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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Trump shouldn't be talking to these idiots - he can't help bragging and they can't help themselves blabbing to the world.
If Trump actually said the “big one” is yet to come.. just wow. If he thinks it is big I would be terrified if I was part of the Iranian Regime.
I just don’t just anything from CNN so I consider this all suspect.
Psyops.
Am I the only one mildly interested in the fact this turd’s name is kHAMENei.
And he got clipped on the eve of Purim, just like Haman?
And tried to exterminate the Jews, like Haman?
And was a big wig in Persia, like Haman?
Why is Trump giving an interview to this Dem operative hack Jake Tapper? He ran cover for Biden for years. Trump is still enamored by the traditional media for some strange reason.
President Trump, the Troll Master. He constitutes his own personal front in this action, mark my words, love him, fear him, respect him or hate him, our enemies hang on every word he says and try to get some hint of his strategy, but they will fail.
Thanks for clarifying. I thought his name was kHYMENei and he got popped.
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.
Jer 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
2 “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
{...}
16 Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’ ”
17 In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.
Oh by the way, short-term trader alert. 20% of nat gas is off the market for now because it can’t come through the Strait of Hormuz.
“””He said, quote, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”
Trump shouldn’t be talking to these idiots - he can’t help bragging and they can’t help themselves blabbing to the world. “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
President Trump probably said....my BIG MAC is coming soon...and Tapper heard it wrong.
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!
Agreed
“...the big one is coming...”
Could also mean taking out Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, once and for all. Without the Iranian Mullahs, those terrorist groups have no one supporting them except maybe the limp wristed fag Starmer in the UK. /spit
Use the discombobulator!
The President is putting on a show for Xi and Putin. We’ve seen the appetizer this weekend. Now that we have their attention, I guess the main course is coming out.
It will be interesting to see how that works.
its so annoying..he keeps trying to win “them” over. He doesnt understand they hate his guts. He kept giving Bob Woodward access and that punk wrote 3 books that were hit pieces..THREE OF EM. Also, he really sucks up to Maggie Haberman..i just dont get it.
This interview was for the remaining IRG and regime hold outs. That is why he went on CNN, he knew that would get international attention.
Trump is saying that to push fence sitters in Iran who needed a job, and worked for the Shia Islamic Republic, but who will gladly leave that job and work for a more “democratic” Persia, once their employers are out of business.
Trump understands the importance of verbal influence.
IMHO
This is Day 3. “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’m wondering how long Iran’s weapons will last.
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