“You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it.”

“We have a lot of oil,” said Trump. “We were the number one producer anywhere in the world times two by double, at least double. Now I think it’s much higher than that. But we do it. It’s almost like we do it for habit, but we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Middle East.”

That does not at all sound like a "probably we shouldn't be there" statement. It reads more like "some say we shouldn't but we do it anyways because ..."

Like he outright states he's doing it for Israel and because Israel asked him to and somehow convinced him. He's not backing down. That's not what he's saying there.