Sri Lanka, March 12 -- US President President Donald Trump claimed in remarks Wednesday that "we won" in the war with Iran, without providing substantial evidence of his claim.

"Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won," the president said.

Trump's message on how long the war with Iran will last has been inconsistent, saying at times that the war was significantly ahead of schedule, that it would take four to six weeks, that we've "already won . but we haven't won enough," and that the strikes were "both" a war and a "short excursion."

The president in his speech in Kentucky also told the crowd how he came up with the name Operation Epic Fury.

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