'Biden Wanted Me In Here': Trump Speaks To Reporters During Visit To Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

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President Trump speaks to reporters during his visit to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz.

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00:00Alcatraz.

00:01He ought to come here and study this because he could have a lot.

00:09When's the first person checking into the room, sir?

00:12Tomorrow.

00:13Hopefully tomorrow, within the next 24 hours.

00:16There's going to be a security sweep because there have been civilians here, so they will

00:21sweep this multiple times to make sure there's nothing that can be used as weapons or any

00:25contraband.

00:26And then once that's clear, then they'll do so.

00:28It's really up to the secretary.

00:30I know it's got people in the queue, and so they'll be ready to receive.

00:33I think our viewers at home should note that this is air-conditioned facility.

00:36So if any of the news claims are keeping them out in the hot, humid South Florida, that is

00:40wrong.

00:41It's probably 62 degrees in here.

00:43Or 72.

00:44Biden wanted me in here.

00:46He wanted me.

00:47It didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here.

00:50Mr. President, what's your expectation of what this will do for the speed and force of

00:54deportation?

00:55Well, a lot of things, and they're both telling me that these people come in here, they

00:58want to go home.

00:59And they want to go home.

01:00So we immediately send them home, you know, where it's appropriate.

01:04Now, if somebody's a real killer-killer, we can help some people with maximum security.

01:09Look, what we inherited from this guy, this incompetent man, and his administration, which

01:15wasn't incompetent.

01:16It was radical-left, lunatic, communist, whatever you want to say.

01:19I know most of them.

01:20What we inherited should never, ever be forgotten.

01:24They've made us to — this is all because of an open-border policy where 25 million people

01:31float in.

01:32From all over the world, from prisons, from all over the world they float in.

01:36But no reason whatsoever.

01:37We had — you know, when I left, we had a very powerful border.

01:40We had no problem.

01:41He opened it up.

01:42Day one, he just opened the border.

01:44People couldn't believe it.

01:45They were standing there.

01:46What did they do?

01:47They said, go in.

01:48That's it.

01:49If you look at the first day takes, they opened it up and they said, go in.

01:53And that's where all of this began.

01:55But this is an amazing thing that they've done here.

01:59But listen, they don't — people don't have to — they don't have to come here.

02:02If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally.

02:05We won't let them come back legally.

02:07And there is a lot of self-deportation.

02:09But if you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don't ever get to come back to America.

02:15You don't get the chance to come back and be an American again and work here.

02:18They weren't with us when President and Secretary Kevin and I — we went through the intake.

02:23So right when you do the intake, they have the information about voluntary departure.

02:27They have mobility.

02:28Obviously, you guys are funding that because it's a lot cheaper to do it that way.

02:32So even if they get brought to the front doorstep here, they still have an opportunity to just go back voluntarily

02:38and then this way —

02:39How fast does that take from a minute — let's say they're getting here like, hey, I want to stay here.

02:42I want to go back to —

02:43We can put them on a plane that day and take them home.

02:45We'll buy their plane ticket, go home, and then they get the chance to come back legally.

02:49If they wait —

02:50If they do that, they can come back legally after a period of —

02:53Mr. President, you've talked recently about the idea of finding some way to get farm workforce

02:59and service sector workforce.

03:01And I think you've discussed somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and coming right back.

03:07Can you give us a little more detail about that and why, in the view of some hardliners, it's not —

03:12We're going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers and various other people.

03:16We're working on it right now.

03:17And Ron's going to be involved, and you're involved already.

03:20So we have a case — a lot of cases — where ICE will go into a farm.

03:25And these are guys working there for 10, 15 years.

03:28No problem.

03:29The farmers know.

03:30We're going to put — it's called farmer responsibility — or owner responsibility.

03:34But they're going to be largely responsible for these people.

03:37And they know these people.

03:38They've worked on the farms for 15 years, and all of a sudden they've —

03:42So I have a great — Ron does.

03:44Mr. does.

03:45We have a great feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position.

03:49And we're going to give them responsibility for people.

03:52And we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go.

03:55They can be here legally.

03:57They can pay taxes and everything.

03:58They're not getting citizenship, but they get other things.

04:02And the farmers need them to do the work.

04:04Without those people, you're not going to be able to let your farm.

04:07The President, you and the governor tangled pretty hard in the 2024 election.

04:11And you stand here now —

04:12I did not —

04:13Yeah, you stand here now as partners on this effort.

04:16How would you describe the relationship, and what future does —

04:19I would say it's a 10.

04:20Excuse me?

04:21I think it's a 10.

04:22Well, maybe a 9-9.

04:23Because it might be a couple of little ones.

04:25So maybe it's a 9-9.

04:26I think we have a 10.

04:27Do you think his wife should run for government?

04:29We get along good.

04:30In case you just have to run for government?

04:32The thing about it is, you know, I endorsed him immediately in January 2024.

04:35I raised his — one of his PACs, millions and millions of dollars.

04:40And obviously, we saved him a lot of money in Florida because Florida was a deep red state.

04:45He didn't even have to do a rally in Florida, whereas 2016 and 20, this was like ground zero.

04:50And so we've been, you know, really happy to do that.

04:53And then we've worked very well on this and other issues with Florida.

04:58You can call him at any time, and he wants to be helpful for governors.

05:03I mean, I can tell you that.

05:05We did Hurricane Malin last year.

05:07You didn't hear from the president at the time then.

05:10And then, but, you know, with President Trump, you know, we know immediately.

05:13He just made the phone call.

05:15Can we ask a Gaza follow-up question?

05:17I'm sorry.

05:18Like another thing you inherited.

05:19How firm are you going to be with NetYahu about ending the war in Gaza?

05:22Very firm.

05:23Very firm.

05:24But he wants it to.

05:25I will tell you.

05:26He's coming here next to me.

05:27He wants to end it, too.

05:29We had a tremendous success with Iran.

05:32He won't have the — somebody said, when are you going to sign?

05:35He said, sign?

05:36They are so bombed out.

05:38Did you see the report issued this morning?

05:40The place was decimated.

05:42It will be years before anybody even gets down there.

05:45So that's not a priority.

05:47But we'll have a report, and we'll have a — whatever we want.

05:50We'll get from — whatever we want from Iran.

05:52And I think and I hope they want to have a good — you know, they have massive sanctions right now — fighting sanctions.

05:58It's going to be very hard for them to do anything with those sanctions.

06:02And I look forward to — maybe there'll be a time when we get along with them and they can rebuild that country.

06:07But is there a point where you tell — where you tell NetYahu, like, you've got to — you've got to end this now.

06:11You've got to strike a deal?

06:12Well, he wants to.

06:13He wants to.

06:14I think we'll have a deal.

06:15I think we'll have a deal next week.

06:17That's what I think.

06:18Mr. President, do you intend to announce your pick for successor to Jay Powell earlier than, say — or earlier, say, the summer or fall?

06:27Will I do something about who it's going to be?

06:29Yes.

06:30I don't know.

06:31He'd be a good candidate.

06:32He might do — she'd be a good candidate, too.

06:35Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.

06:37No, it's causing us a fortune, because he keeps the rate way up.

06:41I think it's strong derangement center for us, but, you know, we have a very strong country.

06:46We're the strongest country.

06:47Look, our country right now is at a level that we haven't seen for 40, 50 years.

06:53What we're doing now is — nobody's seen anything like it.

06:57I told you, I was with — in the Middle East, the king of Saudi Arabia said to me very strongly.

07:02He said, you know what?

07:03A year ago, you're in a dead country.

07:05Now you have the hottest country in the world.

07:07We do.

07:08We're the hottest country in the world.

07:09Thank you very much.

07:10It looks like Syria.

07:12We'll be seeing it over the next couple.

07:14Also, those type of industries.

07:17We'll kill more of Reino Garcia for the first to make it happen.

07:21All right.

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