After months of teasing his decision
on the Iran nuclear deal, today,
the president finally dropped the world's most expected bomb.
Breaking news, President Trump is making good on his threat
to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.
I am announcing today
that the United States will withdraw
from the Iran nuclear deal.
In a few moments,
I will sign a presidential memorandum
to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions
on the Iranian regime.
America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail.
That makes sense.
I mean, he's already being blackmailed
by Putin and a porn star.
A third one would be too much. Just too much.
Now, just to remind you what exactly the Iran deal is,
back in 2015, Barack Obama
and leaders from Germany, France, the UK,
Russia, and China reached a historic agreement
to lift sanctions on Russ... on Iran.
And in exchange, Iran would halt its nuclear program
and change its chant from "death to America"
to a slightly less harsh "herpes to America."
And many experts agree
that this was a huge diplomatic achievement.
So the question is, why would Trump pull out?
The fact is, this was a horrible one-sided deal
that should have never, ever been made.
The deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium,
and over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout.
It also fails to address the regime's development
of ballistic missiles.
The deal does nothing
to constrain Iran's destabilizing activities,
including its support for terrorism.
Okay. He raises some good points,
except for the fact that they're all bullshit.
I mean, yeah, it is true
that the deal didn't address every single problem with Iran,
but it did address the main problem-- nuclear weapons.
Like, you can't get rid of the entire thing
just because it didn't fix everything.
It's like saying,
"This detergent got the stains out of my shirt,
but it didn't save my crumbling marriage."
Yeah, it wasn't supposed to.
And as for his claim
that the deal lets Iran keep enriching uranium,
Trump just ignores the fact that it forbids them
from enriching it for nuclear weapons,
which seems relevant to me.
And, yes, don't get me wrong.
It's possible that ten years from now,
Iran could restart their nuclear program.
But now that Trump has killed the deal,
they could restart the program tomorrow,
which, to me, sounds insane.
It's like, if I have a choice
between The Rock body-slamming me ten years from now,
or The Rock body-slamming me tomorrow,
I'm gonna take ten years from now.
Yeah. The Rock's a busy guy. He might forget by then.
Uh, plus, in ten years, maybe I could take him?
You know, if I start taking steroids now,
really working out hard, I've got a chance.
What I'm saying is, you better watch out, Dwayne Johnson!
I'm coming for you!
Did I just start a right with Dwayne Johnson? Forgive me.
I pull out. I'm pulling out of the deal.
I'm pulling out.
So it seems clear that Trump cares
about the Iran deal's actual facts
as much as he cares about any other facts.
And the truth is, he's decided to scrap the Iran deal
before he even knew that it worked.
We talk about Iran,
and that's one of the worst deals ever made,
one of the worst contracts ever signed, ever in anything.
As far as Iran is concerned, I would have never made that deal.
You know there's a bad signal when you go across
and you see on television
the Iranian chief negotiator goes home,
and they're celebrating him in the streets, right?
This is one of the dumbest contracts
I've ever seen of any kind.
(cheering)
This was done by extremely stupid people.
(cheering)
(as Trump): This contract is so dumb...
You're supposed to say, "How dumb is it?"
This contract is so dumb...
AUDIENCE: How dumb is it?
It tried to find the corner of a round room.
These are the jokes, people.
These are the jokes. So dumb.
(laughter)
Look, the reason we know that Trump is wrong
about leaving this deal is
because he's the only leader who wants to leave it.
Every other country who signed it wants to stay in.
Because remember the last two weeks?
They have been a rolling house party at The White House
of leaders begging Trump to stay in the Iran deal.
That's why Macron put up with Trump's whole dandruff thing.
That's why Merkel put up with Trump's whole Trump thing.
And yesterday, Britain made one last-ditch effort.
WOMAN: British foreign secretary Boris Johnson
visited Washington on Monday,
even appearing to reach out to the president
on Fox & Friends.
We need to find a way of fixing that,
and the president has been right to call attention to it.
But you can't do that
without just throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Let me just remind you-- if they do get a nuclear weapon,
you're going to get an arms race in the... in the Middle East.
Do you realize that's how desperate America's allies are?
Britain didn't just send someone on to Trump's favorite TV show.
They sent his British twin.
(laughter)
I actually... I actually wouldn't be shocked
if Trump actually thinks that's how he sounds when he speaks.
Like he says, "It's bad, folks.
Not good, not good at all, so not good."
But in his head he hears,
(British accent): "There are negative ramifications that,
"from my perspective, uh, cannot-cannot be overemphasized
and we... we have to deal with this bigly."
(laughter)
So the world wanted President Trump to stay in the deal,
and when you hear the potential consequences,
you'll understand why.
This is a reckless strategic mistake.
No matter what the president says,
the deal constrains Iran's nuclear program.
So how does pulling out of it make you safe?
If they restart their enrichment
because now we have made the deal null and void,
what will Donald Trump do?
We're setting in motion today a process
that could well lead to conflict down the road.
This moves the world closer to war in this region.
They are the third largest oil producer,
and prices will go up, Americans will feel this at the pump.
That's right, this could lead to a horrible destabilizing war.
And even worse, we'll pay slightly more for gas.
(laughter)
Yeah. So that means when you're trying to flee
the nuclear apocalypse,
you'll have to look at your gas tank the whole time.
It's gonna be like, "Aah! Now that the war has started,
"we got to get out of here! Drive! Drive!
"Whoa, whoa, slow down, buddy. Gas is not cheap. Slow down.
"Not too fast. We'll scream fast,
"and we'll drive slow.
"Aah! Aah!
"Aah! Go around! Go around!
Aah...!"
And there's one more consequence to leaving this deal.
It's a really big, big issue.
It has to do with America's credibility.
Think about how it looks to the rest of the world
for the United States
to just blow off an international agreement
years in the making.
Once you make a deal with someone,
it's really important to carry it through.
Otherwise, you start developing the wrong reputation,
and it makes it impossible to make future deals.
And look, I'm not the only one who's saying this.
A much wiser man once said the same thing.
TRUMP: Once you make a deal with someone,
it's really important to carry it through.
You start developing the wrong reputation,
it makes it impossible
to make future deals.
The president should listen to that guy.