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  • 5/29/2025
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about the intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Transcript
00:00You've always said that the war never would have started if you were president.
00:04Would have never happened, and it didn't happen.
00:06And that he doesn't seem willing to do anything that you want him to do.
00:09Do you still believe that, that he wouldn't have launched the war?
00:11No, no. We would have never had a war.
00:14We would have never had a war if I were president.
00:17If the election weren't rigged, you wouldn't have had the war.
00:20You wouldn't have had the war. You wouldn't have had inflation.
00:22You wouldn't have had October 7th.
00:24That would have never happened because Iran was stone-cold broke.
00:27They didn't have any money to give to Hamas or Hezbollah.
00:30You wouldn't have had that Afghanistan most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
00:35You wouldn't have had any of it.
00:36You wouldn't have had inflation because energy costs.
00:39Look what happened.
00:40I brought inflation down to practically zero.
00:43And all of the groceries and all of the eggs and all of the things that you've been hearing about,
00:48they're back down. They're way down from where they were.
00:51I did something in four months that nobody's seen.
00:54And I have to say, in four months, and I said it before, and everyone's talking about it all over the world,
00:59we've got the hottest country anywhere in the world right now.
01:02We're the only country anybody's even talking about.
01:05All right. Please, go ahead.
01:06What stopped you from...

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