President-elect Trump isn’t wasting any time. He is already holding pressers. Today’s press conference was held at Mar-a-lago with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
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C-Span’s transcript of Trump’s remarks to reporters before he began taking questions is below:
How would you? So it’s an honor to be with you. We’ll discuss a couple of points. We’ll take some questions later if you’d like. I’m sure you shocked if you didn’t have, be very impressed. But I’m honored to welcome one of the most accomplished business leaders of our time, the founder and CEO of Softbank. Everybody knows Masa, Yoshi. San. Masa runs one of the largest companies in Japan and among the most successful investment and technology companies anywhere in the world, one of the most successful investors in the world. And we just concluded a very productive meeting. And today, I’m thrilled to announce that Softbank will be investing $100 billion in America, creating 100,000 American jobs at a minimum. And he’s doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country since the election and many other people are also coming in with tremendous amounts of money. And you probably noticed that the, the poll was just taken. Business is literally in 39 years. There’s been nothing like it. It’s been the biggest increase, small business owners gave it a 41% jump. It’s the biggest jump that we’ve had in 39 years and nobody’s ever seen anything. They’re very optimistic. This historic investment is a monumental demonstration, confidence in America’s future and it will help ensure that artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and other industries of tomorrow are built, created and grown right here in the USA. One of the beautiful things about Masa is he’s very much involved with emerging technology, probably knows it may be better than almost anybody. So it’s a great honor. Some of you remember after the 2016 election, also, Softbank committed to invest $50 billion in our country and they did and a very place to say that they kept that promise in every way, shape and form. And now they’re looking to do 100 and I’ve looked at their books. They do have the possibility. I’m going to ask him to first, I’m going to ask him to speak and just to say a few words, Massa, please. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Uh Thank you so much. I’m very, very excited. I would really like to celebrate the great picture of the present and my confidence that to the, the economy of tremendously with his. So because of that, I’m, I’m now excited to commit this $100 billion and 100,000 jobs. This is double of uh last night as president because I think is the double down $100 million and 100,000 jobs. This is, you know, my, my confidence level. So that has doubled back. So I am truly excited to make this happen and of course, business is important technology, but one more thing, I’m really hoping that this President Trump make the war to bring the wall to peace again. That’s my additional hope. Uh I think, uh you. So anyway, uh I’m excited to go and President Trump said that is not enough. Maybe, you know, go for more. I sort of, I’m gonna ask him right now. Would you make it $200 million? He can actually believe it or not. He can actually afford to do that. Would you do that? Well, my promise is ask him to do more. I think, you know, with you, my pop, what I will, I will try to make it happen. 5 200 K 200 million investment that he, he’s a great negotiator. He’s a brilliant guy and did an unbelievable job. And the people of Japan and all over the world are very proud of him, tremendous respect for him. So what he does what he just did, I would be surprised if it didn’t go to do. But when you say you’ll try, I will, I will really try. You’ll have, you’ll have our support. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Say hello to the people in Japan who are all watching. Well, uh I’m sure uh our people in Japan uh proud to make the partners of the US and Japan, be stronger. And I’m very excited to thank you, Ma, thank you. It’s amazing. It’s a great gentleman, great, a great leader and a great investor. So to have that offer made and we have so many companies coming in now that will be announcing or they will, but they’ll be announcing. And as I said, small business optimism took a 41 point jump, 41 points, it went up 41 points That’s unheard of. And that’s, uh, the biggest they think in recorded history, but they know at least a minimum of 39 years. So that’s great on behalf of the American people. I want to thank Maser for his statement and what’s happening with our country and what’s happening with the world. There’s a whole life over the entire world. Many people, some reporters and speaking to them, they said, you know, it actually is true. A couple of them are not necessarily friends of mine, but they said it is actually true that, uh, there’s a light shining over the world. We’re trying to help very strongly in getting the hostages back. As, you know, Israel and the Middle East. We’re working very much on that. We’re trying to get the war stopped, that horrible, horrible war that’s going on in Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, we’re going, got a little progress. It’s a tough one. It’s a nasty one. It’s nasty. People are being killed at levels that nobody’s ever seen. You know, it’s very level fields. And the only thing that stops a bullet is a body, a human body. And the number of soldiers that are being killed on both sides is astronomical. I understand and rapidly I get reports every week and it’s not even, they’re going down. Nobody’s seen anything like it. It’s a very flat surface, a very flat land. That’s why it’s great farming land. It’s the, it’s the bread basket for the world actually. But it’s very flat and there’s nothing to stop a bullet but a body. There’s no protection, no nothing. And it’s what’s happening. There is far worse than people are reporting for both sides. So we’re gonna do our best and we’ve been doing our best and we’ll see what happens. But since the election, I’ve been working every day to put the world at ease a little bit to get rid of the wars. We had no wars when I left office and now it’s uh the whole world is blowing up, but there’s great optimism. And you saw that by. So starting on day one, we will implement the rapid series of bold reforms to restore our nation to full prosperity. We’re going to go full prosperity and to build the greatest economy the world has ever seen just as we had just a short time ago, we had it in my time. We are the greatest economy that the world had seen. We were blowing away everybody. Our country was doubling up on China, doubling up on everybody and everybody knows it. And then we had to slow it down with COVID, unfortunately, at the end, but even then I gave it back with a substantial increase of the stock market bigger than it was pre COVID. So it was pretty amazing already, preparations are underway to slash massive numbers of job killing regulations, eliminating, eliminating 10 old regulations for every new one, you put a new regulation on, you have to get rid of 10 and we’ll be able to do it. And that was about the percentage we had. We cut more regulations than any president has ever cut by far. Actually, by approximately five times, some of those regulations unfortunately were put back on, but we’ll catch up very quickly. We’ll catch up with it. One of the things I’d like to ask the Biden administration, as you probably heard, there are two events that took place. We’re talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition. As they like to say, this is a friendly transition and it is. But, uh, there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible. One is that if people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed. And somebody in the Biden administration gave a five year waiver of that so that for five years, people don’t have to come back into the office and involve 49,000 people for five years. They don’t have to go, they just signed this thing. It’s ridiculous. So it was like a gift to a union and we’re going to obviously be in court to stop. But the other thing is really terrible. We spent a tremendous amount of money in building the wall. The wall was designed specifically by the border patrol because it’s very hard to climb. They need to have see through, they need to be steel because you can’t get, it’s very powerful steel. It’s very hard steel, special type of steel, but very, very hard to cut inside the steel. As you know, we pour concrete and that’s a great 10 concrete, which is a very strong concrete, very as though you were building about a 60 story building. It’s very powerful. They’ve made tremendous technology advances in the word concrete. Who would think that? But I know that from the construction industry today, what you can do with concrete is, is incredible. So we have a very strong concrete and then we have a rebar, put rebar inside the concrete and the rebar likewise is very hard to get. So it’s a very expensive process, very expensive wall. And then we put a uh anti clime plate on the top. You saw that and I didn’t like the look of it. But then when I watched, we had people testing, we had mountain climbs actually testing and they were not able to get over the anti clime plate. So I said I put it on that played on top, which I never loved the look of it, but it works so unbelievably. Well, you have to do it. So we, we spent a lot of money in building it and we have hundreds of miles that we put up. A lot of people don’t realize, but we did 571 miles of wall. That’s why we had such good records in addition to the fact that Mexico helped us with their, with their military and they kept people out and they were actually very good under the past leader. But now, uh, we had, uh, we ordered an additional 200 miles of wall. It’s very expensive and now it’s about double the price of what it would have been six years ago. And the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar knowing that we are getting ready to put it up and what they’re doing is really an act. It’s almost, it’s almost a criminal act. They know we’re going to use it. And if we don’t have it, we’re going to have to rebuild it and it will cost double what it cost years ago. And that’s hundreds of millions of dollars because you’re talking about a lot of, a lot of, well, I built much more than I said I was going to build. But then after it was built, they said, you know, we can do some more because it’s like water people flow and that would pretty much really take care of it. And what happened is they just, as you see, they’re trying to sell it for five cents of the dollar. And that’s really, that has nothing to do with a smooth transition that has to do with people really trying to stop our nation. And all it means really is that we’re going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more. Not even talking about the time time would be pretty long, but we will spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall that we already have. And people have already come back to us that have deals at five cents and four cents and one guy at three cents on the dollar and they offered to sell it back to us at more money than it cost us to build substantially. Can you believe it? So they make a deal with the United States to buy it for pennies and then they call us and they say, do you want to buy it back? We’ll sell it back to you for hundreds of dollars a foot, hundreds of dollars from pennies to hundreds of dollars. And we can’t let this know now we’re gonna go. I spoke with the attorney General of Texas. I spoke to the senators of Texas. I spoke to a lot of people and hopefully they’ll be able to stop. We’re going to be, you know, having a restraining order, but just think about how ridiculous it is. And this is just people that don’t want this country to succeed and this has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican. This has to do with common sense. We won on common sense and this is maybe one of the most egregious examples I’ve seen. So the people that are buying it are trying to buy it. They are trying to make a deal with us to sell it back at hundreds of times more, hundreds of times more, then we paid. And this is all because the Denver. So I’m asking today, Joe Biden to please stop selling the oil. We’re going to use that to create a strong barrier and it worked. That’s why our numbers were so good. It really worked and it worked well and it’s very expensive to do. And I’m asking Joe Biden to stop his people from giving it away. It’s, it’s something that people can’t even believe has happened. Hopefully, Joe will be able to stop it. We’ll soon unleash American energy and this will be done at levels not seen before issuing quick approvals for pipelines, drilling and other infrastructure. It will be clean energy and we’ll bring in the price of electricity and we’re going to bring it down fast. We’re also going to create clean coal, clean coal is something that has really taken over. We have coal that will last for over 1000 years, we have so much coal and with the process it becomes clean coal, it’s very powerful energy. Unlike wind, it’s very, very powerful and we’re going to be doing a lot of clean coal for the people of West Virginia and others. Wyoming. So many states, we have great states and they’ll be happy to hear it, but we’re going to be very much into clean coal. I don’t ever use the word coal. I use the word clean coal. And I’ll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for American families, workers and businesses that create jobs in America. As you know, we’re giving tax cuts if they do it here, we brought it down from 44% to 42%. Some, in some cases, it was 39. We brought it all the way down to 21% and now we’re bringing it down to 15, but only if they make their product, their car or whatever they’re doing in the United States in the US. And people are thrilled. I have, I’ve had the smartest people in Wilson told me. They said, where did you get that idea? And it doesn’t seem that complicated, right? But it’s, uh, nobody else. It’s like the paper clip. Nobody ever thought of it. One guy thought of it. Everybody looked at it and they said, wow, that was a good idea. Why didn’t I think of it? But we’re bringing it down six more points. And that will put us really at the, uh, the best level we’ve ever had for bringing in business. We’ve never been down to that level will be among the lowest taxed states and a lot of businesses are going to come in between that and our taxing and tariff policies. We’re going to have business like nobody’s ever seen in this country before. That’s why we’re, you know, having a 41 year record in optimism from small businesses and big business. And I’ll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for families workers and businesses that create jobs in America. Any business that invests $1 billion or more in the United States will be eligible for fully expedited permits and approvals including environmental approvals from the federal government. So when companies come in, if they’re going to invest a billion dollars or more, there will be many of them and they’ll go into Detroit and they’re going to a lot of places where we want them. You saw how well I did with the auto workers. We did unbelievably. You saw how well we did with the Teamsters and, and also uh the Nonunion, a record 98% 97%. Nobody’s ever got numbers like that because we’re bringing business back and they’re all, we lost them over years of stupidity. I thought, I thought the years of stupidity, the decades of stupidity through the department of government efficiency. Elon Musk has been working very hard with various people, including the will go to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted fraud. And I can only tell you, I’ll give you a little early report that finding things that you wouldn’t even believe. So, we’re looking to save maybe $2 trillion and it will have no impact. Actually, it will think like that, but it will have no impact on people. It’s not like we, we will never cut social security and things like that. It’s just waste, fraud and abuse and we’ll immediately restore the sovereign borders of the United States and stop illegal immigration, which is costing us, I believe trillions of dollars a year. I think it’s a cost that nobody’s ever seen anything like it. I don’t know how, how can you be satisfied releasing prisoners into the United? So think of this, you’re releasing prisoners from jails all over the world, not just in South America from the Congo. I would talk about it all the time. They’re a very big sender of people, but from all over the world, they’re sending prisoners out of their jails. Some of their jails are empty and they will be empty soon. If this ever continues. I spoke with the president of Mexico and as you know, I spoke with Justin Trudeau of Canada and we told them it’s not fair, not right. You can’t let these people come into our country