Trump Hosts Jordan's King & Crown Prince for High-Stakes Talks on Regional Security Issues

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President Donald Trump welcomed King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan to the White House for a pivotal bilateral meeting. Discussions centered on regional security, economic cooperation, and strengthening U.S.-Jordan relations. The leaders addressed key geopolitical challenges, including Middle East stability and counterterrorism efforts. This high-level engagement underscores Jordan’s critical role as a U.S. ally in the region. The meeting also focused on trade, humanitarian aid, and military collaboration, reinforcing the strategic partnership between the two nations amid ongoing global tensions.

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00:00Thank you very much. It's an honor to have King Abdullah with us

00:03it's been a friend of mine for a long time actually long before even my first term and

00:08We we've had a great relationship. He's a great gentleman a great leader

00:14And does a fantastic job in his country his son. We're lucky enough to have his handsome son with us today

00:21So it's good to see you again

00:23we

00:25We've had some quick discussions just now and we're gonna have some longer discussions after this

00:30and

00:31The relationship with Jordan has been very strong has been with me and I really has been with the country

00:38But I think I've been closer than other presidents to Jordan and what Jordan represents

00:43And it's an honor to have you and your son with us today

00:47And if you'd like to say a few words and thank you very much. Thank you very much for having us

00:52And so short after your adulation

00:55I think just as a testament to what you said is a special relationship between our two countries and the personal relationship

01:02Friendship and trust between the two of us

01:04Mr. President, I truly believe that with all the challenges that we have in the Middle East that I finally see

01:10Somebody that could take us across the finish line to bring stability peace and prosperity

01:16To all of us in the region and it is I think our collective responsibility in the Middle East to continue to work with you to

01:22Support you to achieve those lofty goals. So I'm very delighted to be here. And as you said, sir, we've got some very interesting discussions

01:30Thank you very much

01:34I'm worried about the annexation of the West Bank. Will you give this majesty?

01:39They can guarantee that you won't allow Israel to annex the West Bank. I think that's gonna work out very well

01:45That's not really what we're talking about today. I think that's something that's gonna work out automatically and

01:51It's in good shape and

01:53We discuss it. Other people have discussed it with us and with me. That's gonna work out West Bank is gonna work out very well

02:05Well, I don't know but he may have just something to say because we discussed just briefly

02:09I think maybe you want to say it now or well, Mr. President

02:15I think

02:16We have to keep in mind that there is a plan from Egypt and the Arab countries

02:21We're being invited by Mohammed bin Salman to discussions in Riyadh

02:24I think the point is is how do we make this work in a way that is good for everybody?

02:29Obviously, we have to look at the best interests of the United States of the people in the region

02:35Especially to my people of Jordan and we're going to have some interesting discussions today

02:39I think one of the things that we can do right away

02:42Is take

02:432,000 children that are either cancer children or in a very

02:48ill state to Jordan as quickly as possible

02:51And then wait for I think the Egyptians to present their plan on how we can work with the president to work on the Gaza

02:58challenges

03:01Excuse me, wait, just please I

03:04didn't know that what you just said 2,000 children with cancer or other problems and

03:11That's really a beautiful gesture that's really good and we appreciate it and we'll be working on the rest with

03:19With Egypt, I think you're going to see some great progress. I think with Jordan you're going to see some great progress

03:25Three of us there will have some others helping and we're going to have some others at a very high level

03:30Helping and the whole thing will come. It's not a complex thing to do and with the United States being in control of that

03:37Piece of land a fairly large piece of land you can have stability in the Middle East for the first time and

03:44The Palestinians or the people that live now in Gaza will be living beautifully in another location. They're going to be living safely

03:51they're not going to be

03:53Killed murdered and having to leave every 10 years because I've been watching this for so many years. It's nothing but trouble

04:01Everyone's being killed. They're being

04:03Robbed it's it's it's like living in hell and they're going to end up having a

04:09great home great

04:10families that don't have to get mugged and killed and beaten up and harassed by Hamas and everybody else and

