{"id":1034547,"date":"2026-08-31T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1034547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:44:15","slug":"donald-trump-says-israel-would-be-gone-without-him-iran-striking-gulf-was-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1034547\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says Israel would be gone without him, Iran striking Gulf was &#8216;good thing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump stated that it was &#8220;a very good thing&#8221; that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-907079\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> struck Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-907084\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE<\/a>, Bahrain, and Kuwait after the war began, as it lost the country&#8217;s support in the Middle East in an interview with Fox News on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was shocked. I was surprised. I thought it was a very good thing because they lost all of the support they had,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-907082\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump also pointed to the strikes to support his claim that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would have fired it. He reiterated his claims that if he were not president, Iran would have a nuclear weapon and Israel would be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I weren&#8217;t president, Israel would be gone. There would be no Israel, and there would probably be no Middle East,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-907082\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added that either the US or Europe would be next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump also released an AI video on Truth Social in which a US pilot is seen launching attacks on Iran&#8217;s Kharg Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump stated that it was &#8220;a very good thing&#8221; that Iran struck Saudi Arabia, Qatar,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1034548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[266350,69,83,6111,32301,50,6673,271,10317,103],"class_list":["post-1034547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-bahrain","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-kuwait","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117189008945089812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}