Trump says Iran's defences are gone and fuel prices will drop, at Montana rally

President Donald Trump told voters in Montana that Iran has "lost all its defences" and that the conflict will end quickly, and he linked that outcome to a sharp fall in fuel prices. Speaking in Kalispell, Trump gave an interview to NBC Montana's Phil Howard before a campaign rally where he addressed supporters for roughly an hour and 15 minutes.

He said the war will be "done very quickly" and asserted that "oil and diesel will be falling like a rock" when that happens. Trump also repeated a pledge that Iran "will never have a nuclear weapon," framing the elimination of its defences as central to that outcome.

He connected the expected drop in fuel costs to completing the military campaign, saying prices will come down "very fast" once the fighting is finished. In the same remarks he argued the United States "inherited the worst inflation from Biden in the history of our county," and said inflation levels are lower now and would fall further after the war.

The event in Kalispell was explicitly tied to Republican congressional politics: Trump was there to support Montana GOP candidates Aaron Flint and Kurt Alme.

According to the NBC Montana interview cited by WCHS-TV, Trump endorsed the hardline position previously expressed by Flint, who told NBC Montana to "get it done with or don't do it at all," a line Trump said he agreed with.

The account of what Trump said, including his predictions about Iran's defences and fuel prices, comes from WCHS-TV's report of the NBC Montana interview and the Kalispell rally. The report quotes Trump's words directly on Iran's military status, the timing of the war's end, and the expected effect on oil and diesel prices.

The article does not provide independent evidence for Iran's military condition, for the timing of the conflict's end, or for the magnitude of future fuel-price moves. Trump's comments tie a foreign military outcome to domestic economic conditions and to his political messaging in Montana.

The WCHS-TV/NBC Montana coverage records his statements and the context of the rally; it does not record outside confirmation of the claims about Iran's defences or hard fuel-price trajectories. The article attributes the quotations and the campaign context to the interview and the rally rather than asserting verification of the predictions.