On Monday, he told Republicans at a lawmakers’ retreat in Miami that the war had been “won in many ways.”
“We’ve already won in many ways,” he said, but admitted, “We haven’t won enough. We go forward, more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all." He also told CBS News, “I think the war is very complete, pretty much.”
Then on Wednesday in Kentucky, Trump said, “We’ve won, let me tell you, we’ve won. You never like to say too early you won, we won... in the first hour it was over.”
Just minutes later, though, he was suggesting otherwise. “We don’t want to leave early, do we?” he said. “We got to finish the job, right?”