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I'm so confused. I thought there was a 2 week cease fire starting today?
Depends if you are one of Pedonald's investment buddies.
Everything is a lie unless an Iranian official confirms it. That is the new order of things.
This post is older than the ceasefire announcement.
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- Mar 3: "We won the war."
- Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
- Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
- Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
- Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.”
- Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
- Mar 13: "We won the war."
- Mar 14: "Please help us."
- Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
- Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
- Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
- Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
- Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
- Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
- Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
- Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
- Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
- Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
- Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
- Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
- Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
- Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
- Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.”
- Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
- Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
- Mar 28: No major quote
- Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
- Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
- Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
- Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
- Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
- Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
- Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. "Tuesday 8 PM ET".
- Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
- Apr 6: "We can bomb the hell out of them"
- Apr 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight"
this guy is starting to behave a lot like that putin guy
waaaaaiiit uuuuppp....
He's the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.
Nah, not so long as there's someone who will believe a word he says.
I like your post. 50 years from now, high school students are going to open their US History book and read what the orange bumble fuck said during a war he started. Humiliating and perhaps the Americans might learn a lesson from the MAGA disaster.
USians need to be humbled, I say as I live here.
Considering what they are trying to do to this generations history books, I do wonder what they will contain in 50 years.
Americans learning true history, instead of propaganda?
Never gonna happen. When orange turd dies, there will be zero changes to your democratic system and a new pedophile controlled by billionaires will be elected.
If you think your government isn't lying to you... I have some news
I'm talking about education and the American capitalist propaganda and brainwashing in American schools.
Did you know that in the USA about 70% of the history curriculum in schools is USA history, and only about 30% is about the rest of the world. But the USA is not even 250 years old!
Compare that with Europe, where kids spend about 30% of the time learning about their own country's history and 70% learning other history.
Americunts don't even realise just how brainwashed and full of capitalist propaganda they are.
Preaching to the choir. Good job ignoring what your government is lying about while doubling down on obvious common knowledge.
If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.
This combination of generations is lost. Most of the age groups are either pushing for things to get worse, ignoring things that are bad or rooting on the coming apocalypse. It'll get better when we get a few more new gens in the game, asuming it can be recovered
It's all just inequality dressed up as something else. People are miserable here because it's a country by and for rich people which even the rich don't enjoy in the end. Rich people exploit that sense of misery to give us...king-size diaper donny as president twice.
Adding some sources, in case people think these quotes are satirical.
Edits: some longer quotes (which takes away from the punchy format by Linken) and non-chronological groupings.
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2026-02-28 "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take"
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2026-04-04 "48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them."
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2026-04-06 "Every bridge in Iran [...] every power plant [...] I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock"
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2026-04-07 "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Thank you! I copied the comment from elsewhere, I appreciate your additions!
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Out of curiosity I checked out how Fox News is covering this shit show. Totally fucking unhinged is an understatement. He could livestream eating a baby and they'd be praising his bold nutritional choices.
It's wild. Meanwhile, other mainstream media channels are accused of leftist propaganda by these deranged lunatics, simply for reporting the facts.
funny is that most of the MSM are owned by right wing conservatives, they are more or less the same. fox, OAN, NEWSMAX is just pure propaganda.
Dude at work randomly walked up and said Iran is gonna be a nice parking lot. Like I've known you two weeks and my toolbox is covered in socialist stickers, either you can't read or you're real real fuckin dense.
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So, hey, Americans, your president is openly threatening genocide. You might uh, want to do something about that. Just a thought.
"Americans"
They voted him into office, this is what "Americans" want
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Iran has been calling his bluff at every point. Not surprising.
Hilarious to see. Would be great if it didn't ruin everything while being hilarious though.
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