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Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, President Trump said there “could be” U.S. troops deployed or airstrikes carried out in Nigeria.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said U.S. troops “could be” boots on the ground in Nigeria amid his threats of military action in the West African country over his claims of persecution of Christians there.

The president made the comment aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington, D.C., after a weekend in Florida.

Trump was asked if he could envisage boots on the ground or air strikes, to which he said, "Could be."

"They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers, we're not going to allow that to happen," he said.



President Donald Trump on Sunday said U.S. troops “could be” boots on the ground in Nigeria amid his threats of military action in the West African country over his claims of persecution of Christians there.


The president made the comment aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington, D.C., after a weekend in Florida.

Trump was asked if he could envisage boots on the ground or air strikes, to which he said, "Could be."

"They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers, we're not going to allow that to happen," he said.


President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Oct. 30, 2025.
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Trump's comments come after he instructed the Pentagon on Saturday to prepare for possible action in Nigeria, saying the U.S. could go in "guns-a-blazing" and halt aid if the government there "continues to allow the killing of Christians.

"If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, "guns-a-blazing," to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities," the president said in a post on his social media platform. "I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action."

He added, "WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!"

On Friday, Trump said he was designating Nigeria as a "country of particular concern," a legal designation from the U.S. State Department for countries "responsible for particularly severe violations of religious freedom," with Trump saying that "Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria."

Trump said he asked Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.V. and Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and the House Appropriations Committee, for a report on the matter.

Nigeria's population of more than 230 million is about evenly split between Muslims and Christians. Violence in the country has grown amid near daily attacks by armed groups and bandits in northern Nigeria, Amnesty International reported earlier this year, calling the mounting death toll a "humanitarian crisis."


However, the patterns of violence are often complex. Christians have been targeted, as have other religious groups. People have also been targeted by violence based on their ethnic group and how they make their living.

After Trump's first post, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu pushed back, writing "The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality, nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians."

Tinubu said his administration has taken steps to maintain "an open and active engagement with Christian and Muslim leaders alike and continues to address security challenges which affect citizens across faiths and regions." And he said he was committed to working with the U.S. and the international community to "deepen understanding and cooperation on protection of communities of all faiths."

Nigeria has seen a resurgence of the homegrown Islamic militant group Boko Haram this year, according to the Associated Press.

An attack in northern Nigeria in September killed dozens, the AP reported.

ABC News' Victoria Beaule contributed to this report.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-threatens-cut-off-aid-nigeria-military-action/story?id=127097323&cid=social_twitter_abcn

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Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

Who is the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

More interesting days ahead

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

Follow DSS go block them from landing at the airport. Na drone dem go use scatter you

destinychildolu:
Follow DSS go block them from landing at the airport. Na drone dem go use scatter you

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Trump will arrogantly walk into disaster in Nigeria. His quick and sweet strike may not turn out that way.

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

You fit solve your problems and you never do am since?

Sovereign state my left nyash.

ElSudani:
Trump will arrogantly walk into disaster in Nigeria. His quick and sweet strike may not turn out that way.

Which disaster be dat?
Is it your military that will pose as the disaster?

We appreciate the concern, but we will handle our issues ourselves.

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

Who told you that a soveireign nation has the right to become murderers' camp?

Trump and his team should move hastily

Anyone still in doubt about how hopeless the country has become should watch the responses from the various quarters in the past few days and especially the northern elites that midwifed this carnage

A people who are ready to condone the killing of their fellow citizens to meet their perceived ethnic or religious affiliations or ego

What additional war will the US invasion introduce that is not ongoing. A country where hundreds and thousands are killed daily and citizens cannot move around freely is already at war.

The political class are ready to keep looting as long as the religious killings do not affect their pockets and immediate families.

What a hopeless country…..

Mbanda:
You fit solve your problems and you never do am since?

Sovereign state my left nyash.

230,000 christians were slaughtered in America since 2021.

According to AI

''Here are the recent figures on annual gun-related deaths in the United States:

In 2021 the total was 48,830.

In 2022 the provisional total was 48,117.

In 2023 the total was about 46,728.

Using the 5-year average (2019-2023) of about 45,738 deaths per year.

So over the last 5 years (≈ 2019-2023) that implies approximately: 45,738 × 5 ≈ 228,690 gun-related deaths in total.''

So should China and Russia invade America to stop it?

Why does TRUMP care more about Nigerian christians than American christians?

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

cho cho cho online then they’ll get caught stealing bread in the market because of hardship caused by the same criminals they’re defending

Kemetian:
230,000 christians were slaughtered in America since 2021.

According to AI

''Here are the recent figures on annual gun-related deaths in the United States:

In 2021 the total was 48,830.

In 2022 the provisional total was 48,117.

In 2023 the total was about 46,728.

Using the 5-year average (2019-2023) of about 45,738 deaths per year.

So over the last 5 years (≈ 2019-2023) that implies approximately: 45,738 × 5 ≈ 228,690 gun-related deaths in total.''

So should China and Russia invade America to stop it?

Why does TRUMP care more about Nigerian christians than American christians?

Unfortunately, you lot are late to the party.

Details and evidences abound; and we know know US might have some other interests but this killing has to stop

And with the level of ethic and religious division that exists in this country, any superior power interested in Balkanizing the country will find a willing hand.

Your ethnocentrism ensured your dead end

What I think they want to do first is to have a military base in Port Harcourt to secure oil and gas investments and secure the world supply of oil and gas before commencing the actual clean up of Nigeria starting from the East to the North dislodge Fulanis bandits and herdsmen

Savenigeria2023:
Trump and his team should move hastily

Anyone still in doubt about how hopeless the country has become should watch the responses from the various quarters in the past few days.

