🔥 "Fake News!" Watch President Trump Destroying CNN's Kaitlan Collins at White House Press Briefing

Well, you know, there's a reason for everything. And we hit them pretty hard the night before and actually last night. And when it was explained to me, I said, 'All right, so we'll do that.' But we've been hitting them pretty hard a little bit. So, there is a reason for certain things and it's usually a reason that sometimes makes sense, but they did something for not a big deal. We nipped it in the bud very quickly as we do with the greatest military in the world. But some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason. So, they were reciprocating. I hear the negotiation itself has gone very well, actually. Very well. I mean, if it happens, and it might not happen, who knows. But if it happens, it could happen like over the weekend.

Pretty much the way it is. It's a different part of the world, you know. I'd say in that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner. It's not bad. I'm pretty sure. I mean, a ceasefire there is much different than a ceasefire in other parts of the world. Yeah.

So, I love it. I think it's so important. This is a victim right here, but not only a victim, he was also a student of it. What happened to great people, great American people, the way they were victimized, the way they were savaged. You have suicides, they killed themselves. They went bankrupt. They were weaponized by the Biden administration, by a bunch of thugs, including Obama people. And like nobody's probably ever been. I mean, I can think of maybe two instances in this country where they've had it to somewhere that extent. I'm not even sure if it was so much. They were put in jail for long periods of time. They were accused of things that never happened. They had prosecutors that were radical lunatics. And their lives were destroyed. And frankly, we had a lawsuit against us on the weaponization, where the judge, a radical left judge, ruled against it. And we'll see how that all works out. But a radical left judge ruled against it. But these people, their lives have been destroyed. Their families have been destroyed, many of them. I'm not just talking about a few people. Many of them. I'm one of them. They raided my house, Mar-a-Lago. That never happened. Nobody ever thought of anything like that. It turned out that it was a total fake. Everything about it was fake and corrupt. We have all the information. You know, the good advantage to sitting here is we can get information that you wouldn't get. So, what we have and what we are going to be showing over the coming weeks and months, you're not even going to believe. Some of you will believe it. Like CNN will believe it because I know what was going on. They're crooked as hell. CNN's a very corrupt organization. But with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. She never smiles. She's a young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes. Like she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted. And then we win our election in a massive landslide. We won 87% of the counties in this country. Nobody's ever heard of a thing like that. And that's because we're doing the right job. And we took a detour down to Iran because we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon under any circumstances. We can't let that happen. So, the reporters should be happy. They shouldn't be unhappy. They should be very happy. Do you know what we're doing? We're saving our country.

Well, I'll go in your order. Anything can happen. You know, when you're dealing with Iran, but when you're dealing with other countries, but that's a very volatile part of the world, probably the most volatile part of the world. It's very... the people are volatile. The leadership, you see what's going on. We've gone through three teams of leadership. It's been a... you know, our military, there's never been a military like what we have. We could go another two, three weeks and just wipe everybody out. I'd rather not do that. Very easy to do. They're ready to do. They want to do it. They want to do it. But if we can get something down in writing, which will accomplish the same thing without killing everybody, I'd like to do that. Most of my people I think would like to do that. Some people wouldn't. But most of them would. But we had to take a detour as far as wishes for... and I'm very proud of that detour. By the way, just to finish up on that. We had the strongest stock market in history, and I said we have no choice, we have to do it. I knew it would affect it, but I was very happily surprised when I saw that today we hit another stock market high. I mean, we have the highest stock market in history with a military conflict going on or a war. Some people call it a war, some people call it a military. It's not a big thing for us. We have a great military, it's not a big thing for us, but if I didn't do that, I spoke to people like Peter, great financial people, Scott and Howard and lots of others. I said, 'You know, we just hit the greatest stock market in history. Everyone's 401ks are the highest they've ever been. Everybody's making a lot of money. Costs are coming down. You know, we took over the highest costs and the highest inflation in the history of our country. Costs are coming down. Everything's good and I hate to tell you this, but we've got to take a little detour and go down to a place called the Islamic Republic of Iran. And we're going to have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon.' That's what we've done. And they've agreed to that. By the way, if they sign the agreement, they will have agreed to we will not have a nuclear weapon or bomb. We will not develop one. We will not buy one. You know, originally it was we will not develop. I said, 'What about if they buy?' That went into a 2-week negotiation. But in the end we got that. Now, we got it if they sign the paper. In theory, they're pretty close to signing a paper. We've actually gotten along with them very well. And you know what you saw for the last few minutes, it takes two to tango, you understand that. We hit them very hard on something else unrelated. And so they were responding. But not very strongly. As far as birthdays, as far as wishes, I wanted to just, you know, we have a phrase, I think it goes down, I would think in the history of our country, maybe the history of the world, is the greatest slogan or phrase ever. Make America great again. This is all we want. We want to make America great again. I think we've come a long way. I think we're the most respected country in the world right now. By far the most respected. President Xi told me I was talking about it. He's a friend of mine. He's a good man. I hate to say it because the press goes and they say, 'Oh, he called him a good man.' He is a good man. He's for China. I'm for the USA, you know? It's like one of those things. But we do very well now with China. When I came here, we didn't... We're not doing well with China. My first term, what I had to do with that was like what China was doing to us was incredible. I don't blame China. They took advantage of stupid people. Really stupid people. So, we're doing great, but the phrase Make America great again, that's all I want. Very simple phrase to think of, and I think it's the greatest in the history. I would say that's probably the greatest phrase in the history of the world, not only here. There's never been anything like it. Make America great again, that's what I've done. And we've made it great. In fact, in a way, I want to use it because I would never give it up. MAGA is too good. It's too good. It really is the Republican Party. That's why we're doing so well. That's why, if you look at the Republican Party from before I came till now, there's a much different party. It's a much bigger party. We have many, many more people. And I think the thought, the mind, the thought is much different than it was 10 years ago. And it's been amazing. Much more powerful party, much different party, and a much more impactful party. Thank you very much.

Go ahead.

You're with them?

Right.