Trump Previews Upcoming Talks In Turkey To Try To End Russia-Ukraine War During Saudi Arabia Speech

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00:00Good fellas, come on. Let's make a deal. Let's do some trading. Let's not trade nuclear missiles.

00:07Let's trade the things that you make so beautifully. And they both have very powerful

00:13leaders, very strong leaders, good leaders, smart leaders. And it all stopped. Hopefully

00:20it'll remain that way, but it all stopped. I was very proud of Marco Rubio and all of

00:26the people that worked so hard. Marco, stand up. What a great job you did on that. Thank

00:30you. J.D. Vance, Marco. The whole group worked with you, but it was a great, great job. And

00:38I think they're actually getting along. Maybe we can even get them together a little bit,

00:43Marco, where they go out and have a nice dinner together. Wouldn't that be nice? But we've

00:48come a long way and it could be, you know, millions of people could have died from that

00:55conflict that started off small and was getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day.

01:01I've also been working relentlessly to end the terrible bloodshed between Russia and Ukraine.

01:07And very importantly, talks are being held in Turkey later this week, probably on Thursday,

01:14and they could produce some pretty good results. Our people are going to be going there. Marco's

01:19going to be going there. Others are going to be going, and we'll see if we can get it done.

01:255,000 people, young people for the most part, soldiers from Ukraine, soldiers from Russia.

01:32They're not from here and they're not from the United States, but they're souls. They're souls. I think

01:38usually, mostly they're young, beautiful souls that left their parents waving goodbye, left their

01:44brothers and sisters. Goodbye. I'll see you soon. And they got blown to pieces. 5,000 on average a week

01:51are dying. And people are dying elsewhere in the region, but tremendous numbers like we haven't seen

01:59since World War II are dying. And I want to stop it. I want to stop it. It's a horrible war. Would have

02:06never happened if I were president. That's a war that would have never happened. October 7th would

02:12have never happened if I were president because Iran had no money to pay Hamas or anybody else.

02:19They had no money. They were not looking to take care of them. They had to take care of themselves.

02:23They had no money. We stopped their oil effectively with the embargoes and sanctions.

02:29But let me take this opportunity to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the constructive role that

02:35you've played in facilitating the Ukraine talks. And it really is. You've been amazing. You've made

02:42everything available to us. Thank you very much. Thank you. And if we get that settled, we'll pay a

02:51special tribute to what you've done. You really did lay a great groundwork. Thank you very much.

02:56Appreciate it. The West should not be dragging itself backward into another endless war in Europe,

03:06yet another endless war. We should stop the killing and work together to address the biggest long-term

03:12threats as one unbeatable team. Think of us as an unbeatable team. I mean, when you look at what

03:19you've done here, that's much more difficult than stopping stupidity. Think of it. It's stupidity.

03:29What you've done is much more difficult, and you did it better than anybody else has.