Addressing Terrorism Funding and Qatar

unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.

And in the wake of that conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting

Qatar over its behavior.

So we had a decision to make.

Do we take the easy road, or do we finally take a hard but necessary action?

We have to stop the funding of terrorism.

I decided, along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, our great generals and military

people, the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding.

They have to end that funding and its extremist ideology in terms of funding.

I want to call on all of the nations to stop immediately supporting terrorism.

Stop teaching people to kill other people.

Stop filling their minds with hate and intolerance.

I won't name other countries.

But we are not done solving the problem, but we will solve that problem.

Have no choice.

This is my great priority because it is my first duty as President.

To keep our people safe, defeating ISIS and other terror organizations is something I

have emphasized all during my campaign and right up until the present.

To do that, stop funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing.

For Qatar, we want you back among the unity of responsible nations.

We ask Qatar and other nations in the region to do more.