In an address to industrial workers in Ohio on Thursday, March 29, Trump said U.S. forces were close to securing all of the territory that the Islamic State (IS) once claimed.

"We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now," he promised.

According to AFP Trump did not say who the others were who might take care of Syria.

"Very soon -- very soon we're coming out. We're going to have 100 percent of the caliphate, as they call it -- sometimes referred to as 'land' -- taking it all back quickly, quickly," he said.

"But we're going to be coming out of there real soon. Going to get back to our country, where we belong, where we want to be."

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert was later asked at a briefing if she was aware of any decision for the U.S. to pull out of Syria.

She responded, "I am not, no. No."

The United States has more than 2,000 military personnel in eastern Syria.

"We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. And you know what we have for it? Nothing," Trump declared, promising to focus future U.S. spending on building jobs and infrastructure at home.

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