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00:59Thank you very much.
01:06Strong.
01:07They're strong.
01:08And they're great.
01:09These are great people.
01:10And thank you very much.
01:11This is a very important day to me because we're bringing back an industry that was abandoned,
01:20despite the fact that it was just about the best, certainly the best in terms of power,
01:25real power.
01:27And I'm very honored to be doing this.
01:31The countries went to beautiful, clean coal, and they've stayed there for many years, like
01:37China.
01:38China is opening two plants every week.
01:42Germany went green, very green.
01:45They went so green, they almost went out of business.
01:49Germany was finished.
01:50They went to wind.
01:52The wind wasn't blowing too much.
01:54And they went to all sorts of other things.
01:56You know, the Green New Scam hit Germany, too.
01:58And guess what?
02:00Now they're back to coal.
02:01They're opening up coal plants all over Germany.
02:04We're the ones that aren't doing it.
02:06I call it beautiful, clean coal.
02:08I tell my people, never use the word coal unless you put beautiful, clean before it.
02:13Right, Doc?
02:14So we call it beautiful, clean coal.
02:15Beautiful, clean coal.
02:16So today — thank you — today, we're taking historic action to help
02:26American workers, miners, families, and consumers.
02:29We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful, clean coal, once and for all.
02:33And it wasn't just Biden, it was Obama and there were others.
02:38But we're doing the exact opposite.
02:42And all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened.
02:46If they're modern enough, or they'll be ripped down and brand new ones will be built.
02:52We're going to put the miners back to work.
02:54And I said I was going to do this, and I've said it loud and clear.
02:59And it's time to do it, and we need it.
03:02And I look at these people behind me — I don't want to have any arm-wrestling contests
03:07with any of them —
03:08— but they've had a little more practice with the lifting things, I will say.
03:13But they are great people, and I know them indirectly and directly for a long — that
03:18includes you guys — for a long time.
03:22And they're great people, and with great families, and come from areas of the country
03:27that we love and we really respect.
03:31And I want to thank Secretary Doug Burgum for doing such an incredible job.
03:37From the day I met him, I knew I wanted to have him in my Cabinet.
03:41He took a shot at running, and he was so good and so solid that he made no news.
03:48And that was good.
03:50But I saw him and I saw his beautiful wife, Catherine, and I said that they're going
03:55to be a team.
03:56They are a great team, and they're going to be working for this country someday.
04:01And one of the first people I called after I won.
04:04So thank you very much.
04:05And along with the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright — and I was going to make Doug, actually,
04:11the Energy Secretary — and he said, Sir, do you have one person who's much better
04:15than me at this?
04:17Chris Wright.
04:18I said, Who the hell is Chris Wright?
04:19I have no idea who he is.
04:21And then I learned that he's the most respected person in the energy business, by far.
04:26Far and away.
04:27For Doug to say that, Doug has got a big ego.
04:29It was very tough for him to say that.
04:31Catherine Rossella, right?
04:32Catherine, you said, Wow, I've never heard that before.
04:34But Chris, you guys are fantastic.
04:37Stand up, all three of you.
04:38Please stand up.
04:39Okay?
04:46That's a great team.
04:52It's no better team than that, and they're going to produce energy the likes of which
04:56nobody's seen before.
04:58We need to do the AI — all of this new technology that's coming online.
05:05We need more than double the energy, the electricity that we currently have.
05:09You take all of the electricity in the country right now for houses, for buildings, for everything.
05:15We need to more than double it to be number one.
05:19We're now way ahead of everybody at AI.
05:22China's in second place, but way behind.
05:26And they're going to be producing a lot of energy and a lot of electricity for this.
05:31And so are we.
05:32And we're going to get approvals very fast.
05:34And I would say the man that's almost comparable to you in terms of the importance to this,
05:39maybe he's even more comparable, I hate to tell you, a guy named Lee Zeldin, who's a
05:45friend of mine for a long time.
05:48He was a great.
05:58Lee was a great lawyer and he ran for office and he won immediately.
06:03I gave a very important endorsement.
06:05He won for Congress in an area that was unwinnable.
06:08He couldn't have.
06:09They were all saying, why is he wasting his time?
06:11That's Democrat territory.
06:13And I like Lee and knew Lee.
06:16And he ended up winning a seat in a massive upset.
06:21Nobody knew what happened, actually.
06:22And then he was there for a long time.
06:25How many years were you there?
06:27Eight.
06:28Eight years.
06:29It was very popular.
06:30And then he almost ran.
06:32He almost won the governorship of New York, which is very much lost by a few points, which
06:37was an amazing run.
06:38And I said, we got to get you in with us in some form.
06:42And we did.
06:43Then he's head of the Environmental Agency, EPA, and doing a great job.
06:48And I said, if we have a nuclear power plant, Lee, can you get it approved in less than
06:54a month?
06:55He said, he said, I'll do it faster.
07:00And by the way, he'll do a fast job, but he's going to do also a great job.
07:03It's going to be an important job.
07:04We don't even smile about it.
07:06But, you know, I've been involved in the approval process for a long time, having been in real
07:10estate.
07:11And you go years and years and years for absolutely nothing.
07:16And even in those days, I used to say, you know, this whole thing could have been approved
07:20in a week or two weeks or three weeks, and it would have been just as good.
07:24But they'd take you down the path and you'd spend years waiting.
07:27And then sometimes you get rejected.
07:29I wasn't rejected too much.
07:30I was the king of zoning.
07:31I did well, but it was such nonsense.
07:34It was so terrible.
07:35The process was so terrible.
07:38But this is the big leagues now, and he's the head person in the whole country.
07:42And I appreciate it.
07:43And I appreciate you doing it.
07:45And already they're respecting you very greatly.
07:48So thank you very much, Lee.
07:50Great job.
07:59So we have a lot of senators and congressmen and women.
08:02And I'm going to just introduce the ones that I see here, because, you know, it's always
08:07a problem when I do this because I leave one or two out and that's the end.
08:10I never get their vote again.
08:11I never get that vote.
08:12It takes years.
08:13It takes years to recover.
08:14But we'll give it a shot because Senator John Barrasso, who's my friend and a great gentleman.
08:21Thank you very much, John, for being here.
08:27Thank you, John.
08:28Cynthia Lummis, fantastic woman who believes like I do.
08:32She believes like I do in these people, right?
08:35She believes in them maybe even more than I do.
08:38That's pretty good from day one.
08:39Thank you, Cynthia.
08:40You're doing a fantastic job.
08:42Kevin Kramer, my friend.
08:44Where is Kevin?
08:45Because Kevin, I think he was here because he was he was he had a problem and I just
08:52will pay my respects.
08:53He wanted to be here so badly, but he had a difficult problem that he's working through.
08:59And we all love Kevin.
09:01John Hovind.
09:02John, thank you very much.
09:03Thank you very much.
09:08Steve Danes.
09:10Thank you, Steve.
09:14Steve is a picker of great candidates, like he picked a guy named Tim Sheehy, who's here.
09:19Where's Tim?
09:20Where's Tim?
09:21Thank you, Tim.
09:22And Tim Sheehy has turned out to be a wonderful senator and that was your pick.
09:28And we went with it and you were right.
09:30And we have a great one in Tim.
09:32So thank you, Tim.
09:33And thank you, Steve.
09:36Shelley Moore Capito.
09:37Shelley, thank you very much.
09:40West West Virginia from West Virginia.
09:43She has to like you have no choice, even if you didn't like it.
09:46You have to like all right.
09:48But they were they were doing a number on you.
09:50They were doing a number on you with the call stuff.
09:52And you have not only call, but you have among the best call anywhere in the world.
09:58So thank you very much.
09:59A friend of mine for a long time, I'm the one that got him to change his religion.
10:04In a sense, he changed the party.
10:06He went from a Democrat.
10:08I said, Jim, you're not a Democrat, but he changed the Republican.
10:12He's one of the most popular Republicans and one of the most popular political leaders
10:16of the country.
10:17Jim Justice.
10:18I call him Big Jim.
10:19Big Jim Justice.
10:20You look good, Jim.
10:25And he was in the business.
10:27And so am I doing the right thing?
10:28You would know better than anybody in this room.
10:30Am I doing the right thing, Jim?
10:32I think so.
10:34Right.
10:35Thank you very much, Jim.
10:37Cindy Hyde-Smith.
10:38Cindy, thank you, honey.
10:40Very good.
10:41Good job.
10:42People are going to be happy.
10:45And all friends of mine.
10:47Mike Lee.
10:48Mike, thank you very much.
10:52We have a lot of people from Congress, congressmen and women representatives.
10:57Morgan Griffith.
10:58Morgan, thank you.
10:59Thank you very much.
11:02Bruce Westerman.
11:03Bruce.
11:04Thank you, Bruce.
11:07Bob Latta.
11:08Bob Latta.
11:10Thank you, Bob.
11:11Good job.
11:12Troy Balderson.
11:13Troy, I haven't seen you in a long time since those early, that early race.
11:19I endorsed him before anyone knew who he was.
11:22And he ended up winning.
11:23That was another surprise, right?
11:25You've been.
11:26That was a long time ago.
11:27Yep.
11:28You're doing a great job.
11:29Thank you very much, Troy.
11:31Carol Miller.
11:32Carol, thank you.
11:33West Virginia.
11:34Riley Moore.
11:35Riley.
11:36Hi, Riley.
11:37Thanks.
11:38Mike Bost.
11:39Mike, thank you very much.
11:40Troy Downing.
11:41Troy, thank you.
11:42Oh, he has something.
11:43What is it?
11:44Coal?
11:45Is there coal in that bag?
11:46I'll take.
11:47I like it.
11:48I'll take it right now.
11:49Thank you very much.
11:50Hal Rogers.
11:51Hal.
11:52Hal.
12:08Thank you, Hal.
12:09Andy Barr.
12:10Thank you, Andy.
12:11Good luck with everything.
12:12I hear good things.
12:13Troy Downing.
12:14Troy.
12:18Thank you very much, Troy.
