Why Trump didn’t prepare in advance to evacuate the 300,000 American citizens from the Middle East.
March 4, 2026
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1:23Now PlayingWhy Trump didn’t prepare in advance to evacuate the 300,000 American citizens from the Middle East.
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as posted by the channelTrump said he didn’t have a plan to evacuate americans form the ME because “well, it happened all very quickly.”
Reporter: Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan?
Trump: Well, because it happened all very quickly, we thought, and I thought maybe more so than most. I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack
But Trump evacuated US military personnel from the middle east in the weeks preceding the attack, but didn’t do anything to evacuate Americans until 3 days after the war started.
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