Tonight we're closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East that is finally free at last from Iranian terror, aggression, and nuclear blackmail.

It was nuclear blackmail for years and years, and beyond that, it was blackmail period.

For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East, but they are not the bully any longer.

They're on the run.

We have weapons that nobody even knows about except for a few of us.

Barack Hussein Obama, he had the Iran nuclear deal. He went to Iran. He paid him.

Remember, he sent two 757, Boeing 757 jetliners. They took the seats out, and they piled it with cash. Like, $1.7 billion of cash.

That's when I realized the Presidents are very powerful. The presidency is a very powerful thing, when you can do that. I haven't done that yet.

I haven't found a reason to do that yet, but that's big — $1.7 billion in cash.

Qasem Soleimani was so powerful that I think the leadership of Iran was extremely happy when I took him out.

Nobody going to be asking them anymore because they're not here either.

We're crushing Iran as we speak.

We had another big day. We hit them... They don't know what's happening.

They have to open up the "Strait of Trump"—I mean, Hormuz... The fake news will say that I said it accidentally.

There are no accidents with me, not too many.

The supreme leader is no longer supreme; he is dead.

The son is either dead or in very bad shape.

I think he says, “Just keep me out of this.”

They are not very good. I know they don't go fast and I know they don't work very well, but we could probably use them maybe for helicopters.

I've always said NATO is a paper tiger.

If the "big one" ever happened, I guarantee you they wouldn’t be there.

They made a big mistake.

We have another 3,554 targets left, and they will be done pretty quickly.

We knocked out 97% of the [missile] launchers.

I think Turkey was fantastic; they stayed out of things we asked them to.

He (Erdoğan) is a great leader.

Congress Democrats sort of remind me of Iran.

They are deranged.

Saudi Arabia can be very proud of MBS because he's got a lot of titles.

He's the crown prince. He's the prime minister. He's the future king. He's got about seven other titles.

I said, "You have more titles than any human being on earth."

He's everything, and he deserves to be because he's a winner.

They (Democrats) call it a war; I call it a military conflict, but there is a legal reason for that.

MAGA likes us protecting certain allies, whether it's Israel or Saudi Arabia or Qatar or the UAE, any of them; they want that.

MAGA wants strength, and they want victory. They want success and that's what we have.

We have been very, very successful.

Cuba is next, but pretend I didn't say that, please.

Please, please, please, media, please disregard that statement.

Cuba is next.

I stopped eight wars.

I even stopped India and Pakistan; they were going at it for a week—nine planes already shot down.