Trump said that Iran has "made a proposal and it's a significant proposal," adding that this was a "significant step" but "not good enough."
Asked what he would say to Americans who do not like the war with Iran, Trump said, "they're foolish because the war's about one thing: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon."
Polls indicate that most Americans do not approve of U.S. military action in Iran, but Republicans have been broadly supportive of Trump’s actions.
told reporters at the White House Easter Egg Roll that the U.S. tried to send guns to Iranian protesters to fight against the government.
"They don't have guns," Trump said of the Iranian people, after asserting that civilians were not protesting the government out of fear of being killed.
"We sent some guns, but the group that was supposed to give — which I said would happen, to my people, I said it, I called it exactly," he said. "We sent guns, lot of guns. They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs."
"You know what happened?" he said. "The people that they sent them to kept them, because they said, 'What a beautiful gun, I think I'll keep it.' So I'm very upset with a certain group of people, and they're going to pay a big price for that."
The administration has previously said that the goal of the war is not regime change, and Trump has claimed regime change has already occurred in the country because its leadership has been largely eradicated.
Trump told reporters today that he calls what has happened because of the war "regime change, and I think most people are giving us credit for that. The first regime was taken out, the second regime was taken out. Now, the third group of people that we’re dealing with is not as radicalized, and we think they’re actually much smarter."
