The Daily Fuckup

On March 15, aboard Air Force One, Trump answered reporters’ questions about Iran, the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear targets, and the Strait of Hormuz. In the transcript, he said the United States had “obliterated” a site with B-2 bombers and argued that the attacks had stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He also said other countries should help police the strait and that the U.S. was talking with them about working together there. ([rollcall.com](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-air-force-one-march-15-2026/))

Trump cast the Strait of Hormuz as a problem that should not fall on Washington alone. He said the waterway mattered more to China and other countries that depend on shipping than it did to the United States, and he pressed the case that allies or other governments should take on part of the burden. The remarks were part policy claim, part argument about who should do the work. ([rollcall.com](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-air-force-one-march-15-2026/))

The exchange also showed how Trump handles a live foreign-policy question in motion: he moves quickly from battlefield claims to shipping security to burden-sharing, often in the same answer. On this flight, he did not present a neat policy framework so much as a series of assertions about what the U.S. had already done, what Iran could no longer do, and what other countries ought to do next. ([rollcall.com](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-air-force-one-march-15-2026/))