2026-07-08 Trump-Zelenskyy press conference - NATO

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[Trump] President Erdogan has been a friend of mine. He's been a friend of mine for a long time. Strong man, good man, and he's done a fantastic job. Every road and so everything's perfect. From the airport to the destination, everything's been perfect. So we had a really good meeting and we thought this would be a good time for President Zelenskyy and I to meet and we'll see what we can do. But we've actually developed a good relationship. It's hard to believe, right? From the Oval Office to now. I think we've developed a very good relationship. And this is not the end. No, this is going to be the beginning, maybe. Just the beginning. And you know the country has a lot of future. There's such great land, such great assets, such great people. And you have a lot of people. I was with a group in Poland and they have, you have a lot of people in Poland, which is a terrific country with a really great president. I happen to endorse him.

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[Trump]  And he's doing a very good job. They were saying they love Poland but they really want to go back. [Gestures at Zelenskyy] You know, you're going to get a lot of people back when this is over. They left some and they're all, I think they're going to come back. A big percentage are going to come back. So we're going to have a good talk and we're going to see how it all goes. And Mr. President, would you like to say something?

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[Zelenskyy] Thanks so much. Mr. President, thank you very much for this meeting. And we're very thankful, as always, to your support, American support, bipartisan support.

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[Zelenskyy]  Thanks for the invitation to this summit. And I think that we really, I agree with you, we have a lot what to discuss and what to speak about. And of course, we are

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[Zelenskyy] thankful for the PURL program. And we want to share with you some details of what we want to raise during our meeting. Air defense is the priority.

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[Zelenskyy]  The second point about negotiations. I think, yes, we understand what to do. It's our estimation what to do, how to bring peace. And I hope that we will do, I'm sure that you will do everything to stop this war. Yeah, and I'm very happy that our side began to work on the drone deal. And it's a very good beginning. And I hope that today I will have the possibility to also to discuss with you some very important details.

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[Trump]  Thanks so much. Well, we've settled a lot of wars. And this one is the one that I thought maybe would be the easiest. But Putin's a difficult character. And this guy's a difficult character. It's not the easiest, not the easiest thing. And there's a lot of commitment.

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 And there's a lot of love of the countries and everything else. But I think we've made a lot of progress in the last couple of weeks. And we'll see how it all goes. So do you have

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 any questions? Well, I just think they are behaving very badly, as they have for 47 years.

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[Trump]   And you know, we hit him hard last night after they launched. They launched a couple of - [looks at Zelenskyy] you don't have to know about this. You got stuff on your mind. But they launched a couple of drones and one rocket, one missile and chips because they were in the straight, which they have every right to be. And so we had a very hard last night. Very, very probably hit him hard again tonight. I give him a little warning. We're going to hit him hard tonight. But we'll see how it all works out. No, I'm not happy with them. It's like, for instance, we'll have a meeting. We'll talk about the denuclearization of Iran, because that's what the war is. It's not a war. It's really the denuclearization of Iran. And we'll have a meeting and we'll talk about just that because my whole thing is not about regime change. It's not about it, although I think it's regime change when you knock out the first group, the second group. And I think that's maybe the ultimate regime change. But that's not what it's about.

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 It's about we don't want them to have nuclear weapons and it's denuclearization. And I think we made a lot of progress and they'll get out of the room. We'll talk about it like we're here. They'll agree on everything and then they'll go and have a news conference and say, we never even talked about it. They're cuckoo. There's something wrong with these people. And for 47 years, they've been the bully of the Middle East and they're not the bully anymore. They're not the bully anymore. It's very simple. They can't have a nuclear weapon. That's what I'm there for. They did. They'd use it. And we're not going to let that happen.

[Journalist] Mr. Trump, sir.
[Trump]   Daniel -
[Journalist] You've made a career making deals in very challenging situations. Speaking to President Zelenskyy as President Putin, in your view, sir, what is the most pragmatic pathway forward to finding a long term peace deal?

