Donald Trump Stuns With ‘Maybe We Shouldn’t Even Be There’ Admission About Iran War
Donald Trump cast doubt on critics when he made a statement about the Iran war at a press conference aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
The President discussed his own topic call to other countries Sending ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s vital and now effectively closed waterway through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes.
Asked how quickly these deployments would occur, Trump said it would “begin immediately,” with different countries offering different forms of assistance, including minesweeper boats.
He later said: “So, I, I really demand that these countries come and protect their own territory, because this is their territory, this is where they get their energy from, and they need to come and help us protect that.”
Then came the following sentence, which quickly provoked a reaction on the Internet:
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“You might even say we shouldn’t be there because we don’t need it.”
“We have too much oil,” Trump said. “We were twice the number one producer anywhere in the world, at least twice as much. Now I think it’s much higher. But we do it. We do it almost habitually, but we also do it for some of our very good allies in the Middle East.”
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