THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, MARCH 27TH, 2026 (EP.5252)

Summary

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Real America’s Voice: The War Room with Stephen K. Bannon

Episode 5252 | Date: March 27, 2026
Special Location: CPAC 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of “The War Room” takes place during CPAC 2026, featuring Eric Trump as the de facto host, along with an array of conservative commentators, Iranian American guests, representatives from Turning Point USA, and a lengthy live address by Donald Trump. The main theme is the escalating conflict between the U.S. (under Trump’s new administration) and Iran, focusing on military strategy, questions about U.S. involvement, the fate of the Iranian regime, and broader philosophical rifts growing within the American right. The episode is set against the backdrop of a CPAC crowd, underscoring grassroots conservative reactions in real time.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The U.S. & Iranian Conflict: Military Developments and Strategic Debate

• Escalating Tensions: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report on Iran threatening the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. deploying up to 10,000 more ground troops to the region. (02:43)
  • Military analyst stresses the limitations of available U.S. force sizes and the complexity of the Iranian theater:

    “It's not a force that's going to invade Iran… You'd have to have a force several times at least bigger than that to do that." — Military Analyst (03:46)

• Multiple Objectives: Official lines from the Department of Defense and Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasize contingency planning while downplaying intentions for direct ground invasion.
  • “We are achieving all those objectives. We are ahead of schedule on most of them. And we can achieve them without any ground troops.” — Department of Defense Official (05:05)

2. Conservative Movement Divided: War, Regime Change, & the ‘Forever War’ Dilemma

• Vocal Grassroots Reactions: Eric Trump facilitates a live poll among the crowd, contrasting support for all-out regime change (and boots on the ground) versus limited air strikes and “realpolitik” negotiation for oil. (12:56-14:06)

  • “Who's in favor of the first option? Completely eradicating the mullahs and the IRGC, even if it means our kids have to go to war on the ground in Iran?” — Eric Trump (12:56)

• Split Opinions:

  • Some, including Iranian-American guests, support robust U.S. action—even personal sacrifice:

    "Yes, I would go by myself... Absolutely. I will send my– my kids." — Iranian American Commentator (14:18)

  • Others raise the specter of endless cycles:

    "I want to eradicate Iran. I want to eradicate the threat. But I know... if we do, there's another whack-a-mole, they're just going to replace him with another radical Islamist behind him." — Eric Trump (11:07)

• Broader ‘Forever War’ Context: Parallels drawn to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam; skepticism about democratizing Iran after regime change.

  • “We entered Afghanistan in 2001 to take the Taliban out, and we left in 2020. And the Taliban is still there.” — Veteran Coffee Seller (08:45)

• Commentary on the Nature of the War:

  • “To me… it is a forever war. This is the battle we're up against. …I would much rather kill them there than have them come to us. But we have those same terrorists in America now.” — Conservative Commentator (09:35)

3. Role of the Iranian People

• Debate on Uprising and External Support:

  • Iranian-American guests highlight government violence against protestors (losses in the tens of thousands) and cite CENTCOM communicating to “wait for a go signal.” (26:01)
  • Skepticism from the panel about whether a true people’s uprising is feasible or being prevented:

    “The Iranian people, the civilians are outgunned by the Iranian military, the Islamic revolutionary hardcore.” — Veteran Coffee Seller (28:37)

• Role of Regional Allies:

  • Consensus grows that Arab states, Israel, and the Iranian people themselves must participate directly; U.S. should not “go it alone.” (25:32)

4. The Right’s New Internal Divide

• Old vs. New MAGA:
  • Eric Trump points to divisions in Trump-supporting media figures (MAGA)— “Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson fighting with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro”—and asks if this is about Israel or America’s changing foreign policy. (31:53)
  • “MAGA is... divided by original MAGA and new MAGA now.” — Eric Trump (31:53)

5. Donald Trump’s CPAC Speech: “Operation Epic Fury”

[38:19–57:31]

Content highlights with timestamps:

• Address World Events:

  • Praises U.S.-Israel military success in eliminating Iranian nuclear capacity with “Operation Midnight Hammer.” (40:00+)

    “America's armed forces obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities. And one of the most spectacular military actions of all time… Operation Midnight Hammer.” — Donald Trump (40:40)

• Critique of Past Administrations:

  • Lambasts the Obama/Biden Iran deal and boasts of his own termination of it.

    “If I didn't terminate it, they would have had a nuclear weapon long ago…” — Donald Trump (41:44)

• Boasts of Military Dominance:

  • Detailed (often colorful/hyperbolic) listing of destroyed Iranian assets—navy, air force, missile launchers.

    "Iran's navy is gone. It's all sunk at the bottom of the Gulf and elsewhere... Their leaders are all dead. Other than that, I think they're doing quite well." (44:40)

• Allies and Disappointments:

  • Praises Arab allies’ participation, openly criticizes NATO as “a paper tiger” for not helping. (46:00+)

    “More so than NATO, I want to tell you, more so than NATO. Now they're a little closer to the action... but very disappointed with NATO.” (49:23)

• Technological Superiority:

  • Touts high-tech warfighting, missile defense, and compared operations in Iran to the swift U.S. operation in Venezuela.

    “101 missiles going 2,500 miles an hour... 101 missiles were shot down and spread out all over the city. Pretty amazing.” (46:44)

• Vision for the Middle East:

  • Predicts this will lead to a Middle East “free at last from Iranian terror, aggression and nuclear blackmail."
  • Calls for expansion of the Abraham Accords:

    “We got to get into the Abraham Accords and we hope all of the countries are going to be in…” (55:07)

• Notable Quotes:

  • “For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East. But they are not the bully any longer. They're on the run.” (40:22)
  • “As President of the United States, I would never allow the world's number one state sponsor of terror to obtain a nuclear weapon. I said that for a long time, and I didn’t.” (43:20)
  • “Their supreme leader is no longer supreme. He's dead. Son is either dead or in very bad shape because nobody has heard from him.” (44:53)
  • “The Middle east will be transformed, and the future of that region… has never looked brighter.” (54:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Eric Trump on public sentiment & “realpolitik”:

  "We're trying to figure [the mission] out. Scratch my head a little bit... show the enemy you’re ready to go, even if you decide not to do it." (08:16, 09:22)

