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Trump Provides Update On Iran Rescue Operation Next To Easter Bunny

President Donald Trump (left) seized an opportunity at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll event to update an audience of mostly children about the rescue of a US air crew member whose F-15E fighter jet was shot down above Iran.

Released on 04/07/2026

Transcript

In most instances, you're really not able to go in,

because you'll go in with 200 people,

and lots of jet fighters and helicopters,

and you really don't have a chance.

They get shot down.

You lose 200 in order to pick up one.

It's a horrible thing,

but it's very rare that you can do it.

And what we did yesterday as we picked up,

not one, we picked up two,

we kept the first one quiet,

and we were able to keep it quiet for about a day,

which made it a lot better.

But those two pilots were incredible, brave,

and we thank them.

And we're gonna be having a news conference today

at one o'clock at the Oval Office,

and we look forward to it.

But I just wanna say we have a great military.

We're the greatest military, most powerful military,

any place in the world.

You saw what happened with Venezuela.