Trump holds news conference as G7 summit in France wraps up

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