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regime continued in full force over the past few days they have been literally obliterated. The Air Force is gone, the Navy is gone. Many, many ships have been sunk. They're war fighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them. And anti aircraft is decimated. Their radar is gone and their leaders are gone. Other than that, they're doing quite well. They've been a terror for 47 years. And now I guess the world through the United States, with the help of Israel is doing what should have been done many years ago. Should have been done many years ago. Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran. And these have been mostly commercial and military targets. We've achieved a 90% reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95% reduction in drone attacks. The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels because they don't have too many missiles left. We've also attacked the manufacturing plants where the places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones and that's going on today. We just hit three of them today. It's getting very hard for them to manufacture. More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over the last week and a half. That has to be some kind of a record. Additional strikes continue to launch from all directions every single hour. As you know, we attacked Carg island and knocked it, knocked it literally destroyed everything on the island except for the area where the oil is. I call it the pipes. We left the pipes. We didn't want to do that, but that we will do that. We can do that on five minutes notice. It'll be over. But for purposes of someday rebuilding that country, I guess we did the right thing. But it's, it may not stay that way. Just one simple word and the pipes will be gone too. But it'll take a long time to rebuild that. We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense industrial base and ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability is getting down to close to zero. And we're hammering their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. With more than 30 mine laying ships destroyed. We hit to the best of our knowledge, all of their mine laying ships. Now they can put them on other types of ships I guess and drop them in. But we don't know that any have even been dropped in. We're not sure that any have been. That's a big negative for them. If they do, it's a form of suicide. But we don't know that they have dropped any in. But we've, we've hit all 30 of their ships and destroyed them. They're all at the bottom of the sea. We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours. You know, we get less than 1% of our oil from the strait and some countries get much more. Japan gets 95%, China gets 90%. Many of the Europeans get quite a, quite a bit. South Korea gets 35%. So we want them to come and help us with the Strait. We have it in very good shape. The countries. I said we've already taken care of Iran. But now because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area and which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always used that as an economic weapon and it's not going to be able to be used very long. Numerous countries have told me they're on the way. Some are very enthusiastic about it and some aren't. Some are countries that we've helped for many, many years. We've protected them from horrible outside sources and they weren't that enthusiastic. And the level of enthusiasm matters to me. We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers, great soldiers, protecting them from harm's way. And we have done a great job. And when we want to know, do you have any minesweepers? Well, would rather not get involved, sir. I said, for. You mean for 40 years we're protecting you and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor, very few shots going to be taken because they don't have many shots left. But they said we'd rather not get involved. I just want the fake news media and everybody else to remember that. That was sad because when. And I've been a big critic of all of the protecting of countries because I know that we'll protect them and if ever needed, if we ever needed help, they won't be there for us. I've just known that for a long period of time, just like I knew about the strait, that it would be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago, predicted all of this stuff. You guys were very generous and that. I predicted all of it. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I made that prediction a year before he did. I said, you better get him, he's a bad guy. I watched him be interviewed one time and I said, that's a bad guy. You better get him. One year before. Exactly. I wrote it in a book you can even check. About a year before the World Trade center came down, President Clinton actually had a shot at him and he didn't take it. Unfortunately, I'm not blaming him for that, but he didn't take it and he ended up knocking down the World Trade Center. But I predicted that too. I predicted a lot of things. We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the strait for blood. I mean, you know, these, these people literally need it. 90, 95% of their energy or their oil comes out of the strait and they should be in here very happily helping us. And it's incredible. We have such great. We're number one in oil by double now. We drill, baby, drill. We're double any other nation and it's going to be soon. Triple any other nation and that doesn't include Venezuela, who's been great, by the way. The relationship with Venezuela has been fantastic. Millions, literally millions of barrels of oil are being taken out and it's been a great help and it's been to their great benefit. The president has done a really good job. We get along with them really well. But we've taken out millions of barrels of oil and brought to Houston and other places for to the refineries. We have refineries set up specifically for that. And it's been a great, it's been a great relationship and more and more is happening. It's a tremendous oil source and we're getting, we're stepping it up very rapidly. The big companies are going in and they will actually numbers in a pretty short period of time, numbers that they've never been able to do, we'll be doing. There's a lot of oil under that land. We strongly encourage the other nations to get involved with us and get involved quickly and with great enthusiasm. I have that from a number of them and I'd like to say their names, but frankly, I don't know if they would want me to or not because maybe they don't want to be targeted. But I say wouldn't matter if you're targeted or not, because this is a paper tiger that we're dealing with now. It wasn't a paper tiger two weeks ago. It's a paper tiger now. So now we're going to get down to the reason. We'll take a couple of questions in a moment, but we're going to get down to the reason we're here today. Actually, this was set up a long time ago. It's the Trump Kennedy Center. Over the past year, we've made incredible strides to restore the true purpose and prestige of this revered.
