- 6/5/2025
President Trump hosts German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office and takes questions from reporters
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00:01First of all, I want to thank you for that. That's my pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you again fantastic
00:06We'll put it up in a place of honor
00:08I don't know maybe we can let's see
00:12To put it up there someplace
00:14it's an honor to have you as you know the
00:17Chancellor just won a great election very very strong election
00:22Very respected man. I can tell you we've been on the phone many times talking about some of the problems of the world outside of Germany
00:29and
00:30It's very sad with what's going on. We both feel that way
00:34what's going on with
00:36Russia Ukraine and other things we talk about but Russia Ukraine in particular like to see it end and maybe it'll end but
00:44We get some news. There'll be some fighting
00:47Something happened a couple of days ago, and now they do a return and you know here it goes. It's not good
00:53Where he's unhappy about it. I'm unhappy about it
00:56But but I think eventually we're going to be successful in stopping the bloodshed. It's pure bloodshed five six thousand
01:03Young soldiers a week are being killed. You know that there's numbers are we know the numbers this staggering the staggering numbers
01:11But yes, so I just want to congratulate you and I want to welcome you to the Oval Office. Thank you
01:17It's an Oval Office. That's in very good shape
01:19We like fixing things up and having them to be tough like they have in Germany
01:24They do that in Germany very much and we do it here
01:28We're having a very good run. We had a I also had a great election great win won everything won the popular vote the all seven swing states
01:37Which is a big deal. It's pretty unusual to do that and we have a great mandate from the people and
01:43part of our it is we're gonna have a great relationship with your country, so I just want to thank you very much for being here and
01:50if you'd like to say a few words
01:51Absolutely, so thank you first of all mr. President for your kind invitation to come to Washington DC
01:57I was in this building first time ever in 1982
02:01I told you when former president Ronald Reagan was in office
02:05So I'm very happy to be here again and to offer our close cooperation with the United States of America
02:13We are having so much in common our history
02:16We owe the Americans a lot. We will never forget about that and
02:21So with your German provenance, I think this is a very good basis for close cooperation between America and Germany
02:27So again, thank you. Thank you for the hospitality and thank you for
02:31So having your guest house for a night. This is a great place great place many thanks for that. I really enjoyed it
02:39Thank you so wonderful place. It's a landmark also in Blair house
02:43And it's it's a nice place to stay up. Thank you very much for saying that
02:48Would you have any questions for you?
02:50On your new travel ban
02:52Why now and if the boulder attack was part of your reasoning why not include Egypt on that list where the suspect is from?
02:58Well, because Egypt has been a country that we deal with very closely. They have things under control
03:04The countries that we have don't have things under control and why now I can say that it can't come soon enough
03:11Frankly, we want to keep bad people out of our country
03:15the Biden administration allowed some
03:19Horrendous people and we're getting them out one by one and we're not stopping until we get them out. We have thousands of murderers
03:26I hate to I even hate to say this in front of the chancellor
03:29Because you have a little problem too with some of the people that were allowed into your country. It's not your fault
03:34It's not your fault. It shouldn't have happened
03:36I told her it shouldn't have happened what she did but you have you have your own difficulty with that and we do and we're moving them out and we're moving them out very strongly
03:46But it can't come fast enough. We want to get them out. We want to get them out now
03:50We don't want to have other bad people coming into our country by using the word bad. I'm being nice
03:55Okay
03:57You put out on truth social a post regarding your conversation with President Xi
04:04Can you talk about whether or not you feel that trade talks trade relations are back on track after appearing to be a little bit off track last
04:13A little bit off track. It was only the complexity is it's pretty complex stuff
04:18We had a very good conversation with President Xi a little while ago just before your arrival in fact
04:24We just hung up and they said you're here. I said that's pretty good to two great leaders of the world in a very short period of time
04:33we had a very good talk and
04:36We've straightened out any complexity. This is very complex stuff and we straighten it out
04:41The agreement was we're going to have Scott and
04:47Howard and
04:48Jameson will be going and meeting with their top people and
04:53Continue it forward. But no, I think we have everything. I think we're in very good shape with China and the trade deal
04:59We have a deal with China as you know, but we were straightening out some of the points having to do mostly with rare earth
05:06Magnets and some other things those reduce trade tariff rates
05:12They remain in effect that we have we have the deal. I mean, we've had a deal we announced the deal and
05:18Will be I guess you could say I wouldn't even say finalizing it up Scott
05:22I would say we have a deal and we're going to just make sure that everybody understands what the deal is
05:27Okay
05:29We had a really good conversation
05:31By the way, he invited me to China and I invited him here. We've both accepted so I'll be going there with the first lady at a certain point and
05:39He'll be coming here hopefully with the first lady of China
05:46Did you talk about the Chinese students are you allowing them to come to the US? Chinese students are coming no problem
05:55No problem
05:57It's our honor to have them frankly look we want to have we want to have foreign students, but we want them to be checked
06:04You know the case of Harvard and Columbia and others
06:08All we want to do is see their list
06:10There's no problem with that. This is anybody outside of our country international students
06:16because when we see some of the
06:18People that we've been watching we say where do these people come from? How is that possible?
06:22No, we want to have foreign students come very honored by it
06:26But we want to see their list Harvard didn't want to give us the list. They're going to be giving us the list now. I
06:31Think they're starting to behave actually if you want to know the truth
06:37On Russia are you are you willing to put more pressure on Putin to end the war by imposing new sanctions on Russia and also on China?
06:45Well remember I'm the one that ended Nord Stream 2
06:48Going to a place called Germany comes to think of it. I'm sorry. I did that
06:52But I ended Nord Stream 2 nobody else did and then when Biden came in he immediately approved it
06:58That's the largest essentially the largest pipeline in the world going to Germany and other
07:03Countries and by the way we have so much oil and gas you you will not be able to buy it all
07:09I mean you literally we have so much and I hope we're gonna
07:14Make that a part of our trade deal because we have more than anybody else we have actually the most
07:19By far in the world probably double what anyone else says, so we'll work on that. I'm sure that's something we'll discuss today
07:25Mr. President, what do you expect from Germany and what do you expect from the chancellor?
07:31Well, first of all, I'm glad to meet because I've been dealing with the chancellor and he's very uh
07:37Uh a very good man to deal with he's difficult. I would say can I say that it's a positive go ahead
07:42You wouldn't want me to say you're easy, right?
07:45He's a very great representative of Germany. I think all we uh want is just going to have a good relationship
07:52The rest would just sort of follow very easily. We'll have a a good trade deal
07:56I mean, I guess that will be mostly determined by the european union, but you're a very big part of that so you'll be involved
08:03But uh, we'll end up hopefully with a trade deal or or we'll do something, you know, we'll do the tariffs
08:09I mean, I'm okay with the tariffs or we make a deal with the trade and I guess that's what we're discussing
08:19Mr. President, okay
08:21Is Germany doing enough on defense, Mr. President?
08:24Is Germany doing enough on defense?
08:26What defense spending?
