{"id":8488,"date":"2025-12-29T06:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2025-12-29T06:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:07:22","slug":"trump-says-us-launched-numerous-deadly-strikes-on-terrorists-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8488","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US launched \u2018numerous\u2019 deadly strikes on terrorists in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces conducted deadly strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Northwestern Nigeria, and vowed more attacks if the militants keep killing Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The president stated this on his Truth Social platform, adding that the Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cTonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have previously warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder my leadership, our country will not allow radical Islamic terrorism to prosper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God bless our military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post on X (formerly Twitter), Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said he was \u201cgrateful for Nigerian government support and cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cThe President was clear last month: the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe @DeptofWar is always ready, so ISIS found out tonight \u2014 on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8489\" src=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1352-300x158.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1352-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1352-1024x538.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1352-768x403.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1352.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces conducted deadly strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Northwestern Nigeria, and vowed more attacks if the militants keep killing Christians. The president stated&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}