Learn English with Donald Trump. President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the NATO Summit in NATO headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, on NATO's new defense spending commitment to 5% of GDP, which will add more than 1 Trillion dollars per year to our common defense.
00:00:00.000Monday and we call it the 12 day war spoke to a few people I guess that just
00:00:05.280sounded like the right the right name it was a 12 day war and we think it's over
00:00:11.400I don't think they're going to be going back at each other I don't think so not
00:00:15.840only have we dealt decisively with the critical threat of Iran's nuclear program
00:00:19.920which was what I wanted I said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon I've said
00:00:24.180that for 15 years long before I decided to do the political thing but we've
00:00:31.380also reasserted the credibility of American deterrence which is like no
00:00:36.780other the people at NATO said this never been anything you know I rebuilt the
00:00:41.580entire military during my first term and we have a great military we have great
00:00:47.520generals I got to know the good ones and the bad ones we kept the good ones over
00:00:53.400the past two days I was honored to participate in the NATO leaders meeting
00:00:57.180and also had extremely good individual discussions with the king and the queen
00:01:02.100secretary-general ruta and the prime minister great discussions very
00:01:07.740knowledgeable people major focus of our conversations at the summit was the need
00:01:13.500for other NATO members to take up the burden of the defense of Europe and that
00:01:19.680included the financial burden as you know it was 2% and we got it up to 5% and
00:01:26.400they said a couple of them came up to me one in particular said sir we've been
00:01:30.060trying to get it up to 3% for 20 years and we haven't been able and you got it up
00:01:34.860to 5% so they're gonna be most of them I guess almost all of them are gonna be
00:01:39.360contributing now 5% the number that people are surprised at but you need it
00:01:45.900today the United States accounts for two-thirds of all NATO defense spending
00:01:50.280since I began pushing for additional commitments in 2017 believe it or not our
00:01:56.220allies have increased spending by 700 billion dollars I said to people you
00:02:01.680don't have any money and a lot of them weren't paying then so I started the
00:02:05.940process and I picked it up as soon as I got back which is six months ago and
00:02:10.680following my election last November almost all have accelerated plans to
00:02:16.180reach the 2% 3% 4% and then ultimately very quickly 5% and all of this is going
00:02:25.080to be done very quickly almost immediately you probably know this as well
00:02:29.520as I do I'm sure they've been talking about it's really been a big focus in a
00:02:34.560very historic milestone this week the NATO allies committed to dramatically
00:02:38.520increase their defense spending to that 5% of GDP something that no one really
00:02:44.520thought possible and they said you did it sir you did it well I don't know if I
00:02:48.960did it but I think I did this will be known as the Hague defense commitment which
00:02:56.460is pretty good pretty appropriate when the allies reached this number it will
00:03:01.500add more than 1 trillion dollars a year think of that 1 trillion per year to our
00:03:07.200common defense and this is a monument really to to victory but it's a monumental
00:03:13.200win for the United States because we were carrying much more than our fair share
00:03:18.720was quite unfair actually but this is a big win for Europe and for actually
00:03:24.200Western civilization for years past administrations failed to get most
00:03:29.200allies to contribute even the 2% I remember when I came here we had four
00:03:34.200four countries that were up to 2% and I remember Poland was there a couple of
00:03:39.200them were there and but most of them were we had 28 at the time as you know it's
00:03:44.200increased a little bit and they've agreed now to more than double their budgets in
00:03:50.200all cases and Europe stepping up to take more responsibility for its security will
00:03:55.200help prevent future disasters like the horrible situation with Russia and Ukraine
00:04:01.200and hopefully we're gonna get that solved last week they lost 7,000 soldiers
00:04:06.200mostly soldiers but they're also getting hit in Kiev they're getting hit in some of
00:04:12.200the towns also and that means life life is disappearing also in the cities and
00:04:19.200towns should have never happened would have never happened if I was president said it a
00:04:23.200thousand times and it never did happen it's never even thought about but it's vital that this
00:04:30.200additional money be spent on very serious military hardware not bureaucracy and
00:04:36.200hopefully that hardware is going to be made in America because we have the best
00:04:41.200hardware in the world you saw that where 14 missiles were shot at us the other day and
00:04:46.200and they were very nice they gave us warning they said we're going to shoot
00:04:51.200them is one o'clock okay they said it's fine and everybody was emptied off the base so they
00:04:58.200couldn't get hurt except for the gunners they call them the gunners and out of 14 high-end
