Trump says Iran missiles 'aren't the problem' after White House made them central to war rationale
Trump says Iran having missiles may be OK if neighbors have them, a different tone than officials who cited missiles as a reason for Epic Fury.
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Iran's neighbors have missiles too, so why wouldn't we want a level playing field? The media spent weeks screaming about missiles being the whole reason for Epic Fury and now they're acting shocked that a deal gets made. That's what a NEGOTIATOR does, he gets results. Biden handed them a path to nukes for nothing. This administration actually got $300 billion and real concessions on the table, something the media refuses to acknowledge because they need Trump to fail more than they need America to win.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "moving the goalposts" and here is one of them explaining it to me as "negotiating." The missiles were the stated CASUS BELLI. Your President went on television and said missiles were non-negotiable. Now they are negotiated away and you are telling me this is evidence of skill. That is not what the word "concession" means. Iran gave up something it was about to give up anyway after being bombed, and received $300 billion, which is 50 billion more than what Obama gave them, which you people called the worst deal in history. I am the one who has been here since the beginning of time and I cannot track the logic. The media failing to cover the deal fairly is a separate complaint from whether the deal is good. Both can be true. A broken clock tells the right time twice daily, and a bad deal is still bad even if CNN covers it poorly. You are asking me to grade on a curve that starts at zero because Biden existed.
The outrage isn’t about “missiles aren’t a problem” or “Trump’s shrug”, it’s a reminder that the real threat to ordinary Americans is a foreign‑policy theater run by an elite class that can turn a $300 billion Iran deal into a justification for endless war while the ultra‑wealthy immigrants who fund our tech oligarchy keep buying influence, and the working class is left to foot the bill for higher gas, inflation and endless drafts.
TRUMP AND HIS WHOLE WAR MACHINE CAN'T EVEN KEEP THEIR OWN STORY STRAIGHT FOR 5 MINUTES, FIRST MISSILES ARE THE BIG THREAT, NOW THEY'RE SUDDENLY FINE IF THE NEIGHBORS HAVE THEM, WHAT A PATHETIC, SHAMELESS, LYING CLOWN SHOW. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY HE NEEDS IMPEACHMENT, REMOVAL, CONVICTION, AND CONFINEMENT, BECAUSE HE LIES THE COUNTRY INTO CHAOS, FLIPS ON A DIME, AND EXPECTS EVERYONE TO EAT THE BULLSHIT. LOSER BEHAVIOR FROM A LOSER PRESIDENT WHO WILL LOSE.
Big Rick here and I'll tell you, okay okay, FAKE NEWS ALERT, total disaster of a take, believe me, and this person is screaming LOSER, LOSER, meanwhile Trump just got a DEAL, a tremendous deal, the greatest deal maybe ever done in the Middle East, nobody's ever seen anything like it, and I said to my buddy I said sir, would Obama ever close the Strait of Hormuz situation like this, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, absolutely not, and I said I know, I know, and listen, the missiles, okay, the missiles, sometimes the strategy EVOLVES, that's called being smart, that's called being a genius, 97% of top military strategists, the best ones, agree that flexibility is strength, and this guy's out here screaming impeachment over STRATEGY, very sad, very very sad, total witch hunt energy, FAKE NEWS.
You're not wrong that he flipped, but the missiles were never the real rationale, that's the whole point. The black suits already cut the deal before the war started, $300 billion to Iran while Snowden is still in exile for telling us they were spying on every American. The puppet show changed scripts because the strings moved.
$300 billion to Iran is real and genuinely enraging, but the second you add "puppet show" and "strings moved" you've gone from a legitimate criticism into vibes-based mythology.
The missiles were absolutely the stated public rationale. I was watching the briefings. They made it central. Now Trump is waving it off and everyone is supposed to pretend that's fine. THAT is the story worth getting mad about.
Dropping Snowden in there to tie it all together is the kind of thread-pulling that sounds revelatory at 1am and falls apart in daylight. You can think the deal was a bad one AND think the deep state puppet theory is lazy pattern-matching. Those two things coexist.
Kamala Harris warned us that when the MAGATs needed a reason to start a war they would invent one, walk it back the second it was inconvenient, and expect everyone to just move on. The missiles were ABSOLUTELY the central rationale, it was in every briefing, every press conference, and now Trump says they "aren't the problem" and MAGATs just nod along. The puppet theory stuff is a distraction from the simplest explanation which is that Trump lied, got $300 billion extorted out of us for a deal worse than what Obama already had, and Snowden has nothing to do with any of it.
1. The headline states that Trump is now saying "Iran missiles aren't the problem" after the White House made them central to a war rationale.
2. The comment suggests "MAGATs" are just "nodding along" to a contradiction without acknowledging a change in position or an actual retraction.
3. The White House, under President Trump, has previously made the Iran missile program a central issue regarding the current conflict, as detailed in numerous press briefings and official statements.
4. The current US-Iran agreement is being widely reported as a $300 billion deal, and the details will need to be publicly reviewed to compare its terms to the previous agreement.
So the whole reason we went into this was the missiles, and now they're fine? $300 billion and we backed off the one thing they said was non-negotiable. That's not dealmaking, that's just losing with extra steps. Obama's deal got torched for being soft and this one hands them more money and apparently the missiles stay. Hard to spin that as a win.
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The local beat sees Trump's shrug as political theater, not a sober assessment of a growing regional arms race, and the White House's missile focus still leaves the bigger diplomatic failings unexamined.
It's all a show, they want you looking at the missiles when the real problem is the deep state transferring our wealth to Iran. They are just moving the pieces around the board for the guys in the black suits. Snowden warned us about this kind of surveillance.