Remarks #3 transcript, Sep 12, 2026 (Donald Trump)

Well, thank you very much, everybody. It's an honor to be here. And I do—you know, he's talking about golf. He is a great golfer. The Ambassador is a great golfer. He's a plus two, at least. I would say better than a plus two, but he's a plus two. That's not bad. Plus two means two under as opposed to two over. A lot of people don't know that. "Oh, is that two over?" No, no, it's under par. So when he said that I beat him sometimes, that's a very nice statement. Happens to be true, but that's okay.

But he—and he never cheats, you know? I noticed that about—that's why I gave him the job. He's a good golfer who doesn't cheat. I know a lot of good golfers; they cheat like hell. I would never send them to Ireland because too many bad things can happen.

But he's doing a fantastic job with Lynn, who's his wife for many years. Fantastic. One of the great relationships that I've seen, and they're doing an unbelievable job.

So wherever you may be, I want to just thank you both. I want to thank you both. Thank you very much.

And I know he has planned—this is the beautiful Deerfield Residence. It's very well known in a lot of worlds. And Deerfield is going to be spending—they're going to be spending a little money right now on fixing it and working it. And Ed does a lot of that back in the New York region. He's very big in—very successful. Actually, I don't know how the hell he left. I gave him the job thinking—you know, I—because everybody wants to be in Ireland. It's a real easy Ambassadorship. [ Laughter ]

Number one—no, all he has to do is play golf all day, and he's doing a great job. [ Laughter ] It's true. People come up—I mean, what's a better place? People come up, and they want to play golf. He plays golf. He's doing a fantastic job. Most people can't play, so it's not so easy. But for him, it's such a pleasure.

But he was very successful, and I don't know how he—because I assumed—you know, he was so successful and so busy that I assumed he'd say no to me, and that's good. I like them when they say no because you make the offer, they don't take it, but they appreciate it for the rest of their lives. [ Laughter ] When they take it, it's, like, not actually as good because there's so many people that like it.

But one of the reasons they like being any Ambassador—I mean, I've had friends that took Ambassadorships at—not Ireland. Believe me, they get a lot of countries out there not quite as good. [ Laughter ] And—but for the rest of their life, they're called "Mr. Ambassador," "Madam Ambassador." It's, you know, hot stuff. They think they're hot stuff. [ Laughter ] All of a sudden, you—and then all of a sudden, they leave and they don't even return your phone call. [ Laughter ] It's, like, what? And they go down for the rest of their lives, "Madam Ambassador, how are you?"

But it's a great thing being an Ambassador from the United States, and you're well represented here—that, I can tell you.

I want to thank Taoiseach, who, with his wife Mary, greeted us so beautifully. We talked about a lot of different things, and we had a little press conference. And you have to understand with the press, with me, every question is a kill. This has been going on for 10 years now. They're getting very discouraged. But for 10 years, every question is a kill. They're going for the ball game, and in the U.S., we say they're going for a grand slam home run. Most of you don't know what the hell a grand slammer is, but believe me, it's not good if you're on the other side.

But they're going for the kill at all times, and they ask me a question: "What do you think about unification of Northern Ireland and Ireland?" I said, "Oh, that's a nice question." [ Laughter ] I gave a nice answer, I think. We'll read about it tomorrow, you know? [ Laughter ] That's one of those questions where no matter what you say, no matter how well you say it, there's no good answer, right? That's—there are about four or five. I could tell you some other ones, but I'm not going to get you started. But that was one of the questions.

But I actually said it would be, I think, a very cool thing, to be honest with you. I think it would be cool—as half the room clears out. [ Laughter ] They say: "Let's get the hell out of here. I don't like this guy. I liked him a lot 10 minutes ago. I don't like him."

But I want to thank our outstanding U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, and I want to thank all of the people that work with him because it's a big staff of people, really. Without them, you wouldn't be the same, you wouldn't be able to do the same work.

