Trump says US, Israel shattered Iranian military capabilities, presses leaders to surrender: 'Cry uncle'

"Or there's nobody around to cry uncle to, because we wiped out their leadership numerous times already," he continued. "It's if they surrender, or if there is nobody around to surrender, but they're rendered useless in terms of military [capabilities]."

Discussing atrocities allegedly carried out by the regime, Trump said the war was 47 years coming and "no president had the guts to do it."

"They are about the most evil people ever on Earth," he said. "They cut babies' heads off. They chop women in half. Take a look at Oct. 7, take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years.… When this ends, we're going to have a much safer world."

"They haven't been able to get to it, and at some point, maybe we will be," he said. "It would be a great thing, but right now, we're just decimating them. We haven't gone after it, but [it's] something we could do later."

Trump concluded by calling the war "a minor excursion" that in the end will make the world a safer place. 

"When this ends, we're going to have a much safer world, you know, so, you know, this is a minor excursion," he said. "And we will have gotten rid of a lot of sick and demented people, the leadership. So we got rid of one leadership. We got rid of the second level of leadership. Now they're on that third or fourth level of leadership. And they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who they are."