Ladies and gentlemen, I did it. I surrendered to Iran. Completely. Total surrender. People said it couldn’t be done. They said, “Sir, nobody could possibly surrender this hard.” And I said, “Watch me.”

You remember Obama giving Iran $1.5 billion? Terrible deal. Weak. Very weak. Child’s play. Amateur hour. I looked at that and said, “Those are rookie numbers.”

So here’s what we did. First, we spent $300 billion of your taxpayer money blowing up Iran. Tremendous explosion, by the way. The best explosions. Nobody does explosions like us. Then, and this is where the genius comes in, we’re going to give them another $300 billion to rebuild everything we just blew up. Think about it. Nobody has ever thought of this before. Many people are saying it’s the most innovative financial disaster in history.

We’re going to rebuild their cities, rebuild their military, restart their nuclear programs, give them money for weapons, give them money for more weapons, and then probably give them some extra money just because we’re feeling generous. Their proxies are going to be thrilled. They’re calling me already. They love me over there. They really do.

People come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, “Sir, how did you manage to screw this up so magnificently?” And I tell them, “It’s a gift. Not everybody has it.”

The fake news won’t tell you this, but this was all part of a master plan. A beautiful plan. A perfect plan. Some say the greatest plan ever conceived by a human mind. The experts hate it. The generals hate it. The economists hate it. Which is how you know it’s working.

And remember, I have the absolute right to do this. Total authority. Complete authority. Everybody knows it.

The best part? I’ll probably be gone before the bill comes due. That’s the beauty of leadership. You folks get to spend the next thirty years dealing with the consequences while I ride off into the sunset. Frankly, it’s tremendous. Maybe the most tremendous collapse anybody has ever seen.

Thank you. God bless you. God bless America. And good luck. You’re going to need it.

Now folks, a lot of people are coming up to me, strong people, smart people, crying actually, saying “Sir, what about the dangerous enriched uranium situation?”

And I say there is no situation. There is only tremendous progress.

They are saying it was around a thousand pounds of weapons grade stuff. Maybe more. Maybe less. Frankly it changes depending on who is losing the argument that day.

And I looked at it and said very simply, it is dust.

Very high quality dust. The best dust. People are treating it like it is some kind of national emergency. I said no. It is already at its final form. It is perfect dust. So no need to move it. It can stay right where it is.

Now the real story, and nobody is talking about this enough, is regime change.

We had regime change.

People said it couldn’t be done. They said you need elections, you need protests, you need uprisings, chaos. They say I didn’t even do it.

But I did it without any of that.

We changed the regime and it looks almost identical.

That is the most efficient regime change ever created. Some say it is barely visible regime change. And that is why it is so powerful.

The Ayatollah, they say he is gone, dead.

I say gone is a very harsh framing. Very fake news framing.

Let’s say he has been transitioned into legacy status.

And now everyone is talking about the Strait of Hormuz.

Very important. Huge waterway. Tremendous waterway.

They say it was already open.

Wrong.

Before it was open in a weak way. A low confidence open. No energy. Nobody respected it.

Now it is open in a way that commands respect. People are afraid of how open it is.

That is improvement.

Now the money. Six hundred billion dollars. People keep bringing it up like it is a problem.

And I say no. That is not a problem. That is investment storytelling.

We did not lose six hundred billion.

We deployed six hundred billion into uncertainty reduction.

Very sophisticated concept. Very advanced.

And people are saying, “But what did America actually get?”

And I say that is the wrong question.

We got dominance without clarity.

We got victory without definition.

We got a situation where nobody can agree on reality.

And that is the strongest position in the world.

Because when everyone is confused, nobody can make problems or challenge you.

And when nobody can challenge you, you are not just winning.

You are winning in a way nobody has ever seen before.

Tremendous win. Possibly the most unrecognizable and understated win in history.

5 hours ago, Kyoto Kyle said:

Now folks, a lot of people are coming up to me, strong people, smart people, crying actually, saying “Sir, what about the dangerous enriched uranium situation?”

Since Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt is still on maternity leave he left out:

Very high quality dust. The best dust. INCREDIBLE dust.

Very important. Huge waterway. Tremendous waterway INCREDIBLE waterway.

You are winning in a way nobody has ever seen before. INCREDIBLE winning.

There is only tremendous progress. INCREDIBLE progress.

Tremendous explosion, by the way. The best explosions. Nobody does explosions like us. INCREDIBLE explosions.

Just think about it... this man wrote "The art of the deal"... How much do you think that book is worth now?

Sometimes people think someone is an idiot. If that person stays quiet, people just assume so. But once mouth opens, it proves them right. It's the same with negotiations...

7 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Just think about it... this man wrote "The art of the deal"..

Trump has cited it as one of his proudest accomplishments and his second-favorite book (after the Bible).

(Tony) Schwartz called ghost-writing the book his "greatest regret in life, without question," and both he and the book's publisher, Howard Kaminsky, have said that Trump had played no role in its writing. Trump has given conflicting accounts on the question of authorship.

Former Random House head Howard Kaminsky, the original publisher, said "Trump didn't write a postcard for us!" The book was published with the authorship given as "Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz". In 2019, Schwartz suggested that the work be "recategorized as fiction".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Deal

Edited June 20Jun 20 by JerryM

Lost among all of these other accomplishments---which is understandable, since nobody else could accomplish so much in so little time---is the fact Trump has dramatically turned around his Poll numbers. An astonishing turnaround. The best turnaround ever. Political scientists will spend the next century dissecting what only a manchild of Trump's skill (sic) and temperament could achieve.

