Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

The bunker buster the US is contemplating using have never been used in combat. I'm not sure what was dropped on caves in the hunt for Bin Laden.

Experts as suggesting more than one bomb will be required. I suppose it's hard to know exactly without knowing the geological makeup of the mountain in question.

The question is, if the US bomb the mountain only and Iran doesn't retaliate, will the US just say job done and leave Israel to keep going solo.

We don't need to wait two weeks to see how often he says it.

Most important one is at the end.

33 times

Can't help but think of this,as Drumpf continuously kicks the can two weeks down the road!

I presume Trump is immune to libel as President when referring to Newsom as 'newscum'?

Agreed. Although insults can be considered libellous if they inflict damage on a person's reputation, I doubt 'Newscum' would ever qualify under that. Juvenile and petty, but not libellous.

It would be cathartic, maybe, but would come at a most terrible cost of further validating/normalising that language. There's a hope - maybe a forlorn one - that some kind of civility could come back into American politics at some point and that hope gets further away as otherwise sensible politicians start slinging the mud back.

Plus there are ways to wind Trump up that don't involve petty name-calling. When Kamala Harris called Trump old and weird, both of those things were objectively true with his strange hair and his golden apartment and his obsession with beauty pageants and his orange face. He is a massive, massive weirdo. Strange that the Democrats haven't kept up with that chat since losing the election. It's as true now as it was then.

Let's not forget all the European countries with US airbases constantly flying tankers down to the med. Let's hope he has thanked them (no pun intended)

I just hope Iran don't go attacking US assets around the area if the US bombs just the mountain. Shame it can't be loaded into the back on an Israeli C130 so the US doesn't have to intervene.

I totally agree that Netanyahu will keep the war going. It's his best chance to complete destroy the regime and all offensive capabilities of Iran.

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I've been digging into just what political mechanism CFTrump can use to launch war with Iran. As I recall, eventually under Biden, the Authorization for Use of Military Force that was used in Iraq was finally put to rest, due to the efforts of a Congresswoman from California who continued to attempt to legislate against it decades after it had been granted but never repealed.

Sure enough, Congresswoman Lee did succeed it getting it repealed in the House in 2021, but it died in the Senate due to Schumer not bringing the revised version to a vote (and they had the votes, too.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_the_2002_AUMF

However, it does look like, subsequently it was passed by the Senate in 2024, however, Biden did not sign the bill and in fact used it as cover for bombing Iraq in 2024. So, that particular AUMF is still around.

Now, getting on to CFTrump, if in fact he 'chooses' to attack Iran directly, he will (in theory) need Congress to declare war, or do another AUMF. Such is detailed at great length here: https://www.justsecurity.org/64645/war-powers-trump-iran-strikes/

That article was recently revised - CFTrump was rattling swords when Pompeo was SecState about attacking Iran, but never followed up.

I think if indeed CFTrump goes forward to attack Iran (he won't, it'll be another Taco event and RuZZia doesn't want their ally hurt), he'll need an AUMF. With a compliant Congress, he'll get one.

Is it new or news though?

I can't remember anything of the sort happening in Syria, Libya or Yemen. Was there declaration of war declared on those 3?

In the case of Syria, Obama had the authorization but chose not to use it. Libya was requested by the UN.

Yemen is different. Here the POTUS (Biden) had to provide, within 48 hours, a statement to Congress as to why he did this. The military can be used for 30 or 60 days depending on the type of intervention, as it is subject to the War Powers Act. If Congress has not declared war by then, the hostilities must cease. None of these ended in declaration of war, but based on my reading I think Biden violated the War Powers Act and kept the attack going through 2024 - it should've stopped by April or so.

Trump re-instituted attacks on the Yemenis in March 2025 which ended fairly quickly.