An interview with President Donald Trump
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Only in America does half of every dollar spent on brand medicines go to entities that don't make |
| 0:05.5 | them. While PBMs and 340B hospitals drive up costs, America's biopharmaceutical companies are doing |
| 0:12.1 | what these middlemen don't, investing $500 billion in new infrastructure and manufacturing |
| 0:17.7 | here at home and helping patients buy medicines directly at lower prices. |
| 0:22.3 | Tell Washington to end middlemen markups and put American patients first. |
| 0:26.5 | Visit phrm.org slash middlemen. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, hello, and welcome to a very special episode of The Conversation. |
| 0:36.9 | I just wrapped up an interview with President Donald Trump here at the White House. |
| 0:41.8 | We spoke for about 45 minutes about the seismic impact that he is having all over the world, |
| 0:47.7 | especially right now in Europe. |
| 0:49.9 | When it comes to the Ukraine-Russia War, when it comes to his relationship with our longtime allies, |
| 0:55.2 | and a significant shift that his administration is looking to see on the European continent. |
| 1:00.9 | We talked about Venezuela, of course, and then those domestic issues that are so important to Americans every day right now. |
| 1:08.1 | That's talking about cost of living and affordability. |
| 1:11.7 | That's talking about health care and those Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. It was a wide |
| 1:17.5 | ranging conversation. Here is my interview with President Donald Trump. Mr. President, |
| 1:26.8 | thank you so much for joining the conversation. |
| 1:28.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:28.9 | So Politico has named you as the most influential person shaping Europe as part of our annual Politico 28 list. |
| 1:37.7 | Past names that have topped the list include President Zelensky, Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, and President Victor Orban. This year, Politico |
| 1:45.9 | broke precedent to recognize an American for the first time in the history of P28. And, sir, |
| 1:52.2 | there is no question that you are having seismic impact on the continent and its politics. |
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