Scott Bessent — my Treasury Secretary, very TREMENDOUS, the best Treasury Secretary, I picked him myself, the smartest pick, very loyal — went out this week and announced an economic ONSLAUGHT on Iran. Economic onslaught. The word ONSLAUGHT. Nobody uses it better than me, I invented that word for Iran, basically — and Scott used it BEAUTIFULLY, just beautiful, exactly the way I told him to use it.
So now we have the most TREMENDOUS economic onslaught on Iran, the best ever, the strongest ever, believe me. Many people are saying it is the most tremendous onslaught in the history of the world, and the smart people, the VERY smart people, the best people — they are telling me, Diklis, this is your greatest work, this is your masterpiece, more tremendous than anything you have ever done, and I have done a LOT of tremendous things, you have no idea.
But you want to know what’s NOT in my TREMENDOUS onslaught? China. The country that buys more Iranian oil than any country in the world. The country that is Iran’s largest trading partner. The biggest customer of the regime we are supposedly ONSLAUGHTING. That’s right, folks — we left China out. Completely out. Because President Xi, my friend, a TREMENDOUS friend, the most beautiful friend, one BILLION people under him, very smart people — President Xi is flying to my White House next month for a state visit, and we are NOT going to ruin that visit with secondary sanctions. We are going to have the most beautiful state visit in the history of state visits, bigger than any state visit, the historians are saying — and I am going to make deals with President Xi, BEAUTIFUL deals, the art of the deal, MY deals.
Edgard Kagan, who’s at CSIS — the smart people over there, they call him a senior adviser, very senior, the MOST senior — Edgard said, and I quote, the announcement was “very careful” to avoid specifics against China. VERY CAREFUL. You hear that? Very careful. The smart people are saying I am the most careful person in the world, believe me, more careful than Lincoln, who was a great president but not as careful as me, NEVER as careful as me, not even close, the most careful, the MOST.
And what Edgard didn’t say, what the FAKE NEWS won’t say, what the LOW-IQ haters, the lowest IQ you have ever seen — what they WON’T tell you is that this is BEAUTIFUL. This is the art of the deal. You don’t hit your friend when he’s flying to your house for dinner. You hit him AFTER. Or you don’t hit him at all. You just MAKE A DEAL. The most tremendous deal. The kind of deal only I can make, the smartest deals, the best deals, the most beautiful deals.
The smart people, the VERY smart people, many people, very smart people — they are saying, Diklis, what you did with Iran is a TREMENDOUS masterpiece. The most beautiful masterpiece. You gave them the rhetoric, you gave them the ONSLAUGHT word, believe me, that word, ONSLAUGHT, the best word — and then you kept your friend Xi happy. You did BOTH. Both! Nobody does both. Only — nobody. The greatest dealmaker in the history of the world, bigger than any dealmaker, the dealmakers are saying this is the best deal they have ever seen, and they have seen a lot of deals, tremendous deals.
I had the generals come to me, the TOUGHEST generals, very tough men, big strong men, much tougher than any generals in history — they came to me with tears in their eyes, they said Sir, Sir, nobody has ever done what you are doing with Iran and China at the same time, Sir, it’s unbelievable, Sir. And I said, generals, please, don’t cry, it’s okay, we are going to win so much you are going to get tired of winning.
I knew about Iran before ANYBODY. Before the generals. Before the admirals. Before the FAKE NEWS people. I knew it FIRST. I always know first. My uncle, who was a great professor at MIT, very smart, the smartest genes, he used to say, Diklis, you will know things before anybody else, and he was RIGHT, he was TREMENDOUS, the most brilliant professor. So I am telling you — I have seen the future of this deal, and the future is TREMENDOUS.
And folks, I have been telling you about this for MONTHS. Back in May, when I went to Beijing for the last round of summitry, I was already treating the Iranian theocracy like a card in my hand — the most beautiful card, the most tremendous card — to be folded into whatever deal President Xi would accept. I wrote about it. TREMENDOUS piece. The best piece I ever wrote. And people are saying it again now. Diklis was right. Diklis was right all along. The smart people, the very smart people, they are saying — Diklis called it FIRST. Just like Diklis calls everything first.
And the rollout itself — my “Operation Economic Outcast”, beautiful name, the best name, I named it myself — held off on China from day one. The operation’s name is “Outcast.” Its design is accommodation. But it’s TREMENDOUS accommodation. The most beautiful accommodation.
Now the FAKE NEWS media — and these are LOW-IQ people, very low IQ, I’m telling you, the LOWEST — they are saying, oh, Diklis Chump caved to China, oh, Diklis Chump surrendered, oh, the Iran sanctions are a DISASTER. A DISASTER! Can you believe it? It’s SAD. It’s very SAD. The LOW-IQ media, the lowest IQ, and they are calling my TREMENDOUS onslaught a disaster because it doesn’t mention China. Well let me tell you something — the SMART people, the very smart people, they are saying exactly the opposite. They are saying I just played the most beautiful game in the history of international relations, the most beautiful, and China doesn’t even know what hit them. They think they won. But they actually lost. They walked right into the biggest trap in history. A TREMENDOUS trap. A beautiful trap.
Edgard asked the right question, even if he didn’t know it. The real question — and I WANT them asking this question, the question I set up for them, beautiful setup, only I do this, the smartest setups — the real question is whether China can be pushed to reduce what they’re doing with Iran. That is EXACTLY the question I want them asking. Because here’s what’s going to happen. President Xi is going to come to my BEAUTIFUL White House, and I am going to sit with him in my BEAUTIFUL Oval Office, the most beautiful Oval Office, and I am going to say to him, very nicely, President Xi, my friend, would you please stop buying so much oil from Iran. And he is going to say yes. Because I have a BEAUTIFUL relationship with him, the most beautiful, and he respects me, he said to me, he said, Sir, you are the greatest dealmaker in the world, Sir, and I said thank you President Xi, very kind, very tremendous, very smart.
And then the Iran sanctions are going to be TREMENDOUS. Even MORE tremendous. Because China will help. And people will say — Diklis Chump did it. Diklis Chump made the deal. Me — I mean us, I mean the American people, I mean the workers, the great workers — but mostly me. Mostly Diklis Chump. I will take full credit. FULL credit. Believe me. More credit than anybody has ever taken for anything. The MOST credit.
This is what winning looks like, folks. Winning like you have never seen. Winning so much.