Interview: Hugh Hewitt Interviews Donald Trump on His Radio and Podcast Show - May 4, 2026

I'm joined now by the President of the United States. Uh, President Trump, welcome back. Always a pleasure to talk to you. I was filling people in on the fact that you offered very nicely project freedom. The Iranians started firing off like Yosemite, Sam at UAE and everybody.

So I gather, are we at the beginning of the end of a new war? Are we starting over?

Well, one way or the other, we win. We either make the right deal or we win very easily from the military standpoint. We've already won that. Uh, you know, you've heard me say it a million times and other people say it. They had 159 ships, you, now they have none. They're all at the bottom of the sea. Today we took out eight of their, you know what they're, they're reduced to these small little fast ships --

Right.

-- they're very cheap and they attach a machine gun to it. They think that's good. We knocked out eight of them today. And, uh, everyone that was available got knocked out very quickly and very, uh, very efficiently. And so we'll see what happens. I mean, it's hard to believe that they would do that. You know, the one ship that was hit was, and I haven't seen it in a little while because I was with the small bus- -- business owners of America for the last two hours.

We were having a good time. They're doing fantastic. Everybody's doing fantastically, all businesses right now in the country. Stock markets at a new high despite this. But I will say that, uh, one way or the other, we have one thing, they will never have a nuclear weapon. And --

And Mr. President, do you, you've killed a lot of their leader. Do you think you have to kill the D team as well? 'Cause we're down to the D team or the, or the E team or the X team. I don't even know who's running the country. Do you have to wipe them out?

Well, uh, let's see what happens. I mean, they, you know, a lot of people aren't really looking for that job. They have --

Huh.

We knocked out their first team, we knocked out their second team, we knocked out half of their third team. Uh, a lot of people aren't looking for that job, but, uh, I find them to be far superior than the first group, okay? The first group was --

Huh.

-- totally out of control and was doing the wrong thing for their country. But, uh, I think, we'll see what happens. The one thing I will say is they talk a lot differently when they're talking to me than they talk when they're talking to the media or the television set. It's a lot different.

They're --

You know, they're --

Their propaganda's terrible. Now I'm talking to Ambassador Oren --

Yeah. They're looking to do a job and, uh, they get on television and they say the exact opposite. Do you remember I was telling you that they wanted to make a deal, that they're talk- -- and they denied ever talking to me and I said, "What's going on over? These guys --" So they're pretty good at propaganda, I guess, but, uh, they have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no anti-aircraft, they have no nothing.

And you've done a good job crushing them. I, I was talking with Ambassador Oren, used to represent Israel, the United States.

Yeah.

I said, "I'm gonna talk to the president. What do you want me to say to him?" He said, "Tell him to finish the job. He'll be a world historical figure. He will be up there with the greats if he takes out this regime." Do you see it that way?

Well, a lot of people have said that. A lot of very smart people, a lot of semi-moderate people have said that. Others would like to see a deal, uh, because, you know, it's, uh, travesty when you do that, when you go that far. We've taken out much of what we'd have to do, probably another two weeks, two weeks, maybe three weeks.

Uh, and time is not of the essence for us. You know, I, I, I'll say to you as a very, very highly respected guy, a lot of people think, "Oh, I wanna do it for the midterms." I think, you know, I made a speech the other day in front of great senior citizens, unbelievable, hu- -- thousands and thousands of them.

And the thing that got the biggest, and then I went to Kravis Center and said the same thing in Palm Beach, a different kind of a group of people. Both of them, the, the thing that got the biggest hand, and you may have seen it on television was when I said, "Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."

That was big. The bigger was when you said these people are lunatics --

Well --

-- because they are.

I actually, I wanted to be nice. I actually said these lunatics will not have a --

Yeah.

I wanted to be a little bit nice. I wanted to clean up my act a little bit, but I said, "These lunatics will not have a nuclear weapon. Well, now I know you were watching. That's --

Oh, yeah, well, that's who they are. I have got grandkids. The, I, I understand the stakes. These people cannot, they're fanatics, they cannot have nuclear weapons. You think the country understands the stakes, Mr. President?

Well, I think they do because, you know, again, this was a pretty big sample. I'll bet we had 35, 40,000 people, uh, outside of, of the room where I was speaking where we had, I guess it holds five or 6,000 people and then they had another room that was packed of equal size and they had thousands of people outside.

Uh, they all went crazy when I said, and now I said, "No tax on tips." I said, "No tax on social security for our seniors, no tax on overtime." And, you know, that was great, but this blew it away. And then I see these fake polls that 32% of the public wants, meaning a lot more don't want. And I think they, probably the way they, you know, I could ask this question a lot of different ways, but if you just said, uh, to protect our country, w- -- e- -- to protect the world, I mean, look, the Middle East, Israel and the Middle East would be wiped out within the first hour that they had it.

Correct.

And you know, the Iran nuclear deal that was given to us by Barack Hussein Obama, that was a shortcut to a nuclear weapon, and we would not have been able to live with that. They would have used it. We couldn't allow this to happen --

JCPOA was a guarantee. It was a guarantee that they would get a weapon.

A --

Mr. President, I want to talk about --

-- a hundred percent.

-- red lines.

Yes, 100% they would --

Y- -- y- -- one of your red lines is they have to renounce having their nuclear ambition.

Correct.

Do we have to get back the highly-enriched uranium? Is that a red line --

Yes.

-- for a deal?

Yes, we do, as part of it --

Do they have to cap their missile production?

-- and by the way, from, from a standpoint of value, it's not very valuable, probably can't be used. They may not be able to get it, 'cause, you know, despite, they love to say, "Oh, maybe these great pilots didn't do their job." In the dead of night, at one o'clock in the morning with no moon, every single bomb went down those air shafts.

It's the most incredible i- -- totally, i- -- you know, I use the word obliterated, and the Atomic Energy Commission agreed with me. So people don't even know if you can get it. And by the way --

Uh-huh.

-- if they could have gotten it, they would have gotten it. It was, that was one of the great military maneuvers ever, between that --

I agree. It's glowing dust --

-- Venezuela --

-- but I, I'd like to get it back so that they can't be tempted. Is that part of your red lines? They got to --

Yes, it is.

-- give that back to u --

No, I, we want it back. We want it back --

How about --

-- a hundred percent.

-- is it a red line that they have to cap their missile program, and have intrusive inspections? 'Cause --

Yeah, but --

-- I don't trust them.

-- you know, you have to, you have to look a little bit like at the neighbors, you know, they can't have, uh, less than, you know, they say, "Well, what about other people?" Look, missiles are bad, uh, but yeah, th- -- and they do have to cap it. But th- -- this is about, they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

Yeah, well, that's number one. But what about proxy? They can't keep feeding Hamas and, and Hezbollah and --

Well --

-- the Houthis.

-- they're not going to, because right now the- -- if we left today, it would take them 20 years to build back their country, and it can never be the same. So if we left today. But you know, they have a problem coming up because they have, uh, i- -- it's a very explosive situation in a lotta different ways.

You know, their oil, when you turn off the oil, underground, and the mechanical too, but underground has a tendency, i- -- i- -- in, in like almost 100% of the cases, to literally explode and just destroy everything around it. And you can never get that oil again. In other words, you can get back 30 to 40%, but it can never be like it is right now.

It does tremendous damage to the oil system in a country if that happens.

Now, Mr. President --

-- and they, they've run out --

-- last time you were on --

-- they've run out of areas for storage.

Oh yeah.

And they say that in two weeks, you know, when they talk about time, in two weeks, they're gonna have an e- -- a natural explosion of their oil that's gonna make it impossible for them to really recover from.

They need a deal. Now, last time you were on, you said to the people of Iran, "Stay the course, help us on the way." But they murdered 40,000 of them.

Yeah.

Do you want the people of Iran to come out yet? Do you want them to stay inside?

Well, look, the problem is that, uh, you can't, if you have five people with a gun and 250,000, the five people with a gun, assuming it shoots fast enough, which they do, uh, the five people are g- -- they're gonna win. Uh, they have t- -- they don't have weapons. They lost 42,000, to be exact. 42,000 people in about a two-week, protestors, innocent unarmed protestors.

You know, they killed the wrestler, he was actually a world-class wrestler --

Yep.

-- they killed him and his two friends. They hung 'em from a crane in the square, and --

Well, they're lunatics.

-- so, so we're not, we're not dealing with, you know, your typical people. Despite all of that, we've obliterated their military. Uh, I mean, litera- -- now, they may have built up a little bit over the, you know, the one bad thing about a ceasefire is you can build up a little bit. We'll knock that out.

We know everything they've done. We'll knock that out in the first --

Is the --

-- few hours.

