🇺🇸 President Trump Attends NATO Summit in Turkey, Briefs Press, and Returns to America [LIVE]

[0:00] Thank you very much. We've had some great meetings. We had dinner last night, President Erdogan, and I think it was really, I would rate it a 10, maybe a 12. [0:12] A bit of a small palace, you see. Everything is beautiful. [0:16] We've had some very good meetings, in particular with Turkey and trade, and now we're meeting with everybody today, as you know. [0:23] We have a very big meeting with lots of leaders from, I think, every country, right? Every country showed up. [0:28] They're all there. Plus, we have a couple that aren't in there that would like to be in there. [0:33] But it's been very successful. It's been a fantastic meeting. [0:37] So I'll be having a news conference after we've finished it at about 4.30, 5 o'clock, and I assume most of you will attend. [0:46] But a lot of things have been determined, and some things haven't, frankly. [0:50] We attacked very powerfully last night the very dangerous people from Iran. [1:00] And they're sick. There's something wrong with them. [1:04] We say, go and do your funeral stuff. [1:07] And instead of that, they start shooting rockets or chips yesterday. [1:12] And so we hit them very hard last night. Very hard. [1:15] I would say 20 to 1, 20 times tougher. [1:20] I told them, every time you hit, we hit. [1:22] And, of course, they're dirty players, so they go after everyone, probably including me. [1:27] I've been number one on their list for years, and they're a bunch of scum. [1:31] You want to know the truth? They're scum. [1:34] And so we don't like them. I don't like them. [1:39] And they're evil people, and it's the denuclearization of Iran. [1:43] And we're going to denuke it. [1:46] We're not going to let them because they're crazy, and they can't have a nuclear weapon. [1:50] And they go around killing people. [1:52] They've killed thousands and thousands of our soldiers. [1:55] They've killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. [1:59] They had the roadside bomb, Soleimani. [2:02] I took care of him, first term. [2:04] And it was a big thing, because I think it probably would be a lot stronger had he been around, [2:09] because he was a bad guy, but he was an evil genius. [2:14] But a bad guy, and he was the father of the roadside bomb. [2:17] The roadside bomb is a bomb that goes on when you're driving your little vehicle around, [2:21] and it goes on, and you have no legs, no arms, and no face. [2:24] And they've killed thousands and thousands of people. [2:28] Even the SS call was theirs. [2:31] You remember that disaster. [2:33] So I don't like them at all. [2:39] And frankly, I think we waste a lot of time with them. [2:42] I think we should just do our business. [2:45] Can you imagine? [2:46] They start shooting bombs. [2:48] Actually, missiles at ships yesterday. [2:51] Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, a couple of others. [2:54] And I don't think they know what the hell they're doing, but they're bad people, very bad people. [3:03] I think they're incompetent, by the way. [3:06] Because if they were competent, they would have made a deal a long time ago, like how about 47 years ago. [3:11] So they've been in trouble for 47 years. [3:14] And we took out their first set of leaders. [3:17] We took out their second set of leaders. [3:20] They want to take out the U.S. leader, me. [3:23] I'm on every list. [3:25] I saw things this morning. [3:26] I'm on every single one of their lists. [3:29] And so far, I guess I've been a little bit lucky. [3:31] But that maybe doesn't last very long. [3:35] Because that's the way it goes. [3:37] But we have great people. [3:38] But these are evil, sick people. [3:40] And we have to rid their cancer. [3:42] Their cancer. [3:43] You know what you do? [3:44] You've got to cut out cancer early. [3:46] Man, that's the way I feel. [3:48] And I want to thank Mark. [3:50] He's been a great Secretary General of NATO. [3:53] I'm not happy with NATO because of what they did with Greenland. [3:56] And I'm not happy with NATO because of the fact that they didn't want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror. [4:04] That's Iran. [4:05] They were unwilling to help us. [4:06] Now, in all fairness, I didn't speak to Mark about it. [4:08] I think if I did, it might have been different. [4:09] But we didn't need help. [4:11] But I was really testing. [4:13] I wanted to see whether or not they'd be there. [4:14] And the answer is they were. [4:15] I spoke to Germany. [4:16] I spoke to France. [4:17] I spoke to UK. [4:20] I spoke to Italy. [4:22] I spoke to... [4:23] I didn't speak to Spain. [4:24] Spain is a wasted cause. [4:26] We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. [4:29] I'd like you to cut it out. [4:30] Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. [4:35] They don't participate. [4:37] They don't pay. [4:39] I don't want anything to do with Spain. [4:40] Cut off all trade with Spain, please. [4:43] Including visits. [4:45] Okay? [4:46] We don't want anything to do. [4:47] Watch them come running back. [4:49] Oh, he'll come running back. [4:50] They treat this man terribly. [4:53] And this man's a good man, too. [4:55] Great man. [4:56] They're lucky they have him. [4:57] But Spain doesn't agree to anything. [5:01] And you shouldn't carry them. [5:02] I mean, you sort of automatically carry them because you're protecting an area. [5:05] So they're there. [5:06] So they probably figured they have to protect us, right? [5:09] But we don't have to. [5:11] We don't have to trade with them. [5:12] I don't want to do any more trade with them. [5:13] All right? [5:14] Take it immediately. [5:15] Don't even talk to them. [5:16] They're hopeless. [5:18] Bad people. [5:18] Because, you know, they have everybody else going and paying and working in Spain. [5:24] In particular, Spain. [5:25] There are a couple of others. [5:26] But in particular, Spain, they're open about it. [5:29] They're hostile about it. [5:31] And let's see a hostile. [5:33] They remain when they call up and they, please, please, we want to trade with you, sir. [5:37] We want to trade with you, sir. [5:40] They make so much money with us. [5:41] And we're going to see that they make a lot less. [5:43] I want no business with them. [5:46] So other than that, we're having the big meeting in a little while. [5:51] And I'm going to relate my problems. [5:54] Greenland is a big problem for us. [5:56] And the other big problem is the fact that when we wanted them, we didn't want them badly. [6:02] But we did say, if you want to join us. [6:03] And they all said no. [6:05] But when they could have, they weren't there for us. [6:08] And we've been there for them. [6:09] We spent over a trillion dollars over the last short period, a trillion, in order to [6:14] protect these countries from Russia. [6:17] And it has nothing to do with us. [6:19] We have an ocean. [6:21] But it's been a long-term thing. [6:22] And they haven't treated us right. [6:24] And Mark understands that. [6:26] He understands that. [6:27] And we're going to work something out, I think, one way or the other. [6:31] But we've been treated unfairly. [6:33] We pay disproportionately. [6:35] We had a time when we were paying 100%. [6:37] We were paying 100% of NATO. [6:39] And yet a lot of the countries weren't paying anything. [6:42] But there was calls made a few weeks ago. [6:47] I spoke with the UK. [6:48] And the prime minister said, well, we don't want to help you now, but we'll help you when [6:52] the war is over. [6:54] I said, that's not good. [6:56] And likewise, I spoke to Germany. [6:57] They didn't want to help. [6:58] Spoke to France. [6:59] They didn't want to help. [7:00] Nobody wanted to help. [7:02] Some of the very small countries wanted to help because they're the most vulnerable. [7:05] I mean, that's the only reason they wanted to help. [7:07] So I appreciate you being here. [7:10] We're going to be going back together, many of us together. [7:12] And again, I want to say, despite the fact that I'm very upset with NATO, that we pay far, [7:20] far too much, billions and billions of dollars too much, because it's unfair, because we're [7:27] protecting them. [7:28] So we protect them, but they're not there for us. [7:30] Think of it. [7:31] It doesn't work. [7:32] But I want to say, this is a great leader. [7:33] They're lucky they have him. [7:34] It's a very, it's a, it's a biggest asset, you want to know the truth. [7:40] So, Mark, would you say, if you will? [7:42] Absolutely. [7:42] I thank you so much, Mr. President, dear Donald. [7:45] Let me start with Iran. [7:46] We discussed it last night, the presidential palace. [7:50] I think what you did, degrading the nuclear capability, crucial for Israel, the region, [7:57] for Europe, degrading the ballistic missile capability of Iraq, crucial for Israel, for [8:02] the region, for Europe, for the whole world. [8:03] And then trying to bring this to a peaceful end, they attacking ships yesterday. [8:09] I think what you did last night was absolutely necessary. [8:12] It was a very strong response. [8:15] And I'm with you on this. [8:18] It's really important. [8:19] When it comes to NATO, what you have achieved, and this is a huge win, and I just want to say [8:26] this again, the last two years, Canada and European NATO nations spending $215 billion more [8:33] in 2024, and 2025, and 2026 compared to 2024, this is staggering, $258 billion. [8:42] In the meantime, almost 200,000 jobs in the U.S. being supported by all the investments [8:48] by countries in the United States in a defense industry race, buying from the defense industry [8:52] base on the U.S. companies. [8:54] So here you see there is a, you have been able to really get them to step up, to do [8:59] this. [8:59] And when it comes to Iran, I know you are disappointed. [9:02] We discussed it a couple of weeks ago. [9:04] I would say these are isolated cases. [9:07] 5,000 planes taking off from European airports in support of Epic Fury. [9:12] It was Europe as one big platform of power protection for the United States, helping with [9:19] Epic Fury, including countries you mentioned, Germany from day one, France, and many others. [9:25] We discussed the Bucharest airport, which was closed for a couple of days for commercial [9:30] traffic, because you needed it for Epic Fury. [9:32] Well, the United Kingdom wouldn't let us use the island for two weeks, so we had to fly [9:36] back. [9:36] No, no, so I'm saying you're right, or are isolated cases. [9:38] And Italy was very bad having to do with their bases, as you know, and a couple of others. [9:43] So it didn't come to come. [9:44] But still, generally, 5,000 is huge. [9:46] And you mentioned Spain. [9:48] Even you got Spain to pay 2%. [9:50] They spent, they made a huge step in last year, so there are still issues we have to [9:54] solve, but hey, also even in Spain, I would say they got to the 2%. [9:58] And I know you have a very strong relationship with the United Kingdom, the king, but also you [10:04] personally always with Keir Starmer, who is now leaving office, he has now also committed [10:08] to spend another 20 billion dollar extra, 15 billion pounds on defense. [10:12] So I would argue without you in this chair, this would not have happened. [10:17] It is, of course, because of Russia, but also because of you. [10:20] So grab to win. [10:21] It's there. [10:22] You did this. [10:23] It was The Hague, and now they are implemented. [10:25] And on Greenland, you and I made a deal in Davos. [10:27] I will make sure that that deal is step by step being implemented. [10:32] That you can deploy, if you want, the Golden Dome on Greenland. [10:35] You have your trilateral talks. [10:37] Marco is leading them from your side with the Greenlanders and the Dains. [10:41] And it comes to if they will change their constitutional position in the kingdom, etc. [10:44] I mean, just so that I was saying, Greenland is very important for the United States, but [10:48] it's not important for Denmark. [10:50] In fact, when Denmark was overrun by the Nazis in less than one day, Hitler beat them out [10:56] in one day, took over. [10:58] They asked us to take care of Greenland. [11:01] In fact, we took Greenland and then stupidly we gave it back. [11:04] We shouldn't have given it back to them because we're the ones that need it. [11:07] We need it for protection of the world, not just the United States. [11:11] And it's very important. [11:12] It doesn't help Denmark, but it helps us. [11:15] And it's very important for us. [11:16] And again, they were defeated very quickly. [11:20] Denmark was beaten in one day, less than one day, by the Nazis, by Hitler. [11:24] And when this happened, they immediately switched it over to us. [11:28] We owned it. [11:29] We had it. [11:30] We were taking care of it and then we gave it back, which is, I don't know why. [11:34] I wouldn't have given the Panama Canal back either. [11:37] You know, so what do I know? [11:38] I certainly wouldn't have done that because China's trying to take over the Panama Canal. [11:41] That's not going to happen. [11:43] So, but I just, you know, it's interesting. [11:46] I'm very unhappy with NATO. [11:48] And yet this man is a great leader. [11:50] And he gets it. [11:51] He gets it. [11:52] Gets it maybe better than some of the leaders. [11:54] But also, your allies get it, thanks to you. [11:56] And that is important. [11:57] I could not do this without you. [11:59] It's too bad Biden didn't do it or Obama. [12:01] Hey, but you are here now. [12:02] Obama. [12:02] And Trump 45, and Trump 47. [12:04] In total, more than 1.2 trillion dollars. [12:07] I call this the Trump trillion. [12:09] No, it's true. [12:10] But don't you know, it's extra spent by Canada and the EU. [12:12] And I'm not only blaming NATO. [12:14] They're getting a, they got a free ride. [12:17] Not anymore. [12:17] And if Biden had any brain, which he didn't, he would have said, you got to pay more. [12:21] And the same with Obama. [12:24] Two bad presidents. [12:26] But they could have asked. [12:27] And you would have done that too. [12:28] It would have been, I mean, who knows. [12:29] Who knows if they've made it happen. [12:31] And it should have happened years ago. [12:34] And it couldn't. [12:35] But Obama didn't do it. [12:37] And Biden didn't do it. [12:38] And frankly, Bush didn't do it either. [12:40] But you did what Eisenhower started trying to do. [12:42] Equalizing the EU. [12:43] He tried. [12:43] He tried. [12:44] And all the other presidents, none of them were successful. [12:47] You're the first one. [12:48] It's your win. [12:49] Your win in the hate. [12:49] That's why I like him. [12:50] And the win now. [12:51] That's why I like him. [12:52] This is true. [12:53] Without you, this would not have happened. [12:55] Do you have any questions? [12:56] Mr. President, is the ceasefire over? [12:59] Is the ceasefire done? [13:00] Is the MOU dead? [13:02] It's a very interesting question. [13:06] To me, I think it's over. [13:09] I don't want to deal with them anymore. [13:10] They're scum. [13:11] You know what scum is? [13:12] They're scum. [13:13] They're sick people. [13:14] They're led by sick people. [13:16] And they're vicious, violent people. [13:20] And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. [13:22] As far as I'm concerned, it's over. [13:24] I'll speak to our negotiators. [13:25] They want to negotiate. [13:26] They're good people. [13:28] Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner. [13:30] But they have to come back to me. [13:32] As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them. [13:35] They're liars. [13:37] We make a deal. [13:39] And if I make a deal with him, we have a deal. [13:41] And he goes out. [13:41] He talks. [13:42] We make a deal. [13:43] Everyone's agreed. [13:44] No nuclear weapon. [13:46] We make a deal. [13:47] They go outside, talk to the press. [13:48] They say, we never even talked about it. [13:50] There's something wrong with them. [13:51] And they're cuckoo. [13:54] As far as I'm concerned, it's over. [13:57] The talks won't resume after we get through the funeral proceedings. [14:02] What? [14:02] Does this mean that talks with Iran will not resume after you? [14:05] I don't care. [14:05] They can talk. [14:06] But I think they're wasting their time. [14:08] They're a bunch of lying guys. [14:10] I do it. [14:10] My whole life, that's all I do is deals. [14:12] My whole life, that's how I became president, I guess. [14:14] That's a deal, too, right? [14:16] But I made a lot of money. [14:17] I had a lot of great success. [14:20] Tremendous success. [14:21] Everything I did, I was successful. [14:23] And I deal with these guys, and I say, this is from a different school. [14:27] They're liars. [14:28] They're cheats. [14:29] They're