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President Donald Trump addressed the waiting reporters while boarding Air Force One in Miami, initially stating that very good things are happening regarding the Strait of Hormuz, and a lot of good things are ‘happening for our country – it’s been very strong.’
When asked whether the ceasefire was holding, the President replied: “I would say it’s holding well.”
Speaking about the blockade, Trump said: “10 o’clock tomorrow we have a blockade going into effect – other nations are working hard so that Iran will not be able to sell and that would be very effective.
“There are many boats heading toward our country to fill up with oil – they’re not going to go through the Strait of Hormuz and ultimately that’ll be corrected, but in the meantime they’re using us. We have more oil because of ‘drill, baby, drill,’ and we have more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together.
One reporter wanted an update from the President on the two F-15E pilots, and Trump said: “They are in very good shape, and we’re proud of them.”
Continuing, Trump said: “I think Iran is in very bad shape, I think they’re very desperate – we had a meeting that lasted 21 hours,” adding that the US understood the situation better than anybody and Iran’s in a very bad shape: “Iran will not have a nuclear weapon – there is no way that they’re going to get it – they still want it and they made that clear the other night.”
Asked whether Iran would come back to the negotiating table, Trump replied: “I don’t care if they come back or not, but if they don’t come back, I’m fine. Their military is gone, their missiles are largely depleted, the manufacturing capability for missiles and drones is largely defeated.
“We’ve been very nice, we haven’t ripped down too many bridges, we did one only because they broke their word, they broke their promise, and remember their promise was that they were going to open the Hormuz Strait, but they didn’t do it, they lied.”
When asked whether there were any other countries willing to help with the Strait of Hormuz, Trump replied that they’re coming and they’re helping, there are many countries.
Pope Leo
President Trump turned his attention to Pope Leo in his next address: “I don’t think he’s doing a very good job, he likes crime and he’s worried about fear, but what about the fear when the ministers and the priests and all of those great people were arrested during COVID? In many cases they were outside 10 feet apart, and they were arrested, so we don’t like it.
“We don’t like a pope that’s going to say it’s okay to have a nuclear weapon, we don’t want a pope that says crime is okay in our cities – I don’t like it. I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo, he’s a very liberal person and he’s a man that doesn’t believe in stopping crime. He’s a man that doesn’t think we should be going with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world.”
NATO:
President Trump still wasn’t happy about NATO either, saying: “They’re coming up, they’re going to be coming up, but I’m very dissapointed in NATO, they didn’t do this, they weren’t there for us – we pay trillions of dollars for NATO and they weren’t there for us – remember what I said: ‘NATO was not there,’ now they want to come up, but there’s no real threat anymore.
“We spent trillions of dollars on NATO to help guard really against Russia, when you think of it, we’re guarding against Russia, and I’ve thought it was a little ridiculous, but we spent trillions of dollars doing it, and I think that’s going to be under very serious examination.”
In one image published by President Trump, an AI-generated picture of a Trump Tower was on the Moon.
President Trump then posted a second AI-generated picture of himself depicted as Jesus Christ, which came after Trump’s unhinged attacks on Pope Leo.
