Trump says going after Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘not a big deal’: Can do it in 1 hour

[0:00] Joining us live on the phone tonight, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. [0:04] Mr. President, sir, thank you for joining us. [0:07] How many stops, how many teller rallies did you have in total? [0:11] Well, I did 31 in 27 days. [0:15] That's not bad. How about teller rallies? [0:18] Teller rallies today I did 15 and yesterday I did 12. [0:22] And we're moving along pretty good, Sean, I will tell you. [0:26] But I'm shutting it down after your show, although I think I'm doing Fox and Friends tomorrow morning, actually. [0:31] But I'm essentially shutting it down now. We'll see. [0:34] We've had a great presidency. We've had a great two years. [0:37] I appreciate what Dan just said, but we've had a great, we've had a great two years. [0:42] I don't think anyone's ever had two years like this. [0:45] We've created, Sean, we've created $25 trillion worth of wealth for our country. [0:50] Think of that. It's unheard of. [0:52] I'm going to scroll a list of your accomplishments for one reason and one reason only. [0:56] I don't think the rest of the media ever will. [0:58] Number one, I've just went through with Dan Bongino what the stated and printed DSA agenda is. [1:06] What makes this so interesting is because we talked about historical trends in terms of midterms. [1:11] You're very aware of them. [1:12] And you decided to fight anyway. [1:15] And, you know, part of the narrative, I think, has the media is unwilling to ever say you do anything good. [1:22] And that's why I try to offer some balance and put it up there and we'll do that now. [1:27] And part of the reason is I don't think they realize what makes this unprecedented is we've never had a political party that's radicalized. [1:34] Your thoughts? [1:35] Well, they are radicalized and the media is very dishonest. [1:38] I mean, you have a certain percentage, but it's small where they give it truth and they speak truth. [1:45] And that's a great thing. [1:46] But it's very small. [1:47] And, you know, you read, like, the New York Times is so dishonest. [1:51] They'll take something that's good and make it bad or, at best, if you're lucky, if they make it neutral. [1:56] You know, we did something called favored nations on drugs. [1:59] We had, I had the highest, the United States, the highest drug prices in the history of, there's never been higher in the world. [2:08] We had the highest drug prices in the world and now we have the lowest drug prices in the world, which is going to have a huge impact on health care and everything else. [2:17] It's drugs. [2:18] It's a big percentage. [2:19] But we took the highest and now we have the lowest drug prices in the world. [2:24] I had to get all these countries by, frankly, the threat of tariffs and other things because they wouldn't do it just. [2:30] They had to double and triple their drug prices in order for us to do this. [2:34] And what we've done, and nobody wants to write about it. [2:36] It's the biggest thing to happen. [2:37] And we've reduced it, think of that, from the highest prices in the world for 50 years to the lowest prices in the world as of today. [2:45] Mr. President, you know, I think if you really keep it simple, the borders were open. [2:51] The borders were not closed. [2:52] We were lied to for four straight years. [2:54] You gave us the largest tax cut in American history. [2:58] No tax tips, overtime, Social Security. [3:01] And that's great for American families. [3:03] We now know the result of that, and that is that the average family has taken an average $3,000 home more per year than they were taking before. [3:12] That means a lot to families. [3:14] We know the Census Bureau pointed out Hispanic and African-American poverty hit an all-time low. [3:20] Incomes for the lowest 25 percent are now rising to the highest levels ever, median income up $87,600. [3:28] A lot of accomplishments, and, yeah, most favored nation drug prices on top of it, energy dominance on top of it. [3:37] And then we had GDP growth numbers last week, and we have manufacturing numbers today. [3:42] What is your message about the economy and the American people? [3:46] Because economies are like the Titanic. [3:49] You don't turn it on a dime. [3:50] Yeah. [3:51] Well, we have $22.5 trillion coming in and building new car plants, building pharmaceutical plants. [4:00] If you look at Eli Lilly and Merck, Pfizer, all of them, they're building massive plants, hundreds of billions of dollars. [4:06] We're going to make our own drugs. [4:07] And, you know, right now we get them from China. [4:09] And they give a certain period of time, and then they get massive tariffs. [4:13] In other words, no tariffs for the first year, small tariffs for the second. [4:17] Third year, you go up to 200 percent, you know, so that everybody's building like crazy. [4:21] We're building more plants and factories right now in the United States than any time ever in history. [4:27] And we're leading with superintelligence, SI. [4:30] We're leading by a lot over China. [4:32] President Xi left two weeks ago, and he couldn't believe it. [4:36] He greeted me by saying, wow, have you done a good job? [4:38] He said it in Chinese. [4:40] He had an interpreter, but that's okay. [4:42] But, you know, with all the things you said, there's one thing that nobody talks about. [4:47] We are respected again all over the world. [4:49] We were laughed at two years ago. [4:51] We were laughed at for four years like we were fools. [4:54] And every country respects us, and every country. [4:58] I mean, they've said, we thought, King of Saudi Arabia said it, many, many leaders said it, that during the two-year period, during that period of time two years ago, they, everybody. [5:11] I mean, it's like a universal statement from every leader. [5:14] They said, we were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. [5:18] They say it all the time, Sean. [5:20] We're the hottest. [5:20] We are the hottest country. [5:22] We have the strongest military. [5:23] I built that during my first term. [5:25] They gave a lot of it away, I must tell you, to Ukraine. [5:29] And, you know, they could have charged the European Union, but they didn't. [5:32] But I do. [5:33] But we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. [5:36] We're respected by every country in the world. [5:39] And that's something a lot of people don't say. [5:42] But if you ask the head of NATO, Mark Rutte, if you ask anybody, they'll tell you there's no country respected like the USA, again, after many, many years. [5:52] Mr. President, maybe one of the more controversial decisions you made was with Iran. [5:57] And I want to ask you about it. [5:59] I don't know how you said no forever wars evolved into no military action, because your first term belies that claim. [6:10] When you took out the ISIS caliphate and you took out Soleimani and Baghdadi, dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, no forever wars does not mean no military might. [6:21] And it was Steve Whitcoff on this very program that said, Sean, and everybody else that gets the presidential daily briefing that I know, that I interviewed, said the same thing, that you had no choice. [6:35] That both Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury were to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and that this will come to an end. [6:42] How can you assure the American people on that point tonight? [6:45] Well, if you take a look, when they were, you know, the JCPOA, that was the Obama so-called nuclear deal, it was a disaster, it was the road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. [6:56] And Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror anywhere in the world, and we're talking about for the last 50 years. [7:04] What they did, they've killed so many of our soldiers, so many people. [7:07] People not only are people, but if you think of the SS coal, that was them. [7:11] They've done this for years, and it was time for us to stop them. [7:16] And we had a great period about seven months ago. [7:20] I said, you know, we're going to have to do a little detour. [7:22] We just got the best numbers, although I must tell you our stock market's higher now than it was before this started, and our 401ks are higher. [7:30] But I told my people we're going to have to do a little detour, a little journey to Iran, because we cannot let Iran, an evil nation. [7:36] We've killed many of our people, Soleimani's an example, no longer with us, but killed many of our people. [7:43] We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon, and we won't. [7:45] But think of a war. [7:47] So we have a war with Venezuela. [7:49] It lasted much less than one day, and we have hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into our country, and we have total control of Venezuela, and we get along great with them. [7:59] We put our people, we put people there, and we have, you know, tremendous oil. [8:05] When you add up the United States oil and the Venezuela, we have over 50 percent of the world's oil. [8:11] But think of it differently. [8:13] We have now more than Saudi Arabia, Russia, and take the next largest country combined. [8:19] And nobody even thought that was possible. [8:22] I got Greenland. [8:23] Greenland, everybody said, oh, they'll never get it, they'll never. [8:25] We got