President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Easter Sunday with a curse-laden, crazed threat to attack Iran should the regime not open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” wrote Trump in yet another threat to strike the country’s civilian infrastructure as his unpopular war enters its sixth week.
“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
His call to reopen the critical waterway for the world’s oil trade follows a similar threat on Thursday evening when he declared the U.S. military “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran,” adding that more of the country’s bridges and power plants were next.
Earlier that day, the U.S. attacked civilian infrastructure in the country for the first time when it bombed a bridge near Tehran. Experts have expressed concerns that such attacks could constitute war crimes under international law.
The president’s latest post arrives as his Monday deadline to reopen the strait looms overhead.
The post sparked swift backlash across the political spectrum, with former Trump ally-turned-critic, ex. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), charging the president with spewing “evil” and called on Christians in his administration to fall to their knees to “beg forgiveness from God.”
“I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit,” Greene wrote in a post to X.
Rep. Rebecca Balint (D-Vt.), in an interview on MS NOW, accused Republicans of a double standard as she wondered aloud how they’d react if Joe Biden or Barack Obama made such a post.
At least one Muslim civil rights group has also condemned Trump for his “mocking of Islam” in the post.
Hosts of major media outlets either read the foul-mouthed message verbatim on live TV or skirted around repeating the president’s cussing, with Fox News’ Peter Doocy declaring that Trump used some “really bad words” in the post.
Critics suggested that Vice President JD Vance and the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment to declare the president, whose bizarre behavior has sparked concerns of a sharp cognitive decline in recent years, unfit for office.
Trump told ABC News’ Rachel Scott on Sunday that the conflict of his making in the Middle East should be over in a matter of days, saying “very little” is off the table if there’s no peace deal.
“If happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country,” he said.
