‘The hypocrisy is breathtaking’: Trump’s Obama-era Iran warnings return as he chooses war amid negotiations
When news of Israeli-American joint attacks on Iran began circulating on Saturday, many users of X did not race to the latest headlines. They raced to the archives. Within hours, decade-old posts by Donald Trump — in which he repeatedly warned that then-President Barack Obama would “manufacture” a war with Iran to boost his re-election prospects — resurfaced en masse. A person looking at a smartphone displaying US President Donald Trump making a statement regarding combat operations on Iran, on February 28, 2026. Trump said, “Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.” (Chris Delmas/AFP Photo) There were thousands of fresh replies, quote-posts, and some pointed comparisons to the current moment of violent irony. Iran’s foreign affairs minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi also pulled out an old Trump ‘tweet’ that said Obama would start a war to divert from his domestic political performance. Araghchi wrote: “(Israel PM Benjamin) Netanyahu and Trump’s war on Iran is wholly unprovoked, illegal, and illegitimate.” Another of Trump’s posts attracting renewed attention is …







