'Impeach Trump': Fury Erupts As President Warns Iran 'An Entire Civilisation Will Die Tonight'
Donald Trump has sparked fresh controversy after warning Iran that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” unless the Strait of Hormuz is re-opened.
The US president’s latest deranged Truth Social post came just hours before the deadline he imposed for Tehran to start allowing traffic to pass through the key waterway.
Around one-fifth of the global oil supply is transported through the strait, but it has been effectively closed since America and Israel began bombing Iran at the end of February.
Trump announced over the weekend that Tehran had until 1am tomorrow UK time to confirm they were ceasing attacks on ships trying to use the strait or else “all hell will reign down” on them.
In a follow-up post on Truth Social on Sunday, he said: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!”
Posting on Tuesday morning, Trump said: “A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalised minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
His comments were widely condemned online, with leading Republican and former White House official Bill Kristol calling for Trump to be impeached.
Impeach Trump. pic.twitter.com/14dZ78IwMD
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 7, 2026
Veteran journalist and broadcast Andrew Neil said: “Is there anybody, any group, capable of staging an intervention in the White House?”
President Trump threatens to wipe out Iranian civilization if Tehran doesn’t cede to his demands by 8pm New York time (1am London) tonight (Tuesday).
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 7, 2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump…
Piers Morgan, a former Trump supporter, described the president’s statement as “a brazen pre-admission of genocide ... which would obviously be a war crime”.
This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness. pic.twitter.com/8rbFEOQA3V
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 7, 2026
Other responses on X were equally critical of the president’s comments.
“A whole civilization will die tonight” sounds uncomfortably like what the Oracle at Delphi told Croesus of Lydia before he attacked Persia. If we really are committed to the destruction of an entire civilization then we have lost our own. https://t.co/x7wF9uuOaO
— Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) April 7, 2026
This kind of psychotic, genocidal rhetoric is a huge gift to the Islamic Republic regime. https://t.co/3sjtygdI2S
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 7, 2026
Shame on you Donald Trump. Absolutely disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/G6345s3Dkh
— James Melville ???? (@JamesMelville) April 7, 2026
Absolute psychopath. Fox News reads Donald Trump's terrifying threat to completely obliterate an entire civilization tonight. The US President is openly declaring his intention to commit mass genocide against the Iranian people while absurdly claiming he wants to save them. pic.twitter.com/bj4XxF4QEH
— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 7, 2026
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