00:05:06.200missiles that were shot at the base in Qatar all 14 as you know were shot down by our equipment
00:05:12.200amazing stuff amazing that they can do it's like shooting a bullet with a bullet it's the same
00:05:18.200thing if you think about it 14 out of 14 and they were they weren't even that surprised I said
00:05:24.200that you do that well often they say we pretty much do sir the Ukraine crisis has also highlighted
00:05:32.200the urgency of rebuilding our defense industrial base both in the United States and among the allied
00:05:38.200nations we cannot afford to be dependent on foreign adversaries for critical minerals and as you know
00:05:46.200we made a deal with Ukraine to take a vast amount of the land they have for minerals we need it and
00:05:53.200once again I want to thank all of the people in the Netherlands incredible people it's a great place and
00:05:58.200all of the NATO allies for the tremendous summit that we just had a letter just came in and a statement came in
00:06:07.200from the Atomic Energy Commission of Israel and I just wonder this is an official letter and they're very serious
00:06:17.200people as you know the devastating US strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the
00:06:25.200enrichment facility totally inoperable it was devastated we assessed that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities has set back
00:06:35.200Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come this achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran
00:06:43.200does not get access to nuclear material which it won't it's so so sad that that whole thing had to go but I just I just want to
00:06:54.200thank our pilots you know they were maligned and treated very bad demeaned by fake news CNN which is back there believe it or not
00:07:01.200wasting time wasting and nobody's watching them so they're just wasting a lot of time wasting my time and the New York Times
00:07:09.200they put out a story that well maybe they were hit but it wasn't bad well it was so bad that they ended the war it ended the war
00:07:17.200somebody said in a certain way you know that it was so devastating actually if you look at Hiroshima if you look at Nagasaki
00:07:27.200you know that ended a war too this ended a war in a different way but it was so devastating also they have out of Dubai just came that
00:07:37.200Iran's foreign ministry spokesman this is Iran's farmers says it's near its nuclear installations were very badly
00:07:47.200damaged by the American strike so what bothered me about these reports so with fake reports put out by the New York
00:07:55.200Times failing I got the failing New York Times because it's doing terribly without me it would be doing no business
00:08:01.200at all but and by fake news CNN and MSDNC all of these terrible people you know they have no credibility
00:08:11.200you know when I started they were at 94% credibility the media now it's at 16% and I'm very proud of it
00:08:18.200because I've exposed it for what it is but when I when I saw them starting to question the the caliber of the attack
00:08:28.200was it bad well it was really bad it was devastating they were obliterated but you can't get into the tunnels they
00:08:35.200just put that over that just came out they can't there's nothing there's no way you can even get down the whole
00:08:40.200thing is collapsed in a disaster and I think all of the nuclear stuff is down there because it's very hard to remove
00:08:46.200and we we did it very quickly when they heard we were coming it was you know you can't move it very hard very dangerous
00:08:53.200actually to move to and they also knew we were coming so I don't think too many people want to be down
00:08:58.200there knowing we're coming with the bunker busters as we call them we're the only ones that have them
00:09:03.200with the best equipment best nuclear equipment and we have the best equipment in the world and by the way
00:09:08.200we can't forget our submarine which was out there submarines actually but submarine was out there we shot
00:09:15.200uh 30 rockets into uh an area every single one of them I think it was almost 400 miles away I think
00:09:26.200pete right 500 and long it was in the ocean long ways away and uh we shot we shot uh a total of 30 every
00:09:38.200single one of them hit within nine inches from where it was supposed to be it took it a lot because we didn't
00:09:43.200do just sport or we did uh two others in addition which hadn't been completely uh destroyed so we hit
00:09:52.200them with a submarine from uh hundreds of miles away amazing just amazing equipment greatest submarines in
00:09:59.200the world nobody's even closer 20 years behind us when it comes to submarine technology so that's one
00:10:06.200and the other was uh was from the atomic energy commission and they have about three or four of
00:10:14.200them now coming in from atomic energy commissions from various places but the one that we have that
00:10:20.200uh just came out we released it a little while ago was from the israeli atomic energy commission but
00:10:27.200numerous of them are getting to see the site and the site has been demolished and again uh we had these brave
00:10:34.200uh patriots these incredible flyers these uh people that can fly a plane better than anybody can fly a
00:10:42.200plane going into very hostile territory flying into uh the territory that has got more missiles and things
