Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller Brief Members of the Media, May 01, 2025

Summary

In this press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller discussed key achievements of President Trump's first 100 days in office. They highlighted economic growth, reduced illegal immigration, and secured borders. The administration's focus on religious liberty, free speech, and traditional values were emphasized along with domestic and international policies on trade, education, and civil rights. The briefing outlined challenges met, strategic reforms implemented, and ongoing efforts to reshape America's economic and cultural landscape.

Highlights

• Trump's administration celebrates a groundbreaking 100 days focused on reversing previous policies and implementing a 'common sense' agenda 🎉.
• A new partnership with Ukraine aims to support its reconstruction and provide economic benefits to the United States 🤝.
• The administration fights divisive diversity policies, promoting merit-based systems in all federal hiring and education systems 🏆.
• Trade talks and tariffs are central to reviving American manufacturing, with a push towards reshoring production 🏭.
• Education and civil rights policies prioritize parental rights and fight what the administration labels as 'radical ideologies' 🎓.

Key Takeaways

• President Trump is tackling America's biggest challenges head-on, with a firm focus on restoring the economy and national security 📈.
• The administration strongly emphasizes traditional values, religious liberty, and free speech as pillars of its policy agenda 📢.
• Economic partnerships and reforms are driving forces behind efforts to boost trade, while tariffs reshape global relationships 🌍.
• Education reforms target inclusivity and equality while eliminating what the administration views as divisive ideologies 📚.
• Significant strides are made in energy policy, promoting American dominance in fossil fuels to lower costs and bolster energy security 🔋.

Overview

In their briefing, Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller presented a sweeping review of the first 100 days of President Trump's administration. They embarked on an ambitious agenda to reinvigorate the American economy, secure territorial integrity, and promote traditional values. This foundation, they argue, sets the stage for a prosperous American future.

Central to the Trump administration’s new policies are strategic economic partnerships and domestic reforms aimed at fostering prosperity. Efforts to dismantle previous regulations are making way for a new era of American energy independence, a rejuvenation of manufacturing, and an overhaul of educational standards to reflect traditional values.

Foreign policy continues to pivot as tariffs and trade negotiations seek to realign the U.S.'s global economic stance, providing the framework to challenge ongoing issues with global trade practices while reinforcing national security through stringent immigration and border policies.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Morning Briefing Introduction The chapter opens with a morning briefing addressing everyone present. The speaker mentions the completion of the first 100 day week, expressing a positive sentiment about morning briefings. The speaker introduces a friend who is available to answer questions. It is noted that President Trump will participate in a National Day of Prayer event at 11:00, inviting Americans of all faiths.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Upcoming Day's Events President Trump called for national unity and divine guidance at an upcoming event where he will sign an executive order to establish a religious liberty commission.
• 01:00 - 01:30: US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund This chapter discusses a landmark economic partnership between the United States and Ukraine, aimed at the reconstruction and long-term economic stability of Ukraine. This partnership involves the establishment of a fund that collects a significant portion of royalties and fees from Ukrainian natural resource projects. The United States' participation in this fund signifies its commitment to supporting a free, peaceful, and sovereign Ukraine, while also securing economic interests.
• 01:30 - 02:00: President Trump's First 100 Days The chapter focuses on President Trump's first 100 days in office, highlighting his efforts to end a brutal war and secure lasting peace. The chapter emphasizes Trump's commitment to fulfilling promises made to the American people, and his remarkable transparency and accessibility as president. The significance of his achievements within this period is celebrated as triumphant.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Common Sense Agenda The chapter titled 'Common Sense Agenda' begins with an open press cabinet meeting where every cabinet secretary provides detailed explanations on how their agencies improve the lives of American families and businesses. The meeting includes a session where the president allows questions from the attendees. The narrative highlights one of the main reasons for President Trump's electoral success, including winning nearly 80 million votes, sweeping all seven battleground states, and receiving a strong mandate from the American public. This success is attributed to the contrast he offered during his campaign and the continuation of his agenda. The chapter underscores the influence and reach of President Trump's agenda.
• 02:30 - 03:00: Energy and Environmental Policies The chapter discusses energy and environmental policies under the Trump administration, focusing on the president's commitment to restoring 'common sense' to these areas.
• 03:00 - 03:30: Termination of Radical Policies Chapter Title: Termination of Radical Policies. Summary: The chapter discusses President Trump's key responsibilities, focusing on ensuring the safety of American citizens and addressing issues involving illegal immigrants who threaten public safety. It highlights President Trump's commitment to reducing waste, fraud, and misuse of taxpayer money, emphasizing his efforts that have saved approximately 200 billion dollars. Additionally, it points out America's natural resources, particularly 'liquid gold,' suggesting a focus on utilizing the country's oil reserves.
• 03:30 - 04:00: Free Speech and Students' Safety This chapter discusses President Trump's approach to key policies, emphasizing free speech and students' safety. It highlights his efforts to reverse policies by Joe Biden regarding energy and electric vehicles. Trump focuses on restoring energy independence and promoting consumer choice for car buyers. Furthermore, the chapter addresses Trump's stance on equality before the law, particularly in the context of federal contracting and private sector DEI initiatives.
• 04:00 - 04:30: Education Policies and Parental Rights The chapter discusses education policies and parental rights, with a focus on addressing discrimination in the education sector. It highlights the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives, which the chapter suggests were intended to divide Americans based on immutable characteristics. It notes that President Trump ended these initiatives, emphasizing his commitment to individual dignity, hard work, and excellence as the true measures of advancement. The chapter also highlights President Trump's role as a free speech champion, mentioning his actions against what it describes as Joe Biden's infringement of free speech rights and government censorship. It emphasizes President Trump's belief in the importance of college students' rights to freely express their opinions.
