Trump: We're Not Going Into Syria... Unless We Do.

IN AN INTERVIEW WITH FOXBUSINESS LAST NIGHT, DONALD
TRUMP TALKED ABOUT OUR FUTURE POTENTIAL ACTIONS IN SYRIA,
WHETHER WE WILL GET INVOLVED, AND DEPENDING ON WHICH SENTENCE
YOU PAY ATTENTION TO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE GOING IN OR WE WILL
VERY MUCH BE GOING IN.
LET'S TRY TO DECIPHER IT.
>>WE ARE NOT GOING INTO SYRIA BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME
QUESTIONS, NIKKI HALEY IS DOING A GREAT JOB, REX IS DOING A
FANTASTIC JOB, OUR SECRETARY OF STATE, AND GENERAL MCMASTER,
FANTASTIC.
IF YOU ADDED UP AND THEY TAKE EVERY WORD, THEY WILL
SAY THEY ARE DIFFERENT -- BUT WE'RE NOT GOING INTO SYRIA.
BUT
WHEN I SEE PEOPLE USING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE CHEMICAL
WEAPONS, WHICH THEY AGREED NOT TO USE UNDER THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION BUT THEY VIOLATED IT, THEY SAID THEY GOT RID OF
THEM, BUT WHAT I DID SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE BY THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION BEFORE I DID IT.
WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PICTURES ON
ANY SHOW OR ANY NEWSPAPER, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE THEM --
>>CHILDREN.
>>WHEN YOU SEE THESE BEAUTIFUL KIDS THAT ARE DEAD IN THEIR
FATHER'S ARMS OR KIDS GASPING FOR LIFE, YOU KNOW IT'S OVER,
IT'S OVER FOR THEM, THEY ARE HOSING THEM DOWN, HUNDREDS OF
THEM, WHEN YOU SEE THAT, I IMMEDIATELY CALLED GENERAL
MATTIS AND SAID WHAT CAN WE DO?
THEY CAME BACK WITH A NUMBER OF
ALTERNATIVES AND WE HAD THE VERY HARD.
ARE WE GOING TO GET
INVOLVED WITH SYRIA?
NO, BUT IF I SEE THEM USING GAS AND USING
THINGS THAT -- EVEN SOME OF THE WORST TYRANTS IN THE WORLD
DIDN'T USE THE KINDS OF GASES THAT THEY USED.
AND SOME OF THE
GASES ARE UNBELIEVABLY POTENT.
SO WHEN I SAW THAT I SAID WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
>>DONALD TRUMP, I WILL SAY BECAUSE I HAD TO LISTEN TO HIM,
WHEN HE IS SPEAKING, I LISTENED TO OBAMA A LOT, AND WHEN OBAMA
SPEAKS YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN YOUR BRAIN BECAUSE HE GOES
REALLY SLOWLY.
FOR WHATEVER REASON HE WANTS TO THINK ABOUT
WHAT HE'S DOING WHAT HE'S GOING TO SAY AND HE WANTS TO MAKE
SURE PEOPLE DON'T MISINTERPRET.
>>HE WAS MEASURED.
>>WHEN DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS THERE ARE A BUNCH OF THINGS HE NEEDS
TO GET TO, AND IN HIS THROWING IT ALL OUT HE GETS SIDETRACKED.
>>WITH HIS OWN MIND.
>>WITH HIS OWN INTERNAL TALKING POINT THAT COMES BACK TO IT
AGAIN AND HE DOESN'T REALIZE HOW MUCH HE CONTRADICTS HIMSELF.
IF
HE IS FOLLOWING WAZE MAPS AND IT'S HIS TURN LEFT AT
MAINSTREET, HE WILL TURN LEFT AND THEN MAKE A RIGHT AT
SEVENTH JUST BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE IT.
NOW WE ARE LOST.
>>DRIVEN BY HIS NEED TO USE HYPERBOLE.
HE WILL MAKE A POINT
AND THAT HE WANTS TO SAY HOW BAD CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE IN A WAY
THAT MAKES IT SEEMS LIKE HE'S NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THEM BEFORE,
HE FOLLOWS THAT TRAIN AND FORGETS WHAT HE WAS TALKING
ABOUT.
LOOK, CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE HORRIBLE, ILLEGAL, BUT IF HE
IS SAYING WE WON'T GET INVOLVED, AND ONLY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
GETS TO FIRE 59 CRUISE MISSILES AT A COUNTRY AND SAY WE ARE NOT
INVOLVED, FOR SOME REASON, BUT THEN YOU SAY IF THEY USE THESE
WEAPONS OR IF THEY DO SOMETHING BAD THEN WE MIGHT GET INVOLVED
-- IF I'M WORRIED ABOUT US GOING INTO SYRIA THAN THOSE
STATEMENTS DON'T MAKE ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE FUTURE.
