Trump, Starmer Take Questions When UK PM Arrives At Trump's Scotland Golf Course

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President Trump welcomes UK PM Keir Starmer to Trump Turnberry Golf Courses in Scotland.

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00:00I don't know what to do.

05:30Thank you all very much.

07:15Yeah.

07:16Well, we've, as you know, given a lot of money to Gaza for food and everything else.

07:20A lot of that money is stolen by Hamas.

07:23And a lot of the food is stolen.

07:25But we're very much involved.

07:26involved, and I think it's one of the main reasons

07:28for our meeting today. Yeah, yeah, we're going to be discussing

07:30it today. We'll be talking about Gaza.

07:34Well, we want to get it going,

07:36but as you know, with Cambodia,

07:38we just did a, they just announced

07:40a very big, a very

07:42big

07:42peace.

07:46That was going to be a very bad

07:48war, and so we're

07:50honored we got involved, and it's

07:52essentially settled. I think they're

07:54going to be settling it today, so it went for

07:56a few days. That was going to go on for years.

07:58That could have gone on for years. Millions of people

08:00could have been killed. We ended the war,

08:02and we're very happy about it.

08:04The Prime Minister says that

08:06recognizing the Palestinian state would be a

08:08concrete step towards lasting peace.

08:10Do you agree with his position? Well, I'm not

08:12going to take a position. I don't mind him taking

08:14a position. I'm looking for

08:16getting people fed

08:18right now. To me, that's the

08:20number one position, because you have a lot of

08:22starving people. You have people that

08:23you know, the United States recently, just a couple

08:26of weeks ago, we gave 60 million

08:28dollars. It's a lot of money.

08:30No other nation gave money.

08:32I know the Prime Minister would if he knew about

08:34it, and he really knows about

08:36it now, because we're going to be discussing it.

08:38But we gave 60 million. Nobody said

08:40even thank you. You know, thanks.

08:42Somebody should say thank you.

08:44But other nations are going to

08:46have to step up. When I

08:48spoke to Ursula yesterday,

08:49she said that the

08:51European nations are going to step up very

08:53substantially, too.

08:55Can you discuss the importance of free speech today?

08:58Well, free speech is very important.

09:00I don't know if you're referring to any place in

09:01particular. Perhaps they are. But we've

09:04had free speech for a very, very long time

09:05here. So we're very proud about that.

09:07We'll protect it.

09:08What's your advice on a small boat's crisis?

09:10How would you deal with it?

09:11What's your advice on dealing with a small boat's

09:13crisis in this country?

09:15It's about the boats coming over the channel.

09:17So we're taking a lot of action to stop

09:19people coming over the channel

09:21who shouldn't be here.

09:22Stopping them coming in the first place.

09:24Well, immigration is a big

09:26factor. And I think,

09:28frankly, if they're coming from other

09:29countries and you don't know who they are,

09:31and are they coming from

09:33prisons? We have them where they came in

09:36from prisons. We're moving them all out.

09:37We had a border last June,

09:40just recent, you know, last month.

09:42We had zero people

09:44come into the country. Zero.

09:45Other than coming through legal means.

09:48If you're stopping

09:49immigration and stopping the wrong people,

09:52I give my hats are off

09:54to you. You're doing not a good thing.

09:55You're doing a fantastic thing.

09:57So I know nothing about the boats.

09:59But if the boats are loaded up with bad people,

10:02and they usually are, because, you know,

10:03other countries don't send their best.

10:06They send people that they don't want.

10:08And they're not stupid people.

10:10And they send the people that they don't want.

10:12And I've heard that you've taken

10:13a much stronger stance on the immigration.

10:15Yeah, we've done a lot of work

10:16stopping them coming.

10:16We just signed an agreement

10:17to return them.

10:20And we've returned 35,000,

10:22in fact, down to the first year

10:23of this Labour government,

10:24of people who shouldn't be in this country.

10:26So we're very pleased that we're getting on

10:28with returning people who've got

10:29no right to be here.

10:30That's great.

10:31As somebody that loves this,

10:32I love this country.

10:33My mother was born in, as you know,

10:35my mother was born in Scotland.

10:37And it's an incredible place,

10:38a beautiful place.

10:39And if that be the case,

10:41I congratulate you.

