LIVE WIth President Donald Trump (Ep. 2353)
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Ladies and gentlemen, the waiting room is so packed right now in this live stream. I think we may be the largest live stream in the world right now.

And the interview hasn't even started yet, and it's not even at a regular time. Thank you, everyone. I'm really appreciative that you all got here early. I know we usually go 11 a.m. Eastern every day, but we're just waiting on President Trump to be here any minute. I want to start a little bit early so we get everybody in. So when he comes in, you can catch him walking in. We've got a bunch of questions. I took a lot of them from you in the audience. Here they are right there if you want a sneak peek.

Some of you can pause the screen or screenshot, you'll see that. And obviously we're going to ask some questions about the Secret Service, things that are really personal and intimate to my heart. I'm very concerned about his safety. Questions as well. I want to make sure you know the President Trump I know. A really, really good, decent guy who's portrayed by the media as some kind of a Skeletor-like He-Man villain. And that's not the guy I know.

So we're going to do kind of an untraditional interview. I hope you all are cool with that. I took some of your question recommendations from you, my staff, and everyone around. We got some good stuff. I just got some administrative stuff to handle in the beginning. The sponsors keep the show free. I really appreciate your patience. Thank you all for hanging. President Trump will be here any minute. He's leaving now. We're in New York. It's my hometown. I was born here. I'd love to tell you it looks a lot different than when I left.

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or alternative care from a healthcare provider. Thank you, Dean. Thank you, everyone. The President: It's so good to see you. I mean, stand up. You are -- Mr. That's good. Thank you. The President: -- former President and soon to be, hopefully, next President. How you been? You feeling all right? Mr. I really hope so. The President: You've been busy. Mr. I've been busy. I really have. I've been -- we've been doing a lot. Your show is going great, huh? The President: How many people we got watching right now? Mr. I can move it. The President: Oh, yeah. Move your mic a little closer, Mr. President, just to me. Mr. No. The President: How many people we got watching?

290,000 people and the show just started. So we'll be the biggest live stream in the world. You're going to have a lot more than that when this goes off. You watch. We beat the NFL last night in the live stream. Is that right? Yeah, we did. No kidding. You know why? Because the MAGA crowd are the most loyal people I've never seen. Your crowd is MAGA, right? Oh my God.

Oh, my gosh. Pretty much. MAGA. They're like super extra MAGA. They're like, you know, Elon had like the dark MAGA. Right. We're like the darkest MAGA. Oh, yeah. We're like in. How about Elon? How about him? Oh, we love you. I saw that rocket come in and he's campaigning now in Pennsylvania. I love it. It's good to have successful people, right? Yeah. He's the sweetheart. Let's go. So I got a couple of questions for you. I appreciate your time, first off. Okay.

The Secret Service, obviously a sensitive topic with me. I spent 12 years there, protected Democrat and Republican presidents, something really close to my heart. I know you've told the story quite a bit. We all saw it. I spoke to you the next day. We had a conversation on the phone. It was amazing. You told the story almost like you weren't even there. I couldn't believe how you came within inches of dying on television. There's no easy way to put it. And you just...

I've never seen anything like it. You get up and your first instinct gets to scream, fight. And then you had said, which I know the people who surround you, they're really good people. The Secret Service, I've known them for a long time. But if we get you into office, Mr. President, we need you safe. Can we commit today to some kind of commission or reform the Secret Service? We can get some outside experts to make substantive reforms when you're in charge.

So the people I've met from Secret Service, and I know a lot of them, right? They're amazing. They're really good. They had a really bad day in Butler. And I don't know whose fault that was. You know, I guess you go top level, but that building should have been covered, obviously. But if you look at what happened, when those bullets started going off, they were on top of me really quickly. And they were, it's a miracle they weren't hit, actually. I think the guy was

sort of stunned. Something happened to him. Something happened. The Secret Service shooter was amazing because he was very far away and he spent one bullet, when you think. But everybody I've met from the Secret Service has been so good. But they had a bad day, there's no doubt about it. We're not allowed in this world to have a bad day, right? No. Not in this one. This is too big. I think they did a good job the second time. Some people said you should have caught them the day before.