[Trump]   I just think they're going to make a deal. Look, it's been this deal has been in the works for a long time.

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[Trump]    It's got the pluses, the minuses. They know what it is. He knows what it is better than

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[Trump]    anybody. And I just think it's it's sometimes, you know, I used an analogy and it sounds simple, but it's sort of true. You have two kids in a park and they don't like each other.

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[Trump]    They start fighting. Sometimes you have to let them fight. Let them see that it's tough, you know, stuff, fighting is tough. And he's he's done an amazing job. Look, he's been he's been very effective and he's had the best equipment because he's had our equipment.

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[Trump]    And he said, great, but somebody has to use that equipment. And you have a lot of brave people that are using that equipment. And Russia, you know, it's a big it's a big country, but it's a big force. Russia has always been a big fighting force. So, you know, it's but I really believe it's ready. It's very interesting because you'd almost say it's worse than ever.

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[Trump]    And maybe it is sometimes with war and you study war. And I've studied it so long, the years long before I did this. Sometimes it's when it gets the worst. And I don't know that it's the worst right now. It's consistently bad. They lost, twenty five thousand people were lost, kids, young people last last month. And we had a month, thirty five, two months ago.

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[Trump]   And I would say more Russians. And - but it's just the people, the people. And there's actually very little difference between the people. It's like the Russians and Ukrainian people

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[Trump]   and they can get along. But but it's a it's a nasty war. Thousands and thousands, mostly soldiers are being killed. The battlefields, I see pictures and it's horrible. He thinks it's horrible. They are. We all think it's horrible. And the president wants to get it done. And I believe that President Putin wants to get it done. And that should be a good

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combination.
[Journalist] Thank you, Mr. President. What's your assessment of Ukraine's strike on Russian oil refineries and military?
[Trump]   Where are you from?
[Journalist] Ukraine.
[Trump] Phrase the question differently, please.
[Journalist] Ukraine delivered a lot of strikes on Russian military factories and on oil refineries.  And they ran out of gas.

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[Trump]   Marco, where are you? I said that because you're right in the middle of it.

[Marco Rubio] Yeah, no, I think you're discussing is the ability of Ukraine to reach deep inside of Russia and conduct strikes. I think that's one of the dynamics that's changed in this in this war over the last few months. And that is that the Russians are finding it more difficult to defend their own airspace. And what we hope that means is that it's going to create the space now for to negotiate the end of this war.

[Trump]   It's an escalation,

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[Trump]   but it's also an escalation that can help lead to an end.

[Journalist, unclear] what makes you think that Mr. Putin ---

[Trump]   So where are you from?

[Journalist] [unclear]

[Trump]   Because I talked to him, I talked to him. I talked to President Zelenskyy. And I think that's all I've done my whole life. I made deals. That's, I guess, becoming president was making a deal. It's like a lot of little individual things. In the end, it's making a deal. And that's what I do. And I do it well. And I know what people want to make a deal. I think he wants to make a deal. And I do feel that President Zelenskyy would like to get back to rebuilding his country

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[Trump]    as opposed to having all of this death and destruction. Ukraine has tremendous potential.

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[Trump]    He understands that. We talk about that. He talks about that more than he talks about the war. You know, to me, I think it's, I think you might be find that more exciting than the war. This is brutal. The other is the beauty of it. You know, I think he'll build a great country. I think he's going to build it. We have a little stake in that country now because we have some land in that country where we have mineral minerals. It's among the wealthiest. It's among the best land anywhere in the world for rare earth. And we have some rare earth. I look forward to taking advantage of it at the right time. I want to make Patriot missiles.

[Trump to Palisa] This guy is one of my favorite soldiers. I see him. He's central casting. You're right.

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[Trump]    You're doing OK. We see him at meetings. He's he's done a great job. Great. Great. Great hero.

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[Journalist] Actually, Mr. President, will you allow Europe to make Patriot interceptors in Europe?

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[Journalist]  Are you comfortable with licensing -
[Trump]    About what?
[Journalist]  - Patriot interceptors to be made in Europe?