08:28Well, I don't know. I mean, I haven't discussed it very much. I know that you're spending more money on defense now
08:40and uh
08:41Quite a bit more money. Yeah, that's a positive thing
08:45I'm not sure the general mcgartha would have said it's positive, you know
08:49He wouldn't like it, but I sort of think it's good. You understand what I mean, but
08:53I don't understand. He made a statement never let germany rearm
08:58And I said I always think about that when he says sir, we're spending more money on defense
09:02I say oh, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I think it's a good thing
09:06uh
09:07But you know at least to a certain point there'll be a point when I'll see please don't arm anymore if you don't buy
09:14We'll be watching him
09:16Mr. President
09:18Mr. President
09:20Your predecessor dismissed uh your auto pen investigation. He said he made all the decisions during his presidency
09:28I'm curious a reaction to his dismissal
09:30Well, the auto pen I think is the big scandal outside of the rigged election of 2020
09:35I think the biggest scandal of the last many years is the auto pen and who's using it
09:40I happen to think I know okay because i'm here
09:44And i'm not a big auto pen person fortunately i'm glad i'm very glad it's an easy way out
09:49but it's uh
09:51It's a very bad thing very dangerous, you know, I sign important documents usually when they put documents in front of you. They're important
09:58Uh, even if you're signing ambassadorships or and I consider that important
10:02I think it's inappropriate you have somebody that's devoting four years of their life or more
10:06To being an ambassador I think you really deserve that person deserves to get a real signature not an auto pen
10:12Signature and I can tell auto pen easily I can look at it
10:17Like two little pinholes from pulling the paper right you always see the pinholes
10:22It's real easy to tell about auto pen
10:24I think it's very disrespectful to people when they get an auto pen
10:29Signature outside auto pen to me are used when thousands of letters come in from young people all over the country and you want to get them
10:36back and you know people use auto pens for that to send uh
10:40A little signature at the bottom of a letter
10:43where you have thousands of them we get
10:45thousands of of letters a week
10:48And it's not possible to you know do i'd like to do it myself you can't do it
10:52to me that's where auto pens start and stop
10:56but i don't think i don't i i'm sure that he didn't know many of the things look he was never for open borders
11:02he was never for transgender for everybody he was never for
11:06men playing in women's sports i mean he changed i mean all of these things that that changed so
11:11radically i don't think he had any idea
11:14that what was frankly i said it during the debate and i say it now
11:18he didn't have much of an idea what was going on
11:22he shouldn't be i mean essentially whoever used the auto pen was the president
11:26and that is uh wrong it's illegal it's so bad and it's so disrespectful to our country
11:34mr president will you leave the your troops in germany and if i may ask a question to the chancellor to
11:41answer in german for the german audience how is your first encounter been
11:48the answer is yes we'll talk about that but if they'd like to have them there you know we've
11:52we've have a we have a lot of them about 45 000 it's a lot of troops it's a city when you
11:59think about that that's good economic development they're highly paid troops and they spend a lot
12:03of money in germany but the relationship with germany is very important yeah we'll be doing
12:08it no problem let's say few words in german to these germans public so danke für die frage
12:14wir sind hier im weißen haus und ich bedanke mich beim präsidenten für den sehr freundlichen empfang
12:18im oval office in diesem ja weltweit bekannten raum ich freue mich sehr hier zu sein und wir
12:23bereiten eine vertiefung unserer zusammenarbeit vor ich freue mich sehr darüber
12:27mr president you speak english because you speak such good english is it as good as your german
12:34would you say no it's not my mother tongue but i try to to understand almost everything and
12:42to speak as good as i can very good you know that's just the president you've made it's an
12:46achievement actually thank you mr president the criticism that i've seen and i'm sure you've
12:53seen regarding elon musk and your big beautiful bill what's your reaction to that do you think it
12:59in any way hurts passage in the senate which of course what is your seeking well look you know i've
13:04always liked elon and it's always very surprised you saw the words he had for me the words and he hasn't
13:10said anything about me that's bad i'd rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill
13:16is incredible it's the biggest cut in the history of our country we've never cut
13:21it's about 1.6 trillion in cuts it's the biggest tax cut tax you would say uh people people's taxes
13:30will go way down but it's the biggest tax cut in history it's uh we have we are doing things in that
13:36bill that are unbelievable and uh when you look at what we're doing for small businesses for people
13:42for middle income people all of the things that we're doing nobody's ever seen anything like it
13:49and you know elon's upset because we took the ev mandate and you know which was a lot of money for
