President Trump dropped an F-bomb on both Israel and Iran Tuesday as he urged the warring nations to respect his fragile ceasefire to end the two-week war.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing,” Trump said as he left the White House to fly to a NATO summit in Europe.
The remarkable outburst came as an initial Pentagon intelligence assessment indicated that Trump’s bombing strikes this weekend failed to destroy the core components of Tehran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by a few months, CNN reported.
A furious Trump made it clear that he mostly blamed Israel for violating the ceasefire early in the morning Middle East time after both sides increased attacks in the final hours.
“I gotta get Israel to calm down now,” Trump said. “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen.”
Trump angrily warned America’s close ally Israel to end the attacks on Tehran. He also reportedly delivered a stern warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respect the ceasefire.
“Israel is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘plane wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the ceasefire is in effect,” he wrote on his social media site.
“Do not drop your bombs,” he added.
Israeli officials said they ordered new strikes only in response to Iranian violations of the ceasefire, but would respect the deal going forward.
Iran denied violating the accord and said it wouldn’t fire back if Israel stopped its attacks.
Trump forged the ceasefire Monday after the U.S. attacked Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend and Iran responded in only a muted fashion by firing missiles at a U.S. military base in nearby Qatar.
Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries demanded a congressional briefing on the attacks and a debate on Trump’s unilateral decision to strike Iran without informing or consulting Congress.
“The American people deserve to know the truth,” Jeffries said. “That process flows from the constitutional responsibility that Congress and Congress alone has to declare war. The Constitution is not an inconvenience.”
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Iranian protesters chant slogans in Revolution Square to protest US attacks on nuclear sites in Iran on June 22, 2025 in Tehran. (Photo by Getty Images)
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