President Trump ended two days of guessing Thursday by saying that Iran had gifted him 10 “big boats” of oil in a show of goodwill — after he claimed Tuesday he had received a gift from Tehran, which officials refused to specify citing the sensitivity of peace talks.
“They said, ‘To show you the fact that we’re real and solid and we’re there, we’re going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big boats of oil.’ … That was three days ago, and I didn’t think much about it,” Trump said.
“And then I watched the news, and they said… ‘there are eight boats that are going right up the middle of the Hormuz Strait, eight big tankers are going loaded up with oil right through.’ And I said, ‘Well, I guess they were right, and they were they were real, and I think they were Pakistani flagged.’”
“And I said, ‘Well, I guess we deal with the right people.’ And actually, they then apologize for something. They said, ‘We’re going to send two more boats,’ and it ended up being 10 boats.”