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many friends in Israel they are not in an easy area it doesn't go easy but we are helping them and likewise they've been helping us very much and so we'll see how it all works out but we had great discussions today I think on the obvious subject of Iran and also the less obvious subject with respect to Israel and that's trade uh and I think the prime minister is going to tell you a little bit about trade and what they're doing for the United States so I want to thank you all for being here thank you very much and thank you Benjamin thank you very much thank you Mr president thank you Don thank you Mr president i want to uh first thank you for uh inviting me again to uh the White House you've been a remarkable friend of the state of Israel uh you stand by us you're standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forms i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results okay those results are going to come that's the first thank you very much that's very nice thank you Mr president where are the hostages here well let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Whit who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians have their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria We have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in the seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would you be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for it go ahead represent the US in the talks go ahead um two questions do you expect any of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of uh product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States i'll relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts their experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles they're highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not fight we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military uh we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft craft the kind of missiles anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time we hear that US is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that would be great going to be It would be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we We are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right an oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be they were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or any would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're going to have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of we give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said "We give Afghanistan a lot of money." Do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends from the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip by myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but uh you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration ghana gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazins were closed in any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope you'll have good news for you i will say people love Excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at 57 billion dollars they were making I call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that's out of the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the give up your I think that's a possibility if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that a yes you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper slake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world there was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left Alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say my son is there i said well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they look exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know but that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable." We're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad okay american manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared for years we have now uh seven trillion dollars think of this seven trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead from Harris um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes her to want but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over?" He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said it was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody thank standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forms i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come back that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president where are the hostages well the let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would you be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and uh in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make on us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this with just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for it go ahead go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of uh product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthies uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at a woman getting two billion dollars for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time US is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be It would be really great for Iran and I can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US training partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese and uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not enough well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you got to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right an oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific activity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think Well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're going to have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of we give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends for the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip by myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration ghana gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice you know Gaza Gazins were closed in any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope you'll have good news for you i will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion dollars they were making i call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was $57 billion dollar that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries who want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surpris first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the may I think that's a possibility fails if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that a yes you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah mr president yeah please mr mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say "My son is there." I said "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home?" They talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as But that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay years fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now uh seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you're telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes Erdogan but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said "It was you but that's okay you don't have to say well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he's look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and the people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages here well let him let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocator than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful and we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat uh they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been it's even as strong as it was i had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Go ahead go ahead two questions do you any of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States president Relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before or we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about this The US is it possible to give us some more information at what level is high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be It would be really great for Iran and I can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese and the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific activity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be they were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you're going to have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the Juan or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends from the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again the Gaza Strip by myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it I I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice you know Gaza Gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking uh including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at 57 billion dollars they were making I call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China was this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the I don't give up i think that's a possibility if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left Alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say my son is there i said well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they look exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know but that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable." We're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad okay american manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now uh seven trillion dollars think of this seven trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead from Paris um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes her to want but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said "Just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said it was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results and those results are going to come back that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages you Well the finish begin okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a uh country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor and the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it could be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to pay be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan and they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this with just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Gohead go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is the act well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal $50 billion dollars worth of uh product or so 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're gonna have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way go ahead please yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time The US is possible to have some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that would be great going to be it would be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion dollars and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energyy's down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debt's become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now on live show good what is your specific i hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a It's a tough place in the world isn't it i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we We're working very hard on the house if you're going to negotiate a new deal with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me i mean as an example I said to them "Was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half feet high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said was there any sign of potential love or affection and there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seemed to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know a long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in their tariffs lowered i think it well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union I mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 ft up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and We're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500 600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff-based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had uh committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money idea because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good the immigration sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in at any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you talk a little bit about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion dollars they were making I call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was $57 billion dollar that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they for building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surpris Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the That's I think that's a possibility fails if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of it they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left Alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say my son is there i said well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as but that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay american manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to to course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called a factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah from um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want uh Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes her to want but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said "Just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said it was you but that's okay you don't have to say well sort of maybe it was me." Okay but what he did he look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and the people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to uh Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results and those results are going to come back that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages here well the let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighborly relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack in Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr just we are we're having direct talks with wait a minute wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interests if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been it's even as strong as it was i had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years is they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have 36 trillion dollars of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Go ahead go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is the act well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal 50 billion dollars worth of uh product or so 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States i'll relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr president many of you go ahead goodbye talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily uh we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles they're highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconcious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military uh we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes green thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time The US is it possible to get some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be it would be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China and China is doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants and uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energyy's down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our live show good what is your specific way getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world is I have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the house if you're going to negotiate a new deal with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said no i said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us their hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half feet high this isn't you know we hear tunnels bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 80 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think it Well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$2 trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots 70% on where on Israeli roots the 17% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but uh you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it I I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is there immigration sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking uh including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you talk a little bit about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion dollars they were making i call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea I'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of them and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the may I think that's a possibility fails if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon you know it's not a complicated uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah mr president yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper slay terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have one left alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say "My son is there." I said 'Well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as But that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay years to get fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now uh seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called a factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll pay their own Essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes Erdogan but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over he's taken it over through surrogates." He goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said "It was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he's look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results okay those results are going to come back that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages here well the let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack in Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr any we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been it's even as strong as it was i had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years is they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have 36 trillion dollars of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Go ahead represent the US in the talks go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal $50 billion dollars worth of product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr president many of you go ahead goodbye talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily uh we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles they're highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not fight we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars$1 trillion dollars and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about this is the first time The US with the Iranians is possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be It would be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energyy's down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many many Israelis are watching you now on live show good what is your specific i hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a It's a tough place in the world isn't it i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we We're working very hard on the house if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me i mean as an example I said to them "Was there any sign of love you were there?" 