Trump Compares Iran Strike to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Rant Denouncing Media
President Donald Trump brought up the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima while touting the United States’ strikes on Iran nuclear facilities and blasting the media over a report downplaying the effectiveness of the attack.
While speaking at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, Trump said the strikes on Iran set back their nuclear capabilities “for many years to come.” Israel released an assessment agreeing with Trump’s statement, but an explosive report from The New York Times cast doubt on the success of the mission.
According to the report, which is based on hree sources familiar with the early analysis, the use of more than a dozen bunker-busting GBU-57 bombs left most centrifuges “intact” and did not take out Iran’s uranium stockpile. Another source told CNN that the strikes set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
Trump previously blasted the report as “fake news” and he took aim at it again on Wednesday while speaking at his press conference, excoriating the “failing” New York Times and accusing CNN of simply “wasting time.”
“I just want to thank our pilots. You know, they were maligned and treated very bad, demeaned by fake news CNN, which is back there, believe it or not, wasting time, wasting, nobody’s watching them. So they just waste a lot of time, wasting my time. And The New York Times, they put out a story that, ‘well, maybe they were hit, but it wasn’t bad.’ Well, it was so bad that they ended the war. It ended the war,” Trump said.
The president previously announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel after the strikes, but he lashed out at both Iran and Israel, accusing both of breaking it shortly after the announcement with separate strikes.
On Wednesday, Trump threw out a comparison between the Iran strikes and atomic bombs being dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.
“If you look at Hiroshima, if you look at Nagasaki, you know, that ended a war too. This ended a War in a different way, but it was so devastating,” the president said.
Trump claimed the sites targeted were “obliterated” and he cast doubt on uranium being moved before the strikes.
“What bothered me about these reports, with fake reports put out by The New York Times, failing, I call it the failing New York times because it’s doing terribly, without me it would be doing no business at all, but, and by fake news CNN and MSDNC, all of these terrible people, you know, they have no credibility,” he said.
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