Trump Discusses Iran War, Claims Direct & Indirect Negotiations Happening In AF1 Gaggle

[0:01] destroyed a lot of additional targets today. [0:03] The Navy is gone. The Air Force is gone. [0:05] We know that. But we destroyed many, many targets today. [0:09] It was a big day. [0:11] And we are negotiating with them directly and indirectly. [0:15] We have emissaries, but we also are dealing directly. [0:18] And, as you know, they've agreed to send eight boats two days ago, [0:24] and then they added another two, so it was 10 boats. [0:28] And now, today, they gave us as a tribute — [0:32] I don't know — no, I can't define it exactly — [0:35] but they gave us, I think, out of a sign of respect, [0:39] 20 of oil — big, big boats of oil — [0:43] going through the Hormuz Strait. [0:46] And that's taking place starting tomorrow morning. [0:49] I would only say that we're doing extremely well [0:58] in that negotiation. [1:00] But you never know with Iran, because we negotiate with them, [1:04] and then we always have to blow them up, [1:06] whether it's the B-2 bombers or — [1:09] just terminating, as an example, the Iran nuclear deal [1:13] done by Barack Hussein and Obama. [1:14] Probably the worst deal we've ever done, [1:16] as I've said. [1:16] Iran is a country, one of the dumbest deals we've ever done. [1:19] But I terminated it, unfortunately. [1:20] Otherwise, right now, they'd have a nuclear weapon. [1:24] Attacked with the B-2 bombers, [1:25] and we stopped them from having nuclear. [1:28] And now we had to blow them up again. [1:31] We will probably — I think we'll make a deal with them. [1:35] Pretty sure. [1:37] Whether it's possible, we won't. [1:39] But we've had regime change, if you look, already, [1:42] because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. [1:46] They're all dead. [1:47] The next regime is mostly dead. [1:51] The third regime, we're dealing with different people [1:53] than anybody's dealt with before. [1:55] It's a whole different group of people. [1:57] I would consider that regime change. [1:59] And frankly, they've been very reasonable. [2:02] So I think we've had regime change. [2:04] We can't do much better than that. [2:06] The regime that was really bad, really evil, [2:09] was the first one. [2:10] That was done. [2:11] The second was appointed, and they're gone. [2:15] They're all dead. [2:18] One who may have a life. [2:20] And then, really, the third group — [2:25] the third group of people that seem to be much more reasonable. [2:28] It truly is regime change. [2:31] And regime change is — [2:31] regime change is an imperative. [2:33] But I think we have it automatically. [2:36] I did something today. [2:37] I just got these in from the architects. [2:40] A lot of people are talking about how beautiful the ballroom is. [2:44] For 150 years, they've wanted to build a ballroom. [2:51] The White House presidents have wanted it. [2:56] When we have dignitaries coming, like President Xi of China [2:59] or anybody else, we have very small rooms. [3:02] They're not big enough for the kind of capacity [3:05] that you deserve. [3:08] The same height as the White House. [3:10] It's an incredible thing. [3:11] You see what that is, right? [3:18] This is coming from right opposite the Treasury Building. [3:24] Beautiful, beautiful building. [3:28] I think it'll be the finest ballroom of its kind [3:31] anywhere in the world. [3:33] A lot of people are giving it really good reviews. [3:35] Some are giving it reviews without even seeing the building, [3:37] because this just came out today. [3:39] These pictures we just made today, [3:41] we got rid of a long — quite a while ago. [3:45] The stairs on the south side are really beautiful. [3:50] But it matches and fits the White House. [3:54] It's also capable of handling — [3:56] the inauguration. [3:58] We have all bulletproof glass. [4:00] We have drone-proof roofs, ceilings. [4:04] Everything's drone-proof and bulletproof. [4:06] Unfortunately, we're living in an age where that's a good thing. [4:11] And this is the view from the Treasury, [4:13] opposite the Treasury. [4:14] Let me show you another one of them. [4:15] The view on the south with the porch, [4:20] which is a porch and it's also a fire stair, [4:22] basically, leading down to the ground. [4:24] The porch will be magnificent, looking in between the columns. [4:30] They no longer — we took the stairs out the south side [4:35] and replaced them with these stairs. [4:37] So you have an open porch and you have the closed porch [4:39] under the columns, overlooking the Washington Monument, [4:43] the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln-class monument. [4:49] So that's great. [4:52] This is a view of the columns as they are going to be made. [5:00] They're going to be carved at the top of the line. [5:03] They'll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, [5:07] most beautiful by far. [5:11] The Press What's your timeline on this thing? [5:13] The President Timeline? [5:13] So we're ahead of schedule and under budget. [5:18] The President All of this money, [5:19] all of the money paid is — are paid by myself and donors. [5:23] And it's all donors. [5:25] There's not one dime of government money [5:28] going into the ballroom. [5:30] Now, the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, [5:34] which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit [5:38] that was filed. [5:40] The military is building a massive complex [5:43] under the ballroom. [5:45] And that's under construction, and we're doing very well. [5:47] So we're ahead of schedule. [5:48] That's part of it. [5:50] And the ballroom essentially becomes a shed [5:52] for what's being built under the military. [5:54] Including from drones, and including from any other thing. [5:59] The glass — the windows, you see the big windows. [6:03] The glass is extremely thick. [6:05] It's high-grade, bulletproof glass. [6:08] So all of the windows are bulletproof. [6:11] I think the Times wrote, gee, some of the windows are fake. [6:14] We have no fake windows. [6:15] They said — they talked about a stairway in the south. [6:18] We don't have a stairway in the south. [6:22] But this is a view of it from the north. [6:27] And that's — if you see it, it fits in with the White House. [6:29] It's almost a twin. [6:31] To the White House. [6:33] Something we just wanted to pay tribute to the White House. [6:36] And so that fits in beautifully. [6:38] And we just see another one. [6:41] Here's another one. [6:42] Excuse me. Wait. [6:43] I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. [6:45] I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this. [6:50] Fighting wars and other things. [6:52] It's very important because this is going to be with us [6:56] for a long time. [6:57] And it's going to be — I think it'll be the greatest ballroom [6:59] anywhere in the world. [7:01] It's the highest level. [7:03] Same height — exact height, if not higher. [7:05] Same height as the White House. [7:07] Exactly the same height. [7:10] If you look, you have the White House over here. [7:12] And you have this. [7:13] And that's a duplicate of the wall. [7:15] So it pays total homage to the White House, [7:17] which is, I think, very important. [7:23] Do you see a deal in Iran? [7:28] Could be soon, too. [7:29] Are you considering still putting boots on the ground? [7:31] And would you do that without going to Congress? [7:33] I just have lots of alternatives. [7:34] We have tremendous numbers of ships over there. [7:38] We don't need them all with the power. [7:41] Look, I would say we're — [7:43] just like we're ahead of schedule on the ballroom, [7:45] in a much bigger way, we're ahead of schedule with Iran. [7:49] We're weeks ahead of schedule. [7:52] If you would have said that in three days [7:53] we were going to knock out 158 ships, [7:56] their entire Navy, we did. [7:58] We knocked out their entire Air Force. [8:00] We knocked out most of their missiles. [8:02] That's why you see missile attacks [8:04] when they're down to — they're sputtering. [8:07] We have a group — it's really a new regime. [8:10] It's a new group of people, [8:13] people that we've never dealt with before, [8:15] that are acting very reasonable. [8:17] It is truly regime change. [8:19] Is Kim still alive, sir? [8:21] Is he a part of these conversations? [8:22] We think he may be, but nobody has heard about him. [8:25] He's maybe alive, [8:27] but he's obviously very seriously in trouble. [8:30] He's seriously wounded. [8:32] The Press You had offered that 15-point plan to Iran. [8:35] Did they ever come back with a response? [8:37] The President Yeah, they came back on the 15-point plan. [8:38] The Press What did they say? [8:39] The President They gave us most of the points. [8:41] Why wouldn't they? [8:43] The Press You make it sound like [8:44] they've made some concessions. [8:46] Can you identify those? [8:47] The President Well, they're agreeing with us on the plan. [8:49] I mean, we asked for 15 things, and for the most part, [8:53] we're going to be asking for a couple of other things. [8:56] And just to prove that they're serious, [8:57] they gave us all these votes. [8:59] When I talked about, four days ago, a present, [9:00] I said they gave me a present, [9:02] but I didn't think I was at liberty to say what it was. [9:06] What it was was eight plus two. [9:08] It's 10 massive boatloads of oil. [9:12] And today, they gave us another present. [9:14] They gave us 20 boatloads of oil. [9:15] And that starts being shipped tomorrow. [9:17] We're having very good meetings, [9:19] both directly and indirectly. [9:21] And I think we're getting a lot of very important points. [9:23] The Press Sir, were you kind of barred [9:24] when the Senate passed the DHS funding bill? [9:27] The President It's a shame. [9:27] They should really just go [9:29] through with the filibuster. [9:30] They should terminate the filibuster. [9:31] The Press And will you compete? [9:32] The President And they should vote. [9:33] That's what I think. [9:34] The Press Right. [9:35] The President I think the Senate is playing too soft. [9:39] The Republicans are wonderful people, [9:42] but we're dealing with very sick individuals. [9:45] The Democrats are sick. [9:46] There's something wrong. [9:47] They're like terrorists. [9:48] And we have to protect our country. [9:50] We have to protect our border. [9:52] We have to protect our wall. [9:53] It was up to them. [9:55] They'd open up the wall. [9:56] They'd let millions of people pour into our country again. [9:58] And we've all been through that. [10:00] And I don't care if you're liberal [10:01] or you're conservative. [10:03] What we have now is we have a beautiful, closed border. [10:06] We're getting murderers out of our country that Biden [10:09] let in, the administration, the Democrats. [10:12] We're getting the drug lords out of our country. [10:13] We're bringing them back to other countries where [10:16] they came from, from all over the world. [10:18] We have great crime numbers, despite the fact [10:21] that they let in 25 million people. [10:23] And we're focused on the bad ones. [10:25] I mean, the ones that came in, it's we'll work on [10:28] something, but we have to get the killers out. [10:30] We have to get the drug dealers out. [10:32] We have to get the [10:33] criminals out. [10:34] We have people that are criminally insane. [10:36] We have people that are criminally insane. [10:38] They are unbelievably violent people that come [10:40] out of insane asylums. [10:42] The Democrats want them protected. [10:44] I want them out. [10:45] They have to be out. [10:46] You can't have a country if they're here. [10:48] Would you sign a VHS deal without ICE funding in it? [10:52] ICE is vital to the well-being of our country. [10:57] ICE, first of all, they're great patriots, [11:00] but they are physically and mentally very strong people. [11:04] And they are able to protect us. [11:05] They protect us from the animals that have been sent [11:08] in, allowed to be sent in by the Biden [11:11] administration, where you have people in jails. [11:14] Jails were prisons from Venezuela, from the Congo, [11:18] from all over the world, every from every continent. [11:22] They were allowed to come into our country, [11:25] totally unchecked, totally unvetted. [11:27] You can't have a soft, weak, sad person deal with this. [11:34] You need strong people. [11:36] Now, they love our country. [11:37] They're very brave. [11:39] They're very strong, like some of these guys. [11:43] But you have to have these people removed, [11:46] or you don't have a country. [11:47] So we had the best crime numbers that we've had. [11:51] Murder numbers, the best in 125 years. [11:53] Think of it. [11:54] Since the year 1900, before my father was born by a lot, [11:59] we have the best crime numbers. [12:01] And we're going to keep it that way. [12:02] And that's despite the fact that so many criminals [12:04] were allowed into our country. [12:06] So we need ICE. [12:08] We need Border Patrol. [12:09] The last thing you people want to see [12:11] is our country overrun again by criminals. [12:14] And that's not going to happen. [12:15] We're not going to let that happen. [12:16] And by the way, our country doesn't want that. [12:18] The Press- Mr. President, some Republicans, [12:20] including Senator Mike Lee, [12:21] say reconciliation won't work to pass the Save America Act [12:24] because it's not budget-related. [12:25] What's your response to that? [12:26] The President- Well, they say, and they'll have to — [12:28] the parliamentarian's going to have to make a decision on that. [12:32] But I — again, I say, end the filibuster. [12:35] Terminate the filibuster. Just vote. [12:38] And you'll get everything you want. [12:40] We have things. We have voter ID. [12:43] We have proof of citizenship. It's so important. [12:46] Mail-in ballots have to be stopped, [12:48] with exceptions for the military, for sick people, [12:50] people that are sick, people disabled, [12:54] for people that are traveling. [12:55] If you're traveling, you can vote. [12:58] But other than that, mail-in ballots [12:59] are inherently dishonest. [13:00] Jimmy Carter and his Carter Commission [13:02] said you can't have mail-in ballots. [13:04] We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots. [13:09] We're the only country in the world [13:12] that has — you know, we have a big case coming [13:14] in the Supreme Court that had to do with the babies of slaves [13:22] after the Civil War. [13:24] And instead of that, it's being used as a way for rich countries [13:28] and thousands and thousands of people from China [13:31] coming in and getting citizenship [13:33] for people within their family. [13:35] This is not what they meant when they did that. [13:38] So that's a big decision coming up. [13:42] But if you look at it and you look at what we've done, [13:44] here, we have five points. [13:46] We don't want men playing in women's sports. [13:48] The Democrats do. [13:50] We don't want transgender mutilization of our children. [13:54] The Democrats are just fine with it. [13:56] They could — you could do every child in America. [13:59] They'd be very happy. [14:00] We don't want the mutilization of our children. [14:04] It's transgender, and we're not going to have it. [14:07] So we want to go into those things — five points. [14:10] And with the filibuster termination, [14:12] you could vote them all in. [14:14] The Republicans would have to vote. [14:15] Mr. President, Leader Thune told me [14:17] that they do not have the votes to terminate the filibuster. [14:19] How will you get around that? [14:20] But that's part of being a leader. [14:21] You have to get the votes. [14:22] Do you have confidence in Leader Thune? [14:24] I mean, I like him so much. [14:25] He's a — he's a high-quality person. [14:28] And he told me the same thing. [14:29] We don't have the votes. [14:30] Well, he's only a couple of votes short. [14:31] But that's what being a leader is. [14:34] You have to get the votes. [14:35] You have to get the votes. [14:37] And those people will not be able to withstand the onslaught [14:41] because Republicans and the country wants it. [14:43] You know, it's polling at 87 percent. [14:46] Voter ID — think of it. [14:49] We're talking about Save America. [14:50] And it's not the Save Act. [14:51] It's Save America Act because it's saving America. [14:53] Save Act — nobody knows what it's saving. [14:55] It's the Save America Act. [14:57] And you have to have it. [14:59] You have to have it. [15:00] The Save America Act, voter ID, all these things — [15:03] proof of citizenship — it's an 87 percent issue [15:08] with all voters, including Democrats. [15:10] The only ones that don't want it are Schumer [15:13] and these corrupt Democrat leaders [15:16] because it will not give them [15:18] the ability to cheat in an election. [15:20] Look, why wouldn't you want voter ID? [15:22] There's not a reason in the world [15:24] you wouldn't want it except to cheat. [15:26] And if they don't cheat, their policy is so bad, [15:28] they'll never win another election. [15:29] The Press [15:39] It's a failing country. [15:41] And they're going to be next. [15:42] Within a short period of time, it's going to fail. [15:45] And we will be there to help it out. [15:48] We'll be there to help our great — [15:50] Cuban-Americans out who were thrown out of Cuba in many cases. Their family [15:55] members were mutilated and killed by Castro. Cuba is going to be next, yeah. [16:00] Are you considering withdrawing Casey Means for Surgeon General and [16:06] nominating someone else? Well, we're looking at a lot of different things and [16:10] I don't know how she's doing in the nomination process. I'm more focused on [16:17] Iran, but something like that would be possible. [16:22] We certainly have a lot of, we have a lot of great candidates for this. [16:26] Do you still have confidence in Tulsi Gabbard, sir? [16:28] Yeah, sure, I do. [16:30] I mean, she's a little bit different in her thought process than me, but that doesn't make somebody not available to serve. [16:37] Does she have the same patience as you? [16:39] I would say that I'm very strong on the fact that I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. [16:44] Because if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it immediately. [16:48] I think she's probably a little bit softer on that issue, but that's okay. Some people are. [16:52] Most people aren't. [16:53] Most people aren't. [16:54] Most people are saying, thank