{"id":2580590,"date":"2026-03-16T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-ex-president-praised-iran-strikes-all-four-issue-denials\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:07:33","slug":"trump-says-ex-president-praised-iran-strikes-all-four-issue-denials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-ex-president-praised-iran-strikes-all-four-issue-denials\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says ex-president praised Iran strikes; all four issue denials"},"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\">20<\/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-says-ex-president-praised-iran-strikes-all-four-issue-denials%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=2580590&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>Trump claimed at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates ... ..., &#039;... is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a> that an unnamed former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-hints-at-daughter-in-laws-future-senate-run\/\" title=\"... ... ... at daughter-in-law\u2019s future Senate run\">president praised<\/a> his Iran strikes, but all four living former presidents denied talking to him about the strikes. He refused to name the president, suggesting it woudl be embarrassing. NBC News reported denials from aides to George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Bush\u2019s aide said they hadn\u2019t been in touch; Clinton\u2019s aide said Trump wasn\u2019t referring to Clinton, though his hints suggested or else; Obama\u2019s aide said there were no recent conversations; a source said Trump wasn\u2019t talking about Biden. Trump added that he had spoken with \u201cone of the former presidents who I actually like\u201d and hinted it might be Clinton, but he wouldn\u2019t identify him. The denials leave the claim unverified and highlight Trump\u2019s rocky relationships with most living former presidents, with Clinton appearing to be the possible exception.  <\/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 former president praised his Iran strikes, but all four issue denials<\/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_2533962\" 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>&nbsp;claimed that an&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493531\/trump-former-president-praise-iran-strikes\/\">unnamed former president praised<\/a>&nbsp;his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-taylor-greene-to-newsmax-mccarthy-doesnt-defend-other-republicans\/\" title=\"Rep. Taylor Greene to Newsmax: McCarthy Doesn&#039;t Defend Other Republicans\">attack&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a>, though all four living ones denied doing so.<\/p>\n<p>At a Monday press conference, Trump boasted that one of the fans of Operation Epic Fury was a former president who said he wished he had done what Trump had done. He refused to name the man, suggesting he would be embarrassed. All four former presidents denied talking to Trump about the strikes to NBC News, however.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493536\/trump-honor-of-taking-cuba\/\">Trump claims he will have the &#8216;honor&#8217; of taking Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4491275\/vance-media-drive-wedge-trump-iran\/\">Vance accuses media of trying to &#8216;drive a wedge&#8217; between him and Trump over Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493535\/trump-delay-china-trip-month-or-so-iran-war\/\">Trump looking to delay China trip by &#8216;month or so&#8217; due to Iran war<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>An aide for former President George W. Bush told NBC News that the two presidents &ldquo;haven&rsquo;t been in touch.&rdquo; An aide to former President Bill Clinton said that Trump wasn&rsquo;t referring to Clinton, though Trump&rsquo;s hints seemed to suggest as much.<\/p>\n<p>An aide to former President Barack Obama, a noted longtime rival of Trump, had &ldquo;no recent conversations&rdquo; with the incumbent. A source familiar with the matter told the outlet that Trump wasn&rsquo;t referring to former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I spoke to one of the former presidents who I actually like. I actually speak to some. I do like some people, it&rsquo;d be shocking. And he said, &lsquo;I wish I did what you did,&rsquo;&rdquo; Trump told reporters on Monday. &ldquo;Other presidents, somebody should&rsquo;ve done it &mdash; 47 years this went on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on the matter, he offered up hints suggesting it was Clinton, who denied it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A member of a party, they have Trump Derangement Syndrome all, but somebody that happens to like me, and I like that person, who&rsquo;s a smart person, but that person said, &lsquo;I wish I did it,&rsquo; OK? But I don&rsquo;t want to get into who,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to get them into trouble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think you probably know,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The denials put the ball back in Trump&rsquo;s court. His claim that he would refrain from naming them to avoid embarrassment could give him an avenue out, leaving it unknown whether he made the story up or was keeping their identity secret for politeness sake.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >unusually rocky relationship<\/a> with all living former presidents, with the possible exception of Clinton, whom he has expressed some fondness for and defended in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493531\/trump-former-president-praise-iran-strikes\/\">TRUMP COY ABOUT WHICH FORMER PRESIDENT PRAISED HIS IRAN STRIKES: &lsquo;YOU PROBABLY KNOW&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, I like him, and I don&rsquo;t like seeing him deposed,&rdquo; Trump said of Clinton last month when he was deposed over his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>He also enjoyed an apparently friendly visit to Biden&rsquo;s White House weeks before his inauguration, where the two refrained from poor words about each other. Despite this, both quickly returned to insults after Trump took office.<\/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 says ex-president praised Iran strikes; four deny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2580591,"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\/2026\/03\/AP26075765654818.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[75936,3823,5894,7283,3634],"class_list":["post-2580590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-denials-2","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-strikes","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26075765654818.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580590","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\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580594,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580590\/revisions\/2580594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}