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Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have agreed to a presidential debate on Sept. 10.
Donald Trump held a news conference Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, marking his first public appearance since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee and selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
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Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have agreed to a presidential debate on Sept. 10.
Donald Trump held a news conference Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, marking his first public appearance since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee and selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
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00:00:00Well, thank you very much. I appreciate your being here. Just a statement before I talk about
00:00:05debates. I think that our country is right now in the most dangerous position it's ever been
00:00:13in from an economic standpoint, from a safety standpoint. Both gangs on the street and,
00:00:20frankly, gangs outside of our country in the form of other countries that are, frankly,
00:00:25very powerful. They're very powerful countries, and we don't know what we're doing. We have
00:00:28leadership that has no clue how to handle them or how to handle any other situation.
00:00:34We have a lot of bad things coming up. You could end up in a depression of the 1929 variety,
00:00:43which would be a devastating thing. Took many years, took decades to recover from it.
00:00:48And we're very close to that, and we're very close to a world war. In my opinion,
00:00:52we're very close to a world war. We have people that don't know how to handle it.
00:00:56They're not respected. All over the world, they're laughed at,
00:01:00and we can't have that. Most dangerous period of time I've ever seen for our country.
00:01:05With that being said, we have somebody that hasn't received one vote for president,
00:01:13and she's running, and that's fine with me. But we were given Joe Biden, and now we're given
00:01:21somebody else. And I think, frankly, I'd rather be running against somebody else,
00:01:26but that was their choice. They decided to do that because Kamala's record is horrible.
00:01:32She's a radical left person at a level that nobody's seen. She picked a radical left
00:01:41man that is – he's got things done that – he has positions that are just not – it's not
00:01:48even possible to believe that they exist. He's going for things that nobody's ever even heard of
00:01:55– heavy into the transgender world, heavy into lots of different worlds,
00:02:00having to do with safety. He doesn't want to have borders. He doesn't want to have walls. He
00:02:04doesn't want to have any form of safety for our country. He doesn't mind people coming in from
00:02:09prisons, and neither does she, I guess, because she's not – she couldn't care less. She's
00:02:15the Bordezar. By the way, she was the Bordezar 100 percent, and all of a sudden, for the last
00:02:21few weeks, she's not the Bordezar anymore, like nobody ever said it. And I just hope that the
00:02:27media becomes more diligent, more honest, frankly, because if they're not going to be honest,
00:02:32it's going to be much tougher to bring our country back. We have a very, very sick country
00:02:37right now. You saw the other day with the stock market crash, and that was just the beginning.
00:02:42That was just the beginning. It's going to get worse. It's going to get a lot worse, in my opinion.
00:02:46And fortunately, we've had some very good polls over the last fairly short period of time. Rasmussen
00:02:54came out today. We're substantially leading, and others came out today that were leading,
00:02:59and in some cases, substantially. I guess MSNBC came out, or CNBC came out also with a poll that
00:03:08has us leading, and leading fairly big in swing states. In some polls, I'm leading very big in
00:03:13swing states because they want safety. People want safety. They want security. They want respect all
00:03:17around the world for our country. They don't want this horrible culture that is developing,
00:03:25a culture of no common sense. It's really a culture of no common sense, and it's not what
00:03:30anyone wants. We want to have a safe country. We want to have a strong military. We want low
00:03:34interest rates, and we want to be able to have the American dream. We want to be able to have our
00:03:38youth be able to buy homes, housing, get good jobs. And we're really just at the opposite right now.
00:03:46It's so sad to see. But as the borders are, she's been the worst border czar in history,
00:03:51in the world history. I think the number is 20 million, but whether it's 15 or 20,
00:03:56it's numbers that nobody has ever heard before. Twenty million people came over
00:04:01the border in the last, during the Biden-Harris administration. Twenty million people,
00:04:07and it could be very much higher than that. Nobody really knows what the number is. Nobody
00:04:10knows. Nobody has a clue. And the gotaways, they call them the gotaways. The gotaways are at
00:04:16numbers. Somebody was quizzing me on it the other day. No, no, I don't think so, sir. I don't think
00:04:22so. They have no idea what those numbers are. But they're much higher than you would think.
00:04:28Just like far more people were killed in the Ukraine-Russia war than you ever report.
00:04:36Just like the October 7th would have never happened, Russia would have never
00:04:41hit Ukraine had the election result been called differently. It was a very bad call,
00:04:48but Russia would not have attacked Ukraine. October 7th in Israel would have never happened.
00:04:53You wouldn't have inflation. A lot of great things would have happened. But now you have
00:04:56millions and millions of dead people and you have people dying financially because they can't buy
00:05:01bacon, they can't buy food, they can't buy groceries, they can't do anything. And they're
00:05:06living horribly in our country right now. With all of that being said, I think it's very important
00:05:12to have debates. And we've agreed with Fox on a date of September 4th. We've agreed with NBC,
00:05:21a fairly full agreement subject to them, on September 10th. And we've agreed with ABC on
00:05:29September 25th. So we have those three dates. And those networks, they're very anxiously
00:05:39awaiting that date and those dates. So we have September 4th, September 10th, and September
00:05:4625th. We have spoken to the heads of the network and it's all been confirmed,
00:05:52other than some fairly minor details. Audience, some location, which city would we put it into,
00:06:01but all things that will be settled very easily. I think it'll be very easy.
00:06:06The other side has to agree to the terms. They may or may not agree. I don't know if they're
00:06:10going to agree. She hasn't done an interview. She can't do an interview. She's barely competent
00:06:16and she can't do an interview. But I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the
00:06:21record straight. Why is it that millions of people were allowed to come into our country from
00:06:27prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums, even insane asylum. That's a
00:06:35mental institution on steroids. That's what it is when you see the people that are coming into our
00:06:41institutions that are being emptied out, not in South America, all over the world,
00:06:46including South America, all over the world. Prisons are being emptied out into our country
00:06:52because we have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country. We have
00:06:56a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president
00:07:03in the history of our country, the most unpopular vice president.
00:07:08And because of political reasons or because of being politically correct,
00:07:15even though she never received a vote. Don't forget, she was the first one defeated,
00:07:19as I remember it, because I watched it very closely. But she was the first one. She never
00:07:23made it to Iowa, the first state. She never made it to Iowa. She was the first one that was defeated.
00:07:29She was the nastiest to him. She was nasty with the calling him a racist and the school bus and
00:07:35all of the different things. She was very nasty to Biden. And shockingly, he appointed her,
00:07:42asked her to serve as vice president. Well, I don't know if he's happy about that decision
00:07:47right now. This was taken away. The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden. And I'm no Biden
00:07:52fan, but I'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at,
00:07:57they took the presidency away. And people were saying he lost after the debate. He couldn't win.