And it's Geraldine Byrne Nason. Where is Geraldine? Around here someplace. Hi. How are you? What a job you've done.

And my wife is here. My wife is here in spirit. She's watching right now. She said, "Say hello," because she's very friendly with these two people. I said, "Well, why don't you come with me?" I said to—she said: "Well, it's a 7-hour trip. Maybe I'm not that friendly." [ Laughter ] I said, "Put on your"—I said: "Put on a Make America Great Again hat and come on. Let's go." But she sends her regards, I have to say.

My son Don is here, a great friend of yours. Where's Don? Don is here with our whole group, right? A whole group of family, and he just got married. He's happily married, which is nice. He's calmed down so much, you know. [ Laughter ] It's amazing. No, that's a good sign. He's like a different human being. He's—he was—he had a lot of energy. Now he has a little less energy. That's a good thing. [ Laughter ] But they have a very great relationship. And the kids are here, and we have a lot of wonderful people with us.

Everyone wanted to come. You know, usually when you go to some of the places—I don't want to name countries, but some of these countries are rough. [ Laughter ] And they want to come. "Sir, we'd love to come. Any trip." And I notify them. "How would you like to come to"—you know; I can't do it because—[ laughter ]—but the answer is, "Maybe I'll take a pass on that."

But from our country's earliest days, the Irish have been great friends of America and produced some of the greatest citizens and really—really, some incredible people.

I got to meet your President, Catherine Connolly, a little while ago, and she was terrific. We talked about a lot of different things. We talked about the greatness of the people, but it was an Irish aide to General George Washington who first used the term, "the United States of America."

And today I'm proud to report that the United States of America is doing better—literally better than it's ever done before. We have $21 trillion being invested. Can you believe it? It used to be—used to do—you took all of our medical companies. We've got to get a couple of them back. [ Laughter ] You people did very well. You fleeced us, but that's okay. [ Laughter ] We were like a bunch of babies, but we're not babies anymore. But there's a lot of room to go around, and our relationship with you is fantastic, actually. Fantastic.

And despite what you did to us on trade—you know what I'm talking about. All—these are the greatest business—for those watching on television—you've got a lot of television back there, by the way. But these are among the most successful people, but businesspeople primarily, anywhere in the world. You're among the most successful people in the world, so it's an honor to be with you.

But there's never been a better time to do business in the U.S.A. Less than 2 years ago, I say it: Our country was dead. We had a dead country. We had a President who didn't know he was—didn't know who the hell he was, what he was. Had no idea. Couldn't walk down a flight of stairs. Couldn't walk up a flight of stairs. If he made a speech, which was very rare, it was like—if he made a speech once a year, it was a lot. But he could never find his way off the stage. It was never pretty. But he was a great debater. Great debate. We had a great debate. Remember the debate?

But we had a President who hurt our country, frankly, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country in the world right now.

And you know, I was with the King of Saudi Arabia not so long ago, and he said that. He said, "You know, a year ago"—he was talking about from a year, but at the time it was appropriate; now it's 2 years ago. But "a year ago, you were the—you were a dead country. We thought you were finished as a country." Literally finished. A lot of people thought that. And he said, "Now you're the hottest country in the world." And we are the hottest country in the world.

In 4 years of the last administration, they got less than $1 trillion—less than $1 trillion in 4 years. Less than $1 trillion of new investment into our country. And think of it: We're—now the new numbers just came out. We're at almost $21 trillion in 16 months. Twenty-one trillion. No country has ever done that or close to it. Everyone is coming back, and a big part of it is tariffs, because now, if you build, you don't send it in free of charge. You know, make it someplace else. You say, "No, you have to pay a tariff."

So I said: "There's only one thing you can do to solve that problem. You have to build your plant, your factory—you have to build it in the U.S." And we have more auto plants being built than we've ever had. We have AI. We're dominating AI. We're leading everybody, including China. We're leading. I'm meeting with President Xi in a week and a half from now, and it'll be great. But we're leading in AI. We're leading in everything, every category. And I'm pleased.

