President Trump Holds a Press Conference, Jun. 17, 2026

[0:08] Thank you. That's a lot of press. That's good. We had a very, we had a great event. This was [0:14] something very special. And I want to thank President Macron and Brigitte, his really lovely [0:22] wife, fantastic person, for welcoming us to France for an extremely successful G7 summit. I would say [0:31] it's one of the most successful. And this meeting could not have come at a better time. On Sunday, [0:37] we reached an agreement with Iran that achieves everything we set out to accomplish, everything [0:43] and much more. Ending the current conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and preventing [0:50] Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. That's what it was all about. That was about [0:56] 99 percent. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They can't develop it, buy it. They can never [1:03] have a nuclear weapon. At the same time, with this announcement, or close to it, as people [1:10] started to think it was going to happen, when Iran was making some very positive statements. [1:17] The stock market has surged to record highs, picking up thousands of points over the last [1:22] short period of time. Thousands of points. And oil is dropping like it has never dropped [1:30] before at levels. It went in numbers, down seven dollars, down eight dollars. They've never [1:40] seen anything like that. But if we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs [1:46] for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years. You would never have the Hormuz [1:53] straight open. You would never have success. Your market would have, instead of going up [2:00] at levels that nobody's ever seen before, would go down at levels that nobody ever saw before, [2:05] maybe except for 1929 or whatever. And you know, all the tough guys. Tough guys don't [2:11] realize that this wasn't a three-month deal. This was years in the making. You know why? [2:17] Because I was the one that killed General Soleimani. And if I didn't kill General Soleimani, we probably [2:23] wouldn't be talking right now about this deal, because he was a mad genius. They never were [2:31] able to replace him. But a lot of people forget that. The tough guys, you know, the tough guys [2:37] that would drive the country right down the tubes. The past two days have provided a chance [2:43] to discuss the details of this historic agreement with many of our closest friends and allies, [2:49] including the G7 nations and many presidents and prime ministers, as you saw. Prime Minister [2:54] Modi was here. We had a long talk. He's a great guy. They are thrilled that we made a deal. [3:00] Every one of them. There's not one nation that came to us and said, please, sir, keep dropping [3:06] bombs on them. Please keep dropping bombs. Stupid people say that. But I'm thrilled to [3:13] report. And by the way, those last two days were brutal. $200 million worth of bombs. And [3:21] you know, it is expensive, too, by the way, aside from everything else. And they knew I was [3:26] coming for a third night. We informed them we're coming for a third night. They didn't have [3:31] their Navy. It sunk. They didn't have their Air Force. It's gone. Not one plane. They didn't [3:36] have anti-aircraft equipment. So we got free reign. They didn't have their leaders. But [3:43] they have a new group of leaders that I think is, actually, I think they're smarter. I think [3:49] they're very smart. I think they're far less radicalized. And I think they're, I think they're [3:56] really good. They love their country. You know, you talk about regime change. Nobody will say [4:02] that. But I guess that's, look, one set of leaders is all gone. The second set of leaders [4:09] is all gone. Their third set of leaders is a little bit gone. But for the most part, [4:14] and frankly, I think that's regime change. I think they're going to behave much differently. [4:19] I think they see a different way of life that they were never exposed to. So the one thing [4:26] I didn't want to see is I didn't want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, [4:32] that could have happened. But all I know is every time we talked about the possibility of [4:37] peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship. It never went down. They didn't like [4:42] it. The people, you know, the stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including [4:49] the people on the stage other than me, of course. Let's see. I don't know. What do you think, [4:55] Scott? Is the stock market more brilliant than you? [4:58] Oh, that's a terrible statement. All right. The stock market is quite brilliant. And every time [5:07] we said something amazing, like we're going to settle, it would go up. And every time we said [5:14] something negative, like guess what? We're not going to be able to settle. It would go down very [5:19] big, Peter. Very, very big. Tells you something. And you know, I've studied presidents, [5:26] some good, some bad, some great. Not too many are great. And some really bad. We had one just [5:35] recently. And the one president I did not want to be was the late, great Herbert Hoover. I didn't want [5:43] that. And who knows what would have happened. But bad things happened. So the past two days have [5:49] provided a chance to discuss the details of the deal with the closest friends and allies, heads of [5:56] countries. They were all here, a lot of them, far more than the seven, as you know, a lot of them. [6:03] And they put out a statement. I think President Macron, who did a great job, by the way, [6:08] did a really fan, him and Bridget, they did a great job. But they all put out statements saying [6:14] they love this deal because they want to see it over. And they love the fact that the hormones, [6:22] don't forget, if we were going to drop bombs, let's say we went another month, [6:27] another two, three months, maybe weeks, could be another three months, could be whatever. [6:34] What do you have left? That may be nothing. But you don't have the straight will never be open. [6:41] Because people that own billion dollar ships, these ships cost a billion dollars. They don't like [6:46] sailing ships or having their ships participate. When you go up the coast and you go through the [6:53] strait and there are rockets flying over your head. They want to protect their billion dollar [7:00] investment. You wouldn't have oil for maybe years. These are stupid people. But nobody was tougher than [7:08] me. Nobody hit Soleimani. And when I hit Soleimani, people thought that was the biggest thing to happen [7:14] in the Middle East for 50 years. That was the biggest event. He was the boss of Iran and respected, [7:22] but he was a mad genius. He was a genius. The father of the roadside bomb. When you see [7:29] young men, and in some cases, women, mostly men, walking around without legs, without arms, [7:37] with a face that's been blown to smithereens. It's Soleimani, 95%. 96.2, they say, or something. [7:43] 95%. That was Soleimani did it. Happened to come from Iran and I blew him up. You remember that? I blew him up [7:53] in the valley of death. He got off his plane and we followed him. And in all fairness, because they've [8:00] been wonderful to me, Israel, but they didn't want to do that attack. They were all set. The night [8:06] before the attack then for me, they didn't want to do it. So I had to make a decision. I made the [8:11] decision to do it. But they were, it was a joint venture, as we say in the real estate business. [8:17] That was a joint venture between Israel and us. We studied for a month. We knew what plane he was going [8:23] to be on almost a month before. He only traveled on commercial airliners, big ones with lots of [8:27] people because he knew we wouldn't shoot him down. They're very smart. But we knew he was going to be [8:33] on that plane. We followed him. And then Israel informed me that they won't do it. And I had to [8:40] make a decision. I had some very good generals and not the ones you see on television. Very good. [8:46] And I want to thank also Pete Hegseth and General Raisin Cain, who's phenomenal. Okay. These guys are [8:52] phenomenal. They can't be better. But I had some good generals and I said to him, well, [8:57] if Israel's not going to do it, we're all prepared. Do we do it? Do you like doing it or not? He said, [9:04] sure. If you want to do it, we can do it. How well? We'll do it just as well or better. [9:08] Do it ourselves. We don't need anybody. So we took out Soleimani. One of the biggest events to happen, [9:17] the