On June 11, 2026, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation at the White House reopening nearly half a million square miles of protected Pacific Ocean waters to commercial fishing — but the ceremony was quickly overshadowed by his announcement that the U.S. and Iran had reached a broad ceasefire framework, including an Iranian commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons, with a formal signing expected “maybe over the weekend” in Europe. Trump also disclosed that U.S. forces had been conducting covert nighttime operations to move oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz over the past month, described ongoing U.S. military strikes on Iran, and fielded a sweeping press Q&A covering offshore wind turbines, election integrity, the acting intelligence director post, farmer aid, Senate races, and the D.C. mayor’s race — making a fisheries ceremony the backdrop for one of his most wide-ranging public statements of the year. Assistance from Claude AI.
Participants
- President Donald J. Trump — 47th President of the United States
- Howard Lutnick — Secretary of Commerce
- Doug Burgum — Secretary of the Interior
- Gov. Mike Dunleavy — Republican Governor, State of Alaska
- Peter Navarro — Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing
- Congresswoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds — Delegate, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Captain Sig Hansen — Commercial fishing captain and star of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch
- Frank Dulcich — CEO, Pacific Seafood; accompanied by sons Dominick and Charles
- Multiple unnamed commercial fishermen and -women from Alaska, New England, Hawaii, and the Pacific
(Transcript joined in progress; some opening remarks are missing.)
Section 1: The Iran Announcement — The Day’s Biggest News
The signing ceremony was still getting underway when President Trump opened with what he called “a great thing” — and perhaps the biggest U.S. foreign policy development in years.
What Trump Announced
“We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran,” Trump told the assembled crowd of fishermen and officials. The formal documents, he said, were “in pretty final shape” and could be signed “maybe over the weekend, in Europe.” Vice President JD Vance would attend the signing in Trump’s place. Trump credited Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for their work as lead negotiators.
Background for general readers: The U.S. and Israel launched military strikes on Iran beginning February 28, 2026, targeting nuclear facilities, military infrastructure, and senior Iranian leadership. Iran’s original Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in those strikes. His son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was subsequently designated as the new Supreme Leader. Iran responded by closing the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil supply normally flows — creating significant pressure on global energy markets.
What the Deal Contains
Based on Trump’s statements and corroborating reporting, the agreement appears to be a memorandum of understanding (MOU), not a final treaty, with key provisions including:
- A commitment from Iran not to pursue, develop, or purchase a nuclear weapon, in any form
- A 60-day ceasefire extension during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened
- Iran would be permitted to freely sell oil during that period
- A 60-day negotiating window to work out the harder nuclear specifics: the disposal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium and limits on future uranium enrichment
- U.S. sanctions relief would be conditional on “relief for performance” — Iran makes concessions before the U.S. lifts sanctions
⚠️ FACT CHECK — Misleading: Trump repeatedly stated that Iran has agreed it “will never have a nuclear weapon” as though this is a finalized, binding commitment. But when pressed by reporters, Trump acknowledged the nuclear material provisions are “a little conceptual” — the MOU sets the stage for negotiations on enrichment and uranium disposal, which haven’t yet concluded. What Iran has signed onto is the principle of non-possession, not a verified dismantlement framework. International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi warned that any agreement without inspection provisions is “an illusion of an agreement” (Axios, 2026; Times of Israel, 2026).
Supreme Leader Approval
A reporter asked directly: has Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei approved the deal?
“I understand the answer is yes,” Trump replied — a notably qualified answer, not a direct confirmation.
Background: Earlier reporting indicated the deal still awaited final approval from both Trump and Khamenei. Trump’s “I understand the answer is yes” framing suggests he was relying on intermediaries’ reports, not a direct communication.
