President Donald Trump, at a White House event with the 2025 Major League Soccer Cup champions, once again called on Iran’s army and the IRGC to lay down their arms. Lionel Messi, owner Jorge Mas, and members of the Inter Miami team visited the White House to celebrate their 2025 Major League Soccer Cup victory.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. And yesterday, my administration announced decisive action to help keep down the oil prices, including offering political risk insurance for tankers transiting into the Gulf. As you know, pretty dangerous territory. Further action to reduce pressure on oil is imminent, and the oil seems to have pretty much stabilized. We had it very low, but I had to take this little detour, if it’s okay with everybody. Scott [Bessent], it’s okay with you. Scott’s the one who has to put up with it. He said, you have to do this now? I said, I have to do it, Scott, right? But it’s been very strong, and everybody, including Scott, everybody feels we had really no choice. It was gonna, they were gonna hit us if we didn’t hit them, because they’re crazy. And in the long term, the actions we’re taking will dramatically increase the stability of the region and oil prices and stock markets and everything else. We set the all-time record in history with the Dow going to 50,000, so Dow was at 50,000. It was supposed to be maybe, if we were lucky, within by the end of my presidency in four years. And we did it in my first year. We did the S&P 500. We did that in a period of less than a year, and that was even tougher than the Dow, they said, so it wasn’t gonna happen. But we have a great country. We have a country that’s never done this well. We’ve had tremendous success in so many different ways. I built the military and rebuilt it in my first term, and we’re using it more than I’d like to use it, to be honest with you, but when we use it, we found out it certainly did work. When we look at Venezuela, when we look at the first attack, Midnight Hammer in Iran, which really set the stage for what we’re doing right now, it’s been pretty amazing. And I’m once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police to lay down their arms. They’re only gonna be killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You’re gonna have a chance after all these years to take back your country, accept immunity, we’ll give you immunity, and we’ll be giving you really the right side of history, because that’s what it is. So you’ll be perfectly safe with total immunity, or you’ll face absolutely guaranteed death, and I don’t wanna see that. They don’t wanna see it either. We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better Iran with great potential. It’s a country with great potential. There’s much better future for Iran. It’s now beginning, it’s gonna be, I think, a great future, and the United States will ensure that whoever leads the country next to Iran will not threaten America or its neighbors, Israel, anybody. If you look at what happened, they had missiles aimed at all of these other countries, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, many others, that weren’t really involved very much, and they had missiles aimed, well, they were aimed there long before this ever started. They were going after the entire Middle East, and then we came along. We blew up their party. So we have phenomenal people.

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