Trump speaks from Oval Office

[0:00] and he is he's a fantastic person it was just he was a fantastic man he was [0:05] actually a great politician he got along with almost everybody and when he didn't [0:10] get along they knew it he was he was tough but he was a he was a good man he [0:16] was very much in favor of the Save America Act he called me about that we [0:20] were talking about that and some other things but he he just felt tired and but [0:25] he felt fine and then this horrible thing happened just a short time [0:29] after it so it's terrible I just want to pay our respects Iran has agreed to deal [0:38] and walked away from it have you reached the conclusion that a negotiated [0:43] settlement won't be able to happen no I never reached that conclusion but we're [0:47] hitting them very heavy tonight as you know we're hitting we have tremendous [0:51] amounts of ammunition we have numbers that we haven't had in years and we're [0:56] hitting them very hard and it'll continue and we'll see what happens but [0:59] we're knocking out all of their offensive capability and we're controlling [1:05] the Straits we're putting the blockade back and it's a blockade not for anybody [1:09] but Iran in other words anybody doing business with Iran can't go through [1:12] everyone else will be able to go through but so it's a block it's a very strong [1:16] blockade the blockade was probably more effective even than hitting them but I [1:20] think the combination is the thing that that really does it but you think the deal is still possible you think they'll return to the [1:26] you think the deal is possible sure I do but Mr. President you noted the United States is bombing [1:30] Iran again I mean that you've been bombing [1:32] Iran for months now is this just the new normal for the American people well you [1:36] know we're in Vietnam for 19 years we're here for four months so I think we've done a lot we've [1:41] knocked out their Navy in a period of one month we knocked out their Air Force [1:45] Air Force Air Force is non-existent we knocked out most of their missiles most of [1:49] their drones we knocked out their drone manufacturing capability about 92% their [1:55] missile capability for manufacturing we knocked out 89% and they have a little [2:02] capability but they don't have any capability for us this is almost a [2:06] military skirmish now with all of that being said you have to get people that want [2:12] to make something we had to deal with them two days ago and then they said oh we can't [2:16] make that deal we have to negotiate it further and this is what they've done for 47 years the [2:22] difference is nobody negotiated like I do and this should have been done by Bush and [2:28] Obama and Biden and people before them frankly it's 47 years they've been ripping off [2:35] everybody and really hurt again killing thousands of people so they killed 52,000 [2:40] protesters but they killed many many people with Soleimani who I killed in the [2:46] first term Soleimani killed many people many many people and not only killed when [2:51] you see a young former soldier walking around with no legs no arms a face that's [2:57] been horribly horribly hurt that was done by Iran that was done by Soleimani who was a [3:04] person that was very evil he was an evil genius he was looking to take out a lot of our [3:10] military installations in Iraq and Iran and I got him before he got us so we have to do [3:17] what we're doing and the strait is open it will be open we've cut down their capability very [3:23] substantially but they you know they're going to fight for a while our military has done a [3:28] fantastic job and you know the bottom line though and I say it to everybody and I say it as much as [3:34] you want to listen Iran will not have a nuclear weapon if we didn't bomb them with the b2 bombers [3:39] that plane right there if we didn't bomb them and they would have had a nuclear weapon long ago one [3:46] month within one month from the day we bombed them they would have had if we didn't do it they would [3:50] have had a nuclear weapon if they had a nuclear weapon Israel would no longer be with us and the [3:56] Middle East probably would no longer be with us because you saw they sent missiles to five different [4:01] countries that never even knew they were involved because they're stone cold crazy they are crazy [4:07] and we're not going to put it up yeah I want to be reimbursed because we're protecting a very rich [4:12] part portion of the world we're spending money and so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for [4:18] protection we're protecting by the countries that we're helping for instance you look at the five [4:25] countries you have Saudi Arabia you have UAE you have Qatar or Qatar as I always say you have Qatar [4:32] Bahrain and by the way you have others you have Kuwait and you have others and they will do very [4:39] well but we think it's appropriate that we don't need them you know we have more oil than any other [4:43] country in the world when you add Venezuela has which has been amazing when you which has tremendous [4:49] amounts of oil that we control when you add Venezuela and everything else we have more than 50% of the [4:56] world supply we don't need it but we need it from the standpoint of protecting allies etc etc including [5:01] Israel including Saudi Arabia including Qatar including UAE we're protecting all of them and we've done a [5:10] very effective job so four months ago these people had military that was very strong by far the strongest [5:18] probably in the Middle East they were called the bully of the Middle East now they don't have a [5:22] Navy they have 159 ships underwater they had a total of 159 ships now every one of them is underwater they [5:29] had 230 airplanes attack planes they're all gone they're all they're gone they had tremendous radar it's all [5:37] gone they had tremendous anti-aircraft it's all gone sadly their leadership is all gone they had their first tier [5:45] leaders are all dead their second tier leaders are all dead their third tier tier leaders who we're [5:51] dealing with more or less some of them are already gone and then you read fake news like your your network [5:58] CNN which is fake news you read them you have them say well actually aren't they doing quite well let [6:04] me just say they have now inflation of over 300 percent four months ago that inflation of five percent now [6:11] they're over 300 could be 350 percent they made a deal they broke it probably ten times and they killed a [6:22] lot of people they killed our people but the protesters what they've done to the protesters 52,000 have you [6:30] ever seen any of the burial lots where they're doing where they're burying the protesters they killed 52,000 [6:35] protesters and on my watch they can't do any of that so we have them in a position that they don't have [6:43] any military there's not a thing they can do about it all they have is fake news because they have [6:48] the fake news would rather see us lose the war then win the war which is really treasonous which is [6:55] really treasonous in a certain way so we're doing another very major attack tonight they want to make [7:01] a deal they came back we made a deal two days ago and they want to make a deal they've been negotiating for [7:06] 47 years but nobody's ever hit them militarily we're hitting them very hard thank you very much [7:12] everybody thank you thank you press thank you thank you so much we're talking thank you guys [7:27] we're talking about thank you thank you guys keep going thank you guys keep going thank you [7:33] thank you guys thank you guys thank you