Jack White, Rosie O’Donnell and Carrie Coon are among the celebrities speaking out after the US-Israeli military carried out airstrikes against Iran overnight.
President Donald Trump has since announced that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the strikes.
White, the former frontman of rock duo The White Stripes, earlier criticized Trump for the attack, as well as the manner in which it was announced.
“Don’t you love seeing him declare war on a country while wearing a trucker hat that says ‘USA’ on it?” White wrote on Instagram.
“Behold the leader of the ‘Board of Peace.’ For the next war announcement donny, may I suggest having your feet up on the Resolute desk while eating a Big Mac in a velvet track suit?
“Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Cuba, what’s the difference right? don jr. and barron won’t have to fight or die, just other people’s children, so…invade and bomb away! New sign ups for the ‘board of peace’ starting at one billion dollars! Can you believe donny hasn’t received a real Nobel Peace Prize yet? Unfair! Maybe in his third term he’ll get one.”
Comedian O’Donnell also used social media to suggest that Trump’s decision to order the airstrikes went against his own campaign promises.
“He lies only and always #impeachtrump,” wrote O’Donnell in the caption of a post that showed two quotes from Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. The first: “If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” The second read: “I’m not going ot start a war, I’m going to stop wars.”
Meanwhile, The White Lotus star Carrie Coon took to X to write: “‘Department of War.’ They weren’t kidding about that.”
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Horror author Stephen King pointed out: “Under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war, as well as to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, and fund and regulate the military.” He added: “Impeach the SOB.”
In a public statement via his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.”
A senior Israeli government source told The Independent that the clerical ruler, who oversaw Iran’s transformation into one of the Middle East’s dominant powers in the years since 1989, was killed in a strike that flattened his compound.
Donald Trump confirmed that the US had carried out “major combat operations” in Iran.
