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this inflation thing is a big deal
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so in the first 90 days the strokes
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that you make to change the economy
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when you're elected that's pretty dramatic i believe
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i'll be able to get energy down to 50 percent of what it is right
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now within a period of less than a year i know small businesses are where jobs come from
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when you guys in government can take your hands off of small business we're able to employ people
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and change things so how can you help small businesses you have to love what you do
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if you don't love what you do it's not going to work
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it's the largest tax cuts in the history of our country that's why we became
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so successful you think we can do
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that again yeah i think we can go lower
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if i don't turn my head at the exact 90 degree angle
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if i was a little off i'm not doing
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this very nice interview with you i hear you going back to butler and finish the speech.
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I am.
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I'm going to say.
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Hey guys, Dave Ramsey here with The Ramsey Show.
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If you don't know what
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The Ramsey Show is, it's a show about life, about money, about relationships.
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It's not a show about politics.
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We specifically over the years have tried to remind you over
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and over again that what happens in your house is more important for your success than what happens in the White House.
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We also realize that this election is a really important time right now.
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The people are really looking at what's happening.
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There's a real divisiveness in the air, a lot of anger in the air.
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So our team reached out to Vice President Harris's team about
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the opportunity to sit down with her for a long -form interview
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and reached out to President Trump's team about the opportunity to sit down for a long -form interview with him
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and to talk about ideas, talk about what's going to happen not what has happened
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and not about personalities and not about name calling
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because both sides are pretty good at all of that stuff
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and the fact
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that i sit down with either one of these candidates is going to piss some of you off
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and frankly i'm perfectly fine with that it's something i wanted to do
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and i felt like it was something we needed to talk about
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so i find myself sitting here in trump tower getting ready to interview president trump for a few minutes
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i I think you're going to find this really interesting.
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So, President Trump, thanks for taking time to sit down with us.
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Thank you very much.
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Honored to be with you.
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Good to hang out with you.
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As you know, we do a show called The Ramsey Show and talk to regular folks every day,
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calling in most of the time with financial trouble, sometimes with financial victories, stuff we've taught them to do, the basic grandma's common sense stuff.
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Right.
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And that audience that's going to be watching this is, they're not concerned with a lot of things,
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but they are concerned with eight dollar eggs five dollar gas seven percent interest rates
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and a house they can't afford with wages not going up as fast as house prices
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this inflation thing is a big deal
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so in the first 90 days the strokes
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that you make uh to change the economy
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when you're elected are a big deal what do you what's the first things you're going to do on
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that in that in terms of inflation you're right
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and it's almost inflation over the economy if you want to really know
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because people are getting wiped out like never before i think it's the highest inflation we've ever had.
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They say it's the highest in 48 years.
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I think it's the highest ever.
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There's never been any mess like this.
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And it's because of what they did with energy.
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Also, then they topped it with spending with money that trillions
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and trillions of dollars that they didn't need that's being just wasted.
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But the first thing you have to do is get the energy down.
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If you get the energy down, other things are going to follow.
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You want to get the interest rates down, too. And interestingly, even interest rates are going to follow energy because it's going to take
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that burden off the shoulders of the economy and off the shoulders of inflation itself.
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And we are going to drill at a level that you haven't seen since, let's say, four or five years ago, but even more so.
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We would have been so dominant by this point.
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If you remember, when you go back to the beginning of this really failed administration that we're in right now,
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what they did was they turned off the energy.
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They turned off everything that I had built.
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So you turned back on the keystone.
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You're going to turn back on the drill baby drill line in your acceptance speech at the convention.
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It says it all.
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You know, I'd like to use another line, but there's no line that's better.
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And we're going to drill baby drill.
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But the fact that they turned it off and then the energy, if you look back at the very initial period of their administration,
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the numbers started going through the roof, the energy numbers.
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Inflation was closed.
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And then they went back to Trump where they're trying to equal it.
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And it kept it bad as opposed to horrific.
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And it's been really bad.
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And the energy has been very expensive, but nothing like it could have been.
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So they went back to Trump type things.
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But we would have been now three to four times more.
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We would have been dominating the entire world on energy.
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We have more than anybody else, as you've heard me say, but as you also know.
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Right.
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I call it liquid gold.
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We have more liquid gold under our feet than anybody else.
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actually by far we would have dominated
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we would have been taking care of europe
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we would have been taking care of asia
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we would have been taking care
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you know anwar in alaska is the biggest find anywhere in the world
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it could be as big as saudi arabia
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and i got it ronald reagan couldn't get it nobody could get
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it i got it it was done ready to start and
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when these people came in they turned it off
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they they they terminated it nobody could believe it i don't know
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if people realize that you know 10 to 15 percent of the entire economy is energy right
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and it weaves its tentacles through everything else
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so five dollar gas affects the bread truck who's delivering the bread
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and that affects the cost of the bread then and
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so yeah getting that plentiful right changes everything
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so i have a little thing that i've been saying lately
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because i think it's easily achievable you know we pay very high energy costs
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and especially now but we're paying very very high I believe I'll be able to get energy down to 50%,
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50, 5 -0 % of what it is right now within a period of less than a year.
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Wow.
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That's pretty good.
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It's going to happen fast, okay?
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It's going to happen fast.
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But what are you going to do to do that?
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What causes that?
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They're going to drill.
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They're going to frack.
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They're going to do things that they have tremendous additional— So taking the regs off.
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Taking the regulation levels off.
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Oh, we have to.
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They put them back on.
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They put regulations back on that areas that have no environmental real meaning, they don't let them drill.
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They're taking leases away, government leases that you're hearing about.
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I think we can get energy costs down to half of what they're...
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If we do that...
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That's pretty dramatic.
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Everything, all of those inflated prices are going to come down with it.
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I think the other piece of that, and I know he was part of your administration,
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and you and I were talking before we turned the cameras on, that we have a mutual friend in Art Laffer.
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And I know he helped a little bit with the tax code in the last administration.
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And I personally have experienced the Laffer curve
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that lower taxes causes increased revenues to the federal government because it heats up the economy.
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And I'm a small business guy.
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When you lower my taxes, it doesn't mean I put it in my pocket.
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It means I hire people.
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And so talk about lowering taxes in the first year of your administration.
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Yeah, you probably saw my plan.
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And I think we have something really good.
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I was yesterday in North Carolina, which is great.
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That was the furniture capital of the world.
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And China then went in and did a number and took so much of that business, you know, most of that business.
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The talent, I used to go there to buy furniture for hotels and things.
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Hickory, North Carolina.
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Yep, in Hickory.
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I was in Hickory yesterday and made a speech.
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And we're going to bring it all back.
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What we're doing is sort of a two -phase.
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Number one, I took taxes from 39 % to 21%.
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You know that better than anyone.
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It's the largest tax cuts in the history of our country.
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And that was great.
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That's why we became so successful.
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You think we can do that again?
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Yeah, I think we can go lower.
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And I'll tell you what I'm doing.
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I'm bringing it from 21 to 15, but you have to manufacture your product here.
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And then you pay 15%.
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And then I'm going to put tariffs on countries
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so they can't come in and steal our business so that our businesses now can be competitive.
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I mean, China came in and just stole all our furniture and many other industries, by the way, including steel.
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And I save steel by putting 50 % and 100 % tariffs on all of the steel that they were dumping.
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But we're going to do, so in other words, this is a dream for you then.
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We're bringing the tax rate from 21.
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Remember, it was 39.
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And it was really 50 of you, Ed, state, and local, and all of the other things.
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So we're going to bring it down from 21 to 15.
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I got it down to 21, which everyone said was impossible, and got it approved by Congress.
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So it's, you know, it's there.
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And we're going to bring that down to 15.
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But you have to make your product in the United States.
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And we do see federal revenues go up when the taxes go down because the economy goes.
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You saw it with me.
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We saw it with Reagan, too.
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You saw it with Reagan.
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So at 39 % and then down to 21%, you would think we'd do half or you'd do much less.
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In the first full year, we did much more revenue in the United States.
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And so we did it 30.
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In other words, we took in much more money.
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Which is how you solve the deficit.
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I mean, Bill Clinton almost balanced the budget with the exact same principle.
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Yeah, that's true.
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That's true.
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He did.
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And cost cutting.
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Yeah.
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We have plenty of cost cutting to do, too, and that's okay.
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Yeah, that's definitely.
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In fact, I'm going to ask Elon, who's a great guy, but he's a pretty good cost cutter.
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That's a great interview.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that was a great interview.
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Yeah, it was.
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That was some interview.
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We did pretty big numbers.
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I hear we did like 900 million people or something.
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That was a pretty good, but he's a great guy and he gave me a full endorsement and all of that.
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But he's got a good sense on that.
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There's tremendous cost cutting that we can do.
