President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the United Arab Emirates

Well, thank you very much everybody. I just want to say his highness is a warrior. He was in there fighting and he does what has to be done and he's known for it. He's a courageous man. He's got a great country. It's a fantastic country and they've been with the United States for a long time, but I would say much more so since I came on board. I will say they've invested trillions of dollars in the United States and I was telling them before another meeting that we have over 19 trillion dollars being invested in the United States, which is a record. And that's building factories, car plants, everything. We're doing things that have never been done. The record was three billion many years ago with a different country. Then we're going to be over 19. I think we'll head to 19.3 trillion dollars. So there's probably not going to be anything. Maybe we'll do better next year. I don't know if you can do better. But I just want to say that the relationship has been outstanding. He's a man of great respect. Everybody respects him and they respect your country and it's an honor to be with you and we just signed a deal with Iran and this country was a very powerful ally and good things are happening. The US ships are starting to move now. We're going to have it fully open by Friday. The ships are starting to move nicely. The oil is starting to go and the prices are coming down rapidly. Stock market is going up rapidly. A lot of good things are happening and most importantly Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. That was how I got involved in this. We can't let that happen. So they will not have a nuclear weapon. And other than that I'd like to ask to say a few words and if you want we can take a couple of questions please.

Well, it's really my pleasure. Mr. President, pleasure to be with you here and I want to say that we are so grateful to have you here and as a president of the United States and thank you for your support, your commitment to your friends, to your allies, and special thanks for your support during the six week war. It means a lot to us and you showed us who is really alive and without your support and commitment, Mr. President, not my country only but the Middle East will be in a different situation today. So really my pleasure to see you today. Thank you for giving us the time and there are a lot of things we can talk about going forward between our two countries, how we can make our relationship even better.

Well, thank you my friend. See, when you're that rich you can speak that low. I was just wondering, can anybody hear that? But when you're so rich, you have such confidence that you don't have to do any strain to the voice. He's great. So, do you have any questions for us?

I don't know. It's a 60-day period or so. I think it's going to happen fairly on time. We've been both involved. I think they're going to want to get it done. Iran wants to get it done and they have to get back to business and the relationship is now normalized. So, I think it's going to go pretty quickly. Could go faster. Could take longer, too, but it could go faster.

Oh, I will.

Well, because I'd like to get a formal setting first before we do that. But I have no problem with that. It's a great document. Here's what it says. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. That's what it says. It won't have one to buy, to develop. They will not have a nuclear weapon. And I would say that's about 99.9% of what I wanted because we couldn't let that happen. You couldn't let that happen. And they won't have a nuclear weapon. Now, in addition to that, the strait is going to be open toll-free. And it's toll-free beyond the 60 days. It's not like somebody said, "Oh, it's toll-free for s." No, no, it's toll-free. Period. When it opens permanently, it'll be toll-free. I want to congratulate our Navy because the naval blockade was unbelievable. But I will actually not only release it, I'll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so that the press covers it accurately because it's a very important document and unlike Obama, who could have destroyed the Middle East with a horrible JCPOA, it is the worst agreement that was a road to a nuclear weapon. Mine is a wall against a nuclear weapon. I mean, I see these people say, "But we already had one." That was words. He paid a fortune for it. We paid nothing. We don't pay. There was some statement, "We're going to spend $300 billion." No, we're not. We're allowed to go and invest if we wanted to someday in the future. We have no obligation whatsoever. It could be that Iran will turn out to be successful when they have oil. But if we left a week ago, just left before the last two attacks, it would have taken them 20 years to rebuild Iran. So, I'll go over the document with the media in a couple of days.

About what? Joining the Abraham Accords like he does. Well, I'd love to have them. This is a man who's very advanced. He was early in and he's done very well with them. The whole Abraham Accords. No, I think they should happen. The big impediment to the Abraham Accords, we have our original countries, very smart countries, every one of them. Do you notice that even during that period of conflict, nobody dropped out? Nobody said, "Oh, gee, I'm going to drop out." Nobody. I think they're all going to come in, you know, into the Abraham because the only conflict was a place called Iran. And I understand that, you know, it's a little bit tough when people were afraid of Iran. So, but I think they're going to all start coming in. Good question. Actually.

Lindsay is skeptical? I'll have to talk to Lindsay. He'll be in big trouble. Lindsay's good. Lindsay is fine. He's not skeptical. He's just fine. Look, this agreement covers something very nicely. We're not paying for anything. We're not doing anything. The markets now are higher than they were when we started. Remember that the stock market now is 2500, maybe even more than that, points higher than it was when we said it's pretty amazing. Disagreements about one thing that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Never, ever, ever. The rest of it's irrelevant, frankly.

I never thought of it, but I would. I wouldn't mind. I mean, you know, the Democrats, you know, we call them Democrats because they're dumb people. The Democrats are... Well, what I'd like to do is send it to Congress saying you shouldn't approve it and I'll get it approved. They do whatever they whatever I say, they want to do the opposite. It's not working too well for him, by the way. But yeah, I never thought about sending it. Never even thought about it. But I will send it to Congress. I like the idea. I mean, who wouldn't approve it? Let's let them have a nuclear weapon. The Democrats will say, "Oh, they should have a nuclear weapon. They'll go crazy." I like the idea. Send it to Congress, please. All right.

I haven't heard about it. No, but I watched the attack that I watched were the fighters and he saw it too, by the way. He was sitting back home in his beautiful palace and he was watching that and they were as good a fights as I've ever seen. Right.

The best. That last fight was brutal.