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Trump Holds White House Event On Musk's Final Day At DOGE; Musk Says He Will Continue To Be A Friend And Adviser To Trump. Aired 2- 2:30p ET

Aired May 30, 2025 - 14:00   ET

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: And I just want to say that Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations. And you know, the kinds of things that he's found and his people have found, he's brought a group of very smart people in and they found things that are pretty unbelievable.

I have to say that the numbers that we're talking about are substantial, but they're going to be very much more substantial with time, because many of the things that we're working on right now, we're going to have to remember Elon as we find them, but the numbers could double and triple because many, many things, we don't want to go out with them until we're sure. But we've found things that are unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad.

With the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon has delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington. DOGE has installed geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably talented people in computers. I actually asked Elon one time, what's their primary thing? And they have a lot of primary things, all having to do with being smart, but he said the thing that they're really the best at is working with computers, so that they can't be outsmarted by somebody that's not so honest that happens to also be good with computers, but not as good as these people.

But the mindset in the senior ranks of every federal department, and it's really changed. And with Elon's guidance, they're helping to detect fraud/waste and modernize broken and outdated systems. So, as you know, we're talking about various systems and changing systems, and sadly, it takes a long time to do that. You'll change, let's say a system at IRS and computerize it properly where the job could be done in one-tenth of the time, but it takes -- it takes sometimes years to rebuild those systems.

But we've started, in many cases, we've started, I will say that, this has less to do with Elon. But the air traffic control systems, we are bidding out to the best companies in the world. Those systems right now, they were -- what the previous administration was horrible, what they did. They spent billions and billions of dollars and in the end, it didn't even come close to working. They tried to hook up wire to copper and it can't be done. And they just spent billions of dollars and just wasted money, actually made the system much worse. So, we're going to get a brand new modern system. Congress is working with us on that, and we're going to get it done as quickly as we can, but it's in the works. And once it's done, it'll be good for 30 years. But we have a system that's 48 years old and would have a modern computer hooked into a very outdated computer. And you -- they don't hook up. I mean, they didn't hook up. So after spending billions of dollars, they turned on the system, and it never any cases from local to countrywide, they never worked.

More than 75,000 bureaucrats have voluntarily left their taxpayer funded jobs to come out and really do the -- do the job. Countless wasteful and unnecessary contracts have been terminated. And you know that we have terminated many, many contracts and many contracts, Elon, are right now being looked at.

ELON MUSK, BUSINESSMAN AND FORMER SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Yes.

TRUMP: And it may be six months, it may be almost a year in some cases. We're going through procedures, we're going through courts, and we'll remember you as we announce billions of dollars of extra waste, fraud and abuse. Just as an example, DOGE canceled $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, $101 million. And that was just in a small section of the Department of Education, $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City. And the landlord never made the kind of money that he made in the last short period of time.

$59 million to a hotel in New York City, $45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma -- in Burma. Does anyone know about Burma? $42 million for social and behavioral change in Uganda, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. I can say, it's $2 billion to Stacey Abrams and her environmental movement. There was $100 in the account and all of a sudden, they found $2 billion in the account. And I assume that's being looked at. I don't know. I'm not sure, but I assume that's being looked at. Two -- think of that, $2 billion.

And then, Lee will tell you there's another one over there for $20 billion being spent on another environmental -- $20 billion, not 20 million, not $200,000 which is a lot. So think of it, in her case, you have $100 and now all of a sudden, she gets hit with an infusion of $2 billion just before I take office. $20 million for Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.

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Nobody knows what that's all about. Nobody's been able to find it. $8 million for making mice transgender. So, they spent $8 million don making mice transgender and those are better than many of the others. I could sit here all day and read things just like that, but we have other things to do. So it's much, much more than just that. We're totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent and stopping much more of the waste in the months to come.

We want to get our great Big, Beautiful Bill finished and done. After that, we're going to be -- we put some of this into the bill, but most of it is going to come later. We're going to have it cauterized by Congress, affirmed by Congress. In some cases, we'll make cuts. In some cases, we'll just use it in a different layer to save the money.

But, it's hundreds of billions of dollars. DOGE has also fully modernized the federal retirement process and continues to work very hard on the IRS modernization. But, we're taking that over with DOGE. Many of the DOGE people, Elon, are staying behind too.

MUSK: Yeah.

TRUMP: So they're not leaving.

MUSK: Absolutely.

TRUMP: And Elon is really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think, I have a feeling. It's his baby and I think he's going to be doing a lot of things. But Elon's service to America has been without comparison in modern history. He is already running one of the most innovative car companies in the world. You look at his factories and compare them with some of the old factories we have, and it's a big difference. And the most successful space company in, I guess, in history, you would have to say. The largest free speech platform on the internet, et cetera.

