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Oh! The things a madman has on his bucket list…
Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil in Iran’
US President Donald Trump has told The Financial Times newspaper that he wants to “take the oil” in Iran and said Washington could capture the Iranian export hub on Kharg Island.
Trump compared the potential move with the US approach in Venezuela, where he noted Washington’s intention to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro in January.
“To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say, ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” he said.
“Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump told the FT. “It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while.”
When asked about the state of Iranian defense on Kharg Island, he said: “I don’t think they have any defence. We could take it very easily.” – aljazeerra.com
Dumpy isn’t sure what he wants – a petulant child never does. Just a couple of days for regime change and that didn’t work. Then he wanted the Straight of Hormuz completely open and that didn’t work. Now his ‘favorite’ thing is to take Iran’s oil. Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t belong to him. Nothing matters to this piece of shit except his own ego and pocket book.
But Dumpy is enlisting some heavy hitters to help with one of his dreams that hasn’t come true.
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Nahendra Modi had a phone call on Tuesday to discuss the war in Iran. For no apparent reason, they were joined by billionaire Elon Musk.
Musk—who is a private citizen with no present involvement in government—sat in on the discussion between the two heads of states, though it is unclear if he spoke, The New York Times reported Friday. The call was primarily to discuss Trump’s increasingly out-of-reach goal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
There is literally no rational justification for including the world’s richest man on a call between two national leaders during a global crisis.
Neither the White House nor the Indian government disclosed Musk’s presence on the call. newrepublic.com
Getting all musky again should take care of things….just like it did during his first destructive stint with Dumpy.
But the Agent of Chaos has other targets on his bucket list too.
Trump claims progress in indirect talks with Iran via Pakistan
We have more from Trump’s interview with The Financial Times.
He claimed that indirect negotiations between the US and Iran, facilitated by Pakistani “emissaries”, were ongoing and making positive progress. But he declined to offer specific details, according to the FT, when asked if a ceasefire deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be reached in the coming days.
“We’ve got about 3,000 targets left – we’ve bombed 13,000 targets – and another couple of thousand targets to go,” Trump said, adding: “A deal could be made fairly quickly”.
He also referred to his comments last week, when he said Iran had permitted 10 Pakistan-flagged oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as a “present” to the White House. He said Iran has doubled the number, and that Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, had authorised the move.
“He’s the one who authorised the ships to me,” Trump said. “Remember, I said they’re giving me a present? And everyone said, ‘What’s the present? Bullshit.’ When they heard about that, they kept their mouth shut, and the negotiations are going very well.” aljazerra.com
And this just in:
Trump say he’s ‘pretty sure’ of a deal with Iran
The US president has been speaking to reporters on board Air Force One.
He repeated some of his statements from earlier, saying direct and indirect negotiations with Iran were going “extremely well” and that the US has achieved “regime change” in Tehran.
Here are some of his comments:
Trump said “we’ve had very good negotiations today with Iran” and that Tehran was giving the US a “lot of things they should have given a long time ago”. “We’ll see how it works out. But they are very good”
- He said the US military has destroyed additional targets in Iran today, and that it was a “big day”. “We are negotiating with them directly and indirectly. We have emissaries.”
- He claimed that Iran has agreed to let up to 20 oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz as a “sign of respect” to the US.
- “I could only say that we’re doing extremely well in that negotiation. But you never know where they’re at, because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to bomb them,” he said.
- “I think, we’ll make a deal with them, pretty sure. But it is possible, we won’t.”
- “But we’ve had regime change. You look already, because, one regime was decimated, was destroyed, they’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before. It’s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change, and frankly, they’ve been very reasonable. So I think we’ve had regime change. We can’t do it much better than that.” – aljazeera.com
If you can makes sense of that bat guano….congratulations! Why would he speak such bullshit? Let’s see….it’s Sunday night. The markets open tomorrow morning?
And thank the gods that Trump and his entourage of cement heads pray to Jesus about their killings. Pounding residential targets in Tehran would be something that Jesus would want, right?
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who make war or cite God to justify their violence, as he prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square.
With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran entering its second month and Russia’s ongoing campaign in Ukraine, Leo dedicated his Palm Sunday homily to his insistence that God is the “king of peace” who rejects violence.
“Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Leo said. “He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”
Leaders on all sides of the Iran war have used religion to justify their actions. U.S. officials, especially Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, have invoked their Christian faith to cast the war as a Christian nation trying to vanquish its foes with military might. – apnews.com
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Bach, Concerto pour piano n°7 – Irina Lankova, Vahan Mardirossian, ORCW
Dispatches from the Asylum 