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Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Every time I pay $100 more for my groceries or $5/gallon for gas, I fall to my knees hands raised thanking God for another glorious day without being nuked by Iran.

I see!!! I thought he meant Iran. Really I couldn’t figure out how they’d do it, but this guy is so incoherent… But yeah, what you say makes total sense. Thanks for that!

What is most appalling is not what Trump says, we know he’s mentally impaired, it’s the cheering from the crowd when he says it’s a small price to take out Los Angeles and San Diego.

This POS knows that he cannot run again, but he is so addicted to constantly campaigning, throwing pep rallies and parties for himself, that he's just going to "head out on the campaign trail" anyway telling people "pretend that I'm on the ballot".

If any other president said such ludicrous shit they’d axe the mf and for good reason. I’m f’n sick of this &@$! It’s a treasonous thing to say about American cities. I’m a Californian and I resent that he’s constantly picking on us.

Those cities are LITERALLY populated with MAGA Republicans as well as everyone else there. Just because a majority is voting Democrat doesn't mean the Republicans stop existing

Did a sitting Pres just tell a country we are at war with to take out American cities? And people cheered? WTF! I’m sure the residents of those cities won’t be OK with that, regardless of who they voted for! No one should be OK with that rhetoric!

The cheering was (to me) almost worse than his statement- the fact that his MAGA crowd would give him cheers for a statement that should have frightened them- how will they respond if he includes cities where they have family living? Or their cities? He is a danger to all of us. Time for 25!

A sitting President encourages attacks on American cities. And not a single gram of accountability will follow. In any sensible time and place he'd been arrested on the spot and removed from power.

No, he was saying that gas prices being high is a better price to pay than if they took out LA or San Diego. But the people in the audience cheering "take out LA" indicates they didn't follow what he was saying either.

If MAGA in LA and San Diego will only hear about it if Fox News shows it, and they’ll say Trump was just kidding. He put a target on their backs and they’ll still support him.

This is exactly what he intends. It is the, “Russia are you listening” moment except this time he wants an incident that will postpone the election.

How did an insane, indecent, inhumane, lowlife get elected as USA President once let alone twice? The huge, nasty stain & his hideous legacies i.e ballroom will take years to remove but we must take the time to do so. I already appreciate the middle Biden/Harris years & celebrate Trump’s departure.

He's having a hard time finding words until it comes to, you know, inviting a foreign power to destroy a US city. That's apparently the message he was focusing on. Again, he hates America for not re-electing him in 2020. He may give Alaska back to Russia before he leaves office.

Because he doesn’t know. He said he “talked to the president of the US Virgin Islands” He definitely doesn’t know about the other US territories. Bet he couldn’t point to California on the map. Ladies and gentlemen what we have here is an illiterate old man in the Oval Office.

The more outrageous his comments the more he should be ignored! Attention is his bread & butter (or burned steak & ketchup). Deprive him of that & prove his irrelevance. We all would be relieved & could proceed with repair & restructuring our ailing government.

Back down???! Impeach this treasonous sob. We are at war with Iran and he is suggesting they take out 2 of our most populous cities with huge military presence. #25thNOW

Is he saying Iran was about to attack LA and SD with nuclear weapons, and so $8 diesel is fine, or is he saying if Iran took out LA and SD that would be a small price? His syntax is so fubar I think all he knows is he hates CA so why not use it as an example?

"It will end one way or the other" ??!! 👀 #trumPOS admitting the US will likely #lose the #IranWar that he started when he invaded Iran. #WarCriminal #Traitor trumPOS should be in #MilitaryPrison

Uh- that’s treason- 👆 the Commander and Chief of our Militart just made common cause with an enemy we are at war with actively -encouraging them to attack part of the US That’s fucking treason

Autocorrect is so stupid it can’t highlight Militart. You know spell check on PCs didn’t have this issue. weird 😒😡 Military is what I meant to type Apologies for the typo

Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States and a gaggle of his yokels cheering on the destruction of one of the largest and most populated cities in America. So patriotic! MAGA!

Trump’s words will come back to haunt him. (Hopefully at his impeachment hearing). Oh, what a pleasure to see his impeachment trial in real time seen around the world. Oh, happy days.

San Diego is 1 of the largest naval bases in the country. The orange Hitler is telling the enemy to wipe out our citizens & military. He's a traitor & a terrorist. Our government is full of murderous cowards who are terrorists because they look away 8 6 4 7 8 6 GOP SCOTUS Abolish ICE 8 6 the GOP

LA & SD counties have approximately 5.4M Republicans. 5.4M = COMBINED populations of red states Wyoming, Idaho, So & No Dakota & Montana. MAGA rubes, this means Trump cares only about the power the Electoral College and the Senate imbalance gives him and not at all about you.

He and the entire gop & enablers should be on the Mussolini timeline, and currently cowering in culverts It's already a civil war: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" Kevin Roberts President Heritage Foundation

I think he was referring to the high fuel prices because of the war, which he says are a "small price to pay" to avoid a nuclear attack by Iran (which, of course, doesn't have any nukes). He assures the audience the war will be over soon. Listen to the clip. Did I miss something?

He may be referring to high fuel prices, yet when he says "let'em take out Los Angeles" I really only hear it as an invitation to attack it in some way. He's a loose cannon. We shouldn't have to parse his speech this much.

Unbelievable that people are cheering. The world, not just America is in a very sick & precarious position. Billionaires r planning to reduce population by 7 billion, leaving themselves with plenty of resources. Robots will do the work required to keep them in luxury.

So with "take out", #Trump just meant "Let them not afford the gas prices.", but it was quoted out of context just for the sake of rage baiting. You've been "misunderstanding" this quote all freaking day by now. You are the #fakenews now.

As a San Diegan, as an American, I call for this man to be removed from office. Casually shrugging off the death of your constituents -- suggesting that obliteraion of two American cities would be fine -- is most vile and cannot be ignored. Enough.

This man has done and said a number of really sick things but this takes the cake. Good lord almighty use the 25th amendment and GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!

This is the ramblings of a dangerously insane person but it’s just another day in media banality. If Obama said Iran should take out Alabama & Mississippi, it would have been front page news every day & they would be calling for his immediate impeachment.Trump should be impeached & convicted.

And Dem leadership should be holding a press conference this morning asking for Congress to come back in session to address the obvious mental unfitness of this dementing sociopathic president & asking for Republicans to join them to impeach & convict for the safety & wellbeing of the country.

Yeah, but there's a reason he mentioned those cities specifically. To Trump et al., they're Californians, which means they are leftists, Democrats, socialists, and/or brown people, NONE of whom they consider to be REAL Americans. Hell, this regime doesn't even consider most of them to be PEOPLE.

This has been a prevailing sentiment on the fringe right for decades. They need a scapegoat to play the role of “not me.” California has too much fun, is too free & easy. Too inventive & inclusive.

Several to be exact... don't forget Miramar MCAS which is just up the freeway from North Island NAS and Coronado SEAL training command and 32nd Street Naval Station and the Coronado Quay where a couple of aircraft carriers tie up...ohh, about an "hour up the 5" you have MCB Camp Pendleton.

Poor communication skills defending the war as a small price to pay for defending American cities. Not a call for bombing American cities. Haven’t we had ten years to learn how to understand Trump’s word salad? Such interpretations just give him anti-press ammunition.

Normally I'd agree. Usually when he says something egregious, it's clear with a little thought that he's just riffing like a thug and doesn't literally mean what he says. BUT there's no locker-room context for this. He may not mean it literally, but it's still a dangerous dog whistle to someone.

Yeah. The thing with Trump is that he's NEVER subtle. He doesn't have that mental capacity to properly mask his true thoughts, and he doesn't have the normal filters between what passes for his brain and what dribbles out of his mouth. He may not be LITERALLY calling for the bombing of those >

< cities, but it's clear that he doesn't really care what happens to the people who live in them (which matches perfectly with EVERYTHING ELSE he says). We all know he constantly mangles his words when speaking, but those same ramblings virtually always show his TRUE thoughts and intentions.

SteveMND@stevemnd.bsky.social

Yeah, but there's a reason he mentioned those cities specifically. To Trump et al., they're Californians, which means they are leftists, Democrats, socialists, and/or brown people, NONE of whom they consider to be REAL Americans. Hell, this regime doesn't even consider most of them to be PEOPLE.

