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'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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Alcatraz.
00:01
He ought to come here and study this because he could have a lot.
00:09
When's the first person checking into the room, sir?
00:12
Tomorrow.
00:13
Hopefully tomorrow, within the next 24 hours.
00:16
There's going to be a security sweep because there have been civilians here, so they will
00:21
sweep this multiple times to make sure there's nothing that can be used as weapons or any
00:25
contraband.
00:26
And then once that's clear, then they'll do so.
00:28
It's really up to the secretary.
00:30
I know it's got people in the queue, and so they'll be ready to receive.
00:33
I think our viewers at home should note that this is air-conditioned facility.
00:36
So if any of the news claims are keeping them out in the hot, humid South Florida, that is
00:40
wrong.
00:41
It's probably 62 degrees in here.
00:43
Or 72.
00:44
Biden wanted me in here.
00:46
He wanted me.
00:47
It didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here.
00:50
Mr. President, what's your expectation of what this will do for the speed and force of
00:54
deportation?
00:55
Well, a lot of things, and they're both telling me that these people come in here, they
00:58
want to go home.
00:59
And they want to go home.
01:00
So we immediately send them home, you know, where it's appropriate.
01:04
Now, if somebody's a real killer-killer, we can help some people with maximum security.
01:09
Look, what we inherited from this guy, this incompetent man, and his administration, which
01:15
wasn't incompetent.
01:16
It was radical-left, lunatic, communist, whatever you want to say.
01:19
I know most of them.
01:20
What we inherited should never, ever be forgotten.
01:24
They've made us to — this is all because of an open-border policy where 25 million people
01:31
float in.
01:32
From all over the world, from prisons, from all over the world they float in.
01:36
But no reason whatsoever.
01:37
We had — you know, when I left, we had a very powerful border.
01:40
We had no problem.
01:41
He opened it up.
01:42
Day one, he just opened the border.
01:44
People couldn't believe it.
01:45
They were standing there.
01:46
What did they do?
01:47
They said, go in.
01:48
That's it.
01:49
If you look at the first day takes, they opened it up and they said, go in.
01:53
And that's where all of this began.
01:55
But this is an amazing thing that they've done here.
01:59
But listen, they don't — people don't have to — they don't have to come here.
02:02
If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally.
02:05
We won't let them come back legally.
02:07
And there is a lot of self-deportation.
02:09
But if you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don't ever get to come back to America.
02:15
You don't get the chance to come back and be an American again and work here.
02:18
They weren't with us when President and Secretary Kevin and I — we went through the intake.
02:23
So right when you do the intake, they have the information about voluntary departure.
02:27
They have mobility.
02:28
Obviously, you guys are funding that because it's a lot cheaper to do it that way.
02:32
So even if they get brought to the front doorstep here, they still have an opportunity to just go back voluntarily
02:38
and then this way —
02:39
How fast does that take from a minute — let's say they're getting here like, hey, I want to stay here.
02:42
I want to go back to —
02:43
We can put them on a plane that day and take them home.
02:45
We'll buy their plane ticket, go home, and then they get the chance to come back legally.
02:49
If they wait —
02:50
If they do that, they can come back legally after a period of —
02:53
Mr. President, you've talked recently about the idea of finding some way to get farm workforce
02:59
and service sector workforce.
03:01
And I think you've discussed somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and coming right back.
03:07
Can you give us a little more detail about that and why, in the view of some hardliners, it's not —
03:12
We're going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers and various other people.
03:16
We're working on it right now.
03:17
And Ron's going to be involved, and you're involved already.
03:20
So we have a case — a lot of cases — where ICE will go into a farm.
03:25
And these are guys working there for 10, 15 years.
03:28
No problem.
03:29
The farmers know.
03:30
We're going to put — it's called farmer responsibility — or owner responsibility.
03:34
But they're going to be largely responsible for these people.
03:37
And they know these people.
03:38
They've worked on the farms for 15 years, and all of a sudden they've —
03:42
So I have a great — Ron does.
03:44
Mr. does.
03:45
We have a great feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position.
03:49
And we're going to give them responsibility for people.
03:52
And we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go.
