Source: New York Post · 2026-08-25 · Original article ↗

Iran broadcasts sickening video claiming Barron Trump is ‘fully monitored,’ places $10M bounty on his head

Tehran aired a three-minute clip titled 'Where to kill Barron Trump' and priced a 20-year-old's head at $10 million.

Summary

  • The New York Post reports Iranian state media broadcast a three-minute video fantasizing about killing Barron Trump, President Trump's 20-year-old son, as Tehran braces for new U.S. economic penalties.
  • The clip, titled 'Where to kill Barron Trump,' claimed he is 'fully monitored' and showed depictions of dorms at New York University's Constance Milstein and Family Global Academic Center, per a Euronews translation.
  • The segment claimed a $10 million bounty, with a voiceover saying 'many would be willing' to assassinate him. It also claimed to have uncovered Xbox, FIFA, and Discord accounts, including those of classmates.
  • The Post frames the broadcast as an escalation against the president's family while the White House prepares additional crushing sanctions.

Commentary

A father walking a college kid to a dorm still feels the vinyl of a cheap suitcase and the heat off the sidewalk. He does not expect a foreign ministry to price the boy's head on state television.

That is the gap. Three minutes. Ten million dollars. A dorm name read out like a targeting card. Xbox and Discord treated as intel. The regime that cannot keep the lights on can still produce a murder pamphlet. The family is not a military target. The broadcast made it one anyway.

Look every American parent in the eye: if a state network can air 'where to kill' a 20-year-old, what part of 'deterrence' was a press release?

Comments

Does a $10 million bounty on a president's son demand more than a statement?
u/border_dad · 5h

A dorm map on state TV is not commentary. It is a targeting packet with a laugh track.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I guarded a gate so a kid could walk to class. Ten million on a 20-year-old is a declaration, not a skit.

u/rule_first · 4h

Inciting assassination of a U.S. president's child is not speech. It is a hostile act with a price tag.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allies who still buy Iranian crude are underwriting this clip whether they like the caption or not.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Watch the 'de-escalation' shops skip the bounty number. They never walked that NYU block.

u/night_shift · 2h

I get written up for a late punch. He got a state-TV murder video for being a son.

u/texas_mom · 90m

Xbox and Discord are my kid's homework break. They are not a kill list. Tehran just made them one.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

Tighten the noose. Escort the family. Treat the broadcast as the threat it is, not a mood.

u/press_clip · 30m

The Post printed three minutes, $10 million, the dorm name, and the game accounts. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Sanction the outlet. Guard the dorm. Finish the economic squeeze. Do not call this a cartoon.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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