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Trump declares Iran must ‘open up the Strait of Trump’ as he groans over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Trump is killing the global economy, pulling everyone into a recession. Prices for daily necessities are skyrocketing, and still Trump has 40% approval rating in the US? Like do those fckng idiots like paying more for everyday stuff? What the fck is wrong with them.
Team sports mentality. Trump is "their guy" and however he royally screws up "at least he's not a Democrat"
Also, a lot of folks said point blank voting for Trump is being a sucker and a fool, and to go against Trump is to admit they got fooled.
Yesterday in an interview I heard the MAGA person was hard core that whatever the government is doing, they secretly have reasons they can't tell us because spilling the Intel would be so dangerous. Pretty much the same crowd whining about a liberal government keeping secrets from them now celebrates secrets being managed by the conservatives.
The alternative would have been a woman of color and damned if they ever suggest that could have been a better outcome.
Additionally, the racists do still have the Hispanics getting screwed over and afraid. The people who got injured and killed were "obnoxious liberals" that are better gone anyway.
Of course this is also as close as they have seen in decades of federal policies trying to make it harder for poor people and women to vote.
There's a lot of vile sentiment and being close to that being followed is worth having problems.
What the fuck is wrong with most Americans as I we are seeing more real action from Canadians while Americans mostly complain online and may go to a protest once in a while if at all, plus and protests are ineffective as team Trump only hear/feel money. You got to hit MAGA where it counts and target boycott their business like the Canadians. If Americans did the same, we would be hearing about all the MAGA businesses going bankrupt. I am very disappointed with Americans and shocked they are so passive.
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Did he seriously try to name the Strait of Hormuz after himself? By decree?
What a loser.
This is getting bigger by the day.
Fuel shortages in SE Asia. This affects many industries the US gets products from.
China has suspended mineral shipments to the US and restricted fertilizer exports.
Russia is all but openly aiding Iran and likely instigating some of the actions.
Panic buying is happening in South America.
Diesel is over $10/gallon in some places.
Gas prices are hitting record highs in some places in the US.
And these effects are “rubber band” effects. They lag behind the actual impetus driving them.
This is going to get worse. A lot worse. These events are red flags. And if nation groups start taking sides over the conflict we are going to possibly see a far greater war and massive privation globally.
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What a fucking embarrassment.
That's an understatement.
Yeah, being only incompetent would feel like a change for the better.
“We're negotiating now, and it’d be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, I'm so sorry, such a terrible mistake,” Trump said.
“The fake news will say he accidentally said — there's no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we'd have a major story,” he added.
“If I don't get the Nobel Prize for peace, nobody will ever get it. I didn't get it. I'm not surprised. The person that got it was shocked — she’s a wonderful woman too, by the way,” he said.
This is completely incongruent with reality. Trump has lived his hyper-privileged life speaking the things he wants into existence, and that privilege has now reached its limit.
These are not the words of a sane person.
"There no accidents with me..." ...check his pants... "not too many"
It was deliberate, not an accident.
Oh my god he actually called it the Straight of Trump.
And then he pretended it was a mistake, and then claimed the "fake news media" would call it an accident, but that he doesn't make accidents, and that it would be really big news if he did?
He's sundowning...
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If he replaces any more words with his own name I think he can technically be considered a Pokémon.
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Trump has no Plan B.
Either the rape he planned goes as expected, or he ends up here, impotently raging at the rest of the world.
Trump has no plan A either. Not even the concept of a plan A. The decision to invade Iran was a combination of his lack of self control from dementia, and being surrounded by yes-men.
Why oh why didn't his mommy take Plan B.....
(I know it wasn't invented yet, lemme have my fun!)
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Die already
Trump is desperate to get his name on everything before he dies. He's always been desperate to get his name on things, and now that he's getting older and more infirm, he positively reeks of desperation.
But I suspect that the future historians won't be kind to him and eventually we'll get his name off of everything and his only real legacy will be in every list of history's worst American Presidents.
