President Trump [Oval Office]: …some of the worst people on Earth [violent illegals], and they're getting out, and they're being accepted back in their countries, as you've heard, without exception. A lot of people though that was not going to happen, but it's happening very full force, and we're getting some very, very dangerous people out of our country.

President Trump: The Iran situation, hopefully; I'm gonna sign it [executive order; 'maximum pressure' on Iran], but hopefully we're not going to have to use it very much. We will see whether or not we can arrange, or work out a deal, with Iran, and everybody can live together. And maybe that's possible, and maybe it's not possible.

Reporter: How close do you think Iran is to developing nuclear weapons?

President Trump: I think they're close. I think they're close. They're too close. But again, you go back four years, I would have said they would have had it during this intervening period, but they are pretty close.

President Trump: The deficit with China is about a trillion dollars. Think of it. A trillion dollars. They're using our money to build their military, and Biden let that happen.

Reporter: Mr. President, will you continue to press for this idea that Jordan and Egypt take Palestinians from Gaza?

President Trump: Yeah, I would like to see Jordan, and I'd like to see Egypt take some. Look, the Gaza thing has not worked. It's never worked. I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we get some people to put up the money to build it, and make it nice, and make it habitable, and make it a home. I don't know how they could want to stay. It's a demolition site. If we could find the right piece of land, or numerous pieces of land, and build them some really nice places; there's plenty of money in the area, that's for sure. I think that would be a lot better than going back to Gaza, which has had just decades and decades of death.

President Trump: They've had civilizations on Gaza. Many civilizations on Gaza. And they're buried in the sand. It doesn't seem to work.

President Trump: Look at all the fraud that he's found [Musk], in this 'USAID'. It's a disaster what the people, radical-left lunatics…I'd like to see what the kickbacks are. How much money has been kicked back?…I would say this, the people that got all that money, are they kicking it back to the people that gave it? From government?

President Trump: One of the things I want to investigate, rapidly, because I've never seen anything to this extent; the train that's being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the worst managed project I think I've ever seen…billions and billions; hundreds of billions of dollars over budget…We're going to start an investigation of that.

President Trump: If somebody thinks they're going to be wonderful citizens someday [violent US citizen criminals], they're wrong. It's not going to happen. They're bad; these are hard, tough criminals. In many cases they're crazy. They're absolutely crazy. But they're very dangerous. If I could get them out of the country, and be in some other country where they're glad to have them because they make a small fee compared to what we pay to a private prison, or to put 'em in one of our prisons that cost even more money, I think it would be great. I'd love to get them the hell out of our country.

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