00:001978, the Kennedy Center Honors have been among the most prestigious awards in the performing
00:05arts. I wanted one. I was never able to get one. This year, it's true, actually. I would
00:10have taken it if they would have called me. I waited and waited and waited. And I said,
00:15the hell with it. I'll become chairman. And I'll give myself an honor. Maybe I'm
00:19going to honor. Next year, we'll honor Trump, okay? Michael Crawford is being honored.
00:25The award winner and action movie icon and a friend of mine. His name is Sylvester Stallone.
00:39Sir George Strait.
00:47Together, celebrating one of the most revered singers of the American disco era, Gloria Gaynor.
00:55Best known for her chart-topping 1978 hit, I Will Survive. And finally,
01:05we'll be honoring one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Kiss.
01:132025 Kennedy Center Honors. It's going to be a big evening. I've been asked to host.
01:21I said, I'm the president of the United States. Are you fools asking me to do that? Sir, you'll get
01:28much higher ratings. I said, I don't care. I'm president of the United States. I won't do it.
01:34They said, please. And then Susie Wells said to me, sir, I'd like to get a host. I said, okay,
01:39Susie, I'll do it. That's the power she's got. But I just, uh, so I have agreed to host. Do you believe
01:47what I have to do? And I didn't want to do it. Okay. They're going to say he insisted. I did not
01:52insist. But I think it will be quite successful, actually. It's been a long time. I used to host
01:58the apprentice finales and we did rather well with that. Incredible. And she's, uh, you're going to
02:03see a big change in Washington crime stats very soon. Oh, they're not the stats that they gave,
02:07because they turned out to be a total fraud. The real stats, the stats went through the roof. You know,
02:12they had a, a man that was forced to put up stats like they were doing better. They're not doing
02:17better. Crime is the worst it's ever been. But it's, it started as of about yesterday. Uh,
02:22it started to, uh, you see a big change and people are feeling safe already. I've had so many calls.
02:27Thank you, sir. Thank you. They were afraid to walk out. They're not afraid anymore.
02:32So we're going to need a crime bill, uh, that we're going to be putting in. Uh, and it's going to
02:37pertain initially to DC. It's almost, we're going to use it as a very positive example.
02:44And, uh, we're going to be asking for extensions on that long term extensions,
02:48because you can't have 30 days, 30 days is that's by the time you do it. Uh,
02:53we're going to have this in good shape. And don't forget in the border,
02:58everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back to Congress. I never went to Congress for
03:02anything. I just said, close the border. And they closed the border.
03:07And that was the end of it. I didn't go back to Congress. We're going to do this very quickly,
03:11but we're going to want extensions. I don't want to call national emergency. If I have to, I will.
03:16But, uh, I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously.
03:20How do you feel about Mayor Bowser's level of cooperation and her choosing to advocate for DC
03:25statehood right now? And well, the state, let me do that one. Statehood is ridiculous.
03:32We want to straighten the place out. Statehood's ridiculous. It's unacceptable.
03:37It's, uh, the Democrats want it because the Democrats have, you know, about 95% in this little
03:43area. Even I, I didn't get it very much. They want that. They want to pick up two senators and
03:49it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. And that's the least of the reasons why,
03:53by the way, but that's one of the reasons why.
04:06So,
04:28you
04:28You
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