"Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria. It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment,” Ross revealed when speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California on Monday.
“The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment,” he added.
The Syrian government denies any involvement in the Idlib incident, saying it would never use chemicals weapons against anyone, even terrorists.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Syrian warplanes had actually hit a terrorist warehouse with chemical weapons meant for delivery to Iraq.
Trump earlier said that the decision to carry out the missile strike at the Shayrat air base was actually a “tough decision” to make because “you're killing people, and you can kill the wrong people, too.”
According to Syrian officials, the US missile strike killed six people and left several others wounded.
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