Yet, Elon willingly, with all of the success, he willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lies and attacks because he does love our country. I know that very much. He loves our country. He comes from another country, country that's going through trials and tribulations, I would say. But, he's all about the USA, and Americans owe him a great debt of gratitude. So I just want to thank Elon for his time as a special government employee. Can you imagine? They called him an employee, but it's a special government employee, and for coming and helping us. And he really has changed the mindset of a lot of people. A lot of people thought, maybe we'll cut 1 percent or 2 percent or 3 percent.

Then they said, wow, we can cut a lot more than that, and we're going to do it very surgically. We're going to continue on the march. We're making America great again. When I was in Saudi Arabia and we were in, as you know, three really great countries, predominantly the three. Qatar was great. UAE was great. Saudi Arabia incredible. What an -- like, such an incredible experience to be in those three countries. But the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and I must tell you, the leaders, the great leaders of the other two that we just mentioned, they all said the same thing, that the United States is the hottest country right now, anywhere in the world.

And six months ago, we thought it was dead. It was like a dead country, and it would've been a dead country. If we didn't have the right result on November 5th, it would've been a horrible, horrible situation was going on with the borders, with transgender for everyone, men playing in women's sports and so much more. But, they were saying the hottest country anywhere in the world. And then I played that little clip because that was one person who's respected, but there were two people because Joe was in that one too. Joe's a good man.

But, that was one group of people saying something about the success of what we've done over the last four months. They cannot believe it. In the one case, they said they've never seen anything like it, as long as they've been doing what they've been doing, they've been doing it for a long time. So I just -- I want to thank Elon for helping. And again, the United States right now is the hottest country anywhere in the world. There's no country as hot and we're doing really well.

Where we came -- when I left, we had no wars. We had no problems. We defeated ISIS. We rebuilt our military, and we had no inflation. And when I came back, we had a lot of inflation. We had wars all over the place. We had the embarrassment in Afghanistan where we gave up billions and billions of dollars of military equipment. The most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, I believe, I believe that strongly.

We have Russia with Ukraine. We had the attack in Israel, in October, the horrible attack, October 7th, horrible, horrible attack. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And now, we have something where we're really healing a lot of that.

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We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. I believe that could have turned out into a nuclear disaster. And I want to thank the leaders of India, the leaders of Pakistan, and I want to thank my people also. We talked trade and we said we can't trade with people that are shooting at each other and potentially using nuclear weapons. And they were -- they're great leaders in those countries and they understood and they agreed. And that all stopped. And we are stopping others from fighting also because, ultimately, we can fight better than anybody.

We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest, leaders in the world. We put one of them in charge of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as you know, General Razin Caine. And we wiped out ISIS, completely wiped out ISIS in three weeks. They said it would take five years, and we did it in three weeks. And that's the way it is. But we don't want to have to use our military. We want to be peace through strength when we can. And that's the way we're going to have it.

So, I just want to thank Elon and all of his people. Most of those people are staying, almost all of them are staying.

MUSK: Yeah.

TRUMP: And they're going to be with us. And you're going to see the results coming long into the future. Even a year and two years later, you're going to see a lot of the results in those, hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be adding up, and they're going to continue to add. It'll be interesting, really interesting to see what the final number is going to be. But again, Elon gave an incredible service. Nobody liked him. And he had a go through the slings and the arrows, which is a shame because he's an incredible patriot.

The good news is that 90 percent of the country knows that and they appreciate it and they really appreciate what he did. And I gave him a little special something we have here.

MUSK: Thank you.

TRUMP: A very special that I give to very special people. I have given it to some, but it goes to very special people and I thought I'd give it to Elon.

MUSK: Thank you.

TRUMP: As a presentation from our country.

MUSK: Thank you.

TRUMP: Thank you, Elon.

MUSK: Thank you.

TRUMP: Take care of yourself.

MUSK: Thank you.

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MUSK: This is a lock.

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A lock that looks (ph) amazing.

TRUMP: That's right.

(LAUGH)

TRUMP: Large lock.

MUSK: Well, let me say perhaps a few words that this is not the end of DOGE, but really the beginning. My time as a special government employee necessarily had to end. It was a limited time thing. It's 134 days, I believe, which ends in a few days. So, so that, it comes with a time limit. And -- but the DOGE team will only grow stronger over time. The DOGE influence will only grow stronger.

It's -- I'd liken it to sort of Buddhism. It's like the way of life. So, it is permeating throughout the government, and I'm confident that over time, we'll see $1 trillion of savings and a reduction in -- a $1 trillion of waste and fraud reduction. The calculations of the DOGE team thus far, in terms of an FY '25 to FY '26 delta, are over $160 billion. And that's climbing. We expect that probably -- that number will probably go over $200 billion soon.

So I think the DOGE team is doing an incredible job. They're going to continue doing -- to doing an incredible job. And I'll be -- and I'll continue to be visiting here and be a friend and advisor to the president. And I look forward to times being back in this amazing room. By the way, isn't this incredible? Look at this incredible -- look at the -- I mean, it's stunning. I think, the way that the Oval Office, how the President has just completely redone the whole office. It's beautiful. I love the gold on the ceiling.

TRUMP: Thank you. It's pretty nice.

MUSK: Yeah.

TRUMP: That's been there a long time. That was plastered. Nobody ever really saw it.

MUSK: Yeah.

TRUMP: They didn't know the Eagle was up there and we highlighted. It's a -- essentially, it's a landmark, a great landmark, and that's 24-karat gold and everybody loved it. And now, they all see it when they come in. So it's been -- it's been good.

MUSK: Yeah. The Oval Office has had -- finally has the majesty that it deserves. Thanks to the president. So, I look forward to continuing to be a friend and advisor to the president, continuing to support DOGE team. And we are relentlessly pursuing $1 trillion in waste and fraud reductions, which will benefit the American taxpayer. So, that's -- that's it really. Thank you, Mr. President.

TRUMP: Thank you, Elon. Great job. Thank you.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, President Trump. The president mentioned that you had to deal with all the slings and arrows during your time at DOGE. There's this New York --

MUSK: Well, some of the people, some of the media organizations in this room were the slingers. Well, so I --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is a New York Times before today that accuses you of blurring the line between --

MUSK: Oh, wait, wait. Is The New York -- is The New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russia gate?

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Is it the same organization?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got to check my Pulitzer -- my Pulitzer comrades (ph).

MUSK: I think it is. I think it is.

TRUMP: It is.

MUSK: So I think they -- I think the judge just ruled against New York Times for their -- their lies about the Russia gate hoax and that they might have to give back that Pulitzer Prize. That New York Times? Let's move on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, then next question. I got one for President Trump.

So President Trump, Biden aides who used to work here are in talks with Republicans in Congress to go and testify about what they did or didn't do to possibly conceal President Biden's decline. Do you think that Dr. Jill Biden should also have to come in and testify about what she did or didn't do?

TRUMP: Well, I hate the concept of it. It's the wife of a man who was going through a lot of problems and everybody that dealt with them understood that. And I guess, it came out during the debate loud and clear. That was the big -- that was the biggest signal of all. They have to do what's right. The country was -- there was a lot of dishonesty in the election, as you know, of 2020. That's been now caught. People understand it was a rigged election.

And when you go further out, when you see the auto pen, I mean, I think the auto pen is going to become one of the great scandals of all time because you have somebody operating it, or a number of people operating. Because I knew Joe Biden, Joe Biden wasn't in favor of opening up borders, letting 21 million people into this from prisons and mental institutions and gang members. He wasn't into that at all. And who signed the -- who signed these orders, proclamations, and all of the different things that he signed that set our country so far back, that was -- that was so bad for our country.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With the auto pen, how would it work? Like, we're in the Oval Office right now. If there was a group of rogue staffers that worked for you.

TRUMP: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who wanted to advance a bill or an executive order without your knowledge, how could they do it? How do they go and sign a president's (CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: (Inaudible) because I'd read your newspapers or your media the next day. And I'd say, well, I didn't approve that. And I would find it. I mean, they wouldn't get away with it for long because I'd say, I never signed that. Who the hell signed that? Auto pens to me are used to sign letters to people because we get, I think they said 20,000 letters a week. And you like to be able, when somebody takes the time to write a letter, it's nice to sort of write back. And auto pens are meant for that.

Auto pens are not meant to sign major proclamations or tax cuts or borders, anything having to do with the border, which is so important. And if it happened on my watch, I would be able to see it because the next day or sooner, I'd be reading about something that I knew nothing about. And who the hell signed this. So, I almost never use the auto pen. In fact, yesterday, I was signing about 81, I think it was 81 proclamations and statements to people that I think should be signed by us.

I think when you write letters to foreign dignitaries or presidents or prime ministers, you should be signing those letters, not done with auto pens. I understand he signed almost everything with an auto pen. It's a very dangerous thing. It really means you're not president, whoever operated the auto pen and we think we know who that is. And it was actually more than one person. But that's not what the presidency is all about. I hardly use it yet.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you going to reinstate the tariffs on China? You said that they violated the agreement with the U.S.

TRUMP: Well, they did. They were -- they violated a big part of the agreement we made. And I, if you read that whole statement, I was very nice to them. I helped them because they were in trouble with the stoppage of a massive amount of business. But I'm sure that I'll speak to President Xi and hopefully, we'll work that out. But yeah, that's a -- there's a violation of the agreement. Yeah. Please.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, can you give us an update to the latest ceasefire agreement that Israel has agreed to, but Hamas is still considering?

TRUMP: Well, they're very close to an agreement on Gaza and we'll let you know about it during the day or maybe tomorrow. And we have a chance of that. I think we have a chance of making a deal with Iran also. They don't want to be blown up. They would rather make a deal. And I think that could happen in the not too distant future. That would be a great thing. If we could have a deal without bombs being dropped all over the Middle East, that would be a very good thing. They can't have a nuclear weapon.

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TRUMP: We want them -- we want them to be safe. We want them to have a very, very successful nation, let it be a great nation. But we can't have the -- they cannot have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. And I think we're fairly close to a deal with Iran.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A question for Elon.

TRUMP: Yeah, please.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You said just now that you look forward to being a friend and advisor to the president. So --

MUSK: Well, I am.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you expect to continue advising the president and DOGE informally, or are you going to sort of shift your focus entirely to your companies?

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MUSK: Well, I expect to continue to provide advice whenever the president would like advice.

TRUMP: I hope so.

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MUSK: I mean, yes, it's -- I expect to remain a friend and an advisor. And certainly, if there's anything the president wants me to do, I'm at the president's service.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Musk, on DOGE, do you said that there was $1 trillion promise for cuts from DOGE.

MUSK: Yes. I think, we do expect over time to achieve the $1 trillion.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But what have you found in your time here was the biggest roadblock to getting those cuts? Was it the cabinet or was it Congress or something else? What was the biggest roadblock from your work?

MUSK: It's mostly just a lot of hard work. It's really not any one person or Congress. It's going through really millions of line items and saying just each one of them makes sense or does not make sense. Obviously, at times when you cut expenses, those who are receiving the money, whether they receive -- whether they're receiving that money legitimately or not, they do complain. And you're not going to hear someone confessing that they received money inappropriately, never.

They're going to always say that they received money appropriately for an important cause. Naturally, that's what you'd expect. But, so we just have to -- it's a -- it's just a lot of work going through the vast expenses of the federal government and just really asking questions, what's this money for? Are you sure it's actually being used well? Many times, we can't even find anyone who defends it. So for a lot of the expenses, there's -- the rest, actually no defender at all.

And then, we have to just go -- work through the process of stopping the -- stopping the spending where there's often literally no defender. Nobody even knows why the money is being spent. It's truly absurd. I mean, we find situations where there are -- there are millions of software licenses where -- with zero people using them, zero, exactly. This is the quizzical expression. You're like, surely, if there's millions of software licenses, someone should be using them. No. And then, we just -- we've got to go through the process of saying, OK, look, if no one's using the software, we can terminate this software license agreement. That's everywhere in the government.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Musk, what do you think would be easier, colonizing Mars or making the government efficient?

(LAUGH) MUSK: It's a tough call. But I think colonizing Mars and making life multi-planetary is hotter. And as I said, we do the DOGE -- we do expect to achieve over time, the $1 trillion of savings. We can't do it in like a few months, but if you say by the -- I think the official end of DOGE, Mr. President may choose to extend, is the middle of next year, say by the middle of next year, with the support of the president and Congress, could we achieve $1 trillion of savings? I think so. We're on track to do so.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you guys think that Congress is --

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TRUMP: Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you, Mr. President. You had mentioned earlier in the week that DOGE had become a whipping boy. And as the president mentioned, you went through a lot to go through this process.

MUSK: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Was it worth it for you, and what would you change?

MUSK: Yeah. So what we found was happening was that if there were any cuts anywhere, then people would assume that was done by DOGE. And so, we became like the, essentially, the DOGE boogieman, where if any cut anywhere would be ascribed to DOGE. A friend of mine's daughter who's at law school at Georgetown thought that DOGE had cut the Senate, the internships for -- the legal internships for the Senate and we had nothing to do with that.

So if they have been cut, it's not to do with us, just as an example. So, it just became a bit ridiculous where anything, any cut anywhere was (inaudible) DOGE, including things that made no sense, and we would agree, it made no sense. So, there are many things that occur in the government because it's the banal evil of bureaucracy. It's sort of the, frankly, largely uncaring nature of bureaucracy.

It's, as the great Milton Friedman said, money is spent most poorly when it is someone else's money being spent on people you don't know. And that's how federal spending is. And then you can't really even blame the individuals because the way the government works is complaint minimization. So, when you do try to -- when someone within the government tries to stop that money being spent, there's usually some complaints. And then, their manager will say, it's not worth the trouble. Just pay it anyway. That happens over and over again.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So was it worth it?

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MUSK: I think it was -- I think it was an important thing. I think it was a necessary thing, and I think we'll have a good effect in the future. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, President Trump.

TRUMP: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This week there was a video on board a plane that showed the first Lady of France slapping her husband, Emmanuel Macron.

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Do you have any world leader to world leader marital advice on the phones (ph)?

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TRUMP: Make sure the door remains closed.

(LAUGH)

TRUMP: That was not good. That was not good. Now, I spoke to him and he's fine too. They're fine. They're two really good people. I know them very well. And I don't know what that was all about, but I know them very well and they're fine.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you think about the Democratic Party plan to avoid being swept in every battleground state again by spending $20 million to study how to speak to American men?

TRUMP: Well, you know, they spent $2.8 billion. We spent $1.5 million. We spent much less. We spent about half of what they spent. And at the end, they were $28 million short. They had to be -- they spent $2.8 billion. It's a lot, but they couldn't get $28 million at the end. And now, they want to spend, I read that they want to spend money to learn how to talk. That's fake. You don't want to be fake. You shouldn't have to hire consultants to say what America needs because then they should be -- the consultants should be running the deal, not them.

But I read that they want to spend a lot of money in each state. So, we won all seven swing states, seven out of seven. We want a lot more than that. We won the popular vote. We want everything. And they want to spend money to find out what they did wrong. And I mean, I could tell you what they did wrong. I could tell you every one of their programs. When they say men playing in women's sports, I would say that's not a winner. When they say transgender for everybody, I think that's not a winner.

When they say, open borders, so the entire world population of criminals can pour into our country. I don't think that's a winner. I mean, I can -- I just gave them that for free. But, I don't know if they'll change their ways. I see them all the time. I see people that I know in Congress, Democrats, they're trying to justify some of the things I just said. You can't justify them. They're -- they -- I always hear the 80/20 issues. I say, they're not 80/20, they're 97/3. They might be 99-to-1. They're not 80/20. They wish they were 80/20. And they're wasting a lot of money if they're going to continue with that nonsense.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this one is a little bit more of a Page 6 question, but back when you hosted The Apprentice, you mentioned once in 2012 that "Diddy" was a good friend of yours back then. He has since found himself in some very serious legal trouble.

TRUMP: Yeah, that's true.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Would you ever consider pardoning him?

TRUMP: Well, nobody's asked. You had to be the one to ask, Peter, but nobody's asked. But I know people are thinking about it. I know they're thinking about it. I think some people have been very close to asking. First of all, I'd look at what's happening and I haven't been watching it too closely, although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage. I haven't seen him, I haven't spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, he sort of -- that relationship busted up from what I read.

I don't know, he didn't tell me that. But I'd read some little bit nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden, it's different. You become a much different person when you run for politics and you do what's right. I could do other things and I'm sure he'd like me, and I'm sure other people would like me, but it wouldn't be as good for our country. As we said, our country's doing really well because of what we're doing, so I can't -- it's not a popularity contest. So I don't know. I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact on me.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President on the Big Beautiful Bill -- on the Big Beautiful Bill, would you like to see the Senate build in some support for your tariffs on the Big Beautiful Bill? Or should that be a standalone bill?

TRUMP: I have great support on the tariffs. I mean, I was so honored that we got that ridiculous stay lifted because that would've taken away presidential power. It would've taken away everything that was granted by the founders. It would've been a terrible thing, and it would've most importantly, would've left us vulnerable. We have a lot of countries that use tariffs on us and use them viciously, actually viciously. And if we didn't have the power to use tariffs on them and instantly, not when you go back to Congress and try and get hundreds of people to agree on something. That would take months to get just one simple proclamation.

If we didn't have the power to counteract their powers, you wouldn't have a country left. We have to act fast. We have to be fast and nimble, as they say. And that was a really great moment, I think yesterday, when that stay was lifted. And hopefully, now we'll go to court and just win that battle because if we don't have the power to --

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CO-ANCHOR OF "CNN NEWS CENTRAL": Well wishes from President Trump for Elon Musk, who is departing from his official capacity as a government employee and his role in the Department of Government Efficiency, showing up clearly formally dressed in his DOGE Father t-shirt for the event, his DOGE trucker hat, and the president commending him and all of the people of DOGE, who he says are great at working on computers. --

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