By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — On Saturday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he was “looking at” a new Iranian peace proposal. Then a reporter reminded Trump that he had said the previous night that the US might be better off not making a deal with Iran.

“Well, I wouldn’t have to. I didn’t say that,” Trump responded. “I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we’re not leaving right now. We’re gonna do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.”

In reality, Trump did say — on camera — what the reporter told him he said. His denial was yet another case in which the president wrongly asserted he hadn’t said something he had said in a public forum.

Trump made the remark about Iran during a Friday speech to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in South Florida. After mentioning that one of his golf clubs is hosting a PGA Tour tournament, he said: “Yesterday, somebody came up, said, ‘Sir, the tournament is great.’ I said, ‘What tournament are you talking about? I’m so busy with the Iranians calling trying to make a good deal, and we’re not gonna let that happen.’ But … they’ve gotta make a bad deal. But — if they make a deal at all. Because frankly, maybe we’re better off not making a deal at all, do you want to know the truth. Because we can’t let this thing go on.”

Trump did say at a different point of the Friday speech that “if we left right now, it would take them 20 years, 25 years, to rebuild the place.” But that clearly doesn’t negate the existence of his “maybe we’re better off not making a deal at all” remark.

A history of denying remarks he made on camera

It’s one thing for the president to try to deny having made a remark someone claimed he made in a private meeting. For years, Trump has attempted something more brazen: denying he ever made remarks the public saw him make.

In December 2025, for example, when an ABC News reporter asked Trump on camera whether he would release the video of the US military’s controversial follow-up strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, Trump said, “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we’d certainly release, no problem.” But when another ABC News reporter reminded him five days later that he said he would have no problem releasing the video, Trump falsely claimed, “I didn’t say that. That’s — you said that, I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”

During his 2024 campaign, Trump falsely denied he had said “lock her up” about his 2016 election opponent, Hillary Clinton, though he had done so on multiple occasions at televised rallies attended by thousands of people. During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, he denied having made two remarks he had made on camera the previous week.

Trump has also tried to inaccurately portray the nature of some of his previous public remarks. In an interview with Time magazine in April 2025, he wrongly claimed he had “obviously” been speaking “in jest” and exaggerating when he promised during his 2024 campaign to immediately end the war in Ukraine if he was elected ag

OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) – A 51-year-old Oxnard man died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Wooley Road late Saturday night.

The identity of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin.

On May 2, around 11:31 p.m., officers were dispatched to an injury collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian near the intersection of Wooley Road and Commercial Avenue stated a press release Sunday from the Oxnard Police Department.

Oxnard Police shared that arriving first responders found a 51-year-old man lying in the eastbound lanes of Wooley Road with major injuries and despite life-saving attempts, he died from his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A preliminary investigation showed that the 51-year-old pedestrian was walking across Wooley Road, just west of Commercial Avenue when he was hit by a Ford Expedition westbound on Wooley Road and the force of the impact sent the pedestrian into eastbound lanes of Wooley Road explained the Oxnard Police Department.

The 21-year-old driver of the vehicle remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators noted the Oxnard Police Department.

While impairment is not currently suspected, the investigation into the fatal incident is ongoing added the Oxnard Police Department.

Anyone with more information is asked to contact Traffic Officer Joseph Clarke at 805-385-7749 or 805-200-5668 or via email at [email protected].

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Santa Barbara men were taken into custody for vehicle theft and narcotics charges after stealing a vehicle from City Lot 11 on Anacapa Street Friday morning.

On May 1, around 9:20 a.m., officers were called to City Lot 11 in the 500 block of Anacapa Street for a stolen vehicle report stated a press release from the Santa Barbara Police Department.

Arriving officers spoke with the owner of the missing vehicle, shared the owner's description with units in the area, and located the stolen vehicle driving nearby detailed the Santa Barbara Police Department.

