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WATCH: President Trump takes questions in the Oval Office
President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office.
About Donald Trump
President Trump attended the G7 summit in France in June 2026, where he held press conferences and bilateral meetings with world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Trump stated that on June 14 the U.S. reached a memorandum of understanding with Iran that he said would end the current conflict, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He described the agreement as a "wall against a nuclear weapon" and contrasted it with the previous JCPOA, which he called a "road to a nuclear weapon." Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was partially open and would be fully open by June 19, and he claimed oil prices were dropping and the stock market was rising as a result of the deal. He also said he had spoken with leaders of Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Turkey about the agreement. During the summit, Trump also addressed other topics. He said he had conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine, describing it as more difficult than expected. Trump discussed U.S. investment figures, stating that over $19 trillion was being invested in the United States. He commented on domestic issues including voter ID requirements, crime reduction in several U.S. cities, and the "Save America Act." Trump also referenced a UFC event held at the White House and joked with reporters about taking credit for the Iran deal or blaming Vice President JD Vance if it did not work out.
Transcript (118 segments)
✨ AI-enhanced transcript with speaker attribution
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Unknown0:00
It's the best managed fishery in the world, bar none, of any fishery we have. But it's ludicrous to allow those scallops. They live about 8 to 10 years and we've already gone through three different cycles of those scallops maturing and dying that were not harvested. There's a way for us to do that and your director means
It's a positive as opposed to a negative.
It needs to be harvested. They just die.
They die. A scallop will die of old age.
It'll die of old age.
It needs to be harvested.
Taste when they're dead and not very good.
Not very good.
Not good?
Not good.
And you talked about the maha, I mean it's one of the best. Frank said his fish, the scallops are one of the best proteins.
Yeah.
They put you in the plane to wrestle.
You can come to UFC.
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Interviewer0:48
Thank you. Anybody else? You guys okay?
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Unknown0:49
Yes, sure.
Another thing too, price of crab has tripled for us. So we're not getting that competition from other countries, which is
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Interviewer0:57
Explain that. Go ahead.
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Unknown0:59
Russian product for example. So tariffs and
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Interviewer1:02
Not coming in the country.
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Unknown1:03
Our price just skyrocketed and it sells, people buy it. It's all US.
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Interviewer1:09
You want our product coming in from there?
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Unknown1:11
So in other words, at the dock we received triple the amount of what we've seen in the past. So the demand is there and people buy it.
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Interviewer1:20
Okay.
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Unknown1:21
Mr. President, we have a fisherwoman who would like to
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Donald Trump1:23
Yeah, sure.
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Unknown1:24
Hi Mr. President. My husband Sterling here.
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Donald Trump1:27
How are you?
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Unknown1:28
I'm doing well. He's an Alaska Bering Sea crab fisherman and I'm a farmer's daughter from Iowa.
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Donald Trump1:34
Good. Good combination.
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Unknown1:36
It is. Harvesters, we're both harvesters. I just wanted to say thank you for your leadership and representing not only fishing families but the farmers too to help make American agriculture and not only that but Alaskan seafood the best in the
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Donald Trump1:52
Thank you very much.
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Unknown1:53
Thank you, sir.
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Donald Trump1:54
Great couple. Thank you. It's a good combination. I like that. Thank you. Yes. Thank you.
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Unknown1:58
Mr. President, thank you.
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Reporter2:01
Thank you, sir. This is a question that will directly impact fishing industry. Fishermen cheered and support you in your fight to stop offshore wind turbines because experts say that they destroy the commercial fishing industry, not to mention they're a national security threat as you've highlighted. Does your administration plan to continue to fight the judge's ruling that's allowing for the continuation of the turbines?
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Donald Trump2:21
Always.
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Reporter2:21
Right by Jamaica Estates, right where you live off of the Atlantic Ocean. 54 of them are going to litter the sea. Will you put a stop to that, Mr. President, now that Kathy Hochul broke her deal about the pipeline?
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Donald Trump2:33
She did break her deal. Doug, would you want to answer that question because I am for it. She broke her deal by stopping a pipeline which was so good for New England and so good for Connecticut. And she broke her deal. What do you want to do on that, Doug?
