President Donald Trump issued a direct warning to the Nigerian government, making it clear that the U.S. military “may very well” enter the country “guns a blazing” if the ongoing slaughter of Christians is not stopped immediately.
The warning came in a Truth Social post where Trump said he has instructed the Department of War to “prepare for possible action,” making it clear that an American response would be rapid and forceful.
He said the U.S. would “stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” if the killings continue, and made it clear that Nigerian leaders are running out of time to act.
“‘If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns a blazing,’” President Trump wrote, calling the terrorists “Islamic thugs” responsible for the atrocities.
President Trump said any U.S. response would be “fast, vicious, and sweet,” promising to completely wipe out the groups responsible for the mass murder of Christians in the region.
He said Christians in Nigeria are facing “an existential threat,” adding that “thousands of Christians are being killed” by radical Islamist groups operating across the country, as Breitbart News reported.
President Trump also announced that Nigeria has officially been designated a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN,” citing the scale of religious persecution and the refusal of the Nigerian government to confront it.
He said Reps. Riley Moore (R-WV) and Tom Cole (R-LA) have been instructed to investigate the situation and immediately report back to him with findings.
The Nigerian government responded by denying there is any genocide taking place. Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Maitama Tuggar said “there is no genocide, now or ever, in Nigeria,” calling the accusations inaccurate.
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu also pushed back, calling the claims “a lie from the pit of hell,” and rejecting the idea that Christians are being targeted.
That denial stands in sharp contrast to years of documented Islamist violence, including the 2014 Boko Haram kidnapping of nearly 300 Christian schoolgirls, more than 90 of whom are still missing.
The attacks have continued for over a decade, with burned villages, murdered worshippers, and thousands displaced as terror groups overrun regions with little government resistance.
Nicki Minaj reacted to President Trump’s earlier announcement, thanking him for addressing the crisis and saying his statement made her feel “a deep sense of gratitude.”
She said no group should ever be persecuted for worshipping God, and thanked President Trump “for taking this seriously.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) also weighed in, saying Nigerian officials are “ignoring and even facilitating the mass murder of Christians by Islamist jihadists,” and called for sanctions.
He said his proposed Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act would hold government officials responsible for allowing the slaughter to continue.
