Trump Speaks to Reporters After FIFA World Cup Final

There has never been anything like it, probably in terms of an event, let alone soccer or football, whatever you want to call it. But I thought it was incredible. It was four times greater than any FIFA ever held. And it's probably about five times, actually, they're telling me today. So we're very proud of our country. We're very proud of the job that was done by everybody. We congratulate Gianni Infantino and all of his staff and the incredible job they did. But this was one of the greatest events of any kind ever held. So we're really happy that it did so well. And all over the world, people have come and they've loved our country, you know, shown off our country in a different light. And it's a great thing. It was a great event. And I'm glad you all enjoyed it. No, I wasn't sad. I think they both played well. I would say Spain played better, really. But they both played well. I mean, they got to the finals and it was very exciting, actually. It looked like Spain dominated, but it was a very close match. So it was it was great. It was a great event. Yes. Well, we feel very badly. But, you know, those great people, those great patriots were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They've lost everything, almost militarily. They've got very little left. They've got some missiles. They've got some drones. They've got some manufacturing ability, not much. We control the straight. They don't control anything. So we'll see what happens. But we hit him very hard again tonight. And we did that in honor of the probably three. It's probably three as opposed to two great patriots. Well, we're going to see. We'll be speaking to them. I did. Yeah, I did. Well, it went good. But I told him, I mean, you got to stop these fires from coming in and poisoning our air. Our air has been poisoned. I have a good relationship with Mark Carney. But, you know, we got to stop the fires up there. We can help them. We'll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs. But it was terrible. I mean, you had businesses closing, in particular, Michigan. If you look at Detroit, the Detroit, Michigan air, they had to close everything. They had to close car plants and a lot of other things. So I've never remembered this happening. Over the last four or five years, you saw it starting to take place. I've never remembered it happening. I did. I spoke to Spain and I congratulated them on having a great team. I spoke, I really spoke to a lot of people. No, I have no tension. I have no tension with anybody. It has a lot and it has a lot of capability. But as I understand it, in about a month or so, they're going to send it to have it be maxed out. So they're going to be sending it and they'll have it be maxed out. And think about a month. I did. Well, I was just saying, I gave an answer here. I spoke to him about it. I said, you got to, you got to get it stopped. It's really forest management and they should know how to do that. If you go back four or five years, I don't remember ever having a problem like this. And we do have that problem. You keep hitting me. This is a far bigger job that we're doing. We were doing a little job at stopping them from having a certain capability. Now we're just ending it. So it's really not the same thing. What we're doing now is we're ending any chance where they can have a nuclear missile. If you look at it after a week and a half, not four weeks, a week and a half, two weeks, we stopped them from probably, but I don't want to have the probably. Thank you very much.