Only I can fix it · First term · № 18
Only he could bring the troops home from Syria
“But I'm going to bring them home from Syria. So I'm the only one that can do that and get bad publicity.”
- Said
- , Cabinet meeting, Cabinet Room of the White House
- Subject
- bringing troops home from Syria
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- First term
What happened
In the same meeting he said, "I'm the only person in the history of our country that could really decimate ISIS, say we're bringing the troops back home over a period of time." PolitiFact reported that after his December 2018 withdrawal order with a 30-day timeline, he reversed course and allowed the military a few months, and that his October 2019 withdrawal announcement drew bipartisan resistance. As of September 2024, the Defense Department reported about 900 U.S. service members still in Syria.