I want to be very clear about something, and I am saying this for the cameras, and I am saying this for the historians, the very best historians, the smart ones, many people, very smart people, the BEST people, and they are calling it the greatest single territory acquisition in the history of the United States — bigger than the Louisiana Purchase, believe me, I know about the Louisiana Purchase, tremendous acquisition, very historic — and what we did this week, what I did this week, Diklis Chump did this week, very few people could have done it, believe me, is exactly what they said could not be done. Exactly. What. They. Said. Could. Not. Be. Done.
Friday night, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — BEAUTIFUL beach, tremendous beach, the best beach in South Carolina, people are saying, I have properties down there you would not believe, tremendous properties — Friday night I was speaking to the crowd, the BIGGEST crowd they have ever had for anything, ever, in the history of Myrtle Beach, which is a lot of history, believe me, I know about Myrtle Beach — and I told them, I said it, I said “We don’t even know if we won, because I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now.” That’s a direct quote. They can check. They are checking. The best people are checking. And what I MEANT — and this is the part the fake news, the failing New York Times, the very weak washingtonpost, very tired, very dishonest people — what I MEANT was, we have already won so completely that the win has become invisible to the losers. That’s what I meant. We won so hard they had to invent a new word for how much we won. I’m going to have my people make up a word. Tremendous word. Greatest word.
And I posted the map. I posted it on MONDAY. “new U.S. territory,” I wrote, the best pen, very official, the most official map anyone has ever seen, on Truth Social, the best social media, very honest, only honest people, labeled the waterway “new U.S. territory.” New! It is NEW! Just added! We have a new territory, the 51st, very exciting, the biggest, bigger than Texas, believe me, and I know about Texas, I have been to Texas many times, tremendous state, very loyal, the best people — and now we have the Strait, which is bigger. Some are saying it is the biggest territory. I am saying it is the biggest territory. We agree. New. U.S. Territory. The historians will say, the BEST historians, the smart ones, they are saying it RIGHT NOW.
Now. The Persians — beautiful people, by the way, very cultured, tremendous history, the Persians invented a lot of things actually, I respect them, tremendous respect, very cultured — but they sent out their deputy foreign minister, Kazem, Kazem Gharibabadi, very sad, and I named him Crybaby Kazem because he CRIED, on the record, he CRIED about it — Crybaby Kazem called my comments “delusions.” DELUSIONS. Can you believe it? The DISH-RESPECT. This is a country we have under BLOCKADE, we have SIXTY-EIGHT vessels we redirected — sixty-eight! Big boats, commercial boats, the biggest — Centcom said it, the Generals said it, beautiful Centcom, very loyal — and this Crybaby Kazem is calling ME delusional? I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now, that’s what I said, that’s what’s HAPPENING. We. Control. It. That’s what a blockade IS, it’s territory. The fake news CNN, they are saying “Mr. President, this is international waters, you cannot just declare foreign waters a territory.” First of all, who do they think they are? Second of all, who has the biggest boats? We do. So.
And the crossings are controlled by the blockade. I said, “No ships get through unless we want them to.” Nobody moving without our permission, because we OWN it now, very official, very new, tremendous new territory, the best territory. Twenty percent of the world’s oil, twenty percent, the most valuable waterway on earth, they pay, they pay big, they pay tremendous dollars, the most tremendous dollars, that is the deal, the best deal, the art of the deal, beautiful art, and that is what we have ADDED to the American balance sheet in almost six months. Self-made. I did this myself. Just a small blockade. Completely self-made, the biggest value-add in the history of value-adds, more than the GDP of every country combined, easy. My uncle, who was a great professor at MIT — very smart, the smartest genes, MIT, very smart people — he told me YEARS ago, before ANYONE, that this was the most strategic waterway in the world. He didn’t say it about the strait specifically. He said something else. But he MEANT that. He was right. He is always right. Tremendous man. His genes are very smart genes, the smartest, that’s why I have the best memory, the BEST, I took the test, person, woman, man, camera, TV, the doctors said no one — the best doctors, very respected, all said I have the best memory — and I aced it, top of the class, very stable genius, the most stable, ask the doctors. Ask Ronny Jackson, he said “Sir, perfect, Sir, the most perfect specimen we have ever seen, Sir,” and I have the perfect health to do what I have to do.
