President Trump Participates in New Flagpole Installation on South Lawn

The White house opened about 1800 before that, just a tad. And I've always said, why doesn't it have a flagpole from the grass? They go to flagpole from the grass. They have a little one on top. Very little one. This is about the largest you'll ever see. And it's tapered. It's at a quality that you guys rarely get to even put up. They do that for a living. They're incredible people. I don't know them, but I love them. And I would bet that they all voted for town. I mean, I don't know for a fact, but I think so. But we're about to lift it. And we also have one going on what's called the front or the north. We have one going there, identical. So we'll have one on this side of the building. We'll have one on that side of the building. Properly placed in this case, we had a lot of choices putting it on that hill in different places. It's such a beautiful pole. We thought we'd put it near. I mean, it always looks best when it's near Doral. I put it right near. I have a similar pole. And these are the best poles anywhere in the country or in the world, actually. They're tapered. They have the nice top. You know, I don't know if you people are aesthetic. You know, they're the fake news. I don't know. I don't know. But it's a very exciting project to me. And then at 11 o', clock, we're lifting the flag, but we're going to lift the pole now. And then they go to the other side. Get that? And then we're going to do, I think, two flag liftings. We'll be putting it up at 11 here and a couple of minutes later on the other side, we'll start here at 11. So that'll be very nice, very patriotic. We're doing well. Well, as a country, if the Fed would ever lower rates, you know, we'd buy debt for a lot less. It's a shame. This guy. I have a guy. Do you ever have a guy that's not a smart person and you're dealing with him and you have to deal. He's not a smart guy. He's worried about inflation. I said, that's right. If there's inflation in six months or nine months, you lower the rates, so you raise the rates. You can do what you want, Brian. Right, right. So let's say there's rampant inflation, which there's none, you know, what there is a success. I got a call from Congress last night, sir, there's a problem. I said, what is it? Money is pouring in. We don't know how to account for it. I said, check the tariffs. $88 billion came in from tariffs. No inflation and it's going to get even more soon. I know what I'm doing. So we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed. He probably won't cut today. Europe had 10 cuts and we had. And I guess he's a political guy, I don't know. He's a political guy who's not a smart person. But he's costing the country a fortune. So what I'm going to do is, you know, he gets out in about nine months. He has to. He gets fortunate terminated. Biden, I would have never reappointed him. Biden reappointed him. I don't know why that is, but I guess maybe he was a Democrat, you know. Got great advice from Mnuchin on this one. Great advice, but he's done a poor job. So we have no inflation. We have only success. And I'd like to see interest rates get down. Now. Biden did a lot of very short term debt. So we have short term debt coming due. And because of this guy's rates, you know, if he'd lowered a point, I'd pay about a point less than if it lowered 2 points, I'd pay about 2 points less. And that's for 10 years, 12 years, 15 years, 5 years. It's hundreds of billions. It's even trillions of dollars that we're going to lose because of this. Too late. I call him too late Powell, because he's always too late. I mean, if you look at every time I did this, I was right 100%. Maybe I should go to the Fed. Am I allowed to point myself, Doug? I don't know. Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed? I do a much better job than these people. So anyway, we should be two points lower. It would be nice to be two and a half points lower. We'd be saving $800 billion, $700 billion. That's a lot of money thinking for nothing. For absolutely nothing. We'd save 6, 7, $800 billion. We have, I think we eighth now in interest and we should be number one. We should be the lowest. But. And by the way, if he's worried about inflation, that's okay, I understand that. I don't think there's going to be any. So far there hasn't. We have Almost no inflation. We've done a great job. We had. When I came in, we had a lot of inflation. We went through four years of the highest inflation in the history of our country with Sleepy Joe Biden and Sleepy Joe. And he didn't know what the hell he was doing. And so we had the highest inflation we've ever had in the history of our country. And then it came down, because when I got elected, it started dropping because people understood that I knew what I was doing. But now we have a man that just refuses to lower the Fed rate, just refuses to go. And he's not a smart person. I don't even think he's that political. I think he hates me. But that's okay. He should. He should. I call him every name in the book, trying to get him to do something. I've been nice to him. I do it always. I don't know how to sell. I've been so nice to him. Fellas, you wouldn't. Let's have dinner. Too late. I've gone too late. Come on. Too late. Let's have dinner. I do it every way in the book. I'm nasty, I'm nice. Nothing works. He's like, just a stupid person, but I don't expect anything. Maybe he does a little bit, but we should be two and a half points higher. Remember, Europe had 10 cuts, we had none. We're paying more rate, more interest than a lot of European nations that can't carry our suitcase. I'm going to be nice. There's another expression. You know what the other expression, can't carry you know what? But I shouldn't use it in front of the fake news. So it's very sad to see it. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go very short term. Like 6 months, 7 months, 8 months. Wait until this guy gets out, get the rates way down, and then go long term. Because we have a tremendous appetite for our debt because our country is doing well. But think of it. I got a call from Congress three nights ago, sir, we can't account for the money coming in. I said, that's a good problem. You know, the bad problem is we don't have any money. They can't account. There's so much more money than we thought is coming into the Treasury. We don't know where it's coming from. Sir. I said, check out the tariffs. He calls back about a day later. Wow. I think you were right. I was right. That's nothing. You haven't seen anything yet. More importantly than the money coming in, we have factories being built. AI Auto factory. Two of them stopped yesterday in Mexico. You read. And they're coming here because they don't want to pay the tariffs. Can't pay the tariffs, doesn't work. So I just want to wish you a lot of luck with the new flagpole. We have two of them and we're going to do this one now. Then we're going to do the other one. 11 o' clock or so. We're going to have a flag raising, which will be great. And I got to get these guys back to work. They're making a fortune. They're standing around making a fortune. But remember, there's somewhere in this group there's somebody that is going to captivate some movie producer. Not Harvey Weinstein, but Harvey's seen a better day. So it won't be Harvey, but it'll be somebody. And they'll say, that guy is perfect for a movie. And you're going to become a star. And your friends are going to call you and you won't even return their phone call anymore. What do you do for a living? I put up flag calls. I'm not even going to talk to you. I'm a big movie star, so some way you have that. Anyway, let's have a good. They call it a lifting. They also use another word. But I'm not going to use that word. You know that the word. It starts with an E. You know what the word is? If I ever used it, I'd be run out of town by you people. All right, so enjoy it, doc. You're going to get some good. He's going to win another Nobel Prize, I think, for this picture. So maybe the flag will be even more exciting. But this is pretty exciting. That's some equipment. I'll tell you what, look at that crane. That's some beautiful equipment. There's nothing like America. Have a good time.

