Memorial Day 2025 Highlights

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Andy Mack
All right, welcome back in here to Live Now from Fox. I am Andy Mack. We are just watching as President Trump returning from New Jersey to Washington, D.C. on this Memorial Day weekend, and he spoke to reporters, the cameras there for just a little bit, talking about tariffs, saying he spoke with the European Union also about the recent attacks by Russia in Ukraine, and saying what he's seeing is that, quote, Putin is killing a lot of people. I don't like it at all. Let's listen in to the president here on Live Now from Fox as he boards Air Force One.

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Donald Trump
Done a lot of good work over the last couple of days. Being at West Point yesterday was incredible, what incredible people they are. And I think it was a very big success and it was an honor to be there. Very importantly, we had some very good talks with Iran yesterday and today, and let's see what happens. But I think we could have some good news on the Iran front, likewise with Hamas on Gaza. We want to see if we can stop that. And Israel, we've been talking to them, and we want to see we can stop that whole situation as quickly as possible. But having to do with Nuclear, we've had some very, very good talks with Iran. And I don't know if I'll be telling you anything good or bad over the next two days, but I have a feeling I might be telling you something good.

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Donald Trump
We've had some real progress, serious progress. On any other front, I don't now. Do you have any questions?

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Journalist
Do you have a message for the Senate? A lot of Republicans have said there are to going be significant changes to the budget bill.

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Donald Trump
What I want the Senate and the Senators to change, you know, to make the changes they want. And we'll go back to the House and we'll see if we can get them. In some cases, those changes maybe are something I'd agree with, to be honest. You know, it happens. But we've had a very good response from the Senate. And I don't know how Democrats can't vote for it. If they don't vote for It, they're talking about a 68% tax increase. Remember that. If the Democrats don't vote, it's a 68% tax increase, which is ridiculous.

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Donald Trump
And one of the things that's being covered indirectly is the fact that we'll be lowering the cost of drugs from 50% to 85% under Trump. And it's gonna have indirectly something to do, not directly, but indirectly something to do with the bill, the one big beautiful bill, and it is a big beautiful bill. And so I think the Senate is gonna get there, I hope they're gonna get there. I think they're gonna have changes, some will be minor and some will be fairly significant, but We've been working with the House all the way up. They've been working together. And the Speaker has been working with the leader of the Senate. And you know, they've done a great job. John Thune and Mike Johnson have done a fantastic job. They've been work together all the way up, so hopefully that'll be fine. President Trump,

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Journalist
President Trump, Andrew Cuomo is under federal investigation, do you have a comment on that and how that should impact the mayoral election coming up?

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Donald Trump
No, I was surprised. I didn't know exactly. I just read about it just like you did, having to do with Andrew. I've known Andrew and we've had an on off relationship. He was saying the greatest things about me. I'm the greatest president, etc. And then the next day it hit us, but I did a lot for them. I brought in the ship during the COVID crisis. I brought in The Mercy ship and I built about 3000 units in the Javits Convention Center. He didn't use them, I don't understand. He wanted them but he didn't use it. But I hope it's gonna be okay. I hope it is not gonna be serious for him. Let's see what happens.

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Journalist
About the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, did you discuss the 50% tariffs and did you agree to?

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Donald Trump
She just called me as you know, and she asked for an extension in the June 1st And she said she wants to get down to serious negotiation because I told you specifically, I told anybody that would listen, they have to do that. And we had a very nice call and I agreed to move it, I believe June 9th would be, July 9th would the date. That was the date she requested. Could we move it from June 1st to July 9th? And I agreed to do that and that she said we will rapidly get together and see if we can work something out.

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Journalist
You announced on Friday about U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel. Yeah. What will the ownership structure look like? What made you decide?

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Donald Trump
It'll be controlled by the United States. Otherwise, I wouldn't make the deal. I went to the unions, to all of the local unions. They all wanted it. And I'm doing it because all of the congressmen came in, about five of them. And the others, I understand, are in concurrence. And they asked that I do it everybody seems to want it and we'll see I mean you know we'll see what the final is but they're going to invest millions of dollars in steel and it's a good company Nissan's a very good company we'll see but it would it's an investment and it's apportion ownership but it'll be controlled by the USA

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Journalist
President Trump, on Saudi Arabia, you came back with a lot of investments. There's an American who's stuck there and facing a trial for tweets. His family wants you to intervene and ask the Crown Prince to let him go. What do you think about that?

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Donald Trump
I haven't heard about it at all. Have you given me the information? On the plane. Are you on the plane? Give me the information. I'll see what I can do. Do you think he's okay?

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Journalist
I'm a reporter. I can't tell you.

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Donald Trump
I know, but are you giving a recommendation?

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Journalist
No, I'm not. Okay.

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Donald Trump
Well, then maybe I won't do it. I don't know. You tell me. The way you posed the question, I thought you assumed it was okay. What did he do, supposedly?

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Journalist
He sent some political tweets about Saudi Arabian politics.

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Donald Trump
Were they bad?

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Journalist
He said he approved renaming a street in D.C. It was fairly innocent stuff by American standards.

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Donald Trump
Let me take a look.

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Journalist
An update on Russia and Ukraine as well?

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Donald Trump
Yeah, I'll give you an update. I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people. And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities and killing people. And I don' like it at all, OK? We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it at al.

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Donald Trump

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Journalist
What do you want to do about that?

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Donald Trump
I'm surprised. I'm very surprised. We'll see what we're gonna do. What am I gonna tell you? You're the fake news, aren't you? You are totally fake. All right, any other questions? I don't like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He's killing people. And something happened to this guy and I don't like it.

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Journalist
Can I follow up on that? A Russian commander reportedly said that Putin was almost caught in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine. So do you have any-

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Donald Trump
I haven't heard that, but- Maybe that would be a reason, I don't know, but I have not heard that. 

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Journalist
President Trump, Secretary Hexeth's acting chief of staff is a Biden administration holdover who has said some very critical things about you and Vice President Vance. Do you have thoughts on that?

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Donald Trump
Who is the chief of staff?

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Journalist
Ricky Correa.

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Donald Trump
I have no idea who he is, but if he did say that, I would recommend that we don't take him. I mean, if you did say something like that, I would recommend we don't take them. But let's see. I'll take a look. Maria, I'll check it out. Yeah.

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Journalist
On Harvard, do you think you'll come for their endowment in any way or go after financial aid?

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Donald Trump
Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31%, almost 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard. We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard. But there are 31%, but they refuse to tell us who the people are. We want to know who the people. Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with.

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Donald Trump
I'm not going to have a problem foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there And to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31% foreign. Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard. We do. So why are they doing so many? Number one. Number two, we want a list of those foreign students, and we'll find out whether or not they're okay. Many will be okay, I assume. And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad. And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic. Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic and that's got to stop immediately.

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Journalist
Secretary,

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Donald Trump
where are you with?

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Journalist
New York Post.

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Donald Trump
I like the New York Post, I like Keith Poole.

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Donald Trump
So, I'm gonna be nicer to him, I didn't know. Go ahead.

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Journalist
Secretary Besant has said that we don't need to return textile manufacturing to the United States. How do you see- A lot of your reciprocal tariffs are pretty big on those low income countries.

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Donald Trump
I tend to agree. We're not looking to make sneakers and T shirts and we want to make military equipment. We want to make big things. We want to do the AI thing with the computers and the many, many, many elements. But the textile. I'm not looking to make t-shirts to be honest. I'm not look to make socks. We can do that very well at other locations. We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things. And tanks meaning ships, yeah.

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Journalist
We're happy with the talks with Iran. Will there be another round of talks soon?

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Donald Trump
Very soon, Iran, the Iran talks. I can't tell you what's gonna happen tomorrow. I can tell you the Iran talks have been going very well. I'd love that to happen because I'd love to see no bombs dropped. A lot of people dead. I really would like to see that happen. And I think there's a good chance that it could happen.

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Journalist
You mentioned you're unhappy with President Putin. You've talked before about putting more sanctions on Russia. Is that something you're considering more?

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Donald Trump
Absolutely. He's killing a lot of people. I don't know what's wrong with him. What the hell happened to him? right? He's killing a lot of people. I'm not happy about that. Go ahead, what else? Anything else?

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Journalist
Was the person arrested for, attempting to apply in Israel to throw Molotov cocktails at a US Embassy office in Tel Aviv.

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Donald Trump
Yeah.

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Speaker 5
The person also reported, ladies and gentlemen, German US citizen issued threats against your life.

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Donald Trump
Against my life?

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Journalist
Against your life, yes, sir.

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Donald Trump
We've got a lot of them around, got a lot of sick people around. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.

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Andy Mack
Just listening in there to President Trump talking about a variety of topics as he boards Air Force One to return to the White House on this Memorial Day weekend. And it's a plenty to talk about in terms of that with the talks with Russia, Iran, and also with the European Union as we're learning more right now about this here on Live Now from Fox. This from the European Union president saying, I had a good call with President Trump. The EU and the U.S. share the world's most consequential and close trade relationship. Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively to reach a good deal. We need the time until July the 9th. And this was in the immediate aftermath of this as President Trump responded to this post on social media as well.

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Andy Mack
As he said here on Live Now from Fox saying, quote, I received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% tariffs with respect to trade and the European Union. I agreed to the extension July 9th, 2025. It was my privilege to do so. The commission president said that talks will begin rapidly. Thank you. for your attention to this matter. So that coming in here just in the last few moments that President Trump agrees to delay the tariffs with the European Union until the 9th. It was on Friday, just Friday, they threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union, as well as a 25% tax on smartphones, unless those were made in the United States. The live picture right now there in Washington, D.C. at the White House.

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Andy Mack
Of course, he did mention in that meeting in the Oval Office saying, quote, I'm not looking for a deal. We've set the deal. It's at 50 percent. Of course this comes right now a couple days later as he says and agrees to that the tariffs on the European Union will take place until July the 9th to give them a little bit more time for talks and discussions about the relationship between the EU and the United States. So we're following all of this very closely here on Live Now from Fox on this Memorial Day weekend and plenty to discuss as President Trump was also talking about the recent attacks by Russia in Ukraine, saying that, quote, Putin is killing a lot of people. I don't like it at all. I don't Like what Putin is doing, talking about the recently attacks by Russia.

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Andy Mack
Also mentioning the recent developments with Harvard, talking about this, saying I'm not looking to make socks, saying he wants a list of foreign students and he will go after the endowment. Also discussed conversations with Iran. He says he can't tell us what will happen tomorrow. So plenty of top headlines here on Live Now from Fox is President Trump departing New Jersey, heading back to Washington, D.C. on this Memorial Day weekend. Also mentioned the fact that he was the commencement speaker at the West Point yesterday, at West Point yesterday. So we're following all of these here on Live Now from Fox. We're back after this.

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