sick people. [14:31] They've hurt their people. [14:32] They killed 54,000 people, as of now, that were protesting. [14:37] You know, when people say, how come they haven't taken over? [14:39] They can't take over because they're dead. [14:42] They killed them. [14:43] Nobody's going to take over. [14:44] They have no guns. [14:45] And the other side has machine guns. [14:46] And they're killing them. [14:48] The press doesn't report it. [14:50] But they're bad people. [14:52] They're bad people. [14:53] And, frankly, I don't want to waste my time with them. [14:58] Now, I'll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want. [15:02] But I don't see it. [15:04] I don't like these people. [15:05] You know that? [15:06] I like him. [15:06] I like the leaders. [15:07] I like, I think, all of these leaders. [15:09] Great. [15:10] And they love them. [15:10] I think they didn't treat the United States fairly for many years. [15:14] But that's okay. [15:15] But they're sane, rational, good people. [15:19] Most of them. [15:19] I don't like a couple of them, to be honest. [15:21] But there are a couple I don't like much. [15:23] But I like Erdogan. [15:25] I'll tell you. [15:26] I like President Erdogan. [15:28] He rolled out the red carpet. [15:29] He's terrific. [15:30] You know, he could have gone into the war. [15:31] A lot of people saying, like with Bibi, I like Bibi. [15:34] I think Bibi was a terrific wartime prime minister. [15:38] But Bibi said rough things yesterday about Turkey and Erdogan. [15:42] And I said, you know, I spoke to him. [15:44] I said, he could have gone into the war because he doesn't like Israel much. [15:48] And he doesn't like Bibi much. [15:50] And he didn't go because of me. [15:53] And this is a military power. [15:56] Millions of soldiers. [15:57] Turkey is very strong. [15:58] They have a lot of our best equipment. [16:00] They're trying to get the F-35s. [16:03] But he didn't go in. [16:04] He wanted it. [16:04] He would go in. [16:06] If it weren't for me, he would have gone in. [16:08] And he would have been on the other side. [16:10] Even though I don't think he likes the other side either. [16:13] Because he happens to be very sane. [16:15] And they happen to be very crazy. [16:16] But so I think, you know, they treated us right. [16:18] I think China treated us right. [16:21] I was with President Xi. [16:23] And I said, I hope you're not going to go into the war. [16:25] Because we don't want that. [16:27] You know, he gets 50% of his oil from the Straits of Hormos. [16:31] And he gets more than 50%. [16:33] And he never went into the war. [16:35] He didn't supply him equipment. [16:37] You know, he was great. [16:38] I'm a big fan of President Xi. [16:41] A lot of people say, oh, why? [16:42] You know, I watched a couple of people critical of the fact that TikTok, TikTok is so bad. [16:48] It's so dangerous. [16:48] It's so horrible. [16:49] They're spreading all these rumors. [16:50] And the numbers came out yesterday. [16:52] You know who's number one on TikTok? [16:54] I am. [16:54] I'm number one on TikTok. [16:56] And all I talk about is how bad communism is, right? [17:00] They say, oh, it's terrible. [17:01] They're spreading. [17:01] Put up number one. [17:03] I listen to Gordon Chang. [17:05] I like Gordon Chang. [17:06] But he's always like negative. [17:07] Oh, China's so terrible. [17:08] They're so terrible. [17:09] And TikTok is so terrible. [17:12] But I'm number one on TikTok. [17:13] I could have like four billion views or something like that. [17:17] So, I don't know. [17:18] People have to get their priorities straight. [17:22] We have had a really good day. [17:26] We're going to have another good half a day. [17:28] And then I'll see you later and we'll talk to you. [17:31] Thank you very much. [17:32] Thank you. [17:32] Thank you. [17:36] His Excellency, Mr. Eddie Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania. [17:54] His Excellency, Mr. Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic. [18:33] His Excellency, Mr. Andrei Babis, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. [18:56] His Excellency, Mr. Peter Pellegrini, President of the Slovak Republic. [19:21] His Excellency, Mr. Janis Jancha, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. [19:45] His Excellency, Mr. Ulf Christensen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden. [19:51] His Excellency, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic. [20:19] His Excellency, Mr. Nikushor Dan, President of Romania. [21:04] His Excellency, Mr. Karol Nowrotsky, President of the Republic of Poland. [21:09] His Excellency, Mr. Gautanus Nauseda, President of the Republic of Lithuania. [21:58] His Excellency, Mr. Kristen Michal, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia. [22:22] His Excellency, Mr. Rob Yetten, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [22:27] The Right Honourable, Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. [23:07] His Excellency, Mr. Luc Frieden, Premier Ministre du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. [23:12] His Excellency, Mr. Kristrun Frostedottier, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iceland. [23:59] His Excellency, Mr. Jonas Gahr Stöhrer, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway. [24:05] His Excellency, Mr. Miloko Spagic, Prime Minister of Montenegro. [24:41] His Excellency, Mr. Peter Magyar, Prime Minister of Hungary. [25:11] His Excellency, Mr. Ruman Radev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria. [25:18] His Excellency, Ms. Gordana Selyanovska-Davkova, President of the Republic of North Macedonia. [25:47] His Excellency, Mr. Zoran Milanovic, President of the Republic of Croatia. [26:36] The Right Honourable, Mr. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [27:01] His Excellency, Mr. Bart Deweyver, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium. [27:30] His Excellency, Mr. Pedro Sanchez, President of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain. [27:35] His Excellency, Mr. Edgars Rinkiewicz, President of the Republic of Latvia. [28:10] His Excellency, Ms. Georgia Maloney, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic. [28:39] His Excellency, Mr. Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. [28:44] His Excellency, Ms. Mehta Fredriksson, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark. [29:17] His Excellency, Mr. Alexander Suhb, President of the Republic of Finland. [30:04] His Excellency, Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of Finland. [30:35] His Excellency, Mr. Alexander Suhb, President of the Republic of Finland. [30:40] His Excellency, Mr. Alexander Suhb, President of the Republic of the United Kingdom. [37:02] Hello, how are you? [37:33] Hello, how are you? [37:35] Thank you. [37:37] Thank you. [37:40] All okay, Mr. President? [37:44] Good, good. [38:00] Good. [38:32] Oh, sorry. [38:48] You have enough legs. [38:52] I know. [38:56] It's my mother. [38:58] Yeah. [39:00] Very good. [39:02] Hey, good morning, Mr. Vice President. [39:42] Good to see you. [39:44] Please take your seats, dear colleagues, and a warm welcome to the summit. [41:21] And without further ado, it is my honor and pleasure to give the floor to our host, the [41:29] President of the Republic of Turkey. [41:33] Please, President Erdogan, you have the floor. [41:35] Sayin Genel Sekreter, distinguished Secretary General, distinguished heads of state and [42:03] government, on the basis of our decisions that we have taken in the The Hague Summit, we [42:15] have focused on ensuring the European allies to become better security providers. [42:21] As Turkey, before 2030, we'd like to increase our defense spending to 3.5 percent, and we [42:31] have already taken our measures to do that. [42:34] We have reached the budget share of 1.5 percent. [42:35] In this way, as determined in the Hague, the 5 percent target, we aim to reach this target [42:41] five years before the determined time. [42:47] But our main success of our country is with regards to our move in defense industry. [42:54] With regards to production and export capacity, we rank among the top 10 countries of the world. [43:00] In the alliance, we have been allocated 361 capability targets, and almost all of them will have been [43:15] covered within three years, even before the pledged date. [43:34] We have allocated an additional budget of 24 billion dollars to air and missile defense capabilities, [43:47] whose blackness is most held in our alliance through our steel dome project. [43:53] As a country that has the largest army in Europe, we are in an effort to provide our capabilities [44:03] to the service of the alliance at every stage that is needed. [44:08] We are leading among the allies that contribute to the operations, missions, and exercises on the [44:20] alliance. [44:21] As an ally that uses the UAVs and armed UAVs successfully in real battlefield, we hope to have our [44:35] ability to support our response capability, especially against air and marine threats. [44:53] Distinguished guests, I would like to especially attract attention to the following two issues [45:02] so that we can reach the NATO 3.0 target as soon as possible. [45:07] First of all, starting with the defense industry, lifting off restrictions among allies in defense [45:16] cooperation, starting with the defense industry. [45:19] And I very much welcome the fact that this message was emphasized by both industry and government [45:29] officials at the defense industry forum. [45:33] Secondly, while as European allies, while taking on more responsibilities in the defense of the continent, [45:47] we need to refrain from taking decisions and making actions that may weaken the integrity of the alliance [45:53] and transatlantic relationships. [45:56] And here I would like to especially address our allies that are members of the European Union. [46:02] Maximum benefit in the union's efforts in the field of security can only and only be possible through refraining [46:12] from unnecessary duplications with NATO. [46:18] Exclusion of allies that are not members of the union while a cooperation model dictated by wisdom and logic is possible [46:27] would cause limited resources to be spent in vain and create an artificial division in Europe which we do not desire at all. [46:37] It is evident that this attitude does not serve for the purposes of transatlantic defense industrial base, pointed out by distinguished Secretary General. [46:50] And the U.S. and I can say that this British counterparts in the Ukraine war, I share President Trump's vision for peace and I state my support to prioritize Ukraine's fire-based initiative. [47:09] In addition to our military support that we're providing to Ukraine from our own national inventory, we will continue our contribution within the scope of the Pearl Initiative. [47:22] While supporting Ukraine, we are also benefiting from our communication channels to direct Russia towards peace. [47:32] I very much appreciate the resolute stance demonstrated by my friend, President Trump, in ensuring that the Iranian crisis entered into a trajectory of settlement despite attempts for sabotage. [47:53] In addition to our diplomatic efforts, we are ready to provide required contribution to create the straight reformers from mines. [48:01] And on this occasion, I would like to express our thanks for the support provided by the NATO elements against missiles targeting Turkey, starting with United States of America and Spain, and also to Germany and Italy who have deployed additional air defense batteries. [48:23] Please, I would like to indicate that it is very important that our partners under Istanbul Corporation Initiative, whose solidarity with I believe is a must. [48:43] And I think it's very important that they are here today with us. [48:48] And I once again emphasize that the key for lasting peace in the Middle East is a two-stage solution. [48:55] And I would like to indicate that we all have a duty to ensure peace, especially Gaza and Lebanon. [49:01] And finally, I would like to remind you once again that we need to be in full solidarity in fighting against all forms and manifestations of terrorism. [49:12] And I wish the Ankara summit to lead to us, and I would like to thank all who have contributed in the preparations for the summit. [49:19] Thank you. [49:20] Thank you. [49:20] And I want to thank you for what you did with hosting this event. [49:29] It is really huge to quote somebody at this table. [49:34] Huge and big. [49:35] And we do realize what the impact is on Ankara. [49:39] Well, thank you very much. [50:15] It's a great honor to be with President Zelensky. [50:18] We've talked a little while, and we speak on occasion by phone. [50:23] We had a great talk the other day, I think. [50:25] Very positive. [50:27] And I think we have some very good stories to tell what's going on. [50:33] He wants to see a settlement, and I think President Putin wants to see a settlement. [50:38] And usually that means a settlement, but who knows? [50:40] This is a tough one. [50:43] But I just, you know, we just had our NATO meeting, and it was a great meeting. [50:48] You probably heard it was a great meeting. [50:51] There was a lot of love in that room. [50:54] A lot of unity. [50:56] And I don't think it could have been, Mark, what do you think? [50:59] It couldn't have gotten much better. [51:00] Do you have a feeling as to what you just saw? [51:04] Very positive. [51:05] A lot of unity. [51:07] Strengthen it. [51:08] It was really good. [51:09] Scott, what do you think? [51:11] Yes, sir. [51:11] All the Europeans attributed you to saving NATO, and they want to do what they're supposed to do, and do the right thing. [51:19] Yeah. [51:20] There was something very special. [51:23] And I will say that what they've done with Turkey and President Erdogan has been a friend of mine. [51:30] He's been a friend of mine for a long time. [51:32] Strong man. [51:33] Good man. [51:34] And he's done a fantastic job. [51:36] Every road, so everything's perfect. [51:40] From the airport to the destination, everything's been perfect. [51:44] So we had a really good meeting, and we thought this would be a good time for President Zelensky and I to meet, and we'll see what we can do. [51:53] But we've actually developed a good relationship. [51:56] It's hard to believe, right? [51:57] From the Oval Office to now, we've developed, I think we've developed a very good relationship. [52:02] And this is not the end. [52:06] No, this is going to be the beginning, maybe. [52:10] Just the beginning. [52:11] Just the beginning. [52:12] And you know, the country has a lot of future. [52:14] It is such great land, such great assets, such great people. [52:18] And you have a lot of people. [52:20] I was with a group in Poland, and you have a lot of people in Poland, which is a terrific country with a really great president. [52:29] I happen to endorse him. [52:31] And he's doing a very good job. [52:33] And they were saying they love Poland, but they really want to go back. [52:37] You know, you're going to get a lot of people back when this is over. [52:42] They left some, and they're all, I think they're going to come back. [52:47] A big percentage are going to come back. [52:50] So, have a good talk, and we're going to see how it all goes. [52:54] And, Mr. President, would you like to say something? [52:56] Thanks so much, Mr. President. [52:59] Thank you very much for this meeting. [53:00] And we're very thankful, as always, to your support, American support, bipartisan support. [53:08] Thanks for your invitation to this summit. [53:10] And I think that we really, I agree with you, we have a lot what to discuss, what to speak about. [53:15] And, of course, we are thankful for the Pearl program. [53:20] And we want to share with you some details what we want to raise during our meeting. [53:26] Air defense is the priority. [53:27] The second point, or maybe the first, about negotiations. [53:32] I think, yes, we understand what to do. [53:36] It's our estimation what to do, how to bring peace. [53:39] And I hope that we will do. [53:42] I'm sure that we will do everything to solve this war. [53:45] Yeah, and I'm very happy that our side began to work on a drone deal. [53:50] And it's a very good beginning. [53:53] And I hope that today I will have the possibility to also to discuss with you some very important details. [54:00] Thank you so much. [54:01] Well, we've settled a lot of wars. [54:04] And this one is the one that I thought maybe would be the easiest. [54:09] But Putin's a difficult character. [54:10] And this guy's a difficult character. [54:12] It's not the easiest thing. [54:16] And there's a lot of commitment. [54:18] And there's a lot of love of the countries and everything else. [54:20] But I think we've made a lot of progress in the last couple of