President Trump discussed Thursday evening’s strikes against suspected ISIS terrorists in northwestern Nigeria during an interview with WABC radio Friday morning.
“I said yesterday, ‘Hit them on Christmas Day. It will be a Christmas present,’” Trump told host John Catsimatidis.
“We hit ISIS, who are terrible. They are butchers. We really hit them hard in different locations. They really got hit hard yesterday. They got a very bad Christmas present.”
The Nigerian government confirmed overnight that it had collaborated with Washington on the strikes in Sokoto state, near the border with Niger.
It was not immediately clear how many sites were targeted. The US military’s Africa Command has made an initial assessment that “multiple ISIS terrorists were killed,” but an exact number has not been released.
