President Trump Answers Questions on Iran and Other Topics

[0:04] Mr. President, anything you said from Minister Maloney. [0:09] Can you do some? [0:11] Mr. President, on the Pope, Mr. President, on the Pope, [0:15] the Pope criticized people who, quote, [0:17] manipulate religion for political or military games. [0:20] Do you think anything is popular about this, sir? [0:22] The President's very important that the Pope understands. [0:24] Very, very important. [0:25] It would be nice not to say it. [0:28] Iran killed 42,000 people that were totally unarmed. [0:32] They were protesters. [0:34] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [0:36] If they did, every country, including Italy, [0:39] where he's stationed, every single country in the world [0:43] would be in trouble. [0:45] So we're doing very well with respect to that. [0:48] Having to do with the whole situation on Iran, [0:51] the blockade is amazing. [0:54] It's holding up very strong, very powerfully. [0:58] And I think we're making a lot of progress in that. [1:00] But the Pope has to understand Iran is very simple. [1:03] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [1:05] The world would be in great danger. [1:07] The Pressure, Mr. President, would you meet with the Pope [1:12] to even out your differences, just catho or so tour? [1:15] Mr. I don't think it's necessary. [1:16] The Pressure, Mr. President, you spoke with Prime Minister Modi [1:22] So what was the conversation like? [1:24] What is it that is on the table now? [1:27] President Trump I had a very good talk with him. [1:28] And he's a friend of mine from India. [1:31] And he's doing great. [1:33] We had a very good conversation. [1:34] The Presser President, do you consider extending [1:37] the ceasefire with Iran? [1:39] President Trump With who? [1:40] The Presser President With Iran? [1:41] President Trump We're doing very well, I can tell you. [1:45] Maybe it'll happen before that. [1:46] I'm not sure it needs to be extended. [1:47] The Presser President President Trump Just so you know, [1:50] Iran wants to make a deal. [1:51] and we're dealing very nicely with them we've got to have no nuclear weapons [1:57] if we do that's a big factor and they're willing to do things today that they [2:02] weren't willing to do two months ago [2:11] i think they will i think it's going to be actually it's very exciting because [2:15] it's 48 years we're going to be meeting with bb netanyahu [2:20] as you know and the president of lebanon and i had a great talk with both of them today they're going [2:27] to be having a ceasefire and that will include hezbollah and i think i think it's it could be [2:34] number 10 for me do you have any news regarding peace in ukraine do you have do you have any news [2:41] regarding peace in ukraine are ukraine is moving along i wish they could get along frankly a lot [2:47] of people are dying in ukraine we'll see what happens there's things happening there we're [2:51] focused we're focused so much right now in iran seeing if we can get that completed and i think [2:59] and i think if you look the stock market is good the oil prices are coming down [3:04] and it's looking very good that we're going to make a deal with iran [3:07] and it's going to be a good deal it's going to be a deal with no nuclear weapons [3:10] and when is the next in-person round of negotiations on the war in iran when they're all important i [3:20] mean it's not a question of a round all of them are probably the next in person probably maybe over [3:25] the weekend [3:30] the blockade has been incredible it's been it's held and they're not doing any business they're unable to do [3:36] any business because of the blockade and so the combination of having no navy having no air force [3:42] having no anti-aircraft equipment they have nothing everything is gone including their leaders now [3:48] they have a new set of leaders and we find them very reasonable [3:52] what we have is we we have a statement very uh very powerful statement that they will not have [4:09] beyond 20 years that they will not have nuclear weapons that's beyond there's no 20-year limit [4:14] i think i think that uh todd blanche is doing a very good job from what i'm saying [4:28] all i can say thus far i think todd blanche is doing a very good job [4:34] there's no deal would you be willing to extend the ceasefire or will the fighting resume mr [4:38] president i would say the fighting if there's no deal fighting resume okay and then on gas prices how [4:43] much longer will americans continue to see these high gas prices well they're not very high if you [4:47] look at what they were supposed to be in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon with the danger that [4:52] entails so the gas prices have come down very much over the last three four days i know you know that's [4:58] what abc says but the fact is that if you look at the stock markets up everything is doing really well [5:06] and the big thing we have to do is we have to make sure that iran does not have a nuclear weapon [5:10] because if they do you want to talk about problems you'd have problems so very important is that iran [5:17] does not have a nuclear weapon and they've agreed to that iran's agreed to that and they've agreed to [5:23] it very powerfully they've agreed to give us back the nuclear dust that's way underground because of the [5:29] attack we made with the b2 bomber so we have a lot of agreement with iran and i think something's going [5:35] to happen very positive a very complicated subject it's uh i don't think we're waiting i think we're [5:45] moving very fast it could happen pretty quickly [5:57] the what how long you could sustain keep the blockade on the street of rumors [6:01] uh we're doing uh very well with the blockade it's very routine for us the navy is incredible [6:07] and i think that blockade is doing very well it's uh no ship is even thinking about entering [6:12] that no chip is going past our navy no no i don't i have to do what's right [6:21] the pope has to understand that very simple i have nothing against the pope his brother's [6:26] maga all the way i like his brother lewis i'm not fighting with him the pope made a statement he [6:32] says iran can have a nuclear weapon i say iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the pope looked [6:38] at the 42 000 people that were killed over the last two or three months as a protester with no weapons [6:45] no nothing i mean you take a look at that uh so i could disagree with the pope i have a right to [6:51] i have a right to disagree with the pope what do you say what do you say to people who see that [6:56] who see your criticism you can't have look nothing i have no disagreement with the fact the pope can [7:04] say what he wants and i want him to say what he wants but i can disagree i think that iran cannot [7:10] have a nuclear weapon if they do the whole world would be at jeopardy the middle east will be blown [7:15] up and the whole world will be in jeopardy we're very close to making a deal that'll be a great thing [7:21] the pope has to understand iran has killed more than 42 000 people over the last few months [7:27] think of it protesters without guns without anything they were totally unarmed protesters [7:33] the pope has to understand that this is the real world it's a nasty world [7:37] but as far as the pope and saying what he wants he can do that now i know the pope's brother [7:43] he is a big maga person he's got maga all over his house his name is lewis he's actually a great guy [7:49] and i'm sure the pope is a great guy i haven't met him but i disagree with the pope if the pope would [7:55] allow iran to have a nuclear weapon you can't do that [7:58] you're going to have a deal we're going to have a meeting first time in 44 years [8:18] and lebanon will be meeting with israel and they're probably going to do it at the white house [8:23] i think we will have an agreement between lebanon and they're going to take care of hezbollah [8:38] but they're going to they're going to be working on hezbollah right now but [8:41] we'll have a degree between israel very importantly and lebanon will you support our lebanese army as [8:46] well they're all agreeing it's a very nice little package for about a week [8:59] and we're not going to have lots of bombs dropping and we're going to see if we can make peace between [9:04] lebanon and israel because there was a group of bishops that did put out a statement saying the [9:09] pope is nearly exercising his opinion he's preaching the gospel and what do you say to people that do [9:14] well i want them to preach the gospel i'm all about the gospel but i also know that [9:19] you cannot let a certain country which is a very mean-spirited country have a nuclear weapon if they [9:25] did they would use it and i think they'd use it quickly and they would kill many millions of people [9:30] so you know the pope could disagree with me on that but certainly we're allowed to have that [9:35] i'm all about the gospel i'm about it as much as anybody can be but i can't allow as president of [9:41] the united states of america i can't allow iran to have a nuclear weapon and here's the story [9:47] they won't have they've already agreed not to have that's good news and i think the pope will be [9:52] very happy [9:53] the federal reserve should wait and see about this iran war before lowering interest rates [10:00] do you agree with that no i don't agree i think we should have lower interest [10:05] iran's going to execute four more protesters accordingly including the first woman protester [10:10] what do you tell you well tell that to the pope what did you say tell that to the pope [10:16] that iran is going to is that is that you just hear that iran is going to [10:21] execute four people including [10:28] i don't know if we're going to have to but we if we need to i would do that [10:33] it's about half what people thought it would be if you did what i had to do we had to take this [10:47] journey to the middle east in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon there would have been if we didn't [10:52] hit it with the b2 bombers or if i didn't kill the barack hussein obama deal the nuclear deal which was a [10:58] disaster we would have had nuclear weapons exploding in the middle east and beyond [11:04] i believe i've been able to stop that i think we have a very successful negotiation going on right [11:09] now and i think it'll be if it happens it'll be announced fairly soon and that'll give us [11:17] free oil free harmos straight everything will be nice and i think your oil price will go down to [11:23] lower than what it was before and i think a lot of good things will happen just for clarity you're [11:30] willing to extend the ceasefire we'll see i don't know that will happen ideally what but if i needed [11:35] to i would say that if i need people love you so much what do you say that if i need people love you [11:39] so much what's your message for them and do you will visit lebanon after that i will do this [11:45] at the right time i would certainly go there you think there's war in ukraine you know putin doesn't [11:50] want to stop it apparently he's bombing ukraine do you think this war has the potential to go on [11:54] for years more well it should have been it should have never started if i were president the war in [12:00] ukraine never would have started with russia uh but it's uh it's going on hopefully it'll get over [12:05] soon last week and said she had no link to jeffrey epstein who did the first lady melania she had none [12:11] why did she come out and say that because uh the fake news was saying she did and she had none and [12:16] i think that's been proven uh it bothered her that the fake news was being fake news that's all [12:22] she just wanted to clarify who's taking care of hezbollah do you think that they are destroying the [12:27] deal that you're trying to we're going to see how it all works out but they'll be working and [12:31] coordinating if you know you know lebanon right so they'll be working with as well [12:37] are you still interested in acquiring iranian oil what are you still interested in acquiring iranian [12:44] oil after well we'll see i mean we have a very good relationship with iran right now as hard as it [12:50] is to believe and i think it's a combination of about uh four weeks of bombing and a very powerful [12:57] blockade the blockade is maybe more powerful than the bombing if you want to know the two [13:02] are you going to make the arab countries pay a portion of all of the costs i think they'll [13:08] make that i think they're going to make that contribution i think i think the arab countries [13:13] because we've done a lot i think they'd make a contribution toward the course [13:25] not been involved [13:28] you're going to see what happens but i think we're very close to making a deal with iran [13:36] you'll be the first to know but i think we're we have a chance and if that happens oil goes way [13:42] down prices go way down inflation goes way down and you're going to have much more importantly than [13:48] even that you won't have nuclear holocaust [14:05] i would be foolish not to i mean if we're close to a deal would extend yeah i would do that but [14:10] we're close to a deal we're getting along very well with the new iranian leaders it really is a [14:15] regime change these are people that are a lot different than we were dealing with at the beginning [14:21] as you know they're no longer around they're no longer with us but uh we have a very good [14:26] relationship and i think there's a very good chance we're going to make a deal also israel and lebanon [14:32] i think there's a good chance that they'll make a good deal so [14:38] overnight attack on kiev they killed i think it's terrible [14:42] because of china are you going to send any captain of the member to china before your [14:46] opposite well i have a great relationship as you know with president xi and i look forward to being [14:51] there we have a very special relationship so i look forward to being in china thank you mr [14:59] president you impose sanctions on rwanda because they keep violating the washington [15:03] of course but president adam just said he don't care about sanctions and he said [15:08] he will not withdraw from pongo his troop will continue in pongo what is your reaction to that [15:13] we look into it very strongly but they do have very big sanctions there was a there was a g20 meeting [15:19] in washington today why did you invite poland instead of south africa well poland's a great [15:25] country we like it a lot we're friends with poland the president is doing a great job so we invite [15:32] i saw your social posts about bruce blakeman in new york he's being denied up to seven million dollars [15:42] of public campaign funds in new york by partisan democrats have you seen that and what's your [15:47] reaction to it i can just tell you this bruce blakeman is running for governor he will be a great [15:53] governor if he wins i don't know that he wins or not because it's new york and you know people