Trump Defends Latest Strikes On Iran During Remarks In Press Gaggle

It was a long walk to you. Only Mr. President. It was about three times the walk we used to take, right? I hope you like it. So we had a very good day. Very good two days. And a lot of things were determined. And what was really determined is the country's doing very well. We've made a lot of good trade deals with Turkey. And they've been a very good partner. He's been great, by the way. President Erdogan's been great. And I hope you had a good time. Any questions? Mr. President, what was the security concern that caused us to change planes? What was the security concern that caused us to change planes? We sent this one in so that the Air Force Base here was in the same exact line. So you saw it. Did you see the picture? We did. Hundreds of pictures. Hundreds of people. Let me see that. You can't see it too well, but there are hundreds of people out there. So they came a little bit earlier. We switched planes. Do you think there wasn't a security concern? No, no. Except we sent it a little early. Same line. Going back. We sent it a little bit early so that we could let them see the base. The whole base came out and saw the plane. And then we landed. Do you know why they had us close our window blinds? That was unusual. Well, yeah, because of the sleaze bags that we have to deal with. Do you think that Erdogan was possibly thinking of trying to— They didn't ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would have done it. These are sick people. So I could see something like that. I didn't know they did that, but I could see something like that. Well, I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on their list. Before you. But if I go, you go. So perhaps someday you want to change professions. What do you have, Daniel? We just hit them very hard. And I'd say we hit them 20 to 1. Every time they hit us, we're going to hit them 20. And we did it last night. We did a little something today, but it was really retribution for last night. They hit actually three boats, not two. And when they hit, we hit back much harder. Are we returning to a full-scale military conflict, sir? I don't know. We're winning very quickly. It's another way of doing it. We have many ways we could win. But we've already won militarily. They have very little left, and they want to make a deal so badly. They called a little while ago. They want to make a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're worthy of making a deal. I don't know that they're going to honor the deal. That's the problem. Do you think they attacked commercial vessels? It's sort of crazy, to be honest with you. It's sort of crazy. They're a little bit out of control, but they want to make a deal badly. I have no idea how he's doing. At the beginning, before the NATO sign, you spoke with Reuters. Not the best. You said you had issues with leaders of Spain, UK. Spain, I will say, I did have issues. Also Germany. And I still do. But Spain came back all the way today. Spain was very generous today. I told them I'm going to stop trading. What did Spain do then? They made requests for lots of payments. And if they didn't, we wouldn't even talk to them. They were very bad. They behaved very badly, in my opinion. But there was great unity in that room today. The NATO room was pretty much pretty amazing, actually. There was something very good about it. I actually wish the press was able to stay. Now, they may have been different if the press was there, but there was tremendous unity and togetherness. It was quite nice. Sir, are you going to pull more U.S. troops out of Europe? And if so, how many and where specifically? I haven't made that final determination. A lot is going to depend on Greenland. A lot, I think. I'm going to make a very good deal on Greenland. And if we don't, maybe I will. And a lot is dependent on Iran. They want to help now. Essentially, there's not that much fighting to be done. But some will depend on Iran. When they had a chance, an opportunity to help, they chose not to. But we're sort of forgetting about that. And now they want to help. They all want to go in. They want to help on Iran so badly. But we don't really need help. It's little things, but we don't really need help. Did President al-Shara make any commitments to you on helping with Hezbollah in Lebanon? Yeah, he did. He's done a great job. He's a unified Syrian president. I'm not going to say what he said, but yeah, he was great today. He was great and President Zelensky was great too. We had a lot of good meetings today.