United States President Donald Trump has denied being dragged into war with Iran by Israel as he faces increasing criticism over the conflict, including from segments of his own base.

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    13 days ago

    Translation: Netanyahu talked Trump into it, but Trump was too stupid to know he’d been played.

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      13 days ago

      In all fairness, “This is false, Trump is lying” is by far the most likely thing when he says anything that makes him look better (or at least less bad).

      IMHO the most likely scenarion is that Trump was played by Netanyahu, later figured it out or was told that he had been played and now is lying about not having been played in the first place.

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        12 days ago

        Why assuming he was played? The action the administration took to make this happen was too extreme to say “he was played”

        The money all the rich made with market manipulation doesn’t indicate he was played.

        Everything point at him and his groups to be actively benefiting from this situation.

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    13 days ago

    It must be exhausting to be Trump. Netanjahu calls you to do X, but then Putin calls you to do the opposite of X, so the Netanjahu calls you again and you do X again and the cycle continues…

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    13 days ago

    Of course not. Trump has been crazy trying to find some war that can let him cancel this year’s US elections since his attempt to phish a civil war failed last year.

    Israel probably talked him into Iran in particular, though.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    No. They manipulated him into it. Trump is rather thick after all and easily sells his love and trust for shiny trinkets.

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    13 days ago

    “Look people, this incredibly bad, self-destructive, unpopular, and poorly planned operation was all my own creation. Don’t you dare hang any responsibility for this disaster on anyone else but me.”

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    12 days ago

    Mossad Agent Epstein never gave Netanyahu any proof of my pedophile rapes, and all of the Zionist money funding my election to “finish the job” of genocide, helps me understand that everything bibi ever says is always true, and so no bibi didn’t force me into war, only demonic Zionist supremacism as the truth, did. The dotard, is incapable of admitting that he failed to see through bibi lies that 5 previous presidents (1 of them him) had enough qualified advisers to not do stupid.

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    13 days ago

    Obviously Israel talked him into the war and told him to deny it.

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      13 days ago

      Worse.

      They talked him into a war and it’s obvious to everyone except trump and maybe Joe Biden.

      I think they both legitimately still see Israel as “the good guys”, because their brains are mush.

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        13 days ago

        Good and evil don’t play into it, they believe in nothing, only self-interest.

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          13 days ago

          They do, but that’s not it.

          He’s letting Kushner handle everything with Israel, it all flows thru him like Cheney had everything run thru him with GW.

          Kushner is a zionist, he wants what Bibi wants.

          So instead of America negotiating with Israel, Bibi tells Kushner what he wants, and Kushner frames it as the best and only option to trump, usually with Ivanka greasing the wheels.

          Just like Cheney told GW the Irag war was the only possible option, Kushner says anything Bibi wants is the only possible option.

          I legitimately wouldn’t be surprised to find out they’ve been diverting food from US naval ships to send to Israel at this point.

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    13 days ago

    They didn’t talk him into it, they ORDERED him. He’s a moron who’ll do anything a dictator tells him as long as they word it like he’s the most specialist widdle piggy evah.