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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I`m just looking at these charges, it`s just pretty incredible. Many murders. Many murders. People
get murdered. So, what ICE does -- and border patrol is incredible, too. I mean, Paul Perez and that group is incredible.
Mostly Hispanic, by the way. They`re like 60 percent Hispanic. You know, they talk about Hispanic, they`re mostly Hispanic, right? And they`re
unbelievable people. And then they say, oh, we discriminate against -- I love Hispanic. They are unbelievable. Entrepreneurial, they have
everything.
I did great, I did the highest. Nobody ever got numbers like I got from the standpoint of being a Republican. But even the -- if you look at Texas, I
won the entire border along Texas between Texas and Mexico. Never happened before. Nobody`s ever done that before. I did it as a Republican. I did it.
I love the Hispanic. And they accuse us of all sorts of things. Sixty percent of the people are talking about -- they`re the best people we have,
and they`re Hispanic. The border patrol is largely Hispanic. ICE is largely Hispanic. They`re unbelievable people.
I don`t know how they can take the abuse. They`re taking rough -- they`re taking rough people like this, like all of them. We have -- so, we have
10,000 at least. I could have done 10,000 of them. You`re lucky I only did like a 100. And this is just -- this isn`t even the worst of the group.
They have murderers, they have some people we can`t use their picture for legal reasons, but they`re up for murder in their own country and we
jeopardize their case. When we send them back, we send them back and we coordinate with other countries, a tremendous amount of work all allowed in
here by an open border policy of the worst president in the history of our country.
A man that didn`t win the election, by the way, got a rigged election. Everybody knows that now. And by the way, numbers are coming out that show
it even more plainly. We caught them. We caught them. So, I just want you to know that. It`s a terrible -- it`s a terrible thing.
Here`s the book on accomplishments. And this is something -- I`m glad my finger wasn`t in that socket. That could have done some damage, but you
know what? I wouldn`t have shown the pain. I would have gone back. Well, did you hear that?
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That was nasty. But I wouldn`t doubt have shown the pain. I would have acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was a nasty -- I
think somebody did that. I think some -- it was him. It was my man. How are you? You didn`t do it. I know you did. No, I know you didn`t.
So -- but here is the -- here`s the book. These are all things we have -- I`m going to read a few of the samples, but look at this. These are all --
each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. And it`s big stuff, too. Look, we have the hottest country in the world.
So, I will read you a few. We ended Biden`s stagflation. We were in stagflation. That`s a disaster. That`s far worse than inflation. As you
know, he had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years. Pick your choice. But they had the biggest inflation in the
history of our country.
We have it right down to a normal number now. We`re going to get it even a little bit lower. Created super high -- what we`ve done with growth is
incredible. We created super high economic growth and America is booming. It`s booming. There are thousands of businesses right now that are being
built.
Many of the biggest factories in the world are being built right in our country. They`re not going to other countries. They`re leaving other
countries. Fourth quarter GDP is on track to pass perhaps much more than 5 percent growth. And that`s despite the fact that we had a Democrat
shutdown.
They shut down our country, and we had 5 percent. Nobody in this room has ever heard about 5 percent. I think it could be 20 percent if we do it
right. If we don`t -- every time we have good numbers, they raise interest rates. It shouldn`t -- in the old days if you had good numbers, they`d
lower interest rates or they wouldn`t do anything.
Here, they try and kill it. They always try and kill success. Over the last 20-25 years, that`s the way -- in the old days, if you had good numbers,
the market would go through the roof. Today, if you have good numbers, the market goes down.
But -- by the way, we`ve had the best stock market in history, the best 401(k)s in history. And we inherited a mess.
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The numbers that we inherited are way -- were way up. And now, we brought them, almost all of them way down. We brought them way down. I mean, I`m
not getting -- maybe I have the bad public relations people, but we`re not getting it across. We inherited high numbers and we brought them way down.
And look at gasoline. They have places in the country now, $1.99 a gallon, $1.99, 230, 250, I guess the average now, they`re saying is 231. I mean, he
was at $4.50 and $5 for periods of time, and he went back to the Trump formula, but he didn`t do it properly.
And he really went back to parts of it because you would have had $8 gasoline if they didn`t. But he didn`t do it properly. He had people that
didn`t know what they were doing. Core inflation for the last three months is 1.6 percent, 1.6. Their core inflation was so high that nobody could
even calculate it.
Under Biden, real incomes declined $3,000. Think of that, $3,000. That`s a year in 12 months. Trump real incomes went up by $2,000 and $3,000, and
even in some cases, $5,000. It`s a tremendous difference. Stock market has said 52 all-time record highs during the course of the -- actually the 11
months, because this was done on 11 months.
