President Donald Trump declared Monday that Iran is getting its “ass kicked” in the escalating conflict with the United States, arguing Tehran’s military has been left in tatters as American strikes continue.
During an interview on Fox & Friends, Trump said Iran’s navy, air force and missile capabilities have been virtually wiped out while touting the deaths of senior Iranian leaders during the campaign.
His comments came just days after he announced the ceasefire with Iran was effectively over and authorized continued military operations.
“We’re taking over the strait. They have nothing. They’ve got nothing,” Trump said.
“So we’re just going to hit them very hard, and we’re going to, we’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” the president later added. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that … We guarded it for nothing, and now we’re going to guard it — we’re going to get paid for guarding it.”
The president also vented frustration over what he described as Iran’s negotiating strategy, claiming officials repeatedly reopened issues after marathon meetings that appeared to end in agreement.
“Yesterday they had an 11-hour meeting. Everything’s 11 hours with these guys,” Trump said. “Everything was agreed to yesterday. And they leave the room, and they call back, and they say we had to make a couple of changes.”
Trump said the United States has no interest in renegotiating settled issues.
“We’re not going to make changes. Always changes,” he said. “They’re professional negotiators. That’s all they are.”
The president argued that previous administrations allowed Iran to string along negotiations for decades without meaningful consequences.
“They haven’t gotten anything; they’ve got nothing from me,” Trump said. “If you look for 47 years they’ve been tapping people along, presidents. Every president got tapped along, didn’t do anything, and they became more and more powerful.”
Watch the clips below:
US President Trump on Iran:
"They are a bad group of people, let me tell you that. I don't say that often.
Right now, they are getting their ass kicked." pic.twitter.com/ld4tOLUajD
— ConflictLive (@conflict_live) July 13, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces the U.S. will likely "RUN" the Strait of Hormuz and he expects America to be paid for it by the world
HUGE.
"We're gonna guard it, and we're gonna get PAID for guarding it, a LOT of money. We want to be reimbursed for putting our people in… pic.twitter.com/4vAFs8i2wI
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 13, 2026
US President Trump on Iran:
"They are a bad group of people, let me tell you that. I don't say that often.
Right now, they are getting their ass kicked." pic.twitter.com/ld4tOLUajD
— ConflictLive (@conflict_live) July 13, 2026
