Good afternoon everybody. Hello. It's
great to see all of you. Welcome to our
third official influencer briefing here
at the White House in the beautiful
South Court Auditorium. Joe Biden's
former office that he pretended to be
his office. Now we're using it for its
real purposes as an auditorium. And we
are embracing and empowering new media
like never before. You are all a
testament to that. We're so grateful
that you're here today. President Trump
is truly the most transparent and
accessible president in American history
and we are just following his example.
That's a little bit why this uh press
briefing today is tardy because the
president was hosting a more than
two-hour long cabinet meeting with his
entire cabinet. Each secretary went
around the room to talk about the
promises they are delivering on for the
American public and the directives they
are executing u at the behest of the
president of the United States. Can you
ever remember a cabinet meeting in which
the media were welcomed into the room to
ask questions of the entire federal
government? No, you can't because it
never happened. Joe Biden was afraid to
speak to the press because he was
mentally incompetent in driving our
country into the ground. But
fortunately, President Trump has been ex
incredibly hard at work cleaning up Joe
Biden's messes and making our country
great again. Yesterday marked the
president's official 100th day in
office. The first 100 days of President
Trump's second term can only be summed
up as promises made, promises kept. He
has ushered in the most secure border in
modern American history. And he didn't
need a bill from Congress to do it. Do
you all remember that? They said we
needed a bill. We didn't need a bill. We
just needed a new president. The border
is now closed and the border Biden Biden
border invasion has been halted. Illegal
border encounters are down by
95%. Illegal alien godaways, one of the
top threats to our public safety, are
down by an astounding 99.99%.
And Fox News's Bill Malujin, who did
exceptional reporting covering the Biden
border crisis, was recently quoted
saying, "If Fox were to send me down
there right now, I would have trouble
finding a single migrant on camera."
That is the Trump effect. President
Trump took on the cartels and designated
Trend Aaragua, MS-13, and other vicious
gangs and cartels as foreign terrorist
organizations. under President Trump. It
is the policy of the United States to
ensure the total elimination of these
brutal organizations presence in our
country. And we are also beginning
stages of carrying out the largest mass
deportation in American history. We have
already arrested more than 150,000
illegal aliens. And you can expect those
numbers to ratchet up in the months
ahead. On the economy, President Trump
is rebuilding the greatest economy in
the world once again. Since day one, he
has focused on defeating inflation,
bringing down the cost of living, and
making the United States the best place
in the world to do business, invest,
create jobs, and innovate. The president
later this afternoon in the East Room of
the White House will be uh joined by
CEOs from around the world who have
committed trillions of dollars in
investments right here in the United
States of America. I don't think the
president is getting enough credit for
the massive deregulation campaign that
he has launched across the entire
federal bureaucracy. He himself has
signed a number of executive orders to
unleash rapid deregulation and reduce
the cost of living for families and for
small businesses. And we are seeing a
big impact of this already. His
deregulatory actions thus far will save
nearly $11,000 per family of four over
the next several years. And building on
this success, the president has
encouraged the rapid onshoring of jobs
to restore America as our world's
manufacturing superpower. He is
effectively utilizing tariffs to bring
the entire world to the negotiating
table, offering more favorable terms for
our country. When all is said and done,
America will finally have fair and
reciprocal trade and our country will
finally stop being ripped off. Uh so
far, as I mentioned, total investments
under this administration are more than
$5 trillion. The president has already
created 345,000 jobs since taking office
in January. 9,000 manufacturing jobs
were created compared to the 6,000
manufacturing jobs lost per month in the
final two years of the Biden
administration. The labor force
participation rate for those without a
high school diploma is up. Inflation has
dropped and the price of prescription
drugs last month was the largest drop
ever recorded. In little more than three
months, President Trump has America
headed in the right direction. The good
news is we are just getting started. We
are very busy every single day here at
the White House, literally working
around the clock, seven days a week, um
to restore the golden age of America.
Hundreds of promises have been made and
kept. There is certainly more work to
do. the best is yet to come. But we are
very proud of the efforts the president
has made to continue the non-traditional
media approach that he so beautifully
executed on the campaign trail which led
him back to this office talking to
podcasters, social media content
creators, and influencers like yourself.