Or he should have never been there, but that was a great job that the other Secret Service, the second time, when that guy was... I don't think so. I'm one of the people who have done this. No, I understand. I understand it. That guy should have been nowhere near you. Yeah, yeah. I understand it both ways. The individual guy did an amazing job to see a barrel coming out of a bush. Oh, that guy, yeah, yeah. No, but to see a barrel, that was a Secret Service guy, to see a barrel coming out of a bush was something pretty amazing. But...

No, it's got to be safe. Got to be safe. Yeah, we need to reform that. It's really important. How was the report? The report came out yesterday. The report's devastating, and it confirms a lot of things that I've said, being an agent for over a decade of my life. Mr. President, they have this government attitude. This kind of segues nicely into another question I had. You're from the private sector. Okay, I was given an example. I was chatting, waiting for you, my audience, to come down from your Fox interview and what you were doing.

And I said, you're a builder in New York, one of the toughest places in the world to build. You know that. You're dealing with bureaucrats, unions, unions with conflicting interests. How you got all this done, I don't even know, but you did.

You tell a guy, I need 15 floors of concrete in six months, and he tells you, hey, we came up 10 floors short. You're going with the new concrete company. And by the way, you're dealing with a lot of interest, if you know what I mean, especially in the concrete in New York. You've been there, right? That doesn't happen in New York. I mean, in the government. Excuse me, you were president of the United States. You have these failed agencies that blew it, the Secret Service that did this whole, you know, yesterday's technology, tomorrow. We used to laugh when they did it. They didn't have a drone on.

So when you get into office, say with someone like an Elon Musk, are you planning on some systemic wide review of the FBI, Secret Service, these other entities and say, listen, we're not doing it this way anymore. We're going to produce results for the American people or you're all getting a boot. We're out. This is it. We're done. Well, Dan, as you know, you have to have the best people and it's all about the people. And I know nothing about, you know, very little about that, although I

I've learned a lot over the last few weeks. It's amazing. You know, we had a rally in Butler, second rally. We had 107,000 people that turned out. Amazing.

And it's been -- and it's become a great site. I don't know if you -- it's like a memorial site where cars are riding up and down the road, honking their horn from all over the place. They're coming from all over the country. The President: Yeah, I saw that. The President: It's become like -- what is it in Nevada where they have their site with the aliens, right? The President: Area 51. The President: It's like Area 51, Area 51. I think it's the largest. Butler -- you have to see Butler. The streets are just loaded with cars. They ride up and down the site and they honk.

It's cute, it's beautiful actually. But I know the Secret Service well. I didn't know the top person, but I know the people that work on my detail, they're very good. You know a lot of them. - Yeah, I know them personally. - And they're great people. Something went wrong and you can't let it go wrong.

I can't tell you. You'd be somebody good to look into that. You would be good. That was your business, right? That was my business for a long time. You would be good, but they got to get it right. It's dangerous. I'll tell you what, being president is a dangerous profession when you think, okay? I mean, forget about me. You look...

It's one-tenth of one percent die as a race car driver, right? Okay, so you take one percent, now you take one-tenth of that, that's what die. And these guys are going around a track at 220 miles an hour. The bull riding to me looks like, you know, that's not something I want to do, right? And it's about the same, one-tenth. You know, they get killed. They get killed. It sounds like it hasn't happened. JFK. No, it happens. Reagan was shot. No, no, but when you think about it, a lot of presidents have been shot.

and even assassinated relative to the number. So I always say this is a dangerous business. I never thought of that when I ran. You know, you think everything's peachy-dory, but it's a nasty business. One thing I would like to do is the first shooter, which they say was a miracle. I mean, you know, it's lucky I moved to the right. But if I didn't turn to the right, over-immigration. See, I got saved.

over illegal immigration, the chart, my all-time favorite chart. But the first shooter had three apps, and two of them, they say, were foreign-based, and they haven't opened those apps. And I wonder why the FBI hasn't done that. The second shooter had six cell phones. Now, who has six cell phones? Have you ever heard of anyone? I have two. But who has six cell phones? And you would think that

they'd want those opened and they haven't opened them. And they can open them. And I guarantee they opened them for January 6th. All those guys got their cells opened. So why aren't they opening? So I do ask that question. Why isn't the FBI opening up those phones? And they're foreign. It looks like they're foreign based. So you never know, you know, where these people are coming from. They may look innocent, like, you know, they're nice country boys, but

They may not be, so I'd like to see them open that up and fast and we'll get down to the bottom of it. I suspect there's probably some foreign connections there. Candidly, I don't trust them. It looks it, doesn't it, though? Yeah, I just don't trust the FBI, Mr. President, given their experience with you. I understand that. It's not like we're basing this off some hypothetical. They've spied on your campaign. We have the names of the spies. I mean, I wrote three books on it. I cited left-wing sources in the books. They actually spied on my campaign.

