Ursula von der Leyen, the distinguished and Highly Respected President of the European Commission, and I have been discussing the massive Worldwide problem of missing children. This is, likewise, a big subject with my wife, Melania. It is a subject at the top of all lists, and the World will work together to solve it, hopefully bringing them home to their families!
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I had a very good meeting with distinguished guests, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, in the White House, which ended in a further meeting in the Oval Office. During the meeting we discussed Security Guarantees for Ukraine, which Guarantees would be provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America. Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine. At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy. After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself. Again, this was a very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, are coordinating with Russia and Ukraine. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Republican State Legislators in the Great State of Texas, which I love, and WON BIG three times, including with 6.4 Million Votes in 2024 (by far the most Votes in History!), just introduced a new Bill for ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL CONGRESSIONAL MAP! Thank you to Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Speaker Dustin Burrows, and the Texas Legislature for your GREAT work. It is wonderful to see Republicans everywhere standing up to Save our Country. It is one of the most popular initiatives I have ever supported. Republicans love watching us fight for a Great Cause. Please pass this Map, ASAP. THANK YOU TEXAS — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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The Alaska summit reinforced my belief that while difficult pieces within reach, and I believe that in a very significant step, President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, and this is one of the key points that we need to consider. And we're going to be considering that at the table also, like, who will do what, essentially. I'm optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that would deter any future aggression against Ukraine. And I actually think there won't be. I think that's even over overrated, largely overrated, but we're going to find out. And I think that the European nations are going to take a lot of the burden. We're going to help them and we're going to make it very secure.
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>> Ready, peace. >> We love them, we love them. >> Thank you very much, everybody. >> Thank you.
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I've settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don't have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong on the Russia/Ukraine MESS, that is Sleepy Joe Biden's war, not mine. I'm only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further. It would have NEVER happened if I was President. I know exactly what I'm doing, and I don't need the advice of people who have been working on all of these conflicts for years, and were never able to do a thing to stop them. They are "STUPID" people, with no common sense, intelligence, or understanding, and they only make the current R/U disaster more difficult to FIX. Despite all of my lightweight and very jealous critics, I'll get it done — I always do!!! President DJT
I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, "We give up, we concede, we surrender, we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country." But that's why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety. This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing! Until 4 days ago, Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe "city" in the United States, and perhaps the World. Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour! People are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin!
A big day at the White House. We have never had so many European Leaders here at one time. A great honor for America!!! Lets see what the results will be??? President DJT
We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. Remember, I was the one who negotiated and got hundreds of hostages freed and released into Israel (and America!). I was the one who ended 6 wars, in just 6 months. I was the one who OBLITERATED Iran's Nuclear facilities. Play to WIN, or don't play at all! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly "Inaccurate," Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an "agent" for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women's Sports, Transgender and "WOKE" for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON'T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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In the campaign I made a sacred pledge to our seniors that I would always protect social security and under this administration we're keeping that promise and strengthening social security for generations to come. I signed one big beautiful bill and allowed no tax on social security for our great seniors. Social security will be great for them if you have my commitment. This is a proclamation both commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act and it also obviously mentions the fact that as part of the one big beautiful bill a vast majority of our senior citizens are no longer paying taxes on their social security benefits as you promised in your campaign and as you delivered for the American people.
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Do the great American Flags I put up in front of both entrances of the White House look FANTASTIC, or what??? WOW, what a difference!!! President DJT
"DEEP STATE RECKONING"
