President Trump [Thermo Fisher Scientific]: We've knocked out their navy, their military; all forms. We've knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership. Twice. We knocked out twice, their leadership. And now they have a new group coming up, let's see what happens to them.
Reporter: You just said it is an excursion, and you said that it is a war. So which one is it?
President Trump: Well, it's both. It's both. It's an excursion that will keep us out of a war, and the war is going to be; for them it's a war, for us it's turned out to be easier than we thought. Think of it; they had thousands of missiles, seven, eight thousand missiles. We got many of them before they got to launch. They have drones all over the place. We got many; we're knocking out the drone plants, as you know. We're going fast. They started talking about mines, so we hit twenty-eight mineships as of this moment. Twenty-eight. Using the exact same weapon that we used against the drug dealers in the water.
LIVE: Streams from Middle East
President Trump: I'm pleased to report that earlier today, the International Energy Agency agreed to coordinate the release of a record four hundred million barrels of oil from various national petroleum reserves around the world, which will substantially reduce the oil prices as we end this threat to America, and this threat to the world. We don't want to leave early, do we? We got to finish the job, right? Over the past eleven days, our military has virtually destroyed Iran. Tough country. Their air force is gone; totally gone. That took the better part of about three hours. They no longer have radar. They don't have anti-aircraft equipment. They don't have anything. Their missiles are down ninety percent. Their drones are down eighty-five percent. We're blowing up the factories where they are made, left and right.
President Trump: Our tax cuts are projected to raise incomes in the Commonwealth [Kentucky] by five thousand, four hundred dollars, boost household take-home pay, for you, by nearly ten thousand dollars, and protect more than eighty-four thousand Kentucky jobs, at a minimum.
President Trump: Millions and millions of Kentucky families will have more money in their pockets thanks to what we did with respected tax cuts that I just described. Every single democrat in congress voted against it. Every single one. Not one voted for it. They want tax increases. Along with; just one republican voted against. You know what the name is? He is the worst person. His name is; what the hell; how did he ever end up in Kentucky? His name is Thomas Massie. Massie voted against tax cuts for seniors, he voted against tax cuts for overtime workers, and he voted against tax cuts for earners. No, he wanted to increase the taxes. He voted with the democrats. He voted against our historic funding for border security. He voted against border security, where we took the worst border in the history of our country, and made it the best border in the history of our country in two and a half months. He voted against it. And he voted against welfare eligibility verification for welfare recipients…Thomas Massie also voted with the radical-left democrats in congress to keep the federal government shut down during the open border crusade, while our military went without pay.
President Trump: We got to get rid of this loser [Massie]. This guy is bad. He's disloyal to the republican party, he's disloyal to the people of Kentucky, and most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America. And he's gotta be voted out of office as soon as possible.
President Trump: As a result of my direction to purchase two hundred billion dollars in mortgage bonds; a risky move, perhaps, but not for me, mortgage rates are now the lowest in more than five years, and the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost five thousand dollars.