Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi, President Trump to talk Iran war, global trade: Full meeting

[0:00] And we have a very special person, just won a tremendous election in a record-setting fashion. [0:07] So you have something in common. [0:09] And I was very proud and honored to endorse the Prime Minister [0:13] because of the fact that I thought she was really good. [0:17] I thought she did a fantastic job. [0:19] I respect her a lot, so I gave her an endorsement. [0:22] And she had the most successful election, in my opinion, in the history of Japan. [0:30] And won by the most ever. [0:33] So we have a very popular, powerful woman. [0:36] And she's a great woman. [0:37] We have a very fine relationship. [0:39] And we're going to be talking about trade and many other things. [0:44] And it's an honor to have you. [0:46] Thank you very much. [0:47] Thank you very much. [1:01] Thank you for watching. [1:17] And I hope that you all enjoyed the same time as I did. [1:22] Thank you very much. [1:23] Thank you very much. [1:26] Thank you. [1:27] Thank you very much. [1:29] Thank you for your attention. [1:31] to the White House today thank you my visit is timely so given the current [1:44] situation so oh please yes absolutely you have a very good interpreter [1:53] I know it's your friend it be my no children say a more committed to the [2:01] color世界中の安全保障環境が非常に厳しい状況にあります [2:07] right now situations in the Middle East and also the entire world we are [2:14] actually experiencing a very severe security environment system of世界 [2:19] 経済もあのかなり厳しい影響を受けつつあります and also [2:24] the global economy is now about to experience a huge hit because of this [2:31] developmentでも私は世界の反映とそして平和に [2:39] 貢献できる世界中に平和と繁栄をもたらせるのはドナルだけだと思っています [2:46] but even against that backdrop I firmly believe that it is only you Donald who [2:53] can achieve peace [2:54] across the world [2:56] そのために私は諸外国に働きかけてしっかりと応援をしたいと思っています [3:03] and to do so I am ready to reach out to many of the partners in the international community to achieve our objective together [3:14] 今日私はそれを伝えに来ました [3:17] so today I came here at the White House to directly convey this message to you [3:23] そしてイランに関して私はこのメッセージを伝えにきました。 [3:24] そしてイランに関して私はこのメッセージを伝えにきました。 [3:24] そしてイランに関して私はこのメッセージを伝えにきました。 [3:25] 核兵器の開発、これは許されてはならないことですから日本も働きかけをしてきました。 [3:35] And speaking of the situation in Iran, Iran's development of nuclear weapons must never be allowed. [3:43] And that is why we, Japan, have been urging them and also reaching out to other partners in the world. [3:50] そして我が国は周辺国に対する攻撃、ホルムズ海峡の実質的な攻撃を行っています。 [3:51] そして我が国は周辺国に対する攻撃、ホルムズ海峡の実質的な攻撃を行っています。 [3:52] そして我が国は周辺国に対する攻撃、ホルムズ海峡の実質的な攻撃を行っています。 [3:55] 日本の実質的な閉鎖についてもこれは非難をし、そしてモンテギー外務大臣からもイランの外務大臣に対してそれをやめるように申し入れをしてきました。 [4:08] In addition, Japan condemns Iran's actions such as attacking the neighboring region and also the de facto or effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. [4:19] As a matter of fact, my fellow minister, Foreign Minister Motegi, [4:23] Foreign Minister Motegi also had the direct and effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. [4:24] Foreign Minister Motegi also had the direct and effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. [4:25] Japan [4:35] You'll let me know. [4:36] You'll let me know. [4:41] We see today not only in central Asia but the security and security environment of the Indo-Pacific is also very tough. [4:51] At least your defense is. [4:52] After entering into British law-making, you said that Japan has not beenightened. [4:53] Have you gained any confidence? [4:54] No. [4:55] And also, the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region is also becoming increasingly [5:06] severe. [5:08] Donald, you have shown deep trust in Japan and also the unwavering commitment to the [5:13] Japan-U.S. [5:14] alliance. [5:15] Once again, thank you very much for that. [5:18] And today, I look forward to having a discussion on how we can cooperate to make our two nations, [5:34] both Japan and the United States, stronger and more prosperous. [5:44] And I also brought specific proposals to calm down the global energy crisis. [5:48] It was a great conversation to talk about how we can support each other to make this [5:52] world a better place for us all to be. [5:56] Thank you, Donald. [5:57] Today, I really look forward to having our discussion, particularly focusing on our [6:12] collaboration in economic security in the important areas such as energy and rare earth [6:19] matter. [6:19] minerals and also I look forward to discussing with you how we can make our [6:24] two economies stronger moving forward thank you very much thank you very much [6:29] and you're doing a great job again congratulations on the biggest win in [6:34] the history of Japan that's not bad that's a pretty long history that's a [6:39] large nation with a law really with a great a great reputation but it's a [6:45] tremendous victory congratulations to everybody very very proud of you very [6:51] proud of you we begin we become friends and I'm very proud of the job you've done [6:55] it's not easy any questions are you