No, because it's like they view President Trump like Simon Bolivar. He's the liberator of a country and this is a country where they, you know, they love American baseball, you look on the street they're wearing NBA jerseys. And Delcy and her team uh working with us, getting back. Chris and I both experienced it was the first time in Venezuelan history that they had the free press allowed to come onto essentially what's their White House, the Palacio de Miraflores. And it was like it was an emotional thing for people that had for 20 years had never had a chance to be there. So whether it's the and then production is showing up in production, the American companies that are coming back, most of those American companies have many American Venezuelan team members. One company in Houston's got 600 Venezuelan Americans uh that know more about reviving that industry. So their GDP went is a one-fourth of what it was before. They want to get back. They remember what it was. Their production on oil production is going to is climbing towards 50% increase just in the three months we've been here. Uh that flows to American refineries on the Gulf Coast uh lowering the price of gas in America. So it's a
President Trump Participates in a Cabinet Meeting, Mar. 26, 2026
Forget that. When are they going to do the statue? Tell me about that. Mr. President. Thank you. You've been pretty honest about how disappointed you are in Sir Keir Starmer, particularly in relation to Iran. So I'm curious about your phone calls with him, how easy they might be. And also were you surprised by how [87:47] Are we talking about Starmer? Yes. And are you surprised by how weak [87:51] I think he's a lovely man. I do, I think he's a lovely man. But I think he did something that was shocking. He didn't want to help us. And maybe in particular that country, you know we were the the longest bond, the longest ally. Australia, too. Australia was not great. I was a little surprised by Australia. Um I wouldn't say anybody was great, other than the five countries in the Middle East. We were we never really had very much support. You know, we spend trillions of dollars supporting countries. And this is little league, this isn't the big league deal, this is sort of little league pool for us. This was an easy this was look, we decimated them in a period for week. The the first week it was over. In the first few days it was over. I think their navy took us three days to essentially annihilate that. They weren't there. So if there's ever a big one, which I hope there's not, but if there's ever a big one, I don't think they're going to be there. And that's not fair. And we have to remember that as a country. Because we spend trillions of dollars protecting Europe. Protecting the countries of NATO. They weren't there for us. For small time. This is small time. You know what, Venezuela is a big deal, but it's not the big one. They weren't there. So what makes you think they'd be there if we needed them for something? Mr. President, Starmer's And and your prime minister was not there, as you know. He was there after we won. He said, 'We'd like to send some ships.' I said we already won. We don't need them anymore. But could you explain why
Why he what? Why he was reluctant to help with Iran.
He didn't have to. I didn't ask him. I just said you tell me no. I mean, we're we're always going to be there, at least we were. I don't know about anymore to be honest with you. I'd have to be honest. Uh we were always there when they needed help. We always would have been there when they needed help. I mean think of it. We're there to protect Europe from Russia. In theory, it doesn't affect us. We have an ocean, big fat beautiful ocean. But we're there to protect NATO, to protect them from Russia. But they're not there to protect us. It's a ridiculous it doesn't make sense. I'll tell you a lot of people were big NATO people. I was never big. It was okay. I got them to pay 5%. By the way, they haven't paid it yet. You know that. You know I got them to pay 5% from 2% to 5%. They didn't pay it yet. I got them to pay up to 2%, because they weren't paying the 2%. Then I got them to pay 5%, which they should be at. And we had a lot of 'Oh, that was great, great, oh only Trump could do it.' But the problem is they haven't paid. Because if you look at the numbers, they haven't paid yet. So we were there for them, but they were not there for us. Did we need them? No. I never thought we needed them. I was more doing a test. I said, 'I really would love to have you come up. Bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful Hormuz Strait and you can protect people that are being shot at.' They didn't do it. And that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. Go ahead. Mr. President. I was just going to say, does it affect the state visit with the King that you're having in April? Are you looking forward to that? [91:19] With the King? No. No, he's a friend of mine. He's a great gentleman. Uh as you know he honored me and our country, really honored our country. But uh we had an amazing time. I've known him as Prince Charles, I know him as King Charles, I'm proud of him. He's fighting a tough battle, he's tough. I think I think he's a fant- it has nothing to do with that. It's different. But and we're going to he's going to be here very soon as you know. We're going to have a state dinner, it's going to be great. But I was very disappointed when the prime minister said, 'I won't be able to.' It started with the island. The island that the indigenous have claimed away from your country and for some reason you went for it. And all of a sudden indigenous people that never saw the place, they never saw it. He was afraid that we would do something to so because he's a liberal. That's the way they think. Mr. President, can you and when we needed the island to land that beautiful B-2 bomber, we were told we can't use it. We'd have to fly back to Missouri, which is a 17-hour flight as opposed to a couple of hours. And I said, 'You gotta be kidding. Not good.' They made a big mistake. Mr. President! Is that Friday deadline for Iran, is that pushed back now or [92:39] I don't know yet. I don't know. Mr. Witkoff and JD and Jared will tell me whether or not they think it's going along and if it's not going along maybe not. And we have a lot of time. You know what? It's a day. In Trump time, a day, you know what it is? That's an eternity. Mr. President! Mr. President! European Parliament just passed a major Say it, what?
