Trump: I think Putin Will Agree to Peace (Full Meeting)
Summary
Peace Negotiations: The podcast discusses ongoing efforts to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, highlighting President Trump's belief that both President Putin and President Zelensky want to end the war.
Military Support: There is a focus on military aid, including discussions about providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles and the potential for a drone exchange to bolster Ukraine's defense capabilities.
Diplomatic Strategy: The conversation emphasizes the importance of diplomacy and the role of President Trump as a mediator, drawing parallels to his previous success in brokering peace in the Middle East.
Economic Sanctions and Trade: The podcast touches on economic measures, such as tariffs on China, and their impact on international relations, as well as the potential for a trade deal with China to strengthen U.S. economic standing.
Energy Dependencies: Discussions include the challenges faced by countries like Hungary and India regarding their reliance on Russian oil and the geopolitical implications of these dependencies.
Humanitarian Concerns: The issue of abducted Ukrainian children and efforts led by Melania Trump to address this humanitarian crisis are highlighted, underscoring the broader human impact of the conflict.
Global Security: The dialogue addresses the strategic importance of maintaining a strong U.S. military arsenal, including Tomahawk missiles, to ensure national security amidst global conflicts.
Geopolitical Alliances: The podcast explores the dynamics of international alliances, such as NATO and the European Union, and their roles in supporting Ukraine and maintaining global stability.
Transcript
and we've endured it with him to be honest. It's uh it's been a long time and I think we're making great progress. So, we're going to be talking about that today. We'll be talking about what took place yesterday with my phone call with President Putin and I think that things are coming along pretty well. It uh it began with Alaska where I think certain guidelines were discussed and we want to see if we can get this done. This was uh long ago into the Biden administration. I came here and uh we inherited this and we'd like to see if we could uh finish it, end it. We want it ended. So many people have died in this war and we're going to we're going to get it ended. So uh I just want to thank you all very much. If you have a couple of questions, go ahead, please. In fact, before I do that, let me just ask the president to say a few words. Thank you, President. Pleasure. Glad to meet you again, Mr. President. Thank you very much for the invitation. Again, my congratulations with your successful ceasefire in the Middle East. Thank you. Yeah. And you did it. And I think this is a momentum to finish Russia's war against Ukraine. I think that yes, we understand that Putin is not ready. I think not ready but I think that I'm confident that with your help we can stop this war and we really need it. We see that uh they don't have successful steps on the battlefield and is good. I think that their army is weak now but a lot of losses they have a lot of losses and in economy and people and I think uh this is very important moment and I I I I wanted to thank you Mr. President after our phone calls yesterday I had a good opportunity to meet with the big American energy companies and they ready to help us. Yes. After all this attacks on our infrastructure, Russian attacks and etc. And I had also meetings thanks to your team. We had meetings with a good uh military companies. We spoke about air defense and I want to share it uh after with details where we are. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Mr. President, very good. And I think it looks beautiful in his jacket. It's a beautiful I hope people notice it's a good It's actually very stylish. I like it. President Trump. Yeah, please go ahead. Under the Biden administration, the White House was fearing of a possible escalation. They were not allowing the Ukrainians to strike into Russia. Fearing of this escalation. Yeah. Uh, would your administration allow Ukrainians to strike deep into Russia? We're going to be talking about that. That's something we'll be talking about. You're right. It's an escalation, but we'll be talking about that. Mr. President, Mr. President, president joined you in Hungary to meet President Putin because uh it's a leader that we like. We like Victor Orban. He likes him. I like him. Uh, it's a country that's uh a safe country. Done a very good job. He's been a very good leader in the sense of running his country. He doesn't have a lot of the problems that other countries have. And so we've decided that we'll be going to be with Victor Orban and he will I think he'll be a very good host. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump. Hungary. Yeah. We're doing Hungary. Yeah. Trilateral meeting or is it just you and Putin? uh to be determined, but I would say most likely it's going to be uh a double meeting. It'll be a double meeting, but we will have uh the president Zalinsky uh in touch. There's a lot of blood bad blood with the two presidents. And I'm not speaking out of turn when I say it. It's very a very difficult situation. You know, we just settled the war and after thousands of years, I guess people say anywhere from 500 to 3,000 years and I I was in rooms, as you saw, because you were with me, a lot of you were with me last week with leaders that didn't like each other, but they were able to get along. Uh these two leaders do not like each other, and we want to make it comfortable for everybody. So one way or the other will be involved in threes but it may be separated. Mr. President Trump President Trump doesn't agree to peace in he what are you from from Ukraine he actually had me what if Mr. President President Putin doesn't agree to peace in Hungary. What do you do then? Do you have Well, let's see what happens. I mean, you know what? If it's I think he will I think that President Putin wants to end the war or I wouldn't be talking this way. I think he wants to end the war. I spoke to him yesterday for two and a half hours. We went through a lot of details. He wants to get it ended. I think that President Zalinsky wants to get it ended. Now, we have to get it done. Pres president Cara from Cara Castanova from Lindell TV and although I love asking you questions today my question is for President Zinski. Go ahead please. Thank you. Our president President Silinski President Trump just broken a peace deal in the Middle East that all Americans both sides of the aisle are very proud of. But to meet that deal both sides had to make concessions. Our president has stuck out his neck in many ways to make a a peace deal for your war as well. What specific concessions are you willing to make to end this war with Russia? Will you give up joining NATO? Americans have foreign war fatigue and our president, as he said, we need our tomahawks, too. To me, yes, you thank you very much. You had some question, right? So many questions in one. Thank you very much for your question. First of all, I think we need to sit and speak. The second point, we need ceasefire. Even now you see in the Middle East, it's very difficult to hold ceasefire everywhere in every war. It's very difficult. We want this. Putin doesn't want. That's why we need pressure on him. We will speak with president today what we need. We understand what we need to push Putin to negotiation table. And as I said previously so we are ready to speak in any kind of format bilateral trilateral doesn't matter matter just peace this is important and we don't speak about uh NATO or nate NATO for Ukrainians is very important of course uh it's our decision decisions of allies to decide where we are but are you willing to give yes but the most important thing the most important thing for people in Ukraine which are under each day's attacks to have really strong security guarantees. Net NATO is the best but weapon is very important. Allies on our side is very important and between us for us bilateral security guarantees between me and President Trump is very important. I'm I don't know we we didn't speak with details about it but this is the most important document because United States is very strong certain President Trump President Trump you are the middleman right now hoping to end this conflict who is doing a better job negotiating President Zinsky or President Putin I think they're both doing a great job in that sense uh we have to get it done it's we've got to take some of the hatred of each other you know they they don't like each other. I say that in front of President Zalinsky, but I say it in front of President Putin, too. They have tremendous bad blood. It's it's really is what is holding up, I think, a settlement. I think we're going to get it done. And we have to