13:55electric vehicles and uh you know they're having a hard time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay
14:00billions of dollars in subsidy and you know i i elon knew this from the beginning he knew it for a
14:09long time ago that's been in there that's been uh i would say jd that hasn't changed that's been right
14:14from the beginning mr i think mr secretary that hasn't changed at all right from the beginning but i know that
14:20disturbed him uh he wanted and rightfully you know he recommended somebody from uh that he i guess knew very
14:28well i'm sure he respected him but to run nasa and i didn't think it was appropriate and he happened
14:35to be a democrat like totally democrat and i say you know look we won uh we get certain privileges and
14:42one of the privileges we don't have to appoint a democrat nasa is very important we have great people
14:48general kane is going to be picking somebody with our uh we'll be we'll be checking them out
14:55seeing but uh he wanted that person a certain person and we said no and yeah i can understand
15:02why he's upset remember he was here for a long time you saw a man who was very happy when he stood
15:09behind the oval desk and uh even with the black eye i said you want a little makeup we'll get you a little
15:15makeup but he said no i don't think so which is interesting and very nice he wants to be who he is
15:22so you could make that statement too i guess look elon and i had a great relationship uh i don't know
15:29if we will anymore i was surprised because you were here everybody in this room practically was here as
15:34we had a wonderful send-off he said wonderful things about me you couldn't have nicer said the
15:39best things uh he's worn the hat trump was right about everything and i am right about the great big
15:46beautiful bill we call it a great big beautiful bill because that's what it is and uh again biggest
15:53tax cuts in history biggest economic development moves anywhere we've never done anything like it
15:59uh business is spurred and i don't know if you've seen the numbers but the numbers came out even the cbo
16:05which is run by democrats said that we're going to be uh doing you know i'd like you to discuss it the
16:112.8 million a trillion that cbo this is something a group of people that are democrats they're very
16:18hostile to us they just came out with phenomenal numbers what it does you want to mention that's
16:23correct yes sir so what what we've seen is we keep hearing from the cbo that there's going to
16:29be a large deficit from the bill which we disagree with but using the cbo scoring
16:35they came out and scored the tariff revenue we think it'll be the minimum of 2.8 trillion
16:40over the 10-year window which actually puts the bill in surplus if you include the tariff revenue
16:46which they won't do it gives you a tremendous surplus but we're not allowed to use that
16:52for some reason they say scoring nobody knows what scoring means maybe a couple of people but nobody
16:58somebody sits in the background they say well we're not going to allow that they're not allowing
17:02other things that we have that are tremendously profitable for our country but if you saw the
17:07other day cnbc they came out with uh numbers and the people on the show very good people i've
17:13watched them for a long time they couldn't believe the numbers how good they are the numbers were
17:18incredible and that was personal income and also very low inflation we have very low inflation we're
17:23down to two percent now and maybe even lower than that and when i took it over it was a mess remember
17:30we had the worst inflation probably in the history of our country they say 48 years but let's say that's
17:36i think it's worse than that so we had the worst inflation in the history of our country under the
17:42biden administration now we're down to a beautiful number two percent you'd actually like to keep it
17:49there better than zero is two percent it's going down maybe to one and one percent is like perfect
17:54that's perfect you don't want to have zero for certain reasons that are that nobody is very interested
18:00to listen to but we have almost perfect inflation grocery prices are down everything remember eggs
18:08eggs we weren't going to buy another egg for the next 20 years that was so expensive right remember
18:13you guys all hit me about eggs eggs have come down 400 percent everybody has eggs now they're having
18:19eggs for breakfast again but if you look at gasoline very important i think always the most important
18:24because it's the energy is a big the biggest factor that's what happened he screwed up our energy policy
18:30and everything went up because energy went up but now energy is way down and they have states where
18:36you're at one dollar and 98 cents a gallon for gasoline so the costs have way have come way down and
18:45one of the things i ran on was that i ran on the border we have the best border in the history of our
18:50country 99.99 it was uh last week three people came in two of them for medical reasons we let them
18:58in because one of them had a heart attack i think it was a nice thing to do and one of them had something
19:03else so we've never had i had very good numbers for four years but we really topped it and i want to
19:11thank christy and tom holman they've done a fantastic job but nobody mentions that anymore remember
19:18a few months ago the border was a total disaster people were coming in by the hundreds of thousands
