President Trump delivered a line this week that is already being replayed everywhere.
“I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well, I got him first,” he told ABC News, referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following the U.S. strike that eliminated him.
It was vintage Trump. Direct. Unapologetic. And layered with implications.
When the President said “they tried twice,” questions immediately followed. Was he referencing the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania and the security scare at Mar a Lago? Or was he hinting at separate, previously undisclosed threats tied directly to Iran? The administration has not clarified. But the remark has fueled intense speculation about what intelligence may exist behind the scenes.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just gave ABC News the line of the century:
“I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well, I got him first.”
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What makes the comment even more striking is the history.
Back in 2022, Khamenei’s official website published an animated video depicting the assassination of President Trump. The video showed a figure resembling Trump playing golf in a Florida-like setting while high tech drones and surveillance systems closed in on him. It was not subtle. It was not symbolic poetry. It was a detailed, dramatized revenge fantasy tied to the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
According to reporting at the time, the video appeared on Khamenei’s official site and was connected to a competition honoring Soleimani. It showed a drone operator placing Trump in his sights, complete with portraits of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis displayed on a console. The clip ended just before the strike was launched.
That was not some rogue meme account. It was tied to the official apparatus of Iran’s ruling regime.
Iran also announced sanctions in 2022 on Trump and dozens of U.S. officials involved in the Soleimani operation. The Biden administration at the time called the move a provocation and warned of severe consequences if Iran targeted Americans.
So when President Trump now says, “I got him before he got me,” he is speaking in the context of documented hostility that went far beyond rhetoric. Khamenei publicly endorsed imagery of Trump’s assassination. Iranian leaders repeatedly chanted “Death to America.” Semi official media amplified violent anti American messaging for years.
None of that was theoretical.
Critics will debate tone, as they always do. Supporters will argue that deterrence only works when threats are taken seriously. What is undeniable is that this was not a one sided feud invented out of thin air. There is a record. There are statements. There are videos.
In that light, Trump’s comment reads less like a throwaway boast and more like a blunt summary of a years long shadow conflict that finally erupted into open action.
When the leader of a hostile regime publicly fantasizes about your assassination, and you later authorize the strike that removes him from power, the geopolitics are anything but abstract.
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