President Trump Gaggles with the Press on Air Force One, Sep. 21, 2025

Hello, everybody. I think we had a great. A great tribute to a great man, a great, wonderful guy. I hope you liked it. You know Doug from. If you have any energy questions, we're ready at the end of the ceremony.

Mr. President, you and Erica shared a moment. If you don't mind me asking, did you have. What words did you have for her?

I've gotten to know her over the years. She's. She's great. You know, Charlie always used to say she's very smart. He would always say that. You don't necessarily say that about a lot of people, but he always felt she was. And she's got a good heart. And, you know, she's got a shot at making it even more special. If you think about it, she's going to do good. I think she's going to do a good job. That's a hard thing to do. You know, it's one thing to make a speech, but with that, for her to make that speech, because they had.

A really good relationship.

Mr. President, I'm with Turning Point USA, and we just want to say thank you for being there, thank you for speaking, and we offer our deepest condolences because I know Charlie was a friend of yours.

Well, that gentleman right there was pointing.

At you, and I like his question.

So that means he thought you would or make a statement, just like you. Are you married?

Yes.

Congratulations. When did the ceremony take place?

He is.

He's the best.

I was just wondering, because there are a number of spots in and around the White House that are named after specific people. I was wondering if you would be considering naming something after Charlie to honor his land.

Yeah, there are. There are different little areas. Yeah, I like that idea. But we're giving him, I think, even more importantly, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest division, I guess they say, you know, you think Congressional Medal of Honor is for military, and.

This is for the civilians.

So that's a great tribute to him. Great guy.

Any details around that upcoming event that you can share with us? Any further details about that event?

I think the event was just a flawless event.

It was beautiful.

I thought the last song was incredible, the way it was as we were leaving. In fact, I think I'm going to. I said, who is singing that song? And I think what I'll do is I'll grab it and I'll use it at rallies. We have rallies to get people elected, and I'll use it at some of the rallies. Wasn't that beautiful? That was the best rendition I've ever heard of.

Mr. President, what can you and your staff do to make sure that over the next three years that you carry forth the vision and the faith of Charlie in a way that honors him? What can you guys do over the next three years?

It's going to be automatic, actually. And I think Turning point is going to be a very. When you see the people now, the press reported 200,000 because, you know, different.

Areas, different stadiums and everything.

A lot of people. That's a big. That's an NFL stadium. I think it's going to be automatic. I really do. I think it's automatic. They're great people. He had a good staff, and they're great people.

Mr. President, everyone.

You asked me to do with that question.

I thought, quite good.

Mr. President, everyone's saying that Charlie brought you and Elon back together. Is that true?

Well, Elon came over and said hello. No, it's nothing to do with that. I thought it was nice he came over, had a little conversation. We had a very good relationship, but it was nice that he came over. Dana White was there. The great Dana White. You know, the big question is the having the UFC fight as he. I know you won't accept tickets because you're with the fake news. You're not allowed to accept tickets, but we're going to have a UFC fight right at the White House, and we're going to end up properly, probably 6,000 people in front of the White House, and then on the Ellipse, we're going to have 80 or 90,000. It's going to be an unbelievable event, but a lot of people are talking about it.

For you, an energy question.

You've been calling the right man. Go ahead.

I got the experts. You've been calling on Europe to stop buying Russian oil. The US has imported $755 million worth of Russian uranium and plutonium so far just this year. That's up from the Biden administration last year, about $100 million. Can you ask Europe off purchasing those kinds of products?

Do you know anything about that?

Absolutely. But this goes back not only drill, baby, drill, we've got a mine, baby mine. We allowed ourselves to fall under dependence of both China and Russia for critical minerals. U.S. america buying uranium from Russia is not acceptable. And so we're working very hard, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, myself, to make sure that we've got a plan so that the United States can get back into domestic enriched uranium production as quickly as possible possible.

On Venezuela. You said that. Let me quote your.

Your tweet here.

Boats in the water anymore.

Well, you said additional boats.

You don't even find a fishing boat. You don't even find cruise liners anywhere. There's nothing in the water near Venezuela. It's actually strange. You know what that means? That means there are no drugs coming in.

You said that the price they'll pay will be incalculable if they don't take people back.

I did say that.

What does that mean?

You're going to have to figure that out.

M. That one, yeah.

On your autism announcement tomorrow, multiple news outlets are reporting that you plan to tie Tylenol to increase risk of autism. Can you confirm that?

We're going to do it tomorrow, but I think it's a very big factor. I think you'll see what it is tomorrow. We have various things, but you'll see what it is tomorrow. I think it's going to be a very important news conference and we want things to take effect immediately. You know, if there's a question, even if there's a question, you just do it. Right. Great research has been done. You know, when you think. If you think that, let's say 15 years ago they had 1 in 10,000 were born with autism, and now it's. Think of it, 1 in 12, 1 in 10. Boys, 1 in 10 or 12, two different studies. Girls, it's 1 in 20. Can you imagine 1 in 20? And let's see, 22 years ago it.

Was 1 in 20,000, but it got.

Down to 1 in 10,000 about 17 years ago, and now it's 1 in 12. Actually, boys at 1 in 12 and 1 in 10.

I mean, can you imagine 1 in 10 and it was 1 in 20,000.