Now, we`re -- now we are actually officially 12 months as of today, 52 all- time record highs. That means 401(k)s did great. I have people see me all the time. Policemen that guard us really well and got to know him a little
bit. And they said, sir, you`re making me look so good, my 401(k) is through the roof.
My wife thinks I`m the greatest genius, that I`m a financial genius like Warren Buffett. He told me that. He said, I think they have better returns
than Warren Buffett right now. But he said, all my life, my wife has been criticizing me for not being smart financially.
Now, all of a sudden, she loves me more. But we added $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts, saving many people. I mean, they were going out of
business. Think of it. We added $9 trillion of value to retirement accounts, savings accounts, and 401(k)s. That`s during the course of 12
months.
And I think it`s probably 11 months, because I don`t think they have it for the 12, they have it for the 11, added $9 trillion of value. Lifted more
than 1.2 million Americans off food stamps in one year. They would have had another 1.2 million. We would have had -- welfare would have gone up, and
instead of investing $18 trillion in our country now, it`s probably more than that.
But 18 trillion and having thousands of plants being built all over the country, you would have had thousands of plants closing all over the
country. And you would have had disinvestment, and you would have had welfare going way up. You know, if you look at SNAP, take a look at SNAP.
What happened with that? It was at $7 billion, and it came out to over $51 billion. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The past administration,
they had no clue or they were really bad, but they basically had no clue. But they did have concept. I mean, they`re still trying to sell the idea of
men playing in women`s sports.
You saw that in the supreme court. I mean, some of those justices were fighting for them, too. They were fighting for them. But you saw that just
the other day in the supreme court, men playing in women`s sports, it doesn`t work. Secured a record-breaking $18 trillion in commitments for new
investments.
Apple, Nvidia, SoftBank, Oracle, TSMC, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Company, Micron, AstraZeneca, General Motors, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, GE
Aerospace, many others. I left a Ford plant a week ago in Michigan that they were going to close two years ago, and now they just announced that
they`re going 24 hours around the clock making cars.
Tariffs did it. I don`t know what the supreme court is going to do. I think -- it to me, it reads so plainly, couldn`t be plainer. You`re allowed to do
a license tariff is probably less severe than what a license could be. But think of it, you`re allowed to do a license and then they have a clause at
the end, something to the effect or what is necessary, something to that effect.
And what is necessary was tariffs. I don`t know where there`s a case even there. But we`ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. And if we lose
that case, it`s possible we`re going to have to do the best we can in paying it back.
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I don`t know how that`s going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people. But we`re waiting for that case anxiously, and we have
tremendous national security because of tariffs, and tremendous income. You know, we have -- and by the way, no inflation. So everyone said, oh,
tariffs will cost inflation.
We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation, and he didn`t do tariffs. We had a huge problem. We had -- we have a 62
percent reduction in our trade deficit. So, if you had a 1 percent reduction, a normal president would have a 1 percent, 2 percent reduction.
Everybody would be high-fiving. I had a 62 percent reduction. Next year we won`t have a trade deficit. We secured most favored nations agreements to
slash drug prices by as -- to me, I think this might be the biggest thing of all. We get zero talk about it.
The "New York Times" had a story way in the back of the paper, a little story about it. I think it`s the biggest thing there is when you talk about
health care, drug prices will go down more than ever before for any country, because we were -- we were priced at such a level that we were
subsidizing the entire world -- big place, the world.
We were paying 10, 12, 13 times more than other countries, 13 times when not 13 percent, 13 times more. A pill that was selling in London for $10
would sell in New York for $130. That`s 13 times, more than that even. But we secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much
as 300, 400, 500 and even 600 percent including with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novo, Nordisk, Gilead Sciences, EMD Serono and many others.
If you look at some of the prices that are coming down, where a price would come down, $1,300 coming down to $87, think of it. So, something that was
costing $1,300 is now costing $87. And the fake news doesn`t want to write about it. That`s why I do this. I don`t like to do this, to be honest with
you.
But I do it because I`ve got to get the word out. We signed One Big, Beautiful Bill, I call it the Great Big Beautiful Bill, delivering the
largest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on over time. We made interest on car loans, tax deductible for U.S.-
built automobiles only.
So, if you build the -- if you buy an automobile built in the United States, we`re not doing it for Germany and Canada and different places.
We`re doing it only if it`s built here. We want them to be built here. A lot of the Canadian auto plants are closing, and they`re moving into the
United States.