He was loved in Israel a mere two weeks ago, especially among the hard right. Today, they hate him.

He was hated across the Moslem world, particularly among Shi'ites, like the membership of Hezbollah and Hamas. Now, they love him. Money for nothing and the (reconstruction) bricks are free!

A turnaround of epic proportions. A MAGAnificent turnaround!

Oh, and did anyone say missiles? Or nuclear material? Trump did. In fact, he has discussed both. Turned those around, too.

Back in February, Iran "could not have a nuclear program". Iran "cannot have ballistic missiles".

What a difference a day---or 113 days---makes. With the wisdom of Solomon, Trump has introduced equality into the once volatile Middle East. "It isn't fair", Trump said in Evian, that other Middle East nations can have missiles and a nuclear program, but not Iran. Iran now CAN have ballistic missiles, just as Israel has them. Iran CAN have a nuclear program, just as Israel and many of the Gulf Sheik-lets have them. Sure, the latter are for "research and medical purposes" (wink wink), but what's fair is fair. Mutually assured something...covfefe maybe...you know.

Did Barack Hussein Obama ever think of that? He barely gave the Iranians enough moolah---you like that...moolah for mullahs?---to buy villas in Dubai. Cheap. So typical of Obama, who has no clue how to grift. I mean, how could anyone spend 8 years as POTUS and NOT come out a multi billionaire. Trump did it in maybe 6 months. That's efficiency. That's the kind of skill that took Obama's growing economy and left a Recession and an explosion of debt for Biden.

Trump is gifting Iran $300 billion and change, change like another $25 billion in frozen assets. That will not only juice the Dubai property market, but also rebuild a decent Iranian navy, produce thousands more drones, and keep Iran's Hezbollah and Hamas' friends stuffed with hummous and baba ghanouj and waraq ai'nab, if you know what I mean. And hey, if Iran builds or buys a nuke---maybe from the ISI in Pakistan or Trump's loverboy Kim Jong-un--- that's just fairness writ large, MAGA fairness.

Oh ya, did you see Trump's new plane? A beauty he gets to keep---well, via his "Presidential Library" LOL. THAT is how you act Presidential. As JFK---the guy who should be willing to share marquee space on his Center---should have said, "Ask not, what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for ME".

2 hours ago, Wingate said:

Lost among all of these other accomplishments---which is understandable, since nobody else could accomplish so much in so little time---is the fact Trump has dramatically turned around his Poll numbers. An astonishing turnaround. The best turnaround ever. Political scientists will spend the next century dissecting what only a manchild of Trump's skill (sic) and temperament could achieve.

He was loved in Israel a mere two weeks ago, especially among the hard right. Today, they hate him.

He was hated across the Moslem world, particularly among Shi'ites, like the membership of Hezbollah and Hamas. Now, they love him. Money for nothing and the (reconstruction) bricks are free!

A turnaround of epic proportions. A MAGAnificent turnaround!

Oh, and did anyone say missiles? Or nuclear material? Trump did. In fact, he has discussed both. Turned those around, too.

Back in February, Iran "could not have a nuclear program". Iran "cannot have ballistic missiles".

What a difference a day---or 113 days---makes. With the wisdom of Solomon, Trump has introduced equality into the once volatile Middle East. "It isn't fair", Trump said in Evian, that other Middle East nations can have missiles and a nuclear program, but not Iran. Iran now CAN have ballistic missiles, just as Israel has them. Iran CAN have a nuclear program, just as Israel and many of the Gulf Sheik-lets have them. Sure, the latter are for "research and medical purposes" (wink wink), but what's fair is fair. Mutually assured something...covfefe maybe...you know.

Did Barack Hussein Obama ever think of that? He barely gave the Iranians enough moolah---you like that...moolah for mullahs?---to buy villas in Dubai. Cheap. So typical of Obama, who has no clue how to grift. I mean, how could anyone spend 8 years as POTUS and NOT come out a multi billionaire. Trump did it in maybe 6 months. That's efficiency. That's the kind of skill that took Obama's growing economy and left a Recession and an explosion of debt for Biden.

Trump is gifting Iran $300 billion and change, change like another $25 billion in frozen assets. That will not only juice the Dubai property market, but also rebuild a decent Iranian navy, produce thousands more drones, and keep Iran's Hezbollah and Hamas' friends stuffed with hummous and baba ghanouj and waraq ai'nab, if you know what I mean. And hey, if Iran builds or buys a nuke---maybe from the ISI in Pakistan or Trump's loverboy Kim Jong-un--- that's just fairness writ large, MAGA fairness.

Oh ya, did you see Trump's new plane? A beauty he gets to keep---well, via his "Presidential Library" LOL. THAT is how you act Presidential. As JFK---the guy who should be willing to share marquee space on his Center---should have said, "Ask not, what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for ME".

I hate corruption ! I thought Thailand was bad, but America has top the cake, as far as i am concerned, the amount of in your face corruption in America is disgraceful,

2 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

I hate corruption ! I thought Thailand was bad

Well without getting into which is worse, in Thailand it seems it's OK to advertise how much it takes to bribe a government/immigration official.