Trump delivers NATO remarks as MOU ends with Iran

[2:46] including me, and we're proud to have them together. [2:50] And we're just here to talk a little bit. [2:52] We released sanctions from the country, [2:55] which really, I think, was a big boost. [2:57] Sanctions was a very important thing. [3:00] And we're proud of the job he's doing. [3:01] Syria has become a very stable, I mean, it's amazing. [3:06] In a short period of time, it's really been stabilized. [3:10] And we're proud of that. [3:11] And it's a big part of the Middle East. [3:14] Syria had one of the great cultures, [3:16] and the professors, and lawyers, and doctors. [3:19] It had one of the great cultures of any country, [3:22] not just the Middle East. [3:24] And then it went through this terrible period of time. [3:27] But it's a country that a lot of people are very proud of, [3:31] and they're proud of the job he's done. [3:32] Thank you very much, Mr. President. [3:35] Do you like to say something? [3:38] The Press, in fact, we have made a great achievement [3:46] in the toppling of the former regime. [3:49] And as President Trump said, in a year and a half we made an achievement [4:00] in bringing the country together, unifying the country, [4:02] and put it back on track. [4:04] Of course, this is due to our strong people, [4:11] the strong Syrian people that President Trump talked about. [4:14] Then the historic decision that President Trump has taken [4:22] by lifting the sanctions of Syria. [4:24] As well as the help of friendly countries [4:32] and the loving countries in the region, Turkey, [4:34] and other countries in our neighborhood. [4:37] The Press, in fact, are you going to remove Syria [4:50] from the state-sponsored terrorism list? [4:53] The Press, in fact, I think I will. [4:57] Why wouldn't I? [4:57] He's done a great job. [5:02] Maybe he would have brought that up in a little while. [5:05] But that's a good question. [5:06] Any problems with that? [5:08] I think we should. [5:09] Yeah, I will. [5:11] Do you still want Syria to help with Hezbollah in Lebanon? [5:13] The President could help. [5:14] We'll find out. [5:15] I think we're making a lot of progress. [5:17] The President could help. [5:18] The President would do a very good job. [5:20] Prime Minister Netanyahu has been critical of aspects [5:23] of your relationship in the last couple of days [5:25] with President Erdogan of Turkey. [5:27] He said that Erdogan has imperial ambitions [5:32] on neighboring countries, presumably including Syria. [5:35] He hasn't been involved with Syria. [5:36] You know, if you think, he hasn't been involved [5:38] with Israel at all. [5:39] And he's left it alone. [5:42] I wouldn't say he's a friend, because he's not a friend of, [5:46] as you know, of Netanyahu, of Bibi. [5:50] They don't get along, I think. [5:52] But, you know, for me, he's been great. [5:54] Look, Turkey's been fantastic and a fantastic ally. [5:57] They're also a NATO country. [5:59] And Israel, we've done, no President's done as much [6:03] for Israel as I have, nobody even close. [6:05] If you look at, I mean, just look at all the things [6:08] with Jerusalem, all the different things that we've done. [6:12] The Golan Heights did things. [6:14] Nobody has ever done anything for Israel like me. [6:17] And we've made tremendous progress. [6:19] And we're going to, we've made a lot of progress with Iran, too. [6:23] Wiped out their military. [6:24] But they should have been done 47 years ago. [6:27] The Pressure Do you think that Prime Minister Netanyahu [6:31] should be re-elected? [6:31] There's an election coming in Israel? [6:33] Or would you like to see new blood? [6:33] The President, I can tell you this. [6:34] He's been a great wartime President. [6:36] We worked out for Prime Minister. [6:38] He, so we worked with each other very closely. [6:41] And we went through a very big thing. [6:45] We did a big thing together. [6:46] And in my opinion, he's been a great wartime Prime Minister. [6:50] I don't know anything about his politics. [6:51] I'm not sure. [6:53] I would think he should be popular, [6:55] because he did a very good job. [6:56] We had a, we had and have a very good relationship. [7:00] But he was a great wartime Prime Minister. [7:03] President Trump, you know what? [7:06] There wouldn't be an Israel right now. [7:08] You know that? [7:09] There wouldn't be. [7:09] It would have been blown to pieces by Iran. [7:13] If you had a different, if you had a weak Prime Minister, [7:17] you wouldn't have, and if you had a different President, [7:19] I guarantee you there wouldn't be an Israel. [7:21] It wouldn't, Israel wouldn't exist today [7:23] if you didn't have me as President. [7:27] Mr. President, data from the Energy Information Administration [7:31] revealed that U.S. crude oil production set a new record [7:34] in the month of April under your leadership. [7:35] President Trump, that's right. [7:36] Why is it important to keep hitting numbers like this [7:39] at this moment in time? [7:40] Why is it important that you were able to get this done [7:43] and keep it on this trajectory? [7:44] President Trump, Well, we, you know, [7:45] when we decided to do this, [7:47] it's called the denuclearization of Iran. [7:49] We have to do, we have to have, [7:51] they're not, they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. [7:53] And they admit they're never going to have it, [7:55] but they behave badly. [7:56] They always behave badly. [7:58] There's something wrong with them. [7:59] But when we did this, [8:01] we thought oil would go much higher, [8:04] and it didn't go very high. [8:05] And now it's coming way down, [8:06] and you're going to see oil drop very low. [8:09] Now, maybe we'll do some other things [8:11] that could lift it a little bit, [8:12] but I don't think it's going to lift it a lot at all. [8:15] I think oil is coming down. [8:16] There's tremendous amounts of oil. [8:19] Scott, what would you say about that? [8:22] Yes, so record production under President Trump [8:25] in his first term, now in his second term. [8:27] The U.S. is an energy superpower. [8:29] It's why we weathered the conflict better than anyone else. [8:34] And just this weekend, Bloomberg wrote that there is an oil glut out there. [8:40] And, you know, we think that safe, secure American oil [8:44] maybe even should trade at a premium to the rest of the world. [8:47] So we have, if you add it up, you take Saudi Arabia, [8:52] and take Russia, two big oil producers. [8:55] We do more than twice as much. [8:58] We do more than, think of it. [8:59] Saudi Arabia, Russia put together, we do borrow. [9:02] And that's not including Venezuela. [9:04] It's pretty amazing. [9:07] And this all happened during my term. [9:09] We started it at first term. [9:11] Biden blew it, because he had no idea what he was doing. [9:15] But we are making, we are producing more oil right now [9:19] than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined by almost double. [9:25] Okay, any other questions? [9:26] Mr. President. [9:27] Yes. Yes, ma'am. [9:28] You've said that dealing with the Iranians is a waste of time. [9:31] How do you plan to get the nuclear material [9:33] and the nuclear assurances that you want? [9:35] Well, we've already got the nuclear material [9:36] because it's so far underground, [9:38] nobody's going to be able to get it except us [9:40] because we have the equipment that can get it. [9:42] But I go with the nuclear dust. [9:44] The nuclear material is so far down underneath the mountain, [9:51] and now that's been determined, [9:53] that it would take massive machinery that we have [9:56] that no other country has. [9:58] They can't get it. [9:59] So