Donald Trump declared that the US had won the war with Iran during a rally in Kentucky on Wednesday.

On the 12th day of nonstop bombings in the Middle East, the President insisted that it was actually already over.

‘It’s only good if you win,’ Trump said of the war. ‘And we’ve won.’

‘You know, you never like to say too early ‘you won.’ We won… In the first hour it was over,’ he said at a rally in Kentucky.

Trump’s statements came mere hours after Israel said missiles were launched from Iran towards its territory.

The President and the Administration as a whole have not had a unified message throughout the war’s entire duration thus far.

On February 28th, the first day of the joint US/Israeli operation in Iran, Trump stated in a video posted to his Truth Social site that Iran’s nuclear program had been ‘obliterated’.

That phrasing conflicted with a White House document from just months earlier, which described strikes carried out by the US last summer as having ‘significantly degraded’ the authoritarian regime’s nuclear capabilities. 

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Kentucky, on March 11, 2026

US Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican who is seeking reelection in this year’s midterm elections, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he was ‘wrong’ about Iran’s nuclear capabilities when asked to react to a statement he made on Fox News last summer following the Trump admin’s strikes 

Trump delivered his Wednesday remarks at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Kentucky, where he also railed against his top Congressional nemesis, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie.

Trump also boosted his handpicked challenger, Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL, during the event, although the formal guidance previewed the speech as ‘remarks on the economy.’