The Covert Night Operations Reveal
In one of the more startling disclosures of the day, Trump described a months-long covert U.S. military operation to move oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz under cover of darkness:
“We’ve been taking out ships, big ships, quietly at night. You guys didn’t know that… We bombed their radar and everything so they couldn’t see what was going on. We took out — some nights 25 ships, some nights 15. The last four or five nights, we did 25, 22, 21, 26, 18, and 14.”
Trump said the operation explained why oil prices had been lower than markets expected even before the deal announcement. “Hundreds of millions of barrels of oil were brought across,” he said.
He added: “The straits have been open for a number of months already, and you just didn’t know about it.” The formal reopening would be announced upon deal signing.
Pakistan’s Role
Trump praised Pakistan’s role in mediating the ceasefire, singling out its prime minister and what he called “the General” — then correcting himself: “He’s a Field Marshal, a step above.” Trump also mentioned calls to leaders of Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, saying “the whole Middle East is happy.”
⚠️ FACT CHECK — Approximately Accurate: Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, holds the rank of four-star General. The rank of Field Marshal in Pakistan is an extremely rare honorary rank — historically conferred only once, on President Ayub Khan. Trump’s claim that Munir holds the higher title does not align with Pakistan’s military records. (Background: The Times of Israel, 2026.)
Market and Oil Response
Trump noted the stock market was “up a thousand points” and that oil prices had dropped following the announcement, presenting both as market endorsements of the deal.
Section 2: The Fishing Proclamation — What Was Actually Signed
The Official Action
After his Iran remarks, Trump signed a presidential proclamation formally reopening nearly 500,000 square miles of protected Pacific Ocean waters to commercial fishing. Specifically, the proclamation restored access to three marine national monuments:
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (northwestern Hawaiian Islands) — the Mau and Ho’omalu Zones, and areas seaward of 50 nautical miles
- Mariana Trench Marine National Monument (Northern Mariana Islands) — the Islands Unit
- Rose Atoll Marine National Monument (American Samoa) — waters between 12 and 50 nautical miles around Rose Atoll
Background for general readers: A marine national monument is a federally protected area of ocean designated by presidential proclamation under the Antiquities Act. Commercial fishing is typically prohibited or heavily restricted within monument boundaries. The three monuments named today cover waters in U.S. territories across the western Pacific. Think of them as the ocean equivalent of a national park — beautiful, ecologically rich, and previously off-limits to commercial harvest.
The History: Who Restricted These Waters?
Trump blamed the restrictions entirely on the “Obama-Biden administration’s radical environmentalists,” saying the policy “closed off vast resources and really, the richest fishing grounds, they say, anywhere in the world.”
⚠️ FACT CHECK — Misleading: The monuments were originally established not by Obama, but by President George W. Bush — a Republican. Bush created the Papahānaumokuākea monument in 2006 and the Mariana Trench monument in 2009. President Obama significantly expanded Papahānaumokuākea in 2016, which added substantial new protections. Biden’s administration maintained those protections. So the history is bipartisan: Bush created the monuments, Obama expanded them, Biden kept them. The “Obama-Biden” framing omits Bush’s foundational role. (Quiver Quantitative, 2026; Newsweek, 2026.)
The “Foreign Countries Were Fishing There” Claim
Both Trump and Secretary Lutnick repeatedly asserted that foreign countries were allowed to fish in these waters while Americans were not — a framing that generated outrage in the room.
Lutnick: “If you had an American flag, you weren’t allowed there. But, of course, everybody else was. So they went in our waters, these are our waters.”
⚠️ FACT CHECK — Misleading: The monument restrictions applied to all commercial fishing vessels within monument boundaries, regardless of flag — not only to American ships. Foreign fishing fleets do operate in adjacent international waters beyond the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, where no country’s domestic monument rules apply. The accurate distinction is between U.S.-controlled monument waters (closed to all) and adjacent high-seas international waters (open to all nations, including the U.S.). The claim that foreign fishermen were uniquely allowed into “our waters” while Americans were barred overstates the case. (Newsweek, 2026.)
Economic Claims
Trump said the proclamation would unlock “millions, tens of millions of dollars of income” from annual harvests of bigeye tuna, swordfish, and reef fish, and that it would lower seafood prices for American consumers.
Trump also touted a broader administration economic statistic: “Right now we are $18 trillion being invested in our country. And under the last administration, it was less than one.”
❌ FACT CHECK — False: Independent fact-checkers at PolitiFact, CNN, and FactCheck.org have all found the $18 trillion investment figure to be unsupported. The White House’s own website listed approximately $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” at the time — itself an overcount that mixes vague multinational pledges, aspirational goals, and future trade promises with actual capital investment. As the Cato Institute noted, the figure has grown repeatedly without any methodology being offered to support it. Biden, by comparison, announced roughly $1 trillion in private-sector investment during his term under the CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act — still far less than Trump’s figure, but considerably more than “less than one.” (PolitiFact, 2025; CNN, 2026; FactCheck.org, 2025.)
This was Trump’s third fishing action in his second term: he opened the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument in April 2025, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off New England in February 2026, and now these three Pacific monuments.
Section 3: Remarks by Officials and Industry Leaders
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
Lutnick focused on the economic logic: “That resulted in us instead of having seafood exports…we were an importer. We became an importer of seafood.” He framed the action as a correction to a policy that turned a fishing nation into a buyer of fish from the very waters it owns. “Let’s eat fish caught by Americans,” he said to applause.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum
Burgum emphasized the multi-generational nature of the fishing industry, calling commercial fishermen “the farmers of the sea” and noting that the jobs created are “often second, third, fourth and fifth generation family businesses.” He also connected the proclamation to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, describing seafood as a health food that the action would route back into schools and the military.
Governor Mike Dunleavy (Alaska)
Dunleavy pointed out that Alaska provides 60 percent of the country’s seafood and argued that the action exemplified the broader “America First” approach: “The country doesn’t need more regulation, we need less regulation.” He explicitly praised Trump’s deregulation posture across industries.
Peter Navarro
Senior Counselor Navarro chimed in to validate Trump’s historical critique of the monument restrictions, describing former President Obama as an “environmental activist” who shut down American fishing while allowing foreign boats to operate freely — a characterization consistent with the administration’s framing.
Frank Dulcich, Pacific Seafood CEO
Frank Dulcich — whose grandfather immigrated to the U.S. and started a fish market in 1941 — spoke emotionally about what the action means for the 3,000 employees and 715 fishing families that Pacific Seafood works with across Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska. “There’s never been a president [who has] done this,” he said. Trump asked whether he was a liberal given his base in Portland, Oregon — drawing laughter when Dulcich insisted he was not.
Captain Sig Hansen
Captain Sig Hansen, a star of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and one of the most recognized faces in American commercial fishing, reminded the room that he was once a contestant on The Apprentice — and was fired by Trump. “I’ve never been fired in my life until I spent a couple of months with this man,” he said, drawing laughter. He called the experience humbling and said he became a better captain for it. He presented Trump with a crew member’s cap, saying, “You’re one of us now.”
New Bedford Scallop Industry Rep
A representative of the New Bedford, Massachusetts sea scallop fleet — described as the highest-grossing revenue port in the United States — raised a persistent regulatory grievance: an area off Georges Bank (248 square miles) that has been closed to scallop fishing since 1995. He described owning vessels worth $3–5 million that are only permitted to fish for 35 days per year. Trump said he would “look at that,” and a nearby federal fisheries adviser told the room that scallops in the area live 8–10 years, meaning multiple generations have matured and died unharvested.
Tariffs and Crab Prices
One fisherman noted that tariffs on Russian crab imports had tripled the dock price for U.S.-caught crab. “Our price just skyrocketed and it sells. People buy it,” he said — an example, rarely heard at Trump events, of tariffs working as intended for domestic producers.