10:42That's exactly.

10:43Because, you know,

10:44Europe is going to,

10:45is a much different place

10:46than it was just five years ago,

10:4810 years ago.

10:49And they've got to get their act together.

10:51If they don't,

10:52you're not going to have Europe anymore,

10:53as you know it.

10:54And you can't do that.

10:56This is a magnificent part of the world,

10:59and you cannot ruin it.

11:00You cannot let people come in here illegally.

11:02And what happens is,

11:04there'll be murderers,

11:05there'll be drug dealers,

11:06there'll be all sorts of things

11:07that other countries don't want.

11:09And they send them to you,

11:10and they send them to us,

11:12and you've got to stop them.

11:13And I hear that you've taken

11:15a very strong stand on immigration.

11:17And taking a strong stand

11:18on immigration is imperative.

11:19I don't know.

11:26I mean, based on television,

11:27I would say not particularly,

11:29because those children look very hungry.

11:31But we're giving a lot of money

11:33and a lot of food.

11:34And other nations are now stepping up.

11:36I know that this nation is.

11:38It's a humanitarian crisis.

11:40It's an absolute catastrophe.

11:42And nobody wants to see that.

11:44And I think people in Britain

11:45are revolted at seeing

11:47what they're seeing on their screens.

11:48So we've got to get to that ceasefire.

11:50And thank you, Mr. President,

11:51for leading on that.

11:53And also to just get more and more aid in.

11:55And again, America's done a lot on this.

11:57A lot of countries have done a lot.

11:58We're now working with Jordan

12:00on getting direct aid drops in.

12:03But this is a desperate situation.

12:05Mr. President,

12:05do you think Israel has done all the candles

12:07for the civilian casualties again?

12:09Well, I think nobody's done

12:11anything great over there.

12:14The whole place is a mess.

12:16It'll get straightened out.

12:17But it's a mess.

12:19They have to get food and safety right now.

12:23And ultimately, look,

12:24Hamas did a horrible thing.

12:27And they paid a big price.

12:28But Hamas did a horrible thing.

12:30But I always said,

12:31when you get down to the last 20 or 10,

12:33they're down to 20.

12:34We got a lot of hostages out.

12:36And you helped us, by the way.

12:38But we got a lot of hostages out

12:40over the last six months that I've been in.

12:42I've been in office for six months now.

12:45And these hostages have been,

12:47I mean, many of them have come to the Oval Office

12:49and they thanked me so profusely.

12:51I said, you don't have to thank me.

12:53I did what I have to do.

12:54But I always said,

12:55when you get down to the final 20,

12:57they won't release them.

12:59Because that's like their shield.

13:01Very unfair.

13:02And so something's going to have to be done.

13:04And they were really unwilling to talk.

13:07But I've said that.

13:08You'll get down to the final 10 or 20.

13:10It turns out to be 20.

13:11I thought that would be the number.

13:12I said, they're not going to be dealing with us.

13:15And, you know, many of the hostages are now dead.

13:17You know that.

13:19And parents come up to me.

13:20A woman came up to me two weeks ago.

13:23She just wants her son back.

13:25And I said, how's he doing?

13:26My son's dead, sir.

13:27But he's with them.

13:28And we want the body.

13:30She wanted the body of this young boy,

13:32of her young, beautiful son,

13:34just as much as if he were alive.

13:36It was just as important.

13:37There was no difference.

13:39And it's a very,

13:41it's a tragic situation, frankly.

13:44But we got a lot out.

13:46And now, possibly,

13:48the fight will have to be a little bit different.

13:50But they have totally changed now.

13:51They don't want to give hostages.

13:55Very unfair.

13:56You have 20 living people.

13:58In this case, living.

13:59And you have many dead people, too,

14:01that they want to get in.

14:02It has been a long time, as well.

14:03Yeah.

14:04They have 20 living people.

14:06And I told Israel,

14:09I told Bibi,

14:10that you're going to have to now

14:12maybe do it a different way.

14:13Do you think a ceasefire is even possible,

14:15Mr. President?

14:16Yeah, a ceasefire is possible.

14:18But you have to get it,

14:19you have to end it.

14:21You're talking about with Israel.

14:22You're talking about there.

14:24Because we have many ceasefires going on.

