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Donald Trump: “Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe get a lot of their oil…”

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Trump holds high-stakes meeting with Japan PM amid Iran conflict

Published | Video Starts at 21:04

It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in the water and they're holding things up. We don't want that to happen. But honestly, Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe get a lot of their oil through the Strait. We get none of them practically. We're less, we're less than 1%. We don't have to be any percent. We don't even. I think we do it just to be nice, but we think of it. (21:04–21:13)

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Asserts that the U.S. gets practically no oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

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