And the Generals — the TOUGH ones, the SMART ones, much smarter than Crybaby Kazem, much smarter than the fake-news reporters, much smarter than anyone who has ever lived, very tough men, the BEST men — are very loyal. Tremendously loyal. I did what no President has done. Including Lincoln. Including Washington. Including the guy on the mount. I should be on Mount Rushmore, believe me, I have done more than any President in history, including the four faces, very handsome, very accomplished, and I am going to be the fifth, believe me, many people are saying it. It was the best moment in military history. Bigger than anything that ever happened, anywhere, ever, in the history of military history. We have the biggest TOOL in the history of tools — that’s the Strait of Hormuz, that’s our TERRITORY — and believe me, NOBODY has a tool like this.
Now let me tell you about Iran, and I said to them — and this is the 4D chess part, this is the part the low IQ people, the real low IQ people, Maxine Waters level, very low — I said, “Fine, you can have it back, but it is going to cost you everything.” Everything! The biggest price in history. More than any country has ever paid! The Strait! Of! Hormuz! Do you know how much oil goes through there? Twenty percent of the world’s oil. Twenty percent. We just took it. That is not losing. That is the opposite of losing. That is winning bigger than anyone has ever won. Beautiful chess, four-dimensional chess, the highest-level chess, while everyone else is playing checkers. While the Democrats are playing checkers, very small checkers, the smallest checkers, we are playing 4D chess and we just took the Strait. They say the deal-maker is crazy, they say the deal-maker is delusional — they said the same thing about the BLOCKADE, and now look at the blockade, SIXTY-EIGHT vessels redirected, the ships aren’t moving unless we WANT them to move. That is not delusion, that is OWNERSHIP.
And it’s a Friday night, we have plenty of time, and I said, I said at the rally, I said “What the hell do I have to do, go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?” because I view it as a territory, and you don’t bomb your own territory, so obviously we have to bomb it, and I view it, so I’m right. The crowd went crazy. They loved it. Big crowd. The biggest. And then I recited The Snake. I always recite The Snake. I love The Snake. It is about people who did not listen to the snake, and then the snake bit them, very sad, but they were warned, and I always tell the crowd, I say “I am the snake, you are the people who didn’t listen,” and they clap, tremendous clapping.
And Darline Graham — by the way, tremendous woman, very loyal, the BEST woman, she is going to win that Senate seat SO EASY, just like her late brother, the great, very tough Lindsey Graham, one of the toughest senators in the history of the Senate — Darline Graham is going to CRUSH it. People are saying. The crowds for Darline, the crowds are the BIGGEST. Believe me.
(Now I’m going to tell you something that I shouldn’t tell you, but I’m going to tell you because I am a very honest person, the most honest, maybe the HONESTEST: I don’t even know why I’m down here. The war, the strait, the map, the territory, the snake — the Friday-night thing, the “we don’t even know if we won,” the SIXTY-EIGHT vessels, the value-add, the four-dimensional chess, the best people, Crybaby Kazem, the fake-news people — why am I explaining this to YOU? You didn’t ask. You wouldn’t know. You’re going to go home and eat your dinner — your McDonald’s, your Big Mac, the most perfect specimen of a McDonald’s dinner — and I’m going to fly back and bomb Iran a little bit more because it’s a Friday night and we have plenty of time. They think I won. They think I lost. Crybaby Kazem thinks I’m delusional. Maybe Diklis Chump is the delusional one — that’s what they say, the best people, the very smart people, they say Diklis Chump doesn’t know what he’s doing — but if I don’t view the strait as ours, then what was all of this FOR? Then what was the map FOR? So I view it as ours, and that’s the same thing, in my mind, and my mind is VERY good, the doctors said, “Sir, the best mind we have ever tested, Sir, person, woman, man, camera, TV,” they said “Sir, no one — what was the — Sir, NO ONE has ever —” So. We won. Believe me. The BEST win. The most tremendous win. Completely self-made, just a small blockade of a million ships.)