# Donald Trump — "beat the f***ing sh*t out of them" > [!quote] "We are going to beat the f***ing sh*t out of them. We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating." > — Donald Trump, interview with Fox News reporter Trey Yingst, July 29, 2026 ## Context On the evening of July 28, 2026, [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] forces launched ballistic missiles from Iran at a U.S. base in Jordan — what CENTCOM called "an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces," and what the *Wall Street Journal* identified as the first genuinely offensive Iranian action of the [[Iran War 2026]] rather than a retaliation. All the missiles were intercepted. Trump responded the following day in an expletive-laden interview with [[Fox News]] correspondent Trey Yingst. CENTCOM completed a heavy wave of strikes on dozens of IRGC targets in Iran that night. The attack came days after Trump had paused consecutive nights of strikes — a pause that leaked reporting attributed partly to a shortage of Patriot antimissile interceptors, with Gen. [[Dan Caine]] warning that further major combat would "dangerously deplete" Central Command's supply. ## Why This Matters The remark is the [[Iran War 2026]] pattern in a sentence: maximal public belligerence issued at the exact moment the military's own leadership was privately warning that the means to sustain it were running out. Two days earlier, [[Mike Waltz]] had gone on *Meet the Press* to insist there was no shortage and that the people reporting one "deserve to be in jail." The president then promised an escalation whose material constraint his administration was simultaneously denying existed. It also extends the register documented in [[Trump Iran War Quotes]] — schoolyard threat as wartime communication, from "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards" (April 5) through "We're beating them up" (July 12) to this. The profanity is not incidental; it is the message, substituting affect for any statement of objective, and it has never once been accompanied by a definition of what winning would look like. ## Verification - **Provenance:** Fox News interview with Trey Yingst, reported July 29, 2026 by [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/us-iran-war-hormuz-centcom.html), [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/trump-says-us-to-deliver-beating-to-iran-after-bases-again-targeted), JNS, HuffPost, and Townhall. - **Status:** Verbatim and undisputed. Most outlets censored the profanity; the uncensored rendering is "We are going to beat the fucking shit out of them." - **Date note:** [[Heather Cox Richardson]]'s letter places the remark immediately after the July 28 attack. The interview itself was given and reported on **July 29**, responding to the July 28 attack. This page uses July 29. ## Related quotes - [[Donald Trump - We're beating them up Iran]] — the July 12, 2026 predecessor - [[Donald Trump - Islamic Republic of Japan]] — the same war, three weeks earlier - [[Donald Trump - a little pinprick out there]] ## See Also - [[Iran War 2026]] - [[Iran War 2026 Timeline]] - [[Trump Iran War Quotes]]