Soleimani posted memes antagonizing Trump on social media.

[elleng]

'Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq early Friday, wasn’t just an infamous terrorist organizer and one of the regime’s most powerful officials — he was also one of President Trump’s social media antagonists.

International experts have long known of Soleimani as the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the shadow commander of proxy conflicts across the Middle East, but many Americans first heard of the general in 2018, when he started arguing with Trump via memes on Instagram.

The Trump administration was engaged that year in a pressure campaign against Iran, whose president Hassan Rouhani warned in July that “America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.” This was relatively mild for a theocratic regime whose founding Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dubbed the United States “The Great Satan,” but Trump took particular offense.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/03/soleimani-posted-memes-antagonizing-trump-social-media/?

[Wawannabe]

1. This is insane!

tRump gets to assassinate his Twitter foe?

Seriously?

Incredible!

I am even more so dazed and confused by the “reality” we are in.

[The_Counsel]

2. Dear God. Tell Me That's Not All This Is About.

But the Lyin' King is just childish enough to try to settle a Twitter Tirade, or whatever, with airstrikes.

I hate what this country has become. We're supposed to be BETTER than this...

[at140]

3. My guess says otherwise

which is it was retribution for the attack on US Embassy because the attackers wrote "Soleimani is our leader" or something like that on the embassy walls.

[Aristus]

4. Shit. is this going to be the first war ever started because someone was "mean to me on Twitter!"?

[In_The_Wind]

5. It could be.