We're going to be selling a gold card.

You have a green card.

This is a gold card.

We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 billion.

And that's going to give you green card privileges plus.

It's going to be a route to citizenship.

And wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card.

They'll be wealthy and they'll be successful.

And they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes.

And employing a lot of people.

And we think it's going to be extremely successful.

Okay, thank you very much.

We're having some very good news today.

A lot of companies are coming into our country.

And they're signing deals that are going to pay a lot of money and create a lot of jobs.

And they're coming in largely because they think they feel good about our country.

And maybe the tariffs to a certain extent.

But they feel very good about the country right now and so do I.

And great things are happening.

We're going to be signing some executive orders and some other things.

And we'll maybe go down the list.

And Will, if you would, please.

First, we have an executive order for your attention.

In 2019, during your previous administration, you imposed price transparency requirements on the healthcare industry.

This was a significant driver in lowering the costs of healthcare during your first administration.

Those requirements were largely reversed by the Biden administration.

Now we're reinstated.

Or terminated, right?

Terminated.

We're strengthening them.

The idea is to make price transparency a key aspect of healthcare policy in America.

It's one of the biggest things that can happen to reducing costs in healthcare.

It takes a little while to kick in.

But Biden ended it immediately upon coming in.

Which was a terrible travesty in my opinion.

And we're going to start it up.

And we've actually made it even stronger.

Yes, sir.

By a couple of major factors, right?

Anybody have any question on price transparency?

It allows people to go out and negotiate in price.

And you're not allowed to even talk about it when you go into a hospital or see a doctor.

And this allows you to go out and talk about it.

And it's actually one of the biggest.

There's a couple of people that actually going back a long way that feel that, that are real pros in the industry feel this is the biggest thing you can do for cutting prices.

And it certainly is one of them.

And it's been unpopular in some circles because people make less money.

But it's, it's great for the patient.

It's great for the people in our country.

It's not so good for, it's not so good for pharmaceuticals.

It's not so good for the companies that make the drugs.

And I guess you could say it probably isn't so great for hospitals.

But they say that if you have a great hospital that's really knows what they're doing, it's actually great for a hospital because everybody wants to go there.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Got it?

Done?

Thank you, sir.

Pull a surprise.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Next, we have for your attention, for your attention, another executive order.

Copper is a critical material and the supply of copper is vital to our national security.

In recent years, we've dealt with a significant issue of the dumping of foreign copper into the American market that significantly impacted the domestic production and manufacture of copper and copper materials.

This executive order charges your Secretary of Commerce with starting the process to potentially impose tariffs or other trade barriers to prevent this ongoing dumping of copper and to protect the American manufacture and production of copper.

It will have a big impact.

Howard, do you want to say something about that?

Yeah.

Do you mind if I read one of your truths?

Yeah, sure.

So this is a truth that's about to go out.

Like our steel and aluminum industries, our great American copper industry has been decimated by global actors attacking our domestic production.

To build back our copper industry, I have requested my Secretary of Commerce and USTR to study copper imports and end unfair trade putting Americans out of work.

Tariffs will help rebuild back our American copper industry and strengthen our national defense.

American industries depend on copper and they should be made in America.

No exemptions, no exceptions.

America first creates American jobs and protects our national security.

It's time for copper to come home.

Edward, is it all right with you if I can talk a little bit about the digital services tax?

Would that be all right?

Yeah, of course.

Go ahead, do that.

So I read another truth.

This is sort of so fun to read his words.

It can't be any better.

So our incredible United States economy and undeniable American spirit has enabled the creation of the greatest technology companies on earth.

Our digital economy is bigger than most of the world's countries and the market cap of even one of our companies exceeds every European country.

Instead of empowering their workers and creating opportunities, foreign governments have instead tried to tax, fine and hinder American technology companies.

Both friend and foe have been treating American tech companies harshly as if our companies are their piggy bank.

This will now end.

It is my objective to level the playing field and end these attacks.

We are putting these countries on notice to end their unfair treatment of American companies, large and small.

Our companies are the greatest investors in the world.

So our tech companies are the greatest investors in the world and their investments will go only to where American companies are treated fairly.

Our ingenuity, grit, drive and perseverance have built America.

If these countries want to participate in the AI industrial revolution, it's time to choose sides with America, not against us.

And we sign that on Friday, sir.

Okay.

Very big deal, right? And that's a very big one that Howard just read.

They're both big.

They're all big.

