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This is what it comes down to. Independent thinkers like me have no home in the Democrat Party of censorship and total conformity and war. Under President Trump's leadership, the Republican Party welcomes people like us, encourages this open debate and different ideas as pro-freedom, pro-peace. President Trump has transformed this Republican Party that is welcoming many, many people like me to come and actually stand for the core principles of our country, our Constitution, freedom, and peace, and prosperity.

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When you talk to the former president about tariffs, do you see it as a bargaining chip or do you think you're going to see tariffs across the board of 20%? I think we should put tariffs on stuff we make and not put tariffs on stuff we don't make. It's pretty simple. And of course it's a bargaining chip. We can't sell a Ford or GM in Europe. You go to Europe, you can't sell a Ford or GM. Why? There's 100% tariffs. How about in Japan, 100% tariffs? So do you think if we said we're going to tariff you the way you tariff us, do you think they're going to allow Mercedes and all these Japanese companies and Porsches and BMWs to all of a sudden have 100% tariffs in America? Of course not. They're going to come and negotiate and their tariffs are going to come down. And finally, Ford and General Motors are going to be able to sell in these places. How does that sound? Of course they're going to come down. Of course. If you do it strategically, it absolutely makes sense. If you do it strategically, if it's across the board, it creates a real problem. And the question is whether you believe the president is going to do it strategically or across the board. He keeps saying it across the board. Well, when you're running for office, you make broad statements so people understand it. Okay. Tariffs are an amazing tool by the president to use. They're an amazing tool, but he understands don't tariff stuff we don't make, right? If we don't make it and you want to buy it, I don't want to put the price up there. It's pointless, but use tariffs to build in America. If we want to make it in America, tariff it. Or if we're competing with a taffet, but you got to remember, we need to protect the American worker. Finally, someone's going to protect the American worker and Donald Trump is here to protect the American worker. Do you think we make a lot of money in tariffs or if they're used as negotiating tactics? Look, tariffs will come down there. We're not going to have super high tariffs here either. There's not going to be a big pot of money at the end of the day. I love that story, so which is it? Do we make a lot of money on tariffs or we bring productivity here and we drive up our workers here? So it's a win-win scenario. I like both of them. I think what's going to happen is we'll make a bunch of money on the tariffs, but mostly this everybody else is going to negotiate with us and we will be more fair. In 1948, right, we came up with something called the Marshall Plan, right? The world, Germany and Japan were destroyed after World War II and we wanted to export our economy to them. So we made a rule. They could tariff us and we won't tariff them. So they can rebuild, so they can rebuild their economy. We rebuilt their economy using something called the Marshall Plan. Our economy is so awesome that we'll use it to help you rebuild. When should that have ended? What do you think, 1980, right, 1985? I mean, why 40 years are Japan and Germany and all of Europe still tariffing the heck out of our auto industry, tariffing the heck out of our furniture industry? Do you realize all your furniture you're buying that's made foreign? It seems crazy. Why? It's because they tariff us and we don't tariff them. It's so obvious.

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- You have a few billionaire buddies. You're out there in Silicon Valley. Is it just you and a couple guys? Or how big is this anti-Biden movement at the upper echelons? - I think it's getting surprisingly big, Jesse. You know, when we agreed to do the fundraiser for President Trump, the goal was just to raise $5 million. And we weren't even sure we could do that. Because as you all know, Silicon Valley is pretty much a liberal bastion. But we ended up raising $12 million. We had over 100 people there, and it really was a total love fest. And then out in the streets, the San Francisco newspaper has been trying all week to gin up protesters. And nothing really materialized at all. But hundreds of people came out to demonstrate in favor of President Trump. And they were cheering all along his motorcade, even in San Francisco. So if that's the enthusiasm gap in a liberal place like San Francisco, what does that tell you about the rest of the country? - It tells you a lot. And we've seen it all across the country, in the bodegas, in Compton, pretty much everywhere. It just shocks you. You said there was a lot of love for Trump in the room. That's obviously people definitely there to donate. Is it the anti-Biden feeling, or is it the pro-Trump feeling? How would you define it? - Well, we had a lot of people in that room who had never donated to Republicans before or to Trump. They were new donors, or they had always been Democrat donors, and yet they came out. And I think I treat that to the fact that Trump is making inroads in Silicon Valley, and then also Biden is really alienating people. He's really pursued a very hostile program towards innovation. He's been very hostile towards crypto. He's wanted to overregulate AI. He's basically shut down all M&A. And so I think there's a lot of people in technology who are asking, what good is this for us? How does it help us to have another four years of President Biden? And I think that Trump has basically declared that he's the crypto president. He's in favor of innovation. He's willing to listen. I think he listened extremely well to all the people in that room. And fundamentally, he wants America to do well. And I think that people in tech who get to meet the president, get to know him, they see that he really cares. And I think they can be won over by him. And I think they are being won over by him. - You say that the Biden administration is trying to kneecap AI. I think Kamala might be the AI czar. I don't know if she's doing it or someone else is doing it. The age factor, because Kamala is in play. If Biden is reelected, he's going to hand it over to Kamala probably in the first or second year. How much of a factor is that? - Well, the White House had this AI summit. And they did trot Kamala out with that 100 page plus AI regulatory plan. And it was just absurd in terms of the level of detail that they were getting to in terms of regulating this thing. Look, AI is brand new. At some point, we're going to need to regulate it, but not right now. And I think the feeling from a lot of people in tech was that if this was how the government reacted to the internet back in the 1990s, it never would have materialized. It never would have blossomed into the revolution that the internet was, which was very, very good for American jobs and productivity and America's leadership in the world. So what you don't want to do is kill this AI innovation in the cradle. And I think there was not a great deal of confidence that Kamala Harris was the person who was going to be the AI czar who's going to lead us into this glorious future. So yeah, I think that they are just way too trigger-- - That's another statement. - Yeah, the Biden administration is just way too trigger happy on regulation. I mean, that's the bottom line. - All right, thank you very much. Money talks and it had 12 million things to say at this fundraiser.

