Trump: Iranian People Need Guns, ‘I Think They’re Getting Some’ and Will ‘Fight as Good as Anybody’ When They Do

On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” President Donald Trump said he’s “torn” about the Iranian people taking to the streets now, “because they lost 42,000 people in the first two weeks. I don’t really want to see that. They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight as good as anybody there is.”

Host Hugh Hewitt asked, “Now, last time you were on, you said to the people of Iran, stay the course, help is on the way. But they murdered 40,000 of them. Do you want the people of Iran to come out yet, do you want them to stay inside?”

Trump answered, “Well, look, the problem is that you can’t — if you have five people with a gun and 250,000, the five people with a gun, assuming it’s used fast enough, which they do, the five people,