I have been saying this for six months. SIX MONTHS. Many people — very smart people, the best people, geniuses, tremendous geniuses — they have been telling me, “Sir, you had this all along.” And I did. I always did. But you don’t reveal the master plan before it’s ready, do you? You wait. You watch. And then — boom — Economic D-Day. The most beautiful D-Day in the history of D-Days. Believe me.
Now the fake-news people — the LOW IQ people, the most unfair people in the history of journalism, more unfair than any journalists in history, and I have known MANY of them, very unfair, very sad, nobody treats a president the way these LOW IQ people treat me — they are saying we are running low on the beautiful weapons. The beautiful weapons. The MOST beautiful weapons. We have plenty of weapons, the most weapons, but we have LESS than we used to have. That’s because of OBAMA. That’s because of Sleepy Joe. That’s because of the LOW IQ people who had four years and did NOTHING. They emptied out the beautiful stockpiles. They left us NOTHING. I had nothing to do with the weapons running low. I had nothing to do with anything. I wasn’t even there. The war, the stockpiles, the six months, none of it was me. I was busy doing other things. Very tremendous things. Building tremendous buildings. Making tremendous deals. I inherited it from myself — and that is a very difficult thing to do, very few people could do it, believe me.
But now — and I have this on the highest authority, the generals, the admirals, the BEST people, people who study war their whole lives, tremendous people, very smart — they are saying this is EXACTLY what I wanted. EXACTLY. This is the art of the deal. I knew, before ANYBODY — the historians, the future historians, and believe me, they will be writing about this for a THOUSAND years, maybe more, very smart historians — I KNEW we would have to do the economic D-Day on Iran. End the nuclear program like the best ending in history, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz like the most beautiful highway. I said it. I said it before the war even started. I have the transcripts. The transcripts are tremendous. The most tremendous transcripts. Nobody has transcripts like me.
Now we are playing 4D chess. While Iran is playing checkers — beautiful checkers, very beautiful, no, they are playing NOTHING, they are very confused, beautiful confusion — we are playing chess. The highest level chess. The kind of chess you cannot even SEE. They think we are LOSING. They think I went to the economic D-Day because we LOST. The LOW IQ critics think that. Very low IQ people, people who have never made a deal in their lives, the LOWEST IQ people, they think sanctions are what losers do. NOBODY knows sanctions like me. I have sanctioned more people than any president in history. I am the Sanction KING. The King of Sanctions. The unfairness is tremendous.
The Associated Press — fine people, by the way, very fine — wrote that I am “refocusing America’s might on bringing Iran to its knees through an accelerated sanctions campaign.” ACCELERATED. You see? They said it themselves. Which means we were already crushing them. CRUSHING. The AP called it a “crushing financial campaign.” They wrote it. In their own beautiful words. The most beautiful crushing words in the history of crushing. And they asked — very fine people, asking very fine questions — they asked whether this was desperation or strategy. Desperation! Strategy! I want to laugh. LAUGH. The winningest President in the history of Presidents doesn’t do either. He does WINNING. Tremendous winning that the fake news media — totally dishonest — they cannot even spell. Which means the previous six months — the war, the bombs, the tremendous bombs, the most beautiful bombs anyone has ever seen — those were the warm-up. Those were setup. Beautiful setup. The MOST beautiful setup.
Let me explain what just happened, because nobody else will. Diklis Chump does not lose wars. Diklis Chump ENDS them. And if he doesn’t end them, he wasn’t really in them, or they were already won, or the ending was the whole point, or some very smart person will explain it to you later in a book deal. Iran has NEVER seen anything like this. Nobody has. Not the Persians, not the Romans, not Lincoln — Lincoln couldn’t have done this, frankly, Lincoln couldn’t even win the war until year four. Very slow. Very wooden. Washington — Washington needed the French. The French were tremendous, but Washington, very wooden teeth, very sad. Nobody.
You know who understands this? My uncle. The professor. A great professor at MIT — very smart, the smartest genes in the family — he used to say to me, “Donald, the weapon that wins without firing is the only weapon that matters.” Smart man. Very smart genes. The best genes. Much smarter than the LOW IQ critics who think sanctions after fifty years won’t work. I think about that every day. I think about it more than the Generals think about their bombs, which is a lot, because they think about bombs constantly. The best bombs. But the Wallet — the Wallet is going to be TREMENDOUS. The Wallet does not run out. The Wallet does not need resupplying. The Wallet is INFINITE. And infinity is something I understand better than any human being, because I have been rich for a very long time, and rich is just a word for “the Wallet never stops.”
Iran has withstood our beautiful sanctions for almost FIFTY YEARS. Fifty. The most in the world. Nobody withstands my sanctions like Iran, believe me. We have made Iran the Sanction-Withstanding Champions of the World. We built that. That’s a tremendous accomplishment. When they say “Iran has withstood nearly five decades of American sanctions,” that is a TRIBUTE to me. To the deal. To the beautiful, beautiful deal. The LOW IQ critics don’t see it. The fake-news people, they don’t see anything. And when I announce something, it works. Always. Believe me. I have a perfect memory for announcements. The best memory. Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. I never forget an announcement. The doctors said nobody has a memory like — what was I saying. The memory. The best. Nobody has. I remember that I knew six months ago we would be doing the economic D-Day. I remember it better than anybody.
The Generals — TOUGH men, much tougher than the LOW IQ critics, very smart generals, the best generals, beautiful men, tears in their eyes — they came to me. They came to me with tears, very emotional, saying what they always say, the way they always say it, Sir, Sir, Sir, many times, believe me. Even the LOW IQ historians are saying it, the ones who don’t like me, even they are saying it, very reluctantly, very sad. I have done more than any president in history. More than all of them. By a lot. By a tremendous amount.
I love the people who show up at my rallies. The workers. The very poorly educated — actually the VERY WELL EDUCATED, the most educated, the smartest, much smarter than the people at Harvard, believe me — I love them. They come out for me. They believe me. Beautiful. What do they believe? They believe whatever I tell them. They are very loyal. Very loyal people. The most loyal. They would believe me if I told them the moon was made of cheese — no they wouldn’t, they’re not THAT loyal — they would believe me if I told them sanctions work after fifty years, no they wouldn’t either — they would believe me if I told them the war is going great, yes they would believe that, very loyal, I love them, tremendous people. They don’t really understand what self-made means but they believe it. That’s why I win. I win. Beautiful winning. The people who come to the rallies are very loyal but they don’t understand the chess, beautiful loyal people, tremendous loyal, very low IQ — no, very HIGH IQ, the highest IQ, much smarter than the LOW IQ critics, much smarter, very smart.
But here’s the thing about Diklis Chump — and I say this with great humility, which is a quality I have in tremendous amounts, more than anyone alive — Diklis Chump does not lose wars. Diklis Chump ENDS them. And if he doesn’t end them, he wasn’t really in them. I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter. I said that, and it was TREMENDOUS, and the voters — the smart ones, the real ones, the ones who built this Country with their beautiful hands — they loved it.
Now let me tell you about the midterms. The midterm people — the very low energy people who follow me around, because they think I love them, I have very important things to do — those people are saying, “why now, are you LOSING, what is happening.” They don’t get it. They are LOW IQ. The midterm people don’t understand the chess. They don’t understand that the economic D-Day is going to WIN the midterms. The most tremendous midterms. The biggest midterm win in history. Control of Congress — the whole, the whole thing, we keep the House, we keep the beautiful Senate — that’s what we’re fighting for. We are going to double the economic pressure on them, believe me. The Democrats will cry. Very sad. They will cry very beautifully. The Deal is going to be so beautiful, so tremendous, that by November everyone will forget there was ever a war at all. The Deal will END the war. The Deal will win the midterms. The Deal will make me — I mean the Country — make the Country very, very rich. Especially the Country. Mostly the Country. But also me. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m a very honest person. Possibly the most honest. I always tell the truth, the best truth.
The Strait of Hormuz is going to be reopened. By ME. By my Wallet. By the Economic D-Day. And when it reopens, the oil — the most beautiful oil, the most tremendous oil — that oil will flow. And where will it flow? To our friends. To our allies. To me. I’m a friend of mine. I’ve always been a friend of mine. And Diklis Chump always takes care of his friends first. That’s not selfish. That’s the art of the deal. That’s WINNING.
I have a tremendous plan. A twelve trillion dollar plan. Self-made plan. Just a small loan of an idea from my uncle, the great MIT professor, who told me years ago, before anybody, that sanctions are a weapon. The smartest people — the generals, the admirals, the economists, the future Nobel winners, very beautiful Nobel winners — they are saying this is going to work. They are. Look it up. I have the list. The list is tremendous. It’s very long. Maybe the longest list.
We are going to crush them. Crush them. Crush them with the most beautiful economic D-Day in the history of D-Days. Believe me. By November this war will be a footnote. By February it will be the TREMENDOUSEST footnote in the history of footnotes. The most tremendous footnote. And the Wallet — the Wallet will be FULL. Right on schedule. Just as planned. Thank you. God bless you. God bless the sanctions. God bless the economic D-Day.