President Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel Deliver Remarks

They’ve been doing naval exercises for 20 years in that area. Now people take it a little bit differently but in fact larger than they’re doing right now. So we'll see. But they've been they've been doing that for 20, 25 years. Yeah.

Mr. President, if you don't see Hamas disarm in that short amount of time that you're giving them, can you tell us what the next steps would be?

It'll be horrible for them. Horrible. Going to be really, really bad for them and I don’t want that to happen. But they made an agreement that they were going to disarm and you couldn’t blame Israel. By the way, we have other countries that will come in and do it. They said let us do it for you if they don’t. Countries that were with them, wanted the deal to be made, agreed that they would disarm and now if they say they’re not going to disarm those same countries will go and wipe them out. They don’t even need Israel. You know we have many countries, 59 countries that are in agreement. This is a real peace in the Middle East and Hamas is a small part of it but it’s still a part of it. But we have 59 countries that signed on, big countries, countries that are outside of the Middle East as you know the Middle East. They want to go in and wipe out Hamas. They don’t want Israel, they don’t need Israel. They want to do it because it’s the right thing to do because they were for the deal based on the fact that Hamas pledged, they swore that they were going to disarm. Now if they’re not going to disarm those same countries will wipe out Hamas.

President Trump, do you think that the PA should be involved in the day after in Gaza Strip, even in the near future? And the same question to Prime Minister Netanyahu, do you see a real opportunity that the PA will be in Gaza?

I think President Trump put clearly the conditions of of reform that he wants to see in the PA for them to be involved. And I think he put it very clearly what he wants to see, the kind of real reforms, not just perfunctory reforms but real reforms. Stop pay-to-slay, change the curriculum in your textbooks, open up you know a different society and a different future. If they do it, well, you know, let them, you know I think it was clear. He put he put he put guidelines that were by the way in the Trump plan of 2020 and they were put then in the 20 points and it’s up to them.

Remember this, if we didn't do what we did to Iran just to make the subject just slightly different, you wouldn’t have peace in the Middle East. You wouldn’t have a deal signed in the Middle East. You wouldn’t have a deal. Because other Arab nations which are great, great great people, I know them very well, I know them all. They’re great people. They wouldn’t be able to have agreed to peace in the Middle East because you would have had a dark cloud hanging over everything. It wouldn’t wouldn’t have been possible. So Iran has been greatly reduced in power, prestige. I don’t want to use the word humiliation because you know they are trying to build up again but we can’t let them build up because if they build up there can’t be peace in the Middle East. It was a mistake you know when they wiped out Iraq. Iraq and Iran were about the same power and they fought each other with different names for a thousand years. And then our country came out and blew up one of those two countries namely Iraq. Then all of a sudden Iran had the whole Middle East all to itself. But that's not true anymore. That's not true anymore.

Can you tell us something about the F-35... say it... tell us something about your plan to expand Abraham Accords?

Well the Abraham Accords are a great... are a great achievement of Jared and everybody. I mean it was one of the great achievements. They’ll be expanded. Countries are already talking about expanding it and they’ll be expanded fairly quickly. Yeah please.

What about Saudi Arabia? Is it still on the table? The normalization...

Saudi Arabia is great, we have a great leader and friend of mine and a friend of a lot of people. Also an enemy of some people. But those people aren't doing so well. No Saudi Arabia's been very good as far as I'm concerned. They’ve done everything that we can ask for. They’ll be getting along great with Israel. They will. And at some point they’ll sign the Abraham Accords.

Mr. President, we know so one of the big domestic tasks ahead of you is to pick a new chairman for the Fed. You're... you've said that you have one favorite but you're also doing interviews. So...

Hasn't changed. I'll announce him at the right time. There's plenty of time. But in the meantime we’re doing numbers that nobody’s ever seen. We have 18 trillion dollars coming in. We had a 4.3% GDP they thought it was going to be 2% and that’s despite the Democrat shutdown. Had the shutdown not occurred we would have had an extra point and a quarter. Think of that. We are doing and also despite the fact that we have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean Biden reappointed him and it's too bad, you would have thought he wouldn't have done that. But he's an absolute fool who's building a new Federal Reserve or he's doing a renovation of a building, Bibi, he's up to 4.1 billion dollars to do a renovation of a few very small buildings. It’s the highest price in the history of construction. He’s spending more money than any building has ever spent per square foot on the renovation of... as an example, I’m doing a magnificent, big beautiful ballroom that the countries wanted, the White House has wanted for 150 years. It’s a massive job and it’s a tiny fraction of that number. And we’re under budget and ahead of schedule. Now it’s it’s bigger than I told you, I it’s you know after realizing we’re going to do the inauguration in that building. It’s got all bulletproof glass, it’s got all drone, they call it drone-free roof, drones won't touch it. It's a big... it's a big, beautiful safe building. But it's you know it's a big project for a tiny fraction of that number. We’re under budget and ahead of schedule. And they’ve wanted it for 150 years. Think of it, the Federal Reserve building, two buildings there, they don't know what they're doing. They’re way over budget. I mean almost this was built during the Biden administration and I rode by it the other day and it’s headed by the head of the Federal Reserve. Too late, you know, too late Powell. Too late because he's always too late with interest rates except before the election he was too early because that would have helped, that was supposed to help get her elected. It had no impact. We won all seven swing states. But but no no we’re thinking about bringing a suit against Powell for incompetence because think of it these are two these are outstanding buildings these are small buildings. He’s at four billion more than it’s going to end up costing more than four billion dollars. Four billion. It’s the highest price of construction again Democrats, highest price of construction per square foot in the history of the world. It’s never been... gorgeous monuments are built for a much smaller price. So we’re thinking about bringing a a gross incompetence what’s called gross incompetence lawsuit. It's gross incompetence against Powell. And it was his baby and the guy's just incompetent. I mean there's nothing you can do about it. He's just a very incompetent man but we're going to probably bring a lawsuit against him. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Bibi congratulations.

Thank you. One more question please, on Mr. Friedman and and Powell's replacement.

January something.

And will you ask Jay Powell to resign entirely?

Well, he should resign. It would be a favor to the nation. But he's come close, I mean we're getting pretty close. I would fire him. I would'd love to fire him, but we’re so close, you know, maybe. But maybe I still might.

Mr. President, will you sell F-35s to Turkey? Are you going to approve a sale of F-35s to Turkey?

We're thinking about it very seriously. They'll never use them against Israel. They'll never use them. Thank you, feds. Thank you, President. Early, President. Thank you.