President Donald Trump told CNN in a nine-minute phone interview Monday morning that the US military is “knocking the crap” out of Iran – but the “big wave” is yet to come. “We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Succession in IranOn who might emerge to lead Iran, Trump said, “We don’t know who the leadership is. But with more than four dozen killed, “we don’t know who’s leading the country now. “They were a month away from having a nuclear weapon.”Criticizing President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons deal, the president said “it was the Iran nuclear deal because it gave all the power to Iran.

Source: CNN March 02, 2026 17:38 UTC