President Donald Trump said Saturday that the world is seeing how powerful the U.S. military is during the war with Iran.
“Everyone is seeing the dominance of the American military equipment all over the planet. And you see it now with Iran. We took over the Hormuz Strait. We cleared out all the mines,” Trump said while visiting Ireland.
“Even I said, ‘well, how come they’re not shooting down our minesweepers?’ ‘Sir, these minesweepers are underwater. They work underwater at all times,’” Trump continued. “I say, ‘why do you do that?’ ‘Well, generally speaking, when there’s mines, there’s a lot of hostility outside.’ You know, I said ‘that makes sense, right’? In other words, if there are mines in some water way, generally speaking, when you see there are mines or people shooting at you. So if you’re underwater, they don’t know you’re there.”
“But we knocked out and we took out every mine. There’s no mines in there, no nothing,” the president added.
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