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Any questions or a reason for the lifting of sanctions on Iranian desert traders? Lifting sanctions on Iranian oil? Well, I'm going to have to find out exactly, uh, the status. But, uh, if the sanctions go out, uh, money is going to be put into this country. All that money is coming back in the form of purchases of food, which they desperately need. They have 91 million people. They can't feed them. So, uh, the money that, uh, that we lift is going to go to our farmers, largely to our farmers.
Can you ensure that the Iranians won't use the profits from oil sales to rebuild their military? Well, they're not supposed to be doing that, I will say, but they're supposed to use money to buy food for their people. Because right now the people are very hungry and they're buying it exclusively from us. Corn, soybeans going to should be a lot of money. I hope it's a lot of money if there are with Iran, that could cause a worldwide depression.
As you noted, Mr. President. Are you willing to risk economic catastrophe and strike Iran?
Well, not the way I'm doing it. You're not going to cause depression. Yes, but if they don't abide by them. Well, nuclear weapon supersedes depression. Depression is no bad nuclear weapon. It will cause depression much more quickly. Uh, the way we're doing it, we have the opposite of a depression. Uh, we're doing really well. Uh, the numbers are incredible. The oil is at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Oil prices are way down. I think they're very comparable to what they were. Chris, I don't know, it pretty comparable to what they were before we started. They've returned most of the way back down.
And so if Iran does not abide by the Mo, you are you still what I would say is cause a depression. I said it could cause a depression. Right. And they said, uh, that I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. That's the president. I don't want to be because he, you know, he was in charge during the Great Depression and certainly a lot of bad things could happen. And that would be one of the things I don't think it would. But if it did. But you know, what if if Iran does it, uh, live up to their agreement or if they're not behaving, I will I will do what I have to do.
And I get that what our governor, you, Mr. President, say, does that give them leverage, the Iranians, leverage over you?
Oh, yes. Those who have reached, you know. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their leaders are all dead. Their whole country is a mess. Their economy is shot. The, you know, the times, the fake New York Times said, "Oh, it's about the same as it was four months ago." Now, four months ago, they had a Navy, 159 ship, to be exact. It's gone. The whole Navy is gone. There are 250 airplanes all gone there. Every year. Anti-Aircraft is gone. Their radar is gone. These guys love radar. The radar was gone. Everything's gone. Their leaders are gone. The whole country is gone. And the time said, "Oh, they're about the same as they were four months ago."
The reason the news is doing so badly, or let's put it another way, the reason that I won in a landslide, even though I got 92% negative press, all fake press, is because nobody believes the press anymore. And they have to start believing, you know, when, when The Times and a couple of others, they just, they grasping for source when they say that Iran is about the same as it was four months. Four months ago, they had a powerful navy, they had a powerful air force, you know, most of their missiles are gone. Most of their launching pads are gone. Most of their manufacturing capacity for drones and missiles has gone, about 87% gone. And then I hear, "Oh, you're in such great shape." No. They're gone.
And their first level of leaders gone. Their second level of leaders guide the third level of leaders. You have to hear the conversations. Who wants to be president? I don't want it. Nobody wants to be president. And then we have to read that they're doing well. They're doing so badly.
In the meantime, we're setting records. We have the strongest economy we've ever had. We have 18 to $19 trillion being poured into our country. We're building factories all over the place. We have more people working today than at any time in the history of our country at higher salaries.
So when you ask a question like that, it's stupid because, I mean, is it other beauty? What is a real, really good?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces are not leaving Lebanon. That is a sticking point. Tell that to you. He said it publicly in Israel.
Well, what they're saying and look at what would you do to make sure that you know, well, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do. But he gets up and I'm a problem solver. I get to problem solve real fast, including with Bibi. Go ahead, Mr. President. Thank you.
What's the latest you've heard from the Vice President? Are you happy with these negotiations? Yeah. Can you share a little bit about what Secretary Rubio will be doing in the Middle East?
I think that they are doing a fantastic job. Our secretary is fantastic. I think he's maybe going to go down as the best ever. And I thought JD Vance this morning was fantastic. I watch his news conference and from Switzerland. He's a very smart guy. Did a great job.
You know, when I look at the Democrats, I call them the Democrats and the Democrats. When I watch that, where one of them thought it was World War 11, she said, "World War 11," you've been World War Two, you know about that. But this is one of their potential leaders, Ilhan Omar, who married her brother to get into the country, by the way, illegally. But, uh, when I watch, uh, AOC have no idea what a simple question. What happened when she was over in Switzerland, which probably never went there before, but it was. And then I watched somebody like JD or Marco. What I said, what a difference, what a difference, what a difference a brain makes.
Mr. President, I think I endorse you, sir. You've been quite critical of Prime Minister Starmer and he's now resigned. Your thoughts? And who would you like to see as the next Prime Minister?
I was critical only from the because I think he's a lovely man. But I said, "You do. You're really messing up energy. You have windmills all over the place." In the meantime, you have the North Sea oil and they won't let anybody drill. It's one of the great fields in the world. And they, they haven't even almost, you know, that the UK buys much of its energy. You know where Norway, you know where they get their oil, the North Sea, the UK has a much better portion of the North Sea. They don't want to do it for environmental purposes. Okay. And I told him he's a very nice man. I mean, sort of a friend of mine. I mean, he was not good to us with NATO, right? He said, "We can't use the island to land." That was the first, uh, for a couple of weeks. He said, "Well," but ultimately I gave it, you know, that was a bad move. That hurt and badly. But, but, uh, I mean, I wish him well, but he's got two problems: energy and immigration and crime, but energy and immigration. I mean, he's a risk. And he's, you know, he's really hurt himself very, very badly.
Please go to the, can you tell us about your meeting with the defense contractors on Wednesday and what you plan to tell them, the meeting coming up?
Because I met with them before. Uh, we're building plants all over the country. They are not allowed to take anymore, uh, stock buybacks. Do you do stock buybacks? Why didn't you say that too much? You know, because you want to invest in product. It's just an artificial way of raising a price if you're running a bad company. So they spent $51 billion and start, you know, on stock buybacks. So instead of spending them wind plants, now they're spending, they can't do that anymore. Now they are spending a lot of money. We're building many plants throughout the country.
Dealing with General Motors and dealing with Ford. But I know General Motors is all excited about, uh, building weapons. Now they have some plants, which I'm going to switch over, and we're going to build weapons, uh, including the Patriot, including the Tomahawk and lots of other things. And, uh, we're in a big, uh, really a big, strong economic push to do the weapons. And some of the car companies, if they have any excess capacity, they're making a deal to build missiles. And, uh, the Patriot in particular, we have, uh, we have quite a few of them, but we want to make sure we have always allowed them.
Mr. President of Colombia, today, the candidate endorses president. Congratulations on the quantum physics, E.O. to all. Thank you.
Vice President Vance said that there are mechanisms in place to make sure that there's not escalations with the Strait of Hormuz and with Israel and Lebanon. Can you talk about what those mechanisms are, and are you in direct talks with us?
Yeah, a live look is a thing. As long as they respect us. I don't want to use the word fear because that's an inappropriate word. But as long as they respect us, we're not going to have any trouble. We have total control of the street. So the mechanism, you know, we have a navy that had a blockade. I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs. If you want to know the truth, it was like I said, they call it the steel wall. Nobody got through and not one ship got through. Able to go to Iran. They got through if we wanted to go through, and we could set that up again in about 15. I would say one phone call would tell over to take maybe half hour. If everyone go right now, it'll be before we finish the meeting. Uh, no, we have, uh. As long as they respect us, we're going to be fine. They don't respect us. Things wouldn't be good, but they have a lot of respect. Don't forget, we had presidents that should have done this for 47 years. Nobody did it. Obama. Obama gave them a road to a nuclear weapon. I gave them a wall against a, they'll, they can never under this agreement. They'll never even think about building a nuclear.
Mr. President on Colombia. Oh, Libra, we know that you had a quote. I endorsed him, he was in 10th place, I endorsed him. You won the election? Yeah. You had no different than this country. You had a global recession, which I did, and I had a great deal. What can you tell us about that? And what do you see? What do you anticipate? You're from Colombia.
So he called a great scene. He called me last night and he thanked me for the endorsement. He won. You win the election. It wasn't, he wasn't anticipated to win, but he won, and he won handily. It's just an honor. He was just a good man. I watch him a little bit speak and he always speak. You know, when people like me, I like them. It's very simple. It's a very simple formula and I like them. You said really nice things about me and the job we've done in the United States and, uh, very, very powerful. And he won an election in Columbia that I don't know. Some people was surprised because he was a little bit further down the back, but he won easily. Last night he won by call me at 8:30 in the evening, just to thank me very much. And I said, "You ran a great campaign." He's El Tigre, right? Yeah, yeah. And what do you anticipate for the relations with Colombia? Couldn't be much better. It'll be better. He's going to be a great president.
Mr. President, are the contractors who did the initial work of the reflecting pool? Are they to blame for the current condition or?
No. No. No. Vandals. The vandals. You know, we have 100 and we have a, I think, 290, 300 foot slip right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind. But we had people lifting up the basic, uh, some of the base. It's not a lot of damage, but it's. We'll probably have to let the water out and we fix it. They went in there with a knife. Uh, I was just told by the, uh, by the people over parks. They have five people are arrested and five people are under investigation right now. And it's a sad thing. In addition to that, they, you know, we put brand new, beautiful grass all around. They put these massive letters on the grass. Uh, you probably know about that, right? And they said 86, 47. They probably got that from the dirty cop called me. You know, he's a dirty cop, don't you? Dirty cop? He's a crooked guy. Uh, they destroyed the grass. So, uh, that's a big thing, but we're going to get it back very soon.
National guard and police have been all over the mall. How would these vandals have gotten so close to do something like that? Do you have any proof? I mean, we didn't have. We didn't have a lot of them. Then who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting? It would be a proof of that. That. Yeah. Yeah, I have photos.
Well, let's put it this way. When you have a 350. I think it's 359. 250, a 350 foot slid from one end to the other. You think that's proof? You think that's?
Reporters have been down there today looking for that slip that you mentioned where it was. All you'd have to do is see the Parks department. They'll show it to you and see. See, uh, the secretary. But I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently. The same thing with the floor. They cut it and then they lifted it. They pulled it. And that's what it is.
And, you know, we've done over 50 monuments. Uh, number one, we start with this is now a safe city. It's the safest as safest cities you're going to get in the country. And when I came here, it was a very dangerous city. Uh, and number two, what we did is the beautification with the parks and the grass and the removal of all the tents. And this is like a different place. One of the things we did is over 50 fountains and statues, most of which were in horrible shape. All of them were bad, but some were just absolutely horrible graffiti. You couldn't even see the stone. They've all been fixed. We also fixed the, uh, reflecting pool. In fact, if you go over there right now, it looks very good. It's, uh. Uh, they put somebody said fertilizer in the water. If you put fertilizer in the water, you get algae. But somebody said they might have put fertilizer. They did something to create the algae. But that doesn't matter because, uh, that's been, uh, purified. It's dead lying at the bottom. They're taking it out. They vacuum it out. They vacuum it very carefully. Uh, and it'll be back to health pretty soon. We're going to have to let the water out to fix the one little. There's two little areas, very little areas where they would cut, and we'll fix that. But it's not leaking or anything. It's got a base underneath.
