UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

[demmiblue]

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

We are a pariah state

— Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T11:11:51.243Z

[Jim__]

1. Trump, the greatest negotiator of all time!

[hatrack]

2. The best deals, like no one's ever seen before!

Big strong foreign ministers, with tears in their eyes, saying "sir".

[Botany]

5. He just said last week that all kinds of nations were calling him so they could help w/Hormus.

You don’t suppose Krasnov was lying.

[BattleRow]

26. Begging,bigly,on their knees....tearing their hair out...

[Swede]

30. Well, he's the best at making deals.

[Vinca]

3. Just wait. The moron will probably pull us out of NATO before the day is over.

[Botany]

4. But didn't Trump say just a few days ago that all kinds of nations were calling him to help w/Hormus?

America is becoming a pyrrhic nation to much of the rest of the world.

[whyzayker]

6. Looks like we need.......

……one of those “Coalitions of the Willing”cause those worked out so well.

[spanone]

7. He's DEMANDING they help...Bwahahahahahahaaaa

[OGBuzz]

23. and he's threatening everybody with "we will remember".

[hay rick]

25. Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV...

[tanyev]

8. They should announce they will send all the help they can muster AFTER Donald resigns.

Oh, that would be sweet.

[Ray Bruns]

9. Trump has named seven countries that will participate!

1. Freedonia
2.Westeros
3. Eurasia
4. Genosha
5. Themyscira
6. Wakanda
7. Pottsylavia

[WestMichRad]

12. Don't forget Eswatini!

Their royal navy is primed to help!

[TheRickles]

14. And the Duchy of Grand Fenwick

[erronis]

19. Or he just waves a sheaf of papers and says "Look at all my followers!" (Just like McCarthy's communists.)

[Aviation Pro]

21. 8. Mordor 9. Isengard

Yeah, that’s about right.

[Dr. T]

10. They will help when Dimwitted Donnie

drops all tariffs.

Just kidding, no they won't. All he's going to get from our former friends is a one-finger salute. And rightfully so.

[TexLaProgressive]

11. Pottery Barn rule "If you break in you own it"

Haven’t broken Iran but he broke the safe passage of commercial goods through the Hormuz Strait. Trumpstein owns the blocked strait.

[GiqueCee]

13. And a "PARIAH STATE"...

... is exactly what Putin wanted Trump to reduce America to, and the slimy scumbag is getting away with it because Republicans have been in on his nefarious scheme from the git-go, and refuse to do anything to rein Trump in, regardless of how outrageous his claims to unlimited power have become.
Trump is – as he has always been – an out-of-control bully, but now there are no constraints on his mindless malice; a bull in a china shop looks like a prima ballerina in comparison to his rampaging rages, and ketchup-stained walls.
Fuck the niceties of protocol; Trump ignores them, and SCOTUS lets him get away with it, so those on the Honorable Side of the Aisle had better come to terms with the irrefutable fact that even heroes have to get dirty once in a while if human decency – and America – are to survive. Trump has to be stopped, and we can tip-toe through the legalities of how we went about it after he's imprisoned and silenced. His malignant minions will be dessert.

[lark]

15. Trump wouldn't listen to the generals and was too stupid to think about any consequences.

I'd bet big his daddy, Vladdy, told him this would e a cakewalk and to go for it! And he's so greedy and demented and murderous that he was happy to oblige.

[MoseShrute]

16. Netherland should decline, but

tell him they will send thoughts and prayers

[COL Mustard]

17. We started this.

Why on Earth would we expect anyone else to help us clean it up? Other countries aren’t stupid.

[LiberalArkie]

18. We don't need no coalition. We have magats to serve there. Fearless leader just needs to get them there. I am sure they

will line up for service.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. Let the LOSER dangle

As it should be.

[Beachnutt]

24. He should call on his "Patriots"

red hat magas to battle.

[underpants]

32. (Trumpet bellows for the MAGA Navy) 🛥️

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5f3ab2a40de2043b91dbeebb/master/w_960,c_limit/Trumptilla-sinks-a-boat.jpg

[Goonch]

27. ;-{)....

[underpants]

33. 🛥️🇺🇸

[Prairie Gates]

28. Merz literally said "This war has nothing to do with NATO"

[thesquanderer]

29. S. Korea may be in the toughest spot there, because of how much they need U.S. military support.

It's tricky to bite the hand that protects you.

[underpants]

31. Next he'll call Bolivia, Rwanda, and Paraguay. No word from North Korea yet?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. MaddowBlog-After alienating allies and declaring victory, Trump 'demands' foreign help in war

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer the American president’s call for assistance. Imagine that.

So to sum up:
1. Trump alienates/insults allies
2. he launches an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy
3. he declares war “over,” dismisses need for allies’ help
4. he sees the war go sideways
5. he “demands” allies help us solve a problem he said doesn’t exist
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-16T13:42:17.264Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-alienating-allies-and-declaring-victory-trump-demands-foreign-help-in-war

During the first week of the war in Iran, multiple British news outlets reported that the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier was preparing for possible deployment to the Middle East to assist the United States and Israel. Seven days into the conflict, however, Donald Trump, who has a habit of insulting and alienating our closest allies, used his social media platform to deliver a message to leaders in the U.K.: Don’t bother.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” the American president wrote. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”...

After claiming in an NBC News interview that unnamed countries had already committed to helping secure the strait — a dubious assertion, given the circumstances and available information — the Republican “demanded” that foreign nations step up and provide the U.S. with the kind of security assistance he recently said was unnecessary.

Trump on Strait of Hormuz: "Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory ... they should help us. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-16T01:05:29.715Z

.....Indeed, the series of events seems preposterous. After spending the last year alienating U.S. allies, Trump launched an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy. He then prematurely declared victory, while simultaneously dismissing the need for international assistance, all while characterizing the Strait of Hormuz as a problem that’s already been solved.

It was at this point that the same American president, without explanation, turned on a dime and started demanding assistance from the same countries he’s insulted to address a problem he’s claimed doesn’t exist.

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer Trump’s call for help, and Australian and Chinese officials have already rejected U.S. outreach. Imagine that.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

35. I am sooo tired of winning.

[Tree Lady]

36. This is how they sink his presidency

Refuse to help him in war everyone knows shouldn't have happened in the first place.