Mitarbeiter des Weißen Hauses „verblüfft“ über Trumps Behauptung, der Iran habe ihm einen Preis im Zusammenhang mit der Straße von Hormus gegeben: „Trump äußerte sich ungewöhnlich verschlossen über das Geschenk und beschrieb es nur als „ein sehr großes Geschenk, das enorm viel Geld wert ist““
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-present-mystery-strait-of-hormuz-b2945506.html
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Trump. Is. Insane. He has dementia and his mental faculties are clearly in sharp decline. The whole thing with the gift makes some sense if you understand that. It’s imaginary.
Whatever is attached to „trump is claiming“ is 100% bullshit, 100% of the time.
Iran made up their own FIFA Peace Prize?
It’s almost like he’s a liar and at this point reporting what he says is just propaganda. Every headline has to have an asterisk to actually be objective. He’s earned it.
Could he be claiming the Island is now his to take ? Like Gollum and his birthday present.
Either he’s full of shit, or Trump is openly admitting that he took a large bribe…
From the article:
White House staffers were left baffled by Trump’s claim Tuesday that he had [received a gift from Iran](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-war-oil-hormuz-strait-ceasefire-b2944907.html), about which he then refused to disclose anything further.
“They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money,” Trump claimed. “I’m not going to tell you what the present is, but it was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us.”
“That meant one thing to me. We’re dealing with the right people,” he concluded.
It was “oil and gas related,” he said, and relevant to the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump’s cryptic remarks even sowed confusion among his own inner circle, with several people close to the White House [telling Politico](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2026/03/24/a-very-big-present-from-iran-00842689) they were “baffled by the president’s remarks.”
Having the portrait of a previous demented president looming behind the current one is a nice touch
Meanwhile …
* [Iran dismisses U.S. ceasefire plan and issues its own counterproposal](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-dismisses-u-s-ceasefire-plan-and-issues-its-own-counterproposal)
> Iran issued its own plan via state TV, which includes a halt to killings of its officials, means to make sure no other war is waged against it, reparations for the war, the end of hostilities and Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
> „No negotiations have happened with the enemy until now, and we do not plan on any negotiations,“ Iran’s foreign minister later told state TV.
Bribes are illegal
I love the juxtapostion here of trump right in front of a painting of reagan.
Thanks a lot reagan. Maga is your legacy.
A twenty dollar trophy painted with tacky gold paint that declares Trump to be the undisputed winner of all wars ever.
It’s an illusion that Trump made up to prevent the stock market from collapsing.
This „what’s mine is mine“ mentality is not only unbecoming of the president, but there are actually laws against it. He can’t just receive gifts from a foreign agency, let alone one we’re actively at war with, without disclosing exactly WHAT it is to the American people. First it was taking HIS classified documents out of the WH, then it was HIS plane gifted from Qatar, now he’s getting…what? We have no idea, if it’s even a thing, but this guessing gamesmanship has to stop.
He’s clearly lying, but it confirms how childish and gullible Trump is that he would invent a present for himself as a factor in ending his dumb fucking war.
We all know that he can’t personally keep things given to him in office through official acts, right? It’s a clear violation of both the foreign emoluments act AND the foreign gifts and decorations act.
Since it’s technically property of ALL of us here in the US, can maybe a lawyer with some balls stand up and sue this fucker for violating these acts. I mean, we all have standing, right? Do it.
He’s either lying, delusional, or this is a confession of a bribe or insider trading. None of the options are good here.
Is it a giant wooden horse?
He invested in the market right before his big announcement and made a huge profit. He just can’t help but brag.
Come on now. He got millions from insider trading.
Welcome to 2026 where the government of Iran is more trustworthy than the government of the United States.
The gift was the 550 million dollars they made scamming the stock market with their Insider information.
What is baffling about it? The gift was an opportunity to grift though market manipulation.
He’s probably talking about the 400 million trade he did through a shell company betting on oil futures.
It’s the money he made on the stock market by trading oil and S&P 500 futures before announcing he was delaying strikes on Iran.
The gift was the insider trading from his announcements.
I think he was talking about someone close to him making $Billions off of the stock market manipulation.
You don’t get „gifts“ from countries you are unilaterally bombing. You get bribes.
My theory is it’s simply that Iran allowed that India tanker to go through, but Trump’s brain shorted out and he couldn’t remember what it was. Just that something big had happened that pleased him, and what’s left of his brain confabulated the details because that’s how dementia patients function.
He means the stock manipulation he got to do and made out like a bandit
The only people dumber than this bloated orange traitor are the idiots who voted for him.
Biden was old and slow, but he wasn’t surrounded by sociopaths that want to burn the United States to the ground. Everyone enabling Trump needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned.
Well if he kept it legally he must repot it.
But not reporting a gift from a foreign government barely cracks the top 200 illegal things he’s done this term.
It is likely that the prize is a gold medal from the Iranian Women’s Football Team.
It’s a gift of higher gas prices!! Very BIG increase!! Gas is now worth a TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MINEY!!
a golden diaper.
Let me guess, it was a magical suit that only fools and the unfit can’t see.
It’s his way of indicating what he wants without explicitly asking for it – it’s what mob bosses do to avoid culpability for criminal acts.
Elect a felon, and this is what you get: endless corruption and incompetence.