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Nigerians reacted to President Donald Trump’s threat that the United States would invade their country due to reported attacks on Christians with a mixture of outrage, hilarity, and grave condemnation.

Satirical films, memes, and ridiculing commentary proliferated on social media, while others delivered dire warnings and expressed grave concern about the dangers.

When a number of US senators, particularly Ted Cruz, started to voice concerns about the random killings of Christians nationwide, the situation became more apparent.

President Donald Trump pushed on naming Nigeria as a country of particular concern despite the Nigerian government and lawmakers quickly rejecting the allegation.

His social media post announcing the action set off a chain reaction of reactions. Another follow-up tweet that threatened military action in Nigeria if the government did not halt the claimed genocide of Christian believers worsened the issue.

The majority of the diverse reactions may be seen on X and TikTok. X users have embraced the sacastic, while Tiktokers prefer AI-generated skits.

A popular video on TikTok features Trump and Tinubu’s AI-generated personas engaged in a ferocious wrestling session while Nigerians applaud.

In a different video, a man is shown instructing Trump to make sure American soldiers are taught the correct names and locations of various states so they won’t misfire their missiles “make sure they know Auchi and Bauchi no be the same place woo” he said.

“Donald Trump threatens to invade Nigeria. ‘I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.” a warning posted by X user @ogundamisi is obviously a spoof of the threat of war.

In a another video, an old guy was seen warning the US army to stay away from Nigeria due to mosquitoes.

“Mr Trump if you bring your army to encroach on Nigeria then remember Nigeria is not Iran, it is not Venezuela, when your army comes here our mosquitoes are going to bite them and give them malaria”

The jokes continued to come in. Aminu Daurawa, a well-known Islamic cleric and the commander general of the Kano Hisbah board, even addressed the widespread joke in a video sermon, saying, “only a Nigerian will turn the threat of an invasion into a comedy. Nigerians are so resilient that nothing faze them, a common Nigerian will tell you I have seen all colors of suffering so what else can you do to me.”

People made jokes about how American soldiers would encounter unforeseen difficulties from local life or suffer with traffic in Lagos. Anger and disobedience were the reactions of some Nigerians.

Former Niger Delta terrorist Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo cautioned President Trump and the US military in a Facebook video that any attempt to send troops into Nigeria would encounter “stiff resistance.”

He claimed that American forces “will all die” if they attempted an attack and promised to personally defend the nation.

According to Asari-Dokubo, the US is “a sick country” and criticised Trump’s foreign relation, saying, “Let Trump come with his America, they will all die…if you come to Nigeria, you all will die here, it will be your gravyard.”

Shehu Sani, a former senator who is now an activist, also denounced the threat in a post on X, citing national pride and history. “I want history to record me among those who outrightly opposed, reject and unreservedly condemn any act of Mr Trump’s foreign military aggression against my country…My country is not a ‘disgraced country’ and will never be a ‘disgraced country’…We welcome any support and assistance to our security forces…As a democrat, I respect but will never share the opinion of those who think otherwise.”

In the meantime, former presidential advisor Bashir Ahmad pointed out instances of religious tolerance in Nigeria and categorically denounced Trump’s statement as untrue. “As President Tinubu rightly stated, the characterization of Nigeria as a religiously intolerant nation does not reflect our national reality. Nigeria remains a country where people of diverse faiths coexist, intermarry and work together in unity…”

Remember that the Nigerian government took an official stand, denouncing Trump’s assertions and cautioning against inaccurate depictions of the nation’s security circumstances.

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