Pope Leo XIV in Argentina:

A nation must seriously ask itself where it has failed when its young people have to leave their homeland in order to make their dreams come true.

Trump:

If I was on the ballot, it would've been a much different situation because you saw the level of popularity and love. There was love.

We had massive rallies. You had to transfer those voters, however, to candidates that they didn't like.

Trump admits:

The voters didn't like the war. They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up.

And there's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.

Trump on Texas:

Cornyn would have lost also.

Q: JD Vance wrote a social media post where he says, "The reason we lost is the war," meaning Iran.

Trump: I don't disagree with it.

Trump on Iran War:

Historically, this will be a very good decision.

Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not.

Trump on Iran:

If Iran had a nuclear weapon during my term, I would be excoriated far worse than what's happened.

Trump:

The press doesn't cover positive news for Republicans. They don't cover certainly positive news for me. So I have to do it myself. I have to get it out there.

We have historically good numbers. We have the highest stock market in history.

Q: Why couldn't you win this time?

Trump: I think it was bad messaging.

Q: What was the bad message?

Trump: We couldn't get the word across.

Q: Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms?

Trump: I think it both helped and hurt.

I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs.

There's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right?

And in some cases, paying taxes. And there's a large group of people who think that they should be allowed to stay.

Trump:

When you go into a hotel and you have a woman that's worked there as, you know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great jobs, and all of a sudden, they're being taken out of the country, it's tough. It's a tough thing.

But there's a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out.

Q: Do you think you could work with the Democrats without insulting them?

Trump: Yeah, I could.

Q: Do you think they'll impeach you again?

Trump: I can't imagine it, you know? Hey, look, what have I done?

I've had the best two years in the history of the presidency.

Trump:

I love my Cabinet. I think they're good.

But I'll be doing maybe a few changes.

Q: Do you have confidence in Hegseth?

Trump: I do. Look, we've won two wars.

Q: So you're not gonna escalate the Iran war now that the midterms are over?

Trump: Well, I'm not looking to. I don't think there's any reason to.

Q: They still have nuclear material.

Trump: They have nothing. It's buried under thousands of tons of rock.

Trump on Iran:

Those countries that we've protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we've had for the war, 'cause without us, they wouldn't exist.

Without us, Israel would not exist.

Trump on Israel:

Israel would not exist except for Donald Trump.

Q: On Israel, do you have regrets about the decision to help the Israelis do decapitation strikes on Iran because that changed the Iranian regime, and it seems like it made them escalate? You could've just kept hitting the nuclear facilities, right?

Trump: Yeah, you could've done that, but we had people that would've gone further.

Q: Who do you trust more, President Putin or President Zelensky?

Trump: Well, I'd rather not say, but I get along with both.