‘Obama will start a war with Iran to win re-election': Amid US strikes on Tehran, Donald Trump's old tweet resurfaces
A decade-old tweet from Donald Trump has come back to haunt him, at a time when he's leading a real war effort.
As tensions between Israel and Iran exploded into open conflict, and the United States confirmed bombing three Iranian nuclear sites, Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, an old Trump tweet from 2013 has gone viral for its eerie irony.
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'Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President
will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly, not skilled!' Trump wrote on X (formerly Twitter), accusing Obama of planning a war to mask diplomatic failure. Similar posts from 2011 and 2012 echo the same idea: that Obama would start a war with Iran to boost poll numbers and win re-election.
But now it's Trump who's ordering strikes on Iran, an action drawing both political backlash and international concern.
'Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran,' Trump warned Saturday night on social media, before announcing that US strikes had 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear infrastructure. He blamed Tehran for rejecting his nuclear deal and reiterated, 'IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.'
The irony wasn't lost on critics, who shared clips of Trump once saying Obama had 'no ability to negotiate' and would 'start a war with Iran' just to stay in power.
Meanwhile, the fallout from the US strikes is spreading, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the US action as a violation of the UN Charter and warned of "everlasting consequences."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the attacks 'a dangerous escalation' and urged diplomacy over war.
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu praised Trump's move, saying history would remember his 'bold decision' to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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Hamas declared full solidarity with Iran, calling the US action 'brazen aggression.'
As the region teeters on the brink of broader war, Trump's resurfaced words from a decade ago are being replayed in a starkly new, and deeply ironic, context.
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