Trump Absoultley Humiliated Joe Kent
Trump Resurfaces Joe Kent’s 2020 Call for Strikes on Iran Hours After Counterterrorism Chief’s Resignation Over Ongoing War
President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a six-year-old social media post from Joe Kent urging aggressive military action against Iran, just one day after Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest over the Trump administration’s war in Iran.
The X post Trump amplified features Kent’s message from January 8, 2020, originally addressed directly to Trump during heightened U.S.-Iran tensions. In it, Kent wrote:
“We should not sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq - they are only targets now.No US WIA/KIA is a tribute to the professionalism of our military and intel professionals not Iranian restraint.”
The original post came amid the aftermath of the U.S. strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Kent’s resignation, announced Tuesday, marks the first major public break within the Trump administration over the conflict. In a statement posted to X, Kent stated he could “not in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” adding that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict appeared driven by “pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Trump responded to the resignation by telling reporters Kent was “a nice guy” but “very weak on security,” and that his departure was “a good thing.”
The president has repeatedly asserted that Iran represents a “tremendous threat” justifying U.S. military action.
Kent, a former Green Beret and congressional candidate, had also warned in 2024 that a war with Iran “is going to be a disaster.”