➡ The President discussed various topics including his upcoming trip, meetings with world leaders, his stance on tariffs with China, immigration issues, and the situation between India and Pakistan. He expressed his desire for China to open up more to U.S. products and criticized judges for hindering his immigration policies. He also mentioned his plans to attend the Pope’s funeral and his good relationship with the Catholic community.
➡ The speaker discusses various topics including tariffs, trade deals, and humanitarian aid. They believe tariffs are beneficial and are working on making deals with countries like India and Iran. They also emphasize the importance of providing food and medicine to Gaza, and are pushing for more access points. Lastly, they deny giving Wall Street executives any insider information about these deals.

Hello, everybody. Mr. President, we have a long flight today, but we’re going for a good reason. Do you have any questions? What do you hope, brother? Steve Whitcoff will get out of his meeting with Putin today. He’ll be calling me. They just left the meeting. I haven’t been briefed yet, but he had it. I hear a pretty good meeting. Mr. President, are you getting an update on Secretary Hicks, your confidence in him? I’m fine with the signal, having signal on his head. I know your signal is important. Big news, really. I don’t view it as important.

You’re going to be meeting with some leaders while you were in Rome attending the Pope’s funeral. Who were you attending? Some people in Rome, yes. And a little bit quickly, and frankly, it’s a little disrespectful to have meetings when you’re at the funeral of the Pope. But I’ll be talking to people. I’ll be seeing a lot of people. Is there any theme? Yes, including the Prime Minister of Italy. Is he former President Biden? Very good Prime Minister. What? President Biden. Any plans to talk with him? He’s going to be there. I didn’t know that.

I mean, it’s not high on my list. It’s really low. Can I ask you about this judge in Wisconsin who was arrested because of immigration issues? What’s going on with the case there? It’s a terrible thing. The judge was arrested because he was housing a dretinear aqua. Is that what you’re talking about? It’s pretty surprising. It’s terrible. You said that you’ve spoken to President Xi multiple times. Is that since taking office, sir? I don’t want to discuss that, but I’m speaking to a lot of people from China, but I’m speaking to people from all over the world, all the tariffs, and we’re making very good deals.

Very good. We’re going to make our country rich. We’re not going to be ripped off like we have been for the last, literally, 50 years. There was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general. Do you have any reaction to that and the impact that killed one? Thank you. Well, I just heard you had to stop me there for the first time. Where did this take place? It took place in Moscow. It was a Russian general who was sitting close to home, right? That’s a big one. I’ll look at it.

If I hear anything, I’ll let you know. So when you see these leaders in Rome, it’s more like it makes it make like a funeral, right? Or are you having individual one-on-ones? It’s a little tough because we don’t have much time, and we’re arriving at about 11.30, and we have some people meeting us already, and then I’m taking pictures with the military tonight while we get to the house at 12 o’clock in the embassy. And so we don’t have really much time, and then, as you know, tomorrow morning we’re sort of leaving early.

I think that we’re going to try and see a couple of people that are important to what we’re doing. Why didn’t you feel it was important to go to the Pope’s funeral? I just thought it was out of respect. You know, I won the Catholic vote, and I think it’s the first time that ever happened where a Republican won the vote, and I won it by a lot. And, you know, I have a great relationship to the Catholics. Very simple. What do you think of it? But I won the Catholic vote.

We got 56% of the vote. I don’t know why we didn’t get more excellent. I don’t know how they got any, but we did well with the Catholic vote, and my relationship is very good. So therefore, you know, I think it’s a problem. What’s it said that Secretary Besson said that, you know, you wouldn’t drop tariffs on China unilaterally, that you would need to see some kind of movement. What do you want to see from China? He’s right about that. Well, I’m not going to drop them unless they give us something that’s, you know, substantial.

Otherwise, I’m not going to drop them. It’ll all work out. Those things always work out. You know, we’re working on a lot of projects right now. The wall is solved. The border is the most secure it’s ever been. We’re having a very hard time with judges because they don’t want people to be moved out of the country. Shockingly, nobody’s ever had this before. No other president. There’s never been a time when this has ever become an issue. When they talk about due process, when you have millions of people that you’re moving out that are really bad people, very dangerous people, and you have a judge who wants every single one of them to have a trial, so they want to set millions of trials there for them.

And how long does the trial take weeks? The trial can take weeks. That’s not what it’s about. That’s not what our country’s about. And that’s not what I got elected on. And these are judges that just want to, you know, show how big and important they are. They’re local federal judges, and they shouldn’t be allowed to do it. You know, we have hundreds of thousands of people that we want to get out of the country. And the courts are holding us back. Some judge that nobody ever heard of is holding us back. It’s very dangerous for our country.

I mean, you want to see a country that’ll have crime? Let that happen, because it’s really dangerous for our country. And I can’t believe the Supreme Court would let that stand. And is it when you consider substantial from China? Well, free up China. You know, let us go in and work China, because frankly, that’s what we wanted last time. We almost got it, and then they backed out of that deal. But we had it, to go into China and to sell our product, sell our wares. In other words, it’s called to open China.

That would be great. That would be a big win. But I’m not even sure I’m going to ask for it, because they don’t want it open. They don’t want it open. On the immigration front, big thing in the tariffs. But because of tariffs, I could possibly get that. What do you think opening up China would be a big win, right? The problem is, no matter how big the win is, the press will not give me credit for it. If I got the greatest win in history, if I got, they’ll pay us trillions and trillions of dollars, they’ll give us anything we want.

The press will say, Trump, he just had a terrible defeat. He suffered a terrible defeat. But the people know. Now, I think we’re going to have a lot of big wins. I don’t know if it’s going to be covered that way, by the fact is, but the wins are going to be very substantial. You know, we’re losing, we were losing, with 5 billion a day. Think of that, 5 billion a day. I’ve got that number way down, and soon it’s going to be very, very positive. We’re going to make, we’ll be making 5 billion a day.

