Huckabee suggests Trump use a nuclear bomb against Iran and follow heaven's guidance.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested to US President Donald Trump that he might use a nuclear bomb against Iran, urging him to listen to the heavens and follow their guidance when making decisions regarding Israel's war on Iran.

In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump shared a screenshot of a long text he said was sent to him by Huckabee, an evangelical and Christian Zionist whom Trump calls a "great person!"

In the text, Huckabee says that Trump's current decision about whether to involve the United States in attacks on Iran is similar to the decision President Harry Truman faced in 1945—when Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Japan and destroying two cities. Huckabee also says he is not seeking to persuade Trump, but rather to "encourage him." He writes, "God saved you in Butler, Pennsylvania, to be the most consequential president in a century—and perhaps ever." He adds, "There has never been a president in my lifetime like you. Not since Truman in 1945."

This lengthy letter is deeply ironic, given that Huckabee is suggesting that Trump use a nuclear bomb against Iran in a war initiated by Israel to target Iran's nuclear weapons program, even though most of the targets and victims so far appear to have been civilians.

Huckabee also urges Trump to listen to his "voice," an apparent reference to God, saying Trump will "hear from heaven" on the issue.

Like many evangelical Christians in the United States, Huckabee is a Christian Zionist who believes that Israel must control Palestine to fulfill the prophecy of the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Christ will rule Israel in the new age, when all people will worship Christ or be annihilated and condemned to hell.

Some Christian Zionists have openly preached that Israel should claim hegemony over enemies like Iran, who would seek to destroy it in pursuit of complete control over Palestine. Huckabee has been heavily criticized for erasing the occupied West Bank, which he refers to as Judea and Samaria, and for once saying that "there is no such thing as a real Palestinian."

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has spent more than a decade urging the United States to go to war with Iran, praised Huckabee's text, saying it was "on point."

“Now is the time to end this terrible chapter in the Middle East and begin a new one,” Graham said, apparently referring to an old neoconservative fantasy about regime change in Iran. The text, which seeks to urge Trump to use excessive force against Iran, comes at a critical moment as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is publicly urging Trump to attack Iran, giving Israel additional support in addition to existing defensive support from U.S. military assets. Similar to Trump’s Tuesday statement ignoring the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon, Haccappel’s invocation of a higher purpose echoes President George W. Bush’s bizarre rationale for starting the Iraq War. Just months after the initial U.S. invasion began, Bush reportedly told an Israeli-Palestinian summit that he was “motivated by a mission from God.”

It's unclear what Trump's next move will be. He has repeatedly said that his goal is to force Iran to surrender to his administration's demands for a nuclear deal. He wrote on the Truth Social website on Tuesday that he wants "total surrender" from Iran. Trump has said he may send Vice President J.D. Vance or his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to conduct negotiations. According to sources quoted by Axios, the president was reportedly considering a strike on Iran before a war meeting with his national security team in the White House Situation Room on Tuesday, but decided to wait until after the meeting.

Trump also held another meeting with the National Security Council on Wednesday at the White House.

Trump kept his people and the world guessing on Wednesday about whether he had decided to launch a US strike on Iran.

"I might do it, I might not. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do," Trump told reporters at the White House amid growing speculation the United States was close to joining the Israeli attack.

Trump added that it is not too late for Iran to abandon its nuclear program, while continuing to explore the possibility of direct US intervention in Israeli military operations aimed at eliminating Iran's nuclear program.

A poll conducted by The Economist in partnership with YouGov between June 13 and 16, and published Wednesday, shows that as speculation grows about whether US President Trump intends to directly enter the war alongside Netanyahu in his war on Iran, Americans are expressing dissatisfaction with the way US President Donald Trump is handling issues related to the warring countries, according to the poll published Wednesday.

Majorities showed they support diplomacy over the use of force. A majority (56%) believe the United States should enter into negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, including 58% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans. This represents a sharp drop in opposition compared to 2015, when 32% of Americans—most notably 52% of Republicans—opposed nuclear talks during the Obama administration, according to a YouGov poll.

At the level of general American trends that transcend partisanship, only 16% of Americans believe that the United States should intervene militarily, while 60% oppose it.