Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is the “best American president” due to his “complete transparency.”

“All American presidents commit crimes and end up taking the Nobel Prize and appear as a defender of human rights and the ‘unique’ and ‘brilliant’ American or western principles,” the Syrian president said in a state TV interview, according to an NBC News translation.

“But all they are is a group of criminals who only represent the interests of the American lobbies of large corporations in weapons, oil and others.”

Assad said he gives Trump credit for at least being transparent about his interests, namely oil. He said Trump’s decision to keep a small number of U.S. troops in the Kurdish-held areas of Syria “where they have the oil” showed that Washington was a colonial power that was doomed to leave once Syrians resist their occupation, as in Iraq.

“What do we want more than a transparent foe?” Assad said.

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