Sign up HERE to our DC Insider newsletter - your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on the HillSee more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 18:32 BST, 8 July 2026 | Updated: 19:38 BST, 8 July 2026
Donald Trump mused about his mortality on Wednesday, telling world leaders that Iran could assassinate him in a revenge plot. The President declared at the NATO summit in Turkey: 'They [Iran] want to take out the US leader - me. I'm on every list.''I'm on every single one of their lists, and so far I guess I've been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn't last very long, because that's the way it goes,' Trump continued. His warning came as hardline lawmakers in Tehran openly called for missiles to be fired at his location at the summit. Earlier this week, mourners at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral placed a death bounty on Trump.The President again brought up his demise during a press conference alongside Marco Rubio and his other top cabinet officials. While discussing Iran's leadership, installed after Khamenei was killed in the war, Trump said: 'They're gone now. They have another set of leaders. They may be gone.''Who knows? And you know what, I may be gone too because I'm their number one target. It's out all over the place. I'm the number one, because they're scum.'Trump's comments come after he declared his ceasefire with Iran 'over' and unleashed fresh strikes on the regime after Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The President declared at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey: 'They [Iran] want to take out the US leader - me. I'm on every list' Donald Trump's warning came as hardline lawmakers in Tehran openly called for missiles to be fired at his location at the summit Pro-regime demonstrators in Tehran hold a poster featuring crosshairs over Trump's face as they mourn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday Posters threatening Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a funeral parade in TehranDuring Khamenei's funeral on Monday, footage from Tehran shows pro-regime demonstrators with posters featuring red crosshairs over Trump's face, above the seven-word warning: 'Sooner or later, your heads will roll.'Other posters showed the faces of JD Vance and Pete Hegseth over a crosshair with the phrase: 'There will be blood.'Chants of 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' rang out across the capital as Khamenei's coffin was borne through the streets of Tehran.Iranians were also seen lighting US and British flags on fire while hurling rocks at pictures of Trump. An effigy of Trump being hanged was pictured near the front of the funeral procession.The regime's desire to kill Trump goes back to his first term, following the 2020 drone strike the President ordered that killed Revolutionary Guard general Qasem Soleimani. US intelligence repeatedly warned during his 2024 campaign that Iran was plotting to assassinate him as well as former officials from his first term in revenge for the strike.Federal prosecutors charged a Revolutionary Guard operative with offering $300,000 to have Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton murdered on American soil. Trump attending the NATO summit with his top cabinet officials Trump's ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and one-time Iran envoy Brian Hook were forced to live under round-the-clock government protection. The President's apparent musing about his death comes just days before the two-year anniversary of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt that nearly took his life. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general released a report last week that found the Secret Service missed 102 radio calls flagging gunman Thomas Crooks on a nearby roof with a long gun and never warned the agents at Trump's side to get him off the stage. The would-be assassin was shot at the scene in July 2024.