04:18I know we'll be able to work something and

04:21You and you what you just said about the 2000 is fantastic. It's so beautiful. It's music to my ears

04:28But we're going to be able to work something and I know we'll be able to work something also

04:32With we I believe not not a hundred percent, but 99% we're going to work out something with Egypt

04:53We're not going to buy anything we're gonna have it we're gonna keep it and we're gonna make sure that there's going to be peace and

04:58There's not going to be any problem and nobody's going to question it and we're going to run it very properly and eventually we'll have

05:07Economic development at a very large scale

05:09Maybe the largest scale on that site and we'll have lots of good things built there

05:14including hotels and office buildings and housing and other things and

05:19we'll make that site into what it should be and

05:21The people from Gaza who wouldn't be able to be be there for years because you're talking about

05:26Just to get it and prepare it and

05:28To take care of all of the problems that currently it has as you know

05:32Tunnels and people are in those tunnels and you have some good people and some bad people and you may have

05:40Hostages right now, you know, you have the hostages

05:42Possibly there they don't know where they are and you know

05:45I have a Saturday deadline and I don't think they're gonna make the deadline personally. I think they

05:51They want to play tough guy, but we'll see how tough they are

05:56But it's it's going to be a wonderful thing. It's going to be wonderful for the Middle East

05:59I think it'll turn the Middle East. I think you're gonna have peace in the Middle East

06:02You're gonna eventually have peace in the Middle East

06:06This deadline

06:08Risk undermining the talks that you're having with the King today

06:12Risk the kind of wider piece that you're trying to because that's not we're not talking about a big situation

06:18We're talking about something that can go very quickly

06:21We're talking if it's going to go quickly. It's not going to take a long time. Okay, that's not

06:26You know bullies, you know, the bully is right, you know, the the bully

06:30Oh, I've always and I found it throughout my life a bully is the weakest person and they're bullies Hamas is bullies

06:38The weakest people are bullies. You know that right?

06:41All right. Go ahead. You were saying that

06:44Palestinians will live somewhere else safe

06:47Where exactly do you want them to live? Well, it's not where I want them to live

06:51It's going to be where we ultimately choose as a group and I believe we'll have a parcel of land in

06:58Jordan, I believe we'll have a parcel of land in Egypt. We may have

07:03Someplace else but I think when we finish our talks

07:06We'll have a place where they're going to live very happily and very safely and you know, don't forget they

07:13Only want to be on the Gaza Strip because they don't know anything else

07:17They never had an alternative and they don't want to be in the Gaza Strip, but they have no choice

07:22They have to be and they're being killed there at levels that nobody's ever seen

07:26No, no place in the world is like as as dangerous as the Gaza Strip. They don't want to be there

07:31They have no alternative when they have an alternative not one person will want to stay where they are

07:37Nobody wants to stay there. They're living in hell. It's it's a death trap

07:42Mr. President, how do you know that the Palestinians don't want to leave their land?

07:46Some people say this is ethnic cleansing. You won't be able to force them to leave their land. We're moving them to a beautiful

07:53location where they have new homes where they can live safely where they'll have doctors and medical and

08:00All of those things and I think it's going to be great. Yeah any questions?

08:04King Abdullah, what do you think about the U.S. taking over the Gaza Strip? Do you want to see the U.S. own the Gaza Strip?

08:09Well, I think as I said earlier

08:12The president is looking at Egypt coming to present their plan

08:15As I said, we will be in Saudi Arabia to discuss how we can work with the president and with the United States

08:22So I think let's wait until the Egyptians can come and present it to the president and not get ahead of ourselves

08:30Well, I think what we said I have to look at the best interests of my country

08:35The president is very happy that we do this thing with 2,000 children as quickly as possible

08:40And again, I believe that the president is looking forward to getting a group of us Arabs up here to discuss the overall plan

08:52Absolutely

08:54That's from the Gaza Strip the 2000

09:04I think we sort of have gone down the line. We know pretty much what is going to be presented and

09:11I think it's going to be something that's going to be magnificent for the Palestinians. They're going to they're going to be in love with it