I'm hearing a tent that's in very weak shape. [ Laughter ] You know, Walsh is known for cost cutting. [ Laughter ] And sometimes he'll cost cut to a point where I said, "Walshy, you know, you got to get structurally sound facilities." [ Laughter ] Are you hearing this thing? This tent is going to come down. [ Laughter ] You know it gets weak if about nine monstrous Secret Service people rush up, grab me, pull. And they can—just—I hate to say this: They consider all of your talent, all of your—they consider you collateral damage. [ Laughter ] They don't give a damn about you.

I was with the head of the biggest company in the world. We're playing golf, and we have, you know, like all these things going around. And we had hundreds of Secret Service all over the course. In fact, they said, "Does Trump cheat?" I can't cheat. You have 250 Secret Service agents running down. It's not that I wouldn't cheat—[ laughter ]—but you can't move the ball. I don't know if they play or not, but they know you're not supposed to be moving the ball around. Okay?

But they said—the guy said, "Well, you know, I'm a very big executive, so if something happens with the President"—they see what goes. They see all these trucks and tanks. This is a big deal. And they said, "What about me?" "Sir, I'm sorry, you're considered collateral damage. You're on your own, sir." He didn't feel too great. [ Laughter ] He wasn't sure we should finish out the round, actually.

But they're amazing. The Secret Service has been great, and they are. They don't play games. Especially since Butler, a place called Butler, Pennsylvania, they don't play any games, I can tell you that.

And we have Sean, the head of Secret Service, is here. But part of it is he's very Irish—where is Sean? He probably doesn't want to say. You know, he's one of these guys. He doesn't want to be known. He doesn't want to be seen. But he's right there.

But he came to this visit. He doesn't do it, but it happened to be Ireland, and he's about as Irish as anybody in this room, and it's good to have him. Does a great job.

I'm pleased to say that Ireland is now the sixth largest source of foreign direct investment in the United States, with nearly $392 billion invested in 2025. And because the market is the best market we've ever had, we hit 80 alltime highs during this period of about 15 months. Up to 15 months, it hit 80.

So your investment is up probably 60 or 70 percent, which is—I mean, you're going to be considered brilliant by your company or whoever your—or your wife, or your husband, whoever is representing and whoever you're representing, because your investment, if you look over the last—well, if you look over the last year and a half that I've been President, your numbers have practically doubled.

So congratulations on your genius. And you know what your genius was? Investing in Trump and investing in the United States. And before that, you should ask for a very substantial pay raise if that's the kind of remuneration that you get.

But we are—we're up, and people are really liking us right now. And 401(k)s are up about $45-, $46,000. And that's—these are people that are in the police forces, people that are, in some cases, soldiers or accountants or lawyers or whatever. A lot of 401(k)s, millions and millions. And they're up at record levels. They've never been so high. So everybody is benefiting.

And under the Trump administration, our people are prospering at all levels like never before. The stock market is one of a kind, setting, again, record after record.

Americans are working today at levels that we have never seen. So there are more people working in America, in the United States today, by far, than at any point in the history of our country. That's a great stat.

You know, there are some stats that you really don't have to worry about too much in terms of defense, because, you know, the fake news back there, they always have a reason. "However," "but this," "but"—when you say more people are working in the United States than ever before, there's nothing much they can say. It's, like, a really good statistic.

We've removed one obstacle after another to investment in the United States, and that includes from people like yourselves, most of you from Ireland or foreign countries. And it was a little bit tough, and we've removed all those barriers.

Last year, I proudly signed the "Great Big Beautiful Bill," which was about the biggest thing ever signed in terms of economic wealth and in terms of law, order, and safety. It's the largest tax cut in American history. We passed on no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. Nobody thought that was possible to get, and it's had a tremendous impact, actually. I mean, think of it: No tax on overtime. And the overtime business in the United States—they're just working tremendous hours. They're working harder. They're working more. It's sort of the opposite of the communist philosophy, which is very prevalent in terms of some people running for office. But I don't think they're going to get too far.

