WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday declared the “12 day war” between Israel and Iran was set to end in a ceasefire, holding the announcement out as validation for his strategic gamble of ordering a devastating U.S. airstrike over the weekend on three Iranian nuclear sites , During his campaigns for president, Donald Trump spoke of the need to stop engaging in “endless” or “forever wars,” and said removing “warmongers and America-last globalists” was among his second-term foreign policy priorities. Trump’s move to strike Iranian nuclear sites risks embroiling the United States in the sort of conflict he once derided., Trump signed off his address by thanking everyone. "And in particular, God, I want to just say, we love you God, and we love our great military," Trump said. "Protect them., Trump then ordered the United States to join the conflict with the strikes on Sunday. Image Emergency response personnel at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Ness Ziona, Israel, on Sunday., “I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump said of a potential U.S. strike in an exchange with reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”, Trump on Iranian threats: "For 40 years, Iran has been saying, Death to America, Death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside .