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Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to Reporters Before Marine One Departure - July 11, 2025

12:00 AM
Donald Trump 00:00:00-00:00:04 (4 sec)

Hello everybody.

Question 00:00:04-00:00:05 (1 sec)

Hi, sir.

Donald Trump 00:00:05-00:00:31 (26 sec)

So we're going to Texas. Some of you are coming with us. How are you? And it's a horrible thing, a horrible thing. Nobody can even believe it, such a thing, that much water that fast without a dam break, you'd think a dam would have to break to have to it. So it's a terrible thing, but we're going to be there with some of the great families and others, the governor, everybody is going to be there.

Question 00:00:31-00:00:33 (2 sec)

Do you plan to talk [Inaudible] about [Inaudible]

Donald Trump 00:00:33-00:00:51 (19 sec)

Maybe at some point I'll talk to him. Right now, I'm not. They're treating President Bolsonaro very unfairly. He's a good man. You know, I know him well. I negotiated with him. He was a very tough negotiator and I can tell you, he was a very honest man and he loved the people of Brazil. He was a very tough guy to negotiate with.

Donald Trump 00:00:51-00:01:01 (9 sec)

I shouldn't like him because he was very tough in negotiation, but he was also very honest. And I know the honest ones and I know the crooked ones.

Question 00:01:01-00:01:03 (2 sec)

[Inaudible] tariffs on Canada. [Inaudible]

Donald Trump 00:01:03-00:01:20 (16 sec)

We're going to see. It was sent yesterday. They called. I think it was fairly well received, but it's what we need, so we'll see what happens.

Question 00:01:20-00:01:24 (4 sec)

Sir, Russian drones [Inaudible] a maternity hospital in Ukraine overnight. [Inaudible]

Donald Trump 00:01:24-00:01:30 (6 sec)

I know. You'll be seeing things happen.

Question 00:01:30-00:01:37 (7 sec)

Now that you will go to Texas, are you planning on delivering any type of help for undocumented families that lost everything, including [Inaudible]

Donald Trump 00:01:37-00:01:56 (19 sec)

I think we've done very well on immigration. We were given a very bad hand by Biden. He allowed 25 million people to come in totally unchecked, unvetted. We're getting the criminals out and we're getting them out fast. The courts have ultimately done the right thing. Amazingly, they've really done the right thing.

Donald Trump 00:01:56-00:02:23 (27 sec)

And they understand it's really the survival of our country. It's a very important thing. We can't have, like, 11,888 murderers and, you know, something that you should have that you haven't reported, as you know, 300,000 children are missing, right, 300,000 under Biden. We've already gotten back 10,000 of those children and we have a lot more planned to come back.

Donald Trump 00:02:23-00:02:38 (15 sec)

We're getting them back by the thousands, but 300,000 and as of this morning, over 10,000, we've gotten back.

Question 00:02:38-00:02:43 (5 sec)

What is your advice to countries worldwide ahead of the upcoming tariff deadline?

Donald Trump 00:02:43-00:02:59 (16 sec)

Oh, I think just keep working hard. We've been taken advantage of for many, many years by countries, both friend and foe. And frankly, the friends have been worse than the foes, in many cases. So I would say just keep working. It's all going to work out.

Question 00:02:59-00:03:04 (5 sec)

Do you plan to fire Jerome Powell, the fed chair?

Donald Trump 00:03:04-00:03:27 (23 sec)

No. I think he's doing a terrible job. I think we should be -- no, I think we should be three points lower interest rate. He's costing our country a lot of money. We should be number one and we're not. And that's because of Jerome Powell, in terms of interest. We are number one in the world. Look, I'll tell you a little simple language.

Donald Trump 00:03:27-00:03:53 (26 sec)

One year ago, our country was a dead country. We were going nowhere except down. We were the laughing stock all over the world and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're number one everywhere, anywhere in the world and that's all they're talking about is our country. One year ago it was a dead country, now it's the hottest country anywhere in the world. Thank you.