Hello, everybody.
How you doing?
Hi, sir.
So I think most of you have seen, they released my physical. They did took the physical on Friday, and I understand it was a very good report. The numbers were perfect. And I took a cognitive exam and I would challenge anybody here to meet those marks because I have a perfect mark. Were you impressed by that?
I am impressed and I'm not gonna take that test.
But you're not that surprised, right?
[Laughs] I'm not surprised at all.
Uh, you aren't. That's good. 'Cause I, I'm not in respect for you as a reporter. Uh, did you have any questions?
Yes, sir. Could give us a --
You always have.
I always have question. What is your message to markets tomorrow? There's some ambiguity or at least some, some questions about whether there were exceptions or exceptions --
Well, there shouldn't be. There shouldn't be ambiguity. Uh, we have a tremendous country. We have a country that's much richer today than it was a few months ago. We have a financial system that's very respected and, uh, we're gonna do great. And we were taken advantage of and ripped off by every country all over the world, almost, just about.
They laughed at us and we were run by foolish people and they took advantage of our country and we're just not gonna let that happen anymore.
In terms of the, uh --
Who else?
-- the big beautiful bill --
Right.
-- when do you expect that to get done? What would want --
Well, I hope soon the big beautiful bill and it's, uh, the big beautiful tax cuts really, and regulation cuts and many other things. Uh, it passed its first test, as you know, the, the last couple of weeks, but particularly during last week where we had a vote. We won in the house, we won in the senate and, uh, that was a big chunk of it. And now they're gonna eventually take, pretty soon, a final vote.
And the big beautiful tax cuts and regulation cuts and all of the other things that are included in there will go into effect. And I think it'll be probably the largest tax cuts in the history of our country, the most comprehensive regulation cuts in the history of our country and many, many other things, including border wall money.
Uh, we built 571 miles of wall, but now we can add to it. Uh, as you know, we, we've just concluded a period of time where the border was the most secure it's been in the history of our country. We're very proud of the, the, the other week, couple of weeks ago, or last week actually, five people came in, five, and under Biden it was 500,000 people came in. What they've done to our country should never be forgotten, never be forgotten what they've done and that the news hasn't reported it correctly is a disgrace.
But what they've done to our country to allow these millions and millions of people in from prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums should never be forgotten. [Inaudible] we're gonna be living with that for a long time. This is tremendous work, tremendous effort. It's one thing they caused massive inflation, they caused a lot of problems, but what they've done to our border, to our country, you should never forget that.
And you should never, as journalists, allow people to forget it. Yeah?
Mr. President, can you talk a little bit about the semiconductor tariff --
Yeah.
-- that you posted on Truth Social today? What is the timeline for that? And I believe it was Jamieson Greer said today that those will not be negotiable.
Well --
Once those tariffs are in place, they are non-negotiable. Is that right?
That's right. But the tariffs will be in place, uh, in the not distant future because, as you know, like we did with steel, like we did with automobiles, like we did with aluminum, which are now fully on, we'll be doing that with semiconductors, with, uh, chips and numerous other things. And, uh, that'll take place in the very near future.
And, and all the things --
And what we did is we wanna uncomplicate it from a lot of companies because that's really where it should be, ideally. And we wanted to uncomplicate it from a lot of other companies 'cause we wanna make our chips and semiconductors and other things in our country. And I will tell you, another one is pharmaceuticals, drugs and pharmaceuticals.
We wanna make our drugs in this country and by, uh, placing a tariff on the companies that are not in this country, they're gonna move into our country and we're gonna have our drugs made in the United States. So that in case of war, in case of whatever, we're not relying on China and various other countries to supply us with drugs, which is not a good idea.
And it'll happen very fast. It'll all happen very fast. Yeah?
Do you know [Inaudible] read the, the semiconductor tariff --
I, I'm gonna be announcing it over the next week.
Can you confirm reports that the Social Security Administration has classified thousands of immigrants as dead even though they're still all living?
That's what I hear. I mean, that's what has been reported to me. Uh, dead and, uh, also very inaccurately. And from the standpoint of Social Security, it's a horrible thing. From the standpoint of the, uh, strength of Social Security, when you take dead people out and all of the people that they're talking about, uh, that should not be in there, it's gonna make our system much stronger.
We're making Social Security stronger. The Democrats are destroying Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid also.
Yeah, so do you have a reaction to Russia's Palm Sunday attack on Ukraine?