you have no plans to go in, boots on the ground? [10:01] Why would I go in now? [10:02] I go in when they're completely either eliminated [10:05] or whatever happened, or an agreement's made. [10:08] Mr. President. [10:09] Yes. [10:09] If you cut off trade with Spain, [10:11] does that mean that you're going to have to renegotiate [10:14] a trade agreement with the EU? [10:15] With who? [10:16] With the EU. [10:17] With the EU, any tax trade agreements you already have. [10:21] We're going to see what happens with the EU. [10:23] You know, they've treated us very badly for years, [10:27] and they took advantages. [10:28] Look, we're very close to those countries, right? [10:31] And to everybody in the EU. [10:35] The problem is they took advantage of the United States [10:37] for years. [10:38] It's like him. [10:39] They took advantage of Syria. [10:40] He's bringing it back, [10:42] and I'm bringing the United States back. [10:44] We have the greatest economy we've ever had. [10:46] We have the biggest investment. [10:47] 19.2 trillion is being invested right now [10:51] in the United States. [10:52] Three trillion was the number, the record. [10:56] Under Biden and under the past administration, [10:59] they had less than a trillion for four years. [11:01] We have 19.2 trillion in 12 months. [11:05] Think of that. [11:07] We have the largest amount of money being invested [11:09] in a country in history. [11:11] Pretty amazing. [11:12] 19.2 trillion with a T. [11:15] So, and they're building factories all over the country. [11:18] I think yesterday, Toyota announced they're leaving Mexico, [11:23] and they're coming. [11:23] I'm not that Mexico is thrilled about it, [11:25] but they're leaving Mexico, [11:26] or they're coming to the United States to build what will be, [11:31] I believe, the largest automobile plant [11:34] either in the world or at least in this country. [11:36] The Press, Mr. President, on oil prices today. [11:38] The Press, a quick domestic question. [11:40] You announced on True Social a couple days ago [11:42] that Walmart was cutting the price for a country by 15%. [11:46] How big of a deal is that for American customers this summer? [11:49] The President Trump has agreed to cut their prices [11:51] very substantially because things are going down. [11:54] We're getting it down. [11:55] We inherited very high prices. [11:57] We inherited the highest prices in the history of our country. [12:01] Or 48 years, to be exact. [12:03] But I don't believe that. I think it's in history. [12:05] So, under Biden, they had tremendous inflation. [12:08] Under the Democrats, we had tremendous inflation. [12:11] Record-setting inflation. [12:13] And now, inflation is weighed down. [12:16] Everything is great. [12:17] We have — the prices are coming down. [12:19] But we inherited — you know, they talk about different — [12:21] they use different words to describe it. [12:23] They had very high prices. [12:25] The prices are coming down. [12:27] And when the oil comes, you know, the oil is coming way down. [12:30] The oil dropped by 50 percent in the last month. [12:36] And when that comes down, it brings everything else down. [12:39] It's affordability. [12:41] And they came up with the word affordability, you know. [12:43] Like, I take over. [12:45] I'm there for one day, and they say, [12:46] affordability, affordability. [12:49] I said, I've been here for — remember, with the eggs. [12:50] The first day or two days later, I have the first news. [12:54] And they talked about eggs. [12:56] They said, the eggs have gone up five times. [12:59] I've been in office for one day. [13:02] And I said, well, we'll have to do something. [13:04] In fact, they told me not to order eggs for the Easter egg hunt [13:07] at the White House. [13:09] I should use plastic. [13:10] I said, we're not doing that. [13:11] And by the time we came — that was a couple of months later — [13:14] that happened, and we ordered thousands of eggs. [13:17] And right now, eggs are way down. [13:19] The prices are way down, and they're coming down further. [13:22] So they made up a phony word that they used. [13:26] They said, affordability. [13:27] They're the ones that closed the affordability prices. [13:29] I didn't — but I brought it down. [13:31] And the oil is coming down very big. [13:33] Mr. President? [13:34] Brent crude is up slightly today on the announcement that — [13:37] A little bit, yeah, because we hit them. [13:38] Any time we hit them, it goes up a little bit. [13:41] Two dollars. [13:42] Is that what you mean — is that what you meant when you said [13:44] that we might see oil prices lift a little in response to — [13:47] A little bit, yeah, two dollars, very little. [13:49] It's down from, let's say, $135 down to $69. [13:55] It's dropping. [13:56] And everything else drops — [13:58] As oil goes, so goes everything else. [14:00] But any time we hit — if we hit Iran, oil goes up a little bit. [14:05] It's all right. [14:06] Mr. President, do you think Israel — [14:07] We're de-nuking it, all right? [14:10] We're de-nuking Iran. [14:11] They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [14:13] All right, one more question. [14:14] Sir, do you think Israel should withdraw troops [14:16] from southern Lebanon? [14:18] The President, well, I talked to Bibi about that. [14:19] Yeah, I think they're going to. [14:20] I think they want to. [14:21] I don't think it's a question of me. [14:22] I think it's a question they want to. [14:24] And they're getting along with Lebanon. [14:26] They're signing deals with Lebanon. [14:28] First time ever. [14:29] Marco, talk about that if you'd like. [14:31] The President, yeah, we have an agreement that — [14:32] and it calls — that's the goal at the end. [14:34] Obviously, Israel is concerned about their security. [14:37] But the President did a great job [14:38] bringing those two countries together for the first time ever. [14:40] The President, it's a big thing. [14:41] First time in many years, right? [14:44] So we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon. [14:47] And, yeah, they'll leave. [14:49] And I think it's going to work out very well. [14:52] But we're here for this, because Syria has turned around [14:56] as fast as I've ever seen — [14:57] well, actually, I turned the United States around very fast. [15:01] They inherited from a man who was not smart, [15:04] not a smart person. [15:05] We inherited from a man where they were running this country [15:10] so badly with the open borders. [15:12] There were 25 million people allowed into our country, [15:15] and that includes 11,888 murderers, [15:20] most of whom murdered more than one person, okay? [15:24] And we got most of them out, or we have them in jail, [15:27] and we've done a great job. [15:28] Washington, D.C. now is considered [15:30] one of the safest cities in the country. [15:34] If he came to Washington, D.C. a year and a half ago, [15:37] he'd fear for his life, [15:39] even though he never feared for his life before, [15:42] because it was very dangerous. [15:44] But somehow, his territory might have even been [15:46] a little more dangerous. [15:48] I joke because, you know, [15:49] he comes from a rough environment. [15:52] Would you say that's right, Tom Barrett? [15:55] It's sort of funny to think. [15:57] I don't think he'd be too concerned with Washington [15:59] a year and a half. [16:00] But we had a very, very unsafe Washington, D.C., [16:04] and now it's one of the safest cities in the country. [16:07] We put the military in. [16:08] We brought — it's Washington went from being an unsafe [16:12] to one of the safest cities. [16:14] And crime is down 94 percent. [16:17] We don't play games. [16:18] We