President Donald Trump gives an extensive interview to Axios on current events, the comparison between Term 1 and Term 2, and the issues surrounding the ceasefire agreement with Iran.
The conversation centers on Iran, where Trump defends the military campaign, the deal that followed and his decision to stop short of further escalation. He also discusses the Strait of Hormuz, Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, Cuba, Venezuela, artificial intelligence, Anthropic, China’s AI race and how he thinks about maintaining power in the final stretch of his presidency.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Welcome to The Axios Show
0:11 – The one big thing: power
1:37 – “I’m the boss” and the G7
3:36 – What Trump sees in world leaders
4:05 – Trump on Xi Jinping and China
6:11 – Venezuela, military power and oil
7:19 – Trump on Modi, Pakistan and global leadership
9:08 – Macron, the G7 and Trump’s “weakness”
11:18 – Trump on Iran and the limits of power
12:09 – Was the Iran deal “unconditional surrender”?
13:39 – Trump defends the Iran campaign
15:27 – The Strait of Hormuz and the risk to oil
17:44 – Secret ship movements out of the Gulf
19:05 – Cuba, Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere
22:29 – Trump on American influence in the hemisphere
23:35 – Iran, nuclear weapons and Israel
25:59 – Trump on Netanyahu and Lebanon
26:59 – Trump on artificial intelligence as a weapon
27:45 – Anthropic and national security
28:37 – Could Trump shut down an AI company?
28:45 – Trump on beating China in AI
29:45 – The Defense Production Act and AI regulation
30:35 – Trump on maintaining power
31:39 – Trump on fixing the White House
34:04 – Closing
Also PDT knows the field and players better term 2. He also doesn’t need to think about a reelection campaign
Plus he spent Biden’s term working to put together a like minded team that would not actively undermine him. What a difference!
…and I’m pretty certain that no jump-cut editing was needed.
What you see is what you get.
He and his family have made billions since the election and not one russiagate traitor has been exposed much less punished.
There is zero correlation between your two statements.
It was in response to another poster saying he spent the Biden administration planning his return.
I just pointed out what the facts say he’d been planning.
Wait — the President was planning to make billions once he returned to office?
You have no evidence of YOUR correlation and zero provision of facts.
Hatred .
Where on earth do you come up with this nonsense with the ” His family has made billions since the election” garbage because it’s not true at all . Trump is probably the only President in history that has actually lost money since becoming President . During his first term he donated every paycheck . Unlike Presidents before him who mysteriously increased their wealth a great deal it’s been the exact opposite for Trump .
Only people who get their info from the mainstream media think otherwise because the mainstream refuses to ever report the truth because it would make Trump look good.
https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/billionaires/world-billionaires/eric-trump-is-now-a-billionaire-in-his-own-right
Now say Burisma.
Jealous much?
There was no reason to bring up the election when talking about Eric and Don Jr’s businesses . Trump himself is not benefitting at all from being President and the fact remains Trump lost hundred’s of millions of dollars during his first term while donating his entire Presidential salary .
I’m thrilled that his sons are doing well especially accomplishing it in a lawful manner .
Ivanka even had to shut down the business that had been thriving until President Trump was elected.
People really do puzzle me more and more lately, this man, Donald Trump does not need to do anything, didn’t need to do anything at all but sail around the world on a huge beautiful yacht and enjoy life….I mean, that’s how I see it, he’s just not the kind of guy who settles for lazy days, so he chose to lead the country, save the country, and put people behind bars! And yes, I am certain it’s coming, tribunals are coming, it’s all planned, nobody has any patience today, imagine the task at hand, and imagine how much effort it takes to do it.
Don is the playboy Eric runs the business.
Trump was always a billionaire and in his first term was the only president in history to LOSE money.
Your intellect is inadequate to your ravings
Just ask Albania..
Have you checked the price of Bitcoin and crypto in general lately. Down 50 percent and much more in some cases. Note the date of your source, September 2025. Did Trump plan this too?
Be specific. Detail How PT made billions since the election.
How?
Man up and support that statement with hard core facts.
Are you asking me to prove that someone in his family (more than one) has done a billion dollar deal trading on his name?
Separate question have you bought any Trump coin?
The name TRUMP has been around for a long time. The family is still in the real estate business. President Trump is separated from that.
You people are the most insufferable people on the planet.
Yes I’m asking you to prove it.
And don’t forget to subtract his $400k salary that he gives away from whatever make believe crap you pull up.
Are you saying all family members should be banned from business transactions while their father is president?
Are you saying all of his children should change their last name from Trump to something else just because their father’s last name is Trump and he’s president
I think your premise is stupid, that’s what I think.
And you are saying that he has benefited from these transactions, which is a flat out lie. Everything he has is a blind trust during his presidency. He has no interactions with his business. That’s a stupid statement beyond being just a lie. When the heck do you think he has time to run a business on the side?.
Statements like that are not only stupid, but the rest of us are sick and tired of listening to this kind of crap.
You rock! Ten million likes!
Mary Carson sounds like the demented idiots on the View. I’m sick to death of their willful stupidity.
They’re Lefty losers!
