{"id":2577876,"date":"2026-03-09T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-iran-conflict-is-going-to-be-a-short-term-excursion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:48:43","slug":"trump-says-iran-conflict-is-going-to-be-a-short-term-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-iran-conflict-is-going-to-be-a-short-term-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran conflict is &#8216;going to be a short term excursion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-iran-conflict-is-going-to-be-a-short-term-excursion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2577876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump described his Iran campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, as a \u201cshort-term excursion\u201d during remarks to Republican lawmakers at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drag-queen-who-says-biden-is-a-senile-white-supremacist-scheduled-to-perform-at-dem-retreat\/\" title=\"Drag Queen Who Says Biden Is a \u2018Senile\u2019 \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 Scheduled To Perform At Dem Retreat\">policy retreat<\/a> in Doral, Florida.He framed the action as a necessary effort to defeat evil, boasted that the United States now has a military stronger than any other and claimed Iran\u2019s drone and missile capabilities are being demolished. Trump also stated there would be no deal with Iran unless there is unconditional surrender and highlighted the campaign\u2019s progress, noting markets where volatile but later improved as he asserted the operation was moving ahead faster than initially planned. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-abby-phillip-says-trump-has-made-himself-batman-and-dc-gotham-city\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip says ... has made himself \u2018Batman\u2019 and DC \u2018Gotham City\u2019\">article includes video<\/a> of his remarks and references related coverage.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says Iran conflict is &lsquo;going to be a short term excursion&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2527018\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4483182\/trump-no-deal-until-iran-unconditional-surrender\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> repeatedly said on Monday that Operation Epic Fury, his military campaign in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4482569\/trump-us-focus-cuba-after-iran-in-couple-weeks\/\">Iran<\/a>, is a &ldquo;short-term excursion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president hosted Republican lawmakers at his private club in Doral, Florida, for the House GOP&rsquo;s policy retreat Monday. At the start of his remarks, Trump addressed the war with Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4485305\/anthropic-sues-trump-admin-national-security-risk-label\/\">Anthropic sues Trump administration over national security risk label<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4485199\/joe-scarborough-warns-us-drunk-militarism-lindsey-graham-cuba\/\">Joe Scarborough warns US could get &#8216;drunk on militarism&#8217; as Lindsey Graham eyes Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4485244\/pentagon-confirms-identity-seventh-service-member-killed-iran-operation-benjamin-pennington\/\">Pentagon confirms identity of seventh service member during Iran operation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I think we had the best first year of any president ever,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil, and I think you&rsquo;ll see it&rsquo;s going to be a short-term excursion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In my first term, we rebuilt our military, and I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t know I&rsquo;d be using it so much in the second term, but we have a military like no other as not even close,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re the strongest military anywhere on Earth, and now everybody understands it. Together, with our overwhelming display of technical skill and military force, Iran&rsquo;s drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Later in his remarks, after recounting the progress of the military campaign, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-gather-in-washington-d-c-for-save-america-rally\/\" title=\"Citizens gather in Washington, D.C. for \u2018Save America Rally\u2019\">president claimed<\/a> that the U.S. &ldquo;wrapped the hell out of&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4481664\/trump-personally-involved-next-iranian-leader\/\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know when they cry uncle, but they should have cried it two days ago, right?,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve already won in many ways, but we haven&rsquo;t won enough. We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >stocks floundered amid significant spikes<\/a> in the global <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oil-prices\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"10457\">oil<\/a> market. However, those trends reversed after Trump told CBS News that the United States is &ldquo;very far&rdquo; ahead of the initial, weekslong timeline for concluding Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the war is very complete, pretty much,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They have no navy, no communications. They&rsquo;ve got no Air Force.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4483182\/trump-no-deal-until-iran-unconditional-surrender\/\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS THERE WILL BE NO DEAL WITH IRAN OUTSIDE OF &lsquo;UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Trump&rsquo;s remarks in full below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"W9bkyOTCrEg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Republican Members Issues Conference\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9bkyOTCrEg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says Iran operation will be a short-term venture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2577877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26068757557951.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5237,3817,32404,3823,3634],"class_list":["post-2577876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-conflict","tag-diplomacy","tag-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26068757557951.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577883,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577876\/revisions\/2577883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}