Donald Trump (20:48)
And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir. These were the Washington generals. I, I call them the television generals. But Raisin Cain did it. In four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS caliphate. As a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength. We have great peace through strength. America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden, they looked at him falling downstairs. Every day, Every day the guy's falling downstairs. He said, it's not our president. We can't have it. I'm very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs, I come on stairs like these stairs. I'm very. I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don't want that. You walk nice and easy, you're not happy, you don't have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don't. Don't bop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs. I'd never say, da da da da da da ba ba. He'd go down the stairs, Wouldn't hold on. I said, it's great. I don't want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president a year ago. We were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell. We were dead in every way, from immigration to military. We didn't have the weapons. We were given everything to. We've given everything to Ukraine. We had nothing. And by the way, I have to tell you now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO. And NATO raised from 2 to 5, which everyone said 5% of GDP, millions. And now trillions of dollars are pouring in. They didn't pay the 2% because they knew we were there to pay it. And now they paid the 5%. That's trillions of dollars. And we're not spending any money on that war. Not 10 cents. We sell our equipment to NATO. NATO pays us for the equipment and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to. They can keep it, but we're not involved. We have no money going out. Biden gave $350 billion. Not sustainable. 350 billion. And we have a war that should have never started, but we're not doing that. Anymore. So I just want you to know we're selling equipment. Our people are buying equipment. They're buying. They are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price. So I don't want to say we're making money because I don't want to say I don't want to be making money on a war. It's too many people dying. They're losing 7,000 soldiers a week. A lot of them are Russian soldiers, but between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way. Sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people, but mostly it's soldiers. Russia and Ukraine are losing 7,000 souls. And, you know, they're not. They're not American. They're not us. They're not you. We have a special obligation. But they're soldiers. They're young people. They leave their parents, they wave goodbye, and then two days later, they're blown up so unnecessarily. And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done. We got to get it done. It's crazy what's going on. That's the worst war that there's been since World War II. The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy. From 5 to 7,000 soldiers die a week. Think of that. So I think we'll get that done. But that's turned out to be the toughest one. I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He should have had that war done in a week. And I said to him, you know, you don't look good. You're four years fighting a war that should have taken a week. Are you a paper tiger? And it's a shame, but I think eventually we'll get that one done, just like we in theory. I want to knock on wood, because you never know. It's like we're going to have the Middle east done, which is actually a much harder thing to do. I mean, thousands of years, but we have to get that war done. So now we're. Just think of it. We're a dead country. I was with the King of Saudi Arabia. Great guy. I was with the Emir of Qatar. I was with the great leadership of UAE. I was over there. We brought back $2 trillion and more. They ordered 200 planes. Boeings, they ordered so much. And they were great. But they all said essentially the same thing. They said one year ago you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the Hottest country in the world right now. The absolute hottest country in the world. We have. There's nobody even close. Putin said that to me. We met in Alaska, had a good meeting, then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev. I said I thought we had a good meeting, but it's one of those things. But we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of that. You can be proud of that. And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a husband at home and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. You must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants that doesn't feel good. Well, now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it. They want it. And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice, you know, you want so many. And we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we don't need them at this moment. But think of it, what a difference that is from. I could just imagine two years ago, you're reading front page articles in the New York Times, of course, and Wall Street Journal. They always give us unfair stories, but they played it so big. They were playing it so big. Nobody wants to join the army, the Marines, the Air Force. They want. They don't want to join. They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all. Nobody wants to join. Nobody wants to join our police forces, our police forces also. It's almost went hand in hand. And I used to say, boy, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today. And it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want. But now you have a job that everybody wants. So I think that has to make you feel good. It's one of the reasons I love being here today, because I wanted to.
