The Shell Game of Corrupted Government Exposed
Remarks by President Trump and President Duda of the Republic of Poland Before Bilateral Meeting
Q Some of your advisors say there is concern. Is that inaccurate?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, they're not advisors. It's fake news. You don't understand what I'm saying. Those advisors don't exist. They don't exist. It's made up by the newspapers. It's fake news.
Q Mr. President, the House and Senate committees have subpoena power. How is this going to play out over the next two years?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I think what the Democrats are trying to do - because they know they're going to lose the election so they're going to give this a shot - they're going to - just every day they're going to be going more and more after, after.
I don't know if you have this, Mr. President, but we have people that are totally out of control. It's the only way they think they can win the election. So we'll see what happens. But at some point, the Mueller report spoke. They were very disappointed. It said, "No collusion and no obstruction and no nothing." And, in fact, it said we actually rebuffed your friends from Russia; that we actually pushed them back - we rebuffed them.
So, the Democrats were very unhappy with the Mueller report. So now they're trying to do a do-over or a redo. And we're not doing that. We gave them everything. We were the most transparent presidency in history. We gave them everything. And you and I, we've all had this conversation many times before. There's never been anybody so transparent. Gave them 1.5 million documents. We gave them hundreds of people. I gave them lawyers, which I didn't have to give. I didn't have to give anybody. We gave them everybody.
And people that didn't like Donald Trump - 18 Trump haters - 18 Democrats, and they were Trump haters. And they were supporters, in some cases, of Hillary Clinton. They made the decision. And Bob Mueller, no fan of Donald Trump; I'm no fan of his. And Bob Mueller came out with a report that said "no collusion" and, by the way - and led to no obstruction.
So now the Democrats want to try and win an election, so they just keep it going. And I think the American public is not going to stand for it. I'll tell you what the Democrats should be doing; they should be working on the border, they should be working on drug pricing, and they should be working on infrastructure, where we could get that done very quickly, but they don't have any time to do anything. And I think it's going to be a tremendous day for us. It's a year and half now until the election. I think it's going to be a tremendous day for us.
Q Mr. President, what are you expecting to get out of your meeting with President Xi at the G20? And also, can you update us on the agreement you have with Mexico that you alluded to yesterday?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We expect to have a meeting with President Xi. We're doing very well with respect to China. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars, which we never took in before. The tariffs are - been, you know, very strong. We have 25 percent of $250 billion. And tremendous money is flowing into our Treasury.
China is subsidizing those companies, so our people are not paying for it. If you look, our people are not paying for it. China is subsidizing those companies so that people continue to work.
Now, the problem for China is that a lot of companies are leaving China because they don't want to pay the tariffs. But we're doing very well. And I think - I have a feeling that we're going to make a deal with China because I really don't believe that China wants to continue the problem that they really caused themselves. Because we had a deal done.
Almost, I would say, all of the tough points were negotiated. They were negotiated and they were agreed to. And everything was finished. And then China told us they can't agree to things that they already agreed on. All right. And that's okay. So I said, "That's okay. We're going to put tariffs on - 25 percent on $250 billion."
Now we have another $325 billion left. And if we don't make a deal, we're going to put a tariff on that too. And the United States is making more money than they've ever made ever, ever before from China. I'd like to make a deal, but we'll see what happens. But I can tell you, as much as I'd like to, China wishes they had that deal to do over again, because what they did was wrong. You can't renegotiate a deal. We had a deal that was done and they wanted to renegotiate. You can't do that.
Q We know that President Duda invited you to Poland again. Are you going to visit -
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's right.
Q - Warsaw in September?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think I will. We haven't picked a date, but we will. I just had an incredible time. That speech was special, from the standpoint of the people of Poland. And I know it was considered a very important speech. You people even gave me very high marks on that speech. I could say it, but I don't want to say it, but some people said it was the best speech ever made by a President in Europe. But I did not say that. I'm just quoting other people. (Laughter.)
But it was a great - it was a great day. The two folks - you treated us so great. I'll never forget it. We won't forget our trip to Poland. Very, very tremendous, special people.
Q Mr. President, how concerned are you -
Q Mr. President, should the women's soccer team get paid as much as the men's?
