A nearly 40-year-old video of (now President) Donald Trump aggressively targeting Iran has gone viral on X after being posted by international security analyst Max Abrahms, who argues it proves the president’s current hardline policy is consistent with views he has held long before entering politics.
In a clip shared Sunday night, a 41-year-old Trump is shown first speaking at a public event and then in a studio interview. He declares he is “personally tired of seeing this great country of ours being ripped off” and states flatly: “The real culprit is Iran.”
When an interviewer asks whether the U.S. could “go in and take over some of their oil which is along the sea,” Trump replies without hesitation: “Let them have Iran, you’d take their oil.”
In the studio portion he continues: “Next time Iran attacks this country… go and grab one of their big oil installations… Grab them and keep it. Get back your losses. Because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.”
The video has gone viral.
Abrahms followed up in a reply: “Groypers now say that Trump betrayed them only because they were too stupid to understand him.”
