President declares Iran must ‘open up the Strait of Trump’
www.independent.co.uk
‘I'd love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker,’ the president said

Donald Trump has insisted Iran must “open up the Strait of Trump” and complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize in a meandering speech at the Future Investment Initiative Institute summit in Miami, Florida.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    1 day ago

    “We’re negotiating now, and it’d be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, I’m so sorry, such a terrible mistake,” Trump said.

    “The fake news will say he accidentally said — there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story,” he added.

    “If I don’t get the Nobel Prize for peace, nobody will ever get it. I didn’t get it. I’m not surprised. The person that got it was shocked — she’s a wonderful woman too, by the way,” he said.

    This is completely incongruent with reality. Trump has lived his hyper-privileged life speaking the things he wants into existence, and that privilege has now reached its limit.

    These are not the words of a sane person.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      He wants to be remembered. One thing I can guarantee if he won’t be forgotten any time soon. They’re gonna be talking about this lunacy for many decades to come.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        10·
        17 hours ago

        And then he pretended it was a mistake, and then claimed the “fake news media” would call it an accident, but that he doesn’t make accidents, and that it would be really big news if he did?

        He’s sundowning…

        • smeenz@lemmy.nz
          3·
          17 hours ago

          I’m more astonished that he admitted to making a mistake, and that he did so straight away.

          He must be realising that his brain is failing him and that he can’t fake it any more.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            6·
            17 hours ago

            I think that was deliberate. See, it wasn’t a mistake at all. He thought he was being cunning. “I can slip in calling it the strait of trump, and maybe it’ll catch on. I’ll cover for myself by pretending it was a mistake.”

            But because he’s a narcissist, he just couldn’t refrain from following that up with “but actually I don’t have accidents. The fake news mainstream media will call it an accident. But if I did have an accident it would be big news”.

            Like, his brain is so rotted it doesn’t even pick up on all those contradictions. He literally thinks he’s being clever…

            He can only acknowledge making a mistake when he thinks it’s a lie intended to deceive people about something he did on purpose… the man is twisted…

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        4·
        17 hours ago

        I’m more shocked he said “excuse me, I’m so sorry” afterwards. Are we sure that’s the real Trump?

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      17 hours ago

      I would say that’s a national embarrassment, but his entire presidency has been.

      Also, what are all these bigwig investors listening to his speech thinking?

      I hope it has a chilling effect on the economy…