US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on Friday in West Palm Beach, Florida. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said Saturday he has ordered the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria as he continues to accuse the nation of violence against Christians — an accusation Nigeria has repeatedly denied.

In a social media post criticizing what he called the “mass slaughter” of Christians in the country, Trump wrote the United States would “immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” and warned the government there to “move fast.”

In the lengthy message, Trump said that the US “may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Te

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