Interview: Donald Trump Calls In for a Live Interview on Fox News' Fox & Friends - November 3, 2026

Joining us right now over the phone, Mr. President, thank you so much for coming on this election day.

Yes, good morning.

Good morning. What is your final pitch to the voter today?

Well, we have to keep America great. We're great now; we were terrible two years ago. We were a laughingstock all over the world. The leaders of other countries didn't even take us seriously; they thought we were fools. And we're hot now, we're the hottest country in the world, we're respected by everybody.

President Xi was here two weeks ago. He said what you've done is amazing. He said the change -- I've never seen anything like it, and everybody says that. And they say right now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're going to keep it that way and get better.

Mr. President, what do you say to the voters that are on the fence today? My home state of Texas, you look at Michigan as well, what do you tell them? Why should they vote straight ticket red today?

Well, when I took over -- you remember very well, Lawrence, when I took over, the border was open. We were having millions and millions of people pour in, many criminals, many, many criminals and murderers, 11,888 murderers, people from other jails. They released jails from the Congo, in Africa, from all over South America, from Asia.

They were pouring into our country, it was just a horrible sight and they were very dangerous. And we got many of them out, we got the worst of the worst out and we're getting others out. We're getting the bad ones out first and these -- the toughest job I was given. The inflation is solved. You know oil, you saw oil came down $10, a record yesterday, dropped $10. And the Hormuz Strait, we have total control of it with the Navy blockade.

I mean, everything's going good. Everybody respects us again. We have a great country. The taxes -- you just got the biggest tax cuts in history and no tax on tips, no tax on -- no tax on Social Security for our great -- think of it, social security for our seniors, no tax on overtime and so many things are happening.

We just had our best export numbers, in other words, we make products. Remember, Barack Hussein Obama said we don't make products anymore, we'll never make products. We just made so many products. We just had our best, what's called export -- the export number, that's where we export things that we make.

And number one, by far, better than any number we've ever had because we're now a manufacturing country again. Tariffs have brought tremendous -- Audi just announced a $40 billion plant, going to make 200,000 cars a year. Toyota is coming in, Ford is expanding, General Motors is expanding. Other car companies are pouring in because they don't want to pay tariffs.

I mean, we have a thing going that nobody has ever seen before, and that includes China and other countries. And they will let you know we're leading in SI, which is Super Intelligence, we're leading by a lot in SI, and nobody expected that either. And they're going to make their own energy; they're not taking it for anybody else.

We make our own; they're going to make their own energy and give it to our old broken grid. We have an old grid from 150 years that's, you know, old. It's old and delicate, and they're going to be actually fixing it, but they're not taking anything from it, they're making things. You know, like the data centers, they make their own energy, they're making everything and they're giving the excess back in, and they're going to pay big fees to individual people.

The communities are getting thousands of dollars now individually, I'm talking about people that live in -- I told these guys, got a lot of money, pay the people, let them be happy. Give them $10,000, $15,000, $20,000 each. We had a case, as you know, in Louisiana where there was opposition to this beautiful data center, and there was a lot of opposition.

They worked a deal where they're giving teachers $50,000. All of a sudden, there's not opposition and they want more. When can you bring the next data center? So, we've got it going like nobody has, frankly, ever seen before. And we also, remember we had a border that was so bad, 25 million people came in. And if you look at Texas, if you look at these states, any of the border states, you look at them, they were a criminal mess, and now they're perfect.

We have the lowest crime numbers in 125 years, and that's despite the fact that many people were let into our country who were criminals, murderers, they were drug dealers, they were rapists, they were -- they were everything you could be. And they came out of prisons; they released entire prison populations out of Venezuela and many countries.

So, we've never done anything, we've never been this strong and we have never been this respected. Other than that, what do I have to say?

So, Mr. President, there's some things happening in this country that really has nothing to do with you, but we're in the middle of it, and that's the rise of anti-Semitism, anti-Israeli sentiment. It seems like the next generation has no interest in providing arms, selling arms to Israel, and that's really what El-Sayed is running on in Michigan.

