More reactions to Trump’s speech are coming inpublished at 03:43 BST<\/p>\n
03:43 BST<\/p>\n
Trump’s threats to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages where they belong” drew sharp criticism from some lawmakers.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s talking about a country of 90 million people,” Representative Yassamin Ansari, a Democrat from Arizona, says. “Vile, horrifying, evil.”<\/p>\n
On X, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote simply: “Back to the Stone Age.”<\/p>\n
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, is also critical of the address. “Trump, as always, lied to us,” Van Hollen, a Democrat, says. “Over 2 weeks ago he said ‘we won.’ If so, then why are we still there? What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
All we can count on is more lies from Trump. This delusional man is a danger to our country and the world.”<\/p>\n
US House Majority Leader Steve Scalise complimented the speech.<\/p>\n
“Tonight, President Trump laid out an incredibly compelling case to the nation for Operation Epic Fury,” Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, says. “The Iranian regime’s long history of terror and murdering Americans demonstrates why it was necessary to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More reactions to Trump’s speech are coming inpublished at 03:43 BST 03:43 BST Trump’s threats to bomb Iran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-559802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","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\/559802","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=559802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}