Tariffs are 100 tariffs on china . Im not going to get it today, china is paying 30 on 250 billion. That started another couple weeks. President xi called through his top people and they have a 70th anniversary, very important day for them and happens to be october 1st which is the date of the increase on the tariff and they asked out of respect what i delay the tariff, how about if i move it forward. Let me move it forward because i didnt wanted to fall on the same day. It is exactly october 1st so i said let me move up a couple weeks. They said no. Out of respect for president xi who i have Great Respect for, right now it is 25 . It goes up to 30 on october 15th. Know i havent. I just tell you everybody has read it. They laugh at it and it is another media disaster. The media has lost so much credibility in this country. Our media has become the laughing stock of the world. When you look at what they did to Brett Kavanaugh and so many other things last week this is one of the worst weeks in the history of the fake news media. You have been wrong on so many things in this one will be, i will not say will top the list because you cant do worse than some of the stories you missed over the last week or two but the media of our country is laughed at all over the world, you are a joke. What else . When you talk about the conversation, we are trying to figure out you are supposed to be the media, figure it out. Which conversation. I really dont know. Programs we are doing a great program, mike pence is involved and we have a tremendous program. If you look at our facilities they were virtually closed up, there was crabgrass growing on the runways. We are going to mars. We are stopping at the moon, the moon is a launching pad. That is why we are stopping at the moon. It is a launching pad for mars. We will be doing the moon, we will really be doing mars and we are making tremendous progress. In addition, rich people like to send up rocket ships. Between jeff bezos and elon musk and others, our lunch facilities, there are no lunch facilities like this, this is big stuff. In texas and florida we are leasing them our facilities so they can send up whatever they want to send of is okay with us and they have done very well. They had Great Success but rich people in this country, dont know about your country but they like building rocket ships and sending them up and it is okay with us. Will accrue best to not be on board . Scott and i would rather take a pass. I know him pretty well, he and i will take a pass but there are a lot of people that want to go up and i have Great Respect for the astronauts. How important is it how important is australia . Australias Mineral Industry is massive, far bigger, very few countries have anything approaching what australia has in terms of mineral wealth and you have taken advantage of it and donated an environmentally sensitive way and that is important to you. We talk about it a lot because that business could get out of control a little bit from the standpoint of environment and you have approached it in an environmentally sensitive way. Coal is an example. You are the leader of safety in coalmaking and we studied it. We are doing a lot of coal and you have you almost black lung disease, you almost dont have it anymore. You have all of the dust down and they become wet minds. Technologically advanced industry. Developing the production and all the way through. These are the things we are talking about because australia has a Wonderful Partnership with the United States not just strategically but also economically. That is going to be a big part of this conversation. Environmentally i have to say. The things they have done, digging, when you Talk Minerals it is about digging, what you have done with the environment having to do with taking minerals out of the ground including i would say especially your record is so good in terms of illnesses from digging better than anybody in the world. We will catch you one day. What about i have a dinner tonight. We talked about the schedule, later in the year, the president knows a lot more about golf than i do and swings a better than i do. He has a busy year coming up next year. If he had the opportunity, if mrs. Trump has an opportunity will be a great skeptical. Interestingly the pga tour invited me to go and we have to see what the schedule is. It is a very exciting term. Nothing more exciting. Having it in australia where you have so many great golfers, greg norman is a friend of mine and a great friend of yours and hes going to be here tonight. The first lady has done an incredible job tonight. The first time, certainly one of the few times in the rose garden and it is going to be i watched yesterday the rehearsal and she was out there and it is going to be incredible, tonight is going to be a beautiful night and the only thing that could dampen it would be rain and we are not expecting rain but if it rains we head over to the state room and we will be just fine but we really expect, i hope you will be able to see it tonight, probably will. We will make sure you do. It is beautiful. A coalition to address iran for provocations and does that serve today . I like a coalition. Sometimes you find people made a lot of money you want in a coalition, they made a lot of money with iran which when president obama made that deal not only was it a bad deal that the United States didnt partake in a business sense and other countries, germany, france, russia, other countries made a lot of money with iran and we didnt make money with iran and that was one of the bad parts. Everyone else was making money and we are not. We will see what happens. The United States in a class by itself. Nobody close. We pray to god we dont have to use it, nuclear and the rest of our military is brandnew, the nuclear is at a level it has never been before and i can only tell you because i know the problems of nuclear and the damages, i know what happens and i will tell you we all hope and scott hopes and we all pray we never have to use nuclear but there is nobody that has anywhere close to what we have. Unger will be exciting. We look forward to it, we will be there. You will be there. You it is a much longer trip. We look forward to it. We have a big message. I very much, back to new york in a long time. I see our parttime mayor will be now going back to new york so will work a little bit harder but he dropped out of the president ial race a little while ago. Too bad, he had tremendous potential. The only had one real asset. You know what it was . Other than that he had nothing going. What else . The reaction in iran . I think the United States has taken a measured and calibrated approach to date. The thing about our partnership is we always listened to whatever request, and in the National Interests and we have good conversations. We never get ahead of ourselves. We take this one step at a time and we keep talking to each other and that is what we have always done and we are going to keep doing that. We have an open line of communication. We talk about these things. We will take this one step at a time. The easiest thing for me to do and maybe it is a natural instinct, maybe i have to hold myself back, during the debates when i was running against hillary and the democrats and the media i view them all the same, i view that partnership very much the same but when i was running everybody said he is going to get into war and hes going to get into war, hes going to blow everybody up, hes going to get into war. The easiest thing i can do, i could do it while you are here