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Doug2:47
Well, I think I want to say first of all, absolutely, positively, the construction of these wind towers have an effect on fisheries. We've had multiple, multiple round tables between NOAA, which is part of Commerce, and Interior, which manages all of the offshore leasing. So we have plenty of evidence that it destroys fishery. Number two is marine mammals, which Howard has in NOAA. It's affected. We've had more whales wash up on shore during the construction of these offshore things. So it's not great for marine life, not great for fisheries. We also have the report from Secretary Pete Buttigieg said which conclusively, this is a national security threat and we should understand this. This was thrown out by the Democrats and said, "No, it's not. It can't be a national security threat. They're just making it up." Other countries, including Sweden, have canceled offshore wind projects because of national security issues. And all you have to do is pay attention to the way the wars are being fought today. It's autonomous on autonomous, a lot of it low altitude. These wind towers that President Trump has worked to try to stop. The towers themselves can be 600 ft. The blades are 250 on top of that. You could launch an attack on the US in the northeast in our most populous area with a bunch of autonomous drones coming through a wind tower field which cover thousands if not tens of thousands miles. That level of attack would be undetectable until it came through because of radar interference. And then we know that there's autonomous undersea activity going on now. That's happening in the Gulf with advances in technology on all sides. The sonar, the vibration of running the wind towers affects the undersea sonar. So it's a huge national security threat, bad for marine mammals, bad for fish. President Trump is going to keep fighting for what's right for this country.
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Reporter4:27
Can you stop the blades right now? They're coming over from Asia right now. They're sending the blades to start installing them. So it's sort of pending.
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Doug4:33
Yeah. Well, and on top of that it's the most expensive electricity. It's weather dependent. It's intermittent and it's foreign source as you said.
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Donald Trump4:40
Terrible. And they do affect fishing and it's very bad and everybody's against it. Yeah, please.
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Reporter4:44
Mr. President, on Iran.
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Donald Trump4:45
Go ahead.
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Reporter4:46
Mr. President, on Iran, how confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend because you have come close to sealing a deal but at the last minute it has fallen apart. And how
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Donald Trump4:58
It'll be soon. Maybe this weekend.
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Reporter5:01
And has the supreme leader approved this deal, sir?
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Donald Trump5:03
I understand the answer is yes.
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Reporter5:05
And when this deal is signed, is the United States going to immediately lift the blockade?
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Donald Trump5:12
Yes, that's true. That's part of the deal.
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Reporter5:14
And just one
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Donald Trump5:16
Oil prices dropping like a rock.
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Reporter5:19
And sir, have you actually secured an agreement on the discussions about the nuclear material and the nuclear negotiations? Has
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Donald Trump5:26
They've actually agreed on that and nobody's getting close to it because it's buried under a mountain basically. There's B-2 bombers in there.
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Reporter5:37
But has Iran committed to not pursuing a nuclear weapon or will there be more negotiations on that down the line?
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Donald Trump5:45
They will not have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that. That is the whole reason, which is a big part of the reason that
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Reporter5:51
Is that going to be in your agreement, sir?
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Donald Trump5:52
They will not only not have, they will not purchase, develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape, or form a nuclear weapon. They will not have a nuclear weapon.
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Reporter6:01
Mr. President, just to follow up on that, you have said before that Iran and the United States were close to a deal. It has not happened yet. Why are you so convinced that this time is different?
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Donald Trump6:11
Because they've taken a pounding. They've taken a pounding like very few people could take. And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do. We could have had it done the other way, I guess, but it would have taken longer. They got hit very hard recently, as you know. I don't like to have to do things that way, but I felt it was necessary. It's a great deal for the United States and for the Middle East. And I think ultimately great for Iran because they'll be able to build up their country. I really believe it's a regime change because I find these people to be much more rational than the people that are no longer with us. We knocked out the first team of leadership, the second team of leadership. This is a different group. This is a different level. And I think it's frankly a smarter level, and it's a level that has reason. They've all approved the deal. Everybody's approved the deal. Now we'll get it finished up, and hopefully that'll be done. We will not have Iran having a nuclear weapon, which is very important to these people behind me. We can talk about fishing; there won't be anybody to fish. The fish will still be around, I guess. They're probably going to be affected, too. We're not going to let it happen. So, Iran will essentially, most important paragraph to me, Iran will in no way, shape, or form have a nuclear weapon or purchase a nuclear weapon.
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Reporter7:36
But this is just a concept of that agreement. When it comes to nuclear, you said this was just a concept of that agreement. So is this essentially setting the stage for deeper talks on nuclear?
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Donald Trump7:45
It's a very strong memorandum of understanding. That is a little conceptual, but it's something that's going to get done. And if it doesn't get done for any reason, which I can't imagine not happening, they want to sign it as much as I do or more. I would say they want to sign it more, maybe a lot more. But it's a very detailed memorandum of understanding, also agreed to by many other countries that have great influence over them. And everybody wants it done. So it's going to get done.
