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Miles Archer

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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." [View all]

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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