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said was there any sign of potential love or affection and there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seemed to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know a long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union I mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you're going to have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the Juan or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500,600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had uh committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots 70% on where on Israeli boots well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money in it because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends from the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it I I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good immigration sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza from Gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking uh including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazins want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you talk a little bit about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion dollars they were making i call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea I'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that's out of the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of them and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the may I think that's a possibility fails if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon you know it's not a complicated uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks are successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper slay terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of it they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have one left alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say "My son is there." I said "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home?" They talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as But that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay years fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies that takes time many from Taiwan what it takes time to to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called a factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll pay their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of them and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes Erdogan but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said "It was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he's look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forms i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come back that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages here well let him let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Whitoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it could be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore we just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico okay they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they drop the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to pay be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan and they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have 36 trillion dollars of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Go ahead represent the US in the talks go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal 50 billion dollars worth of product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time USians is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be it would be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants and uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energyy's down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific way to getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said no i said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think it Well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 ft up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you're going to have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and We're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the Juan or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$ two trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500 600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends from the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting to get in the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but uh you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone it's a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good live when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it I I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you talk a little bit about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion they were making i call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China was this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea I'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was a border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that's out of the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of them and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion dollars in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the right I think that's a possibility fails if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon you know it's not a complicated uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have one left alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say "My son is there." I said "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home?" They talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as But that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay years fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to to course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called a factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll pay their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes Erdogan but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said "It was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he's look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate Thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forms i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States that says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages here well let him let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in the seat right here not your seat but this seat uh they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they drop the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan and they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make on us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for Go ahead represent the US in the talks go ahead um two questions do you expect any of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States mr president I'll just relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not fight we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before or we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about this The US is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be It would be really great for Iran and I can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese and the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our live show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific activity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the house if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said no i said all of them i said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be They were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you're going to have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the Juan or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots 70% on where on Israeli boots 70% well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends from the times of Israel the IDF is fighting again the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration ghana gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking uh including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you people I will say people love excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah about Thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at 57 billion dollars they were making I call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China was this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries you want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the I don't give up i think that's a possibility if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that a yes