Q - about backsliding on democracy in Poland?
Q Should the women's soccer team -
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Quiet. Quiet.
Go ahead.
Q Mr. President, how concerned are you about backsliding on democracy in Poland? And will that be a subject of discussion today?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I'm not concerned. I know the President very well. I know the people and the leadership of Poland very well. I'm not concerned at all. By the way, Poland is doing so well and they know if they do backslide, they won't be doing well like they're doing right now.
They've probably never done better economically. They're like us: The U.S. has never done better economically than we're doing right now. They don't want to backslide. They won't backslide. And besides that, they owe us a lot of money because they're buying a lot of things, right? So that's important. So they have to do well. We have to make sure they do well. We're very, very happy with Poland.
You may want to say something about that.
PRESIDENT DUDA: (Inaudible) someone cheated you. Sorry.
Q Excuse me?
PRESIDENT DUDA: Someone cheated you. There is no problems with democracy in Poland. Really.
Q Thank you.
PRESIDENT DUDA: Everything is excellent.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's what I hear. Okay?
Q President Trump?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.
Q The base that Poland says they want to build, is this permanent? Is this meant to house a permanent U.S. presence or not?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: This would be a - certainly a statement that the U.S. would be making. I don't talk about permanence or non-permanence. But this would be a statement that the U.S. is making.
Steve, go ahead. Please.
Q How many troops are you talking about?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, they're talking about 2,000 troops, but we'd be taking them out of Germany or we'd be moving them from another location. It would be no additional troops to Europe. We've be moving them from another location.
Q And have you signed off on this?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And as you know, we have 52,000 troops in Germany, and Germany is not living up to what they're supposed to be doing with respect to NATO, and Poland is. I have to congratulate you. Thank you very much.
But Poland is paying the max. The max will be raised. I raised over $100 billion last year from countries that were not paying. And it wasn't fair to the United States. So we put in - they put up over $100 billion more.
But as you know, Germany is at 1 percent. They should be at 2 percent. And they're not getting there fast. We have 52,000 troops in Germany. We've had them there for a long, long time. So we'd be, probably, moving a certain number of troops to Poland if we agree to do it.
Poland is going to build a phenomenal facility in a very good location.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, they're not advisors. It's fake news. You don't understand what I'm saying. Those advisors don't exist. They don't exist. It's made up by the newspapers. It's fake news.
Q Mr. President, the House and Senate committees have subpoena power. How is this going to play out over the next two years?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I think what the Democrats are trying to do - because they know they're going to lose the election so they're going to give this a shot - they're going to - just every day they're going to be going more and more after, after.
I don't know if you have this, Mr. President, but we have people that are totally out of control. It's the only way they think they can win the election. So we'll see what happens. But at some point, the Mueller report spoke. They were very disappointed. It said, "No collusion and no obstruction and no nothing." And, in fact, it said we actually rebuffed your friends from Russia; that we actually pushed them back - we rebuffed them.
So, the Democrats were very unhappy with the Mueller report. So now they're trying to do a do-over or a redo. And we're not doing that. We gave them everything. We were the most transparent presidency in history. We gave them everything. And you and I, we've all had this conversation many times before. There's never been anybody so transparent. Gave them 1.5 million documents. We gave them hundreds of people. I gave them lawyers, which I didn't have to give. I didn't have to give anybody. We gave them everybody.
And people that didn't like Donald Trump - 18 Trump haters - 18 Democrats, and they were Trump haters. And they were supporters, in some cases, of Hillary Clinton. They made the decision. And Bob Mueller, no fan of Donald Trump; I'm no fan of his. And Bob Mueller came out with a report that said "no collusion" and, by the way - and led to no obstruction.
So now the Democrats want to try and win an election, so they just keep it going. And I think the American public is not going to stand for it. I'll tell you what the Democrats should be doing; they should be working on the border, they should be working on drug pricing, and they should be working on infrastructure, where we could get that done very quickly, but they don't have any time to do anything. And I think it's going to be a tremendous day for us. It's a year and half now until the election. I think it's going to be a tremendous day for us.
