President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Palm Beach, FL, Nov. 8, 2026

[0:01] President Trump Jr.: Hello, everybody. [0:03] So we did a lot over the weekend. [0:06] We had very good talks on Ukraine and Russia. [0:09] And as you know, we have a meeting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi. [0:14] It actually started today, [0:15] but pretty much tomorrow and Tuesday. [0:18] And we're working very hard to end that Russian-Ukraine [0:21] nightmare where so many people get killed. [0:25] On the Iran thing, we haven't had anybody killed [0:27] in seven, six months. [0:29] It's a different war. [0:31] So in Russia and Ukraine, [0:33] they're losing 25,000 mostly soldiers every month. [0:37] You haven't had one person from the United States, [0:41] a U.S. soldier, killed for six months, [0:44] maybe even more than that, [0:46] having to do with Iran. [0:49] So we are — and they will never have a nuclear weapon. [0:52] And they understand that, and they've acknowledged that. [0:55] Okay, questions? [0:56] The Press Press.: Mr. President, [0:57] what made you suggest Dana White? [0:58] And are you serious about it, or are you kidding around? [1:01] The President Trump Jr.: Well, if you looked at it, [1:02] you saw the assistance I put. [1:04] I posted the greatest wrestlers [1:07] and UFC fighters in the world, right? [1:11] Like Khabib, like Justin Gaethje, who's phenomenal. [1:16] And you see a lot of rough faces there. [1:19] And you would have thought that people would have said, [1:21] he's having a good time. [1:22] I will tell you, I was only kidding. [1:26] Dana loves the idea. [1:27] And there's only one day, and he's great. [1:29] I don't know. [1:30] He would be — you wouldn't mess around with him so much. [1:33] But so, I was kidding, of course. [1:37] When you look at the fighters that I put in, [1:40] that's why I said some don't come from our country. [1:43] They come from parts unknown. [1:46] They come from a lot of areas that are very rough areas. [1:50] But — so I was kidding. [1:53] But I think Dana likes the idea. [1:56] And he is a very capable guy. [1:57] So he's actually coming tomorrow. [1:59] Of course, I was kidding. [2:00] And you could see that because I put all of the great fighters [2:03] as his assistants, that they're all going to come with him. [2:07] But it was just a little fun. [2:09] But Dana is actually coming tomorrow. [2:12] Actually, on other — for other reasons. [2:14] I think he was going to be in Washington. [2:16] So he's going to come over and see me. [2:19] That was an example of something where I was kidding. [2:22] And then people said, you know, that's actually a pretty good idea. [2:24] Yeah, go ahead. [2:25] The Pressure President, the video is investigating [2:27] Jensen Huang's relationship with a Chinese spy. [2:29] Have you spoken to Jensen Huang today? [2:31] I have not spoken to him about it. [2:33] I just know he's a fine person. [2:34] But you never know what is going on. [2:38] I'm sure — I hope everything's fine then. [2:40] He's done such an incredible job. [2:42] And so I would certainly hope — he's a fine person, in my opinion. [2:47] The Pressure President, do you wish that you had acted on the intelligence [2:49] when you were briefed about this spy last year? [2:51] The President, you know, I think he's an honorable guy. [2:53] I think he probably has an excuse for it. [2:57] You have to hear it. [2:58] No, you can't do that with people. [2:59] He's done an amazing job for our country. [3:04] You know, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. [3:06] We have the highest stock market. [3:07] Now, we did, right after the election — I was not on the ballot — but right after the election, [3:15] we did lose $3 trillion — the highest number ever. [3:19] which tells you that the market considers the Democrats to be a disaster. [3:25] A 401 case went down — only because of the Democrats, not because of Republicans, to me. [3:30] But the market went down at a level that, I guess, almost hasn't been seen before. [3:35] But it's coming back because the next day, we announced unbelievable job and growth numbers. [3:41] Should he stay on his CEO in the video? [3:45] I think so. Oh, yes, sure. [3:47] Mr. President, is he going to go with you on your trip to Asia next week? [3:50] I don't know, but I'd certainly take him. [3:52] I mean, we'd have to find. [3:53] I haven't heard he's done anything wrong. [3:55] He dealt with somebody, but, you know, so does — so does everybody else. [3:59] Mr. President, Democrats say they want to impeach RFK Jr. and Pete Hegstat. [4:03] How do you feel about that? [4:05] They've got to get back to the country. [4:06] You know, you saw what happened last week with the $3 trillion — $3 trillion with the team. [4:12] They've got to get back. [4:12] These are two very fine people. [4:14] RFK Jr. was a Democrat or two. [4:17] And he's had those views and the views on all of the things that he's been doing. [4:22] And he's a very popular guy. [4:23] A lot of people agree. [4:25] And Pete Hegstat — so he wins two wars. [4:28] We won in Venezuela. [4:30] We've taken out hundreds of billions of dollars. [4:32] We won in 48 minutes. [4:35] And we won in Iran. [4:36] We won that in Iran. [4:37] It's just a question of closing it out now or later. [4:40] You may wait. [4:42] The — some of the neighbors would prefer that we just keep it the way it is. [4:47] Again, we haven't lost anybody. [4:49] No soldiers have been lost. [4:51] If you look at Vietnam and if you look at all these others, there were for many years [4:55] with thousands, tens of thousands of people killed — soldiers — with us. [5:00] So we've gone two wars. [5:03] We've lost — and by the way, one is too many. [5:06] But we've lost 18 soldiers in two wars. [5:09] And the one war is seven months. [5:12] The other one was 58 — 48 minutes. [5:15] And we made a fortune on Venezuela. [5:18] We've taken out, again, billions and billions — many times what we paid for the war. [5:23] And we're getting along great with Venezuela. [5:25] And