Trump Orders Iran to Be ‘Obliterated’ If It Kills Him, But Open to Meeting Its Leader

 

Trump Orders Iran to Be ‘Obliterated’ If It Kills Him, But Open to Meeting Its Leader

US President Donald Trump says he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.

“If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump says in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the US government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran. “I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”

The Justice Department announced federal charges in November that an Iranian plot to kill Trump before the presidential election had been thwarted. The department alleged Iranian officials had instructed Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. Shakeri is still at large in Iran.

Trump also says he would be willing to meet with his Iranian counterpart to try to persuade Iran to give up Tehran’s perceived efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. – The Times of Israel

Our Take:

Everything about that screenshot is Trump-a-Mania. Laugh-out-loud funny.

I've left instructions to OBLITERATE Iran... but if those homies want to meet, I'm cool with that, too.

I really feel like Trump is having fun with these narrative deployments. He is back in control of the laser pointer, and keeps making the proverbial cat slam its face into the wall.

On the subject of the Soleimani strike, remember that Trump said this about Netanyahu:

"I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down [by backing out at the last minute] — that was a very terrible thing, I must say... And then, Bibi tried to take credit for it — that was a good one — that didn't make me feel too good, but that's all right!"

Is it, though? Is it "all right?"

What did Trump say about loyalty?

Does he value it? – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry