President Trump is assured he can negotiate an settlement with China to forestall an invasion of Taiwan and minimize a take care of Iran that may cease it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Trump, 78, described China as a “very ambitious country,” and the communist nation’s chief, Xi Jinping, as “very ambitious man,” in the course of the second a part of an interview with Fox Information host Sean Hannity that aired Thursday, earlier than arguing that the US is in a very good place to maintain the CCP from increasing its territory.
“I can do that because we have something that they want,” the president mentioned. “We have a pot of gold.”
Trump urged that tariffs could be key to his dealmaking course of with China.
“You know how much money we lost to China last year? $1 trillion,” he instructed Hannity, slamming the Biden administration’s “stupidity with their trade policies.”
“We have one very big power over China and that’s tariffs,” Trump continued. “And they don’t want them, and I’d rather not have to use it, but it’s a tremendous power over China.”
“China gets a lot of its money from the United States. They use that money to build a military,” he defined.
Trump additional revealed that his cellphone name with Xi final week was “friendly,” describing it as a “very good conversation.”
“We’ve had other communication before that,” he acknowledged, noting that he had a “very good relationship” Xi in his first time period.
“Iran is a different story,” Trump mentioned of the opposite most important US adversary. “Iran, is a whole different thing. That’s a religious deal. That is very dangerous.”
Trump refused to telegraph whether or not he would assist pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear amenities however was adamant the Islamic Republic “can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
The president, nevertheless, claimed that he was “within one week” of hanging a take care of Iran by the top of his first time period and nonetheless believes a treaty will be signed that may make it “absolutely certain” the nation doesn’t acquire nuclear weapons.
“There are ways that you can make it absolutely certain if you make a deal … you have to verify times ten,” Trump mentioned, earlier than reiterating that he would by no means permit Iran to get ahold of a nuke.
“If they get one you’re going to have everyone else getting them and then the whole thing is going to be a disaster,” he argued.
On the finish of his sitdown with Hannity – Trump’s first tv interview because the forty seventh president – the commander in chief indicated that “it feels good” to be again within the Oval Workplace “because I want to solve some problems that really have developed” because the finish of his first time period.