14:26The whole world is.

14:26If I weren't around,

14:29you'd have right now six major wars going on.

14:32India would be fighting with Pakistan.

14:35You see what we just did yesterday

14:36with two nations that we're trading with.

14:39And during the trade,

14:40I said,

14:40I'm not going to do any trade deal

14:42unless you guys settle your differences.

14:43And we got it settled in 24 hours.

14:46I mean,

14:46they just announced it was settled,

14:48which is a tremendous thing.

14:50But Serbia,

14:51Kosovo is another one.

14:53We have many hotspots

14:55that were at war.

14:57I think a very big one

14:58was India and Pakistan,

15:00because that's,

15:00you're talking about two nuclear nations.

15:02That was a very big one.

15:04But,

15:04and we get help from the UK.

15:06The prime minister's help.

15:07We have cases

15:09where we specifically need the help

15:10because somebody comes from here

15:12that you're aware of.

15:14And, you know,

15:15when you come from a country,

15:16you can do things.

15:17And I call up the prime minister

15:18and all of a sudden,

15:19he's able to do things.

15:21True also with other presidents

15:23and prime ministers.

15:24But we've done it.

15:26Nobody's ever done what we've done.

15:28We have six different major lookers.

15:31If you take a look at Rwanda

15:34and the Congo,

15:35Republic of the Congo,

15:37they've been fighting for 31 years,

15:408 million people dead.

15:42It was going on.

15:44Nobody could go to that part of Africa.

15:45They were being killed.

15:47To even walk there,

15:48you're being killed

15:49with machetes.

15:50And it was a violent situation.

15:53And I was able to,

15:55they like Trump.

15:56They wanted to make a trade deal with Trump.

15:58They wanted us to take their rare earth.

16:00They want to give us their rare earth.

16:02And I got to know the leader of the Congo.

16:05I got to know both of them indirectly.

16:08And I called him.

16:09I said,

16:09let's end the war.

16:10I don't want anything until you end the war.

16:12And we ended the war.

16:14As you know,

16:14the foreign ministers came up two weeks ago.

16:16And the leaders are going to be coming very shortly to Washington,

16:20Rwanda and Congo.

16:23I mean,

16:23that's another one that we did.

16:24So we've done a lot.

16:26It's an honor to do it.

16:28It's not hard for me to do it.

16:30And I use not in all cases,

16:32but I use a combination of knowing them a little bit or in some cases knowing them a lot.

16:37I knew,

16:38you know,

16:38the leaders of Pakistan and India.

16:41I know them very well.

16:43And the,

16:43you know,

16:43they're in the midst of a trade deal.

16:44And yet they're talking about nuclear weapons.

16:46I say,

16:47this is crazy.

16:48So I said,

16:48I'm not doing a trade deal with you guys.

16:50And they want the trade deal.

16:51They need it.

16:52I'm not doing a trade deal with you if you're going to have war.

16:55And that's a war that spreads to other countries.

16:57You'll get nuclear dust.

16:58We'll all get nuclear dust.

17:00When they start using nuclear weapons,

17:02that stuff blows all over the place and really bad things happen.

17:06So maybe we're being a little selfish when we want to save wars too.

17:09But we,

17:10we stopped a lot of wars and it's a great honor to have done it.

17:14Thank you all very much.

17:16We're going to be talking inside about very much about Gaza and the humanitarian aspects of Gaza.

17:22Mr.

17:23President,

17:23what about Russia and Ukraine?

17:24You're talking about ceasefire.

17:26I would have said five times we would have had a deal.

17:29I've spoken to President Putin a lot.

17:32I always got along with him very well,

17:34but five times and every time,

17:37four times maybe.

17:38But we've had discussions.

17:41You and I have had discussions.

17:43We thought we had that settled numerous times.

17:46And then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kiev

17:51and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.

17:55You have bodies lying all over the street.

17:57And I say,

17:58that's not the way to do it.

18:00So we'll see what happens with that.

18:01I'm very disappointed.

18:03I'm disappointed in President Putin.

18:06Very disappointed in him.

18:08So we're going to have to look.

18:09And I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number

18:13because I think I already know the answer to what's going to happen.

18:16Okay?

18:16Thank you very much, everybody.

18:18We'll see you later.

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