US says Trump ‘interested’ in asking Arab countries to pay for war on Iran

Just like he made the Mexicans pay for his wall?

The plane wasn’t enough Qatar, lol.

It'd be more appropriate if it's the Arab countries that would request Trump to pay them for the ruckus he caused without any coherent plan.

He‘s such a stupid man

Maybe he should ask Israel, since they started it

This m*********** has been doing this his [entire life]( https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/trump-files-when-donald-demanded-other-people-pay-his-overpriced-football-stars/)

I'm sure UAE and Saudi will also be (quietly for now) very interested in potential future investment switches  with China's military not to be dependent on the clusterclown backstab disaster that is the Trump regime.

This would be the equivalent of taking a dump in front of Mar-a-Lago, then ringing the bell to ask for a toilet paper. I’m sure that, in typical Trump fashion, he’ll claim they all agreed - and even offered to cover U.S. bombing costs in Iran - only for the Arab countries to deny any talks ever took place a few hours later.

Time to take the keys back from Trump. No more joyriding

If they were willing to pay for it, wouldn’t they have done that before the US attacked Iran? 

I could never be a world leader. I couldn’t take a call from this idiot without just bursting out laughing.

"Watch this, you can just bully people into doing anything you want. Im surprised nobody thought of this before me. I'm so strong and smart"

It seems surreal for Americans still but it's about to get real when a whole bunch of American soldiers get lit up any day.

Trump’s always interested in placing the cost burden on other people… he’s done it all his life.

What a bargain for them!

Oh nice! Just like Mexico paid for that dumbass wall.

He has to ask them to build a wall, then say Iran will pay for the wall.

I just shat all over my neighbours lawn, I’m interested in someone else cleaning it up.

Just like he got Mexico to pay for the border wall, right?

Like Mexico paid for a wall?

Arab countries like Israel?

Best thing trump can do is walk away from this war. It's lost. Put export restrictions on American crude oil to spike up the worlds oil prices so that China and Europe put pressure on iran to open up the strait.

If anything, Israel should pay for it. It's their war after all.

Thought about it, but nah, much rather try to bully the European nations into paying for it. 

Israel can pay for it, yes.

I mean, I’m interested in spending time with Margot Robbie and Sydney Sweeney. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

If they don’t pay Mexico will have to pay for it 🤷‍♂️

Just nice. If the war extends to June they would have to use currency signed by Trump to fund the war. I can't imagine how pissed I would be in this situation.

I think Dubai, and other gulf states, would want some money for the repairs. I hope they all stop doing business with the US over this...

Guy goes off all the time on how all these countries don't pay up, but whenever he needs to pay something he passes the bill off to someone else.

What!!

one day soon i will open my laptop and it will tell me that it has happened, the thing the world has been waiting for, and there will be a day of celebration and a sigh of relief.

Dodging his bills, on-brand.

"We fucked up all your shit, arent you going to say thank you?"

can you please pay to provide you that protection that you've already paid (a lot!) but we were not able to provide?

Hey, I have an idea! Optics are bad, need to give the people something else to consider! Let's go make a big mess in someone else's backyard. What's that? It blew up on our face? Hmm, okay... We didn't really have any stakes there to begin with (yeah, right, lol...) how about we pull out? And if they want us to stay and clean it up, we'll charge them for it! Brilliant! This guy... This guy is the f****** _master_. Whenever you think "this is it; this is rock bottom; it can't get any worse, any more cringe or immoral", here comes Donald Fuckwit Trump to save the day with a new low! It's impressive, really.

The money expenditure is quite frankly the lowest hanging fruit he could get out of them, but for Trump it's always about some stupid shit. The gulf states paying money for the continuation of this war is not going to make Iran open the strait, during or after the war and nor is it going to get the regime out. Every single thing Trump is considering and doing has the exact same result: strait remains under Iranian control, the regime remains in control and Iran remains steadfast on acquiring nukes.

Why would they pay for a war he started and can't end?

The same countries that he didn’t counsel first and then suffered collateral damage as a result? Those ones?

Well, he MEANT to say pay HIM!

