President Donald Trump announced to reporters at the White House that the Islamic State in Syria would be „gone by tonight.“ He made the announcement…
President Donald Trump announced to reporters at the White House that the Islamic State in Syria would be „gone by tonight.“
He made the announcement with some fanfare, unfurling a big piece of paper that he had carried out with him to Marine One. He then guided the press through two maps of Syria and Iraq showing the progress of the Islamic State’s defeat.
„I brought this out for you — this is a map of everything in the red, this was on election night, in 2016, everything red is ISIS. When I took it over it was a mess now on the bottom it’s the exact same. There is no red,“ Trump said, pointing his finger at the different parts of the map.
„In fact there is a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight,“ Trump said.
It was the third time in recent months that the president announced victory — or near victory — over the Islamic State. In February, the president said ISIS would be 100 percent defeated „very soon,“ and in December he declared „we have won against ISIS.
