Enhance Your English with U.S. Government News – Trump Signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office 2025. 4. 23.

0:02 we have a very special group of wounded veterans who are amazing i’ve actually 0:08 visited many of them in the hospital and uh they came out better than me they 0:14 came out looking good i had that look I would have been president 20 years ago i 0:19 wouldn’t had to wait so long you look great fellas but yeah many of them I didn’t even realize it at the time but I 0:26 visited many of you in the hospital they did a incredible job the doctors are absolutely unbelievable the job they do 0:33 so we were having a little meeting and at the same time we’re signing some very important uh legislation what will 0:40 become legislation and uh right now it’s an executive order and uh having to do 0:46 mostly with education and we have our secretary of education Linda McMahon 0:51 who’s been so incredible over the last few weeks i’ve been watching her in television i’d like to tell her she could do better but she can’t we’re 0:58 doing better so I want to thank you Linda fantastic and we also have commerce and we have labor with us today 1:05 and you have been Thank you very much and Howard thank you very much and we’ll 1:11 uh take some questions after we’re finished maybe I’ll ask Will to step forward and you can uh go through some 1:19 of these also Lindsay you work with Will two very talented lawyers as you all 1:26 know by now thank you Mr president and we’ll go through them and Linda why don’t you come over here in fact why don’t the three of you come over here 1:33 we also have a special guest with us today sir 1:38 oh that’s right annette Albright where is Annette annette Albreight 1:45 Charlotte Meckllinburgg school teacher very special one thank you very much 1:51 it’s a great honor to have you got all sorts of awards for talent that’s good thank you very much for being with us 1:57 appreciate it thank you okay please sir the first executive order we have prepared for your attention there are 2:03 currently laws on the books requiring certain disclosures of universities when they accept large foreign gifts we 2:11 believe that certain universities including for example Harvard uh have routinely violated this law and this 2:17 this law has not been effectively enforced so this executive order charges your departments and agencies uh with 2:24 enforcing the laws on the books with respect to foreign gifts to American universities okay thank you 2:34 thank you very much uh we’ll put it right here next for you sir university 2:40 accreditation uh is currently a process controlled by a number of third party 2:45 organizations that’s by statute by law uh many of those third-party accredititors have relied on sort of 2:52 woke ideology to accredit universities instead of accrediting based on merit and performance uh this executive order 3:00 affects a number of changes to the the university accreditation process also applies to uh law schools and other uh 3:07 other sort of graduate programs um but the basic idea is to force accreditation 3:13 um to be focused on the merit and that the actual results that these universities are providing as opposed to 3:19 how woke these universities have gotten um so we’re setting up new accreditation pathways we’re charging the department 3:25 of education uh to really look holistically at this accreditation mess and hopefully make it much better will 3:30 we look into the past people that they’ve taken for instance I hear all 3:36 about certain great schools and then we read where they’re going to teach people basic math math that we can all do very 3:43 easily but they can’t do they’re you know going to the top school and they’re going to they come out with a program of 3:49 teaching basic math to somebody that got into a Harvard or a Princeton or a Yale 3:55 uh is that part of this when universities are are not performing appropriately whether that’s in ad 4:02 admissions or whether that’s in their actual instructional activities that’s certainly something that accredititors 4:07 uh should be considering that right now we believe they’re they’re not doing a good enough job of and I think Secretary 4:12 McMahon could probably speak to that what about that so they’re allowing people into school they can’t do math 4:18 and yet uh kids who’ve worked really hard and number one in their class in a high school someplace in New Jersey or 4:24 in Mississippi they can’t get into the best schools what is that all about yeah and I think that gets to your policy sir 4:31 of meritocracy that we should be looking at those who have real merit to get in and they and uh we have to look harder 4:38 at those universities that aren’t enforcing that okay thank you and this pretty much does it right yes sir thank 4:54 you okay 5:01 thank you sir during your first administration you made promoting historically black 5:07 colleges and universities H.B.CU uh a major priority this executive order uh 5:13 takes existing law on H.B.CU and brings it into effect we’re going to be setting up a White House initiative on H.B.CU 5:20 the basic idea here is making sure that every aspect of your administration is working to ensure that H.B.CU are able 5:27 to do their job as effectively and as efficiently as possible 5:47 this next executive order relates to artificial intelligence education sir you’ve obviously done a lot in the 5:54 artificial intelligence space already uh the basic idea of this executive order is to ensure that we properly train the 6:02 workforce of the future uh by ensuring that school children uh young Americans are adequately trained in AI tools so 6:09 that they can be competitive uh in the economy years from now into the future as AI becomes a bigger and bigger deal 6:16 that’s a big deal yes ai is where it seems to be at we have literally 6:22 trillions of dollars being invested invested in AI and there somebody today 6:28 a very smart person said that AI is the weight