‘If I Do A Movie, I’ll Pick This Guy’: Trump Hails Bessent As “CENTRAL CASTING” Material

You know, if I do a movie and if I have to pick a secretary of the Treasury, this guy is central casting, right? I'll use him. I'll have to use the original. I'm going to have to use the original. We're going to use Scott to play himself. We made the largest ever investment to the US Armed Forces. One trillion dollars, the largest investment we've ever made. We have the most powerful military in the world. We have the greatest military in the world and we have the greatest military equipment in the world. You saw that during Venezuela, and you see it now during the national, think of it, think of it. The Islamic Republic of Iran will tell you that we have the best equipment. Now, Cuba, he wants to know what about Cuba. Give me a break. Give me a break. Don't worry. We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran. We'll do a little stopover. No, we'll do a little stopover. Actually, what we're going to do with Cuba is we're going to come back from Iran. those beautiful ships will pass Cuba, we'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast they'll raise up their hands and then we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal, we'll have Marco, Marco, I have to stop, we could just put him in there and he'll figure it out, he's a, he's a great guy, we captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who is now awaiting trial and we won the war in Venezuela in one day and now we're working with them to produce millions and millions of barrels of oil a week. And in Iran, I terminated the Barack Hussein Obama's JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal, one of the worst deals ever made, which was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. It was a horrible deal. We obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer. You remember that late at night, one of tomorrow. And then did the rest with Operation Epic Fury, which it was. We may do another little Epic Fury or they'll agree. If they're smart, they'll just say, let's get down to business. But, you know, I doubt they'll do that because perhaps they're not smart. But we're, we're, we did a number on them. You know, they have the worst. It's called the worst economy anywhere in the world. And they have the highest. Scott, they have the highest inflation anywhere in the world. Stand up, Scott Bessent. so you know if i do a movie and if i have to pick a secretary of the treasury, this guy is central casting, right? i'll use him, i'll have to use the original i'm gonna have to use the original we're gonna use scott to play himself we defeated them militarily financially and otherwise and now we are ensuring it's done, done a while ago, that iran will never have a nuclear weapon it's all about that it's all about that oil prices will soon plummet and oil prices are coming down very substantially they're coming down much faster you know when i did this i we hit the all-time high but actually the market you know if you look back seven months eight months the market's much higher now than it was then so at the beginning but i came in and i saw scott i saw howard i saw all my guys i saw marco i saw jd i saw everybody we had a meeting And I said, we got to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, because if they have a new nuclear weapon, the whole world would be hostage. And this was this was right. During a trip to Iowa, I had meetings and a speech and I made the speech and I was riding in and back. And I'm looking at I'm looking at the gas pumps and I'm looking at the top said one dollar and eighty five cents a gallon. the second station said $1.95. We had hit the all-time low, our all-time low. Do you think Biden looked at the top of gas pumps? I don't know. Do you think Sleepy Joe would say, let's look at the gas pumps? I want to see how oil is doing. I don't think so. I don't think he did. I don't think Obama did. I don't think anybody does but me. But I did. And we had $1.85 and $1.95. And that was our low. We were at the lowest point in years. And I said, I'm sorry to tell you this, fellas, the following day, but we have to stop these lunatics from having nuclear weapons. And we have done that. And it's something that's very important. And this last week, you probably read it was in The Wall Street Journal. Not that that means anything. It's a terrible paper, but terrible. It's become a scandal sheet. But no, it was in The Wall Street Journal. and it was an article that more oil is coming out of the Hormuz Strait today than came out before this war started. Think of that. And you know why? Because of our Navy. Because we have a blockade where Iran can't come in or go out, but everybody else can. Our Navy is unbelievable and our military is unbelievable. The naval blockade. And I settled eight raging wars or soon to be wars and we're close to ending. I hope The Russia-Ukraine catastrophe. I hope we're ending that. You know that in the Russia-Ukraine war, 25, on average, 25,000 soldiers are killed a month. Think of that, 25,000 young soldiers, mostly soldiers, killed a month. Got to get it stopped. And the other one, of course, is Iran. But we've settled, I've settled eight wars. Think of that. Did I get the Nobel Prize? No. Did I get the Nobel Prize? Excuse me. Byron, did you see the Nobel Prize being sent to the office, please? Did it come through Florida? I don't think so. No, I settled. Well, you know, Norway is very liberal. And, you know, the person that got the Nobel Prize, the first one said, you have to be kidding. I got it. Trump deserves it. He deserves it more than any person that has ever gotten the Nobel Prize. And she gave me her Nobel Prize, which I won't forget. Maria, Maria and the one that got it this time last week is a woman I never heard of you will never hear of again what she did everyone's trying to figure that out think of it I'm not talking I'm talking about let's say for our country you settle eight wars you stop India and Pakistan two nuclear you stop them there I did on trade I