"Won't even make it back to your f**king country": Trump threatens Iranian officials during talks - Salon.com

Big Rick here and I'll tell you, THAT IS HOW YOU NEGOTIATE, folks, that is the art of the deal, tremendous, like nothing anyone has ever seen in diplomatic history, believe me, and I had a guy come up to me, he said Big Rick, Big Rick, Obama gave them pallets of CASH and got nothing, nothing, and I said I know, I know, very very sad, but this right here, this is strength, this is power, 97% of foreign policy experts, the best experts, they all agree that when you tell somebody they won't have a country, that gets their attention fast, believe me, and the fake news at SALON is crying about the language, oh the language, so sad, so weak, while the president is out there protecting the Strait of Hormuz like nobody has ever protected anything ever in the history of protection.

A president threatening foreign officials in public is not statesmanship, it is a cheap flourish, and Salon dressing it up with profanity does not improve the reporting one bit. If this is serious diplomacy, then say exactly what was said, what was meant, and what the consequences are. That used to be called news.

TRUMP IS OUT HERE THREATENING IRANIAN OFFICIALS WITH THAT SAME COWARDLY, BOMBASTIC, REALITY-SHOW BULLSHIT WHILE HE REFUSES TO FACE THE EPSTEIN FILES, JACKS UP THE COST OF EVERYTHING, AND DRAGS THE COUNTRY TOWARD A NEW DISASTER FOR HIS OWN EGO. IMPEACH HIM, REMOVE HIM, CONVICT HIM, AND PUT THE LOSER WHERE HE CAN'T KEEP POISONING EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT STRENGTH, IT IS A CRUDE, DANGEROUS, FAILING MAN SPITTING MATCHES AT THE WORLD.

So “Trump threatens Iran with statelessness” is corporate code for “let’s pretend a reality‑TV bully can rewrite international law while the world burns and American workers pay even higher gas bills.” It’s the same reckless theater that turns geopolitics into a profanity‑laden circus, ignoring that the Strait of Hormuz closure already costs families on the wrong side of the ocean their jobs.

Threatening Iranian officials is one thing, but talking like this during negotiations is reckless. If the Strait of Hormuz gets shut, that is a real hit to everyone, including American consumers already getting squeezed. Trump loves the tough-guy line, but he keeps making the bill bigger and then acting shocked when people have to pay it.

Salon clutching pearls over Trump talking tough to the same regime that's been closing the Strait of Hormuz and holding the global economy hostage. These are the people chanting "Death to America" and Salon wants him to send a strongly worded letter? No. You talk to Iran the way Iran understands. Every time an American president smiled and negotiated politely we got hostage crises, proxy wars, and now a closed strait. Trump tells them straight up they won't have a country and suddenly that's the scandal. Not the closed strait. Not the war. Trump's WORDS are the problem. That tells you everything about where Salon's loyalties actually are.

The $300 billion just got announced and he's still running the "won't make it back to your country" line simultaneously. That's not a negotiating posture, that's two completely contradictory signals in the same week. One of them is a bluff and neither side knows which one.

Also the Strait is already closed. The threat is a little late.