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BumRushDaShow

(167,143 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 09:48 AM Nov 2025

A Fox News report prompted Trump to post about Nigeria, setting off White House scramble

Source: NBC News

Nov. 3, 2025, 10:41 PM EST


WASHINGTON — A Fox News report prompted President Donald Trump to call out Nigeria over the killing of Christians and then threaten military action, setting off a scramble in the White House over the weekend, according to multiple U.S. officials.

It’s still unclear what — if anything — the administration will do to counter Islamic militants in Nigeria, but precision drone strikes are among the preliminary options being considered, two U.S. officials said. A White House spokesperson declined Monday to offer any details on the plans under consideration.

“At President Trump’s direction, the administration is planning options for possible action to stop the killing of Christians in Nigeria," the spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, said in a statement. "Any announcements will come from the President directly."

Trump's first social media post on Nigeria came Friday night after he watched a Fox News report on violence in the West African nation, two administration officials said. The president asked his staff for more information about the situation and, shortly after, declared in a Truth Social post that he was designating Nigeria a "country of particular concern" over its failure to, in his words, stop the "mass slaughter" of Christians.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fox-news-report-prompted-trump-post-nigeria-setting-white-house-scramb-rcna241648

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A Fox News report prompted Trump to post about Nigeria, setting off White House scramble (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 2025 OP
This broken nation will never move forward 31st Street Bridge Nov 2025 #1
And X and Facebook and Newsmax and Brietbart and Rumble and the Blaze and . . . . progressoid Nov 2025 #3
Shit there was even a report a few weeks ago suggesting that RT copied Fox. Initech Nov 2025 #7
If Faux News says it is so, you can believe it. (sarcasm) OLDMDDEM Nov 2025 #2
Another clarion call to MAGAts Bayard Nov 2025 #4
I saw it on TV Unwind Your Mind Nov 2025 #5
I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Well not that shocked. Initech Nov 2025 #6
He'll walk it back when he figures out that Nigerians are black. Queso Delicioso Nov 2025 #8
A malevolent, extrovert Chauncey Gardiner. Harker Nov 2025 #9

progressoid

(52,795 posts)
3. And X and Facebook and Newsmax and Brietbart and Rumble and the Blaze and . . . .
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:36 AM
Nov 2025

sorry I've got a bone to pick with these people.

Initech

(107,974 posts)
7. Shit there was even a report a few weeks ago suggesting that RT copied Fox.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:09 PM
Nov 2025

Yes, Fox is so extreme that they're inspiring copycats and dictators and dictator wannabes around the world.

Bayard

(28,995 posts)
4. Another clarion call to MAGAts
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:21 PM
Nov 2025

He claims to be so concerned about Christians, when he doesn't follow those teachings himself.

Unwind Your Mind

(2,329 posts)
5. I saw it on TV
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:46 PM
Nov 2025

Declared the demented old man on the debate stage

I was shocked there wasn’t more discussion about that

And here we are…

Queso Delicioso

(185 posts)
8. He'll walk it back when he figures out that Nigerians are black.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 02:14 PM
Nov 2025

Besides, if he cared so much about Christians he wouldn't waffle so hard over Ukraine.

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