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 [Trump, kind of slurring] And you're talking with respect to Ukraine. Well, we're going to talk about that. Look, it's a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon. It's the best. So I was saying we have an aircraft carrier, which is one of the most beautiful in the world.

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[Trump]     It's one of the biggest, the Abraham Lincoln. And two months ago, we had a hundred. I told the story yesterday. We had one hundred and eleven missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan [sic]. They were shot at the aircraft carrier over a period of about one hour. One hundred and eleven missiles going to a very expensive ship. And every one of those missiles was knocked down. Pretty much most by Patriots, but by other means also, as you know, other less expensive means better when you do that. But out of the hundred and eleven missiles, every one of them was shot down. It didn't hit the ship and, you know, bad things happen right when that happens. So think of that over a period of one hour. These missiles are coming at you and every one of them shot down. So I think one of the things we're going to be talking about is, as you know, the companies who have great power over the companies, those companies that make the Patriot and make all of the great stuff, the Tomahawks, all of the great stuff. We have the best of many things, the Patriots, but we have many, many great things. You see that with Venezuela. You see it with Iran. Look, Iran has been wiped out. Iran, their Navy's gone. Their Air Force is gone. Everything's gone. But one of the things I think we're going to be talking about today, I just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots. We'll show them how to do it. It's very complex, actually, but it's you'll figure out the complexity quickly. And we're talking about that and we'll the company that makes them, which is building now four plants. You know, all of our companies will be able to do this in two to three months. If you order a Patriot now, you have to wait a long time for same thing with Tomahawks. We have a lot of certain equipment, but with they call it the elite equipment and you don't need elite equipment necessarily for war. But so one of the things we're going to be talking about is you'll we're going to give a license to you to make Patriots.

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[Trump]    That's pretty cool, right? This way, you can't complain that we're not giving them enough.

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[Trump]   I said, make them yourself. We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll work out. All right. Sure, they'll be thrilled. But, you know, they'll be able to do it. You'll be able to figure that out. Most most countries couldn't do that. If I said that to most countries, they wouldn't know what I'm talking about. But this is a very ingenious group. And what I like about that, it's a defensive - It's a defensive situation as opposed to an offensive.

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[Trump]   But I think one of the things you might want to be talking about is that - that's what I heard.

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[Trump] Little birdie told me that.
[Journalist]  Can you clarify that the end of the ceasefire mean that we are back to a full scale -

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[Trump]  As far as I'm concerned, they violate the agreement every day. They lie. They cheat.

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[Trump]   They kill people. They've been killing people for forty seven years. They knocked out the USS Cole. We lost one hundred two hundred people more. It was a long time ago. For forty seven years, no president did anything about that. Well, Obama actually gave them vast amounts of money. You'd like this. He gave them a plane load of money, one point seven billion dollars in green cash. They load up a Boeing. They loaded up a Boeing seven fifty seven. Remember the old seven. It was a beautiful plane loaded up with cash. They took all the seats out and they took all of the cash for Virginia, Maryland and D.C. banks and no money.

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 [Trump]    They took every ounce of cash, put it in, flew it to Iran and gave them. I wonder what these guys thought of when the door opened and cash fell out of this big plane, beautiful plane.

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[Trump]   And then on top of that, they gave them billions and billions of dollars. And by the way, they gave it to the wrong, the wrong country. Frankly, you want to know the  truth and how it began.

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That was that was pretty much the the the Obama deal. The that was one of the worst tragedies that happened. That's what happened in the Middle East. That deal set back that whole situation. They went with it. Frankly, they picked the wrong country.

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[Trump]    They picked the wrong country. JCPOC [sic], what a terrible, what a terrible deal. I call it the Obama nuclear waste deal, because what he did with that deal is he caused tremendous hardship in the Middle East. It was a terrible, terrible thing to do. And we've been just the opposite. Our deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon. His deal was a road to a nuclear weapon.

