It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that President Donald Trump’s taste in mission names is on par with his flair for decorating.
At a rally Wednesday in Kentucky, the president bragged about how he chose “Operation Epic Fury” as the name for the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran during what he implied was a very boring meeting.
“Operation Epic Fury!” Trump exclaimed at the rally, like he was announcing the next installment in the “Fast & Furious” franchise. “Is that a great name? Well, it’s only good if you win, ya know?... And we’ve won. We won. … In the first hour is was over, but we won.”
He continued, “They gave me a list of names to choose. ‘Sir, you could pick the name you’d like, sir.’ I said, ‘The name of what?’ ‘The name of the attack on Iran, sir,’” Trump told the crowd, making sure to use a cartoonishly stiff voice for whoever was asking him to make the decision.
“And they gave me, like, 20 names, and I’m, like, falling asleep. I didn’t like any of them. Then I see ‘Epic Fury.’ I said, ‘I like that name! I like that name!’”
