Badlands Media - Badlands Media Special Coverage - President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with Friedrich Merz - 3/3/26

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

President Donald J. Trump hosts German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House for a high-stakes bilateral meeting focused on Iran, trade, NATO obligations, energy policy, and the ongoing war in ...Ukraine. The two leaders open by affirming alignment on confronting the Iranian regime and discuss what comes “the day after” if Tehran’s leadership falls. President Trump outlines the results of recent military action, stating Iran’s navy, air force, radar systems, and missile stockpiles have been severely degraded. He frames the operation as necessary to prevent nuclear escalation and describes broad international support against what he calls an “evil ideology.” Trade and tariffs take center stage, with discussion of a temporary 15% tariff structure, pending investigations, and potential economic consequences for countries deemed uncooperative. NATO burden-sharing is addressed directly, with Spain criticized for failing to meet defense spending targets. On Ukraine, Trump describes deep hostility between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, while expressing hope for a negotiated end despite what he calls “tremendous hatred.” Rising energy prices, European cooperation, and global stability round out a meeting defined by blunt assessments and high geopolitical stakes.

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Starting point is 00:00:10 out of the badlands. Explain those badlands. That's a hell of a name. Well, thank you very much, everybody. We have a meeting with a man who has become a friend of mine, and we've known each other for a little while in some very interesting times. And we get along. Our countries get along very well. We have a great affinity for each other. And the chancellor has been very well received in Germany. He's a very successful man, became the chancellor of Germany, which is a big deal, and he's doing a very good job. My opinion, a really great job, very popular.
Starting point is 00:01:28 And the relationship that we have in trade and everything else has been very strong. We've been able to do our deals, and it's been very strong. We'll obviously be talking a little bit about Iran today, and he's been helping us out. We've been very nice, actually. And that is coming along, as you see very well. They have no Navy. It's been knocked out. They have no Air Force that's been knocked out.
Starting point is 00:01:53 They have no air detection that's been knocked out. Their radar has been knocked out. And just about everything's been knocked out. So we'll see how we do. But we're doing very well. We have a great military, and they're doing a fantastic job. So we'll be talking about that. And we're talking about some very big trade deals.
Starting point is 00:02:16 And those I know will work out too. So I just want to say it's a great honor to have you at the Oval Office, the beautiful Oval Office, beautiful White House, it's a special place. Even from your standpoint, and you have some very special places too. And I look forward to being with you.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President, for having me here in this Oval Office for the third time now. Yeah. I'm really happy to have the opportunity to speak with you in these challenging times. We are on the same page in terms of getting this terrible regime in Tehran away. And we will talk about the day after what will happen then, if they are out.
Starting point is 00:03:03 We have to talk about our trade agreement, which I would like to be in place as soon as possible. And we have to talk about Ukraine. There are too many bad guys in this world, actually. And this is an issue we have to talk about, because we all want to see this war coming to an end as soon as possible. But Ukraine has to preserve its territory and their security interests.
Starting point is 00:03:30 And well, we will talk about that. We will. We will. Thank you for being here. Thank you. For your hospitality. Thank you for letting me spending the night in your guest house.
Starting point is 00:03:42 That's right. Very, very comfortable place. You like it, right? Absolutely. Yeah, great place and a famous place. That's good, very famous. So many former presidents. That's right.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Very famous place. Any questions, please? No. No, I might have forced on. No, I might have forced their hands. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics. And it was my opinion that they were going to They were going to attack.
Starting point is 00:04:14 If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully, and have done it all their lives very successful. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand. But Israel was ready, and we were ready.
Starting point is 00:04:41 and we've had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out now. Their missile count is going way down. Amazingly, they're hitting countries that were, you know, let's call them neutral, right? They lived together for a long time. I think they were surprised.
Starting point is 00:05:02 I was surprised. And now those countries are all fighting against them and fighting strongly against them. Some day they'll write a story, and they'll say why they did that, but they hit countries that had nothing to do with what's going on. They were sort of leaving everything alone. All of a sudden, they had missiles shot in,
Starting point is 00:05:22 which shows you the level of evil that we're dealing with. They'll hit people that were actually at least somewhat friendly, and they had no problems with it. Also hitting only civilian places, hotels and apartment buildings, and we're hitting them where it is, much more appropriate. We're heading up very hard. And the big scale heading goes now. They no longer have air protection. They no longer have any detection facilities at all left. And so they're going to be in for a lot of hurt. These are bad people. These are people that killed. I guess it's 35,000.
