00:00When you look at the job we did, I was just thinking because President Putin said it to me and other leaders said it to me, when they looked at those B-2s go in and think of it, they flew for 37 hours straight. We had 52 tankers, tankers, the gasoline tankers, and they rode along with them at different aspects and they refueled and not a screw was broken, not a net, not a mark was on those planes.
00:27Every engine was perfect. When they landed, they were just as good as when they took off. Think of that, 37 hours and about 40 minutes to a very rough territory and those machines worked incredibly well and literally not a problem and when I honored the flyers, we did it last week, I also honored the mechanics, the people that took care of those machines and I said it's equally important.
00:57And you compare that same country, you compare that with what happened with Jimmy Carter. It was a sad situation. The helicopters were coming down and they were crashing and they were, the men were all over the place trying to get the hell out of there.
01:11It turned out to be a hostage situation and horrible thing. It was one of the things that cost them the election, certainly. But when you think of that and you see this was, in terms of perfection, they think it was a perfect military.
01:28We sent the planes. We sent the planes to Guam. Everybody thought we were flying to Guam. And they said, oh, they're going to Guam. Well, Guam's out of the way.
01:36At the same time, we had some others going a different direction. I watched horrible, horrible CNN. You know, you have to watch sometimes your opposition and they are opposition.
01:49And I saw that they had basically the plans of when we're going in, when we would be entering Iranian oil airspace.
01:56And I said, you know, that's weird. And I called the general Raisin Cane. He's fantastic. I said, general and Pete Hegseth. I said, I'm watching newscasts where they're saying what time you're taking off tomorrow and what time we're going to be entering the very dangerous airspace, the most the worst air space anywhere there is anywhere that in the world.
02:20I said, what do you think? Sir, we'll be fine. We blow them away. We'll be fine. Because, you know, they want those those B2s with seven.
02:28And they were surrounded by a lot of great planes. F-22s, the most beautiful plane ever built. The fighter jet F-35s had a lot of different planes going with them.
02:40I said, but wouldn't a surprise be better? Yeah, it would be better. I said, well, then let me cancel it and let's make it at a different time.
02:47So the day before, you know, I canceled it. I canceled it. I said, I'm canceling it. We'll do it sometime within the next two, maybe three weeks. But I'm canceling it.
02:58And then I had a meeting and I said, I have an idea because I got slightly big coverage, to put it mildly. So everyone knew it was being canceled.
03:07I said, let's leave at the exact same time we were supposed to leave the following day.
03:11And we took off. And that's when the planes went out to Guam and this and that. And we took off.
03:17And that was the only time. And they said it. That was the only time they knew we wouldn't be coming in.
03:22It was the exact same time that I can. I said, let's do something.
03:25And they flew in and they were stealth. Incredible planes. They were stealth.
03:30And they hit every bomb hit their mark. Every single bomb hit the mark. It was unbelievable how they did it.
03:35And then they said skedaddle. Skedaddle means get the hell out of there.
03:39They had to get out of that airspace. But it was it was an amazing thing.
03:44And I think it was so great for our country in so many different ways.
