President Trump (00:00):
Hello, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hello. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:00):
Maybe a handshake.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yeah. Merci beaucoup.
President Trump (03:11):
So I want to congratulate the president. Last night Ciryl Gane won the fight against a great fighter, supposed to be unbeatable. Ciryl is from France. Did you watch the fight?
President Macron (03:26):
Yeah. Not direct, but I saw it this morning.
President Trump (03:26):
It was a great fight. It was a great evening at the White House.
President Macron (04:37):
[inaudible 00:03:35]. [foreign language 00:03:40]. I want to say a few words in French. [foreign language 00:04:38].
(04:37)
I wanted to commend President Trump for celebration yesterday and to welcome President Trump and the ministers and his team for being here in Evian for the G7. I think yesterday was signed a very important agreement, a peace deal with Iran. It's a very important one because first it will fix the nuclear issue and it's a very important matter for peace for the whole world and it will reopen Hormuz. It could provide peace in Lebanon. So we are ready to take our fair share of the burden and be part of the commitment of the international community in order to support this deal. We will discuss about that together and with colleagues later on.
(05:25)
It's a very important step towards peace but as well for global economy. We will have the occasion to discuss about the war in Ukraine in order to reengage together and negotiate good and solid peace and sustainable peace. President Zelenskyy will be with us tomorrow. Obviously we will have the occasion to bring this G7 to speak about the series of issues from earth critical minerals, trade, et cetera, where we have to build convergence amongst the G7 members.
(05:53)
It will be the occasion for us to celebrate the 250 years of independence for the US. Versailles is a good place because this is where the King and his minister of foreign affairs at the time did support the US during years but as well-prepared what we called the Paris Treaty in 1783 which was the final point of this war. So it's a great honor and a great pleasure to have you Mr. President in Evian and Versailles.
President Trump (06:29):
Thank you. Thank you. So Emmanuel has been a special friend of mine. We've had a fantastic relationship. We've worked on many deals together. I'm very happy to say very ... Signed, the deals all signed and the strait has already partially opened. As you know, they're doing a little hunting for a couple of mines that they've already found. It's essentially ships are starting to go out now. On Friday it'll be completely open.
(07:05)
We got along very well with Iran. It's a different set of leaders. As you know, the first set is gone. The second set is gone. We found the third set to be very smart, strong, very smart, but we ended up making a deal. I felt badly that we had to go back on the attack for two nights and I thought a third, but we made it before that happened.
(07:29)
I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now and very importantly the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today, like record kind of numbers. The oil has taken its biggest plunge and we're into the low numbers. Not quite back yet, Kevin, to the extent, but we're getting close to the numbers we were before it all started.
(07:58)
The main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. They fully agree to that with strong policing powers and they won't have a nuclear weapon, which is what it was all about because they probably would have used it if they had it. So we had two big moments when they terminated the JCPOA, that was the Obama deal, the Barack Hussein Obama deal. When I terminated that it was very important because it was a road to a nuclear weapon.
(08:27)
It was a horrible deal for the United States. It was a deal where billions of dollars was given to Iran. It was a deal where 1.7 billion in cash was put on a Boeing seven, well not a 77, 57 I guess, right? It was put on a big, beautiful Boeing 757. They needed a Boeing 747 to be honest with you, because it was a lot of cash.
(08:53)
1.7 billion was taken out of the banks and given to Iran and on top of that tens of billions of dollars was paid. So they tried to bribe them to make a deal and that didn't work. It never works. We've done a great job and hopefully it's going to be a good relationship and we're going to get along. If we don't, we go back to where we started, but I don't think that's going to be necessary.
(09:20)
The Iran deal that we made is going to bring a lot of success to the world because the oil was really clogged up there for a while. He would call me on occasion, say, "Come on, please, let's cut the oil prices." The oil is coming way down. So I'm very honored by it. I want to thank you for your help. You've always been a help and it's an honor to be with you.
(09:45)
We had a very good conversation yesterday with President Zelenskyy and President Putin. I see maybe we can do something there. I really do. I think they're both open to it. So now that this is finished, we're going to be focusing on that, see if we can get that one done. 25,000 people a month are dying, mostly soldiers and that shouldn't happen, but had two very good conversations yesterday. We'll be talking about it.
(10:17)
We had a really exciting, I think maybe one of the most incredible evenings in the history of the White House. We had an evening last night with the fighters and I was very happy. I called last night, very late last night to congratulate you because in the heavyweight division, a French fighter won. I don't know, is that maybe more important than the World Cup? To some people it might be. To some people it might be.
(10:42)
You have a good team of the world, very good team, but you have good fighters too. You're a great country and it's an honor to be with you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Hey sir, are you going to try to attend the signing ceremony on Friday?
President Trump (10:58):
Well, it depends. JD's coming in for it. He was originally going to do it. I'll probably be gone by then. We're having dinner in a day and a half, right? We're going to be staying quite late. I may be involved, I may not, but JD was coming in for that specifically.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Mr. President, when will the text of the MOU be released?
President Trump (11:21):
I think pretty soon. I would say I want it to be released because it's a very powerful document. It's not like the Obama document, which was a terrible document. This is a very powerful document and I want it to be released. So probably pretty soon. I would say sometime after Friday because the strait opens ... It's open now, but it opens completely. We have all the mines knocked out for the most part. We have a lot of lanes right now already.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Mr. President?
President Trump (11:53):
So I think sometime in the very near future.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Mr. President, does the deal involve any sanctions relief for Iran? When would that go into effect?
President Trump (12:04):
No, it doesn't. Well, they have to ... It's really a behavioral thing. If they do what they're supposed to do, that starts taking effect.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Mr. President, [foreign language 00:12:17]. Mr. President, what do you expect from France and [inaudible 00:12:25]?
President Trump (12:25):
Well, I would help them to do that. I don't think we're going to need much help because we have an agreement where it's going to be open and it's toll-free. We had a little argument on that. It's toll-free. So I don't think we're going to need much help, but I don't think it's a bad idea to have a ship or two up here from a few countries. You'd be a great country to do it because you never know what happens. I think it's going to be open.
(12:48)
I think it's going to be free sailing. We do want to see if we can straighten out the Lebanon thing because it just seems to just never end. That's a mini version of what we were doing and it should not be tough. It should not be tough. So Hezbollah, we have to have a little talk with them.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
When will you actually [inaudible 00:13:13]?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
[foreign language 00:13:16].
President Macron (13:09):
[foreign language 00:13:22].
Speaker 8 (13:09):
[foreign language 00:14:26]?
President Macron (13:09):
[foreign language 00:14:30].
Speaker 9 (13:09):
[inaudible 00:14:39].
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Merci beaucoup. Merci. Thank you. Merci.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Go ahead. Thank you very much.