President Donald Trump careened wildly off script at a NATO press conference in the Netherlands on Tuesday, earlier this week, to praise his "great victory" in Iran and to air his grievances with the U.S. news media for "maligning" U.S. troops.
"It's so, so sad that that whole thing had to go," Trump said of Iran's nuclear facilities, "but I just want to thank our pilots. You know, they were maligned and treated very bad, demeaned by fake news CNN, which is back there, believe it or not, wasting time, wasting — nobody's watching them. So, they're just wasting a lot of time, wasting my time. And The New York Times, they put out a story that, 'Well, maybe they were hit, but it wasn't bad.' Well, it was so bad that they ended the war. It ended the war."
Trump compared his airstrikes to the nuclear bombings of Japan that ended World War II. Watch the video below for a summary:
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