you very much for doing what you did. [16:58] They are decimated right now. [17:00] They're going to give up nuclear weapons. [17:01] They're going to give us the nuclear dust. [17:03] They're going to do everything that we want to do. [17:06] And you know what? [17:07] They're going to go on and maybe have a great, a great country again. [17:11] But if they don't do that, they're not going to have a country. [17:14] They're not even going to have a country. [17:17] So she's softer on that issue. [17:19] But I have other people, not too many. [17:21] That's an issue that we've had great support. [17:23] You saw the CNN poll. [17:25] With Trump with MAGA, and I think MAGA is most of the Republican Party, is 100% approval. [17:31] In fact, the young gentleman that does the poll, who's very good, actually, because he's honest, [17:36] he said, I've never seen 100% before. [17:39] I'm 100% in the CNN poll, which just came out. [17:42] Thank you very much, everyone. [17:44] One more thing on Cuba. [17:45] There's a report that the U.S. is going to let a Russian oil tanker go to Cuba. [17:49] Is that true? [17:50] We have a tanker out there. [17:51] We don't mind having somebody get a boatload because they need, they have to survive. [17:55] So that report is true, as far as you know? [17:58] Well, I would say, I told them, if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it. [18:05] Do you worry that that helps Vladimir Putin? [18:07] Whether it's Russia or not. [18:08] Do you worry that that helps Vladimir Putin, though? [18:11] It doesn't help him. [18:12] He loses one boatload of oil. [18:14] That's all it is. [18:15] It's fine. [18:16] If he wants to do that, and if other countries want to do it, it doesn't bother me much. [18:20] It's not going to have an impact. [18:22] Cuba is finished. [18:23] They have a bad regime. [18:24] They have very bad and corrupt leadership. [18:26] And whether or not they get a boatload of oil, it's not going to matter. [18:30] I'd prefer letting it in, whether it's Russia or anybody else, because the people need heat and cooling and all of the other things that you need. [18:39] Go ahead. [18:40] Now, the issue of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran control of it and charging tolls, what do you think about that? [18:46] Well, I have to find out if it's true. [18:48] You know, they're going to do whatever they have to do. [18:51] We could close that up in two minutes. [18:53] We could close that up so fast your head would spin. [18:58] So, what do you think about the countries that are being attacked by Iran to start to fight back? [19:01] They are fighting back. [19:03] Saudi Arabia is fighting back hard. [19:06] Qatar is fighting back. [19:08] UAE is fighting back. [19:09] Kuwait is fighting back. [19:10] Bahrain is fighting back. [19:12] They're all fighting back. [19:13] Actually, they were surprised to be hit. [19:15] I was very surprised they got hit. [19:17] And once they got hit, they started fighting very well. [19:20] We're very strong communications with all of those countries, and they've all been fighting. [19:25] They're 100 percent on our side. [19:26] How long can you pay TSA workers for? [19:27] How long can you pay TSA workers for? [19:28] I'm sorry. [19:29] How long can you pay TSA workers for from the one big beautiful bill? [19:32] Well, we're going to pay them for as long as we have to. [19:34] And I will tell you, the ICE workers have been amazing. [19:37] And they're helping people with their bags. [19:41] It's very interesting. [19:42] We put ICE there, and ICE got a very unfair press. [19:45] They're doing an amazing job getting hardened criminals' murders. [19:49] 11,888 murders were allowed to come into our country through Biden. [19:54] And ICE has been amazing. [19:56] Now, we said, give us a little hand during this period of time, [19:59] because this is caused by Democrat terrorists. [20:02] These people are sick. [20:03] They don't care about our country. [20:04] They don't care about people. [20:05] But what it's all about, really, is they want to have open borders, [20:08] and they want to have criminals come into our country so they can get more votes, [20:12] because they're losing votes fast. [20:14] Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. [20:16] And now I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population. [20:20] And that's bad for them. [20:21] They always had it. [20:22] Now they don't have it anymore. [20:25] These are people that want our country to fail, and the voters see that. [20:28] Thank you very much. [20:29] Thank you. [20:30] Thank you, sir. [20:31] Thank you, Mr. President.