Donald Trump (26:22)
Thanks, sir. Look, JD has been great, but here's the simple thing. And I have, you know, some people, I don't want wars. I want wars less than almost anybody. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. I've called them out 20 years ago, when I was a civilian that liked watching the world. And they're violent, vicious people. The leadership. Violent, vicious people. They killed 32,000 protesters over the last three weeks. They put out a memo two days ago saying, if you protest, we will shoot you and kill you in the streets. And somebody said, oh, there's not that many protests. Well, first of all, there are bombs going off all over the place. But even if there weren't, who's going to do that? You know who's going to do. They don't have any guns. And the other ones have latest in line, machine gun. Right. And every form of gun you can have, they shoot them right through the middle of the head. They're violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And sometimes I'll have some of the people that you know, feel very strongly like I do about wars. And I say, do you think Iran is violent and do you think their people are violent? Yes, leadership. Do you think they should have a nuclear weapon which is massive power? I don't even want to discuss how powerful because it's depressing. And they said, no, they shouldn't have. Definitely they shouldn't have. They said, and you don't want to fight war? No, no, we don't want to fight war. So these are naive people that frankly are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you. Because they would use it within. The only question is within one hour if they get it or one day they will use it and they will blow up the entire Middle east, not just Israel. They'll start with Israel, but they will blow up. And you got to see that when they unexpectedly started sending missiles to every country within 1,000 miles of them. I mean, they're blowing up countries that were neighbors, not necessarily some friends. They actually have blowing up some friends. They were blowing up the people that handle their accounts. They're sending thousands of missiles into countries that didn't expect to be in the war because they wanted to take over the Middle East. And if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's horrible Iran nuclear deal, which I did in my first term, one of the dumbest deals, perhaps in dumbest deal, because of the danger involved, you would have had them have a nuclear weapon three years ago, maybe four years ago, they would have used it, blown up the Middle east and they would have then come after us. And if these gorgeous B2 bombers. Give me that bomber. Andrews. Let me just hug that little sucker. Give me that bomber over there. Thank you. Knew immediately which one. This looks small, but in person it's very big because it's the only plane capable of carrying a 200,000 pound bomb. So I don't know how they do it because it's very sleek and nice, but it carries a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs. But had inot sent this incredible machine times numerous others to hit Iran at midnight with no moon dead dark. Every single bomb was dropped right down the chute that it was supposed to hit. How they do it, who knows? Nobody else can figure it. No other country can do it. No other country has our military or even close. And I think we've probably proven that with Venezuela and now with. Because we have done a number in Iran. But if I didn't do that. If I didn't decimate, I call it their nuclear dust. They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month after that bombing took place. And they would have used it on first Israel and then the Middle East. And you know that because all of those missiles that were launched against their neighbors were set long ago, long before they knew they would be using them this quickly. Had we not done this, you would have had a nuclear war that would have evolved into World War Three. And more important, this is a war that there would have been nothing left. So we've done a great thing. The people that say it's okay for a very sick ideology, a very sick country in terms of its leadership, very good people, great people. But the people that say that, I think they're actually, they're either evil or they're so stupid. So if you believe that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, they should not have it, then you have to absolutely love what I've done. Because in two weeks we have decimated them. They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti aircraft weapons. They have no leadership. The leadership is gone. But then they set up a new leadership to go and name a new leader and that's to going leadership is gone. And now they think maybe the sun is gone. They're all gone. My biggest problem is I have no idea who we're talking to because nobody ever heard of any of these people. They're all dead. But we did a job for the world. Not a job for us, for the whole world. We took the worst country in 50 years and maybe longer from the ideological standpoint. A country that wanted to blow up the the world. A country that is sick, sick. And it has a religious fervor. And when you add religion, you know, people don't realize. More people died in religious wars than every other war put together. And that's what you would have had here. And it was a terrible thing. I'm very proud of what we did and I think JD understands better than most. If you give Iran a nuclear weapon, at least a very substantial part of the world would be blown up. And it will be used almost immediately. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. You don't mind if I keep this here, do you? Isn't that a beautiful thing? You know, I used to look at it and I said, it's a piece of art. But how can it be effective? It's so stealth. Think of it, Peter. One in the morning, it flies in and they say, sir, they're in Iranian Airspace, space. And I say, oh, And I'm watching it from the Situation Room with a couple of other very smart people, including some good generals, real generals, not television generals. And all of a sudden you see that dive. They start diving and sure. And you see them 30,000, 20,000. Boy, I said that was a lot. They went down fast to aim it. And they know they're coming and they're smart and they never saw them. And they're firing a little bit, but they don't know what they're firing at because they can't see a thing. And then you hear the biggest explosions that anybody has ever heard. Those are the biggest bombs outside of nuclear. Those are the biggest bombs. And you say, what technology we have. What a great country. I built it largely. I built it during my first term. I built it. I didn't know I'd have to use it this much in my second term. But we had an incompetent president, we had an incompetent administration. And if that group of people, in any form, whether it's Kamala, him, it doesn't matter, would have had another four years. We would have had no country left. Yeah. Please. Thank you, Mr. President. You say you're doing a job for the rest of the world. And your conversations with your counterparts, are they thanking you? What are their conversations? It's just like when you talk about this military conflict that's taking place in Iran. Well, they should be thanking me because many of them get 90%. China, as an example, should be thanking us, but I don't expect to thank you, but they should be thanking us. Japan gets 95%. China 91%. Many of the countries, South Korea gets a tremendous percentage of their oil and their. Therefore their energy from the straits and or as they call it, the strait. And they should be not only thanking us, they should be helping us. What does surprise me is that they're not eager to help. There are a couple. We'll be announcing some names. There are some that really were right up front. I would announce their name now, other than I, you know, maybe they prefer it not be a announced for whatever reason. I will say this. It's a lot easier to get people today than it was two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, before we destroyed there, before you obliterated the country, before we took out. Because they're down to about 8% of their missiles. They're down to a small portion of their drones. And we've demolished many of their factories where they make the missiles and the drones and the rest are all following our military has been amazing. We hit Carg island, took out every single thing in Carc island except one thing. We left the pipes. Because if we take out the pipes, it takes a long time to build them. And at some point, something is going to happen that's positive with respect to those pipes. But there are some countries that greatly disappointed me, and, you know, I'm the one that got them to pay from 2% to 5% of GDP. NATO and I get along great with those countries in NATO, but I always said, you know, the problem with NATO is we'll always be there for them, but they'll never be there for us. And when I hear the uk, which we sort of considered the Rolls Royce of allies, right, Wouldn't you say they were the oldest and they were going to be there. And I say it would be really helpful if you'd send over a couple of ships and if you have some minesweepers, which they do, be very helpful. And the Prime Minister is a nice man. I think he's a very nice guy. He says, well, I'd like to ask my team. I said, you don't have to worry about a team. You don't have a team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make a decision. Well, I have to speak to my people. I said, you don't have to speak to anybody. So it's very disappointing. And then after we obliterated them and destroyed their military, the whole thing, and it became a much safer zone, he said, we're going to send over two aircraft carriers. I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want them after we win. I want them before we start. I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won. So, you know, those things are very disappointing. And you have to Remember, we have 45,000 troops in Japan. We have 45,000 troops in South Korea. We have 45,000 50,000 troops in Germany. We defend all these countries. And then, do you have any minesweepers? And they say, well, would it be possible for us not to get involved? I've been saying it for a long time. This is the greatest thing to come out of this. We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. And I always said, but if it ever comes time to defend us, they're not going to be there. Many of them would not be there. And we're going to have to start thinking more wisely in this country. Some have been very good. One or two have been great. I'll tell you, the great ones are at the right time, but there have been some that were right up there, Peter. They were right up there. They wanted to do it so much. Go ahead, Peter.
