Trump on Iran protests, Fed's Powell and more

He is on your side. And I think that's great, and I do. I think it's great. And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person, but her actions were pretty tough. I mean, I've seen it many ways and many different shapes and forms. But the bottom line is, look, we have hundreds of thousands of murderers in our countries, killers. ICE is trying to get them out. They were let in through an open border policy of "Sleepy" Joe Biden. ICE is is working very hard to get them out. Their job is being made very, very difficult. And when you look at that tape, it can be viewed two ways, I guess. But when you look at the way that car was pulled away, there are a couple of versions of that tape that are very, very bad. I want to talk about the economy while we have you here. The inflation numbers came out. Overall, not bad, but grocery prices-- No, overall, very good. Good for us. Good for our country. Joe Biden had the highest inflation numbers in history, correct?

The direction-- I have them down to a level that they haven't seen in about nine years. And Mr. President, help me understand, when I travel the country and I go all over the place and I talk to everyday Americans, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up-- Well, they might not, but they're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months, OK, and the first few months were really rough, if you look at them, because I inherited a mess. I inherited a mess of crime. I inherited a mess of inflation. I inherited a mess of places closing up and going to other countries. And now we have the hottest country in the world. Tony, we have now the hottest country in the world, and a year and a half ago, our country was dead. We had a dead country. You wouldn't have a job right now. If she got in, you probably wouldn't have a job right now. Your boss, who's an amazing guy, might be bust, OK?

Might be what? That's how bad-- might be bust. I doubt it in his case, but you never know. Let me just tell you, you wouldn't have this job. You wouldn't have this job, certainly whatever the hell they're paying you. Our country is rocketing right now. We have the hottest country in the world. If they got in, we would be Venezuela on steroids. Mr. President, I'm just trying to be fair here. I'm just trying to do my job, and I want to talk about this assembly line here. To me, it's vibrant. Listen to the sound. It's incredible, right? I love the sound of an assembly line. It's incredible. But they've got one not far from here. They just idled the electric-vehicle plant. Well, yeah, but it's going to-- it's going to gasoline vehicles. Yeah, it's going to go gasoline. But why don't you say that, Tony? You can't say-- You didn't give me a chance. I'm coming there. I'm coming around. I agree. I said, I want electric, and I want gasoline, and I want hybrids. I want everything. But you were going to be forced under the mandate to buy an electric car in a very short period of time. I didn't want that, and I ended that. Now people can have electric. They can have gasoline. They can have hybrid. But are they going to have people to build these cars? The CEO of Ford said not long ago he's got 5,000 open mechanic jobs. He can't find people willing and able to fill them. What's going on? That's a good thing, Tony. That means it's vibrant. You could also have things where you have so many people, and they can't get jobs. It's true. We are doing so well. It's hard. Now, what's going to happen is people are being trained rapidly, and you're going to have a thing called robots, and robots are going to be a big factor. I predict--

Yeah, let's talk about that. --that robots are going to be a big factor in the future, and it's going to help out. But you have a situation now where our economy is doing so well that it's not that easy to get people. We're training people. They're training people. Companies are training people, and they're doing well.

Why do you think-- That's a positive question you asked me. I don't think you asked it in that way, but we are doing so well right now that we're training people to take those jobs. One other thing. We terminated many federal jobs. Those federal-- because that's a good thing because they want to go private. The way you make our country great is you can't have too many federal workers, all right? Those workers are being trained to go into the private sector at a much higher salary. Yeah, well, let's talk about robotics for a second because that's a concern of a lot of people working, not only here but all over the country. What is the future for jobs like these? One guy told me on the way in, he thinks it's a critical threat to his industry. Well, in one light, you're telling me that you can't get workers. Well, that's what the CEO said. Well, you said that, and then you said the opposite for me. You can't have it both ways. Look, we're going to need help because we're expanding so rapidly that we need-- people are going to make a lot of money. A skilled worker, a person with talent, education in what they do-- not education in nuclear physics, education in what they do. They're going to make a lot of money. Federal workers are leaving the federal government where you had 10 people for every job, and they're going out, and they're going into the private sector at two and three times the salary, and you see that all over. So I only say this. I think that robotics are going to be great because this country won't have enough people if we don't have it. Last question. Our people are going to be trained, and they're going to make more money than they've ever made before. Last question. I think you'll be-- I was very interested in a comment you made recently about nothing being able to limit your action overseas except for your own morality and your own mind. I'd like to take that same question and apply it here in the US. Is there anything that limits your power, your movement, your action here other than your own morality? Well, I talk about morality. I'm a moral person. I don't like seeing death. I don't like seeing our people hurt. I don't like seeing the other side hurt either. When we went into Venezuela, we lost nobody, but a lot of people on the other side were killed. I don't like that. Somebody else would say, oh, that's wonderful. I don't like that. So, yeah, it's limited by my morality, and I have a very high grade of morality. So, therefore, it's limited. Not the Constitution, not the courts? That's what I thought you were going to say. Well, the Constitution and courts, that goes without saying. But you're asking me what really can stop. We'll never get to the courts. We'll never get to the Constitution because I want to see what's good for our country. And you know what? The courts want to see that too. Mr. President, thank you very much. For the record, I do think I'd have this job even if the other guys won. Yeah, but at a lesser salary. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.