Wednesday, August 26, 2026 - The US Secret Service says it’s aware of a video aired by Iran’s state broadcaster appearing to threaten the life of Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump.
Hard-line Iranian media have repeatedly featured content
threatening the life of President Trump and his family following the
assassination of its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many of
his family members at the outset of the US-Israeli war with Iran in February.
While there have previously been threats to First Lady
Melania Trump, this appears to be the first time their son Barron has been
publicly singled out.
“The US
Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be
perceived as a threat toward our protectees,” Secret Service spokesperson Nate
Herring told CNN in a statement. “Out of concern for operational security, we
do not discuss matters of protective intelligence”.
The nearly
three-minute video begins with an English language graphic reading: “Where to
kill Barron Trump?!” and features stylized graphics showing locations where the
younger Trump is publicly known to spend time, including Trump Tower in New
York.
Toward the
end of the video, the narrator suggests people were “eagerly waiting to receive
our $10 million reward”.
The video was broadcast over the weekend by state-run
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which is considered to be aligned
with hard-liners in the Iranian regime. The head of the broadcaster is directly
appointed by Iran’s supreme leader.
A federal law enforcement source said that the video is part
of a campaign of videos from Iran targeting the Trump family and Trump himself.
Some of the videos have included movement details and suggestions for killing
members of the president’s family.
The source said that protective operations are constantly moved and adjusted based on an array of security information from the Secret Service, other agencies, police and other countries.
US President Trump has publicly discussed the Iranian threats on his life, saying in July: “I’m on whatever list… so far, I guess I’ve been a bit lucky, but maybe that doesn’t last very long. These are evil, sick people”.
He made those comments at the NATO summit in Turkey, before he secretly slipped out of the country on an alternate military plane, which he boarded while hidden inside a catering truck, as part of an elaborate ruse prompted by an Iranian threat.
A person familiar with the matter said at the time that the
threat involved a shoulder-fired missile and was a specific enough threat that
officials feared Trump’s life would be at enormous risk if he flew on either
version of Air Force One.
The US government has long warned that Iran may try to kill
Trump, ever since the 2020 drone strike he ordered which killed top Iranian
general Qasem Soleimani.
During the dayslong funeral events for the late Khamenei in
July, regime loyalists were seen holding posters with the words “Kill Trump”
and offering a bounty for whoever avenged their leader’s death.
Anti-American displays, including chants of “Death to
America” and flag burnings, have been a constant of state-organized rallies in
Iran since the Islamic Revolution brought the theocratic regime to power in
1979.
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