President Trump getting to talk to you here on Air Force One. It's pretty incredible. Thank you, Caroline, for bringing us in. Um, I wanted to start with this. Why do you think young men are so overwhelmingly coming in your direction? Now, I'll give you an example. My sons, 17, 14, and 10, they did a test, uh, pre-election vote, all boys school.
You got 80% of the vote. So, 12- to 18-year-old young men and, and boys. Why do you think you're reacting? Why do you think it's working so well?
Well, I guess it's a lot of factors, right? Some I can't say because that's just better, I'm not saying, but, uh, part of it is because it's working. It's all coming together. The country's coming together. Uh, today, one of the biggest chip companies, the biggest in the world, announced they're gonna spend $200 billion.
Apple's gonna spend $500 billion. Johnson & Johnson announced yesterday, they're gonna submit tens of billions of dollars. And we have numbers like we've never seen before. There's never been anything like it. I think they see it working. The border has zero. You know, the closet outside of the border used to be so full that it would go miles down deep into Mexico, right?
There's not a person on the closet. Have somebody sweeping it.
Yeah.
It's like nobody's ever seen anything like it. And by the way, all it was is the president had nothing to do. We didn't get, we didn't change the law. The laws are there. She said, "Don't come." And I think they see it's working.
Kamala is talking about running for governor. Would you give her any advice as a politician? Do you think she should run? Do you think she's gonna do it? What do you think her future is?
I'd let her run, but she's, she's as far as, I don't wanna be giving people advice politically, but, uh, one thing she's gonna do, she's gotta start doing interviews.
Yeah.
I mean, she can't get away with both of them. He, uh, during the COVID thing, he, he did no interviews and he got away with it because of COVID, because, you know, you were able to do things that you couldn't do.
It was a great election, this last one.
And I do think this. I think it's much more historic, the way it happened, than if I had gone in typically.
Don't you think, in some way, it's better because you have the Senate and the House now? In '24, you're able to be more effective than you would've been in '20, probably.
It's better because it shows how bad they were.
Yeah.
They were so bad. And it shows that. And when you see, you know, you're comparing it. You're comparing it to the worst president to the history of our country. And I think, in that way, it's better. They, what they were doing didn't work. And if I would've done it more traditionally, you know, we wouldn't have known about that.
The Philadelphia Eagles are coming to the White House soon.
Yeah.
I know you were at the Super Bowl. They booed at Santa Claus, Philadelphia Eagle fans did back in the day. I know you're a big sports fan. What did it mean that you were cheered at the Super Bowl? What does it reflect that sports fans seem to be coming together for you and that the Eagles are coming to the White House this time, they didn't want to come the last time?
How have things changed?
Well, uh, actually, they did wanna come. A lot of people wanted to come, including the coach, who was a terrific guy, by the way. But, uh, the coach wanted to come, the general manager wanted to come, the owner wanted to come. They had a lot of people wanted to come. Some of the players wanted to come. And I just said, just forget it.
Right.
I also had the problem with the, uh, San Francisco basketball team.
Golden State Warriors.
They, they, uh, they said, "Well, we'll think about it." And I said, "Uh-uh, you don't have to think. You're uninvited."
(laughs)
I said, if you have to think about it --
Right.
-- after I did that, you know, most people did come.
Yeah.
But people don't know about that. The baseball teams came, the ice hockey teams came. But we had, uh, one problem with football. New England came. They all came.
Yeah.
We had -- uh, look, it's a great honor to come. And I think it's a, it's great -- let me just grab that, okay. What's up? So, I look forward to having the Eagles. And one other thing, we're going to have the Kansas City Chiefs after that, because they missed their turn because of COVID.
Oh, that's great. What, uh, I know --
Yes.
I know Randi Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes' mom, she sent a video that OutKick shared right before the election endorsing you. And I know Brittany Mahomes's a big fan.
I, I love those two women. They're so great and, uh, and so loyal. I, I think they would. I met, as you know, I met Patrick's mother.
Yes, yes.
Just before the game started --
Right.
-- she came over. And Brittany, I've seen so much of Brittany that it just, you know, being so loyal and great and beautiful. So, it's, uh, it's really nice.
What do you think when, for a site like OutKick, NFL players, John Jones at the UFC, I know he brought the belt over, Christian Pulisic, great soccer player, they all do the dance, uh, that, that you made, uh, a famous.
The football players.
Football players everywhere.
Everywhere.
College. It's everywhere. What does that reflect about the culture changing in the time that you've been president? Does it feel different to you?
So, they did a poll recently, and they rated the best opening month of the history of the presidency. He was, uh, let's see, with George Washington number two (laughing), that's, he had the second.
Yeah, second best opening?
Uh, you know who did it also? Bill O'Reilly, good old Bill.
We have Bill on the show a lot.
Oh, really?
He's a great guy.