Same thing with Mexico, same thing with Germany, and same thing with Japan and other countries. They`re moving into the United States because of
tariffs, because they don`t want to pay the tariffs. It`s too much. They can`t pay the tariffs. So, they`re coming here.
Nothing different than what other smart countries did. But it works better for us. Under my leadership, it`s not done properly, but it`s done
properly. We have again more plants being built than at any time in the history of our country. Passed the largest spending cuts in American
history.
And that was during my first -- you know, we had a tremendous first term also. We rebuilt our military. We had one of the best. We had the best
economy in the history of our country, but we`re blowing it away now. This is -- when this stuff starts opening up, you`re not going to see anything
like it probably ever again.
We slashed the federal budget deficit by 27 percent in a single year. Think of that, 27, and now you could do it 2 percent, 1 percent, a half a
percent, 27 percent, and that`s with all of the things we have to do, all of the people we have to put on the payroll to get rid of people that are
murderers.
Again, when you see people in Minnesota that are murderers, these people are fighting to keep them there. And I say to Kristi, and to Tom Homan,
great people, they`re working so hard. Look at the border. The border is now secure. First time -- you know, Biden said you couldn`t do it. You need
legislation.
I had no legislation. I said close the border. Within one month, we had almost nobody coming in. Now, for the last eight months, nobody came into
our country illegally.
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And I find that hard to believe because you`d think somebody -- because it used to be millions of people just poured into our country. And the people
that do that are Democrat-sort of aligned. So, I mean, they`re not doing me any favors. We had nobody come in. We have a very strong border.
We have very few people coming up. They`re not going to make the trek because they know they probably won`t be coming in. So, it`s not as hard as
you think. But I didn`t have to go back. Remember they said we need legislation to close the border. They had millions of people coming in a
month.
We have nobody coming in, and we`re getting the murderers out. Murderers, people from prisons and jails. Many countries opened up their prisons and
dropped them into the United States. Those are the people who are getting out. And we have a lot of heart.
And I said, you`ve got to lighten up on this. We have a lot of heart for people. They came in illegally, but they`re good people and they`re working
now on farms and they`re working in luncheonettes and hotels and all. And we`re not looking at -- we`re looking to get the criminals out right now.
The criminals.
And I think it`s very important. I mean, every once in a while, you see a story, we take somebody who should be out because they came in illegally.
So, in theory, they should be. But we`re focused on the murderers, the drug dealers, the mentally insane.
We have a lot of mentally insane killers. I mean, you can`t even talk to them. It`d be nice if you could have a little reason, but you can`t even
reason. These are seriously ill people. You have a couple of countries where they were loaded up their mental institutions and insane asylums were
loaded to the gills.
They couldn`t get -- they`re empty now, but they`re filling up because we`re bringing them all back. We know where they came from. And every
country accepts them. You know, under Biden, they wouldn`t say, they had so little respect that they`d bring them there and they wouldn`t take them.
They say, get the hell out of here. They would be bringing a plane in to land in a country, and they`d put five planes on the runway, so you
couldn`t land a plane. So, they`d come back with the people that they were bringing back. They don`t do that with me.
They do that with me, they`d have problems. They don`t do it. They accept them back. They`re not happy about it, but they accept them back. Cut a
record number of regulations. I promise to eliminate ten old regulations for every one new regulation.
Instead, we cut 129 old regulations for each one added. Think of that. I want to do ten last -- in my first four years, I did -- when we put on a
new regulation, you had to cut eight. This year, I said, you have to cut ten. Instead, we cut 129. So, every time so far, can`t remain like that.
I don`t imagine -- I hope I can. Because we have so much wasted regulation, stupid regulations. Regulations where they go by California, which is a
disaster state with a -- with a governor that truly is doing a bad job. He`s killing that state. If he ever ran the country, this country would be
Venezuela very quickly.
Using tariffs slash the U.S. trade deficit by an incredible 77 percent. The trade deficit is down, and that doesn`t include the last month where we had
our best month. We slashed the trade deficit by an incredible 77 percent in one year with no inflation, something that everyone said could not be done.
So, we had essentially no inflation. In fact, the last month, we had very - - almost no inflation. But we slashed the trade deficit by 77 percent. If you slash it by 1 percent, that was good. Again, we did that with tariffs
and Intelligence. We did that with November 5th. Great election.
We secured historic trade deals to reduce barriers on U.S. exports with countries covering 40 percent of all U.S. trade. Think of that. American
exports are up by more than $150 billion this year. People said, oh, we`re not exporting. All we do is buy. If you keep buying, you`re not going to
have a country for very long.
So, we increased exports by more than $150 billion. Investment in American factories is up 41 percent. That`s a record. Nobody goes 41 percent up. You
go 2 percent up, 1 percent up, you go down by 3 percent. If Kamala got elected, the 41 percent up would be 41 percent down.
We removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal payroll. That`s another thing. So, we have -- you know, we announced our unemployment
numbers, call it unemployment or employment, and they were very good. But we could make them great.
But we`ve slashed tremendous numbers of people off the federal payroll, because ultimately, if you`re on the federal payroll, I mean, we have -- we
have jobs where they had ten people for every job. So, we cut.
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Now, if you want to see some good numbers, I`ll put -- I`ll hire a million people. We cut millions of people off the federal payroll. I don`t like
doing that. But the good news -- I don`t feel badly because they`re getting private sector jobs and they`re getting sometimes twice as much money,
three times as much money.
They`re getting factory jobs, they`re getting much better jobs and much higher pay. But all I have to do is say like, you know what the Democrats
do all the time. They hire a million people and then they hire another million, another million. And they load it up and it says, oh, they only
have a 3 percent unemployment rate.
It`s fake rate. So, with us, we`re proud of the fact that we cut so many, because again, I don`t want to cut people, but when you cut them and they
go out and get a better job, I like to cut them, and sometimes they have to be forced to do that because, you know, it`s like they want to stay where
they are.
They don`t know. And then all of a sudden they end up -- we have many cases, Karoline, where people were devastated. They hated Trump. I got
caught from my very boring federal job where they had, again, sometimes ten people to do one job, and they were very upset.
And now they ended up with a job where they get paid three times more money. They`re ending up buying houses. It`s like crazy. So, they went from
not liking me to liking me a lot, because they`re -- it`s hard to get. We need people. We need people. It`s one of the reasons.
I mean, I want to -- when you have good people on the farm or good people in hotels and everything else, we want to work with them as much as we can.
Under Biden, one out of four jobs added was a government job. Think of that. It`s a 25 percent of the jobs added.
That`s -- when you -- when you know that, that`s 25 percent jobs aren`t real jobs. But again, I could do that. I could add 2 million jobs right now
-- would have an unemployment -- I could say, just hire some more people. I do the opposite. I say, get rid of everybody that`s unnecessary.
Because that`s the way you make America great again. When you have, you know, all these jobs where people are sitting around doing nothing and they
get a lot of money by the government, it`s no good. But that`s what the Democrats do. They show, oh, we were at 4 percent unemployment. That`s a
good number.
But they just add jobs or they wouldn`t cut, they would never cut jobs. Under Trump, 100 percent of all new jobs created have been in the private
sector. Think of that. Not 1 percent has gone to federal. So, under Biden, one out of four was a government job, under Trump, 100 percent of the new
jobs created, 100 percent came from the private sector.
That`s how you make your country wealthy and strong and good. We inherited the worst border in history and turned it into the strongest border in
history. Illegal crossings have plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded, down 99.999 percent. That means down a 100 percent, 99.999.
We want to find out who that one person is. For eight months in a row, zero -- and these are government numbers. These are not my numbers. For eight
months in a row, zero illegal aliens were admitted to our country. Zero. Nobody came in unless they came in legally.
We have a big process for having people come in legally by the way. A lot of people are coming in legally. They have to prove they love our country.
They have to prove that they`re not going to need welfare. A lot of things they have to prove.
For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration where we`re getting -- because we`re getting all of these illegal people out,
people that came in illegally. In many cases, they`re criminals in many cases. Remember when they used to say that the people that come into our
country as immigrants are very nice people. They`re wonderful people.
They don`t commit crime. No, they make our criminals look like babies. They make our hell`s angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The hell`s
angels are now considered a nice, high quality person. I like the hell`s angels. They voted for me.
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TRUMP: They protected me actually, believe it or not. But they make our criminals look like babies. These are some of the most vicious people
anywhere in the world. They came from the Congo. The prisons -- I know the Congo because I ended the war with the Congo and Rwanda.
Tough group, very tough group. They came from prisons in the Congo. Some of the toughest, meanest people you`ll ever meet. Thank you very much. They
allowed them to come into America. These are tough people. Before my election, 100 percent of net job creation was going to foreign migrants.
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Since my inauguration, 100 percent of the net jobs created have gone to American-born citizens. That`s a big thing. In other words, we`re now
taking care of our people, 100 percent of net jobs created have gone to the American-born people. Before that, we didn`t care.
Designated Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And we`ve hit them hard. You`ve seen what we`ve
done on the water. We`re starting to do that on land. The land is much easier, actually. Water is incredible. We did that on the water so that
when you do it on the land, they don`t go to the water.
