Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

634-5789

(4,740 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 05:59 AM 10 hrs ago

I think Iran may be serious....Trump family shown with coffins on chilling Iran billboard

A billboard unveiled in central Tehran shows portraits of Donald Trump and his family above coffins draped in the Stars and Stripes.

The image in Palestine Square, with the White House as a backdrop, is the most personal in a series of state-produced murals threatening the US president, as the war between the US and Iran escalates.

The mural carries the slogan "Blood for Blood" and directly threatens Mr Trump's family with revenge for attacks that have wiped out senior members of Iran's leadership and their families.

Another display that appeared recently, in Enghelab Square, depicts Mr Trump lying in an open black coffin, eyes closed and hair dishevelled, beneath the words "We kill Trump" in Persian and English.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/trump-family-shown-coffins-chilling-185847983.html

33 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
I think Iran may be serious....Trump family shown with coffins on chilling Iran billboard (Original Post) 634-5789 10 hrs ago OP
Good luck, everybody. QueerDuck 10 hrs ago #1
Another mural asked, "Who's next?", beneath the name of Lindsey Graham, a senior Republican senator who died on Saturday Emile 10 hrs ago #2
I hate the current timeline ok_cpu 10 hrs ago #3
As Sly Stone sang "It's a family afaaaaair.". twodogsbarking 10 hrs ago #4
Post removed Post removed 9 hrs ago #5
You illegally invade a country malaise 9 hrs ago #6
Tit meet tat. Swede 8 hrs ago #7
Isn't killing the enemy's alpha leader the primary way to acheive one's objectives in war? Intractable 8 hrs ago #8
Usually, no. It's a dangerous gamble that rarely pays off. paleotn 7 hrs ago #13
This is a situation that is out of our hands. yardwork 5 hrs ago #18
Agreed. Tehran is driving it. paleotn 4 hrs ago #31
I hope you're right. yardwork 3 hrs ago #32
Trump did not expect nine effin million malaise 4 hrs ago #27
Scary, wasn't it? When that many people want to kill you ... Intractable 4 hrs ago #28
Dimwit Donnie was going to liberate the Iranian people Dr. T 8 hrs ago #9
Here it is KS Toronado 8 hrs ago #10
Note that Ivanka is on the same level as Melania. yardwork 5 hrs ago #17
+1 dalton99a 5 hrs ago #23
That would be tne only way he could die and Americans Figarosmom 7 hrs ago #11
The Iranians have employed NJCher 7 hrs ago #12
This is meant to manipulate Trump, their internal population, or both. paleotn 7 hrs ago #14
Let's hope the Iranian leaders are smarter than Trump, the GOP, and half our voters. yardwork 5 hrs ago #19
Pin prick? Rafi 5 hrs ago #21
We have not unleashed the full power of the US military. paleotn 4 hrs ago #30
Don't Forget the $10 Million Dollar Reward the_liberal_grandpa 6 hrs ago #15
Iran is serious. yardwork 5 hrs ago #16
They are serious. barbtries 5 hrs ago #20
Sadly this is more effective than bombs Azathoth1 5 hrs ago #22
Don't think this will be over just because he is republianmushroom 5 hrs ago #24
They forgot Jared. milestogo 5 hrs ago #25
Orrex moved to Iran? sop 4 hrs ago #26
Orrex isn't going anywhere malaise 4 hrs ago #29
please proceed mike_c 3 hrs ago #33

Emile

(44,420 posts)
2. Another mural asked, "Who's next?", beneath the name of Lindsey Graham, a senior Republican senator who died on Saturday
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 06:22 AM
10 hrs ago

ok_cpu

(2,257 posts)
3. I hate the current timeline
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 06:40 AM
10 hrs ago

And that the thought that making people believe Iran may have assassinated a sitting senator and wants to do the same to the sitting president is a great way to prop up an unpopular war. They've made everything a possible conspiracy.

Response to 634-5789 (Original post)

malaise

(300,342 posts)
6. You illegally invade a country
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 07:15 AM
9 hrs ago

kill its leaders and thousands of others including 160+ little girls- what do you expect- a welcome mat?
Seems perfectly rational to me.

Intractable

(2,686 posts)
8. Isn't killing the enemy's alpha leader the primary way to acheive one's objectives in war?
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 08:04 AM
8 hrs ago

We killed their leader, ya know?

Of course, they would take out Trump if they could.

paleotn

(23,307 posts)
13. Usually, no. It's a dangerous gamble that rarely pays off.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 09:00 AM
7 hrs ago

Assassinated leaders can easily become martyrs and rallying points for a people who may not have been totally sold on the conflict to begin with. It's a gross national insult and many will demand its redress. And the replacement may be far more bellicose than the one eliminated. They certainly will have reason to be.

In this case, that's strategically the worst option for both sides. Killing Ali Khamenei was a strategic blunder by Trump. He was relatively moderate compared to his replacement and the IRGC. On the flip side, can you imagine how most Americans would feel about a foreign power assassinating a sitting US president no matter who it is? That may very well put US boots on the ground in Iran, to the ruin of us all.

No. I want Donnie to leave the White House in disgrace. Either horizontally or vertically. Do not make him a martyr for anyone.

yardwork

(70,418 posts)
18. This is a situation that is out of our hands.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 10:58 AM
5 hrs ago

It's just one example of why it is so dangerous to allow a person with Trump's deficits to become president.

Trump is not rational. Giving him the power of the presidency - especially when he's got a Republican controlled Congress and Supreme Court- created an existential crisis for the U.S.

Kamala Harris warned us of exactly this, but too many voters thought it would be fun to reelect Trump and burn it all down, especially since "that woman" didn't say exactly what they wanted her to say about Gaza.

paleotn

(23,307 posts)
31. Agreed. Tehran is driving it.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:47 PM
4 hrs ago

And we're getting exactly what many of us feared. A lot of us hated Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly, etc. in the first term, but they are what kept us from the brink. We don't have those guard rails anymore.

My point is, Tehran isn't going to assassinate US political figures. That's strategically stupid. Saddam Hussain stupid. This is propaganda to aid the Iranians living in Trump's empty head rent free.

yardwork

(70,418 posts)
32. I hope you're right.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:55 PM
3 hrs ago

Political assassinations almost always make things worse.

But it's infuriating to be in this position. We, the United States of America, are dependent on another nation being wiser than our elected leaders.

malaise

(300,342 posts)
27. Trump did not expect nine effin million
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:15 PM
4 hrs ago

Iranians to show up for the funeral week.
9 million.

Dr. T

(909 posts)
9. Dimwit Donnie was going to liberate the Iranian people
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 08:09 AM
8 hrs ago

from a brutal regime.

Now it's the Iranians who are plotting to liberate the American people from a brutal regime.

yardwork

(70,418 posts)
17. Note that Ivanka is on the same level as Melania.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 10:54 AM
5 hrs ago

The other offspring are on a tier below.

Very clever psychology.

Figarosmom

(15,367 posts)
11. That would be tne only way he could die and Americans
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 08:50 AM
7 hrs ago

Would not be dancing in the streets. I'd hate for them to kill him and he becomes some sort of hero or something. They'd make a yearly remembrance day or something.

NJCher

(43,946 posts)
12. The Iranians have employed
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 08:52 AM
7 hrs ago

Last edited Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:08 PM - Edit history (1)

Psychologists, according to Dr. John Gartner, who was interviewed by Dean O.in the last few days. The reason for consulting them is that trump’s frontotemporal dementia has progressed to the point where they thought they needed professional advice on how such a person in a leadership position might behave.

Iirc, personal death threats to him and his family are one tactic that gets through to him.

I checked whether Rhiannon had posted it yet but didn’t see it. He updates by taking the viewer through clips and identifying the symptom that trump is displaying.

I’m on my iPad and will post the link here later when I am on my computer.

on edit:



——————-

On edit: The Iranians also put out a new trump bobble head cartoon. I haven’t seen it yet. Noticed it on YouTube last night.

Thanks KS Toronado, for posting the visual so we can all see what we’re talking about.

paleotn

(23,307 posts)
14. This is meant to manipulate Trump, their internal population, or both.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 09:16 AM
7 hrs ago

The Iranian regime is more than smart enough to know that actually doing that would be perhaps the worst possible option. A strategic blunder that would kick this thing into an uncontrolled, escalation spiral we'd all regret. If we live to regret it. It would put US boots on the ground and subject Iran to the full might of the US military. Not the pin prick shit we've seen so far. Where that would lead is anyone's guess. They don't want to ever go there and neither do we.

From our side, never, ever advocate for anything that could make Trump a martyr. Assassination by a foreign power would do exactly that. He needs to leave in disgrace. Either vertically, or horizontally by natural causes.

yardwork

(70,418 posts)
19. Let's hope the Iranian leaders are smarter than Trump, the GOP, and half our voters.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 11:01 AM
5 hrs ago

We're counting on a religious dictatorship to show more discretion and restraint than the party we gave total power to in the U.S.

paleotn

(23,307 posts)
30. We have not unleashed the full power of the US military.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:40 PM
4 hrs ago

So yes, in comparison, this is but a warm up of what could happen. Perspective, grasshopper.

yardwork

(70,418 posts)
16. Iran is serious.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 10:52 AM
5 hrs ago

Trump has lived his life immune to a lot of realities. Daddy paid for private schools, "tutors" to take the tests and write the papers, doctors to write draft deferment letters, etc. Then Putin stepped in to rescue 1980s Trump from his financial and legal troubles. The guy was facing prison but billionaires made sure he was elected to the White House again, where the SCOTUS decided he has supreme power. Dude has never faced any consequences for his criminal behavior.

With Iran he may have gone too far. They are deadly serious.

barbtries

(31,406 posts)
20. They are serious.
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 11:25 AM
5 hrs ago

their ability to get next to him is another story.

every day he keeps pushing this absurdly stupid war grows another several thousand terrorists, and not just in Iran.

Azathoth1

(7 posts)
22. Sadly this is more effective than bombs
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 11:29 AM
5 hrs ago

We're used to unintentionally cartoonish Saddam Hussein-like bluster and ranting about "the mother of all battles" and things like that.

But this is deliberate psychological warfare. They know their enemy's leader is mentally ill and almost certainly in the middle stages of dementia, and that calculated images like this will accelerate his cognitive spiral.

republianmushroom

(23,068 posts)
24. Don't think this will be over just because he is
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 11:42 AM
5 hrs ago

no longer President. He will have reduced protection and they can wait. Their revenge can take a while but I believe it will happen.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»I think Iran may be serio...