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Trump Chickens Out After Threatening a Whole Civilization with Death & Even Crazies Think He’s Crazy | Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Trump Chickens Out After Threatening a Whole Civilization with Death & Even Crazies Think He’s Crazy
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Trump Chickens Out After Threatening a Whole Civilization with Death & Even Crazies Think He’s Crazy
Today was Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or get bombed, he posted this morning that if they didn’t agree that “a whole civilization w...

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thenumbwalker Apr 8, 2026 +217
Our country is nothing more than a plaything to this bozo. Lives mean nothing because he knows he and his family will always be safe and well and free from consequences. Sickening honestly
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OldJames47 Apr 8, 2026 +66
He doesn’t even care about his family.
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Massive_Weiner Apr 8, 2026 +37
He *really* cares about Ivanka, tbf…
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Icy1551 Apr 8, 2026 +13
Ivanka isn't a minor (anymore) so it's probably not a whole lot of care really.
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Massive_Weiner Apr 8, 2026 +6
People forget that he’s creepy with [adult Ivanka](https://www.listnook.com/media?solution=c72cbfd2127af457c72cbfd2127af457&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861528e0d63835ccc61ace04d00ef3b3cd7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Frkdrlmu76nob1.jpg) as well. It’s not just her having PTSD flashbacks when she looks at her childhood bed.
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Sweatytubesock Apr 8, 2026 +2
He loathes them all, except Ivanka. And there’s a typically Trumpian degenerate reason for that exception.
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Commercial-Co Apr 8, 2026 +61
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyvp55xrlro > He added that the US had accepted the "general framework" of the Iranian 10-point plan. >That plan includes the US withdrawing its military forces from the region, lifting economic sanctions on Iran, paying compensation for war damages and allowing Iran to maintain control over Hormuz.
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MaxMouseOCX Apr 8, 2026 +43
>>That plan includes the US withdrawing its military forces from the region, lifting economic sanctions on Iran, paying compensation for war damages and allowing Iran to maintain control over Hormuz. Amazing.
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insidli Apr 8, 2026 +6
There’s no way Trump is going to accept those terms.
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CovfefeForAll Apr 8, 2026 +2
And less than 0 chance Bibi and/or Putin will let him.
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RedditConsciousness Apr 8, 2026 +3
> Putin will let him. Putin? Russia is an Iranian ally.
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Commercial-Co Apr 10, 2026 +1
Yea no shit
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degggendorf Apr 8, 2026 +7
It's the art of the deal, you wouldn't get it 🤣
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burner7711 Apr 9, 2026 +1
This is a complete and total lie. They said it was a starting point for negotiations. I cannot believe a rational adult can be dumb enough to believe that the US is going to agree to lifting sanctions, paying compensation, or allowing Iran to violate international maritime law. You have to a special kind of a moron to even consider that the would ever, under any circumstances, agree to remove troops from the middle east.
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CyrosThird Apr 8, 2026 +271
TACO Tuesday.
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vadergeek Apr 8, 2026 +67
I hate this line. "He's such a coward for not murdering even more people". Every time someone says it they're just daring him to be even more horrible than usual.
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flowersweep Apr 8, 2026 +23
Agreed. We should just have quiet relief that someone stopped the seemingly inevitable madness for another day. Not goad the insecure man child into carrying out his insanity.
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Midnight_Chess Apr 8, 2026 +7
Sometimes people forget that he’s supposed to be an adult and not a toddler that needs use of constructive language and constant redirection
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vadergeek Apr 8, 2026 +7
It's bad to encourage someone to commit genocide even if the encouragement wouldn't work on a mentally healthier person.
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Swirly_Mango Apr 8, 2026 +2
I'm saving this comment because it's clear and succint to convey the right idea.
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_Monosyllabic_ Apr 8, 2026 +1
Taco is just shorthand. He does this c*** constantly. Talks all kinds of blustery nonsense then when it doesn't work he's off to something else. He's the most pathetic bully on Earth at the moment. I agree that no one should be taunting him into doing war crimes but he's been doing this c*** for over a year now. Every single member of Congress should be removing his ass from office today but they're as spineless as Trump is incompetent.