of the future i don’t know if that’s right or not but certainly very 6:34 smart people are investing in it 6:44 heavily okay 6:53 okay next here we have an executive order on workforce development this 6:58 executive order is going to charge uh numerous departments and agencies uh within the government uh to to reshape 7:05 the way that we do workforce development one example from the executive order for instance we’re looking to get the total 7:10 number of apprenticeships new apprenticeships up to a million uh in the country to ensure that uh in in 7:17 critical jobs areas in in areas where we currently don’t have enough trained workers uh that we’re recreating that 7:24 pipeline to ensure that particularly as we uh onshore industrial jobs and new 7:29 industries uh that those industries have the workforce they need to be competitive globally right very 7:36 important and this is the EO that we’re all here working together and in a way 7:41 this is like a training center right for for what we’re trying to do which is jobs and great salaries are great 7:49 salaries too right it’s exactly so all those factories that you’re bringing in because of your trade policy we’re going 7:55 to train people in trade craft bring back trade craft to America so that 8:01 people can work in these factories with great paying jobs and we’re going to train them and we’re going to remake the 8:06 American dream uh for all these people we’re working together that’s right Lori absolutely this plays right into uh 8:14 America at work tour which I have kicked off we will u work with our state partners and work with our businesses to 8:20 see exactly who they need in that workforce and we will skill and upskill uh these apprentices so they can get 8:25 right to work and get in the field and build back this economy for exactly the living the American dream yeah thank you 8:31 sir thank you Mr president next sir we have an executive order on school discipline policies uh under I believe 8:38 it was the Biden administration first Obama and then Biden the Department of Justice issued guidance uh that made it 8:45 almost impossible for schools to enforce uh adequate discip disciplinary policies 8:50 uh this created issues in the classroom for teachers and students alike uh basically they focused on CRT and sort 8:58 of diversity ideology uh instead of actually just enforcing the rules in classrooms to ensure a safe learning 9:04 environment uh this executive order revokes that prior guidance and uh puts us back in a place where hopefully the 9:10 department of education can focus on education and teachers can focus on teaching in a in a safe environment and 9:17 this was important for you and as I understand it yeah absolutely because it gives teachers the authority now to have 9:23 discipline in their classroom and discipline the the person who is being 9:28 disruptive we to we took that away 9:40 okay 9:47 nice you should hold that lastly sir we have an executive order on 9:52 disperate impact theory this is a theory that underlies a lot of the modern DEI and CRT driven diversity culture uh the 10:01 basic idea here is instructing your departments and agencies to no longer rely on disparate impact theory uh as 10:08 they’re regulating as they’re issuing guidance as they’re making rules uh we want to focus on on results we want to 10:14 focus on actual fairness we want to focus on merit uh not things like disparate impact theory and the whole 10:20 sort of uh diversity equity and inclusion cult it’s getting out of that huh yes sir after being in that jungle 10:26 for a long time 10:39 thank you very good job thank you very much appreciate it very much 10:44 um would you like to introduce again Annette and perhaps Annette wants to say 10:50 something we can do with that toet is right here yes Annette yes 10:56 please come over 11:02 would you like to have some comments to make i know you’re former Charlotte Meckllinberg school teacher i’m a North Carolina girl so it’s Yes yes um thank 11:11 you so much for having me thank you so much i am so honored to be here um this has been an eight-year um journey for me 11:19 to raise awareness to the violence that’s in public schools and the critical need to address violence in 11:25 public schools um again been doing it eight years because most administrations like to keep the violence hidden um we 11:32 have three students that should be here with us today we have Austin McClaf I’m 11:38 sorry if I say his name wrong serenity Baker and Nir Taylor from Charlotte 11:43 North Carolina who was shot in the back as he was getting off of a school bus because they thought he was a part of a 11:49 big brawl that happened inside a public high school so this is very important 11:54 and critical legislation that we have to keep our educators safe we have to keep our students safe and public schools 12:01 have to be safe environments so I thank like I said I’ve done this journey alone 12:07 i’ve been on it but I have a whole team behind me now um I spoke at the RNC and 12:12 I told millions that Donald Trump and his administration was going to make schools great again and I feel that 12:19 we’re on the right path and I’m just honored to be here thank 12:27 you to the our great vets that are with us and is it okay if I give her one what 12:34 do you think thank you thank you so much i appreciate it thank you thank you what an honor 12:40 great job could I ask Sarah to speak verard yes sir thank you a little bit 12:46 about these great gentlemen these heroes Mr president are extraordinary uh this is my husband Michael and so many of our 12:53 dear dear friends who are here today many of them have met you sir in your first administration in the hospital 12:59 many times at Walter Reed right and they’ve had long recoveries tomorrow for my husband marks 15 years since he was 13:05 wounded in Afghanistan and on that day about six years ago he had his 120th 13:11 surgery post Afghanistan and you came to see him at Walter Reed and so many others and we saw great reform in the VA 13:19 access same day access to prosthetics mental health care and we know that that is back were going to these gentlemen 13:25 were saying Alex here earlier was saying in the last few years when he’s gone to get a wheelchair the VA has asked him 13:31 this gentleman they’ve asked him to prove that he still has his injuries as though maybe his limbs would grow back 13:38 and they unfortunately did not yes and we’ve seen that many times and so we’re excited for you bringing back the VA 13:45 accountability mission act community care that were the hallmark of your first term and we’re so excited sir to 13:50 be here we’re honored to be here and thank you for all you do for our nation’s heroes thank you who’s that 13:56 picture on there um that is Joe Biden and it says let’s go Brandon 14:05 say what was that picture i told him he wasn’t allowed to ask you to sign it 14:12 that’s very That’s very good well thank you all very much would you like to say anything fellas there’s a big chance you 14:19 have a lot of good a lot of good people watching that believe in you they happen to be the media but they believe very 14:25 much in you like I do anybody m mr president we just we’re very happy with the energy that this administration is 14:30 bringing and it’s an administration that says does what it promises and so we’re 14:36 we’re behind you we believe in you and we I think we all love you i got to speak for everybody thank you very much 14:41 and I’m going to get you a better hat say better head that’s a good one that was the original it was that means he 14:47 was there i’ve been wearing it before it was cool that’s right that was that’s an early one we’ll we’ll save that one though right yes Mr president thank you 14:53 anybody please i’d like to say I’m just going to say thank you for loving America sir thank you very much 14:59 thank you so much very nice thank you very much true thank you i just spoke save Michael’s life um and of course he 15:06 goes immediately to say thank you um as he was the one that saved Michael put him in the helicopter and got him off 15:12 the combat zone so selflessness of these men is unspeakable thank you that’s great to Yeah he’s alive because of 15:17 Batman right here 15:26 well these are amazing people great heroes so that’s really great anybody else i’d like to say it was an honor to 15:33 serve um you are worth it this country is worth it it’s because of what Christ paid for thank you and we have a spirit 15:40 that people haven’t seen in many years at least five they haven’t seen i think even even 15:48 then because we’ve been through so much for the last four years together it was so bad it was so bad what they’ve done 15:54 to the borders what they’ve done all over the place and uh it’s really an honor to be with you all of you 16:01 incredible and I’m going to give you these coins and I think you’re going to really like them i think they’re the best these are the best coins you have 16:09 your choice this is gunmetal i don’t know soldiers like the black but I think 16:14 you like this one it’s okay a lot of soldiers like the black here you go what 16:20 do you like i’ll do the black see I 16:27 told these are choices i’ll take a black one sir okay look at 16:33 this that rarely happens they’re different huh take a black one sir 16:38 there you go that’s great call the military no but isn’t that I always say the soldiers they do like it’s gunmetal 16:45 what do we like that’s what I heard gold is I’m giving you I’m giving him 16:54 two right here we’ll get another one 16:59 okay this is actually fun i’ll take the gold Mr i thought you were going to take 17:05 that gold okay cold one sir okay you got it i had an 17:12 opportunity to sail across the Gulf of America two days after you named it right oh wow 17:19 it’s been an honor and now people say it routinely yep they don’t even think about the other they say it routinely 17:26 that’s been a great honor for me okay take a gold okay 17:37 it’s almost even i think gold is an edge i would love a gold one thank you so much i think the gold picked up at the 17:45 end right okay that’s good so I want to 17:51 thank you very much and especially that’s a great story yes sir so what do you think of a guy like that pretty good 17:58 oh they actually uh him all served together wow and uh 18:04 and Jared over there jared so you guys So you guys got hit huh pretty good you 18:10 got hit pretty good amazing amazing we’re in a pretty tough area in Canada in the Argon River Valley 18:16 their their unit had a more than 50% purple heart rate sir wow in 2010 you deserve it you deserve that and more we 18:24 appreciate it so much great really brave brilliant people thank you very much do 18:30 you have any questions of of the first of the guys here i want to say thank you to the veterans who are here thank you 18:37 so much for defending us and then I wanted to ask you Mr president because you said you want to bring the tariffs 18:42 on China down soon how soon do you want to bring the tariffs on Chinese goods 18:48 well that depends on them we have a situation where we have a very very 18:54 great place it’s called the United States of America and it’s been ripped off for years and years these people 19:01 know it we talked about it before you came in we’ve been ripped off by every country in the world practically and 19:07 friend and foe and uh we will uh we’re not doing that anymore so what’s 19:13 happened is uh we’ve Howard how many countries have we spoken to already 90 19:18 90 uh and they all want to make deals 19:23 and we’re going to make deals but they’re going to be fair deals they’re not going to be ripoff deals and you know we were losing almost $5 billion a 19:31 year no country can do that and now we have it down almost to even maybe even 19:37 better than even because of the tariffs on cars and aluminum and steel we have 19:42 tariffs 25% on cars aluminum and steel there’s a rush to build new steel plants 19:48 a rush to build new aluminum plants and a biggest rush I’ve ever seen that we’ve 19:53 ever seen to build car plants we have like 11 of them or something big ones where you guys maybe work maybe you 20:00 won’t want to work you’ll do something else instead of that but if you like cars you’d like to work at one of these plants the biggest plants in the world 20:07 three of them have left Mexico before construction started one of them during construction and uh they’re coming to 20:13 this country they’re coming back don’t forget and we get along great with Mexico but Mexico took 32% of our car 20:20 building business so uh it’s amazing what’s happened remember this number 20:26 anywhere from three to five billion dollars a day that’s not million dollars that’s 20:33 billion dollars a day nobody can even imagine it and that’s what we were losing and you know hence we have 36 20:39 trillion dollars in debt and everything else and in the end I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to have great 20:45 deals and by the way if we don’t have a deal with a company or a country we’re going to set the tariff we just set the 20:51 tariff it’s something that we think that will happen I’d say over the next couple of weeks wouldn’t you say i think so 20:56 over the next two three weeks we’ll be setting the number and we’re going to pick could be for China too could be for 21:03 China well we’re dealing with almost all of them too many to fully deal with but we’re going to be fair to them but we’re 21:10 dealing with a lot of countries right now and uh could be with China but maybe we’ll make a special you know a deal and 21:18 we’ll see what it will be right now it’s 145% that’s very high it got there because of the fentinol they’re sending 21:26 you know massive amounts of fentinol into our country and killing a lot of people probably 200,000 plus a year 21:33 wiping them out you probably all have friends who were killed somebody was killed in your family or your friends 21:39 with fentinol and somehow it’s made almost exclusively in China and uh as 21:45 you know we essentially taxed them 10 and then another 10 we also taxed Mexico 21:53 25 and we taxed Canada 25 and that’s the kind of money that’s what’s pouring into 21:59 our country right now and it’s gotten us down from losing three to five billion dollars a day to actually making money 22:06 but breaking even let’s say but we’re going to make a lot of money and that money is going to be used to reduce 22:11 taxes we’re going to get big big tax breaks we’re going to you know uh there was a time I said it this morning i 22:18 think some of you were there there was a time from 1870 to 1913 is a long time 22:24 ago we were an all tariff nation foreign nations pay taxes they paid money to us 22:29 in the form of tariffs and that was when we were the wealthiest we were the wealthiest proportionately that we ever 22:35 were and they formed committees in uh 1887 in particular but they formed 22:42 committees to determine what we should do with all the money we had so much money you guys would have loved it we 22:48 had so much money they didn’t know what to do with it we gave it away to different causes and uh you haven’t seen 22:55 that too much anymore although we give plenty away but now we shouldn’t be giving it away we have to take care of ourselves first right absolutely but uh 23:02 we were very wealthy and proportionately the wealthiest we ever we built the Panama Canal jimmy Carter gave that away 23:08 for $1 by the way one of the most profitable things ever built the Panama Canal we gave it away for $1 to Panama 23:17 why i don’t know nobody knows but that’s what we had we had people like that sitting behind this desk and uh that 23:24 shouldn’t have happened panama Canal we spent it was the most expensive thing ever built by our country in history i’m 23:32 talking to relative dollars we’ve never built anything so expensive i think it was the equivalent of $1.7 23:39 billion and uh we’ve never built anything like that we we we built we 23:45 built a lot of things but never so expensive then we started building other things we had a lot of money to do it 23:51 all based on foreign countries coming in and paying us tariffs and we’re doing that again and I think we’re going to 23:57 make so much that we’re going to be able to reduce taxes in this country by a lot and we’re also going to treat those 24:02 countries very fairly but if we don’t make a deal which is possible we’re going to just set the price because you 24:09 remember they have to come in they want to come in here and they want to do business with the United States so we 24:14 want to set a fair price and we’ll do that we’re going to be very fair but we’ll set a fair price and then they can 24:20 make a determination as to whether or not they want to do business with the United States and I think most of them 24:25 will and I think we’re going to treat them very fairly were you worried about Were you worried about what the 145% 24:31 tariffs were doing to small businesses here in the US is that why you’re bringing it down no no no i I haven’t 24:36 brought it down i haven’t brought it still 145 i haven’t I said it’s a high 24:42 tariff it is a high tariff but I haven’t brought it down uh it basically means China’s not doing any business with us 24:48 essentially because it’s a very high number so when you add that to the price of a product it’s you know a lot of 24:53 those products aren’t going to sell uh but China’s not doing any business they were doing they were doing uh 25:01 $1.1 trillion dollars think of that $1.1 trillion dollars you know what that is 25:07 and uh it was just very unfair to us and we were doing very little relatively very little with them it was a one-sided 25:13 very one-sided but we get along i get along very well with President Chin i hope we can make it here otherwise we’ll 25:19 set a price and uh hopefully they’ll come here and they’ll contribute and if 25:24 