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Donald Trump Said Oval Office Address Not Iran War Claim

“where was Donald Trump talking when he said the government cannot pay medicare while the iran war is ongoing”
Oval Office
Confidence: High Checked on April 3, 2026

Summary

Donald Trump made the remark about the government being unable to pay Medicare while the Iran war continues during his primetime address delivered from the Oval Office of the White House.

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whitehouse.gov
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democrats.senate.gov
factcheck.org
  • FactCheck.org - A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy ...

    A month after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a prime-time speech on April 1, saying the military operation was “getting very close” to completing its mission. Trump repeated some false and questionable claims we’ve written about before. ... April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day.

  • FactChecking Trump's Prime-Time Address on Iran - FactCheck.org

    The president said that Iran was “right at the doorstep” of “a nuclear bomb.” Arms control experts have said that there’s a lack of evidence that Iran was rebuilding its nuclear program before the U.S./Israeli military operation and that a nuclear weapon wasn’t “imminent.” · Trump claimed that before the U.S. attacked, Iran “would soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland,” but arms control experts have disputed Trump’s claim. Trump criticized an Obama-era agreement that he said “would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran” if Trump hadn’t ended it in his first term.

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