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Outline of an executive order establishing a whole of government approach to root out fraud and return funds to taxpayers, chaired by the vice president with FTC leadership.
Asmongold TV’s rundown covers Trump’s aggressive fraud-fighting agenda, the California/Minnesota Medicaid concerns, and the bold claims about Iran and NATO—all framed as a sweeping, high-stakes policy push.
Summary
Asmongold TV’s breakdown centers on Donald Trump’s bold claim that a new executive order will launch a whole-of-government effort to root out fraud in federally funded programs, with the vice president chairing and Andrew Ferguson of the FTC steering the charge. The discussion threads through specific cases, such as Medicaid fraud in Minneapolis tied to Somali communities, and appeals to the public’s wallet by promising billions to taxpayers if fraud is stopped. The panel notes competition and friction within the administration, highlighting JD and Steven Miller’s roles, while contrasting Trump’s past and present foreign policy moves, especially the Iran posture and the NATO commitments, with claims of unprecedented impact. They highlight the tension between Republicans and Democrats on topics like border policy, healthcare funding, and drug pricing reforms like Most Favored Nations. Throughout, the speakers foreground the idea that fraud undermines the budget and citizen benefits, arguing that aggressive enforcement and inter-agency coordination are the keys to turning the country’s finances around. The transcript also plays up showmanship elements—Trump’s dramatic descriptions of military capability, his praise for “high IQ” advisors, and the theatrical signing of the executive order—giving the discourse a performative, rally-like energy. The segment closes with reflections on media questions and political optics, underscoring how the administration frames this as a fight for the nation’s financial and national security future.Overall, the video presents a climate of urgency, partisan storytelling, and bold plans, inviting viewers to weigh the feasibility and motives behind a sweeping anti-fraud initiative.
Key Takeaways
- The administration proposes a new, government-wide task force to root out fraud in federally funded programs, with the vice president as chair and Andrew Ferguson from the FTC as vice chair.
- Statement from Steven Miller and JD anchors the Minneapolis Medicaid fraud example as a concrete case of misallocated funds that the new task force would aim to halt.
- Trump asserts that halting fraud could generate enough savings to balance the budget, and claims success against Medicaid fraud and drug pricing reforms like Most Favored Nations.
- The dialogue emphasizes inter-agency data sharing as a gap to be closed, arguing Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Justice must coordinate to prosecute fraud to completion.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for watchers of American politics who want to understand how anti-fraud rhetoric translates into policy proposals, plus anyone evaluating the credibility of Trump-era claims about budget repair and national security actions.
Notable Quotes
""This executive order in front of you will establish a new task force aimed at rooting out that fraud, returning potentially billions or tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars to the American taxpayer.""
—Trump outlines the core purpose of the executive order and the scale of assumed fraud savings.
""The vice chair is going to do all the work and I want to take all the credit.""
—Astonishingly candid moment reflecting intra-team dynamics around leadership roles.
""If all of it were stopped, it would be enough to balance the budget.""
—Trump argues the anti-fraud effort could resolve the budget deficit through fraud prevention alone.
""Medicaid fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pocket" and autistic kids in Minneapolis weren’t getting benefits because of it.""
—Concrete example used to justify the new fraud enforcement initiative.
""We destroyed their nuclear potential... we obliterated them...""
—Trump emphasizes the Iran strike as a transformative foreign policy achievement.
Questions This Video Answers
- How would a whole-of-government anti-fraud task force work in practice and what agencies would be involved?
- What is the FTC chair Andrew Ferguson's expected role in leading fraud investigations?
- What are the political arguments for and against using federal funding as a battleground against fraud?
Donald TrumpFraud enforcementMedicaid fraudFTC Andrew FergusonMost Favored NationsSteven MillerJDExecutive orderNATO fundingIran policy
Full Transcript
This is a very big thing that we're doing. It's about fraud having to do with all the fraud that's taking place in our country and we have people that are extremely brilliant and just very talented and they're going to be put in charge. But I'd like to ask Will if you would to give a little description of what we're signing. They're going after fraud. And yeah, then I'll ask JD to finally. Yes, sir. uh a as you stated in your State of the Union address, in light of widespread revelations uh of fraud in in federally funded programs in states like Minnesota and California, uh this executive order in front of you uh will establish a new task force aimed at rooting out that fraud, returning potentially billions or tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars to the American taxpayer.
This task force will be chaired uh by the vice president. Uh the vice chairman will be the the head of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, who's with us here as well today. But this is going to launch a whole of government approach uh to rooting out the very serious problem uh of fraud in in fally funded programs around the country. Right. Did Vance lose weight? You know, I feel like he lost weight uh and seeing it pretty big in Minnesota. 19 memes too much. But that's only for one little aspect of the fraud. Uh it's $19 billion and California they say is 10 times worse than other states probably more than that.
This is not a uh a Republican Democrat thing. This is wherever it's taking place. Of course it seems that it's obviously usually in blue states. If it's in a red state, we're going there, too. But it seems that it's heavily heavily heavily Democrat and what they've done is so so sad. Uh when you look at the Minnesota scam, uh a lot of it has to do with Somalia. Nobody's calling out anybody, but a lot of it has to do but it's Somalia and plenty of others. And I believe the governor is complicit. I believe Ilhan Omar is complicit.