According to Santa Barbara Police, officers followed the vehicle as it returned to City Lot 11, watched two men exit the vehicle and begin to walk away before officers contacted the duo, later identified as a 33-year-old man and a 43-year-old man both from Santa Barbara, and took them into custody without incident.

The men were booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on vehicle theft and narcotics-related charges shared the Santa Barbara Police Department.

Officers were able to return the vehicle to its owner added the local law enforcement agency.

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Análisis por Tim Lister, CNN

Prácticamente no pasa una semana sin que surja alguna nueva disputa entre la administración de Trump y Europa.

Pero en un año marcado por una importante disputa sobre aranceles, la amenaza del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, de anexionarse Groenlandia y desacuerdos sobre la ayuda a Ucrania, la amenaza más acuciante a la que se enfrenta Europa es la actual división transatlántica en torno a la OTAN.

Trump ha declarado que Estados Unidos retirará 5.000 soldados, y probablemente muchos más, estacionados en Alemania, después de que el canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz, criticara la gestión estadounidense del conflicto con Irán, y afirmara que Teherán había humillado a Washington.

Trump también criticó a España e Italia por no ayudar en la campaña estadounidense contra Irán. Al ser consultado sobre si consideraría retirar las tropas estadounidenses de esos países, Trump respondió: “Probablemente… miren, ¿por qué no? Italia no nos ha sido de ninguna ayuda y España ha sido horrible, absolutamente horrible”.

España le ha denegado a las Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses el permiso para usar sus bases o su espacio aéreo para misiones o ataques relacionados con el conflicto. Las críticas de Trump a Italia se producen a pesar de que su primera ministra, Giorgia Meloni, es una aliada clave.

Trump se ha quejado en varias ocasiones de que Estados Unidos carga injustamente con la responsabilidad de la seguridad occidental, e incluso ha llegado a señalar a Alemania, potencia económica europea, como “incumplidora” en este tema. La retirada parcial de Estados Unidos es un nuevo episodio de esta saga, pero uno que pone de manifiesto problemas más profundos.

A medida que la disposición de Estados Unidos a respaldar la seguridad europea se debilita —y la amenaza rusa crece—, Alemania, el Reino Unido y Francia prometen inaugurar una nueva era de inversión. Pero tienen un gran reto por delante, y poco tiempo para lograrlo.

“Si queremos seguir siendo transatlánticos, debemos reforzar el pilar europeo dentro de la OTAN”, declaró el sábado el ministro de Defensa alemán, Boris Pistorius, después de que Trump hablara de retirar las tropas.

Pistorius sugirió que la caída de precios era “previsible”.

Miles de soldados estadounidenses permanecen en Alemania, aunque ese número es solo una fracción de lo que fue en el pasado.

En diciembre de 2025, 36.436 militares estadounidenses en servicio activo estaban en Alemania, según datos del Departamento de Defensa de EE.UU. En el apogeo de la Guerra Fría, unos 250.000 soldados en servicio activo estaban acuartelados en lo que entonces era Alemania Occidental.

El paraguas se ha retirado a pesar de que Rusia sigue siendo una amenaza, y la medida de Estados Unidos “subraya la necesidad de que Europa invierta más en defensa”, dijo el sábado la portavoz de la OTAN, Allison Hart.

Washington quiere centrarse en los desafíos “en los que solo el poder estadounidense puede desempeñar un papel decisivo” en Asia y en su propio hemisferio, según Elbridge Colby, alto funcionario del Pentágono. Exige “un esfuerzo mucho mayor por parte de nuestros aliados para que asuman la responsabilidad principal de la defensa convencional de Europa”, añadió Colby.

Desde la perspectiva estadounidense, afirmó, “esta visión no tiene nada de antieuropea. Al contrario, refleja esperanza e incluso confianza en la capacidad de Europa para actuar de manera sustancial y enérgica”.

Algunos europeos lo ven de otra manera: como una pérdida de solidaridad y de propósito común, y como un ejemplo contundente del unilateralismo estadounidense.

“La mayor amenaza para la comunidad transatlántica no son sus enemigos externos, sino