-- ceasefire over, Mr. Pre- -- is it over? Are we gonna hit 'em tonight?

Uh, well, I can't tell you that.

All right --

I mean --

-- that's fine.

-- you, you wouldn't, if I answered that question, you just say, "This man is not smart enough to be living in the --" [Laughs]

[Laughs]

-- "United States of America."

Gotta ask anyway --

But I appreciate the question.

-- gotta ask.

I w- -- I love the question.

Mr. President, I'm very disappointed in Europe. I'm a big Atlanticist.

Oh.

I'm very disappointed in Europe. I'm glad you're taking --

Are you?

-- the troops outta Germany.

Yep.

However, I'm very encouraged by Zelensky. President Zelensky sent the UAE all their anti-drone stuff. Do you feel better about Zelensky now?

Well, first of all, we have great, uh, drone stuff, and we have great anti-drone st- you know, when he offered the, uh, he's, he's a tricky person. He's a tricky guy and, uh, we wanna get a settlement, and, you know, they are losing territory, but it's, it's at a big cost to Russia and to them. And I like Zelensky.

I've always sort of gotten along with him, other than the one moment in the White House, which I thought was a little aggressive on his behalf, you know, the Oval Office that --

Oh yeah.

-- I'm sure you, perhaps, remember. But I will say that --

A- -- th- -- the vice-president. Yep.

-- look, uh, Biden gave him $350 billion worth of money and equipment and everything else, which is ridiculous that he did that, but he did it. Uh, but you know, the tr- -- and I give, I, I, I sell them equipment, full course. We sell, we sell it to the European Union, we sell it to NATO, basically, and they give it out.

I will say this, they fight. 'Cause whether the equipment's great or l- -- or less than great, they are able to fight, and they've held it back for a long time.

They're better than any of our NATO allies.

They fight against a very big monster - --

Well, Europe has been, uh, very disappointing, and one of the things that came out of our skirmish with Iran, I think, is that NATO wasn't there for us. You know, we spend, we spend, uh, trillions of dollars over a short, relatively short period of time on NATO. There was a time, before I got here, we were spending, we were paying for 100% the cost of NATO. Not 80, not 50, we were paying for 100%. Now they pay more, and they also pay for their, we no longer lose money because they have the money.

I say, "You have to pay for it. You buy missiles, you have to pay for it." They pay for it. They probably then give it over to Ukraine to use, and Ukraine uses them well, but, uh, it turned out to be a paper tiger. And when we needed NATO, you have to remember, I hope you remember. You got a lot of people listening and watching your show.

I hope you remember, when we needed NATO, they were not there for us.

Oh, I'm not gonna forget that. That's why --

And, and if we have a bigger case, if we have the big one, and hopefully we never will have the big one, you know, I'm going to the big one very soon, but, uh, and I look forward to it. I have a very good relationship with President Xi, but if we ever have the big one or a bigger one, I don't believe they'd be there for us, you know?

I think --

No, you're going to China. Let's talk about that, Mr. President.

Right.

Um, you've had this back and forth with Pope Leo. I wish Pope Leo would talk about Jimmy Lai. You talk about Jimmy Lai with the, with the chairman. Will you be bringing him up again?

I will. I brought him up and there's a lot of, uh, there's a little bitterness, I would say, with him and Jimmy Lai. You know, he was, uh, hong Kong was not as easy. But I, I will be, I will be bringing that up, yeah.

I wish the Pope would. I want the Pope to talk about Jimmy Lai and I want you to bring him home. That would be a good deal. Um --

Well, the Pope would rather talk about the fact that it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and I don't think that's very good. I think he's endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people, but I guess if it's up to the Pope, he'd, he thinks it's just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

He's from Chicago. You gotta learn a few things. He's from Chicago. Let me ask you about China. What do you want out of this trip with the chairman?

So, he's coming here in November or so, and, uh, we have a very good relationship. We're adversaries, but we have a very good relationship. When I took over, China was just ripping us like nobody's ever seen, and now it's the opposite. I mean, we're, we're doing very nicely with China, but we do have a, a very strong relationship, and I think it's better to get along with China than it is to fight with China, and they feel the same thing.

And don't kid yourself, they watched what happened in Venezuela. They watched what happened in Iran, because militarily, uh, Iran is essentially over. You understand? I mean, they're --

Oh yeah, I think, I, uh, they're beaten, but you do have to get rid of that regime. You gotta get the nuclear dust back.

