Watch: Responding to an ABC Reporter, Trump Just Issued the Coolest Wartime Quote in Presidential History - It'll Never Be Topped

The Western Journal ^ | 3/2/2026 | Bryan Chai

[SaxxonWoods]

Love him or hate him, it should be inarguable that President Donald Trump is a quote machine.

With the dust still settling from joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury (which saw the successful neutralization of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his leadership cabal), Trump has provided yet another all-time quote — and it’s one his more murderous enemies should heed well.

[SaxxonWoods]

OK, OK, here:

" Jonathan Karl @jonkarl In another phone call this evening, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei: ********************** "I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first." ********************** That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024. 7:36 PM · Mar 1, 2026

[SunkenCiv]

Memes We Waited 47 Years For

[catnipman]

not even in the same ballpark of at least a half dozen memorable war phrases from wartime Winston Churchill ...

[deks]

....a date which will live in infamy

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

[deks]

*
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — W.C.

— Delivered after the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, this quote captured the turning point in the war.

[deks]

*
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

— This powerful declaration from Winston Churchill’s June 4, 1940, speech to the House of Commons became a defining moment of British resistance.

[11th_VA]

Hahaha - new tag line

[toddausauras]

This one from Hitler isn’t “cool” but it’s memorable....if he indeed said it (accuracy is all important and people arevodyen misquoted):

We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames

[Henry Hnyellar]

“What? Over? Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”

— Bluto Blutarski

[deks]

lol 🤣

[TigersEye]

[exnavy]

“you f ed up, you trusted us.”

[Old West Conservative]

Alamein #2 wasn’t even “the” turning point in WW2

Midway was.

Midway was FAR more the turning than El Alamein #2 or Stalingrad

[nuke_road_warrior]

I can assure you there are no Americans in Baghdad.
—The late unlamented “Baghdad Bob”

[roving]

I like Trumps better.

[deks]

👍👍

[Nateman]

My favorite quote so far:
Reporter: 'Who takes over now that the supreme leader is dead?'
Trump: 'I don’t know… I guess the position’s open. I’m creating jobs in Iran too.'"

[SMARTY]

"...They tried twice..." ?

Interesting comment!

[Palio di Siena]

nuts

[dangus]

In all honesty, “Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!”