Xi is coming here in November or so. We have a very good relationship.

We're adversaries, but we have a very good relationship. When I took over, China was just ripping us like nobody's ever seen. And now it's the opposite.

We do have a very strong relationship. I think it's better to get along with China than it is to fight with China, and they feel the same thing.

Don't kid yourself; they watched what happened in Venezuela, they watched what happened in Iran — militarily, Iran is essentially over.

Guns were sent and other people took those guns. If they had guns, they would fight back — I'm convinced of that.

You can't have an unarmed population against people with AK-47s and stand there even if you have 250,000 people.

They lost 42,000 people in the first two weeks. I don't really want to see that.

They have to have guns. I think they're getting some guns.

As soon as they have guns, they'll fight as good as anybody there is.

The people running Venezuela right now—it's running incredibly. It's so smooth.

We've taken out many times in money, many times the cost of the war, prosecuting the war in Venezuela. And when was the last time you heard that? And I say many times, like 25 times.

Venezuela is actually a happy country again — the people are happy.

We have all the big oil companies moving in, spending a lot of money building rigs because their rigs were all depleted and gone, rusted out, closed for years and years.

Perhaps on the way back from Iran, as we finish that one, we'll stop the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the most gorgeous carrier I've ever seen, a couple of hundred yards offshore, and we'll watch them wanting to do something.

The country is devastated right now; it's just devastated. So it would be an honor to free it up.

I got all the Cuban votes; I got 94% of the Cuban vote in the U.S. — I have an obligation to do something.

They have a problem coming up because they have—it's a very explosive situation in a lot of different ways.

You know, their oil, when you turn off the oil underground and the mechanical too, but underground has a tendency in like almost 100% of the cases to literally explode and just destroy everything around it.

And you can never get that oil again. In other words, you could get back 30-40%, but it can never be like it is right now. It does tremendous damage to the oil system in a country if that happens.

The new equation of the Strait of Hormuz is in the process of being solidified.

The security of shipping and energy transit has been jeopardized by the United States and its allies through the violation of the ceasefire and the imposition of a blockade; of course, their evil will diminish.

We know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable for America; while we have not even begun yet.