Nothing says competent leader like a guy who ignores reality and spews delusions
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Timujin1986Apr 2, 2026
+36
Hitler was still confident he could win the war as late as January 1945.
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we_are_sex_bobombApr 2, 2026
+25
Well he did win the war, he single-handedly defeated Hitler!
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Timujin1986Apr 2, 2026
+6
He did defeat Hitler bigly, nobody defeated Hitler as fast as Trump. Never before seen in history. All the leading experts said Trump was a genius and he did a wonderfull job, Trump gives himself an A+!
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cwatson214Apr 2, 2026
+6
Dude was high as f*** though.
...Wait a minute...
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alangcarterApr 2, 2026
+4
Don't big Trump up. [Comical Ali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf) was confident he could win the war as the tanks rolled down the street behind him.
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skawnApr 2, 2026
+80
Confounding bit is that ~10-20 million Americans still think he's the best leader the country has ever had.
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labtekJCApr 2, 2026
+26
I'm in southern NH with one neighbor who has TRUMP spray painted on the side of his house and another (farmer) still sporting a 2024 trump billboard and flag. I honestly thought the shame of Epstein would break the spell but no. It's a cult.
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kansei7Apr 2, 2026
+4
I'm in the Monadnock region most weekends hiking, and it's pretty alarming how it seems the signs only get bigger and more deranged over time. So many free staters openly welcoming fascism.
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CharZeroApr 2, 2026
+2
Last time I went to the North Country, we saw a lot of permanent Trump signs, like with landscaping and lighting on them.
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mok000Apr 2, 2026
+2
Cult experts say that when doubts begin to enter your mind about the infallibility of the leader, people tend to double down and become even more loyal. In the meantime there’s something going on in their thoughts that eventually results in a break from the cult.
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restore_democracyApr 2, 2026
+73
Everyone who voted for him voted for this. Everyone who didn’t vote voted for this. Everyone who voted third party voted for this. Everyone who didn’t vote for him but voted Republican downballot voted for this.
We’re in this situation because over 150 million people supported it through their action or inaction.
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[deleted]Apr 2, 2026
+9
Nah he had some help from Elon and I'm tired of us blaming each other when the truth is in our f****** faces. "If Trump doesn't win, I'll go to prison lol" Elon Musk 2024
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antifragileApr 2, 2026
+21
Nah that’s just cope , people voted for this.
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lawrencecoolwaterApr 2, 2026
+10
The end conclusion of your statement is a complete robbery of a person’s agency. There’re consequences to actions, becoming an adult is about owning those consequences.
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[deleted]Apr 2, 2026
-4
You're in the UK. You should worry who Elon is funding in your own backyard instead of preaching to me.
-4
Tainted_BruhApr 2, 2026
+5
This is some sad cope, like MAGA claiming the 2020 election was stolen.
At some point, people have to take responsibility for their action or inaction. And those suffering despite voting against this are fully within their rights to call out these people.
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[deleted]Apr 2, 2026
What's even sadder is that it's been admitted to and the truth is being called cope.
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Nice_Rush_1462Apr 2, 2026
+1
No .. America voted for this ...
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FeeComfortable3041Apr 2, 2026
+1
So what would accountability look like? A public apology tour? Make them walk naked in the streets? Make them destitute or eject them from the US? Or do you just want them straight executed.
It's progress or payback. You can't have both.
And if it IS the latter, how are you different from ICE but in another name?
Edits for clarity and to add complete thought
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restore_democracyApr 2, 2026
+1
The problem is that it’s not 10-20 million. It’s not even 70 million. It’s most of the country. So it’s probably irretrievably broken unless there is a grassroots renaissance in a future generation.
The failure of Reconstruction teaches us that the result of there being no ramifications for treason is that the evil will survive and resurface, that there can be no progress without consequences. Nuremburg helped to ensure that Germany progressed, and those loyal to the Nazi regime were held accountable from top leadership down to camp guards and secretaries.
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FeeComfortable3041Apr 2, 2026
+1
Because if punishments are too hard you get the Treaty of Versailles.
Punishments can easily turn into justifications for reprisal.
You didn't get WWII without WWI
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MatthewDoesPostingApr 2, 2026
+1
It isn't most.
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restore_democracyApr 2, 2026
+1
It is. Most either actively supported him or stood by and didn’t resist him. The failure of “neutrals” to reject him is what brought him back. If you’re ok with Hitler, you enable the nazis whether you wear a uniform or not.
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MatthewDoesPostingApr 2, 2026
Nope.
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clickmagnetApr 2, 2026
+4
It makes you wonder how stupid and horrible a person they *could* have supported, but the limiting factor is that there is no more stupid or horrible a person in the world. But if there was he could be president, and may yet.
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Legitimate-Wash-6336Apr 2, 2026
+4
They do, I’m surrounded by MAGA and they think he is god. It’s f****** terrifying and hilarious at the same time.
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Awkward-Audience7887Apr 2, 2026
+3
They're cultists with gazed eyes and smiles.
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theipaperApr 2, 2026
+31
Even for a speech on April Fool’s Day, [Donald Trump’s](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?srsltid=AfmBOoqzQHPDbZrHoKz98i5t4GJcurGdKlK466AG1wFZ-0wtqsK5O7uQ&ico=in-line_link) address to the nation about [the Iran war](https://inews.co.uk/news/iran-war-trump-israel-latest-updates-4323867?ico=in-line_link) felt like a bad joke.
In his first prime-time speech since the war began 33 days ago, the US President failed to meet the moment amid crumbling public support at home for the conflict.
It was billed as an important update on the war amid spiralling petrol prices with analysts claiming the worst oil shock in history is unfolding.
Instead, Trump’s 20-minute address felt like a stump speech during his last election campaign, only with a slight Middle Eastern flavour.
Speaking from the White House, the US President sounded croaky, tired and looked like he didn’t want to be explaining yet again how well the war was supposedly going.
For a man who made his living selling real estate, this was one pitch that even Trump couldn’t make sound convincing.
It felt like the same tired, unbelievable talking points we’ve been hearing for a month now from senior White House officials and cabinet members.
Trump said that America’s core objectives were “nearing completion” and repeated that he expected the fighting would go on for another two to three weeks.
In an absurdly simplistic comparison, Trump reeled off the lengths of time America had been involved in other wars, such as WWII and the Korean War.
“We are in this military operation for 32 days and the country (Iran) has been eviscerated and is no longer a threat,” Trump said.
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theipaperApr 2, 2026
+18
Lest we forget, former US President George W Bush made his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech six weeks after the invasion of Iraq, a war that would go on for more than eight years.
At least Trump stuck to the script on the objectives of the war: making sure Iran never gets nuclear weapons, destroying the Iranian navy, degrading its missile capabilities and stopping it from being able to support terrorist allies in the region.
The problem was that earlier in the day, he told Reuters that he wasn’t bothered about getting hold of Iran’s supplies of enriched uranium.
Trump had said: “That’s so far underground, I don’t care about that”.
When the US President turned to the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage which carries 20 per cent of the world’s supply of oil and has been shut down by Iran, he went from optimistic to absurd.
According to Trump, the Strait will “open up naturally” once the war ends because the Iranians need money from oil, too.
In other words, Iran will magically give up its Trump card without anything in return.
What Americans were crying out for was some empathy about gas prices, which have hit $4 (£3) a gallon for the first time since 2022, when the Ukraine war began.
At a time when the cost of living was already the number one concern of voters, paying higher prices for petrol is proving crippling to many.
Instead, the US President glossed over the economic damage and made no mention of the fallout around the world, which has led some Asian nations to take drastic measures because of shortages of petrol.
Trump said the higher gas prices were a “short-term increase” which, in his fantastical reading of the tea leaves, would come down soon.
The only good point to come out of the address was that Trump didn’t attack Nato as strongly as had been expected.
Trump has been furious about the refusal of Western nations, the UK in particular, to help the military campaign and re-open the Strait of Hormuz.
In the speech, he urged Britain and the EU to buy oil from the US and go to the Strait and “just take it”, referring to the oil.
You might be forgiven for thinking why Trump bothered with the speech at all, but the tell may be in how badly the war is actually going.
With the US midterm elections just seven months away, the polling has been brutal for Trump and is getting worse by the day.
Hours before Trump spoke, a new CNN poll found that just one in three Americans believe the US President has a “clear plan to handle the situation in Iran”.
Two separate surveys released last week by The Associated Press and Quinnipiac University put Trump’s overall approval at just 38 per cent, a new low for him.
A University of Massachusetts Amherst survey put it even lower, at 33 per cent.
In the speech, Trump tried to portray the bombing of Iran as an “investment in your children and grandchildren’s future”.
“The whole world is watching and they can’t believe what they are seeing”, Trump said.
Very true, but just not in the way he thinks.
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NubileOneApr 2, 2026
+22
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
Oliver Kornetzke
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Writer_In_ResidenceApr 2, 2026
+14
No, it doesn’t. The war is going badly because everyone is a moron and many in his cabinet or advising team are psychopaths, alcoholics, or alcoholic psychopaths. Also, stupid and incompetent. We can see how it’s going, we don’t need the president for that.
His croaky speech is because he’s an idiot with dementia losing control of his faculties. He gave croaky, incoherent speeches on the campaign trail.
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lowsparkedheelsApr 2, 2026
+12
I'm confused. In Feb Trump was telling Iranian people to rise up and take their country back. Then we bombed their neighborhoods, children's schools and sports practice locations.
How TF are those bombings legal?
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engineer_ExistentialApr 2, 2026
+6
Theyre not. Just the makings of one orange prick
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Nice_Rush_1462Apr 2, 2026
+1
No ... easy way out .. the rest of us see it as the makings of Americans ...
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SystemError505Apr 2, 2026
+24
# The war WAS LOST ON THE FIRST DAY!!!
That's when Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz and destroyed MULTIPLE advanced $1+ billion(each) radar systems at US bases ranging from Jordan to Bahrain to the UAE and more. That left the US blind to incoming missiles.
Trump has seen more bases destroyed than the US has seen in ANY war, including when we lost the Philippines in WWII.
Iran planned out this war. The US is lead by a leader who doesn't read reports, makes decisions by 'instinct' and 'his gut feeling,' and is advised by an incompetent drunkard as Sec. of Defense.
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engineer_ExistentialApr 2, 2026
+4
Hey man they even rebranded to department of war. How can you go wrong from there
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Late-Dingo-8567Apr 2, 2026
+7
ya know, for a guy who ran on peace & affordability....
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MichaelEll1sApr 2, 2026
+5
Trumps a pedophile !!
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Traditional_Neat_506Apr 2, 2026
+2
what do you expect from him? he doesn't know iran is willing to bring down the GCC with them (if he does bomb iran's dams and make the water worse iran will do the same to all of that desal plants on the range of shaheds) if done the first or never had the concept of knowledge and critical thinking in the first place
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pasterhattApr 2, 2026
+1
Oil up 9% at 730am. Oof.
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DirtyBurgerCommanderApr 2, 2026
+1
Normal people who are capable of basic reasoning and deduction would listen to that address and come to that conclusion. It reeked of desperation and panic.
They really thought him just repeating his social media tirades on TV would be a great idea. Somehow it would give those unhinged posts gravitas.
Anyone with an above room temp IQ would listen to that speech and know that things are going terrible, there is no end in sight and this administration has no clue what they are doing.
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i-read-it-againApr 2, 2026
+1
He is throwing the toys out the pram. He is pooing himself. Made a complete laughing stock of himself and lost any credibility America once had . And looks like a weak lame duck president. And still he is allowed to carry on.
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