TRUMP TO SCHOOL KIDS: “Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and killing you.”
ENOUGH. It’s one thing to watch him lie to the American people but lying to and propagandizing kids on national television is TOO FAR.
Reporter: “How many generals have you fired?”
Hegseth: “I don’t know the number.”
Reporter: “You don’t know the number? It’s eight. Why did you fire them?”
Hegseth: “At the pleasure of the president.”
The Secretary of Defense does not know how many generals he has fired.
During an active war.
Trump refuses to comment on the missing U.S. pilot because he can’t ever admit he is wrong. He can’t ever take responsibility.
He’s a disgrace, and a weak coward. He’s the opposite of everything MAGA pretends he is.
He’s the same guy who refused to fight in a war by claiming he had bone spurs yet he wants your children and grandchildren to fight for him.
Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.
$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.
One hour before the announcement.
Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.
They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.
Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.
The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.
This is not the first time.
It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.
But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.
Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.
These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.
I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.
This isn't politics anymore.
This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
Pete Hegseth has fired twelve generals. Between them, five hundred years of military experience. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Gone. No reason given. In the middle of a war.
These weren’t pen-pushers. They were the men who actually know what a ground invasion of Iran looks like.
Perhaps they also know something else. That the man now running the Pentagon spent his career behind a Fox News desk rather than a command post. That his qualifications for managing the world’s most powerful military were, broadly speaking, strong opinions and good hair.
Funny how they’re exactly the ones Hegseth just removed.
Their replacements come with one qualification: complete loyalty to the vision.
Five hundred years of hard-won, blood-soaked knowledge. Shown the door by a television presenter.
What could possibly go wrong.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military
Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military
Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS
The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”?
Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law
Pete Hegseth was working with BLACKROCK to buy defense related stocks before the Iran war.
Treason, Espionage, Insider trading. https://t.co/N1IrrPaua0
Trump on Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince MBS today:
“He didn’t think he would be kissing my ass. He really didn’t. And now he has to be nice to me. He better be nice to me.”
This is how the President of the United States describes America’s most important Gulf ally.
The same Saudi Arabia that:
— Cut oil production by 6.7 million barrels
— Whose energy infrastructure Iran threatened to destroy
— Who the US needs to keep oil markets stable
— Who Trump is asking to join the Iran war
Diplomatic relationships are built over decades.
Trump just described the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as someone kissing his body parts — on camera — while asking him for military cooperation.
France got an 8 out of 10. Japan got Pearl Harbor. Saudi Arabia got this.
The isolation of America is not just a policy failure.
It is a daily practice.
🚨BREAKING: Pam Bondi just said…“Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right.”
Citizenship is a right, guaranteed by the Constitution… not something granted based on opinion, loyalty, or who they like.
This is authoritarian rhetoric.