Q: Your ambassador to Türkiye said that "absolutely" there could be a strike on Iran this weekend.

Trump: He is a powerful man, I guess.

I don't know anything about it.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Syria:

I think Israel and Syria will come to terms, because President al-Sharaa has been very clear of saying, "I have no predatory interest to you, and I want to calm these waters."

And al-Sharaa doesn't have a Hezbollah, he hasn't fired a shot, they've never attacked Israel. He's telling Israel we don't want to attack.

Israel is just saying, "Uh, I'm not so sure of you yet. You were a fundamentalist, al-Nusra warrior. You have foreign fighters that are in the divisions along my border. I need some room along my border. After October 7th, I'm just not going to allow anybody to cross my border."

So we're in a trust-building—we had five great border and boundary discussions with them, starting in Paris in May of 2024. We almost got there. I think we'll get there again.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Syria:

The Druze can arm themselves with the money that they're making from the Captagon trade. This Captagon is something, and it's like manufacturing meth.

So Syria has been very cautious. It knows that if it bites on one of these incursions, the fire is going to explode.

So it's been very patient in allowing Israel to protect its "buffer zone" by coming across and having the Druze conduct themselves inappropriately.

To the extent that this Sheikh is intimating to people that he has the U.S. backing, it's absolutely wrong.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Saudi Arabia:

MBS sat me down and for three hours, in Arabic, gave me the history of Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, but in such detail that I had never heard.

And I thought I was well-versed because I was thrown there as a young lawyer, so I knew the Kingdom.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Saudi Arabia:

The bargain with the Wahhabis on the inside never envisioned the modernization of the Kingdom. So MBS is fighting two battles at one time.

As he's spending money for Vision 2030, the Wahhabi tribes and the Bedouin tribes are saying: "I'm not so sure about this kid. I'm not so sure that we want this, I'm not so sure we want alcohol, I don't think we want Westerners to take over," right?

All of the things that we know that they say.

Trump is expected to ease 50% tariffs on certain Canadian agricultural and forestry products to help Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections.

However, he may offset the tariff reductions by increasing duties on other Canadian products, keeping overall trade restrictions largely unchanged.

Source: WSJ

Trump:

A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person has only one (to get better)!

Trump:

I have friends that get sued. They almost have a nervous breakdown. "Sir, I got sued. I don't know what to do."

I have hundreds. I don't give a shit about it.

Trump on Iran:

Iran is finished.

Trump on Somalia:

Somalia is probably the worst country on Earth.

All they have is people that shoot you all the time.

Trump:

Tariffs made us rich. Take the tariffs off and watch every factory leave America.

Trump:

We ended 5 wars thanks to tariffs. I said, "If you continue to fight, we're going to put a 200% tariff on you," and they stopped.

We should probably immediately do it with Ukraine and Russia. Never thought of it.

But we don't buy enough to do it to them, so it doesn't work.

Trump:

The Islamic Republic of Iran will tell you that we have the best military equipment.

Trump on Cuba:

Don't worry about Cuba. We will take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran.

Iran’s IRGC Navy says two oil tankers carrying over 4.5 million barrels of crude struck naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

Both vessels reportedly suffered explosions and fires, lost engine power, and were abandoned by their crews.

Source: Tasnim

Trump on Cuba:

We're going to come back from Iran. Those beautiful ships will pass Cuba. We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast.

They'll raise up their hands, and then we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal.

Trump on Iran:

We may do another little Operation Epic Fury, or they will agree.

If they're smart, they will just say, "Let's get down to business."

But I doubt they will do that because perhaps they're not smart.

Trump on Ukraine War:

We're close to ending, I hope, the Russia-Ukraine catastrophe.

I hope we're ending that.

Trump:

María gave me her Nobel Prize.

I won't forget.

Trump:

I wonder if the family of Stephen Hubbard is going to vote for Trump.

Probably not. They will probably find a way to vote for somebody else. That's happened to me before.