Section 4: Q&A — Offshore Wind Turbines
A question about the administration’s fight against offshore wind turbines off the Atlantic coast — framed as both a fishing and national security issue — generated one of the event’s more detailed exchanges.
The Question
A reporter asked whether Trump’s administration would stop a 54-turbine wind project near Jamaica Bay, and noted that Governor Kathy Hochul of New York had broken a deal on a natural gas pipeline.
“And she did break her deal,” Trump confirmed before turning the technical question over to Secretary Burgum.
Burgum’s Response
Burgum offered three arguments against offshore wind:
1. Impact on fisheries: He said NOAA and Interior had held “multiple roundtables” documenting evidence that wind tower construction destroys fisheries.
❌ FACT CHECK — False/Misleading: The scientific consensus does not support the claim that offshore wind construction has been shown to destroy fisheries. A Government Accountability Office report released in April 2025 found that offshore wind poses limited risk to whale populations. As of 2024, no U.S. whale death has been officially linked to offshore wind operations, according to marine scientists. The North Atlantic right whale population actually grew by approximately 2 percent from 2023 to 2024 — a period coinciding with the busiest U.S. offshore wind construction phase to date. (Environment America, 2026; Canary Media, 2025; Conservation Law Foundation, 2026.)
2. Marine mammal deaths: Burgum claimed more whales were washing up on shore during offshore wind construction.
❌ FACT CHECK — False/Misleading: Federal authorities, marine biologists, and independent researchers have found no causal link between offshore wind construction and whale deaths. The Trump administration simultaneously defunded key whale-monitoring research programs at the New England Aquarium, terminating grants meant to track marine mammal populations near construction sites. Scientists note that the two primary threats to whales remain boat strikes and fishing gear entanglement. (Canary Media, 2025; NRDC, 2026.)
3. National security threat: Burgum cited a report from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that offshore wind towers represent a national security threat, arguing that turbines could mask autonomous drone attacks. He described towers reaching 600 feet, with blades adding an additional 250 feet, creating radar interference that could allow undetected drone incursions into the heavily populated Northeast corridor. He noted Sweden had canceled offshore wind projects over similar security concerns.
A follow-up question noted that turbine blades were already being shipped from Asia and asked whether construction could be halted. Burgum noted additional economic problems with the projects — cost, intermittency, and foreign supply chains — without directly answering whether construction would be stopped.
Section 5: Extended Press Q&A — Iran
The bulk of the formal press Q&A focused on Iran.
Confidence in the Deal
Q: You’ve been close to a deal before and it has fallen apart. Why is this time different?
Trump: “Because they’ve taken a pounding. They’ve taken a pounding like very few people could take. And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do.”
He described Iran’s military infrastructure as largely demolished: “Their Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone. Everything is gone… Their leadership is gone many times over.” He described the current Iranian negotiating leadership as “much more rational” than the original regime figures, calling it effectively a “regime change.” He said he had been told U.S. strikes would continue “even harder tonight” prior to the signing, arguing that pressure was the source of Iranian flexibility.
The Nuclear Commitment — What It Actually Says
This was the most probing exchange of the press conference.
Q: Has Iran committed to not pursuing a nuclear weapon, or will there be more negotiations?
Trump: “They will not have a nuclear weapon. They’ve agreed to that.”
Q: Is that going to be in your agreement?
Trump: “They will not only not have, they will not purchase, develop in any way, any shape or form a nuclear weapon.”
Q: The concept of that agreement on nuclear — is this just essentially setting the stage for talks?
Trump: “Well, it’s a very strong memorandum of understanding. That is a little conceptual, but it’s something that’s going to get done.”
Q: Is there a specific deadline — 60 or 90 days — to finalize?
Trump: “I don’t want to say a deadline because if I say a deadline, you’ll say, oh, he didn’t meet the deadline.”
