Trump says Iran deal 'set out everything we set to accomplish'

[0:00] On Sunday, we reached an agreement with Iran that achieves everything we set out to accomplish, [0:06] everything and much more, ending the current conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz [0:12] and preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. [0:17] That's what it was all about. [0:18] That was about 99 percent. [0:21] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [0:22] They can't develop it, buy it. [0:26] They can never have a nuclear weapon. [0:27] At the same time, with this announcement or close to it, as people started to think it was going to happen [0:36] when Iran was making some very positive statements, the stock market has surged to record highs, [0:43] picking up thousands of points over the last short period of time, thousands of points. [0:48] And oil is dropping like it has never dropped before at levels. [0:55] It went in numbers, down seven dollars, down eight dollars. [1:03] They've never seen anything like that. [1:05] But if we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years. [1:15] You would never have the Hormuz straight open. [1:18] You would never have success. [1:20] Your market would have, instead of going up at levels that nobody's ever seen before, [1:25] would go down at levels that nobody ever saw before, maybe except for 1929 or whatever. [1:32] And, you know, all the tough guys, tough guys don't realize that this wasn't a three-month deal. [1:37] This was years in the making. [1:39] You know why? [1:41] Because I was the one that killed General Soleimani. [1:43] And if I didn't kill General Soleimani, we probably wouldn't be talking right now about this deal, [1:50] because he was a mad genius. [1:53] They never were able to replace him. [1:57] But a lot of people forget that. [1:59] The tough guys, you know, the tough guys that would drive the country right down the tubes. [2:04] The past two days have provided a chance to discuss the details of this historic agreement [2:09] with many of our closest friends and allies, including the G7 nations, [2:13] and many presidents and prime ministers, as you saw. [2:17] Prime Minister Modi was here. [2:19] We had a long talk. [2:19] He's a great guy. [2:21] They are thrilled that we made a deal. [2:23] Every one of them. [2:24] There's not one nation that came to us and said, [2:27] please, sir, keep dropping bombs on them. [2:31] Please keep dropping bombs. [2:32] The stupid people say that. [2:35] But I'm thrilled to report. [2:37] And by the way, those last two days were brutal. [2:41] $200 million worth of bombs. [2:45] And, you know, it is expensive, too, by the way, aside from everything else. [2:49] And they knew I was coming for a third night. [2:51] We informed them we're coming for a third night. [2:53] They didn't have their Navy. [2:55] It sunk. [2:56] They didn't have their Air Force. [2:57] It's gone. [2:58] Not one plane. [2:59] They didn't have anti-aircraft equipment. [3:02] So we got free reign. [3:05] They didn't have their leaders. [3:06] But they have a new group of leaders that I think is, [3:09] actually, I think they're smarter. [3:12] I think they're very smart. [3:13] I think they're far less radicalized. [3:16] And I think they're really good. [3:22] They love their country. [3:23] You know, you talk about regime change. [3:25] Nobody will say that. [3:26] But I guess that's, look, one set of leaders is all gone. [3:31] The second set of leaders is all gone. [3:34] The third set of leaders is a little bit gone. [3:36] But for the most part, and frankly, I think that's regime change. [3:41] I think they're going to behave much differently. [3:43] I think they see a different way of life that they were never exposed to. [3:48] So the one thing I didn't want to see is I didn't want to see economic catastrophe. [3:54] If you kept this going, that could have happened. [3:57] But all I know is every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship. [4:04] It never went down. [4:05] They didn't like it. [4:06] The people, you know, the stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including the people on this stage, other than me, of course. [4:14] Let's see. [4:18] I don't know. [4:18] What do you think, Scott? [4:19] Is the stock market more brilliant than you? [4:21] No, sir. [4:22] Oh, that's a terrible statement. [4:25] All right. [4:26] The stock market is quite brilliant. [4:29] And every time we said something amazing, like we're going to settle, it would go up. [4:37] And every time we said something negative, like, guess what? [4:40] We're not going to be able to settle. [4:42] It would go down very big, Peter. [4:44] Very, very big. [4:45] Tells you something. [4:47] And, you know, I've studied presidents, some good, some bad, some great. [4:53] Not too many are great. [4:55] And some really bad. [4:57] We had one just recently. [4:59] And the one president I did not want to be was the late, great Herbert Hoover. [5:05] I didn't want that. [5:07] And who knows what would have happened. [5:09] But bad things happen. [5:11] So the past few days have provided a chance to discuss the details of the deal with the closest friends and allies, [5:18] the heads of countries, they were all here, a lot of them, far more than the seven, as you know, a lot of them. [5:25] And they put out a statement, I think President Macron, who did a great job, by the way, did a really fan of him and Bridget. [5:34] They did a great job, but they all put out statements saying they love this deal because they want to see it over. [5:42] And they love the fact that the hormones, don't forget, if we were going to drop bombs, let's say we want another month, another two, three months, maybe weeks, could be another three months, could be whatever. [5:58] What do you have left? [5:59] That may be nothing. [6:00] But you don't have, the strait will never be open because people that own billion dollar ships, these ships cost a billion dollars. [6:08] They don't like sailing ships or having their ships participate when you go up the coast and you go through the strait and there are rockets flying over your head. [6:21] They want to protect their billion dollar investment. [6:25] You wouldn't have oil for maybe years. [6:28] These are stupid people. [6:29] But nobody was tougher than me. [6:32] Nobody hit Soleimani. [6:34] You know, when I hit Soleimani, people thought that was the biggest thing to happen in the Middle East for 50 years. [6:38] That was the biggest event. [6:39] He was the boss of Iran and respected, but he was a mad genius. [6:48] He was a genius, the father of the roadside bomb. [6:51] When you see young men, and in some cases women, mostly men, walking around without legs, without arms, with a face that's been blown to smithereens, it's Soleimani 95 percent. [7:04] 96.2, they say, or something. [7:07] Ninety-five percent. [7:09] That was Soleimani did it. [7:11] Happened to come from Iran and I blew him up. [7:15] Do you remember that? [7:15] I blew him up in the valley of death. [7:18] He got off his plane and we followed him, and in all fairness, because they've been wonderful to me, Israel, but they didn't want to do that attack. [7:28] They were all set. [7:29] The night before the attack, they informed me they didn't want to do it, so I had to make a decision. [7:34] I made the decision to do it. [7:35] But they were, it was a joint venture, as we say in the real estate business. [7:41] That was a joint venture between Israel and us. [7:44] We studied it for a month. [7:45] We knew what plane he was going to be on. [7:47] Almost a month before, he only traveled on commercial airliners, big ones with lots of people, because he knew we wouldn't shoot him down. [7:53] They're very smart. [7:54] But we knew he was going to be on that plane. [7:57] Followed him. [7:58] And then Israel informed me that they won't do it, and I had to make a decision. [8:05] I had some very good generals, and not the ones you see on television, very good. [8:10] And I want to thank also Pete Hegseth and General Raisin Cain, who's phenomenal, okay? [8:15] These guys are phenomenal. [8:17] They can't be better. [8:18] But I had some good generals, and I said to them, well, if Israel's not going to do it, we're all prepared. [8:24] Do we do it? [8:25] Do you like doing it or not? [8:27] He said, sir, if you want to do it, we can do it. [8:29] How well? [8:30] We'll do it just as well or better. [8:32] Do it ourselves. [8:33] We don't need anybody. [8:34] So we took out Soleimani. [8:36] One of the biggest events to happen, the Middle East, maybe ever, but they say 50 years. [8:43] They say 100 years. [8:45] I was with the prime minister of Pakistan. [8:48] He said it's maybe the biggest event that has ever taken place. [8:52] Nobody could believe it. [8:53] So that's when it started. [8:55] It didn't start like three or four or five weeks ago.