00:08:03I don't know that that's true necessarily, but whether he could win or he couldn't win,
00:08:07he had the right to run. And they took it away. They said they're going to use the 25th Amendment.
00:08:12They're going to hit you hard. Either we could do it the nice. I heard I know exactly because I know
00:08:16a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not. And they said, we'll do it the nice way,
00:08:22but we'll do it the hard way. And he said, all right. So that I mean, they've really taken
00:08:29what they've done is pretty incredible. And now I'm running against somebody else and we're
00:08:35leading. We're leading. So I'm not complaining. I'm saying it's for a country with a constitution
00:08:43that we cherish. We cherish this constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe,
00:08:48pretty horrible. You would have thought they would have gone out to a vote. They would have
00:08:52had a primary system. They would have done something, but to just take it away from him
00:08:57like he was a child. And he's a very angry man right now. I can tell you that he's not happy
00:09:02with Obama and he's not happy with Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy. She is crazy, too. She's not happy
00:09:09with any of the people that told him that you've got to leave. He's very unhappy, very angry,
00:09:15and I think he also blames her. He's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing
00:09:20in terms of a country when you do that. I'm not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed
00:09:25that he had a rough debate, but that doesn't mean that you just take it away like that.
00:09:30Or you go out to a vote, you do something. He had 14 million votes. She had no votes. She got no
00:09:34votes. And I think she's crashing. I think when people find out, and I think people are starting
00:09:40to find out what a bad job she did, what a bad job she did on the border. She's trying to say
00:09:45she had nothing to do with the border. She had everything. She was appointed to head the border.
00:09:50And then they said borders are oh, she loved that name. She loved that name, but she never went
00:09:54there. She went to a location once along the border, but that was a location that you would
00:09:59love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever. That was a location that was not part of
00:10:06the problem. That was not really going to the border. So essentially, she never went to the
00:10:10border. And if you listen to Tom Holman, if you listen to the great border people, Brandon Judd
00:10:18from Border Patrol, if you listen to Paul, I mean, so many different people. I speak to them all the
00:10:23time, and I did when I was president. We had the best border in the history of our country. Now we
00:10:28have the worst border in the history of the world. Millions of people coming in, and our country
00:10:33cannot sustain it. Our country is going down because of this, because of incompetent people.
00:10:39So I just look forward to these debates. I think it's very important that we have them. I hope she
00:10:44agrees to them September 4th, September 10th, September 25th. And I think they'll be very
00:10:52revealing. I think they'll be very revealing. Do you have any questions, please?
00:11:02I haven't recalibrated strategy at all. It's the same policies, open borders, weak on crime.
00:11:10She's, I think she's worse than Biden, because he got forced into the position. She was there
00:11:14long before. She destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed California as the AG. But as the DA,
00:11:21she destroyed San Francisco. A friend of mine, Bob Tish, you all know the Tish family. He was in
00:11:28many cities with companies. He said the greatest city in the country is San Francisco. That was
00:11:36about 20 years ago. And he passed away a while ago, and he would be looking down and said,
00:11:41what happened? He thought it was the best city in the country. He had divisions there, lows.
00:11:48And he would be looking down in horror now when he sees she destroyed no cash bail,
00:11:55weak on crime. She's terrible. And yet they weaponized the system against me.
00:12:01They have me. I got so many lawyers. Now they want to delay cases. I won the big case in Florida.
00:12:08I won the big case. Nobody even wrote about it. The big case. The judge was a brilliant judge.
00:12:13And all they do is they play the ref with the judges. But this judge was a fair but brilliant
00:12:18judge. And as you probably heard, the big documents case, I won it. Now, Biden lost it because he
00:12:24didn't have presidential immunity. He didn't have the Presidential Records Act. He lost it.
00:12:30But the special, I call it prosecutors, special counsel, special prosecutor to me,
00:12:37he appointed by him and appointed by Garland. He said the man's incompetent. He can't stand trial,
00:12:45but he can run for president. But we no longer have to worry about that because we have somebody
00:12:49that, in my opinion, is more incompetent. She couldn't pass her bar exam and lots of other
00:12:57things. And she should not be in a position because if she becomes president, our country
00:13:03is going to be a giant fail. It's going to fail. It's going to be a failure,
00:13:08the likes of which this world has never seen. Yeah, please. How about you?
00:13:21You have to speak louder.
00:13:22Yeah.
00:13:41Well, it changes around a little bit. I'm getting other voters.
00:13:45Perhaps, you know, I was doing very well with black voters and I still am.
00:13:49I seem to be doing very well with black males. This is according to polls, as you know.
00:13:56It's possible that I won't do as well with black women, but I do seem to be doing very
00:14:01well with other segments. Extremely well with Hispanic. Jewish voters way up.
00:14:08White males way up. White males have gone through the roof. White males way up.
00:14:13I don't know. All we're doing is giving you the stats that you have.
00:14:18It could be that I'll be affected somewhat with black females where we're doing pretty well.
00:14:24And I think ultimately they'll like me better because I'm going to give them security,
00:14:28safety and jobs. I'm going to give them a good economy. We have a very bad economy right now.
00:14:34We could we could literally be on the throes of a depression, not recession, a depression.
00:14:39And they can't have that. They can't have that. So I think I'm going to do well with everybody,
00:14:43especially when the facts are right. Yeah, please. In the back.
00:14:54Well, I don't know. I know Josh Shapiro. He's a terrible guy and he's not very popular with
00:14:59anybody. I think that this this election maybe is better than Josh Shapiro would have been. But I
00:15:06think other than Josh Shapiro, I think she had some good choices. But Josh Shapiro is not one
00:15:10of them. He's caused a lot of damage with a lot of people. And I don't think he would have been
00:15:17better. I think he would have been maybe the equivalent, maybe not as good. But they had
00:15:22some people that they were looking at that were good, far superior to her. They actually had a
00:15:26story where they had everybody, including they had like 10 people that she was looking at and her.
00:15:32And they said she was the worst of all. In other words, she was the worst out of the
00:15:3510 people enter. I don't know how that's going to work out. We'd like to do three debates.
00:15:48We think we should do three debates. We think Fox and ABC and we also have CBS is going to do
00:15:53the vice presidential debate. So CBS will do vice presidential. And and I have to tell you,
00:16:00J.D. Vance has really stepped up. He's doing a fantastic job.
00:16:10Say it. Oh, give me a break. Listen, I had 107000 people in New Jersey. You didn't report it.
00:16:21I'm so glad you ask. What does she have yesterday? 2000 people. If I ever had 2000 people,
00:16:27you'd say my campaign is finished. It's so dishonest, the press. And here's a great example.
00:16:34I had in Michigan recently, 25000 people and 25000 people were just we just couldn't get them in.