Starting point is 00:06:01 It's coming out. 35,000 over the last three weeks. Protesters, 35,000 violently killed. So these are bad people and the leader of the pack is gone. And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit. And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership. And it looks like that was pretty substantial also. So they're getting hit very hard and we'll see what happens. A lot of people are coming forward. A lot of the people you at least suspect want to quit.
Starting point is 00:06:35 They want to have immunity. They're asking for immunity. and probably at some point they'll be dropping, as you would say, laying down their guns. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, we're just continuing to go forward. Our military is the number one in the world by far, and we are – this is – everything's big. In my book, Venezuela was big. This is big.
Starting point is 00:06:58 The original hit Midnight Hammer was big. Everything you view is big. But it's not considered very big by some standards, by some standards. of our standards. We have a military like no other military that's ever been built. Well, I don't know if there's a worst case. We have them very much beaten militarily from the military standpoint. They're still lobbying some missiles. At some point, they won't even be able to do that because we're hitting all of their carriers. We're hitting all of their missile stock. You know, they built up all these missiles over the last few years. They had a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:07:41 They've shot a lot of them. And we're knocking up. out a lot. I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen. We don't want that to happen. That would probably be the worst you go through this and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who is no better. So we'd like to see somebody in there that's going to bring it back for the people. And we'll see what happens with the people. You know, they have their chance and we've said, don't do it yet if you're going to go out and protest don't do it yet it's very dangerous out there a lot of bombs are being dropped but i always say that would be about the worst you have someone in mind
Starting point is 00:08:22 right now well most of the people we had in mind are dead so you know we had some in mind from that group that is uh is dead and now we have another group they may be dead also based on reports so i guess you have a third wave coming in pretty sure we're not going to know anybody. But we have, I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept government totally intact. And we have Delsey, who's been very good. We have the whole chain of command and they've been, you know, the relationship's been great. We've taken out a hundred million barrels of oil already. And a big part of that goes to them and a big part goes to us. And it's been great.
Starting point is 00:09:15 We paid for the war many times over, and we're going to be running the oil. And then as well, it's going to make more money than they ever made, and that's great for the people. The relationship has been great. It's been seamless. Nobody's actually ever seen anything like it. If you look at Iraq where very stupidly,
Starting point is 00:09:34 everybody was fired, the generals were fired, the military was fired, the police were fired, the fire departments were fired, and all of the government workers fired. So after, you know, people would call, they had no idea. And by the way, ISIS was formed. That's where ISIS came from. All of the fired people. We don't believe in that. So we'll see what happens. But first, we have to finish off the military. I guess he is. Some people like them, and we haven't been thinking about too much about that.
Starting point is 00:10:12 It would seem to me that somebody from within might maybe would be more appropriate. I've said that he looks like a very nice person. But it would seem to me that somebody that's there that's currently popular if there's such a person. But we have people like that. We have people that were more moderate. You know, these were radical lunatics. And you know what they get?
Starting point is 00:10:36 They get nothing. All they do is kill people. You've asked, not your turn. Not your turn, please. What does that mean? Well, some of the European nations have been helpful, and some haven't, and I'm very surprised. Germany has been great. He's been terrific.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Others have been very good, terrific. I think that the head of NATO, Mark is fantastic. Mark Ruta, I think he's fantastic. But some of the European, like Spain, has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all. dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European
Starting point is 00:11:38 nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing. And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody, and Spain didn't do it. And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base.
Starting point is 00:11:53 If we want, we could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it. But we don't have to. But they were unfriendly. And so I told him we don't want to do. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people, but they don't have great leadership. And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5%.
Starting point is 00:12:17 I don't think they wouldn't agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2%. And they don't pay the 2%. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain. And I'm not, by the way, I'm not happy with the UK either. That island that you read about, the lease, okay, he made it for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him, and it's taken three, four
Starting point is 00:12:48 days for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with. Well, I think they're doing it. I mean, they're letting us land in certain areas, and that's, we appreciate it. And they're just making it comfortable. We're not asking them to put boots on the ground or anything. We're just, they're a respected country.
Starting point is 00:13:24 I have a very good relationship with the country. We have in particular now with this leader, with this new leader. I think he's an excellent leader. I had my differences with Angola. I said, you're hurting your country with immigration. and you're hurting your country with energy. And we have a man sitting on my right that is, I think, pretty much the opposite of her on energy
Starting point is 00:13:48 and the opposite on immigration. And I think he's doing very well. Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack others.
Starting point is 00:14:25 You're seeing that right now. A lot of those missiles that are hitting in, those are stationary. Those were aimed there for a long period of time at these other countries. So I think I was right about that. We attacked first. And if we didn't, it could have been, you know, look, we're really decimating them. They're being decimated. And if we didn't, if we didn't, and by the way, we have massive amounts of ammunition.
Starting point is 00:14:49 We have the high end. A lot of it was given away stupidly by Biden, very stupidly, for free. And I'm all for Ukraine, but they gave away a lot. As you know, when I give away ammunition, everybody pays for it. The European Union's paying for it. Then they can do what they want with it, but they are giving it, let's say, to Ukraine. And it's okay. But we gave away a lot of high end, but we have plenty.
Starting point is 00:15:14 But we have unlimited middle and upper ammunition, which is really, really what we're using in this war. And we have really an unlimited supply. We also have a lot of the very high end stored in different countries throughout the world. With this, we're literally storing it there, which is actually something that I insisted on in my first term.
Starting point is 00:15:36 I rebuilt the military in my first term. The military is great. A lot of, unbelievable amount of ammunition or munitions, as they say, We were given away to, you know, the Wall Street Journal incorrectly covered the story when they said that it was given away to the Middle East. Not to the Middle East, it was given away to Ukraine. Very little was given to the Middle East. Middle East would buy a lot and some of the nations because they're rich, they have a lot, but it was given away to Ukraine. And it just should have been done. Look, it's a war that should have never happened.
Starting point is 00:16:13 If I were president, that war would have never happened. But we have a tremendous amount. of munitions, ammunition at the upper level, middle and upper level, all of which is really powerful stuff. Mr. President, Mr. President, the question for both in the rising prices for gas and oil gas? Yeah, do you want to go ahead? Yeah, sure, this is, of course, damaging our economies. This is true for the oil crisis, and this is true for the gas prices as well. So that's the reason why we all hope that this war
Starting point is 00:16:53 will come to an end as soon as possible. And so we are hoping that the Israeli and the American Army are doing the right things to bring this to an end and to have really a new government in place who is coming back to peace and freedom. Yeah. Something had to be done. And it's been 47 years. They've been killing people all over the world for a long time. They were the kings and fathers of the roadside bomb. Salomani, we killed him last time. If we didn't, I think might be a different story today. They would have been much stronger and smarter than they are. But they did the roadside bombs.
Starting point is 00:17:31 95% of the people lost their legs, arms, had their face wiped out, just wiped out. I've seen some young people that it's so sad to watch. And that was almost all. 95% comes from Iran and with Salomeini. Salomeini loved his favorite weapon. He loved the roadside bomb. And when you see people walking around with no legs and no arms and a face that's been blown to hell, these people would they have to go and the way they have to live.
Starting point is 00:18:03 This is Iran. When you look at the barracks, the famous barracks, when you look at the hostages, when you look at a lot of hostages, when you look at all of the problems, they were really a purveyor of terror all over the world for many, many years. and it's something that had to be done. And I believe that if we didn't, because I see where Congress, you know, if I didn't do this, guys like Schumer, who are losers, the Democrats, they're losers. That's why they're not here. Guys like Schumer would say, well, you should have done this.
Starting point is 00:18:38 In other words, if I did it, it's no good. If I didn't do it, they would have said the opposite, that you should have done this. But most people feel like, I'll tell you what, I have never had more compliments on something I did. People felt it's something that had to be done. So if we have a little high oil prices for a little while, but as soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop,
Starting point is 00:19:00 I believe lower than even before. Mr. President, Go ahead, please. Yes. Between who? And U.S. and who? EU, European Union. Well, we won on tariffs.
Starting point is 00:19:28 tariffs, actually. Somebody said you actually won the case. We won on tariffs. We had a decision that was wrong. This is a very bad decision from certain standpoints. From other standpoint, it's a very powerful decision because it reaffirmed all the fact that we have all these, all these various forms of tariffs that we felt right, but it totally reaffirmed. It said you can use all of these tariffs. So we have all these vast menus of tariffs. And tariffs have made our country very rich. We have to charge tariffs to nations who play with their money. You know, they move their money up and down like a yo-yo. We have to take care of nations that have been good to us and fair to us, and we're going to take care of them. Other nations,
Starting point is 00:20:20 they haven't, and we haven't let them take advantage of us. But the whole thing with tariffs as we had a decision that, as an example, we have a license situation, and the license is something that allows us to immediately stop all business with, nobody even knew we had this power, but we do now because of the decision. We have the right to stop all business having to do
Starting point is 00:20:45 with a certain country. If a certain country is not treating us well, the president, without going to Congress, has the right to stop, sort of interest, I have the right to stop, but under that one law, I didn't have the right to charge him. So I have the right to license them, but I don't have the right to charge,
Starting point is 00:21:02 which is frankly ridiculous, but the right was given to us by the Supreme Court. And we have the right, as an example, we talked about Spain. I could tomorrow stop, or today, even better, stop everything having to do with Spain, all business having to do with Spain, have the right to stop it, embargoes, do anything I want with it. And we may do that with Spain.
Starting point is 00:21:25 What do you think? We know you can use it. And if you need to use it to assure national and economic security will do it. Scott, you have an opinion? Sir, I agree. The Supreme Court reaffirmed your ability to implement an embargo.
Starting point is 00:21:47 And as we've talked, from your first term, the Section 301 and the 232s of what held more than 4,000 lawsuits. And USTR and Commerce are going to instigate are going to begin investigations and we'll move forward with those. And we've instituted the 15% tariff on everybody, as you know. And just used to, I'll tell you, we had a couple of paragraphs written in that, in that opinion that were really incredible. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a fantastic dissent, but in his dissent he said what we should do.
Starting point is 00:22:29 And we knew that, too. We just wanted to simplify it. And for some reason, I think, you know, very, very foolishly, the courts decided no, but they said you can do it many other ways. And that's what we're doing. And what we've done is we've gone to a very simple straight 15% tariff. It's taken in, we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in our country because of tariffs. So we've taken in all of this money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and honestly, it's made us very rich as a country.
Starting point is 00:23:06 So it's been doing good. When will you have the full plan implemented? We have a five-month period up to five months where we can go at 15 percent. And while we're doing that, as you know, we're doing the various studies and things, and we'll be coming out with tariffs, different tariffs on different countries. Does you want to talk about that? Yes, but by the time of the five-month period has elapsed, we'll have completed investigations under Section 301, Secretary Besson talked about.
Starting point is 00:23:35 We know there are countries out there with deals who are very interested in keeping the deals. We need to go through and investigate all these unfair trading practices, the kinds of things you talked about, and make sure that we're protecting U.S. economic security. We know their countries. How are we going to treat Germany?
Starting point is 00:23:48 Well, the- I think you should hit them very, very hard. You knew he was right there when you said, They have expressed an interest. Germany is quite constructive in wanting to move forward and be helpful. You know, the rest of you, we'll talk to them as well. But obviously we'll- I will say every country, every single country wants to make the deal they already have.
Starting point is 00:24:10 In other words, a deal that we have using the other authority, they want to make the same deal. And we'd like to see, actually, we're going to adjust it somewhat upward, actually, but they would like, they all want to stay. in the deal and so we'll probably be able to do that pretty easily who are you what what country are you from okay i thought so i could see she likes you we'll be talking about china yeah i'm every every time you meet you talk about china we respect china i do i do We both do, I think, but it's always a topic of conversation.
