BREAKING NEWS: Trump Signs Raft Of New Executive Orders While Taking Questions From Reporters

well thank you very much everybody we have a lot of big signings good signings one in particular which will'll say for the end and uh I'll ask Will to go over these individually and we can see how we do yes sir uh first for your review we have uh 56 sub cabinet level appointments this includes probably most notably seven uh Ambassador appointments those will be the first ambassadors I believe that you've transmitted to the Senate okay and they're very good okay thank you sir uh second we have uh acting designations uh we're actually designating Doug

Collins to be the acting leader of both the office of special counsel and the office of government ethics you know Doug everybody I think he was in charge of the fake impeachment hearings remember that I won very conclusively fake charges by the radical left Democrats okay next Ser Johnson Administration to train senior level government bureaucrats uh as you've identified repeatedly uh in the last few years uh the senior levels of our federal government are not uh adequately serving as stewards of taxpayer dollars so we're recommending uh zeroing out that program effectively we're actually getting rid

of a few programs that are just a waste just really a waste thank you sir next we have uh a an executive order relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act uh as you've repeatedly identified the way that this act has been enforced over the years uh has been devastating to American Business Opportunities and business competitiveness abroad uh we are essentially ordering the Department of Justice to use its prosecutorial discretion in a way to ameliorate the negative effects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to allow Americans to do business abroad and to allow our foreign Partners

to do business with Americans uh without fearing unjust prosecution and for those of you that know this it turned out to be it sounds good on paper but in practicality it's a disaster it means that if an American goes over to a foreign country and starts doing business over there legally legitimately or otherwise uh it's it's almost a guaranteed investigation indictment and nobody wants to do business with the Americans because of it nobody wants to do business they say look we can deal with China they can do whatever they want we can deal with Russia

we can deal with anybody and we have a normal life you deal with America the FBI gets over there they don't investigate death and murders on the street in uh New York and Los Angeles they they go over and investigate a business guy trying to do business so it made it very very hard from a practical standpoint to make Deals they want to deal with the Americans but they don't want to be under investigation every time they speak to American every time an American makes a phone call to somebody in a different country it's a

disaster for this country and the I guess it was a Jimmy Carter concept and uh it sounds so good but it's so bad it hurts the country and many many deals are unable to be made because of it nobody wants to do business because they don't want to feel like every time they pick up a phone they're going to jail so we'll signed this and uh it takes courage to sign it because you only get bad publicity when you sign it it sounds so nice the title is so lovely uh but it's an absolutely horror

show for America so we're signing it because that's what we have to do to make it good okay thank you it's an important one it's going to going to mean a lot more business for America okay thank you sir uh next this is an executive order relating to the use of paper straws as you've consistently identified nobody really likes paper straws number one trending can you believe it a paper show was number one trending for three days or something the the environmental impact of plastic straws versus paper straws is entirely unclear this has cost both

the government and Private Industry an absolute ton of money and left cons consumers all over the country wildly dissatisfied with their straws so we're asking uh aspects of of the Federal Government Federal departments and agencies to look at their existing procurement processes and we're asking your domestic policy Council to look holistically at this issue to address it uh and it really is something that affects ordinary Americans in their everyday lives we're going back to plastic STS these things don't work I've had them many times and on occasion they break they explode if something's hot they

don't last very long like a matter of minutes sometimes a matter of seconds it's a ridiculous situation so we're going back to plastic straws I think it's okay and I don't think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they're eating as they're munching their way through the ocean okay thank you sir next we have uh a full and unconditional pardon for former Governor Rob bovich of the state of Illinois good it's my honor to do it I've watched him he was set up by a lot of bad people some of the

same people that I had to deal with he wasn't quite as successful but he had somebody that saw what was going on I didn't know him other than I believe he was on The Apprentice for a little while he was a uh just a very nice person he had a fantastic wife wife she fought like hell to get him out he was given a sentence of like 18 years and uh it was a sort of a terrible Injustice they just were after him they go after a lot of people these are bad people on the

other side so I think he's a just a very fine person and this shouldn't have happened and it shouldn't have happened to him and uh let him have a normal life and let him go out and do what he has to do so I'm signing this is a full part rodic Mr President are you considering him for ambassador to Serbia uh no but I would I mean he's now cleaner than anybody in this room you got a pardon he's cleaner than anybody in the room okay thank you sir uh next in 2018 you imposed uh

odorum uh duties tariffs on import of Steel at a 25% rate since that time a large number of exclusions and exceptions uh to that uh tariff rule have have been implemented uh because of the the damage to the United States steel industry that those exceptions and exclusions have imposed uh were now uh this order would reimpose that 25% odorum tariff rate on Imports of Steel uh and it's presented for your signature now okay you understand what that means um it's a big deal it's a big deal this is the beginning of making America Rich again

