Trump treats the Baghdadi raid like a TV show.
- Says US forces killed him “in grand style”
- “I got to watch much of it”
- says Baghdadi “died like a dog,” “as a coward running and crying,” “spent his last moments in utter fear,” “whimpering and crying and screaming”
- Says US forces killed him “in grand style”
- “I got to watch much of it”
- says Baghdadi “died like a dog,” “as a coward running and crying,” “spent his last moments in utter fear,” “whimpering and crying and screaming”
Question from reporter after the speech: "How did you watch this?"
Trump: "Absolutely perfect. As though you were watching a movie."
Trump: "Absolutely perfect. As though you were watching a movie."
“These people are very smart," Trump says of ISIS. "They’re very technically brilliant. You know, they use the internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than Donald Trump.”
"We are leaving soldiers to secure the oil. And we may have to fight for the oil," says Trump. "Maybe somebody else wants the oil, in which case they have a hell of a fight.”
“It was much easier dealing with the Kurds after they went through three days of fighting,” says Trump. Without that beating, they wouldn’t have accepted “moving over” from the border. Turkey “wanted that safe zone for many years. I’m glad I was able to help them get it."
“The oil is so valuable,” says Trump. “We should be able to take some also. And what I intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal with an Exxon Mobil, or one of our great companies, to go in there and do it properly.”
“If you read about the history of Donald Trump," says the president, "I always used to say … If they’re going into Iraq, 'Keep the oil.' They never did." If we had done that, he says, Iraq "would be owing us a lot of money. They would be treating us much differently."
Trump says "I will secure the oil," since there's "tremendous money involved." Iraq "discriminates against America in oil leases," he says. "We go in, we lose thousands of lives, spend trillions of dollars, and our companies don't even have an advantage in getting the oil leases"
