American Sunrise - January 21st, 2026

Summary

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Podcast Summary

Podcast: Real America’s Voice – American Sunrise
Episode: January 21st, 2026
Main Hosts: David Brody, Terrence Bates, Dr. Gina
Notable Guests/Speakers: Brian Glenn (RAV White House Correspondent), Mike Gonzalez (Heritage Foundation), Javier Negre (RAV), President Donald Trump (live address at Davos)

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Overview

The January 21st, 2026 episode of American Sunrise centered on breaking news coverage of President Donald Trump’s anticipated address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The conversation explored Trump’s delayed arrival in Switzerland, the global and domestic political landscape, and a live, in-depth analysis of Trump’s major speech. Topics included economic policy, US foreign relations (notably with Greenland, Europe, and Venezuela), energy, NATO, and culture. The cast frequently referred to Trump’s first year “back in office” and his “America First” approach, blending updates, interviews, and colorful commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. President Trump’s Davos Arrival & Context

• Travel Delays: Trump arrived in Zurich and then Davos after a three-hour delay caused by an Air Force One electrical issue ([04:20], [21:05]).
• Atmosphere at Davos: Hosts described Davos as deeply “establishment” and referenced anti-war protestors (snow-written “Stop Wars Now” message greeted Trump).
• Expectations: Anticipation for a “MAGA-infused, America First” keynote ([06:31]), with an emphasis on economic turnaround and challenging the global elite consensus.

David Brody [05:47]: "He's about to address the World Economic Forum and we understand it's going to be an America First type feel speech. That is great to hear. I want to hear America, America, America throughout."

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2. Pre-Speech Panel Analysis & Macron Dispute

• Anniversary Noted: Trump’s one-year anniversary back in office marked by a “drop the binder” moment listing his administration’s achievements ([08:22]).
• Macron Spat: Macron implicitly called Trump a “bully,” leading to Trump’s threat of a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne ([11:26], [12:27]).

Emmanuel Macron at WEF [11:26]:
“We do believe that we need more growth, we need more stability in this world, but we do prefer respect to bullies, we do prefer science to plotism, and we do prefer rule of law to brutality.”

• Hosts’ Reaction: Laughed at Macron’s aviator sunglasses; dismissed him as out-of-touch and ribbed on European leaders’ criticism.

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3. Greenland & Foreign Policy Stakes

• US–Greenland Saga: Trump remained cryptic about using military force to "acquire" Greenland, fueling both intrigue and controversy ([30:46], [42:00]).

Trump, in response to NBC [30:46]:
“You'll find out.”

• Panel with Mike Gonzalez:
  • Venezuela discussed as a victory for MAGA rationale: drug interdiction, combating leftist groups, and oil cooperation ([31:29], [32:37]).
  • Trump’s realignment at Davos interpreted as turning globalist critique into American leadership.

Mike Gonzalez [33:20]:
“You need to go there and speak the truth to them. I think that's what Trump is going to do—and I think that is fantastic.”

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4. President Trump’s Davos Address (Main Speech [42:02–114:22])

a. Economic "Miracle" and Policy Achievements

• Boasting Record Numbers:
  • One year of “booming growth, surging investment, plummeting inflation.”
  • “Hottest country anywhere in the world by far.”

Trump [42:10]:
“After 12 months back in the White House, our economy is booming. Growth is exploding… America is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country’s history.”

• Specific Achievements:
  • 1.2 million off food stamps
  • $18–20 trillion in new investment committed in a year
  • 52 stock market records; $9 trillion added to retirement/savings
  • Trade deficit slashed by 77%; 270,000 federal bureaucrats cut in a year; regulatory cuts

b. “America First” vs. Globalist Economic Model

• Blamed previous policies of “mass migration,” “endless imports,” green energy (“Green New Scam”), and excessive regulation for Western decline.
• Painted Trump’s approach as a reversal—expansion of energy (including nuclear and fossil fuels), sharp tariff policy, and mass spending cuts.

Trump [43:25]:
“Instead of closing down energy plants, we’re opening them up. Instead of building ineffective, money-losing windmills, we’re taking them down and not approving any.”

• Europe and Energy:
  • Mocked windpower and European leaders for energy policies, praised U.S. traditional energy expansion.
  • Noted “China makes all the windmills but doesn’t use them”—calls European buyers “stupid people.”

Trump [46:41]:
“One thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses… China makes almost all of the windmills and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China.”

c. Greenland, NATO, and Security

• Historical Rationale for U.S. Control:
  • Used WWII precedent to argue only the U.S. can defend Greenland.
  • Denmark accused of not funding defense.
  • Called for acquisition of Greenland for “strategic national security.”

Trump [49:52]:
“It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States… and that’s the reason I’m seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland.”

• Tariffs as Leverage & Defense:

  • Cited ongoing trade disputes (Switzerland, France, U.K.) as examples of using tariffs for U.S. benefit.

• NATO Critique:

  • Repeated accusations overseas partners don’t pay their share.
  • Claimed to have raised NATO member spending commitment to 5% of GDP (from 2%).
  • Warned, “We’ll remember” if U.S. requests for Greenland are rebuffed.

d. Policy Announcements

• Mortgage and Housing:

  • Banned institutional investors from buying single-family homes; pushed for law ([54:02]).
  • Called for a cap on credit card interest at 10% for one year.
  • Announced government purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds to lower rates; teased new Fed nominee.

• Cryptocurrency:

  • Vowed to keep America the “crypto capital of the world,” prevent China from dominating the market ([57:32]).

• Sanctuary Cities:

  • Announced “no more payments” to sanctuary cities; referenced crackdowns on welfare and benefits for illegal immigrants ([1:08:35]).

e. International Affairs

• Venezuela:

  • Recounted taking 50 million barrels of oil as part of new accord; praised Venezuela’s “great leadership” and “cooperation”—argued U.S. intervention “turned around” the country ([47:22]).
  • U.S. involvement interpreted as a major MAGA achievement.

• Ukraine & Russia:

  • Declared war “should have never happened”—blamed on allegedly “rigged” 2020 U.S. election.
  • Claimed personal diplomacy compelled Putin to show restraint.

• Drugs/Crime:

  • Claimed “97.2%” reduction of drug trafficking by sea.
  • Targeted Somali immigrants in Minnesota, tying welfare fraud and social disorder to “failed cultures.”

• Cultural Comments:

  • Stressed Western “special culture” as key to prosperity; called for defending Western values against imported cultures and leftist ideologies ([1:10:05]).

f. Memorable Quotes

• On NATO:

  Trump [50:31]:
  “The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO… We give so much and we get so little in return.”

• On European Energy Policy:

  Trump [46:41]:
  “There are windmills all over Europe… Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000… Stupid people buy them.”

• On Tariffs & Diplomacy:

  Trump [52:42]:
  “I am so sorry [to friends], but you’ve driven up housing prices by purchasing hundreds of thousands of single family homes… Homes are built for people, not for corporations.”

• On Immigration:

  Trump [1:09:03]:
  “The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own.”

• On U.S. Global Leadership & Culture:

  Trump [1:13:03]:
  “The United States is back, bigger, stronger, better than ever before… You can do things that nobody else can even think about.”

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5. Post-Speech Q&A Segment

• Growth & Recession Risks ([114:43]):

  • Trump acknowledged possible unanticipated downturns (“Covid”), but claimed the U.S. is “poised to do things no other country has ever done.”
  • Emphasized “growth and cutting costs,” especially cracking down on welfare fraud, as the path to budget balance.

• Artificial Intelligence ([~117:30]):

  • U.S. AI investment (cited $500 billion figure), claimed as essential for economic leadership and a source of competition with China.

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Notable/Memorable Moments

• The “drop the binder” moment at the press conference, symbolizing Trump’s confidence in his record.
• Macron being ribbed for his sunglasses and “bully” remarks ([11:26], [11:52]).
• Trump’s forceful messaging on tariffs, energy policy (“Green New Scam”), and border control.
• Q&A exchange on economic uncertainty—Trump referencing COVID as the unpredictable threat.
• Frequent interruptions and commentary from hosts, with a playful, occasionally mocking tone toward European leaders and critics.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump Arrival Analysis: [04:20]
• Panel Reaction & Macron: [11:26]
• Greenland Question (military force?): [30:42]
• Mike Gonzalez Venezuela/Foreign Policy: [31:29]–[36:18]
• Trump Speech (Full): [42:02]–[114:22]
• Q&A with WEF Host: [114:43]–[End]

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Tone & Language

• Hosts: Direct, patriotic, irreverent; often critical or mocking toward European elites and “globalist” policies.
• Trump (in speech): Combative, boastful, “America First”-centered, frequently blending humor and derision with policy specifics.
• Expert Guests: Analytical but supportive of Trump’s approach (esp. Mike Gonzalez).

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Conclusion

This loaded episode provided wall-to-wall coverage and commentary of Trump’s high-stakes Davos address, blending minute-by-minute news with arch commentary, guest analysis, and a thorough, direct reading of “America First” as both domestic slogan and international posture. The segment, especially Trump’s speech, serves as a brash articulation of current U.S. executive priorities—a push for continued economic dominance, assertive foreign policy, and a rejection of global consensus on issues ranging from energy to immigration.

Listeners gained an inside look at both the spectacle and substance of U.S. leadership on the world stage, punctuated by Real America's Voice’s uniquely candid and combative tone.

Transcript

[Donald Trump]

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[David Brody]

See terms ahead on American Sunrise. President Trump on the world stage. There he is in Zurich, Switzerland. He's set to address the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. He is there now, by the way, we have a preview of the address. Plus it's not easy being Green Lynd Will President Trump use American military force to take control of the Arctic Island? He addresses that question straight on and oh, it was as cryptic as it gets. And later, Emmanuel Macron's faux pas. The President, the French president that is reportedly declines to join Trump's Gaza Board of Peace. Bad move. President Trump now threatening a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne. Bon appetit, Emmanuel. We have those stories and more as American Sunrise starts right now. Good morning, America.

[Dr. Gina]

Welcome to American Sunrise. Whether it's culture, we have breaking news to share with you.

[Terrence Bates]

Politics.

[David Brody]

President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

[Donald Trump]

We've got you covered.

[David Brody]

This is what it looks like to be a patriot.

[Terrence Bates]

We have to protect, protect the American family.

[Dr. Gina]

The American dream is still alive.

[David Brody]

I'm David Brody.

[Terrence Bates]

I'm terrence.

[Dr. Gina]

And I'm Dr. Gina.

[Brian Glenn]

Breaking news from Real America's Voice.

[Terrence Bates]

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're back with breaking news. Starting this morning with breaking news as you're looking live at Air Force. I'm sorry, Marine One. Excuse me, Marine One touching down in Davos. The president will be on the ground here in short order. We're hearing pretty much that he and the entourage, the traveling media and all on the ground there in Davos, Switzerland, preparing for the President to arrive at the World Economic Forum. He is set to speak, scheduled for speaking in about 30 minutes or so. We're expecting that the speech will actually happen within the next hour or so. Now that everyone is on the ground, should be a pretty quick drive over to the facilities where the World Economic Forum conference is ongoing. And the president will then, of course, deliver his remarks. We, of course, will hold those remarks and carry them for you live here on Real America's Voice. Let's bring in David and Dr. Gina as we kind of watch all of this unfold here. Big morning, David. Dr. Gina, as the president has had, let's say, not the easiest of travel, we, of course, have been talking about it all morning long. He left Washington, D.C. a little bit later than expected simply because there was an issue on Air Force One, so they had to turn around, go back to Washington, D.C. but he eventually got on en route. Excuse me. On the way, about three hours late. Now we're seeing that he is finally in Davos in advance of his remarks today.

[Brian Glenn]

David?

[David Brody]

Yeah, and Gina, I know what you're thinking. I want to take a helicopter ride from Zurich to Davos over the Swiss Alps, because that's exactly what I want to do as well. And apparently as he was landing, there was that big sign or in the snow. Wasn't a sign. It was in the snow. It said stop wars now. So look, he's about to address the World Economic Forum and we understand it's going to be an America first type feel speech. That is great to hear. I want to hear America, America, America throughout. I don't want to hear world peace, world peace, world peace. Dr. G. We'll see how he fuses Maga into that world Economic Forum speech. I think he'll probably end up hitting a home run.

[Dr. Gina]

Yeah. Well, the irony of all of this is that, you know, Davos has traditionally been about the most pearl clutching establishment of establishment. Pearl clutching.

[Brian Glenn]

Right.

[Dr. Gina]

And, but now, you know, it's turned from basically one big resounding environmental scream to, you know, something that really is controlled by this administration in such interesting ways. And it's become a little bit of a referendum on Greenland, a little bit of a conversation, conversation about the, At least from an economic standpoint. So this should be interesting today. I think this speech will be especially interesting. Everything president said over the last couple of days has been fascinating.

[Terrence Bates]

Absolutely. You talked about some of his remarks over the last couple of days. Yesterday, of course, the one year anniversary of his return to office and he of course listed out his many accomplishments. And in fact, David, as you said, as you like to say, he even brought receipts.

[David Brody]

Yeah, he, he sure did. As a matter of fact, we want to play a quick little sound bite of President Trump yesterday at the, in the White House press briefing room. Don't worry, we're going to come back to this shot because we're going to be on this all morning long and keep it right here on Real America's Voice. But this is what President Trump was doing. Watch what he does with the papers of all of the, all of the accomplishments. He had it in one big binder and look what he does with the binder at the end. Take a look.

[Donald Trump]

And here is the, here's the book. These are all things we have. I'm going to read a few of the samples. But look at this. These are all, each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. And it's big stuff, too. Look, we have the hottest country in the world.

[David Brody]

I believe, Gina, that's the drop the binder moment from Trump.

[Donald Trump]

Yes.

[Dr. Gina]

It's no longer even redefine. That is no longer the drop the mic moment. It's the drop the binder moment. No doubt about it. You know, he has some great bragging points. One of the things I want to note before we go to our Bible verse is that this is exactly one year ago today that many of our J. Sixers were pardoned. And we just want to tell them we are continuing in prayer for them and their families. It has not been an easy road for them. A lot of them and more suicides have occurred in that one year. And we pray for those families as well. Let's go to today's Bible verse at this point, it's from Romans 8, 3, 9. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is why so often I go a little bonkers. David Brody and Terrence, I know you know this when people say something about the universe because right there in that Bible verse, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing. The Bible warns clearly of worshiping the created. That would be the universe over the Creator. The universe is never going to do a thing for you. It's God. All right, now let's bring in the RAB chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn. He is on the ground in Davos. Brian, what is the sense there on the ground?

[Brian Glenn]

Well, we've got the buzzes in the air.

[Donald Trump]

Actually.

[Brian Glenn]

We've taken a look at President Trump right now walking off Marine One there. We can even hear the choppers outside.

[Donald Trump]

Where we're at right now.

[Brian Glenn]

Can't confirm it's the same ones, but we've got a lot of activity just outside the facility that we're at right now. Now you're seeing President Trump step into the motorcade and he will make his way. And I would presume, Dr. Gina, they're going to block off the roads here because as I said earlier, it took us about two hours last night to go about 0.6 miles. The traffic is horrendous in this area. So it's going to be a logistical nightmare for many who are trying to make their way to the conference. But nevertheless, President Trump looks like right now he is on his way to speak. And of course, I'm trying to get an updated time of speech right now. Initially heard he was about three hours behind. I think that has been accelerated a little bit. We could be seeing that happen a little bit sooner than later.

[David Brody]

Yeah, I think he was originally scheduled to speak for 8:30am Eastern here. That's 2:30 in the afternoon your time over there. We'll wait and see exactly what goes on with that. I can't wait to see him say hello to Emmanuel Macron, his French friend. And I put friend in air quotes, by the way. First of all, I want to see who lets go first on the handshake.

[Dr. Gina]

He'll probably walk out, greet him with a little champagne and caviar, one in each hand, don't you think?

[David Brody]

Yeah. And say there's a 200% tax on that, too.

[Dr. Gina]

This was really expensive this time.

[David Brody]

Yeah. But Brian, but the reason I brought Macron up, I want you to hear this like a quick 15 second soundbite for Macron, basically. He didn't say Trump's name, but he basically called Trump a bully yesterday on the World Economic Forum stage. Here it is.

[Donald Trump]

We do believe that we need more growth, we need more stability in this world, but we do prefer respect to bullies, we do prefer science to plotism, and we do prefer rule of law to brutality.

[David Brody]

I can't even. And the glasses. But that's a separate fashion note.

[Donald Trump]

Well.

[Brian Glenn]

I just thought it would be appropriate because when you step in front of the cameras inside, obviously you've got to make sure. Is that the most ridiculous thing? I mean, what is that all about? I didn't even listen to really what he was saying. I just saw the stupidity of wearing his aviators inside. So, I mean, I. I at least have this glare coming off the snow, which, if you skiers would know, it's kind of blinding. But Macron, come on, you're at a press conference.

[Dr. Gina]

Yeah, Colin in our control room yesterday called him a tool.

[David Brody]

By the way, the whole point of the Macron thing is that Macron has reportedly declined to join the Board of Peace, the Gaza Board of Peace. And Trump's like, okay, you know what? You want to do that? You know, I'll tell you what, I'm Gonna put a 200% tax. He literally said that. 200% tariff. Excuse me. On French champagne and what else? Wine and all that. So, anyhow, I can't wait for that discussion. T. Bates. Sorry, go ahead.

[Terrence Bates]

Yeah, no, no, fine. By the way, Brian, since you're putting on glasses, a point of personal privilege, I am getting older. So this is a debut, ladies and gentlemen. Terrence Bates now wears glasses.

[Dr. Gina]

Oh, my gosh.

[Terrence Bates]

There you guys have it.

[Donald Trump]

Wow.

[David Brody]

I'll do it, too. How's that?

[Terrence Bates]

All right, well, thank you so much. I rejected this for years, but there we go.

[Donald Trump]

Here I am.

[Terrence Bates]

Hey, Brian. So look, President Trump now on the ground there in Davos. But over the last, really 48 hours or so, Scott Besant has been holding it down for the US Delegation. And one of the things he said this morning to some of the European leaders is basically, to put it in US Terms, simmer down a little bit, calm down, hold your horses, wait and hear what President Trump has to say. And it seems to me that he's really setting the stage, if you will, for the President, and hopeful that some of these other European leaders are open to hearing what the President has to say today.

[Brian Glenn]

Yeah, he did say that, Terrence. He also said that to the foreign press yesterday morning when we were at a brief press conference with Scott Bessett and said, look, you guys, sit back, take a deep breath. Things are getting better. They're not as bad as you guys like to paint it. You know, the affordability crisis is kind of, for the better part, going away. Inflation is a lot lower with the hottest country on earth. So he did kind of school the foreign press to a certain degree. And so I do anticipate President Trump leaning into that narrative as well as the press here is brutal. It's brutal. They really are. They want to catch the president and Scott Bessant and anybody else that steps out in front of the microphone. They want to trip them up and try to throw them off their base there. But the facts are there. I mean, the economy is roaring back. We are the hottest country in the world. We've got these tariffs that are bringing in tons of revenue. That's really enabling us to trim down our debt and provide potentially maybe an additional check to the American people. So I think Scott Benson was, I think he's completely correct in his approach to the people here at the World Economic Forum.

[Dr. Gina]

All right, well, Brian Glenn, we thank you for your time. You know, keep those shades on and keep reaching for the stars. All right.

[David Brody]

Can I just say that he looks like the MAGA Terminator?

[Dr. Gina]

He does. And I just say too, he looks much better than Macron in those glasses. Just making that comment.

[Brian Glenn]

Thank you.

[Dr. Gina]

All right, listen, coming up, we're going to check out the hottest headlines from the RAP newsroom with Terrence Bates. Also later, the future of Venezuela. Now that Maduro is in custody, when will the country decide who its next elected leader will be? That's just ahead as American Sunrise continues.

