Trump: whistleblowers of American military operations should be shot Donald Trump, the president of the United States, says that people who provide information about the country's military operations to the media, "should be shot." "In my opinion, whistleblowers should be shot," Mr. Trump said Wednesday at a campaign rally in Bullhead, Arizona. "In the past we shot those who disclosed information such as the time of an attack on a country." Referring to the US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in June 2025, he claimed that someone had revealed the departure and arrival times of US military aircraft to carry out this operation. Criticizing the publication of the information in the media, including the New York Times and Cianan, Donald Trump said that whistleblowers should be severely punished and defined them as "the worst people on earth."