Trump says US strikes on Iran took the bomb ‘right out of their hands’

US President Donald Trump says last night’s US strike against Iran took “the ‘bomb’ right out of their hands.”

“We had a spectacular military success yesterday, taking the ‘bomb’ right out of their hands (and they would use it if they could!),” he writes.

Trump makes the declaration in a Truth Social post tearing into Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, who has criticized the strike by arguing that it will lead to the US getting dragged into another Middle East war.

“Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is. Actually, MAGA doesn’t want him, doesn’t know him, and doesn’t respect him,” Trump writes.

“He’s a simple minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ at every chance they get,” he continues.

Trump pledges to campaign against Massie in the latter’s next Republican primary, urging his supporters to abandon the isolationist lawmaker.

While some influencers in Trump’s base had expressed their opposition to US involvement in the war before Trump authorized the strike, many of them have fallen in line to support the president. Massie is one of the few Republican lawmakers who has come out against the US strike after the fact.