President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from the White House, Oct. 21, 2026

So I'm going to South Carolina. I'm going to hopefully get Darlene Graham elected. She's fantastic. The sister of Lindsay. And we have a tremendous crowd, as we have always had. And I think it will be an amazing day. We had a very good meeting just now. As you know, in Cyprus, cybersecurity. And that's in full play. And we're going to do very well. It should have been done many years ago by other administrations. And do you have any quick questions? Go ahead. Where is this? In Ohio. I don't know anything about it. I heard that there's something where her mother went against her. I don't know what that has to do with the thing. I just don't know that. As you know. Well, I guess, you know, if it was about a Republican, I can guarantee you they'd let it go. So that's why you're asking. The fact is, I know nothing about it, but I hear the mother went very rogue on the daughter. It doesn't have a lot of respect for the daughter. And I think the mother is a witness to things also. So who knows? You have to figure that out. It's a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much. But I don't think that has anything to do with the thing. uh i don't know that they are i mean you're telling me something i wouldn't know that you're going to south carolina tonight you're in your county what has she said to you about lifting those sanctions on russia that her brother fought so hard for well i'll tell you the interesting thing as you know we have a gentleman coming home from russia that they've been after for years he was captured or taken during the biden administration uh wouldn't happen if i a president but he was taken and he's a highly respected man mr hubbard stephen hubbard and we were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said and people that don't know how life works they said why aren't you putting russian sanctions on all this in the midst of a negotiation to try and get a long-term hostage back from russia if i would have done that you would not have Mr. Hubbard coming back right now, right now. And you don't know anything. I mean, you're fake news CNN. Look, right now you have a man that's beautifully flying from Russia to wherever he's landing in the United States that I got out because I had a very good and very fast negotiation with President Putin. If you would have put those sanctions on or whatever you want to call him, you could forget about him. You'd never see him again. He'd be back in jail for 25 years. The other thing, very important, we're negotiating with Russia right now on Ukraine. We are maybe close to a deal for the first time in a long time. We're maybe close to a deal. When you're close to a deal and you have very delicate negotiations, you don't put sanctions on. And the other thing, we have decimated Iran. Russia has had very little input into Iran. They have certainly they could have done a lot more, but I'm not sure they did almost anything uh that's something that you have to take into consideration also so we've beaten Iran we continue to beat Iran and Russia and China frankly have not been certainly much of a player and we appreciate that so the people that say that oh let's put sanctions on you know i have the right to do them at any day if they behave badly if they be you don't know what you're talking about you're a dummy you're a low iq person you're a dummy and you work for CNN. Let me tell you, if I'm negotiating to get a man back, a man that we've wanted back for years, a man that was a prisoner in Siberia or someplace in Russia, and we're getting him back because of me, it should have been brought, it should have never happened, but it should have been brought back during Biden because he was there during the Biden. He was captured or taken during Biden. When you're negotiating that and you're dropping, And I know that I'm doing it, because a lot of people didn't know. And they say, oh, let's put sanctions on Russia. The negotiation would obviously come immediately to an end. So use your head. I don't know. No, I think it's one of the greatest things. I think it's one of the greatest. I think it's one of the greatest things we've done. and we've stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon. It's one of the best things that we've done. It took a lot of courage to do it because no other president was willing to do it. And if we didn't do it, Iran would right now have already used massive nuclear weapons. The Press- What? personally No, I wasn't involved. The Press- But was Elon Musk? The President- I don't know who did it, but I was not involved. are you a stupid person who do you work for you're a stupid person and by the way your network is the worst of all yeah we would have a meeting we would certainly have that as a meeting i can't say i can't say that it's going to happen but having a meeting on denuclearization And it's a very good thing. President, do you know what this does? I haven't heard. Recently, your Treasury Department announced sanctions against the cartels exposing the Mexican cartels of their abuse of the American border horses. So, are you going to launch a full investigation on these cartels? I always do. And I always have. Thank you.