Trump:

We are grateful for the Decision of the United States Supreme Court.

The Military/Ballroom Complex being built on the hallowed grounds of the White House, which is so vital for National Security, will be THE GREATEST OF ITS KIND!

It is something that Presidents have wanted for 150 years, and that the Military has been seeking for the last 100 years. Their wish will soon be fulfilled!

Construction is under budget and ahead of schedule. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Reporter: On Iran shifting to economic warfare, does that mean the military options for the U.S. are limited?

Trump: No, not at all.

Trump on Iran:

We have total control of that entire region having to do with the Strait of Hormuz.

That means well into it, the land areas.

Trump on Iran:

They would love to make a deal, but they are not ready to make the right deal, in my opinion.

Trump:

I only make good deals.

Reporter: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to him about another type of intervention? Is that something he'll be doing?

Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will. Yeah.

Trump:

I've raised a lot. Nobody knows what it is, but I will tell you it's about $850 million.

I will be spending a lot of that money for candidates that I think are good Republican candidates.

Trump:

AI data centers will lower the electric cost because they are building their own electric facility.

Trump:

If I ran a community, I would want to have the data centers.

They are clean.

Reporter: The national debt has surpassed $40 trillion. Have you been discussing what to do about that?

Trump: It's been a problem for 35 years. The way you take care of debt is with growth.

And we have tremendous growth. It will take care of that very easily.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down by year-end after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

His departure would deepen a leadership gap in the Army, which already lacks a Senate-confirmed chief of staff after Gen. Randy George was fired in April.

Driscoll, a JD Vance ally and former Army Ranger, pushed modernization, commercial technology, and lessons from Ukraine during his 18-month tenure.

Source: WSJ

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

Let me give you the postulated theories. The first one is that the Israelis were baiting the Turks. If you remember, the Turks took out a Russian jet under the same kind of circumstances, right? Very dangerous game, having jets deployed on the border without notification, without some agreement.

That was the serious and worrying part because I know that the Turks — their intelligence agency, their hierarchy, their foreign minister, the president, the head of intelligence — all are concentrating on restraint. It really is. That’s a fact. They’re not predatory.

They’re not interested in attacking or even engaging in any kind of kinetic or adversarial relationship with Israel. It’s not good for the region. It’s not good for them.

Everybody is looking for an off-ramp someplace. In Türkiye’s mind, the off-ramp, more than Iran, is a Palestinian solution. That’s really the problem in the Turkish population and the Islamic population.

So one theory is they were just baiting Türkiye — that it’s a very aggressive, but maybe a well-received, pre-election concept. That’s one theory.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

There’s some intelligence that Israel had — some intelligence that one of three things happened. Either there were Turkish military or military assets on site. We know that was not the case.

The issue had arisen probably six days before to us, saying, "We have some intelligence that there might be Turkish movement into this site, which we would be very concerned about."

We all did our due diligence. We went back to our respective intelligence agencies. The answers we got were, "No, that’s not happening."

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

The Turkish military is strong, they’re courageous, they’re very well equipped, they know what they’re doing.

Could this be World War III? I think our opinion is anything could be World War III from an unintended act, if you just looked at World War II.

But our belief is there’s no intention at all to do any of those things.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

This idea of a greater Israel, which, you know, sometimes in Istanbul papers you wake up in the morning and there’s a picture of everything from Egypt to the Maldives with some journalist saying, "This is Israel’s focus."

You wake up in Tel Aviv and there’s another picture of Ottoman Empire 2.0, the same territory.

We don’t think any of those things are true.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

Trump asked President Erdogan, "Why didn’t you just take Syria? If you were instrumental in helping them, why didn’t you just take it?"

President Erdogan responded, ‘Because we don’t want it. We want Syria to be a sovereign and independent country as a canvas and a blanket in the middle of this very difficult zip code."

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

The Mecca Agreement, it’s not anti-Israel and it’s not pro-Sunni and it’s not anti-America.

It’s, "Guys, we need to band together." I mean, you have the GCC, but the GCC has never agreed on anything.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

Türkiye’s going into a new powerful mode, which makes everybody nervous, but it’s a great thing for Türkiye.

You know, they, as a hub, as a non-Arab, really workable, kind, loving Islamic country, with eight countries around it and four seas, and Central Asia one way, Caspian the other, Mediterranean — you know, it’s threatening in its geographical presentation.

So I’m hopeful the calmer heads will be there. The president’s doing a great job in just trying to keep temperatures down.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on the Middle East:

All prophets have been sent to this zip code. Not to the Caribbean, not to South America, not to North America, not to Australia, not to China — to this insolvable place.

So if God can’t resolve it, if the prophets can’t resolve it, our idea of resolving it in the next year and a half is probably little.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

You know, every evening, by the way, we have coordination between Türkiye, Israel and Syria, hunting ISIS terrorists, because as this vacuum of power continues, ISIS is pushing hard to re-establish itself.

U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

There was a time period in the early 2000s, a honeymoon period between Israel and Türkiye. And fast forward, my belief and my hope is there will be again.

What you’re hearing in rhetoric amongst the senior leaders of these countries is they have to, during a political campaign — which everybody is in, right?

Prime Minister Netanyahu is moving towards October. He knows what his constituency wants.

President Erdogan is moving towards a decision as to when he’s going to call for a new election, or he’s in an election cycle.

His constituency — a very solid, good, conservative, non-fundamentalist Islamic community — is always very upset about Gaza.