During a business roundtable in Doha, Qatar, President Trump discussed the Russia-Ukraine war.
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00:00So we think we're going to do well with Russia, Ukraine.
00:025,000 soldiers are being killed every single week on average.
00:065,000.
00:08And they're not from here.
00:10And they're not from the USA.
00:11They're from Ukraine and Russia.
00:14So some people would say, why are you bothering?
00:16Because these are 5,000 young people.
00:19Well, they're getting older because they've gone through so many that they are actually
00:22getting older.
00:23But these are 5,000 people that leave their home, wave goodbye to their parents.
00:27Their parents are so proud of them.
00:29They're sisters, they're brothers.
00:30And that's the last they ever see them.
00:32They're wiped out.
00:34And if you would see the satellite pictures, I get satellite pictures of that battlefield.
00:38And I want to tell you, I've never seen anything like that.
00:42I wish I never saw it.
00:44You have heads and arms and legs strewn all over the field.
00:49And you just take a look at that.
00:51And, you know, when you think 5,000 a week on average, and that's actually a low number.
00:56So we're going to see if we can end that.
00:59I was thinking about going.
01:01But it's very tough because of what we're doing today and tomorrow.
01:05But, you know, if something happened, I'd go on Friday if it was appropriate.
01:10But we have people right now negotiating.
01:14And I think that I just hope that Russia and Ukraine are able to do something because it has to stop.
01:24Not only the money.
01:25We spent $350 billion there.
01:28Just hand it.
01:29Nobody even knows where the money is.
01:30Just send him a check.
01:32There's no accounting.
01:33There's no one.
01:34Just give him money.
01:35Every time he came, I have to hand it to him.
01:38I think he's the greatest salesman maybe in history.
01:41Every time he came to the United States, he'd walk away with $100 billion.
01:44Yeah.
01:45That's a good salesman, right?
01:47Even by your standards.
01:48This is a big standard right here.
01:50But that's a pretty good set.
01:52No, he'd walk in.
01:54Leave with $100 billion.
01:55Last time he didn't do as well.
01:57He only got $60 billion.
01:58And it was so easy.
02:01It was like taking candy from a baby.
02:03That was the last administration.
02:04This administration has been a little bit tougher.
02:07But we'd like to see it end.
02:09And I think we're going to have a chance of doing it.
02:11And we'd like to see if we could solve the Iran problem in an intelligent way as opposed to a brutal way.
02:18There's only two.
02:18Intelligent and brutal.
02:20Those are the two alternatives.
02:22So I want to thank everybody for being here very much.
02:24And we're going to take some questions and perhaps now we'll ask the press to leave.
02:28And we're going to see you at the air.