Trump on war in Iran: ‘Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego’
U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.
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Every time I think my faith in humanity couldn't be shaken further, I find ways to be surprised.
It's a crowd that would actually go to a Trump rally in 2026. Don't hinge your faith in humanity on self selected bad people.
Is anyone doing any kind of facial recognition on any of the shots of the crowds that get out? Any bets on how many in the crowd are part of the traveling circus?
He has enough evil fucks who fully support his attacks on the US that he doesn't need a traveling circus.
We very much have a Nazi problem.
👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
And we always have
I dunno. I lose faith in humanity just for the fact there are still people going to his rallies
We should be tracking every person who still attends a Trump rally. They are future terrorists.
It’s easier to get through the day if you just don’t consider him a human
Him or most of his supporters
Either would do. Or both.
True, but we need to. We need to consider him human so we know exactly what we are and we have to look this shit in the face if we ever want to fix it.
I’m not sure why some palaver from a Republican event would affect your feelings about humanity - there’s no humanity involved.
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe he accidentally disclosed their October surprise?
Could this government be planning something for No Kings protests on October 17th?
I try not to attribute to malice things that are easily explained by stupidity.
The guy wants to be putin, and the administration demonstrated multiple times they have no issues with killing Americans.
Epstein himself wrote:
And fucking Epstein was a monster himself.
Your assumption is good for judging people we don't know, but we know him very well. During the pandemic he found a way to enrich himself. During Venezuela he bombed fishermen (never provided evidence to the accusation) so he liked innocent people only to create excuse to amass Navy in that region to do the operation. And now that dust settled all of our was to basically steal their oil.
He really is the Katniss Everdeen of Presidents.
Ah yes, "let them take out Los Angeles," a city that would rank as the 19th highest GDP if it was its own country. A city that alone contributes 4+% of the USA's economic output. Great strategy, Commander in Soiled Briefs.
Not to mention the absolute importance of Hollywood for the US status as the cultural hegemon of the West. Without US-centric entertainment, that status would never have materialized. In terms of propaganda power, there is no comparable place, not even NY comes close.
Can you imagine if Obama said ISIS could take out San Antonio?
I really can't imagine anyone but Trump saying something like this
Yeah, during the start of COVID, I think it was either Trump himself or his chief of staff who said that COVID was a blue state thing, basically saying that it wasn't worth doing anything about as long as it was killing Democrats.
I'm sure there are other examples, but that one was famous. This is just the kind of inhuman statement that you expect from Trump.
Kushner said it was a blue state issue I believe.
I've seen far more Talarico signs than Paxton signs around here, so I feel like there are more productive cities to threaten. That being said, there are still far too many Paxton signs, so I get it.
How there are any is a wonder to me with literally everything we know of the guy
It will be hilarious if Texas votes for Talarico
I think he would stand down and let Peter Thiel's boy take over
Every single day this sentence is valid. I'm tired boss.
Isn't San Diego fairly conservative by California standards?
That does not matter if tbey have the wrong skin color.
And in California.
As you know, if youre a republican, California = bad.
Even though it has more Republicans than anywhere else in the nation.
If logic or reason worked on these assholes, they wouldn’t be Republicans in the first place
And has a ton of military located there
It used to be, and inland areas still are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County
Inland Imperial here, we are getting better slowly but surely. Hey at least we aren't having cross burnings like we did in the 90s, at least to my knowledge.
Yes, along with nearby Orange County.
California has a FUCK TON of conservatives.
Not only is this traitor a traitor, he's a traitor openly stating he's fine with a FUCK TON of his own constituents being murdered by Iran.
Too bad his constituents are mindless cultists, or something like this might make them upset.
By California standards as an entire state? Not really, since there are some DEEP red areas in this huge state filled with tons of farms. By only cities in California standards? Yes.
Now imagine if a Dem president said this about a red area. Instant impeachment...
Ill say it. Fuck Missouri.
Yeah. I live here and this place fucking sucks. It feels like it's literally almost 10 years behind the rest of the country, let alone the rest of the world.
"bUt It'S cHeAp To LiVe HeRe." Not anymore.
Even iowa makes fun of Missouri. Let that sink in.
cries in Arkansas
So he and his zionist fascist pedophile scum are planning a false flag massacre of Southern California
The worst president. It's not even close.
One of the worst humans in recorded history. No small feat.
We're lucky he lacks the intelligence to be a real villain.
Oh he's a villain alright just not a super villain.
Ostensibly the most powerful position in the world, says terrible things, but still sucks at doing those terrible things. That is the greatest indicator of his incompetence - he can't even break things very well. It should be no problem for him to make Iran, or most anywhere else, be in a much worse state than it is. Yes, after Venezuela had a decade or more of collapse, he made things worse. Yes, after Cuba had 60 years of sanctions, he made it worse. Yes, after Palestine went through decades of repression, he helped the guys who have been doing that for the last 30 years make it a lot worse. He should be able to do these things to objectively stable countries that just don't have the economic and military power to stand toe to toe. But Iran, which, while powerful, should have been possible to destabilize, has kept significant control of the strait. At the same time, their ability to project power around the world has been diminished.
Imagine being so incompetent you can't even break shit very well.
My god... he really is Hal Stewart if the power of Tighten instead was being elected to the most powerful office in the world.
I just realized that the characters name may be a combination of Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Fucken love Megamind.
This is nothing more than an ego jab, considering how small his hands are he probably has very small feet as well.
This idiot doesn't know where Iran is. He doesn't know the world is round. He doesn't know Mar-a-Lago is closer than California to Iran. It is literally easier to target him than it is LA.
Roughly 8000 miles from Tehran to LA. Roughly 7000 miles from Tehran to Orlando.
I will give the "however" of a missile to LA would pass over Russia, the North Pole, and middle of nowhere Canada. While a missile to Orlando would go over Europe and the Eastern seaboard. There might be an argument it is more likely that a missile completes the first journey due to flying over uncontested space.
Iran is not stupid, they could take out one golf course in Florida.
The Iranians are not stupid enough to remove an idiot who is ruining the US military. That is how the Allies viewed Hitler, they knew who was fucking up Germany's war effort.
Yeah, what would they gain by attacking the cities trump hates.
I'm actually worried that they are planning a false flag and because he is senile he just disclosed it.
Promise?
TRAITOR
I mean, is this how treason works historically? It's only widely accepted after the fact? Like, when you're in it and actively experiencing it most people don't acknowledge it?
That can't be it. People have been executed for treason. Why the fuck are we so bad at this?
Isn't it illegal to incite violence against the citizens of the USA? Especially by the "potus"? In the normal run-by-the-US Constitution world, wouldn't that be considered treason?
Every once in a while Trump does a little treason as a treat.
Its an "official act". These laws bind us, but dont protect us.
So is 34 counts of falsifying business records. Not sure why people bring up legality during a Fascist government.
You think people where saying "Franco shot my kids... that's illegal!”?
The play pretend has ended for a while, but only now it's reached critical mass in how many people are ignoring the rules and laws.
To paraphrase something I saw online: it's not that he encouraged Iran to bomb California but Trump could bomb California and blame Iran for it.
Everything is projection, he posited many times that Obama would bomb Iran just in time to rile up war hawk votes. They’ve literally written down their entire fascist plan and people keep treating it all as separate fuckup news stories
US economy proceeds to collapse
No better man for the job.
Dear Iran, you can take DC and/or Mar a lago. Whenever he’s at one it the other idk just wish him like the bug he is. You’d probably be cheered for it by like everyone lol
this is the president sworn to defend usa soil? impeachment required and jail asking for murder and genocide of the united states citizens out in the open. holy kuf the epstein class is so delusional. besides east coast closer than west coast.
and the people that clap for the murder/genocide of millions of americans by the president in this case. what are these people. after the impeachment definitely need to investigate and jail all of these people actually not even people murders to be or already murders.