and they understand they are very much on notice and they’re going to have to stop this from happening. They’re going to have to stop. If we lose a lot of money to Mexico, we lose a lot of money to Canada, tremendous amount. We’re subsidizing Canada, we’re subsidizing Mexico that can’t go wrong. And I get along with the people of Mexico and Canada very well. But we can’t let that happen. Why are we, why are we supporting and giving other countries hundreds of billions of dollars? It’s not fair, it’s not right. And the people of Mexico and Canada fully understand we’ve talked about it before, but now we’re doing something about it. We started and then we had to fix the COVID situation and that’s what we did, but now we’re doing it, we’re doing it from the beginning. Howard will be largely in charge. We’ll be working on it together. Howard’s terrific. He’s done a fantastic job and he’s really helped us a lot with transition. I think we have fantastic people coming in. So all of these policies will help us rapidly defeat inflation, create millions of new jobs and put money in the pockets of the hard working families of our country pay off debt. We’re going to be paying off a tremendous amount of debt with $36 trillion. We don’t want to be there and uh we’re gonna be using a lot of the money that we make. We’re gonna be opening up a lot of businesses are going to be pouring in because of our tax policy and we’re going to use the money that we made to pay off debt and to reduce taxes to further reduce taxes. If you remember when we reduced them last time, that brought a tremendous amount, we brought it down to 21%. And that was the biggest, that was the biggest tax cut in the history of our country And nobody ever thought this would happen, but this is what’s supposed to happen. We actually ended up taking in more revenue at 21 than we did at 40% which was pretty amazing. But this will be the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history, maybe of global history, the golden Age of America, I call it, it’s begun. So it’s the golden Age of America and that’s what it’s going to be. And we hope we don’t have any intervening problems because things happen. Like out of nowhere came the China virus, out of nowhere came other things we don’t want to have. You know, when I left, we had no wars, we had no problems. The Middle East was good. We did the Abraham Accords, we did things that nobody thought were even possible. But think of it. Uh four years ago, we had no wars. You didn’t have Russia going into Ukraine, they wouldn’t have done it. They weren’t even thinking about it. When they saw what happened in Afghanistan, I think they gave them an idea, but they wouldn’t have done it. They would have never got President Putin, would have never gone in. And now you look at all those people are dead. All those cities are destroyed. You know, it’s, it’s nice to say they want their land back but the cities are largely destroyed. They left Kiev because probably maybe they want to use it or occupy it, but they haven’t done it. They’ve done a lot of damage, but relatively compared to the other cities, very little. But many of those cities are gone. Those beautiful towers, those beautiful, those beautiful buildings that they had are now laying on the, on their sides destroyed, totally destroyed the turrets and all of the magnificent 1000 year old 2000 year old structures that were very strong are in, are blown to smithereens. You look at some of those cities in about one building standing. So, you know, when you say take over the country, take over what that’s 100 year rebuild, take 100 years to rebuild it and you can never have it the way it was. What a shame. It should have never happened. It would have never happened. If I were president, that war would have never happened. Nor would Israel have happened with the attack on Israel. So we’re inheriting big challenges at home and all over the world again, we had no wars we had no problems. We had no inflation, we had no inflation. We had less than 1% perfect number. And then we had inflation. The likes of which I say, I don’t believe the country has ever seen inflation like that. If they say 38 years. I don’t know. I think it’s, I think it’s probably ever, but we’re going to take care of all of it. We’re going to get the prices down by energy. The energy is going to come in. We have more energy than anybody else. We’re going to use it. We don’t have to buy energy from Venezuela when we have 50 times more than they did. It’s just insane what we do. So we will not rest until America is richer safer and stronger than it has ever been before. And we have a big head start the last time we didn’t, last time, we didn’t know the people. We didn’t know a lot of things, but by the time we got it up and going, it was incredible again. We got the greatest economy in history for that period of time and we’ll do it again, I believe substantially more so because we understand number one, the people of Washington. I know them, I didn’t know any of them virtually. I relied on other people for recommendations. Some were very good recommendations. We had some great people, Bob Lighthizer I thought was great. We had a lot of great people and we had some people that I wouldn’t have used in retrospect. I know I know him better than anybody better than they know themselves. So once again, I’d like to thank for what he’s done with that investment, which will end up being $200 billion I believe. But I just want to thank him just an outstanding man when you have that kind of brain power wanting to invest in this country and that’s money that he can invest elsewhere. So that’s a big investment. But it makes me feel very