Trump Says There’s One Word He Doesn’t Believe In

President Donald Trump says there’s one word he does not believe in: “regret.”

Trump sat down for an interview on FOX News’s “The Ingraham Angle” broadcast Thursday, where host Laura Ingraham asked the president whether he had second thoughts about ordering military action against Iran as Republicans approach the midterms.

“I don’t believe in the word regret,” Trump replied. “You can always question yourself a little bit. A few people have asked me that. If I had it to do again, I’d do exactly as I did.”

Trump defended his decision by pointing to the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program.

“I took out their nuclear capability,” Trump said. “Supposing we were cruising, and all of a sudden Iran has a nuclear weapon. They would use it. They are crazy. Okay, I deal with them. They’re crazy. They would use it. They would wipe out Israel; they would wipe out the Middle East; they would have started hitting a couple of our cities.”

The president briefly shifted to the stock market’s performance during what he called a “conflict,” noting that the situation has not prevented it from reaching record highs, although stocks had retreated from those records by Thursday. He then returned to Iran, saying the regime is trying to weaken him politically because it believes Democrats would take a softer approach to its nuclear ambitions.

“They are trying to do anything possible to get me out, because they think the Democrats will let them essentially have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.”

The Iran conflict has become a main issue for Trump and Republicans as the midterms loom. Trump used the opening night of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas to defend his strategy and contrast it with what he says the Democrats would take.

“The war will be over very shortly after the election,” Trump told reporters, then repeated in his convention keynote on Wednesday. “They’re hanging out for dear life, hoping that we lose, so they can deal with dumb, weak Democrats and they can have their nuclear bomb. But we’re not going to let that happen.”