Trump lashes out at ‘worst president’ Biden over Houthi airstrikes

Donald Trump lashed out at hislikely 2024 general election opponent President Joe Biden after US and UK forces struck Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“So, let me get this straight,” the former president began in a post on Truth Social on Friday morning. “We’re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room.”

Secretary of defence Lloyd Austin has beencriticised after spending days in hospital being treated for prostate cancer and being slow to notify the administration and the public.

“Remember, this is the same gang that ‘surrendered’ in Afghanistan, where no one was held accountable or FIRED,” Mr Trump claimed. “It was the most embarrassing ‘moment’ in the history of the United States. Now we have wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen, but no ‘war’ on our Southern Border. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States!”

Both Mr Biden and Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, have not ruled out further action against the Houthi rebels if deemed necessary. The rebels have warned of reprisal actions, saying that the strikes that they say killed five and wounded six would “not go unanswered and unpunished”.

“It’s clear that this type of behaviour can’t be met without a response,” Mr Sunak said. “We need to send a strong signal that this breach of international law is wrong. People can’t act like this with impunity and that’s why together with allies we’ve decided to take this action.”

The strikes came after the group launched its 26th attack on international shipping in the Red Sea since 19 November.

The armed group are supported