Trump is speaking to reporters at the White House, and has just been asked how long he is willing to wait for a response from Iran about a peace deal.
“Don’t rush me,” he said before launching into an attack of reporters questioning the US’ plans for the war.
“You know, guys like you, you want to say, oh, so we were in Vietnam, like for 18 years. We were in Iraq for many, many years … We were four and a half, almost five years in World War Two. We were in the Korean War for seven years. I’ve been doing this for six weeks, and we’re [saying] their military is totally defeated,” Trump said.
He went on to repeat claims that the military operation would be completed “very quickly” – a claim he has repeated since the first week of the war.
“I don’t want to put that kind of a timetable on it, but it’ll go pretty quickly, and we’ll have the strait opened up now.”
