"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for

[tblue37]

possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) 2026-03-13T00:51:08.105Z

[Lovie777]

1. Dumb.....

US is run by greedy stupid people.

[Irish_Dem]

2. It was never a legit military operation.

Just a Trump smash and grab with his own personal troops.

[UpInArms]

3. Stupid stupid stupid

You can cure ignorance, you just can’t fix stupid

[Srkdqltr]

4. Closing the Strait was the reason no other President did it.

Everyone knew not to poke that particular wasp nest.

[chouchou]

5. I understand. When my husband goes to buy 2x4 8 foot lumber at Home Depot. he....

doesn't take his truck with him. He's been extremely tired all the time..... Can't figure it out.

[Ocelot II]

6. Anybody with a basic knowledge of geography could have figured that out.

The Strait of Hormuz is Iran's most powerful weapon. You'd have to be a right moron not to see that they'd use it. But it's morons we're talking about, so...

[MLWR]

11. That excludes EVERYONE in the trump regime.

I'd bet good money that they couldn't even find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.

[SamuelTheThird]

18. What's worse?

They really are this vertiginously stupid, or this was all thought out to help putin?

[mwmisses4289]

7. The only "plan" was to attempt to keep the epstein case out of the news and grab Iran's oil.

That's it. That was the whole "plan".

[Justice matters.]

15. THIS

Ând no matter how many "suckers and losers" would be put at risk while doing so.

They. Don't. Care.

Got to protect their pedophile in chief.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. With a trillion dollar budget one would think they'd have one person with an IQ above 100.

[D_Master81]

9. So stupid

I mean that was the most likely response. I think what happened is Trump thought he would kill the Ayatollah and the people would rise up and take over and that’d be that. He probably didn’t listen to anything else because he didn’t want to. This is why it was always so dangerous to put this man back in the White House and have him surrounded by a cult. I don’t see any way out of this except to tuck tail and retreat or turning Iran into Gaza and just leveling it

[tanyev]

10. So Hegseth's gotten rid of every single competent military planner?

[JCMach1]

17. Correct answer... Hormuz literally has a whole

Cold War era strategy to keep it open. FFS they must have fired and retired anyone with any policy and planning experience.

[alwaysinasnit]

12. When hubris replaces competence, it is no surprise that you end up with a clusterf*ck.

[Uncle Joe]

13. I think they're just falling on their oversized Florsheim Shoes for *rump.

If any one of them had testified they told *rump what any 10th grader could figure out by looking at map, they would leave him exposed, because the buck stops with them, and if doesn't they're fired.

Thanks for the thread tblue

[liberalla]

14. Ooops

[SamuelAdams]

16. They're too busy trying to be entertainers to worry about planning for a war.

They are deeply unserious people. They were the class clowns in high school.

[sakabatou]

19. *facedesk*

[dalton99a]

20. But there was considerable planning in choosing a name for the clusterfuck

Operation Epic Stupidity