Trump:

Iran was a great country if you go back 25 years ago or so.

Trump:

You want to see women’s rights? You won’t see it in Iran.

Trump:

Not everybody was on board with the rescue operation in Iran, Hegseth and Caine were on board.

Reporter: So now that you are dealing with a more reasonable leadership in Iran, what does that mean for the protesters?

Trump: If they assume control, I think it is very positive.

Trump:

You have a much different group of people, I am not saying we are dealing with them...

But we are dealing with them and I think it is going well.

Trump:

Obama should have chosen Iraq as a friend rather than Iran.

Trump:

We have an acting willing participant on the other side.

Trump on Iran:

I think Kurdish forces should stay away.

I think they bring some problems with them.

They bring death to themselves.

Reporter: Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure are against the Geneva Conventions.

Trump: Who are you with?

Reporter: NYT.

Trump: You are failing.

Reporter: Are you willing to make a deal that does not include reopening the Strait of Hormuz?

Trump: Reopening the Strait of Hormuz is a very big priority.

Trump:

They are very good bullshit artists.

They have been bullshitting other presidents for 47 years.

Trump:

We are communicating like they used to communicate 2,000 years ago, with children bringing a note back and forth.

Trump:

We got the SS Abraham Lincoln.

Trump:

I am polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela.

After I am finished with this, I can go to Venezuela, I can quickly learn Spanish, and I will run for president.

Trump:

To the victor belong the spoils. We haven’t heard that in hundreds of years.

Reporter: Are you willing to end this war with Iran charging tolls at the strait?

Trump: What about us charging tolls? We should do it. We won.

Trump:

God supports the United States.

God is good.

Reporter: You called the Iranians crazy bastards.

Trump: True.

Reporter: What is your response to critics?

Trump: I don't care about critics.

Trump:

South Korea didn’t help us. Australia didn’t help us. Japan didn’t help us.

We’ve got 50,000 soldiers in Japan, 45,000 in South Korea, to protect them from Kim Jong Un, whom I get along very well with.

Trump:

If a certain president did his job, North Korea would not have nuclear weapons right now.

Trump:

Kuwait didn’t know how to use our great Patriots.