Donald Trump has responded to an Iranian official threatening that he could be attacked while ‘sunbathing in Mar-a-Lago’.
Video footage of former adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, allegedly said on an Iranian news outlet: “Trump has done something [so] that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago. As he lies there with his stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit him in the navel. It’s very simple […] “
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Dr. Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, threatened on Iranian television the day before yesterday to assassinate U.S.ðºð¸ President Donald J. Trump.
He said Trump can no longer sunbathe at his Mar-a-Lago home because a small drone could… pic.twitter.com/94EP6F45t1
Fox News then presented the quote to Trump, who publicly responded.
Reporter Peter Doocy read the quote to Trump: “… And now a few weeks after the strikes that you ordered on the nuclear facilities in Iran, there is an Iranian official who says you, President Trump, ‘have done something that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago. As you lie there with your stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit you in the navel. It’s very simple.’ Do you think that’s a real threat? And when is the last time you went sunbathing anyway?” to which he replied: “It’s been a long time. I don’t know. Maybe I was around seven or so. I’m not too big into it. Yeah, I guess it’s a threat, I’m not sure it’s a threat actually, but perhaps it is.”
Watch the exchange here: