Trump Takes Multiple Questions From Reporters About Russia, Putin, EU Tariffs

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On Sunday, President Trump took questions from reporters before departing Morristown, New Jersey, on Air Force One.

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:02I think we've done a lot of good work

00:05over the last couple of days.

00:06Being at West Point yesterday was incredible,

00:10what incredible people they are.

00:12And I think it was a very big success,

00:14and it was an honor to be there.

00:16Very importantly, we had some very good talks

00:20with Iran yesterday and today, and let's see what happens.

00:23But I think we could have some good news on the Iran front.

00:29Likewise with Hamas on the — on Gaza.

00:35We want to see if we can stop that.

00:36And Israel, we've been talking to them,

00:38and we want to see if we can stop that whole situation

00:41as quickly as possible.

00:43But having to do with nuclear,

00:46we've had some very, very good talks with Iran.

00:49And I don't know if I'll be telling you anything good

00:52or bad over the next two days,

00:53but I have a feeling I might be telling you something good.

00:56We've had some real progress, serious progress.

01:00On any other front, I don't know.

01:03Do you have any questions?

01:04The Pressure Do you have a message for the Senate?

01:06A lot of Republicans have said there are going to be

01:08significant changes to the budget bill.

01:10The President Well, I want the Senate

01:12and the senators to change, you know,

01:14to make the changes they want.

01:16And we'll go back to the House,

01:17and we'll see if we can get them.

01:19In some cases, those changes maybe are something

01:21I'd agree with, to be honest.

01:22You know, it happens.

01:24But we've had a very good response from the Senate.

01:27And I don't know how Democrats can't vote for it.

01:29If they don't vote for it,

01:30they're talking about a 68 percent tax increase.

01:34Remember that.

01:35If the Democrats don't vote,

01:36it's a 68 percent tax increase, which is ridiculous.

01:40And one of the things that's being covered indirectly

01:44is the fact that we'll be lowering the cost of drugs

01:47from 50 to 85 percent under Trump.

01:51And it's going to have indirectly something to do,

01:54not directly, but indirectly,

01:56something to do with the bill.

01:59The one big, beautiful bill.

02:00And it is a big, beautiful bill.

02:02And so I think the Senate is going to get there.

02:05I hope they're going to get there.

02:07I think they're going to have changes.

02:08Some will be minor and some will be, you know,

02:11fairly significant.

02:12But we've been working with the House all the way up.

02:15They've been working together, and the Speaker

02:19has been working with the leader of the Senate.

02:21And you know, they've done a great job.

02:23John Thune and Mike Johnson have done a fantastic job.

02:26They've been working together all the way up.

02:28So hopefully, that'll be fine.

02:30The Press Press.

02:31The Press Press.

02:33The Press Press.

02:34The President Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

02:35He's under federal investigation.

02:36Do you have a comment on that

02:37and how that should impact the mayoral elections?

02:38Come out today?

02:39The President Trump No, I was surprised.

02:40I didn't know exactly.

02:42I just read about it, just like you did,

02:44having to do with Andrew.

02:45I've known Andrew, and we've had an on-off relationship.

02:49He was saying the greatest things about me.

02:51I'm the greatest president, et cetera.

02:53And then the next day, it hit us.

02:55But I did a lot for them.

02:56I brought in the ship during the COVID crisis.

03:00I brought in the Mercy ship, and I built about 3,000

03:04units in the Javits Convention Center.

03:06And he didn't use them.

03:08I don't understand it.

03:09He wanted them, but he didn't use them.

03:10But I hope it's going to be okay.

03:12I hope it's not going to be serious for them.

03:16Let's see what happens.

03:18The Press Press, you spoke to European Commission

03:19President von der Leyen.

03:21Did you discuss the 50 percent tariffs?

03:23And did you agree to produce them?

03:25The President Trump just called me, as you know.

03:28And she asked for an extension on the June 1st date.

03:31And she said she wants to get down to serious negotiation

03:35because I've told you specifically.

03:38I've told anybody that would listen.

03:41They have to do that.

03:42And we had a very nice call, and I agreed to move it.

03:45I believe June 9th would be July 9th would be the date.

03:49That was the date she requested.

03:50Could we move it from June 1st to July 9th?

03:53And I agreed to do that.

03:54And that she said, we will rapidly get together

03:57and see if we can work something out.

03:59The Press Press, you announced on Friday

04:01about U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel.

04:03The President Trump Yeah.

04:04The Press Press, what will the ownership structure look like?

04:06What made you try to find something?

04:07The President Trump It will be controlled by the United States.

04:10Otherwise, I wouldn't make the deal.

04:12I went to the unions, to all of the local unions.

04:15They all wanted it.

04:16And I'm doing it because all of the congressmen came in,

04:20about five of them.

04:22And the others, I understand, are in concurrence.

04:25And they asked that I do it.

04:26Everybody seems to want it.

04:29And we'll see.

04:29I mean, you know, we'll see what the final is.

04:32But they're going to invest millions of dollars in steel.

04:35And it's a good company.

04:37Nissan is a very good company.

04:38We'll see.

04:39But it would, it's an investment and it's a partial ownership.

04:42But it'll be controlled by the U.S.A.

04:45The Press Press Press President Trump, on Saudi Arabia,

04:46you paid back with a lot of investments.

04:49There's an American who's stuck there facing a trial for tweets.

04:53His family wants you to intervene and ask the Crown Prince to let him go.

04:57What do you think about that?

04:58The President Trump, I haven't heard about it at all.

04:59Have you given me the information?

05:01On the plane.

05:01Are you on the plane?

05:02Yes.

05:03The President Trump, give me the information.

05:04I'll see what I can do.

05:05Do you think he's okay?

05:06I'm a reporter.

05:07I can't do anything.

