President Trump Gaggles with the Press on Air Force One, May 04, 2025

Hello, everybody. Good evening, sir. Nice plane. Everyone having a good time? We'll be back in Washington soon. We have a lot of good news to report and you'll be hearing about it. Probably not now, but you'll be hearing about it. We've had some good things coming out of the many war zones that were created by Biden and a group of incompetent people. But I think we have some pretty good news. Talk about that later or tomorrow. Any questions? Any plans to speak with President Xi this week? No, no plans to speak to him. But China and our people are talking about different things. I actually think it's a higher position. I want to know the truth. I think it's an upgrade. I think moving up, there's an upgrade.

During the News Nation town hall, you said that you didn't make any mistakes.

In your personal.

Security advisor.

No, zero. It's not a mistake or not a mistake. It's not a big deal. He was fine and where he is, he'll do a good job. I don't consider that. I didn't lose confidence in him. Why did I lose confidence? He's going to the United nations, to me, I think it's. Personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing, I'd rather have that job than the other. He didn't resign, I just moved him. There's no resignation. You people are so bad. You're trying to make a big deal out of something. You are so bad. That's why nobody watches you anymore. Who are you with? Who are you with? You're with who? Hearst? I didn't know there was such a trade deals coming this week. It could very well be. Nobody understands we're negotiating with many countries, but at the end of this, I'll send my own deals. Because I send the deal. They don't send the deal. I send the deal. They've been ripping us off for years. I sent the deal. Every country, almost without fail, friend and foe, has been ripping us off for years. So we're meeting with almost all of them, including China. And at the end, I'm setting the deal. They keep saying, what are you going to. This is not like a big deal that's going to be signed. In some cases we'll sign, but we don't have to have signed. I'm going to be setting the deal. I'll be setting a tariff. You keep asking the same question. When will you agree? It's up to me. It's not up to them, it's up to me. Now. They don't have have to deal with us, which is okay because we lost under Biden, we're losing $5 billion a day. Think of it, $5 billion a day. Now we're not dealing with China at all because the tariffs so high that they basically can't deal. And because of that, we're saving billions of dollars. But just, and I'm not saying this to be a wise guy with you, to be mean. I don't want to be mean to your good professional, but you do keep asking me that same question. It not like we're going to sit down in an ivory room and we're going to just. He's going to say there'll be some of that. Very little. I don't see a lot of it. At some point in the next two weeks or three weeks, I'm going to be setting the deal. I'm going to say that such and such a country has had a tremendous trade surplus, surplus their way with us. They've taken advantage of us in various ways and we fully understand what they were doing. We were being led by people that were not very smart. They were able to be taken advantage of. But I can't be taken advantage of. So at, so at a certain point I'll be just setting a certain tariff number. Say it AIDS trip in Africa, there's a replacement. People are saying to my colleagues that they're still not getting medicines and un. Well, that shouldn't be happening. But the other thing, other countries should be helping us with that. And I'm a big fan of getting that solved. But you know, we're the only country. Where are the other, where is France, where is Germany? Where are these other countries? Nobody does anything but the United States. And we spent, you know, billions and billions of dollars. So they should be helping also. But as you know, we did a waiver. You know that, right? Right. Well, I can't help that because if we did a waiver, then you have to get your people to act properly in the waiver. But I do ask why are we the only country doing it?

What's your timeline on the rest of your judicial nominations?

What's your criteria when you're holding which denominations?

The future judicial nominations for the military?

Well, we're putting them in rapidly and we're trying to get very good ones. I mean, we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant. We have millions of people that have come in here illegally and we can't have a trial for every single person. That would be millions of Trials. The people elected me in a landslide with every single. We won every swing state. We won everything there is to win by big numbers. Not only swing state. We won the popular vote by millions of votes. They elected me. This was the number one issue. And now we have judges that are radicalized and they're crazy because they want us to have, if you believe this, they want us to have a trial for every person that came in illegally into our country. So they come into our country illegally. And then we're supposed to take weeks, I guess, and months to have a trial on every criminal that we have murderers all over the country. I don't think the Supreme Court will stand for that. I can't believe it. Because you know what if they do, we're not going to have a countries. Go ahead.