He's counting on the next generation propelling him to that Senate seat, and that's something that's really taken root after the October 7th attacks. How do you view anti-Semitism in this country, and what can you do to combat it? Along with the anti-Israeli sentiment that seems to be pervasive on the far right?

Well, first of all, I have a tremendous relationship in terms of partnership with Israel. We have a tremendous fighting force to keep the Middle East -- look at the Middle East, I have total control. We do it, we have a helper and it's Israel because, you know, we are the big, they are the small. They call it the big Satan, and the small Satan and we will be death to America and all that.

Well, we have had a tremendous relationship. But what it is is immigration, a tremendous -- under Barack Hussein Obama, tremendous numbers of people came in from the Middle East who hate Jewish people and it's become pervasive and it's a terrible thing. But it's come in and you see rallies with hundreds of thousands of people, and they're from -- largely from the Middle East and this was let in by Barack Hussein Obama.

If you were Christian, you couldn't come in. If you happened to be Muslim, he would let you in and this has spread and this has spread in Europe. I mean, you take a look at France. I mean, I told President Macron, he's a friend of mine, but I met him for the first time, like, 11 years ago. We had a great relationship, but I said you're going to lose your country because everybody was coming in from the Middle East and, you know, they have mosques where they used to have churches.

And within 15 years, 10 years, they're going to be largely a Muslim country.

And it's happened.

I said you're going to lose your country. And with that comes hatred of Jewish people and long-term hatred of Jewish people. We have closed borders now. You know, we have -- I don't know if you saw it, we just got the number 18 -- 17 now 18 -- 18 months not one person allowed into our country through our southern border, which was an open sieve.

It was an open wound, our southern border under Biden and Obama. Obama let them in in a different way, but they came in by the millions and the people that came in who hate Israel. Now, as far as paying Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we're stopping.

And they're fine with it because, you know, they've become a very successful country, they don't need it and we won't be paying anymore, Israel. So, it's just a wasted thing because we've already agreed that by the end of this year, we won't be paying Israel. Now we'll help Israel if they need it, you know, they've been a great ally, and we've been the greatest of all allies to many, many countries.

We've been great to many countries.

So, Mr. President, you're saying you're not giving them $4 billion worth of weapons? You're not -- you're no longer --

But we have total control -- We have total control, Brian. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait, total control of the Hormuz Strait. Nobody thought that was possible. Our Navy, our blockade, our military is incredible. We make the best equipment. We have the people that know how to use the equipment the best.

You know, it's very complex stuff; when you go to the Patriots and the Tomahawks, it's very complex. You have to -- you need smart people to operate, highly, highly technical, unbelievable. We had 11 missiles, 111 missiles shot at our aircraft carrier, one of them six months ago at almost the same time, every -- big ones, big missiles, very fast, 4,000 miles an hour.

Every single one of those missiles was hit without one wasted shot, and they were all laying in the ocean, these missiles that were shot at us by Iran, every single one of them. Now, you know, who could do that? Nobody could do that. Five years ago, six years ago, nobody could do it. We have the best equipment.

Look at Venezuela; we took over what Venezuela -- they were loaded up with Chinese equipment and they were loaded. You know, Venezuela is a strong military. We took over Venezuela in 48 minutes. Their equipment didn't work and we went in; they call it silent and violent. We went into Venezuela; nobody ever saw it. And these were pros.

They have a Venezuelan general, he's been fighting for a long time, different battles, and he said, I've never seen anything like that in my life. They were all set to take us. Those planes started coming off the aircraft carriers at about 12:00 in the evening, 12:30, and they knew they were coming and they were ready.

So, Mr. President --

There wasn't a thing they could do. We have the best people, the best military and the best equipment.

So, Mr. President, we know we had to take this little detour because Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.

Yep, we had to do it.

But after the election --

And it's been totally successful, by the way.

Yes, sir, it's been one of the greatest victories of this administration. But what's going to happen after the election day? After today? What's the next move?

Well, we'll see. Look, I'm not looking to, you know, kill lots of people but if we have to, we'll have to but I'm not looking to do that. And we're very strong right now. They are -- if you look at Venezuela -- look, take a look at Venezuela. In 42 minutes, 48 minutes, the war was over and we knocked out a very powerful force, it was over almost immediately.

And now we're getting hundreds of billions of dollars every single week, and we're getting millions of barrels of oil every week. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. We paid for the cost of the war, by the time we spend a little more time, a hundred times over. You know, to the victor belong the spoils.

Well, Iran could be the same thing, but in a way better because Iran had a nuclear weapon. They were all set, they would have had it within two weeks. They had the JCPOA with Barack Hussein Obama. That was a road to a nuclear weapon. You know, I don't know if people know, it would have expired -- if I didn't terminate it in my first term, which was one of the great things I did.

It would have expired in exactly -- it would have expired three years ago. So, we didn't even have -- it was a short-term agreement. You know, they talk about it; it was a terrible agreement, and it would have expired three years ago. And so, we were left out here in this position, but I terminated it anyway, a great deal that I terminated it. But Iran had the threat of a nuclear weapon.

Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. They are the meanest, they're very tough, I see why the Middle East was afraid of them. They're very tough, but they've been decapitated. They have no navy -- they had 159 ships.

They've got rockets.

Every ship -- Brian, every ship is at the bottom of the sea. They had 288 airplanes; every airplane is laying on small little pieces, tiny little pieces all over the runways of Iran, they have no airplanes. They have no anti-aircraft, we took some out last night, just a minor attack, it wasn't war. We -- they had a -- they built an Anti-Aircraft facility.

It took them about two months; we watched it get built. As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely, not a big war. And you know, when you talk about war, this isn't really war, we haven't -- I mean, we hit them very hard at the beginning, but that was it. We knocked out their nuclear capability; we knocked out their dust.

There's thousands of tons of rock sitting on top and we have that under surveillance. If anyone went there, we'd hit it again. But we have it under -- you know, we have Space Force that I developed in my first term. We can see the badge, the name tag on a man's chest from outer space. It's the most unbelievable stuff you've ever seen.

It's incredible. Mr. President --

So, we have that all under surveillance, just to finish. So, we have everything good, but this isn't really war, we haven't shot anything. We're not -- you know, war is like you would see Russia-Ukraine, that's a war. War would be the Second World War, where you just keep fighting and fighting and there's no time to not fight.

I haven't -- I mean, we don't even -- they -- we have them totally where we want. We could finish them off, or we could be nice and let thousands of people live that would get killed in a war. But when was the last time that we really shot anything? We took over the Hormuz Strait; we have total control. You know, the Wall Street Journal reported we had more oil leaving the state last week than at any time in the history of the Hormuz Strait.

But no fertilizer and no natural gas -- but no fertilizer and no natural gas.

Can I interrupt? Can we get back, Mr. President?

Hey Brian, I'll get that, too, if you want. You want fertilizer? I'll get all the fertilizer you want from them. But you know who's going to give us a lot of fertilizer is Canada because we're close to a trade deal where they're going to get fertilizer without any tariffs. Canada was tariffing us tremendously at 401 percent for years and nobody talked about it and they're not they're not doing it anymore.

So, we're not going to need fertilizer but -- because Canada is very good, we're going to make a deal with Canada very soon, we're going to make a great deal.

That's great, the farmers are going to love that.

They've taken advantage of us for many years, and they're not going to take advantage of us anymore.

Mr. President, could we talk about the election? You have just -- you had 30 stops in 20 states. You said -- you've been saying this is the most important midterm in our lifetime. When you look at the list, when you look at what's happening in Michigan, that's pretty scary when you know El-sayed's platform.

