President Donald Trump said on Friday that a U.S. military strike targeting Islamic State terrorists 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."