Mr President. Healthcare premiums are increasing. The cost of gas, as you know, is $4.50. Mortgages are 7 percent –

Wait a minute, I did favored nations. I’ve taken drug costs down by 40, 50, 60, 70 percent, 80 percent. And nobody ever talks – they cannot register. I’ve never seen a story with them.

We’ll send you some TIME stories on that after this interview. But why shouldn’t Americans –

I reduced drug prices by 40,50, 60, 70, even 80 percent. I never have – depending on the way, you can also say 400, 500, 600, if you phrase it a little bit different. But there’s never been anything like what I’ve done with favored nations, and I had to get nations to go along with it, and I used the threat of tariffs. I said, “You don’t do this,” because they all said, “No, we’re not going to,” because they will double or triple their cost, and I would go down by more than that.

Because they are, you know, the whole universe is bigger than the United States. So I’d have a pill for selling in London for $10 and selling in New York City for $1000, or let’s say for $130, 13 times, $130, right?, and I said to them, it was unfair. The exact same pill from the same plant, from the same company. $10 here, $130 here. I said that’s unfair. Now I knew that the first time, but – I thought it was time to do something. I was able to get – I had to get the country. I had to get the drug companies. I got them. Then I had to convince countries to do it, and I got them all to do it.

Sure.

Well, nobody else can do that. But when you talk about healthcare, Obamacare is a disaster, and by lowering the cost of prescription drugs, they should be able to do a very big deal. But I’d rather have a different system. I’d rather have – I’m going to campaign like hell on this – I would rather have the insurance companies not get the money. I’d rather have the people get the money. So the people would get the money, buy their own health insurance, save money, better health insurance.

Americans shouldn’t hold you responsible for an increasingly less affordable country?

No, because what?

The feeling that this country is becoming less affordable, Americans shouldn’t hold you responsible?

When I took over, I inherited the greatest inflation in history. I inherited the greatest price hikes in history. Remember when they started screaming at me about eggs in my first day, because eggs had gone up like five times higher than they were in my administration. Now I’ve got them down. I’ve got – I’ve gotten much of it down. The only thing I have to get down now is the gas, and almost everything else is coming down rapidly.

How is that? The cost of a mortgage today is above 7 percent

Well, The Fed is raising the rates. It’s supposed to be an independent board. I’m not happy about it.

What’s driving this growth is AI, so we’d love to ask you a few questions about that.

No, what’s driving the growth is automobile plants are opening, many plants, Pfizer, all of the drug companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars. How about Apple? Apple’s spending $600 million. The great chip company from Taiwan is spending $500 billion. Jensen Huang is spending. No, it’s not – look, we’re building more automobile plants in the United States, and bigger ones, than we’ve ever built before.

Well, another question though, because you, you did not –

It’s not just AI. I mean, I don’t call it AI anymore. I call it SI. President Xi agreed. We all agree. Super intelligence.

We want to get to the –

It’s not artificial intelligence because artificial intelligence is like CNN. It’s fake.

I believe it’s still called the AI force, correct? Or you renamed it the SI Force?

What is it?

You’ve said there’s going to be an AI force that you announced?

Yeah, but I’m going to change the name.

What is it going to do?

It’s going to be super intelligence.

What will it do?

Because it’s much more accurate. It’s going to be a group of very smart people that understand it, who will be advising me. But I will tell you right now, I’m not going to be easy because I’m not going to kill a thing based on phony threats. They said that our country was going to burn down because of global warming. Then they changed the name to climate change because global warming wasn’t going. They said that we are going to have some of the most difficult times ever. Global warming turned out to be a hoax. Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

So what is the hoax of AI? Who’s behind it?

The whole country is based on fake stuff because these people have Trump derangement syndrome.

Does that include Dario?

Well, I don’t know until last night. Yeah, yeah, but it could be. I mean, I don’t know.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario’s smart. They’re all smart. We’re dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That’s a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I’m fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I’m a – I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I’ve done is I’ve created, for instance, these massive plants have no – We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric –

Are you worried you can’t bring the American people along with you on that?

I might not be able to. I don’t know.