And then they go after the people that went after the spies, right? They spied on my campaign. And if you look, it was Biden and Obama and their group of people. And the deep state, they wanted that forgotten as quick as possible, quickly as possible. The fake news media, they hate to cover it.

And when you say they spotted my campaign, they go, "Well, you know." No, they actually spotted my campaign. We have it all, so we'll see. The President: Leslie Stahl said no, though, so -- The President: I don't think any -- The Press: -- at 60 minutes, so it didn't happen. The President: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Press: She's a very credible source, of course. The President: Leslie Stahl. And, you know, she never gave me an apology. The President: No, no. The President: And David Muir didn't give me. When I said, "Crime is rampant," he said, "No, crime has gone down." The President: Right. The President: And he said -- The President: But you were right. The President: -- the FBI told him. I said, "Well, the FBI, it's a fraudulent report."

because they didn't include the worst cities. You saw the FBI correction. They corrected, yeah. They had to say, oh yeah, there were 1,699 more. How do you miss a murder? How the hell are you, the guy's dead. That's right. How do you miss a murder? They go, let's include a few other cities like the worst cities, right? Now it's very sad what's happening with the FBI.

You ever say to yourself, gosh, my batting average with these media idiots is like a thousand like this Trump, a thousand media losers, zero. I mean, I got to tell you, of all the media moments you've had, the one that infuriates me the most, it's actually a segment on my show is the Leslie Stahl, sir, moment, sir, sir, we can't verify.

You're the media, you loser. What do you mean you can't? Your job was, all you had to do was go to the FBI and ask, is this thing real? And she knew it. She knew it. Look, it's, hey, I think the worst scandal I've ever seen in broadcast history is,

will maybe not be as much of a scandal. If they were a Republican, it would have been over. When they changed Kamala's answer, they didn't edit. They took her entire, which showed she was crazy. They took it out, the entire paragraph. And it was a long, lots of, they say word salad. I don't like the term actually, but they say word salad. It was just words, like rambling words, horrible. So they take it out and they put another statement that she made two pages later. They insert it.

And nobody would have known the difference. And they got caught. They got caught. Yeah, you've now seen it. And I think it's the worst scandal. You know, it's one thing if they took even a sentence off because they do that with me all the time because I like to speak in long sentences, paragraphs. And if they take a sentence out like in the middle, it really does screw it up. But but think of this. They took the whole thing in and they replaced it with a totally unrelated time and place. And they put it in. And

And that's the only one that we caught. And we want them to release the tapes now. So I think I'm going to sue them, actually. -Good. Go for it. -I think so. No, you know what? They can't defend it. And if they do, and even if they win, it's going to be very embarrassing.

60 minutes, so I've done it many times. I did it with Mike Wallace. The best one I ever had was Mike Wallace and he was the biggest killer. You know, Chris tries to be Mike, but you just, you still have to have it. - Yeah, he's not cutting it. - He doesn't. - Nah, he's not cutting it. - But it's a very embarrassing moment for them, but the media's not pressing it. You would think the media would be pressing it. And I go a step further. It's so bad they should lose their license and they should take 60 minutes off the air.

This is like the $64,000 question many years ago. Have you ever read the books on television? They caught somebody, they gave somebody the answers, right? And he was very famous. They ended up giving him the answers. And the whole thing, it was the biggest scandal maybe in television. But this is potentially, because think of what they did. It's election interference. They gave her...

AN ANSWER. IT WAS WORSE THAN THAT. THEY TOOK THE ANSWER OUT AND PUT A NEW ANSWER IN. MR. PRESIDENT, I THINK YOU SHOULD CALL THEM 61 MINUTES FROM NOW ON BECAUSE THEY ADD AN EXTRA MINUTE FOR KAMALA. I THINK IT'S A MISTAKE TO CALL THEM 60 MINUTES. YOU'RE GIVING THEM TOO MUCH CREDIT. IN PUBLIC SPEECHES, JUST REFER TO THEM 61. THEY ADD AN EXTRA MINUTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS. BUT HOW ABOUT DAVID MUIR? EVERYTHING I SAID -- CRIME IS DOWN, RIGHT? EVERYTHING I SAID,

He questioned. There wasn't a thing. Every single thing I said, he questioned. And he was wrong, I think, on every one of them. I'm pretty sure. But and he never questioned her. And she talked about Charlottesville. She took all things that have been, as they say, debunked. Another term I don't like, but it's a pretty accurate term.

all totally debunked bloodbath they use the bloodbath that was talking about the car industry right not not talking about a bloodbath he used the word bloodbath you know these people are sick you got to say though they are good at what they do you have to admire it yeah listen i mean they are sick you know you and i are new york uh kids you know uh i'm just a just a slight tad bit younger but you remember 1980s times square pre giuliani you know remember the folexes the fake rolexes and then all the

peep shows and stuff. I mean, some of the scammers were good. Remember the shell game guys? Like they were good. So that's them. Like if you're going to be good at a scammer, you might as well be good at it. The press is a big scam. It's terrible. You know, I don't know that a country can come back if it has a fake press. It's hard. Because they're like the policemen. You know, they're like, they keep people honest, right? But Democrats don't have to be honest. They really don't have to be honest because they're not going to, they will never be accused of anything.

It's interesting. I was so amazed that Harvey Weinstein got schlonged. He got hit as hard as you can get hit because he was sort of the king of the world, right? And yet he got hit. And I figured that maybe he wouldn't get hit so hard. But boy, did he get you don't know him well. I don't know him well. But I watched that.

And it was amazing. So when they do get hit, they get hit. But that's the only one I can think of. Normally they protect everybody. What they did with Adams, I think, is very suspect. How did you bring that up last night? Well, I brought it up because he was on the day. I said, yeah.

I think other people were bringing it up too. You think it's coincidental that he comes out with the immigration problem in New York City as the mayor here and then all of a sudden the DOJ is... No, I predicted it. So he came out pretty strongly against the migrants taking over the city, which as a mayor he should, right? And not getting paid. You know, they've spent $3 billion on migrants and the federal government's not there to pay it back. But he went against the party. I said, he will be indicted within six months. I know these people.

Like deranged Jack Smith. This is a deranged individual. Do you see he's going to release another manifesto? I mean, is this the this guy is absolutely before before the I've never seen anything like it. This is like tyranny. And the judge is a hammer sickle. And the judge is allowing him to do it. And it's not even believable. This guy is a sick puppy and they're going to release something else. And always before the election, you know, they want to do it before the election selection interference.

Now it's a terrible thing, what's happening. And the judges, this judge is the most evil person. I never see anything like it. She was... They all said, well, make sure you don't get shutkin'. And who did I get? I got shutkin'. I got shutkin'. She's a real prize. Because, you know, it has to get approved by lots of different people. But they said, make sure you don't get shutkin'. Well, I have nothing to do with it. So, you know, they supposedly pick...

They pick balls, right? I don't think it works that way, but that's what they say. That's the way it's supposed to be. You pick out of a hat, and that's the judge. There was probably one name in the hat. Well, you don't want Chutkin, that's for sure, and you got Chutkin. Every ballot in the hat had Chutkin on it. Well, think about it. What judge would do that? Forget about Doreen's Jack Smith. You know, a judge is supposed to keep it in check. What judge would...

say we're going to release something a couple of days before. By the way, which you have almost no ability to respond to. He could be making this up. Everyone in our system is innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent. It's disgraceful. It's an amazing thing. You know what the real... I got so much I want to talk about. Can I ask you a different question? No, it's because it's hard to believe. It is. It's hard to believe. Even the CNN legal analyst. What's his name? That Honey guy? It's like, this is really unprecedented. That's CNN. They don't even like you. Did he say that about this one? He said it about...

Three weeks ago when Jack Smith released the first, look it up, I'm pretty sure it was Honig, but it was definitely on CNN. And he was, I think, a federal prosecutor. And he said, I've never seen anything like this where the prosecutor gets to release an uncontested memo with unproven charges.

not in a courtroom, but basically a campaign document. It was the most obscene thing. Again, CNN, which, let's be honest, they hate your guts. And they're putting that on the, that's how bad this guy is. The legal analyst for CNN, he's the top guy, has been against all of this. He said, Trump did nothing wrong. I'm so amazed. I'm more impressed with that than anything else I've seen on CNN.

But, you know, because you'd think they'd try and stop him. He is one of the biggest guarders of the Constitution. I mean, he really is. He's a great lawyer. He said, this is really unfair. But think of it right before the election. Now, I don't even know what it says. This is made up by other people. It has nothing to do with me. And you don't even get a right to answer.

It is, see that's election interference right there. That's cheating on an election. How many stories have they told about you that are so, remember the, you beat up the Secret Service driver? We used to laugh about that on my show because I know the people were involved. So that's now been proven to be false. That you tackled, you gave him a triangle choke from the back of the car. You're a pretty talented guy. A lot of people said, don't dispute that, sir. It makes you look very tough and strong. No, they say, I went to the man on the right who's a weightlifter and

And like 30 years old. And then the man on the right who's supposed to be a great karate expert. I decided to go for him and I got him around the neck. Use your skills. And this was a woman who I think the testimony is all now gone. So what happened to me, here's one of the greatest scandals. The unselect committee of political hacks.

Cheney, all these people. Cheney is, you know, they say, we have a Republican. The Republican is Cheney. And then they have kissing, crying. He's always crying. I've never seen him when he's not crying. That's what they're crying all about.

They call him crying, Adam kissing. He cries every time. You know, he's so desperate. He sees a sick. Those are the two Republicans. OK, so they say the bipartisan committee, they were much worse than any Democrat. The Democrats were nothing. So anyway, so the head of it, Benny Thompson, a real beauty. He decided to destroy all evidence of the of this year and a half trial.

Everything is gone. The reason is because I was so innocent. And like as an example, this one case that I won't mention names to go. The person that did that said that it's been totally unconfirmed. Right. It's been unconfirmed. The Secret Service agent said never happened.

Never happened. I tell you, first of all, you wouldn't be able to do it. I worked with him in New York, Bob. Yeah, Bobby. And he knows that didn't happen. Bobby's a tough cookie. Bobby's not going to let somebody grab him. Yeah. You're not grabbing Bobby. You're right. That may be a great like you took them all out. No, I have a friend that say, why are you fighting that? Let it be. It doesn't make any difference. Let it be. You beat that crap out of it's the coolest thing I've ever heard. Right. But I said, let's tell the truth. It never happened. I actually said.

I'd love to go down, remember, peacefully and patriotically. Do you know they don't mention that in any paper? No, never. The biggest, most important part, peacefully and patriotically. They don't mention that in any paper, in any document, in anything. It's crazy. So anyway, so it was all disproven. They, did you know they destroyed all evidence, right? Now you're supposed to go to jail if you destroy evidence.

Even in a civil case, you go to jail. They destroyed they announced and we have decided to destroy all evidence having to do with the unselect committee. I love the name unselect because it's called the select committee. Like it's I call it the unselect committee. You find it weird that the January 6th unselect committee, which I agree is unselect about him.

Do you find it weird they're not interested about why Kamala Harris was not at the Capitol on January 6th, but was at the DNC when a pipe bomb was outside? Yeah, it's interesting. Why doesn't Kamala Harris, they keep saying it's an insurrection. Why doesn't she tell that story? It's a rigged deal. The whole thing is rigged, 100% rigged. If you get elected, and we hope that happens, can you get an answer as to why she was there? I do believe, I do believe. Look, this is really corrupt stuff. The other thing is, as you know,

They really won in the Supreme Court, okay? The Fisher case and the various cases. Why are they still being held? Nobody's ever been treated like this. Nobody's ever. Maybe the Japanese during Second World War, frankly. But, you know, they were held, too. But when you look at Portland and the damage they did and killed people, because other than Ashley, nobody was killed here. Nobody was killed.

And there were no guns involved. And these are all gun owners. You know, these are people that have guns, but they never went to the Capitol with guns. It's really amazing. It's a very sad. I think it's a very sad day in the country's life. But they but here's the end of this. They destroyed and deleted all evidence.

So now we're not going to know what she said about how I beat the crap out of these two secret service agents. Right. I was so strong. My arm just ripped around those big necks, 24 inch necks. I ripped my arm around them and they didn't have a chance. You know? No, no. Dan, can you imagine that? No, I,

But how do they delete it and destroy it? You're not allowed to do that. The Secret Service deleted the text from that day, too. And they said it was a tech transfer. It was not. It's a lie. So if you get elected, I'm really hoping we can get to the bottom. We should talk about that. Can I ask you something else about kind of a switching gears a minute?

