Frustrated Trump drops f-bomb, later declares Iran-Israel ceasefire ‘in effect’
Both Israel and Iran violated a ceasefire Trump touted after the United States entered the conflict by dropping bombs over the weekend.
President Donald Trump let his frustration with Israel and Iran get the better of him in an exchange outside the White House Tuesday morning.
On his way to attend the NATO summit at The Hague in the Netherlands, Trump was asked by reporters about Israel and Iran continuing their conflict in violation of a ceasefire touted by the president.
“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’d never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen,” Trump said on his way to Marine One. “I’m not happy with Israel... I’m not happy with Iran, either.”
Trump directed most of his anger at Israel, which retaliated Tuesday morning after Iran shot “one rocket by mistake that didn’t land.”
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” Trump said.
President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing." pic.twitter.com/xrztmebALZ
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Trump also took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to proclaim the ceasefire is still “in effect.” He also said planes from Israel are calling off their attacks.
“All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt,” Trump wrote.
Iran had claimed Israel conducted strikes until 9 a.m. local time (about 1:30 a.m. Philly time), hours before a ceasefire plan previously announced by Trump was slated to take effect.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Cheltenham High School alum, announced Tuesday morning the country had retaliated against an Iranian missile attack but held off on tougher strikes following Trump’s outburst.
“Following President Trump’s conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from additional attacks,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Trump isn’t the only president to curse in public
This isn’t the first time Trump has made profane comments. Last month, he warned Republicans “Don’t f— around with Medicaid” as they rushed to pass a budget bill that proposes steep cuts for those programs to pay for tax cuts.
During his first term, Trump labeled Haiti, El Salvador and other counties in Africa “s— hole counties” and dropped an F-bomb during a 2016 campaign rally.
But he isn’t the first president to drop vulgar language in public.
In 2022, then-President Joe Biden was caught on a hot microphone calling Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b—“ over a question about inflation. Doocy later said Biden apologized for the outburst.
Former President George W. Bush was also caught on a hot mic criticizing a reporter using not-so-nice language. During the 2000 campaign, Bush leaned over to his running mate, Dick Cheney, and described former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer as a “major league a—hole.” Cheney famously responded, “big time.”
Former President Barack Obama wasn’t caught on a hot mic, but in offhand remarks to reporters in 2009, he was recorded calling Kanye West a “jacka—“ after he interrupted Taylor Swift’s speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. He also suggested his 2012 opponent, Mitt Romney, was a “bulls—er” during an interview with Rolling Stone.
“I curse more than I should,” Obama admitted in an interview with Vanity Fair in 2016. “And I find myself cursing more in this office than I had in my previous life.”