Context for general readers: The tension in this exchange is important. Trump presented the nuclear non-possession commitment as sealed, while simultaneously acknowledging the MOU is “a little conceptual” on the nuclear material side. What Iran has agreed to in the MOU is the principle — they won’t seek a nuclear weapon. The mechanics — what happens to Iran’s existing stockpile of highly enriched uranium, what limits apply to future enrichment — remain to be negotiated in a 60-day window. This is a significant distinction. The 2015 JCPOA (the deal Trump withdrew from) took roughly two years to negotiate with hundreds of specialists and addressed these very mechanics. Independent experts have warned that a deal without inspections and verified dismantlement is difficult to enforce. (Axios, 2026; Britannica, 2026.)
Strait of Hormuz Timing
Trump: “The strait is going to open immediately… Maybe it’ll be Saturday or Monday.” He noted the Strait had already been effectively “open for a number of months” due to the covert ship operations, but said the official reopening would be announced upon signing.
Kharg Island
A reporter asked whether attack options targeting Kharg Island — Iran’s primary oil export terminal — were now “off the table.”
Trump: “Well, now it would be. We signed this agreement. It would be… They weren’t so thrilled when they heard that’s what I would have done.”
He pivoted to draw an analogy with Venezuela: “Look at Venezuela, how well that’s worked out. We paid for that war many times over… We have millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela going to Houston.” This appeared to suggest the Iran approach mirrors a model in which military or economic pressure yields a profitable energy and diplomatic outcome.
Section 6: Other Q&A Topics
FISA / Intelligence Surveillance
A reporter asked whether Trump intended to use an executive order to extend FISA or continue using “Section 42.” (Note: FISA surveillance authorities are typically associated with Section 702, not “Section 42”; the questioner or transcript may have had an error.)
Trump: “Well, the Congress wants me to do it… We will put out a statement, sure. That’s very important… It’s very important for our military.”
The Save America Act
Trump urged Republicans to add the Save America Act to the current reconciliation bill. The House, he said, had passed it “three times.” He described the bill’s four main components:
- National voter ID — Trump argued this is essential to prevent election fraud
- Proof of citizenship to vote — He accused Democrats of opposing it “because they cheat”
- Mail-in ballot restrictions — Citing multiple ballots being sent to single addresses, he called mail-in voting a source of “millions and millions” of fraudulent votes
- No transgender medical procedures on minors — Trump called this “transgender mutilization of your children,” describing scenarios in which he claimed children are taken from parents in certain states for gender-related procedures
- No males competing in women’s sports — He estimated this is supported by “99-to-1” among the public
He named Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) as a likely “no” vote and said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) “has come a long way” and might support the bill. He sharply criticized Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as “an angry man” who was “lousy at his job” and whom he blamed for historically giving money to Democrats and obstructing border wall funding.
Acting DNI: Bill Pulte and Jake Leighton
Asked whether he intends to keep Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, and whether concerns about Pulte’s lack of intelligence experience are valid, Trump was dismissive:
“But he’s intelligent, unlike a lot of other people… He’s running it for a short while while we get a very talented person, Jake Leighton, in.”
Trump described Jake Leighton as having “incredible talent” — former head of the Southern District of New York, former head of the SEC, and formerly at “Solomon and Bromwell” (likely a reference to the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell). He described Pulte’s interim performance at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as having created roughly “$1 trillion” in value.
Everyday Americans in Policymaking
Q: How important is it to listen to everyday Americans in policymaking?
Trump: “These people built the country. Not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country.”
His answer pivoted to a lengthy and inflammatory attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whom he accused of fraud and corruption. He said she “should be thrown out of the country” and claimed “I won Minnesota three times, easily.” He attacked Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota’s attorney general as “corrupt.”
⚠️ FACT CHECK — False: Trump did not win Minnesota in 2024. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972. Trump also did not win Minnesota in 2016 or 2020. (Note: these are settled election records available from each state’s official election authority.)
Context note: Rep. Ilhan Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen and a sitting member of Congress. Constitutional protections apply to citizens regardless of national origin. Calls to “throw out” a sitting congressional member would face significant First Amendment and due process barriers.
