President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Miami, FL, Mar. 7, 2026

I hope they're not.

And do you see any evidence?

We don't know, but it's not doing very well if they are. It's not helping much. If you take a look at what's happened to Iran in the last week, if they're getting information, it's not helping them much.

What would it mean to you if they were? I mean, even if it's not helping the Iranians particularly much, it's still involving themselves in a conflict that they're not directly...

We'd say we do it against them, wouldn't they, wouldn't they say that? We do it against them. I don't know, look, they can give all the information that they want, but the people they're sending it to are overwhelmed. Russia would be overwhelmed too. Anybody would be overwhelmed. We have the greatest military on earth and I built it in my first term, and unfortunately, I'm forced to use it now. But when you look at what we did with Venezuela, when you look at what we did with the B-2 bombers, that was a very big moment because Iran was going to have a nuclear weapon within two or three weeks, and that stopped it and it stopped it cold. And you ask about maybe going back and getting that, something could happen at the right time.

Is Iran running out of missiles and drones, or do you expect those counterattacks to continue with that...?

Not only that, manufacturing capability also. We've hit the manufacturing very hard. They're at about 9% of what they sent out in the first two days and we think that's because they don't have that much. We've also knocked out about 70% of the rocket, of the launchers. The launchers are a big deal. Very hard to get, very expensive. You want to talk about leverage. Every passing day, we have more and more leverage because we have more and more capabilities. We're hitting them harder and harder and they have less of an ability to defend themselves. So we're pressing the offensive every single day, creating all the leverage the President needs for the outcome he wants.

So it sounds like you think they're running out of both the drones and the missiles...

I think when you look, I mean they're sending in much less, much less drones. They're being decimated. Now, you know, at some point I don't think there'll be anybody left to maybe to say, we surrender, but they're being decimated. And when you look also, they all of a sudden they apologized to the Middle Eastern states that they shot at them. I was very surprised to see they did that, but you mark that down as a victory for us and for the Middle Eastern states who are really friends of ours. But I guess they're not going to be shooting at them anymore, they apologized. And we'll see what happens, but that's a big loss. That's a surrender right there. I called it a surrender tonight. When they apologized and said they're not shooting at them anymore, that's really a surrender to those states and to us. Okay, anything else?

Sir, some Iranians are concerned that the Kurds will carve out kind of an autonomous region as they did in Syria and Iraq...

We're not having, we're not looking to the Kurds going in. We're very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex than it already is. No. You rule that out? I have ruled it out. I don't want the Kurds going in. I don't want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed. We've had a good relationship. They're willing to go in, but we really, I've told them I don't want them to go in.

And do you think the map of Iran will look the same after this is all done?

That I can't tell you. Probably not.

Do you know how many shipping companies have taken the US up on its offer of insurance to go through the Strait of Hormuz?

Yeah, we have it set up. We have a great insurance and reinsurance system, but I don't... Sir, when this ends, we're going to have a much safer world, you know that. So, you know, this is a minor excursion, but when this ends, we're going to have a much safer world and we will have gotten rid of a lot of sick and demented people, the leadership. So we got rid of the one leadership, then we got rid of the second level of leadership, now they're on their third or fourth level of leadership and they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who they are. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.