Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delayed by a day to ‘give a Christmas present’

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a US military strike targeting Islamic State militants in Nigeria was originally supposed to take place on Wednesday, but he ordered it delayed by a day.

“They were going to do it earlier,” Trump told Politico in an interview. “And I said, ‘Nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated.”