Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump described the types of convicted criminal U.S. citizens he'd like to send to an El Salvador prison.
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00:00Would you also be willing to pay for those facilities to be open if new ones were going to be built?
00:04I'd do something. We'd help them out.
00:07They're great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don't play games.
00:14I'd like to go a step further.
00:15I said it to Pam. I don't know what the laws are.
00:18We always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals
00:22that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head
00:28with a baseball bat when they're not looking that are absolute monsters.
00:34I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country,
00:38but you'll have to be looking at the laws on that, Steve, okay?
00:45And do you think more presidents should follow suit like you guys
00:48as far as taking a hard stamp on crime here in the United States?
00:51I do. I think everybody has to.
00:53The president said it better than anybody.
00:55He said, you know, you have liberty, and you have to have liberty,
00:59but to have liberty, you're going to – not everybody is going to be good.
01:03And, you know, some are bad because they're sick.
01:06They're mentally deranged. They're bad.
01:08And you have to take them – if you're going to have a country,
01:11you're going to have to take those people out.
01:13And we've been doing that.
01:16But this was like an unforced era, they would call it,
01:19where we had people that may hate our country,
01:23or maybe they're just stupid people.
01:25I think they're probably stupid people more so.
01:28They – a lot of people said they did it for the vote.
01:31But I did better with Hispanic people than they did,
01:34because I always use Hispanic.
01:35I did better.
01:36You people love me.
01:37I saw my poll numbers in your country.
01:40I'm through the roof, right?
01:41Ninety-one percent.
01:43No, no, they – some people think they do it for the vote.
01:48But they don't have to do it for the vote.
01:49They cheat.
01:50You know, they're professional cheaters.
01:52That's about the only thing they do well.
01:53So we just have had a great relationship.
01:57And it's become bigger because of a strange thing that happened.
02:01You know, I came back.
02:03We had no war in Ukraine.
02:05We had no war with – we had no October 7th Middle East problem.
02:10We had nothing.
02:11We had – we had no inflation.
02:13We didn't have the Afghanistan most embarrassing moment
02:16in the history of our country, the Afghanistan not withdrawing,
02:19because I would have been – you know, I was –
02:21I had it all set to bring people out with dignity and pride.
02:25That was the worst, most embarrassing moment
02:28in the history of our country, Afghanistan.
02:30We didn't have any of that.
02:32You wouldn't have had the war with Russia and Ukraine.
02:34You wouldn't have had the Middle East problem
02:36because Iran was broke.
02:37They had no money because we had secondary sanctions on
02:40and lots of other sanctions.
02:42And now every single thing –
02:45we've got a problem with Iran, but I'll solve that problem.
02:48That's almost an easy one.
02:49And we've got to solve a war that should have never started,
02:52Ukraine and Russia, and we'll get that solved.
02:57And we have to solve problems.
02:59And we already solved inflation.
03:00You know, if you look at the numbers,
03:01the numbers are incredible, actually.
03:04The stock market's up.
03:06And we're not letting other countries take advantage
03:09of this country like they have for the last 40 years.
03:12So thank you very much.