President Trump holds press conference from NATO summit — 7/8/2026

[0:00] service would be thrilled and i mean like kiev it would be nice to get it before any more damage [0:14] is done to be honest it's such a beautiful city right and yeah i would go to ukraine at the right [0:22] deadline when you want to reach a deal between ukraine and russia do you have any deadline in [0:26] that regard no i don't have a deadline you can't have a deadline it's you know there's too much [0:30] going on but but i think you're going to have a deal i think you know i've been i've been very good [0:35] you know we had certain deals like azerbaijan and some of the deals that we made and they've been [0:41] going on for 32 years and they said it's an impossible thing to get them solved eight eight [0:46] different deals even in the congo it was think of it you have the congo and rwanda that was 14 [0:55] million people dead a lot of them with machetes it's our we got that one solved or you know they go [1:03] they it flares up every once in a while i must say but we got deals done that weren't doable but if [1:08] you look at uh well india and pakistan they were at it we get that we get them done and when we get [1:15] them done i find that people are not anxious to go back into it i think we'll have you you once [1:23] mentioned the word security guarantee in the oval office so and you know i think they're going to [1:28] need some kind of a security guarantee but we're going to work with them that's important i think he [1:34] thinks that's a very important thing the security guarantees are very important and they'll live by [1:38] it partially the president said about patriots and licenses the petro system is the best you know [1:45] in the world for today the best anti-ballistic system so we used a lot of that's the best yeah [1:50] they're the best one and we it's was i mean checked everything during the war so this is true so with all [1:58] respect to other partners we are thankful for all the systems better as well they had different systems [2:03] in venezuela so venezuela had systems that didn't work we didn't have one plane shot down we didn't [2:10] have one we had one helicopter operator who was incredible he he landed perfectly and his leg was [2:17] almost blown off and we gave him the congressional medal of honor because very few people could have [2:22] landed that you know you land them with your feet really more than anything else and he landed and he [2:27] was really in bad shape and at the state of the union we gave him he was a handsome guy big handsome guy [2:36] we gave him the congressional medal of honor at the state of the union so look uh he wants to get [2:42] it done and we're going to get it done on a drone deal between ukraine and the u.s what's that what's [2:49] the status of a drone deal between ukraine and the u.s well we would buy their drones and we make drones we [2:55] make great drones but they have an ability to make a lot of them which is right marco amazing that in a war [3:03] situation they make them they make them in basements they make them wherever the hell you have a little [3:08] shelter even if you don't have shelter i think i suspect right it's an amazing ability very few [3:14] well that's why i say with the with the patriots they they would be able to do it most countries [3:18] would not be able they don't have the talent you have very talented people so um yeah i think we're [3:25] going to make that deal you know if we made that deal we'd have great protection i love the [3:34] protection think if you had a lot of patriots you wouldn't you'd never be hit and yeah as an [3:39] example in kiev whether we where they get hit with missiles those missiles like what i said about [3:45] the abraham lincoln the missiles would be shot down yeah so and i think you'd start making it pretty [3:50] quickly right you like the idea no no it's a great idea i think everybody likes that one [4:01] as part of security guarantees are you ready to close the skies in case russia attacks again to close [4:08] the skies over ukraine in case russia it's been as a part of security branches are you are you ready to [4:16] use if it's necessary yeah i mean look i'll tell you when we have a deal we're going to have a deal [4:22] security guarantee and no security guarantee if we have a deal we're going to have a deal we're not [4:26] going to have to worry about what you're saying we're going to have a deal i think if we if we come [4:32] to a solution which i think we will we're going to have a deal now we want to make sure the deal [4:38] sticks some people don't think it will i think it will i think if i'm sure it will i'm not sure it will [4:43] with the rand if we make a deal with the rand i'm not sure that will stick may i ask you what does [4:49] because because i found them to be very dishonorable people yeah you're supposed to reimpose the [4:55] naval blockade i don't find out with him and i mean i don't want to upset him but everything i've [5:01] done with president putin has been okay it's been good he's gonna say all that but i would expect you [5:07] to say that but that's good i don't think anything's going to be broken and we're going to do a [5:14] security guarantee in case it is but uh with iran 47 years this should have been done by another [5:21] president a long time ago or somebody else another country but they got stronger and stronger and [5:27] now they're weak are you going to reimpose the naval pocket on iranian ports 159 ships in one week [5:32] that's good even for you right 159 their entire navy is at the bottom of the sea and now they have [5:39] little boats little tiny boats that go around and we knocked about 28 of them out last night with the [5:45] same the same weapon we use for the drug people you know drugs are down by the way drugs by sea are [5:50] down 97 meaning nobody