Trump calls terrorist Iranian a ‘cancer.’ Is he finally the one to remove it?

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. FOX Business' Lauren Simonetti reports on the U.S. launching a second wave of airstrikes on Iran, hitting 90 targets including air defense systems. Iran retaliates against Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump’s remarks on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, may represent one of the most consequential shifts in America’s strategic language toward the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 revolution. By warning that any new Iranian attack would trigger a far more devastating response — and by describing the regime as a "cancer" that must be removed — Trump signaled something that goes beyond conventional political rhetoric. In the language of national security, such terminology often reflects a fundamental change in how a threat is defined. For more than four decades, U.S. polic