{"id":2525201,"date":"2025-12-26T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-brags-us-gave-isis-very-bad-christmas-present-with-nigeria-strikes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:45:45","slug":"trump-brags-us-gave-isis-very-bad-christmas-present-with-nigeria-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-brags-us-gave-isis-very-bad-christmas-present-with-nigeria-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump brags US gave ISIS &#8216;very bad Christmas present&#8217; with Nigeria strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-brags-us-gave-isis-very-bad-christmas-present-with-nigeria-strikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2525201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump praised U.S. military strikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria as a &#8220;very bad Christmas present&#8221; during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-addresses-comments-on-potential-2024-run-by-ivanka\/\" title=\"... ... addresses comments on potential 2024 run by Ivanka\">surprise appearance<\/a> on WABC, saying he had warned Nigeria and ordered the strikes on Christmas Day. The piece says Trump and his allies portrayed the operation as retaliation for attacks on Christians, and Trump wrote on Truth Social that there would be &#8220;hell to pay&#8221; for those targeting innocents. A War Department official told the Washington Examiner that the strikes were carried out with the knowledge and approval of the Nigerian government. The article notes months of pressure from the governance and U.S. evangelicals over anti\u2011Christian violence in Nigeria, and it quotes Republican lawmakers &#8211; including Sens. Ted Budd and Tom Cotton &#8211; who praised the strikes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says ISIS &lsquo;got a very bad Christmas present&rsquo; with US strikes&nbsp;in Nigeria<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2455776\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> praised the U.S. military strikes against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/isis\/\">Islamic State terrorists<\/a> in northwest&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> as a &ldquo;very bad Christmas present,&rdquo; during a surprise Friday appearance on WABC 770 AM.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I told Nigeria, and I told the people around Nigeria that if you do it, you&rsquo;re going to get hit. And I said yesterday, I said, hit him on Christmas Day. It&rsquo;ll be a Christmas present,&rdquo; Trump told John Catsimatidis, host of WABC&rsquo;s <em>Sid &amp; Friends in the Morning<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4362050\/trump-white-house-ballroom-public-meeting\/\">Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom faces first public meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4362030\/trump-sights-peace-progress-netanyahu-zelensky-meetings\/\">Trump sets his sights on peace progress in the new year with Netanyahu and Zelensky meetings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4361988\/trump-orders-christmas-day-us-military-strikes-against-isis-in-nigeria\/\">Trump orders Christmas Day US military strikes against ISIS in Nigeria&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We hit ISIS, who have terrible &mdash; they&rsquo;re butchers. Then we really hit them hard in different locations, and they really got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-sanction-nord-stream-2-after-removing-blocking-trump-sanctions-report\/\" title=\"Biden To Sanction Nord Stream 2 After Removing, Blocking ... Sanctions: REPORT\">hit hard yesterday<\/a>. So they got a very bad Christmas present,&rdquo; the president continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4361988\/trump-orders-christmas-day-us-military-strikes-against-isis-in-nigeria\/https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4361988\/trump-orders-christmas-day-us-military-strikes-against-isis-in-nigeria\/\">TRUMP ORDERS CHRISTMAS DAY US MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST ISIS IN NIGERIA<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump ordered deadly military strikes against &ldquo;ISIS Terrorist Scum&rdquo; in Nigeria on Christmas evening for allegedly targeting &ldquo;innocent Christians.&rdquo;  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,&rdquo; Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115782683955516402\">wrote on Truth Social<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>A War Department official told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Nigeria&rsquo;s government was aware of the U.S. strikes.  &ldquo;The Department of War worked with the government of Nigeria to carry out these strikes. These strikes were approved by the government of Nigeria,&rdquo; the official said. <\/p>\n<p>For months, the Trump administration and evangelicals in the U.S. have accused Islamic State terrorists of intentionally targeting Christian Nigerians. Last month, the president said he was &ldquo;really angry&rdquo; about the anti-Christian violence in Nigeria and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3889840\/will-trump-order-us-military-operations-nigeria\/\">ordered armed forces leaders&nbsp;<\/a>to prepare for action in the West African nation to tackle Islamist militant groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier in December that the State Department will restrict visas for those who have <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >orchestrated religious violence<\/a> in the aftermath of harm against Christians in Nigeria, in a<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/12\/combating-egregious-anti-christian-violence-in-nigeria-and-globally\">&nbsp;new&nbsp;policy<\/a>&nbsp;under the Immigration and Nationality Act. <\/p>\n<p>Some Republican lawmakers have praised the attacks against ISIS on social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3926044\/trump-warns-government-shutdown-obamacare\/\">TRUMP WARNS OF JANUARY GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN OVER OBAMACARE DURING NORTH CAROLINA SPEECH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ISIS is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Christians &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-columnist-tom-friedman-on-china-at-least-they-dont-have-republicans-qanon\/\" title=\"New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman On China: At Least They Don\u2019t Have Republicans, QAnon\">religious minorities<\/a> in Nigeria. @POTUS&rsquo;s decisive strikes will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-group-targets-vulnerable-democrats-over-stimulus-support\/\" title=\"GOP group targets vulnerable Democrats over stimulus support\">save lives &#038;amp<\/a>; protect religious freedom,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenTedBuddNC\/status\/2004354577114845428\">wrote<\/a> Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) on X. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I commend President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and our brave troops for these strikes against bloodthirsty ISIS savages who are not only persecuting Christians, but also have killed many Americans,&rdquo; added Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).<\/p>\n<p><em>Sydney Topf contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: US strikes in Nigeria a bad Christmas for ISIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2525202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25360498352157.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32319,3937,19990],"class_list":["post-2525201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-nigeria"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25360498352157.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525205,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525201\/revisions\/2525205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}