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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Iran may be serious....Trump family shown with coffins on chilling Iran billboard
A billboard unveiled in central Tehran shows portraits of Donald Trump and his family above coffins draped in the Stars and Stripes.
The image in Palestine Square, with the White House as a backdrop, is the most personal in a series of state-produced murals threatening the US president, as the war between the US and Iran escalates.
The mural carries the slogan "Blood for Blood" and directly threatens Mr Trump's family with revenge for attacks that have wiped out senior members of Iran's leadership and their families.
Another display that appeared recently, in Enghelab Square, depicts Mr Trump lying in an open black coffin, eyes closed and hair dishevelled, beneath the words "We kill Trump" in Persian and English.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/trump-family-shown-coffins-chilling-185847983.html
QueerDuck
(2,583 posts)Emile
(44,420 posts)ok_cpu
(2,257 posts)And that the thought that making people believe Iran may have assassinated a sitting senator and wants to do the same to the sitting president is a great way to prop up an unpopular war. They've made everything a possible conspiracy.
twodogsbarking
(20,182 posts)Response to 634-5789 (Original post)
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malaise
(300,342 posts)kill its leaders and thousands of others including 160+ little girls- what do you expect- a welcome mat?
Seems perfectly rational to me.
Swede
(40,671 posts)Intractable
(2,686 posts)We killed their leader, ya know?
Of course, they would take out Trump if they could.
paleotn
(23,307 posts)Assassinated leaders can easily become martyrs and rallying points for a people who may not have been totally sold on the conflict to begin with. It's a gross national insult and many will demand its redress. And the replacement may be far more bellicose than the one eliminated. They certainly will have reason to be.
In this case, that's strategically the worst option for both sides. Killing Ali Khamenei was a strategic blunder by Trump. He was relatively moderate compared to his replacement and the IRGC. On the flip side, can you imagine how most Americans would feel about a foreign power assassinating a sitting US president no matter who it is? That may very well put US boots on the ground in Iran, to the ruin of us all.
No. I want Donnie to leave the White House in disgrace. Either horizontally or vertically. Do not make him a martyr for anyone.
yardwork
(70,418 posts)It's just one example of why it is so dangerous to allow a person with Trump's deficits to become president.
Trump is not rational. Giving him the power of the presidency - especially when he's got a Republican controlled Congress and Supreme Court- created an existential crisis for the U.S.
Kamala Harris warned us of exactly this, but too many voters thought it would be fun to reelect Trump and burn it all down, especially since "that woman" didn't say exactly what they wanted her to say about Gaza.
paleotn
(23,307 posts)And we're getting exactly what many of us feared. A lot of us hated Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly, etc. in the first term, but they are what kept us from the brink. We don't have those guard rails anymore.
My point is, Tehran isn't going to assassinate US political figures. That's strategically stupid. Saddam Hussain stupid. This is propaganda to aid the Iranians living in Trump's empty head rent free.
yardwork
(70,418 posts)Political assassinations almost always make things worse.
But it's infuriating to be in this position. We, the United States of America, are dependent on another nation being wiser than our elected leaders.
malaise
(300,342 posts)Iranians to show up for the funeral week.
9 million.
Intractable
(2,686 posts)... the odds go up.
Dr. T
(909 posts)from a brutal regime.
Now it's the Iranians who are plotting to liberate the American people from a brutal regime.
KS Toronado
(24,457 posts)
yardwork
(70,418 posts)The other offspring are on a tier below.
Very clever psychology.
Figarosmom
(15,367 posts)Would not be dancing in the streets. I'd hate for them to kill him and he becomes some sort of hero or something. They'd make a yearly remembrance day or something.
NJCher
(43,946 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Psychologists, according to Dr. John Gartner, who was interviewed by Dean O.in the last few days. The reason for consulting them is that trumps frontotemporal dementia has progressed to the point where they thought they needed professional advice on how such a person in a leadership position might behave.
Iirc, personal death threats to him and his family are one tactic that gets through to him.
I checked whether Rhiannon had posted it yet but didnt see it. He updates by taking the viewer through clips and identifying the symptom that trump is displaying.
Im on my iPad and will post the link here later when I am on my computer.
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On edit: The Iranians also put out a new trump bobble head cartoon. I havent seen it yet. Noticed it on YouTube last night.
Thanks KS Toronado, for posting the visual so we can all see what were talking about.
paleotn
(23,307 posts)The Iranian regime is more than smart enough to know that actually doing that would be perhaps the worst possible option. A strategic blunder that would kick this thing into an uncontrolled, escalation spiral we'd all regret. If we live to regret it. It would put US boots on the ground and subject Iran to the full might of the US military. Not the pin prick shit we've seen so far. Where that would lead is anyone's guess. They don't want to ever go there and neither do we.
From our side, never, ever advocate for anything that could make Trump a martyr. Assassination by a foreign power would do exactly that. He needs to leave in disgrace. Either vertically, or horizontally by natural causes.
yardwork
(70,418 posts)We're counting on a religious dictatorship to show more discretion and restraint than the party we gave total power to in the U.S.
Thousands of innocent men, women and children dead.
paleotn
(23,307 posts)So yes, in comparison, this is but a warm up of what could happen. Perspective, grasshopper.
the_liberal_grandpa
(361 posts)That tells me they are serious.
yardwork
(70,418 posts)Trump has lived his life immune to a lot of realities. Daddy paid for private schools, "tutors" to take the tests and write the papers, doctors to write draft deferment letters, etc. Then Putin stepped in to rescue 1980s Trump from his financial and legal troubles. The guy was facing prison but billionaires made sure he was elected to the White House again, where the SCOTUS decided he has supreme power. Dude has never faced any consequences for his criminal behavior.
With Iran he may have gone too far. They are deadly serious.
barbtries
(31,406 posts)their ability to get next to him is another story.
every day he keeps pushing this absurdly stupid war grows another several thousand terrorists, and not just in Iran.
Azathoth1
(7 posts)We're used to unintentionally cartoonish Saddam Hussein-like bluster and ranting about "the mother of all battles" and things like that.
But this is deliberate psychological warfare. They know their enemy's leader is mentally ill and almost certainly in the middle stages of dementia, and that calculated images like this will accelerate his cognitive spiral.
republianmushroom
(23,068 posts)no longer President. He will have reduced protection and they can wait. Their revenge can take a while but I believe it will happen.
milestogo
(23,503 posts)sop
(20,259 posts)malaise
(300,342 posts)We all just want to celebrate the announcement.
mike_c
(37,242 posts)Thank you.