We're only doing big ones.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Mr. President, is that the culmination of ongoing conversations that you've had with your counterparts in this particular executive order?

Which one?

Last or...?

No, the digital tax is taking place all over Europe.

They're taxing us and they're doing other things.

They're suing all our companies.

And if that's going to happen, we want to be the ones that sue, not them.

And they use it almost as a form of running European countries.

And the EU in particular has been very violent in its lawsuits against our companies.

And frankly, very violent and very bad to our airlines.

I've gotten calls from the heads of airlines saying they stop in Europe and they're getting charged all sorts of taxes that they never even heard of.

They stop and they're getting fined and charged.

And they do it only with American companies.

They're not doing it to other countries.

So we're stopping it.

And we have another thing.

We have another step to go.

And if they don't shape up...

As an example, Apple has had to pay like $17 billion in a lawsuit that nobody thought was worth anything.

And I won't get into the judge or the decision or how the decision was arrived, but I'm pretty good at this stuff and I think it's disgraceful.

And Google's being sued, Facebook's being sued, and many others are being sued by their so-called government, if you call it a government, EU.

And they don't treat us right.

They don't treat us right as a country.

So we're going to protect our companies.

We have to protect our companies.

So we're not going to have any companies left anymore.

I also want to thank Apple, though, for announcing they're going to invest $500 billion in our country.

That's the biggest investment anybody's probably made to this date.

And they're going to do it very quickly.

And that's because of tariffs.

They don't want to pay the tariffs.

And they feel very strongly about the country now.

They wouldn't have done it without us.

Without the Trump administration, they wouldn't have done it.

But they feel very strongly about the direction of the country.

The polls have shown that too.

The polls are coming out showing direction of the country is the best they've ever seen, actually.

Best they've ever seen.

So I just want to thank Tim Cook and Apple for the confidence. $500 billion.

That's the biggest investment anyone has made in a short period of time.

Well, I'm not involved in that.

They know what I want.

And the Senate knows what I want, too.

And the Senate's got a bill that's very strong, having to do with the taxes.

Because the taxes is what's bringing all these companies in.

And without it, by the way, you'd have to double your own taxes.

Everybody would be doubled up.

You'd have the biggest tax increase ever.

So the House has a bill and the Senate has a bill.

And I'm looking at them both.

And I'll make decisions.

But I don't know where they are in the vote.

I know the Senate's doing very well.

And the House is doing very well.

But each one of them has things that I like.

So we'll see if we can come together.

Mr. President, can you clarify, hopefully once and for all, what your expectations are with this email to federal employees?

What are you going to use that information for?

And do you see it as voluntary, like OPM has said, or mandatory?

Well, it's somewhat voluntary.

But it's also, if you don't answer, I guess you get fired.

I'm still lost on that.

What it is, is do people exist?

We have this massive government with millions of people.

And nobody knows who's working for the government, who's not.

So what they're doing is they're sending out a letter to everybody.

And they're saying, what were the things you did last week?

I guess they ask for five.

And if people are working, it's easy.

I could tell you five things I did last week.

I could tell you five things I did six weeks ago, right?

If they're there and they're working, they're able to say they did five things during work.

And that means they're working and they're with us and they have no further obligation.

If they're not, it could be there's no such person.

It could be that the person's no longer working.

They're no longer living at that address.

They maybe moved.

Maybe they moved to a different country.

Or maybe the person doesn't exist.

And we then take that person off the payroll.

And we save a lot of money by doing that.

But that's one of the only ways.

I think it's a very smart thing.

And it says, if you don't answer, essentially, you know, there's a penalty to pay.

Like, that's the end of the job.

Musk has said that.

The order itself doesn't say that.

I think that's part of the confusion.

Is he speaking for you when he says you'll be terminated?

Yeah, everybody speaks for me.

I'm the one.

I'll take responsibility.

You know the old statement, the buck stops here, right?

Famous statement.

Well, I can say the same thing.

The buck stops here.

No, we have to find out if people are getting paid and they're not working.

And, you know, they have a problem.

Let's say they have another job.

And then they write in false statements.

It's a big problem if they write in false statements.

They may be working for somebody else, but getting paid by the U.S. government.

And that would mean that they're not allowed to be doing that.

You know, they're not allowed to be working for us and be working for somebody else.

We're paying them a lot of money.

We're paying them.

So we'll see.

That solves that problem.

Most people aren't willing to say that, you know, we're doing this, this, this, and this, and this for the U.S. government, and yet they add another job.