TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Speaks to Reporters Before Marine One Departure, 4.11.26
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Question: Mr. President, are you [Inaudible] are going?
President Trump: Yeah, I'm getting a lot of reports. They've been meeting for many hours, as you probably have noticed. We'll see what happens. Look, regardless, uh, we win. Regardless what happens, we win. Uh, we've totally defeated that country. And so let's see what happens. Maybe they make a deal, maybe they don't.
Question: Is it a good sign that [Inaudible]
Trump: From the standpoint of America, we win. One of the things that's happening is that boats are sailing up and, uh, heading out to our country. Big, beautiful tankers, and we're loading them up with oil and gas and everything else. And, uh, it's a pretty beautiful thing to see.
Question: [Inaudible] release Iran's assets in other countries?
Trump: We're gonna see what happens. We're, uh, in very deep negotiations with Iran. Uh, we win regardless. We've defeated them militarily. Uh, they've dropped a couple of, uh, water mines, you call them water mines, in the boat. We've defeated all of their water boats too. Their Navy has got a 158 ships. They have 28 water droppers, mine droppers, they call them.
All of them are sunk. They probably have a couple of mines in the water. We have mine sweepers out there. We're sweeping the Strait. In addition to that, we're negotiating. Whether we make a deal or not, makes no difference to me. And the reason is because we've won, whether you listen to the fake news or not, you know?
It's amazing, uh, their credibility is down to 13%. The media credibility, down to 13%. Think of it. We defeated their Navy. We defeated their airport. We defeated their anti-aircraft. We defeated their radar. We defeated their leaders. Their leaders are all dead. And now, all we do is, we'll open up the Strait, even though we don't use it, because we have a lot of other countries in the world that do use it, that are either afraid or weak or cheap. I don't know what it is, but we were not helped by NATO, that I can tell you.
Question: [Inaudible] about reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump: How do you know that? Why do you say that?
Question: Because they still keep it blocked. Why are they [Inaudible]
Trump: Why do you say that? You don't know anything. Who are you with? Who are you with?
Question: NBC News.
Trump: ABC?
Question: NBC.
Trump: Well, that's fake news.
Question: Mr. President --
Trump: Let, let me just tell you, we win, no matter what. We've defeated their military. They have no Navy. 158 ships are underwater, under sea. All of their mine sweepers and all of their, they call them mine droppers. Can you imagine? A country has 28 mine droppers, do you think that's nice? With all of that being said, they're all defeated, by the way.
They're all at the bottom of the sea. Now, with all of that, they have no Navy. They have no radar. They have no Air Force. Their leaders are all dead. Ali Khamenei is gone. For many years, he ruled, he's gone. With all of that, let's see what happens. But from my standpoint, I don't care.
Question: [Inaudible] intelligence that China is preparing to ship weapons to Iran.
Trump: Well, if China does that, China's gonna have big problems, okay?