President Donald Trump blasted Democratic primary winners, warning that the party is moving toward the "radical left." Speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump claimed socialism and communism have "never, ever worked" and argued that progressive victories in New York could alienate mainstream voters nationwide. Trump also touted Republican electoral success, boasting of a near-perfect endorsement record while predicting Democratic struggles in future national elections. The remarks intensify the political battle ahead of the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race.
President Trump discusses the rise of democratic socialism in New York, criticizing it as communism. He addresses the SAVE Act, housing affordability linked to interest rates, and his views on Chuck Schumer. Additionally, he touches upon diplomatic relations with Turkey regarding F-35 jets and announces a DOJ investigation into oil companies for potential price gouging at the pump.
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President Trump, great night for Democratic Socialist candidates last night in the New
York primaries.
They swept and knocked out two incumbents.
You're from New York.
Why do you think it is that now the endorsement of Zoran Mamdani means more than the endorsement
of Hakeem Jeffries?
Well, they're going radical left.
They're going really, you know, you talk about the Democrat Socialists, you took really,
it's really communist.
That's these people.
I watched that woman last night.
That's not a socialist.
I know socialists.
That's it.
That woman is a communist.
And you know what they don't say is that I was 16 and 0 last night.
But mine were a little more boring, a little more mainstream.
They were Republican conservatives, but we were 16 and 0.
And if you look over the last two and a half years, we're about 347 and just about 0.
That's pretty good.
Loser.
Dan Goldman, he was one of my prosecutors, one of my many prosecutors that they used
on me.
Dan Goldman, not a good prosecutor, fortunately, but he's now looking for a job.
I would, I was very surprised to see, you know, because he's a pretty liberal guy.
When they go more liberal than Dan Goldman, they're really at the end of the line.
Does this tell you that the Democratic Party's 2028 nominee will likely be, or could likely
be a democratic socialist?
Well, it should make it easier for Republicans because most of the nation is composed of
sane people.
They don't want to, you know, if you look throughout history, go back thousands of years,
you've always had socialism and communism by different names.
It's never ever worked.
It's not going to work this time.
Mr. President, you just had a colorful lunch on the Senate.
Would you be open to a compromise measure that had provisions of the SAVE Act into a
re-conciliation bill?
Not really.
No, the SAVE Act should be, it's not a compromise, it's voter ID, it's proof of citizenship,
and it's also the mail-in ballots.
We want mail-in ballots for the military if they're away, we want them for people that
are ill, or people that are in some form handicapped, or have a hard time, or people
even that are on vacation.
I'm open to that, but mail-in ballots, you have to vote because we have a lot of rigged
elections.
Would you be open to a housing bill if it came to your desk, sir?
Would you be so open?
About what?
If the housing bill that you didn't sign today, if it came to your desk?
No, I said I'm not signing the housing bill.
I want to see what happens.
We said, look, the housing bill is, housing, I made billions of dollars with housing.
I know housing better than anybody, maybe anywhere.
It's all about the interest rate.
Lower the interest rates, you're going to have all the housing you want.
But you have to understand, I don't want to hurt people that own houses, too.
These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses.
They become rich.
I don't want to hurt them either.
What you want to do is, what's good for everyone?
Get the interest rates down.
We have this numbskull that was the head of the Fed before, and he's a stupid person.
And we called him too late, because he was too late with the interest rates all the time.
We need low interest rates.
Low interest rates will solve everything.
Will solve that.
Now, despite that, we're doing well with housing.
But where we're really doing well is oil is plummeting and costs are coming down.
Affordability, we're doing great.
The Democrats gave us a tremendous affordability problem, and we're reducing prices a lot.
So we're doing great in our negotiations with Iran.
Right in the middle of one of the key things, which we're going to get anyway, we got, we
have breaking news.
The Senate has voted that they'd like Trump to stop the war.
So Iran sees that and they go, what's that all about?
Now you know it's meaningless, right?
But I had lunch with them.
We had four Republican senators and all Democrats.
You know, Democrats, they want to lose the war because they're stupid.
That's why we call them Democrats, you know?
I no longer use the E. I use, I've changed the E into a U.
We call them Democrats.
They're dumb.
Their policy is so bad.
That's why they have to, they, they are opposed to the Save America Act because they don't
want voter ID.
They don't want proof of citizenship.
You know why?
Because they have to cheat.
Their policy is so bad that if they don't cheat, they wouldn't win an election.
