Tuesday, March, 3 2026 - US President Donald Trump has said he’s not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary.”
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground —
like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say
it,” Trump told The Post on Monday after launching strikes to decapitate Iran’s
military and political leadership. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if
they were necessary.'”
Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday that he estimated the
war would last “four weeks or so,” but hinted to The Post on Monday that that
timeframe could be shortened.
“It’s going to go pretty quickly,” he said. “We’re right on
schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of leadership — 49 killed — and that
was, you know, going to take, we figured, at least four weeks, and we did it in
one day.”
“We’ll take it out. Whatever. It’s like everything else,
we’ll take it out,” Trump said.
The president said he made the final decision to strike
“after the final talks” Thursday in Geneva — in part because of intelligence
that Iran was surreptitiously resuming work on nuclear projects.
“We had very serious negotiations, and they were there, and
then they pulled back,” he said.
“They wanted to make a nuclear weapon, so we destroyed them
completely, but we found they were in a totally different site — totally
different — because the sites that we took out were permanent. They tried to
use them, but they were totally, as I said correctly before, obliterated,
right? So then we found them working on a totally different area, a totally
different site, in order to make a nuclear weapon through enrichment — so it
was just time.”
“I said, ‘Let’s go.’”
Trump insisted that he believes he did “the right thing” and
that most Americans support him — despite initial polling indicating otherwise
— arguing that allowing “crazy people” to acquire a nuclear weapon would have
been worse than even a regional conflict.
“I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care
about polling. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This
should have been done a long time ago,” Trump said.
“I don’t think the polling is low,” he went on. “Look,
whether polling is low or not, I think the polling is probably fine. But it’s
not a question of polling. You cannot let Iran, who’s a nation that has been
run by crazy people, have a nuclear weapon.
“I think people are very impressed with what is happening,
actually,” Trump insisted. “I think it’s a silent — if you did a real poll, the
silent poll — and it’s like a silent majority.”
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