President Donald Trump said Saturday that no matter what happens in the peace talks with Iran, “we win.”
The president spoke with reporters outside the White House where he provided an update on the U.S.-Iran deal talks in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Jared Kushner, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff spent the day meeting with Iranian officials to negotiate a ceasefire and the reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“I’m getting a lot of reports. They’ve been meeting for many hours, as you probably have noticed,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens. Look, regardless, we win. Regardless what happens, we win. We’ve totally defeated that country, and so let’s see what happens. Maybe they make a deal, maybe they don’t. It doesn’t matter. From the standpoint of America, we win.”
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“One other thing that’s happening, is that boats are sailing up and they’re heading out to our country. Big, beautiful tankers,” Trump continued. “And we’re loading them up with oil and gas and everything else. It’s a pretty beautiful thing to see.”
Trump continued with his victory speech of sorts.
“We win, regardless. We’ve defeated them militarily. They’ve dropped a couple of water mines, they call them water mines, in the boat. We’ve defeated all of their water boats, too. Their navy has got 158 ships, they have 28 water droppers, mine droppers, they call them. All of them are sunk,” Trump said. “They probably have a couple of mines in the water. We have mine sweepers out there. We’re sweeping the strait. In addition to that we’re negotiating.”
“Whether we make a deal or not, it makes no difference to me and the reason is because we’ve won, whether you listen to the fake news or not.
You know, it’s amazing. Their credibility is down to 13% — the media. Credibility down to 13%. Think of it: we defeated their navy, we defeated their air force. we defeated their anti-aircraft, we defeated their radar, we defeated their leaders. Their leaders are all dead,” Trump said.
“And now, all we do is we’ll open up the strait even thought we don’t use it. Because we have a lot of other countries in the world that do use it that are, either afraid or weak or cheap. I don’t know what it is. But, we were not helped by NATO, that I can tell you,” he continued.
The president also criticized an NBC reporter at the media conference.
“You don’t know anything. Who are you with? ABC?” Trump asked.
When the reporter answered, “NBC,” Trump said, “Well, that’s fake news. We win no matter what. 158 ships are underwater. All of their minesweepers. They call them minedroppers.”
