What, Exactly, Did Trump Say About Iran Taking Out Los Angeles and San Diego?
President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.

We appear to be entering a new era, in which political desperation at home leads to increasingly unhinged threats abroadDonald Trump was in Nebraska on Monday, and though his long rally speech had elements of a performance, this was no Bruce Springsteen album. He offered another dark meditation on a world spiraling out of control, one in which the…
President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.
The president recast his earlier incendiary statements at a San Antonio rally meant to galvanize voters behind Texas Republicans ahead of the midterms.
California leaders blasted President Trump after he said during a Monday rally about Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."The big picture: The backlash — and the White House's insistence that Trump was misunderstood — underscored the ambiguity of his meandering speech: An argument that the war was worth enduring to protect…
Rocker Jack White called President Donald Trump the "worst American of all time" after he said Iran could "take out" Los Angeles or San Diego at a recent rally.
California leaders have criticized President Donald Trump after remarks on Monday that were interpreted by his opponents as a suggestion that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego. Trump made the remarks at a Republican rally in Nebraska while defending his administration’s war with Iran and arguing that the conflict was necessary to…
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) said she was “horrified” by President Trump’s remark at a recent campaign rally that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego, saying a president should not speak of major U.S. cities as a potential cost of war. Trump defended the economic fallout from the Middle East conflict…
The White House said Trump was warning of the risk a nuclear Iran with his comments at a Nebraska rally.