>>HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE FINISHED SAYING.
IF YOU ASK HIM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, THE FOLLOW-UPS NEVER
COME, SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
YOU SAID TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
HE WOULD GO NO I DIDN'T, FAKE NEWS.
>>ALSO IN THE BEGINNING OF THE ANSWER HE SAID YOU CAN LISTEN TO
NIKKI HALEY AND REX TILLERSON AND THE MEDIA PRETENDS AS THOUGH
THE TWO OF THEM ARE SAYING DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT THEY
AREN'T. THEY SAID TO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS, WE BROKE IT
DOWN, NIKKI HALEY SAID THE INTENT WAS TO GO AFTER REGIME
CHANGE, TILLERSON SAID THE OPPOSITE OF THAT.
I DON'T KNOW
IF THEY HAVE COMMUNICATION WITH EACH OTHER, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY
ARE UNITED ON WHAT THEIR POLICY IDEAS ARE, ALL I KNOW IS THERE
ARE CONFLICTING MESSAGES IN THE MEDIA RIGHT NOW COMING FROM
MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION FROM PEOPLE WHO WORK CLOSELY
WITH HIM, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE A QUICK POINT ABOUT HOW,
YES, I AGREE THAT CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE ENDLESS, BUT YOU
KNOW WHAT ELSE IS?
TARGETING CIVILIANS INTENTIONALLY IN ANY
WAY, KILLING THEM, INJURING THEM, AND ESSENTIALLY DOING
WHAT ASSAD HAS BEEN DOING WITH HELP OF THE RUSSIANS.
CIVILIANS
HAVE BEEN DYING BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN TARGETED BY ASSAD AND HIS
REGIME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
SO WHY IS IT THAT ALL
OF A SUDDEN YOU CARE BECAUSE OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS?
YOU DIDN'T
SEE THESE VIDEOS BEFORE, THE IMAGES IN THE MEDIA OF THESE
INNOCENT CHILDREN SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF ASSAD?
I THINK IT'S
VERY STRANGE.
AND IF YOU CARED ABOUT CIVILIANS AND INNOCENT
PEOPLE GETTING HURT SO MUCH, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE AMPLIFIED THE
DRONE STRIKES THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS DOING.
MORE
CIVILIANS ARE DYING UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
WHAT OBAMA
WAS DOING WAS WRONG UNDER THE DRONE STRIKES, WE CRITICIZED HIM
FOR THAT, BUT TRUMP HAS ACCELERATED THAT.
WHY DOESN'T HE
CARE ABOUT THOSE CIVILIANS?
>>BECAUSE THOSE PICTURES AREN'T ON TV, I GUESS.
HE SAID SEEING
THE PICTURE ON TV IS WORSE THAN IN THE NEWSPAPER, I DON'T
UNDERSTAND.
YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT CIVILIAN DEATHS, HE
OBVIOUSLY HASN'T FOR YEARS, THERE WERE REPORTS TODAY THAT
RUSSIAN PLANES DROPPED WHITE PHOSPHORUS ON CIVILIAN AREAS OF
SYRIA TODAY, TECHNICALLY THAT'S A MINERAL, NOT CHEMICAL, BUT
STILL HORRIBLE WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT IT DOES TO THE BODY.
I WANT
TO MOVE ON A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT THIS
WILL BE EVEN WEIRDER, IN THE CONTINUING INTERVIEW WITH MARIA
BARTOROMO, SHE WANTS TO FIND OUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN HE MADE
THE CALL.
BACK WHEN THEY MADE THE CALL TO GO AFTER BIN LADEN
THERE ALL THESE PICTURES, I GUESS THEY ARE TRYING TO GET
THAT GOING AGAIN, BUT LOOK AT THE EMOTION ON THE FACE OF THE
TWO PEOPLE IN THIS INTERVIEW AS THEY DISCUSS THIS HAPPY
STORY OF THEIRS.
>>WHEN YOU WERE WITH THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA YOU WERE
LAUNCHING THESE STRIKES.
WAS THAT PLANNED?
HOW DID THAT COME
ABOUT, BECAUSE RIGHT THERE YOU ARE SAYING, A REMINDER,
HERE IS WITH A SUPERPOWER IN THE WORLD IS.
>>YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR THAT, I HAVE
WATCHED SPECULATION FOR THREE DAYS NOW ON WHAT THAT WAS LIKE.
>>WHEN DID YOU TELL HIM, BEFORE DESSERT?
