TRUMP Q&A OF CABINET MEETING TODAY CONTINUED:
We’re killing ISIS for Russia, Assad and Iran. Iran is a much different country than it was when I became President. Iran, when I became President, I had a meeting at the Pentagon with lots of generals. They were like from a movie, better looking than Tom Cruz and stronger. And I had more generals than I’ve ever seen. Every part of the middle east and other places that were under attack were under attack because of Iran. You look at Yemen, you look at Syria, you look at every place. Saudi Arabia was under siege; they wanted Yemen because of a long border with Saudi Arabia, that’s why they’re there frankly. How do you stop these people; they’re all over the place. They have plenty of money. President Obama had just given them $150 Billion dollars. He gave them $1.8 Billion in cash. Plane loads of cash from five different countries. You know why from five different countries? Because we didn’t have enough cash in the tri-state area to give them $1.8 billion so they had to use the currency of other countries. That’s the real reason. So, I did something called “Terminate the Horrible Iran Nuclear Deal.” Which by the way in eight years gives Iran the legal right to have nuclear weapons. I did it. Iran is no longer the same country. Iran is pulling people out of Syria; they’re pulling people out of Yemen now. Iran wants to survive now. Iran was a power in the Middle East. They were going to take over the whole Middle East. That was what they wanted to do, and destroy Israel while they’re at it. Iran is a very different country now. They’re having riots every week in every city bigger than they’ve had before. Their currency is under siege thanks to us. A lot of bad things are happening. When we do all of the things we’ve done monetarily to Iran, Iran is in trouble. I’d love to negotiate with Iran, but they’re not ready yet, but they will be. Iran is a much different country right now. They would have had all of the nuclear weapons they wanted in a very short period of time because of that stupid deal. When I terminated that deal and then did what I had to do, Iran is a much different country today than it was 19 months ago.