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PERIOD, FULL STOP. DAN BONGINO THANK YOU AS ALWAYS. >> JOINING US LIVE ON THE PHONE. TONIGHT, THE PRESIDENT OF THE. UNITED STATES, DONALD J. TRUMP. MR. PRESIDENT, SIR, THANK YOU. FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU. >> HOW MANY STOPS, HOW MANY. TELE-RALLIES DID YOU HAVE IN. TOTAL? >> WELL, I DID 31 IN 27 DAYS. >> Sean: THAT'S NOT BAD. HOW ABOUT TELE-RALLIES. >> TELE-RALLIES? TODAY I DID 15 AND YESTERDAY I. DID 12. AND WE'RE MOVING ALONG PRETTY. GOOD, SEAN. I WILL TELL YOU.

BUT I'M SHUTTING IT DOWN AFTER. YOUR SHOW. ALTHOUGH I THINK I'M DOING. "FOX & FRIENDS" TOMORROW MORNING. ACTUALLY. BUT I'M ESSENTIALLY SHUTTING IT. DOWN NOW. WE'LL SEE. WE'VE HAD A GREAT PRESIDENCY, WE'VE HAD A GREAT TWO YEARS. I APPRECIATE WHAT DAN JUST SAID, BUT WE'VE HAD A GREAT TWO YEARS, I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S EVER HAD. TWO YEARS LIKE THIS. SEAN, WE'VE CREATED $25 TRILLION. WORTH OF WEALTH FOR OUR COUNTRY. THINK OF THAT. IT'S UNHEARD OF. >> Sean: I'M GOING TO SCROLL A. LIST OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR.

ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY. I DON'T THINK THE REST OF THE. MEDIA EVER WILL, NUMBER ONE. I JUST WENT THROUGH WITH DAN. BONGINO WHAT THE STATED AND. PRINTED DSA AGENDA IS WHAT MAKES. THIS SO INTERESTING BECAUSE WE. TALKED ABOUT HISTORICAL TRENDS. IN TERMS OF MIDTERMS, YOU'RE. VERY AWARE OF THEM. YOU DECIDED TO FIGHT ANYWAY. PART OF THE NARRATIVE I THINK. HAS THE MEDIA'S UNWILLING TO. EVER SAY YOU DO ANYTHING GOOD, THAT'S WHY I TRY TO OFFER SOME. BALANCE AND PUT IT UP THERE AND.

WE'LL DO THAT NOW, AND PART OF. THE REASON IS, I DON'T THINK. THEY REALIZE WHAT MAKES THIS. UNPRECEDENTED IS WE'VE NEVER HAD. A POLITICAL PARTY THIS. RADICALIZED. YOUR THOUGHTS. >> WELL, THEY ARE RADICALIZED. AND THE MEDIA'S VERY DISHONEST. YOU HAVE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE, BUT IT'S SMALL, WHERE THEY GIVE. IT TRUTH AND THEY SPEAK TRUTH. AND THAT'S A GREAT THING BUT. IT'S VERY SMALL AND, YOU KNOW, YOU READ LIKE THE NEW YORK TIMES. IS SO DISHONEST THEY'LL TAKE. SOMETHING GOOD AND MAKE IT BAD. AT BEST IF YOU'RE LUCKY THEY.

MAKE IT NEUTRAL. WE DID SOMETHING CALLED FAVORED. NATIONS ON DRUGS. I HAD THE HIGHEST, THE UNITED. STATES, THE HIGHEST DRUG PRICES. IN THE HISTORY OF -- THERE'S. NEVER BEEN HIGHER IN THE WORLD, THE HIGHEST DRUG PRICES IN THE. WORLD AND NOW WE HAVE THE LOWEST. DRUG PRICES IN THE WORLD WHICH. WILL HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON. HEALTHCARE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IT'S DRUGS, IT'S A BIG. PERCENTAGE. BUT WE TOOK THE HIGHEST AND NOW. WE HAVE THE LOWEST DRUG PRICES. IN THE WORLD. I HAD TO GET ALL THESE COUNTRIES.

