Trump Says U.S. Will Leave Iran ‘Pretty Quickly’ But Come Back To Do ‘Spot Hits’ If Needed

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will leave Iran “pretty quickly” but come back to do “spot hits” if needed as he faces mounting pressure to end the war.

Speaking to Reuters, Trump anticipated parts of his prime time address regarding the state of the war on Wednesday.

The Daily Wire cited a White House official who noted that the address will highlight that the war effort is “meeting or exceeding all of its benchmarks.”

Trump is also expected to provide a timeline for the end of the conflict that began in late February.

Ahead of the address, Secretary of State Marco Rubio also told The Daily Wire that “I think we’re very close to achieving our objectives,” and though he doesn’t “want to put a timeline on it,” the administration “can see the finish line, the finish line meaning we will have achieved all of the objectives that the President outlined. And those are important because if we achieve those objectives, we will make it nearly impossible for Iran to have a nuclear weapon anytime in the near future.”

Elsewhere in the interview with Reuters, Trump said another part of his speech will be focused on slamming European members of NATO. “They haven’t been friends when we needed them,” Trump claimed. “We’ve never asked them for much, it’s a one-way street.”

However, several Democrats have already come out to reject such a scenario. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed in a social media publication that “Senate will not vote to leave NATO and abandon our allies just because Trump is upset they wouldn’t go along with his reckless war of choice.”

He then cited a publication from Rubio in 2023, when he said that “no U.S. President should be able to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval” and thanked his then-colleagues for passing the bill.

“Thank you, Secretary Rubio for sponsoring the bill in 2023 requiring a two thirds vote of the Senate to make sure clueless presidents couldn’t act on a whim,” Schumer added.

He was not the only one. Senator Ruben Gallego also recalled on Wednesday that the U.S. “entered NATO by Senate treaty,” adding that President Donald Trump has no right to take us out of it.”

“You should know you sponsored a bill to block the President from getting us out of NATO,” Gallego added.