removed over 5,000 career criminals, [16:22] many of whom came in through the open borders of Joe Biden. [16:25] We did the same thing with Memphis, Tennessee. [16:28] We did the same thing with — in Louisiana, [16:32] you have to speak to the governor, [16:34] because New Orleans, the crime rate is down 78 percent [16:38] in a little while. [16:39] And they had the best Mardi Gras they've ever had. [16:42] So we're doing a good job. [16:44] And he's done a great job, too. [16:46] And I thank you very much. [16:48] Thank you very much. [16:48] Thank you, guys. [16:50] Thank you, Russ. [16:51] Thank you. [16:52] Thank you, guys. [16:53] Thank you. [16:54] Thank you. [16:56] Thank you. [16:57] Can I get your face, Mike? [16:59] Thank you, guys. [16:59] You can head out right there. [17:01] Thank you. [17:04] You got it? [17:06] Thanks, guys. [17:07] Thank you. [17:09] Thank you, guys. [17:09] Thank you. [17:11] Thank you. [17:12] Thank you. [17:13] Thanks, guys. [17:14] Thank you. [17:16] Thank you, sir. [17:17] Keep going. [17:18] Thank you. [29:36] 1-2-1-2. [29:37] Can you hear me? [29:38] 1-2-1-2. [35:09] Excuse me. [35:10] Excuse me. [35:11] If you're sitting on the stairs, you have to be close to the wall. [35:15] You cannot sit on the stairs. [35:16] You need to be standing close to the wall. [35:18] We need to have an area clear for ingress and egress on both sides. [35:26] Please. [35:27] If you're sitting on the stairs, you need to be close to the wall on both sides. [35:31] Please. [36:20] Thank you. [36:21] Merdivenlerin bir tarafı mecbur boş kalmak zorunda. [36:23] Yoksa Sayın Trump açıklamaya gelmeyecekmiş. [36:26] Bilginiz olsun. [36:27] Bir kanadını muhakkak boş bırakmamız lazım. [36:31] Sağlı sollu. [40:15] Çıkıyorum Ömer. [40:16] Duyuyor musun? [40:17] 2-2. [40:18] Trump dinleyecek ya. [40:20] Biliyorum, biliyorum. [40:21] Evet, ikiden çıkıyorum. [40:22] Duyuyor musun? [40:23] Tamam. [1:45:30] Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. [1:45:36] That's a lot of press. [1:45:52] Wow. [1:45:54] Well, it's important stuff. [1:45:59] And you know, our team out here, they've all become stars, superstars actually. [1:46:06] But we want to thank you very much. [1:46:08] We've had a tremendous time and I think a great success. [1:46:13] And we just concluded a very successful NATO summit here in Turkey. [1:46:19] And I want to thank President Erdogan, who's really a great man. [1:46:23] He's a great leader. [1:46:24] He's a friend of mine, been a friend of mine for a long time. [1:46:27] He's a strong person, a very strong personality. [1:46:31] And that's why he runs such a successful and good company, country, and really a great, [1:46:37] I would say a great country. [1:46:39] Militarily, he's very powerful. [1:46:43] People leave him alone. [1:46:46] But he's really done a fantastic job. [1:46:48] And from the moment we got off the plane, you look at the airports were beautiful. [1:46:53] They built a new terminal for our arrival. [1:46:57] Everything was beautiful. [1:46:59] And so I just want to thank President Erdogan, who's done a fantastic job in Turkey. [1:47:05] And I also want to thank NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. [1:47:12] Mark is an extraordinary person, smart, great leader. [1:47:17] It's not easy leading so many leaders like that. [1:47:20] You've got a lot of leaders and their strong personalities, every one of them. [1:47:25] And Mark, Mark does an unbelievable job. [1:47:30] Couldn't find anybody better. [1:47:32] I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room. [1:47:35] The press got to see the sitting, but they didn't get to see the speaking. [1:47:39] And I actually said it's too bad the press couldn't see this because every one of them spoke for a little while. [1:47:45] And I spoke for a little while. [1:47:49] And it's a big, it's a lot of speeches. [1:47:52] We kept it short. [1:47:53] But it's too bad the press couldn't have seen what we, what we were doing in that room because it was very smart people. [1:48:02] And they have a lot of good in their heart, not evil, good. [1:48:07] And they're doing a great job for their country. [1:48:09] The world is doing well. [1:48:11] We have, as you know, the oil is down. [1:48:15] We'll see whether or not we keep it down. [1:48:17] We should keep it down. [1:48:19] We're doing things that should have been done 47 years ago with Iran. [1:48:23] And I just want to say that throughout my first term and over the past 18 months, [1:48:29] the United States has led a historic effort to dramatically increase the defense spending [1:48:35] and to have equipment that no other country in the world has. [1:48:40] When you look at Venezuela, when you look at Iran, essentially demolished their military in a couple of weeks. [1:48:47] They had a good military. [1:48:49] They had a good Navy. [1:48:50] They had 159 ships. [1:48:51] Every one's at the bottom of the sea. [1:48:53] They had hundreds of airplanes. [1:48:55] They're all gone. [1:48:56] They're all lying burned up on the runways. [1:49:00] They were totally decimated. [1:49:03] Their radar is gone. [1:49:04] Their, everything's gone. [1:49:05] Their leaders are gone, frankly. [1:49:07] And their combat capability is pretty low. [1:49:12] They have a small percentage of missiles left. [1:49:15] They have some of the launchers, missile launchers left. [1:49:19] We call them launching pads. [1:49:21] But most of that's been destroyed, too. [1:49:24] So we are, we have the strongest military in the world by far. [1:49:30] Not even close. [1:49:31] Everybody admits that. [1:49:32] And last year's summit in the Netherlands was great, also. [1:49:37] And we achieved an unprecedented agreement to increase the annual defense spending. [1:49:42] And it's the benchmark, raising it from 2 percent to 5 percent of GDP, which everybody said was impossible. [1:49:49] And now they're all thanking me. [1:49:50] And most of the countries have agreed to it. [1:49:52] We have a couple of, a couple of that didn't. [1:49:55] But I have a feeling they're going to. [1:49:57] And pretty quickly. [1:49:59] In fact, today they were very positive. [1:50:02] One of them, in particular, was I didn't think a good team player. [1:50:06] Today was a great team player. [1:50:08] As all of the leaders understand very well, the United States remains by far the largest contributor to NATO, monetarily and maybe otherwise, [1:50:20] and the strongest military anywhere in the world. [1:50:23] And they respect us as a country. [1:50:26] Again, they didn't respect us two years ago. [1:50:28] They laughed at us. [1:50:29] NATO laughed at us. [1:50:30] Everybody laughed at us. [1:50:32] They don't laugh anymore. [1:50:33] There's no more laughing. [1:50:35] This year, we invested a record $1 trillion in our armed forces. [1:50:39] And we're going to be asking for $1.5 trillion coming up. [1:50:46] We have the money being spent on the best equipment anywhere in the world. [1:50:51] In the working session this morning, we discussed the progress other members are making toward the 5 percent target. [1:50:58] And they're making great progress. [1:51:00] Many of these countries are very rich, by the way. [1:51:03] We'd have to feel sorry for them. [1:51:06] But it doesn't mean they're properly protected. [1:51:08] There's a big difference. [1:51:09] Some have truly answered the call and others are making big changes and will be answering the call. [1:51:15] I think I can say in all cases they're going to be answering the call. [1:51:20] And we'll be taking in over a trillion dollars a year toward defense. [1:51:25] And that's a tremendous amount of money. [1:51:28] It's a big up. [1:51:30] They were at 2 percent. [1:51:31] They were actually at 1 percent. [1:51:33] I got them to 2 percent. [1:51:34] Then I wanted to get them to 5. [1:51:36] And we got up to 5 the last time. [1:51:39] And there, you know, just again, if you could have seen the respect and the love in the room. [1:51:46] And it's love really for the country, for our country. [1:51:48] I don't want to say me because you'll say, oh, he's so conceited. [1:51:50] He's such a conceited person. [1:51:52] But they do. [1:51:53] I mean, you know, they like the job I'm doing. [1:51:56] They said, we love, sir, we love you. [1:51:58] These are grown people saying that. [1:52:01] Isn't that nice? [1:52:02] Maybe, I don't know, maybe they're trying to get to me. [1:52:05] And in a way they did because there was tremendous unity in that room. [1:52:11] And I urge all nations to accelerate their plans to get the benchmark as quickly as possible. [1:52:18] The benchmark is going to be at 5 percent number. [1:52:22] This is a number it should have been for years. [1:52:24] As a result of the commitment we achieved last year, defense spending, [1:52:29] of other NATO members surged by more than almost $150 billion in 2025. [1:52:38] And much of that money is being spent on American-made equipment. [1:52:43] They all want American-made equipment. [1:52:45] We're pushing very hard to have the defense companies. [1:52:51] They're great. [1:52:52] We make the best equipment. [1:52:53] The Patriots and the Tomahawks and everything we have is considered to be the best. [1:52:57] Not by me, it's everybody wants it. [1:52:59] I wish we made it faster because we could sell as much as we could make. [1:53:04] And as you know, I had Lockheed and every one of the companies, all of the companies, [1:53:10] Raytheon is an example, Boeing. [1:53:12] So many of those great companies are now building plants. [1:53:16] They had big plants, but they were using them 24-7. [1:53:21] I said, that's not the way to do it. [1:53:23] You have to build more plants. [1:53:25] You don't have to just go overtime. [1:53:27] No tax on overtime. [1:53:28] Remember that, please? [1:53:29] No tax on overtime. [1:53:32] Those people are happy. [1:53:33] But they were doing literally 24 hours to get the Tomahawks done and the Patriots done [1:53:40] and all of the other defensive and offensive equipment done. [1:53:43] It's the most sought-after equipment in the world. [1:53:46] You saw that with Venezuela where they had a lot of great equipment. [1:53:50] It wasn't ours and it didn't work. [1:53:52] Our equipment works, but we have to produce it faster for other countries. [1:53:58] For everybody, including ourselves, we have to produce it faster. [1:54:02] So we think within a year, year and a half max, we'll be, instead of waiting for a year or two years, [1:54:09] we'll be having it on a two-week wait, maybe a one-week wait. [1:54:13] That's what I want. [1:54:14] And it'll do really well. [1:54:17] A lot of people are just waiting. [1:54:19] You know, just waiting. [1:54:20] They're waiting. [1:54:21] You want to get this defensive equipment, maybe in particular the defensive equipment, [1:54:26] but offensive and defense. [1:54:28] Much of that money is being spent on American-made equipment. [1:54:34] That's the money that the European and Canada are spending European countries, mostly, and Canada. [1:54:43] And they're spending that with the United States, largely. [1:54:47] And it's American-made, made in the USA, as we say. [1:54:51] Weapons, munitions, supporting thousands of American jobs. [1:54:56] This will increase. [1:54:57] We have the highest number of jobs. [1:54:59] Right now, we have the most people working in the United States that we've ever had in the history of our country. [1:55:04] We have the biggest investment ever made, $19.2 trillion. [1:55:09] That's six times more than we've ever had. [1:55:12] Think of it, six times. [1:55:14] And what did that were tariffs. [1:55:16] Without the tariffs, I think we would have done fine, like at about two or three. [1:55:21] The last administration had much less than $1 trillion invested for four years. [1:55:27] We have $19.2 trillion invested in one year. [1:55:30] We haven't gone into the extra almost a half a year, one and a half years. [1:55:36] Those numbers won't come out for a little while. [1:55:38] So we have $19.2 trillion, not billion, not million, trillion, with a T, [1:55:46] invested in plants and equipment that's being built all over the country. [1:55:51] Eli Lilly is building plants, big drug Merck, all of them, the drug companies are building. [1:55:57] The car companies are building like crazy. [1:56:00] In fact, as you probably saw a big announcement yesterday, [1:56:03] Toyota is leaving Mexico and they're going to build one of the biggest car manufacturing plants in the world, in Texas. [1:56:11] That's because of the tariffs, because we don't mind if you build in Mexico. [1:56:15] But if you build in Mexico, you have to pay 25 percent tariff. [1:56:18] If you build in Japan or if you build in any place, [1:56:24] China is a much higher tariff versus a hundred percent tariff, [1:56:27] because we don't want to lose our jobs. [1:56:29] We don't want to have our workers lose their jobs. [1:56:32] We have the largest number of plants being built for the most money ever in the history of our country. [1:56:39] Car plants, AI plants and all other plants, pharmaceutical plants, chips. [1:56:45] We're not giving anything. [1:56:46] All we're saying is if you don't start, we'll give them a year and a half to two years to build their plant. [1:56:53] If they don't have that, they have to pay 100 percent, 200 percent, even 250 percent. [1:56:59] If they make a chip or if they make a car, if they make pharmaceuticals. [1:57:03] So the pharmaceutical companies are moving in at record levels. [1:57:08] There's never been anything like what's happening. [1:57:10] Let me put it a different way, put it here in a more broad fashion. [1:57:14] There has never been anything like has happened with this country or any other country in the history of the world. [1:57:22] There has never been growth. [1:57:25] There's never been manufacturing plants being built. [1:57:28] We have so many being built. [1:57:30] And in the big ones, like AI, some of the AI, we let them build their own electric plants. [1:57:35] We force them to build. [1:57:36] We don't want it because the old grid that we have wouldn't be able to supply. [1:57:40] They need, just as an industry, more energy than the entire country produces right now, when you think of it, which is incredible. [1:57:49] So take all of the energy that the United States produces and that one industry, which is so big, so powerful, it needs more than that. [1:57:58] In fact, some people say almost double. [1:58:00] So this was my idea. [1:58:03] I said, you can never service that. [1:58:06] You can't reinvigorate the grid. [1:58:08] You can make it better, but nothing like that. [1:58:10] You wouldn't be able to build. [1:58:11] And we're leading China in AI in most, just about everything. [1:58:16] But we're leading China in AI. [1:58:19] Even in TikTok, you know, I was watching somebody say, oh, the TikTok deal. [1:58:23] It's so bad for, well, because they say the deal was incredible. [1:58:29] But they think the word that gets out is bad, except the numbers just came out. [1:58:34] And I'm number one on TikTok. [1:58:36] And all I do is talk about communism, right? [1:58:38] So it's sort of good. [1:58:40] I used it to get elected, too. [1:58:42] But, you know, you have to get your word out. [1:58:45] But it just, the numbers came out just a little while ago, and I was number one. [1:58:48] Some ridiculous number. [1:58:49] I've never heard of numbers like that. [1:58:51] But number one. [1:58:53] And all these entertainers, they're number 27, 29. [1:58:56] It's crazy. [1:58:57] I don't even understand myself. [1:58:59] But that means that my word's getting out about how great our country is, how successful [1:59:04] our country is, and how bad communism is, and how bad these lunatics are that are running [1:59:09] for election that don't sound good, don't think good, and don't look good. [1:59:15] I don't see any looker. [1:59:16] I don't see anybody with the look. [1:59:19] You know, you need the look, I guess. [1:59:21] You need something. [1:59:22] But they don't have it. [1:59:23] And I think they'll fade fast. [1:59:25] And it's not social democrats. [1:59:27] These are communists that are running. [1:59:30] And they don't want God. [1:59:34] They don't want successful things to happen for our country. [1:59:37] They don't want to have a successful country. [1:59:39] I think they're sort of crazy. [1:59:42] As European nations rebuild their militaries, American equipment will be the largest beneficiary. [1:59:50] The defense companies are going to be making most of that equipment. [1:59:54] They want the American equipment, because it works better. [1:59:56] It's not a question of anything else. [1:59:58] We make the best equipment in the world. [2:00:01] 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. [2:00:09] And they wanted to hear that because they don't really want to get it in four years, five years. [2:00:13] They want to get it like in a week. [2:00:16] And we'll actually be at a point like that in the not too distant future with the plants that are being built. [2:00:21] The defense plants, it's incredible. [2:00:25] Lockheed is building, I think, five. [2:00:29] Some of them are building three, four or five. [2:00:31] And they're big ones. [2:00:32] It's going to quadruple the output that we have with the munitions and the basic equipment itself, whether it's a Patriot or Tomahawk missile or any of the missiles that we make. [2:00:45] Make many missiles, different types for different occasions. [2:00:49] And just today at the summit, we announced $3 billion of new defense investments with U.S. companies. [2:00:56] And Lockheed Martin will establish a world-class Patriot missile sustainment facility, a big deal in Europe. [2:01:03] They're given a tremendous incentive by Europe to do that. [2:01:08] It all goes to the benefit of us and Europe because they're getting the best equipment. [2:01:13] Northrop Grumman is moving forward with the sale of advanced American drone technology. [2:01:19] We're actually the leader in drone tech. [2:01:20] A lot of people don't know that. [2:01:22] We have the most sophisticated drones in the world. [2:01:25] And we're a real, I guess we're the leader, but we'll soon be the leader by many times over. [2:01:32] And Lockheed and Rhein-Mittal are announcing a partnership to build the army tactical missile systems, which is a big deal. [2:01:43] And Anduril is announcing a deal to build their new Barracuda missiles, which is a very highly sophisticated, fast missile. [2:01:54] And we're doing that for Poland. [2:01:57] Poland's doing very well, by the way, with a very, very good president, great president, I think. [2:02:03] All of these agreements directly benefit the U.S. defense industry base. [2:02:08] And what it really does is it means jobs. [2:02:12] And again, I have to just say that when Toyota announced yesterday, I wasn't that surprised, but everybody wanted to get that. [2:02:19] That's the largest. [2:02:21] I think it's going to be the largest plant in the world car plant. [2:02:24] And they're moving into the United States. [2:02:27] And again, they're doing that to avoid paying the tariff. [2:02:29] Because if you build your product here, you pay no tariff. [2:02:32] If you don't, you pay a 25 percent tariff, depending. [2:02:34] 35 percent sometimes. [2:02:36] Sometimes 100 percent, 200 percent, depending on what the product is. [2:02:41] As an example, we're doing great on steel because we charge tariffs. [2:02:44] So now, all of a sudden, the steel industry, which was absolutely dead a few years ago. [2:02:49] I revived it in my first term pretty good. [2:02:51] And then they blew it in the Biden term. [2:02:55] What a shame. [2:02:56] They just blew it right out the window. [2:02:59] They had no idea what they were doing. [2:03:00] And I quickly revived it at the beginning of my of this term year and a half. [2:03:06] And we are the steel businesses through the roof. [2:03:11] We don't even make aluminum anymore. [2:03:13] Now we're going to have the largest aluminum plant in the world being built in Oklahoma. [2:03:18] I love Oklahoma. [2:03:19] 77 out of 77 counties three times. [2:03:23] And it's great. [2:03:24] It's a great city. [2:03:25] They're going to be building the largest aluminum plant in the entire world. [2:03:29] In Oklahoma, it's starting very soon. [2:03:33] Over the course of the past two days, I had a number of excellent discussions with other [2:03:38] leaders at the summit and held productive bilateral meetings with essentially all of them. [2:03:44] We had dinner last night. [2:03:45] Just about all of them were there. [2:03:47] President Erdogan of Turkey, as well as President Zelensky. [2:03:50] And he just came in, as you probably saw, at a little press conference. [2:03:56] And also President al-Sharav Syria, who's doing an unbelievable job in unifying Syria. [2:04:03] What a job he's doing. [2:04:05] Syria was a mess with what happened with the previous government. [2:04:10] Do you know that? [2:04:12] Very dangerous place. [2:04:13] And now it's just come together. [2:04:15] He's done a fantastic job. [2:04:16] People are talking about it. [2:04:18] In every conversation, it was clear that America is back, and we're stronger and bigger and [2:04:26] better than ever before. [2:04:27] We have more jobs, as I said, than ever before. [2:04:30] And we're respected again like maybe never before. [2:04:33] We are so respected as a country. [2:04:36] That's why I wish I told the Secretary General, Mark, I said, it's too bad the press could not [2:04:42] see what's happening in this room. [2:04:44] You saw the big round circle with all of the leaders of all of those countries. [2:04:49] And I don't know. [2:04:50] I think they should allow it. [2:04:51] The theory is that they won't be speaking quite as freely and it won't be quite as good. [2:04:58] But who knows? [2:04:59] It was amazing, actually. [2:05:01] The unity in that room was incredible. [2:05:04] The really a love. [2:05:06] It was sort of pretty wild. [2:05:09] There was a love in that room that was great. [2:05:11] So this was a tremendously successful summit. [2:05:15] And again, I want to thank President Erdogan, Turkey, and President, so many of the presidents, [2:05:24] presidents, prime ministers. [2:05:26] They were all here from NATO, the NATO countries. [2:05:30] And in particular, we have to thank the Secretary General Mark Ruder for doing a fantastic job. [2:05:36] He really put on a tremendous, his was just something, he just, he's a unifier. [2:05:42] He's a tremendous unifier. [2:05:44] He's a tremendous unifier. [2:05:45] So I could take a few questions. [2:05:47] We've done a few of these already today. [2:05:49] So I don't think we should take too many. [2:05:51] I don't think we should take quite. [2:05:53] So we're going to keep it a little bit short. [2:05:55] And I know a lot of you are going home. [2:05:57] Some are going with me. [2:05:58] So go ahead, please, sir. [2:06:00] Yes. [2:06:01] Yes. [2:06:02] No, no, no. [2:06:04] The gentleman right