Trump Warns Iran Wants to Assassinate Him Before Butler Anniversary - Slay News
President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that Iran wants to assassinate him, saying his luck may not hold forever as Tehran’s threats continue to escalate.
Trump made the remarks during the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, while standing alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top administration officials.
The president said he is fully aware that he remains a primary target for Iran’s regime.
“I’m on every single one of their lists, and so far I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long, because that’s the way it goes,” Trump said, according to the Daily Mail.
- Advertisement -The warning came just days before the two-year anniversary of the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting that nearly killed him.
It also came amid a wave of open Iranian threats, including death bounties, crosshair posters, and a charged murder-for-hire plot against one of Trump’s former top advisers.
Trump Survived Butler Shooting
Trump’s warning was not theoretical.
- Advertisement -In July 2024, a gunman named Thomas Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The bullet grazed Trump’s ear.
Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, was killed while shielding his family.
Crooks was shot dead at the scene.
- Advertisement -The anniversary of the assassination attempt is now just days away.
The Iranian threat has also been building for years.
U.S. intelligence officials repeatedly warned during Trump’s 2024 campaign that Iran was plotting to kill him and former officials from his first administration.
Tehran has sought revenge ever since Trump ordered the 2020 drone strike that killed Revolutionary Guard General Qasem Soleimani.
Federal prosecutors have already charged a Revolutionary Guard operative with offering $300,000 to have former National Security Advisor John Bolton murdered on American soil.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Iran envoy Brian Hook were also placed under round-the-clock government protection because of the ongoing threat from Tehran.
Ivanka Trump has spoken publicly about the horror of watching the Butler shooting unfold in real time as her father was targeted on live television.
- Advertisement -Iranian Funeral Becomes ‘Death to America’ Circus
Trump’s comments at the NATO summit came after the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly became a stage for open threats against the American president.
Pro-regime demonstrators in Tehran carried posters featuring crosshairs over Trump’s face.
Other posters reportedly showed Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside the phrase “There will be blood.”
- Advertisement -Footage from Monday’s funeral procession showed mourners chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
American and British flags were set on fire.
A Trump effigy was hanged near the front of the march.
Mourners also placed a death bounty on Trump, though the precise amount, mechanism, and organizers have not been publicly confirmed.
Hardline Iranian lawmakers reportedly went further, calling for missiles to be fired at Trump’s location at the NATO summit.
The lawmakers have not been publicly identified.
Trump addressed Iran’s post-Khamenei leadership directly at his press conference.
“They’re gone now. They have another set of leaders. They may be gone,” Trump said.
“Who knows? And you know what, I may be gone too because I’m their number one target. It’s out all over the place. I’m the number one, because they’re scum.”
Secret Service Failures Still Loom
The timing of Trump’s remarks also comes after a damning report about the agency responsible for protecting him.
A Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report released last week found that the Secret Service missed 102 radio calls flagging Crooks on a nearby roof with a long gun at the Butler rally.
The agents standing near Trump were reportedly never warned to remove him from the stage.
- Advertisement -Each missed call was a chance to get the president to safety before shots were fired.
The report landed as the Secret Service was again managing heightened security around Trump during his travel from the NATO summit.
Newsmax reported that the Secret Service urged Trump against using the new Air Force One during his return from Turkey amid renewed hostilities with Iran.
Trump acknowledged the danger, saying passengers were “probably on a dangerous flight” because of threats from Tehran.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said “many enemies of America have their sights” set on Trump.
The statement underscored how severe the threat environment around the president has become.
Security incidents at Trump properties have also highlighted the persistent nature of threats against Trump and his family inside the United States.
Intelligence Warnings Came Before Butler
The New York Post reported in 2024 that U.S. officials had received intelligence about an Iranian assassination plot against Trump weeks before the Butler shooting.
The Secret Service increased protection around Trump in response to that specific threat.
Yet the agency still failed to stop a gunman from reaching a rooftop with a clear line of fire at the president.
The Butler shooting has not been shown to be connected to the Iranian plot.
But the overlap was alarming.
Active foreign assassination planning was underway at the same time a domestic attack nearly succeeded.
A National Security Council spokesperson said at the time that U.S. officials had been tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years.
“We have been tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years, dating back to the last administration,” the spokesperson said.
The Secret Service said it was “constantly receiving new potential threat information and taking action to adjust resources, as needed.”
But those resource adjustments did not prevent 102 radio calls from going unanswered in Butler.
Iran Threat Grows as Strikes Resume
The Iranian threat is not limited to rhetoric.
Trump declared his ceasefire with Iran “over” and ordered fresh military strikes after Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
The cycle of provocation and response has pushed tensions to one of the most dangerous points in years.
Trump’s physical safety is now at the center of that escalation.
Iran has never hidden its desire for revenge over the Soleimani strike.
The regime has used crosshair posters, death bounties, murder-for-hire plots, and open calls for attacks on the president’s location.
Those are not ordinary diplomatic threats.
They are signals from a hostile regime with both intent and capability.
That is why casual depictions of Trump’s death in American popular culture have drawn intense backlash.
The president has already been shot at.
A foreign regime is openly threatening to finish the job.
Threats Leave Grave Questions
The threats against Trump raise urgent unanswered questions.
The precise nature of the death bounty placed on Trump at Khamenei’s funeral has not been publicly confirmed.
The identities of the Iranian lawmakers who reportedly called for missile strikes on Trump’s summit location have not been disclosed.
The full scope of the DHS Inspector General’s findings beyond the 102 missed radio calls has not yet been fully explained to the public.
Iran’s new post-Khamenei leadership has also not been forced to answer clearly for assassination plots that predated its rise.
What is already clear is dangerous enough.
The threat environment around Trump is dense, documented, and growing.
The institutions responsible for protecting him have already failed once at the worst possible moment.
When a sitting president says his luck may not last, and the evidence shows hostile actors are actively targeting him, luck cannot be part of the security plan.
The system has to work before the next assassin gets close.