As part of a social media rampage involving more than 30 Truth Social posts in less than three hours, President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to launch an attack on Nigeria.
Standing in front of a podium, he accused the government of letting the mass slaughter of Christians go unchecked, and said he may send in American troops 'guns a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible, horrible atrocities'.
While there was immediate confusion over whether the video was AI-generated, Trump's message to the 'disgraced' country was crystal clear: 'If we attack, it will be fast, vicious and sweet.' 
Standing in front of a podium, Donald Trump accused the Nigerian government of letting the mass slaughter of Christians go unchecked
The rhetoric has sent shockwaves through Nigeria, especially after the Trump administration added it to the U.S. list of 'countries of particular concern', alongside China, Afghanistan and others, for alleged violations of religious freedom.
Mohammed Idris, Nigeria's information minister, has hit back at Trump's warnings, calling claims about a Christian genocide 'false, baseless, despicable, and divisive', while President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied that his country is 'religiously intolerant'.
But where do the allegations about mass murder against Christians come from? And if they are lies, why has Trump instructed the Pentagon to draw up war plans for military intervention? According to experts in the region, the reality is more complicated than a religious war between Christians and Islamic terrorists.
It is true that death is spiralling in the nation: at least 2,266 people were killed in the first half of 2025, compared to 2,194 for the whole of 2024, according to Nigeria's human rights agency.
However, that figure includes both Christian and Muslim victims, who each make up roughly half of Nigeria's population of 232 million, with the former in the south and the latter in the north, where killers don't discriminate based on religion.
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