GrannyDON'Tpayforit

The entire Trump/Iran war comes down to Trump’s inability to negotiate. A problem that has plagued both of his terms. He simply cannot close deals like Biden and Obama. He can’t get the Save Act passed. He can’t reform health insurance. He can’t negotiate tariffs or trade with foreign nations. He can’t negotiate with Iran. He gets pushed around by Israel.

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This morning Trump told Fox News: He’s considering “blowing everything up and taking Iran’s oil.” He sent guns to Iranian protesters — “I think the Kurds took them.” He wants a deal by tomorrow or he’ll seize a sovereign nation’s resources. Then he went golfing.

Donald Trump is alternating between religious proclamations and profane outbursts while threatening to bomb power plants and bridges in a war he claimed we already won. It’s not just unpresidential; it’s a hallucinatory approach to foreign policy that is going to get more people killed.

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Isn’t it funny how Biden is out among everyday people, and NONE of the people actually meeting him are describing some confused old man? They are describing someone humble, engaged, and fully present. Doesn't match the bullshit media narrative, does it? The press pushed that garbage. The loudmouths amplified it. The weak-minded bought it. And the country paid the price. They should be shamed without mercy. There must be accountability

@JoyceWhiteVance We're familiar with these tactics in Mn

is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/…

Notice that Trump set a 48-hour deadline that would have ended tonight and now changed it to Tuesday. Why? Because the markets are closed and his family can't buy oil and stocks on the cheap until Monday, and then he will likely TACO again, raising the markets so they can profit.

Absolute horror. Al Jazeera confirms the Trump administration's near total fuel blockade on Cuba is causing infant mortality to surge. Doctors are literally operating blind in the dark as life saving machines shut off. This is a deliberate crime against humanity.

You can’t make this up 🤣

Absolute chaos in Washington. Trump accidentally admits he illegally smuggled weapons to protesters to overthrow the Iranian government, but they got stolen! Now he is threatening to blow everything up and "take the oil." Pure imperialist incompetence on full display.

Absolute bombshell on Sky News. A prominent Middle East expert reveals Trump completely purged the State Department of real diplomats, leaving the entire Iran crisis to real estate developers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The incompetence is staggering.

🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨 Donald Trump’s team is frantically deleting his old tweets — especially the ones where he viciously attacked President Obama’s Iran policies — in a blatant attempt to rewrite history and hide his past hypocrisy.

After financing Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York for $1.2 billion, gifting a $400 million private jet to Donald Trump and vast sums of money and luxury in exchange for security, they now realize they've been conned and betrayed by Trump and his family. 😂