Nobody is going into the boat business right now, I can tell you. Ninety seven percent down, drugs coming in by water, they go -- 97 percent. Nobody
ever heard of that before, 90. They heard 2 percent, 1 percent. It went up 2 percent. Ninety seven -- and we`re looking for the 3 percent.
Who the hell are the 3 percent? They`re crazy. But we`ve taken out almost a 100 percent of the drugs coming in by water. Now, we`re going to be very
shortly starting drugs coming in by land. We know exactly where they`re coming from. Remove tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug
dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters, savage criminals and others.
We removed them from our country. They`re out. They`re gone. In some cases, they`re so dangerous that we put them in jail because we don`t want to give
them to their country. Their country doesn`t do anything and they end up coming back. We have some that were just -- they`re so bad that we don`t
want to really release them.
We want to put them in a jail where we know they`re properly ensconced. Think of that. Remove tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug
dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters and savage criminals. Why wouldn`t you want them removed?
The reason is because these are insurrectionists that are doing this work. And you know, they`re going to make mistakes sometimes. ICE is going to be
too rough with somebody or, you know, they`re dealing with rough people. They`re going to make a mistake.
Sometimes it can happen -- we feel terribly. I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman who was -- had the tragedy, it`s a tragedy, it`s
a horrible thing. Everybody would say -- ICE would say the same thing. But when I learned her parents and her father in particular is like is a -- I
hope he still is, but I don`t know, was a tremendous Trump fan.
He was all for Trump, loved Trump. And you know, it`s terrible. I was told that by a lot of people. They said, oh, he loves you. He was a -- I hope --
I hope he still feels that way, I don`t know, it`s hard situation. But her father was a tremendous -- and parents were tremendous Trump fans.
It`s so sad. It just happens. It`s terrible. Halted all refugee admissions to the United States, including from Somalia, which is a terrible place.
Another dangerous place. And we also stopped the pirates because they get the same treatment as the drug boats. So, when Somalia, the Somalians, you
know what they`re good at, that`s about the only thing they`re good at is, they`re good at pirating ships at sea. Big ships.
So, you have a huge oil tanker with millions of gallons, millions of barrels of oil, and if it gets hit by a big weapon, the whole thing blows
up. And they don`t want to fight, because if they do, they`re told by their insurance companies, do not hand over the ship, and they`re not allowed to
have any guns on the ship.
They`re literally -- you have these massive ships being taken over by Somalian small boat with a big weapon, because if they hit the side of the
ship, the ship can blow up. I mean, you talk about a blow up, bad. We`ve seen -- we`ve seen some bad things happen.
And the insurance companies, some of these ships cost more than a billion dollars to build. And the insurance companies say, look, we`d rather give
them money than take a chance on a billion-dollar insurance policy. But they don`t have to worry about it because we hit them the same way we hit
the people with the drugs in their boat.
They don`t know what the hell happened, but all of a sudden there are no pirates at sea. Do you notice we haven`t had a boat taken in a little
while? Came out of Somalia, really corrupt place. It`s not a country. They don`t have government. They don`t have anything.
I always hate to see this Ilhan Omar, she comes from Somalia, a backward country, probably the worst country.
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They say it`s the worst country in the world, if it`s a country. I don`t even think it`s a country. There`s no organization on it. They don`t have
police. They don`t have military. They don`t have anything. They just have people running around killing each other and trying to pirate ships. But
she`ll come here, comes, and then she wants to tell us how to run our country. The Constitution says that I am entitled to this. I can`t stand
her.
Terminated all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens and kicked 275,000 illegals off of Social Security. They were illegally getting Social
Security. 275,000 people. I`m telling you, it`s not that this is pleasurable, but if I were an elected president, this country was going to
be destroyed quickly very quickly. I think within a year if you had Kamala or a Joe type.
I mean, Joe was a disaster. But if you had Kamala, he was the replacement. I was up by like 25 points on Joe. And they said, hey, let`s get somebody
else. This never happened. I was -- I had so many firsts. You`re leading somebody by a lot and they say, oh, let`s take him out. Let`s put somebody.
That`s like I said to Dana White the other night. I said, you know, Dana, it`s like you have a fighter, two fighters. One guy is winning by a lot.
And they say, oh, let`s take this guy out. Let`s put a new fighter in the ring with him. That`s what happened to me.
I was doing great with Biden. The whole campaign was against Biden. All the money was spent against Biden. And all of a sudden, I got Kamala. Everyone
said, who the hell is she? But that didn`t work out too well for them. But never happened before. We are about lots of firsts.