weeks. [54:24] And we'll see how it all goes. [54:26] So do you have any questions? [54:27] President Trump, sir. [54:28] President Trump. [54:28] President Trump. [54:29] With the Iran ceasefire possibly over, can we expect the resumption of full-scale hostilities? [54:35] They are behaving very badly, as they have for 47 years. [54:43] And, you know, we hit them hard last night after they launched. [54:45] They launched a couple of—you don't have to know about this. [54:48] You've got stuff on your mind. [54:50] But they launched a couple of drones and one rocket, one missile, and chips, because they were in the strait, which they have every right to be. [55:02] And so we hit them very hard last night. [55:04] Very, very—probably hit them hard again tonight. [55:06] I'll give them a little warning. [55:07] We're going to hit them hard tonight. [55:08] But we'll see how it all works out. [55:11] No, I'm not happy with them. [55:13] You know, it's like, for instance, we'll have a meeting. [55:15] We'll talk about the denuclearization of Iran, because that's what the war is. [55:20] It's not a war. [55:21] It's really the denuclearization of Iran. [55:24] And we'll have a meeting, and we'll talk about just that. [55:27] That's because my whole thing is not about regime change. [55:30] It's not about—although I think it's regime change when you knock out the first group, the second group, and now you're—I think that's maybe the ultimate regime change. [55:39] But that's not what it's about. [55:41] It's about we don't want them to have nuclear weapons. [55:44] And it's denuclearization, and I think we've made a lot of progress. [55:52] And they'll get out of the room. [55:54] We'll talk about it like we're here. [55:56] They'll agree on everything, and then they'll go have a news conference and say we never even talked about it. [56:01] They're cuckoo. [56:03] There's something wrong with these people. [56:04] And for 47 years, they've been the bully of the Middle East, and they're not the bully anymore. [56:11] They're not the bully anymore. [56:13] And all we want—it's very simple. [56:14] They can't have a nuclear weapon. [56:16] That's what I'm there for. [56:18] President Trump, sir. [56:19] President Trump. [56:20] If they did, they'd use it, and we're not going to let that out. [56:22] President Trump, sir. [56:23] Daniel? [56:23] You made a career making deals in very challenging situations. [56:29] Speaking to President Zelenskyy, speaking to President Putin, in your view, sir, [56:32] what is the most pragmatic pathway forward to finding a long-term peace deal? [56:36] I just think you're going to make a deal. [56:38] Look, this deal has been in the works for a long time. [56:43] It's got the pluses, the minuses. [56:45] They know what it is. [56:46] He knows what it is better than anybody. [56:47] And I just think it's—sometimes—you know, I used an analogy, and it sounds simple, but it's sort of true. [56:57] You have two kids in a park, and they don't like each other, and they start fighting. [57:02] Sometimes you have to let them fight. [57:05] Let them see that it's tough. [57:08] You know, it's tough. [57:09] Fighting is tough. [57:11] And he's done an amazing job. [57:14] Look, he's been very effective. [57:19] And he's had the best equipment because he's had our equipment. [57:21] And he's had great, but somebody has to use that equipment. [57:26] And you have a lot of brave people that are using that equipment. [57:30] And Russia, you know, it's a big country, but it's a big force. [57:37] Russia's always been a big fighting force. [57:39] So, you know, it's—but I really believe it's ready—it's very interesting because you'd almost say it's worse than ever, and maybe it isn't. [57:49] Sometimes with war, and you study war, and I've studied it so long, for years long before I did this, [57:54] sometimes it's when it gets the worst. [57:58] And I don't know that it's the worst right now. [58:00] It's consistently bad. [58:01] They lost 25,000 people who were lost. [58:04] Kids, young people, last month. [58:08] And we had a month, 35, two months ago. [58:12] And I would say more Russians. [58:13] And—but it's just—they're people. [58:17] They're people. [58:18] And there's actually very little difference between the people. [58:21] I mean, you know, it's like the Russians and Ukrainian people. [58:26] And they can get along. [58:27] But it's a—it's a nasty war. [58:31] Thousands and thousands—mostly soldiers—are being killed. [58:35] The battlefields—I see pictures, and it's horrible. [58:38] He thinks it's horrible. [58:39] They all—we all think it's horrible. [58:40] And the president wants to get it done, and I believe that President Putin wants to get it done. [58:47] And that should be a good combination. [58:49] Thank you. [58:49] Mr. President, what is your assessment on Ukraine's strike on Russian oil refineries and military factories? [58:57] Where are you from? [58:58] Ukraine. [59:02] Phrase the question differently, please. [59:05] Ukraine delivers long strikes on Russian military factories and on oil refineries, and they ran out of gas. [59:14] Marko, why don't you answer that, because you're right in the middle of it. [59:18] Yeah, no, I think what you're discussing is the ability of Ukraine to reach deep inside of Russia and conduct strikes. [59:24] I think that's one of the dynamics that's changed in this—in this war over the last few months, [59:28] and that is that the Russians are finding it more difficult to defend their own airspace. [59:32] And what we hope that means is that it's going to create the space now for—to negotiate the end of this war. [59:36] It's an escalation, but it's also an escalation that can help lead to an end. [59:43] Mr. President, that Mr. Putin might be seeking for the settlement. [59:50] So where are you from? [59:52] Radio 3 Europe's Ukrainian service. [59:53] I'm from Ukraine. [59:54] Okay, good. [59:55] Because I talk to him. [59:56] I talk to him. [59:58] I talk to President Zelensky, and I think—that's all I've done. [1:00:02] My whole life I made deals. [1:00:03] That's, I guess, becoming President was making a deal, right? [1:00:06] It was like a lot of little individual things. [1:00:09] In the end, it's making a deal. [1:00:12] And that's what I do. [1:00:12] And I do it well, and I know what people want to make a deal. [1:00:17] I think he wants to make a deal. [1:00:20] And I do feel that President Zelensky would like to get back to rebuilding his country as opposed to, you know, having all of this death and destruction. [1:00:31] Ukraine has tremendous potential. [1:00:33] He understands that. [1:00:34] We talk about that. [1:00:36] He talks about that more than he talks about the war. [1:00:38] You know, to me, I think it's—I think you might find that more exciting than the war. [1:00:43] This is brutal. [1:00:45] The other's the beauty of it, you know? [1:00:48] I think he'll build a great country. [1:00:50] I think he's going to build it. [1:00:51] We have a little stake in that country now because we have some land in that country, but we have minerals. [1:00:57] It's among the wealthiest. [1:00:59] It's among the best land anywhere in the world for rare earth. [1:01:04] We have some rare earth. [1:01:07] I look forward to taking advantage of it at the right time. [1:01:10] Mr. President, will you allow Europe to make Patriot missiles in Europe? [1:01:14] He's one of my favorite soldiers. [1:01:16] I see him. [1:01:17] He's central casting. [1:01:19] Right? [1:01:19] You doing okay? [1:01:20] Yes, ma'am. [1:01:21] We see him in meetings. [1:01:22] He's good. [1:01:22] He's done a great job. [1:01:24] Great job. [1:01:24] He's trying to do a little muscle. [1:01:26] Great hero, actually. [1:01:28] Mr. President, will you allow Europe to make Patriot interceptors in Europe? [1:01:36] Are you comfortable with licensing that technology? [1:01:38] About what? [1:01:39] Patriot interceptors to be made in Europe. [1:01:42] And you're talking with respect to Ukraine. [1:01:45] Well, we're going to talk about that, you know? [1:01:47] Look, it's a defensive weapon, which I like, better than an offensive weapon. [1:01:54] It's the best. [1:01:55] So I was saying we have an aircraft carrier, which is one of the most beautiful in the world. [1:02:00] It's one of the biggest. [1:02:01] The Abraham Lincoln. [1:02:02] And two months ago, we had a hundred. [1:02:05] I told this story yesterday. [1:02:06] We had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan. [1:02:12] They were shot at the aircraft carrier over a period of about one hour. [1:02:17] 111 missiles going to a very expensive ship. [1:02:20] And every one of those missiles was knocked down. [1:02:23] Pretty much most by Patriots, but by other means also, as you know. [1:02:29] Other less expensive means. [1:02:31] It's even better when you do that. [1:02:33] But out of the 111 missiles, every one of them was shot down. [1:02:38] It didn't hit the ship and, you know, bad things happened, right, when that happened. [1:02:42] So think of that. [1:02:43] Over a period of one hour, these missiles are coming at you. [1:02:48] And every one of them shot down. [1:02:50] So I think one of the things we're going to be talking about is, as you know, the companies, [1:02:55] we have great power over the companies. [1:02:57] Those companies that make the Patriot and make all of the great stuff, the Tomahawks, [1:03:01] all of the great stuff. [1:03:02] We have the best stuff. [1:03:04] Many things. [1:03:04] The Patriot's great, but we have many, many great things. [1:03:07] You see that with Venezuela. [1:03:08] You see it with Iran. [1:03:09] Look, Iran has been wiped out. [1:03:11] Iran, their Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, everything's gone. [1:03:16] But one of the things I think we're going to be talking about today, just a little birdie [1:03:20] told me this, about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots. [1:03:26] We'll show them how to do it. [1:03:27] It's very complex, actually. [1:03:30] But it's, you'll figure out the complexity quickly. [1:03:34] And we're talking about that. [1:03:35] And we'll, the company that makes them, which is building now four plants, you know, all of [1:03:40] our companies, we'll be able to do this in two to three months. [1:03:43] If you order a Patriot, now you have to wait a long time for them. [1:03:47] Same thing with Tomahawks. [1:03:49] We have a lot of certain equipment, but with, they call it the elite equipment. [1:03:53] And you don't need elite equipment necessarily for a war. [1:03:57] But, so one of the things we're going to be talking about is you'll, we're going to give [1:04:01] a license to you to make Patriots. [1:04:04] That's pretty cool, right? [1:04:05] This way you can't complain that we're not giving them enough. [1:04:08] I say, make them yourself. [1:04:09] Well, we haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll, that'll work out all right. [1:04:15] You know, sure, they'll be thrilled. [1:04:17] But, you know, they'll be able to do it. [1:04:19] You'll be able to figure that out. [1:04:20] Most, most countries couldn't do that. [1:04:22] If I said that to most countries, they wouldn't know what I'm talking about. [1:04:26] But this is a very ingenious group. [1:04:28] And what I like about that, it's a defensive, it's a defensive situation as opposed to an offensive. [1:04:34] But I think one of the things you might want to be talking about is that. [1:04:38] That's what I heard. [1:04:40] Little birdie told me that. [1:04:43] Does the end of the ceasefire mean that we are back to a full-scale military conflict? [1:04:50] They violate the agreement every day. [1:04:52] They lie, they cheat, they kill people. [1:04:55] They've been killing people for 47 years. [1:04:57] They knocked out the SS call. [1:04:59] We lost, what, 200 people more. [1:05:04] That was a long time ago. [1:05:05] For 47 years, no president did anything about that. [1:05:09] Well, Obama actually gave them vast amounts of money. [1:05:15] You'd like this. [1:05:15] He gave them a plane load of money, $1.7 billion in green cash. [1:05:22] They loaded up a Boeing, they loaded up a Boeing 757. [1:05:28] Remember the old 750? [1:05:30] It was a beautiful plane loaded up with cash. [1:05:32] They took all the seats out. [1:05:33] And they took all of the cash from Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. banks. [1:05:38] They had no money. [1:05:39] They took every ounce of cash, put it in, flew it to Iran, and gave them the money. [1:05:46] I wonder what these guys thought of when the door opened and cash fell out of this big plane, [1:05:50] beautiful plane. [1:05:52] And then on top of that, they gave them billions and billions of dollars. [1:05:57] And, by the way, they gave it to the wrong country, frankly. [1:06:03] You want to know the truth? [1:06:04] And it began. [1:06:05] That was pretty much the Obama deal. [1:06:11] That was one of the worst tragedies that happened. [1:06:18] That's what happened in the Middle East. [1:06:20] That deal set back that whole situation. [1:06:23] They went with it. [1:06:24] Frankly, they picked the wrong country. [1:06:27] They picked the wrong country. [1:06:29] JCPOC. [1:06:32] What a terrible, what a terrible deal. [1:06:34] I call it the Obama nuclear waste deal, because what he did with that deal is he caused tremendous [1:06:41] hardship in the Middle East. [1:06:42] It was a terrible, terrible thing to do. [1:06:45] And we've been just the opposite. [1:06:47] Our deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon. [1:06:49] His deal was a road to a nuclear weapon. [1:06:53] We couldn't, they'll never build a nuclear weapon under our deal. [1:06:56] But I don't know if we're going to have a deal. [1:06:58] We may just do it without a deal. [1:07:00] Because you know what? [1:07:01] It's easier. [1:07:02] Because these people, they lie and they cheat. [1:07:05] And you have an agreement. [1:07:06] And they'll go outside. [1:07:08] For instance, they agreed, well, we'll never have a nuclear weapon. [1:07:10] They agreed. [1:07:11] Then they go outside, they have a news conference, or they leak, that we never discussed the subject. [1:07:16] Now, who would believe we never discussed the subject? [1:07:19] Because for me, that's 99.9% of what we're doing. [1:07:24] It's denuclearization of Iran. [1:07:26] Okay? [1:07:27] So, when you ask, our guys can continue. [1:07:32] You know, Steve is great, and Jared, all the guys. [1:07:35] They know him very well. [1:07:36] Yeah, actually, they're working on your stuff, too. [1:07:38] I wonder which, I picked two beauties. [1:07:41] You know what? [1:07:41] We settled eight wars. [1:07:42] I got a couple of beauties here. [1:07:45] But Steve's great, and Jared's great. [1:07:48] You know, they're the right guys. [1:07:50] And we'll see what happens. [1:07:51] But I will say this. [1:07:53] Iran, they'd misbehaved for 47 years. [1:07:58] They've killed our soldiers. [1:08:00] They've killed our people. [1:08:01] They've killed a lot of people all over the Middle East and elsewhere. [1:08:05] The roadside bomb was their preferred. [1:08:07] You know, the preferred weapon was by Soleimani, the roadside bomb, where it would explode under a truck. [1:08:16] We actually built trucks with floors, steel, this thick. [1:08:19] And then all they did was they made bigger bombs. [1:08:23] And we have young guys around, not walking around, because they have no legs. [1:08:28] But their legs were blown off. [1:08:30] Their arms were blown off. [1:08:31] Their face was blown off. [1:08:32] And they live. [1:08:33] Because of modern medicine, you can do anything. [1:08:36] But they're living. [1:08:37] They're living like in hell. [1:08:40] Their whole life changed because of Iran. [1:08:43] And that was 96% of the people that used that. [1:08:48] They were made in Iran. [1:08:50] And so we have a score to settle to. [1:08:54] Mr. President, you say that President Putin is ready to finish this war. [1:09:02] What if he doesn't? [1:09:04] Are you ready to put pressure on Russia? [1:09:07] Are you ready to... [1:09:08] Well, we have a lot of pressure on President Putin. [1:09:13] You know, I don't think he likes what's going on. [1:09:16] I don't think he likes it. [1:09:17] I don't think he's thrilled with what's happening. [1:09:20] There's a lot of pressure on President Putin to get it done. [1:09:23] I think there's pressure on everybody to get that one done. [1:09:26] A lot of pressure. [1:09:27] Mr. President, what's your security guarantee for Ukraine? [1:09:32] The guarantee? [1:09:33] Yes, security guarantee for Ukraine. [1:09:35] The security guarantee are you talking about? [1:09:38] I mean, not that we want to do it. [1:09:40] We'll do it to save lives. [1:09:41] Look, Ukraine is very far away. [1:09:43] We have an ocean