Trump defends 2025 Iran strikes from media scrutiny

President Donald Trump on Monday defended Operation Midnight Hammer, his 2025 strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, and criticized the media for coverage he considered "demeaning."

"Never allow the Traitor Democrats like Low IQ person Hakeem Jeffries, or Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt Fake News Media such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the Failing New York Times (Subscriptions way down!), or dying '60 Minutes,' to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally obliterated the Nuclear Dust locations to the point where bloodthirsty Iran has been unable to get to it, or dig it out," he posted on Truth Social. "Space Force has cameras on every inch of the 3 sites that were so brilliantly hit last June!"

The 2025 Iran strikes saw the U.S. launched limited assaults on a series of key Iranian facilities that housed Tehran's nuclear program. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in recovering the nuclear material trapped below the ground, but the U.S. has not launched any sort of operation to that end.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.