{"id":98600,"date":"2026-07-30T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-responds-to-iranian-strikes-on-jordan-we-will-always-hit-back-when-they-strike-smack-them-a-little-bit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:42:47","slug":"trump-responds-to-iranian-strikes-on-jordan-we-will-always-hit-back-when-they-strike-smack-them-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-responds-to-iranian-strikes-on-jordan-we-will-always-hit-back-when-they-strike-smack-them-a-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Responds To Iranian Strikes On Jordan: &#8220;We Will Always Hit Back When They Strike,&#8221; &#8220;Smack Them A Little Bit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Trump on U.S. not withdrawing from Iran war: &#8220;There&#8217;s very little they can do about it&#8230;we got to smack them a little bit.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REPORTER: On what scenario do you see Iran attacking U.S. installations and personnel overseas and you withdrawing?   PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, I don&#8217;t see that. No, we&#8217;re not. No, we&#8217;re going to hit them very hard. I mean, I could actually say that because there&#8217;s very little they can do about it. It was a different group than we&#8217;re dealing with. They&#8217;ve already apologized, but, you know, we&#8217;ve got to smack them a little bit.  REPORTER: Mr. President, will you hit back when they strike?  TRUMP: Will I always hit back?   REPORTER: Yes.   TRUMP: Pretty much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/29\/trump_responds_to_iranian_strikes_on_jordan_we_will_always_hit_back_when_they_strike_smack_them_a_little_bit.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on U.S. not withdrawing from Iran war: &#8220;There&#8217;s very little they can do about it&#8230;we got to smack them a little bit.&#8221; REPORTER: On what scenario do you see Iran attacking U.S. installations and personnel overseas and you withdrawing? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, I don&#8217;t see that. No, we&#8217;re not. No, we&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2068,541,6302,783,1324,1742,30047,297,6170,1281,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}