In a “60 Minutes” interview at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31, which aired on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that “Hamas could be taken out immediately if they don’t behave.”
“If I want ‘em to disarm, I’ll get ‘em to disarm very quickly,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell, of CBS News. “They’ll be eliminated.”
Asked about calling himself “the peace president,” Trump said, “I think I did pretty good.” He added that “knocking the hell out of” Iran’s nuclear capabilities was “the key to Middle East peace.”
Trump also spoke about returning the hostages from Gaza.
“I got all the hostages out, but I always said the last 10 or 20 are gonna be tough,” he said. “But we were tough also, and they let ‘em all out.”
Trump described the anguish of families awaiting the return of deceased loved ones.
“Did you know a lot of the parents … they knew they were dead, in some cases,” he said. “Do you know that they were as anxious or even more anxious of getting their child out, even though they knew it was a body that we were dealing with, than the people that had a living child?”
Trump added that recovery efforts are ongoing. “You saw yesterday four more just came out. We’re gonna get them out too,” he said. “They’re buried in many cases. They’re buried under rubble.”
