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我認為這將是一件值得回憶的事 我們現在有八場戰爭 很多人被殺死了 這是第二次世界大戰以來最血腥的一場戰爭 我認為這場戰爭不會停止 這場戰爭並不是來自美國的士兵和死亡 7212人死亡 沒有任何理由 這不應該發生 如果我們有正確的人在場 這不應該發生 但這確實發生了 我們有進一步的進步 有趣的是我們今天有進一步的進步 因為我們有進一步的進步 只有那些深思熟慮的人才會明白 我們有許多的 世界上有許多的傳奇人物 所以我們今天來慶祝你們 因為你們付出了巨額的金錢 為了第一次在白宮看到球室 白宮已經有150年歷史了 他們想要有球室 但這從來沒有發生過 因為他們從來沒有見過一位實體人士 我喜歡 對我來說 我喜歡在中國和俄羅斯之間 還有其他地方 會是一個很棒的球室 這是一個例子 這已經是很多年來的球室 這裡有100人 我們今天有125人 但是我們有128人 我從來沒有見過有128人 順帶一提 你會得到一些軍事樂團的娛樂 我會在這之後 找一些很有才華的音樂人 唱幾首歌給你們聽 他們是很有才華的人 他們想要有這個球室 他們有中國總統 還有尼泊爾總統 他們有很多國家的球隊 他們總是把籃子放在牆上 雖然下著雨 但還是有籃子 他們是世界上最大的球迷 不僅是政治迷 還有其他迷 所以我總是說 如果我再說一次 我們要建造一個球室 我們要從最初開始 這是由一位高級建築師設計的 他對華盛頓非常尊敬 非常非常尊敬 我們開始了這個過程 我們完成了 現在正在開始 就在我們後面 你們看 這真是一個爆炸 我可以給你們看嗎 我猜你們應該看得到吧 所以 我們不想讓你們看 但你們可以看看 因為我們把所有的力量 從下面摧毀 我們摧毀了 在接下來幾天 它們會被摧毀 後面的一切 正在降落 現在我們正在替代它 建造一個最美麗的球室 如果你們有看過 我們有一些照片 基本上 就在這裡 你們看到 這裡是西邊 這裡是東邊 這些東西 已經被廢棄了 好幾年了 它們原本 是一個很美麗的建築 他們稱之為東邊 但它被摧毀了 五次 然後重建 所有的建築 都是由 McKinney的妻子 做的 所以它們降落了 大部分已經被摧毀了 我們開始了探索 我非常擅長 在預算和時間上 建造東西 就像法國 花了四億美金 做了一些牆 這是一個瘋狂的事 太遲了 他不應該太遲 做這個 做得太深了 他們把牆壁 弄成這樣 然後他們說 我們有個問題 我們要怎麼做 把牆壁弄成這樣 他們太過預算了 他們決定 做一個廁所 但很遺憾 廁所就在 北方的東邊 當我們降落時 他們應該 馬上停下來 因為他們應該知道 但他們有一個地方 叫做北方河 就是廁所 但他們說 我們還是要降落 所以我們做了 一個倒著走的廁所 而不是這樣的廁所 其實是倒著走的 你把它封起來 問題是 自然總是贏 我知道很多 關於倒著走的廁所 我做過 這是一件 你只能做在緊急情況下 沒有理由 去做 如果他們 有考慮過 他們可能 在最高的三樓 花了兩億美金 所以他們 結果是 一場災難 在建造廁所 在北方河 倒著走 是很難做的 當你倒著走 你的鋼鐵 必須乾燥 這真是 一場災難 這是一個 讓你感到 太高興的事 如果我們 做得這麼好 但如果我們 做得 再好一點 就更好 我不認為 這會影響我們 我們有一個 非常高的貨幣市場 每個人 在這個房間 都非常高興 如果你們 在這裡 如果你們在這裡 你停止這個戰爭 因為我不是 跟你們是一隊 核銃的國家 不是的 不不不 你不能這樣 我可以 不可以 我可能會 把百萬人 從這個地球 而且這個 雲也可以 在這裡 也會影響到 所有東西 這是一個 很強大的 太強大的 太強大了 你不想說 所以他們說 不不不 我說 Yes, yes, it is the story. If you are going to go and do it, we are cutting off all negotiations. It will be no trade with the United States of America. Both nations spoke to a vote. I like vote for leaders. I like them both. But I said that's the way it is. And I get a call the next day. We have decided to de-escalate. I said, I hope you won't. We have decided that we will not fight. I said, have you come to a conclusion? Yes, we are not going to do any more of this stuff. Just like that. This could have been a little trouble. In fact, the Prime Minister of Pakistan came on Sunday and he was emotional about it. And in front of a group of people he said, this man saved 3 million, 5 million, maybe an untold number of lives. And it was just recently that this happened. And we did numerous of them like that. And part of the reason we did it was trade. I think of the 8, I would say 5 were because of the trade. The power of trade, the power of tariffs. The tariffs have made us a a very common nation because a lot of people are dying. I use it for purposes of stopping wars. I love stopping wars. And it's sort of interesting. I'll be the only president. I don't think any president has stopped one war. I stopped 8 wars in 8 months. Did I get a Nobel Prize? No. Even I said, that's impossible. But it's all right. I think next year will be better. But you know what I care about? I saved maybe hundreds of millions of lives. And that's where you're looking because you contributed to this incredible building that people have wanted for so many years. And we show another building. It's an ark. It's the ark. So that circle, this Arlington Memorial Bridge, is one of the most important, one of the very important structures. At the end of it, you have a circle that was built 150 years ago. Nobody knows where it went. And in fact, they put a couple of columns on each side. Two columns on one side, two columns on the other. But yet, in the middle, there's a circle. And everyone that passes it said, something was supposed to be up there. But they called the Civil War interfered. That's a good reason. I would say, that would be a good reason. The Civil War, if you said you're having a war, I think they have a good reason not to build it. Again, you know, they were building the Washington Monument, then they stopped. Because the stope is a little different color when you get up to the middle. But anyway, they stopped here. And then they were, in 1902, they put a statue of Robert E. Lee up. It would have been up there with me. A lot of people would have liked it. And so for years and years it sat. And every time somebody rides over that beautiful bridge going right to the Lincoln Memorial, it's so beautiful, man. They literally say, something is supposed to be here. And so we have versions of it, sizes of it. And it's going to be really beautiful. I think it's going to be fantastic. You have three sizes. That would be the largest one. This is just a model of what it would look like in either of the three, any of the three sizes, which is right here. I don't know if you can see it. So that's Lady Liberty. Lady... Did you ever hear of Lady Liberty? On top. So the sizes would be very different. Now here's Lincoln. And this is sort of facing this way. And so,you know,this is the direct line. They did this,they didn't do that. So this would be small,medium,and large. Do something for the city. This is a very safe city. This went from a very unsafe city where you were afraid to go out to dinner to a city that's extremely safe. The people that we have working on this, it's been a miracle almost. It took 12 days. We took out 1,700 people brought them back to their countries from where they came in. Many of them were let in through the Biden open border brilliant thing where they let people in from jails, from prisons and mental institutions, insane asylum, a mental institution on steroids. And,I mean, they were literally emptying out insane asylums into our country. This is Venezuela,but other countries also, not only Venezuela. And speaking of Venezuela, you know,we have a lot of drugs. We have a lot of drugs coming in by water. And that stopped. In fact,nobody wants to go fishing anymore. Nobody can get near the water. They might have a beautiful boat and they might as well get rid of their boat because they are very nervous about going on the water. It's been amazing. So now we were having literally it was like a subway train of people and drugs coming into this country. A lot of them coming from Venezuela, a lot of them come from Mexico and Colombia. We wanted to I can tell you we cannot find anybody anymore. We're looking down there, looking down there. There's not a boat on the entire ocean that we can see outside of the ocean although I'm sitting there a little bit concerned But it shows you the power and the strength and the technology of our great military. We have,you know, I rebuilt the military in my first term. We had a great first term. We had the best economy ever. We had a rebuilding of the military. We had the big tax cuts and the wonderful all of the assets one-year depreciation Now we have better under the great big beautiful bill because we have no tips for,think of this, you have no tax on tips and you have no tax on social security again for your workers.You have no tax on overtime. It's really a middle I would say a middle-of-the-road bill from the standpoint of who is it representing is the workers. It's the biggest bill ever passed in the history of Congress. And I'm glad we did it because we don't need any more bills. We have everything in that one. Plus we have the deductibility every single year for ten years. The other one had it for one year. You had to rush this year. This time you don't. Actually I was in favor of rushing because that's awfully good for elections but it's not about elections. It's awfully good. So you have deductibility. You have so many different things. We have great social programs. $50 billion going to rural hospitals. So the great big beautiful bill and we got it all in one. I was very happy because we had little arguments about that. A lot of people wanted to do it in small chunks. I said if you do it in small chunks you'll never get it approved. You'll get some approved but not all of it and not even close. You'll get much less. I would say less than 30%. So they've never done this before. But every single thing that I wanted for four years in one bill and we call it some people call it different. I call it the great big beautiful bill because that's what it is and this will keep us well we want to manage it and we're going to manage it all you have to do is that but we got it all approved and one of the things I thought that while I do because it's so relaxing for me real estate is relaxing for a lot of people real estate is a very trying business I've always liked it I've always done well with it I love building things and this way I can build some beautiful things and this again has never been built and we're going to start that pretty soon it's going to be great and then the ballroom for the White House is the thing that you people have really really been very generous with and we're going to build a room that's going to be able to hold literally the inauguration if we want all of the glass on the sides is bulletproof it's 999 people it can hold so if we figure we have 125 people in here approximately now which I've never seen before I've always heard it's less than 100 but it's amazing when you have too many people you can fit them in you can always fit a few more people in and pardon the fact that you're a little tight at your table that's okay that's better than lots of room for everybody because nobody shows up right but you've been so generous in your contributions very substantial money fully financed it's fully taken care of now and in fact we'll have money left over and we'll use that for something we'll use that probably maybe for the ARC or something else that will come but we love to fix up Washington if you went to the Oval Office you'd see the Presidential Walk of Fame and you've heard about it and with the exception of one particular picture there's no controversy it's just it's beautiful it's a beautiful thing it's a beautiful long wall that existed it's just literally a wall with half windows on top and that was originally built as a swimming pool now it's where the press is on the other side of the wall and it's very interesting all these people over here with all their cameras although they've been very respectful I tell you what they've been very respectful for what's taken place over the last week so I want to thank you this is just a small little group they have a big group downstairs they have a lot of reporters downstairs wanting to be with I don't know these I guess are you special this is Doug he won the highest awards there is in photography including Pulitzer Prizes he won many Pulitzer Prizes for his great work one that I wasn't so happy with he had one with a bullet moving along he caught the bullet can you believe this he got another Pulitzer but anyway it's great to have you gentlemen it's really good they have a big group downstairs I didn't think you'd like to have that up here because some of them are sort of violent towards some of you but not bad so we did a design that is being just lauded for the ballroom showed it to the top people one of the things that I like the most I came in and I said to the people in the building I said so I said if I make it back I want to build a ballroom for the country because this is really they call it the people's house it's the country's house I want to build a ballroom it needs it badly and a ballroom that could seat six or seven hundred people so that when you have state dinners or more if it's possible and I said how long would the process take because I'm so used to zoning and I've gotten a lot of zoning over the years to these two guys these two geniuses like movie stars and they have a good brain besides that's pretty nice nice to have you guys both with us so they said how long I said how long would it take they said sir you can start tonight I said what are you talking about you have zero zoning conditions you're the president of I said you gotta be kidding you mean I can actually do something that I really want because I'm used to sitting with heads of community boards and politicians and it's fine it's part of the beauty if you want to call it that or sometimes it's not so beautiful of being a real estate developer especially in New York it takes you years and years and it's heartache and they said well sir we'd like you to cut off 40 stories I had one where I had it 67 stories was approved and we go to the end and I get an emergency phone call from the head of the board sir may we see you they come in sir we're going to really not be able to approve it we want you to cut off 42 stories cut off in other words I'm going to lose 42 stories I said there's no way you're doing it so we fought it out for two years you end up getting what you want but it's a brutal process so over here I said how long will it take me sir you can start tonight you have no approvals I said you've got to be kidding me he said sir this is the White House you're the President of the United States you can do anything you want so with that came great responsibility and we did something that was really appropriate to the White House we didn't want to dwarf anything we didn't want to make it so that it's inappropriate and I was watching it very carefully and that's what we did and so we're going to have a phenomenal ballroom this is going to be one of the best anywhere in the world there won't be anything like it actually and it's four sides of glass beautiful glass but totally appropriate in color and in window shape and everything else with the White House moldings so it's going to be very much in keeping with the White House you know a new thing is you build a super modern building next to an old fashion building and I think that's good but I don't have the courage to do that with the White House it's good for a lot of places it's not good for here so everything is very much in keeping and we'll be able to have state dinners we would literally not even have state dinners because it's not set up but for all those years they wanted it and now they're going to get it and because of you they're going to get it and me too we're all in this together and I mean I have so many friends and so many of you have been really really generous I mean a couple of you I'm sitting here saying sir would $25 million be appropriate I said I'll take it you know it doesn't take too many 25s to get it done but a lot of I mean a lot of you have been really fantastic I thank you very much you were great and they just felt it was something that's really good it's the preservation of something that's there's nothing like it to me there's nothing like the White House even after I won the first night I went up and I'm standing in the residential hallway with Melania and we're I'm looking into the Lincoln bedroom I said that was a surreal experience I'm saying do you believe this we're in the White House and that's the Lincoln bedroom it takes a while to get used I'm still not probably really used to it it's just a special place what can I say so we have to take care of it and we have little things like at the Lincoln bedroom the bathroom was done by the Truman family and you know a long time ago and it's done in a green tile and it's done as a in a style that was not exactly a Lincoln it's a style that's not good so we it's actually art deco and art deco doesn't go with you know 1850 and civil wars and all of the problem but what does do is statuary marble so I ripped it apart and we built the bathroom it's absolutely gorgeous and totally in keeping with that time because the Lincoln bedroom is so incredible for those of you that have seen it we have so many different downstairs we have the palm room and they had one by one tiles that were put there probably 20 years ago by somebody and they were broken and it's embarrassing and I took it out and we did a magnificent book matched statuary marble floor we fix the room we put up the right you know the proper lighting and chandelier so we like to fix it up and it's a little bit of my heritage fix up and clean up and make it nice and we're doing that with the White House so the largest room in the White House is the east room that's this room right here by far and it currently holds let's say as we said 100 and for this reason during major functions and events administrations going back many many decades were forced to severely limit the number of events they had and certainly limit the number of people and they had some catastrophic events some of the biggest events were a tent being built on the lawn and the rain started and for some reason every time they put up a tent here it rains and that's not good and they tended to use a lower level which is you know they have pretty big land here but they used a lower level where