'She's wrong': Trump says Tulsi Gabbard incorrect about Iran not having nuclear weapon capabilities

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is "wrong" successful her appraisal that Iran is not adjacent to gathering a atomic weapon.

Trump's comments came aft helium departed Air Force One en way to his Bedminister, New Jersey, play club, erstwhile helium stepped speech to instrumentality a fewer questions from reporters. 

"She's wrong," Trump said aft helium was asked astir Gabbard's appraisal that Iran is not adjacent to gathering a atomic weapon. "My quality assemblage is wrong."

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U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Tulsi Gabbard and her hubby Abraham Williams successful the Oval Office successful February 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's remarks were preceded by a question from a newsman asking the president, who publically opposed the Iraq warfare astir 20 years ago, what made this concern with Iran antithetic – considering nary weapons of wide demolition were ever recovered aft the George W. Bush medication invaded Iraq. 

"There were nary weapons of wide destruction. I ne'er thought determination were. That was somewhat pre-nuclear. You know, it was –  there was a atomic age, but thing similar it is today," Trump said. "And it looked similar I'm close astir the worldly that they've gathered already [in Iran]. It's a tremendous magnitude of material. And I deliberation wrong a substance of weeks, oregon surely wrong a substance of months, [Iran was] going to beryllium capable to person a atomic weapon. We can't fto that happen."

In March, DNI Gabbard said during an opening connection to the Senate Intelligence Committee that that the quality assemblage "continues to measure that Iran is not gathering a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the atomic weapons programme that helium suspended successful 2003."

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President Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard person recovered themselves connected opposing sides of a important question: Does Iran person the capabilities to physique a atomic weapon? (Getty Images )

Meanwhile, past week Gabbard posted a cryptic 3 and a fractional infinitesimal video connected X past week, informing of the risks of a imaginable atomic war, and blasting "warmongers" for bringing the satellite "closer to the brink of atomic annihilation than ever before."

President Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One earlier this week that helium doesn't attraction what Gabbard says, "I deliberation they were precise adjacent to having one," erstwhile pressed connected the pair's divergent opinions. 

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This week, according to The Guardian, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Gabbard's appraisal has been "reconfirmed" by existent intelligence.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Gabbard's bureau for remark but did not person an contiguous response.