I know. I mean, the one, the one thing is, look, anybody could say, "Gee, we're gonna drop a couple of mines in this rather narrow channel," and, you know, claim that, gee, they have power. Remember this, they said they were gonna take over the Hormuz Strait, and then, and when they, then we thought they might have, we took it over from them.

We have --

Yeah.

We have control. The one thing you can't stop, if somebody's gonna wanna drop a little mine in the middle and you happen to own a billion-dollar ship, I'm not sure you're gonna be thrilled about sailing up the harbor. So, uh, we'll --

They, they'll deal with it. You're taking all their oil. You're seizing their tankers out on the Indian Ocean. Who's that oil gonna go to, Mr. President? Is that for the people of Iran when you eventually sell it?

Well, most of it comes back, most of it comes back into the United States. Well, the people of Iran, so, look, if they had guns, which they don't have, if they had guns, you know, guns were sent and other people took those guns. If they had guns, they would fight back. I'm convinced of that. But, you know, you can't have an unarmed population against people with AK-47s and stand there, even if you have 250,000 people.

So, you know, you started off by asking me, would I like to see them? And I'm very torn on it because they lost 42,000 people in the first two weeks. I don't really want to see that.

Oh, gosh, no.

They have to have guns, and --

Okay.

-- I think they're getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they'll fight like, like, as good as anybody there is. But when you have people that are armed and, you know, they have very good weapons on the other side. Now, they've been depleted. A lot of the people fighting don't want to fight anymore.

They're not getting paid anymore, from what I'm hearing, because we have, we have obliterated them. Like in the military, we've done the same thing to them financially, economically. Uh, we don't think they're paying their soldiers and their guard, uh, anymore, so they've got a lot of problems. We, we'll see what happens.

We have --

Any signs that the regular army --

-- all the cards.

Any signs that the regular army might march in and take over from the fanatics? They do have the regular army.

I guess things, you know, we purposely have, uh, not gone after them too much because we think that they're much more moderate, actually. You know what I mean?

Oh yeah. Oh, it's a smart plan.

They're a much more moderate group, and we're not looking to decimate the army. You know, when they did, uh, Iraq, uh, between, and, and the worst thing was they, they got rid of all the leaders, so nobody knew who the leader was, and then we, all of a sudden, you had ISIS. We don't want to do that. Um, the Venezuela, the people running Venezuela right now, it's running very, it's running incredibly, actually.

It's so smooth. We've taken out many times in money, many times the cost of the war, prosecuting the war in Venezuela, and when was the last time you heard that? And I --

Yeah, not at all.

And I, when I say many times, like 25 times. And we get along great with the people. Uh, they respect us, they listen to us. And you know, Venezuela is, it's actually, it's a happy country again. The people are happy. We have all the big oil companies moving in, spending a lot of money building rigs because their rigs were all depleted and gone, rusted out, closed for years and years.

Uh, no, Venezuela is a proud country.

Very serious question, Mr. President. Are you, are you gonna do for Cuba what you've done for Venezuela, bring in new leadership and free those people up to be happy again? Is Cuba on the line?

Well, I don't want to really talk about Cuba too much other than to say that, uh, perhaps on the way back from Iran, as we finish that one, you'd like to do one after the other, right? But, uh, we'll stop the, uh, Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the most gorgeous carrier I've ever seen. We'll stop the Abraham Lincoln a couple of hundred yards offshore and we'll watch them wanting to do something.

No, the people in Cuba, I mean, the country is devastated right now. It's just devastated. So it would be an honor to free it up. You know, I got all the Cuban vote. I got 94% of --

Yeah.

-- the Cuban vote in the US and, uh, you know, I, I have an obligation, frankly, to do something. It's what they did to the Cubans, what they did to the families of the people that are living in the United States is unthinkable. Very much like Iran in that way.

There right now, Mr. President, before I le- -- run out of time, I wanna ask you about, uh, the attempt on your life. And I'm very, everyone who's listening, very grateful, very prayerful that you were not harmed. There have been four attempts on your life. First of all, I'm not gonna ask you about the shooter's manifesto.

I can't believe Nora O'Donnell did that. That was rehearsed, of course. They wanted you to --

She's terrible. She's so terrible.

They wanted you to walk off. Did you think about walking off?

No, because, uh, then you make it a bigger story, actually. She's terrible. I mean, she's interviewed me be- -- she's a regular person that gets paid a lot of money. She's just, she's no different. I could get any woman off the street practically, and they would do just as good a job as her. There's nothing special.

