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- 0:00Speaker 1: As president.
- 0:00Speaker 2: The criticism that I've seen I'm sure you've seen regarding
- 0:03Speaker 2: Elon must and your beautiful bill. Once your reaction to that,
- 0:07Speaker 2: do you think in any way it hurts passage in
- 0:10Speaker 2: the Senate.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Which is, of course, what is you're seeking. Well, Clock,
- 0:13Speaker 1: you know, I've always liked Elon and it's always very surprised.
- 0:16Speaker 1: You saw the words he had for me, the words
- 0:18Speaker 1: and he as I said anything about me that's bad.
- 0:21Speaker 1: I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill, because
- 0:23Speaker 1: the bill is incredible. It's the biggest cut in the
- 0:27Speaker 1: history of our country. We've never cut. It's about one
- 0:30Speaker 1: point six trillion in cuts. It's the biggest tax cut
- 0:35Speaker 1: tax You would say people's taxes will go way down,
- 0:39Speaker 1: but it's the biggest tax cut in history. It's we have.
- 0:42Speaker 1: We are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable.
- 0:45Speaker 1: And would you look at what we're doing for small businesses,
- 0:49Speaker 1: for people, for middle income people, all of the things
- 0:52Speaker 1: that we're doing. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And
- 0:57Speaker 1: you know, Elon's upset because we took the EVL and
- 1:00Speaker 1: which was a lot of money for electric vehicles and
- 1:05Speaker 1: having a hard time the electric vehicles and they want
- 1:07Speaker 1: us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know,
- 1:12Speaker 1: I Elon knew this from the beginning. He knew it
- 1:15Speaker 1: for a long time ago. That's been in there, that's
- 1:17Speaker 1: been I would say it, j Ad, that hasn't Jay
- 1:20Speaker 1: just been right from the beginning, mister I think, mister secretary,
- 1:23Speaker 1: that hasn't changed it all right from the beginning. But
- 1:26Speaker 1: I know that it disturbed him. He wanted and rightfully,
- 1:29Speaker 1: you know, he recommended somebody from that he I guess
- 1:32Speaker 1: knew very well. I'm sure he respected him, but to
- 1:36Speaker 1: run NASA, and I didn't think it was appropriate. And
- 1:40Speaker 1: he happened to be a Democrat, like totally democrat. And
- 1:44Speaker 1: I said, you know, we won we get certain privileges,
- 1:47Speaker 1: or one of the privileges went not to appointed democrat.
- 1:50Speaker 1: NASA is very important. We have great people. General Chaine
- 1:54Speaker 1: is going to be picking somebody with our will be
- 1:58Speaker 1: we'll be checking him out. But he wanted that person,
- 2:01Speaker 1: a certain person, and we said no. And yeah, I
- 2:04Speaker 1: can understand why he's upset. Remember he was here for
- 2:07Speaker 1: a long time. You saw a man who was very
- 2:11Speaker 1: happy when he stood behind the oval desk, and even
- 2:15Speaker 1: with the black guy. I said, you want to learn
- 2:17Speaker 1: the makeup, we'll get you in the makeup. But he
- 2:19Speaker 1: said no, I don't think so, which is interesting and
- 2:23Speaker 1: very nice. He wants to be who is so you
- 2:26Speaker 1: could make that statement. Two, I guess. Look, Elon and
- 2:29Speaker 1: I had a great relationship. I don't know if we
- 2:32Speaker 1: will anymore. I was surprised because you were here. Everybody
- 2:35Speaker 1: in this room practically was here. As we had a
- 2:38Speaker 1: wonderful send off. He said wonderful things about me. You
- 2:40Speaker 1: couldn't have nicer, said the fascinate he's worn the hat
- 2:44Speaker 1: truck was right about everything, and I am right about
- 2:48Speaker 1: the great big beautiful bill. We call it a great,
- 2:51Speaker 1: big beautiful bill because that's what it is. And again,
- 2:54Speaker 1: biggest tax cuts in history, biggest economic development moves anywhere.
- 2:59Speaker 1: We'd never done anything like it. Business is spur and
- 3:03Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the numbers, but the
- 3:04Speaker 1: numbers came out. Even the CBO, which is run by Democrats,
- 3:09Speaker 1: said that we're going to be doing you know, I'd
- 3:11Speaker 1: like you to discuss it. The two point eight billion
- 3:13Speaker 1: a triton that CBO. This is a group of people
- 3:17Speaker 1: that are Democrats, they're very hostile to us. They just
- 3:21Speaker 1: came out with phenomenal numbers. What it does you want
- 3:24Speaker 1: to mention?
- 3:24Speaker 3: That's yes, sir. So what we've seen is we keep
- 3:28Speaker 3: hearing from the CBO that there's going to be a
- 3:31Speaker 3: worse deficit from the bill, which we disagree with. But
- 3:33Speaker 3: using the CBO scoring, they came out and scored the
- 3:37Speaker 3: tariff revenue. We think it'll be the minimum of two
- 3:40Speaker 3: point eight trillion over the ten year window, which actually
- 3:43Speaker 3: puts the bill in surplus. If you include the tariff revenue,
- 3:46Speaker 3: which they won't do.
- 3:48Speaker 1: It gives you a tremendous surplus. But we're not allowed
- 3:51Speaker 1: to use that for some reason, they say scoring. Nobody
- 3:54Speaker 1: knows what scoring means. Maybe a couple of people, but nobody.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Somebody sits in the background they say, well, I'm not
- 4:00Speaker 1: going to allow that. They're not allowing other things that
- 4:02Speaker 1: we have that are tremendously profitable for our country. But
- 4:06Speaker 1: if you saw they remember eggs, eggs, we weren't going
- 4:09Speaker 1: to buy another ink for the next twenty years. There
- 4:11Speaker 1: was so expensive, right, Remember you guys all hit me
- 4:14Speaker 1: about eggs. Eggs have come down four hundred percent. Everybody
- 4:18Speaker 1: has eggs. Now they have an eggs for breakfast again.
- 4:21Speaker 1: But if you look at gasoline, very important, I think
- 4:24Speaker 1: always the most important because if the energy is a
- 4:26Speaker 1: big the biggest factor. That's what happened. He screwed up
- 4:29Speaker 1: our energy policy and everything went up because energy went up.
- 4:33Speaker 1: But now energy is way down and they have states
- 4:36Speaker 1: were you at one dollar and ninety eight cents a
- 4:39Speaker 1: gallon for gasoline, so the costs of weight have come
- 4:43Speaker 1: way down. And one of the things I ran on
- 4:47Speaker 1: was that I ran on the border. We have the
- 4:49Speaker 1: best border in the history of our country. Ninety nine
- 4:51Speaker 1: point nine nine percent. It was last week three people
- 4:55Speaker 1: came in, two of them for medical reasons. We let
- 4:57Speaker 1: them in because one of them had an art attack.
- 5:00Speaker 1: I think it was a nice thing to do, and
- 5:02Speaker 1: one of them had something else. So we've never had
- 5:05Speaker 1: I had very good numbers for four years, but we
- 5:09Speaker 1: were really top there. And I want to thank Christy
- 5:11Speaker 1: and Tom Holman. They've done a fantastic job, but nobody
- 5:16Speaker 1: mentions that anymore. Remember a few months ago, the boarder
- 5:20Speaker 1: was a total disaster. People were coming in by the
- 5:22Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people a day, a week, a month.
- 5:27Speaker 1: I mean, we had a month two million people came
- 5:30Speaker 1: in in one month. The border was being overrun and
- 5:34Speaker 1: a lot of bad people, criminals, murderers, drug dealers. We
- 5:37Speaker 1: had some of the worst people in the world coming
- 5:40Speaker 1: in from all over the world. It's totally close and
- 5:43Speaker 1: you know what. People are coming into our country, but
- 5:45Speaker 1: they're coming in legally, so we've done a great job.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Elon knew that. Elon endorsed me very strongly. He actually
- 5:52Speaker 1: went up in campaign for me. I think I would
- 5:55Speaker 1: have won SUSI would say I would have won Pennsylvania
- 5:57Speaker 1: easily anyway, even if the governor read the real governor,
- 6:01Speaker 1: not the governor from Minnesota. Who's I mean, he's a
- 6:03Speaker 1: sick puppy. That guy that pulled I feel sorry for
- 6:06Speaker 1: but they made a bag of choice with him. But
- 6:10Speaker 1: if you picked Shapiro or anybody else. I spoke to
- 6:12Speaker 1: him recently about his you know, his house being set
- 6:16Speaker 1: on fire, which was terrible. But if they picked Jim,
- 6:19Speaker 1: I would have won Pennsylvania. I want to buy a lot,
- 6:22Speaker 1: but I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings
- 6:25Speaker 1: of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better
- 6:29Speaker 1: than you people. He knew everything about it. He had
- 6:31Speaker 1: no problem with it. All of a sudden he had
- 6:33Speaker 1: a problem. And he only developed the problem when he
- 6:35Speaker 1: found out that we're going to have to cut the
- 6:37Speaker 1: ev mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and
- 6:41Speaker 1: it really is unfair. We want to have cars of
- 6:43Speaker 1: all times electric. We want to have electric, but we
- 6:46Speaker 1: want to have a gasoline combustion. We want to have
- 6:49Speaker 1: different we want to have hybrids, we want to have all.
- 6:52Speaker 1: We want to be able to sell everything. And when
- 6:55Speaker 1: that was cut and Congress wanted to cut it, he
- 6:58Speaker 1: became a little bit different. I can understand that. But
- 7:02Speaker 1: he knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it
- 7:04Speaker 1: better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem
- 7:07Speaker 1: until right after he left. And if you saw the
- 7:10Speaker 1: savings he made about me, which I'm sure you can
- 7:12Speaker 1: get for he's it's very fresh on tape. He said
- 7:15Speaker 1: the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn't said
- 7:18Speaker 1: bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.
- 7:21Speaker 1: But I'm very disappointed in you, and I've helped you
- 7:23Speaker 1: a lot and a lot.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Did he I just want to clarify, did he raise
- 7:28Speaker 2: any of these concerns with you privately before he raised
- 7:30Speaker 2: them publicly. And this is the guy you put in
- 7:32Speaker 2: charge of cutting spending. Should people not take him seriously
- 7:36Speaker 2: about spending? Now he singing this all sour great Now.
- 7:38Speaker 1: He worked hard and he did a good job. And
- 7:41Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I think he misses the place. I
- 7:43Speaker 1: think he got out there and all of a sudden
- 7:45Speaker 1: he wasn't in this beautiful Oval office and he was.
- 7:47Speaker 1: And he's got nice officers too. But there's something about
- 7:50Speaker 1: this when I was telling you the Chancellor, this is
- 7:53Speaker 1: where it has. People come in here, even from Germany.
- 7:56Speaker 1: They come in and they they walk into the Oval
- 7:59Speaker 1: Office and it's just a special place. Its World War
- 8:02Speaker 1: One it started and it ended here in World War Two,
- 8:06Speaker 1: and so many other things. Everything big comes right from
- 8:09Speaker 1: this is beautiful space. It's now much more beautiful than
- 8:13Speaker 1: it was six months ago. A lot of good things
- 8:15Speaker 1: are happening in israelm And I'll tell you he's not
- 8:19Speaker 1: the first people leave my administration. And they love us,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and then at some point they miss it so badly,
- 8:29Speaker 1: and some of them embrace it, and some of them
- 8:32Speaker 1: actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's
- 8:34Speaker 1: sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it,
- 8:37Speaker 1: but we have it with unders do they leave? They
- 8:41Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and the glamour's gone, the
- 8:44Speaker 1: whole world is different. They become hostile. I don't know
- 8:48Speaker 1: what it is. Someday you write a book about it.
- 8:50Speaker 1: You'll let us know.