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00:00Any questions?
00:01Mr. President, Mr. President.
00:02Go ahead.
00:03We've seen these strikes between Iran and the United States
00:05over the past 10 days.
00:06How do you go about reviving the ceasefire
00:08and getting diplomacy back on track?
00:11Well, I think we just want to win.
00:12We just want to win.
00:13We're doing very well.
00:16We're trying to be nice, as nice as you can be
00:18in a situation like that.
00:20But, you know, they're being decimated.
00:24They have no Navy.
00:25They have no Air Force.
00:26They have no anti-aircraft.
00:29It doesn't mean they don't have any capability.
00:31They have some, but very little.
00:33We just want to win.
00:34We don't want to have them.
00:35It's very simple.
00:37They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
00:40Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,
00:42and they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:44If they did, the Middle East would have been wiped out by now.
00:47If I didn't stop the JCPOA, the Obama deal,
00:52if I didn't terminate that, they would have had a nuclear weapon.
00:55I believe Israel would no longer be with us,
00:57and big parts of the Middle East,
00:58and perhaps other countries and different continents, frankly,
01:03because these people are crazy.
01:04So they cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't.
01:07Mr. President, I would expect over the next four weeks, eight weeks,
01:12you know, we'll be hitting them very hard.
01:15And, you know, at some point they're going to say,
01:17we just can't take it anymore.
01:18Mr. President, on the disarmament deal that you announced,
01:21do you have assurances from Israel that they are on board with this deal?
01:25And what comes first?
01:26Does Israel pull back and then Hamas disarms,
01:29or does Hamas need to disarm and then Israel disarm?
01:31Mr. President, we do have an understanding with Israel.
01:34Israel is very happy about it.
01:35Israel helped us.
01:36And they've been very good.
01:39They've been very good about it.
01:40Most people said that would be a deal that would be undoable.
01:43Now, will it go through its ups and downs?
01:45It's a very complex situation over there.
01:48The people are very complex and difficult.
01:52In many cases, wonderful.
01:53In many cases, not so wonderful.
01:55But that will be a great breakthrough.
01:58Nobody's ever thought that would be possible to disarm Hamas.
02:03That shows you how much success we're having with Iran.
02:08Because if you go four months ago or five months ago,
02:10a deal like that would have been impossible.
02:12So it's a big step for the Middle East.
02:15And people are really impressed by it.
02:16And they're surprised by it.
02:17And what comes first, Mr. President?
02:19What comes first?
02:20Did FIFO or Mr. Infantino speak to you about their proposal
02:22to sell a stake in the World Cup?
02:23And is that something you support having just happened?
02:25How about who?
02:26Did FIFO or Mr. Infantino speak to you about their proposal
02:29to sell a stake in the World Cup?
02:31Mr. President, you said this morning on Truth Social
02:34that victims of government abuse should be paid back.
02:38Yeah.
02:38Even if it's not the anti-weaponization fund,
02:41would you still want the Acting Attorney General
02:43to hire you to do that?
02:43Well, I'm talking about the weaponization
02:45against large numbers of people in our country
02:48by the Biden administration and by Obama,
02:52but by the Biden administration in particular in this case.
02:55But large numbers of people, their lives have been ruined.
02:58They've been destroyed.
02:59Their families have been, you know, decimated.
03:02They've gone to prison for no reason whatsoever.
03:06There's never been a group of people, most likely,
03:08I mean, I can think of a couple that were treated pretty badly, groups.
03:11But there's essentially never been a group of people
03:14treated so badly as these people.
03:16And this fund, this fund was not for me.
03:18This fund was for those people that have been weaponized,
03:22that have been abused.
03:23Now, I was abused.
03:24Because they attacked my house, Mar-a-Lago, where I live.
03:27And I was, you know, big damages should have been given to me.
03:31I don't want anything.
03:32I'm not talking about myself.
03:35I think that there's a group of people in this country,
03:38history will show,
03:40that were treated like nobody else has ever been treated.
03:44So badly, so horribly.
03:47Their families have been ruined.
03:48Many, many suicides.
03:50They've committed suicide.
03:51People that were very successful, that wanted to go to a rally or an event,
03:57and ended up spending the rest of their lives in horror.
04:02So, I mean, you can say what you want about the fund.
04:06And they've agreed to not have a fund.
04:09But there are a lot of people that are very upset about it.
04:11A lot of Republican people, a lot of Democrat people are very upset about it.
04:15A lot of people were covered.
04:16I wasn't covered by that fund.
04:18I don't want to be covered by the fund.
04:19I probably was abused more than anybody in the history of our country.
04:23But I wasn't looking for that.
