Trump on Gaza: 'The whole place is a mess'

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00:00Mr. President, Prime Minister Netanyahu said there's no starvation in Gaza.

00:04Do you agree with that assessment?

00:05I don't know.

00:05I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry.

00:10But we're giving a lot of money and a lot of food, and other nations are now stepping up.

00:16I know that this nation is right here.

00:18It's a humanitarian crisis.

00:19Right.

00:19It's an absolute catastrophe.

00:21And nobody wants to see that.

00:23And I think people in Britain are revolted at seeing what they're seeing on their screens.

00:27So we've got to get to that ceasefire, and thank you, Mr. President, for leading on that,

00:32and also to just get more and more aid in.

00:34Again, America's done a lot on this.

00:37A lot of countries have done a lot.

00:38We're now working with Jordan on getting direct aid drops in, but this is a desperate situation.

00:44Mr. President, do you think Israel has done all it can do to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza?

00:49Well, I think nobody's done anything great over there.

00:54The whole place is a mess.

00:55It'll get straightened out, but it's a mess.

00:58They have to get food and safety right now.

01:02And ultimately, look, Hamas did a horrible thing, and they paid a big price, but Hamas did a horrible thing.

01:09But I always said, when you get down to the last 20 or 10, get down to 20, we got a lot of hostages out.

01:15And you helped us, by the way.

01:17But we got a lot of hostages out over the last six months that I've been in.

01:22I've been in office for six months now.

01:23And these hostages have been, I mean, many of them have come to the Oval Office, and they thanked me so profusely.

01:31I said, you don't have to thank me.

01:32I did what I have to do.

01:34But I always said, when you get down to the final 20, they won't release them.

01:38Because that's like their shield, very unfair.

01:41And so something's going to have to be done.

01:43And they were really unwilling to talk.

01:46But I've said that.

01:47You get down to the final 10 or 20.

01:49It turns out to be 20.

01:50I thought that would be the number.

01:52I said, they're not going to be dealing with us.

01:54And, you know, many of the hostages are now dead.

01:57You know that.

01:58And parents come up to me.

02:00A woman came up to me two weeks ago.

02:02She just wants her son back.

02:04And I said, how is he doing?

02:06My son's dead, sir, but he's with them.

02:07And we want the body.

02:09She wanted the body of this young boy, of her young, beautiful son, just as much as if he were alive.

02:15It was just as important.

02:16There was no difference.

02:18And it's a very tragic situation, frankly.

02:23But we got a lot out.

02:25And now, possibly, the fight will have to be a little bit different.

02:29But they have totally changed now.

02:31They don't want to give hostages.

02:34Very unfair.

02:35You have 20 living people, in this case, living.

02:39You have many dead people, too, that they want to get a long time as well.

02:43Yeah.

02:43They have 20 living people.

02:46And I told Israel, I told Bibi, that you have to now maybe do it a different way.

02:52Do you think a ceasefire is even possible, Mr. President?

02:56Yeah, a ceasefire is possible.

02:58But you have to get it.

02:59You have to end it.

03:00You're talking about with Israel.

03:02You're talking about there.

03:03Because we have many ceasefires going on.

03:05The whole world is.

03:07If I weren't around, you'd have right now six major wars going on.

03:11India would be fighting with Pakistan.

03:13You see what we just did yesterday with two nations that we're trading with.

03:19And during the trade, I said, I'm not going to do any trade deal unless you guys settle

03:22your differences.

03:23And we got it settled in 24 hours.

03:25I mean, they just announced it was settled, which is a tremendous thing.

03:29But Serbia, Kosovo is another one.

03:32We have many hot spots that were at war.

03:37I think a very big one was India and Pakistan, because that's, you're talking about two nuclear

03:41nations.

03:41I think a very big one was.

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