{"id":1867065,"date":"2026-04-05T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1867065"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:39:54","slug":"trump-threatens-iran-in-expletive-laden-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1867065","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Iran in expletive-laden post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76493396_6.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"sk6xmai\">\n<div class=\"a17o045m\">\n<div class=\"av-wrapper\">\n<h1 aria-label=\"Video \u2014 Trump threatens Iran in expletive-laden post\" class=\"dy75pgs headline h1du6kc5 l1ozsu87 p1s74fjj s16w0xvi sngcpkw b1fzgn0z\"><span>Trump threatens Iran in expletive-laden post<\/span><\/h1>\n<div data-tracking-name=\"video-player\" class=\"hh5424a av-player pd4yz45\">\n<div class=\"bg-poster\">\n<div><video controls playsinline data-duration=\"07:13\" data-play-btn-title=\"Play video\" dir=\"ltr\" id=\"video-76674664\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" preload=\"none\" class=\"dw-player video-js vjs-fluid\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/vps\/webvideos\/ENG\/2026\/NEWS\/NEWSENG260405_Scott_Dublin_TrumpPost_01SMW_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-area sa7l9jt s9mg977\">\n<section data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\" class=\"c75t7t0 hh5424a in-line closed\">\n<div class=\"copy-button-wrapper closed\"><span class=\"svdcmki\">https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5Bia8<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p>On Sunday, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">US President Donald Trump<\/a> stepped up his threat to hit Iran&#8217;s critical infrastructure hard if Tehran does not reopen the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz\/t-76193780\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> by his April 6\u00a0deadline. In a social media post, he declared that &#8220;Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump has threatened war crimes with the destruction of civilian infrastructure,&#8221;\u00a0Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at University College Dublin, told DW.\u00a0&#8220;It is a sign of anger, it is a sign of frustration\u00a0and it is a sign \u2014 I think \u2014 of desperation that he has not gotten what he wanted, which is regime surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p>On Sunday, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">US President Donald Trump<\/a> stepped up his threat to hit Iran&#8217;s critical infrastructure hard if Tehran does not reopen the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz\/t-76193780\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> by his April 6\u00a0deadline. In a social media post, he declared that &#8220;Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump has threatened war crimes with the destruction of civilian infrastructure,&#8221;\u00a0Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at University College Dublin, told DW.\u00a0&#8220;It is a sign of anger, it is a sign of frustration\u00a0and it is a sign \u2014 I think \u2014 of desperation that he has not gotten what he wanted, which is regime surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">US President Donald Trump<\/a> stepped up his threat to hit Iran&#8217;s critical infrastructure hard if Tehran does not reopen the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz\/t-76193780\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> by his April 6\u00a0deadline. In a social media post, he declared that &#8220;Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump has threatened war crimes with the destruction of civilian infrastructure,&#8221;\u00a0Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at University College Dublin, told DW.\u00a0&#8220;It is a sign of anger, it is a sign of frustration\u00a0and it is a sign \u2014 I think \u2014 of desperation that he has not gotten what he wanted, which is regime surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trump-threatens-iran-in-expletive-laden-post\/video-76674664&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/76493396_6.jpg&#8221;] Trump threatens Iran in expletive-laden post https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5Bia8 On Sunday, US President Donald Trump stepped up his threat to hit Iran&#8217;s critical infrastructure hard if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his April 6\u00a0deadline. In a social media post, he declared that &#8220;Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,74],"class_list":["post-1867065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dw-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}