you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper slake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left Alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say my son is there i said well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they look exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as but that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay american manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead from Harris um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes her to want but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said "Just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said it was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate thank you thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president where are the hostages here well let him let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i I speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocator than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in the seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions would you be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make on us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for it go ahead represent the US in the talks go ahead um two questions do you expect any of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be truth there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of uh product or so 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States i'll just relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts their experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles they're highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military uh we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before or we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about this The US is having a great is it possible to give us some more information at what level is the US high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be great going to be It would be really great for Iran and I can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debts become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific activity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be they were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think Well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or any would dent likewise unless you're going to have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty cool but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration ghana gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazins want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope we'll have good news for you i will say people love Excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at 57 billion dollars they were making I call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was 57 billion dollars that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries who want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sir me he sounds so surprised mr president um on Iran uh two questions please first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the I will give up your I think that's a possibility if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that a yes you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah on manufacturing yeah please mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left Alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say my son is there i said well how's he doing well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home they talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they look exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as but that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay american manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead from Harris um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes her to want but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said it was you." But that's okay you don't have to say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate thank you thank you you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forms i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages well the let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day and they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in the seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions market would you be open to a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and uh in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for it go ahead go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is that well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal.$50 billion dollars worth of uh product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're going to have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr many of you go ahead maybe talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles it's highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things and they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military uh we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes green thank you Mr president i want to ask you about this US is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries." No we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that would be great going to be It would be really great for Iran and I can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US training partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not Well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to uh create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right an oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energy is down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debt's become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said "No." I said "All of them." I said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that they'd slap us the hatred is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half feet high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like "Here take this it's a little extra meal or something." They lived like hell i I don't know they seem to be they were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually I was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're going to have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that your government put on Israeli boots on where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip by myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it i I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration ghana gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazins were closed in any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only place where they locked them in we didn't lock them in they're locked in and what is wrong with giving people a choice now we've been talking including over lunch about some countries are won't go into them right now that are saying you know if Gazans want to leave we want to take them in and I think this is this is the right thing to do if you give you know it's going to take years to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people can have an option president has a vision countries are responding to that vision we're working on it i hope you'll have good news for you i will say people love Excuse me people really do love that vision uh it's a long-term vision but so importantly is to have that be a a safe field because you're right smack in the middle of the Middle East you're right along Israel it should have never ever been given away shouldn't have been given away by Israel i don't know why they did it i mean I do know why because they were promised peace but that didn't work out too well because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land anywhere in the world gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world so they gave it away for good intention and it it didn't work out that way and uh a lot of people like my concept but you know there are other concepts that I like too and there are some concepts I don't like you know what I don't like the way it is now because right now it's a dangerous death trap gaza yeah thank you sir can you talk a little bit about uh your meeting potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to meet with him could that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as well a little bit on not providing tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war and I'm not happy about what's going on with uh with the bombing because they're bombing like crazy right now they're bombing i don't know what's happening there that's not a good situation so we're meeting with Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and we're getting sort of close but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going on the last uh week or so horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing countries to get below 10% in in terms of tariffs look we've been ripped off and taken advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the reason we got ripped off and the way they did it was tariffs they were charged tariffs massive numbers of dollars and when you look at uh China when I took over it was at $57 billion dollars they were making i call it making a lot of people say oh it doesn't mean anything having a surplus means a lot in my opinion it's almost like a profit or loss statement and when I took over was $57 billion dollars that China with this is originally first term and we were very very tough on them because they were taking that money and they were building a military with it then when Biden came in he let him get away with murder he had no idea i'll tell you what that man had no idea what was happening whether it was the border or China or anything else he had no idea what was going on and they got they went wild china went wild and the money they make is ridiculous okay it's just not going to happen and hopefully we'll get along with China if we do that's great and if we don't that's okay too but we can't let that continue because that's a that's an abuse they abused the poor people that sat in the seat that poor Biden he was abused by them they took advantage of him and I'm surprised you know they have smart people they were radical left lunatics but they're smart i'm surprised they'd allow that to take you know to to happen but uh we are going to bring great trade and we're going to be fair to other countries and I I will say this uh virtually every country wants to negotiate if I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to negotiate we would have gone to these countries who want to talk and they were well we don't want to talk now they're coming to us they're offering things like even BB and this is unrelated because it's a different kind of a relationship but he started off our conversation today that he's cutting all of the tariffs he's cutting everything he's going to get down to a free base he's going to do things that in all fairness other countries if they said that would have never even thought about doing it now they're offering things to us that we would have never even thought of asking them for because they're experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt is that they've taken advantage of us and we finally fought back tariffs will make this country very rich we're rich anyway but we're rich in a certain way uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want to get rid of it and we can do it quickly with proper deals so when countries don't allow us to sell our product but we allow them to sell their product when they charge us massive amounts of money for the privilege of going into their country those days are over okay yeah go ahead sure me he sounds so surpris first you can give us more details about where the meeting on Saturday is going i can't tell you that i I can just tell you there's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that'll take place on Saturday and it's at top level and second question about this um a lot of people think that those talks are not going to lead anywhere because the right I think that's a possibility if diplomacy fails is the United States under your leadership ready to take military action to destroy the Iranian nuclear program program and remove this threat i think if the talks aren't successful with Iran I think Iran is going to be in great danger and I hate to say it great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon so is that a yes you know it's not a complicated uh formula iran cannot have a nuclear weapon that's all there is can't have it right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later on down the line but Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't successful I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran if that's the case yeah mr president on Yeah please mr mr president was October 7th the death blow of the two-state solution and would you consider classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization for its continued paper sake terror financing payments so October 7th was a horrible day that some people they they deny it now I can't believe they deny it from the standpoint of they do it because they think it's good politically but October I've seen the tapes i've seen things that you don't want to see october 7th was a horrible day and it will go down as one of the really bad days in the history of the world it was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that happened and they grabbed some of these people i'll give you an example when I was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago I said "So how many are there?" "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59." They sort of knew the territory pretty good and I said "How are they doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are living the rest are dead." And these are young people largely young people don't die you know young people have an amazing ability to live they can live through horrible things but these are young people and when they said that 24 are living and the rest are dead and you know I've had parents come up Israeli parents largely we have some Americans and we had I guess we have uh one left alex we have the one left but but I've had Israeli parents come up to me at events and say "My son is there." I said "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but would you do me the biggest favor ever could you bring his body back home?" They talked about a young dead boy and a young dead girl like they were living and that could have something to do with religion that could have something to do with I guess maybe any parent would be but I was surprised they said "Sir my son is dead it is just as important to bring that body back home." I asked that question as if he were alive so you have a lot of them dead and we'll be able to bring them back uh but it's a horrible thing that's happened these are young largely young people but some old ones too frankly and those people have lived in hell when they came off the second group that came out they look like uh they just got out of a concentration camp they looked exactly like the pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the concentration camps and then they got a little bit better you know as But that second group those people came out and I said "This is unbelievable we're going back into a a chapter in history that is one of the worst ever it's really very bad." Okay years fully up to speed in response to these tariffs what happens in the meantime should Americans be prepared potentially for years we have now uh seven trillion dollars think of this 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many many companies many from Taiwan what it takes time to to Of course it takes Well are you asking me a question or you're telling me yeah it takes time you know you got to build a thing called the factory you have to build your energy you have to do uh a lot of things i'm giving them energy you know we're going to let them build their own power plants they'll be their own essentially they're going to be in charge of the power plant because our uh power is not reliable enough you have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things including bombing and weather and a lot of other things and we're going to give them record timing in terms of approvals of electric plants most of them want to build electric plants we need massive amounts of electricity if we're going to compete with China and others and interestingly we're way ahead right now in the AI race with China but the way we lose that race is if we can't give them electric but we have more plants being built we have everything we're doing so great and we want to keep it that way and tariffs will be an important part of it but one of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is doing a fantastic job head of environmental protection and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big companies to that are going to build a plant that's going to cost billions of dollars and we're going to get them their approvals they have to be environmentally perfect everything good but they're going to be in record time a matter of months versus a matter of many many years go ahead yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence Syria what do you think do you think uh Turkeykey's influence in Syria can actually make it a better more peaceful country or vice versa well I have uh great relations with a man named Erdogan have you heard of him and I happen to like him and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry he likes Erdogan but I do and he likes me and we've never had a problem and and we've gone through a lot and we've never had a problem we always got we as you remember we got our minister back from Turkey you remember that and uh this was a big deal at the time and we got him back uh and I told the prime minister I said just BB if you have a problem with Turkey I really think I'm going to be able to work it out you know I have a very very good relationship uh with Turkey and with their leader and I think we'll be able to work it out so I hope that's not going to be a problem i don't think it will be a problem now with that being said I believe it was Turkey and I said that to him uh I said it i said "Congratulations you've done what nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years you've taken over Syria with different names but same thing." I said "You've taken it over." He's taken it over through surrogates he goes "No no no no no no it was not me it was I said "It was you but that's okay you don't have to say well it sort of maybe was me." Okay but what he did he's look he's a tough guy and he's very smart and uh he did something that nobody was able to do you know you got to hand it to him uh any problem that you have with Turkey I think I can solve i mean as long as you're reasonable you have to be reasonable we have to be reasonable thank you very much everybody appreciate Thank you standing with us you are a great great champion of our alliance and uh you actually do the things that you say you do and I I think that people respect that enormously i certainly do and people of Israel do and I think the Jewish people do as well we just saw your representative in the the Department of Justice fighting anti-semitism standing up for Israel in international forums i just want you to know from the heart it's deeply deeply appreciated as you said we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects uh first if I can mention tariffs it's a subject of some interest today uh I can tell you that uh I said to the president a very simple thing we will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States we intend to do it very quickly we think it's the right thing to do and we're going to also eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily and I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same i recognize the the position of the United States it says you know we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us but we don't put tariffs on them and you know I'm a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade and I think that's basically uh the position that you have uh put forward Mr president we are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we we could affect this quickly and I hope to bring a solution very quickly we're not talking about intentions we're not talking about uh you know just words we're talking about results those results are going to come that's the first Thank you very much that's very nice thank you thank you Mr president what about the hostages well the let him finish let him finish okay uh we spoke about not only the hostages uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a human story of un just unbearable uh agony i speak to the families i spoke to them yesterday spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here i speak to them every day they're in agony the hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out uh Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 out we're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed uh and we're committed to getting all the hostages out but also eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want i mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision a bold vision which we discussed as well including the uh countries that might uh be amendable and are amendable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there and I think that's the second thing that we discussed uh but the hostages came right on top uh we also discussed the situation uh in Syria uh we have uh we've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone including Turkey as a base for attack on Israel turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States the president has a relationship with the leader of Turkey we discussed how we can avoid this conflict uh in a variety of ways and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose and of course we also discussed Iran look we're both united in the uh goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons if it can be done diplomatically in a full way the way it was done in Libya I think that would be a good thing uh but whatever happens we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons that's the end of my speech mr we are we're having direct talks with Wait a minute wait wait wait we're having direct talks with Iran and uh they've started it'll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that uh doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it so we're going to see if we can avoid it but it's uh getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful we hope we hope that's going to happen uh and we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things i appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and uh can't do it anymore just can't do it anymore we can't be the stupid people anymore and it's all because of the people that sat in this seat right here not your seat but this seat they allowed things to happen to our country that they shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things many other things i mean look at what's happened with our last president where he allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border who would want an open border how stupid is that but uh he allowed millions and millions of people and of the millions and I think it was 21 million people but let's say three of them were serious criminals serious murderers and drug dealers and gang members and people from jails all the jails emptied out right into our country right along the open border on the on Mexico generally to Mexico open they came in from Canada too by the way a lot but generally speaking on the southern border and uh what a shame it is that we are now working very hard to get them out get the criminals out get the murderers out the drug dealers uh the mentally insane get them out they dropped the mentally insane in our country too and this was all done by the Biden administration it's a disgrace that we have to work so hard and then we have judges that try and protect these people but they didn't protect us when the people were being let in but to get them out is never easy with these people so uh I think we're doing a great job the border is the best it's ever been even as strong as it was I had a great solid border i think it might even be tougher right now and stronger so people are coming into our country but they're coming in legally we have a legal process and we have that moving along properly because we need people to come into our country but we want people that can love our country and cherish our country so that's where we are and with that any questions the market today and would be open to a pause in terrorists to allow for negotiations well we're not looking at that we have many many uh countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be be paying substantial tariffs they'll be fair deals as you know I spoke this morning with the prime minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation they're coming and I said "One thing you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars like zero cars in Japan." And they sold millions of cars into our country uh they don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy but they don't take what they're supposed to be taking so we have a great relationship with Japan we're going to keep it that way but they're coming in to meet and other C countries are coming in uh with China as you know against my statement they put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already and I said if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on so they've gone for years they become a rich country because of people again that were in the White House that allowed this to happen uh hundreds of billions of dollars a year they'd make on us on trade and it shouldn't be that way and uh I have a great relationship with President Xi i hope it's going to stay that way i have great respect for China but they can't do this we're just uh we're going to have one shot at this and no other president's going to do this what I'm doing and I'll tell you what it's an honor to do it because we have been just just destroyed what they've done to our system you know we have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the reason is that people allowed it to get that way so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be talking to a lot of different countries and I think you know if if if we can make a really fair deal and a good deal for the United States not a good deal for others this is America first it's now America first and we didn't put America first we put America last the people that were in the Oval Office put America last and we're not going to stand for it go ahead go ahead um two questions do you expect of these deals to be made before April 9th and secondly there have been some mixed messages from your administration you're talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent what is the act well it could be they can both be true there can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs we need open borders you know we almost had a deal with China where we're going to open up China it was almost done some of you remember it during my first term and it was very disappointing we ended up making a great deal $50 billion dollars worth of uh product was sold 50 billion you'd like that in Israel and I made that deal but it wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted was that plus they were going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for the you know for a large number of people and at the very end that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal and there so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs but tariffs are very important but there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed china's essentially a closed country in fact it is a closed country and what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything uh nobody's going to buy it because the price is out of control but that's true with a lot of other countries also so we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't we're gonna have nothing to do with them they're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States relax we have time this gentleman is all day long mr president many of you go ahead talk about it for a second because a lot of people are asking the Houthis we've we've been very tough and very successful militarily we've uh really damaged them badly these were people shooting down ships and other things by the way flying objects like airplanes and we uh we've put a major hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been able to do we've uh really hit them hard and and it's every night night after night and we've gotten many of their leaders and their experts they're experts on missiles i mean they actually make missiles nobody thought that but they make missiles they're