fully satisfied with the level of [7:04] support that you're getting from Japan on Iran including around mine sweepers [7:08] well we're going to be speaking about it today go ahead you can go [7:16] we're doing we're going to be speaking about it today we've had tremendous [7:27] support and relationship with Japan on everything and I believe that based on [7:32] statements were given to us yesterday the day before yesterday having to do [7:37] with Japan they are really stepping up to the plate yes [7:47] unlike NATO please [7:58] do you intend to lift sanctions on Iranian oil and do you intend to [8:02] potentially put US troops or more troops in the region no I'm not putting troops [8:08] anywhere if I if I were I certainly wouldn't tell you but I'm not putting [8:13] troops and we will do whatever is necessary to keep the [8:17] United States alive I am a Shawshank Redemption [8:31] when I took a result the news for me was when the people of the country [8:39] refused to become part of the United States if you knew the people of the [8:42] United States would not be able to go to the United States without the help of the [8:45] And we did that in one year. [8:47] So it was all done. [8:48] Everything was going great. [8:50] The economy was great. [8:51] Oil prices were very low. [8:53] Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had $1.99, $1.85. [8:58] We had great everything. [9:00] And I saw what was happening in Iran, and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it. [9:07] And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. [9:09] I thought that it would go up more than it did. [9:12] But we're doing this excursion. [9:14] And when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world. [9:18] And the prime minister agrees with me on this. [9:20] She considers it to be terrible what Iran did. [9:23] I think every country does. [9:24] Just about every country does. [9:26] Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the world. [9:30] And everybody agrees with me. [9:32] I think virtually every country agrees with me on that. [9:35] So I wanted to put out that fire. [9:39] And I said, you know, if I do that, oil prices will go up. [9:42] The economy will go down a little bit. [9:44] I thought it would be worse. [9:46] Much worse, actually. [9:47] I thought there was a chance it was going to be much worse. [9:49] It's not bad. [9:49] And it's going to be over with pretty soon. [9:51] We've obliterated the Navy. [9:53] We've obliterated their just about everything there is to obliterate, including leadership. [9:59] Their Navy is gone. [10:00] Their Air Force is gone. [10:01] Their anti-aircraft equipment is gone. [10:03] We're flying wherever we want, Pete. [10:06] We have nobody even shooting at us. [10:09] They have, I mean, and as you know, their leadership is gone. [10:14] Their leaders are gone. [10:15] They pick new leaders, they're gone. [10:17] They pick new leaders, they're gone. [10:19] And now they're looking for new leaders again. [10:23] We can take out the island if anytime we want. [10:28] I call it the little oil island that sits there. [10:30] So totally unprotected. [10:32] We've taken out everything but the pipes. [10:35] We left the pipes because to rebuild the pipes would take years for, you know, for them to do. [10:41] But we are I would say we are substantially ahead of schedule. [10:46] And I had to do this. [10:48] I had I call it an excursion. [10:50] I had to take this little excursion and do something that no other president had the courage to do. [10:56] And everybody wanted to do it, but they never had the courage to do. [10:59] And I don't blame them. [11:00] I'm not blaming them. [11:02] It was left to me. [11:03] And we've done a great job. [11:04] Our military is incredible. [11:05] We have an incredible military. [11:07] We have the strongest military in the world by far. [11:10] We have the greatest equipment in the world by far. [11:13] In fact, Japan buys our equipment, buys a lot of it. [11:16] And we're honored by that. [11:18] And that's one of the things we'll be talking. [11:20] They want to buy a lot of the military equipment. [11:22] So it's just an honor to have the prime minister. [11:24] We've had a tremendous relationship. [11:27] OK. [11:28] Mr. President. [11:29] Mr. President. [11:30] I think she's going to have to go first before you. [11:34] Is that OK? [11:35] Yeah. [11:36] Do you understand? [11:37] Very good. [11:38] I mean, it's so nice that we don't have to sit. [11:42] No, it's very good. [11:43] I haven't I haven't picked up your language. [11:46] The next time you come, I'll have your language mastered. [11:50] All right. [11:51] Go ahead. [11:52] The war is almost over. [11:54] Why is the Pentagon going to ask Congress for an additional 200 billion dollars? [11:59] Well, we're asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what we're talking about in Iran. [12:04] When this is a very volatile world and the military equipment, the the power of some [12:12] of this weaponry is unthinkable. [12:15] You don't even want to know about it. [12:17] Oh, you. [12:17] And this thing's in two seconds if you wanted to. [12:20] But but we are we are being very judicious. [12:25] But we want to do. [12:26] Don't forget, Biden gave away. [12:27] I rebuilt the military my first time. [12:30] Biden gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot. [12:48] He he didn't want to move it. [12:49] He was too lazy, too stupid to ammunition, which we have right now with a lot of ammunition. [12:55] But it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine. [12:59] They gave so much. [13:00] You know. [13:00] Biden gave three hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of cash and military equipment to Ukraine, and he didn't rebuild anything. [13:09] Fortunately, we have a lot. [13:10] We have a tremendous unlimited supply of of what you'd call middle and upper middle armaments and military equipment, munitions, armaments, but munitions in particular at the high end. [13:26] We have a lot, but we're preserving it. [13:27] We don't really need it, but we're building our manufacturing. [13:31] We've got to do our part. [13:33] And the manufacturers of military equipment are building at a level they've never seen before. [13:38] They've never done before. [13:39] Pete's in charge of it with with all of us, really. [13:42] But Pete's been very, very strong on the general and paint myself. [13:47] The whole group. [13:48] And Raytheon is building four factories, Lockheed is building five or six factories and they're building them fast because we had a very tough meeting with them. [14:00] They were going out and buying. [14:01] case. They spent $51 billion buying back stock. Now they're not allowed to do that. And they [14:07] are now building a tremendous, there's never been anything like it, what's taking place [14:13] right now. So we're in very good shape, but we want to be in the best shape, the best [14:19] shape we've ever been in. We were that, you know, when I rebuilt the military, we were [14:22] in great shape and then Biden blew it and he didn't do anything. He didn't build, he [14:27] didn't do anything. And if you listen to the Democrats, they don't even want to have a [14:31] military. And now you see how important it is. But we have the strongest military in [14:38] the world. We have the best equipment. We make by far the best equipment. The other [14:41] night they had 114 rockets shot at a certain location. And out of 100 highly sophisticated [14:48] rockets, out of 114 sophisticated rockets, every single one of them was shot down with [14:56] our equipment, all our equipment. It's amazing actually how good it is. So we want to be [15:01] sure. And it's a small price. [15:02] It's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top. [15:04] Mr. President, the Treasury Secretary this morning said there were defections among Iranian [15:05] leadership. Are you aware of that? And is there anybody the U.S. can work with as a [15:06] leader going forward? [15:07] Well, we have a man named the Treasury Secretary here, so maybe, maybe he wants to discuss [15:21] it. Does anybody know, do you know who he is? Central Casting. [15:25] So, Ed, we are seeing the defections at all levels. We're seeing the defections at all [15:32] levels as they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime. It doesn't get reported [15:37] here in the U.S. very well, but we are trouncing them from the air and the regime will probably [15:43] collapse within itself. At Treasury, we've seen where they've wired their money out of [15:48] the country. We're coming for that. We're going to get it back to the Iranian people. [15:51] Mr. President. [15:52] Have you seen defections? [15:53] Yes, sir. [15:54] On Israel. [15:55] There's a lot of military defections also. You have a lot of military defections in Iran. [16:00] I don't. [16:01] I don't blame them. [16:02] Thank you, Mr. President. You talked to Prime Minister Mnuchin about attacking the oil and [16:07] gas fields. [16:08] Yeah, I did. I did. I told him, don't do that. And he won't do that. We didn't discuss. [16:12] You know, we do. We're independent. We get along great. It's coordinated. But on occasion, [16:19] he'll do something. And if I don't like it. And so we're not doing that anymore. [16:23] And the last one, if I could. The Fed chairman told me yesterday that he plans to stay until [16:28] a new Fed chairman is confirmed. [16:29] I don't know. [16:30] I don't know. [16:31] I don't know. [16:32] But he's confirmed. And he also plans to stay on the board until the investigation [16:33] in the federal terms is done. [16:34] The President Well, he's under investigation because he's building a building for hundreds [16:39] of billions of dollars more than it's supposed to cost. The building you see over there is [16:44] under budget and ahead of schedule. That's the ballroom. The ballroom is a much bigger [16:49] building. It's a much more complex building than what he's doing. And it's at a fraction [16:54] of the cost. [16:56] Something is going on, whether it's contractors. That's what I do best in the world. I build. [16:59] I build great buildings. [17:00] I've