Trump Launches Scathing Attack on German Leader Friedrich Merz: “He’s Doing a Terrible Job” | N18G

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[00:00:00]And Germany, I mean, he's doing a terrible job. He's got immigration problems. He's got energy problems. He's got problems of all kind, and he's got a big problem with Ukraine.

[00:00:11]Because they're in that mess.

[00:00:14]And he criticized me for doing the whole thing with Iran.

[00:00:21]But I said, "Would you like to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran?" He said, "No, I don't."

[00:00:26]I said, "Well, then I guess I'm right."

[00:00:28]He didn't have any answer to that.

[00:00:30]The bottom line is for this world, for our country, but certainly for Israel, the Middle East, and Europe, much closer.

[00:00:40]You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And if you agree that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, which most people agree, almost everybody, uh it should have been done a long time ago, but if you agree they can't have a nuclear weapon, then what I did has been executed perfectly because our military has decimated them.

[00:00:58]>> talked about uh possibly um pulling out some troops of Germany.

[00:01:02]Uh would you be considering the same thing for Spain and Italy? I mean, they haven't been exactly on board >> Yeah, probably. Yeah, I probably will.

[00:01:09]Why should I You know, look, why shouldn't I? Uh Italy has not been of any help to us.

[00:01:18]And Spain has been horrible, absolutely horrible.

[00:01:23]You know, it's NATO.

[00:01:25]It's not even the fact that they're bad.

[00:01:26]It's one thing with if they said nicely, or they would have said, "Okay, we'll help." But the help was a little slow.

[00:01:34]But the level And we helped them with Ukraine. You know, they made a mess out of Ukraine, a total mess.

[00:01:41]And we helped them with Ukraine.

[00:01:44]Ukraine has nothing to do You know, we have We're an ocean apart.

[00:01:48]And that's to do with them. It's like for them it's their front door. We helped them.

[00:01:52]And Biden gave them $350 billion, which was insane. [clears throat] It's one of the reasons the war went on.

[00:01:58]But uh when we needed them, they were not there. We have to remember that.

[00:02:05]And so if we ever have a big one, cuz we didn't need any help with Iran.

[00:02:10]We We had Iran right from the first day.

[00:02:12]It was over. It was over.

[00:02:14]And now it's even more so. We're so locked and loaded if we wanted to. But uh we didn't need the help. And to a certain extent, I asked them I didn't need the help, but I said, "Yeah, we'd love to have you help."

[00:02:25]Because I wanted to see if they'd do it.

[00:02:28]And they, in all cases, they said, "We don't want to get involved." And you know, the amazing thing is they use the Strait of Hormuz. We don't. We don't use it. We don't need it.

[00:02:39]We have a lot of oil. Would you Well, wait a minute. Okay. And they use it, we don't.

[00:02:44]And you would have thought they would have said, "We would love to help you."

[00:02:47]But they didn't.