Middle East, maybe ever, but they say 50 years, they say 100 years. [9:20] And I was with the prime minister of Pakistan. He said, it's maybe the biggest event that has [9:27] ever taken place in his lab. Nobody could believe it. So that's when it started. It didn't start like [9:32] three or four or five weeks ago. And Obama wouldn't do it. What Obama did was he did the JCPOA. He loaded [9:42] up a plane with $1,700,000,000 in green cash from banks all over Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. [9:52] They were stripped of all their cash. They had no cash to do payrolls. It all went into a Boeing 757, [9:59] a wonderful plane, and they flew it to Iran. And they gave it out to people. They bribed people. [10:05] They thought they were going to get it done. Then they gave billions and billions of dollars after [10:10] that. And they got a deal that was a road to a nuclear weapon. I get so angry, I guess I'm allowed [10:16] to get angry when I watch these, the Democrats, they talk about it all the time. We had this deal done. [10:22] They had a deal that was going to give them legally a nuclear weapon. And if that happened, [10:28] Israel would have been blown away. And in all fairness to Bibi Netanyahu, who happens to be [10:33] a good man, gets a little excited sometimes. But he happens to be a very good man. We've had an [10:39] amazing partnership. He's been an amazing prime minister. We have a little dispute over Lebanon. [10:45] And I say, you can do a little softer touch, Bibi. You don't have to knock down a building [10:49] every time somebody walks into it that's from Hezbollah. But it's been an amazing partnership. [10:55] But he will say we're the big partner and he's the very small partner. And that's true. [11:00] So he came to the country and he begged Barack Hussein Obama, the president, not to do the JCPOA. [11:10] He said it could be the end of Israel. And it would have been if I didn't come along. And [11:16] Obama didn't listen to him. Bibi actually went to Congress and pleaded with them. And he got nowhere. [11:22] And they had this horrible deal that was horrible for Israel, horrible for Israel. And that's where [11:31] it stood. And then I came along and I terminated that deal. It had very little time left. You know, [11:37] it was a short term deal. You know, with countries, you need hundreds of years. You don't need [11:42] eight years and nine years. This isn't like you're signing a lease on a candy store in the corner. [11:47] You need hundreds of years. This was a short term lease. It expired long ago. Had I let it run, [11:54] it expired. You wouldn't have been around. A lot of people wouldn't have been around. [11:57] But Israel would have been terminated. I think the whole Middle East would have been terminated. You [12:01] saw that when everybody was shocked that all these missiles, they were aimed at these different [12:07] places. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE. Think of it. Bahrain, Kuwait. They got hit. Nobody thought that was, [12:17] even I didn't think it was going to happen. They didn't think it was going to happen. They were going to [12:22] take out the entire Middle East, including Israel. And if they had a nuclear weapon, [12:27] they would have used it within moments after getting it. So I made it very tough for them when [12:34] I terminated the Barack Hussein Obama catastrophe. JCPOA, one of the worst deals. NAFTA might have been [12:43] worse, but that was worse economically. This deal was really dangerous, what he did. He gave them [12:49] everything, including a lot of money, which we don't give them, by the way, just in case you have [12:53] any question. We'll be giving this out so you can read it and you can see. And it's a memorandum of [12:59] understanding. If it doesn't get done in 60 days, that's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, [13:04] I don't want to do that because it's so good. But we might have to, because we're never going to let [13:10] them have a nuclear weapon. But they've agreed not to. And you'll see that very clearly in the agreement. [13:16] But then the second phase of that was they were building, or they were enriching material, [13:22] as they say. I call it nuclear dust. They were enriching material under granite mountains. [13:27] Granite being, for those not in the construction business, granite being a very strong, the strongest [13:33] stone. It's not as pretty as marble, but it's much more, it's much stronger. It's a lot stronger. [13:41] Like the new granite I put on the stairs of the White House going to the Oval Office, the black granite, [13:48] it's rated 1 million years plus. No marbles rated that. Marbles rated 100 years if it's outside. [13:56] So these are granite mountains. And the B-2s came along and they hit those air shafts in the dark [14:03] at 1 o'clock in the morning with no moon. They had a beam going right up everywhere. Those guys did a [14:08] job. And then they were criticized by certain members of the press, like CNN, for possibly not doing that [14:15] much damage. And it turned out that the damage was far greater. Those mountains collapsed right [14:21] on top of everything. Nobody's going to get that for a long time. Unless we want to get it, we'll get [14:25] it. But we're the only ones that can. And they say China has the equipment to get it, and we have the [14:30] equipment to get it. And it's actually not valuable. Not a lot of value, but we'd like to get it [14:36] psychologically. But nobody's touching it. We also have cameras. That's what Space Force is. We have the [14:41] best. We have the greatest military in the world, by the way. But I'm proud of Space Force, because [14:45] I started it. We have Space Force cameras on every single door. Well, there are no doors. They've [14:52] been pretty well shattered. But every area of that area. If somebody walks in and he's got a badge with [14:58] his name on it, like Mohammed something, which is about a 50-50 guess, Mohammed something, they can tell [15:05] the name. They can give you a serial number. We can see things. You wouldn't believe the quality of the [15:12] stuff that we have. That's why we've been so successful. That's why our blockade [15:17] will go down to the annals of history as being unbelievable. Nobody's ever seen a blockade like [15:22] that. It's like a steel wall. So what happened is we then terminated that. And I call it the nuclear [15:30] dust. And that was the end of that. But if we didn't hit that with the B-2 bombers, or if it wasn't [15:36] successful, they would have had a nuclear weapon, a nuclear bomb, at a very high level, not the highest, [15:42] but it would have been a very high level. We have much bigger. But we hope that we're never going [15:47] to have to use it. We have the most. Russia has second. China is very far behind, but going to [15:54] catch up. Unfortunately, you know, they're catching up. But we have the most. We have the most powerful, [16:00] but we also have the most. But Russia is not far behind. And then you have China in third place, [16:06] but within five years, they'll be probably even. And we ought to make a denuclearization deal. [16:12] It'd be so great. We don't need all of that. We don't need to be able to blow up the whole world [16:19] 300 times over. It's terrible. Really, if we could do a de-nuke deal, I'd love it. And [16:27] one of those two is very willing to do it, I will tell you. But the other one is less willing to do [16:32] it. And you need all of them. So the deal we reached with Iran on Sunday will be signed shortly, [16:41] tomorrow, maybe the next day. I think, you know, subject deals. All my, my whole life is all about [16:45] deals. That's all I ever did is make deals. And crazy things happen with deals. I've gone [16:52] into deals where it's a guarantee. No way it can not be signed. And it doesn't get signed. [16:59] And I've gone into deals that you have no chance of making. And they go like nothing. So, [17:04] but we're going to most likely sign a deal. They want to sign a deal. And they've been acting very [17:12] appropriately. They took a big two hits last week. Those were two very big hits. So [17:19] importantly, Iran has agreed that they will neither produce nor procure a nuclear weapon. Neither [17:25] produce. Because originally they said, they talk about that, that they will not develop a nuclear [17:32] weapon. And some people found it okay. These guys didn't, in all fairness. But some people, [17:36] but I didn't like it. Said it won't develop. I said, what happens if they should buy? I don't