U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly criticized Israeli military operations in Lebanon, warning that entire apartment buildings should not be destroyed while targeting Hezbollah members. Trump stressed that many civilians live in those buildings and are not connected to Hezbollah. His remarks come as fighting continues despite ceasefire efforts, with growing international concern over civilian casualties and the risk of a wider regional conflict.
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00:00But you wouldn't have, if it weren't for the United States of America, with me, because Obama was the opposite,
00:08Israel would not exist right now.
00:10Israel would have been blown off the face of the earth, 100%. And every smart person in Israel knows that.
00:17What are the expectations for Israel? Can this deal survive if Israel attacks Lebanon?
00:23It can. And, you know, I consider that the minor war, Iran's a big one, but we have that little
00:31pinprick out there that constantly rears its head. And that's Hezbollah.
00:37And, you know, I was very responsible for Syria, and the man that's running Syria now is a person that
00:45I put there, along with President Erdogan and some others.
00:48He's done an amazing job of pulling it together. He's not a Boy Scout, but he's done an amazing job
00:53of pulling it together.
00:56And he is very good with Hezbollah, does not like them. And I'll tell you what, Israel's fighting Hezbollah too
01:04long, and too many people are being killed.
01:07And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a
01:12lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.
01:17And I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah. Because, to be honest with you, I think
01:24they'd do a better job of doing it.
01:28And I didn't like Syria. I didn't like where, two hours before we're signing the agreement, that there was an
01:38attack in Lebanon, in Beirut.
01:41It wasn't like in the southern side, and, you know, it was in Beirut. I did not like that. I
01:47let them know that.
01:48I didn't like it, not at all. But I think that Syria, you know, he's pulled that country together amazingly
01:54quickly.
01:55He's very capable, and he's been very good for me. He's protected everything that I've asked for, he's done.
02:03And if Israel can't do the job without killing everyone else, he'll do the job. Syria will do the job.
02:11We've had a great meeting. We have a great relationship. The Amir is a fantastic man, respected all over the
02:18world. Prime Minister, likewise.
02:21And, but we have to go to the Amir first. Do you agree, Mr. Prime Minister?
02:25Well, some people don't agree.
02:28But highly respected people. Great people.
02:31And we work very well together.
02:34We have our deal done with Iran, and it should be successful.
02:41It goes to a second stage, which I think will be actually easier.
02:46I didn't want to attack them last week, but we had no choice.
02:50And we did it twice, actually. We were doing it a third time, and we were able to not have
02:55to do that.
02:57But we have a deal that's a fair deal. It's a good deal.
03:01We are not investing any money in Iran, by the way.
03:04That rumor got out there yesterday. It was ridiculous.
03:07We have the right to go in someday and do it if I want to do something, or if somebody
03:12wants to do something.
03:13But we are not investing any money. We have no obligation to invest any money in Iran.
03:20Working with Qatar and the people of Qatar was really a pleasure.
03:25They were tough. They were strong. You know, they are the closest to Iran physically.
03:30So with other countries, I noticed I had to travel about 45 minutes to get there with you.
03:36You could walk right across the border. So you were in a more dangerous position.
03:41But I just, I do have to say, you fought and you helped us, and with great bravery.
03:47So I just want to compliment you on that. And you'll always be my friend.
03:53Well, thank you very much, Mr. President. It's always a pleasure seeing you.
03:57I want to thank you for your leadership in this very, very important, critical time, the Middle East.
04:03And I think, as you mentioned, Mr. President, this is a very important deal.
04:08There is still a lot of work to be done. But I think, you know, with this momentum, if we
04:13continue like that, Mr. President,
04:15I think we can achieve and do great in the region.
04:18So it's going to be very important for the region, and very important also for Iran as well.
04:22So we are here to help. Whenever, you know, friends ask us to help, we're always here to help.
04:29But, of course, also our bilateral relationship, Mr. President, since your historic visit in Doha last year,
04:36our trade partnership is going to reach $1.2 trillion.
04:41And this is huge. And we have a lot of great investments that we're very proud of as well in
04:46the U.S.
04:46and also American companies investing in Qatar.
04:50So overall, you know, we are very, very proud and very happy about this relationship.
04:56And, you know, once again, thank you very much for your leadership.
05:00I think it was a very critical time, but I think you took the right decision.
05:07Qatar is going to be investing much more than a trillion dollars in the United States.
05:12We have over 18. It's going to be 19.4 or so when it figures out.