always done it and I build them under budget and ahead of schedule. They could have four billion [17:07] This is a renovation job for four billion dollars. And if you look at the building, it's not even I don't know if [17:14] Kevin Warsh is ever going to be able to move into it. It's been under construction for years [17:19] It's the most expensive building ever built now [17:23] It I know it's grossed in company because I happen to think he's grossly incompetent today [17:28] Certainly, you should be lowering interest rates. All right, certainly who would not lower them, but he's [17:34] Stubborn and he's got Trump derangement syndrome, but a lot of people have that, you know, it's not a curable disease [17:41] but [17:42] But he's also building he should be lowering rates immediately [17:47] But he won't do that because he's he's a stubborn incompetent person and that's a bad thing [17:52] You know when you're stubborn and incompetent, I think it's the worst combination and he's also not a smart person [17:58] but [17:59] He's building a complex over there. That's under his jurisdiction. He started it and [18:06] It's out of control. It's [18:09] Billions of dollars for a little building I could have done that building and made it beautiful for 25 million dollars [18:17] 25 million and it would have been beautiful [18:19] Look what I've done at the White House fixing it up [18:22] And I mean a place was in bad shape you see the floors and everything it was in bad shape [18:28] I could have [18:29] I could have made that building [18:31] Beautiful for 25 million dollars. They're spending four billion dollars [18:37] alright, so it's [18:42] There is criminality [18:44] Maybe it's with the contractor [18:46] But because I know more about contractors than any human being maybe that's ever lived [18:51] But that contractor is a very rich man [18:53] Whoever the contractor is that we know but whoever the contractor is is an extremely rich man. He's gonna make I mean he could make [19:03] Billions of dollars. I don't I'm hearing numbers from three to four [19:08] Billion dollars that would make it the most expensive building on a square foot basis ever built in history [19:14] And you're not even building a building. It's a renovation. The exterior skin is staying the steel is staying the structure [19:22] So all I want to do is bring out to the public that this guy is in incompetent [19:29] He's a very incompetent guy and he may be a dishonest guy, but somebody's dishonest because there's no way [19:35] That building could be three to four billion dollars [19:42] Oh [19:45] Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan [19:47] This looks like one of your people [19:49] Thank you [19:51] Is he good or bad? [19:53] Is he a good reporter or bad? [19:55] Not you know? [19:57] So so [19:59] Alright, looks like a nice guy [20:01] Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan is stepping up [20:05] What kind of support [20:07] Do you expect from Japan in the future? [20:12] Look, I expect Japan to step up because you know, we have that kind of relationship and we step up with Japan [20:18] We have [20:20] 45,000 soldiers in Japan we have we spend a lot of money on Japan [20:24] So and we've had that kind of a relationship. So I expect I'm not surprised that they would step up. We don't need much [20:31] We don't need anything. I mean honestly, we don't need anything from Japan or from anyone else [20:36] But I think it's appropriate that people step up [20:38] In the case of Japan, I hear they get more than 90% of their oil through the [20:45] Strait, so that's a big reason to step up. I mean we've we've demolished that country is close to [20:54] Demolished the only thing is the Strait. It's very hard [20:56] You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in the water and they're holding things up [21:02] We don't want that to happen, but honestly Japan China [21:08] Europe parts of Europe get a lot of [21:10] Their oil through the Strait. We get none practically. We're less we're less than 1% [21:15] We we don't have to be any percent. We don't even I think we do it just to be nice, but we [21:21] Think of it. We don't use the Strait. We're defending the Strait for everybody else and then in the case of [21:29] NATO they don't want to help us defend the Strait and they're the ones that need it [21:34] But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude. They're getting much nicer, but it's as far as I'm concerned. It's too late [21:41] You know [21:43] UK wants to send [21:45] Aircraft carriers now and I said I want the aircraft carriers before the war [21:50] I don't want them after the war is won. They want to send me aircraft carriers after the words [21:56] There's practically nobody to shoot at him, you know, their missile count is down Pete. Maybe you could discuss it by about 90 something percent [22:04] The drones away down and the factories are being demolished. Maybe sir [22:09] missile [22:10] missiles being shot down over 90% [22:13] Since the beginning one-way attack drones down 90% since the beginning which is a reflection