00:16:42We had in Harrisburg 2025000 people and 20000 people couldn't get in. We had so many. Nobody
00:16:51ever mentions that when she gets 1500 people. And I saw it yesterday on ABC, which they said,
00:16:57oh, the crowd was so big. I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size. And they never
00:17:03say the crowd was big. That's why I'm always saying turn around the cameras. I'm so glad
00:17:08you asked that. I think it's so terrible when you say, well, she has 1500 people,
00:17:121000 people. And they talk about, oh, the enthusiasm. Let me tell you, we have the
00:17:17enthusiasm, the Republican Party and me as a candidate. But the Republican Party has the
00:17:24enthusiasm because people want to see crime stopped. They want to see a country that's
00:17:29respected. Think of it. If I were president, you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine where it never
00:17:35happened. Zero chance. You wouldn't have had October 7th of Israel. You wouldn't have the
00:17:40horrible withdrawal. And I don't mean to withdraw because the withdrawal was fine. I was ready to
00:17:46withdraw from Afghanistan, and we were going to do it with dignity and strength. And we were
00:17:52keeping our equipment. We weren't leaving $85 billion worth of equipment behind. We wouldn't
00:17:57have had 13 great soldiers. I know the families of those soldiers. Well, we wouldn't have had
00:18:03these soldiers killed, and we wouldn't have had 45 soldiers obliterated. No legs, no arms,
00:18:10the face. None of that would have happened. And you wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't
00:18:15have had any inflation because inflation was caused by their bad energy problems. Now they've
00:18:21gone back to the Trump thing because they need the votes. I don't know if you know, they're
00:18:25drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to $7, $8, $9 a barrel.
00:18:32So they said, we better do what Trump. But the day after the election, if they won,
00:18:36you're going to have fuel prices go through the roof. Everybody's going to be forced to buy an
00:18:40electric car, which they're not going to do because they don't want that. It's got a great market.
00:18:44It's got a market. It's really a sub market. People want gasoline propelled cars. They want
00:18:51hybrids. They want to have everything, and they want electric. But they want everybody to have
00:18:56an electric car. We don't have enough electricity. We couldn't make enough electricity for that.
00:19:02And you know what else? The weight of a car, the weight of a truck. They want all trucks to be
00:19:06electric. Little things that a lot of people don't talk about. The weight of a truck is two
00:19:10and a half times, two and a half times heavier. You would have to rebuild every bridge in this
00:19:16country if you were going to do this ridiculous policy. So, uh, but on crowd size in history,
00:19:24for any country, nobody's had crowds like I have. And you know that. And when she gets a thousand
00:19:30people and everybody starts jumping, you know that if I had a thousand people would say,
00:19:34people would say that's the end of his campaign. I have hundreds of thousands of people in
00:19:40South Carolina at 88,000 people in Alabama had 68,000 people. Nobody says about crowd size with
00:19:48me, but she has a thousand people or 1500 people. And they say, Oh, the enthusiasm's back. No, no,
00:19:54the enthusiasm is with me and the Republican Party because they want to stop crime. They want to stop
00:20:00people from pouring into our country from places unknown and from countries unknown from countries
00:20:06that nobody ever heard of. That's where the enthusiasm.
00:20:27I don't know. I don't know if I can or not. I got him elected without me. He wouldn't be governor.
00:20:32I got him elected. He was doing terribly. I got him elected. With that being said,
00:20:37I hope we can repair it. But if we don't, the people are still the people and they're going
00:20:40to vote. We're leading in Georgia by a lot. We're leading in Pennsylvania by a lot. So,
00:20:45but I don't know. Now in Pennsylvania, I have great relationships in Georgia. I do too,
00:20:49but unfortunately not with the governor. I've never understood it. When you get somebody elected,
00:20:53they're supposed to like you. He's not exactly, uh, for some reason. And you'll have to ask him
00:20:58about that. Uh, yeah, I'd love to see it get repaired. I think that if we don't win Georgia,
00:21:03Georgia is a big, is a big win is a big state. So I won Alabama by a record. Nobody's ever
00:21:09gotten that many votes. I won South Carolina by a record. You don't win Alabama and South
00:21:15Carolina by records and lose Georgia. It doesn't happen. And the people of Georgia understand that
00:21:22there was tremendous, uh, anxiety and problems in Georgia. A lot of people say, what happened?
00:21:29And, uh, we have to, all we want is honest elections. If we have honest elections in
00:21:33Georgia and we have honest elections in Pennsylvania, we're going to win them by a lot.
00:21:48Well, he actually said it two ways. First, he said it incorrectly. Then he corrected himself.
00:21:51Do you agree with that? Right. You know, if you watch him, he said it two ways. No, no,
00:21:55no. I mean, he said it two ways cause he doesn't really know what he said. Why didn't he bring it
00:21:59up at the debate? You know, he had a chance for 90 minutes to bring it up at the debate. He could
00:22:03have talked about that at the debate and he didn't do it. Everyone said, Oh, he said this. And he
00:22:09said that he's just, you know, they give him something to read off. He read it very badly
00:22:13because he actually said it the opposite. Then he had to go back and correct himself. He said the
00:22:17opposite. He should have brought this up at the debate. If he had a problem, of course there'll
00:22:22be a peaceful transfer and there was last time and there'll be a peaceful transfer. I just hope
00:22:27we're going to have honest elections. That's all. Okay. What a stupid question. This is
00:22:48because I'm leading by a lot and because I'm letting their convention go through.
00:22:53And I am companion a lot. I'm doing tremendous amounts of taping here. We have commercials
00:23:00that are at a level I don't think that anybody's ever done before. Plus in certain cases, I see
00:23:05many of you in the room where I'm speaking to you on phones. I'm speaking to radio. I'm speaking to
00:23:10television. Television's coming over here. Excuse me. What are we doing right now? She's not doing
00:23:16any news conference. You know why she's not doing it? Because she can't do a news conference. She
00:23:19doesn't know how to do a news conference. She's not smart enough to do a news conference. And I'm
00:23:23sorry, we need smart people to lead this country because our country's never been in this danger
00:23:27before, both economically and from an outside perspective. Russia doesn't respect us anymore.
00:23:35China doesn't respect us anymore. North Korea, Kim Jong-un liked me a lot. He doesn't like this
00:23:42group. We are in great danger. We're in great danger of being in World War III. That could
00:23:47happen. No, after their convention, yeah. And I'm going out. Actually, I'm going out to certain
00:23:53places to help certain senators get elected, not even for me. I'm trying to help when I go out to
00:23:58Wyoming or when I go out to Montana or I'm going to different places to help people. And I don't
00:24:05have to go there because I'm leading those states, as you know, by 35, 40, 50 points. I'm leading by
00:24:10record numbers. I'm going because I want to help senators and congressmen get elected, congressmen
00:24:16and women get elected. Yes, please. Yeah, go ahead. The upcoming what? Oh, yeah.
00:24:28Yeah. Yeah, the Elon Musk. So yeah, sure. So Elon called me. As you know, he endorsed me
00:24:42full-throated. Great endorsement. I respect Elon a lot. He respects me. And not easy for him to
00:24:48endorse, to be honest with you. You know, it takes courage to endorse people. Many people have
00:24:55courage and many people don't. He does have courage. And Elon endorsed me and he asked me
00:25:00whether or not I do a show on Monday. And I think it's going to be Monday night.
00:25:04And I believe he's the host of the show. So it'll be very interesting. A lot of people
00:25:08are talking about. I look forward to it. That'll be done on Monday night.
00:25:19Well, you have a lot of misinformation spread about China and you have a lot of misinformation
00:25:24spread about a lot of different places. I think I'm going to get along great with China.
00:25:28President Xi of China and I were very good friends. We met right here,
00:25:32right in that except we had a beautiful sofa there as opposed to what we have right now.
00:25:37Right now we have you. But President Xi and I had a very good relationship until Covid
00:25:44and I held him responsible for Covid. It broke up our relationship. But I think we're going to
00:25:48have a great relationship and I think it's going to be mutually beneficial. But we cannot have it
00:25:54where China is taking advantage of the United States and that's what they were doing, as you
00:25:58very well know. Yes, please. What's your question?
00:26:17No, I think the people that if you look at January 6th, which a lot of people aren't talking about
00:26:23very much. I think those people were treated very harshly when you compare them to other things that
00:26:27took place in this country where a lot of people were killed. Nobody was killed on January 6th.
00:26:32But I think that the people of January 6th were treated very unfairly and they were there to
00:26:37complain, not through me. They were there to complain about an election. And you know, it's
00:26:43very interesting. The biggest crowd I've ever spoken to and I said peacefully and patriotically,
00:26:48which nobody wants to say, but I said peacefully and patriotically the biggest crowd I've ever
00:26:53spoken to. And you've seen, Maggie, I was in at the mall. I was at the Washington Monument. I was
00:27:00at the whole thing. I had crowds. I don't know who's ever had a bigger crowd than I have, but I
00:27:05had it many times. The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day. And I'll tell you,
00:27:12it's very hard to find a picture of that crowd. You see the picture of a small number of people
00:27:17relatively going to the Capitol, but you never see the picture of the crowd. The biggest crowd
00:27:23I've ever spoken, I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me.
00:27:28If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours,
00:27:34same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more.
00:27:41And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people. But when you look at the exact
00:27:46same picture, and everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way
00:27:50back from Lincoln to Washington, and you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd,
00:27:57my crowd, we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000, and he had a million people. And
00:28:05I'm okay with it because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King. Yeah, please.
00:28:10President Trump, you said repeatedly on Truth Social that it was unconstitutional
00:28:16for the Democrats to replace President Biden with Blasphemer in Paris and in Canada.
00:28:22Can you explain your constitutional analysis? Which part of it?
00:28:26Yeah, sure. We have a constitution. It's a very important document, and we live by it.
00:28:32She has no votes. And I'm very happy to run against her. I'm not complaining from that
00:28:36standpoint. And I hate to be defending him, but he did not want to leave. He wanted to
00:28:43see if he could win. They said, you're not going to win after the debate. They said,
00:28:46you're not going to win. You can't win. You're out. And at first, they said it nicely,
00:28:51and he wasn't leaving. And then you know it better than anybody. So when you think about it,
00:28:59they said at first they were going to go out to another vote. They were going to go through a
00:29:03primary system, a quick primary system, which it would have to be. And then it all disappeared,
00:29:08and they just picked a person that was the first out. She was the first loser, okay? So we call
00:29:14her the first loser. She was the first loser during the primary system, during the Democrat
00:29:19primary system. She was the first one to quit, and she quit. She had no votes, no support,
00:29:25and she was a bad debater, by the way, very bad debater. And that's not the thing I'm looking
00:29:31forward to, but she was a bad debater. She did obviously a bad job. She never made it to Iowa.
00:29:37Then for some reason, and I know he regrets it, you do too, he picked her, and she turned on him
00:29:44too. She was working with the people that wanted him out. But the fact that you can be, get no
00:29:49votes, lose in the primary system, in other words, you had 14 or 15 people, she was the first one
00:29:55out, and that you can then be picked to run for president, it seems to me actually unconstitutional.
00:30:02Perhaps it's not. Please.
00:30:16So I've run against Hillary, and I've run against various other people.
00:30:23I would say that in terms of intelligence, Hillary was far superior. I would say that
00:30:28Hillary was smart. She was her own worst enemy in many ways, but she was smart, very smart.
00:30:34Okay? If you ask me to compare them. Please.
00:30:53Uh, would you repeat that question, please?
00:30:57Do you have to speak up? It's a hard room because it's very big, if you know.
00:31:02So this is worth 18 million dollars. Oh, I see.
00:31:05So I think the abortion issue is written very much tempered down, and I've answered, I think,
00:31:25very well in the debate, and it seems to be much less of an issue, especially for those where they
00:31:31have the exceptions, as you know, and I think it's when I looked for 52 years, they wanted to
00:31:38bring abortion back to the states. They wanted to get rid of Roe v. Wade, and that's Democrats,
00:31:43Republicans, and Independents, and everybody, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it
00:31:48back in the states, and I did that. Now the states are voting, and frankly, some of the votes are
00:31:53much more, if you could say, liberal than you would think. Ohio turned out to be, they had a
00:31:59big vote, and it turned out to be a much more liberal standing than people would have thought.
00:32:04Kansas, the same thing, and then you have Texas, and you have other places where it may be
00:32:08different, but the issue has been brought back to the states now, and like Ronald Reagan, I believe
00:32:13in the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. I believe, you know, I believe strongly.
