Trump suggests US would have run out of ammo if it had kept bombing Iran

US President Donald Trump suggests that the US would have run out of ammunition had it continued bombing Iran, rather than reaching a deal this week.

“If we keep bombing… You’re talking about $500, $600, $700 million a day. It’s a lot of money,” Trump says during a press conference.

“We run out of reserves in about four weeks… There are reserves all over the world, and we would really run out, and there’ll be a time when you wouldn’t be able to get it,” he stunningly reveals in a public forum.

“So, for all of those so-called geniuses that want to show me how smart they are, ask them why didn’t they blow up General Solemeini,” Trump says, almost certainly referring to Israel, given that just minutes earlier in the press conference, he hit out at Jerusalem for purportedly pulling out of a joint strike on the head of the IRGC’s elite Quds Force in 2020.

Trump says keeping the war going would have risked the lives of civilians in Iran.

“Are you going to let the 91 million people starve to death?” he asks rhetorically, adding that he purposefully did not bomb Iran’s desalination plants so as not to cause a humanitarian crisis.

He says he also did not target the oil facilities in Iran after repeatedly threatening to do so.

“I would have satisfied a group of 10 percent of the people, but it would have been the wrong thing to do. It could have caused an international depression,” Trump says.

As for the strike on the girls’ elementary school that reportedly killed over 100 young girls on the first day of the war, Trump knocks the reporter for asking him about the issue, but says it is under investigation.

“Nobody did that on purpose… Mistakes are made,” Trump says, adding that Iran has also been responsible for killing civilians.