of overwhelming firepower [22:19] But you mentioned the most important apartments president their defense industrial base [22:23] If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited supply [22:27] and so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of their exquisite weapons and ensuring that even if they wanted to [22:33] Rebuild more launchers or more missiles they couldn't in the future and that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before [22:40] so we have [22:42] literally [22:43] Two weeks we've demolished their Navy their Air Force [22:47] All technology is gone. All communication is gone and all of the leaders are gone other than that. They're doing quite well [22:56] Okay, how about one more question for the Prime Minister? [23:00] Let me pick a beautiful looking person from a beautiful person from Japan a question for the Prime Minister. Go ahead [23:08] Me? [23:09] Yeah. Oh, he doesn't believe me [23:11] Oh I'm kidding [23:13] He's just [23:14] Mr. We're Japanese people. [23:17] Of course, no, Japan and the U.S. [23:19] are very good friends. [23:21] But one question. [23:23] Why didn't you tell U.S. [23:25] allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the [23:29] war before attacking Iran? [23:31] So we are very confused about Japanese systems. [23:34] The President Trump III Well, one thing you don't [23:36] want to signal too much. [23:37] You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and [23:40] we didn't tell anybody about it because we [23:43] wanted surprise. [23:45] Who knows better about surprise than Japan? [23:47] Okay? [23:49] Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? [23:51] Okay? [23:53] Right? [23:54] You know, he's asking me. [23:56] No, you believe in surprise, I think, much [23:59] more so than us. [24:00] And we had a surprise, and we did. [24:04] And because of that surprise, we knocked out [24:06] the first two days. [24:07] We probably knocked out 50 percent of what we and [24:11] much more than we anticipated doing. [24:13] So if I go in. [24:14] Tell everybody about it. [24:15] There's no longer a surprise. [24:17] Right? [24:18] Okay? [24:19] One more. [24:19] One more. [24:20] One more for the Prime Minister. [24:23] The Press Yes, Mr. President, for the [24:24] Prime Minister. [24:24] The President Are you going to for the Prime [24:25] Minister? [24:26] The Press Yes. [24:27] The President Go ahead. [24:27] For the Prime Minister. [24:28] The Press Thank you very much. [24:29] Japan's GJ Press. [24:30] Japan's biggest concern is China. [24:33] Now they are giving us export control and, you [24:37] know, very harsh terms to criticize us. [24:41] So could you plan? [24:43] Would you really plan to? [24:44] The Press Yes. [24:44] The President [24:50] Brings out relationship between Japan and China [24:57] while you're there, you know? [24:58] The Press Yes. [24:59] I'll be going to China very quickly. [25:00] But the I think I'd really like to have the Prime [25:03] Minister talk about China because I know they have a [25:06] little bit of an edgy relationship and I'd just [25:09] like to know where it stands. [25:11] How are you doing with China? [25:12] The President So, please. [25:14] So, first of all, Japan has been consistently open to dialogue with China, and also, second, [25:43] we have been addressing our relations with China in a calm manner. [25:49] And also, speaking of the U.S.-China relationship, my sincere hope is that the relationship will [25:57] be something conducive for regional security and also ensuring the global supply chain [26:03] in the world. [26:04] Once again, I would like to reiterate that Japan has been consistently open to dialogue [26:10] with China. [26:12] And I think we're going to have a great trip. [26:15] The trip has been postponed for about a month and a half. [26:19] It's been reset, and we look forward to it. [26:23] And I'll be speaking Japan's praises when I'm in China with President Xi. [26:29] But we have — but we're going to have some good talks today, and I think mostly about [26:35] trade, because they want to do a lot of trade. [26:37] They're a tremendous purchaser of our energy, our oil, gas, from, in particular, Alaska, [26:45] because Alaska is a great country. [26:45] So believe it or not, it's very close. [26:47] It's much closer than any other source. [26:48] It's just — it seems a little cold compared to — [26:51] Yeah, yeah. [26:52] It's a good trip. [26:53] Give him a bell. [26:54] Give him a bell. [26:55] It's just a short trip. [26:56] So that's something that we will talk after the press corps, at least. [26:58] We'll be discussing trade, and a lot of the talk will be about energy. [27:03] Thank you very much, everybody. [27:04] Thank you, Russ. [27:05] Thank you, Russ. [27:06] Thank you, Russ. [27:07] Thank you, Russ. [27:08] Thank you, Russ. [27:09] Thank you, Russ. [27:10] Thank you, Russ. [27:11] Thank you, Russ. [27:12] Thank you, Russ. [27:13] Thank you, Russ. [27:14] Thank you, Russ. [27:15] Thank you, Russ. [27:16] Thank you, Russ. [27:17] Thank you, Russ. [27:18] Thank you. [27:19] Thank you.