President Trump calls into 'Fox & Friends' for a wide-ranging interview on the upcoming 2020 election, coronavirus pandemic and more.
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Have the President
Steve? Why dont you ask the him
the first question
Steve, Mr President, good
morning,
good morning,
Steve, hey, listen! I know a
young couple who got married
this weekend.
What is your advice for a young
couple, looking forward to a
bright America, given the
restrictions of covid and
everything thats going on right
now,
Brian related to you?
First of all, congratulations.
You finally got that done
despite everything, its, not
easy,
but, as you know, I have met
your daughter. She is lovely
its going to be a great
combination.
They dont dont, listen to my
advice,
you just let them lead their
life.
They are going to be very good.
They are going to be just fine,
its a great couple
and its an incredible family.
She starts off with excellent
genes, thats very important,
Steve. Well, thank you very
much
thats all. I was curious about
im still on vacation.
Talk to you later
have a good time.
Thank you, Steve,
Steve, so long
Brian all right! Mr President,
thanks so much for doing in this
morning,
can we talk about probably the
thing that everybody is talking
about today and thats mail in
voting?
What seems to bother you most
and stop me if I am wrong, is if
the state, like Nevada or another
state, just blankets, the state
with ballots, unrequested and
thats different from requesting
an absentee ballot, because you
are concerned about your health
or the pandemic,
would you make that? Am I
accurate in that dissemination?
No absentee is okay, because
you have to go through a
process. Brian
and you go through a process and
you make a request and they send
it to you and you get it and you
fill it out.
Then its a process and its a
smaller number.
What they are going to do is
blanket the state. Anybody that
ever walked frankly will get
one. The governor is a clubhouse
politician.
He is somebody that frankly, was
shocking
and shocking what he did
more shocking, what he did
without town halls, without
meetings without the public
they went out and approved this
ridiculous system and the post
office will never be equipped to
handle it,
and you see it in New York
in a much smaller scale. We have
a congressional race, Carolyn
Maloney, a congresswoman,
its been six and a half weeks.
Now
they have no idea what happened.
They are thousands of votes off,
they are missing votes,
they are fraudulent votes,
they have to do the election
over.
There is no way that she can
take that election, because I
mean its between two Democrats,
but I guess he is probably, as
the expression goes more
progressive, but she is in
trouble
and frankly, they have to do
the election over.
There is no way you can.
Brian, you are suing Nevada,
its the same thing:
mail in voting,
Patterson, New Jersey, twenty percent of the
votes were either fixed or
messed up or missing, or
fraudulent
and people are in big trouble.
The town council, the mail men,
a lot of people are in big
trouble.
Thats Patterson, twenty percent of the
votes
you cant do a mail in vote.
Florida is different in a sense
that they have been doing it and
they have had two very good
governors frankly and
infrastructure thats taken
years to build
Nevada. They start voting very
soon
and he just threw it out there
and the other thing is the votes.
Dont have to be counted or
tabulated until seven days after
November. Third,
so that means, if were waiting
for one state and its a very
great important state, big
state. If were waiting for that
state, you dont know what the
answer is going to be until,
after maybe seven days
and but its not going to be
seven days
its going to be months or
years,
they will never be able to
tabulate their votes because
they are not set up for it.
Pete. Mr President, thank you
for joining us.
You mentioned the postal
service,
women. Your former opponent, is
out of woods or tweeting from
the woods. This is what she said
about the postal service and
your treatment of it.
Hillary Clinton tweeting this.
I fear Republicans sabotage of
the: U Dot S postal service,
including slowing mail delivery,
a trump strategy to make voting
by mail more difficult. This
fall
request your ballots and return
them as early as you can.
Your response to Hillary Clinton,
accusing you of sabotaging the
post office.
First of all, remember the
famous question when she asked
me whether or not I would accept
the results of the election,
she felt pretty confident until
the end of that debate
and, frankly, she was very
strong.
Would you accept the results of
the election?
Well, she didnt accept the
results
she still hasnt.
She is living in a cacoon
and I guess people dont like
her or somebody doesnt like
her, but she was she didnt
do the job
she didnt do the job she was
supposed to do and she should
accept that now she continues to
go on and she is talking now
about the postal service.
Well, as you know, the postal
service for forty years has had big
problems
and they are not equipped to
handle a governor where they say
millions of ballots by the way
will be posted in a couple of
weeks
gear up,
you cant do that
it doesnt work that way
its a very complex process,
so Nevada
were in court.
We will see how it works out
if it doesnt work out. You are
not going to know the
November third election results
im im talking for the country,
it could be for months.
Actually it could be for years
they sent and they planned to
send these ballots to anybody.
Thats ever walked in the state
of Nevada.
It will be a disaster
Ainsley. What about the debates?
Joe Biden was interviewed
yesterday by Dana Perino,
and she said that Joe Biden will
be debating you in those three
debates
he has already committed to that.
But then you have people with
the New York Times Joe
Lockhart, suggesting that Biden
not debate you.
You have others saying that all
of a sudden, its, not an accurate
forum, and they are not in favor
of these debates.
Why do you think that is
well? They are trying to get
out.
My people are telling me that
they are playing very cute.
They are trying to get out
there.
No question about that,
but you know we should have
the debates.
One problem I have the debate is
very late.
Its at the end of September and
a lot of ballots will already be
cast by that time.
They want to make the debates as
late as possible,
and you know this commission.
They have already apologized to
me for what they did.
They were as late my mic during
one debate
they apologized.
