Discover video-sourced quotes by politicians

Donald Trump: “The level of death on the Gaza Strip is just incredible.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace

Published April 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:39

A great location that nobody wants to live in, because they really don't. And when they had good living, when they have good living, real living, where Hamas and all of the problems they have, The level of death on the Gaza Strip is just incredible. And I've said it. I don't understand why Israel ever Gave it up. Israel owned it. It wasn't this man, so I can say it. He wouldn't have given it up. (35:39–35:44)

CLAIM

Asserts that there is a high level of death on the Gaza Strip.

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.

Discover more from

Donald Trump

“We sold no cars, like zero cars in Japan and they sold millions of cars into our country.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 09:19-09:26
“We have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it's going to disappear fast.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 20:54-21:02
“Germany is opening up a coal plant a week.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 21:41-21:45
“China is now up to two coal plants. They're opening two major coal plants every single week in China.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 21:52-22:00
“We lose close to $2 trillion a year on trade.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 30:01-30:06
“We lose a trillion dollars a year to China.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 30:05-30:08
“We've lost 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 32:04-32:14
“We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 05:59-06:05
“It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 06:04-06:10
“We've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years and can't do it anymore.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 06:46-06:54
“He allowed millions of people to come into our country with an open border.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 07:12-07:17
“I think it was 21 million people, but let's say three of them were serious criminals, serious murderers and drug dealers.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 07:25-07:33
“The border is the best it's ever been, even as strong as it was.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 08:19-08:24
“They put a 34% tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 09:44-09:52
“We're putting a 50% tariff on above the tariffs that we put on.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 09:56-10:02
“China is essentially a closed country.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 12:29-12:33
“We've been very tough and very successful militarily. We've really damaged them badly.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 13:50-13:59
“We have a great military. There's no military like our military.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 15:17-15:23
“We rebuilt the military during my first term.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 16:03-16:06
“We also essentially approved a budget which is in the facility, you'll like to hear this of a trillion dollars, $1 trillion.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 16:11-16:21
“We're dealing with the Iranians. We have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 17:46-17:53
“The EU has been very tough over the years. It was, I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 19:21-19:31
“We have more energy than any country in the world.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 21:21-21:24
“We have oil and gas more than anybody else.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 22:06-22:09
“We have the most energy of any country in the world, including Saudi Arabia, including everybody, by a lot.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 22:08-22:15
“I took it to number one. We were number three. And I took it to number one during my administration.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 22:14-22:21
“Energy looks like it's going to be in the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below that for a car.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 23:26-23:34
“European Union, I mean, as badly as they've treated us, they've, you know, they brought their car tariffs essentially off.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 27:43-27:51
“I terminated NAFTA.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 32:14-32:16
“Israel owned [Gaza]. It wasn't this man, so I can say it. He wouldn't have given it up.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 35:48-35:53
“They took oceanfront property and they gave it to people for peace.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 35:54-35:59
“Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 37:44-37:48
“The reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're in a war.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 38:21-38:30
“When I took over, it was $507 billion that China would [make from the U.S. trade deficit].”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 39:37-39:37
“Tariffs will make this country very rich.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 41:39-41:42
“We have $36 trillion in debt. I want to get rid of it.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 41:44-41:50
“There's a major meeting going on between us and Iran and that will take place on Saturday.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 42:24-42:31
“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 43:11-43:14
“We have now $7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many, many companies, many from Taiwan.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 46:49-46:59
“We're going to let them build their own power plants.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 47:12-47:15
“Our power is not reliable enough. You have a grid that's old and susceptible to a lot of things, including bombing and weather.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 47:19-47:29
“Lee Zeldin is doing a fantastic job, head of Environmental protection, and he's doing very rapid approvals for people to get for big…”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 48:00-48:10
“We got our minister back from Turkey.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 49:07-49:10
“You've done what nobody has been able to do in 2,000 years. You've taken over Syria with different names, but same thing.”
White House Meeting: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Discuss Trade, Iran, and Middle East Peace | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 49:43-49:52