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And I'm here in Ankara, Turkey, where President Trump just wrapped up the NATO summit. And there was a lot of news from this year's summit, whether it was on NATO defense spending, our relationships with our NATO allies, Greenland, certainly Iran. While we were sleeping here overnight, the US launched fresh strikes on Iran. And when reporters here asked President Trump at the summit, is that memorandum of understanding no longer valid? And he said, "For me, the ceasefire is over." He said, "My negotiators can continue to talk if they want, but he sees those negotiations as a waste of time." He had very harsh words for Iranian leaders.
They're vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. Now, we saw oil prices rise a little bit, and he has repeated over and over that he actually doesn't care too much about those affordability issues. He says for Americans, the prospect of Iran no longer having a nuclear weapon is worth the small price that Americans have to pay for those higher gas prices. Now, certainly, it's unclear whether the American people will agree with that, and we'll see that verdict in this year's uh midterm election. President Trump's rocky relationship with NATO has been no secret. He actually had been
tweeting several days before the summit that he had been very angry at allies. You saw Secretary General Mark Rutte really tried over and over to soothe Trump, saying, "The allies were here for you, not just on defense spending, but on Iran as well, if you look at the big picture." And he said, "All the advancements that the NATO alliance has made on defense spending would not have happened except for President Trump." And we really saw a change of tone, a change in attitude, if you will, from the president at his press conference that just wrapped up moments ago. He said that there was a lot of love in the room when NATO leaders met, and that there was a lot of unity, as well. Those
are not words that we would have expected to hear from the president at the start of the summit, but he left Ankara, Turkey, on a good note as it relates to the NATO alliance.
