President Donald Trump speaks after meetings at NATO Summit

[0:00] The effectiveness of last night's attack, what message does that send to what's left [0:04] of the Iranians? [0:05] The President. [0:06] Which attack are you talking about? [0:07] The attack that you guys had on Iran last night. [0:08] The strikes last night? [0:09] The President. [0:10] I think it has a tremendous impact. [0:11] Well, first of all, we took out additional, you know, they were trying to rebuild their [0:16] radar and they had about 60 percent built. [0:19] Now they have to start all over again. [0:21] Look, we're not attacking at the highest level. [0:26] The highest level of the bridges there, which we can knock down. [0:31] And I would say, in one day, we knocked down every single bridge in Iran. [0:34] There's not a thing they can do about it. [0:37] Their electric manufacturing facilities, right, their electric plants, where they make their [0:43] electricity in there, we will, if we have to, we'll take them out. [0:49] I don't want to do that, but if we have to, we'll take them out. [0:53] They have desalinization plants, we'll take them out if we have to. [0:56] I hate to do that. [0:57] That's probably the one I would like not to do, at least. [1:01] We attacked Cargill Island last night, knocked out a piece. [1:04] I said, don't touch the oil, because maybe we'll take over Cargill Island. [1:09] You know, we may take over Cargill Island. [1:12] There's not a thing they can do about it. [1:14] But I said, don't hit the pipes, just hit everything else. [1:17] And they hit it. [1:18] They may hit it again tonight. [1:20] So, you know, as for your question, normally I'm not that way. [1:23] But they really deserve it, because they're saying they want to make a deal, but they don't. [1:30] You know, they asked for a timeout. [1:32] They wanted to go to the funeral of Khomeini. [1:34] And I said, give it to them. [1:37] And they start shooting missiles. [1:38] I mean, it was a crazy thing. [1:41] Now, we did kill them. [1:44] So, I guess you have to look at it that way. [1:46] The funeral took place, and they wanted to have a period of time. [1:54] And they also asked that we not kill them. [1:57] And we said, we're not going to kill you. [2:00] They were worried we'd kill them during the funeral. [2:03] I mean, if you can't believe it. [2:04] What a crazy — did you ever think I'd be doing this for a living, Marco? [2:09] Did anybody ever think I'm doing — maybe Pete, but this wasn't supposed to be for [2:13] me. [2:14] Pete loved this stuff from day one. [2:16] But they said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. [2:21] I said, I won't. [2:22] And we didn't. [2:23] We didn't do anything. [2:25] In fact, we made it safe for them, actually. [2:27] And what happens? [2:28] They try and knock out two ships — a Saudi and, I guess, Kuwait. [2:32] Right? [2:33] Kuwaiti — oh, no. [2:34] Qatari. [2:36] In addition. [2:37] Three. [2:38] Three. [2:39] Yes, sir. [2:41] So, you had three of them. [2:44] And they're just — I don't know. [2:45] I just don't know with them. [2:46] A lot of people say they're very dishonorable people, and they can't keep a deal. [2:50] So, we'll see. [2:51] Now, as to whether or not Steve Whitcoff, Jared, and J.D., and everybody working in [2:57] that will talk, I guess they can talk. [3:00] But I'm not seeing it with them. [3:02] You know, with the people. [3:03] My whole life is deals. [3:04] I don't see it. [3:05] I don't see it with them. [3:07] And there may be a big attack, and it'll knock out a lot of stuff. [3:17] We don't knock out nothing. [3:18] We knock out a lot. [3:19] Pete, do you want to tell them about last night? [3:21] Yes, sir. [3:22] Last night, as you said, a lot of small craft that they were trying to harass shipping with. [3:27] So, that was a big part of what we targeted. [3:29] Underground facilities where they were storing drones or missiles, coastal defense sites, [3:35] radar sites, surveillance sites, anything used to harass shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. [3:39] So, anything they thought they had rebuilt or capability they were using was a target last night. [3:44] And tonight, if we need to, on your order, Mr. President, we will hit even more and even deeper. [3:49] Because that's the consequence. [3:50] And we may put down the blockade. [3:52] We may put it back, the blockade. [3:56] And it'll only be a blockade for Iran. [3:58] Anybody else can have whatever they want. [4:00] Of course, they'll drop some mines if they can. [4:02] You know, if they can do it. [4:04] But it's hard because we're taking out those little boats now. [4:07] With the same weapon we use to take out the drug lords and the boats coming in by sea. [4:13] Think of it. [4:14] Ninety-seven percent. [4:15] For years, we had fentanyl and all the other drugs coming in from different countries, [4:20] including Venezuela. [4:21] And it was, you know, they'd arrest them. [4:25] They'd bring them to a court. [4:26] They'd be released. [4:27] And they'd be back on another boat the next. [4:29] Ninety-seven percent. [4:31] It had — what was done in the past had no impact. [4:34] Ninety-seven percent drugs down coming in by sea. [4:38] And now we're going to start doing it by land. [4:41] The land is easier when we had to do sea first. [4:43] And nobody — I mean, I think the three percent of the people that still do that, [4:47] I think they're the bravest people in the world. [4:49] They may be — we should probably give them a medal for bravery. [4:53] Because it's — and we're using the same exact missile to take out the mines — the mine droppers. [4:59] They call them mine droppers. [5:01] But we have mine sweepers. [5:02] And one of the things that came up today is that European nations and NATO group, [5:07] they're sending mine sweepers. [5:10] We don't need them now. [5:11] We don't need them now. [5:12] We have pretty much the mines that's clear up. [5:13] But they'll probably drop some more. [5:15] They're evil people. [5:16] They're sick people. [5:17] They're really — they're mentally disturbed people. [5:19] And it should have been done 47 years ago. [5:25] Thank you, everybody. [5:26] Thank you, press. [5:27] Thank you, press. [5:29] Thank you, press. [5:30] Thank you, press. [5:32] Thank you. [5:33] Thank you, press. [5:34] Thank you, press. [5:35] Thank you, press. [5:36] Thank you. [5:37] Thank you. [5:38] Thank you. [5:39] Thank you, everybody.