By Molly Goddard
4:00am PDT, Apr 6, 2025
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Donald Trump made it clear the United States isn't backing down from Houthi terrorists.
On Monday, March 31, the president took to his Truth Social account to emphasize that America's military will continue to strike the Yemeni group until they halt attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.
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"The Iran-backed Houthi Terrorists have been decimated by the relentless strikes over the past two weeks. Many of their fighters and leaders are no longer with us," Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We hit them every day and night — harder and harder. Their capabilities that threaten shipping and the region are rapidly being destroyed."
The Republican leader doubled down on the consequences of the group's actions, adding, "Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation. The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at U.S. ships and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in
Iran."
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Donald Trump and his administration kicked off their military strikes against the Houthis on March 15. The action stemmed from the terrorist organization threatening to attack Israeli ships in the Red Sea following the cease-fire in the Gaza war. The group later hit U.S. warships in the same area.
The sea inlet has been a hotbed for Houthis-led attacks throughout the
trade route along the critical Suez Canal since 2023.
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The Trump administration's military operations were caught up in the midst of a scandal after the editor-in-chief of
The Atlantic,
Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a group text discussing the classified information.
"I think we are making a mistake," Vice President
J.D. Vance allegedly stated in the chain according to the article Goldberg wrote for the publication. "Houthi PC small group. [Three] percent of U.S. trade runs through the [Suez Canal]. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it's necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message."
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Despite the breach, Donald Trump has doubled down on how well he thought the strike turned out.
"I think it's just a witch hunt and the fake news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it's just a witch hunt and it shouldn't be talked [about]," he told NBC News on Sunday, March 30. "We had a tremendously successful
strike. We struck very hard and very lethal. And nobody wants to talk about that. All they want to talk about is nonsense. It's fake news."
