President Donald Trump said a former U.S. president told him that he wished he had done what Trump did with the military operation in Iran, though the president wouldn’t divulge who.
At a Monday press conference, Trump boasted of the popularity of his Operation Epic Fury. He then said one of the operation’s fans was a former president who said he wished he had done what Trump had done.
“I spoke to one of the former presidents who I actually like. I actually speak to some. I do like some people, it’d be shocking. And he said, ‘I wish I did what you did,’” Trump said. “Other presidents, somebody should’ve done it — 47 years this went on.”
Living former U.S. presidents are a narrow field: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush. Reporters quickly began pressing Trump as to the identity of his newfound fan, but the president remained mum.
However, his hints heavily implied that the man was Clinton.
“A member of a party, they have Trump Derangement Syndrome all, but somebody that happens to like me, and I like that person, who’s a smart person, but that person said, ‘I wish I did it,’ OK? But I don’t want to get into who,” Trump said. “I don’t want to get them into trouble.”
“I think you probably know,” he said.
Trump was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, whose first guess was Bush, to which Trump denied. Trump is a frequent critic of Obama, making such praise unlikely. Bush is also known not to like Trump, and the president’s hint that everyone else in his party has “Trump Derangement Syndrome” disqualifies him, given Trump’s near-unanimous approval among Republicans.
The president has had positive words to say about Clinton in the past despite his well-known rivalry with Clinton’s wife. Trump even came to Clinton’s defense in February when he was deposed by Congress over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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“Look, I like him, and I don’t like seeing him deposed,” Trump said of Clinton last month.
While Iran was a U.S. adversary during Clinton’s tenure in the 1990s, the country was too devastated from the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 through 1988 to seriously threaten U.S. interests in the region. Tehran focused on rebuilding its shattered infrastructure, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq prevented its influence from spreading further.
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