You know, the media paints you into this ridiculous. You've seen the caricatures. They're insane. You know, when I was going through cancer treatment at Sloan Kettering, I was going in for surgery and I had a bad incident. And you called me that day from the White House. And I got to tell you, I was really touched by the whole thing. You are extremely loyal to your friends. And I say to people, you know why? Because he's a Queens guy. And tell me if I'm right. Here's my theory, Donald Trump theory on Queens. Why you got the bravado and the machismo and why the guys really like you and the bro podcast.

Queens guys, we never had the money of the Manhattan kids. So you don't have like the class like of the Manhattan. You're not in like the upper crust of this fake gas system we have in New York. You know it exists. But we're never given the tough guy credit, the Brooklyn and the Bronx kids. Nobody wants to fight them just because they say they're from Brooklyn. So we're from Queens,

We always got to say it and do it. We just can't show up and, oh, this guy's got money. He's from Central Park West. Or he's from Brooklyn. He's tough. Tell me I'm not right about Queens. Is that the Donald Trump? Well, it's a great place to learn. A lot of very successful people came out of Queens. Queens is a place of successful people, as you know.

But so is Brooklyn and maybe the Bronx too, a little bit different. Paula's from the Bronx. Paula, yeah, lovely Paula. She looks good, doesn't she? It's good, beyond good. It's really, it's great. It's crazy being married to a 25-year-old. It's just so weird. Doing well. And she has a lot to do with your success. Oh my gosh. I have seen over the years people married and having a great relationship and they're successful. Then it doesn't work out. They go to somebody else and they lose everything, you know.

The man behind the woman and the woman behind the man. It's both. It works out both ways. But I've seen many cases where somebody's successful, but with somebody else not successful at all. Melania, your secret weapon? Melania, she's the secret weapon. By the way, she just did number one bestseller book. Did you see that? Yeah. Number one. She's number one on the list, New York Times list. Now, to be number one for Trump, to be number one on the New York Times list is...

Not even believable, right? You know what you have to go? She had to be number one by thousands of books, okay? Because they're pretty tough on that. No, she's got the number one bestseller, Melania. Can I ask you a question about your business time in New York? The Wallman Rink. For those of you who don't know at home, Wallman Rink is an ice skating rink. The city couldn't fix it for whatever, 500 years, because it's the city in New York. It was a train wreck. They come to you.

They say, Mr. Trump at the time weren't running for president or anything. You know, can you fix this mess? You got it done in record time. I don't remember. You have to rank. It was closed for 11 years. My kids were getting older. They kept saying, Ivanka, Daddy, can I go ice skating?

I'm sorry, darling. The rink is under construction. After saying that for 11 years, you know, for 11 years, it's been under construction for 11 years. My darling, you're the most beautiful little ice skater, but there goes your career because you have to start young. And they were building. So they were building it for 11 years. They had spent just, you know, numbers that were unbelievable. They couldn't get it to work.

They were building it wrong. They had the wrong pipe. They had the wrong system. They used a refrigeration company from Miami. Now, you don't go to Miami for a rink. You go to Canada. I went to the Montreal Canadiens.

They came down, they were very nice. They came down, they said, "This doesn't work. "You have to use a brine system." Anyway, they were using a gas system. They had the wrong everything. And you know, they'd pour this big 50,000 foot site in little tiny patches. So it was all uneven. You never saw a butcher job like this. So I took it over. So it was under construction for 11 years. I got it done in two and a half months.

And it was a famous story in New York. I had cement trucks going to Teamsters. I had cement trucks going from the rink back to Harlem, you know, along the park. Oh, yeah. And I had 40, 50 trucks standing there, all poured over a two day period at one time. You know, they were doing little chunks and then they wouldn't match. And then they tried to hook up pipes. The whole thing was the craziest thing.

And the people from the Montreal Canadiens came down and they said, oh, and you remember, they kept stealing the copper pipe. You know, you'd put pipe in the concrete. But every night they'd put the pipe in and the pipe would be gone the next day. The thieves, because copper is very expensive. And they said, no, you don't want to use copper. You want to use hose.

and it has to have water in it, warm water, and you have to put salt in the water. That way it doesn't, that's the whole thing. That was a big factor, you know. It's called brine. It's water and salt, so the salt doesn't let it freeze, right? And it was great. And we opened it, and I ran it for many years.