Oh, I think it was terrible, and I was told they made a mistake. Uh, but I think it's a horrible thing. I think the whole war's a horrible thing. I think the war is -- For that war to have started is an abuse of power. This country would've never allowed that war to have started if I were president. That war is a shame.
Millions of people are dead that should be alive. Cities are being destroyed all over Ukraine. The whole culture is gone. It's -- Or very, certainly very severely hurt. You know, the, uh, the chapels, the churches, the, uh, spirals, all of the things that they had in Ukraine were among the most beautiful anywhere in the world.
And most have been knocked down and blown up into a million pieces. But most importantly, you have millions of people dead that shouldn't be dead. Think of it. Think of what a rigged election means. We would've had absolutely -- We wouldn't have had the war in Ukraine. We wouldn't have had the Russia Ukraine situation.
We wouldn't have had October 7th, Israel, the Middle East. We wouldn't have inflation. We wouldn't have had the most embarrassing day or a period in the history of our country. That's Afghanistan. One of the most embarrassing moments in the history of our country, in Afghanistan. All of these things wouldn't have taken place.
Think of it, we wouldn't have had inflation. But millions of people would be alive except for the fact that the election were rigged because that war would've never started and Putin never would've started that war. Okay, any other question?
[Crosstalk] Would you say they made a mistake in the attack? You said they made a m- -- you t- -- were told they made a mistake.
They, they made --
Do you mean it was unintentional?
They made a mistake. I believe it was -- Look, you're gonna ask them. This is Biden's war. This is not my war. I've been here for a very short period of time. This is a war that was under Biden. He gave them billions and billions of dollars. He should have, uh, never allowed. If he w- -- if he had any brain, which he didn't have and doesn't have, and now it's been proven, uh, he wouldn't have allowed that water to start.
I would've absolutely not -- That war would never have taken place. But remember this. This is Biden's war. I'm just trying to get it stopped so that we can save a lot of lives. They happen to be Ukrainian and Russian lives, but all I wanna do is get it stopped.
Witkoff [Inaudible] Sir, did you meet with Mr. Witkoff today? How did --
I did. I met with him and he had some very good meetings in the Middle East, and he also had good meetings having to do with Russia, Ukraine.
[Crosstalk]
[Inaudible] update on Iran?
Well, we're gonna be doing it very shortly. Iran also, uh, it was another, where I met with a different group of people in Iran, and we'll be making a decision on Iran very quickly. Yeah, please?
[Crosstalk]
Uh, back on Russia, Ukraine. Resolving that war has taken a little longer than you predicted. Uh, can you pinpoint --
Well, it's deeply --
-- the reasons why?
-- it's a deeply seated war. And again, it's a war that people didn't expect would start. And in my, in my administration, there was no chance that it would start. And it didn't, by the way. You know, I went four years and it didn't start. People say, "Oh, well how do you know?" Well, I know because I went four years and it didn't start.
You would've never had that war. It would've never started. Putin never would've start -- started it. I mean, I think frankly he had so little respect for Biden, that he started it for that reason, and obviously he didn't get along very well with, uh, Zelensky or anybody else. And, uh, now you have millions of dead people.
And those people, every one of them, should be alive right now.
[Crosstalk]
Mr. President, are you going to announce tariffs on things like iPhones, tablets?
Well, that's gonna be announced very soon and we'll, uh, we'll be discussing it, but we'll also talk to companies. You know, uh, you have to show a certain flexibility. Nobody should be so rigid. We will -- You have to have a certain flexibility and we're doing really well. And, uh, financially our country's gonna be stronger than it's ever been.
So some products might -- There's flexibility for some products?
For some products, yeah. Maybe.
Can you say what time products?
Now, I'll be announcing it in the not too distant future, but it's gonna be separately announced.
[Crosstalk]
Mr. President, do you have any reaction to, uh --
I'd very much like if you, look, automobiles, again, automobiles, we have a tariff. Nobody's complaining about it. It went through the process, we have the tariff. Uh, steel, aluminum and some other things, so -- And by the way, our country is taking in billions and billions of dollars on those tariffs. Billions of dollars.
And maybe, almost as importantly, or maybe more importantly, automobile companies, steel companies, steel companies and factories, and aluminum companies and factories are opening up in our country. But we're taking in billions of dollars on just those three categories.
Speaking of steel, can you talk about your conversations with Nippon Steel and what --
Yeah, we're talking about different things, but we think that, I think that, the United States Steel, uh, one of the great companies of the world, U- -- U.S. Steel, should, uh, remain in our country. I feel that, I felt that for a long time this was one of the greatest company, companies in the world. For a period of time, for a long period of time, it was the single greatest company in America and I just don't think a foreign company should control it.
