Trump says with more time, US can 'take the oil' in Iran
Source: Aljazeera
Donald Trump has suggested that the United States is looking to seize Irans oil industry, appearing to argue that more time is needed for the war.
With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE, the US president wrote in a social media post on Friday.
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Trump has been promising for weeks that the US will reopen the strait soon. One month ago, he said that US Navy ships would accompany oil ships through the strategic waterway.
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The US president appeared to double down on his call later on Friday. KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE? Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/3/trump-says-with-more-time-us-can-take-the-oil-in-iran
C_U_L8R
(49,534 posts)The criminal is gonna steal shit. Of course.
He could have said it from the start instead of all the bullshit.
Everyone knew.
Chasstev365
(8,131 posts)BootinUp
(51,645 posts)Swede
(40,086 posts)Who is gonna be safe working in this magical kingdom, Donald?
Lovie777
(23,747 posts)and the reason why the US attacked Iran.
It wasn't for the "concern" for protesters, nor the well being for the citizens of Iran.
Acquiring the rights to Iran's oil was the only objective while shithole's family is planning for resorts in Gaza and elsewhere in the ME.
bucolic_frolic
(55,840 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,175 posts). . . the same way The Dick Cheney and Halliburton seized Iraq's oil fields??? That ended well.
Norrrm
(5,596 posts)Has anyone seen the bank statements on that?
Mysterian
(6,629 posts)an even crazier psychopath in Donald Trump. And the propaganda masters made it all happen. No accountability for those who lied us into a needless and costly war. "Let's do it again," said the billionaire robber barons. "The gullible peons have been brainwashed to cheer for everything we want to do."
Javaman
(65,979 posts)Hes going to seize the oil fields on the 12th of never
sop
(19,330 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,580 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,353 posts)GiqueCee
(4,746 posts)... to hear the supposed President of the United States openly brag about usurping another country's natural resources for his own profit. But then, that's the exact same bullshit the US pulled back in 1953, when they agreed to help Britain do the same thing by deposing the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, putting him under house arrest, and installing "Shah" Reza Pahlavi and his version of Trump's personal Gestapo, ICE, the notoriously savage SAVAK.
Trump's America is rapidly turning into Putin's Russia, and Republicans are just fine with it. Fuckin' traitors.
The Manchurian Candidate 2.0 needs to be dealt with harshly.
Wonder Why
(7,235 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,580 posts)It all belongs to Dementia Donnie.
JoseBalow
(9,742 posts)When has drumpf ever done anything that isn't only about his own greedy self-enrichment?
Bayard
(30,288 posts)Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!
Aristus
(72,525 posts)paper-thin attempts at justification the B*sh administration foisted on the American people. Those poor Iraqis! We have to liberate them! They will greet us with kisses and candy and flowers and it will be World War II all over again!
And it was just a greedy oil-grab.
republianmushroom
(22,724 posts)tonekat
(2,569 posts)Not the rest of us, that's for sure.
mwmisses4289
(4,735 posts)Oil and rare earth minerals.
Greedy damn idgit, that's what he is.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,470 posts)How are we going to get the oil when it's not open Donny Shit-for-brains?
IronLionZion
(51,554 posts)The same way he got Mexico to pay for the wall
Martin68
(28,072 posts)Norrrm
(5,596 posts)He said if I voted for Hillary, there would be a crook in the WH.
Nailed it!
Hope22
(4,882 posts)Take my vote, use my tax money to steal from and kill others. This feels more and more like hell every day!
Skittles
(172,892 posts)it's fucking DEMENTED
Emile
(43,279 posts)lapfog_1
(31,981 posts)where exactly?
please explain in detail the logistics of "taking oil"... please tell me how you will take it, where you will take it, how will you store it, how you will process it into useful fuels, and then use it? Please detail the time frame that this will happen.
fucking idiot
underpants
(197,191 posts)sakabatou
(46,341 posts)Two, it was about oil and other resources. Three, possibly to score points with Putin.
Irish_Dem
(82,369 posts)Psychopath.
LilElf70
(1,643 posts)is to STEAL oil from Iran? Aren't we taught as children "not to steal". What a good example he is for the kiddies. Gee, what a president.
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