I actually had it in writing.
They were doing it.
This is a commission that is a
very left, leaning, commission,
I frankly wouldnt even have
used it and I could have done
that except its been used for
years.
This is a Clinton, observe type
commission and you know they
call it a beautiful name, but im
not happy with it,
but why are they putting the
first debate so late in the
first debate should be before
the first, at least before the
first ballots go out, and they
have it. A month later, almost a
month later, its ridiculous
Ainsley September, 29th in Ohio,
im ready to get out.
In all fairness, he has not said
that
Ainsley. Would you prefer more
debates?
I wouldnt mind more
whats. More important to me is
the first debate be moved up, so
when people are putting in their
first ballot, theyre going to
know
a vast difference,
never been two candidates or two
philosophies. Lets say that
are more different than what we
have.
We want law and order.
We want strong police,
we are not defunding the police,
we probably could say doing the
opposite of defunding the
police.
You look at Portland, thats, all
radical left Democrat.
They want every city to be like
a Portland.
If we didnt go out to Portland,
they have done a great job,
just a very small group.
If we didnt go out to Portland,
they would have knocked down and
burned down the post office,
which is a five hundred dollars million, the
federal building the court
house
and the Post office
and anything else federal.
We didnt go just for the
courthouse.
We went for every federal
building there because they
werent protecting it.
They were unable to protect it,
but we got it to a point where
its reasonable
and if we have to do something
more, we will do more.
We have to straighten out that
city
its been a mess for years
run by radical liberal
Democrats,
Brian, Mr President, and they
did not want to use their state
police until you brought in the
federal agents and then they
agreed to use the state police.
That seems to be a victory.
I dont want to spend too much
time on the election, but looking
at the pandemic seniors and
those with underlying conditions
are most concerned about voting,
they could be the most patriotic
person in the world, but even
your age bracket. Mr President,
they are concerned about going
out in a crowded area
and its legitimate. So having
said that, what does the
administration plan on doing to
make it easier more poll sites,
clean teams,
making demanding more places
in more areas,
providing the financing to do
that?
So if we admit there is a
pandemic and a hurdle, what do
you plan on doing about it if
mail in voting makes you
unsettled?
Brian? All of those things
and more,
but all of those things
and remember November third is a
long way
thats a long way.
The numbers are coming down very
rapidly in Florida
they are coming down in
California,
they are coming down in Texas,
they are coming down
those three places shot up
and those numbers are coming
down.
So by the time we get there, we
will probably be in very good
shape,
but all of those things
cleanliness, they will wear the
mask and they will do whatever
they have to do, but they want
to vote.
We have people that really want
to get out and vote
its going to be very safe,
but by November 3rd time, wise
thats eternity frankly as far
as im concerned
for Trump thats, Eattorneys
and November third is a long ways
off. A lot of things are going
to happen,
Brian, but we could have a
second wave.
The virus has got a mind of its
own.
You could have a second wave.
Other countries have had a
second wave. What nobody talks
about countries. Examples
second wave
look whats happening with Vawl
and look at what is happening at
France and Spain.
Is it a big big? Second wave?
Italy has a wave going,
a lot of countries are having,
but nobody ever talks about that.
We have done an incredible job
in this country, an incredible
job
and our testing is the best
ever
the best in the world and
everybody talks about it other
than some of the fake news
they dont like talking about
it
PETE. Mr President, your latest
campaign ads portray Joe Biden
as a vessel, an empty vessel for
the radical left
thats. The argument your
campaign is making, and certainly
he has made an alliance with a
lot of folks in the Bernie camp.
Well, the Joe Bidens Chief
surrogate, his wife, Dr Jill
Biden, was our network yesterday.
She made a different here is
what she said.
You know Joe is a moderate.
That doesnt mean that his ideas,
arent progressive and bold and
forward thinking,
but hes hes, not someone who
is left
hes, not someone who is right,
hes, a moderate
and thats who he has always
been.
I think Joe has a really strong
vision of where he wants to take
this country
and he has a strategy and a plan
and whether its on climate
change or education or the
economy, Joe knows where he is
going and what he wants to do.
Pete, Mr President, is Joe
Biden, a moderate
is that what voters will
believe
Joe Biden is whatever they
tell him to be,
and I think its good, that a
wife I would expect a wife to
say that thats, the
appropriate thing to say,
but Joe is being taken so far,
left.
Look at the manifesto that he
and Bernie agreed
to say thats further left than
Bernie ever was
no borders.
You know think of it.
Open open up the walls lets
open up the walls
and let everybody
we are up to two hundred and seventy six miles of wall
now.
Thank goodness. We have it
because Mexico is heavily
infected and we would have a
surge. I mean Mexico is
having tremendous covid
problems
we built. We will have the
wall completed almost completed
by the end of the year. Shortly
thereafter, it will be completed
five hundred and thirty seven miles of beautiful, very,
very powerful wall
and wherever we put it, nobody
is getting through. Nobody is
getting through,
but the fact is that Joe has
agreed already.
How can they say he is a
moderate?
He has agreed to all these
things.
Take a look what he wants to do
to police forces in Florida
Texas. They just gave me all of
the law enforcement gave me
their endorsement, but they have
no choice.
I told them when we were
together. I say im very happy
to have it, but you have no
choice because you take a look
at what theyre doing with the
funding, whether its defund or
reducing the funds very
substantially, but Joe is
totally involved with every one
of those horrible things, whether
its sanctuary, cities and the
whole concept of open borders is
so bad,
and then they are going to raise
your taxes by two three four times
people are going to hey
look. Our stock market is very
close to hitting a new record.