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[Trump]   You could - they'll never build a nuclear weapon under our deal. But I don't know if we're going to have a deal. We may just do it without a deal, because you know what? It's easier because these people, they lie and they cheat and you have an agreement and they'll go outside.

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[Trump]   For instance, they agreed, well, we'll never have a nuclear weapon. They agreed. Then they go outside. They have a news conference where they leak that we never discussed the subject.

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[Trump]    Now, who would believe we never discussed the subject?

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[Trump]    Because for me, that's ninety nine point nine percent of what we're doing. It's denuclearization of Iran. OK, so when you ask our guys can continue, you know, Steve [Witkoff] is great. And Jared [Kushner], all the guys, they know him very well.[gestures at Zelenskyy] Yeah, actually, they're working on your stuff, too. I wonder which - I pick two beauties. You know what? We settled eight wars. I got a couple of beauties here. But Steve's great. And Jared's great. You know, they're the right guys. We'll see what happens.

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[Trump]     But - but I will say this. Iran, they misbehaved for forty seven years. They've killed our soldiers. They've killed our people and they've killed a lot of people all over the Middle East and elsewhere. And the roadside bomb was their preferred. You know, the preferred weapon was by Soleimani, the roadside bomb where it would explode under a truck. We actually built trucks with floors, steel this thick. And then all they did was they made bigger bombs. And we have young guys around, not walking around because they have no legs, but their legs were blown off. Their arms are blown off. Their face was blown off. And they live because of modern medicine. You can do anything, but they're living and living like in hell.

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[Trump]     Their whole life changed because of Iran. And that was 96 percent of the people that used that -

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- night. They were made in Iran. And so we have a score to settle too.

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[Ukrainian journalist] What about the naval blockade, sir? President, you say that President Putin is ready to finish this war. What if he doesn't? Are you ready to put pressure on Russia?

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[Trump]  Well, we have a lot of pressure. We have a lot of pressure on President Putin. I don't think he likes what's going on. I don't think he likes. - I don't think he's thrilled with what's happening. There's a lot of pressure on President Putin to get it done. I think there's pressure on everybody to get that one done. A lot of pressure. [Zelenskyy curls lip.]

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[Ukrainian journalist]  What's your security guarantee for Ukraine?
- The guarantee?

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[Ukrainian journalist] Yes, security guarantee.

[Trump]  The security guarantee? I mean, not that we want to do it. We'll do it to save lives. Look, Ukraine is very far away. We have an ocean separating us. What I'm doing is I'm trying to save lives. A lot of lives are being lost.

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[Trump]  I also think that it's a country with great potential. I think if this kind of brainpower can go toward rebuilding the country instead of fighting a war, I think it's going to do -- I think that country is going to do fantastically well.

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[Trump]  And likewise, Russia, you know, they're devoting a lot of energy, a lot of energy.

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[Trump]  Do you have a question for President Putin? [Gestures at Zelenskyy.] Do you have a question for President Putin? Not Zelenskyy.

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 What would you like to ask him? Because I'm going to ask him that question.

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 - I have a question. Last year, you called Russia a paper tiger, referring that they're not doing -
- Who did I call?

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 Russia. I'm talking about the Ukrainian media.

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[Trump]   No, no. Give us a question, not for Zelenskyy. Give us a question for Putin.

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[Trump]   Because I'm speaking to him today. Give me a good, hard question.

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[Trump]   When will he end this war? That's a good question. I don't think I've ever asked him that question. I'm going to ask him that question.

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[Journalist]  Mr. President, what's the status of a drone deal between the U.S. and Ukraine?

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[Trump]   By the way, I will tell you, though, he's going to tell you that he wants it ended as soon as he can end it. Do you believe that? He wants it ended. He wants to end it soon.

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[Trump]   And I ask him, and we talk -- I talk to him a lot. I talk to him a little bit less, but the relationship is very good. But I talk to President Putin a lot. He wants to end the war. A lot of people don't -- a lot of people don't believe that.

