Trump Calls Iran “A Little Excursion” Again: It Will “Keep Us Out Of A War”
On Wednesday, while touring a factory in Ohio, President Trump once again referred to the Iran War as a “little excursion,” this time adding it has “turned out easier than I thought.”
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think the one-year depreciation is great. One-year expensing, everyone loves it. And we did a little excursion. We had to take this little couple of weeks, few weeks of excursion. But it’s been incredible. Our military is unbelievable, the job they’re doing. I would say, to put it mildly, way ahead of schedule. We’ve knocked out their Navy, their military in all forms. We’ve knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership, twice. We’ve knocked out twice their leadership. And now they have a new group coming up. Let’s see what happens to them. But 47 bad years we suffered with them, not only us, the rest of the world. And we’re doing our job. So we had to take an excursion. But it’s doing well. The market’s holding up well. I figured we’d be hit a little bit, but we were hit probably less than I thought. And we’ll be back on track in a pretty short while. Prices are coming down very substantially. Oil will be coming down. That’s just a matter of war that happens. You can almost predict it. I would say it went up a little bit less than we thought. It’s going to come down more than anybody understands. Do you have any questions, Peter? PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS: Yes. You just said it is a little excursion, and you said it is a war. So which one is it? TRUMP: Well, it’s both. It’s both. It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war. And the war is going to be- I mean, for them, it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought. But think of it. They had thousands of missiles, 7,000, 8,000 missiles. We got many of them before they got to launch. They have drones all over the place. We got many. Now we’re knocking out the drone plants, as you know, going fast. They started talking about mines. So we hit 28 mine ships as of this moment, 28, like using the same weapon, the exact same weapon that we use against the drug dealers in the water. We have-as an example, we had tremendous drugs pouring in through the water, through the sea. And now we have almost none. It’s down 97 percent through water. Now we’ll do it through land. The land is easier than water.
