06/15/2026
The White House
Travel pool # 11 - Notable full quotes from bilat
More complete quotes from the meeting we just had between French President Macron and President Trump:
‘Emanuel has been a special friend of mine. We have had a special relationship. We have worked on many deals together and I am happy to say… that the deal is all signed.'
‘And the strait is already partially opened as you know they are doing a little hunting for a couple mines that they already found.’
'Essentially, ships are already starting to go out now, on Friday it will be completely opened.’
' We got along very well with Iran. It is a different set of leaders. As you know the first set is gone and the second set is gone. We found the third set to be very smart, strong, very smart.’
‘We ended up making a deal. I felt badly that we had to go back on the attacks for two nights and I thought a third but we made it before that happened.’
‘I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now. Very importantly, the oil is plummeting down, and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today, record kind of numbers… we are getting close to the numbers we were before this all started.’
‘We have done a great job and hopefully it is going to be a good relationship, and we are going to get along. If we don’t, we go back to where we started, but I don’t think that is necessary.’
'The Iran deal will bring a lot of success to the world. Because the oil was really clogged up there for awhile.’
‘We had a very good conversation yesterday with President Zelenskyy and President Putin and I see…maybe we can do something there. I really do. I think they are both open to do it. Now that is finished, we are going to be focusing on that, see if we can get that one done.’
‘We had a really exciting, I think one of the most incredible evenings in the history of the White House… I called last night, very late last night to congratulate you because in the heavyweight division the French fighter won. I think, maybe that is more important than the World Cup to some people.’
PRESS Q’s:
ON SIGNING CEREMONY: ‘It depends. JD is coming in for it, he was originally going to do it. I will probably be gone by then, we are having dinner, in a day and a half, I think staying quite late. So I may be involved, I may not’
On MOU TEXT RELEASED: ‘I think pretty soon. I mean, I want it to be released because it is a really powerful document. It is not like the Obama documents.’
‘Probably pretty soon, I would say sometime after Friday. The strait is open now, but it opens completely, we will have all the mines knocked out for the most part. We have a lot of lanes right now already.’
DOES MOU INCLUDE SANCTIONS RELIEF? ’No it doesn’t. Well they have to… it is really a behavioral thing, If they do what they are supposed to do, that would take effect.’
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM FRANCE: ‘Well I would love them to do that...I don’t think we are going to need much help… it is toll free...but I don’t think it is a bad idea to have a ship or two to have up here… you would be a great country to do that.’
‘We do want to see if we can straighten out the Lebanon thing. Hezbollah, we have to have a little talk with them.'
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Elina Shirazi
Senior Political Reporter
White House, State Department
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