It will be a hum dinger when it does. Trump *never* thinks things through. Then he’s always so surprised when it reflects back at him. If he didn’t ignore potential complications, then he wouldn’t be Trump, and our country might be substantially better off. There is nothing wrong with hoping that the next one will stick. When it does, it’s going to be like white phosphorus and never let go. That day can’t come soon enough. With respect to Raw Story:
Comedian John Oliver warned Sunday that President Donald Trump’s profane attack on Barack Obama is going to come back to haunt him. On “Last Week Tonight,” the HBO host zeroed in on Trump’s G7 appearance in France, where the president, seated beside Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, mocked Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump tore up in his first term, and claimed Iran once “laughed at Obama” and called him “a stupid son of a b—-” over a $1.7 billion payment. Oliver pointed out that Trump’s own memorandum of understanding commits Iran to receiving at least $300 billion in reconstruction aid.
Heh. Funny how that happens. Trump is off in his own reality, and he figures cussin’ about Obama is going to make Trump look good. There’s a problem with that. Obama *is* a much better man than Trump. He worked on that Iran agreement for years. After tearing it up, Trump’s version looks to be *worse*, not better. Just look at the numbers, 1.7 billion to 300 billion. What’s wrong with this picture?
“If Iran called Obama a stupid son of a b—- for letting them get $1.7 billion, I think we’re about to find out what the Persian word is for someone 300 times dumber than that,” Oliver quipped. The host argued the agreement is “less a comprehensive peace deal and more a plan to eventually have one, with some pretty big holes in it,” noting it “doesn’t even address Iran’s nuclear program—supposedly the whole point of this war in the first place.” He also flagged that the deal has been criticized within Trump’s own party.
Oh, yes, *Congress* has been having a fit over this, not just the House or the Senate. Republicans are speaking out. Democrats are speaking out. Everyone was against the war from the beginning. Now Trump hasn’t even gotten to the actual treaty yet! It’s just the framework for one. But he’s flapping his gums (he’s so good at that, flap flap) about how bad Obama’s deal was. Trump still thinks he is the better man. His obsession with former President Obama is unbelievable!
Even as Trump keeps boasting that his deal beats the one Obama struck in 2015, the former president gave his own verdict in an NBC interview that aired Friday. “We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military, a lot of people have died, and it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war,” Obama said. “Except maybe a little bit worse.”
That subtlety is going to zoom right on past Trump. He only does big and loud. He uses that to redirect away from the actual subject. Now, no one is perfect, including Obama. But the difference between the two plans is astronomical. One took time, care, and actual negotiation. Trump is trying to run his “deal” using threats. Iran is perfectly aware of TACO. It’s a fact that the world knows by this point, and everything is within 2 weeks. Trump lost. We lost. The Strait is lost. It’s probably too much to hope for that we could come out even. It’s going to be very much in Iran’s favor. Trump needs to finish this thing and get us OUT.
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a lot worse barry.