Nasdaq has already hit a new
record,
Joe will drive the market into a
depression
and the biggest thing holding
back our stock market is the
possibility that Biden gets
elected because if he gets
elected, our stock market will
crash.
If we didnt have an election
right now, two things would
happen: number one. Our stock
market would be even higher and
its already setting some
records
and the other thing is IRAN.
China, everybody will be at the
table the first day within twenty four
hours, wanting to make a deal,
including North Korea,
by the way, if Hillary Clinton
got in, you would have been in a
war right now, a long time.
Maybe it would be over,
maybe it wouldnt,
but you would be in a war with
North Korea.
North Korea were doing final.
We are doing fine with
everything
they are all waiting now to see
and they dont want Trump
China. The last person I have
taken in tens of billions of
dollars from China.
Nobody took in ten cents from
China.
China was having the worst year.
They have had Brian in sixty seven
years
PETE you and I talked about it
once before
the worst year they have had in
sixty seven years.
We had the greatest year we have
ever had last year
and now were going to do it
again.
Next year is going to be a very
strong year,
very, very strong,
maybe competitive. What we just
had prior to the China virus
come in
prior to the plague come in
so were set up to have
phenomenal numbers.
You saw the numbers coming out
yesterday.
They were incredible having to
do with automobile production
having to do with manufacturing.
I mean the numbers that are
coming out are shocking and
startling to people.
The biggest hang in the market
is the possibility that if Biden
gets in and raises Everybodys
taxes, including on corporations,
but he wants to raise individual
taxes by doubling and tripling
and thats their agenda,
and then they want to go with
the crazy green new deal, which
will put everybody out of
business.
Ainsley whats your plan for
businesses when it comes to the
payroll tax cuts.
Well, I may do it myself.
We are negotiating right now.
I have the right to suspend it
about, and I may do it myself.
I have the absolute right to
suspend the payroll. You know
to do the payroll tax and we
call it a payroll tax
suspension,
thats, an incentive for people,
small businesses and businesses
generally to hire back their
workers
and were doing very well in
that regard.
But I will tell you this: the
blue states, the Democrat states
dont, want to open up anything.
They dont want their schools
open,
they dont want their businesses
open,
they want to keep it shut.
You cant do that. You are
hurting people by doing that,
there is a cost.
We did the right thing
we closed and then we opened
if we didnt close at that time
with that terrible virus that
should have never been here.
China should have stopped it.
If we didnt close, we would
have millions of people dead.
We have done it right
now. It looks like a strong v
based on all the numbers we are
getting.
You will have a big number on
Friday.
I dont know what its going to
be.
You will have another jobs
numbers
last two months we set a record
on the job numbers.
Now we will have another big job
number on Friday, so it will be
interesting to see what that is,
but we are heading definitely a
v,
but the Democrats are standing
in our way.
They dont want their states
open,
even if the state isnt in good
shape,
because you know much of the
country- is in really good shape.
We see the red spots and we have
them in red. You know the covid
areas,
but the country is in very good
shape
and were set to rock and roll,
but the big problem we have is
Democrats dont want to open
their schools.
They dont want to because
they think its going to hurt
the election for the
Republicans
and they shouldnt play that
game.
They shut should put the people
first,
Brian Coronavirus, roughly
sixty thousand new cases days.
Eighteen states increasing cases as
they try to get ahold of this
thing.
Going back to the testing for a
second.
While we have the testing we
dont have the reagents and
swabs
im wondering whats going on
with the Abbott test.
If you got that 15 minute test
that the White House has all
around the country, you dont
make the Abbott test.
Why cant they flood the country
with the Abbott TEST,
thats what we are doing:
Brian schools and businesses?
Where is this test?
We are fifty percent on the test,
Abbott TEST or its equivalent,
where its a 5 minute test and
goes up to fifteen minutes
its a greatest
by the way that test didnt even
exist until we came up with that
test,
Brian its, like they stopped
making it.
I dont know anybody that gets
it.
They are all going to these labs
thats taking forever.
Fifty percent of the country is
short term testing
were going to more,
but you have to remember. We did
sixty one million tests.
The next country is like Germany
is at three
India with one point: five million people
eleven
we are sixty one.
Nobody is even close to us in
testing
its another talking point
by the way. When you do a lot of
testing, you have more cases, so
they say we have more cases
thats, because we test and we
find people that need help and
we take care of them.
This country has done a great
job on the corona
and, I will say, has not the
people that have worked on. It
have been amazing what we have
done from ventilators, where we
had nothing to making them now
for the world.
We are supplying the world now
with ventilators,
and you go back four months. We
didnt have any
its a complicated peels of
machinery,
its big its expensive.
The job we have done has been an
amazing job
when you say that eighteen states,
but what you dont say Brian,
is testimony that states most
states are coming down way
down and now Florida Texas,
as I said
California and others, are
coming down,
but most states are coming down.
You look at a map and white
means good.
Most of the most of the map
is in the white color.
The red color is the corona or
potential and its a very,
relatively small portion,
but its coming down.
Some states are going up a
little bit, but they will very
shortly.
They are under control, they
will be coming down.
This is a terrible thing that
China sent us.
This is not easy
is a terrible thing.
All you have to do is look at
every other country in the world.
One hundred and eighty eight countries are suffering with
this plague
PETE. Mr President, at this
moment around kitchen tables, one
of the biggest question marks
for families and parents of kids
is: will my children actually be
going back to school?
