This marks the first time a U.S. president has explicitly threatened to directly attack Moscow itself - not just Russian forces or interests. This unprecedented escalation between two nuclear powers specifically targeting capital cities represents a dramatic shift from previous diplomatic confrontations and aligns with prophetic expectations of direct conflict between major world powers.
Moscow Under Trump's Nuclear Threat: Gog-Magog Tensions Rise
📰 What Happened
At a private donor dinner at New York's Pierre Hotel in May 2024, Donald Trump revealed he had threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine, claiming Putin 'believed him 10%.' The former president made similar threats to Xi Jinping regarding Taiwan. These previously unreported remarks, captured in audio obtained by CNN, came months before Russia's February 2022 Ukraine invasion during Biden's presidency. The revelations appear in an upcoming book titled '2024: How Trump Retook the White House.'
📖 Prophetic Significance
Moscow's prominence in this confrontation is geographically significant as it represents the modern power center of the 'land of Magog' (Ezekiel 38:2). Trump's specific threat to bomb Moscow, rather than general Russian targets, points to an intensifying focus on the exact geographic location prophesied to lead a northern alliance against Israel. The timing of these revelations in 2025, amid increasing Russia-China cooperation ('Gog and the land of Magog'), suggests the coalescence of the biblical northern confederation. The Pierre Hotel meeting's private nature echoes Ezekiel's description of Gog 'devising an evil plan' (38:10).