Editor’s Noes: In this high-profile interview, Jake Paul sits down with President Donald Trump for the debut episode of his podcast to discuss a wide range of personal and political topics. The conversation spans from Trump’s reflections on Jake’s boxing career and his own transition into politics to a detailed recount of the recent assassination attempt he survived. Beyond the headlines, the two explore advice for the younger generation regarding career paths like AI and the importance of resilience in achieving the “American Dream.” This unique meeting of influencer culture and political leadership offers an unfiltered look at their perspectives on winning, global events, and the future of the country. (Mar 13, 2026)
TRANSCRIPT:
The Joshua Fight and Air Force One
JAKE PAUL: Mr. President, what an honor.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, thank you for sitting down with me today. I think we’ll get into some personal stuff, some fun stuff. It’s an honor. We’re here at a factory doing a rally. It’s my first rally and it’s actually my first show on this podcast, so you’ll be my first and last.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Good. Well, we’re going to have to get good ratings.
JAKE PAUL: We gotta get some good ratings. You were flying in on Air Force One, right? Is it true that you watched the Joshua fight on Air Force One?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I watched it. I watched you and I thought you were very brave. He’s a pretty big guy, you know, he’s good and he’s legit. Look, he’s a legitimate fighter and I thought you were great. You did yourself no harm. No, other than your chin, maybe.
JAKE PAUL: Other than the jaw, which is healing. How big is the TV on Air Force One?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s good. It’s good. The best you can have, I tell you. You know, they view it as cost is no object. Right? But it was good. I got to see that. I really watched it. We had a whole plane full of people watching you. And, you know, if size mattered, then I said, he’s going to be in trouble. And they say it matters.
JAKE PAUL: I got into the ring with him and I realized he was much bigger than I thought.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You didn’t see that, like in the weigh in or anything?
JAKE PAUL: No, not at the weigh in. Not at the press conference. And then I got in the ring, I just saw his size and I was just like, okay, this is going to be a tough night.
What’s Next in the Ring
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So who do you fight next?
JAKE PAUL: It’s a good question, I think.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Francis, would you ever fight him again? No.
JAKE PAUL: No, I don’t think so. I think I need to go stay at my weight class.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think so, right?
JAKE PAUL: Maybe doing some MMA. We’re promoting fights now, right? On Netflix, we got Ronda Rousey versus Gina Carano. Maybe Usyk in MMA. Francis Ngannou, Ryan Garcia, maybe Tommy Fury. There’s a lot of. Who would you want to see me fight?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, probably Khabib.
JAKE PAUL: I’m down.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You know, I think he’s been just great. When they say who is the best of those? I mean, I’ve had a lot of fights. I’ve had Mike Tyson and a lot of them. That was great.
Trump Breaking Up a Fight for Kobe
JAKE PAUL: Have you ever been in a fight? I heard a rumor about you, like helping Kobe one time at a game. Is that a true story?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, it wasn’t a fight. I was breaking up a fight.
JAKE PAUL: Okay. Okay.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Which sometimes is more dangerous than being in a fight. Right. But I like Kobe. Kobe was having a hard time with somebody, and it worked out fine. But I broke it up. Probably not a smart thing to do. Historically, it’s never good to break up fights.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, I try to de-escalate situations a lot. But you’re going to be at UFC 250.
UFC 250 at the White House
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I will be. It’s going to be amazing at the White House. And Dana’s a great guy. He’s a good fan of yours, you know. Yes. But Dana, Dana’s a good guy. The best. I mean, there’s nobody like him. And he had the idea of doing, staging it right at the front door of the White House. We’ll be right in the front door of the White House. And he’s got a tremendous card. I don’t even know if it’s filled out, but I just saw it, and it looks like it’s going to be, you know, all top. All top guys. They all want to fight at the White House. So it’s going to be in honor of the 250th year. So it’ll be great.
JAKE PAUL: No, I’m excited. I’m excited to see Sean O’Malley. He’s the homie.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, yeah.
From Business to Politics
JAKE PAUL: He’s a great, great, great fighter. And that’s what I wanted to ask you. Went from boxing promotion, Apprentice, TV shows, and then eventually, you know, obviously real estate. And then eventually was like, okay, I’m going to go into politics. How did that transition happen? Because I see myself wanting to get more into this world. I believe it’s the biggest way to create impact and change.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Would you ever run for office?
JAKE PAUL: I think so. That’s what I’m asking for. Some advice. Like, how did you make that transition and was it hard?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I don’t know. I had to do it. You know, it’s hard. A lot of people talk about it. You had to do it. And I had one shot left. Because you get to a certain age, you have a few years left.
You got about 40 years to make the decision. But I had one shot. You know, the timing was good, but I waited longer. It wouldn’t have been good because of the clock, you know, the famous clock.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Father Time. Yeah. And so I had to make a decision. Do I do it? And I made it. But I’ve been, I was thinking about it for years. I used to talk about it because I was well known. I was very well known. I was successful, did well, loved real estate. Then we had the Apprentice. Mark Burnett was great. And we did, you know, I did lots of number one bestsellers. My books were all bestsellers. And I see we have magazines. I was in this magazine so much. I’m looking at that picture. What are you doing to me? Show me that.
The Assassination Attempt
JAKE PAUL: This is the coolest magazine cover of all time.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah, well, it’s like.
JAKE PAUL: Did it, was it, like, hot on your ear? Could you feel the bullet?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You had that throbbing feeling. You knew there was something. It was a bloody mess. What happens is, well, you know this better than anybody. The ear bleeds more because I said, why is there so much blood? And the ear is a big bleeder having to do with cartilage. I didn’t want to go into it too much, but it was bloody as hell. So when I checked, I put my hand up, I said, you know, I brought it down and it was loaded up. So I said, that’s either the biggest mosquito bite in history or I just got shot. And that was not a pleasant experience.
Jake’s Broken Jaw
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, my adrenaline was pumping. I’m sure your adrenaline was pumping. Like one of my, my jaw was broken. I just couldn’t really feel it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, so you knew that you had a broken, you know.
JAKE PAUL: No, my brother told me. He, I was talking to him, and my teeth were, like, in the center of my mouth, and he was like, yo, I think your jaw is broken. And then I, like, grabbed it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But when he was hitting you,
JAKE PAUL: I didn’t feel it. It was the last punch.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It was the last punch.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, the very last punch of the fight that did it. So that’s when I, like, went to the floor and was like, whoa.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Was that hard to recover from?
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, it’s still healing.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s still healing.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. I’m not able to fight till later this year.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Will that heal perfectly, though? Eventually? Hopefully it won’t have lasting impact. Right. I hope.
JAKE PAUL: No, I think it’ll be able to grow back stronger, hopefully.
Going Against the Odds
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So it’s amazing because, you know, I’ve known a lot about fights. I had a lot of, I’ve hosted a lot of fights over the years, and it was amazing. When you started doing this, I said, it’s not possible for, I call it a civilian. For a civilian to beat a professional boxer, because I’ve, even if they were much older, because, you know, they’ve been the best fighters and all. And I just, and at first I said, well, is this really happening? Because, you know, you were beating guys, UFC guys who weren’t retired that long.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I just didn’t think it was possible. And then I realized, you know, you really are the real deal. The other, I mean, the one problem is this last guy was so big. Yeah. And talented. Didn’t he win the Olympics, too? And gold medalist? He didn’t need this.
JAKE PAUL: No. I know. People said I was crazy.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Would you have done it again? Knowing what, how it worked out?
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. I don’t have any regrets on it, and I love a challenge, and it motivated me to get better. And the experience of being in the ring with someone that good and someone that big, I think moving forward, the next people I fight, it’s going to be, like, a little bit, a lot easier, actually. So I think it was good experience, but I think that’s defying the odds, which is, like, what you’ve done as well. When everyone says you can’t do it. What, like, do you have advice for younger people for going against the tide, going against the wind, and just.
Advice on Winning and Taking the Leap
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, the biggest victories are when you go against the wind. Yeah, right. Go against what everyone thinks, like, can’t be done. Those are the biggest victories. They’re usually the most lucrative, too, even in business. You know, when you, when you hit it, it’s a bigger hit. But like I just said, I’m going to do it. I was thinking about it for so long, and sometimes people would say, like, you ought to do it or don’t talk about it. My wife actually said, do it or don’t talk about it. I’d watch these guys, like, at debates. I’d say, I could kill him. I mean, that guy’s nothing like you. That guy’s nothing. Yeah. And I said, there’s no way he could beat me in a debate. And she said, do it or don’t do it, but don’t talk about it.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I actually, I wasn’t sure if I liked that too much, but she would actually say, our first lady is now a movie star. Okay? So on top of everything else, she’s now first lady and a movie star, the number one movie. Can you believe it? But she’d say, do it or don’t do it. It’s okay, but don’t talk about it. And if you do it, you’re going to win. You know that, don’t you? I said, no, if you do it, you’re going to win, but do it or don’t do it, it’s okay. Either way is okay.
So you have to get, you have to do it. And like you said, you have that little bug. And it is a bug. You know, being a politician, it is a bug. I think there was nothing like in history when I won the first time. You know, that was the most unbelievable thing. And then coming back, some people would say it was bigger than the first time. I got cheated and the second I did great. It’s like somebody cheating in a fight and it’s coming out. All that stuff is coming out now. But in a way, it made the second victory bigger, much bigger. And it was just, you know, it’s a great, great feeling.
Winning is a good thing. You know, winning, whether it’s in politics, whether it’s in fighting, winning is amazing. There’s no feeling like winning. And most people don’t think they can win. Most people. I actually think some people don’t want to win. You understand that? Yeah.
JAKE PAUL: They want to be victimized and feel bad.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: This weird thing going on.
JAKE PAUL: I would rather lose. That was what I was saying with Joshua is I’d rather lose and get embarrassed, but the chance of me winning, it could be the greatest upset.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah, but you weren’t embarrassed because first of all, he was so much bigger. Look, one thing I’ve seen in fighting, if somebody’s like four pounds heavier, it’s a different weight class. Yeah. And it’s hard to beat somebody that’s even a little bit heavier. And you were with a guy who was like 60, 70 pounds heavier, right. At least.
JAKE PAUL: No, exactly.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So it’s, you did. I’m proud of you.
Made in the USA
JAKE PAUL: Thank you, man. This is my brand, which is all about winning. So it’s funny you’re saying that. Made in the USA. I know you’re all about bringing jobs back to America. I don’t know.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s good looking, though.
JAKE PAUL: Thank you, man.
Career Advice for the Next Generation
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Go buy it. Mega. That’s good.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, we’re in Walmarts and really hitting like the heart of America, but made in the USA. And I know you want to bring more jobs. I think my generation is in a weird place with going to school, getting jobs. AI is coming. Give any advice to my generation of people of where to go, where to look, what jobs? Manufacturing. How can they get more active and get more opportunities in front of them?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You know this better than anybody. Because I get this question a lot. What do you do? You always have to find something you love doing. I tell people their father wants them to go into business, and he hates the business. The father’s successful. They’re pushing the son. You’ve got to do something you like or you’re just not going to be successful at it if you don’t. With that being said, try and like something. That’s where there’s a future. Like, the hot thing right now is AI.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: If you know the AI thing, you’re going to get an unbelievable crazy job at ridiculous numbers, numbers you never thought of. That could cool off. Maybe it’s going to cool off, but right now, if you like computers and all of that, it’s not a bad thing. Go into an industry. There are some industries — retailing is always tough. There are some industries that are tough. If you love it, do it. But if you can love something where it’s got a lot of potential, you’re much better off doing that. I have friends that are really smart. They went into businesses that are very, very tough and they lost. They work. They’re smarter than other people I know. But they’re in the wrong industry.
If they were in the right industry, they’d do much better. So try picking something that’s got potential and you have to love what you do.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. That’s what I’ve always told people — turn your hobby into your job. I mean, my brother and I were filming videos and look at where it’s gotten to today.
Jake and Logan Paul: Brothers, Fighters, and WWE Stars
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And just when did you know you were going to be a fighter, though? Was that later?
JAKE PAUL: It was later. I didn’t start fighting until I was basically 21. These other YouTube kids started talking smack, sort of like you with the debates. I was like, I can beat this kid up. And so I just started training overnight to become a fighter. And I fell in love with it, and it actually became my top priority.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But did you build up or were you always a very strong guy?
JAKE PAUL: I was a strong guy. I had an athletic background. Ohio Division 1 football, Division 1 wrestling, played sports growing up. So I definitely had the athletic prowess. But at the time I was on Disney Channel. So I hadn’t been training for a long time, so it definitely took me a little bit to get back in.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So your brother’s a great guy, too. And it’s sort of similar. I mean, it’s very unusual. And he’s a good fighter.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Who’s a better fighter, you or him?
JAKE PAUL: I am, sir. He knows that, too. But he’s a better WWE wrestler. But I think that —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, is that true? Yeah.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. He’s incredible at WWE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Wow. That’s great.
JAKE PAUL: He’s my favorite. I think they need to make him the champion one day.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s great.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. But if we fought, I think he knows what would happen.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I love you, Logan, but do you ever fight him?
JAKE PAUL: People want us to. I just don’t think we really want to, but I think it would probably —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s hard to smash your brother.
JAKE PAUL: Exactly.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s not. It hasn’t worked. There have been some cases like that, as it worked out.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. I think it would be one of the biggest fights out there.
On Connecting with the Youth
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So what is this show all about? Tell me. And I’m doing this out of respect for you, because I’m the President of the United States, and I’m sitting here with Jake, and I’m saying, you think Joe Biden would do this interview? I don’t think so. He wouldn’t know where the hell he is. No, but I’m the President of the United States. And I’m doing this show.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I’m only doing it for one reason, because I respect you. It’s very interesting.
JAKE PAUL: Right? And I think that’s such a big reason why you connected with the youth in the last election — going out there. Your team hasn’t even told me what to say or any limits. Talk about anything. And so, see, that’s —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Because that’s respect.
JAKE PAUL: That’s really —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I could say they’re not doing their job, but —
JAKE PAUL: I think that was a massive reason on you connecting with the youth. And I think I’m open to talking to anyone. And I don’t think the other side is really open to it. I don’t know what the issue is. I think my brother tried to interview Kamala and you as well, and they just, I think, are scared of actually sitting down and chatting. No, you —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Your brother was great.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. You crushed it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Joe Rogan was a great interviewer. He did 300 million people.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And then she didn’t want to do it, which I guess she should have. I don’t know. It was funny. I did him and I did some other guys who were really great guys. Barron, my son Barron. I have a very tall son.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And he’s a smart guy, and he’s a good kid, but he listens to you. First time I ever heard your name was through my son. And he knew a lot of the — I don’t know if you call them podcasters or influencers or whatever you want to call them, but he’d give me some names that I never heard of. And they were very important, because I won with youth. I did great with youth. Republicans, for whatever reason, don’t do great with youth. And I did unbelievably well, and did unbelievably in TikTok.
And then Barron said, “Dad, you’ve got to do Joe Rogan.” And we wanted to do it. We were talking about it for a long time, but not even about this — about other things. Not politics, even before politics for me. But we had a great talk. It lasted for three and a half hours. And you call that long form, right? And it was like a nice conversation with a great guy. He’s a great guy. And she should have done it, I guess, but she didn’t do it.
And we had a great election. This was a great election. And the country’s doing unbelievably well. This country — I mean, we did this excursion. We had to do it. Wipe out evil. Sometimes you have evil. And for 47 years, they’ve been killing people in the most violent way. The roadside bombs all over the place — 95% of them are from Iran. Soleimani, that was the one. We took him out. We did a lot of things. And all of this whole thing that we’re doing now — people have waited for 47 years for it to happen, so we have to do it right. But our military has been unbelievable.
