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

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

Q: President Zelensky's country was actually invaded by Russia.

Trump: When they had their first meeting, there was great disrespect shown to Russia.

Trump on Russia:

I didn't lift diesel sanctions on Russia.

I made it possible for Russia to give, not us, but to the world, thousands and thousands of barrels of oil.

Q: Do you think Putin is stringing you along?

Trump: Oh, I don't think so. There's been nobody that's been tougher on Russia than me.

Trump on Ukraine War:

I think it's gonna happen, and they're gonna end up with a little bit different shape Ukraine.

Trump on 2028:

I may or may not get involved. I don't know.

Maybe I'm better off not getting involved.

Q: What do you think happens when you die?

Trump: Well, I hope I'm missed.

Trump:

I'm a religious person, so in theory, I go to heaven.

Trump on Ohio:

Jon Husted was down 15 points, and he ended up losing by a point, maybe less than a point.

He almost won.

Trump on Iran:

We were close to making a deal with Iran. If we didn't have this election, we might have had a deal.

This gives them hope.

Trump on Iran:

They were ready to make a deal with me. We would have had a deal except for this election.

We will make a deal anyway.

Trump will meet Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani behind closed doors on Monday.

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Trump on Iran:

They have other problems. They're not lookin' at Pickaxe Mountain.

If we needed to do Pickaxe, which we don't at this moment, we would have that done in one hour. It would be taken care of.

Trump on Venezuela:

You could call it a territory, you could call it whatever you want.

We won that war in less than one hour.

Trump on Ukraine:

Biden gave them $350 billion worth of cash and weapons.

I gave them nothing. I give it to Europe, sell it at full price, and they pay us.

Trump on Ukraine:

Starlink is a very good system and it was perhaps turned down. I mean, I don't even know.

I haven't been — it hasn't been proven to me that it was turned down.

There's a lotta lies going on with that war.

Trump on AI:

We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI.

We called them very strongly and said, "Get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss good night."

This person totally changed everything. Totally. "Yes, sir. Yes, sir."

Trump:

Obama got $100 million from Netflix.

During his presidency. And he made a movie afterward.

And the movie made about $0.03.

Trump:

I intend to issue tremendous numbers of pardons.

In fact, I say oftentimes anybody that got within a thousand miles of the Oval Office.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Iran:

Any resolution, if it's a diplomatic one, is probably going to have to give the Iranians something: sanctions relief, something from the Strait itself.

All of that is possible, and I actually think preferable to escalating.

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