Trump says US military action ended killings of Christians in Nigeria

Sunday Ehigiator

United States President Donald Trump said that the missile strikes he recently authorized in Nigeria have protected the country's Christian population.

He made the statement over the weekend at an event in Washington, where he discussed his administration’s security operations and its efforts to counter terrorism worldwide.

Trump said that U.S. intervention in Nigeria played a key role in stopping attacks that were allegedly aimed at Christian communities, especially in areas plagued by insurgency and violent extremism.

“As you know, we recently struck Nigeria and largely ended the slaughter of great Christian populations,” he said.

“They have a great Christian population. They were being butchered… butchered. Thousands and thousands of people were being killed, children, women, old people, just being slaughtered, hacked to death.”

Trump said the operation deterred additional terrorist attacks in Nigeria.

“They know that if they go further, the attack will be far greater and that they don’t want to really get involved anymore,” he said.

“You know, we hit them very hard. We knocked out their leader. We knocked out their second leader and their third leader.”

Trump compared the Nigerian operation to U.S. military actions in Iran.

“It sounds a little bit like Iran, actually. It’s all about a different cause that we have to do because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Can’t let it happen,” he said.

Trump said his administration aims to protect Christians around the world.

“So, I’m saving Christians throughout the world, even though we are not in those various countries where you read about this,” he said.

“But they’d like to make our country just like those countries. That’s where they started. They started right where we are right now.”

Trump said the U.S. will keep targeting terrorists wherever they operate.

“But I’m saving them by hitting these terrorists very violently and very hard. We’re hitting them very hard with the greatest weapons on earth, taking them out,” he said.

“We know where they are. We hunt them down, and we take them out. They go into a village, and they just kill everybody, it’s like crazy.”

Trump also warned of threats to religious freedom.

“They will close your churches in this country. They go communist, and they’re trying to. They will kill your people, and that’s what they’re about. They want to end religion,” he added.

In December 2025, the US launched a fusillade of air strikes on ISIS terrorists in the north‑western Nigerian state of Sokoto.

In May, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) announced that more than 20 ISIS/ISWAP fighters had been killed in multiple US‑Nigeria air strikes in M