After numerous attempts on his life and recent news that an enraged Iranian regime has called for his assassination, President Donald Trump has given his top advisers instructions if anything happens to him. And it sounds like an old John McCain tune.
Remember the one the former Senator sang on the campaign trail? It went like this: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," sung to the tune of doo-wop classic "Barbara Ann."
Trump has instructed his advisers to bomb Iran at unprecedented levels if anything happens to him, telling the New York Post, “I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with,” he said. “… The only thing is, I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.”
He added: " “I’ve been No. 1 [on Iran’s kill list] for a long time, and it’s the way life is, you know. He later added, "I hope you'll miss me."
Trump, however, dismissed the specific report that Israel knew of an Iranian assassination attempt, saying that Israel "came up with nothing."
Still, they openly loathe the man who's been bombing them for weeks and continues to grapple with a failed ceasefire that was supposed to free up oil tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
“Why shouldn’t we kill the one who killed my imam and my leader?” a eulogist at a memorial event in Iran said this week, according to Iranian media. “Trump’s killing is our duty. … Why is the most despicable man in the world still alive?”
U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe Iran is seeking ways to kill then-candidate Trump in 2024, with two assassination attempts against him that summer.
For their part, Iranian officials have denied any attempts to kill Trump, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stating that Iran "never attempted" to assassinate anyone.