know. It's [17:40] pretty, very dangerous for somebody to sell because whoever sells them a nuclear weapon will get nuked [17:46] themselves. If they sold a nuclear weapon, if only a few they could do it, they would be nuked. [17:52] They wouldn't have that country long. So it's a very dangerous thing for somebody to do. But I [17:57] wanted it in there. So it's develop, procure, buy anything. And you'll see that when you see the [18:06] agreement. But it's appropriate that we release the agreement. And we did send a copy to Israel, [18:10] by the way. They've been a good partner. Again, I think they could do better with respect to [18:17] Hezbollah. I'm not saying they shouldn't protect themselves. I'm saying when two drones are shot [18:25] into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don't have to knock down buildings in Beirut. They could [18:32] behave better. And frankly, they could do a better job. I love them as a partner. They were terrific. [18:40] But they could do a much better job with Hezbollah on that. I don't think they're doing well. And I [18:46] feel very bad for Lebanon. Lebanon's been, you know, it was a great culture. It was great. They had [18:51] the professors, the doctors, the lawyers. It was an incredible culture, maybe the highest in the [18:56] Middle East for years and years, centuries. And for the last 50, 60 years, they have been just trashed. [19:05] They have been, they have been living in hell. So they'll work closely with us to turn over the so-called [19:14] enriched material that's very deep in the bowels of the earth. Very deep. Nobody can get it. So it's not [19:21] important that we do it quickly, but we could do it fairly quickly. When we have a chance, [19:25] we'll do it. But in the meantime, we have cameras on every inch of it. Nobody can do it. And if they [19:30] do, we'll hit them with Patriots. That's all. And they'll be gone. And they know that. Technical [19:36] discussions on the removal of all stockpiles of enriched materials will begin [19:40] immediately. We're going to start that immediately. And unlike Barack Hussein Obama, who sent [19:47] Iran pallets of cash and any relief they receive under this deal, they'll have to get based on [19:53] merit. And it won't be from us. We don't have to give them anything. But some people may want to [19:57] invest. Like, what are you going to do? Say you can never, ever invest in a country? I mean, it's [20:02] pretty tough. I don't mind being tough, but it's pretty crazy. You can invest in a country. You can [20:09] invest in any country you want, but you can't invest there. Well, they need investment because [20:15] we did a trillion and a half, maybe two trillion dollars worth of damage. So somebody is going to [20:20] have to help them out. There's no guarantee about helping them out and could be their neighbors will [20:26] help them out a little bit. I don't know. But it's a lot of money. Almost nobody has that kind of [20:31] money. That's the kind of damage that was done. But we're not investing any money. There was a fake [20:36] story. There was a fake news story that got a man, a person, a good person. JD made a statement. It was a [20:43] perfect statement. And they reported it in a very strange way. But that's because that's why it's fake news, [20:50] I guess. So we don't give them money. We don't give them any of that. And what happens is with time, [20:57] if they behave, if they be a citizen of the world, a reasonable citizen of the world. And I think this [21:05] group again, I think I didn't do this for regime change, but I think this group is regime change. [21:12] Hey, the first group is dead. One little morning, having breakfast, the whole group, [21:18] they thought they'd never be caught because we never bombed during breakfast, but we bombed. [21:24] And they all 88 people. And I'm not proud of that at all. But the second group came in and they were [21:31] very unreasonable too. And they were all gone. They were all gone. And then the third group, [21:36] we've been dealing with them. A couple left this planet, but we've been dealing with them. And again, [21:43] they've been fine. I mean, I've had a lot easier. I've had some easier ones. They're tough. They're smart. [21:52] Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has already increased very substantially. And [21:57] the normal flow of energy will resume in the coming days. And trillions of dollars will be made by the [22:05] world. And the stock market will, I believe, continue to rise. The only difference is that a [22:11] player that's very volatile, very tough, very smart, frankly, you know, they have in one way a [22:18] primitive culture, but it's also a genius primitive culture. They're very smart people, [22:24] very good negotiators, but so are we. So rather than possibly going into a depression, [22:32] rather than having your favorite president be Herbert Hoover, I was always the one I didn't want [22:39] to be. I wouldn't have preferred Nixon. I wouldn't have preferred, there were plenty I wouldn't [22:45] prefer, but the one I always thought of, Herbert Hoover. And he caused it. He raised taxes too fast, [22:53] and he raised interest rates too fast, all at the same time. And it caused the Great Depression. [23:01] So I don't think I'll make mistakes like that. I lower taxes. I don't raise taxes. In fact, [23:05] we just gave you the largest tax decrease, largest tax cut in the history of our country. [23:11] So we'll be working on a parallel effort with the Gulf nations to address non-nuclear issues, [23:17] such as the conventional ballistic missiles, which we'll be talking about, and support. I mean, [23:22] they have to have some because other people have some. You've got to have some. Somebody said, [23:27] you shouldn't give them one. I mean, I have guys, I like some of these guys, [23:31] but I don't think they're smart. I don't think they're smart. Sir, you shouldn't let them have [23:37] any missile. I said, well, what am I going to do? I'm going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, [23:43] but they can't have them? Yes, sir. It doesn't work that way. You know, [23:49] it doesn't work that way. And missiles aren't the problem. Missiles are, they hurt a little location, [23:54] but they don't blow up the planet. So the Gulf nations will address the non-nuclear issues as [24:01] we'll be talking about the ballistic missiles. And we'll talk also about the terrorist proxies that [24:08] they have that we don't want that to happen. But I want to thank our partners in both Pakistan [24:15] and Qatar. These people worked so hard and they knew them a little bit. The case of Pakistan quite [24:21] well in the case of Qatar, they were sort of at odds. And you know, Qatar was great because [24:27] they had right next door. When I flew from there, from that location to Saudi Arabia, [24:33] I'd fly for 40 minutes and I'd fly to UAE for 40 minutes. Two great leaders there, by the way. [24:41] The case of Saudi Arabia, the father's still alive and he's fantastic. And the son is going to be [24:46] great. He's going to be great. The crown prince and Mohammed at UAE is an incredible warrior. He was [24:53] dropping bombs. Last week I said, who the hell's dropping all those bombs? It was UAE. He's a good [24:59] fighter, Mohammed. But every administration for decades has sought to get Iran to relinquish its [25:06] nuclear ambitions. But the threat only got bigger. The words got bigger and bigger and stronger and [25:11] bigger and nothing ever happened. And Iran got stronger and tougher. If we didn't blow them up [25:19] the first time and then blow out those weapons, they would have been unstoppable. What I'm doing [25:24] and what I did should have been done years ago. Would have been much easier, much less firepower. [25:32] But it wasn't. And again, I want to thank all those countries. I want to thank Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. [25:40] So obviously the breakthrough would not have been possible without the unprecedented pressure. The United [25:45] States put on the regime over the past year and a half. But again, it started a long time ago. [25:50] It started with the death of Soleimani. That was a big deal. No president in history has ever been [25:59] tougher on Iran than I have. And they know that. And by the way, if they don't honor the agreement, [26:05] or some things aren't even mentioned in the agreement, it's a memorandum of understanding, [26:08] but we have an understanding of certain things without writing it. And if they don't honor that, [26:15] will probably go back