President Donald Trump boasted that the Middle East is “very lucky” that he’s president after the U.S. and Israel joined forces to wage an ongoing attack on Iran.
The commander in chief made the comment at the Republican Issues Conference on Monday after remarking that the U.S. has “already won in many ways” in Iran, but hasn’t “won enough” — a comment a reporter later asked Trump to clarify.
“What do you consider enough? What’s your baseline?” the reporter asked Trump, prompting his lengthy, scattered response.
“Where they’re not going to be starting the following day to develop a nuclear weapon,” Trump began. “Where they’ll look at that man and some other people from the administration and say, ‘All right, we’re not going to do it.’ They were not willing to say that. And when Steve called up and he said that to me, I said, ‘Well, here we go. Let’s do it the hard way.’”
The president was probably referring to Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East.
