Trump tells the world that Iran ‘scum’ want to assassinate him: ‘I’m the No. 1 target’ (www.independent.co.uk)
from stermy4u@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 01:24
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 01:35 next collapse

He’s #1 target among his own voters too…

RunningInRVA@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 01:41 next collapse

Don’t tease me with a good time.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 01:52 next collapse

Wow, he’s actually right about something.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 02:02 collapse

Except for who’s the scum.

Vikthor@piefed.world on 09 Jul 07:27 collapse

Iran is still a theocratic regime that executes people for just protesting. Both sides can be scum in a war.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 15:39 collapse

Well I agree with you about that. But disliking Trump doesn’t make them scum, or scummier. I don’t wish them success in killing him but that’s because being called a martyr is too good for him.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 09 Jul 01:54 next collapse

yes, thats how that works. you randomly started a war that killed their leader and 150 children in the first few days.

justifiably, everyone with a critically thinking neuron wants you dead

the narcissism is deep

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 01:57 next collapse

Inshallah

WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 02:00 next collapse

Oh please.

Trump’s the best thing that’s happened to the Iranian government in years.

There’s no way they’d want to assassinate a deranged moron who’s united the country under their rule, hamfistedly provided them with excuses for whatever aggression they want to engage in and is such an incompetent boob that he can’t manage to effectively counter a single move that they make.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 03:20 next collapse

Iran is definitely not united. They are not benefitting from this war in any way.

P00ptart@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 03:31 next collapse

They are benefitting. They’ve gained a lot of power by defeating the US.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 09 Jul 07:36 collapse

They're not benefitting now, but any realistic settlement for this war will give them a lot of things they wanted (sanctions relief being a big one).

Witchfire@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:17 next collapse

Don’t forget the buckets of cash

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 13:07 collapse

I swear that Americans (yes, I am one) simply have no real concept of what war is. They think it’s like Call of Duty or some shit.

No dude, their leader was assassinated, schools are being bombed, their infrastructure is being blown up, one of their main sources is income has been shut down for like 6 months. They’re not benefiting from this.

Lasherz12@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 02:05 next collapse

You threatened their negotiators lives at the negotiating table. Fuck all the way off crybully bitch

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 13:45 collapse

I suspect Trump got some control (how much is real and how much is performative is unclear) of Venezuela by threatenning the surviving Venezuelan leaders with the same fate as Maduro, since the US never sent anywhere enough troops to that country to actually conquer it - actually facing the entire Venezuelan military (and any subsequent guerrilla warfare if they actually won) would be a whole different ball game from a single special ops action.

Since that worked to get some control over Venezuela, I bet that with these threats (and his open threaths on the lives of the current Iraninan leadership and even his starting of the war by taking out the Iranian Supreme Leader) he was basically trying to do the same thing to Iran as he did to Venezuela.

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 02:09 next collapse

I’m pretty sure Netanyahu is No. 1. As far as Iran is concerned, Trump is just a moron with a mental disorder.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 09 Jul 07:38 collapse

Netanyahu would be nice to get rid of, but Israeli society is more or less united against Iran so it wouldn't matter much in the big picture.

muhyb@programming.dev on 09 Jul 11:59 collapse

Doesn’t matter if Netanyahu goes or not. They would put Netanyahu Mk Ⅱ in charge.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 02:19 next collapse

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SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 02:21 next collapse

Has he tried not being a target?

tal@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 02:38 next collapse

So far, we’ve had several times more domestic assassination attempts on Trump than we have Iranian.

Hegar@fedia.io on 09 Jul 02:42 next collapse

Lol no one wants to assassinate a senile loser who fucks up everything he touches and won't stop touching things.

A leader who's a staunch supporter of his enemies and a dire threat to his allies.

SuiXi3D@fedia.io on 09 Jul 02:59 next collapse

Good.

HubertManne@piefed.social on 09 Jul 03:20 next collapse

so he is saying iran is incompetent and him being alive proves that chrisianity is greater than islam. oh well. guess all the middle east folks will have to convert or something because I mean. Hes alive. Hes got you there.

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 03:22 next collapse

Hey, get in line, Iran!

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 03:26 next collapse

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sik0fewl@piefed.ca on 09 Jul 04:04 next collapse

That would be the most proportionate response.

Zier@fedia.io on 09 Jul 04:14 next collapse

Just Iran?
I'll bet we could do a global poll and it would be so many more countries.

FenrirIII@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 13:42 next collapse

At least 50% of the global population would want him gone

gankouskhan@piefed.zip on 09 Jul 14:39 collapse

Finally a poll that he would win by a landslide

newton@feddit.online on 09 Jul 04:16 next collapse

Impossible ,🤔🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk on 09 Jul 04:43 next collapse

Oh no, I sure hope they don’t have a GoFundMe and someone shares the link.

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 04:55 next collapse

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

bender223@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 05:03 next collapse

ew, gross why’s he talking about iran’s cum?

MonsterMonster@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:11 next collapse

Has this been posted in the wrong group? UpLiftingNews is more fitting.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 10:51 collapse

That’s for when he finally dies. No matter how it happens.

Tolc@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:37 next collapse

b…b…based

Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk on 09 Jul 05:50 next collapse

Well he did assassinate their leader so it’s not like they don’t have a reason to

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 13:32 collapse

Not just the leader, wife and daughter and grand daughter were also killed. Trump is also bombing their country during the state funeral.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 06:13 next collapse

Please.

daannii@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 06:45 next collapse

I think there is a decent sized percentage of hard right people who would do it if they could figure out how. I mean so far it’s always them that do crazy shit.

Guy who drove a burning Tesla into the trump building.

Guy in golf course with a gun

Kirks alleged shooter.

Oh and Trump’s “alleged shooting” shooter. Also alt right.

It’s a irrational pipeline for violence.

Crazy men who have lost their families and friends due to their trump allegiance. Now disillusioned. Out for justice.

Some ex military.

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 08:29 collapse

How about past rape victims

The future rape victims haven’t thought of it yet, but for self preservation maybe they should start planning things

Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de on 09 Jul 09:07 collapse

they are too young to make plans yet

MrSulu@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 06:52 next collapse

How dare anyone even think that!..

echo@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 07:11 next collapse

Why would they do this favor to the U.S.?

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 13:38 collapse

I thing that no other President in American History would be this good at amplifying the damage to America of the strategy that Iran is deploying.

Trump’s servile posture towards Israel alone guarantees that America’s neck remains on the noose it pretty much made for itself.

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com on 09 Jul 07:19 next collapse

I mean, I get it.

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 07:33 next collapse

Idc how it happens lmfao

lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 08:02 next collapse

Someone hurry up and do it

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 08:37 next collapse

I despise reactionaries, religious or not. So it’s hard to say whether I hate the mullahs or MAGAts more.

Mantzy81@aussie.zone on 09 Jul 09:51 next collapse

TIL Iran is the US’s greatest ally?

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 11:14 next collapse

He made himself the No.1 target. Not just for Iran. Both previous attempts came from his own people.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 12:18 next collapse

If some foreigner bombed my country’s girl’s school then I would want them killed as well. This is obvious. We didn’t need to hear it from trump (but his media owning billionaire buddies like to give him all the platform he needs).

BaraCoded@literature.cafe on 09 Jul 12:37 next collapse

Faster, Iran! Faster!

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:47 next collapse

Well heres to hoping they succeed.

boaratio@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 13:18 next collapse

Do it.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 13:27 next collapse

Do they? Didn’t they just make bank like they haven’t in a long time? I know a lot of civilian infrastructure has been threatened, but has any of it been hit, or have they had to close wells?

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 13:31 next collapse

Why would any half-way competent strategist in Iran ever want to kill the man who is doing the most to defeat Iran’s enemy?!

I mean, sure, in Iran like everywhere else there are plenty of simpletons who only understand war at the 5-year-old level of “we have to do to them what they did to us”, so those will say (or be told) that “we shall kill Donald Trump”, but surelly the people in the Iranian leadership who have come up with and are deploying the very successful strategy of attacking American and Israeli interests in the Middle East and turning American allies against America, are well aware of the role of Donald Trump in repeatedly putting his foot on the obvious trap and seriously amplifying the damage of it.

I mean, for all they, like almost all American Presidents in the XX and XXI century, were murderous sociopaths, imagine if it was Obama, Reagan or even Bush (well, Senior, maybe not Junior) in this situation (for the sake of simplificity, imagine that it was already ongowing when they got the job): I very much doubt their handling of it would be this incompetent, out of control, flip-flopping obviously corrupt grift entirelly subservient to Israel.

Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:41 next collapse

Well, I hope it works out for them.

systemglitch@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 16:27 next collapse

I’d like it if Americans wanted to assassinate him even more.

village604@adultswim.fan on 09 Jul 16:52 collapse

Most of us know that’ll just throw fuel on the fire.

The best would be him publicly dying of natural causes.

immutable@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 17:24 collapse

When he said he was going to give a long rambling speech on the 4th of July in dangerous heat… I held my breath hoping

Is there something about being an evil fuck that makes you live forever. Steve Irwin dies tragically young, grandpa Hitler over here can scream in a sauna about how evil immigrants are for 2 hours with no ill effect.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 16:41 next collapse

turnabout is fair play

modernangel@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 17:42 collapse

pedo says what