President Trump Signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Feb. 4, 2025

thank you very much we had a busy day we're dealing with lots of different people and lots of different things we had some terrific people in today and trying to solve some of the problems that are going on in the country and outside of the country we're doing very well with respect to uh other countries really behaving on taking the criminals that they sent into our country and we're getting them out these are some some of the worst people Earth and they're getting out and they're being accepted back in their countries as you've heard without

exception so a lot of people thought that was not going to happen but it's happening very full force and we're getting some very very dangerous people out of our country which is very important uh will perhaps we'll go through the first one please yes sir uh so earlier today before the Press came in you signed a commission uh appointing uh Chris Wright to be your next Secretary of Energy we have another Mission prepared for your signature sir uh this is Doug Collins to be Secretary of the uh the VA uh Doug Collins of Georgia two

very good men okay thank you sir uh EXC next up in light of uh numerous action taken by a number of bodies of the United Nations uh which exhibit a deep anti-American bias we have an executive order uh prepared for your attention uh that would withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council uh would withdraw the United States from the unrwa which is a a refugee organization uh and would also review American involvement in uh in UNESCO which is also exhibited anti-American bias uh more generally the executive order calls for review of American

uh involvement and funding in the UN in light of the wild disparities in levels of funding uh among different countries uh that as you've expressed previously is deeply unfair to the United States so I've always felt that the UN has tremendous potential it's not living up to that potential right now it really isn't hasn't for a long time it has uh there are Great Hopes for it but uh it's not being well run to be honest and they're not doing the job a lot of these conflicts that we're working on should be settled or at

least we should have some help in settling them we never seem to get help that should be the primary purpose of the UN the United Nations and uh again it's got great potential and based on the potential we'll continue to go along with it but they got to get their act together what would they need to do sir together well they got to be fair to countries that deserve fairness uh they have some countries as you know that are outliers that are very bad and they're being almost preferred as countries to those that uh do

their job and are doing a good job and they have to really they're going to end up losing a lot of countries they're going to end up losing their credibility like other organizations and then they're going to be nothing the potential of the United Nations and not everybody agrees with me on this the potential of the United Nations is fantastic if properly run so we'll see what happens how much money are you want to take away from that well we're taking away a little bit but we're not looking to take away money as well this

is so important that we're really as you know the United Nations is largely funded by us but uh and it shouldn't be it should be funded by everybody but we're disproportionate as we always seem to be but it's something that if it ever lived up to the potential in 10 minutes it would make up the difference that's the kind of power it could have right now it doesn't have that power next sir this is a National Security Presidential memorandum that uh seeks to impose maximum pressure on the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran uh

many of these Provisions are similar uh to uh actions that your Administration took during your first Administration the basic idea here is to have every department and agents or many Department and agencies uh in your government uh attempt to uh sanction and control Iranian activities particularly relating to the Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian export of terrorism through support of various proxy groups abroad and the intent here is to give you all of the possible tools uh to uh I'd say engage with the Iranian government uh to ensure that going forward they are less of

a malign actor on the world stage so this is one that I'm torn about everybody wants me to sign it I'll do that uh it's very tough on Iran it's what we had before we would have never had the problem you would have never had October 7th we would have never had the problem had the election gone the different way which it should have uh but this one I think more than made up for it I think we're doing things and it shows that more than made up for it much more historic the uh Iran

situation hopefully I'm going to sign it but hopefully uh we're not going to have to use it very much we will see whether or not we can arrange or work out a deal with Iran and everybody can live together and maybe that's possible and maybe it's not possible so I'm signing this and I'm unhappy to do it but I really have not so much choice because we have to be strong and firm and I hope that it's not going to have to be used in any great measure at all it'd be great if we could

have a Middle East and maybe a world at total peace right now you don't have that when I left you had peace all over the world and now you have the world is blowing up uh as you know BB is coming in to see me later others are coming in to see me we'll see what we can do but I'm signing this and hopefully it will be a document which won't be very important will hardly have to be used so what kind of deal would you be prepared to well we're going to see I mean

we're going to see uh they cannot have a nuclear weapon with me it's very simple Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon you we don't want to be tough on Iran we don't want to be tough on anybody but they just can't have a nuclear Mr presid you engage conversations with your counterpart in IR I would do you want to block the sale of the ran oil to other nations well we have the right to do that and that's what I did before and they had no money they wouldn't have had the money for Hamas or