And again, we're so proud to welcome you
to the White House here today so you can
ask questions for the whole world to
hear. So Jack, great to see you. And why
don't you kick us off? Caroline, thanks
so much for having us in today and I
appreciate the administration making
yourself available and making it
available to us and and all of our
followers and I'm I understand that
you're going to be continuing these and
I think it's fantastic that really have
everybody come in and be able to do
this. One of the things that's that's
been troubling me and has actually even
affected me over the last 24 hours is
the the rise of violence that we've seen
from elements of the far left. uh
starting with things like Luigi Majioni
uh these support for these unhuman
organizations like MS-13, Trenda Aragua,
and even of course the assassination
attempts on President Trump, Thomas
Matthew Krooks and Ryan Ralph, as well
as numerous incidents against uh anyone
who owns a Tesla. Apparently, you you
don't really see the Democrats opposing
these things. you see them in many cases
uh either either co-signing it or giving
a wink and nod to it at the same time
that they will be demanding that we
follow due process for anyone who
actually is a hardened criminal or some
of the worst of the worst. What is the
administration doing DOJ wise or FBI
wise to combat this rise in violence
that we're seeing? It's a great
question, Jack, and I absolutely agree
with the premise of your question, which
I usually don't when I take questions at
a podium, but certainly you're right. We
have seen a rise in political violence
that stems from the left, dating back to
the Black Lives Matter movement, uh,
which the left and the Democrats don't
want to talk about much, but they burn
down American cities. And the Jo the
Biden administration did nothing to
prosecute those uh, who who created that
violence, oftentimes not just destroying
businesses, but also lives in
communities as well. You look at the
rise of violence against the president
himself and his supporters. You had two
heinous assassination attempts um from
leftist lunatics um and the president is
lucky and blessed to be here today
because he was able to survive that
political violence in those
assassination attempts. Look at the
recent attacks on Tesla on Elon Musk's
company. It's quite ironic because
Democrats and leftists were the greatest
fans of Tesla. Many Democrats drive
Teslas to this very day. But then it's
that their same party who is doing
nothing to stop or condemn or discourage
this violence from taking place and and
cases in many cases Democrat- elected
officials are actually inciting it and
encouraging it. Uh but that's not going
to be allowed to happen anymore. Uh the
attorney general was just in the cabinet
room with the president and made it very
clear to anyone who is inciting violence
or participating in violence, you will
be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law. And no longer do we have a
justice department that chooses uh pro
prosecutions based on one's political
affiliation. If you break the law, you
will be held accountable for that. Um
and I think we are truly restoring um a
fair and equal justice system in this
country. The attorney general spoke
earlier about how there have been
several cases brought against those who
have perpetrated this political violence
against Tesla, which is a great
Americanmade company. Um, and we need to
see more people on the other side of the
aisle u stepping out to discourage this
violence. But I don't think we will hold
our breath. We won't wait for them. Um,
the president is leading by example and
I think the the restoration of justice
we've seen at the DOJ under the
leadership of Pam Bondi and Cash Patel
who's doing an incredible job as the FBI
director is a testament to that. Thank
you, Dom. Thank you. Um, thank you for
giving me an honor to be able to ask a
question and provide some transparency
for the American people. Speaking of, I
wanted to reference the election
integrity. A lot of people in America
are questioning if there's any
possibility that we could see further
investigations for anyone that could
have violated our election integrity
rights. And more importantly, so is
there any possibility for names such as
Barack Hussein, Obama, Hillary Roham,
Clinton to ever just possibly get
investigated for any of these uh, you
know, questions from the American
people, any of the wrongdoings they
might have done. Well, it's refreshing
to actually hear a question on election
integrity because the legacy media would
never ask such a question. They're so
out of touch with where the American
people are on this issue. And Americans,
you're absolutely right, want to have
trust in our electoral system. Without
free and fair elections, you cannot have
a free and fair country. And President
Trump has absolutely been a leader on
this effort, talking about the
irregularities we've seen in our
elections, holding Democrats accountable
for allowing illegal immigrants to
participate in our elections. And um he
actually signed a recent executive order
to protect the integrity of our
elections. It will strengthen voter
citizenship um verification laws. It
also um directs the attorney general to
enter information sharing agreements
with state election officials to
identify cases of election fraud. So
that correspondence between the federal
