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LIVE From Oval Office | Trump-Netanyahu White House Meeting Live | Israel Iran War | Tariffs

many friends in Israel they are not in
an easy area it doesn't go easy but we
are helping them and likewise they've
been helping us very much and so we'll
see how it all works out but we had
great discussions today I think on the
obvious subject of Iran and also the
less obvious subject with respect to
Israel and that's trade uh and I think
the prime minister is going to tell you
a little bit about trade and what
they're doing for the United States so I
want to thank you all for being here
thank you very much and thank you
Benjamin thank you very much thank you
Mr president thank you Don thank you
Mr president i want to uh first thank
you for uh inviting me again to uh the
White House you've been a remarkable
friend of the state of Israel uh you
stand by us you're standing with us you
are a great great champion of our
alliance and uh you actually do the
things that you say you do and I I think
that people respect that enormously i
certainly do and people of Israel do and
I think the Jewish people do as well we
just saw your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forms i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results okay those
results are going to come that's the
first thank you very much that's very
nice thank you Mr president where are
the hostages here
well let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve Whit
who was President Trump's very able
representative helped us get a deal that
got 25 out we're working now on another
deal that we hope will succeed uh and
we're committed to getting all the
hostages out but also eliminating the
evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and
enabling the people of Gaza to freely
make a choice to go wherever they want i
mean they should have that choice and
the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians have their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
We have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in the seat right here not your seat but
this seat they allowed things to happen
to our country that they shouldn't have
allowed to happen on trade and other
things many other things i mean look at
what's happened with our last president
where he allowed millions of people to
come into our country with an open
border who would want an open border how
stupid is that but uh he allowed
millions and millions of people and of
the millions and I think it was 21
million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
would you be open to a pause in
terrorists to allow for negotiations
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
debt for a reason and uh the reason is
that people allowed it to get that way
so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
talking to a lot of different countries
and I think you know if if if we can
make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States not a good deal
for others this is America first it's
now America first and we didn't put
America first we put America last the
people that were in the Oval Office put
America last and we're not going to
stand for it
go ahead represent the US in the talks
go ahead um two questions do you expect
any of these deals to be made before
April 9th and secondly there have been
some mixed messages from your
administration you're talking about
negotiations and yet others in your
administration are saying that these
tariffs are actually permanent what is
that well it could be they can both be
true there can be permanent tariffs and
there can also be negotiations because
there are things that we need beyond
tariffs we need open borders you know we
almost had a deal with China where we're
going to open up China it was almost
done some of you remember it during my
first term and it was very disappointing
we ended up making a great deal.$50
billion dollars worth of uh product was
sold 50 billion you'd like that in
Israel and I made that deal but it
wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
the deal that I wanted was that plus
they were going to open up China so that
our companies could go into China and
compete with other countries and China
for the you know for a large number of
people and at the very end that deal was
terminated and we went to a piece of the
deal and there so there are a lot of
things outside of tariffs but tariffs
are very important but there are a lot
of things like opening up countries that
were totally closed china's essentially
a closed country in fact it is a closed
country and what they do is they charge
tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
or if you sell anything uh nobody's
going to buy it because the price is out
of control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
i'll relax we have time this gentleman
is all day long mr many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts their experts
on missiles i mean they actually make
missiles nobody thought that but they
make missiles they're highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they uh they should
not continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not fight we have a
great military there's no military like
our military and despite Biden having
given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
small piece but it was a lot of our
military away in Afghanistan and one of
the dumbest situations I think and maybe
the most embarrassing situation we've
ever been involved in that that short
period of time in Afghanistan what a
disgrace that was but uh left a lot of
our military behind left left left you
see them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things that
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military uh we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft craft the
kind of missiles anything uh that we
have ordered and it's in many ways too
bad that we have to do it because
hopefully we're not going to have to use
it but the military is very very
powerful and uh it's going to remain
that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about because this is the first time
we hear that
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that would be great going to be
It would be really great for Iran i can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we We are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it they
want to be in the hands of the US they
don't want to be in the hands of the
Chinese
uh the Chinese have turned out to be
really not very good at that uh people
that are with us they're with us but we
cannot be uh taken advantage of any
longer i used to watch these deals for
years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
not fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that he knows
everything but the one thing he may not
know we have more energy than any
country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right an oldfashioned
term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
when I got in the press went absolutely
crazy the first week they said "Eggs
have quadrupled in price." I said "I
just got here tell me about it." And
Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
job and eggs are down now 79% and
they're all over the place and this was
a problem that somebody else would have
taken a long time to cure uh we have
energy is down we have interest rates
are down we have groceries meaning food
is down we have everything is down at
levels that nobody ever thought possible
energy looks like it's going to be in in
the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific captivity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be they were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or any would dent likewise
unless you can have an army tank it's
going to dent so they come up with rules
and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh$ two
trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
a trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're going to have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
billion dollars a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of we
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said "We give
Afghanistan a lot of money." Do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
from the Times of Israel the IDF is
fighting again in the Gaza Strip by
myself might be called up in a month do
you think that's the way to pressure
Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but uh you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration ghana gaza all it is
is a a concept that I had that I think
is good and now people are copying it
you know baby do you want to tell people
are talking about the Trump plan gee why
do we do that uh would you like to
answer that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazins were
closed in any other place including in
arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazans want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope you'll
have good news for you
i will say people love Excuse me people
really do love that vision uh it's a
long-term vision but so importantly is
to have that be a a safe field because
you're right smack in the middle of the
Middle East you're right along Israel it
should have never ever been given away
shouldn't have been given away by Israel
i don't know why they did it i mean I do
know why because they were promised
peace but that didn't work out too well
because it's one of the most dangerous
pieces of land anywhere in the world
gaza is one of the most dangerous places
in the world so they gave it away for
good intention and it it didn't work out
that way and uh a lot of people like my
concept but you know there are other
concepts that I like too and there are
some concepts I don't like you know what
I don't like the way it is now because
right now it's a dangerous death trap
gaza yeah
about Thank you sir can you talk a
little bit about uh your meeting
potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do
you still plan to meet with him could
that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe
could I elaborate as well a little bit
on not providing tariffs on Russia sir
so uh the reason we're not talking about
tariffs with Russia is because we're not
doing business essentially with Russia
because they're in a war and I'm not
happy about what's going on with uh with
the bombing because they're bombing like
crazy right now they're bombing i don't
know what's happening there that's not a
good situation so we're meeting with
Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and
we're getting sort of close but I'm not
happy with all the bombing that's going
on the last uh week or so horrible it's
a horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at 57 billion
dollars they were making I call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that's out of the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB this is unrelated because
it's a different kind of a relationship
but he started off our conversation
today that he's cutting all of the
tariffs he's cutting everything he's
going to get down to a free base he's
going to do things that in all fairness
other countries if they said that would
have never even thought about doing it
now they're offering things to us that
we would have never even thought of
asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so
when countries don't allow us to sell
our product but we allow them to sell
their product when they charge us
massive amounts of money for the
privilege of going into their country
those days are over
okay yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so surprised mr president um
on Iran uh two questions please first
you can give us more details about where
the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
tell you that i I can just tell you
there's a major meeting going on between
us and Iran and that'll take place on
Saturday and it's at top level and
second question about this um a lot of
people think that those talks are not
going to lead anywhere because the give
up your I think that's a possibility
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that a yes you know it's
not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
have a nuclear weapon that's all there
is can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper slake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world there
was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
They sort of knew the territory pretty
good and I said "How are they doing?"
She They said "Well only 24 are living
the rest are dead." And these are young
people largely young people don't die
you know young people have an amazing
ability to live they can live through
horrible things but these are young
people and when they said that 24 are
living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
Alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say my son is there i said
well how's he doing well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home they
talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they look exactly like the pictures that
I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know but that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable." We're going back into
a a chapter in history that is one of
the worst ever it's really very bad okay
american manufacturing fully up to speed
in response to these tariffs what
happens in the meantime should Americans
be prepared for years
we have now uh seven trillion dollars
think of this seven trillion of
commitments from companies wanting to go
in from Apple to many many companies
many from Taiwan what it takes time to
Of course it takes Well are you asking
me a question or you telling me yeah it
takes time you know you got to build a
thing called the factory you have to
build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll be their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
from Harris um Turkey claims it will
stabilize uh the situation in Syria
turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
Turkey to influence Syria what do you
think do you think uh Turkeykey's
influence in Syria can actually make it
a better more peaceful country or vice
versa well I have uh great relations
with a man named Erdogan have you heard
of him and I happen to like him and he
likes me and I know the press will get
very angry he likes her to want but I do
and he likes me and we've never had a
problem and and we've gone through a lot
and we've never had a problem we always
got we as you remember we got our
minister back from Turkey you remember
that and uh this was a big deal at the
time and we got him back uh and I told
the prime minister I said just BB if you
have a problem with Turkey I really
think I'm going to be able to work it
out you know I have a very very good
relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over?" He's taken it over
through surrogates he goes "No no no no
no no it was not me it was I said it was
you." But that's okay you don't have to
say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
but what he did he look he's a tough guy
and he's very smart and uh he did
something that nobody was able to do you
know you got to hand it to him uh any
problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody
thank
standing with us you are a great great
champion of our alliance and uh you
actually do the things that you say you
do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forms i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come back that's
the first Thank you very much that's
very nice thank you thank you Mr
president where are the hostages well
the let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
would you be open to a pause in
terrorists to allow for negotiations
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and uh in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make on us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this with just uh we're going to have
one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
debt for a reason and uh the reason is
that people allowed it to get that way
so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
talking to a lot of different countries
and I think you know if if if we can
make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States not a good deal
for others this is America first it's
now America first and we didn't put
America first we put America last the
people that were in the Oval Office put
America last and we're not going to
stand for it
go ahead
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is that well it could be
they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal.$50 billion dollars
worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles highly sophisticated
and they're very tough but they've been
uh very badly damaged nobody else was
able to do that but us pete do you want
to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
been a bad three weeks for the Houthies
uh and it's about to get worse it's been
a devastating campaign whether it's
underground facilities weapons
manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
air defense assets we are not going to
relent and it's only to get more
unrelenting until the Houthis declare
they will stop shooting at our ships and
we've been very clear with the Iranians
as well uh they uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was but uh left a lot of our
military behind left left left you see
them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things that
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at a woman
getting two billion dollars for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
missiles or anything uh that we have
ordered and it's in many ways too bad
that we have to do it because hopefully
we're not going to have to use it but
the military is very very powerful and
uh it's going to remain that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about because this is the first time
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be It
would be really great for Iran and I can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US training partners into
the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it they
want to be in the hands of the US they
don't want to be in the hands of the
Chinese and uh the Chinese have turned
out to be really not very good at that
uh people that are with us they're with
us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
of any longer i used to watch these
deals for years i've been talking about
it for years you and I've been talking
about it for 35 years how our country is
being ripped off i mean which it 30
years ago was Japan then it was
something else then it was another group
then it was China china's doing the the
best job of it frankly and it's just not
going to happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not enough well the EU no
it's not the EU has been very tough over
the years it was I always say it was
formed to really do damage to the United
States in trade that's the reason it was
formed it was formed with all of the
countries from Europe i guess most of
them not all of them but most of them
and they formed together to uh create a
little bit of a monopoly situation to
create a unified force against the
United States for trade so they have uh
NATO which is largely the same countries
and they uh took advantage of us
dollar-wise and militarily until I got
there you know I I was able to get $600
billion dollars from NATO where they
paid NATO because most of these nations
weren't even paying we were paying for
NATO so we're paying them to guard them
militarily and they're screwing us on
trade so that's not a good combination
so now uh it's really turned around it's
the opposite and the European Union's
been very ne very bad to us they don't
take our cars like Japan in that sense
they don't take our agricultural product
they don't take anything practically and
yet they send millions of cars in a year
mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
sending millions and millions of cars
into the US but we don't have a car
that's been sold to the European Union
or other places but let's go for the
European Union and it's not going to be
that way it's got to be fair and
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you got to see this today i
said we're going to try and get
groceries down right an oldfashioned
term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
when I got in the press went absolutely
crazy the first week they said "Eggs
have quadrupled in price." I said "I
just got here tell me about it." And
Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
job and eggs are down now 79% and
they're all over the place and this was
a problem that somebody else would have
taken a long time to cure uh we have
energy is down we have interest rates
are down we have groceries meaning food
is down we have everything is down at
levels that nobody ever thought possible
energy looks like it's going to be in in
the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific activity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think Well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you can have an army tank it's
going to dent so they come up with rules
and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
dollars a year on trade we lose a
trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're going to have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
billion dollars a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of we
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
for the Times of Israel the IDF is
fighting again in the Gaza Strip by
myself might be called up in a month do
you think that's the way to pressure
Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration ghana gaza all it is
is a a concept that I had that I think
is good and now people are copying it
you know baby do you want to tell people
are talking about the Trump plan gee why
do we do that uh would you like to
answer that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice you know Gaza
Gazins were closed in any other place
including in arenas of battle i mean
whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any
other place people could leave gaza was
the only place where they locked them in
we didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazans want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope you'll
have good news for you
i will say people love excuse me people
really do love that vision uh it's a
long-term vision but so importantly is
to have that be a a safe field because
you're right smack in the middle of the
Middle East you're right along Israel it
should have never ever been given away
shouldn't have been given away by Israel
i don't know why they did it i mean I do
know why because they were promised
peace but that didn't work out too well
because it's one of the most dangerous
pieces of land anywhere in the world
gaza is one of the most dangerous places
in the world so they gave it away for
good intention and it it didn't work out
that way and uh a lot of people like my
concept but you know there are other
concepts that I like too and there are
some concepts I don't like you know what
I don't like the way it is now because
right now it's a dangerous death trap
gaza yeah
thank you sir can you talk a little bit
about uh your meeting potential meeting
with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
meet with him could that happen in Saudi
Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
well a little bit on not providing
tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
we're not talking about tariffs with
Russia is because we're not doing
business essentially with Russia because
they're in a war and I'm not happy about
what's going on with uh with the bombing
because they're bombing like crazy right
now they're bombing i don't know what's
happening there that's not a good
situation so we're meeting with Russia
we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
getting sort of close but I'm not happy
with all the bombing that's going on the
last uh week or so horrible it's a
horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
dollars they were making i call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was $57 billion dollar that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries who want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB and this is unrelated
because it's a different kind of a
relationship but he started off our
conversation today that he's cutting all
of the tariffs he's cutting everything
he's going to get down to a free base
he's going to do things that in all
fairness other countries if they said
that would have never even thought about
doing it now they're offering things to
us that we would have never even thought
of asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so
when countries don't allow us to sell
our product but we allow them to sell
their product when they charge us
massive amounts of money for the
privilege of going into their country
those days are over okay
yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so
surpris first you can give us more
details about where the meeting on
Saturday is going i can't tell you that
i I can just tell you there's a major
meeting going on between us and Iran and
that'll take place on Saturday and it's
at top level and second question about
this um a lot of people think that those
talks are not going to lead anywhere
because the
may I think that's a possibility fails
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that a yes you know it's
not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
have a nuclear weapon that's all there
is can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah mr president yeah please mr mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
"Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
59." They sort of knew the territory
pretty good and I said "How are they
doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are
living the rest are dead." And these are
young people largely young people don't
die you know young people have an
amazing ability to live they can live
through horrible things but these are
young people and when they said that 24
are living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say "My son is there." I said
"Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead
but would you do me the biggest favor
ever could you bring his body back
home?" They talked about a young dead
boy and a young dead girl like they were
living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they looked exactly like the pictures
that I'd see from the 1940s the
concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as But that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
years fully up to speed in response to
these tariffs what happens in the
meantime should Americans be prepared
potentially for years
we have now uh seven trillion dollars
think of this 7 trillion of commitments
from companies wanting to go in from
Apple to many many companies many from
Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
course it takes Well are you asking me a
question or you're telling me yeah it
takes time you know you got to build a
thing called the factory you have to
build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll be their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
Syria what do you think do you think uh
Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
actually make it a better more peaceful
country or vice versa well I have uh
great relations with a man named Erdogan
have you heard of him and I happen to
like him and he likes me and I know the
press will get very angry he likes
Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
we've never had a problem and and we've
gone through a lot and we've never had a
problem we always got we as you remember
we got our minister back from Turkey you
remember that and uh this was a big deal
at the time and we got him back uh and I
told the prime minister I said just BB
if you have a problem with Turkey I
really think I'm going to be able to
work it out you know I have a very very
good relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over." He's taken it over
through surrogates he goes "No no no no
no no it was not me it was I said "It
was you but that's okay you don't have
to say well it sort of maybe was me."
