Analysis: Trump says the Islamic State’s defeat is imminent — as he has for months
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 20 at 2:56 PM President Trump brought a visual aid with him when speaking to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday. It was a map of the Middle East, colored to show areas once and currently controlled by the Islamic State.
The key part of Trump’s comments was that prediction: gone by tonight. Allied forces battling the Islamic State have been pushing to eradicate it from the last area of the group’s self-declared caliphate in Eastern Syria. Trump’s predicting that it won’t last until Thursday morning. Granted, this isn’t telegraphing what the military is going to do — but it is a hard-and-fast prediction. The Islamic State caliphate, gone within 24 hours.On Jan. 30, he tweeted that the caliphate would be destroyed “soon.”
On Feb. 15, during his news conference announcing his border-wall emergency declaration, he promised good news imminently.
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