they don’t that’s okay on your trip to Rome there’s a lot of leaders attending the Pope who also said they’d like to 25:31 meet with you while you’re there do you have any meetings set up or you Yes I do i have a lot of meetings set up i don’t 25:36 know if I can do it do you want to help me out fellas a lot of meetings i got every leader in the world which tells you that 25:44 we have a good product it’s called the United States of America and it’s great and uh these people know about it better 25:51 than anybody in this room but we have a great uh we have a great place and uh it 25:57 should be a lot greater and that’s what we’re going to do we’re going to make it greater than ever before it’s very 26:03 simple who are you going to be meeting with president Well I have a lot of meetings set up yeah and are you bringing anyone with you in the US 26:09 delegation to the funeral like Secretary Rubio or former we have a couple of people coming i I we will we’ll announce 26:16 it probably this evening or tomorrow uh first lady’s going and some people are 26:23 coming with me from staff but we’ll have a number of people going it’s going to be I’m sure it’s going to be a beautiful 26:29 ceremony i had one on Ukraine but I wanted to ask you one about veterans since they are 26:34 here today and thank you for your service and sacrifice i wanted to ask you about the the cuts that have been 26:39 made including with the VA can you assure that veterans like these men here 26:44 um those that have been uh suffering from mental health issues or burn pits for example will be taken care of in 26:53 fact they will tell you it’s been better with me than any president in history we 26:58 had a 92% approval rating which is unheard of up 50 points from the previous administration in my first four 27:05 years and we’re doing better now and in fact now they have something a call in the call in doctor stuff where it’s 27:11 really become you know it’s really become modernized and great where you don’t have to go and travel sometimes 27:17 long distances to get to a clinic or get to the VA uh and I just heard this 27:22 morning I was listening to Doug Collins who’s a secretary he was being interviewed and the numbers are 27:27 incredible the the approval ratings are the highest we’ve I’ve never heard numbers like this it’s better than the 27:33 first four years so no there’s nobody there’s no group of people more 27:38 important than the people in this room and I’m not talking about the media i’m talking about I’m talking about these 27:45 people right here there’s no group and they’re going to be taken really well care of that’s very important to me war 27:50 in Ukraine are you going to be meeting with President Zullinsky he’s asked to meet with you this weekend will you be 27:56 meeting with him this weekend i don’t know i don’t know that he’s going to the funeral or not but I just hope he uh 28:02 gets this thing solved because we’re losing about think of this 5,000 i was 28:07 saying 25,500 everyone was telling me that’s low 5,000 soldiers are being 28:13 killed every week approximately think of that every week 5,000 soldiers but let’s 28:19 say from 3,000 to 5,000 are being killed they’re Russian and Ukrainian they’re not Americans but they’re Russian but 28:26 they’re people and they’re humans they’re human beings they have families they wave goodbye to their son and then 28:33 they get a call that the sun’s no longer there it’s a vicious war and if I can help solve it you know we’re not losing 28:40 our soldiers but we’re losing soldiers a lot of people and if I can solve it because of a certain ability that would 28:46 be great and if uh if it doesn’t happen I will say that I think Russia is ready 28:52 and a lot of people said Russia wanted to go for the whole thing and uh they’ve 28:58 I think we have a deal with Russia we have to get a deal with Zalinski and I hope that Zillinsky I thought it might 29:04 be easier to deal with Zillinsky so far it’s been harder but that’s okay it’s all right but but uh I think we have a 29:12 deal with both i hope they do it because I’m looking to save and you know we spend a lot of money but this is about a 29:20 lot of humanity this is the worst i get the pictures the satellite pictures i’ve 29:25 never seen anything like it of the fields after these some of these battles it’s horrible that it’s going for 29:31 nothing we would have never had this problem you would have never had that war if I were president i guarantee you that and for four years you didn’t have 29:38 it are you meeting i will be meeting in Saudi Arabia 29:44 uh it’s possible but most likely not i think we’ll meet with them shortly thereafter what is this going to present 29:50 to the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell uh during the Biden administration in the campaign with 29:57 inflation raging he lowered interest rates two times now with two consecutive 30:04 months of inflation being down all economic theory you learn in the eighth 30:09 grade says it’s time to cut rates when inflation is down he’s not done that 30:14 have you had any direct conversation with him i haven’t called him i might call him i haven’t called him but I 30:21 believe he’s making a mistake by not lowering interest rates and I think as well as we’re doing we do much better uh 30:27 he’s keeping rates too high uh he historically has been laid except when it came to Biden he was recommended by a 30:34 certain person that uh I’m not particularly happy with but uh he will 30:40 hopefully uh do the right thing the right thing is to lower interest rates so we’ll see what happens i think we’re 30:46 we’re sitting on something that’s going to be very good with all the tariff money starting to come in our country is 30:52 going to be doing really well and hopefully he’ll be doing we don’t have inflation groceries are down when I 30:58 first came in you people were there they hit me with the first day that I was president somebody started screaming