Venezuela is doing well because all of a sudden they have big activity. [5:30] But with Iran, they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. [5:34] They had the JC — if you look at what, you know, the Obama deal — the Obama nuclear deal. [5:43] That was a road to a nuclear weapon. [5:45] It was a terrible deal. [5:48] So I ended that. [5:49] And then we hit them with the B-2 bombers. [5:51] And we made it impossible for them to get their nuclear dust. [5:56] So what you say about Pete Hexen — I mean, he's guilty of two things. [6:00] Basically, winning two wars. [6:02] And the second war, we knocked out their nuclear capacity and probably saved Israel [6:07] and probably saved the Middle East. [6:10] I believe we saved the Middle East and Israel combined. [6:13] And it's awfully hard to say, let's impeach somebody who did that. [6:16] Because if you look at Afghanistan and if you look at Iraq and if you look at Vietnam [6:24] and all these wars that we fight — you know, those people, if they're going to do it to [6:30] beat Excess, what about — think about it. [6:32] We had a war in Venezuela, which everyone said, don't do. [6:38] China was involved. [6:39] Every — China left. [6:41] We took it over. [6:43] It's doing great. [6:44] It was a big victory. [6:45] It lasted less than hours — 48 minutes. [6:48] Then we have a war in Iran. [6:49] We blew up their nuclear dust. [6:51] They're not going to have nuclear weapons. [6:53] And we saved Israel and the Middle East. [6:55] If they would have had it, there would be no Israel right now. [6:58] There would be no Middle East. [7:00] And what are we going to do with one of the guys that was most responsible? [7:04] They want to impeach him. [7:06] They have to go back and — why didn't they impeach Lloyd Austin when he was missing [7:10] an action for two weeks, right? [7:12] And — and resided over one of the worst things anyone's ever seen — 13 dead, hundreds killed [7:21] at the airport, the Afghanistan — [7:24] On Israel. [7:25] On Israel. [7:26] What's your reaction to Gadi Asikov being tasked with forming a new government? [7:29] Well, he's — you know, they're both fighting for that. [7:33] They're very similar in terms of their policy and their view. [7:38] And I guess he's said very nice things about me. [7:41] He says he loves Trump. [7:43] But I don't know. [7:44] I haven't seen what's happening. [7:45] But it's certainly a contest between him and Bibi Netanyahu. [7:50] We'll see what happens. [7:50] Whoever — they have very similar views. [7:52] They're both strong on what I do. [7:55] Mr. President, do you think that next week you're going to have a trilateral meeting [7:58] with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping? [8:00] Well, I'm going to be going to China — he's just left here. [8:03] And one of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi. [8:09] And that'll be interesting. [8:10] We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearization. [8:13] But we'll be talking a lot of things. [8:15] We're trying to end the war in Iran. [8:17] And we're doing well because, you know, all we have to do — we're choking it off. [8:21] We have Operation Iron Gate that just went into effect. [8:26] That means nothing comes in by land. [8:28] And as you know, the naval blockade — nothing comes in by water. [8:33] So we have it very well blocked off. [8:35] And they're not paying their soldiers. [8:37] They're not paying their guard. [8:40] They have 301 percent inflation. [8:43] They have no money. [8:46] And they're not doing well. [8:47] And at some point, they're going to be reasonable. [8:49] Now, I could go in and blow them up right now. [8:52] The problem with that is you'll never be able to rebuild it. [8:54] If I blow up the bridges and the power plants — the thing that takes — is the hardest to rebuild [9:01] are the big bridges. [9:01] The big mountainous terrain and they're connected by bridges. [9:06] And it would take them years. [9:09] It would take them 10, 12, 15 years to rebuild. [9:12] Also, power plants. [9:13] Second is power plants. [9:15] The thing that's second hardest is power — to rebuild that. [9:19] That puts an awfully big burden on the people. [9:21] I don't like that. [9:21] The President. [9:22] The President, U.S. Central Command is putting out a reward for information [9:26] about Iran moving their nuclear materials. [9:28] Do you have information? [9:29] Is that a concern? [9:30] No, it's just — no. [9:31] If they are, we want to know about it. [9:33] And we'll take them out. [9:34] But we have not — we have not seen it. [9:36] You know, through Space Force, which I created in my first — we're able to read the [9:42] patch — your name — right over here. [9:45] We're able to see anything. [9:47] We know exactly what's going with Pickaxe Mountain, as an example. [9:50] We never hit Pickaxe because there was no activity there. [9:53] But we could do that in five minutes if we needed to. [9:56] Has Jimmy Vance's comments about Iran questioning [10:00] some of those decisions. [10:01] Has that impacted your relationship at all? [10:03] No, not at all. [10:04] But a lot of people didn't like his comments. [10:06] But not me. [10:08] He was right. [10:09] Other than one thing, he should have made one other statement. [10:11] One statement that I think is very important. [10:14] If you had it to do again, would you do it again? [10:16] The answer is yes. [10:18] I can tell you, if I had it to do again, this historically, for history, [10:22] will go down as one of the best things we ever did. [10:25] Because if they ever had a nuclear weapon, [10:28] they would blow up the world. [10:29] You know why? [10:29] Because they're crazy. [10:31] Thank you very much, everybody. [10:32] The President, Mr. President, [10:33] we want them to investigate — get donors. [10:36] Are they going to get donors? [10:39] That'd be terrible. [10:40] Well, then we'll investigate their donors. [10:42] Because their donors did bad things. [10:45] Okay, thank you. [10:46] Thank you very much. [10:47] Thank you.