No, they blackmailed him.
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They probably didn't even need to, he's so easily manipulated. "Look! Airplane! And I like your idea of attacking Iran!"
My money is on bribery because it's the only thing he consistently responds to
They dangle bait, but not hard cash, more promises of real-estate opportunities on the rubble of Gaza.
epstein file talked him into the war to distract the news.
Obviously Israel talked him into the war and told him to deny it.
Worse.
They talked him into a war and it's obvious to everyone except trump and maybe Joe Biden.
I think they both legitimately still see Israel as "the good guys", because their brains are mush.
Also they have all the hard copies of the Epstine files and he's just dancing for them to keep them hidden.
They do, but that's not it.
He's letting Kushner handle everything with Israel, it all flows thru him like Cheney had everything run thru him with GW.
Kushner is a zionist, he wants what Bibi wants.
So instead of America negotiating with Israel, Bibi tells Kushner what he wants, and Kushner frames it as the best and only option to trump, usually with Ivanka greasing the wheels.
Just like Cheney told GW the Irag war was the only possible option, Kushner says anything Bibi wants is the only possible option.
I legitimately wouldn't be surprised to find out they've been diverting food from US naval ships to send to Israel at this point.
Trump: Israel didn't talk me into it!
…soooooo Israel talked him into it.
Translation: Netanyahu talked Trump into it, but Trump was too stupid to know he'd been played.
In all fairness, "This is false, Trump is lying" is by far the most likely thing when he says anything that makes him look better (or at least less bad).
IMHO the most likely scenarion is that Trump was played by Netanyahu, later figured it out or was told that he had been played and now is lying about not having been played in the first place.
The man is so simple I almost feel bad for him. Then I remember what he's done.
So it was not about alliances? You just started a war unilaterally, because you had a bad day.
This guy is begging to be impeached.
Israel wouldn't want him impeached, so Schumer will never let impeachment happen.
He could nuke Iran, kidnap refugees, and personally execute them on live television without getting impeached. There is no mechanism to really threaten him.
He probably has already forgotten that Netanyaho talked him into this.
No. They manipulated him into it. Trump is rather thick after all and easily sells his love and trust for shiny trinkets.
Trump is so easy to manipulate, and he doesn't even realize it.
That is the reason it is so easy
“Look people, this incredibly bad, self-destructive, unpopular, and poorly planned operation was all my own creation. Don’t you dare hang any responsibility for this disaster on anyone else but me.”
Because they don't have to convince him of anything. They just give him his marching orders and he follows like a good boy.
Cool story bro but your fucking lying
Of course not. Trump has been crazy trying to find some war that can let him cancel this year's US elections since his attempt to phish a civil war failed last year.
Israel probably talked him into Iran in particular, though.
That's exactly what someone who Israel talked into starting a war would say.
Israel told him to say that, obviously.
It's inception, except they didn't need to go into his dreams, they probably only needed to mention it once in passing. "I heard the bestest Presidents go to war with Iran."
It must be exhausting to be Trump. Netanjahu calls you to do X, but then Putin calls you to do the opposite of X, so the Netanjahu calls you again and you do X again and the cycle continues...
In this case both called him to do it. Israel gets to steal some more land, Russia gets sanctions lifted and weakened US.
And all the oil tycoons get to increase their profits by 200%
You can be sure that Putin and Netanyahu have some mutual interests and have worked out a plan to tag-team Pig Boy.
He is calling it a war, Donny you dropped some bombs on people and now it's the worst possible shit show it could have been.
The war with Iran ...pfffh
"Trump says" well I don't care.
When has Trump ever realized he's being played?
If if say so, just trust the opposite.
Israel talked Trump into Iran war confirmed.
Netanyahu sold Trump on it. It’s not even a secret.
No, Israel went "What's wrong McFly? Chicken?" and Trump pressed the red button.
I don't know, I kinda see Trump as Biff Tannen, not Israel.
Trump says "I don't even know anyone named Izrali" .