But we have a little ways to go yet. Mr. President, can I ask you about the Texas Senate primary, the Texas Senate primary with John Cornyn and Ken Paxner. Are you going to get involved? Have you talked to the candidates? Well, they’re both friends of mine. I like them both. In a way, I wish they weren’t running against each other, but I like Paxner, I like Cornyn. They’re both good people. So, I’ll make a decision somewhere along the line, but you have two very good men. I have a question on your immigration agenda.

Yesterday, a judge in San Francisco put a nationwide injunction on you guys taking money away from sanctuary cities. Your reaction to that, then I have a question about the markets. When you hear a judge in San Francisco or a judge in San Diego, those nationwide injunctions happen to do with a whole country sitting behind a bench, a local bench, even though in some cases, in many cases, they’re a federal judge. But a judge can close down. We should close down sanctuary cities. We shouldn’t have sanctuary cities. And we’ll see how that turns out.

Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals. That’s what they are. They’re sanctuary for criminals. They protect criminals. And we should close them down. If we want a safe country, you have to get rid of sanctuary cities. India and Pakistan, their attentions after the attack in Kashmir. Have you got any message for them? Are you going to be talking to their leaders? India and Afghanistan, as you know. They’ve had that fight for a thousand years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for a thousand years, probably longer than that. And it was a bad one yesterday, though.

That was a bad one. Over 30 people. There’s now tensions on the border between them. Are you concerned about how we’re concerned about that? Tensions on that border for 1,500 years. So, you know, the same as it’s been. But they’ll get it figured out one way or the other. I know both leaders. There’s great tension between Pakistan and India. But there always has been. So you’ve done the one 90-day pause on some of the tariffs. Is it possible you’ll have to do another 90-day or another extension of the laws? I think I know pretty much.

And again, you know, we’ll have deals made, but we’ll also make deals. Otherwise, we’ll just set the tariff and we’ll be reasonable, very reasonable. And that’ll be the end of the deal. We set the price. They want to come in. Now, they set the price for their country. But everybody wants to come into hours. They don’t want to come into hours. Most people don’t want to come into hours. Do you think the markets are adjusting to your tariff policy? So when you look at what’s happening, I think so. I said there’d be a transition. People haven’t understood it now.

They’re starting to understand. You know, look, think of it this way. We’ve lost billions of dollars a day for years on trade, millions. Not going to happen. We’re going to make millions of dollars a day. Because that’s not sustainable. You admit that nobody on your financial team was giving any type of tips to Wall Street executives about deals with India. There was some reporting yesterday that people had heads up on Wall Street. Possibly to make money. Can you commit that that did not happen? I can commit for myself. That’s all I can commit. You know, there’s thousands of people that work for me.

But I can’t imagine anybody doing that. I have very honorable people that I can say. So I can’t even imagine it. But I haven’t even heard that actually. There have been some concerns about access to food, medicine, coming into Gaza. When you spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu the other day, did that come up at all about access and humanitarian aid going into the strip? Gaza came up, and I said, you’ve got to be good to Gaza. Some people are suffering. We’ve got to be good to Gaza. We’re going to take care of that.

There’s a very big need for medicine, food and medicine. And we’re taking care of it. Opening up more access points? All right. Are we pushing the Israelis? We are. Are we pushing more access points? Food and medicine into Gaza. How did the Prime Minister respond to that? Well, it felt well about it. We’ve got these Iran technical talks tomorrow in Oman. What do you think of any kind of – The Iran situation is coming out very well. We’ve had a lot of talks with them, and I think we’re going to have a deal.

I’d much rather have a deal than the other alternative. That would be good for humanity. We can start with an interim deal of some sort or housing. I think it’s going to be pretty much – we’re not looking to do lots of long-term. It’s a very simple deal. One thing, they just can’t have a nuclear weapon. I’m saving them a lot of money just in that. Having a nuclear weapon is really expensive, but it’s also very dangerous, and they can’t have a nuclear weapon. And just that, I’m saving them billions and billions of dollars because that’s what it would cost.

Now, with that being said, the Iran deal is coming along very well. We’re dealing at the highest levels of Iran, and I think they want to make a deal. They want to make a deal. There are some people that want to make a different kind of a deal and much next to your deal. And I don’t want that to happen to Iran, if we can avoid it. Thank you very much, everybody. What’s on tap for Melania’s birthday? Oh, she’s going to have a great birthday. She’s got a working birthday. She’s up front.

I should send her back. You want to have somebody answer a question? I’ll send her back into the lion’s pit. Susie, let’s send Melania back to the lion’s pit. That’s funny. By the way, they would love that, but they have a little issue. We’re so innocent. I think you see your office up there some time this weekend. Yeah, you can come up. We’ll let them come up a little bit later. This is great for you taking her to dinner. Are you taking Mrs. Trump to dinner, or have you had time to get her a present? You’ve been very busy.

I’ll take her for dinner on the Boeing. I’ll take her for dinner on Air Force One. I haven’t had much time to do my presents now. We’ve been pretty busy. But it’s working out. Things are working out very well. And people are starting to understand how good tariffs are for us. And, you know, tariffs have been used against us for 50 years. Now, I never understood it as a private person why we allowed that to happen. You know, it goes back a long time. But I never understood it why did we allow that to happen, where we couldn’t go into China, but they could come here.

We couldn’t go into Europe, but they could come here. In so many heavy places. We couldn’t go into India. They could come here. I never understood why they allowed that. And I don’t blame the countries. I blame the presidents for allowing it to happen. But you have a different kind of a president now, so thank you very much, Justin. Thank you. [tr:trw].

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