Q Mr. President, what are you expecting to get out of your meeting with President Xi at the G20? And also, can you update us on the agreement you have with Mexico that you alluded to yesterday?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We expect to have a meeting with President Xi. We're doing very well with respect to China. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars, which we never took in before. The tariffs are - been, you know, very strong. We have 25 percent of $250 billion. And tremendous money is flowing into our Treasury.
China is subsidizing those companies, so our people are not paying for it. If you look, our people are not paying for it. China is subsidizing those companies so that people continue to work.
Now, the problem for China is that a lot of companies are leaving China because they don't want to pay the tariffs. But we're doing very well. And I think - I have a feeling that we're going to make a deal with China because I really don't believe that China wants to continue the problem that they really caused themselves. Because we had a deal done.
Almost, I would say, all of the tough points were negotiated. They were negotiated and they were agreed to. And everything was finished. And then China told us they can't agree to things that they already agreed on. All right. And that's okay. So I said, "That's okay. We're going to put tariffs on - 25 percent on $250 billion."
Now we have another $325 billion left. And if we don't make a deal, we're going to put a tariff on that too. And the United States is making more money than they've ever made ever, ever before from China. I'd like to make a deal, but we'll see what happens. But I can tell you, as much as I'd like to, China wishes they had that deal to do over again, because what they did was wrong. You can't renegotiate a deal. We had a deal that was done and they wanted to renegotiate. You can't do that.
Q We know that President Duda invited you to Poland again. Are you going to visit -
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's right.
Q - Warsaw in September?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think I will. We haven't picked a date, but we will. I just had an incredible time. That speech was special, from the standpoint of the people of Poland. And I know it was considered a very important speech. You people even gave me very high marks on that speech. I could say it, but I don't want to say it, but some people said it was the best speech ever made by a President in Europe. But I did not say that. I'm just quoting other people. (Laughter.)
But it was a great - it was a great day. The two folks - you treated us so great. I'll never forget it. We won't forget our trip to Poland. Very, very tremendous, special people.
Q Mr. President, how concerned are you -
Q Mr. President, should the women's soccer team get paid as much as the men's?
Q - about backsliding on democracy in Poland?
Q Should the women's soccer team -
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Quiet. Quiet.
Go ahead.
Q Mr. President, how concerned are you about backsliding on democracy in Poland? And will that be a subject of discussion today?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I'm not concerned. I know the President very well. I know the people and the leadership of Poland very well. I'm not concerned at all. By the way, Poland is doing so well and they know if they do backslide, they won't be doing well like they're doing right now.
They've probably never done better economically. They're like us: The U.S. has never done better economically than we're doing right now. They don't want to backslide. They won't backslide. And besides that, they owe us a lot of money because they're buying a lot of things, right? So that's important. So they have to do well. We have to make sure they do well. We're very, very happy with Poland.
You may want to say something about that.
PRESIDENT DUDA: (Inaudible) someone cheated you. Sorry.
Q Excuse me?
PRESIDENT DUDA: Someone cheated you. There is no problems with democracy in Poland. Really.
Q Thank you.
PRESIDENT DUDA: Everything is excellent.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That's what I hear. Okay?
Q President Trump?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.
Q The base that Poland says they want to build, is this permanent? Is this meant to house a permanent U.S. presence or not?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: This would be a - certainly a statement that the U.S. would be making. I don't talk about permanence or non-permanence. But this would be a statement that the U.S. is making.
Steve, go ahead. Please.
Q How many troops are you talking about?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, they're talking about 2,000 troops, but we'd be taking them out of Germany or we'd be moving them from another location. It would be no additional troops to Europe. We've be moving them from another location.
Q And have you signed off on this?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And as you know, we have 52,000 troops in Germany, and Germany is not living up to what they're supposed to be doing with respect to NATO, and Poland is. I have to congratulate you. Thank you very much.
But Poland is paying the max. The max will be raised. I raised over $100 billion last year from countries that were not paying. And it wasn't fair to the United States. So we put in - they put up over $100 billion more.
But as you know, Germany is at 1 percent. They should be at 2 percent. And they're not getting there fast. We have 52,000 troops in Germany. We've had them there for a long, long time. So we'd be, probably, moving a certain number of troops to Poland if we agree to do it.
Poland is going to build a phenomenal facility in a very good location.
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