Trump Makes Profanity-Laden Threat to Target Civilian Infrastructure in Iran

President Donald Trump spent his Easter Sunday posting a series of animated messages about the war with Iran, including a profanity-laden promise to annihilate much of the country’s civilian infrastructure this week if peace talks continue to falter.

He also celebrated the rescue of a missing Air Force officer from “deep inside the mountains of Iran” in his Sunday posts, part of a daring rescue mission that was quickly overshadowed by Trump’s threats.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “Praise be to Allah.”

The president also conducted a series of short phone interviews with reporters for several outlets Sunday morning, a strategy used more frequently by Trump in recent weeks to release information about the war.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, he said the absence of a deal by Tuesday evening would prompt the United States to take out every bridge and power plant in Iran, adding “that country will take 20 years to rebuild, if they’re lucky, if they have a country.”

When asked what the damage might do to the country’s civilian population, Trump declared: The Iranian people “want us to do it.”

The president also told Fox News that if a deal was not reached with Iran imminently, “I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.” Shortly after making the threat, Trump decamped to his golf club in northern Virginia.

Trump revealed in his interview with Fox that during the nationwide protests against the Iranian regime by its civilians earlier this year, the United States sent “a lot of guns” to the Kurds with the intention of arming Iranian protesters. Fox correspondent Trey Yingst reported, however, that Trump suspects the Kurds kept the weaponry.

In his post celebrating the officer’s rescue, Trump teased an Oval Office news conference “with the Military” on Monday afternoon. The president had largely been silent on the missing service member, but detailed and celebrated his rescue in a series of early morning posts, writing “WE GOT HIM!”

The airman, a “highly respected Colonel,” sustained injuries after the F-15E fighter jet he was flying in was shot down over Iran Friday, Trump said. The pilot of the fighter jet was rescued that day, but it took “dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World,” to rescue his partner, the president wrote.

“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow Warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue,” Trump wrote. “WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND!”

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the president’s fiercest allies turned critic, excoriated Trump’s Easter Sunday messages.

“Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing,” she wrote online. “Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.”

“This is not making America great again, this is evil,” she added.