"Turkey's Been Loyal” - Trump Praises Erdogan While Calling Out NATO

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Yesterday, the president is sitting with Erdogan.
Erdogan is not a fan of EB. Turkey and Israel are not best friends. It's not like they're hanging out. They don't go to have drinks together. They don't go watch movies. They're like, the chance of them watching a movie together, Young Washington, slum to none. That's not gonna happen.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:17)
Not even try.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:18)
While he's sitting there, he is talking about removing the sanctions. I don't know if you got the videos of, if you want to pull that up. So I want you to watch this video here, folks, how openly the president is speaking and saying, yeah, Erdogan doesn't like BB. And if it wasn't for me, dot dot dot, watch this clip here. Go for it.
I like Erdogan.

**Tom** (0:43)
I'll tell you, I like President Erdogan.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:46)
He rolled out the red carpet.

**Adam** (0:48)
He's terrific.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:48)
He could have gone into the world.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:49)
A lot of people are saying, like with BB, I like BB. I think BB was a terrific wartime prime minister.
But BB said rough things yesterday about Turkey and Erdogan.

**Adam** (1:00)
And I said, you know, I spoke to him.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:02)
I said, he could have gone into the war because he doesn't like Israel much, and he doesn't like BB much.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:08)
And he didn't go because of me.

**Tom** (1:11)
And this is a military power.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:14)
Millions of soldiers.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:16)
Turkey is very strong. They have a lot of our best equipment. They're trying to get the F-35s.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:21)
But he didn't go in.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:22)
He wanted to.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:22)
He would go in. If it weren't for me, he would have gone in.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:26)
And he would have been on the other side.

**Adam** (1:28)
But they're a couple I don't like.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:30)
So how do you process that, Tom? How do you process what he's saying here and the way he's positioning, wanting to remove sanctions of Turkey? How big of a deal is that? A lot of people are not happy. Some people are happy. Where do you stand with this?

**Tom** (1:40)
Well, there's two countries that he's been talking about, and one is Turkey and the other is Syria. And people will say that the guy that's leading Syria is, you know, an ex-thug, ex-terrorist.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:51)
He is a terrorist.

**Tom** (1:52)
But the fact is, Syria's position has moved against Iran, and it has moved positively. They're not saints, and I don't think you trust them with your lunch money, but things have moved. And Trump wants Syria to do more. Trump also wants to everybody to be reminded that Turkey is a war power.
Three things he said. They got some of our best equipment. They want the F-35s. Translation, maybe we're doing a deal. Maybe we'll talk about that. And he said, you know what? I like him. And so the rest of the world hears, I like Turkey. They're a war power. They have our best equipment, and they're asking for the F-35s, leaving the rest of the world to say, Oh, Lord, don't give them that in addition to all this other equipment. So I think Trump is drawing a line there. And there was a great game a long time ago. It was called Diplomacy.
And Diplomacy was on a board and it showed old Europe, Pat. And you would sit there and put your pieces on there, and then talk to people about who you're going to support. I'll support you, but I'll support him in an attack against this other guy. And then at the end of it, after we all have our moves, which we put on paper, we put in the middle. And then we read out all the results. And guess what?
Usually the people that had the strongest alliances win. And I think Trump is trying to build alliances and keep people in a state of stasis. And stasis is like Korea, the nitro and the glycerin in two separate jugs, but they're still next to each other. And he's trying to keep, through strong diplomacy, people from attacking each other and to remind people who is the linchpin in all this in the United States of America.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:39)
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