In-town pool report #13 - Trump on Iran
- From
- Abigail Hauslohner
- Sent
- Wednesday, September 2, 2026 7:32 PM
POTUS:
Re: last night’s strikes on Iran: “We knocked out a lot.”
Re: the war: “And we're doing that not for any other reason, I mean, or at least 99 percent, we’re doing it to help the Middle East. We're doing it to help Israel. We're doing it to help ourselves because after they annihilate Israel, which they would have done very gladly, and then the Middle East, then they come after Europe and they come after some of our cities.”
“We now control the Hormuz Strait, and we have many boats going through that every day, every night. Many, many boats loaded up with oil.”
“I don't want to speak too bravely, too foolishly, but so far they've done very little to be able to stop it. We're going to keep it that way.”
“No, they're not doing well at all, and so it's just a question of time. Just a question of time.”
Abigail Hauslohner
Financial Times
US-Middle East Foreign Affairs Correspondent