The 79-year-old Republican has lengthy campaigned towards many years of US navy entanglements within the Center East, however ordered a large-scale war against Iran beginning Saturday.
Whereas thus far the assault has targeted completely on aerial assaults by missiles and bombs, Trump refused to rule out sending floor troops – one thing far riskier by way of doable casualties.
“I haven’t got the yips with respect to boots on the bottom,” Trump mentioned, utilizing a golf time period for anxiousness. “Each president says, ‘There will likely be no boots on the bottom.’ I do not say it.”
“I say ‘most likely do not want them,’ (or) ‘in the event that they have been obligatory,'” he instructed the New York Submit in considered one of quite a few temporary interviews he has given since launching the Iran operation.
Trump additionally spoke to CNN on Monday, flagging what he mentioned can be an escalation within the assault on Iran.
“We have not even began hitting them laborious. The massive wave hasn’t even occurred,” he instructed CNN, with out elaborating. “The massive one is coming quickly.”
