Donald Trump left critics in disbelief at a press conference aboard Air Force One on Sunday with remarks about the Iran war.
The president was discussing his call for other countries to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway near Iran that is effectively closed and through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes.
Asked how quickly those deployments would take place, Trump said they would begin “immediately” and that different countries would provide different forms of assistance, including minesweepers.
He later said: “So, we need, I, I really, I ask these countries to come in and protect their territory, because this is their territory, this is where they get their energy, and they should come and they should help us protect it.”
The following sentence quickly aroused reactions on the Internet:
POLITICAL: Trump administration asks other countries to help open Strait of Hormuz
“You could say, maybe we shouldn’t be there at all because we don’t need it.”
“We have a lot of oil,” Trump said. “We’re the No. 1 producer in the world, times two, at least two times. Now I think it’s much higher than that. But we do it. It’s almost like we do it out of habit, but we also do it for some of our very good allies in the Middle East.”
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