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Donald Trump: “We're not giving a nuclear weapon to terrorist thugs and…”

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

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President Trump Gaggles with Press Before Departing the White House, Mar. 20, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 09:01

She's a good woman. Sarah. Mr. President, the price of oil is way up. The stock market is down. Did you miscalculate the cost of going into Iran? No. We're not giving a nuclear weapon to terrorist thugs and we're, we're knocking the hell out of them. Their Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, their leaders are gone, their anti aircraft is gone. Everything's gone. But did you expect the economic. No, I expected worse, actually. (09:01–09:09)

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Asserts that the U.S. is preventing nuclear weapons from reaching terrorist groups and is actively combating them.

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