Greenland. [8:26] You know that. [8:27] We got Greenland, we signed with Denmark, the European Union was great, they were all good, they wanted to make me happy. [8:33] We got Greenland, it's worth trillions of dollars, and so many other things we've done. [8:38] But think about the war you're talking about. [8:40] We bombed out with Midnight Hammer, we bombed out all of their potential nuclear power. [8:45] Now, we might have to go after pickaxe, but that's not a big deal. [8:49] We can do it in, literally, we can do that in one hour, okay, as soon as we want, at any time we want. [8:56] You know, look, their military is gone, their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone. [9:03] They have some missiles, but they don't have many, and they have very little capacity to build more. [9:07] They have drones, but they don't have very many, they have very little capacity to build more. [9:12] What we've done is amazing. [9:13] Now, tell me about the war. [9:14] We haven't been, I mean, what's a war? [9:17] A war is a war. [9:18] A war is fighting. [9:19] Take a look at World War I, World War II. [9:23] These were, when was the last time you saw us fighting with them? [9:26] We go months and months, we talk. [9:28] They're in not a good negotiating position. [9:31] Their economy is cratering because of us. [9:34] They have 301% inflation. [9:37] They don't have money. [9:38] They're not paying their soldiers. [9:39] They're not paying their police. [9:41] We're not fighting a war. [9:41] The universe says, you're at war. [9:43] Well, when was the last time we fired anything? [9:46] This isn't a war. [9:47] This is a very soft war. [9:48] We did have a big hit on them, and we hit them very hard, and that took out their Navy, 159 ships a gun. [9:55] But this isn't like a war that's going on. [9:58] This isn't a war rage. [9:59] It could happen if they don't make a deal, but they want to make a deal very badly, and there's a very good chance we make a deal. [10:06] But here's the thing. [10:08] We're dealing from total strength. [10:09] We can end it at any time. [10:12] If I can make a deal, I'd rather do it save a lot of lives. [10:15] But think about a war. [10:17] This isn't a war. [10:18] I hear some of these guys. [10:20] I heard a very stupid congressman on Fox, and I think it was Fox and Friends, saying about he spent $30 billion on this war with Iran. [10:30] Well, that's peanuts because we've made that many times over just with Venezuela. [10:35] The purchase of, we didn't purchase, we didn't pay anything, but if you look at Greenland, it's worth $5 trillion, $5 trillion with a T. [10:46] This is peanuts compared to the kind of money that we've made. [10:48] Also, we've created $25 trillion worth of worth since I entered office on January 20th. [10:56] Well, I'll add. [10:56] We've created $25 trillion. [10:59] Think of it. [11:00] I mean, nobody's ever heard of these. [11:01] No other country has done what we've done in the last two years. [11:04] $25 trillion worth of wealth, you could call worth wealth. [11:12] Nobody's ever done a thing like that. [11:13] No other country has ever done a thing. [11:16] So this is not much of a war, Sean, because it hasn't been shooting for months. [11:21] Let me ask you one last question, sir. [11:23] You've been out. [11:24] You've been on the road, hitting it hard, and midterm elections are notoriously turn-out elections. [11:31] The importance for everybody watching tonight that we need big turnouts in all of these states tomorrow. [11:38] Your last word. [11:40] Well, when I'm on the ballot, as you know, I've won every time, and we get 50% more votes than when I'm not on the ballot. [11:47] So I'm just asking everybody to pretend that I'm on the ballot, and in a way I am, because no tax on tips, [11:52] no tax on Social Security for our great seniors, no tax on overtime, all the things that we've done. [11:58] Everything gets erased. [11:59] The estate tax is gone for the farmers and for the small businesses. [12:04] So many things we've done. [12:05] All of that's going to be wiped out. [12:07] We have the hottest country anywhere in the world. [12:10] They've got to get out. [12:11] Pretend them on the ballot. [12:12] Do whatever you want, but we have to vote. [12:13] If our people vote, we win in a landslide. [12:17] Mr. President, we really appreciate you taking the time this election, Eve, and thank you for joining us. [12:23] Thank you very much, Sean. [12:24] Bye. [12:25] All right, thanks for watching. [12:26] Check out my new podcast, Hanging Out With Me, Sean Hannity. [12:29] The big interviews, the debates you won't get anywhere else. [12:32] Like and subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. [12:36] Thank you.