"only real legacy will be in every list of history’s worst American President" and in in the Epstein Files and as a convicted felon and as a sexual predator and as a child rapist and ...
He'll get some scrutiny, but the real story is the society that put him there and kept him there.
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I read another commenter in another thread recently call it Damnatio Memoriae, a process often revealed in archaeology and / or ancient history whereby successors or the populace try to scrub a ruler from history.
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This is so pathetic. What an embarrassment.
Trump will be remembered for his many crimes and ethical bankruptcy. Inevitably after he's gone, there will be no incentive to cover for him, and the incentive will be to blame him for the terrible state in which he will leave the US economy and international relations.
Anyone with a pulse knows that he is a child rapist. Anyone with above-room-temperature IQ knows that he was deeply involved in Epstein's operation, acquiring, grooming, and warehousing girls. Any genuine investigation will produce evidence of that.
He's also single-handedly destabilised the global economy. The trillions of dollars his dumb ideas have cost everyone in productivity are just breathtaking.
Operation Epstein Fury is probably the USA's biggest and most costly unforced strategic error in history. The consequences will resound through the coming decades.
The culmination of this context is that he has accelerated China's rise to dominance and the USA's collapse into irrelevance. As an Australian, just 2 years ago I was keen for us to cosy up to the US in the hope that the yanks would help us push back on China's expansion of influence in the region. Honestly, now I feel more comfortable with China than I do with the US.
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Congress is letting this shit head do this and the people who voted them in think it's great.
The dumbest people on the planet are in charge.
And you can see it online with people saying "what does no kings mean? America doesn't have a king"
It does when congress does nothing and the joke of a court rubber stamps everything.
Yet they just cant see it. Damn that is a level of stupid that exceeds anything ever seen before.
America is now an idiocracy.
Everything about this news makes me wish I could shout "oh for crying out loud, will you just shut up, you deeply deeply weird man" at Trump's face. Unfortunately, I live on the other side of the world and I have other worries to deal with.
It’s been really awesome having a demented old pedofile child murderer as the most powerful person in the world. Everyday I’m like I can’t wait to see how much worse it can get. We literally could have randomly picked any crackhead in America and they would have been a better president.
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America is not a credible nation anymore.
...and maybe it never was.
Is this asshole seriously still whining about the Nobel Peace Prize? Didn't the winner of the prize eventually just give the prize to him?
Tried to. Nobel committee said its non transferable. He might have the shiny medal but on the books it's still hers.
I wish he'd try to one-up Barack Obama and try to eat the prize and choke on it, believing it will make him smarter.
Well to be fair the medal is probably smarter than he is.
The Strait of Hormuz is nothing like Trump. It's a sphincter that can be opened and closed. Trump: always open.
Wonder how it feels not having the cards. Did he even say thank you for the shops Iran let through?
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His level of complete derangement is as plain to see as the paint on his face.
The president again boasted he has “stopped eight wars”
It doesn't really count if you were the one who didn't start those eight wars.
Personally, I've prevented nine cases of underage drinking this week.
I've been preventing a multi-state bank robbery spree, basically, since I woke up this morning.
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They opened it to Spain.
so THIS is the art of the deal? 🤭
Aladeen the Aladeen of Aladeen
WTF is the Future Investment Initiative Institute? More Government of Putin supporters filled with BS to steal more from US taxpayers? Anyway, Krasnov is begging to talk to the Iranians, because he is running out precision guided weapons, his piss poor plan is failing and he knows his next step is a ground war, which will test the US public.
Not that I speak on behalf of Iran but how about this:
We open up the strait of HORMUS if:
- You release the full and unredacted Epstein files
- Leave the whitehouse forever.
- Learn to keep your stupid trap shut.
- Do something to make it up to Iran, anything. Mr “art of the deal”. Pathetic.
Jail and/or foreverbox time already ffs.
I hate it here.
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