Elena Favilli

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump on his Japan trip:

“I met the owner of Toyota who is 92 years old. I said ‘you are rich’ and he agreed to invest $10 billion in the US.”

Shoichiro Toyoda — the man who built Toyota into a global giant — died in February 2023.

He has been dead for over two years.
Trump met with someone at Toyota.
It was not the owner.
Because the owner is dead.

This is the same president who:

— Said he predicted everything then said he was shocked by everything

— Declared victory 5 times in 13 seconds

— Invoked Pearl Harbor to Japan’s face

— Said Tomahawks are very generic

— Called Gavin Newsom “the President”
Managing the most dangerous geopolitical moment since 2003.

With a meeting he just described that cannot have happened.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: At 7:04 AM Eastern on Monday March 23, President Donald Trump posted that the US and Iran had “productive conversations.” By 7:10, the S&P 500 had surged 240 points, adding $2 trillion in market capitalisation. At 7:37, Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied all contact, calling it “falsehood and psychological warfare.” By 8:00, the S&P had fallen 120 points, erasing $1 trillion. WTI crude collapsed from above $100 to below $90, a drop exceeding 10 percent in hours.

$3 trillion swung in the S&P alone in 56 minutes. On two social media posts. While missiles were still hitting Kiryat Shmona. While the Israeli Air Force was striking targets in the “heart of Tehran” moments after Trump posted about productive conversations.

Now hold every signal from the last 12 hours simultaneously, because that is what the war requires you to do.

Trump says Iran wants to finalise the deal within five days. Iran says “no direct or indirect contact” and accuses Trump of buying time. Axios reports Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan are passing messages. An Israeli source warns the cancelled ultimatum may be read as weakness. Netanyahu says Israel is bringing Iran “to places it has never been.” Iran’s General Abdollahi warns of a “new secret weapon.” The IDF strikes an IRGC missile city near Isfahan while the power-plant pause is in effect. Rosatom evacuates Bushehr to a skeleton crew. The Pentagon accelerates 4,500 Marines. Iran’s Fars claims Trump retreated after hearing Iran would target all power plants across West Asia.

Every signal contradicts at least one other. That is not confusion. That is the war’s operating system.

Trump needs oil down before the midterms. One Truth Social post crashed WTI over 10 percent, doing more for American consumers than every naval operation in three weeks. Iran must deny talks because any appearance of negotiating with the country that killed Mojtaba’s father would end the regime faster than the bombs. Israel keeps striking because the IDF says weeks remain. The Pentagon deploys Marines because the five-day window may end with invasion, not a deal.

Every actor is simultaneously negotiating and escalating. Every statement is simultaneously true and false. The “productive conversations” happened through Turkish, Egyptian, and Pakistani intermediaries who held separate talks with White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi, per Axios. Iran must deny them to survive domestically. The strikes are real, with the IDF hitting the IRGC Khordad missile city near Isfahan even as power plants are paused, and Trump must claim progress to justify the pause. The troop deployment is real: 4,500 Marines and the 11th MEU accelerated toward the region. The secret weapon threat is real, because Iran needs escalation dominance to negotiate from a position its public denial says does not exist. Rosatom is evacuating Bushehr to a skeleton crew because Moscow calculates the next phase involves targets that glow.

This is psychological warfare at a scale that did not exist before social media gave sovereign leaders the ability to move trillion-dollar markets with a sentence. One Truth Social post moved more market value in six minutes than the entire Iranian navy was worth. One Mehr News denial erased half the recovery in 27 minutes. The war is no longer fought with missiles alone. It is fought with timestamps.

And through all of it: the strait is still closed. The 40 energy assets are still destroyed. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The helium is still bottled. Primorsk is still burning. The molecules do not read social media. The molecules wait.

Full analysis:
https://t.co/iFmUcar8on

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Bernie Sanders just said it plain:

“Tonight, Democrats voted with Republicans to raise healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans and pave the way to kick 15 million off Medicaid. 60,000 will die every year, so the rich can get a trillion-dollar tax cut.”

This was a betrayal of working people.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

MAGA is out here shrieking about Zohran being a jihadist Islamist about to impose sharia law while Trump warmly welcomes a former Al Qaeda leader designated terrorist to the White House.

[D.O.C @DOC323123]

“I was hoping we could blame this on immigrants, or at least a minority. Turns out it was one of us unfortunately”

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Mitch is learning in real time that his legacy will be the destruction of the Constitution and the collapse of American dominance.

Every bit of this was made possible by Mitch. Every bit of it.

Cry me a river, old man.

[Outspoken™️ @Out5p0ken]

Oh look — Trump as an FBI informant taking down Epstein.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Coffee is up 14.5%
Beef is up 12%
Bananas are up 4%
Electricity is up 4%

Name one thing that's getting cheaper under Trump.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Completely incredible. Lutnick and Trump brag about getting South Korea to invest billions in the U.S., then turn around and arrest South Koreans who were here temporarily in the U.S. to help Hyundai set up a factory in Georgia. The stupidity burns.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

When Zionists call Palestinians ‘Amalek,’ it isn’t just an insult, it’s a genocidal term. The biblical command was to wipe Amalek out ‘until none remain.’ That’s exactly how they justify extermination today.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Say her name! HIND RAJAB

Don’t forget her.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Zuckerberg admitting on a hot mic that he just lied to the world, on camera, about how much money he would invest to make Trump look better. These tech oligarchs are complicit in Trump’s destruction of America. They are totally complicit.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israeli reserve captain: Gaza has become “a lawless zone, with little effective oversight of the military and almost no personal accountability for soldiers.“ War crimes, even genocide, are being committed with impunity. https://t.co/5zfGzRkS2b

[AF Post @AFpost]

Congress has placed Wikimedia under federal investigation for including criticism of Israel in Wikipedia articles, requesting the information of individuals who contributed.

Follow: @AFpost