{"id":22620,"date":"2024-01-14T03:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22620"},"modified":"2024-01-14T03:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:16:27","slug":"trump-lashes-out-at-worst-president-biden-over-houthi-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22620","title":{"rendered":"Trump lashes out at \u2018worst president\u2019 Biden over Houthi airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump<\/a> lashed out at his likely 2024 general election opponent<\/a> President Joe Biden<\/a> after US<\/a> and UK<\/a> forces struck Houthi<\/a> rebels in Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, let me get this straight,\u201d the former president began in a post on Truth Social on Friday morning<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of defence Lloyd Austin<\/a> has been criticised after spending days in hospital being treated <\/a>for prostate cancer and being slow to notify the administration and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRemember, this is the same gang that \u2018surrendered\u2019 in Afghanistan, where no one was held accountable or FIRED,\u201d Mr Trump claimed. \u201cIt was the most embarrassing \u2018moment\u2019 in the history of the United States. Now we have wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen, but no \u2018war\u2019 on our Southern Border. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mr Biden and Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, have not ruled out further action against the Houthi rebels<\/a> if deemed necessary. The rebels have warned of reprisal actions, saying that the strikes that they say killed five and wounded six would \u201cnot go unanswered and unpunished\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that this type of behaviour can\u2019t be met without a response,\u201d Mr Sunak said<\/a>. \u201cWe need to send a strong signal that this breach of international law is wrong. People can\u2019t act like this with impunity and that\u2019s why together with allies we\u2019ve decided to take this action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strikes came after the group launched its 26th attack on international shipping in the Red Sea since 19 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The armed group are supported by Iran and controls large parts of Yemen following nearly a decade of war against a coalition supported by the West and led by Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group has taken its name from founder Hussein al-Houthi. The civil war began after he was killed by the Yemeni military in 2004. They have claimed that their attacks on international shipping are an attempt to stop Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza, saying after Israel\u2019s response to the 7 October Hamas attack that they would target all ships heading to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several shipping companies have resorted to taking the massively longer route around the African continent instead of taking the Red Sea route via the Gulf of Aden to reach the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump lashed out at his likely 2024 general election opponent President Joe Biden after US and UK forces struck Houthi rebels in Yemen. \u201cSo, let me get this straight,\u201d the former president began in a post on Truth Social on Friday morning. \u201cWe\u2019re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9526,1169,25852,4031,1230,9044],"class_list":["post-22620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-air-strikes","tag-biden","tag-over-houthis","tag-slams","tag-trump","tag-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22622,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions\/22622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}