"To think this could have turned out like Carter's failed Special Forces operation! To think that we could go in there and have nobody killed, not lose one aircraft, where we're going 1,800 miles an hour over a small area with 152 different planes, different planes and helicopters, is pretty amazing to people, you know."
"You didn't have a [President] Jimmy Carter crashing helicopters all over the place, that you didn't have a Biden Afghanistan disaster where they couldn't do the simplest maneuver. That was a simple maneuver - they should have never left from that airport. They should have used Bagram."
Commentators use various analogies to describe Trump's Iran crisis, with some comparing it to 1979's Iranian revolution rather than predicting 1970s-style inflation. Trump's successful Venezuela operation, including the capture of Nicolás Maduro, prompted him to reference Operation Eagle Claw—Jimmy Carter's failed 1980 hostage rescue attempt—as a cautionary comparison. Trump highlighted the operation's achievements: no casualties, no aircraft lost, and successful execution over a small area using 152 aircraft and helicopters traveling at 1,800 miles per hour. He contrasted this with Carter's helicopter crashes and Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, emphasizing the operation's flawless execution. During an interview, Trump described watching the operation in real time, focusing on the possibility of humiliating failure similar to Carter's experience.
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