I believe that your attorney general, man, is complicit. And if they are, you're going to hopefully find out about it. And you're going to be you're going to have to do what you have to do. Uh if we found half of the fraud that's taking place in this country, Mhm. and I think you have a chance of doing that, we would have much more than a balanced budget. That's the kind of numbers you're talking about. The theft is incredible. And I think JD will make uh and Andrew will make a charge later on that uh local states should handle nursing homes and all of these things that the federal government shouldn't be involved in.
the it's too big. The federal government should handle military and a couple of other things. But when it comes to nursing homes, you saw where a young gentleman was going around and knocking on doors and none of the nursing homes existed. None of the nurseries existed. The money that's being paid out and the federal government pays for it. When you see all these people coming in illegally into many criminals, saw the video, drug dealers, murderers, 11,888 murders and you look at California and more and more come in, Nick. He does money and yet they pay him.
You know why they pay him? Because the federal government is charged with pay. We're not paying them anymore. or nice young gentlemen. So these two really smart guys are going to be uh I think it's going to hopefully it's going to be JD's. This will not be like a a Kamala where she was put in charge of the border [laughter] and she never went there. JD, right? You promise? I promise her. Remember Kamla was put in charge. She was the border zar. She never went to the border. She never called any of the great border patrol.
The border patrol test. We never spoke to her in four years. That was a disaster. I like how it just says come. We'll start laughing. Uh I think maybe before JD, I'll ask Steven Miller to say a few words. Thank you, Mr. Well, under President Trump's leadership, as we've seen, the illegal flow across the southern border was stopped completely. But what we found since President Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up the system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country, often times from places [clears throat] like Somalia.
Yes. So, as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants that were in detention whether or not they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hand and volunteered that they were on Medicaid. Just volunteered that. These aren't the ones who were hiding it, right? They also asked illegal aliens how they paid their medical bills. And they said that if they don't have Medicaid, they go to hospitals, they get free care there, and they bill it to the taxpayers. So, they aren't paying for any of their own healthcare in this country. just one example and we've seen this over and over and over again.
So under President Trump's leadership and then of course with JD and the head of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, we are going to see the first ever effort in American history to reclaim the ultimately trillions of dollars that were stolen from taxpayers. I believe and I know President Trump believes that when this theft is exposed, we will see that if all of it were stopped, it would be enough to balance the budget. The extraction of wealth from American taxpayers to people who don't belong here is the primary cause of the national debt. And this is the first ever effort to shut that down.
Thank you, Mr. President. First ever. And everyone knows they've been cheating for years. It's the first ever. There he is right there. It's got to be stopped. Holy Finally saying it. I think Somalia is a third world, maybe a a fourth world nation. Notice one of the worst, one of the most dangerous. They don't have any world councils. They don't have government. They don't have police. They shoot each other all over the place. They come here and they steal $19 billion. It's uh crazy. And Ilhan Omar, I hope this is part of it, but she married her brother supposedly.
I mean, if there's a lot of documentation, that means she's here illegally and she's a Congress out, bro. And I hope you're going to be looking at that or somebody out because she's one of the ring leaders here. She's a she's very world country. She's so bad for our country. Anyway, uh Jamie, please say a few Yes, sir. Well, thank you, Mr. President. This is a very important whole of government approach to tackle the fraud problem. And let me just tell one story. One of the things that even before this executive order was signed that we were able to stop under the president's leadership is we saw evidence that in Minneapolis there were Somali, primarily illegal immigrants who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic children.
So they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits and they were claiming that their kids were actually autistic even though they weren't. And what did this mean? This meant two things. Number one, you had a lot of people getting rich off of the fraud while American citizens got poor. And the second thing that it meant is that you had autistic kids in Minneapolis, in suburban Minneapolis, who weren't getting benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pocket. It's got to stop. And unfortunately, that kind of fraud is one example of probably hundreds just within the state of Minneapolis.
And then it's repeated and replayed all over the United States of America. When we first start talking about President made it very clear he wanted us to take the fraud problem seriously because nobody had until he was president. We started to figure out one big hole that existed is that the agencies of the government weren't actually talking to each other. So Treasury would have evidence of financial fraud but wasn't talking to the Department of Justice about it. Health and Human Services had evidence of Medicaid fraud but wasn't talking to the Department of So what this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things.
stop the fraud in the American taxpayer and make sure that the benefits that ought by right go to American citizens go to American citizens and not to fraudsters. Uh Andrew Ferguson will be the vice chair and is going to do a great job. If you're curious what's the difference between the vice chair and the chair, the vice chair is going to do all the work and I want to take all the credit. Andrew. Yeah. Look, I mean, millions and millions of Americans pay into these programs every day and they expect to get something out of it.
And this fraud is just siphoning money that millions of Americans pay to fund their hospitals, to fund their day, day their care centers into completely fake businesses. It isn't just unfair to all of us as taxes for all this. It's particularly unfair to the Americans who need the most and watch this money leave their hospital, leave their school system, and go out to fraud. And that is why this effort is so important. And I think we've just begun really looking at this, but I think that one of the things we're going to find is that in a lot of these agencies, the previous administration was pretty lax about existing anti-fraud controls.
And we're going to expose that, too. Yeah. True. [laughter] I would change it with No, he's not unbelievably lax. Uh they weren't even the pre the previous administration was fraudulent. You got to get these roaches, bro. And I think that's what you're going to find also. And you know, we work so hard like uh most favorite nations drug prices for years people have wanted. We paid the highest drug prices anywhere in the world by far by five times, six times, 10 times, more than London would be paying in New York, more than any city in Europe was paying than our cities.
Uh we would have a a pill that would sell for $10 in uh Munich. In Germany would sell for $10 and in New York it would be $130 or whatever. And we worked so hard. That's life. Yes. Life and we pulled it off. It's called Most Favored Nations. So now we went from by far the most expensive drugs anywhere in the world, prescription drugs, not cheap, to the least expensive. And I had to get all the nations agree. I don't want to bore you with how I did it, but I did it. Everyone said it was impossible to do, including the drug companies.
And we did it. We worked so hard on it, but he did. And we're going to save so much money for the people that your drug prices are going to be dropping at levels never even by 50, 60, 70, 80% in some cases. What a shitty tie. You work so hard and then you see them stealing $19 billion. It's like in one pocket out the other. And I think Andrew and JD I think have maybe one of the most important jobs they do it could be one of the most important things that we're signing because sir because we I really believe that they have an opportunity to do something so good for our country.
Uh you know people talk about balancing budgets. You can't balance a budget when people are stealing $19 billion dollar and nobody's ever heard of anything like it. Yeah. We had I guess in the same state you went autism where four or five years ago they spent 1 million and now it's almost 400 million in just a few years. Well, damn, those kids is Didn't go up like that. And even the 1 million was probably a fraud, but it went from 1 million to almost 400 million in just a few years. These are crooked people. They basically said everybody in the state had autism.
These are crooked, horrible. Wow. And you know, I I was elected on with JD, make America great again. And we can't have this stuff happening. That's right. We have to be respected and they laugh. So, I'm going to sign this. We'll take some questions, but let me sign this first before I for I don't forget. Let's see. I before I decide not to. Okay. I don't forget not to, but maybe I'll decide not to. I would decide not to. If if I didn't think they could do the job, I would decide not to. But that'll be a terrible thing.
I think you're going to find numbers, I think you're going to find numbers forget that [snorts] are far higher than you even think. And you, you know, Andrew came to us. He said, "Sir, he's read the stories about Minnesota. We know California on Twitter many times worse, but Minnesota is terrible. They're all terrible. Beautiful. Those cities are terrible. New York is Show he is almost what's going on in Chicago, Illinois with that slob of a governor is And the kind of money we're talking fatty fatty is just country changing. It's country changing money. It's having a deficit to having a a really profitable country where you can lower your taxes substantially.
That's his name is Fatty. And I think that's everybody knows who it is opportunity to do. And I think you two guys are the right guy. If you guys can't do it, got a problem. There's nobody else. They let me I can be easy. So, I'll sign and then we'll take some nice questions from our wonderful media. I love how that's a joke. Great. Finally. Okay. Good one. [applause] Good one. There you go. stupid idiot. Very important. That's a big deal. We've been working on this very long. We're see right. Well, good sir. Andrew, do you have a question?
Yes, Mr. President. You said during your State of the Union that this type of fraud, the corruption is the type of thing that can shred the fabric of a nation. He's right. Why do you suppose then the leaders of recent memory haven't looked at the systemic amount of fraud that's taking place and because they're crooked? They make money. It's true. Simple. They gain power. They use it for power. Exactly. Like with the Somalians, they vote in a block. Yep. They make a deal with the Somalians. They all vote because they they're on a gravy. Free money.
See, he's been watching the stream. It's coming. It's It's money first. Power second. A lot of people say power first. I think it's power, but okay. Power second. Do you ever see where like Mercedes people come over from somebody they have no money and now they're buying Mercedes-Benz cars? Okay. It's more cash goes out of the Minnesota airport than any other place in the world. Why is that? Where's it going? We're going to find it. And Minnesota is really bad. The governor's corrupt. The attorney general is totally corrupt. Just like the New York State Attorney General, Leticia James, she's a highly corrupt trying to sue Valve.
Brag, the DA is a corrupt person. They're all corrupt. These are corrupt people. I have to get pissed. And we got too many of them in our country and we have to expose them and we have to catch them. And if these two guys can't, these are high IQ people. I like high I've always liked high IQ. These are high IQ people. Uh if they don't do it, we got we're going to go a long way, fellas, to find somebody else that's going to We have no choice. If honestly, and they may not do a good job.
If they don't do a good job. Thank you, [laughter] sir. No, no, it's possible. If they don't do a good job, the country's sort of in trouble. Yes. Go ahead. Thank you, sir. Two questions for And I think they're going to do a great job. Go ahead. Uh first, Mr. Vice President, Democrats are already calling you the frauds are. What's your reaction to that title? And then second, second, given your past skepticism of foreign adventurism, are you completely on board with the current war in Iran? So, I like frauds are. It's certainly what we're going to do.
And look, we have to do it. As the president said, this is a problem that has festered in this country for far too long and far too few people have actually wanted to do anything about it. That's what makes this administration different is that we actually tackle the problems the American people have been confronting. So, I'm very happy about it. And look, I I I think that I know what you're trying to do, Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the president. What the president said consistently going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
We have taken this military action under the president's leadership. I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, should pray for a success and pray for the safety of our troops. That's the approach that I've taken. Make it as successful as possible. So there's no hesitation given your past statements with the current operation. What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements? Given your skepticism of foreign counterism, you are a critic of the global war. He's trying to play games on them. Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents and I trust President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people, and to make sure that the mistakes of the past aren't repeated.
