CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday aired a montage showing Donald Trump contradicting himself multiple times within a matter of minutes on the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz caused by his Iran war.

Trump’s demand that traditionally allied nations send warships to help the U.S. Navy safeguard the narrow channel off the coast of Iran — through which around a fifth of the world’s oil passes — has received, at best, a muted response.

In the clip, Trump appeared to process that reality in real time.

Here’s what it showed:

12:21 p.m.: If we ever needed help, they won’t be there for us. I’ve just known that for a long period of time.

12:53 p.m.: We have some that are really enthusiastic. They’re coming already.

12:54 p.m.: This is a need, need would be one of the big boys.

12:55 p.m.: If we need them in boats or if we need anything any piece of apparatus that they may have because of a situation that they have they should be jumping to help us.

12:19 p.m.: We want them to come and help us with the Strait.

12:56 p.m.: My attitude is, we don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world we don’t need them.

The clip ended with Hunt asking: “Did you follow that?”

“We had a hard time following that,” she admitted, before adding:

“Let’s underscore. We’re now more than two weeks into this war. Oil and gas prices only climbing, the national average now $3.70 a gallon for gas. That’s more than 75 cents higher than it was just a month ago. That has the administration looking for any way to get more oil flowing as soon as possible.”

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