President Trump Speak on the War by CNBC

President Donald Trump is addressing the nation about the war against Iran, a pivotal moment at home and abroad as he seeks to amass extraordinary power to prosecute the military operation and his second-term agenda. Trump started the day as the first sitting president to show up for a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, a stunning reach of the executive into the affairs of the judicial branch. He is preparing to end it with his first primetime address from the White House about a war he launched on his own, bulldozing past Congress. On an early spring night when many Americans may be looking upward as Artemis II astronauts lift off for NASA’s historic return to the moon, Trump will refocus attention back to him — and to the conflict with Iran that has killed more than a dozen U.S. service members and appears to have no easy exit in sight.

Trump Iran speech recap: President again says war is nearly over, vows ‘extremely hard’ hits in coming weeks

President Donald Trump told Americans on Wednesday night that he expects the war on Iran to last another two to three weeks, but deemed it close to an end.

Trump in a televised address from the White House, touted the successes of the U.S. campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury and repeated what he has said multiple times recently — the war won’t last much longer.

“We are going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast,” he said.

Oil and stock markets reacted negatively to the speech.

The U.S. and Israel began the war on Feb. 28 with strikes around Iran, including one that killed the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said that President Trump gave a “compelling explanation” on why the U.S. had to act against Iran’s “evil regime.”

Graham said in a post on X that it was “the best speech I could’ve hoped for,” adding that it informed Americans and the world that the U.S. is “2-3 weeks from reaching our military objectives, which is the destruction of Iran’s missile and nuclear weapon programs.”

He said that “the most compelling and biggest takeaway of all” was that Trump’s declaration to use military force to destroy the Iranian regime’s economy, guaranteeing “they will never go back to their old ways.”

Sen. Ted Cruz in his post on X said the U.S. was “on the cusp of ending Iran’s nuclear blackmail,” which makes America “much, much safer.”

He agreed with Trump that “Operation Epic Fury is an investment in the future of our children and our grandchildren.”

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