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

Very interesting article on lead up to war and who supposedly said what

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-trump-aides-told-him-pms-prewar-regime-change-forecast-was-farcical-report/

I read the times of Israel from time to time. It’s no Fox News.

We need both tbh, can't expect people to live in freezing houses because the building standards were neglected by previous governments.

Previous generations penny pinching is resulting in a lot of deferred costs coming due ay the same time. Even if we have to borrow to fund the investments we need, its cheaper than inaction now as ot costs way more to fix later on

IMO , if JDVance goes up for election is his ‘ visit’ to Hungary ‘high quality fodder ‘for the Demos - ie siding with Russian side , a side that the US and their TRADITIONAL ALLIES have been weary of since the 2nd world war

That’s like asking , demanding, requesting the GAActo give up hurling and Gaelic football and run the soccer or Gumby game instead. A pipe dream I know!!!!!!

That dispicable piece of trash Hegseth has been taking lessons from the master on how to deal with press. He is quite disgusting just at a personal level, whatever about his 'policies'. You might expect a charm offensive from this administration towards the news organisations, but they go so far in the opposite direction its hard to see how they expect any favourable comment at all.

At 4 minutes on the video.

Did Trump say that if Iran did not open the Strait by Tuesday that it will take him only 4 hours to ‘ wipe the Iranian civilisation ‘off the map’. In the meantime the Iranians have decided to form human chains around a lot of the infrastructure, . I am surprised that Trump did not reduce the 4 hrs to , say, 3 hours because of a lot of the population coming together in groups

HRC in 2016:

"“Donald Trump says we shouldn’t have done the deal. we should have walked away. but that would have meant no more global sanctions and Iran resuming their nuclear program, and the world blaming us. so then what? war? telling the world ‘good luck, you deal with Iran’? of course, Trump doesn’t have answers to those questions. Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about Iran, or its nuclear program. ask him. it will become very clear very quickly. there’s no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf course deal. but it doesn’t work like that in world affairs.”

Prescient. But, her emails.