Absolutely. Thanks, sir. Look, JD's been great. But here's the simple thing, and I I have, you know, some people I don't want wars. I want wars less than almost anybody. Oh, wow. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. I've called them out 20 years ago when I was a civilian that liked watching the world. He saw the tweets and they're violent, vicious people. The leadership, violent, vicious people. They killed 32,000 protesters over the last three weeks. That's it. They put out a memo two days ago saying if you protest we will shoot you and kill you in the street and your kids.
Yep. And somebody said, "Oh, there's not that many protests." Well, first of all, there are bombs going off all over the Why aren't the protests? Uh even if there weren't, who's going to do that? You know, who's going to do They don't have any guns and the other ones have latest in line machine gun, right? And true. Uh every form of gun you can have. They shoot them right through the middle of the head. They're violent people. if they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And sometimes I'll have some of the people that, you know, feel very strongly like I do about wars.
Yeah. And I say, "Do you think Iran is violent? And do you think their people are violent?" Yes. Leadership. Do you think they should have a nuclear weapon? No. No. Which is No. Massive power. I don't even want to discuss how powerful because it's depressing. And they said, "No, they shouldn't have. Definitely they shouldn't have." They said, "And you don't want to fight war?" "No, no, we don't want to fight war." So these are naive people that frankly are stupid. Yes. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you because they would use it within the only question is within one hour if they get it or one day.
They will use it and they will blow up the entire Middle East, not just Israel. They'll start with Israel, but they will blow up. And you got to see that when they unexpectedly started sending missiles to every country within a thousand miles of them. I mean, they're blowing up countries that were neighbors, not necessarily some friends. They actually blowing up some friends. They were blowing up the people that handle their accounts. Big mistake. They're sending thousands of missiles into countries that didn't expect to be in the war. Because they wanted to take over the Middle East.
And if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's horrible Iran nuclear deal, which I did in my first term, one of the dumbest deals, perhaps the dumbest deal because of the danger involved, you would have had them have a nuclear weapon three years ago, maybe four years ago, they would have used it, blown up the Middle East, and they would have then come after us. And if these gorgeous B2 bombers, Give me that bomber, Andrew. Let me just hug that little sucker. Give me that bomber over there. Thank you. knew immediately which one. This looks small, but in person it's very big cuz it's it's the only way capable of carrying a 200,000,000 lb bomb.
So, I don't know how they do it cuz it's very sleek and nice, but it carries a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs. But [laughter] uh had I not sent this incredible machine times numerous others, okay, to buy one, hit Iran at midnight with no moon. Uhhuh. Dead dark. Every single bomb was dropped right down the chute that it was supposed to hit. How they do it, who knows? Nobody else can figure. No other country can do it. No other country has our military or even close. And I think we've probably proven that.
With Venezuela and now with with cuz we have done a number in Iran. But have I if I didn't do that if I didn't decimate I call it their nuclear dust, they would have had a nuclear weapon within one month after that bombing took place. It's pretty bad. And they would have used it on first Israel and then the Middle East. And you know that because all of those missiles that were launched against their neighbors were set long ago, long before they knew they would be using them this quickly. Had we not done this, you would have had a nuclear war that would have evolved into World War II.
And more important, this is a war that uh there would have been nothing left. So we've done a great thing. the people that say it's okay for a very sick ideology, a very sick country in terms of its leadership. Very good people, great people. But the people that say that, I think they're actually I they're either evil or they're stupid. Say So if you believe that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, they should not have it. Yeah. Then you have to absolutely love what I've done because in two weeks we have decimated them. They have no navy.
They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft weapons. They have no leadership. The leadership is gone. But then they set up a new leadership to go and name a new leader. And that's leadership is gone. And now they almost said he's dead. Maybe the son is gone. They're all gone. My biggest problem is I have no idea who we're talking to because nobody ever heard of any of these people. They're all dead. But we did a job for the world. Not a job for us, for the whole world. We took the board. Worst country in 50 years and maybe longer from the ideological standpoint.
A country that wanted to blow up the world. A country that is sick. Sick. And it has a religious fervor. And when you add religion, do you know people don't realize more people died in religious wars than every other war put together. And that's what you would have had here. And it was a terrible thing with the fedor. I'm very proud of what we did. And I think JD understands better than most if you give Iran a nuclear weapon that uh at least a very substantial part of the world would be blown up and it'll be used almost immediately.
Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. You don't mind if I keep this here, do you? Isn't that a beautiful thing? You know, I used to look at it and I said, "It's a piece of art, but how can it be effective?" It's so stealth. Think of it, Peter, 1:00 in the morning. It flies in. And they say, "Sir, they're in Iranian airspace." And I say, "Oh." And I'm watching it from the situation room with a couple of other very smart people, including some good generals, real generals, not television generals. And all of a sudden, you see that dive, they start diving and you see him 30,000, 20,000.
Boy, I said that was a lot. They went down fast to aim it. And they know they're coming and they're smart. Mhm. and they never saw them. And they're firing a little bit, but they don't know what they're firing at cuz they can't see a thing. And then you hear the the biggest explosions that anybody's ever heard. Those are the biggest bombs. Outside of nuclear, those are the And you say, "What technology we have?" What a great country. I built it largely. I built it during my first term. I built it. I didn't know I'd have to use it this much in my second term.