wants to get into those boats and take drugs into it they're down 97 [6:00] and we're using the same thing for the mine boats you know they've they like to drop mines in and we [6:06] hit a lot of them last night like 28 we knocked out 28 boats last night little ones that's all they [6:13] have is little ones are you going to try to take out more tonight will we go tonight you know [6:18] normally i wouldn't tell you i wouldn't tell you but you know what there's not a thing they can do [6:24] about it so the answer is probably president trump what is the effectiveness of last night's attack [6:42] what message does that send to what's left of the iran which attack you talking about the attack that [6:47] you guys had on iran last night the strikes last night so i think it has a tremendous impact [6:53] well first of all we took out additional you know they were trying to rebuild their radar [6:58] and they had about 60 percent built now they have to have to start all over again look we're not [7:03] attacking at the highest level the highest level of the bridges there uh which we can knock down i would [7:11] say in one day we knocked down every single bridge in iran there's not a thing they can do about it [7:17] uh their electric manufacturing facilities right their electric plants where they make their [7:24] electricity in there uh we will we have to we'll take them out i don't want to do that but if we have [7:31] to we'll take them out they have desalinization plants we'll take them out if we have to i hate to [7:37] do that that's probably the one i i would like not to do least uh we attacked cargill in last night [7:44] we knocked out a piece i said don't don't touch the oil because maybe we'll take over cargill [7:49] you know we may take over cargill it there's not a thing they can do about it but i said don't hit [7:55] the pipes just hit everything else and they hit it they may hit it again tonight so you know as [8:02] per your question normally i'm not that way but they really deserve it because they're saying they [8:08] want to make a deal but they don't you know they they asked for a time out they wanted to go to the [8:14] funeral of khomeini and i said give it to them and they start shooting missiles i mean it was a crazy [8:20] thing now we did kill them you know so i guess you have to look at it that way but the funeral [8:28] took place and they wanted to have a period of time and they also asked that we not kill them [8:38] and we said we're not going to kill you they were worried we'd kill them during the funeral [8:43] i mean you can't believe what a crazy did you ever think i'd be doing this for a living marco [8:49] did did anybody ever think i'm doing maybe pete but this wasn't supposed to be for me pete [8:55] loved this stuff from day one but they said this please don't kill us during the funeral i said i [9:02] won't and we didn't we didn't do anything in fact we made it safe for them actually and what happens [9:09] they try and knock out two two ships the soti and i guess kuwait right kuwaiti oh no qatari [9:17] in addition three three three so you had three of them and they're just i don't know i just don't know [9:26] with them a lot of people say they're very dishonorable people and they can't keep a deal [9:31] so we'll see now as to whether or not steve whitcoff jared and jd and everybody working and that will [9:38] talk i guess they could talk but i'm not seeing it with them i you know with the people my whole [9:44] life is deals i don't see it i don't see it with them [9:47] it may be a big attack and it'll knock out a lot of stuff we don't knock out nothing we knock out a [9:59] lot pete do you want to tell them about last night yes sir uh last night as you said a lot of small [10:05] craft that they were trying to harass shipping with so that was a big part of what we targeted [10:10] underground facilities where they were storing drones or missiles coastal defense sites radar [10:15] sites surveillance sites anything used to harass shipping in the straight-of-horn moves so anything [10:20] they thought they had rebuilt their capability they were using uh was a target last night and [10:25] tonight if we need to on your order mr president we will hit even more and even deeper because that's [10:30] the consequence and we may put down the blockade we may put it back the blockade uh and it'll only be [10:38] a blockade for a rent anybody else can have whatever they want of course they'll drop some mines if they [10:43] can you know if they can do it but it's hard because we're taking out those little boats now [10:47] with the same weapon we used to take out the drug lords and the boats coming in basically think of it [10:54] 97 for years we had fentanyl and all the other drugs coming in from different countries [11:01] including venezuela and it was you know they'd arrest them they'd bring them to a court they'd be [11:07] released and they'd be back on another boat the next 97 it had what was done in the past had no [11:14] impact 97 drugs down coming in by sea and now we're going to start doing it by land the land is [11:22] easier when we had to do sea first and nobody i mean i think the three percent of the people that [11:28] still do that i think they're the bravest people in the world they maybe we should probably give them [11:33] a medal for bravery because it's and we're using the same exact missile to take out the mines the [11:39] mind drop they call mine droppers but we have mine sweepers and one of the things that came up today is [11:45] the european nations and nato group uh they're sending mine sweepers we don't need them now we [11:53] have pretty much the mindset but they'll probably drop some more they're evil people they're sick [11:57] people they're really they're mentally disturbed people and uh it should have been done 47 years ago [12:05] thank you everybody