04:25But there were a lot of people.
04:26And I'll tell you something.
04:27Todd Blanche is a very, very good man.
04:30And he shouldn't be in the middle of this.
04:32He should get approved.
04:34Because you will never get anybody like him.
04:36You're never going to get anybody.
04:38And to make him a pawn on this whole thing, this is being done by a senator.
04:41And I don't really blame him, to be honest with you.
04:44I endorsed his opponent.
04:45And as soon as I endorsed his opponent, his opponent went through the roof.
04:48And he won the primary election in Texas for a Senate.
04:54And the man that lost, the man that I didn't endorse, has become very angry.
05:00And that's okay.
05:00I understand that.
05:01I probably would do the same thing.
05:03You want to know the truth?
05:04I think I'd do the same thing.
05:05Mr. President, on that though, do you agree, just to be clear, do you agree with the Acting Attorney General
05:09that the Anti-Weaponization Fund is dead?
05:11And why not just put that in writing?
05:13Well, it is dead.
05:14But, you know, I wish it weren't, to be honest with you.
05:17I think people were horribly treated, horribly abused.
05:20This has nothing to do with Todd.
05:21This was me.
05:23Horribly abused.
05:24And I'd like to see them compensated for the pain.
05:28They lost their families.
05:29They committed suicide.
05:31Many people committed suicide.
05:33They went down for an innocent journey.
05:36And I'm not only talking there, I'm talking about not even having to do with that.
05:40The way they were treated, the Biden administration and the Obama administration weaponized government and destroyed lives.
05:48Mr. President, are you willing to accept limits on the scope of the audit immunity deal in order to get
05:54Attorney General Blanche confirmed?
05:56Well, no, he should be approved forthwith.
05:58I mean, you're never going to get a person like that.
06:00Everybody agrees to it.
06:02But don't forget, Senator Cornyn thought he was phenomenal until he lost.
06:06You know?
06:07When he lost.
06:08Is that a correct statement?
06:09You come from Texas.
06:10I mean, he thought this was the most incredible person.
06:13And when he lost, he lost because of me.
06:16I endorsed somebody else.
06:17And as soon as I endorsed the other person, the other person became a rocket ship upward.
06:22And he lost.
06:23And, you know, I think I'd be the same.
06:27I mean, I shouldn't say that.
06:28But I'd be upset also.
06:31And so I fully understand it.
06:34He shouldn't be that way.
06:35I shouldn't be that way.
06:37But he is that way.
06:38He's become a very angry person.
06:39And I understand.
06:40You have a couple of others that I've caused their defeat, too.
06:43And, you know, probably hear from them, too.
06:45Yeah?
06:45Mr. President, back on Iran, there was a report that you got a proposal from the military
06:49to go big and hit them hard over 10 or 14 days.
06:53Are you going to consider that?
06:53Mr. Well, we're going big.
06:54We've already gone big.
06:55Look, I mean, what's big?
06:56They had 159 ships.
06:59That was their entire Navy.
07:00159.
07:01Their entire Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea.
07:04I'd say that's going big.
07:05They had 200 airplanes.
07:07They're all gone.
07:08Every one of them.
07:08They're not one airplane.
07:09They had anti-aircraft weaponry.
07:11They're very good, but it didn't work.
07:14And it's all gone.
07:15Their radar is all gone.
07:17Their leaders are all gone.
07:19Everything's all gone.
07:20But they'll fight onward.
07:21The Pressure.
07:22Mr. President, on Ukraine, you said the other day that you're not sure about whether
07:26to grant Ukraine the Patriot missile license that had been discussed.
07:30Do you want to see more from Zelensky before you take that action?
07:34Mr. Well, it's a big step.
07:35Look, we have the greatest weapons in the world.
07:38We have the greatest drones in the world.
07:40People don't know that.
07:41We have the greatest weaponry in the world.
07:42We have, in the case of President Zelensky, he'd like to have some Patriots.
07:47He'd like to have some Tomahawks, which are, you know, lethal.
07:51One offensive, one defensive.
07:53But when you give somebody the right, they're very complex weapons, by the way.
07:57I mean, the Patriot, as an example, the other day you read that five missiles were shot.
08:03They were going 8,600 miles an hour.
08:06Think of it, 8,600.
08:08Now, a car, if you go 60, it gets to be a little faster.
08:11If you go 100, 8,600 miles an hour.
08:15And they were big missiles.
08:17And they were shot at Jordan.
08:19And our guys were there.
08:20Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
08:23Five.
08:24Bing, bing.
08:25Bing, bing, bing.
08:26Right?
08:26I don't want to be my name.
08:28I had to be very good.
