Michael Moore posted a furious Substack rant on Tuesday calling the United States the “bad guys” in its war with Iran, labeling President Trump a “terrorist” and urging the military to disobey “illegal” and “immoral” orders. He also called on Congress to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth and demanded that the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Trump from office.
Moore wrote that “America has been meddling with and attacking Iran since 1953” and accused the U.S. of interfering in Iranian affairs for seven decades. He added, “We’re the bad guys!” and said Trump had “ripped off the mask” to show what the country really is, while also writing that “Iran is the cradle of one of the greatest civilizations this planet has ever seen.”
The outburst landed on the same day Trump said before 8 p.m. Tuesday that he had agreed to “suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” with the arrangement tied to the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.” The president said the U.S. had received a 10 point proposal from Iran. The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, making the ceasefire language immediately consequential beyond the battlefield.
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That timing matters because the war with Iran has stretched into a 6-week conflict, and Trump had warned that Iran’s “whole civilization” would be wiped out if it failed to reach a ceasefire deal. Moore’s post did not just vent; it turned the conflict into a direct attack on American power, then pressed for extraordinary steps at home as the shooting pause itself hung on a trade chokepoint with global stakes.
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For now, Moore has put his name on one of the most explosive public denunciations of the war, and he has done it at the exact moment the terms of a halt are still unsettled. Whether Trump’s two-week pause holds may depend on diplomacy around Hormuz, but the political fight Moore is demanding is already underway in Washington.