19:25of people a day a week a month i mean we had a month two million people came in in one month
19:32the border was being overrun and a lot of bad people criminals murderers drug dealers we had some of the
19:39worst people in the world coming in from all over the world it's totally closed and you know what people
19:44are coming into our country but they're coming in legally so we've done a great job elon knew that
19:51elon endorsed me very strongly he actually went up in campaign for me i think i would have won susie
19:56would say i would have won pennsylvania easily anyway even if the governor ran the real governor
20:02not the governor from minnesota who's i mean he's a sick puppy that guy that poor guy feels sorry for
20:07him but uh they made a bad choice with him but if you pick shapiro or anybody else i spoke to him
20:14recently about his you know his uh house being set on fire which was terrible but if they picked him
20:21i would have won pennsylvania i want to buy a lot uh but i'm very disappointed because elon knew the
20:28inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here better than you people he knew
20:33everything about it he had no problem with it all of a sudden he had a problem and he only developed
20:38the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the ev mandate because that's billions
20:42and billions of dollars and it really is unfair we want to have cars of all types electric we want to
20:48have electric but we want to have a gasoline uh combustion we want to have different we want to have
20:54hybrids we want to have all we want to be able to sell everything and when that was cut and congress wanted
21:00to cut it uh he became a little bit different and i can understand that but he knew every aspect of
21:08this bill he knew it better than almost anybody and he never had a problem until right after he left
21:13and if you saw the statements he made about me which i'm sure you can get very easily it's very fresh
21:18on tape uh he said the most beautiful things about me and he hasn't said bad about me personally
21:24but i'm sure that'll be next but i'm i'm very disappointed in elon i've helped elon a lot
21:29to that end i just want to clarify did he raise any of these concerns with you privately before
21:34he raised them publicly and this is the guy you put in charge of cutting spending should people
21:39not take him seriously about spending now are you saying this is all sour grapes no he worked hard
21:43and he did a good job and i'll be honest i think he misses the place i think he got out there and all
21:49of a sudden he wasn't in this beautiful oval office and he was and he's got nice offices too but
21:54there's something about this when i was telling the chancellor this is where it is people come in
21:59here even from germany they come in and they they walk into the oval office and it's just a special
22:05place it's you know world war one it started and it ended here and world war ii and uh so many other
22:12things everything big comes right from this this beautiful space it's now much more beautiful than it
22:18was six months ago uh a lot of good things are happening in this room and i'll i'll tell you
22:24it's not he's not the first people leave my administration and they love us and then at
22:34some point they miss it so badly and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile
22:40i don't know what it is it's sort of trump derangement syndrome i guess they call it but
22:44i we have it with others too they leave and they wake up in the morning
22:49and the glamour's gone the whole world is different and they become hostile i don't know what it is
22:56someday you'll write a book about it and you'll let us know yeah mr president speaking of ending wars in
23:01this room you were very critical of vladimir putin a couple of days ago what kind of play is he playing
23:08from your perspective what i said well look he's he he got hit he's been doing hitting so i understand it
23:14but he got hit hard and i don't think he's playing games i think he i've always said he wanted the
23:21whole thing i thought he wanted the entire uh everything having to do with ukraine that's something
23:28that would have never happened if i were president the election was rigged i didn't get to be president
23:32but i got to be president now and i think it's a much more important presidency other than a couple of
23:38things like that the war would have never would have never happened the war with ukraine with
23:44putin would have never happened ever not even a chance and it didn't happen for four years
23:49and it wasn't thought of i used to talk to him about ukraine a lot it was the apple of his eye but
23:54he would have never done what he did uh and i think mistakes were made by him but i think mistakes were
24:00made by uh other people the president should have never allowed that war biden should have never allowed
24:07that war to happen if you had the right guy in here that war would have never happened israel would
24:12have never happened with hamas that would have never happened the attack on israel would have never
24:19happened because iran was broke they had no money they had no money to give to hamas or hezbollah or
24:26anybody else and all of that would have never happened inflation wouldn't have happened it was caused
24:31mostly by energy and the biden administration messed up my great energy policy we were down into the
24:38190 a gallon and it would have never happened it was caused by energy and their bad spending on the
24:44green news scam and other things that they spent on but all of those things would have never happened but
24:49maybe most importantly uh the war chancellor with with uh russia would never have happened with ukraine
24:58uh it it was something that would have you know i i dealt with putin a lot there was no chance zero
25:06and you know a lot of people say how do you know for four years it didn't happen there was never a
25:10chance of it happening and he understood the consequences now uh it's a shame and when you see
25:17all of those people they came out with a report today that uh that millions of people
25:23millions of people have died much more than people thought and i've been saying that for a long time
25:29the amount of death in that war is far greater than the news has been reporting or than frankly that
25:36either side has been reporting it's a very sad thing and i can tell you just speaking for the chancellor
25:40because we speak about it uh he feels the same way he wants to see it ended would you like to say
25:45absolutely and i'm here mr president to talk with you later on on how we could uh contribute to to
25:53that goal and we all are looking for uh measures and for instruments to bring this terrible war to an
26:02end and may i remind you that we are having june 6 tomorrow this is d-day anniversary when the americans
26:11once ended a war in europe and i think this is in your hand in specific in ours that was not a
26:19pleasant day for you no that was not a pleasant well in the long run mr president this was the
26:26liberation of my country from nazi nazi dictatorship so it's true and we we know what we owe you but
26:32this is the reason why i'm i'm saying that america is again in a very strong position to do something
26:39on this war and ending this war so let's talk about what we can do jointly and we are ready to
26:45do what we can and you know that we gave support to ukraine and that we are looking for more pressure
26:51on russia the european union did and we should talk about that we will talk about it and you know it's
26:57good timing the numbers for our country are through the roof uh the economic numbers because of the
27:03election and because of tariffs and other things a lot of things but we've had some of the best
27:09numbers we've ever had they were reported yesterday the day before and even today
27:14country is doing really well uh i think that one of the things you'll be most interested in is that
27:20six months ago we were having a hard time getting anybody to join our military i mean they just
27:25couldn't do it the numbers were record low we couldn't get people to join the military it wasn't me
27:31this is before i got there the past administration but six months ago a year ago uh the numbers were
27:38record or you couldn't get them to join that included the police and you couldn't get them to
27:44join now we just hit the highest number in the history of our country we think but very close
27:51but the highest in the history of our country recruitment joining the army navy air force marines
27:58coast guard police forces all over the what did you do for that what what was the spirit
28:02they love our country again you know you're going to do the same thing the spirit we have we have
28:08great spirit is back in uh our country and it's very simple you know it was only susie six months ago
28:14right that you got reports you're the one that released them that you couldn't get anybody to
28:19join the military and now we're we're stopped every service now is is packed and we have waiting lists
28:26of people trying to get in as good as we've ever had in the history of our country so that's an honor
28:31that's a great honor yeah you've asked you've had enough go ahead mr president um so would you
28:40consider to put more sanctions on russia because this discussion is going on now for weeks and months
28:45and you tweeted about it once but then nothing happens yeah when i see when i see the moment when
28:50we're not going to make a deal when this thing won't stop uh is there in that moment yeah it's in my
28:57my brain the deadline when i when i see the moment where uh it's not going to stop and i'm sure you're
29:04going to do the same thing uh will be very very very tough and it could be on both countries to be
29:10honest you know it takes two to tango but they'll be we're going to be very tough uh whether it's russia
29:15or anybody else we're going to be very tough that that's a bloodbath that's going on over there
29:21and when i see the moment where i say well they're going to just keep fighting you know i gave the
29:27analogy yesterday when i spoke to president put i had a two hour and 15 minute call with him
29:33sometimes and this is me speaking maybe in a negative sense but sometimes you see two young
29:40children fighting like crazy they hate each other and they're fighting in a park and you try and pull
29:47them apart they don't want to be pulled sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while
29:52and then pulling them apart and i gave that analogy to putin yesterday i said president
30:00maybe you're going to have to keep fighting and suffering a lot because both sides are suffering
30:06before you pull them apart before they're able to be pulled apart but it's a pretty known
30:10analogy you have two kids they fight fight fight sometimes you let them fight for a little
