‘Thought That We Were Obama’: Rep Mills Says Iran Got Schooled On Trump’s Foreign Policy

Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills said Monday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that Iran learned a major lesson about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy tactics following the announcement of a ceasefire.

Just days after the president revealed that the U.S. struck three nuclear sites in Iran, Trump announced on Truth Social Monday evening that Iran and Israel had officially agreed to a ceasefire. Critics of Trump’s decision to strike Iran said they were concerned about the president starting “World War III” or triggering a “nuclear conflagration.” Mills told host Laura Ingraham that Trump took “decisive action.”

“Well, again, you have a president who has a backbone, who’s been willing to show that if you push him to that level, he will take a decisive action. You’ve got a secretary of defense who actually breathes the warrior ethos and understands the capacity and capability of the greatest armed forces in the world,” Mills said.

Tensions peaked between Israel and Iran after Israel launched preemptive strikes on June 12, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu releasing a statement that his country sought to eliminate the “threat” of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. (RELATED: Vance Flags Iran’s Nuke Risk As ‘Very Close’)

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Following the strikes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement saying that the U.S. was not involved in the attack against Iran. Questions about the potential of the U.S. getting involved in the conflict began to circulate, however, as Trump said that the U.S. could step in.

Mills continued to call out how previous Democrat-led administrations handled Iran, including the one of former President Joe Biden, who allowed sanctions to get waived against the Iranian regime — giving Tehran access to $10 billion.

“You had Iran who thought that we were going to basically sit there and bluff. [They] thought that we were Obama, who was going to fly in pallets of cash and Swiss francs,” Mills added. “[They] thought that we were the Biden administration, who was going to give him $10 billion in fungible assets, JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], the failed nuclear strategy, and allow them to keep exporting oil.”

“This president was serious. He has been since before his first administration about Iran not obtaining nuclear weapons,” Mills said. “And, unfortunately, Iran learned a very difficult 12-day lesson that they could have avoided by just coming to the negotiation table, which is what President Trump and our vice president had asked for from the beginning.”

In addition to easing sanctions against Iran, members of the Biden-Harris administration openly admitted in October 2024 that the foreign country became enriched under their leadership. According to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Iran’s oil revenues jumped from $37 billion in 2021 to $54 billion in 2022 and $53 billion in 2023.

Following Trump’s announcement that the U.S. had hit Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Iran launched a strike against Al Udeid U.S. Air Base in Qatar. Trump revealed on Truth Social that Iran had warned him prior to the attack, adding there had been minimal damage to the base and no U.S. casualties.

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