• 04:30 - 05:00: Biological and Gender Policies This chapter discusses the policies related to biological and gender issues during President Trump's tenure. It highlights his actions such as protecting Jewish American students from harassment on campuses, ending what he termed as 'eradical un-American indoctrination' by halting support for radical gender and equity ideologies, and safeguarding the fundamental rights of parents.
• 05:00 - 05:30: Future Plans and Common Sense Revolution The chapter titled 'Future Plans and Common Sense Revolution' discusses President Trump's policy on biological sex, emphasizing the recognition of only two sexes: male and female. It highlights actions taken to prevent women from being forced to compete against men in sports and to protect their private spaces. The chapter also outlines Trump's promise for a complete restoration of America and a revolution of common sense, with expectations of significant changes including historic trade deals and budget adjustments over the next 100 days.
• 05:30 - 06:00: Remarks by Stephen Miller The chapter titled 'Remarks by Stephen Miller' features a transcript of Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, speaking about President Trump's first 100 days in office. He expresses his gratitude for the opportunity to speak and acknowledges familiar faces in the audience. Miller emphasizes the historic and unprecedented nature of Trump's early presidency.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Culture and Policies Against DEI The chapter discusses the measures taken by President Trump during his term to protect the values, culture, and lifestyle of Americans from the perceived threats posed by the radical left. It emphasizes the significant actions taken to secure the nation's sovereignty, economy, supply chains, and industrial base, portraying these efforts as a defense of traditional American values against progressive influences.
• 06:30 - 07:00: Merit-Based Federal Policies This chapter discusses merit-based federal policies in the United States. It highlights the challenges faced during President Trump's tenure, particularly the widespread adoption of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in both public and private sectors. A significant concern raised is the hiring and promotion practices within air traffic control, where decisions were influenced by race and gender rather than competency and ability.
• 07:00 - 07:30: Enforcement of Civil Rights Law This chapter discusses the enforcement of civil rights law with a focus on airline safety. It highlights a viewpoint that airline jobs should be determined by competency in maintaining safe flights rather than demographic criteria. It mentions President Trump's action to terminate race-based considerations across federal hiring and related processes.
• 07:30 - 08:00: Federal Funding and Educational Compliance This chapter discusses the issues related to hiring practices within federal law enforcement, national security, and intelligence agencies. The focus has been on hiring individuals based on race and sex rather than their ability to perform critical tasks such as carrying weapons, keeping Americans safe, and conducting sensitive intelligence operations. The chapter highlights the unacceptability of prioritizing race and sex over qualifications and capabilities in these roles.
• 08:00 - 08:30: Policies on Gender and Children's Protection The chapter discusses the enforcement of civil rights policies on gender and children's protection by the Trump administration. It emphasizes that both the federal government and private sector, including universities and the education system, are involved in this initiative. The Department of Justice, in collaboration with other departments and agencies, is focused on enforcing Title Six, Title 7, and Title 9 of the federal civil rights code. The administration is committed to prohibiting discrimination based on race and sex, and vows to enforce these laws rigorously.
• 08:30 - 09:00: Prohibition of Certain Medical Practices The chapter discusses the repercussions for companies, regardless of size, that violate federal laws. They will incur financial and other types of penalties. The administration is committed to preventing a decline into what it describes as a 'communist woke DEI strangulation.' Instead, it emphasizes the importance of merit-based systems, highlighting that these are not only critical social and cultural issues but also pivotal economic concerns. The focus is on hiring, retaining, and recruiting based on merit.
• 09:00 - 09:30: Prison and Gender Ideology Policies The chapter discusses the emphasis on merit-based advancements in various fields including innovation, growth, investment, and job creation, as directed by President Trump. It underscores the importance of ensuring the best and safest products for all Americans, irrespective of the race or sex of the professionals involved. It gives examples such as medical emergencies or aviation settings, where citizens prioritize the quality of treatment and safety over the identity of the service providers. The chapter possibly ties these ideas into broader themes concerning prison and gender ideology policies, although the specific connection to these topics isn't clear from the given transcript.
• 09:30 - 10:00: Cultural Reforms and Administrative Focus In this chapter titled 'Cultural Reforms and Administrative Focus,' the focus is on government efforts to prioritize skill and safety over race and gender in various sectors. A specific highlight is the push towards compliance with Supreme Court rulings regarding affirmative action in universities. The current administration is actively investigating universities suspected of violating rulings concerning racial quotas and affirmative action practices.
• 10:00 - 10:30: Department of Justice and Public Safety The chapter discusses issues related to race-based discrimination in university admissions, notably within medical schools. It highlights illegal practices such as racial set-asides, racial quotas, and schemes that universities use to evade Supreme Court rulings and federal statutes mandating colorblind admissions policies. The Department of Justice and Public Safety is presumably involved in addressing these illegal practices, ensuring that admissions are conducted fairly and in compliance with the law.
• 10:30 - 11:00: Challenges and Government Spending The chapter discusses the financial repercussions faced by universities, such as Harvard, due to non-compliance with federal civil rights law. It highlights ongoing issues with sex-based discrimination under Title 9, particularly in the context of Biden's administration policy regarding gender inclusion in sports.
• 11:00 - 11:30: Trade, Economy, and Immigration Policies The chapter discusses the use of legal and financial measures directed by President Trump to ensure that schools and universities do not lose federal funds by preventing men from invading women's sports and spaces. This applies to the entire K through 2 system. Additionally, the Department of Justice is working with state and local law enforcement to combat child abuse in school systems, emphasizing the viewpoint that changing a child's gender is considered child abuse.
• 11:30 - 12:00: Price Transparency and Economic Measures The chapter titled 'Price Transparency and Economic Measures' discusses issues related to parental rights and child welfare. It highlights concerns over potential cases where educational or healthcare systems might engage in practices perceived as infringing on parental rights, such as gender identity changes in young children without parental consent. The chapter criticizes such actions as child abuse and emphasizes the administration's stance against using taxpayer dollars for certain medical procedures, reflecting broader economic and ethical considerations.
• 12:00 - 13:00: Q&A: China Tariffs The chapter titled 'Q&A: China Tariffs' appears to unexpectedly switch topics, focusing on the controversial subject of castrations and sexual mutilations of children. The content describes these practices as barbaric, unethical, and harmful, violating medical ethics and amounting to child abuse and medical malpractice. It mentions the involvement of Bobby Kennedy with the Department of Health and Human Services, suggesting advocacy against these practices. The passage strongly condemns these actions, emphasizing their irreversible harm to children.
• 13:00 - 14:00: Q&A: Trade Deals and Tariffs Impact The chapter titled 'Q&A: Trade Deals and Tariffs Impact' discusses various governmental efforts related to medical procedures and healthcare policies. Specifically, it highlights the actions taken by the Department of Justice and other government departments to ensure taxpayer dollars are not utilized for certain procedures on children, which are described as 'barbaric'.
• 14:00 - 15:00: Q&A: Small Business Relief and Taxes This chapter discusses new guidance in the medical and penal systems. New measures are being issued to prevent irreversible medical procedures on children. Additionally, there are changes in prison policy to ensure that male prisoners are not placed in female prisons, as a bid to address concerns over safety and sexual assault risks.
• 15:00 - 16:00: Q&A: Ukraine Mineral Deal The chapter discusses the stance of an unnamed administration on specific social policies, particularly regarding the rights and privacy of women and girls. It criticizes the Democratic party, particularly Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic media, for supporting policies that allegedly endanger women, such as allowing men into women's prisons and private spaces in schools. The administration vows to prevent such purportedly harmful policies, citing instances of young girls being assaulted when men are allowed into traditionally female spaces.
• 16:00 - 17:00: Q&A: Price Transparency and Amazon The chapter titled "Q&A: Price Transparency and Amazon" is centered around the themes of protecting women and girls, and discusses the current administration's efforts in combating radical gender ideology. Additionally, it highlights actions taken to remove critical race theory from school curriculums. The focus is on promoting patriotism, civic values, and love for America in education systems that receive federal funding. Furthermore, there is mention of plans to potentially close the Department of Education.
• 17:00 - 18:00: Q&A: Foreign Policy and Security Issues The chapter deals with foreign policy and security issues, focusing on the allocation and use of funds by states. It emphasizes the stance against promoting communist ideologies, highlighting efforts to prevent teachings that encourage self-hate and disdain for one's nation. The narrative describes actions taken by President Trump to combat what is described as a 'cancerous communist woke culture' in the country, challenging beliefs on gender identity, racial discrimination, and meritocracy.
• 18:00 - 19:00: MS-13 and Immigration Discussion The chapter discusses issues surrounding the handling of security and immigration by the previous administration, emphasizing how ideologies may have influenced decisions. It highlights the shift under the current administration to focus the Department of Justice on its main objective - safeguarding public safety and imprisoning violent offenders. Additionally, the chapter criticizes the previous administration for allegedly weaponizing the justice system against conservatives, Christians, and particularly Trump supporters, framing it as a misuse of power to target law-abiding citizens.
• 19:00 - 20:00: Q&A: Economic Policies and Prices The chapter titled "Q&A: Economic Policies and Prices" covers a discussion on the priorities and actions taken by the current administration within the first 100 days. The focus is on how law enforcement efforts have evolved under the new leadership, specifically targeting gangs and criminals, which has resulted in increased safety for Americans. The narrative highlights the cessation of perceived persecution towards conservatives and Christians and the renewed emphasis of the Department of Justice and the FBI on combating bad actors. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the administration's response to longstanding crises that have impacted the nation over several decades.
• 20:00 - 21:00: Q&A: Kamala Harris's Speech Vice President Kamala Harris addresses ongoing efforts to tackle ingrained power structures and systemic issues within the government. Highlighted initiatives involve reducing corruption, wasteful spending, and misuse of taxpayer dollars. Harris emphasizes stopping funds from reaching radical left-wing nonprofits that promote illegal immigration and open-border policies.
