Trump reacts to Republican midterm losses

Why don't we ask, if you want, a couple of questions while they're rigging it. How about having that in the background, though? So yeah, well do Thank you so much. You let me know when they're ready. Okay, go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. Vice President for Minority Secure. Vice President for Minority Secure. We'll stay out of it. I mean, they're going to be, you know, Jim. Jim was, I think he was really, all of them. Everybody, everybody that we're dealing with. But the speaker was fantastic. The people under him were fantastic, all good people. I guess right now you have two candidates, right? The Press Do you have to speak to President Trump now? The President No, no, no. The Press Do you have any regrets? The Press Vice President Pence says the reason Republicans lost last night was the war in Iran. The President Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short-term. And probably that's, probably it's true. But at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again. Because long term, it's the only answer. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Do you feel like it was worth it? I do, yeah. I mean, well, you have no choice. I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more, and I did it on that basis. You have no choice. You have to do it. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Or everything that you see here someday might not exist. And maybe this, but this building really might be the only one that does. So, yeah, I think that, look, I mean, I'll get along probably with the Democrats unless they want to be destructive, but they have the power of the veto. So if we don't like what they're doing or they'll, they've already called and they want to talk about things and that's fine. But yeah, people, the Iran thing we had to do and we continue to do it. We have tremendous oil flowing out of the Hormuz right now. At the beginning, there was none. And probably that's the primary reason. The price, not the war, the price. Sir, you bowled 30 rallies across the country and gave your finest speech in front of everyone. The Press No, look, I mean, if I were on the ballot, we would have won. You saw the people that were packed. Thousands and thousands of people at every rally. And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. But they just, you couldn't transfer that love. There was such love at those rallies. It was incredible. We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates. Q Did you get any of your aides to try to talk about delivering that speech on Monday? THE PRESIDENT: Which one are we talking about? Q What did the Reflecting Pool, did any of your aides advise you to do something? THE PRESIDENT: I heard it was a very good speech, got great reviews. That was only a speech on the Reflecting Pool. That had nothing to do with anything else. That was a speech very much like this is today on this incredible place that we're building at the White House. It's going to be here for many, many years and serving our country well. Well, that was only... A sort of a ribbon cutting because the Reflecting Pool hasn't worked since 1922. It's, you know, over 100 years it's never worked. It's always leaked and it was always a mess. And we fixed it. We made it great. That was not a speech. That was just talking about the Reflecting Pool and then a couple of other comments. I mean, our speeches were really the speeches made at the 30 rallies. And those speeches were... That was tremendous love. It was pretty amazing. The Press I can't tell you that. They may tell you, but I can't tell you. The Press No, no, no. The Press Are you concerned about it? Not even a little bit. I think it would destroy the Democrat Party if they did that. Because impeachment for no reason. What? For having a successful country. Our country is more successful now than at any time in its history. Watch the beam go up. Thank you. Thank you. Got to slide back, fellas. I'm sorry. And ladies, back, back, back, back, back. All the way back. It's bigger than you thought, right? Chandeliers. That was one of my first years. Okay. Okay, I'll stay here. We've got, can you don't vote? Let's do it now. Now envision chandeliers all over your ceiling. Envision marble floor. Oh, it's going to be beautiful. You're going to be the most beautiful woman. Probably July, right around, gonna be great. Middle to end of next year, depending on surfaces. Watch the steel. Okay, you know, it's not steel that's used on a roof to hold back rain, you know, it's to hold helicopters. Did you guys see the helipad from Uptown, how beautiful it is, it's incredible. It's incredible. This is gonna be more incredible. This is a non-press event, I said, this is the greatest, right? Do you see the helipad in the hall again? Yes. Well, piece of art. Very talented people to do that. Very talented. I'll show you what I have. They put all the steel up in three weeks, can you believe it? The whole thing was done in two and a half weeks. Pretty amazing. How are you? Thank you, sir. Good job. That'll fit perfectly within a hundredth of an inch. Can you believe it? Seriously? Yeah, they rarely have to do any chopping. Watch. Pretty amazing, right? The entire building, every single hole was perfect. Which is rare, but we had great people. The Federal Reserve had the opposite. What a shame. You know, those guys are standing under, you know. Personally, I'd pass on that. Because if one bolt fell down, that's it, your history. Pretty amazing. Would you like to move over there, then? Right under that? Look, that's right under there. We'll send Margo. Let's send Margo. Oh, yeah. No, if anything fell off there, but they do it. Except the Secret Service guy's not. Very well presented. I don't think he has any idea what's going on about it. See the way that fits? It's like a glove. See the sprue that they put right through it? Look at that. It fits perfectly. Now they bolt it in, and that's the end of that. Pretty good, right? That's pretty good. Go ahead. Did you have any other questions? Well, I knew the war was going to impact it, I but whether it impacted or not, Iran can't have knew a nuclear weapon. I knew he was, I know how he feels you. about it, I think it was fine, I thought it was good. We knew that, I knew that when I went in. And we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. And they will never have a nuclear weapon. Have you spoken about an event? Yeah. About the AIM? I've spoken about a lot of things. But, I mean, we'll see what happens. Everybody, you don't know who's talking about running. You're going to have people running. You're going to have a lot of people, maybe a lot of people running. Maybe nobody's going to run. Maybe. He won't run. I don't know who's going to run. But I can tell you that as far as that war is concerned, I would have done nothing different. We've totally broken their military. Their Navy's gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone. This job, I don't know, is a dangerous job. The what? All right. Well, it's just there, it's a thing that they do. And here's the interesting thing. Somebody will walk after we're gone, they'll walk right across that, pick up the tree and walk. There aren't too many people can do that. You need very good balance. Now, do you know that? They'll leave that tree. When we're gone, a guy will walk right on that tree and take it. Well, what did end, no, I didn't say that. I said their nuclear weapons will be destroyed. And that happened with Midnight Hammer. The danger is up. And you know what? They fall sometimes, and when they fall, it's terrible. First of all, thank you. Whenever I wanted to. But it's got to be done right, and we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. It's got to be done right. But, of course, I knew that. I knew fuel would go up. I thought it would go up. Two or three times higher than it is and now today it's coming down and yesterday it dropped or the day before it dropped 10 points. No, we've done a great job. The Hormuz Strait is open. It's producing Wall Street Journal, cover of the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago. It's producing more oil right now than at any time prior to the war. It's very humbling. No, I think he's doing a very good job. So you don't want him to feel more of a lackluster in the Senate. Well, I think he's doing a very good job, and I actually think he'd be very popular if he did that, but I haven't heard that at all. No, no, look, when I said fast, we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon very early on when we did the raid. Great stuff, right? If you want to see the helipad, bring the cameras over here. Let me show you.