President Trump on Wednesday compared his strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the US dropping nuclear bombs on Japan in WWII — as he insisted the devastation inflicted during both conflicts ended the wars.
“I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war,” Trump said at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
He maintained that his surprise strikes on Tehran forced Iran and Israel into their cease-fire after 12 days.
President Trump spoke at the start of the second day of the 2025 NATO Summit on June 25, 2025. Getty Images
“Had we not succeeded with that hit, that hit ended the war,” Trump said
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