Designated English as the official language of the United States of America. We did that very powerfully. And while we`re at it, we also took
the Gulf of Mexico. And now, it`s the Gulf of America. Because we have 92 percent of the shoreline. It always bothered me. I`d say, you know, we have
most of the shoreline. Mexico has a small percentage, talks about 8 percent. We have 92 percent. And I said, why? Why is it the Gulf of Mexico?
It should be the Gulf of America. I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought that I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it. I
wanted to.
My people work so hard. Sir, I don`t think it`ll look too good. I`m telling you, it`s a good thing. And it`ll be hotter than ever. No, but I decided
not to do that. I`m joking you know when I say that I was not going to call it the Gulf of Trump. Because tomorrow, Trump wanted to call it the Gulf of
Trump. But he was rebuffed by his people. My people don`t rebuff me too much. The Gulf of Trump, that does have a good ring, though. Maybe we could
do that. It`s not too late. No, we have the Gulf of America now. It`s great.
It`s our country is proud for the attack on Venezuela, the attack on the Iran nuclear capability, wiped it out. I mean, the first administration,
Soleimani, the father of the roadside bomb, al-Baghdadi, the father of ISIS, who was rebuilding ISIS. We wiped them out. Done a great job. Signed
an order that will end birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants. You know, that case is in court right now. That case was meant
for the children of slaves. All you have to do is look at the years. Look at the years where the cases were filed and where the decisions were made,
they were right at the end of the Civil War. Trying to say that -- you know, China is making a big business out of that. They come to the country.
They have a child, the American citizen. They get all the benefits. They had nothing to do with that. That was for the children of slaves. And I
hope the Supreme Court so rules.
Designated fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. It is. We lost, I believe, 300,000 people last year -- this year, 300,000 people, that`s like
filling up one of those big football stadiums five times. It`s not even believable. I mean, you could be in a war and you wouldn`t lose that many
people.
So, we designated fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. Conducted numerous successful military strikes against narco-terrorists operating in our
hemisphere, including the water strikes. Drugs brought in by ocean. So, I told you that we`re down by -- I mean, close to 100 percent. It`s hard to
get somebody to pilot those boats. They have to be people that don`t watch television, don`t read the news.
And we just blew up their facility there, the docking facility where the drugs were stored. And now, we have a great relationship with Venezuela.
We`re getting along fantastically with their leadership in Venezuela. And so, we wouldn`t have to do that. This was done before the attack.
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But we captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who, through drugs, killed millions of people in our
country. Tremendous drug dealer. Also sent millions of people into our country, including Tren de Aragua, the worst gang. They say it`s the worst
gang in the world. They took over parts of Colorado.
MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, welcome. I am Max Foster in for Isa Soares monitoring that press conference marking a year of Donald
Trump`s second term at the White House, listing many of his achievements, a very broad document he seems to be speaking to. CNN Politics Senior
Reporter Stephen Collinson in Washington. You`re following this as well. Have you heard anything new or what were you expecting from this, Stephen?
STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Not really. I mean, it seems almost like he`s got an achievement for every day and he`s just going
down the list. I`m not sure that so far this is having a great political effect and persuading people who don`t agree with the president and what
he`s doing.
I think likely if he does come to questions, obviously the key issue is going to be about Greenland and the showdown with the Europeans. I think
what Trump did at the start was try to recast somewhat this domestic issue, the controversy over the clash in Minnesota between ICE, Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement agents, and local people that resulted in the death of an American woman a couple of weeks ago, trying to make the case that he`s
going after criminals, murderers, people that shouldn`t be in the United States.
The problem is a lot of other people are getting swept up in this before. That might be an admission implicitly that this is not working out
politically for the president, but so far this is the kind of thing you often get when the president tries to talk about his great achievements.
His big beef appears to be not that things aren`t going great, it`s that people don`t realize they`re going great. And when you have an economy
that`s hurting a lot of people, that is often not a very persuasive argument.
FOSTER: He was talking about fuel prices, wasn`t he, saying he`s brought them down. He`s aware of the pressure of prices on people, but we`re seeing
in the markets today, aren`t we, how there`s real concern about the tariffs, for example, and the state of the economy. He`s not really
addressing that central economic issue so far, at least, is he? He`s really focusing on the broader, more social issues.
COLLINSON: Yes, I think Trump doesn`t recognize the belief of many economists that tariffs increase prices and make the economy much more
difficult for people who are on average incomes. He sees the bonanza of cash coming into the Treasury. You know, what you`ve seen today with the
market going down substantially is great concern about what the president is doing.
