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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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