• Conservative Commentator, on ‘forever war’:

  "Islam has been a threat ever since Muhammad was on the Earth. I don't see that changing... Are we going to be in there 20 years or 30 years? It is a forever war." (09:35)

• Eric Trump on American appetite for war:

  "Does America even have the stomach for it? We lost Vietnam not because we couldn't win... but because we lost the heart to fight it." (12:36)

• Veteran Coffee Seller:

  “I don't think we can go around the world and knock out every evil regime… are we going to have to take out Pakistan, North Korea, and whoever else you put on the list?” (16:17)

• Religious Speaker, on spiritual warfare:

  “This is war. It's not only a war in the natural… weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. We need to fight in the spirit realm first…” (29:36, 30:41)

• Donald Trump, on his role and the future:

  “We call it a military operation. We don't call it a war.” (45:40)
  “Now we're just going after targets… we're heading it. And we have another 3,554 targets left. And that'll be done pretty quickly.” (48:50)

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Timestamps for Crucial Segments

• 02:43 — Middle East escalations: U.S. troop deployments & mixed administration messaging
• 06:32 — Eric Trump and guests kick off CPAC live segment
• 07:56 — Discussion: Can Iran’s regime be toppled without ground troops?
• 09:35 — “Forever war” perspective and generational cost
• 12:56 — Crowd poll: boots on the ground vs. airpower & negotiation
• 26:01 — Iranian guests discuss the cost of protest and role of U.S. military/CENTCOM
• 31:53 — MAGA media fracture and debate over “what victory looks like”
• 38:19 – 57:31 — Donald Trump’s full CPAC 2026 speech: recapping military actions, denouncing the previous administrations, praising Middle Eastern allies, and his vision for the region

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Thematic Summary

• War Policy and America’s Role: The conversation wrestles with whether the U.S. should fully commit to regime change in Iran (with all its costs and consequences) or pursue a more limited, transactional approach.
• Conservative Fracture: Growing division within the right over interventionism, influenced by events in Iran and perceptions of U.S.-Israel relations.
• Agency of the Iranian People: Divided perspectives on whether Iranians can or will rise up, and the ethics of proxy warfare.
• Donald Trump’s Doctrine: Trump presents himself as the architect of overwhelming military intervention, seeking to avoid a long war but promising complete destruction of the regime’s military capabilities, while lauding regional allies (and scorning NATO).
• A Call for Strategy, Not Just Force: Multiple speakers return to the necessity of a clear plan—an objective, an exit ramp, and the ability to explain sacrifices to American families.

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Summary Table

| Timestamp | Segment | Highlight / Key Quote | |-----------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:43 | News update | “Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops…” | | 07:56 | Boots on the ground? | “Can we eradicate the mullah system, the IRGC, without boots on the ground?” | | 12:56 | Crowd poll on war | “Who’s in favor of the first option…?” | | 14:18 | Iranian American on sacrifice | “Absolutely. I will send my– my kids.” | | 31:53 | MAGA divide discussion | “MAGA is… divided by original MAGA and new MAGA now.” | | 38:19 | Trump’s speech begins | “We’re closer than ever to the rise of the Middle east that is finally free…” |

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Final Thoughts

This episode provides a vivid, often raw window into the state of conservative deliberation on America’s place in the world and the costs of global leadership. It reflects a CPAC crowd both roused and deeply divided, with Donald Trump positioning himself as a decisive, technological, and unapologetic commander-in-chief. The questions raised—about victory, sacrifice, strategy, and the definition of American interests—are left open, as the conservative movement debates its next steps both in the Middle East and at home.

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Transcript

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Back in the Middle east, the New York Times reports that, quote, Iran said on Friday that it had warned three ships not to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a day after Mr. Trump extended a US deadline for Tehran to reopen the waterway. And as much as Donald Trump has been talking about striking a peace deal and as reporting suggests he wants to end the war, Department of Defense officials tell the Wall Street Journal that, quote, the Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle east to give the President more military options. The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles, would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region. It is unclear where precisely forces will go in the Middle east, but they will likely be within striking distance of Iran and Khark Island, a crucial oil export hub off Iran's coast. Mixed messages from the Trump administration as the war rages on. Why would he send them if he did not plan to use them?

[Military Analyst]

That's a more credible force for some types of operation, seizing Carg island, for example, maybe doing some raids or some smaller operations in the vicinity of the Strait itself. It's not a force that's going to invade Iran and try to overrun the country. You'd have to have a force several times at least bigger than that to do that. So it does increase the options the administration has, but they're not very good options. Iran is fighting an asymmetric fight. The cyber attack you just talked about is a piece of that. The closing of those stranger Hormuz, which I don't think this force can fundamentally reverse, is another part of it. So we're in a type of conflict that, for reasons that mystify me, the administration did not anticipate, did not prepare for, and did not think through the consequences of so that's where we are.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters a short time ago that he was expecting Iran's response to US peace proposal any moment. The Trump administration has offered Tehran a 15 point plan to end the war, and this comes as the two sides could potentially begin face to face negotiations in the near future. At the same time, the US Is sending thousands of troops to the Middle east, though Secretary Rubio says that Iranian military capabilities can be destroyed without putting any American troops on the ground.

[Donald Trump]

Listen, we can achieve.

[Department of Defense Official]

We are achieving all those objectives. We are ahead of schedule on most of them. And we can achieve them without any ground truths. Without any. Now, in terms of why there's deployments, number one, the President has to be prepared for multiple contingencies, which I'm not going to discuss in the media. And again, I refer you to the Department of War, who will probably tell you the exact same thing. But we can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops. But we are always going to be prepared to give the President maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.

[Donald Trump]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies. Because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

[Eric Trump]

And where do people like that go

[Donald Trump]

to share the big lie? MAGA media.

[Eric Trump]

I wish in my soul, I wish

[Donald Trump]

that any of these people had a conscience.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

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[Eric Trump]

All right, we're back, we're back, we're back, folks. Come on out. Friday, CPAC 2026. War room's got it going on. Rav's got it going on. Real America's music's got it going on. All right, let stop. You know Ben, Ben Berkman, everyone. Ben's awesome. On the border. Where's your sign?

[Iranian American Commentator]

Hey.