The idea, again, of a trade war between the United States and Europe that could do massive damage on each side of the Atlantic, that, I think, is
more likely to change the president`s mind on the Greenland issue than arguments, well, he`s endangering NATO and 80 years of common heritage
between the various partners on either side of the Atlantic. That, in the past, has got him to step back from his tariff issues.
But I think what we`re seeing now is a president, especially after the Venezuela raid, who is unleashed and untamed and believes he has the power
and the right to do everything he wants. So, I think this is a new kind of Trump in the second term.
FOSTER: OK. Stephen, we`ll let you get back to it and see if he does get to the questions, because, as you say, I`m sure Greenland and Europe are top
of the list.
World leaders preparing for President Trump`s arrival in Davos, meanwhile, still to come tonight, a look at what some leaders are planning to say to
him when he heads over there.
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FOSTER: Donald Trump currently going through his achievements at the White House, as you can see on the anniversary of his second inauguration. We`re
going to, it`s due to be, we`re expecting it to be quite a long process. As we get developments out of it, we will of course bring them to you. After
this, tomorrow, he`ll be heading over to Davos for the World Economic Forum. That is Wednesday, of course.
However, his impact already very much being felt there. NATO leaders are anxious to see what the president`s next moves are regarding the threat and
takeover of Greenland in particular. Some, like the French president Emmanuel Macron, are openly criticizing Mr. Trump`s territorial ambitions.
The U.S. president has shared what appear to be private text messages with the French leader and the NATO secretary general earlier. Let`s take a look
at how the Canada`s prime minister adjusts the shift in U.S. politics and what it means for his country.
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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance,
health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic
integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
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FOSTER: From Davos, our business editor at large, Richard Quest. Nic Robertson is in Greenland`s capital. I want to go to you first, Richard,
because, you know, very quickly, we started talking about a new world order after the events over the weekend. And, you know, you`re at the center of
world power right now, so what are they saying?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS EDITOR-AT-LARGE AND CNN ANCHOR, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: They are saying that the rules by which that new -- the old
rules-based society has gone. And as Mark Carney said, and Emmanuel Macron said, a new society is being built around power, strength, force.
And what is interesting, to pull the strands together, is what these leaders are saying is a version of what Stephen Miller, the president`s
deputy chief of staff, was talking about and senior adviser. Power, strength, force. They are what are the attributes that matter. And the
leaders are here are saying, right, if that is the case, then we need to rethink everything. Because if the old-world rules-based order has gone,
look, Christine Lagarde is the president of the European Central Bank. She very seriously told me that what was happening now was a clarion call, a
wake-up call, if you will, for Europe.
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CHRISTINE LAGARDE, PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK: OK. I`m going to tell you something which I hope will be proven right next year. This is a
wake-up call, a bigger one than we ever had. And I think that Europe is going to look at its strength, look at its weaknesses, do, you know, a big
SWOT analysis, and decide what do we need to do to be strong by ourselves, to be more independent, to rely on the internal trade that we do with each
other, so that we can just not ignore, but at least be prepared and have a plan B, just in case the normal relationship is not restored.
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QUEST: You remember it was Christine Lagarde who, even before Donald Trump took office, said that Europe had to be aware, Europe had to be ready. She
was well aware of what was likely to happen. But Max, as we now face the reality of what`s in place, the problem for Europe is really simple. There
are those people who say this is just a negotiating ploy by Donald Trump, that it`s a maximalist approach where he intends to compromise further
down. And there are those who say, who wants to take that risk? And that`s where we are tonight.
FOSTER: And, Nic, these are big debates, often very academic. They inevitably are because they`re so complex, but it means something very real
for the people around you right now.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, the sort of -- the notion that it`s the iron law, I think those were the words used by Stephen
Miller a couple of weeks ago in an interview with CNN, and it`s the iron law that rules the world by force through strength. And so, here, European
leaders now not necessarily saying that that`s something that they want, but it`s something that they`re going to have to adjust to, and they are
adjusting to.
They`re in a position to adjust to it. They have an economy, a joined-up economy, the European Union, and it can exert economic pain as a response
to President Trump. But here in Greenland, way off the grid, 57,000 people, they really feel that they`re caught in the ebb and flow of these sort of
geopolitical moves.
They did not, in their wildest imaginations, expect to be caught up in this moment of rupture, as Mark Carney has described it. And the prime minister
here speaking today spoke about that the support and unity that they`re getting from European leaders, that they`re hearing in Davos, the language,
that`s very supportive. But he had a message for his people here as well, and that is that they need to be prepared for the worst. This is how he
explained it.