On Iran, Venezuela, and Military Action
JAKE PAUL: No. And I commend you for your bravery, and I think so many Iranians do as well. And I was a bit shocked, too. Like everyone else in the world was like, this is the greatest thing. And I think what you’re doing is phenomenal. And I was shocked that so many activists in America didn’t like it. But meanwhile, they’re like, “Oh, well, we support women. We want women to have all these rights.” Meanwhile, you’re liberating the women of Iran. And then they have an issue with it. I thought that was very confusing.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We support gays,” but they throw gays off the buildings. I mean, the things they do — and they’re fighting. But I think I have tremendous support on this. This is something that’s been incredible. I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had now. And it’s not because of this. I think the economy is great. It’s a little bit of a winding road for a little while. But we have to wipe out the evil. It’s an evil curse. They’re evil people.
And hey, we wiped out their navy, we wiped out their air force. We wiped out everything there is to wipe out. We wiped out their leadership twice. The second time they were meeting to pick which one of them would be the leader. They got wiped out. Now they’re looking for a third time. I don’t know. People say the son, but nobody knows where the son is.
The military has been unbelievable. I built the military. I had a great first term and I built the military. We had the best economy in history in my first term. We built the military in the first term. I didn’t know I’d use it so much. But you look at Venezuela, which has worked out incredibly well. That was a great military action.
JAKE PAUL: Was it strategic to go after Maduro first and secure the Venezuelan oil and then go after Iran?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, it wasn’t — time wise, it wasn’t. With Iran, we knew we had to do something because they were going to be attacking us. If we didn’t attack them, they were going to attack us. And we did it first. And by going first, we wiped out thousands of missiles that would have been shot. You can shoot them down, but you need a lot of very expensive weaponry to shoot them down. We wiped out thousands and thousands of missiles by going early. And it made a big difference.
No, Venezuela was — it was the right time. They’ve been after Maduro for a long time. They were sending drugs into our country. You’ve seen it. They were sending the most violent prisoners. They emptied their prisons. They let them into our country. And it was just the right time.
So it had nothing to do with — it was an interesting question because people said, “Well, you did so well with Venezuela. Did that give you the spirit or the confidence to go after Iran?” Nothing to do with it. We had some negotiations where I would have preferred making a deal, I guess. I don’t know. Look, I wasn’t that anxious to make a deal — it would have to be a really good deal. The number one thing is they cannot have nuclear weapons. Okay? There’s a nuclear weapon. They have a nuclear weapon — bad things. They would have wiped Israel off the face of the planet.
Our timing of that was incredible. If we didn’t do the B2 attack — the B2 is the attack on the nuclear facilities — they would have had a nuclear weapon. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it in the Middle East against Israel and other countries. And you saw that recently when they’re shooting all these missiles. We didn’t know what was happening because we’re saying, “Wait a minute, we’re going after them.” And they’re shooting Saudi Arabia and they’re shooting Qatar and they’re shooting UAE and they’re shooting all these other countries. And nobody knew what was going on. You saw that.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, they’re just wreaking havoc.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, they were trying to frighten them, but they didn’t get frightened. It was the opposite. They fought back. And they were on our side. But our military has done a great job.
A Question About History
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, no, it’s been incredible to watch. I have another question. They’re wanting us to wrap up here, but I always ask people this question. I think it’s super interesting. If you could come back in history and reincarnate and be able to experience someone else’s life, who would you come back in history as?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s a very interesting question. Maybe Donald Trump. Right now, I think. Donald Trump right now. My life is very exciting. I have to be honest. I’m thinking about other lives. I think my life is maybe more exciting. I don’t know.
Look, I’ve had a great time. I started off with the phrase, “Make America Great Again.” Our country was in trouble. We were doing badly. 2015, we had the open border. Nothing like it was under Biden, but it was bad. A lot of people coming in. Bad people from jails, from mental institutions, gang members, murderers. We had 11,888 murderers come into our country. Got them out. We’re getting most of them out. We’re trying to get all of them out. They should have never been allowed in, but we had a bad border.
