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Published On: Tue, Mar 17th, 2026

Trump on Kent Resignation: “It’s A Good Thing That He’s Out Because He Said That Iran Was Not A Threat”

President Donald Trump dismissed Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent as “weak on security” after his resignation over his opposition to the Iran war.

REPORTER: Your Director of National Counterterrorism resigned today. He can’t support your conflict with Iran. What’s your reaction to that? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn’t know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. But when I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. And many people, many of the greatest military scholars are saying for years that presidents should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon. They were if we didn’t do the attack or if I’ll go a step further, if I didn’t terminate the Iran nuclear deal given to us, one of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein Obama. Remember when they said Boeing 757 is over there loaded with cash, hundreds of millions of dollars. You would have been very happy. This was a wonderful. They said hundreds of millions. People forget that. Does anybody remember? Right. You remember hundreds of millions of dollars in a Boeing 757. I think that two of them loaded. They took the seats out and they put cash. And it was so much that there wasn’t a bank in Virginia, Maryland or D.C. that had any money left. They stripped them of all their money, put it into place, sent it to Iran almost as ransom. That’s not going to happen with Trump. And nobody ever did anything about it. Nobody ever said anything. Can you imagine if I did that? So they’ve been a threat for a long time, but they’ve really been a threat. If if I didn’t terminate Obama’s horrible deal that he made, the Iran nuclear deal, you would have had a nuclear war four years ago. You would have had you would have had nuclear holocaust and you would have had it again if we didn’t bomb the site. So when somebody is working with us that says they didn’t think Iran was a threat, we don’t want those people because and there are some people, I guess I would say that, but they’re not smart people or they’re not savvy people. Iran was a tremendous threat. And virtually every NATO nation and this is the thing. If they told me it wasn’t a threat and therefore they don’t want to help. But when they say it was a threat and it was a major threat, every one of them, I think every one of them, I don’t know of one that said they’re not a threat. But when they say it was a threat, but we’re not going to help, I think they’re very foolish.


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