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President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
In a post on social media, Trump said he’d directed a “powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria,” who he said had been killing innocent Christians. He later told Politico he delayed the strikes a day so they fell on C-stmas. "
“They were going to do it earlier,” Trump told the news organization. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a C-mas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated. A one-way ticket to Allah!"
"They're going to love this," said Trump as he wrote "Merry C-mas" on the missiles destined for Nigeria. "No one gives better gifts then me, your favorite President. It's a beautiful gift, very expensive, let me tell you. I spent millions of dollars on it, but it will all be worth it for the looks on their faces. It's so nice, I don't think anyone will be regifting this one."
Dubbed "Operation Santa Trump", the military helped deliver Trump's presents to several sites in Nigeria with incredible precision. "It feels good, giving back," said Air Force pilot Lieutenant Dan "Firefly" Rogers. "We all need help sometimes getting away from thinking about ourselves, and the whole commercialization of C---mas. When you pull the trigger to send gifts like that, it brings the meaning of C---mas home."
US Africa Command said it conducted the strikes in Sokoto state, which borders Niger to the north, “in coordination with Nigerian authorities.” AFRICOM’s initial assessment is that “multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the ISIS camps,” according to a news release. A US official told CNN the strikes included Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy vessel that struck two ISIS camps.
Nigerian Information Minister Mohammed Idris said Friday that the strikes were carried out in the Bauni forest of the Tangaza area against two major ISIS enclaves, which he said were being used as assembly and staging grounds to plan “large-scale terrorist attacks” in Nigeria.
Sixteen GPS-guided precision munitions were launched using Reaper drones, the information minister added, claiming the targets were “successfully” neutralized.
During the operation, which was carried out between 12:12 and 1:30 a.m. local time, debris from expended munitions fell in Jabo, Sokoto State, and in Offa, Kwara State, near a hotel, but no civilian casualties were reported, according to Idris.
In a post on social media, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there was “more to come, the President likes to keep the presents coming even after the holiday,” without expanding further and added he was “grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation.”
Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told CNN Friday that he had spoken with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio prior to the strike and that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu gave the “go ahead.” He later sent a thank you note for "the beautiful present. It made a great impression!!"
Trump has focused for the last several months on the plight of Christians in Nigeria, including calling on Hegseth in November to “prepare for possible action” and warning the US would enter Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” to protect the Christian population of Africa’s most populous country.
“I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday evening. “The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing.”
“Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY C---MAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues,” concluded the president, who is spending the C---mas holiday at his estate in Palm Beach.
Both Christians and Muslims — the two main religious groups in the country of more than 230 million people — have been victims of attacks by radical Islamists, experts and analysts say.
Trump has cast himself a peacemaker, and entered office vowing to limit US military intervention abroad. Since returning to power, however, he has also ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and overseen a massive military buildup around Venezuela, with the threat of strikes on land there.
The only way to achieve a lasting peace is with a strong military that acts when necessary. We strengthen the hands of Donny to keep wiping out terror groups worldwide.