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[Brian Glenn]

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[Donald Trump]

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[David Brody]

The anticipation building in Davos There is the World Economic Forum stage. Get ready to President Trump about to take the stage and that means it's time to put pop the popcorn. Welcome back everybody to American Sunrise. I'm David Brody, by the way. Expect that address by President Trump potentially in the next half hour or so. He's supposed to speak at 8:30am this morning, Eastern Standard Time. It was delayed a little bit, maybe not too much. It could happen for sure within the time that we are on the air here on American Sunrise. We got a lot more going on around the world. T. Bates standing by with the latest headlines from the Real America's Voice newsroom sponsored by amac.

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[Terrence Bates]

President Trump has finally touched down in Davos, Switzerland. He in fact touched down just a few minutes ago there on marine 1. 47 on the ground after an electrical issue on board Air Force One caused his plane to return to Washington, briefly creating several hour delay in arrival for the President there in Switzerland. You see him deboarding Air Force One here again. This was about an hour, hour and a half ago or so. He then boarded Marine One there in Zurich and shuttled over to Davos where he is right now. In fact, we watched him deboard Marine One and load into the motorcade just a little while ago. However, before leaving the White House on Tuesday, the Commander in Chief celebrating the one year anniversary of his first full year in office during a press conference there at 1600 Pennsylvania. The commander in Chief laying out all of his accomplishments over the last year.

[Donald Trump]

But the job we did is a miracle. One of the reasons I'm doing this today is to explain we inherited a mess and we've made it a beautiful, beautiful picture. Think of gasoline at $1.99.

[Terrence Bates]

And while in Davos for the World Economic Forum, the issue of President Trump's intention to buy or even take over Greenland is expected to be the main topic of conversation. 47 already has a meeting set With NATO Secretary General. Other European leaders have also reached out to the White House. And while the President appears to be largely on an island by himself, when it comes to the US taking charge of Greenland, he seems to be very comfortable in that position.

[Donald Trump]

I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy. But we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important.

[Terrence Bates]

And in other headlines, you probably missed it. However, the Earth was hit by the biggest solar radiation storm in 23 years. On Monday, the geomagnetic storm rocked Earth's magnetic field, unleashing what experts describe as a powerful X class solar flare. The celestial event triggered a stream of super fast solar particles that created widespread auroras and in places where they're not usually seen. Yeah, I know that's pretty deep layman's terms here, folks. The storm triggered what most of us know as the northern lights that were seen in places like Southern California, even in England. So let's now bring in Weather Nation meteorologist Tracy Anthony, who's got some more cool video of some of these auroras that painted the night sky. TT this is such a cool thing, but I always seem to be sleeping through the northern lights. I think I've told you in the past I want to go to Iceland to see them. That's where I thought was like the most prolific place you can see them. But now apparently with some of these, some of these, these occurrences, if you will, you're even able to see them in places like Southern California. How cool is that?

[Tracy Anthony]

It's so cool. And you know, I've never seen them either. So I'm with you there. I gotta stay up late one time and try to see them, but I think in South Florida here, I'm gonna be a little bit too far south. But this is Riverton, Wyoming. You can see the beautiful colors there. We've got some other videos coming in from areas like northern Maine. So obviously the closer you get to the poles, that's your better chance to see the northern lights. But it's basically caused from those solar storms and it's plasma and magnetic particles that reach the Earth's atmosphere, which causes these lights and the electrons to excite. So a very cool sighting if you ever get the chance. The, the storm that we did have over the last couple of days was rated at a G4. So near the poles you can have some power outages and you can definitely have some satellite tracking issues. So it will cause some concern, but most of us never really feel any of those impacts. Now, I want to give you a quick check of what's going on across the country because we started off this week extremely quiet. But like I told you, we're going to end it very active. And we're we've got a system working across the Northern Plains that's going to bring in some snow, some very cold temperatures and some gusty wind. So you see all those advisories issued for the Northern Plains. But look at all this blue across the south. This is for our next winter storm system that's going to be impacting areas from Albuquerque to Nashville. So as we get into Friday and Saturday, we're talking about widespread snow and freezing rain causing major concerned. So if you're in this part of the country, you want to make sure you're keeping eyes on the forecast. Terrence. You know, typically they get kind of one of these storm systems every year, but it can be very, very dangerous.

[Terrence Bates]

No, absolutely. And I'm sorry, I'm doing my geography. Albuquerque's to my west, Nashville is to the east of me, which means I'm right in the middle. All right, thanks. Appreciate that.

[Donald Trump]

Tracy, you're a little more.

[Terrence Bates]

Yeah, well, yeah. Okay. We'll check in with you next hour for our hometown forecast. Tracy, make sure that you were there. I know. We'll be checking in with you. Hopefully we'll check in with you. Depends on what the president does. Also, folks, there at the bottom of your screen, you see that QR code. Feel free to scan it and join our friends over at Weather Nation. Again, if the president isn't speaking, then we'll take you to Tracy. If he is speaking, then obviously we'll be in that coverage. Up next, though, the battle for Greenland. President Trump once won't say, excuse me, if he'll use force to take control of the island nation. But will it be needed? That's the big question we'll discuss. First, though, a quick look at this day in history. It was on this date in 1977, just one day after taking office, that President Jimmy Carter issued an unconditional pardon for hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. The move was meant to help heal a deeply divided nation after years of controversy over the war. But the decision also sparked immediate backlash, with many veterans and supporters of the war calling it unfair. More American Sunrise coming your way in two minutes.

[David Brody]

The lights are dim right now in Davos. Don't worry, those lights are going full on Bright as President Trump set to take the stage. Technically, he's supposed to speak in six minutes. We understand that has been delayed a little bit, but not too much. So just, just keep it here all morning long here on Real America's Voice and American Sunrise. Welcome back, everybody, to American Sunrise. I'm David Brody. President Trump won't say if he's going to use force to take control of Greenland. NBC News actually asked Trump that question about the use of force and president said no comment. This comes after Trump had said new tariffs will go into effect February 1st for some European countries until a deal is reached for Greenland. And then Trump doubled down on this at the briefing. Take a look at this. How far are you willing to go to acquired Greenwood?

[Donald Trump]

You'll find out.

[David Brody]

Oh, snap. You'll find out. Did I say oh, snap? I just referenced something from 1991. For insight, let's bring in Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow for the Heritage Foundation's. Excuse me, Heritage Foundation's Colin Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. I'll get it right eventually. Mike, thanks for being here. All right, so he's going to mention Greenland in his speech. He's also going to mention Venezuela at this World Economic Forum speech. How do you see this speech going down today? Specifically, because in essence, somehow I believe he wants, he needs to really square America first and MAGA with what he's doing in the Western Hemisphere. And I think if he can do that, that'll be a big win.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Mike Gonzalez]

The argument to be made is very strong on why Venezuela is to the betterment of MAGA and the country. In fact, Venezuela was key in this plan to disrupt, to really dismantle our national fiber through the importation of narcotics, the killing of between 100,000 and 200,000Americans every year due to drug overdose and the desolation that accompanies drug dependence and also importing political instability in our streets. Venezuela supported antifa, supported Black Lives Matter. By the way, it was Black Lives Matter who organized the disruption of church services in Minnesota last weekend. So it's not like that organization has gone away. So. No, the case is very strong. And it looks like the president got along really, really well with Maria Corina Machado. I don't know if you want to get into that at the lunch they had on Thursday and has been saying some really nice things about her. So he may bring her up again in the speech, although, I don't know.

[Dr. Gina]

Yeah, he may. It just seems to me like this Davos move was a really smart one on the part of President Trump. At first, he did endure some criticism because people are like, why is he going to this, you know, event with all of these globalist types, Right? But it's turned into something totally different with him really leading from the front. A very good move, it seems to me, from not just a world PR standpoint, but it even seems like it has sort of brought the argument back around for those who in maga, perhaps, or America first, who were concerned that he should be more interested in domestic issues. He somehow seems to have turned that argument a little bit by being there. Do you see that?

[Mike Gonzalez]

Yeah, absolutely. And look, the president of the Heritage foundation where I work, Kevin Roberts, was invited to Davos two years ago, went there, and pretty much, you know, told them totally like it is. Tell him, look, we have no truck with globalization, with your globalist approach, not globalization with a globalist approach. And he, like, really pretty much was the skunk of the garden party, which was great. Which is what you need to do at Davos. Not just go. Go in and join along with them. You need to go there and speak the truth to them. I think that that's what Trump is going to do, and I think that is fantastic.

[Terrence Bates]

All right, Mike, I'm a sucker. You hooked me when you said Maria. Maria Machado. All right. So, yeah, she did have that lunch with President Trump the other day. It seemed to go well. Still, however, President Trump isn't willing to go out on a limb and endorse her for leadership in the country. There, of course, is an interim president in place right now. How will this ultimately play out, do you think? Will there ever be fair and free elections in Venezuela?

[Mike Gonzalez]

Well, that's what Trump has promised. And that's what he again mentioned yesterday in the speech he gave. He said that he's working increasingly with her, that he really liked her a lot. I talked to. We hosted Maria Karina Machado here at Heritage on Friday. I talked to her. She loved the launch. She said they got along really, really well. She established a personal rapport with President Trump, which, as you know, is very, very important with him. She went to the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, you know, met with Chairman Mast. Chairman Mast was full of praise for her. These are Republicans, all of them.

[Donald Trump]

So.

[Mike Gonzalez]

So she really won them over. I think she's making the rounds here in Washington and playing out well.

[Terrence Bates]

So am I hearing you say that you do expect an endorsement? I'm sorry, David, are you expecting an endorsement? Because at this point, she doesn't have it.

[Mike Gonzalez]

I don't know if he if he will endorse her or not, they will have elections. They have to. They can go by the 2024 elections. They're likely to hold another election. That time is not now. We're not at that stage. We're trying to the United States is trying to run Venezuela by proxy. Delsey Rodriguez, who's a thug, but she seems to be doing, she's the former vice president, now the interim president. She seems to be doing everything that Trump and Marco Rubio tell her to do with regards to oil, with regards to narcotics trafficking, with regards to giving subsidies to Cuba. So they're following everything we're saying. So we're not at the stage where there's going to be an election and a transition to whoever wins the election. However, that stage will come.

[David Brody]

Well, Mike, we appreciate it. Yeah, she's a thug who's taking marching orders at this point. We'll see if that continues. Appreciate it. Thanks for being here.

[Mike Gonzalez]

Thanks.

[Donald Trump]

All right.

[David Brody]

Coming up, a breakthrough in treating depression. How is nerve stimulation helping people recover? It's fascinating. We have the developments next on AMERICAN sunrise. Oh, now that I think.

[Dr. Gina]

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[David Brody]

No, you can't. With a drumstick. No, you can't. Okay. I didn't think I was going to hear the word drumstick today on the air, but thank you, Dr. G. I appreciate that. President Trump, by the way, set to speak in Davos today. He says he's going to touch on his accomplishments from his first year back in office. That, by the way, has been one year as of yesterday, January 20th. Today is the 21st. So it's been one year and now the first day of the second year. Okay, I did the math and here he is, the president.

[Donald Trump]

I think more than anything else, what I'm going to be speaking about is the tremendous success that we've had in one year. I didn't think we could do it this fast. Think of it, it's just now 12 months. And you know, I say it often, we have the most successful country in the world. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. And this country would have been absolutely stone cold dead. And I'm going to be talking about it. I'm going to be because, you know, a lot of them could use some of the advice as to what we did. They need energy that you take a look at their energy policies. They're going to destroy themselves with what they're doing with the windmills and all the nonsense. They need energy help badly or they're going to be in big trouble.

[David Brody]

All right, let's bring in the host of the right news show here on rad. That would be Javier Negre. Javier, joining us from the economic World Economic Forum in Davos. Javier, tell us more about what you expect to to hear from the president this morning. It's going to happen very soon now.

[Donald Trump]

Everybody's expecting his speech.

[Mike Gonzalez]

His flight got delayed. So it's going to start soon, but delay not at 2:30 local time. I'm in the US house right now. We're going to the World Economic Forum right now. But I can tell you, like how long is the queue of the US House? Like all the companies, they want to come here, all the companies are interested in investing more money in AI minority energy. They're doing a great job in the Department of State here, managing, organizing this house, which is in Promenade street, very close where all the big houses are. And you can see right now, by.

[David Brody]

The way, Javier, I got to stop you here because look who's on stage there he is, pretty much right on time, eight minutes later. Let's listen in.

[Mike Gonzalez]

Cool.

[Donald Trump]

Well, thank you very much, Larry. It's great to be back in beautiful Davos, Switzerland, and to address so many respected business leaders, so many friends, few enemies and all of the distinguished guests. It's a who's who. I will say that I've come to this year's World Economic Forum with truly phenomenal news from America. Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of my inauguration. And today, after 12 months back in the White House, our economy is booming. Growth is exploding. Productivity is surging. Investment is soaring. Incomes are rising. Inflation has been defeated. Our previously open and dangerous border is closed and virtually impenetrable. And the United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country's history. Under the Biden administration, America was plagued by the nightmare of stagflation, meaning low growth and high inflation. A recipe for misery, failure and decline. But now, after just one year of my policies, we are witnessing the exact opposite. Virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth. Growth like I believe you'll see very shortly, our country has never seen before. Perhaps no country has ever seen before. Over the past three months, core inflation has been just 1.6%. Meanwhile, fourth quarter growth is projected to be 5.4%. Far greater than anybody other than myself and a few others had predicted. Since the election, the stock market has set 52 all time high records. So that's in one year, 52 records adding $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts, 401 s and people's savings. People are doing very well. They're very happy with me. Since my inauguration, we've lifted more than 1.2 million people off of food stamps. And after four years in which Biden secured less than $1 trillion of new investment in our country, think of that. One trillion. Substantially less than that. In four years, we've secured commitments for a record breaking $18 trillion. And we think when the final numbers come out, they'll be closer to $20 trillion of investment. That's never been done by any country at any time, not even close. Just over one year ago, under the radical left Democrats, we were a dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. In fact, the United States economy is on pace to grow at double the rate that was projected by the IMF just last April. And with my growth and tariff policies, it should be much higher. I really believe we can be much higher than that. And this is all great news and it's great for all nations. The USA is the economic engine on the planet. And when America booms, the entire world booms. It's been the history. When it goes bad, it goes bad. The whole we all, you all follow us down and you follow us up and we're at a point that we've never, I don't believe we've ever been. I never thought we could do it this quickly. My biggest surprise is I thought it would take more than a year, maybe like a year and one month. But it's happened very quickly. This afternoon I want to discuss how we have achieved this economic miracle. How we intend to raise living standards for our citizens to levels never seen before. And perhaps how you too, and the places where you come from can do much better by following what we're doing. Because certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly anymore. They're not recognizable. And we can argue about it, but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places. I don't want to insult anybody and say I don't recognize it. And that's not in a positive way, that's in a very negative way. And I love Europe and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction. In recent decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and European capitals that the only way to grow a modern Western economy was through ever increasing government spending, unchecked mass migration and endless foreign imports. The consensus was that so called dirty jobs and heavy industry should be sent elsewhere, that affordable energy should be replaced by the Green New scam, and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from faraway lands. This was the path that sleepy Joe Biden administration and many other Western governments very foolishly followed, turning their backs on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong. And there's so much potential in so many nations. The result was record budget and trade deficits and a growing sovereign deficit driven by the largest wave of mass migration in human history. We've never seen anything like it. Quite frankly, many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes. And the leaders don't even understand what's happening. And the ones that do understand aren't doing anything about it. Virtually all of the so called experts predicted my plans to end this failed model would trigger a global recession and runaway inflation. But we have proven them wrong. It's actually just the opposite. In one year, our agenda has produced a transformation like America has not seen in over 100 years. Instead of closing down energy plants, we're opening them up. Instead of building ineffective money losing windmills, we're taking them down and not approving any. Instead of empowering bureaucrats, we're firing them. And they're going out and getting jobs in the private sector for two and three times what they were making in government. So they started off hating me when we fired them and now they love me. Instead of raising taxes on domestic producers, we're lowering them and raising tariffs on foreign nations to pay for the damage that they've caused. In 12 months we have removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal payrolls. The largest single year reduction in government employment since the end of World War II. Nobody thought that was coming, but we had no choice. To make a country great, you can't have all federal jobs. We've cut federal spending by $100 billion and slashed the federal budget deficit by 27% in the single year. It's going to go down quite a bit more from that driving inflation, way down from the record highs of the Biden administration. Every month they went up and up and up. I promised to cut 10 old regulations for every single new regulation. But instead I've cut actually till this point, 129 regulations for every one new regulation approved. So every time they come in with a new regulation, we do at least 10. But so far it's averaging out to 129. If you can believe it. In July we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. For our great seniors, we also provided 100% expensing, that's the one they like. And bonus appreciation for all new equipment and capital investments to help companies expand and shift production to America they are so in love with that they build a plant, they're able to deduct it immediately, the whole thing, rather than waiting 38 to 41 years. In the old days, this is a miracle taking place. Nobody thought it would ever be done by any country, but it's done by us was what made my first term the Most successful four year term that we've ever had from a financial standpoint. And now we've upped it. This is a ten year program, not a one year program, but you're allowed to deduct everything in one year. Used to be 38 to 41 years with tariffs. We've radically reduced our ballooning trade deficit which was the largest in world history. We were losing more than $1 trillion every single year. And it was just wasted. It was going to waste. But in one year I slashed our monthly trade deficit by a staggering 77%. And all of this with no inflation. Something everyone said could not be done. There were a couple of brilliant people that actually thought I was doing the right thing. I thought I was doing the right thing. Now they all think I'm doing the right thing because they can't believe the numbers. American exports are now up by more than $150 billion. Domestic steel production is up by 300,000 tons a month and it's doubling over the next four months. It's doubling and tripling. And we have steel plants being built all over the country. Nobody thought they'd see that. Factory construction is up by 41%. And that number is really going to skyrocket right now because that's during a process that they're putting in to get their approvals. And we've given very, very quick, fast approvals in the process. We've made historic trade deals with partners covering 40% of all U.S. trade, some of the greatest companies and countries in the world. We have countries as our partner too. The European nation, Japan, South Korea, they're our partners. They've gone into massive deals with us, especially on oil and gas. And these agreements raise growth and cause stock markets to boom, not only in the US but virtually every country that came to make a deal. Because as you've learned, when the United States goes up, you follow. It's really become a staple in America. I've stopped the nation wrecking energy policies that drive up prices while sending jobs and factories to the world's worst polluters. They are indeed polluters. Under sleepy Joe Biden, new domestic oil and gas leases fell by 95%. Think of that. And they wonder why was gasoline going up so fast? The gasoline actually topped $5 a gallon in some places, $7 a gallon. And more than 100 major power plants were violently shut down by incompetent people that had no idea what the hell they were doing. Under my leadership, US Natural gas production is at an all time high by far US oil production is up by 730,000 barrels a day. And last week we picked up 50 million barrels from Venezuela alone. Venezuela has been an amazing place for so many years, but then they went bad with their policies. Twenty years ago, it was a great country, and now it's got problems. But we're helping them. And those 50 million barrels, we're going to be splitting up with them and they'll be making more money than they've made in a long time. Venezuela is going to do fantastically well. We appreciate all of the cooperation we've been giving. We've been given great cooperation. Once the attack ended, the attack ended, and they said, let's make a deal. More people should do that. But Venezuela is going to make more money in the next six months than they've made in the last 20 years. Every major oil company is coming in with us. It's amazing. It's a beautiful thing to see. The leadership of the country has been very good. They've been very, very smart. The price of gasoline is now below $2.50 a gallon in many states. $2.30 a gallon in most states, and we'll soon be averaging less than $2 a gallon in many places. It's already down even lower. $1.95 a gallon. Numerous states are at $1.99, numbers that nobody has heard for years. Actually, since my last administration, we got it down to around those numbers. I've signed an order directing and approval of many new nuclear reactors. We are going heavy into nuclear. I was not a big fan because I didn't like the risk, the danger, but they have what. The progress they've made with nuclear is unbelievable. And the safety progress they've made is incredible. We're very much into the world of nuclear energy, and we can have it now at good prices and very, very safe. And we're leading the world in AI by a lot. We're leading China by a lot. I think President Xi respects what we've done, in part because I've allowed these big companies building these massive buildings to build their own electric capacity. They're building their own power plants, which, when added up, is more than any country anywhere in the world is doing. I read recently an article in the Wall Street Journal that China is creating so much energy, and they are. I got to hand it to them. But we're creating as much or more, and we're letting them do that. I'm very proud of it. It was my idea. I said, you can't create this much energy. We needed more than double the energy currently in the country just to take care of the AI plants. And I said, we can't do that. We have an old grid system. And I came up with the idea. You know, you people are brilliant. You have a lot of money. Let's see what you can do. You can build your own electric generating plants. And they looked at me, they didn't believe me. All of the names that are, I think, in the room right now, if you want to know the truth, they didn't believe it. And I said, no, no, you can't. They came back two weeks and they didn't have the plant. They said, we thought you were kidding. They said, no, not only am I not kidding, you're going to have your approvals within two weeks. I always say nuclear will. Nuclear will take three weeks. But most aren't going that. They're going oil and gas. They're even going coal in some cases. Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation that pursued the green new scam, perhaps the greatest hoax in history. The green news scam. Windmills all over the place. Destroy your land. Destroy your land. Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000. You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. Here in Europe, we've seen the fate that the radical left tried to impose on America. They tried very hard. Germany now generates 22% less electricity than it did in 2017. And it's not the current Chancellor's fault. He's solving the problem. He's going to do a great job. But what they did before he got there, I guess that's why he got there. And electricity prices are 64% higher. The United Kingdom produces just one third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999. Think of that one third. And they're sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world, but they don't use it. And that's one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically low levels with equally high prices. High prices, very low levels. Think of that one third, and you're sitting on top of the North Sea. And they like to say, well, you know, that's depleted. It's not depleted. It's got 500 years. They haven't even found the earl. The North Sea is incredible. They don't let anybody drill. Environmentally, they don't let them drill. They make it impossible for the oil companies to go. They take 92% of the revenues so the oil companies say we can't do it. They came to see me. Is there anything you can do? I want Europe to do great. I want UK to do great. Sitting on one of the greatest energy sources in the world. And they don't use it. In fact, their electricity prices have soared 139%. There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place and they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse that country is doing. China makes almost all of the windmills and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? It's a good way of looking at it. They're smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don't use them themselves. They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don't use them. They just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don't spin. They don't do anything. They use the thing called coal, mostly. China goes with the coal. They go with oil and gas. They're starting to look at nuclear a little bit and they're doing just fine. They make a fortune selling the windmills, though. And I think really, that's one that. They wouldn't be surprised if it stopped. They would. They are shocked that. But it continues to go. They're more very friendly with me. They're shocked that people continue to buy those damn things. They killed the birds. They ruined your landscapes. Other than that, I think they're fabulous. By the way, stupid people buy them. The consequences of such destructive policies have been stark, including lower economic growth, lower standards of living, lower birth rates, more socially disruptive migration, more vulnerability to hostile foreign adversaries, and much, much smaller militaries. The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe. We really do. I mean, look, I am derived from Europe, Scotland and Germany. Hundred percent Scotland. My mother, 100% German, my father. And we believe deeply in the bonds we share with Europe as a civilization. I want to see it do great. That's why issues like energy, trade, immigration and economic growth must be central concerns to anyone who wants to see a strong and united West. Because Europe and those countries have to do their thing. They have to get out of the culture that they've created over the last 10 years. It's horrible what they're doing to themselves. They're destroying Themselves. These beautiful, beautiful places. We want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones. We want Europe to be strong. Ultimately, these are matters of national security. And perhaps no current issue makes the situation more clear than what's currently going on with Greenland. Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland? I was going to leave it out of the speech, but I thought. I think I would have been reviewed very negatively. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark. Tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. We're a great power, much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War II when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled. We did it. We felt an obligation to do it. To send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory. And hold it we did, at great cost and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried. Denmark knows that. We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big, beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, we won it big. Without us right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese. Perhaps after the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now? So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before. Because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can't even talk about. Two weeks ago they saw weapons that nobody ever heard of. They weren't able to fire one shot at us. They said, what happened? Everything was discombobulated. They said, we've got them in our sights. Press the trigger. And nothing happened. No anti aircraft missiles went up. There was one that went up about 30ft and crashed down right next to the people that sent it. They said, what the hell is going on? Those, those defensive systems were made by Russia and by China. So they're going to go Back to the drawing boards, I guess. Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory that's sitting un defended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China. That's exactly where it is, right smack in the middle. Wasn't important nearly when we gave it back. You know, when we gave it back, it wasn't the same as it is now. It's not important for any other reason, you know, to. Everyone talks about the minerals. There's so many places there's no rare earth, no such thing as rare earth. There's rare processing, but there's so much rare earth. And this. To get to this rare earth, you got to go through hundreds of feet of ice. That's not the reason we need it. We need it for strategic national security and international security. This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western hemisphere. That's our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America. And in fact, it's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere. And we've done it very successfully. We've never been stronger than we are now. That's why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries. You know, for two centuries they've been trying to do it. They should have kept it after World War II, but they had a different president. That's all right. People think differently. Much more necessary now than it was at that time. However, in 2019, Denmark said that they would spend over $200 million to strengthen Greenland's defenses. But as you know, they spent less than 1% of that amount. 1% is no sign of Denmark there. And I say that with great respect for Denmark, whose people I love, whose leaders are very good. It's the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it, and make it so that it's good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us. And that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States States. Just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European nations have, they've acquired. There's nothing wrong with it. Many of them, some went in reverse. Actually, if you look, some had great vast wealth, great vast lands all over the world, they went in reverse. They're stuck back where they started. That happens, too, but some grow. But this would not be a threat to NATO. This would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance, the NATO alliance. The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO, I want to tell you that. And when you think about it, nobody can dispute it. We give so much and we get so little in return. And I've been a critic of NATO for many years, and yet I've done more to help NATO than any other president by far, than any other person. You wouldn't have NATO if I didn't get involved in my first term. The war with Ukraine is an example. We are thousands of miles away, separated by a giant ocean. It's a war that should have never started, and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 US presidential election weren't rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that, that they found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election. Can't have rigged elections. You need strong borders, strong elections, and ideally, a good press. I always say it, strong borders, strong elections, free, fair elections and a fair media. The media is terrible. It's very crooked, it's very biased, terrible. But someday it'll straighten out because it's losing all credibility. Think of it. When I went in a landslide, a giant landslide, won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything. And they only get negative press. That means that it has no credibility. And if they're going to get credibility, they're going to have to be fair. So you need a fair press, but you also need those other elements. And I inherited a terrible, terrible situation. If you look, the border was open, the inflation was raging, everything was bad with the United States when I came into office. But I also inherited a mess with Ukraine and Russia, something that would have never happened. And I know Putin very well. He and I would discuss Ukraine. It was the apple of his eye. But he wasn't going to do anything. I said, vladimir, you're not doing it. He would never have done it. It was terrible what happened. I could see it happening, too, after I left. I could see it happening. Biden had given Ukraine and NATO $350 billion, a staggering sum. $350 billion. I came in and just like the southern border, just like inflation, just like our economy, I said, wow, this place is in trouble. Meaning our country, all of these things were out of control. But the border was out of control. We fixed it. The strongest border anywhere in the world. And I've now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars. India, Pakistan. I Mean, I settled other wars that were. Vladimir Putin called me Armenian. Aber Baijan. He said, I can't believe you settled that one. They were going on for 35 years. I settled it in one day, and President Putin called me. He said, you know, I can't believe I've worked on that war for 10 years trying to settle, and I couldn't do it. I said, do me a favor. Focus on settling your war. Don't worry about that one. What does the United States get out of all of this work, all of this money, other than death, destruction, and massive amounts of cash going to people who don't appreciate what we do? They don't appreciate what we do. I'm talking about NATO. I'm talking about Europe. They have to work on Ukraine. We don't. The United States is very far away. We have a big, beautiful ocean separating us. We have nothing to do with it. Until I came along, NATO was only supposed to pay 2% of GDP, but they weren't paying. Most of the countries weren't paying anything. The United States was paying for virtually 100% of NATO. And I got that stopped. I said, that's not fair. But then, more importantly, I got NATO to pay 5%. And now they were paying, and now they are paying. So something nobody said was possible. They said, we will never go up higher than 2%. But they went to 5%, and now they're paying the 5. They didn't pay the 2, and now they're paying the 5. And they're stronger for it. And they have an excellent, by the way, Secretary General, who's possibly in the room. Mark, are you here? Yes, he's here. Hello, Mark. We never ask for anything and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay, now everyone's saying, oh, good. That's probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. Force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago. After we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others In World War II, we gave it back to them. We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now. After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today, we have a budget of $1.5 trillion. We're bringing back battleships. The battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in World War II. Those great big, gorgeous ships, the Missouri, the Iowa, the Alabama. Because I thought maybe we could take them out of mothballs. They said, no, sir, these ships are 100. Think of that. 100 times more powerful than those big, big, magnificent pieces of art that you saw so many times ago that you still see on television. You say, wow, What a force. 100 times each ship, 100 times more powerful than the big battleships of the past. So that was the end of the Morth Ball story. So what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing except to protect Europe from the Soviet Union and now Russia. I mean, we've helped them for so many years. We've never gotten anything except we pay for NATO. And we paid for many years until I came along. We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO because they weren't paying their bills. And all we're asking for is to get Greenland, including right title and ownership, because you need the ownership to defend it. You can't defend it on a lease. Number one, legally, it's not defensible that way. Totally. And number two, psychologically, who the hell wants to defend a license agreement or at least, which is a large piece of ice in the middle of the ocean where, if there is a war, much of the action will take place on that piece of ice. Think of it. Those missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice. All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we're going to build the greatest golden dome ever built. We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also. But they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful that they should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that mark the next time you make your statements. What we did for Israel was amazing. But that's nothing compared to what we have planned for the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. We are going to build a dome like no other. We did it. We did it for Israel. And by the way, I told Bibi, Bibi, stop taking credit for the dome. That's our technology. That's our stuff. But they had a lot of courage and they were good fighters and they did a good job. And we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat like nobody can believe. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. That Venezuela taking down Soleimani, wiping out Al Baghdadi when he tried to reinstitute isis. We did a lot. I did a lot. A lot of big things. All perfectly executed. Everyone was perfectly executed. Somebody told me that a military expert told me, sir, everything you've done has been perfectly executed. I said, I know. So other presidents have spent, whether foolishly or not, trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO and gotten absolutely nothing in return. We've never asked for anything. It's always a one way street. Now they want us to help them with Ukraine and let me say we're going to. I'm really helping. Not even them. I want to see. Last week, if you saw it was 10,000 soldiers. But last month it was 31,000 soldiers died. 31,000, that's this room. Times the number of people in this room, times 30. Think of it, 30,000 soldiers died in one month. The month before was 27,000. The month before that it was 28,000. The month before that it was 25,000 thousand. It's a bloodbath over there. And that's what I want to stop. Doesn't help the United States. But these are souls. These are young, young people. Look like you, look like some of you right in the front row. They go to war. Their parents are so proud. Oh, there he goes. Comes back, two weeks later, they get a call, your son's head's been blown off. I want to stop it. It's a horrible war. It's the worst since World War II. They keep going, they'll exceed World War II. The numbers are staggering. How many people they've lost, they don't want to talk about it. Ukraine and Russia lost just tremendous amounts. And I'm dealing with President Putin and he wants to make a deal. I believe I'm dealing with President Zelensky and I think he wants to make a deal. I'm meeting him today, he might be in the audience right now. But they got to get that war stopped because too many people are dying, needlessly dying. Too many souls are being lost. It's the only reason I'm interested in doing it. But in doing it, I'm helping Europe, I'm helping NATO. And I've until the last few days. When I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right last time, very smart man, said, he's our daddy, he's Running it. I was, like, running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. And now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice cold and poorly located that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades. But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%. But I'm not sure that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call. Gentlemen, we are being attacked. We're under attack by such and such a nation. I know them all very well. I'm not sure that they'd be there. I know we'd be there for them. I don't know that they'd be there for us. So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat and tears, I don't know that they'd be there for us. They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money, but that dip is peanuts compared to what it's gone up. And we have an unbelievable future in that stock. That stock market is going to be doubled. We're going to hit 50,000, and that stock market's going to double in a relatively short period of time because of everything that's happening. But this is a good example. After giving NATO and European nations trillions and trillions of dollars in defense, they buy our weapons. We make the greatest weapons in the world, but now we're going to make them faster, much faster. You saw that. I put a cap on the salaries and I put no buybacks, no stock buybacks, no various other things that they were doing. I mean, they were making $50 million, but it would take them three years to give you a Patriot missile. I said, that's not good. My chauffeur can do a better job than that, and he makes slightly less than 50. They make big salaries. If they're going to make those big salaries, they're going to have to produce a lot faster. The good news is we have the greatest equipment in the world. Now we're going to start making it a lot faster. They're going to build additional plants, and all of the money that goes into stock buybacks is going to go into building plants. We're not allowing stock buybacks by defense companies any longer. They're going to build new plants to make Tomahawks, Patriots we have the best equipment. F35s, F47, the new one just coming out. They say it's the most devastating plane fighter jet ever. Who knows? They called it 47. If I don't like it, I'm going to take the 47 off it. I wonder why they called it 47. We'll have to think about that. But if I don't like it, I'm going to take that 47 off. But it's supposed to be the stage six. It's supposed to be the first stage six plane undetectable, like our B2 bombers were undetectable. They flew right over Iran. They were undetectable, and they did their job and they got the hell out of there. So we want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won't give it. We've never asked for anything else, and we could have kept that piece of land, and we didn't. So they have a choice. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no, and we will remember a strong and secure America means a strong NATO. And that's one reason why I'm working every day to ensure our military is very powerful, our borders are very strong, and above all, our economy is strong because national security requires economic security and economic prosperity. Prosperity. And we have the greatest that we've ever had. Biden and his allies destroyed our economy and gave us perhaps the worst inflation in American history. They say 48 years. I say forever. But I think 48 years is the equivalent to forever. Whether it's 48 years or ever, it's terrible. Costing the typical family $33,000. What they did to this country should never, ever be forgotten. It's early, but he has to be rated as the worst president we've ever had by far. The auto pen did many of the much of the damage. The auto pen. He was the auto pen president because I don't believe a sane president would have ever signed the kind of things that he signed. But now grocery prices, energy prices, airfares, mortgage rates, rent and car payments are all coming down, and they're coming down fast. We inherited a mess, but we've done a hell of a job in 12 months under my most favored nation policy for drug prices, the cost of prescription drugs is coming down by up to 90% depending on the way you calculate. You could also say 5, 6, 7, 800%. There are two ways of figuring that, but we have a favored nations policy that every president wanted. No president was able to get. I got it and other nations approved it, and I had to use tariffs in order to get it, because they said, no way. In other words, a pill that cost 10% in London costs $130. Think it cost $10 in London, cost $130 in New York or in Los Angeles. And I'd say, boy, that's bad. Friends of mine would say, you know, we go to London, you can buy this stuff for nothing. We go all over the world. We could buy it for nothing because basically, America was subsidizing every nation in the world because presidents allowed them to get away with it. It became very tough. So when I called up Emmanuel Macron, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses. What the hell happened? But I watched him sort of be tough, but he was at $10 for a pill. And I said, emmanuel, and I have the. All the big pharmaceutical companies are in total agreement. It wasn't easy, by the way. They're tough, smart. They've been getting away with the scam for a long time. But they. They gave it up. But they said, you'll never get the countries to approve it. I said, why is that? Because they won't. They always said, we're not paying any more. Get the rest for the United States. So over the years, they stayed the same. We just went up, up, up. And, I mean, we would pay 13, 14, 15 times more than some certain countries would. So I said, no, they'll approve it 100%, sir. You'll never get them to approve it. I said, I guarantee you. But I actually started with Emmanuel, who probably is in the room, too, and I like them. I actually like them. Hard to believe, isn't it? And I said, emmanuel, you're going to have to lift the price of that pill to $20, maybe $30. Think of that. That means it's a doubling. A doubling of prescription drugs might be a tripling, might be a quadrupling. It's not easy. No, no, no, Donald, I will not do that. I said, yes, you will, 100%. He said, no, no, no. You're asking me to double. I said, emmanuel, you've been taking advantage of the United States for 30 years with prescription drugs. You really should do it, and you will do it. I have no doubt. In fact, I am 100% sure you're going to. No, no, no, I will not do it. Because he has to. In all fairness, Jim, he has to double or triple because the world being a bigger place in the United States, it's not that you meet in the middle. You just have to go up some. And we come down a lot. They go up a little. We come down a lot. So we're at $130. They're at 10, so they may have to go to 20 or 30. No more than that. I said, emmanuel, you're going to be doubling or tripling. No, no, no. I said, here's the story, Emmanuel. The answer is you're going to do it. You're going to do it fast. And if you don't, I'm putting a 25% tariff on everything that you sell into the United states and a 100% tariff on your wines and champagnes. And that's about 10 times more than what I'm requesting. And you're going to do it. I don't want to go public with it, but you may make me do that. No, no, Donald, I will do it. I will do. Took me on average 3 minutes a country saying the same thing, you will do it. They all said, no, no, no, I will not do it. You're asking me to double the cost of prescription. I said, that's right, because you've been screwing us for 30 years. And they said, we will not do it. I said, that's all right. On Monday morning, we're putting a 25, 30, 50. I gave different numbers for different countries. This is also national security we're talking about. Can't not fail. We're not going to subsidize the whole world, and every one of those countries have agreed to do it. So one of the biggest things that I've done is the fact that we have now most favored nation. We will pay whatever the lowest price is in the entire world. So our drug prices are going to be coming down by staggering 90% again. You could say 1000%, 2000%. Depends on the way you want to figure it. But we'll go with the way the fake news likes it better, because it sounds. Can you imagine, a 90% reduction? Sounds much worse. But drug prices are going to be coming down tremendously in all the nations, and I appreciate them doing it, but they did it in all fairness. Without tariffs, I wouldn't have been able to get it done. After declining $3,000 under Biden, real incomes are up in the United States by 2000, 3000, and even $5,000 and more. Homeownership has always been a symbol of health and vigor of American society. But that goal fell out of reach for millions and millions of people in the Biden era because interest rates went up so high. Today, I'm taking Action to bring back this bedrock of the American dream. In recent years, Wall street giants and institutional investment firms. Many of you are here, many of you are good friends of mine, many of you are supporters. Sorry to do this to you. I am so sorry. But you've driven up housing prices by purchasing hundreds of thousands of single family homes. And it's been a great investment for them, often as much as 10% of houses on the market. You know, the crazy thing is a person can't get depreciation on a house, but when a corporation buys it, they get depreciation. Okay, that's something we're going to have to think about, too. I don't know if too many people think about that. You buy a corporation, they buy 500 houses. They buy hundreds of thousands. They buy 500 houses, they can take depreciation. A person sweats and works and buys one house, they can't. But homes are built for people, not for corporations. And America will not become a nation of renters. We're not going to do that. That's why I have signed an executive order banning large institutional investors from buying single family homes. It's just not fair to the public. They're not, they're not able to buy a house. And I'm calling on Congress to pass that ban into permanent law. And I think they will. One of the biggest barriers to saving for a down payment has been surging credit card debt. The profit margin for credit card companies now exceeds 50%, one of the biggest. And they charge Americans interest rates of 28%, 30%, 31%, 32%. Whatever happened to usury? So to help our citizens recover from the Biden disaster, all caused by this horrible, just horrible president, I'm asking Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year. And this will help millions of Americans save for a home they have no IDEA they're paying 28%. They go out there a little late in their payment and they end up losing their house. It's terrible. To unleash innovation and savings and financing. I'm also working to ensure America remains the crypto capital capital of the world. And to that end, last year I signed a landmark genius act into law. Now Congress is working very hard on crypto market structure, legislation, bitcoin, all of them, which I hope to sign very soon, unlocking new pathways for Americans to reach financial freedom. And I did it for two reasons. Number one, I thought it was politically good. And it was. I got tremendous political report support. But more importantly, China wanted that market too. Just like they want the AI and we've got that market I think pretty well locked up. If I didn't do it, you know, Biden was totally against it until before the election when they realized that, you know, there were millions of people voting against them over crypto and all of a sudden they loved it very much but it was too late, they blew it. But it is politically popular, but it's, it's much more importantly we have to make it so that China doesn't get the hold of it. And once they have that hold, we're not going to be able to get it back. So I'm honored to have done it. Finally, I've instructed government backed institutions to purchase up to $200 billion in mortgage bonds to bring down interest rates. And I'll be announcing a new Fed chairman in the not too distant future. I think he'll do a very good job. See, I gave away some of it. He did give that away. So we have something, get something. But somebody that's very respected, they're all respected, they're all great. Everyone that I interviewed is great. Everyone could do, I think a fantastic job. Problem is they change once they get the job. They do, you know, they're saying everything I want to hear and then they get the job. They're locked in for six years, they get the job and all of a sudden let's raise rates a little bit. I call them sir, we'd rather not talk about this. It's amazing how people change once they have the job. But it's too bad, sort of disloyalty, but they got to do what they think is right. We have a terrible chairman right now, Jerome too late. Powell, he's always too late and he's very late with interest rates. Except before the election he was just fine for the other side. So we, we're going to have somebody that's great and we hope he does the right job. Last week the average 30 year mortgage rate dropped below 6% for the first time in many years. Another major factor in driving up housing costs was the mass invasion of our borders. And I have to say one thing about housing because nobody ever says this. I am very protective of people that already own a house of which we have millions and millions and millions. And because we have had a such a good run, the house values have gone up tremendously. And these people have become wealthy. They weren't wealthy, they become wealthy because of their house. And every time you make it more and more and more affordable for somebody to buy a house Cheaply, you're actually hurting the value of those houses, obviously, because the one thing works in tandem with the other. And I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt the value of people that own a house who, for the first time in their lives are walking around the streets of whatever city they're in, very proud that their house is worth 500, 600, $700,000. Now, if I want to really crush the housing market, I could do that so fast. And people could buy houses. People could, but you would destroy a lot of people that already have houses. In some cases, they've mortgaged their house, and the mortgage would be very low. And all of a sudden, the mortgage, without any changes, becomes very high, and they end up losing the house. I'm not going to hurt. And I speak with Scott, who's doing a fantastic job, and Howard, who's doing a fantastic job, and all of my people. And I always say, look, you know, I can crush the hell out of the market. We can drop interest rates to a level, and that's one thing we do want to do. That's natural, that's good for everybody. You know, the dropping of the interest rates. We should be paying a much lower interest rate than we are. We should. We should be paying the lowest interest rate of any country in the world. Because without the United States, you don't have a country. I mean, I had a case with Switzerland. We happen to be in Switzerland. Maybe I'll give you a quick story. But they were paying nothing. They make beautiful watches, great watches, Rolex, all of them. They were paying nothing to the United States when they sent their product in. And we had a $41 billion deficit. 41 billion with this beautiful place. Flew over it. Isn't it nice? So I said, let's put a 30% tariff on them so that we get back some of it, not all of it at all. We still have a deficit, big deficit at 40, 41 million. That's a big deficit. And I said, let's put a tariff on different tariffs, different places. You're all party to them, in some cases victims to them. But in the end, it's a fair thing, and most of you realize that. But we put a 30% tariff on Switzerland, and all hell broke loose. They were calling. I mean, like you wouldn't believe. And I know so many people from Switzerland, incredible place, Incredible, brilliant place. But I then realized that they're only good because of us. And there's so many other examples. I mean, us, probably other places, but A majority of the money they make is because of us, because we never charged them anything. So they come in, they sell their watches. No tariffs, no nothing. They walk away. They make 41 billion on just us. So I said, no, we can't do that. So I'm going to bring it up. I still would have a deficit pretty substantial, but I brought it up to 30%. And the. I guess prime minister, I don't think president, I think prime minister called a woman. And she was very repetitive. She said, no, no, no, you cannot do that. 30%. You cannot do that. We are a small, small country. I said, yeah, but you have a big, big deficit. You may be small, but you have a big deficit than big countries. He said, no, no, no, please, you cannot do it. Kept saying the same thing over and over. We are a small country. He said, but you're a big country in terms of. And she just rubbed me the wrong way. I'll be honest with you. And I said, all right. Thank you, ma'. Am. Appreciate it. Do not do this. Thank you very much, ma'.