When I first came in, I won on the border twice. I won the first time and other things and business and other things. But I won the first time on the border, fixed it almost immediately, built almost 1,000 miles of wall. Then the second time I say, “The border is back, I’m going to win on the border a second time.” But the second time, because we had a great border in the first, after I got it going, and then the second time now we had. We’ve had nobody come into our country in the last nine months. I mean, literally nobody. And that’s given out by Democrats. That’s not by. We had millions of people pour into our country, you know the story. And they came in from jails. These are from all over the world. The Congo, they came in from all over South America.
Targeting Bad Actors and Immigration
JAKE PAUL: And are you guys targeting the bad actors specifically? Because I believe there’s so many amazing people who have come to the country that are awesome immigrants. And it’s like, how are you guys deciphering between.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’re really looking for the bad ones more than anything else. We got to get the bad ones out. I told you, 11,888 murderers came. More than 50% murdered more than one person. And we have them — either they’re gone. Some are so bad, we don’t want to bring them back to a country. They came in from other countries, rough countries, and we put them in jail because we don’t want them to come back. We don’t want them ever back here. They’re really dangerous.
Washington D.C. was a very dangerous place. Now it’s the safest city. It’s as safe as any city in the country. We took it from two to three murders a week to no murders a week. We did a good job. Our military did it. We put the military there. They did a great job. The National Guard.
We’re doing a good job, and people like it. And I just want to be a president that’s done a great job. We had to bring the country back. So the term MAGA, “Make America Great Again.” It was such a great term. And that’s what I’ve done. Because literally a year and a half ago, we had a country that was laughed at all over the world. You know that they were laughing.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. We were just not respected.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Nobody respected.
JAKE PAUL: No one respected the leadership.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We had a country that was laughed at. The King of Saudi Arabia told me, he said, “You know, a year and a half ago, your country was dead, and now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.” And we do. And it’s guys like you that make it hot. Thank you. Guys like you. And it’s presidents like me that have interviews with guys like you. But I think you’re great. And congratulations to your fiancée. I think.
Congratulations on the Engagement and the Gold Medal
JAKE PAUL: Yes, fiancée. She’s the best.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: She just won a gold medal, I tell you. And I watched her win that gold medal, and nobody had a chance. They didn’t have a chance.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That wasn’t even fair, right?
JAKE PAUL: No, she’s a legend. It was the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed in person.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Wow.
JAKE PAUL: And to be a part of it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: She’s a great, great person. Beautiful. You’re not allowed to say beautiful. It’s the end of your political career. But you know what? She’s beautiful.
JAKE PAUL: Melania’s beautiful as well.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: She’s doing great. Doing a good job.
JAKE PAUL: Look at us complimenting.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah. It’s nice. Nice when you can do that, right? Exactly. Exactly. I just want to congratulate you. Great job.
JAKE PAUL: Thank you, man.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You’re a young guy, but you have done some incredible job.
JAKE PAUL: Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And so different.
Chasing the American Dream
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, man. I feel like I’m just hitting stride. I’m 29, and I look up to you and your American story, the American dream. And that’s what I want to do is inspire other kids, kids who are watching this right now to chase their American dream, because it’s possible. I’m from a couple hours away from here, coming back to Ohio to do this interview is just a dream come true.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I love Ohio. It’s been good to me. We won in a landslide. Yeah, we won everything, practically in a landslide.
JAKE PAUL: Florida crushed it.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s good. Florida, Texas, all of them. It’s been a great time. I’ve had a great time, and it’s been a real experience. But much more important is to just take this country and bring it back. And it’s really back. It’s really back.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah, I feel it. And I think everyone else feels it as well, and I think the momentum is growing, and we really appreciate you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: They have to respect our country, right?
JAKE PAUL: Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And to do that, they have to respect your leader.
JAKE PAUL: Yep.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So I appreciate it. You just take care. Say hello to your brother. Okay?
JAKE PAUL: I will.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
JAKE PAUL: Thank you, man. Thank you for sitting down.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Great honor.
JAKE PAUL: Thank you, man.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
JAKE PAUL: Want to just do a pick and then.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Cool. That was a very good interview.
JAKE PAUL: Yeah. Thank you, man.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You know, for a guy, I —
JAKE PAUL: I only had a day and a half to prepare, so.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s right.
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