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Former President Donald Trump called for Iran to be annihilated if the US adversary were to ever assassinate him.
Trump, 78, revealed his wish for ferocious retaliation in a Truth Social post on Thursday, in which he included a clip of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing the Islamic Republic’s assassination threats during his address to Congress.
“If they do ‘assassinate President Trump,’ which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth,” the Republican nominee for president said.
“If that does not happen, American Leaders will be considered ‘gutless’ cowards!” he added.
Trump’s call for his hypothetical death to be avenged comes less than two weeks after an would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear at a Butler, Pa., campaign rally, leaving him bloodied, two rally-goers injured and one man, 50-year-old hero firefighter Corey Comperatore, dead.
In the days after the assassination attempt, US officials revealed that they had received intelligence about an Iranian plot to kill Trump just weeks before the July 13 rally shooting.
The threat was shared with the lead Secret Service agent on Trump’s protection detail and with the former president’s campaign, US officials said.
The White House National Security Council noted last week that it has been tracking Iranian threats against Trump administration officials “for years,” and that they stem from the rogue nation’s “desire to seek revenge for the killing of Qassem Soleimani,” the leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force who was taken out on Trump’s orders in 2020.
The 45th president warned in 2019 that if Iran were to obtain a nuclear weapon it face “obliteration like you’ve never seen before”
“I’m not looking for war, and if there is, it’ll be obliteration like you’ve never seen before,” Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“But I’m not looking to do that,” he added. “But you can’t have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk? Good. Otherwise you can have a bad economy for the next three years.”
Trump invoked similar rhetoric against North Korea in 2017, warning that the hermit kingdom would face “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it continued its belligerent behavior against the US.
