01/23/25: President Trump Signs Executive Orders

We've signed some executive orders. They were very important in just about every case. And it will go through the first one. Please. Do you want to.

Yeah. Mr. President, this is an executive order on crypto.

We're going to be.

Oh, sorry.

We're doing.

Sorry. This is an executive order on AI we're forming. We're basically announcing the administration's policy to make America the world capital in artificial intelligence and to dominate and to lead the world in AI.

Do you want to say your name? Your full name? Yeah.

David Sachs. AI Crypto czar.

David is one of the greatest in the world at AI. Most respected, probably there is. So that should take us to the forefront, right?

Absolutely. We got it, man.

Okay, thank you. And this, David, is.

Yeah, this is the crypto EO. We're going to be forming an internal working group to make crypto, to make America the world capital in crypto under.

Your leadership, which is really going up. Right, Absolutely. David, that's for you. Thanks. You find them exciting? They might not be exciting, but they're going to make a lot of money for the country.

Thank you, sir.

And so is David. You have to check him out. There's nobody like this guy. He said, how did you get David Sachs? How did you do that? And he's. He's doing it for the country more than anything else. So we appreciate it, David. Thank you very much.

This is an executive order establishing a presidential commission, an advisory commission on science and technology.

Do you want to explain that a little bit?

The basic idea is to get together top people from government, the private sector, technology industry, as well as educational institutions to make sure that America maintains its leadership position with respect to science and technology development in the years of ahead.

Good. That's great.

Next. Sir, we have a presidential memorandum encouraging departments and agencies in your government, including the Department of the Interior, to promote federal recognition of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina.

I love the Lumbee tribe. So this is their first big step, right?

This would be a huge step for them, sir.

Yeah, they were with me all the way. They were great. North Carolina, Lumbee tribe. Okay. Will you send. You'll send them a copy of that? Yes, sir. They were great. Okay.

And if you'd like, I could get them that pen, sir, as well.

Yeah, let's do that.

Next, we have a set of pardons for peaceful pro life protesters who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Do you know how many?

I believe it's 23, sir.

23 people were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this. They'll be very happy. So they're all in prison now?

Some are. Some are out of custody.

Ridiculous. Okay.

Lastly, sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That's a big one, huh?

A lot of people are waiting for this. Prolonged for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed. Okay. Give that to rfk jr. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much.

Mr. President, a US judge temporarily blocks the birthright citizenship order. Do you have any reaction?

No. Obviously, we'll appeal it. They put it before a certain judge in Seattle, I guess. Right. And there's no surprises with that judge.

Mr. President, Senators Collins and Murkowski have now said they will vote against Pete Hegseth. Are you worried about his confirmation in your reaction?

No. And no surprises there. Too bad. You know the way it is. Too bad.

And when would you adjourn Congress to make recess appointments, Mr. President?

Well, I. Take a look at that. I listen to John Thune. He's doing a fantastic job. We're moving along. The Democrats are trying to delay government, as they always do. They can't help themselves. Even John Ratcliffe was very, very strong, very popular and liked by the Democrats. I guess he gets a lot of Democrat votes. That's taking a long time, and it shouldn't be taking a long time. They're maxing everything out so they can delay everything as much as possible.

So does support an effort to use recess appointments if you choose to do that?

I'd be willing to use recess appointments. It's up to John, and we'll see. And John Thune's a great guy, great senator, and knows this stuff inside out and backwards, but I would use recess appointments if you. He wants to do that? Absolutely. The Democrats are just delaying. They always delay.

Mr. President, we spoke with the Saudi crown Prince yesterday.

Who?

The Saudi crown prince. How was the call? $600 million.

Billion dollars. We can invest. 600. I'll ask him for a trillion.

You said you can ask him for a trillion. Will Saudi Arabia be the first foreign country you will visit since they invest in.

Well, if they do that, I would. I would be glad to do that. I did it, as you know, four years ago. We did $450 billion, meaning the money all goes to American companies and they purchase jets and they purchase computers and everything else. And we did 450 billion and I guess we're at 600. 650. And I'll see if I can talk.

Him into it again. You showed great confidence in Steve Wipkoff.

Why?

You said that you doubt that the ceasefire in Gaza will hold since the UF raised his.

Well, no, I think he's great, but it's a very tricky place. It's very tricky and we'll see. And if something does happen, they will not be happy. Sir, follow up on that one.

In terms of Steve Witkoff, are you going to put him in charge of Iran strategy and do you want him talking to directly with the Iran?

No, but he's certainly somebody I would use. He's done a fantastic job. He's a great negotiator. He's a very good person. Great, a very popular person, gets along with people. I have great negotiators. They have no personality whatsoever. And then I have some that do. Steve has a wonderful way about him and people like him and even in this case both sides like him. And he was able to make a deal. That deal would have never been made without Steve. The Biden people couldn't make the deal. They were working on it for a year and a half. They couldn't make a deal. We got it done prior to the inauguration. We said it has to be before the inauguration. I mean, the deal should hold, but if it doesn't hold, there'll be a lot of problems.

Mr. Sharma to your AI EO just hours after you made that big Stargate announcement, Elon Musk tweeted that they don't actually have the money. Is that true?

I don't know if they do, but you know, they're putting up the money. The government's not putting up anything. They're putting up money. They're very rich people, so I hope they do. And I mean Elon doesn't like one of those people. So you're allowed to do that.

AI is going to replace many American jobs.

No, no. It's going to create tremendous numbers of jobs. It's going to also create a lot of benefits medically for cancer research and other things. It's going to have a huge positive impact. And you know, we want to be ahead of China. We're right now way ahead of China. David Sachs is one of the all time experts, you know that people are amazed that he, you just met him. I don't know if he's still here. There he is. But one of the most respected people in that world. It's A world, it's a whole different world. And we're ahead of China now because of what I'm doing, and I think it's going to be very successful.

Mr. Robert, you just asked the Davos Forum again that NATO countries should spend 5% of GDP on defense. The United States don't spend 5% of the United States.

We're protecting them. You know, they're not protecting us, we're protecting them. So I don't think we should be spending, I'm not sure we should be spending anything, but we should certainly be helping them. But they should, they should up their two percent to five percent. Yeah.

Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, you.

Said earlier during your speech check Davos, that you would like to see interest rates come down. How much would you like to see them come down?

A lot. I'd like to see them come down a lot. And oil prices will come down. And when oil prices come down, everything's going to be cheaper for the American people and actually for the world, but for the American people. So I'd like to see oil prices come down and when the energy comes down, that's going to knock out a lot of the inflation, that's going to automatically bring the interest rates down.

Are you worried that you were demanding.

Worried that there's too much going on at once? If you're trying to bring interest rates down and get the economy back going.

It just works that way. I mean, it just economically works that way. When the oil comes down, it'll bring down prices, then you won't have inflation and then the interest rates will come down.

You said that you would demand that the interest rates come down.

Well, I would put in, I would put in a strong statement.

Do you expect the Fed to listen to you?

Yeah.

Are you going to talk to Powell about this and bringing the rates down.

At the right time? I would.

There's no reason to that were participated in the January 6, 2021. Do you plan to meet with any of them or meet with them at the White House?

I don't know. I'm sure that they probably would like to. I did. I did them something important, but what they did is they were protesting a crooked election. I mean, people understand that also, and they were treated very badly. Nobody's been treated like that. So I'd be open to it, certainly I don't know of anything like that, but I think they're going to meet in some of the congresspeople, congressmen, women want to meet, but I'd certainly be open to it.

Have you spoken to them since you issued parties?

I haven't spoken to any of them yet, but I know they're very happy. I gave them their life back. Their life was taken away from them unnecessarily and unfairly. I gave them their life back. So I can imagine they probably would like to.

Mr. President, what did you mean when.

You said that Biden took bad advice in not parties himself yesterday?

Well, he did. I think he did because he pardoned all these people that are crooked as hell. Look, the congressmen, they're crooked. What they did is they destroyed evidence. When you destroy evidence, especially criminally like that, they did it criminally. And the reason they destroyed the evidence is because it proved that I was right. They didn't destroy evidence for no reason. They destroyed it because they found many documents saying that I offered 10,000 soldiers. If they had 500 soldiers or national Guard, there would have been no problem. If they had 200, that would have been. I offered 10,000. If they needed them, there would have been no problem. That's been now totally disproven. And it's also been disproven by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, who has her on tape saying it was her fault, that she has full responsibility for this. But. And they have all that stuff. They destroyed everything. And they go through a year and a half, two years of nonsense. They come up with tremendous evidence. And they destroyed evidence. And Schiff knew about it. That's why he's on there. He knew all about the destruction of evidence. A lot of people said he's the one that got him to do it. And he's a crooked guy, you know, totally crooked politician. And so he's pardoned, and some other people are pardoned. And these are crooked politicians, every one of them. Benny Johnson, what he did is incredible. I mean, he was the leader of the committee, and he did it. Cheney crying, Adam Kinzinger, all of them. They destroyed evidence and deleted everything. There's nothing. There's no evidence. Now they're crooked politicians and they should be punished. You know, that's even in a civil trial, you go to jail for a thing like that. They destroyed every document, from what I understand, every document because it proved that I was totally innocent.

Was the president to send 2,000 troops.

To the Southern border?

Yeah. Southern border, yes. When you say southern border. When I said 10,000 troops, I was referring to the Capitol.

Oh, I see.

And no, no, you got it wrong.