[David Brody]

Am.

[Donald Trump]

And I made it 39%. And then all hell really broke out. And I was paid visits by everybody. Rolex came to see me. They all came to see me. But I realized. And I reduced it because I don't want to hurt people. I don't want to hurt them. And we brought it down to a, you know, lower level. Doesn't mean it's not going up, but we brought it down to a lower level. But they pay now. Tariff. But. But I realized that we have many places like that where they're making a fortune because of the United States. Without the United States, they wouldn't be making anything. Think of it. Switzerland made $41 billion on us. And as she said, it's a small place. And I realized with that. I don't know, I was so. Because she was so aggressive. And I realized in that conversation that the United States is keeping the whole world afloat. Many places. I could give you six, seven places. Just in the people in this little area. I know every one of them. They're sort of. They're looking down. They don't want to see me, and they don't want to stare me in the eyes. But they're taking advantage of. Everybody took advantage of the United States, but I've been very fair, and I gave them a tariff and it was fine. But I realized that without us, it's not Switzerland anymore. Without us, it's not any of the countries that are represented here. And we want to work with the countries, we want to work with them. We're not looking to destroy them. I could have said 39, 40%. I could have. I could have said I want a 70% tariff. Then we make money with Switzerland, but Switzerland would have been probably destroyed. Financially destroyed. I don't want to do that. But we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody. I hope Scott's listening to this, because we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody. Without us, without us, most of the countries don't even work. And then you have the protection factor. Without our military, which is the greatest in the world by far. Without our military, you have threats that you would never. You wouldn't believe. You wouldn't believe. You don't have threats because of us. And that's because of NATO. One other thing, and I have to say, it's so importantly, in the old days, and I'm. I used to say I'm the youngest in the room. Now I'm among the older. I hate to say it, I don't feel old, but I'm among the older. But I remember not long ago, 20, 25 years ago, when good news came out about, let's say, the United States. The United States had a great quarter. The United States had a great month. All the stocks went up. And that's the way it's supposed to be. Now when they say the United States had a record quarter, it's unbelievable how well it's doing. All the stocks crash because they say, oh, no, inflation, inflation, they're going to raise interest rates. And they do. Some of these stupid people like Powell, they raise interest rates. And what they do is they stop you from being successful. It used to be when we had a great quarter, a great month, great earnings, great anything. Any good news? The stock market went up. That's the way it's going to be. We got to do that again because that's the way it should be. Now when we have a great month, they want to kill it like we did, over 5%. People were surprised. We should do 20%. We could do 25% when we announce good numbers. And the reason is they're so petrified of inflation. And growth doesn't mean inflation. We've had tremendous growth with very low inflation. In fact, growth can fight inflation, proper growth. So we want to get back to the days when we announce great numbers because we're going to be announcing phenomenal. You know, all these factories that are being built at record thousands of businesses are being built right now. Remember, $18 trillion is invested. I think the second number is three. And that was China many years ago. Investments in the country from outside, 18 trillion. Never. Nobody's ever seen. And that's money coming in and building things, factories, thousands of businesses are being built. Thousands, hundreds of big factories. Car plants are moving back to the United States. They're coming in from Canada, they're coming in from Mexico, from Japan. Japan's coming in and building plants here in order to avoid tariffs. They're coming in from China, they're coming in from all over the world. We have more plants being built now, car plants, than we've ever had built, even in the heyday from the 1940s and 50s. And they're bigger. They don't use renovations anymore where they take an old plant, they rip it down, they build a brand new plant, super modern plant. But it's happening at levels that nobody's ever seen. In 2024, the U.S. built less than 2 million new homes. But Biden admitted more than 8 million new migrants. And those days are over. In 2025, for the first time in 50 years, the United States had reverse migration. Boy, that was nice. And these were criminals that were being taken out of our country because they allowed people to come into our country from jails, from gangs, drug dealers, murderers. 11,888 murders. We've gotten most of them out. And then ice gets beat up by stupid people from leadership in Minnesota. We actually are helping Minnesota so much, but they don't appreciate it. Most places do you know, Washington D.C. is the safest place now in the United States. It was a very dangerous place to walk. And now you can walk with your wife, your kids right through the middle of the city. Right now, Washington D.C. is as safe as it gets. It was one of the most unsafe, I had to admit. We sent in the military, the National Guard. Within two months it was great. Within three months, it's like, it's like a really great place and a safe place and a beautiful place. It's even been cleaned up. The graffiti's gone, Fences are gone. We don't have to worry about fences anymore. All of the places the grasses are cut and replaced with new grass. In many cases, it's all going to happen in the spring. But Washington and D.C. is beautiful again and it's safe. New restaurants are opening up. They're all closing now. You can't get into a restaurant. Restaurants in Washington D.C. are all opening. Memphis also Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. We were there for three weeks. It's cut. We've cut the crime down to by 64% within another month of virtually no crime there. We can do that all over. We're going to help the people in California. We want to have no crime. I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin's a good guy and we're going to. If he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'd love to see. We did help them a lot in Los Angeles a lot with the early, early in my term when they had some problems. But we would love to do it. I will say this. If I were a Democrat, governor or whatever, I would call up Trump. I'd say, come on in, make us look good. Because we're cutting crime down to nothing and we're taking people out, career criminals who are only going to do bad things and we're bringing them back to their countries. But where we've done it has been amazing and we have a capacity to do it at much greater levels. We're cutting illegal aliens off welfare and other government benefits. And I have directed that starting immediately, there will be no more payments to sanctuary cities because they are really just sanctuaries for criminals. They're really protecting criminals. And those are the ones we have to get out of the country. Murderers, drug dealers, the mentally insane. They emptied their mental institutions into the United States. And despite that, we have the lowest crime numbers that we've ever had in the history of the country just came out. But equally importantly, we're cracking down on more than $19 billion in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits. Can you believe that? Somalia, they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say, these are low IQ people. How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money? And we have, you know, they're pirates, they're good pirates, right? But we shoot them out of the water just like we shoot the drunk boats out. They're not pirating too many boats lately. Do you notice when they go out into those boats, they want to take over a billion and a half dollar tanker, load it up with oil, and they say, we're going to blow up your boat. They have powerful weapons. You hit the side of the boat, you blow the whole thing up. The insurance companies are petrified. So they say, just give them the boat, we'll give them money instead. And I don't do that. We blow them right the hell out of the water. We see them going out, we blow them out of the water. We don't have any Pirates so much anymore. We do. They won't be there long. We've cut down with the hitting of the boats that are loaded up with drugs, including submarines. Can you believe they actually buy small. They call mini subs very fast. They're meant for drugs. We've knocked out two of them. The Democrats say they were fishing. You have ruin somebody's fishing weekend. I would say a submarine is not a fishing boat. You don't fish. But we've knocked down drugs by water, the oceans, the sea, by 97.2%. Think of that. And I actually say who the hell are the 3%? Because I would not want to be piloting one of those boats. We knocked them down and now we're going to start on land. We're going to knock it all out. The land is the easy part. What we did on sea is incredible. And that's our great military. The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the west cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own. I mean, we're taking people from Somalia. And Somalia is a failed. It's not a nation. Got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million. You believe this? Ilhan Omar talking about the Constitution provides me. She comes from a country that's not a country and she's telling us how to run America. Not going to get away with it much longer. Let me tell you, the explosion of prosperity and conclusion and progress that built the west did not come from our tax codes. It ultimately came from our very special culture. This is the precious inheritance that America and Europe have in common. We share it. We share it, but we have to keep it strong. We have to become stronger, more successful and more prosperous than ever. We have to defend that culture and rediscover the spirit that lifted the west from the depths of the Dark Ages to the pinnacle of human achievement. We live in a incredible changing period. It's an unbelievable time. But we have to take advantage of the time that we're in. In our hands, our technologies that our ancestors could scarcely have. I mean, they couldn't have even dreamt. Some of the things that we see today and so rapidly they're produced. I mean, AI two years ago, nobody ever heard of the term. And now everybody is talking about it. And it can have some very good purpose. It could also have some dangerous purpose. And for that we have to watch out. But some tremendous things are happening because of it. And we're leading by so much, we're doing so well. But opportunities that are bigger and grander than ever before and human history are right before us. It is the pioneers in this room. Many of you in this room are true pioneers. You too, truly brilliant, brilliant people. Just your ability to get a ticket is brilliant because you have about 50 people for every seat. I don't know what that's Larry. Everything Larry touches turns to gold. He made this very successful. But you're in this room and some of you are the greatest leaders anywhere in the world. You're the greatest brains anywhere in the world. And, and the future is unlimited and to a large part because of you. And we have to protect you and we have to cherish you. I always say we have to cherish our brilliant people because there aren't many of them. So together with confidence, boldness and persistence, let us lift up our people, grow our economies, defend our shared destiny, and build a future for our citizens that is more ambitious, more exciting, more inspiring. Inspiring and greater than the world has ever seen. We're in a position to do things that nobody else has ever even thought of before. And many of the people in this room are the ones that are doing it. And I want to congratulate you, and I'm with you all the way. You can do things that nobody else can even think about. So I congratulate you on your tremendous success. And the United States is back. Bigger, stronger, better than ever before. And I'll see you around. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Thank you.

[Terrence Bates]

President Trump speaking on the stage at the World Economic Forum, looks like he's getting ready to sit down for even more remarks here. He spoke for about an hour and 20 minutes after initially being delayed leaving the United States, but did arrive there in Davos just a little while ago. Let's listen in. I guess as the President looks like is preparing to answer even more questions. Let's listen in.

[Interviewer/Moderator]

I do have a few follow up questions if it's okay. I don't think I should start with Greenland. Maybe I'll start with the economy. The US Economy is doing really, really well. But how to sustain this growth moving forward because there's always a recession looming around the corner.

[Donald Trump]

Well, you know, the one thing about economies and recessions is sometimes you get hit unexpectedly and there's nothing you can do about it. All brilliant people, but there's nothing. One example was Covid. We had an economy going at levels like nobody had ever seen. My first two and a half, three years, and then I heard the word pandemic, not Covid. They came up with that name over a period of time. We won't get into that, but I heard the word pandemic and I had a poll come out that was so strong just prior to that. And I was with the two best pollsters, McLaughlin, Fabrizio. And they said, sir, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, if they came back and ran as president and vice president, they couldn't beat you. And then what happened is the following day I was told to stay tuned because there's something really bad happening in China. There are bodies laying all over Wuhan right around that certain building that we talk about. I always said it came from Wuhan. It did come from Wuhan. And they were body bags. We saw it by satellite, and they said, there are strange things happening in China. And so it began. And we ended up with the COVID And the whole world suffered. We did a phenomenal job. I don't think we got the credit we deserved. We did something that Operation Warp Speed, which some people say was one of the greatest military feats ever. We did a great job, use our military, use a lot of people. But sometimes you get hit with things. Nothing you can do. You get hit with things like that unexpectedly. And we got through it. And when I left, the stock market was higher than it was previous to the COVID coming up. And that was. I called it a great achievement. But things happen. Bad things happen. The things that we can stop are wars. If we're smart that we can stop. Those are a matter of being intelligent and having intelligent people on the other side, because wars are the worst of all. Wars are worse than anything. But we can stop wars because that's sort of up to us. But things like dust flying in the air, wherever Covid comes from or whatever comes, sometimes you have to be a little bit lucky. But we are po. We are poised to have an economy like no other, not only in this country, but anywhere. And you know, when you hear the kind of numbers that I can tell you that Scott Besant was with me the other day, and he's looking at numbers. He said, I can't. And that's all he's done his whole life, Pretty much your whole life. Scott, you weren't going to be a football player. I don't think Scott was not that great at football, but he was always good at numbers, right? And he was. He was looking at numbers. He said, I'd never seen anything like this. We're poised to do things that no other country has Ever done. And, you know, luck. I hate to say it, but we need a little luck. We don't want to get hit by something that nobody could have thought. Whoever thought we were going to hit by a pandemic. You know, when I heard the word pandemic, I said, oh, that's an ancient problem. World War I, they lost 100 million people. It actually ended World War I. A lot of people don't know the Spanish flu in World War I ended the war because all the soldiers were sick. The soldiers were so sick on both sides and that war was raging and they were all dying from the Spanish flu. They were sick as dogs. They couldn't fight. So, you know, you don't know how that would have turned out. But so we do. I mean, subject to that. And I always have to put a caveat in for it, but we're poised to have the greatest growth of any large country. I think any country that there's been. When you look at what's happening in the United States, it's really amazing.

[Interviewer/Moderator]

Thank you. One thing that maybe keeps you up at night, I know you don't sleep that much anyway, Mr. President, is the debt. The US debt is high. Is not the biggest expenditure on your budget. How to get out of that impulse?

[Donald Trump]

Well, the big thing is growth. I mean, growth is the way if we grow like this, we go from having a 37, 36, $37 trillion. We go from having high debt to low debt. But we also are cutting expenses, you know, the old fashioned way. We have extraordinary growth. I think we're going to be growing our way out. I think we're going to be paying off debt. We're taking in tremendous money from tariffs fairly. And again, I'm using them judiciously. You know, Switzerland, to case study, I could have gotten much more. I could have asked for much more. But we're using them judiciously, but I think growth most importantly and then cutting costs. Now, if you take a Look at Minnesota, $19 billion in fraud and other things, people going to airports, they came into the country, they don't have 10 cents and they're leaving with hundreds of thousands of cash in their bag. When we get to that and our doj, Pam and Todd, and all the people that work over there and all of the people that work in here, I can tell you Scott Besant is working on that. It's a priority, right? You have your whole team, we're in there looking for where this money is coming from, how much it is. It could be more than $19 billion. Can you believe that? That's just one state. If we were able to cut out 50% of the fraud. 50%, and we should be able to do better than that, we would have a balanced budget without having to talk about even growth. So we have a lot of options, but we're working very hard on that. That's a big deal. Not just. It's not just the protests, the fake protests done by agitators and, you know, professional insurrectionists. That's what they are. They're professional troublemakers. But we. We are looking very strong at the money, too. In Minnesota and other places, I think, Mr. President.

[Interviewer/Moderator]

Also, the US$500 billion invested in artificial intelligence and the frontier technologies last year also were driving growth exponentially in the.

[Donald Trump]

US has been a big factor. AI is massive. I mean, Mark Zuckerberg showed me a plant where he put it over a map of Manhattan, and it was basically the size of Manhattan. This is not. I said, you got to be kidding. It's a plant that was miles long, miles wide, very high. I don't think it was high like the Empire State Building, but it was high. And it literally covered most of the island of Manhattan. That's called a big plant. And, you know, when I heard they're going to spend 50 billion building, and I say, what? You know, if you spend 50 million, you can build a nice little shopping center. If you spend 500 million, you can build a good shopping center. But how do you spend 50 billion? When I looked at this thing, I said, you think you'll be able to do it for that? It's. It's amazing when, you know, some of the plants that I see, and I see them all, and again, so big is we're letting them build their own electric generation. This way we have no problem. And otherwise they'd be complaining. There'd be nobody able to be. You know, we have an old grid system, and not only that, they're going to sell at a very cheap price the excess electricity that they create back into our grid. So that'll solve some problems for certain states that don't have enough electricity.

[Interviewer/Moderator]

We also know that on the AI, there is fierce competition between the US as the largest economy in the world, 27% of the global GDP, and 5% of the global population not doing that badly. And China, and we know that that competition is.

[Donald Trump]

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