• 21:00 - 21:30: Closing Remarks and Future Engagements In the concluding chapter titled "Closing Remarks and Future Engagements," the narrative focuses on addressing the decline of the nation due to various policies. It highlights President Trump's direct confrontations with significant national issues such as the trade crisis, which involved the loss of manufacturing jobs and betrayal of American workers through offshore supply chains orchestrated by globalists and previous administrations. Moreover, it underscores Trump's efforts to tackle mass illegal immigration, a serious concern altering the country's status. The remarks criticize the ongoing changes and advocate for reversing the country's direction from misguided ideologies and policies.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller Brief Members of the Media, May 01, 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Hello. Good morning, everybody. We're capping off the first 100 day week with our morning briefing. How does everybody feel? You like the morning briefings? Okay, we do too. That's why we're doing them. Good. It's good to see all of you. I brought a friend out here today who's happy to take your questions. But first, some remarks. At 11:00, President Trump will participate in a National Day of Prayer event where he will invite Americans of all faiths
• 00:30 - 01:00 across the country to join him in asking for God's continued blessings over our great country. During the event, the president will sign an executive order establishing a religious liberty commission. Later today, President Trump will travel to the University of Alabama to deliver a commencement address to the graduating class of 2025. Last night, we saw yet again why President Trump is our dealmaker in chief. We secured a historic agreement to establish the United States Ukraine Reconstruction
• 01:00 - 01:30 Investment Fund. This is a firstofits-kind economic partnership for the reconstruction and long-term economic success of Ukraine that both the United States that the United States will greatly benefit from. This partnership represents the United States taking an economic stake in securing a free, peaceful, and sovereign future for Ukraine. This partnership establishes a fund that will receive 50% of royalties, license fees, and other similar payments from natural resource projects in Ukraine. President Trump has been clear
• 01:30 - 02:00 from the beginning. He wants the killing in this brutal war to end. This agreement shows how invested the president is in securing a truly lasting peace. To mark President Trump's triumphant first 100 days in office, we've detailed all week how President Trump has been hard at work delivering on the promises he made to the American people. And yesterday, the president once again showcased why he is the most transparent and accessible president in American history when he held his fourth
• 02:00 - 02:30 open press cabinet meeting. Every cabinet secretary went into great detail explaining how their respective agencies are making life better for American families and businesses. And then the president allowed all of you to ask questions on anything you wanted afterwards. One of the main reasons President Trump won nearly 80 million votes, swept all seven battleground states, and received a resounding mandate from the American public is because of the contrast he presented during the campaign and continues to this day. Everything President Trump's agenda I in President Trump's agenda is
• 02:30 - 03:00 grounded in one thing, common sense. While the Democrat party went off the deep end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged to restore common sense back to the United States of America. In a little more than three months, that's exactly what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereign nation that cannot survive if it does not protect its territorial borders. So, he secured the border in record time and ended the mass invasion of tens of millions of illegal aliens into our homeland. The president knows
• 03:00 - 03:30 his top responsibility is ensuring the safety of the American people, which is why he's arresting violent illegal alien invaders in our communities who threaten our public safety. And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow rampant waste, fraud, and abuse of Americans tech precious tax dollars, which is why the president championed a historic Doge effort that saved nearly 200 billion already. President Trump knows America is a is blessed with an abundance of liquid gold below our feet in the form
• 03:30 - 04:00 of fossil fuels. So, he ended Joe Biden's reckless war on American energy and is restoring American energy dominance to lower costs and strengthen our national security. President Trump believes Americans should be free to drive whatever car they want. So, he ended Joe Biden's disastrous EV mandate and promoted true consumer choice. President Trump stood up for the Constitution's promise of color-blind equality before the law. So, he terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting and directed federal agencies to relentlessly combat private
• 04:00 - 04:30 sector discrimination. DEI seeks to divide and pit Americans against each other based on immutable characteristics. President Trump put an end to it. In President Trump's America, individual dignity, hard work, and excellence are the only things that will determine if you get ahead. President Trump is a proud free speech champion, which is why he ended Joe Biden's trampling of free speech rights and the federal government's censorship of American speech on online platforms. The president believes college students have a right to speak their minds and go to
• 04:30 - 05:00 school safely. Again, common sense. So, he took bold action to protect Jewish American students from harassment by pro- Hamas radicals on their campuses. And President Trump knows that America's children are our future, and he'll never stop fighting for them. That's why he ended the eradical unamerican indoctrination of children by eliminating support for divisive radical gender ideology and equity ideology and why the president protected parents fundamental rights. And lastly, the president believes in fundamental
• 05:00 - 05:30 biology. Isn't that something? Which is why he made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two sexes, male and female. And because men and women are biologically different, President Trump ended the unfair, demeaning practice of forcing women to compete against men in sports and having their private spaces invaded. When President Trump completed promised a complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense, he meant it. And over the next 100 days, get ready for historic trade deals, budget
• 05:30 - 06:00 deals, and peace deals. For more on President Trump's common sense revolution, I will turn it over to our White House deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller. Stephen, thanks for coming in today. Thank you, Caroline. Great to be up here with you and great to see so many familiar faces. I've had a chance to get to know over a number of years. As we gather this morning to continue our celebration of President Trump's unprecedented and historic first 100 days in office, what are without doubt the greatest 100 days
• 06:00 - 06:30 to begin any American presidency in the history of this nation. This week, you've heard about the historic actions President Trump has taken to secure our homeland, to secure our sovereignty, to secure our economy and our supply chains and our industrial base. Today, you're also going to hear from me about what President has what President Trump has done to secure our values, our culture, and our way of life from the unwavering assault from the radical left and the
• 06:30 - 07:00 Communists and the Democrat party. One of the most significant crises that President Trump inherited upon taking office was the wave of racial discrimination, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that have taken over both public sector and private sector entities all across the United States of America. Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is that our air traffic controllers were being hired and promoted based on race and gender, not their ability to conduct our
• 07:00 - 07:30 nation's air traffic. I would estimate that probably 90% of Americans would agree with the statement that airline safety should be based on your ability to keep airline safety jobs should be based on your ability to keep planes landing and taking off and flying safely, not on what demographic box you check. President Trump has ended across the entire federal government all hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion, and training based on race
• 07:30 - 08:00 and sex. This includes in our law enforcement agencies. So again, when we took office, even in sensitive law enforcement, national security and intelligence agencies, we were hiring individuals not on their ability to carry a weapon, not on their ability to keep Americans safe, not on their ability to conduct sensitive intelligence operations, but based upon race and sex. And obviously, that is unacceptable. It's going to be
• 08:00 - 08:30 merit-based across the whole federal government. But this wasn't just the federal government. This was the private sector and this was also of course our entire university and education system. So, President Trump's Department of Justice working with other departments and agencies have made clear that this administration is going to fully enforce Title Six, Title 7, and Title 9 of our federal civil rights code. Discrimination based on race and sex is prohibited by law, and this administration will vigorously enforce
• 08:30 - 09:00 that. and companies small or large that violate plain text of federal statutes will face appropriate financial and other penalties. This administration is not going to let our society devolve into communist woke DEI strangulation. We are going to have a system of merit which is not just a social and cultural issue. It's an economic issue. When you hire, retain, and recruit based on
• 09:00 - 09:30 merit, as President Trump has directed, you advance innovation, you advance growth, you advance investment, you advance job creation, you create the best and safest product for all Americans. When a when a citizen goes to, say, a hospital in a medical emergency, they don't care what race or sex their doctor or their nurses. They want the best treatment they can get in that emergency. when they are flying a plane or when they are on an aircraft, they want that pilot to be the best
• 09:30 - 10:00 pilot, the safest pilot, not caring what that pilot's race or sex is. This applies across the whole government. In particular, looking at our university system, this administration has opened investigations into universities across the country for violating, and we talk a lot about Supreme Court rulings. Universities across this country are in plain and direct violation of the Supreme Court's ruling that affirmative action, as in racial quotas and set
• 10:00 - 10:30 aides, are illegal. Students must be admitted to universities on a colorblind basis. But we have demonstrated through clear evidence that our university system, including our medical schools, and perhaps particularly our medical schools, are engaging in racebased discrimination, racial set aides, racial quota schemes, and other efforts to invade to to evade the Supreme Court's ruling. And again, the plain text of federal statute. So, universities are on
• 10:30 - 11:00 notice and universities are already facing the financial consequences of their non-compliance with federal law. The the clearest example that we're all familiar with, of course, being Harvard, which is engaged in repeat, systemic, and sustained violations of federal civil rights law. Another area of civil rights law that we talk about a lot, of course, is Title 9, sex-based discrimination. And this administration ended the Biden administration's policy and the Democrat party's policy of allowing men into women's sports. men
• 11:00 - 11:30 into women's spaces. We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump's direction to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds as you've seen in Maine if you allow men to invade women's sports and women's spaces. And this applies to our whole K through2 system. The Department of Justice is also coordinating with state and local law enforcement to fight child abuse in our school systems. It is child abuse to change a child's gender,
• 11:30 - 12:00 particularly if you do not inform the parent. In other words, if a 5-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school or a seven-year-old goes to school and the teacher turns tries to turn the boy into a girl or the girl into a boy, that is child abuse. And this administration is treating that as child abuse and it is a gross violation of parental rights. This also includes the administration's message to our hospital systems that they cannot and will not be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to perform chemical
• 12:00 - 12:30 castrations and sexual mutilations of of children. Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life irreversibly. It is child torture. It is child abuse. It is medical malpractice. And so the Department of Health and Human Services under the leadership of Bobby Kennedy as
• 12:30 - 13:00 well as the Department of Justice and other departments of this government are making clear to our medical providers and our hospital systems that you cannot use taxpayer dollars to perform these barbaric procedures on America's children. And HHS has systematically updated all and eliminated all of the junk fake science that was produced under the Biden administration promoting sex changes on children, promoting the idea of sterilizing children. That's
• 13:00 - 13:30 been cleaned out. That's been removed. And new guidance is being issued to doctors and hospitals advising them that they cannot perform these horrifying procedures, these irreversible procedures on our nation's children. We are also making clear in our prison system, male prisoners will not be allowed into women's prisons. The Biden administration promoted prison rape by putting men into female prisons. That is obviously insane, cruel, and
• 13:30 - 14:00 unacceptable. And even though the Democrat party and Hakee Jeff and the Democrat media continue to fight to put men into women's prisons, this administration will not allow that. just and will not allow men as well in our K- through2 system into women's private spaces and restrooms. We have seen horrifying example after example of young girls being sexually assaulted because school districts have allowed men into women's and girls private spaces. This administration, President
• 14:00 - 14:30 Trump is at the forefront of protecting women and protecting girls. And nowhere is that clearer than when we are talking about fighting radical gender ideology. This administration's also fighting to get critical race theory out of our school districts. Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding. So as we close the Department of Education and we
• 14:30 - 15:00 provide funding to states, we are going to make sure that these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology. For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country. So these are a few of the areas in which President Trump has fought the cancerous communist woke culture that was destroying this country. Were we led to believe that men were women, that women were men, that racial discrimination was good, that merit was bad, and that safety and physical
• 15:00 - 15:30 security matter less than the feelings of liberal ideologues. The president has also fought to return the Department of Justice to its core mission of protecting public safety and locking up violent criminals instead of using the Department of Justice to target conservatives, to target Christians, to target people of faith. The last administration cruy and shamefully used the power of the Justice Department to go after law-abiding Americans, in particular, Trump supporters,
• 15:30 - 16:00 conservatives, and Christians. That persecution has ended. The Department of Justice and the FBI are back in the business of going after bad guys, of going after gangs, of going after criminals, and keeping Americans safe. Let me just conclude before taking questions by noting that when you look at the sweep of the first 100 days, every single crisis that has afflicted America for years, sometimes decades, sometimes generations, this president
• 16:00 - 16:30 has fought head on. He has taken on every entrenched power structure and system all across this government, this swamp, this town. That includes, of course, the Doge efforts to slash corrupt, wasteful government spending, graft, and corruption, and to stop billions of taxpayer dollars from going to radical left NOS. These are left-wing nonprofits that are used to advance illegal immigration, to advance open
• 16:30 - 17:00 borders, to advance gender ideology, and to advance all of this insanity that has been turning our country in the wrong direction for so many years. President Trump took head on the trade crisis afflicting this country with the destruction of our manufacturing and industrial base the shameful betrayal of the American worker by Joe Biden and the globalists that sent all of our supply chains overseas seas. He took head on the catastrophe of mass unlimited illegal immigration that was turning us into a failed third world state and
• 17:00 - 17:30 achieved the lowest level of illegal immigration in recorded history without even a close second. He took on the economic crisis afflicting this country by reopening American energy by defeating inflation, by lowering gas prices, by ending the onslaught and reversing the onslaught of federal regulation by reopening coal, shale, oil, natural gas, and fighting now for the largest tax cut and reform and the largest deregulation reform and the largest energy reform in American
• 17:30 - 18:00 history. These are just some of the things that have ushered in the new golden age along with his fight to restore the peace that we had for four years under the previous administration before Joe Biden sunk this planet into bloodshed and war in the Middle East, in Europe, and rising tensions in Asia. President Trump in every area of conflict around the globe has been fighting to restore peace, security, stability, harmony. So he inherited an economic catastrophe, a border catastrophe, a public safety catastrophe, and a cultural catastrophe.
• 18:00 - 18:30 And every case, he has reversed those catastrophes and brought America into the new golden age. So I thank you for your time and I look forward to any questions you have. Awesome. Thank you, Stephen. And as always, we'll start with our new media seat today, Chris Bedford from the Blaze Media. Why don't you kick us off? Thank you very much. Uh Stephen, what is the end goal of the China tariffs right now? Is the idea to open up the Chinese markets through a deal to a better market for exporting American goods to China or is it a reconfiguration of global trade in a way that that isolates China from free
• 18:30 - 19:00 countries? No. So, China is a unique situation. Obviously, the president has talked at length about what happened to us economically since China's entrance into the World Trade Organization and the trillions and trillions of dollars of trade deficits that we've racked up with China over the period of that time and what that's meant for our national security. what that's meant for our economic security, what that's meant for our supply chains. Obviously, right now, the Secretary of the Treasury is in the process of developing a plan that will answer the questions that you're talking
• 19:00 - 19:30 about, but the president's goals have been very clear on these points, which is that he is not going to allow China to continue to steal our intellectual property, to continue to illegally dump and subsidize their goods in our markets, to manipulate their currency, to rack up an unsustainable trade deficit. We need to have a trade relationship with China that does not do harm to our nation's economic and national security. And that has to be the guidepost of any objective. At the same time, tariffs will bring
• 19:30 - 20:00 significant revenue into this country that will allow us to pursue our dramatic plan of tax cuts and reforms. Awesome. Great. Go ahead. Hi, first similar to that question, I'm curious Kevin this morning said that they were expecting some sort of news on terrorists by the end of the day. Do you have any insight into that? I don't want to get ahead of any announcement, but I'll just reiterate that right now countries from all over the world because of President Trump's leadership are desperate and dying to make trade
• 20:00 - 20:30 deals with the United States. We're going to evaluate each of those deals and President Trump is personally involved in making sure that these negotiations serve only one interest which is the interests of the United States of America and we'll end up with a deal in these cases where yes, the other countries obviously will have their own demands and their own interests. But nothing will go into effect that doesn't serve the interest of America and the American people. Thank you. Uh Stephen, this morning GM is putting a dollar figure on how much the president's tariffs will impact the
• 20:30 - 21:00 company. The CEO says tariffs will cost GM between four and 5 billion this year. The CEO of Ford says he can't commit to not raising prices because of tariffs. Uh is the administration open to doing more to give automakers relief? The the question unfortunately misses the entire point which is that US automakers have announced dramatic investments and expansions inside the United States. American auto plants are growing. They are expanding. They are opening new facilities. They're expanding existing facilities that are already in operation
• 21:00 - 21:30 because it is now the case that for the first time in our lives that American cars p receive preference in America's markets. The US auto industry used to control the entire world. I believe the number during the heyday was that 70% of all cars in the world were made in Michigan. And now of course we become a tiny fraction of the global market. And the reason for that is because the United States opened its markets to every single foreign cheater and every
• 21:30 - 22:00 single foreign nation that subsidized its goods on the face of the earth. And their markets have been closed to ours. Japan closed their market to our cars. The entire EU closed their market to our cars. South Korea closed their market to our cars. All of the countries I just mentioned have tens of billions of dollars of annual trade deficits in automobiles with the United States. These are supposedly pure nations, nations that have at least a somewhat equivalent per capita GDP. So it is impossible under the terms of fair trade, if you have two nations with similar per capita GDP, to have such
• 22:00 - 22:30 uneven trade flows in automobiles. What the president has done with his car tariff, we have the most desirable market in the world is if you want to sell cars tariff-free, tax-free to our market, your plant has to operate in the United States. The only alternative to that is to have no US automobile industry whatsoever, which is where this was headed. To be clear, if we stayed on this current path, within a few years, there would have been no US automobile industry. And what little was left of it would have been in Mexico because US
• 22:30 - 23:00 auto companies have steadily been shifting their supply chains to Mexico, where they believe it is cheaper to make their products. In reality, it'll be cheaper to make them here because there'll be no tariff for anything made in the United States, and we'll have the cheapest energy and the best regulatory environment in the face of the earth. But in the meantime, while manufacturing ramps up, American consumers may pay more. Do you agree? No. Not on cars. They won't because again, there's now a massive economic incentive for automobile producers to expand production in the United States and
• 23:00 - 23:30 whatever they make here, there will be no tariff. We'll go to the back row. Go ahead. Thank you, Caroline. Uh today the US Chamber of Commerce released a letter uh to the Trump administration asking for small business tariff relief. They say that's necessary because uh in order to save small businesses and to stave off a recession. Stephen, is the administration considering small business tax tariff relief? The the relief for small businesses is going to come in the form of the largest tax cut in American history. A tax cut, by the way, that every single Democrat is
• 23:30 - 24:00 planning to vote against. They're voting for a tax hike. every middle class family of about $4,000. The president has made clear that there will be 100% expensing for investment in the United States. Companies that invest in the United States will be able to deduct 100% of that cost from their tax liability. This will be the most pro- small business tax bill in American history. And at the same time, this is what you have to understand about the plan is as they're able to do that, as they're able to reshore those supply chains, that also means they'll pay no
• 24:00 - 24:30 tariff. So you'll have the lowest tax environment and there will be no tariff because their production and supply chains will be in the United States. So that's a no on on tariff relief for small businesses in the short term. It's a yes on tax relief for small businesses. And again, you only pay the tariff for products that are made outside the United States. Yeah, thanks. Um so on the rare mineral deal that was signed last night, uh when can that deal be operationalized? What's the time frame? And what kind of what kind of
• 24:30 - 25:00 leverage does that give Ukraine over Russia? I think the more important point about the Ukraine deal, and I would um hopefully have an update for you soon on how quickly can be operationalized, but we'll be moving at full speed, not only on that mineral deal, by the way, but on every mineral deal that this president has been unleashing. So, we're opening up mines all across this country. We're also pursuing energy and mineral deals all over the world. Since the president issued his executive order also on deregulating coal, we've seen dramatic coal production increases already in the
• 25:00 - 25:30 United States. So, we're taking advantage of the trillions of dollars in coal wealth and mineral wealth that exists in the United States. We are a very mineral-rich country. But with respect to that deal, we'll move it and operationalize it as fast as we possibly can, but is meant to pay back the United States. This is the key point for the hundreds of billions of dollars that our taxpayers have spent subsidizing the war in Ukraine. So it is repayment to the United States. And that's one of the most important points to understand about it. What's the leverage does it give? What kind of leverage does it give? The president's goal again is to
• 25:30 - 26:00 end the killing to achieve a peace settlement. That remains of course the overriding objective. We thank you so much. Thank you Stephen. Thank you. Um, this administration has stressed the need for price transparency for things like healthc care bills and concert tickets. So why is it a political and hostile act for Amazon to display price transparency on consumer goods? Well, I think this is the wrong way of looking at it, which is why would first of all,
• 26:00 - 26:30 that proposal is gone now, but why would Amazon of all the different things that go into a theoretical price input, right? For example, does Amazon list the cost of California's regulations on everything made in California, anything you make in California, you have a massive price increase because of the healthc care regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the labor regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the subsidies that go to illegal aliens in that state, because of all the bureaucracy. So, anything being produced in California has a massive built-in price hike. So,
• 26:30 - 27:00 why wouldn't Amazon have a list saying if you purchase it in California instead of in Alabama, this is the premium that you play you that that you pay? This was a clear attempt by whoever proposed it originally. I don't know because Amazon says they were never going to do it to try to undermine our trade negotiations with China. I make another important point in this which is that there's been many complaints about the fact that there are a lot of products that are sold on Amazon that are actually ripoffs of American products that are then stolen by China and then they take RIP
• 27:00 - 27:30 and they put them into products and try to underell our manufacturer. So to the extent that we are engaged in labeling issues on Amazon, I would say that would be the most significant one to fix is making sure we're not undercutting American consumers. And then one ongo Garcia, please. Um the administration is reportedly inquiring about his return. Uh, is that to check a box for compliance or does President Trump want him back on US soil or both? So, as Secretary Rubio said yesterday in the cabinet meeting, this administration is
• 27:30 - 28:00 not going to publicly discuss the inside details of our foreign policy and negotiations with a foreign country. And in particular, we are not going to allow a district court judge to try to become the Secretary of State. Secretary Rubio is the one who under his leadership and direction at the State Department is managing the day-to-day relationship with El Salvador. Let's just take a moment, number one, to express our gratitude to El Salvador for agreeing to take some of the most dangerous
• 28:00 - 28:30 terrorists off of America's streets and to put them into a safe environment where they cannot continue to engage in acts of terrorism or coordination with the Maduro regime. You may have seen recently an FBI assessment that was unclassified that said that the Maduro regime is using and planning to use trained drag terrorists to carry out assassination plus on American soil. Now, very few in this room covered that. I'll let you all ask yourselves why you didn't cover it and why your editors didn't assign that story to you. Uh
• 28:30 - 29:00 something I think you should think about on your own. But this is a earthshattering piece of news. The Biden administration imported the terrorist army that our own FBI assesses is planning assassination strikes on American soil against critics of the Maduro regime. Those are the terrorists that President Trump is finding and apprehending that our Democrat judges and Democrat activists are trying to keep on US soil. Train Daywa has the same legal status as al-Qaeda and ISIS.
• 29:00 - 29:30 MS-13 has the same legal status as al-Qaeda and ISIS. These are foreign terrorists operating on our soil and our gratitude to El Salvador for agreeing to take custody of these terrorists is immense. With respect to the case that you mentioned, there's now even been more evidence that has been made public of this person's violent repeated threats and assaults against his spouse, someone who had repeated documented human
• 29:30 - 30:00 trafficking and human smuggling offenses. somebody that has extensively documented membership in MS-13, a terrorist organization. And of course, he had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles. This is a person that was a clear and present danger to the safety of the American people. And it is a it is a sad reflection on the state of our media and many of the outlets represented in this room that you obsessively try to shill for this MS-13 terrorist. Well, no
• 30:00 - 30:30 coverage occurred in your papers about any of the Americans that were raped and tortured and murdered by the illegals that Biden was importing into our country. You know, you talk about due process. The Biden administration made the decision to give extensive due process to two trained Naragua terrorists that were apprehended at the border just a couple years ago. There were two gentlemen. They were from
• 30:30 - 31:00 Venezuela. They were members of trained aragua. The Biden administration border patrol apprehended them and made the decision to provide them with extensive due process, put them onto a program known as supervised release and put them on ankle monitors so that they could go through a lengthy legal judicial determination as to whether these legal aliens who had just set foot on US soil might want to live in the United States for the rest of their lives. What was the result of that decision?