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logicoptional Apr 9, 2026 +1
I so get what you're saying but the point seems to be to tie it into his clear record of saying insane bombastic shit and then backing down immediately. I think this could be better phrased as "He's now openly treating threats of genocide with the same care as threats of a 15% tariff. Which is basically none." Would be great to add in something about how he's clearly using the way his words effect markets to fabricate insider trading info for his friends and family (aka himself).
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squatingyeti Apr 9, 2026 +1
Not only that, it's patently absurd to only apply it when you want and ignore how it doesn't fit every other time. "Bububu how dare he agree to a ceasefire that he was telling Iran to get on board with before he takes action!!" Maduro must have been getting his kicks off on Listnook, believing the TACO echo chamber when he thought Trump would never do anything after telling them to start behaving. The Ayatollah must have been getting advice from Listnook experts as they came to the negotiating table originally and said they had enough enriched uranium to make several bombs in a matter of weeks and there was nothing the US could do. I mean, TACO, right!? RIGHT!!?? Remember Obama's red line? Y'all didn't say shit when he watched it crossed and said "hey how could you?" How about Biden's "don't!" Lol.
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Radarker Apr 8, 2026 -7
That's not a line. That's some shit you added in your head.
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vadergeek Apr 8, 2026 +12
Why does anyone call someone a chicken? Because they want to encourage them to do the thing they're chickening out of. If someone's called a chicken for not doing a backflip it's because people want to see a backflip. The same is true for bombing Iran.
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chaos0510 Apr 8, 2026 +3
I get your logic, but I think it's moreso about the fact that he flipflops so much that nobody knows what he's really going to do. I don't think it's encouraging him in any way
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vadergeek Apr 8, 2026 +9
Every other time anyone is ever called a chicken it's to encourage them to do something stupid, I don't see why this would be an exception.
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WellsFargone Apr 8, 2026 +6
I agree with you. “Chickening out” has a specific meaning that should not be used in the context of posturing violence. Especially with someone so unstable.
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Foe117 Apr 8, 2026 +46
every time it happens, I actually get literal tacos from my favorite Mexican spot.
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Tailball Apr 8, 2026 +28
You’re gonna put that Mexican place’s kids through college!
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AbeVigoda76 Apr 8, 2026 +2
Do you just follow around my husband all day?
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Tailball Apr 8, 2026 +1
Wait what?
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Deviltherobot Apr 8, 2026 +2
["Do you just follow my husband around?" "Lady, he's putting my kids through college!" : r/TheSimpsons](https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=d220020b81eebe2ab1682e36825ec604c1076f69e2e0de46f1f2b6fc69abeef5JmltdHM9MTc3NTYwNjQwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=339a3c44-87a6-6a7f-1354-288c86d46bde&psq=simpsons+do+you+just+follow+my+jusband&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL1RoZVNpbXBzb25zL2NvbW1lbnRzL3BuNXZ3dS9kb195b3VfanVzdF9mb2xsb3dfbXlfaHVzYmFuZF9hcm91bmRfbGFkeV9oZXMv)
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Tailball Apr 8, 2026 +1
I did NOT get that reference. Shame, big Simpsons fan.
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AbeVigoda76 Apr 8, 2026 +2
[Obligatory Simpsons](https://youtu.be/SwHB7tHirRY?si=uaUHT7Ua_qjyVCiP)
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Tailball Apr 8, 2026 +1
Right! Went right over my head.
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Radarker Apr 8, 2026 +1
Don't burn yourself out on tacos!
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Different_Victory_89 Apr 8, 2026 +1
Is impossible to burn out on tacos!
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Grummmmm Apr 10, 2026 +1
Seems a bit racist but okay
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BPMMPB Apr 8, 2026 +4
Manipulated the stock market again. Dow up 1000 premarkets. He doesn’t care that he flip flops. It’s part of the grift. 
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xtothewhy Apr 8, 2026 +3
Maybe so but at what point do we agree that's this is probably a good thing that he's not having the military decide to choose between their duty to the constitution and not war crimeing?
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GroverEyeveen Apr 8, 2026 +1
I'm really relieved he TACO'd out of this one, though.
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AmbitiousBossman Apr 10, 2026 +1
Only thing more lame than elbows up
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chaos0310 Apr 8, 2026 +1
Holy shit it’s taco Tuesday again!
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Teglement Apr 8, 2026 +211
Man the bots are working overtime tonight in this thread.
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AcademicF Apr 8, 2026 +22
Plantir working overtime for the TACO
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Character-Cup8045 Apr 8, 2026 +1
So long as it serves Israel's interests.
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CapnJack1TX Apr 8, 2026 +54
I really don’t think “chickens out” should be thrown around after he says something like wiping out an entire civilization. That’s the kind of petty reason that would push him over.
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Mekdinosaur Apr 8, 2026 +6
If a stupid insult like Taco is going to "push him over", he is not fit to be President. Oh wait. He is not fit to be President. Are you saying that the terrorists won? 
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AffectionateKey7126 Apr 8, 2026 +5
The whole TACO thing is stupid in itself because it’s making fun of him for not plunging the world into a crippling depression. It's now being applied to this where [he did say that some kind of deal would prevent the bombing](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj8ep9w1pno).
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Spiderverse33 Apr 8, 2026 +11
TACO isn’t making fun of him for not following through but making the threats in the first place.
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Mekdinosaur Apr 8, 2026 +2
He always has an out
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AffectionateKey7126 Apr 8, 2026 +2
It's almost like he wanted something?
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RedditConsciousness Apr 8, 2026 +2
Moreover, we should meet childishness with maturity. We do not want nuclear weapons in warfare. We don't even want warfare. That is all that needs to be said. Any other discourse is self-serving, self-indulgent, and counter-productive.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2
Kimmel is cool and all but this kind of rhetoric he tosses around is a big reason Americans are so emotionally detached from the politics of their own country. Everything just gets framed as childish entertainment, and it often completely neuters the real gravity of the situation. Trump was out there threatening the complete and utter eradication of an entire *country*. Whether he had grandiose ideas of a full scale invasion or just the use of nuclear warheads, we will never know for sure. But even Americans on the Left treated it like an episode of Days of our Lives or something; "lololol Trump will chicken out, TACO Tuesdays hahahahaha." Imagine being an unassuming innocent Iranian citizen seeing Americans that claim to be against the war talking so utterly candidly about whether your entire civilization gets wiped clear off the face of the earth. This isn't fun and games. This is war. This is real. Millions of lives are at stake here, and we are far beyond unprecedented uncharted waters here in terms of fascist escalation. But I guess since everything always happens "over there" overseas rather than in an adjacent country, Americans don't really consider it as "real." It's inconsequential to them. rs
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mrzack123 Apr 8, 2026 +19
Genuinely need to stop treating him not following up on his many planned atrocities as pussying out like what are we doing
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BPMMPB Apr 8, 2026 +7
Right, let’s call these what they are: market manipulation 
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1
Honestly the way we treat these atrocities as nothing more than depressing childish entertainment is a big reason things have declined so fast. Even the people supposedly against this fascism still seem to treat it like it isn't that serious. They still seem to be existentially detached from it all, like "it couldn't happen HERE," where "here" is just whatever state they're from and "there" is the white house. It's started as "fascism couldn't happen HERE" with "here" being USA as a whole. And then it *did* happen here, so "here" got shrunken down to whichever state the person is from. And next, "here" may end up being what *city* you're from. And then district. Then neighborhood. It's a constant existential shifting of scope and moving of goal posts so that one can cling to the idea that *they* are safe wherever they are, and that the danger couldn't possibly reach *them*. It's a big reason why most Americans continue to be otherwise apathetic about politics; so long as it's *over there* and not *over here*, it doesn't matter. It's just the scale of how far *over there* is keeps shrinking.
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MoxAvocado Apr 8, 2026 +34
I really object to referring to this as "chickening out".
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2
I object to the infantilization of Trump and his fascism as a whole. This shit is serious. The implications of almost everything he does is *massive.* This isn't just some TMZ celebrity drama where none of it really matters; this is f****** *fascism, geopolitics and war*. It's no wonder the rest of the world mocks Americans so much; we end up with a fascist dictatorship and all we say about it is "haha Taco Tuesday, he poops himself a lot lolololol." *We* look like infants.
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TheDungen Apr 8, 2026 +36
He'd be more crazy had he done it.
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t-bone_malone Apr 8, 2026 +56
And you know what's just as crazy? Sending a tweet that threatens to destroy an entire civilization.
