To you. How are you liking your first month so far, sir, I think it's nice. Hasn't changed. Hasn't changed very much. How's everything going? Good? Everybody happy? You're getting a little bit more access to your president than you did the last time, slightly like by about 5,000% we had a very good week. First week, almost complete. I guess one day left, if you think about it, we're heading to Florida. We're going to be at Doral because I'm making a speech there the following day for a group, very important group. And then I guess we come back to Washington. So we're heading, as you know, to Miami, Doral, any questions? No, I don't think so. So busy. What's
your favorite part of the plan? Mr. President, what do you like this one? First one, when you were back. I mean,
I've been on the plane many, many times, as you know, it's a great plan. It's a special plan. Do you still
want to change the colors? Do you still want to change the colors? The exterior
much more appropriate, rather than baby blue. We want power blue, not baby blue. But no, you know, this is nice, but everything has its time in place. We'll be changing the goals. Can you talk to us about the firing of the inspectors general? Why did you do that? And because it's a very common thing to do, and not all of them, Michael Horowitz were keeping I thought his report on Comey was incredible, actually, such an accurate, well done report. I only wish Bill Barr used it, which he chose not to, but it was, it was an incredible report. Michael Horowitz wrote the definitive report on James Comey and the FBI, and really got that going. And I understand that this wasn't really, I don't I don't know them, but some people thought that some were unfair, or some were not doing the job. And it's a very standard thing to do, very much like the US attorneys,
bring your own people into positions. Mr. President, which people in the
Inspector General? Not my people. They're not my people. I don't know anybody that would do that, but we'll put people in there that will be very good, Mr. President,
there's reports that Elon Musk now must go through Suzy Wiles and that he doesn't have an office in the
West Bank. Very soon, it's not Elon's office. We have an office that's set up for purposes of when I do an executive order that the orders carried out, not that it sits around for three months, and we'll have about 20 people, maybe more, working out of that office. It's really an office for a lot of people that go and make sure that the executive office, when I do an executive document, very important executive I want to make sure that that is done. And there's about 20 or 25 people that will be working out of that office, and it's really a go get them office to make sure it gets done. That's what that so
you're a weekend now to your presidency. How does it compare to your first week in 2017 did you learn any lessons? Or are you trying to do something differently? I
come in now with great knowledge and experience, and you could say that no, if you call it, new president has ever had this kind of experiences, for sure, whereas before, I had never done it before. But we did well. We had a very we had a great presidency. But this one could be really outstanding. I think you're seeing the same reports and I see and you write the reports, once you're writing the important reports, we're getting a pluses on the work done, and also the amount of work done. Nobody else has done this. You go to North Carolina, then you go to Los Angeles, and then you stop by the way often, and that was no tax on tips, but it was really a stop to thank the people of Nevada for having been, you know, it's a very hard State to win as a as a Republican, and we won it very conclusively. So it was really more of a thank you to the people. So I stopped there, and I have a lot of meetings once I get back, once I get to Miami, but now it's, I think we had, people are saying it was the most successful first week that anybody can remember, President, Mr. President,
you were so nice to Governor. Newsom, yesterday, no Governor news come. Was that all out? I
decided to be nice. It was nice that he came to the plane. I didn't know he'd be at the plane. It was nice that he came to the plane. And in the end, you know, we have the same goal. We want to take that catastrophe and make it as good as possible. We disagree on some things. I guess he's not so set on water. I like water for putting out fires. I find it to be extremely good, very little old fashioned. But about the best thing that. God has ever created for putting out fires, and so we're going to be doing something on that. But no, I actually always got along with a well, until fairly recently, First Lady. And I very much, you know, I very much, predicted that was going to happen. Because if you go back like six years, I said, if you don't start getting this place taken care of and mitigating some of the problems that are here, you're gonna end up with a fire like you've ever seen. I turned out to be right. If I could
ask you about the first lady, she seems to be taking a more public facing role. I just wonder how you envision her spending the next four years.
