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May 2, 2026 23:37-23:44 - CSPAN
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Trump Speaks to Reporters
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President Trump told reporters this evening that he was reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war with the U.S. and Israel.
He spoke at Palm Beach Airport as he was en route to Miami.
We're going to Dural.
A lot of you are traveling with me.
Doing very well with regard to just about everything, but doing very well with regard to Iran.
Again, they want to make a deal.
They're decimated.
They're having a hard time figuring out who their leader is.
They don't know who their leader is because their leader is gone.
Their leader that, their former leader, Khomeini.
But we'll see.
Any questions real fast?
The which?
Have you 14 proposal that Iran is?
No, I haven't.
I haven't.
I'm looking at it up here.
Yeah, I'll let you know about it later.
Mr. President, last night you said we might be better off not making a deal with Iran.
Well, I wouldn't have to.
I didn't say that.
I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.
But we're not leaving right now.
We're going to do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.
Mr. President, you also said last night that...
They told me about the concept of the deal.
They're going to give me the exact wording now, yeah.
Mr. President, last night you also said that only like 85% of Iran's missile making capabilities has been eliminated.
Correct.
Is that other 15% important if the United States needs to eliminate that?
Well, I'd like to eliminate it.
Yeah, I'd like to.
It'd be a start for them to build up again.
And yeah, I would like to eliminate it.
Sir.
Mr. Under what circumstances would you restart military strikes on Turkey?
Well, I don't want to say that.
I mean, I can't tell that to a reporter.
If they misbehave, if they do something bad, but right now, we'll see.
But, you know, it's a possibility that could happen, certainly.
Mr. President, in your letter to Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran that started have been terminated.
How can you say that given that the naval hotel maybe is still being militarily in place?
Well, it's a very friendly blockade.
Nobody's even challenging it.
Nobody at all is challenging.
Just so you understand, many presidents have been involved in things that are very big.
They never had to go through anything with respect to Congress.
They considered it to be totally unconstitutional.
And the Democrats in Congress that pushed this, and probably a couple of Republicans, they're hurting our negotiating ability, which is infinite right now.
And they shouldn't be doing it.
It's never happened before.
No other president's done it.
And I'm not going to be the first.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Do you envision a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran?
Could be.
It could be.
I'll tell you what.
We have a lot of ships coming up to Texas and Louisiana.
It's a line of ships you saw at the satellite.
We have a line of ships, big ones, two million barrels.
And they're coming up.
I mean, literally, hundreds of ships are online to go to tech.
I mean, they're already started.
But we're selling a lot of oil.
A lot of oil.
Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany?
Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany?
We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000.
Thank you very much.
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