Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, "we're blowing up the entire country."

The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News' senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a question regarding whether his previously stated timeline of two to three weeks for a deal was still accurate.

Concerns have been raised about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran and the consequences that could bring.

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[–] 158 points 7 months ago (13 children)

The Toddler-in-chief threatening to throw an apocalyptic tantrum over something that he fucked up in the first place.

He not only needs to be removed from office - he needs to be on a psych hold. He's deranged and dangerous.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    -Niko Bellic's thoughts on Vladdy Boy

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Where is "Vladdy" coming back from?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    americans showed the whole world they wanted this, he's what represents them and it was their choice on the land of the free

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    And when a Democratic president gets in, the Americans will be like, "Oh, but we've changed! We're going to be much better now! Really!".

    It's like a psychotic ex-boyfriend begging you to take him back, because he's really sorry and will do better next time. Promise!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I pray the world never forgives America for all this. I certainly won't as a Canadian. If a century of good will and allyship can get pissed down the drain in mere months, why should any nation ever trust America again?

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  • [–] 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    This guy has never had any clue what he’s doing, only what he wants and how to get it. Now, he’s finally hit something completely out of his grasp and just like any narcissist, he’s not handling it well.

    He will continue to chew through the entire world consuming people, economies, countries, and society until he’s stopped. This is the danger of dictators.

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  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Criminal is gonna war crime.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Reminds me of this classic Andy Griffith Show scene from the Opie and the Bully episode.

    “So you want to fight? Step across this line. Alright, knock this off my shoulder, I dare you. So you wanna fight huh? Just step inside this circle.” 😆

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We watched all but the last season or two of Andy Griffith during covid. Once Barney left we left.

    Here is the clip.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    No longer does the country collectively agree to push forward on war. Now it's just one guy who triggers very easily. WTF!?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    It's not just 1 guy, it's most of the current administration. And 84% of the people that voted for Trump, still stand by their vote!!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    I think your math is old. Trump is the least popular potus ever across all population sectors now.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    I keep hearing this and I also keep reading how those same people who now think he's unpopular, also voted for him 3 times and would vote for him again.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    You have to take into consideration that the dumbest people are often the loudest- what we're seeing is a equivalent of the village idiots screaming while throwing shit around the room because they're afraid of losing the space they've carved out on social media. These are the dumbest humans on the entire planet- less resourceful and less intelligent than ancient neanderthals. They exist solely to pull the human race down, and the fact that their comments are often rife with the worst takes you've ever seen and some of the worst grammar possible is a testament to their functional illiteracy. They can read and write, but they're wholly incapable of rational and intelligent thought.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Have the day you voted for got as a result of election rigging.

    And I don't say this as a "sore loser". I say that trump rigged the 2024 election, because in August/September/October of 2024, trump had been saying repeatedly that he rigged the upcoming election.

    Then towards October he was saying there won't be a need for any more elections. That it was fixed so hard that he's already the president forever.

    Now, lack of fundamental understanding of mortality aside, he's essentially admitted that he's corrupted our government from the inside.

    And you know the fucked up part? He won't face consequences. If someone in a position to change things finds evidence, that evidence won't be released until the year 2100. They only released the JFK files last year. He'll be long dead by the time anyone comes out and says there was a corrupt election.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    To think that in the interest of electoral fairness, we let this guy be president again instead of putting him in a prison for life where he absolutely belongs.

    To any democratic strategists out there who might be reading my post, if you want my attention, start getting your candidate to talk loudly and often about how they will punish Trump and every single member of his administration on Day 1. Lifetime prison sentences for Epstein related coverups. Hangings for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters who are insider trading and former DOGE staffers. Restitution to be paid back to the American taxpayers for the theft and embezzlement of tax dollars. Anything less that that is a mockery of justice.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    100%. All these people saying we can't win on MAGA Punishment can go to prison, too. I have my pet issues too like Universal Health Care and Campaign Finance Reform, but I recognize that we're NEVER get this country back on track and reach a point where we can address those issues in good faith, until we deal with MAGA as the genuine National Security Threat that they truly are.

    My candidate is the one that says, "The moment I'm sworn in, I will issue arrest warrants for every MAGA leader, and send them to Guantanamo Bay for extensive interrogation." We will audit every account they controlled, personal, business, and governmental, and charge them for every single count they violated, and confiscate their entire fortunes and assets.

    That's the candidate that I will support. Any that blurt shit like "We need to come together," is automatically disqualified in my eyes.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Lol but Democratic strategists don't want to win, they just want to have plausible deniability against the claim that they're trying not to win. Their real goal is to figure out how to convince people they're incompetent. Your strategy would make people actually vote for them, after which they'd be expected to follow through on those policies which would hurt their donors. Even if they did do that they'd have to go back to playing incompetent while in power to make sure it didn't happen

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Sounds like he wants to use the big bombs. I really hope somebody can physically intervene if he goes for the button.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He wants to be known as the man who was "strong enough" to nuke a country into oblivion.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yep

    I've been saying this since his first term, but people said that I was overreacting

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Genuinely the first thing I thought when he was elected. They're going to hand this deranged lunatic the codes and he will find any reason to use them just to prove how powerful he is.