the rain would just seep into the ballroom and it wasn't pretty when you're sitting down having dinner talking about hello President Xi and how have you been and hello Emmanuel from France and all the different people that we've had here and you've got about 4 inches of water literally it's going over your shoes and you're trying to pretend that it's not happening but it's not so we won't have that stuff anymore and it'll be great we really need it the United States is the greatest and most powerful nation on earth and American presidents need to be able to host events at the White House that reflect the demands of the time and that can be carry out the prestige of what we're all doing we're a country that a year ago was dead we were a dead country a year ago as many of you know and today we're the hottest country anywhere in the world by far everybody admits it King of Saudi Arabia told me that you've heard me say it but Qatar, UAE the European Union came in every country they said it's unbelievable what's happened with the United States we're hot and I'll tell you what had this other group of lunatics been elected this country would have I think you would have actually failed so we went from being a country that was dead a country that was really in trouble open borders everything they did wrong men and women sports transgender for everybody every single thing they did was wrong just go the opposite and you couldn't miss and we had an election that was a landslide it was so big we won the popular vote by a lot we won all seven swing states or seven swing states as you know and if you win three or four you do great but to win seven is very rare you see that happened we won all seven we won the electoral college by a lot we're 312 remember they said well I don't know if he can get above 250 no we didn't we got 312 and it was great we beat him by a lot but we have another where you would call it districts or you would call it there's a map split up beautifully split up in tiny little quarks they call them districts they call them just areas and we were 2,750 to 525 that's why when you look at a map of the election it was all red with two blue stripes down on one end and the other and even them I worry about because I don't believe it I think we did great there and so we've had we've had an amazing time the most powerful nation on earth now you see that you see the weapon we have the greatest weapons the greatest manufacturer of weapons some of you are in that world and some of you the greatest in the world we have the greatest in the world I wish we could make them faster if you want to know the truth everybody all of our allies want them and they want them as quick as they can the American presidents need to be able to showcase our country so we'll begin the historic really historic effort to add the we'll call presidential ballroom that'll expand the space for tens of thousands of people will be able to come during the course of a year if you add it all up and have the kind of the kind of space that you need it's very exciting to me it's exciting as a person in real estate because you'll never get a location like this again even contracts I gave out the contracts myself can you believe it and we had we just gave out the excavation contract and I guess he was in for 3.2 million I said can you do it for 1.5 I can't do that sir I can't I said this is once in a lifetime this is the excavation of the White House ground score what will be one of the best most beautiful ballrooms in the world sir I can't I can't so but I got it down to 2 million so it's not terrible so we got it and so many people were so great Carrier is a great company air conditioning he called he said sir we'd like to donate the air conditioning I said that's a beautiful thing I appreciate that he's donating it to the not giving it to me giving it to the country donated the air conditioning a steel company a great steel company a great man actually he said sir I'd like to donate the steel for your ballroom I said well that's nice and I found out how much is the steel I called the contract sir it's down for 37 million I said this is a nice donation right he wants the steel and he wants to make it great steel as opposed to garbage steel because they dump a lot of garbage around you know steel is like everything else including human beings steel can be high quality and it can be low quality he wants to make sure it's high quality and so many different people are donating services and they're donating products to the ballroom it's amazing if we keep going like this I may be able to build it for nothing you know we'll get it built for nothing but we're going to be projecting a cost that's going to be we're going to come in under budget we started with a much smaller building and then I realized I mean we have the land let's do it right and so we built a larger building that can really hold just about any function that we want it'll be done with really exquisite taste the finest designers and you know I consider myself an important designer because they come in with things that they may be good designers but boy the things they can recommend are horrible and we wanted classic the utmost respect for the historic beauty and grandeur of one of the most iconic buildings anywhere in the world I mean you go to the White House and you see that picture when you ride up in the drive like tonight probably some of you realize you drive up that drive and you're looking at that building all lit up and gorgeous and perfect and we take good care of it too wasn't taken good care of the Oval Office is now at a level that it's never seen before we take really great care of it they weren't taking good care of it for four years I'll tell you that this addition will be completed in the classical style that compliments everything else around it including the Treasury Department which is right next to it we have been working very closely with the incredible people of the National Park Service they really are, they love this place they're very proud of it the architects, historians and everyone else and many others to ensure that the project will be beloved and loved for years to come for centuries to come it's going to be up for a long time I hope to the cherished White House staff and everyone else that worked so hard I want to thank you very much it's from James Monroe who added the South Portico I don't know if you know the South Portico to Andrew Jackson who added the North Portico to Theodore Roosevelt who added the West Wing, did you know that? Theodore Roosevelt, a long time ago and Harry Truman who added the Truman Balcony he wanted the Truman Balcony that's right up here so you have the balcony off the residential Chief Executives throughout the history have contributed to making the White House special and nothing of this magnitude has been done but the first the really big recent renovation was the West Wing and the Oval Office and that's pretty major in terms of what it stands for it's actually not big but it's really big in another way it's the biggest, I would say in another way and that was around 1900 so that's a long time ago and this is going to be something that's going to make you all very proud so now we have the Presidential Ballroom we're ensuring that the People's House will continue to serve the American people properly and we can have all the people in the world come and they'll say, boy, what a place that is but I want to thank and just leave it by thanking everybody in this room you've been unbelievable some of you have been just incredible you really felt it was very important to do this and it happened so quickly I mean, I thought I'd have this dinner like in a year from now, a year and a half from now and we have it already because it's fully taken care of and I just want to thank you all you're very special people, really but somehow the ballroom at the White House it really hit a nerve with a lot of people they wanted it you love the country you know, this country has spirit again this country didn't have a lot of spirit two years ago, three years ago, four years ago it developed spirit on November 5th where a lot of you were with me some of you weren't but you quickly became with me it's amazing the way a victory can change the minds of some people but most of you were with me and Pepe, you were fantastic he's got a little sugar business he has a monopoly on the world's sugar I would say that's a good business I know nothing about sugar but I would say a monopoly on sugar is pretty good, Pepe thank you both very much thank you darling for being well, thank you both for yeah, that's right he ends up with good real estate it starts off with sugar then all of a sudden he's in the middle of a city and he ends up, but he's been great and a supporter right from the beginning for years and I see you sitting out there and I appreciate it and so many others so I just want to I just want to say thank you all simply behind me so is a knockout panel this panel, the next time you come here will be opened up and gone no problem with any of the surrounding areas this room will be fixed, this will be like a cocktail the whole floor will be cocktails or pre-briefings or whatever it may be, lots of different things so the entire floor, so you come in the entire floor sets up we didn't have to do any of that, usually you have to do that you need different rooms to go along with the ballroom, they're already built and they're built better than anybody would ever build because this is beautiful stuff, it doesn't get better so we have this one, we have another one similar on the other side and then we have various meeting rooms and rooms in between that are served for, you know, different dinners for different people and all of this is utilized just the way it is, it'll be enhanced, it'll be even more beautiful, but it'll be really brought into the future a little bit from the standpoint of life and lifespan so this will be your area, then you get the bell bing, bing, bing, and you walk into the ballroom and you'll have close to a thousand seats if you need them or much less we have separating panels so it could be less or it could be actually even more than that so I think it'll be something you'll be very proud of and what we're going to do is when we open up, you'll be among the first groups maybe the first group if we if I still like you at that time which I'm sure I will but you'll be here and we'll be here and you're going to be very happy you're going to be very impressed we get it done so I want to thank everybody very much and it's so many friends in the audience and I just want to thank you all you're very special people you love the country, you love the White House and what you've done is very important and we'll have a little dinner and we'll ask the press to now go home to your wives, family say hello to them if I don't like you, don't even bother but you've been great thank you very much and Doug, thank you very much and congratulations on a great career thank you, thank you everybody thank you very much