[Conservative Commentator]

We gotta remember what we're fighting against as these lunatic leftists are out there marching against America. Marching against ice, we say here at CPAC and across America. MAGA says God bless.

[Eric Trump]

There you go. Maureen. Maureen Bannon. Awesome to have share a stage with you again. Always Good.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

Thank you. Same.

[Eric Trump]

And you brought page kill. You're. You're badass. I hear. I hear you. I hear you spent some time deploying.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I did, yeah.

[Iranian American Commentator]

Yeah, yeah.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I've been Iraq and Afghanistan 16 times between 2001 and 2014.

[Eric Trump]

Wow.

[Donald Trump]

Wow.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

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[Eric Trump]

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[Eric Trump]

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[Turning Point USA Representative]

About coffee. It's a champagne of coffee.

[Eric Trump]

So let me start with you, my friend. What you see what's going on in Iran right now? Tough position to be in for President Trump Right. It was, it was, let's obliterate the nuclear program. We did. They did. The Israel and US did. But what has the mission changed and if it has, what's the, what's the end goal? What are we, what are we trying to accomplish there and how do we do it?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I think, yeah, I think definitely it's a very tough, very dangerous situation we're in right now. And the end goal, it seems to be changing, but regime change, denuclearization, maybe de. Weaponization. And then, you know, it looks like Israel and America have a little bit different goals. So what's together but different.

[Eric Trump]

We're trying to figure that one out. Scratch my head a little bit.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

See, today, Israel bombed all of Iran's steel. Steel production facilities. So now Iran's going to attack the Gulf steel production facilities. And Trump said, we're not going to attack them for the next six days.

[Eric Trump]

So you deployed. Can we eradicate the mullah system, the irgc, without boots on the ground? Is that possible?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I don't think so. Yeah.

[Eric Trump]

And if we do go that route, what's the timeline now? That doesn't happen very quickly either, does it?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

No, you know, look, look, look what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghanistan, we went in in 2001 to take the Taliban out, and we left in 2020. And the Taliban is still there.

[Eric Trump]

So we let him back in, right, and we gave him $80 billion in assets.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

And we also withdrew out of Iraq in 2011, technically as part of the withdrawal out of Iraq. And we have service members back in Iraq right now. So. And we saw that, we sent the 82nd Airborne. They were told to be on standby and ready to go. But then, but then we saw that their headquarters was about to be deployed as well. No matter what, no matter what you

[Eric Trump]

end up doing, it's good to at least show the enemy that you're ready to go, even if you decide not to do it. You got to portray like, hey, unless you negotiate, it's going to. We're going to rain hell down on you. Right? What about it, Ben?

[Iranian American Commentator]

Look, I.

[Conservative Commentator]

Look at this, I don't. I think we're kind of asking the wrong question. You know, Islam has been a threat ever since Muhammad was on the Earth. I don't see that changing. And so to me, people ask, is this a forever war? Are we going to be in there 20 years or 30 years? It is a forever war. This is the battle we're up against. And it's the reason why Islam kills more Islam than it does anybody. Else, it's the reason why all of these nations, 50 plus nations that are all governed by Islamic law continually are fighting each other. And until we get rid of that, I don't see this changing in a positive direction. Now, hopefully we can come up with some solutions in the interim. We can get somebody in there. I don't think socialists are the answer either. So who do you put in place? You know, the. Ask the question. When do you. When do you negotiate with terrorists? And do you ever trust them when you do? I don't. And so I. We're in a tough spot. I mean, I'm not an expert on this. These guys are. I just see this as a fight that we have to fight. Iran was the existential threat to the Middle east for decades. They were the state sponsor of terror around the world. So I would much rather kill them there than have them come to us. But we have those same terrorists in America now.

[Eric Trump]

You have some young kids. Would you be willing to send your kids there to fight for what you just said?

[Conservative Commentator]

It's a great question. I mean, it's a great question. I'm not saying that. And I've got daughters. I think, I think war fighting is not to take anything away from Maureen. I think war fighting is a man's game. I would go, look, as a husband and a father, I'll die in a second for my family. I'm not necessarily sending my daughters to die on my behalf.

[Eric Trump]

That's the issue and me wrong. I want to eradicate Iran. I want to eradicate the threat. But I know that once, if we do, there's another whack, a mole, they're just going to replace him with another radical Islamist behind him. To think that democracy will thrive in Iraq, in Iran, do you believe that?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

Maybe. I mean, look, Trump, Look, Trump, Trump doesn't like these forever wars. Supposedly, you know, the way he went into Venezuela, he knocked them out quick. And I think that's what his intention was when this. But I think at some point you lose control and it starts dragging on and dragging on. But yeah, I mean, if he can knock them out quick and do a regime change and put somebody reasonable in there, it's a good idea.

[Eric Trump]

Knock him out quick and change the regime. Change with outputs on the.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

That's tough. I mean, the whole thing is tough.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

A plan and victory and then an exit ramp to get off is what we need in order. Because you have to be able to, to tell these parents that send their sons and daughters off to war. If your child is killed it was for this reason when they come off the aircraft at Dover Air Force Base in a transfer case, for a dignified transfer, you have to be able to look at those parents and say, this is why your child gave their life for this country. So we need to be able to do that for any service member that is over in Iran right now.

[Conservative Commentator]

And the bigger thing I look at is, does America even have the stomach for it? We lost Vietnam not because we couldn't win Vietnam, but because we lost the heart to fight it. And you look now, we're two weeks into this.

[Eric Trump]

Vietnam's this big. It's like a dot in the map. And we spent 50,000 lives there.

[Conservative Commentator]

And now we're two weeks into this thing, and people are already like, I don't have the stomach for this. It's a tough.

[Eric Trump]

So Steve does this. I was on here yesterday when Steve did this. Guys, are you here? Crowd, you ready? I want to. We need a voice phone. We need you loud. All right, who's in favor of the first option? Completely eradicating the mullahs and the irgc, even if it means our kids have to go to war on the ground in Iran. Who's in favor of that here? My voice. My voice. All right, here's an alternative. Would you be. Okay. Who's in favor of this plan? We go there, we bomb the hell out of. We knock them, we hit them in infrastructure. We hit them in manufacturing, steel, communications. We take them out, we get them to the table. We say, look, you're going to stay in power. You Islamic nut jobs kill each other. We don't care. We're going to do a deal with you to take your oil. And we get the oil first. We'll give you a fair price for it. No Americans die, but we don't. We don't change the regime. Who's in favor of that idea? Why? Tell me why? He. Gentlemen, let me go get the mic.

