President Donald Trump has announced that Operation Epic Fury is "nearing completion" as the military operation against Iran approaches its fifth week. During his address to the nation Wednesday night, Trump recapped the United States' progress in the region, aiming to reassure Americans that the conflict would soon draw to a close. Notably, Trump did not…
Markets sink after president offers little detail on how he intends to wind down conflict over next two to three weeksMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump used a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening to declare the month-long war in Iran a success “nearing completion”, despite a spiraling conflict that has caused economic turmoil…
The President updated the nation on the ongoing military conflict, which is both unpopular among and costly to Americans.
Trump's first televised address of the conflict with Iran did little to quell uneasy markets.
President Trump said the U.S. war in Iran was nearing its end during a primetime address to the nation on Wednesday, but details about the operation’s path forward remain vague as his poll numbers slump and gas prices rise. In a televised address from the Cross Hall at the White House that lasted less than…
In a set piece that critics and loyalists alike expected to come more than a month earlier, President Trump finally gave a prime-time address Wednesday laying out his vision for the U.S. military campaign in Iran.
THE SPEECH: President Donald Trump’s address to the nation at the one-month mark of the Iran war was not his trademark high-energy stemwinder. Instead, the 18-and-a-half-minute speech, largely read from a teleprompter, was a measured recitation of many of the talking points Trump made over the past weeks, including passages he read almost verbatim from…
President Trump sought to assure Americans that the conflict with Iran would be brief compared to other wars in U.S. history and insisted that gas prices would go down quickly. Nancy Cordes reports.
“Thanks to the progress we’ve made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said.