05:08The President Trump, are you giving a recommendation?

05:10No, I'm not.

05:10Okay.

05:11The President Trump, well, then maybe I won't do it.

05:12I don't know.

05:13You tell me the way you, the way you posed the question,

05:15I thought you assumed it was, it was okay.

05:18What did he do, supposedly?

05:19He sent some political tweets about Saudi Arabian politics.

05:23The President Trump, were they bad?

05:24He said he approved of naming a street,

05:26renaming a street in D.C.

05:28It was fairly innocent stuff by American senators.

05:31The President Trump, let me take a look.

05:33The Press, could you provide us an update

05:35on Russia and Ukraine as well?

05:38The President Trump, yeah, I'll give you an update.

05:39I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.

05:41He's killing a lot of people,

05:42and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.

05:44I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him,

05:48but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people,

05:51and I don't like it at all, okay?

05:54We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets

05:57into Kiev and other cities.

05:58I don't like it at all.

06:00The Press, Mr. President, what do you want to do about that?

06:02The President Trump, I'm surprised.

06:03I'm very surprised.

06:04We'll see what we're going to do.

06:05What am I going to tell you?

06:07You're the fake news, aren't you?

06:08You're totally fake.

06:10All right, any other questions?

06:11I don't like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit.

06:14He's killing people.

06:16And something happened to this guy, and I don't like it.

06:18Go ahead.

06:19The Press, can I follow up on that?

06:21A Russian commander reportedly said that Putin was almost caught

06:26in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine.

06:28So do you have any response?

06:29The President Trump, I haven't heard that,

06:31but maybe that would be a reason.

06:34I don't know, but I have not heard that.

06:35The Press, President Trump,

06:36Secretary Hexf's acting chief of staff is a Biden administration holdover,

06:42who has said some very critical things about you

06:44and Vice President Vance.

06:46A few thoughts on that.

06:47The President Trump, who is the chief of staff?

06:48The Press, President Trump, I have no idea who he is,

06:51but if he did say that, I would recommend that we don't take him.

06:55I mean, if he did say something like that,

06:57I would recommend we don't take him.

06:59But let's see.

07:00I'll take a look.

07:01Korea?

07:02I'll check it out.

07:03Yeah.

07:04The Press, on Harvard, do you think you'll come

07:06for their endowment in any way or go after them financially?

07:09The President Trump, look, part of the problem with Harvard

07:12is that there are about 31 percent, almost 31 percent,

07:16of foreigners coming to Harvard.

07:18We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.

07:21We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing

07:24much grants anymore to Harvard.

07:26But they're 31 percent, but they refuse to tell us

07:29who the people are.

07:30We want to know who the people are.

07:31Now, a lot of the foreign students,

07:33we wouldn't have a problem with.

07:34I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students,

07:36but it shouldn't be 31 percent.

07:38It's too much, because we have Americans that want to go there

07:41and to other places, and they can't go there,

07:44because you have 31 percent foreign.

07:46Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard.

07:50We do.

07:51So why are they doing so many?

07:52Number one.

07:53Number two, we want a list of those foreign students,

07:56and we'll find out whether or not they're okay.

07:58Many will be okay, I assume.

08:00And I assume, with Harvard, many will be bad.

08:04And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic.

08:07Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic,

08:09and that's got to stop immediately.

08:11The Press, Mr. Trump, Secretary of New York Post.

08:14The President, I like the New York Post.

08:17I like Keith Poole.

08:19The Press, too.

08:20The Press, too.

08:21The Press, now I'm going to be nicer to him.

08:22I didn't know who was going to.

08:23Go ahead.

08:24The Press, Secretary Messon has said that we don't need

08:26to return textile manufacturing to the United States.

08:29How do you see, like, a lot of your reciprocal tariffs

08:32are pretty big on those low-income countries?

08:34The President, I tend to agree.

08:36We're not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts.

08:39We want to make military equipment.

08:41We want to make big things.

08:42We want to make, do the AI thing with the computers

08:45and the many, many, many, many elements.

08:49But the textile, you know, I'm not looking to make T-shirts,

08:53to be honest.

08:54I'm not looking to make socks.

08:56We can do that very well at other locations.

08:58We are looking to do chips and computers

09:01and lots of other things.

09:03And tanks and ships, meaning ships, yeah.

09:07The Press, you mentioned you were happy with the talks

09:09with Iran.

09:10Will there be another round of talks soon?

09:12The President, very soon.

09:13Iran, the Iran talks.

09:16I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

09:19I can tell you the Iran talks have been going very well.

09:21The Press, Secretary Messon, you said you're unhappy.

09:23And I'd love that to happen because I'd love to see no bombs dropped

09:28and a lot of people dead.

09:31I really would like to see that happen.

09:32And I think there's a good chance that it could happen.

09:35The Press, Secretary Messon, you mentioned you're unhappy

09:36with President Putin.

09:37You've talked before about putting more sanctions on Russia.

09:40Is that something you're considering more serious?

09:43The President, absolutely.

09:44He's killing a lot of people.

09:46I don't know what's wrong with him.

09:47What the hell happened to him, right?

09:49He's killing a lot of people.

09:51I'm not happy about that.

09:53Go ahead. What else?

09:54Anything else?

09:55The Press was just a person arrested for attempting to

09:59a plot in Israel to throw Molotov cocktails

10:03at a U.S. embassy office in Tel Aviv.

10:05The President, the person also reported, ladies and dual

10:08German U.S. citizen, issued threats against your life.

10:12The President, against my life?

10:14The Press, Secretary Messon, against your life.

10:14Yes, sir.

10:16The President, we've got a lot of them around.

10:17We've got a lot of sick people around.

10:18Thank you very much, everybody.

10:19The Press, Secretary Messon, thank you.

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