Qasem Soleimani Deceased

President Trump:

"Well, it's been reported that it includes a $300 billion construction fund funded by Gulf allies. That's false. False. People can invest if they want.

I mean, what am I gonna do? Say nobody's ever allowed to invest? No. ...

President Trump:

"Well, it's been reported that it includes a $300 billion construction fund funded by Gulf allies. That's false. False. People can invest if they want.

I mean, what am I gonna do? Say nobody's ever allowed to invest? No. We're not investing, we're not putting up 10 cents, and people can decide to do that, but that's up to them.

Do you want me to say nobody's ever allowed to invest in a country? I'll say it with Egypt. Nobody's allowed to invest in Egypt. Am I supposed to say that?

We are not investing in it, and we do not have a fund."

Reporter: "Are you asking the Gulf countries?"

President Trump: "No. I'm not. I'm not. If they do it, fine. But I would say they won't be doing it for a while until they find out the behavior.

It's a behavior thing. But that's a false story that got picked up incorrectly from a statement that was pretty well made, I think. Maybe it could have been a little more accurate, frankly. But it's a story. We are not investing 10 cents.

Don't forget, there's never been anybody that's been so tough on Iran. This should have been done by Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. It should have been done by Biden. It should have been done by Bush. It could have been done by a lot of people.

This has been going on for forty-seven years. They've ripped you off for forty-seven years, and I'm the only one that did anything. But they never shot missiles at anybody.

We wiped out their navy. We wiped out their military. We wiped out their air force. They have no anti-aircraft. They have no radar.

You know, the reason oil stayed low is because we were taking ships out every night that you didn't even know about. Two days ago, three days ago, a month ago, we took out 22 ships.

We averaged from 15 to 25 ships a night. Nobody knew that. Our Navy did a great job. Nobody knew what was happening. That's why oil didn't go to $300 a barrel.

Now it's at $72.73. I heard it's lower than that now. I haven't seen it in the last couple of hours.

We were very tough, and we took out a man named Soleimani. Remember that? You think this would have happened if he were alive? The evil genius. He was an evil genius. People forget that.

I took out Soleimani in my first term. Without that, you probably don't have the situation that we're in today where we dominated. We dominated.

We wiped out their military. And because we did that, and then we put up the blockade, which was totally effective. Not one ship got..."