President Donald Trump Threatens Devastating Strikes on Iran If Tehran Chokes Energy Supply

President Donald Trump shifted on Day 10 of the U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran from suggesting the operation was nearly finished to adopting a far more confrontational posture, warning that Washington would respond with devastating force if Tehran tries to choke global energy supplies.

“Over the past decade, Donald Trump has shown that he is a master at playing with the media, world leaders, opposition within his country, and markets”

ELMUNDOAMERICA

Newsweek reports Trump told reporters, “We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world,” and noted he earlier said the war was “very complete, pretty much” before walking that back; the article summarised his threat as a warning of “harsher action if Iran disrupts global oil supplies.”

ELMUNDOAMERICA

ELMUNDOAMERICA likewise paints Trump as a media operator who deliberately times ambiguous messages to calm markets while keeping threats in reserve, saying he “managed to relax investors” even as his statements remained unclear about timing or finality of the campaign.

Trump mixed triumphant claims about battlefield gains with corrections and qualifiers: he told CBS the campaign was “very complete” and later walked that back, while asserting the U.S. was “achieving major strides” and had destroyed nearly all Iranian military assets.

Newsweek records these assertions and flags that Trump made “exaggerated claims about battlefield gains,” including that U.S. forces had destroyed nearly all Iranian military assets, and also notes he “walked back his earlier comment that the war was ‘very complete,’ saying instead the U.S. is ahead of schedule.”

Newsweek

ELMUNDOAMERICA documents a similar pattern of boastful language and immediate qualification, quoting Trump saying the war was “practically over. They have no army, no communications, no Air Force,” then adding his own corrections about not having fully won.

Energy markets and investors responded to Trump’s mixed messaging: Elmundoamerica describes how his carefully timed comments and interviews helped calm markets on a volatile trading day, with oil falling from highs to about $85 a barrel after investors took comfort in the suggestion the conflict could be short.

“Over the past decade, Donald Trump has shown that he is a master at playing with the media, world leaders, opposition within his country, and markets”

ELMUNDOAMERICA

Newsweek records that Trump threatened harsher strikes if Iran tried to choke off the world’s energy supply, explicitly tying military escalation to protection of global oil flows;

both outlets therefore show how strategic communications and threats about energy were central to the U.S. posture and market reactions.

Beyond battlefield claims and energy warnings, both sources record Trump's political aims and grandiose rhetoric: Newsweek notes he said he wants influence over Iran’s next leader, urging the successor to “do something peacefully for a change,”

while ELMUNDOAMERICA reports he repeatedly framed the bombing campaign as a “little excursion” against “bad people,” boasted of striking up to 5,000 targets, and expressed concern about the rise of the son of a slain leader without specifying follow-up actions.

Newsweek

Together these accounts portray a leader blending political objectives, calibrated threats, and public boasting while leaving timelines and end-states ambiguous.