highly sophisticated and they're very tough but they've been uh very badly damaged nobody else was able to do that but us pete do you want to discuss that please yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and it's about to get worse it's been a devastating campaign whether it's underground facilities weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in the open air defense assets we are not going to relent and it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships and we've been very clear with the Iranians as well uh they uh they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis and that message has been made very clear so we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply and we know because we see the reports how devastating this campaign has been in them and we will not run we have a great military there's no military like our military and despite Biden having given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small piece but it was a lot of our military away in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations I think and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever been involved in that that short period of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace that was that uh left a lot of our military behind left left left you see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks that are armorplated and different things that they can't but it's many billions of dollars we left behind but despite that uh we have a tremendous military that was a very small portion because we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget which is in the facility you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody's seen anything like it we have to build our military and we're very costconscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we're going to be approving a budget the uh and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military uh we're cutting other things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out but we are getting a very very powerful military we have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before we've never had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of missiles or anything uh that we have ordered and it's in many ways too bad that we have to do it because hopefully we're not going to have to use it but the military is very very powerful and uh it's going to remain that way yes thank you Mr president i want to ask you about because this is the first time we hear that US is it possible to give us some more information at what level high level very high level yeah we're dealing with the Iranians we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly you know a lot of people say oh maybe you're going through surrogates or you're not dealing directly you're dealing through other countries no we're dealing with them directly and uh maybe a deal is going to be made that'll be Right that'll be it'll be really great for Iran i can tell you that but hopefully we're not going to have to get into that we we are meeting very importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level and we'll see how it works out please how do you ensure Mr president that these tariffs don't drive US trading partners into the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm not worried about it if they want to be in the hands of the US they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out to be really not very good at that uh people that are with us they're with us but we cannot be uh taken advantage of any longer i used to watch these deals for years i've been talking about it for years you and I've been talking about it for 35 years how our country is being ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago it was Japan then it was something else then it was another group then it was China china's doing the the best job of it frankly and it's just not going to happen not going to happen eu has said that they have offered zero for zero tariffs on cars and industrial goods is that not enough well the EU no it's not the EU has been very tough over the years it was I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade that's the reason it was formed it was formed with all of the countries from Europe i guess most of them not all of them but most of them and they formed together to create a little bit of a monopoly situation to create a unified force against the United States for trade so they have uh NATO which is largely the same countries and they uh took advantage of us dollar-wise and militarily until I got there you know I I was able to get $600 billion dollars from NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations weren't even paying we were paying for NATO so we're paying them to guard them militarily and they're screwing us on trade so that's not a good combination so now uh it's really turned around it's the opposite and the European Union's been very ne very bad to us they don't take our cars like Japan in that sense they don't take our agricultural product they don't take anything practically and yet they send millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions and millions of cars into the US but we don't have a car that's been sold to the European Union or other places but let's go for the European Union and it's not going to be that way it's got to be fair and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast and one of the reasons and one of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're going to have to buy our energy from us because they need it they're going to have to buy it from us they can buy it we can knock off $350 billion in one week they have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy and we have that you know we have more energy than any country in the world i don't know if you know that this he knows everything but the one thing he may not know we have more energy than any country in the world we have more of every kind of energy every form of energy from uh oil and gas to coal and people talk about I call it beautiful clean coal uh as you know Germany is opening up a coal plant a week they tried the windmills and it didn't work they tried all the other solutions and they were ready to go out of business now they're doing a coal plant a week china is now up to two coal plants that uh they're opening two major coal plants every single week in China all over China and that we're not allowed to use coal well we have clean beautiful coal more than anybody else we have oil and gas more than anybody else we have the most energy of any country in the world including Saudi Arabia including everybody by a lot and I took it to number one we were number three and I took it to number one during my administration and the reason that we were hurt so badly and the reason that we went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy it was also their bad spending but energy because they played around with this incredible thing that we had built this administration had built and the energy cost went through the roof and when that went up everything else followed now if you look at what's happening you're going to see this today i said we're going to try and get groceries down right oldfashioned term but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I got in the press went absolutely crazy the first week they said "Eggs have quadrupled in price." I said "I just got here tell me about it." And Brooke Rollins and our team did a great job and eggs are down now 79% and they're all over the place and this was a problem that somebody else would have taken a long time to cure uh we have energy is down we have interest rates are down we have groceries meaning food is down we have everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible energy looks like it's going to be in in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car so for gasoline so uh we are we're really doing amazing i mean we're we're cutting prices because prices got so high people couldn't live i mean the prices for groceries the prices for standard standard groceries standard things were going through the roof they couldn't live and now those prices are coming down so call them groceries but that's down energyy's down and interest rates are down everything's down and the interest rates the beauty there is when we refinance debt you know debt's become such a big factor in this country we're going to get we're going to start paying debt off with tariffs and other things but uh it's such a big factor because the interest rates so high well now that's coming way down so our budget's going to look a lot better because interest costs are way down and I guess I've done that many Israelis are watching you now our last show good what is your specific I hope they like me getting the hostages out from the horrific captivity yeah we are trying very hard to get the hostages out uh we're looking at another ceasefire we'll see what happens but we have we want to get the hostages out the Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything they want the hostages out this man is working very hard with us to do that i mean I don't know i hope he's being appreciated because he's been a great leader he's working very very hard on the hostages and many other things and there are plenty of things you have to work on it's a it's a tough place in the world i have a good partner yeah you do have a good partner and so do we we we're working very hard on the hospital if you're going to negotiate a new deal in with Iran can you elaborate how it's going to be more effective than the JCPOA well I can't really say that but I think it'll be uh different and maybe a lot stronger