President Donald Trump says he expects the United States to win the Iran war "very soon," delivering the prediction in an interview with Fox News at the Presidents Cup at Medinah Country Club near Chicago. "I think what's going to happen is we're going to win the war very soon," he told the network, adding that oil prices will drop as soon as the fighting is over. He argued the US is prevailing through a combination of economic pressure and military action. The remarks came on Sunday, the final day of the golf tournament, where Trump received a mixed reception of cheers and boos from the crowd.

The conflict began in late February 2026, when US and Israeli strikes hit Iran's nuclear and military sites, and it has now stretched into its eighth month. Trump has offered similar forecasts before: ten days into the war, he described it as a "short-term excursion" that would be over "very soon," a message some officials saw as an effort to calm rattled markets. Oil prices have been one of the war's most visible economic consequences, spiking sharply in the early weeks as Iran disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard said back in March that Tehran, not Washington, would determine when the war ends, and Trump has not laid out a specific timeline for the victory he is now predicting.