30:15while you see it in hockey you see it in sports the referees let them go for a couple of seconds let
30:22them go for a little while before you pull them apart and maybe maybe and i said it and maybe that's
30:28a negative because we're saying go but uh a lot of bad blood there's some bad blood between the two i
30:36have to deal with it and the chancellor has to deal with it it's incredible the level of there's a great
30:41hatred between those two between those two men uh but between the warring parties great hatred
30:49you say and believe apparently that there's no immediate peace what that there's no immediate
30:54peace there will no i can't i'd love to have immediate if i could if i could but we don't
30:59we don't have immediate you know it's like uh i'd love to have that uh i'd like it to start right
31:05now we would leave a room if we knew the worker then which would say forget about you guys forget
31:10forget about trade right yeah we'd say let's go settle it uh there's some additional fighting that's
31:17going to go on you know he was he attacked and they attacked pretty harshly they went deep into russia
31:27and he actually told me i mean i i made it very clear he said we have no choice but to attack based on
31:34that and it's uh probably not going to be pretty i don't like it i said don't do it you shouldn't do
31:40it you should stop it but uh again there's a lot of hatred and you know i'm very proud of the fact
31:47that with india and pakistan i was able to stop that and those are nuclear powers and that would have
31:54really that was getting close to being out of hand and i spoke to some very talented people on both
32:00sides very good people on both sides and i said you know we're dealing with you on trade pakistan
32:06and india right now they said we're not going to deal with you on trade if you're going to go
32:10shooting each other and whipping out nuclear weapons that maybe even affect us because you
32:16know that nuclear dust blows across oceans very quickly it affects us and i said if you're going to
32:22do that we're not going to do any trade deals and you know what i got that war stopped
32:26now i hope we don't go back and we find out that they started but i don't think they will
32:31they were both good they were well represented i want to congratulate both countries because as you
32:38know the leader of india who's a great guy was here a few weeks ago we had some great talks we're doing
32:45a trade deal and pakistan likewise they have very very strong leadership some people won't like when i
32:53say that but you know it is what it is and they stopped that war now am i going to get credit i'll
32:59never get credit for anything they don't give me credit for anything but nobody else could have done
33:04it i stopped it i was very proud of that uh i wish we could do the same thing with ukraine and russia
33:12and at some point it'll happen i believe that uh and if it doesn't happen or if i see somebody's out
33:18of line if russia's out of line uh we'll be uh you'll be amazed how tough remember this
33:26they like to say that i'm friends with i'm not friends with anybody i'm friends with you
33:32i'm not friends with that i want the right thing to happen for our country for everybody for humanity
33:37but i'm the one that stopped the pipeline it's called nordstrom 2 until i came along nobody ever
33:42heard not one person in this room ever heard of nordstrom 2 you probably did because it went to
33:47germany he's the only one knowing that this was a mistake but i stopped him i stopped it yeah and
33:52you've said that openly it was a mistake because and i used to go with angela i'd say well wait a
33:57minute we're spending all this money to defend you against russia and then you're giving russia billions
34:03of dollars a month what kind of a deal is that you know which was uh but you said it better than
34:08anybody else i appreciate it but i'm the one that stopped it and that was the biggest economic
34:14development job if you want to call it that in the history think of it in the history of russia
34:19that was a massive it's the biggest pipeline in the world going to go all over europe not only to
34:24germany you know they're germany but then they were branching off all over to europe nobody ever heard of
34:29not one person of you heard of it and i stopped it it was dead and then they say i'm friends with putin
34:36i got along with him he respected me i respected him it would have never happened but i stopped
34:42north stream too when biden came in almost the first week he approved it he let it be built
34:49and then they say that i wasn't tough on russia putin said to me you know you're not tough on russia
34:55you stopped the biggest most important job we've ever done you stopped it and biden came in and he let
35:00it be built and i'll tell you what i i'll never forget the day i had it totally stopped they
35:06weren't building they gave up on it they weren't able to and then biden came in and he let him build
35:11i couldn't believe it okay one or two questions more please any questions any question for the chance
35:18go ahead for the chancellor i like his answers much better
35:23would you continue to support ukraine yeah i'm with ukraine we just signed a big deal on rare earth
35:32with ukraine and uh we wanted i want to you know what i'm i'm for stopping killing really that's what
35:40i'm for again a war that would have never started should have never started i want to see the killing