Okay but what he did he's look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
thank you thank
you standing with us you are a great
great champion of our alliance and uh
you actually do the things that you say
you do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and the
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come that's the
first Thank you very much that's very
nice thank you thank you Mr president
what about the hostages here well let
him let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just
unbearable agony i speak to the families
i spoke to them yesterday spoke to
another one when I was in Hungary before
I came here i speak to them every day
they're in agony the hostages are in
agony and we want to get them all out uh
Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's
very able representative helped us get a
deal that got 25 out we're working now
on another deal that we hope will
succeed uh and we're committed to
getting all the hostages out but also
eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas
in in Gaza and enabling the people of
Gaza to freely make a choice to go
wherever they want i mean they should
have that choice and the president put
forward a vision a bold vision which we
discussed as well including the uh
countries that might uh be amendable and
are amendable to accepting Palestinians
of their free choice if they choose to
go there and I think that's the second
thing that we discussed uh but the
hostages came right on top uh we also
discussed the situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocator than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful and we hope we hope that's
going to happen uh and we had just a lot
of good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat uh they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico they came in
from Canada too by the way a lot but
generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
it's even as strong as it was i had a
great solid border i think it might even
be tougher right now and stronger so
people are coming into our country but
they're coming in legally we have a
legal process and we have that moving
along properly because we need people to
come into our country but we want people
that can love our country and cherish
our country so that's where we are and
with that any
questions would be open to a pause in
terrorists to allow for negotiations
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
debt for a reason and uh the reason is
that people allowed it to get that way
so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
talking to a lot of different countries
and I think you know if if if we can
make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States not a good deal
for others this is America first it's
now America first and we didn't put
America first we put America last the
people that were in the Oval Office put
America last and we're not going to
stand for
Go
ahead go ahead two questions do you any
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is that well it could be
they can both
be there can be permanent tariffs and
there can also be negotiations because
there are things that we need beyond
tariffs we need open borders you know we
almost had a deal with China where we're
going to open up China it was almost
done some of you remember it during my
first term and it was very disappointing
we ended up making a great deal.$50
billion dollars worth of product was
sold 50 billion you'd like that in
Israel and I made that deal but it
wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
the deal that I wanted was that plus
they were going to open up China so that
our companies could go into China and
compete with other countries and China
for the you know for a large number of
people and at the very end that deal was
terminated and we went to a piece of the
deal and there so there are a lot of
things outside of tariffs but tariffs
are very important but there are a lot
of things like opening up countries that
were totally closed china's essentially
a closed country in fact it is a closed
country and what they do is they charge
tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
or if you sell anything uh nobody's
going to buy it because the price is out
of control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
president Relax we have time this
gentleman is all day long mr
many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles highly sophisticated
and they're very tough but they've been
uh very badly damaged nobody else was
able to do that but us pete do you want
to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
uh and it's about to get worse it's been
a devastating campaign whether it's
underground facilities weapons
manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
air defense assets we are not going to
relent and it's only to get more
unrelenting until the Houthis declare
they will stop shooting at our ships and
we've been very clear with the Iranians
as well uh they uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in
Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
uh left a lot of our military behind
left left left you see them in their
annual parades where they're parading
trucks that are armorplated and
different things that they can't but
it's many billions of dollars we left
behind but despite that uh we have a
tremendous military that was a very
small portion because we rebuilt the
military during my first term and uh we
uh we have great uh great things
happening with our military we also uh
essentially approved a budget which is
in the facility you'll like to hear this
of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before or we've
never had the kind of uh aircraft the
kind of missiles or anything uh that we
have ordered and it's in many ways too
bad that we have to do it because
hopefully we're not going to have to use
it but the military is very very
powerful and uh it's going to remain
that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about this
The
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level is high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be It
would be really great for Iran and I can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it if
they want to be in the hands of the US
they don't want to be in the hands of
the Chinese and the Chinese have turned
out to be really not very good at that
uh people that are with us they're with
us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
of any longer i used to watch these
deals for years i've been talking about
it for years you and I've been talking
about it for 35 years how our country is
being ripped off i mean which it 30
years ago was Japan then it was
something else then it was another group
then it was China china's doing the the
best job of it frankly and it's just not
going to happen not going to happen
has said that they have offered zero for
zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific activity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be they were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you're going to have an army tank
it's going to dent so they come up with
rules and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the Juan or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh$ two
trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
a trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
billion a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
is fighting again the Gaza Strip by
myself might be called up in a month do
you think that's the way to pressure
Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it I I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
a a concept that I had that I think is
good and now people are copying it you
know baby do you want to tell people are
talking about the Trump plan gee why do
we do that uh would you like to answer
that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice you know Gaza
Gazans were closed in and any other
place including in arenas of battle i
mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or
any other place people could leave gaza
was the only place where they locked
them in we didn't lock them in they're
locked in and what is wrong with giving
people a choice now we've been talking
uh including over lunch about some
countries are won't go into them right
now that are saying you know if Gazans
want to leave we want to take them in
and I think this is this is the right
thing to do if you give you know it's
going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
the meantime people can have an option
president has a vision countries are
responding to that vision we're working
on it i hope we'll have good news for
you people I will say people love excuse
me people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah
thank you sir can you talk a little bit
about uh your meeting potential meeting
with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
meet with him could that happen in Saudi
Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
well a little bit on not providing
tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
we're not talking about tariffs with
Russia is because we're not doing
business essentially with Russia because
they're in a war and I'm not happy about
what's going on with uh with the bombing
because they're bombing like crazy right
now they're bombing i don't know what's
happening there that's not a good
situation so we're meeting with Russia
we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
getting sort of close but I'm not happy
with all the bombing that's going on the
last uh week or so horrible it's a
horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at 57 billion
dollars they were making I call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
was this is originally first term and we
were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB this is unrelated because
it's a different kind of a relationship
but he started off our conversation
today that he's cutting all of the
tariffs he's cutting everything he's
going to get down to a free base he's
going to do things that in all fairness
other countries if they said that would
have never even thought about doing it
now they're offering things to us that
we would have never even thought of
asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over
okay yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so surprised mr president um
on Iran uh two questions please first
you can give us more details about where
the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
tell you that i I can just tell you
there's a major meeting going on between
us and Iran and that'll take place on
Saturday and it's at top level and
second question about this um a lot of
people think that those talks are not
going to lead anywhere because the I
don't give up i think that's a
possibility
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that you know it's not a
complicated uh formula iran cannot have
a nuclear weapon that's all there is
can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
They sort of knew the territory pretty
good and I said "How are they doing?"
She they said "Well only 24 are living
the rest are dead." And these are young
people largely young people don't die
you know young people have an amazing
ability to live they can live through
horrible things but these are young
people and when they said that 24 are
living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
Alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say my son is there i said
well how's he doing well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home they
talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they look exactly like the pictures that
I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know but that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable." We're going back into
a a chapter in history that is one of
the worst ever it's really very bad okay
american manufacturing fully up to speed
in response to these tariffs what
happens in the meantime should Americans
be prepared potentially for years
we have now uh seven trillion dollars
think of this seven trillion of
commitments from companies wanting to go
in from Apple to many many companies
many from Taiwan what it takes time to
Of course it takes Well are you asking
me a question or you telling me yeah it
takes time you know you got to build a
thing called the factory you have to
build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll be their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
from Paris um Turkey claims it will
stabilize uh the situation in Syria
turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
Turkey to influence Syria what do you
think do you think uh Turkeykey's
influence in Syria can actually make it
a better more peaceful country or vice
versa well I have uh great relations
with a man named Erdogan have you heard
of him and I happen to like him and he
likes me and I know the press will get
very angry he likes her to want but I do
and he likes me and we've never had a
problem and and we've gone through a lot
and we've never had a problem we always
got we as you remember we got our
minister back from Turkey you remember
that and uh this was a big deal at the
time and we got him back uh and I told
the prime minister I said "Just BB if
you have a problem with Turkey I really
think I'm going to be able to work it
out you know I have a very very good
relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said "Congratulations you've done
what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
years you've taken over Syria with
different names but same thing." I said
"You've taken it over." He's taken it
over through surrogates he goes "No no
no no no no it was not me it was I said
it was you." But that's okay you don't
have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
thank you thank
you standing with us you are a great
great champion of our alliance and uh
you actually do the things that you say
you do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results and those
results are going to come back that's
the first Thank you very much that's
very nice thank you thank you Mr
president what about the hostages you
Well the finish begin okay uh we spoke
about not only the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just
unbearable agony i speak to the families
i spoke to them yesterday spoke to
another one when I was in Hungary before
I came here i speak to them every day
they're in agony the hostages are in
agony and we want to get them all out uh
Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's
very able representative helped us get a
deal that got 25 out we're working now
on another deal that we hope will
succeed uh and we're committed to
getting all the hostages out but also
eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas
in in Gaza and enabling the people of
Gaza to freely make a choice to go
wherever they want i mean they should
have that choice and the president put
forward a vision a bold vision which we
discussed as well including the uh
countries that might uh be amendable and
are amendable to accepting Palestinians
of their free choice if they choose to
go there and I think that's the second
thing that we discussed uh but the
hostages came right on top uh we also
discussed the situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is a uh country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor and the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the goal that Iran does
not ever get nuclear weapons if it could
be done diplomatically in a full way the
way it was done in Libya I think that
would be a good thing uh but whatever
happens we have to make sure that Iran
does not have nuclear weapons that's the
end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
would be open to a pause in terrorists
to allow for negotiations well we're not
looking at that we have many many uh
countries that are coming to negotiate
deals with us and they're going to be
fair deals and in certain cases they're
going to pay be paying substantial
tariffs they'll be fair deals as you
know I spoke this morning with the prime
minister of Japan and we had a very good
conversation they're coming and I said
"One thing you're going to have to open
up your country because we sold no cars
like zero cars in Japan and they sold
millions of cars into our country uh
they don't really take our agriculture a
little bit of it just to keep us
slightly happy but they don't take what
they're supposed to be taking so we have
a great relationship with Japan we're
going to keep it that way but they're
coming in to meet and other C countries
are coming in uh with China as you know
against my statement they put a 34%
tariff on above what their ridiculous
tariffs were already and I said if that
tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
above the tariffs that we put on so
they've gone for years they become a
rich country because of people again
that were in the White House that
allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
billions of dollars a year they'd make
us on trade and it shouldn't be that way
and uh I have a great relationship with
President Xi i hope it's going to stay
that way i have great respect for China
but they can't do this with just uh
we're going to have one shot at this and
no other president's going to do this
what I'm doing and I'll tell you what
it's an honor to do it because we have
been just just destroyed what they've
done to our system you know we have $36
trillion of debt for a reason and uh the
reason is that people allowed it to get
that way so we'll be uh talking to China
we'll be talking to a lot of different
countries and I think you know if if if
we can make a really fair deal and a
good deal for the United States not a
good deal for others this is America
first it's now America first and we
didn't put America first we put America
last the people that were in the Oval
Office put America last and we're not
going to stand
for Gohead
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is the act well it could
be they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal $50 billion dollars
worth of uh product or so 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're gonna have
nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr
many
of you go ahead
talk about it for a second because a lot
of people are asking the Houthis we've
we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles highly sophisticated
and they're very tough but they've been
uh very badly damaged nobody else was
able to do that but us pete you want to
discuss that please yes sir uh it's been
a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and
it's about to get worse it's been a
devastating campaign whether it's
underground facilities weapons
manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
air defense assets we are not going to
relent and it's only to get more
unrelenting until the Houthis declare
they will stop shooting at our ships and
we've been very clear with the Iranians
as well uh they uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was but uh left a lot of our
military behind left left left you see
them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things that
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
missiles or anything that we have
ordered and it's in many ways too bad
that we have to do it because hopefully
we're not going to have to use it but
the military is very very powerful and
uh it's going to remain that
way go ahead please
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about because this is the first time
The
US is possible to have some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that would be great going to be
it would be really great for Iran i can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it they
want to be in the hands of the US they
don't want to be in the hands of the
Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
to be really not very good at that uh
people that are with us they're with us
but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
any longer i used to watch these deals
for years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350 billion
dollars and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants
they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energyy's down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debt's become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now on
live show good what is your specific i
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific yeah we are trying
very hard to get the hostages out uh
we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
see what happens but we have we want to
get the hostages out the Israeli people
want the hostages out more than anything
they want the hostages out this man is
working very hard with us to do that i
mean I don't know i hope he's being
appreciated because he's been a great
leader he's working very very hard on
the hostages and many other things and
there are plenty of things you have to
work on it's a It's a tough place in the
world isn't it i have a good partner
yeah you do have a good partner and so
do we we We're working very hard on the
house
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the than
the JCPOA well I can't really say that
but I think it'll be uh different and
maybe a lot stronger but they were so
happy when we made that first deal
because we did get a lot out you know I
had people right in this office this
beautiful oval office they came in 10
people hostages you know that and I said
to them uh so how was it and the stories
they told me i mean as an example I said
to them "Was there any sign of love you
were there 10 people it's only 10 but
it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half
feet high this isn't you know we hear
tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
the stories I heard were incredible but
I just said was there any sign of
potential love or affection and there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seemed to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know a long time these are
people that have been really really
horribly treated i've never seen
anything like it actually I was very
surprised to hear the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in their
tariffs lowered i think it well I think
there are many that want to get rid of
tariffs right now uh European Union I
mean as badly as they've treated us
they've you know they've brought their
car tariffs essentially off i guess they
brought it down to two and a half and I
hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not
only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs
it's tariffs where they put things on
that make it impossible for you to sell
a car it's not a money thing it's they
make it so difficult the standards and
the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on
the top of your car from 20 ft up in the
air and if there's a little dent they
say no I'm sorry your car doesn't
qualify when the same car from Germany
or would dent likewise unless you can
have an army tank it's going to dent so
they come up with rules and regulations
that are uh just designed for one reason
that you can't sell your product in
those countries and and We're not going
to let that happen those are called
nonmonetary barriers they make barriers
that are so tough that it's impossible
to qualify so so tariffs are a big part
of it but but there's another big part
of it and that's barriers they also do
something else they manipulate their
currency and they drive it down they
want to drive it they want to have low
currencies you know uh it sounds better
to have a high currency a strong dollar
or whatever but uh they bring their
currency down and when it competes with
our currency it's very hard to sell a
tractor it's very hard to sell product
because their currency is low and ours
is much higher relatively and so it
makes it very hard i speak to a lot of
companies that do business tractor
companies and they say it's so hard to
sell because what they've done is
they've lowered the yen or they've
lowered the one or they've lowered their
currency so that it's very hard to
compete we don't want that either so we
have a lot of things that we're talking
about but we're going to fix it properly
and it's going to be fair to everybody
and in the end I think we're gonna have
a world that does a lot better you know
but they have to respect the United
States and and nobody but me would do
this nobody but me would do this you
know it's would be nice to serve a nice
easy term but we have an opportunity to
change the fabric of our country we have
an opportunity to reset the table on
trade we lose billions of dollars we
lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a
year on trade we lose a trillion dollars
a year to China a trillion we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars a year
on trade to China we lose hundreds of
billions of dollars overall probably two
close to$2 trillion dollars why would we
do that number one why would we do that
and then you have to say is it
sustainable then you hear about all of
the people that say "Well deficits if we
have a deficit with a country or if the
country has a big surplus with us like
China has a massive surplus that they
take and they spend on their military."