00:32:20I think that that's a very important thing. I think when you don't, you have to follow your heart,
00:32:25but when you don't believe in the exceptions, I think it's much tougher. It's a much tougher issue,
00:32:31but about 82 percent of Republicans do believe in exceptions. I think the, and a lot of them are
00:32:39changing their mind and coming even further. I think that abortion has become much less of an
00:32:44issue. It's a very small, I think it's actually going to be a very small issue. What I've done
00:32:48is I've done what every Democrat and every Republican wanted to have done, and we brought
00:32:53that issue back to the states, and now the states are voting on it, and frankly, some of the votes
00:32:59are a lot different than people would have thought, but it's the vote of the people that's taking care
00:33:03of it, and you know, when you think about the radical, the Democrats are really the radical
00:33:09ones on this because they're allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month, and
00:33:15even after birth, if you look at your new governor from Minnesota, he's talking about,
00:33:23he's like the governor previous, the former governor. I don't want to get him mixed up
00:33:28because Glenn is doing a good job, and he's leading our, he's leading our whole campaign
00:33:32in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, but previous to Glenn, the governor, he said the baby will be born,
00:33:38we will put the baby aside, and we will decide with the mother what we're going to do. In other
00:33:42words, whether or not we're going to kill the baby. The Minnesota gentleman, he, this guy,
00:33:49agrees with that. He is the most liberal. Look, between her and him, there's never been anything
00:33:57like this. There's never been a combination, so I'll use the word progressive. You know,
00:34:02they want to go progressive. They don't like the word liberal. I like liberal better. I think it's
00:34:05more appropriate because nobody knows what progressive means, but they now like to use
00:34:10the word progressive, but there's certainly never been anybody so liberal like these two,
00:34:14or even close. I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don't think it's of,
00:34:22I don't think it's a big factor anymore, really, and when people hear what I said in the debate,
00:34:27and I think I said it very well during the debate, we brought it back to the states.
00:34:32Everybody wanted it in the states, and very importantly, and you think about this,
00:34:38assuming you have exceptions. If you don't have exceptions, it's a more difficult thing. At the
00:34:42same time, there are people that strongly feel that way, and you have to follow your heart,
00:34:46and you should follow your heart, but that issue has, is very much subdued. Yeah, thank you.
00:34:56About who? Yes.
00:34:59The fact that some of you are using AR-15s, guns,
00:35:03I don't think you were correct in talking about that.
00:35:06No, I didn't. Look, if you take away guns, she wants to take away everyone's gun. If you take
00:35:12away guns, can't do it, because people need the guns for protection. Now, entertainment,
00:35:18they want it, hunting, they want, you know, different things, but they need weapons for
00:35:22protection in this country. People live out in the woods, and they're not going to have a gun.
00:35:27If you look at some countries, I don't want to go, I don't want to get them in trouble,
00:35:31but some countries have actually gone the opposite way. They had very strong gun laws,
00:35:35and now they have gone the opposite way, where they allowed people to have guns,
00:35:40where in one case, they encouraged people to go out and get guns, and crime is down 29%.
00:35:47And remember this, what is the toughest gun law in the United States? Chicago.
00:35:54On July 4th, 117 people were shot and 17 died. The toughest gun laws in the United States are in
00:36:03the city of Chicago, you know that. They had 117 people shot. Afghanistan does not have that.
00:36:11Afghanistan, by the way, was the lowest point in the history of our country, in my opinion.
00:36:17That was the worst embarrassment to the history of this country, and I say Putin would not have
00:36:23gone into Ukraine if that didn't happen. When he saw the incompetence of Milley and all these guys
00:36:29that are incompetent, when he saw that happen, when they took out the soldiers first, they took
00:36:34out the soldiers first. You know, if you go back and check your records, for 18 months, I had a
00:36:41talk with Abdul. Abdul was the leader of the Taliban, still is, but I had a strong talk with
00:36:46him. For 18 months, not one American soldier was shot at or killed, but not even shot at.
00:36:5518 months, and then we had the disaster of the lift, where people were falling off airplanes
00:37:01from three times the height of the World Trade Center. I mean, terrible. But now our country
00:37:08has to be respected again, please. Go ahead, please.
00:37:20I'd be against that. That Kamala is in favor of not giving Israel weapons. Yeah,
00:37:28that's what I hear. Look, she's been very, very bad to Israel, and she's been very bad to Jewish
00:37:34people. And I say it. If anybody I know is Jewish and they would vote for Kamala over me,
00:37:43they should have their head examined. If you think about it, I gave them Golan Heights. I gave them
00:37:48the capital of Israel, Jerusalem. I built the I even built the embassy. I gave them no Iran deal.
00:37:53The problem is they didn't do anything with it. Iran was broke. We could have made a deal so
00:37:57easily. I would have had a deal done within one week after the election with Iran. Iran can't
00:38:02have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. We would have gotten along with Iran.
00:38:05I was looking forward to it. I was fine with Iran. You know, we hit them a couple of times
00:38:09pretty hard, but we would have been fine with Iran. But I got them. I terminated that deal.
00:38:15I got them the Abraham Accords. Everyone said that's impossible. I got them the Abraham Accords.
00:38:21She's been very, very bad to Israel, and she's been very bad and disrespectful to Jewish people.
00:38:26And any Jewish person that votes for Kamala and her friend, her new friend,
00:38:32who I don't know if she knew him before, but I don't think he's too good.
00:38:35But anybody that votes for them, if you're Jewish or if you love Israel,
00:38:40you have to have your head examined. Go ahead, please.
00:38:50They have. The FBI came to see me about the shooter. I think they've done a very good job,
00:38:56and I think they did a very good job with respect to this other lunatic that they have
00:39:00in custody. Please.
00:39:17Well, I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought
00:39:22maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there
00:39:28was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie, he was a little concerned.
00:39:35So I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven't seen him in years.
00:39:39But he told me terrible things about her. But this is what you're telling me anyway, I guess.
00:39:45But he had a big part in what happened with Kamala. But he, I don't know, maybe he's changed
00:39:51his tune, but he was not a fan of hers very much at that point.
00:40:13I'm going to announce that. I'm going to actually have a press conference on that at some point in
00:40:17the near future, so I don't want to tell you now. But Florida does have a vote coming up on that,
00:40:23and I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought.
00:40:29But I'll be announcing that at the appropriate time. Please.
00:40:47Yeah. Oh, we gave tremendous and tremendous for child care and all of that. No, our tax cuts,
00:40:55which are the biggest in history, our tax cuts are coming due, as you know, very soon.
00:41:00And if the Democrats don't renew them or make it impossible to renew because it's pretty close
00:41:05in terms of vote, if they don't renew them, it's the equivalent of having a four times tax increase
00:41:12from what you have right now, and it'll destroy the economy. I think they're under tremendous
00:41:16pressure to do it. I've never seen, you know, all my life. I grow up and I watch politics,
00:41:20and I used to be on the other side of politics. Then I run for office. But in all the years of
00:41:25studying politics, I've never seen people get elected by saying we're going to give you a tax
00:41:29increase. These guys get up. Think of it. We're going to give you no security. We're going to
00:41:33give you a weak military. We're going to give you no walls, no borders, no anything. We're going to
00:41:39all these things they're doing. I mean, the transgender to transgender became such a big
00:41:44thing, but they do all of these things. But they always say we're going to give you a tax increase.
00:41:49I never heard anybody campaign on a tax increase. A politician has always said I will cut taxes.
00:41:57I'll give you one example. Social Security. They're going to destroy Social Security.
00:42:03I am going to leave Social Security. I'm not raising the years. I'm not raising the age.