But we had an incompetent president. We had an incompetent administration and if that group of people in any form whether it's Kamla him it doesn't matter would have had another four years we would have had no country left. Yeah please. Thank you Mr. You say you're doing a job for the rest of the world in your conversations with your counterparts. Are they thanking you? What are their conversations like when you talk about this? Yeah they should be should be saying thank you. Well, they should be thanking me because many of them get 90%. China as an example should be thanking us, but I don't expect to thank you.
But they should be thanking us. Japan gets 95%. China 91%. Uh many of the countries, South Korea gets a tremendous percentage of their oil and their therefore their energy from the straits and or as they call it the strait and They should be not only thanking us, they should be helping us. What does surprise me is that they're not eager to There are a couple you we'll be announcing some names. There are some that really were right up front. Uh I would announce their name now other than I, you know, maybe they'd prefer it not being unannounced for whatever reason.
I will say this. Uh it's a lot easier to get people today than it was two weeks ago. two weeks ago before we destroyed there before you obliterated the country before we took out cuz they're down to about 8% of their missiles. They're down to a small portion of their drones and we've demolished many of their factories where they make the missiles and the drones and the rest are all following. Uh our military has been amazed. We hit Car Island, took out every single thing on Car Island except one thing. We left the pipes because if we take out the pipes takes a long time to build them and uh at some point something is going to happen that's positive with respect to those pipes.
We'll see. But um there are some countries that greatly disappointed me. And you know I'm the one that got them to pay from 2% to 5% of GDP NATO. and I get along great with those countries in NATO, but I always said, you know, the problem with NATO is we'll always be there for them, but they'll never be there for us. And and when I hear the UK, which was sort of considered the Rolls-Royce of allies, right? Wouldn't you say they were the oldest going to be there? And I say, it would be really helpful if you'd send over a couple of ships and if you have some mind sweepers, which they do, be very helpful.
And the prime minister is a nice man. I think he's a very nice guy. He says, "Well, I'd like to ask my team." I said, "You don't have to worry about a team. You don't have a team. You're the prime minister. You can make a decision." Uhoh. Well, I have to speak to my people. I said, "You don't have to speak to anybody. Just tell." So, it was very disappointing. And then after we obliterated them and destroyed their military, the whole thing, uh, theyapt much safer zone, like Maduro, you know, he said, "We're going to send over two aircraft carriers." I said, "I don't want them anymore.
I don't want them after we win. I want them before we start. I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won." So, you know, those things are very disappointing. You have to remember we have 45,000 troops in Japan. We have 45,000 troops in South Korea. We have 45,000 50,000 troops in Germany. We defend all these countries. And then do you have any mind sweepers? And they say, well, would it be possible for us not to get involved? I've been saying it for a long time. This is the greatest thing to come out of this.
Mhm. We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. And I always said, but if it ever comes time to defend us, they're not going to be there. True. Many of them would not be there. And we're going to have to start [clears throat] thinking more wisely in this country. Some have been very good. One or two have been great. I'll tell you who the great ones are at the right time. But there have been some that were right up there, Peter. They were right up there. They wanted to do it so much.
Go ahead, Peter. Thank you. Uh you were talking about Iran a couple times today and what they did after Epic Fury began. You said they hitQar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation? Nobody. Nobody. No, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit. They were I wouldn't say friendly countries. They were like neutral. They lived with them for years, Peter. They were going to take over the Middle East. They were going to knock out Israel with their nuclear weapon.
But after we knocked out their nuclear potential, their nuclear potential weapon. Uh they started building missiles, thousands and thousands of missiles. And they were going to do it with missiles while they developed. These are sick people. While they developed nuclear, somehow they were going to start on a different site cuz that site was, you saw the site, the mountain. They were going to go into a certain area which we know exactly where it is. And they were going to do that. And it's incredible what we've done. I tell you the job we have done. You know, if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal, he said it again.
You would right now. Well, Israel would be gone. It would be incinerated. And probably the Middle East likewise. And remember, they have all of those missiles. And I heard they were sending missiles to UAE. I said, "That's strange." You know, UAE is like the banker for for Iran. They they're the like the banker. Qatar, they're neighbors. They got along. Okay. Uh Saudi Arabia. All of a sudden, Kuwait Kuwait is getting hit. Bahrain is getting all these countries are getting hit. Why? There was no expert that would say that was going to happen. It's not a question of like, gee, should you have known?
And if we did known, big deal. I mean, we have to do what we have to do. But we hit them so hard like nobody's ever been hit. We hit them very hard. And we've extinguished most of their missiles. We've extinguished most of their drones. We've extinguished uh most of the places where the missiles and the drones are built. We've fully extinguished two layers of leadership and probably a third if you believe some story. So, uh, we only have one thing. They have a little choke point and they've used it very well for years, but it it doesn't work.
But I think this, if some of these countries that we've been good to for years, and maybe more important than that, some of these countries that get 90% and 95% of their energy from Hormuz. That's right. Hormu is a famous, wonderful, beautiful place, but you wouldn't want to be necessarily sailing a boat there right now. Okay? You know why? Not because of them, because of us. Because we've taken out their entire navy. We've taken out every one of their drone. They call it a drone layer, a uh a mine layer. There specific boats that are meant to put mines on.