08:30That would have been a great sound bite.
08:33Five missiles.
08:34And we shot all five down before they got close.
08:38Nobody else has that capacity.
08:40These weapons are incredible.
08:42We have to be very careful about letting somebody build them.
08:47You know, it's very important now.
08:49We are building many plants now to make those.
08:52And the Tomahawk missile is the most incredible thing.
08:56It can go into a doorway.
08:57You can put it through a window of a house.
09:00Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
09:02You have to be very judicious, but you have to be very careful.
09:07Now, we have not agreed to that.
09:09We're talking about it.
09:11But it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology.
09:15And I don't think this would ever happen.
09:17But, you know, those people that you give that technology,
09:19they can someday turn on you.
09:21You know, that is possible.
09:22You look at war.
09:24It's happened a couple of times over the years, right?
09:26So we have to be very careful.
09:27I mean, we guard that.
09:29We have the greatest military in the world,
09:31but we have the greatest weapons in the world.
09:33Now we have to make them a little bit faster,
09:35because we've given a lot away.
09:36You know, President Biden, unfortunately,
09:40gave a lot away to Ukraine.
09:42And he gave â and so did I.
09:44I mean, I gave them the javelins, the tank busters.
09:48Without the javelins, that war would have been a one-day war.
09:51It would have been over.
09:51You know, they wiped out the tanks going up to Kiev,
09:54where they got stuck in the mud.
09:56They had a general that decided to go through the mud
09:58instead of going up the highway where they were going very nicely.
10:01It would have been over.
10:02But, no, I gave them the javelins.
10:05The javelins are unbelievably â we have the greatest weapons in the world.
10:08We have to be very careful about giving out the secrets to those weapons.
10:13And they're not â you can't copy them.
10:16It's a little like NVIDIA.
10:19They have a chip.
10:20They say you cannot copy it.
10:23The complexity is so great, you cannot.
10:25You know, most things you copy.
10:27China's known for it.
10:28Other countries know we do something.
10:30And I guess we copy also.
10:32Most things you can copy pretty easily.
10:34There's a chip that they made, their ultimate chip.
10:37And they always have the ultimate chip.
10:39And I say, well, why doesn't somebody copy it?
10:42Because they can't, the complexity.
10:45They can't copy our weapons.
10:46We have the greatest weapons in the world.
10:48Many of them.
10:49Those are just two or three that I mentioned.
10:51But you cannot copy them.
10:54So we have to be very careful.
10:54Mr. President Trump.
10:56As Hamas disarms as part of this plan,
10:58who do you see as taking possession of those weapons that they had?
11:01Does that go to the new government?
11:03It's going to be the Board of Peace, mostly.
11:05It's going to be run by the Board of â
11:06This Board of Peace has been an amazing â
11:08It's led by some amazing people.
11:10Board of Peace.
11:11The Pressure.
11:11The Pressure.
11:11The Pressure.
11:11Mr. President, you said they do have some capabilities left.
11:14Should Americans be prepared for these back-and-forth attacks
11:17to continue until the Ronson will be unable of striking back?
11:20A little bit.
11:20They'll get weaker.
11:21They'll get a little stronger maybe now.
11:23But they'll get weaker.
11:24And then they peter out.
11:27Yeah, sure.
11:28I think so.
11:28I mean, it'd be foolish to say no.
11:30You always have to keep your guard up.
11:32The Pressure.
11:32What is the status of talks?
11:33Who â from the administration â
11:35Well, they always want to talk,
11:36but they break their words so often.
11:38Steve is talking.
11:39Jared.
11:39We have very good people.
11:41JD's involved.
11:42Very strongly involved.
11:44We have great people talking.
11:45Marco's involved.
11:46They're always involved.
11:47Because they say talks aren't happening.
11:48Very good people.
11:49We're the best people.
11:50But they'll make a deal.
11:52As an example, we'll talk about nuclear.
11:54And we'll be in there talking about nuclear for seven hours.
11:57I say, why is it â why do you need seven?
11:59You can take ten minutes.
12:00You have five minutes.
12:01You should solve it.
12:02But seven hours â and then they'll go out.
12:05And I'll say, they discussed nuclear.
12:07And they'll go out and they'll say, we never discussed nuclear.
12:11And I'll say, why â why do they say that?
12:13All they do is make me angry.
12:14You know?
12:15They just make me angry.
12:17Any other questions?
12:18Do you believe that you can reach a deal with Iran given that you talked about â
12:22Yes, you can.
12:22I mean, look, I'm losing faith in them because they do lie and they do misrepresent.
12:31Well, the other day, the five missiles were shot.
12:33We knocked them down.
