President Donald Trump gave a surprising answer when Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked him, “When are you going to know when (the Iran war is) over?”
As the second week of the Iran war comes to an end, 13 U.S. service members have died, a preliminary military investigation found that the U.S. is responsible for the strike on an elementary school that killed at least 160 children, and attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have caused oil prices to rise sharply and caused unrest in the stock market.
Trump and his administration have also faced a lot of criticism for sending out mixed messages about the Iran war.
Some of these messages came only from Trump, and in some cases, they were even part of the same sentence.
The president gave an interview to Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show that aired Thursday morning.
It featured a number of newsworthy and interesting exchanges, many of which focused on the war.
After Trump again called the war a “little excursion,” Kilmeade asked him a question that got a response that sounded like it came from a jazz musician:
KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it’s over?
TRUMP: When I feel it.
KILMEADE: OK.
TRUMP: When I feel it in my bones.
KILMEADE: Will you ask anybody in particular? Would that be some of these, a joint decision?
TRUMP: Well, I deal with people. I have great people.
KILMEADE: Yeah.
TRUMP: I have General Raizin Caine. I have Pete. Pete’s turned out to be a star. Marco’s great. J.D. I’ve got all good people. I’ve got — we’ve got a great group.
KILMEADE: So you — let’s talk about, if I can, looking back in history, George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, two smart guys disagreed in front of Reagan. Rumsfeld and Colin Powell disagreed in front of George W. Bush.
In your cabinet, with the vice president, secretary of state, what is it like, what are the dynamics when you have a big decision like Iran or Venezuela? Are people speaking up and speaking their minds even if —
TRUMP: They do. I let them speak their mind, and they do. And we have some differences, but they — they never end up being much. I convince them all to let’s do it my way.
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