"We want to go in and clean out everything... We want them to have a good leader. We have some people who I think would do a good job," Trump told NBC News in a phone call.
He declined to name anyone.
Trump also dismissed Mojtaba Khamenei as “a lightweight,” according to The Hill.
Trump suggested he is even tracking potential future leaders during the war.
“We are watching them, yeah,” he told NBC News.
At another point he suggested that Iranian officials might ask him “who I’d like” to lead the country.