12:34But we were in the midst of a negotiation.
12:35I mean, I'm waiting for Steve to call me.
12:37How's the negotiation going?
12:40And instead, I got a call from Pete that they just shot five missiles at one of our bases in
12:46Jordan.
12:46And we have bases in Jordan.
12:48Fortunately, our people operated the equipment.
12:50It's also very complex to operate.
12:53You know, you talk about the equipment.
12:54It's very â you have to be â oftentimes, you see, when did you go to school?
12:58MIT, Caltech.
13:00I mean, you know, they go to schools that are not as normal for the military, to be honest with
13:06you.
13:06We have unbelievably brilliant people operating that equipment.
13:09And when you don't, you know, the equipment â the shots miss â the safety misses or the accuracy misses.
13:17We have unbelievable people.
13:18Well, think of it.
13:19We had 111 at one point a couple of months ago.
13:24111 over a short period of time missiles were shot at the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.
13:29Great, beautiful ship.
13:31One of the most beautiful ships to me, design-wise.
13:34111 missiles going out.
13:37Out of the 111 missiles, 111 missiles were shot down quite a bit earlier than â I mean, long before
13:47they got there.
13:48They were shot down â it was almost â in a couple of cases, they were shot down almost as
13:52they were taking off.
13:53It's incredible technology.
13:55So you have a ship that costs billions of dollars, and you have missiles heading to it.
14:02111 missiles were shot down â routinely shot down.
14:08And I speak â I spoke to the people.
14:10I like to reward people.
14:11I'll call them up on the President.
14:13And they were cool as a cucumber.
14:16Mr. President, the last two weeks of strikes by CENTCOM â CENTCOM has said that those were meant to degrade
14:22Oran's ability to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.
14:24How many more strikes will it take to significantly â
14:27Well, you never know.
14:28Look, I mean, most people would have given up by then.
14:30You know, they've got no Navy.
14:31They've got no Air Force.
14:32Most people would have given up.
14:34They haven't.
14:34So I give them credit for that.
14:36I mean, they're known as big, tough.
14:37They're tough.
14:38Back on Ukraine, what did you tell President Zelenskyy about the Patriots?
14:42Did you explain all that to him?
14:44Mr. I did.
14:44I spoke to him about Patriots.
14:45I spoke to him about Tomahawks.
14:47I spoke to him about everything.
14:47I also spoke to him about, let's get this war over with.
14:50So last month, they had 25,000 people.
14:53It's averaging about 25,000 people a month die.
14:56Mostly soldiers.
14:57Almost entirely.
14:59But, you know, missiles are hitting areas also.
15:01But mostly soldiers.
15:03They had 25,000 soldiers.
15:05The month before that, it was 32,000 soldiers.
15:08I said, you've got to get this war over with.
15:10I think he wants to make a deal,
15:12and I think Putin wants to make a deal.
15:14But there's a lot of dislike, as you probably notice.
15:16He seems very reluctant to make concessions, President Putin.
15:20Well, nobody wants to make concessions.
15:22But they're both going to have to make some concessions.
15:24I mean, you've got to make a deal.
15:2725,000 young, beautiful people.
15:30Soldiers.
15:31Mostly soldiers.
15:32They're dying a month.
15:35I ended eight wars.
15:37That was the war I thought would maybe go first.
15:40And it really hasn't.
15:41I mean, I ended wars that were, in theory,
15:44much more difficult to end.
15:45We had a couple that were into the 30-year category.
15:50Well, the Congo.
15:51Look at the Congo and Rwanda.
15:53That was our nasty war.
15:56And they have peace.
15:57I don't know how long that was going to stay.
15:59But we ended India and Pakistan.
16:02Eleven planes were shot down.
16:04That was raging.
16:05That was going to use tariffs.
16:06I said, if you're going to go to war,
16:08250 percent tariff to each of them.
16:12And they screamed and yelled and were very angry.
16:15They were both angry about it.
16:16And a day later they called and they said,
16:19we will not go to war.
16:20And I ended up â and the Prime Minister of Pakistan said,
16:24I saved 50 million lives.
16:27Because that's two nuclear powers.
16:29Serious nuclear powers.
16:30Thank you very much, everybody.
16:38I think that Minnesota is behind it.
16:42You know who's behind it?
16:43Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent.
16:45I think the governor is behind it.
16:47I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack.
16:51I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together.
16:54It's one of the worst-run states, J.D. will tell you.
16:57We found tremendous corruption in Minnesota.
16:59And by the way, just gave me a report.
17:03Massive, massive future things having to do
17:05with corruption in Minnesota are happening right now.
17:08Thank you very much.
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