Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one

President Donald Trump’s two-week timeline to decide whether the U.S. will strike Iran’s nuclear sites is a familiar one — it’s one he’s repeatedly used since his first term in office.

President Donald Trump’s two-week timeline to decide whether the U.S. will strike Iran’s nuclear sites is a familiar one — it’s one he’s repeatedly used since his first term in office.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” he said in a statement issued through White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Trump has promised action on questions or decisions in “two weeks” over a dozen times in the last two months, according to an NBC News review — and he used the same timeline repeatedly during his first term in office.

“We’re going to be announcing something, I would say over the next two or three weeks, that will be phenomenal in terms of tax and developing our aviation infrastructure,” Trump said of tax overhaul plans on Feb. 9, 2017.

He released a one-page outline of the plan 11 weeks later, according to a Bloomberg review that year.