'The big one is coming soon': Trump tells Jake Tapper he’s ramping up ​Iran attack

The bombing campaign against Iran has just begun, President Donald Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday.

Tapper said that he spoke with the president Monday morning about what's to come in the war against Iran and Trump told him things are just getting started.

In the nine-minute phone interview, he gave props to service members and bragged, "We're knocking the crap out of them."

"We've got the greatest military in the world, and we're using it," Trump said.

The comments came a little over an hour after the allied-Kuwait accidentally shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet, which costs approximately $90 million to $97 million per unit as of late 2023, Breaking Defense reported. The six soldiers inside were able to eject and survived.

Tapper said he asked Trump how long the operation would last and Trump said he wasn't sure but didn't want it to be too long.

"I always thought it would be four weeks. And we're a little ahead of schedule," said Trump.

So far, Trump has given three answers to that question. To Axios, Trump claimed a few days. He told ABC News "four to five weeks," and speaking to Tapper, Trump implied four weeks or less.

When Tapper asked how many more strikes would come against Iran, Trump said he's only getting started.

"Right now we want everyone staying inside. It's not safe out there," Trump told Tapper.

"And then the president said it's about to get even less safe. He said, 'We haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't even happened. The big one is coming soon,'" Tapper relayed.

He said that there were a lot of other messages he'll talk about on his show Monday afternoon, but those were the top line items.