{"id":70925,"date":"2026-04-05T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/unhinged-madman-us-politicians-react-to-trumps-expletive-laden-threat-to-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:58:30","slug":"unhinged-madman-us-politicians-react-to-trumps-expletive-laden-threat-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/unhinged-madman-us-politicians-react-to-trumps-expletive-laden-threat-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unhinged madman\u2019: US politicians react to Trump\u2019s expletive-laden threat to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing \u2018open the fuckin\u2019 strait, you crazy bastards\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/05\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president\u2019s mental state after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> issued an abusive, expletive-laden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/05\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed?page=with%3Ablock-69d252ff8f080da25b48b6e3#block-69d252ff8f080da25b48b6e3\">threat<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> in which he called on the regime to \u201copen the fuckin\u2019 strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards\u201d, as he threatened to further attack the country\u2019s energy and transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: <em>\u201c<\/em>Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin\u2019 Strait, you crazy bastards, or you\u2019ll be living in Hell &#8211; JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.<em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/05\/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing \u2018open the fuckin\u2019 strait, you crazy bastards\u2019 Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president\u2019s mental state after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Unhinged madman\u2019: US politicians react to Trump\u2019s expletive-laden threat to Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/unhinged-madman-us-politicians-react-to-trumps-expletive-laden-threat-to-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Unhinged madman\u2019: US politicians react to Trump\u2019s expletive-laden threat to Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}