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TakuyaTeng Apr 8, 2026 +15
I'm glad he didn't murder a bunch of people but it also is a crazy bad thing to do to say "we'll do it" a hundred times and then not. It makes the US look weak. The correct thing to do would obviously be to not make these threats, not to bomb them juat to be clear.
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Temporary_Thing7517 Apr 8, 2026 +7
I’m also glad he didn’t murder a bunch of people but our government allowing him to say those and back down over and over with no consequences makes us look weak. /We shouldn’t even be allowing the words to come out/. It’s so f****** weird that hundreds of congress/house/justice officials are afraid of one guy, so they let him spew whatever he wants making us look like unhinged, stupid f****** hicks. I guarantee you the impeachment filed yesterday doesn’t even see light and is never spoken about again. That says little about trump and everything about who is running his government.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2
The fact that he can publicly post "I'm going to eradicate an entire civilization" with no consequences, and then when he backs down, everyone is just like "well I figured he wouldn't do it anyway so no harm no foul" without ANY form of sustained pushback is f****** insane. We all say "we can't let them normalize fascism" but look how we treated this; guy bragged about utter genocide, and everyone immediately moved on as soon as he said he'd simply *delay* that genocide for a couple weeks. We've absolutely normalized this insanity. The president being a bloodthirsty war monger that threatens countries every day is now just normal American daily life.
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RoofRemote347 Apr 8, 2026 +1
How is 'our government' allowing him to say those things?
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TheDungen Apr 8, 2026 +2
The crazy thing is saying it not withdrawing from it.
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TheDungen Apr 8, 2026 +1
Not as crazy as doing it but nearly.
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himalcarion Apr 8, 2026 +4
Maybe we shouldn't say he chickens out when he doesn't destroy a civilization, even if he didn't do it for the right reason...
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Hayes4prez Apr 8, 2026 +54
Trump getting dunked on in every sub, I love it.
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sarthakmahajan610 Apr 8, 2026 +10
Except r/Conservative They think he won
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cake_by_the_lake Apr 8, 2026 +14
> They think he won They don't think. That sub is literally bots jerking off the two clowns who are 'allowed' to post. It's a joke sub.
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RedditConsciousness Apr 8, 2026 +1
Well as long as you feel good in the moment, that's what is important. At least you are honest about your priorities. Most of listnook won't admit to its tribalism and treating politics like a sport. I voted for Kamala. I want Democrats to win. I don't want people like Trump to win. But Listnook either does not understand how to achieve that goal or simply would rather do what feels good in the moment.
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RedHeadedSicilian52 Apr 8, 2026 +120
Trump sucks and is bad, but I _really_ hate the whole TACO thing when it comes to moments like this. Accepting that he got us into this mess, deescalating is the right move if you value world peace. By describing this as “chickening out”… what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to goad him into an invasion or something?
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Teglement Apr 8, 2026 +148
It's more the fact that he can't be trusted about anything. His threats mean nothing. His boasts mean nothing. It's not about goading him into doing something terrible, it's about highlighting to his supporters that he doesn't do shit. It's good that we're not wiping Iran off the face of the earth (yet). But his completely empty promises should be openly mocked.
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InnocentTailor Apr 8, 2026 +38
Pretty much. His words, and America’s by extension, are worth as much as used tissue paper due to his constant flip-flopping. All this has shown the world is that Trump can be broken with honeyed words, backdoor dealings, and several dents to credibility at home. He ain’t a strong bald eagle - he’s a shambling chicken.
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ozymandais13 Apr 8, 2026 +50
He didn't de escalate he lied about threats
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runsquad Apr 8, 2026 +33
“De-escalating is the right move” less than 24 hours after he threatened to kill more people than Stalin is.. a unique choice of words
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ToranjaNuclear Apr 8, 2026 +50
The president of the US just threatened to nuke another country but the problem is that people are making fun of him for being a coward? Comments like yours makes me realise people are normalising Trump's behaviour way more than they should.
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Jont_K Apr 8, 2026 +6
"the" problem? Imagine if you will, a world where several problems exist concurrently.
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croud_control Apr 8, 2026 +13
No, it is literally him proving to anyone that his word is less valuable than the shit that comes out of your ass. So, now that Trump goes to start something, all they have to do is take a stand and keep saying "No" and Trump will walk away with a worse situation than he would if all he did was not do it in the first place. The White House is the equivalent of a toddler screaming and making a mess in a store only to get nothing out of it. Except instead of a toddler, it's diaper-shitting Don, and instead of the store, it's the world stage having to pick up his mess. So, in his next rampage, all they have to do is hold out and wait until Trump gets tired and leaves as his economy gets wrecked and his polls take a nosedive. We ended up paying for more gas for absolutely nothing because Trump is another nation's sockpuppet.
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pundemic Apr 8, 2026 +16
Right. Everyone should just baby that moron instead. Why should people cater to a buffoon? Hold him and his followers accountable.
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ItAintLongButItsThin Apr 8, 2026 +7
It further points out the inept ability to negotiate for our "president." He hates the term TACO so we should hit him where it hurts, he acts like a top negotiator/business man but is truly a stupid spoiled brat. Trump doesn't just suck or is bad, he is the epitome of evil. A child rapist running our country should be called way worse things than this and you white washing him as "sucks and is bad" is f****** pathetic.
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KatherineLangford Apr 8, 2026 +6
Recently just made a post about the same thing. F*** Trump, but this TACO criticism is so weird to me, when most of the things he’s chickening out of doing are godawful ideas. Would be like saying ‘hahaha, you threatened to burn my house down and kill my family and then DIDNT do it?? How hilarious, you coward!!’ I also hate it because it plays into a framing that a lot of buffoons like Piers Morgan have been using to downplay the threat of Trump for years, which is to say ‘you guys hate Trump because you get too caught up on the bizarre stuff he says he’s going to do, instead of looking at what he actually does do.’ Like, no, unfortunately Trump DOES do a lot of the shitty stuff he says he’s going to do. If he didn’t, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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blazelet Apr 8, 2026 +2
Absolutely. Making a big deal about him “chickening out” will only egg him on as a malignant narcissist. It’s not a good tactic.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2
Americans treat war and fascism like it's weekend football. They have the privilege to make light of it and make jokes about it because it's an entire ocean away from them. They don't see or experience any of the horrors of war when it's *over there*. It couldn't happen *here!* You've got trump saying he's going to wipe an entire civilization off the earth and Americans are just sitting around high fiving over "hahaha TACO Tuesday he won't do it lololol, see he's just big poopy baby lololol." The guy is responsible for the deaths of millions, and not even just because of the war. Y'all claim you use comedy to cope but it doesn't come off that way. It comes off as "well it doesn't affect ME so why shouldn't I make jokes." Don't even get me started on the whole "we can't do anything because paycheck to paycheck and voted kamala." As if no protest or revolt in human history ever had to grapple with risking their livelihood for the sake of their rights....
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Mynsare Apr 8, 2026 +4
You are missing the entire point of TACO. Trump and his followers are the ones who see him as some sort of badass. The rest of us knows what a chickenshit he and his followers are, and we want none of the wars he starts. But accusing him of chickening out is only hurting him and his followers, because they are the ones who thinks starting wars and pretending to be macho is a good thing. The war should never have been started, and it ending the sooner the better. But his entire attempt at posing this as some sort of victory for him is blatantly false. He started a war, got his ass handed to him and slinked back home like the chickenshit he is.
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Mysterious-Clothes45 Apr 8, 2026 +1
I think that's the point. There is no goading him into doing anything. He's a lazy fat f*** who is all talk.
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Mekdinosaur Apr 8, 2026 +1
As if Trump gives two shits what you or I think. How many record breaking  protests have the American people participated in to no effect. And you worry over a few comments. 
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1
Americans love patting themselves on the back for toothless activism. Doesn't take much reading to learn that it takes much more than single-day government approved protests once every six months to *actually* effect change. And participants almost ALWAYS had to take actual risks to their livelihoods, and under circumstances even tighter than their supposed current "paycheck to paycheck" lifestyle. The issue is American education tends to smooth over the "ugly" parts of civil rights protests. Like how MLK gets taught as a completely peaceful movement and minimizes the contribution that Malcolm X and the black Panthers made to the movement. Even MLK himself was on record saying he doubts they would have made as much progress without Malcolm X. But that's not what Americans education would tell you. They'd tell you that the government simply saw how passionate MLK's movement was and caved to their requests out of the kindness of their hearts. That or civil rights movements don't get taught at all. Others try to tell them what real civil movements require but it always gets met with the same "paycheck to paycheck, we already did no Kings what more do you want" response. They'll ask for help and advice and then unilaterally reject it when they actually receive it.
