Trump contradicts himself in same address: says war ending 'very shortly' while promising 'extremely hard' strikes for 2-3 more weeks

In a single 19-minute prime-time address, Trump delivered fundamentally contradictory messages. He declared the mission 'on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly' while simultaneously pledging to 'hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks' and threatening to 'bring them back to the stone ages.' The contradiction between imminent conclusion and weeks more of intensified bombing undermines the credibility of both claims and leaves no clear end date for the conflict.

"We are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong."