Trump Confronted By Reporter On Regime Change Rant Aboard Air Force One
President Donald Trump was confronted aboard Air Force One about his shocking social media post floating “regime change” in Iran, and completely reversed course.
A major subplot of the U.S.-Iran-Israel war was Trump’s controversial message encouraging regime change after Vance and others had seemed to rule that out as a policy goal.
Before the ceasefire that’s currently in place, the president wrote on Sunday that “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”
Trump emerged into the press cabin on Tuesday during the flight to the NATO summit in the Netherlands to take questions from reporters, and was confronted about that rant now that hostilities have ceased.
The president claimed he never wanted regime change, and believes that the regime he just floated the overthrow of will “do a great job,” and renewed his attacks on CNN and MSNBC for their displeasing coverage of the strikes:
REUTERS CORRESPONDENT JEFF MASON: Can you clarify what you meant when you mentioned regime change in your Truth Social post the other night?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Which?
REUTERS CORRESPONDENT JEFF MASON: Regime change. Do you want to see regime change in Iran?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No. If there was, there was. But, no, I don’t want it. I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos. And ideally, we don’t to see so much chaos, so we’ll see how it does.
You know, the Iranians are very good traders, very good business people, and they got a lot of oil. They should be fine. They should able to rebuild and do a good job.
They’re never going to have nuclear, but other than that, they should do a great job, which is exactly why I’ve been saying for years, you cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon, but we’re going to be with– where’s Marco?
I think Marco’s here some place. You know our great secretary of state.
But we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. They won’t have a nuclear weapon and I will tell you the last thing on their minds is nuclear weapons. They don’t even want to think about nuclear.
And our B-2 pilots made this all possible. They had a magnificent hit in the dark of night with no moon, No light, no nothing. They hit the target perfectly, wiped it out, and the press is very disrespectful.
I saw CNN fake news going, “Well, maybe it wasn’t a perfect hit.”.
It was perfect. They said maybe it did destroy it. We agree, it did destroye it, but maybe it could have destroyed it more.
No, no, it couldn’t have destroyed more. Every one hit, and it’s very disrespectful to those great geniuses and patriots that flew those planes through tremendous danger.
So CNN and MSDNC are disgraced, and so are the others. I mean, they’re pretty much all in disgrace.
But it’s an amazing period of time. Now we’re going to NATO, and we’ll get a new set of problems. We’ll solve a new sort of problems.
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