U.S. President Donald Trump derided Iran*s leaders as ※deranged scumbags§ and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region.

The conflict, which began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, has killed more than 2,000 people, disrupted the lives of millions of others and shaken energy and financial markets across the globe.

In a post on social media late on Friday, Trump said the U.S. was ※totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran.§