Hezbollah and anybody else uh I just uh it could have been solve this thing it just if things went the way they should have this would have been over long ago but it's not over how close do you think Iran is to developing nuclear weap I think they're close I think they're close they're too close but again you could go back four years I would have said they would have had it during this intervening period uh but they're pretty close Peter and why say are unhappy to sign it if it's Iran and their proxies who

threaten to retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out Sol well they haven't done that and uh that would be a terrible thing for them to do not because of me if they did that they would be obliterated that'll be the end I've left instructions if they do it they get obliterated there won't be anything left and they shouldn't be able to do it and Biden should have said that but he never did I don't know why lack of intelligence perhaps but he never said it uh if that happens to

a leader or close to a leader frankly if you had other people involved also uh you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it that would include Iran so I'm signing this and it's a very powerful document but hopefully we're not going to have to use it Mr president if the if the Prime Minister today were to ask your your help in Striking at Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent the kind of progress towards a nuclear weapon would you give him the green light would either to do it himself or for the US

to participate with them I don't know that that's what he's going to be asking for I have no idea that it is you're telling me uh we're going to have a pretty long meeting we're going to be discussing a lot of things not only that but a lot of things and uh I'll let you know if the time comes to let you know but right now that's not something that I can discuss Mr President when you just said when you said if they do they get obliterated just to be clear you're talking about if Iran

made another made an attempt on on your life yeah that would be called total obliteration uh and I can't imagine they do that it should have been stated by Biden but he didn't state it because he had no clue as you know as everybody what is your vision actually for uh relationship do you have anything else no that's all we have my vision for what Rel ship with Iran and would you I'd love to have a good relationship with everybody they can't have a nuclear weapon that was my only that was the only thing that

was very important they can't have a nuclear weapon uh beyond that you know would' be very tough if they insist on doing that they have some of their leadership I can tell you right now and maybe you know it maybe you don't but there many people at the top ranks of Iran that do not want to have a nuclear weapon just for that very reason Mr President what's your reaction to China's retaliatory tariffs it's fine it's fine we're going to do very well against China and against everybody else right now uh they've taken advantage of

the Biden Administration like I've never seen I've never seen the deficit with China is about a trillion dollars think of it a trillion dollars they they're using our money to build their military and Biden let that happen you know we're taking a lot of fires here we we came back this is like a different place the good news is we're doing very well we're doing well with countries that nobody expected would do well with we are respected again as a nation maybe at a level that people haven't seen for many many decades but uh when

I left we didn't have any wars I defeated Isis 100% of the Isis califate and now the world seems to be ready to blow up but we'll see if we can stop it Mr say it I would reach out I mean I have nothing I I see I'm one that doesn't care whether I reach out or they reach out a lot of people say let them Reach Out sir to me it doesn't matter it's just it's just talk uh but uh I want to see everybody do well I want to see great countries and I

want to see peace in the Middle East and elsewhere we're also working very hard with respect to Russia Ukraine that's a blood bath it's a total blood bath what's going on there is incredible what's going on with the soldiers young young soldiers being killed by the thousands I mean literally by the thousands and we want to see if we can get that stopped and I think we've had some very good talks any up on when you would speak to president J sir any update on when you would speak to president J no we'll speak to

him at the appropriate time I'm in no rush I'm in no rush do you think that conversation can lend itself to the type of of freeze that it meant for the tariffs for for Canada and well we'll see what happens then well there's a shortterm freeze with Mexico as you know and with uh Canada but they've agreed to be very very strong On the Border stronger than they ever were by far by a factor of about 30 and in addition to that as you can see we've been strong because we've had numbers like you've never

seen before I mean the border is now closed really closed and with that being said we're letting good people come through and we want good people to come into our country but the border is closed in your talks in your talks with president with prime minister Netanyahu today do you intend to press him about how many deaths have been amongst Palestinians are you concerned about that death I talk about that too both sides mean a lot uh I talk about that I talk about the other side I talk about everything what's your main message to

him today during your meeting well I'm here to listen he's here to see me and I'm here to listen so there's not much it's at the right time I'll get Mr President will you continue to press for this idea that Jordan and Egypt take Palestinians from Gaza yeah I would like to see Jordan I'd like to see Egypt uh take some look the Gaza thing has not worked it's never worked and I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people I think they should get a good fresh beautiful piece of land and we

get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it uh habitable and enjoyable home they don't want to leave though how can you say they don't want to leave I don't know how they could want to stay it's it's uh it's a demolition site it's a pure demolition site if we could find the right piece of land or numerous pieces of land and build them some really nice places with plenty of money in the area that's for sure uh I think that would be a lot better than

going back to Gaza which has had just decades and Decades of death where were those the BL well they could be in Jordan and they could be in uh Egypt and they could be in other places you could have more than two more than one but you could have more than two and you'd have people living in a a place that could be very beautiful and safe and nice Gaza has been a disaster for decades would the US pay for that I don't think the I don't think the UN would pay but I think there's

plenty of people that would in the area they have a lot of money they certainly have a lot of money some of the countries over there they'd like to see it I know that Saudi Arabia wants to see peace I can see that and uh many of the countries there as far as I'm concerned they all want peace I think you know maybe I'm wrong in this but I think Iran would like to see peace too they've had enough don't you think they've had enough but the leaders but the leaders of Egypt and Jordan have

said bluntly they they have no interest in doing this well they may have said that but a lot of people said things to me they said they wouldn't take the anybody back in in Venezuela and right now they're flying them right back into Venezuela and a lot of people and they're doing the right thing in Venezuela uh the Panama Canal is an active discussion right now and they said things about that and uh virtually everything that's been said has been incorrectly stated based on the result amount to forcibly dis wouldn't that amount to forcibly displacing

those people I don't think so I think if they had the opportunity they'd love if they had an alternative to they have no alternative right now I mean they're there because they have no alternative what do they have it is a big pile of of rubble right now I mean have you seen the pictures of it have you been there it's terrible to live who can live like that and very dangerous there shooting all over the place there's bombing all over the place on both sides now I would think if they had an option of

of moving to an either in a large group or various smaller groups and take care of the close to two million people I would think that they would be thrilled to do it they have no you know when you say about the Gaza Strip they don't have an option to be clear you saying they'd be thrill very dangerous they'd be thrilled to leave Gaza oh I think they'd love to leave Gaza if they had an option right now they don't have an option what are they going to do they have to go back to Gaza

but what is Gaza there's practically not a building standing and they're very dangerous you know those buildings are shifting and they're falling down all over the place and and there's gunfire all over it's going to be that way for a while Mr President wouldn't have it made more sense to evacuate people while the war was ongoing rather than now when there's a ceasefire which is what you're talking about but it was more dangerous when there were strikes overhead than now well the strikes could start tomorrow there's not a lot to there's not a lot left

to strike exactly it's a demolition side the whole place is demolished it's unsafe it's unsanitary it's a not a place where people want to live nobody nobody's got it's they they have no alternative but to go back if we gave them an alternative of living in a beautiful open place with some you know nice quarters there nice housing of sorts and we have the money in the Middle East to build that do you support Israelis actually moving back in the cre not necessarily no I just support uh cleaning it up and doing something with it

but it's failed for many decades and somebody will be sitting here in 10 years or 20 years from now and they'll be going through the same stuff the wars and and you know they've had civilizations on Gaza many civilizations on Gaza and they're buried in the sand secretary it doesn't seem to work secretary thank you sir on iron musk um how often are you talking to him and have there been ideas that he's brought to you that he said oh no wait a minute this is going a little too far well many ideas but look

he's done a great job look at all the fraud that he's found in this us Aid it's a disaster what the people radical left lunatics uh they have things that nobody would have even believed the the whole thing with 100 million spent on you know what with money going to all sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get any money with the money I'd like to see what the Kickbacks are how much has been kicked back who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about and I read about

and I see every night on the news and every morning when I read the papers who would spend money for that I would say this the people that got all that money are they kicking it back to the people that gave it from government no that's to me very very corrupt the real question is how much of a kickback has there been and one of the things I want to investigate rapidly because I've never seen anything to this this extent the train that's being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project

I think I've ever seen and I've seen some of the worst billions and billions hundreds of billions of dollars over budget in fact I read where you could take every single person that was going to go in the train and get the finest limousine service in the world and take them back and forth with liines and you'd have hundreds of billions of dollars left over it is the worst thing and we're going to start an investigation in that because it's not possible I built for a living and I built on time on budget uh it's

impossible that something could cost that much and now it's not even going to San Francisco and it's not going to Los Angeles it's they made it much shorter so now it's at little places way away from San Francisco and way away from Los Angeles no we're going to start a big investigation on that because it's I've never seen it anything like it nobody's ever seen anything like it the worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country and it wasn't even necessary I would have said you don't buy it you take

an airplane it cost you $2 it cost you nothing you take an airplane but this got started and if you have to you drive you can drive are there other they have hundreds of billions of dollars of cost overruns and it's not even the same project it's much shorter it's way outside of San Francisco and way outside of Los Angeles so we're going to be looking into that is that just investigate the train no I'm doing that myself some of these Doge Engineers that Elon Musk has helping them are as young as 19 years old

that's good they're very smart though Peter they're like you they're very smart people thank you uh has he have you met any of these guys no I haven't seen them they work actually out of the White House there smart people uh unlike what they do in the control Towers where we need smart people we should use some of them in the control Towers where we were putting people that were uh actually intellectually deficient that was one of the qualifications is you could be intellectually deficient uh no we need smart people some are young and some

are not young some are not young at all but they found great things look at the list of things I I'll maybe I'll do it tomorrow I'll read off a list of 15 or 20 things that they found inside of the US Aid it's it's has to be corrupt nobody could approve that they could only approve that if they were getting Kickbacks and you're talking about you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars it sounds like you're going to line down USA it sounds like it I mean I think so when that when that happens

which part of the government well I could see Marco Rubio being in charge State Department because they're giving money to I mean some of the money is well spent I guess but uh much of it is really fraudulent on the education department why nominate Linda McMahon to be the education department secretary if you're going to get rid of the education because I told Linda Linda I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job I want her to put herself out of a job education department so we're ranked number 40 out

of 40 schools right we're ranked number one in cost per pupil so we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world and we're ranked at the bottom of the list we're ranked very badly and what I want to do is let the States run schools I believe strongly in school choice but in addition to that I want the states to run schools and I want Linda to put herself out of a job do with an executive order or you Cong I would like to be able to look if I could give the

schools back to Iowa and Idaho and Indiana and all these places that run properly there's many of them I I think so if you look at the list uh Denmark uh Sweden Norway Believe It or Not China's doing very well on that list a list of well educated you know where they run their school system well uh you have a lot of countries not surprising names I think that if you moved our schools into some of these states that are really well-run States they would be as good as Denmark and Norway and Sweden and some

of the other states and then you'd have the the lards and you know who they are I don't have to go to it but uh you'd have the laggards the same lri that are laggage with everything else including crime but even them you'll break it into systems as an example if you went to New York you go to West Chester County you go to Duchess County you go to suffk and Long Island and Nassau and Long Island you have maybe six or seven locations and you have New York City which would include the Five Barrels

and I think even that would run much better than it does right now uh same thing with Los Angeles or California you'd have River side you'd have you'd break it up into six or seven P but most of them would be States and you'd have one like in Iowa you give it to the state of Iowa you give it to the state of Indiana you give it these are really well-run States they don't have debt they don't have problems they don't have any crimes you know relatively speaking to speak of uh and you would have

education that would be the equivalent of Norway and Denmark and various other places that are at the top of the list so we're at the bottom of the list and we're the most expensive we're at the top of the list when it comes to cost for pupil we spend more money per pupil than any other nation in the world and yet we're rated number 40 the last ratings came out you saw them so they they talk about 40 countries we're rated number 40 and I say that if we did this we would we would go

