They tried to kill President Trump twice and they’re still trying to kill him.

I don’t hear North Korea chanting “Death to America.” I don’t hear China or Russia chanting it either.

These are all adversarial countries, but they’re not seized by fanaticism, but Iran is.

Many European countries have shown remarkable weakness in the face of a regime that says America is the “Great Satan,” Israel is the “small Satan,” and Europe is sort of the "middle-sized Satan" in between — a civilization that must also be crushed.

There are military solutions to the Strait of Hormuz that the United States is leading, and I won't get into that.

Post-war, there are things that I hear from the Arab countries and from the United States as well:

And I think these are interesting ideas — to divert all the energy pipelines, oil and gas, from the Gulf, where the Iranians have a geographic choke point, westward across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and up to the Mediterranean ports, our ports in Israel.

And therefore, you just get around the geographic choke point.

Iran is attacking the Gulf states to put pressure on America to stop the attacks on them and give them the freedom to develop their nuclear weapons.

But I think it's a boomerang because many of the Gulf states, in fact, say, "Oh, we shouldn't succumb to this blackmail, because we'll be in a much worse place when they develop nuclear weapons and the other weapons that they want, because that'll be the end of the Gulf states."

The Gulf States are actually encouraging the United States to accelerate its action against Iran in order to prevent them from having these choke points.

Steel plants are controlled by the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who are basically the terror apparatus that controls Iran.

They take the revenue there. They use it both for their terror tyranny but also to produce missiles—to produce weapons.

So when you knock out their steel capacity—we knocked out about 70% of Iran's steel capacity—you're really attacking the war machine of the Revolutionary Guards.

It's like taking factories out of the SS.

People don’t know history — but there was a Nazi regime, and the Nazi regime had the army, the Wehrmacht, but it also had the elite troops. And that’s the SS, the stormtroopers.

The stormtroopers of this regime are called the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij.