FULL Q&A: U.S. President Trump Urgent Remarks on Iran, Peace Deal and Secure America Act — AC15

[0:00] Very incredible. [0:02] Actually, an incredible machine. [0:03] And at first, they said they didn't do it. [0:06] Then they admitted they did it. [0:07] It was sort of easy, because we have the bomb. [0:10] We actually have the bomb. [0:11] We got very lucky that bomb didn't explode. [0:14] That bomb was lodged in a helicopter. [0:16] It didn't explode. [0:17] It was on fire, but it didn't explode. [0:19] Those two guys, they knew how to fly, [0:22] but they got very lucky. [0:23] And then we had the unmanned boat going very, [0:28] very fast at speeds that you wouldn't want to go. [0:31] That's why it's unmanned, I guess, [0:33] because nobody can go with that. [0:34] But they rescued some of the both. [0:37] Both people are fortunate. [0:38] The pilots are okay. [0:40] No, no, I've been working with Iran for a number of months, [0:46] and they should sign their deal. [0:51] It's a good deal. [0:52] It doesn't give them the right to have a nuclear weapon. [0:55] In fact, it totally prohibits them [0:56] from ever having a nuclear weapon. [1:00] And it was just tap, tap, tap. [1:02] I don't know what they're doing. [1:04] So they then shot out a shot at our helicopter. [1:11] A very expensive helicopter, by the way, [1:12] but much more importantly, the two men. [1:14] Fortunately, they're okay. [1:16] But an amazing rescue. [1:18] If you ever get a clip, you won't believe the rescue, [1:21] how cool it was. [1:23] The equipment we have. [1:24] Look, we have the strongest military in the world. [1:27] And I gave them a break at the request of Pakistan. [1:30] The field marshal and the prime minister of Pakistan are great. [1:35] We stopped them from going to war with India. [1:37] You would have had a nuclear war if it wasn't for me. [1:40] But they became friendly to me, very friendly. [1:42] And they stayed close to Iran, and they worked. [1:46] And they still are working on trying them to do what's right. [1:49] But we want a deal that's meaningful. [1:51] We want a deal that works. [1:52] We don't want to just have a Barack Hussein Obama deal, [1:56] JCPOA, the worst deal. [1:58] That was a path to a nuclear. [2:00] It's the exact opposite. [2:01] You know, I like on television, they say, [2:02] oh, they should have kept that deal. [2:04] First of all, it was over. [2:06] It was a short-term deal. [2:07] But that deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. [2:11] This is a path against a nuclear. [2:14] You can't have a nuclear weapon. [2:16] His was a path to a nuclear weapon. [2:19] They were developing, during his administration, [2:22] a nuclear weapon. [2:23] If they had a nuclear weapon, there'd be no Israel, [2:27] there'd be no Middle East, [2:28] and they would have absolutely shot at us. [2:31] So, so we'll see what happens. [2:34] But we hit them hard yesterday, [2:36] and we're going to hit them again hard today in case you miss it, [2:40] in case you don't turn on your television set. [2:43] And we'll see what happens with the deal. [2:46] We were really close to a deal, [2:48] but they keep tapping us along. [2:49] They keep playing us for suckers. [2:50] Because you know what? [2:52] They dealt with some very stupid presidents. [2:54] I have to say that. [2:55] I'm embarrassed to say it. [2:56] Some very stupid people were sitting here. [2:58] Yeah. [2:59] The Press, Mr. President, [3:00] you mentioned the Senate race in Maine. [3:02] Are you all in in supporting Susan Collins? [3:05] Does she have your full support and endorsement in her Senate election? [3:08] The President, she does, because she's a sane woman. [3:10] She's not my best friend at all. [3:12] These guys are. [3:14] I get along, but I have some, but she's a sane person. [3:17] And she's a person that never missed a vote in many years. [3:22] I mean, she's like had 10,000 votes. [3:24] 10,000 votes, that's right. [3:25] She had 10,000 votes. [3:26] She never missed a vote, unfortunately, [3:29] because sometimes she voted against me. [3:31] You know, look, she's a sane woman, and she's a respected person. [3:38] Maybe a little different ideology than me, but this guy is a thug. [3:43] He's a fake thug. [3:45] He's a fake thug. [3:46] He's a phony. [3:47] I made a lot of money picking out phonies. [3:50] He's a real phony. [3:51] He's a bad person. [3:52] Yeah. [3:53] The Press, are you going to go back to attack? [3:54] Are you thinking of attacking Iranian power plants and bridges as you've been around before? [3:58] Well, I'm not going to say that to you, but I can do that. [4:01] Look, I could knock out — we have the most powerful — [4:04] I built the military with these people approving it. [4:07] It approved numbers that nobody would have ever thought we would be. [4:10] But we built it, and we gave a lot to Ukraine through Biden. [4:16] He gave a lot of money — a lot, but we're in great shape. [4:19] We have a lot of storage capacity, but he gave a lot. [4:23] And if you look at, you know, what's happened — [4:27] I — when I left, our cupboards were full. [4:31] He gave — he gave it. [4:34] Now, I sell it to the European Union, [4:36] and they give it to Ukraine for the most part. [4:40] But we have the strongest military anywhere in the world, [4:45] and sometimes you'll have to use it. [4:48] And we have to remember — and when people hear this, [4:52] Iran very simply cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't. [4:55] And they've agreed to that. [4:57] All they have to do is they have to start signing a paper. [5:00] It's fully negotiated. [5:03] We have a fully negotiated, but they're tapping and tapping. [5:06] And I say, all right, let's give them a couple of more days. [5:08] They're tapping because it's a meaningful paper. [5:12] They know when they sign that paper, it's meaningful. [5:15] The Obama deal, JCPOA — one of the worst — [5:18] one of the dumbest documents I've ever seen. [5:20] Yeah, please. Go ahead. [5:22] The Pressure President, when are you meeting with tech executives [5:25] about the government taking a stake in AI companies? [5:28] And what could this partnership look like? [5:29] The President Trump's about AI? [5:31] Well, I can say this. [5:33] We're having a meeting with them. [5:36] It's an amazing industry. [5:38] It's bigger than any industry anyone's ever seen. [5:41] We are leading China by a lot. [5:44] And, you know, whoever leads that is going to really lead the world to a large extent. [5:48] That's how big it is. [5:50] And I'm going to have meetings with the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly. [5:57] And we're talking about giving back something to the public. [6:01] And if we do that, the public will become very rich. [6:05] The people in our country — because that's the kind of money we're talking about. [6:09] And I think they'll do that, and I think it'll make it very popular. [6:13] What would you like to ask? [6:14] Thank you, President. I have two questions. [6:16] First of all, Turkish President Erdogan keeps threatening Israel. [6:19] Do you think there's a chance of a conflict between Israel and Turkey? [6:22] And will you sell F-35 to — [6:25] Well, as you know, he's a very good friend of mine. [6:28] And we've worked very well together. I like him a lot. [6:31] I'm not supposed to say that because the press will say, [6:33] oh, he likes Erdogan. No, he's a hell of a leader. [6:37] And a strong person — a very strong person. [6:42] I haven't heard that at all. If I did, I'd call him. [6:45] And I think I'd make sure that things were fine. [6:47] I don't think that will happen with Turkey. [6:50] Not as long as I'm President, [6:52] because he respects me and I respect him. [6:54] But beyond that, we have a good friendship. [6:55] So, you know, we'll see. [6:56] And my second question — that's my second question. [6:58] Besides peace in the Middle East, [7:00] what do you wish yourself for your birthday? [7:02] For my birthday? [7:04] Well, I'll go a step bigger. Peace for the world, okay? [7:08] Peace for the world. Middle East, yes. [7:09] Peace for the whole world. Yeah. [7:11] The Pressure, Mr. President, [7:13] there is a New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee [7:16] who were in the 12th district. [7:18] And he was Adam Hopley. [7:20] He has a connection to the blind shape. [7:23] And I was wondering if you have any different thoughts on that. [7:25] The President Trump's name. I think it's terrible. [7:26] Okay? I think it's terrible. I've seen it. [7:30] I mean, he was more — you know, now he's trying to sort of say, [7:32] yeah, I sort of knew him. He didn't know him. [7:34] They were very good friends. [7:36] And you look at the — you go back [7:39] and look at what happened during that period of time. [7:41] He was a witness at the trial — for him. [7:43] He was a positive witness for him. [7:46] He said the most lowing things. [7:47] A guy knocked down the World Trade Center. [7:49] Admitted that he knocked down the World Trade Center. [7:53] I think it's another one, if you look. [7:56] I actually think the one in Maine is worse, [7:59] because he's just an outright pig. [8:01] He's like a pig. I watched him a couple of times. [8:04] He's like a pig. That's what he reminds me of. [8:07] You know, I come up with good names for people. [8:09] I don't want to stick him with that one, [8:11] although I think pigs would be very upset about it. [8:14] Go ahead. [8:15] The Press Press is coming fast. [8:18] How confident are you that you'll be able to renew the USMCA? [8:22] And what more do you expect from Canada at this point? [8:24] The President Trump's name is the President of the United States. [8:26] I don't — you know, I mean, I made the deal. [8:28] And the primary reason I made the deal is that NAFTA [8:30] was the worst trade deal I've ever seen, and I made it better. [8:34] But I had the right to terminate. [8:36] And, you know, with NAFTA, we didn't have the right to terminate. [8:38] I had to get these senators to approve that deal. [8:41] That was a tough thing. [8:42] Congressman, too. [8:45] NAFTA had no termination. [8:47] So, I mean, I've never said this before, [8:49] but I'll tell you what my thinking was. [8:51] NAFTA was a disaster for our country. [8:54] The worst trade deal ever made, by far. [8:57] You know, they had typos in, okay? [9:00] And they were supposed to correct them. [9:02] And they never corrected them when they were signed. [9:04] They knew there were typos. [9:06] And there's a process for that. [9:08] You state your claim and, you know, you get a change. [9:11] They had typos on percentages. [9:14] Or maybe somebody wrote — and that was — for years. [9:18] They never ran — they had horrible — all against us. [9:22] So it probably wasn't typos. [9:24] They never — NAFTA was the worst trade deal we ever had. [9:27] USMCA did one thing that I loved. [9:30] After six years, it comes up for renewal. [9:35] I don't know that I'm going to renew it because, [9:38] to be honest with you, the United States does much better. [9:43] Hey, we don't need anything that Canada has. [9:45] We don't need anything that Mexico has. [9:47] But they need everything that we have. [9:49] And they have to treat us better. [9:51] You know, with Mexico and Canada, we have trade deficits. [9:56] We should have surpluses with them. [9:58] We don't need their cars. [9:59] We don't need their lumber. [10:01] We don't need their energy. [10:02] We don't need anything that they have. [10:05] So the primary thing that I got — it was a much better deal [10:08] than NAFTA — much, much better. [10:09] It was a — it was sort of a good deal. [10:12] But it was a great deal for one reason. [10:14] It gave the right to terminate. [10:16] And who would have thought that I was — you know, [10:18] they just didn't want to have it during the four-year period, [10:21] when I was President. [10:23] So now they made it so that I wouldn't be President. [10:28] And because they rigged the election — the second election, [10:32] as you probably hear and probably know — [10:34] most of you know that happened, and now it's been proven. [10:37] And it will be proven as time goes by, even more so. [10:39] We have things that you won't believe. [10:40] When we release the full files, you're not going to believe [10:43] how crooked the second 2020 election was. [10:45] But who would have thought that it comes due in my term? [10:51] I mean, this was — thank you very much. [10:54] So, it was very important that we be able to do that. [10:59] So we're talking to them. [11:00] We'll see if we do something. [11:01] The Press Press, before we came in here, [11:03] you posted about Phil Pulte and that he'd be starting the job early. [11:06] You said it's going to be downsizing the DNI. [11:08] Can you talk about your thinking — [11:09] The President Biden — [11:10] Well, yeah, people have wanted that downsize for a long time. [11:11] But many people don't want it at all. [11:13] A lot of people thought it was a duplication. [11:16] Yeah. [11:16] A lot of people thought it was a duplication. [11:18] He's done a great job at Fannie Mae. [11:21] And, you know, you take Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae. [11:24] The value of that has increased so much [11:29] since I've been in charge. [11:29] You know, I had the right to sell that. [11:32] And in my first term, a group came to see me wanting to buy it. [11:37] And they offered me exactly 10 percent of what it's worth today. [11:40] And I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to look foolish [11:43] when they flipped it a year later [11:45] for hundreds of billions of dollars more. [11:49] So I kept it. [11:51] And I put him in charge as soon as I got here. [11:53] And he's done an amazing job. [11:54] Could be worth a trillion dollars. [11:56] The Press has a pretty different portfolio, though. [11:57] The President Biden — [11:58] Well, it is. I know. [11:59] But, you know, smart people are smart people. [12:01] I always say I'd rather have smart than experience. [12:03] But experience is good, too. [12:07] I would say this. [12:08] He's going to be there for a short while [12:10] while we pick somebody else. [12:11] We're interviewing five different people. [12:13] They're all very good, very different. [12:15] And we'll put