• 31:00 - 31:30 What was the result of that choice that was made? Those two men kidnapped a young girl named Joselyn Nungury from her family. They beat her. They sexually assaulted her. They tortured her. They stripped her. They murdered her. And they dumped her body. That is what the Biden administration's policy was. Most of your papers never covered her story when it happened. to the extent that you covered it at all, it was because President Trump forced you to cover it by highlighting it
• 31:30 - 32:00 repeatedly over and over again. He had to shame you into covering it. And each and every one of you that sides over and over again with these MS-13 terrorists, to the extent that you had the financial means to do so, you all choose to live in condos or homes or houses as far away from these kinds of gangbangers as you possibly can. If I offered any one of you a rent-free home with no taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods and I said your neighbors are MS-13 terrorists or Mexican mafia or Sinaloa
• 32:00 - 32:30 cartel or trainer I couldn't pay you to live there but yet you with your coverage are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So, you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded our homes and our country. Awesome. Thank you, Peter. We'll take a a couple more questions. A couple questions on Doge, of course, because that's the topic that you're here to speak about, but I want to ask you one other question about the topic of prices. We heard from the
• 32:30 - 33:00 president on this just yesterday right now on prices and the risk that there could be some short-term, as he said, shortages. He was referring specifically to dolls. What do you tell Americans right now, Stephen, who say they can't afford to, in the president's words, be patient? Americans who voted for President Trump on his promise that he would lower prices across the board on day one. But he did lower prices across the board on day one. Well, grocery prices last month went up4% of course. So, I mean, across the board, not exclusively eggs. Inflation, as you would acknowledge, is down
• 33:00 - 33:30 substantially. Gas prices are down substantially. The new GDP report showed a 22% record increase in investment in the United States of America. So all of the and don't even egg prices of course which was all you guys talked about for a few days I think are down like 80%. The reality is that we can either surrender economically to China or we can reclaim and reshore our manufacturing base and our industrial needs. And it's not just China. In the event of any national emergency, this is
• 33:30 - 34:00 this is the president's first duty as commander-in-chief. In the event of any national emergency, we cannot be relying on foreign countries for steel, aluminum, energy, technology, any of the essential components that we need to keep this country running. He is fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief that every president before him had failed to fulfill or even actively betrayed. And despite inheriting all of this, as I mentioned, inflation down, jobs up, and
• 34:00 - 34:30 particularly, by the way, jobs for American workers. So for the first time you look at these jobs reports the government workers are going down which artificially of course increased previous job totals. The employment of non-citizens is going down. The employment of American citizens is exploding. Remember all the job gains during the Biden administration so-called gains on net were for foreign workers. So if you you look at the stock of American workers over his whole administration they lost jobs on net. So if you're an American worker, you live
• 34:30 - 35:00 through a four years of a Biden depression. That was the economic reality that now we are the President Trump is rescuing. And again, if you make your product in America, there's no tariff. And as we develop advanced manufacturing techniques, increased AI, increased robotics, it'll be cheaper and cheaper and cheaper to manufacture in America. But to be clear, you said that prices have gone down across the board. The president himself acknowledged that on toys you may end up paying on dolls he was referring to you may end up paying a little bit more right now. So
• 35:00 - 35:30 in terms of he was making he was making the point that I think almost every American consumer agrees with what if they had a choice between a and I'm I'm a parent of young children. a choice between a doll from China that might have say lead paint in it um that is not as well constructed as a doll made in America that has a higher environmental and regulatory standard and that is made to a higher degree of quality and those two products are both on Amazon that yes you probably would be willing to pay more for a better made American product
• 35:30 - 36:00 but here's the key point with the tax cuts the regulation cuts the energy price decrease and everything else that President Trump is doing to unleash this era of American prosperity and prevent the road we were on to get off that road of financial ruin and doom means that it will be cheaper than ever to make a manufacturer in America. I think that answers your question. We just gave you two
• 36:00 - 36:30 questions. Uh, last night Camala Harris delivered her first major speech after losing the election. She attacked Trump personally, attack the policies. Any comment on the White House on that? Well, I think it was a it was a great reminder to the American people of just how blessed we all are that the leader sitting in the Oval Office today is President Donald Trump and not President Kla Harris. Uh it was a helpful reminder
• 36:30 - 37:00 of just what a travesty and a tragedy that would have been. It would have been the end of America. And it sort of it gives me a chance to bring this whole thing home. If we continued on this road of of radical regulation, choking off American energy, sending our supply chains to foreign countries, taxing our economy to death, pushing this cancerous woke ideology on our children, ending merit, ending scientific innovation, ending public safety, allowing, you know, everyone goes to the
• 37:00 - 37:30 stores these days, everything's locked up. Criminals roam free. law- abiding citizens under the previous administration were punished while gangbangers were given red carpet treatment. Democrats of course are still giving gangbangers red carpet treatment. And then the border invasion. If those policies had continued, it would have been the end of the American republic. And the only thing Americans want to hear from Kla Harris is an apology for joining Joe Biden. Remember, she was the borders are joining Joe Biden in aiding
• 37:30 - 38:00 and abetting the invasion of our country. And we're never going to stop talking about this because what they did to this country is unforgivable. It is an eternal stain on the Democrat party. the every day we read another story. Every day we arrest another alien they let into this country who raped a child, who beat a woman within an inch of her life, who murdered a mom, who murdered a dad, who trafficked drugs into this country, who trafficked fentinel into this country, who are responsible for
• 38:00 - 38:30 dead and slaughtered Americans. And I don't know what's broken in the Washington press corps, that none of that moves them emotionally. The only thing that gets them exercised is do we need to have more trials for terrorist supporters? We need to have more trials for gangbangers. We need to have more trials for illegal alien invaders. Even though Congress and the Constitution clearly say that you can expel invaders and illegal aliens quickly, efficiently, and properly. This president has literally saved America. And I could not
• 38:30 - 39:00 be prouder. I could not be prouder, as I know Caroline feels the same way, to come every single day to this building where we have a leader sitting in that office whose first, last, and every thought is the safety, prosperity, security, and sovereignty of the citizens. That's an important word, people, citizens of this republic. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Thank you everyone. And just to add on the Kla Harris point, I think I speak for everyone at the White House. We encourage Kla Harris to continue going out and speaking uh do speaking
• 39:00 - 39:30 engagements. You'll hear from the president at 11:00. See you guys later. Report the president Mike Waltz because of response. Why haven't you nominated a single judge?