You know, I talked about our country will never be a socialist country, and the reason I said that was very plain. I never thought it would be, but I never had to worry about it because they skipped socialism. They've come down to communism.

But you have the same thing a little bit. You know, I'm reading some stories about you, but we we're shutting it down pretty good. We're not going to have any—we're not going to have Communists running our country—that, I can tell you.

And for businesses like many of those here, we provided 100-percent expensing and bonus depreciation. So for those that are investing, they get a 1-year—you write off the whole thing. If you build a building, if you build a plant, you write the whole damn thing off in one year. It used to take 40 years, and it's called 1-year expensing, and it's an amazing thing. I did it in my first term.

So, in my first term, we had the greatest economy. Even though we got hit at the end with the COVID, we had the greatest economy we ever had. And even with COVID, the stock market was the highest it had ever been when I left office, and then we had a rigged election. As you know, it was totally rigged, but I—because I won three times. I didn't win twice; I won three times.

But when I left office, we had the highest stock market in the history of our country. Now we have a stock market that's much higher even than that, but we had the highest stock market. It was—up until now, it was the most successful economy that we had ever had. But this is—I believe you're going to be seeing that this is blowing it away. The press is trying to minimize it as much as possible, but at certain points you can't, you know, because you see the numbers. You saw the number last week, a couple of days ago, they came out: 162. They were projected—they were projecting 25,000 jobs, and it turned out to be 162,000.

And—but we have many more than that in the hopper because we're building plants, factories, auto. And auto plants are going through the roof. All the auto companies are coming in and building massive—Toyota, Honda. These companies are coming in building the biggest plants in the world. General Motors and Ford are going wild, and they're all doing things that nobody ever thought even—nobody ever thought we'd see what's happening in the United States. There's never been—there has never been anything like it in any country.

So we provided the 100-percent expensing. It gets a lot of people to do things that maybe they would have waited for, but now they do it, and they write off the entire cost of a factory. They write off all of their equipment, everything else in 1 year. And if you build your factory in America, you have zero tariffs to pay. And that's the thing.

So let's say they're paying 50-percent or 100-percent tariffs, but if they come into our country, they have zero tariffs to pay. And, you know, that has been used on us by other countries, but I don't think as effective. I think we have the advantage. We have certain advantages that we would have lost over a period of time.

I actually think if I didn't win, our country would be—I think—you know, if we had Kamala—that's another beauty. How about this? You're beating Biden so badly. You're winning the race. It's over. You're up by 25, 30 points. The race is over, and they say, "Let's put somebody else in." That's like Dana White—the great Dana White, UFC. He'll have a fighter; he's getting the hell beat out of him. "Let's put somebody else in." The guy on the other side said, what's—so you're winning, and then they put somebody—

So the somebody was Kamala, and—another beauty, and she didn't work too well. She didn't play too well with our businesspeople, or anybody else for that matter. And I hear—this is not even believable, but I hear she's doing well in the polls. Can you believe? She's doing well against other Democrats. So we have—I would say this as a Republican: We should be so lucky. But you never know what happens. Politics is a funny business.

But factory construction is booming like it has never boomed, and we've got so many things happening that nobody thought—nobody thought that America would be in the position that we are now. And it took place much faster. I mean, I will say—you know, I like to say that I'm good at—whether it's predicting or doing things, sort of a combination of both, but nobody thought, including me, that it could happen to this extent this fast. But we work hard, and we work smart.

We've cut a record number of job-killing regulations. That's a big factor. In Europe, the regulations are through the roof. They can't breathe. I mean, I'm not coming in to insult anybody, and I say it to anybody that would listen: They have regulations that are just unacceptable. They make it impossible for you to do business.

