Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

He knows it was the US. He was simply lying. And his lie was pathetic. As POTUS, he has just claimed that an ally, to whom the US sold this weapon, fired this weapon into Iran at the exact time that the US was launching a surprise war. Not only has this happened, but the US currently has no idea who did it.

That is a massive security risk on so many levels. How did they obtain the missiles, or did they know the US were starting to attack, and how did they know they would attack that particular place?

AS usual with this administration, it is the attempt to lie and cover up that gets them into the most trouble. If they had simply accepted what had happened, claimed to be really sorry, and that a full investiagation to what went wrong would be undertaken so that such a loss of lives would be minimised in the future etc, this would be a non-story

This Hegseth lad. Is he trying to be Trump or is he he even worse? Listening to his war briefs, what a toerag

They are traitors to the USA. They are still Putin’s Puppets.

Their military have already shown the depth they will go to with their boat strikes as regards Venezuela, and even MAGA at this point I doubt would believe that an investigation into anything this shower do after the killings in Minnesota would be anything other than kicking into the grass.

It`s nothing more from him than a blatant lie that he knows to be a lie to give his supporters something to cling too that it wasn`t the U.S. that bombed the school.

Fox News apologised for using old footage of Trump at a dignified transfer last year. Not the footage of him in his baseball cap merch at last weeks one.

Brain rot.

Ah, diplomacy, brought to you by the Worlds Greatest Dealmaker 🙄

CNN is reporting that 140 U.S service personnel have been wounded, eight severely, in Iran. This was published while K Leavitt was giving a press briefing about Trumps latest executive orders on the Save America plan covering voting and banning transgender operations from being caried out on children.

Major edit due to an error on my part. The TV News channel was SKY, not CNN. It is still running the report.

With uncertainty of where this war is going and how protracted it will become, no less the issue of supply, capacity, required shutdowns and lead in periods to ramping up again, my prediction is simple - oil prices will continue to rise - slowly, but upward will be the direction - I think today’s rebound on oil price reduction is temporary - would be interested in hearing an argument to disagree with that stance- from a practical perspective, I don’t see how oil won’t reduce in supply short term

Trumps latest is warning Iran to remove any mines, if they did put put mines there, from the Hormuz Straits, unless he's intent on causing the price of oil to rise again - perish the thought. Possibly some one planted the seed in his mind. It's a bit late in the war for Iran to plant mines there as it has no Air Force or Navy to drop them off in the water [unless Hegseth is wrong about Iran's armed forces]. It would have been an excellent idea two weeks back in order to bottle up units of the U.S Navy there and hold them hostage against U.S adventurism.

Maersk Shipping is not allowing its carrier shipping to use the Straits and the Persian Gulf and has decided not to use the Red Sea and the Suez canal route either meaning their ships will be taking a long route to ports for delivery and pick-up.

In the meantime, U.S B-1 bombers have taken off from RAF bases in the U.K, apparently for operations in the Middle East region. It looks like Hegseth is right in his predictions for Iran.

In the meantime, U.S B-1 bombers have taken off from RAF bases in the U.K, apparently for operations in the Middle East region. It looks like Hegseth is right in his predictions for Iran.

And the UK government are deceiveing the population by declaring these are 'defensive missions'

A couple of bottle of Jack Daniels a day will do that to you !!

And if only they could follow up with... so then does that mean Australia or Japan etc sold them the tomohawks and launch systems

And then follow whatever inane drivel comes out of his mouth with a definition of gobshite and ask him is he in fact a gobshite etc