Mr. President, have you given to answer questions about whether you are moving closer?

You believe the US is moving closer.

To striking Iranian nuclear facilities? Where's your mindset?

Yeah, well, obviously I can't say that right, but where's your mindset? I seriously think I'm going to answer that question. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear components and what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch?

But would you say you're.

You don't know that I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you negotiate? I said, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You would have had a country. It's very sad to watch this. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. It's so, you know, everyone thought it was going to be the reverse. I didn't. I didn't think so. And I was telling them, you got it. You got to do something, you got to negotiate. And at the end, last minute, they said, no, we're not going to do that. And they got hit. Remember 60 days and then came the 60s. 61 is going to become a very famous number. That was one hell of a hit, that first hit. That was one hell of a hit. Not sustainable, to be honest. That's where it ended. It ended on the first night, yes.

Is it too late, though? Do you think it's too late to now?

Not really. Nothing. The only thing too late is Powell. Powell's too late. Too late. Powell.

Have the Iranians reached out to you, Mr. President?

What?

Have the Iranians reached out to you?

Yes.

And what did they say?

I said it's very late, you know. I said it's very late to be talking, Mr. President, we may meet. It's. It's. I don't know. There's a big difference between now and a week ago, right? Mr. President, you said you. We may. You just about said we may meet. Is this about Vance and Witkoff possibly going to talk with him? It's about anybody. They even suggested they come to the White House. It's a big difference. But they've suggested that they come to the White House. That's, you know, courageous, but, you know, it's like not easy for them to do. But they suggest, because I can't go now because of what's going on, I had to come back early from the G7, which was terrific, by the way, in Canada. Really terrific. Good people. Is there a possibility of next week or sooner that you're some. These officials are going to tell how much longer it's going to go on. They're totally defenseless. They have no air defense whatsoever. Total. You know, we've totally captured the air, Brian. Fairly compassionate towards the Iranian people, suggesting it's human, the human beings. I know a lot of people from Iran, from New York, From Washington. Mostly from New York. They are incredible people. They're smart, they're energetic. They can be difficult, but so can you, you know? No, they're great people. Smart people. And those people are getting the hell beat out of them now. And it's really a shame. So stupid. It's so stupid. It's another one, you know, Russia, Ukraine is so stupid. Would have never happened if I was president. You guys agree with that? Would have never happened if I was president. Putin would have never done it. And I spoke to him yesterday and I said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate. I said, do me a favor, mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, okay? I said, vladimir, let's mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later, but I think that's going to work out, too. But so many people have been killed. The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in the Ukraine, Russia. Many, many more people. A building falls down, they say nobody was hurt.

What does unconditional surrender mean?

Well, you know what it means. Unconditional surrender. Can you explain Two very simple words, Very simple. Unconditional surrender. That means I've had it, okay? I've had it. I give up. No more. Then we go blow up all the military, you know, all the nuclear stuff. That's all over the place. No, they had bad intentions. You know, the. For 40 years, they've been saying, death to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that they didn't like. They were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens. Look, nothing's finished until it's finished. You know, war, very complex. A lot of bad things can happen. A lot of turns are made. So I don't know. I wouldn't say that we won anything yet. I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress. And we'll see. The next week is going to be very big. Maybe less than a week. Maybe less. But is there anybody here that said it would be okay to have. To have a hostile. Very, you know, zealots, really. But to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles, but much more than that could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust, you know, that dust blows to other nations and they get decimated. This is just not a threat you can have. And we've been threatened by Iran for many years. And if you go back and look at My history, if you go back 15 years. I was saying we cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon. I've been saying it for a long time. I mean it more now than I ever meant. Yeah.

Mr. President, a question on deportations. Mr. President, you said last week that changes would be coming for farmers. You've seen a lot of the workers they rely on taken away. But then DHS said this week that work site enforcement would remain in place.

Well, everybody's right. Everybody's right. Look, we got to get the bad people out of here first. And we're doing that. We're taking them out by the thousands. Murderers, drug dealers, people that are mentally insane from insane asylum. What they gave to us fellas, they gave. Do we have anybody in here that's a member? We've known all these people for a long time. Any illegal immigrants in here? Now, if they would, they'll find out. They'll be checking you. You won't believe. Their whole life will be destroyed because of this press conference. Watch. They'll destroy these people. I didn't want to tell them that before they stood up. They'll end up being. He's a so and so. This one is from you know where. Don't worry. I think you, I think you're going to be okay. I'll. I'll be right behind you. Far behind. I'll be right behind you. Now look, we have to take care of our farmers. We have to take care of people that run leisure hotels. I mean, we have to take care of them. But most importantly, we have to get the criminals out of our country. And Biden let in thousands and 11,888 murderers. Many of them murdered more than one person. Can you believe it? Many, almost 50% of them murdered more than one person. He let them into our country. They emptied out the jails of countries from all over the world. From the Congo, from Venezuela, from all over the place. They emptied out their jails, many of them. I would, if I were running one of the countries, I would have emptied out my prison population, immigration into the US and many countries did. And we're getting them out. Okay, we're getting them out. Thank you very much. Let's watch this. Brian, go ahead. I was just going to follow up on the immigration real quick. Can you comment on the impact of.

The trump card and how much revenue does petition?

Yeah, we have a thing called the trump card. This has not been done before or thought of. And for $5 million, this is usually people that would either be working for companies Like Apple, I think, is going to buy a lot of them because they can't get people into the country. You know, if you come in through the southern border, you have no problem. You can be a criminal, you can be a drug dealer, and you have no problem. But if you. If you go and graduate number one in your class from a great school, you can't get a job because there's no access to getting it. You can't get a green card. So we're going to sell that to people, in some cases wealthy, in some cases not wealthy. They'll be paid for by universities. Look at Harvard. They got $53 billion. That whole thing is coming to an end. It's amazing what we found out. What a disgrace. They have $53 billion. We gave them five, six. And some people say it's as much as $9 billion over a short period of time. So that's very much coming to. They want to make a deal more than. I would say Harvard wants to make a deal more than. And Iran wants to make a deal. And Iran wants to make a deal. But, I mean, a lot of things. Look, a lot of things are happening on a lot of fronts, Brian. A lot of good things are happening. And frankly, you know, it's a little bit of a. As we used to say, liberal. Now they say progressive. I use the word liberal. Progressive is too nice a word because they're destroying the country. They're really destroying. These liberal politicians are destroying our country. Look what they've done during Biden this four years. I mean, we're working on. So much of our effort goes to getting people out of the country that should have never been here in the first place. What he's done to this country is not him. He had no idea what was going on. Everybody knows that. It's other people. It's Lisa and this one. And all these people, all this scum that was around the Oval, you know, the Oval Office, or around the beautiful Resolute desk, telling this guy here, do this, do that, and not even telling. They just go over to the auto pan and sign whatever the hell they wanted to sign, because, say what you want about Biden, he wasn't for open borders. He wasn't for transgender, for everybody. He wasn't for men playing in women's sports, but he has no idea what the hell. He has no idea. And they were very upset. They wanted Bernie Sanders. And after about a week of this guy, they said, wait a minute. We just hit. We just hit gold. This guy has no clue he'll do anything we tell him. And then they realized they don't even have to get permission. They just go up to the auto pen. That's a subversion. That's a takeover of our government. And you people ought to start looking at it. That's a takeover. Not only did they cheat, I guess you saw yesterday, came out with China and the license plates. Tens of thousands of cards. They used those cards to vote on the second election. My second. The one 2020. Because as everybody here knows, I won that election by a lot. But the only good thing I can say is this is a much, much more historic term than I think I could have had as a second term. This is a much more historic election. And now we're going to put up a beautiful flagpole. And we're going to put up a flag. And I hope you enjoy it. And let's see how real people work. These are real people. You're not real people. This job is still easy. Okay, thank you very much. Close to 100ft. Real quick on Pakistan. You had meetings today with the army staff. What are you looking forward to achieving diplomatically? Well, I stopped a war between Pakistan. I love Pakistan. I think Modi is a fantastic man. I spoke to him last night. We're going to make a trade deal with Modi of India. But I stopped the war between Pakistan and India. This man was extremely influential in stopping it from the Pakistan side, Modi from the India side and others. And they were going at it. And they're both nuclear countries. I got it stopped. I don't think I had one, sir. Did I have one story written about I stopped a war between two major nations, major nuclear nations? I don't think I had a story written about it. But that's okay. You know why? The people know. The people know, Mr. President. Did anybody write that story about the war? Did you write it? Did you write it? Of course. Just one more. You wrote it on the flagpole, sir. Any adjustments that need to be made for Marine One departures in Iraq? No, no. We put it so that Marine One is very far away. We did it in conjunction with the Air Force, with everybody. And everybody signed off on it. We now we have to have it far away. It's very far from Marine One's out there. It's out in the field. So you have to have a certain distance. We're about three times that distance. Okay, thank you very much, everybody.

Are you sure what you told Prime Minister Net about getting involved, that.

You have a good view over there? If you want. You can come over here. Come on over here. Come on over here.

Mr. President, what do you say to the Supreme Leader of Iran who says.

That he will not say good luck. When does run out with Iran? Say it. When does locations run out? So ready right now. That's why we're doing what we're doing. They had 60 days and a big, you know, 60 days, plenty of time. And they made a mistake. Honestly, they made a mistake. Their country is in ruins. So many people are dead. They shouldn't be dead. It's very. Come on over here. You don't have to ruin your shoes. That's why with JT and you rest. You know, when they're outside, they're very noisy. They snap in the wind. Mr. President. Yeah. I hear that this is a personal project for you, sir. It is? Yeah. While I'm paying for it, you spend your own money on it. Yeah. Wow. Sir. I'd say beach call is like $50,000. Ballroom. Yeah. We start pretty soon. What do we have? Beautiful ballroom. Good question. Right here, east way. Okay. Goes from here, all see the big piece of land over here? Goes all the way over to there. We're doing it really very good. We're using one of the top architects.

How large will the flags be?

They're big. They're beautiful. They're big. Yeah. We can thank. Amazing equipment, isn't it? When you think, huh, like hard work, what they do, the mind, what they can develop. They don't know what we're doing. They don't know. It's tough, it's easy. They just want to put up flags and go to work. These are great workers.

Who gave you the idea to do this?

I've had it for a long time. The first time I had it, but, you know, you guys were after me. I sort of had a focus. I was the hunted and now I'm the hunter. It's a big difference. But he was the same no matter what. Yeah. It is surprising that out of all the presidents we've had that this has never taken place. It's crazy. Look, there's a little flagpole that's like 15ft, and there was a little tiny flag up top. This is the real deal. This is the best you can get. There's nothing like this. You know, most of them are 20ft, 25ft. This is close to 100ft. And I think it's a great location. You put it out there, people don't appreciate it. And then we're going to do a flower bed around a Beautiful flower bed. Bigger than that. Okay, so you have the pole and then you have. When are you gonna come out here and hit some golf balls? When you find time in your schedule. 35 club championships. You all know that. I know that. 35 club championships. I haven't hit a ball in three weeks. Four. Get out there. It's time to get a little busy. Would you rather have me be doing what I'm doing? Of course. In the end, see the way they have that oyster is great. Cuz if you lift it up from one, you have to lift it from the bottom if you have to get it there. But if you lifted it from without that, the whole thing would split. So interesting because it's in big sections and they, they connect so incredibly.

Mr. President, while we're watching, can I ask when was the last time you spoke with Governor Newsom?

Well, I. The phone call that he said I didn't make, that I documented. Did you see it? I haven't spoken.

That was the last time. Any changes to the troops being deployed there?

No, I won the case yesterday. I didn't read that. I won it because I don't think anybody wrote it. They only write it when losing. And he sent three notice. Did you notice I won the case?

Ninth circuit.

You know what's interesting here is that when it goes in, they then put sand inside. And if they use dirt or anything else other than sand, it rots out the pole over a period of years. But sand for some reason chemically just works. You can go the. Gives you flexibility and it doesn't do anything to the cask. It's amazing. So watch when. So that's, that's nine feet deep. And then, boy, it's a beautiful. It's a perfect bowl for this. Oh, so that's going nine feet. It goes nine feet down and then there's nothing in there. Right now just a tube goes nine feet down. And when they fill it, they fill it with sand. Pure sand. Absolutely pure sand. If they didn't, the chemicals do, you know, they work on the bottom part. Is that interesting to anybody? Real estate fan. Well, you're a builder. Oh, much better. The first one looks better. I mean I've never seen it at this. This is the new, the newest and the greatest. I've never seen it at Margo. I have a similar pole, not quite as tall as this, but the ropes on the outside. And you hear that rope banging, playing it all the time. Look at that little thing sticking up out in the top. You see the little thing sticking out the ball.

Yeah, yeah.

The, the, the bar. Like the little fin. Oh, I see. That's. That's so they can hook up to the ropes. They put the rope in later. Sometimes you see an eagle on top of the flag. I like this guy. This is, this is a little more class. I'm a big ego person, as you probably, but this looks better.

Mr. President, can you share some of what you told Israeli Prime Minister back in Canada?

Keep going. What do I say?

Have you given him anything?

I speak to him every day. He's a good man. He's doing a lot. Been very unfairly treated by his country, I think. Very unfairly treated.

Have you given him any indication that you may seek to aid them more than you have already?

No, I haven't. So far he's doing a good job. He has been treated very unfairly. He's a wartime president and he's going through this nonsense. It's ridiculous. Sounds like you had a good meeting with him. Yeah. Your National Security Council, very good meeting.

Anything that came up in particular?

That things, little things, big things, but it's working well. See how straight that is? Look, they put that dead straight and then they pour in the sand. It's amazing, right? Who would think you have to have sand and it's got to be a very pure sand. I know you enjoy being president. Do you ever miss building things? I love construction. It's in your heart, isn't it? Well, I love it. I know it better than anybody. When I see a train, a railroad going from San Francisco to la, I think it's a hundred times overbought. That's incredible. One of the most incompetent things. That's news gun. And why do they keep funding that? I think we're not going to. In fact, a little bit of a story. We're not going to find out anything else out of control. First of all, it doesn't go where it's supposed be to. Was supposed to go from LA to San Francisco now because they don't have any money, they've spent, what is it, 30, 40 times more than it was at best as well. And they made it much shorter because it no longer goes into the cities. It stops miles outside of the city.

Because if you, if you were a.

Builder and you went 34 times over.

The budget, you would be fired, right?

If you went one time, if you want a half a time over the budget. So see what they're doing, they're unwrapping the sand. It's all pure sand.

Along Those lines.

And if it weren't pure sand, it would eat away.

Mr. President, with the rail funding in California, will your recent dust ups with Governor Newsom impact additional wild, wildfire relief out there? They've requested 40 billion.

