President Donald Trump will deliver an address “to the nation to provide an important update on Iran” at 9:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday (April 1), White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on her X account Tuesday (March 31).
“TUNE IN: Tomorrow night at 9PM ET, President Trump will give an Address to the Nation to provide an important update on Iran,” Leavitt wrote.
The announcement came hours after Trump told reporters at the White House that the U.S. military would leave Iran in “two or three weeks” on Tuesday, one full month into the joint launch of ‘Operation Epic Fury’ with Israel in Iran.
“We leave because there’s no reason for us to do this,” he said via CNBC. “We’ll be leaving very soon.”
“Iran doesn’t have to make a deal,” he added. “It’s a new regime. They are much more accessible.”
“No, they don’t have to make a deal with me when we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages, and they won’t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon,” Trump continued. “Then we’ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It’s irrelevant now. It’s possible that we’ll have a deal because they want to make a deal.”
Trump had also claimed that the Iran war would soon end and that the Strait of Hormuz would “automatically open” without U.S. military assistance during a phone interview with the New York Post and referenced a video he shared on his Truth Social account showing huge explosions near Isfahan that he claimed hit “a lot of stuff.”
“We’re not going to be there too much longer. We’re obliterating the s**t out of them right now,” Trump said.
“It’s a total obliteration. But we won’t have to be there much longer — but we have more work to do in terms of killing their offensive, whatever offensive capability they have left,” he added.
The president then claimed that other countries could sort out the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which serves as a vital waterway for trade along the Persian Gulf responsible for an estimated 20% of the world’s oil supply traveling through and has been blockaded by Iran in retaliation of the war, leading to a spike in gas prices.
“Well, I think it’ll automatically open, but my attitude is, I’ve obliterated the country. They have no strength left, and let the countries that are using the strait, let them go and open it… because I would imagine whoever’s controlling the oil will be very happy to open the strait,” Trump told the New York Post.
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