good. It makes me feel that we’re absolutely on the right track. So thank you to Masa and we’ll take a couple of questions. Mr President, Mr President, you mentioned the wars. Can you tell us what you said to Prime Minister Netanyahu in your call on Saturday and have you spoken to President Putin since your election? Well, I’m not going to comment on the Putin question, but I baby very off discuss what it’s going to happen and I’ll be available in January. I as you know, if these hostages aren’t back home by the day or, and first, but we generally just discussed it. I asked him, where are they, they are doing lose a recap. Mr President, how do you plan to see the ban on tiktok next month? How do you plan to stop the ban on tiktok next month? We’ll take a look. I would k now, is there some of the other people, my son, you, you gotta be, yeah. Take you republicans are always 30 points down in you. I don’t know why, but we ended up down about 3536 points up with young people. The world. Are you, are you entertaining the idea of pre emptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities against Iran’s nuclear facilities? Would you, would you, I mean, it’s a wonderful question. Mhm. And I said yes or no. He said that was strange. Am I going to do pre emptive strikes in Iran? Is that a serious question? Would you, would you sanction Israeli strikes? Would you be in support of Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities? So that before something may or may not his wings? I love you. I just think it’s something that I would ever having to do with your time magazine interview. Can I ask just clearly, do you believe there’s a connection between vaccines and autism? Do you believe there’s a link right now? You have some bird I had dinner with, I should RFK Mars that would be involved medical, you know, if you look at autism. So 30 years ago we had, I heard numbers of like one in 200,000 and now carry numbers of one. So something is wrong. Something. And can I follow up on Robert Kennedy? He’s on the hill today. He’s meeting with senators. What do you say to people who are worried that his views on vaccines will translate into policies that will make their kids less sick. He’s going to be much less radical. Well use dinner was fast Bobby again is what the, ok, the industry also. So all let’s have and for, and we have, we have to, the horrible little man that makes more money. Frankly, the money I’m going to be very unpopular. Ok. Deal. You knock out cross them levels that nobody has ever seen before and that we spent more time talking about that with Bobby and we spend more that. Yes, thanks to President Trump. What about the polio back? Well, I don’t think I’m a big, do you think, do you think schools should be at their best? Do you think schools should mandate vaccines? You know, I was against mandates, mostly democratic governments. They, that having to do with the, think I Mr President, do you expect Rhonda Santa to appoint Laura Trump to sign her Marco Rubio’s seat? No, I don’t probably don’t, but I don’t know Ron is doing a good job. It’s his choice. Nothing to do with me. Laura lie. She was incredible the job she did at the RNC chair along with Michael W with the combination, but I can just speak to Laura. She is so highly respected by women. I mean, even our workout. Ok. It’s a bad example for men and women. I wouldn’t be able to beat her. I don’t believe I’d try like hell but no, she’s an incredible woman. And, yeah, it’s funny people talk about nepotism. I never had, when I said, how did you get here? She could have run for the Senate in North Carolina Ted. But would be the first to, would have really focus on my Children when the election and my, my great family, uh, win the election started getting closer. I asked her, would you why she did it on the, you know, the with Michael? And they did such an unbelievable job, especially on cheating. They stopped or at least they ST too big to rig. And we wanted to l you know, we want tremendously. She did an amazing job. Now, Ron is going to have to make this Marco is, has been really the star already and we haven’t started, but we see signs of from some people or very early. We see science of stardom and Marco was done incredibly. Uh he sort of, it was such an easy decision. The market decision was such an easy, but he leaves and they can see and Ron is going to have to make that decision and he’ll make the right decision. I also know that has got so many and she’s got so many other things. People want her to be on television, they want to give her a contract. You know, her predominant thought is our country and her family. Those are your thoughts. My chief’s got somebody, Mr President, Mr President Mr President, should senators who oppose your nominees or cabinet nominees? Should they be primary? If they are unreasonable, I give you a different, you’ll be shot. Uh If they are unreasonable political, I would say it has nothing to problem. But if they’re reasonable, fair and really disagree with something or somebody, I can see that. But I do believe that. I think we have great people, great, great people have been unbelievably received. Take a look at their bodies. So many of them just unbelievably received. I think Pete is making tremendous strides over. He went to Princeton, he went to Auburn. He was a great student there, but he really was from the first day I met him all, he went to talk just a military guy. I think it’s a my idea. And you know, Pete, he gave up a lot because he was going to big places in big, big places, a lot of money and he didn’t even hesitate when I said, do you want to? He said, absolutely. I said, you know, if it doesn’t work out, you’ll never have the right. You’re well prevented just whatever you want. It could be just the opposite because it’s nastier. He said, I don’t care. He gave up a tremendous amount of this work. It would be, it would be a tragic, but that’s what team he had come to see me about a soldier that was unfair to me. And the, and I also that a subject on anything other than that’s where his love is. And he didn’t say, well, I’d like to think about talk to my family. No. And, you know, he was the number one show Saturday and Sunday with Will and Rachel. There is great chemistry. It didn’t work out for him. It would be actually sort of tragic. Would you consider pardoning Eric Adams? Yeah. I think that he was pretty unfair now. I haven’t seen the gravity of at all but it seems, you know, like being upgraded in an airplane many years ago, probably everybody here has been upgraded. They see you all stars and I want to upgrade that person from ABC. I’m going to upgrade and that would mean you’ll spend the rest of your life in prison somehow. How would you, I mean, I have to see him because, I don’t know, I think he was treated, you know, it was very interesting when he essentially went against what was happening with the migrants made some pretty sharp statements. This is not sustainable. I said, you know what? He’ll be indicted soon. And I said it is a prediction a bit light heartedly but I said it, I said he’s going to be indicted about what would you do with the 900 troops in Syria? Are you planning on pulling them when you get into office or will, you know, we had 5000 troops along the border. And I asked a couple of generals. So we have an army of 250,000 in Syria. And you have an army of 400,000 more people than Turkey is a major. Everyone is somebody I got along with, but he has a major military force and his has not been uh worn out with war. It hasn’t been worn out, built a very strong, powerful. And so we have 5000 soldiers in between a 5 million person army and a 250,000 person army. And I asked the general, what do you think of that situation? You said there will be just, we went out immediately. Did I, because I took a lot of heat and you know what happened? Nothing. Yeah, I said now we have 900 to put some back, but 900 if you’re talking about two, now one of the sides has been essentially wiped out, but nobody knows who the other side is. But I knew is Turkey. Turkey is the one behind it. He’s a very smart guy. They wanted it for thousands of years and he got it and those people that went in are controlled by and that’s ok the way to. But no, I, I don’t think that I want skill but I don’t because the one side has been, are you, are you concerned about more unrest in that region or do you think it will calm down? Nobody knows who I believe it’s Turkey and I think Turkey is very smart. He’s a very smart guy. He’s very tough for heed and unfriendly takeover without a lot of, I can’t say that Assad was a butcher what he did to the Children. Do you remember? I attacked him with 58 missiles. Unbelievable missiles coming from ships 700 miles away and every one of them hit their target. But I did that. That was the red line in the sand. Obama drew it and then he refused to honor what he did. He said if anybody goes across the red line and decide killed many more Children after that and Obama did nothing but I did. I hit him with a lot of missiles. In fact, President Xi was sitting here the night, he was in that dining room having chocolate cake, famous chocolate cake. But that’s what I explained what we were doing as the missiles were shot. You amazing as to the precision was every one of those missiles hit. It started a long distance. Can President Obama the light and where it means something. But in the end that we happen, but now the time is taken up, we would like to get them to stop great stuff. Also, I know the job that they’ve done in France, the job that, that the rebuilding magnificent and they have great respect for. I am the country, a representative of power. We were treated with great respect and one of the people that give you access. So that’s have peace. He wants to be, everyone’s been killed. It’s the worst garage that this world has. I have pictures of fields where bodies are lying on top of bodies. It looks like the old pictures of the civil war were just bodies are just, if you saw those pictures, you would feel more strong than that. It’s got to stop right talking to president, the representative. So let’s get orange. First of all, it’s good to see you. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey? Of course, it seems like there are people on the big government. Yeah, how they took off. I where it came from and where it was and for some reason, that same and for some reason, I can’t imagine it’s the enemy because it was the enemy that blasted, even if they were late, they blasted something strange is going on for some reason. They don’t want to tell the people and they should because the people are really, I mean, they happen to be over at Bedminster. We should, they’re very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won’t spend the weekend in bed. I decided to cancel that. Have you received an intelligence briefing? Have you ever two percussions first on vaccines? Do you want RFKJR to any vaccines come back? We’re gonna find out short segments will come out of the sets of me and we’re also going to very serious discussions about certain things, whether it’s pesticides, Europe is and yet they better mortality. In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm. We spend you something bad’s happened again is today versus 2025 years ago. It’s like, so we’re going to have to work. You find that Bobby is much, very rational and I found it to be very rational. The polio vaccine, I saw, I have a friend who said what you think? Obviously you still in that city and the moment they took that vaccine, it, Dr Jonas. So I know this so much higher than 100 something. We’re also going to find out why are we parents the first time we got cover all of the otherwise think about. But now what happens is a big conversation on us. Why is it that Germany UK and other countries are paying so much more for the same box of medicine made in the same plant? Why is it that we’re paying? And I know what the answer would be and what I put in place discriminated unexpectedly by the administration and they should. And Mr President, one other question on Ukraine, you mentioned that some of the areas are already decimated. Do you believe that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia? Well, um first meet what? There are cities that there’s not a building standard, it’s a demolition, there is not a building so people can’t go back to those cities, there’s nothing there. It’s just rub just like when I knocked down a building in man, which is actually this is worse still myself. Democracy and by the way he does people, many people were when they said the number in Ukraine is going to be a much higher, number of deaths is going to be a much higher number. The big building, what they did and these are very long buildings. They are 15 to 20 stories high. They’re massive buildings. I was surprised at how big and they are flattened like a pancake one or two bombs hit them and they just collapsed and they say nobody was hurt. Well, nobody knows who was in that. Those buildings. There were a lot of people in those buildings. They are going to find that when they start doing the removal, many more people are being killed in the Ukraine war with Russia than is being reported. And that includes soldiers. The soldiers are being, it’s a carnage that we haven’t seen since the second World War. It’s got to be stopped and I’m doing, I’m doing my best to stop it. Yeah, please go ahead. You had a meeting with Mrs Abe yesterday but Japanese Prime Mrs Abe, Mrs Abia and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba is hoping to have a meeting any time soon. I sent him a meo, I sent him a book, the Prime Minister, but Mrs Abe was very close with our first lady with Melania and she loved Melania’s book and she called and wanted to know if she could have. I was very close to the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Uh he was great. He was a great man and his wife wanted to know if it would be possible to have dinner and it was just out of respect to Shinzo. And yes, I’d love to see the Prime Minister and we will do that. I actually sent him a book and some other things for him through, through Mrs H. Will that happen before the inauguration day? It could if they’d like to do that, I would do that. Yeah, I have great, I have great respect for the, you know, for the position. And if he’d like to do that, I’d be here, the board that ambassador to Japan will be George Glass. Is that your final decision? Highly respected man? That’s right, highly respected. He’s been an ambassador before. Did a fantastic job. We consider Japan very important. He’s very highly respected. OK. Which other world leaders have you invited to the inauguration? The world leaders are calling me and some I really would like to meet. No, I mean, literally they’re, they’re calling me and I’ll be seeing some of them. I think it’s rude not to, I mean, it’s hard to say I’m not going to see you. And uh I’ve, I’ve spoken to way over 100 where they called to congratulate on the not only the election but the size of the election, the extent of the victory and they were great. I mean, I spoke to over 100 countries. You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are. And, uh, I’m, I’m trying the best I can to get back to everybody. But there are a lot of countries and every one of them, literally everyone called and it was very nice. So, yeah, I, I’d see some if some felt it was an emergency, I’ve seen as, you know, I’ve seen President Zelensky, he came to France while I was there for the C cathedral opening. They actually had about 70 presidents and prime ministers and in one case, a king a and a we saw some great people. I also met with William and uh I was very impressed by William. I think William is terrific. I was very impressed by William as you know, I met with him too. Did you invite Zelensky to the inauguration? No, but if you’d like to come, I’d like to have him. I mean, I didn’t invite him. No. Are you, are you disappointed that China Xi won’t be at the inauguration? I don’t know that he won’t be at the inauguration? I mean, I haven’t really spoken to him about it. I don’t know that actually, I would say that if you’d like to come, I’d love to have him, but there’s been nothing much discussed. I have had discussions with him, letters, etc, etc, uh, at a very high level, you know, we had a very good relationship until COVID. COVID didn’t end the relationship but it was a bridge too far for me. But, uh, if he’d like to come, I’d certainly be just so, you understand, he hasn’t said one way or the other because a lot of people say he won’t come, he will come. People think he will come, he won’t come. It’s something we barely discussed just about didn’t discuss. But I have had uh especially through letters, some very good conversations. You know, because China and the United States can together solve all of the problems of the world if you think about it. So it’s very important. And, you know, he was a friend of mine. I mean, he was here for a long time right in that spot, except