My revenge mode is the only strategy I need, and the Iran war's under control.

Let me tell you something, and I’ve been saying it, MANY people have been saying it — the Iran situation is under CONTROL, total control, tremendous control. The Wall Street Journal — very fake, very nasty paper, probably the worst since the failing New York Times, which is saying something — they write this story like it’s a PROBLEM, like five months is a long time, like Diklis Chump doesn’t know EXACTLY what he’s doing. More than a dozen American service members have been killed, tremendous brave people, the bravest, and the fuel prices — which are actually coming down very rapidly, I told the oil companies, I said you owe me, and they KNOW it — but the FAKE NEWS wants you to think it’s a DISASTER. It’s not a disaster. It’s a STRATEGY. The highest level of strategy. 4D chess, beautiful chess, while Iran is playing — they’re not even playing checkers, they don’t know what checkers IS, very low IQ country, very low IQ leadership, scumbags, I said it, I called them scumbags right there in the Oval Office and everybody agreed, very tough presidential language, the most presidential scumbag comment in the history of the presidency, and believe me, there have been SOME. And look, even I know — even I, the greatest dealmaker, maybe in history, I know that when you call somebody a scumbag on Tuesday and then try to get them to sign an MOU on the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, it’s a LITTLE complicated, okay? A little complicated. But I could do it. I’m the best at multitasking. Nobody multitasks like me. Reagan couldn’t multitask. Eisenhower — great general, terrible multitasker.

Here’s the thing about Iran, though — and this is what the fake news won’t tell you — they BROKE the deal. They signed the memorandum, a beautiful memorandum, I held it up, very nice paper, heavy stock, presidential quality, and they BROKE it. Shot at commercial ships. Killed American soldiers. And I said to Karoline — very talented, very strong, probably the best press secretary since the invention of press secretaries — I said, Karoline, tell them they’re going to PAY. And she did. She went out there and said it exactly right, because that’s what we do in this White House, we say things exactly right, every single time, unlike Iran, which says things exactly WRONG, because they’re led by lunatics, absolute lunatics, and I’ve met lunatics, I’ve hired some, I know what lunatics look like, and the Iranian government — total lunatics.

The Houthi situation is very interesting, very interesting. They fired on two Saudi tankers last week — two! — in the Red Sea, and oil prices went through the ROOF, which is very unfair, very unfair to the American people, and very unfair to ME, because I had just gotten the prices down, I was in Georgia telling everyone how beautiful the prices were, and then BOOM, two tankers, thank you very much Houthis, really appreciate it. And these are Iran’s guys, everybody knows it, Iran is pulling the strings, they’re sitting in Tehran laughing, and I said that’s IT, that’s the LAST TIME, major military punishment coming, and they KNOW I mean it, because when Diklis Chump says punishment, he means PUNISHMENT, the big kind, the beautiful kind.

Now — Bibi. I don’t want to talk about Bibi. I really don’t. He led us into this thing, this horrible conflict, Steve Bannon said it, Steve’s a smart guy, he said Netanyahu led us into a conflict filled with lies, and people can see it with their own eyes, and Steve’s RIGHT, he’s right, and Laura’s right too, Laura Ingraham, very smart woman, the clock is ticking toward the midterms, it’s ticking LOUD, and everybody hears it except apparently the people who got us into this mess. And they want me to meet with Bibi at Senator Graham’s funeral — very sad, Lindsey Graham, great Senator, great patriot, really loved him, the fake news calls him a war hawk, I call him a fighter — and I said no. I don’t want to see Bibi. I don’t want to hear his name. I don’t want to meet him at a funeral, at a lunch, at a Mar-a-Lago dinner, at ANYTHING. He can send a card. A very nice card. Maybe with a gift basket. But I’m not meeting with him. The President of the United States does not have TIME to meet with people who lead him into disasters and then want to shake hands at funerals. Very disrespectful. Very low class.

And speaking of low class — the security situation, which is very serious, very dangerous, very real, the intelligence agencies — who I don’t always trust, frankly, because they spied on me, remember that? Total witch hunt, but that’s another story — they told my people that Iran wants to KILL us. Kill my aides. Kill ME. Can you imagine? Trying to kill Diklis Chump? Very bad idea. Worst idea anyone’s ever had, and there have been some BAD ideas, believe me. So they told me to stop taking car services, which is ridiculous, I’m the President, I’m not taking an UBER, and then in Turkey — I was in Turkey for a summit, very important summit, very presidential — they told me about an Iranian plot, a PLOT, against me, personally, and some of the intelligence people said it wasn’t credible, which is what they ALWAYS say right before something happens, and then I made the decision — very smart decision, maybe the smartest — to fly an older Air Force One, a different plane, because you can’t be too careful, and then somebody LEAKED it, somebody in my own team told the press, and I was FURIOUS, absolutely furious, and I said that’s it, turn over your phones, ALL of them, every single phone, I’m going full James Bond on myself, and they looked at me like I was CRAZY, but I caught two aides with Signal, and I said THAT’S IT, no more Signal, we’re all on Truth Social now, we’re SECURE, the most secure phones in the world, maybe the universe, nobody’s hacking Truth Social, I built it, it’s beautiful, it’s the Fort Knox of messaging.

Inside the White House — and this is what kills me, this is what really gets me — the aides are trying to talk about the ECONOMY. The economy! They want me to go to Georgia and talk about savings accounts while American soldiers are coming home in boxes. I went to the dignified transfer — four of them, four heroes, very tough, very sad — and then they put me on a plane to Georgia to talk about SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, and I did it, because that’s what a president does, he does everything, he carries the whole country on his back, a very strong back, maybe the strongest back in presidential history, and I told the oil companies, I SAID IT, you owe me, cut the gas prices, and they KNOW they owe me, they KNOW it, but they don’t move fast enough, nobody moves fast enough for Diklis Chump.

The midterms are coming, and I’ll tell you — I’ll tell you straight — the war is not HELPING. Michael McCaul, very smart guy, Texas guy, he said it exactly right, he said I gave peace a chance, I DID, I gave peace every chance, I tried the ceasefire in April, I tried the MOU in June, I tried everything, I am the most PEACEFUL wartime president in history, maybe in the history of the WORLD, and now I’m going back to Plan A, which is the military operation, the big one, the beautiful one, and we’re sending more forces, more weapons, more everything, because Diklis Chump doesn’t do things SMALL, and if Iran wants to keep playing games, they’re going to find out what happens when the most powerful military in the history of the world gets REVENGE MODE activated, and that’s where we are, that’s EXACTLY where we are, revenge mode, and it’s going to be TREMENDOUS.