00:42:09I will be saving Social Security, and I'm going to work it out that there's no tax on
00:42:13Social Security for seniors. I'm also doing no tax on tips, no tax on tips. So waiters,
00:42:21waitresses, caddies, people that drive cars, people that get tips who have been harassed
00:42:26by this government. We're going to have no tax on tips. That's a big thing.
00:42:31Yeah, oh, absolutely. Sure. Because other people have done far bigger things than see Ben and sure,
00:42:44it's politically motivated. I think it's a horrible thing they did. Look, they've
00:42:48weaponized government against me. Look at the Florida case. It was a totally
00:42:53weaponized case. All of these cases, by the way, the New York cases are totally controlled
00:43:00out of the Department of Justice. They sent their top person to the various places. They
00:43:06went to the A.G.'s office, got that one going. Then he went to the D.A.'s office, got that one
00:43:10going, ran through it. No, no, this is all politics, and it's a disgrace. Never happened
00:43:16in this country. It's very common that it happens, but not in our country. It happens in banana
00:43:21republics and third world countries, and that's what we're becoming. We have no borders. We have
00:43:26bad voting regulations. Anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have problems.
00:43:31France learned that lesson. France had all mail-in voting, and they went back
00:43:35to paper ballots, voter identification, voter I.D. They went back to a normal system,
00:43:41one-day voting. They don't want to be around voting for 64 days.
00:43:46Look, the election, I keep talking about November 5th, but the election really starts on September
00:43:516th. That's when it starts, because it's early voting. We should have one-day voting,
00:43:56we should have paper ballots, we should have voter I.D., and we should have proof of citizenship.
00:44:00Please. No, the gentlemen in the back. For who? You're going to have to talk louder, sir.
00:44:22Elon is a very different kind of a guy. He's a very big believer in the country,
00:44:30but he's very worried about the country. He's very worried about the country,
00:44:34and I don't know if it's good for him politically to have supported me, although I think we have
00:44:38a vast majority of this country does support me. But Elon, more than almost anybody I know,
00:44:44I mean, he loves this country, he loves the concept of the country, but like me,
00:44:49he says this country is in big trouble, it's in tremendous danger. Okay, please.
00:45:01I like this guy. I like him.
00:45:11The polls have suggested, there are some polls that say we're going to win in a landslide.
00:45:15People are voting with their stomachs, meaning they're going to the grocery store,
00:45:20they're paying 50, 60, 70 percent more for food than they did just a couple of years ago.
00:45:25Look at what's happened to energy. Look at what's happened not only to their cars,
00:45:30where gasoline has gone from $1.87, a dollar eighty-seven, and we had moments when it was
00:45:37below that, but it's gone from a dollar eighty-seven to five, six, and seven dollars.
00:45:43And they take the strategic national reserves, and they take it out, even though it's peanuts
00:45:48compared, it doesn't last long, but they're virtually empty now. We've never had it this low.
00:45:54And he's using that to keep the gasoline prices as low as possible. He's sucked all of the oil out,
00:46:00essentially the gasoline, to keep the price down a little bit, and it's had very little impact,
00:46:07but you know what? We have no strategic national reserves now. He's emptied it. It's almost empty.
00:46:13It's never been this low. And I had it at a good level, and I would have had it more if the
00:46:17Democrats would have approved the deal. You know, I had a deal to buy it at $22 a barrel,
00:46:24and now it's getting — it's going to be close to $100 pretty soon, my opinion. And the Democrats
00:46:30didn't want to do that, but we bought a lot anyway. And we had it pretty good. And what
00:46:36they've done to the national reserves, the strategic national reserves, as you know very
00:46:40well, because you cover it, but what they've done is incredible. They've just — for the sake of
00:46:46getting some votes, for the sake of having gasoline — you know, that's meant for wars.
00:46:51It's meant for, like, tragedy. It's not meant to keep a gasoline price down so that somebody can
00:46:57vote for Biden or, in this case, Kamala, who, by the way, is worse than Biden, and she's actually
00:47:05not as smart. Okay? She's actually not as smart. That's hard to believe, isn't it? Yeah, please.
00:47:11Q Mr. President, can I ask a follow-up question? I don't want to have to follow up with one of
00:47:14the employees, but there are other things that the federal government can do, not just a ban.
00:47:18Would you direct your FDA to be able to revoke access to Mr. Preston?
00:47:22THE PRESIDENT Sure, you could do things that will be — would supplement,
00:47:27absolutely. And those things are pretty open and humane. But you have to be able to have a vote.
00:47:33And all I want to do is give everybody a vote. And the votes are taking place right now,
00:47:37as we speak. Yeah. But it's a very good — there are many things, on a humane basis,
00:47:42that you can do outside of that. But you also have to give a vote,
00:47:45and the people are going to have to decide. Okay, yes, please.
00:47:48Q Mr. President, do you think Kamala Harris is worse than President Biden?
00:47:51THE PRESIDENT On what?
00:47:52Q I don't think so. Do you think her —
00:47:53THE PRESIDENT No, I think she's actually not as smart as he is.
00:47:56I don't think he's very smart either, by the way. I'm not a big fan of his brain.
00:48:00But I think that she's actually not as smart as he is.
00:48:03Q So what do you attribute to her rising in the polls, becoming a more competitive race
00:48:07since she's taken over?
00:48:08THE PRESIDENT Well, she's a woman. She represents
00:48:13certain groups of people. But I will say this. When people find out about her, I think she'll
00:48:20be much less — and I see it right now. I see her going way down in the polls now. Now that people
00:48:25are finding out that she destroyed San Francisco, she destroyed the state of California, along with
00:48:31Governor Gavin Newsom. He's been a terrible governor. Terrible. But they did it together.
00:48:36And she was early. I mean, she was the first of the prosecutors, really. You know, now you
00:48:40see Philadelphia, you see Los Angeles, you see New York. You see various people that are very bad.
00:48:46But she was the first of the bad prosecutors. She was early.
00:48:49Q Mr. President, will your White House and the
00:48:51Davis presidents —
00:48:53THE PRESIDENT Who?
00:48:53Q Will your White House and the Davis presidents —
00:48:57THE PRESIDENT Would you repeat that, please?
00:48:58Q Will your White House —
00:48:59THE PRESIDENT No, you.
00:48:59Would you repeat what she said? You have to speak up. This room is very louder.
00:49:04Q Will your White House and the Davis presidents —
00:49:11THE PRESIDENT Do you hear her?
00:49:12Q Will your White House and the Davis presidents —
00:49:17THE PRESIDENT A daily press briefing? Why would I do that?
00:49:19I would give you all the press briefings you want. Look what I'm doing here.
00:49:23But why would I do a daily press — you'd get tired of me very fast. No, but I will
00:49:28give you total access, and you'll have a lot of press briefings, and you'll have
00:49:33from me — now, are you talking about from me or from a press secretary?
00:49:36Well, yeah, probably they'll do something. If it's not daily,
00:49:39it's going to be a lot. You'll have more than you want.
00:49:41Q Mr. President —
00:49:42THE PRESIDENT Yeah, please.
00:49:43Q President Biden vowed not to pardon his son Hunter,
00:49:46who is now in conflict with the government, David,
00:49:48or felony charges. His upcoming father alleged tax evasion.
00:49:52Would you consider granting clemency for a pardon?
00:49:55THE PRESIDENT I don't think it's appropriate for me to
00:49:57talk about it. I think it's a tragic story. You want to know the truth. And I felt that with
00:50:02Hillary Clinton, too. You know, with Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that
00:50:06would have made your head spin. I thought it was a very bad thing — take the wife of a
00:50:11President of the United States and put her in jail. And then I see the way they treat me.
00:50:16That's the way it goes. But I was very protective of her. Nobody would understand that. But I was.
00:50:22I think my people understand it. They used to say, lock her up,
00:50:25lock her up. And I'd say, just relax, please. We won the election. I think it would be very
00:50:31— I think it would have been horrible for our country if I — and we had her between
00:50:36the hammering of all of the files. And don't forget, she got a subpoena from the United
00:50:41States Congress. And then, after getting the subpoena, she destroyed everything that she
00:50:46was supposed to get. I couldn't — I didn't think — I thought it was so bad to take her
00:50:54and put her in jail — the wife of a President of the United States. And then,
00:50:59when it's my turn, nobody thinks that way. I thought it was a very terrible thing.
00:51:03And she did a lot of very bad things. I'll tell you what, she was — she was pretty evil.
00:51:08But in terms of the country and in terms of unifying the country, bringing it back,
00:51:12to have taken her and to have put her in jail — and I think
00:51:16you know the things as well as I do. There were some pretty bad acts that she did.
00:51:21I think it would have been very bad for our country. And a lot of my people, a lot of the
00:51:24MAGA, as they call them, but the base — and I think the base is — I think the base is 75
00:51:29percent of the country, far beyond the Republican Party, because we're a party of common sense.
00:51:34And I'm a person of common sense. I want to have low taxes. I want to have strong borders.
00:51:38I want to have a strong military so that China and Russia — look, they've allowed China and
00:51:44Russia to do the impossible, combined. They're natural enemies. They always have been,
00:51:49because China needs more land and Russia has it. They've always been natural enemies.
00:51:54And because of Obama — it started with him — and then Biden, because he didn't know what the hell
00:52:00he was doing, they've now become one force. And then — now they're adding Iran to it,
00:52:05and they're adding North Korea to it. Pretty powerful force.
00:52:09This is something that is unthinkable that they allowed to happen.
00:52:14Q Mr. President, just a quick question on this. You're saying that you're not
00:52:17going to change the campaign strategy. There are people who are going to be
00:52:20issues. But what if the so-called honeymoon period doesn't end?
00:52:25THE PRESIDENT Oh, it's going to end. The honeymoon period is going to end. Look,
00:52:28she's got a little period. She's got a convention coming up.
00:52:32It's about policy. It's not about her. I think she's incompetent,
00:52:36because I've watched her. She destroyed California. She destroyed San Francisco.
00:52:40Everything she's touched has turned to bad things. I want to use — I'm not going to
00:52:45use foul language. But everything she's touched has turned bad. She's incompetent.
00:52:51The reason she's not doing what I do, and she's not doing what she should be doing,
00:52:56she won't even do interviews with friendly people, because she can't do better than Biden.
00:53:02Now, he had a reason for not doing well. And he was never, 25 years ago, the sharpest
00:53:08or brightest bulb in the ceiling. That I can tell you. Okay? He wasn't.
00:53:12But he could do interviews, at least. Not lately, he couldn't, perhaps. But she's — she should be
00:53:20doing interviews. She doesn't want to do interviews. And the reason she doesn't is,
00:53:24number one, her policies are so bad. Just to answer your question, I think that it's not
00:53:29going to change, because it's really ultimately not about her as much as about her policies.
00:53:34She wants open borders. She wants to defund the police. She wants to defund the police.
00:53:38She wants to take away your guns. Anybody that thinks they're not going to come after your guns
00:53:43— you know, when I was President, I totally protected the guns. And I think it's very
00:53:50important. And I know I take some heat sometimes for it. But you have to have safety. You have to
00:53:55have — when the bad guy walks in with a gun, you've got to have some way of protecting yourself.
00:54:00And, boy, that would be — you would see crime go up at levels that you've never seen.
00:54:04When people say on the side of the House,
00:54:07this House has guns, we will use the guns, they say, let's pass. We'll go someplace else.
00:54:14You have to have them. And for four years — and, you know, as you know, the NRA endorsed me very
00:54:20powerfully every time I ran. Every time. My sons are members. And I guess, indirectly, I'm a member
00:54:26too. But they gave me the strongest of endorsements. And that's against very strong
00:54:30competition — people that, you know, felt the same way. No, you have to have — you have to
00:54:36have that right. Our Second Amendment is a very important right. And it has to be protected.
00:54:42Okay, how about you? Go ahead.
00:54:43The Press Yeah.
00:54:50So, there are some of the most brilliant people on Wall Street that are saying that
00:54:56if President Trump doesn't win, you're going to have a depression.
00:55:01I happen to agree. I think that's true. Because I know how bad these people are.
00:55:07You know, they like to say that they did this and that. You saw the $7 trillion that they said
00:55:12it was me for $7 trillion. It wasn't me. It was them. They said that I had inflation.
00:55:18They took over 9 percent inflation. No, no, I had 1 percent inflation. I had actually no
00:55:23inflation, because if you look at the categories, we had just about no inflation. But I had
00:55:28a very minor — I actually had a positive inflation. It was a perfect number. Because
00:55:33you don't want zero. I mean, I'm not going to give you a whole course on economics, but
00:55:38you don't want zero. One percent, 1.4 percent is great. You want a little bit,
00:55:43because you don't want to have deflation. Deflation is, in many ways, even worse.
00:55:48I had a perfect number, right around the 1 percent number. It was perfect. And to show you,
00:55:54it stayed there for two years. And then he did all of the different borrowings that he did.
00:56:01And then he did so many things wrong. Every time he would do it, I'd say,
00:56:05big mistake. And don't forget, they sell hats and they sell stories.
00:56:09Trump was right about everything. I have been right about a lot. Yes, Maggie.