12:19Hal Rogers.
12:20Oops.
12:21Harriet Hageman.
12:22Harriet.
12:23Hi.
12:24How are you, Harriet?
12:25We just left Harriet.
12:26This is one of the finest attorneys you will ever see.
12:27I have seen her in action.
12:29And she is brutal.
12:30I never won her against me, that I can tell you.
12:31Dan Muser.
12:32Dan.
12:33Thank you, Dan.
12:34Thanks, Dan.
12:35Good job you're doing.
12:36Wesley Hunt, my friend, too.
12:37Wesley.
12:38Great.
12:39I love your commercial.
12:40Pete Stauber.
12:41Pete.
12:42Thank you, Pete.
12:43Great hockey player he was, right?
12:44Great hockey player.
13:30Mark Gordon.
13:31Mark, thank you.
13:32Thank you very much.
13:34And we have a lot of others, and I'm in trouble, because I can't — I don't
13:37know.
13:38I got five or six others that I see quickly.
13:41But I'm just not going to do — don't hold it against
13:43me.
13:44Because we have to get back to the most important people
13:46in the room.
13:47These people.
13:48Do you know that?
13:50Right?
13:51So, the energy workers and the coal miners in the area that I'm standing on — and there's
14:03a lot of weight on this platform, so I don't know what's going to happen.
14:07I hope it's structurally designed for you guys.
14:09I don't know.
14:10But we have just really well-deserving, great American patriots.
14:16And it's such an honor to be here and doing — making such a big move, such a bold move
14:22in energy.
14:23Because, you know, for years, people would just bemoan this industry and decimate the
14:32industry for absolutely no reason, because with modern technology and all of the other
14:38things that we do, it's one of the great, great forms of energy.
14:42That's why other countries, leading countries, are using it, some exclusively.
14:47For four long years, Joe Biden and congressional Democrats tried to abolish the American coal
14:52industry.
14:53They did everything in their power while he was awake, which wasn't much —
14:57— shutting down dozens of coal plants, banning coal leases on federal lands, and putting
15:05thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work — destroying their lives, actually.
15:12Destroying their lives.
15:13I'll never forget when I went to West Virginia, which I won by 48 points, I think.
15:18Right?
15:19Big gym.
15:20I won by 48 points.
15:21But —
15:22— in the first campaign, where Hillary Clinton was about four states too early, and she was
15:30talking about how bad coal was and how that they were going to teach coal miners how to
15:35make widgets and gadgets and technology, which they didn't want to do.
15:39They want to mine.
15:40And one thing I learned about the coal miners, that's what they want to do.
15:42You could give them a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different kind of a job, and they'd
15:47be unhappy.
15:48They want to mine coal.
15:49That's what they love to do.
15:50And she was going to put them in a high-tech industry where you make little cell phones
15:55and things.
15:56I don't know.
15:57Do you think you'd be good at that?
15:58I don't know.
15:59I wouldn't be.
16:00You wouldn't.
16:01You don't want to be.
16:04And she was brutal about three weeks before.
16:07But then she had a problem.
16:08She went to West Virginia looking for votes, and that was a bad — that was a bad situation.
16:14You remember that.
16:15And there was a coal miner around the table with his family, and he was in tears because
16:20of what they had done to him and his family.
16:24And I hope he's still around, but that man made quite an impression on the world and
16:27the public.
16:28And we ended up winning in a great election, but we ended up winning by a lot.
16:34The Democrats' Green New Scam killed jobs and sent prices soaring here in America.
16:39But meanwhile, China opened two coal plants every single week.
16:45And other countries, likewise, went very strongly back into coal.
16:49Some of them never got off.
16:51Those are the ones that didn't have the problems.
16:53The Biden energy policy was to put America last.
16:56We want to be last.
16:57We got to be last.
16:59Not a good policy.
17:00Under my administration, we're putting America first.
17:02It's very simple.
17:03America is always going to be first.
17:06On my first day in office, I terminated the Green New Scam.
17:09I declared the national energy emergency and withdrew from the unfair, one-sided, and extremely
17:15costly-to-the-United-States-only Paris Climate Accord.
17:19You know, under the Paris Climate Accord, we had a terrible situation.
17:32We were — we would have paid over a trillion dollars.
17:35Think of it.
17:36Over a trillion dollars.
17:37And Russia was paying almost nothing.
17:39Russia had a 1992 standard.
17:42China was paying nothing.
17:45China didn't kick in until 2035.
17:48This was five years ago.
17:50So they didn't kick in for many years.
17:52India had no standard whatsoever.
17:55But we had the highest standard you could imagine.
17:57We had to start paying from day one.
18:00And we had to pay lots of money.
18:02We paid for everything.
18:03So I was not a big fan of the Paris Accord.
18:07And I let it be known.
18:08And I got out of it early.
18:10Then they went back into it.
18:12And now we get back out of it.
18:14And hopefully we can be there for a long time.
18:16Okay?
18:17A long time.
18:18Because it was a scam to take money away from the United States and hurt — and actually
18:22hurt us very badly with coal and with other things.
