'I call the shots:' Trump says Netanyahu will have 'no choice' but to accept whatever deal US makes with Iran

[highplainsdem]

Source: i24 News Israel

US President Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have "no choice" but to accept any nuclear agreement negotiated between Washington and Tehran.

"He won't have any choice," Trump told the Financial Times in a telephone interview. "I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn't call the shots."

In the same interview, Trump suggested that military options remain on the table if diplomatic efforts with Tehran collapse. Asked what he would do if negotiations failed "on their merits," the US president said he would consider a US commando operation. Yet, Trump also emphasized that the strikes had not diminished his determination to pursue a negotiated agreement with Tehran.

Trump's remarks came shortly after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward Israel in what has been described as the most serious violation of the ceasefire reached in early April, sharply escalating tensions across the region.

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Read more: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-i-call-the-shots-trump-says-netanyahu-will-have-no-choice-but-to-accept-whatever-deal-us-makes-with-iran

[Lovie777]

1. Bibi is not listening................

[Karasu]

43. Yep. I wonder why. Such a mystery.

[Grins]

64. Because there are options.

Trump claimed “I have all the cards” with Iran.
Turns out he didn’t.
Bibi has “cards” but the sadistic narcissist is too stupid to understand it.

If he had a competent staff they would have told him.

If he was a competent Pres. he would have listened to him.

Neither of those exist.

[johnnyfins]

2. JFC. Could TSF be more full of shit?

If you have to SAY that you call the shots, you ain't callin no shots. The only shots he is calling are the ones he is letting the doctors give him that are barely keeping him alive. Let alone awake...

[IbogaProject]

38. Neither of those PedoProtectors is calling the shots

Iran has to agree to any "Deal" and they aren't even negotiating as they seem to be calling our bluff and waiting until the large oil shortage actually gets priced into the markets. That hasn't happened so far, the world is receiving about 10-15% less oil per day than before this misadventure. I will say I think the world's total oil use has now peaked and will begin it's slow decline. The western capital markets require endless growth and this will be a big mess as it unravels.

[Jack Valentino]

46. His message to Netty-bahoo was quite correct, for a change---

whether his orders will be is another question altogether,
but Israeli politicians should never be "calling the shots"
on American policies--- and he got THAT right---

It is so rare that he gets anything 'right', but he did that time

[Moostache]

60. My thoughts ran immediately to two famous scenes...

First - Game of Thrones:

Second - President Fredo (from The Godfather Part II):
I cannot think of a more apt description of him than President Fredo at this point.
Too bad there is no Michael in the GOP or Congress right now...

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. Until Bibi shows orange ass face his copy of the EpsFiles.

Ugly windbag.

[hlthe2b]

4. As much as I detest the orange blob & believe nothing he says, I still do love to

see Bibi slapped down--even if it is merely performative.

When did Bibi Netanyahu--the immensely corrupt Israeli PM--and as such our primary beneficiary--get to call all the shots? Shows how weak the entire world, but Netanyahu especially--believe Trump to be.

[Polybius]

21. Same here

This is the most he's ever been disrespected by a US President.

[Jack Valentino]

47. and President Biden should have done it, over the GAZA genocide....

but Trump's reasons are all about being 'the biggest pig on the block'...

He sent the right message, but for the wrong reasons...

[Renew Deal]

5. And with that, Israel bombs Beirut

Seems like someone is trying to prove a point

[OrangeJoe]

63. Not the first time

In March 2010 when Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel the Israeli Interior Ministry announced the approval of 1,600 new housing units for the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem. Unfortunately Israel has been pulling off this crap for a long time. Until we get rid of the Citizens United ruling and stop the practice of bundling large donations and allowing unnamed shadow organizations from buying elections it will continue.

[Johonny]

6. Bibi knows Trump has no skills to make a deal

And thus isn't fucking worried. What's Trump going to do cry foul and go home again. LOL.

[durablend]

16. Hey now. He'll take his ball, go home and blame Biden for it too.

[Karasu]

42. Bibi knows Trump is a complete incompetent who is full of hot air. He has no fear of him whatsoever.

[Johonny]

56. The whole world outside of rural America

Knows it. Only our fucking voters think Trump is a genius, and even that number has shrank down to just the brain dead racist fuck faces.

[belpejic]

7. "I call the shots. He doesn't call the shots."

[dem4decades]

8. Can we stop calling it a cease fire?

[slightlv]

28. That was my first thought!

How can there be a ceasefire when everyone is still lobbing missiles at everyone else? This is beyond ridiculous! Words absolutely have no meaning anymore.

[dem4decades]

37. More Trump gaslighting.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Wanna bet?

[gab13by13]

10. First of all, Iran doesn't want a deal,

time is on Iran's side.

[moonscape]

20. I believe they genuinely

want Bibi to cut it out in Lebanon.

[patphil]

11. Iran is playing Trump. They know how weak his position is with American citizens.

All Iran needs to do is keep stringing Trump along, and he'll look more and more like the foolish idiot he actually is.

[sboatcar]

27. The thing that sucks, is that maga and everyone around trump is telling him he's winning

They're lying to him, he's lying to himself, they don't even know what's true anymore

[twodogsbarking]

12. Well that settles that.

[BlueKota]

13. Two Narcissists fighting over whose in charge!

That will work out well.

