President Donald Trump brushed off warnings about climate change Tuesday and said the real threat is ‘nuclear heat’ in a grave threat about Iran. Trump made the comments in a rambling White House statement before signing executive orders meant to unleash coal power and wipe away regulations that limit it.

He began by dismissing scientific warnings about rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels, months after pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. ‘Because they gave us only a few years left on Earth, right?’ Trump mocked, with hard hat-wearing coal workers as a backdrop. ‘We were going to be gone, we’re all going to be gone – the environment. No, what they have to worry about is the nuclear – nuclear heat. They don’t have to worry about environmental heat. They have to worry about nuclear heat.’ ‘And if we’re smart, we’re working on that right now with others, having to do with Iran and some other countries,’ Trump said.

That was the tip that he was referring to Iran and new talks to deal with its nuclear program. Trump has said those talks will be ‘direct,’ although Iran says they will be ‘indirect.’ Trump’s reference to ‘other countries’ added more confusion. ‘But that’s the that’s the heat you’re gonna have to worry about. You don’t have to worry about the air is getting warmer. The ocean will rise … within the next 500 to 600 years, giving you a little bit more waterfront property. They say this is going to these guys can handle that. The nuclear we have a bigger problem with, right?’ Trump said.

Trump’s latest comments came a day after he sat down with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and told reporters Iran would not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. It was a statement that pleased Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America. ‘You couldn’t have had more clarity on Trump saying we can never allow Iran to get nuclear weapons,’ the conservative hawk told DailyMail.com. ‘He’s making it clear to them … that we’re not messing around. We are serious. We’re not going to tolerate your continuing. Once they get nukes, it’s a nightmare,’ he said. Trump’s surprise comment about direct talks with Iran comes as the Pentagon has been brandishing American firepower by deploying B-2 bombers at a base in the Indian Ocean.

Satellite images have revealed the deployment of six nuclear-capable B-2 bombers on Diego Garcia, a British-owned naval base that has been critical during U.S. military campaigns. The Pentagon has unleashed daily attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis, in a move that sends its own message to Tehran. ‘The movement of the aircraft to Diego Garcia definitely sends a signal to Iran about the extent to which they are in jeopardy, and the extent of seriousness the Trump administration feels with regard to its various demands,’ Daryl Press, the director of the Initiative for Global Security at Dartmouth College told ABC News. The network analyzed commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC.

Trump on Monday said the U.S. would hold top level ‘direct’ talks with Iran – while brandishing new threats and repeating demands that Iran could not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. ‘We’re having direct talks with Iran. And they’ve started,’ Trump told reporters while seated in the Oval Office next to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, himself a top Iran hawk. The talks are set to take place in Oman, but Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the talks would be ‘indirect,’ amid longstanding tensions between the two nations. ‘Indirect negotiations can guarantee a genuine and effective dialogue,’ he told Iranian state news agency IRNA, Reuters reported. The disclosure came just days after Trump threatened Iran in remarks to NBC News. ‘If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.’

If he were to order such a bombing campaign, the B-2 bombers are capable of launching bunker buster bombs and other munitions that could be used to take out Iran’s nuclear technology, which is often set up deep underground. The bombers are capable of carrying conventional and nuclear munitions. On military blogger, Ken Klippenstein , quoted experts calling it the largest deployment of B-2s to a forward location. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, the former Deputy U.S. Military Representative to NATO , boiled it down to ‘do you see our sword?’ Over the weekend, Trump fired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only female officer on NATO’s military committee, for unexplained reasons, the AP reported. DailyMail.com has reached out to the Pentagon for comment on the deployment.

When speaking to reporters about Iran, Trump said the surprise meeting would take place Saturday, but refused to divulge where. ‘We’ll see what can happen,’ he said. ‘All I can tell you is there’s a major meeting going on,’ Trump said when pressed, adding that it would be ‘top level.’ The stakes are high. The U.S. has avoided such direct talks for years. The Iran nuclear deal, which Trump scuttled after it was put in place under Barack Obama , was negotiated through multi-party talks. ‘I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it,’ he added. ‘So we are going to see if we can avoid it, but it’s getting to be very dangerous territory, and hopefully those talks will be successful. And I think it would be in Iran’s best interests if they are successful.’

Asked about the consequence if Iran refuses to give up its nuclear program, Trump responded: ‘I think if the talks aren’t successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger. Because they can’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s not a complicated formula. Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon,’ Trump said. ‘If the talks aren’t successful, I actually think it’ll be a very bad day for Iran if that’s the case.’ They would be the first known direct talks since Trump pulled out of the agreement in 2018. Trump has repeatedly called it a ‘horrible’ and complained ‘we got nothing.’ Trump made the comments at a meeting that was being closely watched amid a global sell-off after he imposed an across-the-board 10% tariff and slapped additional tariffs on more than 60 countries.

Trump showed no indication of backing down on trade. ‘We’re not looking at that,’ Trump said when asked if he was considering a pause after the multi-trillion sell-off. Trump fielded a series of questions from U.S. and Israeli reporters after cancelling a scheduled press conference planned for the East Room of the White House. Instead, he revealed the talks on the high-pressure issue, inside the Oval Office facing new pressure on the tariffs. The White House has threatened to veto a Senate bill that would end the emergency designation that the White House cited to impose the tariffs. Netanyahu was much less revealing on Iran, while confirming the two men discussed it. ‘We’re both United that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons, if it could be done diplomatically in a full way, the way it was done in Libya, I think that would be a good thing,’ he said. ‘That’s the end of my speech,’ said Netanyahu after remarks that were brief.

At one point an Israeli reporter asked Trump to elaborate on how a new Iran deal was going to be ‘more effective than the JPOA’ – the Obama-era Iran deal that he ripped up. ‘Well, I can’t really say that, but I think it will be different and maybe a lot stronger,’ he said at first – before immediately pivoting to a temporary cease fire with Hamas to free hostages in Gaza. ‘But they were so happy when we made that first deal, because we did get a lot out. You know, I had people right in this office, this beautiful Oval Office. They came in, 10 people, hostages, you know that? And I said to him, so how was it and the stories they told me, I mean, as an example, I said to them, was there any sign of love?’ ‘Did the Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you? Did they wink at you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side like you know, you think of doing like what happened in Germany? What happened elsewhere? People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress. They said no.’

Netanyahu began the meeting by appeasing Trump’s trade complaints, after the U.S. slapped a 17 % tariff on imports from Israel. ‘We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it’s the right thing to do. And we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers, a variety of trade barriers, that have been put up unnecessarily. And I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same,’ he said. The tariffs had surprised the Israeli government, which signed an agreement the day prior to end tariffs on U.S. products. Israel exports about $22 billion annually to the U.S.

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