Transcript of a press gaggle by President Trump on Air Force One in Qatar (Oct. 25, 2025). Trump discusses a claimed new, enduring peace in the Middle East with 59 countries signed on, security arrangements involving Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, ceasefire/stabilization expectations for Gaza, relations with Russia and China (including oil purchases and fentanyl), and brief personal remarks about various foreign leaders.
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Oct. 25, 2025 — on Air Force One in Qatar.
59 countries.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar.
3,000 years.
They were refueling when the leader came onto the plane and said hello.
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I only come back to tell you that you were so well behaved. You were so respectful and well behaved. I appreciate it. Okay. He's a great guy, actually. He's a great leader. They helped us a lot. And it was really nice that he came. We were just refueling and he came and said hello. He was very, very nice. Great, great man, actually. Great gentleman, too.
How did it go?
Great. I mean, we talked about peace. We have peace in the Middle East. That's all. We have great peace in the Middle East. He thinks it's enduring. He's never seen anything like it. And he's very happy that I got involved and he helped and we had a lot of help. We have 59 countries. We have a lot of countries that are signed on. It's just, this should be an enduring peace. What makes it different that everybody agrees. A year ago, it would have been very tough. I think the big thing was when we took out the nuclear power of when we took out that nuclear capability, which would have happened over the next month to two months. That made a whole big difference in the Middle East. It made it possible to do the deal.
Did you talk with them about how the new security arrangement between the US And Qatar were war?
I talked to them about it. We actually covered a lot of territory. It's working very well. It's all smooth. The US doesn't have to get much involved. They're able to take care of the very substantial nations. And, you know, we have Saudi Arabia, uae, Qatar, you have the three, and then you have many behind them. And even with them.
When will the.
I mean, if you look, Turkey's involved, Indonesia is involved, Jordan, Egypt. I mean, it's an amazing group of. And many more, many others aside that are a little further away or not as close to the situation. Everybody's. Everybody's on board. It's pretty amazing when there's confidence that the ceasefire in Gaza would hold. Hold? Yeah. Oh, it's going to hold. Well, if it doesn't hold, I mean, if it does hold, that would be Hama. Hamas will be not hard to take care of very quickly. But I hope it holds for Hamas, too, because, you know, they. They gave us their word on something and they said they took out gang members. Well, I hope that's right. But they gave us their word on something, so I think it's going to. And if it doesn't, then they'll have a very, very big problem.
When will the stabilization force be in place or when you need.
Pretty quickly. So far, it's just. Yeah, Period of time. You know, I don't want to give you doing it right now. They're actually picking leaders right now. You're going to have peace in the Middle East. This is real peace. It's never happened before. 3,000 years, it's never happened. Great respect. When he came to the airport, came onto the plane, that's never happened either. And he's a highly respected man. Okay. Any other questions?
Send peacekeeping troops into Gaza.
Yeah, they'll do it at the time they need them. And by the way, Israel will go in there very easily. You know that, right? So right there you have a country, but you have the Arab countries. Are everybody Muslim, Arab, Israeli? Everybody's on board. It's been really an amazing thing. It's a, it's a great success and it's a, it's going to be a long lasting, hopefully everlasting, but long lasting. What will Russia have to do for you to reschedule your meeting with Putin? You have to know that we're going to make a deal. I'm not going to be wasting my time. I've always had a great relationship with Vladimir Putin, but this has been very disappointing. I thought this would have gone long before peace in the Middle East. I mean, we have Azerbaijan and Armenia. That was very tough. In fact, Putin told me on the phone, he said, boy, that was amazing because everybody tried to get that done and they couldn't. I got it done. You had other. Was that if you look at India and Pakistan, I could say almost any one of the deals that I've already done, I thought would have been more difficult than Russia and Ukraine, but it didn't work out that way. There's a lot of hatred between the two to. Between Zelinsky and Putin is tremendous hatred.
Will you discuss purchases of Russian oil with Xi Jinping? Are you worried about the Chinese buying?
I may be discussing it, but you know, China's. I don't know. You probably saw today, China is cutting back very substantially on the purchase of Russia oil and India is cutting back completely and we've done sanctions. Thank you very much, everybody. By the way, very, very respectful. I appreciate it. That was what you hope to walk away from with the meeting with President Xi Y. What are you hoping to welcome? A complete deal. I want our farmers to be taken care of and he wants things also. We're going to be talking about fentanyl, of course. You know, fentanyl is killing a lot of people. A lot of people comes from China and we'll be talking about that. We'll be talking about a lot of things. I think we have. I think we have a really good chance of making a very comprehensive deal.
Have you seen this NBA gambling investigation? What do you think about it?
What do I think? I think it's very bad. I think it's terrible. Thank you. With the Japanese prime minister. Very good. She was great. Beautiful. We're going to be seeing her very soon. She's very friendly. She was very friendly with Abi, as you know, Prime Minister Abi. What did you guys talk about? Just look forward to seeing you. I'm going to see her a couple of days. But she was a very, very close ally and friend of Prime Minister Abi. And, you know, he was one of my favorites. He was a great man. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