[Conservative Commentator]

Let me go get the mic. Can we get this guy on camera?

[Eric Trump]

That is for United States of America. When Iranian regime Islamic Republic, they ship all their missiles. What is the oil? It was their plan that they're going to attack here. United States of America. You are an ignorant. You are 100% an ignorant that you don't understand. That's the solution. The solution. It is because that. Sir, do you have children? Yes, sir, I have two. You would be okay sending your children to. Yes, I would go by myself. No, no, no, no, no. So would I. I'm talking about our children and our children's children. Go ahead. Go ahead. Absolutely. Absolutely. I will send my. My kids. All right. Who else would send their children to. Can't hear you. Let me hear you. Sir, no offense, you're the only guy here who said they would.

[Iranian American Commentator]

Yes, and I think he's right. But, but the point here is that we. I mean, I am also Iranian American. And I appreciate that President Trump and the other Americans who are not Iranian are supporting this war against Iranian regime. The problem is that this regime is not getting weaker if you leave him alone. You know, five years ago, their missiles was a lot more limited range. It is getting more advanced, more advanced and more advanced.

[Eric Trump]

All right?

[Iranian American Commentator]

And this is not a. That is not the North Korea you are talking about.

[Eric Trump]

North. So if we, if we want to replace all the regimes that have nuclear weapons that frankly hate us, we're talking North Korea, maybe even Pakistan. Are we going to go ahead and do regime changes in all these countries? And folks, are we willing to send our kids to war to go to war, to. To change somehow thinking we wouldn't get another Kim Jong iii? What. What are your thoughts on that?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

T. Yeah, I mean, I don't. I don't think we can go around the world and knock out every evil regime. Right. Like you're saying, we're going to have to take out Pakistan, North Korea and whoever else you put on the list. It's.

[Donald Trump]

And it.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I mean, we have bombed the hell out of them for the last four weeks and. Should we call it good and leave now?

[Eric Trump]

No, no, I'm a more. Or do we get knees? Get them to the knees. Bomb every infrastructure they've got. Take the roads out. Sorry, sorry, civilian. Take the roads out. Take their manufacturing out, take their communication ability out and then get them to the table and lock them into a deal that they can't ever back out of.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

That's the plan. But that's the plan. I think that's what we're going after. Right? Bomb them in submission, get them to sign. Basically sign your life where I say no more. But if they don't submit, then they go away. Yeah.

[Eric Trump]

A final thought before we go to break.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

Well, I. I agree with taste.

[Eric Trump]

You agree? All right, everyone else. Yes, sir. Oh, yeah. Okay, we got a break here. Okay, folks. We're gonna be. We. We're gonna get to you guys. We have a lot more questions for you. We'll come back in two and a half minutes. We'll be right back.

[Iranian American Supporter]

What about me? It's Charlie.

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[Iranian American Supporter]

What about when you took your shot and the one you called.

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[Donald Trump]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

[Eric Trump]

All right, well, maybe not Stephen K. Band, maybe Eric T. Bowling. And let's bring it back. Maureen. Maureen, you brought a friend up here. Lauren Feist. Taryn Feist. I'm sorry, Taryn Feist, you have a little experience in Oregon?

[Turning Point USA Representative]

Yeah, so I was actually in Oregon probably a little over a month ago and I was speaking on behalf of Turning point and Operation 1776. And they wanted to. The protesters antifa outside wanted to burn and bomb the building because a Bannon was split speaking. They didn't care less that there were 700 innocent bodies inside that building. They wanted to hurt and harm people that had a differing point of view. And it's time for a Democrat to be out of office and a Republican to be in office in Oregon. And my friend Taryn is actually moderating a gubernatorial debate here next week.

[Political Organizer]

Yeah, it's actually April 2nd in Salem, Oregon. We have several of our candidates that are going to be appearing there. We also have Lindsey Graham, who is the Patriot Barbie. I'm sure everybody knows who.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

So the female, the good, the good one female version.

[Political Organizer]

So we have the Patriot Barbie coming. She's going to be opening, doing a Great, entertaining speech. This debate is going to be like. It's not going to be a normal GOP debate. It's going to be entertaining. It's going to be fun, high energy. We're just really excited about it.

[Eric Trump]

And this primary happens in May.

[Political Organizer]

Yes, our primary for governor is May 19, and it is so important. One of the things we're really trying to get Oregonians to do right now is change their registration status to Republicans so they can vote in our primary. Because if you're not registered as a Republican, there's a lot of people that are navs and independents in Oregon.

[Eric Trump]

Are they playing the game in Oregon, too, where Democrats will register as Republicans so they can sway the GOP vote?

[Political Organizer]

I don't think that's really an issue that we deal with. It's just the. Our biggest voting bloc is those navs and independents. So we're just trying to get people over to the Republican Party so they can help us choose our candidate going into November.

[Eric Trump]

All right, that's cool. That's cool. All right, Ben, you have some more customers for us out there?

[Conservative Commentator]

Yeah, yeah. All right, so what's your take on that? You're on the other side. What's your take?

[Iranian American Supporter]

My take is, from all of you experts, I want to hear more about the people of Iran. They are the. They are the majority, and they are in favor of what Trump is doing. And why don't we hear more about how we can help them? I've heard that Bibi will let Bibi get his people in there to wipe out everybody and help them. I don't know if the boots on the ground from Trump could help them. But the bottom line is not some other creep to take over the country of Iran, but to support the people and help them because they're the ones that want the freedom.

[Eric Trump]

Where are they? Folks, remember, in November, there was a big uprising which really cost, I don't know, maybe 10, 15, 20,000 lives. Where are the Iranian people? Let me ask Tate. Just give me one second. Where are the Iranian people? They were all for this before we got involved. Where are they now? And where are the other Arab countries?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

The other Arab. The other Arab countries are trying not to get involved, but they're involved. Iran is bombing all the US Bases in the Arab countries. And the Iranians that have risen up a couple months ago, who knows how many of the supreme regime has killed. So the people now are intimidated to rise back up because they know they will get killed by the Islamic regime of Iran.

