June 21, 2025

U.S. Enters Israel-Iran War: Trump Drops 30,000-Pound Bunker Busters on Three Nuclear Sites

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Patrick Gutfield pulls a weekend late-nighter to share commentary on President Trump's shocking decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities with 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs. From Truth Social announcements to congressional outrage, we break down the biggest international news story with sharp wit and political satire. Covering the Fordo facility strikes, oil price impacts, American troop safety, and what this means for Middle East tensions.

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Caalaroga Shark media from Washington, DC. Where now is the

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time for peace? This is ballot Well. I thought it

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was time to hit the beach, but I guess not. Instead,

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let's hit this Hi. I'm Patrick Gutfield. Well, well, well,

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President Trump decided to drop some very expensive fireworks on

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Iran this weekend. And by fireworks, I mean thirty thousand

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pound bunker buster bombs. So here's what happened. Israel has

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been having what you might call a disagreement with Iran

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for the past week or so. Think of it as

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the Middle east most expensive game of dodgeball, except instead

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of rubber balls, they're throwing missiles at each other. Israel

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started this whole thing on June thirteenth with a surprise

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attack on Iran, and Iran responded the way Iran always responds,

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by launching more missiles than a Fourth of July celebration

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in Texas. But then Trump looked at this situation and thought,

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you know what, this needs more America. So on Saturday night,

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he authorized six B two bombers to drop a dozen

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thirty thousand pound bombs on Iran's most secure nuclear facility

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at Fourdoh. That's right, twelve bombs, each weighing as much

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as a small house. The military calls these bunker busters,

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which sounds like something you'd order at a restaurant. I'll

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have the bunker buster with a side of international incident. Please.

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These aren't your raverage bombs. These things are twenty feet

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long and weigh thirty thousand pounds. They're so big only

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the B two stealth bomber can carry them. Regular fighter

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jets look at these bombs and say, nope, I'm out.

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Call me when you need to deliver a pizza. Trump

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announced this on his truth social account, because nothing says

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serious military operation like posting about it on social media.

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His post said all planes are now outside of Iron airspace.

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A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site,

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Ford out. All planes are safely on their way home.

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Congratulatestions to our great American warriors. You know, most presidents

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would maybe call Congress first. Trump just posts on social

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media like he's announcing what he had for breakfast. Just

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drop some bombs on Iran. Pancakes were great too, MAGA.

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The target was Iran's nuclear facilities, specifically three sites FOURDA

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Natan's and Isfahan. These are places where Iran enriches uranium

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Fourida is built deep inside a mountain because apparently Iran

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learned from watching too many Bond movies. They figured, if

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you're going to have a secret nuclear facility, you might

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as well put it in a volcano layer. The facility

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at Foidah is buried so deep underground that regular bombs

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can't touch it. You need these special thirty thousand pound

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bunker buster that can punch through dirt, rock and probably

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the Earth's core before they explode. It's engineering specifically designed

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to ruin someone's whole day. Now. Iran has been saying

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death to America for forty years, which is their way

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of saying hello, But this time America said hello back

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with the explosive force of a small earthquake. Trump held

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a press conference Saturday night where he said Iran, the

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bully of the Middle East, must now make peace, which

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is like punching someone in the face and then saying,

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why can't we just get along. He also claimed the

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nuclear facilities were completely and totally obliterated, because when Trump

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destroys something, he doesn't just destroy it, he obliterates it

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completely and totally. That's like saying something is very, very

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very destroyed. The president was flanked by Vice President Vance

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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They all looked very serious, the way people look when

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they've just spent several billion dollars on the world's most

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expensive demolition project. But here's the thing. Trump ran on

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keeping America out of foreign wars. His whole campaign was

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America First, which apparently now includes America bombs. Things first.

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He spent years criticizing foreign interventions, and now he's personally

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authorizing bombing runs. That's like someone who's against fast food

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opening their own McDonald's. The really crazy part. Republican Senator

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John Thune said the military action was warranted because Iran

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has committed itself to bringing death to America. So basically,

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Iran has been talking trash for four decades, and Trump

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finally said, that's it. I'm calling your mom, except instead

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of calling their mom, he called six B two bombers.

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Iran's response was predictably dramatic. Iranian state television showed a

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graphic of American bases in the Middle East, with the

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headline within the fire range of Iran and an anchor said,

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mister Trump, you started it and we will end it,

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which sounds threatening until you remember Iran has been saying

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they're going to end America since nineteen seventy nine. At

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this point, it's less of a threat and more of

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a hobby. There are about forty thousand American troops stationed

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across the Middle East right now. That's forty thousand Americans

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who woke up Sunday morning thinking well, this should be

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an interesting week. They're spread across Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain,

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and the UAE, basically everywhere Iran might want to aim

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their next batch of angry missiles. The timing of all

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this is pretty remarkable. Trump was supposedly pursuing diplomacy with

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Iran just days ago. His team was trying to negotiate

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some kind of nuclear deal, but then Israel started bombing things,

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and Trump apparently decided diplomacy was taking too long. Why

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negotiate when you can just drop the world's largest firecrackers

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on the problem. Benjamin Netanyah, who praised Trump's decision, saying

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he acted to deny the world's most dangerous regime the

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world's most dangerous weapons, which is Netanyaho's way of saying

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thanks for doing our homework for US America. The Department

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of State has started evacuating Americans from Israel, which is

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never a good sign. Ambassador Mike Huckabee is encouraging Americans

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to fill out evacuation forms. Nothing says mission accomplished like

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immediately planning your escape route. Oil prices are expected to

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spike when trading resumes, because nothing makes oil more expensive

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than dropping bombs near the countries that produce it. So

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get ready to pay more at the gas pump, because

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freedom isn't free, and neither is gasoline after you bomb

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the Middle East. Iran confirmed the attacks but said the

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damage wasn't irreversible. A senior advisor wrote on social media

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you cannot bomb knowledge, which is true. You can't bomb knowledge,

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but you can apparently bomb the very expensive facilities where

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that knowledge gets turned into nuclear weapons. The Iranian Foreign

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minister was conveniently in Turkey when all this happened, probably

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thinking great timing for a business trip. He's scheduled to

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appear at a news conference on Sunday, where he'll presumably

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have some thoughts about the New crater where his country's

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new nuclear program used to be. Here's what's really wild.

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Trump built his political career criticizing the Iraq War, but

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one of his proudest moments from his first term was

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assassinating Iranian General Cassim Suleimani. So Trump is against foreign

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wars except when he's starting them himself. That's consistent the

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way a weather vein is consistent. It points in whatever

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direction the wind is blowing. The whole thing raises some questions.

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What happens next? Will Iran retaliate against American troops? Will

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oil prices go through the roof, will we wake up

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tomorrow in World War three? And most importantly, will this

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make Trump's next truth social post even more unhinged than usual?

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All I know is this, Trump promised to keep America

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out of foreign wars, and technically he succeeded. We're not

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in a foreign war. We're in a foreign bombing campaign.

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Completely different thing. One involves ground troops, the other just

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involves dropping very large explosives from very high altitudes. So

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congratulates America. We are now directly involved in a Middle

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East conflict involving nuclear weapons, angry Iranian clerics, and the

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most expensive bombs in human history, What could possibly go wrong?

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And that's your weekend update from the world of international relations,

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where diplomacy is dead and everything is solved with thirty

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thousand pound bombs. Good Night, everybody, assuming we're all still

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here tomorrow.