{"id":12167,"date":"2026-04-01T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/12167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:30:09","slug":"trump-to-address-nation-on-iran-war-wednesday-night-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/12167\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to address nation on Iran war Wednesday night, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump speaks after he signed an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday said he expected that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/20\/trump-iran-war-ceasefire.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. military forces<\/a> will leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/10000297\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> in &#8220;two or three weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leave because there&#8217;s no reason for us to do this,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">White House<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be \u200cleaving very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the White House said that Trump will deliver an address &#8220;to the nation to provide an important update on Iran&#8221; at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in his comments Tuesday, brushed aside the idea of having to reach a negotiated settlement to end the war, raising the prospect that the United States could just declare victory and end hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran doesn&#8217;t have to make a deal,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a new regime. They are much more accessible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, they don&#8217;t have to make a deal with me when we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages, and they won&#8217;t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then we&#8217;ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It&#8217;s irrelevant now. It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;ll have a deal because they want to make a deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more U.S.-Iran war news<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal, but in a fairly short period of time will be finished,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look what&#8217;s happening in Iran,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I mean, we&#8217;re totally unchecked. Everything&#8217;s been bombed out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hitting them very hard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Last night, we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile-making facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump speaks after he signed an executive order in the Oval Office of the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[128,34,17,38,130,132,8,19,133,131,9,28,67,7,13,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-12167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-breaking-news-politics","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-foreign-policy","13":"tag-general-dynamics-corp","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","17":"tag-lockheed-martin-corp","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-northrop-grumman-corp","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-antimony-corp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116327102698116161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}