So that was a great little meeting. It was a great greeting and I think they appreciate it. Tremendous people. Uh, also it's very nice to land on what they consider to be the most beautiful helipad ever, ever built by far. The, uh, they've been waiting for that for about 30 years. They got it done. It's beautiful.
It's nice when you get off. First of all, the pilot said it's really nice not to land in grass. And it's also nice when you get off, not to walk through mud. Because you know, we were walking through mud for a long time. For about 40 years they've been walking through mud, but not any longer. So it's good.
And I hope you appreciate this. This is now a proper entrance for the White House. It's great, including what we've done to -- we've totally rebuilt the facade, which is largely falling off. So we're very proud of it. Uh, we had a very good day today. We had some good meetings on, in terms of various things.
I won't go into details. You'll be reading about it pretty soon. But we had some very good meetings, and thank you very much. You have a question, Rob?
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Yeah, we're ahead of schedule. We just set the first column today, if you take a look. And we're very much ahead of schedule. The entire left portion, the north portion has been built structurally and it'll start to be covered up now with very powerful blasts, and, and it's gonna be something. And I wish we had it for tomorrow night because we'd be able to, you know, we have a packed house tomorrow night for President Xi and Mrs. Xi.
Who are some of the attendees that will be at the dinner tomorrow?
Well, I guess we'll probably give a list, but sort of everybody, everybody, everybody wanted to be there. Um, I would say you have the entire tech world, the entire banking world, and a lot more. No, you have a, a -- I think it's gonna be ul- -- if you'll, if you go by points, I think it's the ultimate draft.
I wish we had more seats. That's the only problem that I see.
Mr. President would you [Inaudible] on fentanyl, on fentanyl. 488,000 Americans died over the past day from fentanyl coming from China. Do you agree with your counter terrorist director who --
Well, as you know, we, we, as you know, we tariff them, uh, due to the fentanyl. And what they have is fentanyl is used for many purposes, but when it's used for a bad purpose, uh, that's not good. But they've been tariffed and really penalized very strongly for that.
Mr. President, Mr. Trump --
You gave a very, you gave a very powerful speech at UN. Uh, it was, uh, yesterday or the day before.
Thank you.
Tell us about some of those conversations you had with some of those world leaders.
Well, we've had great conversations. I think we're just, we're the most respected country in the world. Two years ago we were laughed at and we were mocked. We were like a bunch of fools. We're the most respected country anywhere in the world by far. And that's the way it goes. Thank you. Thank you.
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On Iran. Um, are you gonna be t- -- what are you gonna be talking about with President Xi?
Well, we'll see. We'll see. I'll be talking about that and many other subjects. We'll see. But it's all coming along well, including that.
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