Could the plan that exists now
change later
teachers unions out there making
demands like take the cops out
of the school?
We need Medicare for all and
crazy political demands that
feel like extortion,
yet to a parent. They want to
know. Will it be in person?
Will it be virtual
if im in a private school, do
they put the same parameters the
governor did on the government
schools?
What is the latest on your view
of you who these schools should
reopen?
My view? Is the schools should
open?
This thing is going away.
It will go away like things go
away.
My view is, schools should be
open.
If you look at children,
children are almost and I
would almost say definitely but
almost immune from this disease.
So few they have got stronger
hard to believe. I dont know
how you feel about it, but they
have much stronger immune
systems than we do somehow for
this.
They do it.
They dont have a problem.
They just dont have a problem.
I mean literally in New
Jersey, where you had thousands
many thousands of deaths. The
governor Phil Murphy, told me
good guy too, by the way
he told me thousands and
thousands of deaths that was
hard hit.
There was only one person under
the age of eighteen, eighteen who died of Thi,
and I think that person also had
diabetes
a young person
and especially when you get
younger than that, it doesnt
have an impact on them,
and I have watched some doctors
say they are totally immune.
I dont know I hate to use the
word totally because the news
will say: oh he made the word
totally and he shouldnt have
used that word.
The fact is, they are virtually
immune from this problem
and we have to open our schools.
Remember this, and I think you
believe this PETE
its very bad for our country to
be locked into a house, an
apartment whats, going on with
suicide
whats, going on with drugs
whats, going on with depression,
whats going on with so many
other things,
people lose their jobs,
they never get it back.
They have a great job,
all of a sudden, that little
business or that big business is
forced. To close,
this is a very bad thing.
This isnt, like, oh, we have a
choice of one or the other.
One is good. One is bad,
no staying locked up the
lockdown,
we did the right thing.
We closed it down.
We saved millions of lives
instead of the number that you
are looking at, you could be at
two million
multiply the number that you
have now times, ten fifteen or twenty
thats. What you would be,
we did the right thing.
We closed it down.
Now we are opening up
now we understand the disease.
We understand that the elderly,
especially the elderly, with the
problem with diabetes or heart.
If they have a problem,
they are very, very vulnerable,
very, very susceptible to this
disease, and we have to be very,
very careful and vigilant with
them and were
Ainsley well on that note.
What about the elderly teachers,
the teachers that are
susceptible or have underlying
conditions?
Are you worried at all?
Is that a concern that maybe one
of the moms or dads who drops
their child off might have covid
and not know it and pass it on
to one of these teachers?
I think the teachers are a
different story
and if a teacher is in a certain
age group, I think they
shouldnt be going in and
probably they are going to have
to waited until the thing goes
by.
They will have to wait.
It will go by
by the way with vaccines and
therapeutics are coming along
incredibly well.
I have stream lined the process.
This would have taken three or
four years to be where we are
right now
we will have one, I believe,
long before the end ever the
year,
and we have many that are
already in stage two and stage three
trials, which is ending the lap
and its been incredible.
Nobody can believe what the FDA
has been able to do.
This would have been a process
of two others yoorks three
years or four years,
and we are ready just about
we think I mean we have such
great candidates,
candidates, vaccines and
therapeutics, where you walk in
a Trans, fusion or a shot, and the
people get better
thats the one I really like
Brian President Todays, the
Washington Post, written by four
experts, one of which is Scott
Gottlieb, who I know you like
he says blood plasma might be
the Covid 19 treatment we need
if we can get people who have
recovered from the virus, get the
plasma and get it widespread.
That might be the therapeutic
you are in the meetings with the
leading doctors.
Do you believe this? And if so,
what are you doing to spread
this plasma?
I havent heard much about this
in months,
yeah
its a big thing.
In fact, I had the meeting the
other day at the Red Cross
building.
You probably saw that
it was a big meeting, mostly on
plasma,
and it was also a meeting for
people that have recovered
people that have recovered if
they would go to their blood
bank, give the Red Cross or
wherever they can find and give
a donation, because I will tell
you what that would be a
tremendous thing.
Scott is one hundred percent right,
its a tremendous thing. What we
have done with the plasma-
and it makes better- you know
it- makes people better
its fought them off once and it
will fight them off again,
but thats, a new thing
thats another thats, another
way of doing it
and its something that we have
very very much.
We are taking tremendous amounts
of blood,
we are getting tremendous
donations from people.
These are people that have had
the disease, the Covid and they
have recovered
their blood, the plasma so
valuable so important to us,
so they are doing it.
We would like to have a lot more
and you are right. It is a
fantastic answer,
its not the whole answer, but
its a fantastic part of the
puzzle.
Pete. Mr President, the debate
is ongoing on Capitol Hill about
another stimulus bill. The
Democrats say they want
three point. Four trillion
Republicans rightly balk at that.
A big part of the discussion is
how much supplemental
unemployment should be given at
the federal level,
and I noticed a tweet from
representative Lance Gooden, a
Republican from Texas, pointing
out what he has heard from
businesses in his district
Democrats say it has to be six hundred
Republicans feel like. If you are
being paid more to be on
unemployment, it may be a
disincentive to go back to work
Heres the tweet he said with
six hundred expected unemployment
expired business owners in my
district. Tell me this week is
the first week they have had all
their employees show up.
Do you believe that if
unemployment is more than people
are making its a disincentive
for people to go back to work
right now?