How would you like to have a nation that has 22 boats where their sole function, they're very different looking boats. You wouldn't want one for your family. They're not pretty. Their sole function is to lift a mine into the water and drop it a certain number of feet down. That's all they do. But they had 22 of them. We've taken out all of them, but you can probably you can probably drop them off other boats. So, we don't even know, by the way. We don't know that any mines have even been dropped, but the thought that they would scares people that have billiond dollar chips boats.
Yeah. It's an expensive boat. Thank you, President Trump. I'd like to ask the vice president about his plans to go after uh possible fraud in California, New York, of course. President Trump first could ask you um you said earlier today that the new Supreme Leader maybe uh you don't know if he's dead or alive. A couple interesting reports about him today. Uh there's one report that he just narrowly escaped death in the first air. Talk about being gay. There's another report that he may actually be gay despite leading the theocracy that hates gay people. Um how do you determine what's true?
And do you have an assessment of is he? Well, so far nobody knows. If you look at his father, he used to give talks a lot, you know, talking about death to America. He'd say death to America. He would. When they say death to America, you should believe them because that's what they would have. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it. But they never had the chance. I never gave them the chance to use it. And other presidents should have done. I spoke to one of the former presidents who I actually like actually speak to some.
I do like some people be shocking. And he said, "I wish I did what you did." Bill could have done it. other presidents. Somebody should have done it. 47 years this went on. They call Iran the bully of the Middle East. And you could have never had the Abraham Accords. You could never have had peace in the Middle East. Now you're going to have peace. You could never do it with the dark cloud of of a nuclear the Iran is a shell of itself. It's no longer a bully. It's the one that gets bullied. It's a bully that got beat up.
We beat the crap out of them. Damn. And uh and they deserve that. You know, when you see a soldier walking down the street without his arms or being helped down the street because he's got no legs. That's right. Or his face is blown to smitherines with no legs and no arms. Those two. No legs. No arms. It's all a face that got racked. That was done by roadside bombs. That's uh the favorite weapon of Solomaini, who I killed. Oh yeah. In my first administration. They blew up the boat. uh General Solommani, had I not killed him, that was the beginning of their downfall because had he not gone, it's possible that we would not be this far advanced in destroying Iran because he was a really good general.
He was a vicious, horrible man, but he was a brilliant general. And he was looking to knock out five of our military bases at one time. The man that killed that died with him, what a was the same his counterpart in Iraq. and they were working together and they got hit real hard. And if that didn't happen, we would have had a problem. But maybe more importantly than that, they were he was really the mastermind behind it. And they never found somebody to replace him in terms of the genius. I knocked him out and that was a big step knocking him out.
But if we didn't get rid of the Obama deal, termin I terminated it against the wishes of my then secretary of state. He was no Marco against the wishes of He was no Marco. A lot of people at the time. You remember that Peter? A lot of people had I not terminated. Remember that Steven? You remember they all this is not that deal was a disaster. That was a road to a nuclear weapon. They would have had it three years ago and it would have been uh it would have been used I would say two to three years ago maybe and it would have been used in the middle question.
And by the way after they were finished that they were coming over here. They never got a chance to do it. I just want to ask you about something very interesting. Were you right about everything that you talked to another former president about the Iran strikes? I did. Was it George W. Bush? No. Was it Bill Clinton? I don't want to say it. I don't want to say it because Barack Obama a member of a party. A member of a party, they have trumped derangement syndrome all somebody that happens to like me and I like it was Bill Clinton.
That person who's a smart person, but that person said, "Oh my god, it was I wish I did it." I mean, maybe it was Obama. But I don't want to get into I don't want to get into trouble. Maybe. Hey, that would be funny if it was Obama. I think you probably know. You know, it's [clears throat] interesting. I think you probably Maybe he'd be proud. I could even ask him that. Would you like me to reveal your name to Peter at Fox? Hi. Well, at least you have high ratings. Your ratings are through the roof.
If it was Obama, that would be funny. Congratulations. Can I ask you another question about the war? Uh if Iran, as you say, totally obliterated, got the missiles, got the first two rounds of leadership, uh air force gone, navy gone. Can we wrap this war up this week? This week? Yeah, sure. Will we wait? He just says, "Yeah, sure. We can wrap the war up this week and we're going to have a much safer world." Just out of nowhere, it'll be wrapped up soon. We're going to have a much safer world. I had an obligation to do this.
I didn't want to I call it an excursion. I didn't want to make this journey. We had the highest stock market in history. We had low gas prices. Everything was good. I know exactly going to do it and people going to raise the price of oil. But but I know that but that's a very small thing about allowing them to have you want to see the stock market go down. Start letting them hit you with nukes. Okay. Uh I I think I said it this morning. I think it's a very small price to pay and frankly I thought it was going to go down much more if you want to know the truth.
I assume that it was going to go down much more only because people don't understand to a large it's a great it's a big chess game at a very high level. It's a very high level chess the highest and I'm dealing with very smart players. These are smart people. They don't get there. You know, when you deal with some of these people, you're dealing with high level intellect, high, very high IQ people. These are not Jasmine Crockett and and her group. These are smart people. These are really smart people and violent people and vicious people and some very nice people.
And some are very nice, but violent. They turn violent. But but you know what? If I didn't do if I didn't do what I did group uh we would have been hit number one women yeah very important was the termination of Obama's horrible deal and number two this beautiful plane hitting them eight months ago whenever it was and taking out their nuclear capacity that totally threw them for a loop. Uh if they had that at either time, 5 years ago or 7 months ago, if they had that bomb, that bomb would have been used almost immediately.
Mr. President, Mr. President, two questions on domestic policy bringing it close to home. First of all, the Save America Act, what are you expecting this week when this vote takes place in the US Senate? Will the vice president's vote be I think it's imperative that it gets done. I'm not sure it is. You know, the Democrats have horrible policy. It's just incredible. But they stick together. It's the one thing they do. They do. Their Supreme Court members stick together. Those appointed by a Democrat, stick together. If Barack Hussein Obama appoints a member of the Supreme Court, that member never goes against him.
And they're proud about it. They say, "I don't give a damn if it's good or bad. That man appointed me and I'm never going to let him down." I don't say that's right, wrong. I just say they stick together. Republicans go the opposite way. If Donald Trump appointed me, I'm going to show the world that I can be totally just and I can be independent of Donald Trump. He's making fun. He's not controlling me. Yeah. And I don't want to control them. I just want to have smart decisions. They gave us a decision on tariffs the other day that won't change tariffs in a different way.
I always knew I could do it a different way. This was a little quicker, a little easier for him, but they gave it a decision that could cost this country $500 billion to pay people back because now I have to start the tariffs all over again. Very simple. base. Yeah. And what happens with the money I've already collected? Why didn't they say starting from now go the other way? $500 billion perhaps. It's so sad. But one thing about the Democrats, they stick together. They impeached me twice for absolutely no reason. Unanimously. Fortunately, the Republicans stuck together and it was something.
It was pretty wild. But the Democrats have horrible policy. Transgender for everybody, open borders. Uh men playing in women's sports. Not a good one. But the one thing they do have is they stick together no matter how bad the policy. It's embarrassing to watch them try to defend it. And uh in a way I say as a Republican I would in a way I say thank goodness they have bad policy cuz you'd never beat them. It's easy to run against them. We have something in there now. The Save America Act voter ID with a picture, right?
That's a 99% issue. Who the even among Democrats, you know, Democrats call it 89%. And then they have Jesus proof of citizenship. And then they have no mailin ballots. No mailin ballots. We have no mail in. You go to California, they send out like 38 million ballots. Some Democrats get seven, eight ballots. Republicans are a lot of times calling in, "Where's my ballot? Where's my ballot?" They're lucky to get one. Jimmy Carter probably the greatest thing he ever did. I thought he was a nice man, not a great president, to put it mildly. How did his attack work out in Iran?
Not too good. I think ours is slightly better, wouldn't you say? But Jimmy Carter, the one thing he did after he left with Scoop Jackson and some others, they formed a a very elite council get rid of mailin votes committee that came out and said very strongly no mail in ballots because the hell does not the only country in the world that has black people the only country in the world can't get tried. France tried it and they went away. They don't know where the DMV is. They're now doing paper ballots, watermark paper, which they can't afford computers.
When you look at what happens with this country, we really have to fix it. That'll be very popular. The other thing we put in there, just as best of, I call it the best of Trump. We have the three things I just but then I added on no men playing in women's sports and I added in no transgender surgery the mutilation of our children. Who would do this? We have no mutilation of our children. No transgender. Oh I think they're they say that's an 80% issue. I think they're 99% issues, but whether they're 80% or 99, the problem is we have a couple of Republicans.
They're not they shouldn't be allowed. They shouldn't be allowed. Yeah. And they're willing to vote against anything. And we have all the Democrats will vote against it. So, I think it hurts the Democrats to vote against it because I'm going to instruct all the Republicans to say that uh what was the question? So and so they've been running against voted against the saving of our children from transgender mutilation, right? That's pretty popular. They want men and women sports. That's pretty. Who the hell knows? They want voter ID, but the Democrats don't. The Save Act. Everybody wants voter ID.
Everybody wants proof of citizenship. Is this the Save Act right now? Most people don't want mail-in voting because they know it's a fraud. Touches too many hands. I mean, the postman gets it. This one gets it. That one. Yeah. So these are all issues that are in the 90s to 100. I would say some are virtually 100%. And the interesting thing is they're that way not only with the republic. I'm not talking about leadership. I'm talking about just a minute. They're that way also most importantly with the people. The people of our country want voter ID.
The people of our country want proof of citizenship. And that includes 88% 89% of Democrats. And I think the Republicans, Eric Schmidt, Rick Scott, uh Tim Scott, I speak to so many of them, they all want it. Um I hope John Thun can get it across the line. He's trying. I mean, I he he told me this morning I spoke to him, he's trying. Um I think it'll be a very very bad thing for our country if they don't. We're just asking for basic things. Think of it. You can't have voter ID. Do you know in California if you ask a person to show their identification, they have the right to put you in jail if you're an official and you say, "May I please see your identification?
You're subject to going to jail." That's how crazy it's gotten with a low IQ person. You know, because Gavin Nuskum has admitted that he is a that he has learning disabilities. Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president. I don't want I think the president should not have learning disabilities. Okay, Gavin. And I know it's highly controversial to say such a horrible thing. President of the United States. Gavin Nuskum admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia, uh everything about him is dumb. But then he looked at the audience and said, "But I'm smarter than you or something like that." That was pretty stupid.