European Parliament just passed a major deportation plan. Some of the tenets of it are that member states can deport rejected asylum seekers to third countries regardless of whether they have a connection to it, it allows for detention periods of up to two years and also offshore return hubs or detention centers similar to our
Who did this? Who does which country?
European Parliament. And the vote was not close, it was 389 in favor to 208 against.
Good. I'd vote I'd vote with them, yeah.
Europe is where you are now, do you think that will move the needle with Democrats?
I don't care about the Democrats. The Democrats hate our country. The Democrats are in chaos right now. And they have no common sense. You know, they have one quality that's amazing: they stick together. And it's harder because they stick together in a ridiculous policy like men playing in women's sports, open borders for everybody including murderers and anybody else they want to we're open to you. Come in, murderers. You know why they do that? They do that for a couple of reasons, but they do it for votes. Because they think they're going to vote for the Democrats. Even though I did great with the Hispanic vote. Tremendous with the Hispanic vote. You know I turned that whole thing around and the Hispanics like me and I like them. And you know it's interesting with Hispanics, when I built the wall everybody said, 'Oh, that's going to ruin us for the Hispanic.' Was just the opposite. They know all about immigration and they know all about death and crime and they're smart people and they have common sense. They wanted to be protected from the people that were coming into our country. So, you know I won the election with a very tremendous Hispanic vote and I think it's higher now than it was then. So um we're a party of common sense. The Democrats are a party of insanity. They're a party that will destroy our country. If I didn't win this election, I believe our country would have been destroyed by now. One year, that's all it would have taken. If you had Kamala or Sleepy Joe, either one it wouldn't have mattered. They're the same thing. Two sleepy people. Two stupid people. I believe and by the way Gavin Newsom who is one of the candidates, I believe he took himself out of the running when he says he he suffers from mental disability. And a reporter said it was terrible that I talked that way about somebody with mental disability. I said, 'I have no problem with it, but I don't want a person with mental disability to be my president.' I mean, you don't want to have a person with mental disability being your president. And Gavin Newsom said that he can't read a speech, he can't do almost anything. And then he said he's as dumb as all the people in the room and he got accused of being a racist, which was an amazing he thought it was the worst interview I've ever seen anybody give. He's actually a very stupid person. So I believe he's out of the running. I think that that statement, that interview he admitted that he's a stupid person. I don't want a stupid person being president. You know, I'll say it right now, I say it because the press never reports it. I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me. But it's a cognitive test. It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle gets tougher. By the time you get to the end, very few people can answer those questions, they get very tough. Mathematical equations and things. I took it three times. I aced it all three times. In front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are, believe who they who they are. And I was told when I went in I they said, Doc Ronnie told me this, my current doctors who are fantastic doctors, they said, 'Well, if you take it' you know, it's Walter Reed, it's essentially a public hospital, 'And if you do badly it's probably going to get out.' But I aced it, I got them all right. And one doctor said, 'I've never seen anybody get them all right. I've been doing the test for 20 years.' I want people I I would love to see anybody that's a president or a vice president or anybody that has any uh chance of being a president, I would like to see them take a cognitive test. Because we had a man in this office that had no clue what was happening. And let me give you a little secret, he wasn't a smart man 30 years ago. And I'll tell you about President Obama, he wasn't a smart man either. I know all about him, he wasn't a smart man. Highly overrated. He was a great divider. And our country can't go through that anymore, can't go through. We have done an amazing job. I had to do a little stopover. I call it an excursion. I had to do a little stopover in Iran and we had to knock the hell out of them because our country would not have been safe, the world would not have been safe. I've done a great favor for the world, the world has not been it has not been reciprocal. Because when I told NATO, where we give billions and billions of dollars, trillions over the years. I said, 'You mind coming up and giving us a little hand with the straits? Send up some' they didn't want to get involved. And I believe that's going to cost them dearly. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much! Thank you!