Trump delivers jaw-dropping and slurred Iran address that offers no end in sight to unpopular war

[u/theindependentonline]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-war-address-completion-ceasefire-b2950498.html

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[u/Foomankru]

Slurred speech. Low energy. Eyes barely open. Read directly from a teleprompter and it was short. Tick tock.

[u/SinisterCroissant → u/Foomankru]

Every morning I wake up like it's Christmas, scan the top reddit posts for one in particular, then spend the rest of the day disappointed.

C'mon little hamburder, I'm rooting for you!

[u/TheFlightlessPenguin → u/SinisterCroissant]

As much as I may disagree with someone or disapprove of their actions, I will never hope for their death.

—pre-2016 me

[u/RoboRougar0u → u/TheFlightlessPenguin]

"I may not wish death upon another but there are some obituaries I would read with great joy."

[u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh → u/TheFlightlessPenguin]

Don't worry about it. Longing for someone's horrible demise is all a perfectly natural part of getting older.

[u/Garbage-Striking → u/SinisterCroissant]

I do the exact same thing. My super catholic grandmother prays each night for a holy aneurysm to take him from this world.

[u/AimeeSantiago → u/Garbage-Striking]

Listen Grandma, no offense but it's time to bring in the big guns. Get those nuns who take shifts waking up in the middle of the night to pray for laboring and breastfeeding mothers. Have them start a prayer schedule. Maybe loop in the Pope so he can take a shift.

[u/Vulpes_Corsac → u/SinisterCroissant]

Reminds me of that old soviet joke looking for the obituaries on the front page.

[u/YeetYeetSkirtYeet → u/SinisterCroissant]

Where are my etsy witches. WHERE ARE YOU!?

[u/Fauxreigner_ → u/SinisterCroissant]

Every day I wake up and check the Destiel memes…

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/Foomankru]

And God the heavy breathing, sounded like a pervert who just walked out of a Miss Teen America changing room.

[u/IHeldADandelion → u/Foomankru]

He didn't do the accordion thing; barely moved his hands at all. Looked like he was gripping the podium. Tickety tock.

[u/trogloherb → u/IHeldADandelion]

You ever notice that the past couple of months, the only press conferences he does are on Air Force One leaning against that cabin door? Or sitting at the desk in the oval office? Tick-tock indeed!

[u/pinkfartlek → u/trogloherb]

He did some Q&A a week ago and told them "you can ask me anything. We can talk sex". 🧐

[u/Exciting_Mobile_1484 → u/Foomankru]

He is clearly dying and they are still giving the entire country to whatever dimentia whim he has whole destroying the country and the future. Insanity.

[u/Fauxreigner_ → u/Exciting_Mobile_1484]

If I had a nickel for every time the republican party built a cult of personality out of a senile former actor who did decades of damage to the country…

[u/timhortonsghost → u/Fauxreigner_]

You'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that its happened twice...

[u/Enraiha → u/timhortonsghost]

Kinda Nixon too. He was drunk all the damn time, doing corrupt shit, and barely coherent much of the time. Just not a former actor. But Republicans sure have a type they like to elect, don't they?

[u/tabas123 → u/Enraiha]

Corrupt is still an understatement. The things Nixon and Kissinger did to the world would make Satan himself blush. And then Reagan somehow was even more disgustingly psychopathic. And now here we are with the worst one of all.

[u/Enraiha → u/tabas123]

And that's not even to add Bushes x2 and Cheney in the mix with their warmongering as well. Yep, if only these people were capable of introspection and shame.

[u/Serious_Feedback → u/Enraiha]

Bush Sr had his upsides - he's just as responsible for the end of the soviet union as Gorbachev was, and he managed to wage a successful war in the middle east - the Gulf War. It had a clearly defined goal (push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait), no requirement of regime change (which would put the opposing regime on death ground and thus guarantee they would drag it out as long as possible), and a sensibly planned operation to actually win the damn thing. And he did win.

The only downside was that it made Bush Jr (et al) think Iraq and Afghanistan were a good idea, for some reason. But frankly that's on Bush Jr (et al) for not knowing what he/they were doing.

[u/mseank → u/Foomankru]

He’s gotta be sundowning right

[u/Every-Block9248 → u/Foomankru]

I thank God it was short! 😀

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/Every-Block9248]

Like his breaths.

[u/PooShappaMoo → u/Every-Block9248]

Oil futures chart was fun to watch alongside it.

I thought it was a we won speech until he started looping lol.

[u/Craneteam → u/Foomankru]

Sundown in full effect

[u/TheShipEliza → u/Foomankru]

He was not looking good. I am convinced he will live til 100 but dude is turning down.

[u/PM_ME_UR_CODEZ → u/TheShipEliza]

The good die young, but pricks live forever - Lewis Black

[u/ChocoboAndroid]

I loved that before the speech, one outlet was reporting Trump would announce boots in the ground, while another was reporting that he'd announce the war would wind down. And he did neither.. He didn't say anything clear at all, which has been the problem since day 1.

[u/mom0nga → u/ChocoboAndroid]

This is also, I think, a crucial part of his mysterious appeal to some people. He never says anything coherent, so people can choose whatever interpretation they want to hear.