here. [2:06:05] The very tall gentleman who's very insecure. [2:06:08] He doesn't want to ask that question. [2:06:10] He's a handsome guy, but he's very insecure. [2:06:14] Go ahead. [2:06:15] Do you want to shout it out? [2:06:16] Give him a mic. [2:06:17] How about giving him a mic? [2:06:18] You shout it out. [2:06:28] Seems to be a strategic dead end for you. [2:06:31] Why are you apparently unable to end the Iran war? [2:06:36] So I think we're doing just the opposite. [2:06:38] The Iran war has been a tremendous military success. [2:06:41] And, you know, I can only answer the question by saying they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [2:06:46] I think it's been I was there for one reason that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [2:06:52] I call it we denuclearize Iran. [2:06:56] And that's happened. [2:06:57] They will never have a nuclear weapon. [2:06:59] That stuff is so far down under a mountain. [2:07:01] It's a granite mountain that collapsed on top of it. [2:07:04] Take months to get it out. [2:07:06] I think it's a tremendous success, Iran. [2:07:09] And you see the oil prices are lower than they were when I started. [2:07:13] And people like to say that. [2:07:14] But look, they have no military left. [2:07:16] Their air force is gone. [2:07:18] As I said, their ships are gone. [2:07:19] 159 ships are gone. [2:07:21] They're at the bottom of the sea. [2:07:22] Their radar is gone. [2:07:24] Everything's gone. [2:07:25] So when you say not a success, it's a tremendous success. [2:07:28] The fake news likes to say how well they're doing. [2:07:30] They're doing terribly. [2:07:31] They have 350 percent inflation. [2:07:33] When the war started, they had like 6 percent, 5 percent. [2:07:37] They want to make a deal, but they don't know how to make a deal. [2:07:42] And then they go around shooting ships at night. [2:07:44] I don't like that. [2:07:45] You know, they're dealing with very fine people. [2:07:47] They're dealing with Steve Whitcoff. [2:07:49] They're dealing with Jared Kushner and J.D. Vance. [2:07:52] And they're dealing with Marco and Scott. [2:07:55] They're dealing with great people. [2:07:57] But I don't know. [2:07:58] I think they're a little loco. [2:08:00] They're a little crazy. [2:08:01] But they told us they'd like to go to the funeral. [2:08:04] The funeral of a very person who killed a lot of people. [2:08:12] Khomeini killed a lot of people over the years. [2:08:17] And there for a long time. [2:08:19] Don't forget, what we did should have been done 47 years ago. [2:08:22] It could have been done any time within 40. [2:08:24] This has gone on forever. [2:08:25] They were the bully of the Middle East. [2:08:27] So they're a much different country. [2:08:29] Now, in one day, all of their anti-aircraft things are gone. [2:08:34] That doesn't mean they're not going to get a plane at some point. [2:08:37] But all of it's gone. [2:08:39] Everything's gone. [2:08:40] Their leaders are gone. [2:08:41] They had leaders. [2:08:42] They're gone. [2:08:43] And they had another set of leaders. [2:08:44] They're gone. [2:08:45] Now they have another set of leaders. [2:08:46] They may be gone. [2:08:47] Who knows? [2:08:49] And you know what? [2:08:50] I may be gone too. [2:08:51] Because I'm their number one target. [2:08:53] It's out all over the place. [2:08:55] I'm their number one. [2:08:56] Because they're scum. [2:08:57] That's the way they act. [2:08:58] And that's the way they've done it for 47 years. [2:09:00] But I'm doing what's right for the country. [2:09:03] I'm doing really what's right for the world. [2:09:05] They have to be stopped. [2:09:06] And they've killed thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. [2:09:09] They killed 52,000 protesters over the last three months. [2:09:14] So when you say we're not doing well, I think we're doing phenomenally well. [2:09:17] Our military has been incredible. [2:09:19] Plus, we had a blockade. [2:09:21] Did we have a blockade? [2:09:22] Did you ever see a blockade work that way? [2:09:23] You know, for you that said we're not doing well there. [2:09:25] We did great in Venezuela. [2:09:27] That was a one-day war. [2:09:30] And they're very good military. [2:09:31] You know, it's a very military country. [2:09:34] We took out one of the worst human beings in the world, Maduro. [2:09:38] And he's in jail waiting for trial. [2:09:40] But what he did to this country was incredible, including the fact not only the drugs, [2:09:46] but he had people pour into the country from prisons. [2:09:49] They opened up their prisons. [2:09:50] They allowed them to come in. [2:09:52] We're getting them out. [2:09:53] We're getting them all out. [2:09:54] But we have, with the Biden open border policy, with Kamala, as your borders are. [2:09:59] Remember? [2:10:00] She was a border. [2:10:01] But she never called border patrol. [2:10:02] Never once. [2:10:03] And she never went to the border. [2:10:04] The border was a disaster. [2:10:06] Now it's fixed. [2:10:07] It's fixed. [2:10:08] It's fixed where we have nobody. [2:10:10] And I don't do these numbers. [2:10:12] Zero people come in through our border, through our southern border. [2:10:15] Zero. [2:10:16] And that's been announced now every month for the last 12 months. [2:10:20] Zero. [2:10:21] We had millions of people come in under 25 million people. [2:10:24] I think more than that under Biden. [2:10:26] And they weren't people that you want for the most part. [2:10:30] They were drug dealers. [2:10:31] They were escaped from, think of it, all the prisons. [2:10:35] And I'm not just talking about from South America. [2:10:37] I'm talking about from the Congo. [2:10:38] I'm talking about from all over the world. [2:10:40] The prisons were emptied out. [2:10:41] They were emptied out into our country. [2:10:43] But they had the worst murderers. [2:10:47] They had the. [2:10:48] We had people allowed in our country that should never. [2:10:51] And they walked in through an open border policy. [2:10:54] And all I'm saying is that you're lucky we won this election. [2:10:58] Yeah, please. [2:10:59] Go ahead. [2:11:00] Go ahead. [2:11:01] No. [2:11:03] Yes, go ahead. [2:11:06] Who are you with? [2:11:07] Why don't you say your name and who you're with? [2:11:08] It's always helpful. [2:11:09] Thank you, Mr. President, for doing this. [2:11:10] Iris Tao with NTD would assist your media with the Epoch Times. [2:11:14] On communism. [2:11:15] You've been issuing a wake up call to Americans at home about the dangers of communism. [2:11:21] And now you're speaking on the world stage. [2:11:23] What's your message to people both living under communist and socialist regimes, [2:11:28] but also people living under democracies like in Europe and America, [2:11:32] who might not have realized how close communism has come to home? [2:11:35] Yeah, that's a great question, actually. [2:11:37] But look, I want to get the word out because what's forming is communism in the country. [2:11:42] And communism's easy to sell. [2:11:44] I would be the greatest communist in history. [2:11:46] I'd be right up there with Lenin. [2:11:49] I'd be as good as anybody. [2:11:51] You've got free rent for the rest of your life. [2:11:55] What they don't say is that you'll be living in squalor in 12 months. [2:11:59] You've got a free house. [2:12:00] Would anybody like to have a free house? [2:12:02] We'll take it away from somebody. [2:12:03] We'll give it to you. [2:12:04] You'll have murders all over the place. [2:12:06] Communism's a disaster. [2:12:07] It's been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but same thing. [2:12:13] It's very important. [2:12:15] And you know, it's funny. [2:12:16] One of the reasons I do so well with Hispanic people, I set a record, Republicans. [2:12:22] I get great numbers for the election, helped me get elected in a landslide. [2:12:27] The Hispanics, because a lot of them came from countries that were essentially communist. [2:12:33] You know, whether you call them radical socialist or communist, there's not that much. [2:12:38] But there's a little difference. [2:12:39] When they say social democrats were social democrats, it sounds so nice. [2:12:43] It's not nice. [2:12:44] It's a very dangerous term. [2:12:46] So I do talk about it. [2:12:47] And I talk about it on TikTok. [2:12:49] And I talk about it everywhere. [2:12:50] I talk about it here. [2:12:51] And you're right. [2:12:52] It has become international. [2:12:53] But it's never worked. [2:12:55] And it's not going to work. [2:12:57] What is working is the United States. [2:12:59] And think of it. [2:13:00] We have more jobs than we've ever had. [2:13:01] People are making more money than they've ever made. [2:13:04] I'm talking about workers now. [2:13:05] I'm talking about workers. [2:13:06] They're making higher salaries than they've ever made before. [2:13:10] It's just the best system. [2:13:11] And it's got flaws, but everything's going to have a little flaw. [2:13:14] But it's it's been amazing. [2:13:16] And when I watch what's happening and I see these low lives getting. [2:13:20] I mean, they're low lives. [2:13:21] I watch them. [2:13:22] I know good people. [2:13:23] I know quality people. [2:13:24] These are essentially low lives. [2:13:26] And when I see what they're talking, I think they're very dangerous in many ways. [2:13:30] And I've said it. [2:13:31] Then I said, boy, that's a pretty big statement. [2:13:33] Then I realized, you know, a couple of people said, I think you're probably right. [2:13:36] I think this country with this thing that's going around is in more danger than it was during World War I, World War II. [2:13:47] If you talk about September 11th, if you talk about Pearl Harbor, that was big danger. [2:13:54] 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. [2:14:00] Never comes back. [2:14:01] You die in squalor. [2:14:02] You die. [2:14:03] You die a horrible death. [2:14:04] You die in squalor. [2:14:06] You die in squalor. [2:14:07] And it gets very evil and very nasty. [2:14:09] Yeah, please. [2:14:10] Go ahead. [2:14:14] Mr. President, Tyler Pager with The New York Times. [2:14:16] Last month, you said Iranian leaders were very rational people, nice people to deal with, strong people, smart people. [2:14:23] Today, you said they were scum, sick people, and being led by sick people. [2:14:27] What changed? [2:14:28] And do you think? [2:14:29] I got to know. [2:14:30] I've said that about a lot. [2:14:32] Now, when you say rational, I think they're much more rational than level one, level two. [2:14:37] Level one is gone. [2:14:39] Level two is gone. [2:14:40] This is level three. [2:14:42] I think they are more rational. [2:14:43] But based on their actions over the last week or two, they're not doing a service to the people. [2:14:51] And I think more than anything else is I got to know them. [2:14:54] And I'm not sure I want to make a deal with them. [2:14:56] We can play games, but I'm not sure I want to make a deal. [2:14:59] I just finished the job. [2:15:00] Yeah, please. [2:15:01] Go ahead. [2:15:02] Go ahead. [2:15:03] Go ahead. [2:15:04] Go ahead. [2:15:08] Thank you, Mr. President. [2:15:09] Steve Sedgwick from CNBC. [2:15:10] The oil markets are up today around about 7% for WTI and Brent as well. [2:15:14] The world is taking you at your word, sir, that the MOU is over, that the ceasefire is over. [2:15:20] What happens next, sir? [2:15:21] Are we on the cusp of a full-scale return to full conflict? [2:15:25] I'll tell you what happens next. [2:15:27] We're never going to see Iran have a nuclear weapon because that's much more important than the numbers you're talking about. [2:15:33] The prices of oil are dropping like a rock. [2:15:36] Now they'll be up a little bit, and this will end very quickly. [2:15:38] We have an oil glut right now because we've got all those votes out of the strait. [2:15:43] And it's going to drop, and I've predicted everything. [2:15:46] I've been right about everything, and I have been for a long time. [2:15:51] That's how I got to be president three times. [2:15:53] That's how I won three elections. [2:15:54] I did very well in the second one. [2:15:56] Won it. [2:15:57] It was a rigged election. [2:15:58] But I've been right, and oil is coming down. [2:16:01] Now, I have to make sure of one thing, that we don't have lunatics having control over nuclear weapons. [2:16:10] So we have that now. [2:16:12] There's no way they have a nuclear weapon. [2:16:14] We have cameras, as an example, on the site that does beautiful B2s at 1 o'clock in the morning 10 months ago. [2:16:20] Blew up. [2:16:21] They blew it up. [2:16:22] We have cameras. [2:16:23] That's called Space Force if they're in space. [2:16:27] But we have cameras that can read the badge of the person going over to a site. [2:16:32] Mohammed something. [2:16:35] We say, it's Mohammed something is there with shovels. [2:16:38] Well, shovels won't get you there. [2:16:40] The biggest machinery in the world probably won't get you there, if you want to know the truth. [2:16:46] It's way, way below. [2:16:48] But we're watching that, and if anybody goes there, they get blown up. [2:16:52] So nobody's going to touch that. [2:16:54] Eventually, we'll take it. [2:16:55] But what we do have is we have that. [2:16:57] That's gone. [2:16:58] If we wouldn't have had that, they would have had a nuclear weapon, and they would have wiped out Israel. [2:17:03] If I weren't president, Israel wouldn't exist. [2:17:05] And we did it two times. [2:17:07] When the JCPOA, the Obama deal, when that was originally conceived, everything went to Iran. [2:17:16] 1.7 billion in cash, hundreds of billions of dollars. [2:17:20] They thought they could buy peace with these people. [2:17:22] You can't do that. [2:17:23] So the big thing we have is more important than anything we can talk about is you can't let lunatics have nuclear weapons. [2:17:31] And we've stopped that. [2:17:32] And that should have been stopped on a couple of other occasions, too, with different countries, but they didn't do that. [2:17:36] Yeah, please. [2:17:37] Steven Nelson from the New York Post. [2:17:46] I'd like you to address speculation that you're leaving Ankara not in the new Air Force One because of security concerns involving Iran. [2:17:56] You've spoken today twice about them possibly assassinating you and possibly being successful. [2:18:02] Did that concern have something to do with you? [2:18:04] Well, I speak about it a lot because, you know, the life of a president is very dangerous. [2:18:09] It's 5.2 percent. [2:18:11] You know what a race car driver is? [2:18:13] One tenth of one percent. [2:18:15] A bull rider, that looks pretty dangerous to me. [2:18:17] It's one tenth of one percent. [2:18:18] No, it's 5.2 percent is you don't make it. [2:18:23] You should have told me you're an excellent reporter. [2:18:25] You should have told me that years ago maybe I wouldn't have run. [2:18:28] It's a very dangerous profession. [2:18:30] No, I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. [2:18:35] They're lovely people. [2:18:36] I'm number one. [2:18:37] So I don't know. [2:18:38] I can't tell you that. [2:18:39] 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, [2:18:44] because we have a country that's hot and really, really successful. [2:18:48] But I mention it only because it's on the list. [2:18:51] I mean, it came out. [2:18:52] There was another list came out yesterday and I'm number one on. [2:18:56] I like being number one on TikTok better, but I'm number one on the list for killing. [2:19:02] Go ahead. [2:19:09] Hey, Sean McCreish, New York Times. [2:19:11] But why aren't you flying the new plane home? [2:19:13] Say what? [2:19:14] Why aren't you flying on the new Air Force One home? [2:19:16] 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. [2:19:22] And we'll be going home by normal methods. [2:19:26] But 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. [2:19:35] So the soldiers can see it because it's truly magnificent. [2:19:39] Yeah, please. [2:19:41] Go ahead. [2:19:42] Do you want to go? [2:19:44] Mr. President, it seems that the war with Iran may start again. [2:19:53] What do we expect from your European allies? [2:19:55] No, I don't think it's going to start again. [2:19:57] I think it's going to go very quickly. [2:19:59] They hit a couple of ships and so we hit them much harder. [2:20:03] When they hit, we hit ten times harder. [2:20:05] You know, we hit much harder than they do. [2:20:07] We have a lot better equipment than they do. [2:20:11] We may even, somebody asked before, do you think you'll hit them tonight? [2:20:14] I said, we might. [2:20:15] Yeah, we might. [2:20:16] But when they hit, we hit. [2:20:17] You know, it's what they're, we use, we use their language. [2:20:20] We speak their language. [2:20:21] No, I don't think so. [2:20:23] I think anything that happens is going to be over very quickly. [2:20:26] And we'll only, and we'll only make it safer, including for oil. [2:20:30] Oil is going to be very free, very easy, and it's going to happen very fast. [2:20:37] We have the Harmo Street, the boats have pulled out. [2:20:41] I mean, there's a, there's a gusher of oil right now. [2:20:43] We have a lot of oil. [2:20:44] And no, anything that happens is going to happen very fast. [2:20:48] We're not, we're not looking, we're not looking for long term. [2:20:52] Okay. [2:20:53] Go ahead. [2:20:55] Red. [2:21:00] You're with who? [2:21:01] MSNOW. [2:21:02] MSNOW. [2:21:03] What is that? [2:21:04] What a, that's a failing network. [2:21:05] Why would you want to work for them? [2:21:06] MSNOW, can you imagine? [2:21:08] They wanted to get away. [2:21:09] They took the name NBC because they were embarrassed by it. [2:21:12] Go ahead. [2:21:13] Let's go. [2:21:14] When did you hear this question? [2:21:15] You said today that countries like Spain, Italy, and the UK were not there for the [2:21:19] U.S. and its war with Iran. [2:21:20] Should those countries be attacked, will the U.S. be there for them? [2:21:24] Well, I'll tell you what. [2:21:25] Number one, Spain has been very bad. [2:21:27] But, you know, the, Italy has been good. [2:21:30] And almost all of the countries have been good. [2:21:32] They just had a bad moment. [2:21:34] They didn't help us. [2:21:35] We didn't need the help. [2:21:37] But if we would have wanted the help. [2:21:39] I said, by the way, if I want help, sure would rather remain on the sidelines. [2:21:43] And I didn't like that answer. [2:21:44] UK gave an answer that was sort of weirder than that. [2:21:47] We, they went out. [2:21:48] I said, would you like to help? [2:21:50] They said, we do, but we want to wait until the war is over. [2:21:53] This was not in the spirit of Winston Churchill. [2:21:56] So, yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what. [2:21:59] I can only say if there's one word that comes out of today, it's unification. [2:22:04] I've never seen anything like it. [2:22:06] Every one of those countries, they love us. [2:22:09] They love each other. [2:22:11] That was tremendous unification. [2:22:12] It was a nice thing to say. [2:22:13] And it was a very fair question, too. [2:22:15] Green? [2:22:16] Green? [2:22:17] Yeah. [2:22:19] You're wearing green, right? [2:22:20] Thank you, Mr. President. [2:22:22] Ed Arturul from Haber Global TV, Turkey F. [2:22:27] Mr. President, after your meeting with President Erdogan, can you tell us whether you and President [2:22:32] Erdogan reach an understanding on Turkey's return to the F-35 program and the future of [2:22:37] U.S.-Turkey defense cooperation? [2:22:39] And do you believe U.S.-Turkey relations are entering a new chapter right now? [2:22:44] Well, I had a great relationship in my first term. [2:22:51] You remember Pastor Brunson. [2:22:54] He was put in jail for 35 years. [2:22:56] And I called. [2:22:57] He was an evangelical hero, actually. [2:23:00] Very good man. [2:23:01] And I called President Erdogan and he let him out. [2:23:04] I didn't pay anything like Obama and Biden pay billions of dollars all the time. [2:23:09] I never paid any for anybody. [2:23:12] I just said, let him out. [2:23:14] Let him out. [2:23:15] But in this case, I didn't say it the second way. [2:23:18] I said it the first way. [2:23:19] I said, look, he's a good man. [2:23:21] He's a good man. [2:23:22] He's highly respected. [2:23:23] And the evangelical, and I'd like you to let him out. [2:23:25] And he was in my office, in the Oval Office, the following day, Pastor Brunson. [2:23:29] I had a great relationship. [2:23:31] When sleepy Joe Biden got in, bad things happened with a lot of things between the border. [2:23:38] Everything was bad. [2:23:39] We were laughed at all over the world. [2:23:41] And we had a very bad relationship with a lot of countries. [2:23:44] I think Turkey was one of those countries. [2:23:46] But that changed on November 5th when we had the election. [2:23:52] And it's one of our best relationships. [2:23:55] We have a great relationship. [2:23:57] And they're talking about the F-35 airplane. [2:24:00] And it's the best plane and everybody wants it. [2:24:03] And we have to make a decision who we give it to. [2:24:06] I mean, my inclination, because he, again, he stayed out of, he's not a huge fan of Bibi. [2:24:12] And he's not a huge fan of Israel. [2:24:14] But he stayed out of that war. [2:24:16] He could have gone into that war very easily. [2:24:18] And he didn't, at my request, he stayed out of that war. [2:24:20] And he's been a very good ally. [2:24:22] I mean, Marco could tell you we have a very strong relationship with Turkey. [2:24:26] You know, it's a very big country. [2:24:28] It's very powerful. [2:24:29] Militarily, it's a very, it's the second most powerful country in NATO. [2:24:34] It's a NATO country. [2:24:35] So whether or not we do that, I haven't totally made up my mind. [2:24:39] But my inclination is to say, look, he's done everything. [2:24:43] He's helped us in so many different ways. [2:24:46] And you know who else has been good to is China. [2:24:48] China never came into the war. [2:24:50] They get 50% of their oil from Haramur Strait. [2:24:54] They never came into the war. [2:24:55] They never said, I'm going to send a ship in five destroyers along each side of the ship. [2:25:01] They never did. [2:25:02] No, he was, he's been president. [2:25:04] She's been great. [2:25:05] Everyone's been sort of great, to be honest. [2:25:07] You know why? [2:25:08] Because they respect our country again. [2:25:11] They laughed at our country. [2:25:12] They thought we were a bunch of fools. [2:25:14] They saw a president that couldn't talk. [2:25:17] He couldn't walk. [2:25:18] It was a disaster. [2:25:20] They lost respect for our country. [2:25:21] But now they have more respect for our country than they've ever had before. [2:25:25] Thank you all very much. [2:25:27] We'll see you back. [2:25:28] Thank you very much, everybody. [2:25:30] Thank you very much, everybody. [2:25:31] Thank you very much, everybody. [2:25:32] Thank you very much, everybody.