Well we don't want that i don't want
them to take 500 600 billion dollars a
year and spend it on their military i
don't want them spending money on their
military and I shouldn't have to spend
money we shouldn't have to spend it
either because you know hopefully and I
said this to President Xi hopefully it's
money that we're never going to use in
other words because we're not going to
use those incredible weapons that we
have and that they have we don't want
that so uh it's going to be very
interesting it's it's the only chance
our pre our country will have to reset
the table because no other president
would be willing to do what I'm doing or
to even go through it now I don't mind
going through it because I see a
beautiful picture at the end uh but we
are making tremendous progress with a
lot of countries and the countries that
really took advantage of us are now
saying please negotiate you know why
because they're getting beaten badly
because of what's happening they're
getting beaten badly they're being
devalued as countries but it's the only
chance we're going to have to reset the
table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost 90,000
plants and factories think of this 90
thou you wouldn't think it's possible
90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
which was by the way the worst trade
deal ever ever developed ever had by any
country anywhere nafta and I terminated
NAFTA everybody said it would be
impossible and I terminated through
Congress we terminated it you had to get
it through Congress it was a trap it was
a horrible thing and we got it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff-based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had uh committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots
well we're talking about a whole new
trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
we help Israel a lot you know we give
Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a
lot congratulations by the way that's
pretty good but we give Israel billions
of dollars a year billions it's uh one
of the highest of And we give a lot of
We give a lot of countries money you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money idea because
that was a Biden deal another Biden deal
not only did he embarrass us with that
but they give them billions of dollars
afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we
take good care of our friends and we
don't take care of our enemies we're not
taking care of our enemies anymore but
we do take care of our friends
the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
be called up in a month do you think
that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
to a deal do you think blocking
humanitarian aid is also an effective
pressure well you know how I feel about
the Gaza Strip i think it's an
incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good the immigration sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
a a concept that I had that I think is
good and now people are copying it you
know baby do you want to tell people are
talking about the Trump plan gee why do
we do that uh would you like to answer
that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in at any other place including
in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazans want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope we'll
have good news for you
people I will say people love excuse me
people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
talk a little bit about Thank you sir
can you talk a little bit about uh your
meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
Putin do you still plan to meet with him
could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
maybe could I elaborate as well a little
bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
sir so uh the reason we're not talking
about tariffs with Russia is because
we're not doing business essentially
with Russia because they're in a war and
I'm not happy about what's going on with
uh with the bombing because they're
bombing like crazy right now they're
bombing i don't know what's happening
there that's not a good situation so
we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
close but I'm not happy with all the
bombing that's going on the last uh week
or so horrible it's a horrible thing
it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
dollars they were making I call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was $57 billion dollar that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they for
building a military with it then when
Biden came in he let him get away with
murder he had no idea i'll tell you what
that man had no idea what was happening
whether it was the border or China or
anything else he had no idea what was
going on and they got they went wild
china went wild and the money they make
is ridiculous okay it's just not going
to happen and hopefully we'll get along
with China if we do that's great and if
we don't that's okay too but we can't
let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB and this is unrelated
because it's a different kind of a
relationship but he started off our
conversation today that he's cutting all
of the tariffs he's cutting everything
he's going to get down to a free base
he's going to do things that in all
fairness other countries if they said
that would have never even thought about
doing it now they're offering things to
us that we would have never even thought
of asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over
okay yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so
surpris Iran uh two questions please
first you can give us more details about
where the meeting on Saturday is going i
can't tell you that i I can just tell
you there's a major meeting going on
between us and Iran and that'll take
place on Saturday and it's at top level
and second question about this um a lot
of people think that those talks are not
going to lead anywhere because the
That's I think that's a possibility
fails if diplomacy fails is the United
States under your leadership ready to
take military action to destroy the
Iranian nuclear program program and
remove this threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that you know it's not a
complicated uh formula iran cannot have
a nuclear weapon that's all there is
can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of it they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
They sort of knew the territory pretty
good and I said "How are they doing?"
She They said "Well only 24 are living
the rest are dead." And these are young
people largely young people don't die
you know young people have an amazing
ability to live they can live through
horrible things but these are young
people and when they said that 24 are
living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
Alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say my son is there i said
well how's he doing well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home they
talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are largely
young people some old ones too frankly
and those people have lived in hell when
they came off the second group that came
out they look like uh they just got out
of a concentration camp they looked
exactly like the pictures that I'd see
from the 1940s the concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as but that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
american manufacturing fully up to speed
in response to these tariffs what
happens in the meantime should Americans
be prepared potentially for years
we have
now seven trillion dollars think of this
7 trillion of commitments from companies
wanting to go in from Apple to many many
companies many from Taiwan what it takes
time to to course it takes Well are you
asking me a question or you telling me
yeah it takes time you know you got to
build a thing called a factory you have
to build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll be their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah from um Turkey claims it will
stabilize uh the situation in Syria
turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want uh
Turkey to influence Syria what do you
think do you think uh Turkeykey's
influence in Syria can actually make it
a better more peaceful country or vice
versa well I have uh great relations
with a man named Erdogan have you heard
of him and I happen to like him and he
likes me and I know the press will get
very angry he likes her to want but I do
and he likes me and we've never had a
problem and and we've gone through a lot
and we've never had a problem we always
got we as you remember we got our
minister back from Turkey you remember
that and uh this was a big deal at the
time and we got him back uh and I told
the prime minister I said "Just BB if
you have a problem with Turkey I really
think I'm going to be able to work it
out you know I have a very very good
relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said "Congratulations you've done
what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
years you've taken over Syria with
different names but same thing." I said
"You've taken it over." He's taken it
over through surrogates he goes "No no
no no no no it was not me it was I said
it was you but that's okay you don't
have to say well sort of maybe it was
me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody
thank you thank you
standing with us you are a great great
champion of our alliance and uh you
actually do the things that you say you
do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and the
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to uh Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results and those
results are going to come back that's
the first Thank you very much that's
very nice thank you thank you Mr
president what about the hostages here
well the let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighborly
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack in Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't a better interlocutor
than the president of the United States
for this purpose and of course we also
discussed Iran look we're both united in
the goal that Iran does not ever get
nuclear weapons if it can be done
diplomatically in a full way the way it
was done in Libya I think that would be
a good thing uh but whatever happens we
have to make sure that Iran does not
have nuclear weapons that's the end of
my speech mr
just we are we're having direct talks
with wait a minute wait we're having
direct talks with Iran and uh they've
started it'll go on Saturday we have a
very big meeting and we'll see what can
happen and I think everybody agrees that
uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interests if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
it's even as strong as it was i had a
great solid border i think it might even
be tougher right now and stronger so
people are coming into our country but
they're coming in legally we have a
legal process and we have that moving
along properly because we need people to
come into our country but we want people
that can love our country and cherish
our country so that's where we are and
with that any questions
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years is they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have 36 trillion
dollars of debt for a reason and uh the
reason is that people allowed it to get
that way so we'll be uh talking to China
we'll be talking to a lot of different
countries and I think you know if if if
we can make a really fair deal and a
good deal for the United States not a
good deal for others this is America
first it's now America first and we
didn't put America first we put America
last the people that were in the Oval
Office put America last and we're not
going to stand for
Go
ahead go ahead um two questions do you
expect of these deals to be made before
April 9th and secondly there have been
some mixed messages from your
administration you're talking about
negotiations and yet others in your
administration are saying that these
tariffs are actually permanent what is
the act well it could be they can both
be true there can be permanent tariffs
and there can also be negotiations
because there are things that we need
beyond tariffs we need open borders you
know we almost had a deal with China
where we're going to open up China it
was almost done some of you remember it
during my first term and it was very
disappointing we ended up making a great
deal 50 billion dollars worth of uh
product or so 50 billion you'd like that
in Israel and I made that deal but it
wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
the deal that I wanted was that plus
they were going to open up China so that
our companies could go into China and
compete with other countries and China
for the you know for a large number of
people and at the very end that deal was
terminated and we went to a piece of the
deal and there so there are a lot of
things outside of tariffs but tariffs
are very important but there are a lot
of things like opening up countries that
were totally closed china's essentially
a closed country in fact it is a closed
country and what they do is they charge
tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
or if you sell anything uh nobody's
going to buy it because the price is out
of control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
i'll relax we have time this gentleman
is all day long mr president many
of you go ahead
goodbye
talk about it for a second because a lot
of people are asking the Houthis we've
we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily uh we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles they're highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was but uh left a lot of our
military behind left left left you see
them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things that
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconcious but the military
is something that we have to build and
we have to be strong because you got a
lot of bad forces out there now so we're
going to be approving a budget the uh
and I'm proud to say actually the
biggest one we've ever done for the
military uh we're cutting other things
that were uh under Doge but under a lot
of other when you look at uh a woman
getting $2 billion for environmental and
it had nothing to do with environmental
and they had $100 in the bank and they
give her two billion many many of those
cases all that stuff is going to be cut
out but we are getting a very very
powerful military we have things under
order now the likes of which we've never
had before we've never had the kind of
uh aircraft the kind of missiles or
anything that we have ordered and it's
in many ways too bad that we have to do
it because hopefully we're not going to
have to use it but the military is very
very powerful and uh it's going to
remain that way
yes green thank you Mr president i want
to ask you about because this is the
first time The
US is it possible to get some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be it
would be really great for Iran i can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it they
want to be in the hands of the US they
don't want to be in the hands of the
Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
to be really not very good at that uh
people that are with us they're with us
but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
any longer i used to watch these deals
for years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China and China is doing the the best
job of it frankly and it's just not
going to happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants and
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energyy's down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
live show good what is your specific way
getting the hostages out from the
horrific captivity yeah we are trying
very hard to get the hostages out uh
we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
see what happens but we have we want to
get the hostages out the Israeli people
want the hostages out more than anything
they want the hostages out this man is
working very hard with us to do that i
mean I don't know i hope he's being
appreciated because he's been a great
leader he's working very very hard on
the hostages and many other things and
there are plenty of things you have to
work on it's a it's a tough place in the
world is I have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the house
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said no i
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us their hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half
feet high this isn't you know we hear
tunnels bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 80
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think it Well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you can have an army tank it's
going to dent so they come up with rules
and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh$2 trillion
dollars a year on trade we lose a
trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots 70%
on where on Israeli roots the 17% do you
Well we're talking about a whole new
trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
we help Israel a lot you know we give
Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
be called up in a month do you think
that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
to a deal and do you think blocking
humanitarian aid is also an effective
pressure well you know how I feel about
the Gaza Strip i think it's an
incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but uh you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it I I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is there immigration sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
a a concept that I had that I think is
good and now people are copying it you
know baby do you want to tell people are
talking about the Trump plan gee why do
we do that uh would you like to answer
that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in any other place including in
arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking uh
including over lunch about some
countries are won't go into them right
now that are saying you know if Gazans
want to leave we want to take them in
and I think this is this is the right
thing to do if you give you know it's
going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
the meantime people can have an option
president has a vision countries are
responding to that vision we're working
on it i hope we'll have good news for
you people I will say people love excuse
me people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
talk a little bit about Thank you sir
can you talk a little bit about uh your
meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
Putin do you still plan to meet with him
could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
maybe could I elaborate as well a little
bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
sir so uh the reason we're not talking
about tariffs with Russia is because
we're not doing business essentially
with Russia because they're in a war and
I'm not happy about what's going on with
uh with the bombing because they're
bombing like crazy right now they're
bombing i don't know what's happening
there that's not a good situation so
we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
close but I'm not happy with all the
bombing that's going on the last uh week
or so horrible it's a horrible thing
it's a horrible thing
to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
dollars they were making i call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea I'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of them and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB and this is unrelated
because it's a different kind of a
relationship but he started off our
conversation today that he's cutting all
of the tariffs he's cutting everything
he's going to get down to a free base
he's going to do things that in all
fairness other countries if they said
that would have never even thought about
doing it now they're offering things to
us that we would have never even thought
of asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over okay
yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
questions please first you can give us
more details about where the meeting on
Saturday is going i can't tell you that
i I can just tell you there's a major
meeting going on between us and Iran and
that'll take place on Saturday and it's
at top level and second question about
this um a lot of people think that those
talks are not going to lead anywhere
because the
may I think that's a possibility fails
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon you know it's not a complicated
uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
weapon that's all there is can't have it
right now we have countries that have
nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
out of that too as part of this later on
down the line but Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah mr president yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper slay terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
"Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
59." They sort of knew the territory
pretty good and I said "How are they
doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
living the rest are dead." And these are
young people largely young people don't
die you know young people have an
amazing ability to live they can live
through horrible things but these are
young people and when they said that 24
are living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have one left alex
we have the one left but but I've had
Israeli parents come up to me at events
and say "My son is there." I said 'Well
how's he doing well he's dead but would
you do me the biggest favor ever could
you bring his body back home they talked
about a young dead boy and a young dead
girl like they were living and that
could have something to do with religion
that could have something to do with I
guess maybe any parent would be but I
was surprised they said "Sir my son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they looked exactly like the pictures
that I'd see from the 1940s the
concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as But that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
years to
get fully up to speed in response to
these tariffs what happens in the
meantime should Americans be prepared
potentially for years
we have now uh seven trillion dollars
think of this 7 trillion of commitments
from companies wanting to go in from
Apple to many many companies many from
Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
course it takes Well are you asking me a
question or you telling me yeah it takes
time you know you got to build a thing
called a factory you have to build your
energy you have to do uh a lot of things
i'm giving them energy you know we're
going to let them build their own power
plants they'll pay their own Essentially
they're going to be in charge of the
power plant because our uh power is not
reliable enough you have a grid that's
old and susceptible to a lot of things
including bombing and weather and a lot
of other things and we're going to give
them record timing in terms of approvals
of electric plants most of them want to
build electric plants we need massive
amounts of electricity if we're going to
compete with China and others and
interestingly we're way ahead right now
in the AI race with China but the way we
lose that race is if we can't give them
electric but we have more plants being
built we have everything we're doing so
great and we want to keep it that way
and tariffs will be an important part of
it but one of the other things uh Lee
Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
Syria what do you think do you think uh
Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
actually make it a better more peaceful
country or vice versa well I have uh
great relations with a man named Erdogan
have you heard of him and I happen to
like him and he likes me and I know the
press will get very angry he likes
Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
we've never had a problem and and we've
gone through a lot and we've never had a
problem we always got we as you remember
we got our minister back from Turkey you
remember that and uh this was a big deal
at the time and we got him back uh and I
told the prime minister I said just BB
if you have a problem with Turkey I
really think I'm going to be able to
work it out you know I have a very very
good relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over he's taken it over through
surrogates." He goes "No no no no no no
it was not me it was I said "It was
you." But that's okay you don't have to
say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
but what he did he's look he's a tough
guy and he's very smart and uh he did
something that nobody was able to do you
know you got to hand it to him uh any
problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
standing with us you are a great great
champion of our alliance and uh you
actually do the things that you say you
do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that I said to
the president a very simple thing
we will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results okay those
results are going to come back that's
the first Thank you very much that's
very nice thank you thank you Mr
president what about the hostages here
well the let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack in Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't a better interlocutor
than the president of the United States
for this purpose and of course we also
discussed Iran look we're both united in
the uh goal that Iran does not ever get
nuclear weapons if it can be done
diplomatically in a full way the way it
was done in Libya I think that would be
a good thing uh but whatever happens we
have to make sure that Iran does not
have nuclear weapons that's the end of
my speech mr
any we are we're having direct talks
with Wait a minute wait we're having
direct talks with Iran and uh they've
started it'll go on Saturday we have a
very big meeting and we'll see what can
happen and I think everybody agrees that
uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
it's even as strong as it was i had a
great solid border i think it might even
be tougher right now and stronger so
people are coming into our country but
they're coming in legally we have a
legal process and we have that moving
along properly because we need people to
come into our country but we want people
that can love our country and cherish
our country so that's where we are and
with that any questions
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years is they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have 36 trillion
dollars of debt for a reason and uh the
reason is that people allowed it to get
that way so we'll be uh talking to China
we'll be talking to a lot of different
countries and I think you know if if if
we can make a really fair deal and a
good deal for the United States not a
good deal for others this is America
first it's now America first and we
didn't put America first we put America
last the people that were in the Oval
Office put America last and we're not
going to stand for
Go ahead represent the US in the talks
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is that well it could be
they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal $50 billion dollars
worth of product was sold 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr president many
of you go ahead
goodbye
talk about it for a second because a lot
of people are asking the Houthis we've
we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily uh we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles they're highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not fight we have a
great military there's no military like
our military and despite Biden having
given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
small piece it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was but uh left a lot of our
military behind left you see them in
their annual parades where they're
parading trucks that are armorplated and
different things that they can't but
it's many billions of dollars we left
behind but despite that uh we have a
tremendous military that was a very
small portion because we rebuilt the
military during my first term and uh we
uh we have great uh great things
happening with our military we also uh
essentially approved a budget which is
in the facility you'll like to hear this
of a trillion dollars$1 trillion dollars
and nobody's seen anything like it we
have to build our military and we're
very costconscious but the military is
something that we have to build and we
have to be strong because you got a lot
of bad forces out there now so we're
going to be approving a budget the uh
and I'm proud to say actually the
biggest one we've ever done for the
military we're cutting other things that
were uh under Doge but under a lot of
other when you look at uh a woman
getting $2 billion for environmental and
it had nothing to do with environmental
and they had $100 in the bank and they
give her two billion many many of those
cases all that stuff is going to be cut
out but we are getting a very very
powerful military we have things under
order now the likes of which we've never
had before we've never had the kind of
uh aircraft the kind of missiles or
anything that we have ordered and it's
in many ways too bad that we have to do
it because hopefully we're not going to
have to use it but the military is very
very powerful and uh it's going to
remain that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about this is the first time The
US with the Iranians is possible to give
us some more information at what level
high level very high level yeah we're
dealing with the Iranians we have a very
big meeting on Saturday and we're
dealing with them directly you know a
lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going
through surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be It
would be really great for Iran i can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it if
they want to be in the hands of the US
they don't want to be in the hands of
the Chinese
uh the Chinese have turned out to be
really not very good at that uh people
that are with us they're with us but we
cannot be uh taken advantage of any
longer i used to watch these deals for
years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energyy's down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many many Israelis are watching you now
on live show good what is your specific
i hope they like getting the hostages
out from the horrific captivity yeah we
are trying very hard to get the hostages
out uh we're looking at another
ceasefire we'll see what happens but we
have we want to get the hostages out the
Israeli people want the hostages out
more than anything they want the
hostages out this man is working very
hard with us to do that i mean I don't
know i hope he's being appreciated
because he's been a great leader he's
working very very hard on the hostages
and many other things and there are
plenty of things you have to work on
it's a It's a tough place in the world
isn't it i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
We're working very hard on the house
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
i mean as an example I said to them "Was
there any sign of love you were there?"