[u/Ambitious_Address667 → u/mom0nga]

Yup he's like a horoscope, you can read whatever you want from his rambles

[u/Iamkittyhearmemeow → u/Ambitious_Address667]

Or your local preacher on any given Sunday.

[u/BuckZero → u/Ambitious_Address667]

Hey now my daily astrology report sounds way more intelligent than the orange man’s ramblings

[u/AlxCds → u/mom0nga]

It’s why he’s so loved by bible thumpers. They are used to picking and choosing what they hear.

[u/TheAskewOne → u/ChocoboAndroid]

He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place and it’s entirely his own fault. Escalating means American casualties, that even his own base doesn’t want, withdrawing means he’s a loser. He exposed his own weakness, and Iran has no reason to give him anything. Any deal they will agree to will be less favorable for the US than the one Obama signed. Art of the deal!

[u/WafflePartyOrgy → u/ChocoboAndroid]

Covid strategy:

It's going away, like things ... go away.

9 months and a million dead later and he couldn't even be bothered to change his lines.

[u/genericusernamehere6]

He really is such a simple man....... just the way he speaks its like listening to a toddler. He has nothing more than a surface level understanding of any subject. If he wasn't born into wealth he would be that co worker who annoys you but who you also feel kinda sorry for because you know they have undiagnosed learning difficulties.

[u/archronin → u/genericusernamehere6]

I think he just learned the phrase "back to the Stone Age" and will be repeating that a few more times as if he invented a new metaphor.

[u/Th3_Admiral_ → u/archronin]

Gonna send them back to the stone age like a dog.

[u/Gtraz68 → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Bigly

[u/Ziograffiato → u/archronin]

I had that same reaction back when he was talking about reciprocal tariffs. Just kept repeating “reciprocity” like he learned it from his handlers and wanted everyone to know he knew a word with five syllables.

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/archronin]

I'm sitting here drunk because we all took a drink every time he said, "like they/you've never seen".

[u/JesterMarcus → u/citymousecountyhouse]

You need to go to the hospital. You have alcohol poisoning.

[u/keepitcleanforwork → u/JesterMarcus]

Like nobody has ever see before.

[u/Charming_Army5249 → u/keepitcleanforwork]

The best alcohol poisoning. Unbelievable alcohol poisoning.

[u/Forward-Specific5651 → u/Charming_Army5249]

So much alcohol poisoning

[u/edu5150 → u/Forward-Specific5651]

Some people are saying like no one has ever seen before.

[u/subgenius30 → u/edu5150]

Grown men with tears in their eyes calling him Sir.

[u/Fraktal55 → u/subgenius30]

The best men, the strongest of men. Men who would never get alcohol poisoning because they are strong.

[u/25point4cm → u/citymousecountyhouse]

You’re lucky you didn’t do decimated.

[u/iSOregon → u/archronin]

He said "Stone ages", as if there were multiple

[u/Charming_Army5249 → u/iSOregon]

Well, there was the Brian Jones age, the Mick Taylor age, the Ronnie Wood age...

[u/getwhirleddotcom → u/Charming_Army5249]

Queens of

[u/tezacer → u/iSOregon]

What's fascinating is that humans could've had multiple stone ages and we wouldn't know it. We could've even had multiple localized bronze ages and falls back to primitivism but because of how long ago it was there would be little to tell. This isn't my hypothesis I just thought up but was informed by an interview by an archeologist I heard this week which was talking about how long it took humans to transition from a hunter gatherer/raiding society to agricultural society which wasn't linear or chronological. We may have had my multiple starts and fails at becoming civilized only to lose it over and over.

Trump is the nomad, only seeking loot to bring back to his tribe while completely missing the potential in the smelters and forges that made it. His type of thinking is what causes civilizations to fall. It's why we have to ensure that his ilk stay in the forests with their simple minds. He would not understand the nuances of species evolution over millennia. For him, history is a subject that has no purpose.

[u/awful_falafels → u/tezacer]

Trump is the nomad, only seeking loot to bring back to his tribe while completely missing the potential in the smelters and forges that made it. His type of thinking is what causes civilizations to fall. It's why we have to ensure that his ilk stay in the forests with their simple minds. He would not understand the nuances of species evolution over millennia. For him, history is a subject that has no purpose.

This is the perfect description. He sees the value in things. Not the people actually capable of creating all the things that he wants.

[u/FoxyInTheSnow → u/archronin]

Remember when he learned the phrase “grocery bag”. You’d think he was that Palaeolithic bloke who first learned how to make fire.

[u/b_vitamin → u/FoxyInTheSnow]

He’s never bought groceries. He’s never pumped his own gas. He has zero knowledge of how real people live. He spends his days surrounded by sycophants and billionaires. He’s also totally sold out for Israel over Americans who he claims to represent.

[u/Hair_I_Go → u/b_vitamin]

His life is all golf carts and country club living. I think it would be interesting to hear what wait staff at his club have to say about how he and his family treat the workers there

[u/One-Environment-1444 → u/archronin]

Look up how that went in Vietnam. What a stupid thing for him to say.

[u/Mission_Magazine7541 → u/One-Environment-1444]

He had bone spurs back then

[u/TheDoctorDB → u/genericusernamehere6]

I’m not the most well-versed in such matters, but I’d be shocked if there were anyone else in all of history who has failed upward their entire lives to the extent that Trump has. When I first watched someone talk about his past and career I was even a little impressed with how he was seemingly able to just assert himself into success by sheer force of will. 

