President Trump speaks to reporters on AF1 amid Iran conflict

So we've had very good negotiations today with Iran. They should have given us a long time ago. We'll see how it works out, but they're very good. Going along very nicely. They've destroyed a lot of additional targets today. The Navy's gone, the Air Force has gone, we know that. But we've destroyed many, many targets today. It was a big day. We're negotiating with them directly and indirectly. We have emissaries, but we also are dealing directly and as you know, they've agreed to send eight boats two days ago, and then they added another two. So it was 10 boats. And now today, they gave us as a tribute, I don't know, I can't define it exactly, but they gave us, I think out of a sign of respect, 20 boats of oil, big, big boats of oil, almost straight. And that's taking place starting tomorrow morning and the next couple of days, a lot of boats. We're only saying that we're doing extremely well and that because we negotiate with them and that we always have to blow. Just terminating, as an example, the Barack Hussein, Obama, probably the worst deal we've ever done as a country. One of the dumbest, unfortunately, otherwise right now, they'd have a nuclear so we stopped them from having nuclear as possible. We won't, because he was decimated, destroyed, they're all mostly dead. The second was appointed. Presidents have wanted integers coming, like President Xi of China or anybody else. Very small rooms, they're not big enough to capacity that you need. And this is the same height as the White House. It's an incredible fitting. You see what that is, right? It's nice. Opposite the Treasury Building, people are giving it really good reviews. Some are giving it reviews without even seeing the building because this just came out today. They just made today. Stairs on the south side. Hatches that fits the White House. It's also capable of handling the inauguration glass. Ceilings, everything's drawn to view from on the south. And it's also a fire stair, basically leading down to the grounds. The stairs out over on the south side have really replaced them with these stairs. So you have an open porch and you porch under the columns. We're looking at the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial. That's great. This is a — as they are going to be made, they're going to be hit. Top of the line, there'll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, most beautiful by far. Ahead of schedule and under budget. This money — all of the money paid is — are paid by myself and donors. There's not one dime of — the military is building a complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom. And that's under construction, and we're doing very well. So we're ahead of schedule. That's part of it. And the ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under the military. The glass on the windows — you see the big windows? The glass is extremely thick. It's high-grade bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote, gee, some of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows. They said — they talked about a stairway to the south. We don't have a stairway to the south. And that was replaced a long time ago. But this is a view of it from the north. And that's — if you see it, it fits in with the White House. It's almost a twin to the White House. It's something we just wanted to pay tribute to the White House. And that fits in beautifully. Let me just see another one. Here's another one. Excuse me, wait. I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this. Wars and other things. This is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time. And it's going to be — I think it'll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. It's the highest level. Same height — exact height, if not higher. Same height as the White House. Exactly the same height. White House over here. Have this. And that's a duplicate of the wall. So it pays total homage to the White House, which is, I think, very important. When will the President deal in Iran this upcoming week? Say it? Sir, could you foresee a deal in Iran? I do see a deal in Iran. Yes, it could be soon. Are you considering still putting boots on the ground? And would you do concrete? I just have lots of alternatives. We have tremendous numbers of ships over there. We don't need them, though, because of, you know, the power. Look, I would say we're — just like we're ahead of schedule on the ballroom in a much bigger way, we're ahead of schedule, with weeks ahead of schedule. If you would have said that in three days we were going to knock out 158 ships, their entire navy, which we did, we knocked out their entire air force. We knocked out most of their missiles. That's why you see missile attacks, but they're down to just sputtering. You have a group — it's really a new regime. It's a group of people, people that we've never dealt with before. They're acting very reasonable. It is truly regime change. Is Khamenei's son still alive, sir? Is he a part of these conversations? We think he may be. Nobody's heard about him. He's — but he's obviously very seriously in trouble. He's seriously wounded. Did they ever come back? Yeah, they came back on the 15th point. They gave us most of the points. Why wouldn't they? They make it sound like they've been — With us on — asked for 15 things, and for the most part, we're going to be asking for a couple of other things. And just to prove that they're serious, they gave us all these votes. When I talked about, four days ago, a present, I said they gave me a present. But I didn't think I was at liberty to say what it was. What it was was 8 plus 2. It's 10 massive boatloads of oil. And today, they gave us another present. They gave us 20 boatloads of oil. That starts being shipped tomorrow. We're having very good meetings, both directly and indirectly. And we're getting a lot of very — It's a shame. They should really just go to a filibuster. They should terminate the filibuster. And they should vote. That's what I think. Look, I think the Senate is playing soft. They're with very sick individuals. The Democrats are sick. There's something wrong. They're like terrorists. We have to protect our country. We have to protect them. It was up to them. They'd open up the wall that millions of people pour into our country. You care if you're liberal or conservative. What we have now is we have a beautiful border. We're getting murderers out of our country that Biden let in. Drug lords out of our country. We're bringing them back. We have great crime numbers, despite the fact that they let in 25 billion people. And we're focused on the bad ones. I mean, the ones that came in, we'll work on something. But we have to get the killers out. We have to get the drug dealers out. We have to get the criminally insane. We have people that are criminally insane. They are unbelievably violent people that have insane assumptions. The Democrats want them protected. I want them out. They have to go. You can't have a country if they're here. Would you sign a DHS deal without ICE funding in it? ICE is vital to the ICE. They're great patriots. But they are physically and mentally very strong people. And they are able to protect us from the animals that have been sent in, allowed to be sent in by the Biden administration. Where your people, jails, jails. We're in prisons from Venezuela, from the Congo, from all over the world. Every continent. They were allowed to come into our country. Totally unchecked. Totally unvetted. You can't have a soft, weak, sad person deal with this. You need strong people. Now, they