Sure. Maybe the man's incompetent. You shouldn't have fires like that. You clean the floor of your forest and you won't have any forest. You know, Austria has very, very flammable kids. They don't have forest now because they clean the floors, they maintain their forest. Good. In fact, you know, hatred is never a good thing in politics. When you don't like somebody, don't respect somebody, it's harder for that person to get money if you're on top. But he's done a bad job.

How will you ensure that?

I'll tell you one thing. If I didn't bring in the military to Los Angeles, you wouldn't even have a seat. You probably wouldn't be here. You'd be covering your. The riots in Los Angeles. We got a great ruling, as you know, yesterday from the judge. If we didn't in the military in Los Angeles, you would have maybe no city. You'd have just what you have with the housing burned to the ground.

How will you ensure that?

What they're doing is they take this out with the ruling yesterday, does that.

Mean with Israeli Prime Minister.

Go ahead and you're going to ask.

Them more about wall with the ruling yesterday, does that mean you're more empowered to send National Guard to other cities as well?

Maybe humans, I don't think. More empowered. I always thought I was empowered. It would be shocking, really. Only a guy like Newsom would even ask for it. You know, he should be thanking me instead of fighting Newsom. He wouldn't have a city right now. It would be burning to the ground. We'd have people running all over throwing rocks. Did you see them breaking up the concrete? Because we caught the bricks they were bringing bricks, heavy bricks, red bricks, trips by the bag, five or six big bags. The guys could, strong guys that could hardly even carry them. They're going to hand them out to people to throw at the police. And by the way, the chief of police in Los Angeles said that we needed the help. If we didn't have the help, we would have been in trouble. Now he changed his mind four days later a little bit. And he actually needed it more than. But we did a great job. We quelled that thing. And the fact that we are even there thinking about going in. They won't bother with it anymore. They'll go someplace else, but we'll be there, too. We'll be wherever they go. Did you see the main numbers for immigration? Yeah, great numbers. Zero. Yeah, we had zero. Did you see that, everybody? You were gonna ask zero. I was gonna ask that. She's on our side because most people don't want to ask. Well, she said. She told early, you can find. You see the main numbers. 0. 0.

How is that even.

Because we really have a tight border now. We have let a lot of people in, but they came in legally. They actually have to take a little test and they have to say, I love America. You know, minor things like that. Mr. President, can you talk about extending TikTok again? Yeah, we'll be extending it. We're going to extend it. We're going to probably make a deal. I think we'll need China's blessing on it. I think they'll bless. That was Prime Minister Carney towards you? Very good. Yeah, it couldn't have been nicer. We enjoyed the Canada stay a lot. And I had to come back, obviously, for the. What's happening in the Middle east, but I got everything done. He's a good man. I think Carney's a good man. Very well. A good representative of Canada. You think he's liked by the people? I think so, yeah.

Mr. President, have you given the Iranians.

You could say so. They know. They know what's happening. Maybe you could call it the ultimate. The ultimate ultimatum. Right.

What essentially was that, though?

Oh, I don't want to say. Look, I mean, give me a. What about the Paramount? I would say the. The elder. She's doing great. She's doing great. He's really enjoying it. Baron's enjoying it. All my kids are enjoying it, actually. Pretty hot out here. What's Muggier? D.C. or West Palm beach in the summer? I think this is muggier. This is a muggy. Mr. President, could I ask you about.

The Paramount deal and the merger with Skydance and the Ellisons? Like, what's holding that up? And like, do you see that being resolved in attention?

I hope so. Ellison's great. They'll do a great job with it. So what they did is they interviewed 60 Minutes, they interviewed Kamala. Her answer was horrendous. I would say election threatening. This is the day before the election. Her answer was election threatening was so incompetent. So they took the entire answer out and they took another answer to another question and put it in. And they did that, I understand, a number of times, but you don't have have to do it a number of times. The main question they ask, and we caught them and they're very embarrassed by it and they're working on a settlement. But think of it. Did you ever hear that one before? They took the entire every word, threw it out. Put another answer. You think they do that? For me, I think it happens daily. Well, I've never seen it. I thought I've seen everything that I've never seen. It's very embarrassing. The head of 60 Minutes got fired. The head of CBS got fired. They're all getting fired.

Do you think the deal.

See what they're doing here? Wait, this is only if you're in construction. Is it exciting? See, they have to get it perfectly straight. And once it's perfect, then they pour in the sand and it's there for 100 years.