There's Maine, that's a close race. There's South Carolina, a close race. Ohio, the special election for the last two years of the seat held by JD Vance. And then there is Alaska, that decoy Dan controversy. A federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit to seek a delay in that certification. Is the DOJ set to appeal that?

What happens and what's your opinion?

Well, let me just tell you, it's the most important because we have indeed made America great again. America, you know, MAGA is this thing -- we'll never give up on MAGA because Make America Great Again. But in a way, it's a little obsolete because the word again, America's great now, America is respected all over the world.

Did you see we just set the all-time export number. In other words, Barack Hussein Obama made a statement we will never be a manufacturer -- a very big statement, terrible statement -- that we'll never manufacture again. Well, we're manufacturing more steel now than ever. Our products are unbelievable and we're manufacturing.

We just said in the history of the USA, the export -- we exported more things for sale to other countries than ever before. That's how we became great. And now we just broke the record because we have plants, we have factories, everything else being built like never before.

And it's 10 straight months of growth on manufacturing, 10 straight months.

But, Mr. President, what happened in Alaska is really dirty. It was a whole plot --

It's a disgrace that a judge could view it like that, Lawrence. These judges are out of control. Look, it's a very simple thing, it was a fraud. You had the Democrat Party headed up by Elias, their lawyer, who is a bad guy, very bad guy -- should go to jail, in my opinion. But you had the Democrat Party look all over Alaska for somebody named Sullivan, they interviewed numerous people, OK. You know, I don't know if you know it, but they also put somebody else on, not the Sullivan, but they put another person on the ballot that has nothing to do with politics, nobody talks about him.

But they went out, they find a guy named Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr., and he agrees to partake absolutely illegally. It's a total fraud. It's a fraud on the voters and it's a criminal act. So, they find this guy who never voted before who said, no, it was just -- I really just felt very ambitious, I wanted to run for Senate.

That was his first statement before. Actually, I give the New York Times a lot of credit. I'm sure they wish they didn't release the story. I'm sure the reporter will shortly be fired, it got under them, I mean, if they knew about it. But I don't want to say that because, honestly, the story was very good, I couldn't believe it. I guarantee you the reporter is going to be gone; he's going to be gone very soon.

You know, he probably wrote the story, they put it in, and by the time they read it, the top guy said, oh my God, I can't believe we did this. But they released a lion. And what happened, and very important, that it was a total fraud. Now this is Russia, Russia, Russia, this is all of their fraud, that's all they're good at. Their policy is so bad that they have to create fraud.

Their policy is so bad that they have to let illegal immigrants into our country, give them amnesty, get them registered, let them vote. That's all, you know, when millions of people come in, but you just heard one of the greatest patriots we have in the whole country, Tom Homan, saying that under President Trump, the greatest things he's ever -- he's worked for seven presidents, he said there's not even a contest.

He said, what we've done is something that he never even thought was possible to do, and he's phenomenal. So, we have done an unbelievable job, and we can't let that job be turned around by a person who's a Muslim Brotherhood jihadist from Michigan, or people like this character that doesn't eat meat, doesn't like gas, and doesn't let guns be in Texas.

Think of this, Talafreako -- he's against meat, guns and gas, yet he's supposed to win an election.

Mr. President, the one thing I'd --

By the way, he's running against the best attorney general in the history of Texas, and Ken Paxton should win.

Right. Mr. President, I just want to clarify something you said earlier when it comes to Israel aid. Are we to understand we've cut off aid to Israel? We were giving them $4 billion and you're no longer going to be giving them $4 billion?

We were giving them $4 billion, we are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year.

Why?

Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them, because they don't need it. And because why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayad when they don't need it? It's a bad -- it's a bad talking point because when you say, why don't we give everybody $4 billion? Israel's our number one; we give them more than anybody else and they no longer need it. We've been doing it for years, I've been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country, they don't need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.

But Bibi Netanyahu, we reached an agreement on that. And can I be honest with you? He brought it up. He brought it up. He said I think it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid, because he understands that this is one of their points of contention. Israel's been a great ally, much more reliable than most.

I mean, look what happened with Europe, although they did give me Greenland for the United States. When I say give, I mean --

Can I ask again? I'm sorry for not knowing this, but do you mean $4 billion in military aid, actually hardware, is being cut off? Or do you mean $4 billion as in a check went to them?

I'm giving in any way you want to define it; you can consider it barter, you can consider it military aid or cash. Well, we give them $4 billion of things and money, and they don't need it. And I was approached by Bibi Netanyahu, and we've been talking about it for a couple of years because it's a lot of money.

You know, I'm somebody that wants to have a balanced budget. I'd love to be able to balance our budget, and I think I could do it. If we could -- if we had a fed that got interest rates down, we would have a balanced budget quickly. It's a shame, the interest rates, and, you know, we have a fed that's populated by Obama and Biden people, and they don't want to do the right thing.

We should pay the lowest interest rate anywhere in the world because we are the most prime country. And without us, all these prime countries, like if you think about Switzerland, we buy their watches, we lose $50 billion a year with Switzerland. We don't have to lose $50 billion; if we don't buy their watches we'd just save $50 billion.

That's one example, but we should pay the lowest interest rate anywhere in the world, and they've got to get to it, that's all.

So, Mr. President, just to put a button on this, because I think I understand your thinking on this. The left has used the Israel relationship, a great partnership, they've weaponized against all our candidates. And you're saying we're still close with Israel, but we're going to remove this talking point off the table.

Well said, It's great word usage, talking point. The best talking point that these lunatics have on the left -- they're lunatics, because they have no idea that -- they have no idea how great our country has become, the way that we're a beacon. Our country is the greatest country anywhere in the world and two years ago, under Biden, we were a laughingstock.

The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about when -- it's no secret, as a signal of unfairness and we can't allow that to happen. I don't like that because, you know, it's too easy. It's almost too easy a target. And Bibi and I have been talking and we've agreed. He was -- he'd very understanding of it. Look, when you see that rally, stop paying the bill.

Are you going to give them the option to buy? Are you going to give them the option to buy weapons?

When you see their rallies, when you see this lunatic that's running in Michigan -- he talks about the money that we pay them all the time. He says, why are we giving Israel $4 billion? You take that off the table; they don't need it. And let me tell you something, if they do need it, if for some reason they do need it or they need help.

So, I'm the number one, I was so voted -- I'm at 99 percent approval rating in Israel, can you believe it? In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the US, I'll move to Israel, become prime minister. But I'm at 9 -- think of it, I'm at 99. I have the highest approval rating of anybody in history because I've been, you know, I've been -- they've been a great partner.

But what we did, we stopped Iran. Iran was an unstoppable force; we knocked the hell out of them. They now have no economy, no money, their soldiers aren't being paid, their navy is gone, their air force is gone, all of their equipment is gone, anti-Aircraft, they have very little manufacturing capacity.

They had a lot.

Are you giving them the options to buy the weapons from us still? Or are you cutting off weapons sales?

Oh, yes, they can buy whatever they want. They can buy whatever they want, so can Europe. We make the greatest weapons in the world. And by the way, that's another thing. Our defense contractors are now building 18 different factories to make Tomahawks, Patriots, THAADs, to make all of the best weapons in the world.

We make the best weapons; nobody can compete with our weapons. The problem is we didn't produce enough of them fast enough. Now, at my demand, not -- it wasn't, like, nice about it. You know, our company -- the countries -- the companies -- they took a $51 billion stock buyback before I got here. They were spending their money on buying back stock instead of building plants.

And I made it illegal; they go to jail if they do that. So, now what they're doing is they're building plants all over the United States. If you take a look at all of the countries, Raytheon, every one of them, they're great companies, they're all building plants. Lockheed is building four or five major plants.

Boeing is building three plants; they're building a fantastic plant in -- they have Arizona, different plants -- I said different places. Always good to spread it out. You don't want them concentrated because of warfare; you always want to spread them out. But we have 18, 19 plants to make Patriots, to make THAADs.

We'll have so many Patriots within a year.

And we're stocked up now, you know, they had that fake rumor that we were low on ammo, and we really weren't. We were low on certain things, and the word low is too strong. But we were sort of diminishing our thing because we gave so much to Ukraine under Biden and much more so than Iran -- we use very little on Iran by comparison.

We would give -- we gave $350 billion worth of equipment to Ukraine, and we never asked for money. And, you know, I still give to Ukraine, I give it through the European Union, but they pay us 100 percent on the dollar for it. We still give them, but they pay us. And they would have paid Biden had he asked, but he didn't ask.

He never asked. He gave them $350 billion worth of cash and equipment, and he never asked for anything.

Mr. President, we just want to thank you so much for --

So, we're all for them. Europe has been good. Remember, they just gave the United States the greatest gift we were ever given. Do you know what it was? Greenland. We just got Greenland. You know that, right?

And you negotiated that, Mr. President.

Well, it's a military deal with Greenland, right? And rare earth.

Only Lawrence could have negotiated a better deal.

Well, Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us. I know you're going to be watching the results from the White House tonight.

I am, I am and I think the results are going to be better than you think. We did the tour; I did a tour for 30 days and, I want to tell you, those stadiums were packed. We had people, nobody's ever seen it, I think they had a big effect -- I think they will have a big effect on tonight. The spirit and the love of our country is tremendous.

And again, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world, the most respected country -- most respected country anywhere in the world. Look at France, look at Europe, it's all falling apart. We are the most respected country in the world.

And we need to keep it.

And we have to keep it that way. So, we can't let radical left lunatics take over.

Yeah, we watched both rallies, very impressive on Sunday. You took a lot on my show, but I have no bitterness towards you.

Well, that's good. Your show is very good, by the way.

Appreciate it, sir.

Hey, Ainsley, he's doing a very good job. The only problem is he's not ambitious enough, he needs to work a little bit harder. [Laughter]

Right, right. Hardest working man.

He's a hard-working guy.

Between Sean Hannity and my TV husband, right? My TV husbands, both of them, work hard.

I mean, I must tell you, he interviewed me last night. He said isn't it true that you did this, you did that, you did all good stuff? You gave the greatest tax cuts in history. You gave the greatest this -- you won the war with Venezuela; you're winning the war with Iran. Isn't it true that you -- ? And all I had to say is yes.

And I did great. [Laughter]

In fact, he's --

I love your husband, your husband's a great --

And he can hear you right now; he's on the couch.

Well, I don't care if he hears me or not. He is just -- you know what I do when he calls up, because he'll call up, say hello and, you know, he's a professional talker. He's the highest paid man in the entire -- the world event. Ainsley, I don't want to tell you this, he gets over $100 million a year between --

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Right. What about Taylor Swift?

And he's a professional talker, Ainsley. You know, sometimes he talks too long. So when I want to get him off the phone, I go, I'm sorry, President Xi is on the line, I have to get off. So, I said it four nights in a row and he said, man, you speak to him a lot, don't you? The only way I can cut him off is say I'm sorry, Sean.

I have to go; President Xi is on the phone. [Laughter]

This is a true story. This is a true story.

But you've got the greatest husband, and he's got the greatest wife, and it's going to be fantastic.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr. President. We appreciate you joining us on this Election Day.

So, have fun watching tonight, everybody.

We will and everyone vote --

Keep it --

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You're doing a great job. It's a great threesome; it's a great -- it's a great group.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.

By the way, Brian, Lawrence is doing a very good job.

I know.

Thank you, sir.

It does not surprise me; it should not surprise you either.

Thank you, sir. We appreciate it.