{"id":330446,"date":"2026-04-01T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-to-address-nation-on-iran-war-wednesday-night-white-house-says.html"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:23:31","slug":"trump-to-address-nation-on-iran-war-wednesday-night-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-to-address-nation-on-iran-war-wednesday-night-white-house-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump to address nation on Iran war Wednesday night, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Author-authorPortrait\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/69f8cc89_105386930-1533817297076img_2358.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail\" \/><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday said he expected that <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">U.S. military forces<\/a> will leave <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Iran<\/a> in &#8220;two or three weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leave because there&#8217;s no reason for us to do this,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">White House<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be \u200cleaving very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the White House said that Trump will deliver an address &#8220;to the nation to provide an important update on Iran&#8221; at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in his comments Tuesday, brushed aside the idea of having to reach a negotiated settlement to end the war, raising the prospect that the United States could just declare victory and end hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran doesn&#8217;t have to make a deal,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a new regime. They are much more accessible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, they don&#8217;t have to make a deal with me when we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages, and they won&#8217;t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then we&#8217;ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It&#8217;s irrelevant now. It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;ll have a deal because they want to make a deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal, but in a fairly short period of time will be finished,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look what&#8217;s happening in Iran,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I mean, we&#8217;re totally unchecked. Everything&#8217;s been bombed out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hitting them very hard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Last night, we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile-making facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he expected that U.S. military forces will leave Iran in &#8220;two or three weeks.&#8221; &#8220;We leave because there&#8217;s no reason for us to do this,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be \u200cleaving very soon.&#8221; Hours later, the White House said that Trump will deliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-330446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}