The pilots who flew the B-2 bombers that attacked multiple Iran nuclear sites last weekend are coming to the White House, according to President Donald Trump.
During an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” anchor Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if he was going to “do something” for the “courageous” pilots after noting the president wants to “honor” them.
“Yes, they’re going to come to the White House. But what you said is right. These people flew 36 hours in a small space, a big plane, but a small spaces mostly occupied by bombs, and they flew so brilliantly,” Trump said.
He added, “They hit a target the size of this circle … a little target, they say half the size of a refrigerator door from 50,000 feet up in the air. Going at a rapid speed, because they’re going very fast when they’re over a pretty rough territory. And they hit it every single time. And then they knocked out two other sites aside from that.”
.@POTUS on the B-2 pilots: “They’re going to come to the White House … They hit a target the size of a circle — a little target, they say half the size of a refrigerator door, from 50,000 feet up in the air going at a rapid speed … And they hit it every single time.” pic.twitter.com/jhWxAuloR5
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For a mission dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, the B-2 bombers launched from the United States and refueled multiple times while in flight during the trip to Iranian airspace, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine said in a news conference. As reported by The Daily Wire, they struck targets at Fordo and Natanz and Tomahawk missiles fired from a United States submarines hit Isfahan moments later. Following the attack, the B-2 bombers made a return trip to Missouri.
Trump, who says the strikes were necessary to prevent Tehran from achieving a nuclear weapon, deemed the attack a success.
“Those pilots went in there with those beautiful planes and the most sophisticated bombs anywhere in the world. Think of it, they can go 30 stories deep into granite. Who would think that’s even possible? And they did obliterate it, it turned out,” Trump told Bartiromo.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also praised the pilots and others involved in the operation.
“I want to recognize pilots who flew those bombers; who flew those fighters; who flew those refuelers: Warriors. I want to recognize the sailors, on those destroyers, in those subs. on those carriers: Warriors. All of them. I want to recognize our soldiers doing air defense, base defense, QRF: Warriors. All of them,” Hegseth said in a statement. “Every American involved in this operation performed flawlessly.”