They're phenomenal cheaters and they stick together.
But you know, the people, the Democrat people are 87 percent in favor of the Save America
Act.
Last night, of course, you know, as Peter pointed out, we saw the Mamdani back candidates
winning Jeffrey's and Schumer's backyard.
You told me in October that Schumer was gonzo and that Mamdani was the leader of the party.
The last night's results of that assessment and well, Schumer's lost his way.
He's become essentially a Palestinian.
I think it's the greatest transformation of a political position I've ever seen.
And Chuck Schumer, who was a strong supporter of Israel and he's become 100 percent Palestinian.
In fact, I've asked for a beautiful, beautiful silk outfit to be sent in the Palestinian
tradition.
I'm going to send it to him as a birthday present.
Now it's, it's the greatest transformation of a political ideology I've ever seen.
Chuck Schumer is Jewish and he was a strong supporter of Israel.
But not that strong because he let the Obama, even though he was opposed to it, he let the
JCPOA get through.
He could have fought that harder with Barack Hussein Obama.
Have you heard of him?
So, but Chuck Schumer is a Palestinian now, sad.
Do Democrats have a problem on their hands now that, you know, Obama and Mamdani, they're
two true leaders.
Neither of them can run for president in 2018.
Well, you know, Mamdani was here, as you know, twice, and he's a very nice guy.
He's a charming guy.
Good looking guy.
We talked, we talked, but you can't raise taxes on people where you force them to leave
your state or your city and they're leaving and they're going to Florida.
Most of them are going down to Palm Beach in Miami, but they're just leaving.
And they're paying 90 percent of your taxes.
And I keep wondering, how are you going to do this?
Every day you read about somebody that's leaving for Florida, mostly Florida, and other places,
but they're leaving.
You can't put estate taxes on that are so high that when a loving father or mother dies
and they leave it to their beautiful child, the child is supposed to pay 50 percent tax.
That's on top of federal tax, right?
So, basically, you're leaving them nothing.
What you're doing is you're just, I mean, you can be liberal.
You can be anything.
It's common sense.
You're forcing people to leave, and these are the people that pay the taxes.
They pay 90 percent of the taxes, and they're leaving New York, and they're leaving California, too.
Mr. President, you said yes to the jet engines, but you're a very direct, very straightforward,
no-nonsense man, as you're known in Turkey as well.
What needs to happen for the F-35 deal to be finalized?
Why didn't you answer that question, J.D.?
I want to give you an easy one.
Okay, thank you, sir.
He's done a great job of it.
Well, I know that Pete and the entire team are reviewing this right now because there
are certain things that we have to certify that have happened in order to comply with
American law.
The President has asked us to do that.
We're running the traps and confirming that's happened.
This is really a congressional thing and ensuring that Turkey has complied with American law
so they can get the F-35s.
And, of course, we'll announce that when we have that.
We're going to work on it.
Yeah, we're going to work on it.
Look, hey, he's a man who's a little controversial, but I am, too.
But I know him.
I think he's a very good person.
He's helped us a lot.
He's been – he really – anytime I've – like, as an example, I said I'd love you to stay
out of the war with Iran.
That's a natural for him, right?
He stayed out.
I like him.
A lot of times when they have a problem with Erdogan, they call me and they say, well,
you talk to him.
They'll call me.
They'll say, could you do me a favor and talk to him?
You have a question in the back?
No, yeah, in the back.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Earlier today, you instructed your Department of Justice to do an investigation for oil
companies that you said gas prices were not coming down quick enough, and you are concerned
that there is price gouging going on, taking advantage of the crisis.
So it's ExxonMobil, it's Chevron, it's Shell, it's BP, it's a lot of them.
The gasoline or the oil prices have come down so much, and we are not seeing anything at
the pump by comparison to what it should be.
We should be, in my opinion, at $2.25 right now at the pump, and we're higher than that.
And we are doing a big investigation on it, yeah?
They're not reducing the prices commensurate with what's happening.
Look, we are sending out, think of it, 19 million barrels came out yesterday.
That is a flood.
That's like a gusher.
That's an oil gusher.
And they should be much lower, the gasoline prices, which really is what people see more
than anything else, you know, for their car.
But the gasoline prices should be much lower at the pump.
And the oil companies are possibly gouging, I hope they're not, otherwise they're going
to be in big trouble.
They're going to be in big trouble, we're not going to play games.