05:18But, you know, we set a record. There's never been anything like it.
05:22No country in history has had that kind of investment.
05:25We'll be having almost 19.1 or 19.2 trillion dollars invested in the United States.
05:32The record was three, 10 years ago from another country when it was hot.
05:37But we have the hottest country in the world right now.
05:40But Qatar has been a great investor.
05:43We really rekindled ourselves when I met with you last year, a year ago, probably 13, 14 months.
05:51That was a good trip.
05:53And so they're going to...
05:55It was me. It lost me, I think.
05:56Yeah, it was me.
05:58That was a great trip.
06:01And we had established...
06:03We've been friends for a long time.
06:05We've known each other for a long time.
06:07But Qatar is investing tremendous amounts of money in our country, and we appreciate that.
06:12Our country is doing...
06:14We're building more factories, AI.
06:16We're leading AI by a lot.
06:18We're building automobile factories.
06:20We're building more than we've ever built in the history of our country.
06:23Never...
06:23No country is ever doing...
06:24What we're doing right now, no country has ever been able to do.
06:28And those factories will be opening over the next year, year and a half.
06:32Some are already open very soon.
06:36The pharmaceutical companies are coming back.
06:40The car companies are coming back from Germany, from Japan, from so many other places.
06:45Mexico and Canada.
06:47They're all coming back.
06:49We lost them foolishly years ago because we had presidents that didn't really know what they were doing.
06:54They should have never lost, but they're all coming back in beautiful, brand-new, gleaming factories.
06:59In fact, there are a couple of big, old plants.
07:02And I said, are you going to use that plant?
07:04And they said, no, we're building brand-new.
07:05They're knocking it down.
07:07Everything's built brand-new, beautiful.
07:09It's jobs and the auto business.
07:12We're going to bring back probably...
07:14We lost 57% of our automobile business.
07:17I think we're going to bring it mostly back.
07:20And for chips, we were the king of chips, and then it got stolen from us.
07:28We went from being the king to having basically no chip business.
07:31The Chips Act that was done by Biden was a disaster, just a stupid thing to do.
07:41He handed billions and billions of dollars to people, and then they didn't build a factory.
07:45But we have a different system.
07:46And we have a system that if they don't build, they get paid tariffs.
07:50They have to pay tariffs upwards of 200%.
07:54They don't have to pay anything for a little while, but if they don't get their plant built,
07:57then we would have, I think, 50% of the chip industry by the time I leave office.
08:04So maybe more.
08:06They're building mostly coming out of Taiwan, but they're building, and a lot of them, for
08:11whatever reason, in Arizona, Arizona, Texas.
08:14But we'll have 50%, maybe more than that, of the chip industry.
08:18We're going to have...
08:19We'll be making almost all of our pharmaceuticals.
08:22And likewise that.
08:24If they don't build, they'll have 150 to 200% tariff to pay.
08:29If they do build, they have no tariff to pay.
08:33So our country has never done anything like this.
08:36And just, I want to mention Iran.
08:39We appreciate the relationship we've had over the short period of time with Iran.
08:44The primary thing is, you know, we can talk about the Iran deal all day long.
08:48And we're not investing any money.
08:50We have the right to if we want, but we're not investing any money.
08:53We didn't pay for it like Obama did.
08:56He paid billions of dollars.
08:58He paid 1.7 billion from an airplane, all green cash.
09:03It was crazy.
09:03I watched that.
09:04I couldn't believe it.
09:06But the one thing that's happening that's of note, frankly, the only thing that really
09:11matters to me, is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
09:16And it says it loud and clear.
09:18They're not going to develop it.
09:20They're not going to buy it.
09:21They're not going to do anything with it.
09:23And if they do, they suffer unbelievable consequences.
09:28Not just a little bit like, I won't even tell you the consequences.
09:35But the consequences are the ultimate consequences.
09:38And with that being said, I hope we have a very good relationship.
09:41But the biggest thing is, they will not have a nuclear weapon.
09:44And that's the reason I got in.
09:48And that's the reason I agreed to sign.
09:51And we originally had, Marco was with me, and they originally wrote that we will not develop
09:57a nuclear weapon.
09:58I said, no, no.
09:59You're not going to develop it.
10:01You're not going to buy either.
10:02So we have, that took another couple of days of time.
10:06Everything was, it's ridiculous.
10:09But so we have, they will not develop, purchase, buy, or any other thing.
10:15They're not going to acquire a nuclear weapon.
