President Donald Trump sat down with 'Sunday Morning Futures' anchor Maria Bartiromo and shed light on the Ukraine mineral deal fallout, his approach to Russia, Hamas and Iran and the dangers nuclear weapons present. #foxnews
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00:00Let me go back to what happened in the Oval Office the other day.
00:04I call it a smackdown of Zelensky.
00:08It looked really rough, but then again, at the end of the day, you may have your deal
00:12back.
00:13So was that all the art of the deal?
00:15What specifically ticked you off?
00:17Well, you know, he was able to—it was like taking candy from a baby, what he did.
00:25He's a smart guy, and he's a tough guy.
00:29And he took money out of this country under Biden like candy from a baby.
00:37It was so easy, with that same attitude.
00:41And I just don't think he's grateful.
00:44We gave him, in my opinion, $350 billion.
00:48Europe is in for $100 billion.
00:51We gave him $350 billion, and he's talking about the fact that they have fought, and
00:55they have—there's a bravery, because somebody has to use the weapons.
00:58But without those weapons—don't forget, I was the one that gave him the javelins that
01:02was able to knock down all the tights.
01:04Obama gave nothing.
01:06Look, if I were president, that would have never happened.
01:09You wouldn't have had Russia going into Ukraine.
01:11You wouldn't have had the whole situation with Hamas and October 7th.
01:16It would have never happened, because Iran was broke.
01:19They had no money.
01:20They weren't giving it to Hamas or Hezbollah or anybody else.
01:23You would have never had the worst evacuation anyone's ever seen, which is Afghanistan,
01:29which was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country.
01:32And you know what else you wouldn't have had?
01:33You wouldn't have had inflation.
01:35We had record-setting inflation under Biden.
01:37It was a killer.
01:38And it's one of the reasons I won the election.
01:41But you may get it again with these tariffs, right?
01:43I mean, one CEO said to me, my input costs have already started to go up.
01:47I'm going to have to raise prices.
01:49In the meantime, guess what?
01:50Interest rates are down for the last three, four days at good levels.
01:54I mean, you know, when you add interest rates, you're talking about it's gone down.
02:00I've been saying, let's get interest rates down.
02:04You know, nobody ever gets rich when the interest rates are high, because people can't borrow
02:09money.
02:10Interest rates are going down.
02:11You know what else is going down?
02:12What have I been trying to get down?
02:14Energy.
02:15Energy is going down.
02:17I'd love to see energy go down.
02:20You know, energy is really what caused it.
02:21They screwed up my energy.
02:22I had the most energy, and they screwed it up.
02:25Then they went back to it.
02:27It was going through the roof.
02:28They went back to some drilling.
02:31But it was gone.
02:32It was hopeless.
02:33It was lost.
02:34But energy's gone down, and interest rates have gone up over the last week.
02:38That's a big thing.
02:39I love that.
02:40Do you expect Zelensky to come back?
02:41Do you expect to do that rare-earth-minerals deal?
02:44Yeah, I think so.
02:45I think it'll happen.
02:46Are you sure there's the content that you think there is there?
02:49Because some people were questioning if, in fact, there is the, you know, the titanium
02:53and the lithium, all those battery, the rare-earth-minerals.
02:56You think it is rich with those things?
02:58Well, I do.
02:59I do.
03:00I mean, I've had it checked.
03:01I've had it checked by the best.
03:02It's very valuable.
03:03But with all that being said, Biden should have never put up $350 billion.
03:09He should have equalized with Europe.
03:11All he had to do is say, you've got to stay even with us.
03:14They're in for $100.
03:15We're in for $350.
03:17How does that...
03:19We have an ocean in between us, right?
03:20We're not in the danger that they are.
03:22They are in much greater danger, if you call it danger.
03:26He should have never done that.
03:27You know the other thing with Europe that bothers me?
03:30They've given Russia more money, by far, for buying their oil than they put into Ukraine.
03:38So they're paying all this money to Russia, and we're in there for $350 billion.
03:44Biden should have never done that.
03:45I spoke with the president of Poland the other day.
03:48President Duda has great respect for you.
03:51And I said to him, you know, what if the U.S. walks away and stays away?
03:57Here's what he said.
03:58Without the United States, do you believe that Europe is capable of offering meaningful
04:04security to Ukraine?
04:06I would like to believe it, but experience to date shows that this has not been the case.
04:14The entire history so far of the last three years of the war shows that without American
04:20support Ukraine will not survive.
04:22Are you comfortable with that?
04:24The fact that you walked away and Ukraine may not survive?
04:27Well, it may not survive anyway, but, you know, we have some weaknesses with Russia.
04:35You know, it takes two.
04:37Look, it was not going to happen, that war, and it happened.
04:40So now we're stuck with this mess.
04:43Think of what he stuck me with.
04:44Open borders where we have 21 million people came into our country, many of whom should
04:48not be here.
04:49Many are criminals.
04:50Many, many are criminals.
04:51Many murderers, murderers, drug dealers, drug lords.
04:57We got that.
04:59We have the whole mess with Israel on October 7th.
05:03We have all of the ramifications from the worst and dumbest withdrawal in history.
05:09Both Ukraine and Israel were both attacked by aggressors.
05:13Is America treating both countries similarly?
05:15Are they treating the aggressors similarly?
05:20I think so.
05:21Look, they're very different.
05:22Are you favoring one over the other?
05:23They're very different places.
05:24OK.
05:25Very, very different.
05:26You're talking about different levels of power.
05:28You're talking about different parts of the world.
05:31The Middle East has been under attack forever.
05:35You look.
05:36When wasn't it under attack?
05:38And then we came along and did the Abraham Accords, which was unheard of.
05:42Have you been as tough on Russia as you've been on Hamas?