separating us. [1:09:45] What I'm doing is I'm trying to save lives. [1:09:48] A lot of lives are being lost. [1:09:50] I also think that it's a country with great potential. [1:09:55] I think if this kind of brainpower can go toward rebuilding the country instead of fighting a war, [1:10:04] I think it's going to do... [1:10:05] I think that country is going to do fantastically well. [1:10:07] And likewise, Russia, you know, look, they're devoting a lot of energy. [1:10:12] A lot of energy. [1:10:13] Do you have a question for President Putin, please? [1:10:15] What would you like to ask him? [1:10:24] Because I'm going to ask him that question. [1:10:27] Last year you called Russia a paper tiger, referring that they're not doing that. [1:10:32] Who did I call? [1:10:33] I'm from Telegraph UA, Ukrainian media. [1:10:36] No, give us a question. [1:10:38] Not for Zelensky. [1:10:39] Give us a question for Putin. [1:10:40] Why is he attacking Ukraine's peace and Iran's peace? [1:10:44] Why is he attacking Ukraine's peace and Iran's peace? [1:10:47] When will he end this war? [1:10:50] That's a good question. [1:10:53] I don't think I've ever asked him that question. [1:10:54] I've been asking that question. [1:10:56] Mr. President, what's the status of a trade deal between Iran and Ukraine? [1:11:01] What's the status of a trade deal? [1:11:02] By the way, I will tell you, though. [1:11:03] He's going to tell you that he wants it ended as soon as he can end it. [1:11:08] He wants it ended. [1:11:09] He wants it ended soon. [1:11:10] And I ask him, and we talk. [1:11:13] I talk to him a lot. [1:11:14] I talk to him a little bit less, but the relationship is very good. [1:11:19] But I talk to President Putin a lot. [1:11:21] He wants to end the war. [1:11:23] Mr. President, a lot of people don't believe that. [1:11:30] What are President Putin's conditions for ending the war? [1:11:33] Do you know what... [1:11:34] Well, they were certain conditions. [1:11:36] They were a little bit different. [1:11:37] I think they're changing. [1:11:38] I think they're probably getting a little bit better toward some of the things that you'd like. [1:11:44] It's been tougher in Russia. [1:11:45] It's been a lot tougher than it was supposed to be. [1:11:47] I mean, in all fairness, this was supposed to be a... [1:11:50] This is a war that would have never happened, if I were President. [1:11:53] Would have never happened. [1:11:54] You'd have a full country. [1:11:56] You know, I mean, just a shame that it happened. [1:11:59] But, no, this is a... [1:12:01] This is something that I think Zelensky wants to do and Putin wants to do. [1:12:06] They want to get it done. [1:12:08] Ask the President that question. [1:12:12] Ask him. [1:12:12] I don't know what conditions Putin now wants for this piece. [1:12:28] So, I think that they are changing in any way, because at the very beginning of full-scale war, he was stronger. [1:12:35] And now, I think he is losing initiative on the battle of, I think, his army. [1:12:43] But that's why I think that because of technologies, because it's not the question now of number of people. [1:12:48] People, our heroic people, are very important. [1:12:51] But now, it's not the question of only number of people. [1:12:57] First of all, people and technologies, people with technologies. [1:13:00] Now, I think that we have better steps, technological steps, further than Russia. [1:13:08] Maybe quicker, because they also, you know, that they produce a lot of different things, [1:13:13] which are tough, strong against us. [1:13:17] But we are quicker. [1:13:18] And that's why I think that now initiative moved to our hands. [1:13:24] Not totally, but moved. [1:13:26] We are trying to move this war to the sky from the battlefield. [1:13:30] That's why we now began to control the battlefield. [1:13:35] This is very important. [1:13:36] It's difficult when you have less people to move them back. [1:13:41] But we found another way how to do it, to cut their logistic for the army. [1:13:46] It's about weapon, petrol, diesel, without massive human losses. [1:13:51] That is the difference between us, by the way. [1:13:54] Russia is, I mean, this is a... [1:13:56] He's got a lot of support. [1:13:57] I just left a room with, you know, where they have, I mean, mostly European, Canada, but mostly European countries. [1:14:06] And they have great support for... [1:14:08] It's true. [1:14:09] ...for Ukraine. [1:14:10] And, you know, really great support. [1:14:13] One of the things, you talk about questions for Putin. [1:14:16] But one of the things that I talked to him about was, where would you want to meet? [1:14:21] And he said, ideally in Moscow. [1:14:23] I said, you're not going to meet in Moscow. [1:14:24] You know, it just doesn't work. [1:14:26] You can't do that. [1:14:28] But he'll meet, and Zelensky's going to meet, and something's going to happen that's going to be positive. [1:14:37] And I think, I hope it's going to happen soon. [1:14:39] Because they have to, number one, lives. [1:14:42] But number two, building your country. [1:14:44] Because it's got a tremendous future, in my opinion. [1:14:47] Yeah. [1:14:48] Where would he be held, and when would that happen? [1:14:50] I don't know. [1:14:51] I don't know. [1:14:51] Mr. President, Mr. President... [1:14:52] President Putin said, I would love to meet in Moscow. [1:14:57] And I said, I don't think... [1:14:59] You know, I have to put myself in this position. [1:15:02] I don't know that he'd go to Moscow. [1:15:03] Maybe he would. [1:15:04] Would you go to Moscow? [1:15:06] It's difficult. [1:15:06] There are a lot of Ukrainian drones. [1:15:08] They are... [1:15:09] That's right. [1:15:10] It's dangerous. [1:15:12] It's dangerous. [1:15:12] It's not dangerous. [1:15:14] Europe... [1:15:14] No, it's fine. [1:15:16] It's hard to go to Moscow. [1:15:17] Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President... [1:15:19] I don't want to answer that question. [1:15:23] Mr. President, how do you... [1:15:24] I don't want to answer that question. [1:15:26] Mr. President, how do you ensure that Ukraine will not be attacked again by Russia? [1:15:32] What about? [1:15:33] How to make sure that Ukraine will not be attacked by Russia again? [1:15:37] Look, you mean in the future? [1:15:38] You mean after there's an agreement? [1:15:40] Well, we're going to work on a security guarantee that... [1:15:44] And Russia respects us a lot. [1:15:46] And we're going to work on some kind of a security... [1:15:49] If we can make the right deal, we'll help Europe. [1:15:52] I mean, Europe is going to be watching it. [1:15:54] But we're going to be helping them. [1:15:56] And we'll work on some kind of a security package that we'll make sure. [1:16:01] I don't think that's going to happen. [1:16:02] I think that if we make a deal, Russia is going to be very happy and they're going to get on with other things. [1:16:09] They have... [1:16:10] By the way, as a country, too, they have tremendous potential. [1:16:12] They have tremendous land, valuable land that they can do things with. [1:16:16] And they have tremendous potential. [1:16:19] But I don't think it's going to happen. [1:16:21] I don't see... [1:16:22] Their question is, oh, they're going to attack again. [1:16:24] I don't see it at all. [1:16:26] I think they've had it. [1:16:27] They've had... [1:16:28] This has been going on for almost five years, right? [1:16:31] Yeah. [1:16:32] Who would have thought? [1:16:33] I mean, it's a tribute because it's a bigger country, strong country. [1:16:37] And it's an amazing tribute. [1:16:39] Anything else? [1:16:39] With the Patriot missiles, with the Patriot missiles, with the Patriot missiles, President Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine needs Patriot missiles now. [1:16:49] Over 50 Ukrainians have died in recent airstrikes just in the last few days. [1:16:52] So in addition to these production licenses, which will take time, would you consider providing... [1:16:56] Not that much time. [1:16:57] Would you consider providing any to Ukraine immediately? [1:16:59] We have Patriots, but we don't have that many. [1:17:03] We need them for ourselves, too. [1:17:05] You know? [1:17:06] Some, yeah. [1:17:07] I mean, some, but I think they can produce them pretty quickly. [1:17:10] Once we explain it, we'll bring the company here. [1:17:14] They work with the company. [1:17:16] They have a great ability to produce weapons. [1:17:20] Pretty complex weapons. [1:17:21] Are you willing to... [1:17:22] Will you go to Ukraine? [1:17:26] Mr. President, do you have any deadline? [1:17:29] Will you go to Ukraine? [1:17:30] I would, yeah. [1:17:31] Do you have any deadline when you want to reach... [1:17:33] I'd rather have the war be over. [1:17:35] Do you have any deadline? [1:17:37] I'm not sure a Secret Service would be thrilled. [1:17:39] Are you willing to go to Ukraine? [1:17:41] I think it's... [1:17:43] I think the people are in general. [1:17:46] And, I mean, like Kiev, it would be nice to get it before any more damage is done, to be honest. [1:17:53] It's such a beautiful city, right? [1:17:56] And, yeah, I would go to Ukraine at the right time. [1:17:58] Do you want to reach a deal between Ukraine and Russia? [1:18:03] Do you have any deadline in that regard? [1:18:05] No, I don't have a deadline. [1:18:06] You can't have a deadline. [1:18:07] You know, it's too much going on. [1:18:08] But I think you're going to have a deal. [1:18:11] I think, you know, I've been very good. [1:18:13] You know, we had certain deals like Azerbaijan and some of the deals that we made. [1:18:17] And they've been going on for 32 years. [1:18:20] And they said, it's an impossible thing to get them solved. [1:18:23] Eight different deals. [1:18:25] Even in the Congo, it was... [1:18:29] Think of it. [1:18:30] You have the Congo and Rwanda. [1:18:32] That was 14 million people dead. [1:18:35] A lot of them with machetes. [1:18:37] It's a hard... [1:18:37] We got that one solved. [1:18:39] Or, you know, they go... [1:18:41] It flares up every once in a while, I must say. [1:18:43] But we got deals done that weren't doable. [1:18:46] But if you look at, well, India and Pakistan, they were at it. [1:18:50] We get them done. [1:18:52] And when we get them done, I find that people are not anxious to go back into it. [1:18:59] I think we'll have you once mentioned the word security guarantee in the Oval Office. [1:19:03] And, you know, I think they're going to need some kind of a security guarantee. [1:19:08] But we're going to work with them. [1:19:09] That's important. [1:19:11] I think he thinks that's a very important thing. [1:19:13] Security guarantees are very important. [1:19:16] And they'll live by it. [1:19:16] Partially, the president said about patriots and licenses. [1:19:21] The petro system is the best, you know, in the world for today. [1:19:24] The best anti-ballistic system. [1:19:26] So we used a lot of... [1:19:27] That's the best. [1:19:28] Yeah, they're the best one. [1:19:29] And we was, I mean, checked everything during the war. [1:19:34] So this is truth. [1:19:36] So with all respect to other partners, we are thankful for all the systems. [1:19:40] Well, they had different systems in Venezuela. [1:19:43] So Venezuela had systems that didn't work. [1:19:45] We didn't have one plane shot down. [1:19:47] We didn't have one. [1:19:49] We had one helicopter operator who was incredible. [1:19:52] He landed perfectly and his leg was almost blown off. [1:19:55] And we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor because very few people could have landed that. [1:20:01] You know, you land them with your feet, really, more than anything else. [1:20:04] And he landed and he was really in bad shape. [1:20:07] And at the State of the Union, we gave him... [1:20:10] He was a handsome guy, big handsome guy. [1:20:13] But we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor at the State of the Union. [1:20:17] So, look, he wants to get it done and we're going to get it done. [1:20:21] What's the status of a drone deal between Ukraine and the U.S.? [1:20:26] And what's that? [1:20:27] What's the status of a drone deal between Ukraine and the U.S.? [1:20:31] Well, we would buy their drones. [1:20:32] And we make drones. [1:20:33] We make great drones. [1:20:35] But they have an ability to make a lot of them, which is, right, Marco, amazing that in a war situation, they make them. [1:20:42] They make them in basements. [1:20:44] They make them wherever the hell you have a little shelter, even if you don't have shelter, I think I suspect, right? [1:20:49] But it's an amazing ability. [1:20:51] Very few... [1:20:52] Well, that's why I say with the Patriots, they would be able to do it. [1:20:56] Most countries would not be able. [1:20:57] They don't have the talent. [1:20:58] You have very talented people. [1:21:01] So, yeah, I think we're going to make that deal. [1:21:06] If we made that deal, we'd have great protection. [1:21:12] I love the protection. [1:21:13] Think if you had a lot of Patriots, you'd never be hit. [1:21:16] And as an example, in Kiev, where they get hit with missiles, those missiles, [1:21:21] like what I said about the Abraham Lincoln, the missiles would be shot down, you know? [1:21:26] And I think you'd start making it pretty quickly. [1:21:30] Right? [1:21:30] Do you like the idea? [1:21:31] No, no, it's a great idea. [1:21:32] I think everybody likes that one. [1:21:34] I need it. [1:21:34] Security guarantees. [1:21:41] Are you ready to close the skies in case Russia attacks again? [1:21:45] Close what? [1:21:46] To close the skies over Ukraine in case Russia... [1:21:49] Close the skies. [1:21:50] As a part of security guarantees, are you ready to impose no fight? [1:21:55] If it's necessary, yeah. [1:21:56] I mean, look, I'll tell you, when we have a deal, we're going to have a deal. [1:22:00] Security guarantee or no security guarantee. [1:22:02] If we have a deal, we're going to have a deal. [1:22:04] We're not going to have to worry about what you're saying. [1:22:07] We're going to have a deal. [1:22:08] I think if we come to a solution, which I think we will, we're going to have a deal. [1:22:14] Now, we want to make sure the deal sticks. [1:22:16] Some people don't think it will. [1:22:17] I think it will. [1:22:18] I think if... [1:22:19] I'm sure it will. [1:22:20] I'm not sure it will with Iran. [1:22:22] If we make a deal with Iran, I'm not sure that will stick. [1:22:24] May I ask you a little... [1:22:26] Because I found them to be very dishonorable people. [1:22:32] Yeah. [1:22:32] Are you supposed to reimpose the naval blockade? [1:22:34] I don't find out with him. [1:22:35] And I mean, I don't want to upset him, but everything I've done with President Putin has been okay. [1:22:41] It's been good. [1:22:43] He's going to say hello. [1:22:44] But I would expect you to say that, but that's good. [1:22:48] I don't think anything's going to be broken. [1:22:51] And we're going to do a security guarantee in case it is. [1:22:53] But with Iran, 47 years, this should have been done by another president a long time ago. [1:23:00] Or somebody else, another country. [1:23:03] But they got stronger and stronger, and now they're weak. [1:23:05] Are you going to reimpose the naval blockade on Iranian ports? [1:23:08] You know, don't forget, we knocked out 159 ships in one week. [1:23:10] That's good even for you, right? [1:23:12] 159. [1:23:13] Their entire navy is at the bottom of the sea. [1:23:16] And now they have little boats, little tiny boats that go around. [1:23:19] And we knocked about 28 of them out last night with the same weapon we use for the drug people. [1:23:26] You know, drugs are down, by the way. [1:23:27] Drugs by sea are down 97%, meaning nobody wants to get into those boats and take drugs into it. [1:23:35] They're down 97%. [1:23:37] And we're using the same thing for the mine boats. [1:23:40] You know, they like to drop mines in. [1:23:43] And we hit a lot of them last night, like 28. [1:23:46] We knocked out 28 boats last night, little ones. [1:23:50] That's all they have is little ones. [1:23:52] Are you going to try to take out more tonight? [1:23:55] Will we go tonight? [1:23:56] You know, normally I wouldn't tell you. [1:23:59] I wouldn't tell you. [1:23:59] But you know what? [1:24:00] There's not a thing they can do about it. [1:24:03] So the answer is probably. [1:24:05] President Trump. [1:24:09] He just said he's going tonight. [1:24:11] Yeah. [1:24:12] President Trump. [1:24:12] Because they deserve it. [1:24:14] President Trump. [1:24:16] President Trump. [1:24:16] President Trump. [1:24:17] What is the effectiveness of last night's attack? [1:24:20] What message does that send to what's left of the Iranians? [1:24:23] Which attack are you talking about? [1:24:24] The attack that you guys had