Approximately half the country will think this is a totally reasonable way to do foreign policy.
I say he should announce 10 more targets: “4 for the gospels of the Christian Bible (my favorite book), 5 for my beloved children, and 1 for the Big Mac (which is #1 in my book).”
Remember him threatening “Fire and Fury” against North Korea?
Of course not. A lot of crazy shit has happened since then. But one of those things wasn’t war with North Korea.
Trump has never had the endurance or conviction to actually go to war. If he did, he would have done it by now. Any time it came to putting up or shutting up in foreign affairs, he’s punked out.
He never assassinated Kim Jong Un’s top general, and Kim Jong Un never retaliated. These are different situations. What’s he going to do when Iran does something? Nothing?
Does anyone even think there’s a list of 52? It would be funny to see the Trump administration having to scramble to come up with a list if Iran does something. It might not be a bad strategy to put Trump in a position where he either has to back down from his threat or insist on 52 chances at catastrophic failure that makes him look bad.
Depends on the kind of retaliation. He’s a punk ass bitch who fears confrontation.
We’ve seen it. He had his chance to go to war with Iran before. He had advisers pushing for it but went against it then despite the tough guy tweets he was tweeting.
also, iirc those hostages were released.
Only after a failed rescue mission and another infamous, “do us a favor, though” moment that was (also) partially covered up by Bill Barr…
Negotiation? I guess you could call it that.
trump is essentially taking 52 hostages rn, except it’s 52x a bunch of civilians, in other words a major escalation even over a thing that was resolved 40 years ago
Probably or at least a number close to that. I’m sure it was in huge font on one of his colorful PowerPoint briefings and is the only thing his mush brain can remember. It was also probably classified.
There was a deck of cards with 52 most wanted or some shit like that. Is he referring to that?
they probably had 60 and were told to pick 52 because it’s easier for trump to understand a story than a fact because he’s fucking demented
Continuing the tradition of this administration not understanding numbers involved in historic events more than 52 American citizens „were taken“ in the hostage crisis in 1979.
More than 60 were taken, but after two weeks they released the African-American hostages and most of the women. After more than half a year one more man was released because he was sick. That is when 52 hostages were left.
Easy explanation: African-Americans and woman don’t count to Republicans.
Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran’s Suleimani Was. Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII.**
candidate Donald J. Trump appeared on the syndicated radio show of conservative media star, Hugh Hewitt, to talk foreign policy.
“Are you familiar with General Suleimani?” Hewitt asked the real estate mogul from Queens.
“Yes,” said Trump, before hesitating. “Go ahead, give me a little … tell me.”
When Hewitt told Trump that Suleimani “runs the Quds Forces,” Trump responded: “I think the Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us.”
“No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces,” Hewitt interjected. “The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Quds Forces. The bad guys.”
“I thought you said Kurds,” a sheepish Trump replied.
This is not a column, however, about the consequences of the U.S. government assassinating the second-most powerful man in Iran
Rather, this is a column that allows me to express my ongoing astonishment that Donald Trump is president of the United States; my ongoing bewilderment with a world in which an unhinged, know-nothing former reality TV star and property developer, with zero background in foreign affairs or national security, may have just kicked off World War III. (From his golf course, no less.)
This quote hasn’t aged well