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'I Am Blowing Up Everything'

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Eric Boehm | 4.6.2026 9:30 AM

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'Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards.' President Donald Trump's chaotic handling of the Iran War took a profane and bizarre turn on Sunday.

Separately, Trump told reporters that he continues to negotiate with Iranian officials in advance of the Tuesday deadline. "There is a good chance, but if they don't make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there," Trump told Axios. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said Iran would "lose every power plant" in Tuesday's strikes.

This renewed rhetorical push to get Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz comes just a few days after Trump seemed to downplay the Hormuz situation in a scripted address on Wednesday night. At the time, Trump said the strait would "just open up naturally" (though he did also promise to hit Iran "extremely hard" for two weeks).

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