Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore published a lengthy Substack post Tuesday condemning U.S. military action against Iran, calling America the aggressor in the conflict and accusing both the Trump administration and Democratic leadership of complicity in what he characterized as an unjust war.
Mr. Moore, the “Fahrenheit 9/11” director, wrote the post, titled “The Apocalypse Is Here,” in the hours before President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, which came less than two hours before an 8 p.m. deadline Mr. Trump had set for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face escalated military strikes.
Mr. Trump had warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if no deal was reached. In response to that threat, Mr. Moore accused the president of threatening a “holocaust” against the Iranian people. He described Iran as “the cradle of one of the greatest civilizations this planet has ever seen” and argued that the U.S. has been interfering in Iranian affairs since 1953, when the CIA helped overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
“Our leaders and our media are stupid enough to keep asking questions like ’why do they hate us?’ Hate us?! They don’t hate US! WE HATE THEM!” Mr. Moore wrote. “We’re the bad guys!”
Mr. Moore also directed sharp criticism at Democrats, calling them a failed opposition party. “The so-called ’opposition party’ in the U.S. — the party that initiated and continues to enable the genocide in Gaza and whose Senate ’Leader’ Chuck Schumer taunted Trump last year to be more aggressive with Iran — stands by now and watches this horror,” he wrote. “Not simply because they are cowards, but because Democratic leadership actually supports this war.”
He called on U.S. military leaders to disobey what he called “illegal and immoral orders,” urged Congress to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and demanded the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Mr. Trump from office.
Mr. Trump announced the ceasefire Tuesday on Truth Social, writing that he agreed to suspend military operations for two weeks, contingent on the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.” He cited conversations with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir as a factor in the decision and said the U.S. had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that he described as a workable basis for negotiating a long-term peace agreement.
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