Washington April 6, (dpa/GNA) – US President Donald Trump, on Monday acknowledged that
the American people would like the United States to “come home from Iran.”
“Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home,” Trump said at an
Easter event at the White House.
He added that “if I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil, because it’s
there for the taking. There’s not a thing they can do about it.”
Trump said that if it were up to him, he would take the oil, keep it and “make plenty of
money.” He said that he would also take care of the people of Iran much better than they
have been taken care of, but that he also wanted to make the people of the United States
happy.
He said US forces were “obliterating Iran”, and he hated to do this. But Trump also
warned that if they did not want to “say uncle” – to submit – “they’ll have no bridges,
they’ll have no power plants.”
Turning to anti-government protests that began in Iran at the end of December, he said:
“It’s been horrible. They’ve killed 45,000 people as of a month and a half ago, 45,000
protesters. We don’t do that,” Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly spoken of seizing Iran’s oil since the current war began on February
28, with US and Israeli bombing of Iranian leaders and military installations.
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