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RoofRemote347 Apr 8, 2026 +1
No--we want him to think for one second before he starts a war. To give the most minimal analysis to the risk Iran could should down 20% of the worlds oil supply and put us into an unwinnable situation.
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wing3d Apr 8, 2026 +1
Lol chill he's not in the comments.
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Reivilo85 Apr 8, 2026 +1
He's not deescalating, he folded, by letting Iran get control of a detroit that did not belong to them and is very very important for international trade. The detroit was international until the USA attack. We are not going back to a status quo, Iran won.
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flossy_cake Apr 8, 2026 +3
Iran constantly: "Death to America" Trump: "Death to Iran's infrastructure unless they open the Strait of Hormuz so that gas prices can go back to normal" The left: "OMG Trump threatened an entire civilization!" Never critical of Iran's threats and fascism, ALWAYS critical of Trump's threats. Selective outrage. The left when an assassin tries to shoot Trump in Butler: "Yeah! Get him!" The left when Trump assassinates fascist dictators: "OMG! Violation of international law! Monster!" Get your story straight leftists - do you like fascists or do you not? If one fascist dictator assassinates another, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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Suspendedaccount_ Apr 8, 2026 +3
Jimmy "Karl Malone Black Face" Kimmel
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Ra_X_1979 Apr 9, 2026 +3
I agree Jimmy is a crazy, someone needs to lock him up
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CountryClublican Apr 8, 2026 +5
Liberals: Trump's a madman trying to start WW3. Also liberals: Trump's a chicken for not starting WW3.
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GrouchPosse Apr 10, 2026 +1
> Liberals: Trump's a madman trying to start WW3. > Also liberals: Trump's a chicken for not starting WW3. Yeah you know liberals can hate the idea of WW3 and still hold both of these propositions. Trump is an insane madman for walking us to the brink, but luckily TACO, and he is a chicken. Basically bullies are always chicken at heart, and we hate that they’re bullies and we hate that they’re chicken, because there’s no consistency or perseverance in doing what’s right.
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wasabi_chips Apr 8, 2026 +6
Would not be a surprise 2 days later Iran will be attacked behind the back. We should know by now there is no code of honor with these 2 presidents
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Mongo_Straight Apr 8, 2026 +7
>Many Trump voters are upset at this war he started. They’re saying, “We didn’t vote for this.” And the correct response to that is, “Yes, you did. It may not be what you voted for, but it is who you voted for. And now it’s time to do something about it.” Well said.
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ladyteruki Apr 8, 2026 +2
He gives a two week notice as a heads up to Wall Street, basically.
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ToonMasterRace Apr 8, 2026 +2
I agree Kimmel, we should have gone through with it.
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Intimidwalls1724 Apr 8, 2026 +4
So now it's a bad thing Trump didn't destroy a civilization? I can't keep up
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ymcameron Apr 8, 2026 +6
Nobody’s mad Trump didn’t bomb Iran. Everyone just thinks it’s funny because it was obviously he wasn’t going to and then he didn’t. Trump has a long history of being all talk. It’s what makes all this so exhausting. He’s a bully, and just like any bully, the second anyone puts up even a little resistance the guy folds like a c**** suit.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1
There's nothing "funny" about it. The only ones laughing at it right now seems to be just Americans, because they don't take anything seriously.
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RoachIsCrying Apr 8, 2026 +10
yeah Chickens Out is not the right phrase to use here
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BannedPomegranate Apr 8, 2026 +5
🌮 for all
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atomicsnarl Apr 8, 2026 +5
"Chickens Out"? Did you want him to follow through with it?
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +1
Even leftist Americans don't understand their own rhetoric. They think they're "owning" Trump the way right wingers think they're owning the libs. But when you ask them to explain themselves, they can't seem to do it. They're just doing the same reactionary BS as their right wingers. It's all a joking game for them.
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localstyle808 Apr 8, 2026 +5
So if Trump attacks them he's a tyrant, but if he doesn't attack he's a chicken? This Jimmy Kimmel guy is nuts. He's more than drunk the Kool-Aid, he's swimming in a fishbowl of Kool-Aid. What a nutcase. I bought as far left as you can get.
