Donald Trump's estranged niece has given her take on why the president bombed Iran as she issued a damning message following the weekend's strikes.
Worries about the international fallout of Trump's strikes on Iran's nuclear sites have been growing, which ultimately led to Iran targeting US military bases in Qatar and Iraq on Monday (June 23).
Trump proposed a ceasefire between all involved, but has now accused both Iran and Israel of breaking that a matter of hours after it came into play.
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The Republican president has been labelled with the 'Taco: Trump Always Chickens Out' term by some of his harshest critics in recent months after backing down on tariffs implemented on certain countries.
Mary Trump, who has long been critical of her uncle, believes Trump is still 'stinging' from the nickname.
She wrote on Substack: "As a country, we are at war and the man who led us into this war is a corrupt, degraded, ignorant know-nothing who acted illegally to plunge us into a potentially catastrophic situation without the consent of Congress because, despite the fact that he is the president of the United States of America and arguably the most recognized figure on the planet, he wasn’t getting enough attention.
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"Despite being depraved and cruel, much like his cohort (Israel Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu, he is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud."
Mary concluded: "Donald is still no doubt stinging from the acronym recently coined to mock his inability to follow through on anything – TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out."
Meanwhile, Trump has hit out at both Iran and Israel in a brief interaction with the press on Tuesday (June 24).
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The president said: "As soon as we made the deal Israel came out and dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I had never seen before.The biggest load that we have seen.
“I’m not happy with Israel, when I say you have 12 hours you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
“So I am not happy with them, I am not happy with Iran either but I am really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning.”
Visibly angered by the situation, Trump then slammed: “We have basically have two countries that have been fighting for so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they are doing, do you understand that?”
Topics: Donald Trump, Iran, US News, Israel
Callum Jones