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Reporter8:13
You said yesterday that Iran may be tapping along the US. Those were the words that you used. What makes you believe that they are sincere this time in wanting to pursue diplomacy?
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Donald Trump8:24
There is a lot of enthusiasm for getting it done. We were hitting them very hard for the last three days. We're going to hit them even harder tonight. They knew that. We told them exactly what we were going to do. We explained it exactly because they had no navy, they had no air force, they had no any weapons of detection, they had nothing. And so we could tell them exactly what they... there wasn't a thing they could have done about it. We won this war militarily very early on. The only thing we didn't win was the fake news. No matter if they could have raised the white flag of surrender, the fake news would say, "Oh, they did wonderfully." They didn't do wonderfully. But, you know what? They've got a chance to build a country. Their country is largely demolished again. Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone. Everything's gone. Their leadership is gone many times over. Even many people from this leadership is gone, but we found them to be rational. They're going to make a deal. And I'll tell you what, it's a great deal. You know why it's a great deal? Because they will never have a nuclear weapon.
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Reporter9:36
Is there a specific amount of time that has to pass between this memorandum of understanding and a final deal being done?
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Donald Trump9:42
Well, we hope it's going to go relatively quickly, but it's
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Reporter9:44
Is there a 60-day or 90-day limit?
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Donald Trump9:45
The straits are going to open immediately. It's one signing. Maybe it'll be Saturday or Monday.
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Reporter9:50
Is there a deadline though to get from this to a final deal?
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Donald Trump9:56
We think it's going to go pretty quickly. I don't want to say a deadline because if I say a deadline, you'll say, "Oh, he didn't meet the deadline." This is like... it's not going to matter much because it's going to get signed. The strait is open, but the straits have been open for a number of months already, and you just didn't know about it. You as reporters weren't able to get it. I just announced yesterday that we brought a lot of ships through, and nobody knew about it. I guess we did a pretty good job, Peter, right? But we brought many, many ships across, and millions, hundreds of millions of barrels of oil were brought across. There wasn't a thing that anybody could have done about that. Yeah.
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Reporter10:37
Is the Card Island Corporation off the table, and are you ruling out military action?
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Donald Trump10:41
If we signed this agreement, it would be. They weren't so thrilled when they heard that that's what I would have done. I just don't think... I like it great. Look at Venezuela, how well that's worked out. We paid for that war many times over. Many, many times over. We have millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela going to Houston. We're working great with the Venezuelan government. Couldn't be better. It's a really good relationship, really good relationship. Venezuela's been amazing. This is a larger situation. Actually less oil. Venezuela has a lot of oil, but we think of it... we spend X dollars. We paid for it many, many times. When was the last time you heard that? Many times over we paid for it. Do you ever think you'd see that in this country, right? We go to wars, we end up with always... we end up with just blasting hell out of people and we come home, nothing happens. Venezuela was amazing and this is amazing again.
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Reporter11:41
Mr. President, are you considering using or dropping an executive order to extend FISA or to continue using section 702?
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Donald Trump11:48
What the Congress wants me to do. Let's see what happens.
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Reporter11:51
What Republican leadership wants you to do?
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Donald Trump11:52
I know. I put out a statement, sure. It's very important for our military. Yeah.
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Reporter11:57
Mr. President, on the Save America Act, you are now urging Republicans to add that to this third reconciliation bill. What's your perspective on why election integrity matters so much for national security from your perspective as the
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Donald Trump12:10
What we need in our elections, we need to have voter identification, which you don't have right now on a national basis. We need it for... voter ID is very important. We need proof of citizenship. Can you believe it? The Democrats are fighting. They don't want you to prove your citizenship when you vote. You know why they want that? Because they cheat. We also want it for mail-in voting, where you have people that are sent seven, eight ballots, two ballots, four ballots. A lot of them sign those ballots. Mail-in voting... we want to be very judicious. If you're in the military and you're far away, or if you're handicapped, or if you're sick, or if you're on vacation, you have a... but you're not going to millions and millions. Look at California, they send out millions of ballots, tens of millions. They have no idea what's going on. Those elections are so corrupt. So we have a mail-in ballot and we have no men and ... no men in women's sports. We're talking about saving America, right? No men in women's sports. Another one, very popular. I think it's 99 to one. They said it's 80/20. I think it's 99 to one. And we have no mutilation of your children for transgender purposes. So, let's see, transgender mutilation of your children. Does that sound good with you guys generally speaking? You're not into transgender mutilation of children.
