On Wednesday, President Donald Trump answered questions on the phone about his policies during a roundtable with Black business leaders in Atlanta, Georgia.
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00:00So what's your view of what we need to do with regulations when you come back into office?
00:05Well, as you know, I cut taxes and regulations more than any other president.
00:10We had the biggest tax cut, bigger even than the Reagan tax cuts.
00:14And I also cut regulations far more than any other president.
00:18And they have put a lot of them back already.
00:23We will get them cut so fast.
00:25And you know, it's very interesting when I went to business leaders and said,
00:29which was more important, these big tax cuts or these big regulation cuts?
00:33Almost every one of them said regulation cuts.
00:37And it made a big difference to their businesses, small businesses and big businesses.
00:42Great question.
00:43Awesome.
00:44Anybody else got a question for the president?
00:46I want to tell him that black folk will vote for him to get gas on their dollar.
00:52Awesome.
00:53So, Mr. President, the statement, I'm not going to call it a question,
00:58the statement is black folks will vote for you if you get gas under a dollar.
01:02Oh, I'll tell you, I got it pretty close.
01:05We had it for a little while.
01:09You know, we talk about $1.87 and now it's getting, it's on its way up.
01:14As you see, you see what's going on.
01:16I'm seeing $4.
01:17I'm seeing $4.50, depending on where you buy it.
01:20But we actually had it to $1.87 and we had it to $1.52 at one point, you know, different points.
01:27But we had the gasoline as low as it's been in a long time.
01:31So I don't know if I can guarantee a dollar, but we're going to get it as low as we can.
01:36That's a big spur for the economy.
01:38The lower you get it, that's a big, big spur for the economy.
01:42Thank you, Mr. President.
01:43It's Wesley Hunt here.
01:44How are you doing, sir?
01:45Hi, Wesley.
01:46I got a question for you.
01:47You've been talking a lot about no tax on tips.
01:51If you could kind of talk about that and what impact that would have not just on the black community but on everyone.
01:56I think it's a winner for all of us and it's your idea.
01:59So if you could kind of talk about that, that would be great, sir.
02:01So about a month ago I was at my building in Las Vegas having dinner with some big people, business people,
02:08that were, you know, planning some big developments and things.
02:12And the waitress came over and said, how are you doing, how are you doing?
02:16She said, oh, the government is after me all the time for my tax on tips.
02:20I said, really, they do that?
02:22She said, yeah, they just made, Biden just made the regulations much tougher.
02:27And it's very tough now and it's tax on tips.
02:30And I said, how do you think, how would you like to be no tax on tips?
02:35Because, first of all, it's very hard, you know, it's a very hard thing to control from the government standpoint.
02:40But the people are very unhappy about what's happening, especially the new regulations.
02:45And anyway, I just came up with the concept of no tax on tips.
02:50Let the people earn what they earn.
02:52And it has been so popular beyond anything, I've never seen anything like it.
02:59So we have no tax on tips.
03:01Vote for Trump, no tax on tips.
03:04And, Mr. President, we have Ben Carson here with us.
03:07Hey, Mr. President, how are you doing?
03:09Hi, Ben. I'm good, Ben.
03:11You know, what you said about the regulations is so important.
03:15At HUD, we were able to get rid of over 2,000 regulations.
03:19It made it so much easier to get things done in general.
03:22But I just want to encourage you to continue to speak out because the attacks on you have been absolutely ridiculous.
03:30And we're praying that God will give you the strength to bear it because you're standing in there for all of us.
03:37Well, the attacks have been unbelievable, what they say.
03:40And, you know, they'll take a speech.
03:42We'll be out rallying a perfect speech for an hour and a half, two hours.
03:47We have big crowds.
03:48We had over 100,000 people, 107 to be exact, in Wildwood, New Jersey.
03:54We had 25,000 in the South Bronx.
03:56We have 88,000 in South Carolina.
03:59We have tremendous crowds.
04:01And you'll make a perfect speech.
04:03And this lowlife Biden will take the speech, his people, him and his people, and they'll cut sentences out, cut words out, cut sentences out.
04:14Oh, Trump, look, he didn't make a good speech.
04:16He didn't make a good speech.
04:18And I do it largely without teleprompter.
04:20You know, I don't need a teleprompter.
04:21He can't read a teleprompter.
04:23But these people are nasty.
04:25They're really horrible people.
04:26They really are.
04:27It's a shame.
04:28It's a shame.
04:30I've campaigned a lot over years, not even, you know, for myself, but in particular, I've campaigned against some pretty bad people for others.
04:39But there's never been anything like this.
04:41They make up things.
04:42They, you know, suckers and losers, which was never said.
04:46They know it.
04:47They make it up.
04:48I mean, they literally make it up.
04:50You saw it with the 51 intelligence agents where they said that they got this done, where they said that the Hunter laptop from hell was all Russian disinformation.
05:01And, you know, it's just a total made up thing.
05:05These people.
05:06So you're right about that, Ben, when you say it.
05:08It really is a shame, a shame.
05:10But the people understand it.
05:12We're leading in every poll.
05:14And we're leading every swing state.
05:17And one just came out, I guess, Nate Silver, the New York Times, that we have close to a 66 percent chance of winning, which is a pretty good chance, I guess, when you think about it.