‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/05/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed">Middle East crisis – live updates

Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state after https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/05/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed?page=with%3Ablock-69d252ff8f080da25b48b6e3#block-69d252ff8f080da25b48b6e3">threat to https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran in which he called on the regime to “open the fuckin’ strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards”, as he threatened to further attack the country’s energy and transport infrastructure.

The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.

There will be nothing like it!!!

Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!

Praise be to Allah.

President DONALD J. TRUMP.”