One reporter requested in regards to the operation’s aims. One other requested who Trump needed to guide Iran since Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed within the assault.
As a substitute of answering, Trump stopped to admire new statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin within the Rose Backyard.
“Unbelievable statues,” he mentioned as reporters shouted their questions. “You’ll see. Come and have a look at them.”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported that Trump additionally didn’t communicate to reporters on Air Power One throughout the flight again to Washington from Mar-a-Lago, as he usually does. He did, nonetheless, communicate to some reporters by cellphone over the weekend because the operation unfolded.
Trump’s refusal to deal with the assembled media after igniting a serious battle abroad, however as a substitute praising his new statues, led to harsh criticism on X:
