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Trump’s TV-Warped Brain Is Putting the World in Danger: The president is experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that’s very bad news for all of us.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-iran-war-television/

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Additional_Quiet2600 Mar 26, 2026 +230
Trump is completely gone. He has no cognitive ability to do anything besides what people tell him. We are fucked.
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naughtywhirlx Mar 26, 2026 +39
He has done more harm than good
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h4ck3r_n4m3 Mar 26, 2026 +33
He could have done 1 harm and he'd have done more harm than good
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BilboBiden Mar 26, 2026 +28
That could be the title of his biography.
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Dangerous-Analyst818 Mar 26, 2026 +11
What good do you feel he has done?
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Morganelefay Mar 27, 2026 +1
He has made sure Europe understands no longer to rely on America and build up their own defenses. He's probably kickstarted a massive energy transition without intending to. Now, if you ask me what good he's done for the average American, I got nothing.
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Dangerous-Analyst818 Mar 27, 2026 +1
I’d agree with those points
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Little_View_6659 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Yeah I’m really hopeful that after this Iran war fiasco a lot of places will be open to transitioning to solar and wind energy. It’s just really demonstrating that one country can hold the world’s energy hostage.
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RigelXVI Mar 27, 2026 +1
They built the aqueducts?
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Bubble_gump_stump Mar 27, 2026 +1
You’re obviously not a golfer.
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giro83 Mar 27, 2026 +1
What f****** good has he done?
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purrfectly_precious Mar 26, 2026 +19
For real, the "Commander-in-Chief" is essentially a glorified remote control at this point. When the leader of the free world is making geopolitical decisions based on 30-second rage-bait clips instead of classified intelligence briefings, we aren't just "in danger" we’re passengers in a car with a driver who thinks the windshield is a movie screen.
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tweakingforjesus Mar 27, 2026 +1
Which means Stephen Miller is calling the shots.
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TemporarySun314 Mar 26, 2026 +15
Americans collectively are also completely gone without any cognitive abilities... Otherwise they wouldn't have elected an insane moronic pedo fascist as their president twice...
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Additional_Quiet2600 Mar 27, 2026 +18
A third of our voting public did. Not all of us. I could sit around all day and talk about the dictatorial regimes in Europe that y'all have had for a while. Stop it. It's not helping.
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Wretched_Gourd Mar 27, 2026 +17
And another third couldn’t be bothered to vote. It’s defeating, being an intelligent American who never wanted any of this. Of course the well-deserved international hate will find its way to every American. Thanks Republicans
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Additional_Quiet2600 Mar 27, 2026 +1
It sure is.
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Little_View_6659 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Yeah I’m over seas and travel a lot. The last time I got this much hate was when the U.S. invaded Iraq. I was in Turkey and this group of kids followed me around saying “You invade Iraq”. Well, I was bored so I started telling them a long story about how I, and I alone invaded Iraq. I was a one woman war machine, Rambo in a skirt. I knew they couldn’t follow along, their English wasn’t that good. Boy were they confused. 😂
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Morganelefay Mar 27, 2026 +1
Hungary and Belarus are the only ones you could reasonably point at, both of which are propped up by Putin. Others have had temporary right-wing goverments, none of which doing even close to a fraction of the damage Trump is doing to their own country, let alone the world.
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TemporarySun314 Mar 27, 2026 +1
How many countries did Hungary bombed in the last years? When has Georgia meloni threatened to invade territory of an NATO ally? When has slovakia started a trade war with the world and manipulated global markets?
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berlenba Mar 27, 2026 +1
Ultimately the votes don’t matter. EC will decide whatever they want and they are not obligated to vote in alignment with their constituents.
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Additional_Quiet2600 Mar 27, 2026 +1
The electoral college doesn't decide anything people vote and whoever wins the state gets the electoral college votes. What are you talking about?
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berlenba Mar 27, 2026 +1
Faithless electors. Some states still allow it. I personally am in favor of a ranked or weighted voting system
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Additional_Quiet2600 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Yes, but they have never swung an election. I am for those too.
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Little_View_6659 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Not all of us. But unfortunately we’re being held hostage by morons.
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jimmygee2 Mar 27, 2026 +1
He has the attention span of 2 year old in a chocolate factory. He is also a moron.
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TrumpsBussy_ Mar 27, 2026 +1
That’s an exaggeration, he’s certainly terrible for the majority of the world though.
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returnofthecursed Mar 26, 2026 +99
He has lived his entire life that way, divorced from reality and spoon-fed ego-pleasing lies and childish, simplistic narratives about how things work. It is far, far too late for warnings. The warnings were given years ago, and they were ignored. Now we're stuck with the consequences of it. A wannabe dictator with the mind of a child as our president. MAGA has a lot to answer for.
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CranberrySchnapps Mar 27, 2026 +1
They just wanted to own the libs and Trump just really couldn’t stand seeing a black man as president. So, Trump lied, republican voters ate it up, and Heritage Foundation got high on their own farts.
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tweakingforjesus Mar 27, 2026 +1
Has anyone seen Mitch McConnell recently? He’s been noticeably silent.
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bassplayerguy Mar 26, 2026 +23
He likes watching things go boom and also watching the stock and oil markets go up and down everytime he opens his rancid trap.
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AUHappyguy Mar 26, 2026 +12
He doesn't care, it's all about money and power
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morbob Mar 27, 2026 +10
He’s not a president, he’s a draft dodger.
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The_Bukkake_Ninja Mar 27, 2026 +1
If only that was all
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Mar 26, 2026 +10
You can practically see him splashing around a golden bathtub with his war toys.
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Karlend41 Mar 26, 2026 +26
I don't know if they've noticed, but most Boomers and old people are morons who just surf news channels until it tells them what they want to hear. It ain't special that Trump's doing that because it's a problem with everybody that age. TV is where these people got information their entire lives. It's where they're going to go for information until they die. Trump and his republican buddies knew that, it's why they're paying so much to control TV channels that get less viewers then mid-tier youbuters.
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PrometheusLiberatus Mar 26, 2026 +11
Thank god so many people around my generation are losing total trust in television as a reliable medium!
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BiscottiEastern220 Mar 26, 2026 +26
Hell yeah! Now we're relying on anonymous social media posts lol 😄
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PrometheusLiberatus Mar 27, 2026 +2
I'd trust a knowledgeable stranger way the hell more than a greedy corporation at this point. At least reddit has error correction built right in with 'peer review'.
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BiscottiEastern220 Mar 27, 2026 +3
Hard to tell who the stranger though. I will say this is definitely a golden era for independent media on platforms like YouTube. Well informed guys like Brian Tyler Cohen are killing it
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zeldasusername Mar 27, 2026 +1
I cannot believe the brain rot 
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OG-BoomMaster Mar 26, 2026 +7
No he is still in control. He has given Iran 2 days to open the straight or they will see hell. Oh wait, I mean it’s been changed now to 5 days to accept 15 simple conditions for ending the war or they will se hell!!! He is still in full control of the situation. /s
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Dangerous-Analyst818 Mar 26, 2026 +3
He’s now given them 10 more days ..
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Im_Talking Mar 26, 2026 +7
This is how a golden retriever or a 5yo child would tackle the Iran War. War by pictures and treats.
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P1xelHunter78 Mar 26, 2026 +6
That’s an insult to most golden retrievers and 5 year olds. Goldens are compassionate and lots of kids have a pretty good moral compass. Psychopaths however…. Trump is a dark triad type personality and is likely mentally ill. This “dark triad” pushes him in ways we’re seeing play out in Iran.
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Conscious-Demand-594 Mar 27, 2026 +3
Blame the people who voted for him, and who sat on the sidelines. I did my part to stop this piece of shit.
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SavingsOpposite1067 Mar 27, 2026 +1
So did I But apparently it wasn't enough because people are lazy.
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Knees0ck Mar 26, 2026 +2
They are Faux News'ing him
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Transitmotion Mar 27, 2026 +2
This man legitimately has a front seat to practically everything happening around the world via the American intelligence apparatus, but instead he just tunes into Fox News. It's really quite amazing.
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riko77can Mar 27, 2026 +1
If this were the plot of a movie everyone would pan it for being too stupid to believe.
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FoxyInTheSnow Mar 26, 2026 +1
Anything that speeds up the total collapse of this decadent kakistocracy is alright in my books.
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Akrevics Mar 26, 2026 +1
The president is ~~experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that’s~~ very bad ~~news~~ for all of us.
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Obvious-Squirrel1433 Mar 27, 2026 +1
This is terrifying. A man who gets his intel from cable news segments is making decisions that could start a war. We are so screwed.
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Deus_is_Mocking_Us Mar 27, 2026 +1
It's not even cable news segments. His aids are editing short montage-like videos for him to follow the war.
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MawsonAntarctica Mar 27, 2026 +1
Oh I would love for Baudrillard to write about this, Trump is the apotheosis of the simulacra.
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Logansrun6 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Ya think?!?
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drewts86 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Ironically Trump’s brain feeding on misleading clips really isn’t that different than AI hallucinating because it’s being fed bad information, likely from another AI’s bad information.
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jdtrouble Mar 27, 2026 +2
AI centipede?
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drewts86 Mar 27, 2026 +1
It’s a combination AI-to-human centipede. Shitty humans feed AI trash, AI outputs pseudo-new recycled trash for those same humans to feed on.
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teamdiabetes11 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Learned from his master, Putin.
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Cock_Broker Mar 27, 2026 +1
He's a man that enteres every situation with "don't you know who I am?" energy, except that he has no talent and was handed everything in life
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QueenOfSplitEnds Mar 27, 2026 +1
Everyone is focusing on the orangutang but he’s not smart enough to orchestrate and execute all this chaos. Who’s spoon-feeding him? If we ever get back to a better normal, remember those who whispered in his gullible ears and fed his damaged, bigoted brain more bullshit.
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G00b3rb0y Mar 27, 2026 +1
Civil society is dead and buried. The anarchists are running the asylum
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deenali Mar 27, 2026 +1
The Supreme Misleader
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ThisIsGr8ThisIsGr8 Mar 27, 2026 +1
The US CONGRESS is putting the world in danger. They can stop this tomorrow if they want to
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YJSubs Mar 27, 2026 +1
Remember his first term ? It's been revealed he doesn't trust over any his own department intelligence report and use Fox news as source. I'm suuure this time around he would do better....
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my5cworth Mar 27, 2026 +1
You guys think he's destroyed the economy enough? Just wait until he realizes the US Military doesn't charge the civilian world for using its GPS array.
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LatelyPlatonic Mar 26, 2026 +1
Luckily, stock market doesn't lie. And Trump recognizes that since he doesn't have a functional johnson any more, the stock market is the only thing he gets to measure any more.
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Suspicious_Peak_1173 Mar 27, 2026 -1
So Trump is a typical American? Say it ain't so. :(
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giro83 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Because otherwise they lose their job.
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