10:17If they do, all hell will rain down on them.
10:21And they're not going to do that, you know.
10:24Now, you talk about regime change.
10:26I never cared about regime change.
10:28It's never a part.
10:29But I guess you have regime change.
10:31Because you know better than anybody, the first group, they're all dead.
10:35The second group, they're dead.
10:37A part of the third group is gone.
10:39And we're dealing with people that I think are very rational people.
10:43I mean, they were nice to deal with.
10:46They were strong people, smart people.
10:48I think actually they're smarter than the first and second group.
10:52But they're not radicalized.
10:54And they're, you know, looking to help their country.
11:00So, again, I don't believe the regime change.
11:04You know, I've watched regime changes for years.
11:07They never work.
11:08It has to just happen.
11:10I can tell you, this is a country where the Amir is so respected.
11:14And the Prime Minister is so respected by the people.
11:17And that's the way a country should run.
11:19It should run out of respect, not of fear.
11:22As you know, at least 42,000 protesters were killed in Iran.
11:27Killed.
11:28They were protesting.
11:30The wrestler.
11:31They had the big event at the White House the other day, the UFC.
11:34And they were all talking about he was a great fighter.
11:38And he was hung with his two friends because he spoke something about their regime.
11:45And it's tough stuff.
11:46So, we're very happy that we were involved.
11:50We're very, very impressed with guitar and the way they've handled things.
11:55Because they were really on the line.
11:57They were in the front line.
11:58They were being shot at just about as much as anybody.
12:01But you were a lot closer because you were right there.
12:04Literally, I could walk in a minute.
12:08Every other place I have to take a plane, but I can walk.
12:11So, they were really on the line.
12:13And I just want to comment that, and you should, I just want to really congratulate you on bravery.
12:19I don't know if you get congratulated for bravery, because bravery is something you either have or you don't.
12:25And you never know until you test it.
12:26But you were tested, and you had great bravery.
12:29Thank you very much.
12:30Thank you, Mr. President.
12:31I really appreciate it.
12:32Are you going to have a separate meeting with President Zelensky?
12:35And what would a Ukraine deal look like?
12:39Well, we have one, but we had a good meeting.
12:42I'm meeting him later on, too.
12:43We had a very good meeting.
12:45Look, Russia should make a deal.
12:46Russia has lost tremendous amounts of people, and so has Ukraine.
12:51Last month, they lost 35,000 soldiers between the two of them.
12:57Think of it.
12:58This is on a monthly basis.
12:59They averaged 25,000 people.
13:02Mostly soldiers.
13:04Young, beautiful people.
13:07And it's crazy what's going on there.
13:09But we had a meeting, and we'll see.
13:12I spoke with President Putin on Sunday.
13:16And it's sort of the same thing.
13:18I mean, they just keep going, fighting, losing soldiers.
13:21They lose so many soldiers.
13:23This is not since World War II has anything like this happened.
13:27I settled eight wars.
13:29This was the one I thought was going to be the easiest settle.
13:32They just, there's a lot of dislike between the two leaders.
13:38But, yeah, I'm meeting with him again later on today.
13:43And are you going to have a special focus on Ukraine?
13:46Well, we're going to look.
13:47Now we focused on, we were focused on Iran.
13:50It's going to be in the back, in the rear view mirror.
13:54But we'll be, I just, look, we have nothing to do with it.
13:57We sell weapons to them.
13:59We don't even give them.
14:00Obama gave them $350 billion worth of weapons.
14:03It gave, which was crazy.
14:06The European Union pays us full price for weapons.
14:10But it's not that.
14:12It's that this, it has no impact on us, other than we sell weapons.
14:16We're thousands of miles away.
14:18But the only reason I'm in, I don't like to see 25,000 young people die every month.
14:24Every month, 25,000 people die.
14:27Young people, they're just starting their life.
14:30They go to this front, and they get blown up, and Ukraine is losing a lot of people, too.
14:35I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
14:37So, yeah, I'm going to do whatever I can.
14:41Mr. President, if the Iranian regime continues to kill their own people, will you still move ahead with this deal?
14:48If they refuse to walk with their people?
14:49If it continues to kill their own people, the Iranian regime?
14:52Well, we're talking, we talked to them about it, and we see.
14:56I will say the majority of that took place during the first and second regimes, much more so than now.
15:05It was, it was, it was much, it was much more severe.
15:09But it's a terrible thing.
