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Discussion Thread: US President Trump Addresses Nation After US Bombs Iranian Nuclear Sites
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46 comments

  1. This is absurd and illegal as it wasn’t approved by Congress.

    Trump should be impeached immediately in a bipartisan vote.

    But we know the GOP are spineless.

  2. But his cult told me he was the most anti war president in my lifetime. This can’t be

  3. No way am I giving this idiot a view in the address where he vapidly says nothing about the conflict that he created. I encourage others to deny him attention.

  4. Israel played this mf like a fiddle to make the US own this war.

  6. It rarely gets mentioned, but Trump has hinted multiple times that he wants to be seen as some kind of military hero. He’s admitted an obsession with Patton. His late ex-wife claimed he was interested in Hitler. 

    The dumbass even tried to joke that he should enlist in the military and work his way up the ranks. But he would never in a million years do any kind of real training out of high school/college, or at any point, and purposefully dodged the draft. He views actual servicemen as suckers. The only role he wants is to be promoted to head of the military which he got with no understanding or experience of how militaries function.

    So Trump is likely giddy about getting to live out his fantasy of being a war leader. He thinks no one is better or smarter than him and he probably assumes he knows everything there is to know from watching a few old war movies. But he’ll predictably botch every step of the way.

  7. I’ve never seen a Congress so *completely* neutered…

    And the judges and courts can make as many rulings as they want. But until they start holding this administration to account and have actual REAL consequences for their lawlessness, they’re just going to keep breaking the law and shitting over the constitution with impunity.

    The guardrails have been completely obliterated. There are no checks and balances anymore. This is what autocracy looks like. But eggs were a little expensive…

  8. Five months in office and he has entered us into a war without even consulting Congress so far as I can tell.

  9. Will Baron be joining the military and fighting in this completely avoidable war his father just started?

  10. I’d rather have needles through my eyeballs than to waste a minute looking at the orange shit stain and listening to his asshole shaped mouth spew a bunch of self congratulatory lies.

  11. Trump said under Kamala we’d be at war with Iran in 6 months. It only took him 5. That’s the government efficiency we got. 

  12. nobody showed up to his bday party so he had to drop some bombs to prove his prick still works

  13. He’ll call Obama’s Iran pact a travesty, even though none of this would be happening if this dumbass didn’t scrap it out of spite.

  14. I wonder if he did this because everyone laughed at his parade.

  15. In other news, gas prices will sky rocket over the next few weeks.

  16. Nah, not watching a moment of this horseshit.

    Fuck Trump, and fuck you if you voted for him.

  19. Vance looks like he hates Trump, Rubio looks deeply uncomfortable and Hegseth looks like he is too dumb to react to anything.

  21. What the absolute fuck. We attacked a nation without a casus belli and are ramping up our rhetoric saying we will continue to do so.

  25. “We love you, god”

    Even his attempts at appealing to religious people feel phony. Fucking piece of shit.

  30. It’s still difficult to believe people elected Donald Fucking Trump to be President. Twice! What the actual fuck. This country of filled with very very very dumb people.

  33. We love you god after bombing a sovereign nation is wild

  34. “I want to thank a lot of people. God. We love you God”

  35. That was the shortest, stupidest speech I’ve ever watched.

  36. “We love you God” is the stupidest thing I’ve heard this fat fuck say over the last 10 years.

  37. Very hard to believe all the hardened sites are destroyed. Seemed like the Pentagon was hesitant that the big bunker busters would even be able to do the job. Totally possible that US air strikes only did moderate damage and Trump is just straight up lying about the level of destruction. Regardless, hopefully this is just a one off and shit doesn’t escalate further.

  38. The most dangerous person is one with nothing to lose, Iran basically has nothing left. When you put someone so far into the corner..im afraid. Retaliation may not be today or next year, but you can bet the seeds have been planted

  39. Easily the most awkward thanking of God in the last several decades

  40. I like that he said “I want to thank God” like he won an award.

  41. “I want to thank everyone, and in particular… god” – says a devoutly religious man

  42. Best part was when he tried to thank God… He almost burst into flames…

  43. Conservative backpedals! Get your conservative backpedals here! We’ve got ’em all:

    * “We only had to do this because [last Democrat president] left us in this mess!”

    * “This is all we have to do, *now* we’ll get peace without a full conflict”

    * “Oh so you’re fine with that regime existing and threatening the world?”

    * “If it came to this just imagine how bad it would have been under [Democrat]!”

    * **And many more!**

    Some of these expire at the next backpedal, but some are truly evergreen! Get yours now before you’re on the wrong side of history!

  44. Republicans 6 months ago:

    > “We can’t have Kamala in the White House. If she wins, we have [exactly what is currently happening]”

  45. Those fuckin photos of them in the war room with his stupid hat. Couldn’t be any more obvious the dude is jealous of the dramatic Obama photo of them getting Bin Laden.

  46. Every single person in this administration should be in prison.

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