We've unleashed our vast energy resources to make America the number one supplier of oil and natural gas on Earth. We're bigger than Saudi Arabia now. Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, and soon it will be combined times two, and that's not including Venezuela. As you know, we had a short military conflict, I call it. They say, "Could you maybe not use the word 'war'"? Because when you use the word "war," it's a little different. So I call them a military. I think Iran is a military conflict. We're knocking the hell out of them, but that's a military conflict. It's a larger nation.

But, with Venezuela, we took that over. We won the war. We're working very well with the people that are now running it. And it's millions and millions of barrels of oil every single day. Amazing. And we paid for the war many, many times over.

But more importantly, long term, I think it's going to be just incredible. It's 65 billion barrels of oil, good for 500 years. It's probably—well, we're very fertile, but it's one of the top two or three most fertile in the world, in terms of oil and other things. And we're getting along great with the people.

Venezuela is so happy now. The big oil companies are moving in. They're starting to drill. They're starting to build their rigs, and massive rigs are being built. And in Venezuela, you know, it's—the hunt for oil is very complicated. You spend billions and billions of dollars trying to find oil. In Venezuela, you just go like this, "Huh." There's oil coming out of the ground. [ Laughter ] I don't know if it's good in terms of living, but, boy, if you want oil, this place is unbelievable.

"There's oil popping up over there. Let's give it a shot." They hit. "Sir, that's good for 10 billion barrels." Okay? Nobody has ever seen anything like it.

No, you look at the ground. You don't have to be too great at oil. If you know nothing about oil and you want to hunt for oil, go to Venezuela. They've got a lot of oil. But you just look at the ground; you see oil all over the place. You say, "That looks like a good location to start."

But under our leadership, we've made record investments in the United States military. We have the strongest military in the world by far, and we're rapidly growing our defense industrial base. As Ireland expands its military investment, we have many opportunities to expand our partnership. Ireland wants to buy our—everybody does, in fact. Now what we're doing, really—because the demand—our equipment is incredible, the Patriot missile.

As an example, 2 months ago, 2½ months ago, they shot 111 missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, and—111 over the course of less than an hour. Out of the 111—and these things go from 4,000 to 8,600 miles an hour. Think of what that is: 8,600, the speed missiles. And out of the 111, all 111 were knocked down. They never even got close to the ship. Think of that technology.

Five years ago, you couldn't think of it. They had protection, but you know, if you were hitting at 50 percent, you were lucky, and 50 percent is not very good if you're talking about the kind of destructive capability that we talk about.

So we have things. We have the THAAD system and the Patriot system. We have the Tomahawks for offense. Everybody wants our equipment. And what we're doing is we're forcing these companies—they're great companies—but they've got to make it faster. And they're all building, every one of them—some are building five, six plants, four plants, three plants. And so we make the great equipment, but we're putting it out very much faster, and that process has already begun.

But some of the companies were building brand new plants. We're not just saying, you know, you have to go 24/7 in the same plant, and they're building all these new plants with new ideas, new equipment, lasers to knock down missiles. And, I mean, the lasers for missiles is great because so much more cost effective. And the things—we have Gatling guns, the old-fashioned Gatling guns. It puts literally—it's called a "wall of lead." It puts a wall if you have a—I mean, you have to see this stuff to believe it.

But if you have a hundred drones coming, you get one of these, operated by a computer, and it's, like, considered a wall of lead. The drone just hits it up in the air, way far away, all like a wall. And just, you see these things just disintegrating, and what that does is that means it's much more cost effective than sending a missile up to—you knock down a 35,000-dollar drone with a very expensive missile. But we have other things that are coming on line very soon that are unbelievable, between the Gatling and various computerized machinegun-type equipment.

And I think especially the lasers—the lasers, what they can do is, it melts them. It hits a wall and they melt. And you see them; they come—they're coming down. They look like they got poured out of a hot plate. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.

