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[–] Linken@lemmy.world 349 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (12 children)
  • Mar 3: "We won the war."
  • Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
  • Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
  • Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
  • Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.”
  • Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
  • Mar 13: "We won the war."
  • Mar 14: "Please help us."
  • Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
  • Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
  • Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
  • Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
  • Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
  • Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
  • Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
  • Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
  • Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
  • Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
  • Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
  • Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
  • Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.”
  • Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
  • Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
  • Mar 28: No major quote
  • Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
  • Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
  • Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
  • Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
  • Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
  • Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
  • Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. "Tuesday 8 PM ET".
  • Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
  • Apr 6: "We can bomb the hell out of them"
  • Apr 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight"
[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

is this list accurate and not embellished for comedic effect?

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Is he going to nuke them I wonder? What else could that final threat be?

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

this guy is starting to behave a lot like that putin guy

waaaaaiiit uuuuppp....

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The USA is a second-world country. There are no first-world countries.

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He's the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.

[–] Ziro427@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, not so long as there's someone who will believe a word he says.

"Who's the bigger dumbass? The dumbass or the dumbass who follows him?"

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 64 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

I like your post. 50 years from now, high school students are going to open their US History book and read what the orange bumble fuck said during a war he started. Humiliating and perhaps the Americans might learn a lesson from the MAGA disaster.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Americans learning true history, instead of propaganda?

Never gonna happen. When orange turd dies, there will be zero changes to your democratic system and a new pedophile controlled by billionaires will be elected.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you think your government isn't lying to you... I have some news

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about education and the American capitalist propaganda and brainwashing in American schools.

Did you know that in the USA about 70% of the history curriculum in schools is USA history, and only about 30% is about the rest of the world. But the USA is not even 250 years old!

Compare that with Europe, where kids spend about 30% of the time learning about their own country's history and 70% learning other history.

Americunts don't even realise just how brainwashed and full of capitalist propaganda they are.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Preaching to the choir. Good job ignoring what your government is lying about while doubling down on obvious common knowledge.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

USians need to be humbled, I say as I live here.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Considering what they are trying to do to this generations history books, I do wonder what they will contain in 50 years.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 40 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This combination of generations is lost. Most of the age groups are either pushing for things to get worse, ignoring things that are bad or rooting on the coming apocalypse. It'll get better when we get a few more new gens in the game, asuming it can be recovered

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's all just inequality dressed up as something else. People are miserable here because it's a country by and for rich people which even the rich don't enjoy in the end. Rich people exploit that sense of misery to give us...king-size diaper donny as president twice.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Not that long ago, a single factory worker made enough to buy a small house, a car, have 2 kids and take a 2 week yearly vacation.

We're really pumping the gas on inequity.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 102 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Linken@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Thank you! I copied the comment from elsewhere, I appreciate your additions!

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago (3 children)
[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 24 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

That's the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?

[–] No1@aussie.zone 14 points 20 hours ago

In that case, we should reinforce good behaviour by praising him:

Trump Admirably Chickened Out

[–] Linken@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

It's always a good idea to mock him. If he can't handle it he is free to resign.

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

Does it matter? I think he doesn't even touch the internet anymore and just has an assistant posting for him

On the contrary, I think everyone in the White House keeps feeding him pleasant lies and what's why he can go out in public and say all that BS

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 20 hours ago
[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

I'm taking the bet that he's going to fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 31 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Beautiful. Thanks for compiling this.

From that, he does seem to have been getting a lot more agitated over the past week. We'll see how that translates into actions.

[–] Linken@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I can’t take credit I copy/pasted- but everyone should see it!

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
  • Apr 7: "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks"-
[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I swear we live in the dumbest timeline. Can we switch back to pre-Covid timeline before Trump?

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That... was Trump too.youre looking for pre 2017.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly Trump 2017-2019 doesn't even seem that bad anymore...

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh dear God, the fact that such a statement can be made...

[–] foo@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

Imagine if, in 2019, you got a flash-forward to that statement. I wonder what terrors your imagination would conjour up, and whether they'd be better or worse than reality.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

That's why covid was so bad.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

And now he says they agreed to a cease fire and reopen the Strait.