Donald Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran But No One Really Cares

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https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/donald-trump-threatens-to-annihilate-iran-but-no-one-really-cares/

Donald Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran But No One Really Cares
Kevin Drum | Jul. 23, 2018 1:48 AM



Just before midnight, something got President Trump agitated and he hurled this tweet out into the ether:

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So this is where we’re at. The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country he doesn’t like and…

…it’s mostly treated like playground bluster from a ten-year-old. Nearly everyone seems to be treating this as a stupid joke to make fun of, as if it came from a parody of a James Bond movie or something.

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Etc. By Monday morning Sarah Sanders will have invented some absurd interpretation of what Trump meant and everyone will shrug and pretend to accept it. Trump himself, of course, will refuse to explain anything, claiming that he doesn’t want to give away his game plan. The State Department will issue some kind of tough-but-not-really statement that will explain nothing. And the rest of the Republican Party—aside from the usual lunatic fringe cheering this on—will slink away to their offices, desperately hoping that no one will ask them for comment.

And then we’ll move on. This is how seriously people take the United States of America these days. This is what our country has come to.

[LuckyCharms]

1. Holy shit, Genghis Kahn rose from the dead.

[rpannier]

19. Nah

Jenghis actually meant what he said.
And he was pretty intelligent.
And the most important difference... he didn't have bonespurs

[Rollo]

2. You'd think Fred Trump could have afforded a better child psychologist...

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Once again it's Infrastructure Week. n/t

[JI7]

4. he needs another issue after his failures and the Putin shit going on . he tried to bring up the NFL

protests again and it went nowhere .

now he is trying to get attention with this.

hopefully the media panels wont treat this like some serious policy discussion and what he meant and avoid all the BS and just admit he is trying to distract from other issues.

bring up his failures in North Korea and keep demanding what went on with Putin.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Putin is a friend of Iran. This is a total publicity feud.

[Cha]

11. That's good to know.. about putin not wanting

Iran to be attacked by the Fraud

[Control-Z]

6. Wow. This feels like a turning point.

The twitterverse has chosen to ignore or make fun of the orange maggot's irrational tweet threat - at least for now. I hope it trends. The only question I have is will he double down or delete the tweet and claim his account was hacked.

[SunSeeker]

7. LOL The mocking response tweets are hilarious.

What is not funny is that we have a president who rage tweets threats in all caps like my crazy father-in-law.

[not fooled]

8. Well. as long as

bolton doesn't think this is the greenlight for another war.

Seriously, how is the maggot gonna reconcile orders from vlad with the dream of the neocons in the U.S. to invade Iran?

[Cha]

9. lol@Loosely translated, "Manafort's trial starts this week."

Suffer you fucking fool.

[stonecutter357]

10. Report him for TOS violation !

[edbermac]

12. That's telling them Mr President!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. He does sound like a 13 year-old

Just saying.

[smirkymonkey]

14. This childish bullshit has got to stop.

somebody please pry that phone away from his tiny little hands.

[True Blue American]

17. Nah, let him o!

The more Trump tweets the sillier he looks.

I do love that Golden Dog of yours. Beautiful.

[barbtries]

15. i care

because now he's got bolton.
feel helpless
reported the tweet to twitter as a threat of violence.

[think4yourself]

21. The minute Bolton was chosen

I knew it would end with Iran.

[barbtries]

22. that was my fear as well

bolton's been a rabid warmonger as long as i remember.

[pansypoo53219]

16. tweet loudly & swing a soft dick.

[djacq]

18. Orange Clown trying out for the role of next DC Villain

Coming off of Comic Con 2018... Couldn’t resist.

[duforsure]

20. Interesting,

While putin is actively attacking us,he says and does nothing to stop him , or do anything , and he wants to lift sanctions for him? And now this? After putin is behind yet another murder on allies soil, and he gets invited into OUR White House? This sends a message to all others, get dirt on donald to threaten him back with, or else this happens. He could care less if they do anything to us, just nothing that'll hurt him . Republicans have chosen putin and trump over this country. If Iran said they have info on him , he'd shut up.