084. A Speech by the NAZI Trump 02

 There could be no sharper contrast with the path you have pursued on the Arabian Peninsula than the disaster unfolding right across in the Gulf of Iran. Think of that. They wanted to name it that, I said, “They’re not going to let them do that. Do you mind if I stop that?” I stopped it. We’re not going to let that happen.

While you have been constructing the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Jeddah and Dubai, Tehran’s 1979 landmarks are collapsing into rubble and dust. They had it going for a little while under a much different system, but those buildings are largely falling apart, falling down, while you’re building some of the world’s biggest and most incredible infrastructure projects, buildings, all sorts of things you’re building that nobody’s ever even seen before. Iran’s decades of neglect and mismanagement have left the country plagued by rolling blackouts, lasting for hours a day. All the time, you hear about it.

While your skill has turned dry deserts into fertile farmland, Iran’s leaders have managed to turn green farmland into dry deserts, as their corrupt water mafia, let’s call it the water mafia, causes droughts and empty riverbeds. They get rich, but they don’t let the people have any of it.

And then of course there’s the key difference at the root of it all: While the Arab states are focused on becoming pillars of regional stability and world commerce, Iran’s leaders have focused on stealing their people’s wealth to fund terror and bloodshed abroad. The most tragic of all, they have dragged down an entire region with them.

Countless lives were lost in the Iranian effort to maintain a crumbling regime in Syria. Look at what happened with Syria.

In Lebanon, their Hezbollah proxies have pillaged the hopes of a nation whose capital Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East. Can you imagine — all of this misery and so much more was entirely avoidable, absolutely avoidable. And Mohammed knew that. He knew that. Smart people knew that. If only the Iranian regime had focused on building their nation up instead of tearing the region down.

Yet I’m here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran’s leaders, but to offer them a new path and a much better path toward a far better and more hopeful future. As I’ve shown repeatedly, I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very profound, which obviously they are in the case of Iran.

I have never believed in having permanent enemies. I am different than a lot of people think. I don’t like permanent enemies, but sometimes you need enemies to do the job and you have to do it right. Enemies get you motivated. In fact, some of the closest friends of the United States of America are nations we fought wars against in generations past, and now they’re our friends and our allies.

I want to make a deal with Iran. If I can make a deal with Iran, I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place. But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero, like I did before.

Did you know that — they were a virtually bankrupt country because of what I did. They had no money for terror, they had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah… And take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

But with that said, Iran can have a much brighter future but we’ll never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack. The choice is theirs to make. We really want them to be a successful country. We want them to be a wonderful, safe, great country, but they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

This is an offer that will not last forever. The time is right now for them to choose. Right now. We don’t have a lot of time to wait. Things are happening at a very fast pace, they’re happening right here. They’re happening at a very fast pace. So they have to make their move right now, one way or the other. Make your move.

As I said in my inaugural address, my greatest hope is to be a peacemaker and to be a unifier. I don’t like war.

We have the greatest military, by the way, in the history of the world. And I rebuilt our military in my first four years and rebuilt it into the most powerful military there is, and you saw that when I knocked out ISIS in three weeks. People said it would take four years, five years. I did it, we did it, in three weeks.

Just days ago, my administration successfully brokered a historic ceasefire to stop the escalating violence between India and Pakistan, and I used trade to a large extent to do it. I said, fellas, “Come on. Let’s make a deal. Let’s do some trading. Let’s not trade nuclear missiles. Let’s trade the things that you make so beautifully.”

And they both have very powerful leaders, very strong leaders, good leaders, smart leaders, and it all stopped. Hopefully, it’ll remain that way, but it all stopped. I was very proud of Marco Rubio and all of the people that worked so hard. Marco, stand up. What a great job you did on that. Thank you. JD Vance, Marco, the whole group worked with you, but it was a great job.

And I think they’re actually getting along. Maybe we can even get them together a little bit, Marco, where they go out and have a nice dinner together. Wouldn’t that be nice?

But we’ve come a long way and it could be millions of people could have died from that conflict that started off small and was getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day.

I’ve also been working relentlessly to end the terrible bloodshed between Russia and Ukraine, and very importantly, talks are being held in Turkey later this week, probably on Thursday, and they could produce some pretty good results. Our people are going to be going there. Marco’s going to be going there, others are going to be going, and we’ll see if we can get it done.