Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost or damage incurred at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE. This is not a Warning, it is a Threat.
Note Source From : https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212121026072592384
Note Source From : https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212121026072592384
Notice that the source is Twitter. Is Twitter a legally accepted source of legal presidential speech? In other words, if Trump gets on Twitter, and orders the military to do military exercises, does the military have to obey if there is no standard form of orders sent by the President to them through standard military channels?
Anybody can get on Twitter and say the same things that Trump did. So what? There is no harm done against anybody. Name the man or woman in Trump's threat. Iran is a corporation of sorts. It isn't any man or woman. And Trump did absolutely nothing legal or illegal that threatens any man or woman through his Tweet.
If somebody wants to be scared of what Trump said, that's his stupidity, not Trump's. After all, it is Trump the man who Tweets... not Trump the President.
Trump tweets are considered 'official statements'. Same as if he addressed the Nation on TV or talked to a reporter or released a written statement.
So, the military starts their military exercises if Trump orders them to do so, over Twitter, but not through regular channels?
No. They're just official statements.
There are different protocols for different types of military orders, I think he has to call a red phone somewhere that only ever rings when it's the president.
If he wants to order a nuclear attack while he's playing golf, he'd have to use the nuclear football.
Not sure what the protocol is for assassinations like yesterday. He was probably in some secure room at Mar A Lago being updated the whole time.