Tehran Strung Up A Trump Lookalike — What State TV Showed

Tehran burned Trump's banner and chanted 'We will kill Trump' on state TV—the mullahs are betting on American retreat.

In Tehran's Enghelab Square, on the 47th anniversary of the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover, a state-televised crowd burned a giant banner of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—then walked straight to state media microphones and chanted, on camera, "We will kill Trump." The chant was not whispered—it was broadcast live on Iranian state television with the regime's full approval. Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced that Americans voted "NO TO WAR." Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei dismissed the election as irrelevant because U.S. hostility, in his words, will never change. Read those two statements together: Tehran is not afraid of what happened at the ballot box—it is counting on it. That is the cost of American weakness, and the regime is advertising it openly.

Up in Tajrish Square, the regime locked a Trump lookalike inside a mock jail cell and staged his execution above the crowd as Tasnim, Reuters, and AP cameras rolled. Forty-seven years after Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, the Islamic Republic built a gallows for the President of the United States. That square is where the Islamic Republic has staged anti-American hate for decades, and the display this week was deliberately timed to send a message. This was not a mob. This was a state production—burning Trump's banner in Enghelab Square while chanting death threats into state media microphones. The mullahs are throwing a victory party for the midterm results, and they want the world to see it.

While a mob in Tehran burned an effigy of the President, Melania Trump was at the White House doing what this administration actually does—convening Russia and Ukraine at the same table for the first time in America's history. The ceasefire she helped broker saved 800 people this week. The contrast could not be starker: one side builds peace in Washington while the other burns a president in Tehran. Two images of America in one week: one builds peace, the other burns the American president in effigy. The world's villains are watching which one they fear. The Iranian regime is making a bet on American retreat, and every politician who spent the last week celebrating the midterms needs to answer one question: did you know the mullahs were throwing you a party? Because they put it on state television—the chant, the burning banner, the mock gallows above Tajrish Square.

Watch the raw footage from Enghelab Square and Tajrish Square, captured by Tasnim, Reuters, and AP, and see the exact moment the crowd chants "We will kill Trump" into state media microphones. This is the clearest signal yet of how America's enemies read the midterm results, and it demands a response from every conservative who still believes weakness invites attack. The mullahs are not hiding—they are broadcasting their bet on American retreat in high definition. The footage is already circulating in the White House press pool, and the full context will change how you see the midterms.

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