>>I WILL TELL YOU ONLY BECAUSE YOU'VE TREATED ME SO GOOD, I WAS
SITTING AT THE TABLE, WE FINISHED DINNER, WE WERE HAVING
DESSERT, AND WE HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF CHOCOLATE
CAKE YOU'VE EVER SEEN, AND PRESIDENT XI WAS ENJOYING IT,
AND I WAS GIVEN THE MESSAGE FROM THE GENERALS THAT THE SHIPS ARE
LOCKED AND LOADED, WHAT DO YOU DO?
AND WE MADE A DETERMINATION
TO DO IT, SO THE MISSILES WERE ON THE WAY. AND I SAID MR.
PRESIDENT, LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO YOU.
THIS IS DURING
DESSERT.
WE HAVE JUST FIRED 59 MISSILES, ALL OF WHICH HIT, BUT
AWAY, I'M BELIEVABLE, FROM HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY, ALL OF
WHICH HIT.
>>UNMANNED.
>>IT'S BRILLIANT, IT'S GENIUS.
>>WAS THIS DURING DESSERT?
>>WE SHOULD EAT THERE, I HEAR IT'S BEAUTIFUL CAKE.
HE HAS TO
DO A TRUMP THING, ALL OF WHICH HIT.
THEN SHE ASKED ARE THEY
UNMANNED?
YES, THE MISSILES ARE UNMANNED.
I THINK WHEN WE
STOPPED MANNING MISSILES THAT WAS A BIG STEP FORWARD FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS, IT'S A CRUEL PRACTICE.
>>TO TARGET THIS BIG, EMPTY AIRFIELD AND HAVE ALL MISSILES
HIT AN EMPTY, USELESS SPACE, IT'S AMAZING.
>>IT'S A WEIRD TRUMP THING THEY HAVE TO DO.
BUT IT'S THE LOOK ON
HER FACE, WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN YOU ASKED?
IS LIKE SOMEONE POINTED THIS OUT, IT'S LIKE GETTING
SOMEONE TO TELL YOU HOW THEY FIRST ASKED THEIR NOW WIFE
TO THE PROM OR SOMETHING.
>>I WONDER IF THAT WAS AN INTERVIEW STRATEGY BY HER,
BECAUSE I THINK IF HE SENSES SOME SORT OF WARMNESS FROM THE
PERSON INTERVIEWING HIM HE'S MORE LIKELY TO OPEN UP.
MAYBE
I'M GIVING HER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT WHEN I DON'T NEED TO.
BUT THE AD FOR THE CAKE WAS INSANE.
WE NEED SOME TORT REFORM HERE.
>>OH MY GOD, THAT WHOLE THING WAS LEADING UP TO TORT REFORM.
>>I THINK THAT INDICATES ALSO PEOPLE WHO WOULD NORMALLY OPPOSE
THESE KINDS OF THINGS, LIKE THE BRIAN WILLIAMS THING AND FAREED
ZAKARIA, WHEN WE SEE AMERICAN POWER WE ARE BORN WITH THAT
BELIEF, WHEN YOUR KIDS ARE THREE YEARS OLD AND WATCHING FIREWORKS
GO OFF, DO YOU POINT OUT TO THEM, WHAT DO THEY SIGNIFY IN
YOUR MIND?
A WAR THAT WE WON, AND THESE ARE OUR BOMBS, THE
BOMBS, IT'S IN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN CASE YOU FORGOT.
WHEN YOU LISTEN AT BASEBALL GAMES YOU DON'T LISTEN.
WE ARE BORN AND BRED WITH THIS AMERICAN BOMBS, NO MATTER WHAT.
SEWER QUESTION ORIGINALLY WAS, DID YOU TELL THAT PRESIDENT
OF CHINA THAT THAT PRESIDENT WHO THE REAL SUPERPOWER IS
BECAUSE WE LAUNCHED SOME MISSILES?
THAT'S ALL WE CARE ABOUT.
>>THAT'S A GOOD POINT, AND WE ARE SO CONDITIONED BY THAT
THAT IT DIDN'T REGISTER WITH ME, AND I'M USUALLY PRETTY
CRITICAL OF THOSE TYPES OF INTERACTIONS.
>>WE'VE GONE OVER QUITE A BIT THAT TRUMP HAS PREVIOUSLY
WRITTEN ABOUT HOW YOU SELL THIS BRAND OF YOURSELF AND HOW YOU
BUILD YOURSELF UP.
DOES ANYONE THINK IT'S A COINCIDENCE THAT
THEY COULDN'T HAVE TALKED --
ENDED THE DINNER AND TALK TO DONALD TRUMP?
THEY KEPT THE DINNER GOING SO HE COULD GET THAT MESSAGE
WHILE SPEAKING WITH THE CHINESE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE THINKS
IT WILL MAKE HIM LOOK MORE IMPRESSIVE.
THAT'S POLITICIAN 101, IT'S DEFINITELY TRUMP 101.
