CSPAN - Trump Speaks to Reporters
Aired: 2026-05-03
Duration: 05:59


=== Writing the Hardest Part (04:20) ===

[00:00:00]  He did it all and then he did Vietnam, which was just horrible.
[00:00:10]  So is Vietnam the hardest part to write?
[00:00:15]  A good question.
[00:00:19]  Yeah, it's very I'm writing it now.
[00:00:27]  And it's very really Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling biographer Robert Carrup tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN's Q ⁇ A. You can listen to Q ⁇ A and all of our podcasts on our free C-SPAN Now app or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:00:48]  President Trump told reporters Saturday evening that he was reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war with the U.S. and Israel.
[00:00:55]  He spoke at Palm Beach Airport as he was en route to Miami.
[00:01:08]  We're going to Dural, a lot of you traveling with me.
[00:01:11]  Doing very well with regard to just about everything, but doing very well with regard to Iran.
[00:01:18]  Again, they want to make a deal.
[00:01:19]  They're decimated.
[00:01:21]  They're having a hard time figuring out who their leader is.
[00:01:24]  They don't know who their leader is because their leader is gone, their leader, their former leader, Khomeini.
[00:01:31]  But we'll see.
[00:01:32]  Any questions real fast?
[00:01:36]  The which?
[00:01:37]  Have you 14.
[00:01:39]  No, I haven't.
[00:01:40]  I haven't.
[00:01:41]  I'm looking at it up here.
[00:01:43]  Yeah, I'll let you know about it later.
[00:01:45]  Mr. President, last night you said we might be better off not making a deal with Iran.
[00:01:50]  Well, I wouldn't have to.
[00:01:51]  I didn't say that.
[00:01:52]  I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.
[00:01:57]  But we're not leaving right now.
[00:01:58]  We're going to do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.
[00:02:02]  Mr. President, you also said last night that they told me about the concept of the deal.
[00:02:06]  They're going to give me the exact wording now, yeah.
[00:02:09]  Mr. President, last night you also said that only like 85% of Iran's missile making capabilities has been eliminated.
[00:02:17]  Correct.
[00:02:17]  Is that other 15% important if the United States needs to eliminate that?
[00:02:21]  Well, I'd like to eliminate it.
[00:02:22]  Yeah, I'd like to.
[00:02:23]  It'd be a start for them to build up again.
[00:02:26]  And yeah, I would like to eliminate it.
[00:02:28]  Sure.
[00:02:30]  Under what circumstances would you please start military strikes on Kurdish?
[00:02:34]  Well, I don't want to say that.
[00:02:35]  I mean, I can't tell that to a reporter.
[00:02:37]  If they misbehave, if they do something bad, but right now, we'll see.
[00:02:44]  But, you know, it's a possibility that could happen, certainly.
[00:02:48]  Mr. President, in your 100 Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran that started having turning.
[00:02:55]  How can you say that given that the Naval Law is still being militarily in place?
[00:02:59]  Well, it's a very friendly blockade.
[00:03:00]  Nobody's even challenging it.
[00:03:02]  Nobody at all is challenging.
[00:03:04]  Just so you understand, many presidents have been involved in things that are very big.
[00:03:10]  They never had to go through anything with respect to Congress.
[00:03:13]  They considered it to be totally unconstitutional.
[00:03:17]  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.
[00:03:27]  And they shouldn't be doing it.
[00:03:28]  It's never happened before.
[00:03:30]  No other president's done it.
[00:03:32]  And I'm not going to be the first.
[00:03:33]  Thank you very much.
[00:03:38]  Do you imagine a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran?
[00:03:42]  Could be.
[00:03:43]  It could be.
[00:03:44]  I'll tell you what, we have a lot of ships coming up to Texas and Louisiana.
[00:03:48]  It's a line of ships you saw in the satellite.
[00:03:52]  We have a line of ships, big ones, two million barrels, and they're coming up.
[00:03:59]  I mean, literally, hundreds of ships are online to go to tech.
[00:04:02]  I mean, they're already started.
[00:04:04]  But we're selling a lot of oil.
[00:04:07]  A lot of oil.
[00:04:12]  Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany?
[00:04:16]  We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000.
[00:04:20]  Thank you very much.

=== Democracy Unfiltered in Real Time (01:38) ===

[00:04:56]  Democracy Unfiltered.
[00:05:01]  C-SPAN brings you democracy unfiltered in real time.
[00:05:05]  Democracy doesn't take sides, neither does C-SPAN.
[00:05:08]  In a world full of opinions, C-SPAN gives you direct access to the people and institutions that shape our nation.
[00:05:15]  Unfiltered coverage of Congress as laws are debated and decided.
[00:05:19]  Live proceedings from the United States Supreme Court.
[00:05:22]  Presidential speeches, briefings, and historic moments as they happen.
[00:05:27]  No commentary, no spin, no agenda.
[00:05:30]  Just the democratic process presented in full without interruption so you can watch the debates, hear every word, and make up your own mind.
[00:05:40]  C-SPAN's respected non-profit service has offered Americans unfiltered gabble-to-gabble coverage of their government in action.
[00:05:48]  C-SPAN bringing your democracy unfiltered.
[00:05:52]  C-SPAN is brought to you by the cable, satellite, and streaming companies that provide C-SPAN as a public service.