09:17I did very well with real estate. I can tell you about real estate. They're going to be in love with it

09:28It's a very small number of people relative to other things that have taken place over the

09:33Decades and centuries. It's a very small number of people and

09:37They're living a terrible life. Look at look at the way they're living now. Nobody's nobody's living like that in the entire world

09:46They're living under buildings that are mostly fallen down and will continue to fall down and

09:51They're living under people are being killed every day. The conditions are horrible

09:55There are no conditions anywhere in the world that are worse than the Gaza Strip right now

10:03You said hell will break out if all the hostages are not released on Saturday

10:07What did you mean by that? And are you encouraging that young to walk away from this deal? Have you talked about this?

10:12So I've looked at what at the condition of people coming out of the hostage situation

10:18And it's horrible. I looked at the before and after yesterday

10:24three young men

10:26One one is dead now as you know the older gentleman who died which everybody said he was alive and well

10:32He's dead, but the three young men and I looked at them

10:36From a short while ago, and I looked at him now. They are emaciated. They look like Holocaust survivors. They looked

10:45They'll get better but they

10:48They're in rough shape. They were treated really badly and we've heard things from them since and I think the reason that

10:57Hamas is playing

10:58So cute is because they probably

11:01They they saw the reaction to these three people that came out and the and the other ones look the one young lady at her

11:07hand blown off practically and

11:10They were not in great shape either

11:12But she's missing her fingers and a big part of her hand. You know what she did

11:16She was stopping a bullet that was aimed at her

11:19She went like that that it blew off her hand

11:23Now I think what they're I think they want time because I think the people that they have living are in such bad shape

11:31Because they're sending the most healthy people out

11:35Because they don't want to send the least healthy people out and there was an uproar when they saw the people from yesterday

11:41so these people are

11:43so I don't want to do two and then we do another two in another week and then we do four and

11:49Three weeks now. No, they either have them out by Saturday at 12 o'clock or

11:55All bets are off

11:58Mr. President, would you still consider withholding aid to those countries if they don't accept your plans to accept?

12:04Well, I don't want to say that because we've had such a good relationship and we're doing so well

12:08Just in the short time that we've been talking. I mean

12:12The king just made a statement. I didn't ask him to do that

12:17About literally saving 2,000 young children from the Gaza Strip

12:24We didn't know about that you didn't know about that nobody did except for the king and his son

12:29I assume you told your son, right?

12:32And I just thought it was great. No, I think we'll do something. I don't have to threaten with money

12:37We do we contribute a lot of money to Jordan and to Egypt by the way a lot to vote

12:43But I don't have to threaten that I don't think I think we're above that I do believe we're above that

12:55Yeah, sure and we have other

12:58Countries that want to get involved. We have a lot of people that want to get involved. There's a great sense of

13:05wanting to help the Palestinians

13:07They really there's a lot of good countries out there people that rule those countries with

13:13Big hearts and this gentleman is at the top of the list

13:19Well, they're gonna be great they're gonna they're gonna be very happy

13:29The

13:31Response will be from a multitude of countries Arab international

13:35I know the Europeans want to step in

13:38and again, we'll probably have to look to the help of the United States to make sure that

13:42Kogod which is the clearing agency on the Israeli side makes it as efficient as possible

13:47Because 2,000 kids the best way to get to them is by helicopters and get them straight to our institutions

13:52I also believe that quite a few countries would also probably like to take some of those kids and have them treated in their

13:58hospitals

14:00Yes, and that's right this should have been done by the Biden administration

14:04But you know, they didn't do anything. They didn't know what the hell they were doing

14:07So this should have been done by the Biden administration

14:09This should have never happened because October 7th would have never happened if I were president zero chance of happening

14:15You wouldn't have had that a whole mess where the Middle East got blown up and you wouldn't have had Ukraine and Russia

14:22Fighting that would have never happened. And by the way, we're making good progress there. I think I really think we're making some very good progress

14:34And today you just said we're not going to buy guys I'm not gonna have to buy we're gonna we're gonna have guys

14:39We don't have to buy there's nothing to buy

14:43We will have guys what is that? No reason to buy?

14:46There is nothing to buy. It's Gaza. It's a it's a war-torn area. We're gonna take it. We're gonna hold it

14:53We're gonna cherish it. We're going to

14:56Get it going eventually where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East

15:01It's going to be for the people in the Middle East, but I think it could be a diamond it could be an absolute

15:07Tremendous asset for the Middle East and you're gonna have peace

15:10It's gonna bring peace in the Middle East Gaza the way it is right now every 10 years

15:15You're gonna have the same thing happening. I've watched it so long all the death and destruction of Gaza

15:21The civilization has been wiped out in Gaza

15:24Now it's going to be a tremendous thing. It's

15:27It's fronting on the sea

15:29It's going to be a great economic development job

15:32It's going to put people to work a lot of people to work and those people are all going to be from the Middle East

15:41Can you clarify again sir, how do you feel about the u.s. Taking Gaza?

15:47Well again, this is something that

15:50we as Arabs will be

15:52Coming to to the United States was something that we're going to talk about later to discuss all these options

15:59Take it under one authority

16:02Under the US authority

16:07No, no, I've had a great career in real estate

16:12You know when you've done what I've done in the last

16:15number of years including the four years that

16:18We should have been doing something else frankly because people see that now for sure

16:23but

16:24When you've done what I've done

16:27You can just do more good for people

16:29When you're president when you're president we can do things

16:32It's this is all things that should have been done, but actually things that shouldn't have had to be done

16:38Gaza absolutely it would have been it would have been so great of the Biden administration would have started this

16:44But actually in all fairness to them

16:47it was

16:49They should have never let it happen

16:51It did happen and because of the fact that they let this happen this catastrophe of October 7th

16:58Something like this becomes

16:59Practical and very real meaning the development and and all of the things that I've talked about with respect to the Gaza Strip

17:07If you didn't have the October 7th catastrophe, and it was a horrible catastrophe

17:13Then probably you wouldn't be talking about that

17:15but the the only thing I can say is this is going to bring stability and peace to the Middle East and

17:23Ultimately when it's developed which will be in quite a while from now is

17:28The things calm down, but when it's developed it's going to bring tremendous numbers of jobs to the Middle East and including the people of your country

17:40There are many Palestinians even though you say that everything is going to be beautiful everything is going to be lovely

17:45They're not going to want to go back

17:46They're going to be people who want to go back and feel like that it is their right to do that

17:50You haven't said will there be any type of repercussions or anything to happen. We don't think that's going to happen

17:54We think it's going to we think people are going to be very happy thrilled a lot of those people that you're talking about are

17:59Going to end up maybe living there and maybe working there, but it'll be in a different form

18:05We have had tremendous support for this project, and we think the biggest asset of the project

18:12It's going to bring peace ultimately to the Middle East

18:15Go ahead behind you

18:18One of your promises on the campaign trade is to bring peace to the Middle East

18:23It was a promise to your voters, Arab voters here. The Arab voters in the United States oppose this

18:31What do you say to that? Well, you know if you look at Michigan where we have a large Arab population as you know

18:37I was just telling the king that we won as you know

18:41I won the Arab population now when I started off. I wasn't leaving when they finished a few months later

18:47we started campaigning in Michigan and

18:50When I finished we won it by a tremendous amount by 30 points

18:56so

18:57my relationship with the Arab population has been fantastic and

19:01My relationship with the Middle East is very good very good with all the countries just about all the countries

19:06Let's see

19:07I would say all the countries and

19:10They all want to do something and they want to see peace in the Middle East all the stories you hear about

19:15The Middle East not really wanting peace that they want war they want this they want to go a certain place

19:21Let me tell you the stories are false. They want to have peace. I know them all very well

19:25they want to have peace they want to have a good life like other people and

19:30We'll bring this will be a big factor in bringing peace to the Middle East. Thank you very much

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Trump Hosts Jordan's King & Crown Prince for High-Stakes Talks on Regional Security Issues

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