So there's obviously something artificial that's really wrong, and we think we know what that is.

Are you planning to announce any link between vaccines and autism?

Vaccines are very interesting. They can be great. But when you put the wrong stuff.

In them and, you know, children get.

These massive vaccines like you'd give to a horse. Like you give to a horse. And I've said for a long time, I mean, this is no secret. Spread them out over five years, get five shots, small ones. You ever see what they give? They give.

I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid, even.

Beyond the actual ingredients, they have sometimes 80 different vaccines in them. It's crazy.

It's, you know, that's a common sense thing, too. It's like you're.

It's like you're shooting up a horse.

You have a little body, a little baby. And you're pumping this big thing. It's a horrible thing. So I've always felt that. But we'll be having a big discussion tomorrow about autism.

Your son had a very welcoming message today, welcoming people to the Republican Party. Love of country, love of family, love of God. So I asked you, what did the Democrats stand for at this point?

I think chaos, confusion, anger.

They're losers.

They don't even want to extend the, you know, the opening. We have a very successful country. If we gave them everything they wanted, they're deranged. If we gave them everything they wanted, they wouldn't extend, in my opinion, nearly. They say, oh, they want to meet with me. It's nonsense, but I'll meet with them. But, no, they're angry, and they took a big loss, and they're doing worse now than they were during the election.

So, you know, they're really.

They're doing very badly, I don't think. Actually.

I think they stand for chaos. They stand for nothing.

I'm with the Daily Wire, and we've been doing a lot of investigating up with these transgender shooters. We reported on Friday that the Kavanaugh attempted assassin actually identifies as transgender. We just wanted to get your reaction to that and see if you had heard.

Well, it's too bad. It's a very sad thing going on with that, and I'll have to take a look at it. We have to protect our Supreme Court judges and justices and justice. This cabinet is a great guy. I mean, he's horrible. He's. He's been through a lot with this. All of them have it away. They didn't give the proper protection, and we are giving you. So what? You know, numerous bills, but we just passed another one. We have to protect the Supreme Court. We have to.

And on that same note, there's been so many different shooters who. Either Charlie's killer lives with a guy who's transgender. The Annunciation Shooter was transgender. The Covenant shooter was transgender. Should the FBI be investigating transgender extremism?

You know, we're looking at that, and it seems like, you know, is that just.

They.

You know, what's the reason for it? Yeah, there seems to be something, but we're looking at it very strongly. Something. Something seems to be going on, but you can't make that statement yet.

Mr. President, back in 2020, 2021, you were banned from Twitter, Facebook, basically every single platform on God's green earth, sir. And now many people on the left want to throw out cries about First Amendment claims after Jimmy Kimmel's show was cancelled. Do you find it hypocritical? S did to you?

I did his show before I ran for politics. I did his show many times and.

He was never one of the top people. Do you remember during the Academy Awards.

When he read My Truth just before giving out the Best Picture Award And I said. And what he read was that he's the worst host in the history of the Academy Awards.

Look, Jimmy Kimmel suffers from two things. First of all, he said a terrible thing about Charlie. But he also suffers from the fact that he's got no talent and he's got no ratings. A dead deadly combination. That's deadly, right?

When's the National Guard going to be arriving in Memphis? He said they'd be coming soon.

Yeah, very soon. And we're going to straighten that up.

Just like we straightened out Washington and.

We'Re not letting Washington go, by the way.

We're not letting.

If we didn't go there, Washington right now would mean leading the nation in crime. I mean DC Leading the nation in crime. And we have it down.

I mean it is a beautiful thing.

And everybody in every person I meet is state. Thank you, sir. They don't care whether it's a National.

Guard, they don't care what it is.

They're not being raped, mugged, shot.

Washington D.C. is now a very safe city. And you know what? I drove through it yesterday. You probably saw everything was nice. The grass was. I thought I'd replace the grass. Much of it doesn't have to be. It looks so beautiful. It was so well maintained. And that's by us Are Jim's writing.

A vote of the UN this week where there's going to be a major push for a two state solution. Obviously the US and IS Israel have not signed on to that. Is there still possibility in your mind that there could be a diplomatic solution to this conflict?

So I'd like to see a diplomatic solution. There's a lot of anger and a lot of hatred. You know that and there has been for a lot of years. This is not something new, but hopefully we'll get something done. We're looking at, we're studying Gaza and dealing with Gaza very strongly. That's a real mess.

The investigation is still ongoing into Charlie Kirk's killer and whether he had ties to groups. But do you have a sense now of whether.

Look, it's what they've seen a lot for an investigation that's ongoing. I think they've done an incredible job. I mean the shells, so many different things.

I mean what's to say.

Have you found direct links to you mean about other.

Yeah.

And does that affect your decision about how to proceed in terms of pursuing these?

I think, you know, as far as I'm concerned.

But they're going to do a final report whether other people involved is what you're asking. It would to me like that. Now he did have a friend, but I don't the friend seemed to be.

A little bit surprised.

Mr. President, in regards to Pam Bondi, who should she focus on as far as bringing accountability?

Everybody really.

It's a big office.

He's doing a good job, but focus on everybody.

There are a lot of crooked people that were here before me and people.

That almost destroyed our country. If I didn't win this election, our country would be destroyed. We wouldn't have a country right now. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.