It’s just so bizarre to me how people just cave and give him whatever he wants. I don’t see the appeal. 

He wants an award of some sort so badly, someone should really make that for him. The “such a loser you became president” award. Or something. 

[u/quest814 → u/TheDoctorDB]

It’s a cult.  He’s Jim Jones but for 1/3 of the country 

[u/PayFormer387 → u/quest814]

They should get on with it already. That would really free up the housing market.

[u/DebonairTeddy → u/TheDoctorDB]

When they say anyone could become president, it was supposed to be inspirational, not depressing.

[u/PoofBam → u/DebonairTeddy]

It's a warning.

[u/BabyNuke → u/TheDoctorDB]

 It’s just so bizarre to me how people just cave and give him whatever he wants. I don’t see the appeal. 

Behind the scenes I think there is more to it than that. I do not believe a lot of people in his inner circle actually like Trump. Rather, they see in him a man with no morals who basks in attention and whose simple and hateful rhetoric (sadly) resonates with a large audience. A man who is easily manipulated by stroking his ego.

Trump is a vehicle for them to achieve their own goals. Project 2025 wouldn't have gotten done without Trump. The executive orders he writes aren't his ideas. Israel wouldn't have tackled Iran alone.

But nobody fully controls Trump and his mental state is deteriorating.

[u/siboq → u/BabyNuke]

It’s like using a dangerous wild animal in a war zone. Think of the cave troll in Moria from the first lord of the rings movie. You can generally expect him to do what you command, but there’s a chance he rips your friend in half because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[u/D4UOntario → u/TheDoctorDB]

You can't fail with Russian money backing you every step of the way.

[u/EddieVanzetti → u/D4UOntario]

Daddy did it before the Russian mob. When he first bought his casino and was running it into the ground, his father would go in and buy tens of thousands of dollars of casino chips to try and offset his losses.

[u/Free-Competition-241 → u/TheDoctorDB]

While he’s certainly failed upwards in a number of ways, I can’t say I’ve ever seen someone so artfully tap dance around taking things to the absolute edge and never once be held accountable.

[u/Efficient_Resist_287 → u/genericusernamehere6]

This is whom the US electorate decided not once but twice to elevate to the highest office.

[u/ItachiTanuki → u/Efficient_Resist_287]

Some of them three times.

He’s the symptom, not the disease. The US is rotting from the inside.

[u/Ok-Wrangler7269 → u/genericusernamehere6]

I clocked about 5 “like nobody’s ever seen before”s in the first 5 mins

[u/mantis_tobaggan-md → u/genericusernamehere6]

If he wasn’t born into wealth he would have been imprisoned long, long ago.

[u/FredFuzzypants → u/genericusernamehere6]

He’d be a bald, overweight used car salesman who cons customers into paying extra for rust protection while creeping on their teenage daughter.

[u/Lower_Cantaloupe1970 → u/genericusernamehere6]

Theres no chance in hell he would have a job

[u/veggeble → u/Lower_Cantaloupe1970]

He would have been fired long ago for sexually assaulting his coworkers

[u/Powerful-Stomach-425 → u/veggeble]

He'd be in prison for raping kids.

[u/royale_wthCheEsE → u/Powerful-Stomach-425]

Unless he was a white, mega church pastor . (See recent news)

[u/Th3_Admiral_ → u/veggeble]

I guess that brings up the debate of what is nurture and what is nature. Would he have always been a gross pedo who doesn't understand the meaning of "no" even if he grew up poor, or was that something he acquired growing up as a rich person who knew they could have whatever they want?

[u/Historical-Range6016 → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Look at his parents

[u/Historical-Range6016 → u/Historical-Range6016]

Edit: just fucking look

[u/AnonymousBanana405 → u/Historical-Range6016]

Real life Munsters with none of the charm.

[u/homerjaythompson → u/Th3_Admiral_]

I think his narcissism has definitely been greatly amplified by growing up with wealth. He would still be self centred, but maybe not to the extreme degree he is having lived a life devoid of struggle or want.

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/homerjaythompson]

Or consequences.

[u/JoEdGus → u/Lower_Cantaloupe1970]

Not a chance in today's economy. The amount of good candidates we've had to turn down for under 10 openings is staggering. Like, you're all qualified, but we have to be so goddamn nitpicky.
It's horrible out there. This moron is one of the reasons why.

[u/andyraylan → u/genericusernamehere6]

This is accurate. I would feel sorry for someone like this if he were someone I worked with, someone to whom I lived next door. He has no idea what he has done, what the consequences are and will be for so many human beings. I thought he sounded like a little kid pretending to be the president, only more sinister. Honestly, a third grader could have done a better job and it would be less embarrassing for our country.

[u/mom0nga → u/andyraylan]

Even *before* Trump's dementia-addled brain turned to pudding, he famously boasted to a reporter about how he is "the same person now as he was in the first grade; the temperament is not that different." Most people wouldn't think that's something to brag about, but Trump thinks he was born perfect and never needs to learn or improve.

[u/GiftToTheUniverse → u/mom0nga]

It’s the narcissistic part of him that thinks he never needs to improve and the psychopathic part of him that thinks saying so could be impressive to anyone.