BY FRANKLY THE THREAT OF TARIFFS. AND OTHER THINGS BECAUSE THEY. WOULDN'T DO IT. THEY HAD TO DOUBLE AND TRIPLE. THEIR DRUG PRICES IN ORDER FOR. US TO DO IT. AND NOBODY WANTS TO WRITE ABOUT. IT, THE BIGGEST THING TO HAPPEN. WE REDUCED IT, THINK ABOUT IT, FROM THE HIGHEST PRICES IN THE. WORLD FOR 50 YEARS, TO THE. LOWEST PRICES IN THE WORLD AS OF. TODAY. >> Sean: MR. PRESIDENT I THINK. IF YOU REALLY KEEP IT SIMPLE, THE BOARDERS WERE OPEN, THE. BOARDERS WERE NOT CLOSED, WE. WERE LIED TO FOR FOUR STRAIGHT. YEARS. YOU GAVE US THE LARGEST TAX CUT.

IN AMERICAN HISTORY, NO TAX. TIPS, OVERTIME, SOCIAL SECURITY. AND THAT'S GREAT FOR AMERICAN. FAMILIES. WE NOW KNOW THE RESULT OF THAT, AND THAT IS THAT THE ARMING. FAMILY'S TAKEN AN AVERAGE $3,000. HOME MORE PER YEAR THAN THEY. WERE TAKING BEFORE. THAT MEANS A LOT TO FAMILIES. THE CENSUS BUREAU POINTED OUT. HISPANIC AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN. POVERTY HIT AN ALL-TIME LOW. INCOME FOR THE LOWEST 25% ARE. NOW RISING TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS.

EVER. MEDIAN INCOME UP 87,600. A LOT OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND, YEAH, MOST FAVORED NATION DRUG. PRICES ON TOP OF IT, ENERGY. DOMINANCE ON TOP OF IT. AND THEN WE HAD GDP GROWTH. NUMBERS LAST WEEK AND WE HAVE. MANUFACTURING NUMBERS TODAY. WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE ABOUT THE. ECONOMY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? BECAUSE ECONOMIES ARE LIKE THE. TITANIC, YOU DON'T TURN IT ON A. DIME. >> YEAH. WELL, WE HAVE $22.5 TRILLION. COMING IN AND BUILDING NEW CAR.

PLANTS, BUILDING PHARMACEUTICAL. PLANTS. IF YOU LOOK AT ELI LILY AND MURK. PFIZER THEY'RE BUILDING WE'RE. GOING TO MAKE OUR OWN DRUGS. RIGHT NOW WE GET THEM FROM. CHINA. THEY GET A CERTAIN PERIOD OF. TIME AND THEY BE THEY GET. TARIFFS. NO TARIFFS FOR THE FIRST YEAR, SMALL TARIFFS FOR THE SECOND, THIRD YEAR YOU GO UP TO 200% SO. EVERYBODY'S BUILDING LIKE CRAZY. WE'RE BUILDING MORE PLANTS AND. FACTORIES RIGHT NOW IN THE. UNITED STATES THAN ANY TIME EVER.

IN HISTORY AND WE'RE LEADING. WITH SUPER INTELLIGENCE, SI. WE'RE LEADING BY A LOT OVER. CHINA, PRESIDENT XI LEFT TWO. WEEKS AGO AND HE COULDN'T. BELIEVE IT. HE GREETED ME BY SAYING WOW HAVE. YOU DONE A GOOD JOB, HE SAID IT. IN CHINESE, HE HAD AN. INTERPRETER BUT THAT'S OKAY. OF ALL THE THINGS YOU SAID, THERE'S ONE THING THAT NOBODY. TALKS ABOUT. WE ARE RESPECTED AGAIN ALL OVER. THE WORLD. WE WERE LAUGHED AT TWO YEARS. AGO, WE WERE LAUGHED AT FOR FOUR. YEARS LIKE WE WERE FOOLS AND.

EVERY COUNTRY RESPECTS US AND. EVERY COUNTRY -- THEY SAID, WE. THOUGHT -- KING OF SAUDI ARABIA. SAID IT, MANY, MANY LEADERS SAID. IT, THAT DURING THE TWO-YEAR. PERIOD, DURING THAT PERIOD OF. TIME TWO YEARS AGO, EVERYBODY, I. MEAN IT'S LIKE A UNIVERSAL. STATEMENT FROM EVERY LEADER, THEY SAID YOU WERE A DEAD. COUNTRY AND NOW YOU'RE THE. HOTTEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. THEY SAY IT ALL THE TIME. WE HAVE THE HOTTEST COUNTRY. THE STRONGEST MILITARY. I BUILT THAT DURING THE FIRST.

TERM, THEY GAVE A LOT OF IT. AWAY, I MUST TELL YOU TO, YOU. KNOW, UKRAINE, THEY DO HAVE. CHARGED THE EUROPEAN UNION BUT. THEY DIDN'T. BUT I DO. WE ARE THE HOTTEST COUNTRY. ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. WE'RE RESPECTED BY EVERY COUNTRY. IN THE WORLD AND THAT'S. SOMETHING A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T. SAY. BUT IF YOU ASK THE HEAD OF NATO, MARK RUTTA RESPECTED MAYBE EVER.

>> Sean: ONE OF THE MORE. CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS YOU MADE. WAS ABOUT IRAN AND I WANT TO ASK. YOU ABOUT IT. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU SAID NO. FOREVER WARS EVOLVED INTO NO. MILITARY ACTION BECAUSE YOUR. FIRST TERM BEE LIES THAT CLAIM. WHEN YOU TOOK OUT THE ISIS. CALIPHATE AND TOOK OUT SOLEIMANI. AND BAGHDADI DROPPED THE MOTHER. OF ALL BOMBS ON AFGHANISTAN, NO. FOREVER WARS DOES NOT MEAN NO. MILITARY MIGHT. AND STEVE WITKOFF ON THIS VERY.

PROGRAM SAID, SEAN -- AND. EVERYBODY ELSE THAT GETS THE. PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING THAT. I KNOW THAT I INTERVIEWED SAID. THE SAME THING. THAT YOU HAD NO CHOICE, THAT. BOTH MIDNIGHT HAMMER AND EPIC. FURY WERE TO PREVENT IRAN FROM. GETTING A NUCLEAR WEAPON AND. THAT THIS WILL COMMA END. HOW CAN YOU ASSURE THE AMERICAN. PEOPLE ON THAT POINT TONIGHT? >> WELL, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT. WHEN THEY WERE -- YOU KNOW, THE. JCPOA, THAT WAS THE OBAMA. SO-CALLED NUCLEAR DEAL IT WAS A.

DISASTER IT WAS THE ROAD FOR A. NUCLEAR WEAPON FOR IRAN. IRAN IS THE NUMBER ONE SPONSOR. OF TERROR IN THE WORLD, THE LAST. 50 YEARS, THEY'VE KILLED SO MANY. OF OUR SOLDIERS, SO MANY PEOPLE, NOT JUST OUR PEOPLE BUT THE, SS. COAL THAT WAS THEM. THEY'VE DONE IT FOR YEARS AND IT. WAS TIME FOR US TO STOP THEM. AND WE HAD A GREAT PERIOD, ABOUT. SEVEN MONTHS AGO I SAID WE'RE. GOING TO HAVE TO DO A LITTLE. DETOUR. WE JUST GOT THE BEST NUMBERS. ALTHOUGH I MUST TELL YOU OUR.

