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highplainsdem

(62,290 posts)
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 01:56 PM Sunday

Trump told ABC's Rachel Scott "we're blowing up the whole country" with "very little" off the table if there's no deal

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-doubles-down-iran-threat-164902420.html

Mediaite via Yahoo News, with Rachel Scott's tweet about what Trump said included.

“Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with ‘very little’ off the table,” Scott wrote.

“‘If happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country,’ he said. I asked if there’s anything off limits. ‘Very little,’ he said.”
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Trump told ABC's Rachel Scott "we're blowing up the whole country" with "very little" off the table if there's no deal (Original Post) highplainsdem Sunday OP
Ok and then what? Renew Deal Sunday #1
Any witnesses to this conversation Bluestocking Sunday #2
For all we know Scott FalloutShelter Sunday #3

Bluestocking

(660 posts)
2. Any witnesses to this conversation
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 02:05 PM
Sunday

Perhaps he was talking to her from his hospital bed. Strange for President to be absent from public on Easter

FalloutShelter

(14,492 posts)
3. For all we know Scott
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 02:10 PM
Sunday

Could have been talking to AI.
The truth is we don’t know anything right now.

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