Buried towards the tail-end of President Donald Trump’s meandering primetime address to the nation on Wednesday was a phrase he’d lifted almost verbatim from one of his own Truth Social posts earlier that day in which he threatened to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure and bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages.”
Trump trotted out the Paleolithic phraseology as he promised to have U.S. forces “hit” Tehran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks” and therefore “bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”
