President Trump threatens military action in Nigeria
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce that Nigeria should take action against the persecution against Christians. Trump declared an end to aid to the country and warned that if Nigeria doesn’t do anything, the U.S. military would come in to deal with the terrorist group responsible for attacking the Christians. Nigeria’s president insists that they have religious freedoms and that these freedoms were in their constitution.
From AP News:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country.
The president also warned that he “will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria.”
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump posted on social media. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!”
The warning came after Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier on Saturday pushed back on Trump announcing a day earlier that he was designating the West African country “a country of particular concern” for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
In a social media statement on Saturday, Tinubu said that the characterization of Nigeria as a religiously intolerant country does not reflect the national reality.
“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so,” Tinubu said. “Nigeria opposes religious persecution and does not encourage it. Nigeria is a country with constitutional guarantees to protect citizens of all faiths.”
Trump on Friday said “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria” and “radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
Additional Reading:
Shibayan, D., & Madhani, A. (2025, November 2). Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action and escalates claim of Christian persecution. AP News. Link.
Category: Donald Trump, International Affairs
Timbu says that their is nothing going on. On my home screen, watch dog peeps can’t see any killing of Christians
““I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.”
There’s probably been a couple of binders full of contingency plans for this for decades.
IIRC, the movie “Canadian Bacon” taught us that the Pentagon has plans to invade every country… including Canada.
But then what? We don’t want Canada. Canadians don’t even want Canada.
The government anyway!!
The country is beautiful. Too bad their liberal government is such a waste of all that is good with that country.
Quite a few combat arms guys got a hard-on upon reading Trumps’ post.
I have no doubts!
Quote from the book, written by a guy who was there and done that, in the Battle of the Somme:
[quote]What do you fear, lady?” [Aragorn] asked.
“A cage,” [Éowyn] said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.[\quote]
War call for our names. I feel it in my bones every time the drums of war echo through the air. We here at TAH know the price.
[quote] (Faramir) War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. [\quote]
On my old age I have come to appreciate Tolkien in ways I never imagined.
One of my favorite JRRT quotes:
— Halbarad the Ranger to Aragorn
— JRR Tolkien (The Return of the King, Book V, Ch. 2, para 69)
Rangers gotta Ranger!
Not the smart ones.
Surprised the seagull hasn’t shown up with zis/ zer hair on fire about this..
Too busy making travel plans for his next terrorist shtick.
Maybe he was at harvard…
Not to worry, it’s only a matter of time until he does another “shit & run”!
He’s unable to pay for his internet. No gubmint money.
Hahahaha!!!! Yes indeed!!!
Sad thing is that you are probably Spot-ON!!!!
Fine, stop all aid, no issue here. Committing US troops and treasure, Hell No.
Maybe if the Nigerians stopped renting out their soldiers to the UN as “Peacekeepers” and kept them at home to protect their own citizens the problem would be solved.
Hard pass. Africa is a mess and us being there won’t fix anything
Africa needs to be isolated from the rest of the world and allowed to disappear itself. Run by inbred animals too inept to do it competently…
I’m thinking some jihadi bases explode and the Green Berets do a training tour with the local military.