Donald Trump Posts B-2 Jets Video With 'Bomb Iran' Song Hours After Ceasefire
Donald Trump posted a video of B-2 bombers with the 1980s song 'Bomb Iran', just hours after expressing frustration over Iran and Israel violating the ceasefire.
Hours after he expressed frustration with both Iran and Israel for violating the ceasefire, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social handle, featuring a compilation of B-2 stealth fighter jets dropping bombs at different places.
The video was posted along with the 'Bomb Iran' song from the 1980s, by Vince Vance and the Valiants.
The song is believed to be a parody of the 1961 song 'Barbara Ann' by the Regents.
The video Trump posted was widely shared on social media, with netizens poking fun at the post.
'Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks, tell the Ayatollah, 'Gonna put you in a box!' Bomb Iran", the song goes.
Donald J. Trump Truth Social 06.24.25 07:15 PM EST pic.twitter.com/51nR30m1w9 — Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 24, 2025
On Tuesday, a fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to be in place after initially faltering.
Israel had earlier accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the truce was supposed to take effect, and the Israeli finance minister vowed that 'Tehran will tremble".
The Iranian military denied firing on Israel, state media reported, but explosions boomed and sirens sounded across northern Israel in the morning, and an Israeli military official said two Iranian missiles were intercepted.
The Iran-Israel conflict, now in its 12th day, began with Israel targeting Iranian nuclear and military sites, saying it could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons and that it feared the Islamic Republic was close.
Iran has long maintained that its programme is peaceful.
If the truce holds, it will provide a global sense of relief after the US intervened by dropping bunker-buster bombs on nuclear sites over the weekend, a move that risked further destabilising the volatile region, the Associated Press reported.
Trump dialled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the American bombing on Sunday and told him not to expect additional US military attacks and that he should seek a diplomatic solution with Iran, a senior White House official said.
Trump's position was that the US had removed any imminent threat posed by Iran, according to the official who was not authorised to comment publicly about sensitive diplomatic talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israel followed up the US air attacks by expanding the kinds of targets it was hitting.
After Tehran launched a limited retaliatory strike Monday on a US military base in Qatar, Trump announced the ceasefire.
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