Trump touts airstrike on Houthis, showing video: Will 'never sink our ships again'

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Trump connected Friday shared video of a caller airstrike connected Houthi rebels, writing, "They volition ne'er descend our ships again."

"These Houthis gathered for instructions connected an attack," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "Oops, determination volition beryllium nary onslaught by these Houthis! They volition ne'er descend our ships again!"

The achromatic and achromatic aerial footage appeared to amusement a radical assembling earlier a monolithic blast leaves thing but a crater. 

The Trump medication has been conducting regular airstrikes connected the Iranian-backed rebels for the past 20 days pursuing renewed Houthi threats against Israeli vessels past period aft Jerusalem chopped disconnected humanitarian assistance headed for the Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN-BACKED HOUTHIS SHOOT DOWN THIRD US REAPER DRONE AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES DAILY STRIKES

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Following the strike, each that was near was a crater.  (Donald Trump/Truth Social)

Late past month, the radical took work for attacks connected the USS Harry S. Truman craft bearer and respective U.S. warships successful the Red Sea.

The Houthis person besides changeable down 3 U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones since March 3, sources antecedently told Fox News.  

The State Department enactment guardant sanctions aft the Houthis changeable down the archetypal Reaper successful aboriginal March, and connected Tuesday, the State Department announced sanctions connected "financial facilitators, procurement operatives, and companies operating arsenic portion of a planetary illicit concern web supporting the Houthis." 

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told CBS' "Face the Nation" precocious past month: "These guys are similar al Qaeda oregon ISIS with precocious cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and immoderate of the astir blase aerial defenses, each provided by Iran. Keeping the oversea lanes open, keeping commercialized and commerce open, is simply a cardinal facet of our nationalist security." 

AFTER DEBILITATING STRIKES, TRUMP TELLS HOUTHIS: STOP SHOOTING AT US AND ‘WE WILL STOP SHOOTING AT YOU’

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Trump said that the Houthis had gathered to program an onslaught earlier the strike. (Donald Trump/Truth Social )

On Monday, Trump wrote connected Truth Social that the Houthis person been "decimated by the relentless strikes implicit the past 2 weeks."

"Many of their Fighters and Leaders are nary longer with us," helium continued. "We deed them each time and nighttime — Harder and harder. Their capabilities that endanger Shipping and the Region are rapidly being destroyed. Our attacks volition proceed until they are nary longer a menace to Freedom of Navigation. The prime for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting astatine U.S. ships, and we volition halt shooting astatine you. Otherwise, we person lone conscionable begun, and the existent symptom is yet to come, for some the Houthis and their sponsors successful Iran."

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Trump told the Houthis earlier this week: "Stop shooting astatine U.S. ships, and we volition halt shooting astatine you." (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The violent network, backed by Iran, began escalating its attacks connected Western ships successful the Red Sea pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks connected Israel. Notably, information experts person pointed retired the Houthi attacks are not indiscriminate arsenic they bash not routinely people Chinese oregon Saudi Arabian vessels. 

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Trump besides issued a connection to Iran connected Monday and warned if the attacks bash not stop, Washington volition travel for Tehran next. 

Fox News' Rachel Wolf, Liz Friden, Caitlin McFall and Landon Mion contributed to this report. 

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