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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"For you to pay a tiny, little bit more for you're gasoline, just remember," Trump said, it's so "a very evil country" can't have a nuclear weapon.

"When you have to pay a little bit more, you're at $4, it's OK ‒ I mean, I will never apologize, I did the right thing," Trump said. "You just have to remember that what we're doing is a great service for the world."

Completely detached from reality.

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vote Blue this November and remember, Trump will never apologize and never thinks he's made any mistakes. Leaders without humility, such ovararching hubris, no character, and a lack of integrity should be impeached and removed from office.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I won't be doing that. Fortunately, it's because I don't live in The Fucking USA.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Netanyahu: “Weeks Away” Since 1995 — Iran Nuke Warnings Compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mEWmfbdIE

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Well I'm convinced. :|

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I will never apologize

Yeah dude, we know, you never have. Or accepted any responsibility for anything, in your life.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Remember when he went off at the UN for the escalator stopping just as him and his concubine stepped on it, and it turned out that it was one of his own staff accidentally tripping on the emergency stop button, and there was no apology or retraction?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Isn't never apologizing for anything a typical attribute of the narcissist?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, just a fucking liar and con man.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

That as well.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Okay, someone needs to cut Donvict's uppers or whatever he's being given to keep him going.

Iran has already told him they don't want a deal with the United States while he's in office.

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Or maybe someone cut his coca with something weird.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I. DECLARE. US TERRITORYYYYY.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Team work makes the dream work.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So any baby born in the Strait of Hormuz will be considered a US citizen?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Definitely not under Darth Miller. They are trying to get rid of that whole birthright citizenship here.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No. Not like that.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump’s handlers locked hundreds of cops in a building so he could speak and instructed them to clap and boo accordingly. He ran his diarrhea mouth looking for hoots and hollers and this squirted out of it.

Then the press decided we should all give a shit about THIS demented brain hiccup this weekend.

Fuck that.

[–] sam_the_tech@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

“demented brain hiccup” is some high-level insult material. If someone said that to me, I would sell all my belongings quit my job donate all the proceeds to charity, and go live in a cave, feeding off of the fungus from between my own toes.

[–] ThuggyG@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s Iran’s nuke. If they lose that they lose their sovereignty. I hate that I am forced to defend an Iranian regime that I hate… dumb ass war

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The problem all along is we’ve been the villains in many different geopolitical scenarios. It’s just the “go ‘murica” mentality that engenders the concept of “American exceptionalism” allows us to dismiss all the bad stuff we do to other countries in order to amass capital. We’re the strongest economy in the world based on the exploitation and suffering of everyone else (and of course, Masters of the Universe Israel).

[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

What? The imperialist president of the imperial country is doing imperialism? ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

I would declare Donald Trump a moron, but why state what is so obvious to everyone?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You need to control a territory to declare it for yours, silly ;)

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Imagine Donvict playing something like Risk....

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah yeah, and then the Iranians are going to declare Mar-A-Lago an Iranian territory and rename it to Mar-Al-Hamdullilah. It's all a big joke thanks to the orange Bozo running the country into the ground.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For real life? That sounds like satire

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

It's funny how Aryan Webb looks in that uniform.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Satire is dead.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Another way of saying he wants to start charging any ship passing through it.

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The difference is the Iranians aren’t going to let this happen.