Trump threatens to destroy Iran with 1,000 missiles over assassination threat

Unpacked: Right-leaning coverage reports Trump’s Truth Social threat that “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded” against Iran if it tries to assassinate him, and ties it to Mojtaba Khamenei’s revenge language after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death. But the right-side accounts diverge sharply in what they make central. OAN centers Trump’s warning and Iranian hostility, quoting the “one year period of time” order to “completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” and adding its own framing that “PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!” was “a satirical nod to the Islamic leaders’ god.” Newsmax’s AP piece instead leads with the legal machinery: there is “no way to create an automatic, preauthorized ‘dead man’s switch,’” and if Trump were killed, JD Vance would “instantaneously” become commander in chief under succession law; OAN does not mention the 25th Amendment, the Presidential Succession Act, or Vance’s discretion. Newsmax also adds details absent from OAN: Trump’s two domestic assassination attempts in 2024, a gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the older Air Force One swap, and past Biden-era warnings to Iran over threats to Trump and John Bolton. OAN adds details Newsmax does not: funeral signs with bullets or crosshairs over Trump’s face and English slogans reading “Kill Trump” and “There will be blood.” Word choice differs too: OAN calls Iran’s government the “Islamic regime” and says Trump “eliminated” Qasem Soleimani, while Newsmax’s AP copy says “Tehran” and “killing.” Left-leaning outlets had not covered this as of publication, so their readers are missing both the threat itself and the right-side split between military-warning coverage and succession-law coverage. If Trump’s post says “orders have already been given,” what specific order exists, who received it, and would it survive the instant transfer of command to Vance?