're able to get those people out of here fast,
bring them back to their country where they belong, and
those count if he's take them, because if they don't
take them, they have to go through the wrath of
the United States and they take them, but we have
judges that don't want that to happen, and it would
be it's a terrible thing that's going through the court
system right now, that whole situation. But when ICE and
with Border Patrol, they've done an incredible job. When they
do this incredible job and they capture one hundred killers
and drug dealers, and we can't keep them for years
here as we go through trials. We have to get
them out rapidly. And we know who they are. We
know who they are, and we're very careful about who
they are, but we have to get them out rapidly,
or again, we're not going to have a country. Maybe
one or two bors go ahead. Well, he's gonna end
up building his whole car here. I mean I thought
he built his whole car pretty much.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 1: He's got incredible factories and like I looked at one
in Texas.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. No way.
Speaker 1: All of the manufacturers will build their parts here too.
Speaker 2: I mean I used to bother me.
Speaker 1: They make a part in Canada, part in Mexico, a
part in Europe and sent all over the place, and
nobody knew what the hell was happening. I think it's
you build a car, make it in America, and I
gave them a little leeway on that, you know, gave
them some leeway.
Speaker 2: But over the next year they've got to have the
whole thing built in America. That's what we want.
Speaker 1: We want America to buy American built cars. Thank you
very much, MU