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dknisle1 Apr 8, 2026 +4
“Trump chickened out” you’re right guys. He should’ve just committed mass genocide so he can keep his word…..
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kaiser_kerfluffy Apr 8, 2026 +5
Let's not mock the narcissist for not nuking a country please
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Jwlpo Apr 8, 2026 +5
I dont get it, do you guys want him to wipe iran off the map? How can you complain about him making a threat, then complain that he didn't do anything, literally pick a side
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Smodzilla Apr 8, 2026 +4
Do they want him to go through with it then?
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untucked_21ersey Apr 8, 2026 +1
as a society i wish we could take ourselves more seriously. yeah trump chickened out of genocide and possibly a nuclear strike in what could have  been the darkest day in world history. i guess im not ready to start calling him a p**** while knowing that cuba is next according to him
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RipCityGGG Apr 8, 2026 +8
Stop saying he chickened out FFS
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ex0thermist Apr 8, 2026 +12
Yeah, considering he's an unhinged narcissist with nothing but malevolent intent, his weakness is his best quality.
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magus678 Apr 8, 2026 +12
>Trump is a spiteful narcicist who cant abide being mocked. Simultaneously: >We should definitely taunt and goad him for not nuking someone Even using their own logic, you have to wonder whose side these people are on. It begins to seem like these issues are just rhetorical cover for stoking pet hatred, and the actual benefits and harms are just ancillary.
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justfortheese Apr 8, 2026 +19
What should be said? He lied? He failed? He has no leverage? He has no idea what he's saying? He realized he can't do what he promised?
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RedditConsciousness Apr 8, 2026 +2
Try acting like an adult. Vote. Present a positive and inclusive vision for Democrats this year and in 2028. Yes you can say 'I am against this sort of rhetoric' or 'I am against the war in general' but then leave it at that. All this name calling is counterproductive and ultimately can be a drag on election outcomes.
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HonestDespot Apr 8, 2026 +15
He did. He backed himself into a corner with no upside and moved the goalposts to make it look like he didn’t back down. He literally chickened out, on a Tuesday, like he always does. If this was a drama people would think it was unrealistic bad writing.
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infiniteartifacts Apr 8, 2026 +12
yeah i feel like phrasing “not committing genocide” as “chickening out” would be stupid even with an emotionally regulated, tact, and lucid president, let alone a demented, raving mad man-child who is already known to HATE Jimmy Kimmel and do things like run for president out of spite towards someone like Seth Meyers.
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robster9090 Apr 8, 2026 +3
Why does it feel like people are going after him for not committing genocide. I was and am more against this war than any one but let’s not take the piss for chickening out ? Surely that’s a good thing
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Phod Apr 8, 2026 +3
Today I learned brokering a peace deal is “chickening out”
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Super-Maosy Apr 8, 2026 +4
don't insult goldfish
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Anonymous_054 Apr 8, 2026 +2
I’m thought it was a good thing to not nuke a country?
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bananas_rice_go_brrr Apr 8, 2026 +2
"Trump shouldn't bomb Iran!! REEEE" "Trump is a chicken for not bombing Iran!! REEEE"
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Corantine360 Apr 8, 2026 +3
This seems so godamn ghoulish to me, hes talking about the lives of countless civilians which were thankfully spared from complete destruction by a last minute deal of ceasefire. And to him its all a funny line he can say to call the president a coward for not killing all those people as if those lives aren't real. It gives off major ivory tower vibes that Kimmel can look down at this situation and the thousands of parents there who get to go to bed with their families safe for another day and go "ha our presidents a p**** cause they're still alive" like get a grip. These hosts are not real, they do not think like you and I, and they are not on our side in anything other than what it pays to be.
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IrrelevantLeprechaun Apr 8, 2026 +2
Americans don't treat their own geopolitics with any degree of seriousness because it's happening "way over there," rather than at home in their own city. To them, it's just numbers and statistics, nothing real. So making light of the threat of genocide is just status quo for them. If this war was happening in Canada or Mexico, I doubt they'd be so cavalier about it.