10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said was there any sign of
potential love or affection and there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seemed to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know a long time these are
people that have been really really
horribly treated i've never seen
anything like it actually I was very
surprised to hear the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in their
tariffs lowered i think well I think
there are many that want to get rid of
tariffs right now uh European Union I
mean as badly as they've treated us
they've you know they've brought their
car tariffs essentially off i guess they
brought it down to two and a half and I
hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not
only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs
it's tariffs where they put things on
that make it impossible for you to sell
a car it's not a money thing it's they
make it so difficult the standards and
the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on
the top of your car from 20 feet up in
the air and if there's a little dent
they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't
qualify when the same car from Germany
or would dent likewise unless you're
going to have an army tank it's going to
dent so they come up with rules and
regulations that are uh just designed
for one reason that you can't sell your
product in those countries and and uh
we're not going to let that happen those
are called nonmonetary barriers they
make barriers that are so tough that
it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs
are a big part of it but but there's
another big part of it and that's
barriers they also do something else
they manipulate their currency and they
drive it down they want to drive it they
want to have low currencies you know uh
it sounds better to have a high currency
a strong dollar or whatever but uh they
bring their currency down and when it
competes with our currency it's very
hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to
sell product because their currency is
low and ours is much higher relatively
and so it makes it very hard i speak to
a lot of companies that do business
tractor companies and they say it's so
hard to sell because what they've done
is they've lowered the yen or they've
lowered the Juan or they've lowered
their currency so that it's very hard to
compete we don't want that either so we
have a lot of things that we're talking
about but we're going to fix it properly
and it's going to be fair to everybody
and in the end I think we're gonna have
a world that does a lot better you know
but they have to respect the United
States and and nobody but me would do
this nobody but me would do this you
know it's would be nice to serve a nice
easy term but we have an opportunity to
change the fabric of our country we have
an opportunity to reset the table on
trade we lose billions of dollars we
lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a
year on trade we lose a trillion dollars
a year to China a trillion we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars a year
on trade to China we lose hundreds of
billions of dollars overall probably two
close to$2 trillion dollars why would we
do that number one why would we do that
and then you have to say is it
sustainable then you hear about all of
the people that say "Well deficits if we
have a deficit with a country or if the
country has a big surplus with us like
China has a massive surplus that they
take and they spend on their military."
Well we don't want that i don't want
them to take 500,600 billion dollars a
year and spend it on their military i
don't want them spending money on their
military and I shouldn't have to spend
money we shouldn't have to spend it
either because you know hopefully and I
said this to President Xi hopefully it's
money that we're never going to use in
other words because we're not going to
use those incredible weapons that we
have and that they have we don't want
that so uh it's going to be very
interesting it's it's the only chance
our pre our country will have to reset
the table because no other president
would be willing to do what I'm doing or
to even go through it now I don't mind
going through it because I see a
beautiful picture at the end uh but we
are making tremendous progress with a
lot of countries and the countries that
really took advantage of us are now
saying please negotiate you know why
because they're getting beaten badly
because of what's happening they're
getting beaten badly they're being
devalued as countries but it's the only
chance we're going to have to reset the
table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
which was by the way the worst trade
deal ever ever developed ever had by any
country anywhere nafta and I terminated
NAFTA everybody said it would be
impossible and I terminated through
Congress we terminated it you had to get
it through Congress it was a trap it was
a horrible thing and we got it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had uh committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots 70%
on where on Israeli boots
well we're talking about a whole new
trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
we help Israel a lot you know we give
Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a
lot congratulations by the way that's
pretty good but we give Israel billions
of dollars a year billions it's uh one
of the highest of And we give a lot of
We give a lot of countries money you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money in it because
that was a Biden deal another Biden deal
not only did he embarrass us with that
but they give them billions of dollars
afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we
take good care of our friends and we
don't take care of our enemies we're not
taking care of our enemies anymore but
we do take care of our
friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i
myself might be called up in a month do
you think that's the way to pressure
Hamas to get to a deal do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it I I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good immigration sorry Mr president
is the immigration
which immigration gaza from Gaza all it
is is a a concept that I had that I
think is good and now people are copying
it you know baby do you want to tell
people are talking about the Trump plan
gee why do we do that uh would you like
to answer that question i I think what
the president talked about is first of
all to give people a choice gaza gazans
were closed in and any other place
including in arenas of battle i mean
whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any
other place people could leave gaza was
the only place where they locked them in
we didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking uh
including over lunch about some
countries are won't go into them right
now that are saying you know if Gazins
want to leave we want to take them in
and I think this is this is the right
thing to do if you give you know it's
going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
the meantime people can have an option
president has a vision countries are
responding to that vision we're working
on it i hope we'll have good news for
you people I will say people love excuse
me people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
talk a little bit about Thank you sir
can you talk a little bit about uh your
meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
Putin do you still plan to meet with him
could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
maybe could I elaborate as well a little
bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
sir so uh the reason we're not talking
about tariffs with Russia is because
we're not doing business essentially
with Russia because they're in a war and
I'm not happy about what's going on with
uh with the bombing because they're
bombing like crazy right now they're
bombing i don't know what's happening
there that's not a good situation so
we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
close but I'm not happy with all the
bombing that's going on the last uh week
or so horrible it's a horrible thing
it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
dollars they were making i call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea I'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that's out of the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of them and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB and this is unrelated
because it's a different kind of a
relationship but he started off our
conversation today that he's cutting all
of the tariffs he's cutting everything
he's going to get down to a free base
he's going to do things that in all
fairness other countries if they said
that would have never even thought about
doing it now they're offering things to
us that we would have never even thought
of asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over okay
yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
questions please first you can give us
more details about where the meeting on
Saturday is going i can't tell you that
i I can just tell you there's a major
meeting going on between us and Iran and
that'll take place on Saturday and it's
at top level and second question about
this um a lot of people think that those
talks are not going to lead anywhere
because the
may I think that's a possibility fails
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon you know it's not a complicated
uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
weapon that's all there is can't have it
right now we have countries that have
nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
out of that too as part of this later on
down the line but Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon and if the talks are
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
manufacturing yeah please mr president
was October 7th the death blow of the
two-state solution would you consider
classifying the Palestinian Authority as
a terrorist organization for its
continued paper slay terror financing
payments so October 7th was a horrible
day that some people they they deny it
now I can't believe they deny it from
the standpoint of it they do it because
they think it's good politically but
October I've seen the tapes i've seen
things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
"Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
59." They sort of knew the territory
pretty good and I said "How are they
doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
living the rest are dead." And these are
young people largely young people don't
die you know young people have an
amazing ability to live they can live
through horrible things but these are
young people and when they said that 24
are living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have one left alex
we have the one left but but I've had
Israeli parents come up to me at events
and say "My son is there." I said "Well
how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home?"
They talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they looked exactly like the pictures
that I'd see from the 1940s the
concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as But that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
years fully up to speed in response to
these tariffs what happens in the
meantime should Americans be prepared
potentially for years
we have
now seven trillion dollars think of this
7 trillion of commitments from companies
wanting to go in from Apple to many many
companies that takes time many from
Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
course it takes Well are you asking me a
question or you telling me yeah it takes
time you know you got to build a thing
called a factory you have to build your
energy you have to do uh a lot of things
i'm giving them energy you know we're
going to let them build their own power
plants they'll pay their own essentially
they're going to be in charge of the
power plant because our uh power is not
reliable enough you have a grid that's
old and susceptible to a lot of things
including bombing and weather and a lot
of other things and we're going to give
them record timing in terms of approvals
of electric plants most of them want to
build electric plants we need massive
amounts of electricity if we're going to
compete with China and others and
interestingly we're way ahead right now
in the AI race with China but the way we
lose that race is if we can't give them
electric but we have more plants being
built we have everything we're doing so
great and we want to keep it that way
and tariffs will be an important part of
it but one of the other things uh Lee
Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
Syria what do you think do you think uh
Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
actually make it a better more peaceful
country or vice versa well I have uh
great relations with a man named Erdogan
have you heard of them and I happen to
like him and he likes me and I know the
press will get very angry he likes
Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
we've never had a problem and and we've
gone through a lot and we've never had a
problem we always got we as you remember
we got our minister back from Turkey you
remember that and uh this was a big deal
at the time and we got him back uh and I
told the prime minister I said just BB
if you have a problem with Turkey I
really think I'm going to be able to
work it out you know I have a very very
good relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over." He's taken it over
through surrogates he goes "No no no no
no no it was not me it was I said "It
was you." But that's okay you don't have
to say "Well it sort of maybe was me."
Okay but what he did he's look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
thank you thank
you standing with us you are a great
great champion of our alliance and uh
you actually do the things that you say
you do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forms i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come back that's
the first Thank you very much that's
very nice thank you thank you Mr
president what about the hostages here
well let him let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Whitoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
could be done diplomatically in a full
way the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore we just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico okay they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they drop
the mentally insane in our country too
and this was all done by the Biden
administration it's a disgrace that we
have to work so hard and then we have
judges that try and protect these people
but they didn't protect us when the
people were being let in but to get them
out is never easy with these people so
uh I think we're doing a great job the
border is the best it's ever been even
as strong as it was I had a great solid
border i think it might even be tougher
right now and stronger so people are
coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
would be open to a pause in terrorists
to allow for negotiations well we're not
looking at that we have many many uh
countries that are coming to negotiate
deals with us and they're going to be
fair deals and in certain cases they're
going to pay be paying substantial
tariffs they'll be fair deals as you
know I spoke this morning with the prime
minister of Japan and we had a very good
conversation they're coming and I said
"One thing you're going to have to open
up your country because we sold no cars
like zero cars in Japan and they sold
millions of cars into our country uh
they don't really take our agriculture a
little bit of it just to keep us
slightly happy but they don't take what
they're supposed to be taking so we have
a great relationship with Japan we're
going to keep it that way but they're
coming in to meet and other C countries
are coming in uh with China as you know
against my statement they put a 34%
tariff on above what their ridiculous
tariffs were already and I said if that
tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
above the tariffs that we put on so
they've gone for years they become a
rich country because of people again
that were in the White House that
allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
billions of dollars a year they'd make
us on trade and it shouldn't be that way
and uh I have a great relationship with
President Xi i hope it's going to stay
that way i have great respect for China
but they can't do this we're just uh
we're going to have one shot at this and
no other president's going to do this
what I'm doing and I'll tell you what
it's an honor to do it because we have
been just just destroyed what they've
done to our system you know we have 36
trillion dollars of debt for a reason
and uh the reason is that people allowed
it to get that way so we'll be uh
talking to China we'll be talking to a
lot of different countries and I think
you know if if if we can make a really
fair deal and a good deal for the United
States not a good deal for others this
is America first it's now America first
and we didn't put America first we put
America last the people that were in the
Oval Office put America last and we're
not going to stand for
Go ahead represent the US in the talks
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is that well it could be
they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal 50 billion dollars
worth of product was sold 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr
many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles highly sophisticated
and they're very tough but they've been
uh very badly damaged nobody else was
able to do that but us pete do you want
to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
uh and it's about to get worse it's been
a devastating campaign whether it's
underground facilities weapons
manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
air defense assets we are not going to
relent and it's only to get more
unrelenting until the Houthis declare
they will stop shooting at our ships and
we've been very clear with the Iranians
as well uh they uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in
Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
uh left a lot of our military behind
left left left you see them in their
annual parades where they're parading
trucks that are armorplated and
different things that they can't but
it's many billions of dollars we left
behind but despite that uh we have a
tremendous military that was a very
small portion because we rebuilt the
military during my first term and uh we
uh we have great uh great things
happening with our military we also uh
essentially approved a budget which is
in the facility you'll like to hear this
of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
missiles or anything that we have
ordered and it's in many ways too bad
that we have to do it because hopefully
we're not going to have to use it but
the military is very very powerful and
uh it's going to remain that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about because this is the first time
USians is it possible to give us some
more information at what level high
level very high level yeah we're dealing
with the Iranians we have a very big
meeting on Saturday and we're dealing
with them directly you know a lot of
people say "Oh maybe you're going
through surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be it
would be really great for Iran i can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it they
want to be in the hands of the US they
don't want to be in the hands of the
Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
to be really not very good at that uh
people that are with us they're with us
but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
any longer i used to watch these deals
for years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
zero for zero tariffs on cars and
industrial goods is that not Well the EU
no it's not the EU has been very tough
over the years it was I always say it
was formed to really do damage to the
United States in trade that's the reason
it was formed it was formed with all of
the countries from Europe i guess most
of them not all of them but most of them
and they formed together to uh create a
little bit of a monopoly situation to
create a unified force against the
United States for trade so they have uh
NATO which is largely the same countries
and they uh took advantage of us
dollar-wise and militarily until I got
there you know I I was able to get $600
billion dollars from NATO where they
paid NATO because most of these nations
weren't even paying we were paying for
NATO so we're paying them to guard them
militarily and they're screwing us on
trade so that's not a good combination
so now uh it's really turned around it's
the opposite and the European Union's
been very ne very bad to us they don't
take our cars like Japan in that sense
they don't take our agricultural product
they don't take anything practically and
yet they send millions of cars in a year
mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
sending millions and millions of cars
into the US but we don't have a car
that's been sold to the European Union
or other places but let's go for the
European Union and it's not going to be
that way it's got to be fair reciprocal
it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we
have a deficit with the European Union
of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that he knows
everything but the one thing he may not
know we have more energy than any
country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants and
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energyy's down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific way
to getting the hostages out from the
horrific captivity yeah we are trying
very hard to get the hostages out uh
we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
see what happens but we have we want to
get the hostages out the Israeli people
want the hostages out more than anything
they want the hostages out this man is
working very hard with us to do that i
mean I don't know i hope he's being
appreciated because he's been a great
leader he's working very very hard on
the hostages and many other things and
there are plenty of things you have to
work on it's a it's a tough place in the
world i have a good partner yeah you do
have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said no i
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think it Well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 ft up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you're going to have an army tank
it's going to dent so they come up with
rules and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and We're not going to let that happen
those are called nonmonetary barriers
they make barriers that are so tough
that it's impossible to qualify so so
tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the Juan or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh$ two
trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
a trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$ two trillion
dollars why would we do that number one
why would we do that and then you have
to say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500 600
billion dollars a year and spend it on
their military i don't want them
spending money on their military and I
shouldn't have to spend money we
shouldn't have to spend it either
because you know hopefully and I said
this to President Xi hopefully it's
money that we're never going to use in
other words because we're not going to
use those incredible weapons that we
have and that they have we don't want
that so uh it's going to be very
interesting it's it's the only chance
our pre our country will have to reset
the table because no other president
would be willing to do what I'm doing or
to even go through it now I don't mind
going through it because I see a
beautiful picture at the end uh but we
are making tremendous progress with a
lot of countries and the countries that
really took advantage of us are now
saying please negotiate you know why
because they're getting beaten badly
because of what's happening they're
getting beaten badly they're being
devalued as countries but it's the only
chance we're going to have to reset the
table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
billion a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
is fighting to get in the Gaza Strip i
myself might be called up in a month do
you think that's the way to pressure
Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but uh you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone it's a zone where
people aren't going to be killed every
day that's a hell of a place it's a you
know what I call it a great location
that nobody wants to live in because
they really don't and when they had good
live when they have good living real
living where Hamas and all of the the
problems they have the the level of debt
on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and
I've said it I I don't understand why
Israel ever gave it up israel owned it
it wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
a a concept that I had that I think is
good and now people are copying it you
know baby do you want to tell people are
talking about the Trump plan gee why do
we do that uh would you like to answer
that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in and any other place including
in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazans want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope we'll
have good news for you
people I will say people love excuse me
people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
talk a little bit about Thank you sir
can you talk a little bit about uh your
meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
Putin do you still plan to meet with him
could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
maybe could I elaborate as well a little
bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
sir so uh the reason we're not talking
about tariffs with Russia is because
we're not doing business essentially
with Russia because they're in a war and
I'm not happy about what's going on with
uh with the bombing because they're
bombing like crazy right now they're
bombing i don't know what's happening
there that's not a good situation so
we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
close but I'm not happy with all the
bombing that's going on the last uh week
or so horrible it's a horrible thing
it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
they were making i call it making a lot
of people say oh it doesn't mean
anything having a surplus means a lot in
my opinion it's almost like a profit or
loss statement and when I took over was
57 billion dollars that China was this
is originally first term and we were
very very tough on them because they
were taking that money and they were
building a military with it then when
Biden came in he let him get away with
murder he had no idea I'll tell you what
that man had no idea what was happening
whether it was a border or China or
anything else he had no idea what was
going on and they got they went wild
china went wild and the money they make
is ridiculous okay it's just not going
to happen and hopefully we'll get along
with China if we do that's great and if
we don't that's okay too but we can't
let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that's out of the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of them and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB this is unrelated because
it's a different kind of a relationship
but he started off our conversation
today that he's cutting all of the
tariffs he's cutting everything he's
going to get down to a free base he's
going to do things that in all fairness
other countries if they said that would
have never even thought about doing it
now they're offering things to us that
we would have never even thought of
asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion dollars in debt
i want to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over okay
yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
questions please first you can give us
more details about where the meeting on
Saturday is going i can't tell you that
i I can just tell you there's a major
meeting going on between us and Iran and
that'll take place on Saturday and it's
at top level and second question about
this um a lot of people think that those
talks are not going to lead anywhere
because the right
I think that's a possibility fails if
diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon you know it's not a complicated
uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
weapon that's all there is can't have it
right now we have countries that have
nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
out of that too as part of this later on
down the line but Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
"Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
59." They sort of knew the territory
pretty good and I said "How are they
doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
living the rest are dead." And these are
young people largely young people don't
die you know young people have an
amazing ability to live they can live
through horrible things but these are
young people and when they said that 24
are living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have one left alex
we have the one left but but I've had
Israeli parents come up to me at events
and say "My son is there." I said "Well
how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home?"
They talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they looked exactly like the pictures
that I'd see from the 1940s the
concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as But that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
years fully up to speed in response to
these tariffs what happens in the
meantime should Americans be prepared
potentially for years
we have
now seven trillion dollars think of this
7 trillion of commitments from companies
wanting to go in from Apple to many many
companies many from Taiwan what it takes
time to to course it takes Well are you
asking me a question or you telling me
yeah it takes time you know you got to
build a thing called a factory you have
to build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll pay their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon's
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
Syria what do you think do you think uh
Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
actually make it a better more peaceful
country or vice versa well I have uh
great relations with a man named Erdogan
have you heard of him and I happen to
like him and he likes me and I know the
press will get very angry he likes
Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
we've never had a problem and and we've
gone through a lot and we've never had a
problem we always got we as you remember
we got our minister back from Turkey you
remember that and uh this was a big deal
at the time and we got him back uh and I
told the prime minister I said just BB
if you have a problem with Turkey I
really think I'm going to be able to
work it out you know I have a very very
good relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said "Congratulations you've done
what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
years you've taken over Syria with
different names but same thing." I said
"You've taken it over." He's taken it
over through surrogates he goes "No no
no no no no it was not me it was I said
"It was you." But that's okay you don't
have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
me." Okay but what he did he's look he's
a tough guy and he's very smart and uh
he did something that nobody was able to
do you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
Thank you thank you
standing with us you are a great great
champion of our alliance and uh you
actually do the things that you say you
do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forms i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that I said to
the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States that says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come that's the
first Thank you very much that's very
nice thank you thank you Mr president
what about the hostages here well let
him let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in the seat right here not your seat but
this seat uh they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they drop
the mentally insane in our country too
and this was all done by the Biden
administration it's a disgrace that we
have to work so hard and then we have
judges that try and protect these people
but they didn't protect us when the
people were being let in but to get them
out is never easy with these people so
uh I think we're doing a great job the
border is the best it's ever been even
as strong as it was I had a great solid
border i think it might even be tougher
right now and stronger so people are
coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any
questions would be open to a pause in
terrorists to allow for negotiations
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan and they sold millions of cars
into our country uh they don't really
take our agriculture a little bit of it
just to keep us slightly happy but they
don't take what they're supposed to be
taking so we have a great relationship
with Japan we're going to keep it that
way but they're coming in to meet and
other C countries are coming in uh with
China as you know against my statement
they put a 34% tariff on above what
their ridiculous tariffs were already
and I said if that tariff isn't removed
by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50%
tariff on above the tariffs that we put
on so they've gone for years they become
a rich country because of people again
that were in the White House that
allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
billions of dollars a year they'd make
on us on trade and it shouldn't be that
way and uh I have a great relationship
with President Xi i hope it's going to
stay that way i have great respect for
China but they can't do this we're just
uh we're going to have one shot at this
and no other president's going to do
this what I'm doing and I'll tell you
what it's an honor to do it because we
have been just just destroyed what
they've done to our system you know we
have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason
and uh the reason is that people allowed
it to get that way so we'll be uh
talking to China we'll be talking to a
lot of different countries and I think
you know if if if we can make a really
fair deal and a good deal for the United
States not a good deal for others this
is America first it's now America first
and we didn't put America first we put
America last the people that were in the
Oval Office put America last and we're
not going to stand for
Go ahead represent the US in the talks
go ahead um two questions do you expect
any of these deals to be made before
April 9th and secondly there have been
some mixed messages from your
administration you're talking about
negotiations and yet others in your
administration are saying that these
tariffs are actually permanent what is
that well it could be they can both
be there can be permanent tariffs and
there can also be negotiations because
there are things that we need beyond
tariffs we need open borders you know we
almost had a deal with China where we're
going to open up China it was almost
done some of you remember it during my
first term and it was very disappointing
we ended up making a great deal.$50
billion dollars worth of product was
sold 50 billion you'd like that in
Israel and I made that deal but it
wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
the deal that I wanted was that plus
they were going to open up China so that
our companies could go into China and
compete with other countries and China
for the you know for a large number of
people and at the very end that deal was
terminated and we went to a piece of the
deal and there so there are a lot of
things outside of tariffs but tariffs
are very important but there are a lot
of things like opening up countries that
were totally closed china's essentially
a closed country in fact it is a closed
country and what they do is they charge
tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
or if you sell anything uh nobody's
going to buy it because the price is out
of control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States mr
president
I'll just relax we have time this
gentleman is all day long mr
many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles highly sophisticated
and they're very tough but they've been
uh very badly damaged nobody else was
able to do that but us pete do you want
to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
uh and it's about to get worse it's been
a devastating campaign whether it's
underground facilities weapons
manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
air defense assets we are not going to
relent and it's only to get more
unrelenting until the Houthis declare
they will stop shooting at our ships and
we've been very clear with the Iranians
as well uh they uh they should not
continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not fight we have a
great military there's no military like
our military and despite Biden having
given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
small piece but it was a lot of our
military away in Afghanistan and one of
the dumbest situations I think and maybe
the most embarrassing situation we've
ever been involved in that that short
period of time in
Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
uh left a lot of our military behind
left left you see them in their annual
parades where they're parading trucks
that are armorplated and different
things that they can't but it's many
billions of dollars we left behind but
despite that uh we have a tremendous
military that was a very small portion
because we rebuilt the military during
my first term and uh we uh we have great
uh great things happening with our
military we also uh essentially approved
a budget which is in the facility you'll
like to hear this of a trillion dollars
$1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before or we've
never had the kind of uh aircraft the
kind of missiles or anything uh that we
have ordered and it's in many ways too
bad that we have to do it because
hopefully we're not going to have to use
it but the military is very very
powerful and uh it's going to remain
that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about this
The
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be It
would be really great for Iran and I can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it if
they want to be in the hands of the US
they don't want to be in the hands of
the Chinese and the Chinese have turned
out to be really not very good at that
uh people that are with us they're with
us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
of any longer i used to watch these
deals for years i've been talking about
it for years you and I've been talking
about it for 35 years how our country is
being ripped off i mean which it 30
years ago was Japan then it was
something else then it was another group
then it was China china's doing the the
best job of it frankly and it's just not
going to happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
not fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that he knows
everything but the one thing he may not
know we have more energy than any
country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
live show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific activity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the house
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said no i
said all of them i said "Did they ever
wink at you like "You'll be okay you're
going to be okay." No they didn't do
that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be They were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you're going to have an army tank
it's going to dent so they come up with
rules and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the Juan or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
dollars a year on trade we lose a
trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
which was by the way the worst trade
deal ever ever developed ever had by any
country anywhere nafta and I terminated
NAFTA everybody said it would be
impossible and I terminated through
Congress we terminated it you had to get
it through Congress it was a trap it was
a horrible thing and we got it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots 70%
on where on Israeli boots 70%
well we're talking about a whole new
trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
we help Israel a lot you know we give
Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
from the times of Israel the IDF is
fighting again the Gaza Strip i myself
might be called up in a month do you
think that's the way to pressure Hamas
to get to a deal and do you think
blocking humanitarian aid is also an
effective pressure well you know how I
feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
an incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration ghana gaza all it is
is a a concept that I had that I think
is good and now people are copying it
you know baby do you want to tell people
are talking about the Trump plan gee why
do we do that uh would you like to
answer that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in and any other place including
in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking uh
including over lunch about some
countries are won't go into them right
now that are saying you know if Gazans
want to leave we want to take them in
and I think this is this is the right
thing to do if you give you know it's
going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
the meantime people can have an option
president has a vision countries are
responding to that vision we're working
on it i hope we'll have good news for
you people I will say people love excuse
me people really do love that vision uh
it's a long-term vision but so
importantly is to have that be a a safe
field because you're right smack in the
middle of the Middle East you're right
along Israel it should have never ever
been given away shouldn't have been
given away by Israel i don't know why
they did it i mean I do know why because
they were promised peace but that didn't
work out too well because it's one of
the most dangerous pieces of land
anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
most dangerous places in the world so
they gave it away for good intention and
it it didn't work out that way and uh a
lot of people like my concept but you
know there are other concepts that I
like too and there are some concepts I
don't like you know what I don't like
the way it is now because right now it's
a dangerous death trap gaza yeah
about Thank you sir can you talk a
little bit about uh your meeting
potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do
you still plan to meet with him could
that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe
could I elaborate as well a little bit
on not providing tariffs on Russia sir
so uh the reason we're not talking about
tariffs with Russia is because we're not
doing business essentially with Russia
because they're in a war and I'm not
happy about what's going on with uh with
the bombing because they're bombing like
crazy right now they're bombing i don't
know what's happening there that's not a
good situation so we're meeting with
Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and
we're getting sort of close but I'm not
happy with all the bombing that's going
on the last uh week or so horrible it's
a horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at 57 billion
dollars they were making I call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
was this is originally first term and we
were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries you want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB this is unrelated because
it's a different kind of a relationship
but he started off our conversation
today that he's cutting all of the
tariffs he's cutting everything he's
going to get down to a free base he's
going to do things that in all fairness
other countries if they said that would
have never even thought about doing it
now they're offering things to us that
we would have never even thought of
asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over
okay yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so surprised mr president um
on Iran uh two questions please first
you can give us more details about where
the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
tell you that i I can just tell you
there's a major meeting going on between
us and Iran and that'll take place on
Saturday and it's at top level and
second question about this um a lot of
people think that those talks are not
going to lead anywhere because the I
don't give up i think that's a
possibility
if diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that a yes you know it's
not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
have a nuclear weapon that's all there
is can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper slake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
They sort of knew the territory pretty
good and I said "How are they doing?"
