# Speculation About Trump's Underlying Reasons for Bombing Iran and Other Targets **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** iran-strikes-2026\ **Created:** [March 4, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-about-trumps-underlying-reasons-for-bombing-iran-and-other-targets/1028209 "2026-03-04T21:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 50
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-about-trumps-underlying-reasons-for-bombing-iran-and-other-targets/1028209/50 "2026-03-05T15:24:54Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > There’s reporting on the issue in the [sister thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-for-consequences-to-the-us-for-engaging-in-the-bombing-of-iran-and-other-targets/1028210/13), but here’s the key link: Also discussed in my pit thread…. > [@Trump admin spews ridiculous offensive libel about.. the anti-christ!?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-admin-spews-ridiculous-offensive-libel-about-the-anti-christ/1028196): > > So this is a thing that happened as we are in the dumbest possible timeline, and this is our life now…. But hang on a goddamned minute. You are fulfilling the millennial prophecies of Revelation (as interpreted by the modern American evangelical movement). You are in an overwhelmingly powerful military led by a charismatic autocratic leader, invading the Middle East to bring about Armageddon. There is absolutely only one individual who fits that description (again in the evangelicals own in… Though that’s not a reason for Trump to do this. He is not even slightly Christian he thinks Revelation was an 80s soft porn flick 😉 That said he is seriously delusional and demented it’s not completely impossible that the Christian Nationalists in his circle of lackeys have convinced him he is actually the embodiment of biblical end times prophecy and on a divinely ordained mission to bring about Armageddon. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-about-trumps-underlying-reasons-for-bombing-iran-and-other-targets/1028209)._