President Trump commented on President Obama and the Iran nuclear deal during a speech Monday to the Israeli Knesset:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that. If he did, he would have turned them down, I promise you. He didn’t speak. He didn’t speak, and he didn’t speak well. But all of the countries in the Middle East-it could have-what we’re doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. There was-there was a hatred towards Israel. There was an absolute hatred. Setbacks really started when President Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal. This was a disaster for Israel, and it was a disaster for everyone. And I remember that Bibi Netanyahu came to the United States and worked so hard to try and get Obama not to do that deal. He worked so hard, but it was like talking to a wall. I remember him telling me it was like talking to a wall. They wanted to go with Iran. They chose Iran, frankly, over a lot of other good nations-specifically Israel. And that was the beginning of a very bad period of time. You had Obama go out, and the Iran nuclear deal turned out to be a disaster. By the way, I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, and I was very proud to do it. Even to Iran, whose regime inflicted so much death on the Middle East, the hand of friendship and cooperation is open. I’m telling you, they want to make a deal. That’s all I do in my life-I make deals. I’m good at it. I have always been good at it. And I know what they want. Even if they said, “We don’t want to make a deal,” I can tell you they want to make a deal. They do. They want to make a deal, and we will see if we can do something.

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