sitting in a very comfortable chair. He wasn’t standing like you are. But we, we spent hours and hours talking and, you know, he’s an amazing guy. Have you spoke to the press? The press hates when I say that, but he’s an amazing person. United Healthcare shooting. The, can you give us your thoughts about that? And what do you make of that? I think it shooter does that. I think it’s a terrible thing. I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him. Uh And I, I was happy to see that it wasn’t specific to this gentleman that was killed. It’s just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness. Uh, that was a terrible thing. It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded. Horrible killing. And how people can. Like this guy is, uh, that’s a sickness actually. That’s really very bad, especially the way it was done. It was so bad written in the back and, uh, very bad very thing like that. You just, you can’t believe that some people and maybe it’s fake news. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe that that can even be thought of, but it seems that there is a certain appetite for him. I don’t get it. Yeah, please. Could you come in on, I want to expand on the defamation lawsuits. Could you see moving that to other people with individual platforms, social media, influencers, people of that or newspapers? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I do. I do. I think you have to do it because they’re very dishonest. We need a great media. We need a fair media. We need, it’s very important and we need borders, we need walls, but we need borders and we need fair elections. You look at California, millions and millions of ballots were sent out. They’re still counting the vote in California with the machines. They are counting the vote. If you had paper ballots, their votes would have been counted four weeks ago, three weeks ago. Uh, now you need fair elections. You need borders and you need a fair press and the press is no, I, I see others. I have a few others that I’m doing. Uh, I’m going as an example. We’re bringing, I’m doing this. Not because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to, I’m going to be bringing one against, uh, the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time. And then just before the election, she said I was gonna lose by three or four points. And it became the biggest story all over the world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points. The farmers love me and I love the farmers and it was interesting the way she did it. She brought it down two weeks before she said I was going to only win by four. That was a big strike, but that was good because she brought it down from like 22 points to four or whatever the number was way up, way up easy. One never even thought to go there. I respect them. I love them and they understand there is no reason to go there because she brought it from way up, walk away, which it was. And it turned out to be in the election too. By the way, it was a win by many, many points. And then she brought it down very smartly to four, a couple of weeks before and everyone said, wow, that’s amazing. He is only up by four points. Then she brought it down to where I was down by three or four, whatever number she used. And, uh, that was the Des Moines Register and it was their, their parent and in my opinion, it was fraud and it was election interference. You know, she’s got me right. Always. She’s a very good pollster. She knows what she was doing and she then quit before and we’ll probably be filing a major lawsuit against him today or tomorrow. And we’re filing one on 60 minutes, you know about that where they took Kamala’s answer, which was a crazy answer. A horrible answer. And they took the whole answer out and they replaced it with something else. She said later on in the interview, which wasn’t a great answer, but it wasn’t like the first one. The first was grossly incompetent. It was weird and that was fraud and election interference by their news magazine, a big part of CBS news. So as you know, we are involved in that when we were involved in one which has been going on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward where he, uh didn’t quote me properly from the tapes. And then on top of everything else, he sold the tapes, which he wasn’t allowed to do. He could only use them for reporting purposes, not for sale purposes. And he admits that and I think we will be successful on that one. And, uh, we have one very interestingly on Pulitzer because, uh, reporters at the New York Times Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes for their wonderful accurate and highly professional reporting on the Russia Russia, Russia Hoax. Well, it turned out to be a hoax and they were exactly wrong. Uh, people, like many people, John Solomon, Sean Hannity is not for Pulitzer, but Sean Hannity got it right. Many people got it right. Tucker got it right. Jesse got it right. Laura got it right. Janine got it right. A lot of people got it right. They didn’t get anything, they gave it to reporters, they got it absolutely wrong. And now everybody admits it was a hoax and I want them to get back, take back the Pulitzer Prizes and pay big damages. And I think we’re doing very well on that one there. They have no excuse for it. They gave a Pulitzer Prize to writers that got Russia, Russia Russia wrong. And so I think we’re doing well and I feel I have to do this. I shouldn’t really be the one to do it. It should have been the justice department or somebody else. But uh I have to do it costs a lot of money to do it, but we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt almost as corrupt as our elections.