on Iran last night. [1:24:27] The strikes last night. [1:24:28] Oh, I think it has a tremendous impact. [1:24:31] Well, first of all, we took out additional, you know, they were trying to rebuild their radar. [1:24:36] And they had about 60% built. [1:24:38] Now they have to start all over again. [1:24:41] Look, we're not attacking at the highest level. [1:24:44] The highest level of the bridges there, which we can knock down. [1:24:49] And I would say in one day we knocked down every single bridge in Iran. [1:24:53] There's not a thing they can do about it. [1:24:56] They're electric manufacturing facilities, right? [1:25:00] They're electric plants where they make their electricity. [1:25:04] We will, if we have to, we'll take them out. [1:25:08] I don't want to do that. [1:25:09] But if we have to, we'll take them out. [1:25:11] They have desalinization plants. [1:25:14] We'll take them out if we have to. [1:25:15] I hate to do that. [1:25:16] That's probably the one I would like not to do. [1:25:18] At least we attacked Cargill Island last night. [1:25:22] We knocked out a piece. [1:25:23] I said, don't touch CUL because maybe we'll take over Cargill Island. [1:25:28] We may take over Cargill Island. [1:25:30] It's not a thing they can do about it. [1:25:33] But I said, don't hit the pipes. [1:25:34] Just hit everything else. [1:25:36] And they hit it. [1:25:37] They may hit it again tonight. [1:25:39] So, you know, ask me your question. [1:25:40] Normally I'm not that way. [1:25:42] But they really deserve it because they're saying they want to make a deal, but they don't. [1:25:48] You know, they asked for a timeout. [1:25:51] They wanted to go to the funeral of Khomeini. [1:25:53] And I said, give it to them. [1:25:55] And they start shooting missiles. [1:25:57] I mean, it was a crazy thing. [1:26:00] Now, we did kill them. [1:26:03] So I guess you have to look at it that way. [1:26:04] But the funeral took place. [1:26:08] And they wanted to have a period of time. [1:26:13] And they also asked that we not kill them. [1:26:17] And we said, we're not going to kill you. [1:26:19] They were worried we'd kill them during the funeral. [1:26:21] I mean, if you can believe it. [1:26:23] What a crazy, did you ever think I'd be doing this for a living, Marco? [1:26:27] Did anybody ever think I'm doing, maybe Pete, but this wasn't supposed to be for me. [1:26:32] Pete loved this stuff from day one. [1:26:35] But they said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. [1:26:40] I said, I won't. [1:26:41] And we didn't. [1:26:41] We didn't do anything. [1:26:43] In fact, we made it safe for them, actually. [1:26:46] And what happens? [1:26:47] They try and knock out two ships, a Saudi and I guess Kuwait, right? [1:26:51] Kuwaiti. [1:26:52] Oh, no, Qatari. [1:26:55] In addition, three or three. [1:26:56] Yes, sir. [1:26:57] So you had three of them. [1:27:00] And they're just, I don't know. [1:27:03] I just don't know with them. [1:27:04] A lot of people say they're very dishonorable people. [1:27:07] And they can't keep a deal. [1:27:09] So we'll see. [1:27:10] Now, as to whether or not Steve Whitcoff, Jared, and JD and everybody working in that will talk. [1:27:17] I guess they can talk. [1:27:18] But I'm not seeing it with them. [1:27:20] You know, with the people. [1:27:22] My whole life is deals. [1:27:23] I don't see it. [1:27:23] I don't see it with them. [1:27:25] It might be a big attack. [1:27:33] And it'll knock out a lot of stuff. [1:27:35] We don't knock out nothing. [1:27:37] We knock out a lot. [1:27:38] Pete, do you want to tell them about last night? [1:27:40] Yes, sir. [1:27:40] Last night, as you said, about a small craft that they were trying to harass shipping with. [1:27:45] So that was a big part of what we targeted. [1:27:48] Underground facilities where they were storing drones or missiles, coastal defense sites, radar sites, surveillance sites, anything used to harass shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. [1:27:57] So anything they thought they had rebuild or capability they were using was a target last night. [1:28:03] And tonight, if we need to, on your order, Mr. President, we will hit even more and even deeper because that's the consequence. [1:28:09] And we may put down the blockade. [1:28:11] We may put it back, the blockade. [1:28:15] And it'll only be a blockade for Iran. [1:28:17] Anybody else can have whatever they want. [1:28:19] Now, of course, they'll drop some mines if they can, you know, if they can do it. [1:28:22] But it's hard because we're taking out those little boats now with the same weapon we used to take out the drug lords and the boats coming in by sea. [1:28:31] Think of it. [1:28:33] 97%. [1:28:34] For years, we had fentanyl and all the other drugs coming in from different countries, including Venezuela. [1:28:41] And it was, you know, they'd arrest them. [1:28:44] They'd bring them to a court. [1:28:45] They'd be released. [1:28:46] And they'd be back on another boat the next. [1:28:49] 97%. [1:28:50] It had what was done in the past had no impact. [1:28:53] 97% drugs down coming in by sea. [1:28:57] And now we're going to start doing it by land. [1:28:59] The land is easier when we had to do sea first. [1:29:02] And nobody, I mean, I think the 3% of the people that still do that, I think they're the bravest people in the world. [1:29:09] They may be, we should probably give them a medal for bravery because it's, and we're using the same exact missile to take out the mines, the mine drop. [1:29:18] They call mine droppers. [1:29:19] But we have mine sweepers. [1:29:21] And one of the things that came up today is that European nations, the NATO group, they're sending mine sweepers. [1:29:30] We don't need them now. [1:29:30] We have pretty much the mines that clear that, but they'll probably drop some more. [1:29:34] They're evil people. [1:29:35] They're sick people. [1:29:36] They're really, they're mentally disturbed people. [1:29:38] And it should have been done 47 years ago. [1:29:43] Thank you, everybody. [1:29:44] Thank you, guys. [1:29:47] Thank you, guys. [1:29:48] Thank you. [1:29:49] Thank you. [1:29:49] Thank you, guys. [1:29:50] Thank you, guys. [1:29:51] Thank you, guys. [1:29:51] Thank you, guys. [1:29:52] Thank you, everybody. [1:29:54] Thank you. [1:29:55] Thank you. [1:29:56] He's done a really fantastic job as president. [1:29:59] He's unified the country in a very short period of time. [1:30:01] I'd say like a year and a half, about a year and a half. [1:30:06] And right from the beginning, it was a real mess. [1:30:09] It was a very disjointed place. [1:30:12] And he's brought it together. [1:30:15] He's a strong person. [1:30:16] He's a great leader. [1:30:18] He's respected by everybody, including me. [1:30:21] And we're proud to have him together. [1:30:23] We're just here to talk a little bit. [1:30:25] We released sanctions from the country, which really, I think, was a big boost. [1:30:30] Sanctions was a very important thing. [1:30:32] And we're proud of the job he's doing. [1:30:35] Syria has become a very stable. [1:30:38] I mean, it's amazing. [1:30:39] In a short period of time, it's really been stabilized. [1:30:43] And we're proud of that and to be part of the Middle East. [1:30:47] Syria had one of the great cultures, the professors and professors and lawyers and doctors. [1:30:54] It had one of the great cultures of any country, not just Middle East. [1:30:58] And then it went through this terrible period of time. [1:31:01] But it's a country that a lot of people are very proud of, and they're proud of the job he's done. [1:31:07] Thank you very much, Mr. President. [1:31:08] Thank you. [1:31:10] Like you say something? [1:31:11] No, no. [1:31:12] In fact, we have made a great achievement in the toppling of the former regime. [1:31:23] And as President Trump said, in a year and a half, we made an achievement in bringing the country together, unifying the country, and put it back on track. [1:31:38] Of course, this is due to our strong people, the strong Syrian people that President Trump talked about. [1:31:48] Then the historic decision that President Trump has taken by lifting the sanctions of Syria. [1:31:58] As well as the help of friendly countries and the loving countries in the region, Turkey, and other countries in our neighborhood. [1:32:10] The entire Syrian people thanks President Trump. [1:32:18] Thank you very much. [1:32:20] I'm proud of you. [1:32:21] Do you have any questions? [1:32:22] Mr. President, are you going to remove Syria from the state-sponsored terrorism list? [1:32:26] I think I will, yeah. [1:32:28] I think I will. [1:32:29] Why wouldn't I? [1:32:30] He's done a great job. [1:32:33] Maybe he would have brought that up in a little bit. [1:32:39] I don't know what things are. [1:32:40] That's a good question. [1:32:41] Yeah. [1:32:42] Any problems with that? [1:32:43] I think we should. [1:32:44] Yeah, I will. [1:32:45] Do you still want Syria to help with Hezbollah in Lebanon? [1:32:48] They could help. [1:32:49] We'll find out. [1:32:50] I think we're making a lot of progress. [1:32:52] Mr. President. [1:32:53] Mr. President. [1:32:54] He would do a very good job. [1:32:55] Prime Minister Netanyahu has been critical of aspects of your relationship in the last couple [1:32:59] of days with President Erdogan of Turkey. [1:33:02] He said that Erdogan has imperial ambitions on neighboring countries, presumably including Syria. [1:33:09] Well, he hasn't been involved with Syria. [1:33:11] You know, if you think, he hasn't been involved with Israel at all. [1:33:14] And he's left it alone. [1:33:16] I wouldn't say he's a friend because he's not a friend of, as you know, of Netanyahu, [1:33:23] of Bibi. [1:33:24] They don't get along, I think. [1:33:26] But, you know, for me, he's been great. [1:33:29] Look, Turkey's been fantastic and a fantastic ally. [1:33:31] They're also a NATO country. [1:33:33] And Israel, we've done, no president's done as much for Israel as I have. [1:33:39] Nobody even close. [1:33:40] If you look at, I mean, just look at all the things with Jerusalem. [1:33:43] All the different things that we've done. [1:33:45] The Golan Heights did things. [1:33:48] Nobody has ever done anything for Israel. [1:33:51] And we've made tremendous progress. [1:33:53] And we've made a lot of progress with Iran, too. [1:33:57] Wiped out their military. [1:33:58] But they should have been done 47 years ago. [1:34:01] And if I could, do you think that Prime Minister Netanyahu should be re-elected? [1:34:06] There's an election coming in Israel? [1:34:07] Or would you like to see new blood? [1:34:08] I can tell you this. [1:34:09] He's been a great wartime president. [1:34:10] We work out for Prime Minister. [1:34:12] He, so we work with each other very closely. [1:34:15] And we went through a very big thing. [1:34:18] We did a big thing together. [1:34:20] And in my opinion, he's been a great wartime Prime Minister. [1:34:23] I don't know anything about his politics. [1:34:25] I'm not sure. [1:34:26] I would think he should be popular because he did a very good job. [1:34:30] We had a, we had and have a very good relationship. [1:34:33] But he was a great wartime Prime Minister. [1:34:37] If you had other Prime Ministers, you know what? [1:34:40] There wouldn't be an Israel right now. [1:34:42] You know that? [1:34:43] There wouldn't be. [1:34:44] It would have been blown to pieces by Iran. [1:34:46] If you had a different, if you had a weak Prime Minister, [1:34:49] you wouldn't have, and if you had a different President, [1:34:53] I guarantee there wouldn't be an Israel, [1:34:55] it wouldn't, Israel wouldn't exist today [1:34:57] if you didn't have me as President. [1:35:01] Mr. President, you said the data from the Energy Information Administration [1:35:05] revealed that U.S. crude oil production set a new record [1:35:08] in the month of April under your leadership. [1:35:10] That's right. [1:35:11] Why is it important to keep hitting numbers like this [1:35:13] at this moment in time? [1:35:15] Why is it important that you were able to get this done [1:35:17] and keep it on this trajectory? [1:35:18] Well, we, you know, when we decided to do this, [1:35:21] it's called the denuclearization of Iran. [1:35:23] We have to do, we have to have, [1:35:25] they're never going to have a nuclear weapon, [1:35:27] and they admit they're never going to have it, [1:35:29] but they behave badly, always behave badly. [1:35:32] There's something wrong with them. [1:35:33] But when we did this, we thought oil would go much higher, [1:35:37] and it didn't go very high, and now it's coming way down, [1:35:40] and you're going to see oil drop very low. [1:35:43] Now, maybe we'll do some other things that could lift it a little bit, [1:35:47] but I don't think it's going to lift it a lot at all. [1:35:50] I think oil is coming down. [1:35:51] There's tremendous amounts of oil. [1:35:53] Scott, what would you say about that? [1:35:56] Yes. [1:35:57] So, record production under President Trump in his first term. [1:36:01] Now, in his second term, the U.S. is an energy superpower. [1:36:04] It's why we weathered the conflict better than anyone else. [1:36:08] And just this weekend, Bloomberg wrote that there is an oil glut out there, [1:36:14] and we think that safe, secure American oil, [1:36:18] maybe even should trade at a premium to the rest of the world. [1:36:21] So, we have, if you add it up, you take Saudi Arabia and take Russia, [1:36:27] two big oil producers. [1:36:29] We do more than twice as much. [1:36:31] We do more than, think of it. [1:36:33] Saudi Arabia and Russia put together, we do more. [1:36:36] And that's not including Venezuela. [1:36:38] It's pretty amazing. [1:36:40] And this all happened during my term. [1:36:42] We started it at first term. [1:36:44] Biden blew it, because he had no idea what he was doing. [1:36:48] But we are making, we are producing more oil right now [1:36:53] than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, by almost double. [1:36:59] Okay, any other questions? [1:37:00] Mr. President. [1:37:01] Yes. [1:37:02] Yes, ma'am. [1:37:03] You said that dealing with the Iranians is a waste of time. [1:37:05] How do you plan to get the nuclear material [1:37:07] and the nuclear assurances that you want? [1:37:09] Well, we've already got the nuclear material [1:37:11] because it's so far underground. [1:37:13] Nobody's going to be able to get it except us [1:37:15] because we have the equipment that can get it. [1:37:17] But I call it the nuclear dust. [1:37:19] The nuclear material is so far down underneath the mountain, [1:37:25] and now that's been determined, [1:37:27] that it would take massive machinery that we have [1:37:30] that no other country has. [1:37:32] They can't get it. [1:37:33] So you have no plans to go in? [1:37:34] Boots on the ground? [1:37:35] Why would I go in now? [1:37:36] I'd go in when they're completely either eliminated [1:37:39] or whatever happens, or an agreement with Spain. [1:37:42] Mr. President. [1:37:43] Yes. [1:37:44] If you cut off trade with Spain, [1:37:45] does that mean that you're going to have to renegotiate [1:37:47] a trade agreement with the EU? [1:37:49] With who? [1:37:50] With the EU. [1:37:51] With the EU. [1:37:52] Any taxpayers you already have? [1:37:54] We're going to see what happens with the EU. [1:37:57] You know, they've treated us very badly for years, [1:38:00] and they took advantages. [1:38:02] Look, we're very close to those countries, right? [1:38:05] And to everybody in the EU. [1:38:08] The problem is they took advantage of the United States for years. [1:38:11] It's like him. [1:38:12] They took advantage of Syria. [1:38:14] He's bringing it back. [1:38:15] And I'm bringing the United States back. [1:38:18] We have the greatest economy we've ever had. [1:38:20] We have the biggest investment. [1:38:21] 19.2 trillion is being invested right now in the United States. [1:38:26] It's 3 trillion was the number, the record. [1:38:30] Under Biden and under the past administration, [1:38:33] they had less than a trillion for four years. [1:38:35] We have 19.2 trillion in 12 months. [1:38:39] Think of that. [1:38:40] We have the largest amount of money being invested in a country in history. [1:38:44] Pretty amazing. [1:38:45] 19.2 trillion with a T. [1:38:48] So, and they're building factories all over the country. [1:38:52] I think yesterday Toyota announced they're leaving Mexico. [1:38:56] And they're coming. [1:38:57] I'm not that Mexico's thrilled about it. [1:38:59] But they're leaving Mexico. [1:39:00] And they're coming to the United States to build what will be, I believe, [1:39:05] the largest automobile plant either in the world or at least in this country. [1:39:10] Mr. President, on oil prices today. [1:39:13] A quick domestic question. [1:39:14] You announced on social a couple