would be go ahead, go do it. And that would be a very bad day for iran. And in my opinion it shows strength because the easiest thing i could do, go ahead, knock out 15 different major things in iran. I could do that and all set to go. It is all set to go. But i am not looking to do that. I have changed people are very surprised. Many people are extremely happy, many people are thrilled and many people saying i wish you would hit the hell out of them. Lets see what happens. It will take place in one minute. I could do it right here for you and that would be it and you would have a nice big story to report. Iran knows if they misbehave, they are on borrowed time. Theyre not doing well. Id like to see and do great. Id love to see them great. Theyre doing very poorly. They are doing far worse than ever before. Theyre having riots in their streets. Theyre having a lot of problems in iran right now. They could solve the very quickly. But the easiest thing for me to do say okay, lets do it. Very easy before to do. When i was campaigning, anybody who thought i was going to be like, it would be one day. But what ive done is i defeated isis. Ive rebuild our military to a level that its never been before. Spent a lot of money. The budgets are not so hard to fix for me, but when you are spending 1. 5 1. 5 trillion so f, now another 738 billion on the military, but think of it, 1. 5 trillion and were the greatest in the world. But i think its a good thing. How do you plan peace in afghanistan . We were thinking about having a meeting. I didnt like the idea that they could produce a ceasefire. I wasnt in favor of that. I said no, if they cant produce a ceasefire why are we bothering . They thought it was a side of strength that killed 12 people, wounded others, badly what some others and one of those 12 people was a young man, young soldier from puerto rico, from our country. And when heard that i said i dont want to do with them anymore. We have hit and afghanistan, weve hit the taliban harder than theyve ever been hit in the entire 19 years of war. They have been hit harder. Its come back to me through absolute impeccable sources they are saint wow, we made a mistake with this guy. They made a mistake. I was totally willing to have a meeting. I would be with anybody. I think meetings are good. I think meetings are good. Theres no such thing as allergy, we worst that happens, it at the workout, thats okay. Even then you get to know your opposition. Im looking at them like theyre looking at me. You could deny opposition and see if theyre real. Sometimes you develop a relationship like we do but sometimes you develop, many times you wont but you get to know your opposition. I think the best thing thats happened to this country is the fact at least for three years, the fact that the vertical relationship with kim jongun. I think thats a positive. His junta has tremendous potential, he knows that. But our country has been playing around for 50 years and getting nothing. And we have a relationship. Theres never been a relationship with them. Well see what happens. It might work out, it might nt work out. In the meantime he has been testing in a nuclear, no Nuclear Tests since come for a long time. And he has been doing some shortrange missiles but so does every other country do shortrange missiles, every country drinking. They are pretty standard, fair. But no, i will tell you that weve never had a country so strong. We are just a couple of points away from a new stock market alltime high, at a think weve done over 112 times, certain number, whatever it may be. I dont want to be specific because if i give you the wrong number it will be breaking news. I said 112 and 12 and is actually 111. It will be breaking news. They will give me up pinocchio. Let me just say, the country has never been in this position. We have the strokes military weve ever had. And now weve rebuilt. After the 738 billion we really have a with a rebuilt military. Its military. Its a great thing. Some of her friends are doing the same thing. I can tell you australias military is unbelievable. I saw the order they put in for some of our most sophisticated equipment and i said thats really great. They have really upped it and want to congratulate you. You have really done a job on your military. Were in the middle of an upgrade. Biggest increase in our defense as a share of gdp since the second world war. Shout. [inaudible] thats a question i havent heard in a long time. Ill leave that for you to determine. Is it just a trade issue or d. C. China as a as a strategict to the United States . Well, obviously, china is a threat to the world in essence because they are building a military faster than anybody. And, frankly, they are using u. S. Money. Residents before me have allowed china to take out 500 billion a year, and a truly more than that. Theyve allowed china to steal our intellectual property and Property Rights here and im not doing that. And we actually operate close having a deal. We were very close. With intellectual property, all the tough things were negotiated and then at the last moment, scott, they said we cannot agree to this. I said thats all right. Were charging 25 terrace and its going to. And it will continue to go up. And, frankly, were making so many hundreds the numbers were taking in to our treasurer and you see it. Sometimes youll see look at the good reports from look at the great reports that came out two days ago on retailing, on consumers, numbers nobody believes. I think a lot of it, we are taking hundreds and millions potential over a short period of time, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of money is coming in from china that never came in before. So china wants to make a deal. I think we want to make a deal. We will see what happens but i you china in many different ways. But right now im thinking about trade. Trade equals military. Because if we allowed china to take 500 going dollars out of the hide of the United States, that money goes into military and other things 500 billion. I i was hoping i wouldnt be asked that question. It had to be you. You had asked me the question, right, justin x im surprised and is more surprised when i saw the number of times and ive always had a Good Relationship with justin. I just dont know what to tell you. I was surprised by it actually. [inaudible question] a man of steel. I i would say a man of titanium. You know, titanium is much tougher than steel. Hes a man of titanium. Believe me i had to deal with this guy. Hes that easy. You might think hes a nice guy, okay . Hes a man of real, real strength and a great guy. And his wife is lovely and i want to thank you and what to think melania for the work and hope you will be able to melania, shes worked very hard for australia. And youve done a fantastic so beautiful and it will be so different. And we look up to the skies and well just hope its not going to rain and if it is, thats okay, too, because that will work out also. Always works out. Thank you so much. [shouting] there is nothing. Its nothing. [inaudible question] what . [inaudible question] thank you very much, everybody. And a live picture from the east room of the white house where joint News Conference with the two President Trump and australian Prime MinisterScott Morrison was set to start 11 45 a. M. Eastern. It is clearly running behind. We will get it to you when it begins here on cspan2. We are just learning we are about five minutes away from the start of this joint News Conference. Live coverage on cspan2. 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