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WigginLSU Apr 8, 2026 +1
You do realize trump was the one who threatened those lives and complete destruction, right? And Jesus do y'all actually not understand this joke at all? If you had object permanence you'd realize this is the dozenth or so time he's made a wild threat, received absolutely nothing, then declared he would postpone his threat. It's funny because maga thinks he's this tough guy badass when in reality he's a sniveling little spoiled rich boy wannabe bully who backs down the moment anyone talks or fights back. He's such a little b****. I'm sure I'm arguing with a bot but holy f*** has my opinion of general intelligence, and the entire conservative philosophy, gone almost into the negative.
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bigb-2702 Apr 8, 2026 +2
Democrats put the D in dementia.
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combrade Apr 8, 2026 +1
This is pointless jokes and commentary that a middle schooler watching TV could make . Why are we in war with Iran? We have an idiotic president but which other country are we fighting this war on behalf of ?
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theskiller1 Apr 8, 2026 +1
People complain about his threats and then people seem to also complain when he doesn’t go through with them? Why do people seem disappointed?
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Beefjerkey93 Apr 8, 2026 +1
Chicken’s out? Damned if he does damned if he doesn’t Listnook really is a “special” place
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flossy_cake Apr 8, 2026 +1
Iran doesn't own the Strait of Hormuz, so other countries have every right to threaten Iran for blocking ships from going through and disrupting the world economy.
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Born_Delay7469 Apr 9, 2026 +1
Looks like Trump wants out. This will seriously impact on US credibility with other Gulf states. It has made the state of things in the Middle East much much worse, than before this war started. It has given Iran de facto control over the Straits of Hormuz, something Iran did not contemplate before the war, but recently discovered they could actually do it with total ease and were embolden to take control of the Straits of Hormuz from now onwards and forever. So they think, what can the USA do to that? Nothing. The beginning of the end of Petrodollar.
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JTLS180 Apr 9, 2026 +1
How bad is it still on the streets? Are the Gestapo, sorry I mean ICE, still roaming the streets in gangs snatching POC and taking them away to Detention Centres whether they are a US citizen or not? I never thought the US would become the modern day Nazi regime.
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Landlord-Allmighty Apr 9, 2026 +1
If you look at all the items in the list, it's all their memes - Trump gave them billions of dollars by lifting sanctions, there is no long term plan to prevent them from enriching uranium. They now run the strait, too. Bibi must be pissed (lol).
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WheresWaldo85 Apr 9, 2026 +1
You people couldn't negotiate your way out of a paper bag
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superdave123123 Apr 10, 2026 +1
And what would have been your complaint if he did do it?
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dgdfthr Apr 8, 2026 +2
What a fucked up p**** ass hack of a comedian wannabe.
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Shaman19911 Apr 8, 2026 -4
The mass downvoting in this thread of anyone critical of TACO messaging is textbook astroturfing and manipulation. The Ghislane special on Listnook.
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HateGettingGold Apr 8, 2026 +1
Mad when he threatens to kill, even more angry when he doesn't. Yall sick.
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Groundbreaking_Ship3 Apr 8, 2026
Well, you have to out crazy the crazies, don't you
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ifurmothronlyknw Apr 8, 2026 +1
Can we stop antagonizing him into nuclear war? I hate him twice as much as anyone else, but let’s not bait a psychopath with unlimited power and no one willing to stop him.
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zivlynsbane Apr 8, 2026 +1
All that to distract from the Epstein files and yet another way to manipulate the markets.
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Prudent-Mix-5037 Apr 8, 2026 +1
I truly think his inner circle is encouraging him to go with his worst instincts. I think they want him gone now so they can continue with the grifting that they have all been doing this whole time. I mean, surely they must be thinking, 'WTF is it going to take for them to impeach this guy?' Or they are making it so obvious that article 25 is needed they imagine we will be so grateful to them for implementing it that we will just forget all of their corruption. I, for one, will not forget. Nor will I forgive every single one of his enablers over the years.
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UnexaminedLifeOfMine Apr 8, 2026 +1
Why did you guys want him to not chicken out of this one?
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randymotanda Apr 8, 2026 +1
I’m don’t understand the calling Donnie Dipshit a chicken for not killing hundreds of thousands of people. Dude is an a****** and a coward to be sure, but why egg on the unstable psycho by calling him a b**** for showing restraint? Would people rather he did blow up Iran? 🤷‍♂️
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