Donald Trump has insisted Iran must “open up the Strait of Trump” and complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize in a meandering speech at the Future Investment Initiative Institute summit in Miami, Florida.
Did he seriously try to name the Strait of Hormuz after himself? By decree?
What a loser.
Trump is killing the global economy, pulling everyone into a recession. Prices for daily necessities are skyrocketing, and still Trump has 40% approval rating in the US? Like do those fckng idiots like paying more for everyday stuff? What the fck is wrong with them.
Team sports mentality. Trump is “their guy” and however he royally screws up “at least he’s not a Democrat”
Also, a lot of folks said point blank voting for Trump is being a sucker and a fool, and to go against Trump is to admit they got fooled.
Yesterday in an interview I heard the MAGA person was hard core that whatever the government is doing, they secretly have reasons they can’t tell us because spilling the Intel would be so dangerous. Pretty much the same crowd whining about a liberal government keeping secrets from them now celebrates secrets being managed by the conservatives.
The alternative would have been a woman of color and damned if they ever suggest that could have been a better outcome.
Additionally, the racists do still have the Hispanics getting screwed over and afraid. The people who got injured and killed were “obnoxious liberals” that are better gone anyway.
Of course this is also as close as they have seen in decades of federal policies trying to make it harder for poor people and women to vote.
There’s a lot of vile sentiment and being close to that being followed is worth having problems.
What the fuck is wrong with most Americans as I we are seeing more real action from Canadians while Americans mostly complain online and may go to a protest once in a while if at all, plus and protests are ineffective as team Trump only hear/feel money. You got to hit MAGA where it counts and target boycott their business like the Canadians. If Americans did the same, we would be hearing about all the MAGA businesses going bankrupt. I am very disappointed with Americans and shocked they are so passive.
Born to be free… Free to do fuck all
Unlimited freedom like the US style “unlimited” holiday… subject to manager approval… and scrutiny if you’re seen to take too much… also not being a team player who is the first to get fired when there are layoffs…
free as in freedom in north korea
“I know it doesn’t sound right for me to say this, but I’d love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker, because I really believe I’m a peacemaker. It doesn’t seem it right now, but I think I’m a peacemaker,” he said.
I really don’t know if he’s the most delusional person or the most stupid to ever exist. How the fuck is he in charge if anything, yet alone a fucking country.
$20B to Iran would open the SoH for 2 weeks, and give time for rest of world to make deals with Iran for permanent access. Markets are losing $3T per week, in addition to future economy destroyed for many years. US will not get a better deal. Buying Iran’s uranium (at very high price) is also key to “declaring victory” over denuclearization.
This is getting bigger by the day.
Fuel shortages in SE Asia. This affects many industries the US gets products from.
China has suspended mineral shipments to the US and restricted fertilizer exports.
Russia is all but openly aiding Iran and likely instigating some of the actions.
Panic buying is happening in South America.
Diesel is over $10/gallon in some places.
Gas prices are hitting record highs in some places in the US.
And these effects are “rubber band” effects. They lag behind the actual impetus driving them.
This is going to get worse. A lot worse. These events are red flags. And if nation groups start taking sides over the conflict we are going to possibly see a far greater war and massive privation globally.
Isn’t the US a net exporter of oil? Why does this cause US gas prices to go up?
Adding to the other comments that point out opportunity to sell overseas is too tempting.
Also despite being a net exporter, some places are likely to import.
In the southeast, prices have gone up, but not as much as the West Coast. So much logistics to feed the pipelines that would be so tricky to get into ships, that is not worth doing it. So places where boats play a large role in oil logistics, well those places are subject to global market conditions more.
To put it more explicitly: If a US oil producer can sell a barrel to Indonesia for $150 a barrel, why would they sell it to California for $100?
You answered your own question.
We export the oil. The oil is bid on via a global market. That market sets the price of oil.
The companies selling oil and gas from the US sources have no loyalty to the US, they’re going to make money however it suits them.
Because oil and gas are both globally marketed.
And one reason US prices for gasoline are higher is because the US is a net exporter. If all US production stayed in the US, prices would be lower.
There’s different types of oil, that take different types of machinery to process, basically the oil from the US has to be exported to other refineries, because they don’t have the infrastructure to be able to use (or process) their own raw product.
Because of market rules. Supply has shot down but demand hasnt.
Because of profits.
Trump has no Plan B.
Either the rape he planned goes as expected, or he ends up here, impotently raging at the rest of the world.
Trump has no plan A either. Not even the concept of a plan A. The decision to invade Iran was a combination of his lack of self control from dementia, and being surrounded by yes-men.