Shall we look at the previous presidents and THEIR phenomenal growth of wealth, themselves and family members?
Crickets I will bet from the Carson banshee
Ask Hunter
Therapists (even lefties) have confirmed Trump Derangement Syndrome is a genuine clinical mental illness.
The family has been heavily involved in crypto. So, it’s not illegal.
They got into crypto because they were de-banked by Demonrat weaponized government baseless persecution and backroom pressure. The fact that it worked out to be a Brer Rabbit in the briar patch success for them doesn’t impugn the Trump family. It shows how stupid and hate-blinded the Demonrat machine was and still is. Deploying a brain dead shill like Mary Carson to regurgitate their BS talking points is further proof.
She can’t .
They have not been exposed???
What are you smoking?
Maybe ask Tulsi next time….
Bot… or worse…
And another poster who tries to be as controversial as possible… just to get us riled up and fencing with them… soulless….
Is that a new term for lobotomy…cuz that would explain it.
I have read this five times. 16 upvotes infers that 16 people understood what you said. I, however, still have absolutely no idea what your point is.
Those were sidekicks — other bots.
What a blowhard. You skipped the fact that they tried to convict him on false charges, spied on him and his family, lawyers, advisors, etc., de-banked his whole family and all of his businesses, and oh yeah, they tried to kill him not once, not twice, but three times that we know of. Kindly GFY.
Hatred makes for such deranged commentary.
Have you any comments on lifetime politicians who have done nothing making fortunes like Pelosi,purely from insider trading and grift, representing no one but herself?
The career politicians who are now millionaires, like Bernie Sanders and do many others, who have exactly zero skills and zero work history, are somehow invisible to you?
No POTUS has worked harder for this country during my lifetime. Anyone that thinks the deep state is going to be eliminated during a single presidential term is a moron. The deep state controls the DC courts.
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2046591751050375409?s=20
and 29 people upvoted this nonsense here, of all places……….
No kidding.
Fox had HR McMaster on yesterday to pan the Iran deal.
Unless HR McMaster was willing to carpet bomb Tehran and kill 500,000 people along with the destruction every hospital and power plant he should shut the F up! It’s exactly why you don’t start a war if you’re not willing to kill a million innocent civilians because if you do and you don’t it’s impossible to win! 😎
News was McMaster conversing with Soros during the time. Or was that fake?
Mike Pence immediately comes to mind.
Camp David after inaugurating the new AF-1? I guess he could use some rest! Yeah, I know that’s an understatement.
I seems to me that anytime PDJT goes to Camp David its for some high level meetings. Maybe some Cuban peeps will be there?
I fear that CD is bugged to the hilt.
Who is this Axios guy? Looks vaguely familiar—a regular at White House press conferences?
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/45z40fbitlc9gnae3xc5u/Trump-Iran-Deal.pdf?rlkey=8z1uvgj9kwb4r0r3e24jckzzh&st=qdk3xhz5&dl=0
Absolute truth David.
34 minute waste of time with Axios.
I went to YouTube and put the video on pause and read the transcript.
I enjoyed listening to President Trump and appreciated that Axios let him talk with interrupting.
Suggestion for all commenters on this thread. First, watch the video in it’s entirety. The moderator was very respectful and asked intelligent questions. He did not argue with the President.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and all of the Sunday morning “Gotcha Queens” should learn from it.
Oh where oh where has Scott Pelley gone, he’s left and gone away.
Andrea Mitchell is another one who telecasted from Havana on May Day about 18 years ago telling everyone how wonderful it was and how the people were so happy.
What happened to the Hamas MOU from Oct 2025? Hamas is still in power, still armed.
Egypt and Jordan were supposed to disarm Hamas.
Kushner and Witcoff treated this like a real estate deal. It isn’t.
The Iran MOU will not happen just like the Hamas agreement hasn’t happened, for the same reason.
With a signed deal there is no penalty to Trump for retaliation if they violate the terms….which they plausibly will.
That eradicates the theory of collusion with Israel, which has had the right, ten times over, to blow up a country that has called for Israel’s annihilation since Israel was granted national status
Those angry chants….words are violence
I thought that Trump said he gave the reporter 2 hours. If that is true then I want to hear the other hour and a half that they cut.
Also, Trump said he is going to take care of some serious problems, yet reporter did not have common sense to ask what problems?
Seriously flawed interview. Agreed some on here, next time I will see a bit of video and then read the transcript, only if it is this reporter.
Axios is evil
President Trump: “If it wasn’t for me, Israel would not have existed today.”
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https://rumble.com/v7bjws4-trump-if-it-wasnt-for-me-israel-would-not-have-existed-today..html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_upp_v
I made this conclusion a couple of months ago . Trump spent his entire life fighting & negotiating with the top banks of the World for his projects – in good times & bad . Under their terms !
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As President , he is the banker ! Reverse engineering in its’ finest .
Can’t wait for his epilogue interview. It’s going to be savage
Just curious, but does the Anxios website allow comments??? IMESHO, it seems that most “liberal” websites do not allow comments. Are they afraid of how people might reply to their “liberal thoughts”???