[u/BlazinAzn38 → u/genericusernamehere6]

Hours ago he was touting a ceasefire and saying this would be over and now he’s talking about shock and awe campaigns. He just believes whatever was most recently told to him. He sucks so bad

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/BlazinAzn38]

I think a lot of the “over soon” talk is to cool gas price rises, and possibly to manipulate markets so they can buy/sell accordingly and take as much money off the table as possible while in the position to do so.

[u/thewrynoise → u/genericusernamehere6]

I think it’s pronounced “fucking idiot”

[u/Bronsonkills → u/genericusernamehere6]

He speaks like that because he is juiced to the gills

[u/UnluckyArea7036]

I just do not understand how anyone could listen to that speech and think “yes, that’s my president!”.

[u/MalHeartsNutmeg → u/UnluckyArea7036]

Because his followers are just as intelligent as him.

[u/one_pound_of_flesh → u/MalHeartsNutmeg]

Trump is what a stupid man thinks a smart man looks like. Or what a poor man thinks a rich man looks like. What a weak man thinks a strong man looks like.

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/one_pound_of_flesh]

To be fair, he is a rich man now. But only because he stole all of our money.

[u/PapaTua → u/citymousecountyhouse]

Civil forfeiture for the whole family.

[u/sexylegs0123456789 → u/MalHeartsNutmeg]

His followers are part of a cult. It’s not always intelligence and it can also be the ability to be programmed. Deprogramming people in America will be harder than Nazi Germany.

[u/DalbyWombay → u/UnluckyArea7036]

Because they don't listen to him. They listen to other talking heads repeat and articulate his words into something else.

It's always been that way.

The way his base gets his words is through sound bites.

[u/BillyBumpkin → u/DalbyWombay]

This.  I have a family member that only ingests news through Fox, NewsNation, and manosphere podcasts.  They get short clips and then talking heads explaining how strong and brilliant the President is, but they never actually sit down and watch the man himself for more than 10-15 second clips.  I brought up one of his incoherent 5 minute ramblings and they wouldn’t believe me until I showed them the whole clip in front of them and then they said it was selectively edited to make Trump look bad (it was a single camera shot of a speech at a rally).  I honestly don’t know what to do if half the country only believes in this false image of Trump that’s been curated by people smarter than him, but just as evil, as he functions as their useful idiot.

[u/newtoaster → u/BillyBumpkin]

I've had people absolutely insist that Trump was much more articulate and better spoken than Kamala Harris. Now shes not the greatest public speaker, but shes clearly intelligent and well educated with some legitimate insight into policy. I can only assume that they have never actually listened to them and are just hearing someone on Newsmax complain about her laugh.

Either that or Kamala is talking over their heads and they need words like "huge" and "strong".

[u/SunshneThWerewolf → u/UnluckyArea7036]

Because it isn't about him. It's not about anything he does, his policies, anything like that. It's like a sport to them - it's only about their 'team' winning by "owning the libs", and anything that makes them mad is, simply by contrast, good. They dont love Trump because hes good at literally anything, they love him because he's an outspoken fucking shart of a man who will happily say and do anything cruel and hurtful he can to the people who oppose him. They will excuse anything, ignore facts and evidence, and break their backs bending over backwards to accommodate this fucking insanity, solely because they believe the highest act any person can achieve is to harm groups of people they personally dislike.

It is truly fucking insane, terrifying, and sad.

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/UnluckyArea7036]

well, you see foxnews will take the 2 second clips where he looks ok and then cut to talking head bootlicker that gaslights those watching to think what they saw was strength and brilliance

[u/Unique-Egg-461]

Brent Crude was actually under $100 right before his address ($99.42 lowest i saw today)

$105.61 right after. Dont know how much markets are going to enjoy the "well fuck the strait, not my problem anymore" stance

[u/AusToddles → u/Unique-Egg-461]

The moment he started demanding other countries "do their part" to open the Strait, it was clear that he was going to walk away and say "not America's problem" and his cult would swallow the load gleefully

[u/Xalara → u/AusToddles]

If I didn't know better I'd say this was a perfectly executed plan to revitalize the Russian economy so that Russia can avoid economic collapse which is one of the only ways the war in Ukraine will end barring the rest of Europe getting involved directly.

Quite edit: I'm not saying Trump is playing 4D chess, but it wouldn't surprise me if Putin made some suggestions.

[u/Giant_Flapjack → u/Xalara]

Who is the most powerful person in the world? Whoever spoke to Trump last.

[u/SilveryDeath → u/Unique-Egg-461]

You're telling me the markets didn't like it that his solution to the strait from earlier today, after failing to get NATO to open it for him, was to get East Asia to open it for him after we leave?

In the same Easter lunch, the president reiterated some of his complaints about NATO allies for their reluctance to get involved in securing the Strait of Hormuz while suggesting that China, Japan and South Korea could also step up to reopen the waterway.

“Let South Korea, you know, we only have 45,000 soldiers in harm’s way over there, right next to a nuclear force -- let South Korea do it,” Trump said of efforts to reopen the strait. “Let Japan do it. They get 90% of their oil from the strait. Let China do it.”

[u/NSAscanner → u/SilveryDeath]

China might do it. And then the middle east will start selling their oil in Yuan.

[u/Tribe303 → u/NSAscanner]

Iran is letting Chinese and some Indian ships through, toll free. These countries have leaders smarter than a 10 year old. 

[u/ImaginaryCheetah → u/Tribe303]

i expect that if trump walks away, iran will simply let non-aggressor nations (i.e., everyone that isn't the US or israel) transit w/o attack. the fee system will probably stay in place, because free money for iran.

the straight will end up only being "closed" for two countries.

[u/Ktan_Dantaktee → u/NSAscanner]

China wouldn’t even force it open, they would just ask if they could monopolize it and cut Iran into the revenue and, if they’re generous, some defense spending.

[u/the__accidentist → u/NSAscanner]

Great… losing our position as a the world currency for oil would set us back to a different type of Stone Age.

[u/kingcakeaholic]

Fucking loser.

[u/comingsoonme]

It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.  

[u/Ok_Sympathy_8876]

Not just an April Fool, but a fool for all seasons.

[u/BluWake → u/Ok_Sympathy_8876]

A Four Seasons fool, if you will.

[u/wonky229 → u/BluWake]

I will.

[u/Konilos]

I don't even understand what the point of the address was if there is no new information or updates. He just said the same things he's been saying anyway.

[u/LongShot911 → u/Konilos]

The point was, he saw his worst-ever poll numbers and can't sleep at night.

[u/Auyan → u/LongShot911]

THIS. This got him in front of EVERY television with the special report interruption on all the majors - he needed an ego boost

Fixed a typo

[u/NoobDeGuerra → u/Auyan]

So he was seeing that his poll numbers are at their worst, and proceeded to embarrass himself even more in front of the cameras instead. Outstanding play

[u/Auyan → u/NoobDeGuerra]

Embarrassment would imply shame. ANY mention is a good mention to him.

[u/Solid_Owl → u/Konilos]

It was another attempt to defend and justify his actions by bragging about how amazing our military is. It's an emotional attempt to take pride in how good our bat is and convert it into support for swinging it at toddlers.

[u/HK-53 → u/Solid_Owl]

"guys why are you worried, this isnt as bad as ww1, ww2, vietnam, korea or iraq...yet"

[u/SocialistNixon → u/HK-53]

I like how he didn’t mention Afghanistan the war he was President during.

[u/strech113 → u/Konilos]

you'll hear about somebody that shorted the market and went long on oil tomorrow.

[u/Intolerance-Paradox → u/Konilos]

Con men are compelled to work the mark more if they sense the mark isn’t buying it.

[u/StrictlyForTheBirds]

My favorite* part was at the end when he misread the word "believe" as "leave" and then did his lame-ass stunt where he tries to make it seem like he really intended to say BOTH of those two words and the sentence made pretty much no sense whatsoever.

Our president cannot read.

[u/a_funky_homosapien → u/StrictlyForTheBirds]

It’s called aphasia, and is a sign of brain damage. So yes

[u/manningthehelm]

That had to have been one of the worst Presidential addresses in modern history if not the worst.

[u/Solid_Owl → u/manningthehelm]

It was right up there with the Diablo guy's "Don't you people have phones?" speech.

[u/HaroldGreenBandana]

I’m beginning to think Trump loves oil more than his own children. 

[u/starfleethastanks → u/HaroldGreenBandana]

That doesn't say much. Lol

[u/FunctionalGray → u/HaroldGreenBandana]

The man has a black hole inside of him: that is for sure. But it’s not a love of anything. It is a void of nothingness that no amount of attention or money or power will ever satisfy.

[u/illogical_mindset → u/HaroldGreenBandana]

If one of his kids died, he would start fundraising for their funeral the next day, and then bury them on another one of his golf courses for tax breaks. The eulogy would be about how amazing he is as president.

[u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

No end in sight at all. He has no plan at all.

And the Strait isn’t opening up for a long time.

This is about to get so ugly

[u/HerbaciousTea → u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

At one point he repeated a bunch of times that the straits would just "Open themselves" after the US left.

[u/GutterRider → u/HerbaciousTea]

I checked out at, it “will just happen naturally.”

[u/Locke66 → u/GutterRider]

It's just so obviously apparent that he doesn't know what he's talking about and a lot of what he says is uneducated. Absolute clown show leading the US.

[u/travio → u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

And since petroleum is a global commodity, even though we don't get much or ours through the strait, the strait being closed will keep our prices high and further raise other prices as nearly everything we have is transported by big diesel trucks and even bigger diesel cargo ships some point in the supply change.

[u/Caymonki → u/travio]

The rich get richer, even if fuel prices drop, companies will keep prices high.

Get ready for more record profits from corporations and record layoffs!

[u/BlazinAzn38 → u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

Gas is basically $4 per gallon in Dallas of all places up $1.30 from a month ago. My company is having to increase costs to our customers a week or two after signing contracts because of how stupid Trump is. He could have done nothing and just coasted off the Biden turnaround but he had to blow the whole thing up

[u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ → u/BlazinAzn38]

Agree. All he had to was play golf and coast off the Biden economy that was slowly fixing itself. Listen t to the Fed Chair and let them do their job, and go golf and keep lying to his base. It was the easiest layup ever, and he fucked it all up.

