In 1980, a 34-year-old Donald Trump said the US should invade Iran in response to the hostage crisis

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• In 1980, in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis, Donald Trump in an interview said the US should invade Iran. 
• "I absolutely feel that, yes...I think right now we'd be an oil-rich nation, and I believe that we should have done it, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it," Trump said at the time. 
• This interview in many ways foreshadowed the tone of Trump's future presidential campaign and general stance toward Iran as commander-in-chief. 
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In 1980, as 52 hostages were being held by Iranian students at the US Embassy in Tehran, a 34-year-old Donald Trump advocated for a US invasion of Iran. 

In an October 1980 interview with gossip columnist Rona Barrett, uncovered on Tuesday by Brookings Institution amid an escalating crisis with Iran, Trump said the US "should really be a country that gets the respect of other countries."

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