US President Donald Trump said he left instructions for the US to retaliate if Iran succeeds in assassinating him, he told the New York Post on Friday.
“I’ve left instructions, if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” the New York Post cited Trump as saying.
“No, no, Israel came up with nothing,” Trump said, adding that he had been Iran’s primary target for “a long time.”
“It’s the way life is, you know,” he said.
Trump previously stated that he had left instructions in the case of his assassination in January of 2025, saying that Iran would be “obliterated” if their assassins succeeded.
However, the New York Times cited experts saying that a president cannot leave instructions for military action after his death. All authority would transfer to his successor, the new commander in chief.
Trump’s claims come as Iranian crowds called for his death at the week-long funeral for Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“I swear by the blood of the Supreme Leader, Trump, we will kill you!” they shouted, with women holding up placards reading “Kill Trump.”
The roads leading to the shrine were a sea of black-clad mourners on Thursday, some responding to shouted chants in praise of Khamenei and against Iran’s enemies, including the old revolutionary slogan of “Death to America.”