at 31:04 me that eggs are up i said “I’ve just I just got here.” And in the first week they were going crazy you remember that 31:10 Linda they were going crazy they’re saying egg prices are too i said “I’m I’m here for one week just leave me 31:17 alone this is the fake news.” And I said “You know what can I tell you?” But Brooke Rollins our Secretary of 31:24 Agriculture and a group working with her have done an amazing job egg prices have gone down 31:30 87% energy now is down $65 a barrel they have some energy selling selling 31:36 gasoline for less than $2 in a couple of states alabama couple of great states 31:41 and but all over the country it’s way down from what it was uh six months ago 31:46 three months ago and that has a lot to do with the war you know if when when 31:53 Biden allowed energy to skyrocket it just skyrocketed out of it was out of control russia made a lot more money 32:00 because they make their money on energy and I kept saying you know he supposedly wants to end the war but he lets energy 32:06 go out of control well I’ve gotten it we are drilling like crazy right now and we have it down to $65 a barrel it went up 32:14 to almost $100 a barrel and at that number Putin and Russia made a lot of 32:20 money so uh I think one of the reasons look I think he has a certain respect for me 32:26 but one of the reasons one of the big reasons is oil prices are down i think this is a good time to get the war settled thank you one more question 32:33 thank you for that question for those of us that live here in the district you said when you came in you were going to 32:38 make Washington DC great again right one of the issues we’ve got right now is we understand there might be an imminent 32:44 deal between the owner of the Washington football team whatever you want to call them now commanders and uh locally in 32:52 getting the Redskins back to DC and RFK Stadium that’s on federal property right 32:58 are you going to be involved in that negotiation and would one of the stipulations be they change their name 33:04 back to that Red oh I see well that’s that’s a little bit Nobody’s asked me that one uh look I think when the the 33:13 Indian population is a great part of this country great heritage and uh we 33:19 were talking about Mass Piqua Long Island the Chiefs they call themselves the Chiefs or the Kansas City Chiefs 33:24 they’re not changing their name great team great people great owners great coach and quarterback i love the 33:31 quarterback like his girlfriend too and his wife his wife is uh his wife is 33:37 great she’s been a big uh she’s been a big fan is his quarterback’s mother is incredible i like that team they’re 33:43 called the Chiefs and frankly uh I see nothing wrong with it they call them the 33:49 Warriors and not that team but a lot of other teams and all of these Indian 33:54 surnames and different names and I’m saying that I think that’s a positive thing and when you go back to Indians 34:01 they they pull this they they don’t know why these names are being taken off they’re trying to I think it’s degrading 34:07 to the Indian population and it’s a great population and they like when they’re you know called by various names 34:14 now uh Washington the Redskins perhaps that’s a little different a little bit 34:20 different but I can tell you that I spoke to people of Indian heritage that love that name and they love that team 34:26 and I think it’s a much you know I think it’s a superior name to what they have right now and it had heritage behind it 34:32 it had something special but a lot of the names having to do with you know different places not just Indians but I 34:38 I think it’s they changed the name of the Cleveland Indians why would you take the name Indians off the Cleveland 34:45 Indians and now it’s called the Cleveland something else guardians right guardians it just doesn’t make sense to 34:52 me so so you know we’re about bringing common sense back to this country and it 34:58 may be popular or unpopular what I’m saying and have just said to you see he’s a nice guy he got a lot out of me 35:03 on this one but I think most people agree with me it’s it’s I think it really is demeaning to Indians but to 35:11 change the name of the Cleveland Indians as an example to the Cleveland Guardians 35:16 is not uh not the same and I’m sure it has an impact on the team sir thank you 35:21 sir um Elon Musk said he’ll be stepping back from his work with Doge a little bit and only dedicating maybe a day or 35:26 two a week to it how long would you like to see that continue and how involved would you like to see 35:31 Well first of all I can’t speak more highly about any individual he’s an incredible guy he’s a brilliant guy he’s 35:38 a wonderful person i’ve seen him with his family i’ve seen him with a lot of 35:43 his children he’s got a lot of children he treats him he treats him good he’s a He loves his children uh but he’s a 35:50 brilliant guy and he was a tremendous help both in the campaign uh and in what 35:56 he’s done with Doge and you know we’re we’re talking about almost $200 billion 36:03 and rising fast because many of the things that we were looking at are now being found out to be fact it’s terrible 36:11 i mean the fraud the waste the abuse the uh everything that’s happened is just 36:16 terrible so uh I also know that he was treated very unfairly by the I guess 36:23 you’d call it the public by some of the public not by all of it i said he makes an incredible car makes everything he 36:29 does is good but they took it out on Tesla and I I just thought it was so 36:35 unfair because he’s trying to help the country but he has helped the country i also want him to make sure that he’s 36:41 going to be in great shape and I know he is i mean he’s going to be he’s going to do great he loves the country he didn’t 36:47 need to do this he did it and I I told him I said “You know whenever you’re 36:52 ready I’d like to keep him for a long time but whenever you’re ready