Traitors. Literally.
I'm with you, but this wouldn't be genocide.
Let ‘em take out DC. Let ‘em take out Maralago or whatever.
DC really is a place without a culture. It's the playground for the influential.
IDK I kinda like the Smithsonian as an institution.
I'll give you that. The rest of it is pretty lacking in culture, though.
What's the difference between a piece of cheese, and the USA?
Eventually, a piece of cheese will develop its own culture.
We're cultured like yoplait
lol good one
Because of his direct intervention along the upper elements, if it was easy for him to do it'll be easy to purge. If it's not murder is always an option.
While I'd agree with someone with any other title it's a hell of a lot harder to counter the president especially with groups based in DC since there's no state level institutions to work as a buffer. Also just shooting the president is quite hard so the violent counter barely exists.
Also he fired a lot of higher ups outright, the Smithsonian was hit particularly hard by Musk and his fuckboys. Even still a lot of the Smithsonian especially the elements based outside of DC are resisting as best as they can, sorta similar to park services. The problem is it's scattered and not talked about.
Seem like better targets.
‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’
The great American experiment is winding down. It's been interesting to watch. TBH it didn't last nearly as long as many historical empires, oh well.
Well, according to some of my former Christian teachers, that’s because of of the gays.
Yes, they claim that most empires average 250 years and fall when they start normalizing open homosexuality. No I don’t believe any of that crap anymore.
A more educated look showed years ago that the US system was based too much on “gentlemen’s agreements” and lacked clear and real protections for democracy and human rights.
Christians are appaling. I am a reasonable man and am certain that their holy book is an absolute heap of disgusting, slavery condoning, male infant genital mutilation demanding, repellent, demented, vicious dark age mumbo jumbo. Christians should be told quite clearly that our citizens have the legal right to criticise, lampoon, ridicule and mock god and Jesus to their heart's content, in any way that they wish: that Christians have no special claim to protection from the rough and tumble of post-Enlightenment intellectual, political and social life. If they cannot live in a society in which this is the case, they should go somewhere else; they are, after all, spoilt for choice, at least in theory.
I don't know what's worse, three fact he said it or that people cheered when he said it.
So the west coast alliance anytime now? If the west coast becomes independent the US loses more than 50% of its economic power
I like the Pacific States of America, the good ol' PSA.
With a nice little capitol building in Pacific, CA
I like Pacifica but the winter storms can be much.
Cascadia would take California in. If Alberta wants to separate from Canada then we will let them and we can extend an invitation to Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana so that we can connect to greater Canada avoiding Alberta.
The military would have to be significantly weakened for that. Plus, a plurality of law enforcement and military stationed here would have to be on our side. I don't see that happening.
Significantly weakend like as if the US military was being destabilized by an unhinged President purging the officer corps and losing a conflict with Iran? Asking for a friend
You just know they talked about this with him. Like a false flag operation type deal. Just like with his assassination attempts.
He just cannot keep his mouth shut about these things hoping he will be thought of as the smart one when it turns out to actually happen!!
Wait. Did he predict his assassination attempt?
That was his justification for the ballroom.
Which assassination attempt?
Yes he said "they" will do it because "they don't like me".
It's the same vibe as accusing the "other side" of the exact things you are doing.
It's his M.O.
I'm glad he's doing these things so that everyone is reminded that all of them are like this. They're radicals. It needs to be crystal clear so that all of us know what to do.
let them take out mara lago and other places trump owns. not that I would ever suggest foreign powers who wants to hurt trump to hit things he owns but it does make the most sense and would be the most effective.
In the immortal words of Dwight Schrute, “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.” I don't imagine the people in charge in Iran are not only stupid enough to attack the seats of power of their foe, let alone stupid enough to attack the locations their foe suggests.
Obvious propaganda is obvious.
This is a distraction ploy, this is what his job is. Look elsewhere to see what his cabinet and the GOP are trying to get you to look away from.
Nobody is immune to propaganda, but we can become aware of it.
Obvious propaganda is like a Nigerian prince email. It’s only for the people who want to fall for it. I was just talking to racist grandma who would be happy with the idea that Iran bombs California.
Turns out that a lot of people want to fall for it, sadly, not just the old folks and conservatives. Plenty here gobble it up every chance they get.
I mean, kind of? You'd think he would want to distract from losing the war with Iran, and yet
It’s great for distracting from the dismantling of everything here at home. People have a lot to say about Iran, and little to nothing about how over a million americans just lost their healthcare and are being left for dead with no other options, while also banning an unprecedented amount of books and other actions to further gut and restructure public education to be even more of a processing machine for jobs that still require meat to be done. Also, all of our food kills you now and AI tech bros just purchased our last chance at a future.
He also kept going on about the drug + nuclear bomb combo factories. He has always been a nutter but lately he's going the rallies even by his own incredibly low standards.
no joke...if Trump loses the midterms, he will go scorched Earth on the USA.
I dunno man he’s already sent armed goons on our streets and abducted people from their cars.
sent? sending it hasn't stopped
Wow... i can't even imagine what it's going to be like when he stops showering us with the blessings of the last 20 months.
no. the US will fry him, on the ol' chair. It will be on live TV. And we're all gonna enjoy the funny little crispy bacon noises he will make.
No. He won't. Just like Viktor Orban is doing just fine (sure, some indictments and committees)
Hakeem takes Thiel money and is secretly meeting with Jared Kushner
The government is, functionally, occupied by foreign paid espionage agents (AIPAC) who are blackmailing the same guy they are running against.
Maybe a couple MAGA peons will go to jail, but no one else will. Steve Mnuchin was one of the architects of the 2008 financial crisis and he got to be the last (trump) Treasury secretary.
This is all assuming the trump dies before 2028 because he isn't leaving while he is alive and they will milk his carcass like the turtle when he goes too. We will have an obvious AI trump president of this happens
That's rather optimistic
the enjoyment?
Let them take out Mara Lago
I'd like to hear what the US Navy thinks about nuking one of our nations biggest naval bases in San Diego.
Fuckers fired on california a year ago. Crayon eaters follow whoever pay them
Isn't this the part where the generals protect the soldiers under them by taking control, removing the illegitimate government and installing free and fair elections again?
I'm sure it would be easy for the chiefs-of-staff to collect a list of the Russell Voughts, Stephen Millers, JD Vances, and their ilk to restore peace and unity.
What Generals? They've all been fired.
wow I have seen politicians threatening not serving constituencies that did not vote for them but this is a new low
My guess is they've been discussing the need for a big false flag incident to rally support. He probably just felt like mentioning some possible venues to sound out the audience.
The blue states pay more in tax revenue than the red states. They subsidize them.
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118494/documents/HHRG-119-JU13-20250715-SD014-U14.pdf
So we all agree we're just gonna go ahead and get him out of here right?
Look I don’t like the rams or chargers either but this might be an overreaction
Is he aware that San Diego is home to the largest population of active duty military than any other city? And don't most military vote Republican?
I suspect he is not aware, no...
when have his supporters ever cared when he said he would fuck them over?
At this point, why is California even in the US? Calexit, Pacifica, Cascadia, whatever you want to call it, now.
Because we fought a civil war over that sort of thing? States can't just secede just because they feel like it. No president is going to also roll over and let that happen on their watch - many lives were lost to preserve the union and the only way that's going to change is if many more lives get lost.
The way i see it, you either fight to stay in the US in the face of invasions, or you fight to leave the US. If the US is so willing to give LA and SD away, why can't they just leave?