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and affect nothing just we're not going to affect anybody we're not going to hurt anybody
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we have to save social security and keep it good
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and solid i don't want to be raising ages
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or anything i don't want to do uh they're putting migrants into social security
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when when they get finished they are
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if she got elected this country is going bust
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if she got elected we're going back to 1929 depression it's it would be a disaster for medicare social security
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They're allowing millions and millions of people to come in.
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You can't use these schools anymore.
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The quality of life in this country has gone so bad because of what they've done.
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One of the things that our viewers know about us, we work with tens of thousands of small business people.
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And so coaching them, 54 % of the gross domestic product is businesses, 500 people or less.
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Almost everyone in America, over half, almost 60 % of people work for a small business.
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And I know small businesses are where jobs come from, not from government.
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So politicians don't create jobs.
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Small businesses do.
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Small businesses pisses people like me off when politicians say they're the ones making the jobs.
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We're the ones making the jobs.
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But when you guys in government can take your hands off of small business and allow us to do our thing,
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we're able to employ people and change things.
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So how can you help small businesses?
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Well, the best way is just letting them do what they have to do, but we still have to give them a playing field.
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If we don't give them a level playing field, they will die.
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And that's what happened before.
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That's why China came in.
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That's why all the—they came in, and they came in at a level like nobody's ever seen, and we did nothing about it.
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So the word tariff, to me, is a very beautiful word because it can save our country, truly.
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And yet, I think because of graft, because of a lot of consulting payments and other things that are given by other countries,
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We have so much fighting with politicians on using it.
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I saved our steel industries by putting tariffs on steel that
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China came in and dumped.
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And you know what they do?
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They dump and dump and dump.
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Everybody goes out of business.
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Then they buy those businesses very cheap.
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And then they raise the prices to higher than they ever were.
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That's one of the many benefits that they have if they want to do it.
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But by putting tariffs on, as an example, in the furniture business in North Carolina,
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It was so vibrant, and they stole our business, and they charged us.
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If you wanted to build a furniture place, if you want to sell your furniture in China, they won't take it.
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But if you want to build a plant in China to make furniture in China, using their labor, they open it.
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We're doing the same thing.
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But a lot of people, oh, well, we don't want to have tariffs.
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The country was at the richest point in its history in the 1890s.
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1990s.
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It was all tariffs.
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If you looked at William McKinley as an example, he was a big tariff president.
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They had committees that were put in charge of what to do with the money.
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We were taking in so much money.
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And McKinley would say, why should we let other people come in
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and steal our factories and steal our workers and steal our jobs?
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And why shouldn't we benefit?
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And he tariffed the other countries.
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And we made so much.
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And then they went to the income tax system later on
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but they would actually have they had a blue ribbon committee our country was so rich
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they didn't know what to do with the money
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and this blue ribbon committee was set up to determine how can we spend all of this money
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and they took it in through tariffs
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but we can turn our country around make it strong
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and then guard it with tariffs yeah let's change gears for a second my wife sharon
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and i were in scotland two weeks ago
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and we played a bunch of different courses there including turnberry good
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which arguably according to the golf guys
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i was playing with this is the nicest course in the uk right now and uh certainly the halfway house
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turnberry is amazing yeah
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but what i what i came away with not only the
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golf course great just just to give you a huge compliment you know
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that but the staff and the team the excellence in the hotel
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and the restaurants in the golf shop everybody
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we dealt with talk about what it's like to work for donald trump how do you hire leaders
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and put people in place to do that
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because i know you're obviously not there personally managing that
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but you put a culture in place in your organization and
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that applies to the administration as well hiring people
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that are quality leaders well my son eric is very much involved
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and he runs a lot of it and don helps out a lot
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and uh ivanka to a lesser extent you know she's a great mother
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and everything she did a fantastic job in the administration all she wanted to do is get people jobs
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and she'd go around and see uh exxon and see
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walmart she wanted jobs for people it's really pretty amazing she could have had a very glamorous job
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and she would have done well but eric's done a great job
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and i did a similar type of job when When I was doing it now, I'm – doing a thing called running for president,
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so I don't get it.
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But we rebuilt Turnberry.
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Turnberry was considered one of the greatest courses in the world because the land is so incredible, right?
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With the ocean and, you know, that ninth hole over there, you're hitting over the ocean.
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How good a golfer are you?
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Eh, 13.
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All right, that's okay.
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It's not great.
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I'm just learning.
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I've only been playing five years.
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I'm just learning.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Enjoyed you in Bryson's 50.
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Wasn't that great?