18:26Now, under the executive order that I will sign in a few moments, we're slashing unnecessary
18:32regulations that targeted the beautiful, clean coal.
18:36We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands.
18:40And these two gentlemen are going to do a real job of it.
18:43You've already started.
18:44And we'll streamline permitting.
18:46We will end the government bias against coal.
18:48And we're going to unlock the sweeping authorities of Defense Production Act — the Defense
18:55Production Act — to turbocharge coal mining in America.
18:59They made it impossible to — impossible.
19:02You actually — I know a friend of mine has a plant.
19:05He said, you know, it's a shame.
19:06I'm ripping it down and I'm replacing it with another form of energy.
19:11I won't tell you because it's also very good, but it's not as powerful as this.
19:15He said, you know, the plant I'm building, the new plant, is literally half as good.
19:20It's no less — you know, it's not probably even as good environmentally.
19:25But he said it would produce half the power for more money, much more money.
19:29It'll never compete with that beautiful plant I have down the road, which was really a modernized
19:34coal plant.
19:35Well, he'll be happy to know that he can open that plant up very quickly and it's going
19:38to produce a lot.
19:39But he was complaining.
19:40He said, this is so much better.
19:42He wasn't doing that as politic in me.
19:44He was doing that because that's what he felt.
19:46And he knew every form of energy.
19:48We talked about that.
19:49He knew every form of energy.
19:52But our government is going to do something that's very different.
19:58And I don't think even you two know about this.
20:00This was my idea from about 15 minutes before I got up here.
20:06We're going to guarantee that we have a strong business for many years to come, that your
20:16coal companies and your miners don't get all excited about their jobs.
20:20And then should a radical left liberal become president, they end the business right away.
20:27And somebody has built a plant and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in building a plant.
20:32And the plant is going to be closed because a Democrat got in or a liberal got in there
20:38opposed to coal.
20:40And Republicans are very much for it.
20:42Clean coal.
20:43And we're we're going to give a guarantee that the business will not be terminated by
20:49the ups and downs of the world of politics.
20:53So should somebody come in to this very important office and say, oh, well, you spent hundreds
20:59of millions of dollars and you guys have given up your life because you want to be in coal.
21:05And then all of a sudden you don't have a life anymore because it's what you know the best.
21:09That's not going to happen.
21:10We're going to give a guarantee that it's not going to happen so that if somebody comes
21:13in, they cannot change it at a whim.
21:15They cannot.
21:16It's going to go.
21:18It's going to take a while to close you up.
21:19All right.
21:20So that's pretty good.
21:21We're going to give that in the form of a guarantee that we're writing on right now,
21:23structurally and from a legal standpoint.
21:27So your investments are going to also be protected.
21:37And you're going to have no reason to be concerned about your future, your life or your investment.
21:42If you're if you're a minor, as this great governor was a minor.
21:46Actually, he was a he was one of the larger coal miners.
21:49He could fit up here very easily, you know, Big Jim.
21:53But he was a great, great success.
21:55But they were very, very tough on him.
21:58And he did a beautiful job with a beautiful product already under our leadership.
22:04The Department of Interior has approved the expansion of the Spring Creek Mine in Montana,
22:10supporting 280 coal mining jobs and unlocking over 40 million tons of coal.
22:15And there's more to come.
22:17Spring Creek, big one.
22:21And there's more to come in the states of Wyoming, Alabama, Utah, North Dakota, and
22:26many others.
22:27West Virginia.
22:28I can't believe they didn't put West Virginia down.
22:30It's lucky I mentioned that.
22:32Right.
22:33Can you imagine if I didn't mention West Virginia, I would have been in big trouble.
22:36They didn't mark it down here.
22:37It's good to have a president like that.
22:40They can pick that up.
22:41Right.
22:42You think Joe Biden would have picked that up?
22:43I don't think so.
22:45Gee, they didn't mention West Virginia.
22:47I don't think so.
22:48I don't think he'd be standing up here either.
22:50The value of untapped coal in our country is 100 times greater than the value of all
22:55the gold at Fort Knox.
22:57And we're going to unleash it and make America rich and powerful again.
23:02Under this order, I'm also directing Secretary Wright to use billions of dollars in federal
23:06funding to invest in the next generation of coal technology, which is an amazing technology
23:11in terms of getting the full potential of coal and also doing it a very clean environmental
23:18way.
23:19Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure and powerful form of energy
23:24there is on Earth today.
23:26It's a big step.
23:27You never hear those statements.
23:29You know, you've never heard that before from a politician, have you?
23:32Well, maybe from that politician, but not from not too many.
23:36But that's the way it is.
23:37I'll say it again.
23:38Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure and powerful form of energy.
23:45It's cheap, incredibly efficient, high density, and it's almost indestructible.
23:50You could drop a bomb on it and it's going to be there for you to use the next day, which
23:55you can't say with any other form of energy.
24:00Virtually indestructible.
24:02Most importantly, we have more of it here in America than anywhere else on Earth.
24:06We have more coal than any other country.
24:09You go to Australia, they have fantastic amounts of coal.