said fellas if you guys are going to do that you're not going to trade with the United States they make a lot of money and I'm going to put massive tariffs on both of you, 250%, so you won't be able to do any business. And they got very upset, very angry, and they stopped shooting, and the war was over. I stopped it, 11 planes. Think of it, 11 planes were shot down. I stopped all these wars, and it's really an honor to do so. I had no help from the United Nations. I never made one phone call to the United Nations, but we got them all stopped, and a couple of more left. I had no idea when I was running, I had no idea that they had so many wars and to be honest with you you know it's promises made promises kept and a very a very nice a very nice anchor thank you sitting up here said that whether you like Trump or not he has a phrase promises made promises kept he really fulfilled more promises than he even made i did many many many more things and we got all of the 28 Hamas hostages returned to their families both living and dead and hundreds before that we got it everybody said that was impossible living and dead you know i spoke to some of the parents their son was dead they knew he was dead but they wanted him back as much as the parents were the son mostly sons in almost all cases but uh as much as those where the son was alive and uh they would call me and talk to him at meetings. They wanted their son, who was dead, back as much as the people, maybe almost, it seemed like, more than the people whose son was alive. They wanted the body back, and we got them all back, and nobody thought that was possible. And just yesterday, we got Stephen Hubbard back from Russia, which should have been done by the Biden administration. No, I saw Stephen Hubbard's son. he made a great impression he really wanted to get his father he was in russia for years it was under biden that they took him he should have gotten him back that night the night they took him he lived a tough life for years and i called vladimir putin on friday and i said will you do me a favor give me the the person you have named stephen hubbard give him back to me would you please and he said i will do that and he gave him back to us and he just arrived in our country and That's great. That's great. His family is very happy. I wonder if they're going to vote for Trump. Probably not. Probably not. They'll probably find a way to vote for somebody else. Let's vote for that's happened to me before. I got most favored nation agreements to reduce the cost of prescription drugs from the highest drug price in the history of our country to the lowest drug price in the history of our country. So this will reduce drug prices by 50 to 90 percent. Think of that. Right. and that alone should give us a win in the midterms if you just did that alone because other presidents have tried but they'd never had a shot they never even came close it was tough i had to be very tough on oz will tell you i had to be very tough on foreign nations right oz i call up france i say you have to double and triple your drug price i was they weren't easy how's france doing by the way not too good that's what would happen to your country if you turned left and you let millions of people in without getting them the hell out like we've done that's what would happen that's not going to happen to our country you know they blame it on schools they say it's schools the schools i'm looking at some of these guys these thugs they're not students it's illegal immigration is what it is it's people coming into a country that hate the country they hate the leadership they hate the people they hate the buildings they hate the art they hate France, and they're letting them come into the country unchecked, unvetted. That's what it is. It's not schools. Oh, the floor of the school is a little dirty. Let's riot. No, it's not that. They didn't look like schoolchildren when they're ripping the hell out of buildings and tearing apart brick walls, burning down a building from 1840 that was one of the great buildings of France. You see that burndown? Starting on day one of my administration, We abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies throughout the federal government. Right. We got critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our schools. We made English the official language of the United States of America. And today I have breaking news for the benefit of American seniors. So if you're not a senior, don't listen too much because I don't want to bore you, actually. But I'm pleased to announce that the Trump administration is investing $250 million to hire at least 5,000 new nurses in elder care facilities all across America, and in particular, including the great state of Florida. You need them. And today, we're also taking historic action to support an important industry here in the shores of the Gulf of America. How do we like the Gulf of America? The Gulf of America. That's the seafood industry. were doing things for the seafood industry that they can't even believe. Did you like the change of the name Gulf of Mexico? You know, it never made sense to me because 93% of the shoreline, Florida, all the way around up to Mexico, 93% was America and 7% was Mexico. And I've always thought about it. And I said, let's see if we can get it done. And we got it done in very rapid fashion. And I also changed a beautiful lake that's quite near Canada into Lake America. Lake America, what a beautiful lake. Some people aren't. I'm trying to change New Mexico. I'm trying to change New Mexico. You know, it's a good state that went wayward. They have crooked elections in New Mexico, very crooked elections. But if you call New Mexico, so a friend of mine lives there and he says every time he goes on a plane they want to see his passport because no it's he says all the time there's such a pain and frankly and i'm playing with this you know this is tricky it's called new mexico but it's not mexico i want to change it to new america subscribe to one india and never miss an update download the one india app now