President Trump speaks to reporters on AF1 amid Iran conflict

[0:01] So we had very good negotiations today with Iran, [0:06] getting a lot of the things that they should have given us a long time ago. [0:10] We'll see how it works out, but they're very good. [0:13] Nicely destroyed targets today. [0:17] The Navy's gone, the Air Force has gone. [0:18] We know that. [0:20] We destroyed many, many targets today. [0:22] It was a big day. [0:24] And we are negotiating with them directly and indirectly. [0:29] We also had to send eight boats two days ago, [0:37] and then we added another two, so it was ten boats. [0:40] And now today, yes, there's a tribute. [0:46] I don't remind it exactly, but they gave us, I think out of a sign of respect, [0:53] the boats, the big, big floats of oil through the Hormuz Strait. [0:59] And that's taking place starting tomorrow. [14:54] Because Republicans and the country wants it. [14:57] You know, it's polling at 87%. [15:00] What do you think of it? [15:01] We're talking about Save America. [15:03] And it's not Save Act, it's Save America Act, because it's saving America. [15:06] Save Act, nobody knows what it's saving. [15:08] It's the Save America Act. [15:10] Save America Act. [15:15] Vote. [15:15] Voter ID. [15:16] All of these things. [15:17] Proof of citizenship. [15:19] It's an 87% issue with all voters, including Democrats. [15:24] The only ones that don't want it are Schumer and these corrupt Democrat leaders, [15:29] because it will not give them the ability to cheat in an election. [15:34] Look, if you want voter ID, there's not a reason in the world you wouldn't want it except to cheat. [15:39] If they don't cheat, their policy is so bad, they'll never win another election. [15:42] Mr. President, on the trend that Cuba will be next, what did you mean by that exactly? [15:47] That who will be next? [15:48] Cuba. [15:48] Who's going to be next? [15:50] Cuba's going to be... [15:51] In what way? [15:52] Cuba's a mess. [15:53] It's a failing country. [15:54] It'll be next. [15:55] Within a short period of time, it's going to fail. [15:58] And we will be there to help it out. [16:02] We'll be there to help our great Cuban Americans out who were thrown out of Cuba. [16:06] In many cases, their family members were mutilated and killed by Castro. [16:12] Cuba's going to be next, yeah. [16:14] Are you considering withdrawing Casey Meade? [16:27] She's doing it in the process. [16:30] I'm more focused on Iran. [16:32] But something like that would be possible. [16:34] Mr. President, is she still a confident? [16:35] We certainly have a lot of great candidates for that. [16:39] She's still confident in Tulsi Gabbard, sir. [16:42] Yeah, I'm sure. [16:44] She's a little bit different in her thought process than me, but that doesn't make somebody not available to serve. [16:51] Is she on the same page as you? [16:52] I would say that I'm very strong on the fact that I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. [16:59] Because if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it immediately. [17:01] I think she's probably a little bit softer on that issue, but that's okay. [17:04] Some people are. [17:06] Most people aren't. [17:07] Most people are saying thank you very much for doing what you did. [17:11] They are decimated right now. [17:13] They're going to give up nuclear weapons. [17:15] They're going to give us the nuclear dust. [17:17] They're going to do everything that we want to do. [17:19] And you know what? [17:20] They're going to go on and maybe have a great country again. [17:25] But if they don't do that, they're not going to have a country. [17:28] They're not even going to have a country. [17:30] So she's softer on that issue. [17:32] But I have other people, not too many. [17:34] That's an issue that we've had great support. [17:36] You saw the CNN poll where Trump with MAGA, and I think MAGA is most of the Republican Party, is 100% approval. [17:45] In fact, the young gentleman that does the poll is very good, actually, because he's honest. [17:50] He said, I've never seen 100% before. [17:52] I'm 100% in the CNN poll, which just came out. [17:56] Thank you very much. [17:58] There's a report that the U.S. is going to let a Russian oil tanker go to Cuba. [18:02] Is that true? [18:03] We have a tanker out there. [18:04] We don't mind having somebody get a boatload. [18:07] Because they need, they have to survive. [18:09] So that report is true as far as you know? [18:11] Well, I would say, I told them, if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it. [18:19] Do you worry that that helps Vladimir Putin? [18:20] Whether it's Russia or not. [18:22] Do you worry that that helps Vladimir Putin, though? [18:24] I said, how can I? [18:25] He loses one boatload of oil, that's all it is. [18:28] It's fine. [18:28] If he wants to do that, and if other countries want to do it, it doesn't bother me much. [18:33] It's not going to have an impact. [18:35] Cuba's finished. [18:36] They have a bad regime. [18:37] They have very bad and corrupt leadership. [18:41] And whether or not they get a boatload of oil, it's not going to matter. [18:44] I'd prefer letting it in, whether it's Russia or anybody else. [18:48] Because the people need cooling and all of the other things that you need going. [18:54] Now, the issue of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran control of it, and charging tolls, what do you think about that? [19:01] Well, I have to find out if it's true. [19:02] You know, they're going to do whatever they have to do. [19:05] We could close that up in two minutes. [19:07] We could close that up. [19:08] If you close that up so fast, your head would spin. [19:10] Do you want to see both countries that are being attacked by Iran to start to fight back? [19:15] They are fighting back. [19:17] Saudi Arabia's fighting back hard. [19:19] Qatar is fighting back. [19:21] UAE is fighting back. [19:23] Kuwait's fighting back. [19:25] Bahrain's fighting back. [19:26] They're all fighting back. [19:27] Actually, they were surprised to be hit. [19:28] I was very surprised they got hit. [19:30] And once they got hit, they started fighting very well. [19:34] We're in very strong communications with all of those countries, and they've all been fighting. [19:39] I think they're 100% of us. [19:40] Mr. President, how long can you pay TSA workers for? [19:43] How long can you pay TSA workers for from the One Big Beautiful Bill? [19:46] Well, we're going to pay them for as long as we have to. [19:48] And I will tell you, the ICE workers have been amazing at helping people with their bags. [19:54] It's very interesting. [19:56] We put ICE there, and ICE got a very unfair press. [19:59] They're doing an amazing job getting pardoned criminals' murders. [20:02] 11,888 murders were allowed to come into our country through Biden. [20:07] And ICE has been amazing. [20:08] Now, we say, give us a little hand during this period of time, because this is caused [20:14] by Democrat terrorists. [20:15] These people are sick. [20:16] They don't care about our country. [20:17] They don't care about people. [20:18] But what it's all about, really, is they want to have open borders, and they want to have [20:19] criminals come into our country so they can get more votes, because they're losing votes [20:20] fast. [20:21] Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. [20:22] And now, I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population. [20:23] And that's bad for them. [20:24] They always had it. [20:25] Now, they don't have it anymore. [20:26] These are people who don't have it anymore. [20:27] They don't have it anymore. [20:28] They don't have it anymore. [20:29] They don't have it anymore. [20:30] They don't have it anymore. [20:31] They don't have it anymore. [20:32] They don't have it anymore. [20:33] These are people that want our country to fail, and the voters see that. [20:41] Thank you very much. [20:42] Thank you. [20:43] Thank you, Mr. President.