Part of Chris Carter was curious about this situation as we stood here with you in April when you first revealed the plans. I said, "What?" In April, you showed us pictures of what you were going to do. The other one, you said you had a guy who was going to do it in a week for about $1 million? Well, it's been to my 16.5 million. Yeah. Okay. Ready? Barack Hussein Obama, have you ever heard of him? Yeah. He's been two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it. You know what happened to it? Never even opened. He took the water for the river. You know about that, right? It turned out to be putrid, and it destroyed the whole thing. It's been over 100 million. Him and Biden together spent $147 million. You know what happened? Never opened. You know, mentioned that. Right. But I spent, we spent about ten, many of the, much of the money we spent our park workers there, whether they do this or not, as you know, they work in the park and they're very good workers. They did a great job. So they were going to spend 3 to $400 million, you know that. And it was going to take four years. And I spent, I spent about 6 or 7 weeks and I spent, uh, probably in terms of outside, probably $10 million. Around ten maybe. They say 16. But a lot of those workers that work for the same thing. So they're going to spend 400 million. I spent ten, they were going to spend four years. I spent two months, maybe less. And I have a better product now. I can't help but if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up. Uh, and we also have pictures of it, you know, we have to release the photos, but we have the right time. You'll see. You'll see it in court. You'll see it in court. But all you have to do is call the Parks department. Uh, call the Department of Interior. And I don't know if their lawyers will allow you to speak to them, because, you know, you write fake, you write fake news, but, uh, call the, uh, Interior Department. And I understand they've arrested five people, and they have another five people that are under investigation. Uh, here's the bottom line. We made so much progress in this area. People don't even recognize it, by the way. Memphis, Tennessee. Crime is down 78% in a matter of months. It was a hellhole. Uh, New Orleans crime is down 79%. And, uh, they had Mardi Gras as the safest Mardi Gras they've had in 50 years. The governor called me, Governor Landry. Call me safest Mardi Gras they've had. And, and by the way, Chicago, which is a shooting field right there. If the governor would call me, Governor Pritzker would call me. I would solve the Chicago problem. In 3 or 4 months, you'd have virtually a crime free city, we'll remove all of the bad ones. You have criminals. You have career criminals that came in through the border because of Sleepy Joe Biden. Never here Sleepy Joe Biden. Do you ever hear of him? He let people come into this country and we can never forget that that happened. Guys like you should never forget that that happened. They were murderers, drug dealers, mental patients. They took him out of prison. They took him out of mental institutions. You should never forget that that happened in that regard. In that regard.
Mr. President, you, let's leave on a nature note. Your meeting with Nieto. Uh, Margarita on Wednesday. You had Secretary Hedges said, "Review us, President." I did. Countries will talk to us about that conversation. Are you?
Well, look, look, NATO. It's NATO. Basically the question. So, uh, we have been a great member of NATO, the UN, in many ways, certainly the predominant member. We paid trillions of dollars over the years, not billions, trillions over the years to protect Europe when we wanted to. No, I didn't mean we didn't need any help at all. I was more curious than anything else. So I said to Pete, "Let's see if that actually comes." So we asked him to come and they were there for us. So we spent stupid that they were. By the way, Starmer wasn't there. And you know what? The people of the UK did not like it that he wasn't there. Starmer said no, Starmer said, worse than no. He said, "We'll be there as soon as you win." I said, "We don't need you as soon as we win." Before I went in, we called him. He said, "Oh, wow. We'll be there." This was not Winston Churchill with the hope that a good day. But some, he said, "Will be their repeat as soon as we win. As soon as we win. They're going to come and help us." Okay. But, but you know what? Italy was very bad. Italy was very bad. And other countries, Germany was very bad. So we spent all of this money, probably 600. I think we spent 600 million in. Right. Well, I would say that I think the real number, I think of that, the numbers that we spend are so crazy on NATO and they weren't there for us. So I say to Pete, and I say to everybody else, if we're spending all of this money, hundreds, just hundreds of millions of dollars to protect them from Russia, mostly. Okay, so we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year. You know, the case could be made that we spent all of the money over the years before me. I cut it, I cut it back. But listen, we spent all of this money. And then when we want to maybe have help on us on small stuff. This is small time. This is not the big one. This is small potatoes. They say no. Would rather not help. Stupid thing to say, because we can say that to them if we want and we might.
It's already President Obama in New York. It's the one year anniversary of Operation Midnight Hammer. If you could go back in time, is there anything you would do differently?
No, nothing. It's the most successful attack that anyone's ever seen with a bomber that totally wiped out their nuclear potential. If we didn't do that, you'd have no Israel right now. Israel would not exist, and most of the Middle East would not exist. They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. If we wouldn't have done that, they would have had a nuclear weapon. You want to say something about? Yes, sir, I did. I wasn't aware it was one year. But you don't have the situation we have now, a position of strength where Iran is going to give up their nuclear program without midnight here, which no other country on planet Earth could remotely conceivably pull off that from start to finish. 30 sent out seven hours back and forth. Iran never saw it. And every munition precision that only we make hit exactly where we wanted it to because they knew we were coming and they could do nothing. They could do nothing about it with their air defenses, which are even further now degraded. And that's what everyone misses in the press. And the president's right to call it fake news, because the overwhelming military victory that has been had over Iran is what has set the conditions for them to be at the table with our negotiators. And we will ensure, whether it's through a deal or through the War Department, that they never get a nuclear weapon because of this president right here.
Okay. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you.