They let you rub the Orb. Is that not enough???

He just wants to get as many countries fully committed to costly conflicts and attempt to profit from it

Why ? we’re already paying for it at the pump. and it’s a small price to pay, and it’s very temporary. source: djt

trump is literally Mona Lisa Saperstein going "Moneyy pweeeeeze!"

Congrats U.S., becoming the most hated country in the world, under President Trump. He alone ruined the country reputation built up since WWII.

Like asking Trump to actually pay for anything (out of his own pocket).

Alternative news headlines. Arab countries say Trump 'interested' in forcing them to pay for war on Iran

Bro someone do something

Whats a Don without protection money?

All that this admin cares about is money. Not towards the country but towards their pockets too, so I'd be worried that any money paid by said Arab countries would not fully end up in the country's bank accounts. But Americans soldiers being wounded or killed? Heh, who cares, what matters is the money. This is what happens when you elect someone that has shown multiple time that he has 0 respect for dead soldiers, Americans or otherwise. You cannot expect that kind of person to have a problem with Americans soldiers dying since he sees them as tools to use and losers that no one should care about.

Im sure he is, I’m interested in having the Bank just giving me 40 million tax free no questions asked.

Everything is a grift

Didn't work a hundred times before, why should it work this time

Maybe, just maybe, ask them to participate in this war instead of NATO countries. Americans are fighting another country's war for money, that's just straight up mercenary. Wake up guys you are just being played, spent and sometimes killed for no reason.

Arent a bunch of these countries members of his “board of peace”, which already had to buy in at 10 billion?

Saddam's cassus belli for invading Kuwait was coincidentally reparations for his war of choice against Iran years earlier.

If you can rip somedody of or bully someone, he is always "interested"

I have never been in the military but it seems to me that most people join it to serve and defend their country. Doesn't it diminish the value of their service by making them mercenaries? It's just a job then. Your fighting for money - not your country.

Such a MORON

The great dealmaker, lol. If anything, Iran is just what this fuckwit needs, it'll show him where he really stands on the planet - ie an incompetent f****** clown whose gone and put himself in a hole when he has no concept of how shovels work.

Trump's delusions know no bounds.

They are already paying for it by getting their infra destroyed.

Sweet. Time for excise taxes on oil.

Hey guys...I know WE started this and YOU are being hit constantly by missiles and drones but I'm really gonna need you to pay us back for all this good work we've done keeping you safe from big, bad Iran.

Like the $400 million Qatari airplane bribe? Or the $500 million UAE crypto bribe? \*Or the billions the Saudi gave to Kushner?

What, gonna ask for more crypto bribes or some new golden 747 airliners?

I drank all my beer. I am gonna ask my neighbour to buy me a new case. Is that how this works?

If Republicans had it their way the ENTIRE WORLD would be paying them directly every single day just for thanku for existing...

And we have to decipher what he means by that. Will he ask that they pay him to keep the US fighting? Will he ask that they throw a coin in the pot to cover some costs as we loose troops? What is meant by this statement?

If Arab countries will pay for this already won war, then why are congressional republicans trying to pay for it by stealing from healthcare funding?

I now regularly have to check if his comments are coming for "The onion".

If this is the price of peace, Trump stopping the war because the Arabians won't pay him. I suppose that's an exit strategy.

Trump has turned the United States into a mercenary nation

If the Arab countries were the ones that 'pushed' Trump to act against Iran, sure, why not?

I thought NATO was paying lol.

US has successfully played the Arabs and fooled them . US has sufficient oil now and doesn't rely on the gulf anymore . US is protecting israel more than the arab states who US has promised to protect in return of those bases . US is deliberately allowing the Arabs to be pounded by Iran increasing the threat and risk to their kingdoms and their family rule. The petro dollar deal was expired in 2024 and has not renewed by Saudi Arabia which allowed the use of other currencies other than dollar something which has not gone down well with US . The dollar recycling is gone down significantly. What is happening in middle east right now is not just US vs Iran it's more than that is a complete "Reset" . The oil for protection arrangment is finished US is creating new terms and conditions for the gulf.