U.S. President Donald Trump on the 2nd (local time) argued for the legitimacy of the war, saying the expense of entering the Iran war was only “peanuts.”
U.S. President Donald Trump./Courtesy of Yonhap News
On a phone interview with Fox News, a pro-Trump broadcaster, late that night, a day before Election Day for the midterms, President Trump criticized the “nuclear deal” (JCPOA) the United States and Iran signed under former President Barack Obama as “a path for Iran to secure nuclear weapons,” and said this.
He said that even though the U.S. economy was booming when the decision was made to launch military operations against Iran, “I told aides we had to make a small detour and take a short journey to Iran,” stressing, “We could not leave Iran, a wicked nation, alone. If we cannot tolerate them having nuclear weapons, we will never allow it.”
In particular, President Trump said that since he launched his second-term administration on Jan. 20 last year, he has created $25 trillion (about 3,350 trillion won) in wealth, adding, “Compared with the money we have earned, this (the Iran war expense) is peanuts.”
He described signing a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland to strengthen the U.S. military’s presence in Greenland as having “obtained Greenland,” and claimed it is “worth $5 trillion.”
President Trump said there is no full-scale military exchange with Iran at present, noting, “We are only talking. This is not a war. This is a ‘soft war’ (a non-military war).”
He also said, “We may now have to go to Pickaxe Mountain (suspected of being Iran’s secret nuclear facility), but it’s nothing. We can do it within an hour.”
President Trump encouraged his base to vote, saying this midterm election is “in a way no different from me actually running as a candidate. If (the Republicans lose), all the accomplishments we achieved will be erased,” and “If people on our side vote, we will win by a landslide.”
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