15:10Yeah, do you have a question?
15:11Yes, Mr. President.
15:12What are the, this is for both you and the Emir, what are the economic opportunities for the Iranian regime?
15:20Well, I think they'd be good.
15:21I mean, I can tell you from our standpoint, we have a lot of opportunities all over the world.
15:26But the Emir lives right next door, and I think, you know, they have a lot of oil.
15:31I think they'll be good.
15:32First, they're going to have to prove themselves, I think, before any of us go in there.
15:38But I could, I hope they do well.
15:40I hope they do well.
15:41Look, one thing, whether they do well or poorly, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
15:47That's a big thing.
15:48If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have blown up Israel.
15:52They would have blown up the Middle East.
15:54And they probably would have taken a shot at us.
15:57We would have gotten them first, I think.
15:59But they would have done tremendous damage.
16:03Had we not canceled the Obama nuclear deal, the JCPOA, you would have had them having a nuclear weapon five
16:14years ago.
16:14You know, that expired.
16:15That was a road to a nuclear weapon.
16:17It was the dumbest deal I've ever seen other than NAFTA.
16:20NAFTA maybe was even dumber.
16:22But just in terms of a bad deal for us.
16:25Paid them billions and billions of dollars.
16:27We pay nothing.
16:29They paid them billions of dollars.
16:31And it was a disaster.
16:33I terminated that in my first term.
16:36Had I not terminated it, and we hit them hard, we terminated it.
16:40My second term, we sent in the B-2 bombers and we terminated their, I call it the nuclear dust.
16:46They're enriched material, right?
16:49And totally effectively.
16:51And I remember when CNN, which is fake news, I don't know if you probably use them, but CNN said,
16:55well, maybe it wasn't that effective.
16:57So the Atomic Energy just reported that it was one of the most devastating bombings that they've ever seen.
17:03The whole mountain collapsed on top of it.
17:06And frankly, to go get it, we're going to go get it.
17:09But to go get it is a big deal.
17:12Because they say only China and us have the equipment where you can even get it.
17:16The whole mountain has collapsed on top.
17:18We have cameras on it.
17:20You couldn't make the case why you're even bothering.
17:23Because it's not really valuable.
17:25It's, you know, it's probably half a million dollars worth.
17:27It's not very valuable stuff.
17:30But I think psychologically we want to get it.
17:32Can I just answer, you asked, I think the last couple of months or weeks,
17:39I think that wasn't our, we were not interested in, you know, what are the opportunities,
17:45the economical opportunities in Iran.
17:46Our interest both of us was to, first of all, to find a deal to stop this war.
17:50This is our main target.
17:53But looking at the economy and the opportunity, I'm sure there are going to be huge opportunities.
17:57And, you know, as I said, this is a very important momentum to keep working like that,
18:03to reach, let's say, the final deal.
18:04And after that, Iran will be, you know, of course, open for any kind of investments.
18:10And I'm sure there are going to be huge opportunities.
18:12But to be honest, you know, we never thought of, you know, our target, you know,
18:18is to try to find a deal.
18:20Well, they're going to need something because we blew them up.
18:23And, you know, you could make the case, I used to make the case that, like a week ago I
18:29said,
18:29and now it's different, we have an agreement, but if you, if we left, we did a great job.
18:34If we just left, we did a great job.
18:37Because it would take them 15, 20 years maybe to rebuild.
18:42And we were going to do a much bigger job if the agreement was inside.
18:46We would have taken it to a level.
18:48But if we did that, they would never, ever, I believe, be able to rebuild.
18:55Too much.
18:56Mr. President, what are the expectations for Israel?
18:59Can this deal survive if Israel at times left?
19:03It can.
19:04And, you know, I consider that the minor war, Iran's a big one,
19:09but we have that little pinprick out there that constantly rears its head.
19:15And that's Hezbollah.
19:17And, you know, I was very responsible for Syria and the man that's running Syria now
19:23is a person that I put there along with President Erdogan and some others.
19:28He's done an amazing job of pulling it together.
19:30He's not a Boy Scout, but he's done an amazing job of pulling it together.
19:35And he is very good with Hezbollah, does not like them.
19:41And I'll tell you what, Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed.
19:47And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody
19:52because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah, that I can tell
19:56you.
19:57And I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah.
20:02Because to be honest with you, I think they'd do a better job of doing it.
20:08And I didn't like Syria, I didn't like where two hours before we're signing the agreement
20:16that there was an attack in Lebanon, in Beirut.
