President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. is ‘doing very well’ in Iran, nearly a week after the military coordinated with Israel on airstrikes in Tehran that left its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dead.<\/p>\n
‘Somebody said, \u2018How would you score it from zero to 10?\u2019 I said, \u2018I’d give it a 12 to a 15.\u2019 Their army is gone. Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone,’ Trump said. ‘Two sets of their leaders.’<\/p>\n
The president made the remarks after Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked at the end of a White House college sports roundtable what was motivating Trump to hold the roundtable ‘because there is a lot of other stuff going on in the world.’<\/p>\n
‘That\u2019s right,’ Trump agreed, adding that Iran\u2019s air force has been ‘wiped out entirely. Think of it. They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that, they’re doing very well.’<\/p>\n
‘Our military is doing phenomenally,’ he said. ‘The situation with a very bad and very sick group of leaders who were killing a lot of people. A lot of our people were being killed or were being maimed. \u2026 And we had a choice. We could take it and go on like that for years or do something about it. And we did something about it.’<\/p>\n
Trump added that ‘people are very impressed with our military, and they admire our military with what happened in Venezuela, what’s happening now, what’s happened with the B-2 bombers before this, where they took out the nuclear capability or potential of Iran.<\/p>\n
‘I think we’re, right now, we’re a country that’s more respected than we’ve ever been respected before.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Doocy also told the president earlier, ‘It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans now.’<\/p>\n
‘That’s an easy problem compared to what we’re doing here,’ Trump said, referring to college sports, calling it a ‘stupid question to be asking at this time. We’re talking about something else.’<\/p>\n