[Aussie105]

14. I'm sorry Mr Trump . . .

Sorry for two things:

Not wanting to call you President.

and this:

You never called the shots, ever.
You've been played all your life, by people smarter than you, by people who saw personal gain in following you, placating you.
Bibi is just one of them.
One of many.

[republianmushroom]

15. wink wink chuckle chuckle ha ha HA HA

[Ms. Toad]

17. If Netanyahu wasn't calling the shots,

we wouldn't be in this war.

How many presidents were smart enough to refuse Netanyahu's urging to start this war?

[Deminpenn]

53. How many? All of them

nt

[tanyev]

18. Back on May 4th he claimed he held all the cards. How'd that work out?

Link to tweet

😒

[Aussie105]

23. Military cards? Maybe.

Seems insufficient in this case.

[Norrrm]

35. Why is Trump allowing Iran to close the strait if their military has been destroyed/obliterated?

???

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. He was holding Uno cards

The object of the game is to get rid of them.

[PufPuf23]

19. Who does Bibi Netanyahu want for POTUS after Trump?

Netanyahu says Trump is the best POTUS ever.

Trump is the POTUS foolish enough to attack Iran and provide Israel cover for other adventures.

Netanyahu and the Kushner family are personal friends and now business associates.

Trump's "I call the shots" is for public consumption. Netanyahu and others have Trump by the ball sack.

Iran's best strategy is to bind time and exhaust the support and resources controlled by Trump and Netanyahu.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. Trump....and the US will get humiliated again. What's Bibi got on Donald?

I suspect that there are many foreign intel agencies that have copies of all of these unreleased Epstein files.

[multigraincracker]

24. Here is what he has on Bibi.

US aid to Israel. We give all that money to them so they can have free health care, but we can’t afford it for us. Time to shove that fact into Bibis face and our party needs to make that clear to us voters.
We have the cards and have to stop being bluffed by our “friends”.

[usonian]

25. Just from the way he reacts, I suspect a (literally) damning collection of videos.

Now, to say that the owner is Putin, Bibi, Musk or Price Bonesaw is confusing, because he dances to one of their tunes at a time, which leads me to suspect that there's a SPECTRE kind of auction going on for the goods. The latest turn of affairs says that Putin outbid Bibi this turn in the game.

Don't forget, we ARE living in the Twilight Zone right now, with episodes of James Bond 007, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and National Lampoon interspersed.

Here's undisputable proof.

Lampoon was on the wristwatch craze early.



Mister Bean has been both Putin's bodyguard,

Note the waiter from "Victor, Victoria" backing him up.

And James Bond's friend.

[slightlv]

30. They also probably have "Epstein Files" of their own, too...

What he did at home wasn't kept only at home. You know he had "servicers" where ever he went. Makes all the CT around the trump Russian pics seem maybe not so CT after all, IMO.

[Wonder Why]

26. I wonder if he called those other "shots". You know, the ones supposedly aimed at him from other right-wing nutcases.

[ImNotGod]

29. Israel strikes Iranian military targets, says IDF

The Israeli military is saying it has struck military targets of the Iranian regime in western and central Iran.


Guess Israel didn't get the memo

[The Madcap]

31. A commando operation???

Someone dressed in orange has been watching way too many Rambo movies.

[PSPS]

32. All Netanyahu has to do is wag his finger over the epstein button. Trump will come to heel.

[bamagal62]

33. Yeah, riiight.

[Botany]

34. ATTENTION Donald Trump diplomacy is done quietly

What an idiot.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. Trump: "I call the shots"

[niyad]

39. This is from The ONION, yes???

[struggle4progress]

40. "Nobody knows more about sleeping through the briefing and

then making a sudden rash uninformed decision than I do!"

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

41. The Usrael war machine is like that movie with Rosey Grier & Ray Milland: "The Thing with Two Heads!" (Trumptanyahu)

[Figarosmom]

44. He's delusional if he thinks that.

[orangecrush]

48. You old fool

[eringer]

49. Don't forget to remind bibi that you hold all the cards

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[RazorbackExpat]

50. He calls the shots

Just like he has all the cards

[agingdem]

51. Bibi knew Trump..he had only to flatter him, court him..

pander to Trump’s massive ego..say nice things about the bloviating narcissist and Trump would fall in line and commit to bombing Iran…and Bibi was right…

[IcyPeas]

52. Trump ..... Tony Soprano....[watch]

Trump the crime boss.

[underpants]

57. Trump is more like Fredo to me

[Scrivener7]

54. What an asshole.

[SamuelAdams]

55. Sure.

Is he going to claim he ordered Israel to bomb Iran this weekend, or is it all "fake news"?

[NoMoreRepugs]

58. I'm thinking VonSchitzInPants can't remember what he said an hour ago and the 'winging it" is going

to get dangerously out of control.

[Katcat]

59. Funny

How trump thinks he’s in charge 😂

[ananda]

61. Isn't that precious. Widdle Donnie thinks he controls the world.

[KPN]

62. Lol. Piggy digs deeper.

[Grins]

65. "...a US commando operation???"

To do what? Accomplish what?

[Martin68]

66. Trump is just reacting to charges that he attacked Iran at Israel's behest. What a tough guy!