Today Trump spoke about tariffs on Mexico to stop drugs, Greenland’s 45,000 people wanting to join the U.S., how he defeated ISIS, Ukraine being the EU’s problem, taking Canada by economic force, and using the military to take the Panama Canal from China. His best quotes: 1/

On US hostages in Israel: If those hostages aren't back - I don't want to hurt your negotiation - if they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. And it will not be good for Hamas. 2/

On Mexico: Something's going to have to be done. Same thing with Mexico. We have a massive deficit with Mexico, and we help Mexico a lot. They're essentially run by the cartels, and we can't let that happen. 3/

On the Gulf of America: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America - what a beautiful name. And it's appropriate. 4/

On tariffs on Mexico and Canada to and up for illegal immigrants and drugs: Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. They can stop them. And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada - they come through Canada

On taking Panama Canal back from China: Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China. We gave the Panama Canal to Panama, we didn't give it to China. 6/

On Greenland: We need Greenland for national security purposes. You have approximately 45,000 people there. People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it. But if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security. That’s for

You look outside, you have China ships all over the place. You have Russian ships all over the place. We’re not letting that happen. The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States. But if they did, if they did do that, then I would

On why Russia attacked Ukraine: Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that they said these guys [the US] are incompetent they don't know what they're doing but we [the US] know what we're doing now and that's going to all end and we have a great military. 9/

On Trump the Great Warrior: I defeated Isis. We were in no wars. I just finished a couple. 10/

On Ukraine negotiations: Journalist: Would you make a commitment to the Ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiations? Trump: Well, I wouldn’t tell you if asked. 11/

On Russia and NATO: Russia, for many years, long before Putin, said you could never have NATO involved with Ukraine. Biden said, no, they should be able to join NATO. Then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feeling about that. 12/

On Biden forcing Ukraine into NATO (which is the opposite of the truth as Biden pushed back against Ukraine’s bid): I believe that they had a deal, and then Biden broke it. They had a deal, which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else. But then Biden

On Trump saving NATO: Nobody knows more about NATO than I do. I’m the one that got them to pay 2%. If we don’t pay our bills, will the United States protect us from Russia? If you’re delinquent, we will not protect you. 14/

The money started pouring in. That’s why NATO has money. But Obama could have said it; other people could have said it; Bush could have said it. Nobody said it but me. I took a lot of heat. 15/

On Ukraine being Europes problem: I said it to President Zelensky - Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we’re in. Whether you like that situation or not, Europe is much more affected than the United States. We have the ocean in between us. 16/

They’re [EU] a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up. And yet Europe is in for a small fraction of the number the United States is in. 17/

On NATO should do 5%: You can’t do it at 2%. Every country - if you’re going to have a country in a regular military, you’re at 4%. They’re [EU] in dangerous territory - I think they should be at 5%, not 2%. 18/

I know that Putin would like to meet. I don't think it's appropriate that I meet until after the 20th, which I hate because, you know, every day people are - many, many young people are being killed. 19/

Soldiers. You know, the land is very flat, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each side are dead, and they're laying in fields all over the place. Nobody to even collect. 20/

There's landmines all over. It's a disaster. But it’s a great farmland, and it's very, very flat. And the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body. 21/

Russia's losing a lot of young people, and so is Ukraine, and it should have never been started. That's a war that should have never happened. I guarantee you, if I were president, that war would have never happened. 22/

On Canada: Journalist: You said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland. Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Canada Trump: No, economic force. Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something. 23/

Don’t forget, we basically protect Canada. But here's the problem with Canada - I love the Canadian people. They're great. But we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it. 24/

We lose in trade deficits; we're losing massive amounts. We don't need their cars. You know, they make 20% of our cars. We don't need that. I'd rather make them in Detroit. We don't need their lumber. We have massive fields of lumber. We don't need their lumber. 25/

We don’t need anything they have. We don’t need their dairy products. So why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada? Trudeau said Canada would dissolve. Canada wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t take their 20% of our car market. 26/

On the EU: We're not going to have it with the European Union either. The European Union - we have a trade deficit of $350 billion. They don't take our cars. They don't take our farm products. They don't take anything. And so, we're not going to have it with them either. 27X

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