I heard an interview with Adam Hamilton, the Dem candidate running for Senate in Kansas. I liked him, he was measured, sincere. But he said pursuing impeachment wouldn't be prudent if dems take control. I have to say, looking at this unhinged figure, that it feels absolutely crucial.

Oh really: the main purpose of Edwards Air Force Base in SoCal is the research, development, testing, and evaluation of aerospace systems, aircraft, and weapons for the United States military.

This paraphrase is deceptively edited if any of your readership cares. In this speech Trump said gas prices are high, and that's a small price to pay vs Iran getting nuclear weapons. There are plenty of true reasons to criticize Trump, making false ones unnecessarily hurts your credibility.

You're right. Unfortunately it's difficult to get people to not hear it the way they want to hear it. He says enough terrible things, we don't need to bend the truth with these and it hurts the cause.

Odd, never heard the text you claim. But I did hear the unbroken sentence of treason emitted from your orange hero.

Trump verbatim : "They [i.e. the Iranians] could take out a city. Let ’em take— let it— let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take our San Diego. That’s— this is a very small price to pay." Try and translate this to something different than the utter and treasonous stupidity that it is. Go ahead.

Watch the speech for context, Trump was referring to elevated gas prices being the alternative to Iran being capable of a nuclear attack. You are either misleading or being misled on this topic. There are copious others to choose from. Cheers!

It's just crazy how you people will bend over backwards to tell us "what he actually meant". Here's a tip: if it's actually that easy to "take him out of context", he should probably finally learn to watch his mouth and how he phrases things, how about that?

The context is, that Trump will lie, lie, and lie again, and you red hatred morons will lap it up. Your so fucking dumb.

Embedding an attack on American cities as part of his spiel—is this really presidential? He doesn’t see American cities as under his purview at all. If someone does not worship him as he does himself… …then the person is the enemy. He’s a sociopath.

whoa whoa whoa... San Diego has the biggest military presents in America, that would be very bad if that were to happen. We'd have bigger problems then just gas prices. 🤔

He needs to be removed. He is a clear and present danger to the Republic and its Citizens. He is a fucking crazy pedophile/rapist. This is madness. - I BLAME THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. Their punishment is also necessary. Fucking traitors to the Constitution. Every single one of them.

san diego, you absolute bozo? way to support the navy. is camp pendelton included too? yeeze, trump doesn't know the first thing about what he is talking about and how the real world works. ever. he just starts voiding his colon from the mouth area.

Congress can’t ignore this. A U.S. president saying it’s ok, a ‘small price to pay’, for another country to attack 2 U.S. cities. He’s a traitorous lunatic. His cult are brainwashed. Side note: he is baiting us to riot because of his outrageousness.

Trump recently said prices have gone up "a little bit." My price in CA went from $3.90 before the war to currently about $5.90. That's a 51% increase! Hardly "a little bit." This nightmare can't be over soon enough!

Doesn't San Diego have, like, a major US Naval base? They're cheering thousands of US military personnel being nuked, along with civilians. Do they even have a collective brain cell?

Dear Nebraska MAGA Citizens who laughed at a leader of a country asking Iran to use the nuclear and military capacity to take out the 2nd largest city in the USA, & San Diego, home to one of the largest military bases , You Suck. That laughter will affect how the USA and worlds views youd legacy

🛑🛑🛑 🆘🆘🆘 🇺🇸🗽 Let US listen to Chicago and San Diego... 🇺🇸🗽 Let US listen to Los Angeles and other cities... 🫥🪓 Do not listen 🖕trump...

California's economy would be the 5th largest in the world if it decided to claim independence and become its own country tomorrow.

SteveMND@stevemnd.bsky.social

Yeah, but there's a reason he mentioned those cities specifically. To Trump et al., they're Californians, which means they are leftists, Democrats, socialists, and/or brown people, NONE of whom they consider to be REAL Americans. Hell, this regime doesn't even consider most of them to be PEOPLE.

Now it makes sense. They started saying "Super Intelligence" because Trump needed "Artificial" to replace the worn-out "Fake".

I mean I can compare it to blowing up the world and forgetting to place a global predictions market bet first. I can compare it to that and then gas is even more reasonable! 🤡