‘Deal framework largely negotiated': Trump signals Iran breakthrough, says Hormuz could reopen soon

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[00:00:03]US President Donald Trump said on Saturday, May 23rd, that a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal [music] has been largely negotiated with Iran and will open the Strait of Hormuz with details [music] to be unveiled soon.

[00:00:20]Final aspects and details [music] of the deal are currently being discussed and will be announced shortly, Trump wrote on Truth Social.

[00:00:30]Trump posted the [music] announcement after separate calls with the leaders of Muslim majority nations and Israeli Prime Minister [music] Benjamin Netanyahu.

[00:00:51]Pakistan's [music] Prime Minister Shabbaz Sharif on Sunday, May 24th lauded US President [music] Donald Trump's extraordinary efforts to pursue peace after Trump's call with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan.

[00:01:15]I congratulate President Donald Trump on his extraordinary efforts to pursue peace and for holding a very useful and productive [music] telephone call earlier today. Shariff said in a post on X, adding that [music] Pakistan will continue its peace efforts with utmost sincerity and they hope to host the next round of talks very soon.

[00:01:46]attending your son's wedding this weekend, by the way.

[00:01:48]>> Uh, he'd like me to go, but it's going to be just a small little private affair, and I'm going to try and make it. I'm I'm in the midst. I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. Uh, that's one I can't win on.

[00:02:04]If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed by the fake news.

[00:02:10]Of course, I'm talking about [snorts] no, but he's uh got a very uh person who I've known for a long time and hopefully they're going to have a great marriage.

[00:02:20]>> Mr. President, actually to add to the art, I just actually passed by it on my way here. I saw that the the pink flags and there's just geese that are there all the time. So, uh it's perfect. How long will that take? And also, I have to say I have to pass along something for my mother because she drove in with me.

[00:02:34]She was amazed by all the people uh she was seen on the streets here in DC. She doesn't get in here as much.

[00:02:39]>> DC is hot again.

[00:02:40]>> She was she was noticing how clean and beautiful passing it along.

[00:02:44]>> That's right. Well, that's the way I do.

[00:02:45]Clean. Take a look outside. We had a broken uh we had broken path. It was so terrible coming into the White House. It was slate. Slate's a roofing material.

[00:02:55]It's not a walking material. But the slate was all broken and chipped and terrible. And I put down a new granite floor and paid for it myself. by the way. But I put down a nice new granite floor. It looks beautiful. It's actually getting rave reviews. It's beautiful.

[00:03:08]There's a a terrible having people walking up to the White House and they're walking over broken tiles and broken floors. So now we just uh finished. It's going to be finished when the moldings are put on, but we just you might take a look at it. I don't know if you've seen it, but it's beautiful.

[00:03:24]>> Uh of other things we're doing while you're at it. Uh we've fixed uh we have 31 fountains in Washington. Of the 31, not one worked. Now we have 21 working and the others are going to be fixed. And people are calling and saying it's amazing what's happening. The fountains and they're working top level. And my most exciting is the reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the uh the the Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial. But it's a it's 200 2,500 ft long by almost 200 feet wide. It's a massive structure if you think of it.

[00:04:03]It's taller than the tallest building in the world. If you sat the building down, the tallest building in the world would not reach the end of it. It's a very big thing. It hasn't worked properly since it was built in 1922.

[00:04:16]Uh President Obama and Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to fix it. They didn't, of course, they couldn't do that. They didn't fix it. It was a mess. So, mostly they turned it off uh collecting garbage. It looked horrible. And we are very close to getting it finished. And when it's finished, it'll be beautiful. It'll be blue water, dark blue. We call it American flag blue because that's the name of the uh color that we chose, American flag blue. Can't do better than that. It's a rich dark blue. And it'll be, I think, very reflective. Very, very good. uh big project. Uh I decided to do a much bigger job. I was going to just get it open, but I said, "Let's do it right. Let's get it open and let's have it be good." Because uh President Obama, President Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars, much more than a hundred million, but hundreds of millions. It never worked. Uh in fact, when they finished it, it was much worse than it was before. It leaked at a higher level. They would have to fill it up every single day with water. It the whole thing was ridiculous. So they ended up turning it off and it became like a garbage dump. Well, it's uh pretty close to finished. So they were going to They had estimates of $350 million to fix it. I'll be doing it for a tiny fraction of that. A bigger job than I've I originally thought I'd do it for two or three million, just do a base, but now we're fixing up the exterior of it. We're doing so we'll probably be in there for less than $20 million. And uh the estimate was going to be using a different method 350. It was going to take uh four years. 350 million. I'll be doing it in basically a couple of months for less than $20 million. That includes all of the exterior base, which I never included in my original numbers. Uh when I went there last week, I saw the exterior was in very bad shape as well as the interior. So I said, "We're going to fix that, too." the stone. It's going to be beautiful. When that's done, you might see it. It's probably three quarters done. We have rain delays. We get a lot of delays, but uh it that will be that will be something special. The reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln and Washington monuments. Uh I think it's going to be incredible. It's largely done. If you want to go see it, you can see it before we put the water in. We'll uh the key is to have it done before July 4th. We want to see if we can have it done before July 4th. But we have uh about 20 or 21 uh of the water water features in Washington open and I can say we top top of the line. They are they look better than they did the day they were built. Some of them have been closed for 25 30 years. There's been no waterfair 25 or 30 years. And they're really beautiful. Some of the fountains are as beautiful as I've ever seen. and you probably see them. And in addition to that, you brought up something.

[00:07:19]Washington DC is now a safe city. We had a city that was one of the most unsafe cities anywhere in the country. And now it's considered a very safe city.

[00:07:30]Restaurants are opening. Restaurants were closing. You couldn't you couldn't go to a restaurant. The restaurants were closing all over because of the danger from during the Biden administration. Uh now you have restaurants opening. It's thriving. And it was very nice that you said that. I like this reporter. I have [laughter] uh uh No, it's nice. It's we have a vibrant city again. People are going out. I have a lot of people in the White House. Every time I see somebody, they thank me and I know immediately what they thank me for making the city safe.

[00:08:02]They walk to work. Now before that, they would they take Uber or something and they were they felt unsafe even in Uber.

[00:08:09]you know, we moved over 5,000 people out of the city, career criminals that came in through the open borders and other reasons. And uh we moved over 5,000 and an interesting statistic is that 2% of the population creates 91% of the crime. And the reason I like that is that you can handle 2% of the population. Mr. Kroger, I see do you have sores in Washington? You see a big difference.

[00:08:39]>> We do.

[00:08:40]>> Boy, you said the right thing.

[00:08:42][laughter] >> That would have been the end of Cro.