Donald Trump has admitted that Americans are likely to die in a major new war he says he’s launched to save American lives.
“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war,” he said in a Saturday morning video.
Trump posted the clip on Truth Social to announce “major combat operations in Iran” to “defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.”
He made the announcement while wearing a white USA trucker hat.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for further comment. Residents in the Iranian capital of Tehran reported a series of explosions at approximately 10.30 a.m. on Saturday in the Pasteur neighborhood, where the presidential palace and national security council head offices are located.
Other targets appear to include the offices of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s residence and the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Explosions have also been heard in other cities, including Qom, Kermanshah, Tabriz, Lorestan, Karaj, and Khorramabad. Israel has joined in the strikes.
Khamenei is not thought to be at his Tehran residence, with sources claiming he is in a “safe undisclosed location.” His officials have “vowed a crushing response” to what appears to be “the start of a full-scale military exchange, and not a limited U.S. action.”
Trump’s new war contradicts explicit promises made to voters on the 2024 campaign trail to lessen, rather than increase, American involvement in active conflicts and other military entanglements abroad.
This is Trump’s second attack against the Iranian regime after targeted strikes against the country’s nuclear facilities last June. It flies in the face of Trump’s efforts throughout his first year back in office to model himself as a “President of Peace,” dubiously claiming to have “solved” a constantly shifting number of wars around the world.
What appears set to now become the 2026 U.S.-Iran War comes after the president launched military strikes against Islamic insurgents in Nigeria, a U.S. ally, on Christmas Day, and the shock U.S. incursion into Venezuela in January to abduct former President Nicolás Maduro, who now faces narcoterrorism charges in a New York federal court. Trump has similarly threatened to invade U.S. allies Panama, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a fellow NATO member.
The MAGA president’s growing, campaign-promise-busting appetite for military engagement also comes amid his bitter disappointment at being passed over for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize despite a concerted public and private push by his allies. It was previously awarded to his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama.
In a letter regarding that snub, Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in January that “considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”
The Norwegian government is not affiliated with the Nobel Committee, which decides independently to whom it will grant its awards. Trump’s claim to have stopped eight wars remains highly disputed.
Today, he started one.
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