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So let's talk about this annex, which is really just more documentation in this case. Does Congress need to do this, or can the FBI do it themselves? Yeah, look, Cash Patel has called upon Congress to release them, but there's nothing that precludes the Department of Justice now that the documents have been declassified, and I'm sure there's some redactions in there that the Department of Justice can release this tomorrow if they really wanted to. I think it's a courtesy, though, to a Chairman Grassley, Chairman Jordan, those types of people who are trying to put together a bigger, broader case. But yeah, they should release those documents. There should be a hearing where you bring these people in and they can make the case and force these people to answer questions under oath. And as it relates to Adam Schiff, I tell you, it's the first time I felt like he really is in trouble, not only on the mortgage front, but when you have a staffer, a Democratic staffer, allegedly, the story is that he has told investigators that he was directed to release classified information. You got to prosecute somebody like that. As a member of Congress, you have a very high security clearance, but you still sign a document. You still sign an extra document. I think they should pull that out, put that out there for the American people. Every member of Congress signs it, says you won't release that information. And if he did, and he did it purposefully, and he was using federal employees to do so, you got to prosecute the guy. Yeah, because it comes down to a double standard, Kevin. 100%. There have been members of the military who mistakenly share closet information, not deliberately, who have served prison time for doing that. And yet, there's people like Adam Schiff who tend to get away with it. But the thing that jumps out at me is, Schiff was allegedly leaking classified information, but the information that was classified was really just classified to cover up what the Clinton campaign was doing with the Intelligence Committee. So it shouldn't have been classified in the first place. It's like when they redact things about furniture, because they don't want to be embarrassed. I mean, they're much worse than that. But this information should have been classified in the first place, it seems. And this is the real issue that happens a lot in Washington. Jason, you can speak to this sometimes in an overabundance of caution. You can have basically black sharpie all throughout a document. The truth is, some of this, and I dare argue, a lot of this need not be redacted. And let's be honest about what we've seen here. We've seen congressional lawmakers possibly involved in a grand conspiracy to utilize material that they knew to be false or misleading to undermine a sitting president of the United States of America to circumvent the will of the American people. This is not a small matter. And I think, whether it's Adam Schiff, whether it's James Comey and others, Clapper, we can run down the list. I think justice must be served to prevent this from ever happening again. Anita, I think there's a lot of Americans watching and saying, OK, there is new information here, but why is Congress looking at this? What are the next steps here for what the American people can expect for information from their lawmakers? Yeah. Well, we talked about this last night. You know, it's so interesting that after eight years, the story is finally moving forward. Finally. Finally. Documents are coming to light. Investigations will soon be underway about how this whole Russian collusion narrative came to light and how it did truly undermine the presidency of Donald Trump. And it really and we talked about this last night, how it affected his relationship with Putin and other world leaders. It also brought down the careers of people like Michael Flynn and others. And now the big question will be, you know, will there be consequences for the people that you mentioned that are possibly involved here, including Hillary Clinton? Yeah. And Jason, we have elections every four years. So the big overriding thing here is, is this problem solved? Is the deep state still going to work with Democratic operatives to essentially try and rig an election with this false narrative in an official intelligence document that was then used to, you know, to torpedo the first four years of the Trump administration, which led to impeachments and special counsels and all of that. I mean, there are big questions about whether this ideology has been rooted out of these places. No, if you think the deep state is done trying to go after Donald Trump or Republicans and conservatives. I know this thing coming. The reality is the allegation is that the Clinton campaign set aside 10 million dollars. They gave it. They put it over. They created this fake dossier, which was the precursor that led to all these articles in the newspaper. But more importantly, and this one still just sticks under my craw, is this idea that they use this as the predicate to do what they shouldn't have done, which is spy on the on the Trump campaign and others related to him to go to the court, testify in writing that you have verified information that you could go after these people because you have seen these documents. And I'm talking about James Comey and others. And you go to the court and get the court to allow you to spy on somebody doesn't get any worse than that. Don't tell me that all that happened a long time ago and all that's already been exposed. You got to prosecute people who do those types of things that court. And where's the court? Yeah, where is the court? You lie to the court in another setting. Do you think they would ever ever called you in contempt? Where is where is the Supreme Court? Yes. And we don't ever see that the FISA court and we have to reform the FISA court. This is something that can never happen again. I'm so glad you pointed that out. A lot of people are. Oh, it's in the past. Like you said, oh, that's eight years ago. But the truth is, let justice be served one way or the other, though the heavens fall. We've got to get to the bottom of this and people have to pay. I got to add a little bit of color this I was on the House Judiciary Committee. I'm not an attorney and I know that sounds like I'm bragging, but I said to my chairman, I want to go to the FISA court because I want to see it. And then they admitted it's not really a court. What they do is they take this document, they give it to a federal judge who sits in a skiff by himself and there's nobody else there. And they just read these documents. So if you're not 100 percent certain on those documents, guess what? You have lied to the court. You have deceived the American people, you have undermined justice, and that's why you have to be held accountable. You can't just get away with it and say, well, you know, I based it on intelligence. I mean, it's just gibberish. You either lied or you didn't lie. And I'm sorry, but it looks like they lie. Yes, it does. To your point. Real quick, if these things bear out, right? If these things come to light and they bear out, this makes Watergate look like small potatoes. Absolutely. It really does. They ruin people's lives, as you mentioned.
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"FAR LEFT HYSTERICS"
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"This is not our war, the United States is not in a war, Ukraine is in a war, we happen to be in the role of the only country in the world, we're the only leader in the world that can actually bring Putin to a table to even discuss these things." Welcome back everybody. Nineteen minutes after the hour now, this is a Fox News Alert. As you know, President Trump trying to broker yet another peace deal, but rather than applaud the push for peace, the far left media is attacking the president. I believe that the humiliation for the United States, the loss of credibility and reputation yesterday in Alaska was much worse than the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. That meeting was a disaster, it was an embarrassment for the United States, it was a failure. Putin got everything he wanted, I mean first of all he wanted that photo op, right? Vladimir Putin got out of this summit meeting, it was not only the nice photo op on the red carpet and in the presidential limousine, what he got out of it was essentially a free pass to continue the war for an indefinite amount of time. Well that Chris Murphy is a walking soundbite for his party, never off message no matter what happens. Now what they do ignore clearly is that under the Biden administration there was no end in sight for the war at all, but even as President Trump prepares to meet with Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders tomorrow at the White House, at least there is some hope that maybe, maybe the war might end sometime soon. You know Katie, I mentioned Murphy because this is the thing about Democrats, if nothing else they are disciplined, they stay on message, you rarely see anybody stray off the reservation because they know they have a talking point and they will run with that talking point no matter what. Even in spite of the fact that we're all out here, we can see with our own eyes the President's trying to make something happen. Yeah, the freak out over this from Democrats is just an indictment of their own failures when it comes to the politicians they supported and the issue of Ukraine. So Barack Obama loses Crimea under his watch to Russia, Putin invades and takes Crimea with Joe Biden as the Vice President. Then you have Joe Biden with the Ukraine portfolio saying they can't join NATO because Ukraine is too corrupt, too corrupt, too corrupt while his family then goes and engages in the very corruption that's preventing Ukraine from joining NATO which would have prevented them from being engaged, invaded by Russia. Then you have Putin invading when President Joe Biden comes into office and we have this horrific war that is now lasting almost four years. They own all of that whereas President Trump is the one during his first term who sent them javelins instead of blankets. He's sending them negotiations instead of allowing Russia to continue leading Russians and Ukrainians to a slaughter by threatening Putin with sanctions that would continue to cripple his economy after he's already squeezed them on so many ways. India sanctions, the EU deal with $750 billion in energy that they buy from the United States. So they're freaking out because the President is getting results here and they don't want to talk about their record when it comes to Russia and Ukraine because it's a very, very poor one that Putin is winning. Especially if he can push this over the finish line, Anita, any expectation for anything big this week? What do you think? Well, you know, I think, look, he got to a meeting. Yeah. Which was part of the goal. Right. And to Katie's point, the last time President Biden met with Putin was in December of 2021 during a Russia-U.S. summit. Now, he tried to get a meeting with Putin after the war had started. Couldn't get one. Putin said no. Yeah. So at least President Trump got to first base. You know, if you look at this, Biden struck out, right? We all hope for the best and Zelensky will be at that meeting and he will put his two cents in and see what he thinks. But all these people criticizing it, "Oh, Putin got everything he wanted," no one got anything yet. Yeah. You know? It's still going on, Jason. I mean, let's be honest. It's easy for the mockingbirds to say, "Oh, look at the optics," to say any other, "I don't care about the optics. I care about results." And I think that's the position the White House would take right now. Well, I think Katie did a good job of laying out how devastating had it been under Obama and under Biden. Yeah. I mean, and I heard this Democrat and I had to watch the tape a second time saying, "Oh, this, me," you know, the idea that Donald Trump met with Putin was worse than Americans dying on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Are you kidding me? They are so, they're so disrespectful of our United States military, where you have literally all of these people who've lost their lives and the botched withdrawal, and you're comparing that? That is just absurd. Look, Donald Trump has given us the best chance for peace that we have seen yet, and he's doing everything he possibly can. This game isn't over yet. The United States of America is the military and the economic superpower, and as we've been talking about, Kevin, you, me, the superpower card can be played in shutting Russia down to make them a third world country, essentially. So don't think that Donald Trump is just rolling over. He's doing more to create peace in this world, as exemplified by the six, seven other wars that he got rid of, that creating a chance for peace, real lasting peace in Ukraine. Yeah, go ahead. I wonder what the parents of those US soldiers who were killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal think, when they hear something like that, that this meeting was worse than the withdrawal. It is such a slap in the face. Yeah, it's just the indignity of it is beyond the pale.
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President Trump Has Achieved Peace Between: –India & Pakistan –Israel & Iran (Ceasefire) –Serbia & Kosovo (Trump’s intervention deterred escalation) –Congo & Rwanda –Thailand & Cambodia (Border-Clashes Ceasefire) –Armenia & Azerbaijan –Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon (Abraham Accords) And now the fake news media shamelessly attack Trump because he hasn’t YET finished bringing peace between Ukraine and Russia! 🤡
Do the great American Flags I put up in front of both entrances of the White House look FANTASTIC, or what??? WOW, what a difference!!! President DJT
One year ago, the United States was an almost DEAD COUNTRY. Now we are the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World, the envy of all. What a difference a President makes!!!
The Fake News will say that it is a big loss for President Trump to host so many great European Leaders at our beautiful White House. Actually, it is a great honor for America!!! President DJT
Big day at the White House tomorrow. Never had so many European Leaders at one time. My great honor to host them!!! President DJT
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight. Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!
The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said "Putin got everything that he wanted." Actually, "nobody got anything," too soon, but getting close. Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America. Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so. This war can be ended, NOW, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others, make it much harder to do so.
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We're going to rebuild our cities into beacons of hope, safety, and beauty better than they have ever, ever, ever been before. We will take over our horribly run Washington, D.C., and clean up, renovate, and rebuild our capital so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. We're going to get all the graffiti off the marble. We're going to fix the roads and the medians, which are falling down all over the streets. Washington, D.C. will become a symbol of beauty, security, freedom, and strength.
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The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a "major defeat" by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States. Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S., and the Fake News knows this. It was a major point of contention! If we had the Summit elsewhere, the Democrat run and controlled media would have said what a terrible thing THAT was. These people are sick! They even want CRIME IN D.C., and other BLUE Cities throughout our Country, but don't worry, I won't let that happen. Just like our now secure Southern Border (ZERO illegals in last 3 months!), our cities will be Secure and Safe, and D.C. will lead the way!