Trump: “the people of Iran will just have to rise up!”
Oh wow. Thanks, man, but there is also the idea that the United States is going to someone help this process along. Right? OK: So, how are “we” (US?) going to save Iran again? Can you all run that one by me—? once again—? I want to understand.
President Trump got asked something. What, in this present US attack and decapitation of the leadership, would be the the “worst case” or worst outcome. The reply to that was that the worst possible thing would be if the new leader - that means the guy who gets into power now that we killed the other one who is yesterday’s news) is “just as repressive.” Oh, so Trump is now against repression? That would be just terrible. Except it happens all the time under DJT, right? If it is undocumented immigrants, go for it. Even for the ones who did no terrible thing like a felony crime, or even the ones who have a green card. Them you can repress because DJT said to. That is “repression” doh…… So is the president actually opposed to it? Nope. Trump is not at all against repression. He uses it every day. Nor is Trump actually for that matter in favor of liberation. Nope. He actually stops at the very act of intoning the waerds! Fantastic. He likes words.
In our standard cultural language practice we make it difficult to use the word “regulation.” Economists are not in favor of this. That is a mistake, in my view, because checks and balances need to apply.
Anyone who thinks he has been called on to kill an ethnic group (e.g. Persians) is essentially a poorly-regulated person. I do not think that Trump knows what the world “liberation” means.
Trump prefers the phrase, Dept. of War. And Trump likes the world “peace” at times. “Board of Peace” seems to have an appeal. Trump often likes particular phrases (ie, when you add two words together): Liberation Day
He wishes to be “the biggest,” and to be Great. Yet he never requires the opinion of anyone else. It is he, himself who is biggest — or should be rightfully if all is well in the universe. Whatever it is he likes, we had better just accept it.
“Liberation” is a good word, for him. For whom? No one, except (by implication or implicative if I used such words…) the great “self” figure: Me, myself, and I.
Here is a link for Trump’s notion of “the people rising up,” that does not work as an article to read but you can get the gist from the title alone so who cares, right?
euters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-iranians-should-rise-up-against-government-if-ceasefire-declared-2026-04-06/
Or: “you go even back to January and you think about what the president was saying about the Iranian people, right—this was to help them overthrow the regime.” [The Atlantic (if I did not give the exact reference, that means “don’t bother”)]