he’s an exceptional guy when you see those 36:58 rockets go up and come back and land in the same gantry nobody else can do that 37:03 but this man.” So he’s just an incredible person and he’s a friend of mine and he’s a nice person too he’s a 37:10 very nice person he really helped the country saved us a lot of money and uh I heard him say that he’ll start easing 37:17 which is always he was always at this time going to ease out and uh when he goes back to Tesla that’ll be taken care 37:24 of it was just it’s artificial these were sick people that thought they were doing something uh he’s he really he’s a 37:31 great patriot and he should really it should be uh it shouldn’t be the way 37:36 that should never have happened to him and and I will tell you right now he makes a great product he makes a great 37:42 product it’s a great car it’s great everything starlink is great what he does is good he’s doing medical things 37:49 that are amazing and uh we have to at some point let him go and do that and we expect him 37:56 to be doing it about this time and but I’ll talk to I’ll talk to Elon about it 38:01 thank you for the question a second question canada has an election coming up how would you have a 38:07 prediction for that and what do you think the results with respect to Canada with the negotiations i don’t want to predict other nations elections it’s 38:15 tough enough doing this one uh look can I love the Canadian people i I like 38:22 Canada but it’s costing us $200 billion dollars a year to support Canada 200 38:29 billion and I say why are we doing that you know what we can make our own cars we have more energy than they do we have 38:35 more energy than anybody in the world we don’t need their lumber obviously we have more lumber we have a lot of lumber 38:43 we have a lot of everything that they sell us but in particular cars they took a large percentage of the car making and 38:50 I want to bring it back to this country i really don’t want cars from Canada so when I put tariffs on Canada they’re 38:55 paying 25% but that could go up in terms of cars uh when we put tariffs on all 39:02 we’re doing is we’re we’re saying we don’t want your cars in all due respect 39:07 we want really to make our own cars which is what we’re doing in record numbers now you know we’re going to be at record levels in a very near future 39:14 because of all the plants the car plants that are being built and I’d rather see them made in Michigan and made in South 39:21 Carolina and made in different states Tennessee we have a lot of great car 39:27 making states and we have some that aren’t car yet but they will soon be car states and that’s what I want to see for 39:34 our country uh at the same time I want to help Canada uh as to I have spoken to 39:40 the current prime minister he was very very nice i will say very nice we had a 39:45 couple of very nice conversations very good but I I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to get involved in 39:51 their election mr if I may this deal that you have with Russia does it include recognizing 39:59 Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea well everything is good look I just want 40:05 to see the war end i don’t care as long if they’re both happy they both sign an agreement uh I have no favorites i don’t 40:13 want to have any favorites i want to have a deal done i want to save their lives now with that being said we’re 40:19 spending hundreds of billions of dollars through Biden biden should have never 40:24 let that war happen we’re spending hundreds of billions maybe $350 billion 40:29 dollars we’ve given to Ukraine and we could use that money right here so I’d 40:35 like to see that but most importantly right now is when I see the pictures the satellite pictures of the battlefield 40:42 uh if I can stop that because of an ability I have to do things uh I want to 40:47 see if I can do that mr president you on tariffs you just mentioned that uh 25% 40:53 could go up on cars in terms of Canada does that mean that you’re considering uh changes to the auto tariffs and auto 40:58 parts no we’re not considering it now but at some point it could go up yeah because again we don’t really want 41:04 Canada to make cars for us to put it bluntly we want to make our own cars and 41:09 we’re now equipped to do that they took a lot of our car business mexico too took a lot of our car business we want 41:16 to make the cars here i’m running this country i’m not running Canada and that’s why I asked uh Trudeau who I call 41:24 Governor Trudeau affectionately but I asked him why are we spending $200 41:31 billion dollars to support Canada to subsidize Canada and he was unable to answer the question i mean why are we 41:36 doing that and I I have to be honest as a state it 41:42 works great as a nation uh considering the fact that most of the 41:47 nation you know 95% of Canada what they do is they buy from us and they sell to us they sell to us uh if we didn’t buy 41:55 their oil if we didn’t buy their and we don’t need their oil they have more o oil than anyone but we don’t need their 42:01 oil we don’t need their lumber we don’t need their cars we don’t need anything so I said why are we doing this why are 42:06 we spending $200 billion it doesn’t make sense if we needed something that would be a different subject project so um I’m 42:15 working well with Canada we’re doing very well we’re working on a deal uh we’ll see what happens but again you 42:22 know why representing this country why are we spending 200 billion dollars to 42:29 support and subsidize another country because if they didn’t have us 42:36 and if we didn’t spend that money as Trudeau told me they would cease to exist you said that to me they would 42:42 cease to exist which is true certainly as a country on tourism on tourism 42:47 there’s been a steep drop off in international travel to the United States it was down 12% last month down 42:55 even more from Western Europe why do you think that there are fewer