[Journalist]  What are President Putin's conditions for ending the war? Do you know what --

[Trump]   Well, there were certain conditions. They were a little bit different. I think they're changing. I think they're probably getting a little bit better toward some of the things that you'd like.

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[Trump]  It's been tougher in Russia. It's been a lot tougher than it was supposed to be. I mean, in all fairness, this was supposed to be a -- this is a war that would have never happened if I were President. Would have never happened. You'd have a full country. You know, I mean, it's a shame that it happened. But, no, this is a -- this is something that I think Zelenskyy wants to do and Putin wants to do. They want to -- they want to get it done.

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 Ask -- ask the President that question. Ask him.

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 (Question in Ukrainian.)

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[Trump to Zelenskyy] Go ahead.

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[Zelenskyy] I don't know what -- I don't know what conditions Putin now wants for this peace. So I think that they are changing in any way because at the very beginning of full-scale war, he was stronger. And now I think he -- he is losing initiative on the battle. I think his army -- that's why I think -  that because of technologies, because it's not the question now of number of people. People -- our heroic people are very important. But now it's not the question of -- question of only number of people. First of all, people and technologies, people with technologies.

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[Zelenskyy]  Now I think that we have -- we have better steps, technological steps, further than Russia, maybe quicker, because they also -- they -- you know that they produce a lot of different things which are tough, strong against us, but we are quicker. And that's why I think that now initiative moved to our hands. Not totally, but moved.

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[Zelenskyy]  We are trying to move this war to the sky from the battlefield. That's why we now begin to control the battlefield. This is very important. It's difficult when you have less people to move them back. But we found another way how to do it, to cut their logistics for the army.

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[Zelenskyy]  It's about weapon, petrol, diesel, without basic human losses. That is the difference between us, by the way. Russia is --

[Trump] He's got a lot of support. I just left a room with him, you know, where they have -- I mean, mostly European -- you have Canada, but mostly European countries. And they have great support for --

[Zelenskyy] -- It's true.

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[Trump] -- for Ukraine. And, you know, really great support. One of the things -- you talk about questions for Putin, but one of the things that I talked to him about was where would you want to meet. And he said, ideally, in Moscow. I said, you're not going to meet in Moscow.

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[Trump] You know, it just doesn't work. You can't do that. But he'll meet, and Zelenskyy is going to meet, and something's going to happen that's going to be positive. And I think -- I hope it's going to happen soon, because they have to -- number one, lives, but number two, building your country, because it's got a tremendous future, in my opinion.

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[Trump]  Yeah.

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 But where would it be held, and when would that happen?

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[Trump]  I don't know.

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[Trump]  I don't know.

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[Trump]  Mr. President -- President Putin said, "I would love to meet in Moscow." And I said, "I don't think" -- you know, I have to put myself in his position. I don't know that he'd go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow? [gestures at Zelenskyy]

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[Zelenskyy] It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones in the air. That's why.

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 (Laughter.)

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[Zelenskyy] It's dangerous.

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[Zelenskyy] It will be dangerous --

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[Zelenskyy] -- Europe..

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[Trump] It's hard to go to Ukraine.

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 (Laughter.)

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[Trump] It's hard to go to Ukraine. It's a little hard.

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 (Cross talk)

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[Trump] Mr. President -- I thought I'd answered that question. I didn't want to -- I didn't want to ask him that question.

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  (Cross talk)

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[Ukrainian journalist] Mr. President, how to ensure that Ukraine will not be attacked again by Russia?

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[Trump] What about?

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[Ukrainian journalist]  How to make sure that Ukraine will not be attacked by Russia again?

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[Trump] Well, look, you mean in the future?

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[Ukrainian journalist]  Yes, in the future.

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[Trump] You mean after there's an agreement? Well, we're going to work on a security guarantee that -- and Russia respects us a lot. And we're going to work on some kind of a secure -- if we can make the right deal, we'll help Europe. I mean, Europe is going to be watching it.

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[Trump]  But we're going to be helping them. And we'll work on some kind of a security package that we'll make sure. I don't think that's going to happen. I think that if we make a deal, Russia is going to be very happy and they're going to get on with other things.

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[Trump]  They have -- by the way, as a country, too, they have tremendous potential. They have tremendous land, valuable land that they can do things with. And they have tremendous potential.

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[Trump]  But I don't think it's going to happen. I don't see -- the question is, oh, they're going to attack again. I don't see it at all. I think they've had it. They've had -- this has been going on for five -- almost five years, right? [looks at Zelenskyy]

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[Zelenskyy] Yeah.

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[Trump] Who would have thought?

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[Trump]  I mean, it's a tribute because it's a bigger country, strong country. And it's an amazing tribute.

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[Trump] Anything else?

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[Journalist] With the Patriot missiles -- President Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine needs Patriot missiles now. Over 50 Ukrainians have died in recent airstrikes just in the last few days. So in addition to these production licenses, which will take time, would you consider --

[Trump] Not that much time, actually.

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[Journalist]  Would you consider providing any to Ukraine immediately?

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 We have Patriots, but we don't have that many. We need them for ourselves, too. Some, yeah, maybe some, but I think they can produce them pretty quickly. Once we explain it, we'll bring the company here. You'll work with the company. They have a great ability to produce weapons, pretty complex weapons.

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[Journalist]  Will you go to Ukraine?

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[Journalist 2]  Mr. President, do you have any deadline?

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[Trump] Will I go to Ukraine?

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[Journalist]  Will you go to Ukraine?

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[Trump] I would, yeah.

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[Journalist 2]   Do you have any deadline when you want to reach it?

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[Trump] I'd rather have the war be over. I'm not sure the Secret Service would be thrilled right now, but you know what? I would. I would like to go. I think the people are incredible. And I mean, like you have -- it would be nice to get it before any more damage is done, to be honest. It's such a beautiful city, right? And, yeah, I would go to Ukraine at the right time.

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[Journalist 2]  Do you have any deadline when you want to reach a deal between Ukraine and Russia? Do you have any deadline in that regard?

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[Trump] No, I don't have a deadline. You can't have a deadline. It's, you know, it's too much going on. But I think you're going to have a deal, I think. You know, I've been very good. You know, we had certain deals like Azerbaijan and some of the deals that we made.

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 And they've been going on for 32 years, and they said it's an impossible thing to get them solved. Eight different deals, even in the Congo. It was -- think of it. You have the Congo and Rwanda. That was 14 million people dead, a lot of them with machetes and so on. We got that one solved. Or, you know, they go -- it flares up every once in a while, I must say.

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 But we got deals done that weren't doable. But if you look at, well, India and Pakistan, they were at it. We get that -- we get them done. And when we get them done, I find that people are not anxious to go back into it. I think we'll have -- you once mentioned the word "security guarantee" in the Oval Office.

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[Zelenskyy] Yeah.

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[Trump] And, you know, I think they're going to need some kind of a security guarantee, but we're going to work with them. That's important.

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[Trump] I think he thinks that's a very important thing.

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[Zelenskyy]  Yeah, the security guarantees are very important.

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[Trump] And they'll live by it.

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[Zelenskyy]  Partially, the President said about Patriots and license it. The Patriot system is the best, you know, in the world for today, the best anti-ballistic system. So we used a lot of -- That's the best.

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[Zelenskyy] Yeah, they're the best one. And we was -- I mean, checked everything during the war. So this is true. So with all respect to other partner, we are thankful for all the systems.

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[Zelenskyy]  Patriots --
[Trump] Well, they had different systems in Venezuela.

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[Trump] Well, Venezuela had systems that didn't work. We didn't have one plane shot down. We didn't have one -- we had one helicopter operator who was incredibly -- he landed perfectly and his leg was almost blown off. And we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor because very few people could have landed that. You know, you land them with your feet, really, more than anything else. And he landed and he was really in bad shape.

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 And at the State of the Union, we gave him -- he was a handsome guy, big, handsome guy.

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 But we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor at the State of the Union. So, look, he wants to get it done, and we're going to get it done.

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[Journalist]  Mr. President, what's the status of a drone deal between Ukraine and the U.S.?

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[Trump] What's that?

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[Journalist]  What's the status of a drone deal between Ukraine and the U.S.?

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[Trump]  Well, we would buy their drones, and we make drones. We make great drones. But they have an ability to make a lot of them, which is remarkably amazing that, in a war situation, they make them. They make them in basements. They make them wherever the hell you have a little shelter, even if you don't have shelter, I think, I suspect. It's an amazing ability.

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Very few -- well, that's why I say, with the Patriots, they would be able to do it. Most countries would not be able. They don't have the talent. You have very talented people.

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 And you know, if we made that deal, we'd have great protection. I love the protection. Think if you had a lot of Patriots, you would -- you'd never be hit. And as an example, in Kiev [sic], where they get hit with missiles, those missiles -- like what I said about the Abraham Lincoln, the missiles would be shot down, you know? So -- and I think you'd start making them pretty quickly, right? Do you like the idea?

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[Zelenskyy] No, no, it's a great idea.

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 I think everybody likes that one.

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[Ukrainian journalist] As part of security guarantees, are you ready to close the skies in case Russia attacks us?

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[Trump]  Close what?

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[Ukrainian journalist]  To close the skies over Ukraine in case Russia attacks us?

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[Zelenskyy]  It's meant that air defense and jets, what you use, jets.

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[Trump]  If it's necessary, yeah. I mean, look, I'll tell you, when we have a deal, we're going to have a deal. Security guarantee or no security guarantee. If we have a deal, we're going to have a deal. We're not going to have to worry about what you're saying. We're going to have a deal. I think if we come to a solution, which I think we will, we're going to have a deal. Now, we want to make sure the deal sticks. Some people don't think it will. I think it will. I think if -- I'm sure it will. I'm not sure it will with Iran. If we make a deal with Iran, I'm not sure that will stick.

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[Journalist] May I ask you -- Sir, on Iran?

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[Trump]  What does he -- Because -- because I found them to be very dishonorable people.

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[Trump]   Yeah.

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[Journalist]  Are you supposed to reimpose --

[Trump]  I don't find that with him. And I mean, I don't want to upset him, but everything I've done with President Putin has been OK. It's been good. He's [gestures at Zelenskyy] going to say, oh, but -- yeah, I would expect you to say that, but that's good. I don't think anything's going to be broken. And we're going to do a security guarantee in case it is.

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 But with Iran, 47 years -- this should have been done by another president a long time ago, or somebody else, another country. But they got stronger and stronger, and now they're weak.

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[Journalist]  Are you going to reimpose the naval blockade on Iranian ships?

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 Don't forget, we knocked out 159 ships in one week. That's good even for you, right?

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 159. Their entire Navy is at the bottom of the sea. And now they have little boats, little tiny boats that go around. And we knocked about 28 of them out last night with the same -- the same weapon we use for the drug people.

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 You know, drugs are down, by the way. Drugs by sea are down 97 percent, meaning nobody wants to get into those boats and take drugs into it. They're down 97 percent. And we're using the same thing for the mine boats. You know, they like to drop mines in. And we hit a lot of them last night, like 28. We knocked out 28 boats last night, little ones. That's all they have is little ones.

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[Journalist]  Are you going to try to take out more tonight?

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 Will we go tonight? You know, normally I wouldn't tell you. I wouldn't tell you. But you know what? There's not a thing they can do about it. So the answer is probably.

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[Journalist] President Trump.

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 You can see this terrible military strategy. He just said he's going tonight. Yeah, because they deserve it.

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[Journalist]  President Trump. President Trump. What is the effectiveness of last night's attack?

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[Journalist]  What message does that send?

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 Which attack are you talking about?

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 The attack that you guys had on Iran last night. The strikes last night.

