I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil.

We today have a president who does what he says he's going to do.

We can fly in and out of Iran at will.

It would hurt other countries' economies a lot worse than ours.

We have done everything. We have bent over backwards, OK, to create a deal with these people.

We want peace deals with them, and that's up to them to decide.

would be a suicidal move.

We will defend our people, obviously. We'll defend our people.

It would be, I think, a massive escalation that would merit a response, not just by us, but from others.

We're prepared, right now, if they call right now and say, 'We want to meet, let's talk about this,' we're prepared to do that.

Here's what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence.

So we'll defend our people, obviously.