Well, thats what the
Democrats want to do?
They wanted to do that. I have to
say this: what they really want
is bail out money for their
states that have done very
poorly for years, a bad manager
not because of covid-
you can add covid to it,
but basically for years of bad
management.
They want bail out money.
They want a trillion dollars to
bail out states that you know
the states.
I dont have to go over them
im, not going to embarrass
anybody.
There are states that have done
very, very poorly
and they want bail out.
They want to use covid to get
them bailed out, and we cant do
that.
With all of that being said, we
want to get funds to people, so
they can live,
but we dont want to disincent
at this. Advise people from going
back to work.
Ainsley is your second term
agenda.
What are your priorities
I want to take where we left.
We had the greatest economy in
the history of the world.
We were better than any other
country.
We were better than we were
ever.
We never had anything like this.
This country, one hundred and sixty million people
working.
We have never had that before.
We have never even come close to
that best. Employment numbers
best unemployment, numbers for
african american
asian american women, hispanic
everybody,
the best numbers we have ever
had the best stock market we
have ever had.
Although we are coming very
close right now,
in fact, NASDAQ is already
higher than that number.
So a lot of good things are
happening
needs to be jobs.
What I want to do is take it
from that point and build it
even better.
We are becoming a great
manufacturer again,
im taking business and im
taking trade back from these
other countries that have ripped
us off for years. Our allies
also have been ripping us off
for years. They dont pay their
bills, delinquent
allies,
everybody says theyre, wonderful,
allies,
yeah,
but they got to pay their bills.
We protect them militarily, and
then they take advantage of us
on trade and the military
because they dont pay their
bills on military. In some cases
I mean Germany was very
delinquent.
They owed us billions of
dollars, billions of dollars to
NATO.
They should be paying their
bills,
they are a rich country.
They should be paying their
bills.
Why should we defend countries
and not be reimbursed?
I mean, if somebody thinks
differently, they can do
whatever they want,
but Germany was totally
delinquent.
You know its very interesting
were supposed to protect
Germany from Russia.
Thats fine,
but Germany is paying Russia
billions of dollars for energy,
so were protecting Germany
from Russia.
Germany is paying Russia
whats that all about.
So there is a whole thing that
for years and years I dont
know why presidents didnt solve
these problems, but they are
problems that are that im
getting done
im getting done like nobody has
ever gotten them done before
Brian. We are just starting the
top of the hour
lucky enough to be talking to
the President of the United
States about the things that
affect your life and affect the
country.
As you hear around the world, the
president, just to build on what
you just said.
You are moving troops out of
Germany.
We can provide that natural gas
to Germany.
They chose Russia as a supplier
which is pretty insulting,
but youre moving troops out of
Germany to two countries, ITALY
and Belgium, who also dont pay
what they should to NATO, the
two percent.
Why move them,
but they will be paying, and I
told them
Brian ive raised at NATO
when I went in it was a
disaster.
Seven countries were paying what
they were supposed to be paying
now ive raised and Secretary
General Stoltenberg is trumps
biggest fan.
President Obama would go, make a
speech and nobody would pay,
but he wouldnt talk about it.
I went and said you have to
pay.
I, like you all very much, but you
have to pay.
We are protecting you and
spending a lot of money.
The United States was paying for
everybody.
I said you have to pay
bottom line. After one meeting we
got one hundred and thirty dollars billion a year more
going to four hundred dollars billion, and then
it makes sense
by the way when they say about
Russia, that money is largely to
protect Europe from Russia, so
when they say Trump and Russia,
Russia believe me theyd, love
to see me lose this election
that I can tell you
one hundred and thirty dollars billion more paid by those
countries that were delinquent.
They were all delinquent and
its going to four hundred billion, but
Germany has to pay.
Germany is a wealthy country and
have to pay, and we will not have
fifty thousand troops in Germany. They
built cities around our troops.
We will let ourselves get rich,
so Germany took advantage and
thats what happens.
Pete well. Mr President, as
someone who took in NATO mission,
I cant not agree more that we
dont get much back in return.
We get nothing back.
They take advantage on us on
trade.
We get nothing back
on top of it, they make it
impossible to do business,
they put barriers up and charge
us tariff.
They are dreaming about Joe
Biden.
They dream about it every night,
please Joe, let Joe win, we will
so be rich and all im doing is
bringing fairness back, but it
got out of control
long time ago,
long before Obama Biden did
absolutely nothing
made it worse, but it was long
before them in all fairness,
PETE. They dont feel the need
to defend themselves if youll
do it for them.
I want to come across the pond.
There are reports that youre,
considering possibly giving
convention acceptance speech
from the White House lawn
whats, the latest on what youll
be doing with the convention.
We are thinking about it.
They move with a lot of people
expensive operationally and the
secret service is fantastic,
but you know its a big deal
and we are thinking about doing
it from the White House, because
theres no movement
its easy,
I think its a beautiful setting-
and we are thinking about that.
Its certainly one of the
alternatives,
its the easiest, alternative,
beautiful alternative.
I love the building
im there right now.
I spend a lot of time here.
A lot of people didnt spend as
much time.
I, like it a great place and
representative of our nation,
so it would be by far the least
expensive from the country
standpoint, because it really is
its a big deal when you get up
and move all of this apparatus
Ainsley. So what is the status
of the Rnc now, because at first
it was Charlotte, as you know, and
then moved to Jacksonville, but
contractually you had to do part
of it in Charlotte, and now we
are talking about the White
House. How are you going to make
sure its, not chaotic?
How do you make sure delegate
votes are heard?
Well, we are going to have
the very first night will be in
Charlotte, but that locked down
the governor, I dont, know what
hes doing
they locked North Carolina down.
We were really wanting to go to
North Carolina, and so what we
are doing is we are doing one
night there and itll be a
nomination night and itll go
very well.
We are going to let the press go
and watch it, but socially
distanced and lots of things are
happening.
The state is in a lockdown.
We have no choice.
We went to Jacksonville a place
that we are very good, but after
we announced Florida got hit
and now Florida is recovering,
but what we are going to do is
we are going to do virtual and
we are going to do some live
speeches from different
locations and im going to do
mine on Thursday night and
thatll be a lot first. Lady
is making a speech.
Numerous people are making
speeches senators a lot of
very terrific people. We have
terrific speakers list,
Jim Jordan, so many others Matt
Gaetz. These guys are warriors
fighting against horrible force
that hopefully, hopefully we
will get their act together.
Great great people making
speeches,
I will probably do mine live
from the White House.
Brian looks like live from the
White House.
Would you say youre locked in
on that?
No
Brian? Okay!
If for some reason somebody
had difficulty with it, I could
go some place else.
The easiest least expensive
would be live from the White
House.
Brian youre, home there and
bills are paid for.
Mr President, for were taken
aback when President Obama used
eulogy speech to go after you
and talking about politics and
not about Congressman Lewis
Gerrymandering, an getting rid of
the filibuster
it made me think who is having
harder time getting over the
two thousand and sixteen election Clinton or
President Obama, or do you agree
more of a campaign speech and
less than a eulogy?
It showed anger there that
people dont see
he lost control and hes been
really hit very hard by both
sides. For that speech,
that speech was ridiculous.
I think the answer is they both
are just in a state. You know
its just one of those things:
weve redone, eighty two percent or something of
the Obama things
look at the environment and air
and water now is cleaner than
its ever been, and you look
prior to plague coming in and we
will have the numbers plus next
year you watch
you look at the numbers that we
were doing and, despite that our
air and water, environmental
numbers are better than they
ever were.
No, I thought the speech was
totally inappropriate. Very bad.
A lot of people dont realize
that I said it the other day
he fought just as hard or harder
than Hillary, so that Hillary
won.
I didnt know him.
He was somebody who wanted me
not to win.
He wanted
Brian. He mocked at you,
Washington, correspondents,
dinner and Jimmy Kimmel show
that you will never become
president.
Do you think, to a degree hes
not over that?
Well, you know I was at the
dinner and the Washington a
lot of people say I ran because
of the dinner
thats, absolutely not true.
Actually he joked but supposed
to be joking and he joked, and
you know I actually thought he
did a very good job at the
dinner.
I thought the dinner was a very
good job.
I thought the speech the other
day at the funeral was a
terrible, terrible
representation of what our
country is all about.
I thought it was absolutely
terrible, but he fought very
hard for Hillary Clinton.
He fought, I think he fought
harder than she did
remember. I used to complain all
of that hes going all over the
place and you know it actually
inspired our voters and we have
more enthusiasm right now with
our voters, Brian than they
ever had than we ever had in
two thousand and sixteen, and we had great nobody
ever saw enthusiasm like two thousand and sixteen
they came from the lakes, the
rivers they came from
everywhere. They came from
places that the Democrats never
heard about and they voted and
they lined up, and I dont know
if it was ballots or not,
not too many ballots,
they loved standing there
waiting to vote,
they came days early
theyve, never seen anything like
it.
We have more. Today. I just got
back from Texas and Florida.
We had lines miles long along
the highway and roadways with
the flag and the american flag
and the Trump fragranced flag
and the one thing I noticed they
never fly the american flag.
I can always tell our crowds, but
there was virtually no. I didnt
see any anybody, thousands
tens of thousands of people
they were all for Trump and
Trump pence.
Mike Pence had done a great job
by the way
hes been solid, incredible vice
president
hes done a fantastic job.
People love him, but they had to
trump pence signs all up and
down the highway, and it was an
incredible thing to see in Texas
and I got the full endorsement
of law enforcement, and you
know I told them. You dont have
a choice in fairness,
whats the choice
you dont have a choice.
I have full endorsement of law
enforcement, almost everywhere
PETE. Mr President, theres a
group on the left that carries
the american flag because they
want to burn it and its Antifa
and we have seen the violence to
cities. Across America.
There was a hearing on Capitol
Hill, where TED Cruz tried to lay
out where the funding is coming
from and what the group is all
about. But it seems Democrats are
hell bent on denying that Antifa
exists.
We had representative Jim
Clyburn over the weekend and he
didnt know federal buildings
were under threat and nadler.
Well, he said this listen.
Mr President,
theres violence around the
country
thats happening in Portland
thats, a myth, thats being
spread. Only in Washington D, DOT C
Pete, how can Democrats get away
with calling Antifa a myth and
saying federal buildings are not
under seem? They wouldnt
condemn it. Yesterday, at the
hearing with Senator Cruz. Why
cant they
well Senator Cruz is right.
You know, look this isnt being
naive. This is being untruthful.
These are lying people.
These are untruthful people,
they know it exists.
They are Antifa. Is a horrible
group,
its a far left group and they
used to try and blame the right
on all of this stuff and now,
finally, at least they are not
doing that so much anymore.
They are not doing that anymore.
Almost never
Antifa is a far left group.
Anarchists agitators is a nice
word
Brian who beens them.