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Reporter13:37
Not at all, sir.
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Donald Trump13:38
Where your child leaves your house and they take your child from you and... think of it, in six states they take the child and do what they want to do. What they do is... I don't even want to talk about it. And we add that no transgender mutilation of your children.
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Reporter13:54
Mr. President, Mr. President, do you intend to have Bill Pote continue to serve as the acting director of national intelligence? And do you think it's unreasonable that some Republicans have concerns that he has no intelligence experience, even if he's serving in this acting role?
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Donald Trump14:07
But he's intelligent, unlike a lot of other people.
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Reporter14:11
But do you think that's fair? No intelligence and
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Donald Trump14:13
He's only there for a little while. He's running it for a short while while we get a very talented person, Jay Clayton, in, as you know. Jay Clayton's an incredible talent, head of Sullivan & Cromwell. He was head of the SEC. He's now Southern District. I mean, nobody has better credentials.
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Reporter14:29
Do you want Clayton to stay on?
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Donald Trump14:31
Bill will run for a short while. He's done a fantastic job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Created tremendous... it's probably worth a trillion dollars now. Trillion. And he's done a great job. He's a smart guy.
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Reporter14:44
Today's another example of you bringing these everyday Americans into the White House and listening to them. How important is it for you to listen to everyday Americans when it comes to policy making on a daily
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Donald Trump14:54
These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn't build the country. These people built the country. Whether it's fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me, guys like me, they built the country. Watch all these ingrates. They're always complaining. They didn't build anything. They couldn't build anything. Look at what's happened in Minnesota. Somalia. All these people came in from Somalia. They ripped off our system. You have the woman who married her brother. She came in and married her brother. Isn't that wonderful? And then she talks about the Constitution of the United States. She comes from Somalia. They don't have constitutions in Somalia. They don't have police. All they have is people that run around shooting each other. And then she comes and tells us how to run our country. I don't like it. These people don't like it. I can tell you. I think I can speak for you.
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Reporter15:47
Yeah.
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Donald Trump15:48
She comes in, Ilhan Omar. She comes in, she tells us how to run the United States of America. And she comes from a place without anything, without anything. Probably among the worst countries in the world. And she says, "The Constitution of the United States protects me." She shouldn't be protected. Honestly, she should be thrown out of the country. She's corrupt. Most of the people that came in are corrupt. The whole voting system is corrupt in Minnesota. I won Minnesota three times, easily. I won almost every county, but they didn't give it to me. It's a corrupt system. Very corrupt state. The governor is terrible. The attorney general is terrible. They're all very corrupt people. You have the president
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Reporter16:31
Mr. President, do you think there's enough support from Republicans in Congress
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Donald Trump16:36
I hope so. Any Republican that voted against it would be
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Reporter16:41
McConnell and Collins say they don't think so.
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Donald Trump16:42
Well, McConnell's an angry man. He got thrown out of his position. He's an angry guy. He should be very thankful to me because if I didn't win, he wouldn't have gotten to a point. I appointed the judges. He didn't. He gets credit for appointing judges. He didn't appoint anybody. I did. You know how I did? I won the election. Then I picked judges. The judges ended up getting approved. And they said, "Oh, didn't he do a good job?" He didn't do a good job. What the hell did he do? I won the election. He's an angry man who's very disloyal to John Thune. John Thune's a good man. He was a loyal worker for Mitch McConnell. He worked for Mitch McConnell. He worked very hard. He was very loyal to him. I disagreed with him a lot because Mitch McConnell gave so much money to Democrats. He gave them money. I had to go get the wall money from the military. I just took it out of the military because that guy wouldn't do anything. Mitch McConnell's a bad guy. He's a ... and I thought he was lousy at his job. Lousy at his job. But when they gave him the only thing ... they gave him a lot of credit for judges, but I'm the one that got the judges. You know why? I won the election. If I didn't win the election, he wouldn't have had any judges. So, yeah. I mean, say it again.
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Reporter17:53
When did you send the supplemental to
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Donald Trump17:56
When did you send the supplemental? But you have him, you have Murkowski. I've done so much for Murkowski. You have the governor right here. Governor, have I done a lot for Alaska? Is there anybody done more for Alaska than me?
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Governor18:06
You've been the best president for Alaska in our history, Mr. President. I've said that many times.
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Donald Trump18:11
And Murkowski's terrible, terrible to us, terrible to the country.