And de Blasio came along. And by the way, I hit him hard last night. Did you see that? Were you watching last night? No, I was traveling up. So they had the Alfred Smith, Al Smith dinner last night, the big Catholic dinner in the plaza. It was...

It was great. The Cardinal was there. Everybody was there. Kamala skipped out. Everybody was there but her. I love your joke about Tim Pond, Tim, by the way, that he didn't show up, but he's telling everyone he's there. That's right. He's telling war stories. We had a lot of jokes. It's actually, you're supposed to be a comedian, at least for part of your speech. No, you were good. I liked that. You were pretty funny. It came out. It was a great evening. I knew you were short on time. Was de Blasio the worst mayor in history? You know...

I think Dinkins was really bad. I think Dinkins was, I mean, they call them stinkins. Dinkins was bad. I mean, you and I have been through Koch, Dinkins, Beam, mayors in New York. Who was the best mayor? Oh, Giuliani by far. I worked as a cop under Giuliani. I mean, you went into Times Square under Giuliani. That's actually one of my questions. Are you bad enough yet, New York City? You know, I

You and I lived through the Giuliani era. You go up, you get off the train station in Times Square, you get hit with seven hookers, 20 drug dealers, and three card Monty guys left and right, right?

Giuliani gets elected. Mr. President, you know as well as I do, you walk through Times Square six months later, it's a totally different place. So when people tell me Donald Trump, who grew up in that New York and is committed to changing government, can't fix things, it's too bad, I say, BS, it was a thousand times worse in New York, and Giuliani turned it around like that. Well, it's getting bad, I will say. It's getting bad. Bad things are happening, and the migrants are making it happen really bad because, you know, we have...

100,000 migrants. Nobody has any idea how many. And interesting, the mayor said, you know, this is not sustainable. And I said, he'll be indicted. And he was indicted. They indicted him. This is a bad group. Same group that we just talked about. And it's let's see what happens. I mean, let's see what happens with it. But having a young Rudy at this moment, you know, a young Rudy, because he did he did a great job. You saw it. This city was a mess. This whole place was a mess.

And within a couple of years, it became the safest big city in the world, right? It was amazing. It was great for business with you. He's got to be given credit for it. He did a great job. The question from my audience I got, I put out a poll. I said, give me some questions for President Trump. I want to hear what you all have to say.

Your first term, you were new to politics, which was a benefit, but in a little way, a little bit has a downside in that you don't know all the players. You're a business guy. So people recommended you hires. You had to get rid of a lot of people. A lot of them turned out to be turkeys. And they're concerned the second term that we may have that same problem. I've told them, I know your team. I know they get it now.

do you have i'm not asking for any names i don't want you i wouldn't i wouldn't dare but do you have a set of people now you know you can trust when we get in because we're not going to have a lot of time in two years there could be a midterm issue right we've got two years to clean this disaster up you feel like you've got a roster like a team so when i first got elected dan i was only you probably heard me say this to her but i was there 17 times in washington dc so i wasn't a washington person i knew really nobody there

And mostly because I was building a hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue and a beautiful hotel that I sold to the Waldorf Astoria. You know, I did. Yeah, I haven't been there. But I did a beautiful job. But it was mostly for that. So I was I was essentially never in Washington. So I didn't know people. So I had to rely on people, you know, for big positions. I'm saying, hey, do you know anybody that can be like this job and that job?

And generally I got it very good. We had Lighthizer, you know, trade. We had a lot of good guys. But we also made some mistakes. Made mistakes at Attorney General, made mistakes. I made some mistakes. And I don't really blame myself. You know, they were highly recommended by RINOS and they weren't the right people. They just weren't the right people.

And there were some other positions too. Mostly I got it right. Nobody ever talks about the good, we had a lot of great people. But we had some mistakes. - But you fired them. - I fired them. And here's what happens. When I fire, because I'm famous or whatever, for whatever reason, when I fire them, immediately the book companies go to them and they say, "Oh, we'll give you a book if you say bad things about Trump." If Bush fired somebody, nobody cares. If somebody else fired, but immediately,

When I fire, they go to and they write something or they say, like Bolton was a stiff. He was a dumb guy, very stupid guy. But actually, he came in handy because he was a maniac. You know, he always wanted to go to war with people. He wants to bomb everyone. He wants to bomb. So I just he wouldn't talk because he was stupid. But what happened? I'd bring him into a room with Putin.

And Putin would say, oh shit, Trump wants to go to war. Because Bolton was with Bush and they, you know, think of it. They went into the Middle East, they bombed the hell out of the place and they left. You know, it's like they bombed. This guy would, he would go, he wanted to bomb anything. He's a nut job. But he was good for negotiating purposes. But then after a while, so you fire him. And whenever you fire people,

generally, if they have an option. Now with me, they have, most people don't care. It's like they get fired, but there's nobody to write about the boss. But if the boss is famous, they can maybe get a book deal. So I believe in firing people. For instance, in Afghanistan,

Biden should have fired every general and every person involved in that botched job, moving the soldiers out first. Everything they did was wrong. They should have all been fired. How do you leave the military base first in Bagram? First of all, they should have used Bagram. And then they dropped Bagram. And China has Bagram right now. I was in Bagram. It's amazing. So it's...

They left it. Yeah, they left. They didn't even tell the locals. They should have showed up when there was nobody there. My plan was I was getting out, but keeping Bagram because of China, because it's an hour away from where they make their nuclear weapons. So anyway, that's where it is. That's the saddest story in maybe the most embarrassing story in the history of our country. That whole Afghanistan crisis.

We were getting out, but we were going to get out with dignity and strength, and we were going to get out. It was going to be great. We had to get out. It was 20 years, 21 years. It was ridiculous.

But we're going to keep Bagram because of China. We didn't keep it. Can I ask you a hypothetical on that? I mean, obviously, we can't prove a counterfactual, but you're the president. Say the 2020 debacle doesn't happen and you're sitting there in the Oval. I agree. We had to get out of there. Do you say to them, the Taliban, here's the deal, brothers, we are leaving. But I'm telling you right now.

You touch a hair on the head of one of our people, we are going to rain hellfire. But I did say that we didn't have any soldier shot after I spoke with Abdul, the leader of the Taliban. We didn't have any soldier. Not one soldier for 18 months was killed. And Biden actually admitted that at a speech a few years ago.

He said, "Well, I have to say, no soldier's been killed." We were losing a lot of soldiers over there with Obama. And I said that if you do it, I don't want to say exactly what I said because it's not appropriate, but I said, "You better not shoot our soldiers." We didn't have one soldier killed, Dan. Think of it, in 18 months. And then this horrible thing happened. They should have left from Bagram, number one, not for that base.

And we lost 13 soldiers, many really badly hurt, you know, with the legs and the arms and the whole thing. We have Americans left behind, yet some very good people left behind, too, that maybe should have come with us. They had that airlift, which was terrible, with people falling off the planes. It was so bad. And we left behind...

$80 billion worth of equipment. Biden never recovered from that. Everybody saw what a loser he was. Biden is a grossly incompetent man, but here's the bad news. She's worse. She is more incompetent than Biden. Yeah, no, she's horrible. Can I ask you what it really... Hey, Dan, I got to get going. Oh, I'm sorry. They're going crazy. All right.

Folks, I'm sorry we got to wrap it up with the president. You got a little thing called the campaign coming up. I do. You got to go win. I want to thank you for your time. I want to thank you from my audience. Oh, can I ask you one small favor? We're going to do election night coverage, and I want to do, you know Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse. So I want to auction off a Donald Trump signed Bongino baseball. Good. And give it to Franklin Graham. Would you be kind enough to sign it on camera? I would do it.

And that way everybody knows it's real. I would so deeply. I'm sorry to put you on the spot, Mr. President. I just I think we could raise a fortune for Franklin Graham. You like that? Someone may have plenty of movement on it. And we are going to auction this off and everything. Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse coming your way. I know you like Franklin a lot. He's doing an amazing job. I just want to make sure everybody knows he's not doing a good job. Kamala. She's not doing a good job. You're right. Biden was better. They were better off with him.

There it is. We are going to raise a fortune for charity, 100 percent to charity. There you see it, folks. President Donald J. Trump. Justin, grab that sharpie. We appreciate it so much. Mr. President, thanks a lot. Best of luck in the campaign. Thank you very much.