Starting point is 00:25:17 We've had a very good relationship with China. We used to lose a tremendous amount of money with China, and that's no longer the case. We have a very, very good relationship with China, and we have a very good relationship with Germany. All right. Mr. President, we've seen countries around the world, many of whom don't usually work together,
Starting point is 00:25:37 working with the United States on Iran, whether it's Saudi Arabia working with the United States, Israel, Qatari shooting down Iranian aircraft, and we've also seen European countries step up. Why are we seeing such unity around the world against Iran? That's a great point. Look, they're just evil. It's not the politics, it's their whole philosophy. It's the whole where they come from.
Starting point is 00:26:02 It's terrible. Where they kill 35,000, I thought it was 32. Now it turns out much more than 35,000 people. and in some cases using machine guns with people that have no weapon. They have no weapon, and they're being machine gun. They're being snipered from buildings. They're hitting the people with snipers right through the eyes. It's just a very evil ideology.
Starting point is 00:26:27 And nobody's really seen anything like it. As I said, even the fact that they've attacked all of their neighbors. And the neighbors weren't attacking. They thought they'd maybe set it out or whatever. They've hit Qatar, they've hit UAE, they've hit Saudi Arabia, they've hit Oman. They were helping this negotiate. They got hit. Everybody got hit because they're evil and they're bad.
Starting point is 00:26:58 It's a bad seed, and somebody had to do it. And it should have been done sometime during a 47-year period because so much death has been caused by them. So much unbelievable death. From Germany, too. I mean, Germany's been hit. Everybody's been hit by that. It's an evil ideology. And I've never been, look, I've done a lot of good things.
Starting point is 00:27:23 So many people are saying, thank you, thank you, thank you. You see it in the streets of Los Angeles. They have thousands of people. I saw it the other day, pictures of Donald Trump. And I'm looking, I'm on the phone, probably talking to you. And I'm looking, and I see my picture. I say, oh, no, it's another. you know, protest.
Starting point is 00:27:42 I see my... And then I started saying, boy, they were very friendly people. And then I saw a woman hugging the picture of me. I said, what's going on? And it turned out to be these are Iranian people that live in the United States. Thousands and thousands.
Starting point is 00:27:56 You saw the rallies. And in New York, too, they had a big rally by pictures all over the place. The fact is that people are happy what we did. And you could never... And I've always said it. You could never have had true peace. in the Middle East if Iran was allowed to go, even beyond the nuclear.
Starting point is 00:28:15 If Iran was allowed to have all the – look at all the missiles they built. A lot have been now taken out by us, and a lot have been expended, but they have thousands of missiles in a fairly short period of time. And I'll go two things. The attack that we did known as Midnight Hammer, had we not done that, Iran would have had a very powerful nuclear. weapon within one month. We did it. It was great timing, but, you know, and you've been able to see that too. The other thing was Barack Hussein Obama made maybe the worst deal I've ever seen because he gave all power in the Middle East to Iran.
Starting point is 00:28:55 He went the exact opposite way. And I terminated that. If I didn't terminate that deal, they would be sitting with a massive nuclear weapon three years ago, which would have been used already on Israel, at least, and other countries also. And we wouldn't be talking about it right now. But if I didn't terminate, the deal that Obama made, giving them everything, including plane loads of cash. You remember the airplane flew over there? It was a Boeing 757. There was two of them loaded.
Starting point is 00:29:30 They took out all the seats. It was loaded with green cash. So much cash that you could, it was in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. They got all the cash from all the banks. They put it, and they flew it to Iran. I never knew a president had that power. I'm going to maybe try it sometime if it's okay.
Starting point is 00:29:50 I think I'm going to do it. I'll fly it somewhere. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Two planes loaded from floor to ceiling, big planes, Boeing 757s, taken over there and given cash. In addition to that he was giving them billions of dollars, but worse, he was giving them the right to. to have the path to a nuclear weapon.
Starting point is 00:30:12 And that deal expired. A lot of people said, oh, you terminated. Well, it was going to be terminated anyway, because it expired. It gave them the right to have top of the line nuclear weapons. If they had, because they're crazy, they're crazy, just like the people on my right during the State of the Union.
Starting point is 00:30:29 I looked at them, I said, you're crazy? These people are crazy. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it. All right, how about one or two more? Mr. President. Go ahead, please. The answer on that is quite simple. We are trying to convince Spain to catch up with the 3% or 3.5%, which we agreed on in NATO.
Starting point is 00:31:05 And as the President said, it's correct. Spain is the only one who is not willing to accept that. And we are trying to convince them that this is part of our common security, that we all have to comply with this numbers. This is 3.5 for military and another 1.5 for our military infrastructure. So Spain has to comply with them. They've been very Spain has been very, very uncooperative. And so has UK. Now, the second one is shocking. But this is not the age of Churchill. I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have. that they gave away and took a hundred-year lease, having to do with perhaps indigenous people claiming the island,
Starting point is 00:31:58 that never even saw the island before. What's that all about? And they ruin relationships. It's a shame. And that country, UK, and I love that country. I love it. My mother was born there. I love it. My mother was born there.
Starting point is 00:32:18 was born there. My father was born like he knows all about my father. My father was born there. So, you know, there are places that you sort of automatically very, very feel warmly about. But the UK, what they're doing with energy and what they're doing with immigration is horrible. You have the North Sea. Somebody said yesterday, what would you do if you were the UK? Open up the North Sea. They've got windmills all over the place that are ruining the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields. Open up the North Sea. It's one of the greatest.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Think of it. They buy their energy from Norway, which gets the energy, the oil, from the North Sea. So Norway drills in the North Sea and sells it to UK. And UK has a better part of the North Sea. Open up that. And number two, illegal immigration. They got to solve that problem. And I must say that's not only UK, that's other parts of the European Union.
Starting point is 00:33:24 They have the same problem. Immigration and energy. The energy is through the roof, the highest in the world. And the immigration is, I mean, you know, look, you have places where in the UK, you have a terrible mayor of London, terrible. He's an incompetent guy. But you have Sharia courts. You don't have Sharia courts.
Starting point is 00:33:45 You don't want Sharia. You have Sharia courts adjudicating law. So it's very simple. Immigration, very importantly, immigration and energy. And you bring it back. Otherwise, you're not going to bring it back. Okay. One more.
Starting point is 00:33:59 One more, go ahead. Yes, please. To the Chancellor, Senator Mert. Yeah. So we, as I said in Germany, the last two days, we are supporting the United States and Israel get rid of this terrible terrorist regime. And we are looking forward to a day after.
Starting point is 00:34:34 And we have to talk about the strategy, what is following after this regime is away. And we have to strategize on this entire region. And we are having a high interest in common approach and common work and what we can do. And this is important, not just for the Americans, This is extremely important for Europe and extremely important for Israel and their security. So we are really looking forward to find ways how to deal about the day after. And as far as Russia, Ukraine, where is it on my priority list?
Starting point is 00:35:11 Very high. We thought that – I thought it was going to be one of the easier ones. I've settled eight wars, and actually maybe one more than that. But minimum, eight wars, big ones, potential India, Pakistan, big – big – big ones, very important, big ones. I thought this was going to be much easier than it is. It's tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky, tremendous hatred.
Starting point is 00:35:38 I've seen a lot of hatred in my life, but I think this is about top scale. I believe it's going to happen. Sometimes I blame one, sometimes I blame the other. I think it's going to happen. But it's high in my list. Not in that it affects the United States, much because it's very far away. But last week, I just see last week and for the last four weeks,
Starting point is 00:36:02 actually, 32,000 soldiers died. 32,000. And it's been averaging 25 to 30,000 soldiers a month, have been dying in that stupid war. And I'd love to see it end. It's the worst that there has been since World War II. All you can do is do your best, you know, takes two to tango, and they have to get along, they have to be able to talk to each other. They hate each other a lot. That has an impact, you know, it really has an impact. It's bad for both.
Starting point is 00:36:38 The saddest is that if the election weren't rigged, my election, that war would have never taken place. And you know what else wouldn't have taken place? Allowing 25 million people to pour through an open border, that wouldn't have taken place. A lot of things would have been different. But we're doing very well. And I think a big, big factor in this world and future
Starting point is 00:37:00 factors, what we're doing right now with Iran. If we don't stop them or if we didn't stop them or if we didn't start, they've been decimated. But if we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war, and they would have taken out many countries. Because you know what? They're sick people.
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