So now on top of everything else, I call him a racist because it happened to be a black audience. I I will tell you this. I think it was the worst interview I've ever seen of any human being in my life. Okay. Anybody else have any questions? [clears throat] Anybody else have questions? Um, will it be necessary to use even a limited ground force to secure whatever nuclear material remains in Iran is part of that front? He's not going to say. And secondly, have you made a decision? You mean to go in and get it?
He's not going to say why would I tell you that? And secondly, you know, I I can't stand reporters, sir, will you attack Car Island? Will you occupy car? They asked me these questions and I don't want to be mean, but they're stupid questions. If if any if any president answers these questions, they shouldn't be president. And secondly, sir, do you uh still plan to travel to Beijing at the end of this? I don't know. We're working on that right now. I We're speaking to China. I'd love to, but because of the war, I want to be here.
Can they take me with them? Can I go to China? I want to go to China. So, we've requested that we delay it a month or so. And I'm looking forward to being with them. We have a very good relationship because of the war. There's no tricks to it either. It's just it's not like, "Oh, gee, I'm waiting." It's very simple. We got a war going on. I think it's important that I be here. Just go. Maybe I should. It could be that we delay a little bit. Not Not much. Peter, when you say Cuba is next is Cuba, whatever you do with the military there seems like something.
Will that look more like Iran or Venezuela? Probably. Can't tell. I can tell you that they're talking to us. It's a failed nation. I can't tell you that they have no money. They have no oil. They have no their power like their Nice land. They have nice landscape, you know. It's a beautiful island. I think they have great people. You know, I know so many people from Cuba that were treated terribly and they're over here. They became rich. They're very entrepreneurial people, very smart. Know a lot from Florida especially. There's so so many people. Friend of mine started off with nothing.
He's now the largest owner of gas stations in the country and stuff. I mean, Cuban I I also know I I was just with a a fantastic person. Marco Rubio is going to run Cuba. Fortune in sugar. fun family, right? Who else? this family wants to go back to Cuba to visit it. They want they haven't been back in like 50 years or something. They come from largely come from Cuba and uh we'll see what happens. They were asking me about that. They want to go back. Not only Fhul uh a lot of Cubans have said, "Oh boy, would they love to go back." I think Cuba, I don't know.
Cuba, you know, tourism and everything else. It's a beautiful island. Great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know. They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But uh but I think Cuba see the end. You know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it? I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking them the 51st day. That's a big honor. I believe I'll have the honor of taking I mean, whether I free it, take it.
Think I could do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth? They're a very uh weakened nation right now. They were for a long time. Very violent uh very violent leaders. Castro was a very violent leader. His brothers are very violent later. Extremely violent. That's how they governed. They governed with violence. But a lot of people would like to go back. Okay. One more question. A quick question on for Vice President Vance. Mr. Vice President, you announced a couple of weeks ago in the EOP that the administration will be halting Medicaid uh payments to Minnesota until the state decided to take pervasive steps to fraud.
Do you have an update to the uh to that specific situation? Do you think that that could be a model moving forward? Cut off the fraud states that won't cooperate. By the way, there's no women there either at all. I just noticed that. So to try to figure that situation out. No wonder obvious tools that we have to stop the fraud against the American people. One is that when we see evidence of fraud, we stop the payments. Pretty simple, right? We know that the American people are being defrauded. Let's try to stop the payments and ensure that whoever's making these payments is actually complying with some basic due diligence and making sure the payments are going to the right place.
I think the second tool of course is we have as the president mentioned is we have law enforcement options. We know that some of this fraud is just bad. Some of it's criminal. We know that people are intentionally trying to defraud the American people. It's not just in Minnesota. It's all across the country. 99% is criminal. Yes, sir. So we we this is one of the reasons why DOJ is such an important part of this is because we have to make sure that where we see criminal conduct, we actually prosecute it. And the president's talked about this a lot in the past.
I don't need to repeat it, but it's worth noting that so many times when we find people engaged in really really bad conduct, you know, the the local judge or the local grand jury tries to stop it. One of the cool things about what we're doing is we're trying to take some innovative steps to ensure that when we find criminal fraud, we can actually prosecute it all the way to the end. Mr. President, she wanted one question. She's over here. Oh, no. You guys are over there. Where's your main camera? Is it this one? Which one is the main camera?
There's one. All right, one's over, guys. Mr. President, Mary with Daily Wire, not CNN. Uh, we just wanted to ask about DHS. still not funded. But we reported earlier today that 80% of the primary task force that focuses on investigating terrorism is working without pay. So should that impact Democrats decision? The Democrats aren't paying. The Democrats we have a deal. They just said we're not going to pay. We're not going to do anything. And CNN, the Democrats are terrible. You know, it'd be nice to get along, but for years this has been going on. Not just with me, for years it's been going on.
different ideology but also different tactics. Uh here we are. We're fighting big battles with a very tough enemy and winning nicely. The poor right? We're not allowed to have security in our country. It's crazy. So bad. Democrats don't want to pay. These are bad people. These are not people that love our country. I can tell you that. Thank you very much everybody. Thanks. Thank you guys. Thank you very much. Damn, that was a good one. I'm going to be honest. Like, that was a pretty good one. I like that one. What do y'all think about that?
That was good. Yeah, bro. Why he let him know?
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