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Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to Reporters After Air Force One Arrival - March 11, 2026

12:00 AM
Donald Trump 00:00:00-00:00:16 (16 sec)

Okay. Thank you very much. I think it was a great trip, and we have very good news on the war front, namely they are absolutely being destroyed. Iran is being absolutely decimated. That's all I can say.

Question 00:00:16-00:00:27 (11 sec)

President Trump, what have you heard about this bulletin that came out about a possible Iran revenge plot in California where there will be some kind of a boat off shore launching drones-

Donald Trump 00:00:27-00:00:27 ( sec)

Yeah.

Question 00:00:27-00:00:29 (2 sec)

-- towards the coast?

Donald Trump 00:00:29-00:00:46 (17 sec)

It's being investigated, but you have a lot of things happening, and all we can do is take them as they come. Th- -- the war itself is being prosecuted as well as anybody has ever seen, and this is other countries telling me too. Big countries, powerful countries, I -- that they've never seen anything like it.

Question 00:00:46-00:00:46 (1 sec)

President --

Donald Trump 00:00:46-00:00:54 (7 sec)

And they also agree with what I'm doing. They say it, it's an evil country and it's been for 47 years that way.

Question 00:00:54-00:01:02 (9 sec)

[Inaudible] -- hit us bad. Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?

Donald Trump 00:01:02-00:01:12 (9 sec)

I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border, but we know where most of them are. We've got our eye on all of them, I think.

Question 00:01:12-00:01:13 (2 sec)

Is it dozens?

Donald Trump 00:01:13-00:01:30 (17 sec)

They came in through the open border policies of Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, the worst President in the history of our country. And we've got our eyes on all of them. But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody's seen before in my opinion.

Question 00:01:30-00:01:31 (1 sec)

Mr. President --

Donald Trump 00:01:31-00:01:33 (2 sec)

It's pretty, it's pretty amazing to watch.

Question 00:01:33-00:01:39 (6 sec)

-- can you give us a timeline on when you're planning to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a timeline of when that could happen?

Donald Trump 00:01:39-00:02:09 (29 sec)

We're gonna be doing it very quickly, and then we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves, you know? If you remember, I filled them up, and then I had a deal to go at the highest level, a level that's never been, and humored the Democrats with $25, and it was turned down. You remember that, Peeta? Almost before your time, but not quite, but it was, uh, we had a deal at $25. Think of that. $25 a barrel and the Democrats turned it down.

Donald Trump 00:02:09-00:02:16 (7 sec)

We're gonna fill. We're gonna tap it out like it's never been, but they turned that down and now it's, uh, a lot higher.

Note 00:02:16-00:02:16 (1 sec)

[Crosstalk]

Question 00:02:16-00:02:23 (7 sec)

-- are you considering having the US Treasury department file oil fields as a means to keep the oil prices down or bring the oil prices down?

Donald Trump 00:02:23-00:02:48 (25 sec)

Well, we're gonna be in very good shape. You see what's happening. Uh, they are pretty much at the end of the line. Doesn't mean we're gonna end it immediately, but they, they are, they've got no Navy, they've got no Air Force, they've got no anti-air traffic anything. They have no systems of control. We're just riding free range over that country, and now we're gonna look very strongly at, uh, the Straits.

Donald Trump 00:02:48-00:03:07 (19 sec)

The Straits are in great shape. We've knocked out all of their boats. Uh, they have some missiles, but not very many. I think we're in very good, we're in very good shape. The main thing is we have to win this then, win it quickly, but win it, and there are many people, I'm just watching, uh, some of the news.

Donald Trump 00:03:07-00:03:45 (38 sec)

Most people say it's already been won. It's just a question of when, when do we stop. We don't want to let it regrow, and ideally would like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing. In other words, they can build a country. Now, one other thing. We can hit sections of Karan and other places that, if you do it, it'll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country, and we don't want that, but we can hit electric, uh, we can take apart their electric capacity within one hour and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it. So ideally, we're not gonna be doing that.

Donald Trump 00:03:45-00:03:46 (1 sec)

Thank you very much everybody.

Aide 00:03:46-00:03:48 (2 sec)

Thanks for the questions.

Question 00:03:48-00:03:48 ( sec)

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