President Donald Trump told ABC News if Iran doesn't make a peace deal in the next 48 hours, "we're blowing up the whole country."

Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News’ senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a question regarding whether his previously stated timeline of two to three weeks for a deal was still accurate.

Concerns have been raised about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran and the consequences that could bring.

  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
    15·
    12 hours ago

    When a person has the means to commit genocide, is inclined to commit genocide, and has promised to commit genocide, does that create a moral imperative to kill that person? Asking for a friend.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 day ago

    To think that in the interest of electoral fairness, we let this guy be president again instead of putting him in a prison for life where he absolutely belongs.

    To any democratic strategists out there who might be reading my post, if you want my attention, start getting your candidate to talk loudly and often about how they will punish Trump and every single member of his administration on Day 1. Lifetime prison sentences for Epstein related coverups. Hangings for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters who are insider trading and former DOGE staffers. Restitution to be paid back to the American taxpayers for the theft and embezzlement of tax dollars. Anything less that that is a mockery of justice.

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Lol but Democratic strategists don’t want to win, they just want to have plausible deniability against the claim that they’re trying not to win. Their real goal is to figure out how to convince people they’re incompetent. Your strategy would make people actually vote for them, after which they’d be expected to follow through on those policies which would hurt their donors. Even if they did do that they’d have to go back to playing incompetent while in power to make sure it didn’t happen

    • Jako302@feddit.org
      1·
      11 hours ago

      At this point I trust russia more than the US. Even a few months ago there at least was the semblance of a democratic system left, but by now its clear that the US is a dictatorship in all but name.

      The things Putin does at least make sense from an imperialistic point of view, but trump is a literal toddler throwing a different tantrum each hour.

      Both can rot in the deepest parts of hell as far as I’m concerned though.

    • toad@lemmy.wtf
      1·
      12 hours ago

      vlad’s fucked up russia is just america again. Guess where yeltsin was a few days before the perestroika.

      Count on americans to coup countries and then whine about fascists being in power there.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
      7·
      1 day ago

      Oh yeah, fucked up Russia, with its hundreds of military bases around the world, supporting endless terrorist regimes in the Middle East, supplying nukes to Israel, like that?

      Russia isn’t even 1/10th of what you loons do every day. Fucked up Russia? What’s fucked up about it that you don’t do a hundred times worse every day?

      Please get that brainworm looked at.

      • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Yeaaaa lol my personal view is that any powerful country pretty much sucks. But I do think its so funny how even most very lefty Americans still hold up China and Russia as the ultimate examples of evilness. Even when calling ourselves evil we have to do it by calling Russia and China evil in the same breath, as if to comfort ourselves that we’re not the only one. The propaganda against those countries is truly strong here, which of course is helped by the fact that they both ARE quite problematic as any super powerful entity is

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
      6·
      1 day ago

      I think they have done it. For me it was the loss of a us awacs plane last month, a thing that we made fun of russia for not a few years ago. The us of a is not in a good place militarily right now, with big issues with both equipment and moral that is very much underplayed.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 day ago

        Good. Hope you learned that running your mouth off over things you don’t understand isn’t a good look.

        Hey remember sending F-16s to intercept weather balloons? Imagine if Russia did that!

  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    1 day ago

    So stupid, "we’re going to blow up innocent iranians i stg!!’

    “Oh you mean those annoying protestors we were killing before you interrupted us?”

    • toad@lemmy.wtf
      2·
      12 hours ago

      lmao they killed 30000 people according to the people that bombed them two weeks later.

      Now they’re in a better place with saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, hamas raped babies and the german reichtag. I heard sometime they get a visit from tupac

      how guillible can you be

  • Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 hours ago

    Before announcing talks that aren’t happening, agreements that weren’t agreed and declaring himself the saviour and the paragon of peace

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    38·
    2 days ago

    No longer does the country collectively agree to push forward on war. Now it’s just one guy who triggers very easily. WTF!?

    • Bieren@lemmy.today
      10·
      22 hours ago

      Could you imagine if a female was president. Just running everything on feelings and emotions.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 days ago

      It’s not just 1 guy, it’s most of the current administration. And 84% of the people that voted for Trump, still stand by their vote!!

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 day ago

          Have the day you voted for got as a result of election rigging.

          And I don’t say this as a “sore loser”. I say that trump rigged the 2024 election, because in August/September/October of 2024, trump had been saying repeatedly that he rigged the upcoming election.

          Then towards October he was saying there won’t be a need for any more elections. That it was fixed so hard that he’s already the president forever.

          Now, lack of fundamental understanding of mortality aside, he’s essentially admitted that he’s corrupted our government from the inside.

          And you know the fucked up part? He won’t face consequences. If someone in a position to change things finds evidence, that evidence won’t be released until the year 2100. They only released the JFK files last year. He’ll be long dead by the time anyone comes out and says there was a corrupt election.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
          14·
          2 days ago

          I keep hearing this and I also keep reading how those same people who now think he’s unpopular, also voted for him 3 times and would vote for him again.

          • possumparty
            4·
            1 day ago

            You have to take into consideration that the dumbest people are often the loudest- what we’re seeing is a equivalent of the village idiots screaming while throwing shit around the room because they’re afraid of losing the space they’ve carved out on social media. These are the dumbest humans on the entire planet- less resourceful and less intelligent than ancient neanderthals. They exist solely to pull the human race down, and the fact that their comments are often rife with the worst takes you’ve ever seen and some of the worst grammar possible is a testament to their functional illiteracy. They can read and write, but they’re wholly incapable of rational and intelligent thought.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          He’s so unpopular, he can start a war on twatter while shitting, and the whole country happily does what he wants no question asked.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 days ago

    “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

    What country is that? USA?
    For those not aware, Trump is actively destroying USA not Iran.
    For every escalation USA is just making it worse for themselves.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    156·
    2 days ago

    The Toddler-in-chief threatening to throw an apocalyptic tantrum over something that he fucked up in the first place.

    He not only needs to be removed from office - he needs to be on a psych hold. He’s deranged and dangerous.

    • BouteilleBrune@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 days ago

      americans showed the whole world they wanted this, he’s what represents them and it was their choice on the land of the free

      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
        9·
        2 days ago

        so true, their electoral process is highly functional and famous for accurately reflecting their values

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        And when a Democratic president gets in, the Americans will be like, “Oh, but we’ve changed! We’re going to be much better now! Really!”.

        It’s like a psychotic ex-boyfriend begging you to take him back, because he’s really sorry and will do better next time. Promise!

        • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I pray the world never forgives America for all this. I certainly won’t as a Canadian. If a century of good will and allyship can get pissed down the drain in mere months, why should any nation ever trust America again?

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      he needs to be in prison, that’s where the orange turd needs to be.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    so let me get this straight. Just so I’m clear, it’s unfair when Iran blockades. But when dumpy does it to cuba, that’s perfectly fine?

    • RosaLuxemburgsGhost@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Only the imperialists have the right to self-determination. None of the rest of us….and that includes the workers within the imperial core.