President Trump Gaggles with Press at Morristown Municipal Airport, June 20, 2025

Learned that Rwanda, you know all about Rwanda and the Congo will be doing a peace settlement probably coming in on Monday or Tuesday. We're going to be signing it up and we've stopped a very vicious corps. So that was an honor for me to be involved. I want to thank JD Vance for great job. But also our Secretary of State Marco Rubio has done a fantastic job. So Rwanda, long term war with the Congo, a very bloody war. They're all bloody, but this was a really bloody one. He's going to be making peace with Congo and they can get on to making trade deals with the United States and other places and have a much more normal form of life. We're very honored by that. As you know, we did a very great job with India and Pakistan. And we had India, it looks like we're going to be making a trade deal with India and we had Pakistan. Then it looks like we're going to be making a trade deal with Pakistan. And it's a beautiful thing to watch. Serbia, Kosovo, likewise. They've been fighting for years. And as you know, we brought that one to a conclusion and now we have a couple of big ones. We have Russia, Ukraine, which is making a little bit of progress and we have Israel and nobody really knows what that one is all about. We're going to find out pretty soon.

I guess the listen, if the Iranian.

Foreign minister this afternoon said if the US Is serious about negotiations that you would call up Israel and request that they stop their airstrikes, will you make that request?

Well, I think it's very hard to make that request right now. If somebody is winning, it's a little bit harder to do than if somebody is losing. But we're ready, willing and able and we can speak into Iran and we'll see what happens. Behind two weeks timetables, just time to see what or not people come to their sense. Did the Europeans help at all in talking with Iran? They didn't help. Iran doesn't want to speak to Europe, they want to speak to us. Europe is not going to be able to help in this.

20 years ago you were skeptical of a Republican administration that attacked the Middle east country on the idea of questionable intelligence of weapons of mass destruction. How is this moment different with Iran?

Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction. I never thought there were. And that was somewhat free nuclear. You know, it was, there was a nuclear age, but nothing like it is today. And it looked like I'm right about the material that they've gathered already. It's a tremendous amount of material And I think within a matter of weeks or certainly within a matter of months, they're going to be able to have a nuclear weapon. We can't let that happen. I was very much opposed to Iraq.

I was.

I said it loud and clear. But I was a civilian. But I guess I got a lot of publicity, but I was very much opposed to the Iraq war. And I actually did say, don't go in, don't go in, don't go in. But they said, if you're going to go in, keep the oil. But they didn't do that.

What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.

Well, then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?

The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

She's wrong, Mr. President, in any way.

Helping Iran. Moment. Hearing reports of mysterious planes landing in Iraq and China.

They say that they're there to take people out, but I can't nudge you about that. I get along very well with China, get along very well with President Xi. I like him, he likes me. We have a very good relationship. We'll see what happens. I can't imagine them getting involved.

That you need to make on Iran, whether to strike militarily, is this the biggest decision you will have to make as president?

Well, I can't tell you that. I have to see what happens. I can't really say that. It depends what the decision is, but I wouldn't really be able to tell you that now. I'll tell you in about a year from now, maybe five years or ten years from now. You never know about decisions. You never really know.

Former president support a ceasefire while the negotiations happen.

I might, depending on the circumstance, with former Congressman Magnus. Very hard to stop. I will say this. It's very hard to stop. When you look at it, Israel is doing well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less. Well, it's a little bit hard to get somebody to stop.

Liam Bazdrum is here.

Former.

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz threw out an interesting idea suggesting that if you were to broker a deal where nuclear inspectors go into both Israel and Iran, that you could win a Nobel Peace Prize and they might even rename it the Trump Peace Prize. If you hear those. What do you think of that?

Well, they should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda. And if you look to Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them. You could say, I Mean, the big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. I should get it for the. I would think the Abraham Accords would be a good one too. But what do you. They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals. Sending inspectors to have nuclear.

Or would you support Iran being able to have civilian nuclear energy capabilities up to 3.76%?

You know, they're sitting on the top of one of the largest piles of oil in the world. I just don't know why they need that for civilian work. You know, it's one thing for certain countries to say, hey, I want to have a certain amount where I can go nuclear a little bit because we need it for electricity, we need it for air conditioners, et cetera. But when you're sitting on one of the largest oil piles anywhere in the world, it's a little bit hard to see why you need that. Yeah, We're always concerned about that. And we have to take them out and be very strong. You're even in danger talking to me right now. Do you know that? You are in danger talking to me right now. So I should probably get out of here, but you guys are actually in danger.

Can you believe it? One more step on Russia. Is your expectation that NATO countries spend 500.

Well, I think they should do that. I don't think we should, but I think they should. We've been spending, we've been supporting NATO so long, in many cases I believe paying almost 100% the cost. So I don't think we should, but I think that the NATO countries should.

Absolutely.

NATO's going to have to deal with Spain. Spain's been a very low payer. They were always a very low payer. They were either good negotiators or they weren't doing the right thing. I mean, I think Spain has to pay what everybody else has to pay. Spain has been notorious for low pay. You know who else was the low payers and just about the lowest, a place called Canada because Canada said, why should we pay when the United States will protect us free?

And they've been right about that.

Russia, Ukraine, you've been making progress towards a peace deal. But I don't know if you know this, but Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo were there on the ground in Ukraine seemingly doing the opposite, trying to provoke the Ukrainians to keep fighting. What do you think of that?

Well, we're going to see people have to be very careful with what they say. They got to be very Careful with their mouth, because their mouth can get them into a lot of trouble.

ICE has said that they're trying to arrest up to 3,000 individuals a day. There are some communities that are saying they are fearful of being wrongfully detained or separating some families, even if they are undocumented. Is the fear in some of these communities were the deportations of these undocumented individuals a mass deportation?

Always a tough subject? Because, look, we have farmers. I love farmers. I won 80%, 85% of the farmers, and I love them. And I'm never going to do anything to hurt our farmers. And you could also say the leisure business, et cetera. There are some businesses where you have a disproportionate amount of people that are the people that you're talking about. At the same time, we have to get the criminals out of our country. And we're looking at doing something where, in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility because we can't put the farms out of business. And at the same time, we don't want to hurt people that aren't criminals. Most of the people that came in over the last three years under Biden, I would say probably three and a half to four years.

Those people.

You have a lot of criminals, you have a lot of. I mean, we're looking at that very closely. You've had people that have worked on Farms for 20 years. It's very hard to go in there and say, you know, you're coming out. But we're going to let the farmers take responsibility. They're great people, they'll do it. They know the good of the bad. So the hard part about this is not like a normal war where people wear uniforms. They don't wear uniforms. But we have murderers that came out of the last four years. We have murderers, we have drug lords. We have people that we don't want to. We have prisoners. They emptied out Venezuela and many countries. They emptied out their prisons into the United States. We have to get those people out. But we have stone cold murders. 11,000, 888 murders. We've already gotten a lot of them out of here, but we don't want them. So we have to be careful. But I never want to hurt our farmers. Our farmers are great people. They keep us happy and healthy and fat.

Are there other cities that you're going to try to replicate what you've done in Los Angeles?

Well, I mean, we had a big victory last night at the court Court of Appeals with respect to Los Angeles was really the country where Gavin Newskup was really an incompetent governor. He's a distant, doing the terror, terrible job. Between his fires, between all the houses burning down and forest fires and now Los Angeles. If we didn't go to Los Angeles and the sheriff admitted it, he had no control, he would have lost control. We saved Los Angeles by having the military go in. And the second night was much better. The third night was nothing much and the fourth night nobody bothered even coming. We put out that fire and we did a great job of it. He sued us for going in and for helping him. We went and helped. Right now you'd have Los Angeles burning to the ground. Largely. It would have already been destroyed.

Still walk your legacy, Mr. President, to.

Be that of a peacemaker. You worried that strike Iran would change that.

Always a peacemaker. That doesn't mean sometimes you need some toughness to make peace. But always a peacemaker is that Iran without ground forces?

Is an aerial campaign in Iran enough.

Or do you need ground forces? Well, I'm not going to talk about ground force. The last thing you want to do is ground force.

Does Iran have two weeks or could you strike before that? Are you essentially giving them a two week timeline?

I'm giving them a period of time. We're going to see what that period of time is, but I'm giving them a period of time and I would say two weeks would be the maximum.

Do you think different reasons to focus on criminals or involve people over here.

In this and start focusing on criminals? And that's what we've been focused on, very bad criminals.

But Stephen Miller said to go out and every person who's here illegally, he's told ICE to arrest everyone who's here illegally.

Stephen and I have a very good understanding. He's a terrific person. We have a great understanding.

President, if there are, if there is an attack on US assets, will you promise to conduct a full investigation and make it transparent with the American people before blaming Iran for such an attack?

Well, if there's an attack, we'll know almost immediately with modern equipment who made the attack. And those people will be very, very unhappy. And I want to get you people out of danger. You're in danger. Standing with me one more.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that they had the capacity to take out all of Iran's nuclear facilities.

So what role would the US Be.

Able to play and why would they, if Israel says that they have all of the ability.

Well, I'm not sure he said that. But they really have a very limited capacity. They can break through a little section, but they can't go down very deep. They don't have that capacity. And we'll have to see what happens. Maybe it won't be necessary. Maybe it won't be there.

Would you like to see Congress pass a bill that bend child surgery?

Well, I know they're talking about it it aren't they? We're going to have to see how it comes to me. In what form? Certainly it's been something I've been talking about also. Okay.

Be careful.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.