Trump says US ‘knocked out’ 42 Iranian naval ships in 3 days, destroyed air force, communications

US President Donald Trump says the US military has “knocked out” 42 Iranian navy ships and much of the Iranian air force, while addressing Latin American leaders during his Shield of Americas Summit in Florida.

“We are doing very well in Iran, you see the result,” he says. “Its been amazing, we’ve knocked out 42 navy ships, some of them very large, in three days. That was the end of the navy.”

“We knocked out their air force, we knocked out their communications,” he says.

“They are bad people, they’re just bad people,” he says of Iran’s leaders.

“When you look at October 7 and beyond October 7, when you look at all the killing they’ve done for 47 years, this had to be done.”

“They were very close to a nuclear weapon,” he continues, saying Iran would have reached nuclear capabilities eight months ago if not for the US strikes on their nuclear sites during the 12-day war last June.

“They are crazy, and they would have used it,” he says. “So we did the world a favor.”