..., citing the defeat of ISIS and the need to defend US borders and rebuild crumbling infrastructure: "We're coming out of Syria very soon. Let the other people take care of it now." Others like Russia perhaps?

The US spent $7 trillion in the Middle East, Trump said, describing how the US would build schools only for insurgents to destroy them, while there was no funding to build schools in Ohio: "We build a school, they blow it up. We rebuild the school, they haven't blown it up yet, but they will."

The president also pointed out the "wall" and 32,000 US troops guarding the border between North and South Korea, while the US border with Mexico was not likewise protected.

"Is there something a little bit wrong with that?" Trump asked the crowd.

Trump's remarks about Syria are in line with what he said last month, at a press conference in Washington with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull.