{"id":544,"date":"2026-10-07T02:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=544"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:45:51","slug":"white-house-denies-trump-suggested-iran-should-take-out-us-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"White House denies Trump suggested Iran should &#8216;take out&#8217; US cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f80bc82d-339f-4ba5-9d75-ee3f5dea817a_Trump-JD-Vance-and-Rubio-og_image-1-1024x586.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f80bc82d-339f-4ba5-9d75-ee3f5dea817a_Trump-JD-Vance-and-Rubio-og_image-1-1024x586.webp 1024w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f80bc82d-339f-4ba5-9d75-ee3f5dea817a_Trump-JD-Vance-and-Rubio-og_image-1-300x172.webp 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f80bc82d-339f-4ba5-9d75-ee3f5dea817a_Trump-JD-Vance-and-Rubio-og_image-1-768x440.webp 768w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f80bc82d-339f-4ba5-9d75-ee3f5dea817a_Trump-JD-Vance-and-Rubio-og_image-1.webp 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House pushed back Tuesday after Democrats accused President Donald Trump of suggesting Iran should &#8220;take out&#8221; the major US cities of Los Angeles and San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viral footage showed comments by Trump at a midterm elections rally in Nebraska on Monday, where he said high oil prices from the Iran war were justified by the need to stop Tehran getting nuclear weapons.&#8221;It&#8217;s a little bit high. It&#8217;s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House pushed back Tuesday after Democrats accused President Donald Trump of suggesting Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}