She They said "Well only 24 are living
the rest are dead." And these are young
people largely young people don't die
you know young people have an amazing
ability to live they can live through
horrible things but these are young
people and when they said that 24 are
living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
Alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say my son is there i said
well how's he doing well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home they
talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they look exactly like the pictures that
I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
camps
and then they got a little bit better
you know as but that second group those
people came out and I said "This is
unbelievable we're going back into a a
chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
american manufacturing fully up to speed
in response to these tariffs what
happens in the meantime should Americans
be prepared potentially for years
we have
now seven trillion dollars think of this
7 trillion of commitments from companies
wanting to go in from Apple to many many
companies many from Taiwan what it takes
time to Of course it takes Well are you
asking me a question or you telling me
yeah it takes time you know you got to
build a thing called the factory you
have to build your energy you have to do
uh a lot of things i'm giving them
energy you know we're going to let them
build their own power plants they'll be
their own essentially they're going to
be in charge of the power plant because
our uh power is not reliable enough you
have a grid that's old and susceptible
to a lot of things including bombing and
weather and a lot of other things and
we're going to give them record timing
in terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
from Harris um Turkey claims it will
stabilize uh the situation in Syria
turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
Turkey to influence Syria what do you
think do you think uh Turkeykey's
influence in Syria can actually make it
a better more peaceful country or vice
versa well I have uh great relations
with a man named Erdogan have you heard
of him and I happen to like him and he
likes me and I know the press will get
very angry he likes her to want but I do
and he likes me and we've never had a
problem and and we've gone through a lot
and we've never had a problem we always
got we as you remember we got our
minister back from Turkey you remember
that and uh this was a big deal at the
time and we got him back uh and I told
the prime minister I said "Just BB if
you have a problem with Turkey I really
think I'm going to be able to work it
out you know I have a very very good
relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said "Congratulations you've done
what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
years you've taken over Syria with
different names but same thing." I said
"You've taken it over." He's taken it
over through surrogates he goes "No no
no no no no it was not me it was I said
it was you." But that's okay you don't
have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
thank you thank
you standing with us you are a great
great champion of our alliance and uh
you actually do the things that you say
you do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come that's the
first Thank you very much that's very
nice thank you thank you Mr president
where are the hostages here well let him
let him finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i I speak to the families i
spoke to them yesterday spoke to another
one when I was in Hungary before I came
here i speak to them every day they're
in agony the hostages are in agony and
we want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocator than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in the seat right here not your seat but
this seat they allowed things to happen
to our country that they shouldn't have
allowed to happen on trade and other
things many other things i mean look at
what's happened with our last president
where he allowed millions of people to
come into our country with an open
border who would want an open border how
stupid is that but uh he allowed
millions and millions of people and of
the millions and I think it was 21
million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
would you be open to a pause in
terrorists to allow for negotiations
well we're not looking at that we have
many many uh countries that are coming
to negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make on us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
debt for a reason and uh the reason is
that people allowed it to get that way
so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
talking to a lot of different countries
and I think you know if if if we can
make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States not a good deal
for others this is America first it's
now America first and we didn't put
America first we put America last the
people that were in the Oval Office put
America last and we're not going to
stand for it
go ahead represent the US in the talks
go ahead um two questions do you expect
any of these deals to be made before
April 9th and secondly there have been
some mixed messages from your
administration you're talking about
negotiations and yet others in your
administration are saying that these
tariffs are actually permanent what is
that well it could be they can both be
truth there can be permanent tariffs and
there can also be negotiations because
there are things that we need beyond
tariffs we need open borders you know we
almost had a deal with China where we're
going to open up China it was almost
done some of you remember it during my
first term and it was very disappointing
we ended up making a great deal.$50
billion dollars worth of uh product or
so 50 billion you'd like that in Israel
and I made that deal but it wasn't the
deal that I wanted it was uh the deal
that I wanted was that plus they were
going to open up China so that our
companies could go into China and
compete with other countries and China
for the you know for a large number of
people and at the very end that deal was
terminated and we went to a piece of the
deal and there so there are a lot of
things outside of tariffs but tariffs
are very important but there are a lot
of things like opening up countries that
were totally closed china's essentially
a closed country in fact it is a closed
country and what they do is they charge
tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
or if you sell anything uh nobody's
going to buy it because the price is out
of control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
i'll just relax we have time this
gentleman is all day long mr many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts their experts
on missiles i mean they actually make
missiles nobody thought that but they
make missiles they're highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they uh they should
not continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in
Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
uh left a lot of our military behind
left left left you see them in their
annual parades where they're parading
trucks that are armorplated and
different things that they can't but
it's many billions of dollars we left
behind but despite that uh we have a
tremendous military that was a very
small portion because we rebuilt the
military during my first term and uh we
uh we have great uh great things
happening with our military we also uh
essentially approved a budget which is
in the facility you'll like to hear this
of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military uh we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before or we've
never had the kind of uh aircraft the
kind of missiles or anything uh that we
have ordered and it's in many ways too
bad that we have to do it because
hopefully we're not going to have to use
it but the military is very very
powerful and uh it's going to remain
that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about this
The US is having a
great is it possible to give us some
more information at what level is the US
high level very high level yeah we're
dealing with the Iranians we have a very
big meeting on Saturday and we're
dealing with them directly you know a
lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going
through surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that'll be great going to be It
would be really great for Iran and I can
tell you that but hopefully we're not
going to have to get into that we we are
meeting very importantly on Saturday at
almost the highest level and we'll see
how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US trading partners into the
hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it if
they want to be in the hands of the US
they don't want to be in the hands of
the Chinese
uh the Chinese have turned out to be
really not very good at that uh people
that are with us they're with us but we
cannot be uh taken advantage of any
longer i used to watch these deals for
years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
has said that they have offered zero for
zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
not fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that he knows
everything but the one thing he may not
know we have more energy than any
country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debts become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific activity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half ft
high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
is bad but pipes are worse and the
stories I heard were incredible but I
just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be they were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think Well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or any would dent likewise
unless you're going to have an army tank
it's going to dent so they come up with
rules and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
dollars a year on trade we lose a
trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
billion dollars a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
cool but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
be called up in a month do you think
that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
to a deal and do you think blocking
humanitarian aid is also an effective
pressure well you know how I feel about
the Gaza Strip i think it's an
incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration ghana gaza all it is
is a a concept that I had that I think
is good and now people are copying it
you know baby do you want to tell people
are talking about the Trump plan gee why
do we do that uh would you like to
answer that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in and any other place including
in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazins want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope we'll
have good news for you
i will say people love Excuse me people
really do love that vision uh it's a
long-term vision but so importantly is
to have that be a a safe field because
you're right smack in the middle of the
Middle East you're right along Israel it
should have never ever been given away
shouldn't have been given away by Israel
i don't know why they did it i mean I do
know why because they were promised
peace but that didn't work out too well
because it's one of the most dangerous
pieces of land anywhere in the world
gaza is one of the most dangerous places
in the world so they gave it away for
good intention and it it didn't work out
that way and uh a lot of people like my
concept but you know there are other
concepts that I like too and there are
some concepts I don't like you know what
I don't like the way it is now because
right now it's a dangerous death trap
gaza yeah
thank you sir can you talk a little bit
about uh your meeting potential meeting
with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
meet with him could that happen in Saudi
Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
well a little bit on not providing
tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
we're not talking about tariffs with
Russia is because we're not doing
business essentially with Russia because
they're in a war and I'm not happy about
what's going on with uh with the bombing
because they're bombing like crazy right
now they're bombing i don't know what's
happening there that's not a good
situation so we're meeting with Russia
we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
getting sort of close but I'm not happy
with all the bombing that's going on the
last uh week or so horrible it's a
horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at 57 billion
dollars they were making I call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was 57 billion dollars that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries who want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB this is unrelated because
it's a different kind of a relationship
but he started off our conversation
today that he's cutting all of the
tariffs he's cutting everything he's
going to get down to a free base he's
going to do things that in all fairness
other countries if they said that would
have never even thought about doing it
now they're offering things to us that
we would have never even thought of
asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so when
countries don't allow us to sell our
product but we allow them to sell their
product when they charge us massive
amounts of money for the privilege of
going into their country those days are
over
okay yeah go ahead sir me
he sounds so surprised mr president um
on Iran uh two questions please first
you can give us more details about where
the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
tell you that i I can just tell you
there's a major meeting going on between
us and Iran and that'll take place on
Saturday and it's at top level and
second question about this um a lot of
people think that those talks are not
going to lead anywhere because the I
will give up your I think that's a
possibility if diplomacy fails is the
United States under your leadership
ready to take military action to destroy
the Iranian nuclear program program and
remove this threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that a yes you know it's
not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
have a nuclear weapon that's all there
is can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah
on manufacturing yeah please mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
They sort of knew the territory pretty
good and I said "How are they doing?"
She they said "Well only 24 are living
the rest are dead." And these are young
people largely young people don't die
you know young people have an amazing
ability to live they can live through
horrible things but these are young
people and when they said that 24 are
living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
Alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say my son is there i said
well how's he doing well he's dead but
would you do me the biggest favor ever
could you bring his body back home they
talked about a young dead boy and a
young dead girl like they were living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people some old ones too
frankly and those people have lived in
hell when they came off the second group
that came out they look like uh they
just got out of a concentration camp
they look exactly like the pictures that
I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
camps
and then they got a little bit better
you know as but that second group those
people came out and I said "This is
unbelievable we're going back into a a
chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
american manufacturing fully up to speed
in response to these tariffs what
happens in the meantime should Americans
be prepared potentially for years
we have
now seven trillion dollars think of this
7 trillion of commitments from companies
wanting to go in from Apple to many many
companies many from Taiwan what it takes
time to Of course it takes Well are you
asking me a question or you telling me
yeah it takes time you know you got to
build a thing called the factory you
have to build your energy you have to do
uh a lot of things i'm giving them
energy you know we're going to let them
build their own power plants they'll be
their own essentially they're going to
be in charge of the power plant because
our uh power is not reliable enough you
have a grid that's old and susceptible
to a lot of things including bombing and
weather and a lot of other things and
we're going to give them record timing
in terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
from Harris um Turkey claims it will
stabilize uh the situation in Syria
turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
Turkey to influence Syria what do you
think do you think uh Turkeykey's
influence in Syria can actually make it
a better more peaceful country or vice
versa well I have uh great relations
with a man named Erdogan have you heard
of him and I happen to like him and he
likes me and I know the press will get
very angry he likes her to want but I do
and he likes me and we've never had a
problem and and we've gone through a lot
and we've never had a problem we always
got we as you remember we got our
minister back from Turkey you remember
that and uh this was a big deal at the
time and we got him back uh and I told
the prime minister I said just BB if you
have a problem with Turkey I really
think I'm going to be able to work it
out you know I have a very very good
relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over." He's taken it over
through surrogates he goes "No no no no
no no it was not me it was I said it was
you." But that's okay you don't have to
say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
but what he did he look he's a tough guy
and he's very smart and uh he did
something that nobody was able to do you
know you got to hand it to him uh any
problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody appreciate
thank you thank
you you are a great great champion of
our alliance and uh you actually do the
things that you say you do and I I think
that people respect that enormously i
certainly do and people of Israel do and
I think the Jewish people do as well we
just saw your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forms i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come that's the
first Thank you very much that's very
nice thank you thank you Mr president
what about the hostages well the let him
finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day and they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in the seat right here not your seat but
this seat they allowed things to happen
to our country that they shouldn't have
allowed to happen on trade and other
things many other things i mean look at
what's happened with our last president
where he allowed millions of people to
come into our country with an open
border who would want an open border how
stupid is that but uh he allowed
millions and millions of people and of
the millions and I think it was 21
million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
market would you be open to a pause in
tariffs to allow for negotiations well
we're not looking at that we have many
many uh countries that are coming to
negotiate deals with us and they're
going to be fair deals and uh in certain
cases they're going to be be paying
substantial tariffs they'll be fair
deals as you know I spoke this morning
with the prime minister of Japan and we
had a very good conversation they're
coming and I said "One thing you're
going to have to open up your country
because we sold no cars like zero cars
in Japan." And they sold millions of
cars into our country uh they don't
really take our agriculture a little bit
of it just to keep us slightly happy but
they don't take what they're supposed to
be taking so we have a great
relationship with Japan we're going to
keep it that way but they're coming in
to meet and other C countries are coming
in uh with China as you know against my
statement they put a 34% tariff on above
what their ridiculous tariffs were
already and I said if that tariff isn't
removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
putting a 50% tariff on above the
tariffs that we put on so they've gone
for years they become a rich country
because of people again that were in the
White House that allowed this to happen
uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
year they'd make us on trade and it
shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
great relationship with President Xi i
hope it's going to stay that way i have
great respect for China but they can't
do this we're just uh we're going to
have one shot at this and no other
president's going to do this what I'm
doing and I'll tell you what it's an
honor to do it because we have been just
just destroyed what they've done to our
system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
debt for a reason and uh the reason is
that people allowed it to get that way
so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
talking to a lot of different countries
and I think you know if if if we can
make a really fair deal and a good deal
for the United States not a good deal
for others this is America first it's
now America first and we didn't put
America first we put America last the
people that were in the Oval Office put
America last and we're not going to
stand for it
go ahead
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is that well it could be
they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal.$50 billion dollars
worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're going to
have nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr many
of you go ahead
maybe talk about it for a second because
a lot of people are asking the Houthis
we've we've been very tough and very
successful
militarily we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles it's highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they uh they should
not continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was but uh left a lot of our
military behind left left left you see
them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things and
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military uh we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
missiles or anything uh that we have
ordered and it's in many ways too bad
that we have to do it because hopefully
we're not going to have to use it but
the military is very very powerful and
uh it's going to remain that way
yes green thank you Mr president i want
to ask you about this
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say
"Oh maybe you're going through
surrogates or you're not dealing
directly you're dealing through other
countries." No we're dealing with them
directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
be made that would be great going to be
It would be really great for Iran and I
can tell you that but hopefully we're
not going to have to get into that we we
are meeting very importantly on Saturday
at almost the highest level and we'll
see how it works out please how do you
ensure Mr president that these tariffs
don't drive US training partners into
the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
about it i'm not worried about it if
they want to be in the hands of the US
they don't want to be in the hands of
the Chinese
uh the Chinese have turned out to be
really not very good at that uh people
that are with us they're with us but we
cannot be uh taken advantage of any
longer i used to watch these deals for
years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not Well the EU no it's
not the EU has been very tough over the
years it was I always say it was formed
to really do damage to the United States
in trade that's the reason it was formed
it was formed with all of the countries
from Europe i guess most of them not all
of them but most of them and they formed
together to uh create a little bit of a
monopoly situation to create a unified
force against the United States for
trade so they have uh NATO which is
largely the same countries and they uh
took advantage of us dollar-wise and
militarily until I got there you know I
I was able to get $600 billion dollars
from NATO where they paid NATO because
most of these nations weren't even
paying we were paying for NATO so we're
paying them to guard them militarily and
they're screwing us on trade so that's
not a good combination so now uh it's
really turned around it's the opposite
and the European Union's been very ne
very bad to us they don't take our cars
like Japan in that sense they don't take