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That was fun.
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That was a great video.
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That one did well in terms of the ratings.
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It did.
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And he can swing a club.
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He can swing, and he's a great guy.
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And he is very long, very straight.
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And you know what?
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He's a great putter.
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One of the best putters.
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He's one of the best putters in the world.
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That was quite an exciting thing.
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We got it down to 50.
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You actually pulled one hole off.
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I watched it.
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It all rode on you.
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You carried one.
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Even more than one hole, if you want to.
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But we did well.
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We did well.
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Yeah, you did.
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It was very fun.
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So what leadership qualities, when Eric's hiring, did you teach him to look for?
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Well, I like the recommendation business, But what I like best is taking people that are in the company and moving them up.
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You take a waitress, as an example, and she becomes the head of the restaurant.
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You say, because you know if certain people are good and when they work for you already, you know, it's better than recommendation.
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But if you don't do that or if you can't do that for some reason, you really need strong references.
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And then they have to enjoy their job.
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But if they don't enjoy their job, they're not going to be very good at it.
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So I ended up at a table, Ronnie Barrett.
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Yeah.
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Barrett, 50 Cal, is a friend of ours.
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And I ended up at a table with him at an NRA convention with Eric and Donald.
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Got to spend some time with both of them.
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And you're right.
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They're impressive.
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How do you raise great kids?
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What did you do?
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The grandkids are turned out.
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The granddaughter killed it.
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We have.
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Oh, how good was she?
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Wow.
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She's a great golfer, by the way she's a great speaker too she was good
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she was a beautiful person in every way she took over
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that whole republican convention kai kai our beautiful kai um
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so what's the one parenting the one thing
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i always told my kids no drugs no alcohol no cigarettes now in my day there were no drugs
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It was alcohol and cigarettes.
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And I had a brother that went through a lot with alcohol.
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And he taught me a lot.
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He really taught me a lot.
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And my brother, Fred, and he had a problem with alcohol, to put it mildly.
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And he was quite a bit older than me.
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And he'd been through it.
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And he would say, no alcohol.
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I never want to see you drink.
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You know, very strong.
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And he'd also say, no cigarettes.
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But because, you know, cigarettes are like, you don't need, if you don't smoke, if you don't drink, you have no problem with staying off it.
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When you do drink and you, it gets, it's very hard to stay off it.
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I mean, I've seen very strong people that cannot get off.
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But the way you get off is if you never start, if you never start, I never had a glass of alcohol in my life.
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I've never had, I've never had a glass of alcohol, if you can believe it.
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I think largely because of my brother.
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I think if I did, I probably would have a problem, you know, personality type, right?
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But I never had it last.
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I have no longing for it.
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I have friends that are in the wagon, as they say, and I watch them watching trays go by.
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The tray is going by.
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Oh, it's like they have, you know, it's a thing that they can't get over with.
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Same with smoking.
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It's tough.
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I've seen guys just grab somebody's cigarette.
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They haven't had one in a long time.
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and to them it's like the greatest sensation
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if you've never smoked you never you just don't have
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that problem so i tell people for their children no drugs no alcohol
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and no cigarettes they obviously work really really hard how'd
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you teach them work ethic they have to like what they do
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if they don't like what they do they do my kids like what they do
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and i would say genetically i'm a believer in genetics
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you know i like it i'm good at doing certain things
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and you know resources like too slow resources don't produce a kentucky derby winner right
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you know that's not the way it is
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but you have to have an ability or something and
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if you don't have the ability don't do it
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but most importantly do something you like whether it's your parents
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or not you know your parents want you to go into a business
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or they want you to go into a store with them if they have a store
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i would say that you have to love what you do
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if you don't love what you do it's not going to work
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i've never seen it if you don't want to get up in the morning
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and go to work now a lot of people say
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with all the people
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that come after you do you really love getting up in the morning you understand
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that right i'd be i'm attacked at left and right
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but i do because we make
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so much progress we're doing great on the campaign as you probably see we're leading in the campaign now and
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doing well we beat biden and we were up
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so far on him and then they said that's like a fight you're in a fight
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and they changed the fighter in the middle of the right in the middle of the fight
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they changed the fighter and now we're beating her very badly i'd be
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so interesting to see her in your show because i don't believe
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that she would be able to answer any questions on what you discuss
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you know better than anybody else well i'm happy to have her if she'd come I'm sure she'd love to come.
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She wouldn't come.
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So I hear you're going back to Butler and finish the speech.
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I am.
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I'm going to say, as I was saying.
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So when that happened and you get in the car, I know I saw a clip the other day that Melania was watching on television.
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She saw the shot, saw you dodge, saw you go down, saw you get up.
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And how fast were you able to get on the phone and talk to her?
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Well, I know she was calling, and, you know, I was a little tough to take a phone call with blood pouring down your ear.
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Yeah.
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People don't know.
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The ear is the bloodiest part.
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If you get hit in the ear, it bleeds because there was a lot of blood.
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But, no, I spoke to her by the time I got to the hospital.
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I spoke to her, and she was sort of watching it.
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She had it held off for a couple of minutes, and then somebody called her and said, he's okay, he's okay.
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She said, what do you mean he's okay?
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What does that mean?
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She had no idea.
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And then she went back and pressed it and caught up.
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No, it was tough for her, tough for my son, too.
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He came out.
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Somebody had said, your father just got hit.
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And he came in, and he was very riled up.
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Yeah.
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It's a tough thing.
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That was a tough day, and I don't recommend it for anybody.
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No. I get very lucky or maybe more than luck.
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If you don't turn your head and start talking about the immigration chart at the precise moment, it's a problem.
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If I don't turn my head at the exact 90 -degree angle, if I was a little off, one way or the other,
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I'm not doing this very nice interview with you.
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I wouldn't be around to do this interview.
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So when you were in the White House for four years, you were talking about loving your work earlier.
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i have the privilege of loving my work
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that's why i still do that's why i still do it
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i don't need to obviously anymore just like you don't need
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to what was the most rewarding thing in the four years
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that you were there for you
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so my whole thing is make america great again all right that's you know that's where why i do it
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and we did it then covet came we did a really good job on that
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So it was always about making it great again.
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I had the country going just prior to COVID coming in at a level that nobody had ever seen.
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And even if you go all four years, it was so good that even with that terrible interruption that destroyed the world,
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we had the greatest four years.
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The economy was so great.
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The job numbers were the best ever, et cetera.
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And I think just that concept of what I had done.
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Just the performance.
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Yeah.
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But individual things, getting the tax cuts approved, biggest tax cuts in history,
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biggest regulation cuts in the history of our country, rebuilding the military.
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We did a job and rebuilt the whole military.
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And then you see a lot of that military being given to Afghanistan stupidly because they left the country.
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I mean, you know, and now you see them parading it back and forth.
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That was, I think, the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, what they did.
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But there were a lot of individual achievements that we had, the creation of Space Force.
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You know, Space Force is now dominating space.
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And when I came, there was no Space Force.
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It's the first time since Air Force, 78 years, maybe 80 years by now.
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And we are dominating space now.
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We wouldn't be.
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We were in third place by far.
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And now we're way in first place.
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And it's very important.
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Militarily, it's very important.
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President Trump, thanks for taking time.
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Thank you very much told us you got a speech here in a few minutes
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i do we were still able to squeeze this in
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and i appreciate your time appreciate you hanging out with us a great honor
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i've watched you for many years i shouldn't say that because
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but i can say it from both of us i watched you for many years
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and a real pro thank you very much thank you brother good to see you thank you very much
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “FULL INTERVIEW: President Trump's Interview with Dave Ramsey”. This video has 472 sentences and 4817 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:36. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| furniture noun | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. |
| inflation noun | /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ | An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. |
| drill noun | /dɹɪl/ | A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| cigarette noun | /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/ | A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking. |
| dump verb | /dʌmp/ | To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. |
| hire verb | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. |
| elect verb | /ɪˈlɛkt/ | To choose or make a decision (to do something). |
| dominate verb | /ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/ | To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power. |
| politician noun | /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/ | One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official. |
| rebuild verb | /ɹiːˈbɪld/ | To build again or anew. |
| dramatic adjective | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | Of or relating to the drama. |
| liquid noun | /ˈlɪk.wɪd/ | A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those… |
| angle noun | /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/ | A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). |
| regulation noun | /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/ | The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| turn off verb | To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.). | |
| caught up verb | Involuntarily involved in a situation. | |
| come down with verb | To develop symptoms or signs of (an illness). | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I think it's the highest ever.
- You think we can do that again?
- How good a golfer are you?
- How do you raise great kids?
- She said, what do you mean he's okay?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | i've been saying · I've only been playing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have tried · has happened · we've taught |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being just wasted · was closed · are given |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 137 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, we're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: ninth /naɪnθ/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like furniture, inflation, drill.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.