Trump Says ISIS Will Be ‘Gone By Tonight’
President Trump on Wednesday unveiled a new map that showed ISIS-controlled territory in Syria had been retaken on his watch as commander in chief and said its remaining stronghold would be freed “tonight.”
The map, he told reporters outside the White House before departing on a visit to Ohio, showed land held by the murderous caliphate marked in red.
“I brought this out for you because this is a map of everything in the red — this was on election night in 2016. Everything red is ISIS,” Trump said.
“When I took it over it was a mess. Now on the bottom, that’s the exact same [territory]. There is no red. In fact, there’s actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight,” he continued.
The US has made eradicating ISIS’ caliphate in Iraq and Syria a top priority.