Why oh why didn’t his mommy take Plan B…
(I know it wasn’t invented yet, lemme have my fun!)
Why didn’t his father use condoms?
Coat hangers were a thing back then or not?
The yes-men thing might be the other way around. There have definitely been lots of can’t-keep-their-hands-to-themselves fascists in Washington that have wanted to invade Iran since long before his presidency.
Oh he’s totally being manipulated like a puppet by Stephen Miller and others, who will be planting ideas and then congratulating Donny for thinking it up, but what I was getting at was that nobody in his cabinet will be trying to reign him in or even moderate his impulses. It will all be yes sir, what a great idea sir, I wish I was as smart as you, sir.
He just does whatever the last person he saw tells him to do. He has NO plan at all. Just to listen to whatever the last person he saw tells him to do.
Did he plan the protests and the murders of protestors too?
The rape victim has once again bitten his little mushroom and now he doesn’t know what to do.
Not that I speak on behalf of Iran but how about this:
We open up the strait of HORMUS if:
- You release the full and unredacted Epstein files
- Leave the whitehouse forever.
- Learn to keep your stupid trap shut.
- Do something to make it up to Iran, anything. Mr “art of the deal”. Pathetic.
Jail and/or foreverbox time already ffs.
Team dementia Don the postmodern pedophile narcissist crashing out again.
Is this asshole seriously still whining about the Nobel Peace Prize? Didn’t the winner of the prize eventually just give the prize to him?
Tried to. Nobel committee said its non transferable. He might have the shiny medal but on the books it’s still hers.
Congress is letting this shit head do this and the people who voted them in think it’s great.
The dumbest people on the planet are in charge.
And you can see it online with people saying “what does no kings mean? America doesn’t have a king”
It does when congress does nothing and the joke of a court rubber stamps everything.
Yet they just cant see it. Damn that is a level of stupid that exceeds anything ever seen before.
America is now an idiocracy.
Had to double check that this wasn’t an onion article. I’m not even surprised that it’s not.
the reality check is this: Donald Trump has never been more unpopular in his second term in office
The actual reality check is this: he still hasn’t reached the lows he reached during his first term. His approval rating remains above 40%
“We’re negotiating now, and it’d be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, I’m so sorry, such a terrible mistake,” Trump said.
“The fake news will say he accidentally said — there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story,” he added.
“If I don’t get the Nobel Prize for peace, nobody will ever get it. I didn’t get it. I’m not surprised. The person that got it was shocked — she’s a wonderful woman too, by the way,” he said.
This is completely incongruent with reality. Trump has lived his hyper-privileged life speaking the things he wants into existence, and that privilege has now reached its limit.
These are not the words of a sane person.
If he replaces any more words with his own name I think he can technically be considered a Pokémon.
I hadn’t thought of that, nor can I imagine many kids shouting “Trump, I choose you!” for any reason.
“There no accidents with me…” …check his pants… “not too many”
It was deliberate, not an accident.
Oh my god he actually called it the Straight of Trump.
And then he pretended it was a mistake, and then claimed the “fake news media” would call it an accident, but that he doesn’t make accidents, and that it would be really big news if he did?
He’s sundowning…
I’m more astonished that he admitted to making a mistake, and that he did so straight away.
He must be realising that his brain is failing him and that he can’t fake it any more.
I think that was deliberate. See, it wasn’t a mistake at all. He thought he was being cunning. “I can slip in calling it the strait of trump, and maybe it’ll catch on. I’ll cover for myself by pretending it was a mistake.”
But because he’s a narcissist, he just couldn’t refrain from following that up with “but actually I don’t have accidents. The fake news mainstream media will call it an accident. But if I did have an accident it would be big news”.
Like, his brain is so rotted it doesn’t even pick up on all those contradictions. He literally thinks he’s being clever…
He can only acknowledge making a mistake when he thinks it’s a lie intended to deceive people about something he did on purpose… the man is twisted…
I’m more shocked he said “excuse me, I’m so sorry” afterwards. Are we sure that’s the real Trump?
It was obviously insincere. Same old Trump.
He wants to be remembered. One thing I can guarantee if he won’t be forgotten any time soon. They’re gonna be talking about this lunacy for many decades to come.
Wow, he’s just so subtle
He’s really a clever businessman!
Yup. So clever he’s been bankrupt SIX times!
Art of the con, I mean deal.
I would say that’s a national embarrassment, but his entire presidency has been.
Also, what are all these bigwig investors listening to his speech thinking?
I hope it has a chilling effect on the economy…