but they were so happy when we made that first deal because we did get a lot out you know I had people right in this office this beautiful oval office they came in 10 people hostages you know that and I said to them uh so how was it and the stories they told me I mean as an example I said to them was there any sign of love you were there 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty representative did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you did they wink at you did they give you a piece of bread extra did they give you a meal on the side like you know you think of doing like what happened in Germany what happened elsewhere people would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress they said no i said all of them i said "Did they ever wink at you like "You'll be okay you're going to be okay." No they didn't do that that is unbelievable and the lives you know they lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it was a pipe and they always thought they were suffocating they were going to suffocate and then they'd open up the pipe and it was like three and a half ft high this isn't you know we hear tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and the stories I heard were incredible but I just said "Was there any sign of potential love or affection?" And there were none whatsoever it was amazing to me there was nothing like here take this it's a little extra meal or something they lived like hell i I don't know they seemed to be they were amazing to me because they seemed to be pretty normal they weren't scarred but I I guarantee underneath they have to be scarred and one was there for 356 days another was there for about 180 days you know a long time these are people that have been really really horribly treated i've never seen anything like it actually i was very surprised to hear the answer thank you Mr president are there two or three countries that on your list that you feel are farther along in getting their tariffs lowered i think well I think there are many that want to get rid of tariffs right now uh European Union i mean as badly as they've treated us they've you know they've brought their car tariffs essentially off i guess they brought it down to two and a half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs it's tariffs where they put things on that make it impossible for you to sell a car it's not a money thing it's they make it so difficult the standards and the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air and if there's a little dent they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't qualify when the same car from Germany or would dent likewise unless you can have an army tank it's going to dent so they come up with rules and regulations that are uh just designed for one reason that you can't sell your product in those countries and and uh we're not going to let that happen those are called nonmonetary barriers they make barriers that are so tough that it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs are a big part of it but but there's another big part of it and that's barriers they also do something else they manipulate their currency and they drive it down they want to drive it they want to have low currencies you know uh it sounds better to have a high currency a strong dollar or whatever but uh they bring their currency down and when it competes with our currency it's very hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to sell product because their currency is low and ours is much higher relatively and so it makes it very hard i speak to a lot of companies that do business tractor companies and they say it's so hard to sell because what they've done is they've lowered the yen or they've lowered the one or they've lowered their currency so that it's very hard to compete we don't want that either so we have a lot of things that we're talking about but we're going to fix it properly and it's going to be fair to everybody and in the end I think we're gonna have a world that does a lot better you know but they have to respect the United States and and nobody but me would do this nobody but me would do this you know it's would be nice to serve a nice easy term but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country we have an opportunity to reset the table on trade we lose billions of dollars we lose close to uh two trillion dollars a year on trade we lose a trillion dollars a year to China a trillion we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade to China we lose hundreds of billions of dollars overall probably two close to$2 trillion dollars why would we do that number one why would we do that and then you have to say is it sustainable then you hear about all of the people that say "Well deficits if we have a deficit with a country or if the country has a big surplus with us like China has a massive surplus that they take and they spend on their military." Well we don't want that i don't want them to take 500600 billion dollars a year and spend it on their military i don't want them spending money on their military and I shouldn't have to spend money we shouldn't have to spend it either because you know hopefully and I said this to President Xi hopefully it's money that we're never going to use in other words because we're not going to use those incredible weapons that we have and that they have we don't want that so uh it's going to be very interesting it's it's the only chance our pre our country will have to reset the table because no other president would be willing to do what I'm doing or to even go through it now I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end uh but we are making tremendous progress with a lot of countries and the countries that really took advantage of us are now saying please negotiate you know why because they're getting beaten badly because of what's happening they're getting beaten badly they're being devalued as countries but it's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade and when we do we're going to come out unbelievably well we're gonna have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States we've lost 90,000 plants and factories think of this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA which was by the way the worst trade deal ever ever developed ever had by any country anywhere nafta and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it would be impossible and I terminated through Congress we terminated it you had to get it through Congress it was a trap it was a horrible thing and we got it done problem is they cheat they cheat like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats just one of those things but we are resetting a table and we're going to have great trade and we're going to have a very strong country our country is going to be at a level that is as maybe never been or maybe you know our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all tariff based we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries that are ripping off our country and the country was never relatively was never that kind of wealth we had so much wealth we didn't know what to do with our money we had meetings we had we had committees and these committees worked tirelessly to study one subject we have so much money what are we going to do with it who are we going to give it to and I hope we're going to be in that position again do you plan to reduce the tariffs that the government put on Israeli goods on where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well we're talking about a whole new trade maybe not maybe not don't forget we help Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a lot congratulations by the way that's pretty good but we give Israel billions of dollars a year billions it's uh one of the highest of And we give a lot of We give a lot of countries money uh you wouldn't believe if I said we give Afghanistan a lot of money do you because that was a Biden deal another Biden deal not only did he embarrass us with that but they give them billions of dollars afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we take good care of our friends and we don't take care of our enemies we're not taking care of our enemies anymore but we do take care of our friends the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting again the Gaza Strip by myself might be called up in a month do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal and do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day that's a hell of a place it's a you know what I call it a great location that nobody wants to live in because they really don't and when they had good li when they have good living real living where Hamas and all of the the problems they have the the level of debt on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've said it I I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up israel owned it it wasn't this man so I can say it he wouldn't have given it up i know him very well there's no way they took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace how did that work out not good is the immigration Sorry Mr president is the immigration which immigration gaza gaza all it is is a a concept that I had that I think is good and now people are copying it you know baby do you want to tell people are talking about the Trump plan gee why do we do that uh would you like to answer that question i I think what the president talked about is first of all to give people a choice gaza Gazans were closed in and any other place including in arenas of battle i mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place people could leave gaza was the only Were
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