[Crosstalk]
And you know what? They're not gonna have to, because the tariffs are gonna make U.S. Steel do so well.
I heard a report, uh, at your NRCC dinner that I was at. A guy was at my table. He said that Mexico has been dumping raw sewage in our treatment water.
Yeah.
We can't keep up with it. Some of it's spilling in the ocean, forcing, uh --
It's true.
-- Navy SEALs -- to train north of Coronado Island.
That's right.
Any --
Well, and it floats up --
And it floats up --
-- past Los Angeles --
Yeah.
-- like everything else.
Yeah. Any, any, uh --
Yeah.
-- talks of --
Yeah.
-- of trying to --
-- Mexico has a faulty sewage system that's dumping, uh, sewage into our part of the ocean.
Yeah.
And, uh, the Pacific Ocean's not looking too good on many occasions. Sometimes it stops and sometimes it breaks. And when it breaks, uh, very bad and disgusting things happen, and they shouldn't be doing that.
So exactly when -- Mr. President -- [Inaudible]
-- any reaction to the Governor of Pennsylvania, his mansion set on fire. Do you have any reaction to it?
I just heard about it. No, I'll have to look into it.
You got the perfect health report. All of our -- all, all, everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't sat up till 2:00 AM in the morning since I was 25, and now we're 2:16 in the morning having a press conference. How do you do it?
Oh, we had a couple of them at two o'clock in the morning now. Biden, I guarantee --
You're wearing the press out.
Biden was sleeping for 10 hours already. Uh, no, I have a lot of respect for the press, really I do. Some of it's fake news, but a lot of it's good, like you. And, uh, really some of it's totally fake and sound like 60 Minute and I don't wanna --
But how do you stay so healthy? How do you stay so --
Um --
-- energized?
Um, because I enjoy what I'm doing and I like the results. I think, uh, I think we're making America great again, and it makes me feel good.
And it feels --
And it probably keeps me happy.
Yeah. There --
Okay.
Yeah.
Thank you. That's a nice question. Give me -- that's a -- I like this guy.
[Laughs] Well, I mean, everyone's wondering --
Thank you.
-- how in the world do you do it, Mr. President? Two --
I don't know.
-- two o'clock in the morning. I'm 55 years old and I can't keep up with you.
55, what a nice age that is. Have, have a good time everybody.
Did you catch, catch the end of The Masters?
Oh --
Ooh.
-- I did. Well, I have to congratulate Rory. That showed tremendous courage. He was, he was [Laughs] having a hard time. But it showed great guts and stamina and courage. People have no idea how tough that is. And, uh, he came back. He could be proud --
Have you [Inaudible]
Actually, it's better for him than it happened that way 'cause it --
Yeah.
-- showed real courage. To have come back from what could have been a tragedy was amazing. Did you watch it?
Yeah -- yeah -- we did. We were in the press van.
Pretty amazing, right?
We knew when you were pulling out when it was over.
Oh no, I wasn't going to watch it.
You were going nowhere.
You knew there was no way. Even for you people there was no way.
I mean, that was a -- have you spoken [Inaudible]
It's one of my favorite shows ever. The Masters is, to me, my, maybe my favorite sporting show. And, uh, it showed, and you know, Justin Rose was great. They all --
Yeah.
Look, they're, they're, uh, great athletes under tremendous pressure. But unless you're a golfer, you don't understand it. It's a hundredth of an inch makes a difference between a great shot and a horrible shot. Think of it. Just a little tiny, a little small percentage of an inch and literally in some cases a hundredth of an inch --
Right. Sean --
-- is the difference between winning and losing.
Sean's telling --
Pretty amazing.
-- telling me to get outta here.
Who is --
Se -- Sean, wants you to be safe.
Don't worry. We're leaving.
Let's go.
How's he doing?
[Inaudible] He's doing a great job.
But he's getting tired being down there [Laughs].
Right, um, Brian, [Inaudible]
Any way, thank you very much everybody.
Are you, do you have any closing --
We're gonna have some good time --
Goodbye, everybody.
And I hope you enjoyed the fights last night.
Oh, it l -- it was awesome.
Now those are tough cookies. You think anybody in the --
I think you could.
-- field here could take Kevin --
I'd take --
-- a fight?
-- just a punch to the head, Mr. President.
[Laughs]
I can take it.
We don't want that but they're amazing. Dana White's amazing. Have a good time everybody.
You too sir. Thank you. Appreciate it.