Harry E. Saalfeld

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump told Israel’s Channel 14 the quiet part out loud: countries that buy oil through the Strait of Hormuz should secure it themselves — not America. “We will help them, but it is they who buy all the oil. The USA gets nothing from this strait.” (You did this!) Executive responsibility is something only real chief executives understand apparently. The apprentice missed that lesson. Donald Trump 16 days into a war he started on orders from Israel, a war that closed the strait, a war that has cost $11 billion in the first six days alone and is burning through well over $2 billion a day before even touching the unofficial immense costs— is now telling the world it’s not his problem. First he begged Russia China. Then France. Then Japan, South Korea and the UK. Not one of them said yes. Japan said the threshold is “extremely high.” China diplomatically said pound sand. France said its ships would stay in a “defensive posture.” Germany said it won’t participate at all. South Korea said it would “carefully review.” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy walked out of a classified briefing and said simply: “They had NO PLAN.” This is what capitulation dressed up as the art of the fail looks like. He launched the war. He closed the strait, Iran didn’t close it, the war closed it. He destroyed the interceptor stockpiles, the THAAD radars, the KC-135 fleet, the Fifth Fleet’s credibility, and shattered the Gulf monarchies’ sense of security. And now, standing in the illusion of his own making, he’s pointing at China and saying you sort it out. The Epstein coalition started a de facto world war, lost control of the world’s most critical waterway, alienated every vassal it asked for help, and is now on Israeli television explaining why it’s not their responsibility anymore. It’s going so well!

Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges and law enforcement officials."

Out of curiosity, how long do you think it will take L3Harris to gut a 747, upgrade avionics, install an executive-level medical bay, and equip it with the myriad communications equipment and defensive countermeasures that Air Force One requires? I’d guess 2-3 years, minimum.