Strikes against the Houthis continue apace despite the left's best efforts to make "Signal-gate" a thing. On Friday, President Donald Trump decided to do a little messaging on the subject, posting incredibly clear footage of a strike on the Yemeni terrorists.
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He then dunked on them, stating, "These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis."
"These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 4, 2025
They will never sink our ships again!" –President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1RU6XQPDXI
Yeah, I don't think those guys will be doing any more harassing of international shipping lanes. That's some of the clearest targeting pod footage I've ever seen, and perhaps the Houthis should reconsider how much they want to sacrifice for their "brothers" in Gaza. While they are terrible, the United States would not otherwise waste its time bombing them if they weren't inserting themselves into American interests.
Of course, the same terror-simps who spend all their time defending Hamas are chiming in, claiming the Trump administration actually blew up tribal members attending a celebration.
Top: What the U.S. claims to be a gathering of 'Houthi terrorists'
— JouRage (@jou_rage) April 5, 2025
Bottom: A celebratory Yemeni tribal gathering on the day of Eid Al-Fitr. pic.twitter.com/S2ofpBfhKA
To be clear, the above picture is not of the same people who were bombed in Trump's footage. The terrain, cars, and time of day are all different. So it appears the poster is suggesting all gatherings of people in rectangles in Yemen are tribe members. There's simply no explanation. It is beyond the realm of possibility that terrorists could also stand in rectangles.
Is that true? In a word, no.
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) April 5, 2025
And before anyone tries to claim, "Well, tribal members have guns for self-protection," those are RPG rounds slung on that guy's back. Clearly, they are combatants, and the fact that the Houthis are mostly goat herders and dress like them doesn't make them immune from attacks. In other words, rectangular gatherings are not the sole domain of people celebrating Muslim holidays. There is no actual evidence the above attack was on civilians.
Most tellingly, though, is that the Houthis didn't rush out to post names, pictures, and videos claiming it was an attack on civilians. That would be great PR for them, would it not be? Here's the Yemeni Minister of Information pointing that out.
وزير الإعلام اليمني: لو استهدفت الضربات الأميركية "تجمعا قبليا" لسارعت الميليشيات بنشر صور وأسماء #الحدث_عاجل
— الحدث عاجل (@Alhadath_Brk) April 5, 2025
Yemeni Minister of Information: If the US strikes had targeted a "tribal gathering," the militias would have rushed to publish photos and names.
There's just no way the Houthis wouldn't be shouting from the rooftops if this was a group of civilians struck and not militants. When the footage zooms out, you can also see that this didn't occur near a village. There are what appear to be tents to the right, some cars, and perhaps a trench network (though those could be stone walls). Absent any evidence, no one should believe the same propagandists who have been lying to you for over a year about Hamas.
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