President Trump Gaggles with the Press on Air Force One, Sep. 18, 2025

Well, I hope you had a good time, everybody. We had a good. I think it was a really good day and a half. Very intensive. Any questions?

What was the best part? What was the best part of the time?

I don't know. Just, I think being with King Charles. He's a wonderful guy. Got to know him very well. I knew him before, but now I know him a lot better. The artwork. I saw more paintings than any human being has ever saw, and statues. But they treated us great. They treated our country great. And that, you know, I view that as being really respect for our country, the way they did it, because last night was beautiful and, you know, you had the biggest business people in the world there. That was respect for our country. Yeah.

Mr. President, have you had conversations with Secretary. Sorry, let me. I'm trying to stay. Have you had conversations with Secretary Rubio or any of your military leaders about possible regime change in Venezuela?

No, I haven't.

You haven't had any discussions about plans or how to make it happen?

No, I haven't.

In your remarks at the press conference, something about Bagram and bringing it back.

To the U.S. i'd like to get Bagram back.

I don't know how you plan to do that, sir.

They need a lot from us and I'd like to get it back. It should have never been given Bagram. Should have never been given the air base. There was gross incompetence to give that up. You know, it's one of the most powerful bases in the world in terms of Runway strength and like, the strength and like, you could land anything on there. You could land a planet on top of it, of it. Can you imagine? They gave it up for nothing. Just, oh, let's leave. And it's an hour away from where they make their missiles. China.

Mr. Mr. President, it's been a month since you're meeting with Putin. Is it time call for a ceasefire? It's been a month since you're meeting with President Putin. Is it time for a ceasefire to come?

It doesn't feel like it, but at the right time, if I have to do it, It'll be harsh.

Mr. President, I have a question on.

Something you said earlier this week.

You said, Mr. President, regarding antifa. Regarding antifa.

What you post?

NPR, sir.

When?

Are they still here?

They are.

Are they still here? Oh, good. Congratulations.

Regarding designating them a terrorist organization when they don't have to find leadership or membership. How do you target them?

Antifa.

We're going to find out, right?

We're going to see people have been talking about it for a long time. We're going to see. Did they have any to do with your network? But we're going to find out.

Yeah, go ahead.

Mr. President, you said earlier this week that the women who yelled at you, who were protesting when you were at Joe Stone Crab should be in jail. Do you actually think that that is an offense that deserves jail time?

I don't know how they got in there, but certainly I thought it was very inappropriate and they said things that were very. And it was a question of when you take a look at the way they acted, the way they behaved. Yeah, I think they were a threat.

Which you agree?

I think they're a nasty organization.

But you think they decide, well, I don't know.

What should Congress focus on? What are your top priorities with Congress?

We're going to finish the wars. We have a couple of them going, as you know. You look at Gaza, you look at Russia, Ukraine. We're working on that and I'm working with Congress on. But I think we'll get it. You know, we did do seven. We actually did more than seven, which people don't like to talk about. But I say that. And the economy, always the economy, especially bringing down the oil further. We get the oil down, the wars, that war ends.

Here's a subject that I don't think a lot of people talk about. I've been talking to a lot of American truck drivers in the last couple weeks, and I'm asking them what their biggest concern is. They tell me some of these foreign truck drivers, they come to schools here in America, Utah and California, to be specific. They get fast tracked through the system. A lot of them don't speak English, which I know you did an EO about speaking English, but they're causing a.

Dangerous situation on the road.

That's what they're telling me.

I don't know what we can do about it. I don't like it. I see the one, you know, he had the accident, couldn't read his sign, didn't know what was happening. Yeah, no, I'm not. I'm not in favor of that at all.

How to speak English is.

Our president Sami said that he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York City because of the ICC warrant. Would you intervene if that came up?

Yeah.

Is inappropriate.

We asked the GBU, we asked GBU's viewers the questions they would like to ask you, you and the Prime Minister today. The main question was, would you please swap jobs with him? And the second question behind that was really, why are we in the UK moving towards Europe when Europe is failing and America is flying?

Well, look, I think the UK has.

A tremendous asset known as the North Sea, and it's loaded up with it.

You know, they like to say, well, it's really diminished. It's not.

And there are lots of areas out.

There that haven't been found. Look at Norway. You know, it's the same kind of thing.

They become so rich. And for UK or other parts of.

Europe to take, I mean, especially uk.

To buy oil from Norway, they have it, but they don't want to do it. If they would drill in the North Sea, if they would let them, you know, they've made it impossible for people.

Do you think it starts with energy?

It's a tremendous asset and it's tremendously valuable. And there's a lot of oil left. They've been drilling there for a long time, but there's a lot of oil and there's a lot of oil out there that hasn't been found yet. And with new drilling techniques, when they think a well is closed, the new drilling techniques, you can drill for another 50 years. It's crazy. It's such a valuable asset and instead they're putting these stupid windmills all over the place. And every time you put up a windmill, it costs the country millions of dollars a year to have that horrible thing turned. It's ugly, it's bad for the environment, it kills the birds. And beyond that, it costs a fortune. And, you know, you should make money with energy. You shouldn't lose with windmills. You lose. Including those massive solar fields, you know, that take up all the farmland. And, you know, they are black plastic from China. You ever see what happens to a bird when the birds land? They get fried because it's hot. So it's. You don't need a saucer, you don't need to. You don't need a snow. A bird lands on it, it's over. Glad. They say it's great for the environment, you know, the lunatics. Go ahead.

I was going to ask, last week in the Oval Office, I asked you if Ilhan Omar should be censored. Congress censored her. I just want to get your reaction to that.

They did censor it. When did this happen?

Yesterday.

Good. I think she's terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she's terrible. Is she originally from Somalia?

Yes, sir.

So how are they doing this? How's their government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people that come from a place with nothing. Nothing, no anything. And then they tell us how to run our country. I think if she got censored, that's great. If she got impeached, that's even better. They impeached me twice for nothing. And they impeached me knowing the Republicans are on my side. So they knew it was just. But they impeached me twice. She should be impeached and it should happen fast. And what she says is out of my.

Yeah, go ahead.

Anybody.

Mr. President, who would you like to see? Mr. President, are you going to ask.

Brendan Carr to weigh in on other late night posts that you have apps that should be on the air?

My post is on network television. There is a licensing. I'll give you an example. I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me. I get 97% negative. And yet I won it easily won all seven swing states popular. It won everything. And then 97% against. They give me only bandwidth, listening or breasts. I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He's a patriot, he loves our country and he's a tough guy. So we'll have to see a lot.

Of free speech issues.

When you think about this, 97% of the stories are opposed to me, and yet I win easily. The election. It's pretty amazing when you think of it. That shows they have no credibility. Go ahead.

I was going to agree with. I mean, could you use that same logic with news?

So in the old days, I remember the old days that every four or five years a network would reapply for its license. And the license is free. You know, they get this valuable thing for free and they reapply for a license. And if they did something wrong, well, I beat George Stephanopoulos Slopidopoulos, I call him George sloped up. They had to pay me $15 million for what he said. I beat C for much more money than that, including advertising and other things. Much more money. Because they totally changed the answer that Kamala gave on a question. I mean, they didn't change it. They took it out and put a different answer in it. And they didn't want to go to court with that. That's a tough one to go to court with. So, no, I think that if you remember years ago, I remember as a kid, they would file. It was a big deal every four or five years.

And I Don't know.

You don't hold me ex. But it was like four or five years. They'd have to file for a license extension. I don't hear about that. The only one that I've heard even bring it up is Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is doing a great job and I think he's a great patriot.

What do you think about the fact that you attend an event in England, a state visit. Spectacular. And yet the mayor of London can't be there.

I don't want him there. I asked that he not be there. I don't want. I think the mayor of London con is a among the worst mayors in the world. And we have some bad ones. If you look at Chicago, if you look at. But I think he's the equivalent of the mayor of Chicago. I think he's done a terrible job. Crime in London is through the roof. The mayor of London, Khan. Mayor Khan has done a terrible job.

And on immigration he's a disaster.

Now I asked that he not be there. He wanted to be there, as I understand. I didn't want him. I've not liked him for a long time. I just think, you know, I have a certain pride in London and uk. My mother was born in Scotland, as you know. And when I see Mayor Khan do.

A bad job, the stabbings and the dirt and the filth, it's not the same. I didn't want him there.

And the Prime Minister said to you, when I asked about are we a Christian country? His answer was that he was christened. But he's quoted in New York. The Prime Minister said I was christened. He said today in disarray afternoon as though that explained whether we were a Christian country. But he's actually been quoted as saying two years ago saying he was an atheist. He's a committed atheist. Is he the kind of guy that says something when you're there?

Look, I think he's a very nice man. I really do.

His wife is nice.

And you know, we live for a.

Day and a half. And you know, the thing I most disagree, I guess I disagree with him are two things. Immigration, which is very rough for the uk, Very rough. And energy, as I said, you know, the Dorsey.

If I had that make a fortune with it. Look at Norway's accounts. Look at the cash. Norway. And they have the same thing we're talking about. I don't even know if they have as much, but that's a tremendous asset. So those two things.

But I mean, I get along with him. I think he's A really fine person.

You've got the feeling today that business is keen to invest in the UK because it doesn't feel. Feel like that when you live there.

Well, we made a deal with the UK and some of those companies have made a deal with the uk, but there's always strings in the US you know, I help them. I mean, I help them. I want to help them. I want them to be strong as a country. I think it's important that the UK be strong and we're so strong financially that we can get people to do other things.

Mr. Breitzno, try to talk to you about Ukraine. Did the Prime Minister talk to you about Ukraine? He indicated he did. What were his arguments? Arguments for what?

You said.

She was really a little bit embarrassed, at least rightfully, that I caught Europe, you know, NATO countries, EU countries, you can call it either way because they're very similar. But then I caught them buying oil from Russia. And he said, that's not good. I appreciated that he said that. He said, that's not good. How about that? We're supposed to do all this stuff and they're buying oil from Russia. That's not good. Do you agree? That's about pretty much, much always.

Can he say that he would be.

Okay to have me do something, but he also agrees they have to stop buying oil from Russia.

Did he say that they would also be willing to do sanctions? That he would be willing to do sanctions?

He would do sanctions? Yes. And he's not one of the culprits in terms of the oil.

Mr. President. Mr. President, Governor Josh Shapiro said that your administration is cherry picking violence that is okay and violence that is not okay. What is your response to that?

It's just violence. And it's violence that you don't have to have. Look, in D.C. we took one of the most dangerous cities in the world. And you can walk down, you can take your husband, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, whoever you want to take, you can take them out to dinner tonight in D.C. and you're going to be safe. It's really safe. We did a great job. We're going to do the same job in Memphis and we're going to Chicago. And I told you, the head of the Union Pacific, who's a great gentleman, a great businessman, started as a low level railroad. He calls himself a railroader. It's a cool story. 45 years later, he chairman of the Union Pacific, he said, sir, you have to save Chicago. It's a great city. You can't let it go. And when he said that. I said, I don't really have time to wait a couple of months. Last weekend, they lost 11 people were murdered and 28 people were shot. That's not shot at. That means actually hit 100 were shot at and missed. That's what I call dangerous. And Pritzker's going out and saying, we've got crime under control now. Went down a little bit because for four months, five months ago, I put the FBI there. And they've done a good job, but that's limited what they can do. What you really need is our big, strong soldiers to get them into shape. We're not going to get. We're not letting Chicago fail. And we're going to get started in Memphis. We'll be very successful, just like we were in D.C. and we're going to have to stay in D.C. for a while because, you know, you leave. People have a tendency to come back. Now, remember, we took 1500 people out of there, pretty permanently out of there. We took career criminals, really bad murderers and other things. We took them out of D.C. they're not coming back. You don't take them. If they come back, you're just wasting your time. So we took them out and they're not coming back. We brought many of them back to the country from which they came. What Biden did to our country is not even. It's not believable. And to me, that's. That's worse than the inflation he caused. It's worse than what he did to our country by allowing 25 million people, which is the real number, to come in, many of whom should never be here. By emptying jails into our country and emptying mental institutions into our country. What, Biden and his people? Because I don't even think it was him. I think he didn't know what was happening. But what that radical left group of people did to our country will never be forgotten. Okay, have a good trip, everybody.

One more.

Just one last question.

Who would you like to see replace Kimmel on Late Night?

A lot of people. Anybody could replace him. Guy had no talent. Kimmel had. Look, he was fired. He had no talent. He's a whack job. But he had no talent. And more importantly, the talent he had. No, because a lot of people have no talent to get ratings. But he had no ratings. His ratings were worse than Colbert. I think they got rid of Colbert, which was a good thing to do. And look, that's something that should be talked about for licensing, too. When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump. That's all they do. If you go back, I guess they haven't had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said. But when you go back and take a look, all they do is in trouble. They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that. They're an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight.

I want to get home.

Otherwise, I wouldn't care.

Let me just have one word on how beautiful all the women looked last night. Caroline and your wife.

Well, I'm not allowed to say that politically because it could be the end of my career. However, I'll say it anyway. The women look beautiful. You look beautiful. The women look really beautiful. You're right. Our superstar over here looked great. That's Caroline.

Has she done a good job?

Who'd you meet, by the way? Everybody was great. Even the men looked beautiful.

Okay.

It's hard not to look beautiful in that room. That was one of the coolest. That room was built for a table. The day will have to carry 200 people. You know, it's like, what did you mean? What did you mean? Whatever the hell they served, that. Whatever they served. I had time with Princess Kate.

Did Melania enjoy her time with Princess Kate?

Yeah, she thought she was great. I did, too. I sat with her last night. Melania went with her today. She thought she was great. Very wonderful person. She went through a lot, too, but hopefully that's all gone. You know, that's. She was great. William is wonderful. I've known him from before, and I knew Charles as a prince, and I now know him as a king, and he's doing very well. It was a great. It was a lovely trip, and I thought the press was really nice. It was beautiful. You know, I watched this morning. I watched a little bit last night.

It looks so beautiful. Like from a different age, right?

Not an age of trouble, but we're getting rid of the trouble. Thank you very much, everybody. Have a good night. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Have a good time. Thanks.