“Trump doubles down on threats to Iran”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace covers the latest headlines from the war in Iran. In a press conference today, Donald Trump addressed the rescue of an American pilot who went missing last week when Iran shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet. Trump also double downed on his threats to Iran that he posted on Truth Social, and he attacked reporters and news outlets for asking him about those threats, specifically whether he was worried about committing war crimes.

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0:00.0	Hi there, everyone. It's Fort Fargo, New York. It is day 38 of the war with Iran. Here's where things stand.
0:13.1	Donald Trump chose Easter Sunday to reveal the fullest portrait to date of his instability and lack of self-regulation and self-control.
0:21.1	Trump forcing Republicans to either give voice to the reality that most Americans, including Marjorie, Taylor Green and Alex Jones, among them, can see with their own eyes or, politically speaking, go down with the ship.
0:34.2	Exceedingly large majorities of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's war with Iran
0:38.5	and reject his shifting reasons for waging it. The war has caused an historic disruption to
0:44.5	energy markets and gas prices here continue to soar. Against that backdrop or maybe because of it,
0:50.6	Donald Trump threatened Iran with what would amount to war crimes over the weekend in a profanity-laden post Easter morning.
0:57.0	Because he's the only president we have, we're going to read it to you.
1:00.5	Quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped into one in Iran.
1:06.1	There will be nothing like it, three exclamation points.
1:09.1	Open the fucking straight, you crazy crazy bastards or you'll be living in
1:12.6	hell just watch praise be to Allah it was a post that was so crazy it was sent by the president of
1:23.3	united states it was sent on easter morning so a lot of people had to check to see if it was real.
1:30.8	Yours truly included. But Trump made sure we knew that it was real and that he wrote it by doubling
1:36.2	down on the things he said in that post in a series of interviews, including this one with ABC News on
1:42.1	Sunday. He said, quote, if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours,
1:46.7	quote, we're blowing up the entire country, end quote.
1:49.8	And then today, he said these things.
1:54.7	The entire country can be taken out in one night,
1:58.1	and that night might be tomorrow night.
2:00.0	We're giving them until tomorrow, 8 o'clock Eastern Time, and that night might be tomorrow night. We're giving them till tomorrow,
2:01.9	eight o'clock, Eastern Time, and after that, they're going to have no bridges, they're going to
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