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DallasNE

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14. What Are Trump's Generals Telling Him

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2026, 10:16 PM

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I presume they told him that the bluff will not work - that China will run the blockaid.Then what? Trump continues to operate like a 5th grader playing the game of Battleship—total embarrassment. Get him out of there before he screws up so badly that the response will be catastrophic.

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