05:45I mean, what do you want to say to critics?
05:47Well, I've been much tougher because I haven't done to Hamas.
05:50That's been Israel that has to do to Hamas.
05:52But Israel does tell me what's going on.
05:56I think I've been very tough to Russia, tougher than anybody's ever been to Russia, if you
06:01think about it.
06:02First of all, we had the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which was a very bad thing.
06:07It could have led to a war.
06:09And that was started by Schiff and all these lowlifes, total lowlifes.
06:15And it was a fake deal, the 51 intelligence agencies.
06:18It was I took all their passes away.
06:21They can't participate anymore.
06:23These guys know it came from Hunter Biden's laptop from hell, which came from his bathroom
06:30and or his bedroom.
06:31OK, not a pretty sight.
06:33But this was a Hunter Biden thing.
06:35They said it was from Russia.
06:37No, I've been I've been very tough.
06:40Remember this.
06:41I'm the one that stopped the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2.
06:45I stopped it.
06:46Biden came in and he approved it.
06:49I'm the one that put sanctions on Russia.
06:51I'm the one that gave the javelins against Russia.
06:54Now, I've been very tough, but I got along well with Putin.
06:57And because I got along well, oh, they say, oh, he's so nobody's ever been.
07:02Putin would be the first to say it.
07:04Nobody's been tougher than Trump.
07:06And Biden hasn't been tough.
07:08Biden's done nothing.
07:09He was a weak, pathetic man.
07:11So is there anything else you want to say to the critics who say you chose a side in
07:16the Ukraine, Russia story?
07:18And that's Russia, because, you know, you called Zelensky a dictator and you had the
07:22fight.
07:25Nobody has been tougher on Russia than Donald Trump.
07:29Nobody.
07:30And they know that.
07:31They know that.
07:32Just look at the things I just told you.
07:34Look at the pipeline.
07:35I stopped it.
07:36The biggest job they've ever done was the pipeline Nord Stream 2.
07:39Nobody ever heard of it until I came along.
07:41They were building it happily.
07:42They were going to supply Germany and everybody else all over Europe.
07:46And what did I do?
07:47I stopped it.
07:49The biggest economic job they've ever had.
07:51I stopped it.
07:53Biden got in on the second day.
07:56He approved it.
07:57He said, let it go forward.
07:58It was totally stopped.
08:00Just that one thing alone tells you everything.
08:03No, I was tough.
08:04At the same time, I got along with Putin.
08:08I got along with Kim Jong Un.
08:09I got along with President Xi.
08:12But nobody was tougher, like, on China than I was.
08:15And then there are reports now that Russia says it will help the United States negotiate
08:20a nuclear deal with Iran.
08:22What kind of a deal with Iran do you want to do?
08:24You said they cannot have a nuclear weapon.
08:26Yeah.
08:27Well, there are two ways Iran can be handled, militarily or you make a deal.
08:31I would prefer to make a deal because I'm not looking to hurt Iran.
08:35They're great people.
08:36I know so many Iranians from this country.
08:38Well, not the leadership.
08:39No, not the leadership.
08:40The people.
08:41No, they're very evil people.
08:42No, but the people of Iran are great people.
08:46But they had a tough regime and they'd meet and they'd be shot in the streets.
08:50I mean, it was a tough, it was a tough deal.
08:54But I would rather negotiate a deal.
08:57I'm not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just
09:01as good as if you won militarily.
09:06But the time is happening now.
09:07The time is coming up.
09:09Something's going to happen one way or the other.
09:10I hope that Iran, and I've written them a letter saying, I hope you're going to negotiate
09:16because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them.
09:21You wrote a letter to the Khomeini.
09:24When did you send the letter?
09:26Yesterday.
09:27And you said you better negotiate or we want you to negotiate.
09:29I didn't say you better.
09:30I said, I hope you're going to negotiate because it's going to be a lot better for Iran.
09:35And I think they want to get that letter.
09:38The other alternative is we have to do something because you can't let them have a nuclear
09:42weapon.
09:43You said you wanted to do the Golden Dome.
09:45You've got a lot of ideas for America.
09:47But then earlier you said you wanted to cut a trillion dollars in defense spending.
09:51I didn't say I was going to.
09:52You're not going to.
09:53So I was like, which is it?
09:54Are you cutting defense spending?
09:55Or are you building us up?
09:56I never said defense.
09:57OK.
09:58Because I think you were talking about denuclearization.
09:59Correct.
10:01And that's where the cutting of spending came in.
10:02I never said cut.
10:04Not in these days.
10:05I'd love to cut defense spending, but not now.
10:09Because you have China, you have Russia, you have a lot of problems out there.
10:13No.
10:14In fact, what I have said is we spend a lot of money on nuclear missiles, nuclear weapons.
10:21The level of destruction is beyond anything you can even imagine.
10:24It's just bad that everybody has to spend all this money on something that if it's used,
10:30it's probably the end of the world.
10:33Wow.
10:34I don't know what to say to that.
10:35You know, when I listen to these climate lunatics and they talk about global warming, and they
10:42say the ocean's going to rise one eighth of an inch in the next 300 years, and nobody
10:49ever talks about nuclear weapons or some of the other things, but the nuclear weapons
10:54in particular right now.
10:57And they talk about the climate.
11:00And they talk about the dangers of the climate.
11:03But they don't talk about the dangers of a nuclear weapon, which could happen tomorrow.
11:06They say in 300 years.
11:10I watched Biden for years say the existential threat.
11:14He loved the term existential threat, because our greatest existential threat is from the
11:21climate.
11:22And I said, no.
11:23The greatest is sitting in shelves in various countries called nuclear weapons that are
11:27big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles.
11:33And they never mention that.