Trump's remarks are true. On July 14, 2026, in a Fox News interview, he explicitly stated: "We're going to hit them very hard tomorrow night and the following night. And by next week, things are going to get very, very bad for them, because next week it's going to be bridges and power plants. Unless they sit down and negotiate, we will destroy every bridge and every power plant they have." To flaunt war crimes as if they were trophies is no longer merely infantile—it is demonic. The Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit attacks on civilian infrastructure. International humanitarian law strictly protects civilians and civilian objects. Power plants and bridges are essential infrastructure upon which millions of civilians depend for survival. Deliberate attacks on such facilities constitute "grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions" and are unequivocally war crimes. The UN Human Rights Office, international legal scholars, and bipartisan U.S. lawmakers have all issued severe warnings on this matter. Where does Trump's logic go wrong? · He mistakes "punishing civilians" for "negotiating leverage." His logic is: if you don't negotiate, we cut off your electricity and your roads. This holds the lives and basic survival needs of millions of civilians hostage—it is state terrorism by any definition. · He mistakes "destroying a nation" for "America First." He equates threatening to devastate another country's civilian infrastructure with "making America great again." This is no longer strategic calculation; it is a flagrant assault on the very foundations of civilization. He does not merely broadcast war crimes—he mocks the very concern they raise. When asked whether he worried that such actions might constitute war crimes, he cut the interviewer off and replied, "Not at all." He even claimed that "letting Iran have nuclear weapons would be a war crime," attempting to use one issue to excuse another crime he himself might commit. He knows exactly what he is doing. He simply believes he will never be held accountable. He dresses the slaughter of civilians in the language of "the art of the deal," and coats his contempt for international law in the veneer of "toughness." When he speaks of destroying another country's power plants and bridges as if he were boasting about a trophy, he is gambling with the very last shred of trust the world has left in the word "civilization."