Trump backs away from seizing Iran's oil: 'Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Yahoo Finance

Amid a day with dozens of threats and escalating rhetoric toward Iran, President Trump took a significant step back on one key issue for energy markets: a US campaign to control Iran’s oil.

“I’d like to take the oil because it’s there for the taking,” the president told reporters at the White House easter egg roll. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”

The president said multiple times on Monday that he personally wants to take the oil. “We’d make plenty of money,” he said

But the president repeatedly acknowledged that there might not be political will for such a move, which would likely require a ground operation, saying, “I just don’t think the people of the United States would really understand.”

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/article/trump-backs-away-from-seizing-irans-oil-unfortunately-the-american-people-would-like-to-see-us-come-home-201041843.html

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TACO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lovie777]

1. Seriously................

deaths and destruction which he caused.

[Justice matters.]

15. Orange war criminal thinks sending "his" suckers and losers to their deaths

for him to profit more obscenely than he already did of another country's natural resources is normal "business" for him because he "won" and all laws - international and domestic - be damn.

[BaronChocula]

2. I'm beginning to think this guy's an idiot

"Unfortunately Americans don't wanna go to war."

[lastlib]

19. Why are you "just beginning" to think that?

I would have expected you'd reach that conclusion ten years ago, at least.

Well, you're on the right track!

[Javaman]

32. this is just dawning on you? nt

[Deuxcents]

3. "Unfortunately"? I'm ok with being blamed for wanting us to stop this insanity. It's just 💰💰 to TSF

[BlueKota]

4. Those of with a functioning brain understand!

That he is a narcissistic psychopath who doesn't care who gets killed as long as he gets richer, and has obsequious toads telling him how wonderful he is.

[livetohike]

5. We understand just fine. You are a needy, greedy

narcissistic ass.

[underpants]

6. the president told reporters at the White House easter egg roll

[thought crime]

7. Sounds like Taco-time. Americans are tired of winning.

Iran may agree to a full surrender in the talks that aren't really happening.

[delisen]

8. The majority of us do not want to kill Iranians and steal from them.

The majority of us do not want to kill soldiers needlessly
The majority of us do not want to spend our resources or go into debt to wage unnecessary wars

[Tree Lady]

16. I think we should put leaders in a room and let them

Work it out and not come out until fixed. Leave the rest of us that don’t want to kill each other alone.

Tired of leaders using us for their vanity projects.

[lastlib]

20. Just put The Felon in that room by himself.......

...and don't let him out until it's fixed. (Of course, we won't TELL him when it's fixed. He can just rot in there--and THEN we'll burn the building.)

[Harker]

9. I don't understand much of what he says and does because he's insane.

Fair enough.

[Talitha]

10. He spins around like a ballerina.

[Justice matters.]

17. At least ballerinas are fit, healthy and gracious.

[Seinan Sensei]

18. He flails around like he's in a mosh pit

[Baitball Blogger]

11. "Us?" What he means is, that "unfortunately" the American people value their servicemen.

[kimbutgar]

12. I am scared as crap about what the insane demented 🍊🐖💩will do to upset the world order tomorrow!

He is frailing and there’s no guard rails to stop him. And he’s surrounded by syncopates.

[Attilatheblond]

27. The way he's doing the TACO, I wonder if maybe the Pentagon/Military purge he & the drunk did backfired

Besides some brass pointing out 'we don't want to tell people everything' it seems possible Mr The Only Limits Are MY Morality is finding out there are still some flag officers who will not follow certain orders after all.

IOW, maybe the world's biggest spoiled brat finally heard the word NO.

So he's gonna blame We The People for making him not bomb all the stuff he was so hot to blow up. But that's just face saving 101. Thinking he got schooled, spanked, and told the real facts of life regarding war and who gives the orders.

[Nasruddin]

13. We are responsible for spoiling his fun

He will punish us.

[BidenRocks]

14. YOU'RE the money grubbin' piece of shit!

Every time chump shakes a country down I feel more shame, as if that's possible.

Don't make me choose between chump and Iran. In the electronics world, we all have worked alongside Iranians, (Persians in 1980). My dentist is Iranian.

I liked them. I don't like chump!

[OGBuzz]

21. Pillaging and looting is a war crime.

In the infamous words of Marjorie Taylor Greene: "He has gone insane."

[tavernier]

22. Pretty much the only thing the vast majority of Americans would

like to see is you in an orange jumpsuit, picking up garbage along the road side.

[Grokenstein]

23. Like the schoolyard bully who just got his face slapped (again)

(between sobs) "I hear my mom calling, but if I didn't have to go home right now I'd totally kick your ass!! I WOULD SO!!"

But I'm actually relieved if he's genuinely going TACO (again). The alternative is worse. He never should have started this horseshit (again).

Speaking of horseshit, I used to hatewatch Ben Garrison's trashy cartoons on Reddit, back when he was insisting Hillary would get our boys killed in foreign wars. Curious to see if he's still nursing on piggy's mushroom cap, but not enough to feed him clicks.

[GenThePerservering]

30. His stuff is such rubbish

But it's hard to look away!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

24. It's not "there for the taking," and the excuse of Americans understanding is total BS...and he actually knows it.

He doesn't GAF what the American people "really understand."

He KNOWS from the unexpected--why, is a complete failure of leadership--response from Iran, that the oil isn't "there for the taking." We couldn't even hold Afghanistan much less Iran.

Nothing is "there for the taking."

When Marjorie Taylor Greene knows more about something than you do, you should go ahead and lie down in Kristi Noem's gravel pit....

[AverageOldGuy]

25. "Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home."

And there you have it . . . his excuse for ending his war.

[Beartracks]

26. "We'd make plenty of money" - That "we" doesn't include the American people.

It only includes the people Trump works for.

He didn't say, "The American people would make plenty of money, but the American people want our military to come home."

He didn't say, "We would make plenty of money, but we want our military to come home."

He said, "We would make plenty of money, but the American people want our military to come home."

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[NH Ethylene]

28. Somebody finally told him the war is unpopular?

Also, he is now admitting the ground troops were to pave the way for seizing the oil? All those soldiers were/are going to get slaughtered so the oil could be plundered.

There are simply no words to describe how vile this creature is.

[raccoon]

29. SInce when did he care a rat's ass what the American people want or need?

[GenThePerservering]

31. Oh, we understand nt