Headline Roundup • June 14th, 2025
Media Split on Trump's Support of Israel's Strike
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Outlets on the left and right displayed bias in their coverage of President Donald Trump's support of Israel's attack on Iran.
What Has Trump Said? Though the US did not militarily support Israel's strike, According to Tangle (Center bias), “Days ago the president was clearly telling Israel not to instigate Iran. He has now praised the attack and affirmed the United States’ material support. Israeli sources claim his public opposition to a strike was a disinformation campaign to intentionally mislead Iran into thinking a strike wasn’t coming, and Trump now says that he knew this was going to happen.”
From The Right: Outlets on the right emphasized Trump's knowledge and support of the strike. “I always knew the date. Because I know everything. I know everything. I know everything,” Trump told the New York Post (Lean Right). The Washington Free Beacon (Right) did not mention Trump's past public opposition to a strike, and The Post said Trump “had been coy on whether he fully supported giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to strike.”
From The Left: Analyses from outlets on the left implied that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu defied Trump. CNN (Lean Left) noted, “President Donald Trump made clear it was an outcome he hoped to avoid,” and the strike happened “despite Trump’s repeated attempts at urging Netanyahu to hold off.” The Guardian (Left) also characterized Trump as “unable to restrain Netanyahu.”
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In the hours before Israeli warplanes carried out an attack on Iran early Friday, raising fresh fears of all-out war in the region, President Donald Trump made clear it was an outcome he hoped to avoid.
“I don’t want them going in because, I mean, that would blow it,” he said, referring to his diplomatic efforts to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
The fact Israel went in anyway – without any US involvement, and against the president’s publicly stated wishes – now thrusts Trump into one of the biggest tests of his young presidency....
President Trump told The Post Friday that he knew Israel would strike Iran if the theocratic regime didn’t quickly agree to a revised nuclear deal with the US.
“I always knew the date,” the president said in a brief phone interview. “Because I know everything. I know everything. I know everything.
“I gave them 60 days and they didn’t meet it,” Trump went on. “Today’s 61, you know. Today’s day 61.”
The president had never publicly revealed the 60-day deadline — though its existence had been reported by Israeli media — until...
Israel’s strike on Iran. Early Friday morning, around 3:30am local time in Tehran, Israel launched a series of coordinated attacks against Iran, targeting military bases, top generals, and nuclear enrichment facilities. Over 200 Israeli aircraft took part in the strikes on over 100 different targets. According to senior Iranian officials, at least six military bases around the capital of Tehran were attacked, along with residential homes in military compounds, defense and industrial compounds in Kermanshah and Isfahan, and radar facilities in Piranshahr. Israel also targeted key components of Iran’s nuclear program, striking Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and...