Mr. President, as the Senate works on the big beautiful bill, it seems like solving is going to be a really big issue between Senate Republicans and House Republicans. What are you telling Senators? Because the New York Republicans on the House side are making clear that that's a red line for them.

Well, if it were a red line, then get ready for a 68% tax increase in 1929 because we're taking care of that issue too. You know what that is? That's debt ceiling. The debt ceil. We have to move the debt and we don't move the debt. It's. You violate governance. It's a terrible thing. Actually, Pocahontas even agreed with me on that. She's been wanting to get rid of the debt ceiling because she said it's too violent. It is violent. So I mean, anybody that votes against it, they voted to give a 59, a 68% tax increase and many other bad. There would be no money for the border. You know, we have billions of dollars allocated immigration, the border, keeping criminals out, getting criminals out. If that doesn't pass, you'll get a 68% tax increase. And I would say this. Any senator that votes against it, and that includes Democrats, I think they'll be finished in politics on salt.

Specifically, do you think Senate Republicans or House Republicans will have to bend more in order to get the fill up, I don't know.

We're going to see how it works out. It's a very different difficult issue, to be honest with you. It's very difficult and I understand both sides, but we'll just have to see. Hopefully a compromise or something's going to be made. But it's a very difficult issue. But Remember that. You know, people say, what do you think? 68% tax. So all those numbers, I told you how well the economy is doing, it all gets wiped out. You'd have the largest tax increase in history by far, by three times. If they don't get the big beautiful deal. I always say the great big beautiful deal. I put the word great in there. It's going to be great. Great. If we get that pass, it'll be the best, one of the greatest pieces. And that's just the beginning of a lot of things that are going to happen because we're going to get numbers down. We're going to get them way down. That's the beginning. That's our big first step. But that's a big. That's the most important piece of legislation in terms of dollar value and everything else. Else. There's nothing as big as that. Speaking of, you know, they thought that might be seven or eight bills. It's all in one thing of taxes.

Starting in July 1, California is upping.

Their tax on gasoline again per gallon. I mean, that's. Well, you know, I beat the California Mendy. Congress just passed a bill ending and that was terrible. They were saying everybody by 2030 has to have an electric car. People don't want it. I'm all for electric cars, but you have to want one. And right now it's about 7%. But they were forcing everybody to have it. I ended, you know, I ended that and now they're coming out with more. No, in California, you know, I've got. We've got some gas stations where just two weeks ago it was $1.98, $1.99. We've got the gas down below and we have this little situation which will drive it up a little bit, but very little. And it's going to come down again, going to give people a lot of extra money. Groceries are down, eggs are down. You know, the eggs are down. They hit me the first week about eggs. But no, I think that. Look, you know what I do whenever I talk about Gavin Newsom? I say look at the railroad. Look at the railroad. It's not even possible. Do you think he comes out and sees the construction workers? I don't think.

I don't think he put an American.

Flag in front of the Capitol, Sacramento either.

Mr. President, some of the supporters are slay on the U.S. response to who are you with?

CNN. Fortunately, nobody watches. But my question is anybody watching CNN nowadays? I haven't seen it in a long time.

But some of your supporters are Wary of the US getting involved in another.

I haven't seen that, no.

And some believe that we should support.

Do you ever ask a positive question? My supporters are more in love with me today and I'm in love with them more than they were even at election time where we have a total landslide. We had, you know, we won all seven swing states. Did CNN report that? We won all seven out of seven, which everyone said would be almost impossible. We won by millions of votes. We won 2,750 districts versus 505 districts. Think of that. 2,750 versus 505 and CNN and I.

Think what she might be alluding to.

Is the base is going to stay with you regardless. And you've gone through different regardless.

But some of the people in the.

Base don't want a long term war. They're afraid that we're going to get into a long term war. What you looking for a long term war? We're looking, it's only, I only want one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. I'm not looking long term, short term. And I've been saying that for 20 years. I've been saying it as a civilian who got a lot of publicity. People would cover it very simply, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It's not a question of anything else. And if you did, you wouldn't have much of a country because they would use it on us and they'd use it on other people and they'd be a terror all over the world. So I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy and I have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening. They're so happy. And there was a poll that just came out today. My approval rating is the highest it's ever been. All I'm doing is saying you can't have a nuclear weapon. And I tried to do it nicely and then on day 61 I said let's go because we can't let that happen. And I've been saying it for 20 years. Okay, I'm going to leave. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. It's it, It's it, It's, It's it, It's, it's, it's how you.