20 30 notches up we could do great and we would have some of the best districts in the world but are you looking to do with an executive order sir or do you need to work with Congress well there are some people that say I could I think I'd work with Congress I think we'd get look we'd have to work with the teachers union because the teachers union is the only one that's opposed to it nobody else would want to hold them back look we have to tell the teachers union we're rated Less in the

world in education of the top 40 we're L rated we were 38 now we're 40 we went to 30 now we went to 40 we're 37 but we're at 40 now the thing just came out that's under Biden remember that secretary Rubio announced the deal this week that would allow potentially American citizens for criminals to be put in a different country is that something you're looking to do no I I didn't know that he announced that yet but if he did it's fine yeah we have uh hard hardened criminals horrible people you see them pushing

people into Subways the train is coming last week guy walking around and just sees somebody waiting for the train train's coming 40 miles an hour and he gets pushed into the subway and that happens all the time these are sick people uh if we could get them out of our country and we have other countries that would take them they could it's no different than a prison system except it would be a lot less expensive and it would be a great deterrent send them to other countries we we want if we could go a step

further in other words we're talking about getting the criminals out of our country that come in through other countries illegally right the illegal migrants as I call them well we have people that are just as bad as them in our country if we could get them out I'd be very happy to get said that he would wanted you to pay a fee for that would you pay that well that's a lot very small fee compared to what we pay to private prisons but under what auth a very very small Fe I don't know we'll have

to find that out legally I'm just saying if we had the legal right to do it I would do it in a heartbeat I don't know if we do or not we're looking at that right now but we could make deals where we'd get these animals out of our country and you know if you take the shooters the people that hit old ladies in the back of their head with a baseball bat when they're not looking they walk down the street uh the people that you and you see it the people that take out a

gun and shoot you for no reason at all if we could get these animals out of our country and put them in a different country under the supervision of somebody that made a relatively small fee to maintain these people because you know you know what uh these are criminals you call them hardened criminals uh they've been in jail 40 times there's W 42 times and every time the person gets out it's a he every time he gets out he commits another crime within 24 hours and it's a heinous crime it's a rough crime we don't

want these people in our country either we don't want them in our country if we had the option if we had the option to get them out and let them be based in some other country at a fraction of the cost and frankly they could keep them because these people are never going to be any good that person that has been arrested 42 times or 22 times or 17 times and is all in for manslaughter and everything else and only gets out because of a very weak judicial system that only goes after people like Trump

they don't go after the criminals they don't go after people like this and they laugh at our law if that took place you would have a lot less crime automatically Onan Bay is is there space there to accomodate there's a lot of space to accommodate a lot of people yeah so we're going to use it can you talk a little bit we have it it's already up it's uh we have it for nothing but we can do less expensive and even more secure uh we've had other countries come to us saying we would love to

do that we would love to take your criminals and we'll maintain that we'll you know we'll be their Jail uh and I'm only talking for the most severe cases like I watched that guy on tape pushing the man into the subway last week that man that did that is a real bad guy many many arrests and do you think you're going to convince him someday to be good and a wonderful uh wonderful citizen for our country it's never going to happen uh I want to get those people out I'd love to get them out along

with the illegal migrants the migrants are rough but we have some bad ones too I'd like to get them out it would be all subject to the laws of our land and we're looking at that to see if we can do it Mr President offer to take American citizens say it what other countries have offered to take these American uh numerous many and Marco brought it up today glad he did uh because a lot of people are thinking it when I watch some of the crimes being committed in New York City in Chicago look at

Chicago the the volume of crime that they have and the viciousness of the crime it's these people are horrible people and if somebody thinks they're going to be wonderful citizens someday they're wrong it's not going to happen it's not going to happen they're bad these are hard tough criminals in many cases they're crazy they're absolutely crazy but they're very dangerous if I could get them out of the country and be in some other country where they're glad to have them because they make a small fee compared to what we pay to a private prison or

to you know put them in one of our prisons that cost even more money I I think it would be great I'd love to get him the hell out of our country thank you very much everybody thank you I don't want to say but there's a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner and just last one because you mentioned it many times what do you think about Joe Biden signing on with the talent agency you got to be kidding he signed on with a talent agency yes he's got some entertainment AG now

I think he's got bigger problems than that I really do I think he's got much bigger your problems and that but I wish him well we inherited a mess this place is a mess but it's quickly being solved the problem we're going to make America great again thank you very much thanks guys thank you thank you