President Trump discusses a proposed three-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire involving 1,000 prisoner exchanges while noting 25,000 monthly casualties. He highlights successful tariff talks with Brazil, claims to have settled eight or nine wars, and addresses potential troop shifts from Germany to Poland. Additionally, he celebrates his endorsed candidate's victory in Iraq, praises new UK election results, and asserts Iran's military was decimated by a recent missile strike. The segment concludes with Turning Point USA CEO Erica Kirk's upcoming honorary degree at Hillsdale College. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hillsdale Commencement Address00:09:02
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This afternoon, Turning Point USA CEO Erica Kirk delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of Hillsdale College.
The college plans to award honorary degrees to her and her late husband, Charlie Kirk.
Watch live at 2 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN.
C-SPAN now, our free mobile app, and online at C-SPAN.org.
An update now from President Trump on Iran and the three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
He spoke to reporters before he left the White House heading to Sterling, Virginia.
Do you think that's the whole rolling it?
Do you think they're intentionally slow-rolling the process?
We'll find out soon enough.
Mr. President, you have to get another Brazilian leader.
Did you, are you willing to cancel the garage of you and needed to discuss people?
Well, we had a good meeting.
We had a great meeting of the President of Brazil.
And we'll see what happens.
They want to do business with the United States.
Everybody does.
Are you planning a fire?
We had a very good meeting.
Are you planning a fire, Martin McCarran?
What's going on with Martin McCarran?
Nothing much.
Are you going to fire it?
I've been reading about it, but I know nothing about it.
Are you optimistic about Iranian response to you tonight?
Are you optimistic about Iranian response to your proposal?
We'll see what happens.
Look, they have no military.
They have not a lot left.
We'll see what happens.
Yeah, go ahead.
Mr. President, if you decide to pull your...
Unfortunately, you're going to be a very good person.
It could be.
I mean, it could be.
It would be nice.
I'd like to see it stop.
Russia, Ukraine.
It's the worst thing since World War II in terms of life.
25,000 young soldiers every month.
It's crazy.
So it could very well be.
If you decide to pull troops from Germany, will you move them to Poland or maybe some other countries on the Eastern Flank?
Well, Poland would like that.
We have a great relationship with Poland.
I have a great relationship with the President.
Do you remember?
I endorsed him and he won.
And he came from way behind anyone.
He's a great fighter.
He's a great guy.
I like him a lot.
So that's possible.
But will you?
Can you do it?
He's asking to push.
But President, you seem to have happy about the election of your prime minister of Iraq.
How is it important for Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraqi federal government, and United States of America working together and reduce militia influence on the region, especially Iraq?
So we had a great election in Iraq.
We had somebody that I very strongly endorse.
He won by a lot, and I wasn't happy with the person who was there previously.
So it was a great victory.
We had a lot of great victories.
We had a big victory.
We had a big victory today in Virginia, as you know, and we have a lot of victories.
But the victory in Iraq was really great.
FDA Commissioner.
Are you bringing someone new in to lead the FDA?
Mr. President, how did you hear about the UK election results last night?
I sort of leave that to them.
I'm happy about everything.
Our country is doing well.
We just have new stock market records.
Everybody's 401k is hitting a record.
The numbers are absolutely incredible.
Job numbers.
We have more people working today than we ever had working in this country.
The job numbers today were incredible.
Thank you.
Any reaction?
No, I have no reaction to that.
No, not at all.
I think we're doing very well.
Iran is seeming to be coming along very well.
Militarily, it's very good.
We'll see whether or not they can get there.
Steve, go ahead.
We have it.
We have very good people looking at it.
It seems to be okay.
They know the virus very well.
They've worked with it for a long time.
They know it very well.
Not easy to pass on.
So we hope that's true.
Yeah, we had a great meeting.
We discussed everything.
President of Brazil, we discussed everything.
We had a very good meeting.
We have a very good relationship with him and with Brazil.
We discussed everything, including tariffs.
No, no, I asked, and President Putin agreed.
President Zelensky agreed, both readily.
And we have a little period of time where they're not going to be killing people.
That's very good.
And they also agreed to give a thousand on each side, a thousand prisoners back.
So they're going to be transferring almost immediately a thousand prisoners from each side.
That's very good.
Russia, Ukraine.
Yeah, I will.
I'd like to see a big extension.
Will your team travel to Moscow, Mr. President?
No, we seem to have things under very good control.
They know that virus very well.
It's been around a long time.
Not easily transferable, unlike COVID.
But we'll see.
We're studying it very closely.
We have very good people studying it very closely.
We're at a point almost 10 weeks after missile hitting girls still in Iran.
Who fired that missile?
So that's under study right now, and we'll give you a report as soon as we have it.
Will you send your team to Moscow now that your project has ceasefire in Ukraine war?
To negotiate further.
What?
Will you send your team to Moscow to negotiate further now that you are?
Well, I would do it.
If I thought it would help, I'd do it.
I'd love to see that war end.
I've settled eight wars and actually nine, and now it looks like we could have ten, but I would love to make that the tenth, I will tell you.
I would love to see an end between Russia-Ukraine.
That were 25,000 young soldiers were killed last month, and it's on average 25 to 30,000 soldiers a month.
It's a terrible war.
I love South Korea.
I don't think so.
We might be here, but I don't think so.
Anybody's going to be proud of everybody just to be signed up to threaten them?
We were asked not to do that by Pakistan, who's our friend, as you know, the Prime Minister and the field marshal.
But I think Project Freedom is good, but I think we have other ways of doing it also.
We may go back to Project Freedom if things don't happen, but it is the Project Freedom Plus.
Project unit plus other things.
Mr. President, why did you have the name for a ceasefire that Putin wanted?
Well, we have a ceasefire, and I think everyone's happy.
President Zelensky, President Putin, I think you're happy to have it as we're doing now.
Mr. President, I'm telling you, ceasefire.
It is important ceasefire in close Iraq and Iraq for the time, because if the ceasefire...
We've been several times.
Iranian was the process of Prime Minister Pokemon Alexiot.
We want to get the whole thing ended.
Not just individuals open.
We want to get the whole thing ended.
And we will.
This afternoon, Turning Point USA CEO Erica Kirk delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of Hillsdale College.
The college plans to award honorary degrees to her and her late husband, Charlie Kirk.
Watch live at 2 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, C-SPAN now, our free mobile app, and online at C-SPAN.org.
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