He's a great guy. He did a poll.
Yeah.
He's pretty good at this stuff.
Yeah.
He said Trump was number one, George Washington was number two, et cetera (laughs).
You'll take that.
It's -- and you know that bit. But we did. We had a great opening month. We had a great second month, you know. Now, it's two months already. And the second month was equally as good as the first. And I'd like to see if we could stop the soldiers being killed, even though they're not American soldiers. Although, it could -- you know, a thing like that could lead to World War III, you know, if that is. But I think it's somewhat under control.
And a good relationship with President Bush and actually a good relationship with, uh, President Zelensky, too. It'd be a great thing to be able to stop it. And I will say this, nobody else would would've been able to.
I agree.
Nobody. Zero.
Don't you think, if you get the war stopped, honestly, you should be a Nobel Peace Prize contender? Wouldn't they give it to a Democrat if he got it done?
I think, Norway, if it's Norway, if they're the ones that actually. You know, nobody really knows what that's all about. I know Obama got it for no reason. And he didn't even know what --
Yeah, that's right.
He won the race and they gave him the Nobel Prize. He didn't do anything. So, it's obviously a very liberal situation. But if they want, if they want credibility, they'll have to do. You know, we, we thought we were gonna get it for three or four different things.
Right.
We thought we were gonna get it for the AmeriCorps, which are now starting to kick in again because others are gonna be joining. Uh, but the Abraham Accords were amazing.
You saw Tim Walz. I know you talked about Tim Walz saying he could beat up, uh, Trump supporters. Did you see Caitlyn Jenner said that, uh, that, that she, that she thought she would be able to take him? Who would you take in a battle, Caitlyn Jenner or Tim Walz?
Caitlin all day long. But I also have, uh, you know, Cain.
Yeah.
How about Cain?
Oh, Glenn is an awesome guy. He challenged him. I put up 10 grand for that, too. And the challenge is, I don't think Tim Walz has responded yet.
Right, right. That wouldn't last a second where he's, like, seven feet tall.
Yeah.
He's the biggest human being.
He's an awesome guy.
He's a great guy, too. He's a mayor of a town and he's all MAGA.
Why do you think that so many people in sports, on the men in women's sports, ESPN included, why have they been unwilling to say, like our friend Riley Gaines, who works with us at OutKick, that only women should be in women's sports? Are you surprised that that's ever been allowed to be political?
I think it's a 90-10 issue, maybe more. But I do notice that it's a 90-10 when the voter booths closed.
Yeah.
You know, when that curtain's pulled or whatever they happen to be pulling.
Yes.
Uh, but a lot of people don't talk about it. And I don't know why they're gonna make a mistake by not talking about it. It's such a simple thing. It's so basic that open borders, uh, taking people from jails and, you know, murderers and drug dealers and gang members and mental institutions, people from mental institutions.
I mean, I really campaigned on the last thing that I just said more than the --
Yeah.
-- uh, the people. And by the way, look at what happened. In a period of one week, we have a border that's closed and so beautiful.
It's unbelievable.
And we're taking people in, you know.
And they lied and said that they had to have congressional action. You came in and immediately turned it around.
All they need is a president who would say, "Close the border."
That's right. Um --
And it's, you know, the amazing thing is, uh, I've known you so long, I feel like it's out, you say, it's so, it's so basic. So, who would think that, that a thing like that would be even thought about? Uh, open borders. Why would we want open borders? Then they say, "We don't wanna have any review of anybody coming in." And as soon as I heard that, I said, "Every prisoner throughout the world that's really bad will be released into our company." That's what happened.
They took hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers, 11,088 murderers.
Yep. And we talked about that at the Georgia, Alabama game in the --
Most of them have murdered more than one person.
It's crazy.
Nothing good is coming at us.
Jeff Bezos was at your inauguration.
Yeah.
It seems like he's trying to make the Washington Post more fair.
I think it's great.
Has he talked to you about the fact that he thinks -- because they let Biden get away with everything when he was in office. They started to push him. They came after you like crazy.
At length, I talked to him about it. He's a good guy. I didn't really know him the first time.
Yeah.
I mean, it's such a difference between now and the first.
Yeah.
Zuckerberg and Bezos and Jensen, who was fantastic.
I know you helped OutKick had an, uh, a story, a couple of interviews that we did that were being edited that they worked out and they figured out on Facebook through Zuckerberg. What has Bezos told you about trying to be more fair in his coverage?
Just that.
Yeah.
He's really trying to be more fair. But they actually did a couple of bad articles that everybody said, "This is crazy."
Yeah.
I lose my, uh, fortune running this thing. And they, and they, you know, they're out of control. These people are crazy. They're, they're crazy people. They're out of control. And, uh, and he's actually a very good guy. I got to know him the second time he was up. If you look at the inauguration or look at the people that were on stage --
It's amazing.