So --

And it actually, as soon as she said the word manifesto, I said, "Here we go with the nonsense again. You know, this is a sick guy, a really sick guy, a deranged guy, and he writes stuff." And I was none of those things, and was never proven to be one of those things, and that she would say that was disgusting.

And, uh, the problem with walking off, it's like, uh, it becomes a bigger story.

Yeah.

And you don’t want to have that.

I, I figured. Well, I was on Saturday with Aishah over on Fox.

Right.

And she asked me what about the Democrats? Because of Graham Platner and they got the El-Sayed guy in Michigan and the Flanagan lady in Minnesota. I said, I think this is a direct quote, "President Trump has broken the Democrats." I think they've, they've lost the thread about serving the working man. Have you done that?

Do you think you've broken the Democrats?

Well, I don't want to be the one to say it, but there is such a thing as Trump derangement syndrome, and nobody's seen ever anything like it. And part of it, because we've really done well. Look at our stock market. It's at an all time high, in the middle of what some people could consider a war, okay? It's, I don't consider it a big one, but it's still a war.

And it, our stock market's at an all time high. More people are working in the United States right now than at any time in the history of our country. And I could go list after list. We, we're drilling more oil. We are now doing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that.

Wow, um.

And very importantly, you know, one of the reasons when I first did this, I thought maybe the market would go down 20 or 25%. And I was okay with that because I know it would come back up, but I thought it would go down and I thought oil could hit 200, 250. Well, oil's at $100, $102, and you d- -- and you did too.

Most people did. You know what? It's, the genius of the whole thing is people have found ways around the Hormuz Strait. They're heading up to Texas. They're heading up to Alaska. They're heading up to Louisiana, and you see it, we see it through satellite. There are ships all over the ocean coming up. They find it. They find ways of, of, you know, just, "You can't go to Hormuz, they find them.

Well, let's go to Texas." So, uh, I, I, it's just really sort of an amazing thing. They --

Uh, heh.

-- find ways of getting it done. So it's not gonna be at 250 and 300. And the stock market, again, the stock market's at a record high. To, to think that they're getting --

And I, and I think Republicans have gotta put their arms around this and say, "We've got to win in Iran. We're not worried about the midterms." Are you worried about the midterms, because --

No, because I have --

-- it's so much more important to win?

Yeah. I mean, the one thing is that, uh, you know, I've gotten such, you know, I won the Hispanic vote. Look at the votes I got. I got votes --

Hey.

-- and, and also I got traditional Republican, but I got votes that really have, along the Texas border, I won every single city and town along the Texas border to Mexico. It's never, nobody's ever, no Republican has ever won one town. So the question is, is it transformable? And I will tell you, and I don't know your view on this.

I listen to you, but I don't know your view on this, and I don't know why, but they have to terminate the filibuster so we can approve things that --

Oh, we disagree, Mr. President.

Well, I know --

We disagree.

-- that we disagree. I finally disagree with you.

Uh, w- -- we, we, we won't waste time on that. I, I'm afraid --

Bu- -- but let me, let me just --

-- the Democrats will pack the Supreme Court.

-- I know, but let me just ask you. You know the Democrats are gonna do it, right?

No, I don't think they will. I, they, they, they, they say, they talk a good game, but they don't deliver. They're not like you.

I think, I think I'd win a lot of money from you, but that's okay.

No, you probably would.

I don't mind if you say that, but I, I'm very surprised at you because I thought you were a brilliant man. [Laughs]

Well --

Go ahead.

-- I've always been for the filibuster. I'll argue it out with you, but more important that people hear your, your, um, view.

Well, they have to, they have to do the Save America Act, and if they do the filibuster, they do the Save America. And you have to have voter ID, and you have to have proof of citizenship.

I'm for that. I just wanna win 60 Senate seats and do that. Uh, if we lose the House, Mr. President, they will impeach you. Does it bother you? They'll impeach you four times. Does that bother you?

Well, they'll impeach me like they did the last time, and now they wanna overturn those impeachments because there was total nonsense. And what we've learned even since, and look at all the stuff that's coming out now about all these people. Uh, it's a, it's a corrupt group of people. And the Republicans play much nicer, okay?

Yes, we do.

They don't go around impeaching somebody. Joe Biden should be impeached. What he did was so bad. Now, in the case of Biden, he had no idea he was doing it, right?

