President Trump revealed Tuesday that he’s left “very firm instructions” for Iran to be “blown up” if the US adversary makes good on threats to assassinate him.
“Well, they shouldn’t be doing it,” Trump said of the disturbing death threats issued by Tehran, in an interview with NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight.”
“But I’ve left notification,” the president continued, “[if] anything ever happens, we’re going to blow the – the whole country is going to get blown up.”
Iran has been threatening to assassinate Trump since 2020, in response to the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Trump argued that former President Joe Biden “should have said something” to the regime to tamp down the threats.
“We always said, ‘Why isn’t Biden saying anything?’ Because he didn’t,” Trump fumed. “But a president has to defend a president like, if I were here and they were making that threat to somebody even, not even a president, but somebody, like they did with me, I would absolutely hit them so hard.
“But I have very firm instructions – anything happens, they’re going to wipe them off the face of this earth.”
The latest threat from Iran came just last week, when state-run TV aired an image of Trump from the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt with the words “This time it will not miss the target.”
The threat followed Trump’s repeated warnings that the US will strike Iran if the regime continues its brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.
The same year as the Butler assassination attempt, the Justice Department said an Iranian-led plot to kill Trump was thwarted when a man allegedly tasked by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to murder the president was arrested.
In 2022, the Iranian regime posted a video depicting an assassination attempt against the president at his Mar-a-Lago golf course.
“It’s a job that has its dangers,” Trump told Pavlich. “You look at the percentages, it’s probably the most dangerous job in the world.”
“If you’re a president, it’s 5.2% [who die in office],” he continued. “That’s a lot.”