So we have a lot of really good stuff. And your country, other countries are buying it in record numbers. And we're way advanced on all military equipment. That's one of the reasons with Venezuela it went so fast. They had defense from other countries, and the defense stuff didn't—obviously didn't have any impact. You know, we lost no soldiers. It was a very violent, powerful raid, but we lost no soldiers. Think of it. So it's pretty amazing.

But our equipment was good, and the defensive equipment that they had from other countries just didn't work. It was no match for what we had.

Everyone has seen the dominance of the American military equipment all over the planet, and you see it now with Iran. We took over the Hormuz Strait. We took—we cleared out all the mines. Even I said, "Well, how come they're not shooting down our minesweepers?" "Sir, these minesweepers are underwater. They work underwater at all times." I say, "Why do you do that?" "Well, generally speaking, when there's mines, there's a lot of hostility outside." You know? [ Laughter ] I said, "That makes sense," right?

In other words, if there are mines in some waterway, generally speaking, when you see there are mines, there are people shooting at you. So if you're underwater, they don't know you're there. But we knocked out and we took out every mine. There's no mines in there, no nothing. And if we see they're going, you see what happens.

And we used a similar weapon to what we did—you know, we've cut drugs coming into the United States through the southern border. Nobody comes through the United States now. We've had—it sounds ridiculous. We had 25 million people come in through the southern border over the last administration. And, in the last 16 months, zero—zero—people came in. And the drugs are down about 71 percent, but they're down 97 percent in water, and we haven't even focused on the land yet. We're just starting to focus. Water is a bigger problem, believe it or not, coming in through the Gulf.

By the way, the Gulf of America. Have you heard of it, ladies and gentlemen? [ Laughter ] The Gulf of America, it was the Gulf of Mexico. Now it's the Gulf of America.

But coming in through the Gulf, coming in through the sea, from the ocean, and you've seen what happens. You know, for years they would interdict. They would—they would get the boat, they'd take the guy, bring him to court in Miami or someplace, they'd be out by that evening, and it'd be the following day sailing another boat loaded up with drugs.

Each one of those boats can kill 25,000 people. On average, 25,000 people. So that is down. Just think of this: 97 percent before it was unstoppable. You'd put them out; it was just like musical chairs by being very nice. It's a brutal thing. But when you think, it's not really brutal because every boat—and we've got this figured out pretty closely—they're very similar, they're fast boats, but they're not fast compared to missiles; they're fast compared to other boats. But every boat kills 25,000 people. So if you figure you're knocking out a boat, there's nothing nasty about that.

But we've got it down by 97 percent, and the only thing is, we're trying to figure out who are the 3 percent, because we consider them to be the bravest people anywhere in the world. Because when you look at what's happened, I mean, we have—drugs are down now in America, in the United States, by 62. This has been—this is over a very short period of time, you know, over 16, 17 months. They're down—drugs are down 67 percent. Who would have thought that was possible?

A couple of good examples also, though, is a crime in our Nation's Capital, Washington, DC, was through the roof. It was a very dangerous place. And I sent in the National Guard. And these are all people that are in based on merit. We won a case in the Supreme Court where everything we do is based on merit. Our country was built on merit. It wasn't built on, let's say, diversity, let's say various other things. It was built on merit. And we won. People were surprised a little bit, but we won the Supreme Court.

And we have a military that's based on merit. They're tough guys. And we put them in Washington, DC, and they worked with the police, and we have crime down in Washington, DC. It went from an extremely unsafe city to one of the safest cities in the country and one of the safest capitals anywhere in the world. And that's all been done—well, after 30 days, it was good. After 60 days, it was very good. And after 90 days, it was like people couldn't believe it.

