A bellicose lunatic is tweeting - threatening all-out war if a single American is harmed

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Replying to @realDonaldTrump
....hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have.....

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!

5:52 PM - Jan 4, 2020

[BigmanPigman]

1. Ha! I was in the kitchen and I heard this on TV.

So the fucking moron is going back to 1979 for reasons to choose 52 targets?!?

Malcolm Nance is now saying that the US will need a lot more than only 52 targets. The number of US people we have over there in govt positions is enormous and all are possible targets.

[Botany]

2. Trump wants to use a nuke.

I might be wrong but Trump is way off into the lead of "nuttier than a squrriel turd."
His impeachment and all his crimes about to be exposed is pushing him over the edge.

[Miles Archer]

5. There was the whole "If we HAVE them, why can't we USE them" thing

I'm too lazy right now to Google it and post it here, but DU regulars will remember that one clearly.

[dewsgirl]

7. I remember and Joe and Mika bring it up often.😳

[malaise]

3. 290 passengers most of them Iranian were killed

here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Bet Don the Con knows nothing about this including the reparations paid by the US

[C_U_L8R]

4. The crazy is strong tonight.

The USA wants no more threats... it says with 52 threats. What a despicable warclown.

[Karadeniz]

6. Suave. Civilized. Sensitive. Aren't we proud?

[PSPS]

8. Twitter will be the death of us all

[smirkymonkey]

9. +1000

He is a complete, fucking disaster. He needs to be removed NOW!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

27. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

[Guilded Lilly]

35. Yes. NOW.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Tend to believe what

Malcolm Nance says. He was the Chief Intel go to guy for Iraq and that region for a couple of decades. Also understand he is versed in the Persian language as well a every person in the Chain of Command in Iran.

So when he speaks,we had better listen. BTW,he has been keeping all the Dem Candidates up to speed on issues in the Mid East and Russia.

[dewsgirl]

12. His tweets are scary as hell in the last couple of days.😳

[Wellstone ruled]

25. He has been screaming about what just happened for years

and how Putin has compromised our Country. Just noticed the story of the leaked e-mails out of Cambridge Analytica,we now are able to see first hand how the Mercer's and Bannon as well as Theil have been the go to Guy's with the Russian Propaganda Machine.

[dewsgirl]

11. Jesus Christ he needs that phone taken from him.. NOW

He is making things much worse.😳

[Kali]

13. how long before a high muckety muck in Iran flatters the asshole and suddenly

he has a new brutal strongman BFF?

[dweller]

14. it's tranquilizer dart time

i recommend rabid rino dose

this is not funny anymore ☹️

✌🏼

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[onecaliberal]

15. My god someone take the phone for fucks sake.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

28. TWITTER -- IF YOU'RE LISTENING

PLEASE BLOCK HIS ACCOUNT.

We have NO idea the damage that his tweets are causing. If you care about this country at all, BLOCK HIS FUCKING ACCOUNT. The part YOU are playing in this WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.

NOW.

[dewsgirl]

31. +10000! He is a huge danger to us al'll.😡

[onecaliberal]

36. SO MUCH THAT.

[OliverQ]

16. Just to point out here,

Trump is threatening to attack Iranian cultural and historic sites. That is a violation of the Geneva Convention and is a serious war crime. Trump needs to be taken to the Hague for trial.

[2naSalit]

19. +1

[LuvNewcastle]

30. Attacking historical and cultural sites is a strike on all people.

We as humans should be able to agree at least that we won't destroy our shared heritage while we fight. That's as bad as the people in ISIS who were blowing up cultural artifacts such as statues because they violated the Koran. The civilized world should stand against anyone who chooses to do such things.

[Calculating]

32. This

Of course nobody is gonna do anything though, the Republicans are all complicit and looking the other way because they like political power.

[Crunchy Frog]

33. Pretty sure that international laws and norms don't even exist in his "mind".

And there's nobody who could make him follow them.

He's a rogue bull in a china shop.

[XRubicon]

20. This is his red line

Iran will retaliate.

Shitbird's hand will be forced because he's twitter tough guy and can't shut the fuck up.

[Strelnikov_]

21. And people thought Nicky and Franz were historically incompetent . . . n/t

[lpbk2713]

22. He's banking on jingoism to steal another term.

He will try every dirty trick in the book.

[moondust]

23. How long

before Bolton or a fellow lunatic or just somebody open to a bribe lobs a rocket into a U.S. facility in the region and kills somebody, allowing Dumpy the Clown to blame Iran and push the button?

[Xolodno]

24. Basically, daring Iran to retaliate.

The best bet was silence and hoped others would calm Iran's leaders and just take out an electric grid for an hour. Nope, he has to rub their nose in it.

That's the problem, he doesn't know how to be diplomatic, he just uses threats and name calling to get what he wants....because its always worked for him. He doesn't realize Iran can go tit for tat for a long while....and we just look worse.

He's probably tweeting now because he's panicking. It's finally setting in what they can do...and the ball is in their court and have time on their side.

[at140]

26. Trump says U.S. would hit 52 Iranian sites if American targets attacked

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-u-hit-52-232633459.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

Showing no signs of seeking to reduce tensions raised by the strike on Friday that he ordered, the U.S. president issued a stern threat to Iran on Twitter.

Trump wrote that Iran "is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets" in response to Soleimani's death. Trump said the United States has "targeted 52 Iranian sites" and that some were "at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD."

"The USA wants no more threats!" Trump said, adding that the 52 targets represented the 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran after being seized at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Trump's suggestion that the United States could strike targets of importance to Iranian culture raised eyebrows.

So...............the orange anus wants to play chicken with Iran?

[lunasun]

29. The whole #52 thing imo appeals to his voters that like jargon like that- sadly +40% of

voters will cheer on all the bloody crazy trump is bringing on with threats

[at140]

34. Certainly he is trying to goad the Iranians into confrontation

Looks like Trump is worried about the impeachment trial coming up, and will do anything to distract, delay, obfuscate.

[CentralMass]

37. A catastrophe of his own making

[Sewa]

38. Is this like the threat he made to Turkey

if they harmed any Kurds?

[bullwinkle428]

39. In his eyes, "a single American" equals "any Trump property".

[doc03]

40. His lunatic supporters are eating this up. One of them

said this morning that Obama didn't have the guts to take him out. They are itching for him to nuke Iran.

[dflprincess]

41. It's time for the Joint Chiefs to stand up and say "No".

No member of the military is required to follow an illegal order and that's what targeting historical and cultural sites would be.

[Bayard]

42. Agreed

We thought he was bad before, but this is sheer insanity. He is the threat to national security.

He MUST be put in a straight jacket!

[PunkinPi]

43. I'm old enough to remember when one former presidential candidate called on Twitter to...

shut down his account and was mocked and scoffed at....

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Kamala was out here saying what needed to be said, but ya’ll didn’t want to listen.