20:21It wasn't like in the southern side, it was in Beirut.
20:25I did not like that.
20:27I let them know that.
20:28I didn't like it, not at all.
20:30But I think that Syria, he's pulled that country together amazingly quickly.
20:35He's very capable.
20:37And he's been very good for me.
20:38He's protected everything that I've asked for, he's done.
20:43And if Israel can't do the job without killing everyone else, he'll do the job.
20:50Syria will do the job.
20:51Are you frustrated with Netanyahu, sir?
20:53No.
20:54We had a great relationship.
20:57We're talking about some end details.
21:01I didn't like that he did an attack based on a, you know, there was a very minor little thing
21:09with some drones that were released.
21:11And he ends up doing a very, I saw that attack.
21:14I saw where that bomb went.
21:15Did you see what happened?
21:16That was not, that was a vicious, that was too much.
21:20You know, you can do too much also.
21:24But we've had a very effective relationship.
21:27Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel.
21:32Without me, there would be no Israel.
21:34Because no other president was willing to do what I did.
21:38I've had a great relationship with Beirut.
21:40But now Beirut has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.
21:47Lebanon used to be a great country.
21:49It was a country where you had professors, doctors, lawyers.
21:53The great intellect was in Lebanon.
21:56Now it's just, it's terrible.
21:58I would say of all countries, they've been treated the worst.
22:02And they can't defend themselves.
22:03And they have Hezbollah, which is a problem for them.
22:07So, no, I'm not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah.
22:17They should have been able to do this, you know, faster.
22:19It just goes on forever.
22:21And when that happens, it throws a negative light on the big deal.
22:26And that's the deal with Iran.
22:28And so, when you ask me about Beirut, an unbelievable relationship.
22:36But Israel would have been blown up a long time ago had I not gotten involved.
22:40Two things I did.
22:41I terminated the Iran nuclear deal.
22:45Barack Hussein Obama sold out Israel for Iran.
22:49He went to Iran.
22:50He sold them out.
22:52How anybody can vote for this guy or the party.
22:54The Democrats, I call them, because they're dumb.
22:57They're dumb people.
22:59That's number one.
23:00How anybody can vote for them.
23:02And the second was the B-2 bombers.
23:04Just totally different.
23:06So, they had the right.
23:08The JCPOA.
23:09I watched his politicians.
23:11I watched his senator read that nobody ever heard of the other day.
23:14Well, this deal is the same as the deal Barack Obama.
23:17No.
23:18This deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon.
23:22His deal was a road to a nuclear weapon.
23:26My deal, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
23:28They get blown up.
23:29If they have a nuclear weapon, they get blown up.
23:32In his deal, they were allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
23:37If, and in all fairness to Bibi, Bibi, I remember very well.
23:42Bibi came to Washington and begged, he begged Obama not to make that deal.
23:47And Obama was on the side of Iran, not Israel.
23:50And he made the deal.
23:52That deal was a disaster.
23:53I terminated that deal, and if I didn't terminate, and it was very tough after the termination.
23:59And if I didn't do that, Howard knows better than anybody.
24:02If I didn't terminate that deal, I believe that they would have, Israel wouldn't be here
24:07right now.
24:08And the second one was what we did with respect to the nuclear dust, as I call it, right?
24:15We blew it up.
24:16The mountain collapsed on top.
24:18It was, you can't get to it.
24:21And they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.
24:24And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on Israel, and I hate to say it,
24:29and probably the rest of the Middle East, because they had all those missiles aimed at
24:34the Emir, at Saudi Arabia, at UAE, at Kuwait, at Bahrain.
24:42I mean, the biggest surprise in this whole thing, I didn't think you guys, but I thought
24:47he would aim at Israel.
24:49But he didn't aim at Israel, much less.
24:51He aimed at your countries.
24:53And actually, that was a mistake for them, because it brought us, these countries, in
24:59particular the five countries, it brought us, I mean, he even hit Turkey once.
25:05I never understood it.
25:07Nobody's going to understand it.
25:09That's the problem.
25:10They're totally irrational people.
25:12And those people are now gone.
25:15And I think Iran has rational leadership now.
25:19But you wouldn't have, if it weren't for the United States of America, with me, because
25:25Obama was the opposite, Israel would not exist right now.
25:30Israel would have been blown off the face of the earth, 100%.
25:33And every smart person in Israel knows that.
25:36Okay, thank you very much, everybody.