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Trump to Israel Hayom: I was the best president in Israel's history

In exclusive interview, the former president warns that "a lot of bad things can happen" in the region until inauguration day, noting that "Iran can have a nuclear weapon in 35 days."

by  Omer Lachmanovitch and Ariel Kahana
Published on  03-26-2024 08:09
Last modified: 03-29-2024 09:44
Trump to Israel Hayom: I was the best president in Israel's historyAmi Shooman

President Donald Trump during his interview with Israel Hayom, March 2024 | Photo: Ami Shooman

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The following is another excerpt from an interview with Donald Trump. To read the full interview (including this excerpt) click here. 

During an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, President Donald Trump made sure to mention his record on Israel while president during the interview. "I was the best president in the history of Israel. But there's never been a president and mostly anybody whether it's a president, nobody did for Israel what I did for Israel, including defense, including billions and billions of dollars a year $4 billion a year for years, when other people wanted to cut it off. But I will say that Israel's in trouble right now it's in trouble. It's a very troubled place. An attack happened that should have never been allowed to happen, both from the Israeli standpoint and from the United States standpoint. If they respected our president, which they don't, they have no respect for him whatsoever. That's why it wouldn't have happened with me. But I say just be strong. Be smart. And let's get this over with and when it's over with, you're going to be back to having a great life."

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He added that he wished Israel could move beyond the tragedy of Oct. 7.

Video: The interview with Former US President Donald Trump

"Look, I know Israel, very well. Spent a lot of time there. And I have a lot of friends there. tremendous number of friends here. They're incredible people. It's an incredible place. You have to finish up what you want this through. We gotta get back to having that country again. The way it was so sad that this could have happened. The date of October 7 is gonna go down...and it bothers me so much when I see people, they don't talk about the October 7 thing. They talk about how aggressive Israel is. It's amazing that they're not talking about October 7. They don't want to talk about it, when I talk about it, people don't want to hear about it."

Q: Why don't they want to hear about it? 

"You have a lot of a lot of people on the outside that are not friendly to Israel, and they're never going to be friendly to Israel. And you have to be very careful. You're in a very treacherous neighborhood that's a little on the dangerous side, but they're in a very dangerous neighborhood. And with Iran getting a nuclear weapon, once they have a nuclear weapon, you'll be speaking to them a lot differently than you speaking right now. They would have never had a nuclear weapon with me."

Video: The interview with Former US President Donald Trump

Q: They will not have a nuclear bomb if you are president? 

"They will never have a nuclear weapon no. They can have a nuclear weapon in 35 days. I have seven months to go, and nine months to take office. A lot of bad things can happen in that period. That's a lot. That's like an eternity. Seven months in this world, and especially in the Middle East, where it's so and so combative, and so combustible, that's a long period of time, so many bad things can happen. And also, so many good things can happen. If we had a real president, if we had a president that knew what he was doing, who could put two sentences together, that could get solved very quickly."

The full interview will be published in the coming days.

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