-- there was a who's who of a world that was totally against me the first time. It's a much different presidency, I have much more support.
You released the JFK files.
Yeah.
Do you think Oswald killed JFK personally?
Uh, I do. And I've always held that.
Yeah.
Uh, of course, he was -- was he helped? And based on the papers that -- you know, we released 88,000 --
I know.
-- [Inaudible] okay? And in fact, there were some that they needed a little more time just -- and we said, go over to the office, we'll show you, you know.
Yeah.
So, nobody could say that they've been released. I think the papers have turned out to be somewhat unspectacular.
Yeah, I think that's true.
All right. And maybe that's a good thing.
Do you think back now, it's only been eight months since Butler, Pennsylvania, do you think that guy acted alone based on what you've seen, that crazy man? And do you think, back to your connection now to JFK, because thank the Lord he missed, but people for the next 100 years would have been talking about that like we talk about JFK.
It might be, anyways. Uh, I can't really be sure. I really can't make sure because it bothers me that he had, uh, three apps and two of them were far. And maybe it was more apps than --
Yeah.
And it bothered me that the other guy had, like, 18 phones. I thought it was six, but it was 18. And the FBI was being very straight with me, uh, I believe. And I think they weren't at the beginning, but now I think there were. Uh, they told me a lot about the case. Uh, I, I think maybe it won't be able to be determined.
Vladimir --
But I don't believe it's, you know, it's something sinister by the FBI. The FBI is doing a good job. And Kash is gonna do a great job.
Vladimir Putin, you said you had a good relationship with Ian and Zelensky. Uh, what is he like? What do people not understand about him that you think you understand, having met him now for several years?
So, I know him very well. It's amazing that we didn't get into major skirmishes because of the Russia, Russia, Russia hook.
He didn't invade Ukraine when you were president.
He didn't invade anything when I was president. He took, he took, uh, Crimea and he took Georgia when Bush was president, when Obama was president. And he's trying to take the whole thing based on -- and I think I'll, uh, I don't think there's anybody in the world that could have stopped him except me. And I think, I hope I'm gonna be able to stop him.
That's some very rational discussions. And I just wanna see the people stop getting killed. You know, they lose 2,500 young kids a week.
Yeah.
And they're Russian. And they're Ukrainian. And people would say, "Why do you get involved?" They also get involved because Biden spent $350 billion of our funds.
Yeah.
And what I have done is got, uh, I've got a very good deal for, you know, with the rare and everything else, which is more valuable [Inaudible] because they felt foolish, especially since, uh, when you look at it, Europe, take Europe, they get their money back.
Yeah.
It's a loan. Why didn't we make a loan?
Uh.
Why did we get so much in? We -- Biden should have equalized. And they would've done it, too.
Elon --
All they had to do is say, "You're gonna, we gotta spend it at the same time." But he didn't do it. Same thing with NATO.
Yeah.
Nobody did it until I came along.
Elon is doing incredible work for the country.
Correct.
Uh, he was the saving grace of the left wing of this country for having an electric car company. I know you've been helping him. How unbelievable and unfair is it to you, the way he's being attacked and what people are doing to his companies?
I think it is very unfair, and I think he's gonna end up coming out harder. Look, when they attacked Mar-a-Lago, they attacked Mar-a-Lago.
Yes.
They, they invaded it. I said, "Oh boy, this is brutal for my election."
You thought initially it was gonna be bad for you?
I thought so. And the one thing I did is I talked to the press. I had this conference.
Yeah.
Whatever, anything like that happened. These were crooked people, 100% crooked. When they did something like that or the indictment, but the indict -- and not one indictment, it's four or five of 'em, okay?
Right.
And that led to 80 or 90, or because everyone had, you know, it was a totally rigged deal. I would go out that night and I'd have a news conference. I'd talk to the people, and the people realized it was a scam.
Yeah.
It turned out to be a scam. Look, look what happened. And they're all out (laughs), you know. And here I, here I sit in Air Force One with you, talking (laughing). It's like one of those things.
Penn State, we're gonna go watch the wrestling team. I know they endorsed you.
Yeah.
What, uh, what experience?
The team endorsed me. They did?
That's what I heard.
Oh, that's nice. Isn't that great?
Uh, and they're gonna win. My understanding is they've got a huge lead.
They got lead. They -- I hear they have the best team ever put together. So --
They've won 11 in the last 13, according to Senator McCormick out there. You've got, um, incredible, uh, reception, Daytona 500. Amazing.
Everyone.
Super Bowl. Uh.
Honestly?
You're a big sports fan.
UFC --
UFC.
-- baseball games.
What is on the bucket list?
You said Super Bowl.
Oh, Super Bowl is unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, Taylor Swift got booed and you got cheered.
The only thing is they should have left it up for more than three seconds.
Well, I agree.