He should've been removed from office under the 25th.

With, with the Biden administration, he had some very smart lunatics circling him around that beautiful, as you know, the beautiful Oval Office and that incredible desk I sit behind, you know? I, hey, look, he had smart people, really radical left, and they would destroy the country. Open borders ha- -- to me, the biggest sin of all was allowing 25 million people into our country, murderers, drug dealers, uh, people from mental institutions, and we're doing great with it despite the courts that are so stacked against us. We're doing great with it.

So let me ask you about --

I don't know if you know, murders were down the lowest in 125 years --

Oh, yes.

-- despite all of this.

I had out of town visitors ye- -- down by National Stadium yesterday. They said, "How is the National Guard working out?" It's beautiful. It's very, very nice. Let me ask you about the White House --

Washington now is one of the safest cities in the country.

Yes.

And a year ago, when I came in, it was one of the most unsafe places in the country to be. We took out 5,000 career criminals. And one stat, before we get, one stat, 2% of the people create 90% of the crime. And I love that stat because it means you can fix it. And we've --

So --

-- done that wherever we go.

-- I know you have to run. You, you offered to the White House Correspondence Association to use the ballroom when it gets done.

Yeah.

I'm just wondering, could they put a te- -- a tent on the backyard? Would you let them do a tented thing on the south lawn to do their dinner?

Well, we've done tents for years. Tents don't work. And when it rains, you know, it's very wetland here. It's on a marshland. And when it rains, it's brutal. It's, you know, you have a thing and the, the water literally goes over their shoes. Uh, I would do it. I, I mean, more importantly for the future, we're building a room.

You know, it's ahead of, ahead of schedule, on budget, ahead of schedule. It'll be one of the most beautiful, and one of the safest ballrooms anywhere in the world. But it'll be one of the most beautiful ballrooms. It's been needed for 150 years. And --

I approve of the ballroom. I've been in White House. I worked for Reagan. There's no place to have a real dinner.

No.

It's a nightmare. And it's gotta be safe. Two final last fun questions, Mr. President, for your bio.

Yeah.

If there's no McDonald's around, Burger King or Wendy's?

Well, I'll tell you, [Laughs] you know, a friend of mine, uh, he's sort of an old friend, but he's not really a friend anymore. I don't like him too much, but, uh, I've, I've always liked Wendy's.

Okay.

I have liked Wendy's.

Okay.

But the person that controls it, I don't like him so much anymore, so I don't wanna give money, but Wendy's is pretty good.

Okay. And last fun question.

I'll do that for old time sake.

On par fives, uh, when you've had a good drive, do you always go for the green and two or do you lay up?

No. Well, it depends. You know, I hit it good. I won 38 club championships, including seniors. It's a lot. But, you know, it depends on the length. Uh, a lot of times, I mean, that's like strategies. Like, I knew a guy that you would've known, I won't mention the name. He went all the time, and that's his, his whole life was that like that.

No, I don't always go for it. I think sometimes you're better off laying up for a wedge and, and, uh, being safe. Uh, I, I, would, would I take the guaranteed par as opposed to risk it for a birdie? I, I would lay up a lot, but if I could reach it, I’d generally try it.

Don't, don't take the wedge on Iran, Mr. President. Hit for the green. Go for the green on Iran.

Well, I, I know how you feel and, uh, I think you're gonna be extremely happy when it all ends, and it shouldn't be that long. We're trying to be nice, but, uh, I know exactly. And some very, very smart people, uh, feel that you're right about that. And these are some very unreliable people --

Well, it's the most important thing you've done in your two terms.

-- if you make a deal, you know?

Yeah. It's the most important thing you've done in two terms, and I applaud.

Well --

I hope you see it through.

Well, somebody should have done it long before I got here.

Yes.

47 years of this stuff, whether the SS Coal or what, you can mention a hundred different things, and thousands and thousands of American lives, and thousands of kids are walking around, now they're no longer kids, without arms, without legs, with a face that got blown to pieces because of, uh, Soleimani, who I killed.

Yep.

I killed Soleimani. That was another big one. I did a lot you, I did a lot. [Laughs]

Well, keep, keep it going, Mr. President, because --

I will. I will.

-- it's, it's the number one thing. Thank you for your time, sir. I appreciate it.

And you keep it going too. And you're wrong about the filibuster, but other than that, Hugh --

[Laughs]

-- have a good time.

Another time, thank you sir.

Okay. Bye.