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Trump Wants Someone in Gaza to Please Say “Thank You” – via thenewrepublic.com
Donald Trump wants those pesky Palestinians starving to death in Gaza to thank him for something.
Everyone knows that those who are being starved to death by the U.S. backed Israel siege are just ungrateful people of a different skin color than the mostly white cement heads running the halls of Washington, which is too bad for them. Of course they should thank the mob boss…lucky they even have a mob boss looking out for them in the first place.
President Trump thinks starving Gazans should take time from their ongoing genocide to say thanks to him.
“Getting people fed right now … that’s the number one position. Because you have a lot of starving people, you have people that—you know the United States recently, just a couple weeks ago, we gave $60 million, that’s a lot of money,” Trump said on Monday, taking questions after a meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer. “No other nation gave money. I know the prime minister would have if he knew about it. And he really knows about it now ’cus we’re gonna be discussing it. But, we gave $60 million, nobody said even thank you, you know, thanks. Somebody should say ‘thank you.’ But other nations are gonna have to step up.”
Trump on Gaza: We gave 60 million. No one said thank you. Somebody should say thank you pic.twitter.com/B5LNK9SgVa
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have been either bombed, shot, beaten, or starved to death by the Israeli military for the last two years. The IDF is massacring people at aid distribution sites. And the United States has funded the vast majority of that suffering. Meanwhile, Trump wants to turn it into some beachfront resort once Israel is done razing it. No one has anything to thank him for.
And it really doesn’t matter that the $60 million given to this point, that any relief that could be bought for that $60M could not be dispersed among the starving because of the Israeli blockade. The fact that the mob boss donated $60 million of other peoples money should be cause enough to celebrate ‘winning’. And if ‘winning’ doesn’t include those who are being forced starved, well there are winners and losers in life. And if that explanation doesn’t work, I’m sure they’ll be another explanation from his Madness tomorrow. Things change quickly in the life of a mob boss.
Trump says he’s shortening the 50-day deadline for Russia to end the war in Ukraine – via apnews.com
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine, shortening a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago.
Russia fired an overnight barrage of more than 300 drones, four cruise missiles and three ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian air force said, as the Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities continued despite Trump’s pressure for it to end. U.S.-led peace efforts have also failed to gain momentum.
Trump had said on July 14 that he would implement “severe tariffs” on Russia unless a peace deal is reached by early September. On Monday, Trump said he would now give Putin 10 to 12 days, meaning he wants peace efforts to make progress by Aug. 7-9.
The plan includes possible sanctions and secondary tariffs targeting Russia’s trading partners. The formal announcement would come later Monday or on Tuesday, Trump said.
“No reason in waiting,” Trump said of the shorter timeline. “We just don’t see any progress being made.”
Putin has “got to make a deal. Too many people are dying,” Trump said during a visit to Scotland.
Funny how the ‘too many people are dying’ thing doesn’t also include U.S. involvement in all the murder and mayhem going on in the Middle East.
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