love our country. They're very brave. And they're very strong, like some of these guys. So we had the best crime numbers that we've had. Murder numbers. The best in 125 years. Think of it. Since the year 1900, before my father was born, by a lot. We have the best crime numbers. And that's despite the fact that so many criminals were allowed into our country. So we need ICE. We need Border Patrol. The last thing you people want to see is our country overrun again by criminals. And that's not going to happen. We're not going to let that happen. And by the way, our country doesn't want that. Mr. President, some Republicans, including Senator Mike Lee, say reconciliation won't work. Well, they say the parliamentarians are going to have to make a decision on that. Again, I say end the filibuster. Terminate the filibuster. Just vote and you'll get everything you want. You get all five things. We have your ID. We have proof of citizenship. It's so important. Mail-in ballots have to be stopped, with exceptions, for the military, for sick people, people that are sick, people disabled. Ballots are inherently dishonest. Jimmy Carter and his Carter commission said you can't have mail-in ballots. We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots. We're the only country in the world that has — you know, we have a big case to be coming in the Supreme Court. Had to do with the babies of slaves after the Civil War. Instead of that, it's being used as a way for rich countries and thousands and thousands of people from China coming in and getting citizenship for — this is not what they meant when they did that. So that's a big decision coming up. But if you look at it and you look at what we've done here, we have five points. We don't want men playing in women's sports. The Democrats do. We don't want transgender mutilization of our children. The Democrats are just fine with it. They could — you could do every child in America. They'd be very happy. We don't want the mutilization of our children. It's transgender, and we're not going to have it. So we want to go into those things. They're five points. And with the filibuster termination, you could vote them all in. The Republicans would have the vote. I mean, that's part of being a leader. You have to vote. Do you feel confident in being a leader? I mean, I like him so much. He's a high-quality person. And he told me the same thing. We don't have the votes. Well, he's only a couple of votes short. But that's what being a leader is. You have to get the votes. Those people will not be able to withstand the onslaught because Republicans and the country wants it. You know, it's polling at 87 percent voter ID. Think of it. We're talking about Save America. And it's not the SAVE Act. It's the SAVE America Act, because it's saving America. SAVE Act, nobody knows what it's saving. It's the SAVE America Act. The SAVE America Act, voter ID, all these things — proof of citizenship. It's an 87 percent issue with all voters, including Democrats. The only ones that don't want it are Schumer and these corrupt Democrat leaders, because it will not give them the ability to cheat in an election. Look, why wouldn't you want voter ID? There's not a reason in the world you wouldn't want it except to cheat. And if they don't cheat, their policy is so bad, they'll never win another election. Schumer's a mess. It's a failing country. And they're going to be next within a short period of time. It's going to fail. And we'll be there to help it out. We'll be there to help our great Cuban-Americans out who were thrown out of Cuba. In many cases, their family members were mutilated and killed by Castro. No, Cuba's going to be next, yeah. Are you considering withdrawing Casey? I don't know how she's doing in the nomination process. I'm more focused on Iran. But something like that would be possible. We certainly have a lot of great candidates. She's a little bit different in her thought process than me, but that doesn't make somebody not available. I would say that I'm very strong on the fact that I don't want, because if they had a nuclear, they'd use it immediately. I think she's probably a little bit softer on that issue. But that's OK. Some people are. Most people aren't. Most people are saying thank you very much for doing what you did. They are decimated right now. They're going to give up nuclear weapons. They're going to give us the nuclear dust. They're going to do everything that we want to do. And you know what? They're going to go on and maybe have a great country again. But if they don't do that, they're not going to have a country. They're not even going to have a country. So she's softer on that issue. But I have other people, not too many. That's an issue that we've had great support. You saw the CNN poll with Trump with MAGA. And I think MAGA is most of the Republican Party is 100 percent approved. In fact, the young gentleman that does the poll is very good, actually, because he's honest. He said, I've never seen 100 percent before. I'm 100 percent in the CNN poll, which just came out. Thank you very much. There's a report that the U.S. is going to let him. We have a tanker out there. We don't mind having somebody get a boatload because they need to have to survive. Well, I would say I told him if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it, whether it's Russia or not. He loses one boatload of oil. That's all it is. If he wants to do that and if other countries want to do it, it doesn't bother me much. It's not going to have an impact. Cuba's finished. They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership. And whether or not they get a boat of oil, it's not going to matter. I'd prefer letting it in, whether it's Russia or anybody else, because the people need the things that you need. We'll have to find out if it's true. If we could close that up in two minutes, we could close that up so fast your head would spin. Do you want to see Gulf countries that are being attacked by Iran to start to fight back? They are fighting back. Saudi Arabia is fighting back hard. Qatar is fighting back. UAE is fighting back. Kuwait is fighting back. Bahrain is fighting back. They're all fighting back. Actually, they were surprised to be hit. I was very surprised they got hit. And once they got hit, they started fighting very well. We're very strong communications with all of those countries that they've all been fighting. They're 100 percent of ours. How long can you pay TSA workers for? From the one big, beautiful bill? Well, we're going to pay them for as long as we have to. And I will tell you, the ICE workers have been amazing. And that's helping people with their bags. It's very interesting. We put ICE there, and ICE got a very unfair press. They're doing an amazing job getting pardoned criminals, murderers. Eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight murderers were coming to our country through Biden. And ICE has been amazing. Now, we said, give us a little hand during this period of time, because this is caused by Democrat terrorists. These people are sick. They don't care about our country. They don't care about people. But what it's all about, really, is they want to have open borders, and they want to have criminals come into our country so they get more votes, because they're losing votes fast. Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. And now I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population. And that's bad for them. They always had it. Now they don't have it anymore. These are people that want our country to fail. And the voters see that. Thank you very much. Thank you.