03:55
They can be here legally.
03:57
They can pay taxes and everything.
03:58
They're not getting citizenship, but they get other things.
04:02
And the farmers need them to do the work.
04:04
Without those people, you're not going to be able to let your farm.
04:07
The President, you and the governor tangled pretty hard in the 2024 election.
04:11
And you stand here now —
04:12
I did not —
04:13
Yeah, you stand here now as partners on this effort.
04:16
How would you describe the relationship, and what future does —
04:19
I would say it's a 10.
04:20
Excuse me?
04:21
I think it's a 10.
04:22
Well, maybe a 9-9.
04:23
Because it might be a couple of little ones.
04:25
So maybe it's a 9-9.
04:26
I think we have a 10.
04:27
Do you think his wife should run for government?
04:29
We get along good.
04:30
In case you just have to run for government?
04:32
The thing about it is, you know, I endorsed him immediately in January 2024.
04:35
I raised his — one of his PACs, millions and millions of dollars.
04:40
And obviously, we saved him a lot of money in Florida because Florida was a deep red state.
04:45
He didn't even have to do a rally in Florida, whereas 2016 and 20, this was like ground zero.
04:50
And so we've been, you know, really happy to do that.
04:53
And then we've worked very well on this and other issues with Florida.
04:58
You can call him at any time, and he wants to be helpful for governors.
05:03
I mean, I can tell you that.
05:05
We did Hurricane Malin last year.
05:07
You didn't hear from the president at the time then.
05:10
And then, but, you know, with President Trump, you know, we know immediately.
05:13
He just made the phone call.
05:15
Can we ask a Gaza follow-up question?
05:17
I'm sorry.
05:18
Like another thing you inherited.
05:19
How firm are you going to be with NetYahu about ending the war in Gaza?
05:22
Very firm.
05:23
Very firm.
05:24
But he wants it to.
05:25
I will tell you.
05:26
He's coming here next to me.
05:27
He wants to end it, too.
05:29
We had a tremendous success with Iran.
05:32
He won't have the — somebody said, when are you going to sign?
05:35
He said, sign?
05:36
They are so bombed out.
05:38
Did you see the report issued this morning?
05:40
The place was decimated.
05:42
It will be years before anybody even gets down there.
05:45
So that's not a priority.
05:47
But we'll have a report, and we'll have a — whatever we want.
05:50
We'll get from — whatever we want from Iran.
05:52
And I think and I hope they want to have a good — you know, they have massive sanctions right now — fighting sanctions.
05:58
It's going to be very hard for them to do anything with those sanctions.
06:02
And I look forward to — maybe there'll be a time when we get along with them and they can rebuild that country.
06:07
But is there a point where you tell — where you tell NetYahu, like, you've got to — you've got to end this now.
06:11
You've got to strike a deal?
06:12
Well, he wants to.
06:13
He wants to.
06:14
I think we'll have a deal.
06:15
I think we'll have a deal next week.
06:17
That's what I think.
06:18
Mr. President, do you intend to announce your pick for successor to Jay Powell earlier than, say — or earlier, say, the summer or fall?
06:27
Will I do something about who it's going to be?
06:29
Yes.
06:30
I don't know.
06:31
He'd be a good candidate.
06:32
He might do — she'd be a good candidate, too.
06:35
Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.
06:37
No, it's causing us a fortune, because he keeps the rate way up.
06:41
I think it's strong derangement center for us, but, you know, we have a very strong country.
06:46
We're the strongest country.
06:47
Look, our country right now is at a level that we haven't seen for 40, 50 years.
06:53
What we're doing now is — nobody's seen anything like it.
06:57
I told you, I was with — in the Middle East, the king of Saudi Arabia said to me very strongly.
07:02
He said, you know what?
07:03
A year ago, you're in a dead country.
07:05
Now you have the hottest country in the world.
07:07
We do.
07:08
We're the hottest country in the world.
07:09
Thank you very much.
07:10
It looks like Syria.
07:12
We'll be seeing it over the next couple.
07:14
Also, those type of industries.
07:17
We'll kill more of Reino Garcia for the first to make it happen.
07:21
All right.
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