President Trump Takes Questions About Iran, ICE On Flight Back From G7

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President Trump holds a press gaggle on Air Force One.

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00:00How's it going?

00:02It's going well. Did everybody have a good time?

00:04Did you have a good time?

00:06I did. I always have a good time.

00:08Hi, Jennifer.

00:10You just posted right before we took off that you're not leaving because of a ceasefire.

00:14Can you elaborate?

00:16We're looking at better than a ceasefire.

00:18We're not looking for a ceasefire. I didn't say I was looking for a ceasefire.

00:21That was Emmanuel. Nice guy.

00:23But he doesn't get it right too often.

00:25But we're not looking. We're looking for better than a ceasefire.

00:29You're looking for getting into this more.

00:31You're not going to invest in this conflict at this stage.

00:34Are you going to do anything more for Israel right now?

00:37We're doing pretty well. Right now we're doing pretty well.

00:40Remember, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:43It's very simple.

00:45We don't have to go too deep into it.

00:47They just can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:49What was the thinking on the call for Tehran to evacuate?

00:52Is there a threat or is there incoming?

00:54What was the thinking on the full evacuation?

00:56I want people to be safe.

00:58And that's always possible.

01:00A thing like that could happen.

01:02I just want people to be safe.

01:04Is there any new concern about U.S. troops or assets in the region at all today?

01:09We have great people. They know how to protect themselves.

01:12And when you say better, what specifically do you mean?

01:15They do anything to our people.

01:17We'll come down so hard.

01:18And then that loves her off so beautifully.

01:21Now, they, I think they know not to touch our troops.

01:27Are you sending the Vice?

01:29Yeah.

01:30When our troops are ready.

01:31When you say better.

01:32Do you want to send the Vice President and Steve Wyckoff?

01:34There's reports that you want to send the Vice President and Steve Wyckoff to meet with the Iranians and have discussions?

01:40Is that something you're considering?

01:41I may.

01:42I'm not sure yet.

01:43I may.

01:44Depends on what happens when I get back.

01:45What specifically is better than a ceasefire?

01:47What are you looking for here?

01:49A real end.

01:50Not a ceasefire.

01:51An end.

01:52So something that will be permanent.

01:53Yeah.

01:54Or giving up entirely.

01:55That's okay, too.

01:56Are you close there?

01:57Are you possible?

01:58Is that possible in the next 24, 48 hours?

01:59Certainly possible.

02:00A complete give up.

02:01That's possible, yeah.

02:02Has the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense drawn up plans for you if

02:15Iran were to attack U.S. bases or do any damage to U.S. bases?

02:19I can't do that.

02:20I just can't do that.

02:21Can I ask you, because there's been some skepticism, is there any guarantee that if the

02:26U.S. did get involved militarily that a U.S. bomb could destroy Iran's nuclear program

02:31and facilities?

02:32Everything or anything or life, you know that.

02:35Look at you, right?

02:37There's no guarantee.

02:38But you're saying a guarantee on what?

02:40Do you think if the U.S. got involved militarily, it would actually wipe out Iran's nuclear program?

02:45Or where's your assessment of that?

02:47I hope their program's going to be wiped out long before then.

02:50But they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

02:53What can you do?

02:54Do you have any reason to believe the Israelis are going to slow down, or are they going to

02:57hit the accelerator right now because they've got superiority?

03:00You're going to find out over the next two days, right?

03:02You're going to find out.

03:03Has the Gang of Eight...

03:04Nobody's slowed up so far.

03:05Has the Gang of Eight been notified about what's coming in the next couple days?

03:09We'll be talking to them.

03:11What can you do?

03:12It's not necessary.

03:13What can you do in Washington that you wouldn't do in Canada?

03:16Just be a little bit, I think, more well-versed.

03:22Not having to use telephones so much, because I don't believe in telephones.

03:26Because people like you listen to them, you know.

03:29So, being on the scene is much better.

03:32And we did everything I had to do with the G7.

03:35We had a good G7.

03:36We signed the deal with the European Union.

03:40Phase one of a deal.

03:42But we signed the deal with the UK.

03:44And the UK is really great.

03:47We were very far down the line with a lot of deals.

03:52I mean, look, we're actually finished with every deal, if you really think about it.

03:56Because all I have to do is say, this is what you're going to pay.

03:58But it's nice to be nice.

04:00Did Secretary Bessett stay behind as your representative?

04:03Yeah.

04:04Okay.

04:05Anybody else?

04:06Yeah, a couple of people.

04:07Can I ask you where?

04:08There we go.

04:09Who else has a question?

04:10I don't know if the CNN thing is.

04:12Mr. President, you talked about the European Union.

04:16Can you tell us what the status is on talks on those who signed with the UK today?

04:21I don't feel that they're offering a fair deal yet.

04:25You know, they've been very tough over the years.

04:28If you look at the European Union, they formed in order to hurt the United States on trade.

04:33And we're either going to make a good deal or they'll just make whatever we say they have to make.

04:37What about the Japanese?

04:38Sir, you met briefly with Prime Minister Oshima?

04:40He had a great conversation.

04:42I thought he was terrific, actually.

04:44You know, I was very friendly with Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister.

04:48He was a great man.

04:50But I think he's going to do a very good job.

04:53Do you think you have a chance of a deal there?

04:55A chance?

04:56Yeah, they're tough.

04:58The Japanese are tough.

05:00But ultimately, you have to understand, we're just going to send a letter and say this is what you're going to pay.

05:04Otherwise, you don't have to do business with us.

05:06But there's a chance of a deal.

05:08They want traders to the auto tariffs as well. Is that on the table?

05:11Anything else?

05:13It's a drone attack in Kyiv.

05:15What's your response to that?

05:16It looks like 14 or so.

05:17A drone attack, a Russian drone attack in Kyiv.

05:19When?

05:20Very recently.

05:21It seems it's 14 civilians in Harbinville.

05:24I don't see this.

05:25I'll come back to see it.

05:26It sounds like it.

05:28I'll have to look at it.

05:30The joint statement on the Middle East, what changed about that that convinced you to sign on to it?

05:35The G7 joint statement?

05:37Well, I haven't seen the statement yet.

05:40But I authorized them to say certain things.

05:42I don't know whether or not they said it correctly.

05:44But I think they probably did.

05:46We had a good meeting.

05:48I think that Canadian representatives were very good.

05:53He did a very good job.

05:55How was your meeting with him?

05:58How were the trade talks looking with the Canadians?

06:00I think we had a lot of good talk from a lot of people.

06:02You said he's looking for something more complex.

06:04Can you tell me what you mean by that?

06:06They get complex on the deals and they never get done.

06:08And we need speed.

06:10You know, we're dealing with really, if you think about it, probably 175 countries.

06:15And most of them are going to just be sent a letter saying, it'll be an honor to trade with you.

06:20And here's what you're going to have to pay to do it.

06:23We're making a lot of money.

06:24You know, we took in 88 billion in tariffs.

06:27And I was called by Congress about two nights ago saying, we don't understand the numbers are so far off.

06:35And I said, is that good or bad?

06:37He said, well, we're taking in so much more income than we thought.

06:41We've never seen anything like this.

06:43What is it?

06:44I said, check the tariff column.

06:46And it's about $88 billion that they've never seen before.

06:51And that's nothing compared to what it's going to be.

06:53You've got other tariffs coming down the pipe here.

06:56What's the timing on those things like lumber, copper, pharmaceutical drugs?

07:01We're going to be doing pharmaceuticals very soon.

07:03That's going to bring all the companies back into America.

07:06A little more focusing on source tax.

07:09Back in.

07:10At least partially back in.

07:12You know, they left us because we had residents and didn't know what the hell they were doing.

07:16We should have never lost our car business.

07:19We lost 52% of our car business over the years.

07:22We should have never lost it.

07:24All they had to do is say, if you make a car, you're going to leave us.

07:28You're going to make a car.

07:29You're going to pay a 25, 30% tariff.

07:31And they would have never left.

07:33Nobody said that to anybody until I came along.

07:36What do you think security is saying that ICE is going to start enforcing in hotels and farms again?

07:41Is that a change of course from last week?

07:44We're going to look everywhere.

07:46But I think the biggest problem is the inner cities.

07:49We're looking everywhere.

07:50Look.

07:51What they let into this country, what Biden let in or allowed to — I don't think he knew what the hell he was doing, frankly.

07:57But whoever worked for him.

07:59What they let into this country, we're never going to forget it.

08:04They let prisoners in.

08:06They let gang members in, drug dealers in, the mentally insane into our country.

08:12No, we're going to get them out.

08:14There are far more in the inner cities, Democrat-run cities, sadly.

08:20I mean, I'm just kidding.

08:21There's far more in there than you have on a farm or someplace.

