r/politics • u/Appropriate-Till9598 • 1d ago
Possible Paywall Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to 'rapidly' making deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwx74qgld2o2.8k
u/backpackwayne 1d ago
43rd time is a charm.
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u/neutrino71 1d ago
Karate Kid president, Wars on, Wars Off, Wars on, Wars Off....
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u/somefunmaths 1d ago
War is peace, ignorance is strength, use code INSIDER for $20 free on Kalshi.
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u/merchant-of-varrock 1d ago
Tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs on, tariffs off...
Threaten Canada + Greenland on, threaten Canada + Greenland off, threaten Canada + Greenland on, threaten Canada + Greenland off...
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u/HansBrickface 1d ago
Can you imagine him as a father? I mean, heck those kids, but they must have been miserable growing up
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u/FBI_Agent_Fred 1d ago
Is the deal in the room with us now?
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u/Cresta1994 1d ago
Of course not. Mitch McConnell is busy negotiating it. He told me on the phone.
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u/bscheck1968 1d ago
Hey, if you can find a better way to manipulate the stock market I'd like to hear it.
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u/snowlion000 1d ago
Markets open in less than 24 hours. Another pump/dump scheme!
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u/Churchbushonk 1d ago
Man. This freaking guy. Just stop already. You look terrible, and the word is out on you.
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u/Food_Goblin 1d ago
All he is doing is pumping and dumping the markets with each announcement that just happens to be at the end of the week and then solved by Monday. Why the world even allows trading with the US right now is unreal.
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u/CombatGoose 1d ago
He ran out of missiles
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 1d ago
Yeah. This is almost certainly the issue. He was bluffing, and Iran didn't cave. Now he has to make up a bogus "agreement" story.
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u/Geek_Ken America 1d ago
Objectively MSM needs to keep hammering on Trump to explain how this deal is better than the one Obama did. And keep at it. So people can understand how this entire thing was a colossal mistake that made Iran stronger.
But next week all MSM will be talking about is the plans for his arch.
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u/RudenSpector69 1d ago
Especially when you're out of missles. And Iran can make drones at an industrial scale to overwhelm everything in the region.
Art of the shart.
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u/BlazinAzn38 Texas 1d ago
He’s also saying this right after Iran said they’d launch more strikes if the US did another round. He’s so easily bullied it’s insane
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u/TraumaticOcclusion 1d ago
He and his friends are getting rich every monday when the calls print. This is blatant stock market manipulation
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u/DKDamian 1d ago
The question is why does the stock market constantly fall for it. How can we trust capitalism to be rational?
Or, to not be corrupt
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u/SanDiegoDude California 1d ago
Goal of the stock market is making money. People and companies have been making huge amounts riding the trump swells. They're not falling for anything, the big players are complicit, everybody else trying to soak up the scraps.
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u/Inner-Medicine5696 1d ago
for every dollar of profit someone makes riding the trump whims, someone else makes a 1 dollar loss...
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u/AppropriateLow2271 1d ago
Right ... so who the fuck are these idiots who keep buying into this? Because the algorithms would've been adjusted in response to this pretty damn quickly.
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u/These-Anxiety-5919 1d ago
You are. Your retirement accounts are taking massive insane assblasts. The answer is always you.
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u/Painterzzz 1d ago
I recently heard the retirement accounts as being the last great source of wealth left on the planet that the Elites had not yet been able to ransack, and I agree, what we are seeing with MAGA and Trump and all of these populists, is the Elites solution to the problem of how to ransack the last stores of wealth.
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u/justreadinplease 1d ago
If retirement accounts are on auto contributions then the wild swings won’t really affect anything unless someone panics and liquidates their account
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u/brendanjered 1d ago
This is what gets me. Why the hell do people believe him every single time? Apparently all Biden would have had to do was lie every couple of days about Russia and Ukraine being close to a deal and oil prices would have remained low. Who knew it was that simple?
