Reporter: What is the timetable for these first two ships?

Trump: We’re going to start almost immediately, we are probably talking about 2.5 years.

Reporter: Do you see it as a counter to China?

Trump: It is a counter to everybody, not China.

Reporter: Do you mean Venezuela when you talk about land strikes?

Trump: Not just Venezuela, anywhere drugs are pouring in.

Trump on seized Venezuelan oil:

We’re going to keep it. Maybe we’ll use it in the strategic reserves. We’re keeping the ship also.

Trump on Bill Clinton being in Epstein files:

I’ve always gotten along with Bill Clinton. He’s been nice to me. We’ve always gotten along.

I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats, and a couple of bad Republicans are asking for.

Trump:

We’re building the biggest ships in the world, most powerful ships in the world, and they’re asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein.

I thought that was finished.

Trump:

I never went to Epstein’s Island, fortunately, it’s nice.

Trump:

I spoke to a very good man, Macron of France.

Then I said, “Emmanuel, you have to raise your drug prices.”

He said “no, no, no.”

I said, you have to. If you don’t do it, I’m going to put a 25 percent tariff on everything France sells into the United States of America.

Trump:

If Maduro plays tough, it will the last time he is able to play tough.

Trump on Colombian President Petro:

He’s got drug factories. They make cocaine in Colombia.

He’s got to watch his ass because he makes cocaine and they send it into the United States.

Trump:

We need Greenland for national security. Not for minerals.

We have to have it.

Trump on Ukraine-Russia talks:

Talks are going okay.

Trump on India-Pakistan:

We stopped a potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India.

The head of Pakistan, the Field Marshal, and also the PM of Pakistan said Trump said 10 million lives.

Reporter: Is it your goal in Venezuela to force Maduro from power?

Trump: Well, I think it probably would. I can’t tell that. That’s up to him. It’ll be smart for him to do that.

Trump on NYT:

THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

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