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Reporter18:15
Mr. President,
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Donald Trump18:16
I almost feel guilty. I've done more for Alaska probably than any other state. Not because of her, because it's the right thing to do. She's just an impediment. But she's there. She probably will be a negative vote. You have a couple of other... I think Rand Paul's come a long way. Let's see what happens. I think Rand Paul likes Save America, so because Rand Paul's usually a negative vote. But I think he likes Save America, so that's good. I like Rand Paul, but I hope he votes for us. Yeah.
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Reporter18:45
Mr. President, the president of the Kentucky Farm Bureau testified before the Senate about a month ago, middle of May. At that point, he said that the pricing and availability of fertilizer was a crisis for farmers. And he said the war was not helping that. And he said we need the government to step in and provide economic help. Even if you do make a deal in the next couple of days, that was a month ago that farmers were saying they were in crisis. Do you think there needs to be federal aid specifically for farmers because of the war?
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Donald Trump19:14
No, it's fair. You know, I gave the farmers $28 billion in my first term because they were being taken advantage of by China. And I charged China for it. I put tariffs on it. China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars and I took $28 billion out of the tariffs from China and other countries that treated our farmers very badly. I gave them $28 billion and I'm looking at that actually. The war is the primary impediment which is now going to come down from Ukraine. You know, a lot of it comes out of Ukraine and other places. But no, the farmers have a problem with fertilizer but that's all coming down now and your fuel is going to be lower than it was 4-5 months ago. 4-5 months ago we were doing unbelievable. Remember this. If you look at Biden, his oil prices without saving our country, saving the world by going out and saying to Iran you cannot have a nuclear weapon. If I asked these people about Iran having a nuclear weapon and they could have ... they go through some pain. I mean, I hate to really do it because it's a little dangerous. Every one of these people going to say you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. He's going to use it. You want to see turmoil? You want to see death and destruction? Let Iran have a nuclear weapon. So I am looking at doing a form of help because of fertilizer but fertilizer is going to come way down as soon as this is over.
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Reporter20:35
And then a political question if I can. Next week there's a big runoff race in Georgia for US Senate. You notably endorsed a candidate for governor there. You haven't endorsed for US Senate between the two Republicans. Why not?
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Donald Trump20:46
I may do that. But every time I endorse they win. It's been a pretty amazing track record. I was 18 and 0 this last week.
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Reporter20:54
Do you regret endorsing Randy Feenstra
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Donald Trump20:57
What?
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Reporter20:57
Do you regret endorsing Randy Feenstra in Iowa?
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Donald Trump21:00
The man running against him was all Trump. The only one out of hundreds of races, hundreds. I'm glad she brought it up. You know why she's got to bring it up? There's a gentleman in Georgia that I endorsed who was much less Trump than the other man that won, as you know. Had I been given the proper information, which I don't think I was, I probably would have endorsed the other person. Or not endorsed at all, but I would have endorsed the other person. The other person was much more Trump, as you know, than Randy.
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Reporter21:32
Mr. President.
Mr. President.
Here in Washington D.C., there's a Democratic primary for mayor. One of the two leading candidates, Janiece Lewis George, is running a Zoraun Must Damey campaign. It's focused on socialist policies. How would you feel if she emerges victorious in next Tuesday's primary?
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Donald Trump21:52
Well, I wouldn't like it. I maybe would take back Washington, run it on the federal basis. We won't put up with it. We're not going to lose our businesses. By the way, Washington now is a safe, beautiful place. We had 22 fountains dug that are all working. Not one of them worked for years, for 25 years, 40 years, 58 years. Actually, the pool didn't work from 1928 it was built and it always leaked because it was done in stone. Now it's done properly. It's not going to leak at all. This is a beautiful place now. People are coming. Restaurants are thriving. The restaurants were all closing, closed. Nobody wanted... now you can't get restaurant space. We have a thriving community.
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Reporter22:35
We got rid of the crime.
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Donald Trump22:36
We're 92% down on crime. Think of it. We're going to be close to 100% pretty soon. You always have some whack job someplace, but we're going to be close to 100%. So Washington is thriving. Memphis... the people came in from Memphis. 74% reduction in crime. New Orleans, think of that, 78% reduction in crime. They had the safest Mardi Gras that they've ever had. You know why? Because we sent in people that take care of crime. Chicago should do it. New York should do it. Los Angeles should do it. We'll make
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Reporter23:17
Thank you for asking.
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Donald Trump23:19
Thank you for asking. You can head out.
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Reporter23:26
Thank you guys.