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 Oh, I think it has a tremendous impact. Well, first of all, we took out additional. You know, they were trying to rebuild their radar and they had about 60 percent built. Now they have to have to start all over again. Look, we're not attacking at the highest level, the highest level of the bridges there, which we can knock down. I would say in one day we knocked down every single bridge in Iran. It's not a thing they can do about it. Their electric manufacturing facilities are electric plants where they make their electricity.

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 We will. We have to take them out. I don't want to do that, but if we have to, we'll take them out. They have desalinization plants. We'll take them out if we have to. I hate to do that. That's probably the one I would like not to do this. We attacked Kharg Island and last night knocked out a piece. I said, don't don't touch the oil because maybe we'll take over Kharg Island and we may take over Kharg Island. It's not a thing they can do about it. But I said, don't hit the pipes, just hit everything else. And they hit it. They may hit it again tonight. So, you know, as for your question, normally I'm not that way, but they really deserve it because they're saying they want to make a deal. But then, you know, they they asked for a timeout. They wanted to go to the funeral of Khomeini. And I said, give it to him. And they start shooting missiles. I mean, it's a crazy thing. Now, we did kill him. So I guess you have to look at it that way. But the funeral took place and they wanted

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 to have a period of time. And they also asked that we not kill them. And we said, we're not going to kill you. They were worried we'd kill him during the funeral. I mean, if you can believe what a crazy. Did you ever think I'd be doing this for a living? Did anybody ever think I'm doing maybe Pete? But this was supposed to be for me. Pete [Hegseth] loved this stuff from day one. But they said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. I said, I won't. And we didn't. We didn't do anything. In fact, we made it safe for them, actually.

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 But what happens? They try and knock out two two ships, a Saudi and I guess Kuwait. Kuwaiti.

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 Oh, no. Qatari. In addition, three. Yes, sir. So you had three of them. And it just I don't know. I just don't know with them. A lot of people say they're very dishonorable people and they can't keep a deal. So we'll say now as to whether or not Steve Woodcuff, Jared and J.D. and everybody working that will talk. I guess they could talk, but I'm not seeing it with them, you know, with the people. My whole life is deals. I don't see it. I don't

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 see it with them. Maybe. A big attack. And it'll knock out a lot of stuff. We don't knock out nothing. We knock out a lot. Pete, you want to tell them about last night? Yes, sir.

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[Hegseth] Last night, as you said, a lot of small craft that they were trying to harass shipping with.

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[Hegseth]  So that was a big part of what we targeted. Underground facilities where they're storing drones or missiles, coastal defense sites, radar sites, surveillance sites, anything used to harass shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. So anything they thought they had rebuilt or capability they were using was a target last night. And tonight, if we need to on your order, Mr. President, we will hit even more and even deeper because that's a consequence.

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[Trump] They put down the blockade. We may put it back, the blockade and it'll only be a blockade for Iran. Anybody else can have whatever they want. Now, of course, they'll drop some mines if they can, you know, because they can do it. But it's hard because we're taking out those little boats now with the same weapon we used to take out the drug lords and the boats coming in by sea. Think of it. Ninety seven percent. For years, we had fentanyl and all the other drugs coming in from different countries, including Venezuela. And it was, you know, they'd arrest them and bring them to a court. They'd be released and they'd be back in another boat the next. Ninety seven percent. What was done in the past had no impact. Ninety seven percent drugs down, coming in by sea. And now we're going to start doing it by land.

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[Trump]  The land is easy when we had to do sea first and nobody. I mean, I think the three percent of the people that still do that, I think they're the bravest people in the world. They maybe we should probably give them a medal for bravery because it's and we're using the same exact missile to take out the mines, the mine drop. They call mine droppers. But we have mine sweepers. And one of the things that came up today is that European nations and NATO group, they're sending minesweepers. We don't need them now. We have pretty much the mines that lead up, but they'll probably drop some more. They're evil people. They're sick people. They're really they're mentally disturbed people.

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And it should have been done 47 years ago. Thank you, everybody.