STOCK MARKET'S HIGHER NOW THAN. WHEN WE STARTED AND OUR 401-KS. ARE HIGHER. I TOLD MY PEOPLE WE HAVE TO DO A. LITTLE DETOUR AND JOURNEY TO. IRAN BECAUSE WE CANNOT LET IRAN, AN EVIL NATION WHO'S KILLED MANY. OF OUR PEOPLE, SOLEIMANI'S AN. EXAMPLE, NO LONGER WITH US, KILLED MANY OF OUR PEOPLE, WE. CANNOT LET THEM HAVE A NUCLEAR. WEAPON AND WE WON'T. BUT THINK OF A WAR, WE HAVE A. WAR WITH VENEZUELA, IT LASTED. MUCH LESS THAN ONE DAY AND. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. FLOWING INTO OUR COUNTRY AND WE.

HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OF VENEZUELA. AND WE GET ALONG GREAT WITH. THEM. WE PUT OUR PEOPLE -- WE PUT. PEOPLE THERE AND WE HAVE. TREMENDOUS OIL. WHEN YOU ADD UP THE UNITED. STATES OIL AND THE VENEZUELA, WE. HAVE OVER 50% OF THE WORLD'S. OIL. BUT THINK OF IT DIFFERENTLY. WE HAVE NOW MORE THAN SAUDI. ARABIA, RUSSIA AND TAKE THE NEXT. LARGEST COUNTRY COMBINED. AND NOBODY EVEN THOUGHT THAT WAS. POSSIBLE. I GOT GREENLAND. GREENLAND, EVERYBODY SAID OH, HE'LL NEVER GET IT.

WE GOT GREENLAND. YOU KNOW THAT, WE GOT GREENLAND, SIGNED WITH DENMARK, THE. EUROPEAN UNION WAS GREAT, THEY. WERE ALL GOOD, THEY WANTED TO. MAKE ME HAPPY WE GOT GREENLAND. WORTH TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND. SO MANY OTHER THINGS WE'VE DONE. THINK ABOUT THE WAR YOU'RE. TALKING ABOUT, WE BOMBED OUT. WITH MIDNIGHT HAMMER, WE BOMBED. OUT ALL OF THEIR POTENTIAL. NUCLEAR POWER, WE MIGHT HAVE TO. GO AFTER PICKAXE BUT THAT'S NOT. A BIG DEAL WE CAN DO IT IN. LITERALLY -- WE DID DO THAT IN. ONE HOUR AS SOON AS WE WANT ANY.

TIME WE WANT. LOOK, THEIR MILITARY IS GONE, THEIR NAVY IS GONE, THEIR AIR. FORCE IS GONE THEIR ANTI. AIRCRAFT IS GONE. THEY HAVE SOME MISSILES BUT NOT. MANY, AND VERY LITTLE CAPACITY. TO BUILD MORE. THEY HAVE DRONES BUT THEY DON'T. HAVE MANY, VERY LITTLE CAPACITY. TO BUILD MORE. WHAT WE'VE DON IS AMAZING. TELL ME ABOUT THE WAR. WHAT'S A WAR? A WAR IS FIGHTING. TAKE A LOOK AT WORLD WAR ONE, WORLD WAR II. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW.

US FIGHTING? WE GO MONTHS AND MONTHS, WE. TALK. THEY'RE NOT IN A GOOD. NEGOTIATING POSITION, THEIR. ECONOMY IS CRATERING BECAUSE OF. US. THEY HAVE 301% INFLATION. THEY DON'T HAVE MONEY, THEY'RE. NOT PAYING THEIR SOLDIERS OR. THEIR POLICE. WE'RE NOT FIGHTING A WAR. EVERYONE SAYS YOU'RE AT WAR. WELL, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE. FIRED ANYTHING. THIS ISN'T A WAR, IT'S A VERY. SOFT WAR. WE DID HAVE A BIG HIT ON THEM. AND WE HIT THEM VERY HARD AND. THAT TOOK OUT THEIR NAVY, 159. SHIPS ARE GONE.

BUT THIS ISN'T LIKE A WAR THAT'S. GOING ON. IT COULD HAPPEN IF THEY DON'T. MAKE A DEAL, BUT THEY WANT TO. MAKE I DEAL VERY BADLY AND. THERE'S A VERY GOOD CHANCE WE. MAKE A DEAL. BUT HERE'S THE THING, WE'RE. DEALING FROM TOTAL STRENGTH. WE CAN END IT AT ANY TIME. IF I CAN MAKE A DEAL I WOULD. RATHER DO IT, SAVE A LOT OF. LIVES. BUT THINK ABOUT A WAR. THIS ISN'T WAR. I HEAR SOME OF THESE GUYS, I. HEARD A VERY STUPID CONGRESSMAN. ON FOX, I THINK IT WAS. "FOX & FRIENDS", SAYING ABOUT HE.

SPENT $30 BILLION ON THIS WAR. WITH IRAN. WELL, THAT'S PEANUTS BECAUSE. WE'VE MADE THAT MANY TIMES OVER. JUST WITH VENEZUELA, THE. PURCHASE OF -- WE DIDN'T. PURCHASE, WE DIDN'T PAY ANYTHING. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT GREENLAND, IT'S WORTH $5 TRILLION, FIVE. TRILLION WITH A T. THIS IS PEANUTS COMPARED TO THE. MONEY WE'VE MADE. ALSO WE'VE CREATED $25 TRILLION. WORTH OF WORTH SINCE I ENTERED. OFFICE ON JANUARY 20TH WE'VE.

CREATED 25 TRILLION, THINK OF. IT. I MEAN, NOBODY'S EVER HEARD OF. THESE NUMBERS. NO OTHER COUNTRY'S DONE WHAT. WE'VE DONE IN THE LAST THREE. YEARS. $25 TRILLION WORTH OF WEALTH, YOU COULD CALL WORTH, WEALTH. NOBODY'S EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE. THAT. NO OTHER COUNTRY HAS EVER DONE. ANYTHING. SO THIS IS NOT MUCH OF A WAR, SEAN, BECAUSE THERE HASN'T BEEN. SHOOTING FOR MONTHS. >> Sean: LET ME ASK YOU ONE LAST. QUESTION, SIR. YOU'VE BEEN OUT, YOU'VE BEEN ON.

THE ROAD HITTING IT HARD AND. MIDTERM ELECTIONS ARE. NOTORIOUSLY TURNOUT ELECTIONS. THE IMPORTANCE FOR EVERYBODY. WATCHING TONIGHT THAT WE NEED. BIG TURNOUTS IN ALL OF THESE. STATES TOMORROW, YOUR LAST WORD. >> RIGHT. WELL, WHEN I -- WHEN I'M ON THE. BALLOT, AS YOU KNOW, I'VE WON. EVERY TIME AND WE GET 50% MORE. VOTES THAN WHEN I'M NOT ON THE. BALLOT SO I'M ASKING EVERYBODY. TO PRETEND I'M ON THE BALLOT AND. IN A WAY I AM BECAUSE NO TAX ON. TIPS, NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY.

FOR OUR GREAT SENIORS, NO TAX ON. OVERTIME ALL THE THINGS WE'VE. DONE EVERYTHING GETS ERASED. THE ESTATE TAX IS GONE FOR THE. FARMERS AND FOR THE SMALL. BUSINESSES. SO MANY THINGS WE'VE DONE. ALL OF THAT'S GOING TO BE WIPED. OUT. WE HAVE THE HOTTEST COUNTRY. ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, THEY HAVE. TO GET OUT. PRETEND I'M ON THE BALLOT DO. WHAT ARE YOU WANT BUT WE HAVE TO. VOTE. IF OUR PEOPLE VOTE WE WIN IN A. LANDSLIDE. >> Sean: MR. PRESIDENT, WE. REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE. TIME T.