Just in time for him to bluster all day and back down for Taco Tuesday.
he thinks this is just some hardball negotiation tactic, but it comes off as just another one of his old-man dementia tantrums that he embarrassingly has to back down from, again, making Iran look like the reasonable ones.
meanwhile, back at home, he, his family, and his cronies are playing the stock market like one of his pump-and-dump schemes, making billions.
“All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he said, but added that “as a matter of FAIRNESS, [the U.S.] will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.”
Trump said the “process and formation will begin immediately.”
“We guarded the strait for 50 years and never got paid for it,” Trump said on Fox. “We want to be reimbursed for this, for putting our people in danger.”
Isn’t this dumbass protection racket essentially privateering?
Soooo how does he plan on enforcing this? Blowing up allies ships if they don’t pay? He literally has shit for brains.
No creativity, no new ideas, just mob tactics.
Guarded the strait
Sure have an odd way of doing that.
Honestly, at this point, let’s fucking see Trump attack a vessel from a NATO nation. Let’s do it. I want to see the article 7, I want to see NATO come in and fix the USA.
Nothing is going to fix the US bud. Nothing short of civil war. Everyone’s just waiting for pressure to ramp up to “watering the tree of liberty” levels.
DNC Policy Platform looks pretty good, tbh. Money out of politics, reform the court, term limits, tax the rich, restrict data collection, restrict foreign ownership of land and industry.
What’s a US Civil War II going to do for us aside from helping China conquer Taiwan and Russia conquer Ukraine?
but bur tHeY wAnT an GeNoSiEdee!1!
The Biden admin wasn’t good enough, it lost the DNC the election to Trump, but they allowed aid into Gaza, withheld multiple weapon shipments over disagreements of how they would be used, and according to leaks from white house staff Joe Biden on several occasions swore expletives at Netanyahu over the phone. They wanted ceasefire but only with the terms of hostage release which China vetoed in the UN. Plus, more and more DNC are abstaining from any AIPAC support and the younger new DNC candidates often include devout critics of Israel.
People calling for violence concern me, especially because we know that the current state of US internal politics has been heavily influenced by foreign interests to amplify and escalate the division and animosity. Violence serves their interests.
Im not calling for it, but Im expecting it. Regardless of foreign influence, this country cannot continue as it is.
The violence is already here. What you are labeling “calling for violence” are simply calls to respond to violence.
What we need is a general strike, but I’m not going to point at people responding to being attacked and call them sus. You want to point fingers at foreign influence, the Whitehouse is easy to find.
Foreign influence from more democratic nations in the EU are the kind I welcome with open arms, though.
We’ll make our own strait… With hookers and booze
Honestly, at this point, it’s just funny to me. Like some morbid comedy playing through the news every now and then. Like this shit is a literal joke. I bet you, someone at some point said that this would happen as a joke.
This is taking the toll Iran planned on charging and turns it into a mob style protection racket that demands 1/5 of your cargo as extortion.
I guess i don’t need to say it, but this is gonna backfire on us…
Jesus christ! This man is such an absolute moron. He can’t even go more than 2 hours before doing something utterly idiotic again and then lying his ass off when it doesn’t work the way his dementia addled brain thought it would.
“Trump announces a US toll 15x higher than Iran’s for passage in SoH”
He’s really working hard to make Iran more popular than the US, isn’t he?
Capitalism in action.
Generate a crisis and extort money for solution.
He really thinks that the point is the money.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
1-D chess
Chess? He’s fucking up Checkers.
He saw others do it and he got ideas…