days ago that Walmart was cutting the price for people by 15%. [1:39:20] How big of a deal is that for American customers this summer? [1:39:23] The Walmart has agreed to cut their prices very substantially because things are going down. [1:39:28] We're getting it down. [1:39:29] We inherited very high prices. [1:39:31] We inherited the highest prices in the history of our country. [1:39:35] Or 48 years, to be exact. [1:39:37] But I don't believe that. [1:39:38] I think it's in history. [1:39:39] So, under Biden, they had tremendous inflation. [1:39:42] Under the Democrats, we had tremendous inflation, record-setting inflation. [1:39:46] And now, inflation is way down. [1:39:50] Everything is great. [1:39:51] We have the prices are coming down. [1:39:53] But we inherited, you know, they talk about different, they use different words to describe it. [1:39:57] They had very high prices. [1:39:59] The prices are coming down. [1:40:01] And when the oil comes, you know, the oil is coming way down. [1:40:04] The oil dropped by 50% in the last month. [1:40:08] And when that comes down, it brings everything else to it. [1:40:13] It's affordability. [1:40:14] And they came up with the word affordability. [1:40:17] Like, I take over. [1:40:19] I'm there for one day. [1:40:20] And they say, affordability. [1:40:21] Affordability. [1:40:22] I said, I've been here for one day. [1:40:24] Remember with the eggs. [1:40:25] The first day or two days later, I have very fresh news. [1:40:28] And they talked about eggs. [1:40:30] They said, the eggs have gone up five times. [1:40:33] I've been in office for one day. [1:40:35] And I said, well, we'll have to do something. [1:40:38] In fact, they told me not to order eggs for the Easter egg hunt at the White House. [1:40:42] I should use plastic. [1:40:44] I said, we're not doing that. [1:40:45] And by the time we came, it was a couple of months later. [1:40:48] That happened. [1:40:49] And we ordered thousands of eggs. [1:40:51] And right now, eggs are way down. [1:40:53] The prices are way down. [1:40:55] And they're coming down further. [1:40:57] So they made up a phony word that they used. [1:41:01] They said, affordability. [1:41:02] They're the ones that closed the affordability prices. [1:41:04] I didn't. [1:41:05] But I brought it down. [1:41:06] And the oil is coming down very big. [1:41:08] Mr. President, Brent crude is up slightly today on the announcement. [1:41:11] A little bit. [1:41:12] Yeah, because we hit them. [1:41:13] Any time we hit them, it goes up a little bit. [1:41:16] Two dollars. [1:41:17] Is that what you mean? [1:41:18] Is that what you meant when you said that we might see oil prices lift a little in response [1:41:21] to? [1:41:22] A little bit. [1:41:23] Yeah, two dollars. [1:41:24] Very little. [1:41:25] Let's say $135 down to $69. [1:41:29] It's dropping. [1:41:31] And everything else drops. [1:41:32] As oil goes, so goes everything else. [1:41:35] But any time we hit, if we hit Iran, oil goes up a little bit. [1:41:39] It's all right. [1:41:40] Mr. President, do you think Israel— [1:41:41] You know what? [1:41:42] We're denuking it. [1:41:43] We're denuking Iran. [1:41:44] They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [1:41:47] All right, one more question. [1:41:48] Sir, do you think Israel should withdraw troops from southern Lebanon? [1:41:51] Well, I talked to Bibi about that. [1:41:53] Yeah, I think they're going to. [1:41:54] I think they want to. [1:41:55] I don't think it's a question of me. [1:41:56] I think it's a question they want to. [1:41:58] And they're getting along with Lebanon. [1:42:00] They're signing deals with Lebanon. [1:42:02] First time ever. [1:42:03] Marco, talk about that. [1:42:04] Yeah, we have an agreement that—and that's the goal at the end. [1:42:07] Obviously, Israel is concerned about their security. [1:42:10] But the President did a great job bringing those two countries together for the first time ever. [1:42:14] It's a big thing. [1:42:15] First time in many years, right? [1:42:16] So we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon. [1:42:20] And yeah, they'll leave. [1:42:22] And I think it's going to work out very well. [1:42:26] But we're here for this because Syria has turned around as fast as I've ever seen. [1:42:31] Well, actually, I turned the United States around very fast. [1:42:35] I inherited from a man who was not smart, not a smart person. [1:42:39] We inherited from a man where they were running this country so badly with the open borders. [1:42:46] There were 25 million people allowed into our country. [1:42:49] And that includes 11,888 murderers, most of whom murdered more than one person. [1:42:57] Okay? [1:42:59] We got most of them out or we have them in jail. [1:43:02] And we've done a great job. [1:43:03] Washington, D.C. now is considered one of the safest cities in the country. [1:43:08] If he came to Washington, D.C. a year and a half ago, he'd fear for his life, even though he never feared for his life before. [1:43:16] Because it was very dangerous. [1:43:18] But somehow his territory might have even been a little more dangerous. [1:43:21] I joke because, you know, he comes from a rough environment. [1:43:26] Would you say that's right, Tom Barrett? [1:43:28] It's sort of funny to think. [1:43:30] I don't think he'd be too concerned with Washington a year and a half. [1:43:33] But we had a very, very unsafe Washington, D.C. [1:43:38] And now it's one of the safest cities in the country. [1:43:41] We put the military in. [1:43:43] We brought it. [1:43:44] It's Washington went from being an unsafe to one of the safest cities. [1:43:48] And crime is down 94%. [1:43:50] We don't play games. [1:43:52] We removed over 5,000 career criminals, many of whom came in through the open borders of Joe Biden. [1:43:59] We did the same thing with Memphis, Tennessee. [1:44:02] We did the same thing with, in Louisiana, you have to speak to the governor. [1:44:08] Because New Orleans, the crime rate is down 78% in a little while. [1:44:13] And they had the best Mardi Gras they've ever had. [1:44:16] So we're doing a good job. [1:44:18] And he's done a great job too. [1:44:20] And I thank you very much. [1:44:22] Thank you very much. [1:44:23] Thank you guys. [1:44:24] Thank you for us. [1:44:25] Thank you. [1:44:26] Thank you guys. [1:44:27] Thank you. [1:44:28] Thank you. [1:44:29] Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. [1:44:38] That's a lot of press. [1:44:53] Wow. [1:44:56] Well, it's important stuff. [1:45:00] And you know, our team out here, well, they've all become stars, superstars, actually. [1:45:08] But we want to thank you very much. [1:45:11] We've had a tremendous time and I think a great success. [1:45:14] And we just concluded a very successful NATO summit here in Turkey. [1:45:21] And I want to thank President Erdogan, who's really a great man. [1:45:25] He's a great leader. [1:45:26] He's a friend of mine, been a friend of mine for a long time. [1:45:30] He's a strong person, a very strong personality. [1:45:33] And that's why he runs such a successful and good company, country and really a great, [1:45:39] I would say a great country militarily. [1:45:42] He's very powerful. [1:45:44] People leave him alone, but he's really done a fantastic job. [1:45:49] And from the moment we got off the plane, you look at the airports were beautiful. [1:45:54] They built a new terminal for our arrival. [1:46:00] Everything was beautiful. [1:46:01] And so I just want to thank President Erdogan, who's done a fantastic job in Turkey. [1:46:07] And I also want to thank NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. [1:46:13] Mark is an extraordinary person, smart, great leader. [1:46:19] It's not easy leading so many leaders like that. [1:46:23] Got a lot of leaders and their strong personalities, every one of them. [1:46:27] And Mark, Mark does an unbelievable job. [1:46:32] Couldn't find anybody better. [1:46:34] I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room. [1:46:37] The press got to see the sitting, but they didn't get to see the speaking. [1:46:41] And I actually said it's too bad the press couldn't see this because every one of them spoke for a little while. [1:46:47] And I spoke for a little while. [1:46:50] And it's a big, it's a lot of speeches. [1:46:54] We kept it short. [1:46:55] But it's too bad the press couldn't have seen what we were doing in that room because it was very smart people. [1:47:05] And they have a lot of good in their heart, not evil, good. [1:47:10] And they're doing a great job for their country. [1:47:12] The world is doing well. [1:47:14] We have, as you know, the oil is down. [1:47:17] We'll see whether or not we keep it down. [1:47:19] We should keep it down. [1:47:20] We're doing things that should have been done 47 years ago with Iran. [1:47:25] And I just want to say that throughout my first term and over the past 18 months, [1:47:31] the United States has led a historic effort to dramatically increase the defense spending [1:47:37] and to have equipment that no other country in the world has. [1:47:42] When you look at Venezuela, when you look at Iran, essentially demolished their military in a couple of weeks. [1:47:49] They had a good military. [1:47:51] They had a good Navy. [1:47:52] They had 159 ships. [1:47:53] Everyone's at the bottom of the sea. [1:47:55] They had hundreds of airplanes. [1:47:57] They're all gone. [1:47:58] They're all lying burned up on the runways. [1:48:02] They were totally decimated. [1:48:05] Their radar is gone. [1:48:06] Their everything's gone. [1:48:07] Their leaders are gone, frankly. [1:48:09] And their combat capability is pretty low. [1:48:14] They have a small percentage of missiles left. [1:48:17] They have some of the launchers, missile launchers left. [1:48:21] Call them launching pads. [1:48:23] But most of that's been destroyed, too. [1:48:26] So we have the strongest military in the world by far. [1:48:32] Not even close. [1:48:33] Everybody admits it. [1:48:34] Last year's summit in the Netherlands was great also. [1:48:38] And we achieved an unprecedented agreement to increase the annual defense spending. [1:48:43] And it's the benchmark, raising it from 2% to 5% of GDP, which everybody said was impossible. [1:48:50] And now they're all thanking me. [1:48:52] And most of the countries have agreed to it. [1:48:54] We have a couple of couple of that didn't. [1:48:58] But I have a feeling they're going to. [1:49:00] And pretty quickly. [1:49:02] In fact, today they were very positive. [1:49:04] One of them in particular was I didn't think a good team player today was a great team player. [1:49:09] As all of the leaders understand very well, the United States remains by far the largest contributor to NATO monetarily and maybe otherwise. [1:49:22] And the strongest military anywhere in the world. [1:49:25] And they respect us as a country. [1:49:28] Again, they didn't respect us two years ago. [1:49:30] They laughed at us. [1:49:31] NATO laughed at us. [1:49:32] Everybody laughed at us. [1:49:34] They don't laugh anymore. [1:49:35] There's no more laughing. [1:49:37] This year we invested a record $1 trillion in our armed forces. [1:49:42] And we're going to be asking for $1.5 trillion coming up. [1:49:48] We have the money being spent on the best equipment anywhere in the world. [1:49:53] In the working session this morning, we discussed the progress other members are making toward the 5% target. [1:50:01] And they're making great progress. [1:50:03] Many of these countries are very rich, by the way. [1:50:05] We'd have to feel sorry for them. [1:50:08] But it doesn't mean they're properly protected. [1:50:10] There's a big difference. [1:50:11] Some have truly answered the call and others are making big changes and will be answering the call. [1:50:17] I think I can say in all cases they're going to be answering the call. [1:50:22] And we'll be taking in over $1 trillion a year toward defense. [1:50:28] And that's a tremendous amount of money. [1:50:31] That's a big up. [1:50:32] They were at 2%. [1:50:33] They were actually at 1%. [1:50:35] I got them to 2%. [1:50:36] Then I wanted to get them to 5%. [1:50:38] And we got up to 5% the last time. [1:50:42] And they're, you know, just again, if you could have seen the respect and the love in the room. [1:50:48] And it's love really for the country, for our country. [1:50:50] I don't want to say me because you'll say, oh, he's so conceited. [1:50:53] He's such a conceited person. [1:50:55] But they do. [1:50:56] I mean, you know, they like the job I'm doing. [1:50:59] He said, we love, sir, we love you. [1:51:01] These are grown people saying that. [1:51:04] Isn't that nice? [1:51:05] Maybe, I don't know. [1:51:06] Maybe they're trying to get to me. [1:51:08] And in a way they did because there was tremendous unity in that room. [1:51:12] And I urge all nations to accelerate their plans to get the benchmark as quickly as possible. [1:51:20] The benchmark is going to be at 5% number. [1:51:23] That's the number it should have been for years. [1:51:25] As a result of the commitment we achieved last year, defense spending of other NATO members surged by more than almost $150 billion in 2025. [1:51:40] And much of that money is being spent on American made equipment. [1:51:45] They all want American made equipment where we're pushing very hard to have the defense companies. [1:51:53] They're great. [1:51:54] We make the best equipment, the Patriots and the Tomahawks, and everything we have is considered to be the best. [1:51:59] Not by me. [1:52:00] It's everybody wants it. [1:52:01] I wish we made it faster because we could sell as much as we could make. [1:52:06] And as you know, I had Lockheed and every one of the companies, all of the companies, Raytheon, as an example, Boeing. [1:52:14] So many of those great companies are now building plants. [1:52:19] They had big plants, but they were using them 24-7. [1:52:23] I said, that's not the way to do it. [1:52:25] You have to build more plants. [1:52:26] You don't have to just go overtime. [1:52:28] No tax on overtime. [1:52:31] Remember that, please? [1:52:32] No tax on overtime. [1:52:33] Those people are happy. [1:52:35] But they were doing literally 24 hours to get the Tomahawks done and the Patriots done and all of the other defensive and offensive equipment done. [1:52:45] It's the most sought after equipment in the world. [1:52:48] You saw that with Venezuela where they had a lot of great equipment. [1:52:53] It wasn't ours and it didn't work. [1:52:56] Our equipment works, but we have to produce it faster for other countries. [1:53:00] For everybody, including ourselves, we have to produce it faster. [1:53:03] So we think within a year, year and a half max, we'll be, instead of waiting for a year or two years, we'll be having it on a two-week wait, maybe a one-week wait. [1:53:15] That's what I want. [1:53:16] And it'll do really well. [1:53:18] A lot of people are, you know, just waiting. [1:53:22] They're waiting. [1:53:23] They want to get this defensive equipment, maybe in particular the defensive equipment, but offensive and defense. [1:53:30] Much of that money is being spent on American-made equipment. [1:53:36] That's the money that the European and Canada are spending European countries, mostly, and Canada. [1:53:45] And they're spending that with the United States, largely. [1:53:50] And it's American-made, made in the USA, as we say. [1:53:54] Weapons, munitions, supporting thousands of American jobs. [1:53:58] This will increase. [1:53:59] We have the highest number of jobs. [1:54:00] Right now, we have the most people working in the United States that we've ever had in the history of our country. [1:54:06] We have the biggest investment ever made, $19.2 trillion. [1:54:11] That's six times more than we've ever had. [1:54:14] Think of it six times. [1:54:15] And what did that were tariffs. [1:54:17] Without the tariffs, I think we would have done fine, like at about two or three. [1:54:22] The last administration had much less than $1 trillion invested for four years. [1:54:30] We have $19.2 trillion invested in one year. [1:54:33] We haven't gone into the extra almost a half a year, one and a half years. [1:54:38] Those numbers won't come out for a little while. [1:54:40] So we have $19.2 trillion, not billion, not million, trillion with a T, invested in plants and equipment that's being built all over the country. [1:54:53] Eli Lilly is building plants, big drug Merck, all of them. [1:54:57] The drug companies are building. [1:54:59] The car companies are building like crazy. [1:55:01] In fact, as you probably saw a big announcement yesterday, Toyota is leaving Mexico and they're going to build one of the biggest car manufacturing plants in the world in Texas. [1:55:13] That's because of the tariffs, because we don't mind if you build in Mexico. [1:55:18] But if you build in Mexico, you have to pay 25 percent tariff. [1:55:21] If you build in Japan or if you build in any place, though, China is a much higher tariff versus 100 percent tariff because we don't want to lose our jobs. [1:55:31] We don't want to have our workers lose their jobs. [1:55:34] We have the we have the largest number of plants being built for the most money ever in the history of our country. [1:55:42] Car plants, A.I. plants and all other plants, pharmaceutical plants, chips. [1:55:48] We're not giving anything. [1:55:49] All we're saying is if you don't start, if they will give them a year and a half to two years to build their plant. [1:55:55] If they don't have that, they have to pay 100 percent, 200 percent, even 250 percent. [1:56:01] If they make a chip or if they make a car, if they make pharmaceuticals. [1:56:04] So the pharmaceutical companies are moving in at record levels. [1:56:09] There's never been anything like what's happening. [1:56:11] Let me put it a different way, put it to you in a more broad fashion. [1:56:15] There has never been anything like like has happened with this country or any other country in the history of the world. [1:56:23] There has never been growth. [1:56:26] There's never been manufacturing plants being built. [1:56:30] We have so many being built. [1:56:31] And in the big ones like A.I., some of the A.I., we let them build their own electric plants. [1:56:37] We force them to build. [1:56:38] We don't want it because the old grid that we have wouldn't be able to supply. [1:56:42] They need just as an industry more energy than the entire country produces right now. [1:56:49] When you think of it, which is incredible. [1:56:51] So take all of the energy that the United States produces and that one industry, which is so big, so powerful. [1:56:59] It needs more than that. [1:57:00] In fact, some people say almost double. [1:57:02] So this was my idea. [1:57:05] I said, you can never service that. [1:57:07] You can't reinvigorate the grid. [1:57:09] You can make it better, but nothing like that. [1:57:11] You wouldn't be able to build. [1:57:12] And we're leading China in A.I. [1:57:15] Well, in most just about everything, but we're leading China in A.I. [1:57:21] Even in tick tock, you know, I was watching somebody say, oh, the tick tock deal. [1:57:25] It's so bad for. [1:57:27] Well, because they say the deal was incredible. [1:57:31] But they think the word that gets out is bad, except the numbers just came out. [1:57:36] And I'm number one on tick tock. [1:57:37] And all I do is talk about communism. [1:57:39] Right. [1:57:40] So it's sort of good. [1:57:42] I use it to get elected, too. [1:57:44] But, you know, you have to get your word out. [1:57:47] But it just the numbers came out just a little while ago. [1:57:49] And I was number one. [1:57:50] Some ridiculous number. [1:57:51] I'd never heard of numbers like that. [1:57:53] But number one and all these entertainers are number 27, 29. [1:57:58] It's crazy. [1:57:59] I don't even understand myself. [1:58:01] But that means that my word's getting out about how great our country is, how successful [1:58:06] our country is and how bad communism is and how bad these lunatics are that are running [1:58:11] for election that don't sound good, don't think good and don't look good. [1:58:17] I don't see any looker. [1:58:19] I don't see anybody with the look, you know, you need the look, I guess you need something. [1:58:24] But they don't have it. [1:58:25] And I think they'll fade fast. [1:58:27] And it's not social democrats. [1:58:29] This is not a social that these are communists that are running and they don't want God. [1:58:35] They don't want successful things to happen for our country. [1:58:39] They don't want to have a successful country. [1:58:41] I think they're sort of crazy. [1:58:45] As European nations rebuild their militaries, American equipment will be the largest beneficiary. [1:58:52] The defense companies are going to be making most of that equipment. [1:58:56] They want the American equipment because it works better. [1:58:58] It's not a question of anything else. [1:59:00] We make the best equipment in the world. [1:59:02] And to that end, I provided other leaders with an update on the steps we're taking to rapidly scale up production in the United States. [1:59:10] And they wanted to hear that because they don't really want to get it in four years, five years. [1:59:15] They want to get it like in a week. [1:59:17] And we'll actually be at a point like that in the not too distant future with the plants that are being built. [1:59:24] The defense plants, it's incredible. [1:59:26] Lockheed is building, I think, five. [1:59:29] Some of them are building three, four or five. [1:59:33] And they're big ones. [1:59:34] It's going to quadruple the output of we have with the munitions and the basic equipment itself, [1:59:42] whether it's a Patriot or Tomahawk missile or any of the missiles that we make, make many missiles, different types for different occasions. [1:59:50] And just today at the summit, we announced the three billion dollars of new defense investments with U.S. companies. [1:59:58] And Lockheed Martin will establish a world class Patriot missile sustainment facility, a big deal in Europe. [2:00:06] They're given a tremendous incentive by Europe to do that. [2:00:09] It all goes to the benefit of us and Europe because they're getting the best equipment. [2:00:14] Northrop Grumman is moving forward with the sale of advanced American drone technology. [2:00:20] We're actually the leader in drone tech. [2:00:22] A lot of people don't know that we have the we have the most sophisticated drones in the world. [2:00:26] And we're a real I guess we're the leader, but we will soon be the leader by many times over. [2:00:34] And Lockheed and Rhein-Mittal are announcing a partnership to build the army tactical missile systems, which is a big deal. [2:00:45] And Anduril is announcing a deal to build their new Barracuda missiles, which is a very highly sophisticated, fast missile. [2:00:56] And we're doing that for Poland. [2:00:58] Poland's doing very well, by the way, with a very, very good president, great president, I think. [2:01:04] All of these agreements directly benefit the U.S. defense industry base. [2:01:10] And what it really does is it means jobs. [2:01:13] And again, I have to just say that when Toyota announced yesterday, I wasn't that surprised, but everybody wanted to get that. [2:01:21] That's the largest. [2:01:22] I think it's going to be the largest plant in the world car plant. [2:01:25] And they're moving into the United States. [2:01:28] And again, they're doing that to avoid paying the tariff, because if you build your product here, you pay no tariff. [2:01:33] If you don't, you pay a 25 percent tariff, depending 35 percent sometimes, sometimes 100 percent, 200 percent, depending on what the product is. [2:01:43] As an example, we're doing great on steel because we charge tariffs. [2:01:46] So now all of a sudden the steel industry, which was absolutely dead a few years ago, I revived it in my first term pretty good. [2:01:53] And then they blew it in the Biden term. [2:01:58] And what a shame. [2:01:59] They just blew it right out the window. [2:02:01] They had no idea what they were doing. [2:02:02] And I quickly revived it at the beginning of my of this term year and a half. [2:02:08] And we are the steel businesses through the roof. [2:02:13] We don't even make aluminum anymore. [2:02:15] Now we're going to have the largest aluminum plant in the world being built in Oklahoma. [2:02:20] I love Oklahoma. [2:02:21] 77 out of 77 counties, three times. [2:02:25] And it's great. [2:02:26] It's a great state. [2:02:27] They're going to be building the largest aluminum plant in the entire world in Oklahoma, starting very soon. [2:02:35] Over the course of the past two days, I had a number of excellent discussions with other leaders at the summit and held productive bilateral meetings with essentially all of them. [2:02:46] We had dinner last night. [2:02:47] Just about all of them were there. [2:02:49] President Erdogan of Turkey, as well as President Zelensky. [2:02:53] And he just came in, as you probably saw at a little press conference. [2:02:57] And also President al-Sharav of Syria, who's doing an unbelievable job in unifying Syria. [2:03:06] What a job he's doing. [2:03:07] Syria was a mess with what happened with a previous government. [2:03:13] You know that very dangerous place. [2:03:15] And now it's just come it's just come together. [2:03:18] He's done a fantastic job. [2:03:19] People are talking about it in every conversation. [2:03:22] It was clear that America is back and we're stronger and bigger and better than ever before. [2:03:30] We have more jobs, as I said, than ever before. [2:03:33] And we're respected again like maybe never before. [2:03:36] We are so respected as a country. [2:03:38] That's why I wish I told the secretary general, Mark. [2:03:42] I said, it's too bad the press could not see what's happening in this room. [2:03:46] You saw the big round circle with all of the leaders of all of those countries. [2:03:51] And I don't know, I think they should allow it. [2:03:53] The theory is that they would be speaking quite as freely. [2:04:00] So many of the presidents and its presidents, prime ministers, they were all here from NATO, the NATO countries. [2:04:10] And in particular, we have to thank the secretary general, Mark Ruder, for doing a fantastic job. [2:04:16] He really put on a tremendous. [2:04:18] His was just something he just he's a unifier. [2:04:22] He's a tremendous unifier. [2:04:24] So I could take a few questions. [2:04:26] We've done a few of these already today. [2:04:28] So I don't think we should take too many. [2:04:30] I don't think we should take quite. [2:04:32] So we're going to keep it a little bit short. [2:04:34] And I know a lot of you are going home. [2:04:36] Some are going with me. [2:04:37] So go ahead, please, sir. [2:04:40] Yes. [2:04:41] Yes. [2:04:43] No, no, no. [2:04:44] The gentleman right here, the very tall gentleman who's very insecure. [2:04:48] He doesn't want to ask that question. [2:04:49] He's a handsome guy, but he's very insecure. [2:04:54] And yet the Iran war seems to be a strategic dead end for you. [2:05:01] Why are you apparently unable to end the Iran war? [2:05:05] So I think we're doing just the opposite. [2:05:07] The Iran war has been a tremendous military success. [2:05:11] And, you know, I can only answer the question by saying they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [2:05:16] I think it's been I was there for one reason. [2:05:18] That Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [2:05:21] I call it we denuclearize Iran. [2:05:25] And that's happened. [2:05:26] They will never have a nuclear weapon. [2:05:28] That stuff is so far down under a mountain. [2:05:30] It's a granite mountain that collapsed on top of it. [2:05:33] Take months to get it out. [2:05:35] I think it's a tremendous success, Iran. [2:05:38] And you see the oil prices are lower than they were when I started. [2:05:42] And people like to say that. [2:05:44] But look, they have no military left. [2:05:46] Their air force is gone. [2:05:47] As I said, their ships are gone. [2:05:49] 159 ships are gone. [2:05:50] They're at the bottom of the sea. [2:05:52] Their radar is gone. [2:05:54] Everything's gone. [2:05:55] So when you say not a success, it's a tremendous success. [2:05:58] The fake news likes to say how well they're doing. [2:06:00] They're doing terribly. [2:06:01] They have three hundred and fifty percent inflation. [2:06:03] When the war started, they had like six percent, five percent. [2:06:07] They have they want to make a deal, but they don't know how to make a deal. [2:06:11] And then they go around shooting ships at night. [2:06:13] I don't like that. [2:06:14] You know, they're dealing with very fine people. [2:06:16] They're dealing with Steve Whitcoff. [2:06:18] And they're dealing with Jared Kushner and J.D. Vance. [2:06:21] And they're dealing with Marco and Scott. [2:06:24] They're dealing with great people. [2:06:25] But I don't know. [2:06:27] I think they're a little loco. [2:06:29] They're a little crazy. [2:06:30] But they told us they'd like to go to the funeral. [2:06:34] The funeral of a person who was killed a lot of people. [2:06:42] Khomeini killed a lot of people over the years. [2:06:47] And there for a long time. [2:06:49] Don't forget what we did should have been done 47 years ago. [2:06:52] It could have been done any time within 40. [2:06:54] This has gone on for they were the bully of the Middle East. [2:06:56] So they're a much different country. [2:06:58] Now, in one day, all of their anti-aircraft things are gone. [2:07:03] That doesn't mean they're not going to get a plane at some point. [2:07:06] But all of it's gone. [2:07:08] Everything's gone. [2:07:09] The leaders are gone. [2:07:11] They had leaders. [2:07:12] They're gone. [2:07:13] Then they had another set of leaders. [2:07:14] They're gone. [2:07:15] Now they have another set of leaders. [2:07:16] They may be gone. [2:07:18] Who knows? [2:07:19] And you know what? [2:07:20] I may be gone too. [2:07:21] Because I'm their number one target. [2:07:23] It's out all over the place. [2:07:25] I'm their number one. [2:07:26] Because they're scum. [2:07:27] That's the way they act. [2:07:28] And that's the way they've done it for 47 years. [2:07:30] But I'm doing what's right for the country. [2:07:32] I'm doing really what's right for the world. [2:07:34] They have to be stopped. [2:07:35] And they've killed thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. [2:07:39] They killed 52,000 protesters over the last three months. [2:07:44] So when you say we're not doing well, I think we're doing phenomenally well. [2:07:47] We are military has been incredible. [2:07:49] Plus, we had a blockade. [2:07:50] Did we have a blockade? [2:07:51] Did you ever see a blockade work that way? [2:07:53] You know, for you that said we're not doing well there, we did great in Venezuela. [2:07:57] That was a one day war. [2:08:00] And they're very good military. [2:08:01] You know, it's a very military country. [2:08:03] We took out one of the worst human beings in the world, Maduro. [2:08:07] And he's in jail waiting for trial. [2:08:10] But what he did to this country was incredible, including the fact not only the drugs, but he had people pour into the country from prisons. [2:08:18] They opened up their prisons. [2:08:19] They allowed them to come in. [2:08:20] We're getting them out. [2:08:21] We're getting them all out. [2:08:22] But we have with the Biden open border policy with Kamala, as your borders are. [2:08:28] Remember, she was a border. [2:08:30] But she never called Border Patrol. [2:08:31] Never once. [2:08:32] And she never went to the border. [2:08:34] The border was a disaster. [2:08:35] Now it's fixed. [2:08:37] It's fixed where we have nobody. [2:08:39] And I don't I don't do these numbers. [2:08:41] Zero people come in through our border, through our southern border. [2:08:45] Zero. [2:08:46] And that's been announced now every month for the last 12 months. [2:08:50] Zero. [2:08:51] And millions of people come in under 25 million people. [2:08:54] I think more than that under Biden. [2:08:56] And they weren't people that you want. [2:08:58] And for the most part, they were drug dealers. [2:09:01] They were escaped from. [2:09:03] Think of it. [2:09:04] All the prisons. [2:09:05] And I'm not just talking about from South America. [2:09:07] I'm talking about from the Congo. [2:09:08] I'm talking about from all over the world. [2:09:10] The prisons were emptied out. [2:09:11] They were emptied out into our country, but they had the worst murderers. [2:09:17] They had to. [2:09:18] We had people allowed in our country that should never. [2:09:21] And they walked in through an open border policy. [2:09:24] And all I'm saying is that you're lucky we won this election. [2:09:28] Yeah, please. [2:09:29] Go ahead. [2:09:31] Go ahead. [2:09:32] No. [2:09:33] Yes, go ahead. [2:09:34] Thank you, Mr. President. [2:09:35] Iris Tao. [2:09:37] Why don't you say your name and who are you with? [2:09:38] It's always helpful. [2:09:39] Thank you, Mr. President, for doing this. [2:09:41] Iris Tao with NTD, with a sister media with the Epoch Times. [2:09:44] On communism, you've been issuing a wake-up call to Americans at home about the dangers of communism. [2:09:50] And now you're speaking on the world stage. [2:09:53] What's your message to people both living under communist and socialist regimes, but also people living under democracies like in Europe and America, who might not have realized how close communism has come to home? [2:10:05] Yeah, that's a great question, actually. [2:10:07] But look, I want to get the word out because what's forming is communism in the country. [2:10:12] Communism is easy to sell. [2:10:14] I would be the greatest communist in history. [2:10:16] I'd be right up there with Lenin. [2:10:18] I'd be I'd be as good as anybody. [2:10:21] You've got free rent for the rest of your life. [2:10:24] What they don't say is that you'll be living in squalor in 12 months. [2:10:28] You've got the free house. [2:10:29] Would anybody like to have a free house? [2:10:31] We'll take it away from somebody. [2:10:32] We'll give it to you. [2:10:33] You'll have murders all over the place. [2:10:35] Communism is a disaster. [2:10:37] It's been proven to be for thousands of years under different names. [2:10:40] But same thing. [2:10:41] It's very important. [2:10:44] And, you know, it's funny. [2:10:45] One of the reasons I do so well with Hispanic people, I set a record republic because I get great numbers for the election to help me get elected in a landslide. [2:10:56] The Hispanics, because a lot of them came from countries that were essentially communist. [2:11:04] You know, whether you call them radical socialist or communist is not that much. [2:11:07] But there is a little difference when they say social Democrats were social Democrats. [2:11:12] It sounds so nice. [2:11:13] It's not nice. [2:11:14] It's a very dangerous term. [2:11:16] So I do talk about it and I talk about it on Tic Tac and I talk about it everywhere. [2:11:20] I talk about it here. [2:11:21] And you're right. [2:11:22] It has become international, but it's never worked and it's not going to work. [2:11:26] What is working is United States and think of it. [2:11:29] We have more jobs than we've ever had. [2:11:31] People are making more money than they've ever made. [2:11:33] I'm talking about workers now talking about workers. [2:11:36] They're making higher salaries than they've ever made before. [2:11:39] It's just the best system. [2:11:41] And it's got flaws, but everything's going to have a little flaw. [2:11:44] But it's it's been amazing. [2:11:46] And when I watch what's happening and I see these low lives getting, I mean, they're low lives. [2:11:51] I watch them. [2:11:52] I know good people. [2:11:53] I know quality people. [2:11:54] These are essentially low lives. [2:11:56] And when I see what they're talking, I think they're very dangerous in many ways. [2:12:00] And I've said it. [2:12:01] And then I said, boy, that's a pretty big statement. [2:12:02] Then I realized, you know, a couple of people said, I think you're probably right. [2:12:06] I think this country with this thing that's going around is in more danger than it was during World War One, World War Two. [2:12:16] If you talk about September 11th, if you talk about Pearl Harbor, that was big danger. [2:12:23] I think this is I think the concept of us going communist, because one thing that happens when you go communist, you never come back, never comes back. [2:12:31] You die in squalor. [2:12:32] You die. [2:12:33] You die a horrible death. [2:12:34] You die in squalor. [2:12:36] And it gets very evil and very nasty. [2:12:38] Yeah, please. [2:12:39] Go ahead. [2:12:43] Mr. President, Tyler Pager with The New York Times. [2:12:45] Last month, you said Iranian leaders were very rational people, nice people to deal with. [2:12:50] Strong people, smart people. [2:12:52] Today, you said they were scum, sick people and being led by sick people. [2:12:56] What changed? [2:12:57] And do you think they're going to have to know them? [2:12:59] I've said that about a lot. [2:13:01] Now, when you say rational, I think they're much more rational than level one, level two. [2:13:06] Level one is gone. [2:13:07] Level two is gone. [2:13:09] This is level three. [2:13:10] I think they are more rational. [2:13:12] But based on their actions over the last week or two, they're not doing a service to the people. [2:13:19] And I think more than anything else is I got to know them. [2:13:23] And I'm not sure I want to make a deal with them. [2:13:25] We can play games, but I'm not sure I want to make a deal. [2:13:28] Let's just finish the job. [2:13:29] Yeah, please. [2:13:30] Go ahead. [2:13:31] Go ahead. [2:13:32] Go ahead. [2:13:34] Thank you, President. [2:13:35] Thank you, Mr. President. [2:13:38] Steve Sedgwick from CNBC. [2:13:39] The oil markets are up today around about 7% for WTI and Brent as well. [2:13:43] The world is taking you at your word, sir, that the MOU is over, that the ceasefire is over. [2:13:49] What happens next, sir? [2:13:50] Are we on the cusp of a full-scale return to full conflict? [2:13:54] Well, I'll tell you what happens next. [2:13:56] We're never going to see Iran have a nuclear weapon because that's much more important than the numbers you're talking about. [2:14:03] The prices of oil are dropping like a rock. [2:14:05] Now they'll be up a little bit, and this will end very quickly. [2:14:08] We have a tremendous, we have an oiled lut right now because we got all those votes out of the strait. [2:14:13] And it's going to drop, and I've predicted everything. [2:14:16] I've been right about everything, and I have been for a long time. [2:14:20] That's how I got to be president three times. [2:14:22] That's how we won three elections. [2:14:23] I did very well in the second one, won it. [2:14:25] It was a rigged election. [2:14:27] But I've been right, and oil's coming down. [2:14:30] Now, I have to make sure of one thing, that we don't have lunatics having control over nuclear weapons. [2:14:40] So we have that now. [2:14:42] There's no way they have a nuclear weapon. [2:14:44] We have cameras, as an example, on the site that those beautiful B2s at one o'clock in the morning ten months ago blew up. [2:14:51] They blew it up. [2:14:52] We have cameras. [2:14:54] That's called Space Force if they're in space. [2:14:57] But we have cameras that can read the badge of the person going over to a site. [2:15:02] Mohammed something. [2:15:04] We say it's Mohammed something is there with shovels. [2:15:07] Well, shovels won't get you there. [2:15:09] The biggest machinery in the world probably won't get you there if you want to know the truth. [2:15:15] It's way, way below. [2:15:17] But we're watching that. [2:15:18] And if anybody goes there, they get blown up. [2:15:21] So nobody's going to touch that. [2:15:22] Eventually, we'll take it. [2:15:24] But what we do have is we have that that's gone. [2:15:28] If we wouldn't have had that, they would have had a nuclear weapon and they would have wiped out Israel. [2:15:33] If I weren't president, Israel wouldn't exist. [2:15:35] Now, we did it two times. [2:15:37] When the JCPOA, the Obama deal, when that was originally conceived, everything went to Iran. [2:15:46] 1.7 billion in cash, hundreds of billions of dollars. [2:15:49] They thought they could buy peace with these people. [2:15:52] You can't do that. [2:15:53] So the big thing we have is more important than anything we can talk about is you can't let lunatics have nuclear weapons. [2:16:00] And we've stopped that. [2:16:01] And that should have been stopped on a couple of other occasions, too, with different countries. [2:16:05] But they didn't do that. [2:16:06] Yeah, please. [2:16:07] Steven Nelson from The New York Post. [2:16:15] I'd like you to address speculation that you are leaving Ankara not in the new Air Force One because of security concerns involving Iran. [2:16:25] You've spoken today twice about them possibly assassinating you and possibly being successful. [2:16:31] Did that concern have something to do? [2:16:33] Well, I speak about it a lot because, you know, the life of a president is very dangerous. [2:16:38] It's 5.2 percent. [2:16:41] You know what a race car driver is? [2:16:42] One tenth of one percent. [2:16:44] A bull rider, that looks pretty dangerous to me. [2:16:46] It's one tenth of one percent. [2:16:47] No, it's 5.2 percent is you don't make it. [2:16:52] You should have told me you're an excellent reporter. [2:16:54] You should have told me that years ago maybe I wouldn't have run. [2:16:57] It's a very dangerous profession. [2:16:59] No, I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. [2:17:04] They're lovely people. [2:17:05] I'm number one. [2:17:06] So I don't know. [2:17:07] But I don't really care because I'm doing my job and I'm doing it, I hope, better than anybody's ever done it. [2:17:13] Because we have a country that's hot and really, really successful. [2:17:17] But I mention it only because it's on the list. [2:17:20] I mean, it came out. [2:17:21] There was another list came out yesterday and I'm number one on. [2:17:25] I like being number one on TikTok better, but I'm number one on the list for for killing. [2:17:32] Go ahead. [2:17:38] Hey, Sean McCreish, New York Times. [2:17:39] But why aren't you flying the new plane home? [2:17:42] Say what? [2:17:43] Why aren't you flying on the new Air Force One home? [2:17:45] It's flying to Europe to one of the big bases, two or three of the big bases where we can show it to the people. [2:17:51] And we'll be going home by normal methods. [2:17:55] But we we have it going to Europe to a couple of bases, actually one in particular, but it's going to go to a couple of bases stop. [2:18:04] So the soldiers can see it because it's truly magnificent. [2:18:08] Yeah, please. [2:18:09] Go ahead. [2:18:11] Do you want to go? [2:18:13] Okay, go ahead. [2:18:14] Mr. President, Hariji Media, Tuncha Koc, Turkey. [2:18:19] Mr. President, it seems that the war with Iran may start again. [2:18:23] What do you expect from your European allies? [2:18:26] No, I don't think it's going to start again. [2:18:27] I think it's going to go very quickly. [2:18:29] They hit a couple of ships and so we hit them much harder. [2:18:33] When they hit, we hit ten times harder. [2:18:35] You know, we hit much harder than they do. [2:18:37] We have a lot better equipment than they do. [2:18:40] We may even somebody else before. [2:18:43] Do you think you'll hit them tonight? [2:18:44] I said, we might. [2:18:45] Yeah, we might. [2:18:46] But when they hit, we hit, you know, that's what they're we use. [2:18:49] We use their language. [2:18:50] We speak their language. [2:18:51] No, I don't think so. [2:18:52] I think anything that happens is going to be over very quickly and we'll only and we'll only make it safer, including for oil. [2:19:00] Oil is going to be very free, very easy, and it's going to happen very fast. [2:19:07] We have the Harmo Street. [2:19:09] The boats have pulled out. [2:19:10] I mean, there's a there's a gusher of oil right now. [2:19:13] We have a lot of oil. [2:19:14] And no, anything that happens is going to happen very fast. [2:19:18] We're not. [2:19:19] We're not looking. [2:19:20] We're not looking for long term. [2:19:22] OK, go ahead, Red. [2:19:25] Today, Inez de la Quatera with MS Now. [2:19:28] You said today that country with who? [2:19:30] MS Now. [2:19:31] MS Now. [2:19:32] That's a failing network. [2:19:33] Why would you want to work for them? [2:19:35] MS Now. [2:19:36] Can you imagine? [2:19:37] They wanted to get away. [2:19:38] They took the name NBC because they were embarrassed by it. [2:19:41] Go ahead. Let's go. [2:19:42] When did you hear this question? [2:19:43] You said today that countries like Spain, Italy and the UK were not there for the U.S. [2:19:48] and its war with Iran. [2:19:50] Should those countries be attacked? [2:19:51] Will the U.S. be there for them? [2:19:53] Well, I'll tell you what. [2:19:54] Number one, Spain has been very bad. [2:19:56] But, you know, the Italy has been good and almost all of the countries have been good. [2:20:01] They just had a bad moment. [2:20:03] They didn't help us. [2:20:05] We didn't need the help. [2:20:06] But if we would have wanted the help, I said, by the way, if I want help, sure would rather remain on the sidelines. [2:20:12] And I didn't like that answer. [2:20:13] The UK gave an answer that was sort of weirder than that. [2:20:16] They went out. [2:20:18] I said, would you like to help? [2:20:19] They said, we do. [2:20:20] But we want to wait till the war is over. [2:20:22] This was not in the spirit of Winston Churchill. [2:20:25] So, yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what. [2:20:28] I can only say if there's one word that comes out of today, it's unification. [2:20:33] I've never seen anything like it. [2:20:35] Every one of those countries, they love us. [2:20:38] They love each other. [2:20:40] That was tremendous. [2:20:41] Unification was a nice thing to say. [2:20:43] It was a very fair question to you. [2:20:46] Green. [2:20:47] Green. [2:20:48] Yeah. [2:20:49] You're wearing green, right? [2:20:50] Thank you, Mr. President. [2:20:53] Eda Turul from Haber Global TV, Turkey. [2:20:56] Mr. President, after your meeting with President Erdogan, can you tell us whether you and President Erdogan reach an understanding on Turkey's return to the F-35 program and the future of U.S.-Turkey defense cooperation? [2:21:09] And do you believe U.S.-Turkey relations are entering a new chapter right now? [2:21:14] Well, I had a great relationship in my first term. [2:21:20] You remember Pastor Brunson and he was put in jail for 35 years and I called. [2:21:26] He was an evangelical hero, actually. [2:21:29] Very good man. [2:21:30] And I called President Erdogan and he let him out. [2:21:33] I didn't pay anything like Obama and Biden pay billions of dollars all the time. [2:21:38] I didn't. [2:21:39] I never paid any for anybody. [2:21:41] I just said, let him out. [2:21:43] Let him out. [2:21:44] But in this case, I didn't say it the second way. [2:21:47] I said it the first way. [2:21:48] I said, look, he's been. [2:21:50] He's a good man. [2:21:51] He's highly respected and the evangelical. [2:21:53] And I'd like you to let him out. [2:21:54] And he was in my office in the Oval Office the following day, Pastor Brunson. [2:21:58] I had a great relationship when sleepy Joe Biden got in. [2:22:02] Bad things happened with a lot of things between the border. [2:22:07] Everything was bad. [2:22:09] We were laughed at all over the world and we had a very bad relationship with a lot of countries. [2:22:14] I think Turkey was one of those countries. [2:22:16] But that changed on November 5th when we had the election. [2:22:20] And we've it's one of our best relationships. [2:22:24] We have a great relationship. [2:22:26] And they're talking about the F-35 airplane. [2:22:29] And it's the best plane and everybody wants it. [2:22:32] And we have to make a decision who we give it to. [2:22:35] I mean, my inclination, because he again, he stayed out of he's not a huge fan of BB [2:22:41] and he's not a huge fan of Israel, but he stayed out of that war. [2:22:45] He could have gone into that war very easily. [2:22:47] And he did that. [2:22:48] My request, he stayed out of that war. [2:22:49] He's been a very good ally. [2:22:51] I mean, Marco could tell you we have a very strong relationship with Turkey. [2:22:55] You know, it's a very big country. [2:22:56] It's a very powerful militarily. [2:22:58] It's a very it's the second most powerful country in NATO. [2:23:02] It's a NATO country. [2:23:04] So whether or not we do that, I haven't totally made up my mind. [2:23:08] But my inclination is to say, look, he's done everything. [2:23:12] He's helped us in so many different ways. [2:23:15] And you know who else has been good to is China. [2:23:17] China never came into the war. [2:23:19] They get 50 percent of their oil from Harmu strait. [2:23:24] They never came into the war. [2:23:25] They never said, I'm going to send a ship in five destroyers along each side of the ship. [2:23:31] They never did. [2:23:32] No, he was. [2:23:33] He's been president. [2:23:34] She's been great. [2:23:35] Everyone's been sort of great, to be honest. [2:23:37] You know why? [2:23:38] Because they respect our country again. [2:23:40] They laughed at our country. [2:23:42] They thought we were a bunch of fools. [2:23:44] They saw a president that couldn't talk. [2:23:46] He couldn't walk. [2:23:47] He was a disaster. [2:23:49] They lost respect for our country. [2:23:51] But now they have more respect for our country than they've ever had before. [2:23:55] Thank you all very much. [2:23:56] We'll see you back. [2:23:57] Thank you very much, everybody. [2:23:59] I don't see anyone. [2:48:28] I think it's up there. [2:48:33] To the left. [2:48:34] Yeah. [2:48:42] Send it to me on WhatsApp. [2:48:43] I'm done. [2:48:58] Get out of the truck. [2:48:59] The thing. [2:49:01] And then he gets back. [2:49:03] It's like. [2:49:14] I'm not sure. [2:49:15] No. [2:49:16] No, like check my phone. [2:49:18] And then I heard you yelling. [2:49:23] Hopefully I came. [2:49:24] That's enough. [2:49:25] Yeah. [2:49:26] I mean, we got it now. [2:49:27] Yeah. [2:49:33] Turn in this radio.