Donald Trump would consider asking lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass a declaration of war against the Islamic State if he’s elected president, the presumptive Republican nominee said Monday.
“This is a war against people who are vicious, violent people that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now so on top of wars on foreign land wait ’til you see what happens in the future,” Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
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Asked if he would specifically seek a congressional resolution formally declaring on the radical Islamic terror group, Trump said, “It wouldn’t bother me at all doing that.”
“We probably should have done that in the first place,” he added.
According to the New York billionaire, who had advocated such measures as taking out terrorists’ families and bombing “the hell out of” ISIS-controlled oil fields, the U.S. effort to defeat the Islamic State is “probably not going to be pretty” as time goes on.
“I hope I’m wrong about that, but it’s probably not going to be pretty,” he said.
“I’ll study the facts, but I think right now I would have no problem with doing it because we are at war,” he repeated. “By the way, the world is at war.”
