US President Reaffirms Hitting Iran Hard For The Entire Next Week.

Washington DC: April 2026: Immediately after returning from the Supreme Court after the completion of the hearing pertinent to Birth Rights, the US President Donald Trump while addressing the media outlets have stressed that his country would be hitting Iran hard the entire week.

What is considered to be an epilogue to the Supreme Court humiliations, President Trump has staunchly defended his handling of the never anticipated prolong war on Iran, saying the U.S. military was nearing completion of its mission while also reinforcing his threats to bomb the Islamic Republic back to the Stone Age. He delivered his 19 minutes speech against a backdrop of high global oil prices and his own low approval ratings.

Trump, who is facing a war-wary American ​public and sliding poll numbers, asserted that United States have destroyed Iran’s navy and air force, crippled its ballistic missile and nuclear program and would continue to hit them “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks. But beyond ‌that, even while saying the U.S. military was on track to complete its objectives “very fast”, he stopped short of offering a firm timeline for an end to hostilities, while further reiterating that the war could escalate if Iranian leaders did not capitulate to U.S. terms during negotiations, with strikes on Iran’s energy and oil infrastructure possible.

The often conflicting signals that Trump has issued throughout ​the course of the conflict have only added to confusion, with the president one moment calling for a diplomatic settlement and in the next threatening to rain further destruction on Iran amid a continuing U.S. military buildup in the region.

As comprehended by Maverick News 30, Trump’s comments were not clear about whether U.S. military operations could end even before Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway on which it has a chokehold that ⁠has created the worst global energy shock in history. He instead repeated his calls for countries that rely on Gulf oil to “take the lead” and assume the burden of reopening the waterway, not the U.S., which he said does not need energy supplies from the region.

On the otherside, western ​allies, however, have resisted joining a war that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started without consulting them.

In his speech, however, Trump stopped short of saying, as he has in recent media interviews, that he is considering withdrawing from NATO over what he sees as ​its failure to support the U.S. in the Iran conflict. If US really does so, then, the risk that Iran would essentially be left with significant leverage over the strait, the passageway for a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas shipments. Washington’s Gulf allies may also resent a hasty U.S. exit, given that they could be left with a wounded, hostile neighbour.

Trump has advocated for the U.S. military’s successes in the conflict but questions remain about whether he has truly achieved the main goal he laid out at the start of the war: Closing off Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. More than a month later, Iran still has ​a stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be processed to bomb grade, but it is believed to be mostly buried underground by U.S.-Israeli bombing in June (Maverick News 30 has reported on 01st April 2026).

Trump, in a sudden reversal from his Wednesday’s (25th March 2026) demand that Iran has turned over the enriched uranium, on 01st April said – that he no longer cared about the material because it was “so far underground” and U.S. satellites could keep an eye on the area. Iran has always denied seeking a nuclear bomb.

While threatening new air strikes if Iran tries to move the stockpile, he made no mention of sending ‌special forces on a ⁠risky mission to seize it, which U.S. officials have said is among the options under consideration. However, any deployment of ground troops would likely anger most Americans. Despite Trump’s claims of having destroyed Iran’s conventional military capabilities, it has demonstrated that its remaining missiles and drones can still be used to target Israel as well as U.S. Gulf allies and American military installations housed on their land.

Furthermore, Trump’s earlier calls for the overthrow of Iran’s theocratic rulers have gone unfulfilled. U.S.-Israeli air strikes killed many of the top leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but they have been replaced by even more hard-line successors, including Khamenei’s son. U.S. intelligence has deemed the Iranian government largely intact.

Trump, whose has portrayed an image of a common American’s messiah – this time has only agreed to the American’s anxieties and appeared to dismiss their economic pain as temporary and sure to ease once the war is over. “Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home”, he said. “This short-term increase has been entirely the result ​of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers of neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict”.

While Trump’s MAGA movement has mostly stood with him, his ​grip on his political base could weaken ⁠if the economic impact, including high gas prices, persists with his Republican Party scrambling to keep control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, with his approval ratings falling to historical low.

After his TV appearance yesterday, global market reacted adversely stocks fell, the dollar strengthened and oil rose as Trump stopped short of providing a clear outline for when the war would end. What is evident is the fact that market reaction reflects a basic problem with Trump’s dissonant messaging: He wants to reassure Americans that the war will be over soon, while at the ⁠same time threatening ​Iran with new attacks and suggesting he may leave without opening the Strait of Hormuz.

Team Maverick.