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

Some donkey.

Hard to see him kicking off a bombing campaign again with elections looming.

So maybe some sort of phoney war where ships will start moving again while pretending they are not.

I think he genuinely doesn’t want to go through with the threatened carpet-bombing and woukd take any off-ramp Iran is willing to give him…

Classic pump and dump moments before. Totally blatant. There'll have to be another investigation that goes nowhere.

"extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other" Trump has posted.

So an indefinite ceasefire, or to put it another way a complete stop to the war.

This from the POTUS would demanded unconditional surrender only a few weeks ago and now has agreed to stop the war entirely on Irans timetable.

What a complete embarrassment for the US. Forget Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan. This is probably the single most devastating defeat the US has ever suffered. And defeat it 100% is.

Billions spent and Iran come out of this more powerful than they went in.

No country is ever going to take a US threat seriously. They failed on tariffs, failed in Greenland and now the ultimate failure in Iran.

All the other ME countries need to seriously reevaluate their strategic miliitary partnerships with US as they clearly cannot rely on the US to protect them.

While it is nice to see Trump fall on his face so completely, unfortunately the upshot is that Iran is now more powerful and the world is worse off than before February 28th. We are all going to pay a high price for the US electing such an incompetent person.

Iran have the loser on the ropes hope they play him better than Israel

Art of the deal never read a book

He's so dumb and unhinged, who knows what he'll do. If Congress had any cojones, he'd have been relieved of his duties by now.

He obviously expected this to go like Venezuela. The US simply does not have any understand of how the Middle East works. The Iranians may be under a horrendous regime but they are incredibly proud people and will never fold to a foreign aggressor. It's a matter of honour and pride for them. Trump has neither of these qualities so will never even begin to understand it.

An absolute bully that hasn't been thumped but poked with a finger 1000 times.

He should be shunned by the international community and widely ignored.

I can't see US gas prices falling any time soon as elections are looming.

Not really. There's a lot of by products which I'm sure they need.

And there's grades of oil they don't have which they need to use in tandem with what they have.

Then you have everything from fertilizer to the cost of air freight and passenger seats to consider.

There's also the cost of fuel at the pump for their gas guzzling cars.

Just watching the ITV news there and they are saying 26 ships have passed the US "blockade"

So maybe the "blockade" will be something that Trump will shout about while secretly knowing it's a bit of a publicity stunt.

USA is fine for oil and gas

It isn't.

Venezuela is under their control

It's not, and its already been debated that it will take years and years to get drilling there again. Along with the oil companies telling Trump that it is not an appealing place to invest in.

Trump is making the US "hot" by making the rest of the world cold.

What?

In another month we will be begging for the sanctions on Russia to be lifted.

Or, just Trump could stop the war he started.

Trump is in no rush to have this war with Iran over.

A few more TACO decisions are on the way. Iran literally has to do nothing.

He is loosing his sh1t by the day though.

Agreed.

Last week, he already posted, "It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World, and this will be my 10th, so let's, GET IT DONE! President DONALD J. TRUMP".

This second term has had plenty of items that will be remembered by history (tarifs, ICE, Greenland etc) but none more so than Iran. The US is not “hot” it’s a laughing stock. You can’t win a war or negotiate using Truth Social.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1ss7uxp/andrew_hugg_a_us_chief_of_chemical_nuclear_surety/

Appears to be true although no mainstream media as yet.