    And I've also been told I was overreacting at every turn, until he did exactly what I said he would do. And then they said I was overreacting about the next thing he ended up doing. "Of course he's going to give up the presidency if he loses the election, he's not going to try anything weird or illegal, don't be ridiculous!"

    Yeah, it's been a very long, exhausting decade.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    There is no button he has unilaterally press and never has been its an order that must be given to others who actually launch

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Yes, but they're also legally required to follow that order, except for certain circumstances. The question is if someone in the chain will have the moral backbone to stop said order, and it can't just be the person launching it as there are more that can be launched. It needs to be someone high up in the chain. It may also require them physically stopping him from just asking the next person.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    He does kind of have a 'button' in the form of the "football" that sends the order straight to the ICBMs silos but I'm pretty sure those are pre-aimed at Russian targets. He doesn't push the button, an unthinking brainwashed military pawn does it. That is sent to more unthinking brainwashed military pawns who actually launch the missiles.

    Tactical nukes would have to go through more people but they'd probably just follow orders too.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There's no salvation for this man. I hope someone stops him, and my thoughts are with civilians of the region.

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Imo he has been looking for any excuse to launch a nuclear bomb since he first became president. I don't even think he cares why, how, or who he ends up using it on, even if it's his own people. As long as he gets to use his ultimate power as president and press that big button. And as long as he isn't personally affected he won't even give it a second thought.

    I firmly believe he WILL nuke someone before his term is up if nobody stops him. I firmly believe people have already stopped him before.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    He is the only person stupid enough to do it. I feel they'll carpet bomb Teheran or something like that first, but since the army of Iran is decentralized it won't do much. It would be a great excuse for the martial law in US if he drops a nuke. His insanity and the death cult around him makes him so fucking dangerous. Hegseth did a purge in the army, if they have only yes men left they will have no pushback from them.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Israel is the only one reckless enough to do it actually.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Problem is, Trump is listening to Israel.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Listening is a charitable way to put it. The president is the bitch of, he is being blackmailed by, would be more accurate.

    Nevertheless, even he wouldn't nuke them right now, Israel would. What the president would do, is bomb their nuclear reactors making a dirty bomb of sorts.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    there is no big button that trump presses, that is the myth. the suitcase being carried with him, for some strange reason called nuclear football, is basically just a sat-phone that connects him to some joint chiefs operations center. from there, there is a long chain of command leading to some soldiers in silo somewhere, who actually have the button. anyone in that chain of command can still say no and break the chain.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The "big red button" is a metaphor.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    bad one, since it can give you really incorrect impression, like "trump can one day wake up and press the big red button". which he can't do, because there is no such button. good metaphors try to help understand the thing they describe, this one does exactly the opposite.

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    [–] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My question for him is which country does he mean. Because I’m not sure at this point.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I live in a country where this one guy, all by himself, is allowed to just decide to murder thousands and thousands of people just because he wants to, over and over again. And, there’s no consequences, no check, no pushback, nothing that the other 300 million of us can do about it. Why do we tolerate this? Why is this just accepted as normal, even by the majority of people who disagree with him? I just cannot get over what a shit country the US is. Our government, our politics, our media, our culture, the people who live here are just endlessly awful. Will some nation, please just fucking do something about us?

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The problem is, this very very tiny portion of like minded evil people have installed themselves via politics or capitalism into untouchable roles which drive the country in any way they wish, regardless of what the majority wants. And even physical violence isn’t really a protest option as the police and military are some of the organizations they control. So the US is basically the same as China or Russia now.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    I mean there's a whole military that executes it. A bit less than half of America still wants it. It's not really one guy, it's a large part of society. It's not one against 300 million, it's 150 million against 140 million or some shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I’m not saying that he’s doing it all himself, but he’s the one deciding to do it. This latest ‘stone age’ threat is all him. You’d think that a machine as large and powerful as our military would require more than one guy’s whim to move into action. BYW, I’m not absolving everyone else of responsibility. Everyone who decides to follow the orders is culpable.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    No nukes! Somebody please stop that idiot from using nukes!!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Everyone and his dog will be getting a nuclear weapon if that happens. The future of humanity will be very bleak indeed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    What do you mean? Nukes ensure stability, do you think anyone would attack a nuclear Iran?

    Nukes mean not using them.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    John Kiriakou (ex CIA whistleblower) mentioned in an interview that Israel threatened to use a nuke in the 12 day war last June which prompted Trump to bomb Fordow and Natanz with B2 bombers.

    Zionist fanatic Sheldon Adelson advocated nuking Iran a few years ago. Zionist war criminal Ben Gvir was asked on israeli TV why they haven't used a neutron bomb on Iran yet and he grinned.

    Theres a real danger that Netanyahu uses a nuke or orders Trump to do it given the Zionists 30 year desire to destroy Iran. Trump is just a puppet.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    How many hours ago was the first threat? I feel like we keep repeating ourselves.

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