The Democrats know they
exist.
You have Democrats funding them,
they say Soros and other people
who knows, but they are funded.
You see them standing there with
weapons that are expensive, that
that, with signs that were
made, I mean literally, they
have signs. Some of March signs
were made in high class printing
shop.
I like the signs that were made
in a basement.
They mean a lot more
Antifa is well known by the
Democrats and when they say
gee, we dont know who they are,
who could be? They be theyre a
bad group
when I signed my bill the other
day, the act, and it was very
important, ten years in jail for
ripping down monuments or
statutes, it stopped
that was two months ago.
It totally stopped at least on a
federal basis,
even on state basis, because when
they heard they go to jail. For
ten years
I took an old law and
reinstituted, which everyone said
its too tough.
Let me tell you ten years for
ripping down a statute or
ripping down a monument, and they
were going to March on
Washington.
They were going to the March
totally stopped. Once I signed
the bill,
I gave a news conference. I
signed the bill,
you can come, but anybody we
now have hundreds of people in
court that are being prosecuted
all over the country. So its
hey weve done a good job.
Weve done a great job.
The fact is that Seattle would
be burned down now. If we didnt
threaten to go in,
we were going in and when they
heard that we were going in, they
sent the cops and, by the way,
Antifa Radical left. They gave
up immediately because basically,
they are cowards.
Basically, they are cowards.
They just keep pushing as far as
they can
when I watch police standing
there, and these radical
anarchists are spitting on the
police and doing much worse than
that. They are throwing things
that you dont want to know
about, and police arent allowed
to defend themselves and stand
there its a disgrace, but
weve done a great job,
weve saved Portland, and we can.
We did it nice and soft, but
we did a very good job in
Portland
if we werent in Portland right
now, the federal courthouse would
have been ripped down and burned
down and wouldnt exist a long
with, along with lots of
federal buildings,
its one of those things that if
you want the country like that,
if the whole country will be
another Portland that can
happen. All you have to do is
elect radical group of people,
and Joe Biden is totally taken
in by them by the way totally
taken in
he cant say its nice that
his wife tries to defend him.
Hes, not a moderate.
Take a look at the manifesto
that he agreed to with Bernie
its further left than Bernie
ever was
Ainsley pledged to spend
billions on Aocs green new
deal
whats the latest on Tiktok,
because young people are worried
that you will ban it. The adults
dont want the Chinese to be
stealing information about their
kids,
so China has done big number
on us for many years.
Ive taken billions billions of
dollars from China.
Nobody else has before done it,
and one of the things weve done
has been very strong.
We are not allowing hauwei big
phone company and we got a lot
of our allies.
I said if you do it thats
okay, but we are not going to be
able to share any information
with you.
So weve literally talked many
of our allies that were ready to
get free phone system or very
inexpensive. You know 5g
system they
going to get the system and,
and it would have been a
disaster from the security
standpoint, so ITALY and many
other countries, weve talked out
of it.
There are still some considering
it, and if they do it, we will
not be able to do any security
business with, because we we
dont, want them going back to
holes of Beijing so with so.
If you look attic to at Tikto
its okay, if its bought by
secured american company and
they can buy at thirty percent, which is the
american component,
if you buy it,
the United States, which is
making it possible to buy
without us they cant do
anything should be compensated
with very big payment.
That money would go into the
Treasury of the United States
and by the way, Microsoft, which
is looking at it and others.
They all agree to that.
Ainsley is China. Stealing our
data,
absolutely
theyve been stealing for years,
theyve been stealing
everything
we come up with new computers,
all of a sudden they are being
made.
We have fighter jet one of the
greatest jets they copied our
planes.
I saw it.
I said, let me ask you whats
thats, all about thatS, the F22
China copied the F22 one of the
greatest fighter. Jets ever made
its a disgrace.
Brian yeah Morris probe, looks
exactly like ours
lets, keep it with China for a
second,
you have Australia who changed.
Defense strategy and UK walked
away from Hauwei Vietnam
extremely worried,
Japan extremely concerned.
They are reconfiguring
reanalyzing their relationship,
India, they had a scrimmage and
lost people.
You have an opportunity to lace
together our allies against this
rising China Tide.
What specifically have you done
being that we seem to be on the
same page, but we we are not sing
from the same hymn sheet.
Mr President, what have you
done to change that? Antichina
coalition?
Brian? All of the things that
you just said with the UK. They
were okay to buy hauwei system,
Australia.
All of the things you just said.
Ive done.
I had a big talk with Boris.
If you look at the system, you
can forget about Scotland Yard.
Frankly,
we cant do business with you.
Italy was set to sign the hauwei
system and they terminated.
Australia has been great right
from the beginning. I will tell
you what they are: a great ally
Brian, Mr President, are you
waiting? Are you going to call
a summit together?
We are already together.
These countries are almost as
angry as I am at the plague
being released in their country.
China stopped the plague from
going into China, but they didnt
stop the plague from leaving
China and going to Europe and
the United States and all over
the world.
One hundred and eighty eight countries and those
countries have suffered more
than we have in many ways hard
to believe more than we have
Brian. On the same note, they
right, Mr President, but we
condemn sanction, but we did
nothing
what if they move on Taiwan
next,
what are we prepared to do?
Hong Kong? We are with them
its attached and with Hong
Kong theyve taken tremendous
amounts of business from us
just from a practical standard,
Hong Kong Stock Exchange. They
take massive amounts.