I think she was always very much involved. You didn't see it more behind the scenes, but she was always a front of the scenes person. And I think she really wanted she felt badly about North Carolina. She felt very badly about California. Los Angeles. Got a lot of friends. I have a lot of friends in North Carolina and both, and she has a lot of friends in California, so she wanted to be with me. Is
your preference for Larry Ellison to work, to talk? Or do you have any preference on how this
deal I haven't spoken to Larry is a friend of mine. Lives in, you know, right near Mar a Lago, right down the road. I never spoke to Larry about Tiktok. I've spoken to many people about Tiktok, and there's great interest in Tiktok. And as you know, I have the right to sell it or close it, depending on what I think is best for the country. So we'll make a decision. Over the next 90 days or so. There is a witness president
that says that you are putting together a deal with Oracle and outside investors to help them buy Tiktok and save Tiktok. Is that happening? Not with
Oracle, with numerous people are talking to me, very substantial people about buying it. And I'd make that decision over the next, probably over the next 30 days. I have 90 days. Congress has given 90 days, and we'll save, we could save Tiktok, I think would be a good thing. So we'll make a decision. We have a lot of interest in it, and the United States would be a big beneficiary if we do it. I'd only do it if the United States benefits. I mean, I have a warm spot in my art for Tiktok, because I won on Tiktok, and I ended up winning by a lot young people. And as you know, Republicans historically, I don't think ever won young people, and I want to buy a lot, so I do have a little bit of a warm spot. But, you know, it's a very popular site, and the kids are loving it, and some of the parents are loving it, and if we can save it, I think that would be a very good thing, and I think it would be economically good for America, Mr.
President, can I ask you about Ukraine? Do you have any update on when you are going to talk to Russian president? Russian President, he
wants to speak and will be speaking soon. And I've spoken to President Zelensky numerous times, and they'd like to see peace. They would like to see an end to the war. And I think President Putin would like to see an end to the war too. So we'll see if we can hop it along. I think it's a shame it's a war that would have never happened to my president. We've seen a lot of people being fired from the federal government. What's the sort of criterion you're using for this? Is it loyalty to you? And can we expect more of these purges? You have to show up to work. Basically, you have to show up to work. You have to go to your office and you have to work, and otherwise you're not going to have a job. Do
you worry that that limits the pool of talent? No, I think the
talent is deep. We have very deep talent, but we also have a lot of excess people. You know, this was just a this was a giving for Democrats to a certain extent, but we have a lot of excess people. But the talent is very deep.
Now that you've done your first domestic trip. Have you given any thought to where you want to go, or your first international trip? Well, it could
be Saudi Arabia. Could be UK. Traditionally, it's been UK. Last time I went to Saudi Arabia because they agreed to buy four, $50 billion worth of United States merchandise, including a lot of military equipment and farm equipment and other equipment. And if that offer were right, I'd do that again.
If you go to the UK, do you think you'll get along with Keir Starmer and the Labor government? I do. I mean, I've
met him already three times. He's come over to see me twice. I have a call. He and I have a call over the next 24 hours. Now I get along with him, well, I like him a lot. He's liberal, which is a little bit different for me, but I think he's a very good person. I think he's done a very good job thus far. He's very doing the job, but he's represented his country in terms of. His philosophy. I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him. I've seen him twice at dinner with him in Trump Tower, as you probably know,
Mr. President and you, you spoke to the Crown Prince. Did you discuss a normalization deal when we
No, I discussed getting oil prices down, because if you get oil prices down, Russia will stop the war, and Biden should have never allowed him to go up so high. When Biden let them go up to that level, he was just inducing Russia, which sells oil, to go into a war. So he should have never allowed the Democrats, namely, Biden allowed oil prices to go up as one of the reasons, yeah, the Ukraine catastrophe. How do you
bring the prices down volume? Can you tell
us about your call with the king of Jordans today? Please. It's a very good call. He's a friend of mine. I know him very well. I've gotten along with him over the years very well, and he's done a wonderful job. He really houses, you know, millions of Palestinians, and he does it in a very humane way. And I compliment him on that, but he really, Jordan's done an amazing job of housing largely Palestinian Palestinians, and he's done it in a very successful So what was this up to your discussion? Was it pretty much that I said to him, I'd love you to take on more, because I'm looking at the whole Gaza strip right now, and it's a mess. It's a real you'd like Jordan to house people. I'd like him to take people. I'd like Egypt to take people. I'm meeting with, I'm talking to general LCC tomorrow, sometime, I'm late, and I'd like Egypt to take people, and I'd like Jordan to take people, you can, you're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. It's, you know, it's over the centuries that says many, many conflicts inside. And I don't know something has to happen, but it's literally a demolition site right now, almost everything's demolished, and people are dying there. So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace, temporary, or with a with the other could be either, could be temporary, could be long term.
About artificial intelligence, quite a bit this week. Do you have any concerns about the risk to humanity about artificial super intelligence?
Well, look, artificial intelligence is, is where all of the smart countries want to be going. Great for coming up with cures to disease, great with coming up with everything, but there are also always risks. And it's the first question I ask. How do you absolve yourself from mistake, etc? Because it's it could be the rabbit that gets away. We're not going to let that happen, but it's going to be the biggest field, maybe the biggest field in the world, and we're going to be important to take it. And we're already leading. We're going to be leading very shortly. We're going to be leading by a lot. What they do need is tremendous energy. They need electricity at levels that nobody's ever seen before, and we'll be able to supply that Electric Company. I'll be using emergency power to give that electric the
proud Mr. President, just lifted a hold on 2000 pound bombs for Israel, which was blocked by Biden. Can you do you have a comment on that, sir, on the 2000 pound bombs that Biden had whatever?
