Trump Says He “Gets Along Well” With Syrian President al-Sharaa, Calls Him Capable Despite Past Ties

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he “gets along well” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and is confident in his leadership, despite the Syrian leader’s controversial past as a former al-Qaeda commander. Trump said his administration was working with Israel to “get along” with Syria after hosting al-Sharaa at the White House. The President also criticized ally Marjorie Taylor Greene for “losing her way” over his global strategy.  #Trump #Syria #AhmedAlSharaa

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00:00and make our country and all of his friends very proud but I'm very proud of Sergei the leader of

00:05Syria yeah earlier did you come to any agreements today well I've had an agreement with him he's a

00:10very strong leader he comes from a very tough place and he's tough guy I liked him I get along

00:18with him the president the new president of Syria and we'll do everything we can to make Syria

00:23successful because that's part of the Middle East we have peace now in the Middle East first time

00:27that anyone can remember that ever happening

00:29as you know Syria is a very big a very big part of the Middle East very important part

00:42if you look back at Syria for years they had the doctors the lawyers they had so many of the great

00:49intellects it was it's an amazing place with great people and we want to see Syria be successful along

00:54with the rest of the Middle East so I have confidence that he'll be able to do the job

00:59absolutely which has been mischaracterized but now people even can we expect an announcement on a pact

01:06of Syria and Israel or an announcement on them joining the anti-ISIT yeah you can expect some

01:12announcements on Syria we want to see Syria become a country that's very successful and I think this

01:18leader can do it I really do I think this leader can do it and people said he's had a rough past we've

01:24all had rough pasts but he has had a rough past and I think frankly if you didn't have a rough past you

01:29wouldn't have a chance he gets along very well with Turkey with President Erdogan who's a great

01:36leader Erdogan's a great leader and very much in favor of what's happening in Syria we have to make

01:42Syria work Syria is a big part of the Middle East and I will tell you I think it is working and really

01:47well we're working also with Israel on you know getting along with Syria getting along with everybody

01:52and that's working amazingly as you know we have peace in the Middle East it's a great thing

01:58nobody's ever said anything quite like it with the Syrian president earlier today Marjorie Taylor

02:02Green who was a big ally of yours said that she would rather see you focused on non-stop domestic

02:06policy meetings here at the White House instead of non-stop foreign policy meetings what's your

02:11response to her saying that and also saying that grocery prices are up and not down as you've said

02:15yeah so uh I don't know what happened to Marjorie she's a nice woman but I don't know what

02:21happened she's lost her way I think but uh I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation not

02:29locally I mean we could have a world that's on fire where wars come to our shores very easily if you had

02:35a bad president we had a horrible president and we ended up with Russia Ukraine and we ended up with

02:40other disasters too don't forget I put out eight wars nine to come I think I'll get the other one taken

02:46care of but I put out eight wars uh and look at the damage that Russia Ukraine has done to us as a

02:54country I mean they we spent 350 billion we're not spending any money anymore now they pay us

02:58through NATO you know I got NATO to go from two percent to five percent well that's very important

03:03uh when you're president you really sort of have to watch over the world because you're going to be

03:08dragged into it otherwise you're going to be dragged into a world war and we are going to have

03:13the greatest air traffic control system anywhere in the world thank you very much

03:17you

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