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JENS-FREDERIK NIELSEN, GREENLAND PRIME MINISTER (through translator): It is not likely that there will be a use of military force, but it has not been
ruled out yet. This leader from the other side has made it very clear that it is not ruled out, and therefore, we must, of course, be prepared for
everything. But we must emphasize that Greenland is part of the Western alliance, NATO, and if there is further escalation, it will also have
consequences for the entire outside world.
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ROBERTSON: So, when he talked about the leader of the other side, that`s a very conscious decision not to mention President Trump`s name. That`s been
the sort of watchword of the protests and frustrations that have gone on here, not to further anger President Trump at this time.
But they are taking practical steps to be prepared. The government here in Greenland has asked the Danish authorities to send their emergency response
teams with equipment, and they have come, and their job is to secure communication centers, vital infrastructure to put in early warning systems
to be ready with crisis management. So, the country here, along with the uptick in Danish forces, is putting itself on a much greater readiness
footing should the worst happen. Max.
FOSTER: Yes, Nic, thank you so much. Richard, the other very real impact of all of this is the markets today. What was going on there?
QUEST: I think -- well, obviously, it was closed yesterday for Martin Luther King Day, and this is now the reaction. The worsening -- the sheer
amount of trade being done across the Atlantic that is now threatened. Christine Lagarde talks about the uncertainty that`s now generated by it
because people don`t know. Tariffs per se introduced by the Trump administration, and by the way, there`s the prospect tomorrow of the
Supreme Court decision on tariffs, whether they are legal. We believe -- I mean, we don`t know it`s coming tomorrow, but the rumor is it could be
tomorrow. If so, that`s another whole mess that could land on everybody`s head.
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Donald Trump referred to that in his long and rambling news conference. He talked about hoping that the Supreme Court found for the tariffs. He said,
if they don`t and we have to deal with paying them back, that we`ll have to get on doing that.
So, whichever way you look at the moment, you`ve got to ask, yes, there`s decent growth, there`s lower inflation in many countries, but there is this
overarching uncertainty that could take us in any direction, and that`s why you`re seeing, well, look at the NASDAQ, down two and a quarter percent.
It`s been clobbered well and truly today.
FOSTER: Yes, it`s really noticeable. Richard, thank you so much for that. Also, Nic, in Nuuk. You can see there, we are listening to President Trump
for you, giving a speech on this first anniversary of his second inauguration. We`ll bring you the highlights.
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FOSTER: As Greenland takes center stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, there are concerns the war in Ukraine is being overshadowed now. The
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told journalists on Tuesday he`s willing to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos, but only if
negotiators firm up prosperity and security packages for his country. He says there`s one last mile to go to finalize the documents for that. So, if
they`re ready, he`ll make the trip.
This comes as Moscow launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine`s capital overnight, cutting heat, electricity, and water to large swathes of
the city, all amid bitter winter temperatures. Kyiv`s mayor says more than 5,600 multi-story buildings are now without heat. Clare Sebastian has more.
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CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This was the scene at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning inside a specialized cardiac hospital in Kyiv, the footage provided
to CNN by the director of that institute. Well, this was an intensive care ward, he said, one patient there waiting for a transplant, and all of them
relying on generator power. It was the biggest Russian overnight attack on Ukraine so far this month. 34 missiles and 339 long range drones were used,
Ukraine`s Air Force said, and they knocked out heating from almost half of Kyiv`s apartment blocks in sub-zero temperatures. Most of those had barely
had their heating restored after the last major attack on January 8.
Katerina Skuridina (ph), a Kyiv resident who lost heating and power in that first attack, told CNN she got power back last week and minimal heating
returned over the weekend, only for her to lose it again on Monday night.
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Well, about 3,500 apartment blocks in one area of Kyiv also lost water. And the attack also targeted critical infrastructure facilities in other
regions. And the International Atomic Energy Agency says electrical substations vital for nuclear safety were impacted, all of this raising the
stakes not only for ongoing diplomatic efforts, but for Ukraine`s immediate defense.
Ukraine`s president Zelenskyy seeking greater protection for, quote, "real people and real cities," revealing Tuesday that if a recent package of air
defense missiles, including U.S.-made Patriots, had been delayed even by a day, the impact of Monday night`s attack, he said, would have been much
worse.
Clare Sebastian CNN, London.
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FOSTER: Keeping an eye on the White House for you. President Trump speaking about his first year in office on this second presidency. We`ll follow that
for you. So, far, it`s really just been a series of highlights and reiterating that idea, that he`s trying to get criminals out of the
country. This is the impact, though, the markets are feeling from a lot of what`s happened over the last couple of days. And they`re on the way down
because of concern about tariffs largely linked to Greenland.
Thanks for watching. Do stay with CNN. I`ll have "What We Know" coming up next after the break.
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