This is the moment Donald Trump nearly jumps out of his skin as he mistook a bird for a deadly drone strike on the White House.
The US President was making a speech at the podium when he visibly jolted and started staring at the sky.
‘Uh-oh’, he exclaimed, adding: ‘I thought that was a drone!’ to laughter from reporters.
‘They make ’em in all different sizes nowadays and can be very destructive as you probably heard.’
Trump quickly regained his composure before telling the gathered crowd to sit down and stay calm.
Maybe the president was feeling jumpy after reading Metro‘s report that Russia is stockpiling hundreds of thousands of fiber-optic drones for a future assault on NATO and the Baltic States.
Ukrainian and Russian intelligence have shown that Vladimir Putin diverted huge numbers of next-generation FPV drones away from the Ukrainian front and into rear depots since late 2025.
The Kremlin may already have amassed up to 130,000 fiber-optic drones, a figure which could rise to 200,000 by the end of summer.
FPV drones are especially dangerous because they use hair-thin fiber-optic cables rather than radio signals, making them far harder to jam electronically by NATO defenses.
And Russia isn’t the only rival Trump needs to be aware of at present.
Asked at the White House event if the ceasefire in Iran was still in place, Trump said it is ‘unbelievably weak’ and on ‘life support’ before talking about the recent peace proposal from Iran.
‘I would call it the weakest right now after reading that piece of garbage they sent us,’ Trump added.
‘I didn’t even finish reading it.’
It came as the cost of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury spiralled to ‘closer to $29 billion’ because of ‘updated repair and replacement of equipment and general operational costs’, Congress heard.
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly said on the weekend that it is ‘shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.’
War Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back on social media, saying Kelly was ‘blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received.’
‘The munitions issue has been foolishly and unhelpfully overstated,’ Hegseth claimed at Congress before adding ‘we know exactly what we have, we have plenty of what we need.’