I was referring to the Capitol.

When you plan.

I offered 10,000 troops to the Capitol before January 6th.

And as for the 1500 at the Southern border, sir, to clarify, what exactly do you want them to be doing right now?

Making sure that the border is safe and secure and that criminals don't come into our country.

Mr. President, do you think that sanctions on Russia will force President Putin to negotiate?

I don't know, but I think he should make a deal.

Mr. President, does it bother you that Elon Musk criticized a deal that you made publicly, and then he said that he tweeted that?

No, it doesn't. He hates one of the people in the deals.

Have you spoken to him since then?

No, no. Well, I've spoken to Elon, but I've spoken to all of them, actually. No, no. The people in the deal are very, very smart people. But Elon, one of the people he happens to hate, but I have certain hatreds of people, too, sir.

On China, what do you think Xi Jinping can do on the Ukraine, Russia war?

Which one?

Ukraine, Russia war. What can Xi Jinping do about that?

China.

Yeah.

They have a lot of power over Russia. They supply energy to Russia, and Russia supplies energy to them. They supply other things to. You know, it's really a very big trade. It's a very big trading partner. But Russia supplies a lot of energy to China. China pays them a lot of money for that. And I think they have a lot of power over Russia. So I think Russia should want to make a deal. Maybe they want to make a deal. I think from what I hear, Putin would like to see me, and we'll meet as soon as we can. I'd meet immediately. Every day we don't meet, soldiers are being killed on a battlefield. And that battlefield is like no battlefield since World War II. And I have pictures that you don't want to see. Soldiers are being killed on a daily basis at numbers that we haven't seen in decades. And it would be nice to end that war. It's a ridiculous war.

You said that Ukraine is ready to make a deal. Did President Zelensky tell you that?

Yeah, sure. He's ready to negotiate a deal. He'd like to stop. He's. He's somebody that lost a lot of soldiers, and so did Russia. Lost a lot? Russia lost more soldiers. They lost 800,000 soldiers. Would you say that's a lot? I'd say it's a lot.

You said that you wanted to make Dr. King's dream a reality. What's your response to his children and civil rights leaders who say that your DEI orders are contradiction of his dream and could further drop.

Well, I haven't heard that, Mr. President.

You put the Houthis back on the terrorist. How do you see the war in Yemen?

Well, we'll see what happens. But they can't shoot down our ships. The Houthis? Yes. They're not. You can't shoot down our ships or any ships and that's what they've been doing. So they're on the terror list. That, that's not good for them.

Why does it revoke security protections for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook?

Well, the same reason I do. When you have protection, you can't have it for the rest of your life. Do you want to have a large detail of people guarding people for the rest of their lives? I mean, there's risks to everything.

So would you support striking Iran's nuclear facilities?

Say it.

Would you support Israel, for example, striking Iran's nuclear facilities?

Well, I'm not going to answer. Obviously I'm not going to answer that question. We'll have to see. I'm going to be meeting with various people over the next couple of days and we'll see. But hopefully that can be worked out without having to worry about it. It would be nice. It would really be nice if that could be worked out without having to go that further, Stephanie.

And who are you going to meet with?

Well, I'd rather not say that, but very high level people. But hopefully that can be worked out. You know, look, aren't, hopefully we'll make a deal and if they don't make a deal, I guess that's okay, too.

And Mr. President, just to follow up, you said you think the Fed should listen to you. Can you elaborate on why you think.

It should with regard to interest rates? Correct? Yes, because I think I know interest rates much better than they do and I think I know it's certainly much better than the one who's primarily in charge of making that decision. But no, I'm guided by them very much. But if I disagree, I will let it be known.

So your tariffs plan for China and Mexico are much tougher. The ones for Canada and Mexico are.

Much tougher than one for China.

Why is it softer for China?

Well, China is already paying a lot of tariffs because of me. And when you add them up, I would say, you know, they're paying a lot. They paid hundreds of billions of dollars. They never paid 10 cents until I came along. When I came along. They pay hundreds of. They've paid hundreds of billions of dollars, never paid anything. And so they've already started at a higher base.

February 1st the date for Chinese tariffs as well, sir, February 1st or was that just Mexico and Canada?

It's Mexico and Canada, but we're talking about China too. Look, China is sending us tremendous amounts of bad drugs, fentanyl, really bad stuff. Most of it comes through Mexico and we're losing I think 300,000 lives a year because of that. People say 150, 100, 120. I think 300,000 lives a Year. Those are old numbers. The other, the lower number is a low number and we can't have that. They've got to stop sending it. I had a deal with President Xi, but it was a deal that wasn't followed up by Biden, of course, where they were going to issue the death penalty to people that make fentanyl and that would have stopped it, but we'll have to stop it with tariffs. Okay, thank you very much everybody.