President Trump went on national TV Wednesday night and told Iran he’s going to bomb every power plant in their country if they don’t make a deal. “We are going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong,” he said during a 19-minute speech that preempted CBS’s *Survivor* — which is fitting, because survival is exactly what the mullahs should be thinking about right now.
Naturally, Democrats and their loyal stenographers in the media had a collective nervous breakdown. Not over Iran cluster-bombing an apartment building full of elderly Israelis in Ramat Gan — two people in their 70s died just steps from their safe room — but over Trump’s *tone*.
These people are pathological.
Where was the media outrage when Iranian drones slammed into residential towers in Bahrain? Where were the primetime specials when Iran attacked Kuwait — a country that *wasn’t even in the fight* and had explicitly told everyone it wanted no part of the conflict? Kuwait literally said “leave us out of this” and Iran bombed them anyway. Did Anderson Cooper shed a single tear over that? Not a chance.
Iran hit civilian airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait. They bombed a synagogue in Beit Shemesh, killing nine people and injuring 49. They attacked all six Gulf states simultaneously, because apparently the mullahs woke up one morning and decided to speedrun a world war.
But sure, *Trump’s* the monster for telling them the lights are going out.
Hours before the speech, Trump told a luncheon crowd he planned to “basically tell everyone how great I am.” Gotta love the man. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy — a guy who has never once proposed anything useful regarding Iran — hopped on X to whine that he couldn’t tell whether Trump was escalating or de-escalating. “But to be fair, neither does he,” Murphy snarked.
Real helpful, Chris. This is the same Democrat Party that spent four years letting Iran sprint toward a nuclear arsenal while the Biden regime shipped pallets of cash to the regime and begged them to come back to the table for another worthless “deal.” Democrats had their shot at Iran policy. They blew it so badly that Iran is now lobbing missiles at six countries at once. Sit down.
The deadline saga alone deserves its own sitcom. Trump gave Iran 48 hours on March 21. Then he pushed it back five days. Then he extended it *again* to April 6 with a Truth Social post that read like a secretary rescheduling a dentist appointment — except the appointment is the destruction of an entire nation’s electrical grid.
“As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days.”
(That might be the most politely worded threat of civilizational annihilation ever posted on social media. The man has range.)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the “upcoming days will be decisive.” Iran’s navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their missiles are nearly spent after they blew their arsenal attacking everyone from Israel to Kuwait. Trump hasn’t even touched their oil yet, which he cheerfully noted during the speech would erase any chance of Iran ever rebuilding. He’s dangling that over Tehran like a cat toy and the mullahs know it.
We’re paying north of four bucks a gallon at the pump because Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz — that’s 20% of the world’s oil supply — and Democrats want us to get weepy about Iranian lightbulbs. These are the same people who spent a decade enabling a theocratic regime that stones women for showing their hair and hangs gay people from construction cranes. Democrats never met a murderous regime they couldn’t find sympathy for, as long as criticizing it might make a Republican president look good.
Iran can end this tomorrow. All they have to do is make a deal. Trump spelled it out in terms so simple even Chris Murphy could follow along. If the mullahs would rather sit in the dark and eat cold rice, that’s on them — and on every Democrat who spent the last decade making sure Iran had the resources to get this far in the first place.
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