Trump: "We increased Orders with the largest Defense Manufacturing Companies..."

[Miles Archer]

So, those companies and the people who own stock in them are the ones who are profiting from this, and it all flows back to Trump.

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
Trump: "We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest Defense Manufacturing Companies ... We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in VZ. Regardless, however, we also increased Orders."

Trump: "We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest Defense Manufacturing Companies ... We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in VZ. Regardless, however, we also increased Orders."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-06T20:48:49.763Z

[Blues Heron]

1. Healthcare not bombs

get your priorities right Epstein-boy

[Vinca]

2. Ka-ching, ka-ching. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now back to counting my money.

[Timeflyer]

3. No money for healthcare--unlimited money for WAR (to distract from Epstein).

[Lovie777]

4. shithole claims he wants to.........

completely annihilate the country of Iran, lives be damn.

[GusBob]

5. Wait, building new plants? How long will that take? Why again?

Forever wars

[Igel]

6. Lots of reasons.

Some go back a few years, with all the PR about how we were selling old stock to Ukraine and we'd be sure to put the billions of $s into ordering a ton more munitions to replace them--Patriot missiles, THAAD munitions, artillery, etc., etc.

Except that barely happened. Even in Britain the huge upsurge in munitions production still has barely started, what with environmental impact studies, regulations, etc., etc. Then again, it's only been 4 years and you know, nothing fast happens during war.

But the not-so-old PR about replacing aging munitions reflected the fact that the peace dividend meant we didn't replace munitions as they aged. And the ageing never stops. So there.

Then there's the need to replace those munitions lost during combat in Syria, let's say, fighting ISIS, or even in Afghanistan. Some were replaced but slowly.

Then there's the much greater (no, not really ... ) drawdown of munitions under the current operation. Or the drawdown last summer, perhaps.

But a lot of people only can think there's only ever possibly one reason for anything.

[GusBob]

7. OK , I guess. But these munitions, is there more than one reason for them?

Seems like they are meant primarily to kill people in wars

Secondary reason is to make the masters of war wealthy. Trump made that perfectly clear

[C_U_L8R]

8. A president who isn't a complete moron

would have made those plans in advance of starting a freaking war.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Such accomplishments!

All from other people’s money.

[Norbert]

10. He is a complete idiot

You can't quadruple production in the defense industry. The parts and assemblies goes through numerous quality inspections before they exit as finished goods. If not, you risk failure and death in the field, in this case, in a war zone. You can only ramp up production so much.

This isn't like Lucy and Ethyl with the chocolates, dumbass.

[spanone]

11. Fucking warmongers...for no reason at all.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. US troops in Iran racing against the clock before running out of ammo: report

U.S. troops in Iran are staring down a difficult situation in the wake of strikes that killed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report.

U.S. troops in Iran are staring down a difficult situation in the wake of strikes that killed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-02T03:00:14.654Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2675514870

U.S. troops in Iran are staring down a difficult situation in the wake of strikes that killed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that U.S. troops are racing to destroy Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities before they run out of interceptors to defend from Iranian retaliatory strikes. The exact size of the military's ammunition base is classified, but analysts and former officials who spoke to The Journal said the stockpile has been diminished after repeated conflicts in the region.

At the same time, military troops are working to fend off a series of retaliatory strikes from the Iranians. U.S. Central Command said on Saturday that they mounted a "largely successful defense against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks," according to the report.

“One of the challenges is you can deplete these really quickly,” Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, told The Journal. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.”

Troops are also running low on sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles and aircraft-launched weapons following the operation last year to take out Yemen-based Houthi militants, according to the report.

“Eventually it boils down to numbers,” Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told The Journal. “How many interceptors will we have versus how many launchers will they be able to field and fire.”

[Hugin]

13. It's also an attempt by Trump to shift the blame...

“We… We… We… made the orders. It’s the contractor’s fault for not instantly pulling the widgets out of their asses.”