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ICYMI: President Trump Sits Down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press — Recap, May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025 · The White House · 0:02:52

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What happened

The White House recap intercuts excerpts of the President’s Meet the Press interview. In the excerpts, President Trump says, as he stated it, that prices are down on groceries, on oil and energy, and tremendously on gasoline, and he disputes the interview’s framing, as shown in the clips. On immigration enforcement, he says in the excerpts, as he stated it, that among those to be removed are some murderers, drug dealers, and some of the most dangerous people on earth, that he was elected to get them out, and that the courts are holding him back from doing it, as he stated it.

On the economy, the President says in the excerpts, as he stated it, that the country had been losing more than $5 billion a day and will soon reach a point where it is making money every day, and that small businesses will not need relief because, as he stated it, they are going to make so much money. On his investigations-related executive orders, he says in the excerpts, as he stated it, that people should have the right to criticize him without fear of reprisal, that he has been investigated more than any person in the history of the United States, and that the Attorney General and FBI Director — whom he names as Pam and Kash, as he stated it — are great people who are their own people, as he stated it.

He also says in the excerpts, as he stated it, that the border is the most secure it has ever been in the history of the country, and that he is looking to have four great years and turn the presidency over to, as he put it, ideally a great Republican to carry it forward, saying four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The recap is the White House’s own selection of the interview’s defining lines — on prices, deportation and the courts, and serving four years — which makes it a record of what the administration wanted the public to take from the President’s longest early interview.

Sources: The White House, “ICYMI: President Trump sits down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press”, 2025-05-05 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-05-05). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.