We released them. Yeah, we released them today, and they'll have them. They paid for them. You know, they've been waiting for them for a long time. They've been in storage for a long time. But we released them today to Israel. Why did you do that, sir? Because they bought them.
Federal
reports, Mr. President, that you spoke to the Danish Prime Minister, and she told you, Greenland is not for sale. Will you take no and answer on that? Yeah. Who are you with your favorite terrible,
honestly, that's why they're going out of business. Well, they'll be more cheap. Maybe some rich guy will buy him cheap.
It's just a tone of you question every time. I think Wheelan will be worked out with us. I think we're going to have it. And I think the people want to be with us. As you know, there's 55,000 people there. They want to be with us. I don't know really what claim Denmark has to but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow that to happen because it's that's for protection of the free world. It's not for us. It's for the free world right now. You have Russian chips, you have China chips, you have ships from various countries. It's not a good situation. And I believe we'll get that, yeah, I do believe, I think we'll get other things too, that you. Talking about that. Nobody knows. But I think we'll get other other things. But I do believe Greenland will get because it really has to do with freedom of the world, not just freedom of it has nothing to do with the United States, other than we're the one that can provide the freedom. They can't. They can't. I mean, they they put two dog sleds there two weeks ago. They thought that was protection.
Are the other things Canada, you know what? The people don't
like people don't like the way they've been treated by Denmark. I don't like the way they've been treated by Denmark, and they do like us. Mr.
President, on the Senate confirmations. Senator, Vice President, Judy Vance, had to come and pass the tie breaking vote. I'm curious if you're concerned at all about any of the other nominees,
whatever it is, it is, I think they're doing well. I think we just had a big, a big win today, as you know, Christy nome, I think will be outstanding at Homeland. And we have some other ones going and not see any major problems the
US. The US has suspended most foreign aid, including PEPFAR, which is a program that's credited with saving millions of lives in Africa. Is there a timeline for opening up USA review process? But
we want other people to join us, because we're like a one way street, so we want other people to help us, and we want other people to join us. We're spending billions and billions and millions of dollars, and other countries that are wealthy are spending zero. If we want them to help, why should we be the only one? So they understand that they've been told that it's a little like NATO. I mean, we were spending, we're almost paying for all of NATO, and yet they were taking advantage of us on trade similar countries, the same and similar countries. And after I got involved, they were paying a lot of money on that. The Secretary General was very generous in his statements about me with respect to that. And so we'll see. I think NATO should be more too, though I think it should be more than the two. It should be, should be five. Actually,
Mr. President, prefers to, prefers the lab leak theory to explain COVID origins. Now I was curious to hear your thoughts on that.
Well, you have a good man there. Very good man. And John has got approved. As you know, John, Rachel also got approved. And I'd rather have you ask him that question. He'll be he knows everything about it. Have you given any thought to the future of the air base at Diego Garcia, which is, you know, as part of the Chagos Islands, which Britain is returning to, the Mauritius islands. There are concerns that could open it up to spying by Iran or China. It hasn't been number one about this. I'll be
honest, you didn't talk about Canada, about the Panama Canal you mentioned today expansion. Canada's
been treating us very unfairly on trade, and they've taken advantage of us for years. We're not going to allow that to happen. I love Canada. I have so many friends up in Canada, and they like us, and they like me, but Canada has been taking advantage of the United States for years, and we're not going to let that happen. And without our subsidy, Canada, you know, doesn't exist. Really. It's very it's Canada is totally reliant on us, therefore they should be a state. Canada will is $250 billion a year in Canada. I could stop that in one day, and if I stopped that, Canada wouldn't exist as a state, as a country, if we're gonna have to give that kind of subsidy, and we're not even talking about tariffs yet, but that'll happen on February 1. But if we're going to lose two 50 billion for the sake of supporting a country, it's not fair to us. And they do about almost 90% of their business for the United States, whereas for those in the opposite it's it's relatively small. So I don't want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on supporting a country unless that country is a state. And if it is a state, the people of Canada would pay a much lower tax. Their taxes would be cut in half. They would have no military problems. They'd be much more secure in every way. And I think it's a great thing for Canada, and I view it as, honestly, a country that should be a state, and they'll get much better treatment, much better care and much lower taxes, and they'll be much more secure. Thank you very much,