The US is not our current president, who should have literally been sentenced to death for sedition, that is saying this insane shit.
A lot of us, most of us actually, are not keen on this orange faced fucker nor the bullshit his administration has been doing. I truly believe the reason we haven't seen more violence in the streets is that we still have hope these elections in November will bring things back to a semblance of normality, hopefully that's true.
I fear it is not.
I hear you, but isn’t that what Putin wants? A disunited west?
In this case it would be more like Scotland potentially leaving the UK to rejoin the EU. The west coast would be leaving the USA to rejoin the international community lmao
I mean.. this supports what I said.
The Scotland leave vote was obviously supported by Putin.
They didn’t even have a plan for what currency they’d use. They said “uhh.. pound?” and England said “no.” Then they said “uhhh.. euro?” and Europe said “guess again.”
California would lose its biggest market, the rest of America. I don’t think Canada or Mexico would welcome California at this moment. The EU wouldn’t offer California a guest pass or whatever Canada is getting.
California leaving the US and taking its 40+ million voters would further fracture the US in particular and The West in general and not have any obvious upside.
First, how is it united now? Second, why would two countries that used to be one not align against a common adversary?
It’s United because it’s one country.
Why would two separate entitities act as one?
Look at Brexit. Putin definitely celebrated after that.
LOL that's literally the basis for the USA and the EU. Separate countries that join together as a block.
That's what Putin has, and it's because Trump is in power. The US has broken off all its aliences. I would rather see that nut get a run for his money than be tolerated.
The only way to exit the USA as a state is revolutionary war and winning that war. for CA that would require all the military bases in CA to outnumber the rest of the country AND for all the personnel on those bases to side with and fight with CA or for some other military force to capture all those bases, than bases all over the US, at that point, winning the war would be totally destroying the US government and military, meaning CA would then become the ruling body of the USA, so the necessary methods won't really meet the desired outcome, you can't stop being a state, we fought a whole war about this, you can only exit with war, and winning means becoming the governing body of the US, so if CA really wants to leave, it's gonna cost a lot of money and lives and it's never going to work out the way you want it to.
I mean... anything in the constitution can be changed with enough political willpower. Peaceful legal secession from the USA is without precedent, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen in the future. However, it does seem unlikely in the immediate future.
The editing you're talking about would effectively be a brand new constitution. That will require a revolution. those can be popular and relatively low casualty, but it's not ever going to be bloodless, also CA wouldn't solve anything by being a be country, I live in CA, like most Americans, and the problem isn't being in the US as a state, the problem is a huge amount of compounding factors mostly related to corporatism and cultural problems both longstanding and new. leaving solves nothing and creates more problems.
Maybe California could become Canadas 11th Province? Free healthcare and free society where ICE would be imprisoned for being criminals!
First of all, California has already been declared an Iranian province as a result of Straight of Trump declaration.
California should consider rejecting US membership in protest of this... without necessarily accepting Iran's invitation.
Iran literally can't hit the US mainland yet. That's the sole reason for them constantly getting attacked in the first place - preferable while already in some sort of negotiations.
I mean on the one hand, I have some good friends in San Diego, but on the other hand there are a lot of naval assets there...
Hey Iran we all know where he lives, let’s make a deal.
Pretty sure that if there was an Iranian strike, they wouldn't be taking target suggestions from Lord Dampnut
Perfectly normal thing for the president to say.
Q.E.D.
And yet...
I mean, Comic con is in San Diego. WTF.
Do it yourself coward!
Oh sure, bastard is giving some other bastards ideas to further the "forever war".
Remember that certain Ryder van.
I guess they're not covered by his golden dome.
site won't load, but if the threat is Iran, for any range/payload balance, they'll be satisfied with (closer) eastern seaboard reach.
Remember the last time a guy said something about the price is freedom and how that worked out for him? I'll prepare the champagne.