00:56:13The Press
00:56:27Well, we had a commission, like other people do. And it's always complicated and it's always
00:56:31controversial. And we had commissions that — and I think of respected people. You know many of the
00:56:36people on the commission. And they would recommend to me certain pardons for certain people. Some
00:56:41people were treated very harshly. A fantastic woman, as you know. She served 24 years for
00:56:48being on a phone call having to do with drugs. You know who I'm talking about. She was great.
00:56:53And she had another 24 years to go. And it was largely about marijuana, which in many cases is
00:56:59now legalized, okay? But we had many very highly regarded people on a commission, and they'd
00:57:06recommend — and they'd put a reason why. Some people were — you know, served time,
00:57:11but they served a lot of time for something that today people wouldn't even serve time by.
00:57:19Well, for the most part, I think they did. I mean, they did. They go through — they went
00:57:23through — I had a commission. It was a very important commission to me and highly respected
00:57:27people. And frankly, they came up with some decisions that I wouldn't necessarily agree with,
00:57:31but I did it. But I let a lot of people out that were — that had no representation.
00:57:37I went to people in jails, in prison that we respected. I said,
00:57:41how many of these people should be let out? We let out large groups of low-income people
00:57:46that were serving like 40 years for something that today you wouldn't even be put in jail for.
00:57:54We had very few people let out because I said, I really don't want to let people out where they
00:57:58had a lot of violence, where they had killing, et cetera, et cetera. And for the most part,
00:58:02we didn't do that. Yeah, please.
00:58:04Q Mr. President, prior to that, you were speaking to them about you want
00:58:09more of the federal government to have on issues like the interest rate. And you didn't —
00:58:13THE PRESIDENT On defense?
00:58:14Q For the Federal Reserve.
00:58:16THE PRESIDENT Ah. Federal Reserve?
00:58:18Q I mean, do you think it's a bad idea to be communist with the Federal Reserve?
00:58:21THE PRESIDENT Right. Well, look,
00:58:22the Federal Reserve is a very interesting thing, and it's sort of gotten it wrong a lot.
00:58:27And he's tending to be a little bit late on things. He gets a little bit too early and a
00:58:33little bit too late. And, you know, that's very largely a — it's a gut feeling. I believe it's
00:58:40really a gut feeling. And I used to have it out with him. I had it out with him a couple of times
00:58:44very strongly. I fought him very hard. And, you know, we get along fine. We get along fine. But
00:58:52I feel the President should have at least say in there, yeah, I feel that strongly.
00:58:56I think that, in my case, I made a lot of money. I was very successful. And I think
00:59:01I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve
00:59:05or the chairman. Yeah.
00:59:06Q Mr. President, you just mentioned people going to prison for marijuana.
00:59:11THE PRESIDENT Yeah.
00:59:11Q Paris supports rescheduling marijuana and also says that no one should go to prison
00:59:16for marijuana offense. Do you agree with that position?
00:59:19THE PRESIDENT Well, as we legalize it,
00:59:20I start to agree a lot more, because, you know, you're being — it's being
00:59:23legalized all over the country. Florida has something coming up. I'll be making a statement
00:59:27about that fairly soon. But as we legalize it throughout the country, whether that's a good
00:59:32thing or a bad thing, it's awfully hard to have people all over the jails that are in jail right
00:59:37now for something that's legal. So I think, obviously, there's a lot of sentiment to doing
00:59:43that. Yeah, please.
00:59:45Q Mr. President, Kamala Harris thought that she was going to start the Black Caucus.
00:59:52How did she only recently decide on the Black Caucus?
00:59:55THE PRESIDENT Well, you'll have to ask her that question,
00:59:58because she's the one that said it. I didn't say it. So you'll have to ask her. And I very
01:00:04much appreciate that question. But you'll have to ask her. But I've known her for a long time.
01:00:09I actually contributed to her campaign a long time ago, because I was a developer.
01:00:13I contributed to lots of campaigns of Democrats, Republicans, and some were liberal and some were
01:00:18conservative. But you'll have to ask her about that. But to me, it doesn't matter. But to her,
01:00:25from her standpoint, I think it's very disrespectful to both, really. Whether it's
01:00:29Indian or black, I think it's very disrespectful to both. To me, it doesn't matter. Please,
01:00:35red dress, red dress. Yeah, pretty, pretty much recovered. Yeah, I'm a fast healer.
01:00:47It's a hell of a shot. But I'm a fast healer. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much recovered.
01:00:55No, it didn't hit that. I got very lucky. It just it just hit the lobe, as they call it.
01:01:05Yeah, a little bit. Not much. On top. A little bit.
01:01:15Yeah.
01:01:22Well, we're starting that. Yeah.
01:01:28We are going to start the largest mass deportation in the history of our country,
01:01:32because we have no choice. It's not sustainable. And we are going to start with violent criminals.
01:01:37And we're going to start, then, with criminals. And our local police is going to work with us,
01:01:42because they know everything about the people. They know their names. They know everything
01:01:46about them. They know their middle name. They know their numbers. And as you know,
01:01:49the other side is trying. You know, look, for years, I wondered, why are they allowing these
01:01:54people to come in at levels like this? It was incredible. And I said two reasons. They're
01:01:59either really stupid. And I don't believe they're stupid, because anybody that can cheat in elections
01:02:04like they cheat is not stupid. Or in the alternative, they have bad motives or they hate
01:02:10our country. And I used to think they hate our country. But lately, I've seen where they're
01:02:14trying to sign these people up to vote and they have to stop. They cannot let illegal immigrants
01:02:20vote in this upcoming election. One more question. Go ahead. One more. Make it a good one, please.
01:02:29Right.
01:02:39We have so many ways of making money in this country. We're not going to affect our Social
01:02:44Security. We're not changing it. And I proved that over four years. And we're going to do it.
01:02:48It's very unfair to people. Very. They spend their life and they're great citizens and they pay in.
01:02:54We're not going to charge tax to our Social Security, the seniors. We're not going to do
01:03:00it. We're not going to charge and also tax. I say the two things. We're going to have no tax
01:03:06on seniors, Social Security, and we're going to have no tax on tips. Very simple. And we are a
01:03:13country that has so many different ways to make money. We have we have under our feet more liquid
01:03:19gold. I call it oil and gas than any country in the world, much more than Saudi Arabia,
01:03:26much more than Russia. We have so many different ways we can make money.
01:03:30We're not going to hurt our seniors with Social Security and we're not going to charge them tax.
01:03:35OK. We should not have sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities is a way of protecting criminals
01:03:50and we should not have sanctuary cities. And if you go to California and I know it well,
01:03:55I have property out there, great property. If you go to California and you ask the people of
01:04:01California, do they like the idea of sanctuary cities? They don't like it. They're tired of it.
01:04:06They're tired of crime. They're tired of what's happened to our country. Our country has become
01:04:11a crime ridden mess and we're going to stop it on November 5th. Thank you very much, everybody.
01:04:18Thank you. Thank you.