[Eric Trump]

But it's going to take the people of Iran. We can't do it alone. I hate to say it can't be just Israel in the United States. The people have to uprise. They have 90 million people. The IRGC can't fight back.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

No, no, we need. We need. We need the Arab countries in the Gulf. We need their boots on the ground. We need Israel's boots on the ground.

[Eric Trump]

That's the best answer I've heard. How about Arab countries, Kids on the boots, on the ground in Iran and the Iranian people, And we keep bombing them from the top until they submit? Is that the best idea so far, sir? Where's my. Where's my hater? Where's the guy who hates me?

[Conservative Commentator]

I've got some locals from Iran. Okay, you go, Mo. Let's get this camera down here.

[Iranian American Supporter]

Firstly, to answer your question, where are the people? They have been. First of all, 80,000 were slaughtered. But beyond that, there's still. There's 90 more million to come out on the streets. They're waiting for the CENTCOM general to tell them. When? In the last briefing, he said, wait for us to signal you to come out. Stay in your homes now. But we will signal you to come out when the time is right. That's the answer to your question. Sir, we are ready and willing. I'm ready and willing to go back. I mean, I'm a proud American and I'm a proud Iranian at the same time. I love this country.

[Eric Trump]

So may I ask you. May I ask you. There were two uprisings within the last six. Six months or so. There was one in November and one in January. Iranian people, where a lot of people got killed, slaughtered, murdered.

[Iranian American Supporter]

A lot. What do you call by a lot? 80,000.

[Eric Trump]

Okay, yes, 80,000. Yes, yes. It's a lot.

[Iranian American Supporter]

Young. Young.

[Iranian American Commentator]

They.

[Donald Trump]

They just let him get to the end.

[Conservative Commentator]

The question.

[Eric Trump]

Here's my point. Here's my point. If they were willing to do it twice, knowing that they could have been killed in 80,000. If you say were killed, where are they now? This is the moment. Right now is the moment.

[Iranian American Supporter]

In their homes.

[Eric Trump]

Get out of your homes. Get out there and help us.

[Iranian American Supporter]

Oh, my God.

[Eric Trump]

Sit back and wait for the United States. Are we the policemen for the whole freaking world? Is that what this is?

[Department of Defense Official]

Come on.

[Eric Trump]

They need to get out of their homes.

[Iranian American Supporter]

Go.

[Eric Trump]

Go protest again. They'll have air support.

[Iranian American Supporter]

They're not supposed to come out now. They were strictly told to stay in their homes until the regime has been wiped out, root and branch. These are. This is a death cult. They raped the women and their prisoners, they kill.

[Eric Trump]

Are you buying the story that the Iranian people have been told to stay in their, in their homes and aren't supporting the United States?

[Turning Point USA Representative]

I think they are, but I think it's time, you know, we shouldn't. I don't want to get in another forever war. I do not want this to be Afghanistan 2.0. I don't want current military to be over there and thousands upon thousands of service members lose their lives again. So it's about time. We need a plan, like I said, for victory and to exit ramp out of this.

[Eric Trump]

Arm the gate. 91 million people. IRGC is what, a million? A million. You win. They got guns. You have volume, right?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

In theory, yes, but I don't, I don't see it happening and I don't believe that, you know, they've been told to hide out in their homes. Trump has said, this is your time, rise up. I don't, I don't think they, they're outgunned, that the Iranian people, the civilians are outgunned by the Iranian military, the Islamic revolutionary hardcore.

[Eric Trump]

They were outgunned the first two times, November and January. Right. And can you imagine how much we've softened?

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

We have those targets hounded the hell out of Iran. I mean, we have bought. They say we hit 15,000 targets and somehow they're still managing to shoot ballistic missiles and drones every night. So how long is this going to go on for? I mean, I have no love for the Islamic regime of Iran, but on the other hand, I don't want to. I don't want to enter into another forever war.

[Eric Trump]

Forever war.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

I mean, we have, we've already crippled them. We have crippled them.

[Eric Trump]

This. Ben, Ben, do you have anyone who has an idea of how long this campaign would take to solve the mission accomplished, so to speak?

[Religious Speaker]

This is war. It's not only a war in the natural. It's a war. And it's a war in the heavenlies. Daniel prayed for 21 days and he was. The angel was restrained by the dark angel, the Prince of Persia. He called on resources to come and help. And the breakthrough came. Now we are warring against the pits of hell in Iran. We have friends from Iran. They all want freedom for their country, for their family and for themselves.

[Eric Trump]

And so do I here. So do I. But I want them to help us. My point is I, I don't think we need to be the police.

[Religious Speaker]

Absolutely.

[Eric Trump]

Executioner, jailer of the whole world. There's so many, so many countries hate us. Are we going to go Wipe out every regime. Let's just let them kill each other in the meantime. The Iranian people, 91 million people, sir. There's no million army IRGC that could stop 91 million people.

[Religious Speaker]

How can we war without being boots on the ground? The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. We need to fight in the spirit realm first before we go anywhere else with boots on the ground.

[Eric Trump]

Where you want to jump on that?

[Turning Point USA Representative]

I mean, I think I've reiterated what we need to do.

[Eric Trump]

Is this going to come up in the GOP debate?

[Political Organizer]

You know, I don't think so, but I do agree with something that he just said. How this fights starts in the spirit realm. I think prayer is where a lot of us need to be starting when we're approaching these issues.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

Here's another thing, eric. Look, in 2001, when 9, 11 happened, America rallied, right? Everybody was like, f yeah, America, let's go. Right? When we hit, we invaded Afghanistan, then went into Iraq. And back then we had the momentum. We had the people behind us. But right now, this is very. It's very divisive because people voted for no wars, Trump ran on no wars, and now here we go.

[Eric Trump]

So you're hitting on something.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

A lot of people are pissed off a lot. Like, a lot of people want it, a lot of people don't. So it's a very polarizing tag is

[Eric Trump]

hitting on something that I've found being in the media for 20 years. This. I've never seen this happen before. MAGA is. I don't know if we call it maga. It's being divided by original MAGA and new MAGA now. I've never seen Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson fighting with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro. Is this about Israel? Who thinks it's about Israel? Voice Israel. Anyone else? No. What's it about, Ben? What's this about?

[Conservative Commentator]

Okay, so this is the question. What is victory?