A people who are ready to condone the killing of their fellow citizens to meet their perceived ethnic or religious affiliations or ego

What additional war will the US invasion introduce that is not ongoing. A country where hundreds and thousands are killed daily and citizens cannot move around freely is already at war.

The political class are ready to keep looting as long as the religious killings do not affect their pockets and immediate families.

What a hopeless country…..

Here's how it could get SUBSTANTIALLY worse. YOU, sitting in the south, will instantly become a target of Islamist terrorists.

They've been confined to the north for decades. With an unauthorised US invasion, that changes.

The terrorists will seek to widen the conflict and draw in other powers and forces, and the whole country will SCATTER. They will start suicide bombing in Lagos, Onitsha, Aba, PH.

Shebi that ''insecurity'' you people shout online and claim is ''all over the country'', you will now see the REAL insecurity.

The type that people in Iraq and Somalia see, where you are out shopping, or in a joint drinking, and next thing, explosion.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR.

All the other countries the US went to ''save'', where are they today?

Where is Libya today? Can you name any of their presidents since Ghadaffi?

Please send them quickly,

The drug kingpin and his terrorist assistant must not allow their associates destroy the nation,

This I have seen!

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

Sovereign what?

A Sovereign nation that cannot protect its citizens will loose its Sovereignty.

This is a call to responsibility and accountability

Karlovich:
Please send them quickly,

The drug kingpin and his terrorist assistant must not allow their associates destroy the nation,

This I have seen!

Agent of imperialists.

Where are Libya and Afghanistan today after Americans went to 'save' them?

Can you live there?

Nigeria is a sovereign nation and we solve our problems with Nigerian solutions. Any threats of invasion will be met with stiff resistance.

President Bola Tinubu is proactively handling our security and we don’t need any foreign interference.

saddler:
Sovereign what?

A Sovereign nation that cannot protect its citizens will loose its Sovereignty.

This is a call to responsibility and accountability

American invaders always make things worse.

Pick up a history book.

Kemetian:
Here's how it could get SUBSTANTIALLY worse. YOU, sitting in the south, will instantly become a target of Islamist terrorists.

They've been confined to the north for decades. With an unauthorised US invasion, that changes.

The terrorists will seek to widen the conflict and draw in other powers and forces, and the whole country will SCATTER. They will start suicide bombing in Lagos, Onitsha, Aba, PH.

Shebi that ''insecurity'' you people shout online and claim is ''all over the country'', you will now see the REAL insecurity.

The type that people in Iraq and Somalia see, where you are out shopping, or in a joint drinking, and next thing, explosion.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR.

All the other countries the US went to ''save'', where are they today?

Where is Libya today? Can you name any of their presidents since Ghadaffi?

Bro that’s stale scare tactics though we know you are speaking for the terrorist groups.

Deal with the US forces in the north first and we will be ready to clean up what’s left down south afterwards.

Nigeria is already at war, your threat at additional war is stale.

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

Mr sovereign state, I hope you are writing from your terrorist enclave ….. watch out for the UAVs

odejimioflagos:
Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not accept any threats or intimidation from anyone, including Donald Trump. We will solve our problems with our own solutions and no foreign interference will be tolerated.

We don't have the capacity to solve our internal problem, let the United States government please step in

ElSudani:
Trump will arrogantly walk into disaster in Nigeria. His quick and sweet strike may not turn out that way.

Don't take Trump seriously. How many of his outlandish announcements and decisions ( and he makes many almost daily) has Congress indulged?

Judges overrule him regularly for dictatorial abuse of power in the US. Yet we are to believe Congress will approve his illegal military entry into Nigeria, a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened the USA directly or indirectly, in contravention of international law, Geneva convention provision and UN rules on military aggression against nations?

The fact is that Trump is never aware of even respectful of the position of the law when he speaks his mind to makes his dictatorial decisions that are illegal.

Remind me of a certain lawless group of people from Nigeria with an established history of doing similar.No surprise they are currently the most rabid backers of Trump's senseless talk.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad-george-conway-pac

It is hard to believe that anyone would rejoice in any country threatened with invasion by foreign power.

Sakara or not, this threat has exposed traitors within. Are they still killing one another every Monday?

If they play the tape of Kanu ordering his followers to kill kill kill kill; America will change their tune quick quick.

LagosOrigin:
We don't have the capacity to solve our internal problem, let the United States government please step in

How many of her own problem has the USA solved? Do you then see any nation threatening to enter USA over her internal problems?

No and that is because international law forbids that. The rules are very clear about the conditions under which any nation can take military action against a sovereign nation.

I really don't know the sort of self-hatred and lack of self-respect that make some of you think and talk the way you do.

At worst, sanction is the best the USA can do. At best USA should engage Nigeria diplomatically and seek to work with us.

Not play superior moral police over Nigeria, Nigerians and our sovereign autonomy.

Imagine someone decides to enter your house to beat you to a stupor because they claim you hit your wife? Won't they be jailed for assault?

Does any feelings your neighbour has about event going on in your house gives him the right or justification to enter your house and beat you to a coma?

Even simple logic some of you are incapable of utilising because of nothing other than prejudice against your nation, your President, other ethnic groups, other people's religion etc, etc leading to compromised thinking and talk.

You people will just open mouth, without thinking, to talk as if man, society and nations should not be guided by laws and rules.

If it is right in your eyes for US to enter Nigeria to bomb us over their incorrect claim of "Christian Genocide" then same crazy logic should permit South Africa, Thailand, India etal to bomb SE Nigeria with "swift and sweet" strike to stop drug mules and traffickers entering their respective nations. Nonsense.

Kemetian:
American invaders always make things worse.

Pick up a history book.

It doesn't matter. Sometimes things have to get worse to get better.
Nigerians deserves better