Trump endorses common sense
President Donald Trump said Saturday that military action against Iran was still an option for its downing of an unmanned U.S. military aircraft, but amid heightened tensions he dangled the prospect of eventually becoming an unlikely “best friend” of America’s longtime Middle Eastern adversary.
Trump also said “we very much appreciate” that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard chose not to target a U.S. spy plane carrying more than 30 people.
Yes, that’s how it’s done. Just sound like an awkward child thanking an adult for a birthday present, and everything will be fine.
“The fact is we’re not going to have Iran have a nuclear weapon,” he said as he left the White House for a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat. “And when they agree to that, they are going to have a wealthy country, they’re going to be so happy and I’m going to be their best friend.”
For the next few months until he’s either impeached or voted out. Not much of a payoff.
“Everybody was saying I’m a war monger. And now they say I’m a dove. And I think I’m neither, if you want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters. “I’m a man with common sense. And that’s what we need in this country, is common sense. But I didn’t like the idea of them knowingly shooting down an unmanned drone and then we kill 150 people.”
He added: “I don’t want to kill 150 Iranians. I don’t want to kill 150 of anything or anybody unless it’s absolutely necessary.’”
What if it’s burgers? He’s perfectly happy to kill 150 burgers any day of the week.
Given that the CIA in 1953 along with Britain’s MI6 helped local reactionaries overthrow the democratically elected Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh and install in his place the Shah and his ruthless bunch of bloody cronies, condemning a whole generation of Iranians to living under a dictatorship subservient only to western oil companies, I would say that the Iranians have a point.
The irony is of course that when the Shah was finally overthrown, it was not by democrats but Islamic extremists; with consequences. A whole lot of chickens came home to roost.
Trump should order in a truckload of chicken McBurgers, eat the whole lot himself, and see what happens.
Now he’s claiming that his aides are trying to push him into war, which he says is ‘disgusting’. Oh, if only someone had told him that Bolton is a warmonger who hates Iraq.
He can’t structure a sentence for shit, but he can certainly self-aggrandize.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-war-military-strikes-john-bolton-iraq-a8970821.html
“The only one that matters is me.” His whole philosophy in 7 words.
No. The entire goddamn world matters. It isn’t about you, Donald J. Trump, because you have to share the world with 7.7 billion other people, all of whom matter as much as you do, whether you like it or not. YOU DO NOT HAVE A CROWN YET. You are subject to the laws of this country, which, by the way, designate war powers to Congress, not to the president. So there are 535 people who actually matter more than you do, if we are going to follow the rule of law (which Republicans are supposed to be about).
Of course, we’ve got Supreme Court justices and DJT himself telling us he is not subject to the rules of this country, but a lot of us know better. We just don’t have the power to enforce it.
Well, all that matters is him, and money. Speaking (if that isn’t a grossly flattering description of his confused babble) about Iran, and Europe’s insistence on sticking to the 2015 agreement, he vomited (more accurate, I think) this:
On those reports of aides trying to push him into war.
“I want it all, and I want it now.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-crisis-drone-europeans-nbc-interview-a8971141.html
I think you just wrote Trump’s reelection campaign slogan. Perhaps Verruca Salt should be his campaign manager?
Agreed, but only because Freddie Mercury is dead.