'This Is A Very Dangerous Profession': Trump Shares Frank Perspective On Threats To His Life

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At a press briefing, President Trump spoke about threats to his life.

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00:00Go ahead.

00:01Yeah, with the glasses.

00:02I'm with Iran.

00:03Go ahead.

00:04Yes.

00:05Yeah, go ahead.

00:06No, no.

00:07The man behind you.

00:08Yeah, please.

00:09President Trump, from MQB, Lebanon.

00:10I want to ask you regarding the threats posed by Iran's allies and proxies operating in

00:15the U.S.

00:16They were threatening your life.

00:17So what do you say about that?

00:18And regarding Lebanon, because Hezbollah is, as well, part of Iran's allies, is there

00:23any time frame in Lebanon regarding disarming Hezbollah in Lebanon?

00:32Yeah.

00:33Lebanon is a great place with brilliant people.

00:35You know, it was known for the professors and doctors and had an incredible history.

00:40And hopefully we can bring it back again.

00:42I just appointed a friend of mine who's Lebanese, and I didn't know he was Lebanese.

00:47I've known him for 20 years.

00:48Very, very successful man.

00:50And I just appointed him.

00:53And I said, why would you want that?

00:55He said, because I was born there.

00:56I was raised there.

00:57I love it.

00:58I love it so much.

00:59I said, you know, it's very dangerous going to Lebanon as ambassador.

01:03And he said, that's what they say, but I don't care about danger.

01:07I mean, this is a guy that is just a very big business guy.

01:10He wants to give up his whole life to go to Lebanon because he believes in it so much.

01:14We're with Lebanon all the way.

01:16We'll try and straighten it out.

01:18I think that's your life as well.

01:19So what action?

01:20Threaten my life?

01:21Yeah, they have threatened.

01:22I get that throbbing feeling every once in a while.

01:25Get that throbbing feeling.

01:26But you know what?

01:27That's okay.

01:28This is a dangerous business.

01:30What I do is a dangerous business.

01:32You know, I tell the story of the car companies and different people in different professions.

01:36You have race car drivers as an example.

01:39One tenth of one percent die.

01:43Bull riders.

01:44One tenth of one percent.

01:46That's not a lot, but it's people die.

01:49When you're president, it's about five percent.

01:51If somebody would have told me that, maybe I wouldn't have run.

01:55Okay?

01:56This is a very dangerous profession.

02:00Yeah, please.

02:01By the way, so many questions.

02:02Should we keep this going, Pam?

02:03Yes.

02:04This is the opposite of Biden.

02:05Biden would take a half a question and he'd leave without answering it.

02:08Go ahead.

02:09On Iran.

02:10On Iran.

02:11On Iran.

02:12On Iran.

02:13You tell me when it gets boring.

02:14Okay.

02:15Okay.

02:16.

02:20You tell me when it gets boring.

02:22Okay.

02:23.

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