Trump said he didn’t ask China's Xi ‘for any favors’ on Iran

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Mr. President, does President Xi make any firm commitments to put pressure on the Iranians to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Uh I'm not asking for any favors cuz when you ask for favors, you have to do favors in return. And we don't need favors.

[00:00:17]We've wiped out their armed forces essentially.

[00:00:20]Uh we may have to do a little cleanup work because we had a little month long uh ceasefire, I guess you'd call it, but we have a blockade so effective, that's why we did this ceasefire. We really did the ceasefire at the request of other nations. I wouldn't have really been in favor of it, but we did it as a favor to Pakistan, good people, the field marshal, the uh prime minister.

[00:00:45]But uh no, I mean, President Xi and I agree on many things. Do you have any instinct that he will put pressure, that he will try and get them to warn >> He's going to put pressure because, you know, I don't I don't need favors. I think he will. I think automatically he'd like to see it opened up.

[00:01:04]He gets about 40% of his energy or his oil from that, you know, from the strait. We get none.

[00:01:10]We get none. We don't need it.