President Donald Trump\u00a0shot back at a reporter who asked if the Iranian government believed his threats to bomb the country were credible, calling the question \u201cstupid\u201d in light of the recent U.S. action in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Trump spoke to press onboard Air Force One Sunday about the continued protests in Iran<\/a> and his promise<\/a> last week that the U.S. would hit the country \u201cvery hard where it hurts\u201d if protesters were killed.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you think Iran takes your threats seriously?\u201d a reporter asked the president.<\/p>\n Trump said he thought Iran believed his words due to his administration\u2019s bombing<\/a> of the country over the summer and the recent U.S. operation that led to the capture<\/a> Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think so. Don\u2019t you think so, CNN?\u201d said Trump, jokingly asking a reporter he labeled \u201cfake news\u201d earlier in the gaggle.<\/p>\n He continued:<\/p>\n Don\u2019t you think so? Wouldn\u2019t you say that they probably do at this point? After going through it for years with me, being hit, [Qasem] Soleimani, [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, the Iran nuclear threat wiped out. Don\u2019t you think\u2013 and then you just had Venezuela. Don\u2019t you think, she says, CNN, \u201cdo you think they take your threat seriously?\u201d Wouldn\u2019t you say they do after all of the things we\u2019ve done? What a stupid question.<\/p>\n Trump has repeatedly<\/a> threatened to bomb the country if protesters were harmed, telling reporters Sunday that he was considering<\/a> \u201cvery strong options\u201d against Iran in response to human rights groups\u2019 reporting<\/a> that hundreds have already been killed in the country\u2019s violent uprising.<\/p>\n Though the president told reporters that Iranian leaders called him to \u201cnegotiate,\u201d some within the country\u2019s government have hit back<\/a> against Trump\u2019s interference.<\/p>\n Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a scathing response<\/a> to Trump\u2019s words on X, warning that Trump \u201cwill be overthrown.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat father figure who sits there with arrogance and pride, passing judgment on the entire world, he too should know that usually the tyrants and oppressors of the world, such as Pharaoh and Nimrod and Reza Khan and Mohammad Reza and the likes of them, when they were at the peak of their pride, were overthrown,\u201d wrote Khamenei. \u201cThis one too will be overthrown.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch above via Fox News.<\/p>\n The post \u2018What a Stupid Question\u2019: Trump Snaps at Reporter Who Asked If He Thinks Iran Is Taking His Threats Seriously<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u00a0shot back at a reporter who asked if the Iranian government believed his threats to bomb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,3,942,195165,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-404677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-stupid-question","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}