Mr secretary do you have anything to say as you know Howard is a secretary of Commerce doing a fantastic job and what do you have to say about it so when you imposed uh the tariffs the first time you added 120,000 jobs and since that time it's been picked away and nicked away and excluded away and we've lost 107,000 jobs and remember these aren't just general jobs these are steel workers in America and now you're going to bring them back you're going to bring those 120,000 jobs back to America you are the president who's standing

up for the American Ste worker and I am just tremendously impressed and delighted to stand next to you so let me just uh make a statement and essentially we're this is another way of saying we're doing a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum so the failed American trade policies have led our once incredible United States Steel and aluminum Industries once incredible it's once incredible they not now but they're they're not bad I saved them because of my first term totally saved him if I didn't do what I did I put massive tariffs not the highest

level but Ma pretty pretty massive tariffs we got uh we took in a lot of money and we took in a lot of jobs but uh we were being pummeled by both friend and foe alike our nation requires steel and aluminum to be made in America not in foreign lands we need to create in order to protect our country's future Resurgence of us manufacturing and production the likes of which has not been seen for many decades it's time for our great Industries to come back to America I want to back to America this is the

first of many and you know what I mean by that we're going to be doing others on other subjects topics protecting our steel and aluminum Industries is a must and today I'm simplifying our tariffs and steel and aluminum so that everyone can understand exactly what it means it's 25% without exceptions or exemp exemptions and that's all countries no matter where it comes from all countries if made in the United States however United States of America there is no tariff zero so if it's made in the United States there is no tariff all you have to

do is make it in the United States we don't need it from another country as an example Canada uh if we make it in the United States we don't need it to be made in Canada we'll have the jobs that's why Canada should be our 51st state we'll bring back Industries and we'll bring back our jobs and we'll make America industry great again so essentially we're putting on a 25% tariff without exception on all uh aluminum and All Steel and uh it's going to mean a lot of businesses are going to be opening in the

United States now we're going to be meeting over the next four week period maybe on a weekly basis and maybe we'll do a couple of them uh at different times and maybe together but we'll be talking about other subjects like cars we'll be talking about uh drugs and pharmaceuticals we'll be discussing chips and uh we're going to be uh doing some other things in addition to that all which will bring in a lot of jobs into our country cars is going to be a very big one and a very important one and America is going

to be stronger than it ever was before okay so uh are you finished with everything I think we have aluminum still okay let's go so with respect to aluminum similarly to Steel since 2018 a large number of exceptions and exemptions have been added into the law this eliminates all of those and also increases the odorum Tariff rate uh from 10 to 25% mostly the last part is the most important uh right would you say totally so basically this is aluminum the same thing no exceptions no nothing and uh it's going to bring our aluminum business

back it may go higher I mean frankly it may go higher and we're going to also be talking about recept we're going to be talking about things over the next three weeks that I think will be uh amazing for our country amazing for our jobs and will bring us to a new level of prosperity and I think frankly our uh allies and our enemies expected it for years they really expected it sometime during the Biden Administration but they didn't do anything as you know I put I put tariffs on China we took in hundreds of

billions of dollars with those tariffs and Biden wasn't able to get them out he tried to but it was too much money he couldn't do it and uh we're going to be doing a very concise and you know very uh very it's going to be good and I don't think if if done properly and we're going to try and do that uh we don't want it to hurt other countries but they've been taking advantage of us for years and years and years and they've charged us terrorists most of them have charged us almost everyone I

would say almost without exception they've charged us and we haven't charged them and uh it's time to be reciprocal so very very you'll be hearing that word a lot reciprocal if they charge us we charge them if they're at 25 we're at 25 if they're at 10 we're a 10 and if they're much higher than 25 that's what we are too so uh that's having to do with everything that's not just steel and aluminum but we'll be discussing that over the next couple of weeks but we will be looking at uh chips and we will

be looking at cars and we're going to be looking at Pharmaceuticals and there'll be a couple of other things also in addition Mr Mr President Mr President us Steel Workers have said that they support this move what would you say to American consumers who are worried that prices that they do support this move your Ste I love the Ste makers that's good course they because they want to save their businesses us steel will now be a very valuable company anybody that makes steel is going to be great anybody that works in Big steel is going

to be very happy what do you say to Consumers who are worried about prices so oh I don't think you're going to no you're going to ultimately have a price reduction because they're going to make their steal here there's not going to be any tariff these foreign companies will move to the United States will make their steel and aluminum in the United States ultimately it'll be cheaper but we'll also have jobs many many more jobs sir what are you looking at in terms of tariffs on cars and chips well we're looking at numbers and we'll

be coming up with a number but uh we have we've make some of the finest cars in the world and some companies prohibit us from selling those cars in their countries but they sell Us cars they send cars to us and we don't do that we charge nothing or 2 and a half% and they'll be charging 100% they'll be charging much more than that you look at some of them so um I think those days are over but we'll be announcing on other things such as cars uh we got some other things we'll be doing

but the biggest thing is reciprocal we want tariffs to be fair if they charge if they charge us we charge them tomorrow the reciprocal tariffs uh we'll be doing reciprocal over the next I would say two days don't you think two days yeah maybe Mr Mr the Australian prime minister has said that you are considering an exemption for an Australia on steel is that correct um and why I just spoke to him very fine man and he uh has a surplus I mean we have a surplus with Australia one of the few and the reason

is they buy a lot of airplanes they are rather far away and they need lots of airplanes and we actually have a surplus it's one of the only countries which we do and uh I told him that uh that's something that we will give great consideration to and would you consider one for the UK as as well well do we have a huge deficit with the UK big difference you don't have a deficit with Argentina is that country also going to be we have a uh a deficit with a little deficit with Argentina almost with

every country but Australia because of the airplanes they buy a lot of airplanes uh there's a little bit of a surplus Mr President if if other countries retaliate I don't mind what is your plan for for example Farmers last term you well the farmers are going to be helped yeah the farmers are going to be helped greatly because um they're not going to be dumping everything into our country this will be a great build for farmers and in terms of retaliation if they retaliate it's as I said uh it's reciprocal so if they raise it

a little bit then we raise it automatically so I don't think it helps for them to retaliate but also remember this they can't really retaliate because we're the piggy bank we're the piggy bank but if we don't do this won't be the piggy bank for long we won't be much of a country Mr President did you see that report sir that Hamas was going to stop releasing isra hostages and what was your reaction I think it's terrible look I looked at the hostages that came in and they're emaciated it looked like uh something out of

the 1930s it's an absolute disgrace and I think they saw the way the world viewed it and they're looking for a reason not to send more because they're ro you take take a look at that looks like it was looked like it was a concentration camp which ENT essentially it was uh looks like they came out of the Holocaust and uh What a Sad thing one of them was uh a young man good-looking guy little bit little bit heavier than perhaps he could have been and now he looks like he's uh not even recognizable not

even recognizing risk of falling apart look uh uh I can tell you that those people have been badly hurt both mentally and physically I'm talking about the young women that came out also previously and I think one of the reasons they're doing this is because they're probably sending the best what you see is probably the best because they want to uh send people that look at least healthy and that's not healthy these people have been badly hurt they they've been interviewed by by our Representatives they've been interviewed by Israeli representatives and uh they're really hurting

they are really hurting mentally and physically and I think Hamas is looking at that and saying well it's not going to get much better than that because they probably send out their best as a representative and and they've got more to send out and they probably feel that they can't do that because it's not going to make them look very good delay that sir should the ceasefire then be off well I would say this and I'm going to let that be because that's Israel's decision but uh as far as I'm concerned if all of the

hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12:00 I think it's an appropriate time I would say cancel it and all bets are off and uh let hell break out I'd say they ought to be returned by 12:00 on Saturday and if they're not retired all of them not in drips and drabs not two and one and three and four and two uh Saturday at 12:00 and after that I would say uh all hell is going to break out and I don't think they're going to do it I think a lot of them are dead I think

a lot of the hostages are dead I think uh it's a great it's a great human tragedy what's what's happened how people can be uh that mean to do I mean the one guy was laughing when uh when a hostages he thought his his uh family was alive found out the family was dead and the his captor so to speak his captor started laughing because he thought it was so funny you know this is this is a different group of people no I would say Saturday at 12: we want them all back I'm speaking for

myself Israel can override it but from myself Saturday at 12:00 and of the they're not if they're not here all hell is going to break out Mr President interview this weekend you said that Palestinians would not be guaranteed the right to return to Gaza if the US were to develop it what did you mean by that in under we've spoken to a lot of Palestinians they would love to leave Gaza if they could find a place to be and I've spoken to various leaders of various countries in the not so you know distant area from

where we're talking about the Gaza Strip and I think they were very positive about providing land what we need is land and if we could build a nice place for people to live safely everybody in Gaza would do it they've been persecuted they've been they've been spit on they've been treated like trash and they would love to get out of Gaza but until now they never had an alternative now they have an alternative and as far as Hamas is concerned you're seeing the real Hamas now with the hostages Mr Mr on Gaza uh you have

the who you from where the Welsh Journal sir the uh Jordanian leader is coming in to see you uh folks and Jordan have expressed opposition to taking in more uh gazit more Palestinians how do you how are you going to convince him to do otherwise I think he'll take I mean I do think he'll take and I think other countries will take also they have good Hearts I think they'll take but what about the Palestinians who just won't leave we've spoken our team has spoken to many they all going to leave when they have a

place that's a better alternative when they have a nice place that's safe they're all going to leave it's a hell hole right now but how are you so sure would the US force them to leave uh you're going to see that they're all going to want to leave Mr it comes to Saturday new there's American hostage who still being held by right now look you know who knows are they alive are they not alive but I saw the condition when I saw the condition of the last ones that came out and the women to everybody

the one woman had her hand blown off because she was trying to stop a bullet being fired at her okay kind of a situation as that you saw her um I just think it's time to either you release everybody they're not going to be alive right now based on what I saw over the last two days they're not going to be alive for long Saturday at 12:00 and after that it's said G to be a different ball game Mr President when you say all hell is going to break loose are you speaking about retaliation from

you'll find out and they'll find out too Hamas will find out what I mean Mr President they're going to find out what I mean these are sick people and they'll find out what I mean Saturday at 12 or no involv pans from the West Bank are they going to be relocated too right now no right now they're there and I assume they want to remain there it's different they're there it's never been like what we're talking about with the Gaza Strip so they're going to continue you have no no no I no plans there Mr

President regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Democrats including Elizabeth Warren have said that by freezing it it's getting big Banks and giant corporations the green light Pocahontas Pocahontas the fake the faker uh you know that was set up to destroy people she used that as her little uh personal agency to go around and Destroy people and she's a fake just like she said she was an Indian and she wasn't an Indian you have more Indian blood in you than she has uh she went to college based on the fact that she was an Indian she

got jobs based on the fact that she was an Indian she's a fake uh that was D that was set up to destroy some very good people and uh and it worked I mean it worked a lot of a lot of great people I'll tell you before I ever heard the term people would come up to me in the midwestern areas and say sir I'm being destroyed by them they they use that to destroy people she's a nasty woman she's a really nasty woman despite her phony beer commercial um now uh we did the right

thing that was a very important thing to get rid of and it was also a waste I mean number one it was a bad group of people running it but uh it was also a waste if you looked at when she really ran it wow that was a vicious group of people they really destroyed a lot of people and you could confirm it's uh your goals to have it totally eliminated the agcy I say yeah because we're trying to get rid of waste Fraud and Abuse what's next and and didn't I hear that somebody made

like $38 million or something running a little agency what was her name what was her name and what did she do and what was what was that all about all the money that she made does anybody know are you yeah Brian go ahead good to see you the latest CBS poll has your approval ratings at an all-time high despite all these controversial subjects and executive orders that you're doing want to get your thoughts on that how you've really connected to mainstream America yeah I I have high approval ratings because I'm you know I'm using Common

Sense whether it's uh getting men out of women's sports I mean have you seen what goes on with the boxers and with the weightlifters and with the swimmers and everything that's so ridiculous and I think it's a 90% issue and you know the amazing thing the Democrats are still fighting for it it's crazy it's crazy I think we should go to Congress also have that cemented and you know make it indelible uh but we you know it's uh to me it's all common sense who wants an open border where where prisons are dumped into our

country where prisoners are LED into our country many of whom are murderers they many of whom murdered far more than one person and they're now roaming our country who wants that I mean it's uh it's terrible Steve I'd like you to say a couple of words about it yes well as you know Mr President since you issued your day one executive orders border crossings are down approximately 95% you talk to agents on the line in their entire careers they never seen Crossing days as low as what they're experiencing right now the cartels in fact are

enormously frustrated because they've never seen a clampton like this before in American history there are people who working at border of Patrol back when it was at ins in the 80s and 90s they've never seen a date like this that's because you've mobilized the 10th Mountain division the Marines the entire US military they're erecting physical miles of barrier temporary and ultimately permanent every single day you have all of your border agents push to the front line they're not doing the humanitarian processing quote unquote that Biden was doing they're doing law enforcement and National Security they're

interdicting weapons and drugs they're interdicting violent High threat criminals and the US military is repat ating illegal immigrants at a pace and a skill that has never occurred before in American history and those who are committing human trafficking and child trafficking are being prosecuted for felony offenses and they will be doing hard time in jail there's never been a lockdown like what you have implemented through your orders and vision since you took the O of office what what's your thoughts on Doge Wednesday at 10: a.m. they're having the first subcommittee going to focus on the

fraud and Medicare yeah before I discuss that I just want to add to what Steve said and we want people to come into our country but we want them to come illegally they have to go through a process and uh we have to know that they haven't killed nine people or they haven't killed like in one case five five people uh and they're out on the loose and we're all looking for that particular individual this was all LED in by Biden and the group of uh stupid people bad people and stupid people uh some are

bad some are stupid some are both but I'll tell you what what they've done to this country but we're cleaning it up and uh hard to believe I can say it it'll be better than ever before but we have a lot of bad people we have to get at we're searching out for a lot of them I think Tom Holman and chrisy are doing an unbelievable job chrisy know they're doing an unbelievable job and taking out massive numbers of people and you notice every country is accepting those people back remember everyone said Oh They'll Never

accept them they're all taking them back they have to they're all taking them back every single country is taking them back I don't know if they want them or not I don't imagine do but they're taking them back on Gaza you talked with Fox news about the billions of dollars we uh pay for Jordan and Egypt every year would you withhold Aid to these countries if they don't agree to take in the Palestinians yeah maybe sure why not you mean if they don't agree mention if they don't agree I would I would conceivably withhold a

are you going to talk to prime minister man yaho about the Saturday deadline sure I mean it's just my deadline but they may change it but I think it's uh i' I've seen too many people come out they look like Holocaust victims from from many years ago i' never see anything like it I didn't think this could happen in this world today you know we think we have a civilized world it's not civil these are is a bad people we're dealing with so I would that would be my suggestion and he can open it up

and not open it up but that would be my do you have anything to say about that you're Commerce but you have a lot to say from the standpoint of your faith and your religion go ahead so it's amazing that four years of nothing and then you come in and you immediately start to move the needle you have hostages coming out you send Steve witkoff who's done an amazing job for you you're changing the Middle East you're supporting your ally Israel and I for one can't be more oppressed with the outcomes that you have driven

and choosing this Saturday to save people's lives or just be done with it seems like just the right choice but I think it's time to come up with a date it's toally what are we going to do keep every every week two people three people uh no I don't think you can do that anymore this is these are very seriously endangered people these are endangered people I don't I don't think they're going to last very long you know the people that came out yesterday they they wouldn't last very long were you ring out any us

