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First Lady Melania Trump, a champion for the well-being of children in America and abroad, weighed in on Monday on the military conflict with Iran.
During the White House Easter Egg Roll event, she offered a statement on the evolving situation in Iran as her husband, President Donald Trump, fielded a few questions from the press.
“All of this is happening for their future, so they will be safe in years to come,” Mrs. Trump said.
Regarding Iranian children caught in the crosshairs of this war, the president said, “We’re keeping them as safe as we can possibly keep them. But we’re fighting for their parents, their grandparents, we’re fighting for them, we’re fighting for their future.”
He said the Iranian people, at the core of their society, craved the freedom that American liberation may offer.
“The time the Iranian people are the most unhappy…are when those bombs stop,” he said. “…Hopefully, it could be over with quickly; again, there are lots of different alternatives. We have many alternatives. We could leave right now, and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they had. We could leave right now. But I want to finish it up. Iran – ready? – cannot have a nuclear weapon. They are lunatics, and you can’t put nuclear weapons in the hand of a lunatic.”
The president answered other questions as far as the timeline of the war and the potential for a ceasefire agreement. “They’d like to have a ceasefire because they’re getting obliterated,” he said at one point, while speaking to reporters.
He also alluded to the possibility that the Iranian people might be willing to fight the radical regime in their country. “The Iranian people will fight back as soon as they know they’re not going to be shot and as soon as they can get weapons,” President Trump stated. “…In Iran, they have absolutely no weaponry, and they’ve been told, point blank, if you come out to the streets you will be killed.”
He said that Iranian terror remnants had reportedly killed as many as 45,000 protestors who had resisted the radical regime.
During another session with reporters, the president on Monday was asked why the U.S. was still fighting Iran if American military forces had indeed achieved total dominance over Iranian skies and capabilities.
“It’s a big country,” President Trump said. “They can’t fight back, they have no capability, they have some missiles left, they have some drones left.”
Last week, the Iranian regime shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle leaving two U.S. airmen stranded behind enemy lines – both have been rescued and are safe, according to the president.
He described the Iranian takedown of this jet as a “lucky shot.”