President Donald Trump is threatening to wipe out a third “level” of Iranian officials over the end of the ceasefire in the Strait of Hormuz, but acknowledges he might one day suffer such a fate himself.

The president offered a rare statement of vulnerability at this week’s NATO summit, acknowledging that his life is in constant danger and he might be killed before completing his second term. Asked by a reporter in Ankara, Turkey, why he now considers Iranian leaders “rational” after previously condemning them as insane, he launched into a winding diatribe about having already killed two “levels” of leaders before turning the focus on himself.