Fertilizer and Farmer Aid
The president of the Kentucky Farm Bureau had testified to Congress a month prior that fertilizer pricing was in crisis, worsened by the Iran war. A reporter relayed that farmers were calling for federal aid.
Trump: “I gave the farmers $28 billion in my first term… I’m looking at doing a form of help because of fertilizer. But fertilizer is going to come way down as soon as this is over.” He attributed much of the fertilizer supply problem to Ukraine, saying the war’s end “is now going to come down from Ukraine.”
Georgia Senate Runoff
Asked why he hasn’t endorsed in the upcoming Georgia U.S. Senate runoff between two Republicans, Trump suggested he might do so. He acknowledged a prior Georgia endorsement had gone to a candidate who “was much less Trump than the other man that won” — an implicit admission that his endorsement had not aligned with the strongest MAGA-aligned candidate. He said if he had received “proper information,” he would have endorsed differently.
He also addressed a question about Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA), expressing mild regret over that endorsement: “The man running against him was all Trump… The other person was much more Trump.”
Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Race
Asked how he’d respond if Janice Lewis-George, described as running a “Zohran Mamdani-style” socialist campaign, won the D.C. Democratic primary:
Trump: “Well, I wouldn’t like it. And maybe we’d take back Washington and run it on a federal basis.”
He then pivoted to tout improvements in D.C., including restored fountains and reduced crime: “We’re 92 percent down on crime. Think of it.”
⚠️ FACT CHECK — Misleading/Exaggerated: Crime in Washington, D.C., has dropped substantially — but not 92 percent. According to D.C. Metropolitan Police Department data and reporting by Axios: overall violent crime fell 29 percent in 2025 versus 2024, and homicides fell 32 percent in that period. In early 2026, homicides had dropped by roughly half compared to the same period in 2025. The cumulative improvement since the 2023 crime peak is significant but nowhere near 92 percent overall. Criminologists also note that crime was already falling in D.C. before Trump’s federal takeover, and nationwide declines complicate attributing the drop to any single policy. (Axios, 2026; CBC News, 2026.)
He made similar claims about Memphis (“74 percent reduction in crime”) and New Orleans (“78 percent reduction in crime”), saying the “safest Mardi Gras they’ve ever had” was a direct result of federal intervention.
Notable Exchanges and Revealing Moments
“Fisherpeople”: A light moment erupted when Trump began philosophizing about gender-neutral terminology for fishermen. After learning that the gender-neutral term “fisher” is preferred in some policy circles, he asked “how about fisherpeople?” to laughter. When an attendee reported that most women in the industry identify as “fishermen” because they “do the work of a man,” Trump replied: “Wow. Be careful. That might be the end of your career.”
The autopen jab: Before signing the proclamation, Trump said pointedly: “No autopen, I don’t want an autopen,” referencing the ongoing Republican claim that President Biden had used an autopen device to sign official documents. “Ninety-four percent signed by an autopen, can you believe it?” he said. “The only one that was definitely signed by him… was his son. That was the only one. You could tell, you know why? Because the signature was horrible.”
“He’s a Field Marshal”: Trump’s spontaneous attempt to upgrade Pakistan’s Army Chief from “General” to “Field Marshal” drew no pushback in the room, though the latter is not a title General Munir currently holds.
The ships reveal: Trump’s disclosure that U.S. forces had been conducting covert ship operations through the Strait of Hormuz for months — and that he could remember specific nightly numbers (25, 22, 21, 26, 18, 14) — was a striking blend of genuine intelligence revelation and self-congratulatory detail.
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“President Donald J. Trump Signs a Proclamation.” Political Transcript Wire, VIQ Solutions Inc., 11 June 2026. ProQuest, www.proquest.com/usnews/wire-feeds/president-donald-j-trump-signsproclamation/docview/3351172014/sem-2?accountid=46614.