Trump says US will 'beat the f------ s--- out of them' after Iran launches surprise missile

President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning issued a profanity-laced threat against Iran after the Islamic regime launched a surprise missile strike on U.S. forces in Jordan overnight.

"We're going to beat the f------ s--- out of them," Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.

What we know

Damaged structures at the site of an airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces base in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed) Despite the flare-up, Trump said that talks with Iran will continue. During that same year, the intelligence community identified TikTok as a primary vector of CCP influence in the United States," Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Michael Sobolik, who specializes in U.S.–China relations, told Fox News Digital.

"President Trump has saved TikTok for its millions of American users -- yet another promise made, promise kept," White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital. "The fact that it’s training on U.S. data stored on servers in America doesn’t change the fundamental reality that a Chinese Communist Party-controlled company still controls the algorithm itself," said Sobolik.

In his final meeting with Xi at the summit, Trump touted what he called "fantastic trade deals." Sobolik said Trump "wants what he’s always wanted with China," which is a trade deal.

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"President Trump just told the nation that China tried to influence the 2020 election and weaken his presidency. "The administration hasn’t directly addressed the possibility that Beijing could calibrate the app’s algorithm in concerning ways." Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump visited the Temple of Heaven on May 14, 2026, in Beijing, China, during a high-level summit between the two leaders. 24, with artificial intelligence expected to be a key topic during their talks.

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic missiles at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base and the headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command in Jordan, the paramilitary force said in a statement carried by Iran's state-run IRNA news agency. RUBIO ACCUSES IRAN OF FLYING IRGC PERSONNEL INTO YEMEN AS HOUTHI THREAT ESCALATES The U.S. military later announced that American and Saudi fighter aircraft had struck multiple Iran-backed Shiite logistics and weapons sites in eastern Iraq in response to alleged drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. It's not a one-way street, but we'll be talking to them," said Trump when speaking about Chinese election meddling days after his "free and fair elections" televised remarks.