Trump hat die amerikanische Glaubwürdigkeit einfach weggeworfen, als er bei den Bedrohungen durch den Iran nachgab: „Trump schimpfte immer darüber, dass Präsidenten nachgaben und kein Rückgrat zeigten.“ Jetzt hat er einen weiteren ‚TACO‘ gezogen.“
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-uturn-taco-iran-war-strikes-b2953321.html
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I mean…im glad he did.
I get people are going to want to rub this in his face – this was easily the better of two options available today.
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For all you frothy idiots. Im glad trump decided not to bomb a country resulting in the deaths of countless civilians. No one is giving him credit. Take the enormous humanitarian win without needing to stroke your fucking trump hate. I dont like him either.
Thank goodness for that. Insanity.
TACO schmaco.
Yes, he’s a clown. But I’m still happy he backed down.
He doesn’t know how to negotiate. Never has.
He’s a predator, not a businessman
I would say reelecting Trump destroyed most of the credibility we had left, The first time was maybe a fluke but him and his cult tried to overturn the following election he lost and a bunch of idiots made him President again!
Sure him and his criminal conspiracy would be in prison without the help of cowards and there was likely some cheating on the republican side but still.
Millions of absolute wastes of oxygen decided that a criminal pedophile was the leader for them. We didn’t have much credibility to lose.
The „other“ sub is posturing like this is dipshit’s victory. The copium makes me as insane as it is incredible.
Will you shut up man. Credibility is the last thing we should be worried about right now. The entire world now views our country as evil.
He didn’t lose much, his credibility outside US was already zero…
It’s incredible how Iran, just from letting this idiot run his mouth, and a few well timed tweets of their own, have managed to completely discredit this Administration and their way of “negotiating”. I thought Donnie was the Dealmaker? So what has improved here with Iran and the Stait? It was open and then Trump started this war, and now it’s closed, leading to Trump stomping his feet like Rumplestiltskin and threatening things that would have him locked up as a war criminal if he carried them out. God knows the Iranians aren’t the good guys here, but I don’t hate seeing a country finally standup to this man child. Hopefully others will be inspired to tell him no more often now.
I wonder if anyone won big on poly bet over this decision…? But seriously, the world doesn’t need this stress. We have enough already with all the additional cost of living this mad man is creating across this globe we all share. C’mon America, it’s time. Get him the fuck out.
Hah, like we had any credibility left.
Remember that this started back on March 21st when Trump issued his first 48 hour ultimatum.
Then he issued a five day pause on that ultimatum which he eventually extended to a ten day pause.
This was followed by another 48 hour ultimatum on April 4th, which was extended to today, Tuesday, April 7th* at 8pm.
During this time, Trump couldn’t make up his mind about the U.S. military’s „objectives,“ his messaging was erratic and his claims about the ongoing situation in Iran were wildly inconsistent to say the least.
He was also insulting allies and threatening Iran with war crimes and its wholesale destruction. Of course, this did nothing but escalate tensions with other countries and cause chaos around the world.
And now this latest announcement comes on the precipice of his „final deadline.“ A ceasefire that is contingent on Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz and keeping it open—whatever that amounts to—and a proposal no doubt inspired by Trump’s infamous „two week“ delay tactic.
The ceasefire plan also includes allowing both Iran and Oman to impose a toll on ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn’t the case before, and the Farsi version of the agreement includes the stipulation „acceptance of enrichment“ for Iran’s nuclear program. Also, Netanyahu has excluded Israel and Hezbollah from the ceasefire agreement.
If all of this is the case, then what the fuck is the point?
Well, Trump’s primary concerns throughout this whole fiasco have been with how the war is affecting his ratings and the global markets, and with how surging oil prices are bad publicity for him. It’s also been a huge blow to his ego. Everything else is immaterial.
For Trump, the real purpose of this agreement is damage control, mostly damages to his pride, and also to disguise it as some kind of brilliant achievement. But in reality, with each passing day, Trump was becoming more desperate and more distressed. So this ceasefire does more to alleviate his insecurities and keep him from spiraling than anything else.
Also expect his followers to claim that this was all part of his „master plan.“
Yeah, he’s a real war time genius…
Global trade disruptions and market shocks, sharply rising oil prices, a massive price tag for taxpayers, rifts with allies, expanding conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, dead US soldiers, millions displaced, thousands of civilian casualties, including CHILDREN…
Indiscriminate bombings of schools, hospitals, residential areas and heritage sites, massive energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, Persian Gulf allies shutting in their wells and taking the brunt of Iran’s counter-attacks, NATO partners dealing with the economic and security blowback of the war…
No „regime change,“ no new deals, no freedom for the Iranian people…
And all the while, Iran has gained significant leverage over matters of their sovereignty, their control over the Strait of Hormuz, and even the future of their nuclear weapons program.
So what the fuck have we actually accomplished?
To be clear: we do not want him to nuke Iran. He can TACO all he wants.
Why the fuck would the media poke the guy.
