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Well, thank you very much. I'm with the highly respected president of Syria and we are working together. We were right from the beginning responsible along with actually President Erdogan uh also felt very strongly. And he's done a really fantastic job as president. He's unified the country in a very short period of time. I'd say like a year and a half. About a year and a half. And right from the beginning it was a real mess. It was a very uh disjointed place and he's brought it together. He's a strong person. He's a great leader. He's respected by everybody including me. And we're proud to have him together.
We're just here to talk a little bit. We released sanctions from the country which really I think was a big boost. Sanctions was a very important thing. And we're proud of the job he's doing. Syria has uh become a very stable. I mean, it's amazing in a short period of time. It's really been stabilized and we're proud of that and to be part of the Middle East. Syria had one of the great cultures. The professors and lawyers and doctors that had one of the great cultures of any country, not just the Middle East. And then it went through this terrible period of time. But uh it's a country that a lot of people are
very proud of and they're proud of the job he's done. Thank you very much. Let's Let's have a press Would you like to say something? And we have made a great achievement in the toppling of the former regime. And as President Trump said in a year and a half where we made an achievement in bringing the country together, unifying the country, and put it back on track. Of course, this is due to our strong people, the strong Syrian people that President Trump talked about. Then the historic decision that President Trump has taken by lifting the sanctions of Syria. As well as the help of friendly countries and the loving countries in the region, Turkey and other countries in our neighborhood.
The entire Syrian people thanks President Trump. Thank you. Thank you very Proud of you. Do you have any questions Mr. President, are you going to remove Syria from the state sponsor of terrorism list? I think I will, yeah. I think I will. But when he's done a great job. Uh Maybe he would have brought that up. A little while ago. He brought it up. It's a good question, yeah. Any problems with that? I think we should. Yeah, I will. Do you still want Syria to help with Hezbollah in Lebanon?
They could help, we'll find out. I think we're making a lot of progress. They could help. They would do a very good job. Well, he hasn't been involved with Syria. You know, if you think he hasn't been involved with Israel at all. And he's left it alone. I wouldn't say he's a friend because he's not a friend of as you know of Netanyahu, of Bibi. They don't get along, I think. But, you know, I for me he's been great.
Look, Turkey's been fantastic and a fantastic ally. They're also a NATO country. And Israel, we've done No president's done as much for Israel as I have. Nobody even close. If you look at I mean, just look at all the things with Jerusalem, all the different things that we've done. The Golan Heights. I did things nobody has ever done anything for Israel like we and we've made tremendous progress and we're going to we've made a lot of progress with Iran, too.
Wiped out their military, but they should have been done 47 years ago. Mr. President, do you think that Prime Minister Netanyahu should be reelected as the election is on the horizon? I can tell you this, he's been a great wartime president. We worked out Prime Minister he So, we work with each other very closely. And we went through a very big thing. We did a big thing together and in my opinion, he's been a great wartime Prime Minister. I don't know anything about his politics. I'm not sure. I would think he should be popular cuz he did a very good job. We had a we had and have a very good relationship. But he was a great wartime Prime Minister.
If you had other Prime Ministers, you know what? There wouldn't be an Israel right now. You know that? There wouldn't be. It would have been blown to pieces by Iran. If you had a different If you had a weak Prime Minister, you wouldn't have And if you had a different president, I guarantee you there wouldn't be an Israel It wouldn't Israel wouldn't exist today if you didn't have me as president. Thank you. Mr. President, data from the Energy Information Administration revealed that US crude oil production set a new record in the month of April under your leadership. That's right.
Why is it important to keep hitting numbers like this at this moment in time? Why is it important that you were able to get this done and keep it on this trajectory here? Well, we you know, when we decided to do this, it's called the denuclearization of Iran. We have to do it. We have to have it. They not They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. And they admit they're never going to have it, but they behave badly. Always behave badly. There's something wrong with them. But when we did this, we thought oil would go much higher. And it didn't go very high. Now it's coming way down and you're going to see oil drop very low. And maybe we'll do some other
things that could lift it a little bit, but I don't think it's going to lift it a lot at all. I think oil is coming down. There's tremendous amounts of oil. Scott, what would you say about that? Yes. So, record production under President Trump in his first term. Now in his second term, the US is an energy superpower. It's why we weathered the conflict better than anyone else. And there just this weekend, Bloomberg wrote that there is an oil glut out there. And we think that safe, secure American oil maybe even should trade at a premium to the rest of the world. So, we have If you add it up, you take Saudi Arabia and take Russia, two big oil producers.
We do more than twice as much. We do more than So, think of it. Saudi Arabia, Russia put together, we do more oil. And that's not including Venezuela. It's pretty amazing. And this all happened during my term. We started it in first term. Biden blew it cuz he had no idea what he was doing. But we are making we are producing more oil right now than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. By almost double. Okay, any other questions? Yes. Yes, ma'am. You said that dealing with the Iranians is a waste of time. How do you plan to get the nuclear material and the nuclear assurances that you want?
Well, we've already got the nuclear material because it's so far underground, nobody's going to be able to get it except us because we have the equipment that can get it. But the I go with the nuclear just the nuclear material is so far down underneath the mountain and now it's that's been determined that it would take massive machinery that we have that no other country has. They can't get it. So you have no plans to go in with some ground? Why would I go in now? I'd go in when they're completely either eliminated or whatever or an agreement's made.
