With time running out on a deadline for Iran, the president redoubled his warning about a next wave of strikes and the “punishment that’s going to rain down on them.”
Before Operation Epic Fury had entered its second month, negotiations with the Islamist regime found President Donald Trump offering a 10-day deadline to come to terms with the United States. As the window is about to close, the commander-in-chief added to his warning directed at the “crazy bastards” by asserting, “we’re blowing up the whole country.”
The remarks came courtesy of a report from ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott, who detailed Sunday morning, “Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks, but if no deal is made, he’s blowing up the whole country with ‘very little’ off the table.”
She went on to quote him as saying, “If it happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country,” before asking about target limits, of which he said there are, “Very little.”
Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with “very little” off the table.
“If happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country,” he said.
I asked if…
— Rachel Scott (@rachelvscott) April 5, 2026
“It should be days, not weeks,” Trump went on. “It should be wrapped up in days because no sane group of people could stand the punishment that’s going to rain down on them if it’s not.”
As had been reported, an Easter morning social media post teased what would come Tuesday if no deal was reached, especially concerning allowing oil to flow through the Strait of Hormuz, with the president stating, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
The day prior, the commander-in-chief reminded, “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!”
When it comes to striking a potential deal with Iran, Trump told Scott, “There could be a deal, and there could also not be a deal. I don’t know. I have no idea with these people, they’re getting the sh*t beat out of them, and that’s, that’s all I can tell you. There’s been no country that’s ever taken a pounding like that.”
He also said of the deadline itself, “I don’t want to talk about it; they have plenty of time to make a deal. If they don’t want to make a deal — their whole country is gone.”
Meanwhile, as NATO’s failure to act in curbing Iran’s threats to ships in the strait found Trump contending the tested alliance had proven the organization a paper tiger, the president also responded to growing concerns about the possibility of boots on the ground.
“I don’t think it’s necessary, but I don’t rule anything out,” said the president. As of April 3, the Department of War detailed that 365 American troops had been wounded in Operation Epic Fury and 13 were killed.
Worth noting, Trump previously slammed Scott as an “obnoxious” and “terrible reporter” during a December cabinet meeting after she asked a question about the release of a video of strikes against suspected narco-terrorist vessels.
Her line of questioning was deemed “a disgrace” during the July 2024 National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago when, little more than two weeks after the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt, the reporter opened her line of questioning by seemingly attempting to frame the president as racist.
In response to a litany of accusatory statements about language he’s used to describe public figures who happen to be black, Trump said, “First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner, the first question. You don’t even say ‘Hello, how are you?’ Are you with ABC, because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirits. I love the black population of this country. I’ve done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including opportunity zones with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for black workers and black entrepreneurs.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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