Trump Delivers Childlike ‘bing, Bing, Bing’ Recap Of Us Shooting Down Iranian Missiles

President Donald Trump‘s effort to picture nan prowess of American aerial defense weapons near him making childish video game-like sounds arsenic he recounted really U.S. anti-aircraft interceptors successfully downed a quintet of Iranian ballistic missiles complete nan weekend.

Speaking astatine a furniture gathering connected Friday, nan president was answering a mobility connected whether he’d licence Ukraine to manufacture Patriot rocket interceptors nether a licence erstwhile he digressed into nan onomatopoetic tangent.

“The different time you publication that 5 missiles were shot. They were going 8,600 miles per hr ... and they were large missiles, and they were changeable astatine Jordan, and our guys were location — bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Five missiles, and we changeable each earlier they sewage close,” he said.

He added that “nobody else” has that benignant of anti-ballistic rocket defense capacity and called nan Patriot strategy “incredible” while suggesting that he was not inclined to assistance Kyiv’s petition for a licence because “we person to beryllium very observant astir letting personification build them.”

“You person to beryllium very judicious, but you person to beryllium very careful. Now, we person not agreed to that. We're talking astir it, but it's a difficult point to springiness distant that benignant of technology, and I don't deliberation this would ever happen,” he said.

The president past suggested that Kyiv could move astir and usage nan American-made exertion against nan U.S. successful nan future, noting that specified changes of confederation person “happened a mates of times complete nan years.”

His ambivalence astir a licensing statement appeared to locomotion backmost his position from respective weeks ago, erstwhile he had appeared to endorse nan idea.

Trump’s information of allowing Ukraine to manufacture American-made weapons comes arsenic nan president appears to person made a U-turn successful his once-frosty narration pinch Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Though he infamously tossed nan Ukrainian leader retired of nan White House aft a contentious Oval Office gathering past February, Trump appears to person changed his sentiment of nan erstwhile tv prima arsenic Ukraine’s equipped forces person begun succeeding successful making audacious strikes connected Russian territory pinch home-grown drone instrumentality that American defense officials now want to measure for U.S. use.

Zelensky, who met pinch Trump astatine nan White House connected Tuesday earlier they some attended precocious South Carolina legislator Lindsey Graham’s funeral, said successful a station connected X that he’d had a "good meeting" pinch nan American president astatine which they’d discussed nan Patriot licensing matter and “several different ideas that could help.”

“We besides said astir diplomacy — it’s important that nan negotiated process beryllium reinvigorated,” he said.