How will you make sure that the judges that you appoint are different?

All you can do is do the best you can. You know, you, you try and appoint the best people to being judges or anything else that you appoint. But so far, you know, been very disappointed with the decisions that come out and mostly from the people appointed by others than me. But it's just so hard to believe that you have a murderer. Many. You know, we have 11,888 or whatever. The number is. We thousands of murderers in this country. We're getting them out. And they say we don't want them out. We want them to stay in our country until they have a trial. Trials take years. They take years. It's so crazy. We won't have a country left. We can't have that happen. Who you with? Wall Street Journal. That's what I did. Well, you people treat us so badly. Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. Go ahead. A rotten newspaper. What? I said it's a rotten news. I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal because it'd be wasting my time. There are talks, but I don't want to talk to the Wall Street Journal. But look, Wall Street Journal is China oriented and they're really bad for this country. Go ahead. Well, you know, I want a fair deal with China, but China has been ripping us off for many years. So maybe something should be thought about, you know, a little bit of ret contribution. China's been ripping this off for many years, ever since they started. To me, I think it was the worst thing that Richard Nixon ever did. And it was, you know, he's the one that got it started. And they've taken advantage of. No. So Mexico is saying that I offered to send US troops into Mexico to take care of the cartel. She wants to know, is that true? Do you think? I'm going to answer that question.

That's why I'm asking.

We'll see. I will answer it. It's true. Absolutely. Because they should be. They are horrible people that have been killing people left and right that have been. They've made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people. We lost 300,000 people last year to fentanyl and drugs. They're bad news. Yeah, that's true. If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it. I told her I would be honored to go in and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country. They're evil. And you know, we had 300,000 people die last year from fentanyl and all that. We had hundreds. We had millions of people brought into this country that shouldn't be here. The cartels brought them in. So if she said that I offered to do that, she's 100% right.

Were you disappointed that she denied that request that she doesn't want?

Well, she's so afraid of the cartel she can't walk. So, you know, that's the reason. And I think she's a lovely woman, but the president of Mexico ago is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight. All I'm saying is that you don't that a young lady, 10 year old girl, 9 year old girl, a 15 year old girl doesn't need $37. She can be very happy with two or three or four or. I would, I would. Let's not waste a lot of time on a stupid question. What else? Well, I don't know about it, but I'm honored if that's the case. If they're going to name a road after me, if that's the case. I'm honored. Thank you very much.

Who are you considering to be your more permanent national security advisor?

Well, I have a lot of people that want the job. I can tell you. It's. I mean a lot of people say it really works in with what Marco's doing, but we have a lot of people. I'm going to be naming somebody, but we'll make, I would say within six months he would do the job permanently, but I don't, I think it's, you know, it's an appropriate job. Stephen Miller is at the top of the totem pole. I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job, you understand? Because he has a lot to say about of things. He's a very valued person in the administration. Stephen, we've reached 100 days.

What do you see as your main agenda items for the next 100 days?

I think we had the greatest hundred days in the history of our country for an administration. I think we've done more. We've gotten rid of woke, we're strengthening up our military. Think of it, six months ago we had the worst numbers in the history of our military for joining up, joining our military and police. Now we have the best numbers as we've ever had. Just think of that. It's not even possible. Inflation's down, all costs are down, everything is down. Other than as Tristan said, the thing that you carry the babies around in. But that's up 3%. Energy's down, gasoline's down. Nobody's ever seen anything far ahead of schedule. So people that were paying a lot for groceries and paying a lot less and interest rates are even down. You know, we have a very stubborn Fed, but I mean Fed should lower, but that's okay. But interest rates are down, mortgage rates are down and pretty amazing. So we've done, I think, I don't think there's ever been a better opening hundred years. We have a lot of fake polls where they interview Democrats, not Republicans, but meaning more Democrats. I had a pollster that said to me a legitimate poster, John McLaughlin, top person. He said he's never seen polls that were so fake before where they overweight the Democrats. I only bring that up because I think it's something that should be said. It's a shame how dishonest the media is. The media is corrupt and they're dishonest and they're so bad for our country. Thank you very much everybody.