Mr. President, Yes. if you put up tariffs on Spain, does that mean that you're going to have to renegotiate a trade agreement with the EU? With who? With the EU. Um We're going to see what happens with the EU. You know, they've treated us very badly for years and they took advantage of us. Look, we're very close to those countries, right? And to everybody in the EU, the problem is they took advantage of the United States for years. It's like him. They took advantage of Syria. He's bringing it back. And I'm bringing the United States back.
We have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have the biggest investment. 19.2 trillion's being invested right now in the United States. Damn Three trillion was the number, the record. Under Biden and under the past administration, they had less than a trillion for four years. We have 19.2 trillion in 12 months. Think of that. We have the largest amount of money being invested in the country in history. Pretty amazing. 19.2 trillion with a T. So, uh and they're building factories all over the country. I think yesterday Toy- Toyota announced they're leaving Mexico.
And they're coming. I'm not that Mexico's thrilled about it, but they're leaving Mexico and they're coming to the United States to build what will be, I believe, the largest automobile plant either in the world or at least in this country. Mr. President, Daniel. Always the a question. You announced on Truth Social a couple of days ago that Walmart is cutting prices by 15%. How big of a deal is that for American customers? So, Walmart has agreed to cut their prices very substantially because things are going down. We're getting it down. We inherited very high prices. We inherited the highest prices in the history of our country. Or 48 years to be exact, but I don't believe that. I think it's an industry.
So, under Biden, they had tremendous inflation. Under the Democrats, we had tremendous inflation. Record-setting inflation. And now, inflation is way down. Everything is great. We have the prices are coming down, but we inherited, you know, they talk about different They use different words to describe it. They had very high prices. The prices are coming down. And when the oil comes, you know, the oil is coming way down. The oil dropped by 50% in the last month. And when that comes down, it brings everything else down. Nope. It's affordability. And they came up with the
word affordability, you know, like I take over. I'm there for 1 day, and they say affordability. I said I've been here for Remember with the eggs, the first day or 2 days later, I have the first news and they talked about eggs. They said the eggs have gone up five times. I've been in office for 1 day. And they said, "Well, we'll have to do something." In fact, they told me not to order eggs for the Easter egg hunt at the White House. I should use plastic. I said, "We're not doing that." And by the time we came, it was a couple of months later, that happened, and we ordered thousands of eggs. And right now, eggs are way down.
The prices are way down, and they're coming down further. So, they made up a phony word that they used. They said affordability. They're the ones that caused the affordability prices. I didn't. But I brought it down. And the oil is coming down very big. Mr. President, right through if I might be slightly staying on the topic. bit, yeah, because we had a And we hit them, it goes up a little bit, $2. Is that what you mean? Is that what you meant when you said that it might see oil prices up a little in response to bit, yeah, $2, very little.
It's down from, let's say, $135 down to $69. It's dropping, and everything else drops. When as oil goes, so goes everything else. But anytime we hit it, we hit Iran, oil goes up a little bit. It's all right. And you know what we're doing? We're de-nuking it. We're de-nuking Iran. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. All right, one more question. Sir, do you think Israel should withdraw troops from southern Lebanon? Well, I talked to Bibi about that. Yeah, I think they're going to. I think they want to. I don't know if it's a question of me, I think it's a question they want to.
And they're getting along with Lebanon, they're signing deals with Lebanon. First time ever. Marco talked about that, if you'd like. Yeah, we have an agreement that and it calls that's the goal at the end. Obviously, Israel's concerned about their security. But the president did a great job bringing those two countries together for the first time. It's a big thing. First time in many years, right? So, we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon. And yeah, they'll leave. And I think it's going to work out very well. But we're here for this because Syria has turned around as fast as I've ever seen. Well,
actually, I turned the United States around very fast. I inherited from a man who was not smart. Not a smart person. We inherited from the men where uh they were running this country so badly with the open borders. They got 25 million people allowed into our country. And that includes 11,888 murderers, most of whom murdered more than one person, okay? And we got most of them out, or we have them in jail. And we've done a great job. Washington, D.C. now is considered one of the safest cities in the country. If he came to Washington D.C. a year and a half ago, he'd fear for his life.
Even though he never feared for his life before. Because it was very dangerous. But somehow his territory might have even been a little more dangerous. I joke because you know he comes from a rough environment. Would you say that's right, Tom Barrack? It's sort of funny to think. I don't think he'd be too concerned with Washington in a year and a half. But we had a very very unsafe Washington D.C. And now it's one of the safest cities in the country. We put the military in. We put the It's Washington went from being an unsafe to one of the safest cities. And crime is down 94%.
We don't play games. We removed over 5,000 career criminals, many of whom came in through the open borders of Joe Biden. We did the same thing with Memphis, Tennessee. We did the same thing with in Louisiana. You have to speak to the governor. Because New Orleans, the crime rate is down 78%, 70 in a little while. And they had the best Mardi Gras they've ever had. We're doing a good job. And he's done a great job, too. And I thank you very much. Thank you.