[Cancer Recovery Advocate]

All right, well, victory is the complete defeat and destruction of the Islamic world regime in Iran. And letting the people pick their next leader and who they want gives it power to the people.

[Conservative Commentator]

And how do we do that? Is it boots on the ground or not? American boots on the ground, or can it be done without?

[Cancer Recovery Advocate]

I mean, it could be either or. So, like, if we're going to do American boots on ground, that's definitely one of the many options we can do. Or there could be, like, Iranian people who truly love their country, who we can train.

[Conservative Commentator]

Do you. How do you arm them?

[Cancer Recovery Advocate]

There should be like their own militia or like their own force that we can arm sponsor.

[Eric Trump]

I I got to go. We got a heartbreak coming up right now. I'm going to step out. Moran's going to take over from here. Ben will still be in the crowd. Tage and Taryn will be with you when I come back. Folks. Have a great rest of the SE Palm Beach.

[Turning Point USA Representative]

Thank you for joining.

[Eric Trump]

Continues now.

[Veteran Coffee Seller]

Thanks Eric.

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Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.

[Conservative Commentator]

Well, CPAC 2026, what an event. You know what's amazing about this is this is the beauty of conservatism. It's competing in the arena of ideas. Just got word, Trump is speaking. We're going to head there now.

[Patriotic Singer]

From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA where there's pride in every American heart and it's time we stand and say. That I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I'm going to forget the men who died who gave that life to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today Cuz there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. And I promise to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today Cause there ain't no doubt I love this lady. God bless the US.

[Donald Trump]

Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. A lot of rich people in this audience. I'm looking left, right, center, all the way in the back. They're rich too. But I'm thrilled to be back with so many friends and partners, leaders and innovators here at the Future Innovation Investment Initiative. And it's really a great group of people, very smart group of people. They know what's happening in the world. It's my second address to the conference as President of the United States and it's my honor to be here. Thank you very much. As you know, we're gathered at a moment of bold action and historic decision to make America and our allies safer and stronger, more prosperous, more successful than ever before. That's what's happening tonight? We're closer than ever to the rise of the Middle east that is finally free at last from Iranian terror, aggression and nuclear blackmail. That's what's happened. It was nuclear blackmail for years and years. And beyond that, it was blackmail, period. Under my leadership, America is ending the threat posed by this radical regime decimating Iran's capabilities with Operation Epic Fury, something that nobody's ever seen anything quite like it. We have the most powerful military in the world by far. I built it in my first term. Remember I said a trillion dollars? They also. What do you mean, a trillion dollars? A trillion dollars. Every year another trillion, the next another trillion. We have the best people, we have by far the best equipment. We have weapons that nobody's ever seen before. We have weapons that nobody even knows about except for a few of us. For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East. But they are not the bully any longer. They're on the run. Last June, America's armed forces obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities. And one of the most spectacular military actions of all time. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. In the dead of night, no moon, one o' clock in the morning. We went in. It was called Operation Midnight Hammer. And every single one of those bombs hit their mark. Air shafts. They will never build an air shaft again, I promise you that. They went right down that granite mountain, through airships. Most incredible technology you've ever seen, that. A thing like that. And it was. Decimation was obliteration. One of the networks said, well, maybe it wasn't that bad. It was that bad. Turned out to be even more than we thought. But after that attack, the Iranian lunatics refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. And I have to say, before that, Barack Hussein Obama. Did you ever hear of him? Barack Hussein Obama, he had the Iran nuclear deal. He went to Iran, he paid him. Remember, he sent two 757 Boeing 757 jetliners. They took the seats out and they piled it with cash. Like 1.7 billion of cash. That's when I realized the presidency is very powerful. The presidency is a very powerful thing when you can do that. I haven't done that yet. I haven't found a reason to do that yet. But that's big. 1.7 billion in cash. You know, there wasn't a bank in D.C. virginia or Maryland that had any money after that disaster. But they sent the cash to Iran. But more importantly, they. They signed an agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, which If I didn't terminate it in my first term, I terminated it almost immediately. If I didn't terminate it, they would have had a nuclear weapon long ago and they would have used it on the Middle East, Israel and the Middle East. And you know, the Middle east, because when you look at all the missiles that got fired, UAE had 1500 missiles shot at it. They didn't think they were going to have any. Saudi Arabia didn't expect to have. I mean, we have the most powerful Saudis. Oh, yes, sir, you are so powerful. But Yasser, you didn't expect any missiles going to Saudi Arabia. They didn't expect him in Qatar, they didn't expect him in Kuwait, in Bahrain, the missile rained down on you. They were going to hit you with nuclear or whatever they had. But we stopped it. We stopped it. We stopped it with him. And then it was a big moment also on my first administration when I took out Soleimani. And a lot of people think that might have been the biggest thing of all because he was a mad genius. He was a vicious, horrible human being. But he was a great general and a great leader. If you call, if you define a leader in a certain way, very, very powerful leader. In fact, he was so powerful that I really think that the leadership of Rand was extremely happy when I took them out. But they don't say that. But nobody's going to be asking them anymore because they're not here either. But getting the termination and terminating the Iran nuclear deal, that was done by Biden and Obama, I would say mostly Obama, actually. I don't think Biden knew where he was then, too. He had no idea. If you said to him, the Iran nuclear deal, what's that? But there was four years of hell we had with this guy as our leader, I'll tell you. And then we hit him with the B2 bomber. So we did it twice. But if they would have had a nuclear weapon, it would have been a whole big deal and I wouldn't be here right now. And probably you guys wouldn't be too happy. You might be in an area, who knows where you would have been. But we did it twice. And I think, I really believe we saved the Middle East. We saved not just Israel, we saved the Middle east and it was proven by all those rockets that fired down upon you. Saudi Arabia got hit a lot. You all got hit. And nobody expected any missiles to be wasted. You would have thought they were only going at Israel. They weren't. As President of the United States, I would never allow the world's number one state sponsor of terror to obtain a nuclear weapon. I said that for a long time, and I didn't. To defend America and our allies. Over the past 27 days, the US Armed Forces, most powerful in the world have been annihilating Iran's military capacity with force, precision, skill like the world has never seen. It was violence, actually, really violence. We're crushing Iran's currently as we speak. I just looked. We had another big day. We hit them. They don't know what's happening. Remember this? They lied about three days ago. I said, yeah, we're negotiating with this. We are not negotiating. They're being hit so hard, anybody would be negotiating. They are negotiating. They're begging to make a deal. They're begging to make a deal. Turned out I was right. They were negotiating, which they admitted two days later. And in order to make up for their misstatement, they said, we're going to send you eight ships of oil. And the following day I saw. This is two days ago, I saw in one of the networks, very strange, there were eight ships of oil coming out of Iran. And then they actually said, we're going to add an extra two. And they added an extra two. So we had 10 ships. And then people realized we were actually negotiating. We're negotiating now and be great if we could do something. But they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump. I mean, harmless. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say he accidentally said, no, there's no accidents with me. Not too many. If there were, we'd have a major story. Well, we had that with the Gulf of Mexico. Remember Gulf of Mexico? And one day I said, why is it the Gulf of Mexico? We have 92% of the area around it. They have 8%. Really less than 8%. But for 350 years, it was good. You know, they were there 100 years longer than us. Mexico, they're at 350, we're at 250. And I said, I've said, often ask myself, why. Why do we call it the Gulf of Mexico? It seems like we dominate. Well, when I checked, it was more than 92%. So I announced. I wouldn't say Mexico was thrilled, but I announced that from now on, the Gulf of Mexico is going to be called the Gulf of America. And it took about one hour and it was done. Everybody, I mean, the President called me. She's really a nice person, too. I like her a lot. She called up, she had the Most beautiful voice. She's a very elegant woman, has a beautiful, beautiful voice. She goes, president, President, President. Tell me this is not so. No, no, it's so. And then Google Maps Maps changed it. We won the court case in about one hour and Google Maps changed the name. And it's now the Gulf of America, which it should be in all fairness. We're crushing Iran's weapons stockpiles, destroying their missiles and drone factories that levels nobody ever thought was possible. And turning their defense industrial base into nothing. Iran's navy is gone. It's all sunk at the bottom of the Gulf and elsewhere. Did you see the attack submarine that we have? Went after one of their boats. It was called the Solemni. It was the pride of their fleet. But this attack submarine goes like 60 miles an hour. I never saw anything. And it caught them in about two minutes. And that was the end of the Soleimani. Now then, they're 100% dead. They have 22 mine droppers. They go on mine droppers and the mine droppers, 22, all 22 are gone. So I guess they can drop mines, but they're going to have to take them out by a rowboat because they don't have any boats. Their air force is dead. Totally, completely dead. It's out of business. No planes left at all. Their anti aircraft and communications capabilities are totally dismantled and dead. And their leaders are all dead. Other than that, I think they're doing quite well. No, their leaders are dead. Their supreme leader is no longer supreme. He's dead. Son is either dead or in very bad shape because nobody has heard from him. I think he says, just keep me out of this. This is the only country where nobody wants to lead. There's nobody who would like to lead Iran. Please raise your hand. A big audience of distinguished who would like to be our leader. Dead silence. Nobody wants to leave. Now we have an amazing military. We have the greatest intelligence apparatus that anybody's ever seen. We could tell you everything that's going on. We know everything that's going on. We're achieving each and every one of the military objectives. Four weeks ago. Four weeks ago. And we're doing it really. I guess we're two weeks. We call it a military operation. We don't call it a war. We call it a military operation. We're very disappointed, by the way, with NATO. They didn't come to our aid. I didn't try too hard actually, you know, because I wanted to prove a point I didn't sell. They probably think I'm a Lousy salesman, you know. They said. I said, would you like to help us? To President France Macron. Nice guy. He is a nice guy. I don't want them when the war is over. I want them before we start. And uk, our longest ally. You know, nobody ever thought this was possible. They said to the Prime Minister, I said, Mr. Prime Minister, we'd like. You have two aircraft carriers. They're little ones, they're not very good. I know they don't go fast and I know they don't work very well, but we could probably use them maybe for helicopters. And they said, yes, oh, yes, we are preparing them. I see. When will they be ready? Maybe in a month or two. Oh, great. That's wonderful. I said, are you going to help us? Yes, yes, we're going to help you. When the war is finished, we will be there. This is NATO. And I've always said, NATO's a paper tiger. And I always said, we help NATO, but they'll never help us. And if the big one ever happened, and I don't think it will, but if the Big one ever happened, I guarantee you they wouldn't be there. And we learned from that. And remember what I said, because they made a big mistake. They were not there. The Chancellor of Germany, these are real friends of mine, Friedrich, the Chancellor of Germany, he said, this is not our war. We have nothing to do. Well, Ukraine's not our war, but we help them. I wouldn't have had to help if I were president. That war would have never happened. But we had a man who. Of a very low IQ as president, and he had no idea what the hell he was. I was listening to him talk. I said, he's forcing an issue that's going to be trouble. And it turned out to be Trouble. Last week, 28,000 soldiers died. The week before that, 32,000 soldiers died. I think we're going to get it settled, but it's a terrible. It's a terrible thing. Worse, Since World War II, I settled eight wars, and this should have been one of the easier ones. But the hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky is extreme. Never good. Hatred's a bad thing when you're trying to settle a war. I want to thank the entire Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Been very helpful. Unlike NATO, Saudi Arabia fought, Qatar fought, UAE fought, Bahrain fought, and Kuwait fought. Even though they shot down three of our planes with the finest misses we could have done without that. They didn't know they were our planes. They wasted three great Patriot missiles. And you have to say there's nothing like these Patriots. You know, we had an attack of 101 a few days ago. 101 missiles shot at a very valuable thing that we had floating underwater, namely an aircraft carrier. Biggest in the world. And they were shot. 101 going 2,500 miles an hour. And out of the 101 missiles shot, 101 missiles were shot down and spread out all over the city. Pretty amazing. That's called incredible technology, right Steve? That's called great tech. Now think of it. 101 missiles going 2,500 miles an hour. You don't have a lot of time. And these aren't necessarily weightlifting shoulders. These are very smart people doing that. And I watch them, I watch their performance. Missiles launched. Missiles launched. It's almost like they're bored by it. They have like nine seconds ahead of FIFA, the most powerful man in sports. Johnny, Johnny, you never choked, right? These guys can't choke, but they're very smart. High IQs, we need high IQs. We have too many low IQ people. But what happened is you have to see it. It's very cool. Missiles launched. Missiles launched. Missiles launching. They're launching. Okay, we're ready. 101 missiles coming at them. All right, we have like 11 seconds to make a determination. Then at seven seconds, fire, fire, fire. The most unbelievable thing. Fire Boom, fire. Boom. One at a time. Just knocked them out like they were nothing. Genius. It's like unbelievable. I mean to think the. And we have the technology nobody has. Look at what happened in Venezuela. They had other equipment, not ours. They made the mistake of using other equipment. Didn't work too well. And Venezuela was, you know, it took 45 minutes. It was a 45 minute war. This one's bigger, this one's bigger. It's a bigger country. A lot, a lot more powerful. It's a lot more powerful, but it's not powerful anymore. Within two days, I think the damage was done, but now it's really done. Now we're just going after targets. And again, they have no anti aircraft. So we're just floating over the top looking for whatever we want. And we're heading it. And we have another 3,554 targets left. And that'll be done pretty quickly. And then we, you know, at some point we're going to have to determine what we do. But they have, they've never seen anything like it. When we hit Venezuela and you know, that's a very strong military country. They have soldiers if you've ever been there. I've been there. They have a lot of soldiers walking around all over the place. Everyone's a soldier, very military kind of a place. And the general there was a general, professional general, really good. Then he said we were all set for him. We knew there was a problem when we noticed at one o' clock in the morning, every 32 seconds, another airplane, a very fast plane, was coming off the deck of an aircraft carrier that's actually the biggest aircraft carrier in the world. And every 32 seconds, voom, voom, voom. And it was one o' clock in the morning. So we said, okay, I think we're in trouble. But they were ready for us, Johnny. And we were ready. He said, we were ready. And then they hit us. And they came from 17 different angles. They were here, they were there, they. We ran for our lives. It was over. And it was over. And then we took this guy who was a very bad guy, and within literally minutes, he was in the back of a helicopter in a house that was in a big military base with thousands and thousands of soldiers. The house was all steel, with steel doors, steel everything they had. The small steel doors, the big storage we had, we were equipped for anything. Even the big, big one would have been opened within 30 seconds. They walked in with blowtorches. And within minutes he was out of the house, being thrown into the helicopter, sailing away. And the soldiers just looked by. Bye, Julia. Trip.

[Military Analyst]

Sir.

[Donald Trump]

It was amazing. It was an amazing. But this is more amazing what's happening now, because we took a very strong country. I could see that, Yasser. The problem you would have had. I mean, this was not a weak country. This was a strong country. They had over 10,000 missiles that they accumulated since October 2nd. If you think since. Since the B2s, really, since the B2s. They accumulated them in matter of months, six months, but they had well over 10,000. They had rocket launchers. You know, rocket launchers are more important than the rockets, because you take a rocket launcher out, that's the end of that. People think you can take those big rockets and throw them out your window. Like when you were a child with the paper airplanes. You said, doesn't work that way. You need those launches. And we knocked out 97% of the launchers. That's why you may be attacked, but you're not being attacked with very heavy numbers of missiles, like at the beginning. But in particular, I want to thank my friend, the Crown Prince Mohammed, who is a fantastic man and a great friend of mine and a friend of all of yours, I think. And he's a warrior. He's a warrior. He was not afraid of this country that frankly, he should have been afraid of because they're very powerful. I want to thank Tamim because Tamim is. These three people have been unbelievable. Tamim and then UAE Mohammed. These are three great people. And they were under tremendous attack, unexpected attack. And they weren't thinking this was going to happen. Nobody was. And they turned against them and really became very powerfully aligned. And they were with us, but they weren't with us very obliquely. They were with us. But I think that I have to acknowledge for their bravery because they were being hit pretty hard, all three of them. They were being hit pretty hard. The Amir Mohammed Mohammed, yet two Mohammed Tamim, and they're friends of mine. And also I have to say that Bahrain and Kuwait, they were stand up. More so than NATO, I want to tell you, more so than NATO. Now they're a little closer to the action than NATO in all fairness, but very disappointed with NATO. But I wasn't disappointed with our allies in the Middle east and others. And others. We had tremendous support from countries that were not in the general area, but they were tremendously supportive. I think Turkey was fantastic, actually. Fantastic. And they stayed out of things that we asked them to. And he's a great leader. He's a great leader. And Indonesia was great. So many. We had so many great. You know, you learn who your friends are. Really do you learn who your friends are. And. But Indonesia, Turkey and so many other countries. But the five were great. But your dear friend and my dear friend was. He was all man. He stood up and he wasn't. He wasn't scared. Maybe he was. I don't know. Maybe he was, but he didn't show it. He was great, a great leader. You can be very. Saudi Arabia can be very proud of your. Because he's got a lot of titles. He's the crown prince, he's the prime minister, he's the future king. He's got about seven other titles. I said, you have more titles than any human being on earth. He's everything and he deserves to be because he's a winner. So I just want to thank those people. So the Middle east will be transformed, and the future of that region is never. I don't think it's ever looked brighter. You couldn't have. You know, we did the Abraham Accords. I hope you're going to be getting into the Abraham Accords finally. Yeah. So will you please go back and explain? It's time now you know, Muhammad said, oh, yes, as soon as we do this, as soon as we do that. I said, muhammad, we did that. Oh, yes. But we have a couple of other things. It's now time. We've now taken them out and they are out bigly. We got to get into the Abraham Accords and we hope all of the countries are going to be in the Abraham Accords now. We have some very brave countries that did it, you know, years ago. They went in and you know who they are, the four, the early four. And they did a great thing in doing it and it was great for them also economically. But it was a great thing that they did it. But I think all the Middle Eastern countries are going to be joining now. And in some cases, I would say all the Middle Eastern countries and beyond, you have people not in the Middle east that want to be members. You'll be seeing that soon. In the meantime, the conflict in Iran also makes it absolutely vital for the radical left Democrats in Congress to immediately end their dangerous shutdown of our Department of Homeland Security. You know, they want to play games. That's all they are. These people are lunatics. They sort of remind me of. They remind me actually a little bit of Iran. They're deranged, the deranged Democrats. For 42 days they've tried to completely eliminate funding for the number one duty of government, which is keeping America safe.