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President Trump announced a presidential memo supporting the 'freedom to fix' vehicles, arguing it will lower costs and end arrests for DIY repairs. He criticized the Supreme Court's mail-in ballot ruling as detrimental to election integrity, advocating for the Save America Act with voter ID and citizenship proof. He discussed firing the Senate parliamentarian, appointed by Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and praised the Court's ruling affirming presidential power to fire independent agency heads. He identified Republican senators, including Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, as hurdles to the Save America Act, and suggested ending the filibuster. He dismissed the housing bill as unimportant, warned against socialism as a threat, and said he would accept the Court's upcoming birthright citizenship decision.
Key takeaways
Trump signed a presidential memo supporting the freedom to fix vehicles, ending arrests for DIY repairs and breaking CARB's monopoly on aftermarket parts certification.
Trump called the Supreme Court's mail-in ballot ruling 'detrimental to honest elections' and pushed for the Save America Act with voter ID and no mail-in ballots.
Trump said the Supreme Court's ruling on firing independent agency heads gives presidents the right to do so, calling it a 'big ruling' after nearly a hundred years.
Trump identified Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and others as hurdles to the Save America Act, suggesting ending the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
Trump called socialism 'the biggest threat to our nation' since its founding, including World War II and September 11th.
Well, thank you very much. We have a big ruling that we're just issuing now. I think it's very important. Going to lower the price of your car and it's going to lower the price of fixing your car. It has to do with affordability, has to do with a lot of things. You know, oil prices are way down. We hit $69 today. It was higher than that prior to the denuclearization of Iran fight that we have, which we're doing very well. There'll be a meeting on that tomorrow in Doha, and they're going to Qatar. I think they've already left or they're just about getting ready to leave. So we'll see how that goes. But we're doing very well on that front. But the meeting in Doha is going to be perhaps important, perhaps not. We're going to find out. But we're winning militarily. It's almost won militarily, I would say. And it's really very simple. It's the denuclearization of Iran. We don't want them to have a nuclear weapon, and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that, in all fairness. This is something that's very exciting to me. And if you bring the bill, I'm going to let Lee explain exactly what it means, but it means a lot to people that own vehicles, cars in particular, but cars and anything else. It's going to save them a lot of money, and they're going to be able to do it themselves. Please,
Mr. President, this is a presidential memo to the Environmental Protection Agency. A presidential memo supporting the freedom to fix. Americans have the freedom to fix their vehicle. President Trump insists upon it. We are not going to be going after people who are fixing their own vehicle like past administrations have. Additionally, we've been concerned – President Trump has been concerned – about aftermarket parts, cheap knockoff aftermarket parts coming into the United States, harming small businesses, harming Americans. This presidential memo puts an end to it. Also, the only third-party certification for these aftermarket parts is CARB in California, a process that's backlogged and faulty. So we're going to break that monopoly, and no longer will CARB be the only third-party certifier for these aftermarket parts. Again, President Trump is insisting on fixing it. This presidential memo does that. President Trump was calling me up on a Saturday night when this idea first came to his head and he says he wants to do a press conference right away to get this over the top. In February, February 2nd, we signed a right to repair for our farmers so they could repair their tractors and their non-road equipment. And this is covering everyone else.
I mean, think about it. It came to my attention because I noticed they were arresting people for fixing their car. They were arresting people for fixing. That's not even believable. Anyway, so it's right to fix and I think it's really common sense. If somebody wants to fix – some of these people are better mechanics than the mechanics in the shop. They're telling the mechanic in the shop how to fix their car or their truck. We signed a truck one a little while ago. So I'm going to sign this and I'll be happy about it. We rule by common sense to a large extent. All right, Lee. Good job. Thank you.
Uh, you have any questions, Mr. President? What do you make of the Supreme Court ruling today in regards to the mail-in ballots and what comes next for the Safe Act after today's ruling?
Well, because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, gives people more time to vote illegally, let's say. But the Save Act is even more important. And that's the right. You have to be a citizen of our country. Okay? You have to show you're a citizen of our country called citizenship. Voter ID by photo, photo voter ID, and no mail-in ballots unless you're in the military, disabled, ill, or you're away or even on a vacation. We're being very open about it. It's pretty easy, and we'll have honest elections. But the ruling, which a lot of people were waiting for, that was a ruling that I think it was very detrimental to honest elections. But it is what it is. Basically they're keeping it a little bit the way it is. Now they may have a little bit of a restriction based on the word.
About firing the parliamentarian and then you have the very important one, the slaughter case, which we'll talk about if you ask that question. But the parliamentarian – what were you asking about?
I have no – I can't imagine why you keep a woman that was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama. I cannot understand it. The leader has the right to fire the person at will and put somebody else there, because we get so many negative rulings from her, the parliamentarian. She's been there for years and she was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama. Harry Reid was a bad guy and he was the leader, and he put her. And the speaker has the right to immediately fire her and put somebody else there. It's not even believable that she's still there. She's obviously a good politician or something.
A question on the slaughter case. The Supreme Court just affirmed your right to fire the heads of independent agencies. Should we expect more firings as a result of this ruling?
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