our agricultural product they don't take
anything practically and yet they send
millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
and millions of cars into the US but we
don't have a car that's been sold to the
European Union or other places but let's
go for the European Union and it's not
going to be that way it's got to be fair
and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
not fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right an oldfashioned
term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
when I got in the press went absolutely
crazy the first week they said "Eggs
have quadrupled in price." I said "I
just got here tell me about it." And
Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
job and eggs are down now 79% and
they're all over the place and this was
a problem that somebody else would have
taken a long time to cure uh we have
energy is down we have interest rates
are down we have groceries meaning food
is down we have everything is down at
levels that nobody ever thought possible
energy looks like it's going to be in in
the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energy is down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debt's become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like getting the hostages out
from the horrific captivity yeah we are
trying very hard to get the hostages out
uh we're looking at another ceasefire
we'll see what happens but we have we
want to get the hostages out the Israeli
people want the hostages out more than
anything they want the hostages out this
man is working very hard with us to do
that i mean I don't know i hope he's
being appreciated because he's been a
great leader he's working very very hard
on the hostages and many other things
and there are plenty of things you have
to work on it's a it's a tough place in
the world i have a good partner yeah you
do have a good partner and so do we we
we're working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said "No." I
said "All of them." I said "Did they
ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
you're going to be okay." No they didn't
do that they'd slap us the hatred is
unbelievable and the lives you know they
lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
was a pipe and they always thought they
were suffocating they were going to
suffocate and then they'd open up the
pipe and it was like three and a half
feet high this isn't you know we hear
tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
the stories I heard were incredible but
I just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like "Here take
this it's a little extra meal or
something." They lived like hell i I
don't know they seem to be they were
amazing to me because they seemed to be
pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
I guarantee underneath they have to be
scarred and one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know long time these are people
that have been really really horribly
treated i've never seen anything like it
actually I was very surprised to hear
the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you can have an army tank it's
going to dent so they come up with rules
and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh$ two
trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
a trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're going to have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
possible 90,000 plants and factories
since NAFTA which was by the way the
worst trade deal ever ever developed
ever had by any country anywhere nafta
and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
would be impossible and I terminated
through Congress we terminated it you
had to get it through Congress it was a
trap it was a horrible thing and we got
it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
your government put on Israeli boots on
where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
billion a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
again in the Gaza Strip by myself might
be called up in a month do you think
that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
to a deal do you think blocking
humanitarian aid is also an effective
pressure well you know how I feel about
the Gaza Strip i think it's an
incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it i I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration ghana gaza all it is
is a a concept that I had that I think
is good and now people are copying it
you know baby do you want to tell people
are talking about the Trump plan gee why
do we do that uh would you like to
answer that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazins were
closed in any other place including in
arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
place where they locked them in we
didn't lock them in they're locked in
and what is wrong with giving people a
choice now we've been talking including
over lunch about some countries are
won't go into them right now that are
saying you know if Gazans want to leave
we want to take them in and I think this
is this is the right thing to do if you
give you know it's going to take years
to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
can have an option president has a
vision countries are responding to that
vision we're working on it i hope you'll
have good news for you
i will say people love Excuse me people
really do love that vision uh it's a
long-term vision but so importantly is
to have that be a a safe field because
you're right smack in the middle of the
Middle East you're right along Israel it
should have never ever been given away
shouldn't have been given away by Israel
i don't know why they did it i mean I do
know why because they were promised
peace but that didn't work out too well
because it's one of the most dangerous
pieces of land anywhere in the world
gaza is one of the most dangerous places
in the world so they gave it away for
good intention and it it didn't work out
that way and uh a lot of people like my
concept but you know there are other
concepts that I like too and there are
some concepts I don't like you know what
I don't like the way it is now because
right now it's a dangerous death trap
gaza yeah
thank you sir can you talk a little bit
about uh your meeting potential meeting
with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
meet with him could that happen in Saudi
Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
well a little bit on not providing
tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
we're not talking about tariffs with
Russia is because we're not doing
business essentially with Russia because
they're in a war and I'm not happy about
what's going on with uh with the bombing
because they're bombing like crazy right
now they're bombing i don't know what's
happening there that's not a good
situation so we're meeting with Russia
we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
getting sort of close but I'm not happy
with all the bombing that's going on the
last uh week or so horrible it's a
horrible thing it's a horrible thing
countries to get below 10%
in in terms of tariffs
look we've been ripped off and taken
advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
reason we got ripped off and the way
they did it was tariffs they were
charged tariffs massive numbers of
dollars and when you look at uh China
when I took over it was at $57 billion
dollars they were making i call it
making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
mean anything having a surplus means a
lot in my opinion it's almost like a
profit or loss statement and when I took
over was $57 billion dollars that China
with this is originally first term and
we were very very tough on them because
they were taking that money and they
were building a military with it then
when Biden came in he let him get away
with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
what that man had no idea what was
happening whether it was the border or
China or anything else he had no idea
what was going on and they got they went
wild china went wild and the money they
make is ridiculous okay it's just not
going to happen and hopefully we'll get
along with China if we do that's great
and if we don't that's okay too but we
can't let that continue because that's a
that's an abuse they abused the poor
people that sat in the seat that poor
Biden he was abused by them they took
advantage of him and I'm surprised you
know they have smart people they were
radical left lunatics but they're smart
i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
you know to to happen but uh we are
going to bring great trade and we're
going to be fair to other countries and
I I will say this uh virtually every
country wants to negotiate if I didn't
do what I did over the last couple of
weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
negotiate we would have gone to these
countries who want to talk and they were
well we don't want to talk now they're
coming to us they're offering things
like even BB and this is unrelated
because it's a different kind of a
relationship but he started off our
conversation today that he's cutting all
of the tariffs he's cutting everything
he's going to get down to a free base
he's going to do things that in all
fairness other countries if they said
that would have never even thought about
doing it now they're offering things to
us that we would have never even thought
of asking them for because they're
experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
is that they've taken advantage of us
and we finally fought back tariffs will
make this country very rich we're rich
anyway but we're rich in a certain way
uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
to get rid of it and we can do it
quickly with proper deals so
when countries don't allow us to sell
our product but we allow them to sell
their product when they charge us
massive amounts of money for the
privilege of going into their country
those days are over okay
yeah go ahead sure me
he sounds so
surpris first you can give us more
details about where the meeting on
Saturday is going i can't tell you that
i I can just tell you there's a major
meeting going on between us and Iran and
that'll take place on Saturday and it's
at top level and second question about
this um a lot of people think that those
talks are not going to lead anywhere
because the right
I think that's a possibility if
diplomacy fails is the United States
under your leadership ready to take
military action to destroy the Iranian
nuclear program program and remove this
threat
i think if the talks aren't successful
with
Iran I think Iran is going to be in
great danger and I hate to say it great
danger because they can't have a nuclear
weapon so is that a yes you know it's
not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
have a nuclear weapon that's all there
is can't have it right now we have
countries that have nuclear power that
shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
be able to negotiate out of that too as
part of this later on down the line but
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
the talks aren't
successful I actually think it'll be a
very bad day for Iran if that's the case
yeah mr president on Yeah please mr mr
president was October 7th the death blow
of the two-state solution and would you
consider classifying the Palestinian
Authority as a terrorist organization
for its continued paper sake terror
financing payments so October 7th was a
horrible day that some people they they
deny it now I can't believe they deny it
from the standpoint of they do it
because they think it's good politically
but October I've seen the tapes i've
seen things that you don't want to see
october 7th was a horrible day and it
will go down as one of the really bad
days in the history of the world it was
a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
happened and they grabbed some of these
people i'll give you an example when I
was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
I said "So how many are there?"
"Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
59." They sort of knew the territory
pretty good and I said "How are they
doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are
living the rest are dead." And these are
young people largely young people don't
die you know young people have an
amazing ability to live they can live
through horrible things but these are
young people and when they said that 24
are living and the rest are dead and you
know I've had parents come up Israeli
parents largely we have some Americans
and we had I guess we have uh one left
alex we have the one left but but I've
had Israeli parents come up to me at
events and say "My son is there." I said
"Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead
but would you do me the biggest favor
ever could you bring his body back
home?" They talked about a young dead
boy and a young dead girl like they were
living
and that could have something to do with
religion that could have something to do
with I guess maybe any parent would be
but I was surprised they said "Sir my
son is
dead it is just as important to bring
that body back home." I asked that
question as if he were alive so you have
a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
bring them back uh but it's a horrible
thing that's happened these are young
largely young people but some old ones
too frankly and those people have lived
in hell when they came off the second
group that came out they look like uh
they just got out of a concentration
camp they looked exactly like the
pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the
concentration
camps and then they got a little bit
better you know as But that second group
those people came out and I said "This
is unbelievable we're going back into a
a chapter in history that is one of the
worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
years fully up to speed in response to
these tariffs what happens in the
meantime should Americans be prepared
potentially for years
we have now uh seven trillion dollars
think of this 7 trillion of commitments
from companies wanting to go in from
Apple to many many companies many from
Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
course it takes Well are you asking me a
question or you're telling me yeah it
takes time you know you got to build a
thing called the factory you have to
build your energy you have to do uh a
lot of things i'm giving them energy you
know we're going to let them build their
own power plants they'll be their own
essentially they're going to be in
charge of the power plant because our uh
power is not reliable enough you have a
grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
of things including bombing and weather
and a lot of other things and we're
going to give them record timing in
terms of approvals of electric plants
most of them want to build electric
plants we need massive amounts of
electricity if we're going to compete
with China and others and interestingly
we're way ahead right now in the AI race
with China but the way we lose that race
is if we can't give them electric but we
have more plants being built we have
everything we're doing so great and we
want to keep it that way and tariffs
will be an important part of it but one
of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
doing a fantastic job head of
environmental protection and he's doing
very rapid approvals for people to get
for big companies to that are going to
build a plant that's going to cost
billions of dollars and we're going to
get them their approvals they have to be
environmentally perfect everything good
but they're going to be in record time a
matter of months versus a matter of many
many years
go ahead
yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
Syria what do you think do you think uh
Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
actually make it a better more peaceful
country or vice versa well I have uh
great relations with a man named Erdogan
have you heard of him and I happen to
like him and he likes me and I know the
press will get very angry he likes
Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
we've never had a problem and and we've
gone through a lot and we've never had a
problem we always got we as you remember
we got our minister back from Turkey you
remember that and uh this was a big deal
at the time and we got him back uh and I
told the prime minister I said just BB
if you have a problem with Turkey I
really think I'm going to be able to
work it out you know I have a very very
good relationship
uh with Turkey and with their leader and
I think we'll be able to work it out so
I hope that's not going to be a problem
i don't think it will be a problem now
with that being said I believe it was
Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
it i said
"Congratulations you've done what
nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
you've taken over Syria with different
names but same thing." I said "You've
taken it over." He's taken it over
through surrogates he goes "No no no no
no no it was not me it was I said "It
was you but that's okay you don't have
to say well it sort of maybe was me."
Okay but what he did he's look he's a
tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
did something that nobody was able to do
you know you got to hand it to him uh
any problem that you have with Turkey I
think I can solve i mean as long as
you're reasonable you have to be
reasonable we have to be reasonable
thank you very much everybody
appreciate Thank you
standing with us you are a great great
champion of our alliance and uh you
actually do the things that you say you
do and I I think that people respect
that enormously i certainly do and
people of Israel do and I think the
Jewish people do as well we just saw
your representative in the the
Department of Justice fighting
anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
international forums i just want you to
know from the heart it's deeply deeply
appreciated as you said we had the
opportunity to talk today about many
subjects uh first if I can mention
tariffs it's a subject of some interest
today uh I can tell you that uh I said
to the president a very simple thing we
will eliminate the trade deficit with
the United States we intend to do it
very quickly we think it's the right
thing to do and we're going to also
eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
trade barriers that have been put up
unnecessarily and I think Israel can
serve as a model for many countries who
ought to do the same i recognize the the
position of the United States it says
you know we're allowing other countries
to put tariffs on us but we don't put
tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
trade champion and free trade has to be
fair trade and I think that's basically
uh the position that you have uh put
forward Mr president we are going to
eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
the opportunity to speak to Secretary
Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
we could affect this quickly and I hope
to bring a solution very quickly we're
not talking about intentions we're not
talking about uh you know just words
we're talking about results those
results are going to come that's the
first Thank you very much that's very
nice thank you thank you Mr president
what about the hostages well the let him
finish let him
finish okay uh we spoke about not only
the hostages
uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
is a human story of un just unbearable
uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
to them yesterday spoke to another one
when I was in Hungary before I came here
i speak to them every day they're in
agony the hostages are in agony and we
want to get them all out uh Steve
Witkoff who was President Trump's very
able representative helped us get a deal
that got 25 out we're working now on
another deal that we hope will succeed
uh and we're committed to getting all
the hostages out but also eliminating
the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
and enabling the people of Gaza to
freely make a choice to go wherever they
want i mean they should have that choice
and the president put forward a vision a
bold vision which we discussed as well
including the uh countries that might uh
be amendable and are amendable to
accepting Palestinians of their free
choice if they choose to go there and I
think that's the second thing that we
discussed uh but the hostages came right
on top uh we also discussed the
situation uh in Syria
uh we have uh we've had neighboring
relations with Turkey that have
deteriorated and we don't want to see
Syria being used by anyone including
Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
turkey is
a country
that has a great relationship with the
United States the president has a
relationship with the leader of Turkey
we discussed how we can avoid this
conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
think we can't have a better
interlocutor than the president of the
United States for this purpose and of
course we also discussed Iran look we're
both united in the uh goal that Iran
does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
can be done diplomatically in a full way
the way it was done in Libya I think
that would be a good thing uh but
whatever happens we have to make sure
that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
that's the end of my speech
mr we are we're having direct talks with
Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
having direct talks with Iran and uh
they've started it'll go on Saturday we
have a very big meeting and we'll see
what can happen and I think everybody
agrees that uh doing a deal would be
preferable to doing the obvious and the
obvious is not something that I want to
be involved with or frankly that Israel
wants to be involved with if they can
avoid it so we're going to see if we can
avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
dangerous
territory and hopefully those talks will
be successful and I think it would be in
Iran's best interest if they are
successful we hope we hope that's going
to happen uh and we had just a lot of
good talks on a lot of things i
appreciate very much what you said about
the tariffs we've been ripped off and
taken advantage of by many countries
over the years and uh can't do it
anymore just can't do it anymore we
can't be the stupid people anymore and
it's all because of the people that sat
in this seat right here not your seat
but this seat they allowed things to
happen to our country that they
shouldn't have allowed to happen on
trade and other things many other things
i mean look at what's happened with our
last president where he allowed millions
of people to come into our country with
an open border who would want an open
border how stupid is that but uh he
allowed millions and millions of people
and of the millions and I think it was
21 million people but let's say three of
them were serious criminals serious
murderers and drug dealers and gang
members and people from jails all the
jails emptied out right into our country
right along the open border on the on
Mexico generally to Mexico open they
came in from Canada too by the way a lot
but generally speaking on the southern
border and uh what a shame it is that we
are now working very hard to get them
out get the criminals out get the
murderers out the drug dealers uh the
mentally insane get them out they
dropped the mentally insane in our
country too and this was all done by the
Biden administration it's a disgrace
that we have to work so hard and then we
have judges that try and protect these
people but they didn't protect us when
the people were being let in but to get
them out is never easy with these people
so uh I think we're doing a great job
the border is the best it's ever been
even as strong as it was I had a great
solid border i think it might even be
tougher right now and stronger so people
are coming into our country but they're
coming in legally we have a legal
process and we have that moving along
properly because we need people to come
into our country but we want people that
can love our country and cherish our
country so that's where we are and with
that any questions
the market today and would be open to a
pause in terrorists to allow for
negotiations well we're not looking at
that we have many many uh countries that
are coming to negotiate deals with us
and they're going to be fair deals and
in certain cases they're going to be be
paying substantial tariffs they'll be
fair deals as you know I spoke this
morning with the prime minister of Japan
and we had a very good conversation
they're coming and I said "One thing
you're going to have to open up your
country because we sold no cars like
zero cars in Japan." And they sold
millions of cars into our country uh
they don't really take our agriculture a
little bit of it just to keep us