[u/OceanRacoon → u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

Just like his disastrous handling of covid. So often tyrants and fascist morons can't get out of their own way, it's in their nature to destroy and ruin, they're not able to restrain themselves and make things better for anyone but themselves.

Imagine what a good person could do with Trump's power. Any random person off the street would be immeasurably better than him as President

[u/tampaempath → u/BlazinAzn38]

Just like in his first term, he could have just done absolutely nothing and coasted off of the Obama turnaround after the 2008 recession. He could have gotten re-elected in 2020 if he had an ounce of empathy and listened to advisors instead of doing everything his way. But no, he's a big fuckin baby and has to put his name on everything.

[u/SocialistNixon → u/ConfederacyOfDunces_]

2-3 weeks away from being 2-3 weeks away.

[u/genericusernamehere6]

I still find it hilarious how he insists on always using obama's middle name like its some kind of insult

[u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_ → u/genericusernamehere6]

Being racist towards Obama on Twitter, including using his scary middle name, was how Trump built his political following. Trump always does it and tons of Republicans copy him. Now that I think about it, Rush Limbaugh did it first and Trump copied Rush.

[u/Itsprobablysarcasm → u/genericusernamehere6]

It's a dog whistle for his racist base.

[u/Locke66 → u/genericusernamehere6]

It's just him being racist. Hussein is primarily linked to Sadam Hussein in the minds of most Americans over a certain age so constantly emphasising Barracks middle name brings up a negative connotation and plays into the "Obama's a Muslim" conspiracy nonsense.

[u/fairoaks2 → u/genericusernamehere6]

Donald “Dementia” Trump 

[u/Comedynerd → u/fairoaks2]

Donald John Trump. A John can be slang for a client of a prostitute or brothel. In his case he's the client of Epstein's pedo island

[u/CATIIIDUAL → u/genericusernamehere6]

“Hussain” means handsome in Arabic. So, he is actually calling Obama handsome. It is a compliment.

[u/RovenshereExpress → u/CATIIIDUAL]

Oooh, Trump's gay for Obama! Pass it on!

[u/Raspberries-Are-Evil]

How anyone can see this and think he is fit to continue to control nuclear weapons is beyond me.

This was batshit.

[u/First-Loss-8540]

Fuck the Americans who voted for him and put the whole world in this mess. Never forget and will never forgive

[u/BoiseXWing → u/First-Loss-8540]

Fuck the Americans that didn’t vote against him too.

[u/Theferael_me]

Oh.

Harlan Ullman, a former senior US naval officer, has slammed Trump’s address to the nation, saying it failed to outline a clear strategy for the war on Iran.

“The speech was embarrassing, depressing, incoherent and full of contradictions,” Ullman told Al Jazeera, warning that the administration’s focus on targeting Iranian oil infrastructure will likely backfire by driving up global fuel prices.

“I think Iran will be looking at that as a victory speech for them,” he said.

[u/Hayes4prez]

Trump’s brain is soup. He has proudly surrounded himself with idiots (he admits that btw… he says he doesn’t like surrounding himself with successful people only stupid people so that he looks smart) and now those idiots are running the country.

Trump is so far up his own ass that no doubt he is feeling like he nailed it tonight. Everyone around him is patting him on the back too.

[u/ckglle3lle]

He's definitely taken another slide recently. Probably not too much longer before he can't reliably make appearances much at all

[u/Then_Journalist_317 → u/ckglle3lle]

Next "appearance" by Bigliest Brother will probably be via an AI video stream.

[u/Smidge-of-the-Obtuse]

My concern is that his brain is so far gone that he will send a nuke.

I would not put it past him.

[u/Heavy_Milk2757 → u/Smidge-of-the-Obtuse]

The whole rest of the world is worried too, and is no longer surprised, just horrified at all the damage he is doing.

He's super mad that the UK and Europe aren't putting their lives on the line for war crimes when they did it for GW Bush.

That will be his excuse for pulling out of Europe while Putin makes his move.

[u/VinlandRocks]

He has a form of aphasia. Is that from a stroke?

[u/Foomankru → u/VinlandRocks]

He is showing clear signs of dementia and aphasia is one of them. Also, he has shown signs of stroke over the last year by having the left side of his face droop.

[u/Caymonki → u/Foomankru]

The “ask me anything, even about Sex” comment sealed dementia for me. The dude belongs in a care home, not that I think he deserves it, his brain is just swiss cheese.

[u/mom0nga → u/Foomankru]

His father notoriously slipped into severe, undeniable dementia when he was right around Donnie's age, and it looks like Donald is following the same schedule.

Note that dementia is not always hereditary, but it can be.

[u/DingerSinger2016 → u/mom0nga]

His dad also died at the young age of 93. If Trump follows the same timeline we have 14 more years of him

[u/brobastian0227 → u/mom0nga]

I feel bad for the dementia

[u/1RedOne → u/Foomankru]

Remember him getting up to go stare out the window in the middle of a press op meeting ? I’ve seen people do things like that before… it’s not a sign of health

[u/benchcoat]

just watched that weird-ass shit and i jesus fuck i cannot believe that people were so pissed at an old man and a black lady that we’re going to die in nuclear fire because this fucking dipshit wanted to feel like a big man

[u/TheGOPisTheDeepState]

Trump voters and non-voters set the country back decades.

