Incredibly lucky to have caught the President of the United States while he had a rare free moment amid all his tireless efforts to secure victory for the United States over Iran while also overseeing an historic addition to the White House complex, CBS News’s Weijia Jiang on Tuesday called Donald Trump and was able to ask him to clarify whether he really meant to surrender the Strait of Hormuz to Iranian control as he suggested in an earlier post on his personal social media platform.

The president reiterated to Jiang his earlier call for US allies to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT” but said he wasn’t ready to pull American troops out of the fight. “At some point I will, not quite yet. But countries have to come in and take care of it. Iran has been decimated, but they’re going to have to come in and do their own work,” Trump told Jiang.

Trump then added that “there’s no real threat” in the Strait of Hormuz. “I’ll be there, but if they’re having a hard time getting oil, let them come and take it like they’re supposed to,” Trump continued, his use of the first person evidently suggesting he personally would fly to the Middle East conflict zone to lead the US armed forces into battle. “Let them come up and take it. They didn’t want to give a hand to anybody. NATO is terrible, and they’re all terrible. So if they want oil, come up and grab it. There’s no real threat, there’s no substantial threat because [Iran] has been decimated.”

“Let them come up and take it. It’s about time they did something for themselves,” the two-time US president concluded his message that a secure shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz already exists so European navies should go and be ready to exchange fire with Iranian vessels and gun batteries.