08:26No one's getting exemptions anymore.

08:27Everyone is being looked at.

08:30But the bigger problem is the cities right now.

08:33That's where you're at.

08:34And that tends to be where the really bad ones are, the murderers.

08:38You know, they've let in 11,888 murderers.

08:43People that killed people.

08:45Biden allowed that to happen.

08:47So, the Democrats allowed it to happen.

08:50Biden didn't know he was even around.

08:53Question on your Senate confirmations.

08:55With all the military actions, there are only three of your six sub-Cabinet members at the Defense Department.

09:01Yeah, I can see the nominations go faster.

09:03The Democrats hold up our nominations.

09:05Are you talking to Senator Thune about that?

09:07John Thune's doing a very good job.

09:09You know, I've got a lot of people, but he's doing a very good job.

09:13The Democrats, if we had George Washington up for approval, the Democrats would take maximum time,

09:20every hour, every minute, to delay him as long as possible.

09:24If we had a combination of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, they would go max, it's called max time.

09:31You always said that you don't believe Iran should be able to have a nuclear weapon.

09:35But how close do you personally think that they were to getting one?

09:39Because Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.

09:45I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.

09:48You were at this beautiful scene for the meeting, and you said a lot about acquiring Canada as a state.

09:54Did anybody talk to you about that, and where are you now?

09:56It's not a much better deal from Canada, but, you know, it's up to them.

10:00They're going to have to pay a lot of tariffs and things.

10:03They're going to have to pay a lot of money for the Dome, for the Iron Dome.

10:06They want to be a part of it. We may make a separate deal on that, by the way.

10:10We discussed that, yeah, for the Dome. That may be a separate deal.

10:14They want to be in $71 billion. They're going to pay.

10:17There could be a Dome thing separate from the tariff.

10:19In the Dome, yeah. They'll be under the Dome.

10:21Are you open to negotiating with the Iranians right now, or do you want to wait?

10:27I've been negotiating. I told them to do the deal. They should have done the deal.

10:32The cities have been blown to pieces. They've lost a lot of people.

10:36They should have done the deal. I told them, do the deal.

10:39So, I don't know. I'm not too much in the mood to negotiate now.

10:42Do you think you'll be in this situation room tomorrow at any point?

10:45Yeah. Tomorrow morning, girl. While you're sleeping.

10:49Goodbye, everybody.

10:51Evacuate Tehran. You know how you posted, evacuate?

10:54I think it's safe.

10:56A lot of bad things happening there.

10:58I think it's safe for them to evacuate.

11:01On Minnesota, there were a lot of horrific details that came out today about the suspect who's been charged there.

11:06Have you called the governor yet or been able to speak to any of them?

11:09I don't really call him. He's, look, he appointed this guy to a position.

11:13I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I'm not calling him.

11:17Why would I call him? I could call him, say, hi, how you doing?

11:20The guy doesn't have a clue. He's a mess.

11:25So, you know, I could be nice and calm, but why waste time?

11:28On the beautiful bill, sir, can you talk about what the Senate...

11:31We're doing well with the big...

11:32I've been looking at the Senate. They proposed some change.

11:34The great, big, beautiful bill, right?

11:35Are you okay with their changes?

11:37I hear, so far, it's going well.

11:40Are you going to extend that?

11:41I don't know if it doesn't get approved.

11:4368% tax increase, and I think the Democrats would have to, you know, they'd be...

11:50Because we won't get Democrats support. Think of it.

11:52We're giving the biggest tax cut in history.

11:55Instead, you have the biggest tax increase in history.

11:5868%.

11:59Are you going to extend the TikTok deadline again that's coming up in the jail?

12:04Probably.

12:05Probably have to get China approval. I think we're getting it.

12:07You have the legal basis to do that?

12:08I think President Xi will ultimately approve it.

12:10And you have the legal basis to do that, to keep extending it?

12:12Yeah.

12:13We do.

12:14Two more on Iran.

12:15Is there any sign that North Korea is getting more involved in helping Iran?

12:20Or is Russia getting more involved with military assistance?

12:22I haven't seen it.

12:23No.

12:24I don't think anybody wants to get involved.

12:25It's a mess.

12:26What about American citizens, U.S. citizens who are trying to leave the area with the airport

12:30shut down, Ben-Gurion shut down?

12:32We're doing the best we can.

12:33We're working on that.

12:34We're doing the best we can.

12:35Thank you, everybody, very much.

12:36Have a good night.

12:38It was very good.

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