35:45stuff we spent 350 billion dollars much more than europe but europe spent a lot also and they spent way over
35:52a hundred billion yeah so you're talking about close to 500 billion dollars went into that whole
35:58thing and it's not even the money and i know with you too it's it's a lot of money but it's the death
36:05that's being caused we went to the middle east i went last week to the middle east we took in 5.1
36:10trillion dollars that's many many times that's 30 40 times 50 times more than what we're talking about
36:17it's five point think of that 5.1 trillion dollars of investment with one trip that lasted four days
36:24uh so it's not the money it's a little of money but not the money the big thing the big thing is the
36:31death the death of and and really the decimation you you've lost a whole culture you know ukraine had
36:38the most beautiful turrets they call them turrets little towers beautiful towers the most beautiful in
36:44the world they're all now laying on their side blown to smithereens it'll never happen again
36:50they've taken away the culture of a of a country they've taken away the heritage of a country it's
36:56a terrible thing but most importantly again is the death 5 000 plus people a week soldiers are being
37:04killed he doesn't want that and i don't want that one more yeah please thank you mr president do you
37:11support the graham bill on putting high tariffs on china but they'll be guided by me that's the way
37:19it's supposed to be they're going to be guided by me no i haven't looked at it it's a bill on sanctions
37:24etc uh when it i'm a very quick study at the right time i'll do what i want to do uh but it could very
37:32well be okay i'll have to see but uh they're waiting for me to decide on what to do and i'll i'll know
37:39maybe very soon it's a harsh bill yeah very harsh
37:46i would like to have a question to the chancellor as well because um do you agree with the analogy
37:52the president made on the war between russia and ukraine as being a fight between two kids
37:58is that how you view that as well and how do you what do you actually want the u.s president to do
38:04in this well i think we we both agree on on this war and how terrible this war is going on and we are
38:13both looking for uh ways to stop it very soon and i i told the president before we came in that
38:24he is the key person in the world who can really do that now by putting pressure on russia and we
38:33will have this debate later on again how we can proceed jointly between the europeans and the americans
38:39and i think we are all in we are having the duty to do something on that now to stop it after three and
38:47a half years which is really terrible look at the kids the the the kids which were uh kidnapped from
38:54from ukraine to russia this is this is all terrible and so we are talking about instruments measures what
39:01we can do and my personal view is clear on that we are on the side of ukraine and we are trying to get
39:06them stronger and stronger just to make put in stop this war and this is all this is our approach we get
39:11satellite pictures of the warfield yeah and you don't even like to look at them right it's terrible
39:18so it's really bodies arms heads uh legs all over the place you've never seen anything like it it's
39:26it's so ridiculous and this is only by russian weapons against ukraine this had never happened with
39:33ukraine weapons against russia never ukraine is only targeting military targets not civilians not
39:41private not instrument not energy infrastructure so this is the difference and that's the reason
39:46why we are trying to do more on russia how to stop this war well in this case i'm talking about the
39:52battlefield you know the soldiers on soldiers but you could also say that too with the city you know
39:57the cities are being hit also so it's a terrible terrible thing all right one somebody said auto pen
40:04because i think it's the biggest scandal maybe in the last hundred years in this country
40:09so when i hear that word i think it has to be discussed because uh the fake news will try and
40:15you know hide it and we can't do that let's go ahead have you uncovered any evidence that anything
40:20specific was signed without president biden's knowledge or by other people in the administration
40:25acting illegally well i don't think biden would know whether or not he signed it i'm asking if you've
40:30uncovered any of that information no but i i've uncovered you know the human mind i was in a debate with
40:34the human mind and i didn't think he knew what the hell he was doing so you know it's just one of
40:39those things one of those problems we can't we can't ever allow that to happen to our country the
40:44danger our country was in and i know some of the people that worked with him radical left horrible
40:50people and i could give you the name of some of the people that use the auto pen because i'm here
40:55and i ask questions about people that were here also there are a lot of people that were here
40:59when that happened and they're here right now and they'll answer your question very accurately
41:04but i know some of the people that use that auto pen and those are not the people that had the same
41:09ideology as joe biden these were radical left lunatics that used that and they didn't get elected
41:17he didn't get elected either actually thank you very much everybody
41:34thank you
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