slightly happy but they don't take what
they're supposed to be taking so we have
a great relationship with Japan we're
going to keep it that way but they're
coming in to meet and other C countries
are coming in uh with China as you know
against my statement they put a 34%
tariff on above what their ridiculous
tariffs were already and I said if that
tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
above the tariffs that we put on so
they've gone for years they become a
rich country because of people again
that were in the White House that
allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
billions of dollars a year they'd make
on us on trade and it shouldn't be that
way and uh I have a great relationship
with President Xi i hope it's going to
stay that way i have great respect for
China but they can't do this we're just
uh we're going to have one shot at this
and no other president's going to do
this what I'm doing and I'll tell you
what it's an honor to do it because we
have been just just destroyed what
they've done to our system you know we
have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason
and uh the reason is that people allowed
it to get that way so we'll be uh
talking to China we'll be talking to a
lot of different countries and I think
you know if if if we can make a really
fair deal and a good deal for the United
States not a good deal for others this
is America first it's now America first
and we didn't put America first we put
America last the people that were in the
Oval Office put America last and we're
not going to stand for it
go ahead
go ahead um two questions do you expect
of these deals to be made before April
9th and secondly there have been some
mixed messages from your administration
you're talking about negotiations and
yet others in your administration are
saying that these tariffs are actually
permanent what is the act well it could
be they can both be true there can be
permanent tariffs and there can also be
negotiations because there are things
that we need beyond tariffs we need open
borders you know we almost had a deal
with China where we're going to open up
China it was almost done some of you
remember it during my first term and it
was very disappointing we ended up
making a great deal $50 billion dollars
worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
you'd like that in Israel and I made
that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
was that plus they were going to open up
China so that our companies could go
into China and compete with other
countries and China for the you know for
a large number of people and at the very
end that deal was terminated and we went
to a piece of the deal and there so
there are a lot of things outside of
tariffs but tariffs are very important
but there are a lot of things like
opening up countries that were totally
closed china's essentially a closed
country in fact it is a closed country
and what they do is they charge tariffs
so that if you if you sell cars or if
you sell anything uh nobody's going to
buy it because the price is out of
control but that's true with a lot of
other countries also so we're going to
get fair deals and good deals with every
country and if we don't we're gonna have
nothing to do with them they're not
going to be allowed to participate in
the United States
relax we have time this gentleman is all
day long mr president many
of you go ahead
talk about it for a second because a lot
of people are asking the Houthis we've
we've been very tough and very
successful militarily
we've
uh really damaged them badly these were
people shooting down ships and other
things by the way flying objects like
airplanes and we uh we've put a major
hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
able to do we've uh really hit them hard
and and it's every night night after
night and we've gotten many of their
leaders and their experts they're
experts on missiles i mean they actually
make missiles nobody thought that but
they make missiles they're highly
sophisticated and they're very tough but
they've been uh very badly damaged
nobody else was able to do that but us
pete do you want to discuss that please
yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
worse it's been a devastating campaign
whether it's underground facilities
weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
the open air defense assets we are not
going to relent and it's only to get
more unrelenting until the Houthis
declare they will stop shooting at our
ships and we've been very clear with the
Iranians as well uh they uh they should
not continue to provide support to the
Houthis and that message has been made
very clear so we have a lot more options
and a lot more pressure to apply and we
know because we see the reports how
devastating this campaign has been in
them and we will not run we have a great
military there's no military like our
military and despite Biden having given
a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
piece but it was a lot of our military
away in Afghanistan and one of the
dumbest situations I think and maybe the
most embarrassing situation we've ever
been involved in that that short period
of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
that was that uh left a lot of our
military behind left left left you see
them in their annual parades where
they're parading trucks that are
armorplated and different things that
they can't but it's many billions of
dollars we left behind but despite that
uh we have a tremendous military that
was a very small portion because we
rebuilt the military during my first
term and uh we uh we have great uh great
things happening with our military we
also uh essentially approved a budget
which is in the facility you'll like to
hear this of a trillion dollars $1
trillion and nobody's seen anything like
it we have to build our military and
we're very costconscious but the
military is something that we have to
build and we have to be strong because
you got a lot of bad forces out there
now so we're going to be approving a
budget the uh and I'm proud to say
actually the biggest one we've ever done
for the military uh we're cutting other
things that were uh under Doge but under
a lot of other when you look at uh a
woman getting $2 billion for
environmental and it had nothing to do
with environmental and they had $100 in
the bank and they give her two billion
many many of those cases all that stuff
is going to be cut out but we are
getting a very very powerful military we
have things under order now the likes of
which we've never had before we've never
had the kind of uh aircraft
the kind of missiles or anything uh that
we have ordered and it's in many ways
too bad that we have to do it because
hopefully we're not going to have to use
it but the military is very very
powerful and uh it's going to remain
that way
yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
you about because this is the first time
we hear that
US is it possible to give us some more
information at what level high level
very high level yeah we're dealing with
the Iranians we have a very big meeting
on Saturday and we're dealing with them
directly you know a lot of people say oh
maybe you're going through surrogates or
you're not dealing directly you're
dealing through other countries no we're
dealing with them directly and uh maybe
a deal is going to be made that'll be
Right that'll be it'll be really great
for Iran i can tell you that but
hopefully we're not going to have to get
into that we we are meeting very
importantly on Saturday at almost the
highest level and we'll see how it works
out please how do you ensure Mr
president that these tariffs don't drive
US trading partners into the hands of
the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm
not worried about it if they want to be
in the hands of the US they don't want
to be in the hands of the Chinese
uh the Chinese have turned out to be
really not very good at that uh people
that are with us they're with us but we
cannot be uh taken advantage of any
longer i used to watch these deals for
years i've been talking about it for
years you and I've been talking about it
for 35 years how our country is being
ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
it was Japan then it was something else
then it was another group then it was
China china's doing the the best job of
it frankly and it's just not going to
happen not going to happen
eu has said that they have offered zero
for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
goods is that not enough well the EU no
it's not the EU has been very tough over
the years it was I always say it was
formed to really do damage to the United
States in trade that's the reason it was
formed it was formed with all of the
countries from Europe i guess most of
them not all of them but most of them
and they formed together to create a
little bit of a monopoly situation to
create a unified force against the
United States for trade so they have uh
NATO which is largely the same countries
and they uh took advantage of us
dollar-wise and militarily until I got
there you know I I was able to get $600
billion dollars from NATO where they
paid NATO because most of these nations
weren't even paying we were paying for
NATO so we're paying them to guard them
militarily and they're screwing us on
trade so that's not a good combination
so now uh it's really turned around it's
the opposite and the European Union's
been very ne very bad to us they don't
take our cars like Japan in that sense
they don't take our agricultural product
they don't take anything practically and
yet they send millions of cars in a year
mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
sending millions and millions of cars
into the US but we don't have a car
that's been sold to the European Union
or other places but let's go for the
European Union and it's not going to be
that way it's got to be fair and
reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
fair uh we have a deficit with the
European Union of $350
billion and it's going to disappear fast
and one of the reasons and one of the
ways that that can disappear easily and
quickly is they're going to have to buy
our energy from us because they need it
they're going to have to buy it from us
they can buy it we can knock off $350
billion in one week they have to buy and
commit to buy a like amount of energy
and we have that you know we have more
energy than any country in the world i
don't know if you know that this he
knows everything but the one thing he
may not know we have more energy than
any country in the world we have more of
every kind of energy every form of
energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
people talk about I call it beautiful
clean coal uh as you know Germany is
opening up a coal plant a week they
tried the windmills and it didn't work
they tried all the other solutions and
they were ready to go out of business
now they're doing a coal plant a week
china is now up to two coal plants that
uh they're opening two major coal plants
every single week in China all over
China and that we're not allowed to use
coal well we have clean beautiful coal
more than anybody else we have oil and
gas more than anybody else we have the
most energy of any country in the world
including Saudi Arabia including
everybody by a lot and I took it to
number one we were number three and I
took it to number one during my
administration
and the reason that we were hurt so
badly and the reason that we went into
such incredible inflation during Biden
is energy it was also their bad spending
but energy because they played around
with this incredible thing that we had
built this administration had built and
the energy cost went through the roof
and when that went up everything else
followed now if you look at what's
happening you're going to see this today
i said we're going to try and get
groceries down right oldfashioned term
but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
got in the press went absolutely crazy
the first week they said "Eggs have
quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
here tell me about it." And Brooke
Rollins and our team did a great job and
eggs are down now 79% and they're all
over the place and this was a problem
that somebody else would have taken a
long time to cure uh we have energy is
down we have interest rates are down we
have groceries meaning food is down we
have everything is down at levels that
nobody ever thought possible energy
looks like it's going to be in in the
$2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
are we're really doing amazing i mean
we're we're cutting prices because
prices got so high people couldn't live
i mean the prices for groceries the
prices for standard standard groceries
standard things were going through the
roof they couldn't live and now those
prices are coming down so call them
groceries but that's down energyy's down
and interest rates are down everything's
down and the interest rates the beauty
there is when we refinance debt you know
debt's become such a big factor in this
country we're going to get we're going
to start paying debt off with tariffs
and other things but uh it's such a big
factor because the interest rates so
high well now that's coming way down so
our budget's going to look a lot better
because interest costs are way down and
I guess I've done that
many Israelis are watching you now our
last show good what is your specific I
hope they like me getting the hostages
out from the horrific captivity yeah we
are trying very hard to get the hostages
out uh we're looking at another
ceasefire we'll see what happens but we
have we want to get the hostages out the
Israeli people want the hostages out
more than anything they want the
hostages out this man is working very
hard with us to do that i mean I don't
know i hope he's being appreciated
because he's been a great leader he's
working very very hard on the hostages
and many other things and there are
plenty of things you have to work on
it's a it's a tough place in the world i
have a good partner yeah you do have a
good partner and so do we we we're
working very hard on the hospital
if you're going to negotiate a new deal
in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
going to be more effective than the
JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
think it'll be uh different and maybe a
lot stronger but they were so happy when
we made that first deal because we did
get a lot out you know I had people
right in this office this beautiful oval
office they came in 10 people hostages
you know that and I said to them uh so
how was it and the stories they told me
I mean as an example I said to them was
there any sign of love you were there 10
people it's only 10 but it's pretty
representative did the Hamas show any
signs of like help or liking you did
they wink at you did they give you a
piece of bread extra did they give you a
meal on the side like you know you think
of doing like what happened in Germany
what happened elsewhere people would try
and help people that were in
unbelievable distress they said no i
said all of them i said "Did they ever
wink at you like "You'll be okay you're
going to be okay." No they didn't do
that that is unbelievable and the lives
you know they lived in a pipe not really
a tunnel it was a pipe and they always
thought they were suffocating they were
going to suffocate and then they'd open
up the pipe and it was like three and a
half ft high this isn't you know we hear
tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
the stories I heard were incredible but
I just said "Was there any sign of
potential love or affection?" And there
were none whatsoever it was amazing to
me there was nothing like here take this
it's a little extra meal or something
they lived like hell i I don't know they
seemed to be they were amazing to me
because they seemed to be pretty normal
they weren't scarred but I I guarantee
underneath they have to be scarred and
one was there for
356 days another was there for about 180
days you know a long time these are
people that have been really really
horribly treated i've never seen
anything like it actually i was very
surprised to hear the answer
thank you Mr president are there two or
three countries that on your list that
you feel are farther along in getting
their tariffs lowered i think well I
think there are many that want to get
rid of tariffs right now uh European
Union i mean as badly as they've treated
us they've you know they've brought
their car tariffs essentially off i
guess they brought it down to two and a
half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
tariffs it's tariffs where they put
things on that make it impossible for
you to sell a car it's not a money thing
it's they make it so difficult the
standards and the tests uh they drop a
bowling ball on the top of your car from
20 feet up in the air and if there's a
little dent they say no I'm sorry your
car doesn't qualify when the same car
from Germany or would dent likewise
unless you can have an army tank it's
going to dent so they come up with rules
and regulations that are uh just
designed for one reason that you can't
sell your product in those countries and
and uh we're not going to let that
happen those are called nonmonetary
barriers they make barriers that are so
tough that it's impossible to qualify so
so tariffs are a big part of it but but
there's another big part of it and
that's barriers they also do something
else they manipulate their currency and
they drive it down they want to drive it
they want to have low currencies you
know uh it sounds better to have a high
currency a strong dollar or whatever but
uh they bring their currency down and
when it competes with our currency it's
very hard to sell a tractor it's very
hard to sell product because their
currency is low and ours is much higher
relatively and so it makes it very hard
i speak to a lot of companies that do
business tractor companies and they say
it's so hard to sell because what
they've done is they've lowered the yen
or they've lowered the one or they've
lowered their currency so that it's very
hard to compete we don't want that
either so we have a lot of things that
we're talking about but we're going to
fix it properly and it's going to be
fair to everybody and in the end I think
we're gonna have a world that does a lot
better you know but they have to respect
the United States and and nobody but me
would do this nobody but me would do
this you know it's would be nice to
serve a nice easy term but we have an
opportunity to change the fabric of our
country we have an opportunity to reset
the table on trade we lose billions of
dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
dollars a year on trade we lose a
trillion dollars a year to China a
trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on trade to China we lose
hundreds of billions of dollars overall
probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
why would we do that number one why
would we do that and then you have to
say is it sustainable then you hear
about all of the people that say "Well
deficits if we have a deficit with a
country or if the country has a big
surplus with us like China has a massive
surplus that they take and they spend on
their military." Well we don't want that
i don't want them to take 500600 billion
dollars a year and spend it on their
military i don't want them spending
money on their military and I shouldn't
have to spend money we shouldn't have to
spend it either because you know
hopefully and I said this to President
Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
going to use in other words because
we're not going to use those incredible
weapons that we have and that they have
we don't want that so uh it's going to
be very interesting it's it's the only
chance our pre our country will have to
reset the table because no other
president would be willing to do what
I'm doing or to even go through it now I
don't mind going through it because I
see a beautiful picture at the end uh
but we are making tremendous progress
with a lot of countries and the
countries that really took advantage of
us are now saying please negotiate you
know why because they're getting beaten
badly because of what's happening
they're getting beaten badly they're
being devalued as countries but it's the
only chance we're going to have to reset
the table on trade and when we do we're
going to come out unbelievably well
we're gonna have a strong country
economically again and we're going to
have those factories that are empty all
over the United States we've lost
90,000 plants and factories think of
this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
which was by the way the worst trade
deal ever ever developed ever had by any
country anywhere nafta and I terminated
NAFTA everybody said it would be
impossible and I terminated through
Congress we terminated it you had to get
it through Congress it was a trap it was
a horrible thing and we got it
done problem is they cheat they cheat
like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
just one of those things but we are
resetting a table and we're going to
have great trade and we're going to have
a very strong country our country is
going to be at a level that is as maybe
never been or maybe you know our country
was the strongest believe it or not from
1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
tariff based we had no income tax then
in 1913 some genius came up with the
idea of let's charge the people of our
country not foreign countries that are
ripping off our country and the country
was never relatively was never that kind
of wealth we had so much wealth we
didn't know what to do with our money we
had meetings we had we had committees
and these committees worked tirelessly
to study one subject we have so much
money what are we going to do with it
who are we going to give it to and I
hope we're going to be in that position
again
do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
the government put on Israeli goods on
where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well
we're talking about a whole new trade
maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
billion dollars a year that's a lot
congratulations by the way that's pretty
good but we give Israel billions of
dollars a year billions it's uh one of
the highest of And we give a lot of We
give a lot of countries money uh you
wouldn't believe if I said we give
Afghanistan a lot of money do you
because that was a Biden deal another
Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
with that but they give them billions of
dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
we uh we take good care of our friends
and we don't take care of our enemies
we're not taking care of our enemies
anymore but we do take care of our
friends
the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
again the Gaza Strip by myself might be
called up in a month do you think that's
the way to pressure Hamas to get to a
deal and do you think blocking
humanitarian aid is also an effective
pressure well you know how I feel about
the Gaza Strip i think it's an
incredible piece of important real
estate and I think it's something that
we would be involved in but you know
having a peace force like the United
States there controlling and owning the
Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
right now all it is is for years and
years all I hear about is killing and
Hamas and problems and if you take the
people the Palestinians and move them
around to different countries and you
have plenty of countries that will do
that and you really have a freedom a
freedom zone you call it the freedom
zone a free zone a zone where people
aren't going to be killed every day
that's a hell of a place it's a you know
what I call it a great location that
nobody wants to live in because they
really don't and when they had good li
when they have good living real living
where Hamas and all of the the problems
they have the the level of debt on the
Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
said it I I don't understand why Israel
ever gave it up israel owned it it
wasn't this man so I can say it he
wouldn't have given it up i know him
very well there's no way they took
oceanfront property and they gave it to
people for peace how did that work out
not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
president is the immigration
which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
a a concept that I had that I think is
good and now people are copying it you
know baby do you want to tell people are
talking about the Trump plan gee why do
we do that uh would you like to answer
that question i I think what the
president talked about is first of all
to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
closed in and any other place including
in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
Ukraine or Syria or any other place
people could leave gaza was the only
Were