Donald Trump Stuns With 'Maybe We Shouldn't Even Be There' Admission About Iran War

"Sorry, what was that?" one critic hit back at the president on social media.

Donald Trump left critics in disbelief on Sunday with a remark about his Iran war during a press huddle on board Air Force One.

The president was discussing his call for other countries to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the vital — and currently effectively shut — waterway off Iran through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes.

Asked how quickly those deployments would happen, Trump said it would “start immediately,” with different countries offering different forms of assistance, including minesweeper boats.

Trump: You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all pic.twitter.com/eksmDTpT3Y— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

Trump: You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all pic.twitter.com/eksmDTpT3Y

He later said: “So, we need, I, I would really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory, it’s the place from which they get their energy and they should come and they should help us protect it.”

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