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President Trump Hosts First Cabinet Meeting, Feb. 26, 2025.

Published February 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:11

We're doing very well with Russia, Ukraine. President Zelensky is going to be coming on Friday, that's now confirmed. And We're going to be signing an agreement which will be a very big agreement. And I want to thank Howard and Scott for the job you guys did and putting it together really did an amazing job that will be on rare earth and other things. (01:11–01:16)

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“We've been given a lot of credit for having a very successful first month.”
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“We're doing very well with Russia, Ukraine.”
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“President Zelensky is going to be coming on Friday, that's now confirmed.”
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“We're in for probably $350 billion. Europe is in for $100 billion.”
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“They hadn't spoken to President Putin in two years.”
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“In just over one month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before, much more than 100%.”
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“We've unleashed American energy at levels that will soon be reported.”
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“The inflation is stopping slowly, but part of the reason it's stopping is because of high interest rates and other problems that we…”
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“Eggs are a disaster.”
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“One of the most important initiatives is Doge, and we have cut billions and billions and billions of dollars.”
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“Whether it's this year or next year, I think we'll be very close to balancing budgets.”
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“Some of the things they found, some of the horrible things they found, some of the theft and fraud, and we call it waste and abuse, but a…”
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“I got elected with a tremendous vote, winning every swing state, winning the popular vote, winning the counties by thousands of counties.”
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“I think it was 2,800 to 500. 2,800 counties to 500 counties.”
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“I got elected based on taxes and based on many things in the border, but also based on balancing budgets.”
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“They have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this. And some disagree a little bit. But I will tell you, for the most part, I…”
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“Biden ran a very tight administration. They spent money like nobody has ever spent money before.”
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“He [the previous president] caused [inflation] because of energy and stupid spending.”
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“We spend more money per pupil than any other country in the world.”
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“We were ranked last time under Biden. We were ranked 40 out of 40.”
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“We're cutting down government. We're cutting down the size of government.”
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“We want to have a balanced budget within a reasonably short period of time, meaning maybe by next year or the year after.”
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“We set records on the least number of illegal aliens coming in, migrants coming into our country that we had, that we've had in more than 50…”
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“200,000 of these gold green cards is $1 trillion to pay down our debt.”
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“Companies can't hire [graduates] out of colleges, so they go back to India or [their home country] and become billionaires.”
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“If we sell a million [gold cards], that's $5 trillion.”
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“Europe spent $100 billion [on Ukraine].”
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“Consumer confidence had the biggest increase in the history of the chart. It went up 42 points in a period of like days after the election.”
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“Confidence in business, confidence in the country has reached an all-time high.”
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“As long as you're president, Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.”
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“We didn't have the Afghanistan withdrawal, the worst withdrawal anybody has ever seen.”
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“Canada... spend very little money on military, on NATO. They're just about last in terms of payment.”
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“Millions of people have died because of the fentanyl that comes over the border.”
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“It comes mostly from China, but it comes through Mexico and it comes through Canada.”
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“We took in $700 billion from China.”
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“Not one president in this, in the history of our country took in 10 cents from China.”
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“We give billions of dollars to Afghanistan.”
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“We left behind all of that equipment, which wouldn't have happened.”
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“We were going to keep Bagram not because of Afghanistan, but because of China, because it's exactly one hour away from where China makes its…”
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“We left billions, tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment behind [in Afghanistan].”
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“Afghanistan is one of the biggest sellers of military equipment in the world. You know why they're selling the equipment that we left.”
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“We lose 300,000 people a year to fentanyl.”
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“We subsidize [Canada] $200 billion a year.”
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“Canada relies on us 95%. We rely on them. 4%.”
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“Why are we giving [Canada] $200 billion a year?”
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“The tariffs will make it impossible for them [Canada] to sell cars into the United States.”
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“We have about a $300 billion deficit with the European Union.”
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“The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States.”
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“Our elections are extremely dishonest.”
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“We're the only country in the world that has mail-in voting.”
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“Paper ballots will cost 9% of the machines.”
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“If I didn't get elected, I believe [Putin] would have just continued to go through Ukraine.”
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“Without our equipment, [the Ukraine] war would have been over in a very short period of time.”
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“Obama at the time gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.”
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“We have the best military equipment in the world.”
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“NATO, you can forget about that's been I think that's probably the reason the whole thing started.”
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“Probably a million and a half soldiers have been killed. Close to a million and a half soldiers.”
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“That horrible war that should have never started, would have never started if I were president.”
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“Biden did a horrible, horrible job. He should have prevented that war.”
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“Putin would have never gone in. I'll tell you one thing. He would have never gone in that war would never have taken place if I were…”
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“I think we had the worst president in the history of our country. He just left office.”
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“To spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the green news scam, a total scam.”
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“In leaving office, to send $20 billion here and $20 million there and $10 million and $5 million.”
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