Trump Says Iran War Was Worth Gas Price Hike After GOP Election Losses

Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term and probably that's probably 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. The Press: Do you feel like it was worth it to lose the Senate? The President: 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 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, they've already called. 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 Strait right now. At the beginning, there was none. And probably that's the primary reason. The price, not the war, the price. The Press: Sir, you've won 30 rallies across the country and you made your final speech in front of the election. Do you have any regrets about the way you closed down the campaign? The President: 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. The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press 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. 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. I was just talking about the reflecting pool and then a couple of other comments. I mean.