That's a great point. But acting like a typical establishment Republican globalist is what got him into this Iran fiasco in the first place.
The dude should have listened to himself.
Posted on 07/29/2026 7:06:55 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump raged to Fox News’s Trey Yingst about Tuesday night’s surprise attack by Iran on U.S. troops in Jordan, telling him “we are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.”
Yingst, Fox’s chief foreign correspondent, reported on Trump’s comments while joining Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning and noted that Trump added, “We’ll be hitting them hard.”
“Yeah, guys, good morning. President Trump reacting to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight in Jordan. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran: ‘We are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.’ He went on to say, ‘We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating,’” Yingst began his report, adding:
So clearly, the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. He says U.S. forces had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The president says he has reviewed video of the shoot-down, and it was U.S. forces conducting this operation to defend that area. He said it was real-time — they were calling out coordinates and ensuring that none of this incoming Iranian fire got through.
I also asked the president about those U.S. and Saudi airstrikes against Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militias overnight. He says those strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government. He called these Iran-backed militias “a cancer on the world” and says he is considering additional warnings against Iranian proxies and their link to the Iranian regime.
The president also talked about his meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. He says it was a great meeting — he understands now. It appears that the relationship between President Trump and the Israeli prime minister is strengthening. And again, the president called that meeting in the Oval great.
In terms of possible talks with the Iranian regime, the president says, “We’re going to let them keep talking.” Remember, the Iranians came to President Trump after 13 straight days of U.S. bombing against Iran, asking to meet about the Strait of Hormuz and their broader nuclear ambitions, and those talks are taking place as we speak, behind the scenes — and then this surprise attack launched against U.S. forces overnight. And again, President Trump telling Fox News, “We are going to beat the effing s*** out of them,” and that U.S. strikes will take place against Iran in response to the surprise attack overnight against U.S. forces in Jordan.
“What’s intriguing, too, is we understand the previous attacks were with Saudi Arabia. This whole thing started with Epic Fury, with Israel. Do you sense that there might be a comprehensive plan in place, or being worked on, that would involve Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE — who at various times have taken unilateral action on their own — along with the IDF?” followed up host Brian Kilmeade.
“It’s absolutely possible, because the Iranian plan here backfired. By attacking all of these Gulf countries, they built an informal coalition that is now targeting Iranian proxies in the region, and even Iranian territory,” Yingst replied, adding:
And we saw that last night on display: Saudi Arabia publicly admitting that they are participating in strikes against Iranian proxies in Iraq alongside U.S. forces. And other countries in the Gulf have participated in a limited capacity against the Iranians, targeting some of these coastal areas around the city of Bandar Abbas, next to the Persian Gulf, where many of those U.S. strikes took place.
And remember, when we spoke with President Trump earlier this year during Operation Epic Fury, he said he was most surprised by the fact that the Iranians were targeting these countries that were uninvolved — that were not striking Iran at the time. And so, again, what Iran has done here by targeting these Gulf countries is actually building this informal coalition that is now being used to pressure the Iranian regime.
The question remains if these talks will lead to some sort of agreement. But again, President Trump tells Fox News there will be a U.S. response to this surprise attack overnight against U.S. forces in Jordan.
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It is for effect.
“Trump is a man with little self control who often loses his temper and screams out profane threats.”
And will you relate to us just how you know that???
Can you discern the difference between getting angry and “losing your temper’?
Have you ever been angry? Do you consider yourself to have lost your temper when you get angry?
Have you ever read the Old Testament, where it describes God getting exceedingly angry?
If you have never gotten angry and expressed it, you are the world’s greatest wuss.
You are stupid.
Still clueless after all these years.
Acting like a normal human being instead of an uptight politician is exactly what has made him so effective.
President Reagan’s title as The Great Communicator is safe. Now there was a man who respected the office he represented and got meaningful things done.
Thanks for the detailed response.
What you described might be necessary. But it goes very much beyond what might be described as a police action.
So shouldn’t the president have to go before Congress and ask for a Declaration of War, as required by the Constitution?
This is what I voted for.
Start with Hormuz. Soon to be known as The Strait of Trump.
I thought his fumbling began when he sent those two real estate agent clowns as his "envoys" to negotiate with Iran.
You mean those two Jewish fellows sent to negotiatae with people who hate, despise and want to kill Jews?
I thought that was a snarky middle finger by Trump to Iran. Not helpful.
Is it total war this time? No fighting with one arm tied behind our back? Or will JD be trotted out to once again say there will be no ground action?
That's a great point. But acting like a typical establishment Republican globalist is what got him into this Iran fiasco in the first place.
The dude should have listened to himself.
You are correct
You are correct
President Reagan’s title as The Great Communicator is safe. Now there was a man who respected the office he represented and got meaningful things done.
It was a much different country back then, and no social media.
We are on this now, and the only thing to do is to fight 100 percent, like we should have from the beginning.
I take it that you favor ground action.
Please explain the logistics.
would not not surprise me that the Democrats keep telling thier Iranian friends to keep stirring up trouble.
would not not surprise me that the Democrats keep telling thier Iranian friends to keep stirring up trouble.
Still not an excuse for lowering the office to tiktok mic drop levels.
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles”
Thank you so much for that!
Congress take responsibility for something?
When has that ever happened?
What does that even mean?
You go right ahead and do that.
"We" aren't capable of doing ANYTHING with a 100% commitment in a nation as dysfunctionally diverse as ours.
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