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Posted on 03/02/2026 7:46:08 AM PST by Miami Rebel
CNN’s Jake Tapper delivered a blockbuster report about the United States’ ongoing military operation in Iran after a private interview with President Donald Trump on Monday.
Anchor Kate Bolduan paused an interview with John Bolton to allow Tapper to call in before asking her colleague about his conversation with the president.
“I just got off the phone with President Trump. It was a nine-minute phone interview, and we talked just about the war in Iran. I’m going to share some of it with you right now. The president said, quote, ‘We’re knocking the crap out of them. I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. They’ve got the greatest military in the world, and we’re using it,'” began Tapper before pressing on:
I asked the president how long he thought this military operation or war might last. He said, quote, “I don’t want to see it go on too long. I always thought it would be four weeks and we’re a little ahead of schedule.” I asked a president if the U.S. was doing more than these military strikes to help the Iranian people regain control of Iran against the regime, to seize the country from the Iranian regime, and he said, yes, the president said, “Yes, we are indeed. But right now we want everyone staying inside. It’s not safe out there.” And then the president said, it’s about to get even less safe. He said, quote, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.” We asked him about a bunch of other stuff too that I’m writing up and we’ll share later on The Lead at 5 p.m.
“Jake, in your many conversations with him, did you get a sense of mood, tone? I think I saw it described, you know, he’s been doing some interviews, especially over the phone, kind of just how he sounds in this moment as this is playing out?” followed up Bolduan.
“He sounded very pleased with how the operation’s going. He sounded very resolute in terms of the Iranian threat to the region and the world. Very confident about how this was, even though they did try to negotiate with the Iranians, how this ultimately was the right decision and the right approach, given all of the unrest, all of the terrorism, all of the menace that the Iranian regime had had been offering ever since the revolution of 1979,” replied Tapper. “He didn’t seem to be in doubt at all, thought things were going really really well, and were going to continue. And obviously we’re only on day, what, three of this operation? It started Saturday. And the president is projecting at least possibly that this military operation will last about a month, although obviously that’s not a firm and set time period. So there’s a lot more to come.”
The news, delivered straight from the horse’s mouth, that “the big one is coming” comes as a shock considering the fact that the U.S. and Israel have already taken out Iran’s long-tenured supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as well as a number of other top officials.
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I think Trump is just trying to scare the Iranian military out of their job. We know they’re following pre-proscribed instructions in case of attack. If they flee, then it’s over.
Why the hell would Trump talk to Trump-hating CNN.
Excellent observation.
Russia isn’t silent, they are freaking out and suffering from the loss of Ali Khamenei.
Jake Tapper and CNN are just trying to boost their anemic viewership.
“One thing I have learned in my Bible studies, God has the absolutely best sense of irony, but of course as in all things he is God, so expected.”
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The Biblical prophet Nahum issued a summary statement about the fall of the ancient Assyrian empire’s demise. It could be just as easily be a description of the Iranian Mullah’s fall:
Nothing can heal you;
your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands at your fall,
for who has not felt
your endless cruelty?
When they take over the skies, the B52’s and the C-130’s can come in and drop the daisy cutters and similar super heavy loads!
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Yes this is what the war fighting will move to if the mullahs continue to resist.
Trump has already said something to the effect of surrender or die.
They take out the leadership with small bombs.
To take out the mullah troops at scale —they’ll need big bombs.
sheesh. most of these men will not be stationed in big cities but rather in their own garrisons which are just sitting ducks.
Their turn however will not come until all the military and police state infrastructure has been taken out.
If the mullahs still don’t surrender—then the troops will will be taken out.
“Psyops.”
exactly .... Trump is the master of global trolling ... neither our enemies nor our putative “friends” can predict what he’s REALLY going to do ... he does some things he says he’s gonna do but doesn’t do others ... totally unpredictable, and therefore scares the crap out of both “friends” and enemies, which on the world stage is what actually passes as “respect” ... Teddy said it best: “talk softly and carry a big stick” ...
Add in that it was on Shabbat Zachor, so even observant Jews [who had the news turned off] were reading about it.
khAMENei
???
President Trump spoke with Tapper. Is CNN supposed to suppress the interview?
If you want everyone in the world to know something tell Jake Tapper. 😏
They need to change the name back to PERSIA!!
BINGO!!!! It will be aired on CNN INTERNATIONAL!! I even watch them occasionally while on a cruise!!
Did you just come out of a long coma? Trump understands the MSM. He uses them.
No, you’re not. I saw a great meme with the “k” and “ei” crossed out, but never copied it.
I was remarking to someone on Saturday that instead of Hamentashin this year, we should have Khameneitashin. That was before we got news of him going to meet his virgins in Hell.
Trump knows they would play it and broadcast that “the big one is coming”. Is he spreading propaganda to start knees shaking or is there actual specific massive targeting now that defenses are crumbling?
I can’t relate to their thinking very well so I find them difficult to predict.
Anchor Kate Bolduan paused an interview with 😂 John Bolton 😂 to allow Tapper to call in before asking her colleague about his conversation with the president.😂
No, CNN broke into its programming to take one line to boost its ratings. They could have waited a few minutes and just report what was said without hyping the “report” by Jake the Tap Whore.
Of course, that makes Donald, Donald the Great.
LOL, leftist heads exploding all over.
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