President Trump spoke during a healthcare affordability event Monday (5/18) at the White House.
When asked about his Truth Social post about putting off an attack on Iran, Trump said, "it's a very positive development." He continued, "We've had periods of time where we had, we thought, pretty much getting close to making a deal and, uh, it didn't work out, but this is a little bit different. Now we're already going tomorrow, very big and not something I wanted to do, but we have no choice because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon."
Q: Post on social on Iran and what was the decision that why you didn't attack?
Trump: "Well, other countries have come to me and they've said we were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I've put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while because we've had very big discussions with Iran and we'll see what they amount to. I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for 2 or 3 days, a short period of time because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal and if we can do that where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think and if they're satisfied we will be probably satisfied also. We've informed Israel. We've informed other people in the Middle East that have been involved with us and Uh, you know, it's a very positive development, but we'll see whether or not it amounts to anything. We've had periods of time where we had, we thought, pretty much getting close to making a deal and, uh, it didn't work out, but this is a little bit different. Now we're already going tomorrow, very big and not something I wanted to do, but we have no choice because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, yeah. "
Q: Other countries have done this before. They have asked you to change course in order to dangle. They dangled a peace deal in front of you saying one was coming. Nothing has come into fruition. You mentioned this.
Trump: Well, a lot's come into fruition. We've taken a country that was going to have a nuclear weapon, and we've virtually destroyed its military. They have no navy. They have no air force. They've been they've been virtually destroyed militarily. That's a lot. That's a big, uh, we could leave right now. It would take them 25 years to rebuild, and the last thing they're thinking about, I think, is nuclear. Now they have to put it down in writing. But when you say nothing, we've, we've totally destroyed, excuse me, from CNN, we've totally destroyed their military. We've destroyed their leadership, as you know, their leaders are gone. Their leaders are gone at the first level, the second level. We're dealing with half of the 3rd level. And I think we've made a lot of progress and it's very simple, you know, we don't want to go through this. We had the greatest economy ever. We still do. The stock market at a brand new high a little while ago. Uh, I never thought that was gonna happen. We had to make the excursion, you know, we hit 50,000 on the Dow. We had 7000 on the S&P, and everyone said that couldn't be done within my 4 years. It would be too,too big. Well, we did it in my first year, and then I called Scott and Howard. I called them all into my office. I say we're gonna take a little excursion down to the Middle East and we're going to confront Iran because they are desperate to have a nuclear weapon and the only reason they want it is to use it and I said that's, I hate to do this because we're doing so well, but uh this is the most important thing we can do."
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