US President Donald Trump praises Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “wartime prime minister,” as they take questions outside the entrance of Mar-a-Lago.
Asked about his relationship with Netanyahu, Trump responds, “He’s done a phenomenal job. He’s taken Israel through a very dangerous period of trauma.”
“Israel, with other people, might not exist right now,” Trump claims.
“They were met with a force the likes of which not many countries could have handled. We worked together and we were extremely victorious, to put it mildly.”
“Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we’re going to have to knock them down. We’ll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that’s not happening.”
“I heard Iran wants to make a deal. If they make a deal that’s much smarter. They could have made a deal the last time before we went through a big attack. They decided not to make the deal. They wished they made that deal,” Trump says.
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