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Miles Archer

(23,251 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2026, 09:55 PM Sunday

SO...If you ask Trump WHY he's taking the oil in Iran ("my favorite thing"), you're apparently "stupid people."

Trump made several telling remarks Sunday in an interview with the Financial Times, revealing some of his administration’s potential war plans as it relates to Iran.

“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,” Trump told the Financial Times, the outlet reported.

Trump told the outlet that his “preference” in his administration’s war against Iran would be for the United States to “take the oil," invoking a comparison to the U.S. takeover of Venezuela’s oil industry in January when the Trump administration halted Venezuelan oil shipments to the Cuban government, and started oil shipments to Israel “for the first time in years.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676635997/

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SO...If you ask Trump WHY he's taking the oil in Iran ("my favorite thing"), you're apparently "stupid people." (Original Post) Miles Archer Sunday OP

take the oil lapfog_1 Sunday #1

Dick Cheney is jealous. He had to look for all kinds of sneaky ways to steal the oil in the ME Marie Marie Sunday #2

So he called it a "war" again (or not?) Justice matters. Yesterday #3

Here's how I see it. Miles Archer Yesterday #5

He must be selling it on the global market because he's not doing much allegorical oracle Yesterday #4

lapfog_1

(31,904 posts)

1. take the oil

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:19 PM

Sunday

is one of the most moronic things he ever says...

he complained trhat we did not "take the oil" from Iraq too.

He really just doesn't understand scale or logistics.
Take the oil with what ships? take the oil WHERE exactly?

That presumes we control the oil fields and that Iran will sit back and watch us take it.
But even if that was true, take it how and where do you put it?

Marie Marie

(11,301 posts)

2. Dick Cheney is jealous. He had to look for all kinds of sneaky ways to steal the oil in the ME

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:28 PM

Sunday

Never occurred to him that he could come right out and say and do it.

Justice matters.

(9,785 posts)

3. So he called it a "war" again (or not?)

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 02:35 AM

Yesterday

If he did, that's not a "military excursion" or do we have to wait for the transcript?

Miles Archer

(23,251 posts)

5. Here's how I see it.

Reply to Justice matters. (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:19 AM

Yesterday

1). He is WELL AWARE of the fact that he did an end run around Congress, and he's proud of it, and can't stop passively aggressively bragging about it

2). He does something that he does often...says "They tell me that if it's a war, I have to get approval, so I called it a military option"...which is his way of saying "I don't need anyone's approval for ANYTHING."

3). He only does the "we don't call it a war" thing when he's trolling, and since he trolls 7 days a week, that's why we got the back-and-forth.

allegorical oracle

(6,478 posts)

4. He must be selling it on the global market because he's not doing much

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:53 AM

Yesterday

about U.S. prices. Paid $4.99/gal. for regular gas yesterday here in Fla. for first time.

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