A clearly frustrated President Donald Trump appeared to threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran, which is ironic considering he made such a big deal about the fear of nuclear holocaust in the Ukraine war conflict when he was a 2024 candidate.
But now the tables are turned. The U.S. has failed to force Iran's capitulation and is locked in a game of competing blockades in the Hormuz Strait. Trump's comments yesterday came after the U.S. bombed targets on two Iranian islands following shots Iranians launched against two American war ships. Something that could never have happened if its military was "completely destroyed" as described by Trump officials over the last month.
"They trifled with us with today. We blew them away," he told reporters at the Lincoln Memorial basin. On whether the ceasefire is off, he said no. If it was off, you'd know it, he added. "If there's no ceasefire you're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran."
The reference to "one big glow" touched off a firestorm on social media overnight. Oil prices were holding at $100 a barrel at 6 a.m. as it becomes clear that not only is the "deal" with Iran still out of reach, the war is slowly ramping back up and the president is increasingly cavalier with statements that sound like he is threatening to use U.S. nuclear weapons against the Islamic Republic. Israel, too, of course has nuclear weapons, which is all doubly ironic since the war today supposedly, is to prevent Iran from getting ... a nuclear weapon.
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