22 posts from Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Sir, this is a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States. That's a big one. A lot of big ones, huh? You know what that means, you know. President Trump, did President Biden leave you a letter? He may have.

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This is an executive order taking a large number of executive actions to secure our southern border. Okay. Sounds reasonable. President Trump, do you remember four years ago Barack Obama had told you that the top 30 country was going to be Northern Korea? Did Joe Biden tell you what he thinks the top threat to the country is? No, no. Why not? I think we have a lot of them. Right now we really, I think we have a lot. I think North Korea turned out to be good. I was very friendly with him. He liked me. I liked him. We got along very well. They thought that was a tremendous threat. Now he is a nuclear power. We got along. I think you'll be happy to see him coming back.

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-This is an order creating and implementing the Department of Governmental Efficiency, known as Doge. -Okay, that's a big one. -Is Elon Musk going to get a West Wing office? -No, he's getting an office for about 20 people that were hiring to make sure that these get implemented. We have a problem in this country. He's on an executive order. It doesn't get done for six months. As an example, when we allow the J-6 hostages to go out, it might not be approved under the old days for two weeks, three weeks, six months. You know, they had a good ruling for the Supreme Court, and it's like nothing happened. That ruling was six months ago, you know that. And it was like they didn't have a ruling. They've been treated very unfair. The judges have been absolutely brutal. The prosecutors have been brutal. Nobody's ever treated people in this country like that. -Mr. President, are you commuting the sentences of anyone who assaulted a police officer on January 6th? -Well, we're looking at two police officers, actually, that Washington police officer, who went after an illegal, and things happened, and they ended up putting them in jail. They got five-year jail sentences. You know the case. And we're looking at that in order to give them a -- We got to give them a break.

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He's good. He's doing a good job. I don't know. I can't tell you. I don't know what's gonna happen with that. He's got, he's got some very strong ideas in the Markov. Did you sign a checkbox order? Did you sign a checkbox order? Yeah. Yes, that was just signed. Markov, you're saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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-What are you signing out for? -It's an executive order relating to reforms to the federal workforce, including to the Senior Executive Service. -We're getting rid of all of the cancer. I call it cancer. The cancer caused by the Biden administration.

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-This next one, sir, is a declaration of a national energy emergency. -So you also -- -That's a big one. -You know what that allows you to do. That means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem. And we do have that kind of an emergency. -Hey, President Trump, at some point will you use your powers of presidency to tell Americans we're concerned about the wrongs? -Yeah. -Oh, good.

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-You look like you were having a good conversation with President Obama and President Trump. -I was. And you'd like to know what it was? -Yeah. Everybody wants to know. -Everybody wants to know, and I wouldn't want to laugh, but we were having some crazy conversations. Why do you ask you the question like that? I don't think you want to know. You might not. You might be insulted. -It's an executive order relating to holding former government officials accountable for unlawful disclosure of sensitive information.

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-What's this one? -That's unleashing American energy, sir. Relates to easing permitting processes and other regulatory systems to ensure that we can produce energy efficiently to drive the American economy forward. President Trump.

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-What is this? -Withdrawing from the World Health Organization. -Ooh, that's a big one. So we paid $500 million to World Health when I was here, and I terminated it. China with 1.4 billion people. We have 350 to pay -- Nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. But let's say we have 325. They had 1.4 billion. They were paying $39 million. We were paying $500 million. It seemed a little unfair to me. So that wasn't the reason, but I dropped out. They offered me to come back for $39 million. In theory, it should be less than that, but, you know. And when Biden came back, they came back for $500 million. He knew that you could have come back for $39 million. They wanted us back so badly, so we'll see what happens. -Mr President, you said that -- -Pretty sad to think of it. China pays $39 million, and we pay $500 million, and China's a bigger country. -Mr President, you spoke about inflation today in your remarks. What actions are you taking today that will have a direct impact for Americans on their everyday costs, to bring the costs down? -The biggest thing and factor for inflation is energy. They screwed up my energy policy, and then they went back to it. You know, they hurt it really badly, and then they went back to it, and they started drilling more, but by that time, it was too late. Many of these things that we're signing and that Doug Burgum is going to be signing, and Chris Wright was phenomenal with, you know, energy, Department of Energy. We're going to be taking a lot -- We're going to make a lot of money from energy. We have more than anybody else. We're going to make a lot of money from energy. We're going to make a lot of money from tariffs. You know, European Union charges us. They have a VAT tax of 20%, but it's really much higher than that, and that's the equivalent -- almost the equivalent of a tariff, and they're tough. They're very tough. They don't take our cars. They don't take our farm product. They don't take almost anything, and yet we take their cars, and we take their farm product. We take a lot from them, so, you know, we have, like, a $300 billion deficit with the European Union. So we'll straighten that out with either tariffs or they have to buy our oil. The one thing they can do -- well, I guess -- the one thing they can do to catch up quickly, buy our oil, I guess, and they should do that. -Will you travel to China this year? -Yeah, I could be, you know. I've had the invite. -Do you think she invited you to come this year? -I would do, yeah. -Talking about the European Union and the tariffs, like, what do you mean when you say that European Union, I think, is part of BRICS? -Is that a what? -BRICS, you said BRICS. -Oh, BRICS. No, I was talking about BRICS. BRICS is six nations. I think it's seven nations, and they were looking to do a number in the United States, and if they do that, they won't be happy about what's going to happen to them. -Are you still considering a universal tariff, Mr. President, on all countries? -I may. Yeah, but we're not ready for that yet.

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-Protecting women from radical gender ideology. -Ooh. -Mr. President, going back to the World Health Organization, you were the president during COVID. Don't you see the importance of an organization like that to coordinate a global response in case? -I do, but not when you're being ripped off like we are by the World Health. World Health ripped us off. Everybody rips off the United States.

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