President Trump on Monday called the conflict in Iran a “mini war” at an event celebrating small businesses. <\/p>\n
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to make sure we have the right people leading this country. Like, we have a war right now. And we’re to, like, what, six weeks? They said, well, it’s taking so long. We were in Vietnam 19 years. We were in Iraq for many years, 10 years, 12 years. We’re in all these different wars. Korea, seven years. I won’t even mention World War II. That’s a big baby. But you have the wrong person up here; you’ll be in World War Three. As sure as you’re sitting there, you have the wrong person up there. It’s nasty and tricky. It’s tricky out there. We have to have the right people and they have to be sharp and they have to be smart. Because one thing about your business is small businesses are great. But if you don’t have the platform, meaning the country, meaning the right principles, the right everything. Our country is booming now, despite the fact that we’re in a — I call it a mini war, because that’s all they are. They don’t have a navy anymore. Think of it. They had 159 ships. How many do they have left, Kelly [Loeffler]? They had a 159. Take a guess. She’s very smart. Zero. 159 ships in the first two weeks. 159 ships. I actually got very upset. I said, how quality were the ships? They were very good. I said, why didn’t you just take the ship? Why do you have to send it to the bottom of the sea? We could have had — and let’s say out of the 159, we could have taken 59. We would have 59. But they like they’d rather blow them up than save them. I would have preferred saving them. But these are minor details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n