Trump Wants America to Trust Him on Iran

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More so than any president in the modern era, Donald Trump has made his administration a one-man spectacle. He hires and fires officials on impulse, demonstrating at every turn that the people under him are disposable and he’s the only figure who counts. Should the conflict with Iran escalate into a hot war, Trump will be the one who needs to sell Americans on the idea that it is necessary and prepare them for the sacrifice and bloodshed the nation must endure.

Yet by virtue of his own repeated misstatements and distortions, Trump arrives at this perilous moment at a decided disadvantage: He can’t assume people will accept what he says as true, because millions have concluded it never is.

Trump faces the gravest foreign-policy crisis of his tenure at a time when his credibility has been shredded. It’s not yet known how Iran will respond to the killing yesterday of its military leader Qassem Soleimani, but the country is already vowing “harsh” revenge. A conflict that has been escalating steadily on Trump’s watch is at risk of erupting into an armed confrontation. In times of war, commanders in chief need people’s trust, but for large swaths of the population, Trump hasn’t earned it. As Samantha Power, who was the ambassador to the United Nations under former President Barack Obama, tweeted this morning: “This is where having credibility—and having a president who didn’t lie about everything—would be really, really helpful.”

Independent fact-checkers have painstakingly documented Trump’s untruths. The Washington Post keeps a running tally and reports that Trump’s false and misleading claims are coming with growing frequency, now topping 15,000 since the start of his presidency. While Americans celebrated the holidays, their president used his Twitter account to share misstatements both petty and serious. In an act of spite, he suggested, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had cut his seven-second cameo from a Canadian broadcast of the movie Home Alone 2. Trump tweeted that he was the one who passed a program giving veterans the option of seeing a private doctor. And he said the Obama administration had made him the target of a “coup.” Each of those claims is false.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-wants-america-to-trust-him-on-iran/ar-BBYAzha?ocid=msn360

[C_U_L8R]

1. He's a liar.

No one trusts him. Even his idiot base.

[Stuart G]

9. Well said, "No one trusts him." That is it and that is a fact. He is a liar and a crook.

He lies about everything and anything. I knew a fellow in high school 55 years ago, and he lied about everything and anything.. One day in November he was trying to get attention and yelling, "President Kennedy has been shot, President Kennedy has been shot."
..I thought, I don't think he would lie about that, but I got to check that out with someone else..

..Trump is that fellow. But Trump is not some high school liar, he is a business man and politician who lies about everything. He still lies about everything. Many years of lying about everything. Guess What?

.............NO ONE TRUSTS HIM, NO ONE WILL EVER TRUST HIM..............

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Trump did say."I'm the only one who matters.".

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Looks like he kept that promise.

[CentralMass]

3. Absolutely not.

[RDANGELO]

4. I don't trust his intellect or his intentions.

With George W Bush, I trusted his intentions, but not his intellect. Chenney misled him.

[Wolf Frankula]

5. I wouldn't trust him with a bag of used Kitty Litter.

I know a bunch of former trumpers who now don't trust him.

Wolf

[lark]

6. 2 words - hell and no

I don't nor should I or anyone trust him on anything. Everything he says is just for that moment in time transaction, he has no inner depth, no thoughtfulness, no truth in him - none. He has done this for purely self serving reasons having everything to do with impeachment. I know he wouldn't have done this without lad's approval, but did PUtin also orchestrate this as part of his hurt the world's most powerful nation while someone helping Russia?

I want to see proof of the immanent and devastating danger to US Citizens that was worth starting a war where untold thousands or even hundreds of thousands could be killed? Was it anything at all other than wagging the dog?

[shanti]

7. Why, WHY

should we trust him for any fucking thing?? I do the opposite!

[Jamastiene]

8. That is not happening. n/t

[Skittles]

10. trust a lying, pussy-grabbing, Putin-loving, fascist dictator-wannabe piece of shit

what could possibly go wrong?

[Stuart G]

11. I like these words... "... his credibility has been shredded" And that is a solid fact.

...Who trusts him? NO ONE oh, and one more important point....................

....Donald Trump shredded his own credibility by his constant lies and his attitude about lying, Also, Donald Trump never, never, and never apologizes for those lies or his mistakes

...What do you do when you make a mistake that insults or hurts someone?...You apologize.. Trump never apologizes for anything.

...So he doesn't do the normal and correct thing when you make a mistake..Say, "I'm sorry."
And acting like he is above the rest of us who know what to do and say, he destroys his own credibility He has ..NO CREDABILITY....none, NADA, nothing, ZERO, empty, flushed away, lost, gone forever, not coming back. NO WAY. etc, etc, etc.