President Donald Trump addresses the American people after the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
The fallout from the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran led to the highest activity ever on X, the platform’s owner Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday.
Musk made the statement in response to Nikita Bier, head of product at X. Bier declared on Saturday that the day had been “the biggest day at X in history.”
“Highest usage of X ever,” Musk responded.
The exchange came after the US and Israel carried out airstrikes and drones attacks on multiple targets in Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei, as well as several other top Iranian officials, including the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Elon Musk says use of X peaked during the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Images of air strikes against both Iran and… Against Iran’s retaliatory attacks neighboring countries spread like wildfire across social media throughout Saturday and Sunday.
The strikes also quickly led to widespread debate over whether the attacks benefited the US and whether the president Donald Trump had the authority to carry them out without congressional approval.
Ben Rhodes, a top Obama-era official who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, faced massive criticism after he tried to reprimand Trump for the attacks.
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Rhodes argued on X that Trump and the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “Seems completely unconcerned about the people – on all sides – who will suffer.”
“Trump’s second term was the worst-case scenario,” Rhodes added.
Rhodes was quickly ridiculed by many conservatives on social media who pointed to the Obama-era Iran deal as a catalyst to escalate the situation to this point, blaming the Obama administration for not taking the threat from Iran seriously.
Smoke rises after reported Iranian missile attacks in Manama, Bahrain, February 28, 2026. (Reuters/Stringer)
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“Oh, look, the guy who literally created this mess has joined,” says Republican digital operative Alec Sears. posted on X.