people suddenly who want to travel to the 43:01 United States well there could be a little na you know there’s a little nationalism there i guess perhaps it’s 43:06 not a big deal but you know with the dollar being where it is because you know China would always fight for having 43:13 a low dollar uh Japan would always fight for having a low dollar meaning a low 43:19 yen or in the case of China the wan uh they’d always want to have China would 43:24 always I’d speak to President Xi a lot i’d say it’s unfair that you your you know your one is so low i’d call up uh a 43:32 great man Prime Minister Abby great great man Shinszo who was uh 43:38 unfortunately assassinated and I used to tell who’s a good friend of mine i used to say “Chinszo you got to you can’t let your 43:45 yen go down it makes it very hard for us to sell tractors it makes it very hard to us to get tourism.” And our dollar is 43:52 uh a little bit on the low side and that means that a lot of tourism is going to 43:58 come in but I could see a little bit nationalism at work and I could see it likewise with us not wanting to go to 44:04 certain countries but that will work out very easily do you think some people are scared to come here because they hear 44:10 the stories of tourists who are detained for a few days or even a week or two no 44:16 we treat our tourists great we’re the tourism capital of the world there’s 44:21 nobody no place like this and uh there may be a little bit of nationalism but I 44:27 doubt it i actually doubt it yeah mr president has there been any direct contact between the US and China trade 44:33 at all yeah of course and every day every day um and then secondly would you 44:39 support a millionaire tax i think it would be very disruptive because a lot 44:45 of the millionaires would leave the country you know in the old days they left states they go from one state to 44:50 the other now with transportation so quick and so easy they leave countries you’ll lose a lot of money if you do 44:57 that that would and other countries that have done it have lost a lot of people they lose their wealthy people that 45:02 would be bad because the wealthy people pay the tax okay sir how did the talks today go in London 45:10 do you think that the asks from Ukraine and I think I think they went well i 45:15 mean you know we got to get two people two strong people two smart people to 45:20 agree and soon as they agree the killing will stop but yeah I think they went well 45:27 we understand that you uh your economic team many of them are here today JD Vance has negotiated what has been 45:34 called a monster trade deal with India like biggest one ever can you share with 45:40 us what some of the framework of that might be you said England india india 45:46 india oh M um they’re not very complicated these 45:51 deals it’s about the tariffs india charges almost more than any other country in the world and believe it or 45:58 not we do very little business with India other than the fact that I I like the uh prime minister very much he’s a 46:05 friend of mine he was here two weeks ago as you know and we stood right outside did a news conference unfortunately the 46:12 grass was very wet and it was very hard for people to stand on the grass they got their shoes all ruined but other 46:19 than that it was a very good news conference and he’s a great guy but we do very little business you know why 46:25 because their tariffs are so high they have among the highest tariffs higher than China they have among the highest 46:30 tariffs in the world and I understand they’re going to reduce those tariffs 46:35 but it’s really uh it’s really sort of their problem not ours we do very very 46:42 little purchasing in India because they’re and selling we do very little selling i mean Harley-Davidson I said 46:49 how you doing in India this is about six years ago they came to lunch as a great 46:56 American company they make the motorcycles and I said “How are you doing in India as an example?” Well we 47:01 don’t do any business there why because the tariffs are too high i said “That’s interesting well what are you going to 47:07 do?” He said “Well we’re going to build a plant in India.” And that’s what they did i don’t want that to happen they 47:13 were forced to build a plant well essentially what we’re doing same thing remember there’s no tariff when they 47:19 build their plant here and everybody wants to build because they don’t want and the higher the tariffs go the more 47:25 likely it is they come in and build a plant you know i mean if it’s 25% that’s fine if it’s 50% you’ll get more plants 47:32 75 you get more at 100 you get more than that and they’re all coming in at 47:37 numbers that nobody’s I don’t think Howard there’s ever been numbers like we’ve seen never seven eight trillion 47:43 dollars worth in two months because I you know it took me a month to get 47:48 started in all fairness but in two months we uh we did this and now we’re 47:53 coming up on a hundred 100 days first 100 days and I think we’re going to be close to eight trillion dollars there 48:00 was never any president that did even a tiny percentage of that okay any other 48:05 questions sure what about a deal signed one of the deals signed by your 100 day mark and China is saying that we’re 48:12 threatening and blackmailing them into a deal what would be your response well I mean China look I have great 48:17 relationships in China with President Xi in particular but China has been charging us massive tariffs for many 48:23 years that’s one of the reasons they were able to steal so many of our companies they took our companies out of 48:29 America and they built their plants in China and one of those things so now 48:36 we’re reversing it but but at levels that nobody’s ever seen before no we’re going to get along great with China i 48:42 have no doubt about it thank you very much every Thank you thank you thank you 48:48 thank you

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