cheat [15:58] on elections and a lot of other things but bruce blakeman is a great great gentleman as you know [16:04] he comes from nassau county which is a democrat area and he wins by a landslide all the time [16:10] and if bruce blakeman gets in your taxes are going to go way down and a lot of good things are going [16:15] to happen including cleanliness and all of the things that you want to see i know him very well [16:22] he's been a great leader a great even though it's largely democrat he wins in a landslide [16:30] everybody loves him he's a very talented guy very great politician and i think he probably has a [16:36] chance if bruce blakeman gets in your taxes are going way down and you know what else is going down [16:42] crime with access to classified stuff nuclear material aerospace they've all gone missing or [16:52] turned up dead in the last couple months based on what you've been briefed what do you think is [16:57] happening here and do you think that this is connected or totally random well i hope it's random [17:02] but we're going to know in the next week and a half i just left the meeting on that subject so [17:07] pretty serious stuff but we're going to be now hopefully i don't know coincidence if you want [17:13] it whatever you want to call it but some of them were very important people and we're going to look [17:18] at it over the next day it's impossible that some foreign uh adversary is in the united states to open [17:24] these people up well you know by dead open borders it wasn't very hard to get here but we've gotten [17:30] many of them out you know we've caught many many people many many very bad people including [17:36] thousands of drug lords that we've taken out of our country hundreds of thousands of prisoners that [17:44] were led into the u.s that we've taken out of our country as far as the scientists are concerned [17:50] we'll probably have a pretty good answer over the next week and what's the new thoughts that we have [17:54] does it have to be a big deal all at once or would you accept a little deal to start well i have a [18:01] little deal i can make a little i want to get it done and get back to uh keep keep going with long [18:08] you know our pricing is doing great as soon as the war is over we're going to be lower than we were two or [18:13] three years ago so i want to get back to that i want we had to do something we had to make sure that [18:19] iran never gets a nuclear weapon and we're at that they've agreed to that they've totally agreed [18:24] to that they've agreed to almost everything so maybe if they can get to the table there's a [18:30] difference they agree they're going to get to the table with a pen we'll have that over with and then [18:36] we could focus on our great economy and also you know i inherited the highest prices in the history of [18:42] our country the worst inflation in the history of our country i'll get it down to a very low number [18:47] we had it to a very low number and it's still low but the most important thing right now is to make [18:53] sure iran can never have a nuclear would you want to go to pakistan to seal the deal yourself i would [19:00] i would go to pakistan yeah pakistan has been great they've been so good islamabad i'll be i might go [19:07] yeah if the deal is signed in islamabad i might go the field marshal has been great the prime minister [19:14] has been really great in pakistan so i make good they want me the first lady last week called on [19:20] congress to further look into and uncover the truth on the epstein files the epstein saga do you [19:27] believe that there should be a public hearing for more of these epstein survivors i'm okay with it i [19:32] think we've had a lot of public hearings i'm okay with it but i understand that the women didn't want [19:37] to go under oath that's what i heard that the women the victims or whatever they refused to go under [19:44] oath which was a little surprising so melania felt strongly about it because she was accused of that [19:51] i met her through up to it but it turned out to be totally false it was a false question sorry don't [19:57] these these fires also include iraq and reason are we talking about the one with uh lebanon lebanon iraq and [20:07] uh hope so we just made a deal with lebanon as of two hours from now we have a ceasefire with israel [20:14] and lebanon and that'll be great and they'll be meeting probably coming to the white house over the [20:19] next four or five days that'll be the first time they've met in 44 years which is pretty unneighborly [20:27] we're considering the neighbors but there's a really good chance that that'll work out with [20:32] lebanon and israel i met with uh through the telephone with the president of lebanon who's a [20:39] really good guy highly respected and we're leaving and i think there's a chance we'll be meeting right [20:45] here what's going to be the difference this time me big difference me [21:03] uh states like virginia uh new york democratic states are looking at raising taxes is that going [21:10] to take away from the tax cuts what's happening no because you know no tax on tips i'm going over [21:15] no tax on tips today that's why i'm going to nevada i'm going to arizona but this is sort of a no [21:21] tax on tips what's happening is people are finding out that in their tax return they're getting a big [21:26] refund much bigger than they thought so it's no tax on tips no tax on social security no tax on [21:33] overtime wait wait wait i think it's going to be amazing but if you look at what they're doing in [21:39] new york in california they're raising taxes and they're driving people out it's a serious [21:45] australia has really just announced that it's increasing its defense spending to three percent [21:50] you've been asking for 3.5 percent uh are you satisfied and we're going to see what happens but [21:55] on defense spending look we built the greatest military anywhere in the world there's nobody even [22:00] close all you have to do is take a look i mean i'm all the way i'm all the way in the back [22:13] the bombs the bombs are powerful and it weakened them they have no navy they have no air force they [22:18] have no anything they have no leaders but they're new leaders the ones that have replaced them it's a [22:24] regime change they are much more i think frankly more intelligent and more moderate but uh we have a real [22:32] chance to make a deal very soon with iraq on australia mr president you asked for three and a half percent [22:42] increase like five percent you did with nato australia has only gone to three percent are you satisfied [22:48] with that decision would you i'm not happy with australia because they were not because they were not [22:53] there when we asked them to be there so australia australia was another one they were not there [22:58] having to do with harmoze the harmless what do you mean by i'm not happy i'm not happy [23:03] i'm not happy but why specifically do you still have a good relationship with the prime minister [23:08] what message do you think the principal level sent to the uk and other european allies who chose not to [23:14] get involved in the war well you know we we spend trillions and trillions of dollars on nato [23:20] and when i asked them to get involved in a much smaller situation which is harmoze and iran [23:28] they weren't there for us remember what i said they weren't there none of them they weren't there [23:34] so we were there on ukraine i mean we shouldn't have been it would have never happened if i were [23:37] president but nevertheless when they've had problems over the years we were there when we asked them to [23:43] get involved on a very minor skirmish by comparison to what it could be they weren't there so i don't [23:49] think they'd be there for a large skirmish and therefore i think they've got themselves a problem [23:54] so that the democrat party is no longer the party of the working class and the republican [24:06] party under your leadership action i love this question this is the greatest guy look how handsome [24:11] he is what a great guy he is yes the democrats don't know what they're doing they want to tax [24:17] everybody out of business they want men playing in women's sports they don't want voter id they don't [24:23] know what they're doing we've had we've had an unbelievable run and the people getting their tax [24:29] returns and they're coming back and they're ending up getting five six seven thousand dollars more than [24:34] they thought they thought possible [24:39] do you think he was being disrespectful to you i don't think about it that way the pope has to [24:49] understand that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and the pope has to understand that you can't let a [24:55] country kill 42 000 protesters totally unarmed protesters you can't do that so uh the pope you know i [25:04] know his brother his brother's maga all the way you know that lewis is a great guy but the pope has [25:10] to understand you're not allowed to kill 42 000 protesters who are totally unarmed and you cannot [25:17] let iran have a nuclear weapon or the entire world could be gone and you know when the pope realizes that [25:24] i think we'll have a different [25:26] you can keep it in line here [25:29] energy problems mean that europeans should be buying more gas and oil from the united states [25:34] well they should be buying more from us and what they should be doing is using the north sea i can [25:38] tell you uk i've been telling that to your prime minister the uk should open up the north sea of one [25:45] of the greatest in the world and they should use it instead of buying oil from norway and other places [25:51] that use the same source they should use it and they're not doing it they're doing windmills and [25:56] windows windmills do one thing you know what they do put you out of business [26:04] regional leaders about the peace deal or the peace talks about with everybody we're dealing with all [26:09] of the leaders on many different subjects we're very close to a deal with iran