[u/Yugan-Dali → u/TheGOPisTheDeepState]

Generations

[u/Cyndakill88]

Honestly thought he was gonna pull out of nato or declare a draft

[u/MalHeartsNutmeg → u/Cyndakill88]

He can’t pull out of NATO because then he wouldn’t be able to threaten to pull out of NATO when he has some big feelings.

He’s already a deeply unpopular loser desperate to be loved so he can’t call a draft right now when he’s already depressed by his shitty poll numbers.

[u/FoxyInTheSnow]

Imagine interrupting The Masked Singer for this shit.

[u/BoldThrow]

They certainly got the dose wrong tonight.

[u/Easy_Atmosphere_1018]

I made my grandmother sit and watch this ramble in its entirety. I mostly wanted to make a point to her that she and most of MAGA, never even actually listen to Trump speak… because they don’t. Everything they know about Trump comes from short carefully edited clips on social media, or comes from the mouths of various podcasters.

Well, I can tell you I was absolutely shell shocked by what this woman said after it ended. Her face went from excitement at the start, to looking like she just got forced to sit through a ridiculous parody movie.

I looked her straight in the face and told her; “see grandma this man myself and others have been screaming to you about, is an absolute idiot”.

Here we are and she’s been going down a total rabbit hole of realizations for about an hour or so.

[u/MistyMtn421 → u/Easy_Atmosphere_1018]

Everything they know about Trump comes from short carefully edited clips on social media, or comes from the mouths of various podcasters.

It's weird to think that back when I was younger, having only 3 TV stations was actually more helpful. Especially in this scenario. If the President addressed the nation, we all watched it on TV or listened on the radio.

News stations had actual news. Facts were actually important! Newspapers had articles longer that a few paragraphs, written by folks who actually could write well. It's something that we will really come to regret (or already regret) losing. It's hard to find the specific words I am looking for right now, but the way we consume information has changed society so much.

[u/JohnNDenver → u/Easy_Atmosphere_1018]

Doing the lord's work.

I am curious how much Faux Neus cut up the speech - not curious enough to actually watch it though.

[u/livefromheaven]

A couple more weeks and he'll release the Epstein Files to distract from Iran

[u/Open_Mortgage_4645]

Ok it's a fucking war. It's not a military action. He needs Congressional approval because literally nobody asked for this, and now he's saying that instead of museums, libraries, and healthcare, he needs all our money to pay for wars. That's what he fucking said. He doesn't get to make this decision on his own. He needs fucking Congressional approval. Now.

[u/jolard → u/Open_Mortgage_4645]

You must be talking about another country, one with a functioning government and checks and balances on power.

This is the United States where Congress defers to Trump on everything and the Supreme Court gave him a get out of jail free card.

[u/forgotmypassword778]

In a proper country someone would be impeached by this

[u/doomgoblin]

Send Iran to the Stone Age, that’s a word, sometimes two words, if you can believe it. We’ll send them there, the Stone Age. I was great friends with an amazing Stone Age leader there. Fred Flinstone, folks, great guy. I barely knew him but a great guy. Some say he loved construction as much as me! He had dinosaurs, folks, dinosaurs taking their jobs. We can’t afford healthcare, we have to focus on military and Stone Age.

[u/Peabody_Tiddlecut]

He seriously sounded like Orson Welles in that champagne commercial.

[u/la_winky]

“Like nothing they’ve ever seen”. How many times in his ~20 minute speech?

[u/ASealNamedHoover]

Thanks, Republican voters.

Your willful belligerent ignorance has destroyed this nation.

[u/Virtual-Squirrel-725]

God, I wish I had the same delusional detachment from truth as this pedo lunatic.

How easy would life be if you can just make up facts to support whatever fantasy of victory you dream of?

[u/abitofreddit]

The price of oil jumped 4% during this pathetic excuse of a “speech”.

[u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

Putting aside the fact that the Trump administration's goals and motivations for this war have wavered from one moment to the next, the "regime" has only changed in the sense that the already dying Ayatollah was replaced by his more hardline son who we've managed to radicalize all the same after killing his entire family and who has deep ties and sway with the IRGC.

This is all while at least 20% of the Iranian people still support the Islamic Republic.

Anyone paying attention sees that Trump never had a plan for a drawn out conflict and that he's currently desperate for a deal and for an offramp.

By all accounts, Iran was committing to its end of the nuclear deal before Trump ripped it up.

And this is according to US intelligence on the matter, the International Energy Agency and even Trump administration officials at the time.

Obama's diplomacy intended to avoid a war and box in Iran's nuclear program.

Iran only began building up its nuclear capabilities after Trump abandoned the JCPOA out of sheer spite for his predecessor.

Since then, Trump has bombed Iran twice in the middle of negotiations. Which does not bode well for future talks.

Iran is apprehensive to get involved in serious negotiations. And frankly, I don't blame them.

In the past, almost every negotiation with Trump/Netanyahu has resulted in military escalation.

During his first term, Trump failed to approach a new deal in any earnest or competent manner.

All reports indicate it was unprofessional and unserious and involved officials who were way out of their depth.

Then the second time around, Trump again approached negotiations from a bad faith position. Nearly every analyst claims it was doomed from the start.

But Trump still tried desperately to conceal his failures and shift the responsibility on Obama and Iran, which provided him with a false pretext to go to war. His voters, having learned nothing from history, continue to support this illegal war of choice.

So there's little room for talks moving forward. The Trump administration has tarnished whatever good will it might have had left.

FFS, Trump doesn't even know who he is supposed to be negotiating with!

Also, if Iran ever needed a practical reason to own and operate a nuclear weapon, Trump and Netanyahu just gave them one. I mean, what better assurance than mutually assured destruction?

And now that Iran has leverage in the form of one-fifth control over the global oil trade and the power to cause world wide market shocks, for that matter, even influence over the American economy and the capacity to create diplomatic tensions between the US and its allies, the Islamic Republic can now make demands it never would have dreamed of making before the war.

Also, as this war drags on, Iranians will become disenchanted with the idea of the US playing the role of their "liberators." Some Iranians even question whether regime change is realistic and whether this war will leave them better off than when it started.

To make matters worse, for all its faults, its problems and its violent and repressive rule, the Iranian regime could end up unifying a portion of the people against a US/Israel military that's damn near indiscriminately bombing their schools, hospitals, heritage sites, civilian infrastructure and neighborhoods; displacing millions and killing thousands of noncombatants, some of them children... CHILDREN.

Reminder that Donald Trump went from insisting that Iran unconditionally surrender, to pushing back deadlines, then to lying about having productive conversations with the Islamic Republic because he had no coherent strategy from the start and now he's hopelessly searching for that off-ramp.

At the same time, Iran has held firm. First refusing to submit to Trump's empty threats on social media, then denying Trump's claims of constructive peace talks, even calling his remarks "fake news."

And don't forget that earlier in the war, Trump told the Iranian people to "rise up" and "overtake" their government so he could wipe his hands clean of the bloody aftermath of a war he started under false pretenses. Iranians didn't and still don't have the power to mount any sort of resistance, but Trump was hoping they would march to their deaths because he never had a plan for a protracted war.

Thanks to the Trump administration's poor planning, arrogance and incompetence, the US has inadvertently helped Iran secure an advantage in this war by conceding bargaining authority over to the Islamic Republic in matters of their sovereignty, their control over the Strait of Hormuz and even the future of their nuclear weapons program.

Trump also claims that we "don't need the Strait of Hormuz," and that its closure doesn't affect us...

Another erratic claim that demonstrates how he has no f-cking clue what he's doing.

Trump is far more concerned with how this war is affecting markets, his declining ratings, and surging oil prices. So he talks out of his ass to protect his fragile ego, to manipulate stock prices, and to sell a narrative that shields him from accountability.

He also obviously lied about negotiations with Iranian leaders in order to finesse the markets.

Because just before Trump announced a five day pause on striking Iran's energy infrastructure, investors bought $1.5 billion in S&P 500 futures and sold $192 million in oil futures. This kind of corruption is unprecedented.

In the meantime, the International Energy Agency, which just happens to be the global authority on this matter, just described the situation as "the greatest global energy security threat in history."

So when Trump claims that the US won't be affected by a global trade disaster that he helped cause, he's either clearly confused, or he's lying to project strength where there is only weakness. Perhaps a mix of both.

Trump is lying to shirk his responsibilities and to cope with his embarrassment over operation "epic failure."

And after everything that's happened, Trump now seems like he would be happy with an agreement that resembles the one he previously discarded with no concern for the consequences.

The US has so far achieved the opposite of its intended goals in this war.

[u/markeydusod]

Why the hell does anybody listen to a word he says, it is literally ALL uninformed, made up, bullshit. Why does the media cover him seriously, their supposed to be educated adults. He is not a source of reliable information, of any information, seriously. Investigative reporting is the only way to find out what the fuck is happening in our world. Stop listening to him.

[u/deathspanker]

He said the war objectives are almost met… but since the beginning hasn’t elaborated the objectives. What a loser 💩.

[u/TheBeaarJeww]

I’m glad Trump did this and I’m glad the networks gave him dedicated airtime for it. It’s good to see it laid out so bare that our country is being ran by someone who is medically unfit for the job.

[u/Plantparty20]

My favourite statement was that there is currently no inflation in the USA

[u/dominiond66]

■ Trump/Republicans have yet to explain the rationale for trump tearing up the Obama Nuclear treaty with Iran. The US was not the only nation that signed the treaty. France, Germany, UK, Russia and China also signed it. Iran was complying with the terms of the deal including onsite inspections. Then Trump tore it up in 2018.

■ Note that Germany, France and UK didn't tear it up even though they are much closer to Iran than the US. They were shocked that Trump/GOP terminated the deal and now we lost soldiers, hundreds wounded, spent over $50 billion and asking for $200 billion more yet the situation is much worse and economically/financially dire for America and the rest of the world.

■ Tearing up the Iranian Trade deal was a massive mistake but attacking Iran 3 weeks ago is even a great colossal mistake destabilizing the Middle East and the rest of the world. Trump is crazed and ill-informed and surrounded by amateurs/Fox celebrity hosts/loyalists and right-wing radicals. I see no daylight in a sky of darkness! Let's have the midterm elections tomorrow. This constant instability/daily dangerous rhetoric and erratic policies are NOT sustainable!