00:10:50.200pointed at it but it was very stealth they didn't get to see it it was dark that's the amazing thing about
00:10:56.200the shots they hit the shots perfectly and yet it was dead dark there was no moon there was no light it was virtually uh
00:11:03.200moonless it was very dark and they hit the shots were hit perfectly but when they get demeaned and they were very upset about
00:11:10.200it because they knew how strong it would be back in missouri the pilots flew about 36 hours two ways far distance and in those
00:11:18.200incredible b2s and we then had the f-22s and we had the f-35s and we had other planes and we had i think a total of 52 tankers
00:11:28.200that means the big the big tankers because the refueling was a lot for all of the different planes that we sent incredible
00:11:35.200operation and i have to say uh general raisin gain was incredible that's why he beat isis and we beat isis in a matter of weeks i was told it would take
00:11:45.200four to five years we did it in a few weeks and he was great that's why he's ahead of the joint chiefs of staff
00:11:52.200right now because i had a very good experience with him he knocked out isis in a period of literally a few
00:11:58.200weeks amazing and it was supposed to take a few years five years to be exact so we had a great uh victory there
00:12:08.200and we then came here and i think we had a great victory here but this is an ongoing project this is the
00:12:14.200safety of europe the safety of the world and they've raised it from two percent to five percent something
00:12:21.200which nobody and you're talking about over a trillion dollars a year so we're talking about a lot of money
00:12:26.200from coming in from countries that we're not paying nearly enough to be effective so uh i have as you
00:12:33.200know marco rubio with me and pete hexa secretary of state and secretary of war should we say secretary you
00:12:41.200know it used to be called secretary of war maybe for a couple of weeks we'll call it that because we
00:12:45.200feel like warriors used to be called secretary of war in fact you've looked at the old building
00:12:50.200next to the white house you can see where it used to be secretary of war then we became politically
00:12:55.200correct and they called it secretary of defense i don't know maybe we'll have to start thinking about
00:13:00.200changing it but we feel that way uh do we have any questions please wow that's a lot of questions
00:13:09.200uh who's a nice person oh you're not a nice person but i'll let you ask one go ahead what's he gonna
00:13:17.200ask he is not nice at all i know him well thank you mr president yeah thank you for taking the time
00:13:24.200before flying home um you just said you believe the conflict between israel and iran is over what
00:13:31.200makes you so confident it is this is the war room and we're going to play the president's press
00:13:36.200conference to its conclusion both tired exhausted they fought very very hard and very viciously very
00:13:43.200violently and they were both satisfied to go home and get out and can it start again i guess someday it
00:13:51.200can it could maybe start soon uh i think a big telltale sign was when uh as you know iran somewhat
00:14:01.200by not much violated the uh ceasefire and israel had the planes going out that morning and there
00:14:08.200were a lot of them 52 of them and i said you got to get them back and they brought them back they
00:14:13.200didn't do anything they brought them back it was very good i thought it was amazing actually uh they have
00:14:19.200uh fought a hell of a war they fought very hard i think the war ended actually when we hit the
00:14:25.200various nuclear sites with the planes and i just hope you people can give these pilots these are the best
00:14:31.200pilots in the world they're the best shots in the world they call them shots that's what they are
00:14:35.200and and wait a minute and i i just hope you can give them the respect they deserve because they came home to
00:14:41.200fake news and like oh gee there was hardly any damage the things are decimated so uh but i think no i think
00:14:49.200they're very much finished i think israel is going to get back to doing what they do and i think that iran
00:14:55.200is going to get back you know iran has a huge advantage of great oil and they can do things i don't see them
00:15:01.200uh getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore i think they've had it they've been at it for 20 years
00:15:07.200and i don't see that happening either now if it does we're always there it won't be me it'll be somebody
00:15:13.200else but we're there we'll have to do something about it yes uh please go ahead go ahead
00:15:19.200oh fake news cnn oh yeah yeah here we go wait till you hear this question
00:15:27.200i think you should really say how great our soldiers and our warriors are i think everyone appreciates our soldiers
00:15:34.200and our warriors i do have two questions for you mr president you just cited israeli intelligence um on these attacks
00:15:41.200earlier you said u.s intelligence was inconclusive are you relying on israeli intelligence for your assessment
00:15:47.200of the impact of the strikes no this is also iran made the statement and it's also if you read the document
00:15:53.200that was given that pete can talk about if you'd like the document said it could be very severe damage but they didn't
00:16:01.200take that they said it could be limited or it could be very severe they really didn't know other than to
00:16:06.200say it could be limited or it could be very very severe and you didn't choose to put that because
00:16:13.200it was very early after since then we've collected additional intelligence we've also spoken to people
00:16:18.200have seen the site and the site is the site is obliterated and we think everything nuclear is down there they
00:16:25.200didn't take it out okay question please go ahead go ahead yeah blue dress thank you so much mr president
00:16:34.200yesterday you said china can now continue to purchase oil from iran yeah are you giving up on your maximum
00:16:41.200pressure campaign because there are sanctions right now with who on iran no look they just had a war
00:16:48.200the war was fought they fought it bravely i'm not giving up they they're in the oil business i mean i
00:16:55.200could stop it if i wanted i could sell china the oil myself i don't want to do that uh they're going to
00:17:00.200need money to put that country back into shape we want to see that happen would it no if they're going
00:17:07.200to sell oil they're going to sell oil we're not taking over the oil we could have you know i used to say
00:17:11.200with iraq keep the oil i could say it here too we could have kept the oil um no china's gonna want to buy
00:17:17.200oil they can buy it from us they can buy it from other people but you're gonna have to put that
00:17:23.020country back into shape it needs desperately needs money yeah yeah please
00:17:28.280here we go i'm picking the beauties today go ahead mr president secretary general ruta has described
00:17:40.280president putin as an adversary a threat an enemy do you view him the same way
00:17:46.940and in addition to that you mentioned general kane your chief of staff others the chairman of the
00:17:53.600joint chief general kane yes he has uh said that mr putin has territorial ambitions beyond ukraine
00:18:02.320do you view that in the same possible i mean it's possible i know one thing he'd like to settle he'd
00:18:07.620like to get out of this thing it's a mess for him uh he called the other day he said can i help you
00:18:12.920with iran i said no you can help me with russia because you know in the last few weeks we took care
00:18:19.840of india and pakistan kosovo serbia uh i think on friday we have coming in uh the congo is coming in
00:18:29.560and rwanda is coming in that was a vicious war that went on a machete war heads chopped off all over
00:18:35.800africa they're coming in we did uh two others in addition to that nobody's ever done anything like
00:18:44.240this uh no i consider him a person that's uh i think been misguided i'm very surprised actually
00:18:52.780i thought we would have had that settled easy i've settled four of them in the meantime but he did call
00:18:58.440up but he said uh you know he's close to iran he'd like to help us get a settlement i said no no
00:19:04.220you help me get a settlement with you with russia and i think we're going to be doing that too yeah
00:19:09.280please go ahead please thank you mr president you've made clear your position on what impact
00:19:17.020the strikes had i wanted to ask you what is next with iran for instance is there any indication
00:19:22.320from u.s intelligence that iran was able to move any material no we just the opposite we think we hit
00:19:29.140them so hard and so fast they didn't get to move and if you knew about that material it's very hard
00:19:33.880and very dangerous to move it's called it's called uh in many people they call it dust but it's very
00:19:40.680very heavy it's very very hard to move and they were way down you know they're 30 stories down
00:19:46.840they're literally 30 35 stories down underground oh yeah we think we got what we think it's it's covered
00:19:53.540with uh granite concrete and steel can i ask you are you interested in restarting negotiations with
00:20:01.660iran and if so have they so are people marco could answer but our people are uh not i'm not the way i
00:20:11.340look at it they fought the war's done and you know i could get a statement that they're not going to go
00:20:17.280nuclear we're probably going to ask for that but they're not going to be doing it but they're not
00:20:22.060going to be doing it anyway they've had it they've had it now maybe someday in the future we'll
00:20:27.420want that but uh i've asked marco do you want to draw i just asked him the question as we were
00:20:33.020walking on the stage you want to draw up a little agreement for them to sign because i think we can
00:20:36.860get them to sign it i don't think it's necessary marco do you want to talk about that please
00:20:42.120well mr president i think you president trump has shown a willingness to meet and talk to anybody
00:20:48.160in the world who's interested in peace i don't know of any president that's been as
00:20:51.920willing as he has to meet with anyone and talk about peace we'd love to have peaceful relations
00:20:55.680with any country in the world and so um obviously that'll depend on iran's willingness not just to
00:21:01.300engage in peace but to negotiate directly with the united states not through some third country or
00:21:06.080fourth country process but i know of no president probably in our modern history that's sought peace