The Daily Beast on Friday called President Donald Trump’s late-night social media posts a “twisted meltdown.” The 79-year-old confirmed all six crew members of a ship KC-135 military tanker People who crashed in Iraq have died. The incident is under investigation. U.S. Central Command said the crash was not believed to be the result of enemy or friendly fire.
In a post on The Truth Society, Trump said the United States was “totally destroying the terrorist regime in Iran,” further adding that it was a “tremendous honor” to “kill” members of the Iranian regime.
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“We have unmatched firepower, unlimited ammunition and plenty of time – look what will happen to these crazy scumbags today,” Trump warned.
“For 47 years, they have been killing innocent people around the world, and now, I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What an honor to be able to do that!”
At around 00:33 a.m. local time on Friday, Trump claimed: “The Iranian navy is gone, their air force no longer exists, missiles, drones and everything else are being destroyed, and their leaders have disappeared from the face of the earth.”
Trump triggered by media reports
The Daily Beast further reported that Trump appeared to be triggered by reports on the “rising costs of conflict.” His government has also come under scrutiny over U.S. involvement in a strike at an all-girls primary school in Minapur. The matter remains under investigation.
Trump even lashed out at the New York Times after reporter Sean MacLeish asked Trump about the strike on Tuesday.
“You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war,” McCleish told Trump.
“But you’re the only one in the government who says that. Even your defense secretary, standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday, wouldn’t say that when asked. Why are you the only one who says that?”
Trump angrily responded: “I just don’t know enough about it. I think it’s something that I’ve been told is being investigated.”
“We are completely destroying the terrorist regime in Iran militarily, economically and otherwise, and yet if you read the New York Times that failed, you would mistakenly believe that we are not winning,” Trump said on The Truth Society.
Pete Hegseth makes new claims about Iran’s supreme leader
Meanwhile, Iran’s new supreme leader, Moytaba Khamenei, was “injured and possibly disfigured,” Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said on Friday. He confirmed reports that Ali Khamenei’s son was injured on the first day of clashes.
“Iran’s leadership is not in better shape, desperate and in hiding. They have gone underground, cowering. That’s what rats do. We know the new so-called less supreme leader is injured and probably disfigured,” Hegseth told reporters.