government and the attorney general with
state and local officials has never
happened before. It will allow the
federal government to more easily
identify these cases of fraud and then
prosecute those who violate our election
laws. And it is again appalling that any
politician regardless of party could be
against ensuring only American citizens
can vote in American elections. can
could ever how could anyone ever be
against ensuring Americans uh need to
have proof of identification to
participate in our elections? You see
the Democrats falling over themselves
trying to say this is somehow voter
suppression. Absolutely not. We are
trying to uh ensure that every American
citizen their vote actually counts and
is not being outweighed by fraudulent
votes um and fraudulent ballots that we
know have been cast in previous
elections. So, President's taking this
very seriously. He signed an extremely
strong executive order directing action
from the AG and the Department of
Homeland Security as well to clean up
our elections and we expect Congress to
do more on this front as well. Let's go
over here on on that uh question. Again,
Caroline, thank you so much for for
hosting this. Really appreciate the
opportunity to come in here and ask
questions of you guys and and appreciate
the president giving us some time of
yours as well. on the on a follow-up on
Dom's question. I still have a ton of my
audience that is still asking questions
about uh Hillary Rodm Clinton and the
fact that it came out that her and the
DNC funded the steel dossier which then
led to a crossfire hurricane and all the
FISA abuses that went against President
Trump leading up to the 2020 election.
Uh is there you don't have to spill the
beans but is there something is there
somebody still looking at it? We just
want to know that it's not dead in the
water, that Hillary's not just off
scot-free uh after knowing what what her
and the DNC did uh leading up to the
2020 election. It's a great question.
Absolutely understand and agree with why
you're asking it, but I would want to
let the president weigh in on that
front. I haven't discussed it with him
to be honest with you, but um certainly
we can ask him and get back to you.
Eric, so Caroline, um madam press
secretary, uh the over the You can call
me Caroline. Thank you, Caroline. Over
the weekend, the uh White House
correspondents association had their
gayla. They had their dinner and Alex
Thompson from now Axios prior to that
Politico didn't really apologize but
came forward and said we quote unquote
missed the story of Joe Biden's demise,
his health demise, his cognitive demise
during during the four years. Um Jake
Tapper has written the book since
President Trump was elected that they
missed the demise of Joe Biden as well.
Fast forward to this lawsuit with CBS,
right? So, the media, legacy media, has
not been held accountable. Will this
lawsuit with CBS go to fruition? In
other words, I would love to see it go
to trial so that we can see so they
could be held accountable. Additionally,
will the New York Times be enjoined into
that lawsuit? Because the New York Times
has already stated that they agree with
CBS and Trump has said maybe we're going
to sue the New York Times as well. And
as a followup to all this, and it really
does dovetail because it's not just
leftleaning media, Trump, uh, Fox News,
Fox News put out a poll. I'm a
statistician. The poll they put out was
wildly biased against President Trump.
Will will Fox sue Fox uh will Trump sue
Fox for their methodology in polling?
Two great questions. Let me hit the
first one first. Um, as for CBS and the
White House Correspondents Association
dinner, uh, it was laughable. They gave
an award to a journalist uh, for talking
about Biden's mental incompetence. He
wrote a story about it years after the
American people knew that story to be
true. didn't take much just two eyes and
two ears to realize that Joe Biden was
completely inept uh was unfit to serve
as president of the United States. And
nobody in the legacy media, nobody in
this city wanted to talk about it. In
fact, I recall being on President
Trump's campaign and calling out Joe
Biden's cognitive decline and we were
accused of manufacturing deep fakes. My
predecessor accused us for manufacturing
deep fakes from the White House podium
when she knew and everybody in this
White House knew the true status of Joe
Biden's physical and mental fitness. And
the me mainstream media allowed that
cover up to take place because they
refused to dig for the truth. They tried
to get the American people not to
believe their own eyes. It is truly one
of the greatest coverups and scandals in
American history. And again, this is why
we are welcoming independent journalists
and and social media influencers and
content creators into the White House
with open arms because all of you in
this room and many of your colleagues in
independent journalism talked about this
online. Nobody gave you credence as far
as the legacy media is concerned. And
now they host cocktail parties where
they're applauding each other and
patting each other on the back for
uncovering the truth. It was years
later. Uh and it's truly sad to see. Uh
but again, that's why we're making
muchneeded and long overdue changes. As
for the lawsuit against CBS, the
president uh and his legal team fully
intend to carry this lawsuit forward.
The president put out a very strong
statement uh in regard to that and and
fake news CBS this morning. Um and then
as for the Fox News poll, president's
right. These are fake polls. They
overpull Democrats. They underpull
President Trump's supporters. It's
always been the case for media polls. uh
they consistently underestimate
President Trump's support amongst the
public. That's why we don't really blink
when we see them. To be honest with you,
we're staying focused on the mission and
moving forward. The president knows
everything he's doing is exactly what he
promised the American public he would
do. And if you look at the key issues in
the polling, the president is still
ahead because Americans know he is
delivering on them on those issues for
them. Um and if you look at the
methodology, you're right. Um there are
overpolling um Democrats, underpolling
Republicans. Uh it's a clear-cut case of
fake polling, no doubt. If I may, uh
also misinformation though, right? And
maybe as detrimental to the presidency
as what CBS has done or or the New York
Times is doing. Yeah, no doubt about it.
The president's spoken quite strongly
about it and I know he's made some phone
calls to express his his displeasure
with it as well. Kylina, go ahead. Thank
you so much for having me here,
especially as a legal immigrant because
the overwhelming uh fake news that
Hispanics don't support President Trump,
but we do and we're very excited to have
mass deportations because it affects our
communities. My question is about
immigration reform and DACA. During the
first Trump administration, we saw that
President Trump, like no other
president, wanted to make a deal with
the Democrats to give a pathway to
citizenship to 1.2 million DACA
recipients. I don't know. I haven't
really heard anything coming out. Is
there going to be uh is there any policy
surrounding that uh situation and is
there going to be immigration reform?
Well, first of all, thanks for sharing
your story and the president
overwhelmingly won uh the vote of
Hispanic Americans in the previous
election and swept counties on the
border of Texas that are predominantly
Hispanic counties because to your very
point, Hispanic Americans and legal
immigrants to this country from all
countries are so sick and tired of
seeing were we're so sick and tired of
seeing the mass invasion of illegal
immigrants that was allowed to occur
under the previous administration and it
was an issue the president ran on and he
delivered on. These mass deportations
are underway and it is currently the
position of this administration. We are
focused on removing as many illegal
alien criminals from our communities as
possible. And not only are we doing that
for law-abiding American citizens, but
uh also legal immigrants, as you said,
who who are citizens now and came here
the right way, waited their turn, paid
their dues. it's a slap in the face uh
to them. And so um there's a lot of
reforms that need to be made to our
legal immigration system. The president
has talked about that, but our initial
focus right now and our priority is
cleaning up the mess that the previous
administration left us. Um and there's
there's more work to do. Um but a lot of
progress has been made thus far. CJ,
yeah, you know, also thank you so much
Caroline for having us here. you know,
also on the topic of immigration. Not
only do I think, you know, the legal
immigrant community welcomes what the
president's doing, but also the black
community. So, I would love to get your
reaction to recent comments made by
Simone Sanders who said that people of
color would be next in line for
deportation under this president. Now,
that was a revelation to me and probably
many others in the black community.
Being a lifelong American, I'm not
really sure where Tom Hman would send me
other than my childhood home in Augusta,
Georgia. But why do you think this
fear-mongering is being directed at the
black community over the issue of
immigration? And do you think it's
offensive to conflate illegal aliens who
are rapists, traffickers, and sexual
abusers with law-abiding citizens in the
black community? It's absolutely insane
and it is racist what she is saying. Uh
the president intends on deporting
illegal alien criminals who broke our
nation's laws and are not only impacting
uh communities across the country, but
in particular communities of color in
our inner cities. You remember the story
out of New York City where young
minority children were kicked out of
their public school to make room for
illegal immigrants to sleep on the floor
of their cafeteria. That is putting
America last. Doesn't matter your race,
your religion, or creed. If you are a
law-abiding American citizen, President
Trump is going to put you first. Shame
on Sim Simone Sanders for saying that.
She knows better, but she's trying to
fear people into disliking this
president with lies. But I think uh the
American public are much smarter than
she believes that they are, and that's
why they reelected President Trump. Oh,
go ahead. Hi. Hi, Caroline. So, um, as
the youngest press secretary in history,
who is a wife and a mom, you've become
wildly popular with America First
Patriots. Um, as an 18-year-old, I can
say you're definitely an inspiration to
Gen Z. Uh, what has been the biggest
highlight for you in these first hundred
historic days? Thank you for asking that
and saying that, Bo. I am Gen Z. I think
I heard the term zelennial. Um, because
I'm right on the cusp of millennial and
Gen Z, and Jack is cringing at
that. But there's been so many
highlights. Just being here every day is
such a blessing and an honor. And I'll
share a quick story to that point. you
know, the president um I'm only here
because the president believed in me and
um uplifted me and so many others who
are working so hard across this
administration. This administration is
filled with young, vibrant people who
come to work every day hungry and eager
to help accomplish the president's goals
and I think we're seeing a real
reawakening amongst young people across
the country. president spoke directly to
young people during his campaign uh
inspiring confidence in them and
restoring hope in the American dream.
Basic common sense values of faith and
family and freedom that truly do
resonate with young people. The American
dream of home ownership of being able to
afford to raise a family and to have
children. It's a beautiful thing and I
think the president openly talking about
it has inspired so many young minds and
opened up so many young hearts and u I'm
just so honored to be in this role. The
president t he's wrote about it in his
books and he's talked about it himself
when he was in his 20s he was building
buildings in Manhattan. Um so certainly
he believes in the strength and uh the
ability of young Americans across the
country like yourself here at the White
House at just 18 years old. Thanks for
being here into the back row. Thank you
so much for having us here, Caroline. It
underscores President Trump's
transparency. Shifting focus a little
bit to what's happening on our
universities. President Trump has
finally put American students over
violent foreign nationals. And right
now, we're seeing the media whitewash
the violence perpetrated on our college
campuses. We see many universities
trying to bypass President Trump's
executive order. And my question is how
exactly does President Trump in will
make sure that these universities are
being properly held accountable and
violent foreign nationals who are taking
over campus buildings are sent back
home. Yeah. Well, to Jack's earlier
question about political violence, we
have this is another form of political
violence we've seen stem from the left
with the pro- Hamas movement that took
place on college campuses and
universities. In fact, I recall being in
Manhattan courtroom during the Alvin
Bragg case against President Trump in
the midst of the campaign and we were in
that courthouse watching the television
as these violent riots unfolded on the
campus of Columbia University. And I
remember the president watching the
television saying, "When we are back, we
are going to fix this. This is
ridiculous." and immediately directed
his campaign staff at the time to insert
it into the speeches and to make sure
the American public knew he was not
going to tolerate violence on our
nation's college campuses and the
illegal harassment against Jewish
American students. He has taken
incredibly strong position on this
already. He has brought many of these
colleges and universities to their knees
by threatening their federal funding and
in a few cases cutting federal funds. If
you violate federal law, you will not
receive federal funds under this
administration. It's very simple. If you
allow the illegal harassment and
violence against students of any race or
religion on your campus, you will not
receive federal funding. You are
violating Title Six, which is federal
law. President's made that very clear.
And you've seen many of these colleges
um come come to the table and admit
their wrongdoing and apologize for it
because they know they were wrong.
Unfortunately, we didn't have a
president at the time who was holding
them accountable, who was completely
silent as students were being targeted.
As for the visas, same is true. The
president and the secretary of state,
Marco Rubio, who's doing a tremendous
job, have taken incredibly strong action
on this as well. And Marco Rubio, as our
secretary of state, reserves the right
to resend visas from foreign nationals
who have the privilege of studying on
our nation's colleges and universities.
And if you engage in illegal behavior,
if you're engaging in activity that's um
contrary to our nation's foreign policy
interests, then you will no longer have
the privilege of coming and studying
here. We're going to put American
citizens and American students first,
and only the best and brightest should
be allowed to come to our country and
study at our nation's colleges and
universities. So, um again, such a
pleasure to see all of you here today.
Thank you so much for coming to the
White House. We hope you enjoy the rest
of this beautiful day at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue and thanks for all
that you do. Take care. Thank you. Thank
you.