involvement in in whatever happens after this deadline we'll see what happens we'll just see what happens will you talk with ziny this week sir yeah probably by telephone what your he wants to make a deal let's see we'll see uh we're dealing with them and I think they both want to make a deal but we'll have to see it's got to be done but is would have never happened if I were president this would never have happened millions of people are dead what was have to give up if anything we'll talk about that later because

your reaction to a judge today continuing a pause on the buyout program for federal workers well I don't know how you can lose a case like that we're talking about people you know everybody I got elected on making government better more efficient and smaller and that's what we're doing and uh I think it was a very generous buyout actually uh also if people don't show up to work we have a right to fire them and they have an option they can show up to work or not if they don't want to show up to work

then let them work because then the next step is have you worked before have you work during this time that you're supposed to be working you'll find many of those people in my opinion have had other jobs even though they're collecting money from the federal government many have had in my opinion other jobs if the if they did if they did that's a big problem if the buyouts are blocked in court will you instead pursue layoffs in federal departments I don't know how they can D this is Free Will this is a a buyout where

people you know they were offered a good deal many people have taken that as you know but you know many of those people and we talk about uh reporting to work right I happen to be a believer that you have to go to work I don't think you can work from a home I don't I don't know it's like there's a whole big oh you can work from home nobody's going to work from a home they're going to be going out they're going to play tennis they're going to play golf they're going to do a

lot of things they're not working it's it's a person that's going to work you might work 10% of the time maybe 20% I don't think you're going to work a lot more than that and I think we they have an obligation to work and they have an obligation not to have a second job when they're supposed to be working for the federal government you're going to find that a lot of these people had second jobs instead of working for they'll be collecting a federal government check and they'll be working two jobs and that's that's big

trouble for them you've said a lot about South Africa in the last two weeks hosting the G20 Summit this year are you planning to attend this or are you skipping it and telling your cabinet to not well we'll see what happens but the South African situation is very very dangerous and very bad for a lot of people uh there's tremendously bad things going on and so including the confiscation of property and worse much worse than that you know what I'm talking about and we're not making any payment until we find out what's going on in

South Africa yes K going to Ukraine this week are soon yeah he is Keith Kellogg General Kellogg is an excellent guy and uh he's spending time doing various things we have numerous people working on numerous different uh problems you know when I left office uh wasn't long ago a little more than four years ago we had no Wars we had no we didn't have problems now we got the whole world is blowing up but we'll put out the fires you've been talking to Vladimir Putin are you trying to set meeting with him well I can't

tell you what I'm talking about but we are talking uh as a group also I think itd like to make a deal but it takes two to tango and so mean you can't give us any more clarity when whether you personally have spoken to I don't want to talk about it no I don't want to talk about it it's not going to help you to know but we would like to get a deal done if possible only because in my case save lives you know we're much further away remember uh we have an ocean separating

they don't Europe should be paying what we're paying and Europe has done it more in the form of a loan than with us we just give it you know Biden gives it because he's not a smart individual not a very smart individual uh we have people over there today who are making a deal that as we give money we get minerals and we get oil and we get all sorts of things because why are we doing this and uh all this money we're in for maybe 350 billion and Europe's in for 100 billion and Europe's

in really as a form of a loan in theory they get that money back in theory they get interest on their money it's a whole different ball game and Biden is the one that started doing this every time zalinski came here he walked away with 60 to hundred billion dollar I think he's one of the greatest salesmen who ever who have ever lived by the way can you discuss your uh intentions with the K Kennedy Center which you're now CH so we took over the Kennedy Center we didn't like what they were showing and various

other things and and uh I had a lot of the board members already as you know and we have uh some that will be replaced uh but we have um I guess a whole new group of people going in I have Rick grenell who's got some experience in that world going to be he's very good going to be handling it on a temporary basis I think he'll do a great job but uh we're going to get some great professionals I'm going to be chairman of it and we're going to make sure that it's good and

it's it's not going to be woke there's no more woke in this country this woke has cost us a fortune and cost us our reputation but the reputation's coming back very very rapidly thank you very much everybody the penny is gone go penny is gone is the Nel next what about what about what about anything good luck the penny the penny is gone the penny the penny cost this government you thank you very much thank you thank you thank you guys thanks yeah thank you than thank you very