only Trump breaks things, blames anyone for it, and gets extremely angry when the mess isn't fixed fast enough by someone else. Trump is a rich prick toddler requiring constant supervision
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kiwigoalie1 day ago
+4
Can someone please explain to me why his whims are causing such global impact? Like has this not been a major issue with past presidents because of tradition or decorum or something?
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rookie-mistake1 day ago
+10
> Like has this not been a major issue with past presidents because of tradition or decorum or something?
because it's against their own interests, honestly. International power and influence are based on trust, power, and stability, and 1/3 doesn't buy you the degree of influence the US has enjoyed in recent decades
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Ntroepy1 day ago
+17
Past presidents followed international laws/treaties/agreements and believed in American law and justice. It would’ve been impossible before Trump because Congress and the Supreme Court would’ve shut him down rather than bend a knee in servitude.
Trump’s foreign policy consists of “*I’m big. You’re small. So f*** you - I’ll do whatever I want and no one can stop me! Waaah! Waaah!*”.
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Skeeter_2061 day ago
+5
No they didn't, they just weren't dumb enough to pick enemies who have the ability to punch back and hit the US where it hurts.
Obama destroyed Libya and their water infrastructure which was some of the best in the world and provided a steady, clean water supply to their entire population then they killed and raped Gaddafi on camera and on top of all that Hilary Clinton laughed about it to the press... Now Libya is a f****** mess and people like you have the audacity to claim the United States used to follow international law.
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hoishinsauce1 day ago
+4
Past presidents were at least intelligent enough to listen to their competent advisors about the repercussions. And when their advisors sucked or they got ignored, the president actually got the repercussions and the media would blame them for their decisions. The current media doesn't blame Trump for anything and his followers have cult mentality that he's shielded from any repercussion.
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LiteratureMindless711 day ago
+9
It's how he will get his votes. He will say someone else (likely some Democrat that he has tried to demonize) was the one that got the strait closed and only because of his epicness it is back open. Knowing full well they just weeks before it was him.....
And they will believe it. It's an incredible thing to witness.
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Frigoffwidit1 day ago
+5
"The strait was closed because AUTOPEN BIDEN and the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY couldn't get a deal on nuculer, but I got the GREATEST DEAL EVER SEEN to open the Strait of Iran. Grown men in IRAN were crying in the streets saying please sir can you save us? In this deal, Iran will only enrich enough uranium to supply AMERICA with NUCULER POWER and they have agreed to only charge a 5 million toll for each ship to pass. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"
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ranaadnanm1 day ago
It thought Obama closed it personally.
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+1
I think the UK is unfortunately desperate for AV Gas, and will undoubtedly have to intervene to get the straight open.
With weeks left until we run out of jet fuel, it’s inevitable that we send ships to the straight… just my insight. I’d like to see Italy and France at least help if need be.
The shitty part is, this is all Isreal and Americas doing. They better pay up if they want our help to end this tomfuckery!!!
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redyellowblue50311 day ago
+1
The old [eat your own vomit trick](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/eKN1AVOJafw).
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LostHisDog1 day ago
+84
I will never understand how the checks and balances failed so hard that Putin managed to become president of the US...
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Dinmorerfeit1 day ago
+49
Because Republicans have been weakening them and centralizing powers in moves towards authoritarianism since Reagan.
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CaptainCanuck931 day ago
+13
Yeah the externalization of blame seems to be a major coping mechanism among Americans
Put Putin definitely tried to put his thumb on the scale, but any serious assessment of the situation is that Trump is the product of the cultural and political rot eating the US from the inside
Which is why the world must prepare for them to do it again, because we probably won't be so lucky that their next fascist demagogue will be demented
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Forikorder1 day ago
+4
> Yeah the externalization of blame seems to be a major coping mechanism among Americans
people mean it more as in how obviously a russian asset trump is
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TJ-LEED-AP1 day ago
+6
republicans haven’t been themselves since like 2008, they can skull fucked and media capture stole 50% of the country
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RyanW10191 day ago
+12
The original checks and balances were entirely meant to protect each branch of government from the others, not political parties. Turns out people today are fine letting the executive branch have all the power if it gets to be their guy.
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piratecheese131 day ago
+6
Citizens United
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+2
It’s been in the works since the ‘80’s when the Russians invited Trump over and bailed him out. Agent Krakov was installed and I have zero doubt Trump is working with the Russians to undermine global stability.
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noir_lord1 day ago
+29
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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Wyciorek1 day ago
+12
Didn’t he already start talking dumb shit about Falklands?
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noir_lord1 day ago
+13
Pentagon did in a leaked email (I think, it’s hard to keep up with the t****** of stupidity).
Reviewing the Falklands was one of the ways to punish us for not supporting his stupid war.
Nothing to review, they are British, 99.8% of the people who live there voted to remain a British Overseas Territory in 2013 and Argentina’s claim has never had merit.
It’s a moot point anyway, Argentina couldn’t remotely invade the Falklands at this point, they are economically fucked and their military is *worse* than in 1982 and the islands are better defended.
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Aggravating-Ear-97771 day ago
+3
Love it "t****** of stupidity ". Covers it all.
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Wyciorek1 day ago
+5
I would love them to “review” . It would provide exactly zero help to Argentina and make US toxic to British like nothing else
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noir_lord1 day ago
+3
Indeed.
Even our populist grifter fuckwit had to immediately condemn it.
Must be hard to be a flag shagger on our side of the pond when their poster boy keeps taking a shit on it eh.
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whatproblems1 day ago
+2
lol who’s that .2 like one family that forgot to vote?
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noir_lord1 day ago
+4
3 people, iirc one did it to make sure it was a fair vote, one thought Falklands should be independent and one fucked up their ballot (I like to think because they where hungover, that’d be very British).
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Grand_Pop_72211 day ago
+2
The thing that worries me about that Falklands leak is that it would be a great way to split our focus if the Russians do make a move on Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania. In the worst case, you end up with the US and the UK looking like they're umming and ahhing over Article 5 commitments.
The amount of money transferred to Argentina from the Trump admin doesn't do much to make me feel any better, either.
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Ok-Conflict86031 day ago
+28
He charges Europe/nato for any US help in Ukraine but yet he expects everyone to roll in and bail him out in the strait. Pay up Trump or F**k off
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Greddituser1 day ago
-15
Hormuz is affecting other countries like the UK more than the US, so he doesn't care.
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Darkone5391 day ago
+16
>Hormuz is affecting other countries like the UK more than the US, so he doesn't care.
Trump says this a lot, but it's also categorically not the case. America is massively effected by this.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/03/trump-hormuz-oil-iran-war-00857212
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DistanceToEmpty1 day ago
+10
Honestly, at this point the rest of the world needs to endure that pain until Americans feel it enough to sort their own shit out, internationally and domestically.
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Greddituser1 day ago
+6
Trump can wait, but not for very long, as the mid-term elections are only 6 months away.
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CryptoThroway82051 day ago
+3
Al Jazeera says the IRGC has funds till August.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/24/how-long-can-iran-survive-the-uss-hormuz-blockade
>Katzman said he had been informed by an Iranian professor that, based on those supplies, Tehran could have revenue flows that can last until August despite the US naval blockade.
>"Which is a long time. Does President Trump have until August? Probably not,” he said.
Anyways we'll see. Right now there's a lot of very smart, very rich people betting that the price of oil won't skyrocket and the economy will be fine even though shipments have all arrived.
Iran may survive longer if they fully open up the internet for their service sector.
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SashSail1 day ago
+9
For anyone wanting vessel-level data behind the headlines — we've been running AIS surveillance across Hormuz since the crisis began. 13 frames Apr 17–26: 28 vessels/frame average vs 100+ pre-crisis. HARBOUR PHOENIX anchored at the narrows for 56 consecutive days, stationary in every frame. The April 21 ceasefire produced zero change in the AIS pattern — before and after identical. Full dataset at
[global-energy-flow.com/marine-traffic/](http://global-energy-flow.com/marine-traffic/)
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iskin1 day ago
+12
"It's going to be a glorious ballroom. Better than the ones you have in Europe."
"That's great but can we focus on the opening the straight."
"Okay. But this ballroom is going to be amazing. Joe Biden couldn't have built a ballroom this beautiful."
" Sir. Please. Focus. We need to open the straight."
"Yeah. I won my election big. I got the popular vote and the swings states.They said I couldn't but I did."
"We need to open the straight or really bad things will happen."
"That's a democrat hoax. We're winning more than ever before. The Iranians will be begging for the straight to be opened. Have you heard about my ballroom?"
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BOPSurfcasting11 day ago
+5
The war will last at least another 6 months as Iran will hold out till the mid terms, then after the Democrats take the house and restrict funding for the war, Trump will really feel the pressure.
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+1
If the Dems hammer hard for senate seats, then it gets very interesting for Trump.
The problem is, he’ll veto every bill for 2 years.
He needs to be run out of office and I have some hope that if the GOP get absolutely hammered, they’ll turn on him so fast!!! He’d be lame duck and unable to run a 3rd time. Then the mess he’s gotten America into will slowly unwind. Maybe back to some normalcy…..
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Illustrious_Law85121 day ago
+9
The solution is easy.
Leave.
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Haunting_Pop_7491 day ago
+1
Not easy, no favorable deals will means handed the victory to Iran, damaging trusts to US, Drumpf and his administration so bad even the closests ally like Israel wont forgive.
Imo US already in deep shit when Trump ordered these farce, either getting really good deals, crush Iran or swallow the Trump tower sized of humiliations.
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Frequent_Card91101 day ago
If he leaves the Strait will not open, or it will open under Iran's conditions. Besides that, who is paying for the death of thousand of people who died in Iran? Nobody talks about the girls died in bombed school. Iran doesn't forget about the death of their supreme leader and his other leaders. Somehow someone has to pay for the mess US administration created.
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hueythecat1 day ago
+4
$1 extra per barrel
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shadyjim17 hr ago
+1
For now. They can always revise terms. There is nothing to stop them from doing so.
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hueythecat10 hr ago
+1
So one’s gotta pay for the turd the US has shat on them.
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HormuzVengeance1 day ago
Islamic republic has killed THOUSANDS more Iranians than the US has.
Only in January, islamic republic killed 30,000+ Iranians on the streets.
Islamic republic has killed multiple more schoolgirls than the tragedy of Minab school.
No one hates Iran more than the occupying islamic republic, and no one hates islamic republic more than Iranians.
But you are right that if he leaves it will open on islamic republic’s terms which must not happen.
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DistanceToEmpty1 day ago
+7
Don't do anything to legitimize the mess they made. The Americans can either negotiate a solution, or risk their own forces to open the strait. Frankly the economic pain and damage this may cause is worth it to humble the Trump regeme. If this turns out to be America's Suez Crisis moment, so be it.
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+1
I agree, but when no one can fly in or out of Europe because there’s no more jet fuel, it’s gonna cause massive problems for us. On a scale never seen before.
I fear we will have to intervene. And Trump knows it. Hence his Taco Tuesday bullshit he’s been playing with for the last month.
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Sniperkitten421 day ago
+6
Translation: Trump called Starmer and asked him to fix his f*** up, again. Starmer said no.
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wpgrt1 day ago
+2
Aside from price increases, I'm surprised how few problems there have been so far? How much more time do they have to resolve this before it really becomes a noticeable problem.
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+2
When there isn’t any more jet fuel. Which will happen soon. It’s going to get uglier before it gets better unfortunately. And the Iranians have been planning this exact scenario for decades. They’re prepared.
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ElectronicBruce1 day ago
+2
Incoming insults to Starmer from Trump..
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JackBurton___Me1 day ago
+2
Trump needs to call Obama and beg him to get another deal done. Bet he would love to have the Obama deal he tore up out of mindless smite.
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arab-european1 day ago
+2
Trump's global policies are undermining American interests and eroding the trust of long-standing allies
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Boys4Ever1 day ago
+1
Lets call the fire department on the fire we started because we genius like that
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B1ueRogue1 day ago
+1
I hope starmer said "loyal, what like a dog?" And put the phone down
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headphonek991 day ago
+1
I'm sure the Strait will remain closed until the oil futures that affect next winter's oil supply in the Northern Hemisphere are sold. Something like until December—with any luck, we'll have a “Christmas miracle.”
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JustWordsSnowflake1 day ago
+2
It’ll happen sooner. When the UK runs out of AV gas, (predicted to be within 3-4 weeks) they’ll have to intervene. It’s unfortunate but true. And I think Trump knows it.
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Professional-Ad387420 hr ago
+1
I don't think Iran's oil infrastructure can make it that long. They are feeling a lot of pressure now too based on their replys/rhetoric/statements today.
Well see what happens, but it starting to feel like a stalemate. Things will go back where they were except the IRGC may have gone public with how much power they have politically in Iran, and the GCC countries will now take a harder stance on Iran.
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schu4KSU1 day ago
Don’t be a panican!
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Left-Night-11251 day ago
I could say...all as planned, but i have my doubts Trump has done any planning.
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Laughing_Zero1 day ago
Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Trumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't open the strait again.
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lightspuzzle1 day ago
heres this week market manipulation.i have the feeling something big will happen by friday.
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HormuzVengeance1 day ago
-8
The UK is on fast track to update some legislature to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. Once it does so, it can start seizing the assets that are associated with it domestically which is easily upwards of multi millions if not billions.
Crippling and starving the occupying islamic regime economically will further reduce their tools of destruction and oppression on top of a lot of it having been destroyed in the war allowing for the population to have a successful uprising.
As long as the terrorists have the country hostage and control its assets, there will never be assurance that the world won’t suffer under them.
The only way to permanently restore free, open access through the strait as well as ensure stability will be through the eradication of the occupying islamic terrorist regime.
Edit: lol being downvoted for saying a terrorist organisation holding a country ransom is a bad thing.
Trust Listnook to side with islamic terrorists.
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Gazmus1 day ago
-10
Can Keir Starmer just stay out of it? He's just going to embarass us and achieve nothing once again.
-10
FKFnz1 day ago
+1
So... like Trump then?
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Common_Source_91 day ago
-1
Starmer, who who sent his associate Mandelson, one of Epstein's closest buddies, as ambassador in the US, and Trump, who refuses to release the client list?
Wonder what they are *actually* discussing.
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