to bombing them until they honor it. You know, it's amazing what bombs can do. [26:21] So I say it, the Obama deal was a road to a nuclear weapon. And let's call it the Trump deal, [26:32] was a wall for a nuclear weapon that the nuclear weapon could not get through. Nobody's going to get [26:39] through it. We built a wall. They weren't going to have it. And that's what we have right now. And it [26:43] says very clearly, the most important clause to me too, number one, the straight opens, [26:49] but that's much less important than the other clause. Clause number, whatever, five, eight, [26:55] is a very strong statement that they will never have a nuclear weapon. And it doesn't say they'll [27:00] have one in five years or 10 years or 20 years. With Obama, they were able to enrich very quickly. [27:09] This agreement now provides Iran with a historic opportunity. If they follow the path of cooperation, [27:15] will have opened for them, their country, will have a chance to survive. Now think of it, you know, [27:22] they have 91 million people. People want me to bomb the bridges. Why don't I bomb? I already did, [27:28] because, you know, they went back on one of their promises and I bombed their biggest bridge, [27:32] the equivalent of the George, that was the George Washington Bridge of Iran. But we bombed that bridge, [27:38] you saw that. One quick strike by an F-22, the most beautiful fighter jet ever made, by the way. [27:46] In fact, we're ordering some more of them. We're bringing it out because it's so effective. It's [27:52] incredible. It's incredible. Well, look, we have the greatest military in the world. Those B-2 bombers [27:57] are unbelievable. Who would have thought they could handle, each had two because the flight was so long, [28:03] but they handle three of the biggest, heaviest bombs, hundreds of thousands of pounds, and they [28:07] handle them like they're nothing. It's amazing. And also they're undetectable. They flew into Iran, [28:14] totally, think of it, totally undetected. Now, Iran's waiting for them. They're waiting for them. [28:19] And they never saw them. One o'clock in the morning. They never saw them. They're stealth. [28:26] And we just ordered 22 more, the newer upgraded version, which I guess is better. I don't know how [28:33] the hell you get better. But as I expressed to the world leaders here this week, it's my hope that the [28:40] peace agreement will be the beginning of a much larger deal all across the Middle East. We're very close. [28:46] Look at the job we've done in Gaza. Look at Hamas. Hamas has been very silent. You haven't read [28:52] anything about Hamas. And we're trying to get them unarmed. You know, they grew up with a machine [28:58] gun in their hand. I think they actually, when they were born, they came out with a machine gun [29:04] in their hand. So it's not the easiest thing, but they've, they've actually, you know, behaved pretty [29:09] well, considering this was not the lifestyle that they were taught to have. But including an end to all [29:15] Iranian aggression, they're not going to be Iranian aggression, and an end to war and terror in [29:22] Lebanon. So the Lebanon peace is something we'll have to work on a little bit. It's a very small [29:29] piece of the puzzle, actually, but it still makes a lot of noise. The big deal is the Iran deal. That's [29:35] where the money is, where the power was. But they have Hezbollah, and we got to get that done one way or the [29:42] other will do it. I think Israel can do a much better job on it. Syria would love to do it. I [29:49] was very responsible for the gentleman at Syria that's now the president of Syria. He's done a [29:55] tremendous job. He's put that country together in a year and a half, sort of like our country, [30:00] a year and a half is pretty similar size. They said, don't, please don't put him there. He's a very [30:05] violent man. Al-Qaeda. I said, well, I know one thing, a Boy Scout's not going to work. And he's [30:11] actually done a very good job. He'd love to go on it. You know, Hezbollah is an enemy of his, [30:16] and he'd go on it. But he wouldn't knock down buildings every time he hears there's somebody. [30:22] He'd just go and get them with precision. But I don't know that people want that. Maybe they don't. [30:29] Maybe Lebanon doesn't. We have to be guided a little bit by Lebanon. And by the way, the president is [30:34] going to be coming, prime minister, president, going to be coming over to see us very shortly, [30:39] over the next week or two. Good man. He's, you know, man is living what a tough life he's got, [30:46] because he's got tough groups of people. And it's amazing. Amazing. There is a Lebanon [30:53] with all they've been through. They have been treated worse than just about, [30:57] I think anybody disrespected incredibly. So the expansion of the Abraham Accords is the other [31:03] thing that we hope we're going to get. And I think Saudi Arabia, if they lead the way, [31:08] they'd be doing themselves a big favor because everybody that's in it, [31:12] UAE went in right from the beginning. Again, he's a warrior. And they never got out. Nobody ever got [31:18] out. You think maybe during the war, they were all afraid of, everybody was afraid of Iran. And that's [31:24] why we ended up with the original members. But then when the election was rigged, that's right. [31:30] And I wasn't here at all. Nobody cared about anything. The country went to hell in every way. [31:36] That was the least of it. Middle East was the least of it. The country went to hell, [31:41] allowing 25 million people into the country, unchecked and unvetted, many of them [31:48] criminals, many of them murderers, 11,888 murderers allowed into our country. [31:54] So this was the least of it. But the past two days have also provided an opportunity to discuss [32:00] a number of other key issues with members of the G7 and our partners. Yesterday morning, [32:05] we had a productive conversation on the war in Ukraine. I spoke with President Putin. I spoke [32:11] with President Zelensky, and he was there. And President Putin I spoke over the phone with. [32:18] And something's going to happen. It looks like a lot of people, a lot of soldiers are losing [32:24] soldiers. Both are losing a lot. Russia's losing more because they're the offensive ones. And when [32:29] you're offensive in war, you lose more. Pretty simple. But I provided an update on my call Sunday [32:36] with President Putin and expressed my continued hope. We had a very good conversation with President [32:42] Putin and a very, very good conversation with President Zelensky. I think they both want to [32:47] do something. They just don't know how to do it. They want to do it. They just don't know how. [32:54] In our session yesterday afternoon on international partnerships, I offered an update on how the [32:59] United States is leading the world and responding to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, [33:05] sending $375 million in aid so far to help stop and contain the crisis at its source. And we've done [33:12] great. I was with the president. A couple of presidents came over, by the way, from African nations, [33:21] and they were so happy with what we did. But where it's unfair is we gave $375 million. The rest of the [33:30] world gave essentially nothing, maybe a couple of bucks, but nothing. And they were all saying, [33:36] thank you so much. And I think they've done a good job. It's a terrible thing. Ebola is a terrible [33:45] thing. That's an unbelievable one. Fortunately, it's not like COVID where it's that easy to spread [33:52] around, but it's rough. And we've done a good job. We've moved people to certain quarantine, [33:59] certain locations. But today we also had excellent meetings on the economy and artificial intelligence, [34:06] which is amazing what's going on with that. It's going to be the biggest thing ever. [34:11] We have to be very careful with it. It's both great and could be bad. We have to be careful [34:16] with it. But we're leading China. We're leading the world on that. We're allowing them to [34:21] to do their own electric plants, because they need, as an example, those buildings are so big, [34:25] and they're not taking the community's electricity. I gave them the right. It was my idea. I gave them the [34:31] right to build electric plants, like Con Edison in New York. Dig we must. And they've come up with [34:39] plants that nobody's ever seen anything like them. Those are very high IQ people. So they're actually [34:46] building electric plants, because otherwise they could never build a building, because the grid is [34:52] old and tired and broken and a mess. So they're building it. And they're going to sell there very [34:57] cheaply. They're going to sell their additional, their extra electricity into the grid. So we take [35:03] care of a lot of things like California, which doesn't have nearly enough electricity. They don't [35:09] know what they're doing there. And instead of having blackouts and brownouts, they'll be able not to. [35:15] We found a great deal of unity here at the G7, and we signed a declaration on illegal immigration, [35:20] the first time ever for a G7 statement. They did a beautiful statement. [35:27] We signed other agreements to step up and to really coordinate and spend a lot of time coordinating [35:35] drug trafficking and the stopping of drug trafficking, which is crazy. It comes through [35:40] Mexico, it comes through the southern border, the little that comes through. They find a way, [35:44] they put it. They're genius. If they would use that genius for good, they'd be very rich people. [35:51] They have it in engines. They have it in hubcaps. They have it in areas you wouldn't even believe. [35:56] They have it in the structures of cars. Most incredible thing. But we've done a great job [36:02] on it. We have drugs coming through the border down 61 percent. Drugs coming through water, the sea, [36:11] ocean, sea, gulf, down 97.2 percent. That's the ones that get hit, just like we hit the Iranian [36:22] minesweepers and mine droppers, they call them. They dropped. Who would have 28 mine droppers? [36:28] Who has 28 mine droppers? They actually had them, but they don't have many more. We hit them, [36:34] just like we hit the drug dealers. But drugs are down by water, 97 percent, and over 60 percent they're [36:43] down. And now we're going to go and focus on the land. They come through Mexico. Mexico has lost control [36:47] of their country. The cartels run Mexico, and it's sad. And the president's a very good woman, [36:56] but she's a very scared woman. The drug cartels are totally running Mexico. It's not even close. [37:04] We agreed to accelerate our efforts to secure our critical minerals and rare earth supply chains, [37:09] where we have great companies really going to town. We're going to give everybody a big run, [37:14] because we do it better, and we had to get motivated. The G7 also agreed that the United [37:20] States' new approach to international development based on the private sector investment is working [37:26] at levels that they never thought possible. It's really working. I held a number of very positive [37:31] bilateral meetings, including with the president of France. It was a very good meeting, actually. [37:39] The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim. I tell you, I wish I could really know the guy. You know, [37:46] some people say, well, he lived in that neighborhood. You can't be saying things that you'd like to have [37:54] him say. He was fantastic on this, and he's been a fantastic guy in terms of energy and getting [38:01] energy out there. The president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, who's an amazing [38:09] warrior. President el-Sisi of Egypt. Prime Minister Modi of India. We spent a long time together today. [38:16] I spoke to Mohammed. I spoke to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia a number of times. They're all so happy [38:26] that they're still, you have to have them happy too, you know. We're using their airports. Not that they [38:31] could stop us if we didn't want them to, but it'd be nice that I went to get that little sucker. But I [38:38] missed. I hate missing. But we spoke to, we spoke to all of them and many countries all over the world. [38:47] So every country, I think Israel too. Look, think of what Israel's getting. They're not going to be [38:55] nuked. It's very simple. I told Bebe, Bebe, your biggest risk was that they drop a nuclear weapon [39:03] into the middle of Israel. They'd only need one, and there would be no more Israel. Think of it, [39:09] Bebe. You got the best, the most important thing that you were asking for is that. [39:14] So I think they're happy. Some people are going to be, not him, but there are some people, [39:20] some writers, some that I thought were friends of mine, but I don't want them as friends anymore [39:26] because they're either stupid or they're bad people. But we stopped nuclear holocaust, [39:35] and it stopped too. I mean, there's not going to be any of that. So from the beginning to the end, [39:40] it was clear that this week, America's back. It's bigger and better and stronger. We're more respected [39:46] as a country right now, I think, than we ever have been. And we were a laughing stock two years ago. [39:51] They would laugh at us. We had a man that should have never been there. You know that. [39:56] A man that would walk up to a podium once every year, and they'd ask him, [40:01] what flavor ice cream do you like? I like vanilla. Then he'd try and find the stairs, [40:06] which he couldn't find most of the time, and he'd leave. This is very unfair reporting. And then you [40:13] said you didn't know about that. You didn't know there was something wrong. We can never let that happen [40:18] to our country again. To me, the worst. We had the worst inflation ever. We had the worst in prices [40:25] and the costs. It's all coming down now because the oil is bringing it down. You're going to see [40:30] numbers that are going to be amazing. But this evening, I look forward to a very special dinner [40:35] with President Macron and his fabulous wife at the Palace of Versailles. I sort of like that [40:41] palace. It has a lot of gold. I want to check it out. It's a beautiful palace, maybe the most beautiful [40:47] of all. I hope you're going to get to see it. The ones that are traveling with me, I hope you're [40:50] going to get to see it because it's amazing. But they asked me if I'd stay a little bit longer and [40:54] go to Paris. So I'll get home a little bit later, but it'll be a nice dinner. But I'm interested to see [41:01] it. I love it. I mean, that's the ultimate, I guess. It's the ultimate of its type. Louis XIV, [41:08] celebrating the 250th anniversary of America's founding and America's oldest alliance. And [41:13] we're celebrating that a little bit tonight. They'll have the biggest people in Europe at the [41:18] dinner. And those people love our country. And hopefully Europe is going to find its way. Europe [41:24] is having a lot of hard times. They're doing some things very badly on energy and on immigration. [41:30] They're doing things very badly. And we'll be talking about that tonight. So with that all said, [41:35] if you want to ask us any questions, feel free to ask the people behind me. Peter. [41:43] Bonjour. You've been clear, President Trump, the United States is not going to directly pay Iran, [41:52] but the U.S. is going to let the Iranians start making billions of dollars selling oil, [41:59] accessing this reconstruction. Only if they're doing things right. [42:03] Only if, Peter, only if we're not doing anything. We're not putting up money. Only if they're doing [42:10] things right. If they're doing things right. If people want to invest, they can invest. But they [42:15] had this 300 million dollar fund. It's only 300 billion dollar fund. It's only if they're doing [42:22] things right. Remember this also. When you talk about billions of dollars, they've had much more [42:28] than a trillion dollars worth of damage done. They got a long way. They'll be 15 to 20 years to rebuild [42:34] what they have right now. So they have to behave themselves. If they're not behaving, they get hit [42:40] again. You know, they'll be hit again because we can do it very easily. It's going to take a long way [42:45] for them to build back their anti-aircraft stuff. It's going to take. And you know, the other thing I [42:49] want to thank China, President Xi. I was with him and he stayed neutral, totally neutral. And I appreciate [42:58] it. And I want to thank Vladimir Putin. He was very neutral. They could have made it much [43:05] more difficult for us. And I want to say it. You know, somebody would say, oh, that's terrible. [43:10] He's thanking President Xi of China. Well, let me tell you, I had a long talk with him. [43:15] You know, they have shoulder weapons to knock down airplanes that it's not like the real deal, [43:21] but they're accurate. They're fairly accurate. I said, I would really appreciate you're not [43:27] giving or selling any of that stuff to Iran. And you know what? For the most part, he didn't. [43:35] So I just want to thank them because they made it a lot better. [43:41] What the difference is between giving Iran US dollars and unfreezing US dollars? [43:48] Well, the unfreezing is an easy one to answer. We have taken a lot of their money and we have [43:55] their money. We have taken their money. It's not our money. It's their money. And we froze it. [44:02] At a certain point in time, I guess we're going to have to give it back. You know, [44:06] if we didn't give it back, nobody would ever invest in the dollar again. [44:10] If you took their money, because I thought about it, you know, I'm not the most perfect person. [44:15] I said to Scott, Scott, why don't we keep their money? What the hell are we giving it back to them? [44:22] But you know, people from lots of nations, some nations we don't agree with, they have their money, [44:28] the dollar has become very strong under me. And they don't want to have a little conflict with [44:34] somebody and end up having the United States just take their money. So if you do that, [44:39] you really don't have a system. A wise man once said in January of 2020, [44:48] Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. That wise man. [44:55] Who said that? Donald Trump. [44:56] Oh, that's what I thought you were going to say. [44:58] So how do you go back to the United States and convince a skeptical American public [45:03] that this deal is a win? Well, look, here they lost militarily. Okay. It's very tough because [45:11] I know that no matter what, if I would go, by the way, if I'd go another three or four weeks, [45:15] those same people that are critical would say, he went too long, he should have done, you know, [45:19] no matter what. If they raise the white flag of surrender, and if they said, praise be to Allah, [45:27] Donald Trump is the greatest president ever. We totally concede. We totally give up. This war is over. [45:33] We have failed. The New York Times and CNN and a couple of others, they're not all that dishonest. [45:39] They'd say Iran had a great victory. Okay. They practically do that. You know, it's amazing. When [45:46] we knocked out their last year, they had 159 ships. When we knocked out the last ship, [45:50] the Times refused to do a story on it. They said, why wouldn't you? They don't have a Navy, [45:55] and you don't want to do a story on it. They don't have an Air Force. You don't want to do a story. [46:00] We need a fair press. And that's why they're all doing so badly, because they lost credibility. [46:06] When I went in a landslide and I had 93% bad press, they'd take good stories about me and make them bad. [46:13] But the only reason that happened is because they have so little, the media has so little credibility [46:20] that the people voted for me. 93% of the stories on network, ABC is horrible. I think ABC is the worst. [46:30] NBC is terrible. And CBS is terrible. CNN, obviously. [46:35] And I never get good stories. No matter what I do, I could do the greatest thing. [46:39] I won't get good stories on this. I'll get it from fair media. I'll get it from all over the world. [46:44] They're writing good. But no matter what I do, I'm going to get bad press. I know that. [46:48] Now, if I did the opposite, if I went out and continued to bomb them for another four, [46:53] just bomb the hell out of them, I'd get bad press on that. No, there's nothing I can do. [46:59] But what this does is it allows the ships to go. If we keep bombing, those ships won't be going. [47:05] And you're talking about $500, $600, $700 million a day. It's a lot of money. A lot of money. [47:13] That's why the world is okay. It's liquid. It's fine. Also, we run out of reserves in about four [47:18] weeks. You know, there are reserves all over the world. And we would really run out. And there'll be [47:23] a time when you wouldn't be able to get it. And you want to see Bedlam? So for all those so-called [47:27] geniuses that want to show me how smart they are, ask them, why didn't they blow up General Soleimani? [47:34] Ask that of the general and a couple of other people that I like very much. But boy, are they wrong. [47:41] Go ahead. Oh, how about you? Thank you, Peter. I'd give you more, Peter. But people will say, [47:45] I like you too much. Thank you, Mr. President. Bonsoir. [47:48] You know, he told me that first day in office, he asked me like seven questions. I answered all [47:54] of them. Is this true? He said, he just answered more questions in one meeting than Joe Biden did [48:01] in four years. Okay. You know, I'm not going to get you in trouble, but that's what you said. Go ahead. [48:05] Well, Mr. President, in the art of the deal, you write about the importance of leverage. [48:10] Yeah. Obviously, you have a lot of leverage when it comes to Iran, whether it's militarily [48:14] or through economic sanctions. What leverage, sir, do you have when it comes to Israel and Hezbollah to [48:21] ensure that they abide by the ceasefire? Well, I think we have leverage [48:24] just by the fact that we really have Iran now has to be good. They have to behave. [48:30] And we might help. That's a much smaller conflict. It's a conflict that should be able to be over [48:36] with. I'm surprised it's taken so long. And it's a much smaller, but we have a lot of leverage. [48:42] We have, look, we have the greatest military anywhere in the world. We have the strongest, [48:46] most powerful. Look at the blockade. By the way, the blockade was more impactful than all of the [48:52] bombing raids where we dropped a billion dollars' worth of bombs on Iran. The blockade was so [48:59] incredible. The naval blockade. The admiral, the whole thing. Not one ship got through. That meant [49:06] no money got through. They were dying. They had no money. They have inflation that's 250 or 300 percent. [49:12] They have no money. We have tremendous leverage. We have the leverage of the economy as an example. [49:18] We'll get that done. That's a small one. And we'll work with Israel and get it done. But I'd like to [49:25] do it. I mean, you have people living there. Buildings are being dropped on top of them or right [49:34] alongside of them. How would you like to live there? It's so unfair, especially Beirut. You know, [49:40] you're going to Beirut. And I looked at the scene two days ago yesterday where they hit. That was [49:46] that was a big hit. That was unnecessary in my book. Yeah, please. [49:50] Uh, two questions. If you could clarify something you said just a few minutes ago. One of the goals [49:58] of Epic Fury going into it, you said was... Say it again. Speak up. Sorry. One of the goals of Epic Fury, [50:03] you said, going into it, was to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles and its capabilities to build more. [50:08] Yeah. Why is it acceptable to you now that they keep some of that capability? And Iran is... [50:13] What are they keeping? What are they keeping? They have less than other nations now. [50:19] We knocked out probably 84, 85 percent of their missiles. The rest of them are underground. [50:24] They can't even get them out. You know, the other night's raid, I think it was on the first night, [50:28] we knocked out hundreds of their missiles. Actually, by mistake, we were hitting an area and it, [50:34] you know, you can sort of see when the bombs are going off and then you see one that looks like, [50:37] wow, what happened? A lot of missiles knocked down. No, but what are you going to do? Uh, let's, [50:43] let's spend another two weeks and give them none. They don't want to be firing missiles right now. [50:48] They're going to have a hard time rebuilding. They're going to have a hard time rebuilding. [50:53] And if people from the Middle East, you know, if people want to invest, and again, they don't have [50:57] to invest at all. But if they do want to invest, it does have oil. It does have probably a future, [51:03] but it's going to take a long time. But are you going to let the 91 million people starve to death? I [51:08] mean, one of the things I was very intent on, they have water desalination plants, very good ones. [51:15] I could have knocked them out in five minutes, just like I knocked out Cargill and I knocked out [51:19] everything but the oil. I said 25, it was so complete. The only thing there is the pipes coming [51:25] with the oil because I didn't want to ruin the world market because they do a lot of money. But, um, [51:32] I didn't want to do that. No, it would have been so easy. It would have been easier. And I would have [51:38] satisfied a group of 10% of the people, but it would have been the wrong thing to do. And it could [51:44] have caused, it could have caused an international depression. Maybe not. Iran's position has always [51:50] been that their nuclear program was for civilian purposes. If they come back after the signing of [51:54] this and say, they want to continue to have a civilian nuclear program. [51:57] Is that acceptable to you? Well, I've said to them always, I say, look, you have probably the [52:02] third largest oil reserves in the world. What the hell do you need nuclear for? You need nuclear [52:08] for some electricity? So, so I've always felt that way. So we're, we've been pretty tough in that. [52:13] You know, it's also, it is a little hard though, when you say that somebody wants it, other people [52:18] have it, other adjoining states have it, and you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity [52:25] and things like that. It's always a little tough. You have to use a little common sense, please. [52:29] New York Times, please. Uh, thank you, Mr. President, for the question. Thank you. [52:34] Now that you're approaching a new phase in this conflict with Iran, can you now say whether you [52:39] will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than a [52:44] hundred children on the first day of the war? No, if it, if it was a fault, and as you know, [52:50] that's under investigation, uh, it's such a strange question to be asked at this state. [52:56] It's talking about a long time ago, but nobody did that on purpose. Uh, I guess you'd have to say [53:02] about them, what about the thousands of soldiers that they blew up when they opened their car door? [53:07] What about the thousands of people that were killed by Iran? No, mistakes are made. The war is nasty, [53:14] but, uh, I know it's under investigation, and I could have a report for you tomorrow. [53:18] I'd ask, I would ask Pete, I would ask Pete Hegseth that question, because they have it under [53:24] investigation. Please. Mr. President, you've been saying all week that this deal permanently [53:31] prevents Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but the drafts, the drafts of the deal that have been [53:36] floating around barely mention Iran's nuclear program. So can you explain how exactly the deal [53:43] achieves that goal? So when I say permanently, it should be permanently. But if it's not permanently, [53:49] we will bomb them. They will be bombed, just like I bombed them on Wednesday night and Tuesday night, [53:55] and was going to bomb them on Thursday night at a level that was three times greater, and they knew [54:00] that. Uh, I will bomb them. Now that's with me as president. If you have a weak, pathetic president, [54:07] maybe that doesn't happen, but I can only do the job that I have to do. I have a long time to go. I have [54:12] almost three years, close to three years. It's time is going fast, but our country's become the, [54:19] we're the most respected country in the world. Those leaders today, they said, we used to laugh [54:24] at you two years ago. They're the same guys. They'd laugh at the country. Now they say, you're the most [54:28] respected country anywhere in the world, militarily, even military. Take a look at what happened in, [54:34] and look at, look at what happened in so many different locations. Afghanistan, that horrible [54:42] retreat that these people made, leaving equipment behind. They weren't under any pressure. You take [54:47] your time. You can get out. I was going to get out. We're going to get out with dignity and pride, [54:52] take a hundred percent of the equipment. I was even taking the tents down. But then they got in and they [54:57] just left. They left all the equipment. I may get all that equipment back. Now here's the thing, [55:03] more symbolic because it's a little old now, but we may get it all back. Afghanistan is kissing our [55:11] ass. You know that? Threatening to bomb Iran if they don't comply, but there's nothing enforceable [55:17] in the deal itself. Is that correct? Doesn't have to be. I let them know. I said, look, [55:22] if you don't adhere to the agreement, I don't want to do that, but we're going to bomb the hell out of [55:27] you. And I don't think that they're going to veer from the agreement. What else am I going to do? [55:32] Am I going to say, I'm going to take you to court? Let me take you to court. Let me sue you. No, [55:37] we're going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement. I don't want them to. [55:42] I want them to honor the agreement. Again, the Straits close up. Bad things can happen. You know, [55:47] in war, terrible things happen. Like you mentioned the question before about a school gets hit. [55:54] Other things get hit. Bad things happen in war. War is a nasty place. I see it. I see it. I see it [56:00] better than maybe anybody has ever seen it. Go ahead, please. Thank you, President Trump. [56:09] Oil prices are now plummeting. How do you see this agreement further affecting energy [56:14] prices in the U.S. and the U.S. economy in the long term? And secondly, Mr. President, [56:19] how do you think Vice President J.D. Vance did on The View yesterday? Well, first of all, [56:23] thank you for the word plummeting, because that's what's happening. Oil prices are plummeting. And [56:30] that means oil prices are going to come down. You know, if you make donuts, you have a heating, [56:33] you have a stove, and you have to buy the heat. You need the gas or the electricity or whatever [56:40] you're using. And when oil prices come down, oil is the biggest thing. Oil is, you get oil prices [56:46] coming down, and they're going to come down. And we're hitting into threes now for gasoline, [56:50] and that'll come down a lot lower. So I was in Iowa just before this started, and I was saying to myself, [56:55] I can't believe we're doing so well, but I have to go, and we have to put out this fire in Iran, [57:01] because I don't want them using a nuclear weapon. They would have used a nuclear weapon. A hundred [57:05] percent they would have used it. The only question is, was it going to be that day or that week? [57:09] They would have used a nuclear weapon. They were on the way. And I said, we're going to have to put [57:13] out the fire. And I said, you know, oil prices, so gasoline. We passed two gas stations in Iowa. [57:22] I made a speech up there. The people are great. I want it by so much. And I love the people, farmers. [57:29] And we passed two gas stations. One was $1.85. One was $1.91. Now, that's Iowa. But it was, I mean, [57:37] California has all those crazy taxes that they put on, you know, California taxes. But the oil was down [57:44] to $2 to, I'd say, between $2 and $2.50. And it was heading down further. And we were going to have [57:52] a great run. We took a little journey down to a place called the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we [58:00] bombed the hell out of them. And now they can never have a nuclear weapon. Now, we had a disturbance, [58:06] but I must say, it was much less than anybody thought. The oil never went to $350 a barrel. It [58:14] went to $1.15, $1.20. The oil never went anywhere near that. And the other thing, I thought the stock [58:20] market would go down 25 or 30 percent. The stock market a week ago, before we started this, was [58:27] higher than it was when we started, which tells you that we have a very resilient economy. We have the [58:33] strongest economy we've ever had. Now, the word affordability is a fake word made up by the [58:39] Democrats. Here's where it's fake. Because they made it up. Because I inherited these prices. [58:46] And when I had my first news conference, first day, they started screaming affordability, [58:52] the Democrats, affordability, affordability, they're screaming. I say, what's that all about? [58:57] They gave it to me. They gave it to me. It's affordability. And they used that word to a [59:03] fare they will. Well, they were the ones that created the affordability crisis. I'm the one [59:09] that got it down. Remember, highest insurance rates in history, highest rates for everything, [59:14] eggs. Remember eggs? They were four times more expensive than they were in my administration. [59:19] And I got it down, Peter, very quickly. Our secretary did a good job of agriculture. Brooke, [59:26] she did a great job with eggs and everything else. And now that the oil is coming down, [59:31] you're going to see everything follow. Everything follows the cost of energy. And we're going to end [59:36] up having the lowest energy anywhere in the world. Please. Yeah. No, please. Thank you. [59:45] You're from ABC. You're fake news. Go ahead. To follow up on oil, can you confirm, [59:50] will Iran be able to immediately sell their oil to market? And will U.S. sanctions snap back [59:57] immediately if there is a delay or collapse in the talks? And then, relatedly, is there any [1:00:02] safeguard in this deal to prevent Iran from charging what they say could be fees after the 60-day [1:00:09] extension? The thing that's going to stop them from doing that, because you can't cover everything in [1:00:14] a document, is common sense. They don't want to get bombed. They don't want to get hit. As far as [1:00:19] sanctions are concerned, at some point, you know, we have sanctions which will never let them rebuild. [1:00:24] They would have no money. They would be in poverty. Then 91 million people would starve. [1:00:29] So something will happen as soon as they behave. When they behave, we're going to let that go. [1:00:34] We're going to have to. I put sanctions on a lot of people, and then I let them go. A lot of [1:00:38] countries. Yeah, please. Thank you, Mr. President. My name is Shinji Abe. I'm a Japanese [1:00:44] Yomiri newspaper company from the Washington correspondent. My question is about the Strait of [1:00:50] Holmes. Did you ask other G7 nations to send military force? What specifically are you asking [1:00:58] of Japan? Where are you from? I'm from Japan. From where? Japan. I just left your prime minister. [1:01:07] Japan's doing very well. She's my biggest fan, I have to tell you. She thinks I did a great job. You [1:01:13] have to call her and ask her. She's doing a very good job, by the way. Go ahead. And military support [1:01:20] is no longer necessary. Yeah, but what do you want to know? Go ahead. Just tell me. What do you want [1:01:24] to know? Oh, okay. My question is, did you ask other G7 nations to send military force? And what [1:01:31] specifically are you asking of Japan? To send the Air Force? For what? [1:01:37] So don't you ask any country to send? Oh, other countries? Not just Japan? No. No, I don't need, [1:01:46] we don't need it. Oh, by the way, they all want to do it. They all want to do it. Every single one [1:01:52] of them. They want to go be a part of it now. Not while the war was going on. I was a little disappointed. [1:01:59] The UK, I said, yeah, it'd be nice if you send ships. I didn't put a hard sell on, but I said, [1:02:04] it'd be nice if you send some ships. And the prime minister said, they'll be there, sir, [1:02:10] as soon as the war is over. I said, did you just say that? I couldn't believe it, actually. [1:02:16] Japan has offered to get involved. But I mean, I'll be honest, Japan was not willing to get [1:02:21] involved during the war. I asked her, I said, you want to get involved a little bit? I didn't put the [1:02:27] heavy sell on, but they said, no, we don't want to get involved. Nobody did. We did it ourselves with [1:02:34] Israel and with the Arab states that got hit, surprisingly hit. Yeah. Yes, please. Go ahead. [1:02:46] Thanks a lot, Mr. President. Question on Brazil. I would like to know how was your interaction here [1:02:53] in Evian during the G7 with the Brazilian President Lula? Did you talk about the new U.S. [1:03:00] tariffs on Brazil? Did you talk about the U.S. designation of criminal gangs? [1:03:06] Yeah, we did. We did. How was it? I spent a lot of time with them, [1:03:10] actually. And it's become a little rough country, right? Politically. It's been a little dangerous [1:03:18] politically. You're talking about Brazil. Yeah. Yeah. It's been nasty. I hear they arrested somebody [1:03:26] that's running for office today. I found that out after we left. I just said goodbye to him and I [1:03:32] heard that they arrested the Bolsonaro Jr. He was doing well in the polls and they arrested him [1:03:39] because he made a statement in Texas. They arrested him or they want to arrest him. They have something [1:03:45] out. They play pretty tough. But nobody plays tougher than the United States. Look, [1:03:50] our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections. Please, in the back. Yes, sir. Go ahead. [1:03:59] Thank you so much, President. Thank you. For G7, the concept of the rule of law has long [1:04:12] been considered the core principle. During this summit, any of the leaders expressed any concerns [1:04:20] on the possible violation of international law on the attack on Iran? No. No. Actually, [1:04:28] the opposite. They felt they were very dangerous. They were very relieved because they could get hit [1:04:33] too. They were very relieved. No. We never discussed that. No. It would be the opposite. They broke the law. [1:04:40] They killed thousands of people. They killed thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people. [1:04:46] Yeah. Please, go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. Mr. President. Yes. Yesterday, the Pakistan [1:05:00] thanks for the Chinese government to help make a peace talk between Iran and the United States. [1:05:06] So what do you think about China's work to get the United States and Iran sitting down to talk [1:05:13] and make the deal? And the second question is... Okay. Okay. Let me answer the question. Okay. So I [1:05:17] think China's been terrific. I tell you that before. They could have been bad. They could have sent in [1:05:24] to try and block or break the blockade. They could have sent in an oil ship with six destroyers alongside [1:05:32] of it on each side. They didn't do that. President Xi helped me. He tried to help. And I think he [1:05:39] probably helped get it solved. You know, they get 50 percent of their oil from that location. [1:05:44] So that wasn't that easy. President Xi was fantastic. He tried to help me solve it. And he didn't give any [1:05:51] big weaponry. I guess we'll find something somewhere along that. But he didn't give any big weaponry, [1:05:55] I can tell you that. No, I think China was... I couldn't ask for much more. Again, they were impacted [1:06:02] because they get more than 50 percent of their oil from the Harmore Strait. And no, I thought they [1:06:09] were fantastic. Okay. How about one more question right here? Go ahead, please. [1:06:13] The latest YouGov Economist poll shows that Democrats have lost a five-point edge on the generic [1:06:20] congressional ballot. They just have now just a two-point lead since February. Do you think that [1:06:26] they're losing momentum? Well, I see the Republicans in generics. You know, generics are very important. [1:06:31] I don't know how accurate, because I see a lot of bad polls. The polls are very dishonest, [1:06:37] just like a lot of reporters, like these people over here are very dishonest. CNN, [1:06:41] ABC, it's a whole group of them over there. They're really dishonest people. But, you know, [1:06:46] and really networks are very dishonest. And they have to straighten themselves out or they're not going [1:06:51] to be very successful, because people don't believe them anymore. But no, the generics are very [1:06:55] interesting because the Republicans are coming up strong even before this. You know why they're [1:07:00] seeing all these lunatics, like the guy in Maine with the swastika. You know, for 10 years, [1:07:08] they've been calling me a Nazi. And now they have a Nazi running. He's got a tattoo on him. [1:07:13] I've been denying it for 10 years. They know it's not so, but they've been going. I don't think they [1:07:17] could call it to me anymore. You know, one more, one more. Go ahead, Peter. Let me finish with Peter, [1:07:24] because he's been better to me than he's been to Biden. Thank you, President Trump. I have a question [1:07:32] about this weekend. Why not stick around for the signing ceremony with this Iran peace deal? [1:07:38] I might. You might. Yeah, I might. But I'd rather this is a memorandum of understanding. [1:07:45] It's very important, but it might not be the kind of a document that I should be signing. [1:07:51] Is there some element to this where you send the vice president? If it works out, great. You look [1:07:59] like a genius for sending him. And if it doesn't work out, it's the vice president. I like that idea. [1:08:04] Sure. Well, this way, if it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm [1:08:08] blaming JD. You better be careful, JD. He's going to turn his plane around and get the hell out of here. [1:08:14] Yeah. I like that idea. I think it's a good idea. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.