We took out 5,000 hard criminals. We took them out, brought them back. They came in—many of them came in through the open border stupidity of Joe Biden. I mean, what happened with that border, it was just—people were no checking, no vetting, no nothing. They'd come from jails. They come from insane asylums, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers. I always say 11,888; it sits in my head. That's the number. Murderers. And of that, 50 percent or more murdered more than one. And these people were just allowed. They murdered more than one person. These people were allowed to come into our country. They're not allowed anymore. And we took them out, over 5,000 hard criminals in Washington, DC. We got them out.

And in getting them out—and we weren't nice about it either. We got them out. And there's a statistic that I think is great because it's so doable: 2 percent of the people create 91 percent of the crime. Think of that. That's so doable. Because if I said 60 percent or 50 or 30 or 20, it's 2 percent create most of—you could almost say almost all of the crime. So when you get rid of the 2 percent, and we got rid of them, all of a sudden you have very little crime.

So Washington has become a beautiful, safe city. We did it with Memphis also. And if a guy like—you know, he's a lousy Governor; he's terrible—but if a guy like a Pritzker would ask us from Illinois to help him with Chicago, we would have no crime. You'd have very little crime in Chicago or Los Angeles or New York. They're run by Democrats. They're run by—they're called blue States. They're run by Democrats. The Republican States, the red States, are very, very safe.

So, anyway. But our country is doing incredibly well. We have the lowest crime numbers, the best crime numbers we've had in the history of our country. The murder rate is—lousy thing to say; you talk about murder—but the murder rate is down, lowest it's been since the year 1900, 125 years. That's despite people coming into—now, we've gotten a lot of them out. We moved them out. We brought them back to the countries from where they came. They came from the Congo. They came from all over the—Africa. They came from all over the Middle East, from South America. They came from all over, and there was no discrimination. They came from all over. We got them the hell out.

And frankly, the United Kingdom has to do the same thing, I hate to tell you. They could watch what we've done and so could other European—you know, I love Europe. My mother was from Scotland. My father was from Germany. Love Europe. I have a natural inclination, and I sort of hate to see what's happening with Europe. I hate to see what's happening on trade. I hate to see what's happening on energy. And I hate to see what's happening on immigration. Ooh, that immigration. What you're doing to yourselves, you're just killing yourselves.

But we're going to work with them, and we do work with them. Very disappointing in many ways. The NATO didn't want to help us with the Strait, even though we don't get any oil from the Strait. We don't need it. We have a lot of oil. We have more oil than anybody, as you know. But we thought it was important. And they get a lot of their—they get 50, 60 percent, 40 percent to different countries.

But I said, "Would you like to help us with—with the Hormuz Strait?" "No, we'd rather not get involved." I said, you'd rather—do we give all that money to NATO? So, indirectly, they're saving us a lot of money because—I didn't do a heavy sell. Honestly, I didn't do a Trump kind of a sell. I just say, "Would you like to help us with the Hormuz Strait, Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister?" "No, we'd rather not get involved, Mr. President." "Oh, thank you very much." You know? But I put it down because why the hell are we helping them? So you'll be hearing that later.

But I just want to thank you. I want to thank this—this country is a fantastic—it's just a fantastic place. I love it. I have investments here, but that's not why I love it. I like it because it's special people.

You have unbelievable people in Ireland. The hospitality of Irish people—and I've heard it for years. And you know, they say you can't generalize about groups of people, countries, but you can. People love coming to Ireland. You know why? Because they love you. They love the people. There's a friendliness. There's also a vicious and a toughness. [ Laughter ] Let me tell you, you are some of the most vicious bastards I've ever done business. [ Laughter ] But when you want to be nice, there's nobody nicer. Okay?

And I just want to thank you. It's an honor to be here. I'm going to actually go now to Doonbeg, and I'll see you—you know, Shane is leading, and—and Rory is doing well. And you have about seven Irish golfers that are looking pretty good for the hunt, so we'll take a look. But it'll be very exciting.

And it's an honor to be here. And, Mr. Ambassador and Lynn, have a good time. Enjoy yourselves. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.