Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One Sunday, stating the U.S. is “ locked and loaded ” to destroy Iran’s Kharg Island. Trump referred to previous U.S. strikes on the island, a place he described as the Iran’s “crown jewel,” leaving only a section that handles oil pipelines intact.

The strikes destroyed more than 90 military targets, including missile facilities, but preserved oil infrastructure, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.

The comments came during a three-minute phone call Monday morning with PBS News' Liz Landers, while the president was attending what he described as a “very important meeting” on the Iran war.

Trump's decision to order strikes on Kharg Island has pushed one of the world's most critical oil hubs into the center of the escalating U.S.-Iran conflict.

U. President Donald Trump threatened further strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the

President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces "totally obliterated" every military target on Iran's Kharg Island, a ket oil export site for Iran.

President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he directed U.S. Central Command to execute a bombing raid that "obliterated" military targets on Kharg Island.

President Trump declined to answer a question about whether the U.S. would seize Kharg Island, one of the chokepoints of Iran's entire oil export industry, during an interview this morning with FNC's Brian Kilmeade (full interview here).

President Donald Trump shared an update on the military action in Iran in a social media post on Friday. Trump claimed that the US carried out the “most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East.