Trump: "We've struck over 5,000 targets to date. Some of them very major targets. And we've left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it. If we hit them it's gonna take many years for them to be rebuilt ... we're not looking to do that if we don't have to."
Trump is an otherworldly hue of bronze today
Trump: "They're walking around with no legs"
we're...leaving known important targets so we can go back later?
Trump: "We think they should put a president in, or a head of the country in, that's gonna be able to do something peacefully for a change"
Trump: "The laser technology that we have now is incredible. It's coming out pretty soon. Where literally lasers will do the work of, at a lot less cost, what the Patriots are doing and what other things are doing."
Trump: "Based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco is so involved, I thought they were going to attack us"
Trump: "We're focused on keeping energy and oil flowing to the world, and I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the globe's oil supply. If Iran does anything to do that, they'll get hit at a much, much harder level."
Trump: "We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world, if they do anything"
Trump on low oil prices: "We've done it. We've brought it very low. This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We're getting close to finishing that too."
Trump: "You have to keep the Straits flowing. With all of that, it affects other countries much more than it does the United States. It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have Venezuela now as our new partner."
Trump: "We're also waiving certain oil-related sanctions to reduce prices. So we have sanctions on some countries, we're gonna take those sanctions off until this straightens out. Who knows -- maybe we won't have to put them on, there will be so much peace."
"He wants to be very constructive" -- moments after announcing that he's taking sanctions off Russia without mentioning Russia by name, Trump says "I had a very good call with President Putin" today
Trump: "Most people have never even heard about the leaders they're talking about, so it's obviously been very powerful, very effective"
Trump on Cuba: "It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn't matter."
RAJU: Footage shows an American missile likely destroyed the Iranian girls' school. Will the US accept any respons--
TRUMP: Well, I haven't seen it. I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is sold and used by other countries. Iran has some Tomahawks.
Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?
TRUMP: You could say both
Trump on when the war against Iran will end: "The rest is gonna be a determination as to my attitude along with the people in the Trump administration, what we want to do."
Trump is now referring to his war against Iran as an "excursion"
Trump on his war on Iran: "We talked about that with President Putin. He was very impressed with what he saw."
Trump: "They would've had a nuclear weapon within 2 weeks to 4 weeks"
Trump: "No transgender mutilizashiation of our children. We don't want our -- the, the -- it's mutilization of our children. And we don't want that."
Trump: "We don't have a country if we're gonna have elections that are so corrupt and so dishonest like we've witnessed over the last period of time"
Q: Has Iran activated any sleeper cells in the US? There's reports they've pressed that trigger button to activate those cells
TRUMP: We've been very much on top of it
Q: Do you have to take him out? Does he have a target on his back?
TRUMP: You mean the new Supreme Leader? You mean the son? Well, I don't want to say that
Q: You said you have someone in mind to be the new Iranian leader. Someone internal?
TRUMP: I think the idear of eter -- internal and eternal, come to think of it. But I like the idear of internal because it workssssss well. I think we've proven that so far in Venezuela. We have a woman -- Delcy
Trump: "The relationship is extraordinary with Venezuela. Smart country. We've taken out 100 million barrels of oil. It's right now in Houston being taken care of and made so beautiful."
Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.
Q: You said 'we haven't won enough.' What do you consider enough?
TRUMP: Where they're not gonna be starting the following day to develop a nuclear weapon
Trump: "I believe upon information and belief -- but I believe that he was going to, uhhh -- they were gonna take over the Middle East. They were looking to take over the Middle East."