>>GUESS
WHAT THE CHINESE PRESIDENT'S MEDIA SAID WHEN HE GOT HOME?
A WEEK PRESIDENT TRYING TO FLEX HIS MUSCLES.
>>LET'S LOOK AT MORE.
>>WHAT HAPPENS IS I SAID WE'VE LAUNCHED 59 MISSILES HEADING TO
IRAQ --
>>HEADED TO SYRIA.
>>YES, HEADING TOWARD SYRIA, AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT.
WE WERE
ALMOST FINISHED, IT WAS A FULL DAY IN PALM BEACH, WE WERE
ALMOST FINISHED, WHAT DOES HE DO, FINISH HIS DESSERT AND GO
HOME AND THEY SAY THE GUY YOU JUST HAD DINNER WITH JUST
ATTACKED --
>>HOW DOES HE REACT?
>>HE PAUSED FOR 10 SECONDS AND THEN HE ASKED THE INTERPRETER TO
SAY IT AGAIN.
I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS A GOOD SIGN.
AND HE
SAID TO ME, ANYBODY THAT USES GASES, YOU COULD ALMOST SAY OR
ANYTHING ELSE, BUT ANYBODY THAT WAS SO BRUTAL AND USES GASES TO
DO THAT TO YOUNG CHILDREN AND BABIES, IT'S OKAY.
>>HE AGREED?
>>HE WAS OKAY WITH IT.
>>CAN I DONATE MONEY TO A CAUSE THAT HE'S IN FAVOR OF TO GET HIM
TO SAY CHEMICAL WEAPONS RATHER THAN GASES?
BUT YES, SHE LEANS
IN, WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN YOU TOLD HIM?
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
THE POSSIBLE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WITH SYRIA, AND JUST
EAGERNESS, I DON'T DO A LOT OF INTERVIEWS, MAYBE IT MAKES YOU
GO CRAZY, BUT THAT WAS A WEIRD WAY TO DESCRIBE IT. AND WE CAN'T
PASS OVER THE FACT THAT HE SAID IRAQ WHEN HE MEANT SYRIA,
MAYBE THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE.
HE GOT THE CAKE RIGHT ON THE FIRST TRY, HE DIDN'T SAY IT
WAS A COBBLER.
SHIT, SORRY, IT WAS ACTUALLY CHOCOLATE.
>>IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL CAKE SO HOW COULD YOU FORGET.
>>AND HE FINISHED HIS DESSERT, THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA.
>>AND SAY THAT IT'S SYRIA.
IT DOESN'T MATTER, HE SAYS WHAT I
DID WAS WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE DONE A LONG TIME AGO, HE
SHOULD'VE FIRED 59 MISSILES AT AN AIRFIELD, BLOWN UP A COUPLE
OF PLANES, LARGELY NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING SINCE THEY
CAN STILL TAKE OFF FROM THE AIRFIELD, THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED
THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA.
DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT?
THE ACTIONS
THEY TAKE MILITARILY, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS,
ALL IT IS IS SENDING A MESSAGE.
SENDING A MESSAGE TO YOUR BASE,
TO THE MEDIA, TO THE POLITICIANS IN YOUR PARTY AND THE SENATE AND
THE HOUSE, HOW WILL THEY INTERPRET THIS?
IT DOESN'T
FUCKING MATTER WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH OR THE CONSEQUENCES,
IT'S ALL JUST FUCKING WAR IMs.
>>SENDING A MESSAGE IS FINE IF THE MESSAGE RESONATES.
DID THAT
MESSAGE CONVINCE ASSAD TO STOP BEING BRUTAL TO CIVILIANS?
NO,
AS YOU MENTIONED, THE WHITE PHOSPHORUS ATTACKS HAPPENED
RECENTLY, AND HE WILL CONTINUE ATTACKING CIVILIANS AND BEING
AGGRESSIVE AGAINST ANYONE WHO OPPOSES HIM.
MY BIGGEST ISSUE IS
THAT THERE IS NO WELL-THOUGHT-OUT PLAN OR
STRATEGY, IT WAS A SIGN OF AGGRESSION COMING FROM THE
UNITED STATES, AND YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THAT UP WITH FOREIGN
POLICY.
AND I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS, I'LL MOST WISH IT
WOULD BE FOR AN POLICY THAT IS DETAILED AND MAYBE I DON'T EVEN
AGREE WITH, BUT AT LEAST THERE IS A PLAN.
AT LEAST SOME
COMPETENCE, OR THEY SHOW THEY ARE COMMUNICATING WITH ONE
ANOTHER, DOING THE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS, AND THEY HAVE
SOME PLAN IN PLACE.
RIGHT NOW IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT IS THE CASE, AND YOU
HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE SPREADING CONFLICTING
MESSAGES IN
THE MEDIA.

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