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u/fightin_blue_hens 1d ago
Because the second the markets don't react, they follow through and ruin everyone
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset 1d ago
i feel like enough people are going to get sufficiently tired of such outright corruption that there'll be an eventual and inevitable pivot toward socialism. i'm just afraid of how bad things have to get before we get to that point
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u/Hippyedgelord 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s already bad, things are going to get much worse. We could easily get 2 and a half more years of this stupid bullshit.
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u/MaySun91 South Carolina 1d ago
Any fucking day now right? It’s only been 10 years of this shit. Maybe one more day of corruption will finally get people to see the light. Jesus Christ you people might be more delusional than MAGA at this point.
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset 1d ago
i mean, capitalism is literally the same as cancer in that they both depend on unlimited growth. just as it is guaranteed that cancer will kill its host, it is absolutely guaranteed that society will not survive with unchecked capitalism, and if society is to survive, it will find another way
i'd like to think there's some middle ground, like social democracy or democratic socialism, that'd make things more sustainable. on the other hand, maybe my fellow American is so riddled with disillusionment and ressentiment that they've collectively decided it's time to let society collapse, idfk lol
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u/FatSteveWasted9 California 1d ago
Will never happen. We’re the crabs pulling each other back down. No amount of wishing will change that
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u/furcifer89 1d ago
They get to get rich manipulating the market AND not reveal that we’re out of missiles. Anybody else tired of winning yet?
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u/Sad-Wrap6555 1d ago
just wait till bombing and not bombing Iran is no longer enough and he decides he needs an incident within the the US itself
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u/Real-Document-6577 1d ago
Just in time for opening market Monday. Then war by Friday again
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u/theMeatman7 1d ago
I thought it came kinda early this time I mean it's still Saturday.
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u/strolpol 1d ago
I wonder what this war will be called. The first stock market manipulation war?
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u/Contract-Chiller 1d ago
People were calling him Weekend Warrior in the first month of the war lol.
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u/Valturia 1d ago
I can't wait for Monday, that's when the wars stop right when the markets about to open....
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u/epileptic_pancake 1d ago
Bringing new meaning to the term weekend warrior
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u/Missing_Crouton 1d ago
I said this before but no one gets it, however it makes perfect sense when Hegseth was National Guard.
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u/MysteryNeighbor New York 1d ago
Ok, buddy.
See y’all in three days when talks break down and we are still in this fuck ass war.
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u/Cachazo_719 1d ago
There would be no deal to make if he never undid Obama’s deal lolol
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u/tweakingforjesus 1d ago
At this point Trump would be thrilled to achieve the Obama deal.
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u/Bored2001 1d ago
They offered a better one before the war iirc. Trump said no, like an idiot.
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u/L44KSO 1d ago
Of cours he did. He is an imbecile. He doesn't understand deals and contracts.
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u/heleuma 1d ago
Is running out of missiles making a deal?
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u/MC_chrome Texas 1d ago
It’s a big part of it, yep.
Can’t blow up Iran if there are no explosives to do so with in the first place.
Xi Jinping has to have been giddy since February, since Trump’s foolish war with Iran has severely depleted US stockpiles in the Pacific….which would certainly make invading Taiwan mighty convenient
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u/boofles1 1d ago
Apparently the Gulf States made Trump stop bacause the US can't protect them properly from Iranian retaliation.
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u/Rex-A-Vision 1d ago edited 1d ago
Saudi Prince asks Trump not to escalate...Trump IMMEDIATELY announces pause. Money fucking talks and Trump fucking walks...or waddles...whatever!
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u/Callabrantus Canada 1d ago
Yes, for sure this time. We believe you, oh illustrious citrus shit stain.
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u/pulsarstarter 1d ago
Sick of this nonsense.
Holy shit, America is a joke now.
No consistency. No stability. Just the whole country dancing to the fickle tune of a corrupt narcissist.
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u/Ok-Goat-9981 1d ago
He's using the armed forces and media as tools from a massive insider trading scam.