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I'm guessing that a lot of you out there are fans of President Donald J. Trump, right? He spoke yesterday. He spoke yesterday. I know it went very well. Of course, he's a friend of mine, and of course, I've endorsed him for president in 2024. I want to leave you with this thought, that there are a lot of things that I could say about President Trump's presidency. I could talk about tax reform. I could talk about the fact that we just for the first time during his four years started to push back against communist China. I could talk about the fact that he's the only presidential candidate speaking about the economic issues that matter, not just to the people in this room, but those all-important swing voters that we've got to win over. Those things are all true. But the strongest argument I can make for Donald Trump is where I started this speech, that when everybody else is telling lies about Ukraine, there is one man on the national stage telling the truth, and that's Donald J. Trump. You know, there was a really important moment during the presidential campaign, something that I would encourage you all, go home, go to Rumble or YouTube or whatever you watch your videos on, and go and find this clip. It was Donald Trump at the CNN town hall. You remember this a couple months ago? And whatever mainstream reporter they had asked them the question and said, "Well, whose side are you really on? Are you on the Russia side or are you on the Ukrainian side?" And of course that's a stupid answer. I'm on America's side. That should be our answer, right? We should always say we're on America's side. We can like the Ukrainians. We can not like the Russian aggression. We're on America's side. That's the only answer we should expect from our future president. Now every politician that I know, at least on a national stage, maybe even myself, would have taken the bait, right? They would have taken the reporter's bait, but Trump didn't. What he said was, "I want the killing to stop," right? I want the killing to stop. That ladies and gentlemen, that is the statesmanship that we need in this moment. That America comes first. And what is in the best interest of this country and what is in the best interest of all of us as human beings for the killing to stop? We send that country Ukraine $200 billion. The idea that we don't have the leverage to stop this conflict with the snap of our fingers is a joke. And anybody who tells you we can't stop this war is lying to you. $200 billion buys you a lot. And what buys us is leverage, and we ought to use it. But I want to encourage all of you, especially those young people who have not yet committed to a presidential candidate, I want to encourage you to get out there and support President Trump. And look, the reason is simple. There is a species of establishment Republican that if you told me this two years ago, I might not have believed you that this person exists, but they do. Now you all know them. They're the establishment hack in Washington, D.C. They put the Ukrainian flag in their Twitter bio or their Facebook profile. They care far more about the people who live 6,000 miles away than they do about the citizens of their own country. We all know these people. Of course, I've been exposed to them a lot in the last six months because I've been in Washington, D.C. all about six months. But you know what I find so interesting about those people is how they never have that compassion for the citizens of their own country. For the mom who's mourning a son who died of a fentanyl overdose. For the young man whose dad has lost years off their life. For the troop who fought and bled and maybe died in a foreign land because America's leaders made a mistake. They never have that same compassion for the citizens of their own country. Well, what I'd ask you to do is to have that compassion, to have that love. When I say America's not just a nation of ideas, what I mean is this whole American project doesn't work unless you feel it deep in your bones, that love of your fellow citizens of your countrymen. When you read about our great historical moments, you need to feel not just that they did heroic things, but that they were your people building something heroic that you and your children and your grandchildren deserve to inherit. I love you, ma'am. Thank you. And I will say there is no issue that these people with Ukrainian flags in their bio are more obsessed with. They call it entitlement reform, but of course what they're saying is that they want to cut Social Security for the people who paid into it for a generation so that we can send more money to Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine. Do we want to do that? No. Absolutely not. And the one person who's standing against it on the national stage right now is Donald Trump. So here's my message to all of you, and here is our message to everybody who's listening, whether you're in this room or on television, if you want to immiserate our grandmothers and grandfathers to send another yacht to Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration, No make America great again. Let's go and show them over the next two years. God bless

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