Now is the time they should be praising him for showing restraint. He will eat that shit up.
You start saying he can’t do something and he will.
Now he can focus on destroying what ever is left of our democracy
He shouldn’t have made the threat to begin with, but after it was issued backing down was BY FAR the best outcome.
This was the best possible outcome after the Trump/ Hedghog cluster fuck. Clearly the largest miscalculation in US military history. This has had a major impact on the world and permanent impact on the US. Trump and his gang of sycophants has got to go now.
How much did he and his goons make on oil futures in the last week?
The biggest problem is that all this has done is help Iran and its repressive regime. Not committing war crimes is good, but we still have absolutely no idea what the purpose of this was. And, this is two week agreement. So in two weeks, I assume Israel (and probably the US) will be back at it.
I’m not gonna make fun of TACO this time. This was an important one. If he’d just keep the BS “I’m a tough guy” routine down, he wouldn’t get in these TACO situations. Let’s also remember that impulsive behavior, paranoia and lack of filters are all symptoms of frontal tempo dementia. Not that I’m dissing people who have it. Just don’t think someone who has it should still be president!
No, this level of market manipulation and Trumpstein file deflection will be studied for years to come. …over here blaming tax-paying, GDP-contributing undocumented people when this terrorist is blowing trillions of dollars on wars, golfing, personal enrichment, and global ans domestic terrorism.
Thank god he did
The ultimate fucking loser of all time. I’m so embarrassed to be an American today. This dude has to go ASAP
Thankfully. His poison needs to be stopped. Impeach and remove DT.
But also, thank God he chickened out because that threat was fucking evil and also completely idiotic
Our Reputation is already ruined by Trump and Republicans
Any American credibility that remained after November 2016 was thoroughly removed 8 years later.
Did any of you think there was any left to lose over Iran?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad he back down. Positively relieved.
It was a monumental act of stupidity that we as a planet will be suffering from for years.
All previous geopolitical calculus has been tossed out the window. How nations will choose to align after this is totally unknown.
Hell, we might be right back here in less than 2 weeks.
Trump also used to rail that the Democrats would start a war with Iran.
American credibility? Long gone.
Okay but can we please stop egging him on to nuke Iran thanks
Who the hell are writing these opinions? Thank fuck he did back down.
I swear to god if we don’t remove home we will lose all credibility with the rest of the world. What a pathetic and terrible human he is. As are all of his supporters and voters.
Would you really have preferred he carried on with the bombing campaign? I would far rather see living Iranians and Americans than American credibility. You realize that President Trump made some awful threats. Better to back down from that crazy talk.
He raped children
He wanted to be like Putin, well now he is. Started a war that was to be over in days.. now in it’s 6th week. And constantly threatening massive bombings, only to constantly back down in the 11th hour
It’s the best scenario which is really saying something.
Idk. He needs to be Mussolinied for even threatening nuclear annihilation. It’s not a TACO because if he followed through, we wouldn’t be laughing about it.
Is the civilization that is disappearing called America’s dignity?
First, I’m damn glad he did. BUT, what idiot puts our country, and the world, in that situation. It’s time for a few Republicians to pay trump a visit like they did with Nixon. And that was petty compared to what trump has done.
Have to admit Iran had the social media hilarity going strong. No one believes the dumpster anymore.
We should celebrate this taco and hope it sticks. But we shouldn’t let Congress forget what a disaster Trump is. Dead Americans dead Iranians destroyed credibility, regional and global instability. This is nuts
We’d already lost all credibility through him and his followers. But if there was ever a time to chicken out, this was it.
If he’d gone all in, millions of people would have suffered, and many would have died. All for the psychosis of this king with no clothes.
Tbh I prefer him chickening out to him nuking Iran, which, as of 6 hours ago, was something I was genuinely worried he would do.
The problem with TACO is that he’s always either trying to or threatening to do something stupid enough that eventually even he is forced to reconsider if it’s really what he wants to do. But you still end up having to take that idiotic idea seriously because sometimes he actually is just that stupid, and you don’t know when he’s going to double down or when he’s going to decide what he’s doing is too stupid and fold.
Him backing down is pretty much always a good thing, because pretty much everything he tries to do is stupid and horrible, because he and the people around him are stupid and horrible people.
I’ll take him TACOing any day rather than our military forces being forced to commit war crimes or disobey orders. I think we’ve a pretty good military that are being pushed into ill conceived wars and conflicts.
This is such an awful attack line. Are democrats supposed to be upset that he didn’t commit genocide???
I for one am thrilled he backed down on this one.
Like, let’s not make fun of him for backing down when he was first threatening nukes and genocide. Making fun of backing down on something stupid, sure… This. Let’s take it as a win, and hopefully get some impeachment /article 25 going soon.
No one will be afraid of America by the end of Trump.. They will all be to busy laughing at his ridiculous bluster and rage.. with no commitment. Iran will lose the war, but win by humiliating trump and his hilariously incompetent admin.
Trump…. What a twatwaffle
Don’t even get me started on kegsbreath..