make it long lasting, as I said, in the Middle East, everlasting, right? Everlasting. And the Middle East is a much more complicated situation. You know, we had 59 countries involved and every one of them agreed. And it's, you know, is sort of amazing. Most people didn't think that was doable. Uh, this is going to be something I really believe that's going to get done. I had a very good talk yesterday with President Putin. I think he wants to get it done. Right behind you. Um, when we were in Israel with President Trump earlier in the week, we heard a lot about the difference in diplomacy between President Trump and President Joe Biden before him. What do you see as the biggest difference in diplomacy between President Trump and President Biden? President Trump has a big chance now to finish this war. President Biden now is not a president. So he doesn't have a chance to finish this war. And President Trump is really showed for the world that he can manage ceasefire in Middle East and that's why I hope that he will do this and we will also have such big success for Ukraine. It's a big chance and I hope that President Trump can manage it. I I would I would say the biggest difference is one is extremely competent and the other one is grossly incompetent. Mr. President, China. Sir, a few weeks ago in New York when you two met, um you said that you think Ukraine could ultimately take back all the territory that it's lost so far. Do you still think that's the case or do you think there'll have to be some sort of You never know. You know, war is very interesting. You never know, do you? You just never know with war war and peace. But you never know, please. Russia calls Tomahawk supply to Ukraine is an escalation. Yet it continues using similar cruise missiles like uh caliber and who you with? Who are you with? You Ukraine. Good. But Russia continue even using the cru cruise missiles and also nuclear capable ballistic missiles in Ukraine since 2022. Uh so do you consider providing Ukraine with the tomah or similar missiles as an opportunity to equalize the possibilities of Ukraine and Russia and push Moscow to the negotiation? Sure. We're going to be talking about that. That's why we're here. Okay. Fair question. Exactly as he told you to say it, but we're going to be talking about it. Okay. Yeah. Please message to India and Hungary who still refusing. You said India and Hungary. Hungary. That's an interesting and Hungary. India and Hungary. It's an interesting combination. Refuse to stop buying Russian oil. Well, India uh is not going to be buying Russian oil anymore and Hungary is sort of stuck because they have one pipeline. It's been there for years and years and years and they're inland. They don't have sea. They don't have sea. And I spoke with uh the very great leader of Hungary and they are, you know, it's very hard for them to get oil. I understand it. Uh we have Hungary's in a very interesting position because they can't have ports. You know, they're surrounded by land. So, we'll see what happens there. But India will not be buying oil from Russia and they've already deescalated and they've more or less stopped. They're pulling back. They bought about 38% of the oil and they won't be doing it anymore. Trump has been helping you in achieving peace in Ukraine. Who has first lady Melania Trump has been helping in returning uh abducted abducted Ukrainian children from Russian captivity? President Zalinski, do you appreciate those efforts? How do you assess them? And did you ask her to step in and to help you? No, she wanted to do it. She's felt very strongly about the children and uh she's uh done a really good job I think in in bringing it to the four you know we have a lot of children involved now it's uh some people say it's 20,000 and some people say it's 300 there's a big difference between that so nobody really knows but but uh she felt very strongly about the children she thinks about the children all the time if you if you UK tomahawks to Ukraine. What's going to happen if the United States is in a conflict and we need the tomahawks? Do we have Well, that's that's a problem. We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other things that we've been sending over the last four years to Ukraine. We've been, you know, we gave we gave them a lot. Now we have a different situation. We send it to the European Union. They pay for it and all that, but they have plenty of money, but uh we it's beyond the money, you know. We need tomahawks or we need a lot of other weapons that we're sending to Ukraine. One of the reasons we want to get this war over is exactly that. Uh it's not easy for us to give. You're talking about massive numbers of very powerful weapons. So that's one of the things we'll be talking about. Hopefully they won't need it. Hopefully we'll be able to get the war over with without thinking about tomahawks. I think I think we're I think we're fairly I think we're fairly close to that. Yeah. Go ahead. Can I say please just just you to to understand so for today uh of course we want to finish this war but the the war is another technological war you don't use just tomahawks if you want to and targeting military goal you need thousands of drones it goes together with such missiles Ukraine has such thousands of our production drones but we don't have tomahawks that's why we need to hawks but United States is a very strong production and United States has tomahawks and other missiles very strong missiles but they can have our thousands of drones that's why where we can work together where we can strengthen American production and so so just so that I understand so you're suggesting kind of a trade if President Trump okays Tomahawk missiles to help you launch yes it's about military goals It's only about military goals, right? But then you would authorize some kind of an exchange where US Yes, we have proposition. We have we have brief proposition with our drones. President Trump, I I don't mean to be brokering an arm deal here, but is that something that you would be interested in? Ukrainian drones. We are. Yeah, we would. We have a lot of drones right now. We build our own drones, but we also buy drones from others. And they make a very good drone. I mean, we drone warfare has really come to the four over the last couple of years because of this war. Uh, I will say there's nothing like the jets. You know, we knocked out a lot of drones in Israel. We were knocking them out for Israel and we were doing it with extremely fast and powerful jets, following the drones and knocking the hell out of them. So, it's, you know, we we've we know a lot about the drones and we know a lot about the great jets, the great ones, uh, the ones well and the B-52s which were totally un they were stealth. They were undetectable. So, we have a lot of different weapons and you know, we I have an obligation also though to make sure that we're completely stocked up as a country because you never know what's going to happen in war and peace, right? You never know what's going to happen. So, we're going to be talking about tomahawks and uh we'd much rather have them not need tomahawks. Would much rather have the war be over to be honest because, you know, we're in it to get the war over. We're not we're selling a lot of uh different types of uh weapon, as you know, to the European Union. We're not in it for that. We're in it to get it over. We're losing thousands of people a week. Thousands of people. Russian, Ukrainian, and mostly soldiers. I mean, mostly soldiers. Uh, but we're in it to see that end. And if we can end quickly, and I think we can. I mean, I had a very good talk yesterday. We're going to be talking about it. But I had a very productive talk yesterday with President Putin. We'll see what happens. But, uh, the war in the Middle East was far more complicated. We got that one done, and I think we have a good chance. I think President Zullinsky wants it done and I think President Putin want it done. Now all they have to do is get along a little bit. Can you give us an update on the trade negotiations with China or perhaps Secretary Best? Yeah, I will. And and I'm going to let I'm going to let Scott do that. But uh I think we're doing very well. I think we're getting along with China. China's would like to have something. As of this moment, we'll be meeting in a couple of weeks. We'll be meeting in South Korea. you think myself go forward? I think so. It looks like it's going forward. I think so. They want to meet uh we like to meet. I have a very good relationship with uh President Xi and we're going to see what happens. But, you know, for years we were uh taken advantage of by China very badly. We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year to China. We we really built their military. If you think about it, the kind of money that presidents allowed to be lost to China was just insane. And then when I came into office, as you know, I put very severe tariffs and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars in my first term from China. Biden let that go because it was so much. He he let it continue, but he gave all sorts of exceptions. And by the time you looked at it, Scott, I would say there wasn't it wasn't the same thing. He was he would give an exception for anything. If you got up and went out to dinner, he'd give you an exception. So, it wasn't the same thing. But I put on very very serious tariffs and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars and then we I left office. The election was rigged. I left office and that was the story. Now I come back and uh we are in a very strong position because of tariffs. We're in a very powerful position because of the fact that we have tariffs. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be in a very weak position. We would be in a weakened state. But with tariffs, we've made hundreds of billions of dollars, not only from China, but from others. And China wants to talk and we like talking to China. So, we have a very good relationship and we're going to be meeting in South Korea couple of weeks. And I just got back from a long trip. I'm going on another long trip. And uh Scott, do you want to say a few words on that please? Uh yes, sir. So the entire relationship stems from the the great perspective the two leaders have for each other. China did a substantial unprovoked escalation last week. We were unable to get in touch with them. Since then it's been IMF World Bank week. They have had working level people here who uh there have been meetings. the vice premier who is my counterpart and I will be speaking this evening at around 8:30 9:00 and then he and I in a delegation will meet in Malaysia probably a week from tomorrow to prepare the for the two presidents to meet. So I again I think that things have deescalated. We hope that uh China will show the respect that we have shown them and I am confident that President Trump because of his relationship with President Xi will be able to get things back on a good course. Is the hope for that meeting with you and President Xi some kind of trade deal in or look I think we're in a very strong position. I think we're in a very strong position. Uh we're getting as you know as of November 1st I could move it up if I wanted. uh a 100% tariff over and above what we get now. So that would make it about 157%. And China doesn't want that and they want to talk and we're talking and I think we'll make a deal that will be good for both. I think we will u do something but you have to understand we never got anything from China. It was a one-way street for many years for decades. It was a one-way street and they became rich because of the United States and frankly presidents that let's be nice. They didn't know. They just didn't know. They didn't understand what was happening to them. But I understood it. I understood it long before I ran for politics. I used to watch in amazement at how stupid our country was, how stupid they were. And we're not stupid anymore. And that includes with the European Union. That includes with Japan and South Korea. We're we all we want to do is be treated fairly. But the fairly is hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars coming into the United States. And it's uh our national security is secure because of tariffs. If we didn't have tariffs, we would have no national security. So it's very important. Will you seek China's help in ending the war in Ukraine? Do you need them to put pressure on Russia? I'll be discussing that, but I'd love I'd love to see it ended before that. president. I mean, I I think we have a chance of ending the war quickly if flexibility is shown on behalf. And again, we're not losing people. The United States is not we're not losing people. We're not spending money. We're getting paid for the, you know, ammunition and missiles and everything else that we're sending to the European Union European Union, but to NATO, but it's very similar if you look at the countries. I mean, it's very similar. And we just made a very fair trade deal with the European Union and what we wanted and we made a very good deal with NATO, too. You know, they pay for all of this. That's not what we're in this for. We're in it to save thousands of lives every week. Thousands and thousands of lives. That's why we're in it. And I think I think we have a very I think we have a very good chance of bringing this war to a conclusion. You're a pizza president and your cabinet has done an honestly an excellent job. I think that a lot of people could agree to that. I'm speaking as someone who lost my father in a war. So I know the human cost. Uh what would your advice to be be to American leaders to world leaders to neocons to uh TV hosts uh who often speak about conflict in abstract or strategic terms rather than the human cost than the human terms. Look, my only statement is we have to get together. It's a very small group of people. It's the president, the president, and the president. Okay, three presidents and I'm the mediator president. And I'm mediating. Not an easy situation. It should be easy, but uh it's a lot easier when people understand each other, when they get together, and when they like each other. We don't necessarily have that situation as far as like is concerned. Maybe it can turn around. Maybe it can. But in the meantime, we'll have them keep a little bit of distance and we're going to see if we can get it done. Uh this is number nine. Okay, this will be number nine. Uh for me, I've solved eight, including the Middle East. I've solved eight. This I thought would have been among the easiest. We solved President Putin mentioned yesterday Armenia, you know, all of the different wars. He said it was amazing because we but the big one that he was surprised that we were able to settle was the Middle East. He thought it was incredible. He was very generous in that sense. Uh this should be something we're able to settle and I think we will be able to settle. And on that note, you will go down as the peacemaker. No doubt. And you will resolve this this war. Well, you know, we we resolved eight others. It's funny how people say that. If you get this one, every time I do one, they forget about that one. Uh, I solved eight wars. Go to Rwanda and the Congo. Talk about India and Pakistan. Uh, look at Thailand. Look at Look at all of the wars that we solved. And every time I solve one, they say, "If you solve the next one, you're going to get the Nobel Prize." I didn't get a Nobel Prize. I Somebody got it who's a very nice woman, very nice. I don't know who she is, but she was very generous. Uh, so I don't care about all that stuff. I just care about saving lives. But this will be number nine. But every time I solve one, they said, "Sir, if you solve one more, you're going to be known as a peacekeeper." So, to the best of my knowledge, we've never had a president that solved one war. Not one war. Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars, but they don't solve the wars. They don't settle them. And especially when they're not when they have nothing to do with us. I s almost I guess just about all of these wars had nothing to do with us. But I saved tens of millions of lives. The prime minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives in interceding on Pakistan and uh you look at Pakistan and India as an example. That would have been a bad one. Two nuclear nations, right? So I say this uh this is pretty much the last one. Although I do understand that Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan. That's an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve it. In the meantime, I have to run the USA. But I love solving wars. You know why? I like stopping people from being killed. And I've saved millions and millions of lives. And I think we're going to have success with this war. This President Zilinski, this is your third time over here. And by the way, you look excellent. Thank you, sir. Thank you. For you, by the way, um this is your third time here. How different sitting across from the president is this time versus the two previous uh times here at the White House? And how confident are you hearing the success rate of solving these prior wars that you can he can get this war solved? First of all, about shoot the same suit because the same president, it's very simple. The next president will have another suit. Yes. About uh our relations with uh President Trump. I think we have important dialogues and uh I think we uh begin to understand each other. Yes. And I I know that president is briefed very well about situation in the battlefield and he knows a lot what's going on the battlefield in Ukraine and I think it really helps when you know a lot of things a lot of details about one or another war it helps a lot but uh but we are still in war and I hope Mr. President you have been cleared that there are some countries that are not meeting their commitment. Uh you pointed out Spain they said that like it's impossible. No Spain has not come through. No, Spain has not been loyal to NATO. Spain has been uh they're the only one. Everyone went up to as you know I mean you were at 2% and they all went up to 5% but Spain disagreed with that. Uh, I think Spain should be reprimanded for that. I think it's very bad that they did that, but that's up to them. That's up to NATO and Spain. They cannot be expelled from NATO. Um, they can they or not? They cannot according to the treaty, but they also claim that they are protected by the European Union umbrella for trade. So, the other people of many of the other countries are in the European Union too. They're not complaining, right? interest. Yeah, please go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, can you do you think you can carry the momentum from the Middle East deal over to this deal? And if so, um, how does that move the needle? Yeah, I do. I think we carry a lot of momentum, a lot of credibility. Getting Middle East done was very important. Nobody thought it could be done. That was one nobody thought could be done and we got it done. And a lot of that was the big hit that we put on uh Iran with respect to the nuclear they took. That was a that was a an unbelievable military maneuver. The B2s and many other planes involved by the way, but the B2s uh yeah I think nobody expected that to happen. And you know we had 59 countries involved and these were countries very diverse. You had Arab, Muslim, Jewish, you had every kind of you had every country Christian, you had every country and many countries involved and we got that done and we got it done pretty swiftly after we after we set the table properly. We had to set the table properly. Uh I this should be one that we got done and I think the table is set properly here now too and it'll be a great honor. It'll be a great honor to get it done. And uh the Ukrainian people are great and the Russian people are great and obviously they have much in common as we understand. They have a lot in common. So it'll be a great honor to get it done. On Venezuela, there are survivors from your latest boat strike. What happens to those survivors? Well, I'll ask uh Marco to discuss that possibly. Yeah, as you it's it's well known there's an ongoing uh narot terrorist operation the United States has been conducting. As far as details of any recent strikes, we're not prepared here to announce all those details, but you'll get that information here very shortly. And how are there survivors? What these are meant to be lethal attacks. Yeah. Again, I mean, we're on undertaking these operations against narco terrorists. That's what these are. These are terrorists. Let's be clear. And um but as far as the details of any recent operations, when they when they when we are prepared to announce those, we will. as the president has consistently done. So you may get something on that later today. Let me ask you that was in a submarine, right? It was we attacked a submarine and that was a drug carrying submarine built specifically for the transportation of massive amounts of drugs. Just so you understand, this was not an innocent group of people. I don't know too many people that have submarines and uh that was an attack on a drug carrying loaded up submarine. Yeah. On on Putin. Is it your belief as Mr. Zalinsky said yesterday that the threat of tomahawks and and costs as Secretary Hook put it? Um is that bringing him to the table? The fact that it's kind of a carrot and I don't know what's bringing him to I I think he wants to make a deal. That's all I I can't tell you what's bringing him. Sure. That's the threat of that is good, but the threat of that is always there. Uh, tom hawks are very dangerous weapons. They're incredible weapons. If you like warfare, it's one of the most accurate. You know, we used we hit 30 tomahawks in Iran after the B2s did their damage. We sort of gave it a little capper with 30 tomahawks from a submarine. Quite far away, actually. But they're an amazing weapon. They're a very powerful weapon, but they're a very dangerous weapon. And it could mean big ex, you know, escalation. It could mean uh a lot of bad things can happen. Tomahawks are a big deal. But one thing I have to say, we want to hawks also. We don't want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country. We have a very strong country right now. We have a strong military. We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. I want to get this war over Putin Trump tunnel to connect Russia and Alaska. Are you interested? I just heard about it. A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. I just heard about that one. That's an interesting one. We'll have to think about that. I hadn't heard that. We just did a nice road in Alaska that's going to get us to a lot of minerals and we have a piece of it, a good piece of the ownership because of the fact we made it possible. But uh this came up yesterday. A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. That's an interesting What do you think of that, Mr. President? Do you have any ideas? How do you like that idea? I'm not happy with this idea. I don't think you're going to like it. I don't think he liked it. I don't think he liked it. President Trump, do you think that Do you think that your gut instinct? Well, we had a senator that wanted remember from Hawaii. She wanted a tunnel from the mainland to Hawaii. Then she said, "Well, we can't do that." So, we're going to build a railroad to Hawaii. Do you remember? She's a current sitting senator, a Democrat. She wants a railroad to go to Hawaii. Right? You know who that is, right? She's another She's another You're on your meeting with Putin. Aren't you concerned that maybe the Russian president is trying to buy himself more time? Yeah, I am. But, you know, I've been played all my life by the best of them and I came out really well. Uh, so it's possible. Yeah. A little time. But I I think that uh I'm pretty good at this stuff. I think that he wants to make a deal. I made eight of them. I'm going to make a ninth. I think he wants to make a deal. Consider Russia to be a paper tiger. Do you think judgment by the state of economies? Well, I think I think that he should have won the war in a week. Yeah, I do think. And if we didn't if we didn't give the uh anti-tank missiles, as you know, the javelins they call them, uh they got stuck in the mud, they would have been in Kiev very quickly. They were heading to Kiev. So, you know, in in war, you have a lot of luck, too. You know people weather has won war and the cold and the heat and all things take place in war but that was a very interesting moment when the tank started rolling and some brilliant general said let's go through the mud instead of going down the highway right so they they got a little bit lucky but you know where they really got lucky I gave javelins that wasn't given by Barack Hussein Obama he gave them sheets you know there's a statement Obama gave him sheets and I gave him the javelins and The javelins are a devastating weapon. And that wasn't given by Obama. That was given by because at the time it was Obama. Uh that was given by that was given by me. So it was like one of those things. Uh and you had hundreds of them. Hundreds of them. They're a devastating weapon. We have a lot of devastating weapons. I'd rather not use them. But that was a big moment. You know, when the tanks when the tanks got stuck, they got stuck and uh call it luck or call it talent. I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it was a big moment in time. You think Democrats will give you credit? You think Democrats are going to matter when you finally end this war like they did with the war in the Middle East? And I think right now the Democrats are really damaged, mentally damaged. Uh they want to take 1.5 trillion with a T trillion dollars and give it to people that invaded our country. They came into our country illegally from prisons from from mental institutions, gang members. They want to give them healthcare and take it away from our citizens. We're not going to do that. $1.5 trillion. They want to destroy They want to destroy our health care system. We're not going to let that happen. Have you authorized CIA operations in Venezuela as part of Well, I wouldn't say that, but uh some interesting things are happening around the world. I'll say that reported, Mr. President, it has been reported that Maduro offered everything in it in his country, all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to you in English recently uh offering mediation. What could we do in order to stop that? He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why? Because he doesn't want to [ __ ] around with the United States. Thank you everybody.
Trump: I think Putin Will Agree to Peace (Full Meeting)
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and we've endured it with him to be honest. It's uh it's been a long time and I think we're making great progress. So, we're going to be talking about that today. We'll be talking about what took place yesterday with my phone call with President Putin and I think that things are coming along pretty well. It uh it began with Alaska where I think certain guidelines were discussed and we want to see if we can get this done. This was uh long ago into the Biden administration. I came here and uh we inherited this and we'd like to see if we could uh finish it, end it. We want it ended. So many people have died in this war and we're going to we're going to get it ended. So uh I just want to thank you all very much. If you have a couple of questions, go ahead, please. In fact, before I do that, let me just ask the president to say a few words. Thank you, President. Pleasure. Glad to meet you again, Mr. President. Thank you very much for the invitation. Again, my congratulations with your successful ceasefire in the Middle East. Thank you. Yeah. And you did it. And I think this is a momentum to finish Russia's war against Ukraine. I think that yes, we understand that Putin is not ready. I think not ready but I think that I'm confident that with your help we can stop this war and we really need it. We see that uh they don't have successful steps on the battlefield and is good. I think that their army is weak now but a lot of losses they have a lot of losses and in economy and people and I think uh this is very important moment and I I I I wanted to thank you Mr. President after our phone calls yesterday I had a good opportunity to meet with the big American energy companies and they ready to help us. Yes. After all this attacks on our infrastructure, Russian attacks and etc. And I had also meetings thanks to your team. We had meetings with a good uh military companies. We spoke about air defense and I want to share it uh after with details where we are. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Mr. President, very good. And I think it looks beautiful in his jacket. It's a beautiful I hope people notice it's a good It's actually very stylish. I like it. President Trump. Yeah, please go ahead. Under the Biden administration, the White House was fearing of a possible escalation. They were not allowing the Ukrainians to strike into Russia. Fearing of this escalation. Yeah. Uh, would your administration allow Ukrainians to strike deep into Russia? We're going to be talking about that. That's something we'll be talking about. You're right. It's an escalation, but we'll be talking about that. Mr. President, Mr. President, president joined you in Hungary to meet President Putin because uh it's a leader that we like. We like Victor Orban. He likes him. I like him. Uh, it's a country that's uh a safe country. Done a very good job. He's been a very good leader in the sense of running his country. He doesn't have a lot of the problems that other countries have. And so we've decided that we'll be going to be with Victor Orban and he will I think he'll be a very good host. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump. Hungary. Yeah. We're doing Hungary. Yeah. Trilateral meeting or is it just you and Putin? uh to be determined, but I would say most likely it's going to be uh a double meeting. It'll be a double meeting, but we will have uh the president Zalinsky uh in touch. There's a lot of blood bad blood with the two presidents. And I'm not speaking out of turn when I say it. It's very a very difficult situation. You know, we just settled the war and after thousands of years, I guess people say anywhere from 500 to 3,000 years and I I was in rooms, as you saw, because you were with me, a lot of you were with me last week with leaders that didn't like each other, but they were able to get along. Uh these two leaders do not like each other, and we want to make it comfortable for everybody. So one way or the other will be involved in threes but it may be separated. Mr. President Trump President Trump doesn't agree to peace in he what are you from from Ukraine he actually had me what if Mr. President President Putin doesn't agree to peace in Hungary. What do you do then? Do you have Well, let's see what happens. I mean, you know what? If it's I think he will I think that President Putin wants to end the war or I wouldn't be talking this way. I think he wants to end the war. I spoke to him yesterday for two and a half hours. We went through a lot of details. He wants to get it ended. I think that President Zalinsky wants to get it ended. Now, we have to get it done. Pres president Cara from Cara Castanova from Lindell TV and although I love asking you questions today my question is for President Zinski. Go ahead please. Thank you. Our president President Silinski President Trump just broken a peace deal in the Middle East that all Americans both sides of the aisle are very proud of. But to meet that deal both sides had to make concessions. Our president has stuck out his neck in many ways to make a a peace deal for your war as well. What specific concessions are you willing to make to end this war with Russia? Will you give up joining NATO? Americans have foreign war fatigue and our president, as he said, we need our tomahawks, too. To me, yes, you thank you very much. You had some question, right? So many questions in one. Thank you very much for your question. First of all, I think we need to sit and speak. The second point, we need ceasefire. Even now you see in the Middle East, it's very difficult to hold ceasefire everywhere in every war. It's very difficult. We want this. Putin doesn't want. That's why we need pressure on him. We will speak with president today what we need. We understand what we need to push Putin to negotiation table. And as I said previously so we are ready to speak in any kind of format bilateral trilateral doesn't matter matter just peace this is important and we don't speak about uh NATO or nate NATO for Ukrainians is very important of course uh it's our decision decisions of allies to decide where we are but are you willing to give yes but the most important thing the most important thing for people in Ukraine which are under each day's attacks to have really strong security guarantees. Net NATO is the best but weapon is very important. Allies on our side is very important and between us for us bilateral security guarantees between me and President Trump is very important. I'm I don't know we we didn't speak with details about it but this is the most important document because United States is very strong certain President Trump President Trump you are the middleman right now hoping to end this conflict who is doing a better job negotiating President Zinsky or President Putin I think they're both doing a great job in that sense uh we have to get it done it's we've got to take some of the hatred of each other you know they they don't like each other. I say that in front of President Zalinsky, but I say it in front of President Putin, too. They have tremendous bad blood. It's it's really is what is holding up, I think, a settlement. I think we're going to get it done. And we have to make it long lasting, as I said, in the Middle East, everlasting, right? Everlasting. And the Middle East is a much more complicated situation. You know, we had 59 countries involved and every one of them agreed. And it's, you know, is sort of amazing. Most people didn't think that was doable. Uh, this is going to be something I really believe that's going to get done. I had a very good talk yesterday with President Putin. I think he wants to get it done. Right behind you. Um, when we were in Israel with President Trump earlier in the week, we heard a lot about the difference in diplomacy between President Trump and President Joe Biden before him. What do you see as the biggest difference in diplomacy between President Trump and President Biden? President Trump has a big chance now to finish this war. President Biden now is not a president. So he doesn't have a chance to finish this war. And President Trump is really showed for the world that he can manage ceasefire in Middle East and that's why I hope that he will do this and we will also have such big success for Ukraine. It's a big chance and I hope that President Trump can manage it. I I would I would say the biggest difference is one is extremely competent and the other one is grossly incompetent. Mr. President, China. Sir, a few weeks ago in New York when you two met, um you said that you think Ukraine could ultimately take back all the territory that it's lost so far. Do you still think that's the case or do you think there'll have to be some sort of You never know. You know, war is very interesting. You never know, do you? You just never know with war war and peace. But you never know, please. Russia calls Tomahawk supply to Ukraine is an escalation. Yet it continues using similar cruise missiles like uh caliber and who you with? Who are you with? You Ukraine. Good. But Russia continue even using the cru cruise missiles and also nuclear capable ballistic missiles in Ukraine since 2022. Uh so do you consider providing Ukraine with the tomah or similar missiles as an opportunity to equalize the possibilities of Ukraine and Russia and push Moscow to the negotiation? Sure. We're going to be talking about that. That's why we're here. Okay. Fair question. Exactly as he told you to say it, but we're going to be talking about it. Okay. Yeah. Please message to India and Hungary who still refusing. You said India and Hungary. Hungary. That's an interesting and Hungary. India and Hungary. It's an interesting combination. Refuse to stop buying Russian oil. Well, India uh is not going to be buying Russian oil anymore and Hungary is sort of stuck because they have one pipeline. It's been there for years and years and years and they're inland. They don't have sea. They don't have sea. And I spoke with uh the very great leader of Hungary and they are, you know, it's very hard for them to get oil. I understand it. Uh we have Hungary's in a very interesting position because they can't have ports. You know, they're surrounded by land. So, we'll see what happens there. But India will not be buying oil from Russia and they've already deescalated and they've more or less stopped. They're pulling back. They bought about 38% of the oil and they won't be doing it anymore. Trump has been helping you in achieving peace in Ukraine. Who has first lady Melania Trump has been helping in returning uh abducted abducted Ukrainian children from Russian captivity? President Zalinski, do you appreciate those efforts? How do you assess them? And did you ask her to step in and to help you? No, she wanted to do it. She's felt very strongly about the children and uh she's uh done a really good job I think in in bringing it to the four you know we have a lot of children involved now it's uh some people say it's 20,000 and some people say it's 300 there's a big difference between that so nobody really knows but but uh she felt very strongly about the children she thinks about the children all the time if you if you UK tomahawks to Ukraine. What's going to happen if the United States is in a conflict and we need the tomahawks? Do we have Well, that's that's a problem. We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other things that we've been sending over the last four years to Ukraine. We've been, you know, we gave we gave them a lot. Now we have a different situation. We send it to the European Union. They pay for it and all that, but they have plenty of money, but uh we it's beyond the money, you know. We need tomahawks or we need a lot of other weapons that we're sending to Ukraine. One of the reasons we want to get this war over is exactly that. Uh it's not easy for us to give. You're talking about massive numbers of very powerful weapons. So that's one of the things we'll be talking about. Hopefully they won't need it. Hopefully we'll be able to get the war over with without thinking about tomahawks. I think I think we're I think we're fairly I think we're fairly close to that. Yeah. Go ahead. Can I say please just just you to to understand so for today uh of course we want to finish this war but the the war is another technological war you don't use just tomahawks if you want to and targeting military goal you need thousands of drones it goes together with such missiles Ukraine has such thousands of our production drones but we don't have tomahawks that's why we need to hawks but United States is a very strong production and United States has tomahawks and other missiles very strong missiles but they can have our thousands of drones that's why where we can work together where we can strengthen American production and so so just so that I understand so you're suggesting kind of a trade if President Trump okays Tomahawk missiles to help you launch yes it's about military goals It's only about military goals, right? But then you would authorize some kind of an exchange where US Yes, we have proposition. We have we have brief proposition with our drones. President Trump, I I don't mean to be brokering an arm deal here, but is that something that you would be interested in? Ukrainian drones. We are. Yeah, we would. We have a lot of drones right now. We build our own drones, but we also buy drones from others. And they make a very good drone. I mean, we drone warfare has really come to the four over the last couple of years because of this war. Uh, I will say there's nothing like the jets. You know, we knocked out a lot of drones in Israel. We were knocking them out for Israel and we were doing it with extremely fast and powerful jets, following the drones and knocking the hell out of them. So, it's, you know, we we've we know a lot about the drones and we know a lot about the great jets, the great ones, uh, the ones well and the B-52s which were totally un they were stealth. They were undetectable. So, we have a lot of different weapons and you know, we I have an obligation also though to make sure that we're completely stocked up as a country because you never know what's going to happen in war and peace, right? You never know what's going to happen. So, we're going to be talking about tomahawks and uh we'd much rather have them not need tomahawks. Would much rather have the war be over to be honest because, you know, we're in it to get the war over. We're not we're selling a lot of uh different types of uh weapon, as you know, to the European Union. We're not in it for that. We're in it to get it over. We're losing thousands of people a week. Thousands of people. Russian, Ukrainian, and mostly soldiers. I mean, mostly soldiers. Uh, but we're in it to see that end. And if we can end quickly, and I think we can. I mean, I had a very good talk yesterday. We're going to be talking about it. But I had a very productive talk yesterday with President Putin. We'll see what happens. But, uh, the war in the Middle East was far more complicated. We got that one done, and I think we have a good chance. I think President Zullinsky wants it done and I think President Putin want it done. Now all they have to do is get along a little bit. Can you give us an update on the trade negotiations with China or perhaps Secretary Best? Yeah, I will. And and I'm going to let I'm going to let Scott do that. But uh I think we're doing very well. I think we're getting along with China. China's would like to have something. As of this moment, we'll be meeting in a couple of weeks. We'll be meeting in South Korea. you think myself go forward? I think so. It looks like it's going forward. I think so. They want to meet uh we like to meet. I have a very good relationship with uh President Xi and we're going to see what happens. But, you know, for years we were uh taken advantage of by China very badly. We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year to China. We we really built their military. If you think about it, the kind of money that presidents allowed to be lost to China was just insane. And then when I came into office, as you know, I put very severe tariffs and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars in my first term from China. Biden let that go because it was so much. He he let it continue, but he gave all sorts of exceptions. And by the time you looked at it, Scott, I would say there wasn't it wasn't the same thing. He was he would give an exception for anything. If you got up and went out to dinner, he'd give you an exception. So, it wasn't the same thing. But I put on very very serious tariffs and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars and then we I left office. The election was rigged. I left office and that was the story. Now I come back and uh we are in a very strong position because of tariffs. We're in a very powerful position because of the fact that we have tariffs. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be in a very weak position. We would be in a weakened state. But with tariffs, we've made hundreds of billions of dollars, not only from China, but from others. And China wants to talk and we like talking to China. So, we have a very good relationship and we're going to be meeting in South Korea couple of weeks. And I just got back from a long trip. I'm going on another long trip. And uh Scott, do you want to say a few words on that please? Uh yes, sir. So the entire relationship stems from the the great perspective the two leaders have for each other. China did a substantial unprovoked escalation last week. We were unable to get in touch with them. Since then it's been IMF World Bank week. They have had working level people here who uh there have been meetings. the vice premier who is my counterpart and I will be speaking this evening at around 8:30 9:00 and then he and I in a delegation will meet in Malaysia probably a week from tomorrow to prepare the for the two presidents to meet. So I again I think that things have deescalated. We hope that uh China will show the respect that we have shown them and I am confident that President Trump because of his relationship with President Xi will be able to get things back on a good course. Is the hope for that meeting with you and President Xi some kind of trade deal in or look I think we're in a very strong position. I think we're in a very strong position. Uh we're getting as you know as of November 1st I could move it up if I wanted. uh a 100% tariff over and above what we get now. So that would make it about 157%. And China doesn't want that and they want to talk and we're talking and I think we'll make a deal that will be good for both. I think we will u do something but you have to understand we never got anything from China. It was a one-way street for many years for decades. It was a one-way street and they became rich because of the United States and frankly presidents that let's be nice. They didn't know. They just didn't know. They didn't understand what was happening to them. But I understood it. I understood it long before I ran for politics. I used to watch in amazement at how stupid our country was, how stupid they were. And we're not stupid anymore. And that includes with the European Union. That includes with Japan and South Korea. We're we all we want to do is be treated fairly. But the fairly is hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars coming into the United States. And it's uh our national security is secure because of tariffs. If we didn't have tariffs, we would have no national security. So it's very important. Will you seek China's help in ending the war in Ukraine? Do you need them to put pressure on Russia? I'll be discussing that, but I'd love I'd love to see it ended before that. president. I mean, I I think we have a chance of ending the war quickly if flexibility is shown on behalf. And again, we're not losing people. The United States is not we're not losing people. We're not spending money. We're getting paid for the, you know, ammunition and missiles and everything else that we're sending to the European Union European Union, but to NATO, but it's very similar if you look at the countries. I mean, it's very similar. And we just made a very fair trade deal with the European Union and what we wanted and we made a very good deal with NATO, too. You know, they pay for all of this. That's not what we're in this for. We're in it to save thousands of lives every week. Thousands and thousands of lives. That's why we're in it. And I think I think we have a very I think we have a very good chance of bringing this war to a conclusion. You're a pizza president and your cabinet has done an honestly an excellent job. I think that a lot of people could agree to that. I'm speaking as someone who lost my father in a war. So I know the human cost. Uh what would your advice to be be to American leaders to world leaders to neocons to uh TV hosts uh who often speak about conflict in abstract or strategic terms rather than the human cost than the human terms. Look, my only statement is we have to get together. It's a very small group of people. It's the president, the president, and the president. Okay, three presidents and I'm the mediator president. And I'm mediating. Not an easy situation. It should be easy, but uh it's a lot easier when people understand each other, when they get together, and when they like each other. We don't necessarily have that situation as far as like is concerned. Maybe it can turn around. Maybe it can. But in the meantime, we'll have them keep a little bit of distance and we're going to see if we can get it done. Uh this is number nine. Okay, this will be number nine. Uh for me, I've solved eight, including the Middle East. I've solved eight. This I thought would have been among the easiest. We solved President Putin mentioned yesterday Armenia, you know, all of the different wars. He said it was amazing because we but the big one that he was surprised that we were able to settle was the Middle East. He thought it was incredible. He was very generous in that sense. Uh this should be something we're able to settle and I think we will be able to settle. And on that note, you will go down as the peacemaker. No doubt. And you will resolve this this war. Well, you know, we we resolved eight others. It's funny how people say that. If you get this one, every time I do one, they forget about that one. Uh, I solved eight wars. Go to Rwanda and the Congo. Talk about India and Pakistan. Uh, look at Thailand. Look at Look at all of the wars that we solved. And every time I solve one, they say, "If you solve the next one, you're going to get the Nobel Prize." I didn't get a Nobel Prize. I Somebody got it who's a very nice woman, very nice. I don't know who she is, but she was very generous. Uh, so I don't care about all that stuff. I just care about saving lives. But this will be number nine. But every time I solve one, they said, "Sir, if you solve one more, you're going to be known as a peacekeeper." So, to the best of my knowledge, we've never had a president that solved one war. Not one war. Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars, but they don't solve the wars. They don't settle them. And especially when they're not when they have nothing to do with us. I s almost I guess just about all of these wars had nothing to do with us. But I saved tens of millions of lives. The prime minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives in interceding on Pakistan and uh you look at Pakistan and India as an example. That would have been a bad one. Two nuclear nations, right? So I say this uh this is pretty much the last one. Although I do understand that Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan. That's an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve it. In the meantime, I have to run the USA. But I love solving wars. You know why? I like stopping people from being killed. And I've saved millions and millions of lives. And I think we're going to have success with this war. This President Zilinski, this is your third time over here. And by the way, you look excellent. Thank you, sir. Thank you. For you, by the way, um this is your third time here. How different sitting across from the president is this time versus the two previous uh times here at the White House? And how confident are you hearing the success rate of solving these prior wars that you can he can get this war solved? First of all, about shoot the same suit because the same president, it's very simple. The next president will have another suit. Yes. About uh our relations with uh President Trump. I think we have important dialogues and uh I think we uh begin to understand each other. Yes. And I I know that president is briefed very well about situation in the battlefield and he knows a lot what's going on the battlefield in Ukraine and I think it really helps when you know a lot of things a lot of details about one or another war it helps a lot but uh but we are still in war and I hope Mr. President you have been cleared that there are some countries that are not meeting their commitment. Uh you pointed out Spain they said that like it's impossible. No Spain has not come through. No, Spain has not been loyal to NATO. Spain has been uh they're the only one. Everyone went up to as you know I mean you were at 2% and they all went up to 5% but Spain disagreed with that. Uh, I think Spain should be reprimanded for that. I think it's very bad that they did that, but that's up to them. That's up to NATO and Spain. They cannot be expelled from NATO. Um, they can they or not? They cannot according to the treaty, but they also claim that they are protected by the European Union umbrella for trade. So, the other people of many of the other countries are in the European Union too. They're not complaining, right? interest. Yeah, please go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, can you do you think you can carry the momentum from the Middle East deal over to this deal? And if so, um, how does that move the needle? Yeah, I do. I think we carry a lot of momentum, a lot of credibility. Getting Middle East done was very important. Nobody thought it could be done. That was one nobody thought could be done and we got it done. And a lot of that was the big hit that we put on uh Iran with respect to the nuclear they took. That was a that was a an unbelievable military maneuver. The B2s and many other planes involved by the way, but the B2s uh yeah I think nobody expected that to happen. And you know we had 59 countries involved and these were countries very diverse. You had Arab, Muslim, Jewish, you had every kind of you had every country Christian, you had every country and many countries involved and we got that done and we got it done pretty swiftly after we after we set the table properly. We had to set the table properly. Uh I this should be one that we got done and I think the table is set properly here now too and it'll be a great honor. It'll be a great honor to get it done. And uh the Ukrainian people are great and the Russian people are great and obviously they have much in common as we understand. They have a lot in common. So it'll be a great honor to get it done. On Venezuela, there are survivors from your latest boat strike. What happens to those survivors? Well, I'll ask uh Marco to discuss that possibly. Yeah, as you it's it's well known there's an ongoing uh narot terrorist operation the United States has been conducting. As far as details of any recent strikes, we're not prepared here to announce all those details, but you'll get that information here very shortly. And how are there survivors? What these are meant to be lethal attacks. Yeah. Again, I mean, we're on undertaking these operations against narco terrorists. That's what these are. These are terrorists. Let's be clear. And um but as far as the details of any recent operations, when they when they when we are prepared to announce those, we will. as the president has consistently done. So you may get something on that later today. Let me ask you that was in a submarine, right? It was we attacked a submarine and that was a drug carrying submarine built specifically for the transportation of massive amounts of drugs. Just so you understand, this was not an innocent group of people. I don't know too many people that have submarines and uh that was an attack on a drug carrying loaded up submarine. Yeah. On on Putin. Is it your belief as Mr. Zalinsky said yesterday that the threat of tomahawks and and costs as Secretary Hook put it? Um is that bringing him to the table? The fact that it's kind of a carrot and I don't know what's bringing him to I I think he wants to make a deal. That's all I I can't tell you what's bringing him. Sure. That's the threat of that is good, but the threat of that is always there. Uh, tom hawks are very dangerous weapons. They're incredible weapons. If you like warfare, it's one of the most accurate. You know, we used we hit 30 tomahawks in Iran after the B2s did their damage. We sort of gave it a little capper with 30 tomahawks from a submarine. Quite far away, actually. But they're an amazing weapon. They're a very powerful weapon, but they're a very dangerous weapon. And it could mean big ex, you know, escalation. It could mean uh a lot of bad things can happen. Tomahawks are a big deal. But one thing I have to say, we want to hawks also. We don't want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country. We have a very strong country right now. We have a strong military. We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. I want to get this war over Putin Trump tunnel to connect Russia and Alaska. Are you interested? I just heard about it. A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. I just heard about that one. That's an interesting one. We'll have to think about that. I hadn't heard that. We just did a nice road in Alaska that's going to get us to a lot of minerals and we have a piece of it, a good piece of the ownership because of the fact we made it possible. But uh this came up yesterday. A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. That's an interesting What do you think of that, Mr. President? Do you have any ideas? How do you like that idea? I'm not happy with this idea. I don't think you're going to like it. I don't think he liked it. I don't think he liked it. President Trump, do you think that Do you think that your gut instinct? Well, we had a senator that wanted remember from Hawaii. She wanted a tunnel from the mainland to Hawaii. Then she said, "Well, we can't do that." So, we're going to build a railroad to Hawaii. Do you remember? She's a current sitting senator, a Democrat. She wants a railroad to go to Hawaii. Right? You know who that is, right? She's another She's another You're on your meeting with Putin. Aren't you concerned that maybe the Russian president is trying to buy himself more time? Yeah, I am. But, you know, I've been played all my life by the best of them and I came out really well. Uh, so it's possible. Yeah. A little time. But I I think that uh I'm pretty good at this stuff. I think that he wants to make a deal. I made eight of them. I'm going to make a ninth. I think he wants to make a deal. Consider Russia to be a paper tiger. Do you think judgment by the state of economies? Well, I think I think that he should have won the war in a week. Yeah, I do think. And if we didn't if we didn't give the uh anti-tank missiles, as you know, the javelins they call them, uh they got stuck in the mud, they would have been in Kiev very quickly. They were heading to Kiev. So, you know, in in war, you have a lot of luck, too. You know people weather has won war and the cold and the heat and all things take place in war but that was a very interesting moment when the tank started rolling and some brilliant general said let's go through the mud instead of going down the highway right so they they got a little bit lucky but you know where they really got lucky I gave javelins that wasn't given by Barack Hussein Obama he gave them sheets you know there's a statement Obama gave him sheets and I gave him the javelins and The javelins are a devastating weapon. And that wasn't given by Obama. That was given by because at the time it was Obama. Uh that was given by that was given by me. So it was like one of those things. Uh and you had hundreds of them. Hundreds of them. They're a devastating weapon. We have a lot of devastating weapons. I'd rather not use them. But that was a big moment. You know, when the tanks when the tanks got stuck, they got stuck and uh call it luck or call it talent. I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it was a big moment in time. You think Democrats will give you credit? You think Democrats are going to matter when you finally end this war like they did with the war in the Middle East? And I think right now the Democrats are really damaged, mentally damaged. Uh they want to take 1.5 trillion with a T trillion dollars and give it to people that invaded our country. They came into our country illegally from prisons from from mental institutions, gang members. They want to give them healthcare and take it away from our citizens. We're not going to do that. $1.5 trillion. They want to destroy They want to destroy our health care system. We're not going to let that happen. Have you authorized CIA operations in Venezuela as part of Well, I wouldn't say that, but uh some interesting things are happening around the world. I'll say that reported, Mr. President, it has been reported that Maduro offered everything in it in his country, all the natural resources. He even recorded a message to you in English recently uh offering mediation. What could we do in order to stop that? He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why? Because he doesn't want to [ __ ] around with the United States. Thank you everybody.