We gave them because of
freedom for freedom. We gave
them tremendous incentives and I
wouldnt say its wrong, but they
took massive amount of business
away from the New York Stock
Exchange, NASDAQ all of our
exchanges- and that was okay. We
did that for free.
We have not taken all that back.
Hong Kong would not be
successful exchange,
it wont be.
We gave them incentives that it
was easy to do. Well,
we will make more money. Now.
China has grilled them down.
They lost a lot of their fight.
Brian theyve been arresting
everybody
ive looked at it for years.
Why is Hong Kong getting so much
business thats, not good.
We gave Hong Kong tremendous
incentives to get business.
That was business that would
normally come into New York and
business that would come to the
United States,
the New York Stock Exchange.
They are going to do very well.
They will pick up a lot of
business,
thats very cold, to be saying
that right, thats, very cold.
But the fact is, Hong Kong is
there and they didnt honor
their agreement
twenty five years ago, with their
agreement with UK,
they have an agreement that
should have been honored and UK
has looked at it very strongly,
but weve taken everything back
and we are doing a lot more
business.
We will be doing a lot more
business,
Hong Kong, unfortunately, their
exchanges and all of that
business will now dry up and
fail because they cant do it
without the incentives that we
gave.
We gave them so much in order to
be successful.
Pete. Mr President, real quick
on business, I want to talk
about the business of sports
reopening in our country
a couple of years ago, you very
vocal about kneeling for the
national anthem.
Now it seems that standing is
the new kneeling in that only three
players: Jonathan Isaac and
Leonard and Gregg Popovich
standing for the anthem, your
take for the league,
I think its disgraceful.
We worked with them, worked hard
to get open.
I was pushing to get open and I
see everybody kneeling during
the anthem.
We are not its not
acceptable to be.
When I see them kneeling, I just
turn off the game.
I have no interest in the game.
Let me tell you plenty of other
people too
black lives matter. Nobody has
done better for our black
community than me.
Nobody and that is with
possible exception of Abraham,
Lincoln, its true criminal
justice reform, opportunity
zones, best employment numbers
in history, every single. What
ive done, funding the black
colleges and universities?
Historically, they say
historically black, but the
colleges and universities funded
it for a long time.
They had no funding, they had to
keep coming back to Washington.
I took care of them for
long term.
They are all set.
Nobody has done for the black
community african american
community. What ive done- and I
will tell you they had black
lives matter. Where did it
start
marching down streets screaming
pigs in a blanket fry them like
bacon? They were talking about
policemen
all of a sudden, its taken on
air of great respectability.
Well, how does it start there?
Its a marxist group,
its a marxist group? That is not
looking for good things for our
country, and now I see the
leagues all kneeling down and
again nobody has done more for
the black community. By far,
I always say nobody other than
I will give the one
exception Abraham Lincoln, but
even that to be honest with
you, but nobody has done more
than I have, but when I see
people kneeling during the
playing and disrespecting our
flag and disrespecting our
national anthem, what I do
personally is turn off the game
and the ratings for the
basketball are way down. If you
know-
and I hear some others are way
down too, including baseball,
because all of a sudden baseball
is in the act,
we need to stand up for our
flag. We need to stand up for
our country and stand up for our
anthem and a lot of people agree
with me.
Hey if im wrong, I will lose
an election and thats okay with
me.
I will always stand for our
country and flag
thats. What we are all about
our country is now respected.
Again,
our country was disrespected, and
now our country is respected and
other countries, including
allies, I say sometimes
So- called allies, because theyve
ripped us up more than enemies.
The allies are respecting us
again
Ainsley. Mr President, this
would be the last question.
Is there something you can say
to help the country with the
race, division and inequalities,
because most of your supporters
at least are going to say? I
dont support black lives matter
when they are chanting pigs in a
blanket fry them, like bacon,
most people support law
enforcement that support you and
men, and women and hard workers
out in the front line, but there
needs to be the conversation of
black lives matter in the sense
that Condoleezza Rice was asked
one of her pet peeves.
I hate it when people look at me
because im Black and they come
up with preconceived notions, how
I will vote or what my
background is like or my
education is like. How can we
heal as a nation so that we can
look at everyone as Americans?
As Maya Angelo says, we are more
similar than different.
We had the highest
employment, the best employment
numbers ever ever, for the black
community for African American,
the best numbers
hispanic asian everybody, but
we had the best numbers for
everybody.
We were there.
I was seeing believe it or not.
With Congress
we were doing things. The
election was a walk. The
election was going to be a walk,
walk in the park
now im working, but we are doing
well.
We have poll numbers now where
im leading- and you know we
got hit like everybody else and
everybody in the same position,
all the other countries, but we
got hit, but we are doing really
well and we are building it
again and people see that we are
building it again.
Biden cant build anything.
We were close Ainsley to being
there.
We had tremendous success going
and I could see things changing
and they were changing rapidly
and then we got hit with the
plague from China.
Now we are doing it again. The
best answer, Ainsley S, great
success, great jobs, great
income homes, home ownership,
was at the highest rate.
Now we had great homeowners,
you saw yesterday the home
ownership numbers were announced
yesterday and home sales are
through the roof.
I think it was one of the
highest ever
so we are doing it again, but we
got interrupted by the virus by
the plague and it was a terrible
thing, but the answer just in
word success. Success will
bring us together,
theres no other way that can
top it.
It will bring people together.
Brian all right. Mr President,
thanks for the quality time
which we really appreciate on
behalf of the audience thanks
so much best of luck.
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