somebody there. [12:17] But people want it downsized. [12:19] The senators and the congresspeople, [12:21] I think everybody wants it downsized. [12:23] And many people, I think — and I won't speak for Todd, [12:25] but — and I'm not sure how Todd feels. [12:28] But by the way, he's great. [12:29] I hope you people have given him an easy run [12:31] because he's very busy. [12:33] He doesn't need stupid people saying, [12:37] why didn't you get a higher mark at a certain college? [12:41] Because he's highly educated, he was a great student. [12:44] He's great at everything he's done. [12:46] But how come he got a B-plus? [12:48] See, they'll go after him for getting a B-plus instead of an A, [12:51] but the other guy can be a thug and let him run. [12:54] It's okay. He's fine. [12:56] The one thing about him, it's great, [12:59] because every time they bring something up, [13:00] he's worse than anybody that we've ever seen. [13:03] And I hope the Republicans are going to use him [13:05] as your standard bearer. [13:07] When they say that, [13:09] gee, Eric, we don't like the way you dress today, [13:13] it's unacceptable, right? [13:15] And then all you have to do is point to this thug [13:17] that they're trying to put in. [13:18] So pretty much that's the way it is. [13:21] He's going to do a good job. [13:22] He's going to be there for a very short period of time. [13:25] He will be superseded and replaced by somebody [13:28] that's going to have the job permanently, okay? [13:30] What do you think Democrats say [13:32] they'll hold up the — [13:33] I don't care what they say, Democrats. [13:36] They're not Democrats, they're Democrats. [13:37] They're dumb people, yeah. [13:38] Did you need their votes? [13:40] I told the guys today, we can't let them. [13:43] They've done it on numerous occasions. [13:46] I said, we can. [13:48] This — what we're signing today has been amazing. [13:51] But they tried to extort us, and eventually, [13:54] and they were losing tremendous support [13:56] because they're extorting on law and order, [13:59] and they can't win on law and order. [14:00] People want law and order. [14:02] They don't want crime. [14:04] And that's essentially what they were doing. [14:06] And ultimately, they could not take the heat. [14:09] But we can't let them exist. [14:10] The Press on, Mr. President, [14:11] it starts tomorrow in the World Cup. [14:13] The World Cup. [14:14] The Soccer World Cup. [14:16] The most successful World Cup they've ever had. [14:18] The Press on, exactly. [14:20] The President. [14:21] They've never sold tickets at that level. [14:23] They've never sold that many tickets so quickly. [14:26] It's amazing, because you don't think of soccer. [14:28] We use the word football soccer, right? [14:30] But you don't think of soccer in this country. [14:33] It's the most successful. [14:34] I spoke to Johnny this morning. [14:36] He's fantastic. [14:37] And he's the boss. [14:39] He said, there's never been anything close to what's happened. [14:43] The Press on, because of the success, [14:44] some people are afraid that it's going to be harder and harder [14:47] to get visas to come from outside. [14:48] Can you reassure that? [14:49] The President. [14:50] We're working on it very closely [14:51] to make sure the right people come into our country. [14:54] The Press on, Mr. President. [14:55] The Press on, Mr. President. [14:57] I will. [14:58] The Press on, Mr. President, [14:59] about the latest inflation number, [15:02] which came out this morning. [15:03] Could that be a great for Republicans? [15:04] The President. [15:05] The President. [15:06] The President. [15:06] You know what I really love? [15:07] I love the inflation. [15:08] You know why? [15:09] Because as soon as this war is over, [15:12] you know, I can say it now, something you didn't know. [15:15] Do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? [15:20] Nobody knows it. [15:21] You know who doesn't know about it? [15:23] Iran, until right now. [15:26] We took out the other night 22 ships late at night [15:29] with no lights, because they don't have any radar, [15:32] because we blasted the crap out of it. [15:34] We took out — that's why oil is $85 a barrel. [15:38] I mean, you take a look. [15:39] Remember when I did this, I said, [15:41] look, the one bad thing will be we hit the best economy [15:46] we've ever hit. [15:47] And I said to my people — I had Scott, I had Howard, [15:49] I had Pete, I had all of them. [15:52] I had Todd in the room. [15:53] And I said, the one thing we have to do now — [15:57] we had just hit the highest stock market in history, [16:00] highest 401 s in history. [16:03] Everything was going well. [16:04] And I said, I hate to do this to you guys, [16:06] but Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon very soon. [16:09] We have to go and attack. [16:10] So we hit them with the B-2 bombers, [16:14] which took a lot of courage. [16:15] It was totally successful. [16:17] We buried it very hard to get. [16:19] But now we had to make the second move. [16:23] And I said, you know, the bad part is the stock market [16:25] will go down by a lot based on predictions of experts, [16:30] like 25 percent. [16:31] And it was worth it. [16:32] To me, it was worth it not to have a nuclear weapon. [16:35] And the other thing is that oil would go to $250 a barrel. [16:39] It's at 85. [16:41] And — which is pretty amazing. [16:44] And here's the key. [16:46] We just hit today another stock market high. [16:48] It's 74 — in my short time here — [16:51] 74 days, we hit stock market all-time historical highs. [16:55] Nobody can believe it. [16:56] The Dow — the Dow, the S&P — S&P was at 7,000, [17:02] they said, in four years, maybe five years. [17:05] It will never hit it during the term. [17:06] It was too much. [17:07] I hit it in my first year. [17:09] I hit — on the Dow, it was — [17:12] 50,000 was an impossible number. [17:15] They said, five, six years out, yielded — [17:18] well, I hit it in my first year. [17:20] And now I get everyone in the room and say, [17:21] congratulations, but now I'm going to take it down a little bit, [17:24] because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. [17:26] And they all agreed with me. [17:28] Todd, you remember. [17:29] Everybody agreed. [17:31] And we took a little journey down to Iran. [17:33] We first stopped off at Venezuela, by the way. [17:36] And we have paid for that war many, many times over. [17:41] And we have great relationships with the people of Venezuela. [17:43] We get along with them great. [17:45] It was a great success. [17:46] It was a one-day war. [17:47] It was really a — it was really, to be exact, [17:49] 48 minutes of fury, and it was over. [17:53] And Venezuela is doing great. [17:56] Relationships with the people are great. [17:59] It's become a happy country, believe it or not. [18:01] I mean, it's become a happy country. [18:03] And we're — we're taking out millions of barrels of oil [18:06] from Venezuela. [18:08] And then we went to Iran. [18:11] And essentially, we've done the same thing. [18:13] It doesn't look as pretty, but it — we've — there's no Navy. [18:16] 159 ships at the bottom of the sea. [18:19] There's no Air Force. [18:20] All of their planes are blown up. [18:23] Most of their drones are gone. [18:24] Most of their drone-making ability is gone. [18:27] Most of their missiles are gone. [18:29] All of their leadership is gone, so they replaced it. [18:32] All of that leadership is gone, so they replaced it. [18:36] And that's the people we're dealing with now. [18:38] And I think they're going to want to make a deal, [18:41] but we're going to find out. [18:42] Can you expect inflation to come down between that and — [18:47] Oh, when — when the war is over? [18:48] Yes. [18:49] It's coming down. [18:50] I know you can't — [18:51] It's going to come down like a rock. [18:52] And again, we're taking out millions, [18:57] which — I'm just announcing today for the first time — [19:00] but we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil. [19:06] Millions of barrels. [19:07] Every night, we took out oil. [19:09] But now I'm going to tell you, [19:11] because they just figured it out. [19:13] So now that they figured it out, I can tell you. [19:15] It was very hard for me. [19:17] I wanted to say it so badly, but it was — [19:19] I didn't want to ruin it, but it was very hard. [19:22] But millions of barrels of oil has come out. [19:25] That's why it said $85, $90 a barrel instead of $250. [19:29] But we have the greatest military in the world, [19:34] the toughest military in the world, [19:37] just the best in every way. [19:38] Nobody even close. [19:39] There's no military that's even close. [19:41] I rebuilt it during my first term. [19:43] I'm using it now. [19:45] When this conflict is over — [19:48] Todd said, please go out of conflict, right? [19:51] As opposed to the World War. [19:52] He didn't like the word war, but it's sort of a conflict. [19:56] It's a military operation. [19:58] When it's over, you will see oil drop to where it was before. [20:02] We were getting gasoline — just before it started, [20:04] I was in Iowa, and we passed gas stations — [20:07] $1.85 a gallon. [20:11] And we'll be back at those levels very soon. [20:13] Thank you very much, everybody. [20:14] Thank you, Russ. [20:15] Thank you, Russ. [20:16] Thank you, Russ. [20:17] Thank you, guys. [20:18] Thank you, guys. [20:19] Thank you, guys. [20:20] Thank you. [20:21] Thank you, Russ. [20:22] Thank you, all. [20:23] Thank you. [20:24] Wait.