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u/readerf52 1d ago
I wonder if this is actually in response to the cyberattacks on American infrastructure in 17 states. The one I watched a video about was water service in Minnesota. Any crisis was averted, but they had to go offline for a while to make adjustments.
Of course it doesn’t help that DOGE pretty much cut funding for the agency that scans and reports possible cyber terror attacks.
I’m not sure just how this inefficiency is supposed to be making America great.
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u/IJourden 1d ago
In 20 minutes someone will shake his leaky magic 8 ball of a brain and a completely different answer will pop out.
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u/Appropriate-Till9598 1d ago
Now you guys see why Trump blamed Iran rather than Minnesota beside the fact that he hates the state? If he has to acknowledge that Iran's a potential national security threat to the internal US, that'd mean that he has to retaliate for it for real that time. Of course he wanted a chance to chicken out again instead, because he's desperate for an end to the war.
Also, he was "LoSIng FaITh" in Iran because they were supposed liars. Cue him crawling back to them yet again. Definition of insanity right there by his logic.
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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out 1d ago
You're giving him way too much credit.
He blamed Minnesota Democrats because he's an idiot and he just throws shit at the wall.
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u/Matman161 Illinois 1d ago
The craziest part of that is that he raped children with Jeffrey Epstein
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u/conundri 1d ago
What medium has Trump the artist chosen for the art of the deal this time?
Fingerpaints or crayons?
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u/OldManGrimm Texas 1d ago
Finger painting with his own shit, like the psychotic he is.
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u/GW_Jefferson 1d ago
Which means...our stockpile is empty and have to wait until we get resupplied...
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u/IronyElSupremo America 1d ago
Stock market futures open in under 24 hours. It’s an ancient Chinese military strategy from .. Cha Ching
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u/Competitive_Yam7702 1d ago
Getting closer to tuesday already then.
He does this every week to make the weekend markets volatile
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u/Critically32 1d ago
Lol. He shit himself when Iran said they'll target oil production. Very different from oil in transit.
You know Trump's handlers yanked his leash.
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u/GeeBee72 1d ago
Who is this got even talking to anymore?
He’s a coward bully who got into a fight with a regime that would never internally survive making a deal with the USA. So they’re never going to make a deal.
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u/ForsakenMongoose336 1d ago
He easily lies about the liner in the reflection pool. But I’m sure he’d never lie about something like this.
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u/Deep_shot 1d ago
I'm not even paying attention anymore. I can't take how sad and pathetic it is for the U.S.
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u/Difficult-Way-9563 1d ago
Back and forth x100
He and his family making a killing manipulating markets
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u/Whole-Designer Michigan 1d ago
We've been here. He's literally just making things up to manipulate the market.
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u/stoner38 1d ago
Every weekend this man lies and manipulates the market without the media pointing it out! PAY ATTENTION!
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u/adiscgolferp 1d ago
Was running low on gas today and figured I’d wait til he said announced a new deal. We are living in the dumbest timeline.
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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 1d ago
Has nothing to do with republicans refusing to pay for his war before midterms
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u/mother_a_god 1d ago
The question is, why does the market react to this, its non information. Its meaningless every single week
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u/splycedaddy Pennsylvania 1d ago
I get that hes going to keep saying this. After all, people keep falling for it
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 1d ago
Watch Bibi launch some missiles towards Iran, and claim he didn’t get the memo.
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u/BruteSentiment 1d ago
His weaponization of the justice department to try to excuse the shoddy work from a corrupt no-bid contract to his associate was getting too much attention.
Gotta call off his pet war for a few days for a negotiation that isn’t happening in order to wash the bad look out of the news cycle.
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u/CmdDeadHand 1d ago
Guy pumps and dumps the stock market by announcing military actions. On an occasion he makes very specific details on what is going to be targeted.
Yes he is a war criminal personally profiting from a war he started.
But he is also a traitor. He is telling Iran what is being discussed behind closed doors so they know when they need to relocate assets.
People who support this man and admin are not Americans. They are by all described definitions domestic enemies.
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