Trump Suggests Possible US Military Invasion to Nigeria
President of the United States, Donald Trump. Photo: EFE/ Octavio Guzmán
November 1, 2025 Hour: 8:20 pm
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U.S. President Donald Trump said this Saturday that he ordered the Department of War to prepare for a “possible action” in Nigeria with the aim of “eliminating Islamic terrorists,” and accused the government of the African country of “allowing the killing of Christians.”
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“If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S. will immediately halt all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well intervene in that now discredited country, wielding weapons, to completely eliminate the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president added that he will order the Department of War to prepare for a “possible action,” assured that this possible military intervention will be “fast, ruthless and sweet, like the terrorist thugs attack our beloved Christians,” and urged the Government of Nigeria to “move fast.”
Trump’s message raises the tone compared to another message he published yesterday, in which he denounced a “massacre” of Christians in Nigeria and announced that he was declaring it a “country of special concern,” a designation for nations “involved in serious violations of religious freedom.”
The Government of Nigeria, led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, rejected the accusations yesterday, stating that they “do not reflect the reality on the ground,” and conveyed its “commitment to fighting terrorism, strengthening interreligious harmony and protecting the lives and rights of all its citizens.”
Northeastern Nigeria has suffered attacks from the jihadist group Boko Haram since 2009, violence that worsened from 2016 with the emergence of its split, the Islamic State of the Province of West Africa (ISWAP).
Both groups intend to impose an Islamic state in Nigeria, a country with a Muslim majority in the north and predominantly Christian in the south.
Boko Haram and ISWAP have killed more than 35,000 people – many of them Muslims – and have caused some 2.7 million internally displaced persons, mainly in Nigeria, but also in neighboring countries such as Cameroon, Chad and Niger, according to official data.
