President Donald Trump addresses the American individuals following strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.
The fallout of the joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran led to the highest-ever exercise on X, the platform’s proprietor Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday.
Musk made the assertion in reply to Nikita Bier, the pinnacle of product at X. Bier said on Saturday that the day had been “the most important day on X in historical past.”
“Highest utilization of X ever,” Musk replied.
The alternate got here after the U.S. and Israel performed airstrikes and drone assaults on a number of targets throughout Iran, killing Supreme Chief Ayatolla Ali Khamenei in addition to a number of different high Iranian officers, together with the pinnacle of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Elon Musk says X utilization peaked throughout U.S.-Israeli assaults on Iran. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Footage of airstrikes each in opposition to Iran and Iran’s retaliatory strikes in opposition to neighboring nations unfold throughout social media like wildfire all through Saturday and into Sunday.
The strikes additionally shortly led to widespread arguments over whether or not the assaults benefited the U.S. and whether or not President Donald Trump had the authority to hold them out with out approval from Congress.
Ben Rhodes, a high Obama-era official who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear take care of Iran, confronted mass criticism after he tried to rebuke Trump for the assaults.
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A map of the U.S. strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025. (Fox Information)
Rhodes argued on X that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “appear to be completely unconcerned concerning the human beings — on all sides — who will endure.”
“Trump’s second time period has been the worst case situation,” Rhodes added.
Rhodes was shortly ridiculed by many conservatives on social media who pointed to the Obama-era Iran deal as a catalyst for permitting the scenario to escalate so far, and inserting blame on the Obama administration for not taking the menace from Iran significantly.
Smoke rises after reported Iranian missile assaults in Manama, Bahrain, Feb. 28, 2026. (Reuters/Stringer)
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“Sure we had been a lot better off with a president who drew redlines and didn’t implement them,” American Enterprise Institute fellow and Fox Information contributor Marc Thiessen posted on X. “Staff Obama may need to sit this one out.”
“Oh look the man who actually created this mess within the first place has chimed in,” Republican digital operative Alec Sears posted on X.
Fox Information’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
