Donald Trump said that Pete Hegseth did not want the Iran war to be “settled” during Markwayne Mullin’s swearing-in ceremony at the Oval Office. The President stated that the Defense Secretary might be “disappointed” that the war could be reaching its end soon.
Donald Trump talks about Pete Hegseth and Iran War
While speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of Markwayne Mullin as the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Donald Trump said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not want the Iran war to be “settled.” The remark comes amid reported ongoing “negotiations” to end the conflict.
“You know, the only two people that were quite disappointed, I don’t want to say this, but I have to,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. He continued, “I said, ‘Pete and General Razin Caine, I think this thing is going to be settled very soon,’ and they go, ‘Oh, that’s too bad.’” The President then said, “Pete didn’t want it to be settled (via CNBC-TV18).”
Speaking to reporters, Trump declared, “I don’t like to say this. We’ve won this. This war has been won… It’s like we’re not winning a war where they have no Navy, and they have no Air Force, and they have no nothing. And we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can’t do a thing about it.”
The President also asked Hegseth, “Pete, do you want to give about a three-minute statement on how we’re doing in this, as I call it, military operation?”
The Defense Secretary then took the podium and stated, “Never in history has a modern military, Iran had a modern military, a modern Navy, a modern Air Force, modern air defences, leadership, massive bunker. Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower.”