24:12You know who they sell it to?
24:13China.
24:14They sell it to China.
24:15They're nearby.
24:16They sell a lot of it to China.
24:18But we have more than anywhere else on Earth.
24:20We also have more liquid gold than anywhere on Earth.
24:24So we're really an energy behemoth.
24:26But we're unleashing that also.
24:29That's going to be another part.
24:30But I didn't even want to mention that.
24:32It's not down here because I didn't want to mention today is about clean, beautiful
24:37coal.
24:38So I'm going to give this to you.
24:39This big guy.
24:40Should I give it to him?
24:41You take that.
24:42Thank you, Mr. President.
24:43For example, we believe it's possible to extract enormous amounts of critical minerals and
24:59rare earths, which, you know, we need for technology and high technology in the process
25:04of coal mining, making in America the mineral superpower of the world, actually.
25:11In addition, I'm instructing the Department of Justice to identify and fight every single
25:16unconstitutional state or local regulation that's putting our coal miners out of business.
25:22And we are withdrawing all of those objections from our government today.
25:28It's all being withdrawn.
25:30So all of you people that have been fighting for your lives, we are withdrawing all of
25:34that today.
25:35We have excellent lawyers.
25:37Excellent.
25:38Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump?
25:44Hundred million dollars, another hundred million dollars for damages that they've done.
25:52But they give you a hundred million and then they announced that.
25:55But we have done nothing wrong.
25:56And I agree.
25:57They've done nothing wrong.
25:59What the hell?
26:00They give me a lot of money considering they've done nothing wrong.
26:03And we'll use some of those people, some of those great firms.
26:06They are great firms, too.
26:07They just had a bad moment.
26:10But we're going to use some of those firms to work with you on your leasing and your
26:14other things.
26:15And they'll do a great job.
26:17I think they're going to do a fantastic job.
26:20And for those of you that want to know the tariffs, you've been hearing about tariffs.
26:25We've taken in almost two billion dollars a day in tariffs, two billion a day.
26:31And we're doing very well.
26:38And we're doing very well and making I call them tailored deals, not off the rack.
26:42These are tailored, highly tailored deals.
26:45Right now, Japan is flying here to make a deal.
26:49South Korea is flying here to make a deal and others are flying here.
26:53I mean, my only problem is I'm not sure I have enough.
26:55We're going to have to use those those great law firms, I think, to help us with that.
27:00But we're going to probably do that.
27:03Actually, we're going to use them and we're getting them for the right price because we
27:08have to.
27:09We need a lot of talent.
27:10We have a lot of countries coming in.
27:12They want to make deals.
27:14If I told them about making those deals two years ago or three years ago or five years
27:18ago, they'd be laughing at us.
27:20Now they're all signing up, Mike, you know that.
27:24So it's going to be a great thing.
27:25But we're taking think of that two billion dollars a day.
27:29That's a lot of money.
27:30That's a lot of money.
27:31Even in the coal businesses, it's a lot of money.
27:35And America is going to be very rich again very soon.
27:37You're going to see that happening.
27:38You see it all all along.
27:41And it's so that whole situation that, you know, there was it was somewhat explosive.
27:47But if we didn't do that, we wouldn't be talking the way we're talking right now.
27:51It's been amazing what's happened.
27:53Sometimes you have to mix it up a little bit, but we've had great, great consideration.
27:59We've had talks with many, many countries over 70.
28:04They all want to come in.
28:05Our problem is can't see that many that fast.
28:09But we don't have to, because, as you know, the tariffs are on and the money is pouring
28:13in at a level that we've never seen before.
28:17And it's going to be great for us.
28:19It's going to be great for other countries who we've been ripped off and abused by countries
28:24for many years with the tariff situation.
28:27They've used tariffs against us.
28:30We didn't use tariffs against them or in any way.
28:33I mean, we just didn't use them of any monumental proportion.
28:37And so we are doing it now.
28:39We have tariffs on cars.
28:42We have tariffs on lumber, tariffs on steel and aluminum.
28:48Steel plants are going up because of it all over the country with 25 percent tariffs on
28:53steel and aluminum and the steel.
28:56I think the steel workers like me even more than the coal miners like me.
28:59I'm pretty sure that that's true.
29:01We have instead of having no steel business, I put them on originally in my first term.
29:06We would have had we wouldn't have had one steel mill in the United States if I didn't
29:10do that.
29:11But we upped it.
29:12And we not only are we taking in a lot of money, but we're protecting our workers, our
29:19steel workers.
29:20We're protecting our steel industry.
29:22And one thing you know that steel and things like steel you need because you need it from
29:27a defense standpoint.
29:29You need steel for your tanks and your planes and your everything and certain industries
29:34you can get away with not having.
29:36But others you need and steel is when you need.
29:38So I want to let you know that's in full force and effect.
29:42And literally, as we speak, I spoke to executives in the steel industry over the last few days,
29:48and they're all coming in to build plants in the United States of America.
29:53Because if you build them in the United States, you have no tariffs to pay.
29:57There are no tariffs to pay zero.
29:59If you build them outside using outside labor and hurting our businesses and you send your
30:04product in, you have to pay a price for that.
30:08And they will be having.
30:10They will be having tariffs, as you know.
30:13It's an amazing thing.
30:15This has been something used against us for many years by other countries, China in particular,
30:22but others, not just China, others and taken advantage of us, ripped us off and left us
30:28for dead, frankly.
30:30And I believe if I didn't become your president, I believe that this country would have had
30:35problems like they've never had before, because it was it was serious damage in so many other
30:41ways.
30:42Not only the border where people came rushing into our country from prisons and jails and
30:46mental institutions, murderers, drug dealers and some vicious, vicious criminals, 11,088
30:56murderers came into our country.
30:58We have to get them out.
30:59We're getting them out.
31:0011,088 of that number, half committed murder on more than two people, more than two people.
31:07And this is what they allowed into our country with their open border policy of lunacy.
31:12And we're taking care of that, just like we're taking care of you today.
31:16We're taking care of that.
31:17I want to thank Kristi Noem and Tom Holman for doing an unbelievable job.
31:23The whole thing is what the job they're doing is incredible.
31:27Because really, an unforced error should have never happened, that we have to be spending
31:31such time and resources, Mr. Senator, right on getting people out of our country that
31:38shouldn't be here.
31:39I mean, literally from mental institutions, insane asylums were opened up and emptied
31:44into our country.
31:46Prisons from all over the world, not just South America.
31:49Prisons from think of this from Africa, the Congo, a lot of people from the Congo prisons
31:54in the Congo, prisons from Asia, from all over were opened up.
32:01And I knew that when I heard it was an open border policy.
32:03I said, if you do that, every country is going to be dumping people that they don't want
32:08into our country.
32:09And that's what's happened.
32:10But we're cleaning it out.
32:12And the courts, we had a good decision, as you know, from the Supreme Court allowing
32:17us to do that.
32:18We have judges that didn't want us to do it.
32:20We have judges that wanted the very evil gang members from Trendy, Araqua and MS-13.
32:28They didn't want to take it out of the country and put in very powerful prisons.
32:33When you look, you've seen you've all seen those clips are pretty amazing clips.
32:38But I want to thank El Salvador.
32:40They've done an incredible job.
32:41But we've been fortunately winning those cases.
32:44But we have judges that are out of control that say, oh, bring them back.
32:48Bring them back.
32:50We don't want them back.
32:51Can you imagine?
32:52You spend all of that time, energy and money on getting them out.
32:56And then you have a judge that sits there, a local judge who sits there, federal judges
33:00sit there and say, no, no, bring them back.
33:03One was brought back or they want to bring him back because he wasn't a member of Trendy
33:11Araqua.
33:13He was a member of MS-13, which is just as bad.
33:16So they misidentified him, but it sounds to me like he was a member of MS-13.
33:21So they want him brought back because he wasn't treated properly.
33:25It's we've got to be smart.
33:27Our country's got to get a lot smarter than it is.
33:30But we have to give the people that are empowered to do this kind of work.
33:34And it's not pleasant work.
33:35We have to give them we have to give them the option of making our country great again.
33:41And that's what they're doing.
33:42And I have great respect for those people.
33:44And they're doing it out of love.
33:45They could get a much easier job.
33:47They're doing it out of love for our country.
33:49So important, just like I'm doing this with coal today for love for our country.
33:55Earlier this afternoon, I signed another executive order to strengthen our electric grid by ensuring
34:01that coal-fired power plants are always available to meet surging demand for electricity.
34:08Unlike wind and solar, coal plants can run 24 hours a day in rain, sleet or snow.
34:14And you will not be subject to the incredible blackout situation that's taking place in
34:20California where there are blackouts all the time.
34:24It's an amazing thing with California.
34:26They have blackouts and brownouts at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
34:31And all they want to do is keep going the way they're going.
34:34And they're doing a very poor job.
34:38As you probably heard, I released billions of gallons of water going in from upstate
34:44California, from the most northern parts of California, probably comes in from Canada
34:52to a certain extent.
34:54Thank you very much, Canada.
34:55We appreciate it.
34:57And I released it.
34:59It was being sent out to the Pacific Ocean.
35:01I've been working on Gavin and some of the politicians for years, and they didn't want
35:07to do that because they were protecting a smelt, a fish that was perhaps in trouble,
35:13but it's not unique to that area.
35:16And because of that, you had numbers, you had fires.
35:21Nobody's ever seen anything like what happened.
35:23Think of what it would have been like if you had fire hydrants that had water in them.
35:28If you had sprinkler systems in houses, a lot of these luxury houses where they had
35:32beautiful sprinkler systems, there was no water.
35:35They had no water to put out the fires.
35:37Water is very good for putting out fires.
35:39You know, they just didn't learn it.
35:41But we now have millions of gallons, billions, actually, they say, of gallons of water pouring
35:46into California from the Pacific Northwest, I guess they would say, mostly Pacific Northwest,
35:55but other parts of the northern sections of California and beyond.
36:00And it's a beautiful thing to see.
36:02I saw a picture of it this morning.
36:03The water is just flowing down there.
36:05I said, why didn't they do this?
36:06I told them to do it.
36:08My first term, I said, do it.
36:10And I don't know.
36:12I think the second term is just more powerful.
36:15They do it.
36:16When I say do it, they do it right.
36:18And we actually had to do some pretty strong things to get them to open it up.
36:25They had think of this.
36:26They had all that water pouring out right into the Pacific, that a big valve like a
36:29giant valve as big as this room.
36:32And they turned the valve takes one day to turn it and they face it toward the Pacific
36:37Ocean and the water, all that was coming down, all millions and millions of gallons coming
36:41down.
36:42They put it into the Pacific Ocean, which for the Pacific Ocean is like a drop of water.
36:47But for California, it would have been unbelievable.
36:50So we did.
36:51And I'm very proud of the fact that we did it.
36:53We did that against a lot of a lot of heat and a lot of environmental nonsense.
36:58From now on, we'll ensure that our nation's critically needed coal plants, as an example,
37:03remain online and fully operational.
37:06They're always going to be operational.
37:07And again, we're going to have guarantees that government cannot close them down, close
37:13you down and destroy your lives.
37:16To that end, I'm also instructing Secretary Wright to save the Chuy a coal plant in Arizona,
37:24a big plant which has been slated for destruction.
37:27And we're going to keep those coal miners on the job and to tell them to just remain
37:32calm because we're going to have that plant opening and burning the clean coal, beautiful
37:39clean coal in a very short period of time.
37:42You know all about that, right?
37:46That's a big one.
37:52As part of our historic deregulatory efforts this afternoon, I'm also granting immediate
37:58relief to 47 companies operating 66 coal plants, very big ones all over the country, recusing
38:06and making them available for coal production almost in the immediate future.
38:13But we're going to be crushing Biden era environmental restrictions.
38:18These are restrictions that made it impossible, impossible to do anything having to do, frankly,
38:24with energy, even beyond coal.
38:27It's really beyond even coal.
38:29We have clean air, we have clean water, and now we have clean coal.
38:34And at the same time, we're going to we're going to do other things and other forms of
38:38technology and also energy like our country has never really seen before and never been
38:45known to do before because of all sorts of restrictions having to do with the Green New
38:50Scam, which, by the way, was devised by somebody that never even studied.
38:54You know that they never even studied anything to do with the environment.
38:58It's a young congresswoman.
39:00She came up with the idea.
39:03And based on that, I guess we only have.
39:05Well, actually, we should have all been gone because they gave us only a few years left
39:09on Earth.
39:10Right.
39:11Right, Greg.
39:12We were going to be gone.
39:13We were going to be gone.
39:14The environment.
39:15Now, what they have to worry about is the nuclear nuclear heat.
39:19They don't have to worry about environmental heat.
39:22They have to worry about nuclear heat.
39:24And if we're smart, we're working on that right now with others having to do with Iran
39:30and some other countries.
39:32But that's the that's the heat you're going to have to worry about.
39:35You don't have to worry about the air is getting warmer.
39:39The ocean will rise one quarter of an inch within the next 500 to 600 years, giving you
39:45a little bit more waterfront property.
39:47They say this is good.
39:49These guys can handle that.
39:50The nuclear we have a bigger problem with.
39:52Right.
39:53So we're going to make sure that that's safe.
39:55We're going to make sure that that's safe.
39:57With us today are some of the amazing workers who will benefit from these policies.
40:01The policies that we're doing and so proud of doing, including Jeff Crowe, a miner from
40:08West Virginia.
40:09Jeff, will you come up and say a few words?
40:23Good afternoon, Mr. President.
40:26I want to first thank you for having me and my fellow miners here.
40:29It is an honor and a privilege to be a part of today's events.
40:33I believe this past November that America clearly spoke about what we wanted for our
40:38country.
40:39It is reassuring for Americans to have a president in office who will truly put the United States
40:45of America above all else.
40:57With putting America first, you have spoken numerous times about energy independence.
41:02I believe most don't understand the importance of that.
41:05Coal is one of the major factors in energy independence and accounts for a large portion
41:09of America's energy.
41:11Coal is one of the most reliable and cheapest forms of electricity.
41:16For too long, coal has been a dirty word that most are afraid to speak about.
41:21Most of those that would speak negatively about coal do so from an uneducated standpoint.
41:27Many are unaware of the engineering and technology that are used in today's mining to create
41:31a clean, energy-efficient product.
41:34All of this is done while using the safest practices in the industry.
41:39Speaking for West Virginia, coal provides approximately 50,000 jobs for those that work
41:44in the mines and the businesses that support them.
41:47It also accounts for over 50% of West Virginia's export product.
41:52To name a few, we employ engineers, teachers, physical therapists, accountants, truck drivers,
41:59high school and college graduates.
42:02All of these occupations and graduates have turned to the coal industry to provide a better
42:06way of life for them and their families.
42:09Everyone in our industry works long hours and days to provide a reliable energy product,
42:13and too many times it goes unnoticed.
42:16I've personally worked in the industry for 23 years.
42:19I choose to do this daily to provide my wife and children with the life that they deserve.
42:24Prior administrations have done all they could to eliminate the coal industry.
42:28In my opinion, they have done so with an unethical and uneducated approach.
42:37But we are still strong, we are still here, and we are still needed in order to make America
42:42great again.
42:55Having a president and an administration that understands the need and importance of coal
42:59is more than appreciated.
43:01It gives the industry a form of reassurance to know that we have a president in place
43:05that supports us.
43:07From my family to the over 3,000 employees of ACNR, and for the coal companies, miners,
43:13and businesses throughout our great country that rely on the coal industry, we say thank
43:17you for your continued support.
43:28I personally thank you for what you do for our country and for our industry.
43:32It has been my pleasure to be here today to help you usher in the golden age of America.
44:01You did a good job.
44:03Let me have that speech.
44:05I want to have that.
44:07Yes, sir.
44:09I had a couple of good lines in there when I came up.
44:11No.
44:13Actually, what I want to do, I'm going to sign it for you because I think, I mean, he
44:15worked hard.
44:17Look at him.
44:19And look how good his eyes must be to read that.
44:21I lost it once.
44:23And hopefully you can sell it tonight for a lot of money.
44:25No, sir.
44:27I'll keep that.
44:30No, sir.
44:32I'll keep that one.
44:34That's great.
44:36Thank you very much.
44:56Thank you very much, Jeff.
48:16Collins, and Administrator Zeldin, and we are excited for all we can accomplish together.
48:22Mr. President, thank you again for your actions today and for your support for the electric
48:26cooperatives as we work to keep the lights on in America.
48:51Thank you, Tony.
48:53Thank you very much, Tony.
48:54Appreciate it.
48:55Every day under the Trump administration, we will continue to lower costs for American
49:00families, create jobs for American workers, and very importantly, unlock unlimited amounts
49:06of affordable American energy, including, as I said, and I'll say for the last time,
49:12beautiful, clean coal.
49:15Our country is blessed.
49:23Our country is blessed with the most abundant natural resources on Earth.
49:27Nobody has what we have, and we're going to use it, too.
49:31We're going to use it in a very responsible way.
49:34Together, we're going to tap that magnificent potential to give our people the glorious
49:38future that they deserve, better than they've ever had in the past.
49:42I mean, they had a good future, a little.
49:44If you look 20 years ago, they thought they had a good future and it was ripped away from
49:49them, torn away from them with nonsense.
49:52And we're not going to let that happen.
49:53This is going to be a glorious future for them.
49:55And I want to thank everybody for being here.
49:57And I want to thank you and you and you and that whole group and our senators, by the
50:03way, and our great congressmen and women for being here in such a large number because
50:08you've been helping us make these decisions.
50:10These are big decisions.
50:12This is a really big one.
50:13And this is one that's going to be I think we're going to look back and with great pride
50:18at what we've done today, not just in putting people to work, but at really reawakening
50:23our country.
50:24And thank you very much.
50:26And thank you all for being here.
50:27Thank you very much.
50:48Come on up.
50:49Mr. President.
50:50Yes.
50:51He's first one.
50:52We have four items prepared for your signature this afternoon, sir.
50:53Uh, the first of these executive orders is it may be one of the most significant executive
50:58orders of your administration thus far, uh, this directs all departments and agencies
51:03of the federal government to end all discrimination, discriminatory policies, uh, against the coal
51:09industry.
51:10This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new
51:14coal projects on federal land, and it's going to
51:16accelerate all permitting and funding for new coal
51:20projects to allow the coal industry to flourish under
51:22your leadership, sir.
51:23The President.
51:24Thank you, sir.
51:48There are currently dozens of coal plants in America
51:51that are in imminent danger of being forced to
51:54close based on unscientific and unrealistic policies
51:58enacted by the Biden administration.
52:01What we're going to do is essentially impose a
52:04moratorium on those policies taking effect to
52:07protect coal plants that are currently operating
52:09to ensure that they're able to continue producing
52:11power and continue providing jobs to Americans
52:14in the coal industry.
52:15Right.
52:16Sir, you've made grid reliability and
52:46security a key focus of this administration.
52:50This executive order is going to promote grid
52:52security and reliability by ensuring, in part, that
52:56our grid policies are focused on secure and
52:59effective energy production and energy
53:02energy transmission, as opposed to woke policies
53:06that discriminate against secure sources of power
53:09like coal and other fossil fuels.
53:12Lastly, sir, one of the biggest problems we have
53:41in this space is Democrat states, radical leftist
53:45states enacting policies and enacting an agenda
53:51that discriminates against coal, against secure
53:54sources of energy.
53:55Many of these policies are unconstitutional and
53:58illegal.
53:59And with this executive order, you're going to be
54:01instructing your Department of Justice to
54:03vigorously pursue and investigate these state
54:07policies that we believe are illegal or
54:09unconstitutional.
54:10Good.
54:12Thank you very much.
54:29Great job.
54:29He went to Harvard when Harvard was good.
54:31It was a while ago.