Trump Issues Extremely Blunt Message To Iran And Explains What 'Unconditional Surrender' Means

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Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, President Trump discussed Iran.

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00:00It's about anybody. They even suggested they come to the White House. It's a big difference.

00:13But they've suggested that they come to the White House. That's, you know, courageous,

00:19but, you know, it's like not easy for them to do. But they suggest, because I can't go now

00:24because of what's going on. I had to come back early from the G7, which was terrific,

00:28by the way, in Canada. Really terrific. Good people.

00:30Is there a possibility of next week or sooner that you're...

00:34Well, I don't know how much longer it's going to go on. They're totally defenseless.

00:38They have no air defense whatsoever. We've totally captured...

00:43You know, we've totally captured the air, Brian.

00:45Mr. President, you've been fairly compassionate towards the Iranian people.

00:49I have. It's human. They're human beings. I know a lot of people from Iran, from New York,

00:53from Washington, mostly from New York. They're incredible people. They're smart.

00:57They're energetic. They can be difficult, but so can you.

01:02You know, no, they're great people. They're smart people.

01:05And those people are getting the hell beat out of them now.

01:09And it's really a shame. It's so stupid. It's so stupid.

01:12It's another one. You know, Russia, Ukraine is so stupid.

01:15Would have never happened if I was president. You guys agree with that, right?

01:19Would have never happened if I was president.

01:22Putin would have never done it.

01:23And I spoke to him yesterday, and I said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate.

01:28I said, do me a favor. Mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, okay?

01:32I said, Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later.

01:37But I think that's going to work out, too.

01:40But it's so many people have been killed.

01:43The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in the Ukraine, Russia.

01:49Many, many more people.

01:51Mr. President, what does...

01:52A building falls down. They say nobody was hurt.

01:54What does unconditional surrender mean?

01:57Well, you know what it means, unconditional surrender.

01:58Can you explain it for those who don't?

02:00It's a very simple word. It's a very simple. Unconditional surrender.

02:02That means I've had it, okay? I've had it. I give up. I'm no more.

02:07Then we go blow up all the military, you know, all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there.

02:12Now, they had bad intentions. You know, for 40 years they've been saying death to America, death to Israel,

02:19death to anybody else that they didn't like.

02:21They were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies.

02:25And now they're not bullies anymore, but we'll see what happens.

02:29Look, nothing's finished until it's finished.

02:31You know, war is very complex. A lot of bad things can happen.

02:35A lot of turns are made. So, I don't know.

02:36I wouldn't say that we won anything yet.

02:40I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress.

02:43And we'll see. The next week is going to be very big.

02:46Maybe less than a week. Maybe less.

02:48But is there anybody here that said it would be okay to have a hostile, very, you know, zealots, really,

02:56but to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles, but much more than that?

03:04Could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust.

03:08You know, that dust blows to other nations and they get decimated.

03:11This is just not a threat you can have.

03:13And we've been threatened by Iran for many years.

03:16You know, if you go back and look at my history, if you go back 15 years,

03:20I was saying we cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon.

03:23I've been saying it for a long time.

03:25I mean it more now than I ever meant it.

03:28Yeah.

03:28Mr. President, a question on T-14.

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