"Oops": Trump Shares Video Boasting Of Huge Deadly Strike In Yemen
President Donald Trump on Friday evening spiked the football after over two weeks of Yemen bombings. He posted a video on Truth Social and X which purports to show a gathering of Houthi fighters.
Large aerial munitions are shown falling on them and the screen erupts in a giant explosion and fireball, to which the US President responds, 'oops'. The images resembled what's typically captured from military drones or loitering aircraft observing a strike.
Several dozens of people appeared on the ground in the footage, somewhat strangely standing in an oval shape.
'These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack,' Trump wrote in his commentary. 'Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!' he added.
It's impossible to actually know at this point what the people gathered in the footage were doing, or who precisely they were. Presumably President Trump is relying on carefully vetted intelligence in this instance, but as we know from the recent two+ decades of the so-called Global War on Terror that it is not always the case that the situation on the ground is carefully vetted.
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